Columbia College Winter 2013–14 TODAY GLOBAL COLUMBIA

A Look at How Columbia College Helps Students Have Global Experiences Contents

GLOBAL COLUMBIA give A SPECIAL SECTION yourself a gift

20 How the College Helps Students Have Global Experiences Now more than ever, the College is taking steps to ensure that its students are this holiday season, thinking globally, opening their minds to and setting their sights on the world treat yourself to the beyond Morningside Heights. By Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA benefits and privileges of 28 A Conversation with President Lee C. Bollinger the columbia university club Bollinger talks about the philosophy behind the Columbia Global Centers, their impact of new york now and in the future, and what it means to be a global citizen in the 21st century. AQ &A with CCT Editor Alex Sachare ’71 32 Global Students Find a Home at Columbia International students reflect on their reasons for choosing the College and their experiences in making the cultural and academic transition. By Nathalie Alonso ’08 36 Study Abroad Grows in Popularity, Programs and Places New programs and destinations give students myriad ways to enhance their College education with an international experience. Plus: Excerpts from a blog kept by Melissa Chiang ’14 last summer in Shanghai. By Ted Rabinowitz ’87 become a member! 40 For Global Alumni, Columbia Made a World of Difference join today! College alumni often trace their success living and working internationally to their liberal arts education, the diverse Columbia student body and the unique nature of New York City. 15 West 43 street neW york, ny 10036 By Ted Rabinowitz ’87 tel: 212.719.0380

www.columbiaclub.org

your columbia connection COVER PHOTOS: CHAR SMULLYAN; GLOBE ICON: ILLUSTRATION BY R.J. MATSON ’85

Columbia Mag Ad_Holiday_2013_finals.indd 1 11/7/13 7:06 PM MESSAGE FROM DEAN JAMES J. VALENTINI Exploring Global Opportunities

hen I met with our students studying abroad make good decisions and the self-confidence that defines every while traveling in Beijing, Paris, London, Columbia College graduate. Hong Kong and Shanghai earlier this year, The College provides hundreds of international opportu- 7 16 96 I asked them about their global experiences. nities for students, from a year in Berlin studying abroad with What were they learning in the classroom? In Columbia faculty to a summer internship with a micro-lending Carl Haber ’80, ’85 GSAS Nzingha Prescod ’15 Gregory Viscusi ’85, ’91 SIPA Wtheir city? What surprised them? Did they feel prepared? How company in Mumbai. Students can study abroad during the year, was their experience abroad complementing their experience on intern or take classes abroad during the summer or do academic our campus? How did they see it as enhancing their future? How research abroad. We offer 16 Columbia-sponsored study abroad DEPARTMENTS did it influence their career plans? What could programs, 110 opportunities to do internships we do as a college to maximize the value of in eight locations overseas and we are develop- WEB EXTRAS 3 Message from Dean James J. Valentini their global experience? ing new programs and enhancing existing pro- View photos from Their answers confirmed that these were grams each year. We have also kicked off a Pres- Helping College students make the most of their global opportunities. Homecoming questions they were thinking about as well. Our idential Global Fellowship program, thanks to 4 Letters to the Editor students were exploring the global opportuni- the support of President Lee C. Bollinger, which View photos from the ties we offer to immerse themselves in another provides funding to first-years to study abroad 5 Within the Family by Editor Alex Sachare ’71 Alexander Hamilton culture, to gain proficiency in another language, during the summer on a Columbia program at Award Dinner to learn how to be effective in an unfamiliar set- any location where there is a Columbia Global Columbia’s Core Curriculum knows no boundaries. ting and to build contacts in other countries. Center. We want to provide every student who 7 Around the Quads Thank you to ARC They wanted to challenge themselves, to test wants to do so the opportunity to study, work chairs and members different skills and to expand their personal ca- or do research abroad, and to offer opportuni- Sound savior Carl Haber ’80, ’85 GSAS named MacArthur Fellow. pabilities. They were also thinking about how ties for global experiences early in students’ un- Listen to Carl Haber ’80, their experiences related to their studies and to dergraduate careers. Early global experiences 16 Roar, Lion, Roar ’85 GSAS talk about his their personal, professional and academic lives. are brought back to campus and become part of Olympian Nzingha Prescod ’15 balances fencing and academics. groundbreaking work Our goal as a college is to prepare students to students’ lives for the remainder of their time in be involved and effective global citizens — and the College. Global experiences also influence 44 Columbia Forum: Governing the World Watch Nzingha engaging people, places and ideas throughout PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO students’ interactions with one another, so the Global government has evolved from utopian concept to failed idea. Prescod ’15 fence the world is a big part of that. In part we pro- value of these early global experiences extends pel that engagement right on campus. There are 729 international to the entire student body. In effect, the experiences of individual By Mark Mazower Hear Pete “Dr. Banjo” students in the College who come from 83 different countries; students are leveraged for the benefit of all students. Wernick ’66 perform these students bring the world right here to Columbia College, While I was in Shanghai, one student asked me how I would ALUMNI NEWS college.columbia. so that a variety of perspectives, experiences and opinions are judge whether a Columbia global experience was successful. edu/cct encountered in our classrooms and residence halls. The resulting Well, an international experience in one location must prepare a 49 Message from CCAA President Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 interactions prepare all of our students for the lives they will have student to succeed in any place in the world. So, to answer her after graduation, wherever they go and in whatever field they question I suggested the following measure of success: a student Entrepreneurship is thriving on campus and in the alumni community. choose to pursue. who has participated in one of our Columbia College global But direct, firsthand international experiences, whether aca- experiences is later sent blindfolded to a city somewhere in the 50 Bookshelf demic or co-curricular, are also key for our students. This is why world without preparation or knowing where she is going, and Featured: The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic I often say that “College Walk doesn’t extend from Amsterdam in two weeks has found a place to live, made a friend and gotten Performance by David Epstein ’02, ’04J, ’04 GSAS. to Broadway; it extends around the world.” Alumni often tell me a job. Obviously, I was not being literal in the details here, or pre- that having the chance to work or study overseas opened doors scriptive in the time period, but I phrased the answer this way to 52 Obituaries Like Columbia College of understanding in a way that nothing else could have. Global focus on the key aspect of a global experience: enabling students Alumni on Facebook: 52 experiences, they say, prove that students are self-sufficient, am- to succeed personally and professionally no matter where life Robert S. Greene ’43, ’58 Arts facebook.com/alumnicc 53 John Hollander ’50, ’52 GSAS bitious risk-takers who will challenge themselves and contribute takes them. Global experiences, along with our broadly diverse to the world. They help students develop a clear recognition of and international student body, give our students understanding, 55 Class Notes the breadth of philosophical, political and social structures that life skills, self-sufficiency and competencies to adapt and thrive. Follow @Columbia_CCAA underlie different cultures; provide the ability to interact effec- International experiences, whether in Amman, Kyoto, Moscow, Alumni Profiles on Twitter tively with people of all ages and across all cultures; and increase Santiago, Venice, or right here in Morningside Heights, are key to 68 Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick ’66, ’73 GSAS awareness and understanding of their own cultures. They also a Columbia College education and we are committed to expand- 75 Michael Musto ’76 enhance language and communications skills. In this respect, ing and enhancing these opportunities. 88 Lisa Stublić ’06 global education is an extension of the College’s liberal arts cur- Join the Columbia Alumni riculum. Like Contemporary Civilization, Lit Hum, Art Hum Association Network and Music Hum, and of course, the Global Core, an experience 96 Alumni Corner on LinkedIn: alumni. Gregory Viscusi ’85, ’91 SIPA reflects on his time as an American columbia.edu/linkedin living or working abroad develops critical thinking, the ability to journalist abroad. WINTER 2013–14 3 Letters to the Editor WITHIN THE FAMILY BY EDITOR ALEX SACHARE ’71 Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, Core Curriculum Knows No Borders Volume 41 Number 2 ’53 GSAS Winter 2013–14 I was so pleased to read the article about EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Professor de Bary [Fall 2013], as I enjoyed Alex Sachare ’71 those courses in Asian studies that he and aniel Gordis ’81 had no idea when he was reading Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, the first rabbinical Donald Keene [’42, ’49 GSAS] taught. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Homer’s Iliad and Vergil’s Aeneid in Literature college on the West Coast. That caught the attention of leaders of Their courses had a subtle but important Lisa Palladino Humanities, or the works of Plato and Aristotle the Shalem Center, an Israeli think tank created in 1994, who were impact on my outlook on life, for which I in Contemporary Civilization, that 35 years later exploring the launch of a liberal arts college. “I embraced it and MANAGING EDITOR am most grateful. he would be exporting those classics to a startup became involved,” Gordis says. Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts How lucky we were to have had such Dcollege nearly 6,000 miles from Morningside Heights. Shalem College is located at Kiryat Moriah in Jerusalem, on a EDITORIAL ASSISTANT fine professors as Ted de Bary; Jacques “We’re bringing Columbia’s Core Curriculum to Shalem College campus rented from the Jewish Agency and near numerous other Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard Barzun [’27, ’32 GSAS]; Moses Hadas [’30 in Jerusalem,” says Gordis, an author, commentator and scholar who educational institutions. It offers a B.A. and is accredited by Israel’s GSAS]; Richard Hofstadter [’42 GSAS]; immigrated to Israel in 1998. Gordis Council for Higher Education. The FORUM EDITOR and many others. Certainly our lives were is s.v.p., Koret Distinguished Fellow first cohort of students will choose Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard enriched by their efforts. and chair of the Core Curriculum at between two major tracks of study: CONTRIBUTING WRITER Thor Kuniholm ’56 Shalem (the name means “complete” Jewish thought and philosophy or Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA Philadelphia in Hebrew) College, which opened its Middle Eastern and Islamic studies; EDITORIAL INTERNS doors to its first class of 50 students in founders plan to add other majors as Nicollette Barsamian ’13 Barnard, My compliments to Jamie Katz [’72, ’80 October. the school grows. Classes are taught in ’16 Arts Business] for his great article on Professor and we became friends on several levels; Shalem College is the first school Hebrew but all students are expected Karl Daum ’15 de Bary. It certainly represents an enor- quite by chance, he turned up as a neigh- in Israel based on the American to be fluent in English and students mous amount of research and writing. As ART DIRECTOR bor in the Fire Island village of Ocean model of liberal arts education; as in the Middle Eastern and Islamic Gates Sisters Studio usual, CCT is full of highly interesting read- Beach, where my wife and I were sum- such, Gordis says it will fulfill “a studies track also must know Arabic. ing, for which I thank you. mer residents for close to 40 years. long unmet but very profound need All students in the first class are Jew- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Sol Fisher ’36, ’38L in Israeli society.” Other colleges ish, although Gordis and other school Eileen Barroso So when I saw his name as the author Pleasant Hill, Calif. of a serious article about Ted de Bary [’41, there follow the European model officials say a concerted effort was Gene Boyars where students choose a career Students from Shalem College attend a seminar at Tel made to recruit Arab students and the Char Smullyan ’53 GSAS], a scholar and teacher whom I path upon entering college and take Azekah, an archeological site not far from Jerusalem hope is that Arabs will enroll in future Three or more decades ago, while I was have long admired, I read it with care and where plaques describe the nearby mythical battle still engaged in alumni activities on an delight. Ted has never needed human- courses designed to prepare them to between David and Goliath. years. All students are required to do Published quarterly by the intensive scale, I met Jamie Katz [’72, ’80 izing — he has always been completely work in that field. “There is no place PHOTO: MAOZ VAYSTOOCH community service, helping nearby Columbia College Office of Business], who at the time was the editor anywhere in the Jewish state where Jewish and Arab residents. Alumni Affairs and Development for human both as scholar and teacher — but alumni, students, faculty, parents and of CCT. I admired his work, told him so, Jamie’s comprehensive recount of his life there’s a core curriculum that everyone takes regardless of his or For Gordis, helping to shape the humanities curriculum of friends of Columbia College. and work and virtues was both vivid and her focus of study,” says Gordis. “It’s a way of creating not just an Shalem College around “small classes with real conversations” SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, moving, and all of it needed saying. amalgam of courses but a four-year conversation. We are creating and “a reverence for texts” is the latest step in a journey that COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS Reading it was more than a pleasure, a community of learners.” found its course at the College. In a column published in The Jeru- AND COMMUNICATIONS for it brought my thoughts back not only Gordis was among a group of faculty and administrators from salem Post on October 18, Gordis wrote, “Columbia imbued many Bernice Tsai ’96 to Ted (whom it was a pleasure to see and Shalem College that spent time in September meeting in New of us with a sense that ideas matter, that profound thinkers ought Address all correspondence to: listen to at lunch in October to celebrate York with faculty and administrators from Columbia’s Core to be one’s lifelong companions; we hope that at Kiryat Moriah, Columbia College Today his newest book, The Great Civilized Con- Curriculum in preparation for the new school’s opening. “It was Shalem’s students will emerge with similar commitments.” Columbia Alumni Center quite an experience to be back in Hamilton Hall so many years 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. versation), but to Jamie as well, who him- New York, NY 10025 self worked miracles at CCT in his day. later,” he notes. For more information about Shalem College, go to shalem.ac.il. 212-851-7852 Kudos to the subject, and to his cele- Gordis, who earned a master’s and rabbinic ordination from Email (editorial): [email protected]; brant! the Jewish Theological Seminary and a doctorate in social ethics (advertising): [email protected]. at Southern Cal, was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and Joe Russell ’49, ’52L facebook.com/alumnicc. New York City ISSN 0572-7820 Opinions expressed are those of the I was delighted to see that Ted de Bary Professor de Bary will be glad to hear that published work but a total surprise — authors and do not reflect official [’41, ’53 GSAS] is still going strong. It was CCT welcomes letters from readers about when it came time for me to teach some I assume he recommended it. And some- positions of Columbia College a great privilege to take the yearlong semi- articles in the magazine but cannot print or of the same texts we’d read (like the Tao te time around 1969 he attempted to talk sen- or Columbia University. nar in Asian classics that he and Ainslee personally respond to all letters received. Ching, Monkey or Gandhi’s Autobiography) sibly with me about the Columbia “trou- © 2013 Columbia College Today Embree [’60 GSAS] taught. I guess my en- Letters express the views of the writers in “great books” courses I was able to draw bles,” but I’m afraid my anti-war passion and not CCT, the College or the University. All rights reserved. thusiasm showed, because two years later on what I’d learned from him and his col- was too high to listen with an attentive ear. Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. when I was about to do some teaching at All letters are subject to editing for space, leagues. Gary Shapiro ’63, ’70 GSAS Columbia while working on my Ph.D., I I recall two other acts of his kindness: Richmond, Va. Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS clarity and CCT style. Please direct letters introduced generations of Columbians to was given the opportunity to help out in for publication “to the editor” via mail or the year after I graduated from CC, an es- Asian studies. the course. With some ambivalence I set- online: college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. say I’d done for Professor de Bary’s course I took Oriental Civilizations with Theodore PHOTO: ARNOLD BROWNE ’78 tled on Western Humanities, but I hope appeared in King’s Crown Essays, my first de Bary [’41, ’53 GSAS], Donald Keene [’42,

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 4 5 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

’49 GSAS] and Ainslee Embree [’60 GSAS] We saw the boat named for the profes- Football, Basketball and CU in 1961, the first year, as I recall, that there sor some years ago, as he was a great fan Branding were alternatives for meeting the second- of crew, having been a varsity swimmer at THE Like it or not, performance in the major year CC requirement. I’m sure there were Ohio State after coming to America from sports is partially how the public “brands” easier ways than facing off with three such Germany in 1938 (with a Nazi exit visa, AROUND QUADS our academic institutions. Even though heavyweights, but what did I, at 19, know? which was displayed quite informally Columbia has ranked near the top of the You quote Keene as saying de Bary can be among other documents and photos). At nation’s universities for years, the Colum- at times “very forbidding.” My recollection 10 a.m. we gathered on the dock jutting bia brand has become synonymous with is that he was merely no-nonsense. I have out into the river. After a brief introduction losing because of the performance of its a vivid memory, however, of his pausing by Ted Allegaert ’85, Dennis Klainberg ’84 football and basketball teams. (This brand- Sound Savior Carl Haber ’80 once in his description of a period of po- played Taps as the professor’s ashes were ing of Columbia was true even before the litical unrest in China, perhaps spotting emptied into the Harlem River. We recited 44-game football losing streak during the a cliché lying in wait and formulating a the Kaddish (Jewish memorial prayer) in mid-’80s.) Of all the Ivy League schools, way around it. From the back of the room, the Sephardic style of the 15th-century Columbia has gone the longest without Wins MacArthur Fellowship someone called out, someone with far more Spanish Jews, which I guessed was fitting winning a football or basketball champi- chutzpah than I, to offer the suggestion that for a professor who spoke Spanish and onship; 52 years in football and 45 years perhaps the region in question had been loved Don Quixote. B y A l e x S a c h a r e ’71 in basketball. Every other Ivy League uni- “beset by civil strife.” De Bary roared with We walked up to the balcony of the versity has won multiple titles since the laughter, and so could the rest of us. new 1929 Boathouse on the second floor, inception of the league except Columbia. Jerry Oster ’64 looked at some photos and personal arti- For a number of reasons, I believe con- Chapel Hill, N.C. facts while Brahms’ German Requiem was tinued participation in these sports and played (Selig sind die da lied tragen ... Selig the Ivy League is important. However, Remembering Karl-Ludwig Selig sind die toten ... Blessed are they that our teams should be competitive and win About 30 Columbia grads met at 9:30 a.m. mourn ... Blessed are the dead ... ) We at least occasional championships. We are on October 19 at the Columbia Rowing lingered and talked and drank champagne a university that strives for excellence and Boathouses at Baker Athletics Complex in his honor till noon. This was his will, it should be so in all of our endeavors. before the Homecoming game, right on his wish — no formal funeral, no official Involvement in athletics either as a per- the shore of the Harlem River across from University-sanctioned event, just his stu- former or a spectator helps both groups the big “C” on the cliff in Riverdale. The dents and friends who will always remem- bond with the University. Attending Co- gathering was a memorial service for Pro- ber him, and a very special Homecoming. lumbia football and basketball games is a fessor Karl-Ludwig Selig. Some knew the Dr. Joel Halio ’74 social event, a chance to spend time with professor very well through many years Great Neck, N.Y. classmates and other Columbia friends and some just from a class or the campus. while watching the games. The bonding Each, of course, had his own story to tell Dr. George Yancopoulos ’80, of athletes with the College is evident in — some rather poignant, serious or funny, ’86 GSAS, ’87 P&S their continued participation in activi- as anyone who knew the character of the I enjoyed the article “Vision Quest” [Sum- ties as alumni and the high percentage of professor might imagine — remembering mer 2013]. I thank the College for posting them who donate financially. Athletes also how much he cherished his friends and the 2013 John Jay Awards Dinner speeches increase campus diversity. the College. on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=F25 If we are to change the perception of 7025iJmU), as my medical practice would our brand, we must admit its truth before not let me get away to attend the dinner. deciding how to address it. There needs to I recall Dr. George Yancopoulos [’80, ’86 be an open debate among the administra- Carl Haber ’80, ’85 GSAS says it took only one hour to restore the recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice but 10 years to develop the GSAS, ’87 P&S] as a fellow Columbia Col- tion, faculty, student body and alumni to process that enabled him to do so. lege student heading to freshman football PHOTO: COURTESY JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. Ma c ARTHUR FOUNDATION bring about the necessary transformation. after we’d both listened to a lecture by The time to start is now, with another di- our biochemistry professor and the cur- arl Haber ’80, ’85 GSAS, colliders. Recordings made on wax cyl- the same very detailed techniques that we sastrous football season under our belts. an experimental physicist inders, lacquer discs and other materials were using to restore the sound without rent chief scientific officer of Sequenom, Robert A. Levine ’58 Dr. Charles Cantor ’63. Once outside the at the Lawrence Berkeley have been retrieved by Haber and his col- ever touching them.” Westport, Conn. lecture hall, for lightweight football, Bill National Laboratory in leagues, who use a technique that trans- As anyone who ever owned a vinyl Campbell ’62, ’64 TC, now chair of Colum- Alexander Hamilton Award Berkeley, Calif., was among forms visual data into a digital sound file. record knows, every time you play one, bia’s Board of Trustees, engaged students Dinners 13 men and 11 women “About 10 years ago, I happened to the contact of the stylus or needle wears for a different lesson. Of course, the recent Cnamed 2013 MacArthur Fellows in Sep- hear a report on NPR about the Library of down the grooves. Add in the scratches John Jay Awards Dinner reunited not only Reading that Joel I. Klein ’67 will receive the tember. Known informally as “genius Congress and their large collections of his- that come with use and general wear and George and Bill but also reminds what next Alexander Hamilton Medal [Around grants,” the fellowships from the John D. toric sound recordings, which described tear, and gradually the sound quality of other excitements and advancements our the Quads, Fall 2013] brought back memo- and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation them in some cases as being delicate, dam- the record deteriorates. The same holds Columbia will help foster among stu- ries of the 1949 Alexander Hamilton Award come with a stipend of $625,000 paid aged, deteriorating and so forth,” Haber true with other materials used for earlier dents, faculty and coaches. Dinner. I had graduated in June and en- across five years. explained in a video released by the Mac­ recordings, including lacquer, wax and Thank you for the excellent journalism. tered the Business School that fall. Through Haber was cited for developing tech- Arthur Foundation. “I intrinsically appre- aluminum. It keeps many of us connected to Colum- Joe Coffee ’41, then a College development nologies for the preservation and recap- ciated when I heard this that this was an “Our approach is in part based on bia past, present and future. officer, I had gotten a job as a part-time as- turing of deteriorating sound recordings, important thing — it’s part of our culture photography,” said Haber. “We take a Karl-Ludwig Selig Dr. Dennis T. Costakos ’80 sistant secretary of the Columbia College technologies that arose from his work and part of our history — and I had an picture of a phonograph record. This PHOTO: LORI GRINKER/CONTACT PRESS IMAGES La Crosse, Wis. (Continued on page 95) on instruments for use with high-energy idea that you might be able to use some of photograph is taken with great magnifica-

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 6 7 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS tion; we’re talking about gigapixels. There are techniques which are called image Madigan Named Arts and Sciences EVP processing, which can take an image and mathematically digest the information in it avid Madigan, who joined well,” he told Spectator. and can extract in detail the motion of the Columbia’s faculty in 2007 Asked about the relationship between groove and calculate what sound would and the following year became Arts and Sciences and the College, which be played if you indeed played it with a Dchair of the Department of had been contentious but improved un- needle. If the record is broken, scratched, Statistics, was named e.v.p. and dean of der the leadership of Dirks and former Discover Columbia damaged in some way, we can still apply the faculty of Arts and Sciences in Sep- College dean Austin E. Quigley, Madigan this process. It’s all done as a mathematical tember. Madigan, who had held that role told Spec, “First and foremost, we attract algorithm on a digital computer. on an interim basis since March, suc- amazing students and we have amaz- “We actually got to hear, last year, ceeds Nicholas Dirks, who left to become ing faculty, and with that comes a huge Alexander Graham Bell’s voice for the first chancellor of UC Berkeley. responsibility. We have a Again time. You can hear the man speaking — The Faculty of Arts and huge responsibility to pre- that was amazing.” Sciences consists of 29 de- pare them well and to give The method also has been used to suc- partments in the social sci- them an education that’s cessfully play an 1860 phonautogram, the ences, humanities and nat- relevant to today’s global, oldest known sound recording of a human ural sciences; five schools: interconnected world. In voice, as well as a 100-year-old recording Columbia College, the the past, there’s been some of the voice of author Jack London. School of General Studies, tension between Columbia The end product of Haber’s efforts is the Graduate School of Arts College and Arts and Sci- digital audio, which can be played on most and Sciences, the School of ences and these tensions graduate programs certificate programs the Arts and the School of are utter nonsense. We are electronic devices. “This isn’t some exotic Actuarial Science Bioethics laboratory sound that can only be heard in Continuing Education; as a group of faculty and stu- these labs,” noted Carlene Stephens, a cura- well as numerous institutes dents, and so we either all Bioethics Biotechnology PHOTO: MARTYN GALLINA-JONES tor at the Smithsonian National Museum and centers. win or we all lose. We are Communications Practice Business Under a recent restruc- absolutely in this together.” of American History. “We can hear these Construction Administration Classics voices that have been lost anywhere in the turing, Arts and Sciences is led by a three- Madigan mentioned improving fac- world, and that’s thrilling. A door has been person executive committee consisting ulty diversity as one of his priorities. Fundraising Management Ecology, Evolution, and opened, and on the other side are people, of Madigan, College Dean James J. Val- “We have a wonderfully diverse student Information and Knowledge Strategy Environmental Biology entini and GSAS Dean Carlos J. Alonso, body. We have an appallingly un-diverse places, things and ideas we didn’t have the Narrative Medicine Graduate Foundations imagination to know existed.” a structure Madigan endorses. “This is a faculty, and this is not an easy problem to Haber has been affiliated since 1986 very complex organization and having an solve,” he said. “From the trustees down, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Psychology with the Berkeley Lab, where he is a explicit leadership team that comprises there is a strong institutional commitment Sports Management Quantitative Studies for Finance representatives from the core arts and to try to help with this. This is a major senior scientist in the Physics Division. Sustainability Analytics Since beginning research on the preserva- sciences is great, and it works extremely issue for us right now.” Strategic Communications tion and restoration of recorded sound in Sustainability Management Sustainable Water Management 2002, he has worked with archivists at the Technology Management Library of Congress, the Thomas Edison New Core Course To Replace Frontiers National Historic Park, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the ean James J. Valentini has because science is most certainly a central and courses in over 50 subject areas Smithsonian Institution, among others. appointed a 17-member com- part of ‘contemporary civilization.’ We Winning a MacArthur Fellowship left mittee of faculty, students and also need to ask what the best route is to Haber speechless. “If you’re in research, Dalumni to develop a Core course engage students as active and enthusias- in academia, people know about the Mac­ that will replace Frontiers of Science, the tic scholars pursuing the knowledge and Arthur Fellowship,” he said. “But it’s so one-semester course taken by first-years understanding that we seek to impart in unlikely that anyone would ever get a that was introduced to the Core on an this course. How do we engage students Mac­Arthur award, I just didn’t know what experimental basis in 2004 and has been in this Core science course the way we do to say. The whole thing is a bit of a shock.” reviewed and revamped periodically since in Literature Humanities and Contempo- Haber said the grant would allow him then. The Educational Planning and Policy rary Civilization?” to continue his research and to travel Committee conducted the most recent re- The committee, which has been meet- globally to restore recordings from re- view of Frontiers in 2012–13. “The charter ing since September and is expected mote parts of the world. of that committee was to see if Frontiers of to complete its work by the end of the “I continue to be excited by any scien- Science should be continued in its current 2013–14 academic year, is co-chaired by tific or technical challenge where we can form or if we should do something else, Peter deMenocal, professor of earth and ce.columbia.edu/ep19 learn things and find elegant solutions to and [the committee] said we should do environmental sciences and chair of the problems that matter to people, be they something else,” Valentini said. Department of Environmental Sciences, scientists, historians, ethnographers, an- In announcing the committee in a and Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Pro- thropologists. It’s a privilege and a plea- September 27 entry on his blog, Valentini fessor of Philosophy. sure to do that.” mentioned “a need to integrate the course To read Valentini’s blog entry and see fall For more about Haber and his work, with the rest of the Core, connecting it in the list of committee members, go to Attend info sessions or apply On-campus | Online | Hybrid formats go to macfound.org/fellows/892. particular to Contemporary Civilization, college.columbia.edu/about/dean/blog. 14

WINTER 2013–14 FALL 2013 8 9 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS

Edward Mendelson Ph.D., the human beings as myths. But if we’re going to send a plague. could I have ever cared any- Alumni Leaders Weekend Lionel Trilling Professor in the I see someone as the embodi- Do you recognize that in to- thing for him? An hour later, he ninth annual Columbia Alumni Leaders Weekend took place October 11–12. Humanities, is a professor of ment of beauty or wisdom or day’s headlines? “We don’t she’s thinking he is the most This year’s focus was multi-dimensional partnerships and how alumni and alumni English and comparative litera- something like that, it gets in like the laws so we’re going to wonderful man she had ever organizations can collaborate in new ways with one another and with the University. ture specializing in 19th-centu- the way of perceiving him or destroy everything.” So I don’t met. T The weekend opened on Friday night at Lincoln Center with two Columbia Alumni Associa- ry British literature and 20th- her as an individual. Virginia care whether years later they tion (CAA) panels, “The 21st Century City: Rethinking Partnerships” and “Experimenting century British and American Woolf, Auden, all of the writ- can remember the details of What about a talent you with Our Urban Future.” Attendees then enjoyed a reception in The Atrium in Rose Hall. literature. He earned a B.A. ers I admire most, are tempted the books, but if they can think would like to have? Saturday’s events, all held on campus, opened with breakfast roundtables on various as- from Rochester and a Ph.D. by myths because they make about reality more clearly I’m not going to answer that pects of volunteer involvement (below, left). The remainder of the day featured panels and from Johns Hopkins, and has great poems and great stories because they’ve read these either. discussion groups, a luncheon and an alumni book fair. The weekend closed with the CAA taught at Columbia since 1981. — but then they draw back books, that’s the point. Alumni Medalists Gala, at which the 10 alumni honored at Commencement with an Alumni He is the literary executor of and say, but I realize that the I guess it would depend on Medal — including College medalists Stephen L. Buchman ’59, ’62L; Dr. Marvin M. Lipman ’49, the Estate of W.H. Auden, and myth gets in the way of seeing What are your current when I ask you? ’54 P&S; and Ira B. Malin ’75 — were feted at a dinner in Low Rotunda. Speaking on his books include Early Auden who the real person is. projects? That’s right. I’m sorry; I realize Saturday were (below, middle), from left to right, Huei Ong ’09, ’09E; Mozelle Thompson ’76, (1981), Later Auden (1999) and I wrote a batch of reviews for that you’re asking a standard ’79 SIPA, ’81L; and Matthew Roskot ’04 at the “Maximizing Social Media for Volunteers” The Things That Matter: What What do you teach? The New York Review of Books question for this kind of inter- panel, and (right) Dean James J. Valentini on the state of the College. Seven Classic Novels Have to Generally Lit Hum — I love about American writers in the view, but it goes against the PHOTOS LEFT TO RIGHT: MICHAEL DAMES, BRUCE GILBERT, BRUCE GILBERT Say About the Stages of Life teaching the Core — and an 20th century, and I realized grain to describe oneself as a (2006). simple cartoon figure.

Tell me about your Five Minutes with ... Edward Mendelson Is it a variation on that background and how question to ask, if you you came to be a professor. undergraduate seminar in they were all about how these weren’t a professor, what I grew up in New York and Yeats, Eliot and Auden, which writers thought about politics would you be? went to Stuyvesant H.S. I has become a class in how and the inner life, and the con- Yes. A life is … everyone has thought I was going to be a to read poems. People often flict between those. So my job too many choices to talk about biologist and follow in the come into class thinking of right now is to turn those es- life in this either-or way. I can’t family tradition of doctors, poetry as an instrument for says into a book. Then I want do it. I’m always amazed at and then I discovered I en- generating moods. Someone to start a book that comes out people who can. joyed thinking about books will say, “This poem reminds of thinking for many years Interview: Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts more than I enjoyed thinking me of my grandmother”; and about the kinds of books I Photo: Lynn Saville in the lab. One thing that af- another person says, “No, it teach in Lit Hum, about what fected me a lot in college hap- reminds me of a spring day.” it means to be an individual 1944 · 1949 · 1954 · 1959 · 1964 · 1969 · 1974 · 1979 · 1984 · 1989 · 1994 · 1999 · 2004 · 2009 pened at a dinner with a pro- So in this seminar, without person in the great epics, from fessor at the end of a course, having planned to, we’ll The Odyssey up through when someone asked him, spend two hours on a 12-line Moby Dick. “Well, you taught the stan- poem by Yeats and seeing dard canonical list of authors how you can read it as having What’s your favorite place — but who do you like most?” a discourse, as having some- to be? He said, “I don’t like any of thing to say where you can I can’t answer a question REMINISCE. RELIVE. those canonical ones the most; make sense of the words. like that. It suggests human I like so-and-so more.” And beings are in a steady state I thought, it’s possible actu- Can you describe your ap- rather than people with a ally to have a personal point proach to teaching Lit Hum? history. I like to be one place of view rather than to accept I try to get students excited by REUNITE at 9 in the morning and one what was told. That gave me the books. I like to focus on the place at 10 in the morning. a sense of personal engage- text as a way of thinking about One reason I admire Woolf is ment with the material that’s things that are also happen- that she, more than any other stuck with me ever since. ing now. For example, in The novelist, recognizes how Eumenides, the old divinities people can think What drew you to your field and the new divinities are in completely differ- of study? a battle and finally Athena ent things from one In graduate school I started establishes a law court to settle minute to the next. reading W.H. Auden’s poems the question because that’s the At the beginning of and I discovered, here’s some- only way to deal with these the dinner party [in one who knew more about tribal disputes. And after the To the Lighthouse], reality than I do. That was law court rules that neither Mrs. Ramsay looks ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2014 striking because an awful lot side is guilty, the old divinities at her husband of literature thinks about say we don’t like this decision; and wonders, how Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1

WINTER 2013–14 Questions? Email [email protected] 10 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS CAMPUS NEWS n Nine College alumni were listed in n John S. “Rip” Ripandelli ’40 has been n ATWITTER: Jack Dorsey, chair of Twit- professor emeritus of mathematics; Du- Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry, Lars Business Insider’s “SA [Silicon Alley] 100 recognized as a knight of the Legion of ter and CEO of Square, offered advice ong H. Phong, professor of mathematics; Dietrich, assistant professor of biological 2013: The Coolest People in New York Honor, France’s highest prize, for his mili- and inspiration to an audience of entre- and Barbara G. Tversky, professor of sciences, and Kenneth Shepard, professor Tech,” published on October 24. Alpha- tary service during WWII. Ripandelli was preneurs and would-be entrepreneurs in psychology and education at Teachers of electrical engineering and biomedical betically, they are Mike Brown Jr. ’06, one of six Floridians honored by François Roone Arledge Auditorium on September College. They are among 198 new mem- engineering, won a three-year, $1 million Jared Hecht ’09, Doug Imbruce ’05, Peter Delattre, the Ambassador of the French 16. The event was organized by the Cen- bers of the academy, which was founded grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation Koechley ’03, Dan Loeb ’83, Adam Pritz- Republic to the United States, at a cer- ter for Career Education and the Colum- in 1790 and includes more than 250 Nobel to further their research in combining ker ’08, Robert Reffkin ’00, Nitasha Tiku emony at the Old Capitol in Tallahassee, bia Entrepreneurs Organi- laureates, who were induct- biological components and solid-state ’01 and Michael Wolf ’84. For more, Fla., on April 25. The Legion of Honor zation and opened Startup ed on October 12. electronics. go to businessinsider.com/silicon-alley- was created by Napoleon in 1802 to ac- Weekend, presented by the 100-2013-2013-10. knowledge services rendered to France Columbia Organization n TEACH: Columbia n LIBRARIES: The Rare Book & Manu- by persons of exceptional merit. of Rising Entrepreneurs. ranked sixth among medi- script Library (RBML) has acquired two n Nico Muhly ’03’s opera Two Boys had Dorsey noted that much of um-sized schools sending collections, one from the foundation of its American premiere at the Metropoli- n Susanna Wolff ’10 has been named Twitter’s popularity was graduating seniors to Teach Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev and tan Opera in NYC on October 21. At 32, editor-in-chief of the comedy website John S. “Rip” Ripandelli ’40 due not to its creators but For America’s 2013 teach- the other from Mad Magazine illustrator Muhly is the youngest person the Met has CollegeHumor.com, overseeing and to its users, pointing to #, ing corps, with 35 of its Al Jaffee. The Serge Prokofiev Foundation ever commissioned to write an opera. Two directing all editorial content and main- n Amanda Peet ’94 has added play- @ and the retweet as ex- newest alumni joining the chose Columbia as the repository for ar- Boys, based on real events that occurred taining the overall tone of the site. She wrighting to her list of credits. After amples. “All these systems nonprofit— up eight places chival material from Prokofiev’s 18 years 10 years ago in Manchester, England, tells began her career at CollegeHumor in working steadily as a film, television and weren’t created or invented from a year ago. Columbia in the West, 1919–36, while Jaffee, 92, and the story of a 16-year-old boy who nearly 2007 as an editorial intern, joined the staff stage actress for nearly two decades, Peet by us but by people using has ranked among the top his wife, Joyce, donated the archives from killed a younger boy after being encour- upon graduation as articles editor and made her professional playwrighting the system,” he said. Asked 20 schools for its size for his 70-year career, including 58 years with aged to do so by mysterious people he rose through the ranks to her most recent debut with The Commons of Pensacola, a about balancing schoolwork Jack Dorsey the past six years, and 358 Mad. In addition, RBML has received a encountered in an Internet chat room. In position as managing editor. Through the Manhattan Theatre Club production that and entrepreneurship, alumni have signed on with $175,000 grant from the National Endow- its review, The New York Times called it “a years, Wolff has written more than 500 opened at New York’s City Center on No- Dorsey, a dropout from three universities, TFA in its 23-year history. TFA, which ment for the Humanities to support the dark, ambitious and innovative work” articles for CollegeHumor, including vember 21. The play stars Blythe Danner said there is no right answer. “Everyone recruits students from all disciplines publication of volumes 4 through 6 of the and said that “Nico Muhly has a voice, a “Facebook News Feed History of the and, in a role Peet originally conceived learns differently. Some people thrive in a who are willing to commit two years to Selected Papers of John Jay, a scholarly edi- Muhly sound, and it comes through con- World,” in which she translated the entire for herself, Sarah Jessica Parker. Peet ex- university atmosphere and some people teach in high-need schools, had 11,000 tion of the papers of the first chief justice sistently in his opera.” history of the world into the style of plained in an interview with The New York don’t. I was learning more outside of my members teaching in 48 urban and rural of the United States, a member of the Facebook news feeds. Times that she chose not to keep the role university than inside it. It’s the type of regions across the country this fall. Class of 1764. because she thought Parker “would prob- person that you are.” In addition, the Libraries’ Center for Giving Day 2013: n Director Bill Condon ’76’s latest film, ably succeed in the role more fully than I n ENDOWED: Columbia’s endowment Human Rights Documentation & Research The Fifth Estate, premiered on October 18. would. But I also felt it’d be better for me n WE’RE NO. 4 (AGAIN): Columbia portfolio produced a return of 11.5 percent has acquired the papers of Amnesty In- We Did It Again! It’s the story of Julian Assange, the found- as an actress, and better for the play, to try was ranked fourth for the fourth consecu- for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, ternational activist Joshua Rubenstein ’71. er and editor-in-chief of the to concentrate on one thing. tive year in U.S. News & World Report’s raising the total value of the endowment Rubenstein worked for Amnesty Interna- olumbia College raised the most funds among the University’s controversial, news-leaking I was scared I wouldn’t annual rankings of national universi- at that point to $8.2 billion. Columbia’s tional 1975–2012 and was its Northeast Cschools and programs on the website WikiLeaks. Condon have perspective if I was ties, announced in September. Princeton endowment returns over the past five regional director for three decades. second annual Columbia Giving Day, held won an Academy Award for both performing and then headed the list and Harvard, which had and 10 years are the highest on October 23 worldwide. The College Best Adapted Screenplay for making changes to the been tied with Princeton atop the 2013 among peer endowments secured the top spot last year as well. his 1998 film Gods and Mon- script, especially my first rankings, dropped to second, with Yale larger than $1 billion, ac- By the numbers, the results are: sters and was nominated in time out. I thought I might retaining the third spot. Chicago, which cording to the University. n More than 1,500 Columbia College the same category four years get immersed and lost.” had been tied with Columbia for fourth “A key part of our success alumni, students, parents and friends later for Chicago. He also The play focuses on a a year ago, dropped into a tie for fifth in maintaining Columbia’s donated in excess of $2.4 million for wrote the screenplay for and mother-daughter relation- with Stanford. Duke, MIT and Penn tied solid financial position has the College. directed Dreamgirls (2006) ship after the mother is for seventh and CalTech and Dartmouth been the consistent suc- n More than $7.8 million was raised and directed The Twilight forced to leave her luxuri- tied for 10th. Schools were ranked on 16 cess of our endowment overall from 9,759 gifts in 50 states Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 ous New York life because factors, including graduation and reten- investment managers year and 53 countries. (2011) and Part 2 (2012). of her husband’s Wall tion rates, class sizes and alumni giving. after year,” said University Deborah Waxman ’89 n By securing the top spot on the Street scandal. Columbia’s ranking is based on data from President Lee C. Bollinger. leader­boards, the College earned an n Deborah Waxman ’89, a three undergraduate schools: the College, “Over the past decade, our additional $75,398 in matching funds rabbi and historian of American Judaism, Engineering and General Studies. investment performance has for the Columbia College Fund. became president of the Reconstruction- consistently outpaced both n The College was awarded an extra ist Rabbinical College on January 1. Hire Columbians n ARTS & SCIENCES: Six Columbia the market and our peers, $15,000 for having high alumni Waxman, who had been v.p. for gover- Who better to hire Columbia students professors have been elected members helping Columbia compete involvement. than Columbia alumni? That’s the idea nance, will oversee both the seminary of the American Academy of Arts & Sci- academically with other Lisa Carnoy ’89, a University trustee and head of glob- behind “Hire Columbians,” a campaign n Young Alumni participation between in Wyncote, Pa., and the congregational ences: John Stratton Howley, professor of great universities that have al capital markets for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, by the Center for Career Education to 8 and 9 p.m. won the College an- union, an umbrella for approximately 100 religion at Barnard; Donald C. Hood, the far larger endowments.” spoke with students about her profession at the fall other $5,000. get Columbia alumni to hire students semester’s first Columbia College Dinner & Discussion Reconstructionist congregations. She is for internships or full-time positions. James F. Bender Professor in Psychology n program, sponsored by the Center for Career Educa- For stats and more information, go to believed to be the first woman to head a For more information, go to careered and professor of ophthalmic science; John GRANTED: The interdis- tion, on September 17. givingday.columbia.edu. Jewish congregational union and the first ucation.columbia.edu/hirecolumbians. D. Huber, professor of political science ciplinary team of Virginia PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT woman rabbi to lead a Jewish seminary. and departmental chair; Hervé Jacquet, Cornish ’91, the Helena

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 12 13 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT IN MEMORIAM rthur C. Danto ’53 GSAS, the Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In The Nation’s Johnsonian Professor Emeritus article “Remembering Arthur Danto,” Ben Hirschfeld ’16 Gives the Gift of Clean Light of Philosophy, an art critic and Peter G. Meyer wrote that what distin- a philosopher, died on October guished Danto from other critics was B y N at h a l i e A l o ns o ’08 A 25, 2013, in Manhattan. He was 89. “his ability to discuss the actual mean- Danto was one of the most prominent ing of a particular work of art, and even en Hirschfeld ’16’s impetus the Red Rose School, that he truly real- art critics of the Postmodern era. He was where it was exhibited, something that to start Lit! Solar (litsolar.org), ized his project’s potential to improve a famously influenced by a 1964 New York few critics dared to, or cared to, do on a a program that has distrib- family’s health and finances. Acheing, Stable Gallery show that featured one of regular basis.” uted sun-powered lanterns a mother of two, reported her children’s Andy Warhol’s iconic reproductions of Danto published some 30 books in- to more than 10,000 people in chronic pneumonia disappeared when the Brillo box. Frustrated that the sculp- cluding Encounters & Reflections: Art in Bthe developing world, emerged from a the family abandoned its kerosene ture was indistinguishable from an ordi- the Historical Present, which won the simple question: How do schoolchildren lamp in favor of a solar lantern. The $8 nary object, Danto wondered what made National Book Critics Circle Award in who lack electricity study after dark? lantern, says Hirschfeld, also enabled it “art.” In his 1964 essay “The Artworld,” 1990; Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Hirschfeld was a high school fresh- Acheing to work after sundown, which published in The Journal of Philosophy, he Arts in Post-Historical Perspective; and man when he posed this question to his allowed her to expand her business proposed that art became “art” because it Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap neighbor, Pam Allyn ’88 TC, founder of sewing school uniforms and raise was deemed meaningful by an artistically Between Art & Life, a collection of his and executive director of the internation- money to purchase a second lantern for literate community — the “artworld.” essays and reviews. al literacy nonprofit LitWorld (litworld. relatives. Danto became a champion of avant- Danto is survived by his second wife, org). Allyn explained that in places like “Being there and putting a human garde artists and the pop-art movement Barbara Westman Danto, whom he mar- Kibera, Kenya, where LitWorld works face on all of these issues really brought and was fascinated by how artists such as ried in 1980; and daughters, Ginger and and where Lit! Solar’s main program it all home for me — both the huge Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein could trans- Elizabeth. His first wife, Shirley Rovetch, Lit! Solar founder Ben Hirschfeld ’16 with now operates, many people lack elec- difference we could make in people’s lantern recipient Doreen Acheing in her home form ordinary objects into art. His essay died in 1978. tricity and rely on kerosene lamps for lives with this tiny piece of technology in Kibera in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. “The End of Art” radically proposed that Karl Daum ’15 light. Not only does kerosene pose a and the humbleness that comes from PHOTO: JEFF OKOTH art history had come to an end; that art fire hazard, Hirschfeld learned, but it is knowing how many people are still was a medium of individuals and that Arthur C. Danto ’53 GSAS PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO also expensive, provides only dim light dealing with the same problems,” says says. “He thinks big but also understands in the contemporary world, a plurality and, because of its smoke, can cause Hirschfeld. that each of the successes comes from of approaches would prevent any single respiratory diseases, including lung In Kibera, Lit! Solar promotes the step-by-step work, which needs to be style from dominating. In his book What earned a Ph.D. from GSAS. Danto began Request for cancer. Having suffered from respiratory lanterns on the radio, at parent meetings meticulously done.” Art Is, published this past March, Danto teaching philosophy at Columbia in 1951 ailments growing up, he was spurred to at schools, and at festivals. Recipients do Hirschfeld, who is pondering majors concluded that art was “the embodiment and chaired the department for several Nominations action by the findings. “Because of my not have any upfront costs for the lan- in sociology and sustainable develop- of an idea,” forgoing the aesthetic and years. He was named the Johnsonian Pro- The Columbia College Alumni own struggle with learning while not terns; instead, they are asked to donate, ment, has garnered financial support instead conveying “the power of mean- fessor Emeritus of Philosophy after his Association Board of Directors feeling well because of respiratory is- over time, part of the money they save for his project in the form of several ing and possibility of truth.” 1992 retirement. requests nominations for new sues, I could empathize and understand on kerosene to help provide lanterns for prizes, including a $36,000 Diller Teen Born in Ann Arbor, Mich., on January Following such famous art critics as members. If you or a fellow how hard it must be,” says Hirschfeld, others. “The families get all the health Tikkun Olam Award from the Helen 1, 1924, Danto was raised in Detroit. He Russell Sturgis, Henry James and Clement alumnus/a have an interest in who after further research determined benefits, studying benefits and also eco- Diller Family Foundation, which rec- served for two years in the Army during Greenberg, Danto became The Nation’s being an active volunteer leader that solar lanterns charged by daylight nomic benefits, because the parents can ognizes Jewish teen leaders. He also WWII and was stationed in Italy and in art critic in 1984; he held this post until on the CCAA board, please contact were a solution. work at night,” says Hirschfeld. has received a Gloria Barron Prize for North Africa. Danto studied art and art 2009 and was the longest-serving art Under the auspices of LitWorld, Lit! Lit! Solar has also donated solar Young Heroes, which carries a $2,500 history at Wayne State, graduating in critic in the magazine’s history. Danto’s us at [email protected] Solar began as a pilot program in 2009. lanterns to participants of LitWorld’s cash award, and a $2,000 BIC 4 Good 1948. He aspired to become an artist spe- critical style was influenced by his for more information or to Hirschfeld set up a booth at a farmers LitClubs, which focus on empowering Grant from DoSomething.org. cializing in woodcuts but took advantage education, specifically the theories of submit a nomination. market in his hometown of Hastings-on- and educating girls in places like the In September, Hirschfeld was invited of the GI Bill to study philosophy and 19th-century German philosopher Georg Hudson, N.Y., and raised funds to send Philippines and Haiti, and has expand- by the Clinton Global Initiative to attend lanterns to 20 students at the Red Rose ed its scope to include Fiji and a Native the CGI Annual Meeting, a gathering School in Kibera, the biggest slum in American reservation in Arizona. of global leaders from businesses, non- the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, through During the academic year, Hirschfeld profits, NGOs and governments, at the LitWorld’s local partner organizations. oversees the overall operation of Lit! Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. Have You Moved? DATE SMART! After a second round of distribution, Solar and pursues opportunities to There he met President Bill Clinton, of he sent questionnaires to assess the extend the program’s reach, whether it whose nonprofit work Hirschfeld has To ensure that you receive effectiveness of the solar lanterns. “It means networking or giving his input on long been a fan. “What [Clinton] does is CCT and other College Join the singles’ turned out that the kids were studying a contract agreement with a new partner connect people, and the other attendees information, let us know if network exclusively a lot more, that they felt more confident organization in Kenya. (He also performs I met there will, I’m sure, help take Lit! you have a new postal or for graduates, faculty in school and that [the families] were with the Columbia University Kings- Solar to the next level,” he says. email address, a new phone and students of the saving a lot of money on kerosene,” says men.) Allyn praises Hirschfeld’s ability number or even a new name. Ivy League Hirschfeld. to break down an ambitious project into Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a Click “Contact Us” at MIT, Stanford and It was in July 2011, however, when he manageable tasks. “He has great ideas, freelance journalist and an editorial pro- college.columbia.edu/cct few others. met people like Doreen Acheing during a has created excellent protocols for the ducer for LasMayores.com, Major League or call 212-851-7852. www.rightstu dating.com three-week stint as a teaching assistant at work and carries things through,” she Baseball’s official Spanish language website. 1-800-988-5288

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 14 15 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ROAR, LION, ROAR

tions making the Dean’s List as a short-term goal before diving into her athletic aspirations — being on an international tournament podium again and with more consistency, and staying ranked in Roar, Lion, Roar the top eight in the world. These coexisting goals require a busy schedule, with fencing practice six days a week, sometimes twice a day; volunteering at the Peter Westbrook Foundation Saturday Program, which offers fencing to youth ages 9–18 of all skill levels; traveling, often internationally, for competitions and training camps Olympian Nzingha Prescod ’15 11 months of the year; competing in the NCAA, national and inter- national fencing seasons (which, to make things more complicated, overlap); and, of course, the demands of school. But Prescod stresses that she thrives off a packed schedule. To Balances Fencing, Academics train for the London 2012 Olympics she took the 2011–12 school year off (she entered Columbia with the Class of 2014), a time she Columbia’s men’s cross country team and its supporters B y E l e na H e c h t ’09 B a r na r d describes as awful. “I needed a distraction. School is my distrac- celebrate the Lions’ Ivy/Heps win at Van Cortlandt Park. tion from fencing. And not a distraction in the bad way. I would PHOTO: GENE BOYARS go crazy from only fencing. Fencing is so mental and you really t is 10 a.m. on a Thursday and Nzingha Prescod ’15, bit- glimpse of the 21-year-old’s conditioning workout it is clear that psych yourself out sometimes. … I have to do something else.” ing her lower lip, is poised in a deep squat on a strip in her footwork is exceptional and her composure otherworldly Thanks to Columbia’s reputation for strong fencing and a Lions Win Men’s Ivy/Heps the fencing gym, eyes focused directly ahead, right arm — not surprising for a Columbia fencing team captain who number of PWF and Fencers Club teammates who went to Cross Country Crown gently bent — relaxed hand up, creased elbow down competed in the London 2012 Olympics. Couple that with her Columbia, Prescod had wanted to attend the College since — like a cat ready to pounce. A blond boy stands to her history-making gold in May at the Marseille Foil Grand Prix, a elementary school, though she notes that fencing aside, she olumbia won the men’s Ivy Heptagonal Cross right, holding a glove a few inches above her eye level. triumph that made her the first U.S. women’s foil fencer to win a loves the school. But ultimately New York was the biggest draw Country Championship at Van Cortlandt Park With no warning he drops the glove and, in a moment in which Grand Prix title, and there’s no doubt: Prescod is a champion. because, she says, “I didn’t want to leave my coach.” on November 2, placing three runners among time seems to slow, Prescod extends her arm and, with a deliber- She is also no stranger to New York fencing. The Brooklyn na- That coach is Buckie Leach, Prescod’s coach of 10 years and a US the top five finishers. It was the Lions’ first Ivy ate yet delicate power, drives her right foot forward into a lunge, tive has been fencing foil, one of three weapons used in the sport, C I Fencing Hall of Fame member. Columbia fencers are encouraged to men’s cross country title since 2009 and fourth overall. catching the glove in her right hand with a practiced accuracy. since she was 9, when her mother brought her for lessons at the train with other coaches at clubs throughout New York City so as Columbia finished with 48 points to knock off three-time It is early September, and Prescod is not yet back to fencing Peter Westbrook Foundation (PWF), an organization founded to access the diversity of competition that club fencing offers. As a defending champion Princeton, which had 56 points. after an intense summer of competition. But from even a by six-time Olympian Peter Westbrook that brings fencing to result, throughout her time at Columbia Prescod has continued to Nicolas Composto ’14 ran the 8K course in a career- inner-city children. From the start, Prescod liked to win, train at the Fencers Club in midtown three to four times per week best time of 23 minutes, 44.5 seconds to finish in second and that thirst for success drove — and in many ways with Leach, whom she credits with shaping her work ethic. He place behind Harvard senior Maksim Korolev, who continues to drive — her dedication. For someone whose instilled the concept that “‘You’ve got to work hard all the time, 100 clocked 23:28.2. Composto’s time was the best Ivy/ inclination to smile seems as natural as her skill with a percent.’ So I have that attitude about everything I care about,” she Heps time in Columbia history. John Gregorek ’14 fin- sword, her fervor for athletic perfection is surprising — says. “He has shaped me as a person in a lot of ways.” ished fourth in 23:45.0 and Daniel Everett ’15 was fifth at and Prescod knows it. “I keep it really hush-hush, but As she moves through her third year on campus, Prescod has 23:46.3. All three earned All-Ivy First Team honors, a first deep inside I’m super competitive,” she says. her sights set on the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where she hopes to for Columbia. But ambition alone does not beget success. Michael have a chance to march in the Opening Ceremony (in 2012 she was Three more Lions finished among the top 21 in a field Aufrichtig, Columbia’s head fencing coach and former deterred by an early-morning event the next day). And though she of 95 runners. Jacob Sienko ’14 was 17th at 24:07.0, Jack chairman of the New York Athletic Club fencing pro- does not think about it much, in a sport that is known for histori- Boyle ’17 was 20th at 24:14.2 and Ben Golestan ’16 was gram, notes that Prescod — who is currently ranked No. 1 cally lacking in diversity — Westbrook’s sabre bronze medal in 21st at 24:19.3. in the United States and eighth in the world — is in opti- 1984 made him the first African-American Olympic fencing medal- In the women’s race, Waverly Neer ’15 placed second mal physical form for the sport. “Also, mentally she is like ist, not to mention the first American medalist in fencing since 1960 for the second consecutive year with a time of 20:20.0 that cool, calm, detached warrior,” says Aufrichtig, who — the significance of being “one of so few who’ve gone this far in for the 6K course, trailing only Dartmouth senior Abbey also draws attention to the combined power of Prescod’s this sport and who are black” is not lost on her. “I’m really glad that D’Agostino, who posted an Ivy-record time of 19:40.8. In precise footwork and her sense of timing. “I feel she is I can do this so younger black kids see that basketball and football the team standings, Columbia’s women finished fifth as one of the most talented, strong, creative, most impressive aren’t the only sports that they can do and be successful in. Fencing Dartmouth captured the crown. fencers in the United States and in the world.” can take you so many places and give you so many opportunities Columbia’s men’s team placed second in the NCAA It may seem daunting to balance an internationally and make you such a better person,” says Prescod. “I really hope Northeast Regional on November 15 and then finished successful athletics career with the rigor of a Columbia younger kids can see that through me.” 25th in the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., education, but for Prescod it is old hat: She has been on November 23. Composto led the way, completing the harmonizing her academic life with sports-related travel To view video of Prescod fencing, go to Web Extras at college.columbia. 10K course in 30:37.8 to finish 30th and earn All-America since she was 13. This aptitude for maintaining balance edu/cct. honors. Sienko finished in 121st place, Boyle was 171st, Fencer Nzingha Prescod ’15, who is currently ranked No. 1 in the United States and eighth in the world, with her gold medal from the 2011 Junior has allowed Prescod, who came to the College from Gregorek 190th and Joe Kotran ’14 196th. Neer finished World Championships, held in Amman, Jordan. Stuyvesant H.S. and is majoring in political science, to Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard is a New York-based writer and dancer, 219th in the women’s event. PHOTO: MIKE DOTE strive for both fencing and academic success. She men- and a former Columbia College Today editorial assistant. SCOREBOARD For the latest news on Columbia athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. Number of matches Zack Number of matches won by the Columbia men’s The highest national ranking The number of Columbia fencers who The margin of victory as Columbia’s women’s Hernandez ’16 won to capture the doubles team of Ashok Narayana ’15 and Max achieved by Columbia’s Ivy finished in the top 32 in the first North swimming team defeated Harvard for the 184-lb. division of the Michigan Schnur ’15 en route to the ITA/USTA National In- League champion men’s cross American Cup of the year, thus qualifying for first time in school history, 163.5–136.5, 4 State Open wrestling tournament. 5 door Intercollegiate Tennis Championship. 8 country team this season. 21 National Division I Championships in 2014. 27in the team’s 2013–14 season opener. WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 16 17 ROAR, LION, ROAR COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ROAR, LION, ROAR

