Fall 2018

CCTColumbia College Today Nearly 100 years ago, Columbia College altered the landscape of American higher education with a pioneering experiment now known as the Core Curriculum.

Today, the Core to Commencement campaign — the College’s first-ever — seeks to create other life-altering experiences for our students and the faculty who teach them. Join us in the next phase of this ambitious endeavor to make Columbia College the greatest undergraduate experience possible — one that we will all take pride in.

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college.columbia.edu/campaign [email protected] Contents features

14 Better Call Khadijah From the courtroom to the boardroom, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard ’93 is a force for positive change. By Molly Shea

18 The Hometown Historian Associate Professor Frank A. Guridy feels “a real responsibility” to bettering the College community. By Jill C. Shomer

22 Dante’s Infernal Inbox A divine comedy for the modern age. By Susanna Wolff ’10

Cover: Illustration by Jorge Colombo Contents departments alumninews

3 Message from Dean James J. Valentini 31 Message from CCAA President On finding your groove, from Core Michael Behringer ’89 to Commencement. Five reasons to be excited about the new academic year.

4 The Big Picture 32 Lions Josh Martin ’13; Jennifer Lee ’90, GSAS’98; and 6 Within the Family Bill Isler’ 03, plus other alumni newsmakers.

7 Letters to the Editor 36 Bookshelf Amsterdam Exposed: An American’s Journey into 8 Around the Quads the Red Light District, by David Wienir ’95. Columbia’s Freedom and Citizenship program marks 10 years. 38 Class Notes Alumni Sons and Daughters; Just Married! 13 Roar, Lion, Roar Athletics Hall of Fame adds its newest members. 85 Obituaries Henry L. King ’48 26 Columbia Forum: Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their 88 The Last Word Country and the World by Zak Dychtwald ’12 On his 50th reunion, a CC’68 alumnus rows Charting the rise of a powerful new generation. around Manhattan to honor a fallen classmate.

LION’S DEN | SEPT. 20 Now on CCT Online CCT “I’ll never forget my first trip to Le Pavillon on 57th Street. I was PRINT EXTRAS THE LATEST with a sophisticated girl from • President Lee C. Bollinger remembers Sarah Lawrence who knew this Gerry Lenfest LAW’58 TAKE FIVE | JULY 13 scene that I did not. Trying to be adventurous, I ordered my first • Bill Isler ’03, on the Chinese spirit baijiu “Truthfully, I wouldn’t do artichaut vinaigrette. I had no idea • Thank you to our FY18 CCT donors anything over. I made great what to do with it. So I took one of lifelong friends, played in New the leaves and put it in my mouth York City, witnessed incredible and nearly choked to death. My performances at the Met Opera date was doing her best to keep a Like Columbia College Alumni and BAM and St. Ann’s, held straight face and not humiliate me facebook.com/alumnicc up a sweaty, pre-platinum, in the midst of the rich and famous. crowd-surfing Lady Gaga in View Columbia College alumni photos ‘Do you like it?’ she asked. a tiny dance club, sat two instagram.com/alumniofcolumbiacollege “‘It’s a little … ’ I searched for the uncomfortable feet away from word. ‘Chewy. A tad chewy.’” Follow Ahmadinejad v. Bollinger and @Columbia_CCAA — Vanity Fair contributor William bumped up against global Stadiem ’69, from “Food for Thought” Join the Columbia College alumni network perspectives in a challenging college.columbia.edu/alumni/linkedin and diverse environment.” — Actor Kurt Kanazawa ’11 college.columbia.edu/cct Columbia EILEEN BARROSO College CCT Today

VOLUME 46 NUMBER 1 Message from the Dean FALL 2018

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Finding Your Groove Alexis Boncy SOA’11

EXECUTIVE EDITOR his semester, we welcomed the Class of 2022 to Columbia College. New Stu- Lisa Palladino dent Orientation Program leaders, a group of dedicated and enthusiastic student volunteers, greeted families on College Walk and walked the students to their DEPUTY EDITOR new homes. It was a busy day, filled with introductions, activities and, eventually, Jill C. Shomer T some bittersweet goodbyes. ASSOCIATE EDITOR This year, student leaders selected “Find Your Groove” as their orientation theme. They wanted Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 to convey to incoming students that the College offers many opportunities for finding your iden-

FORUM EDITOR tity and settling into your new community. When I became dean of the College seven years ago, Rose Kernochan BC’82 I found an unanticipated groove. Though I had been a member of the chemistry faculty for more than 20 years, being dean offered a much broader engagement with Columbia students and ART DIRECTOR faculty than I had previously experienced. As Eson Chan I transitioned into my new role, my eyes and mind opened up to many possibilities. And Published quarterly by the what I found was exceptional. Columbia College Office of You’ve heard me say that Columbia is the Alumni Affairs and Development greatest college in the greatest university in for alumni, students, faculty, parents the greatest city in the world. I believe that and friends of Columbia College. to be true because the greatness of an edu-

ASSOCIATE DEAN, cational institution is really measured by the COLUMBIA COLLEGE opportunities it affords, and by that measure ALUMNI RELATIONS Columbia College is remarkable. AND COMMUNICATIONS One such measure can be seen in our

Bernice Tsai ’96 KILLIAN YOUNG Core to Commencement campaign, the first campaign exclusively devoted to Columbia ADDRESS College’s students and faculty. When we launched this effort two and a half years ago, we Columbia College Today set out to enhance every part of the undergraduate experience to ensure it was the best pos- Columbia Alumni Center sible. We have had tremendous success. Alumni, parents and friends have rallied in support 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 4th Fl. of a shared belief that the College is an institution that will help shape the future of society. New York, NY 10025 The campaign has secured new endowed professorships, created almost 1,000 funded summer

PHONE experiences and established initiatives that increase the offerings to undergraduates in both 212-851-7852 business and the field of civil and political rights. Recently we decided to expand Core to Commencement to a goal of $750 million, from EMAIL our original goal of $400 million. The campaign will continue to raise support for faculty [email protected] and students while enhancing wellness and community, increasing the real-world experi- WEB ences students will have beyond the classroom and developing greater access and support college.columbia.edu/cct for all students. It will also propel the Core Curriculum — as we approach its centennial in 2019 — in order to extend the experience and its imprint into the next 100 years. ISSN 0572-7820 We hope we can continue to count on your commitment to support the growth of this Opinions expressed are those of great institution. Visit college.columbia.edu/campaign to learn more about our campaign, the authors and do not reflect about our vision and about why this is the moment to support our future. An education at official positions of Columbia College Columbia College can prepare thousands of young people each year to help build a better or Columbia University. world not just for themselves, but also for us all. © 2018 Columbia College Today All rights reserved.

James J. Valentini Dean

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4 CCT Fall 2018 THE WELCOME WAGON

New Student Orientation Program leaders cheered the Class of 2022 at Convocation on August 26.

EILEEN BARROSO

Fall 2018 CCT 5 Within the Family Happy New Year!

s we were putting together the Fall Guridy is the new faculty coordinator for the Mel- issue, I realized it had been a while lon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, since I’d written this column. Too which puts underserved students on the path to A long, frankly. I found myself missing a Ph.D. And Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard ’93, VP, this chance to talk to you about the issue and also associate general counsel with Viacom Media Net- CCT in general — how we’re changing, what we’re works, is answering the question, how can you be a excited about, the questions on our team’s collective social activist and do good from within a company? mind or the questions we have for you, our com- “Columbia Forum,” meanwhile, excerpts a new munity of readers. With that thought, I had one of book by Zak Dychtwald ’12, whose research into my New Year’s resolutions (because, as anyone who China’s millennials unpacks the far-reaching influ-

JÖRG MEYER marches to the academic calendar knows, the start ence of a powerful new generation. of the fall semester is the real new year): No matter A note on our cover: We decided to try some- how busy the dash to production, I would be sure to thing different by commissioning a stand-alone take a break to reflect and write this page. illustration. I had the good fortune of taking the So, how are we changing? What are we excited artist, Jorge Colombo, on a campus tour in mid- about these days? August to scout locations and consider possible To begin, our new “Around the Quads” depart- scenes. In many ways, it was an exercise in imagi- ment, “Hall of Fame.” We’ve invited the eloquent nation: We were circling Van Am Quad on a and inimitable Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, JRN’86, steamy day, paths and benches empty, and the sky GSAS’90 — who has an insatiable appetite both threatening rain, while on his iPad Jorge conjured for history and all things Columbia — to write each fall foliage, cool-weather clothing and the bustle of quarter on an alum or school figure from the deeper students all around. But what came from that day, past. Our aim is to leave you with an appreciation after sketches turned to final art, was something we for Columbians whose names you might know feel to be quite true and timeless — the pleasures of but whose particular accomplishments might have being absorbed by a good book, in this place at the become obscured through time, or whose influence heart of every CC-er’s experience. has renewed resonance today. Tom’s first installment To circle back, I mentioned at the outset that shines a light on Thomas Merton ’38, GSAS’39 I wanted to use this space to bring up questions, (page 10), whose call to a Trappist monastery at 27 and here are two I hope you’ll answer after reading. began an unlikely journey to becoming a leading How did you like this issue? Which article most writer, theologian and social activist. stood out for you, and why? We of course welcome We’re also excited to welcome humor writer and letters to the editor after every issue, and as CCT New Yorker contributor Susanna Wolff ’10 back to continues to evolve, one of our goals is to see that our pages. Susanna last wrote for us in summer section expand to fill several pages and include an 2017, when she delivered a wry orientation for that array of voices and perspectives. A rich letters sec- year’s graduating seniors, “Welcome to Life!” Here, tion is both a measure of an engaged readership her take on Dante and email — two topics that all and a way for us to learn what resonates (and some- College alumni can relate to — is truly inspired times, what doesn’t). (page 22). Please write me at [email protected] or Elsewhere, in our features, you’ll meet two using our easy Letters to the Editor webform, people — a professor and an alumna — who are college.columbia.edu/cct/contact-us. I look forward committed to positive change: Historian Frank A. to hearing from you.

Alexis Boncy SOA’11 Editor-in-Chief

6 CCT Fall 2018 Letters to the Editor

My life has been spent contemplating and analyzing music. I am no musical snob, and am interested in all sorts of music, no matter the genre. In my far from humble opinion, music, the most abstract of the arts, simply “is.” It doesn’t “mean” a damn thing. Mack Schlefer ’66 New York City A Surprising Advisor

I read with interest “The Essentials” column about Associate Professor of Music Kevin Fellezs in the Summer 2018 issue [“Around the Quads”], and I was amazed that his academic advisor had been Angela Davis. JESSICA RAIMI JESSICA Describing her as a “political activist” was quite the understatement to me. She is most Professor Tayler’s Teachings famous for being on the FBI’s Most Wanted List in 1970 because of her involvement in a deadly armed courtroom takeover and hostage situation in California. She had purchased the I was sad to read of Edward “Ted” Tayler’s death (Summer 2018, “Around the Quads”), weapons used to murder the judge two days about a month before the Class of ’68’s 50th reunion. I had been hoping that he might prior and was a fugitive for two months before be present so I could thank him for teaching me to read. My sharpest memories from her capture in New York City. I remember college (aside from the awfulness of the war, the constant threat of the draft and the being totally surprised when she was acquitted hardships of the civil rights struggle) boil down to gratitude for the Core Curriculum of any responsibility for the four deaths in the courtroom incident. In teaching a course this and for Professor Tayler’s classes senior year, when I took both his Milton class and fall on Ms. Davis, perhaps Professor Fellezs Shakespeare seminar. It doesn’t feel like an exaggeration to say that he taught me to read can shed some light on the acquittal. — to set aside assumptions and presumptions, appreciate the various meanings (some- Being advised by the notorious Angela times opposite meanings) of the same word and to simply open my mind to the text and Davis in earning a doctorate in the history the genius behind it. He was a challenging teacher — intense, playful and demanding. of consciousness at UC Santa Cruz must surely have been a surreal experience. After the Peace Corps, I went to law school, where I believe my success was James Mullin ’77 driven in significant part by what I learned through Professor Tayler’s version of the Dover, N.J. Socratic method. He inspired me to concentrate, pay close attention to the text (the facts) and be open through avoiding preconceptions. Roy Thilly ’68 Contact Us Baileys Harbor, Wis. CCT welcomes letters from readers about articles in the magazine but cannot print or personally respond to all letters The Meaning of Music I was 8 when I began taking piano lessons; received. Letters express the views until then, I’d played by ear. I have worked of the writers and not CCT, the College I read with great interest the interview with all my life as a professional pianist, conduc- or the University. All letters are subject Associate Professor of Music Kevin Fellezs tor, music director, arranger and orchestra- to editing for space, clarity and CCT in the Summer 2018 issue [“The Essentials,” tor. (I gave up composing many years ago, style. Please direct letters for publication “Around the Quads”]. I was struck by him as I had no desire to starve to death.) I have “to the editor” via mail or online: saying, “Instead of the mechanics of music, I been a member of the American Federation college.columbia.edu/cct/contact-us. wanted to think about the meaning of music.” of Musicians for more than 50 years.

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Center for the Core Curriculum Director Roosevelt Montás ’95, GSAS’04 leads a Freedom and Citizenship program seminar.

PHOTOS COURTESY FREEDOM AND CITIZENSHIP AT THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES Bringing the Core to High School Students

restling with Hobbes and Monday through Friday students have a — and that was music to my ears!” After Locke might not be the reading and writing assignment — roughly drawing up the syllabus, Montás taught average summer fare for 20 pages of reading from a Core Curricu- the first cohort of 15 students and contin- W most high school stu- lum text and then a one-page reflection on ues to teach in the seminar today. dents, but for the past decade Columbia’s the work. Students discuss the readings the The program has grown to 45 students, Freedom and Citizenship summer pro- following day during a two-hour seminar. In but they still meet in groups of 15. Gradu- gram has encouraged a small set of rising addition, the students — who live in campus ates have a 100 percent college placement seniors to pursue an experience — and an residence halls Sunday night through Friday rate and graduate at a much higher rate education — outside the norm. evening — meet with tutors in the afternoon than their peers. Former students have The four-week seminar (one week of and evening to go over the classwork. returned as TAs and to attend reunions. orientation, three weeks of classes), which Noted Columbia faculty deliver guest Montás says that thanks to the success recently marked its 10th anniversary, aims lectures throughout the seminar; this year of the program, Columbia is exporting to give underrepresented (minority, immi- featured historian Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69 the idea to other universities. He notes, grant and/or low-income) New York City and linguist John McWhorter, among oth- “We see this program as offering a model students a taste of college life before they ers. “There has been a tremendous eagerness to many other institutions for this kind embark on their final year of high school. among the most distinguished Columbia of engagement with their communities”; faculty to bring their expertise to this proj- Yale University and Carthage College ect,” says Roosevelt Montás ’95, GSAS’04, have already launched similar programs director of the Center for the Core Cur- and more schools have expressed interest riculum and one of the program’s founders. in bringing the program to their campuses. In addition to Montás, Andrew Del- For Montás, who came to the United banco (the Alexander Hamilton Professor States at 12 not speaking much English, of American Studies) and Casey Blake (the the program is a way to help a new gen- Mendelson Family Professor of American eration of students like him experience Studies) helped create the seminar. Mon- the life-changing power of a Columbia tás says the choice to get involved was easy: education. “The thing I’m most passionate “Andy called me one day and said, ‘Hey, if about is bringing a Core-type education to we work up a partnership with the Double populations that have traditionally not had Discovery Center to teach a Core-like access to that kind of education,” he says. seminar in the summer to kids, would you “Students’ lives are actually transformed by be interested in designing that curriculum?’ this kind of education.”

8 CCT Fall 2018 Hamilton Medal Will Go To Lisa L. Carnoy ’89

The 2018 Alexander Hamilton Medalwill be presented to Lisa L. in her honor. In 2000, Car- Carnoy ’89, chief financial officer for AlixPartners and a supporter noy was awarded an Alumni and leader of the College and University for three decades. She is Medal, for service of 10 years the first female medalist in the award’s 71-year history. or more to the University, and The medal, given annually in November at the Alexander Ham- in 2007 was presented a John ilton Award Dinner, is the highest honor awarded to a member Jay Award for distinguished of the College community. Presented by the Columbia College professional achievement. Alumni Association, Dean James J. Valentini and President Lee C. Prior to joining global con- Bollinger, it recognizes distinguished service to the College and sulting firm AlixPartners in accomplishment in any field of endeavor. 2018, Carnoy spent 23 years A role model, advisor and benefactor to many, Carnoy has been at Bank of America Merrill a member of the University’s Board of Trustees since 2010 and is Lynch, most recently as divi- currently co-chair, with Jonathan S. Lavine ’88, after having served sion executive for U.S. Trust, on the College’s Board of Visitors for four terms and being vice- the private bank within Bank chair from 2008 to 2010. She has supported the College, Athletics, of America, and as BoA’s New York City market president. She and Arts and Sciences, and endowed the Carnoy Family Program was on the Global Wealth and Investment Management leader- Chair for Contemporary Civilization at the College as well as the ship team, as well as on BoA’s Operating Committee. Norman J. Landau Scholarship Fund, the latter with her mother, Carnoy has been a passionate advocate for diversity and co- Marjorie Hirshberg. Carnoy currently co-chairs both the College’s founded several organizations, including the Women’s Leadership Core to Commencement campaign and the University’s Columbia Council at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She is an independent Commitment campaign. director of the U.S. Soccer Federation and sits on the boards of the Carnoy majored in American studies and history and gradu- United Way of New York City and Rodeph Sholom School. Carnoy ated cum laude. She earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1994. A has been named to American Banker’s list of “Most Powerful Women student-athlete in track and field, she is a member of the Columbia in Finance,” and in 2013 was presented the Merit Award from the Campaign for Athletics Leadership Committee and a founding Women’s Bond Club. member of the Women’s Leadership Council for Athletics. Car- This year’s Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner will take place in noy was named among the 25 most influential women for the Low Rotunda on Thursday, November 15. Proceeds from the black- 25th anniversary of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium, tie event directly benefit College students by supporting the priorities and Women in Science at Columbia named a leadership award of the College, including financial aid, student life and community.

DidYouKnow? Halloween Is Also Columbia’s Birthday

Columbia celebrates Charter Day every October 31 — the date in 1754 on which New York governor James De Lancey granted a charter on behalf of King George II, creating King’s College (which, 30 years later, was renamed Columbia College). While Charter Day’s major anniversaries have often been marked by large celebrations, the 200th in 1954 was an especially big blowout: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was the guest of honor at a Charter Day dinner, held at the Waldorf-Astoria on October 30; the following day she accepted an honorary degree to recognize her family’s role in creating King’s College. During the dinner, the Queen Mother read a message from her daughter, Queen Eliza- beth II — then a little more than a year into her reign — which (in

COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES COLUMBIA COURTESY part) said: “I pray that [Columbia] may long continue its task of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at Columbia’s 1954 bicentennial inspiring free citizens in the pursuit of sound learning and encour- Charter Day celebration. aging them to apply it to the benefit of their fellow-men.”

Fall 2018 CCT 9 Hall of Fame

The Monk Who Would Not Be Silent

By Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, JRN’86, GSAS’90

onks are supposed to those who have ever wondered how to serve West 121st Street, just behind Teachers live in isolation and both God and Caesar, or struggled to rec- College. A week after Pearl Harbor, he silence. Not so Thomas oncile religions, Merton remains a guide. entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Geth- Merton ’38, GSAS’39. Merton (his priestly name was Father semani, 50 miles southeast of Louisville, to When he died 50 years Louis) was a unique penitent. As both join the Trappists. “I don’t think we’ll ever Mago in December, he was so well known that adolescent and grown-up, he had one foot hear from Tom again,” his mentor, Mark the news made the front page of The New in the godly realm and another in secular Van Doren GSAS 1921, said ruefully. York Times. — even sinning — society. On campus, Far from it. In 1948, after an attempt at Today, Merton remains the world’s he drew cartoons for Jester, wrote for the censorship by one of his monastic superi- worldliest hermit. From within his rural Columbia Review, joined Philolexian and ors, Merton published a memoir, The Seven Kentucky monastery, he issued dozens of crashed on the couch at Alpha Delta Phi. Storey Mountain. He told of a child born in volumes of letters, journals, essays, transla- Off campus, he frequented jazz clubs and France during WWI — one who was raised tions, reflections and verse. These books, flirted with communism. there, in England and in New York. He told many published posthumously, have canon- But all the while, Merton was aspiring of a fragmented family. And he told of an ized him as both a leading Christian thinker to grace. He was 18 when, he recalled, “I awakening that culminated in a permanent and a bridge builder across faiths. Their very first saw Him.” And as civilization hurtled home in “the four walls of my new freedom.” titles (Dancing in the Water of Life, Emblems toward total war, he increasingly embraced The Seven Storey Mountain was a surprise of a Season of Fury, Conjectures of a Guilty Him. In November 1938 he had himself bestseller and inspired many who were look- Bystander) evoke a restless conscience. For baptized at Corpus Christi Church on ing for heavenly guidance during the early Cold War. It spurred a bevy of readers to check out the monastic life, and it helped demystify Catholicism for a pre-Vatican II America that still regarded the Church of Rome with suspicion. Merton’s friend and editor at Harcourt Brace, Robert Giroux ’36, noted that another sign of the book’s impact was the resentment it provoked among those who thought it inappropriate for any monk to write. Of the negative mail that poured into his office, Giroux recalled in 1998, “I had a short answer for the hatemongers: ‘Writing is a form of contemplation.’” From then on, Merton neither would nor could be immured. His increasing renown posed an existential dilemma. Merton had sought attention, yet he could not wholly abandon his ascetic discipline. In that dou- ble-edged regard, said the writer Edward Rice ’40, Merton’s friend, and sponsor and godfather at his baptism, “His entire life was a search, one that led him further and fur- ther into the inner — and outer — reaches of the human mind and soul.”

40 That search expanded as issues of race, peace and especially holiness of all kinds preoccupied him in the 1950s and ’60s. “I am trying to figure out some way I can EDWARD RICE ’ EDWARD get nationalized as a Negro,” Merton told

10 CCT Fall 2018 Mendelson and Menin Elected to University Board of Trustees

Victor H. Mendelson ’89 and Julie Jacobs Menin ’89 have been elected to the Uni- versity Board of Trustees. Their term began on September 4, and brings the total number of College alumni on the 24-member board to 13. University President Lee C. Bollinger congratulated and welcomed the new addi- tions, who also included David Greenwald LAW’83, Julissa Reynoso LAW’01 and another College friend, the minimalist poet Kathy Surace-Smith LAW’84. “They have already established themselves as enthusias- Robert Lax ’38, “as I am tired of belonging to tic and engaged alumni of the University,” Bollinger said, “and we know they will bring the humiliating white race.” To the Pakistani to the board invaluable expertise and experience in civic and professional leadership.” Sufi master Abdul Aziz he wrote, “I would Mendelson is co-president of HEICO Corp., an aerospace, defense and electronics like to join spiritually with the Moslem design and manufacturing company in Miami, Fla. He has worked for the organiza- world in this act of love, faith and obedience tion for more than 25 years and in numerous roles including general counsel, executive toward Him Whose greatness and mercy VP and subsidiary CEO. Mendelson surround us at all times.” As war in Southeast earned a J.D. from the University Asia began making headlines, and monks of Miami. He most recently was on the other side of the globe began setting chair of the College’s Board of Visi- themselves on fire, he intensely explored Zen tors and is a member of the Core to Buddhism in relation to the West. Commencement Campaign Steering When Pope Francis addressed a joint Committee. The Mendelson family’s session of Congress in 2015, he cited four connection to the College spans more Americans who, he said, had succeeded in than 100 years and four generations, “seeing and interpreting reality” — Doro- starting with Mendelson’s grandfa- thy Day, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther ther Samuel (Class of 1906), followed King Jr. ... and Merton. by his father, Laurans ’60, BUS’61, Victor H. Mendelson ’89 Julie Jacobs Menin ’89 Ultimately, Gethsemani proved too Mendelson and his children Lindsey small for Merton. He acquired his own her- ’18 and Nicole ’20 and his brother Eric ’87, BUS’89 and his children Hayley ’17 and mitage on the grounds; there he received David ’18. In 2016, the family established the Mendelson Center for Undergraduate visitors ranging from old Columbia cronies Business Initiatives, a joint program between the College and the Business School. to the folk singer Joan Baez. Correspon- Menin is the commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Enter- dence arrived from Evelyn Waugh, the tainment, an agency that encompasses film, television, theater, music, advertising, pub- cranky author of Brideshead Revisited, and lishing, nightlife and digital content. She previously was the city’s commissioner of the the future Nobel Prize winner in literature Department of Consumer Affairs and chair of Manhattan Community Board 1. She Czeslaw Milosz. He traveled within the also was an attorney at Wiley Rein, senior regulatory counsel at Colgate Palmolive, and United States and even abroad, meeting founded and ran Wall Street Rising, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting business in lower three times with the Dalai Lama. Manhattan following 9-11. Menin earned a J.D. from Northwestern. She is a member of Merton’s death on December 10, 1968, the College’s Board of Visitors and the Columbia College Alumni Association Board of was mysterious, even bizarre. Following a Directors, and has been an adjunct professor of public policy and law at SIPA. session at a religious conference in Bang- kok (“I will disappear from view and we can all have a Coke or something,” he said by way of adjourning), he apparently took a shower, slipped on the floor, grabbed an upright fan for balance and electrocuted Steven P. Marcus ’48 himself. He was 53. Ten years later, Columbia Catholic Memorial Ministry inaugurated its annual Thomas A memorial for former Dean of Merton Lecture, funded by the Hugh J. the College Steven P. Marcus ’48, [’26] and Catherine R. Kelly Endowment. GSAS’61, who died on April 25, 2018 This past spring, a $100,000 gift in mem- (see “Obituaries,” Summer 2018), will ory of Edmund J. Kelly LAW’62 was made be held on Thursday, December 13, toward the lectures. at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Merton’s journals from 1964 and 1965 Low Library. All are welcome. were published as A Vow of Conversation. It is a vow he has kept. GUENTER KNOP

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In Memoriam: H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest LAW’58, Supporter of Columbia Faculty, the Law School, the Arts

H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest LAW’58, a cable elementary school teacher until Lenfest The awards honor exceptional instruction TV pioneer, entrepreneur and prominent earned his degree. and scholarship, and winners each receive philanthropist whose generosity left an Upon graduation, Lenfest joined the law a $25,000 stipend for three years. Lenfest enduring imprint on the University, died on firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. One of the and his wife also provided funding to build August 5, 2018, in Philadelphia. He was 88. firm’s clients was Walter Annenberg, owner and renovate the Law School’s facilities Harold FitzGerald Lenfest was born on of the media holding company Triangle and support its faculty and students. May 29, 1930, in Jacksonville, Fla., the son Publications. In 1965, Annenberg offered In 2011, Lenfest pledged $30 million to Lenfest a staff attorney position at Triangle, support the construction of a hub for cul- and Lenfest quickly rose to oversee the tural and civic exchange on the Manhat- company’s cable television operations. tanville campus. Designed by Renzo Piano, The pivotal moment in Lenfest’s career the 60,000-sq.-ft., state-of-the-art facility came in 1973 when Annenberg decided opened in 2017 as the Lenfest Center for to sell two cable systems. Lacking capital the Arts. of his own, Lenfest convinced two Penn- Lenfest also supported journalism. In sylvania investors to buy the entities. In 2012, he was part of a group of six inves- exchange, he promised a 100 percent return tors that agreed to purchase the Phila- on their investment within five years. The delphia Media Network, publisher of the companies, Suburban Cable and Lebanon Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily Valley Cable, became the bedrock of Len- News and Philly.com. That arrangement fell fest’s privately held media holding com- through and in 2014 Lenfest and fellow pany, Lenfest Communications. investor Lewis Katz became PMN’s own- During the next two decades, Lenfest ers. In 2016, Lenfest gave $20 million to Communications grew its subscriber base create the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, from 7,600 customers to more than 1.2 a nonprofit dedicated to developing and million. In 2000, the company was acquired supporting sustainable business models for by Comcast for approximately $7 billion. local media. EILEEN BARROSO The Lenfests gave away more than $1 bil- Lenfest was honored with the Medal for lion earned from the sale. “[W]e really Excellence, the Law School’s most presti- of Harold C. and Herrena FitzGerald Len- don’t want to die with much money to our gious award for alumni, in 2008. Lenfest fest. He and his twin sister, Marie, moved name,” Lenfest told Philanthropy magazine also was a Columbia University trustee with their family to Scarsdale, N.Y., the in 2011. “Andrew Carnegie said, ‘The man emeritus, having sat on the board from 2001 following year. When Lenfest was 13, the who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’ That to 2013, and the University awarded him an family moved to a farm without plumbing makes an awful lot of sense to me.” honorary degree (LL.D.) in 2009. In 2011, or electricity near Lambertville, N.J. Long a supporter of public institutions, the College bestowed on him the Alexander Lenfest’s mother died shortly after the Lenfest donated to Columbia, Mercersburg Hamilton Medal. That same year, Lenfest, family’s move and his father traveled often Academy, Washington and Lee, Wilson along with now-Trustees Co-chair Jona- for his job in sales of diesel engines for College (his wife’s alma mater), the Kim- than S. Lavine ’88, created the $5 million ships. “I pretty much ran the farm,” Len- mel Center for the Performing Arts, the Lavine-Lenfest Matching Fund, to endow fest once said. He attended a series of high Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes five positions for assistant professors teach- schools before graduating from Mercers- Foundation and the Museum of the Ameri- ing the Core Curriculum. burg Academy in Pennsylvania. Lenfest can Revolution. He also chaired the Phila- Lenfest and his wife were awarded the worked odd jobs, including as a farmhand delphia Museum of Art and the Curtis Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2017. in Iowa, a seaman on an oil ship and a Institute of Music. The Lenfest Scholars In addition to his wife, Lenfest is survived laborer in the North Dakota oil fields. He program, which Lenfest and his wife created by his children, Diane Lenfest Myer, H. eventually enrolled in Washington and in 2001, offers college scholarships to rural Chase and Brook; sisters, Marie Schmitz Lee University in Lexington, Va., gradu- high school students in central and south- GSAS’59 and Lauren; brother, Robin; and ating in 1953 with a degree in economics, eastern Pennsylvania. Lenfest also supported four grandchildren. then served on a destroyer in the Navy, environmental causes and organizations. — Lisa Palladino attaining the rank of captain. He and his The scale and breadth of Lenfest’s gen- wife, the former Marguerite Brooks, whom erosity to Columbia was remarkable. In CCT he married in 1955, then settled in Green- 2005, he established the Distinguished Print Extras wich Village while he studied at the Law Columbia Faculty Awards, known as the Read President Lee C. Bollinger’s statement School. She supported the couple as an Lenfest Awards, with a $12 million gift. on Lenfest at college.columbia.edu/cct.

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Lion Legends

Columbia will celebrate its latest cohort of all-time athletic achievers with admission to the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame. The 2018 class comprises 17 individuals — 15 former student-athletes and two longtime staff members — and four teams representing 14 sports programs and seven schools across the University.

Honorees are slated to be recognized at a ATHLETICS / COLUMBIA LAUGHLIN black-tie dinner and induction ceremony

in Low Library on October 18. MIKE M c Founded in 2006, the hall of fame Chichi Ikwuazom ’20 notched 14 kills in volleyball’s win over St. Francis College on September 14. welcomes a new class biannually. This year’s honorees include two key members of the 1968 Ivy League champion men’s Fencing Gold Hoop Dreams basketball team, Heyward Dotson ’70, LAW’76 and David Newmark ’68. A trio of former Lions fencers made Two former Lions basketball players are Dotson was a three-time All-Ivy League history this summer by propelling the heading for the pros. selection before being awarded a Rhodes four-person Team USA to its first gold In September, Jeff Coby ’17 signed a Scholarship to Oxford. Newmark, a medal World Foil Championship. contract with the New York Knicks. Coby, a 7' center, averaged 19.9 points per game Nicole Ross ’13, Nzingha Prescod ’15 Haitian National Team standout, spent his as a Lion and played in the NBA for the and Margaret Lu ’17, along with team- rookie season playing for teams in Spain. Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks. mate Lee Kiefer, delivered the dramatic In August, Camille Zimmerman ’18 Coinciding with the 35th anniversary win against number 1 ranked Italy, 45–35. signed a contract to play for Kouvot- of the Columbia-Barnard Consortium — “It’s so special for us because we’ve been taret, a club team in Finland’s premier which enabled students of both schools working so hard and so long together and women’s basketball league. The 6'1" guard- to compete on the same teams — the there’s so much love between us,” said forward wrapped up her collegiate career 1985–86 women’s basketball squad will Ross, a 2012 Olympian who has been on as Columbia’s all-time leader in points the national team since 2010. (1,973), rebounds (940), field goals made The championships were held in (728), field goals attempted 1,707), free- ROAR! Wuxi, China, on July 26. En route to the throw percentage (.826), games played finals, Team USA defeated Spain, Canada (113) and games started (112). For the latest news on Columbia athletics, and South Korea. In the championship visit gocolumbialions.com. match, the Italians led 10–4 before Ross earned a clutch victory, Prescod followed Get the Download with a win to tie the score at 16–16 and also be honored; the team distinguished Kiefer sealed the title by defeating Italy How is women’s cross country doing in its itself by going 21–6 and earning a bid to world champion Alice Volpi. bid to defend its Ivy League title? Is Lions the NCAA Division III Tournament. Prescod finished football having another banner year? The Other members of the new class individually among new Columbia Athletics app can help include Harry A. Fisher, the first head the top eight in wom- fans keep tabs on the latest news, scores coach in the men’s basketball program; en’s foil, while Ross and more. Dr. Barton Nisonson ’62, PS’66, the 1962 ranked in the top 16. Available for download through NCAA sabre champion who became the “We always knew the Apple App Store and on Android orthopedic surgeon for the Jets and the that we could get devices through Google Play, the app Rangers; and longtime administrator Ken there and we just had features schedules and photo galleries, Torrey, who was instrumental in the start Nzingha Prescod ’15 to really believe that can be tailored to send notifications about of Columbia’s varsity squash programs. we could do it on that favorite Lions teams and offers up live For a complete list of honorees, visit day,” said Prescod, who also competed at stats, audio and video. Users can also gocolumbialions.com. the 2012 Olympics. “[So] why not today?” interact with other fans on social media.

Fall 2018 CCT 13 From the courtroom to the boardroom, BETTER CALL Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard ’93 is a force for KHADIJAH positive change

n 2007, after a decade working her mission from record labels, screening for any- way up within the legal department thing that might be inappropriate for viewers. at media giant Viacom, Khadijah Most of the videos were sexually explicit — Sharif-Drinkard ’93 found herself in “women were basically sex objects; they didn’t a new role: approving music videos have a face or a head, they were just a body part” that would play on BET. The stakes — but in the pre-#MeToo, pre-#TimesUp era, Iwere high. Protesters had begun to gather out- they often got a pass. None of the men saw a side the network president’s house in Wash- problem. Sharif-Drinkard did. ington, D.C., chanting their disapproval of the “I would say, ‘This video can’t air!’” she recalls. sometimes violent, and often sexist, video fare. “People didn’t always like it, but it started con- Soon, the president had trouble walking out versations about what was acceptable, and what her front door each morning. So when Sharif- was not. When Nelly swiped that card through Drinkard was dropped into the Midtown that woman’s behind? Just not acceptable.” boardroom where video decisions were made, But nixing videos wasn’t enough — Sharif- she saw an opportunity. Drinkard wanted to stop the misogyny before “I was the only woman in the room when I got it was shot, and spare the company the hassle there,” says Sharif-Drinkard, now VP, associate of rejection after rejection. “I figured out how to general counsel at Viacom Media Networks. “I get to the labels early,” she says. “I started say- said to myself, ‘Now I see why this is the way it is. ing, ‘Listen, give me some [plans] in advance, so By Molly Shea Because nobody’s saying the things that need to I can see what the video’s going to entail. Then be said!’ So I took it upon myself to say, ‘Well, I’m I can tell you, there’s too much of this, or that. in the room now, and I need to say something.’” Don’t shoot this, shoot that.’” A group of seasoned businessmen — most of It was a real risk. Her male coworkers were less them her superiors — would watch each sub- than thrilled and Sharif-Drinkard worried she JÖRG MEYER

BETTER CALL KHADIJAH

might lose her job. “They would call me The Suit,” she They won: The court ruled that New York could no lon- recalls. “I’d hear, ‘Why are we letting her in the room?’” ger award scholarships based solely on SAT scores. But slowly, during her three years on video duty, she By the time she got to Columbia, she was ready for more. began to turn her reluctant coworkers. She flagged “I came in [with] guns blazing,” Sharif-Drinkard every issue she saw, told labels exactly what was wrong says. Her courtroom experience had motivated her to with their submissions, over and over, until it stuck. fight for what was right, and set her on a path for law Until others saw the problems, too. “It wasn’t over- school. “I was moved by what Shirley Chisholm did — night, but little by little they’d say, ‘Go get Khadijah!’” she ran for President in 1972, way before a black man The protests stopped, as did (some of ) the blatant sex- ever ran. Here she was, a woman from Brooklyn who, ism and gratuitous violence. It confirmed a theory that for all intents and purposes, didn’t have a whole lot. … Sharif-Drinkard was starting to believe: that by work- I was buttressed up a little bit by the notion that people ing hard and proving your own worth, you can use your who didn’t have a whole lot could still do a lot.” power to push for change, and propel others forward. But as she planned her future as a human rights attor- It’s easy to see Sharif-Drinkard’s worth. She wins ney, she began to wonder if her skills might be better over boardrooms with a wide, easy smile, and you used elsewhere. “There was a part of me that felt like get the sense that everyone who knows her sees her there wasn’t a whole lot of movement in human rights as a friend. Somewhere between hollow humility and law,” she says. “The question was, how could you be a oversized bravado, she navigates an impossible middle social activist, and also make money and donate, and do ground: She sounds delighted, but not smug, as she good? How can you do good within a company?” rattles off her (many) accomplishments over a coffee Sharif-Drinkard was “not a big TV fan growing up,” squeezed between meetings. She’s proud of what she’s but worked at Viacom for a year between college and done, because what she’s done has helped others, and law school, gaining on-the-ground experience before isn’t that the point? jumping back into classes. “I saw that people are really “She has that sort of voice and personality that impacted by what they see on TV,” she says. “So my brings people to her,” says Miguel Batista ’93, BUS’99, goal was to make television that gets people to focus a childhood friend and College classmate. “She does a on things that are inspiring. I thought, if we could get really good job of galvanizing folks.” more people to share the [positive] on TV, and not just Take, for example, her first court case, at just 17: Sharif the crazy, it’s a good thing to be involved in.” by Salahuddin v. New York State Education Department. At Fordham Law School, she finally faced her deci- Sharif-Drinkard grew up in the Harlem projects, sion: Stick to human rights law, or stake her claim in not far from campus. As a public school student, she entertainment and build a platform for change? She chose the platform. Returning to Viacom, she worked her way up from assistant to video approver to her cur- She’s proud of what she’s done, rent position, where she leads a team of a half-dozen because what she’s done has helped young attorneys and para-professionals. As associate general counsel, Sharif-Drinkard han- others, and isn’t that the point? dles contract and deal negotiations, checks in on TV and movie sets, counsels clients on navigating produc- tion hurdles and ensures that advertising partners’ needs had learned to advocate for her education — and she are met to keep the production on track. “I’m just try- and her friends were running into a wall. ing to make sure I’m helping the business move forward “We were all public school girls who were straight-A in some way,” she says. “It’s an interesting hodgepodge students who didn’t do well on the SAT, and because of of practicing law.” It also allows her to throw her legal that, we didn’t get a lot of money for scholarships,” she weight behind important projects — particularly those says. She saw a clear bias: Access to tutoring and test that promote diversity and highlight people of color. prep made it easier for wealthier students to do better on “Diversity has always made sense — not only the SAT than poorer students. Data further showed that because it is good for business, but [also because] it’s white and Asian test takers tended to score more highly the right thing to do,” she says. “It makes sense that we than their black and Latino counterparts. A mentor would want to tell stories about people who have dif- tipped Sharif-Drinkard off to ACLU chatter about ferent life experiences, diverse perspectives, and come the unfair scholarship allocations, and connected her from a variety of cultures and races. Telling these sto- with one of the union’s attorneys, Carrie Wong. Sharif- ries makes the artistic landscape richer, and it allows for Drinkard and Wong assembled a group of female high- the humanizing of more communities that have often schoolers with high GPAs and low SAT scores, and been left on the periphery of American storytelling.” together they pressed charges — with Sharif-Drinkard’s The recent success of Black Panther, Black-ish and name on the case, since she was the first to speak up. similar movies and TV shows is what Sharif-Drinkard

16 CCT Fall 2018 often calls “a start” — a step in the right direction, but not the whole picture. “There is a lot of work to do with respect to including African Americans, Latino Ameri- cans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans and more in the natural fabric and landscape of filmmaking,” she says. “Our experiences are too diverse, and we are too complex. We need hundreds, if not thousands, of pro- ductions to properly represent our experiences. We need to greenlight more shows that speak to diverse commu- nities, staff more diverse writers, directors and producers, and ensure that the shows that do make it to screen … acknowledge that all communities have layers and layers, and that there is not one story for any particular group.” As an attorney, greenlighting shows is not exactly Sharif-Drinkard’s job. But she’s found a way to get around that. She pushed, hard, to bring the awards show Black

Girls Rock! to BET in 2010 — a coup that took more than two years of negotiations. “I think it helped to shape the culture, for little black girls to say, ‘I’m cool! I rock!’” she says. It was particularly important to her as a mother to two young black girls, now 13 and 15. (Sharif-Drinkard, her husband and their daughters live in West Orange, N.J.) “That was something that was monumental for us, because it gave a voice and a plat- form to women and girls, who didn’t see themselves the way they wanted to be seen.” The same full-bodied effort went into saving Kasha COURTESY KHADIJAH SHARIF-DRINKARD ’93 SHARIF-DRINKARD ’93 KHADIJAH COURTESY and the Zulu King, a children’s animated movie that aired on BET in 2012. She was assigned the basic legal responsibilities of handling contracts and financial nego- potential solution to a problem, she’s talking from Bringing the Black Girls Rock! awards to BET tiations. But when she heard production was running a position of strength,” says BET general manager was especially important behind schedule and about to be shut down, she sprang Michael D. Armstrong. “You never have a doubt to Sharif-Drinkard as a into action. “The young man who created it … was using when you listen to her. [You know] that she’s going to mother of two. Here, she attends the 2017 college students in Atlanta, at Spelman and Morehouse, exhaust all her resources and find a solution.” show with her daughters, so it was taking a lot longer [than anticipated],” she says. Sharif-Drinkard’s advocacy extends outside of Via- Jalsa (left) and Madinah. “But he was really shaping and molding these new cre- com, too: She’s on a handful of boards, including that atives, so I pushed not to pass on it.” She petitioned her of the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Asso- bosses to stay the course, negotiated longer contracts. ciation, where she mentors those looking to break into “When it was all said and done, it looked amazing!” she her industry and effect the same changes. She takes says. It also won a 2013 NAACP Image Award. humanitarian trips, organizes networking opportuni- Developing young talent is important to Sharif- ties, chairs award ceremonies, even helps to coordinate Drinkard. As a boss, she takes her direct reports under summer camps for low-income New Jersey her wing, teaches them how to navigate corporate life. students. It’s enough to make anyone’s head One of those mentees was Rakiat Gbadamosi, who spin, but not Sharif-Drinkard’s. To hear her VID STUFF joined Sharif-Drinkard’s team in 2014. explain it, it’s simple: She’s invigorated by Sharif-Drinkard shares her “Right away, she would let me sit in on all her deals, on the possibility of creating something better, favorite (acceptable!) video picks. all the phone calls, include me on emails, so I knew what something that lasts. college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/ feature-extras being a lawyer looked like,” says Gbadamosi. “She’d give “I think there’s a lot of power we have, feedback on everything — not just on my work product, even when we don’t necessarily know we but how she feels like I’m networking, steps she thinks have it — that’s why I’m always energized I should be taking. She was always going to the higher to do something,” she says. “We can sit and figure out ups and saying, Rakiat’s been with us for ‘x’ amount of the things that didn’t go right for us, or we can figure time, she deserves a raise. I want her to advance.” out the things we can make right for other people.” Sharif-Drinkard’s superiors say she’s earned her influence. “When you hear Khadijah talk about a Molly Shea is a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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JÖRG MEYER ISTORIAN H HOMETOWN THE THE F College community the “afeels real to bettering responsibility” Associate Professor Frank A. Guridy Columbia College Today. tospeakwithColumbia inJuly afternoon Texas’ culture. sporting impact on American returned tohisoffice onelate Guridy this yearan eight-month sabbatical tocomplete his nextbook, anexamination of thefirsthalfof20thcentury. during movement intheUnitedStates He took connections freedom between theblack movements inCubaandthecivilrights ina World, andJimCrow Empire of andAfrican-Americans aboutthe Afro-Cubans with andawareness ofColumbiaisconnected tosports,” hesays. tion: games, dadtheColumbiafootball usedtowatch “My somyfirst relationship economies, political relationship tourban ofsports there aCollegeconnec isstill - his current toU.S. research hasshifted history, andurban sport on focusing the intheUniversity’s events history.examine one ofthemostimportant And though 2017,fall hebeganteaching “Columbia 1968,” thatasksstudentstodeeply aclass interests.intellectual MMUF fellows, identifyandexplore andhelpcandidates topicsthatpique their and prepare academiccareers. themfor seminars, lead will weekly Guridy advise tive toputmore studentsonPh.D.s underrepresented thepathtoearn minority Undergraduate FellowshipMellon Mays program, aMellon Foundation initia- steps. This fall, beganathree-year coordinatorGuridy for asthefaculty term The 12 years atthe Collegein2016. before starting Michigan, Ann Arbor, in2002. of HetaughtattheUniversity Texas, Austin, for studies, andAfrican-American history completed hisPh.D. of attheUniversity By Jill C. Shomer C. Jill By In 2010, publishedhisaward-winning firstbook, Guridy Forging Diaspora: As ahistorian, interest hasanintellectual intheinstitution itself. Guridy In - inhisfoot tomentorstudentswhowantfollow Now hehastheopportunity After graduating from Syracuse in1993, graduatingfrom Syracuse After Guridy, anassociateprofessor of the Bronx, to hewasinfactgo tocollege. thefirstperson inhisfamily inInwood — class “a stone’s throw from BakerField” in —andraised A.rank sawhimselfbecoming never aprofessor. Guridy working- Born

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Q: How did you become interested a flourishing of all these interesting cultural became a better place. A year after the in studying history? and social relationships between African- protests, Charles V. Hamilton — the A: I was a political science major at Syra- Americans and Afro-Cubans — between renowned political scientist who co-wrote cuse at an interesting time, the period of artists, between intellectuals, there was a lot Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in the first Gulf War in 1990. One of my of synergy that people had not really known America, which was a bible for black stu- professors was an international political about. And so my book became about how dent movements at the time — was hired. economist and I got sucked into the history these two black populations of different Hollis Lynch was hired as the first black of British imperialism in India and backgrounds would have these perceived tenured professor in the history depart- the Middle East. commonalities and how they used each ment. There are the beginnings of a curric- When I was a junior I got a letter say- other as a way to inspire their own freedom ulum of black studies. There are bumps in ing there were opportunities for under- movements in their own homelands. the road all the way through, but in terms represented students to get their Ph.D.s, of black students having a space socially and even though I had never considered Q: What made you start the and intellectually, that’s all super important. grad school, I became convinced I had the “Columbia 1968” class? Then there’s greater representation of makeup to go. I got into Northwestern’s A: I was inspired by the “Columbia and groups on campus: With the development political science master’s program, moved Slavery” course that President [Lee C.] of the University Senate, and students hav- to Chicago and then in the summer before Bollinger helped initiate, which encourages ing a say in how things are run, it became I was to begin my first semester, I realized students to look at Columbia’s relation- — at least in theory — a more democratic the program wasn’t the right fit for me. I ship to slavery, but it really is this bigger place. Spaces were created that did not took a year off and worked odd jobs while project of looking at this institution’s his- exist before and the administration under- I figured out my next move. I spent a lot of tory. They had this amazing event at Low stood it had to be more responsive to key time in the city’s amazing bookstores, and Library; I saw the students talk about their parts of its constituency. It forced Colum- that helped me realize that studying history was the better fit. I got my master’s from the University of Illinois before transfer- “I think it behooves us to look at an earlier ring to Michigan to do my Ph.D. work. period of political polarization and to see if I was very interested in studying the his- tory of the Caribbean, since my family is there are any lessons that can be learned.” from there. I had the good fortune of going to Cuba to do research and I ended up regularly traveling and researching on the research and a light went on in my head. bia to join the late 20th century, and to island from 1998 to 2009. The anniversary of the protests was coming me that’s a good thing. That’s the story of up, and I wanted to do a class that was just many institutions — you don’t have change Q: What was that like? about the events of ’68 and have students without struggle. A: It was challenging — this was before the research any aspect of it. I thought that agreements between the Obama admin- undergraduates could handle the challenge Q: What do you think about teaching the istration and Raúl Castro, before the nor- of doing work on a politically polarizing course again this year? Do you feel like malization of U.S. and Cuba relations. You topic, in a period that’s fairly recent, and you’re bringing something different to it had to get a license from the U.S. Treasury contend with people who are still alive. in 2018 than in 2017? Department and then travel through a third Students wrote papers about the causes, the A: I think in some ways it’s a continua- country. Once I got there I needed to get aftermath, the protest itself, the experiences tion. Of course, the 2016 election was in permission to do research, and they were of women at Barnard, the Asian-American my head when I first thought about this suspicious of foreign researchers. So I had student experience, the Jewish student class, but that wasn’t the only thing. I am a to learn how to make the right connections, experience, the Harlem aspect — there are scholar who is committed to political and convince them I wasn’t there to overthrow so many different ways to look at it. social change. So that means my work as a the Cuban government. [Laughs.] They teacher is about getting students to think didn’t know what to make of me, but I felt Q: In a New York Times article published in a broader and more critical way about very comfortable there. earlier this year about the Spring ’68 the world they live in. anniversary, you said: “They should put a Q: And Forging Diaspora is based on plaque on the Sundial. It should say, ‘This Q: And that’s a tenet of the Core. your work there. event happened. It was difficult and vio- A: Yes, and I take that seriously. We’re A: Yes. When I was there it became clear to lent. But it made our community a better living in a very polarizing moment, and I me that Cuba was totally intertwined with place.’” In what ways do you think the think it behooves us to look at an earlier the U.S. in the pre-Castro era — essentially, College community is better? period of political polarization and to see if Cuba was sort of a neo-colony of the U.S. A: It became a more inclusive place. From there are any lessons that can be learned — One of the results of that relationship was the black student perspective, Columbia not that they can be replicated, but it abso-

20 CCT Fall 2018 lutely requires a reckoning with the legacies of that period and how they continue with us today. And I think our students are hun- gry for that. I think a lot of them are prob- ably scared, and they need to know about people who have been here before — not just the protestors, but also a whole cast of characters who were, in their own way, try- ing to make Columbia a better place, and make the world a better place. It sounds really idealistic but I think it’s important to encounter historical actors like that. Not to do the same things they did, but to see that in the past there were people who were facing difficult circumstances who felt a sense of agency in tackling those challenges. I think our students intuitively understand that after 2016. It’s time for us to think about how we can make our country bet- ter and our world better than what we have right now. And that’s why this class works. Guridy in Cuba, in 1998. COURTESY FRANK A. GURIDY COURTESY Q: Speaking of the Core, have you taught any Core classes? A: I haven’t, but I would be interested students to think about sports as a site of female and black athletes began emerging down the road. I feel like I’m missing out critical inquiry. If you want to understand on the national stage. The famous “Battle on a key part of the Columbia experience how we think about manhood, woman- of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie by not teaching CC. The most impres- hood, race, patriotism — sport is a fasci- Jean King and Bobby Riggs, for example, sive people I’ve met at Columbia are the nating way to think about these questions. happened in the Astrodome. undergrads. Columbia is like a liberal arts I’m going to teach it again in fall 2019. institution insofar that students expect you I love it, and I get a lot of non-history Q: Sounds like you had a productive to give them time, but not in an entitled majors and a lot of student-athletes. It sabbatical. What do you like most about way. The vast majority of my interactions gives these really smart young people per- teaching here? with undergrads are not about grades; they mission to think about a passion they have A: This place allows me to do all the things just want to talk about ideas. and consider it as an intellectual exercise. I want to do. It allows me to teach under- graduates, to train scholars, it allows for an Q: What do you think is important about Q: And your upcoming book is about intensity of intellectual interaction. Plus liberal arts education right now? sports in Texas? there’s a lot of institutional work for me A: I think it encourages students to engage A: Yes. Texas has an interesting relationship to do here — as diverse and international in the act of imagination. It forces them to the popularization of sports in the U.S. and inclusive as Columbia is, it still needs to think creatively about their career goals, in the 20th century, and also its social and more diversity in positions of power, and as to not get locked into a pre-professional cultural impact. Football emerged in the a scholar of color who’s tenured at the Uni- path. Along the way they’re encounter- Northeast, but its popularity in southern versity I feel a real responsibility to that. It’s ing classes from the Core to seminars in states like Texas made it a national part of the reason I’m going to work on the whatever department they’re in, thinking phenomenon. The building of the Houston Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship creatively about knowledge production and Astrodome in 1965 set the template Program, to encourage underrepresented how they can translate that knowledge to for all stadium construction afterward students to get Ph.D.s in the humanities. the broader world. And because it’s liberal — they developed from structures with arts in New York, they can walk down the uncomfortable bleachers where people Q: You’ve come full circle! street and be able to imagine all sorts of went solely to watch sports to these A: Yes! I was raised in a working-class application possibilities. hyper-privatized, living room/man caves family in the Bronx! This is a wonderful with giant scoreboards and luxury boxes. opportunity to continue the work I want Q: Are you teaching any classes about Stadiums become places that generate to do in my hometown. There’s an amazing sports culture? revenue. Houston also plays an interesting energy that runs through this community, A: Yes, I teach a big lecture class called role in the feminist and civil rights and I see myself being fed by it for quite “Sports & Society in the Americas.” It gets movements, as a place where talented some time.

