Winter 2016–17

OBAMA’S LEGACY PROFESSOR ROBERT Y. SHAPIRO CONSIDERS THE Columbia PRESIDENT’S TIME IN OFFICE College THE TRANS LIST SELECTIONS FROM PORTRAIT Today PHOTOGRAPHER TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS ’74 HOMECOMING VICTORY LIONS SMACK DOWN The DARTMOUTH 9–7

Alumni in the know offer-tos fun, practical how 30 YEARS OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE WOMEN

On May 13, 1987, Columbia College graduated its first coeducational class, and the College was forever changed. Join us, 30 years later, for a one-day symposium as we reflect on how women have transformed the College experience, ways College women are shaping the world and why coeducation and gender equality remain topics of great importance to us all. Save the Date saturday, april 22, 2017

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Registration opens in February. To join the Host Committee, email [email protected]. Contents 30 YEARS OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE WOMEN Columbia College CCT Today

VOLUME 44 NUMBER 2 WINTER 2016–17

EDITOR IN CHIEF Alex Sachare ’71

EXECUTIVE EDITOR Lisa Palladino

DEPUTY EDITOR 24 12 28 Jill C. Shomer CLASS NOTES EDITOR Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

FORUM EDITOR Rose Kernochan BC’82

CONTRIBUTING WRITER features Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98

EDITORIAL INTERN 12 Aiyana K. White ’18

ART DIRECTOR The Experts Eson Chan

Alumni in the know offer fun, practical how-tos. Published quarterly by the Columbia College Office of By Alexis Boncy SOA’11; Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98; Alumni Affairs and Development Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09; Kim Martineau JRN’97, SPS’14; for alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of Columbia College.

Jill C. Shomer; Yelena Shuster ’09; and Lauren Steussy ASSOCIATE DEAN, COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS 24 AND COMMUNICATIONS Bernice Tsai ’96

The Uncertain Legacy of ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: Columbia College Today Barack Obama ’83 Columbia Alumni Center 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 4th Fl. An examination of our first alumni President’s time in office. New York, NY 10025 212-851-7852 By Robert Y. Shapiro EDITORIAL [email protected] Save the Date ADVERTISING 28 [email protected] saturday, april 22, 2017 WEB Columbia Forum: college.columbia.edu/cct Learn more: college.columbia.edu/alumni/ccw30years ISSN 0572-7820 The Trans List Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect Photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’74 official positions of Columbia College presents his “living portraits” of the transgendered at or Columbia University. © 2016 Columbia College Today a new show in Los Angeles. All rights reserved.

Cover: Photograph by Den-Belitsky / Thinkstock Contents departments alumninews

35 Alumni in the News

36 Lions Jason Wachob ’98, Ashley Walker Green ’05, Peter Thall ’64

40 Bookshelf Cooking Solo: The Fun of Cooking for Yourself by Klancy Miller ’96

42 Class Notes

85 Obituaries Jack Greenberg ’45, LAW ’48

88 Alumni Corner The singer known as Slow Dakota shares a Lit Hum-style annotation of his single “The Lilac Bush.” By PJ Sauerteig ’15 10 CCT CCT Web Extras 3 Within the Family by Editor Alex Sachare ’71 CCT ’s editor in chief says goodbye after • More from our alumni Experts more than 18 years at the helm. • Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner gallery 4 Message from Dean James J. Valentini • Homecoming gallery Engaging students through the Core Curriculum is a critical part of the College’s effort to preserve college.columbia.edu/cct fundamental human values.