Narayana, Schnur Win National Indoor Doubles Title Young Basketball Lions Take the Court Save the Date! olumbia’s duo of Ashok Narayana ’15 and Max Schnur earned a shot at the national crown by beating Florida State’s Ben- outh will be served this season on Columbia’s men’s the season using a three-guard start- Dec. 9 ’15 stunned the top-seeded and No. 1 nationally ranked jamin Lock and Marco Nunez 6–4, 6–4 in the semifinals. basketball team. With no seniors on the roster, coach ing lineup, with Cohen and Lo joining Women’s basketball pair of Mikelis Libietis and Hunter Reese from Tennes­ Kyle Smith is turning to the players he has brought to Mullins for the opening tip. reception at Iona see 6–3, 6–2 to win the doubles draw of the ITA/USTA Morningside Heights during the past three seasons as Osetkowski, 6-11 and 258 lbs., is Dec. 28 Y Men’s basketball C he looks to build a title contender. a deft passer with a good shooting National Indoor Intercollegiate Tennis Championships on Nov­ Ruzika Honored by Athletics ember 10. “This is our third recruiting class, and we finally have our touch who keys the frontcourt, and plays St. John’s in the Brooklyn Hoops “The guys they played have been No. 1 in the country since olumbia Athletics dedicated the Richard M. Ruzika group of guys who fit our style of play,” says Smith, whose team Smith will look to run the offense Winter Festival at February, and they hardly lose,” Lions coach Bid Goswami said. Theater and Classroom in The Campbell Sports Cen- went 12–16 last season and 4–10 in Ivy League play. That record through him at center more often the Barclays Center “It makes it that much better beating the No. 1 team in the cham- Cter on October 19 in honor of Richard M. Ruzika ’81. is a bit deceiving, as Columbia beat two teams that reached the to take advantage of his skills. Luke (televised by Fox pionship. Now everyone will be gunning for us, but it’s great to President Lee C. Bollinger and Trustees Chair William V. NCAA Championships (Harvard and Villanova) and lost eight Petrasek ’17, a lean 6-10 forward, Sports 1) win this and have a national championship under our belt.” Campbell ’62, ’64 TC were present at the dedication. Ivy games by six points or fewer. completed the starting lineup on Jan. 18 Columbia, which hosted the tournament at the USTA-Billie Ruzika, who played defensive tackle for the Columbia Smith notes that while his team is young, four players have opening night. Joining them in the Men’s basketball opens Ivy League Jean King National Tennis Center, entered the doubles draw as a football team, had a successful career in international fi- significant experience as starters and seven played at least 10 frontcourt are Alex Rosenberg ’15, season against Cor- wild card and earned the program’s first collegiate Grand Slam nance and became the commodities head at Goldman Sachs. minutes a game last year. “We may be young,” says Smith, “but who competed for the United States nell at Levien Gym and national tournament crown. It was also the first national A generous contributor to the University and to Athletics, these guys have had a taste of success and really want to take in the Maccabiah Games in Israel this Feb. 8 title earned by an Ivy League team since 1999, when James Blake Ruzika was a member of the College’s Board of Visitors, this program to a higher level.” past summer, and Zach En’Wezoh Men’s basketball of Harvard won the singles championship. received the John Jay Award for distinguished professional With the graduation of Brian Barbour ’13, the team leader ’16, who had an injury-plagued first reception at Penn “Once we won the first set, the chants started coming, ‘Let’s achievement in 2006, was a member of the Columbia Cam- in scoring and assists last season, and Mark Cisco ’13, its re- season. Smith is hopeful that 7-1 Feb. 17 go Lions!’ and I think we fed off that really well,” Schnur said. paign for Athletics Leadership Committee and contributed a bounding leader, Smith is turning to Grant Mullins ’16 and center Conor Voss ’17E will see more Women’s Consor- Cory Osetkowski ’15 as key building blocks. action as the season progresses. tium networking “It was a great atmosphere for us. We knew we could beat any leadership gift toward The Campbell Sports Center. He died event team, but now we actually won a championship.” on May 7, 2012, following a stroke that occurred three days Mullins averaged 9.7 ppg and shot .374 from three-point range The Lions began the non-league “We had good game planning and strategy,” Narayana said. after knee surgery. last season, and gained valuable experience this summer playing portion of their season with a strong “We’ve been in these situations, so we knew if we played well “We are so thrilled to honor Rich with the naming of the with the Canadian National Development Team, which compiled 73–54 victory over Maryland-Eastern we would have a shot.” Richard M. Ruzika Theater and Classroom,” said M. Dianne a 7–0 record at the Seven Nations Tournament in China against Shore before losing 71–70 to Manhattan in the final second of Narayana and Schnur won their opening match of the four- Murphy, director of intercollegiate athletics and physical some of the top young talent in the world. Joining Mullins in a play and 62–53 at Michigan State, at the time ranked second in day tournament over the No. 3 doubles team in the nation, Jack- education. “Rich was such a generous and caring person. deep backcourt are Isaac Cohen ’16, Maodo Lo ’16, Meiko Lyles the nation. Columbia will open Ivy competition against Cornell son Withrow and Junior Ore from Texas A&M, by an 8–4 score. He was beloved by his teammates, coaches, classmates and ’15, Noah Springwater ’15 and Kendall Jackson ’17. Smith began at Levien Gym on January 18. The Columbia partnership continued their success with an 8–2 colleagues. We are so honored that his wife, Ruthanne, and victory over Rafael Aita and Sam Williams of North Carolina- their children, Craig [’16] and Caitlin, could join us at the Wilmington, then advanced to the semifinals by beating Simon dedication.” Felix and Deni Zmak of Embry-Riddle 8–3. Narayana and Schnur

The largest number of soccer alumni in Columbia history turned the women’s and men’s matches against Penn and included soc- THE IVY LEAGUE DIGITAL NETWORK out on October 12 for the dedication of the Rocco B. Commisso cer alumni from five decades. Commisso (bottom row, center) is [’70E, ’75 Business] Soccer Stadium at the Baker Athletics Com- the founder and CEO of Mediacom Communications, a cable TV plex. The venue honors Commisso, a three-time All-Ivy player who and broadband provider, and has been an active contributor to led the undefeated freshman soccer team in 1967 and then co- the men’s soccer program for more than 40 years. He co-founded captained, with Len Renery ’71, the Lions to their first NCAA tour- the alumni advisory group Friends of Columbia Soccer and served nament appearance in 1970. The dedication took place between as its chair from 1979–86, among other initiatives. WATCH LIVE PHOTO: MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN Columbia Lions Basketball Action All Season Long

2 0 1 3 - 1 4

WINTER 2013–14 Get Access at www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com/Columbia 18 One of the winning images from the Office of Global Programs’ 2013–14 study abroad photo contest: Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, just before sunrise. PHOTO: MICHELLE ANN WORTHINGTON ’14

GLOBAL COLUMBIA More than ever, the College is taking steps to prepare its students to be engaged and effective global citizens

B y S h i r a B o ss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 20 21 HELPING STUDENTS HAVE GLOBAL EXPERIENCES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY HELPING STUDENTS HAVE GLOBAL EXPERIENCES

could have offered. But the global character of a Columbia Col- among other things. “The goal,” Marinaccio says, “as it is with all lege education is also delivered in our classrooms every day by our of our recruitment efforts, is to help international students decide broadly diverse and international student body that exposes every if Columbia might be the right fit for them.” student to a world of different voices, cultures and ideas.” This concerted effort is producing results: Sixteen percent of Indeed, while “global” might be something of a buzzword in the College Class of 2017 hails from abroad — 47 countries in all today’s culture, it is nevertheless a big idea that translates in an — with the top countries represented being South Korea, China, array of meaningful ways to the realm of a College education. It the United Kingdom, Canada and India. Two decades ago, just applies to the content of the curriculum (both on campus and in four percent of the members of the Class of 1997 came from for- the overseas academic programs the College runs), to the compo- eign countries, with 24 countries represented, led by China, Hong sition of the student body, and to the atmosphere and activities Kong, Pakistan, Germany and India. that are fostered on campus. It speaks to the way the University Diversity of the student body is further is expanding its footprint through the Columbia Global Centers enhanced through visiting interna- as well as to the increasing range of international experiences tional students, who come to Co- available to undergraduates in research, work or study lumbia for a semester or year, abroad. And it speaks to a mindset — to a broadening as well as exchange students of awareness and ability to understand multiple per- who hail from the 14 institu- spectives — that is crucial to thriving in this new, in- “We want the College tions in Europe and Asia terdependent world. with which Columbia has “My view is, if we’re going to have our students to prepare students to student exchange agree- educated for the world they will inhabit and lead,” ments; these range from says President Lee C. Bollinger, “they should be fa- be engaged and effective a longstanding arrange- miliar now with China, they should visit and work ment with the Institut in countries in Africa, they should have been to In- global citizens.” d’Etudes Politiques de dia and done some of their coursework there, they Paris (Sciences-Po) to Maddy Cohen ’13 (second row, far right) and other biology stu- should have a feel for South America. A lot of this is Dean James J. Valentini a more recently estab- dents visited the village of Xijiang, in Guizhou Province, China, in just introducing young people to this very, very inter- lished partnership with summer 2012 to discuss local forestry and agricultural practices. connected world. The person who used to be a citizen of The Hong Kong University Left, the students at a banana plantation outside a village in California, then became a citizen of the United States, now of Science and Technology. In southern Yunnan Province. PHOTOS: TOP, COURTESY MATT PALMER; LEFT, SHAHID NAEEM has to become a global citizen. And students, young people, addition to adding international know this.” perspectives to the residence halls, Columbia encourages this crossover by having an Office of classrooms and campus activities, the ex- understanding research concepts from project planning to execu- Global Programs (OGP), responsible for helping with fellow- change students — from 40 to 50 each academic tion, something that is hard to do within the classroom.” ships as well as for bringing exchange students to Morningside year — serve as ambassadors to introduce College students to At the end of her junior year, Cohen again went abroad, this Heights and sending students to study abroad. “Our students these reciprocal study abroad opportunities. “When students are in- time to China, with other biology students, with Matt Palmer, di- need not just to function in a global environment but to under- terested in going abroad to a partner institution, we make a point of rector of undergraduate studies for E3B, and with Shahid Naeem, stand and tolerate ambiguity, to work collaboratively, to work connecting them with an on-campus exchange partner,” says Scott professor of ecology in E3B and director of the Earth Institute Cen- where the rules are not clear,” says Michael Pippenger, dean of Carpenter, OGP’s associate dean of study abroad. “That’s been valu- ter for Environmental Sustainability. They presented research to undergraduate global programs and assistant v.p. of internation- able in terms of logistics and orienting them to what that institution students at Minzu University of China in Beijing and traveled to al education, “so they can succeed in that global environment, not is like.” addy Cohen ’13 came to the Col- rural areas to learn more about how ethnic minorities are manag- just today or six months from now, but six years from now and Speaking of the Class of 2017, Marinaccio says, “Our interna- lege from her hometown of North ing their forest and water resources. 60 years from now.” tional community is incredibly diverse. We continually strive Palm Beach, Fla., interested in Upon graduation, Cohen found ready employment in New to bring new perspectives to the Columbia community, and for studying health and also ecology. York City with a sustainability management consulting firm. “I the first time, students from Malta, Honduras and the Palestin- She loves to travel but didn’t an- work with international clients, helping businesses improve their Providing a global experience starts with ian Territories are represented in our undergraduate population.” ticipate fitting study abroad into environmental footprint and social impact,” she says. “It’s a great admissions, and building a class whose diversity includes stu- She adds that attracting a diverse and talented student body is her schedule. Then, during orien- job that combines several of my interests in helping people and dents from many countries and cultures. “Columbia reaches out an important goal of the Admissions Office, the College and the tation, she attended an environ- the environment.” to prospective students from around the world in a variety of University. “Our endeavor is to create a class that represents a va- mental biology presentation and ways, including letters, emails and a special section of the admis- riety of perspectives and backgrounds, including those from all immediately pinpointed the first of her two majors. “I was daz- sions website,” says Jessica Marinaccio, dean of undergraduate over the world, so that numerous voices are represented around Mzled by the traveling to all parts of the globe to understand spe- By virtue of being at Columbia University in admissions and financial aid. “We also place great importance a Core Curriculum table. This adds to the academic and student cies and systems,” she says. Her other major, sustainable devel- the City of New York, College undergraduates have long enjoyed on face-to-face outreach. Members of the admissions staff visited life community at Columbia and greatly benefits all students, opment, “came about later, as I realized I wanted to see more of a cosmopolitan atmosphere. But now, more than ever, the College more than 30 countries this fall, where they met with prospective who constantly engage with and learn from students who are the intersection between ecological systems and human health.” is taking steps to ensure that its students are thinking globally, students at high schools, held information sessions and engaged different from themselves.” And, contrary to her initial expectations, travel the globe Co- opening their minds to and setting their sights on the world be- with international organizations that assist students applying to hen did. First, after her sophomore year, she joined 15 other stu- yond Morningside Heights. colleges in the United States.” dents who went with Dustin Rubenstein, assistant professor in “We want the College to prepare students to be engaged and Additionally, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions tries When the students converge on Morningside the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biol- effective global citizens,” says James J. Valentini, dean of the Col- to connect prospective international students with current in- Heights, they quickly are immersed in the crown jewel of a Col- ogy (E3B), on a research trip to Kenya to study tropical biology. lege and v.p. for undergraduate education, who hopes that all stu- ternational students through its Global Recruitment Committee, lege education, the Core Curriculum. “The trip was unparalleled,” Cohen says. “We would wake up dents who are interested in studying, working or doing research a volunteer student organization that assists with international “The Core is designed to shed light from multiple perspectives every morning and bird-watch along the river, looking across abroad have an opportunity to do so during their time at Colum- recruitment. GRC members, who hail from around the world, on the basic question of what it means to be human,” says Roo- at baboons and hearing other animals — hippos, elephants — bia. “Alumni often tell me that having the chance to work or study hold online chats and webinars for prospective students and sevelt Montás ’95, ’04 GSAS, director of the Center for the Core nearby.e W completed several research projects while in the field, overseas opened doors of understanding that no other experience write personalized postcards to admitted international students, Curriculum and associate dean of academic affairs. “As our world

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 22 23 HELPING STUDENTS HAVE GLOBAL EXPERIENCES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY HELPING STUDENTS HAVE GLOBAL EXPERIENCES has become more integrated, and as Core classrooms have become in society, music in cross-cultural perspectives, music from hu- more international, these skills honed in class discussion assume a manistic and social-science perspectives, and more. global reach, equipping our students to understand their own lives in broad terms that emphasize our shared humanity.” The specifically non-Western component of the Core is the Departments are becoming more globally two-semester Global Core requirement (formerly Major Cul- minded — in faculty recruitment, course offerings, majors and tures), which according to the Bulletin “asks students to engage concentrations, and opportunities for students to travel abroad directly with the variety of civilizations and the diversity of tradi- for study or research. About one-third of the College’s more than tions that, along with the West, have formed the world and con- 100 majors and concentrations are programs of study that are tinue to interact in it today.” Students choose two courses from either specifically foreign (East Asian studies, French, Hispanic an approved list from various departments that explore the cul- studies, Italian cultural studies, modern Greek studies …) or nat- tures of Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East in a his- urally lend themselves to international scope (evolutionary biol- torical context. Examples are “Buddhism: East Asian” (religion ogy of the human species, ethnicity and race studies, history and department), “Economic Organization and Development of Ja- theory of architecture …), including two of the newest additions, pan” (economics), “Caribbean Diaspora Literature” (English and human rights and sustainable development. Comparative Literature) and “Global Urbanism” (sociology). The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia “The aim is to expose students to a range of perspectives on fun- University revised its curriculum three years ago to make it more damental human issues and to enrich their sense of themselves as comparative and global. “It was heavily centered on the U.S., and members of a global community,” Montás says. to some extent it still is; the U.S. is very important to the work that Such courses could also soon debut overseas. The Andrew W. we do. But we thought it was also important for students to get Mellon Foundation earlier this year awarded Columbia a grant to a global perspective on race, ethnicity and other forms of social globalize the liberal arts curriculum, and four departments have difference,” says Frances Negrón-Muntaner, associate professor proposed courses to be taught abroad, which are currently in the of English and comparative literature and director of CSER. process of being approved. The syllabi for these courses, which Whereas the department used to have three separate majors that include Art Humanities and Music Humani- started with “Introduction to …” Latino Studies, for example, and ties to be taught in Paris, would be tai- students then continued with more in-depth area studies, now lored to specific locales and allow all CSER students take three foundation courses, one each students “to take advantage of on a history of the modern world, theory and research. Tropical biology students study abroad at The Mpala Research Centre in Kenya. Clockwise from top left: ants living in the swollen thorns of the history, architecture and tra- “The Core is designed “This emphasis allows students to consider that what acadia trees warrant a close-up look; College and Barnard students in June 2011; a chameleon made for a friendly addition to the group. PHOTOS: DUSTIN RUBENSTEIN ditions you can find in a city happens in the U.S. is related to and illuminated by like Paris,” says Giuseppe to shed light from multiple what takes place elsewhere, and that there is a his- Gerbino, associate profes- tory to this interconnectivity,” Negrón-Muntaner from employers more frequently that they are looking for stu- an initiative that the University launched in March 2009 — are sor of music and chair of perspectives on the basic says. “This approach underscores how some- dents with global competencies: to be adaptable, to be flexible, to more like intellectual outposts, seen as “Columbia embedded in the Department of Music. times very local experiences are connected to deal well with ambiguity. Those are in line with experiences you what is emerging as a global community of scholarship,” accord- As Gerbino notes, “One question of what it means thoughts and practices many miles away.” get abroad, having to navigate a new culture.” ing to the centers’ website. of the most significant de- Although the department “highly encour- Among the international internships that are available to stu- “We need to have bases around the world that will help our velopments in the history to be human.” ages” its students to study abroad, Negrón- dents are those offered through CCE’s Columbia Experience Over- faculty and students learn about the world,” says Bollinger. of Western polyphony is Muntaner makes the point that traveling is not seas (CEO) program (see “Passport to India,” Fall 2013), which “You’re not really going to have the impact on your own teaching associated with the construc- Roosevelt Montás ’95, the only way to gain a more global perspective. sends students on summer internships to Amman, Beijing, Hong and research through branch campuses that you will with some- tion of the Cathedral of Notre “There’s a tendency to think of global as foreign Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and, as of this year, Mumbai thing like Global Centers. In my view, it’s really our faculty and Dame in Paris and the musi- or ‘someplace else.’ It’s fundamental to the trans- and Bangalore. The students are connected to local employers as our students who need to have the opportunities to learn what cal repertory cultivated in that ’04 GSAS formation of Columbia, and higher education in gen- well as to alumni mentors; they also live together in Columbia- the issues are, learn what they need to know, develop research specific spatial and ceremonial eral, that globalization is understood as a shift in think- sponsored housing and take part in local programming that helps programs, develop classes and courses — and that’s not going context. While taking Music Hum, ing,” she says. “Many shifts in thinking can occur when them network and get the most out of being abroad. This past sum- to happen if you have a branch campus.” (See “A Conversation students will be able to study the archi- someone encounters an experience they’ve never had, but this mer, 64 undergraduates participated, roughly 70 percent of them with President Lee C. Bollinger,”on page 28.) tectural spaces for which historically important is not simply the result of traveling. It is the result of thinking dif- from the College. The centers maintain small local staffs, establish ties with local works were created and in which they were first performed.” ferently about the world.” “Launching a program in India this past summer was particu- institutions and scholars, and can serve as a home-away-from- Whether taught in New York or abroad, the Core nurtures an larly significant,” says Kavita Sharma, dean of CCE. “Not only Morningside for faculty and students researching and studying understanding and appreciation of all cultures. “Music Human- did CCE provide opportunities for 11 undergraduates to intern in abroad as well as alumni working or traveling in those areas. ities participates in the Western Core, the texts and art works For several years running, an on-campus India but we did it by leveraging our relationship with the Mum- The Global Center in Paris, for example, is home to Reid Hall, of which are in demand all over the world,” says Elaine Sisman, event has been organized to familiarize students with the myriad bai Global Center and securing funding from Citigroup via the where Columbia’s undergraduate programs have been located the Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music and chair of Music opportunities abroad and the ways to study or work internation- U.S. State Department. A few of our student interns were even since 1964, and the Global Center in Mumbai hosts an orientation Humanities. “By training students in critical listening practices ally. Last year, more than 25 participants came together at the able to travel to Delhi to present their experiences as U.S. interns program and other events for undergrads interning in India as we help them to engage with all musics, as well as enabling them international expo to present their programs. The more obvious at a Strategic Dialogue on Higher Education between the U.S. part of CEO. to participate in the cultural life of the present.” ones were OGP (study abroad) and the Center for Career Educa- and Indian governments.” “Our approach facilitates the learning that comes through dia- She notes that the department has taught musics of the world tion (internships, jobs) but also included were Columbia Maison As in Mumbai, the Columbia Global Centers play a signifi- logue with international academic partners while also allowing since 1971; Asian Music Humanities (one semester devoted to Française, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Earth cant role in opening up opportunities for undergraduates abroad. the Columbia community to share its knowledge and expertise East Asian, and one to West and South Asian music), now part of Institute. There are currently eight centers, with the others being in Amman, in locales around the world where it can most powerfully help the Global Core, was established in the mid-’80s; and, in addition “There’s more of an emphasis from many areas within Colum- Beijing, Istanbul, Nairobi, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago. Rath- address 21st-century challenges. The Global Centers provide to the history and theory of art music, the department also covers bia to encourage experiences that develop skill sets in line with er than establishing degree-granting branch campuses in foreign faculty and students with enhanced opportunities and in some popular music (in America and elsewhere in the world), jazz, ex- being a global citizen,” says Heather Perceval, associate dean of cities, as some peer institutions have done (for example, NYU Abu cases, opportunities that they wouldn’t have had otherwise; to perimental and electronic music, African-American music, music experiential education and student enterprises at CCE. “We hear Dhabi and Yale-NUS College in Singapore), the centers — part of get out in the world, to discover, engage and learn, while at the

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 24 25 HELPING STUDENTS HAVE GLOBAL EXPERIENCES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY HELPING STUDENTS HAVE GLOBAL EXPERIENCES

mit proposals for civic engagement projects in the to do work related to their courses. Bollinger cited as an example in E3B or sustainable development, the spring semester program, U.S. or abroad, form teams of student volunteers students working on water conservation traveling to the Global run in conjunction with Princeton, features four intensive classes and travel to their site during winter, spring or sum- Center in Amman to examine the issue in Jordan and surround- of three weeks each along with immersion in fieldwork. Students mer break. A student board runs the program, with ing areas of the Middle East. work daily from sunrise to sunset for nearly three months col- administrative support and matching funding from In addition, departments increasingly are working with facul- lecting data, writing papers, developing projects, and interacting the Office of Student Engagement. Projects have in- ty to send students abroad to work on their theses or for faculty- with wildlife and local communities. cluded a three-week trip to Tibetan areas of China led research projects. “Students want to emulate the professors Julia Pilowsky ’12 chose to study abroad during one semes- to create a sustainable waste management system they see who have these fantastic careers,” Pippenger says. “They ter of her junior year, in South Africa, through the Organization for rural communities, a nine-day trip to Ecuador see them going to these places around the world and want to be for Tropical Studies. “It was an amazing experience. We traveled to plant trees and work on other community proj- that ‘in person’ in their own careers.” from national park to national park all over South Africa, and I ects with an NGO and a three-week trip to Ghana to Holger Klein, professor of art history and archaeology, depart- got to do fieldwork on 10 projects and led the fieldwork on two of distribute eyeglasses, assist at an eye clinic and help ment chair and a recent recipient of both the Mark Van Doren them,” she says. “I gained a lot of skills because now I know how educate local residents about eye care. The student Award for Teaching and a Distinguished Faculty Award, is involv- to do everything from survey tidal pools for species diversity to proposal for the last project noted, “This will also be ing undergraduates in his Istanbul Digital Mapping Project in Tur- measure biomass of tree trunks.” a great chance for each team member to mature as a key. The project, with an on-location headquarters at the Columbia Directly from there, Pilowsky traveled to The Mpala Research global citizen, after having experienced the health- Global Center in Istanbul, is a topographical survey that docu- Centre in central Kenya for a six-week research trip to study the care scene in a completely different nation.” ments the city’s Late Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman monuments. songs of the superb starling, a bird common to East Africa, un- About 25 percent of Columbia students study Studentse ar helping to conduct photographic fieldwork as well der the direction of Rubenstein. Her project came about because abroad at some point in their undergraduate careers. as archival research in Istanbul to create a state-of-the-art digital on campus, Pilowsky had attended a presentation given by one [See “Study Abroad Grows in Popularity, Programs platform that will facilitate access to scholarly, archival, photo- of Rubenstein’s graduate students about how and Places,” on page 36.] Eight years ago Columbia graphic and other materials pertaining to the history of birds use simple calls to recognize rela- ran seven programs, all in Europe and Asia. Today Byzantion–Constantinople–Istanbul. It also will serve tives. The graduate student mentioned there are 16 and they include locations in Africa, Latin scholars, students and the public at large as a reliable that nobody had studied their more America and the Middle East. In addition, students source for an array of information on the city’s his- “Our students complex songs. “I decided that I can choose to study in any of more than 200 programs tory and monuments in preparation for site visits, was going to be the first one to in 150 cities worldwide through special arrangements individual study and research, and teaching in recognize the many study it,” Pilowsky says. with institutions overseas. the classrooms at Columbia and beyond. Rubenstein helped her de- The study abroad experience has evolved in re- “I could not be more thrilled to provide Co- benefits that come from a velop a thesis topic about the cent years. “In the past, there was an assumption lumbia students with an opportunity to study function of birdsong, and E3B that study abroad for our students was somehow Istanbul’s historic monuments on site and to global experience as being gave her a grant to complete ‘time off from Columbia’ or somehow an ‘add-on’ contribute to their documentation and preser- the fieldwork in Kenya. When to a Columbia education,” Pippenger says. “Now vation at a time when these monuments are an integral part of their the thesis was finished it be- that couldn’t be further from the truth. Our students under particular threat due to the pressures of came an article, co-authored recognize the many benefits that come from a global urban expansion and renewal projects,” says intellectual development.” with Rubenstein, that was pub- experience as being an integral part of their intellec- Klein, who is preparing a second fieldwork sea- lished in the May 2013 issue of tual development.” son as part of Columbia’s joint summer course Animal Behaviour, a leading jour- Spending a semester or a year abroad at a foreign with Istanbul’s Boğazic‚i University in June and July Michael Pippenger nal in the field of behavioral ecology. institution are the traditional options, but depart- 2014. Pilowsky credits the experience Two of the winning images from the Office of Global Programs’ 2013–14 study ments, institutes and even faculty are designing their Rubenstein, the E3B professor, has organized student with getting her into a Ph.D. program abroad photo contest (top): a Nigerian marketplace; (above): camping on the banks own programs to send students overseas. travel separately to Kenya and Panama during the summer in biology at Tufts, where she now studies of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. PHOTOS: (FROM TOP) OMOYENI OLANREWAJU CLEMENT ’15; VICTORIA ROBSON ’14 OGP, in conjunction with the Weatherhead East to do fieldwork on his research with birds and shrimp, respective- as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Asian Institute, has for the past three years run the ly, in those locations. “Columbia students are amazingly bright prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship. “But those are just the Global Scholars Program Summer Research Work- and can adapt to new situations easily. Even those who haven’t tangible markers of success,” she says. “It gave me real confidence same time not mandating the use of the centers. They are the base shop. Students travel to several foreign cities — last summer they traveled abroad previously tend to do well when immersed in a to be able to independently plan and carry out a field research proj- of several interdisciplinary research projects, the home of impor- were Beijing and Santiago; 2014 will feature Beijing, Berlin, Mos- new environment for the first time,” he says. ect, even in a new environment. It was amazing to get to know re- tant student programming across our schools and colleges, and cow and Ulan Bator (Mongolia), with travel on the Trans-Siberian He notes that his department’s students go in many different searchers from all over the world. Not least, I’ll always be grateful the catalyst for partnerships with academia across the world.” Railway — to conduct in-depth, comparative social science re- directions after graduation, including graduate school, medical that I got to spend some time in the Kenyan savanna, which is sure- search. In the spring, students will take a seminar in the spring to school, consulting, NGOs, even Wall Street, and that international ly one of the most beautiful ecosystems on Earth, and to observe prepare them for the summer experience. experience is always helpful preparation for their futures. “Study some of the world’s most fascinating animals. After all, it’s a love Valentini’s goal of having every student who Another example is the Summer Ecosystem Experiences for or field work abroad teaches them how to think, how to write, to of the natural world that got me into this field in the first place.” wants to do so go abroad at some point in his or her undergradu- Undergraduates (SEE-U) program, run by the Earth Institute and problem-solve, to troubleshoot, to design a project and interpret Whether by conducting fieldwork in Kenya or Panama, con- ate career could mean a student having an international experience open to undergraduates of all majors. Students study ecology data — plus they’re interacting with people from another culture. necting with students from around the world in a seminar room in as early as the summer after his or her first year through a study and biology through lectures and labs and conduct fieldwork It gets them out of the Ivory Tower and allows them to apply Hamilton Hall or signing on for any of the wide range of opportu- abroad program, or later on through a summer internship or re- in places such as Brazil and Jordan; the latter is conducted in what they have learned on campus in real world situations,” he nities in between, today’s students are continually engaging with search program. partnership with the Columbia Global Center in Amman and in- says. “All that translates to any career.” and being shaped by experiences that will prepare them for citi- “It’s really an exciting and dynamic time,” Pippenger says. cludes travel throughout the country, covering wetland, marine, zenship in the global community. As Negrón-Muntaner of CSER “There’s a fantastic focus right now on international opportuni- freshwater, desert and forest ecosystems. says, “Global thought is not about being on the go all the time. It’s ties for undergraduates. There is a tremendous amount of sup- Starting next summer, rising sophomores will be eligible to Rubenstein wanted to increase opportunities something that we can do every day, wherever we are.” port and encouragement to innovate and deliver the next genera- receive merit-based grants to study abroad in Columbia-run pro- for students, in particular science majors, to study abroad, so he tion of global programs for Columbia undergraduates.” grams where there are Columbia Global Centers through the new has developed an intensive, one-semester program in Kenya that Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA is an author and contributing writer Another way to gain international experience is through the Presidential Global Fellowships Initiative. This program might be focuses on tropical biology and sustainable development. Open to CCT. Her last feature was “Passport to India,” about the Columbia Alternative Break Program, started two years ago. Students sub- expanded to provide funds for students to travel for research or to all students but geared toward those majoring or concentrating Experience Overseas internship program, in the Fall 2013 issue.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 26 27 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT LEE C. BOLLINGER A Conversation with President Lee C. Bollinger

Amendment for all my life, and every time a major new commu- What role do the eight Columbia Global Centers play in this nication technology is invented the world changes significantly, rethinking of teaching and research at the University? as it did in the United States in the 1930s through the ’60s and ’70s It’s my belief that we need to help our faculty, our schools, our with radio and television broadcasting. So the development of departments and our students learn more about this world and these two forces is making the world a very different and much see how it will affect their fields, the subjects of their research, more integrated place. the lives of our students, and therefore the education they will There always have been global issues, but the prevalence of receive. We need to have bases around the world to aid in this them now, the centrality of them for basic life in any society, is pursuit. We need to think of ourselves as explorers. We have to re- much greater. We have a global economy, but we don’t have a gain a sense of what the new reality is, because it’s on top of that Belay Ejigu Begashaw, director of the Columbia Global Center in Nairobi, shakes hands with Jean Magnano Bollinger at the center’s means of regulating that global economy, of organizing the el- sense of reality that you then begin to come up with the questions dedication on January 14, 2013, as President Lee C. Bollinger looks on. that academic institutions are designed to try to address. PHOTO: COLLINS GITUMA ements of it. Climate change, issues of censorship globally, ev- erything you look to now has a global character to it. That new Obviously, Columbia is already one of the most global uni- world, and the changes that are being wrought by these forces, versities with a student body that is among the most interna- Lee C. Bollinger became president of Columbia How has the way you think about higher education and the means you have to step back and think about the fields and the tional in the country and a faculty filled with eminent experts mission of a university like Columbia evolved over the course subjects that you do research in, the classes that you teach, the in all areas of the world. But when you talk to these faculty, University on June 1, 2002. Under his leadership, of your tenure as president? knowledge that you want to impart to young people. I think ev- theye ar among the first to say, I need to understand not only In the last decade, maybe decade and a half, the world as we have erything needs to be reconsidered, rethought and planned for my area better, but I need to understand my area more in re- the University has expanded its international known it has changed and begun to change radically. There are this world, which appears to be the course the world would take lationship to other areas. In order to understand China, you presence with the creation of eight Columbia many reasons for this, but there are two primary ones. One is the over the next several decades and beyond. One never knows, of need to understand South America, and vice versa, and the development of the global economy, the opening of markets all course, but that’s the trajectory we’re on. role of countries in Africa in the emerging trade and so on. So Global Centers. In this interview with CCT over the world in countries that before this were closed to the Universities always stand in a somewhat removed relation- even though we’re extremely international to start with, and Editor Alex Sachare ’71, Bollinger talks about capitalist economy, and that brings not only trade but also foreign ship with the external world. That’s by design, because we want that’s been part of Columbia’s great identity and great char- investment and movement of capital. There are many problems to be able to reflect on major issues and do so independently over acter, that doesn’t mean that we can sit back and just continue the philosophy behind the Global Centers, their and many challenges posed by this, but it is a fact that economic quite a period of time. We’re different from other institutions in thinking as we have. So I set out four years ago to build up forces are driving enormous changes in the world. The second those ways. You don’t want to get too removed, so removed that these centers, and many faculty and people in the administra- impact on our students and faculty now and in major development is the expansion of new technologies of you’re not thinking about real issues for humanity, but you don’t tion have helped. As of last spring we had all eight of them the future, and what it means to be a global communication — the Internet and to some extent also satellite want to become so close to the issues of the moment that you lose launched with very, very distinguished leaders in each one. communications — that have made it possible for the first time sight of the bigger questions that really are our bailiwick. When This had been worked on by Ken Prewitt, who was in charge citizen in the 21st century. in human history to communicate instantaneously all over the the world shifts in this magnitude, you then have to step back as of developing the Global Centers, followed by Safwan Masri, globe. I have been a scholar of free speech, free press and the First an institution and rethink things. who is now in charge of them.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 28 29 A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT LEE C. BOLLINGER COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT LEE C. BOLLINGER

that. We want to connect with our alumni, and they can help with came to the reception. We’re thrilled to be able to do that. We want to do public outreach, and they help with that. But this. The sense of having actual Columbia places all the key is the teaching and research. Take the example of the fac- over the world that are open to you and are willing to ulty from the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, who decided two embrace you is meaningful to most alumni. Then, on summers ago that they would take a group of undergraduate stu- top of that, I’m sure that over time we will develop pro- dents and study urban planning, rural migration, and issues of grams for alumni involving the Global Centers. extreme poverty in the development of cities. They utilized the Global Centers in Beijing and Mumbai, conducting their courses there. The Global Centers were not only able to provide space for Can you talk about initiatives involving the centers, this but also arrange for lectures and experts and outings and so such as the Presidential Global Fellowships? on. This past summer they went to Beijing and Santiago, again I’ve authorized two funds to help faculty and students a comparative approach. That’s precisely the kind of experience utilize the Global Centers. One, which Provost John that becomes transformative, both for students and also even Coatsworth set up, is called the President’s Global In- for faculty. Holger Klein [see “Global Columbia,” page 20] is a novation Fund. It underwrites groups of faculty work- great example of someone who can talk eloquently about how ing on global issues. About 20 groups received grants the Global Centers helped his work. He was able to do things for this year, and we’ll continue that and it will grow. Students participating in the Arabic summer language program at the Columbia Global Center in Amman visit Petra, a world- through the help of the Global Centers that he wasn’t otherwise That’s for faculty, although there will be students in- famous archaeological site in southern Jordan. able to do. Women Creating Change, a group set up by many of volved in those projects, I’m sure. And then for stu- the faculty in the Institute for Women and Gender, is looking at dents, I’ve asked [Dean] Jim Valentini to develop a Why Global Centers and not branch campuses, specifically? women’s issues, gender issues, all over the world. The group has program to help students use the Global Centers and Keep in mind that these are not individual centers. That’s not the used the centers to hold meetings and conferences to experience a be introduced to and work on the global issues of their right way to think of them. They’re really a network, and that’s comparative global perspective on these issues and to figure out time. We’re still refining that, but Jim has made a lot of part of the understanding of the global interconnections. what research projects to pursue. progress, having just announced the first such set of We were approached to set up a school or schools in various If you’re a faculty member, in many ways you already have fellowships to students. This is for all undergraduates places around the world. I decided not to do that, and I think international colleagues and you’re probably working on some to apply. It is starting with grants to students for doing that was a decision that was reflective of the institution’s desire. issues that are global in dimension. But this can ease and en- academic work in the summer after their first year. But Columbia faculty and students tour the Great Wall in Beijing, China, in 2012 Very few people at Columbia, very few faculty favored setting hance your ability to do that, and that’s the key. For a student, it may also be expanded to provide funds for students during the Global Scholars Program Summer Research Workshop, co-organized up branch campuses. There are several reasons why I think that’s it opens up a whole new way of experiencing the world in ad- in courses to, as I mentioned a while ago, just go off by the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. not the right course, at least not for Columbia. First of all, it’s very dition to the classic forms. Such an experience for a student in for a short period of time and do work related to their difficult to maintain quality. Remember, by definition a branch a foreign country, looking at a serious issue such as urban de- courses on a global basis. One hundred years ago, we could be very comfortable in in- campus is a kind of separate faculty and a separate student body. velopment or clean water, really can be transformational. My Whate we’r going to find is that as the technol- dividual states in the United States. The economy was quite You hope that there will be some intermingling of faculty and view is, if we’re going to have our students educated for the ogy of communication gets better and better, local, people’s lives were quite local, they didn’t move perhaps of students, but actually the way these things work 99 world they will inhabit and lead, they should be familiar now it’s going to be easy to have courses where around very much. Over the course of the 20th cen- times out of 100, there tends to be a discrete faculty and students. with China, they should visit and work in countries in Africa, faculty and students are at any place on tury, that all changed. We developed a national So it’s very hard to maintain quality control. they should have been to India and done some of their course- the globe at any given time and yet able “We need to economy, people routinely moved around The second reason relates to academic freedom. We cannot dis- work there, they should have a feel for South America. A lot of to continue having a “course.” It will the United States and we developed issues engage with the world, but we have to be very careful that we don’t this is just introducing young people to this very interconnected just become easier and easier to do, have bases around that were national in scope — civil rights, sacrifice our core principles. So you need a strategy that allows you world that is now, in a way, the source of the issues and prob- and more and more important to environmental issues, financial — and to leave a given place in the world if your core principles are threat- lems and potential that we need to focus on. do. And then these very significant the world that will help our everything became increasingly nation- ened. If you have invested in a branch campus, with all the reliance centers may also become places al, including my own field, freedom of that takes place by faculty, students and staff, that’s very hard to where we might even offer some faculty and students learn speech and press. At the beginning of the do. So ease of exit is a second reason. A third reason is that what How can the Global Centers influence undergraduate appli- courses. But we’ll see — that’s in century, individual states determined tends to happen when you do branch campuses is that you only cations from those regions, and how can they benefit alumni the future. about the world.” their own rules about free speech and go to places that have enormous wealth, and I think that tends to who live or work there? free press, and by the end of the century skew the experience that you’re having. It’s extremely expensive to The number of international students in the College has gone up President Lee C. it was a national First Amendment set of set up a branch campus, so even very wealthy universities are not significantly in the past five years, and I think this is a really im- In summation, could you address principles. Now that’s all happening on a going to do it on their own. And the last reason, which is really, I portant development. We need to both help recruit and to decide the question of what it means to global basis, and we’re just at the beginning think, the most important, is that you’re not going to have the im- who to bring to our campus and our global education. Just like be a “global citizen”? Is it an aware- Bollinger of it. While I don’t want to overstate it, I do feel pact on your own teaching and research through branch campuses 50 years ago Columbia was largely a New York City/Northeast ness, is it a different way of thinking that we’re on the cusp of a much, much more in- that you will with something like the Global Centers. In my view, university and eventually people from the West Coast started — what is a global citizen? tegrated, interconnected universe. That means that it’s our faculty and our students who need to have the opportuni- coming to Columbia and we ended up trying to make sure that I think it’s a somewhat difficult term. We’re all it becomes increasingly unacceptable for someone to be ties to learn what the issues are, learn what they need to know, de- we recruited the best students from all over the country, now we citizens of our individual countries, and nobody is try- an educated person and not to have been to other places around velop research programs, develop classes and courses, and that’s need to do that globally. That’s the future for Columbia — a much ing to say we should give up our sense of national identity and the world and to develop a sense of the world. not going to happen if you have a branch campus. I don’t think it more international student body. I don’t want to overstate that, only become some kind of floating global citizen. One has to be The person who in the past used to think of himself or herself fulfills the philosophy needed. because there always is going to be a tension between being an careful about that. But to me it points in directions that are really as a citizen of California and then became a citizen of the United American university and a global university, and that will have important. I think you need a basic sense of the world, a kind of States, now has to become a global citizen. And students, young to be sorted out over time. But, in the end, you want to recruit the feel of the world. You have to have been places, seen cultures; people, know this. Every time I have a meeting with them, a How do the Global Centers inform and enrich the teaching right students from the United States and from all over the world. you have to have experienced them both as a traveler but I think fireside chat, in my course or other ways, I ask these questions and learning that is going at Columbia University in the City Whenever I present this to alumni, they are eager and enthu- even more importantly as somebody thinking and learning about and it’s clear that Columbia students know that their world is of New York? siastic about being able to take advantage of the Global Centers. I what the world is like. Then you have to be aware of what the is- this bigger world, and they are really incredibly excited about It can happen in many, many ways. We recruit students from was at the Global Center in Istanbul this fall and we had a recep- sues are, what matters to people and what matters to the future experiencing it. around the world, and the Global Centers are going to help with tion, and alumni who had been in the area traveling or working of the world both in its physical sense and in terms of its peoples.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 30 31 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

Andrea Viejo ’15 Clemens Auersperg ’14 Shen Qiu ’16 Global Students Find Home Away From Home at Columbia

B y N at h a l i e A l o ns o ’08

P h oto s : C h a r S m u l lyan Lingzi Zhuang ’16 Onella Cooray ’14 Wangari Mungai ’14

“The emphasis on the humanities and the Core is really important. It makes you a well-rounded person.” Hamza Khan ’14

Hamza Khan ’14 Pria Narsiman ’15 Gelila Bekele ’16

ach year at Convocation, the ceremony in which President Lee C. Bollinger and the deans of the College and Engineering officially welcome incoming undergraduates to Columbia, the leaders of the New Student Orientation Program (NSOP) parade the flags of every state and country represented in the two student bod- Eies in celebration of the schools’ geographic — and by extension, cultural and religious — diversity. The College Class of 2017 includes students from 47 countries, bringing

WINTER 2013–14 32 GLOBAL STUDENTS FIND HOME AWAY FROM HOME AT COLUMBIA COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY GLOBAL STUDENTS FIND HOME AWAY FROM HOME AT COLUMBIA the number of international students and nations represented “I really wanted to go somewhere diverse.” student coordinators for the 2013 International Student rience I can relate. It’s thinking about home as in the College in the 2013–14 academic year to 729 and 83, Viejo, a political science and sociology major, echoes the senti- Orientation Program (ISOP), a Columbia Student Af- something beyond a geographical space.” respectively. At the university level, Columbia recently was ment and feels her decision is validated each time she goes to fairs effort that takes place in the days leading up Two Christian student groups, ranked fifth among all U.S. institutions for having the largest a Mexican restaurant or attends Catholic Mass in Spanish. “For to NSOP. Begun in 2010, the program — which Columbia Faith & Action and the population of international students, according to a report by me, it was location and the Core equally,” she says. “For an inter- helps students transition to the U.S. and col- “Home [is] not just a Columbia chapter of the Veritas The Institute of International Education. Their ranks include national student, New York City is very welcoming because it’s lege life, and build community with one Forum, have given Zhuang “a those who are non-U.S. citizens and non-U.S. permanent resi- easy to find your niche.” another — already has grown from 50 to physical space now… It’s family of friends who share the dents who need a visa to enter the country, as well as U.S. about 100 students. Among other things, same faith and similar interests,” citizens and permanent residents who went to school outside n describing their transitions to the College, international participants meet their academic advisers, finding friends on campus while Qiu notes that his involve- of America. students speak of the same emotions and concerns an attend sessions on American academic cul- ment with Columbia Model Despite the students’ range of backgrounds, their reasons for American peer might express: the simultaneous excite- ture, are introduced to the Writing Center, with whose experiences United Nations in New York choosing the College fall under similar themes: admiration for the ment and trepidation of being away from home for the first explore New York City and can take ad- “has taught me a lot about the Core Curriculum and the school’s commitment to teaching liberal time; the task of building new social lives while staying in vantage of a banking and cell phone fair. I can relate.” interpersonal protocol in Ameri- arts, and New York’s appeal as an inclusive, cosmopolitan city. Itouch with family and friends back home; and balancing heavy ISOP was so central to Cooray’s tran- can culture.” “The emphasis on the humanities and the Core is really im- course loads with co-curricular activities. International students, sition to the College in 2010 that she vol- Similarly, Clemens Auersperg portant. It makes you a well-rounded person and lets you think however, often face additional hurdles that may include exten- unteered the following two years as an ori- Wangari Mungai ’14 ’14, a heavyweight rower from in new ways,” says Hamza Khan ’14, from Lahore, Pakistan. “We sive travel times and the culture shock that comes with new aca- entation leader prior to taking on the role of Linz, Austria, who is majoring in his- didn’t have any kind of liberal arts education [in Pakistan]. It was demic and cultural norms. For some, there’s also homesickness, coordinator. One of her fondest memories of the tory, found that the camaraderie of be- very focused on the hard sciences and math.” the minutiae of purchasing a winter wardrobe for the first time College, she says, was being greeted by ISOP orienta- longing to a sports team and the support Khan, who is majoring in financial economics with a concen- and adjusting their palates to new flavors. tion leaders when she checked into the Hartley lounge as of Columbia University Athletics eased his tration in sustainable development, toured the campus prior to It took some time for Shen Qiu ’16, from Shanghai, to get an incoming first-year. “I had a clueless ‘no-idea-where-I-am- transition. “When I arrived, I didn’t know anyone in his senior year of high school while visiting relatives and cites his used to professor-student dynamics at Columbia, which he going’ look on my face,” she recalls. “It was really welcoming. I New York, but being part of an athletics team, you immediately familiarity with New York City as an important factor in his deci- says are very different from China. “Here you can talk to the thought, ‘Wow, I’ve finally arrived.’ become friends with your teammates,” he says. “Those fellow sion. “I was comfortable with the city. If it was a city that was new professor during class and after class, and people are much “I definitely found it useful to move in earlier and then get to freshmen are still my closest friends at Columbia. to me, it might have been a different story,” he says. “Everyone in more open to discussion,” he says. “In China, students think of know a group of people,” adds Cooray, who says she has made “The older members on the team were really supportive and New York is pretty accepting and aware of differences.” teachers as being ‘higher’ than they are and are afraid of talk- some of her most meaningful college relationships during ISOP. helpful when it came to which classes to choose and how to bal- Like Khan, other students, including Pria Narsiman ’15, from ing to teachers. Here, communication is facilitated by the free “I feel if I hadn’t had the opportunity ISOP gave me, I would ance schoolwork with athletics, which is not always easy. Being Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Andrea Viejo ’15, from Monterrey, academic environment.” have been less able to cope socially.” a varsity athlete has many benefits; you have a program behind Mexico, attribute their initial impetus for pursuing an under- But while they may find their professors more accessible, Qiu A positive ISOP experience also prompted Gelila Bekele ’16, you that tries to help you in any way possible.” graduate education in the United States to a dearth and his friend, fellow Shanghai native Lingzi Zhuang ’16, who from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to partake in the program this year More recently, support also has been added in the form of of liberal arts colleges in their own coun- transferred to the College after a year in Engineering, feel that as an orientation leader. “It created a strong bond among inter- “International at Columbia,” a series of informal monthly gather- tries and elsewhere. they have had to work hard to bridge cultural differences national students that we still have,” says Bekele, who notes that ings of international students held in John Jay Lounge, complete Narsiman, who was 5 when her with peers, particularly when it comes to casual interac- the experience of being an international student in the College is with snacks. Run through Columbia’s International Students family relocated from her native tions. Says Qiu, “When you are with a bunch of friends powerful enough to kindle friendships among peers with differ- Programs and Services office, which was created in 2012, each Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, re- and they are talking about something that you have ent backgrounds. “We’re in the same boat. Even though some of session features upperclassmen facilitating a discussion of a topic searched colleges in the Unit- “For an international never heard of in popular culture, you sometimes my friends might be from South America or Europe, we still have relevant to life at Columbia and to the U.S. Topics have included ed Kingdom and Australia feel isolated because you can’t get involved in the something in common: the fact that we’re far away from home. dating and making friends on campus, and finding jobs and in- but ultimately focused on conversation.” [Other international students] you meet, especially during ISOP, ternships with a student visa. the U.S. “because it offers student, New York City is From the beginning, Zhuang felt at ease become your family.” In the spirit of giving back, some international students volun- more breadth,” she says. speaking English in academic settings but less teer with the Global Recruitment Committee, which supports the “In Australia or the U.K., very welcoming because it’s so in social situations. “In the first few months, s venues to connect with peers of common back- Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ recruiting efforts by hosting I would have had to de- I felt uncomfortable,” he says. “It was a painful grounds and shared interests, student clubs and students in their residence halls during Days on Campus, visiting cide what I wanted to do easy to find your niche.” realization that I needed to make an effort to be associations also provide settings for international high schools in their home countries during winter and summer straight out of high school understood.” students to build support networks. An active breaks, and expanding the reach of the Alumni Representative and would have only taken Andrea Viejo ’15 “Picking up on social nuances in terms of member of the Organization of Pakistani Students Committee by interviewing prospective students in places where classes in that area.” language and phrases” was a challenge early on Asince his first year, Khan considers cultural clubs “a great way to not many alumni live. Viejo came to a similar re- for Onella Cooray ’14, from Colombo, Sri Lanka. meet people and build lasting relationships. Every year, GRC members also handwrite congratulatory alization: “Back home, I would “When people asked, ‘How are you?’ I’d respond with “You get to know other people who are dealing with the same postcards to international students who have been offered admis- have been forced to choose my an actual ‘how’ before I caught on that it was another cul- problems and they can help you. Now I’m a senior and I can help sion and encourage recipients to email them with questions. The academic track during freshman year tural ‘hi’ and that people don’t expect you to actually give an freshmen coming in,” he says. “It’s a great community. We’re all memory of receiving such a postcard prompted Mungai to join — let’s say business or politics — and stick answer,” she says. really close and really good friends.” the GRC. “In that excitement of having been accepted to Colum- to those classes. I found it fascinating that [the As a first-year, Cooray, who is pursuing concentrations in Wangari Mungai ’14, an earth and environmental science bia, a written postcard was a very personal touch,” she recalls. College] offered me the opportunity to study the Koran, a text I earth and environmental sciences and sustainable development, major from Nairobi, Kenya, who was a student coordinator for “When I heard about the GRC, I said, ‘Oh! Those are the people would probably never be exposed to in Mexico, and music from suffered a common ailment: homesickness. Part of her yearning ISOP in 2012, had never traveled outside of her country prior who write the postcards.’ I wanted to be part of that experience: around the world.” stemmed from her distaste for campus food, which she found to starting her college career and was homesick her first year. to write postcards, to open my arms to international students Narsiman and Viejo had visited New York City only briefly bland compared to the spice of Sri Lankan cuisine. “I got my The African Students Association (ASA), which she calls “a little who are not able to visit Columbia, to be a resource for them and prior to starting their undergraduate careers, yet for both, the Big mom to ship over some of our condiments and I would sneak home away from home,” helped her adapt. to share my experience in the hope that it will make their experi- Apple’s reputation as a city that embraces foreigners gave the them into the dining hall and douse all the food with chili paste “It’s definitely gotten easier through the years,” says Mungai, ences even better.” College an edge over schools in college towns. “I wanted to live to make it palatable,” recalls Cooray, who has mostly cooked for who occasionally gets together with fellow ASA members to cook in a city because I’m from a big city in Australia and I live in a herself since her sophomore year. her favorite meals. “It comes with figuring out other ways to think Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a freelance journalist and an big city in Malaysia,” says Narsiman, who is pursuing majors in Cooray’s homesickness has so subsided that she spent all of of home; it’s not just a physical space now. Home is being able to editorial producer for LasMayores.com, Major League Baseball’s official neuroscience and behavior and French and Francophone studies. last summer in Morningside Heights. She and Zhuang were the talk to my family. It’s finding friends on campus with whose expe- Spanish language website. She writes “Student Spotlight” for CCT.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 34 35 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY STUDY ABROAD GROWS IN POPULARITY, PROGRAMS AND PLACES

there were seven Columbia-run programs; today, the number has curriculum, and students in the program now live at a Kenyan risen to 16, and more are on the way. research center, observing animals and plants. Student projects Study Abroad Grows in Columbia’s partnerships with other universities have also mul- have included using RNA from starlings to study the birds’ kin tiplied, expanding to include the University of Hong Kong, Pon- structures, analyzing birdsong for form and function, and track- tificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro, China’s Tsinghua ing the prevalence of avian malaria in local bird populations. University, Boğazic‚i University in Istanbul and others. And while OGP also has worked on the humanities end of the spectrum. Popularity, Programs and Places the United Kingdom and France are still student hot spots — with Francesco de Angelis, an associate professor in the Department of 41 and 37 College students studying in those countries, respective- Art History and Archaeology, is one of the lead archae- B y T e d R ab i n o w i t z ’87 ly, in the 2012–13 academic year — there has been a surge of ologists on the current excavation of the Villa interest in China, and more students are going to Brazil Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) in the town of and South Africa as well. Tivoli, just east of Rome. “He wanted to All told, Columbia students currently can attend take Columbia students on a dig and s recently as 20 years ago, the College’s study abroad efits of language immersion and hands-on field study. programs in 50 countries on six continents. In the past two teach a seminar on archaeology program could have been described in terms of the “We talk to students about being able to communicate cross- preservation and conservation,” big three — Oxford, Cambridge and the University culturally, being able to handle ambiguity and to master content ne of the biggest shifts in study decades the destinations Pippenger says. of Paris — when students went for a semester or a in a different context, understanding that there are multiple ways abroad programming is the oppor- As a result, this summer year to get a dose of a different culture and a needed to solve complex, global problems,” Pippenger says. tunity for students to gain on-site, for study abroad have Columbians will be exploring Achange of scenery. Pippenger, who came to Columbia in 2006 to develop an of- Ohands-on experience. “Students the home of one of Rome’s But in the past two decades the destinations for study abroad fice of fellowship programs for the College (which expanded and want to be in the field with their professors,” Five Good Emperors, which have increased greatly and the types of programs have expanded, later merged with the Office of Global Programs (OGP)), adds says Pippenger. “They respond to professors increased greatly and the is a UNESCO World Heritage giving students opportunities to have experiences from studying that there is a huge connection between winning a fellowship and who are working in situ.” Site, and learning firsthand business in China to excavating ancient villas with their profes- study abroad. “If you study abroad, you’re willing to take risks, Because these offerings are popular with types of programs have the fundamentals of archaeol- sors in Rome. And if they want to see Art Hum come alive in the be analytical, uproot yourself. This makes you a great fellowship faculty as well as students, professors often ap- ogy. These include excavating, halls of the Louvre and the soaring cathedral of Notre Dame, that candidate.” Columbia has ranked in the top 10 for Fulbright Fel- proach OGP with field ideas they want to devel- expanded. interpreting finds on-site, logging still will be an option, too. lowship recipients for the last decade, a time frame that has also op into full programs ranging from life sciences to discoveries, analyzing stratigraphic “We’re in a much different place now,” says Michael Pippenger, had success for students and alumni with other international fel- urban planning. sections and assessing ceramic arti- dean of undergraduate global programs and assistant v.p. of lowships such as Rhodes Scholarships, Marshall Scholarships, Dustin Rubenstein, for example, an assistant pro- facts from the dig, among other things. international education. “Partially, it’s because of President Lee the Luce Scholars Program, the Churchill Scholarship and Gates fessor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Envi- Other Columbians studying abroad are C. Bollinger’s vision of the Columbia Global Centers. But it’s also Cambridge Scholarships. ronmental Biology, wanted to expand upon a three-week field looking for immersion in another culture. A tradi- because more students feel a need for more global exposure, and The new approaches to study abroad come with an increase course that he had run with Columbia students in Central Kenya tional semester or year abroad offer this, of course, but OGP heightened interest has allowed these programs to grow.” in the number of programs offered directly through OGP. (Other since 2011. Pippenger liked the idea because OGP had never had is creating other options. Among these are immersive programs that No matter the program, though, the value in having a global programs are offered in conjunction with foreign partners, or by a semester-long science program abroad. So, working in con- involve a shorter time frame (a summer semester, for instance) and experience is the same, and it extends beyond the obvious ben- third-party programs approved by the College.) Eight years ago, junction with Princeton, Rubenstein and Pippenger designed a are designed to increase students’ participation in their host societies.

Melissa Chiang ’14 Ethnicity vs. Nationality Multiple times during this summer in Shanghai, I have encountered someone — a cab driver, a waiter or wait- Blogs from Shanghai ress, and even a few random people on the street — who is confused by me. It usually starts out innocently, a simple observation of my accented Chinese and a Eight weeks, one internship and question about my origin. That’s when it gets weird. I answer the question as any American would, with a lot of distant relatives “I’m American.” The response is what isn’t anticipated: “You don’t look American.”