Fall 2018 CCT 21 Dante’s Infernal Inbox A Divine Comedy for the Modern Age

idway upon the journey of my life, I found First Circle: Limbo myself within a forest dark, for the straight- The first of the daunting 9,586 emails before me seems forward pathway through my inbox had hardly deserving of its unanswered fate. A friendly been lost. Ah me! Trapped within the sins request from someone I don’t see often, for advice on of clutter, I descend through one sphere of something about which I don’t know that much. O, the misery that could have been avoided had I just undeletedM emails after another. Through my inbox is the responded with a vague sentence or two when I first way into the suffering city, through my inbox is the way to received this! Instead, I allowed weeks to pass, leaving eternal pain, through my inbox runs a quest to achieve the me with no choice but to provide a thorough response divine: Inbox Zero. Abandon all hope, ye who scroll here. or to leave this blameless email forever marked as unread. With one last pitiful glance, I star it, like that means anything, and scroll on. By Susanna Wolff ’10 Second Circle: Lust

“hey..” the subject line whimpers. An email from an ex looking to “catch up.” The time stamp of desperation reads 12:09 a.m., and though I first read the email at 12:10 a.m. that same night because I, like everyone, check email constantly, I know I must not reveal this fact by responding immediately. The plea must remain, gasping and groaning, in my inbox for, like, three more days. For there is no greater sorrow than passing up an easy opportunity to appear better off than an ex.

Third Circle: Gluttony

Scrolling down, I see new sufferings, new sufferers surrounding me on every side. Rising from the depths of order confirmations and delivery estimates is a three-headed beast of Seamless, Grubhub and Eat24. All are owned by the same company, and yet I get separate emails from each. Most are easy to vanquish, but O, here is one hurling a 20 percent discount offer straight into my famished jaws if I order two meals in Illustrations by Annelise Capossela one day, and who am I to delete such a deal?

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Fourth Circle: Greed

The stars that marked our journey’s beginning fall away as I am assailed by cries of, “One Day Only!” “Don’t Miss This!” An anguished hand reaches out to warn that these deals won’t last, and, over this monster of commerce’s shoulder, I see the decaying remains of hundreds of Flash Sales. “How did all these places even get my address?” I holler, and yet I stumble against the force of want. Everlane has a box-cut turtleneck dress that will make me look like a fat-faced baby art teacher, but I save the email just in case I change my mind or, perhaps, my face.

Fifth Circle: Wrath

As I approach the next email, an invitation to a former co-worker’s birthday party I surely won’t attend, my heart lifts in the face of such a supremely deletable request. But no sooner have I clicked the trashcan icon before hot fumes of reply-all passive aggression pour from the invitation’s mangled corpse like boiling blood, for the sender did not use BCC. After the first accidental reply-all, each following request that people stop replying to all is sent to all, creating more rage and more eternal replies.

Sixth Circle: Heresy

I cross into a valley, my eye catching on the 3,542nd email. Though it has a July send date, the word “Christmas” shrieks from the subject line. O, the wretched horror of a holiday planning email from my mother! I have already gifted Christmas to my in-laws, but I shall wait until Thanksgiving to reveal this blasphemous fact so that it’s not a whole thing.

Seventh Circle: Violence

“No! Please, no!” I moan as I find yet more replies clinging to a 62-message battalion of bridesmaids’ logistics. What started as an honor has become a curse as the Damned Captain, the bride herself, fuels my fury with each demand for her collection of loyal friends who don’t know one another to purchase plane tickets and penis straws and a very specific shade of coral dress that no one actually sells. Ah me! If she thinks I’m buying her a wedding gift as well, she is sorely mistaken.

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“Time Warner is now Spectrum,” the message bellows. “Exclusive offers” follow mere moments later. I wrestle and drag these oppressive alerts to the trashcan’s infinite abyss. But then I notice that my monthly autopay went up by almost 30 bucks. What fraudulent scheme is this?! Now I must leave this slimy swamp of landline bundle deals as a reminder to call and complain about my bill. Just as I know that I will never actually call, I know that Spectrum will send me all these messages again in the real mail.

Ninth Circle: Treachery

At last! I’ve made it to the furthest depths of my inbox where, surely, only the real erasable detritus lingers. “Do it!” a pained voice cries. And I, shaken to my bones, discover the voice is my own. “Do it! Do it!” One after another, all the task reminders sent to myself and never addressed. The betrayal burning through me, I fight the only way I can: “Clean out inbox,” I scrawl, then send this missive to join the others in the interminable pile, a monument to my failure, before I scroll back to the surface. I’ve received nine new emails.

Susanna Wolff ’10 is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and on CollegeHumor.com, where she was formerly editor-in-chief.

Fall 2018 CCT 25 Columbia Forum

Bright Young Things Zak Dychtwald ’12 is charting the rise of a powerful new generation

The day an author turns in his first book is usually one to worldly generation of Chinese youth — a group that’s increas- remember. But for Zak Dychtwald ’12, his finished manu- ingly digital, educated and well traveled — has the potential to script was just one of several milestones. The same afternoon alter all of our futures. he submitted Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Dychtwald points out that more Chinese youth will be Change Their Country and the World he quit his job and started attending American colleges, buying real estate in the U.S. a consultancy and think tank, named after his new book. “I and making up audiences that Hollywood will look to when registered the company from my office,” he tellsCCT. He creating plotlines. (Large “first openings” for movies are now found the process “disturbingly easy, like buying a scooter,” but starting to take place in China.) That means that firms in sec- remembers realizing, “I could finally do what I dreamed about.” tors like banking, real estate, travel and culture are eager for Though still in his 20s, Dychtwald has become an in-demand Dychtwald’s insights. expert on one of the biggest cultural influences of our time: the Dychtwald’s infatuation with China began when he was a Chinese millennial. According to an article Dychtwald wrote child in California, reading Eastern-based sci-fi and watching for The New York Post in February, there are five times more Bruce Lee. As a College student, he spent a term at Hong Kong millennials in China than there are in the United States. At University. Intrigued by the mainland, he moved to Suzhou around 400 million (as of 2016), the number is greater than the after graduation. Through a succession of odd jobs — tutor- populations of the U.S. and Canada combined. With China on ing, videogame translation, freelance consulting — and a lot of course to possibly surpass the U.S. economically by 2028, this railway travel across the countryside, Dychtwald got to know this young Chinese generation as well as any Westerner could. This years-long cultural “deep dive” was professionally invaluable; he says “everyone wants to know” about his iden- tity research. A recent speaking event at the Columbia Global Center in Beijing about the anxiety of Chinese people born in 1990 or after drew more than 99,000 listeners via livestream. Topics like this exemplify the bold research that Dychtwald is most interested in pursuing. For him, Chinese millenni- als seem like a “restless generation,” distinguished from their elders by an avid quest for identity. “This … generation is the first in modern Chinese history that, by and large, doesn’t have to think about subsistence questions like ‘How is my family going to eat’ … ?” he writes in his book. Instead, they are think- ing about self-definition: “‘What do I want for myself? My family? My country?’” Here, Dychtwald looks at the way that today’s Chinese family

SIXUE DAN structure is shaping the lives of this important group. Dychtwald at The Temple House luxury hotel in Chengdu. — Rose Kernochan BC’82

26 CCT Fall 2018 Uneasy Lies the Head That through immersion learning while its young students Wears the Crown became comfortable with technology. China’s Little Emperors and I looked at the turtle puppet. He looked at the crowd. Their Heavy Expectations Together we pronounced the word microscope with exag- gerated slowness. His wide-set, googly eyes bounced and bobbled as he surfed over the heads of Jiangguo and his iangguo’s big eyes beamed out from beneath well- classmates, asking them in English, “What amazing tech- styled hair, combed over and sealed in place. A nology are we going to learn about today?” The two young blue argyle sweater with gray and orange accents Chinese teaching assistants translated in singsong voices. Jhung easily from his shoulders. His brown cordu- “Repeat after me,” I said. “Microscope.” The teaching roy pants looked newly pressed. Jiangguo looked prepared assistants coaxed the five young students to repeat the to discuss his résumé for the position of regional manager word microscope with them. at the Samsung semiconductor factory up the street. To my surprise, a murmur of “microscope” bubbled Jiangguo was five years old. While he waited for class up from the back of the class. I looked at Jiangguo and to begin, his thumb remained mostly in his mouth. his classmates. None of them had so much as opened The heels of his Velcro-close shoes lit up every time he their mouths. shifted his weight. He stood in a row with four other The class door at the back of the room shut abruptly, children in the center of the high-tech classroom. Their and Jiangguo’s grandmother looked at me guiltily from gazes were trained on my right hand, where Cici, my behind the glass partition. At the back of class an entou- puppet and co-teacher, rested. rage of thirty adults, five or six for each of the students, I sighed. It was difficult to shake the feeling that in stood watch over the class, separated from us by the big front of me were the little emperors I had heard so much glass partition, a setup that bore a striking resemblance about before I came to China. China’s one-child policy to a zoo. They shifted noisily. Becky, one of the TAs (they meant that all of a multigenerational family’s attention all went by their chosen English names at work), turned and resources were heaped on just one kid. The result was and politely reminded the crowd to please let the stu- expected to be a generation that had been spoiled rotten, dents answer for themselves. Sherry, the school manager, the so-called little emperors. moved around them with her electric smile and tailored The uncomfortable implication was that if these were dress, trying to convince the parents to buy larger pack- China’s little emperors, I was their court jester. After all, ages of classes. Many complied. With only one child to I was dressed in a highlighter-orange jumpsuit, with my spend on, why not? right arm elbow-deep in a green turtle hand puppet. I Jiangguo’s family was easy to pick out. As Jiangguo taught weekends at a training school for wealthy pre- munched on his thumb, his mother, father, paternal school and kindergarten students. The national media, grandmother, paternal grandfather, maternal grand- government, and parents alike have attacked China’s mother, and an uncle watched anxiously. His grandpar- education system for producing good testers but not ents could be seen pointing at him and commenting on good thinkers, creators, or team players. My school his progress, his interaction with other kids, or the way offered a solution. It aimed to plant the seeds of English he held a seashell. His mother stood in back, arms folded

Fall 2018 CCT 27 Columbia Forum across her chest, beaming at her son and scribbling on a writing pad emperors looking to buy, exactly?” Even foreigners who have worked she kept with her at all times. All his relatives stood throughout the in China for years will often grumble, “Those spoiled little emperors hour-long class, watching intensely as little Jiangguo twiddled a are a pain in my . . . ” as a kid steps on their shoes at Pizza Hut. microscope, fiddled with a computer program, played with a robot, Sherry was right. The first group of these only children had or just stood quietly in the middle of the room. already grown up. They are my friends, classmates, tutors, teachers, Through the classroom window we could see the world’s largest bosses, managers (Sherry included), and, technically, clients. As I LED screen reigning over the most developed part of the city, the looked out the window at the new Suzhou Industrial Park, it was gleaming new glass and steel of Suzhou Industrial Park. The district, tough not to think that if the stereotype of little emperors has not like many of China’s city centers, had not existed a decade or two changed in thirty years, it is nearly the only thing in all of China to earlier. I looked back at this group of little emperors: a class of five have remained the same. students with a three-person teaching team and an entourage of more than thirty adults pressed against the glass in back. I sighed again. During a break, Sherry asked what was wrong. I told her I felt The front gates of Suzhou University open up to the part of the city like a performer for these little emperors. called Suzhou Industrial Park, a mix of new residential apartment Without missing a beat, Sherry nodded toward the back of the buildings and factory headquarters. class. “The original little emperors are in the back of the room,” she The layout of the city district has a sprawling feel compared with said, flashing her electric smile. And then, with a no-nonsense look, other parts of Suzhou — it is spacious and carefully planned, and she told me, “Now get back to class.” the roads are as broad as highways. Along the park’s wide lanes the Stunned, I stood for a moment in a corner of the classroom before logos of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, L’Oréal, and Samsung beckon doing the math. The Western media had dubbed only children “the from the sides of new industrial warehouses. little emperors” in the early 1990s. Today, the demographic created On the other side of Suzhou University, across a small river and by the one-child policy — four grandparents and two parents who following paths meandering between trees and red brick school focus all their attention on one child — is referred to as the “4:2:1 buildings, the back gates of campus opened up to old Suzhou, the problem.” I was so used to taking the “little emperor” concept for Suzhou that earned the moniker “heaven on earth” centuries ago. The granted that it had not occurred to me the original one-child genera- university’s back gate opens onto a narrow alley lined with cheap stu- tion had already grown up. dent eats. Come nightfall, college students streamed out the back gate and into Suzhou’s milky bluish-black twilight, splitting off into “fly dives,” bare-bones eateries known for good food and minimal décor. Some broke off and formed a line at the Egg Wrap Grandmas- “The Western media had dubbed only ter’s stall, the most famous savory crepe wrap stall in Suzhou. A hundred paces from the grandmaster’s stall, the alley converged on children ‘the little emperors’ in the an eight-hundred-year-old canal. At dawn and dusk an old man punted a small boat up and down the waterway, ducking beneath early 1990s. Today, the demographic the arched bridges and the willow branches. Not half a mile away created by the one-child policy is in the other direction, Samsung’s robust semiconductor factory clicked and whirred. At the end of each day, I would make the trip referred to as the ‘4:2:1 problem.’” by electric bike from my job at Suzhou Industrial Park, through the university, and out the back gates to eat at Trade Winds.1 At the time, Trade Winds was the most modern restaurant on the alley. Opened by a graduate of Suzhou University, it featured China has been tracking the developmental pitfalls experienced a long countertop that encircled the griddle and gas ranges, which by generations of only children for decades, long before we in the made talking easy. The owner claimed he modeled it after the late- West started paying attention. In 1987, when China’s first only chil- night tavern on Midnight Canteen, a Japanese TV show that was a dren were turning seven, China released a propaganda film called mixture of melodrama and food worship; the show had a major cult China’s Little Emperors — a “how-not-to” film about raising the first following in China. Trade Winds’s walls were covered with Polaroid generation of only children. It plays like a Chinese child-rearing pictures of young people. If you hung out there, each face from the version of Reefer Madness (which claimed the effects of “marijuana Polaroid wall would eventually squeeze through the sliding door and cigarettes” were the loss of sanity and committing aggravated assault hunker down at the bar for a bowl of the signature red-cooked pork with an axe). Overindulgence and excessive pressure, the Chinese noodles. The place had a homey feel, and many students treated it as movie claimed, would lead to societal ruin. The overriding fear was such, eating and chatting there after class. It was a community. that when these hundreds of millions of spoiled only children grew Xiao Lu was a central part of that community. A particularly sharp up, they would unleash their awfulness on the country. bioengineering student, Xiao Lu was a customer-turned-employee Many Westerners have asked me, “What kinds of contributors can who worked at Trade Winds when he wasn’t in class. He washed these little emperors be to society given their excess-oriented founda- dishes and talked with the customers after the lunchtime rush. All tion?” Hedge fund managers want to know, “What are those little the while his biochemistry books were open at eye level on the top

1. Several years ago, many cities around China outlawed motorbikes, both as a way to clean up city air and incentivize green industries. Now, the streets are packed with electric mopeds that people charge every night in their apartment complexes.

28 CCT Fall 2018 View from the bridge: a canal in Suzhou, China.

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shelf over the sink. He often read while he worked. Once, when just “That term, ‘little emperor,’ is total bullshit.” the two of us were in the restaurant, he told me that his happiest I was taken aback. Xiao Lu doesn’t swear. memories were from Trade Winds. Soon, though, he would gradu- “Why?” I asked. ate, and the pressure of finding a job was beginning to eat at his Xiao Lu took a deep breath and threw the dish towel over his nerves. I would watch him at the countertop, meticulously filling out shoulder. “As a foreigner, you cannot begin to understand the tre- countless applications for chemical engineering positions, while the mendous amount of pressure put on your little students,” Xiao Lu rest of the students talked during their break from class. said. “Think about what you’re seeing next time you’re in class: six One day I walked hurriedly into Trade Winds after work and people standing around watching a five-year-old learn English. Do slammed the door behind me. Xiao Lu raised his eyebrows and you think that kid wants to be there? Wants to be studying Eng- looked up from his books. A few regulars sitting at the bar greeted lish on his Saturday instead of playing in the park? Wants all that me. “What’s up?” Xiao Lu asked. focused attention? No chance.” Work had been frustrating. As I peeled off my orange jumpsuit The students around the countertop stared at Xiao Lu. He had with the school’s logo on the front, I explained to the Trade Winds rarely put that many sentences together in a day, let alone a minute regulars how excessive it all seemed: one foreign teacher (me), two or two. TAs, the head of the school, my green turtle puppet Cici, and a “But it is the only way a family thinks their kid can get ahead mass of family members all teaming up to teach these five-year- today,” he continued, “so his parents and grandparents watch him, olds how to say a few words in English. groom him, tutor him meticulously to make sure he will be able My frustration soon degenerated into criticism of my students. to get good grades, get into college, get a job, marry young, buy “This is why China’s only children have such a bad reputation abroad,” an apartment, and ultimately help support his parents and grand- I ranted. “Jiangguo and the rest of my class are all little emperors!” parents. We get more attention, more food, more resources. In My words landed with a thud. People sitting next to me stared exchange we give up our youth.” quietly into their bowls of noodles. Taking the dish towel off his shoulder, he turned around, flipped Wei Yu, a twenty-year-old economics student, broke the silence. the faucet on, and turned the page of his biochemistry book with She looked at me sternly and said, “A little outdated with this kind the back of his hand. of ‘little emperor’ talk, aren’t we?” “In summary: two characters,” Xiao Lu said, turning around Gesturing with a pair of chopsticks, Zhang Jing, who was finishing once more and holding up two fingers in the air, “压力, yālì.” his master’s in mathematics, added, “This is like saying, ‘You know how Pressure. American youth love their hopscotch and nickel arcades!’ ” Xiao Lu had been quiet behind the counter as he worked on the From Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their stack of bowls and chopsticks in the sink. He finished wiping off the Country and the World by Zak Dychtwald. Copyright © 2018 by metal base of the large rice cooker and put it down on the counter. the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press.

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Contents A POINT OF PRIDE 31 CCAA Message While the lion has been Columbia’s mascot 32 Lions and Newsmakers Josh Martin ’13; Jennifer Lee ’90, GSAS’98; since 1910, the current iteration of our leonine Bill Isler ’03 representative, Roar-ee, made his debut at the 36 Bookshelf 2005 Homecoming game. Previously called Amsterdam Exposed: An American’s Journey into the Red Light District, by David Wienir ’95 Leo Columbiae, his new name was selected in a name-the-mascot contest; Roar-ee took his 38 Class Notes Alumni Sons and Daughters place in Columbia Athletics history by beating out Just Married! alternative suggestions Hamilton, Hudson, K.C. 85 Obituaries and J.J. — roar, lion, roar! Henry L. King ’48

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Five Things to Look Forward to This Year

By Michael Behringer ’89

With the fall upon us, CCT asked me to reflect on what I’m most excited about for the academic year:

1. Columbia Athletics. Forget about the Giants and the Jets — this fall, the most exciting football in New York is being played on Morningside Heights. Last year, the Lions had their best season in 21 years, earning a

second-place Ivy League finish. With 15 of 22 starters back this SCOTT RUDD year, we’re well positioned to make another run for the title. But football isn’t the only team 3. Reunion 2019. The great Class of ’89 will celebrate the 30th anni- that deserves a spotlight: Lions versary of our graduation this spring. Kind of painful to write this one, archery, baseball, basketball, crew, as it means I’m now closer to retiring than to relaxing on the Steps. fencing, soccer, squash, swim- I love my class, and we always have fun turning back the clock ming, tennis and track are just at special weekends. But reunions aren’t just for those whose classes some of the other teams dominat- are marking a milestone year. The Alumni Office offers activities ing. Did you know that last year and classes with faculty for all alumni at All-Class Reunion, which Columbia won seven Ivy League takes place the Saturday of reunion weekend. So even if it’s not your championships and two national reunion year, I hope you’ll come back to campus to catch up with team titles, and earned three friends and to reconnect with the College. Reunion 2019 will take number 1 national rankings? place Thursday, May 30–Saturday, June 1. Our athletes energize Colum- bia, rallying the students and 4. The Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner. The Alexander Ham- alumni who have been returning ilton Medal is the highest honor awarded to a member of the Col- to campus in record numbers. I lege community. hope this year you’ll don Colum- This year’s dinner will be especially momentous, as it honors my bia blue, come to a game and join classmate Lisa L. Carnoy ’89. I’ve known Lisa since we were floor- BRIAN FOLEY / COLUMBIA ATHLETICS me in supporting our teams. mates on Carman 8, and I can’t think of anyone more deserving. She’s been an advocate for women, athletes and really, all things 2. The Core Centennial. For almost a century, College students Columbia, for decades. have been united, inspired and happily tortured by the Core The dinner will be held in Low Rotunda on Thursday, November Curriculum. Two days to read Plato’s Republic? A dissertation on 15. We’re expecting a record turnout, and I hope to see many of Descartes before dinner? If it’s Thursday it must be Thucydides. No you there to honor one of our best (college.columbia.edu/alumni/ problem — I wasn’t planning to sleep anyway. events/hamilton/2018). I’m an unabashed cheerleader for the Core. It’s the one thing that all College alumni have in common and the reason many of us 5. Columbians in the News. With more than 51,000 living alumni chose to attend Columbia. across the globe, our ranks include Nobel Prize-winning scientists I loved President Lee C. Bollinger’s remarks at Commencement and statesmen, legislators and judges, CEOs and stay-at-home par- this past May, when he emphasized that in today’s world we need ents, artists and activists, actors and musicians, entrepreneurs and the Core Curriculum more than ever. As he eloquently stated, “The engineers, and everything in between. Core is a set of values that is essential for the health and well-being It’s no understatement that Columbians have a profound impact of any individual, any institution.” on the world. I’m never surprised — and am always proud — to Officially, the Core’s 100th anniversary is fall 2019. Leading hear of fellow alumni’s achievements, and I’m looking forward to up to that yearlong celebration, the College will acknowledge the seeing what we do next. centennial through new programs, opportunities to go back to the classroom and much more. ROAR!

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COURTESY NEW YORK JETS A Jet Roars on the Gridiron

By Alex Sachare ’71

hen Josh Martin ’13 was in Rome a year ago, like enjoyed a breakout season with the New York Jets in 2018 when, in most tourists he visited the Colosseum. But he addition to continuing to excel on special teams — he ranks among looked upon the ruins of the ancient arena from an the top 10 in the NFL in tackles since 2016 — he started nine games W unusual perspective, that of a professional football on defense and led the Jets with 12 tackles for a loss. player with a degree in anthropology from Columbia. “Last year was a huge step forward for me. Not only was I able “We are the modern-day gladiators,” Martin says of himself and to maintain my status on special teams, but I was also able to con- his colleagues in the National Football League. “Millions of people tribute on defense,” he said this past summer, prior to the start of watch us battle every week, in the stadiums and on television. It’s training camp. “Every year I’ve had a bigger role; now it’s a matter interesting to me to look at the NFL and the interactions in the of building on my role. The key thing I have to do on defense is get locker room, the traditions of the game and the different rituals to the quarterback, and I spent two weeks this off-season working we have.” solely on that. It’s a different mindset.” Martin, who turns 27 in November, is not your typical football Martin, who excelled academically as well as athletically at player. He was an All-Ivy First Team defensive lineman for Colum- Cherokee Trail H.S. in Aurora, Colo., was set to attend the Uni- bia in 2012, and while he was not selected in the next year’s NFL versity of Wyoming until a guidance counselor mentioned “this Ivy draft, he received a phone call from Andy Reid, head coach of the League school in New York that I hadn’t heard of.” One recruit- Kansas City Chiefs, saying the team would offer him a free agent ing visit to the Big Apple convinced him. “I liked that we were contract. Martin, 6'3" and 245 pounds, spent his first four years in treated like regular students,” Martin says. “We slept in sleeping the NFL playing for three different teams, primarily on special teams bags on the dorm room floor. At other schools they put me up in as he transitioned from a college lineman to a pro linebacker. He nice hotels and I felt like I was being played.”

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It was playing of another sort that clinched his decision. “We went to Times Square on Saturday night and I stayed out later than I ever had in my life,” he recalls. “It must have been 3 or 4 in the morning, and we were walking by this side street or alley and there was this guy all by himself, wailing away on his tenor sax. Now, I’m a big music guy, it’s important to me to at least be around it, and that sealed the deal for me.” Martin says he majored in anthropology because “it’s the study of social culture. I’ve always been interested in learning about peo- ple, why they do the things they do and think the way they do. It’s also something that has inspired me to travel, which I really love.” Martin took his first major trip in the 2017 offseason, visiting Japan and China, and last spring he went to South America — from the coffee plantations of Colombia in the north to the glaciers of Patagonia in the south — as well as to Italy. Martin, who lives in Jersey City, has become active in community affairs in the metropolitan New York area. “I felt I was losing myself in football — I had all these other interests that I had put on the back ’13 JOSH MARTIN COURTESY burner,” he says. Martin is on the Board of Directors of the Har- lem School of the Arts, which enriches the lives of children and their Ivy Leaguers who played in the league last season — he knows he families, and works with Project Rousseau, a nonprofit founded by “might be looked at a bit differently” by his pro football teammates. Andrew Heinrich ’13 that provides help to at-risk youth with the goal “I wear my Ivy League cap with pride,” Martin says. “It’s not the of enabling them to attend college. Martin was also selected by the easiest thing to do to get to the NFL from the Ivy League, and I’ll NFL to be a personal finance boot camp ambassador, and speaks to always have that degree to fall back on.” hundreds of players about taking care of their money. And he remains thankful to that street musician whom he stum- Alex Sachare ’71 is a former editor-in-chief of CCT and has followed bled upon during his recruiting visit, even though — as the only the Jets since the early 1960s, when they played in the Polo Grounds as Lion currently competing in the NFL and one of only a dozen the New York Titans.

Jennifer Lee ’90 Investigates Identity

By Remy Tumin

ennifer Lee ’90, GSAS’98 was 3 in 1971 when she emi- that I can teach the type of courses that were never offered to me.” grated from Seoul to the United States with her family. Her Lee is clearly reshaping the conversation. The author of several father worked at a hammer factory during the day and her books, she routinely contends with questions of race, the immi- Jmother, a nurse, worked at night. They lived in Philadelphia grant experience, identity and how different cultural groups inter- and eventually opened a small clothing store in an African-Amer- act. Her most recent work, The Asian American Achievement Paradox ican neighborhood. (2015), received three top awards from the American Sociological Lee and her younger sister were always one of, if not the only, Association in 2016 — The Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Asians in their schools. “From an early age I was acutely aware of Book in Sociology Education, The Thomas & Znaniecki Award my minority status in school settings,” Lee says. and the Book Award on Asian America. Now, as an alumna professor of sociology at Columbia, she is But finding her professional calling took time. After graduation, looking to turn that feeling of isolation on its head. Lee’s experi- Lee matriculated at GSAS; by her second year, though, she still ence lends her a unique lens through which to pursue her research wasn’t feeling a connection to academia. Then she became a research in race relations, migration and inequality. assistant for sociologist and Columbia professor Robert K. Merton. “When I was an undergraduate, none of my courses focused “[He] made me realize the kind of opportunities that are there for on Asian Americans. I had no Asian-American professors and no professors and made me a much stronger researcher and someone Asian-American role models,” says Lee, who joined the faculty in who was committed to both teaching and research,” says Lee, who 2017. “When you don’t see yourself and your experiences reflected went on to earn a master’s, an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in your courses, you assume [those experiences] aren’t important, Lee was also a principal investigator of the 2016 National Asian aren’t relevant and aren’t worthy of inquiry. American Survey, the only academic survey of Asian-Americans. “I’m committed to doing research that places the study of Asian Conducted every four years since 2008, it includes 10 Asian groups Americans as central to the discipline of sociology,” she adds, “so and is conducted in 10 languages. Aside from the NAAS, Asian

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Americans aren’t typically included in national surveys and polls, Lee notes, “so we don’t have reliable survey data about their atti- tudes, experiences and opinions on policy issues.” For her next book, Lee wants to explore how success is measured among immigrant populations, and what and who society consid- ers to be successful. “Who do we think is more successful — a second-generation Mexican American with a community college degree or a Korean American with a Ph.D.?” Lee asks. “We tend to look at outcomes without thinking about starting points. What I want to do is shift the narrative to think about the starting points.” When she’s not teaching, Lee says, her Pomeranian, Kaia, “is my life,” and the two are often seen on campus together — the pup hangs out for office hours and is popular with the students. Lee splits her time between New York City and Newport Beach, Calif., where her husband lives. The couple enjoys surfing during the summer. Lee, who this semester is teaching “Critical Approaches - Study of Ethnicity and Race,” says that some might call her choice of research “identity research” or “me-search.” But she takes another view. “We need more research on diverse populations, so that we can better teach our increasingly diverse student body to craft their own narratives.”

Remy Tumin is an award-winning journalist who has covered every- thing from small-town politics to presidential visits, dog cotillions to critical housing shortages. A born-and-raised New Yorker, she now COURTESY JENNIFER LEE ’90, GSAS’98 COURTESY works and writes for The New York Times.

Bill Isler ’03 Is Betting on Baijiu

By Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

n a warm April evening in Brooklyn’s trendy Williams- day and, because baijiu has a distinctive aroma and flavor, it stays burg neighborhood, Bill Isler ’03 is slinging cocktails with you a long time.” and greeting guests at the Museum of Food and Drink. Because baijiu is not usually used in cocktails or consumed on OStanding in front of a wall made of Chinese takeout its own without food, there weren’t bars in China — or anywhere containers, Isler makes sure each visitor gets a cocktail of rum, pas- else in the world — dedicated to serving the spirit. Isler and three sionfruit liqueur, pineapple juice, lime juice and, as the featured business partners decided to change that, launching the world’s ingredient, baijiu. The Chinese alcohol, which Isler affectionally first baijiu bar, Capital Spirits, in Beijing in 2014 (Isler had been describes as “inimitable,” is poised to make a move on Western audi- working in China since graduation and had opened another bar in ences and Isler’s company, Ming River Baijiu, is at the forefront. 2005). “We wanted to treat it like any other spirit in the West. We Baijiu, pronounced “bye-joe” and translated as “white spirit” in offer tasting flights, cocktails and education,” he says. Mandarin, is a catch-all term for traditional Chinese grain spirits. Capital Spirits quickly made a splash, winning Time Out Beijing’s Isler had his first taste of the complexly flavored libation –– think “Best Specialist Spirits Bar” and “Best Newcomer Bar” awards. The nearly overripe fruit with a bit of an earthy burn –– while study- bar then popped up on The New York Times’ “36 Hours in Beijing,” ing abroad in China as a College student; “I thought it was the which recommended readers check out the “hutong speakeasy with worst thing ever,” he says. However, the spirit grew on him and he antique wooden furniture and no sign on the door.” Forbes Travel later learned that his first experience wasn’t unique. Baiju is typi- ranked it as a top-three place for cocktails in Beijing, thanks to cally drunk neat at room temperature during traditional Chinese the unique opportunity for travelers to sample baijiu. “It was a tiny dinners; small, thimble-sized amounts are taken dozens of times little hole in the wall, but somehow we managed to attract lots of throughout the meal. Those unfamiliar with the drink often end attention,” Isler says. up overconsuming. News organizations weren’t the only ones taking notice of the “A lot of Westerners end up really disliking baijiu because of the new approach to an old spirit: Baijiu producers began to reach way it’s drunk more than because of its taste,” Isler says. “If they go out. “We were approached by a lot of major distilleries,” Isler says. to a dinner and have 30, 40 shots of it, they’ll feel terrible the next They eventually partnered with Luzhou Laojiao Distillery to start

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branding a Sichuan-style strong-aroma baijiu, fermented from whole-grain sorghum, to export to the West’s untapped market. “They were looking for someone like us, we were looking for some- one like them –– we had very similar ideas about how to bring baijiu to Western markets,” he adds. The team brought on baijiu expert Derek Sandhaus, and Ming River (comprising Isler, Sand- haus, Simon Dang BUS’10 and Matthias Heger) was born. Isler and the Ming River team’s current aim is to teach new audi- ences what’s available outside the Western spirits market. According to the International Wines and Spirits Record, the volume of baijiu sold globally is more than two and a half times that of the second- best selling spirit –– vodka –– making baijiu the world’s most-sold spirit, but almost all of the sales are in China. “Ming River is a vehicle through which we’re able to edu- cate people about strong-aroma baijiu and then baijiu in general … CCT Print Extras we want to focus on education as View a video of Isler at the much as possible,” says Isler. Museum of Food and Drink and Isler’s April event was a cel- get a baijiu cocktail recipe at ebration of Ming River’s arrival: college.columbia.edu/cct. 10,000 bottles were scheduled to land shortly in New York, another 10,000 in California and a final 10,000 for European distribution. By World Baijiu Day on August 9 (“eight nine” in Mandarin sounds similar to “baijiu”), Isler and Ming River had partnered with a half- dozen NYC restaurants and bars to make exclusive baijiu cocktails to celebrate the day — part of their strategy to target mixology/ craft cocktail bars, as those bartenders often look to surprise cus- tomers with new and unusual tastes. Says Isler, “It brings a flavor to the cocktail that’s unlike any other ingredient.” newsmakers The Emmy Awards aired on Septem- Kai-Fu Lee ’83 was honored with Jordan Hewson ’12, SOA’17 appeared ber 17 and two alumni were nominated the 2018 Asia House Asian Business in Vogue’s September 2018 issue in for their acting: Brandon Victor Leaders Award and will receive it the feature “Here, There, Everywhere: Dixon ’03 in the category of Outstand- at a gala dinner in Singapore on 34 Stars Who Continue to Shine on a ing Supporting Actor in a Limited November 22. He was recognized for Global Stage.” Hewson was highlighted Series or Movie for his work in Jesus “championing AI innovation and policies for creating Action Button, “an embed- Christ Superstar Live in Concert and to ensure its positive social impact.” dable tool that allows readers to take Kate McKinnon ’06 in the Supporting actions — through tweeting support, Actress in a Comedy category for her Author and journalist Franklin Foer ’96 signing petitions, or charitable dona- work on Saturday Night Live. wrote The Atlantic’s September 2018 tions — on a wide swath of social and cover story — “How Trump Radicalized political issues.” Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. ICE” — in which he explores America’s Holder Jr. ’73, LAW’76 received the immigration crisis. Kevin Baker ’80 On September 3, writer Michael American Bar Association’s Thurgood wrote “The Death of a Once Great Musto ’76 appeared on NPR’s “All Marshall Award on August 4 at the City: The fall of New York and the Things Considered” to talk about the Thurgood Marshall Award Dinner in urban crisis of affluence” for the July August 31 closure of iconic tabloid Chicago. The distinction recognizes 2018 issue of Harper’s Magazine; The Village Voice. On the program, members of the legal profession for he considered the loss of NYC’s Musto, who wrote the paper’s nightlife their long-term contributions to the individuality as high rents force out column for 30 years, discusses the advancement of civil rights, civil liberties mom-and-pop shops and chains take history of the Voice and how he feels and human rights in the United States. over neighborhoods. about its demise.

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David Wienir ’95 Goes Dutch in an Unusual Coming-of-Age Tale

By Jill C. Shomer

hen anyone mentions Amsterdam, you probably ize the women there and have think: Van Gogh. Anne Frank. Bicycles. Canals. a conversation about the issue You might also think: Hookers. The infamous in a different way. It’s a subject that touches mainstream society a W Dutch capital is known for all of those things, but lot more than we want to acknowledge.” David Wienir ’95’s memoir, Amsterdam Exposed: An American’s Examining a topic from different sides is something Wienir Journey Into the Red Light District (De Wallen Press, $12.95), is learned at the College; he calls his experience there “beyond trans- primarily concerned with the latter. formative.” Growing up in California, he says he had always roman- The coming-of-age story, which recently won the grand prize as ticized New York, and he found that Columbia in the early 1990s the Top Book of 2018 at the Hollywood Book Festival, describes still had “that Kerouac/Ginsberg intellectual vibe.” the author’s friendship with a Dutch prostitute named Emma, but He was the president of Carman Hall, a member of Alpha is also about a young man stepping outside his comfort zone. “I Delta Phi Literary Society and a co-founder of the Uptown Vocal think it’s a very different book than what people might imagine,” a cappella group. Studying abroad as a junior in the Oxbridge Wienir says. “This is not a survey of the sex worker industry; it’s a Scholars program was a big part of Wienir’s College journey and story that can shape how we see the world.” started his love affair with Europe. He thinks fondly of the Core Still, the provocative subject mat- to this day: “It’s been everything to me,” he says. “It’s given me an ter kept Wienir, now an entertainment ability to think deeply about things and care about ideas. lawyer based in Beverly Hills, from “To me, Columbia was about searching,” he says. “Diversity was writing his story for 18 years. “I was welcomed, and people were genuinely interested in how others afraid to share myself,” he says. “When came to certain understandings. That foundation led me to want you’re in corporate America, it’s almost to be a writer, to be willing to strip myself of preconceived notions as though you’re told to check your per- and explore. Columbia for me was not about fitting in; it was about sonality at the door. It took me a long being different. time to find the necessary vulnerability.” “We’re so quick to label everyone around us,” he continues. Wienir was 26 and a third-year law “Republicans, Democrats, lawyers, prostitutes. But we’re also quick student at UC Berkeley in 1999 when to label ourselves. We all want there to be order in the world so that he took a semester to study interna- we can make sense of it. But by doing that we put people in cages, tional law in Amsterdam. Feeling pres- and ourselves, too.” COURTESY DAVID WIENIR ’95 DAVID COURTESY sured to “sell his soul” in exchange for a Wienir has written three other books; he’s dedicated this one to his corporate law career, he recalls the deci- wife, Dr. Dina, a pioneer of the legal cannabis movement in Califor- sion to travel to Holland as an opportunity to “break free” from a nia and the inspiration for the Nancy Botwin character on the Show- more traditional law school path. He arrived knowing he wanted time series Weeds. He now works in a creative environment at United to write a book about the red light district, hoping to introduce Talent Agency, and says his colleagues have been beyond supportive. readers to the women who worked the windows and share their Ultimately, he believes his chutzpah comes from Columbia: perspectives on the industry from a Dutch point of view. Wienir “There are extraordinary things waiting for you if you put yourself explored the seedy neighborhood, asking for interviews and trying out there. Go knowing you’re smart and be comfortable searching. to make connections before ultimately forming an intense but pla- My time at the College gave me the courage to go places other tonic bond with 24-year-old Emma. He writes a poignant, heart- people might not have been comfortable going.” felt letter to her in the book’s epilogue. And to anyone aspiring to be creative in corporate America, Wienir “I hope the book finds its way to Emma,” Wienir says. “There’s a offers this advice: “Just do it. If there’s something you need to write or lot that this book gets at, but one of the main objectives is to human- something you need to say, there’s a path that’s there for you.”

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The Fevers of Reason: New and Left, Gay & Green: A Writer’s Madame Claude: Her Secret The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Selected Essays by Dr. Gerald Life by Allen Young ’62. Young, World of Pleasure, Privilege, & Remade the World Weissmann ’50. Weissmann calls this whose Communist parents taught Power by Bill Stadiem ’69. Stadiem, by Scott J. book “a sort of autobiography” of him to fight for the oppressed, a bestselling biographer, screenwriter, Shapiro ’87 and Oona Hathaway. Two Yale Law School professors his life in science; his essays cover shares his experiences and social historian and frequent contribu- tell the story of the Peace Pact, a range of subjects from “Ebola to adventures as a journalist and tor to Vanity Fair, details the life of signed by world leaders in 1928, Eisenhower, Zika to Zola” (Bellevue activist who has devoted his life the woman behind the world’s most by placing it in the long history of Literary Press, $19.99). to a variety of causes (CreateSpace glamorous and successful escort international law from the 17th Publishing, $25). service (St. Martin’s Press, $27.99). century through the present Father of the Man: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, $30). by Anthony Robinson ’53. Set in Twilight of American Sanity: Surveyor of Customs: American the Maverick Art Colony — a A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Literature as Cultural Analysis Decarcerating America: From utopian Woodstock retreat where Age of Trump by Dr. Allen Frances by Joel Pfister ’73. An examination Mass Punishment to Public the author grew up — in the 1940s, ’63. Widely cited as the writer of of how American writers such Health edited by Ernest Drucker ’94. this story’s point of view alternates the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic as Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel This collection of essays from between a 13-year-old boy and Personality Disorder, Frances Hawthorne and Edith Wharton experts across the criminal justice his writer father (CreateSpace argues that the rise of Donald J. can be read as critical “surveyors” reform movement offers a construc- Publishing, $17.95). Trump is darkly symptomatic of a of customs, culture and capitalism tive set of proposals for bringing the deeper societal distress (William (Oxford University Press, $35). American incarceration rate in line The Wind Blew Me There: Morrow, $27.99). with that of other democracies Memories of a Ship’s Surgeon Engine of Impact: Essentials (The New Press, $27.95). Aboard Barquentine Verona by Greater Gotham: A History of Strategic Leadership in the Dr. Barnett Cline ’58. A memoir and of New York City from 1898 to Nonprofit Sectorby William F. Hell & Back: Wife & Mother, travelogue of a young physician’s 1919 by Mike Wallace ’64. The second Meehan III ’74 and Kim Starkey Doctor & Patient, Dragon Slayer year at sea that includes information part of a NYC history series; the Jonker. The authors identify seven by Dr. Tali Lando Aronoff ’00. This from the original ship’s log, a sele­ first book, Gotham: A History of New components of leadership that set humorous memoir is a guide for breast ction of photographs Cline took on York City to 1898 (which Wallace high-achieving organizations apart cancer patients, their families and the voyage, and excerpts from letters co-authored), won the Pulitzer from the rest of the nonprofit world friends; the author shares her experi- he wrote and received (CreateSpace Prize for History in 1999 (Oxford and describe how those principles ence with a restrictive diet, her experi- Publishing, $9.65). University Press, $45). can be applied to attract greater ments with wigs after chemotherapy financial support (Stanford Business and her return to work during radia- Tyrants of the Heart: A Psycho- Death of the Dinosaur: How Books, $29.95). tion treatment (Archway, $35.95). analytic Study of Mothers Wall Street Has Changed and and Maternal Images in James Where It Is Headed Animus: A Short Introduction to by Jory If You Leave Me: A Novel by Joyce Bias in the Law by Michael Zimmerman ’59. Berkwits ’69. The author explains by William Araiza Crystal Hana Kim ’09. Kim’s debut The author synthesizes his lifelong how years of scandals in the ’83. Araiza analyzes some of the mod- novel tells the story of two ill-fated interest in James Joyce, whose financial services industry have ern Supreme Court’s most important lovers in Korea and the heartbreak- work he has taught extensively, eroded the public’s trust, and discrimination cases through the lens ing choices they’re forced to make in and his fascination with the kinds explores what can be done to help of “animus,” the legal term used as a the years surrounding the country’s of psychoanalysis practiced today Wall Street resurrect its reputation rationale for the public’s dislike of a civil war (William Morrow, $26.99). (Ipbooks, $35). (Atlantic Publishing, $12.95). particular group (NYU Press, $25). — Jill C. Shomer

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The Class of 1906 of our games. Best wishes to D’Angio passed away on September 1942 Patrick if he decides to pursue a 14, 2018. He submitted this column donated this pro football career. shortly before his passing.] Melvin Hershkowitz Our newest basketball recruits 22 Northern Ave. clock, installed include Floridian Ben Milstein ’22, Reflecting on our trip to the United Northampton, MA 01060-2310 younger brother of our talented field Kingdom this past February: An between Hartley [email protected] goal specialist Oren Milstein ’20. Ben abiding memory is how kind and and Livingston is a point guard, and will probably see helpful strangers were. Spotting two Paul On May 23 I had a note from significant playing time as the season doddering figures, a man and woman Halls in 1916, to Hauck, in Florida, reporting that at progresses. Our team returned with on the street immediately offered to mark the 10th 98 he is probably the oldest living almost all of our experienced starters, help. The trip was nearly 75 percent member of our Great Class of 1942. so we should be in contention for disaster and 25 percent success. My anniversary of its Gerald I am also in touch with Dr. the Ivy League championship in the wife, Dr. Audrey Evans, and I arrived Klingon graduation. in New York City and 2018–19 season. in Scotland during “The Beast from Stewart McIlvennan in Colorado. Best wishes to all surviving the East,” a Siberian blizzard blowing Gerry and Stewart are both 97. Paul classmates. You can reach me at the west. All transport, including taxis, is our leading candidate to become addresses at the top of the column was banned on Edinburgh streets. We a member of the Centenarian Club or at 413-586-1517. almost didn’t make it to the building in 2020. The current writer is only where Audrey’s investiture as a Fellow Class Notes are submitted by 95, so I hope to continue writing our alumni and edited by volunteer of the Royal College of Physicians of class correspondents and the Class Notes for a few more years. 1943 Edinburgh was to take place. It was staff of CCT prior to publication. The Columbia Lions website only a few hundred yards from our Columbia College Today Opinions expressed are those reports that Patrick Eby ’20 (6'3" hotel, but the sidewalks were icy and Columbia Alumni Center of individual alumni and do not and 240 pounds), the long snapper the route downhill. Audrey was all for 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 reflect the opinions of CCT, on our football team, is a pre-season walking the few hundred yards. Next its class correspondents, the New York, NY 10025 All-American, nationally ranked in stop, the ER. Instead, a friend scared College or the University. By [email protected] submitting to Class Notes, you the top three in the nation (not just up a taxi and we made the venue. acknowledge that the text is eli- in the Ivy League) at his position. The investiture was an important gible to appear in print as well as Accurate long snappers are crucial [Editor’s note: CCT is sad to occasion for Audrey. She started on CCT Online and in archives. for field goals, punts and PATs, report that longtime CC’43 class there as an indifferent pre-med G.J. “Dan” all of which can decide the outcome correspondent Dr. student (because of health setbacks)

38 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews and now she was to become –– and University of Pennsylvania. We are became –– an RCP Fellow. lucky to have it available within COLUMBIA SCHOOL DESIGNATIONS Audrey achieved her 93rd birth- minutes in a taxi. Barnard College day during the U.K. trip. She also Our family get-together was BC Columbia Business School was accorded an honorary doctorate planned for August, here in Phila- BUS Pharmaceutical Sciences (D.H.L.) by the Holy Family Uni- delphia. We are planning to attend CP DM College of Dental Medicine versity of Philadelphia in May. the 50th anniversary meeting of the GS School of General Studies I was ill all winter (and before) International Society of Pediat- GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, but suddenly recovered in May. The ric Oncology in Kyoto, Japan, in Planning and Preservation chronic problem stemmed from a November. As a past president of GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences prescribed drug I was taking. The SIOP, it was hoped I would be there HN Institute of Human Nutrition curtains parted three days after it to participate in the festivities. Long JRN Graduate School of Journalism was discontinued, and I was healthy way, but we hope to make it. JTS Jewish Theological Seminary again –– felt only 90 years young A Columbia nugget: Henry LAW Columbia Law School rather than aged 96. Suzzallo TC 1905 was born in San LS Library Service Our trip to Columbia for my 75th Jose, Calif., on August 22, 1875, of a NRS School of Nursing class reunion went very well. Audrey Venetian family. He attended Teach- Bernie Weisberger PH Mailman School of Public Health and I met on ers College, where he earned a mas- PS College of Physicians and Surgeons June 1 in Midtown and had a delight- ter’s in 1902 and a Ph.D. in 1905. SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering ful dinner with him. We then rode Before becoming president of the and Applied Science in a cab on the morning of June 2 University of Washington, Suzzallo SIPA School of International and Public Affairs to 116th Street and the campus and was, among other posts, an adjunct SOA School of the Arts enjoyed what I call “The Luncheon professor of educational sociology SPS School of Professional Studies for Ancients” under tents on South at Columbia. In 1915 the University SW School of Social Work Lawn. Bernie and I were the only of Washington offered Suzzallo the TC Teachers College ’43ers present. Too bad you missed presidency of the university, where UTS Union Theological Seminary it, classmates! Many of you live a lot he remained until 1926. The UW closer than Bernie (Evanston, Ill.) and library is named for him. Suzzallo I (Philadelphia). We also met Annie became president of the Carnegie Sirju of CCT there, an added pleasure. Foundation for Advancement of really like Dan’s description of it as disease and crime and take jobs from A new adventure on June 16: A Teaching in 1930 and died on ‘The Luncheon for Ancients.’ Americans.’ I’ve heard it all before heart attack. Audrey moved into my September 25, 1933, in Seattle. “Moreover, the lunch was the in our national periodic outbreaks room for the 48-hour uneventful From Bernie Weisberger: highlight of the months since I last of xenophobia, and as Goethe said stay. I was home and free of dis- “Greetings, fellow Class of ’43 wrote in mid-March. One of the of some other issue, ‘what’s true in abilities thereafter. Turns out there survivors, wherever and whoever other delights was to meet our Class it isn’t new and what professes to be were two small areas of ischemia you are. Dan notes that we were the Notes editor, Annie Sirju. It was true is a lie.’ I read that in German but no infarct that accounted for the only two to show up at reunion but altogether a lovely day in all respects, class in my sophomore year, another 7/10 chest pain. Good news! I never I wonder about that a little because weather included — hot, yes, but no benefit of a Columbia education. believed in guardian angels, but I there weren’t separate tables for the rain, allowing us to enjoy (at least “Otherwise, I remain in pretty have one –– in my son-in-law, Greg individual classes but a collection of for my taste) the real delight of eat- good health on this date, only a Hinson. He is an experienced hos- unmarked tables under the tent on ing outdoors. month away from turning 96, and am pital pharmacist as well as a prince South Lawn on a beautiful day, and “Outside of an in-law family wed- very grateful, though of course there among all men. He has been oversee- we seated ourselves ‘pell mell,’ i.e., ding in New York in February, already are small losses too familiar to all of us ing every detail at home, as well as without assignments. (Historical note: mentioned in my last letter, there ancients to spell out and whine about. those related to my medications. Thomas Jefferson was considered a were no celebrations of life milestones I say this with full awareness of good The medical and nursing care wild radical for using that arrange- among my grandchildren during the friend Dan D’Angio’s more crucial was superb at the Hospital of the ment at White House dinners.) I chilly spring here. I can’t, however, health problem that he describes in his resist a proud mention of the fact own letter and wish him a speedy and that my eldest, Abigail Rich, bless thorough recovery. And good health her, is working in San Francisco as an to all of us, the ‘happy few.’” attorney for an organization that pro- vides legal support to asylum seekers. This work is needed more than ever 1944 while President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions insist on their Columbia College Today brutal policies of ‘zero tolerance’ that Columbia Alumni Center keep applicants in virtual criminal 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 detention while awaiting hearings, New York, NY 10025 and are now talking about even deny- [email protected] ing such hearings, otherwise known as ‘due process of law,’ on the grounds Share your story, news or even a that the Constitution only provides favorite Columbia College memory by it to those already born or natural- sending it to either the postal address SCOTT RUDD SCOTT ized here. No pity, no exceptions or email address at the top of the Dr. G.J. “Dan” D’Angio ’43 (left) and Bernie Weisberger ’43 at Reunion 2018. and no proof that immigrants ‘bring column. Wishing you a pleasant fall.