5 Around the Quads The John Jay Awards Dinner honors Like Columbia College Alumni: distinguished alumni and raises funds to facebook.com/alumnicc support outstanding students. View Columbia College alumni photos: instagram.com/alumniofcolumbiacollege 10 Roar, Lion, Roar Men’s soccer wins its 10th Ivy League Follow: @Columbia_CCAA championship; fencing seeks to score three consecutive NCAA titles; meet the new Join the Columbia College alumni network: coaches leading men’s and women’s basketball. college.columbia.edu/alumni/linkedin KELLY CHAN BC’17 KELLY

Within the Family The Long Goodbye

hen I was hired in April 1998 as the editor in chief of Columbia College Today, I was tasked with pub- lishing this magazine on a more regular basis as the W cornerstone of a new College communications effort. College leadership, both professional and volunteer, recognized that to increase alumni participation in the life of the school, there was a need to communicate with alumni on a regular basis — and in ways beyond asking for money. A magazine that reflected the best of the College’s liberal arts tradition and whose content strengthened the bond among alumni themselves and between alumni and the College was to be the flagship of that effort, and that continues to this day. In my first “Within the Family” column, I wrote, “Our goal is to present CCT’s traditionally high quality editorial content in a more attractive and inviting package.” The key to that package was a switch JRN’97, SIPA’98; Timothy P. Cross GSAS’98; Donna Satow GS’65; to four-color printing from the black-and-white style that had given Laura Butchy SOA’04; Lisa Palladino; Rose Kernochan BC’82; the magazine the look of a literary journal — a fine, scholarly journal, to Ethan Rouen JRN’04, BUS’17; Alexis Boncy SOA’11 (née Tonti; be sure, but a journal, not a magazine. CCT’s design has steadily evolved more on her later); Elena Hecht BC’09; Anne-Ryan Heatwole since then and continues to evolve; a total redesign in 2015 gave us a JRN’09; and Jill Shomer; designers Linda Gates, J.C. Suares (now fresher, more contemporary look that appeals to alumni of all ages. deceased) and Eson Chan; and University Photographer Eileen Bar- I’ve always been proud of the magazine’s content. Our Class Notes roso. We’ve also been aided by many talented work-study students, section, authored by a stellar group of volunteer class correspondents, some of whom stayed with us for several years: Jonathan Lemire ’01, is among the most robust in the nation. Our “Around the Quads” Peter Kang ’05, Carmen Jo Ponce ’08, Grace Laidlaw ’11, Karl Daum section keeps readers abreast of what’s going on at Columbia College ’15 and Aiyana White ’18. today, our “Lions” profiles spotlight some of the amazing members of Thank you to Austin Quigley, dean of the College from 1995 to the CC family and we introduce readers to at least one noteworthy 2009, who recognized the value of a high-quality magazine to com- student and one distinguished faculty member in each issue. Depart- municate with alumni and committed the financial resources needed ments like “Columbia Forum,” “Bookshelf ” and “Roar, Lion, Roar” to publish an upgraded CCT on a regular schedule. Also, a shout add breadth to every issue. We’ve also mixed in an occasional themed out to two members of his senior staff, now retired, for their support issue. In the past few years we’ve covered “Coeducation,” “TheVarsity and guidance as I transitioned from sports writing/administration to Show,” “Global Columbia,” “Location, Location, Location,” “Food, the unique world of academia: Kathryn Yatrakis GSAS’81, dean of Glorious Food” and in this issue, we offer our first “Experts” guide. academic affairs, and Sue Mescher, dean of administration. Special We’ve always tried to stay ahead of the curve by profiling alumni thanks to Derek Wittner ’65, LAW’68, who hired me and was an on the rise. Never were we more prescient than with our cover story in ideal boss. His formula: Hire good people; set clear goals, expecta- January 2005, when we featured a young alumnus who had just been tions and accountability; provide the resources and support needed elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois and we asked, “Is This The New for success; and then let people do the job they were hired to do. Face of the Democratic Party?” He sure was — less than four years Finally, I am extremely pleased that Alexis Boncy is returning to later, Barack Obama ’83 was elected the 44th President of the United CCT as my successor. Alexis joined CCT as managing editor shortly States, the only College alum to have occupied the Oval Office. after graduating from SOA and proved to be one of my best hires. She is a tireless worker with an eye for both the big picture and the smallest his is my final issue as editor in chief of CCT. After nearly 19 detail. We are fortunate to be able to welcome Alexis back into the fold Tyears at Columbia and 87 issues of this magazine, I am retiring as CCT’s first female editor in chief beginning in February. I am thrilled effective December 31. It has been an honor to serve as the steward of that the magazine will be in such good hands, and I look forward to our alumni magazine, and I plan to remain involved as a contributing seeing it in my mailbox. writer. (Despite my best efforts, Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80’s record of 25 years with the magazine and 24 years as editor remains intact.) As anyone in publishing can tell you, a magazine is a collaborative effort, and I’ve been blessed to work with a host of talented team Alex Sachare ’71 members through the years, including writer-editors Shira Boss ’93, Editor in Chief