Last summer, Melissa Chiang ’14 participated No matter how many times I hear that, I am at once curious and annoyed. in the Center for Career Education’s Columbia Experience Overseas program in Shanghai, On one level, it makes sense. I am in a part of the world where the immediate association between ethnicity where she was a quality and safety intern with and nationality is not wrong very often. A similar physi- United Family Healthcare. The following cal appearance usually means a similar place of origin, similar life experiences, and similar linguistic and cul- excerpts are from a blog that she kept about tural knowledge. I can understand and appreciate the worldview from which these words are emerging. all aspects of the experience; it can be found Chiang calls this “Close, But No Cigar.” Or, alternatively, “There’s No Place Like at melissainshanghai.tumblr.com. Yet, on the other hand, that does not change the fact Home.” Left, Times Square, New York City. Right, Nanjing East Road, Shanghai. that, deep down, I consider myself American through and PHOTOS: MELISSA CHIANG ’14 PHOTO: COURTESY MELISSA CHIANG ’14 WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 36 37 STUDY ABROAD GROWS IN POPULARITY, PROGRAMS AND PLACES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY STUDY ABROAD GROWS IN POPULARITY, PROGRAMS AND PLACES

For Tabitha Cohen ’15, a Kluge Scholar who is studying East for German Studies (a year-abroad program in which Columbia He names the Global Scholars Program Summer Research ing to Columbia, I knew that it had the Reid Hall Paris program,” Asian languages and cultures and had always been interested participates with other top-ranked universities) DeSocio enrolled Workshop, a collaboration among the Weatherhead East Asian she says. “I wanted to come to Columbia anyway, but the program in China, Columbia’s Summer Business Chinese and Internship directly in the Freie Universität Berlin and lived as a German, not Institute, OGP and the Columbia Global Centers, as one example. was a plus.” Program in Shanghai offered an ideal opportunity. Zhongqi Shi, an American exchange student (although with extra instruction in “Professors take students to two or more sites for a particular top- Once she was in France, serendipity kicked in — as it is meant a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages German language and daily life). “People who go only for a couple ic in the social sciences, like the rise of the megacity in Asia. They to in these programs. Cavallo’s love of film hadn’t found much and Cultures, is the director. “He’s hands down the best teacher of months, they have a mindset that they’re Americans in a foreign do coursework there, and then return to Columbia for a ‘cap- scope in New York but in Paris she met cineastes on her wavelength. I’ve had at Columbia,” Cohen says. culture,” DeSocio says. “But if you go for a year, it’s not an extend- stone’ class that allows them to process what they’ve learned,” he “Buster Keaton is one of my heroes,” she says, “but at Columbia, we The program begins with six weeks of intensive instruction in ed vacation. You’re there to become a member of the culture.” says. This past summer, the program sent students to Beijing and spent four hours on him. In Paris he was the subject of an entire class. business Chinese including practice with a language partner and DeSocio saw a dramatic difference in the classroom. “In Germa- Santiago to study comparative economic development in Asia “I told the head of the program how I loved movies, and she speakers who explain the realities of working in China; then fol- ny, the professor gives you one assignment at the end that sums up and Latin America. encouraged me to be a critic,” Cavallo continues. “Another di- lows a four-week internship with a Chinese business (Cohen was the semester. During the semester, the professor doesn’t check up Another example is the joint summer program Columbia con- rector of the program helped me become an intern after I had placed with developer Guangpu Real Estate). Cohen also had to on you. You have the option of being fully involved in the course ducts with Boğazic‚i University in Istanbul. Combining course- knocked on every film door in Paris and been refused. The peo- sign an agreement that she would speak only Chinese during or not. You do it for yourself, not for the grade.” work in history, Byzantine studies and urban planning with field- ple with whom I interned took me on set and into the editing the 10 weeks of the program, which she took between The immersion helped DeSocio become more inde- work and daily excursions centered on conservation, archiving room so I got to see how a production company actually works. I her sophomore and junior years. pendent. He cites learning how to deal with health and mapping, the program focuses on the artistic and urban his- didn’t realize how complicated it was.” “Interning isn’t well known or popular insurance and taxes as examples. “I did two tory of Istanbul. Cavallo’s curriculum included self-directed study, which she in China,” says Cohen. “So the fact that paid internships, so I had to fill out tax forms used to write a screenplay. She attended the Cannes International American students are able to intern in as a non-citizen,” he says. or all the additions to Columbia’s study abroad program- Film Festival and joined a sit-in staged by one of her film profes- China is incredible.” (It’s remarkable to “Students want to be While fieldwork and immersion ming, demand for Columbia’s traditional year-abroad pro- sors when he was fired from his position at a movie theater. “My other people as well — the program programs are both popular, interdis- Fgrams remains strong and OGP is committed to maintain- favorite period in French cinema is the ’60s, and it was like Paris has been mentioned in Newsweek.) To- challenged. … They want a ciplinary study abroad is OGP’s fast- ing those programs. “It’s important that we continue to grow the in May ’68 is still alive now.” day, Cohen is putting her experience est-growing segment. This reflects a longstanding programs that have been hallmarks of Columbia Cavallo’s study abroad was the fulfillment of a dream; for Co- to use through her job with Bergdorf nationwide trend; the number of in- global education,” says Pippenger. hen, it was a unique opportunity to gain powerful business skills; Goodman; while attending the Col- transformative experience, terdisciplinary bachelor’s has more There have, however, been shifts in emphasis. “We’re encour- and DeSocio used his year of study to become more independent lege, she works part-time translating than quadrupled since 1973, accord- aging Paris students to consider directed research within the and discover new academic cultures. But for all of them, it was life- for the store’s Chinese customers and and often they get it.” ing to the National Center for Educa- French university system,” says Pippenger. “And we’ve worked altering. “Students want to be challenged to experience something explaining their shopping customs to tional Statistics. “Thirty years ago it hard with the art history and Italian departments to offer more radically different from what they have encountered on campus,” the staff. Michael Pippenger was one country, one specialty,” says classes in Venice, and to get Italian students from Ca’ Foscari Uni- says Pippenger. “They want a transformative experience, and of- For Domenic DeSocio ’14, the im- Pippenger. “Now more students are look- versity of Venice, another partner, to take those courses alongside ten they get it.” mersion was a junior year spent in Ger- ing for interdisciplinary projects. We used our own students as well.” many, studying in an educational environ- to think, ‘You go to England for a year. That’s Maria Gimenez Cavallo ’14, who has been “obsessed by Paris” Ted Rabinowitz ’87 is a copywriter and author. His first novel, The ment with emphases different from those in your study.’ Now we’re looking at shorter- since she started to learn French as a high school freshman, felt the Wrong Sword, was published last year by Musa Books under the pen the United States. Through the Berlin Consortium term summer programs with multiple sites.” pull of Columbia’s traditional programs early. “When I was apply- name Ted Mendelssohn; the sequel will be out next year.

through. Especially growing up near the immense cultural diversity does pointing to the English menu) Napkins: be prepared and bring your own of New York City, my view of a “typical” American is perhaps more a Baozi, Bubble Tea, and Other Chopsticks: it’s all in the technique. Nature Valley bars: that one versatile vague cloud of qualities rather than a defined look, experience or nug- When all else fails, STAB. snack that you decided to pack that you get of knowledge. So, viscerally, I am gutted; I want to say, “Americans Goodies have alternately eaten for breakfast, din- can look like a LOT of different things!” or “Well, I am American, so Dumplings, frozen: yummy, cheap and ner, snack and random sustenance but therefore, I look American. Simple as that.” I thought it would be fine. easy to make. Get the kind with corn. will avoid for at least a month after get- Dumplings, soup: tasty but will squirt ting back to the States Alas, I keep my more reflexive reactions on the back burner but they I thought I was already used to all of it. boiling hot liquid all over you if you’re not do percolate in my thoughts. I know I have my own worldview and Noodles: EVERYWHERE. But actually, careful or don’t know how to use chop- others have their own. Yet, there are things I wonder about and can- I thought that I liked it. there are approximately 10 noodle shops sticks; come in thin cover and thick cover not know: Does it bother Chinese people that I more closely associ- on your block alone. varieties ate myself with those who look so differently from me than with Alas, I was wrong. Oreos: So many options! Including inside them? Do they resent my parents and grandparents for leaving this Fruit shops: everywhere and relatively out, birthday cake, various fruits, and half- country, or do they admire them? How did the rest of the world be- This is a blog post about food. cheap; take advantage of them! and-halfs. come so accustomed to Asian presences while Asia still treats those Fuyuan: means waiter; say it, yell it, sign who look different as both lowly and godly, at the same time? This is actually less of a blog post and more of a (hopefully amusing) Pocky: really good and should have had it, skywrite it reference dictionary from my experience with Chinese culinary life: more of it As much as I miss the cultural diversity of America and its normal Hot pot: a good way to freak out people Starbucks: it’s more watery here status, being here in Shanghai has brought out these questions in a Baozi: buns, cheap and tasty; you’ll probably get pork no matter who have never had it, especially if you way that staying at home in the States never could. what meat you ask for order tripe; FYI you will never feel full Vegetables: always cooked, never raw (NEVER) Breakfast: could be buns, fried dumplings, hot soup, rice porridge, (that) Japanese (place): get the Udon For that, I am grateful. fried dough or anything of the sort; usually rather oily and served noodles! Western food: there’s plenty of it in with hot soy bean milk Shanghai — Mexican, crepes, burgers, And I have lots to think about. (that) Thai (place): get anything. It’s all good. Italian, etc. Bubble tea: readily available, use makeshift Chinese to ask for tapi- Food pagoda, found at Mr. Pancake House in the KFC: serves breakfast, also serves rice; 10:02 a.m. July 24, 2013 oca balls because you will never remember what they are called no Jingan District of Shanghai. 7:08 a.m. July 29, 2013 may be bigger in China than in the States PHOTO: MELISSA CHIANG ’14 matter how many times people tell you (hand motions help, too, as

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 38 39 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY FOR GLOBAL ALUMNI, COLUMBIA MADE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

student body in the world. Just talking to someone who went to When Minton was drafted after graduation, “I assumed I Taipei for a student competition blew my mind,” he says. Since would just be issued a rifle and helmet and sent into off into com- graduating, Anand has been a business analyst in Mumbai; he bat” in Vietnam, he says; but when he told the Army’s assign- For Global Alumni, plans to work in Singapore or London next. ment bureau of his background in Asian studies, he was sent to Columbia alumni are scattered across the globe like dandelion learn Japanese at the Defense Language Institute seeds. They have taken root in virtually every major city in the Foreign Language Center, and stationed world, from Hong Kong, to Capetown, to Amsterdam, to in Japan. From there, a career in the Santiago; they have made their careers in places as far Foreign Service was a short step. Columbia Made a from Morningside Heights as Athens, São Paulo and “It was like a set of dominoes,” Ulan Bator, Mongolia. When asked what drives the says Minton. “Now that I diaspora, global alumni point to the unique combi- For many Columbians, think about it, the first and nation of a diverse student body, a famously cos- decisive clues as to my ca- mopolitan city and a rigorous liberal arts tradi- globalism was the natural reer happened at Columbia tion grounded in the Core Curriculum. College.” World of Difference U.S. diplomat Chris ome alumni can point to a single class outcome of living on a Dell ’78 also points to an or professor who ignited their inter- inspiring class for his est in global lives. For Minton, it was multicultural campus in career choice. “I went to B y T e d R ab i n o w i t z ’87 a survey course in East Asian studies, Col­umbia as a pre-law and “a sort of second year of Contemporary a pluralistic city. thought about going into SCivilization,” he says. “It had its own textbook of politics. But taking Poli Sci readings, the way that CC did at the time.” Minton 101, I decided I didn’t want was so impressed that he continued in the department, to be like all the other people in taking classes with Columbia legends such as Wm. Theo- the room.” Then, in his junior year, dore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS, the John Mitchell Mason Profes- he took a course in strategic studies sor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus; Donald Keene ’42, ’49 GSAS, with Warner Schilling, and he was hooked. University Professor Emeritus and the Shincho Professor Emeri- Schilling helped to get him an internship at the State tus of Japanese Literature; and Gari Ledyard, the King Sejong Department, after which Dell won a Euretta J. Kellett Fellow- Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies and Director Emeritus of ship to Oxford. He joined the State Department in 1981, and he the Center for Korean Research. has since been posted to countries from Afghanistan to Zimba- bwe. He is currently looking forward to a new private-sector career that builds on his experience in Portuguese-speaking Africa. Of course, some alumni enrolled with the intention of fo- cusing on international subjects. Michael J. Novielli ’03, ’09 TC grew up in Riverhead, Long Island. Thanks to an inspiring so- cial studies teacher in ninth grade, Novielli was fascinated by Asia and “Columbia’s Asian studies program was a primary Ashleigh Silver ’04 (right) and friend Ambica Shiringi celebrate their consideration in choosing the school,” he says. Through Colum- newly minted British citizenship in summer 2013. bia’s Summer Language Program in Beijing, Novielli studied PHOTO: COURTESY ASHLEIGH SILVER ’04 Mandarin in Taiwan and Beijing, and (like Minton) studied East Asian cultures with de Bary; he now works in Beijing, where he is co-founder and co-CEO of Due West, an educational com- aised in Southern Indiana, Mark Minton ’67 couldn’t predict how he would pany for Chinese students. Then there are alumni like Silver, who came to Columbia be- be affected by the diversity he encountered at Columbia. His experiences led cause of its position as New York’s Ivy and who chose to explore him from Morningside Heights to Japan, South Korea and finally Mongolia, global studies on her own and used Columbia’s language and international classes to achieve her goals. “My dad had always where he served for three years as U.S. ambassador. He is now president of the thought it was a waste of time to study other languages, but visit- ing Dijon the summer of my freshman year changed my mind. To Korea Society, a nonprofit dedicated to building greater cultural and social ties communicate with the locals you needed to know French.” She Rbetween the United States and South Korea. studied Spanish, Italian and advanced French at Columbia, and now uses all of them in her job. Ashleigh Silver ’04 grew up on an Ohio farm. She studied languages at Columbia and has Novielli also praises the quality of Columbia’s language de- partments. “I had my strongest faculty relationships with my lan- worked for the last six years in London, where she is one of the most multilingual employees guage instructors, like C.P. Sobelman and Hailong Wang.” — speaking French, Spanish and Italian — at her steel-trading company, and travels for busi- or many Columbians, globalism was the natural out- ness throughout Europe. come of living on a multicultural campus in a plu- Vikas Anand ’11 was born on Long Island, “a New Yorker through and through.” He devel­ Bruce Steinberg ’78’s career in media includes the creation of ralistic city. two TV channels in the United Kingdom. Reza Vishkai ’85, ’86E, a managing director of oped his global interest in his first years at Columbia by interacting with “the most diverse PHOTO: DEBORAH HURFORD BROWN FInsight Investments in London, fled Iran for the U.S. WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 40 41 FOR GLOBAL ALUMNI, COLUMBIA MADE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY FOR GLOBAL ALUMNI, COLUMBIA MADE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

had a reality that I had never encountered,” she says. n the end, most alumni discussions about Michael Camacho ’05, who grew up in the suburbs of South Columbia circle back to the Core and the lib- Brunswick, N.J., credits Columbia with giving him an “openness eral arts tradition. to other cultures” that helps him as an investment manager in The Core helped some international Amsterdam. “I became involved in the Student Council, and students to understand their own cultures through that made connections to people with international out- Imore fully. “When I left Hong Kong,” says Lung, looks, and I’ve reconnected with them through the years.” “I turned my back on everything that was Chinese. Columbia’s cosmopolitan atmosphere also comes from at- My overwhelming belief was that everything in tracting students outside the U.S. American alumni are often America was great.” But at Columbia, he found unaware of the drawing power of Columbia’s reputation else- his worldview changing. “Taking the Core, I didn’t where in the world. “The Columbia brand in Asia is a gold stan- just learn about the Western tradition; through it I dard for education,” says Minton. “Applying to Columbia is an came to understand my own tradition,” he says. aspiration for a lot of Korean and Chinese students.” He began to see the parallels between the Western That was the experience of Conrad Lung ’72, the 2009 Hamil- and the Chinese traditions. “The Odyssey is like the ton Medal awardee and an international entrepreneur in cloth- Chinese epic Journey to the West, a process of self- ing, manufacturing and investment banking. Lung turned discovery, learning and maturity. In The Iliad, ev- down Hong Kong University, which would have ensured a eryone has a role to play, just like in Ancient China. U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia Mark Minton ’67 with the head career for life in Hong Kong, to pursue the College. “[When You can see the conflict between the assigned roles monk of the Amarbayasgalant Monastery in 2008; they are I applied] Columbia was better known in Hong Kong and and the search for power.” flanked by Kevin Nolan ’10 GS (right), who was interning at the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia, and a Peace Corps volunteer (left). China than Harvard or Yale,” he says. “It was Many alumni see Columbia as having taught PHOTO: COURTESY MARK MINTON ’67 ranked No. 1.” them how to become lifelong learners — a Alumni volunteers outside the vital skill when living abroad. Barazi moved to in 1979 with his family. He attended a boarding school in U.S. work hard to enhance Greece with her husband in 1996, and ultimately New Jersey and, when he began college, found a campus that reputation. Anand and took over his family’s aquaculture farm. “I came in Diplomat Chris Dell ’78 credits Columbia with inspiring his career choice. Left to that was matter-of-fact about students from abroad. Lung helped establish and knowing nothing — no Greek, no aquaculture ex- right: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Gen. David Rodriguez, Robert Maggi, Vice “Columbia is a very international university,” notes In the end, most run local branches of the perience and no scientific background, but the Co- President Joe Biden, Dell and Secretary of State John Kerry in Afghanistan in 2008. Vishkai. “I might have experienced it more because Columbia Alumni As- lumbia training helped me to learn the business, to PHOTO: JON SILSON international students tend to hang out together.” alumni discussions about sociation. Minton was understand how to learn what I didn’t know and Anand, who for two years was a business ana- an advocate for Co- not to be intimidated.” It also helped put her on an equal cultural for American education, they’re just good at taking tests … they lyst and strategist for Mahindra & Mahindra in lumbia in South Korea, footing with her European neighbors and business partners. are as bright, and more disciplined, but they are less entrepre- Mumbai, notes that growing up on Long Island Columbia circle back to China, Mongolia and Lung sees that training as akin to intellectual property: neurial, less contextual.” “was fantastic but limited; I wanted to get out of Japan. In Brazil, Diana “Liberal [arts] education is becoming a global commodity that Novielli echoes Lung; he founded Due West to teach local Long Island’s monoculture even before Columbia the Core and the liberal Nasser ’87 built a high- everyone will need to train their young people, and you don’t students the “soft skills” not being provided by the Chinese … to be in a place where I was exposed to a lot powered team of appli- have to look further than the Core Curriculum and the hu- system. “Their system is entirely test based; the Gaokao college more.” arts tradition. cant interviewers for the manities for that.” placement exam determines everything. The system doesn’t He jumped into student life with both feet, joining local Alumni Representa- For some alumni, the College’s empha- emphasize these life skills, and the students are too busy to extracurricular groups such as the Columbia Univer- tive Committee, helping to sis on critical thinking was crucial. “The develop skills like time-management and leadership.” sity Bhangra Society and becoming executive secretary raise acceptances from one or Core gives me a level of curiosity and Both Barazi and Linnea Hincks ’10 (who grew of the Activities Board at Columbia. It gave him a chance to two a year to 14 or 15. a critical attitude toward even well- up in Sweden and is a press secretary in Swe- see how student groups interacted with one another. “While stu- Alumni also point to Columbia’s accepted ideas that’s formed my Many alumni see den’s Office of the Minister for EU Affairs) note dents of the same culture did stick together, they were definitely network of Global Centers as a valuable mindset and has helped in my that the European system is limited as well, open, and you could hang [with them] and resource. “The Mumbai alumni associa- career,” says Camacho. Columbia as having with an emphasis on early career specializa- see what was happening,” he says. tion was connected with the Global Center Some alumni see this as tion and a cultural education that extends Anand also felt enlightened by student and coordinated with it for events,” says part of the humanist empha- taught them how to become only to the national culture; there is much political and cultural activity. “Seeing pro- Anand. He adds that many of the center’s sis on exploration and free in- less exposure, however, to the concepts of tests for and against the same issue at the staff during his time in India were also quiry. “Columbia gave me my lifelong learners — a vital multiculturalism, pluralism and non-West- same time, seeing a Japanese event on The Columbia alumni. “The Studio X space in first opportunity to explore ern cultures. Minton extends that critique to Steps and a Caribbean event at Lerner at the Mumbai, [which is] the architectural pro- what excited me,” says Bruce skill when living education in the U.S. same time, it was all very diverse.” gram’s physical space in the city, helped Steinberg ’78, whose career in “It’s distressing to see all the commen- For Lara Barazi ’90, managing director create a strong presence there, far stronger media and business includes the abroad. tary assuming a strict one-to-one connection of Kefalonia Fisheries in Greece, diversity than the other Ivies.” creation of two TV channels in between education and career,” Minton says. came with her living arrangements. She had Stephen Jansen ’91, who was president the United Kingdom. “It gave me a “That’s an impoverished way of doing it. Columbia attended high school in Connecticut and of the Columbia University Club of Lon- thirst for knowledge and experience, didn’t give me a vocation. The genius of the Colum- found it “homogenous.” At Columbia, one don for seven years (2004–11; he was a CFO and opened up my world.” bia education is that it affects the thinking of a student of her roommates was a ballerina and two in the city’s finance sector), notes that the For many alumni with international ties, and opens doors through which a student can walk to his others were from the Dominican Republic; Global Centers aren’t the “satellite campus- the advantages of the Core become even clearer or her career. And this approach is the correct one. It’s a different the nearby neighborhood, meanwhile, was es” created by some universities. “Satellites when compared with the education provided in the countries way, a more subtle way. different from anything she had known. create issues for academic freedom in some where they have lived and worked. “It’s the Columbia way.” “Coming from a sheltered background, then countries,” he says, whereas “Global Cen- Lung sees the current educational model in China as oriented coming to Harlem … I was in a volunteer Michael Novielli ’03 in Xinjiang, a province ters … provide a place for research and toward test scores and rankings to the exclusion of all else. “Chi- Ted Rabinowitz ’87 is a copywriter and author. His first novel, The program where you could be a teacher’s in northwestern China. projects to be done. They’re based on study nese students think if they have a high score in TOEFL and a high Wrong Sword, was published last year by Musa Books under the pen assistant in the local high schools. The kids PHOTO: COURTESY MICHAEL NOVIELLI ’03 and projects, not a curriculum.” SAT, that means their education is good. But they’re not prepared name Ted Mendelssohn; the sequel will be out next year.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 42 43 [ COLUMBIA FORUM] Governing the World How global government has evolved from utopian concept to failed ideal

Mark Mazower, the Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies, chairs the Department of History. An Oxford graduate, he concentrates on modern Greece, 20th-century Europe and international history. His books include Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century and Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, which won the L.A. Times Book Prize for History in 2009. His most recent book is Governing the World: The History of an Idea, from which the following excerpt is taken. PHOTO: SARAH LEE Governing the World is a landmark study of the idea of world governance from idealistic concept to often benighted reality. Nineteenth-century internationalists imagined “a movement of coop- eration among nations and their peoples,” as Mazower writes, with thinkers as diverse as Jeremy Bentham (who invented the word “international”), Karl Marx and Giuseppe Mazzini contributing sketched-out theories. The 20th century saw real-world attempts at global government in the shape of the League of Nations and its successor, the UN, but the geopolitical version of “cosmic harmony,” long dreamed of, never materialized. In the closing section of Governing the World, Mazower studies the outlines and fissures of this failed ideal. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard

Mazower writes, “International legislatures have never lived up to the hope of nineteenth-century internationalists.” At right, members of the League of Nations’ Disarmament Conference struggle with the difficulties of peace enforcement in Geneva in 1924. PHOTO: © BETTMANN/CORBIS

WINTER 2013–14 44 MARK MAZOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY MARK MAZOWER

hat international institutions may not be the legitimation for this expansion of state capacity around the Round paralyzed and the World Bank chastened, the IMF in- around shared perils and experiences. By creating models of internally democratic in their workings world. Countries gradually became reintegrated in a global trade capable of helping to rectify the global imbalances that threaten equity, solidarity, and sacrifice, they transformed public attitudes has been known for some time and does network, but capital movements remained restricted, and in gen- the world economy, and no single agency able to coordinate the in ways that endured into peacetime. Without a comparable not appear particularly surprising. They eral people made money from producing and exchanging goods response to global warming, the institutions of international gov- transformation in our own views about the nature of govern- are, after all, chiefly executive bureau- rather than from money itself. As late as 1971, it was assumed ernance stand in urgent need of renovation. Yet the fundamental ment, the public good and the role of the state, without our devel- cracies, and mostly their most powerful that conditionality would not work if demanded by the IMF since nineteenth-century insight that effective internationalism rests on oping a new kind of faith in our own collective capacity to shape members like them that way. Interna- client states would permit no interference in their internal affairs. effective nationalism remains pertinent. Voters around the world the future, there is no real incentive for our politicians to change. tional legislatures have never lived up to And then, between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s, all of still see their primary allegiance to their national state rather than They may not be trusted by their electorates — polls show levels the hope of nineteenth-century interna- this changed, as the United States ceased to support a version of to any large polity, a fact that reflects the continuing role of the of trust plumbing new lows — but they have no reason to care tionalists, and as the fate of the European Parliament and the UN liberalism embedded in strong domestic institutions. Confronted state as primary purveyor of public goods but that many interna- so long as this lack of trust does not translate into mobilization, TGeneral Assembly demonstrate, they are unlikely to make much with an unforeseen challenge to reshape the rules of international tional bodies are loath to acknowledge. resistance, and sustained pressure for reform. impact on the twenty-first. order in a way that gave priority to the needs of the developing Now we are on the verge of a new era, and as Western pre- To the nineteenth-century internationalists with whom this What does seem novel, in historical terms, is the collapsing world — the Third World’s New International Economic Order dominance approaches an end, the prognosticators speculate on book began, the future conjured up a new dispensation for man- importance of the public bodies that give national sovereignty — the United States reacted by moving against the old midcen- what will come next. Some American commentators seem par- kind, a dispensation they looked forward to with a confidence meaning and the way that organs of international government tury conception of the enabling state on several fronts: interna- ticularly anxious at their country’s possible loss of influence. But based upon their control over a universe of facts: hence Bentham’s and regulation have come to assail the internal legitimacy, capacity, tional human rights activism saw the state as tyrant and mobi- taking a more detached view and in more formal terms, the mere vision of a perfect system of law that depended on the accumula- and cohesion of individual states. They are not actually turning de- lized global civil society against it; the World Bank and the IMF fact that some states are gaining strength as others lose it says tion of all useful knowledge, or Karl Marx’s path to a communist mocracies into dictatorships — few people believe in dictatorships exploited the crisis-prone character of the new financialization of little. And so far as China in particular is concerned, it has much future through the history of capitalism’s past. To twentieth-centu- anymore — although the turn to Putin in Russia suggests such a the world to redraw the boundaries of public and private sectors to gain and little of any consequence to lose from participating in ry institution builders from [Jan] Smuts to [Franklin D.] Roosevelt, drift is possible. But they are certainly hollowing out representa- in vulnerable debtor countries. As governance replaced govern- a system designed to favor leading nations. Like any great power, from Robert Jackson to Walt Rostow, the future could be planned tive institutions and curtailing their capacity to act. Bodies that ment, welfare nets frayed, and income and wealth inequality rose it will use these institutions to further its own ends, but like its and tackled with foresight on behalf of entire communities and were once designed to foster sovereignty are now recast to curtail sharply. Formal structures disintegrated and informal economies predecessors it will not always prevail. Thus there is no reason nations, perhaps even for the world as a whole. Today, when the it. And this is not merely the curtailing of autonomy that is always — black markets, smuggling, and crime networks — flourished, to think that the shift in the global balance need of itself mark primacy of the fact is challenged by the Web — a recent article hails implicit when states decide to join international organizations and leaving only the ubiquitous concept of the “failed state” itself as the end of the international institutions established in the Anglo- the fact’s death — the future, more important than ever, has been respect their rules; it is the consequence of major changes in those implicit acknowledgment that states really were rather important. American ascendancy. privatized, monetized, and turned into a source of profit. An entire rules themselves. “The pattern of influence and decision-making In turn, the threat of state failure rationalized invasions and occu- that rules the world has an increasingly marginal connection with pations that returned swaths of Africa and parts of the Balkans to sovereignty,” notes Koskenniemi in a recent article. rule by international executive. This was in no sense a reversion In the ongoing atomization of society, citizens and classes have both This multifaceted erosion of sovereignty is a momentous to the emancipatory perspectives of mid-nineteenth-century in- change that has been based upon a radical alteration in attitudes ternationalists but rather the crafting of a “leaner, meaner state” vanished as forces for change and given way to a world of individuals. to the state and bureaucracy over the past thirty years. In its vari- in one country after another across the world, dissolving society ous nineteenth-century incarnations, after all, internationalism in the name of the individual, using international organizations Indeed from the perspective of the question of sovereignty, corporate sector is dedicated to commodifying and modeling it; was preeminently a movement to restore sovereign power to the as the handmaidens and new paradigms — the efficient market positive as well as negative consequences may emerge from the our financial markets in general take the future as the determinant peoples of the world, and those who governed in their name. Its hypothesis, the Responsibility to Protect — to provide intellectual decline in American and European financial and political clout. of present values in a way that simply was not true a century ago. approach to the nation-state and its institutions was almost entirely rationalization. As long ago as 1995, the British political economist Susan Strange No one now feels the burden of an essential but unknowable fu- positive. The originary moment of 1919 saw the goal of the League If the corrosive impact of this process on the idea of sovereignty argued that “the only way to remove the present, hegemonic, do- ture more acutely than the stockbroker and trader. But this money- of Nations as a world made “safe for democracy,” a goal under- itself has not much bothered mainstream American observers, it nothing veto on better global governance, is to build, bit by bit, a driven individualistic future has crowded out an older vision of stood — in an imperial idiom — as a society of sovereign polities. is partly because it has been moralized and turned into something compelling opposition based on European-Japanese cooperation, what the public good might look like. After 1945, the United Nations promoted the creed of sovereignty virtuous, and partly because it has happened less there than any- but embracing Latin Americans, Asians and Africans.” The pro- In the ongoing atomization of society, citizens and classes have more widely, more adamantly, and more deeply. Nazism’s assault where else. The United States remains the exceptional power, able spective lineup now looks different but the point remains valid. both vanished as forces for change and given way to a world of on the sovereignty of small nations was repudiated and in Europe more than any other over the past half century to exempt itself The rising powers, China above all, have little liking for the IMF, at individuals, who come together as consumers of goods or in- democracy was restored; colonialism’s denial of sovereign rights from otherwise universally binding international commitments least in its older incarnation, and attach much greater importance formation, and who trust the Internet more than they do their around the world was also castigated. The state was rendered and obligations, its untrammeled sovereignty jealously guarded to the idea of preserving sovereignty and some space for domes- political representatives or the experts they watch on television. sacrosanct, international boundaries were mutually recognized in by Congress. Combining the language of universalism with the tic political discretion. If their influence grows, the institutions the Governing institutions today have lost sight of the principle of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and the meaning of democracy itself was status of the exception has allowed American values and influ- United States created may be brought back under new direction politics rooted in the collective values of a res publica, even as they broadened to “promote social progress and better standards of life ence to spread at relatively little internal cost in terms of policy to the principles that originally animated them. A broader array of continue to defend the “civilization of capital.” As for the rituals in larger freedom” (in the words of the UN Charter). International constraint. And this freedom has actually increased with the shift voices and perspectives will enrich the rather rigid forms of eco- of international life, these are now well established. The world’s institutions enabled states to survive and flourish, and as civil ser- from a world of formal treaty obligations — a world that had al- nomic thinking that have predominated since the 1970s. heads of state flock annually to the United Nations General As- vices expanded rapidly, states enabled their citizens. ways made Congress unhappy — to one of informal rules and Getting the institutional architecture right is the subject of sembly. There are discussions of reform and grandiose declara- In the construction of this system of sovereign nations, no pow- norms, which the United States itself has been well positioned to endless position papers and reform proposals. But there are two tions of global targets, which mostly go unmet. Politicians, jour- er played a more important role than the United States. Wash- craft. Only in the fears on the American right of eroding sover- kinds of more fundamental change that will need to take place nalists, bankers, and businessmen make their pilgrimage to the ington never had complete control of the process, of course, and eignty and the implausible specter of world government do we too. In the current crisis, politicians have essentially acted as un- heavily guarded Alpine precinct of Davos, seeking to confirm there were compromises on all sides. After 1945, welfare states get a glimmering of what the stakes may be when the American derwriters, essential but subordinate to the dictates of communi- through this triumph of corporate sponsorship that a global rul- grew faster and economic nationalizations went farther across era finally ends. ties of financial market makers they hesitate to contradict. More ing elite exists and that they belong to it. Our representatives con- the globe than American policymakers might have wished, for Beyond the borders of the United States, on the other hand, generally, the politicians have become policymakers, who listen tinue to hand over power to experts and self-interested self-regu- example, and trade liberalization proceeded more slowly. But it has been far more self-evident that international institutions in the first place to private interests and their lobbyists and try to lators in the name of efficient global governance while a skeptical these points of disagreement and tension were not decisive. The and norms have developed into means of curtailing sovereignty adjudicate among them. Time will show whether they are any and alienated public looks on. The idea of governing the world is American Century at its apogee coincided with the heyday of rather than enhancing it, trends that could not but affect the longer capable of governing. If that fails to happen, the responsi- becoming yesterday’s dream. national planning in the Third World and the welfare state in standing of international bodies themselves and undercut their bility will not be theirs alone. One of the reasons for the midcen- Europe. American foundations funded roads, medical services, ability to command continued support. The real-world chal- tury popularity of the state and sovereignty was that both had From GOVERNING THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA by libraries, and schools, and American social sciences — from mid- lenges mount around us in the shape of climate change, financial proved themselves in extreme circumstances. Twentieth-century Mark Mazower, copyright (c) 2012 by Mark Mazower. Used by permis- century macroeconomics to modernization theory — provided instability, poverty, crime, and disease. With the WTO’s Doha total wars were fought by states that mobilized entire societies sion of The Penguin Press, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 46 47

COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

MESSAGE FROM CCAA PRESIDENT KYRA TIRANA BARRY ’87

49 Message from the CCAA President Entrepreneurship Is Thriving on Campus Alumni 50 Bookshelf And Across the Alumni Community 52 Obituaries 55 Class Notes s Columbia College Alumni Association president, and entrepreneurship at Columbia and to drive cohesion among I joined many other College alumni volunteers at entrepreneurship resources on campus, the student body and the 96 Alumni Corner the Columbia Alumni Leaders Weekend October alumni communities. CE is already making it easier for Columbia 11–12. We set a record for attendance at the event entrepreneurs to launch businesses. News and, I would argue, for engagement, creativity and “In partnership with the many centers of entrepreneurship Apassion. At CALW we learned how the University, the Columbia excellence in and around campus, we’re building out a set of en- Alumni Association, CCAA and many other Columbia organi- trepreneurship programs and resources that includes co-working zations around the world are responding to changes and trends spaces, mentorship, workshops, lecture series and events,” says Toomas Hendrik Ilves ’76, in economic conditions, career choices, and alumni and student Bollinger. “It is Columbia Entrepreneurship’s goal to make it easier president of the Republic interests. One of the most interesting is a new set of programs on for young entrepreneurs to launch Columbia-born businesses.” of Estonia, addresses a Low Library audience on campus this year that is organized around entrepreneurship. CE is now a cross-campus organization working with all September 23 in conjunc- A resurgence — if not a revolution — in entrepreneurship is schools, student clubs and alumni communities in a hub-and- tion with the Columbia taking place across the nation. Entrepreneurship activity is at its spoke model. It already has found operational success as a con- University World Leaders highest level in 14 years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship vening authority forging collaboration between centers of entre- Forum. PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO Monitor, a joint venture of Babson College and the London School preneurship practice across campus and across the Columbia of Business, which began tracking such activity in 1999. In 2012, the alumni community. CE also offers practical programming where average total, early-stage entrepreneurial rate increased to nearly much-needed resources are missing and is helping individual 13 percent of students on college campuses nationwide, an all-time schools build curricula and programming. high since GEM began tracking. The CCAA Board of Directors has been very supportive of This trend has had an impact on curricula, co-curricular pro- this effort, brainstorming with CE leadership on alumni needs gramming and student life at universities across the nation. In and working closely with CE staff to provide support, advice and fact, from the Morningside campus, one need look no further links to the College alumni community. We are very excited to than Roosevelt Island, where Cornell and Technion Universities partner with CE and to make sure its activities are well integrated are creating a new academic model that blends equal measures of into our own engagement initiatives. engineering and entrepreneurship education with industry and The strong interest in entrepreneurship in the College alumni business community engagement. Columbia is also building its community was clearly apparent in the enthusiastic response and own infrastructure to support this growing sector. attendance at an event on September 16 featuring Jack Dorsey, The undergraduate student club Columbia Organization for co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Square. College students and Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) has grown in triple digit percent- alumni attended in huge numbers and the feedback given to ages in the last year. CCAA and CE was that we should be doing much more. “The Office of the Dean is supportive and pleased to be a part I strongly encourage all College alumni, whether or not you of the growing campus-wide entrepreneurship initiatives,” says are building a startup of your own, are a serial entrepreneur, are Dean James J. Valentini. “We like the progress that CORE has interested in supporting our students and alumni or just want to made but we are especially proud of the contributions it is mak- learn about the exciting new activities at Columbia, to visit entre ing to both the current student and alumni communities.” preneurship.columbia.edu to learn more. In winter 2012 President Lee C. Bollinger initiated Columbia As always, I look forward to your sharing your thoughts with Entrepreneurship, which launched in July 2013. CE now resides me at [email protected]. in the Office of the President, maintaining a close partnership with the University’s Office of Alumni and Development. Its mission is to accelerate and encourage the culture of innovation

Members of Columbia Organization for Rising Entrepreneurs, one of the most popular undergraduate student clubs, gather outside Low Library.

SUMMER 2013 WINTER 2013–14 48 49

COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY BOOKSHELF

David Epstein ’02, ’04J Examines the Bookshelf Complexity of Sports Science Robert N. Butler [’49], MD: Vision- ies, testimonies and literature O’Kane must clear Charlie’s name world with verve and originality ary of Healthy Aging by W. Andrew reviews to examine and explain after he is linked to the death of a using abecedarian form (Ahsahta B y E t h an R o u e n ’04J, ’11 B u s i n e ss Achenbaum. The author discusses patterns of leadership failure in police informant that occurred 10 Press, $15). Butler’s contributions to the concept higher education (Johns Hopkins years earlier, during his term as n a sense, David Epstein ’02, ’04J, ’04 GSAS (and everyone else who was brave enough to face of healthy aging and argues the University Press, $34.95). NYC mayor (Houghton Mifflin My Funeral Gondola by Fiona Sze- started working on his best-selling book, The Finch) struck out. continuing relevance of his pioneer- Harcourt, $27). Lorrain ’03. Lorrain’s second book Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordi� Inherent reflexes, it turns out, are not as impor- ing work in gerontology, geriatrics, Unrepresented States and the of poetry offers meditations on the nary Athletic Performance (Current Hardcover, tant to hitters as practice and memory — seeing medicine and social work (Colum- Construction of Meaning: Clinical Murder at Dacha by Alexei Bayer bittersweet struggles and inner I$26.95), as a teenage runner. enough pitches to know where the ball will end bia University Press, $40). and Theoretical Contributions ’80. Bayer’s debut novel takes place intensities of solitary life (El Leon His suburban Illinois town of Evanston was a “mini up as it is released from the pitcher’s hand. edited by Howard B. Levine ’64, Gail in 1960s Moscow, where Sr. Lt. Literary Arts, $18). Jamaican diaspora” with a high school that won 24 Then there’s the story of Eero Mäntyranta, an True Successor: A Novel of the S. Reed and Dominique Scarfone. In Matyuskin must solve the murder consecutive track and field conference titles. When Olympic gold medalist in cross country skiing who New Roman Empire by Joseph H. this series of essays, the editors of a powerful Soviet boss (Russian Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists Epstein moved from sprint to middle distance com- grew up in rural Finland, strapping on skis for the Levie ’49. Levie writes an alternate compile critical contributions to the Information Services, $16). & Progressive Politics During petition, which he ran as a member of the Columbia first time not long after he could walk. In addition to history in which Emperor Charles development of the psychoanalytic World War II by Farah Jasmine Grif- track team, the people passing him were Kenyan. his years of experience, Mäntyranta has a rare ge- Martel IV sits atop a contested field (Karnac Books, $40.95). Drive Me To Think: Driving fin, the William B. Ransford Professor And almost all of them were from the same tribe. netic mutation that results in a red blood cell count throne in Charlemagne’s revital- Time Is “Law of Attraction” Time. of English and Comparative Literature “I started asking questions about what was going up to 65 percent higher than the average man. ized empire (iUniverse, $16.95). Misuses of Poetry and Other Convert Negativity Into Miracles and African American Studies. Grif- on in these hot spots to make these people so good,” Sure, Mäntyranta had years of practice, but he Poems by Les Gottesman ’68. Got- While Driving and in Life by fin tells the story of three artists says Epstein, a journalist who recently moved from also had an inherited trait that gave him the same PHOTO: ERICK RASCO Searching for the Best Medicine: tesman’s newest collection chal- K. Scott (Kenneth Scott Hayes) ’92. who embodied Harlem’s spirit of Sports Illustrated to the investigative news organiza- advantage that many athletes risk their careers to The Life and Times of a Doctor lenges conventional style through Hayes uses driving and commuting creative work along with a social tion ProPublica, where he covers sports science, attain through doping. and Patient by Arthur Bank ’56. a cynical and surreal approach to time as moments for self-reflection conscience during the 1940s (Basic medicine, energy and the environment. “This was my favorite chapter to write,” says Epstein, The author relates his experience questions about the human condi- and meditation in this spiritual Livitas Books, $26.99). These questions, though, don’t have clear who traveled to the Arctic Circle to meet the Olympic in medicine to the field as a whole, tion (Finishing Line Press, $14). guide book (CreateSpace Indepen- answers. The Sports Gene, which has received rave champ. “Here’s someone who actually has a rare discussing how one practices good dent Publishing Platform, $14). Mass Flourishing: How Grass- reviews in publications from The New York Times genetic mutation” that makes him a superior athlete. medicine as well as the problems Makers of Modern Architecture, roots Innovation Created Jobs, to Nature, provides a snapshot of where science facing health care and health insur- Volume II: From Le Corbusier to Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant- Challenge, and Change by Edmund stands in its quest to understand the human genome. pstein’s first book merges many of the pas- ance in the United States (World Rem Koolhaas by Martin Filler ’70. Gardes: From Estridentismo to Phelps, director, Center on Capital- Epstein devotes 300 pages to exploring the timeless sions he developed at the College, where Scientific, $48). Architecture critic Filler surveys ¡30-30! by Tatiana Flores ’95. Flores ism and Society. Phelps, a Nobel nature versus nurture question, offering insights into Ehe started as a science major who initially works including Charles Renfro’s provides a thorough account of the Laureate in Economics, develops an compelling genetic research and examples of athletes disdained the Core Curriculum. The Great Rent Wars: New York High Line and Rem Koolhaas’ early 20th-century Mexican Renais- argument for why nations prosper, accomplishing unbelievable feats. His Lit Hum professor, Julie Crawford, “was the 1917–1929 by Robert M. Fogelson ’58. CCTV Headquarters in Beijing sance (Yale University Press, $65). calling for a commitment to moder- Instead of shying away from the issues of race and greatest teacher and dressed me down for being Fogelson traces the history of rent (New York Review Books, $29.95). nity, grassroots dynamism, indig- gender that dominate sports science debates, he anti-intellectual,” he says. “She changed the way I control in New York City, study- Degraded Work: The Struggle at enous innovation and widespread tackles them head-on. For example, are black athletes read and write. She had a concrete impact on my ing the rent strikes and conflicts In Praise of Angels: A Novel of the Bottom of the Labor Market personal fulfillment (Princeton inherently better at some sports? Is there a scientific decision to end up writing.” that arose between tenants and the Reconstruction Era by Richard by Marc Doussard ’97. The author University Press, $29.95). reason why male and female athletes should compete separately? During Epstein’s sophomore year of college, his former train- landlords during the post-WWI Smolev ’70. This work of historical outlines creative policy and orga- Epstein’s conclusion: The answers may be as complex as the ing partner, Kevin Richards, died immediately after finishing a housing shortage (Yale University fiction follows Philadelphia reporter nizing opportunities that workers Columbia University in Pictures human genome itself. high school race at the indoor track they shared in Evanston, an Press, $45). Benjamin Wright as he covers the and advocates can use to improve by Lenny Pridatko. This award-win- “I thought readers would have trouble with the ambiguity, but I event that would shape Epstein’s career. Heartbroken, he was impeachment of Andrew Jackson job quality (University of Minne- ning collection of 150 photographs couldn’t do anything about it,” he says. “The reception to the book unsatisfied with the doctors’ determination of heart attack as Presidencies Derailed: Why and other events of the turbulent re- sota Press, $25). showcases the University’s cam- has emboldened me. People are willing to tolerate complexity.” the cause of death. University Leaders Fail and construction era (Academy Chicago puses and community and offers For his reporting, Epstein traveled the globe, interviewing Epstein asked Richards’ parents for access to the medical How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Publishers, $35). Rewilding by Jasmine Dreame Wag- lesser-known facts about Columbia scientists and athletes. He discovered that, yes, there appear to records and learned that his friend had a genetic disease, Trachtenberg ’59, George B. Kauvar ner ’00. Winner of the 2012 Ahsahta (Luminance Press, $59.95). be genetic advantages in some sports, but the Kenyans who con- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which causes the left ventricle to and E. Grady Bogue. The authors The Big Crowd: A Novel by Kevin Press Chapbook Contest, Wagner’s Karl Daum ’15 sistently win long-distance races also avoided the comparatively thicken, sometimes reducing blood flow to the heart. provide a collection of case stud- Baker ’80. Brothers Tom and Charlie collection of poetry reimagines the sedentary western life as children. The science has not advanced This investigation later led Epstein to write his Journalism School enough to determine exactly what role genes play in ability. master’s project on HCM, a story that became chapter 15 of his This unwillingness to offer easy solutions initially concerned book (he completed a master’s in environmental science at the some publishers. same time). It also led to one of his first major stories atSports “The first questions I got when I spoke to publishers were, ‘Is Illustrated, an article about sudden cardiac death in athletes this the next Born to Run?’ [the best-selling book that sparked written after Ryan Shay died during the 2008 men’s U.S. Olympic the barefoot running craze] and ‘Where are you going to come marathon trials. down on the nurture versus nature argument?’” Epstein says. “Chapter 15 is where all my sports science writing began,” Despite answering “no” and “nowhere concrete” to these Epstein says. “I had hoped that writing about HCM would make questions, the book has the addictive allure of a murder mys- it seem like Kevin didn’t die in vain, so to speak. But he did die tery, with each chapter offering fascinating insights brought to in vain, and I guess we can just hope that spreading knowledge life by athletes doing the seemingly impossible. might prevent that from happening to someone else. In some The Sports Gene opens with Olympic and pro softball player way, shape or form, I’ll write on the topic for the rest of my life.” Jennie Finch facing Mike Piazza and Albert Pujols, two of the greatest hitters in baseball history. The softball takes just as Ethan Rouen ’04J, ’11 Business is a Ph.D. student at the Busi� much time to cross the plate as a baseball thrown by a major ness School and a columnist for Fortune.com. He is a former CCT league pitcher — and offers up a bigger target — but both men associate editor.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 50 51

COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY OBITUARIES

was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two. Hobel also was a John Hollander ’50, ’52 GSAS, Renowned Poet champion golfer. He is survived Obituaries by his wife of 63 years, Mary-Ann ohn Hollander ’50,’52 GSAS, a poet, scholar, verse and stanza form, most notably in his (née Hirsch) ’47 Barnard; children critic and professor, died in Branford, Conn., works Rhyme’s Reason and Powers of Thirteen; 1942 the 1962 conversion of Millersville and Jean; two grandchildren; two and their spouses, Joseph ’75 and Jon August 17, 2013. He was 83. the latter won Yale’s Bollingen Prize in 1983. Michael G. Kovach, priest, from a state teacher’s college to great-grandchildren; and several Marjorie, Michael and Michal, and A master of verse, Hollander was known for Hollander was born on October 28, 1929, in Millersville, Pa., on July 12, 2013. a liberal arts college. He retired nieces, nephews and godchildren. Sara Hobel and Scott Mendel; and his formalist and neoclassicist approach at a New York City. He attended Bronx Science, A native of St. Clair, Pa., Kovach from Millersville as dean of the Memorial contributions may six grandchildren. He was prede- time when many poets were experimenting with where he wrote a humor column for the news­ was ordained in 1943 and was a Graduate School. For 14 years be made to establish a religious ceased by a sister, Bernice. Memo- form. He cited W.H. Auden as a major inspiration, paper. At Columbia he wrote for Spectator priest of the Orthodox Church Kovach was spiritual adviser for education fund to the Rev. Stephen rial contributions may be made to and his earlier work sought to embody the po- and was editor of The Review with Ginsberg. of America for 69 years. He also the Orthodox Theological Society Vernak, pastor of Christ The Sav- the Taub Institute for Research on et’s improvisation of literary forms as well as a Hollander began a doctorate at Indiana, leaving spent 26 years on the faculty at in America. He was predeceased iour Orthodox Church, 5501 Old Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging sense of playfulness woven into traditional style. in 1954 to join the Society of Fellows at Harvard Millersville University. In the early by his wife of 67 years, Olga A. Locust Ln., Harrisburg, PA 17109. Brain at Columbia University Hollander’s first collec- and returning to finish his 1940s, Kovach served as an Army Hubiak, in 2011. Survivors include (giving.columbia.edu/waystogive). tion, A Crackling of Thorns, Ph.D. in 1959. His disserta- was chosen by Auden in tion was published as The chaplain for 2½ years. Ten years a daughter, Helene Dmochowski; Philip S. Hobel, film and televi- 1946 after the war, he earned a Ph.D. in sister, Verna Papinchak; brother-in- sion producer, New York City and 1958 for the Yale Series of Untuning of the Sky: Ideas American history from Pittsburgh. law, the Very Rev. Daniel Hubiak East Hampton, N.Y., on October A. Joseph Foa, retired insurance Younger Poets, which pub- of Music in English Poetry, Kovach joined the Millersville Col- and his wife, Dunia; sisters-in-law, 23, 2013. A Manhattan native, agent and real estate salesperson, lished the collection with a 1500–1700 in 1961, the first lege staff in 1959 and engineered Ann Hubiak, Eva Hubiak, Marge Hobel was an involved College Philip S. Hobel ’42 Montgomery, Texas, on January 13, foreword by Auden. Among of many critical works. 2013. Foa worked in the insurance his Columbia literary influ- Hollander joined the Yale student, serving as president of business for many years and retired ences, a mix of professors faculty in 1959. He left in his fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau, and but then decided retirement was and classmates, were 1966 to teach at Hunter, Robert S. Greene ’43, ’58 Arts, Jazz Musician a member of NACOMS, among not for him, so he obtained his real Mark Van Doren ’21 GSAS; but returned to Yale in 1977 other activities. He was a Navy estate license and worked until Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS; and taught there for 25 obert S. Greene ’43, ’58 Arts, a docu- In the 1940s and ’50s, Greene played piano at lieutenant in the Pacific theatre his early 80s. He is survived by his Louis Simpson ’49 GS, ’59 years. He was named the mentary writer, jazz musician and founder jazz clubs across New York. In 1973, he recre- during WWII, including service as wife, Roberta; daughters, Catherine GSAS; Daniel Hoffman ’47, Sterling Professor Emeri- Rof The World of Jelly Roll Morton Band, ated Morton’s seven-piece band at the Newport an aide to several admirals. Hobel Ranke and her husband, Richard, ’56 GSAS; and Richard tus of English in 1995 and died on October 13, 2013, in Amagansett, N.Y. Jazz Festival with three of the original musicians. founded the Cortland Furniture Barbara Laible and her husband, Howard ’51. His greatest retired in 2002. He was 91. The band toured the world and played at venues Co. after the war and operated it Robert, Virginia Voit and her influence, however, was Hollander published 20 After years of writing, Greene devoted the such as Carnegie Hall in NYC and the Royal until the ’70s, when he entered the husband, Steve, and Mary Jo Kutler Allen Ginsberg ’48, who PHOTO: T. CHARLES ERICKSON, YALE UNIVERSITY collections of poetry, his rest of his career to New Orleans jazz and the Festival Hall in London. The band’s show in television and film business. The and her husband, Shelley; eight shared Hollander’s belief in OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION last being A Draft of Light. emulation of his jazz idol, “Jelly Roll” Morton, Hatfield, England, in 1982 was recorded and founder and owner of The Cinema grandchildren; three great-grand- the “mythological weight” He also wrote seven criti- an early 20th-century jazz pianist known for his released in 1999 and was the last time three of Guild, Hobel-Leiterman Produc- children; and sister-in-law, Dorothy of poetic form. One of Hollander’s best-known cal works and edited many more including the piano skills and influence on jazz. During the the original members of the Red Hot Peppers tions and Document Associates, Hayes. He was preceded in death poems, “Helicon,” tells of his excursion with the two-volume collection American Poetry: The 1970s and ’80s, Greene recreated the tunes of played together. Hobel was a producer and distrib- by his first wife, Patricia Ann Foa, famous Beat poet to sell their blood for spend- Nineteenth Century for the Library of America. Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, traveling the world Jazz critic Whitney Balliett wrote that Greene utor of award-winning television and son, William. ing money. Richard Poirier in The Washington Post in with his tribute band. “is the best of the various series, documentaries and features, By the end of his long and prolific career, 1978 described Hollander as “the most intellec- 1948 Rather than copy Morton’s Morton pianists; he gets most notably Tender Mercies, which Hollander’s style had evolved from what he tually daring, poignant, and thrilling poet writing songs note for note, Greene inside Morton’s music. He Merrill L. Brockway, retired direc- described as “epigram literature” to a less witty, in the Emersonian tradition of our poetry.” sought to master his is emotional, reverent, and tor and producer, Santa Fe, N.M., more high-minded form of what he called “mur- Hollander married Anne Loesser in 1953; they stomping ragtime style swinging.” Obituary Submission on May 2, 2013. Brockway was murs or chants,” which divided critics, many of divorced in 1977. He is survived by his wife, within the New Orleans Greene spent much of Guidelines born on February 28, 1923, in New whom felt that his puzzling language and private Natalie, whom he married in 1981; daughters, spirit of collective impro- his time in New Orleans, Columbia College Today Carlisle, Ind., and began studying meditations lacked subject matter. Others Martha and Elizabeth; brother, Michael; and visation. Greene often where he played jazz welcomes obituaries for piano at 7. He served in the Army viewed this evolution as a reflection of his po- three grandchildren. remarked, “Jelly has taught piano. He contributed regu- College alumni. Deaths are in Europe in WWII as a driver for etic eminence, as Hollander intricately explored Karl Daum ’15 me that you don’t play the larly to George H. Buck Jr.’s noted in the next available a chaplain and provided music for music; the music plays GHB Records to document issue in the “Other Deaths the chaplain’s services. Brockway you.” and preserve traditional Reported” box. Complete earned an M.A. in musicology in in full. Brockway was nominated matriculated at Columbia. Love’s cover cultural and foreign affairs Born to Oscar Greenstein New Orleans jazz and obituaries will be published in 1952 from GSAS. After graduating for seven Primetime Emmys and newspaper career began at The for the magazine USA1. He later and Elma Elsa Stern on played piano for the score an upcoming issue, pending he was an accompanist for singers. received two for the show. He Hudson Dispatch in Union City, N.J. taught journalism at the American September 4, 1922, Greene grew up on the Up- of Louis Malle’s film Pretty Baby. He often trav- receipt of information. Due In 1953, Brockway joined WCAU returned to CBS in 1980 as execu- He joined The New York Times in University in Cairo and worked for per East Side. While earning an M.F.A. in theatre eled to Denmark, France and Japan to perform, to the volume of obituaries in Philadelphia, moving scenery tive producer of arts programming 1948, working on obituaries before the Peace Corps. Love is survived arts, he began work at the CBS Radio Network, write, conduct research and visit longtime friends. that CCT receives, it may for Action in the Afternoon. Within a for the newly formed CBS Cable becoming a reporter in 1950. He by his partner, Blair Seagram; where he wrote documentary scripts. He was In an interview for JoyZine, Greene com- take several issues for the year he was promoted to director cultural channel. In 1993, he retired was in Tehran in 1953 when the daughters, Mary Christy Love nominated for three and won two Writers Guild mented on his love of playing Morton: “If it was complete obituary to appear. and worked on educational and to Santa Fe. Brockway is survived CIA executed a successful plot to Sadron and Suzanna Potter Love; of America documentary awards. Greene taught once done so perfectly, why do it again? I can Word limit is 200; text may be children’s programs. Brockway by his partner of 17 years, John Eric overthrow Mohammed Mossa- sons, John and Nicholas; sisters, script writing at Columbia and his books on only say: Because there’s beauty there, there’s edited for length, clarity and became interested in dance after Roybal. degh and replace him with Gen. Mary Lehmann and Nathalie; and radio writing and television writing were nation- excitement, there’s love. If that can be transmit- style at the editors’ discretion. seeing Martha Graham, with Fazlollah Zahedi. While based in five grandchildren. ally recognized sources. Greene wrote for The ted to a live audience, some of the aroma of the Click “Contact Us” at college. whom he went on to work. He Kennett P. Love, foreign cor- Cairo in 1954, Love wrote about 1960 Voice of America network during the height of original happens again … to bring this music to columbia.edu/cct, or mail was the original series producer respondent, Sag Harbor, N.Y., on the discovery of a 50-ft. boat that the Cold War in the ’60s. He then worked under life for people today, that’s our challenge.” materials to Obituaries Editor, for PBS’ Dance in America, and he May 13, 2013. Born in St. Louis on had been intended to convey the Howard A. Mudgett, retired finan- Edward R. Murrow during the Kennedy admin- Greene’s final wish was that he be remem- Columbia College Today, directed and produced it through August 17, 1924, Love attended spirit of the pharaoh Cheops to cial services executive, Denver, on istration and later as a speechwriter for the bered by “playing pretty, any time.” Columbia Alumni Center, 1980. Modeled after the dance Princeton and was a pilot in the the underworld. He also covered September 1, 2013. Mudgett was Johnson administration. Karl Daum ’15 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, numbers in Fred Astaire mov- Navy Air Corps during WWII. the Suez Canal crisis in 1956 and born on April 4, 1938, in Denver. 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. ies, the show became known for In 1946 he married Felicite Pratt wrote Suez: The Twice-Fought War. He found success in the financial showing dancers’ bodies mostly (she predeceased him in 2002) and Love left the Times in 1962 to services industry, a career that