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as I become a caricature, compared I enjoyed employment as a part- fellow in cardiology at the Peter 1945 to what once prevailed, well aware time musician in the University Bent Brigham Hospital from 1957 that what lies band and the University Orchestra to 1958 and then completed his Columbia College Today ahead is but a pittance as to what while attending the High School of cardiology training at Georgetown Columbia Alumni Center went before; Music & Art. University Hospital in 1959. After 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 that now, my senses are more “My college education began a year as chief medical resident at New York, NY 10025 in abeyance in June 1945. My classmates were Georgetown University Hospital he [email protected] rather than at their posts of duty; older, more mature young men, was appointed chief of cardiology at I reflect on the absence of a many having returned from service the Georgetown University Medical Share your story, news or even a promising agenda during WWII. Their friendship, and Service, D.C. General Hospital. favorite Columbia College memory that attends this juncture of despair; the education I received at Colum- He held this position from 1960 by sending it to either the postal and so, haltingly, I beseech whatever bia, were the basis for most of what to 1968. During this time he was address or email address at the top powers that be. I have since been able to accomplish. promoted to associate professor of of the column. Enjoy the fall. “After receiving an M.D. from medicine at Georgetown Univer- Teach me to accept the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center, sity Hospital. In January 1969, he besetting circles I suffered a bout of pulmonary became professor and chief of the 1946 of isolation that lay siege to tuberculosis, which was success- Section of Cardiology at the Univer- the ramparts fully treated. This led to training in sity of Arizona College of Medicine. Bernard Sunshine of old age; and to accede to the radiology, one of the less physically In 1982 he was appointed Distin- 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G impending coda demanding specialties. Twenty- guished Professor of Medicine and New York, NY 10023 of oblivion that awaits those who five years of practice at Waukesha held this endowed chair until 1999. [email protected] have been fortunate to Memorial Hospital were followed He is certified in the American have witnessed by 10 years of practice at Froedtert Board of Internal Medicine and in Class of 1946, I hope that you the estate of being - the awe, Hospital, Milwaukee Regional the Subspecialty Board of Cardio- enjoyed the summer and that your of nature’s tapestry. Medical Center. I have been vascular Disease. fall season is going well. I have no awarded a Fellowship in the Ameri- “Marcus was founder and first news for the column this issue, so Teach me to kneel before can College of Radiology. president of the Arizona Chapter of please take a moment and send an Necessity’s Decree: “My wife, Marny, is a graduate the American College of Cardiol- update to either of the addresses at that all who have known R.N. who practiced as a nurse and ogy 1987–88 and was president the top of this column. We would all the endowment subsequently as a nurse anesthetist. of Association of the University be happy to hear from you. of awareness, in time, must acquiesce We have raised five children, now Cardiologists 1990–91. Among his to the demise of the senses as they scattered about the country. honors are the Laureate Award of become consigned “Other activities have been the American College of Physicians 1947 to the repository of extinction - building and flying a single-engine in 1987, the Distinguished Alumnus prey, to the closing grip of mortality. Kitfox. However, soaring in a glider Award from Boston University Columbia College Today accounts for most of my time in the School of Medicine in 2003; Master Columbia Alumni Center At the end, for passage, let there be skies. I have been rated as a Three- Clinician Award of the American 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 neither music nor tears, neither Diamond class soaring pilot.” Heart Association, Council on Clini- New York, NY 10025 halting elegy Dr. Alvin Eden checked in: “It is cal Cardiology in 2005; Outstanding [email protected] nor proclaiming eulogy, let there be hard for me to believe that I gradu- Achievement Award of the European naught, ated from Columbia 70 years ago and Cardiac Arrhythmia Society in 2011; Dr. Nicholas Giosa shared a thought, but the escort still continue to practice pediatrics, and the Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing as well as one of his poems: “As a of silence. teach medical students and author and Electrophysiology Award of the nonagenarian whose gift of awareness childcare books. My tennis is down Heart Rhythm Society in 2011. He will soon be spent, while there is Nicholas Giosa to doubles one time per week. I has been or is a member of the edito- time, let me extend thanksgiving to February–June 2018 remember my baseball coach Andy rial/scientific board of 14 cardiovas- Columbia University for a scholarship Coakley telling us stories about cular journals and is a consultant and granted and a wonderful education Share your story, news or even a another Columbia player he coached, reviewer for 26 journals. that followed, which helped make the favorite Columbia College memory Lou Gehrig (Class of 1923).” “His initial research interests journey memorable.” by sending it to either the postal Dr. Frank Marcus shared his were directed to understanding Ruminations on Impending address or email address at the top of bio; he is “professor of medicine at the pharmacology of cardiac drugs Oblivion - an Agnostic’s Strain the column. Best wishes for the fall. the University of Arizona, College including digoxin, amiodarone and of Medicine, in Tucson, Ariz. His propafenone. Later he turned his As I bend and bald beneath the restless area of expertise is clinical cardiol- attention to this investigation of tweaks of time, as cheekbones 1948 ogy, cardiovascular pharmacology cardiac arrhythmias. He introduced protrude and cheeks and clinical electrophysiology. He radiofrequency energy for cardiac sink in - portending what awaits all Columbia College Today graduated from Columbia College ablation procedures. He co-authored who have viewed the light of day; Columbia Alumni Center and received a master’s in physiology the first comprehensive clinical as the orbits 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 from Tufts University. He graduated description of the disease arrhyth- about my cataractous eyes become New York, NY 10025 from Boston University School of mogenic right ventricular cardio- ever-deepening valleys, and the tremors [email protected] Medicine cum laude in 1953. He myopathy, which was published in of my hands belie the pen that did his internship and residency at Circulation in 1982. He organized a would record Dr. Robert C. Feulner touched the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital task force to establish current crite- a line - perhaps, even a stanza base: “My relationship with Colum- in Boston from 1953 to 1954 and ria for the diagnoses of this disease, or two, of poetry ! bia University began in 1944 when 1956 to 1958. He was a research (Circulation 2010).

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“From 2001 to 2008, Marcus He writes, “The road to hell “Late last September, Mary beat to the railroad station before Friday was the principal investiga- being paved with good intentions on the second floor with a wooden breakfast, to see/hear Herbert tor of the NIH-sponsored study and my being over 90, I thought it chair so her deaf husband would come Lehman introduce us to Adlai ‘The MultiDisciplinary Study of behooved me to get off the road. upstairs; we called 911 for her to go by Stevenson. That night, I flew to New Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Hence what follows. helicopter to the hospital of the Uni- York for Alumni Day, and Ike put in Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia.’ He is “I had already finished my versity of Philadelphia to be treated a quick appearance at Baker Field. now one of the principal investiga- first year of law school, thanks to for a stroke. She got the inoculations (Two in two days!) tors of the NIH-sponsored study the professional option, when we in time and is slowly gaining back her “Mary’s matched me somewhat: ‘Genetics, Mechanisms and Clinical graduated from the College. I went life. Her 88-year-old babysitter is not Her classmates at Philadelphia’s Phenotypes of Arrhythmogenic on to practice as a partner in three very expert, but he’s learning! Chestnut Hill Hospital School of Cardiomyopathy,’ September 2013– law firms, ending my career with 20 “When I came home from rehab, Nursing used to escort Annapolis June 2017. years at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Marv Lipman PS’54’s letter cau- midshipmen when they came up for “He is the author of 165 abstracts & Jacobson. I specialized in tax law, tioning old folks not to trip and fall the Army-Navy game each year. Her and 334 articles in peer-reviewed particularly federal income tax law, made good reading, but too late! very shy Georgia escort, JC (just journals and has written 70 book and was reasonably well thought of “My life’s accomplishments don’t country) versus her JC (just city), chapters. He is co-editor, with as a practitioner in the field. (I hear include a lot of notorious acts, but she realized not too long ago, had Dr. Gaetano Thiene, of a book on you ask, what do I think of last year’s I’ve been a lucky eyewitness to been fully named Jimmy Carter. She arrhythmogenic right ventricular legislation? A technical travesty, a history. A few items that might be beat me on that one! dysplasia/cardiomyopathy, published vehicle for enriching the rich and an amusing: I spent most of my time “We’ve lived in Niagara Falls; in 2007; and co-editor, with Drs. economic disaster.) until 1951 living on West 89th Louisville, Ky. (it was so cold when Aiden Abidov and Isabel Oliva, of a “Since leaving active practice, I Street, a block from the Soldiers’ went to the Kentucky Derby that book on cardiac MRI in diagnosis, have been house counsel for former clinical management and prognosis clients and still manage to stagger to of arrhythmogenic right ventricular the office most days. dysplasia/cardiomyopathy, published “As was the style in those days, I Dr. Robert C. Feulner ’48 has built and in 2016. married Ruth Ann Musicant BC’49 flown a single-engine Kitfox and has been rated “He and his family established the in September 1949. Amazingly we are Samuel and Edith Marcus Visiting still together. We have had three chil- a Three-Diamond class soaring pilot. Professorship in Cardiology at the dren and seven grandchildren. Having University Health Science Center.” grown up in New York and environs Share your story, news or even a none of them attended Columbia, favorite Columbia College memory other than Catalina Feder BC’19. and Sailors’ Monument, dedicated year, they ran out of coffee — too by sending it to either the email “All in all it has been a good trip, on Memorial Day in 1902. I always cold for mint juleps!); Memphis; address or postal address at the top but I am deeply worried by what the wondered why my dad often asked Wilmington, Del.; and the last of the column. Classmates would next 20 years hold for the nation.” why I had to go to Brooklyn for 50-plus years in Chadds Ford, Pa. be happy to read about you, too. Another classmate provides us dates –– weren’t there enough girls N.C. Wyeth’s sign for the Chadds Happy fall. with a glimpse into his fascinat- in NYC? Shortly before his 1967 Ford Barber Shop has been retired ing biography, along with a very passing, I found he’d played in the with honor –– it reads, ‘This is the personal narrative of life as it some- fife-and-drum corps at the dedica- place where Washington and Lafay- 1949 times deals us missteps, hiccups and tion, so Brooklyn had not been part ette had a very close shave!’ opportunities to demonstrate our of NYC in his childhood. “My mining industry travels REUNION 2019 resilience and resolve. Fred DeVries “I went to the Columbia Gram- (mainly for DuPont) have taken me MAY 30–JUNE 1 SEAS’50, SEAS’51 has experienced mar School at West 93rd and Cen- as far north as Fairbanks, Alaska; to Events and Programs Contact more bumps in his road than any tral Park West. We had an all-day Yellowknife, Northwest Territories [email protected] of us deserve, but his upbeat tale of plan, so I was playing soccer baseball (a gold town); past most of Canada Development Contact what otherwise would be, in part, a in 1937, in Central Park’s North to Newfoundland; to Johannesburg’s [email protected] woeful story deserves reading. Meadow, when the Hindenburg centennial (another gold town); to Fred writes: “Since I entered the passed overhead on its way toward the Great Barrier Reef in Australia; John Weaver College before I was 16, I’m not yet a Toms River, N.J. Am I the last ’49er and to very south on the southern 2639 E. 11th St. nonagenarian! I won’t figure the odds to have seen it? island of New Zealand (gold min- Brooklyn, NY 11235 on making it to 2020, but we’ll see! “The photo of Earl Hall in the ing, again) –– it was early August, [email protected] “I started many times to write a Spring 2018 issue (Class Notes, and we had snow at 1,500 meters up brief update, but it never happened. page 44) caused me to sit down and the Southern Alps. Here I go again! A couple of terrific Part of our house is one step below write: Mary and I were married “My only time in Asia was a letters from classmates, which I will the rest, and I tripped stepping up by Rabbi Hoffman in the Dodge pleasure trip to Israel. Was invited quote in their entirety, arrived in my from it about three years ago and Room in 1959. (His family, the by 60 Minutes Australia to critique a inbox. By way of introduction, an came down hard on our flagstone Binswangers in Philadelphia, go cyanide spill in Transylvania about abbreviation of a long and productive floor. Broke my forehead, cheek, nose, back to Revolutionary days.) 80 miles east of Budapest –– didn’t career from Art Feder LAW’51, who left wrist, and four or five ribs. My “At Columbia, I had the rare see many bats! Was on their TV for speaks too modestly of his accom- wife, Mary, heard me from upstairs experiences of seeing Ike many at least 10 minutes. plishments. Nevertheless, he is still at and we called 911. After about two times and Winston Churchill mak- “Guess I don’t have a lot of justi- work and we are grateful to have his months of hospitals and rehab, I ing the V-for-victory as he entered fiable complaints! Unlikely we’ll be correspondence and particularly his came home. Luckily, my ambulatory the Low Library. there for our 70th, but quién sabe?” astute analysis of current develop- apparatus was undamaged, so my “In 1952, I walked one block A few days later, Fred passed ments in his field of expertise. only health problem is COPD. from where I lived in Niagara Falls along this addendum of family

Fall 2018 CCT 41 Class Notes history connected to Columbia church groups. It is my life mission pounds team. At 5'11" those days, I church choir members hang out. We College: “Don’t know if it makes a to help create a world of peace and weighed only 125 pounds, which put also have excellent cuisine and a bar relevant added note to my earlier harmony by sharing my experience me at risk in a high wind. Howard serviced by professionally trained submittals, but it’s in the same in dealing with hatred during my Hansen, I do remember being told mixologists, all of which make these category: my dad’s brother-in-law childhood as the only Jewish boy in of that remarkable Army game you later years more pleasant.” was Alfred Pollak (Class of 1902). a school of Hitler Youths. described having seen as a Bullis From Carl Meier ’52, PS’56: He became basically a pediatrician, “I celebrated my 90th birthday Prep senior. My older roommates “Having just read the Class of ’52 worked heavily at the Montefiore last fall with a banquet for my in Livingston told me of it, when I notes in the Summer issue, I was Hospital and had an office on West children, grandchildren and many of arrived in fall 1948. I arrived with reminded of my debt to Columbia. At 72nd between Amsterdam and my closest friends, still mentor about two classmates from Worcester 87, it is difficult to not give thanks for Columbus Avenues. 20 men in my ManKind Project Academy, who became your team- continuing to be independent physi- “Rather early in his career, he had international brotherhood commu- mates, Skip Salvatore and George cally and mentally (my kids wonder an obstetric call: He delivered Lou nity and recently completed my 48th Vitone. Charlie McCann LAW’55, at times). My life after graduating was Gehrig (Class of 1923) –– glad this staffing as ritual elder in one of our another of your teammates, roomed medical school, then service in the job had no hitch! Best regards, again!” transformational trainings.” across the hall from me, and we Navy (assigned to the 2nd Marine Best regards, indeed. Thanks to Art Leonard “Len” Stoehr visited shared our first Morningside Division). The years sped by with and Fred. I hope the rest of you, hav- with several classmates this past Heights beer together. Buying a beer marriage, three children (Temple, ing enjoyed a relaxing summer, have summer: “During the last week of in New York was legal at 18 back Duke and Princeton), medical prac- renewed energy extending to your June, my wife, Jan, and I drove from then, which had not been true back tice, then founding and directing a fingertips, thusly enabling the writing our home in Stanardsville, Va., to the in our native New England — not residency program for 20 years at the of your eagerly anticipated notes! Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, that barkeeps ever asked. Howard, I CMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School N.Y., for a short vacation. On the remember you also, and well, from system. Federal grants permitted our way to Chautauqua, we visited over- our chats at subsequent alumni program to prosper and thrive over 1950 night with my former roommate, and gatherings on campus. Glad to hear the past 40 years, training more than fraternity brother, W. Fred Kinsey, that you are well. 250 family physicians –– 70 percent Columbia College Today and his wife, Carol, at their beautiful “Incidentally, I now weigh serving the medical needs of New Columbia Alumni Center home in Manheim, Pa. considerably more than 125 pounds Jersey. I have been retired some 25 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 “While in Chautauqua, Jan and but at 88 am advised not to take up years from active medicine and the New York, NY 10025 I had a wonderful luncheon in Erie, football. There is no team anyway in United States Navy. Still volunteering [email protected] Pa., with Dr. Richard C. Boyle and the retirement community, White locally in religious and medical needs his wife, Dorothy. Dick and I had Horse Village, where my wife, Claire of our community in Ft. Myers, Fla. No news for this issue — please take not seen each other since graduation TC’55, and I now live in Edgmont, Miss getting back to alumni reunions a moment during the fall to send in day, June 7, 1951. After completing Pa. We have a bocce court and a but continue to have fond memo- a note. Your classmates want to hear his NROTC-required three years of putting green, plus an excellent ries of CC, Humanities and all my from you. Be well! active duty with the Navy and his workout center and heated pool chemical engineering courses –– but medical training, Dick has been a that I do use. At Columbia I sang in not the labs. hometown family physician in Lake the Glee Club. Still at it. We have “Wish I could do it all over again 1951 City, Pa. He still practices medicine an 85-voice chorus here at WHV, and enjoy the Lion’s Den, rowing at a local free clinic. where former college glee club and on the Hudson River and travel- Columbia College Today “There are now only seven Class Columbia Alumni Center of 1951 NROTC graduates still 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 alive from an original class of more New York, NY 10025 than 40.” [email protected] Share your story, news or even a favorite Columbia College memory Richard Wiener sent “a brief sum- by sending it to either the postal mary of what I’ve been up to: My address or email address at the top second poetry collection — Sense of of the column. Classmates would be Age — was published a few months happy to learn what you are doing, ago as a companion piece to my too! Wishing you a peaceful fall. Sense of Time collection. My autobi- ography, Survivors Odyssey … from oppression to reconciliation, has been 1952 translated into German, and is being used in German schools. Columbia College Today “My legacy gift to Berea College Columbia Alumni Center — the Richard Wiener Garden of 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Peace — is under construction. It is New York, NY 10025 intended as an oasis on the campus [email protected] for contemplation, and will be identi- fied as emanating from a Jewish child From Donald Surr BUS’53: “I Columbia football’s 1950 offensive team. Standing, left to right: Wes survivor of the Nazi Holocaust. much enjoyed the football stories in Bomm ’52, Bill Wallace ’52, Gerry Audette ’52, John Wagner ’55, “As I have done for many years, I the Summer issue. Irvin Herman, George Vitone ’52, Ernie Gregorowicz ’53 and Don McLean ’51. Kneeling, still share my history of persecution take pride in your limited athletic left to right: Mitch Price ’53, Kermit Tracy ’52, Coach Lou Little, Howard and reconciliation with school and abilities back then on the 150 Hansen ’52, Verne Wynott ’52 and Frank Toner ’52.

42 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews ing through the tunnels to miss Reds Bagnell had a big day. Reds was were third down on their 2-foot line have changed –– weightlifting in our the weather above. Best to all the a Maxwell Award winner and runner- as time ran out after we had just day was a no-no. In the photo, the remaining classmates.” up for the Heisman Trophy. scored to win but were flagged for only players missing on starting 1951 Pete Vayda attended the Society “As shown in the 1950 offensive offsides. I was carried off the field team are Don McLean ’51 and John for Human Ecology’s international team photo displayed near this long- toward the end of the first quarter Wagner ’55, who was drafted into the conference in Lisbon in July. While winded article, we had two excellent going for a score but didn’t make Marines, but returned to graduate.” there he presented a paper, “Wildfire pass-catching ends in Wes Bomm it. Misho had more than 100 yards Research in Indonesia and Dubious #80 and Don McLean ’51 #86. rushing replacing me after being in Assumptions about Interdisciplinar- Good-sized, strong tackles in Bill the hospital for a week prior to the 1953 ity,” in a session that he had helped to Wallace #72 and George Vitone game. We were ranked number 2 in organize, “How to and How Not to #79 and a big solid center in John the Ivy League that year. Lew Robins Achieve Effective Interdisciplinarity Wagner ’55 #58. Our guards were “Coach Little’s retirement was 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 in Environmental-Change Studies.” All-East and future Honorable Men- in 1956. He was on TV being Bridgeport, CT 06604 From Howard Hansen: “In my tion All-American Gerry Audette interviewed by the famous, cigar- [email protected] junior year at Columbia (1950), we #61 and efficient sophomore Ernie smoking Edward R. Morrow. After had a reasonably good football team, Gregorowicz ’53 #76. Kneeling are having dinner, glued to the evening Our 65th reunion dinner on June although our record of four wins and Frank Toner #42, our future track show, when Murrow asked the coach, 2 in the Tauber Room on the five losses didn’t show it! My senior team captain, speedy “scat” back and among other questions, ‘What was fifth floor of Butler Library was a year (1951), we had five wins and future honorable mention All- your most disappointing loss?’ Coach delightful success! The following three losses. Looking back at history, American Verne Wynott #16, me Little responded in detail the above attended: Joseph Aaron, Dick prior to Coach Al Bagnoli’s eight #35, Coach Lou Little, strong backup Army homecoming game and I Auwarter, Joel Danziger, Bill wins and two losses in 2017, the quarterback Kermit Tracy #23 (our couldn’t finish my dinner! Frosch, Seymour Hendel, Jay 1951 team was one of six winning future baseball captain) and quarter- “Presently, and with much effort Kane, Richard Kleid, Richard Lan- teams in 67 years. That’s going back back Mitch Price ’53 #22. and time in getting statistics about dau, George Lowry, Nick Ramos, to the Lou Kusserow ’49, Gene Ros- “Other mostly defensive players Columbia football history, I am Harry Rice, Ed Robbins, Lew sides ’49, Bill Swiacki ’49 team that on the 1950s team were Bill Malone most pleased to report the follow- Robins, Martly Saiman, Nicholas beat Army’s great 32-game winning ’51, Tom Federowicz, captain Al ing: In evaluating Verne Wynott’s Samios and Jim Steiner. streak at Baker Field in 1947. Nork ’51, Gerry Cozzi, Leo Ward, statistics (including punt returns and Ed Robbins graciously agreed “I say to myself, ‘That’s not so bad Bob Schwegler, Mel Sautter, Paul pass receptions) I couldn’t believe to introduce our class speakers, Jay after all’ for the following reasons — Vitek, Al Ward, Bob Wallace ’53, how impressive his numbers were Kane and Joseph Aaron. Jay’s strong competition and tough, close Don Travisano, Dick Danneman, compared to other significant back- mother, Margaret Brassler Kane, has game losses. Don Page, Bill O’Brien, Joe Coufal field players. As a result I submit- created sculptures that have been “After the previously mentioned ’51, Ralph White SEAS’51, Stephen ted his name for consideration to viewed by hundreds of thousands of Army upset, they went on another Reich ’53 and excellent punter and the Columbia University Athletics visitors in major museums throughout three-year winning streak and, in all-purpose player Tony Misho. Hall of Fame, whose results were the United States. Classmates viewed 1950, were the number 2 ranked “Moving on to my last years, to be announced in August. I’ll be a breathtakingly beautiful example of team in college football and were 1951 team: Coach Little was surprised if he doesn’t qualify. her work. Jay also indicated that the finally upset by Navy at Philadelphia quoted in New York papers that our “It appears that based on factual current President of the United States in their usual year-end game. backfield same as our 1950 team statistics received that the Wynott- selected one of his mother’s sculptures “Going back to 1950, we were shown, was one of the best in the Hansen backfield combo have the for his home. fortunate to upset a very strong ‘Ivy League,’ as we were called unof- best combined career average yards Classmates were also fascinated Cornell team in New York at the end ficially in those days. per carry of any two backfield mates with Joseph’s description of some –– scoring in the last minutes to win “Sadly, our opening game with in Columbia history (mid-1930s) at of the latest medical advances that 20 to 19. Sadly we lost to Dartmouth Princeton was canceled because 5.1 yards. he predicts will soon be able to help by one score on their field and Navy tragically two teammates came “I think I will have another glass people suffering from cancer, heart in New York when they scored two down with polio during our pre- of wine tonight and toast my team- trouble, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and touchdowns in the last 16 seconds — season camp at Camp Columbia in mates. We all know it takes good other diseases. a record! Final score was 21 to 7. At Connecticut and we were quaran- blocking upfront and T formation After Jay and Joseph spoke, I had Yale we lost by 6 points (20–14) when tined. Princeton started off slowly backfield faking to get the superior a chance to describe how Profes- their future All-Star linebacker, Bob that year, edging out four victories results indicated. sor Fred Keller’s discovery of the Spears, flat out dove at me, having in a row and then rolled five games “P.S: Regarding the nearby photo, psychological principles of operant taken a pitch out from quarterback undefeated for the second year only Bill Wallace, Frank Toner and conditioning enabled radiomen in Mitch Price ’53 and going for the in a row and ranked number 3 in I are alive today, but not running. Jim the U.S. Navy to learn touch type in tying touchdown around right end on college football. Their triple threat Ward ’50 and Al Ward ’53 were my four and a half hours and reduced the fourth down in the final minute. quarterback Dick Kazmaier won the teammates and their brother, Bob the time to teach radiomen Morse The tip of Spears’ stretched out Heisman Trophy that year. Sadly, we ‘Hardguy’ Ward, was lineman of code from 200 hours to 100 hours. fingers snagged the toe of my right were ready for that in our opener, the year in college football in 1951, Years later, applying the principles foot on its way down to be planted. but! Next we shut out Harvard 35–0, Maryland. His playing weight was of operant conditioning, it became My face landed upon Yale’s yard line! Yale 14–0. Penn took us handidly at 189 pounds! The 1951 UPI All- possible to teach children who have I’m looking at the photo of that tackle Baker Field. At Army’s Homecom- American team posted 13 Ivy team autism and/or Down Syndrome to on my Lion’s Den historical office ing game at West Point we rushed members with Gerry Audette and successfully read. wall office as I write this. A nationally for 324 yards and they scored on Verne Wynott listed as Honorable Classmates, wives and significant ranked Penn team whipped us at an intercepted pass and fumble Mention among them. The weights others at the dinner enjoyed the Baker Field. As usual, they were big, recovery deep in our territory. Army of the first team tackles were 230 following anecdote about Dean strong and aggressive and quarterback won 14–9! The game ended as we and 225 pounds, respectively. Times Harry Carman. A few years after we

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graduated, Dean Carman and his just to get a glimpse of newborn harp specializes in literary properties, minesweeper in Charleston, S.C. wife, Margaret, invited me to spend a seals. He has chaired the depart- books, autographs, atlases, photo- As luck would have it, Henry Vil- weekend at their home at Schuyler- ment of dentistry at the St. Barnabas graphs, prints and posters. Readers laume and Ladi Perenyi were also ville, N.Y. For several hours, Dean Medical Center in New Jersey and of The New York Times might stationed nearby, on similar ships. Carman (77), his neighbor Jim (67) has lectured internationally. remember reading the story of After his years in the Navy, Jim and I (27) worked to build a long Seymour Hendel and his wife, Swann selling Anne Frank’s letters and wife, Mihoko, were married in stone wall on the Carmans’ property. Patricia BC’53, were married just to Michael Milken. Currently, the Tokyo. They have two daughters. At some point, Mrs. Carman brought before the start of our junior year at popular TV show Antiques Roadshow As the years passed, Jim picked up out a huge pitcher of lemonade and Columbia and Barnard. They have is part of the Swann company that a master’s at Columbia, a real estate insisted we take a break. While we three children, six grandchildren and is run by George’s oldest son. Their license, a custom broker’s license and sipped our drinks, Jim pointed his one great-grandchild. My hunch is second son works with his mother at a pilot’s license. In a note he recently trowel at the dean and said, “I don’t that Sey and Pat probably have the the Argosy Book Store. sent tome, Jim wrote, “As I tell my know what kind of teacher he is, but honor of being the first couple in Ed Robbins was the toastmaster daughters, I’m still not sure what I he’s a damn good mortar man.” our class to wed. Over the ensuing for our 65th reunion dinner and want to be when I grow up.” Joseph Aaron attended Chicago years, Sey became a Superior Court warmly introduced Jay Kane, From Anthony Robinson: “I Medical School, graduating with judge and the presiding judge of the Joseph Aaron and Dean James J. recently finished a new novel, Father an M.D. in 1976. He and his wife, Civil Division in Hartford, Conn. Valentini. Ed and his wife, Beverly, of The Man. This is my eighth novel, Jane, were married in 1958 and have He has chaired the task force on winter in Palm Beach, Fla., and going back to 1960 when my first a daughter and four grandchildren. judicial department security and, summer in Bedford, N.Y., and Man- novel, A Departure From the Rules, was In 1999, the governor of New Jersey in 1980, instituted the Connecticut hattan. For many years, Ed was a published. Father of The Man takes appointed Joseph as medical director Court Visitation Program. University trustee. Later he became place in the early 1940s and tells the of the division of disability determi- Jay Kane’s mother is one of trustee emeritus and a member of story of a family in the Maverick Art nation for the Department of Labor, America’s most prominent sculptors. A the trustees’ finance committee. In Colony in Woodstock, N.Y., where where he supervised 60 physicians. number of years ago, after retiring from our 50th reunion class directory, I grew up. My father was Henry Dick Auwarter was captain of the a highly successful Wall Street career, Ed wrote, “One of my hobbies is Morton Robinson (Class of 1923). In College swim team. He has served Jay became his 94-year-old mother’s gardening. Beverly often says I pay my novel, the main character, Jacob aboard U.S. Navy destroyers and in the business manager and was involved in the gardener not to weed. We enjoy Darden, is a writer. He writes a great Office of Naval Intelligence. He and marketing and negotiating her bronze every day of our lives together and bestseller, The Cardinal, even as my Kathryn Evers were married in 1958 foundry activities. Her works have with our glorious family.” father wrote a bestseller of that name. and have seven children and 18 grand- been exhibited since the 1940s at the Lew Robins: During our reunion But Jacob’s novel (inside Father of The children. In 1957, Richard joined Metropolitan and Whitney Museums. dinner, Dean Valentini reached our Man) is markedly different in one IBM and spent 35 years in marketing Jay indicates that his mother’s most table and stopped to chat with my specific way. In essence Jacob Darden assignments. He has spent more than well-known work, Harlem Dancers, wife, Saralee. “Many years ago, when wrote The Cardinal how my father 45 years on volunteer projects and is in the permanent collection of The our daughter was little more than 2, should have written it, in my opinion. helped raise millions of dollars to fund Smithsonian American Art Museum. Dean Carman and his wife invited us In this particular, I like to think 34 pre- and post-cancer projects. A number of years ago, he sent me the to visit their home in Schuylerville, Father of The Man is unique in the Joel Danziger married Joan following note in his mother’s honor: N.Y., where he taught our little girl annals of Columbia letters.” Kaufman of Mount Vernon, N.Y., “I think a good artist requires more how to water a flower garden,” Sara- and started his own law firm in 1959. talent and dedication that a good lee told Dean Valentini. “I’m going They have three children and four banker. Compare a group of truly dis- to have to put the story of Harry 1954 grandchildren. Joel’s firm has grown tinguished artists today with a similar Carman teaching a little girl to water enormously and concentrates in the group of bankers. Which is anyone flowers on my bucket list to tell other REUNION 2019 area of employee benefits, trust and even likely to know existed 150 years classes,” replied our current dean. MAY 30–JUNE 1 estates, corporate, and tax. Through the from now? I rest my case.” This was the first Class of ’53 Events and Programs Contact years, they have lived 45 minutes from Richard “Dick” Kleid and his reunion that our son, Harry Todd [email protected] Lincoln Center on a 30-acre farm wife, Rhoda, have one daughter, Robins ’90, has attended. Saralee Development Contact with horses, dogs and one ornery goat. Susan, who is an attorney in Denver. and I were especially delighted when [email protected] Bill Frosch is married to Paula Sadly, Rhoda passed away shortly he told us that after having met our Geshwind. They have two children, before our reunion in June. She was great classmates at dinner, he was Bernd Brecher who are both physicians, and four a treasure to everyone who knew her. looking forward to seeing them again 35 Parkview Ave., Apt. 4G grandchildren. At Cornell, Bill was In our freshman year, Dick, Harry at the next five-year reunion dinner. Bronxville, NY 10708 the interim chair of the Department Rice and I used to have lunch every Martin Saiman practiced law in [email protected] of Psychiatry and he has performed day in John Jay Hall. New York for more than 40 years. research in psychopharmacology, In in our 50th reunion class His specialty was real estate law and Good news, gentlemen of ’54, we substance abuse and a bit of genet- directory, George Lowry wrote the he became chairman of his firm real have a 65th Reunion Committee in ics. He also has written scholarly following: “One wife, two sons, two estate department. He represented place and are working hard on next studies of the relationship of mental careers and only six jobs. My life in a the New York Yankees in their lease year’s event. Some of the most bril- illness and creativity and claims to nutshell. To begin, I chose excellent of Yankee Stadium. He also repre- liant minds in our Class of Destiny still be an enthusiastic oboist. parents, who had the good sense and sented the developer of the World are plotting away as I write this Larry Harte and his wife, Judi, good luck to get out of Czechoslo- Financial Center in lower Manhat- column, which you will receive in enjoy Larry’s hobby of racing vakia with their two sons in 1939.” tan. After his retirement, he’s spend- October. On our committee are Dick sailboats and traveling (to more than When the founder of Swann ing his time playing tennis and golf. Bernstein SEAS’55, Arnie Tolkin, 75 countries!). Larry has tracked Galleries in Manhattan decided to After graduating, Jim Steiner Kamel Bahary, Al Hellerstein polar bears in northern Canada and retire, George eventually became SEAS’61 spent three years as a U.S. LAW’56, Saul Turteltaub LAW’57, crawled on his belly on arctic ice floes chairman of this auction house that Navy officer on a wooden-hulled Ron Sugarman, David Bardin

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published, The World I Live In, and vidual liberties of District residents. son Jeffrey ’92, GSAS’96, TC’18 it spans the last six decades. It even David’s article also picks up on a was recently awarded a Ph.D. from includes some references to my years controversial modern view that Teachers College and my grand- at Morningside Heights that may America’s Founding Fathers used daughter, Yaira, is CC’21. Jeffrey’s ‘ring a bell.’ It’s available on Amazon.” “We the People” to mean individuals wife, Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin ’96, Carol and Larry Gartner report joining in a society in order to pro- LAW’99, ended an 11-year term as they have now celebrated 20 years tect individual rights to life, liberty dean of students of the Law School of retirement on their small ranch and property. That view, he says, is and now teaches at Cardozo Law in Valley Center, Calif., where consistent with John Locke’s theory School. All told, our family holds 10 they grow citrus and vegetables for of natural rights, contrasting with Columbia degrees and one tenured themselves and friends. “This is the views that “the People” are a collec- professorship (daughter Rebecca).” longest we have ever lived in one tive (or a majority of a collective). Larry continues to be senior place,” Larry writes. He continues to David criticized congressional counsel of his law firm. Left to right: Paul de Bary ’68, be active in breastfeeding medicine “meddling” in policy choices that By the way, Larry, Helen and I Toni Coffee BC’56, Bernd Brecher as a member of the board of direc- were better left to the people of attended a U.S. Holocaust Memorial ’54, Arthur Delmhorst ’60 and the tors of Baby-Friendly USA. D.C. on July 28 over a delicious Museum event in NYC last May, at permanent representative of the His and Carol’s interest in pedi- Nepalese dinner at Washington, which Rebecca was a guest speaker; Federal Republic of Germany to the atric history has been recognized by D.C.’s Laliguras Restaurant with be very proud. United Nations, Christoph Heusgen, the naming of the Historical Archive me, my wife, Helen, and his wife, “At some point,” Larry concludes, at the Columbia University Club Center at the American Academy Livia. (While Helen and I do dinner referring to Columbia tuition, “we Foundation’s Ambassador Series of Pediatrics after both of them. He monthly with David and Livia, he is should start getting a discount.” (If on May 29. shares that “of even greater pleasure available for dining and commentary you ask, he will send you several to both of us is the move of our with other classmates in between.) copies of the petition.) daughter, Madeline, and son-in-law, Joe Arleo SEAS’56 writes that The Columbia University Club LAW’56 and me. Others may have Mark, from Minnesota to a house he has “nothing new to report since Foundation, of which I’m VP, joined over the summer (this column just a mile away from our place in the last update, but then that’s good continues to host and sponsor our was written in late July) and we invite Valley Center. Both are retired sur- news to report. For 64 years I’ve been Ambassador Series on behalf of interested classmates to get in touch geons. With their arrival in Califor- meaning to tell you you’re terrific the Columbia University Club of and join us right now. nia, both of their children and their keeping all of us in touch with one New York, with the participation of For now, all, mark your calendars families are now here. Son Alex is a another all these years. I look forward the United Nations Association of for the weekend of Thursday, May movie producer in Hollywood and to seeing you and the rest of our New York. We lucked out twice this 30–Sunday June 2, 2019, during daughter-in-law Judy is a novelist.” Class of Destiny next year (silly idea: year, first with the South Korean which time we will pick two days for Can’t make up that kind of stuff, how about a re-issue of our 1954 representative during the Olympics, our events. Please share with me/us Larry, and congratulations on hit- beanies?). Warm regards to all.” and again –– on May 29 at the any suggestions –– questions welcome, ting the jackpot. Our best to the Thanks, Joe, we’ll expect you at Penn Club –– with Ambassador too –– that you may have about our whole mishpoche. the reunion and to share with us Christoph Heusgen, permanent rep- reunion. We want to hear from you. David Jonas Bardin LAW’56 what life has been like for a novelist resentative of the Federal Republic Lou Paterno joins a small but has written an article — “‘We the whose work has been available on of Germany to the United Nations. growing band of classmates who People’ Versus Congress” — for an Amazon virtually forever. Remem- Praised by Politico as “the last Atlan- send messages in verse — rhymed, online blog and monthly magazine. ber, all, that “keeping in touch” is a ticist,” this previous foreign policy free or otherwise — and I get a David believes that Congress should full court press in which the entire and security advisor to Chancellor special kick out of opening these not use its constitutional power class must engage. Angela Merkel ducked no questions “surprises” and sharing them with over the District of Columbia to Be aware that obituary notices and addressed the overflow audience all. Lou writes, “Here is my contri- decide local issues, such as whether are in a separate section of CCT. on issues from world order to immi- bution for the Class Notes column: local government may subsidize a Listings are selective and frequently gration to NATO and beyond. At Ode to Columbia poor woman’s cost of an abortion or include our classmates. These Class the post-lecture reception more than administer a well-regulated mari- Notes, however, list all classmates’ one attendee, acknowledging Mr. Many years have since past juana market (as do eight states). deaths that we are made aware of. Heusgen’s winning sense of humor, Broadway at 116th Street Why not debate such policies Sometimes death notices are repeated whispered to me, “This ambassador Freshman Orientation locally, David asks, and subject local –– different copy –– in both sections is a rock star.” New friends, new challenges decisions to review as to reasonable- but not in the same issue. We report Now for some home news: Growing up – fast ness by impartial judges — not by herewith on the passing on July 2 of My grandson, Jared Brecher, was Time stood still congressmen and senators from Joshua Greenberg LAW’56, junior scheduled to travel in August with Time flew other parts of the United States? Phi Beta Kappa at the College and the Southern California Chicago All a memory He points out that the people of the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Cubs Scout Team to Osaka, Japan. All a blur District of Columbia do not have a Law School, partner at Kaye, Scholer They were scheduled to play six Class of ’54 single voting member in Congress. for more than four decades, as well as games –– four against college teams, The Bicentennial Class David was pleased to discover an adjunct professor of law at NYU two against high school teams. His Aging gracefully support in the inaugural address of and Pace University law schools. Josh team consisted of both high school Remembering thankfully – our ninth President, William Henry was active in numerous philanthropies. and college players who range from Roar Lion Roar Harrison, who said that Congress Our sincere condolences to his three Division 1 to Division 3. While in should use its power to legislate for children and eight grandchildren. Osaka they were to visit Koshien “As for what I’ve been up to since the federal seat of government only Larry Kobrin LAW’57 proudly Stadium to watch a high school graduation,” Lou continues, “it’s to safeguard national government shares, “My family continues to game in the prestigious National covered in the journal I recently had operations and not to restrict indi- compile Columbia degrees. My High School Baseball Champion-

Fall 2018 CCT 45 Class Notes ships of Japan. The team planned The Class of ’55 summer lun- also to visit Kyoto during the seven- cheon was held in Faculty House. day visit. Jared plays middle infield We hope we will duplicate its suc- and is a right-handed pitcher. He; cess at another event, and we hope our son, Dan; Dan’s wife, Sharon; a larger crowd will attend another and their daughter, Sydney, live class luncheon. Attendees will be, in Pacific Palisades, but Jared is a I hope, Harold Kushner, Berish fanatic Mets fan. (Who knows, Strauch, Dick Kuhn, Anthony Vis- they could use some help.) Jared is a cusi, Steve Rabin, Herb Cohen, senior at Palisades H.S., has terrific Aaron Hamburger, Bob Bernot grades, is looking at colleges, and and Dick Ascher. travels up and down the West Coast Attendees at All-Class Reunion Several members of the Class of 1956 made it to All-Class Reunion on June 2. playing baseball. Sydney, a sopho- on June 2 were Howard Lieber- Seated, left to right: Jordan Bonfante, Bob Siroty, Peter Klein, Ralph Kaslick and Alan Broadwin; standing: Al Franco SEAS’56. more at the University of Michigan, man, Norm Goldstein and your returned in July from a 10-day trusted correspondent. Birthright Israel trip and family The Columbia University Senate’s visit, and is still up in the clouds. meeting schedule has been released; Classmates met for lunch in July I hope to complete a book dealing Before I sign off, forgive me if it appears there will be some inter- at Dan Link’s club in Larchmont, with ancient perceptions of ethnicity news any of you may have sent for esting highlights coming forth. N.Y., and –– for the first time in 62 so long as I am still (reasonably) sound this issue did not make it into these Season football tickets are at a years for some of us –– met with Ken of mind. My most recent book, The Class Notes. My PC and systems premium due to the success of the Swimm. Great conversation followed Constructs of Identity in Hellenistic apparently partially crashed as I was roaring Lions and their second-place as Dan, Peter Klein, Alan Broad- Judaism, appeared in 2016; it is not preparing this column, part of which finish in the league last season. win, Jack Katz, Mark Novick and exactly a bestseller. My wife, Ann, I reconstructed from memory and Lee Rodgers was trying to get I were still unable to learn of Ken’s and I travel frequently (and not just earlier draft notes. If yours was lost, Norm Goldstein’s contact informa- highly classified engineering projects. to conferences). Three children and please resend soon for the next issue; tion. Lee had lived in his house for We will try again in August. five grandchildren are scattered across you all know the kick I get in doing well over 50 years. Norm was last Please do send in your notes. Your the globe from Washington State to this column for our class. Remember known to be living in Manhattan. classmates want to hear from you! Munich. But we manage to arrange to circle your calendar dates for next Relax and stay healthy. Be ahead trips that include one or usually more year’s reunion, and to send in your of the curve. We need you for the of them on the itinerary. questions and suggestions early. Even next reunion, which is looming. 1957 “I am reminded of my age only better, join our Reunion Committee. Love to all! Everywhere! when I meet someone who says As always, be well, stay well, do Herman Levy ‘You’re looking good.’ That must good and do well, write, call, email 7322 Rockford Dr. mean ‘I am surprised that you are … and all my best. Excelsior! 1956 Falls Church, VA 22043 still walking the earth.’” [email protected] Yours truly, Herman Levy, Robert Siroty attended All-Class Reunion 2018 on 1955 707 Thistle Hill Ln. Al Fierro told us that his best June 2. The event was superimposed Somerset, NJ 08873 friend, Charlie Straniero, died on on the quinquennial class reunions Gerald Sherwin [email protected] October 27, 2017. (e.g., those for 1958 and 1963). 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 16B From Erich Gruen: “Living for The morning began with the New York, NY 10021 Welcome to fall, Class of 1956. Bill more than a half-century on the Dean’s Breakfast and State of the [email protected] Epstein ’55, SEAS’56 is recovering ‘left coast,’ I have lost touch with College Address, held in the Rotunda from hip surgery. Len Wolfe reported almost all my Columbia coevals and of Low Memorial Library. James J. It couldn’t have worked any better for that Frank Thomas was the subject classmates. I lost my dear friend from the Thai soccer team and their govern- of an NPR documentary. Mike Spett those days, Don Clarick, two years ment. Friendships are wonderful, as advised that Don Kazimir SEAS’57 ago, thus severing what had been my shown by our attendance at reunions. was the subject of an article in the closest tie to the class. I do see Bob Two more years until we celebrate Palm Beach Post about bringing home Alter regularly because we have been another reunion. Not freedom from a yellow (research) submarine, in colleagues at UC Berkeley through captivity in a cave, although the old which he reminisced about his time the decades and share many interests. tunnels are a good example. On a at sea as captain of the Ben Franklin. And I maintain a most welcome sad note, two classmates have passed I took some classes through contact with Alvin Kass, but we have away: Ron McPhee and Bob Spar- Rutgers’ adult education program not seen one another for several years. row. [Editor’s note: See “Obituaries” here in New Jersey, and found Stan Otherwise, I rely on your news. for more on Sparrow.] Marcus and his brother, David “I am now in my mid-80s, retired Some of our guys attended the Marcus ’58, as classmates. from UC Berkeley for little more than funeral services: John Naley, Char- The Class of 1956 was repre- a decade. But I remain active in the lie Brown, George Raitt, Alfred sented at the Alumni Parade of profession. I still have three graduate Gollomp, Don Laufer, Jack Free- Classes at Class Day on May 15 by students who are working on their man and Paul Taormina ’56. Alan Broadwin, Ron Kapon, Dan Ph.D. dissertations with me. I travel Left to right: Alan Broadwin, The baseball team (which won Link and David Gerstman. Alan regularly to deliver lectures or make Ron Kapon, Dan Link and David the Ivy League title) lost to number reports that there were only two presentations at conferences. Various Gerstman represented the Class 1 team Florida, which eventually classes older than ours, and each had papers of mine continue to appear in of 1956 in the Alumni Parade of was eliminated in the finals. only one representative. journals and conference volumes. And Classes at Class Day on May 15.