Winter 2016–17 CCT 3 MATTHEW SEPTIMUS MATTHEW

Message from the Dean The Need to Preserve Human Values

n this issue, Robert Y. Shapiro, the Wallace S. Sayre Profes- experience and helps them develop sor of Government, writes about a presidential election when core curricula to implement at their “virtually every major issue divided the parties” and “politi- own institutions. Ical emotions were running high.” Shapiro, whose research This past year, Montás and our focuses on partisan polarization, ideological politics, public opin- Center for the Core Curricu- ion and policymaking, is describing 2008, the year Barack Obama lum also helped Adolfo Ibañez ’83 was elected. But any of us would be excused for assuming that Univesity in Santiago launch its it is 2016 to which his assessment refers. Indeed, as Shapiro says, own Core Curriculum, which the 2016 election “was the most conflict-ridden and personal presi- began this year with a Spanish- dential campaign of modern times.” language version of Contempo- At Columbia College, we provide students with tools to analyze rary Civilization (www.uai.cl/ and interpret the present using knowledge of the past. Our Core la-universidad/core-curriculum- EL MERCURIO Curriculum, the common experience of a College education, gives uai/que-es-el-core-curriculum- students an understanding of how society has grappled with the fun- uai). We also recently partnered with Hostos Roosevelt Montás ’95, damental issues of human existence — our relationships, our obliga- Community College in the South Bronx to GSAS’04, director tions, our responsibilities, our rights — and how society has developed launch a Core initiative, which included a revi- of the Center for the and refined systems that honor rights and recognize responsibilities. sion of its first-year English requirement along Core Curriculum, with students at Adolfo The goal is not only to transfer knowledge, but also to raise fundamen- the lines of our Core. As part of this initiative, Ibañez University tal questions about human existence, to ask what we know and how Columbia faculty have conducted workshops in Santiago. we know it and to consider all opinions, all ideas and all possibilities. for faculty at Hostos on teaching Core texts This is why, especially with all of the discord and polarization in and Hostos faculty have attended some of our Core faculty meetings the country and the world today, the Core is so important. It is vital (commons.hostos.cuny.edu/columbiacommoncoreathostos). that we engage students with perspectives and ideas that are differ- In a letter to the University community in late fall, Provost John ent from their own, perspectives and ideas they may not be comfort- Coatsworth reiterated “how important it is to protect all who study able with, perspectives and ideas about which they may have been and teach in our community and to defend the institution and the unaware. It is in this way that students learn about themselves, learn values it embodies.” This includes not only our commitment to about others and develop as human beings and as citizens of the helping students acquire knowledge and develop understanding and world. President Lee C. Bollinger reaffirmed this in November at insight, but also our unwavering commitment to tolerance, inclu- the College’s annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner when he sion and diversity. Civil discourse remains of the utmost impor- mandated that we should “teach the Core Curriculum with more tance within our intellectual community, and freedom of speech and fervor and passion than it has ever been taught before.” expression are paramount, even when we do not agree. For nearly 100 years, the Core has given College students more than Our role is to continue to provide a place for conversations an education — it has given them a foundation in ethics, morals and about individual rights, benefits and responsibilities; about how we citizenship. That has not, and will not, change. Indeed, one of our goals express that we value one another; and about the society we create with Core to Commencement, the campaign we launched last year to based on our fundamental values. Our role is to teach students to build the greatest undergraduate experience, is to endow this founda- keep an open mind, to be respectful of differences, to approach all tional program, to enhance it, to enrich it, to ensure the continuing they do with a thoughtfulness about whom they affect and how, and vitality of this one experience shared by all students and alumni. to encourage them to learn, grow and contribute to building a com- Today I am proud that we are not only teaching the Core with munity, a nation and a world where the fundamental human values fervor and passion, but also that we are encouraging others to do so. For we espouse are ever more evident. the past few summers, Roosevelt Montás ’95, GSAS’04, director of the Center for the Core Curriculum, has been meeting with faculty mem- bers from institutions around the world as part of the “Tradition and Innovation” seminar, an intense reading and discussion of texts from the Core at Columbia and at Chicago — organized in partnership with the Association for Core Texts and Courses and funded by the James J. Valentini Teagle Foundation — which gives faculty leaders a core-text seminar Dean