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 52 53

OBITUARIES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

OTHER DEATHS REPORTED Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Class Notes obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. Columbia College Today the column, or use CCT’s webform: six classmates who attended our past president of the Monmouth 1939 Thomas H. Dawkins, retired plumber, artist, Middletown, Conn., on April 30, 2012. 25 Columbia Alumni Center college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ 70th reunion luncheon in Hamil- Medical Society and volunteered Irving L. Schwartz, physician, Brookline, Mass., on April 2, 2011. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 class_note. In the meantime, best ton Hall. Another who was there at the Parker Family Health Center New York, NY 10025 wishes for an enjoyable holiday has also died, Professor Morris in Red Bank, N.J. Harold retired in 1943 Cedric C. Philipp, retired pharmaceutical representative, Audubon, Pa., on July 18, 2013. 40 [email protected] season and a happy, healthy New Grossman; the four who remain October 2010, after which he en- 1945 Joseph M. Stein, retired neurologist, Topeka, Kan., on July 24, 2013. Year. are Robert J. Kaufman, Immanuel joyed his interests in photography, John S. “Rip” Ripandelli ’40, Lichtenstein, Bernard Small 1946 Ernest C. Aitelli, retired urologist, Tehachapi, Calif., on September 16, 2013. a Dr. woodworking, bridge and chess. retired actuary in Tallahassee, Fla., and your correspondent. He was predeceased by his wife, Robert F. Capon, reverend, Shelter Island Heights, N.Y., on September 5, 2013. writes: “I was awarded, in April, the Melvin Hershkowitz Arthur, a longtime member of Adelaide, on August 1, just 11 days 1947 Frank E. Karelsen III, attorney, New York City, on August 27, 2013. Edward N. Leavy ’64 decoration of Knight of the Legion 42 22 Northern Ave. the Westchester Reform Temple, before his death. Harold is survived 1948 Paul H. Gerst, surgeon, Tenafly, N.J., on September 29, 2013. of Honor by the French government Northampton, MA 01060 served on its board and helped by his children, Robert, Ted, Michael, (by decree of President François [email protected] establish its special needs program. George, Kathy, Steven and Daniel; 1949 Frank M. Angeloro, retired insurance executive, East Greenwich, R.I., on February 7, 2013. and daughter-in-law as well as his Hollande on January 21) for service I wrote about Arthur in the Fall 2011 and 15 grandchildren. We send our Lewis Kurke, retired psychiatrist and teacher, Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 31, 2013. wife, Judy Katz-Leavy; other chil- in WWII and as a ‘Thank You, On July 20, I received a note from issue of CCT, when he and his wife, condolences to Harold’s family. Cass F. Santos Jr., reverend, Mechanicsburg, Pa., on February 25, 2013. dren, Neal Kayastha and Gabrielle America’ for liberating the French Helene Dmochowski, daughter Ruth, celebrated his 90th birthday Congratulations to Dr. Gerald Charles F. Wittenstein, retired attorney, Atlanta, on February 4, 2013. Katz; sister, Isabella Levenson; and from the German occupation. The of Michael Kovach, reporting with a three-week cruise around Klingon, who celebrated his 93rd Legion of Honor was created by Michael’s death at 94 in Millersville, South America. Arthur also came to birthday on September 22. Gerry, a 1950 his grandchildren. Carmine P. Bianchi, retired professor emeritus of pharmacology, Boothwyn, Pa., on August 13, 2013. Napoleon in 1802 to acknowledge Pa. Michael was born in St. Clair, several lunches arranged by the late retired neurologist, earned his M.D. 1951 Herbert H. Beardsley, retired Episcopal priest, Cutchogue, N.Y., on January 26, 2013. 1986 services rendered to France by Pa., and after graduating from St Dr. Herbert Mark at the Columbia at Weill Cornell Medical College Chester M. Edelmann Jr., professor of pediatrics, Bronxville, N.Y., on September 19, 2013. persons of exceptional merit. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological University Club of New York; and had a long, distinguished Kevin A. Hall, attorney, San “I met with French Ambassador Seminary, he was ordained in 1943 attendees included Nick Cicchetti career on the staff of that institution 1954 Morton A. Cohen, retired dentist, Bennington, Vt., on September 24, 2013. Francisco, on November 12, 2012. François Delattre on April 25 in Tal- as a priest in the Orthodox Church and your correspondent. The last of and in his private practice in Man- John G. Daniels, Downingtown, Pa., on June 22, 2013. Born on March 23, 1964, in Nairobi, lahassee and was presented with in America, continuing in that these was held in December 2005. hattan. A longtime generous donor 1955 Calvin R. Jenkins, Salt Lake City, on January 28, 2013. Kenya, Hall attended Dover Col- the Legion of Honor there along role for 69 years. Starting in 1944, lege in England, completing to his with five other WWII veterans.” Michael served for 2½ years as an 1957 Sheldon S. Hendler, scientist, physician and musician, San Diego, on November 12, 2012. A Levels, after which he graduated CCT congratulates Rip on the Army chaplain. Ten years after Dr. Gerald Klingon ’42, who celebrated his 93rd 1960 C. Wayne Case, retired USN commander, Pittsfield, N.H., on February 1, 2013. from the College with a B.A. in honor. WWII, Michael earned a Ph.D. in Your friends and classmates American history from Pittsburgh. birthday on September 22, is a retired neurologist. 1961 Marshall H. Berman, history and French literature in author, academic and philosopher, New York City, on September 11, 2013. want to hear from you! Please send In 1959 he went to Millersville Uni- 1963 Richard L. Knopf, Manteca, Calif., on September 15, 2013. 1986 and an M.I.A. from SIPA in news about yourself or your fam- versity, where in 1962 he engineered 1988. He then earned a J.D. from 1964 Henry F. Epstein, physician and neuroscientist, Houston, on February 2, 2013. ily, or a favorite Columbia College the conversion of the school from Arthur came to Columbia from to Columbia’s football program, Cornell in 1991. Hall embarked on memory, to CCT at either the email a state teacher’s college to a liberal Townsend Harris H.S., an elite Gerry has had season tickets for 1966 Leonard V. Don Diego Jr., retired teacher, EMT volunteer, Manalapan, N.J., on September 17, 2013. an international law career, first or postal address above. You also arts college with degree programs academic high school in Queens. many years. Your correspondent Douglas M. Strock, jazz pianist, Encinitas, Calif., on August 6, 2012. as an associate with Winthrop, can send news online using CCT’s in philosophy and Russian studies. During WWII he was an officer in last saw him at our Homecoming 1967 Alan Candiotti, university dean and professor, Madison, N.J., on August 19, 2013. Stimson, Putnam & Roberts and webform: college.columbia.edu/ At the time of his retirement from the Air Force in the CBI Theatre, game versus Dartmouth on October then with White & Case. In 1998 cct/submit_class_note. Millersville, Michael was dean of its participating in the famous flying 20, 2012, and as I write these notes, I 1969 Mark L. Drucker, professor, St. Louis, on August 12, 2013. he moved to the New York office This column is a wonderful way graduate school. over the Hump operations. hope to see him again at this year’s Joseph M. Hassett, physician, Portland, Ore., on February 13, 2013. of Linklaters, where he became for classmates to stay connected. He was married for 67 years to Arthur earned an M.S. from the Homecoming game versus Penn on Arthur Schoengold, physician, Derwood, Md., on April 20, 2013. Please let us hear from you! Olga A. Hubiak, who predeceased Engineering School in 1950 and October 19. Gerry’s son, Robert, an partner. In 2006, Hall joined Reed him in March 2011. Michael is sur- had a long career as an engineer Amherst and Boalt Hall (UC Berke- 1981 Alan J. Saffran, otolaryngologist, Winter Park, Fla., on September 27, 2013. Smith as a partner and moved to vived by his daughter; grandson, and consultant for many major ley Law) alumnus, often accompa- Jonathan Taffler, business executive, Wilton, Conn., on September 13, 2013. San Francisco. He was a mem- Robert Zucker Ivan; granddaughter, Sasha; sister, corporations, including General nies Gerry to the games at Robert 1991 Solomon S. Johnson, East Orange, N.J., on September 3, 2013. ber of the American, New York, 29 The Birches Verna Papichak; and several nieces, Motors, Maxson Electronics, Gen- K. Kraft Field and is an honorary California and San Francisco 41 Roslyn, NY 11576 nephews and godchildren. eral Foods and Sterling Drugs. He member of our Great Class of 1942. Bar associations. In 2009, Hall [email protected] At Columbia, Michael was a bit retired as v.p. of A.T. Kearney. He With best wishes and kind re- spanned four decades. Mudgett with a sarcastic quip and highbrow of Alpha Epsilon Pi. After earning transitioned from private practice older than most of us in the Class was a member of Zeta Beta Tau, gards to all classmates, I welcome reached executive level positions humor, he took great joy in keep- a law degree from Brooklyn Law to join LiveDeal as general counsel. No news arrived for this issue of 1942. He was a member of the the American Institute of Industrial your email messages, letters and in several Denver companies, ing those closest to him completely School and an LL.M. from NYU, He later was appointed president but don’t let the quiet lull you. I Slavonic Society and was a mature Engineers, the Institute of Manage- telephone calls (413-586-1517). know you have updates to report, and friendly presence on campus. ment Sciences, the Material Han- and other positions took him to off-balance. Howard’s heart took he moved to Washington, D.C., to and CEO. Hall completed the nostalgia to indulge in and family We send our good wishes and con- dling Institute and the National Chicago and Sacramento before nourishment from opera music in run the regional office for the Anti- E.M.B.A. program at the Stanford happenings to share. We want to dolences to his family. Classmates Council of Physical Distribution. G.J. D’Angio he retired and returned to Denver. the hills over Sante Fe. His restless Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. Graduate School of Business in hear all about them. You can write desiring more information may Arthur is survived by his wife; 201 S. 18th St., #1818 Mudgett’s lifelong interests were soul awed at the towering canyon He later co-founded Leavy, Frank, August 2012 and was a member of me at either address at the top of contact Helene at helenedmo@me. children, Helen Gurny and Pat; and 43 Philadelphia, PA 19103 academia, aviation, science, tech­ walls of the Colorado River. His and Delaney, a successful im- the Board of Directors of the San com. five grandchildren. We send con- [email protected] nology, history, art, travel and unrelenting mind quieted at the migration law practice in Bethesda, Francisco YMCA and AIDS Legal Multiple obituary notices in The dolences to Arthur’s family, as we architecture. According to an sight of a Picasso. That’s what gave Md. Throughout his life, Leavy Referral Panel. He is survived by Class Notes are submitted by New York Times on July 25, 26 and say thanks and farewell to one of Alas, no news from classmates. My obituary sent in by his son, Jeffrey, him joy and peace.” Mudgett is remained a devoted and active his spouse, Mark Khoury; parents, alumni and edited by volunteer 28 reported the death of Arthur S. Columbia’s most devoted alumni. monologue follows. Graham Jr. ’42E, The New York Times Mudgett “loved nothing more survived by his ex-wife, Melinda member of the Columbia alumni Anthony and Gillian; and siblings, ’50E on July 24 at of August 14 In the spring, Ralph Gladstone ’47 class correspondents and the 92. Arthur had been in apparent reported the death on August 12 of took me on a personally guided tour than exquisite literature, a baroque Anderson; son and his son’s wife, community. Columbia nurtured Melissa and Ian. Memorial staff of CCT prior to publication. good health a few days before his Dr. Harold Gabel ’46 P&S at 90 at of the Edgar Allan Poe House here classic, an impressive bottle of Karrina; and two granddaughters. his lifelong love affair with the arts, contributions may be made to the death, continuing his daily swim- Monmouth Medical Center in New in Philadelphia. Ralph is a scholar of wine and a warm Siamese cat. particularly music and theatre. San Francisco SPCA Development Opinions expressed are those of ming exercises in a local pool. He Jersey. Harold came to Columbia ancient Greek literature and equally 1964 Howard was generous with his Leavy was part of a Columbia Col- Department, 201 Alabama St., San individual alumni and do not was one of the most loyal and active from Stuyvesant H.S. After earning steeped in the life and career of the love of learning, never missing the Edward N. Leavy, attorney, lege family that included his father, Francisco, CA 94103; 415-554-3029; alumni supporters of Columbia, an M.D., he served in the Army poet. reflect the opinions of CCT, its opportunity to bestow the virtues Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2013. Maurice Charles Leavy ’27, ’29L; or sfspca.org/civicrm/contribute/ serving as president of the Colum- through 1950. He then settled in Intimations of mortality and of enlightenment. Howard relished During his years at Columbia, son Charles Katz-Leavy ’02; and transact?reset=1&id=13. class correspondents, the College bia University Club of Westchester Oakhurst, N.J., where he lived immortality: I attended funerals or County and as v.p. of the Society of and was an internist for 60 years. memorial services for three friends his close friends, business associ- Leavy rowed for the lightweight daughter-in-law, Michelle Leavy Lisa Palladino or the University. ates and cronies. Always warm crew and was an active member ’02. Leavy is survived by his son Columbia Graduates. Harold was on the staff at the in June, and I met my 8-day-old In June 2012, Arthur was one of Monmouth Medical Center, was great-granddaughter, Margaret,

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 54 55

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES in July. She was part of a pleas- we can prove him correct by shar- Years later, in 1960, Erwin made technology management positions. sitting in the waiting room. When with my election to Phi Beta Kappa great neighbors. I particularly “The chaotic nature of guerilla ant, 10-member, weeklong family ing this occasion with all the other media headlines by seizing Fidel He also wrote a book, Planning we finally got to see him, he asked at the College and Alpha Omega enjoyed spending time with James combat in Vietnam, the uncertainty reunion on the south shore of Lake CC graduates whose key years Castro’s Cuban government airliner and Managing Industry – University me to figure out why the office was Alpha at the medical school. Keegan and Don Kasprzak ’51 about who was the enemy, the em- Ontario. will be similarly celebrated. Any while the leader was visiting New Collaborative Research, published so crowded. I said, ‘Because you’re “Wilma and I have been blessed P&S. We had a freshman crew that phasis on body counts and the Viet My wife, Audrey Evans (88), present-day infirmities should not York. He had employed a court in 1991. the best doctor in New York?’ with three children and nine made a grown man cry — Hugh Cong’s use of women, children and fell twice during the summer; she deter your attendance. Canes, walk- order, based on Castro’s alleged An accomplished pianist, Rudi “He answered, ‘That may be grandchildren. Our granddaugh- Glendon was our heavyweight the elderly as combatants all con- suffered an ulnar fracture of the ers and wheelchairs will be readily debt to him for services rendered. served for six years on the board true, but it’s not the reason there’s ter, Ruth Kjelgaard Foreman (B.S. crew coach. Unbelievably, we tributed to combat actions about right wrist, multiple bruises and accommodated. More details about Stranded without transportation, of The Music School of Delaware such a crowd.’ from Penn, Ph.D. from MIT and morphed into a 1943 depleted which veterans felt severe guilt. lacerations that required suturing. the events will follow in the next Castro accepted the offer of Nikita (2,000 students) and wrote a series “‘Maybe you’re the cheapest M.D. from Harvard) has blessed us squad that beat the undepleted “How the veteran experienced She is now steadier on her feet issue. Krushchev of a Soviet aircraft to of piano pieces published in a doctor in New York? That’s surely with a great-granddaughter (2).” Navy. the combat events — i.e., the mean- when walking with a cane. I welcome submissions recalling take him home. Verification of this volume titled Mel Bay Presents Fun false; I give up,’ I said. Recently, Roy Kallop ’46 and I “With my first and second ing of the combat experience to the In August we went to Chicago, fond memories of the College in international incident can be found Pieces for the Piano. Never one to “He replied, ‘Because I’m the had a pleasant discussion about wives, now both deceased, I raised veteran — was the key factor in where Audrey accepted an award the 1940s and/or reports on your in the obituary for my old NYU be idle, Rudi has enjoyed playing only doctor in New York. Every- our days both at Yonkers H.S. and eight children and lost one grown determining the nature of the guilt for her role in founding the Ronald piano with various jazz groups. body else is in the Hamptons.’ at the College. Midway through son. I had two careers. I helped and the risk for suicidal behavior. McDonald House Charities 39 (Perhaps we can persuade him “The late Lenny Koppett his Columbia studies, Roy joined build highways — New Jersey ‘Meaning of combat’ refers to years ago. They are “homes away to entertain at the 70th reunion.) decided one day that he wanted to the Navy, went to Naval Station Turnpike, Massachusetts Turnpike, the subjective, often unconscious from home” where children and An accomplished pianist, Rudolph Carboni ’44 For the past 10 years, he has been live in Palo Alto, and he persuaded Great Lakes in Illinois, and served Garden State Parkway, Richmond perception of the traumatic event; their families can be sheltered served for six years on the board of The Music attending classes and occasion- The New York Times that the paper for 1½ years in the Pacific on the Petersburg Turnpike and so on. it includes the affective state of the when in- or outpatient hospital ally teaching courses in American would save money if he covered William C. Miller, a destroyer escort, From the ’70s to the ’90s I worked veteran before the event took place, visits are required. There are now School of Delaware and has enjoyed playing with literature (“The Short Stories of western events from there instead returning to Columbia to earn a in automotive retail. Most of the when it took place, and the affects more than 300 in more than 40 na- various jazz groups. Ernest Hemingway” and “Best of flying from New York, so I saw a bachelor’s. He also earned a mas- career was in sales management. experienced subsequently. Recur- tions around the globe. American Short Stories”) at the lot of him during the eight or nine ter’s from NYU. During his career Now, I sell collectible stuff on eBay! rent nightmares are a cardinal Also in August, Audrey and I Osher Lifelong Learning Institute years that I hibernated at Stanford. as an actuary, Roy was v.p. of the “I am in my 90th year. I would symptom of PTSD. They are an visited Camp Ronald McDonald — Wilmington at the University I was so proud that in general National Council on Compensa- like to hear any news anyone cares invaluable tool in determining the for Good Times, a children’s camp current activities. I have the follow- friend in The New York Times, dated of Delaware. Recently, Rudi co- intelligence (not technical knowl- tion Insurance, after which he to pass along.” meaning of the experience to the she initiated 27 years ago. It is in ing vivid personal recollections of March 18, 2013. authored Shadows in the Lotus Pool, edge, of course) he was as smart as retired. He is a lifelong resident of northeast Pennsylvania near Greeley. the academic side of life: My second recollection is of a a memoir about his co-author’s anybody in that community, spoke Yonkers and enjoys life, notwith- Children dealing with cancer, The first is of a 1942 course, one-point elementary course, “Phi- father and the father’s close clearly and wisely, and so on.” standing a partial loss of eyesight. whether cured or still under therapy, “Geology s7, Maps,” taught by losophy 13, Philosophy in Morals, but turbulent relationship with I receive emails from Dan Choy, Roy recalls the sage advice given CCT welcomes Charles Gilman ’45 as a class corre- can spend a week in a wonderfully Professor Armin K. Lobeck, the Religion, Art,” taught by Professor China’s President Chiang Kai-shek who can best be described by one to him by head track coach Carl spondent. Looking back on his time at the College, run summer camp. No matter what leading geologist of his day. The Irwin Edman (Class of 1916), who as a member of his inner circle word: indefatigable. He continues Merner: “Always remember, your the disability, whether it be loss of concluding session was a field was the eminent head of the phi- during the emergence of modern his intense work to market his studies come first.” he recalls being “very proud of my freshman cap.” a limb or other disfigurement, the trip to a festive rendezvous in losophy department. I anticipated a China. The book was published device to relieve suffers of tinnitus, Finally, we note, sadly, the pass- child is looked on simply as another New Jersey. We were divided into deep, rather complex presentation in the United States in 2011 and “ringing in the ears” to the lay ing of Joseph Barata. camper. Siblings also may attend, groups of three, each threesome from Professor Edman, who was translated into Chinese and then person. Paul Lewis lives in Plano, Texas. veteran and the veteran’s risk of carrying out the concept of “total starting from a different location. one of the creators of Contemporary published in serial form by a I received a letter from Dr. Martin He writes, “Unfortunately, I lost suicidal behavior. care” initiated by the late, great My group included an enrollee Civilization and who was widely Taiwanese literary magazine in Beller ’46 P&S, retired and living in Charles Gilman my wife to cancer in 2010. My two “The nightmares of most veter- Dr. Sidney Farber. He taught that from NYU, Erwin G. Harris, who quoted for his brilliant observations. 2012. Never single-minded, Rudi Gaines, Pa. He began by thanking 1635 Forge Pond Rd. daughters are married and live in ans with PTSD correspond closely a family with a sick child is a sick by coincidence was a friend from Thus, I was pleasantly surprised has had a number of his poems me for becoming the ’44 correspon- 45 Brick, NJ 08724 the Dallas area. My son, who has with the combat experiences and family and that all family members Yonkers. Each trio was furnished when in the first class, discussing published in poetry magazines. dent, adding, “Your tenure will not charles.gilman@ three boys, lives in Austin. I am, the terror over being killed that they need help, care and understanding with aerial photographs of the sur- logic, he said: “All flubjubs are It has been almost 74 years be as long as Walter Wager’s for comcast.net of course, retired. My passion is engender. Veterans with severe guilt to mitigate the problems and stresses rounding area to enable us to reach dingbats. This is a flubjub. There- since Rudi and I graduated from obvious age-related reasons.” getting out information on how to over their combat experiences are they undergo. our meeting place. fore it is a dingbat.” Yonkers H.S., and I am pleased Martin continued, “Recent deaths [Editor’s note: CCT welcomes prevent cancer. I am program chair- likely to have punitive nightmares We have had several houseguests We took the Yonkers Ferry (now My third recollection is of an that in his 90s he is definitely not a include my CC ’44 and P&S ’46 Charles Gilman as the new CC man of a local veterans group.” and are at highest risk for suicide. including a family of four from defunct) across the Hudson to elementary physics course taught couch potato. classmates, Dr. Richard E. Bader ’45 class correspondent. The notes “A veteran [whom we’ll call G] Taiwan, the son of a colleague from Alpine, N.J. We were supposed to by Professor John R. Dunning, Alan Hoffman accepted my and Dr. Robert L. Rosenthal. Bob below arrived at the CCT office be- who had made a serious suicide at- New Zealand and a Panamanian follow the long ascending road to who also taught the University’s invitation to recall memorable and I also were classmates at PS 6 in fore his tenure, but going forward, Bernard Sunshine tempt had, under the stress of com- friend who came for a day. CC the top of the Palisades, thence to most advanced physics course and events and emailed the following: Manhattan and the Horace Mann please contact Charles directly 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G bat, lost control of his anger and ’43ers are always welcome at Casa proceed to our destination. How- who became dean of the Engineer- “Dan Hoffman ’47, ’56 GSAS, the School. with news about yourself, your 46 New York, NY 10023 directed artillery fire into a village D’Angio/Evans. ever, Erwin insisted that we save ing School. Professor Dunning famous poet, was originally in “Wilma G. Kjelgaard and I family, your career and/or your [email protected] he knew to be friendly. Through In sad news, David Norr, a finan- time and shorten our trip by scal- subsequently gained worldwide our class, and I knew him slightly celebrated our 66th wedding an- travels, or even to share a favorite his binoculars, G had watched with cial analyst, investment adviser and ing the Palisades. Halfway up, we recognition for his critical contribu- (some classes had alphabetical niversary on June 29. We returned College memory. You can contact Herbert Hendin has devoted much excitement as the shells landed. As CPA who lived in Scarsdale, N.Y., encountered a precipitous portion tions to the development of atomic seating plans). Once, when he was to her hometown in Gaines, Pa., in Charles at either the email or postal of his career in psychiatry to suicide the village was being destroyed he died on August 19, 2012. rivaling the sheerness of the White energy and the atomic bomb. His already famous in his profession, I 1987 after I practiced orthopedic address above, or you can send prevention; he is the CEO and med- saw an old woman with betel nut Cliffs of Dover. An avalanche work was based primarily in Co- read in the newspaper that he was surgery in Philadelphia 1952–87. news directly to him online using ical director of Suicide Prevention stains on her teeth running in his ensued, causing bruises and blood- lumbia’s Pupin Physics Laboratory. chairman of a committee awarding My early retirement was prompted CCT’s webform: college.columbia. Initiatives. A major focus of Herb’s direction, shaking her arms trying REUNION WEEKEND shed to the three of us. Then, two Little did we appreciate at the time prizes for poems (or poets, I forget by Felix DeMartini ’43, ’46 P&S, edu/cct/submit_class_note.] work has been on suicide among to get him to stop the shelling. As MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 New Jersey policemen appeared the thrust of his lectures, in which which). So I sent him a letter con- my medical school classmate, who America’s military and veterans, she ran toward him, she was killed ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS at the top; they bawled us out and he frequently hinted at the mag- gratulating him for being a maven made a similar choice. Charles Gilman writes: “I entered and he shares these thoughts: by an artillery round. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott told us to stay put till they could nitude of scientific progress that of bards, but he never answered. “The later years in Class Notes Columbia College in fall 1941 as “In recent years more U.S. mili- “After he returned to the United [email protected] come back with a rope. Not want- would later envelop the world and “At the time, Walter Wager was in Columbia College Today do not C. Malcolm Gilman Jr. The day tary personnel and combat veterans States, G was tormented by a 212-851-9148 ing to be arrested and fearing an the Class of 1944. I recall how he writing the Class Notes. I wrote include the things we thought after Labor Day in 1942 my name are dying by suicide than are killed painful recurring nightmare that DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova “F” for the course, we ignored their reviewed great scientific achieve- him at one point about his sensitiv- interesting and important when I was changed by the Army to in combat. Post-traumatic stress expressed his intense guilt over the [email protected] admonition and somehow climbed ments and how he predicted that ity to the mores of mathematicians, entered Columbia as a 16-year-old Charles M. Gilman Jr. but Colum- disorder is the condition most asso- destruction of the village. In the 212-851-7833 up. We arrived at our destination they would be dwarfed by the a ‘sacerdotal’ community. He wrote in fall 1940. I enjoyed working on bia and my friends ignored that. ciated with suicide in both groups. dream he is captured by the villag- Bill Friedman late, bloody but unbowed, to the then-embryonic stages of scientific back that he was proud to have a Spectator’s Business Board, ending It only matters that after the war I Most military personnel and vet- ers and paraded so that the villagers 833-B Heritage Hills cheers of our classmates. (We also advances. classmate who could use the word with a Gold Crown as circulation used my Army name. erans with PTSD, however, are not could throw stones at him, hit him, 44 Somers, NY 10589 learned that another trio, which I heard from Rudolph Carboni, ‘sacerdotal’ in a sentence. manager. I was elected to Nacoms “I was very proud of my fresh- at risk of suicide. Persistent severe spit on him and curse him. The old [email protected] was on the George Washington who after graduation worked for “My first wife was a patient of in 1943. Acceleration gave me my man cap. I remember being startled guilt over combat experiences is woman with the betel nut-stained Bridge, had stopped to examine three years for Pfizer as a research the late Richie Bader. Once during B.A. with honors in 1944 after by electrolytes in chemistry — why the major factor differentiating teeth is taunting him. He knows Please bear in mind that our 70th the aerial photos; when one of chemist. He then earned a Ph.D. a summer I went with her to the completing the first year at P&S. I had I never heard of them? Why veterans who had attempted sui- they are going to kill him. reunion is almost upon us (Thurs- them jokingly began speaking in in chemistry at MIT, which was Baders’ office (run by Richie and continued medical school March did I not know ancient philoso- cide and those who were seriously “Understanding the subjective, day, May 29–Sunday, June 1), a rare German, law enforcement officials followed by a 35-year career as his brother, the late Morty Bader), 1943–March 1946; I was the young- phers discoursed subjects common preoccupied with suicide from perceptive experience of combat opportunity to meet up again after quickly apprehended them, with a research chemist in the Central which was not far from the Met- est member of my class, receiving to us? So much to learn and so little those veterans who were neither. to the veteran is a crucial step to all these years. Tom Brokaw called the result that they never reached Research Department at DuPont. ropolitan Museum of Art. It was my M.D. one month before my time. We knew what was coming. This first became a problem in the success in treating these veter- us “The Greatest Generation,” and their appointed target.) This culminated in a series of crowded, with about 30 people 22nd birthday. Studies came first “In Hartley Hall, I had some Vietnam War. ans. A core of trust between the

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 56 57

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES veteran and the therapist needs to unteered, and the community’s high again and again and again. cardiomyopathy (ARVC). NIH the meantime, please share news skiing accident last spring (see Fall of 1952. please share news about yourself, be established for this to take place. regard of him, are evident by the recently awarded him $1.4 million about yourself, your family, your 2013 Class Notes), is rarin’ to go The task was overwhelming that your family, your career and/or Even when that trust has been awards and distinctions that were “Dwell on the gift of memories: to study genetics, mechanisms and career and/or your travels, or even again as a host at the Stowe Moun- June because I had only 10 days to your travels, or send a favorite Col- established, veterans may not be bestowed on him through the years. it is the one true possession phenotypes of arrhythmogenic a favorite College memory, using tain Resort near Mount Mansfield, get my first column to the editor. lege memory to [email protected]. willing or able to reveal the combat In recognition of his service as an that tells what trials and felicities cardiomyopathies. either the email or postal address and he extends an invitation to all However, I managed to do a fairly You also can send news online using experience that is most disturbing alumnus, Bernie was awarded the we passed through to become who Frank, professor emeritus at The at the top of the column. You also class members. Just ask for “host good job on my initial endeavor. CCT’s webform: college.columbia. to them right away. Columbia Alumni Medal in 2006. we are, University of Arizona’s College of can send news online using CCT’s Bud Kassel” and he will treat you Five years have passed quickly, edu/cct/submit_class_note. “The veteran needs to forgive that will sustain us as we try to Medicine, Division of Cardiology webform: college.columbia.edu/ to the lift ticket. and it has been a gratifying experi- himself for the behavior that confront and Sarver Heart Center, is a princi- cct/submit_class_note. Irving Kushner, although ence. Speaking to many classmates triggered his guilt that is being Columbia College Today the waning tomorrows with a head-on pal investigator for the multicenter This column is a wonderful way nominally retired as professor of who have accomplished wonderful Lew Robins expressed in a self-punitive way. Columbia Alumni Center fortitude; study. He is a world authority on for the class to stay connected and medicine at Case Western, is still ac- objectives in their respective fields 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 When the veteran feels relief at 47 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and as you recall your labored journey, ARVC and received the Euro- we, and your classmates, want to tive. Irv, who has had a long career has given me uplifting admiration 53 Bridgeport, CT 06604 having shared the experience with New York, NY 10025 may it be with some fair measure of pean Cardiac Arrhythmia Society’s hear from you! in medical research, was invited to not only for our classmates but also [email protected] a trusted therapist, that therapist is [email protected] gratitude.’’ Outstanding Achievement Award deliver a lecture at the annual meet- for Columbia College and the part in a position to help — to give him in 2011. That same year, he received ing of the American College of Phy- that it played in our lives. After reading in The New York REUNION WEEKEND ‘permission’ to forgive himself, to Dr. Nicholas Giosa last wrote in a August 14–17, 2010 the Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing and sicians last April in San Francisco. However, being informed of Times that President Barack Obama MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 work with the therapist to resolve year ago (see Winter 2012–13). He Electrophysiology Award from the The title of his lecture was “Making the various illnesses and declining ’83 had nominated Jeh C. Johnson ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS problems that have developed in writes this time around: “At 88, George L. Kline Ph.D. ’50 GSAS Heart Rhythm Society. The Most of Those Rheumatology health of many of our once-vigor- ’82L to be the next secretary of the ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott the course of the illness and to go I’m a widower. Have three sons, shares, “In the ‘bad old days’ According to a press release Tests.” In addition, two of Irv’s ous classmates, and the passing of Department of Homeland Secu- [email protected] on with his life. Guilt is a healthy oldest graduated from Columbia (1950s–80s), my writings on Rus- Frank sent to CCT, “A significant papers on medical history were too many others, has left me with rity, I telephoned our own Jeh V. 212-851-9148 human emotion that can be harm- (CC ’76) and twins graduated from sian and Soviet philosophy and cause of sudden cardiac death in published in medical journals last some sadness. Time can be healing Johnson to congratulate him on his DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova ful when it is self-punitive but it the United States Naval Academy. on Marxist-Leninist ideology and people under age 35, [ARVC] affects summer. “The 4 Humors and Eryth- but time is also the promoter and son’s prestigious nomination. [email protected] can also be a powerful force for Presently, avidly involved with po- policy were harshly attacked by about one in 1,000 people. It primar- rocyte Sedimentation: The Most partner in deterioration. As we talked, I became increas- 212-851-7833 changing the direction of one’s life. etry, photography and maintaining certain Soviet scholars. Now one ily affects the heart muscle in the Influential Observation in Medical It has been a privilege and an ingly fascinated by events in Jeh’s “Although we see many veterans the household. of them, Professor Michael Maslin, right ventricle, causing potentially John Weaver History” appeared in The American honor to have done this work for life. For example, his father became of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan “Fondest memory of Columbia: much changed in philosophic fatal ventricular arrhythmias.” 2639 E. 11th St. Journal of the Medical Sciences (Au- five years and, yes, it has involved the first black president of Fisk with PTSD similar to the Vietnam Professor Dick, who taught outlook, has offered to translate into The five-year project is a RO1 49 Brooklyn, NY 11235 gust 2013); “The Crown of a Good work. But the rewards to me have University. “In those days,” Jeh veterans, the picture is complicated. Humanities in 1942 and later was Russian an article of mine, ‘The Rise NIH grant. Frank will work with [email protected] Name: W. Barry Wood, Jr., and been worth it. explained, “when black people The multiple tours of combat my instructor in a creative writing and Fall of Soviet “Orthographic Dr. Julia H. Indik, who will be Daniel Nathans” was published in increase the exposure to combat course on poetry. I still have the Atheism’” (2009), as well as an in charge of the diagnostic core A gloomy, rainy night just before The Pharos (Summer 2013). stress and add significant stress to poems. He was old school: courtly, extended account of my scholarly lab to evaluate right ventricular the autumnal equinox finds your Bernie Prudhomme marked the family and personal relationships. always wore a vest with a fob; work. (My title refers to the Soviet angiograms in enrolled patients to correspondent searching his files end of his first year of residence in Bob Goldsby ’50’s book, Molière on Stage: What’s So Casualties in the war in Iraq were always gentle and affirmative with practice of writing Bog [‘God’] as be certain they have ARVC. for a note or two worth relaying. Thomson, Ga., with the observa- Funny, was selected this year by Choice for its list of largely due to improvised explosive his critiques. I cherish his memory. bog [‘god’], Gospod’ [Lord], as The goal is to provide consistent Alas, my efforts are to no avail. tion that he doesn’t miss the big devices (IEDs), which were respon- “Here is a poem I wrote: gospod’ [‘lord’], etc.) I have checked diagnostic analyses of patients I can only report that Fred Berman city (Atlanta), where he resided for Outstanding Academic Titles. sible for the number of traumatic his translations and find them to be and family members with right has been in touch regarding initial 43 years. brain injuries (TBI) that have re- A Brief Admonishment to Myself readable as well as accurate. Both of ventricular and left ventricular planning for our 65th reunion (see Al Schmitt, who commented in sulted from that war. Veterans with them are scheduled to appear soon cardiomyopathy. The study also dates and Alumni Office contacts the Fall 2013 Class Notes that he I thank the CCT editors for all came to visit Fisk, they stayed in TBI are also more vulnerable to I looked at myself in the mirror, in a publication celebrating the 70th seeks a better understanding of the above). We are a thinning but “can’t stand being retired,” found their help. Lots of good luck to the our home because they could not suicide. Guilt over combat actions, and said, “Old man, at eighty-five, anniversary of Maslin’s Department genetics, molecular basis and clini- plucky and stalwart group. Our some relief from the tedium when classmate who will succeed me in stay at any of the white-only hotels however, is less likely to be an issue do not allow pity to be your of the History of Russian Philoso- cal characteristics of these patients voice is still strong and if our hearts he and his wife, Joan, traveled writing this column. Your reporter in Nashville. The white professors for those veterans with TBI. In often shadow-companion or your guide; you, phy at Moscow State University.” and progression of the disease over keep up, we will have a joyous to College Park, Pa., to see their also wishes all the members of and colleagues who came to see exhibiting aggressive emotional a physician who tended so many at Thank you to Nicholas and time. celebration. Make it your priority! oldest grandchild graduate from the Class of 1952 good health and my father usually slept at one of behavior that is out of control, how- the time George for writing in! Norman Kelvin Ph.D. ’60 GSAS In the meantime, in the hope Penn State. good luck. the Nashville hotels, except for ever, they have much in common of their impending demise; you, CCT needs a class correspondent is Distinguished Professor of Eng- that winter finds you all in a warm Sad to report, Donald R. Law- Now, for an update: Dean Harry J. Carman [(Class of with the veterans with PTSD who so aware to write this column. If you are in- lish Emeritus, CUNY. “I continue to place, surrounded by love for the rence of New York died in June On behalf of Jack Ripperger, 1919 GSAS)]. Dean Carman stayed are suicidal.” of the trajectory of this tale terested, please contact Alexis Tonti write essays and reviews,” he says. holiday season and hope for the 2013. his wife, Kathryn Lodal, writes, in our home. When he learned that You can read more about Her- that mewls at its inception, ’11 Arts, managing editor: alt2129@ We heard from Fred Messner of New Year, I send my greetings. “Jack and Kathryn celebrated 45 I was interested in going to college bert in the Spring 2012 issue. struts at its pinnacle columbia.edu or 212-851-7485. In Woodcliff Lake, N.J. At 87, he’s still I also write these words with the years of marriage in May 2013 to study architecture, the dean From Post Falls, Idaho, John and then drools at its conclusion; the meantime, please share news working, as president of Messner anticipation that as the days grow George Koplinka with a trip from their home in San suggested I apply to Columbia. I McConnell wrote about a four-day slog through your apprehensions about yourself, your family, your Marketing Communications, an ad longer again, as inevitably they 75 Chelsea Rd. Diego to NYC for their 8-year-old took his advice and happily spent family reunion in Pullman, Wash., as you face each passing interval, career and/or your travels, or even agency he runs with his wife, Violet, will, you will find time to let us 51 White Plains, NY 10603 granddaughter Lauren’s first com- the next four years on Morningside that celebrated his mother’s birth and whatever your allotted time, a favorite College memory, using and son, v.p. Kenneth ’87 GS. The hear from you. [email protected] munion. They always enjoy time Heights.” 125 years ago (1888). John’s grand- embrace either of the addresses at the top of agency is a B-to-B firm handling in New York with Lauren and her Through the years, Jeh traveled parents homesteaded in Pullman as it with an air of quiet dignity. the column. You also can send news non-consumer companies. Fred and I’m afraid we didn’t receive any sister, Norah (4), and their adult to towns and cities across the coun- wheat ranchers. Sixty members of online using CCT’s webform: Violet have three other children, Mario Palmieri news in our class mailbox, virtual children, Lisa ’92 TC and Matthew try looking for black churches and the family from multiple time zones “Continue with your daily chores college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ Steven ’73, Lynne and Katherine; 33 Lakeview Ave. W. or otherwise, this time around. ’94. Upon their return to San determining their history. “Some as far west as Wake Island attended and rituals: as you cut the grass, class_note. five grandchildren; and two great- 50 Cortlandt Manor, NY Please don’t be shy! Your class- Diego, Jack fell and fractured a ver- of the churches in the South were the celebration. The festive gather- hang your wet laundry on your frayed This column is a wonderful way grandchildren (2-year-old twin 10567 mates want to hear from you. You tebra. After six weeks of hospital built from the pennies, nickels and ing included another Columbian, clothesline and parade a canvas for the class to stay connected, and boys). [email protected] can write me at either address at and rehab, he is doing well.” dimes that black people raised,” John’s brother, David ’48. of assorted shorts and underwear, we, and your classmates, want to Fred also plays piano as well the top of the column, or use CCT’s CCT thanks Sid Prager for his Jeh said. “Other churches were I regret reporting the death of shirts, socks and other sundry goods, hear from you! as teaches it and composes for it. Bob Goldsby’s book, Molière handy webform: college.columbia. service to the magazine and to the built from funds that were raised Robert Capon, an Episcopal priest, to the afternoon sun, the drying air He’s proud to announce that his on Stage: What’s So Funny, was edu/cct/submit_class_note. In College. Class Notes help connect, by people taking out second mort- author and freelance writer on food and too, the immediate neighborhood. chamber music piece “More or Less selected this year by Choice, a pe- the meantime, best wishes for a and reconnect, classmates to one gages on their homes.” and wine for The New York Times Tend to your tomato plants and your Columbia College Today Merengué” was played in Novem- riodical for academic and research bright holiday season and a happy, another as well as to the school Jeh’s stories of memorable and Newsday. He wrote 27 books, solitude, as your father used to do. Columbia Alumni Center ber in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital libraries, for its list of Outstanding healthy New Year. that played a part in shaping them. events in his life are fascinating. including the highly acclaimed 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Hall by the trio Palisades Virtuosi Academic Titles. In addition to his Class correspondents perform a Keep up the good work! The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary “Enjoy your spare meals with your New York, NY 10025 and featured the flute, clarinet and literary effort Bob is active in the valuable service for classmates as Dick Lempert sent the follow- Reflection,which became a Modern unfailing [email protected] piano. theatre world. He recently partici- Sidney Prager well as for the College, and Sid ing obituary for a delightful friend Library Paperback. glass of wine. Cherish your weekly Thanks to Frank, Norman and pated in a seminar on Corneille, a 20 Como Ct. Prager filled this role admirably for and fraternity brother, Francis I am also sorry to advise the pass- get-togethers Dr. Frank I. Marcus is a principal Fred for getting in touch! 17th-century French playwright, at 52 Manchester, NJ 08759 the past five years. P. King ’59L, who passed away ing of Bernard Goldman in October. when you dine with the few old friends investigator on a National Institutes CCT needs a class correspondent Antaeus, a classical theater in Los [email protected] The column now needs a new on July 19, 2013: “Francis King, a Notes from Bernie in Lakewood, that remain, of Health study seeking a better un- to write this column. If you are in- Angeles where Bob also recently writer. If you are interested, please prominent tax attorney in Denver, Colo., appeared frequently in this as you rehash old yesterdays, derstanding of the genetics, molecu- terested, please contact Alexis Tonti directed Cyrano de Bergerac in a In June 2008 your reporter took on contact Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts, manag- spent many happy years with his column. His love of Colorado’s recite and renew current aches lar basis and clinical manifestations ’11 Arts, managing editor: alt2129@ staged reading. the responsibility of writing the ing editor, at [email protected] friends and family hiking and ski- mountains where he skied and vol- and pains, of arrhythmogenic right ventricular columbia.edu or 212-851-7485. In Bud Kassel, healed after his Class Notes column for our Class or 212-851-7485. In the meantime, ing in neighboring mountains.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 58 59

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

“As a first-year Law School When Suzette came on the lege. I understand this reunion will This area is headed by two of our Kirtman might give Abbe and his please send your contact information Berkeley; we saw him and his wife, come Giora, who last visited a class student, Francis was a member phone, I learned that she grew up include opportunities to visit new more creative and idea-generating wife the good-neighborly tour. to me: [email protected]. Helen, in San Francisco. We trav- lunch in Midtown three years ago. of a group of four close friends in the same town as Saralee and my facilities on Morningside Heights as minds: Trustee Emeritus Richard Jim Hudson has been working On August 29, I attended a eled to San Jose to spend the day Len Wolfe, our class historian, — the others were Harry Brey, brother-in-law, Seymour Hendel. well as farther uptown, including E. Witten ’75 and Director for En- on his MBO (Member-Based Or- meeting at the Alumni Office, with Bill and his wife, Gesine. Due recently moved with his wife, Ruth, Dick Lempert and Frank Walwer “Seymour was in second grade the Campbell Sports Center at the trepreneurship Chris McGarry. The ganizations) project and promises housed in the Columbia Alumni to Bill’s Parkinson’s they moved from his long-term residence in Wil- ’52 — who took turns preparing when I was in first grade,” Suzette Baker Athletics Complex. potential and interest level was evi- to give an update shortly — he Center on West 113th Street from their lovely home in the hills ton, Conn., to New Haven, Conn. lunches on a small, hidden stove recalled. “As a matter of fact, With help from the Alumni dent at a lecture given in mid-Sep- reports, though, that progress has between Broadway and Riverside above Los Gatos to a home on one Two of our class members in one of the dorm rooms. Writing Seymour scolded me for talking too Office and the leadership of our tember by Twitter co-founder Jack been made. If anyone wants to Drive. In attendance were Ralph level. However, they still have an recently had books published. about himself for a 50th reunion loud and warned that if I wasn’t class president, Bernd Brecher, Dorsey; more than 900 students, know more, contact your trusted Kaslick, Al Franco ’56E and active life. Together we saw the film Alan Press said an expanded directory, Francis said, ‘I have quiet, the teacher was going to write our Reunion Committee has been faculty, alumni and administrators correspondent. myself, along with Sydney Maisel, about the Metropolitan Opera’s version of his North Korean article, the dubious distinction of having my name on the blackboard. Sure formed and is planning events. At packed Roone Arledge Auditorium On Saturday, March 1, the battle our Columbia College Fund enormous set for Wagner’s operas. “What’s a Smart(?) Jewish Boy from been taught evidence by our enough, our teacher wrote both our this point the committee includes in Lerner Hall. for New England will take place, representative, and Jackie Morton, “Last year, after many, many Brooklyn Doing in a Place Like classmate and future president names on the board.” Bernd and myself along with Herb Another area that shows terrific when the Light Blue cagers face the a Planned Giving representative. years, I got in touch with Gordon North Korea?” with photographs, of the University, Mike Sovern. After I gave Suzette our address, Frommer, Leo Cirino, Saul Turtel­ potential is online learning. The Harvard Crimson in Cambridge. The discussion focused on how our Osmond, the first classmate I met has been published online by I raised four wonderful children she added, “Seymour was a truly taub, Kamel Bahary, Richard University has entered into a pilot We expect a big alumni gathering contributions are used and some during Freshman Week. Gordon World Voices Web del sol. If you are and claim seven grandchildren. I kind boy.” Bernstein, Norman Kahn, Richard agreement with an online platform at both the reception and the bas- of the factors that determine how now lives in Brazil with his interested in reading about Alan’s remarried eight years ago to my Anthony Robinson writes, “I Kameros, Ron Sugarman, Al called Coursera. In addition, there ketball game. We’ll be looking for they can be allocated. It is interest- partner. He is a successful author, fascinating trip and the reasons he beautiful wife, Susan, and picked read that the reunion [this past Thompson, John Timoney, Herb is a University-wide review of Eddie Goldberg, Harold Kushner, ing to know that we are able to among other accomplishments. went, type “Web del sol Alan Press” up two beautiful daughters in the June] was very nice, a fine gather- Hagerty, Al Hellerstein, Arnold digital learning under way. Mike Vaughn, Walt Flanagan, designate our gifts for a specific process.’” ing. Sorry to have missed it. (I’m Tolkin, Bob Weber and Dick Columbia Connects (formerly Bernie Chasan, Sandy Autor, purpose — for example, the Core Francis’ infectious enthusiasm feeling a lot better.) I’m coming out Werksman. CAA Worldwide Networking) Kenny Parker, Guy Whitfield, or scholarships — within the Col- Lary Faris ’55 was honored at the 100th anniversary will be sorely missed. [Editor’s with a book called New Water, a We would be more than happy took place in the fall, allowing Herb Cooper, Nick Avery, Nelson lege Fund. Gifts to athletics teams note: See Obituaries, Fall 2013.] collection of short stories I’ve writ- to have additional volunteers to alumni around the world the Nordquist and Ralph Wagner. count toward College Fund totals of the USA National Shuffleboard Association. In a telephone conversation, ten through the years.” help with this wonderful gathering. chance to network. An NYC event A sad note to report: the pass- in reunion years. As always, I en- Henry Villaume reported that Having enjoyed Tony’s novels, Please let Bernd know if you would was held in a nice cozy retreat, ing of Ronald Corn and Ludwig courage classmates, if so inclined, he has not allowed 13 or 14 heart I’m looking forward to perusing like to be active in this way; he can Pranna, in downtown Manhattan Dosch. Condolences go to their to support the College Fund. You He has written Wet Firecrackers: into your browser’s search box. I still attacks to stop him from being an his short stories. be contacted by email at brecher in late September. Other events families and friends. can give by credit card at college. The Unauthorized Autobiography of hope to have Alan host one of our active curmudgeon of conserva- [email protected] or by phone at were held concurrently throughout My fellow classmates: columbia.edu/giveonline or by Gordon Osmond, which is highly class lunches and discuss his trip. tive political philosophy. As a 914-961-4101. the country and around the world. Our 60th is just around the cor- calling 212-851-7488; alternately, amusing. Some of his reminis- Arthur Bank writes, “My new REUNION WEEKEND member of his town’s school I am certain that this coming Not only is Columbia doing ner and moving closer (Thursday, mail a check, payable to Columbia cences of our days at Columbia book, Searching for the Best Medicine: MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 board, he was able to cut $600,000 reunion will be a source of both joy well in the U.S. News & World May 28–Sunday, May 31, 2015). College Fund, to Columbia College are quite interesting. Gordon also The Life and Times of a Doctor and ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS from the school budget. As we and pride. Report rankings and in admissions, Plans will be developed shortly Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, recently published his debut novel, Patient, is now published. You can ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott reminisced about our days at Joe Pomerantz, a retired dentist, but membership at the Columbia to make this Alumni Reunion 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., Slipping on Stardust. preview quite a lot of it on Amazon. [email protected] Columbia, Henry indicated that and his wife, Carol, enjoy their life University Club of New York in Weekend the most enjoyable and New York, NY 10025. “I play tennis three days a week Writing the book was a good 212-851-9148 he was going to write a book of in Florida, which includes volunteer midtown is at an all-time high and significant ever. Jerry Breslow, whose piano and see Frank Neuberger at least chance for me to think about my DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova political essays. Unfortunately, he work, golf, tennis and “the summer growing rapidly. Make your reservations now — playing and singing we enjoyed at once a month for poker. If anyone life: my experience with cancer, my [email protected] hasn’t found a publisher with a rain.” Joe had a close relationship As for our classmates, Bob Tho- you won’t be disappointed. our 50th reunion, has written the visits D.C. and has the inclination childhood and my family’s pretzel 212-851-7833 conservative point of view that is with Mort Cohen, a retired dentist nus informed us that his former Most of all, we want you there. following to give us an update on to get in touch, please do (jerry@ bakery, my wonderful education in- willing to publish his manuscript. Howard Falberg in Bennington, Vt., who passed roomie, Lary Faris, was honored at Love to all! Everywhere! his life since then: breslow.org).” cluding the transformational experi- However, he assured me that if I 13710 Paseo Bonita away on September 24, 2013. the 100th anniversary of the USA “There have been some changes Larry Cohn and his wife, Judie, ence at Columbia College, and my gave my new address to his wife, 54 Poway, CA 92064 Please enjoy life and remain National Shuffleboard Association. in the lives of the Breslows. My continue their hectic travel sched- medical training and experience in Suzette, he would send along his [email protected] healthy so that we can meet one Lary has won many tournaments Stephen K. Easton wife, Harriet, and I were blessed ule. In May they went on a trip internal medicine and hematology. conservative texts. (My wife, Sara- another at our reunion. and is in the National Shuffleboard 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. with a grandchild, Jayna Rose that started in India and continued Writing gave me an opportunity to lee, and I recently moved; please In a short period of time, we will Hall of Fame. Bob was to make 56 Englewood, NJ 07631 Breslow — our first and probably on to Egypt, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, discuss medical care and treatment note our new address, at the top celebrate the 60th anniversary of a whirlwind tour back East this [email protected] our only — born in May 2011 to Qatar, Oman and Jordan (Petra). today along with other societal of the column.) our graduation from Columbia Col- Gerald Sherwin past fall (visiting his high school in our son, Jeff, and his wife, Amie. I In September they traveled to the problems that have emerged in the 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A New Jersey, among other places). In September, our first after-summer retired from the Board of Directors Ukraine, Romania and Hungary, past 55 years as we have seen our 55 New York, NY 10021 Barry Pariser shows up at various class luncheon was held at Faculty of the Strathmore Hall Foundation, and they plan to be in Africa Janu- society’s priorities change from [email protected] fencing reunions and lives in West House and was attended by Ron where I was for 11 years secretary ary–February 2014. more lofty goals to an overwhelm- Columbia School Designations Fishkill, N.Y. He has taken up Kapon, Mark Novick, Ralph and parliamentarian as well as I am another one of the traveling ing power of money.” There are quite a number of initia- piano (watch those hands!) and is Kaslick, Al Broadwin, Danny director. I continue to serve on its members of our class. My wife, John Garnjost, who recently In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia tives taking place on campus and working at the VA in Castle Point, Link and myself. It was good to nominating and governance com- Elke, and I spent a week this sum- visited NYC from South Carolina degrees from schools other than the College. overseas, and many are fed by the N.Y. Too bad Barry can’t find get back to the Columbia campus mittee. My service on the research mer cruising in Alaska and have with his wife, Janet, to celebrate his growth of the Columbia Global things to keep him busy. on what started off to be one of the review committee at Suburban trips planned for this fall and win- birthday, was able to schedule a Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Centers. A special gathering of You have a chance to cheer for nicest end-of-summer days. As we Hospital, a Johns Hopkins constitu- ter to Mexico. After the breathtak- tour of the Campbell Sports Center. Arts School of the Arts center leaders, led by VP for Global the old blue-and-white when the were enjoying our lunch and the ent, also continues. ing sights in Alaska, I encourage all He writes, “The planned use of the Barnard Barnard College Centers Safwan Masri, took place in men’s basketall team travels to interesting discussions that take “Five years ago I became class members who are traveling to unique architecture is most impres- Business Graduate School of Business New York in September to discuss Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to play place whenever we get together, a involved with the Maryland Clas- exotic places to share their experi- sive. Once inside the building, the CE School of Continuing Education strategies and activities related to the St. John’s Red Storm on Sat- downpour occurred. Fortunately, as sic Youth Orchestras (MCYO), a ences with us. various levels make sense.” Dental College of Dental Medicine growth opportunities. “Outstand- urday, December 28 (tickets may we lingered longer than we should Strathmore artistic partner (which Ed Botwinick reports that he has Happy birthday to John, and let’s ing” and “helpful” are two words be purchased at gocolumbialions. have, the rain stopped; thus, not performs at the Music Center at recovered from his back surgery, hope our athletics teams continue to E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and that would describe the meetings. com). Who will be making the only were we able to catch up on Strathmore), rewriting its articles is now fully active traveling and benefit with “Ws” as a result of this Applied Science Later in the month, key Univer- trek? Igou Allbray, Stan Friedman, our various summer activities but and bylaws. It is a 68-year-old is still flying. Ed is a trustee of the new facility. GS School of General Studies sity people paid a visit to Paris (Reid Donald Marcus, Alfred Gollomp we also got to spend an extra hour organization that provides talented Lamont-Doherty Earth Institute Again, please let me or Lou GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Hall) to celebrate world literature. and maybe even Joe Savino, Bob together. (It was also good for those student musicians from third grade Observatory and visits New York Hemmerdinger ([email protected]) J Graduate School of Journalism All lovers of literature, books and Schoenfeld and our captain, Ron of us who, not expecting rain, had to high school with opportunities to frequently in connection with know of any news that you would L School of Law writing were invited to the inaugural McPhee? Could we expect Dick not brought an umbrella.) perform with their peers from the Columbia-related activities. I hope like to share in Class Notes. Also Nursing School of Nursing Festival des Écrivains du Monde. Kuhn to put aside his law practice Our class lunches will continue Washington, D.C., area. I joined the his visits will coincide with one of if you have changed your email It was the result of a partnership to make an appearance? to be held monthly. We will vary the MCYO board a few years later, and our class lunches. or mailing address recently please P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons between Columbia and the brilliant By the way, Stanley Maratos ’53 venue between Faculty House on this past spring I became chairman Giora Ben-Horin works with his inform the CCT staff at college. PH Mailman School of Public Health library in Paris, La Bibliothèque sent belated get-well wishes to Ron campus and the Columbia Univer- of the board. Last year the kids son in the land investment/devel- columbia.edu/cct/contactus; this SIPA School of International and Public Affairs nationale de France. (Did someone after his stay in the hospital. Abbe sity Club of New York in Midtown. I performed at Carnegie Hall. opment and syndication business is part of our mission to connect all SW School of Social Work say: September in Paris?) Leban has passed the word that he encourage every class member who “In 2012, Harriet and I journeyed in Phoenix. He visits New York class members. TC Teachers College One of the hottest topics floating is now living in San Francisco. It’s lives in or is visiting the area to join to Northern California and visited occasionally and says he would like I wish everyone a healthy and around the school on Morning- not Wilmington, Del., but you can’t us. If you are not receiving my email Mel Eisenberg and Bill Schaffer. to attend one of our class lunches if enjoyable winter in whatever side Heights is entrepreneurship. have everything, I guess. Bernie notices about our luncheon dates, Mel teaches at the law school at UC it fits his schedule. We would wel- locale you may be spending it.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 60 61