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Valentini, dean of the College and the area now has eight modern I retired as an academic cardiolo- Orlin and his wife, Anita; Howard vice president for undergraduate glass high-rises. Of them, five are gist after 10 years in Boston on the Presant and his wife, Laura; Shelly education, opened by awarding the completed and three remain under faculty of Brigham and Women’s Raab and his wife, Judy; Art Radin President’s Cup to Paul Neshamkin construction. Prominent among the Hospital and Harvard Medical and his wife, Miriam Katowitz; Sid ’63 (the 1963 class correspondent). completed ones is the Lenfest Cen- School, followed by 35 years at the Rosdeitcher and his wife, Linda; Dean Valentini then discussed a new ter for the Arts. It faces south across Stony Brook University Medical David Rosen and his wife, Andrea; initiative at the College, “My Colum- the “Small Square” plaza leading Center on Long Island. Twenty- Fred Silverblatt; George Stern bia College Journey,” customized for to West 129th Street, across which two of the 35 years were spent as and his wife, Fran; Ted Story and each student. It was developed with is the Prentiss Hall building. Also the founding chief of the cardiol- his wife, Cynthia Crane Story; Ron input from the faculty and the Board across the plaza is University Forum, ogy division. Patient care, teaching, Szczypkowski; Bob Waldbaum of Visitors. a triangular building scheduled to mentoring, administrative duties and his wife, Ruth; Eli Weinberg; The initiative is set forth on the open this fall as a conference center. and, of course, clinical research, Mark Weiss and his wife, Joan; My Columbia College Journey web- The tour took place in the kept me busy. The latter resulted in and Leo Zickler and his wife, Judy site (college.columbia.edu/journey): Lenfest Center for the Arts. The five textbooks, several in multiple BC’58. On a sad note, Paul Gom- “Your Columbia College experience Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screen- editions, and 250 scientific papers. I perz was at the reunion but without is a journey. Each choice you make ing Room overlooks the plaza, the also co-authored two books for the his wife, Jan, who passed away from –– every class, extracurricular activ- conference center, the Prentiss Hall public with my wife, Joan, on the a neurodegenerative disease last year. ity, internship, residential experience, building and the spire of Riverside medical and psychological aspects The reunion festivities began research opportunity, conversation Church. Upstairs is the lantern of heart disease. Now I am adjusting off-campus on May 31 with a and interaction –– is helping you room, which, in addition to the to my role as emeritus professor. cocktail reception hosted by Peter grow personally, professionally and others across the plaza, affords a Since moving to Manhattan’s Upper Gruenberger and his wife, Carin as a citizen of the world. Our goal view of Grant’s Tomb. Downstairs West Side, I have had ample time to Lamm, at their Upper East Side isn’t just for you to develop skills, is the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach travel with my wonderful wife of 50 apartment. The next day, many capacities and capabilities, but also Art Gallery. For me, the afternoon years, as well as see more of our two classmates attended Mini-Core to understand how you developed ended with a wine tasting on Low sons and their families. Joan and I Classes and/or campus tours before them, where you developed them Plaza. On Sunday I met Kathleen are also pursuing another collabora- regrouping for dinner at Faculty David Kinne and how the experiences fit in with and for brunch. tion: We have begun to give talks House. Former Dean Bob Pollack your entire Columbia College jour- Have a pleasant fall, classmates. at community centers, corporations ’61 spoke. On June 2, an informal ney and the journey you will take and other interested organizations afternoon session was held in after Commencement.” on how to live well while aging. I Pupin Hall, consisting of two parts. Dean Valentini then discussed 1958 handle the medical aspects while First, my son Alan ’93, who was the Columbia College Fund goals, Joan discusses psychological and on campus for his 25th reunion, Peter Cohn saying that he wants to make all nutritional issues. gave a fascinating presentation on c/o CCT contributors, regardless of amount, The 60th reunion at the cryptocurrency. This enlightened Columbia Alumni Center feel part of the College develop- beginning of June turned out to many of us about the new world of 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ment. A question-and-answer be something special, with 45 bitcoin and blockchain. The second New York, NY 10025 period followed. members of the class participat- part of the session was moderated by [email protected] Next, I attended the reunion key- ing. Many brought their spouses Joe Dorinson. Attendees recalled note address, delivered by Paul Auster along. In addition to Joan and me, defining moments from our college Barry Dickman Howard Allen; ’69, GSAS’70 in Roone Arledge was the class in attendance were days (or in some cases, just fun Henry Barbour; Peter Barth; Auditorium in Alfred Lerner Hall. historian for almost 60 years and stories). That night we reassembled Ernie Brod Auster, a bestselling author, member was the Class Notes correspondent and his wife, Ruth; at a Midtown restaurant for the Rick Brous of the American Academy of Arts from the time he graduated until his and his wife, Marcia; final Reunion 2018 dinner. Professor Ira Carlin; Joe Dorinson; George and Letters and of the American unexpected death on January 29. He Gareth Williams was the speaker. Ehrenhaft; Tom Ettinger; Charlie Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a wonderful man and terrific I think it is safe to say a good time Feuer; Marsh Front Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts historian. His wife, Carol, writes, and his wife, was had by all! Harvey Feuerstein et des Lettres, read autobiographical “Barry loved Columbia and his time Laura; and his Many thanks to the Reunion Bob Furey; Charles and Columbia-inspired excerpts from at Columbia helped shape him into wife, Audrey; Committee (admirably led by Peter Golden; Generoso Gascon; his acclaimed novel 4321. Most of it the special person that he was. The Gruenberger) for planning what Howard Gruber reflected the anti-Vietnam war spirit friendships that he made at Colum- and his wife, turned out to be a very pleasant Peter Gruenberger of the late 1960s. bia were very special and remained Alice; and his sojourn into the past while enjoying Mort Halperin; Following the address, I made so for his entire life. After his gradu- wife, Carin Lamm; the present. Robert Hartman my way to the South Lawn tents for ation from Harvard Law School he and his wife, Other non-reunion news of Ed Hankin the All-Class Luncheon. Finding practiced estate and trust law. He Monica; and his wife, note: On April 28, the Varsity Paul Herman no table for 1957, I sat down with found his practice fulfilling because Barbara; and his wife, Show presented to Joe Klein the Larry Harris several quite alert members of the he was personally able to help clients Malka; and his wife, University’s highest theater award, George Jochnowitz; Steve Class of 1943 and guests. Indeed, with difficult, and life-threatening Susan; the 2018 I.A.L. Diamond Award, Jonas; Maurice Katz I encountered no members of the and life-altering, decisions.” and his wife, in recognition of his long career as a Maurice Class of 1957 at any time that day. In addition to Carol, Barry left a Margery (from California); Broadway musical director, and for Katz After lunch I took the tour of son, Stephen, and a daughter, Sue. and his wife, Elizabeth (from directing the 1978 Varsity Show, The Steve Klatsky the Manhattanville campus, the Our condolences to his family. New Mexico); and Great Columbia Riots of 1978. Also Roger Lawrence; triangular area just west of Broad- Barry did such a great job as class his wife, Karen; noted was his dedication to helping Bob Levine way and a block or so north of the historian that it will be a challenge and his wife, Anne; undergraduates with voice lessons, Walt Lipow; Bernie Nussbaum 125th Street subway station. Where to replace him. Let me begin by and giving/offering advice on musi- Howie once-dilapidated warehouses stood, updating my own status. In 2017, and his wife, Nancy Kuhn; cal theater history and style, and

Fall 2018 CCT 47 Class Notes advice and suggestions for under- a recommendation for a wonderful to be nationwide. Interesting times shore of mainland Scotland. There graduate musical theater produc- tour group specializing in Tanzania, we are now living in.” we will stay until early September. tions. Joe acknowledged that being please communicate with me. Eric Jakobsson informs us: “I had Helen once again was to work on conductor of the Columbia bands “My wife and I are residents of a wonderful adventure this past spring the now-famous Neolithic site, the and musical director of the Barnard Massachusetts but have a winter teaching a course [at the University of Ness of Brodgar. Together, we will Gilbert and Sullivan Society were retreat in Boca West, Fla. This is very Illinois], ‘The Evolution of the Uni- write a paper on the small, fired clay certainly instrumental in preparing much like an adult summer camp, verse from an Anthropocentric Per- balls found at the site. It is becoming for a Broadway career that included with the inability to tell one day spective.’ It is a seminar course, with apparent that such clay balls appear assignments such as Man of La from another since there are so many 19 upper-division undergraduates in at many Neolithic sites, from Catal Mancha and Chorus Line. Dozens of activities every day of the week. Our the sciences, through the University Huyuk in eastern Anatolia to several recent and not-so-recent alums were son is a cardiac surgeon at Baystate Campus Honors program. We start sites in Orkney. on hand to cheer their mentor when Medical Center in Springfield, with the Big Bang and move forward “After Orkney, we were to he received the award. Mass., where I still am employed. like a temporal microscope, moving conclude our odyssey in Cabreret, Ernie Holsendolph has pub- He recently was one of a group of forward in time and narrowing down a small village nestled beneath the lished his memoir, Let Me Tell It. It young cardiac surgeons throughout to humans. The text is Maps of Time, cliffs along the river Célé. There is about a boy born in south Georgia the United States to initiate an by David Christian, which I augment we planned to wrap ourselves in who left to go to Cleveland in 1940. organization based on a European with scholarly and scientific papers as the many splendors of Quercy and The book describes his odyssey from model, begun by colorectal surgeons relevant to each section. be with old friends for the last five Georgia to Columbia and his career and called ‘Enhanced Recovery After “I have a few scientific papers weeks of our journey. ‘One’s destina- as a journalist at The New York Times. Surgery.’ The surgeons sought to under review (with collaborators). tion is never a place, but rather a It is available on Amazon. provide guidelines for improving care Perhaps the most important is at new way of looking at things’ –– The Class Lunch is held on the in adult cardiac surgery with specific Proceedings of the National Acad- Henry Miller.” second Tuesday of every month in goals to reduce complications and emy of Sciences, where we have Louis Stephens lets us know, the Grill of the Princeton Club, 15 expedite recovery. I had a hand in submitted a computational protocol “I have been working on a series W. 43rd St. ($31 per person). Email the first (early) step in this direction for design of synthetic antibodies of seven large canvases, 5'x6' each, Art Radin if you plan to attend, even when I established and published a against evolving viruses. larger than anything I’ve worked on. up to the day before: arthur.radin@ protocol termed ‘Fast Track Recovery’ “I am writing this from a hotel in The theme occurred to me when I janoverllc.com. in 1992, but my approach was not Rochester, Minn., where I am visit- was in my 20s but hadn’t material- nearly as extensive as what is now ing the Mayo Clinic for diagnosis ized until about a year or so ago. being proposed. and therapy for lumbar stenosis, Each canvas is based on the seven 1959 “We also have two daughters. which is giving me great pain if I days of Creation as described in One is an artist working in glass, walk for more than a few blocks Genesis, King James Bible, with REUNION 2019 with three children and living in or stand more than a few minutes one canvas for each day. The Bible MAY 30–JUNE 1 our community, and the younger (unless I use a cane). I have had a descriptions for each day are short, Events and Programs Contact one is a lawyer in Manhattan. Our steroid injection for temporary relief but very poetic, I think. I should [email protected] three (son and two daughters) have and was probably going to have mention at this point that I am not Development Contact seven children and the two oldest surgery this past summer (surgery in any way of the persuasion of the [email protected] are now 24. One is a screenwriter was put off until after the semester Christian right, so don’t get the in Los Angeles and the other is a in order not to have the recovery wrong idea. This is purely for me an Norman Gelfand nurse practitioner in Manhattan. Our period interfere with my teaching). aesthetic challenge. c/o CCT youngest grandchild is 11. He is our “I continue to find new dimen- “I am now up to Day 6. I can Columbia Alumni Center youngest daughter’s son, and lives in sions in my love for my wife and in only work on one canvas at a time in 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 New Jersey, so all of our family are in my appreciation of all the variety of my apartment/studio. Each Day is New York, NY 10025 the Northeast. the world. I could wish I were not so only about 80 percent done. When [email protected] “It is truly fascinating to have old, but since that would be futile, I I finish Day 7 to about this level of been in cardiac surgery when it will not bother. Best to all.” completion, I will try to find a suit- Richard Engelman writes, “I was a specialty that the brightest From David Smith we hear, able studio space where I can see all recently returned from a bucket list aspired to achieve. Now that the “My wife, Helen, and I set out from seven not-fully-completed canvases trip on a safari to the Serengeti in remuneration is so depressed and Barbados on the 14th of April for together against one wall. I then Tanzania. It was a phenomenal expe- the workload often overwhelming, six months abroad. On the Windstar, plan to complete them individu- rience with eight days of seeing the one cannot find sufficient trainees to a five-masted sailing ship, we began ally but also as a correlated series. world’s best wild animals and experi- follow in one’s footsteps, and private a 14-day Atlantic crossing, which For those interested in technique, encing the Maasai culture. They are a practice is a thing of the past. Very took us to Lisbon. From Lisbon, I generally start each canvas with unique people who are trying to enter few cardiac surgeons can maintain we flew to Athens and motored to acrylic paint and then finish with the 21st century with the beginning a practice without hospital support, Mani in the far Peloponnese for a oils. If any of you know of a suitable, of universal education through the such that they have largely all four-week stay by the sea, with a trip large studio space in Manhattan let seventh grade. All the children who been recruited by the hospital and to The Palace of Nestor — Nestor, me know. cannot get to school by walking are now employees with the rules whom Homer calls wise and king “My wife, Karen DeLuca live in dormitories at each school. that apply to all staff, for better or in sandy Pylos. Then off to Turkey, Stephens, has been working on a They are learning in three languages: worse. We were in private practice which has more Greek temples than screenplay about baseball, based Maasai, Swahili and English. I would until about 2001 when we could Greece. Dear friends live in Bodrum, on a true story and the Italian- strongly recommend going to the not support the overhead with the by ancient Halicarnassus, where American experience. Called Hitting Serengeti for a safari, as the experi- reduction in reimbursement and Herodotus was born. Home, it takes place in Boston in ence is well worth the effort and were forced to accept the hospital as “Leaving Turkey, we journeyed to 1937. Bracketed between the Great expense. If one would like to have our employer. This is a trend that has the Orkney archipelago off the north Depression and WWII, the story

48 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews is about an immigrant family’s us that we would be refreshing the not really mountains but rather sheer but had ceased to make the trip struggles to adapt to a new country faded paint. I enjoyed the experience cliff faces of simple-to-impossible into Manhattan from Cold Spring, and how their children unite them and even volunteered for a second rock climbing challenges. For the N.Y., some years ago and during the via our national pastime. Thankfully, shift. That set me off on a (later and next five years I became a semi- period when his wife, Jean Marzollo, Karen is beyond the initial stages short) career of serious rock climb- serious and semi-competent rock was ill. “The event that is reshaping of this script becoming a reality, ing. When I was a senior, Steve climber. I was, however, dividing my my life at the moment,” Claudio in that the project now has the Larsen ’62 and I pooled our financial weekends between serious climbing notes, “is the passing this last April support of the Rhode Island Film resources and bought a climbing and my other sporting love, ocean of my wife, partner and best friend and TV Office. She has also been rope and looked around for a suit- racing. It eventually dawned on me for the last 50 years. Jean was a collaborating with a production able target. The ascent of the front of that I would have to choose one or children’s book author –– you might company there and is working with our fraternity house, Psi U, was easy the other to get good. I ended up have read her books, chief among our brother-in-law, who lives in Los and we looked for a greater chal- choosing sailing and have enjoyed them the I Spy series –– to your Angeles and knows people in the lenge. The front of Butler Library that tremendously over the following grandkids. Being alone for the first industry. It’s an artistic and poignant seemed like a worthy Everest, so one nearly 60 years since graduation. time in half a century is a new chal- script, no crime involved, and we are spring evening we gathered our gear “I now cruise my J40 on the East lenge I am struggling with, and it is knocking on wood every day in the and set off to scale Mr. Butler’s Very Coast, anywhere from Virginia to very difficult to once again be flying hopes that she could soon have a Big Library. Nova Scotia, during the summers solo, despite a supportive family and real movie come into being. Anyone “Getting to the first level was and am giving some almost serious community. I’m sure I’m not the in the field please get in touch if a bit of a challenge but once we consideration to taking the boat to only one who has had this happen, you’re interested. reached the big grating behind the the Caribbean this winter, since I and my heart goes out to classmates “Best wishes to all.” columns it was a piece of cake. The hate winters.” who have had this sad experience.” Norman Gelfand writes: “My problem then became the campus son Sammy Gelfand was featured in security guards, who gathered at a New York Times story in the sports the foot of the climb –– at least five section on June 7. He achieved this floors beneath us –– demanding Ernie Holsendolph ’58 has published his memoir, distinction without murdering any- that we come down. We suggested Let Me Tell It, which describes his odyssey from Georgia one, being indicted or being a politi- that they come up. They declined cian: He works for the Golden State the offer and pointed out that they to Columbia and his career as a journalist. Warriors and is now the recipient of could wait us out and that we would three NBA championship rings and have to eventually descend. The logic one from the D league. was inescapable, so we eventually “Breaking news — he now works rappelled down. They took my ID Claudio’s narrative requires a Jean was an immensely gifted for the Detroit Pistons. He switched and the climbing rope and sent us few comments. author, illustrator and educator. after the season was over.” on our way, which was, of course, First, the “Ode to the Coxswain” She wrote more than 150 children’s Please make plans to attend our to The West End, letting us know will need revision; we boated at books and her I Spy books have 60th reunion next year. I am sure that we would be hearing from the least two heavyweight and two been translated into more than that details will be coming soon. Dean’s Office. Steve didn’t bring his lightweight freshman shells, so there 20 languages. Lengthy and loving wallet and didn’t have his ID but must be other former ’60s freshman remembrances appear in Publishers they figured I’d remember his name coxswains who may yet come forth Weekly and The New York Times. They 1960 when interrogated. with their own account as “C”- are well worth your reading. “The next day I did hear from painting participants, and it would Ira Jaffreyand his wife, Harriet, Robert A. Machleder the dean (I wish I could remember be wise for a rewriting of the Ode to have relocated from Colorado to 69-37 Fleet St. his name but I’m at a point where wait. If you’re out there, let me know. Santa Fe, N.M. Ira continues to Forest Hills, NY 11375 I struggle to remember my own Second, Claudio’s recollection consult on oncology, his medical [email protected] name) summoning me to his office, of his adventures in ascending specialty. While at the College, Ira where I had been just a couple of formidable heights modestly omits took an interest in the Dead Sea The saga of the ’60s’ role in the days before with a delegation from a singular triumph that marked a Scrolls, and he has continued to repainting of the Spuyten Duyvil the APO service fraternity to deliver brilliant start of our freshman year. pursue that interest. He shares, “In “C” continues. Another Class of ’60 a check for the scholarship fund. At the Soph-Frosh Rush (once an 1960 I took a course with Professor coxswain emerges who dangled from The dean wasn’t that interested in annual tradition at the College, but Theodore Gaster, ‘The Religions of a rope and wielded a brush: Claudio reprimands; he just wanted to know having been abolished by the Dean’s The Near East, Mesopotamia and Marzollo. Claudio recalls his par- how the hell we’d gotten that far up Office, now a relic) it was Claudio Egypt.’ He was one of the first to ticipation and, even more beguiling, on the outside of the building. After who outmaneuvered the assembled translate a portion of the scrolls. He relates his subsequent conquests of a technical discussion of the climb- members of the sophomore class, gave us words in Aramaic, which challenging heights on the campus ing obstacles, he handed me my rope ascended the greased poll and then we had to translate into Hebrew and beyond. and my ID with the admonition, descended with the freshman beanie and annotate. In April, Harriet and “I have been reading with interest ‘You graduate in two days. Can you the sophs had impaled. Semper I traveled to The Denver Museum the tales of the painting of the big stay out of trouble till then?’ Can Excelsius must be in Claudio’s DNA. of Nature & Science to revisit the ‘C’,” Claudio begins. “It was news you imagine that happening today? Finally, it was wonderful to see scrolls during an exhibition of them to me that it (creation of the ‘C’) “When I returned from my tour Claudio at our First Thursday Class and artifacts from the Qumran exca- was so recent. I had thought it dated of duty in the Navy two years later, Lunch in June, but he came only vations. This was my third encounter from forgotten eons, not that it was Steve had become a more seasoned after suffering an enormous loss. with the scrolls, the second being in just a few years old when freshman climber and brought me into the Claudio had been one of the Israel at the museum of the scrolls.” rowing coach Al Lawn gathered world of the Shawangunks. These are inaugural and most consistent In May, Bill Tanenbaum and his the coxswains in spring ’57 and told a series of cliffs in New Paltz, N.Y., attendees at our monthly lunches, wife, Ronna, attended the ceremo-

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nial opening of the United States the American West, Lake Louise in of Denali National Park. During the Celebrated composer Charles Embassy in Jerusalem. He says, “The Canada and Machu Picchu in Peru. trip, Arnold had the opportunity to Wuorinen GSAS’63’s 80th birthday trip was inspiring and enlightening. They continue to stay as active as go dog sledding for the first time. He was honored by The Da Capo Cham- Attending the ceremony of moving their advancing years allow and to noted that his son and daughter are ber Players with a concert on April the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem was enjoy time with their two “children,” in their 50s and his oldest grandson 12 at the Merkin Concert Hall at an event beyond belief. Approxi- now both over 50! recently graduated from college. the Kaufman Music Center in New David Konstan mately 750–800 people attended, After Columbia, Mike and GSAS’67, in York City. The Da Capo ensemble many of them dignitaries from the Joanna moved to California, where his new book, In the Orbit of Love: performed many of Charles’ works United States and Israel. Several Mike earned a master’s in chemical Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome, and works of other composers he speeches were made, including a engineering from UC Berkeley argues that the ancient Greeks and influenced over his long career. video of one by President Trump. and worked at Los Alamos Lab Romans had generous and altruistic Sadly, Thomas Gochberg Jared Kushner and Prime Minister on a nuclear rocket engine. Mike feelings, but that they expressed passed away on May 24, 2018, after Netanyahu delivered speeches that returned to Berkeley for a Ph.D. in themselves mainly in relation to a brief illness. Tom was co-founder had the audience standing and chemical engineering in 1967 and loved ones. David considers the and CEO of TGM Associates, applauding. Toward the end of the went to work for Dow Chemical in issues of friendship, loyalty, liberality, headquartered in New York City. speeches, some of the audience Walnut Creek, Calif. gratitude, grief and civic bonding, After graduation, Tom worked had tears in their eyes. In 1995, the After a series of promotions and and shows how affection plays a for several years at Chemical Bank U.S. Senate voted 93–5 to have the moves to various Dow locations in crucial role in each of these domains. before joining Smith Barney & Co. embassy moved to Jerusalem. Dur- the United States, they moved to David is professor of classics at to start Smith Barney Real Estate ing the next 23 years, no President southern Holland in 1984 when NYU and the author of, among Corp. In 1970, with Tom’s leader- gave the OK until President Trump Mike was appointed R&D director other titles, Pity Transformed; The ship, Smith Barney Real Estate cre- did. This was truly an historic event. of thermoplastics for Dow Europe Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: ated the first open-ended real estate It was an honor for us to be there.” and site R&D for Dow’s Terneuzen Studies in Aristotle and Classical partnership, SB Partners, which facility. In 1987, he was named VP Literature; Before Forgiveness: The continues to the present day. of plastics and polymers R&D for Origins of a Moral Idea; and Beauty: Tom was one of the founders of 1961 Dow Europe and they moved to The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea. the Pension Real Estate Association Ed McCreedy Zurich, Switzerland. One of the was honored in (PREA) and was its first president Michael Hausig highlights of their time in Swit- June for reaching the milestone of in 1977 and its second chairman. In 19418 Encino Summit zerland was when Dow had R&D 50 years as a member of the Union 1978, he led a successful effort to San Antonio, TX 78259 directors of all the European auto- County, N.J., Bar, and giving a modify the U. S. federal tax code to [email protected] mobile companies attend a four-day lecture on ethics. Ed writes it is hard permit pension funds, under most retreat in St. Moritz. They rode to believe it’s been 31 years since circumstances, to utilize leverage Mike Clark SEAS’62 has been the four-man bobsled run with the he served as County Bar president, when acquiring real estate assets retired since 1994. He and his col- Swiss team that had just won the and 13 years since he was State Bar without incurring unrelated business lege sweetheart, Joanna Burggraf, Olympics using polymers developed president. Ed says he still has fun taxable income. This has brought a nurse from St. Luke’s, recently for them by Dow! trying cases, but tries to travel and hundreds of billions in capital into celebrated their 55th wedding In 1990, Mike and Joanna play golf a bit more. real estate in the ensuing decades. In Stuart Newman anniversary. Some highlights of returned to the United States, was talking 2010, PREA paid tribute to Tom at retirement life have been a fantastic moving to Midland, Mich. (Dow’s with the person sitting next to him its annual meeting, honoring him as a four-week cruise to Antarctica, the headquarters) when Mike was recently on a flight to San Diego founding father of the organization. opportunity for Mike to fly fish all promoted to global R&D director –– that individual turned out to Tom and his wife, Letty, Al over Canada, Alaska, South America for Dow’s engineering thermoplas- be Stephen Schifrin, the son of graciously hosted wonderful class Schifrin. and Russia, and the chance for tics. After four years of battling To make the “small world” dinners at their home during many Mike and Joanna to hike most of the nasty Michigan winters, Mike even smaller, Stephen lives around of our five-year reunion celebrations, retired from Dow, and he and the corner from Stuart’s son, Mike, and Tom volunteered use of his Joanna returned west, moving to in the Scripps Ranch section of San office facility for the New York City Reno, Nev., and set about doing all Diego County. Stuart spoke with Al class lunch club’s monthly meetings. the things they didn’t have time for after they landed. Al is retired, living He will be missed dearly by the while working. They climbed many in the Bay Area and sends regards class. A commemoration of Tom’s of the mountains in Nevada, skied to the class. On another note, it was life was held on June 14 at the New all over the West and Mike took up a Columbia summer for some of York Yacht Club. his new passion of fly fishing. He Stuart’s grandchildren: His eighth- stayed active by competing in USTA grade grandson recently returned Contact CCT tennis in Reno, Las Vegas, Northern from a great experience at Columbia’s 1962 California and in Tucson, Ariz., baseball camp, and his high school Update your address, where they have a winter home. senior granddaughter took a course John Freidin email or phone; submit a Arnold Klipstein, a gastroenter- in urban planning at Columbia. 654 E. Munger St. Class Note, new book, ologist, is 79 and works part-time in Joseph Rosenstein recently Middlebury, VT 05753 [email protected] photo, obituary or Letter to Bangor, Maine. He moved from his retired from Rutgers as a distin- home, after 34 years, into a condo for guished professor emeritus of the Editor; or send us an people older than 55. Arnold lives mathematics after teaching there for Six hundred years ago, Leonardo da email. Click “Contact Us” at with his fiancée, whom, he writes, 48 years. This summer he published Vinci wrote, “Water is the driving college.columbia.edu/cct. gives him youth and zest. He visited Memorable Verses in the Torah (The force of all nature.” Anchorage, Alaska, this past summer Five Books of Moses): Commentary and Thirty-seven years after the after a cruise and a visit to the wilds Questions (memorableverses.com). founding of alma mater, Benjamin

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Franklin published his Autobiogra- our reunions I have come to know my wife and 92-year-old mother-in- to ‘God Bless America,’ so he imag- phy, which stated: “When the well is many of you. Each time I return I am law, on whose bucket list it has been ines the song as he’d like to hear it. dry, we know the worth of water.” rewarded to learn a little more about floating for years. Artwork and animation are by Mike Then Groucho Marx said: “Well, those who are familiar classmates, “And the East Hampton Star later Rimbaud. Accompaniment is by Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other and meet someone virtually totally published my review of a timely Skip Edwards, based on the Irving hand, water is water. And east is new. I am in awe of your accomplish- book, The Promise and the Dream: The Berlin original. Parody lyrics are by east and west is west and if you ments and the rich, fascinating lives Untold Story of Martin Luther King, yours truly. Go online to view it: take cranberries and stew them like that you have created for yourselves. Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, coinciding bit.ly/2nh5OY6.” applesauce they taste much more Many thanks for your presence. My with the anniversary of their assas- Charles Miller reports, “I recently like prunes than rhubarb does. Now compliments to the Reunion Com- sinations: online at bit.ly/2M4TlEZ. joined the firm of Leichtman Law you tell me what you know.” mittee for architecting a delightful “Still voicing new stories of inter- as a senior counsel in its Manhattan Well, you’re the water of this series of class events, with a special est to the blind for gatewave.org and offices, where I continue to serve column. And the well is dry. Please note of appreciation to the Satows playing too much bad tennis.” and advocate clients’ intellectual send news to either of the addresses for their lovely kick-off cocktail party. Allen Frances is a retired psy- property interests and concerns in the at the top of this column about you Thank you so much for coming. I chiatrist who now beach-bums and chemical, pharmaceutical, plastics, and yours. look forward to seeing you at Home- babysits, but also occasionally writes engineering and design fields, coming, perhaps another luncheon stuff about saving normal emotions including relevant appellate practice and our 60th.” from medical imperialism and the as a member of The Association of 1963 Joe Applebaum writes, “Our insanity of the age of Trump. He Amicus Counsel.” 55th reunion was a wonderful oppor- loves our reunions and hopes to be Ed Coller notes, “The Band’s Paul Neshamkin tunity to reconnect with old friends vital and sentient enough to make 2018 fiscal year –– which ran from 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 and make some new ones. The boat the next one. the end of the 2017 football season Hoboken, NJ 07030 ride was memorable. Since I haven’t Peter Broido writes, “As a Class to the end of the 2018 season [email protected] lived in New York for many years, it Agent, I called a number of class- –– elected a board (‘bored’ in Band- was remarkable to see how the West mates to encourage them to come to speak) and selected a drum major, About 50 of our classmates and an Side skyline has changed. After the our 55th reunion. One of them was all nine of whom were women (lots equal number of spouses and friends reunion, my wife, Phyllis, and I trav- my freshman year roommate, Barry of Barnardians). An historic first for returned to campus in May for our eled to Oregon and spent a week with Bem, who lives in Washington, a 100-plus-year-old organization, 55th reunion. I wish more of you Allen Frances and a high school D.C. We had not seen each other and maybe for all but a few special had been able to make it, because classmate of ours, Ed Kreusser.” since we graduated. As I now live in interest student groups. A long way it was wonderful. I thank the entire Jack McMullen writes, “I Baltimore, we decided to have our from the ’60s, when no women were Reunion Committee for making it a attended the 55th reunion and recon- own reunion, which took place in allowed to set foot on the field, and successful event, and especially Phil nected (and in some cases connected D.C. in June. I can report our mini- a far, far better thing that we do Satow and his wife, Donna GS’65, for the first time) with some valued reunion was a success.” than what we did then.” for hosting our Thursday evening classmates: Ed Coller, Joe Apple- Doug Anderson writes, “As we Gary Rachelefsky writes, “I am cocktail reception at their loft. baum and Ben Tua, and old friends were graduating in 1963, my wife, in my fourth retirement year and, Frank Partel summed it up beau- Stan Yancovitz and Allen Frances. Dale, was preparing to give birth to believe it or not, I have survived and tifully: “My wife, Mary Ellen, and I “I am recently back from a her daughter Barrie SW’18. A few am unbelievably happy. I am enjoy- had a very enjoyable and rewarding two-week hiking trip of the Dingle years ago, Barrie decided to get an ing my time with Gail, my bride of time at our 55th reunion. What made Peninsula of western Ireland. My M.S.W. and graduated, aged 55, the 52 years; my eight grandchildren it such a unique experience was the Vermont buddies and I did 90 day of our 55th College reunion. Nice.’ (ages 5–21 years); golf (a new hobby attendance of so many of you who miles in nine days and my feet were Michael Erdos writes, “Just a started to, as Gail puts it, ‘find male returned. Most of you I knew only by smoking for days afterward. Still, week before our reunion our son, friends’); reading for pleasure; going name during my undergraduate years, it was worth it. We got 10 straight Alexander, and his wife, Jackie, to the health club; learning to cook but through Paul’s luncheons and days of sunny weather, low humidity, provided great joy with the birth and travel; and going to museums calm winds and bright blue skies. of our granddaughter –– Grace and theater. Recently returned from Old-timers told us they hadn’t Elizabeth! We are now looking for two weeks in London and Paris with seen weather like that for 40 years. an apartment in Manhattan. (Any our 9-year-old granddaughter. What Apparently, this part of Ireland is leads would be greatly appreciated.) a fantastic trip. UCLA is honoring blustery and rainy most of the time.” We will no doubt be spending more me by establishing an endowment in David Alpern writes: “Much time in New York.” my name for the allergy and immu- enjoyed our reunion, particularly Paul Gorrin writes, “After itera- nology program at UCLA. Gail and the boat ride and Manhattanville tion upon iteration, Crossing Brook- I are healthy and truly enjoying our campus in what amounts to a new lyn Bridge is finished, and I will be elder years. The door is always open Harlem, as Professor Kenneth sending it around. In collaboration to all Los Angeles visitors.” Jackson explained to us at lunch up with a local artist I will be beginning Steve Barcan reports that he there. Also the chance to reconnect a children’s book series, using the spent the summer at his home on with Peter Zimroth and his wife, bedtime stories I had made up for Cape Cod while doing rehab at celebrated actress Estelle Parsons, our four children. Cape Cod Hospital from his recent with whom I had the unexpected Nick Zill, keeping up his humor- cardiac procedure. While there he pleasure of a lunch in Sag Harbor ous political resistance, sent me the continued work on the campaign of when she appeared at our Bay Street following: “Here’s a new video from Tom Malinowski, a Democrat with Peter Broido ’63 met up with his Theater there at summer’s start. City In A Swamp called ‘Please a good chance of unseating longtime freshman-year roommate, Barry “Before that I enjoyed a delight- Leave America,’ in which President congressman Leonard Lance in New Bem ’63, in Washington, D.C., in June. ful Mississippi Riverboat cruise with Trump doesn’t remember the words Jersey’s 7th Congressional District.

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Henry Black writes, “The sum- Rosenman. Their daughter, Julia, the Marching Band crashes into the with the LGBTQ facet of my mer is half over, which means it is finished high school and is now at library at midnight before the first day scholarship — and with my life. time to focus on the coming football Skidmore College, and their son, of exams. More than 50 years after I think I reported in this column season. Last year was just a joy with Jesse, is at NYU School of Law. graduation, Dan returned to the pages that in 1981–82 I was one of the an 8–2 record, but not enough for After graduating from Cornell in of Spectator with an op-ed on the first self-identified gay men in the an Ivy championship. We all expect 2016, Jesse taught for one year in University’s changing of the tradition. United States to adopt a child. He that 2018 will be The Year. My wife, a charter school and spent another You can read Dan’s op-ed using this was then an El Salvadoran orphan. Benita, and I have been busy with year tutoring middle school and link: bit.ly/2niNpKj. My spouse, Kristoffer Jacobson, and theater, the offerings of the New- high school students. Don Bachman PS’69 sent a I are amazed that the child is now York Historical Society, Columbia Congratulations to all. brief update: “I am largely retired turning 40! spring sports (Ivy champs in tennis, Peter Trooboffhas become from radiology. Living on Cape “To have had a university career baseball and lightweight crew) and senior counsel at Covington & Cod, with sojourns to Washington, in the humanities in the second all the wonderful things New York Burling in Washington, D.C., the D.C. (where our 4-year-old twin half of the 20th century, I can’t help has to offer. No wonder we are offi- firm at which he had been a partner grandchildren are), and our condo but think, is to have experienced cially called Columbia University in for many years. Peter received the on Sanibel Island. The twins were the institutions of American higher THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Manley O. Hudson Medal from born at 24 weeks weighing about learning at their optimal moment. “So far this summer Benita and the American Society of Interna- 1 pound, spending months in the Nowadays, especially in the humani- I spent four days in Cooperstown, tional Law, which is awarded to a hospital. Miraculously they are nor- ties, intellectual morale, of the kind N.Y., at the Baseball Hall of Fame “distinguished person of American mal and thriving, so we feel blessed. prevailing at the Columbia I knew and the Glimmerglass Festival. It or other nationality for outstanding I feel guilty when reading about all (the Columbia of Lionel Trilling was my first time at the hall, which contributions to scholarship and the achievements of our classmates (Class of 1925), GSAS’38 and is a must for any baseball fan. achievement in international law.” In and would love to do something Steven Marcus ’48, GSAS’61), has We will take cruise on the Baltic April, the society held a traditional important. I exercise, sketch, read declined. That is partly the result Sea and will be back in time for a luncheon in Peter’s honor, at which and try not to be in despair regard- of our miserable national political meeting of the American Heart he was interviewed about his life ing the state of the world.” state, and probably more the result Association in Chicago. I urge all of and work in international law by As far as your correspondent is of the subordination of liberal arts you who can to attend our monthly Harold Koh, former dean of the Yale concerned, bravo, Don! studies to profit motives, especially class luncheon, which is held on the Law School and former legal advisor Don’s note shows how easy it is in publicly funded, i.e., underfunded, second Thursday of every month to the Department of State. The to give an update without having to institutions. I wish wealthier uni- at the Princeton Club at 15 W. room was filled with family, friends create a magnum opus. versities would advocate funds for 43rd St. It has become one of the and colleagues. I got a great note from Bob humanities studies everywhere and highlights of my month. I hope to Your classmates salute you, Peter. Caserio: “I missed our 50th reunion not just for themselves. But please see you there.” Mark your calendars: With the because I was guest-teaching a forgive the soapbox! It’s not very If you missed our 55th reunion, summer over, our informal monthly graduate seminar at Temple Uni- ‘retiring’ of me. you can reconnect with your class- class lunches resume on the second versity’s Rome campus. I wish I had “I end with thanks, Leonard, for mates at our regular class lunches at Thursday of each month at the been able to be in two places at once. your extraordinary stewardship of this the Princeton Club. If you’re back in Princeton Club, 15 W. 43rd St. in Happily, in recent weeks I’ve caught column. I find news of the experiences NYC, the next ones are on Novem- Manhattan. Join us, and remember up with dear classmates. I’ve had and achievements of the Class of 1965 ber 8 and December 13. Check to send in a Class Note. dinner with David Denby and Roy a continuing inspiration.” cc63ers.com for details. The Summer issue brought Skodnick, and gone to the theater I also wrote last year about the In the meantime, let us know the news that Michael Barnett with them; and I’ve been on the history of evolution science videos what you are up to, how you’re doing DM’67 died. Michael was a retired phone with my former roommate by Niles Eldredge GSAS’69. and what’s next. periodontist and research consultant Howard Matz. Last fall I was again Niles has an update: “We have our with wide-ranging professional and in touch with Peter Rutter, and video finally up and running on the cultural interests. He served as an around the time of the big reunion, NilesEldredge channel on YouTube 1964 Army captain during the Vietnam exchanged emails with another (go online to see: bit.ly/2vqhMmJ). War, and was a lifelong French horn former roommate, Elliot Dorff. Now We also sliced it up into three parts, REUNION 2019 player. Requiescat in pacem. if only I could see Mike Friedman! to facilitate use in classrooms. And MAY 30–JUNE 1 “As I write I am just about to we have begun to post short vlogs to Events and Programs Contact retire from 47 years of university enhance and expand on the themes [email protected] 1965 teaching, the last 16 of which have of the video itself.” Development Contact been at Penn State’s main campus, Andy Fisher saw in my Summer [email protected] Leonard B. Pack University Park. Not retiring from column that Jeffrey Bell died in 924 West End Ave. intellectual life, I am taking projects February, and offered the following Norman Olch New York, NY 10025 with me. My Cambridge Introduction additional thoughts: “That issue of 233 Broadway [email protected] to British Fiction, 1900–1950 is at CCT awakened some interesting New York, NY 10279 the start of its production process. I memories. It was sad to learn of the [email protected] Readers with good memories may also am at work on Complete Works passing of Jeff, our political class- recall my column last year about a of Wyndham Lewis. Lewis was a mate. Jeff was one of the pioneers of I am writing in July for this Fall letter to CCT from Dan Carlinsky great and ornery cultural critic, neo-conservatism, even at WKCR, issue. I hope each of you had a and many others supporting a petition visual artist and novelist. In 1927 where, in addition to being sports wonderful summer. by the Columbia University Alumni he issued The Lion and the Fox, a director, he was instrumental in The new academic year brings Band Association protesting the deci- brilliant study of queer Shakespeare. arranging for libertarian icon Ayn happiness and excitement to Ivan sion to ban Orgo Night [from Butler That’s the volume of the Oxford Rand to do a weekly program, ‘Ayn Weissman and his wife, Jane Library], a long tradition by which project I’m editing, and it’s in line Rand on Campus.’

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2006, I donated her concert harp to ding announcement noted that Ron meetings and when not there in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. You would Chevako was best man. person he was on the phone partici- think that a church named for the Jay was a distinguished economist pating. He loved the Sachems and patron saint of Ireland would already and worked for the U.S. Department loved being a part of creating the have had a harp, but it didn’t, and of the Treasury and Bankers Trust new organization. As Jay and I were now it does. before starting his own economic both New Jersey people, we often “When I was in Korea anchoring consultancy. I previously wrote in this walked back from Sachem meetings the 1988 Olympics for NBC Radio column about Jay’s extensive model together to catch our respective Sports, I missed being at home for railroad collection. His Times obituary trains. He loved walking and talking. Sharon’s birthday and realized I had contained this nugget: “Jay designed, When Jay got cancer, we both spoke to do something special for her. So I fabricated and built a working scale about his treatments and I shared found, purchased and shipped home model of the original McKim, Mead what I was learning from my own a traditional Korean instrument, a & White Pennsylvania Station, com- daughter’s illness. I will miss Jay. He zither, called a gayageum. plete with waiting room, announce- was a kind soul. He truly exempli- Jay Woodworth ’65 (left) and Larry “After her death, with the assistance ment board, arched iron work and fied our Sachem motto: Not by your Guido ’65 at the Metropolitan Club of Professor Aaron Fox, the head of subway-level train tracks.” words but by your deeds shall you be during Thanksgiving 2017. the musicology faculty at Columbia, With Larry, Jay co-chaired known. We will be thinking of Jay I donated the gayageum to Columbia, our class’ fundraising efforts in and remembering him at our 105th where it was meticulously restored and connection with our 50th reunion. Anniversary Celebration.” “My fondest memory of Jeff is now part of the school’s collection of His energy and good spirits were in college days was the night of a musical instruments. unfailing and the results of the Princeton game when, for some “Finally, I relay belated news campaign were outstanding and a 1966 Steve Berns, reason, I had to do the halftime of the death of a source of great pride to him. Those Columbia College Today newscast from the sideline bench classmate at the Albany Academy, who attended our 50th reunion will [email protected] instead of the WKCR studios. Out who came to Columbia with me remember that he stepped in at the on the court, Princeton’s Bill Bradley in 1961, but failed to navigate his last moment for an ailing Jeff Bell was almost singlehandedly beating freshman year and graduated from and made a brilliant presentation at [Editor’s note: CCT is sad to report us; sitting next to me on the bench, the University of Hawaii. Steve died our class’ economics forum. that after many years of great Rich Forzani Jeff was doing the play-by-play. on November 27, 2017, after the Jay had been a member of Colum- columns, has stepped “We next met at a WKCR proverbial long battle against cancer. bia’s Sachems. Here is what Joseph down as class correspondent. The reunion arranged by Ken Howitt “Thank you, Leonard, for your Simone ’79, president of that orga- following is his last submission.] ’76 in 1977. The previous year, Jeff faithful reporting of the passage of nization, wrote about Jay: “I am sad Randall Bourscheidt had organized Ronald Reagan’s the Class of 1965 through the years.” to report that on June 15, the Senior ’s note in unsuccessful run in New Jersey’s At an age where many of us Society of Sachems lost one of its the Summer issue was not, in Steve Republican primary. Over dinner, are hanging up our spurs, most beloved members, Jay Wood- fact, Randall’s note –– the note Hoffman my classmates asked Jeff what plans has formed a new law worth ’65. Jay was a great collaborator that accompanied his name was he had for his political future. ‘Oh,’ firm, Hoffman & Kessler. He wrote: and devoted board member, and was actually an update from a different he said, ‘I thought I might run for “Hoffman & Kessler concentrates always busy organizing events for the classmate! Here is Randall’s note as the Senate.’ We were skeptical, if not its practice in commercial and intel- Sachems. His planning work for the it should have appeared: “One of the downright scornful. ‘Run against lectual property litigation, as well as Centennial was instrumental, and more memorable asides and digres- Clifford Case, who’s been in the corporate transactions and securities this year –– despite already suffering sions James Shenton ’49, GSAS’54 Senate for 24 years?’ matters, including mergers and from advanced cancer –– he worked made in his great class on American “Sure enough, Jeff ran in the acquisitions, corporate finance and diligently on planning our 105th history, in my sophomore year, was Republican primary the next year, corporate governance, and a wide Anniversary Reunion Celebration.” this: In 1947, the great American and beat Case! He then ran against range of general business matters. Fellow Sachems board member historian Allan Nevins was sitting –– that’s right –– Bradley, and got You can reach me at shoffman@ Paul Petrylak SEAS’83 recollects: in his office across campus, musing trounced. For the record, Jeff also hoffmankessler.com.” “Jay simply loved Columbia and on the state of the world. As he later Larry ran for the Senate 36 years later, I got the sad news from the Sachems. That love was evident recounted, ‘I said to myself, “Well, Guido Jay Woodworth losing to Cory Booker. that in everything he did from ginning we won. We have peace –– except “It was also interesting to read of BUS’67 died on June 15, 2018, at up spirit and commitment from his for some storm clouds to the east. the many achievements and distinc- his home. Larry informed me that classmates to his leadership on our What does this mean for histo- tions of Class of 1965 members Jay was suffering from an extremely Board. Jay was always quick to vol- rians wanting to write about his in the field of music. I am not a rare jaw cancer. Larry writes, “Jay unteer his time, resources and views event? Well, FDR is gone, but we musician, but I love music, and I was comported his personal and profes- on how to grow our spirit. Even have Churchill and de Gaulle and married to an exceptional musician sional lives with dignity, solidar- while battling his illness, he made Eisenhower. In the normal course for 36 years. Sharon had a stunning ity and warmth to his family and the trek into the city to attend meet- of things, in 10 years they will each coloratura voice, but was unsuccess- friends. His death was with dignity, ings being integrally involved in our publish their self-serving memoirs. ful for years in trying to use it –– as befit him.” 105th dinner, making contributions It will take 10 more years for histo- despite the finest training –– to sing Jay’s family is planning a memo- and adding his perspectives in any rians to have access to enough of the opera. It was after her Irish-Ameri- rial service on Saturday, October 20. way possible.” record to publish the first compre- can mother died that she learned to I did a search and found the In looking back at the Centen- hensive histories of the conflict.’ play the harp, and had great success report of Jay’s marriage to Susan nial, John Phelan ’85 recalls: “I “Then, looking across the room, singing Irish love songs and sacred Ray on May 23, 1970. Susan met Jay when planning the 100th his eye fell on a tape recorder. ‘But we songs, accompanying herself on the attended our 50th reunion with Jay Sachem reunion. You could always have this! If we can simply persuade harp. After Sharon died of cancer in only days before she died. The wed- count on Jay for being at all the these men to speak to us, we will

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have the essence of the story.’ And Oriental Civilizations). Gene found Charnesky, can be found on You- overseas flight and just take a long thus was born oral history, which his spirituality extremely important Tube. Just Google ‘Trinkley opera.’ weekend north. flourishes to this day worldwide but to him during his illness. He was a There, among others, you can see my Also, I just learned via Ancestry. most especially in an ongoing project bright, personable man who did his magnum opus, YORK: The Voice of com (the DNA folks) that, while housed in Butler Library. best to save our planet.” Freedom, about the only African- the good-looking part of me is “I never forgot this story, and Rich Forzani: “I had the oppor- American on the Lewis and Clark mainly northern Italian, I am also 4 now I have begun to use Nevins’ tunity to write to and speak with expedition, in a production filmed percent Jewish, which may explain discovery. I am creating the Archive Gene over the past two years. He for PBS with principals from the old my admission to the College and my of New York City Cultural History, was a remarkable individual.” New York City Opera. fondness for chopped liver. However, housed in the New York Public Steve Weinberg GSAPP’68 “Columbia Alumni Singers discreet inquiries have sadly advised Library. Aside from documents that writes, “Still advising the always- continues to be active, singing at a that I am still 1 percent short of chronicle the decisions made by New inspiring Habonim Dror North reception for the Class of 1968 in eligibility for a certain International York City’s government to build and America progressive Zionist youth Butler Library on June 1 and for the Zionist group. Farewell to conspira- support cultural institutions such as movement (actually run by youth, Performing Arts Affinity Recep- torial weekends in Zurich. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, like we used to do things at Colum- tion on June 2, co-conducted by me Richard Postupak informs the American Museum of Natural bia in the ’60s) and its network of six and Jerry Weale ’57 (with a guest us of a pleasant afternoon spent History and the Brooklyn Academy summer camps. star performance by Jon ‘Bowser’ recently with Richard Beggs in of Music, I have been doing oral “As a Columbia-trained city plan- Bauman ’68, of Sha Na Na fame). Naples, Fla: “We passed a few hours history interviews — these days ner ([I earned a] master’s in planning CAS is now preparing a program, tasting some of Mr. Beggs’ favorite with cameras, too –– of leaders of in that frighteningly marvelous Lyrics, for the Philolexian Society’s single malts. Since he was buying, I the city’s cultural sector to record Spring ’68), I’m impressed with Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry willingly accompanied him, having the continuing development of this Columbia’s Manhattanville campus… Contest in November.” learned that courtesy as a young partnership between local govern- “I appreciated attending the 50th A recent note from Michael man. Rich revealed to me over the ment and private cultural institutions. anniversary events of the University Garrett details his spring trip to course of the afternoon that he This partnership –– modern policy- takeover and the 1968 strike with Japan, along with about 26,000 acquired his taste for Scotch as an in-practice –– continues to this day, Carl Arnold, Roger Lehecka ’67 photos he brought back. If the Land undergrad at Columbia. He related having added newer organizations and Jim Stockinger ’68. of the Rising Sun appears somewhat that his first bottle was an epiphany.” such as the Studio Museum in Har- “I recently sat with the new faded going forward, I would blame Apparently, Stu Hankins was not lem and El Museo del Barrio, and executive director of the Roger Garrett’s unconscionable theft of all so generous, as Mr. P. also described ambitious new institutions like The Lehecka Double Discovery Center available light waves. See them at a short meeting with him over Shed, now under construction in the in ‘Ferris Booth 2.0’ and also with a gandalflion.smugmug.com/2018- only one drink a week or two later. development of the Hudson Yards on few talented program alumni of the Best-of-Japan. They were accompanied by Frank the West Side.” past 53 years of the amazing pro- Harvey Kurzweil and his wife, Newell. “For some reason, Frank From Mark Amsterdam: “I am gram we CC’66ers started in 1965. Barbara, report the joyous birth of is enamored of Ivanka Trump. He very sad to report the death of my We discussed the mobilization of a a grandson to daughter Liz, and actually likened her neck poetically dear friend Gene Leff. Gene loved supportive alumni network of both Tom Chorba is anxiously awaiting to that of a swan; long, smooth and his years at the College. Despite the high school students served by his and his wife Celeste’s second soft. Lovely, almost Rabelaisian in suffering the early stages of ALS, the program and the Columbia and arrival via Phillip and Dawn. I am description,” says Rich. he managed to attend our 50th Barnard students who have been anxiously awaiting free, good cigars John Doody informed me that reunion. Gene had a keen and tutoring and mentoring DDC high from these gentlemen. he is in the process of selling his abiding interest in Asian philosophy schoolers all these years. Tom Beeler and Carl Bellows property on St. Barts. I’m wonder- and spirituality, especially Hinduism “Oh, and death beckons with ever reunited after almost 50 years this past ing if there is any linkage to the trip (which was nourished by his studies more ‘definable features’ (to steal a April at the United States Depart- down there I told him I was thinking at the College and, in particular, William Holden line from Network). ment of Entomology in Washington, of making. Has me totally flummoxed.” D.C., after a surprising discovery This will be my final column as James Larson sends greetings of their mutual lifelong interest in class correspondent for CCT. It has and is thinking of a visit to campus African dung beetles, spending a long been a genuine pleasure and delight this fall. He stopped by the CC’68 afternoon catching up in our nation’s to have misled and misinformed so reunion in May to see Sigma Chi capital. This, coincidently and regret- many of you these past years, and brothers from the era, me included. fully, may add credence to comments I leave with a smile. Class Notes We agree that while College-wide regarding this country versus Norway, Editor Annie Sirju will be soliciting events are excellent, nothing comes but I hold myself above adding any my replacement, and you should close to the Affinity Receptions, snarky comments. know she is a joy to work with. My Stay in where one hangs with the folks who I spent Memorial Day Weekend sincere thanks go to you all for this Touch were your true college pals. on another road trip with my son. wonderful opportunity. I vowed Bruce Trinkley: “Once again my This time we went to Québec, via during Freshman Orientation that Let us know if you have a profound appreciation, thanks and Montreal. While I admire the latter I would get even with the class if it new postal or email address, congratulations to everyone who as an outstanding town, I must say took a lifetime, and I am proud to a new phone number or participated and assisted in the Low that Québec (the Old City) is an have succeeded just in time. Library performance for the 50th incredibly encapsulated micro- Live long and well, and never even a new name: class reunion in June 2016 of the cosm of small-town France. The worry about what others may think. college.columbia.edu/ Varsity Shows of 1966 and 1967, architecture is 1800s, the food is As an FYI only (and possibly an alumni/connect. The Bawd’s Opera and Feathertop. excellent and authentic, the citizenry overshare), I have decided to include Many of my more recent works, is friendly and the exchange rate CC in my will. After very adequately written with my collaborator Jason is wonderful. So skip the six-hour providing for my family, I will leave