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John Jay Awards Dinner Honors Alumni, Supports Exceptional Students

he John Jay Awards Dinner is held annually to honor United States. The dinner, which will be held at Cipriani 42nd Columbia College alumni for distinguished profes- Street, provides resources for the John Jay National Scholars sional achievement and raises money for the John Jay Program, ensuring financial support and academic programming for T National Scholars Program. On Wednesday, March 1, the John Jay Scholars, select first-year College students who distin- the 39th annual dinner will honor David B. Barry ’87, president, guish themselves through the originality and independence of their Ironstate Development Co.; Joseph A. Cabrera ’82, vice-chair – thinking, their rich and varied record of accomplishments and their Eastern Region, Colliers International; Toomas Hendrik Ilves ’76, potential to contribute to society in a meaningful way. former president, Republic of Estonia; Jenji Kohan ’91, executive This special academic enhancement program is designed to pro- producer and screenwriter; and William A. Von Mueffling ’90, mote intellectual growth, leadership development and global aware- BUS’95, president and CEO, Cantillon Capital Management. ness. It is centered on panels, discussions and presentations by leading The award, which has been given to 205 honorees since 1978, is professors, professionals and individuals from a variety of fields who named for Founding Father John Jay (Class of 1764), a student of serve as exemplars of commitment, creativity and courage. classics and the law and a leading proponent of the principles of the American constitution. Among many other prominent roles, To read more about the honorees and the dinner, go to college.columbia. Jay was the first chief justice of New York State and later of the edu/alumni/events/2017-john-jay-awards-dinner.

Financial Aid Policy Adjusted for Columbia Alumni Undocumented Students Leaders Weekend

Undocumented students applying to Columbia College and Engineering will be eligible for the same need-blind admissions and financial aid policies as U.S. citizens and permanent residents, beginning with the Fall 2017 semester. Columbia provides full-need financial aid to all first-year and transfer stu- dents pursuing their first degree and has provided need-blind admissions for U.S. citizens, permanent residents and eligible non-citizens for many years. With this change, Columbia becomes one of the few schools that will offer need-blind admissions and full-need financial aid to undocumented applicants. “We hope this landmark change will make it clear that the voices, expe- riences and contributions of undocumented students are welcomed and valued here at Columbia,” says Jessica Marinaccio, dean of undergraduate

admissions and financial aid. “Undocumented students are already making DINI SIPA’14 DAVID an impact in our community in countless ways, and we are pleased to be lift- Alumni volunteers gathered on campus October 7–8 for the ing the barrier of need-aware admission for future undocumented students.” 12th annual Columbia Alumni Leaders Weekend. Sponsored by the Columbia Alumni Association, it featured interactive sessions Prior to this change, undocumented students had been considered inter- for volunteers from across all schools, an Alumni Leaders Lun- national applicants, meaning they received full-need financial aid, but how cheon and the annual Alumni Medalists Gala. Sheena Wright ’90, much financial aid a student required was taken into consideration when LAW’94, president and CEO of United Way of New York City (pictured), gave the keynote speech, and three College alumni — rendering an admissions decision. Dr. Paul J. Maddon ’81, GSAS’88, PS’88; Rita Pietropinto-Kitt ’93, Approximately half of Columbia’s undergraduates receive need-based SOA’96; and Mozelle W. Thompson ’76, SIPA’79, LAW’81 — were financial aid, including approximately 30 percent of international students. among the 10 medalists honored at the gala. Columbia financial aid is offered in the form of grants and student work, View the full list: calw.alumni.columbia.edu/meet_the_2016_ rather than loans. More than $140 million in grants and scholarships are alumni_medalists. More weekend photos: flickr.com/photos/ awarded annually to undergraduates at the College and at Engineering. columbiaalumni/sets/72157675020959386.