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

Herman Levy — than the director of athletics. organized in 1958. According to an know, we actually had enough of my wife’s close friends. As my wife, Mireille, and I decided ‘one write the cookbook that I had been SUVs passing by. 57 7322 Rockford Dr. Fortunately, the Times sent a full- SVU leaflet, “The initiative came members of the ’58 [Spectator] man- family is dispersed geographically, more year’ would be enough, i.e., promising to write for 25 or so years. “Last year, before the Supreme Falls Church, VA 22043 time correspondent to cover football from Czech and Slovak intellectu- aging board to hold an editorial a week together was a rare treat.” we announced our impending retire- It is now in the editing phase, which Court’s decision on the Affordable [email protected] games. When I graduated, I vowed als living abroad during the time meeting. Ah, those were the good Ben Miller muses, “I have re- ments to our departments (Mireille is proving more difficult than the Care Act, I enjoyed an extended never to go to another college ath- when the communist regime in old days!” tired, officially, meaning that I have teaches French and Spanish at Le original writing. But I expect that it phone conversation with my fresh- Martin Brothers wrote to Stan letics event, Columbia or otherwise. Czechoslovakia had repudiated the Henry adds that, although offi- used that word with my family … Moyne College). We started making will be ready for publication in early man roommate, Norman Vieira, Barnett and a number of others. “Moving to Chicago shortly country’s historical traditions and cially retired, he is still active in the LOL. Up until now, I have been plans and negotiating with our 2014. Anyone who would like to who is retired from teaching law Stan shared the note with me, and thereafter, and then 25 years later suppressed free expression. The antiques and collectibles field and saying that there is still something respective administrations. We also read and critique an unedited chap- at the Southern Illinois Univer- now I share with you: “Thought to Newport Beach, Calif., made [SVU] wanted to provide a forum is a regular contributor of articles to do that I want to do. Well, there started planning the celebration of ter or two is welcome to write to me sity in Carbondale and lives in of you last evening [August 26] as that vow easy to follow. [Neverthe- for the free development of Czecho- and photo stories to Antique Toy are a lot of things to do that I want our 50th wedding anniversary, a and I’ll email a copy. My skin is thick Myrtle Beach, S.C. Norman, who Alan Brown and I were attending less] in late May 2013 I read in the slovak culture in exile and make the World Magazine and Old Toy Soldier. to do. I just won’t get paid for them dinner party for friends and relatives and I take criticism well.” You can published a detailed study of the a lecture and video presentation sports section of the local newspa- world aware of the Czech and Slo- His articles also have appeared in anymore. That means I am retired. to be held on June 29 (our wedding write Ronald at rmsommer2001@ politicization of the Supreme Court sponsored by the Columbia Alumni per that Columbia had won the Ivy vak cultural traditions, which date Maine Antique Digest and Antiques Right?” took place in Paris on June 28, 1963). yahoo.com. appointment process and has con- Association. The site of the Café League title in baseball and would back more than a millennium. Its and The Arts Weekly. In addition, he Alan Michael Gelb writes, “On “Exactly two weeks before the Pat Mullins writes, “Greetings siderable insight into the court, and Columbia Monday evening lectures be playing in Fullerton, not that far activities, as outlined in the original does appraisals of antique toys and the afternoon of September 11, a scheduled party, I had a heart at- from Bumpass, Va. … I am defi- I, who have no such insight, both has been changed from the PicNic away, in the NCAA eliminations. bylaws, consisted of supporting and was one of the principal organizers photograph was distributed of tack. I had none of the risk factors, nitely planning to be at reunion. … assumed that the court was likely Market & Cafe on Broadway to The pride I have always had in coordinating the educational, schol- and catalogers of the Sotheby’s’ President Barack Obama ’83 and had been checked regularly and so An update on my involvement in to overturn the act, given its recent the more comfortable Columbia Columbia and my love for it came arly, literary and artistic endeavors auction sale of The Forbes Galler- the First Lady, the Bidens and White on, so I didn’t know what to make Virginia politics: In June 2012 I was history and composition, but were Alumni Center, where about a to the fore and I was an eager spec- of the Czechoslovak intelligentsia ies’ collection of toy boats and toy House staff on the South Lawn of it. Mireille did, and got me to elected chairman of the Republi- proven wrong by events. dozen attendees listened to art tator at the [game] that Saturday. abroad. Subsequently, the [SVU] soldiers, which brought in nearly of the White House, observing a the hospital very quickly (one of can Party of Virginia for a second “Last fall, after attending a history professor Stephen Murray The Lions were losing 5–0 to New was broadened into an organization $2.5 million. moment of silence to mark the anni- the great things about Syracuse is term. I had no opposition and was seminar at the Hoover Institution, demonstrate his website project fea- Mexico before tying the game in open to all individuals, regardless of The class lunch is held on the versary of the 9-11 attacks. A careful that you can get anywhere very elected at a convention of 5,000 my third freshman roommate, turing detailed virtual tours of the the eighth inning — and then win- ethnic origin, interested in fostering second Wednesday of every month examination of the photograph quickly). I received terrific care, delegates. (I was asked to take Henry Rosenfeld ’59E, and his major gothic cathedrals of Europe, ning it in the 13th. Having broken Slovak and/or Czech culture.” in the Grill Room of the Columbia showed [former United States] culminating in the insertion of a the chair position four years ago, wife, Leonor, passed through San including contextualized historical my vow, I am looking forward to University Club of New York, 15 Ambassador [to the United Nations few stents in an artery. (Appar- which [at the time] was not some- Francisco to visit the first-grade commentary and other information. next year and another occasion to W. 43rd St. The cost is $31 per per- and now United Nations National ently, that artery was hereditarily thing I wanted to do.) It’s been the classroom of their daughter, Jessica You can see details of the cathedrals cheer Columbia.” Barry Dickman son. Email Art Radin if you plan security adviser] Susan Rice in the malformed.) Recovery was swift, most time-consuming volunteer Rosenfeld (who attended Teach- that you might never see if you Yours truly returned from a 25 Main St. to attend, up to the day before: front row and, immediately over and the anniversary party went job I have ever had, and during the ers College), at the Harvey Milk were actually there. Check it out: 3 ½-week trip to the West Coast, 58 Court Plaza North, Ste 104 [email protected]. her left shoulder, my son, Sam ’13, well. Our children and their families past four years we have been suc- Civil Rights Academy, a grammar mappinggothic.org. which began with the American Hackensack, NJ 07601 just a few feet from the President. came — our daughter, Nathalie, is cessful in electing Republicans and school. In addition to visiting their “While there I also chatted with Bar Association Annual Meeting (‘Dad, the aura projected by the a French professor at Bloomsburg reaching out to Tea Party folks and bicoastally dispersed offspring in [email protected] REUNION WEEKEND Dr. Bohdan A. Oryshkevich ’68, in San Francisco. After three days President is palpable.’) Sam gradu- University of Pennsylvania and our to our ethnic communities. Despite Boston and San Francisco, Henry MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 whose sister teaches at Columbia. of meetings I moved to one of my Our deepest sympathies go to ated with a major in foreign rela- son, Michael, is a biology professor my apprehension it has been a and Leonor divide time between ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Her special interest is the archi- favorite inns in the Marina District, Stan Goldsmith on the death of tions and a minor in history, and he at Georgia Tech — as did a lot of fun and exciting job, providing an Florida and New York, depending ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott tecture of New York City. He says about halfway between the Palace his wife, Miriam, on September 3, wants to pursue a career in public friends. These included Paul Kan- opportunity to travel throughout on the season, and polish their golf [email protected] she’s lectured on many architectural of Fine Arts and Ghirardelli Square 2013. Miriam was an artisan skilled service. He resides in Washington, tor and his wife and almost fellow our historic Commonwealth and to games regularly in both places. 212-851-9148 subjects, including cathedrals and and a short walk from Fort Mason in handcrafts, particularly the D.C., where he holds an internship alumna (no girls at Columbia then), meet many folks and make many “This spring my wife, Margaret, DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova synagogues, bridges, famous edi- Center, for four days’ vacation. restoration of porcelain objects. She with the Office of Presidential Cor- Carole Kantor ’62 Barnard. friends. So far, I have visited and and I saw Alan Kahn and his wife, [email protected] fices and lesser known ones as well. After that I flew to Los Angeles, and Stan, who were married for respondence, helping decide which “Subsequently I had a stress test, spoken in about 90 of Virginia’s Linda Parnes Kahn ’71 Barnard, 212-851-7833 He thought she’d be willing to give meeting Eugene Wagner for lunch 54 years, have four children: Ira, of the letters to the President will be which I apparently passed, and 130-plus counties. who maintain a second residence in a presentation (perhaps with slides) on the waterfront at Marina del Arthur, Beth and Mark, and eight Norman Gelfand answered. The President remarked was told I could continue my usual “I still have trouble adjusting to San Francisco. They regularly visit for our group at the Alumni Center. Rey. My next stop was San Jose, grandchildren. c/o CCT about such letters in his recent activities. They include, in addition the position — having an aide that their daughter Amanda Kahn-Kirby “If enough [of our classmates] to visit a couple I have known Joe Dorinson made his Holly– 59 Columbia Alumni Center speech to the nation. Sam is also to research in theoretical physical does all my scheduling and being ’94; her husband, Mason Kirby indicate an interest, I will try to ar- since law school and some of their wood debut last summer — an 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 preparing to apply to law school chemistry (mostly in collaboration driven to nearly every political ’94; and their grandchildren here. range for her to give a presentation children and grandchildren. From overnight success after only 70- New York, NY 10025 and studies for the LSATs during with experimental colleagues) event I attend. I stood beside our Alan recounts that six hours after for us on a mutually convenient there I made my way by bus and plus years of developing his shtick. [email protected] evenings in the Library of Congress and teaching physical chemistry, governor when he announced retiring from the Wall Street firm he date.” train to Sacramento to visit my sis- Joe was one of the historians and (‘The building is breathtaking,’ he cycling, tennis and, very soon, Virginia’s vote at the Republican founded with his younger brother, If you are interested in such a ter, my niece and her partner. From other talking heads who appeared I want to begin by reminding says). I’m pleased to be able to offer cross country skiing, which is my National Convention and was sur- he was recruited by a professor lecture, please contact Martin: there I flew to Portland, Ore., and in the documentary When Comedy everyone of Alumni Reunion this positive report during challeng- favorite. Two years ago the skiing prised how many friends around from the Business School to form a [email protected]. took a two-hour shuttle to Corval- Went to School. Directed by Ron Weekend, scheduled for Thursday, ing times.” was a disaster (global warming has the country emailed to say they hedge fund-of-funds venture (van Larry Boes has already weighed lis to visit my younger nephew, Frank and Mevlut Akkaya, the May 29–Sunday, June 1. This will Ray LaRaja says, “This summer its effects). Last year was a bit better, had seen me on TV. Moments that Biema Value Partners) based on the in, saying, “I would join in such a his wife and their 2-year-old boy. film explores the roots of Jewish- be the 55th anniversary of our my family and I celebrated some and we are hoping against hope for have stood out include speaking value investing principles that were lecture or tour of NYC churches Then, after a most scenic train ride, American humor, focusing on the graduation and we should all try milestones. We gave Adriana, my more improvement this year. How- to 12,000 people at the convention developed at Columbia and that are and cathedrals, maybe just St. John I arrived in Seattle, where I have Catskills and featuring some of the to be there. The Reunion Commit- wife of 50 years, a surprise 75th ever, I’m afraid we will never get (yes, despite what I was told about still vigorously taught there. Alan the Divine. ... several friends. comedians who got their start in tee, chaired by Allen Rosenshine, birthday party. I had also recently, back to the good old days in Syra- the TV lights blocking the crowd, reports, to mix metaphors, that ‘it “There is a nearby Episcopal Steve Buchman and Ray LaRaja, sadly or joyfully, celebrated my cuse, when it snowed every day I could see all 12,000 of them); is like a combination of having a church on Amsterdam Avenue, is working hard at planning activi- 76th. I took my immediate family of and never melted. It would be nice meeting and spending time with second childhood and being a kid maybe in the 90s, with beautiful ties. Suggestions are welcome and 10 on a cruise to Alaska to celebrate to see that again, especially since we many national leaders; signing in a candy store.’ Tiffany windows. I took a lecture Joe Dorinson ’58 made his Hollywood debut last if you send your ideas to me, I will all these joyous occasions. As you stopped shoveling our driveway a Mitt Romney’s certification papers course with a summer class at Co- summer as one of the historians who appeared in the forward them to the committee. can see, it’s been quite a year! I hope few years ago (and stopped mow- as our nominee for president; and lumbia, taught by an architecture Some of the longer submissions to see as many guys as possible at ing our lawn last year). My best taking part in Virginia’s traditional, What’s Your Story? history professor from Lehman documentary When Comedy Went to School. for this issue have been split into our 55th. My best to all.” wishes to everyone who remembers pre-Election Day fly-around with College, which took us to about 10 two parts due to CCT’s space limit- From Jerry Goodisman: “I’ve me, and even to the others.” the governor, lieutenant governor Letting classmates know churches and synagogues across ations. The remainder of the con- been meaning to send something Ronald Sommer writes, “When and attorney general (holding what’s going on in your several months.” At the end of the trip I served the Borscht Belt, including Jerry tributions from Pat Mullins, Luigi in for a long time — sorry to wait it was summer where you are, it airport rallies in more than a dozen life is easier than ever. Jerry Werksman writes, “In as treasurer for the 2013 regional Lewis, Jackie Mason and Jerry Lucaccini and David B. Smith so long. I have been a professor of was winter where I am. So, I will cities across a three-day period).” Send in your Class Notes! 1959 and 1960, when I was in my conference of the Czechoslovak Stiller. (Joe and some of our other should appear in the next issue. My chemistry at Syracuse since 1969, tell you how I spent winter in Lima, More from Pat next time, in the ONLINE by clicking last two years of the Law School, I Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), classmates — Bernie Nussbaum apologies to them and to you. along the way picking up a vase, a Peru. First, you need to know that I Spring 2014 issue. college.columbia.edu/cct/ inherited the job of Columbia sports held at the University of Wash- and the late Asher Rubin come to Jack Kauderer (officially John) gold watch, a barometer and other spent the entire winter here, which is Luigi Lucaccini reports, “Oc- correspondent for The New York ington in Seattle. For some years I mind — worked their way through writes, “I vacationed in Avalon, trinkets on five-year anniversaries, unusual. I eschewed travel this year casional contact with classmates submit_class_note. Times from my brother, Richard ’54, served as treasurer for a communi- the College as waiters in the N.J., a half-block from the beach, until the program was rightfully because I didn’t want to miss what brightens an otherwise quiet life EMAIL to the address at who had held it during his time at ty light opera company in northern Catskills hotels.) during the first week in June. discontinued. Before Syracuse, I was forecast to be the worst August here in Mill Valley, Calif., a com- the top of your column. [the Law School]. In that role I went Virginia headed by one of SVU’s Henry Kurtz writes, “It was While there, my wife, Kathy, and was at Illinois, although it’s a little in many years. And it lived up to munity seen by some as a western to more events — tennis, swim- leading members. good seeing everyone at Alumni I were able to have all three sons hard to believe that now. the hype. As a consequence I spent a center of liberal affluence — a view MAIL to the address at the ming, fencing, wrestling matches For those who are not familiar Reunion Weekend. Let’s hope we and all six grandchildren spend “This summer was an eventful great deal more time indoors than is reinforced by residual Obama- top of your column. and baseball and basketball games with the SVU, it was officially are all around for the 60th. You time with us, in addition to one one. After spring final exams, my usual for me. This time was used to Biden bumper stickers on the BMW

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 62 63

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

“In an entirely different vein, Alan Portland. When it was built in 1912 a sharp wit and an inquisitive and Nuremberg trials through Brook- In addition to his son, Marshall ously … [and] try to make clear ex- participation rate for our class was Peace Corps and spent nearly two highly recommends the Gotham it was the second largest organ assertive nature.” dale Community College’s Lifelong is survived by his wife, Shellie actly what I do not know as well as 37 percent based on 558 active years living and working alone in Veterinary Center for treatment in the world; it also was the first The class sends its condolences Learning program next spring. Sclan, and another son, Eli Tax- what I do know; we [my students alumni. Not too shabby (and thank a tiny village high in the Andes and care of Manhattan pets. It is municipal organ built in the United to Howard’s family and friends. After 65 years of conducting Berman. and I] thus learn together.” you all for your generosity!) but Mountains (about 4,300 meters). pure coincidence that his daughter, States. Today it is one of only two synagogue worship, Clifford A full obituary can be found in Recently one of his students it still leaves us with a good goal After my stint was over I returned Kimberly Kahn ’05 GS, happens to U.S. municipal organs still owned Miller retired from the congrega- The New York Times of September 15. wrote, “Professor Glassman was for this year — let’s make sure we to the United States to attend Har- be a well-regarded veterinarian at by a municipality. In 1981, FOKO Michael Hausig tion pulpit to Caldwell, N.J. (Previ- extremely funny, nice, helpful and break 40 percent participation. vard Law, from which I graduated the center. She did her pre-vet work was formed to provide continued 19418 Encino Summit ously he lived in Bayonne.) He re- easy to be around. It was a joy to be Peter Zimroth was named to in 1968. Since then I have practiced at Columbia despite having spurned funding for a municipal organist 61 San Antonio, TX 78259 ports that after 50 years of leading John Freidin in his class. … He provokes open monitor the New York Police De- law, served in government and her father’s earlier entreaties (and and for the upkeep and restoration [email protected] High Holiday prayers, he finally 654 E. Munger St. discussion … and embraces new partment’s controversial stop-and- been an entrepreneur. Just shy breaking his heart in the process) to of the organ, which the city could had the privilege of sitting beside 62 Middlebury, VT 05753 ideas and perspectives. …I was frisk policy. The New York Times of my 60th birthday I completed attend Columbia as an undergradu- no longer afford. Ed Auzenbergs ’63E, ’64 Business, his wife throughout services. [email protected] excited to come to class.” reported on August 13: “Mr. Zim- a two-year course to become a ate in favor of Amherst.” In his inaugural statement, Larry who spent much of his career with Although he is still employed Bob is survived by his wife, roth, a lifelong New Yorker, said on paramedic and then began work- I have more from Luigi, which noted, in regard to a restoration TRW Automotive Holdings, wrote more than 30 hours a week as a Peter Berman wrote to suggest that Harriet; their children, Mark in Monday that he was ‘honored’ that ing full-time in New York City will appear in the Spring 2014 issue. project that will exceed $2 million, that the broad education he re- librarian at the Jewish Theologi- members of our class might enjoy Washington, D.C., Jill in Santa Cruz, the judge in the federal stop-and- and Westchester. I received my David B. Smith writes, “My that “the Kotzschmar is one of the ceived at the College, the Engineer- cal Seminary of America, Clifford “checking out my new sculpture Calif., and Dan in Los Angeles; and frisk case, Shira A. Scheindlin, had state certificate to practice shortly wife, Helen, and I have been world’s greatest organs with more ing School and the Business School says he almost feels semi-retired, website at peterberman.net. My five grandchildren. selected him. He got her call about before the terrible events of 9-11 traveling abroad since April. [As I than 6,800 pipes occupying the entire provided him with the breadth writing, “Why didn’t classmates tell 3-D printer arrives at the end of As for me, all’s well in Vermont. a week and a half ago, he said, met and worked there for much of the write], we’re spending a month in stage area behind the ‘show pipes’ of conceptual and analytical tools me years ago what a joy retirement the month and then I will be in Our garden has provided heaps of with the judge in her chambers, first week until it became sadly Cabrerets, a village set along the that audiences see as well as a space and thinking needed to function can be, while still blessed with business!” blueberries, endless tomatoes and and accepted. ‘I have always loved apparent that paramedics were Célé [in southwestern France]. The in the ceiling of [city-owned] Merrill effectively and contribute in a the health to enjoy time with the As I leafed through the Style cucumbers as well as basil, mint, public service,’ he said from a lake- not needed. After a few years as Célé is a small tributary joining Auditorium for an ‘antiphonal’ global corporate organization that grandchildren?” He sends warm section of The New York Times one peppers (green and black), some side cottage in New Hampshire. ‘It a paramedic I concentrated on dealt with a multitude of technical wishes to one and all. Clifford can Sunday in September, I came upon carrots and lettuce, and mountains has been very important to me in working with neonates, wee little products in many countries and be reached at [email protected]. a wonderful photograph of Jerry of lemon balm, which we have no my life.’” bits of fluff, some below one kilo cultures. Ed held many positions While on a trip to the East Coast Speyer, smiling broadly with other idea what to do with. To the New York Daily News, he in weight. After 65 years of conducting synagogue worship, with the company, including senior in June and July, Gerry Brodeur city luminaries at the National Please don’t be shy. Write us stated, “I am going to be listening “I have been married for 47 Rabbi Clifford Miller ’61 has retired from the engineer, group foreman, director had lunch with Bob McCool and September 11 Memorial & Museum about yourself and your family. in the beginning of this. I’m going years. My wife, Jan, spent nearly 30 of manufacturing, director of shared a day of golf and spent the benefit dinner at the Waldorf to be taking arguments from people years in elective local and regional congregation pulpit. operations support, plant manager night with Wayne Hatfield on Cape Astoria. who have stakes in this — the Police public office, winning 11 con- and v.p. of operations. Later, he Cod, Mass. On the return trip to Las It is with great sadness that I Paul Neshamkin Department and others.” The judge, secutive elections. We have two was director of product planning Vegas he spent two days with Jack inform you that Robert B. Glass- 1015 Washington St., he noted, “made clear that this is children and two grandchildren in the Lot at Bouzies. It’s our second voice to surround the audience with for rack and pinion steering sys- Kirik and his wife, Sue, in Rock Is- man, professor of psychology, died 63 Apt. 50 not an adversarial position. That’s elementary school. year here. The Célé has through sound. Each one of those pipes, as tems and director/v.p. of planning land, Ill. Jack and Sue usually spend on April 27, 2013, after suffering Hoboken, NJ 07030 not my role. I am in a position of “Now we are retired and spend the ages cut a deep valley in the well as the support systems that and business development for the winter in Las Vegas. an aortic dissection. In the words [email protected] trying to help solve a problem, and five months a year at our home on a Quercy limestone plateaus. The each pipe has (wind chest, blowers, TRW’s steering, suspension and Jeffrey Rudell is a Vietnam of Stephen D. Schutt, president of that’s what I’m going to do.” lake in the Adirondack Mountains, cliffs behind our house tower connections to the console, levers, engine group, with 67 plants in 20 veteran and is involved with a Lake Forest College, where Bob With the launch of the academic David Orme-Johnson writes which has the added attraction of above. In the eighth century, some- bellows, tied rods and myriad other countries. He retired after 33 years POW MIA project through the U.S. had taught since 1969: “Bob was year the Class of ’63 has again in response to my question about being within shouting distance of one built a chateau high above on mechanisms both large and small) of service. Army Veterans Support Command a deeply dedicated teacher, a re- started up its monthly lunches, what the College meant to us. “The our grandchildren, who often visit. the cliff face. The modern chateau have to be either refinished or totally In retirement, Ed and his wife, to recover remains of 1,146 MIAs markably productive scholar and a and I’m happy to report that they first thing that comes to mind is that “Until recently I was an avid sits along the river above its mill. recreated. There are few mechani- Ruta, have traveled extensively, in Vietnam. Jeff and several other beloved community member who are better attended than ever. You Columbia gave me a benchmark skier, both Nordic and Alpine, a “We planned to leave here in cal devices used in this work. It is a including visits to Latvia, Ed’s members of the volunteer group graced our campus for more than really should join us! Details are at for how the top minds in the world hiker, a camper and a sculler, but mid-October for Venice and then return to medieval craftsmanship, country of birth. He was president went to Vietnam this fall. At this 40 years. He will be sorely missed.” the end of the column. think. I found that it was broad age has slowly eliminated those head home in early November.” and for me it is a connection to the of his church council, performs writing, the group was scheduled A native of Brooklyn, Bob was In August Doron Gopstein and comprehension, a command of the joys, remitting me to my restored David has provided us with origins of our western society.” community volunteer work and to have its fall meeting on October a proud graduate of Brooklyn I enjoyed taking part in Convoca- facts and a sometimes disarming mahogany speed boat, an inboard interesting information about the Congratulations to Larry. continues as adviser, minority 20 at Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel Technical H.S. and earned a Ph.D. tion, a ceremony that kicks off the simplicity and straightforwardness. that makes a heart-stopping area which will also have to wait Sad to report that Howard Mud- shareholder and board member and Casino. If anyone is interested in physiological psychology from academic year and welcomes the When you are from [smaller towns rumble when cruising. until the Spring 2014 issue. gett died in his sleep at his home in of several Ohio industrial firms. in participating in these activities, Penn. In 1974 Lake Forest granted incoming first-years. We marched and places other than NYC], like El “I am in frequent touch with Denver on August 31, 2013. Born Ed golfs often in the summer and contact Jeff: 646-696-5233. him tenure, and in 1983 he was behind our decade’s flag, along Paso, Texas, you don’t know what Don Margolis, who is my first and raised in Denver, Howard had plays doubles tennis in the winter. David Wilson suffered a heart at- promoted to full professor. He with other members of the ’60s-era the level is of the people in your life. cousin and with whom I have been Robert A. Machleder a career in the financial services in- He and Ruta have two children tack in September but at this writing chaired the psychology depart- classes, in the Alumni Procession, I discovered, for example, that my good friends since childhood.” 69-37 Fleet St. dustry that spanned more than four and three grandchildren. was recovering nicely and rehabbing ment for multiple terms. then we listened as the deans greet- science prodigy older brother, W.H. Tom Bailey writes that after 60 Forest Hills, NY 11375 decades; he held executive positions Bob Salman has decided to at HCR ManorCare in Potomac, Md. Bob was a man of wide-ranging ed the new Columbians. The Class Orme-Johnson III, was a world- graduation and his commissioning [email protected] in several Denver enterprises in- continue practicing law without In sad news, Marshall Berman, interests and broad expertise. His of 2017 is an impressive group. class mind and, sure enough, he in the Navy, he spent four years cluding v.p. with U.S. Bancorp and being exclusively affiliated with one an author, academic, philosopher research areas included neurosci- As I write, I look forward to a became a tenured chemistry profes- flying, sailing, getting married, hav- Congratulations to David Kirk, president of First Trust of Denver. law firm. He says this will provide and lyrical defender of modern- ence, working memory capacity, great Homecoming and a record sor at MIT. Columbia gave me a ing a son and applying to medical who this year was named a fellow His career took him to Chicago and him greater flexibility to avoid law ism, Karl Marx and his native theories of learning, theories of turnout from our class. I predict we framework for evaluating who is school: “I did pass Jeff Thompson of SAVE International. SAVE (So- Sacramento as well. He returned firm conflicts and to increase his New York City, passed away from brain organization, religion and will beat Penn and that you will all for real and who is worth listening a few times in the mid-Atlantic and ciety of American Value Engineer- to Denver upon his retirement. pro bono activities, and he will a heart attack on September 11 in science, among others. He wrote be there. By the time you read this, to. And it gave us living examples we sent messages back and forth. ing) International is the premier Howard had a range of interests draw upon his former partners Manhattan. He was 72. Marshall’s dozens of articles, reviews and we will know the truth. of what to aspire to in our lives. With my Columbia degree and four international society devoted to the that ran the gamut: aviation, sci- and colleagues for staffing needs. death was announced by City experimental studies in leading I was so busy describing our “And then, of course, it gave us years of maturity, I was admitted to advancement and promotion of ence, technology, history, art, travel, His areas of expertise are civil trial College, where he had taught since journals and received competitive wonderful reunion in the last issue a wonderful framework of knowl- the Albany Medical College in Janu- the value methodology (also called opera, architecture and literature. and appellate litigation, arbitra- 1967 and was a distinguished pro- research grants from the National that I forgot to fill you in on some edge, including the fundamental ary 1967, the same time my son, value engineering, value analysis He was known for his warmth and tion, risk assessment and litigation fessor of political science. His son, Science Foundation, the National great news. We set a record for the ideas, music and art underpinning Rick, was born. Four years later, or value management). Value his wit. Howard is survived by his prevention, and internal corporate Danny Berman, said the heart at- Institute of Mental Health, the most unrestricted funds raised Western Civilization, by which to I happily graduated with Junior methodology is used in govern- ex-wife, Melinda Anderson; their investigations. tack occurred while Marshall was State of Illinois and others. for the Columbia College Fund understand the world, question its AOA, summa cum laude, and a ment and in the design, construc- son, Jeffrey, and his wife, Karrina; Bob has been admitted to prac- eating breakfast with a friend at a Bob taught a broad range of by a class in its 50th anniversary assumptions and hopefully move second child. I took an ophthalmol- tion and manufacturing industries and two granddaughters. tice before the Supreme Court of the restaurant he loved, Metro Diner courses including “Introduction to year. Thank you for donating forward. ogy residency at Albany with one to optimize projects, business and Bill Verplank roomed with United States; the U.S. Court of Ap- on Broadway at West 100th Street. Psychology,” “Developmental Psy- $1,988,213. This beat the previous “Finally, it gave us a great set of the top ophthalmologists in the manufacturing processes, and Howard at the College and the peals for the Second, Third, Ninth Marshall’s best-known book, chology,” “Neuroscience, Learning record by more than $850,000. (Too of friends to experience that most country. product development. two remained lifelong friends. Bill and Eleventh Circuits; the U.S. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: and Memory,” “Persuasion and bad we couldn’t come up with the seminal time with, the best of which “It has been a rewarding career. Larry Rubinstein, who is in “re- offers this reflection on Howard’s Court of International Trade; the The Experience of Modernity, was Truth in Sales Communications,” extra $11,787 in time to make it was my Vassar-educated wife, The first intraocular lens implants tirement” in Portland, Maine, has life: “He was a second-generation U.S. District Court for the Southern published in 1982 and took its “Robots and Brains: Fantasies and an even $2 million!) The College Rhoda, whom I never would have in upstate New York were done become president of the nonprofit Denver banker, a private pilot and a and Eastern Districts of New York; name from a line in The Communist Facts” and “Science and Religion: Fund received donations from 187 met if I were not at Columbia. And by our group. For several years in Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ strong supporter of the arts. Those and the New York State Unified Manifesto. Reviewing it in The New Searching for Humanity.” classmates. Overall, 206 classmates Columbia is in New York City!” the early 1980s, we were the only (FOKO). The Kotzschmar Organ is who knew him will remember him Court System. York Times, John Leonard called it Early in his teaching career, Bob donated $6,052,561 in total gifts Richard Wells writes, “Upon ophthalmologists allowed to do a pipe organ owned by the city of as something of an iconoclast with He will teach a course on the “brilliant and exasperating.” commented, “I take teaching seri- and pledges to the University. The graduation I joined the nascent implants in the Albany Medical

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 64 65

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

Center Hospital. I was privileged professor. But Columbia was the Merv Rothstein, Dan Schechter, Lopate wrote a review of the first confirmation process was riveting. announced that Howie (by then years of rewarding service as a blessed. I mentioned that the day to do the first implant in our V.A. highlight. There I learned enough Steve Solomon, Peter Thall, Allen New York Film Festival. While a For the benefit of our non-lawyer retired from his judgeship) was to history professor at Johns Hopkins, I decided to retire, I had written Hospital in 1983. As an associate critical thinking to allow the next Tobias, Ivan Weissman and Marty “lack of both time and money” classmates, Howie is a highly rejoin the firm as senior counsel. I retire, effective tomorrow, June 30. on a small piece of paper on my professor in the eye department stage in our lives. For, returning Weinstein. Paul Neshamkin ’63, forced Phil to attend only 10 of regarded jurist. Our judicial system He will be involved in representing But as I have also been elected to a desk, in between patients, ‘I don’t at the Albany Medical Center, I from a year of study in the USSR, who helped organize his 50th re- the 21 films shown, he found the was lucky to have him. clients in areas such as federal in- professorship in what is called The want to die on the job.’ Where that worked with many residents on my wife and I were able to find union, also has been very helpful. festival “an exciting, frequently “Recent issues of The New Yorker vestigations and serving as neutral Academy at Johns Hopkins, other, thought came from, I will never their first transplants and helped our way to the text that formed If you have suggestions for the rewarding experience.” The review also mentioned classmates. In a in arbitrations and mediations as still largely unspecified duties await know — but it was the beginning with many eye trauma cases the character of my ‘role model,’ reunion, or want to go a step further concludes with the “hope that its July 1 article, ‘The Lyme Wars,’ well as serving as a special master, me. And much like Stan Sesser, of a three-year process to end what through the level 1 Trauma Center. Bertrand Russell. This world- and participate in the planning ei- organizers will continue to bring to author Michael Specter said and sharing his rich experiences my freshman roommate, I expect to had always been a beautiful career. In more than 40 years in practice, I famous atheist and nonconform- ther in person or by conference call, America as many exceptional films that ‘Lyme [disease] was all but as guidance to the firm’s younger spend much of my retirement doing I realized that medicine and der- restored vision to more than 9,000 ist, growing up in the home of please contact me or either of the as they did this year.” unknown until 1977, when Allen attorneys. The press release also much the same thing I did over my matology were what I did but not eyes. Being able to change some- his Protestant aunt, defined his Alumni Office staff contacts listed Fifty years later, the festival has Steere, a rheumatologist at Yale, announced that Howie intends to career at JHU: reading and writing who I was. It did not define me. If I one’s life in such a positive way is life by a single verse in Exodus: at the top of the column. A 50th become one of the four most im- produced the first definitive ac- contribute to the practice of law by books and essays related in different retired from my medical profes- an unbelievable feeling. ‘Don’t follow the many to do evil,’ reunion is special for many reasons. portant film festivals in the world count of the infection.’ In a June 24 advocating for the judiciary and ways to what has been and remains sion, I would still be me. I was “Through the years, I have been which is good advice even if it Let’s make it memorable. and Phil continues to celebrate — article, ‘Before Night Falls,’ author offering pro bono and community my primary area of interest — the going to retire no matter what. on many committees and boards. does come from the Bible! This Bill Wargo writes from South he has written a behind-the-scenes Dr. Jerome Groopman ’72, ’76 services in the interests of civic history of Spain, Spanish America “My wife and I went to a At the end of my surgical career, led us to the study of Hebrew and Burlington, Vt., that he earned history of the festival as part of the P&S mentioned Dennis Selkoe, betterment. and the Atlantic World. financial planner who said that if several years ago, I was chief to practice of Judaism and moving a master’s from the Silberman recently published New York Film co-director of The Center For Neu- Those of us at the April 5 class “At the same time, I will be get- we wanted to retire at 66 and live the eye department and chairman to Israel, where we lived for six School of Social Work at Hunter Festival Gold: A 50th Anniversary rologic Diseases at Brigham and lunch in New York can attest to ting to know a new city, Philadel- the rest of our lives with the same of the medical staff at the Albany years. I became a Torah reader and and a J.D. from NYU Law. He has Celebration. Women’s Hospital, as belonging to standard of living, and live until Medical Center South Clinical Hebrew teacher. Visit my website counseled foster children, drug I am saddened to report that the group of Alzheimer’s disease 95, we would need several million Campus, which is our eye surgery at languagebazaar.com for some addicts, disabled veterans, Bowery Barry Shapiro and Gene Meyer researchers who ‘contend that the dollars, anticipating a conservative hospital. I work four days a week of my innovations in language alcoholics and people in crisis. As informed me of the July death beta-amyloid protein is the key to Richard Kagan ’65 is getting to know a new city, investment return rate of 7 percent. and fortunately have not had any teaching and a lecture on Judaism an attorney, Bill has represented of Ed Leavy. Gene writes: “I was understanding the disease,’ believ- Philadelphia, where he recently relocated with his It all sounded reasonable except for medical problems to make me do and science that I gave to a world poor people living on Manhattan’s fortunate to see Ed [the day before ing ‘that the protein can be toxic, the several million dollars! I would otherwise. religions class, where I explain the Lower East Side, prison inmates, his death] at his final residence, and that plaque deposits interfere wife of 30 years. have to work even harder to gener- “My main accomplishment, TUOT (pronounced ‘toot’): the a municipality in Vermont and ironically or perhaps fittingly, at with the transmission of signals ate that amount of money. I know however, is my family. Lynn, my Theory of the Universe and Other the Vermont Health Department. one of the assisted-living group at the synapses between neurons, of many of my colleagues who are wife of 49 years, is doing high-end Things, with its Fifth Dimension. For more than 20 years he also has homes he established in the Mary- causing dementia.’ Groopman the little dose of civic betterment phia, where I recently relocated absolutely miserable in their ca- Alzheimer’s intravenous drug Feel free to get in touch: zev.bar- taught law at a number of colleges land suburbs. visited the center’s laboratory, we received merely from being in with my wife of 30 years, Mari- reers and would have to continue research. My oldest son, Rick (now [email protected].” in Vermont. “Ed was a wonderful raconteur, where Dennis took him to a kind Howie’s presence. As I wrote to anna Shreve Simpson, an art his- to work for many, many years to a lieutenant colonel), had an Army Remember, our regular class Bill and his wife, Susan, have intellect and fighter for justice as an of ‘brain bank’ for researchers — a Howie afterward, the tone of our torian specializing in Islamic art. amass a sum of money that would ROTC scholarship at Ithaca and lunches at the Columbia University been married for 38 years. He immigration lawyer and, formerly, large room filled with freezers that informal discussion was notice- Here, surprising as it may seem, last into their 90s. received a Bronze Star for his duty Club of New York are always a adds, “Our daughter, Emily, has a as the D.C. regional director of the stored cross-sectioned brain tissue ably elevated and scintillating, and the two of us live in the same “But what happens if you lower as operations officer in 2006–07 at great place to reconnect. If you’re in master’s in teaching with technol- Anti-Defamation League. Even from dozens of people who had the only difference that I could building as our son, Loren (28). In your standard of living, don’t plan the Combat Support Hospital in NYC, try to make one; it’s always ogy (yes, there is such a degree as his health failed, he never lost suffered from Alzheimer’s. perceive between that lunch and his capacity as a financial adviser, to spend as much money per Tikrit, Iraq. He has a daughter in the second Thursday of the month. now), and she is an e-learning his sense of humor, and he fought “Plus, of course, David Denby previous ones was his presence. Loren assures me that I will not go year, are not so generous with the Boston. My daughter, Debi, is an Check out cc63ers.com for details. professional at a local college. Our long and hard to live life to the ’66J is a regular film critic for The As a follow-up to Mike’s refer- broke even as retirement beckons. children and pay simply for college ob/gyn and delivery room nurse In the meantime, let us know son, Ben, has a civil engineering longest and to the fullest. He loved New Yorker. ence to Allen Steere, a picture of I am not so confident, and if need and not graduate school, and plan with three great athletic kids and what you are up to, how you’re degree and is serving in the Peace Columbia, from which his son “John R. Zeisel is president of Allen (looking youthful in 1976) be I am gearing up to prepare to die or at least run out of money a husband who is a lawyer with doing and what’s next. Corps in the Dominican Republic. Charlie Katz-Leavy ’02 also gradu- Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, one appeared in The New York Times on stacks of Spanish-style tortillas by the ripe old age of 85? I asked Boise, Schiller & Flexner here in He designed and supervised the ated, as did his father, Maurice of the country’s leading providers September 19 — the date on which and sell them, still warm, at the the financial planner about this Albany. My youngest son, Mike, is construction of a water system that ’27, ’29L (with Jacques Barzun ’27, of Alzheimer treatment centers. I am writing this column — in an farmers market that gathers on approach. He said I could retire in REUNION WEEKEND a cardiac rehabilitation specialist is providing clean, running water ’32 GSAS). Ed greatly appreciated “Stephen A. Merrill is executive obituary for Dr. Stephen E. Ma- Saturday mornings in nearby Rit- six months! MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 with two sons who also live here. to people who never had such a the love and support of his wife, director for scientific technology lawista ’58 P&S, who with Allen tenhouse Square.” “At a certain point in all of our ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS “We have been lucky enough luxury (to them).” Judy Katz-Leavy. He also leaves and economic policy at The Na- co-led the team at the Yale School One of the happy perquisites of lives, hopefully we will come to ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott to have the health and time to John Cirigliano was in New another son, Neal Kayastha, and a tional Academies in Washington, of Medicine that is widely credited being class correspondent is that I the realization that life is to be [email protected] take educational trips around the York City from Lexington, Ky., for daughter, Gabriella Katz. May his D.C. with defining Lyme disease. get to correspond with so many of enjoyed and that the goal of life is 212-851-9148 world. We have been to China, Homecoming and other Columbia memory be a blessing.” “Barry Kamins is the adminis- Robert W. Gunn, who was you. Steve Shama (steveshama@ to be happy. I include generosity DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Russia, Africa and Greece, among activities. Requiesat in pacem. trative judge for criminal matters featured in our Class Notes in the aol.com) took this a step further. in this goal. I wonder how many [email protected] other places. Also, we have gone Beril Lapson has been travel- [Editor’s note: See Obituaries.] for the Second Judicial District and Fall 2013 issue, has an updated He was coming to New York for a of our colleagues believe that the 212-851-7833 down the Colorado River twice ing for business and pleasure to for the Criminal Court of the City LinkedIn profile. Bob’s profile conference and arranged for us to workaholic ethic and obligations (once with Dick Kelly and his Norman Olch Mexico, Switzerland, Thailand and of New York, having managed a discloses that he is now the direc- meet for a drink in early August. to others are what life is all about. wife, Shari). Spare time is spent 64 233 Broadway Turkey. Allen Tobias traveled to Leonard B. Pack successful criminal law practice tor of the Blanton-Peale Institute & We had a really good talk and May I suggest that there is another at Killington, Vt. (still ski); Marco New York, NY 10279 Israel and later to Boston, where 65 924 West End Ave. and been president of the New Counseling Center Pastoral Care here is Steve’s summary of that perspective and that we all should Island, Fla.; and Schroon Lake, N.Y. [email protected] he visited his son, David, who is New York, NY 10025 York City Bar Association. and Counseling Program (English) conversation: consider it … gratefulness, grati- “We have been blessed by the in law school at Northeastern. At [email protected] “Elliot N. Dorff is a director and in the greater New York City area. “We spoke for more than an hour tude and the pursuit of happiness. great start we had at Columbia and The serious job of planning our this writing, Dan Schechter is on a distinguished professor of philoso- Bob’s retirement marches on! reminiscing about Columbia. We I now have a career in professional at ‘the 533 Club,’ the apartment on 50th Alumni Reunion Weekend hunting trip in England. Mike Cook, one of several of you phy at American Jewish University. Mike Cook also sent an article also introduced into our conversa- speaking during which I speak of 112th Street (Jeff Thompson ’83, is under way. As I reported in the For 15 years Peter Thall, an at- who keeps me nourished with tid- “Flemming (Nick) L. Norcott is by Dan Hofstadter ’66 that ap- tion moments about life and retire- these lovely moments in life. Dick Kelly, Jim Katzoff and Dave last column, Steve Case has agreed torney in New York, has been spe- bits about our class, produced this a justice on the Supreme Court of peared in the Wall Street Journal ment. I realized how privileged we “I have two children, Josh (34), Dotson), where she and I met.” to chair the Reunion Committee, cial music counsel for all events, effusion of praise for our ranks: Connecticut. of July 27–28. The article, “On were to have gone to Columbia and who lives in Boston, and Julie (32), Zev-Bar Lev writes, “Inspired and he is getting help. As of this including television, held in the “Some classmates once com- “Richard Taruskin is a professor Portraits of Italian Fascism,” was how great the Core Curriculum who lives in Los Angeles — and of by Albert Einstein (and former writing, an ad hoc committee has United States by Victoria’s Secret. plained that there were no ‘captains of musicology at UC Berkeley and a review of five books, published was. Before I went to Columbia I course my wife, Jeannie Lindheim, roommate Dick Goldwater), I met twice in conference space Steve Rodner, like Peter an in- of industry’ in our class. At our class has received many awards for his between 1947 and 2006, by Iris was just a simple boy from Brook- who shall remain ageless. Since repeat my almost unheard toast to graciously provided by Steve Rod- tellectual property lawyer in New lunch on April 5, however, when scholarship on historical musicology. Origo, Bernard Berenson, George lyn. After the Core I was a young my retirement from medicine, Columbia at the 50th reunion. ner at his law firm in Manhattan. York City, is a proud grandfather retired U.S. Senior District Judge A. “These classmates have been Santayana, Percy Winner and man with opinions and perspec- Jeannie and I have been living in “The greatest bounty I got Subcommittees have been formed, of two. Howard Matz joined us, it struck modest enough not to trumpet their Luigi Barzini Jr. ’30J. I recommend tives on life. My Columbia educa- Parkinsville, Vt., a lovely small from Columbia was my very own and we plan to meet again before Five Columbians attended the me that we do, in fact, have many accomplishments to us but I would the piece for Dan’s elegant writing tion truly did make me as close to a town in central Vermont, where no Barnard girl, my wife, Shoshana the winter holidays. bat mitzvah of Ivan Weissman’s accomplished classmates. Howie love to know if other classmates can style. whole man as I will ever be. one cares what degrees you have ’63 Barnard (née Jane Wirth), who So far, those involved in the daughter, Julia: Howard Jacob- told us that he was about to retire tell us more about them. I’d also Richard Kagan ([email protected]) “You and I didn’t talk too much earned. They simply ask, are you a would years later bring me out planning are Joel Abramson, Adam son, Gil Kahn, Steve Singer, Lee from the bench, having been a U.S. welcome additional names; I know says he was prompted to write by about what we had done after steward of the land we call Earth? I of my five-month coma. Having Bender, Marty Isserlis, Howard Lowenfish ’63 and I. Mazel tov. district judge in Los Angeles for there are more industry leaders what he read in the Summer 2013 graduation but we fast forwarded like that! I feel at home. loved kindergarten, I had stayed Jacobson, Gil Kahn, Fred Kantor, On November 1, 1963, under the about 20 years. He was considering among us!” issue: “Since recent posts have all to the present. I told you I had “Wishing all of our classmates [in school] through a Ph.D. in Beril Lapson, Peter Lowitt, Spectator headline, “Bunuel, Bresson, the next chapter in his life. Howie’s Shortly after Mike furnished his dealt with retirement, I will chime retired from a 30-year career as peace, happiness and good health.” linguistics and a 35-year career as Marshall Meyer, Jeff Newman, Kurosawa at Film Festival,” Philip description of the ugly judicial note, the L.A. law firm Bird Marella in on this subject as well. After 41 a dermatologist and felt quite Finally, we received some sad

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 66 67

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

news from Dr. Larry Guido ’69 pensation. We can only imagine wake in Solomon’s Island, Md. P&S. He writes, “On September what so many others in this posi- There are lots of pictures (and I “Pete is an organizer; he’s an in- 18, 2013, my dear wife of 41 years, tion, who don’t have Tom’s tenac- hope not too much narrative) on Stepping Out with “Dr. Banjo,” Pete Wernick ’66 stigator. He has a long history of Jane Seymour Guido, passed away ity, are dealing with. On a brighter grandadandclay.blogspot.com.” making things happen. He did all in her sleep. She had painfully note, Tom is setting up a reading Another voice from the past y i c h a e l h e a r t s suffered for many years with two club to engage with some of our has called out. Former classmate B M R. S ’10 A the bookings in the early years incurable auto-immune diseases. I humanities classics. First on the John Longueil writes, “I spent a back when it was a loose com- don’t know how she put up with list is Oedipus Rex, and joining Tom wonderful freshman year, in so rom playing College Walk near the Bronx’s Van Cortlandt “Rather than a fan who just gets cords. Around the same time he mitment for the rest of us. The me for 41 years! will be me and Harvey Kurzweil many ways, at Columbia. Coming as part of the Morning- Park with a math teacher father an autograph, I got an interview, wrote what became the second only reason we stayed together “The window that opened and our wives, Kathy and Barbara. from the innocence of pastoral side Mountain Boys in and librarian mother — a kid and then it ended up on the instructional book for bluegrass was Pete kept booking gigs.” shortly beforehand was the birth of I’ll let you know if we pass. Rockland County, N.Y., into the 1962, to performing live who taught himself banjo by radio or in a book.” banjo. “I unlocked the mystery He also authored books and my fourth grandchild, Henry Wyatt More on Harvey: He and Barbara midst of Manhattan was a true in- Fwith Steve Martin on The Late jamming with friends, and who After majoring in sociology at of the Scruggs style, and it sold produced DVDs on bluegrass Vincent Pascal, on July 1. He is the are new double grandparents. tellectual awakening, and I fondly Show with David Letterman, was fast-tracked through junior Columbia he stayed on, earning well,” he says, referring to the and continued to teach, even- first child of my son, Laurance Jr. Daughter Emily ’00 and her hus- recall long evenings debating Pete Wernick ’66, ’73 GSAS high school and enrolled at a Ph.D. in the same subject and late, legendary Earl Scruggs and tually developing the Wernick ’00, SIPA ’01, and his wife, Joanna (a band, Grady, in Portland, Ore., wel- Locke vs. Hobbes in The Gold Rail Ph.D. neuropsychologist at Penn). comed twins Edie and Sam in April. or in the lounges of Hartley Hall. has lived and breathed bluegrass Columbia at 16 — was back- soon after his moniker, “Dr. Ban- his revolutionary high-speed, Method for bluegrass, which “Laurance, Joanna and Henry, They also have a 3-year-old, Eva. Unfortunately, my fascination for music for more than 40 years. stage at music festivals in the jo.” In 1970 he moved upstate three-fingered picking style. “I emphasizes group jam ses- along with our daughter, Pia, Harvey and I attended the home the big city and all it entailed cost The International Bluegrass South and the standard-bearer to take a research position at realized that with the royalties sions rather than solo practice. and her children, Raynie, Peter football opener against Monmouth, me the concentration necessary Music Hall of Fame inductee of bluegrass music for the New the International Population flowing, I could start a full-time Today the Wernick Method and Charlie Murphy (Peter and where we took advantage of Ed to maintain my grades, and I left formed his first real band at York metro area. He interviewed Program at Cornell, and on a music career without having to makes up the bulk of his busi- Charlie are 7-year-old identical Botwinik ’56’s parking pass, as Har- after spring semester. My sincere Columbia, rehearsing in Ferris the Stanley Brothers, the Green- trip to Boulder he met his wife, be dead broke.” ness, drbanjo.com. He struck twins), joined my wife and me vey’s spot is MIA due to boat house compliments go to all of you who Booth Hall, and soon after briar Boys, and Bill Monroe and Joan Leonard. They’ve been With the banjo book selling, up a friendship with Martin, a on Nantucket for three weeks, construction. We had a nice chat stuck it out. I also want to say how hosted a bluegrass show on his Blue Grass Boys, names that together more than 40 years he and his wife moved to Colo- longtime banjo player, after the starting in mid-August. Jane was prior to kickoff with Ed Malmstrom impressed I am with the low-key, WKCR — the only one of its kind would come to define the genre, and have a 31-year-old son, Will, rado to do just that, settling success of Hot Rize. so very happy to hold and love the ’65 and Tom O’Connor ’63. modest way the contributors to newest member of our family and Sad news about one of our this column typically describe their in New York. “At 17 or 18 I be- and broadcast them all citywide. a filmmaker in Los Angeles. down by a dirt road outside “I stumbled across Hot Rize especially overjoyed that her entire classmates came to me from Walter accomplishments. came important, if you can call “A friend calls me ‘the Forrest In Ithaca, Wernick founded Boulder. Soon thereafter Wernick when I got Sirius Bluegrass ra- family was gathered together in Stein ’63. He writes, “Leonard “Since leaving the College, I it that, as the guy who played Gump of bluegrass,’ because I the band Country Cooking and produced his first solo record, Dr. dio. Pete’s playing was superbly the very special town of Sconset, Don Diego Jr. had been a friend have led a peripatetic life. I spent bluegrass on the radio,” he says. was able to get my face into so started making music for the Banjo Steps Out, and put togeth- clear and melodic. Always where we have been summering and neighbor of mine for years. several years in the grand journey Suddenly the kid who grew up many situations,” Wernick says. then-new label Rounder Re- er a band named Hot Rize, after interesting and attractive to since about 1980. The warmth and He passed away of liver cancer at of self-discovery. I actually earned the secret ingredient the ear,” Martin says. “Pete is a love she felt was permanently home on September 17, 2013. He my sustenance for a time as a in Martha White Self- great teacher and opinionator. I and clearly expressed on her face fought it to the end but was sent model for college art classes, before Rising Flour, an iconic have consulted with him many during those few weeks. That was home on hospice from Memorial- diet and pounds reared their ugly sponsor of Nashville’s times on songs I was writing indeed a blessing and a great gift Sloan Kettering. Lenny was a head. I also was employed for sev- for all of us. I’m so very grateful for volunteer EMT for years, and we eral years by an import firm and Grand Ole Opry. and playing technique on stage. that and for the fact that she is now rode together on a volunteer EMS traveled extensively throughout With Tim O’Brien He’s a good adviser.” indeed free from pain. crew. He was a fascinating person Africa, picking up several native on lead vocals, Wernick helped Martin with “So now I have an entire new and storyteller with a million dialects in my journeys, including mandolin and fiddle, his banjo playing, and Hot Rize calculus to ponder for my future. friends. At his funeral, I sang Sans Swahili. I obtained an accounting Wernick on banjo played the actor’s wedding to As many wiser than I have noted: Souci and thanked him for his degree from a local college and and harmony vocals, Anne Stringfield. In spring 2005, No major decisions should be service to alma mater through the have managed a small investment Charles Sawtelle on Martin asked Wernick if he made in the first year following the Alumni Representative Commit- fund for 37 years. Nothing spec- guitar and vocals and wanted to join him and Scruggs death of a dearly loved one. tee, of which I was regional chair tacular but it pays the bills and Nick Forster — who (who died in 2012) at The New “When a dear one passes, the for 28 years. We will miss him here allows me to visit excellent foreign memories become treasures. Keep in Monmouth County, N.J.” museums for a month every year went on to host the Yorker Festival for a talk on those treasures close to your heart. nationally syndicated bluegrass and banjos. As a sort “I send my best regards to our radio show eTown of last-minute bonus, the Let- classmates.” — on bass, Hot Rize terman people called — having Last summer, Larry Nelson ’66 made it halfway (as climbed to the top of read of the festival talk — and planned) around the American Great Loop in his the bluegrass moun- asked them to play the show. Rich Forzani tain. Through the “When I think back to my 66 413 Banta Ave. 48-ft. motor yacht. 1980s they regularly Columbia days,” Wernick says, Garfield, NJ 07026 appeared on NPR’s “if I thought in my late 50s I’d [email protected] Larry Nelson, a former Navy so that I can indulge my love of A Prairie Home Com� be on the equivalent of Johnny Gentlemen, it has been a year since SEAL writes, “This summer I made early Impressionism. I also teach panion and The Nash- Carson’s show playing the I first reached out to you directly it halfway (as planned) around the art history (unpaid) at a local night ville Network’s Ralph banjo with Earl Scruggs, the for information on your lives. The American Great Loop in my 48-ft. school. I had a close financial call Emery Show, and greatest banjo player in the initial response was outstanding motor yacht Grandad and Me [RF: several years ago when I lost a con- often appeared on history of the planet, I’d say, but now things seem to be tapering This is the navigation route around siderable amount to a well-known the television show ‘What else? Am I also going to off. Remember, you don’t have the eastern United States via the and now incarcerated fund owner Austin City Limits. Hot be the king of the world?’” to provide earth-shattering news Mississippi, the Great Lakes and I thought was a close friend. I have Rize produced nine every time; an update or an inter- the Intra-Coastal Waterway.] My somewhat recovered but it is still albums and became a To see Wernick perform, includ� esting/fun anecdote would be fine. grandson, Clayton (13), joined me occasionally a struggle. Caveat Tell us how you misplaced your in Oswego, N.Y., for a rough ride investor.” hit international band, ing his turn on The Late Show with David Letterman, go to dentures and then sat on them, or across Lake Ontario followed by playing 47 states and something else along those lines. smooth sailing across Canada, the Web Extras at college.columbia. 15 foreign countries Tom Chorba and his wife, length of Lake Michigan, across Il- Albert Zonana and becoming one of edu/cct. Celeste, suffered substantial dam- linois and down the Mississippi to 425 Arundel Rd. the best-selling blue- age to their Fire Island house as a stop south of St. Louis, where he 67 Goleta, CA 93117 Pete Wernick ’66, ’73 GSAS (far left) performs with (left to right) Nick Forster, Tim O’Brien and Bryan Sutton at grass acts of all time. Michael R. Shea ’10 Arts is a result of Hurricane Sandy. Tom had to leave to go back to school. [email protected] the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado. “The thing about a freelance writer in New York has now been engaged in more The boat is ‘on the hard’ in De- than a year of battle with various mopolis, Ala., waiting for Clayton It’s been 50 years since the March PHOTO: NATHAN RIST Pete,” Forster says, City. bureaucracies to gain permission to to finish school so we can pick up on Washington, the assassination rebuild as well as to receive com- again next summer and cross our of President Kennedy and … our