54 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews the balance to the College, a bit friend for more than 60 years. Harold under $2 million, although this will died suddenly in February 2017, only obviously be subject to the vagaries a few months before our 50th reunion, of the market, so perhaps less. While which he played a key role in organiz- this pales compared to what many of ing. At the time of his death, he was you have already contributed, or plan co-director of the programs in educa- to, I only mention it to encourage tion and Jewish studies at NYU’s others to share as well. Steinhardt School. His book, Unwel- Finally, let me reveal the secret come Guests, a comprehensive study of of having your name mentioned in race, class, religion and gender in the dispatches: Send in an update so it history of minority access to college, can be included. Simple as that. Or will be published posthumously. be visited by Postupak. “Harold had a lifelong love and devotion to Columbia, both personally and professionally. His 1967 Columbia Ph.D. thesis, The Quali- fied Student: A History of Selective Left to right: Lara Idris ’18, Samuel Lehn ’18, Roger Lehecka ’67, Janet Lorin ’95 and Bianca Williams-Alonzo ’20, at the Lehecka Scholars’ spring brunch. Albert Zonana College Admissions in America, was 425 Arundel Rd. a pioneering work in the history of Goleta, CA 93117 higher education, as well as the his- [email protected] tory of Columbia, especially the era Harold would kneel down and rub undergraduate, he met Christine V. of Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of his Throneberry picture, treating it Nodini BC’67. They married on We heard from Carl Prestfeld: 1882). He was a graduate student something like an amulet or icon, February 22, 1968. After Rick com- “Compared to the abundance of at Columbia in 1968, attempting praying for success. Seems to have pleted his master’s at MIT Sloan superstars that make up Columbia to find common ground between worked. Anyway, several of us wrote School of Management, the family alumni, my biography is quite mod- protesters and the administration a letter to the Mets marketing moved to Hastings in 1982, where est. After graduation, I spent more during those interesting times by department, nominating Harold they raised their two daughters. than four years in the Army as a maintaining connections with both for the award. I never saw Harold’s “Rick worked primarily in system Russian linguist. Since then I have sides. His motto was ‘It’s Better To letter. In mine, I mentioned the design for financial services. He spent my years as an administra- Build Up,’ something which I think iconic picture and Harold’s strange loved music, playing the guitar and tor in higher education at various applies now as much as then. behavior toward it. piano. He enjoyed sailing and skiing schools in Texas and, finally, at “The symposium was as much a “Anyway, Harold won the contest. in his younger days and the traveling Murray State in western Kentucky, Class of ’67 reunion as a celebra- He won all sorts of Mets memo- that came with those pursuits. His where I retired after being the tion of Harold’s professional life. rabilia, such as a signed baseball main passion, though — his real budget director and the university In attendance were Mel Brender, with all the Mets players autograph. vocation — was the analysis and liaison to the state coordinating Tony Greco, Billy Heinbach, Ken Mayor John Lindsay hosted a gala research that went into understand- board. My wife and I celebrated Kramer, Roger Lehecka and, of dinner at Gracie Mansion for Harold ing the stock market and investing. our 50th wedding anniversary last course, me. and the team. That’s WGMF 1.0. “Never ones to be far from water, December. We have three daughters, “I would be remiss if I omitted “In 1969, the Mets marketing Rick and Chris spent as much time eight grandchildren and three what Harold felt was his great- department resurrected the WGMF as they could on Fire Island, where great-grandchildren, none of whom est honor, the WGMF (World’s contest. This time, Harold wrote his Rick could always be found cook- live close by our current home in Greatest Mets Fan), which the Mets nomination letter. I didn’t even know ing at the grill. He was convivial Murray, Ky. We are traveling a fair awarded him in 1964 and in 1969, about the contest. Anyway, there was company for many neighbors. He amount to see our children and the year they won the World Series really no contest. I suspect the Mets had a love of card and word games, grandchildren, who are scattered in against the Orioles. marketing people didn’t even open and a discerning palate when it Tennessee, Maryland and Arizona. “The Mets marketing people the other letters, because he was a came to food and wine. He got more I am also thoroughly enjoying the created the WGMF contest more shoo-in to win WGMF 2.0. time to grill, and golf, when he and time I now have for reading, running as a joke, I think, than anything “Anyway, that’s the story. Harold Christine retired to North Carolina the occasional 5K and tracking, with else. Harold was consistent as well. would have wanted every ‘i’ to be in 2011. In 2012, he became a lurid fascination and concern as a He always rooted for the underdog, dotted and ‘t’ to be crossed … .” grandfather to Ava. citizen, the ongoing spectacle of the in baseball and in life. Actually, his Christine Bullen BC’67 wrote “Rick was loved for his intelli- amazing Trump Flying Circus.” two dogs were named Shea (after in memory of her husband, Rick gence, humility and good humor, and Neil Hawks writes, “I am happily the stadium) and Homer (after the Bullen Jr. Rick died on February 3, for being a caring, supportive father. retired after 15 years or engineering Official Dog of the Mets). 2018, after a four-year battle with He was also one-half of a strong and with the Pennsylvania Department “For the first contest, contestants cancer. He died at home in North lasting marriage. He could be stoical of Transportation and 30 years as a wrote a letter explaining why they Carolina, in the company of Chris- and he tried to carry himself with program director with the National should be chosen. On his desk, tine, to whom he’d been married for dignity until the end. Rick will be Academy of Sciences.” Harold had a sepia framed picture of 50 years, and his daughters, Valerie missed by all whom he met.” Ira Krakow wrote in honor of the Marvelous Marv Throneberry, who and Georgia. David Lehman ’70 sent in a late Harold Wechsler GSAS’74: “On played for the original 1962 Mets She writes, “The son of Richard tribute to Larry Besserman, who April 27, 2018, I attended an all-day (40 wins, 122 losses). Throneberry’s ‘Dick’ Bullen and Annabelle Smith, died earlier this year: “Larry wrote symposium at NYU, dedicated to the ineptitude was legendary, according Rick, the eldest of three brothers, letters to The New York Review of life and work of Dr. Harold Wechsler, to his Wikipedia page and also my was born in California in 1945. He Books correcting dubious statements my College roommate (729 Hartley) recollection. I swear I remember attended Hackley School, and then about Israelis and Jewish history. for three years (1965–67) and my dear that before an important exam, Columbia College, where as an ‘Jews most assuredly did not return

Fall 2018 CCT 55 Class Notes to Jerusalem in order to spite the good. Columbia offered All-Class Pope, local Arabs, or Amos Elon,’ he Reunion programming, but ours was wrote. And when Thomas Friedman better by a marathon. Bob Carlson characterized Israeli patriotism as did a photo essay of good memories ‘peasant-like,’ Larry objected and in with “Caring for the Tlinget in the process summed up the history Sitka, Alaska: A Matter of Respect” of the Jews, ‘a three-thousand-year- and Cliff Andrew presented old people, twice exiled, too-often “Northbound on the Appalachian hounded and cheated out of basic Trail or Bears, Hillbillies, Gaia and human rights, and persecuted finally the Survival Rule of Threes.” Buzz with a maniacal fury reserved for no Zucker gave us “Thirty Theater DAN CARLINSKY ’65 CARLINSKY DAN other people on earth.’” Years in New York” with John Be well all of you, and do write. Grant, our writer/producer/director/ Left to right: Elliot Schnapp ’68, Cliff Andrew ’68, Mike Tracy ’68 and Peter Janovsky ’68 enjoying their 50th reunion this past spring. playwright; Buzz goes to, on average, 200 shows a year in Manhattan. 1968 Al McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and –– fascinating, enlightening and ming –– a salute to them. Paul de Arthur Spector Columbia’s Professor of History hopeful about the future. It included Bary LAW’71, BUS’71 might have 4401 Collins Ave., 2-1417 Lien-Hang Nguyen, gave a program, Bill Chin, the Bertarelli Professor gone to Columbia graduate schools, Miami Beach, FL 33140 “Vietnam’s 1968 Tet Offensive of Translational Medical Science but his knowledge of wine was on [email protected] 50 Years Later.” Al, by the way, has at Harvard; Dan Carr, professor display for the great “The Joys of written many books. of public health and community Wine” session. John Roy Nigel Paneth Here I am at home in Miami Beach, and medicine at Tufts; Jules Dienstag, Then we had our reception in wondering how I can write about oversaw our programming and John the Carl W. Walter Professor of Alfred Lerner Hall, followed by our our 50th reunion for those who were was so proud of the “Enduring Medicine at Harvard; and Bill great dinner. Tom Lenhart LAW’72 there and those who were unable to Values of the Core Curriculum” ses- Henrich, president and professor (after being a senior partner at a law attend. It was by unanimous acclaim sion with Professor Patricia Kitcher, of medicine at the University of firm he opted for Harvard Divinity a wondrous success, I am happy to the Roberta and William Campbell Texas Health Science Center at School) gave warm remarks and report. It was truly rewarding for Professor of the Humanities. All San Antonio. At this point all the spoke about our departed classmates Leigh-Wai me and others –– I was told many the sessions were full! sessions were outstanding and there for a short period. Doo times over that it was a roaring might have gone to Harvard were more to come! Thanks, Tom. I was struck by how success. Those 325 or so alums Law, but he regaled folks with his We had “Best in the East: The comforting your essence was for me. and guests and spouses were great, “Surfing Island Kid Goes to the Big 1968 Ivy Champs and Nationally Then Janet Furman introduced spirited, active, ebullient, cheerful, Apple: How Columbia Changed my Ranked Basketball Team,” where Billy Cross of the famous Walkers. quick-witted and seemingly sharp Life” session. Leigh-Wai was ebul- Larry Borger and Buzz Zucker Billy Schwartz “almost live from as a tack. We had about 215 alums, lient and cheerful; he probably did reminded us about ’68 basketball –– Copenhagen,” a star in Europe, including engineers, from ’68 (and some unusual surfing on Morning- lighter than medicine, but it’s good greeted the class. He performed a Frank Dann a few others from other classes as side Heights! He and medicine indeed to recall the days special piece for us. Mas Taketomo part of ’s raucous came in from Hawaii. of yesteryear. Columbia basketball Then Bruce Margon, a profes- fraternity group). Everyone then headed to Butler Ivy League champs: What a year sor emeritus of astronomy and Our cocktail party Thursday night, Library for libations and music. I that was. We were all winners. Pat astrophysics and a Hubble Telescope the first night, was cheerful, warm found the feeling in the library to Dumont spoke on “An America team leader, was so good –– his and exciting. But Friday night’s be truly special. I could see others Nomad: A Perspective on Living slides, charm, humor and breathtak- cocktail party and music after by the feeling great, too. I wish we had kept and Working in Africa for 40 years.” ing observations had the place spell- Columbia Singers (with a special role the place open to 2 a.m. The singing It was an amazing saga. bound. Tom Sanford spoke before Jon Bauman Ross for ) in the Wein Read- was great and I can report that Lunch on Friday was under tents Bruce about the success of the Ain ing Room of Butler was elegant and and I sing really well together. with other classes. After lunch Dick class fundraising; he led the team. resoundingly almost perfect. I had We might try out for the Met cho- Morris talked about his years in the I chipped in a little, as did others, John Chee, dinner that night with rus with “Roar, Lion, Roar,” “Sans Clinton White House and shared and we broke our records –– and our George Ting, Tony Kao, Randy Souci” and “Stand, Columbia.” observations about today’s world record turnout for the reunion bodes Vaughn Ross Ain. and We ate at Saturday morning and Saturday with “Life and Work in the White well for future giving, of course. I Shun Lee Palace and the conversa- afternoon had great sessions –– House.” He was very good and our salute Tom and the committee. I tion should have been filmed. “Why Teach History of Law at a class was open to different views, I also salute Peter Janovsky for his Mike Hindus, The luncheon on Saturday was Time Like This” with am happy to report. Ken Jackson, work on the bio book, which will be packed and Dean James J. Valentini, a lecturer in American Studies at a renowned Columbia professor available in some form at some time. William Heffernan, who was grand, said something Columbia, and of history, followed with thoughts I did get to introduce Bruce, which along the lines of ‘what a crowd.’ a professor of criminal justice at about New York City. We were was a wonderful honor for me. It He was right –– not an empty seat John Jay College. Mike has a Ph.D. honored to have him join us and was so incredible to look out at the in the place. You could feel and see from UC Berkeley and a law degree speak at “Columbia and New York: full congregation of tables of ’68ers, the luncheon at Faculty House was from Harvard and Bill has a Ph.D. Comparing 1968 to 2018.” John all enjoying the festivities. a pleasure; classmates also had a from Harvard and a law degree from Roy wanted so much to hear Jack- Nigel Paneth, a renowned public chance to say what they had learned the University of Chicago. They did son and other CC professors; what health professor, university professor in the last 50 years in three minutes. a great job to a packed house. “The good fortune he was able to pull that at Michigan State and a doctor, So let me back up to Friday: Future of Medicine and Biosci- off. Nigel Paneth and John worked talked to us with Cliff Andrew, a Our program was stunningly ence” discussion was a superb panel so hard to ensure the great program- professor of medicine at Vanderbilt,

56 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews about how to live to 100 –– some- Beach and Robin Resnick from Fort a good time, as he was a challenge to of riding trails), to fishing, boating, Robert Brandt thing about The Gold Rail and Lauderdale and Tom Reed and his get to attend. and I hunting and extensive shotgun sports, The West End and drinking daily, wife from Naples, all Florida. Tom called him so many times he relented not to mention our own 18-hole golf smoking Cuban cigars and exercise, Reed, Tom Sanford and Al McCoy rather than call in the Greek gods. course. Art Baer ’68 moved here a year too. That session was on Sunday looked like the strongest in the class. Tom, I think you said the dinner was earlier and we were very fortunate to morning; it was fully attended and Bob Brandt and Buzz Zucker could great. It was indeed. connect with him and his lovely wife, very good. We did our own Sunday climb a mountain. Reid Feldman was I am doing this relying on Pat, shortly after we moved in. programming, as the official reunion in from Paris and is keeping active memory –– a concept that we might “Son Jeremy is an appellate litiga- was over on Saturday night. We as an international lawyer. Seeing talk about at the next reunion. tion partner in the Washington, D.C., Cliff Andrew had been told no one would go to a Gordon Harriss is always grand Apparently, knows a office of Vinson & Elkins and lives in Sunday event; as usual, the Class of –– I was one of the many students good deal about the topic. McLean, Va., with his lovely wife, Jill 1968 had different views. of his dad. I saw Doug Freundlich Our program was superb –– the (also an attorney), and their 5-year- Thanks to Nigel and Cliff for from Arlington, Mass.; I grew up in classrooms were full, our dinner was old twin sons, Liam and Gates, and their advice at a great breakfast in Arlington. Nigel Paneth told me he the best, the turnout the most ever 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Lucy. Alfred Lerner Hall. They are avail- saw Jay Dobkin for a moment. Frank and the fundraising very good. It Son Jonathan is a commercial real able for consultations for the next Costello made it from Los Angeles seemed that good feelings were in estate broker in Westchester, Putnam 30 years. and Frank Dann from Honolulu. I the air. The Reading Room cocktail and Duchess counties. I am serving John Sadly, I need to report that saw John Davis and his wife; John party with singing is a classic event in a counsel capacity to Shamberg Roy passed away on July 5 in his bed claims he can’t play World Cup soccer to be copied. Marwell in Mount Kisco and have while visiting his son in Memphis. anymore. John saw Albin Beyer; Columbia College sent us off well retired from the active practice of law, And some may know that my friend I had hoped he would come. Al is educated and we return appreciative except to work with the firm’s partners and John’s friend from Naples, Fla., a superb artist –– he is retired and and grateful for the good times and on occasional legal matters. Frankly, Greg Winn, passed away shortly working on huge pieces of art. He was yes, the challenging times, too. Hope Gloria and I never dreamed we would before our reunion, which he wanted a professor of art history. Jon Kotch to see you all again on the trail on have South Carolina license plates, but to go to so much. I trust that John and had his big smile; he was visiting the way to 100. Warmest regards. the living here is very pleasant and it Greg are upstairs laughing and debat- family in the city and is a professor at has worked out wonderfully for us!” Jonathan Schiller ing something important, as well. UNC Chapel Hill in public health, From LAW’73, I will make a few additional com- running the program there. 1969 who recently completed his service ments about reunion attendees, but I It is impossible to recap everyone, as chair of the Columbia University will miss many, for which I apologize. I surely will miss so many –– Nat REUNION 2019 Board of Trustees: “Earlier this year, I wished I had had more time to say Taylor, Jon Synder, Jim Shorter, MAY 30–JUNE 1 our 1967–68 Ivy League Champion- hello for more than a few seconds Terry Lyman, Eric Lerner, Alan Events and Programs Contact ship basketball team celebrated the to most people. I only saw Joe Anderson, Peter Cherneff, Andy [email protected] 50th anniversary of our champion- DiBenedetto for 10 seconds; I am Herz, Michael Kronstadt, Roger Development Contact ship season, a season many of you unhappy about that but there is time Nott, Doug Motz and his wife, [email protected] will remember. Four from our class left. I saw Blas Padrino, in from Lorey Pollack, Sandy Rabison, who played on that team –– All-Ivy Paul Gal- Michael Oberman Roger Walaszek, Bruce Metz Orlando with his wife, and Steve Ross, Paul Spirn singing for lagher Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel SEAS’69, Tom Garnevicus and his wife, Pam. Paul and us, Roger Wyatt and his wife from and me 1177 Avenue of the Americas Pam’s daughter is an astronomer and upstate New York, Bob Weisell, –– were in attendance at our weekend New York, NY 10036 astrophysicist and Bruce knows her Steve Wang, the great physicist reunion. All-Ivy and Rhodes Scholar [email protected] –– small world and big world. Robert Wald and Seth Weinstein, Heyward Dotson ’70 also attended, Cliff Latting, I chatted with from my dear friend and great developer. which was a thrill for all of us, as we Irv Ruderman Birmingham Ala., and his wife, and Tom Seligson sat with me at din- Once again, and I had not seen him for a long time. We Ira McCown there was from Miami ner and it was great to know he had carried our Class of 1969 banner in gathered downtown at Loring Place the Alumni Parade of Classes, held for a luncheon with our friends and this year on May 15 and celebrating families, including grandchildren. We the graduation of the Class of 2018. were joined by the son and daugh- Looking at that class year, our class ter of our great All-American Jim is fast approaching the 50th anniver- McMillian ’70, who passed away in sary of our graduation, and reunion May 2016. Also sharing this moment planning is underway. with us were Dean James J. Valentini, From John Marwell: “My wife, Athletics Director Peter Pilling, men’s Gloria, and I moved to Sheldon, S.C. basketball coach Jim Engles and a (about midway between Charleston number of distinguished alumni, some and Savannah, Ga.), last September. of whom were in school with us: Phil The nearest town is Beaufort, S.C., Milstein ’71 (Columbia University 20 minutes from us. Our daughter trustee emeritus), Mark Kingdon ’71 Julianna is a physician at the Medi- (Columbia University trustee emeri- LAUGHLIN / COLUMBIA ATHLETICS / COLUMBIA LAUGHLIN cal University of South Carolina in tus) and Hon. Rolando Acosta ’79 Charleston and she is about an hour (Columbia University trustee). Many MIKE M c north of us. We live in a sporting stories and memories were shared over The 1967–68 Ivy League Championship basketball team celebrated the community, a 5,500-acre former plan- a wonderful three hours together. 50th anniversary of its championship season at the Columbia vs. Dartmouth tation known as Brays Island. Out- “That evening, we attended the game in February, at which President Lee C. Bollinger (far left) presented door amenities abound, everything Columbia versus Dartmouth game, each of the players with a commemorative basketball. from equestrian activities (60 miles where President Lee C. Bollinger

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recalled our championship at simcha dancing will be added to the “I’m still married to Faith Ritchie PH’12 and Dana; children’s spouses, halftime and gave each of us a com- local history. It will be especially after 42 years, with two sons teaching Rachel, Tim and Craig; and a memorative basketball. meaningful for me to officiate under in the sports world. Still involved coterie of close friends from his “Next year is our class’ 50th! I this chupa, given all the special with Columbia men’s tennis as a Columbia days which, in addition look forward to seeing many of you nuances and considerations. Lisa cheering alumnus, and with the to me, includes Joseph Kushick, at reunion.” and I speak no German and most of Marching Band; still playing medio- Arnold Barnett and Jerry Gliklich. Steve Conway GSAS’71 reports: the people invited are guests of the cre tennis and performing on the The outpouring of letters and sup- “After decades as a supercomputer bride, who have never seen a Jewish trumpet in various local ensembles; port from the entire Smithtown market analyst, at 71 I have a new wedding ceremony. Our Steindel, still shooting the breeze with Peter medical community, as well as from interest and advise governments and Friedman and Dauber families Janovsky ’68, Scott Anderson (on his patients and their families, is a companies about artificial intel- will be a distinct minority in the his trips to New York from Gaines- tribute to how much he contributed ligence, i.e., the status, technologies assemblage. But Avi and Dom are ville, Fla.) and Jim Lynn SEAS’69 to so many lives.” and issues associated with machine truly in love, committed to a Jewish (now in Stamford). Looking forward My last column reported on Bill and deep learning. These days I’m home and raising Jewish children, so to the 50th reunion.” Stadiem’s latest book, Madame organizing fall conferences on self- we are very grateful. Wherever they John Herbert, with humor and Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, driving vehicles (a.k.a. automated end up living might open our eyes to hope, notes: “My grand-nephew, Privilege, and Power (see “Book- driving systems) in Detroit and new vistas of joy and continuity.” Justin (9), plans to represent the shelf,” this issue). Bill told me that Stuttgart, a center of the German From Dick Menaker: “In May fourth generation of Herberts to Vogue included his book among the auto industry. Like classmates, I’ve 2015, our 14-lawyer firm became graduate from Columbia College, 17 best summer reads. learned a Columbia liberal arts the New York beachhead for Offit 100 years after his great-grandfather, degree prepares a person for more Kurman, a much larger outfit Benne Herbert ’32. Then there was than cocktail party conversation, based in Baltimore. I continue to me, then Uncle Mike Herbert ’77 1970 although Castiglione’s The Book of the practice much as before, only now and then my daughter Amy Herbert Courtier still come in handy.” as a principal of Offit Kurman, ’98. Justin might even choose to Leo G. Kailas Steve Steindel writes: “I have after more than 35 years as partner duplicate one of the many CU Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt a special dimension to share in our of the law firm I co-founded in graduate degrees held by the family.” 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. 50th anniversary year. After mar- 1983. I had started practice at a Ira Cohen is sad to report the New York, NY 10022 rying off our three daughters and Wall Street institution, Sullivan & passing of Harvey Bernstein [email protected] enjoying time with our nine grand- Cromwell, surrounded by immi- in April 2018 after a seven-year children, my wife, Lisa, and I will grants from Morningside — e.g., battle with ALS. Ira says: “While at I am happy to report that I heard from finally welcome a daughter-in-law Ron Alexander, Neil Anderson ’68, Columbia, Harvey was a member some classmates for the first time! into our family. Our youngest child Dan Caldwell ’70 and Bill Stadiem, of the Board of Managers and a Lewis Siegelbaum retired in and only son, Avi, will be married among others. Friendships from chemistry major graduating Phi May as the Jack and Margaret Sweet to his bride, Dominique Lellek, in those S&C days linger four decades Beta Kappa. During his college Professor of History Emeritus at Ulbersdorf, a small village in Saxon on, and many of the relationships years he was also committed to Michigan State University, but not Switzerland in southeastern Saxony, led to interesting client assignments social change, as immortalized in a before a conference celebrating his Germany. As I understand it, the in what became known as Menaker Life magazine centerfold as he and career took place on campus with Erbgericht Ulbersdorf is very much & Herrmann. We had a fabulous others prepared for the onslaught of guests from France, England and like a town hall or JCC, so we are run out of offices in midtown, start- the tactical police force on the steps throughout the United States. Now returning to a site that the bride ing in the Steuben Glass Building of Havemeyer Hall. Harvey earned a the happy grandfather of a girl born knew well as a child and where her at 777 Fifth, then in the Newsweek medical degree from the University in June in Los Angeles, he is revis- parents danced all night in the ball- Building on Madison, and since of Pennsylvania Medical School, ing his memoir (Stuck On Commu- room when they were young. Now 1992 at 10 E. 40th St., Spider-Man’s which was followed by residency nism: Memoir of a Russian Historian) a whole new generation/culture of favorite climbing wall. My com- in pediatrics at the Albert Einstein for publication next year. mercial litigation practice at M&H School of Medicine. He practiced My longtime friend Dan Feld- took me all over the world — Hong pediatrics for 35 years in Smith- man reports, “I recently returned Kong, Buenos Aires, Zürich, Tokyo, town, N.Y., where he was chair of from a State Department-funded Amsterdam, Riyadh. There were pediatrics at St. Catherine of Siena weeklong project in Armenia, talk- dozens of trials and appeals, includ- Medical Center. In addition, he was ing with judges, prosecutors and ing some notable results against a voluntary clinical faculty member investigators at Yerevan’s Justice the Helmsleys, the General Motors in the Stony Brook University Academy about strategy and tactics Investment Trust, the heirs to the School of Medicine’s Department in fighting against corruption. A Campbell’s Soup and Tylenol for- of Pediatrics, where he received the few months ago, public fury at Send in tunes, and other well-heeled litigants best teacher award multiple times years of corruption sparked a ‘velvet Your News in the securities, publishing, energy, from the pediatric residents. revolution’ in Armenia, resulting broadcasting, real estate, construction “Harvey loved to travel, in the installation of a new leader Share what’s happening in and advertising industries. We were highlighted by a climb of Mount who had long been an outspoken your life with classmates. counsel to the Lehman Securities Kilimanjaro with his son Adam in critic of the government and indeed Click “Contact Us” at Investor Protection Corp. trustee, his early 60s, as well as trips to Ant- had been imprisoned for his role in fought battles over the F-35 joint arctica and the Galapagos Islands leading previous protests. This fall, I college.columbia.edu/cct, or strike fighter and defeated three class with his wife, Maureen. He also will take advantage of my 2018 sab- send news to the address at actions claiming (wrongly) that inter- loved his time at Columbia and gave batical from teaching to work with the top of your column. net tracking amounts to wiretapping. generously as a John Jay Associate. a Rome-based institute to study Assignments of endless strangeness “Harvey is survived by his wife, and evaluate anti-corruption efforts continue with the new firm. Maureen; children, Adam, Leigh in Italy. A three-month stay, in my

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to wrangle as many invitations to teaching. They live in Riverdale in a new hobby: “I am retired from my speak in Europe as possible. I gave the Bronx and enjoy time with their general dentistry practice and my wife, talks in London (School of Oriental grandchildren, Ramona (3 and a Gwen, and I now spend time collect- and African Studies), Brussels (Free half ) and Desmond (3 months). ing grandchildren. With new arrivals University), Bologna (John XXIII In another note that shows us what in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, I have Foundation for Religious Studies), an impressive group of young men learned an entirely new skill set: I can Paris (L’École des Hautes Études en we were part of, Steven W. Stahler change a diaper in the dark. Sciences Sociales) and the Universi- writes, “I continue to do research in “The four new members of the Leo Kailas ’70 (right) with Emanuel ties of Bayreuth and Göttingen. We theoretical astrophysics at UC Berke- family (Hannah, Violet, Benjamin Ax ’70 after Ax performed a benefit are now vacationing in Amsterdam ley. Last year, a colleague and I found and Samuel) are proof that the Laws concert in Great Barrington, Mass., and the Auvergne. I have a book strong evidence that all low-mass of Thermodynamics are not invio- on behalf of The Literacy Network coming out in October, Savages, stars, including our sun, were born lable — particularly the conserva- of South Berkshire. Romans, and Despots: Thinking about with an orbiting companion star. The tion of energy. These children clearly Others from Montaigne to Herder. companion usually drifts away soon expend more energy than they can It is available for pre-order from after birth. Our twin sun could be very possibly store, and they lend support view, constitutes actually living in Amazon, which sent me an email far away by now, perhaps on the other to my theory that toddlers draw a country, as opposed to visiting. stating that, given my recent activity, side of the galaxy.” energy from nearby adults. They are Larry Rosen- This will be a first for me and for I might be interested in the book.” Frequent contributor also more fun than they have any Frederic P. White wald my wife, and is an exciting prospect. LAW’73, with GSAS’79 notes, “Leo’s request right to be.” Richard Macksoud All best wishes to you and to all my whom I have become reacquainted at for newsworthy items finds me at the ’s retirement Columbia classmates.” many reunions, is dean at Cleveland- Amherst Early Music Festival and also sounds grandchild-oriented. He Dan indeed sounds like he is Marshall College of Law and is Workshop, where I’ve been teaching writes, “I have four grandchildren, having a good time while doing receiving a deserved honor: He will and performing since 1982. We did a the last one the first girl, so we will good work. be inducted into the law school’s hall terrific production of a 17th-century over time finally get rid of all the Leonard F. “Len” Levine of fame on October 26. French opera, Lully’s Cadmus et Barbies, American Girl dolls and GSAS’77 writes, “I retired from the On behalf of our class, congratu- Hermione, with giants and pythons Breyer Horses that we have saved federal government in January after lations! and dragons, for which I wrote and since our last was finished with Larry David 34 years of civil service, primarily combined his news performed some explanatory narra- them. It will make a large hole in with the Department of Defense and with a love note to his wife: “I met tions. I’m now a philologist and lan- the storage garage.” the Defense Information Systems my wife, Sharon (née Strickland), guage coach on a project exploring the Richard wants you to know that Agency, as a computer scientist. Since the prettiest nursing student at St. 14th-century Roman de Fauvel, a story if you find yourself in Jackson, Miss., that time, I’ve worked with a personal Luke’s, in 1966, and now after 50 about a horse of a strange-colored coat or along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, trainer twice a week, audited several years of marriage, four children, 10 who ascends to the heights of power you should give him a call. graduate courses at George Mason grandchildren and who knows how at the French court, with everyone in And since grandchildren seem University (a half-hour drive from much grief I gave her, she is still the the court currying favor with him. A to be the theme for this issue, con- Shlomo “Stanley” home) in both systems engineering prettiest girl I know. We celebrated tale with significant contemporary gratulations to Newfield, and political science, and taken sev- our 50th at Hotel du Village in relevance, it seems to all of us … .” whose daughter Chana eral weeks of vacation in Boston and New Hope, Pa., not far from our Sara had her second child in June, New York. I live in Vienna, Va.” home, and were pleased that our an 8-pound, 1-ounce boy, Yosef My friend since we were class- good friends Bill Bender ’68 and his 1971 Yitzchok. Shlomo works part-time mates at Bronx Science, Robert wife, Nancy (née Shillito) –– also a as a dermatologist and spends much Jim Shaw Launay, reports, “I am writing Columbia/St. Luke’s couple –– were of the rest of his time studying 139 North 22nd St. from Amsterdam at the end of a able to join in the festivities.” Talmud and Jewish law in the Steve Boatti Philadelphia, PA 19103 European tour. I was on leave spring and his wife, Linda, Lubavitch Hasidic community in [email protected] quarter [from my professorship at have been retired for several years, which he lives. Northwestern] and decided to try Steve from law and Linda from Class of 1971, I hope that you are having an enjoyable fall. I did not 1973 receive any news this issue, so please do write in for the Winter column! Barry Etra Remember back 51 (fifty-one!) years 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE ago and the feelings we had, including Atlanta, GA 30306 of adventure, as we entered Columbia [email protected] College. We are still connected. Jose Sanchez reported the death of Angelo Falcon, of a heart attack 1972 on May 24, 2018. He and Angelo had been active in Latino policy Paul S. Appelbaum analysis since 1982 and Jose says, 39 Claremont Ave., #24 “Angelo had a tremendous impact New York, NY 10027 on the Latino community and on [email protected] America in general; his void will not be filled anytime soon.” Ever wonder what retirement is like? Jose remains National Institute Members of the Class of 1973 gathered at their 45th reunion this past spring. Ed Reisner has retired and taken up for Latino Policy board chair.

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Andy Manale attended his first always result in referrals to yet more the wedding of the youngest son of many. I’m sure there will be a lot Charlie Martorana reunion this past June, and now visits to other ISTs –– and eventually (an attorney in more to learn when we gather at our regrets it being his first, saying, you end up needing a psychiatrIST. Buffalo). Also in attendance were 45th reunion next May! Lou Modica “It was a moving and memorable At an age when many find 18 and his wife, Linda Peter Boody experience.” His latest publication holes of golf taxing, ’s BC’75. He says Lou has now retired reflects his CC education and the century bike ride (100 miles) last from his medical practice in Tennes- 1975 pursuit of purposes bigger than June is notable. He was raising see. Frank said, “It was really good to Randy Nichols himself: “Principles and Policies for money for a foundation established catch up with old friends.” 734 S. Linwood Ave. Soil and Water Conservation” in the by an editorial assistant when he was Thanks to the firm’s mandatory Peter Sullivan Baltimore, MD 21224 Journal of the Soil and Water Conser- editor of the Southampton Press. retirement policy, [email protected] vation Society, available at swcs.org. Peter posted on Facebook, “Made has now retired from his 36-year Out of class, Lou “The Count” it! 5 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Manhattan career doing antitrust law as a partner Robert C. Schneider Cortelezzi ’75, a longtime session to Deckers. No issues except a little of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & has been and backup sax machine, released pain.” Peter was ninth of 300 riders Crutcher, starting in its Los Angeles selected to serve on the 40th his first solo disc, Only Child. Nice in his fundraising for autism research. office and ending up in its New York Reunion Committee for Wharton listening, and it was great to see his Perhaps it is thoughts of our pend- City office. He says he is “having a Graduate School’s 1979 M.B.A. smiling face on the cover! ing 45th reunion, but whatever the Please share your 45th reunion reason, notes have come in from some experiences –– I could not be there, seldom-heard-from classmates! From Gar- and would like to post them! Hasta. Los Angeles came an email from Bill Meehan ’74 publishes a Forbes.com column that rett Johnson (an entertainment law- leverages the content in his book, Engine of Impact: yer with his own firm). He relates that 1974 one of his clients was recently awarded Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector. two Grammys. Garrett is active on REUNION 2019 the board of the California Copyright MAY 30–JUNE 1 Conference, as well as involved as a Events and Programs Contact member of the Society of Composers great time –– I’ve already taken trips class and in June was named to the [email protected] & Lyricists. His daughter, Kelsey, is a to China and Hawaii.” Most of his Advisory Board of the Council of Development Contact Teach For America program graduate time is now spent doing work for St. Development Finance Agencies. [email protected] who is currently working with special Bartholomew’s Church in Manhat- Also setting aside lesson plans and needs students in Los Angeles. His tan and flipping houses in Nantucket. hanging up the regalia, Dr. Robert Fred Bremer wife, Charmaine Jefferson, is the (“My inner Trump is coming out,” Sclafani GSAS’81 has joined the 532 W. 111th St. former executive director of the Dance he quips.) He and his wife, Mary ranks of the retired. He continues New York, NY 10025 Theater of Harlem and the California Krueger BC’74, have twin daughters: with his beermaking, and his brews [email protected] African American Museum at Expo- Hilary ’07 (who works for a consult- have been featured at several pubs. sition Park. She now has her own ing firm in Los Angeles) and Carly Many of you already know that José As we move through our 60s, it consulting firm. ’07 (who recently started at a large my friend and freshman roomie Frank Bruno Martinez seems like many of us are experi- I heard from public relations company in NYC). passed away this past spring. Peter Zegarelli encing the “Invasion of the ISTs.” BUS’76 (a partner at the law firm posted on Face- I asked our good buddy William H. No longer are our days interrupted Sidley Austin in its NYC office) that book last May: “Proud of our son McCarthy Jr. ’74 to remember José for merely by dentISTs or perhaps his younger daughter was married James for getting his M.B.A. from us. He writes, “With great sadness and an allergIST, now our aging body last December. That makes him an UVA’s Darden School of Business.” many fond memories, I write in tribute Bill Meehan parts require visits to their brethren: “empty nester,” he says, “but both now publishes a to a great man of Columbia and a true orthopedISTs, urologISTs, derma- daughters (and one grandson) live Forbes.com column every two weeks Lion in every respect, José Andreas tologISTs, nephrologISTs and other nearby, so we see them quite often.” that leverages the content in his book Martinez. José and I met on move-in specialISTs. Seeing one IST seems to He adds that last January he attended Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic day in late September ’71. Along with Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector. Charlie Lindsay and, briefly, Bill Roger Kahn’s daughter, Amanda, Megalos ’77, José and I were among graduated from Weill Cornell Medi- the randomly destined ‘Gang of Four’ cine last spring. Now she’s off to of Carman 709. Randy Nichols Philadelphia with her husband soon after joined the Gang as José’s and baby to do a residency in roommate, and they became good and internal medicine at the Jefferson dear friends for life. José, Charlie and Medical Center. I moved across Amsterdam to 115th Rob Knapp’s older son, Henry, Street sophomore year, into some was recently married in San Fran- pretty nice digs owing to Charlie’s cisco. Younger son Aaron does web contacts with the Off-Campus Hous- design in NYC. Daughter Ester, ing Authority (where José also landed a pediatric oncologist, lives in Louis- a student job). We shared those digs ville with her husband and daughter. until my ‘early release’ with the Class There you have it. Some class- of ’74, yet the bonds formed with José mates still working, while others are continued, indeed grew stronger, in the Garrett Johnson ’74 was recently in Washington, D.C., on business and moving into retirement. Just keeping years and decades to follow. connected with classmates. Left to right: Sylvester Conyers ’74, Johnson up with the kids and grandkids “José entered the business world and Ron Mason ’74. seems to dominate the time for upon leaving the Heights and, after

60 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews living initially in the D.C. area, old tuner-amplifier, the Technics Speaking of doctors, Patrick Ber- with this update about him and his returned to Ohio and soon after met SL-D20 turntable with the new gin sent this in: “I’m a cardiologist wife, Olivia Rowan: “We are doing Joe the love of his life and his soulmate, stereo speakers that I recently in Oregon (vide infra) since moving the ‘empty-nester’ thing. I saw Cellini Lisa Buoni, whom he married in purchased. I reached back to 1975 here in 1988. I graduated from (still with Apple) in San Jose 1978. They settled in Cincinnati and put on Jefferson Starship’s Red Dartmouth Medical School in 1980, in February a couple of times. Did (where José’s mom, sister Maribel and Octopus album and then sat down spent two years in the Indian Health get to a couple of Columbia basket- he had moved from Puerto Rico when at the typewriter (oops! I mean the Service working for the Navajo Tribe ball games. Loved the World Cup, he was 11). Lisa’s first career was in computer) to let all of you know in Shiprock, N.M., after finishing except for its location. Let me know nursing, but the allure of the law led about the latest updates. my internal medicine training, also if you are ever in Brooklyn. I’m in her to the University of Cincin- As always, leading off with a at Dartmouth. Thereafter, I spent lovely Windsor Terrace.” Rob Brager nati College of Law –– a move that Mika update from Syracuse: The two more years at Dartmouth doing LAW’99 checked inspired José to follow in her footsteps good news is that the little pup (now a cardiology fellowship, followed by in from the Washington, D.C., a year later. While Lisa combined her over a year old) actually recognized one year at the San Francisco Heart area, where he is at Beveridge & areas of expertise into a successful me and did not bark that much at Institute doing a then brand-new Diamond. In looking at the company practice as a risk management counsel me. I had a nice long weekend with thing called an ‘angioplasty fellow- website, it seems Rob has spent a Dennis Goodrich. to hospitals, José became a successful Linda and I was ship.’ On to Oregon thereafter, as my long legal career in many different trial attorney, ultimately plying those there to attend the wedding of Liz first wife kept thoroughbred horses types of law, with a lot of expertise in skills as assistant attorney general for and Fred Rosenstein ’78’s daughter, and we needed someplace rural. Or environmental issues. the State of Ohio. Lauren. To make the Columbia something like that. :) Rob is the type of classmate who “José proudly maintained his weekend complete, I stayed at Chez “Thereafter, two kids: Mike and makes this task so rewarding. He connections to Columbia, for many Goodrich for three nights and Tess. Mike recently graduated from took the time to check in and make years interviewing Cincinnati-area enjoyed the July weather, good food UCLA Law School and Tess gradu- sure that my life as a single was going candidates for the College, and by his and a lot of memories, as always. ated with a B.A. from the University well. With three kids in their 20s and participation in alumni events, most One classmate actually asked of Oregon and is now a full-time a granddaughter, I am pretty busy ... notably his monthly attendance at for an update on me! I am now in musician. In the in-between times, even alone. I appreciate all the well Alumni Chapter lunch meetings, at my 30th year in the same condo in I started a medical device company, wishes and kind thoughts that the which Ed DeGregorio ’74 was also a Hoboken. When I moved here with Innovasa, and became a franchi- great Class of 1976 has sent along. regular. José also followed Columbia my wife (at the time, eight and a see of Five Guys Burgers and Another single-flying ’76er is Michael Imperiale sports with a passion, no doubt owing half months pregnant with our first Fries, bringing to the community GSAS’81: “I am to his years as a member of the light- son) into a fourth-floor walkup, increased cardiovascular risk, which a solo (from divorce) empty-nester weight crew. He would later yield his we were across the street from the I now assiduously stamp out. It’s a with three kids. All the kids are oars in favor of cycling and become an Maxwell House factory and the cof- long story, obviously. doing well: My son is an accountant accomplished ‘century’ rider and avid fee smell on a humid day was great! “BTW, I saw Beautiful: The Carole in Florida with three little ones of follower of the Tour de France. Now, I am right across the street King Musical in February when I was his own, my older daughter teaches “Among the many interests that from the million-dollar condos of in NYC for a cardiology thing. Also high school biology here in Ann José and I shared were professional Maxwell Place. The kids are all on saw Book of Mormon, for the second Arbor and is expecting her first child tennis and the March Madness of their own –– my daughter (CC’13) time. Caught Hamilton during August next month and my younger daugh- college hoops. This past March, I in Manhattan and the two sons the prior year. Love Broadway!” ter is a registered dietician working uncharacteristically didn’t hear from (a Scarlet Knight and an Oregon Speaking of loving Broadway, the at a hospital in a Detroit suburb. him, so I reached out during the Duck) in Jersey City Heights. The Class of 1976 has an alumnus who “Professionally, I’ve been on the Final Four weekend. He informed granddaughter is 3 and often is a has a long history of doing just that faculty at the University of Michigan me that he had been diagnosed with companion of mine on walks, at and plenty more! Michael Musto for almost 34 years. Last summer late-stage pancreatic cancer. Discor- movies, baking cookies and so forth. contributes the following: “I cur- I took on an administrative role as dant as a word could be, the ‘bless- The most significant life change for rently write a weekly entertainment associate VP for research. For a little ing’ for José was that he declined me in the last year was the diagnosis related column for NewNowNext. more than a decade, I’ve been quite faster than his racing bike could take of Celiac Disease, which resulted in com, which is MTV/Logo’s LGBT involved in science policy discussions him, passing away but days later. my changing to a gluten-free diet. site, and I still do pieces for the Vil- at the national level, mainly dealing For Lisa, their families and friends I still do a lot of baking, but now lage Voice after all these years. (The with biosafety and biosecurity. All in –– including his Columbia friends require all new recipes with grain- Voice is website-only now.) But I’ve all, it’s been a great ride. too many to name –– José’s passing free flour. also returned to performing. (As a “In the ‘small world’ category, marked the loss of a gentleman Some great news for Celiac student, I was in plays on campus, as a couple of months ago I was at a about whom never an ill word was alumni is that V&T has gluten-free well as in Barnard’s Gilbert and Sul- small conference in Italy, and one uttered and toward others never an pizza, so I will continue to eat there livan Society productions.) Recently, of the other attendees turned out to Marc Goodman, ill word did he utter. RIP, brother.” post-Columbia athletics events, and I was a guest star at Feinstein’s/54 be who is a bio- plenty of times more. I have been Below for Countess Luann de Les- statistician at Cedars-Sinai Medical eating at V&T since 1965, when my seps from The Real Housewives of Center/UCLA. We didn’t know each 1976 eldest brother entered Columbia. I New York. I’m also doing duet shows other at Columbia but it was great even offered more than 50 years of at Alan Cumming’s East Village reminiscing about our time there.” Ken Howitt continuous meals at V&T as proof Club, Club Cumming, which benefit So now we get to the 10 Carman 1114 Hudson St., Apt. 8 Michael Shaff to my gastroenterologist that it was various charities. And I am one of crew. checked in from Hoboken, N.J. 07030 impossible for me to have Celiac, the co-hosts of Theater Talk, the Irvine, Calif., where he practices law [email protected] but all the tests proved the doctor long-running TV show on CUNY and specializes in all aspects of fed- right. I feel a lot better in general TV about theatrical happenings.” eral income taxation. In an exchange To get in the writing mood about with the new diet, which includes Another New Yorker, John of emails, I mentioned that I was the Class of ’76, I cranked up the V&T’s terrific steamed broccoli. Mason, checked in from Brooklyn looking forward to the World Cup

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final (unfortunately Croatia lost), and Hope to see a lot of you at Home- Robert Anthony, from New York Lenfest Center for the Arts were Mike responded (in true 10 Carman coming on Saturday, October 20, comments, “Kudos to you, Matt, both breathtaking. At Lori E. Gold Michael Giniger fashion), “The only way that I would when we will beat Dartmouth! Jon Freedman and the others who BC’78’s request, be watching the World Cup final is So, the Starship’s Red Octopus made the 40th reunion events so and I dropped in on the Barnard ’78 if I were paid my normal billing rate album just finished with “Whatever enjoyable. It was good to see Judge dinner just in time to see the video at to do so. Depending on when it’s on, I do, there will be love in it!” That’s a Joe Greenaway –– whom I see the end. It was a riot. I expect to be watching the Red Sox- fitting tag line for the Bicentennial regularly –– and reconnect with “For Saturday morning’s breakfast Blue Jays game instead.” Class of 1976. For me, it is always Kevin Powell, whom I haven’t seen I sat next to a Class of ’63 alum who Michael had this tragic news: a pleasure! Keep bringing me the since we were at Brooklyn’s William was at a big table all by himself. He “Sadly, I attended the funeral of my news. My motto is, “All the news McKinley J.H.S. I especially enjoyed regaled me with fascinating tales of freshman roommate on 10 Carman, that fits, I’ll print!” the site of the dinner –– in the his grandfather’s work with John D. Joseph Markowitz, in January. After Butler Library main reading room Rockefeller, United States Treasury numerous chemotherapy treatments, across from the circulation desk Secretaries past and Austrian nobil- Joe succumbed to cancer. I can attest 1977 –– where I spent most of my four ity –– exactly what I would have that he faced death with courage and years at Columbia in a work-study imagined from an older alumnus. David Gorman aplomb. He called me at the office job. I still continue to review gadgets Paul Auster ’69, GSAS’70s readings 111 Regal Dr. about 10 days before he died just and gizmos for various publications from 4321 made me determined to DeKalb, IL 60115 to say goodbye. His well-attended via my company, Stadium Circle grab it off my reading table and start [email protected] funeral was a small testament to his Features, which is named after my plowing through it. He movingly character and the genuine affection he old sports column for the Columbia evoked the time surrounding the late engendered. He left behind his wife Greetings, Class of ’77! While I have Daily Spectator. ’60s demonstrations –– one of my of about 28 years, Fran Black, and no news to share in this issue, I hope “The campus grounds and build- strongest reasons for coming to CU. twins, Cara and Ian, who recently had that you all had a great summer and ings are in much better shape than “Professor David Helfand’s graduated from college.” that you are enjoying the fall. Please they were in the ’70s and ’80s. I lecture on the age of the universe, The last bit of 10 Carman news is take a moment to send a note to like the quality of the Wi-Fi across intelligent life outside of the earth, that my sophomore-year roommate, either of the addresses at the top of campus –– even outdoors –– and radioactive half-lives and a host Dave Reed, came to New York the column –– your classmates want free to all.” of other topics was scintillating. from Chicago, where he recently to hear from you! From Marvin Siegfried: “I was Coincidentally, a few minutes after I Mike Giniger retired from a long law career. Natu- glad to see that 309 Havemeyer Hall was telling about my rally, Dave still looks like he just got looked exactly the same.” geology professor Walter Alvarez’s off the golf course –– tan, trim and 1978 So funny to me (your humble theory on the asteroid that killed energetic. He and his family went scribe, Matthew Nemerson) that off the dinosaurs, it was being Matthew Nemerson to Shinnecock Hills Golf Club to Marvin mentioned this, because echoed back to me in this lecture. 35 Huntington St. watch a round of the U.S. Open. He I snuck into 309, too, and it’s still The class dinner on Saturday was New Haven, CT 06511 came in a day early so that we could one of the great rooms in the whole wonderful (even the food). I caught [email protected] Robert Anthony, catch up in person, since the last world. Suddenly I was back in Shen- up with whom I time we did so was maybe 20 years ton’s Civil War class! also knew from William McKinley Joel Levin- ago. We toured the Columbia cam- From the opening events around Marvin continues, “I enjoyed see- J.H.S. in Brooklyn, and son Tom pus and went to see the Manhattan- town (which I missed) to the final ing Andy Benesch at the reunion, from John Dewey H.S. Mariam ville campus construction. Then we dinner (which I also missed), I along with Joel Levinson and moderated a panel where had a nice Italian meal at Pisticci on heard from dozens of classmates Richard Schloss. Tim Weiner and Don Guttenplan Dan La Salle Street near Columbia. throughout Reunion 2018 that they Russ Frazer said it was great presented their thoughts on the Baker introduced me to that great were having a great time, both back to see old friends and the new Trump administration and many place at a lunch a few years ago. at Columbia and in their own lives tennis courts. other things ( Judith Miller!). and families. Ted Faraone noted that he saw “The Manhattanville campus is Congrats to everyone who a lot of folks, including an ex-room- spectacular! It was all lots of fun.” Matthew Nemerson organized the 40th’s events and to mate. “I went to the dinner with Lesa I ( ) spent Columbia itself, which seems to Rader. Saw Iris Greenberger BC’78 a lovely Friday night hanging out John Flores have its act together more consis- for the first time in almost 40 years. with on the balcony tently these days than most of us can Had a wonderful time chatting with of Faculty House overlooking a remember. That said, I do suggest Rob Aldisert’s lovely and charming very together-looking Harlem retiring Low Library as a major daughter. For next reunion, please and where we had spent many an Submit event venue –– beautiful, historic ensure that sound systems work and evening as undergrads looking out at and the very definition of our school, that dinners are not held in libraries a very different northern Manhat- Your you bet, but impossible to hear, pre- with tables so huge that no one can tan in the ’70s. Says John, “It was sentation technology from the 1990s talk to anyone except the next person. great catching up with classmates. Photo and no AC? Let’s get real, guys… We had an excellent panel. Few of us The Manhattanville tour was very Gary Pickholz: CCT welcomes Class Notes We open with “I could hear it.” interesting but can someone explain photos that feature at missed the reunion, but had a great From Kevin Powell: “I checked how West 126th, 127th and 128th least two College alumni. excuse: We just had a newborn son. into my spartan room in Wallace disappeared? I always make a stop at Not grandson. Son. My seventh, my Hall wondering if a true Spartan, the bookstore, but now to buy stuff Click “Contact Us” at wife’s first. The Lord has a bizarre Leonidas maybe, wouldn’t have found for my grandson.” David Margules: college.columbia.edu/cct. sense of humor and irony. Must be it luxurious. The Manhattanville cam- From “What all that omnipotence. In short, life pus was astounding. The Jerome L. impressed me most was that Tom’s is marvelous.” Greene Science Center and the diner still makes the best grilled