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College Earns Top Spot on Giving Day

On October 26, Columbia College participated in Columbia Giving Day, a 24-hour University-wide online fundraising event. The College earned the top spot on the leaderboard for the fifth consecutive year. Gifts to the College support financial aid, student services, stipends for internships and the Core Curriculum. $14,560,943 14,269 MORE CCT ONLINE! Total raised University-wide Total number of gifts to the University Check out CCT online (college. columbia.edu/cct) for original content: fitness tips from SoulCycle $3,468,299 3,308 instructor Andrew Stinger ’06; a Total raised by the College Total number of College-affiliated donors profile of screenwriter Jason Fuchs ’09; video of cartoonist Dr. Ben Schwartz ’03, PS’08, juggler Roy Pomerantz ’83 and mixologist Rina Haverly ’07; a 37 $58,244 recipe from Christopher Kimball ’73; Percent of total University-wide funds Total matching funds from a crossword from Finn Vigeland ’14; given by College-affiliated donors University trustees and photos from Homecoming and the Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner.

Elbaum Elected to Board of Trustees

Abigail Black Elbaum ’92, BUS’94 has been elected to the University Board of Trustees. Her six-year term began on September 6. Elbaum is a co-founder and principal of Ogden CAP Properties, a real estate management, development and investment firm with assets in New York and Wash- ington, D.C. She began her career at JP- Morgan Chase in its Private Bank. Elbaum’s board affiliations include the New York City Police Foundation, the Neigh- borhood Coalition for Shelter, the Mount

Columbia DOG PRODUCTIONS OF BROWN TESS STEINKOLK Vernon Triangle CID and the Lincoln Square BID, where she is on the Executive Jewelry Committee. She is a governor of the Real College’s Board of Visitors and in 2002 1754 Crown Cufflinks, Estate Board of New York. Elbaum is also received the Columbia College Young Studs, Lapel Pins, active in a variety of capacities at NewYork­ Alumni Achievement Award. In 2015 Pendants. Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univer- she was presented a John Jay Award for Lions, CC Designs. sity Medical Center, including the Sloane distinguished professional achievement. Fine, Handmade. Hospital for Women Advisory Committee “We are very fortunate at Columbia and the Heart Center Steering Committee. to have a group of highly accomplished CUJewelry.com A former chair of the Alumni Trustee individuals who generously give their (917) 416-6055 Nominating Committee, Elbaum is cur- time, energy and considerable wisdom to rently on the Steering Committee of the governance of the University by serv- [email protected] the College’s Core to Commencement ing on its board as trustees,” said Trustees Campaign. She is a past member of the Chair Jonathan Schiller ’69, LAW’73.

6 CCT Winter 2016–17 the Essentials Caterina Pizzigoni

When Associate Professor of History Caterina Pizzigoni was studying political science as an undergraduate at the University of Milan in Italy, she took a class in Latin American history that changed her life. Her passion for the subject led her to Nicaragua as a student volunteer, then to the University of London to get an M.A. and eventually to London’s King’s College to get a Ph.D. in Latin Ameri- can studies. Pizzigoni focused on the archives of Mexico’s indigenous people and researched her dissertation in Mexico City while also learning the Aztec lan- guage Nahuatl. Pizzigoni came to Columbia — and New York City — for the first time as an assistant professor in 2006; she received a Columbia Mentoring Initiative Award in 2008 and a Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award in 2012. Pizzigoni spoke enthusiastically to CCT about her background, her stu-

dents and her multilingual household one November afternoon in Fayerweather. JILL SHOMER