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 68 69

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES arrival as freshmen on campus. Arthur Spector District of New York. Susy to the anchor desk at the NBC park.’ (That’s Morningside Park, a was a time when Christopher I have some good news of my Chuck Silberman and his wife, Alas, I only have two pieces of 68 271 Central Park West I sometimes have the unhappy affiliate in Des Moines. Changing no-man’s land.) Donald said we should go see B.B. own to share: My daughter, Abby Susan, were thrilled to welcome news, both of which reflect on the New York, NY 10024 task of informing you of the professions to mortgage banking “The most notable (annoying) King at the Fillmore East. ‘Some Oberman ’10 (now Finkel), married their first grandchild, Max Hudson loss of classmates. arthurbspector@ passing of a classmate, and I am seemed like the obvious path to advertisement on the radio was for albino dude from Texas is opening Bryan Finkel at the Essex House in Goldstein, on June 27. The proud Jeffrey Herrmann writes, “In gmail.com especially saddened to note the take (really). I started at the bottom Dennison, the men’s clothier, Route for him.’ I’ve seen Johnny Winter a NYC on September 28. See photo uncle is Jeff Silberman ’08. the November/December 2010 passing of Mark Drucker. I invite for First Union Mortgage, then on to 22, Union, N.J. — ‘money talks, few times since then. near the CC ’10 column. Sheldon Danziger is the new Class Notes there was a long com- Happy holidays and best wishes classmates to share remembrances AmerUs, Wells Fargo, Principal Fi- nobody walks’ — presumably be- “When I was courting my wife, As this column reflects, there is president of the Russell Sage munication from me about a group for the New Year! Hard to believe of Mark. He will be remembered, nancial Group and, finally, e.v.p. at cause you could only get there by Sharon, in 1968, her family came to news and there are memories worth Foundation. Previously he was the of us from the Class of ’67 who had we’re about to roll into 2014. As at the very least, as our class presi- American Home Mortgage Invest- car. The standard fare in Chinese New York for Thanksgiving. I took sharing with classmates. May I ask Henry J. Meyer Distinguished Uni- been getting together for dinner you can see, we have an empty dent both sophomore and senior ment Corp.; I commuted from Des ‘cuisine’ featured column A (cheap her to see Jimi Hendrix live at Phil- you to be one of our classmates to versity Professor of Public Policy, and conversation for a number of column but — after such a success- years. For those (including myself) Moines to New York every week for stuff like egg fu yung) and column harmonic Hall [now Avery Fisher email me an item for the next issue? Gerald R. Ford School of Public years. I now have to convey the ful reunion — I suppose it’s OK who knew Mark well and shared a four years … pretty dumb. B (upscale stuff like sweet and sour Hall] in Lincoln Center. Orchestra Policy, and director of the National sad news that Alan Candiotti, one for us to take a breather. I want full close friendship with him, he will “Meanwhile, Susy and I were pork). Family dining, a few people seats, $7.50 each. We left with only Poverty Center at Michigan. of our group, died suddenly on reports for future issues, though. always be an important part of graced with two darling daughters, shared a few dishes. half our hearing.” Leo G. Kailas Ralph Bradburd’s book, The August 19, just days before he was Please write me at either address at our College recollections; we had one in 1987 and one in 1989. Un- “Chemical Bank. If you needed Steve Steindel writes: “It has Reitler Kailas & Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giv- to assume the position of interim the top of the column or use CCT’s many discussions on matters social fortunately, neither was able to see money for the weekend, you better been a terrible juncture for the 70 Rosenblatt ing, which he co-authored with dean of the College of Liberal Arts webform: college.columbia.edu/ and political, relating both to the the extraordinary advantages of a get down there around 110th Street Pittsburgh Penguins but one fan 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. Michael Weinstein of the Robin at Drew University. We will never cct/submit_class_note. campus and to the larger outside Columbia education, choosing to and wait in the teller’s line for half is returning home all the same. New York, NY 10022 Hood Foundation, came out in forget Al’s brilliance and wit and world. I can easily recall his smile. attend schools in Philadelphia and an hour. Don’t try the Chemical My wife, Lisa, and I are about to [email protected] May. The book makes the case that shall miss him dearly.” For me, a treasured part of each Boston instead. Today, one daugh- Bank diagonally across the street; exercise a reverse exodus, leaving philanthropic organizations and REUNION WEEKEND Alan came to Columbia after reunion has been catching up with ter works for the Federal Energy you don’t have an account there. the Boston Bruins, Patriots and Red I was overwhelmed by the enthu- the donors who fund them should MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 graduating at 16 as the valedictori- Mark, and it is hard to think he Regulatory Commission chasing On the walk up to Columbia from Sox for a new home in the Squirrel siastic response to my request for rely on benefit-cost analysis in ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS an of Francis Lewis H.S. in Queens; will not be among us next spring. after bad guys who manipulate 105th Street just east of Broadway Hill area of Pittsburgh, where we news. I even heard from classmates allocating their resources and ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott he earned a B.A. in mathematics The last communication I had with trading or do fraudulent trading was a Chock full o’ Nuts, great previously served Congregation I had not heard from in a long time. elaborates on ways to do those [email protected] followed in 1973 by a Ph.D. from him was an email exchange about in electricity and/or natural gas, coffee with cream and donuts. Beth Shalom as rabbi and rebbitzen Professor Samuel Estreicher, benefit-cost analyses correctly. 212-851-9148 Harvard. He arrived on the Drew forming the Reunion Committee. while the younger one attends law Also there was an Orange Julius, for 23 years. What could possibly a leading authority on labor and Ralph also became the director DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova campus in 1980 and was a profes- Ron Rosenblatt ’74 TC sent school in Washington, D.C. where I could pick up a large cup, be the attraction? Daughter Shiri employment law, has joined Schulte of Williams College’s Center for [email protected] sor of mathematics and computer his first report for CCT: “During “Susy is retired from TV and whipped up with a raw egg for an ’01 Penn and her husband, Josh Roth & Zabel as of counsel in Environmental Studies, which 212-851-7833 science before being named assis- the past 45 years, as I have lived from her second career as an extra fee, to last me through my Friedman, are committed to raising addition to being the Dwight D. offers six majors in environmental tant v.p. for university technology. Michael Oberman my own odyssey of life, I have executive for Planned Parenthood first class. There was also a grocer, their three children in Pittsburgh Opperman Professor of Law and science and environmental policy At Drew, he earned the President’s Kramer Levin Naftalis & thoroughly enjoyed reading about of the Heartland. I retired from one of those famous New York and invited us to come. It didn’t director of the Center for Labor and and maintains a 2,600-acre forest Award for Distinguished Teaching 69 Frankel the amazing accomplishments, mortgage banking, played a lot ones with nice fruit stands set up take long to realize how blessed Employment Law at NYU. Sam for research and teaching. He di- in 1992. Alan lived in Bernardsville, 1177 Avenue of the both personal and professional, of of golf, then started a financial on the sidewalk. we would be to be near them on an was editor-in-chief of the Columbia vides his time between the center N.J., and was his family’s historian, Americas classmates. I have never felt the services business with two young “In spring 1968, Columbia and the school’s Department of an active member of Congregation New York, NY 10036 need or desire to communicate partners who work very hard, are started building its new gym in the Economics. B’nai Israel in Basking Ridge, N.J., moberman@ or portray the long and winding fabulous at their jobs and think neighborhood’s Morningside Park. Sheldon Danziger ’70 is the newest president of the My friend Frank Motley and a lifelong Yankees fan. kramerlevin.com path that has been my past 45 that I am way smarter than I really Black students protested by taking reported the birth of his second Bob Burdette wrote, “When years in this forum. However, it am. Please do not tell them differ- over the arts and sciences building, Russell Sage Foundation. great-grandchild. the Summer issue of Columbia On August 26, I represented our now seems like the time to do so. ently! Thanks to all of you who and then the Students for a Demo- Another Bronx Science friend College Today arrived, I noticed class and co-represented our “It doesn’t seem so long ago crossed my path those four years cratic Society took over many other and distinguished professor at with great sadness the passing of decade in the Alumni Procession at that I walked into my first CC class [at CC] and helped me become the buildings. A long stand-off ended almost daily basis, so our answer Law Review as well as a law clerk Northwestern, Robert Launay, Joel Linsider. He was the gentlest Convocation. Convocation, which and realized that I was in over my very lucky and happy man that I in a bloody bust. The morning was ‘of course.’ Our daughter Sara to Supreme Court Judge Lewis survived a heart attack in July and human being I believe I have this year welcomed the Class of head. Suffice it to say that I owe am today.” after, someone played Bob Dylan’s ’99 and her husband, Andrew Powell Jr. I remember Sam during is now, alas, reduced to ramping ever met. He was a close friend of 2017, cannot match the majesty my graduation to my high school Roger Podesta was named ‘Desolation Row’ loudly out a Dauber ’00, have four children freshman week in Carman, when down his food intake and ramp- Mayer Freed, who passed away and excitement of Class Day, when buddy and two-year roommate Litigator of the Week by AmLaw’s dorm window onto Amsterdam in Brookline, Mass., and we will he was debating the true meaning ing up his exercise. But at least in 2010. The three of us had many a larger group of alumni march in in Hartley Hall, Bob Kahan (the Litigation Daily on July 25. Roger is Avenue. The editorial in Spectator visit whenever we can. Our third of one of the classics that had been Robert is more or less back in the long conversations in Furnald Hall honor of the graduates in cap and voice of WKCR); my senior year a litigation partner at Debevoise & was blank [an empty space sur- daughter, Sivya, a 2004 graduate of recommended for summer reading. groove. when we were freshmen. I joined gown. Still, on a sunny late sum- roommate, Tom Garnevicus; and Plimpton. He successfully repre- rounded by a black border]. That The George Washington Univer- Sam has reached the highest level of Richard Smolev’s second novel, them occasionally for a meal at the mer day, much like a sunny spring close friends Jim Alloy, Max Carey, sented American Airlines against gym was not built. sity, and her husband, Keith, a 2003 accomplishment in the field of law In Praise of Angels, based upon the Jewish Theological Seminary, a few day, the campus looks great. And Rick Rose and Marty Domres, all negligence claims brought by the “I was home for Easter break graduate of Maryland, live in Min- and we should all be proud of him! Credit Mobilier of America scandal blocks away from campus. I also there was much excitement among of whom continually encouraged developer of the World Trade Cen- when Martin Luther King Jr. was neapolis. We enjoy time with our Another classmate of whom we surrounding the building of the once visited the conservative con- those starting their College experi- me to do the work and to have fun. ter, who sought to hold the airlines assassinated. In Mt. Lebo, we only grandchildren and look forward to should be proud is my old friend transcontinental railroad, was pub- gregation where they worshipped ence. Even as we approach our I graduated on time by the barest whose planes were flown into the had the news to know what was lots of airplane connections.” Dr. Paul Rosen, a double-boarded lished in July. at their invitation. They were both 45th reunion I am sure many of us of margins and with less than a 4.0 towers on 9-11 liable for the result- going on, and saw many ghettos From Bob Rabinoff: “Just physician in family medicine and David Lehman says, “[At this extraordinary men. recall with fondness at least some grade point average. ing damage to the towers. On July in flames. My flight back was to wanted to brag: My daughter Eve psychiatry and neurology. Paul “I have been retired for more part of our “Freshman Week” — a “After graduation and my failure 18, a judge of the Southern District LaGuardia at a time when a taxi successfully defended her Ph.D. was the principal investigator of than 11 years. I spent my career name and set of events quite differ- to pass the draft board’s physical of New York blocked the claims. across town cost $5. As the taxi dissertation at Boston College. She a study looking into the utility as a legislative attorney for the ent from today’s orientation. standards, I married and began From William Stark, now departed from the relative safety of wrote on Aristotle’s theory of per- of feverfew (T. Parthenium) as a Submit Your Photo Congressional Research Service at Speaking of reunion, which is a quite enjoyable teaching career professor of biology at St. Louis the busily guarded corners on one ception and the impact it has on his safer alternative to NSAIDS for Submitting a photo for the Library of Congress. Through scheduled for Thursday, May 29– in a public high school. In 1974, I University, come some memories avenue and plunged into the nar- ethics. She now teaches at Boston the treatment of osteoarthritis. He Class Notes is easier the years I traveled extensively. My Sunday, June 1, planning continues received a master’s from TC and, of our College years: “When I row and lonely streets toward the University. My son Joseph and his had a clinical trial published in favorite destination was French apace. This column is filed a bit with my wife, promptly packed was a freshman, Marat/Sade was next avenue, I got pretty nervous. wife, Kirsten Wickelgren (daughter Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s than ever! Polynesia. I hope to return. Recent- more that two months ahead of everything we owned into our VW a popular Broadway show (about “Special thanks go to Allison of the late Wayne Wickelgren and Journal in July. Paul works with an ONLINE by clicking ly, I vicariously visited Bora Bora publication, and I expect you will van and moved to Moscow (not the persecution and assassination Steele, the night bird, the all-night Norma Graham of Columbia’s underserved patient population in “Contact Us” at by purchasing a watercolor by an by now have received updates on that one), Idaho. The U of I was of Jean-Paul Marat as performed DJ. She liked to play two versions psychology department), are the South Bronx and North Central college.columbia.edu/cct. artist whose work I discovered specific events. Mike Schell has enamored enough with my two by the inmates of the asylum at of the same song back to back. So beginning their careers as assistant Brooklyn in addition to conduct- MAIL by sending the and bought in 1982 in Tahiti. Even again graciously agreed to host Columbia degrees to offer me a Clarendon under the direction do I. I thought she liked ‘Scarbor- professors of mathematics at ing clinical research and teaching paintings can conjure up the lush our opening cocktail reception on T.A. position and, three years later, of the Marquis de Sade). Initia- ough Fair’ particularly, playing Georgia Tech. My son Daniel has medical students and residents. photo and accompanying tropical beauty of the place for me. Thursday. We will gather on cam- a Ph.D. tion was not telling freshmen to it twice in a row, then later found a couple of years to go toward He has a strong interest in helping caption information to It has been quite some time since I pus on Friday night for another “Then it was on to Manhattan change from the express to the out that the version in The Graduate his doctorate in philosophy at the develop and deliver primary care Class Notes Editor, have visited New York.” reception. On Saturday, we will (not that one), Kansas, and a profes- local on the IRT at 96th Street. was doubled. Fly high, Allison, University of Toronto, and my services to mentally ill patients Columbia College Today, Please write. You can send a have both a class lunch and a class sorship at Kansas State in education The local let you off at 116th and award winner who died young daughter Shoshanah is an R.N. and with limited resources and limited Columbia Alumni Center, note to my email address, at the dinner. I am pleased to report that and economics. Divorced, married Broadway, between Columbia and and lives in my memory each mother of Nathaniel (15 months). exposure to primary care medicine. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, top of the column, or by using Nick Garaufis has agreed to be our again (to Susy, a TV news anchor), Barnard. The express let you off time ‘The Night Bird’ comes on I’m still in Fairfield, Iowa, doing He sends a special hello to all of 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. CCT’s webform: college.columbia. dinner speaker. He is currently a tenured, seven more years of farther east. ‘Oh, there’s Colum- my iPod (yes, I found her ethereal freelance programming and sliding his fellow Bronx Science alums in edu/cct/submit_class_note. U.S. district judge for the Eastern teaching, then gave it up to follow bia, up that hill through that interludes on the Internet).There toward retirement (gasp).” the class.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 70 71

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES writing], my New and Selected Poems New Paltz Professor Gerald ‘Jerry’ terparts, under primitive canvas organize Amnesty adoption groups travel grant to study Ostpolitik. the way home to see the recently cct/submit_class_note. Restaurant, whose facade was is set to publish on November 5. A Benjamin ’70 GSAS; this one, by in the woods, sleeping on straw in the Midwest and South. In 1983, It has been 43 years — 1970 was renovated Yale University Art Gal- James Minter enjoyed catching featured on Seinfeld, has added or- big moment in the life of a writer. David Eichenthal. and leaves. They assembled for when the regional office in Boston considerably closer in time to the lery. My wife said, ‘If Harvard and up with old friends at reunion but ganic salads to its menu of greasy “It has been a busy year. I “I also wrote the chapter on the three days, along with more than was enlarged, he was named Munich Agreement [i.e., 1938] than Yale have great art museums, what he missed some, and hopes to see diner food that we all had so often continue as series editor of The Best New York State Attorney General’s 10,000 other re-enactors, marched, Northeast regional director. it is to the present day — a sobering about Columbia?’ even more at our 50th. (He hopes (also outdoor dining). In fact, there American Poetry, which I launched Office in The Oxford Handbook of counter-marched (usually uphill) Josh’s papers document his thought. And it was my wife’s first “I said, ‘We just went to the the entertainment then will be the are so many restaurants on Broad- in 1988. We celebrated our 25th New York State Government, also and then went into ‘battle.’ On the decades of AIUSA leadership, his visit to Berlin since 1983, when her Columbia art museum; it’s at 82nd “apparently now bionic” Joe Seld- way between 106th Street and year with an anniversary volume edited by Jerry and published at final day, Ralph’s unit, the 3rd New work in developing the organiza- family drove to East Berlin from the and Fifth, not on campus.’” ner.) A highlight of Alumni Reunion 116th Street that now have outside of highlights from the first 25 the end of 2012. In July I became Jersey, stood behind a stone wall at tion’s membership and staff, and Soviet Union. Standing at the Bran- Reflecting on Peter Darrow’s Weekend for James was the walk- dining that one wag actually called volumes in the series. That came the perspective and commentary the extreme right flank of the Union his role in organizing and leading denburg Gate (eastern side), her recent passing, Doug Altabef ing tour of the High Line led by his the area “Paris on the Hudson.” out in April, with selections made editor of Public Administration Re- line to repulse, once again, Pickett’s the Northeast Regional Office, father told her that he might not live noted, “The creeping intimations Carman 8 floormate Steven Cantor. I think that may be exaggerating by former poet laureate Robert view, the leading journal in public Charge. A great time was had by all, including development and event to see it, but surely in her lifetime of mortality are unsettling. They Pat Sharkey was once again things a bit although, to be fair, I Pinsky. In September came Volume administration.” especially as they shook hands and planning. the Berlin Wall would come down. also should, in my view, strengthen named a “Super Lawyer” in Texas; recently counted 10 restaurants 26, The Best American Poetry 2013, Anthony Grant ’80 SIPA, who embraced the ‘resurrected’ Rebels Josh noted in the press release, He overshot — he is alive and well, one’s resolve to make the most he remains with the firm of Jackson with outdoor tables in just the two which begins with a foreword by has lived a most interesting and when the show was finally over! “I feel very honored to see my and the wall has been history for of the time that we are allotted.” Walker. blocks below 114th Street. I’m sure me (as the series editor) and an exciting life, reports: “After a very Ralph adds, “How many of you Amnesty International papers more than a generation.” Hence, Doug will retire from his And there you have it. Until we there was no outdoor dining while introduction by guest editor Denise long time, I visited the campus this out there can say you helped re- being collected so responsibly by Looking to the next generation, firm at the end of the year and tweet again. we were on campus! Duhamel.” summer to show family around. pulse Pickett and save the Union? Columbia’s CHRDR. I hope that Arnold notes that his older son, pursue opportunities in Israel, Bordering the southern side of David also notes, “In 1970 I was I was overcome with nostalgia. Columbia was represented!” the history of AIUSA will inspire William, is applying to college this where he’s lived for a number of the main campus, the Cathedral REUNION WEEKEND lucky enough to win a Euretta J. For the lion’s share of the past 40 Joel Mintz and his wife of 38 both researchers and activists to year, and Columbia is on the list. years while commuting to work in Church of St. John the Divine (the MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Kellett Fellowship for two years years I have worked overseas and years, Meri-Jane Rochelson ’71 Bar- join our efforts and advance the “Fingers crossed,” he says. NYC. “While I have enjoyed my world’s largest cathedral), now has ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS of study at Oxford or Cambridge. presently work in Tanzania as nard, welcomed a second grandchild cause of human rights.” When I invited Charlie Gardner work and have been a vital part of wondrous new carvings around ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott I chose Clare College, Cambridge, managing director for Exim Bank. when their son, Daniel, and Daniel’s Josh was deeply engaged in to bring us up to date on his life, he my firm, I feel like I am old enough its portals and a soaring south [email protected] where John Berryman had spent This year, Exim was shortlisted by wife, Sarah Allison, welcomed Karl AIUSA’s major programmatic responded, “OK, I’ll bite.” Charlie and young enough to embrace tower of hand-carved blocks. To 212-851-9148 his seasons as a Kellett. Other note- African Banker magazine as one of David Mintz into the world in Ann initiatives such as the Campaign practices psychiatry in Greenwich, new chapters. Aliyah [immigrating the north, The Riverside Church DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova worthy Columbia-educated poets the continent’s top five retail banks. Arbor on July 8. Joel was desig- to Abolish the Death Penalty and Conn. “Paid my dues as depart- to Israel] of course is a major new and Grant’s Tomb are magnifi- [email protected] had studied there as well. On April The bank also runs subsidiaries nated the 2012–2013 Distinguished the Campaign Against Torture. ment chair at Greenwich Hospital chapter.” cent though largely unchanged. 212-851-7833 23 of this year I returned to Clare elsewhere in East Africa (Djibouti Law Professor of the Year by Nova He worked extensively on is- for long enough, and gave it up. Finally, some of you undoubted- But further north, between 125th at the invitation of the college’s and Comoros Islands), so I travel Southeastern University, an award sues related to Israel, helping to Also gave up my academic appoint- ly saw Jerry Groopman’s October Fred Bremer Street and 133rd Street, the new master. The poetry reading I gave frequently. Earlier, banking peers in given for outstanding achievement reorganize the Israeli Amnesty ment at Cornell but I am still on 13 review of the new book by 532 W. 111th St. Manhattanville campus expansion in the master’s lodge preceded a Africa elected me president of the in scholarship, classroom teaching Section in 1985, and also conveyed the faculty roster at the Columbia Columbia English Professor Rachel 74 New York, NY 10025 is rising from Broadway to 12th champagne reception in the Fel- 16-country West African Bankers’ and public service. Daniel continued AIUSA’s concerns to American University Center for Psychoana- Adams, Raising Henry: A Memoir of [email protected] Avenue with new buildings for the lows’ Garden adjacent to the Cam. Association. Even earlier, I held a family educational tradition when Jewish organizations. As a special- lytic Training and Research. I want Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery Business School, the Engineering — like both his parents and Joel’s ist on Russian and Soviet history to be a simple country doc now, just in The New York Review of Books. “New and improved!” the TV ads School, the School of the Arts and father — he earned the terminal and politics, he became a strong taking care of people and giving The review began with a reminis- scream nightly, but rarely can you SIPA. Up by Baker Field (now the This past summer, Arnold Horowitz ’72 was on the degree in an academic field (in his advocate on the behalf of prisoners them all I’ve learned.” cence about our days at the College discern a difference. The same Baker Athletics Complex) is the case, a Ph.D. in English and Jewish of conscience in the Soviet Union. Charlie is a member of weekly and noted how some things have cannot be said about the new and new Campbell Sports Center. road with his family, traveling to Prague and Berlin. Studies from Michigan). He also worked to establish and peer supervision and men’s bible changed: “Homer and Herodotus, improved (compared to our days) You can see all this and more Edwin P. Rutan II of Park City, mentor an AIUSA Soviet Coordina- study groups, saying, “Our church Sophocles and Plato, Aristotle and Columbia campus and Morning- when you return to campus for our Utah, writes, “I retired in June after tion Group in the Boston area. and our clubs are central to our Dante, Shakespeare and Milton. side Heights neighborhood! Yes, 40th Alumni Reunion Weekend, The sunset was breathtaking — it Citibank positions in Congo and 10 years as Salt Lake City’s city An accomplished independent lives. … Our third kid graduated All names engraved in the edifice the red brick dorms are still there Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1! was the first real spring day — and Greece — both fascinating. attorney. I also received the Utah scholar, Josh authored the first gen- from Kenyon this year. Freedom. of Columbia’s Butler Library. They with their classic green copper Tours of campus will be available then came dinner with benedic- “Wearing other, non-banking chapter of the American Society for eral history of the Soviet dissident To celebrate, my wife, Janice, and I may be ‘dead white men,’ but to roofs. And the lower campus is and we are hoping to hold events tions and toasts, a printed menu professional hats, I have taken on Public Administration’s Distin- movement, Soviet Dissidents: Their hiked for a week in the Dolomites undergraduates in the 1960s, they still punctuated by the imposing in some of the new spaces. You and a superb bottle of port. Made consultancies in places such as guished Service Award. In addition, Struggle for Human Rights. He also in September. All three kids work seemed very much alive in the Low Library, offset by the equally won’t want to miss your chance to this old boy feel blessed.” Moscow and Yekaterinburg for I’m writing a regimental history is the author of Tangled Loyalties: in NYC, and we have a 1-year-old classes where we engaged their imposing Butler Library. But the be part of this dynamic moment in Terry Bazes’ book, Lizard World: General Motors and the State De- of the 179th New York Volunteers, The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg grandkid, Charlie Gardner (the texts and debated their ideas. The feel of being on campus — and Columbia’s history! the Graphic Novel, illustrated by partment. Being also a SIPA gradu- the Civil War regiment that my and Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s 5th), who happily lives just down skills in thinking that we sought wandering around the neighbor- Speaking of the big weekend, Dr. Louis Netter, will be published in ate, I really enjoy and hope I am great-great-grandfather served in, at Life. the street.” could be applied to professions hood — is certainly different. Robert Kraft writes, “I am looking February. “Readers fond of dark contributing on behalf of Columbia 179thnyvolunteers.org.” If you are not receiving the ’71C Sadness inevitably intrudes, he like law and medicine and finance, Depending on when you were forward to the reunion. Where have comedy and the macabre may get to the international arena.” eNews and would like to, please adds: “Both of my parents died this but we felt the pure scholarship of last there, you may notice that a 40 years gone?” He is in private a kick out of this oddly compel- Ralph Allemano participated in email me. You can send updates year. Dad had been a distinguished our professors was the pinnacle new student center has replaced practice doing plastic surgery in ling (and sometimes disturbingly the 150th anniversary re-enactment Jim Shaw for Class Notes to either of the ad- professor of psychiatry at Yale. That of intellectual life. Some 45 years Ferris Booth Hall and that there are Forest Hills and is president of The graphic) tale,” says Library Journal. of the Battle of Gettysburg at the 139 North 22nd St. dresses at the top of the column or has been difficult and leaves me later, students still begin their additional dorms in the East Cam- Medical Society of the County of Another old friend, Dan Feld- end of June and beginning of 71 Philadelphia, PA 19103 through CCT’s webform: college. and my sibs to try to maintain the education at my alma mater with pus (between the Law School and Queens. His older son, Michael ’05, man, sent this note: “I happily July in Gettysburg, Pa. Ralph is a [email protected] columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ old family farm in the Berkshires. The Iliad. But the competition to what we knew as the SIA Building) was in investment banking with the teach full-time at John Jay College member of an American Civil War note. I’m sure we are all going through read it on Morningside Heights and at 113th and Broadway. More Bank of America until “the lure of of Criminal Justice and do some re-enactment society in Britain News is light this month — just Remember back 47 Septembers similar things.” has become much more fierce. recently, a 188,000-sq.-ft. science the high-tech world and San Fran- technical legal work one day a (yes!) and participates in events in one item: Columbia University ago, and the feelings we had, includ- Arthur Ensroth and his wife Freshmen are drawn from a pool of building arose on 120th and Broad- cisco [proved] too strong.” Mike is week for New York State Comp- the United States alongside other Libraries/Information Services’ ing of adventure, as we entered Co- recently visited NYC, which evoked applicants with stratospheric SATs way (above the Dodge Physical Fit- now doing strategic management at troller Tom DiNapoli. enthusiasts who go to great lengths Center for Human Rights Docu- lumbia College. We are still connected. these thoughts: “Columbia taught and near-perfect GPAs, winners ness Center). The South Field dust Yahoo! Bob’s younger son, David, “Other than having at long last to depict accurately the arms, uni- mentation & Research has acquired me to love NYC but I prefer living of Intel competitions and math bowl has been replaced by grassy “recently returned to the United returned to the general Columbia forms and drill of their chosen unit. the papers of Amnesty Internation- in the Boston area today. We were Olympiads.” fields that are surrounded by Eng- States after a year of intense study vicinity (my wife, Cecilia, and I Everything is an accurate portrayal al activist Joshua Rubenstein. Paul S. Appelbaum down for the weekend to see the Thank heavens for the old days. lish gardens. The lone tennis court in Singapore,” where he was learn- moved to the Upper West Side in except, of course, for the British Based on information from 39 Claremont Ave., #24 exhibit at the Met about American by the John Jay cafeteria is now a ing about industrial design for the November 2012), I only have typi- accents and the obvious age of the CHRDR, I report: 72 New York, NY 10027 art and the Civil War. Nineteenth- beautiful plaza. entertainment industry (computer- cal academic world-type news: My individuals. Josh was a staff member for Am- [email protected] century American painting is some- Barry Etra Our favorite restaurants on ized 3D design of characters and fifth book, The Art of the Watchdog: Ralph’s invitation to Gettsyburg nesty International USA (AIUSA) thing I learned to love at Columbia, 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE Broadway are still (mostly) there, backgrounds for video games). Fighting Fraud, Waste, Abuse and came from some re-enactors he for 37 years, 1975–2012. He became This past summer Arnold Horo­ thanks to Professor of Art History 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 albeit in a “toned-up” version. The David will continue his education Corruption in Government, officially met and became fast friends with a member of Amnesty USA in 1974, witz was on the road with his Barbara Novak ’50 Barnard et al. [email protected] Campus Inn diner is now called at Red Engine School of Arts and comes out January 1 but appar- when he went to Fredericksburg, helping found Boston’s Adoption family, traveling to Prague and Then we went to Birdland on 44th Deluxe and advertises, “Try our Design, an industry school in Los ently the warehouses will have Va., in December 2012 to watch the Group 54. In 1975, he joined the Berlin. He writes, “The trip brought Street to hear Pablo Ziegler and a Post-reunion apathy has reared its new coffee: Hazelnut Roast.” The Angeles. some copies ahead of time. My re-enactment of the famous battle staff and was appointed AIUSA forcefully to mind the passage of set of nuevo tango. In 1968 I was ugly head. Send, send, send. Send! old M.I.L.L. Luncheonette (the While on a West Coast theme, 2010 book, Tales from the Sausage there (again, a 150th anniversary). New England coordinator. Between time: It was my first time in Prague excited about going to jazz clubs Write to my email address above name rumored to have come from we received word from Patrick Factory: Making Laws in New York For the Gettysburg trip, the troops 1976 and 1978, Josh, on behalf of the since 1970, when Professor Vojtech but I can better afford it now. or contribute online using CCT’s the initials of owners Mo, Izzy and Dowd, retired president and CEO State, was co-authored by SUNY camped, as did their 1863 coun- national office, led initial efforts to Mastny helped me get a summer “We stopped in New Haven on webform: college.columbia.edu/ Larry) is now Mill Korean. Tom’s of Coventry Health Care, a major

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 72 73

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES national health care provider. He Odyssey in my freshman year. busy law practice; four kids (two Vietnam-era chant, “I’d be Ho-Ho- writes, “After many moves, my While I was looking up his email still under 10); husband; Hudson Home for Christmas, if it wasn’t wife got to choose where to settle address in the alumni directory (al- River Park activist; Community for Ho Chi Minh!” I look forward down in retirement. She chose ways close at hand), I stumbled on Board member; president of a new to seeing you all in May! Stars Fade, Michael Musto ’76 Keeps Shining Eugene, Ore. Runner-up was Colo- a listing for Richard Popper Ph.D. nonprofit, Advocates for Justice; rado, where I lived for 20 years.” ’83 GSAS. The 2006 directory I and Democratic State Committee B y E t h an R o u e n ’04J, ’11 B u s i n e ss (In light of the recent flooding in have at work said he was a “Group member for the Lower West Side of Randy Nichols Colorado, this is yet another lesson Leader, Ocean Spray Cranberries” Manhattan.” 734 S. Linwood Ave. on why we should listen to our in Plano, Texas. I had visions of And you thought you were busy! 75 Baltimore, MD 21224 f the people Michael During his time at appearances on TV Musto ’76 writes about the College, Musto shows on stations wives!) Patrick has two children Richard being in hip waders in a It’s amazing what you can dis- [email protected] and five grandchildren. He posts cranberry bog. Further research re- cover by trolling through the Web. had the ability to dance was honing his voice, ranging from E! to PBS. frequently on Facebook of his vealed that last July he became the Here are three items of interest I Jim Dolan and his wife, Jasmin, around irrelevance the way wrestling with whether But whether champi- world travels. CEO of Pervyam & Kroll Research recently found: are busy taking in the sights, Ihe does, we might still be doing to focus on acting or oning rights, comforting Dan Angius wrote in from Corp., a marketing research firm. It First, in the credits of the popu- sounds and slurps of their new en- the hustle and walking like an writing and trying to the afflicted or trashing Walnut Creek, Calif., saying he is ends up that, according to a press lar HBO series The Newsroom was virons, Philadelphia. They recently Egyptian. care as much about a pop star’s outfit, “in the process of ‘winding down’ release, “Richard is a recognized a screen that said Leon Wieseltier were aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey Musto is to gossip what Homer as he did about Musto remains an as managing partner of my law expert in sensory, consumer and (longtime literary editor of The for the MGK Brew Blast. firm, Angius & Terry.” In a year or marketing research.” New Republic) is a consultant to Gerry Keating and Dr. Joe Ernie Pyle was to war. From Cher. He was inspired institution because of two he hopes to turn the reins over Who would think someone in the show. Clicking away, I found Vassallo (Columbia roommates Warhol to Madonna to Gaga, by Kenneth Koch’s his ability to write with to his partners and “spend more the construction industry would out that Mother Jones describes and Chaminade H.S. classmates) he has served on the cultural class on playwriting and humor and passion. time with my family, traveling and also be a playwright? Answer: Leon as “long being friendly with and Bob Schneider (whose sons front lines for nearly three poetry, even if his class- “My colleagues working on my golf game.” Dan You’d think it if the person were HBO” — which might explain went to Chaminade) have been decades, wading through the mates didn’t exactly at The Village Voice and his wife, Jacque (whom he says a Columbia College graduate! how he had a walk-on part on The chatting after reconnecting through ever-changing mire of New get Musto’s parody of always knew when I “many of my Columbia classmates Michael Fixel is president of Jerry Sopranos. Revving my mouse into these Class Notes! Gerry is read- York City nightlife to document several classic Ameri- was editing Michael’s will remember”), have three kids: Fixel, a home building company hyperdrive, I stumbled upon the ing Duel with the Devil: The True the zeitgeist that has come to can plays. column by the sharp Dan, Lauren ’08 and Jeff. And he be- in Jacksonville, Fla. His second commencement address Leon gave Story of How Alexander Hamilton consume American readers. Columbia didn’t offer bursts of laughter came a grandpa a few months ago! play, Freefall Fostbite, premiered at Brandeis last May; in it, he railed & Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on From further south in California in August at the prestigious New against “our society inebriated by America’s First Sensational Murder “You have to be a chame- a major in journalism, that would emerge comes word from Louis Klonsky. York International Fringe Festival. technology” that “represents the Mystery by Paul Collins, about leon to keep up with the land- so Musto, who was from my cubicle,” says He lives in Pasadena and has His “dynamic, large-ensemble, greatest assault on human atten- how Hamilton and Burr were co- scape,” he says. “My tone and raised in Brooklyn, took Charles McNulty, the retired from a long career as a full-length verse play” had a score tion ever devised: they are engines counsel representing the defendant writing have stayed the same to Manhattan, working Voice’s former theatre staff geologist with Chevron. His written together with Broadway of mental and spiritual dispersal, in a sensational capital murder but the scene has evolved, and as a freelance writer editor. “It astonished “retirement,” however, has led to veteran musical director Marc Ir- which make us wider only by trial in New York City in 1800. It I’ve covered it as accurately as on various subjects for me that he was able a new career as educator: “I teach win (“whom entertainment lawyer making us less deep.” (Google is the first fully recorded murder I can.” weekly newspapers by to keep his column so (undergraduate and graduate) at Stewart Levy would have known “Leon Wieseltier Brandeis” for a trial in U.S. history. Gerry finds it As a columnist for The Village his senior year. comically fresh, week several Cal State universities in the as Irwin Cantor when we were fascinating read of this “Defense of intriguing that the trial took place Voice from 1984 to 2013, Musto After graduation, he after week, year after L.A. area. I teach geophysics and in high school”). The play was the Humanities” speech.) more than 200 years ago, as he has played a significant role in took a “9-to-5 job with year — it has to be petroleum geology. In addition, I directed and choreographed by his Second, want to know what is participated in almost 30 murder Michael Musto ’76 covered celebrities and night- teach ‘Intro to Geology’ at the New daughter, Juliet. (Side note: Stewart really happening in the Middle trials himself. Columbia is featured creating the modern journalistic a trashy fan mag to pay some kind of journalis- genre that attempts to bring the rent,” but he spent life for The Village Voice for almost 30 years. tic record.” York Film Academy.” (He explains is a partner of Eisenberg Tanchum East? Try a Google search of “Steven prominently in the book; Columbia PHOTO: JASON RUSSO (HEYMRJASON PHOTOGRAPHY) that while the academy is head- & Levy in midtown Manhattan.) Simon IISS.” You’ll be able to read students and faculty marched with zest to the quotidian motions his nights writing about That record came to quartered in Greenwich Village, Joe Barone, who lives in Old commentary from Steve Simon, Revolutionary War veterans on of the latest celebrity stumbling New York City’s club an end in May, when its main campus, mysteriously, is Saybrook, Conn., seems to be executive director of the Internation- New Year’s Day 1800 in the parade down the alphabet toward the scene just as it was becom- Musto outed celebrities such as the Voice, in what many in Burbank, Calif.) He has “two transitioning gradually to retire- al Institute for Strategic Studies. Until for George Washington’s funeral. C List. Unlike the new wave of ing the center of the celebrity Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen De- press-watchers said may be grandkids from my social worker ment. He writes, “My most recent a year ago, Steve was the senior Sports labor lawyer Jeffrey paparazzi, though, he has always universe. A bit awkward and Generes long before their public the storied weekly’s swan daughter” and his other daughter ‘full-time employment’ situation director for the Middle East and Kessler attended the Bloomberg relied heavily on reporting to shy, Musto was amazed that as identities became associated song, laid off Musto. is completing her M.B.A. at USC was with a small biotech company North Africa at the National Security Sports Business Summit in New while working at a hedge fund in headquartered in Wilmington, Council at the White House. Hard York City in September, speaking bring to life the thrill of being people became more intoxicat- with their sexuality. He argued it Unlike some of the stars L.A. Lou concludes, “So, in short, Del. But we ‘persistently’ live in to find someone with greater in- at the panel “At the Table with the in the center of it all while also ed, they became more willing was part of his battle against ho- he covers, Musto was on to life is great in sunny California.” southeastern Connecticut and the sights into this complex region. Player’s Union.” In an article about using his pulpit to advocate for to talk to him. mophobia and an early attempt the next thing before he even Not a lot of mail from the center weekly, two-way commute got too Third and final, I got a Facebook the event, he was quoted as saying gay rights and to “attack the “Once I got a taste of the to normalize homosexuality. packed up his desk. He now of the country but sometimes Class much to bear. Currently, I simply post from our own Alumni Office NFL and NBA players unions could power folks and celebrate the nightlife, there was no turning The AIDS crisis made him writes regularly for Out.com Notes result from serendipity. At a consult from home for this firm.” (facebook.com/alumnicc) that said: help top-level college athletes by of- downtrodden,” he says. back,” he says. “Disco provided even more devoted to fighting and Gawker and continues to new parents gathering at Columbia You might have missed the “Columbia University in the City fering them associate memberships. Still, before he outed celebri- an escape and haven and for gay rights and gay pride. freelance and make frequent Prep, I met David Poppe ’86, who listing in the Fall 2013 issue of of New York is ranked No. 18 on “You can’t organize college players ties who became activists, check-your-mind-at-the-door “It drove me even further appearances on TV. realized I was a fellow Lion when CCT of the 62 “Alumni Sons and The Daily Meal’s ‘60 Best Colleges into unions,” he said. “They’re not helped solve a murder that hedonistic experience.” out of the closet, screaming at Musto seems eternally young, I said I had read The Iliad and The Daughters” who began as part of for Food in America’ list. What is considered workers; the NLRB the College and Engineering Class your best — or worst — food story won’t recognize them as workers. changed New York City nightlife By the time disco died, Musto anyone who was not joining the pedaling through late-night New of 2017 this semester. On the list from your undergraduate days?” So it has to be an association that’s forever and became a must- was a gifted chronicler of the fight,” he says. “Anyone who York City on his bicycle, chroni- What’s Your Story? was George Van Amson ’17, son of Princeton is No. 19, Stanford is not a union.” read for anyone who was (inter- shifting scene, and the Voice wasn’t joining the fight and who cling the next famous teenager George Van Amson, who is manag- No. 20 and Harvard is No. 21. So On a personal note from Jeff, ested in) anyone, Musto was a soon hired him to be one of the was hiding in the closet was and the 25-year-old has-been Letting classmates know ing director at Morgan Stanley in much for the fancy eating clubs at grandson Jordan is bouncing along first-year student lurking around stars of the New Journalism it as much the enemy as Reagan who will always give him some- what’s going on in your NYC. The younger George finished Princeton and the house system at to the “wonderful” twos — at least Spectator. was pushing. He didn’t disap- was.” thing to write about. life is easier than ever. high school at the Trevor Day Harvard! for his grandparents. No comment “I would sit in the office point. In 1996, he broke the scan- “I don’t get tired of it,” he says. Send in your Class Notes! School in Manhattan. There you have it. A taste of from Jordan’s dad, Andrew! every night hoping somebody Musto threw himself into the dal that would change New “If I ever take up complaining “I won!” yelled the Facebook what you will see at the “new and On his 59th birthday, Bob would give me an assignment, center of the party, giving depth York nightlife: the murder of a that I get to go to fabulous night- ONLINE by clicking message from Arthur Schwartz. improved” Columbia when you Schneider and his wife, Regina college.columbia.edu/cct/ Arthur (NYC) was re-elected Dem- return for Alumni Reunion Week- Mullahy ’75 Barnard, were blessed and they never did,” he says. to the lives of party people, gay Puerto Rican drug dealer clubs, that would be insane.” submit_class_note. ocratic district leader for Green- end: classmates choosing different with a granddaughter, Elizabeth He finally got a gig writing showing that they are still just by Club Kid king Michael Alig. wich Village (a position he held ways of spending their 60s — Marie (Elsie) Schneider, daughter theatre reviews for the Barnard human beings chasing that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani later Ethan Rouen ’04J, ’11 Business EMAIL to the address at 1995–2005). His campaign literature enjoying their old or new careers, of their son John ’07 and his wife, Bulletin, and it wasn’t long intangible dream, and providing used the murder as evidence is a Ph.D. student at the Busi� the top of your column. said, “I am running as the pro-kid, winding down, or outright retiring Stephanie Pahler ’06 Barnard. before the editors at Spec those on the sideline a reason that the city needed to change. ness School and a columnist for pro-park and playground, pro- — and of course, a lot of news Congrats to John and Steph and to MAIL to the address at the snatched him away from the to care about them. He also fulfilled his desire Fortune.com. He is a former CCT labor, pro-parent, pro-participatory about our kids and grandkids. grandparents Bob and Regina. sister college’s paper. Openly gay his entire career, to perform, making regular associate editor. top of your column. democracy candidate.” Elsewhere As we are in the holiday season, I Randy Nichols (that’s me!) had he said, “I lead a very busy life — a want to remind you of the classic a very busy few months. Since

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 74 75

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES returning to the Baltimore area place during Columbia Alumni you! Write with news about your already print memories of events, Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Steve Bargonetti writes, “In several years ago, I’ve rediscovered Leaders Weekend in October, and a life, whether career, family, travel experiences, places and people My recent elevation in membership addition to being able to hear my a love for sailing, especially on number of classmates have already or accomplishments, and I’ll share such as faculty and staff. was due to my managerial work for guitar and banjo playing on Sesame Tall Ships. In August, my sister agreed to be on the Reunion Com- it in a future issue. You can use the New Jersey Coast Section.” Street, I’ve been recording music and I celebrated mutual birthdays mittee. We’ll keep reaching out to either of the addresses at the top David Beazer writes, “I’m digital for Steven Van Zandt’s TV series, with an evening cruise on the Lady others but if you’re willing, please of the column or send a note via Matthew Nemerson content associate editor at Consumer Lillyhammer. I’m also scheduled to Maryland followed by a five-course contact me! CCT’s webform: college.columbia. 35 Huntington St. Reports, where I’ve worked since play guitar for the musical Holler if dinner with great wine pairings at Also, the Fiscal Year 2014 Colum- edu/cct/submit_class_note. 78 New Haven, CT 06511 2006. In August 2012, my wife and I Ya Hear Me, featuring the music of the Living Classrooms Foundation bia College Fund is open and matthewnemerson@ moved to Dutchess County, N.Y.” Tupac Shakur, which is coming to in Bawlmer’s Fells Point. accepting donations. I’ve already gmail.com Tom Mariam writes, “My moth- Broadway.” During Labor Day weekend I made my first contribution to this David Gorman er, Lisa Mariam, recently passed Billy Holden reports, “Effective went to Ohio, where I rode every year’s fund (in time to deduct it this 111 Regal Dr. Does it seem the seasons fly by away at 97. It was quite comforting this October I became a faculty (adult) roller coaster at Cedar year, too!). Have you? Some of you 77 DeKalb, IL 60115 quicker all the time? I remember to hear from many of my Columbia member (professor, preventive Point, spent a day in Put-in-Bay will be getting emails or calls soon [email protected] the four years at Columbia passing classmates during our period of medicine) at the Icahn School of touring the Niagara (the Tall Ship of — please respond and be gener- as if they were a lifetime, months mourning. I thought I’d share two Medicine at Mt. Sinai, after far too Pennsylvania) and did several day ous! You can give by credit card at This season I received notes from to be savored and semesters that somewhat relevant notes concern- many years as a wage slave in the Four alumni tailgated at the Jets-Patriots game on October 20 (left sails (on the Windy, the Tall Ship college.columbia.edu/giveonline or just two classmates, which I hasten each contained the texture and ing my mom: pharmaceutical industry.” to right): Brian Krisberg ’81, ’84L; Dale Meyer ’80E; Jess Drabkin ’79; of Chicago, and the Matthew & by calling 212-851-7488; alternately, to share. experiences of a new and strange “First, denied the opportunity to John Crabtree says, “River- and Wade Black ’99 GS, ’05 Business. Hailey). The next day, I participated mail a check, payable to Columbia Congratulations to Franco Mor- adventure. I miss that sense of go to college in Germany as a Jew Market Bar and Kitchen, my new in the very real 200th anniversary College Fund, to Columbia College mando on his promotion to full pro- discovery and the slowness of ex- in the late ’30s, my mother waited restaurant/greenmarket/specialty reenactment of the Battle of Lake Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, fessor of Italian at Boston College, perience that those days brought. until I graduated from Columbia wine shop, has opened for busi- sional trip to my favorite hellholes Thai wat [monastery temple] near Erie, with 17 tall ships taking part. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., where he chairs the Department of A raw and innocent time. But here to earn her own B.A. She was well ness in Tarrytown, N.Y., by the like Afghanistan and Sudan, life home. She was a stockbroker in Perry’s Victory and International New York, NY 10025. Romance Languages and Litera- we are 35 years later. Our edges are into her 60s. And second, though Hudson River. It features Hudson has been very, very good to me.” Bangkok before immigrating to the Peace Memorial is unusual in that tures. His latest book is Bernini: His sanded and smoother now. not much of a football fan, she will Valley farmers’ products (meats, Chris Dell is retired from the United States. Now she is an entre- it is a place celebrating the durable Life and His Rome, the first biogra- Marc Bogatin’s son, Jacob, is always have a connection to Co- produce, cheeses, etc.), both in the State Department after almost 33 preneur selling sweet and savory peace between the United States Clyde Moneyhun phy in English of the great Baroque taking a year off from Syracuse and lumbia football with her name on market and in the restaurant, and years as of October 31: “I’ll be mov- Thai desserts and drinks through and Canada, but largely due to the 76 Boise State University artist. Franco duly notes that he first now leads an outdoor adventure a seat at [Robert K. Kraft Field at biodynamic/organic wines in the ing to Mozambique with my wife, local ethnic markets and at festivals. outcome of the battle. I encourage Department of English encountered Bernini in an Art Hum program in Mexico. Younger son Lawrence A.] Wien Stadium, which wine store. It’s a short walk from Tedi, who will be at the USAID “Last fall I retired from playing you to visit; it’s well worth the 200 Liberal Arts Building course “all the way back in 1973.” Joshua is a freshman at Oberlin; I dedicated when the stadium was the Tarrytown train station on the [United States Agency for Interna- competitive rugby … for the third while! 1910 University Dr. Congratulations also to Jon Lu- he hopes to be a filmmaker. While built in appreciation of what my Hudson Line from Grand Central tional Development] mission there, time. I had been playing for the old I ended the trip with a visit to Boise, ID 83725 komnik, who in June received the dropping off Josh, Marc bumped parents did to make my Columbia Station.” so the break from Uncle [Sam] isn’t French International Team, aka the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and [email protected] 2013 International Corporate Gov- into Gary Blackman and his experience possible.” Marvin I.C. Siegfried reports: quite as clean as I’d like. However, Alexandria Roosters Rugby Foot- Museum, where a special exhibition ernance Network (ICGN) Award daughter, also starting at the Ohio Barry Rosenblatt reports, “After “Still teaching high school in I will be starting my second career, ball Club, for the past three years. was celebrating 50 years of The Ira Cooper is celebrating his 30th for Excellence in Corporate Gover- school. 30 years in the bio-pharmaceutical Brooklyn. Will be glad to see the in the private sector, there, and am It was a blast! Many of the players Rolling Stones. Of course, there’s year with Travelers Insurance. nance. Jon is executive director of Ted Faraone writes, “At Alumni industry, I have been an indepen- back of Mayor Michael Bloomberg; excited about the changes.” are affiliated with the French lots going on in the Baltimore “I guess I feel secure under that the Investor Responsibility Research Reunion Weekend I was asked dent consultant helping small, what he has done to education in Daniel Mikulsky reports, “I Embassy and the coach, Tony Flay, area, too, and I’ve been to events umbrella,” he says. Center Institute and is recognized to introduce Ric Burns. He was emerging companies develop their NYC is nothing short of terrible. completed requirements for my sec- is a New Zealander who played for marking the 200th anniversaries of Kevin Berry has plenty of news: as a leading thinker on corporate fantastic. A total professional. I also biologics. I can honestly say that I Stepson and stepdaughter both got ond master’s, an M.A. in homeland the United States in a World Cup. both the Battle of St. Michaels and “My new granddaughter, Leighton governance and responsibility. I taught the Alumni Office that in am having the most fun and ener- married earlier this year; both wed- security from American Military I can see myself running down the the Battle of North Point. Finally, in Hope Kaho, is getting lots of was interested to read excerpts from a room as big as what we had for gizing time since my early days in a dings were great. Couldn’t make University. It was all virtual and yet pitch with a whistle in hand, not as mid-September, I was in Madison, attention. My daughter, Keeley, his acceptance speech, where he the dinner, the audience questions start-up (Janssen Biotech, formerly the 35th reunion despite plans to in some ways built upon the educa- a ref — my skin’s not thick enough Wis., for an Alzheimer’s walk with is getting married soon and her encouraged — nay, admonished need to be miked. At least I learned Centocor Biotech). I have even had go. Hoping to make the 40th.” tion that I received at Columbia.” for that — but as a coach in the my cousins, honoring the ‘strong something from a lifetime in TV. time to come back to New York and Paul Phillips writes, “This year Thanks for the great response not-too-distant future. I hoped to Nichols women’ who succumbed In addition to seeing the guys, it see shows and movies — I recently marks my 25th year as director of we have been getting for the col- catch a bit of the Old Blue [Rugby to this pernicious ailment. (We lost was great to meet Chris Dell’s attended the New York Film Festi- orchestras and chamber music at Franco Mormando ’77 was promoted to full profes- umn lately. Let’s keep it up! Football Club] game during Home- two of them just last year, both in wife and to reconnect with Lesa val and saw the world premiere of Brown and my 20th year as music coming weekend.” their late 80s, and most others lived Rader ’78 Barnard, Amanda Kissin Captain Phillips from the fifth row — director of the Pioneer Valley Sym- Robert C. Klapper: “For the last sor of Italian at Boston College, where he chairs the REUNION WEEKEND into their 90s — so I come from Low ’78 Barnard and Jami Bernard and shop at Zabar’s!” phony, which celebrates its 75th three years my second career has MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 long-living but compromised genes. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. ’78 Barnard as well as to enjoy James (Huck) Hill writes, anniversary this year.” been as a radio talk show host on ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS We miss them all and are proud to Chuck Callan’s hospitality at the “Performing some poetry of Edgar Jeffrey Moerdler says, “I have ESPN. The show is called Weekend ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott call them our forewomen!) pre-reunion lunch he hosted at his Allan Poe and enjoying his dark been bumping into Mike Schulder Warrior. It has allowed me, with [email protected] Of counsel with Baker Donelson sisters, Emily (Thomas Jefferson — 500 or so listeners to reflect, in beautiful house on the Hudson.” visions. I don’t recall studying Poe a lot lately, as his in-laws live in my the blessing of my bosses at ESPN, 212-851-9148 in the firm’s Atlanta office, Joshua University) and Leah (Temple), long-term and broad-scope ways, Rob Blank says, “It was great to in our Lit Hum classes. What’s building. My son, Eric, is going for a the incredible renaissance luxury DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Tropper concentrates his practice are in graduate programs; for me on the social purpose and impact of see everyone at reunion. I would up with that, is he too Goth? … Is master’s in real estate development of combining the worlds of art, [email protected] in the areas of intellectual property and my wife, Meredith, that will investment strategies. I doubt that have enjoyed one more day. Since there any room for bohemians in at the Architecture School; he and medicine, surgery and sports. The 212-851-7833 and technology law as well as ap- make it six out of six children with Jon started considering these things then I’ve become fully engaged in the College anymore, or are they his twin brother, Jonathan, gradu- experience culminated on a recent pellate litigation. Josh has extensive graduate degrees. My commercial in Art Hum but I can attest that he my new position at the Medi- all superstars?” ated from NYU last spring, Eric Robert Klapper weekend with my taking two art experience in counseling, licensing trial practice remains active. I was already a big-picture guy when cal College of Wisconsin and am Dave Danner says, “Greetings from NYU College of Arts and Sci- 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 history experts from The J. Paul and litigation to protect clients’ recently successfully concluded a he worked at Spectator — and that, working to get my lab up to full from Olympia, Wash., where my ences with a major in architecture 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 Getty Museum and 50 sports fans copyrights, trademarks, patents and trial in Chicago and am looking too, was almost 40 years ago. speed. My wife, Sue Coppersmith, wife, Lauren, and I have made and urban planning and Jonathan [email protected] to the museum to compare the trade secrets. Recently, he defended forward to the next one on the By now you’re used to the and daughter, Deborah, are both our home for 20 years. I chair the from the undergraduate NYU Stern great 20th-century artist Pablo hardware and software firms from West Coast. A hearty shoutout to infectiously upbeat tone of this thriving.” state’s utilities commission and School of Business. Jonathan’s News from Jeffrey Light focuses Picasso with Laker great Kobe Bry- claims asserted by patent “trolls.” (I my classmates and teammates.” column, I expect, but we need to Seth Josephson writes, “I’m the am a member of the governor’s wife of one year, Kayla Freilich on the splendor of the outdoors, ant, and the tortured painter Vin- hope he doesn’t mind that I found Louis Anon will make you take a break for a moment. We are proud father of five fabulous girls, cabinet. Rest assured I am putting Moerdler ’13 Barnard, is going for a as he recently “finished a beautiful cent van Gogh with the tortured him through one of my “bots”!) jealous with this account of his first entering that period where CC ’77 ages 4–15! Certainly my great- to good use my comparative master’s in occupational therapy at multi-day hike of California’s High Yankee Alex Rodriguez. Josh and his wife, Jeanne Watson year of retirement: “My partner obituaries will no longer be so un- est accomplishment. I’ve moved literature degree and everything NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Sierra Trail with some buddies. “The morning of the museum ’83 Arch., ’83 PH, have finally and I now spend summers in Nova usual. A few columns back, I was around the East Coast quite a bit I learned from Professor Karl- University Medical Center.” The view from the top of the trail visit, my guest on the radio show emptied their nest and are looking Scotia and winters in Florida. We struggling with the whole topic since my Columbia days but have Ludwig Selig. I get to New York Tim Weiner writes, “Raising is pretty inspiring. Hope all’s well was Sports Illustrated senior writer forward to some peace and quiet are leaving for two months in Italy of memorials. On the one hand, I settled in quiet northern New fairly often. Last year, we took two fantastic daughters, happily with my fellow Lions. Greetings David Epstein ’02, author of an in- before deciding what to do next. this fall. We plan to come back couldn’t provide one for every- Jersey. I stumbled into medical our daughter, Sophie (13), to see married to a wonderful woman for from the Left Coast!” credible book, The Sports Gene: Inside As usual, I can’t write a set of to Florida and spend the winter body if I wanted to; on the other, I sales nearly 25 years ago and had the campus and enjoyed lunch at 20 years, happily separated from Robert Bo Newsome writes, the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Notes without including a request sailing; it’s really very beautiful on don’t think we should ignore the just one brief hiatus from it. I am Tom’s Restaurant with my fresh- The New York Times and, believe “My wife, Phyllis, passed in 2002. Performance. (He has since moved or two. The kickoff to planning for the southwest coast. Lots of great topic, either. So, tell you what: I’m an account executive with Thermo man roommate, Scott Morgan ’77. it or not, happily writing books I am happy to share that I have on to a position with ProPublica, our 40th Alumni Reunion Week- anchorages.” open to including memorials to Fisher Scientific.” The menu hasn’t changed all that for a living, a damn better living remarried, and it will be four years which produces investigative end (save the date: Thursday, May All has been too quiet lately. classmates in the column if you Russ Frazer reports, “I am now much since college, even if Scott in every way than the newspaper come February. I met Prim, who is journalism in the public interest.) 28–Sunday, May 31, 2015) took Your classmates want to hear from want to offer one. After all, we a senior member of the Institute of and I have aged slightly.” racket. Though I do miss the occa- Thai, while attending a festival at a As we spoke he compared elite