62 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews cheese sandwiches. I enjoyed the directing debut with The Odd Couple reorientation in my remaining time at during my Columbia years. He was reunion and reconnected with many and made a documentary in Ireland the College. the presiding genius who affirmed people who were important to me so during the summer. We planned “As anyone attending the College my own vocational commitment long ago. I missed seeing quite a few to use the occasion as an excuse to at that time would recall, students and enabled me somehow, through who couldn’t make it. visit the Emerald Isle as well, having would often camp out at the Regis- all the unpredictable byways of “I am still practicing law in already journeyed to London and trar the day before registration, just experience, to remain an integral Delaware, where I head the Chan- Wales earlier this year. Looking to secure a spot in Professor Gray’s part of the Columbia community. cery Court practice for Ballard forward to seeing everyone in 2019 course. Since I was making my Professor Gray showed me to what Spahr. I’m still married to Michelle at our 40th reunion!” decision in the spring of my junior extent a life of imagination could be Seltzer Margules BC’77. I still have The Spring issue’s CC’79 Class year, after registration had concluded, thoroughly enchanting — the magi- four sons. Andy, who is married, is Notes inspired John Pagano to Professor Gray’s coveted section cal spell he cast has remained potent completing a urology fellowship in write. He reflects on the “Columbia was already filled, but he made an and energizing to this day.” Charleston, S.C. Elliot is a public College course and teacher that exception to add me to his roster. Geoff Newman GSAS’82 defender in New York (in large part proved profoundly transformative, While engagement with founda- continues in his role as the business a result of the malign influence of reorienting me in my junior year tional literary works confirmed my and customer focal point for the Josh Dratel). Sam is a chef, and from pre-med to English major and sense that teaching literature was Asia-Pacific region for UTC Aero- Will is a junior at Hunter.” directing me along a path that has the most gratifying ideal to which I space Systems. In addition, he is a From Dean Margolis: “I have kept me at Columbia University my could aspire, it was Wallace Gray’s director and member of the board been named president of POPiN, entire adult life, first in my capacity inexhaustible passion, commit- of the Silicon Sensing U.K.-Japan which provides a gym workout on as an instructor at General Studies, ment, empathy and mentorship Joint Venture for MEMS (micro demand. Our mobile app allows then in the summer high school that encouraged me every step of electronic mechanical systems). He gym-goers to attend a variety of program, then as a lecturer in Bar- the way and propelled me toward is based in Connecticut, and travels fitness facilities with zero commit- nard’s English Department, where success. His personal investment in frequently to Japan, Korea and the ment; users access a gym without a I have been for the last 30 years (I his students was legendary, on display United Kingdom. membership and pay per minute for also taught in the Barnard HEOP with all who moved within his Robert C. Klapper: This Colum- only the time they use.” Program for 15 years, and I chair compelling sphere, and in his decades bia memory comes from riding in the the Humanities Department at the at Columbia he helped countless elevator in my hospital, Cedars- Manhattan School of Music, where young men assess their intellectual Sinai’s new, $800 million building. 1979 I have taught for 25 years). potential and refine their imaginative The elevator requires you identify “Clearly, to propel me in such a impulses. At a time when my sudden yourself before being allowed to press REUNION 2019 direction, the teaching and guidance redirection struck virtually everyone any buttons. Thank you, Steve Jobs. MAY 30–JUNE 1 of Professor Wallace Gray qualifies around me (including Dean Henry Other than feeling like Fred Events and Programs Contact as the most inspiring intellectual Coleman ’46, who advised rest from Flintstone yet again in 2018, the [email protected] experience of my college years. I the grueling pre-med curriculum Columbia memory was struck Development Contact enjoyed what you had to say about to reconsider my decision) as prob- because of the access to one floor [email protected] Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig, who lematic –– if not downright crazy and not to another –– meaning, I was a good friend as well, along with –– Professor Gray’s confidence and had to leave the elevator and literally Robert Klapper so many others: Professor Joseph encouragement were inspiring. walk up a flight of stairs to the cor- 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 Bauke GSAS’63, Carl Hovde ’50, “The friendship we developed rect floor. I’m still short of breath! Los Angeles, CA 90048 Edward Tayler and Michael Wood, radiated outward to include my To the elevator, my ID badge [email protected] to name a few. then-girlfriend, Susan, now my meant that I was from Mongolia “Seeing Joe Ferullo’s name also wife, as well as my best friend from –– not that there’s anything wrong A shocking reminder from Harlan prompted some recollection, since I college, Richard Milford, Susan’s with Mongolia, it probably looks a Greenman LAW’82: “Can you can recall many an afternoon spent first cousin, now an accomplished lot like New Haven (it’s just a joke; believe we are staring at our 40th in the Commuter Lounge with orthopedic surgeon. We would calm down, all of you who live near reunion next year?!” my fellow Columbians, especially regularly join Professor Gray for the best pizza in America, Sally’s Harlan also updates us with Richard Milford. conversations in his office or walking and Pepe’s). professional news from last year: “In any event, I felt compelled to around campus, receiving invaluable The Columbia flashback took “I was wooed to bring my team to articulate my own recollections of guidance during these formative me back to a moment during our the New York office of Greenspoon the teacher who shaped my intel- years. The ease with which he could freshman year, riding in the eleva- Marder, a law firm with Florida lectual experience and my life more transition between roles as teacher, tor with half of the football team, origins and currently with a footprint profoundly than any other during pre-med advisor, mentor and friend the testosterone filling the car to in a dozen states. It is extremely my time at Columbia College … was remarkable to witness, and to the point where the cables were energizing and exciting to oversee “I recall those initial moments of this day, when Rich joins Susan and screeching. In the corner was a tiny the expansion of the New York unsettling doubt when I realized, con- me at family gatherings, we still Don Knotts classmate from Andy Real Estate Practice Group! current with the completion of pre- weave a web of collaborative recol- Griffith’s Mayberry (I won’t reveal “On the non-professional side, med requirements in my junior year, lection in praise of Professor Gray. his name, as he probably has a black older daughter Cathy ’12 contin- that I wanted to shift my educational “Professor Gray embodied all belt in karate at this point), who ues to excel as a ‘dev’ (software path in a radical way by becoming an that was most admirable about had pressed the button to go to the developer) in Silicon Valley and her English major. The renowned Core Columbia’s brand of higher second floor. The mob of Neander- sister, Beth, is emerging as both a Curriculum initiated this directional education, especially his passionate thals in uniforms were about to take radio and television personality and change, particularly Lit Hum, and the commitment to his students and him apart physically for having the a playwright/director/dramaturg in relationship I developed with Profes- his abiding love of literature. I am audacity to press the button to only Athens, Ohio, where she finished sor Gray enabled me to successfully deeply grateful for his intellectual go up one floor, when all of a sudden her sophomore year. Beth made her navigate the challenges of vocational illumination and genuine friendship the truest voice of reason that those

Fall 2018 CCT 63 Class Notes of us living in that concrete mauso- they do not talk about stopping work changed his name from Ginsberg “Some earn retirement; others have leum on 114th Street called Carman completely, but rather plan to do more upon leaving the Air Force after retirement thrust upon them. Last had ever met (Doc Deming) inter- interesting things such as teaching WWII, and was an attorney and poet. summer my wife got a dream job, vened on behalf of the pocket-pro- or consulting. As Mark is a professor His father did frequent readings with with Disneyland, but it meant tear- tected, belt-above-his-belly-button, (at Pepperdine, teaching manage- Allen Ginsberg and also acted as Jack ing me away from my native New organic chemistry major. ment and organizations), what would Kerouac ’44’s personal lawyer in the York, where I have all my contacts, What Doc did in this moment of he do after retirement? He loves his 1950s and 1960s. His obituary is at friends and a four-decade career in mob madness has stayed with me all job, does it extremely well (last year nyti.ms/2O1BID0. musical theater. Lyricist, composer, these years. His skill at using words he was honored with the Global I went back and forth with librettist, musical director, improvi- always impressed me because from Training and Development Leader- Lyle trying to connect the dots on sor, teacher, accompanist, coach: I his lips, they were mightier than the ship Award by the World Human classes and professors (no success), guess this serves as a requiem for sword. Thank God, there he was Resources Congress in Mumbai and but was more successful on various a calling. I wrote about a dozen –– at the other end of the elevator, was named one of the world’s Top classmates. Lyle would like to reach musicals that regaled New Yorkers trapped in the land of giants as we 100 HR Influencers by Engagedly). out to his buddies at the CTV in Off- and Off-Off-Broadway ascended from the lobby. At the Thus, no plans to retire or even slow (Christopher Wilcock ’80, Caleb theaters, including our musical perfect moment when the rabid dogs down. Now, as to how he got to teach Solomon ’80, Steve Goldberg ’82, wedding (we now have a 6-year-old were about to tear this guy apart, at Pepperdine: After college Mark Fred Balzac ’80 and Lou Antonelli) daughter). I improvised with Robin Doc proclaimed, “Gentlemen, before moved to California immediately and and to Jay Marcus ’80 and Bob Williams (pre-Columbia) and Amy you criticize Barney Fife over here, completed an M.B.A. at Pepperdine, Spoer, whom he knew via campus Poehler and taught for Second City. instead of all of you exiting the eleva- followed by a Ph.D. at USC. It’s not politics. As with most alumni from I trained Broadway performers (star- tor on your chosen 10th floor, why all work for Mark, as he did mention the late 1970s, Lyle’s noticed the ring in Hello Dolly, Wicked, School of don’t you leave us on the ninth floor an upcoming trip to Las Vegas and many changes on Morningside Rock et al.) and accompanied singers and walk up a single flight of stairs?” the opportunity to participate in the Heights (i.e., losing Mama Joy’s and as basically similar as Lady Gaga He defused the situation instantly World Series of Poker. Green Tree). The grit is definitely and Vanessa Redgrave.” and elegantly, and I’ve never forgot- I also heard from Lyle Brooks, gone from the neighborhood. Noel, that’s been quite a run! I ten it. So on some level, I’m kind of providing us with his update for the Finally, I heard from Kenny for one will be looking forward to happy my artificial intelligence ride 21st century. Lyle majored in phi- Young, lead singer and driving hearing what you get up to next, so at my hospital the other day trig- losophy at Columbia, wrote articles influence behind the band Kenny keep us posted! gered a most pleasant flashback to for Spectator and was the news direc- Young and the Eggplants. He writes, Checking in just before my CCT that moment 43 years ago. tor at CTV. After college, he worked “Despite all good sense and logic, “drop-dead deadline” is our accom- God bless you, Doc Deming, for several years at Columbia in the my band released our sixth album plished and extraordinarily erudite wherever you are. Office of Alumni and Develop- (Plantastic Voyage) on Cheese Thing classmate Brian Erler (M.D., Roar, Lion, Roar! ment. During this time, he served in Records about a year ago. We had a M.B.A., Ph.D. –– your grandmother the University Senate representing great time promoting the album on a must be pretty cheesed you never employees. After working for CU U.K. tour that commenced in Edin- got a law degree!). Brian writes: “My 1980 he went to law school, followed by a burgh and concluded in London. daughter, Jacqueline ’22, has begun stint in a small but connected NYC Along the way, we were invited to the her Columbia journey, 40 years Michael C. Brown commercial and municipal litigation BBC Broadcasting House for a live after I began mine. When I told her London Terrace Towers boutique law firm. Since 1994, Lyle’s interview and performance on BBC that we had an Animal House toga 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F been a court attorney in the com- 6 Music. The tour was nonstop fun, party during our orientation, she New York, NY 10011 mercial division of the New York and we managed to complete it with- gave me a strange look and said that [email protected] State Supreme Court in Manhat- out creating an international crisis.” she didn’t know what I was talking tan. He’s also taught law at both If you want to learn more about about (are we really that old?). I hope everyone is cheering on the Hofstra and the New York Law Kenny and his music, please check out “I earned a Ph.D. in chemis- Lions football team this season. School. For the past 12 years, Lyle kennyyoungandtheeggplants.com. try at the University of Southern Send in your news for the Winter has devoted most of his free time Hope the class had a great sum- California in 1985 and an M.D. issue by writing to either of the to helping women suffering from mer, and I encourage members to at SUNY Downstate College of addresses at the top of this column hyperemesis gravidarum, a debilitat- drop me a line. Medicine in 1989. I completed my –– your classmates want to hear ing pregnancy-related disease that pathology residency at Cedars-Sinai from you! causes constant and uncontrollable in Los Angeles and a cytopathology vomiting and nausea, dehydration, 1982 fellowship at U.T. MD Anderson dramatic weight loss and malnutri- Cancer Center in Houston. I am 1981 tion, and potentially organ failure. He Andrew Weisman chair of pathology and president of also is a volunteer coordinator for the 81 S. Garfield St. the medical and dental staff at Jersey Kevin Fay Hyperemesis Education and Research Denver, CO 80209 Shore University Medical Center 8300 Private Ln. Foundation (helpher.org), and the [email protected] in Neptune City, N.J. I am also Annadale, VA 22003 director of Beyond Morning Sickness associate professor and vice chair of [email protected] (beyondmorningsickness.com). Greetings gents, still coming down pathology at the Hackensack Merid- For 32 years, Lyle’s been married to from last quarter’s high –– great ian School of Medicine at Seton A few columns ago, I reached out to Kerry Koutsouris BC’81, an electrical turnout! See how well things work Hall University in Nutley, N.J.” the Class of 1981 regarding retirement engineer with the NYC transit system. out when you collude? Real life les- Great news about Jacqueline plans (if any), which prompted an Lyle is the grandson of Louis Gins- son there, although not necessarily a getting into the College! I have to emphatic “heck, no” from Mark Allen. berg GSAS 1924 and the nephew of universal truth. think that it’s a positive sign that she Mark noted that when he encounters Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg Checking in first this quarter is doesn’t know about toga parties! folks our age talking about retirement, ’48. His father, Eugene Brooks, “triple threat” classmate Noel Katz: Keeps those notes coming!

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Michael Cataldo was co-captain in touch with Jon Ross and Doug paycheck. I haven’t bothered to 1983 during his senior year of Colum- Novins PS’87, a child psychologist. update my LinkedIn page or spread bia’s crew team. He was part of the Andy Barth, the Saturday night the information very much. I moved Roy Pomerantz United States National Rowing team keynote speaker and a University to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, last year.” Babyking/Petking Jon Ross: that claimed gold at the Henley trustee, has been married to Avery “After 33 years in Los 182-20 Liberty Ave. Regatta in England and gold in the for 30 years. She and their three Angeles, I am moving to New York Jamaica, NY 11412 Pan American Games in Caracas, daughters attended USC. Andy and City. There are myriad good reasons [email protected] Venezuela. He is still a competitive Avery also have a son, Andrew ’16. for the move at this time, but the main masters rower. Michael is CEO of Mike McCarthy’s son, Oliver, is a reason is that developers bought my Our 35th reunion was very well Massachusetts-based Convergent senior at Poly Prep in Brooklyn. Oli- building and are tearing it down to attended and a huge success. I had Dental, an equipment and technol- ver is a left-handed pitcher and has make way for expensive townhomes the pleasure of walking to the Friday ogy company and developer of the signed a Letter of Intent to attend (ah, the gentrification of Venice). Philip Dolin, night reception with world’s first computer-aided CO2 Duke. Blue Devils Head Coach Other reasons include my work for a prominent Manhattan-based dental laser system. Chris Pollard stated: “He’s a left- hurricane survivors in the Caribbean, producer-director-cinematographer. Also at the Friday night recep- handed pitcher who’s been up to 90 being closer to my mom and getting His bio on his Particle Productions tion were Keith Woo SEAS’83, a mph with a ton of heavy sink on his down to some serious fundraising to website states: “Philip has over 25 licensed real estate broker at Com- fastball.” He is listed as the number ramp up MicroAid projects.” Dan Schechter years of combined experience in pass; Angela Cheung SEAS’83, a 2 left-handed pitcher in New York GSAS’87, filmmaking, producing, advertising psychotherapist; and Kella Hui. It State by Perfect Game. Oliver was PS’91: “I was unfortunately in and marketing. As a producer he was great to catch up with my good 8–1 last season with a 1.05 ERA. Europe (as my update will explain) created short films, commercials and friend Ken Chin, who is a partner Dan Jochnowitz LAW’85 was during our reunion, but I have over 65 hip-hop music videos (for and chair of Kramer Levin’s banking selected as one of only two under- an update: After nearly 10 years renowned artists including Salt- and finance department. graduates from Columbia College for in Switzerland at the University n-Pepa, Kid n’ Play, MC Lyte and Nicholas Paone is a litigation the six-year B.A./J.D. program. He of Geneva Hospitals –– where I Monie Love). He received an MFA partner at White, Fleischner & was a Stone Scholar all three years was deputy chief of the child and in film from Columbia University Fino. His daughter Abigail attends at the Law School. Dan is an expe- adolescent psychiatry service, and and directed and produced a feature the Boston Conservatory and spe- rienced commercial transactions and where I remain on the University of film, B MOVIE that played at cializes in musical theater. IP specialist. He is a partner at the Geneva Faculty of Medicine –– I festivals in Europe and the United Dan Jaffe LAW’89 teaches Austin law firm Egan Nelson. His was appointed to the NYU School States. In the world of advertising in the Legal Writing, Leadership, kids are Ariel (16) and Avery (13). of Medicine faculty in January 2018. he was a VP, Senior Copywriter Experiential Learning, Advocacy Jay Lippman is managing I am the new Barakett Associate at Wunderman, one of the world’s and Professionalism program at Case director of Exiger, a leader in Professor of Child and Adolescent largest direct marketing agencies Western Reserve University School regulatory, anti-money laundering, Psychiatry and director of the Stress, where clients included AT&T, of Law. He previously practiced at anti-corruption, reputational and Trauma, and Resilience Treatment Microsoft, IBM and Citibank. He Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in the risk consulting. He lives in Milburn, Service there; and at NYU Langone has a B.A. in history from Columbia fields of educational law and labor N.J., with his wife and two kids: Health, I am also medical director of College, Columbia University and law. He is married and has two kids. son Ben graduated from University perinatal and early childhood mental spent two years in South America David Coplan SEAS’84 earned of Michigan and daughter Sarah health services. As my family is still as a Fulbright Scholar. Philip is a bachelor degrees in liberal arts and graduated from Penn State. in Geneva for now, we have long producer on the feature documen- in industrial engineering. He is an Miro Lovric was the place kicker commutes. Congratulations to my tary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries amateur bicycle racer. on the football team. He works in friends and classmates of CC’83 on and Mentors of Ricky Jay, which pre- Rob Dell Angelo PS’87 attended the U.S. Attorney’s office. the occasion of our 35th reunion!” Wayne Allyn Root: miered at the 50th New York Film the Saturday dinner. He is married Gerrard Bushell GSAS’04 “Humanix Festival and was distributed to over with three kids. Rob is a partner is the president and CEO of the Books announced it has signed 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada. with Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Dormitory Authority of the State nationally syndicated radio host and Entertainment Weekly put Deceptive Angeles. His practice includes all of New York, one of the nation’s author Wayne Allyn Root for a new Practice on its list of the top 10 films major commercial litigation with an leading issuers of tax exempt bonds book on Donald Trump’s business of 2013. Philip recently earned his emphasis on defending companies and a major financier of capital for and political success. ‘President black belt in shito-ryu karate and in security matters and disputes over New York State’s infrastructure. He Trump has achieved awe-inspiring now trains in krav maga.” corporate control. Prior to attending earned a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in success in business, entrepreneur- Stephen Holtje is the label UCLA (Order of the Coif, editor of political science from Columbia. ship, branding, PR, publishing, manager at ESP-Disk’, content UCLA Law Review), Rob obtained Marty Shore works for the U.S. television and now, of course, editor of CultureCatch.com and an M.D. government in Washington, D.C. politics,’ Root said. ‘I’ve studied freelance development editor for Martin Ottomanelli is a regional George Bogdan: “I attended Donald Trump’s life for decades Oxford University Press. ESP-Disk’ credit officer in the middle market some events, just not any dinners. (since I graduated [from] Columbia was founded by Bernard Stollman commercial banking division of I checked out new buildings in University and started my business ’51, LAW’54. Huntington Bank. Manhattanville and the relatively career in 1983) and owe much of Jonathan Green has been senior Gardner Semett BUS’91 lives new Northwest Building attached to my own success to the remarkable counsel for the City of Chicago for in the New Jersey house in which he Pupin. Attended a few lectures on lessons learned from this man.’” 14 years. Jonathan was a Democratic grew up. He and his wife, Daphne, Friday and Saturday. I have been a My wife, Dr. Deborah Ghar, and Eddy Friedfeld candidate for the Cook County have two kids, Victor (26) and senior attorney in the banking divi- I attended ’s July 24 Circuit Court in Illinois; he came in Gabriella (25). Gardner is the execu- sion of the New York State Depart- NYU Tisch School class, “Comedy second place and was defeated in the tive VP of BankUnited in NYC and ment of Financial Services since July Auteurs, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, primary election on March 20. He has an M.B.A. His favorite professor 2015. Bank regulation is not very Billy Wilder and Jerry Lewis.” received 25 percent of the vote. was Kenneth Jackson. Gardner is exciting stuff, but I need a steady Eddy was, as usual, brilliant. Other

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Alumni Sons and Daughters Seventy members of the Columbia College Class of 2022 and seven members of the Columbia Engineering Class of 2022 are sons or daughters of College alumni. This list is alphabetical by the parent(s)’ last name.

STUDENT PARENT STUDENT PARENT STUDENT PARENT

Christine Anagnos George Anagnos ’80 Samuel Freilich Jonathan Freilich ’87 Evan Lim Kee-Hak Lim ’82 Haworth, N.J. New York City Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Samuel Angell Jim Angell ’83 Gregory Ginsburg Carl Ginsburg ’77 Aaron Liss Kevin Liss ’84 Englewood, Colo. Bronx, N.Y. Silver Spring, Md.

Julia Angkeow Piamsook Angkeow ’90 Emma Lia Godshall Craig Godshall ’80 Simone Liu Joseph Tiang-Yau Liu ’87 Bel Air, Md. Philadelphia Alexandria, Va.

Lauren Apollaro Anthony Apollaro Jr. ’93 Samantha Greenberg Jonathan Greenberg ’71 ° Warren Ma Eric Ma ’89 Flower Mound, Texas and Penny S. Apollaro ’93 Winter Park, Fla. Bangkok

Nareg Balian Nairi Balian ’88 Kent Hall * Scott Hall ’90 Kaleigh McCormick Paul McCormick ’78 Chevy Chase, Md. Califon, N.J. Rockleigh, N.J.

Benjamin Barth Jay Barth ’85 Elizabeth Jackson Christopher Jackson ’81 Matthew Molinelli * Bruce Molinelli ’84 Teaneck, N.J. East Brunswick, N.J. Greenwich, Conn.

Chloe Brown Stephen Brown ’82 Lucas Jerez * Victor Jerez ’87 Kate Johnson Mark Nelson ’81 Hollywood, Fla. Barcelona Saint Helena, Calif.

Sean Burke William Burke ’92 Christopher Kang * Ilwon Kang ’84 Samantha Sacks Robin Newberger ’87 Hackensack, N.J. New Providence, N.J. Chicago

John Chapman Michael Chapman ’84 Lauren Kang Ilwon Kang ’84 Emma Nisonson Evan Nisonson ’84 Atlanta New Providence, N.J. Carmel, Ind.

Emma Lee Esther Chung ’87 Ashley Kim Paul Kim ’87 Isabelle Pierce Clay Pierce ’90 Swarthmore, Pa. Manhasset, N.Y. Katonah, N.Y.

Elan Cooper Pace Cooper ’85 Margot Kleinman Howard Kleinman ’84 Eilam Lehrman Marya Pollack ’87 Memphis New York City New York City

Julia Cosgrove Ben Cosgrove ’90 Jeremy Krisberg Brian Krisberg ’81 Isaac Pope Joseph Pope ’72 ° Los Angeles New York City New York City

Lucas Cremers Sandra Cremers ’91 JiHoon Ko Yu Jin Ko ’83 Sarah Powless Wayne Powless ’91 Potomac, Md. Lexington, Mass. Darien, Conn.

Kate Della Pietra Christopher Della Pietra ’89 Hudson Kussie Paul Kussie ’81 Grace Prochilo Mark Prochilo ’86 Wyckoff, N.J. and Annmarie Giarratano New York City Wilson, Wy. Della Pietra ’91 Nikhil Lahiri Devraj Lahiri ’93 Samuel Raab * Eric Raab ’82 Tatianna Dugue Gabriel Dugue ’82 Somerset, N.J. East Brunswick, N.J. New Hyde Park, N.Y. Bridgette Lee Robert Lee ’84 Hart Rapaport Richard Rapaport ’69 Jared Edwards * Scott Edwards ’87 Hackensack, N.J. New York City Westport, Conn. Matthew Leone Nicholas Leone ’88 Abigail Richmond Sarah Richmond ’88 Jackson England Derek England ’94 Westport, Conn. Newton, Mass. Paramus, N.J. Morgan Levine Daniel Levine ’91 Herbert Rimerman Claudia Rimerman ’88 Jacqueline Erler Brian Erler ’82 Houston Stamford, Conn. Freehold, N.J. Payton Geller Jennifer Levine ’91 Isaac Rosenblum-Sellers Marc Rosenblum ’91 Benjamin Sherwin Joshua Feldman ’87 New York City Washington, D.C. and Catherine Sellers ’91 Montclair, N.J. Payton Lill James Lill ’96 Charlotte Rothschild Andrew Rothschild ’92 Maximilian Fraenkel-Thonet Anne Fraenkel- Webster, N.Y. New York City Mendham, N.J. Thonet ’87

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topics he covered in his summer had a wonderful dinner at Sympo- curriculum included silent films; sium on West 113th Street. vaudeville and radio; screwball and Philip’s son Paul ’18 graduated as romantic comedy; comedy teams; an urban studies major and is look- STUDENT PARENT the Golden Age of television and ing to pursue a career in law, despite early sitcom; comedy incubators, his father’s decision to do the same. Quentin Rubel David Rubel ’83 Catskills, Chitlin Circuit and early “I am a shareholder at Buchanan, Chatham, N.Y. standup comedy; standup comedy Ingersoll & Rooney and head of its and blockbuster comedies; sitcoms; New York office. I am a trial lawyer Maya Rubin Michael Rubin ’87 and political comedy. Eddy also had primarily litigating patent and com- Newton, Mass. a recent appearance on Fox News. plex intellectual property disputes,” Lucia Crerend Teresa Saputo-Crerend ’87 Basketball player Lukas Meisner writes Philip. Mount Kisco, N.Y. ’19 signed a pro contract in Germany Bill’s son Noah ’18 is in medical and will forgo his senior year. He is school at Washington University in Matthew Schechter William Schechter ’76 the third player from the 2018–19 St. Louis. As they were traveling in Irvington, N.Y. team to leave the program in the Europe, Bill and his wife, Nancy Basri last few months. Jason Faulds ’21 ’87, ran into her cousin Jon Rutchik Catherine Schmidtberger * Michael (University of Michigan) and Myles ’86 on the same flight to Copenha- New York City Schmidtberger ’82 Hanson ’21 (Xavier) are transferring gen. It’s a small Columbia world. to other schools. With the loss of Dennis Klainberg and his wife, Khyber Sen Amar Sen ’90 and these three big men, Randy Brumant Dana Klainberg TC’89, are happy Brooklyn, N.Y. Erhmei Yuan ’90 ’21 (6'7"), Ike Nweke ’22 (6'7") and to celebrate the graduation of their Beatrice Shlansky David Shlansky ’90 Patrick Tape ’20 (6'11") will get third child, Sydney Klainberg, from Ferrisburgh, Vt. major playing time. SUNY Geneseo! Sydney achieved I attended the 2018 annual magna cum laude honors in psychol- Julia Silbert Richard Silbert ’81 Columbia/Barnard Hillel Seixas ogy and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. Weston, Conn. Award Dinner. Jim McMenamin path in that field, pursuant to a few was one of the honorees. Jim has year in research. Jeffrey Torborg Greg Torborg ’90 been working at Columbia since Shameless dad here: If any of you Manhasset, N.Y. 1981, when he became Colum- know of psych research opportuni- bia College’s dean of admissions. ties, don’t be shy! Lyla Trilling Lawrence Trilling ’88 Jim and his wife, Sirkka, are the Ahoy, Chase Welles! He writes, Los Angeles proud parents of Kira ’08; Kim ’10, “The Public Art Fund has commis- Kathryn Vaske John Vaske ’88 GSAS’18; and Karli ’14, SIPA’18. sioned noted artist Tauba Auerbach Norwalk, Conn. See you at Homecoming! to reimagine WWI ‘dazzle’ (a.k.a. marine camouflage) on the historic Shulamit Weinstein Matthew Weinstein ’95 1931 FDNY Fireboat John J. Bala Cynwyd, Pa. 1984 Harvey, in which I have been a partner since we purchased the boat Emma Weise Arthur Weise ’93 and REUNION 2019 in 1999. We offered free trips every Mount Kisco, N.Y. Kristina Nye ’93 MAY 30–JUNE 1 weekend through the summer. The Events and Programs Contact boat is spectacular.” Richard Weitzel Richard Weitzel Jr. ’77 [email protected] Adam Van Doren leaves no Youngstown, Ohio Development Contact stone unturned! He writes, “I have [email protected] Henry Williams Ann K. Williams ’89 been teaching at Yale College for Pleasantville, N.Y. seven years and recently have writ- Dennis Klainberg ten a book, The Stones of Yale, which Berklay Cargo Worldwide Hannah Fenlon Dana Wu ’91 includes my paintings of 30 Yale 14 Bond St., Ste 233 Chappaqua, N.Y. campus buildings, with each paint- Great Neck, NY 11021 ing accompanied by an essay by me Christopher Yun Jaime Yun ’89 [email protected] about that building.” Manhasset, N.Y. Adam’s professor at Yale, Robert Roar, Lion, Roar to David God- A.M. Stern ’60 (the recently retired Three incoming Columbia College or fried, Philip Hirschhorn Columbia Engineering transfer students are and dean of Yale’s Architecture School) William Basri, sons or daughters of College alumni. fathers of recently wrote the foreword. minted Columbia College grads, Better call Ben Pushner! He Avery Kim ’21 Joachim Kim ’81 and participants in this year’s says, “Started a job with the Law New York City Alumni Parade of Classes! Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman David’s son Robert ’18 majored in downtown Boston (plaintiffs Harris Walker ’21 Jeffrey Walker ’83 in sociology and is working with the personal injury law). I welcome Brooklyn, N.Y. Center for Strategic and Interna- referrals, and if any classmates are tional Studies in Washington, D.C. passing through the area, I am Sophia White SEAS’20 ** Gregory White ’89 After Class Day, Robert’s suitemates happy to buy them lunch.” Port Washington, N.Y. and Vera S. White ’90 (from Russia, Texas, Minnesota and Michael Feldman resists retire- Turkey) and their respective families ment, remains productive! He writes, * member of the Engineering Class of 2022 ** Combined Plan Program (College and Engineering) Fall 2018 CCT 67 ° deceased Class Notes

“My wife, Alicia, gave birth to our Mazel tov, Jonathan Duitch! He son Ezra, as seen by half a million writes, “My daughter Merav gave people on my daughter’s YouTube birth to a beautiful girl, Libi Dror, in channel, bit.ly/2LEhnaf. I am April 2017.This made us grand- practicing business litigation with parents. Just call me Saba, or Saba the law firm of Cheffy Passidomo in sababa. And in March of this year, Naples, Fla.” my son Nadiv married his beloved Carlton Long, Dr. I presume! He Vicki. So good news all around!” writes, “I received this year my doc- On July 12, at Prentice Hospital tor of ministry degree, summa cum in Chicago, David Houston Cavicke laude, from the Morehouse School was born to Mr. and Mrs. David L. of Religion – Interdenominational Cavicke. We hope he will join the Left to right: Lee Ilan ’87, Sue Raffman ’87, Amy Asch ’89, Rebecca Turner ’87, Maya Hartheimer BC’88 and Laurie Gershon ’87 attended the Mostly Mozart Theological Center, in Atlanta. The Class of 2040. Festival production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass in July. program in practical theology and Longtime reader, first-time ethnography gave me a chance to contributor, Naju Patwa! He writes, return to my great loves: philoso- “My wife, Fehmida Chipty (Welles- phy, language, faith and the ‘social ley ’88), and I celebrated a triple relocated to Los Angeles, as my professional bureaucrat in the Penta- construction of race.’ graduation of our daughters from media consulting business has grown gon (in a variety of roles that have “I attended the John Jay Awards graduate school (Hopkins), college there. Both kids are doing great; my actually been extremely rewarding, Dinner in March as a guest of (Wellesley) and high school (third wife, Allison, is an attorney; and he says), he decided it was time for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti child going to Wellesley). All took daughter Liv started high school in live entertainment. The good news ’92, SIPA’93, who was being hon- the Columbia-Barnard tours but, Santa Monica. Happy to reconnect is that politics in Kabul, byzantine ored along with four other CC lead- alas, no one chose the father’s path. with Columbia friends in L.A.” as they may be, are calmer than Jack ers. It was delightful to see Roger My wife and I are both physicians at For the last three years politics in Washington these days. Schorsch Lehecka ’67, GSAS’74 and many Winchester Hospital in the wonder- has been living in Berlin Ken says he spends the majority of others who made my experience at ful town of Winchester, Mass. I’m and teaching Jewish studies at the his time in the presidential palace, Columbia, as student and instructor, the director of the sleep center and Universität Potsdam. “I am particularly which is quite safe, working with so deeply meaningful.” service chief for the pulmonary excited about the Jewish Activism the Afghan leadership to bring a “Papa don’t preach,” unless it’s department. I did my training IM/ Summer School that I founded and strategic approach to the seemingly Daniel Cohen ! Daniel was ordained pulmonary/ICU in the Bronx at that is running its second program endless war with the Taliban. The a reverend in the American Baptist Albert Einstein College of Medicine this year (jassberlin.org). My latest June 2018 ceasefire was a small ray Churches USA. He is a psychothera- at Montefiore and worked a transi- book is The Food Movement, Culture of hope –– the first time in 17 years pist in individual practice and with tional couple of years at Metropoli- and Religion: A Tale of Pigs, Christians, of conflict –– which everyone in the homeless. tan Hospital-New York Medical Jews and Politics. For play therapy I the political and military classes is Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it’s College. Due to the timing of school make collages (jonathanschorsch. trying to expand upon. Everyone P. Langham Gleason ! “As an adjunct events in our town of Winchester com). I report and opine on my blog, is sober about the possibilities for professor at Texas A&M University- coinciding with reunion, I wasn’t Another Jew Back in Berlin (https:// a quick peace, but since 22 of the Kingsville, my pharmacology co- able to make the trip, but am hoping jonathanschorsch.wordpress.com). 99 transnational terrorist groups investigators and I recently received a that in 2019 I will make it.” My partner, Gail Cohen BC’86, and recognized by the U.S. intelligence grant,” he writes. “We are studying the Yes! Hope to see you at our 35th I have five kids, ranging from 25 to community have a presence in the gut biome, obesity and neuropsycho- reunion next June! 15. It has been wonderful, miraculous Afghanistan-Pakistan theater, it’s logical problems in Hispanic children. and fascinating to raise them and learn hard to conceive of just packing Branching out from brain surgery from them.” up and leaving. Ken says he would (still, it’s not rocket science … ).” 1985 After graduating from Columbia, invite ’85ers to drop by for a visit, Joe Alt became a New York City but it’s too difficult to get visitors Jon White cop and worked 20 glorious years through the contingent of Georgian 16 South Ct. doing midnights in Central Park. (Tblisi, not Atlanta) troops who are Port Washington, NY 11050 He writes, “Upon retirement, my responsible for perimeter security at [email protected] wife, who is a public school teacher, the base: They are tough. convinced me that school would be Ken returned home for R&R in Lots of great updates –– thanks to all! a nice afterglow environment for August to help send his older son to Louis Warren earned the 2018 me. To her credit, I’ve been very law school at Washington University Bancroft Prize in history from alma happy working as a special ed teach- and his older daughter to law school mater for his acclaimed work, God’s ing assistant the last nine years in at Penn. Meanwhile, his younger son Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion a beautiful town in Suffolk County began senior year at the College of and the Making of Modern America. called Bellport. When I’m not spin- Charleston, and his younger daughter Louis is an American historian and ning yarns to teenagers, I’m often in began her freshman year at the Uni- a W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of town drinking coffee and watching versity of Delaware’s World Scholars Western U.S. History at UC Davis, the trees and birds.” Program in Madrid. Patient spouse Ken Handelman Left to right: Jon Orlin ’85, Dan Poliak where he teaches environmental SIPA’86 writes Lisa is holding down the fort in ’85 and Charles Butler ’85 on a recent history, the history of the American from Kabul, Afghanistan, where Bethesda, Md., where all are welcome; trip to Oregon. Poliak says, “Hard to West and United States history. he is spending a year as the U.S. no Georgian perimeter security. Jim Davidson believe we met more than 37 years From Seth Schachner BUS’90: government’s day-to-day emissary to is an entrepre- ago, in August 1981 on Carman 4. We “All is well with the Schachners. the Afghan national security advisor. neur, author and peace activist. He haven’t aged a day.” After a dozen years in Miami, we Ken observes that after 23 years as a forwarded me a terrific essay, “Dis-

68 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews rupting Television,” on the concept administration of the Columbia Gregory Jarrin reports from “By the time this is published, the of interactive television. One of the World Projects in May. CWP, a Arizona, where “we have had our year of mourning will be over for my featured concepts, FreedomTVNet- presidential initiative, aims to apply monsoon season with heavy rains father, Louis Rothman ’57 (of blessed works, is working fast to build its the large body of academic and for nearly all of July, causing some memory). It’s been a tough road in team, design its own cryptocurrency, research knowledge toward resolving flooding in Northern Arizona. This the last three years, losing first my implement new software and get its real-world issues. During the coming week, however, it’s going to dry up mother, Augusta Klieger Rothman television networks up and running. year, CWP and academic, private and and reach triple digits for the next (of blessed memory) and then my You can check it out on Twitter or at public sector partners will launch and three to four days in Winslow.” dad. As my second year of mourn- FreedomTVNetworks.com. implement projects tackling an array Gregory is the Indian Health Ser- ing closes, I’m catching glimpses Louis Kanganis BUS’87 and his of world issues such as food insecu- vice chief clinical consultant for sur- of the significance of these rites of wife, Peggie, relocated to Marin, Calif., rity and climate predictions, reducing gery, and ran the second annual IHS passage. As long as at least one parent last fall from New York. Peggie is a carbon footprint using clean forms Surgeons Conference in Flagstaff, was alive, I always knew a period of corporate VP at Williams Sonoma, of energy, and eliminating financial Ariz., last September. The conference mourning awaited, a Damocles sword focused on the Pottery Barn brand. “I inequalities. Projects will test and included lectures on breast cancer, hanging over me. I anticipate a kind formed a hybrid investment/operat- apply research findings and measure colorectal cancer and complications of of freedom, knowing the anticipation ing partnership in the food sector, so effectiveness, impact and replicability trauma and acute care surgery, as well of these losses is behind me, mixed most of my work is in Sonoma county around the globe. Tony is respon- as a hands-on workshop on retrograde with an evolving sadness at how and the Central Valley. Several coffee sible for all project administrative endovascular balloon obstruction of much of my life I won’t be able to companies (retail and wholesale) are and finance operations, developing the aorta (REBOA) –– new technol- share with my parents.” in the portfolio. Our most significant processes, procedures and policies. ogy in trauma resuscitation. entity is New Barn, which produces The new position also marks Tony’s Finally, Mark Rothman “writes the leading organic almond milk in the return to Columbia’s campus after a from an apartment in Jerusalem 1986 natural food channel. It’s the best and six-year absence. my family rented for the last three Ivan Sacks Everett Weinberger cleanest product on the market, and we LAW’92 completed weeks of July. It is Tisha B’av, a day of 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B are very proud of it. We have a full slate his fifth anniversary as the global mourning Jews have marked since the New York, NY 10023 of product diversifications coming over chairman of Withersworldwide, an destruction of the Temple in the first [email protected] the next year to build on that success. I innovative international law firm that century of the common era. My wife, recently parachuted in to New Barn as focuses on representing individuals Vicki, and I are here to see our sons Bennett Gordon its chief financial officer/chief informa- in their personal, business and phil- and enjoy Israel. The one who became and his wife, tion officer to help grow the company. anthropic endeavors. It has 17 offices an Israeli citizen several years ago Katie Jay, are proud to announce the “The family is doing great. My around the world and during Ivan’s served in the army and is now finish- addition of 3-year-old Haley Hui son works in operations at Vintus tenure as chairman has expanded ing his first year at Jerusalem Techni- Jay-Gordon to their family. They Wines, the 2017 Wine Enthusiast dramatically, especially along the cal College. The youngest is about to and their children –– Max (22), Jake Importer of the Year. My stepdaugh- Pacific, where it has added offices go into the army, and we will be here (20), Mira (7) and Eliana (5) –– are ter is a sophomore at Penn. Our in Singapore, Australia and Japan, to send him off. Our family will be thrilled with the new addition. little one is a junior in high school as well as four offices in California united once again when our third son, Family Day was March 5, in Hefei, –– top 50 nationally in chess in her in the last five years. Ivan remains a actually the middle, Eitan SEAS’17, Anhui Province, China, and Haley age bracket and an All-State athlete New Yorker when he is not traveling will join us late next week. came home to Hollywood, Fla., in track. We are very proud of all for his firm and clients, and said his “This evening we walked down on March 18, accompanied by her of them. And yes, we were all at experiences and studies at Columbia to the Western Wall, a retaining parents and sisters. She is adjusting the recent Penn-Columbia football in East Asian studies, history and wall that is the only remnant of the well to her new surroundings and is game where the Lions came out on law continue to play a rich part in Temple. Seeing the wall itself on this a joy, say her parents. top in overtime! Columbia is playing informing both his professional life night of millennial commemoration Bennett is a financial advisor for Penn in Philly this October, so we and personal values every day. was both a deep dive through a tour- Wells Fargo Advisors in Boca Raton Eric Chenoweth will probably fly back to see it.” has recently pub- ist magnet and a moving experience. and Katie is director of Florida Antonio Pagán SW’87 began lished The Alarming Story That Won’t “The trip comes at an auspicious operations and legal services for work as director of finance and Go Away in The American Interest. time. I left my job as the CEO of Adoption STAR. a domestic violence shelter at the Congrats, Bennett and Katie! end of June and will embark on Classmates, let’s see your news new endeavors. I’m developing a life here –– send me an update at coaching practice (marklifecoach. [email protected]! net) and writing a book based on my experience in men’s circles and through sponsoring others in 12-step 1987 recovery, and I’ll be forming a Sarah A. Kass partnership with a friend to finance PO Box 1006 the purchases of condominium New York, NY 10113 homeowner associations. I’m also [email protected] training for the TCS New York City Marathon to benefit Sharsheret, an organization helping women facing Many thanks to the incomparable Lee Ilan breast cancer, ovarian cancer and for bailing me out at the last BRCA-gene diagnoses by linking minute and for giving you some great Laurie Iota Epsilon Pi brothers (left to right) Martin Prince ’87, Ahmet Can ’88 and them with other women who’ve news to read. Lee writes that Richard Simonds ’87 met for dinner at Nusr’Et Steakhouse in New York City. Gershon experienced the same challenges. rounded up a few former

Fall 2018 CCT 69 Class Notes members of the Columbia Glee the last Supreme Court justice to Club — Lee, Rebecca Turner, Sue sit on the bench during our College Raffman, Richard Simonds, Maya years is retiring this year –– and one Hartheimer BC’88 and Amy Asch of our classmates is now serving on ’89 — in July to attend the Mostly the Court. That’s the difference three Mozart Festival production of Leon- decades can make. ard Bernstein’s Mass, which the Glee As for me, I was writing around Club had sung at Alice Tully Hall in the time of our last reunion about 1987. Lee says, “It brought back great the birth of my daughter, Esther. memories, and we all managed to She started kindergarten this fall, refrain from singing along.” which means I’m having trouble Lee also wrote: “I attended the figuring out where the last five years Clockwise from bottom left, Nick Leone ’88, Grace Leone, Matt Sodl ’88, memorial service for Evelyn Reid went, let alone the last 30. John Miller ’88 and Dave Putelo ’88 reconnected at their 30th reunion this past spring. BC’87, who inspired so many with The good news about the pass- her powerful singing voice and ing of 30 years is that our reunion her work to promote foster care –– well attended and much praised and adoptions. She was a longtime –– took place this year. As Matt New York offices,” Ahmet contin- some as the sixth borough), with my member of Farah Chandu’s Willow Sodl wrote, “I enjoyed seeing many ued. “I live in northern New Jersey husband, Roger Blumberg ’83, who Interfaith Women’s Choir, and Farah of our friends and classmates at our with my wife and two boys. The still pines for Morningside Heights, and others gave heartfelt remem- 30th reunion. Shared many laughs older is a freshman at Swarthmore and our daughter, Ellie (16). I would brances. I last saw Evelyn in late with Nick Leone, John Miller and and the younger is a junior at Mont- love it if classmates passing through January, when she came out to hear Dave Putelo over the course of clair H.S. who studied at McGill PVD on their college tours would Rebecca Turner and Sue Raffman the weekend. And how great was it this past summer. We have an IEP get in touch.” perform Rebecca’s original songs at many [more] of our class’ football Facebook page and were looking In April I attended Columbia Espresso 77 in Jackson Heights.” alums made the weekend’s festivi- forward to having a mini reunion College Women’s event at Casa Lee’s personal news is that she was ties: Mike “Grim” Kennelty, Tony this summer.” Italiana, featuring New York Times honored by the Brownfield Coali- Natola, Sean Wright, Rich Ritter Keep the updates coming! I look investigative reporter Jodi Kan- tion of the Northeast with its 2018 and Homer Hill.” forward to hearing from you. tor ’96, who broke the Harvey Outstanding Individual Achievement Prior to reunion, Ahmet Can Weinstein story, and Columbia Award, as she approaches 20 years of wrote, “I met up with my Iota Professor of Psychology Val- cleaning up brownfields for the City Epsilon Pi brothers Martin Prince 1989 erie Purdie-Greenaway ’93, who of New York. ’87 and Richard Simonds ’87 at Salt researches biases against women Way to go, Lee! Bae’s new New York restaurant, REUNION 2019 and minorities. It was fascinating to Have a great fall, everyone! Send Nusr-Et Steakhouse. Martin is MAY 30–JUNE 1 hear about the investigation from me your news for the Winter issue. senior manager at Deloitte and lives Events and Programs Contact Jodi interwoven with Professor in Connecticut with his wife and [email protected] Purdie-Greenaway’s psychologi- three daughters. Richard is a partner Development Contact cal context and insights. The event 1988 at Alston & Bird, a New York-based [email protected] was also a mini-CC’89 reunion, law firm. He lives in Westchester where I caught up with Kimberly Eric Fusfield with his wife and three sons; the Emily Miles Terry Sautelle Neuhaus, Julie Trelstad, 1945 South George Mason Dr. oldest is a sophomore at Haverford 45 Clarence St. Stephanie Falcone, Lisa Landau Arlington, VA 22204 and the other two are in high school. Brookline, MA 02446 Carnoy (who, after 25-plus years in [email protected] “I am the chief operating officer [email protected] banking, has joined AlixPartners as of Boomset, a startup in the event chief financial officer), Amy Rinzler One index of how much time has management sector, traveling back I heard from Cristina Mitchell, Weinreich and as many other passed since our graduation is that and forth between our Istanbul and who admitted to doing some women from our era. “unofficial” Columbia College Women mentoring. Christina has been on the clinical faculty at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University since she finished residency there in 2000 and, for the last couple of years, has been involved with a new program in which students spend most of their third year working with doctors in different specialties one day a week. Cristina writes, “For the last year, I got to work with Michelle Diop ’13 (CC’13 — gulp!), who is super smart and an all-around cool person. It has been great compar- Mike Kennelty ’88, Tony Natola ’88, John Miller ’88, Sean Wright ’88, ing our CC experiences –– we both Cristina Mitchell ’89 and Michelle Matt Sodl ’88, Dave Putelo ’88, Nick Leone ’88, Rich Ritter ’88 and had Deborah Mowshowitz for bio! Diop ’13 work together at Brown Homer Hill ’88 at a Columbia football gathering during Reunion 2018. I live in Providence (now known to University Medical School.