SHE GREW UP in a small town in the normally hear from, whose stories are shocked when she got the job. “I never Lombardy region, north of Milan. Her not told because they don’t count in the thought I would end up in a place like mother had grown up there, and Pizzigoni political equation.” this,” she says. “That’s why I feel so enjoyed being part of a tight community. committed to teaching.” SHE WAS STUDYING the cultures of SHE BELIEVES SHE STUDIED accounting at a local Nicaragua for an M.A. but found her strongly in mentorship. vocational school and planned to work at research impeded because that population “Mentors can change your life. I would a bank, but decided instead to continue had mainly oral traditions and didn’t leave never be here if it weren’t for the teachers her education in Milan. She and her written documents. After being accepted who helped me,” she says. “I see so much younger brother were the first members of to the Ph.D. program at King’s College, potential in my students; they have so their family to go to college. she shifted her focus to the colonial many ideas, who knows who they might archives of Mexico. She went to Mexico turn out to be?” HER FIRST VISIT to Latin America came City to do research and liked the city HER FAVORITE CLASS when she was a summer community- so much she stayed for two years, from to teach is development volunteer in Nicaragua. She 1999 to 2001. “Latin American Civilization I,” a large worked alongside people who were very lecture where she meets students from poor, yet were warm and welcoming. “I SHE LEARNED Nahuatl during two all paths of College life and is able to got into their lives; they were so generous months of intensive training at Yale. transmit some of her subject’s universal to let me in,” she says. That first encounter Her grandmother had left her a small lessons. “History is a discipline in which shaped her thoughts about she wanted to inheritance, which allowed her to attend we can learn empathy, points of view of do with her life. She was completely taken the program taught by James Lockhart, other people and cultures,” she says. “The by the landscape, culture, colors and crafts. the prominent scholar of colonial Latin ‘here and now’ becomes so relative, and “I was won over by everything I saw and America and professor emeritus at UCLA. that perspective lifts a weight off.” wanted to get to know it better,” she says. She showed Lockhart copies of the archival documents she was studying and SHE MET HER HUSBAND, Gergely AFTER COMPLETING her under- he was stunned: “Nobody had worked Baics, an assistant professor of history and graduate thesis about Nicaragua in the on these testaments before,” she says. urban studies at Barnard, at a Columbia 18th century, she realized her passion Lockhart became a second adviser for her history department dinner. They have an for history. “I thought it was fascinating dissertation, which she completed traveling infant daughter, Emma, who hears Italian, to get in touch with people who lived between Mexico City and London. Hungarian, English and Spanish in their before us, these voices from the past that home. Pizzigoni is glad her daughter will lay somewhere there, and it’s up to you SHE WAS TEACHING in London have an easier time learning languages to rescue them and tell their stories,” she when she interviewed at Columbia to be than she has had as an adult: “My in-laws says. Pizzigoni cared especially about a professor of Latin American colonial don’t speak English, and Hungarian has Nicaragua’s native people: “I was trying history. She had never worked in the been more difficult to learn than Nahuatl!” to get to the voices of people we don’t United States and so she was happily — Jill C. Shomer

Winter 2016–17 CCT 7 Around Quadsthe DidYouKnow?