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 76 77

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES quarterback Peyton Manning Eric Blattman, Joe Ciulla, Shawn Award for a story he did at Reuters comment from your mother that is the director of the Division of cal art songs with a modern twist. and his masterful football skill set FitzGerald and I spent an after- TV on the pitch that baffles batters you included in your dissertation Dermatologic and Mohs Surgery at While attending a College/ to that of a grand master chess noon with Shawn’s son, Christian (and catchers) — the knuckleball. dedication: “The impossible just The Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, a Barnard reunion event, Sharon Di- player and to the musical abilities ’17, hitting wedges and making He writes, “I pursued this topic takes a little longer.” position he’s held since 1997, and the zenhuz ’83 Barnard saw my origi- of Carlos Santana and Miles Davis. putts. Both teams are loaded with with my producer, Zach Goelman Keep those notes coming! director of the Procedural Dermatol- nal Sam Steinberg painting and This magnificent analogy took my great players and will be a pleasure ’08J, after then-Mets knuckleball ogy Fellowship program at the Icahn afterward send me a photograph breath away, which isn’t good when to follow this season. pitcher R.A. Dickey hurled two School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, of the Columbia icon. She writes, you are a voice on the radio. It was Jim Gerkis and I attended the one-hitters in a row.” The story is Roy Pomerantz Department of Dermatology, a posi- “I was thrilled to connect with you at this moment that my producer’s Columbia College Fund’s Fund De- titled “The Knuckleball: The Science Babyking/Petking tion he’s held since 2003. so we can work together to create voice entered my ear and said, ‘Dr. velopment Council meeting in early Behind Why It’s So Damn Hard to 83 182-20 Liberty Ave. David has been a featured expert future fun Barnard/Columbia joint Klapper, ask him where he went to October and were impressed with Hit.” It’s an interesting piece of jour- Jamaica, NY 11412 in the media, appearing on news events. As for the Sam pic, you can school.’ Mr. Epstein’s response: ‘I the fundraising plans for this year. nalism and available for viewing on [email protected] programs and in magazines such as print it and tape it to the back of went to Columbia.’ [Editor’s note: We really need your support for this YouTube — just enter Frederick’s Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, Good your framed original to establish See feature on Epstein in Bookshelf.] year’s campaign. You can give by full name and “knuckleball” as Several of our classmates were Housekeeping and Redbook. He has ‘provenance’ for your progeny.” “Now, my fellow ’79-ers: How credit card at college.columbia.edu/ your search terms. At the same listed in my Harvard Law anniver- been recognized as a skin cancer David Rubel writes, “My cool is it that whatever path we giveonline or by calling 212-851- event, Marcus Brauchli ’83 won sary report. expert in The New York Times as well daughter, Abigail, will graduate alumni follow after graduation, we 7488, or mail a check, payable to Co- the Leadership in Diversity Award Howard Adler ’82 is a partner at as by Lou Dobbs on CNN. from high school in three years.” each still see the world in a Core lumbia College Fund, to Columbia from AAJA. Clifford Chance. His practice focuses In connection with the American David was invited to participate in Curriculum kind of way? It made College Fund, Columbia Alumni Congratulations and nicely done! on the treatment of executive com- Masters documentary on Mel the CAA Alumni Author Book Fair me proud.” Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Now we move on to hockey. The pensation and employee benefits Brooks, Eddy Friedfeld, who also that was part of Columbia Alumni Roar, lion, roar! 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10025. esteemed John J. Cifu has updated matters in M&A transactions. consulted on the Emmy-winning Leaders Weekend, held October us on his career, family, marriage Miguel Estrada is a partner program, conducted a lengthy inter- 11–12. of 28 years, scholarly children and in the Washington, D.C., office view with Brooks that was pub- Wayne Allyn Root plans to Michael C. Brown Kevin Fay recent, rather surprising family of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He lished in Cinema Retro Magazine. publish a new book, The Murder of London Terrace Towers 8300 Private Ln. acquisition. Clearly, John, you have co-chairs the firm’s Appellate Eddy notes, “In 1982 I bought 10 the Middle Class. It is scheduled for 80 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F 81 Annandale, VA 22003 some valuable “life” wisdom. But and Constitutional Law Practice copies of the High Anxiety sound- release in summer 2014. New York, NY 10011 kfay@northridge let’s hear it in his own words: Group. From 1992 to 1997, Miguel track, the flip side of which includ- Teddy Weinberger’s daughter, Frederick Katayama ’82 (center) and his wife, Kaoriko Kuge, with [email protected] capital.com “I’ve been in Palm Harbor, served as assistant to the Solicitor ed the songs from all of the other Rebecca, represented Israeli basket- Marcus Brauchli ’83 at the Asian American Journalists Association Fla. — 20 miles west of Tampa — General of the United States. He is Brooks films, to give as holiday ball in the Maccabiah Games. The Awards Dinner, which took place in August at the New York Hilton Congratulations to Carl Haber, who Winter is nearly upon us, and no for 15 years and I’m the director a member of the Board of Visitors gifts to friends. When I presented first game was against the United Midtown. Both Katayama and Brauchli received awards at the event. in September was named a 2013 news to report! But I know that of accounting at Pinch A Penny of Harvard Law. In 2011, Chambers it to one of my college friends, he States. Rebecca had a fantastic MacArthur Fellow [see Around the doesn’t mean that no news is (Florida-based pool store chain and Partners named Miguel as clutched the LP to his chest and ran game. Israel tied the United States Quads]. The “Genius Grant,” as it’s happening. Take a few minutes to with more than 200 locations). one of a handful of attorneys who off eager to play it. Flash forward to at the buzzer but lost in overtime. Don Quixote was published in 1605. I remember his speech included often called, comes with a stipend share with us — what’s the latest My daughter, Amanda, recently ranked in the top tier among the 1995, when I get a box in the mail — A memorial service was held And Rocinante was the Knight Er- shout-outs to the high school of $625,000 paid across five years. with you, your family, your career, graduated from FSU and my son, nation’s leading appellate lawyers. it was the 2000 Year Old Man boxed for Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig on ront’s loyal dapple and steed.” valedictorians, class presidents Carl is an audio preservationist your travels? You can write me James, is a senior at USF. Both are In 2001 he was nominated by Presi- set that had just been released on October 19 at the new Boat House Ted also notes, “KLS was one of and other overachievers, the at Lawrence Berkeley National at either address at the top of the Florida state schools. I have been dent George W. Bush to the U.S. CD with a note from that friend before the Homecoming game. a kind. God bless him for having goodly number of NYC high school Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and column or use CCT’s webform: married 28 years to Annmarie Can- Court of Appeals for the District of thanking me for the LP 12 years About 30 Columbia graduates and enriched our lives the way he did. graduates, the athletes, the gifted was the first person to hear Alexan- college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ navina ’80 Baruch. The big news Columbia Circuit. earlier.” friends participated, including He having done right by me when musicians and so forth. His view der Graham Bell’s restored voice, class_note. In the meantime, I wish is that my baby brother, Douglas David Hershey-Webb writes, That friend was Dennis Klain- George Wilson ’83, Ted Allegaert I needed a favor, I was glad to help was that we, the men (at that time, speaking from 1885. you a happy, healthy holiday season. ’87, has become an owner of the “In September I argued before the berg ’84. Eddy, Dennis and I remain ’87, Joseph Cabrera ’82, Michael him out all those years later. Little of course), were blessed “because My wife, Marianne, and I had NHL’s Florida Panthers, in Sunrise, New York Court of Appeals. The close friends. Schmidtberger ’82, Jim Weinstein did I know that in the process I wasn’t the sky Columbia blue?” dinner with Jay Kutlow and his Fla. I know he would never have case involved a son’s right to suc- Jon Ross sent some incredible ’84, David Filosa ’82, Dennis would join such a rich circle of Well, these days Convocation is wife, Diana Wood Kutlow ’80 Andrew Weisman the time to send anything in, so I ceed to his mother’s Mitchell-Lama photos from his Micro Aid project Klainberg ’84, Tom Vinciguerra ’85, friendships, and that in pursuing a family affair, very much like Class Barnard, on their recent East Coast 710 Lawrence Ave. wanted everyone to know.” apartment.” in Peru. In this case, a family had Chuck Callan ’78, Mark Gibson ’86, our common purpose of making Day, and it includes the Alumni trip. Jay produces high-quality 82 Westfield, NJ 07090 How cool is that?! In May, I attended a Columbia lost its adobe home in the 2010 Adam Belanoff ’84, Joel Halio ’74, Professor’s last years tolerable, a Procession. The alumni are grouped sports broadcasts for ESPN and [email protected] Finally, a tale of extraordinary College Alumni Association Board floods and had been living in a Alex Demac ’78, Dean Dakolias warm sense of community and by decades, and yours truly is MLB on the West Coast. We had determination from the erudite of Directors meeting where details shack, and Micro Aid built a beauti- ’89E, Rob Toggweiler ’75, Bill Basri shared commitment would take proud to have represented our a great discussion over a bottle of Greetings, gentlemen. I hope all is Steve Sullivan. He sets it up admi- were given about the Class of 2017, ful new home for them. It has five ’84, Phil Donahue ’84, David God- root. I’d like to think we all suc- class. The gaggle of ’80s grads also chardonnay on hitting a baseball. well and that the Federal Reserve’s rably with an epigram: for which the College and Engineer- rooms, is 1,400 sq. ft. with a second- fried ’84 and me. ceeded against great odds in materi- included Dr. Fred Fisher (this time The pros from Dover had an “tapering” activities won’t cause “‘Gradual school is where you ing received a combined 33,531 floor foundation, and is designed to Professor Selig’s ashes were ally brightening his days until the in tribute to his daughter Rebecca opportunity to tee it up with the any of you to delay your retire- go to school and you gradually applications. Columbia was ranked, withstand floods and earthquakes. dispersed in the Harlem River very end.” ’17; daughter Talia ’13 graduated in Columbia men’s and women’s ment plans. An odd personal note find out you don’t want to go to once again, fourth among universi- Twelve people will live there. Jon while Dennis played Taps. For a the spring), and Mark Momjian ’83 golf teams at The Tuxedo Club. in this regard: I recently met econo- school anymore.’ — The World ties by U.S. News & World Report. notes, “Our work helped the com- more detailed description, please (whom I met on day one, 9 a.m., in REUNION WEEKEND mist Janet Yellen (at this writing, According to Garp, (1982), G.R. Hill In addition, 62 members of the munity by employing people and see “Letters to the Editor” and read a Lit Hum class taught by Professor MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 nominated as Fed chair) on a flight (director), John Irving (author), College Class of 2017 and six injecting much-needed cash into the the moving note from Joel. Peter Awn, now dean of GS). ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS from Denver to San Francisco and Steve Tesich (screenplay) members of the Engineering Class local economy.” (Read a profile on Ted, the executor of KLS’ will, In response to my e-blast sharing ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Columbia College commented, in response to her “It took nearly a quarter-century of 2017 are sons or daughters of Ross in the Spring 2013 CCT.) shared with us some photos and Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig’s 1975 [email protected] rather substantial piece of carry-on of halting progress and two doc- College alumni. The list includes Steve Holtje keeps busy with a personal artifacts including the Columbian essay, Michael Kittel Alumni on Facebook 212-851-9148 luggage, “now I know where you’re toral sponsors — Jim Shenton [’49] Bradley Davison (Peddie School mix of editing and music work: He following letter that Professor Selig wrote, “Selig was the best, although DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova hiding all those bonds you’ve been passed away and Ken Jackson in Skillman, N.J.), son of the late is the content editor of Culture wrote to The New York Times on I mainly knew him from speaking [email protected] buying.” She was quite a good sport wouldn’t let me quit — and my Henry Davison Jr.; Mira Frenkel Catch.com, for which he also April 29, 2005: in the elevator.” To which I respond- 212-851-7833 Check out the about the comment but refused to family is still (surprisingly) speak- (Catalina Foothills H.S. in Tucson), writes music articles; a freelance “I read with great delight the ed, “And that’s exactly what made Columbia College give me any details. Ah, well … ing to me. But A Social History of the daughter of David Frenkel; Olivia reviewer for eMusic.com and article by Dana Bowen, ‘By Cheese Dennis Klainberg him great. He was always willing I’m pleased to report that we had Brooklyn Irish, 1850–1900 is done Harrison (Riverdale Country School the magazine The Big Takeover; a Possessed,’ Dining, April 27, 2005. Berklay Cargo Worldwide to reach out to students, even (and Alumni page! a nice, somewhat sports-themed and my fourth Columbia degree in the Bronx, N.Y.), daughter of developmental editor working But a favorite cheese of mine, an 84 14 Bond St., Ste 233 perhaps especially!) those who did facebook.com/ response this quarter, featuring is on the wall: B.A. ’82, M.A. ’84, David Harrison; and Gregory on neuroscience and psychology important part of my life, was not Great Neck, NY 11021 not take his classes!” alumnicc baseball, hockey and a tale of M.Phil. ’88, Ph.D. ’13. … Eric Foner Momjian (Radnor H.S. in Radnor, books for Oxford University Press; mentioned in the florilegium of [email protected] Peregrine Beckman writes, extraordinary determination and [’63, ’69 GSAS] and Jackson both Pa.), son of Mark Momjian. a jack of all trades (A&R, PR, mar- the many cited. Fortunately I can “Here’s the latest from Los Angeles: endurance! went to bat for me on more than It was great to see Dr. David Krie- keting) for venerable record label get this cheese in a very caring and Remember Convocation? It took Daughter Eleanor ’16 did well in Like the page to get First, baseball. Our accomplished one occasion, each believing in me gel at Alumni Reunion Week­end. ESP-Disk, which is celebrating its lovely neighborhood store. It is the place just after our parents dropped her freshman year, lived in Car- alumni news, learn and “camera-ready” classmate, and my research. It’s no record but David is a nationally recognized 50th anniversary this year; runs his Spanish cheese Rocinante. We are us off on Broadway and marked man and appeared in the musical about alumni events and Frederick Katayama ’83J, let us 25 years puts me in some sort of Mohs skin cancer, cosmetic and own micro-label, MechaBenzaiten in an important literary anniversa- the start of Orientation Week. If A Party Worth Crashing in Lerner College happenings, know that he recently received the pantheon of slackers, right?” laser surgeon. He is director and Records, which offers electronic ry year and want to honor and cel- memory serves, it was held in Low Hall, which I got to see on a felici- Asian American Journalists Asso- Steve, I must admit that I’m im- founder of the Manhattan Center music of the dark and droney sort; ebrate one of the greatest, universal Library, and the main speaker was tously timed trip to NYC. She’s in ciation (AAJA) National Journalism pressed and I greatly enjoyed the for Dermatology in NYC. He also and is a prolific composer of classi- and global works of art of all times. Dean Roger Lehecka ’67, ’74 GSAS. Nussbaum this year, a dorm that

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 78 79

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES was an apartment building when Our 30th reunion is next spring, school math teacher at the Colle­ years ago, the first nine as teacher Sarah A. Kass we were students. She was here in so please consider attending. Details giate School in NYC. He returned and the last four as chair. Yet when 87 PO Box 300808 L.A. this past summer, working at to follow via email. to New Orleans in 1990 and began I think about it, my days on the Brooklyn, NY 11230 the production company Original Stay in touch! his career at Newman as an upper Heights have never left me; when I [email protected] Productions, where I usually work. school teacher of mathematics and got to Roslyn, I founded a popular “I’m producing and editing a computer science. He earned an humanities program that is essential- As we in the northern climes new show for History Channel, Jon White M.S. in counseling from Loyola in ly the Core adapted for some really prepare for hibernation, let’s take a The Legend of Shelby the Swamp 16 South Ct. 2007. As Dale made the transition bright and energetic high schoolers. few minutes to remember summer Man, a spinoff of its Ax Men. My 85 Port Washington, NY at Newman from the classroom For the last few years, I have been 2013 as those lazy, hazy, crazy … wife, Elizabeth Leicester ’87, is at 11050 into educational leadership, his the teaching artist for the Young actually, the crazy days begin to the Asia Institute in UCLA. We [email protected] administrative responsibilities in- Film Critics program at the Brooklyn disappear from view! recently partied with our former cluded department chairman, dean Academy of Music (thank you for First we take a moment to recall roommate, Shipherd Reed ’86, at October marked two years since of students, upper school head and the inspiration, Professor Andrew the early summer, where in Wash- his 50th in Tucson.” Jim Lima started his own strategic associate head of school. He also Sarris ’51, ’98 GSAS). I also do a lot of ington, D.C., the government was Eric Wakin writes, “My wife, planning and real estate develop- was head of school at Pine Crest workshops and speak at conferences ablaze with mass negotiations over Kathryn Kaminsky, and I have relo- ment advisory firm, James Lima School, a large PK–12 independent across the country on behalf of the President Barack Obama ’83’s recess cated with our three children to the Planning + Development. Work school in South Florida with 2,600 Folger Shakespeare Library (thank appointees. Sharon Block wrote Bay Area, where I’m an associate includes helping craft a business students and more than 250 teach- you for the inspiration, Professor Jim in with the best news of all about director of the Hoover Institution plan and selecting a location for a ers on two campuses. Shapiro ’77), work that began with this latest government kerfuffle. at Stanford, a research fellow and proposed National LGBT Museum A plug for the Alumni Represen- the National Endowment for the Although as a result of the negotia- director of its library and archives. in Washington, D.C.; development tative Committee (ARC): I know Humanities Summer Institute and tions her term as a member of the We look forward to connecting with feasibility work for a new The many of you interview prospective really took off when I co-founded the National Labor Relations Board Columbians in the area.” Water Institute of the Gulf on the Columbia students as part of the New York City Student Shakespeare came to an end, she is now senior Thomas Dyja reports, “My Mississippi in Baton Rouge; and admissions process. It is a great Festival in the mid-’90s. I’ve also had counselor to Secretary of Labor Tom book, The Third Coast: When Chicago creating a destination waterfront way to assist and participate in the great fortune to do a lot of work Perez. “I’m thrilled to have found a Built the American Dream, was pub- park along St. Anthony Falls in the process of keeping the best with Apple, and I co-created one of new place in the administration to lished in April and was featured Minneapolis. Jim recently testified students front and center for the the first K–12 courses for iTunes U continue to work on issues related twice in The New York Times: on at the New York City Council, College. ARCs in many regions (check it out — it’s called ‘History to American workers,” she says. the front cover of its Sunday Book where he shared his research on cannot interview all of the inter- of World Literature’ and will look In a story that some (like me) Review, as well as in one of its the real estate development poten- ested candidates (there are more familiar to any College grad). might describe as the trip of a life- daily editions. Here’s a link to my tial around what should be a new than 30,000 applicants annually). “When I set off for Columbia 31 time, Rebecca Laber-Smith reported website: thomasdyja.com.” world-class Penn Station transit Whether for interviews, College years ago (!), the only thing I knew that she and her husband, Chuck, Massimo “Max” Fielding Elser ’85 GS and Tessa Laura Fahlbusch were married September 7 at the Michael Sauerman celebrated hub, and at The New York City fairs or internship opportunities, for certain was that I would never decided to leave their jobs and take Acquedotto Romano Polo Club, south of Rome, Italy. Among the attendees were (left to right) Steven his 50th in Japan; adopted a female Landmarks Preservation Commis- I know that all help is always ap- become a teacher. Fortunately, I their boys, Cal (14) and Toby (11), Carrara ’84; Nickie Mai; John Schutty ’80; the groom; the bride; Terry Jones ’85 and his wife, Dominique; cat, a beautiful calico, from Bide- sion in support of protecting the preciated. You can find out more at ignored myself completely, and the on a summer-long trip across the and Helene Alexopoulos and her husband, Lance Warrick ’79. Also in attendance but not pictured was awee on East 38th Street; and pur- nation’s first workforce housing undergrad.admissions.columbia. 25 years in the classroom have felt country. They detailed their 43-day Gabriella Lorenzotti Moncada ’85 Barnard. chased a home in Brooklyn Heights (on the Upper East Side) from edu/admissions/archandbook/. like 10 minutes. With the excep- adventure on their blog, Great Green in July with his partner, Tim. Says demolition. He also writes that he And speaking of admissions, the tion of a brief stint in Brooklyn, I Iguana (greatgreeniguana.com). Michael, “Life is good.” is “recently ‘gay separated’ after 28 Fall CCT listed the legacy members have lived in the East Village since Next we head over to Chilmark, surviving the insane weather that locally. and wellness, performs in local Daniel G. Berick has been named years with my college roommate, of the College and Engineering I returned from grad school at Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard, where blew through Oklahoma City and Madeleine Villanueva has joined musical theatre, sings with a classic Cleveland Securities/Capital but obviously thrilled about mar- Classes of 2017 and I am pleased Chicago. Who would have thought Joe Liu, his wife, Megan Glasheen, its environs. the academia club. She recently rock cover band, runs obstacle Markets Law Lawyer of the Year riage equality.” to say that our class leads the way that the neighborhood, which and daughter, Simone (13), spent a Not content to just take on the began a nine-month professional races like the Rugged Maniac 5K for 2014 by Best Lawyers, a long- Tim Tomasi reported going with nine students! Congrats to was wild, edgy and wonderfully week with Steve Abrahamson, his duties of chair, Cathy also took placement as part of National Urban Obstacle Race and Warrior Dash, standing and well-respected legal through old photos from a Glee David Avigan, Pace Cooper (with heterogeneous in the late 1980s, wife, Maritza Guzman, and their a group of students to Italy and Fellows, which culminates in an and has seven belts in Muay Thai peer-review publication. Dan is the Club trip to Quebec (including twin boys in the class), Jinduk would evolve into a glorified strip daughter, Sofia, and Steve Cancian France, some of whom had barely M.P.A. fellowship. Madeleine says, kickboxing. Americas chair of Squire Sanders’ some of yours truly with what Han, Gary Jacobs, Joseph Lang, mall? (I nearly chained myself ’86 and his wife, Hanne Rasmussen. been out of Oklahoma, much less “The placement is with The Com- “Laurence Holzman ’92L and Global Corporate Practice, focus- Tim reports is a “’70s/’80s suave Frank Nelson, Mark Rothman and to the door in protest when 2nd Joe reports that Steve A. is the direct the country, and published an mittee for Hispanic Children and his wife, Lara Hopfl Holzman ing on securities law, corporate look.” Tim is a superior court judge Mischa Zabotin — and, of course, Ave Deli was replaced by a Chase mail guru at Planned Parenthood article on the French author and Families, an advocacy and direct ’92L, live in Westchester with their finance and corporate transactional in Vermont. He writes, “It is still their children. branch.) and Steve C. is a landscape architect filmmaker Jean Cocteau in an aca- services organization that stresses sons, Andrew and Zach. Laurence matters. He is consistently listed a pretty steep learning curve. My Just think — only 18 months un- “As sad as that has been to in Los Angeles. Joe directs campaign demic journal. In addition, Cathy building upon existing strengths and still collaborates with Felicia in The Best Lawyers in America for practice had been focused on civil til our 30th Alumni Reunion Week- watch, the neighborhood has be- strategy for AARP. Lazy days on went home to Connecticut for her fostering self-sufficiency. During this Needleman Levinson, writing and corporate, leveraged buyouts and litigation but now I am in charge of end. Save the dates: Thursday, May come progressively safer, enough the beach and at the agricultural 30th high school reunion. mentorship, I will be developing a producing original works of musi- private equity, mergers and acqui- the family and criminal dockets as 28–Sunday, May 31, 2015. so that my wife, Susan Scheer, and fair were interrupted only by Joe’s My version of life in academia- Spanish language financial literacy cal theatre. sitions, and securities law. well. Plus, the civil docket is filled I decided not to move when my triathlon workouts. Since finishing land is not much different. I finally curriculum geared toward their cli- “Jonny Roskes lives near Randy Lerner, Daniel’s family with collections, foreclosures and daughter was born. Raising her chemo for lymphoma in December, had the opportunity to walk in ents — women, mostly, who operate Columbia (having moved back to friend — their fathers, Jim Berick landlord tenant cases, which, again, Everett Weinberger in the East Village has been one of he has bounced back and partici- a graduation ceremony, almost home-based day care centers.” NYC after a decade in Hong Kong), ’55 and Alfred Lerner ’55, were I did not do. So, some days are 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B the great experiences of my life, pated in three triathlons, a 50-mile one year after defending my is a lawyer at Merrill Lynch and College friends and business as- pretty taxing. Plus there is a lot of 86 New York, NY 10023 and I love the fact that she expects bike race and the Ragnar Relay dissertation, but there is nothing loves life in the city and otherwise.” sociates — and a fellow Cleveland- stress with the abuse, juvenile and [email protected] the world to look as diverse as Series from Saratoga Springs to like the ritual of being hooded to Eric Fusfield Diane continued, “I live in ite (turned Hampton-ite), was criminal cases. But each day I learn her homeland. And yet, off she Lake Placid. Joe said they were all bring home the reality of having 1945 South George Baltimore with my husband, Eric, reported in The Wall Street Journal more and (I hope) get a bit better.” It’s been 27 years since graduation goes to Ohio, to a town with three wondering whether there are other completed this (very long) journey. 88 Mason Dr. and four children. I am a partner to have developed The Inn at On September 7, several track and we have Josh Cabat’s first streets on a good day. Watching her 1980s-era Columbians on the island Like Cathy, I have been publishing Arlington, VA 22204 in a dermatology practice and Windmill Lane in Amagansett, and field teammates gathered at update, which he wrote during the prepare to leave reminds me of my in August who might want to meet in academic journals, though on [email protected] an assistant professor of internal N.Y., a luxury inn, with additional the Acquedotto Romano Polo Club, summer — “possibly inspired by own arrival at the College, and of up for a family picnic at Black Point topics such as women in existential medicine and dermatology at the super-luxe cottages being finished which is just south of Rome, Italy, the fact that my only child, Melissa, how what I learned there still has Beach next year. psychology, and film and neuro- Diane Orlinsky had much to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. for this fall. for the wedding of Massimo (Max) is to leave for Oberlin in a couple an impact on my world every day As we in the land of academia cognitive psychology. In addition, report after attending our reunion, In my (little) spare time, I serve on At Homecoming, the ashes of Fielding Elser ’85 GS and Tessa of weeks. I am the chair of English and is being passed on to new gen- know, there is no rest for the … I am managing editor of Saybrook writing, “Our 25th reunion was the boards of the Johns Hopkins our dearly departed friend and Laura Fahlbusch of Göttingen, at the Roslyn (N.Y.) Public Schools erations of students. So a big thank under-50 Ph.D.s! Cathy Webster University’s New Existentialists fantastic! My only regret was that I Alumni Council and the Family professor, Karl-Ludwig Selig, were Germany. These included Steven and celebrated my silver anniver- you to Columbia and hello to the and I were making trouble, or website, newexistentialists.com, didn’t make it to enough activities Tree in Maryland, as well as vol- scattered in the river in front of the Carrara ’84, John Schutty ’80, Terry sary in October. I taught in the NYC Carman 13’ers, my fellow river rats maybe I was making trouble and which features the work of exis- and didn’t get to catch up with unteer at Pathfinders for Autism, Boat House; all took place before a Jones and Lance Warrick ’79. public schools for a dozen years, and especially to my concert band Cathy was making great strides, tential-humanistic psychologists everyone. the Dermatology Foundation, gathering of former students and Dale Smith has been named helping to found the High School and Marching Band buds.” as she became the chair of her from around the world writing on “Claudia Kraut Rimerman Columbia’s Alumni Representative friends (per his will). For a most head of school at Isidore Newman for Leadership and Public Service Time definitely feels like it’s department — Modern Languages, the relationship between this very lives in Stamford, Conn., with her Committee and my four children’s poignant description, please see School in New Orleans. Dale, born on Trinity Place. passing faster now. Please take five Literatures, and Cultural Stud- human, non-diagnostic, respectful husband and three children. She schools.” “Letters to the Editor” and read the and raised in the Crescent City, be- “I made the move to the ’burbs (to minutes and update the class on ies — at the University of Central way of working with people and runs a boutique consulting firm As a relatively new father of two note from Joel Halio ’74. gan his teaching career as a middle work, not to live) more than a dozen whatever you like. Oklahoma after (thankfully) the issues of the day, globally and specializing in health care reform who is still struggling with the

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 80 81

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES basic work/life balance, I read the Adam Schneider ’90, Mark Novitz was kind enough to be the featured ployment opportunity on a remote was surrounded by family and humorous, imaginative, insight- Please send your updates to forward to the chance to hear stories previous paragraph with awe and ’91, Jonas Abney ’92 and Gabe speaker at my company’s (20th island a few hundred miles above friends when he passed away. ful, inspirational, irreverent, kind, either of the addresses at the top of from all these amazingly different amazement. Fischbarg ’87. Jared writes, “Rabbi Century Fox Television) monthly the Arctic Circle in Vesterålen. To Thank you to Greg Abbruzzese mischievous, multi-talented, off- the column or submit a note using communities and people. I relish Todd Johnson wrote from David Kalb ’89 JTS, my Delta Phi ‘salon series,’ in which we invite reach the place from Oslo, I had and Javier Loya for letting me the-hook, unconventional, unique CCT’s webform: college.columbia. any excuse to ask people probing Omaha, where he lives with his brother, officiated. He and I go movers and shakers from all over to take a plane to a bus to a boat know. and witty. She is remembered edu/cct/submit_class_note. Many questions about their lives, so this is “great wife of 19 years, Mary (we back to ninth grade, which made the map to inspire our executives to a bus to a boat to another bus Carl Marci and his wife are unanimously as someone who of us saw each other last spring like Christmas for me.” met in London while getting our the ceremony even more meaning- with stories of how they rose to the to a Zodiac inflatable. Although thrilled to announce that they had always had a different slant on ev- at Alumni Reunion Weekend but Congrats to both Mark and Alan, grad school degrees; she was/ ful. The band was Gent Treadly, top of their fields and what fuels the job didn’t turn out to be as a son in February. They live and ery subject and was willing to try that’s no excuse for letting the and thanks for sharing the news. is from Omaha … I returned to which is kind of a descendant of them creatively on and off the job. advertised, I did spend an amazing work in Boston, where Carl divides something new and interesting.” volume of news abate. And if Everyone else — please send an up- Omaha). We have three great boys the Columbia band Dreamspeak. Guests have included film and TV month surrounded by some of the his time between the faculty of I couldn’t agree more. anything, now is a perfect moment date! You can use either address at and, Mary claims, four boys under People loved the music and the producer Garry Marshall, Heart’s most beautiful landscape I’ve ever Massachusetts General Hospital Which brings me to some news to strengthen our recently renewed the top of the column or submit one 49. Our sons, Ed, Sam and Charlie, fact that the singer goes back years Nancy Wilson and then-MOCA encountered (and don’t forget I’ve at Harvard and his company, about the future of this column: connections! I look forward to through CCT’s webform: college. are active in baseball, basketball with me and Amanda, allowing director Jeffrey Deitch. Of course, lived in New Zealand!). I returned Innerscope Research, which does I’m going to be saying goodbye. hearing from you. columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ and lacrosse. Note: No soccer play- him to personalize his emceeing. I made sure to pose several ques- to Milwaukee and joined the staff consumer neuroscience. I have completed 21 full years of note. ers, so my coaching days ended of the recently relocated science Beth Moorthy moved from providing you updates, news both Until next time! REUNION WEEKEND mid-YMCA years. magazine Discover. In addition to Myanmar back to New York in happy and sad, and a slice of life MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 “I have been with Gallup for 19 editing, I write features now and 2007. Then, restless after five years from our classmates. It has been ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS years. The first half of my career Chris Alexander ’90 runs communications at 20th then, including two in our De- at the United Nations Department genuinely fun, and an absolute Janet Lorin ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott was spent running our various cember issue — one of which is an of Political Affairs, she moved with privilege to do so. But I’ve realized 730 Columbus Ave., Century Fox Television for Modern Family, Glee, [email protected] businesses around Latin America, interview with Columbia’s own Dr. her husband to Monrovia, Liberia, that it’s time to pass the torch. I 95 Apt. 14C 212-851-9148 and now I head Gallup’s job cre- New Girl, The Simpsons and many other series. Stephen Morse about pandemics. in November 2012. She is now am grateful that I am able to do so New York, NY 10025 DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova ation and entrepreneurship prac- “I purchased an adorable 1922 the head of the United Nations to someone who I am completely [email protected] [email protected] tice. My hobbies consist of driving cottage that is a block away from Agency for Human Settlements confident will be able to handle the 212-851-7833 the boys to and from their practices “Amanda is on her way to tions about our time at Columbia the family home (and still part-time Programme (UN-HABITAT) in Li- task. David Webber and his wife, Irit, and events (I hope that will change a Ph.D. in science curriculum and how it figured into her success, residence) of Gov. Scott Walker and beria, working on land and conflict He’s a journalist, and has handled Leyla Kokmen have added a daughter to their when the eldest turns 16) and development at TC. She is a water because what publicist could resist though I have yet to ask to borrow issues, and plans to stay one more press conferences with no one less 440 Thomas Ave. S. family. Eliane arrived on July 1 running global marathons. [The ecologist and epidemiologist at the a shameless plug for alma mater? a cup of sugar from the guv, the year. Lacking the amusements that than the President of the United 94 Minneapolis, MN 55405 and enjoys the company of her company has] a group called ‘Gal- NYC Department of Health and “More recently, we threw a state troopers parked across the NYC offered, she is also learning States. I’m speaking of Olivier Knox, [email protected] brothers, Boaz and Noam. The lup Runs the World’ and our 25th Mental Hygiene. I own a NYC tour premiere for our Emmy- and street 24/7 are always friendly. And to surf the epic West African waves who, in between flights on Air Force family moved from New York to race was in Dublin in October.” business, JaredtheNycTourGuide. Golden Globe-winning [TV show] watchful. Very watchful. (unsuccessfully so far). One and camping out in the Rose Hi folks! I hope you’re all saving the Boston area three years ago, Keep the updates coming! You com, through which I and associ- Homeland in the nation’s capital. “When not pulling up carpet or Debra (Gualandi) Williams is Garden while on assignment for the date for our 20th reunion next where David is a professor at Bos- can write me at either address at ated guides give private walking My fellow Columbia Musical writing about tissue conduction the Upper School principal of the Yahoo! News, will begin bringing spring. Who can believe that it’s ton University School of Law. He the top of the column or by using tours to individuals, groups, Theatre Society pals Melissa technology, I’m enjoying spend- International School of Florence you all of your class news. If you been two decades since we left the specializes in shareholder activism, CCT’s webform: college.columbia. schools and corporations. I also do Landau Steinman and Liz Lubow ing time with my adoptees from in Italy, where she lives with her treat him half as well as you treated Low Steps, Butler Library and our shareholder litigation, securities edu/cct/submit_class_note. I look tourism consulting on the business Poston joined the festivities at the our local animal control (where I three daughters and wine-maker/ me during these two decades, he’s in Columbia College days behind fraud, M&A litigation and, more forward to hearing from you. and creative ends. Amanda and I Corcoran Gallery of Art, where we volunteer): Charles, an older cat, and archaeologist husband. for a great assignment. Please send us? It will be great to catch up and generally, in the limitless ways in met in Tompkins Square Park in screened the third season premiere Tyche, a 7-month-old pit bull mix I hope you all have a joyous your news to Olivier at oknox9602@ relive old memories. More details which people fight over money. Alphabet City in 2009.” with the cast, creative team and who is the sweetest, most social dog holiday season! Until next time … gmail.com or via CCT’s webform: to come in the next issue. David has appeared on Nightly REUNION WEEKEND Of the event, Tom Kamber writes, Washington notables such as Mau- I’ve ever had. One of the main rea- cheers! college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ And in the meantime … Business Report and NPR’s MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 “The wedding was gorgeous. Jared reen Dowd, Lawrence O’Donnell, sons I quit the nomad lifestyle and class_note. Happy news from Mark Robi- Marketplace and has testified ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS and Amanda are a beautiful couple Martha Raddatz and Bob Schieffer left my beloved Antarctica, believe it I will certainly miss this space lotti, who married Karin Mazurs about pension governance issues ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott and they found a lovely space in in attendance. Melissa and Liz are or not, was to experience the joy of Jeremy Feinberg but I know I will still see many of in July. The newlyweds divide in California and New Hampshire, [email protected] downtown Queens for the ceremony both successful (Melissa as an at- waking up with a furry something 315 E. 65th St. #3F you at reunions. Thank you for their time between Manhattan and according to his BU web page. He 212-851-9148 — it was like an urban oasis. They torney specializing in sweepstakes snuggled against me once again, and 92 New York, NY 10021 making this an enjoyable and long- Connecticut, where Mark is execu- writes, “I love writing and teach- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova also tapped Jared’s contacts in the issues and Liz as a public relations both Charles and Tyche (named for lasting endeavor. tive counsel for transactions and ing and am very grateful for the [email protected] jeremy.feinberg@ music world to assemble the best executive who works in crisis the Greek goddess of fortune) are finance at General Electric. Among chance to do both. Locally, I see 212-851-7833 verizon.net band I’ve ever seen at a wedding. communications) and live a short fulfilling that role quite nicely. My the many College alums in atten- my first-year, eighth-floor Carman Emily Miles Terry They rocked Flushing Town Hall distance from each other, so in dark historical novel, Plaguewalker, is Let’s start with some unqualifiedly Betsy Gomperz dance at the wedding were Mark’s roommate Alex Cortez.” 45 Clarence St. like it was CBGB.” some ways their adult lives mirror selling particularly well in Spain and good news. Brad Randelman 41 Day St. sister, Elizabeth Robilotti ’99, and David also caught up with Ryan 89 Brookline, MA 02446 I’ve heard from many of you 1986, when they met in Carman. the United Kingdom. Also: I did not reported that not only was he pro- 93 Newton, MA 02466 her husband, Rit Aggarwala ’93. [email protected] who are planning to attend our In many ways our reunion felt like make any of this up.” moted to full professor at Emory but Betsy.Gomperz@ On the career front, an exciting 25th Alumni Reunion Weekend, no time had passed, although the Classmates, I’d like not to have he also published his first textbook, gmail.com update arrived from my fellow It’s been a celebratory 2013 for Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. refrain ‘We’re old’ crept into the to make anything up about anyone Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking. Con- Minneapolitan Alan Berks: This many classmates, and we’ve now It’s a big one, and I hope to see you conversation more than once. but if no one writes to me, well, gratulations on both counts, Brad! Not a lot to report for this issue, fall he began a position as director Manage Your learned of another two who have there. More details will be avail- “I run communications for the we shall see what my fingers end We lost a classmate since I last but first, some condolences. Our of communications for Pillsbury said, “Bye-bye, bachelorhood.” able next time around but for now studio behind Modern Family, Glee, up typing on the keyboard. Happy wrote. I’m sad to report that Mere- thoughts go to Kevin Connolly and United Communities, one of the Subscription On February 9, Dan Loflin registration is most important. Go New Girl, Sons of Anarchy, The Simp- holidays to all! dith Norton passed away on August his brother, Michael Connolly ’92, largest and oldest human service married Diane Vrkic in a western- to reunion.college.columbia.edu to sons, Family Guy and about 30 other 2, 2013. I think the best indication of over the loss of their father, James agencies in Minnesota. It’s the um- If you prefer reading CCT themed wedding appropriately stay updated on the event; registra- series, so life is hectic but mostly how loved and dear Meredith was F. Connolly, in late May. Condo- brella organization for five diverse online, you can help us set near the Alamo in San Antonio. tion opens in the early spring. fun. My partner, Michael, and I Margie Kim to so many of you is the number of lences also go to Julie Davidson neighborhood centers, more than go green and save money Matt Assiff and Russell Glober have been together for more than 14 1923 White Oak Clearing independent emails I received from Hassan, who lost her mother, Jane 60 specific programs and a number by opting out of the print were in attendance at the ceremony, years (and still haven’t tied the knot, 91 Southlake, TX 76092 you, making sure that I knew about M. Davidson, unexpectedly in late of innovative social enterprise/ edition. Click “Manage Your which took place at Mission Con- Rachel Cowan Jacobs despite the fact that it’s now legal in her passing and giving me informa- August. business ventures. margiekimkim@ Subscription” at college. cepcion, a historic mission estab- 313 Lexington Dr. California) and are the doting dads hotmail.com tion to include. There have been Congratulations to Brad Stone For the past three years, Alan lished in 1716. The formal reception 90 Silver Spring, MD 20901 of two dogs and a bird. My spare many wonderful words written of on the release of his book The Ev- had been communications director columbia.edu/cct and follow was held at the Briscoe Western [email protected] time is spent on the tennis court, I’m sorry to report that Solomon Meredith. Of those, I think the most erything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age at Pillsbury House + Theatre, one the domestic instructions. Art Museum on the Paseo del Rio riding horses in the Hollywood Hills Johnson passed away in Septem- fitting to share is a paragraph from of Amazon, which was published of those neighborhood organiza- We will continue to notify in San Antonio. Dan is an e.v.p. at Chris Alexander is the man about and in frequent visits to Massachu- ber. Solo was football’s Ivy League her obituary, shared with me by her in October. I saw Brad interviewed tions, and in his new role he will Locus Energy in San Francisco. town(s)! In September he wrote, setts, where my three nephews are Rookie of the Year for 1988 and father, John Norton ’57: on a number of morning shows apply the creativity his team used you by email when each Across the country, in New York “Janice Min and I cross paths quite growing up at an alarming rate.” many of you will remember that he “All who knew Meredith agree the week his book was released, there across the Pillsbury United issue is posted online. You City, Jared Goldstein married a bit, as she quite literally has trans- I always enjoy an update from scored the winning touchdown in that trying to describe her exhausts including CBS This Morning and Communities network. “The belief may be reinstated to receive Amanda Levy in July at Flushing formed the flailing trade The Hol- Gemma Tarlach. She writes, “After the historic game against Princeton synonyms and adjectives for an MSNBC’s Morning Joe, among is that more creative communica- the print edition at any time Town Hall, a historic, Victorian-era lywood Reporter into Hollywood’s nearly two years at McMurdo that same year, which ended our energetic, incandescent free spirit others. Brad is a senior writer for tions strategies can help make the by sending a note to cct@ building in Queens. Among the ‘must-read’ weekly with stories, Station in Antarctica (see profile in 44-game losing streak. After school, who was amusing, argumentative, Bloomberg Businessweek and lives service work itself easier, better and Columbians in attendance were interviews and photography that January/February 2011), I headed he got into the music business, brilliant, challenging, creative, in San Francisco with his twin even more inspiring,” Alan writes. columbia.edu. Chris Mulligan, Tom Kamber, rival Vanity Fair’s. Recently Janice to Norway to investigate an em- married and had two children. He dramatic, engaging, generous, daughters. “As a creative writer, I’m looking

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 82 83

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

Mossman, Craig Bernstein, David ton, David Webber, Gabe Stadecker started as a correspondent for the Sarah Katz Theory and Practice.” She is also noz, Nina Tannenbaum, Eunice Attanasio, Alex Cortez, Hilton ’96, Slain Jamison Wilde ’94, Thad Thomson Reuters Foundation, the 97 1935 Parrish St. working on several scholarly books, Lee, Stacy Rotner, John Bennett, Romanski and Bert Galleno ’96 Tracy and Glen Morgan ’93. humanitarian news arm of Reuters. Philadelphia, PA 19130 including a volume of scholarly Adrienne Carter, Charlie Leykum, at Ryan’s 40th birthday party in Finally, Ryan writes, the reunions She edits news from around the [email protected] essays and a translation with Co- David Kwon, Allison Margolin, Houston last fall. David would love this year so far have been limited to world and reports stories from the lumbia University Press. Before her Christina Cue, Alisha Alexander, to hear from Boston-area alums. David Attanasio, in New York and Asia-Pacific region. For the time CC ’97, our Class Notes are quite position at Macalester, Rivi, who Eleisa Coster, Jodi Materna, Lau- Speaking of Hilton, he lives in in Texas, for the Houston Livestock being, she works mostly from short this time. Please remember to earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from ren Gershell, Steve Boothe, Robert Palo Alto, Calif., has been at Cisco Show and Rodeo. Ryan also caught home, and each evening takes share all of your exciting goings-on Chicago, was an assistant professor Hora and Caitlin Pannese. for 12 years and is s.v.p., corpo- up with Tom Kitt ’96. Luciole for a bike ride around the by writing to me at either of the at Middlebury. Friday has multiple events rate development, leading the Thanks for the news, and please island to see the birds, lizards and addresses at the top of the column. Another round of congratula- on campus and then a cocktail company’s M&A and investment send in updates about your own fireflies. You can also submit a note via tions is in order for Jeannette reception hosted by one of our strategy. He says the work is still 40th birthday celebrations with Sameer Ahuja writes that he CCT’s webform: college.columbia. Jakus, who is a board-certified der- classmates (details to come). fun and challenging. classmates. and his wife, Sima (née Saran) ’96 edu/cct/submit_class_note. matologist and has joined a private Saturday is the day not to miss. Hilton and his wife, Emily Meyer, Barnard, are doing well. They live Here’s the news I do have: practice with offices in Manhattan The Alumni BBQ will be held on have two kids: Clement (5), who in NYC and have two daughters, Karen Lee and her husband, and Long Island. In the fall she left South Lawn followed by a wine will begin kindergarten next year, Ana S. Salper Anya (4) and Ella (almost 1). Jean-Marc Grolier, welcomed baby New York for a yearlong fellow- tasting in the early evening. Our and Georgia (3). Emily is the co- 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA Sameer recently launched a hedge Bryce on August 28. He joins trip- ship in the south of France with class reception and dinner will be founder of a successful kids cloth- 96 Brooklyn, NY 11201 fund, Dera Capital Advisors, lets Charlotte, Alex and Devin (1). Galderma, a pharmaceutical com- held in the C.V. Starr East Asian ing company, Tea Collection. (I [email protected] which specializes in the systematic Having four babies under the age of pany specializing in dermatologic Library in Kent Hall on Saturday. can report that the brand is wildly trading of global financial and 2 keeps Karen busy! drugs, where she will learn about The event is a step up from our popular on the Upper West Side Malik Rashid joined the Asian De- commodity futures. Sima works Kavita Kumar Puri had a second early drug development. What an 10-year reunion dinner, which was and a favorite of my 3-year-old velopment Bank in Manila, Philip- for Bloomberg. daughter, Maya Kumar Puri, on amazing adventure for Jeannette, held behind Uris Hall. With that daughter.) Check out some lovely pines, about 1½ years ago. His wife Rhonda Moore was looking December 19, 2012. She also has her husband, Ben Kornfeind, and said, our 10-year reunion had the photos of Hilton, Emily and the and 2-year-old daughter joined for international human resources left Arnold & Porter and will be their children, Sam and Lily. largest turnout compared to any kids here: teacollection.com/about- him there last fall. Malik says he experience so she is living in the an appellate litigator for the U.S. I inadvertently left some baby prior class’ 10-year reunion and tea/people. The brand is “bringing and his family are enjoying the ad- Caribbean. Now, she shares, she re- Commodity Futures Trading Com- news out of my last column: I’m sure we’ll have another great global influences into accessible ventures of living in Southeast Asia cently edited the first (January 2013) mission in Washington, D.C. Kavita Suehyun Kim is the mother of boy- turnout in 2014. Saturday night designs that are just awesome and and hope to be back in New York human resources magazine, HR- and her family live in Arlington, Va. girl twins born in December 2012. will be capped off by the Starlight fun for kids to wear,” Hilton writes. after his assignment ends in 2015. MATTers, in Trinidad and Tobago. It Sabra Gandhi was married at That’s the reason she was unable to Reception on Low Plaza. As for Ryan, he writes that the If you find yourself in Manila, Ma- has been distributed in hard copy to the beginning of 2012 to Parker attend Alumni Reunion Weekend Hotels on the Upper West Side last year was full of Columbia re- lik welcomes your getting in touch: various government agencies and Sellers and they had a son, Rohan, in May — the babies were only 6 book up quickly, as other Colum- unions. He and his wife, Sydni, cel- [email protected]. ministries in the country. You can on August 1, 2012. Sabra has a law months old — and she says she bia classes and schools hold their ebrated their 10th anniversary with Jill Van Beke is the East Tennes- check it out at hrmatt.com/down- practice in Los Angeles and also and her husband, Michael Lindo, reunions the same weekend. So Joel Bass and Michelle Grzan ’01 were married August 24 at Red Jon Berkun and his wife, Lauren, see director for Launch Tennessee, loads/hr-matters-v1.pdf. Rhonda is recently joined Nest Seekers Inter- had only just figured out how to start planning! Hope to see many Maple Vineyard in West Park, N.Y. Pictured left to right are the in Miami, dancing the night away which supports high-growth the HR manager and human capital national as the managing broker of get them to sleep plus they weren’t of you in May. In the meantime, bride’s parents, John and Milvana Grzan; the groom; the bride; and at a club, Liv. “As much as I hate to entrepreneurial activity in the state. consultant at a new Deloitte on its soon-to-open Beverly Hills real ready for traveling. The babies, who don’t hesitate to send a note to say the bride’s brother, John-Michael Grzan ’06. admit it, we were definitely the old Jill and her husband, Chris, had Trinidad and Tobago. As part of her estate office. turn 1 this December, are named hello and let us know how you are PHOTO: MARISSA MASSIMO people in the room,” Ryan writes. another daughter last November, volunteer work, she is the HR educa- Jason Klein has moved back to Michaela and Christian Lindo. doing. Use either of the addresses “At least Jon and I had beautiful so now they have Anna (3) and tion/research officer for HRMATT NYC and was elected president of Suehyun and Michael, a licensed at the top of the column or CCT’s dates.” Charlotte (1). (Human Resource Management As- the Reconstructionist Rabbinical clinical social worker with his own webform: college.columbia.edu/ Jonathan Gordin were married in Austin on Septem- Ryan also celebrated pre-wedding Kelly Koch, my Carman 5 floor- sociation of Trinidad and Tobago). Association in March. It’s a two- counseling and consulting practice, cct/submit_class_note. 01 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. ber 2. In attendance were Stephen festivities for Shane Mogensen ’96 mate, is at Convergys in Cincin- Moha Desai Patel is taking a year, volunteer position. This sum- live in Santa Monica, Calif. Los Angeles, CA 90068 Luk, Brian Gum, Michael Shy and in Copenhagen, Denmark, with nati, working in market research sabbatical from her professional mer, after seven years as the Hillel That’s it for this column but if [email protected] Ada Yung. Hilton and Josh Shoemake ’96. The analytics for several financial career advising on healthcare mat- director at University of Maryland you’re on Facebook, please join Prisca Bae Congratulations to all the new highlight of the trip was eating at services, government, healthcare ters to dedicate herself even more Baltimore County, he became the Columbia College Class of ’98 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B I hope everyone enjoys the holiday parents and newlyweds! Noma, he writes, “the top-ranked and technology clients. Kelly de- to her community and family. Her director of the Center for Jewish Group! And please send notes 00 New York, NY 10011 season. Best wishes for a wonder- Stuart Dearnley writes, “Three restaurant in the world. We ate a signs research studies and analyzes second son, Vikram, was born on Life at Jewish Community Project to my email address at the top [email protected] ful and safe New Year! years ago, I left the advertising very unusual 18-course menu that data from multiple sources to August 6. Moha; her husband, of Lower Manhattan. Shortly of the column or through CCT’s Michelle Grzan and Joel Bass industry to pursue my dream of included ants, Swedish moss, crab deliver strategic recommendations Vinit Patel (an IP attorney); and before leaving Baltimore, Jason and webform: college.columbia.edu/ Nugi Jakobishvili and his wife, were married on August 24 at Red being a fiction writer. To that end, and scallops with squid ink, to to clients. her older son, Devraj (5 and in kin- Hussein Rashid ’96 spoke together cct/submit_class_note. Isabelle Levy ’05, welcomed Ra- Maple Vineyard in West Park, N.Y. I’m getting an M.F.A. at the Uni- name some of the more interesting Stefania Van Dyke (née dergarten), are enjoying spending on a panel about creating LGBTQ- phael Levi Jakobishvili in June. The Jaime Pannone gave a rock star versity of Arkansas and have been and delicious items.” Rosenstein) lives in Denver with time with him! inclusive religious communities. proud parents write, “Big sister performance of “Ho Hey” by the teaching undergraduates ‘Comp REUNION WEEKEND The wedding itself was held her husband, Geoff, and their boys, Michael Cavanaugh joined Re- And I, Sarah Katz, was honored Flora adores her new real-life doll.” Lumineers during the ceremony. 101.’” Stu also won the Playboy Col- MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 in Bozeman, Mont., he adds, and Sebastian (6) and Leo (4). Stefania silience Capital Partners, a leading this fall to be named one of Phila- Jeremy Kadden and his wife, Other Columbia attendees included lege Fiction Contest; it came with ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS among the other guests were Hil- has worked at the Denver Art private equity firm, in 2006 and has delphia’s The Legal Intelligencer’s Jana, welcomed their second son, Kelle Oberle Bowersox with her a $3,000 prize and his story was ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Museum since December 2012 as been responsible for deal origina- 2013 “Lawyers on the Fast Track.” Emmanuel Jasper (Manny) on husband, Mark, and daughter, published in the October issue. It [email protected] a master teacher for textile art and tion, investment due diligence and August 26, “just a smidgen under Avery; Rebecca Siegel Bradley and can be accessed online through 212-851-9148 Columbia College special projects, helping with the portfolio company oversight. Prior three years after our first son, her husband, John; Anne-Marie playboy.com. DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova reinstallation of the museum’s tex- to joining Resilience, Michael was a Sandie Angulo Chen Siggy, was born (in September Ebner and her wife, Jamie; Sarah Congratulations, Stu! Alumni on Facebook [email protected] tile art collection and developing turnaround consultant at Conway 10209 Day Ave. 2010).” Jeremy has lived in Wash- Weakley; John-Michael Grzan ’06; Thanks to all who wrote. Please 212-851-7833 an exploratory education studio. MacKenzie, an M&A attorney at 98 Silver Spring, MD 20910 ington, D.C., since 2002 and has and Namrata Khimani ’06. keep in touch using my email The reinstallation was the impetus Kaye Scholer, and a distressed [email protected] Laurent Vasilescu worked in and around government Rabia Saeed wrote with exciting address at the top of the column or Check out the this past summer for a museum- securities trader and investment 127 W. 81st St., Apt. 4B for most of that time, including news: “My husband, Parker, and I through CCT’s webform: college. 99 welcomed Sylvie Elan Hayden into columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ Columbia College wide celebration of textiles called banker at Merrill Lynch. Michael I hope you’re all having a wonder- New York, NY 10024 a seven-year stint working on “Spun”; all manner of fiber art earned a J.D. from University of ful winter. Here’s a look at what laurent.vasilescu@ Capitol Hill for several members the world on July 31. She weighed note. Alumni page! invaded every nook and cranny of Michigan Law and an M.B.A. ’98ers have been up to recently. gmail.com of Congress. Since August 2012 he a not-so-whopping 6 lbs., 12 oz., facebook.com/ the museum. from the University of Michigan Congratulations to Rebecca has worked at InterAction, a coali- for which mommy thanks her. We couldn’t be more thrilled.” Sonia Dandona alumnicc Alisa Tang, who has been in Business School. He also holds the “Rivi” Handler-Spitz Ph.D., who By the time you read these Class tion of foreign aid NGOs, where he Asia for 11 years, now lives in a CPA/ABV and CTP designations. has joined the Asian languages and Notes, we’ll be six months shy of is a lobbyist. Alisa Amarosa Wood and 02 Hirdaramani small cabin on a riverine island Keep those notes coming, folks. cultures department at Macalester, our 15-year Alumni Reunion Week- Please share news about your- Alastair Wood welcomed their 2 Rolling Dr. Like the page to get near central Bangkok. In Septem- For all of you Breaking Bad fans, I a liberal arts college in Saint Paul, end. The festivities kick off with self, your career, your family and third child, Theodore (Teddy) Wil- Old Westbury, NY 11568 alumni news, learn ber 2012, she and her husband, leave you with this: Minn., as a tenure-track assistant an evening reception on Thursday, so on! You can write me at either liam Wood, at 9:25 a.m. on August [email protected] about alumni events and Landry Dunand, welcomed a “If that’s true, if you don’t know professor. Rivi will teach such May 29, and last until Sunday, June address at the top of the column or 23. He weighed 6 lbs., 12 oz. daughter, Luciole, which means who I am, then maybe your best courses as “First Year Chinese,” 1, when we conclude with a brunch. by using CCT’s webform: college. Cambria Matlow and Ben Bach We have a host of exciting updates, College happenings, “firefly” in French. After freelanc- course would be to … tread lightly.” “Masterpieces of Chinese Litera- The Reunion Committee consists columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ were married this past summer. and I would like to share one of ing for several years, Alisa recently —Heisenberg aka W.W. ture” and “Translating Chinese: of me, Sameer Shamsi, Tony Mu- note. I hope to hear from you. Eileen McGinnis and Sol Swords my own as well. Our second son,