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At the CCW event there were Lubow Poston. CC’90 was literally several alumnae with their daugh- 1990 in the house! Julie Trelstad, ters, including a It was also in Montreal, in July, Rachel Cowan Jacobs book publishing strategist whose when 80 percent of East Campus [email protected] daughter, Elizabeth Trelstad ’16, 820 (Judy Shampanier, Laura started an exciting venture, Beaker, Frank, Robin Wald SEAS’90 and Warigia a company which, in plain English, Time for a check-in with I) road-tripped to celebrate our Bowman. “provides chemicals.” Elizabeth Rigia recently accepted 50th birthdays. Robin proved her majored in chemistry and says, “At a position as assistant law professor engineering skills remain sharp, Beaker we’re on a mission to bring at the University of Tulsa College managing to fit four suitcases in a scientific rigor and transparency to of Law, which is a top 50 private teeny hybrid’s trunk. Hitting almost the creative narrative of consumer research university. Her focus is every church and kosher restaurant packaged goods.” water law, natural resources law, and in the city, we proved that we are Michael Behringer had just administrative law and regulated in better shape now than we were about the best excuse for not industries. After almost 10 years as in the 1980s, averaging nine miles returning a phone call — he was in a professor at universities in Mis- of walking per day and very little Africa at Victoria Falls celebrating sissippi, Egypt and Arkansas, she’s alcohol! Flashback/no flashback, his birthday and his 15th wedding thrilled to be in Oklahoma because Laura had to skip some sightsee- anniversary with his wife, Nisha, it’s only one state away from her ing to work on a research paper for and their family. Michael writes, home state of New Mexico. Rigia’s school. No joke, folks. She’s actually “I was out of the country for most children are 12, 10 and 9, and they pretty close to done on her disserta- of June. If you are still collecting keep her busy, as one would expect. tion for her history Ph.D. from the 50th birthday celebrations for Rigia loves to garden and pickle and University of Maryland. She and Left to right: Robin Wald SEAS’90, Class Notes (I am at the very tail still wants to own a low rider, and her two college-aged children (one Laura Frank ’90, Rachel Cowan end of our year, December 22), is working on that goal, along with is a junior at Maryland, the other Jacobs ’90 and Judy Shampanier we celebrated my big birthday her goal of owning goats, cows and is a sophomore at Hunter College ’90 road-tripped to Montreal in July Margie to celebrate their 50th birthdays. with a three-week trip through sheep. She’s in touch with and a Macaulay Scholar) can all do Ramos, Mario Hurtado, Sally Southern Africa and the kids. homework together! Barnes Paul The in-laws joined, as well, for a (née Graham) and The night before our departure, Barnes, Eric Haxthausen portion of the trip. Nisha and I and Dan Sackrowitz and his wife, Martin Benjamin. honeymooned in Africa, so it was Rachel, came to Judy’s house for din- 1992 Eleni Demetriou Passalaris extra special to return to places ner. He’s preparing for our old age, Olivier Knox like Victoria Falls –– almost to attended a lecture at Princeton given working for a hearing aid company. [email protected] the date –– but this time with the in May by Columbia Professor Isaac-Daniel Astrachan is doing Jennifer Lee. whole family in tow.” [Editor’s note: See well, still at Stephen B. Jacobs, still Robert Carey Michael is getting our next “Lions,” this issue.] Not a coinci- cheering on son Aidhan in his soccer wrote in with a Jitendra Joshi (I-refuse-to-do-the-math) Reunion dence that was there endeavors. Because Isaac did such an professional update. “After 11 years Committee going now, so please write to hear Jennifer, too. Unfortunately, outstanding job remodeling Judy’s of running my own trade-journalism to tell me if you’re planning to attend, no photos were taken. first kitchen, he’s going to be design- and content-marketing firm, I’ve gone and mark your calendars for Thursday, Speaking of no photos, in May ing the kitchen in her present house. back to the corporate world as an May 30–Saturday, June 1, 2019. I attended a Columbia College Sharon Rogers was in New employee of London-based Informa, a Those interested in getting Women gathering at the home of York in June for the bar mitzvah of leading business intelligence, academic Amy Zalman. involved with Reunion 2019 plan- This lovely event was Laura’s youngest son but wasn’t able publishing, knowledge and events Melissa Steinman ning should please reach out to the co-hosted by to join us in Montreal because she, business,” he emailed. Alumni Office via the emails at the and additional representation from too, has a dissertation to write. In August, Robert says, he Liz top of the column. our class came in the form of If you are tired of not seeing your became a senior editor for Meet- name in print, there’s an easy fix for ingsNet, which covers the meeting/ that! Write to me at youngrache@ convention/trade show/special event hotmail.com — the longer your industry, which he has tracked over update, the better this column will be. his entire career. “In fact, Charles Butler ’85 hired me as an edito- rial intern at Successful Meetings 1991 magazine in early 1992, so I would take the subway to midtown for a Margie Kim half day of work and then return [email protected] to campus for afternoon classes. Charles added me to the full-time No news this time, CC’91! Let’s staff after graduation, and I stayed have a giant column for the Winter there 15 years,” Robert says. This issue –– send me news about what gig is a remote position, “so I will you got up to this summer, or share continue to split my time between any big plans you have for 2019. Phoenix and New York,” he adds. CC’89 classmates (left to right) Lisa Landau Carnoy, Emily Miles Terry, Your classmates want to hear from This column needs your notes! Amy Weinreich Rinzler and Stephanie Falcone Bernik gathered at you, so shoot me an update at Send them to me at olivier.knox@ Columbia College Women’s signature spring event in April. [email protected]! gmail.com.

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a professor of anthropology; Rita outside of Cleveland with his wife lives in L.A. with her husband Matt Thompson, Sean Doherty, 1993 Pietropinto-Kitt, who devotes and two kids; and daughter; a significant time to Columbia, lives who lives in Colorado with his wife plastic surgeon living in Boston; Betsy Gomperz Mercedes Falciglia, in New York, has three children and and son and owns and operates a a doctor who [email protected] Jessie Auth, is married to Tom Kitt ’96 (who has mountain bike trail design/build lives in Connecticut; Thad Sheely, won a Pulitzer and Tony Awards in company; who is who lives in New Jersey with her Rhanda Moussa “Exceeded expectations!” “So. collaboration with Brian Yorkey); in Atlanta with his wife and two daughter; and Dan Gillies SEAS’93, Much. Fun.” and “Best reunion yet!” Zach Meisel, who lives in Phila- boys and who is the chief financial both lawyers Drew were just a few of the enthusiastic delphia and is a doctor; Yumi Koh, officer for the Atlanta Hawks; who live in New York with their Stevens SEAS’93, Linda Lipsius, comments I heard in the days and a money manager based in Atlanta; who lives in kids; who lives in Neil weeks following our reunion. Joe Ori, an attorney based in San Francisco with his wife and two Denver, with her husband and is Turitz Sara Niego, and the Reunion Commit- Chicago; August Leming, an entre- kids and is a software designer and an entrepreneur; a tee did an amazing job preparing a preneur and executive coach who shirt designer (drewshanklin.com); psychiatrist who lives in Fairfield, Joe Saba, fun-filled weekend and also devot- lives in New Jersey with his wife and a musician who owns Conn., with her husband and three ing significant energy to a PR and son; Steven Rivo, a documentarian his own original music licensing kids; my Carman 11 floormate Lorenzo Wyatt communication plan — brilliantly based in Brooklyn; David Shimkin, company and lives in Brooklyn with BUS’02, who is a and effectively carried out by the an attorney living in Los Angeles; his wife, Jennifer Fetner BC’93, private contractor in Connecticut; Jeff Sweat, Sandra Fahy, entire committee, but especially by Tina Chai, who lives in New York and two children; an who teaches history Rebecca Boston Paul Bua and and has spent years working in the author who started with our class, at The Packer Collegiate Institute in Jennifer Larrabee, — that got so many classmates to fashion industry; Doug Meehan left for two years and then returned; Brooklyn; and attend. Thank you! BUS’08, who works for an invest- Julien Vulliez ’92, SEAS’93, a 3-2 who is a lawyer for HBO and lives During the three days of events I ment firm, is married to Caroline engineer who now lives in Houston in New Jersey with her husband and Kartik Seshan was thrilled to see so many familiar Suh and lives in Brooklyn with their with his family; and two daughters. I also loved seeing SEAS’93 Shiva Sooudi Farouki, Catherine faces defying time. Events kicked daughter; Chris Tessin, who made , a technology investor Van Dusen, Hyon Su Kwon, Nina off on Thursday, May 31, at V&T, the trip from Seattle; Pete Sluzska, who lives in New York with his wife Abraham Lieberman, Antoine where the Reunion Committee who lives in Brooklyn with his and daughter and is relocating to Mitchell, Oliver Staley, Amanda hosted a dinner; it sold out! Dinner family and is an animation director; Singapore later this year. Schachter, Elena Cabral, Molly was followed by an outing to nearby and Matt DeFilippis, who works in On Saturday there was an all- Harris, Paul Sangillo, Greg Lang, bar Amity Hall, where even more music licensing for ASCAP. class luncheon on South Lawn and Karla Lema, John Philip, Mar classmates showed up. That evening, On Friday, cocktails were held in the evening our class “dinner” was Eric Alto Wolf, Aimee Cervera Rank I caught up with GSAPP on the roof deck at the Dream held at Faculty House in conjunc- and Mary Thompson SEAS’93. ’96, who lives in NYC and is an Hotel in Midtown, followed by tion with Barnard and Engineering. Addison Golladay, Alan Cohn, Alan Freeman architect and a visit to Tom’s diner, where we I say “dinner,” in quotation marks who recently married and is a took over the place entirely and because this year there was a twist. and I have a longstanding tradition Ezra lawyer in NYC. There was also chowed down on some late-night Rather than a sit-down affair, as in of visiting our fathers’ Class of Kenigsberg, who lives in Austin, eats –– especially some milkshakes years past, the Reunion Committee 1958 dinner, but this year the 60th Texas, with his wife and child and and fries with gravy. Sure enough, came up with the idea to dispose reunion class was not on campus, so Jessica works in software design; even more classmates joined the of that concept and instead host we enjoyed our own class festivities. Wollman, who lives in Brooklyn fun! It was great to see both Chris a three-hour cocktail party. It was Both Alans are lawyers, live in the Jehanne and works in education; Collins SEAS’93 and Craig Col- a smashing success, and everyone D.C. area with their families and Henry, Alan an attorney for Human lins –– Chris lives in San Francisco loved it. Getting the chance to contributed to the weekend –– Cohn Rights Watch based in New York; and Craig lives in Portland, Maine, mingle with old friends for an gave a presentation on cyber- Nick Kottak, who lives in Maryland and I still have trouble telling them extended period — and yes, even security issues to the Class of 1958 Alan Freeman with his wife and three kids and is apart. I also caught up with Kevin make new ones — made the evening at its luncheon and Connolly, owner of a swimming even that more special before did a lot to spearhead fundraising pool maintenance company on Long everyone headed to Low Steps for efforts for our class. Island called Aquaman and married the Starlight Celebration’s “dancing Finally, there was a special Neil Turitz with three kids; Christine Dicks under the stars,” (or “dancing in the moment where and Alan Freeman Coster, who lives in Florham Park, rain,” as it turned out). paid tribute to the Jennifer Hays Columbia N.J., with her family and is a finan- I enjoyed seeing classmates we have lost, including a Woods, Rachel Mintz, College cial planner; Liz Hale BC’93, who who came from Indiana, special testimonial to is a doctoral candidate in education where she is a lawyer and raises Neil’s Reunion Committee co-chair, Alumni policy at Harvard; Valerie Purdie- her two daughters (and sadly lost who died of uterine cancer in January. Greenaway, a superstar professor at her husband suddenly in 2016); As Neil noted, the V&T event and Alyson Berliner, on Facebook Columbia hard at work on a book; the first person I the notion of turning the Saturday Joel Lusman BUS’99, who lives in met at Columbia, and who lives in dinner into an extended party were facebook.com/alumnicc Tom Greenwich with his wife and two New York with her daughter; Rachel’s ideas, and it felt like she was Casey, Like the page to get children and is a money manager a money manager who lives there with us that evening. (after running his own hedge in Connecticut with his wife and Another person who was with us, alumni news, learn Chad Moore, Andrew Ceresney, James Mitchell, about alumni events fund); a video game four children; literally, was who designer living in Mission Viejo, an SEC enforcement lawyer, who provided a much-needed moment of and College happenings, Calif., with his wife and two kids; lives in New York with his wife and levity after the somber tribute to our Melissa de la Cruz- view photos and more. Joel Cramer, who lives in Chicago children; lost classmates. Mistakenly listed Johnston, with his wife and three kids; Matt a young adult fic- as one of the people who had died, Streem, an entrepreneur who lives tion writer extraordinaire, who he pointed out that he is, in fact,

72 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews very much alive, was present and Paul Bollyky has been busy son, Alex, entered Cornell this fall, cable show Weeds and was named enjoying the festivities very much, at Stanford, teaching, practicing my husband and I sought to adjust to the “Queen of Medical Marijuana in thank you! The ER doctor lives in medicine and running a research lab. the empty nest,” she writes. “I experi- LA” by Rolling Stone, he writes. the Maryland suburbs of D.C. with He invites you to check out the lab’s enced a revolution by morphing from All eyes are on Texas, where Beto O’Rourke his family, and his Lazarus-like rise work at bollykylab.com. “We live a cat person into a dog person. (If any Democrat is chal- from “the dead” turned into one of on campus,” Paul writes, “and it’s all of you remember, Rebecca Boston lenging Ted Cruz for his Senate the most unintentionally hilarious about as close as I’m likely to get to ’93 and I kept a contraband pet cat seat. Beto represents El Paso in the moments of the entire weekend. my dream of living in one of those in Furnald junior year because I had House. In July, Beto’s campaign Again, it was wonderful to be pre-war apartments on Riverside to have cats in my life). John and I announced he had raised $10.4 back in New York with so many Drive and teaching at Columbia.” brought home a Spinone Italiano million for the three months ending familiar faces. In fact, a group of James Bradley is a psychologist named Oochy, and he is a versatile June 30 — more than double Cruz’s us decided to relive the old days in private practice in Aventura, a hunting dog. His breed is meant to $4.6 million tally, according to the and stay in the dorms (Wallach) suburb of Miami. “I live in Miramar, be aggressive and point, flush and Dallas Morning News. Jenny Hoffman, Ali Towle, –– Fla., with my wife and three sons,” fetch game birds. We’ve discovered Julie Hassan, George Hassan, he writes. “On the weekends, I can Oochy would rather be groomed, Patti Lee, Robyn Tuerk, Sandi be found fishing off of Marathon in petted and chase butterflies. Maybe 1996 Johnson and an extra appearance the Florida Keys.” we’ll show him, as his father was Joe Calcagno Ana S. Salper by ! Our location had Shira Boss ’93 shared an update Westminster Dog Show champion. I [email protected] the added advantage of proximity about Chad Finley GSAS’06, who’s wish I hadn’t waited so long to bring for late-night visits to Koronet! been making the rounds in the dogs into my life.” This column only captures a media sharing insights on astropar- Kathryn even commissioned a Happy fall, classmates! I went fraction of classmates who attended ticle physics. Chad was an author on portrait of Oochy by Michelle Rivera to campus a couple of times this reunion, so please send me addi- a cover story in Science journal and ’88; you can see examples of Michelle’s summer, and maybe it’s just me, but tional updates on classmates with was also quoted in The Washington work at michelleriveraoriginalart.com. somehow every time I set foot on Mary Killackey whom you reconnected so I can Post and heard on NPR. “Chad was And finally, campus I get what my son Max calls include more in the next column! a Rabi Scholar at the College and writes that all is well in New “that happy feeling.” That feeling is a physics professor at Stockholm Orleans –– and she’s putting in an of complete and utter happiness, University in Sweden,” Shira writes. early plug to remember our 25th when absolutely nothing can bring 1994 “He has been involved in the Ice reunion next year. Make your plans! you down. The campus vibrates with Cube project to detect neutrinos for Thanks, all! a wonderful combination of intel- REUNION 2019 more than a decade — including a lectual energy, excitement, memories MAY 30–JUNE 1 hands-on research trip to the South and history. Just putting that out Events and Programs Contact Pole. For the past many months 1995 there –– perhaps in an effort to [email protected] he has been one of the scientists beg you to PLEASE SEND ME Janet Lorin Development Contact analyzing data from a handful of NOTES so that we can all read [email protected] [email protected] high-energy neutrinos picked up by about one another and perhaps col- their detectors buried in the glacier lectively share “that happy feeling.” Leyla Kokmen David Wienir, at the South Pole. In short, they Congratulations to One of the programs I attended [email protected] have the first answer to a decades- whose fourth book, Amsterdam on campus was a great event orga- old scientific question of where do Exposed: An American’s Journey Into nized by Columbia College Women. DeAnna Gossett BUS’99 is a busi- neutrinos come from — these came the Red Light District, has been It was an evening of conversation Jodi Kantor, ness professor in Los Angeles, and she from a blazar four billion light years published. The memoir tells the true between our Pulitzer- and her husband, Sharron Gossett, away/ago.” story of when he moved to the Neth- Prize winning classmate who broke have five children. “We also have a Also in the news recently was erlands to write a book about the the Harvey Weinstein story, and 1-year-old grandson,” she writes. “My Kate Gutman BUS’01, who joined district, and everything that followed. Columbia Professor of Psychology son Randy Person, whom some might Gannett’s USA Today Network as Kirkus Reviews calls it “a provocative, Valerie Purdie-Greenaway ’93, who remember from sophomore year, is 26 head of content ventures. In this enlightening, humorous, and impres- researches biases against women and and finished his master’s in education newly created role, Kate oversees the sively executed guide to Amsterdam’s minorities. It was a fantastic event, at the University of Pennsylvania company’s non-news content brands, twilight world.” [Editor’s note: See filled with alumnae from different last year. He works at St. George’s, a including the food-blog network “Bookshelf,” this issue.] class years. I spent time chatting Erica Bens boarding school in Rhode Island.” Grateful Ventures, the sports site For At his day job, David is an enter- with (née Sulkowski), Justine Schiro Rose Kob. The Win and other brands. She also tainment lawyer and senior business and Rhonda Moore oversees Gannett’s digital video and affairs executive at United Talent was also in Class Notes are submitted by podcast studios, as well as a variety of Agency in Beverly Hills; he’s also attendance, as was our very own alumni and edited by volunteer class correspondents and the live events. Previously, Kate was VP taught entertainment law at UCLA Columbia College Associate Dean staff of CCT prior to publication. of strategy and digital media at A+E Extension for more than a decade. of Alumni Relations and Communi- Bernice Tsai. Opinions expressed are those Networks International. He previously practiced at Gang, cations Barbara of individual alumni and do not Danny Franklin started a job as Tyre, Ramer & Brown in Los Ange- I recently spent time with Antonucci reflect the opinions of CCT, a partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive, les and Grubman, Indursky & Shire at the beach on the East its class correspondents, the College or the University. By a strategic communications firm in New York, where he represented End of Long Island. Barbara lives submitting to Class Notes, you that worked on each of the last three artists, including Madonna, and in San Francisco with her husband, acknowledge that the text is eli- presidential elections, as well as for Steven Spielberg. Nicholas Mercer, and her kids, Giada gible to appear in print as well as causes and corporations. In 2015, David married “Dr. “Gia” (11) and Maximilian “Max” on CCT Online and in archives. Change is afoot for Kathryn Dina.” She was the inspiration for (9). Barbara, a partner at Constangy Hudacek Harlow: “As our youngest the Nancy Botwin character in the Brooks Smith & Prophete, was

Fall 2018 CCT 73 Class Notes recently made deputy chair of the San Francisco office of the national labor and employment law firm. Ian Lendler recently published a children’s picture book, The Absolutely, Positively No Princesses Book! Ian writes that it promises a total and utter lack of princesses (although, to be honest, one or two may have snuck in somehow). Kirkus Reviews wrote, “Frenetic dialogue and charis- matic protagonists bring a page-turn- inspiring energy to the story.” CHRIS BALMER ’07, SOA’14 I have nothing more to report. By popular demand, a photo from the Class of 1997’s Saturday dinner at Reunion 2017! I beg you to please write in –– let’s make our next column a robust one! Here is my inspiration for the fall: “Fight for the things that you care introvert I’m afraid I didn’t do much She spent the last two months of western border, many having fled about, but do it in a way that will lead socializing during my college days! 2017 on the road with her 11-year- from violence in Central America. others to join you.” — Justice Ruth Our first update comes from Les- old son, Edward Turner, who was My heart aches for these thousands Bader Ginsburg LAW’59 lie Kendall Dye, who lives on the on tour with the Broadway show A of poor children and their parents, Upper West Side with her husband Christmas Story, The Musical. Edward and I shudder to think about the and their daughter, Lydia. She writes played the principal role, Ralphie, in irreparable psychological damage 1997 essays and articles and is working 12 cities during a whirlwind eight that this cruel practice of forced on a book. Our paths never crossed weeks. Deb worked remotely while separation is doing to these families. Kerensa Harrell when we were students. As far as we on the road with Edward. She works Studies show that such a traumatic [email protected] can both recall, we met only when in NYC and is the co-founder at separation from their parents can we happened to be standing next Gray Scalable, a New York- and create a lifetime of emotional and Dear classmates, I hope you all had to each other as we posed for the Los Angeles-based HR consultancy even physical problems for the child. an enjoyable summer! I am happy to aforementioned photo. It was only providing embedded recruiting As a mother, I can imagine present to you our class photo from for a few moments, and we did not support, organizational planning, what sheer agony it must be for the last summer’s 20-year reunion. It even introduce ourselves by name. A management coaching, training, parents to have their children taken was taken just before we sat down to few months later, I received a friend compensation planning and design, away, and then spend months not our Saturday dinner on June 3, 2017, request from her on Facebook, and and other HR services for high- knowing where their children are in the SIPA building. I am the one she confided that the reason she growth companies. She also sings or whether they are being taken in the front row wearing a pink silk sent me the request was because she professionally in NYC. She and her care of. Each moment not knowing shantung wrap dress and holding noticed my political leanings and husband, Ed, live in New Jersey with where your child is must feel like my then 7-month-old baby, Amara, found me to be a kindred spirit. Edward and their 9-year-old twins, an eternity. Some of these children who was wearing a matching pink I am glad we connected, because Morgan and Loren. were still breastfed infants, whom tutu. My baby is fixated on Leslie Leslie and I have now teamed up for Lauren Goodman Dell left law the guards ripped away from their Kendall Dye, who is immediately some necessary charity work. I will firm practice this past March after mother’s breast while being nursed. to my right. Leslie was wearing her let Leslie tell you all about what we 12 years to join Brown Advisory as Our federal government, directed grandmother’s lovely pearl necklace started doing this summer. She writes, a strategic advisor in its New York by an iniquitous administration, has that evening, and I’m afraid my “Recently I have been volunteering office. She will use her tax, trusts and malevolently abducted thousands baby found it utterly irresistible as with a new organization, Immigrant estates and charitable governance of children and shipped them off to we were posing! This most likely Families Together, which is devoted experience to help individual fami- dozens of states across our country explains why Leslie has turned away to raising money for the purpose of lies and endowment and charitable in hopes of deterring future asylum from us by the time the photo was freeing detained immigrant mothers foundation clients. She says that she seekers once they hear of these snapped, and I don’t blame her for who were forcibly separated from is excited to be starting this career horror stories. I firmly believe that wanting to protect her priceless their children after crossing the bor- chapter at such a great company. this administration’s policy of forced inherited pearls from the repeated der. IFT supports them through their Melissa Morrone edited a book, separation is an act of child abuse, attempts of a pair of tiny, monkeyish process of applying for asylum and Human Operators: A Critical Oral and is so evil that those responsible hands to snatch them away and then being reunited with their children. In History on Technology in Libraries should be brought up in front of The most likely chew on them. our first two weeks of operation, and Archives (libraryjuicepress.com/ Hague for crimes against humanity. Let me see if I can identify a few IFT has successfully freed seven human-operators.php). I feel that I cannot even find the more classmates in the photo — mothers from ICE detention facilities As for me, Kerensa Harrell, right words right now to express that’s Katie Karpenstein standing and driven them to the various I have not been sleeping too well how devastated my soul feels at the just behind the number seven, and states where their children have been lately. As I finish this column, it knowledge that this is happening Raji Kalra immediately to Katie’s left, transferred. We expect to repeat this is mid-July. I keep thinking about now. It is a dark era for our nation holding up the edge of the banner. many more times. Our slogan is all the babies, toddlers and other and I fear we are heading toward And then in the front row on the far ‘One Woman at a Time.’ Find us at children who have been forcibly fascism. The America of today right are Sareeta Amrute, wearing immigrantfamiliestogether.com.” separated from their parents by strikes me as eerily similar to Berlin solid black, and to her left is Jyoti Deb Feldman shared some excit- ICE after these asylum-seeking circa 1930, and I can only hope that Thakkar wearing solid orange. I wish ing news regarding what she wound immigrant families crossed illegally come November, there will be a big I could identify more, but being an up doing toward the end of last year. into the United States at our South- blue wave to save us.

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Well, now that I have perhaps co-chairs Andy Topkins, Emily baum, Adalis Sanchez, Thomas set myself up for being sent off to Youngs, Eric Hopp and Jaren Sanford, Adrian Sas, Dayce an Alaskan gulag once they begin Janghorbani, and members Julie Schrieber, Gretchen Schumann, rounding up the intelligentsia (if Yufe, Adria N. Armbrister Mak- Melissa Scott, Teresa Segura, I may flatter myself ), let me wrap ouangou, Jen Chung, Daniel Oh, Maxim Strongin, Aviva Sufian, up this column with a song. I’d like Scarla Pineda Chevalier, Lizzie Melinka Thompson-Godoy, Tif- to cue the old lullaby “You Are My Simon, Arnold Kim and Suehyun fany Tolbert, Jeffrey Tse, Jackie Sunshine” and dedicate it to all the Kim. A special shout-out to Amol Vo, Jonathan Tua, Julie Sensat little ones who are currently crying Sarva, who hosted our opening Waldren, Carolina Wyka and out for their parents due to forced reception and was generally a sup- James Zimmerman. separation by ICE. I wish so badly portive ringleader. Apologies if I missed your that I could scoop up all these sad We had 166 attendees, among name, but that’s from the final little children right now, tell them them Tomachukwu Acholonu, pre-registration guest list! Here they needn’t worry anymore and Michelle Albrecht, Alejandra are some updates from reunion: then quickly take them to their Almonte, Arjun Banerjee, In addition to the Thursday night parents. It is one of the songs that Jaydeep Bhatt, Lucio Biase, welcome reception hosted by Amol, Jordan Konig ’98 and Sandie Angulo Chen ’98 enjoyed the festivities at I often sing to my own baby when Ruth Bieler, Jeremy Blacklow, we also gathered again for drinks their 30th reunion. she needs soothing, and it has sen- Anne Bowers, Saverio Brighina, and conversation at a Friday night timental value in my family, as my Janice Brown, Lauren Brust, cocktail party, and then Saturday guitar-playing paternal grandfather Lisette Camilo, Cathy Chang, was full of activities on campus. One used to sing it to put my father to Chas Sisk, Katherine Coffin, standout event was a special Ethnic at City College. Luis is a professional sleep when my father was a young Rully Rochmat, Afari Dwamena, Studies lunch panel organized by artist and photographer. Angelique Jewell boy in the 1950s. My paternal Natalie Edwards, Ezra Freedman, Adria, who moderated the discus- may have grandfather lived to his 90s, passing Ben Gardiner, Ilya Gertsberg, sion about the 1996 ethnic studies traveled the farthest to attend away in 2016, just a few weeks after Amy Herbert, Timothy How- protests and how they affected and reunion. She lives in Nanchang, my baby was born, and even when ell, Michele Hyndman-Hodge, impacted our class. On hand to talk China, where she’s the academic he was in his 90s and my father in Edline Jacquet, Silvie Jensen, about their perspectives were Felice chair for foreign courses and writ- his 60s, to our great amusement my Angelique Jewell, Elon Johnson, Bell SEAS’97, Elbert García ’97, ing teacher at the Attached High father would still fall peacefully right Andrew Johnston, Ann Kans- Hans Chen ’97, Frances Negrón- School to Jiangxi Normal University. to sleep as we all sat in the parlor at field, Adam Kolasinski, Jordan Muntaner (professor of English and Angelique has taught both in the my grandparents’ house if my grand- Konig, Ben Kornfeind, Jeannette Comparative Literature and previ- country and as an expat for years. Edline Jacquet father grabbed his guitar and started Jakus, Sarah Sharfstein Kawa- ous director of the Center for the is married to singing this particular song. saki, Andras Kovacs, Grace Lee, Study of Ethnicity and Race) and Mario Cancel. They have a 4-year- Blessings to all, and please do Teresa Lopez-Castro, Erin McCo- me. The reunion’s highlight, however old, Gabriela, and live in Morning- send me your updates! nkey, Michael McCosker, Meena was the class dinner on Saturday, side Heights. Edline is a director of Merchant, William Miller, Megan followed by the Starlight Celebra- policy at FPWA (formerly Federa- Mulligan, Tanya Nebo, Nicole tion on Low Plaza. tion of Protestant Welfare Agen- 1998 Nembhard, Corey Newhouse, Julie Sensat Waldren writes, cies), while her husband is pursuing Adam Nguyen, Derrick Nunnally, “I live in Madison, Wis., with my a doctoral degree in ethnomusicol- Sandie Angulo Chen Chloe O’Brien, Veronica Lei, husband and 7-year-old daughter. ogy at Columbia. [email protected] Brook Shepard Taylor Ortiz, Aurelie Paradiso, We visited Columbia together and his wife, Daniel Pianko, Melissa Pianko, during reunion and also had a great Xhenete, split their time between Welcome to the 20th reunion Megan Enright, Scott Parkes, time visiting the Statue of Liberty. It Red Hook, Brooklyn, and their Class Notes! I thought it was the Zachary Pelleriti, Zita Peterlin, was so great to visit campus, connect country house in Kingston, N.Y. best reunion we’ve had so far. Let Eunie Popp, Matthew Purdy, with friends and feel the energy of They have a son, Mason (9). Brook me start by thanking my fellow Nitchet Quarles, Joshua Ratner, the city again! I am an organiza- runs a boutique digital ad agency, members of the reunion committee: Elizabeth Riordan, Cara Rosen- tional development consultant at a Mason Interactive. Scott Grimm K–12 ed-tech company” and his wife, Kirsten Wegner lives in Wash- Nadine, are both professors in lin- ington, D.C., with her husband guistics at the University of Roches- and their three children. She is the ter. They have a son, Henry (3). Scott CEO of Modern Markets Initiative, and Nadine met in Ghana, Africa, which, according to LinkedIn, is an in summer 2008. Nadine, who’s education and advocacy organization German, was teaching at a summer devoted to the role of technological school for documentary linguistics innovation in creating the world’s while Scott was researching a Gha- best markets. Kirsten is known for naian language in the same coastal her thought leadership in advanc- town. They were married in 2013. Cara Rosenbaum ing secure savings and investment moved back through innovation. to New York City after many years Teresa Lopez-Castro attended as a physician in Chicago. She is with her husband, Luis Gispert. Teresa a hematologist/oncologist at New and Luis live in Crown Heights and York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Left to right: Class of ’98 members Scott Parkes, Anne Bowers, Michelle have a 3-year-old preschooler. Teresa Medical Center with an expertise in Ahn, Taylor Ortiz and David Keogh SEAS’98 at Reunion 2018. is an assistant professor of psychology treating blood cancers, specifically

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multiple myeloma and amyloidosis. Chloe O’Brien (née Salamon- Michael, and their preschool-aged if you want to see a lot more reunion She’s also an assistant professor of O’Connor) and her husband, Patrick, daughter, Zoe. Julie’s a VP of global photos of classmates, go to college. medicine at Weill Cornell Medical live in Pleasantville, N.Y., with their marketing at Anheuser-Busch columbia.edu/cct/issue/fall18/article/ College. She lives on the Upper East children (an 8-year-old and 6-year- InBev. Her work takes her around class-notes and type in our class year Side and said she’d love to get back old twins). Chloe is the deputy the world –– like to Russia during to see a slideshow! in touch with classmates in the area! brands director at Hearst Magazines the World Cup. Sarah Sharfstein Kawasaki is International. She and Patrick, an News from double ’98 couples: Melissa Pianko Daniel Pianko also a physician; she’s at the Penn attorney, were married in 2008. and 1999 State Milton S. Hershey Medi- Anne Marie Ugarte has two continue to live on the Upper West cal Center in central Pennsylvania. daughters and lives in Manhattan. Side with their children, Bella, REUNION 2019 Chas Sisk Sarah is also an assistant professor of She is a client relations manager for Noah and Ethan. and MAY 30–JUNE 1 Cathy Chang psychiatry and director of addiction Ingram Publishing’s Content Group. are in Nashville with Events and Programs Contact services at Pennsylvania Psychiatric Danny Wyatt and his wife, their three children. Chas works at [email protected] Institute, a collaboration of Penn State Chrissy Gonzalez, were at most of the Nashville Public Radio and Cathy, Development Contact Health and UPMC Pinnacle. She and events. They and their daughter, Calla a reverend, is a hospital chaplain. [email protected] Jackie Vo Jeff Tse her husband and their three children (5), live in Park Slope. Danny works and flew in Adrienne Carter and live in the Harrisburg, Pa., area. at Facebook and previously worked from Austin, Texas, just in time to Anne Bowers Jenna Johnson (née Pordes) at Google. He and Chrissy (a fellow make the class dinner and recep- [email protected] traveled from London to attend Texan) met and lived in Seattle, where tion. They have two girls. Jackie is a [email protected] reunion. Anne and her husband, they both attended graduate school at dentist in private practice and Jeff is a Jeannette Jakus Ben Pete, live in South London with the University of Washington. physician. and Kornfeind their spirited son, Jack (4). She is a Melanie Samarasinghe lives live in Riverdale and are a Big news, CC’99: Our 20th reunion public-sector consultant specializing in Cobble Hill and works for Twit- dermatologist and a senior manager is coming next summer! Mark your in strategic advising and program ter as a senior manager in large for an affordable-housing real estate calendars now, and have an excellent development. Anne is an avid runner client solutions. developer, respectively. They have two fall. Please also take a moment to Taylor Ortiz and cyclist, and I highly recommend Meena Merchant lives outside children, Sam and Lily. is send a Class Note for the Winter looking her and Pete up if you’re of Seattle with her husband, Mitch, a hematologist/oncologist at Francis- issue; it’s a great way to stay in touch traveling to London. and their two sons. Meena is the can St. Francis Health in Indianapolis before reunion! Alejandra Almonte Veronica Lei (née Mon- CEO of a media production com- and is counsel for Eli tenegro) and her husband, Jorge, pany, Werxo, and also the executive Lilly. They have two sons. Joshua Ratner live in Northern Virginia with their director of a nonprofit, The Owl and his wife, 2000 children, Javier (a sixth-grader) and Project, whose mission is “bringing Elena Ratner BC’98, came from Prisca Bae Lucia (a fifth-grader). Both Alejan- community together through the Connecticut for reunion. They [email protected] dra and Jorge are attorneys. creation of public art.” have four children (two boys, two Lisette Camilo works for the City Adam Kolasinski and his wife, girls). Josh is a rabbi and a director of New York as the commissioner of Ana, traveled from College Station, of advocacy for JLens Network. Loved hearing from John Jay Michelle Gerard the Department of Citywide Admin- Texas, for reunion. Adam and Ana He previously was the director of 12 floormates Ramahlo Jasmine Wagner. istrative Services, which “ensures City are both professors at the Mays the Jewish Community Relations and agencies have the resources needed to Business School at Texas A&M. Council in Connecticut, the associ- Michelle was elected secretary of the provide the best possible services to They have three girls: Kathleen, ate rabbi at Yale and the rabbi at American Classical League, which is the public.” Lisette was appointed to Michelle and Annette. Congregation Kol Ami. Elena is dedicated to promoting the teaching her position in January 2016. She has Jeremy Blacklow is still in Los an ob/gyn and a professor at Yale and learning of Latin and Greek. spent the majority of her career in Angeles, where he’s the entertain- School of Medicine. Apparently, the ACL is celebrating Arete “Arlene” Koutras public service. ment media director for GLAAD. recently its 100th year in NYC next summer Jeremy’s also a DJ, an avid cyclist joined the law firm Windels Marx –– so a huge congratulations to it and pug enthusiast who has the cut- Lane & Mittendorf as special counsel and to Michelle! est dog in America. and resident in the New York office. Jasmine, meanwhile, published her Erin McConkey (née Harken) As for me, my husband, Hans second book, On a Clear Day, and lives in La Jolla with her husband, Chen ’97, and I celebrated our 17th got great reviews in The New Yorker Phil, and their daughter, May (15), anniversary at reunion. We live in and Hyperallergic. She’s also recently who’s a sophomore in high school. the Maryland suburbs of Washing- started a position at Basilica Hudson Erin is a passionate paddleboard ton, D.C., and have three children: and invites anyone from CC’00 to Submit surfer and horticulturist. Elias (16), Delia (13) and Jonah visit and to give her a heads-up if Michael Mohammed is a (10). I review movies and books for they’re in the Hudson Valley. She Mira Lew Your performer and director who worked various outlets but mostly for Com- recently had dinner with at the San Francisco Conservatory mon Sense Media. I’m also active and Alex P. Klein ’01 (also from Jay Photo of Music; he’s a doctoral student at in the nonprofit We Need Diverse 12) in Manhattan and was so happy CCT welcomes Class Notes Teachers College. Books, which advocates for more to see how well they are doing. photos that feature at Amy Kristina Herbert is a board- diversity in the publishing industry After stints at IDEO, Califor- least two College alumni. certified pediatric dentist and an and children’s/young-adult literature. nia College of the Arts, and as a assistant professor in the department Apologies to everyone I saw freelance innovation consultant, Jenny Fan Click “Contact Us” at of pediatric dentistry at UTHealth briefly but didn’t quiz for information has renewed her interest college.columbia.edu/cct. School of Dentistry at Houston. to include in this Class Notes. Please in creative writing. Her short fiction Julie Yufe lives on the Upper continue to send updates, and I hope has been published in print and East Side with her husband, to see you at our 25th reunion! Also, online in Obra/Artifact, Bottlecap

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Press, 1888 Center, The New Engage- Ilan. Leor holds the distinction of treat to work with Sara, even if our a career teaching dance, in English. ment and The Laurel Review, among being the fourth child of two fourth interactions were only via videocon- We have since had two daughters others. She lives in San Francisco children. Can anyone in our class ference, email and text! and recently bought an apartment with her husband and two children top that? Dina took various road If any other Columbia alum here, so we are installed for the and is working on a novel set in trips this past summer, and on her needs to discuss HR operational foreseeable future. The interesting Fukushima, Japan. You can find her travels to Chicago and Cape Cod consulting, please feel free to reach job that I booked for this past sum- work at jennyfanauthor.com. she saw Nancy Michaelis (née out to me! I’m always happy to chat. mer was with SuperShe Island. Read Congrats to Daniel S. Kokhba, Perla), Jeff Lee, Rebecca Lurie In the last issue, we accidently ran more at jenniferlisettelopez.com.” who opened his own law practice. BC’01 and Adam Lurie SEAS’02. an old note from Andrew Rudman Greg Shill completed a fellowship He provides business litigation, out- Annie Lainer Marquit and her instead of his intended update. So at Harvard Law School in the Pro- side general counsel and art private husband, Jonathan, welcomed their here it is! He writes, “Since my last gram on Corporate Governance and client services, so drop him a note at second son, Jacob, on May 3, making check-in, my wife, Punam, has given joined the faculty of the University of [email protected] if you’re Sam a big brother. I was honored to birth to two more daughters: Annu Iowa College of Law as an associate ever in need of an attorney! attend Jacob’s bris in Los Angeles (born in 2015) and Isha (born last professor. His focus is corporate law, Matthew Matlack recently joined to celebrate with the Lainer and October). That makes three daugh- corporate governance, contracts and Ruckus Networks supporting clients Marquit crew. ters. Yikes! It’s, uh, very noisy in urban mobility. He is based in Iowa in Oklahoma and Arkansas. He has Yasmin Zerhouni is back in our house. Still in Los Angeles, and City, an agreeable college town three been busy supporting technology California after a two-year research I’m still making music for a couple hours west of Chicago. In recent projects with the BOK Center in fellowship. She is finishing her sur- different cartoons (as Andy Bean), years, he has been meeting up with Tulsa and the Chesapeake Energy gery residency in the Bay Area. including writing all the songs for fellow CC’02ers — including Dan Arena in Oklahoma City. His Welcome back to California, Disney’s reboot of Muppet Babies, Hammerman, Dave Myers, Daniel 13-year-old daughter, Georgia Rose, Yasmin! And best of luck with which debuted in March! Pretty fun Ramirez and Nick Schifrin — in is an accomplished actress and singer. your residency! writing tunes for Kermit, Fozzie, Florida for spring training. In 2017, Brendan Colthurst Ben Wheeler announced his Gonzo and the Muppet gang.” Susan Wile Schwarz was moved (after 21 years in NYC!) to departure from New York City: I hope everyone had a great married in Florence, Italy, during Los Angeles to direct promotional “Except for one year, I’ve lived here summer! Let me know what you Memorial Day Weekend. Colum- videos for companies like Crap Alert for the last 21 years of my life.” Ben are up to! bians in attendance included Stacy (bit.ly/2vRx5nH). This past June, and his wife, Kate Cortesi, and Wu, Dan Bloch, Sasha Ban BC’03, he headed to San Antonio, Texas, their two daughters will relocate to Alexa Winnik ’03, bridesmaid Gina to help RAICES (raicestexas.org), Cambridge/Somerville, Mass. Ben 2002 Grinstead ’03, Maritza Gonzalez one of the leading legal advocates got a job at the MIT Media Lab SIPA’10, Andrew Russeth ’07 and for families separated at the border, working on the team that makes Sonia Dandona Hirdaramani Susan’s dad, Paul Schwarz ’61. as a digital consultant. Los Angeles Scratch, the kids’ programming [email protected] Susan and her husband, Luis is still home, but he is enjoying platform. Vera, welcomed their son, Ignacio Texas and spending time with the It’s a dream job for him, he says, Katherine Longhi has been Julius Vera Schwarz, on November organization’s executive director, and I think it’s so well suited for appointed the director of programs 11, 2017. Susie writes, “So far, Baby Jonathan Ryan. someone who has been passionately at the Global Institute for Extraor- Nacho is showing a great aptitude On a personal note, as an devoted to teaching kids to program dinary Women. for sleeping and smiling, though it immigrant, I am so proud to know for decades. Ellen Gustafson spent a day remains unclear if he will become that our classmates are leading the Best of luck to Ben and Kate in with Oxfam America as a Sisters a fourth-generation Columbian by effort to reunite families. Thank you, their new home! on the Planet Ambassador, in the joining the Class of 2040.” Jonathan and Brendan! And thank My dear friend Marla Zink United States Capitol Building, you to everyone else for sending wrote in with an exciting dispatch talking to female congressional your updates! from Seattle: “I am excited to leaders about standing up for 2003 share that today is my first day as America’s strong history of welcom- the managing member of my own ing refugees. Michael Novielli 2001 (solo) law firm! I’m still focusing on Nadeem Meghji SEAS’02 is [email protected] appellate public defense. Check out head of Real Estate Americas for Jonathan Gordin marlazink.com.” Blackstone Real Estate and It was so awesome to see so many [email protected] Marla also shared that she was recently selected as a Young of you at Reunion 2018, just a few recently saw Sara Batterton on a Global Leader by the World Eco- months back! We far exceeded Hi everyone! In my Spring 2018 col- brief visit to D.C. Sara left a long nomic Forum. the goals that the Alumni Office umn, I wrote about Dina Epstein’s and illustrious stint at Uncom- Omid Malekan SEAS’02 had set for us, with a total of 118 wonderful visit to Los Angeles; there mon Schools to take on an exciting published his first book, The Story of CC attendees (not counting their was even a photo of Dina, Annie leadership role as the VP of strategy the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the additional 112 guests or our SEAS, Lainer Marquit and me in Union and operations for Whittle School Technology That Nobody Understands. Barnard and GS friends!) across the Station. Well, there was some clever & Studios. Marla and Sara discussed He would like to explore the possibil- various events. We are sad that many cropping and “bump concealing” by their exciting new job transitions. ity of writing a feature on the promise of you were unable to join, but we the CCT photo editors. Dina and Before she left Uncommon and perils of blockchain technology. know that it can be difficult with Annie have both given birth to boys Schools, I had the great pleasure of Jennifer Lisette Lopez writes, families and commitments. Our since that time! working with Sara professionally. “Since we graduated a lot has hap- 20th reunion is going to be even Dina and her husband, Eitan, Since I’m based in Los Angeles, it’s pened! I lived between NYC and bigger and better, so please make welcomed their son Leor Jacob unfortunate that my professional Europe for a while, but I married my arrangements so that you can join us Levisohn on April 9. Leor joins and Columbia lives don’t overlap Swedish husband in 2009 and we in 2023! It was great working with brothers and sister Ezra, Talya and much. That meant it was a rare settled in Madrid, where I started everyone on the Reunion Com-

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Just Married! CCT welcomes wedding photos where at least one member of the couple is a College alum. Please submit your high-resolution photo, and caption information, on our photo webform: college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ 1 class_note_photo. Congratulations!

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2 3 1. Ginia Sweeney ’10 married Bartram Nason at Lake Eden Events in Black Mountain, N.C., on May 5. Left to right: Josh Kindler ’08, Chris Harris SEAS’08, Irina Ikonsky ’08, Joseph Hall SEAS’08, the bride, Lauren Seidman ’10, Rebecca Evans ’10 and Nellie Bowles ’10.

2. Ramsey McGlazer ’05 and Ifeolu Sered ’05 (née Babatunde) at Sered’s wedding to Barak Sered on July 1 at the Bedford Village Inn in NATHAN MOREAU SARAH + LOGAN WEDDINGS Bedford, N.H.

3. Joanie Bilms ’12 married Chris 4 5 Wilbanks at The Georgia Club in Statham, Ga., on September 30, 2017. Left to right: Kevin P. Bilms Jr., Rosemary Bilms, the groom, the bride, Kevin P. Bilms ’81 and Kelleigh Bilms.

4. Mary Martha Douglas ’11 married George Stasinopoulos on May 5 in the Conservatory Garden of Central Park in New York City.

5. Jocelyn Bohn ’15 married her high school sweetheart during Memorial Day Weekend. Left to right: Tammuz Huberman ’15, Hayley Galitzer ’15, Jeremy 7 Stern ’15, the bride, Meghna Mukherjee ’15, Kira Ullman ’15, Benji Schechner ’15 and Leandra Cole ’15.

6. Peter Luccarelli III ’07 married Stephanie Sisco in Asheville, N.C., in April. Left to right: Larry Dyer SEAS’79, Eric Hirani SEAS’11, Chris Luccarelli ’16, Peter Luccarelli Jr. SEAS’78, Bryan Liou SEAS’12, the groom, Yong Park GS’10, Reid Ellison SEAS’08 and Tom Meister ’09. 6 7. Anthony Walker ’07 married Tanya Walker ’07 (née Lindsay) in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 5.

ANDREW JADE PHOTOGRAPHY 78 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews mittee, including programing and Jeffrey Hsieh exceeded his goal Courtney Shay PH’07 writes, “I After founding and then run- Josh Hurvitz outreach co-chairs for the D10, an event where “driven married Graham Carssow this year ning the award-winning Empower Tamar Simon, and fundraising leaders with a passion for competi- and we had a daughter on May 22, Generation (a social enterprise that Nathania Nisonson co-chairs and tion, a commitment to athleticism, Colette Jeanne Carssow. After seven empowers women to become clean Geoff Williams, and committee and a love for camaraderie born years as an operating room nurse, energy business leaders in Nepal) for Sam Arora, Nadege Anya Cherneff members from experiences in sports come I am going back to my English the past eight years, Fleurimond, Lauren Harrison, together to produce a profound major roots and using my research has successfully negotiated a merger David Keeffe, Carter Reum, social impact,” by raising nearly background from the School of between Empower Generation and Justin Sellman Katie Sheehy and . $5,000 for pediatric cancer. He com- Public Health, as I am now a clinical Australia-based Pollinate Energy. As I’d personally like to thank Tamar peted in a 400m run, football throw, editor for the AORN Journal at the she exits her startup she is looking for all of her tremendous efforts on pull-ups, 40-yard dash, broad jump, Association of periOperative Nurses for opportunities to empower women outreach for reunion (I’m sure many 500m row, vertical jump, 20-yard offices in Denver.” economically, enhance justice and of you received emails from her), as shuttle, bench press and 800m run. I have been trying to get out equity for all, and create diverse and well as maintaining our class’ Face- Katori Hall’s latest musical, Tina more and reconnect with folks from inclusive companies that are a force for book page. She’s really gone above — as in, Turner — is now showing college who are still in the New good. Anya is based in the Bay area. Jonathan Filbey: and beyond for us! in London. York/New Jersey area. It has been a From “I Our classmates were active Josh Stein-Sapir is an associate really positive experience to recon- recently relocated to Melbourne throughout the weekend and prior partner at Keyes Real Estate in nect and share with people. with Octopus Investments, looking Tamar Simon, Jenny Bach to it. Los Angeles. Please continue to send in at funding large scale renewable Justin Sellman and carried our Raheleh Hatami works in business updates, as we want to hear from energy projects. Would be great to class banner at the Alumni Parade development for Roivant Sciences. as many folks as possible. Career connect with Lions down under!” Ifeolu Sered of Classes during Class Day, May and family updates are always fun, (née Babatunde) Carter Reum 15. was a panelist but please reach out to share info married Barak Sered on July 1 in Ramsey McGlazer for the “Columbia College Young 2004 about trips you might take, events Bedford, N.H. Alumni Presents: Lessons from you have attended or are looking was in attendance to celebrate the Startupland” event on Friday REUNION 2019 forward to, or even interesting books happy occasion. afternoon. The first 50 attendees MAY 30–JUNE 1 or shows you have come across. Share your notes for the Winter received a copy of his bestselling Events and Programs Contact You can send updates either via issue by writing to cct@columbia. book Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up [email protected] the email address at the top of the edu. Looking forward to hearing Success with Unconventional Advice Development Contact column or via CCT’s Class Notes from you! from the Trenches, which he co-wrote [email protected] webform: college.columbia.edu/cct/ with his brother, Courtney Reum submit_class_note. ’01. Josh Hurvitz gave awesome Jaydip Mahida 2006 opening remarks for our class dinner [email protected] on Saturday, for which we filled the 2005 Michelle Oh Sing [email protected] entire Lerner Party Space (of Lerner Rachel Neugarten writes, “Greet- Pub fame). There were so many of us ings, CC alums! For the past six years, Columbia College Today that we had to really squeeze to fit I have been working for Conservation [email protected] Hi everyone! Hope you are well. into the class photo! International and traveling extensively. Here are some updates from our Teddy Diefenbach Now, on to the updates: I make maps to help policymakers Happy fall, Class of 2005! Thank you classmates: Internationally acclaimed mixolo- and donors decide where to invest in to everyone who wrote in this issue. left his creative director role at Don Lee, gist formerly of PDT environmental conservation, based From John Kluge: “A few updates: Square Enix and is working around and Momofuku, opened his own on scientific data on biodiversity, I moved back to Charlottesville, Asia while developing his next cocktail bar, Existing Conditions, forest carbon stocks, ecosystems Va., where I married my lovely wife, videogame. His last game, Hyper in Greenwich Village at 35 W. 8th that protect people from storms and Christine, a professor of politics at Light Drifter, was recognized by Street (near Macdougal Street). floods, sources of fresh water or other UVA. We welcomed our baby girl, The Game Awards and Indepen- Bill Isler Don recently joined at the variables. I have worked in Madagas- Mirren Wynne, this past January, and dent Games Festival and is being 16th annual Tales of the Cocktail in car, Cambodia, Brazil and Liberia, and I am now building an exciting initia- rereleased on the Nintendo Switch New Orleans. Tales of the Cocktail I recently returned from Chengdu and tive, the Refugee Investment Network this year. His indie game-making is an “annual gathering that’s equal Hong Kong. I am based in Arlington, (refugeeinvestments.org). Would wel- collective, Glitch City, has entered parts cocktail conference and family Va., and would love to connect with come collaboration from Columbia its sixth year in Los Angeles. Jonathan Ward reunion” and features “a spirited other alums in the region.” alums as we build a new paradigm for writes, “I am schedule of brand new seminars, Nuria Net JRN’11 recently global migration solutions!” back in D.C. and have founded Atlas tastings, competitions and network- moved from Miami to Barcelona Jeffrey Schwartz shared that he Organization, a consultancy focused ing events representing the latest … with her husband and son. She’s a married Lauren Wolkove on July 4; on the rise of India and China, and (the cocktail) industry has to offer.” journalist-producer at Radio Gladys in attendance was Britton Schwartz the new geopolitics of Asia. Since Bill continues to help Ming River, a Palmera, focused on Latin music. ’01, Jeffrey’s sister. returning to the United States, I Sichuan baijiu (Chinese liquor made Logan Schmid, his wife, From James Bondarchuk: “I have consulted for the Department from grain) producer, expand its Christina Tobajas, and their two was recently awarded my Ph.D. of Defense and have recently com- presence in the United States. [Edi- children spent six weeks in Spain in philosophy from Harvard. The pleted our first project for a Fortune tor’s note: See “Lions,” this issue.] this summer, mostly in the Pyrenees title of my dissertation was ‘Self- 500, which is exciting. Getting Erick Tyrone ’s law office (Tyrone mountains, where the kids attend a Consciousness in Kant’s Moral Phi- busy as U.S.-China relations take a Law Group) could be spotted in a day camp each July. In August, he losophy.’ I am moving to Delaware new turn. Still doing a lot of public recent episode of The Real House- returned to work at Facebook’s to teach math and philosophy at St. speaking in Washington, and have wives of Potomac. New York office. Andrew’s School.” had a range of trips abroad this year.”