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 84 85

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

Aarish, was born on July 13. My David Epstein’s first book, The and it was great to hear about Will’s Thomas E. Anderson II writes, to Boston in early September. I am a husband, Aroon, and I are incred- Sports Gene: Inside the Science of married life (to Jessica Meksavan “I completed a summer intern- corporate associate at Mintz Levin, ibly grateful for this wonderful Extraordinary Athletic Performance, ’05 Barnard) and work in real estate. ship with Lifeforming Leadership and Jacques is designing jet engines addition to our family. came out August 1 and was given Will mentioned that he often meets Coaching, where I assisted the at General Electric. We are thrilled Orit Barnea Seif and her hus- a coveted Kirkus Reviews star up with Danny Lee, who is based director of training with program to be back in the United States and band, Yehuda ’00, welcomed son designating it a “book of excep- in Los Angeles. development.” we would love to connect with any Ilan Yaakov on June 13. tional merit.” David writes that the I also had dinner with Shaun Graciete Lo writes, “Things are Columbia alums in Boston.” Jane Yang finished her vas- book covers “all that we’ve learned Ting in Singapore — he runs going well in Hawaii. I have been After taking an almost two-year cular surgery fellowship at the about the genetics of athleticism in Ting Capital Partners and travels living here for almost 2½ years hiatus in which he studied improv University of Miami and is now a the decade since the sequencing of extensively throughout Asia for now! Can’t believe it. I am a clinical comedy and acting, Steve Ling vascular surgery attending and an the human genome, and reporting business — and met up with a few psychologist at the National Center recently moved to Bermuda to assistant professor at UCLA and the book took me below the equa- Columbians for drinks at Club for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. resume his career as a consulting Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. tor and above the Arctic Circle. It Street Social, a bar opened by Min I visited NYC in September and actuary for Tokio Millenium Rein- Purdy Tran Bailer and her hus- has since reached No. 9 on the list Chan ’05 in Singapore. These in- had a brief reunion with Karolina surance Co. He loves the island life band, Josh Bailer, welcomed their of New York Times best sellers in cluded Kenneth Sim (whom I had Dryjanska. Even though I miss and is delving into as many new first child, Maximilian Hudson hardcover nonfiction.” [Editor’s not seen in more than 10 years), New York, I am staying in Hawaii and exciting activities as he can Bailer. Max came in weighing note: See Bookshelf.] who works in different capacities indefinitely. You can’t beat the find, many of which involve water. 7 lbs., 6 oz., a week early — he was Zecki Dossal ’13 Business has for the Singaporean government; perfect weather, scenic beaches and He expects to be back in the NYC eager to meet the world. They love been co-heading the private equity Clara Kim ’06; Daniel Chen ’06E; mountains, and the aloha spirit. area by mid-2014. the time with their future Colum- and venture practice at Gerson and Chee Kin Gan ’05E. Club “Since I don’t know a whole lot bia Lion. Lehrman Group and overseeing its Street Social has quickly become of people here, I have been involved REUNION WEEKEND Justin Wall recently completed work in social impact. one of the most popular places for with revamping the Columbia MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 two consecutive three-year retreats Elisabeth Ryan is deputy general good drinks in Singapore. Enough Alumni Club of Hawaii and trying ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition counsel for the Massachusetts Ex- from me, though — now on to to get more local alums involved. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott and now runs a retreat center in ecutive Office of Public Safety and your updates. In August, I hosted a send-off event [email protected] the smoky mountains of Tennessee. Security. She also teaches courses Francis Lora writes, “As a thera- for students starting at Columbia 212-851-9148 Mariel Wolfson took a new in legal writing and firearms law pist, life coach, writer and speaker, in the fall, and in early October I DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova position as a HarvardX Fellow at Harvard Extension School - Har- I aim to improve everyone’s hosted a ‘Columbia Connect’ happy [email protected] at Harvard. HarvardX is the uni- vard University. quality of life through teaching, hour networking event. It was great 212-851-7833 versity’s recently launched online meeting alums who are at different education venture, part of the EdX stages in their lives and careers as Angela Georgopoulos partnership between Harvard and well as those from schools other 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 MIT. She will work on using tech- Samantha Lee ’03 lives in Brooklyn Heights and than the College.” 04 New York, NY 10038 nology to increase access to higher recently joined Animal Planet as director of Mario Lugay writes, “I moved [email protected] Erica Yen ’05 and Phuong Le were married in August at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. education and also on integrating to Oakland, Calif., three years ago Among the guests were (top row, left to right) Johnny Lan ’05E; Michael Sin ’05; Kenneth Yen ’06E; technology into traditional courses. development. and work at the Kapor Center for Greetings from New York City! Vivian Chiang; Yan Ting ’06E; Emily Tsai ’05E; Jennifer Lee ’05; and the brother of the groom, Huy Le; Evan Bass has his first feature Social Impact. That year I also co- This year is coming to a close, and I and (bottom row, left to right) the bride, Justin Wei ’05E and Jennifer Yang ’06 Barnard. film credit as a producer and is founded the New American Lead- hope you all had a spectacular one. PHOTO: LIN & JIRSA PHOTOGRAPHY aiming for distribution this fall; it’s Miriam Sheinbein writes, “I writing, workshops and media ers Project, which partners with I’m sure that 2014 will have plenty called The Eve and is a Hitchcock- work for Planned Parenthood Mar communications; I help people immigrant-serving organizations of surprises and adventures — one styled psychological horror-thriller Monte as associate medical director find, identify and realize their to identify, recruit and train first- of which is our 10-year Alumni welcomed Jacques Edward Andre or strategy consulting following tional. However, I’m moving away set on Martha’s Vineyard on New for primary care, and I teach in the mission so that my services are no and second-generation immigrants Reunion Weekend! Mark your cal- Hardy into the world. He’s our school. I have yet to connect with from day-to-day news and work- Year’s. He also has launched a UC San Francisco General Hospital longer needed. to run for elected office.” endars: Thursday, May 29–Sunday, first child and a cheery little lad. Michael Landau but I know he’s ing across all our feature program- YouTube Channel (eBassEntertain- Family and Community Medicine “To accomplish this, I left my job Beth Murphy (née Priest) June 1. I am expecting a strong Samantha Debicki gifted him a here in Pittsburgh as well!” ming in Asia Pacific. For example, ment) that features new comedic Residency Program.” She adds that at the New York State Psychiatric writes, “My husband, daughter showing from our class. There are Columbia onesie and he seems Craig Hollander recently earned I’m producing an interview with Web series and sketches every if any Lions are in her neighbor- Institute’s Washington Heights and I welcomed a son, Cameron some great events scheduled, and excited about lion noises, so in a a Ph.D. in 19th-century American the Thai prime minister in Bang- Monday. And, on the acting/ hood (the Mission in San Francisco), Community Service inpatient unit Edward, on December 3, 2012. it will be wonderful to see familiar few years, who knows?” history from Johns Hopkins and kok and took one of our other writing front, Evan was in England they are invited to check out the and now work at Inwood Com- We live in Chicago, where I am a faces strolling around campus again. Oleg Ilitchev and his wife had will spend the next couple of years programs on the road to Shanghai for a few weeks working on the restaurants she owns with her hus- munity Services’ Get Centered senior project manager for a small Congratulations to Alisa K. their first child, Adriana Ilitcheva, as the Behrman Postdoctoral Fel- in October. All very exciting but National Institutes of Health- band, Yaron, and Yaron’s brother, Mental Health Clinic and began architecture firm. We sadly missed Weilerstein, who married Rafael in May. low in the Department of History after five years of a somewhat funded Alzheimer’s Theatre proj- Noam Elcott ’00. They are Local’s working independently, traveling the reunion this past spring but Payare in August. Alisa is a cellist Alex Hardiman and Brian at Princeton. peaceful life in Atlanta, I’m having ect with Hearthstone Alzheimer Corner and Local Mission Eatery; in across NYC to people’s homes and plan to visit Columbia while in and in August played with the Chi- Platzer welcomed their son, Owen Aaron Schwartz lives in San to relearn how to live in an urban Care (writing, studying and devel- addition, they will also be opening offices to provide my services as New York during the holidays.” cago Symphony Orchestra at the Hardiman Platzer, in July. Francisco, where he runs Modify environment, and everything that oping interactive plays specifically a grocery market. ‘The Traveling Therapist.’ Jonathan Manes writes, “My Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Congratulations to all the new Watches.com with Ayo Oluwole comes along with that. Still, it’s for individuals with Alzheimer’s). Daniel Lupo graduated from “Due to my new schedule, I wife, Nicole Hallett, and I recently Ill. Last November, she performed parents! ’05, Modify’s v.p. of marketing. great, because there’s just no way He writes, “We are in our final year Warrant Officer Candidate School have been better able to balance moved back to New Haven, Conn., with the New York Philharmonic Alex Davis recently finished They create custom watches for big to get bored in Hong Kong and the of development and are working in August and has entered the U.S. my work and personal life. I from Brooklyn. Our son, Ezra, is at Avery Fisher Hall. In addition, a one-year clerkship at the U.S. companies (e.g., Google, Nike) and region.” on developing training materials so Army Aviation Center of Excel- recently enjoyed my five-year almost 1. And we both recently she was a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. District Court in New Jersey. He is have been featured in The New York Thank you to everyone who people all over the country/world lence in Fort Rucker, Ala. wedding anniversary with Jennifer started work as clinical teaching Congratulations also to Andrew now in San Francisco, where he will Times and Self, on Good Morning contributed to this edition of Class can put on these types of plays, Guerrero ’03 Barnard, as well as fellows at Yale Law. I teach in the Lebwohl, who reports, “I married soon start work in the commercial America and more. Notes! Please keep your submis- which have already been shown to our son’s, Alejandro Miguel Lora, Media Freedom and Information Carly Weisenberg on August 25, litigation department at Kirkland Jason Burwen reports, “It’s been sions coming, and happy 2014! battle depression in this population Michael Novielli second birthday.” Access Clinic, where I supervise law which was also the one-year an- & Ellis. He looks forward to con- a big year. I married Eleanor in July equal to, if not better, than medica- World City Apartments Samantha Lee writes, “I live students litigating open govern- niversary of my business, Karaoke necting with other alums in the Bay on the Russian River in California. tion.” Aside from that and other 03 Attention Michael J. in Brooklyn Heights and recently ment and First Amendment cases. Heroes. Jeffrey Chubak and Ilana Area and can be reached at agd36@ Mischa Byruck served admirably Claire McDonnell acting projects, Evan continues to Novielli, A608 joined Animal Planet as director of We had a big win recently when Golant were in attendance as were columbia.edu. as a groomsman and MC, and I 47 Maiden Ln., 3rd Fl. expand the NYC-based tutoring Block 10, No 6. Jinhui development. I work with produc- the Foreign Intelligence Surveil- Jaime Sneider ’02; Marc Tobak ’05; Sophia Beal is an assistant pro- was lucky enough to have Mark 05 San Francisco, CA 94108 company that he runs. Road, Chaoyang District ers to develop new shows and have lance Court ordered the govern- his wife, Elizabeth Berkowitz ’06; fessor of Portuguese at Minnesota. Weiner, Elizabeth Dwoskin ’05 and claire.mcdonnell@ Sara Velasquez lives in Pakistan, Beijing, 100020, People’s the bonus of getting to help out ment to declassify decisions about Steve Melzer ’05; his fiancée, Tracy Phil Matricardi ’12 Business is a Leah Yananton ’04 GS join the cel- gmail.com where she consults for various Republic of China with the Puppy Bowl. Life is good!” NSA surveillance in response to a Massel ’06 Barnard; and my gazil- financial consultant for Sapient Glo- ebration. We left San Francisco and INGOs, and gave birth to a daugh- [email protected] Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s second motion that we filed together with lion family members with Colum- bal Markets. He lives in Brooklyn. moved to Washington, D.C., where Hello, Class of 2005! Ten years ago ter in March 2013. She had a sup- book of poetry, My Funeral Gondola, the ACLU. I would love to meet bia degrees of one type or another Joshua Arthur writes, “After I work on energy innovation policy we were babies taking CC together. porting role in a movie, Edwin: My It’s been nice to connect with a was published in May. She also has up with any ’03 grads in the New whom I will not list because I don’t nearly five years in the civilian world at the Bipartisan Policy Center.” Today (spoiler alert), our classmates Life As a Koont, which was screened number of you during my recent translated two books of poetry by Haven area.” want to offend anyone by leaving following my time in the Army, I David Molko writes, “I recently are having babies and teaching CC! recently at the Los Angeles Comedy travels. contemporary Chinese poets, Bai Andrea Paul writes, “My them out.” went back to business school and relocated from Atlanta to Hong Let us begin this chapter in Class Festival (spookypictures.co.nz/ Will Hu and I caught up over Hua and Yu Xiang, both out this husband, Jacques Paul ’03E, and I Francoise Villeneuve writes, started at Carnegie Mellon in Au- Kong, continuing my work as a Notes with the weddings and FeatureFilms/Edwin/Edwin.html). dinner while I was in San Francisco, year. moved from the United Kingdom “This year, my husband, Ed, and I gust. I plan to work in management senior producer for CNN Interna- babies:

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 86 87

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

Isabelle Levy and her husband, some Columbia alumni who have me with wonderful opportunities Nugi Jakobishvili ’00, welcomed invested.” for service to the broader commu- Berlin Marathon in 2:33:42, Raphael Levi Jakobishvili in June. Erika Gibson writes, “After a nity. I and several of my colleagues In Croatia, Lisa Stubli´c ’06 Runs Down a Dream several minutes under the Sister Flora adores her new real-life few years working at the Gover- participated in an effort to bring qualifying time she needed. doll. nor’s Energy Office in Colorado, I affordable health care services to y i m a r t i n e au Erica Yen announces, “I was am pursuing a J.D. at the Univer- the rural community of Havana, B K M ’97J In 2012, she went to London married in August to my law school sity of Oregon School of Law. As a about 20 minutes north of Tallahas- expecting to finish in the top sweetheart, Phuong Le, at the Walt Native Environmental Sovereignty see. Our group recently formed hen the elite status with her third-place fin- tion of her days at Columbia. coach at Columbia, Craig Anne 20 but a back cramp near Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Fellow I am exploring strategies a partnership with a Tallahassee- women mara- ish at the NYC Half, followed by She rises early, trains hard in the Lake, for teaching her winning the 15-mile point foiled her A number of dear college friends for tribes to stop mercury pollution based community health clinic, thoners finished first-place at the Zurich Mara- morning and spends the rest of habits like eating well and get- plan and she finished 52nd, in came from near and far and even and also working on cutting-edge Neighborhood Medical Center, the NYC Half last thon just three weeks later. the day reading, eating and nap- ting enough sleep. 2:34:03. overseas to help celebrate, including climate change litigation.” to establish a full-service primary Wspring, newscasters announced At Columbia, Stubli´c was a ping, with a light workout in the “I used to tell them [the stu- The failure taught Stubli´c bridesmaid Jennifer Lee, Michael Brendon Jobs says, “I’m still and specialty care clinic open the names of the Africans in strong runner but no one ex- afternoon. In the typical week, dents], the dorkier they could be, a lesson. She needed to Sin, Emily Tsai ’05E, Johnny Lan teaching history, only now at the several days a week. In a similar first and second place but pected her to make a living at she logs 110 miles. “It’s fun for the better,” says Lake, who now strengthen her back and ’05E, Justin Wei ’05E, Yan Ting Girard Academic Music Program. vein, I also serve on a statewide ’06E, Kenneth Yen ’06E and Jennifer What a joy to be around such committee dedicated to addressing struggled to identify the 98-lb. it. Her unlikely success started me,” she says. “I feel like I’m in sells real estate in Boston. “Lisa core, so she added weight- Yang ’06 Barnard. I am in my sixth creative kids. Activist work on the health disparities through creative Croat on their heels. with a gamble: the decision college without the classes.” seemed to listen. It is a hard lifting to her regimen. That year at Reed Smith doing busi- board of Teacher Action Group research and collaboration. Lisa Stubli´c ’06 is used to after graduating to move to her Pushing her body to its physi- concept to grasp because most may have led to her breakout ness litigation in downtown L.A. keeps me pretty busy besides. “In addition to my various re- surprising people. She holds father’s native Croatia to learn cal limit did not come naturally. people see it as a sacrifice.” performances at the NYC I miss playing with the Columbia My family and friends have been search and service activities, I have Croatia’s marathon record the language. There, she dis- Stubli´c had to be prodded by a Academically, Stubli���������´c �������gravi- Half, where she won $5,500 University Orchestra but I get to such a blessing. At the school, I’m enjoyed a variety of teaching activi- and last year became the first covered a knack for endurance gym teacher at Crosby H.S. in tated toward the arts. Her major and set a Croatian national play violin with lawyers and judges constructing an elective called ties during my time at FSU. I have marathoner — man or woman running. Waterbury, Conn., where she in music theory, it turns out, set record at 1:09:18, followed by as part of the Los Angeles Lawyers ‘Black Music as Rebellion,’ meant advised fieldwork for graduate — to compete in the Olympics The intense yet flexible life grew up, to pick a sport. She her on the path to becoming an her first-place finish at Zurich, Philharmonic (‘L.A.’s only legal to prepare my students to compete students in multiple health-related on Croatia’s behalf. In March, of a pro athlete can sometimes went out for the swim team but Olympic athlete. The summer where she set a Croatian orchestra,’ har har).” in this year’s National History Day disciplines, taught directed inde- Tracy Reuter (née Bucholski) competition.” pendent studies for undergraduates Stubli´c achieved world-class feel to Stubli������������������´c� �����������������like a continua- found swimming laps so tiring of her junior year, she went to marathon record of 2:25:44 writes, “This past year was quite that she quit after Croatia on a music-exchange (also her personal best). the year for me and my husband, the warm-up. program led by Jane McMahan, Stubli´c credits a birth defect John Reuter. After five years in San Next she tried a Barnard associate in music. with helping her to run faster Francisco, last October we moved Elizabeth Dwoskin ’05 has moved to San Francisco cross country. “I For three weeks, she played and farther. Born two months just outside of Philadelphia, where to write for The Wall Street Journal; her beat is big told myself I’d do flute with a group of musicians premature, her nostrils failed we bought a big old house to one race,” she performing in tiny medieval to fully develop, leaving her renovate. Not long after moving in data/big brother. says. She won it villages across the Grožnjan without a sense of smell or we found out we were expecting and steadily grew region. taste. A surgery at 19 largely our first child! John William Reuter aka ‘Jack’ was born on August 1 at Suzanne Schneider writes, “After in health sciences and been a career faster. As a junior The experience stayed with restored both senses, allow- 9:53 p.m. He was 7 lbs., 8 oz., 21½ a combined 11 years at Columbia, mentor for students of all ages and and senior, she Stubli´c . While pouring lattes at ing her to experience foods inches long and is absolutely gor- I will finally graduate in May with backgrounds. I also teach a special was selected All Chokolat Patisserie, the coffee by their flavors rather than geous. We couldn’t be happier.” a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies. topics course in medical sociology New England in shop near Columbia where she colors corresponding to their On September 18, Larry Manis I am a cultural historian of the 19th for undergraduate students. cross country and worked, Stubli´c kept coming saltiness, sourness or bitter- and Amalia Goldvaser welcomed and 20th century Levant, special- “In addition, between August both seasons of back to that “magical” sum- ness. In addition to giving her their first child, Izzy Brendan. izing in the histories of religious 2011 and September 2013, I complet- track and field, mer. In January 2008, she flew a taste for dark chocolate, the Alexandra Harman reports, “I modernist movements in Jewish ed my Ph.D. in medical sociology! setting several to Croatia on a one-way ticket surgery had another bonus: married Breene Murphy on Sep- and Islamic societies. In addition to Prior to earning a doctorate I earned league records. and went to live with her aunt. She immediately shaved a tember 7. We met in my hometown finishing my dissertation, I am teach- an M.S. in medical sociology from of Laguna Beach, Calif., through ing CC for the second year, which FSU and an M.P.H. in health systems With offers Eight months later, armed with full minute off her best cross mutual friends. Breene was a continues to be the uncontested high and policy from Rutgers/University from two Division a basic command of Croatian, country time. member of UCLA’s golf team and point of graduate school. of Medicine and Dentistry of New I schools, Ameri- she moved to Zagreb to teach The Olympics are three graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in “My husband, Jonathan Reich Jersey. I loved my time in the Ph.D. can and Iona, English. years away but Stubli´c already international development studies. ’04, ’07L, and I recently moved program, so much so that after Stubli´c chose There, she found a coach has eyes on Rio, with plans to He graduated from USC in 2011 into a house in Park Slope with graduating I immediately accepted Columbia for its with an unusual training regimen fly there with her team to train with a master’s in creative writing.” our twins, Sophia and Charlotte, an appointment to continue as an political science that involved running at five on the city’s steamy streets. On August 23, Steve Poellot who will be 3 in January. We love adjunct professor. I am also working program but after pace ranges set by how much The humid weather makes and Alexandra Dika Seggerman Brooklyn, especially since my with my department chair at the two semesters lactic acid is in the body. The the prospect of record times welcomed their daughter, Lucy former roommate and all-around FSU College of Medicine to develop Dika Poellot, born at NYU Lan- best friend from Columbia, Eliana an early-career faculty position, realized she was five paces, from slow-recovery unlikely, but the demanding gone Medical Center. Meirowitz, lives on the first floor which will allow me to focus on too “quiet and to super-fast, are determined climate will give experienced Now on to the extremely inter- of our house with her husband and publishing my dissertation research shy” for politics. from blood samples taken after marathoners a distinct edge. esting careers, including many an their baby boy. Any Columbians in and pursuing specialized training in Running, by con­ running at different speeds. Over By 2016, Stubli´c expects to educator: Brooklyn are welcome to stop by advanced research methods. trast, allowed her time, Stubli´c ’s coach became have it, with at least nine Elizabeth Dwoskin recently our commune and say hello!” “My Ph.D. program conferred feet to do the convinced that her competitive marathons under her belt. moved to San Francisco to write Xan Nowakowski says, “For the two additional benefits, one that I talking. As a junior, advantage lay in the marathon, for The Wall Street Journal. Her beat past 3½ years I have been living in had hoped for and one that I did she came in sec- not steeplechase. To view a video of Stubli������c´ ���� run� is big data/big brother. Previ- Tallahassee, Fla., and working on a not expect. It allowed me to turn a ond at the NCAA Once again Stubli´c took a ning the Zurich Marathon (she ously she was in Washington, D.C., variety of research projects for the long history of negative experiences where she covered politics and Florida State University College with my health — at 24, after nearly northeast regional leap. Confident in her training is featured at the beginning policy for Bloomberg Businessweek. of Medicine. My research focuses losing my life the previous year, I in cross country but with no actual marathon and end), go to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. Kathryn Ebner reports, “I work primarily on the experience and was diagnosed with an incurable and a year later experience, she quit her day job for a new start-up, Pave, that management of different chronic autoimmune disease that causes finished 10th at as an English instructor, aiming provides a way to invest directly diseases, especially those that cause severe inflammation in all of my the national to qualify for the Olympics and Kim Martineau ’97J writes in people. We connect financially pain and/or functional limitation. mucous membranes — into a posi- championship in simultaneously earn the backing about earth and environmen� accomplished backers with ambi- I also provide input on study tive means of understanding and With a time of 1:09:18, marathoner Lisa Stublic´ ’06 finished third at the 2013 tious and driven young people. It’s design, human subjects protections having an impact on the world. It NYC Half. steeplechase. She of the Croatian Olympic Com- tal science at Lamont-Doherty unique and we have actually had and data analysis techniques for a also allowed me to meet, on my first PHOTO: COURTESY NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS credits her first mittee. She ran the 2010 BMW Earth Observatory. some Columbia graduates use the variety of team-based projects. day of study, an amazing person platform to raise money as well as “Working for FSU has provided who quickly became more than just

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 88 89

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

New York City and would love to this with a ‘wedding tour’ that hear from classmates. Write her at included small celebrations in New [email protected]. York; Chicago; Park City, Utah; I hope everyone has a terrific London; and Göteburg, Sweden. holiday season. Write to tell us all “One year later, we still live about it! You can send a note to happily in Stockholm, where the either of the addresses at the top beyond-beautiful summers make of the column or submit one using up for the unbelievable winters. CCT’s webform: college.columbia. After earning an M.Sc. in manage- edu/cct/submit_class_note. ment from the Stockholm School of Economics last year, I joined the Boston Consulting Group, where I David D. Chait am enjoying the variety of projects 4621 Old Cheney Rd., and working on my colloquial 07 Apt. 6 Swedish.” Lincoln, NE 68516 Alison Desir recently launched [email protected] a blog and running coach business, Powdered Feet (powderedfeet.com). Jimmy Vielkind, who moved As a running coach, Alison focuses back home to the Albany area after on the interconnections between graduation, has started a job with fitness and mental health to help in- the three-year-old news site Capital dividuals find meaning on the run. New York, which was purchased John Schneider shares, “It’s been by POLITICO parent Robert All- a big year for me here in Houston. britton in September. Jimmy had My wife, Stephanie Pahler ’05 been covering New York state poli- Barnard, and I bought a house in tics and government for Albany’s May and my daughter, Elizabeth Classmates celebrated the wedding of Rebecca Johnson ’10, who Times Union since 2010, including Marie Schneider, was born on June married Jeremy Lancaster (not pictured) on September 7 in the the administration of Gov. Andrew 26. We are all healthy and happy, Hudson Valley. Left to right: Rebecca Salley ’10, Anne Kwei ’10E, Cuomo. and now the big debate is whether Christopher Yee ’10E, the bride, Courtney Chin ’10, Gunnar Aasen He says, “Writing for the paper she will attend the College like me ’10E, Dayana Azuaje ’10 and Hiroki Kimura ’10. I grew up reading has been an and my father, Robert Schneider ’75, PHOTO: SARMA & CO. incredible experience, and I can’t or follow in the footsteps of my wife begin to count all the things I’ve and my mother, Regina Mullahy ’75 learned or the wonderful friends Barnard.” for all my Columbia friends who college.columbia.edu to stay I’ve found among such terrific col- made my trip possible!” updated on the details; registration leagues. I’m very excited to be part Daniella Zalcman ’09 and Joshua opens in the early spring. Daniella Zalcman ’09 and Joshua Robinson ’08 were married September 1 at the Loeb Boathouse in Central Park. Celebrating were (left of a new venture and look forward Neda Navab Robinson were married on Sep- Daniella Zalcman and Joshua to right) Anand Krishnamurthy ’07E; Zack Hoopes ’12; Jonathan Kamran ’08; David White ’08; Chelsea Ward ’09; Max Puro ’09; the groom; to new opportunities at Capital; 08 353 King St., Apt. 633 tember 1 at The Loeb Central Park Robinson ’08 were married on Jonathan Tayler ’09; the bride; Angela Radulescu ’11; Jonathan August ’09; John Atlas ’09, ’09E; Jacob Schneider ’10; Tina Gao ’10 Barnard; it’s also great to be reunited with San Francisco, CA 94158 Boathouse. Their bridal party in- September 1. Many of their class- and James Long ’08. several old friends from my days at [email protected] cluded John Atlas ’09, ’09E; Angela mates and friends from Columbia The New York Observer. If anybody’s Radulescu ’11; Jonathan Kamran; joined them to celebrate; in fact, 83 ever around the Capitol or Albany, Elizabeth Smith has some big Chelsea Ward ’09; and Jonathan percent of their bridal party was a colleague. The two years that I affairs talk show hosted by Antonio an assistant professor of history at Jaime Madell and Negisa drop a line!” news to share: “On August 30, Tayler ’09. composed of CC alumni. have spent with my partner, social Mora, which airs weeknights at 10 Brooklyn College (CUNY).” Balluku ’06E recently celebrated Tara Erer has been promoted to my boyfriend of 8½ years, Jason Keep the updates coming! You Alidad Damooei and Lauren psychologist J. Sumerau, have eas- p.m. Edward works alongside fel- Congratulations on growing up, their second wedding anniversary v.p. of international sales at Film- Yang ’00, asked me to marry him! can write me at either of the ad- Gentry ’10 became engaged this ily been the best of my life. low digital producer Leslie Hart ’10J Class of 2005! (and their 10th year together). Nation Entertainment. Tara was He proposed on the roof deck of dresses at the top of the column or summer. The College was an “While I will always face signifi- and they hope you tune in to the Jaime practices corporate law at one of the founding members of our building, which overlooks send a note through CCT’s webform: important part of the day, as Alidad cant challenges with my health, I show. In his off-hours, Edward and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & the Film Nation team. Her credits the sparkling lights of Manhattan. college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ popped the question on the sundial, have found my way into a life and his wife, Alexandra Zendrian, enjoy Michelle Oh Sing Garrison, and Negisa practices include The King’s Speech, Mud, (Spoiler: I said yes!) class_note. where the couple sat and chatted career that make these struggles exploring the wonders of Long 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 bankruptcy law at Dechert. Looper, Lawless, Magic Mike and Side “In other news, we had a busy for several hours after their first feel worthwhile, and I give thanks Island, often with their neighbors, 06 Philadelphia, PA 19107 Stephen Kunen writes, “On June Effects. summer as proud new parents of date in fall 2008. REUNION WEEKEND for this good fortune every day. Andrew Liebowitz ’06 and his wife, 29, I married the beautiful Handie Shari (Gross) Lauer ’07 Barnard two kittens. They are quite a hand- Shana Bush is a jazz and blues [email protected] MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 I hope that all of my Columbia Gail. Peng at Holy Rosary Church on and Jonathan Lauer announced ful but a constant joy!” vocalist in New York City. In ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS friends are finding similar satisfac- In August, Juliet Grames was Kathleen Carr Adams writes, Staten Island. We had our recep- the April birth of Ezra Yitzchak Elizabeth and Jason also man- April 2013, she released her first ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott tion on their own journeys. When I promoted to associate publisher at “Happy news! My daughter, Grace tion at Nicotra’s Ballroom, also on Lauer. Ezra has two proud older aged some travel; she writes, “We full-length album, Shoshana Bush [email protected] read our Class Notes I always feel Soho Press. Hattler Adams, was born on July 3 Staten Island, and an extraordinary brothers, Eitan and Abie. spent a beautiful July 4 weekend in & Friends Live at Catalina Jazz Club, 212-851-9148 so impressed by how all of you Chaim Kagedan reports, “I in Washington, D.C. She weighed time was had by all. She and I met Caryn Epstein shares, “I moved Breckenridge, Colo., and in August and will celebrate its release with a DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova are giving back to the world, each recently concluded a clerkship 8 lbs., 14 oz. and was 21½ inches during our time at Emory, where I to Baltimore this fall to start a I enjoyed two weeks visiting my performance at Birdland jazz club [email protected] in your own ways, and becoming with Judge Robert W. Sweet of the long. My husband, Ford, and I call completed a J.D. and she completed master’s program in public health family in England and Croatia.” on Thursday, December 12. The al- 212-851-7833 the visionary leaders our profes- Southern District of New York and her Hattie. She joins brother Wells a Ph.D. Brian Ruby ’06E and Stefan at Johns Hopkins, where I’ll be Stephanie Davidson moved bum is available on iTunes as well sors and Dean Austin E. Quigley now am a senior litigation associate (4). We are with the Department of Hildebrandt were among the studying patient safety and quality back to NYC (Crown Heights) after Alidad Damooei as on shoshanabushmusic.com. always told us we could be. I find in the New York office of Venable. State at the U.S. Embassy in New groomsmen. Thomas Rudy, Arijit of care. Missing New York tremen- graduating from Harvard Law and c/o CCT Shana is also excited to share it hard to believe that more than My wife, Heather ’05 Barnard, and Delhi, India, and will remain here “Bobby” Ghosh ’06E, Ali Daggett dously but eating a ton of delicious has embarked on a yearlong fellow- 09 Columbia Alumni Center that she opened for jazz vocalist eight years have passed since we I recently hosted a few alumni in an through May.” ’06, Lizzy Smith ’08, Jason Yang ’00, crab to drown my sorrows.” ship as an attorney with the Urban 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Jane Monheit in a mid-November graduated. The memories we built effort to convince them to join us in Emily Bregel has returned to Ben Jacobs, Emma Baratta and Ryan Philippa Warodell writes, “I Justice Center’s Domestic Violence New York, NY 10025 gig at the Blue Note Jazz Club. together feel as fresh as if they the suburban haven of Teaneck, N.J. newspaper journalism after a two- Abrecea were also in attendance. married Johan Warodell ’09 GS, Project. [email protected] To stay informed of Shana’s gigs, happened yesterday, and the inspi- Among the lucky recipients of our year stint working on organic farms “Second, I started a law firm, ’12 GSAS in the classroom where Caroline McNamara did a 717- email her: shoshanabushmusic@ ration we found in one another is hospitality were my college room- in the Southwest. She is an investi- Kunen Law, in March. I work in we met, Hamilton 313, with three mile road trip through California If you enjoy reading Class Notes to gmail.com. just as great.” mate, Binyamin Berkovits, and gative reporter for the Arizona Daily intellectual property and business guests and one officiant in June at the end of August. She started learn what your classmates have Ernest Herrera recently returned Edward A. Rueda is honored his wife, Rachel ’05 Barnard (née Star in Tucson. law with a focus on small busi- 2012. It was a brief and beautiful at the wedding of Meg Lundy in been doing during the last few to his hometown of San Antonio, to have taken part in the August Pollack), as well as Nessa Heilpern Julia Nagle earned a master’s nesses and mixed martial arts com- ceremony, made memorable by Napa, then drove to the Mojave to years, then mark your calendar for where he has joined the Mexican 20 launch of Al Jazeera America, Liben ’06 Barnard and her husband, in public policy from UC Berkeley panies. I encourage alums to follow 104-degree heat and the much- visit Rebecca Kelly ’09, and ended our five-year reunion! The Class of American Legal Defense and the United States’ newest 24-hour Noah Liben ’05 GS.” in 2011. She stayed in the Bay Area my law blog at kunenlaw.com.” appreciated, last-minute assistance in Los Angeles with Paul Soto and 2009 will celebrate its first Alumni Educational Fund as a staff attorney. cable news network. He is a digital Lauren Mancia writes, “On after graduation and works in Laura Schnaidt has resumed of the Alumni Office and Professor Sam Roberts. She says, “It was a Reunion Weekend Thursday, May Ernest will focus on voting rights producer for Consider This, a current August 27, I began a position as education philanthropy. use of her maiden name, lives in Jutta Schmiers-Heller. We followed great adventure and I feel lucky 29–Sunday, June 1. Go to reunion. litigation and workers’ rights issues.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 90 91

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES

reside in Blacksburg, Va., with their ever-growing menagerie, which currently includes their terrier mix, Benny; cat, Phineas; and crested geckos, ShakaSmart and Mooney. Nora Nicholson Calhoun (née Weber) writes, “My husband, Alexander Calhoun ’11, and I had a daughter on August 5. Frances Rose Nicholson Calhoun weighed 10 lbs. even and was 22 inches long, born at home with the help of a midwife, my mother, my sister and Genevieve Deleon. We are totally besotted and thank God for His goodness toward us. We live in the Columbia neighborhood and she was baptized on September 8 at Corpus Christi Church on West 121st Street.” Ian Spafford is an actuary at The Travelers Indemnity Co. Congratulations to Susanna Wolff, who was named editor- in-chief of CollegeHumor.com in September. She started her career at CollegeHumor.com in 2007, through an internship held while at Columbia. And finally, the latest musings On September 28, Abby Oberman ’10 married Bryan Finkel at the Essex House in NYC. Left to right, from Chris Yim: “SF > NY. It’s bottom row: Samantha Taube ’10 Barnard, Lan Wu ’10E, Shira Berenson ’08, Rachael McMillan ’09, certainly not as attractive of a city, Sara Hershman ’10 Barnard and Jeffrey Conn ’08; left to right, middle row: Charlotte Moses Fischman and the glamour isn’t there like it ’67L, Julie Taylor ’10E, Carrie Leone ’10 Barnard, Katherine Vucelic ’09 Barnard, the bride and Arielle is in NYC. However, if you like the Fox ’11; left to right, top row: Emma Brockway ’10 Barnard; Nicole Scalamandre ’10E, ’11 Business; outdoors, spending less money, Christine Espinoza ’08; Ester Murdukhayeva ’09; the groom; father of the bride Michael Oberman ’69; living healthier and having more Gary Naftalis ’67L, ’67 SIPA; Arnold Rady ’69E; Gershon Locker ’69; and Mark Webber ’69. Also in work-life balance, then SF may suit attendance but not pictured was Nora Feinstein ’11 JTS, ’12 Barnard. you better. This is all part of my PHOTO: FRED MARCUS STUDIO campaign to get great people out to Lions celebrated the September 7 marriage of Katie Goble and Derek Turner ’12 in Phoenix. Left to right, behind the bride and groom: California and near me. Ashley Byrd ’02, Linda Boama-Wiafe ’12, Frannie Laughner ’12 Barnard, Nathan Chang ’10, Barry Weinberg ’12, Todd Nelson ’12, Adam “As of September 8, I will Kuerbitz ’12, Jordan Hollarsmith ’12, Amirah Sequeira ’12, Leah Greenbaum ’12, Jason Han ’12, Sy Hoekstra ’10, Toukam Ngoufanke ’09E He enjoys reading about all the Colorado but I’m already relishing dations (or is ever in Boston and have been in San Francisco for and Emile Barraza ’13E. awesome pursuits and achieve- being a student again, instead of would like to meet up), please email six months, and I have to say that ments of his classmates and is a teacher. Valerie Sapozhnikova me: [email protected].” I’m in a good place. I work and happy to share tips with anybody and Sue Yang are in Cambridge, Danielle Ash became engaged live with my best friends, and are involved in our growing com- Sarah Chai with Cori Capik, Sara Miller ’13 simple. Each video features one who comes down for South by too, and I’m looking forward to to Alex Yampolsky on September we are engaged in a mission that pany, including Justin Leung ’09 and 12 c/o CCT Barnard and Max Druz ’15 to pro- person speaking about one word. Southwest (SXSW) or anything else running into more 2010s.” 3. He is a pharmacist who owns I care about. My days are filled Daniel Kanak; thanks to them for Columbia Alumni Center duce the musical Spears: The Gospel The word has to resonate in either in Texas. Valerie must have been on the Medicine Man Pharmacy at 511 with unique challenges that have their contributions.” 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 According to Britney, which held a a positive or negative way; it has to After completing the Exotic same wavelength as Isabel, as she Washington St. in Hoboken, N.J. me going back and forth among New York, NY 10025 funder’s preview on November 7 arouse intense emotion. There is no Animal Training and Management submitted her own update saying She graduated magna cum laude an early-stage business, a long- [email protected] at the Snapple Theater in Midtown. prescribed structure or style, and program at Moorpark College she’s excited about going back to from New York Law School in distance relationship, managing Columbia College Today For more information, visit spears the word can be from any language. in Southern California, Quincy school and beginning her legal edu- May and is a first-year associate in work/friend relationships (they’ve Columbia Alumni Center From producing a Britney Spears themusical.com. “Moreover, each video is as Sweeney continues to work with cation at Harvard Law. She reflects the real estate department at Paul, become one and the same) and 11 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 musical to working with the Paul Hsiao kicked off an awe- much about the speaker as it is a variety of exotic animals as a that it’s strange to be away from Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison establishing a life for myself. All in New York, NY 10025 Yankees, the Class of 2012 remains some summer by attending a high about the word. How they speak is zookeeper at the Reid Park Zoo in New York for the first time in so as of September. all, I am content in the challenge. [email protected] as busy (and awesome) as always. school reunion with Chris Cheung, as remarkable/revealing as what Tucson, Ariz. She is excited to train many years but says she is looking On September 7, Rebecca John- Every man must hunt his kill to I encourage everyone to continue Lisa Lian, Brian Watson ’12E and they say. The videos are miniature capybaras as well as meet a baby forward to exploring Cambridge son married Jeremy Lancaster in feed himself and his family. The only news to report, sadly, is sharing updates! Send to my email Sarah Gordon ’12E. He also spent portraits of selves, in a direct sense.” tapir in the upcoming year. While and Boston, as well as meeting up an outdoor ceremony in the beauti- “I haven’t mentioned so much that Colin Sullivan has stepped address, above, or through CCT’s time in New York with Sonal Yin will continue filming in the loving life now, the thought of with Columbia alumni in the area. ful Hudson Valley. Columbians in with regards to [my son] Jackson down from his duties as class cor- webform: college.columbia.edu/ Bothra, Alex Harstrick, Sarah Ngu United Kingdom, as she has de- higher education continues to tan- Giselle Obregon also started attendance included bridesmaid and that’s because I’ve handed him respondent. CCT thanks him for cct/submit_class_note. and Chuck Roberts, “going to back- cided to return to Oxford to pursue talize and all doors remain open. school this fall, beginning the Courtney Chin, Gunnar Aasen off to my folks. We’ve decided that his time at the helm of the column, Adam Behnke is working his to-back musicals on the weekdays a master’s in English language. If M.P.H. program in the international ’10E, Dayana Azuaje, Hiroki until I hit the jackpot, it’ll be best a position he has held since gradu- dream job with the New York Yan- and exploring Brooklyn one hipster you are interested in participating health department at the Boston Kimura, Anne Kwei ’10E, Rebecca if he can be in a place with more ation, and appreciates all that he kees. As a sales associate, he cus- bar at a time.” in the video series, send a message Julia Feldberg University School of Public Health. Salley and Chris Yee ’10E. The stability and have attentive adults has done to keep classmates con- tomizes ticket plans and corporate In early September, Yin Yin Lu to [email protected]. 666 Greenwich St., She writes, “Boston is a great place group participated in a lively around him. I know that he’ll be nected to one another and to the events for fans and companies. He launched the Lexicography Soci- Michael Mazzullo has returned 10 Apt. 607 to be not only as a person interested chanting of the Columbia fight well-fed, loved and nurtured in College. helped several Columbia groups ety’s YouTube channel (youtube. to his high school, Fordham Prep New York, NY 10015 in healthcare, but also because song and danced the night away! their home in Virginia. Virginia, A new correspondent is needed, this past summer and fall and com/user/LexicographySociety) in the Bronx, to teach history and [email protected] I’ve already run into a number of Emory Dabney married Jay after all, is for lovers. and CCT welcomes all who would writes that “they had an absolute as well as its inaugural video series, to coach soccer. Columbia alumni! A fellow CC ’10 Dolan ’08 Middlebury in Richmond, “Lastly, here’s my shameless like to apply. If you are interested, blast!” He is working with the “What’s Your Word?” Yin writes, After spending the summer Thanks for all of your fantastic sub- happens to be my next door Va., on June 8. They met at the plug. If you’d like to support our please contact Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts, Columbia College Young Alumni “From its conception, the series organizing the hackNY summer missions and keep them coming. neighbor. I plan to go abroad next Virginia-Maryland Regional mission of connecting the minds and managing editor, at alt2129@colum- Board of Directors to organize has been almost one year in the Fellows program, Aditya Muk­er­ Let’s get right to the notes! summer and am searching for College of Veterinary Medicine at resources of teachers and students bia.edu or 212-851-7485 for more a group event for next year and making. Filming officially began in jee returned to school this fall in Isabel Broer writes, “After healthcare jobs or research intern- Virginia Tech. Jay is an associate vet- around the world to ensure all information. The column publishes looks forward to helping as many December, and the latest round was the inaugural class of Cornell Tech, three years in Denver, I’m back on ships in Latin America and/or erinarian at Bold Springs Veterinary students have access to high-quality quarterly and is a great way to keep Columbians as possible get to the in September, with many months of a new graduate school in NYC. the East Coast for law school at Portuguese-speaking countries in Service in Pearisburg, Va., while education, then please contact me at in touch with classmates and to give stadium for a fun night. editing in between! While studying for a master’s in Harvard. It broke my heart to leave Africa. If anyone has recommen- Emory is finishing her D.V.M. They [email protected]. A few CC alums back to Columbia. Patrick Blute has joined forces “The premise of the series is computer science, Aditya will

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 92 93

CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY work with engineers at Google to Spanish and not a single drop on September 7 in a beautiful Harvey Fishbein, a solo criminal extend the open-source IPython of Latino blood in my body, I ceremony in Phoenix. Many Lions trial defense lawyer in downtown project to help instructors create packed most of my things into two surrounded them on their special Manhattan. Mila has assisted him Classified interactive online textbooks for use suitcases and flew rather blindly to day. Congratulations! since her senior year at Columbia in teaching computer science and Bogota. To put a roof over my head and has been exposed to a number Advertising statistics. and food on my plate I took a job of pivotal cases, the biggest of Joseph Rozenshtein ’13 SIPA at a local hostel, which I discovered Tala Akhavan which is currently People v. Pedro spent this past summer in North- upon arrival was actually the night c/o CCT Hernandez, regarding the highly ern Virginia training for his first shift as the entire building’s secu- 13 Columbia Alumni Center publicized Etan Patz disappear- assignment as a foreign service rity guard, letting cars and people 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ance in 1979. She has assisted in CLASSIFIED AD INFORMATION officer with the State Department. into the building 9 p.m.–3 a.m. New York, NY 10025 court and at trial for some cases, RENTALS He left for Kyiv, Ukraine, in late “Struck with the existential and hopes to apply these experi- [email protected] REGULAR CLASSIFIED RATES: $3 per word for one issue, September and is looking forward burnings of jumping from an Ivy ences to her course material as a NAPLES, FLA: LUXURY CONDOMINIUM overlooking Gulf, two-month mini- discounts for four consecutive issues. Ten-word minimum. to new adventures. He writes that League education into interna- I hope this column finds our class law student. She looks forward to mum, 802-524-2108, James Levy ‘65CC, ‘68L. Phone (including area code) and PO boxes count as one word. no matter where his job takes him, tional security services, I didn’t last well and engaged in exciting en- a year of “making it on [her] own Words divided by slashes, hyphens or plus signs are counted “the city” will only ever mean long in my role and was quickly deavors! Whether you are embark- in New York City,” as she puts it, individually. Email and web addresses are priced based on New York! forced to find new lodging. What ing on a new job, living an artistic and hopes to spend next summer length. No charge for Columbia College class years or David Spencer Seconi sent in followed was the adventure of a dream or continuing studies at traveling and resting before the RESPONSIBLE FEMALE SENIOR seeks winter apartment sublet, Columbia ampersands (&). We boldface the first four words at no charge. an update from Bogota, where he lifetime, in which I taught English, graduate school, I hope everyone is school year commences. area. Call 914-271-8782 or 914-426-2302. Additional boldface words are $1 per word. has lived since two weeks after was accepted into the country’s enjoying their first brush with post- Nathan Ratapu has begun his Display Classifieds are $100 per inch. graduation: “Dissatisfied with the most well-known university for a college reality. Here is what a few post-college career as a program- senior job recruitment process, master’s and worked for a subsid- of our classmates are up to: ming analyst at Syfy in New York PAYMENT: Prepayment required on all issues at time of order. with a sub-intermediate level of City. He helps put together the TV PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Check, money order, MasterCard, Visa and network’s air schedule and scouts Diners Club with MasterCard logo only. No refunds for canceled ads. Stuart Cohen ’13 began his education with the Class for international programming. He LASER TATTOO REMOVAL. Board Certified Dermatologist specializing exclu- looks forward to continuing his sively in Laser Tattoo Removal. Columbia Alumnus — Class of 1981. Located in 10% discount for Columbia College alumni, faculty, of 1981 and completed his degree this year as a learning experience at the network Manhattan at 347 Fifth Avenue. Phone 212-358-7500. staff, students and parents and to pursuing a career in the STAY IN proud member of the Class of 2013. entertainment industry. Mail or email orders to: Congratulations go to Stuart Columbia College Today TOUCH Cohen, who began his education Columbia Alumni Center iary of the Financial Times. Now I Michelle Abramowitz and Eric at Columbia with the Class of 1981 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. To ensure that you receive am with an investment bank for Feder were married on June 9 at and completed his degree this New York, NY 10025 CCT and other College a Colombian brokerage firm (and Temple Beth El in Cedarhurst, year as a proud member of our 1754 Crown Cuff Links, Studs, Lapel Email: [email protected] communications, please the only foreigner in the firm). N.Y. Celebrating with them were Class of 2013. In his words, “I was Pins, Pendants. Lions, CU designs. Online: college.columbia.edu/cct/advertise_with_us let us know if you have I came to Colombia with little many Class of ’13 friends such supposed to graduate in 1981 but Fine, hand-made. (917) 416-6055 Telephone: 212-851-7852 knowledge of where I was going or as Jason Levine, Etan Zapinsky failed physical education. After 32 a new postal or email [email protected] Deadline for Spring 2014 issue: what I wanted to do, but I learned ’14E and Michael Rubin. Michelle years I decided it was time, so I Friday, January 24, 2014 address, a new phone how the honesty, hard work, and Eric were both involved in got my credit and I am now a real number or even a new cultural sensitivity and constant the Columbia/Barnard Hillel, graduate. No more living a lie!” name. Click “Contact Us” goal-setting that Columbia taught and met there during their NSOP Now based in Juneau, Alaska, at college.columbia.edu/cct me could carry me to success in the week. One challenging “Calcu- Stuart is a proud father of two farthest reaches of the globe.” lus III” course, countless group and a successful author. Since or call 212-851-7852. Last but not least, Derek Turner projects and four years of college graduating, he received news and Katie Goble were married later, they got married. They now that his fourth novel, tentatively live in Washington Heights. Eric is called This Is How It Really Sounds!, Letters Alumni Corner pursuing his interest in mathemat- will be published. Some words of (Continued from page 6) (Continued from page 96) ics as a professional data scientist wisdom from Stuart to our class: while Michelle is performing “I read virtually none of the Core Answers to Quiz on Inside Back Cover clinical research in a psychology Curriculum when I was in school Alumni Association, then headed for me and the alumni dinner com- I’ve sometimes said I’m from an the lunch after press conferences 1. Sixteen percent of the College Class of 2017 comes from outside lab, hoping to pursue a Ph.D. in but I have read just about all of the by Frank Hogan [’24, ’28L]. mittee. The honoree was V.K. Wel- Italian family, was born in New before ambling back to the office to the United States and represents 47 countries. clinical psychology. books now, in their entirety. I guar- One of my first jobs was to play lington Koo (Class of 1909), China’s York and live in France, all of write the story. Sadly, thanks to cost Soon after graduation, John antee you they read much better a role in organizing the dinner, to ambassador to the United States. The which is true, and ask them to cuts, there are fewer free lunches 2. In March 2009, Columbia opened its first Global Centers in Beijing, Kenney began an internship at 30 years later, and are much more be held in the Waldorf-Astoria. It feeling about China and Chiang Kai- decide what I am. Occasionally I now. It’s a shame, because these China, and Amman, Jordan. Pivot TV, where he worked on profound. I especially like Plutarch, turned out to be a tough assignment shek was bitterly pro and con at that have doubts myself. After 20 years days I’ve generally banged out the 3. In January 2013, Columbia opened its eighth Global Center in Nairobi, Raising McCain, a new documenta- who identified concentration of time and to get 450 people to come abroad, some things in America story from my laptop during the Kenya. ry-talk show centered on political wealth as a threat to society long to that dinner was a Herculean task. seem very foreign (automatic press conference and would be free celebrity Meghan McCain ’07. ago, and Cervantes, who is so pro- Manage Your Thomas Dewey [’25L] was the transmission, air conditioning to stick around sans guilt. Younger 4. Nevis, British West Indies. After finishing the internship he found about the separate worlds Subscription principal speaker. I never saw any- in homes, the government shut- reporters for some publications just 5. Sixty-four students held Columbia Experience Overseas summer spent the remainder of his summer we all live in. So, keep re-reading: one more confident or sure of him- down), but I don’t feel French. My tweet from press conferences. If you prefer reading CCT internships in 2013 in eight cities. at home with family in North Da- you’re just getting started.” self. Certainly the majority attend- 9-year-old daughter is more con- It’s amazing how many young kota and Minnesota, then moved A final note: This December online, you can help us go ing the dinner that evening thought fused. It helps having a wife who people still want to work in what’s 6. France, to study at Reid Hall. back to the Northeast. In fact, he is marks our seventh month in “the green and save money by he had already won the Presidential picks up languages quickly. reputed to be a dying profession, 7. 1964. back on Columbia’s campus as a real world” — may our fresh opting out of the print edition. election. Harry Truman soon there- Journalism has certainly become and aspiring reporters frequently after upset that prognostication. more international since I started, ask for advice. I haven’t a clue 8. Estonia. first-year at the Law School. John memories of college life provide an Click “Manage Your Subscrip- is currently buried in introductory impetus to give back and donate to tion” at college.columbia.edu/ As I recall, the next Alexander when my co-workers were almost what the business model is go- 9. Twelve Columbians currently are overseas on Fulbrights: John course material — essentially the the Columbia College Fund. You cct and follow the domestic Hamilton Award Dinner was a exclusively Yanks, Brits and Auss- ing to be. But what’s clear is that Bailey ’12 (Spain), Janine Balekdjian ’13 (Ukraine), Caitlin Brown ’13 much easier sell, with the recipient ies. Now I have plenty of Lebanese, reporters have to work fast, and Core of law school — and he hopes can give by credit card at college. instructions. We will continue (Andorra), Kyle Bukhari ’13 GS (United Kingdom), Serena Dasani ’13 to narrow his focus to the intersec- columbia.edu/giveonline or by being “Wild Bill” Donovan [(Class Italian, Russian or Korean col- across multiple platforms: print, to notify you by email when (Indonesia), Scout Katovich ’11 (France), Krizia Lopez ’13 (Nicaragua), tion of law and sports. calling the Alumni Office at 212- of 1905)], who headed the Office leagues who could do my job just video, graphics, podcasts, blogs, Aaron Primero ’13 (Philippines), Katharina Shaw ’13 (Germany), Good luck, John! 851-7488, or mail a check, payable each issue is posted online. of Strategic Services (a precursor as well, and might even have the radio or whatever other media Elizabeth Shen ’11 (Philippines), Lewis West ’13 (India) and James Mila Rusafova is also begin- to Columbia College Fund, to You may be reinstated to to the Central Intelligence Agency) same Columbia degree. the folks at Apple and elsewhere Wiseman ’13 (Czech Republic). ning a law career and will start at Columbia College Fund, Columbia receive the print edition at during WWII. Technology has obviously come up with. There will always John C. Thomas Jr. ’48 10. Spanish, with 532 students enrolled in classes in 2013–14. Chicago Law in fall 2014. Between Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., any time by sending a note to changed as well. My first job was be a demand for content. Let the now and then (she took a year’s MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY [email protected]. New York City on an IBM typewriter. In London in business owners figure out how to deferral), she is a legal assistant to 10025. the late ’80s, I’d often hang out for make money out of it.

WINTER 2013–14 WINTER 2013–14 94 95

COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

A l u m n i C o r n e r An American Journalist in Paris A Global Columbia Quiz

B y G r e g o ry V i s c u s i ’85, ’91 SIPA In keeping with the issue’s theme, this quiz also has a global bent. Try your hand at these questions (answers on page 94):

lthough upon arriving at Columbia College I two years there and then some personal travel in South America, became an instant believer in the importance of I came back to New York for a degree at SIPA. A year at Forbes the Core Curriculum, I just as quickly decided magazine followed before joining in 1992 what was at the time 1. I didn’t like Plato. I also didn’t have the gall to a start-up called Bloomberg News. I was hired to open its Milan begin my freshman year arguing with my pro- office, becoming Bloomberg’s fifth reporter on the continent. Now What percentage of the Class of 2017 comes from outside the United States, and fessor that the founder of Western philosophy there are about 600 in Europe. We were about half that when I how many countries are represented? Awas pompous and pretentious. That was probably a good call moved to the Paris bureau in 1997. Sometimes I miss those early for my future at Columbia but also a good lesson for my career. chaotic days when we were starting a news service from scratch In 25 years of journalism I’ve met some unsavory types, from but the hours were insane, and obviously we weren’t the influen- 2. Islamic radicals in Lebanon to creepy U.S. civilians running Iraq tial media company we are now, even if along with size inevitably When and where were the first two Columbia Global Centers opened? to deceitful corporate PR spinners to National Front politicians comes a certain bureaucracy and anonymity. in France. But they’ve all had at least some valid point to make, I have no regrets about a career in business journalism. When and I’ve always told their side you come down to it, all stories of the story. After, of course, are economic. Bloomberg takes 3. double checking everything they a wide view, covering almost When and where was the most recent Columbia Global Center opened? say and seeking out opposing any subject where money is points of view. A reporter’s job involved. There are plenty of is to expose and explain, not to days working the phone from 4. preach or mock. the office or sitting through In what country was Alexander Hamilton (Class of 1778) born? Maybe it was growing up interminable press conferences. partly as an expat in France, in But over the years, I’ve also re- a family where we discussed ported from looted oil fields in politics from an early age, or our Iraq, from the Vatican about its 5. extensive travels in Europe and finances, from Olympic Games How many students held internships in Summer 2013 through the Center for Career Africa where my father worked, on their sponsors and from a Education’s Columbia Experience Overseas program, and in how many cities? but I knew since high school in Greek frigate searching for pi- the States that I wanted to be rates in the Indian Ocean. I’ve an overseas-based journalist. At visited a fair share of Italian and 6. Columbia, professors dismissed French cheesemakers. I’ve ac- many of my papers and exams companied French presidents to To what country does Columbia’s largest contingent of study-abroad students go? for their “journalistic writing African countries as they drum style;” I was never so satisfied up business and to numerous with the resulting mediocre European capitals for all-night 7. grades. negotiations to save the euro. When did Columbia begin offering undergraduate programs at Reid Hall in Paris? I joined WKCR’s news de- Nicolas Sarkozy was exhaust- partment as soon as I arrived at ing and exciting to cover, full of Columbia and continued to file energy and an initiative a day. 8. reports from my 1983–84 junior He could also boycott us for year abroad at the University of Bloomberg News reporter Gregory Viscusi ’85, ’91 SIPA in front of weeks if he didn’t like our ques- Toomas Hendrik Ilves ’76 is the president of what country? Edinburgh. Those were heady the Elysée, “the French White House,” in October. tions. François Hollande is pa- years in the United Kingdom, tience defined, never losing his with the miners’ strike, the invasion of Grenada and protest cool and always pleasant with the press. But unlike Sarkozy, he 9. against the installation of U.S. Pershing missiles. After graduation, refuses to play the game of “feeding the beast,” and sometimes How many Columbians are studying overseas on Fulbright grants this year? I presumed my career would involve covering those same issues the Elysée press corps returns from his overseas trips without a of war and peace. It was a shock to discover every newspaper story to tell. job on offer required a car. I was a city boy and didn’t even have While I’m often the only non-French reporter on these trips, a driver’s license. I don’t know how I was so clueless but it prob- I’ve never felt any hostility. And that’s been true of living in 10. ably didn’t make much difference. Newspapers were already cut- Europe generally, even at the height of French bashing in the What language (in addition to English) is most popular to study at Columbia? ting back in 1985 and the jobs were in business news. U.S. during the first Iraq war. Even in the Middle East, I’ve A year after joining Dow Jones in downtown Manhattan, I never hidden that I’m American, although to soften the blow was sent to London to cover currency markets and banking. After (Continued on page 95)

WINTER 2013–14 96 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Nonprofit Org. Columbia University U.S. Postage PAID 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Permit No. 724 New York, NY 10025 Burl. VT 05401

Change service requested

College Walk on a wintry day, from Columbia University in Pictures by Lenny Pridatko. PHOTO: LENNY PRIDATKO