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Rob McNamee lives in Arling- litigation associate at Blank Rome’s Cacao Garden’ in Washington, D.C. time; write in and tell your class- ton, Va., with his wife, Erin, and D.C. office. In April I quit my full-time job as a mates all about it! Elizabeth Miller Jon Chenni Xu their sons, Charlie (1) and Henry shares, “ nurse at Georgetown University to moved back to New [Miller] (4). In June, he left the law firm and I want to share the pursue my passion. York after living and working in life to join the Financial Industry exciting news that we welcomed our “I have direct trade relation- China for seven years, and is now Regulatory Authority, working on third son, Joseph Isaac, on Father’s ships (through contacts I made at Ant Financial doing corporate capital markets policy in the Office Day, June 17. He joins Nathaniel (3) on Instagram!) with cacao farms communication. She encourages of General Counsel. and Zachary (2).” from countries such as Ecuador classmates: “Please reach out!” Danielle Slutzky Jose Montero writes, “I moved I’m also very excited to share and Guatemala, and infuse local In mid-July, Eddleston to the Amazon Music team as its that my wife, Amanda Chait healing plants from farmers to create welcomed her first child, David Chait new head of customer research. GSAAP’13, and I ( ) medicinal grade chocolates. Using Ariella, with her husband, Sloan. Really excited to learn about the welcomed our second daughter, cacao as a canvas, I seek to creatively Ariella has been navigating her music industry and also perform Sally Donner Chait, on June 11, bring awareness to mental and home base in the Upper West Side with the Amazon orchestra! Hit me and no one is more excited than big physical wellness, as well as global and is slowly making her way to play up next time you’re in Seattle!” sister Julia. and local food and social justice on Columbia’s campus! Monica Jacobsen (née Ager) issues. I currently hold workshops Have a great fall, and do send me writes, “I am an attorney advisor at at Common Good City Farm (a your news at [email protected] 2007 the Department of State’s Office of D.C. urban CSA) and was at the –– CC’08 wants to hear from you! the Legal Adviser, specializing in Oakcrest Farmers Market, in July, as David D. Chait human rights law. My husband, John, part of the Prince Georges County [email protected] and I welcomed our second child, Food Justice Coalition’s vision to 2009 Josephine ‘Josie’ Marie Jacobsen, provide healthful, affordable food to Thank you, everyone, for sharing on June 3. Big sis Vivian is over the residents and to support the growth REUNION 2019 your exciting updates! moon at her new role and has assured of local businesses owned and oper- MAY 30–JUNE 1 Gabriel José Bolaños shares, us she plans to be a ‘big helper.’” ated by people of color. Events and Programs Contact Andrew Russeth Avi “I got married in 2013 to Megan writes, “ “My next mission is to travel [email protected] Zenilman Hanson, then finished my Ph.D. drove up from Baltimore to cities all over the world to learn Development Contact in music theory and composition for a weekend in New York and, about and bring awareness to [email protected] Noreen Malone, at UC Davis. We spent three years with our friend rebuilding communities through Alidad Damooei in Nicaragua and we’ll be moving we picked up delicious, hulking agriculture and love. Other future [email protected] to Maine next year, where I’ll teach Italian sandwiches from Jimmy’s collaborations will include working music theory and music technology Famous Heros in Sheepshead Bay with nonprofits for mental health, at Bates College.” and learned about its storied eating as well as fundraising to the farming Whoa, our 10-year reunion will Peter Luccarelli married contest. Then we hit the beach at communities I work with in the be here before we know it! Take a Stephanie Sisco in Asheville, N.C., in Fort Tilden, enjoying the burning- United States and globally.” minute to send in a Class Note for Alison Mariella Désir April. In attendance were Larry Dyer hot sun and some ice-cold beverages. shared the Winter issue. Your classmates SEAS’78, Eric Hirani SEAS’11, We recommend you visit Jimmy’s the a recent press release: “Members would love to hear from you! Chris Luccarelli ’16, Peter Luccarelli next time you’re in the area!” of #Run4AllWomen, a grassroots Matt Reuter Jr. SEAS’78, Bryan Liou SEAS’12, shares, “I graduated movement which uses running as Yong Park GS’10, Reid Ellison from my residency in physical medi- a vehicle for social change, will run 2010 SEAS’08 and Tom Meister ’09. cine and rehabilitation at Thomas 2,018 miles to help Democrats take Julia Feldberg Klein Negar Kordestani has been in Jefferson University Hospital in back Congress in this year’s midterm [email protected] the Washington, D.C., area a little Philadelphia! I took my first job as elections. Led by #Run4AllWomen more than a year now and is enjoy- an attending physician, at Hartford founder, ultra-marathoner, and social Natalie Gossett ing being back home, closer to fam- Hospital in Connecticut, beginning activist Alison Désir, Midterm Run got engaged to her ily and friends! She is a mid-level in August. After several years of will galvanize runners (and walkers) partner in crime, Kyle Bogdan. She’s being on call most weekends, I look from across the country to raise planning on a long engagement and forward to having weekends free.” money and awareness for 11 can- a beach wedding. Emily Hoffmanshares, “In didates for the U.S. House of Rep- Contessa Gayles writes, “I’ve January 2018, I graduated with resentatives –– and six for the U.S. spent the past four years as a pro- an M.A. in dance movement Senate –– committed to the group’s ducer at CNN in New York, where psychotherapy from the University core values regarding women’s health I created, produced and directed of Roehampton in London. and women’s rights, common-sense award-winning digital video series I’ve recently traveled to Nepal gun control, LGBTQ+ issues, immi- and original documentaries. My to do volunteer work providing gration, criminal justice reform and latest documentary, The Feminist on psychotherapy and life skills affordable health care.” Cellblock Y, follows a convicted felon training through dance and as he builds a feminist movement movement in a women’s shelter from behind bars at an all-male with survivors of trafficking and 2008 prison in Soledad, Calif. Through sexual assault. Learn more about an unlikely, inmate-led rehabilita- this project and offer support at Neda Navab tion program, men on the inside are Eric Bondarsky ’07 (left) and Evan movingthroughmovement.com.” [email protected] presented with the opportunity of a Schutzman ’07 met up at Bravo Christina Kim writes, “I started new lease on life –– all they have to Pizzeria in Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., a bean-to-bar chocolate making I hope that everyone who attended do is challenge everything they were in June. traveling workshop called the ‘Secret our 10-year reunion had an amazing taught about what it means to ‘be a

80 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews man.’ The Feminist on Cellblock Y is ing a star in a lab in Germany (we available to stream on the CNNgo met up in Copenhagen). When he app (Apple TV, Roku, smart explained what he was doing, I only TVs, etc.) and at this link: cnn. understood every fifth word. it/2LZaa4c. I hope you’ll watch! “The biggest highlight of the last “Also, I recently left CNN to few months was seeing my best pal, pursue documentary as an indepen- Varun Gulati SEAS’10, marry his dent filmmaker and founded my queen. It was the Virginia version of New York City-based production the Royal Wedding, but way cooler. company, Cocomotion Pictures. We danced for three consecutive Reach out about visual storytelling days without any breaks. I shattered and doc-making collaborations: bones in my right foot, but I’m on [email protected].” the mend now. I saw a bunch of Sean Quinn writes, “I was gifted friends from Columbia so it felt like a vacation to Ireland from my wife, a teaser for our 10-year reunion. Liana Tedesco ’11, for my birthday.” “My meta goal these days it to Lauren Casey Hayes-Deats just be content. I have found that we Left to right: Grace Yim, Chris Yim ’10 and Adina Rose Levin ’11 met up at Fàbrica Moritz in Barcelona in May. and her husband, Caleb Hayes- are trapped by all these narratives in Deats LAW’11, welcomed their first our lives that tell us how we should child, Harlan James, on June 16. The be and how we should live that they family is moving from Brooklyn to replace the act of living itself. hasn’t let medical school stop her prisoner reentry, social support for Washington, D.C., this fall. “I want to give a big shoutout to from spending time on beaches and the LGBTQIA+ community, police Alani Gregory completed her my good friend Allon Brann, who at music festivals, recently running violence, HIV/AIDS awareness and residency in internal medicine/ was at the Gulati wedding. At the into Zachary Kourouma on a festi- underprivileged youth programming. primary care this past June at Yale end of the night, we were tasked val field. She also works with Court- He says he is grateful to be able to New Haven Hospital. She will be with cleaning up the after-party. My ney Wilkins ’07, Aaron Edmonds work on both sides of philanthropy, staying at Yale to be one of the chief foot had been smashed at that point, ’09, Itanza Lawrence SEAS’12 and and to help promote equity across medical residents for the Yale Primary and Allon stepped up in a big way Jana Johnson on curating events his beloved California. Care Residency Program. Thereafter, to make sure that we swept all the for the Black Alumni Council When he is not performing the she plans to work in primary care empty bottles and cans into trash Columbia University LA Chapter. duties of a grants coordinator and and continue to pursue her research bags to make sure that the Dulles Mary Martha Douglas married grant writer, Aliko produces and interest in using health education as Hyatt was pristinely cleaned. He George Stasinopoulos on May 5 hosts the “Locked on Warriors” a means to reduce chronic disease in also gave me the most generous hug in New York City. Surrounded by podcast, a daily look into all the underserved communities. at the end of that night that a guy friends, family and Lions from three happenings within and around Chris Yim shares, “Greetings could ask for. decades of graduating classes, Mary Golden State Warriors — the reign- from a bathroom in a hotel in the “That wraps up my update. Adieu!” Martha and George exchanged vows ing champions of the NBA. Dolomites! I’m currently on the in the Conservatory Garden of Cen- Long live the Lakers. road with my wife, Grace, trying tral Park before everyone headed Aliko has been freelance writ- to see what eating pizza and pasta 2011 to Locanda Verde in TriBeCa for a ing about sports since 2015 and is every day does to one’s form. We night of jazz, wine and pasta. After published on Bleacher Report and are traveling through Europe for Nuriel Moghavem and a few celebratory weeks in Italy forbes.com. He also stays active in another month before heading back Sean Udell (more wine, more pasta), the couple the Bay Area’s LGBTQIA+ commu- to the Bay. Our summer has been [email protected] returned home to Manhattan, where nity. There’s a post-dystopian space full of spontaneity, bonding, friends [email protected] they live with their dog, Aggie adventure novel rattling around in and a little adventure. (who was Puppy of Honor). Both the back of his head; 2018 is the year “We quit our jobs (I got let go Happy fall, 2011! We’re excited to Mary Martha and Aggie have taken he puts pen to paper. Aliko says his from mine) earlier this year and are share lots of updates this quarter, as George’s last name, and MM has journal helps keep him grounded. He cruising around the world until the classmates have had busy, productive spent the months since trying to fit is also anchored by a strong contin- end of the year. We saved up a little and apparently joyous starts to 2018. her now even longer full name onto gent of CU grads in and around San bread so we are taking this opportu- Lauren Dwyer started a job in all official documents. Francisco, some of whom he is lucky nity to ‘find ourselves.’ I have found March as director of digital sport Aliko Carter wrote to us from to call friends for life. In his limited that I can drive a manual car if the at Sportradar (still in New York), the Oakland, Calif., office of the free time, Aliko enjoys being in the situation calls for it (thanks mostly focusing on sports data and fol- California Health Care Founda- sun, and napping. to Dario Abramskiehn, who taught lowing the rollout of legal sports tion, where he recently began as Dhruv Vasishtha married his me how). I have also learned that betting in the United States closely. a program associate (a.k.a. grants best friend and better half, Molly you can smile and approach almost She says she looks forward to stay- coordinator). Aliko is pumped about Spector BC’11, this past July. Dhruv anyone. Most people are open to ing involved with the College and this work, he says, especially helping was not excited about the COÖP making friends. Highlights of this Columbia Athletics, as always. to expand the MediCal program table –– strategically placed in the trip have included nearly getting Erin Adams spent the summer for low-income Californians, and far back of the venue –– taking their mugged by a 12-year-old on a bike in Los Angeles after her first year of ultimately achieving universal, shirts off during speeches. while out on a jog, making friends medical school at Howard Univer- quality health coverage through- Long live COÖP. with a group of Swiss architects and sity College of Medicine, where she out the state. Additionally, Aliko Brynn Plummer has been living meeting up with them in Zurich was the Hepatitis C co-coordinator writes grants for not-for-profits and working in Nashville since two months later and learning that for the student-run clinic and also across the San Francisco Bay Area, graduation. After teaching middle Peter Traverso SEAS’10 is mak- was on the student council. 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America, Brynn spent five years on Adam’s insistence on displaying the TFA’s Nashville Regional Team, first entire CC and LitHum syllabi on as the manager of diversity, recruit- their living room bookshelf. He says ment and community, and then as he’s looking forward to celebrat- the managing director of alumni ing their wedding with fellow leadership. In September, Brynn Columbians sometime next summer. was to transition from TFA to In the meantime, Adam keeps busy take on the role of VP of inclusion as a commercial and constitutional and community relations with the litigator at Latham & Watkins Nashville Entrepreneur Center. She in Los Angeles where, among also recently had the opportunity to other things, he handles antitrust break bread (actually, chicken and and intellectual property matters Monica Carty ’15 (right) visited Noeleen Advani ’15 in Cape Town, South Africa, in April. waffles) with Jon Tanners as he involving entertainment technology was passing through Music City. markets, and is suing the President Long live Jon Tanners. for banning transgender people from Last March, Adina Rose Levin the military. Congratulations are in order for now a researcher-at-home taking left New York to try her hand at life Finally, Rachel Heng’s debut Kelicia Hollis, who is pursuing a care of my 10-month-old daughter, in her other favorite city: Barcelona. novel, Suicide Club, was published master’s of international educa- Sophie, in Oita, southern Japan. For more, visit adinaroselevin.com/ in July and has been translated into tion at the Universidad de Alcalá Post-graduation life hasn’t been musings (password: evita). While eight languages. Suicide Club is a with the Teach and Learn in Spain smooth, and such is life, but I am in Barcelona, she’s had the chance literary dystopian novel set in near- Program run by Instituto Franklin glad to have found a mission in life: to connect with Rebecca Smith ’13, future New York, where life expec- in Alcalá de Henares, Spain (right To redefine the life of a stay-at- who lives there (Adina was her first- tancies average 300 years and the outside of Madrid). It is a one-year home mom. Living in Japan, I face year RA in Wallach), and Chris Yim pursuit of immortality has become program, which started this fall, and the unquestioned reality of being a ’10, who was passing through with all-consuming. It has been named Kelicia will obtain a master’s and housewife, which I frankly think is his wife, Grace. While Adina waits a most anticipated book of 2018 by teach in a local public school. worthy of being proud of, but is usu- for her long-term visa to process, she The Huffington Post, ELLE, The Gillian Rhodes shared her latest ally underappreciated. Being a full- has also been spending time in her Independent, The Irish Times, NYLON, dance updates from Pakistan: “After time mother is hard work, especially hometown of Chicago, where she’s Tor.com and The Rumpus. You can two years of dancing for a profes- so when caring for and communi- enjoyed meeting up with her former order Suicide Club on Indiebound or sional company in South Korea, cating with an (erratic) infant. John Jay floormate Dylan Isaacson Amazon and see Rachel’s U.S. tour I’ve been based in Lahore, Pakistan, “My husband, who is doing (who began a residency at North- dates at rachelhengqp.com. for the past five months. I have a master’s here, understands my western), Isaac Lara (who was in We’re thrilled to hear about performed my own solos all over concerns and shares the chore with town to speak on a law panel), and everyone’s successes! Remember that the country as well as performing me as much as possible, but there Renuka Agarwal ’12 and Kamal you can always reach out to us with cultural and folk dances regularly always comes the inevitable time Yechoor SEAS’11, who both gradu- updates at the email addresses at the with a local company, teaching when I am alone with the baby. My ated from the University of Chicago top of this column. workshops, and loving the chance to biggest priority each day, then, is to Booth School of Business last June. discover and learn about the country ensure Sophie is happy and healthy. If you plan to be in the Barcelona or and culture.” My other concern is to write at least Chicago areas, please drop Adina a 2012 Hong Kong Nguyen sent a lovely 500 words every day on any paper line at [email protected]. letter from Japan: “I hesitated sending that I am working on. I am lucky She would love to hear from you! Sarah Chai updates because, well, I haven’t always enough to have found a research Adam Sieff got engaged [email protected] been a very vocal person and might position at a Vietnamese university over Memorial Day Weekend in have easily gotten lost in the sea of that allows me to work online, Montecito, Calif., to Madeleine Hello, my friends –– let’s get right amazing CC fellows. Ever since my overseas and freely as I want. I haven’t McKenna, who said yes despite to it! first week on campus, I have struggled gone to graduate school yet, but this to remember my peers’ names, not just doesn’t stop me from pursuing serious because I met so many people within publications at well-ranked journals. only a couple of days, but also because So, you might find in the end this they all remembered mine so effort- is actually a blatant attempt at self- lessly. ‘Hi, Hong Kong,’ someone promotion: I recently co-authored a would call out to me, and I could only paper on healthcare economics that wave back awkwardly, as I couldn’t was published on Nature’s Palgrave respond the same way. Nonetheless, Communications. It’s available at I am writing now after reading all go.nature.com/2K8WNt8. Please the sweet Class Notes from friends do read and help me share the I sadly didn’t get to know during study. I would love to talk to anyone my time at Columbia; a part of me interested in the topic. always wishes I had met and talked to “I will be based in Japan for the more of you. So, I thought, why don’t next three years, possibly joining a I share my story now? A big caveat: graduate program. I hope my story Columbia rowing reconnected at Jocelyn Bohn ’15’s wedding during Memorial This story involves some reflections didn’t bore you and that I hear from Day Weekend. Left to right: Aneesha Baliga ’16, Laney McGahey ’17, Karli on child-rearing. ;) classmates, many of whom I regret McMenamin ’14, the bride, Alex Swift ’15, Kellie Solowski ’14, Carly Tashjian ’16, “Ten years since entering college not getting to know more. All the India Knight ’16, Lottie Galliano ’14 and Hilary Going ’14. and six years since graduation, I am best wishes to our class!”

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writes, “My high school sweetheart 2013 and I were married during Memorial Day Weekend in our boarding school Tala Akhavan church, followed by a reception [email protected] in my grandparents’ backyard. We had many College alumni present, What’s new, Class of 2013? There’s including my college roommate Kira no news this time, but I’m sure you Ullman, who was in the bridal party! guys had exciting summers that your It was a fun day filled with so much classmates would love to read about! joy and love. We are grateful for our Did you go to our five-year reunion? amazing group of Columbia friends. Tell me all about it! Send in your [Editor’s note: See “Just Married!”] news and I’ll be happy to run it in Also in attendance but not pictured the Winter column! were Hunter Little, Lea Beltra- mino Hendey, Dave Filosa ’82, Joyce Chang ’86, Jim McMenamin 2014 (senior associate dean for Columbia College development/senior director Left to right: Sam Tkach SEAS’16, Jeremy Cohen ’16, Rachel Mester SEAS’16, REUNION 2019 of principal gifts and former head of Jesse Depaoli ’16, Elizabeth Trelstad ’16, Aidan Mehigan ’16 and Lily Liu- Krason ’16 recently had a mini CC’16 reunion. MAY 30–JUNE 1 admissions) and some others!” Events and Programs Contact Monica Carty visited Noeleen [email protected] Advani in Cape Town, South Development Contact Africa, in April. Noeleen has been artistically powerful, but also has [email protected] working in the public health sector 2016 been inspiring for those who wish to in South Africa for three years, and see more representation of those with Rebecca Fattell Monica has always wanted to go to Lily Liu-Krason disabilities in the arts. [email protected] Cape Town. She sent a photo from [email protected] “In order to pay off these Colum- its Bo-Kaap neighborhood! bia loans (who would have guessed CC’14, I hope you had a great sum- Stella Zhao let us know that Hey CC’16! Thanks to some nomina- that creative writing and film majors mer! Share what sort of adventures Chloe Durkin is moving to Los tions, I’ve been able to grab some cool wouldn’t have an instant financial you got up to by emailing me at Angeles after she got a job at Para- updates from classmates. Please keep return?), I have also been working at [email protected]. CCT also mount as a writers’ assistant. This is sending me people you want to brag Hi-Life Bar & Grill on the Upper loves photos, so if you met up with after she was a producers’ assistant about and I’ll reach out, or you can West Side. Come by during my any other College alums recently, at Marvel for a couple years. “She’s submit directly to me at lliukrason@ Sunday bartending shift for ‘Sunday send in a photo of the group! And excited, and so am I!” says Stella. gmail.com or college.columbia.edu/ Fundays’ and you might run into finally, our five-year reunion is Last but not least, I congratulate cct/submit_class_note. Brandon Martinez, David Ham- coming next spring, so start getting Sonali Mehta and David Berman I recently had a fun reunion with burger, Pablo Mendoza, Manny hyped now! Hope you’re doing well, on their recent engagement! I’m Sam Tkach SEAS’16, Jeremy Tamargo SEAS’16, Justine Hor- and have a great fall! excited for you both! Cohen, Rachel Mester SEAS’16, ton or Dani Lopez, if you’re lucky.” Thank you to everyone for the Jesse Depaoli, Elizabeth Trelstad From Lizzy Trelstad: “Hey, great submissions! As always, your and Aidan Mehigan. Check out the CC’16! I spent the summer after 2015 classmates want to hear from you! nearby photo! I’d love to see some graduation in the Catskill Moun- Please be sure to submit updates to photos from the rest of y’all! tains. How very COÖP of me. Kareem Carryl Class Notes by writing me at the From Madison Ford: “After I soaked up the good air, built a [email protected] address at the top of the column or graduating, I spent some time at hiking trail and finally read Harry via the CCT Class Notes webform, DuJour magazine in its editorial print Potter. Part of that summer was Hello, Class of 2015! We have some college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ division. Since leaving the magazine recovery from pre-med exhaustion, great news to share! Jocelyn Bohn class_note. in early 2017, I have been freelance part prep for the next year spent writing and pursuing acting oppor- holed up in a cosmetics innovation tunities. My film, Nathan’s Kingdom, lab. The chemistry was great fun, but is currently in its festival run and has by mid-2017 I saw some dubious been met with an exciting response practices in the world of consumer from audiences so far. It recently goods. So I quit to try to puzzle out screened at the Dances with Films a solution. Many moons of network- Festival in Los Angeles, following its ing and research later, I got accepted premiere at the Sedona International into an NYC incubator and founded Film Festival, where it received the Beaker. We’re a data startup on Heart of the Festival award. The film a mission to translate chemicals follows a sister and her brother, who into plain English. Yay, science! is on the autism spectrum, attempt- (Psst, we’re hiring! I’m looking for ing to keep their lives together a tech and business development amid pressures from social services. co-founders. HMU if you wanna My co-star, Jacob Lince, is an actor help change the way search engines Left to right: Brandon Martinez ’16, Manny Tamargo SEAS’16, Pablo Mendoza ’16 on the autism spectrum, and his recommend products, or if you think and David Hamburger ’16 at Hi-Life Bar & Grill on the Upper West Side. performance in the film is not only science is cool.) Rawr.”

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working on policies related to criminal justice reform, labor and consumer protections, and seniors and their caregivers. I traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a week in the mountains to bond with friends from the fellowship and clear my head with some hiking and stargazing. “I continue to be involved in the housing justice movement through the tenant association in my building and through the Bronx/ Upper Manhattan branch of NYC Democratic Socialists of America. I was super stoked about Alexan- dria Ocasio-Cortes’ win against Joe Crowley and am excited to get involved in other areas of DSA’s work and campaigns uptown.” Julia Zeh ’18 (left) and Briley Lewis Joey Santia shares, “I usually ’18 relaxed at Disneyland before beginning Ph.D.s this fall. like sausage on my pizza, but yester- day I ordered a pepperoni.” Left to right: Susan Stryker, Joel Sanders ’78 and Seb Choe ’17 at the Sebastian Choe writes, “I work 2018 AIA Conference on Architecture for the launch of Stalled! Online, at Joel Sanders Architect, a firm in space aims to host monthly cocktail an open-source website that makes design research on inclusive New York City at the intersection of parties for members and artists to restrooms accessible to a wider audience. design/research led by a Yale profes- socialize, eat, connect, collaborate sor. This past year I’ve been project and discover new talent. manager for a project that recently Abhinav Seetharaman writes, mance at the University of Virginia launched, Stalled! Online, which “A few days after graduation, I left 2017 School of Law, I have been invited compiles three years of design- for India to continue my fieldwork to join the Virginia Law Review.” research on inclusive public rest- with Tibetans in Exile. I had writ- Carl Yin Bianca Guerrero has this rooms responding to controversies ten my senior thesis on Tibetan [email protected] update: “I finished the Urban Fel- of transgender access to restrooms refugees and their citizenship rights lows program in May and took two into an online multimedia resource. in India, and went back in May to Jen Shahar recently graduated weeks off. During that break, I took “I recently had design work exhib- conduct supplementary research. I from Rutgers with a master’s in a trip to the Big Island in Hawaii ited at the 2018 Barnard+Columbia had the rare opportunity to meet biomedical sciences with an oral with a close friend and fellow Tru- Architecture Alumni Exhibition and speak to His Holiness the Dalai biology concentration, and is now man Scholar. I had to cut the trip –– visual art as well as a community Lama toward the end of the trip, attending the School of Dental short due to the volcanic activity design project in Upstate New York something that I’ll always treasure. Medicine. but am glad I went because the tide (a public park/community garden I Since returning from India, I’ve been Justin Aimonetti writes, “I spent pools, geo-thermal pools and other am co-designing).” interning at an NGO in D.C. and the summer interning with the places I enjoyed were eventually went on a one-week trip to Dar es Department of Justice’s National destroyed by the lava. Salaam, Tanzania, to help conduct a Courts Section in Washington, D.C. “I now work with the mayor’s chief 2018 project on wildlife conservation and I am proud to announce that based policy advisor in the Office of Policy poaching prevention. I’m excited to on my first-year academic perfor- & Planning. I am learning about and REUNION 2019 be starting my one-year master’s in MAY 30–JUNE 1 global thought back at Columbia Events and Programs Contact this fall!” [email protected] Briley Lewis and Julia Zeh Development Contact started their Ph.D.s this fall at [email protected] UCLA for astrophysics and at Syra- cuse for biology, respectively. Before Alexander Birkel all that work though, they had and Maleeha Chida some fun on vacation in California, [email protected] including a trip to Disneyland. [email protected] Srishti Sinha caught up with Miranda Roman, Anna Chubaeva Alex Bass, who majored in art and Maleeha Chida over brunch history with a business management after returning to New York from concentration, is starting her own India. Srishti still struggles to wake company, Salon 21, an art and social up in time for brunch, despite hav- gathering space for young creatives ing to get to work at 7 a.m. in the New York area to come Have a great fall, and please send Left to right: Miranda Roman ’18, Anna Chubaeva ’18, Maleeha Chida ’18 and together, talk, dine and support your notes to the email addresses at Srishti Sinha ’18 caught up in New York City a few weeks after graduation. the next generation of artists. The the top of the column!

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1953–55. During his internship in hand. A graduate of Brooklyn 1943 1948 he met Sarah Hamilton; they were Law School, he served in the Army married in 1954. In their retirement, during the Korean Conflict and G.J. “Dan” D’Angio, pediatric Joseph A. Montimurro, retired they lived in Naples, Fla., Cumber­ then worked for the law firm of his oncologist, Philadelphia, on ob/gyn, Venice, Fla., on April 11, land, Maine, and most recently father, Kings County Surrogate E. September 14, 2018. Born on 2018. Born on October 31, 1927, Venice. Montimurro’s greatest Ivan Rubenstein. Soon thereafter he May 2, 1922, D’Angio had a long, Montimurro was a graduate of passions were golf, classical music, formed his own law firm, where he happy and productive life devoted Greenwich (Conn.) H.S. and the opera, history and enjoying time practiced the rest of his life. Ruben- to family and the care of children Yale University School of Medicine with family and friends. His wife stein was an advisor in the 1960s to with cancer. He was the Class of (1952). Following his internship at survives him, as do his children, Lisa the Bennett Commission that mod- 1943 Class Notes correspondent St. Luke’s Hospital and residency at and her husband, Jim Grimes, Joe ernized trust and estate law in New 2009–18. D’Angio was predeceased Sloane Hospital for Women/New­ Jr., and Suzanne and her husband, York, resulting in today’s Estates by his first wife, Jean Terhune York Presbyterian-Columbia Univer- Greg Hardy; five grandchildren; Powers and Trusts Law and Surro- D’Angio, and is survived by his sity Medical Center, he returned to one great-granddaughter; brothers, gate’s Court Procedure Act. He held current wife, Dr. Audrey Evans; Greenwich in 1959 to establish his Francis, Lawrence and Anthony; and leadership positions in numerous bar brother, Carl J. ’41; sons, Carl ob/gyn practice and affiliation with Anthony’s wife, Cathi. Montimurro associations and was the first lawyer and his wife, Donna, and Peter Greenwich Hospital, where he prac- was predeceased by his sister, Marie from Brooklyn admitted as a fellow and his husband, Greg Hinson; ticed until his retirement, delivering Ledda, and a grandson. of the American College of Trusts two grandchildren; and two more than 3,500 babies. Montimurro and Estates Counsel. He had hun- great-grandchildren. Memorial was a proud veteran and following Seth Rubenstein, attorney, Brook- dreds of reported decisions, many of contributions may be made to St. his internship served as a captain lyn, N.Y., on April 16, 2018. A which made law and many of which James School, 3217 W. Clearfield in the Air Force as a flight surgeon third-generation trusts and estates were controversial, including when St., Philadelphia, PA 19132. in Newfoundland and Greenland, lawyer, Rubenstein died with work he was appointed by the Supreme

Henry L. King ’48, Trustee Emeritus, Helped Select University Presidents

Henry L. King ’48, a University After high school in Brooklyn, State Bar Association and remained trustee chair emeritus, Columbia King graduated with honors from involved with Yale. King was a College Alumni Association Board the College, earned a degree from member of the Council on Foreign of Directors member emeritus and a Yale Law School in 1951 and had Relations, the American College member of the selection committees a more than 60-year legal career at of Trial Lawyers and the College for University presidents George Davis Polk & Wardwell as a litigator, of Commercial Arbitration, Rupp and Lee C. Bollinger, died on becoming a partner in 1961. His and served on the boards of the June 18, 2018, in New York City. practice focused on antitrust and American Skin Association, Chapin He was 90. securities law. King successfully School, Episcopal Charities, King was a member of the challenged New York City’s New York Academy of Medicine, University’s Board of Trustees calculation of its female employees’ Population Council, Citizens from 1983 to 1995, serving two pensions, which had been based Committee for New York City, terms, and was its chair from 1992 on their longer life expectancy and and Lawyers Committee for Civil to 1995, during which time he resulted in lower annual payments Rights Under Law. headed up the searches for Rupp to women than men, and at his In NYC, and on Fishers Island, and Bollinger. An accomplished firm championed the promotion of N.Y., where he was an active attorney, King was presented a women. Over time, King’s practice community member for 55 years, sons, Michael Sokolov and his John Jay Award for distinguished shifted to corporate board advisory King belonged to several social wife, Ellen, and Joseph Sokolov; professional achievement in 1992 work and complex arbitration. He clubs. His recreational interests 15 grandchildren; three step- and a University Medal in 1968, was the firm’s managing partner for included opera, travel, tennis, golf, granddaughters; and a son-in-law, for 10-plus years of service to the 12 years. skiing and fly-fishing. He was Dave Cantlay. King’s daughters University. He was a member of King was a member of Trinity devoted to his family, and is Elizabeth Robertson and Patricia the CCAA Board of Directors Church Wall Street’s vestry. He later survived by his wife, Margaret Cantlay predeceased him. from 1966 to 1968. As a student, led the Trustees of the Cathedral Gram King; children, Matthew Memorial contributions may King worked on Spectator and was Church of St. John the Divine, LAW’91 and his wife, Elizabeth, be made to Columbia University, a member of the Senior Society of shepherding its recovery from a Katherine Baccile and her husband, Yale Law School, the Cathedral Nacoms. He chaired the Columbia- fire, and led the development of a Peter, Andrew and his wife, Topsy, Church of St. John the Divine or Presbyterian Health Sciences residential building on its Close. He and Eleanor Stringfellow and her St. James Church. Advisory Council in the mid-2000s. also was president of the New York husband, Matthew; Margaret’s — Lisa Palladino

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Court to act as guardian ad litem computer programmer. Lee continued all seven continents during his many sister, Carol Frazier; brother, James for David Berkowitz, the notorious to travel extensively with family and travels. A lover of poetic verse, Spar- ’64; children, Sean, James, Daniel, Son of Sam, in the civil proceedings friends, frequently attending reunions row composed a clever rhyme for Michael and Meghan; and eight following Berkowitz’s apprehen- of his WWII 12th Bomb Group. Lee every celebration. Generous of spirit grandchildren. His was divorced from sion. Rubenstein is survived by his was predeceased by his wife, Gertrude, with loved ones and strangers alike, he his wife in 2003. Memorial contri- sons, Joshua, Ephraim ’78, SOA’97 and is survived by his daughter, Sha- made friends at every turn and main- butions may be made to Columbia and Micah; daughter-in-law, Sarah; ron Saunders; son, Gary, and his wife, tained them with his loyalty, intellect University Athletics Track & Field. seven grandchildren; and one great- Betty Lee; two grandchildren; and one and sense of humor. Sparrow was also grandson. Memorial contributions great-granddaughter. a hero, having saved his then-young may be made to the Columbia Col- son from a fire and donated his kidney 1961 lege Fund or Brooklyn Law School. to extend the life of his since-deceased 1952 daughter, Laurie. He is survived by William N. Binderman, attorney, Kenneth R. Williams, retired his wife of 61 years, Marcia; son, Philadelphia, on February 15, 2018. research scientist, Kennett Square, Donald N. Scofield, retired Baptist David; sister, Joyce; son-in-law, James Born on July 1, 1939, in West Vir- Pa., on November 4, 2017. Wil- minister, Penney Farms, Fla., on Palumbo; daughter-in-law, Darcy ginia, Binderman was raised on a liams was born in New York City on April 18, 2018. Scofield was born Jacobs; and four grandchildren. farm, attended high school in Lake- August 23, 1922. He and his parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 2, 1930. wood, N.J., and won a scholarship moved to Teaneck, N.J., and he He was a graduate of Erasmus H.S., to Columbia. As an undergraduate, graduated from high school there. Eastern Seminary (B.D., 1956) and 1958 he was the voice of Columbia foot- Williams was a chemistry student at Penn (M.A., 1956). He married ball for WKCR and a member of the College when he enlisted in the Ruth Mitchell, a native of Scotland, John J. McGroarty, retired oph- the senior society of Nacoms. For Army during WWII; he was part of in 1957; she predeceased him in thalmologist, Burbank, Calif., on his major in sociology, Binderman the Army Signal Corps in Europe. 2011. During his ministry, Scofield December 22, 2017. McGroarty lived with the indigenous people of Williams completed his chemistry served three churches, one in Penn- Chiapas, Mexico, gathering their degree and earned a degree in phys- sylvania and two in New Jersey. He recollections of the Mexican Revo- ics in 1949 from GSAS. At Colum- and his wife, Jane McCurry Music, lution and of Emiliano Zapata. He bia he met his wife, Ardis Paul, who who survives him, retired to Penney earned a degree in 1963 from SIPA, predeceased him in 2008 after 61 Retirement Community. then another in 1964, from the Law years of marriage. Williams worked School. He practiced law in New with the Textile Fibers Department York City, then in Philadelphia, spe- of the DuPont Co. in industrial 1955 cializing in litigation with a concen- end-use research. Williams was tration in family law. He was also for an avid reader of European and Robert E. Sparrow, retired attorney, a time a TV producer with WABC, American history, and early man; Hollis Hills, N.Y., on June 9, 2018. associated with Like It Is. Binder- attended classes at the Osher Life- Sparrow was born and raised in man was a patron of music and long Learning Institute; and was an Brooklyn. He earned a J.D. from the theater, particularly jazz, and was on amateur orchardist and gardener. Law School in 1957 and was a distin- the panel of judges for Philadelphia’s He is survived by his daughter, guished defense attorney for 53 years, Barrymore Awards for Excellence Evelyn. Memorial contributions working on high-profile cases includ- John J. McGroarty ’58 in Theatre. He was president of a may be made to Osher Lifelong ing Winston Moseley’s notorious Conservative Jewish congregation Learning Institute, Attn: Ellen M. murder of Kitty Genovese. He was was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1936 in Larchmont, N.Y., and for many Saienni, 2700 Pennsylvania Ave., president of the Queens County Bar and began to run track at Bishop years was president of CC’61, orga- Arsht Hall, Wilmington, DE 19806 Association and named its lawyer of Loughlin H.S. At Columbia, he nizing many reunions. In 1997 he or to Penn Memory Center, Attn: the year in 1993. An all-around ath- ran track and cross country for four Terrence Casey, 3615 Chestnut St., lete, Sparrow was a nationally ranked years and was selected as captain Room 236, Philadelphia, PA 19104. handball player, accomplished tennis in his senior year. He made many Checks for Penn Memory Center player and certified scuba diver. He lifelong friends running through the Obituary Submission Guidelines should be made out to Trustees of was also a licensed pilot, a nature lover hills of Van Cortlandt Park in fall, Columbia College Today welcomes the University of Pennsylvania with and a passionate explorer who touched on the boards at Madison Square obituaries for College alumni. ADC – PMC in the memo line. Garden in winter and on the cinder Deaths are noted in the next track at Baker Field in spring. He available issue in the “Other was active on campus in fraternity Deaths Reported” box. Complete 1951 life and NROTC. After three years obituaries will be published in an of active duty in the Navy, McGro- upcoming issue, pending receipt of Stanley G.Y. Lee, information. Due to the volume of retired military arty returned to study at New York obituaries that CCT receives, it may servicemember, Lakewood, Wash., on Medical College and completed his take several issues for the complete October 9, 2016. Born in Washington, ophthalmology training at the Hark- obituary to appear. Word limit is 200; D.C., on November 17, 1921, Lee was ness Pavilion of Columbia University text may be edited for length, clarity the oldest of 10. He traveled the world Medical Center. McGroarty moved and style at the editors’ discretion. Click “Contact Us” at college. as one of the first Asian-American to California with his wife, Kathleen columbia.edu/cct, or mail materials pilots for the Army Air Corps and (née Mitchell) and practiced oph- to Obituaries Editor, Columbia the Air Force. He served proudly thalmology for more than 30 years in College Today, Columbia Alumni in WWII, the Korean War and the the San Fernando Valley while on the Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Vietnam War. After almost 30 years medical staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital 4th Fl., New York, NY 10025. of service he retired and became a Robert E. Sparrow ’55 in Burbank. He is survived by his

86 CCT Fall 2018 alumninews was awarded the CCAA President’s Cup. Binderman is survived by his 1971 wife, Roberta (née Evantash); chil- OTHER DEATHS REPORTED Eli A. Rubenstein, dren, Daniel and Deborah, from his attorney and Columbia College Today also has learned of the following marriage to Gail Alexander Binder- philanthropist, Newton Center, deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming man BC’62; and Roberta’s children, Mass., and New York City, on issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Edward Evantash and Jill Schuman. January 27, 2018. Raised in Silver obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the Memorial contributions may be Spring, Md., Rubenstein graduated complete obituary to appear. made to WKCR. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the College and earned a J.D. in 1974 from NYU. After 1946 Victorino Tejera, scholar, professor emeritus and 1967 three years at Cabot, Cabot & philosopher, New York City, on August 25, 2018. Forbes, he launched a 40-year career 1947 John D. Heyman, foundation executive, Middlesex, Vt., Richard H. Bullen Jr., financial at Goulston & Storrs, becoming a  on July 1, 2018. services system designer, Hastings- partner and director in the firm’s on-Hudson, N.Y., on February 3, Boston and New York offices, with 1952 Hugh C. Hackett, real estate investor, Naples, Fla., expertise in real estate development on June 2, 2018. and financing strategies. Rubenstein 1953 Eliot S. Hearst, psychologist, author, chess player, donated his time, talent and support Tucson, Ariz., on January 30, 2018. to several charitable organizations, including the cause closest to 1955 James R. Hudson, research director, Santa Fe, N.M., his heart, the National Multiple on July 13, 2018. Sclerosis Society. He served on 1957 James E. Abrams, retired business executive, the MS Society’s national board, Downingtown, Pa., on April 1, 2018. including three years as chair, and 1959 Robert L. Moore, retired businessman, Sudbury, Mass., spent decades on the Greater New  on July 29, 2018. England Chapter board. He will be remembered by friends and family Harvey Seidenstein, physician, Stamford, Conn., for his dry wit, excellent cooking on September 3, 2018. and mixology skills, pragmatic 1960 Thomas G. Waldman, medieval scholar, Philadelphia, advice, steadfast kindness and on July 1, 2018. Richard H. Bullen Jr. ’67 loyalty. Rubenstein is survived by his wife of 46 years, Emily Broner 1962 Vincent J. Fasano, retired anthropology teacher, 2018. The eldest of three brothers, Rubenstein BC’72, SW’74; son, Montreal, Quebec, on March 17, 2017. Bullen was born in California in Isaac, and his wife, Michelle; Jack Hurwitz, retired, New York City, on December 24, 2017. 1945. He attended the Hackley daughter, Abigail ’05, and her 1963 James B. Johnson, retired political science professor, School, and then the College, where husband, Maxwell Bogue; and two  Omaha, Neb., on August 16, 2018. as an undergraduate he met Chris- grandsons. Memorial contributions tine V. Nodini BC’67. They married may be made to the National MS 1964 Edward C. Steinberg, retired urban planner, White Plains, on February 22, 1968. After Bullen Society (main.nationalmssociety.org/ N.Y., on June 19, 2018. completed his master’s at MIT Sloan, goto/elirubenstein). 1968 Donald C. Holloway, Houston, on July 3, 2018. the couple moved to Hastings in Harvey E. Bernstein, pediatrician, St. James, N.Y., 1982, where they raised their daugh- 1969  on April 7, 2018. ters, Valerie and Georgia. Bullen 1991 worked primarily in system design 1970 George A. Nelson III, associate real estate broker, for financial services. He loved music, Christopher M. Antollino, digital New York City, on May 29, 2018. and playing the guitar and piano, and media technologist, New York City, 1989 Charles A. Radi Sr., global managing director and chief enjoyed sailing, skiing and traveling on August 20, 2018. Antollino was information security officer, Miami, Fla., on August 21, 2018. in his younger days. His main passion born in New Haven, Conn., the though, was the analysis and research 2018 Dilan M. Gupta, Larchmont, N.Y., on June 21, 2018. that went into understanding the stock market and investing. Never ones to be far from water, Bullen and his wife spent as much time as they son of Frank Antollino and Sandra had a ribald sense of humor. He could on Fire Island, N.Y. He had a Lynn Antollino Blais. He grew up enjoyed traveling and cooking, and love of card and word games, and a and attended school in Branford, had a talent for percussion and discerning palate. Bullen got more Conn. Antollino was valedictorian photography. He was predeceased by time to grill, and golf, when he and at Hamden Hall Country Day his mother; stepfather, Roger Blais; his wife retired to North Carolina School in 1987 and earned a and uncle, Marshall Lynn. He is in 2011. He is survived by his wife, degree in political science from the survived by his father; stepmother, daughters and one granddaughter. College. He worked in technology Charlene Antollino; brother, Memorial contributions may be and business analysis at various Gregory; sister, Robin Antollino- made to Campaign Zero: The End of firms such as Ogilvy, Penguin Bukoski; aunt, Roberta Antollino; Prostate Cancer (go online to donate: Books and the Publicis Groupe. two nephews; and a niece. bit.ly/2Id708i). Christopher M. Antollino ’91 Antollino easily made friends and — Lisa Palladino

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A 50th Reunion Row Around Manhattan

By Alfred W. McCoy ’68

ne glorious afternoon in fall 1965 –– the start of my row around Manhattan in single shells. I was nervous, even a bit sophomore year –– I arrived at Baker Field to find crew frightened. I had never rowed longer than 12 miles and, at 73, practice canceled. Instead of returning home I took a doubted I still had the endurance. At reunion, three classmates Osingle shell from the boathouse and, for the first and with whom I’d rowed advised against tempting fate. A fourth only time, rowed through the Spuyten Duyvil, across the Hud- warned about capricious currents at Hell Gate that once nearly son, into the shadows of the Palisades. The sun’s slanting rays cast overwhelmed his ocean-going sailboat. a golden glow on smooth autumn waters. The boat rolled easily But those fears evaporated as we turned into the Hudson at through the glassy wakes of freighters heading upriver. The dark air 6:30 a.m., exhilarated to find calm waters and a fast ebb tide. As beneath the Jersey cliffs chilled the sweat. we flew downriver, Manhattan unfurled before us, from the spires Forty years later (after a heart attack), that singular memory of Riverside Church and the spectacular skyscraper geometrics of inspired me to take up rowing again, albeit on a tamer lake near my Hudson Yards, to the soaring towers of the Financial District. At home in Madison, Wis. Midtown, that speed was needed when I found myself between a Last fall, planning for my 50th reunion brought up recurring massive barge and its dock, sprinting away as a stocky tug crewman memories of a classmate and crewmate, John Norton Jr. ’68, who rained obscenities upon my head. died in 1969, just a year after our graduation. An Australian air- Rounding the Battery at lower Manhattan, the Hudson’s calm craft carrier sliced through the bow of his Navy destroyer, sending waters gave way to ocean swells from the Verrazano Narrows, 73 sailors to the bottom of the South China Sea. Since Norton chop from countless ferries and headwinds on the East River. Yet lived most of his short life in and around Manhattan, I decided to we still needed speed to clear a Staten Island Ferry as its engines remember him by rowing around the island. churned for departure. Once across that busy harbor into the lee So, on a Sunday morning in June, while the Class of 1968 was of the Brooklyn waterfront, the river rewarded every stroke with heading to a reunion breakfast in Alfred Lerner Hall, I pushed off an ever-changing panorama — the sinuous Brooklyn Bridge, from Columbia’s boathouse with a younger cousin for a 33-mile the sculpted Manhattan Bridge, the silvery Freedom Tower. While Manhattan soared even more majestically from so low to the water, the Brooklyn-Queens shoreline was littered with a century of concrete rubble and rotting piles. We timed our passage through Hell Gate for the brief slack tide, but midway across my cousin shouted “whirlpool” and we strained against swirling currents. Minutes later, I was blindsided by a ferry’s wake, with waves so high they blocked my view. But with one short stroke, my old boat turned stern first into the swell and stayed true as I surfed through steep rollers that otherwise could have capsized me. Heading up the Harlem River around 1 p.m., I remembered the succession of bridges overhead from those long-ago crew practices. Beneath the high span of Hamilton Bridge that marked our turn for a three-mile grind back to the boathouse, I decided to see if I could still do it and so relearned rowing’s shared secret: pain that penetrates every sinew. But when you reach the dock at Baker Field’s boat- house, as I did at 2:30 p.m., it suddenly stops, instantly forgotten. As we were leaving the boathouse, a van pulled in and two young oarsmen with medals around their necks got out. “Were those gold?” I asked. “Yes,” they said, smiling –– Columbia’s lightweight crew had just won the national championships by a second. Yet rowing is more than winning. A boat, a blade, water, motion — it’s elemental, even spiritual, bonding all who share a boat, even 50 years later. I guess that’s why all of us who rowed with him still JOHN NACHILLY think about John Norton, fondly and sadly.

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