Mendelson Family Gifts Student Business Center

The Mendelson family, whose association with Columbia spans four generations, is making a $10 million gift to establish the Mendelson Center for Undergraduate Business Initiatives. The joint program between Columbia College and the Business School was announced in November. The center will foster an ongoing business education program for select Columbia undergraduates. The Mendelson Center (gsb.columbia.edu/mendelson) makes permanent Columbia’s spe- cial concentration in business management, through which undergraduates enroll in specially designed courses with Business School faculty. These courses connect business skills with elements of Columbia’s liberal arts education — for example, how finance is connected to prin- ciples of economics and how marketing concepts depend on psychology. “The Mendelson Center for Undergraduate Business Initiatives gives our students an unparal- leled opportunity to combine the values and skills honed in our Core Curriculum and through our more than 100 liberal arts majors and concentrations, with the experience of studying with world- class faculty at Columbia Business School,” said Dean James J. Valentini. “Our students are very enthusiastic about creating, organizing, and managing enterprises, so we are grateful for this gift.” Carman Hall Went “This extraordinary gift will have a lasting impact on business education at Columbia, bridg- ing theory and practice and encouraging the exchange of ideas both within the University Unnamed for community and beyond,” said Glenn Hubbard, Business School dean, the Russell L. Carson Nearly Six Years Professor of Finance and professor of economics. “The Mendelson family’s generosity will enhance the special concentration in business management’s existing activities and enable it to While Carman Hall is now a reach more students and even greater heights.” well-known first-year residence For the Mendelsons, Columbia is a family tradition dating back to Samuel Mendelson (Class hall, housing roughly 40 percent of of 1906). This gift was made by Mendelson family members Arlene H. and Laurans A. “Larry” Columbia’s first-year class, its early Mendelson ’60, BUS’61 and their daughters-in-law and sons, Kimberly and Eric Mendelson years were spent in name limbo as ’87, BUS’89, parents of Hayley ’17, David ’19 and Daniel; and Lisa and Victor Mendelson ’89, “New Hall.” Columbia secured a parents of Lindsey ’18, Nicole ’20 and Alexander. loan from the then-named Federal “My time at Columbia College and Columbia Business School was transformative,” said Larry Housing Agency to build the resi- Mendelson. “I hope the Mendelson Center will provide Columbia undergraduates with oppor- dence hall and it remained unnamed. tunities like the ones I had. There is nothing better than participating in intellectual exploration Spectator articles from the time claim while gaining practical ability in business, navigating easily between the realms of ideas and action.” that Columbia held off naming in Mendelson, chairman of the board of HEICO Corp., was a University trustee from 1995 to hopes that a generous donor would 2001, as well as chairman of the Trustees’ Audit Committee. He was a member of the College’s cover the loan in exchange for Board of Visitors from 1984 to 1989. His sons, co-presidents of HEICO, are current BOV naming rights. When the building members; Victor is chair. opened in September 1959, Spectator The family’s philanthropy at Columbia includes the establishment of the Samuel and sponsored an informal naming Blanche Mendelson Memorial Scholarship Fund and the endowment the Mendelson contest that month. The “Serious” Professorship in Economics and the Mendelson Family Professorship in American Studies. category winner suggested Hawkes Hall, after Herbert E. Hawkes, dean from 1918 to 1943; the “Humorous” winner suggested Aaron Burr Hall as a counterpoint to Hamilton Hall. However, neither name was endorsed by the University administration and the building continued to be known as New Hall. In early 1965, Spectator published an editorial suggesting that the building be named in honor of Harry J. Carman, dean of the College from 1943 to 1950, who had died in December 1964. The name was approved by the Trustees and on April 29, 1965, the building EILEEN BARROSO was christened Carman Hall.

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Lions Win at Homecoming

either rain nor cold nor wind came up with big plays all day, stopping the could stop Columbia from Big Green on 16-of-17 third-down conver- ending its 15-game Home- sion attempts. Rea led the Lions with 11 tack- N coming losing streak as Oren les against Dartmouth and had 108 for the Milstein ’20 kicked three field goals and season, tops in the Ivy League. the Lions’ defense shut down Dartmouth The Lions finished the season with a 3–7 in a 9–7 victory on October 22. Columbia’s record, with five of their losses coming by last Homecoming win came in 2000. eight points or fewer, and a 2–5 mark in Ivy Milstein kicked field goals of 31, 20 and play. They defeated Wagner 15–13 in a game 33 yards through the inclement weather at in which Milstein accounted for all of Colum- Robert K. Kraft Field, to the delight of the bia’s points with a school-record five field vast majority of the crowd of 8,946 as well goals, and they closed out the season with a as coach Al Bagnoli, who said, “I couldn’t 31–13 win at Brown. Rea and Milstein both be happier for our kids, our alumni base were voted to the All-Ivy first team by the and the entire Columbia football commu- conference coaches. nity. It was an awesome win; nobody left early considering the suspense of it.” LAUGHLIN / COLUMBIA ATHLETICS / COLUMBIA LAUGHLIN Indeed, spectators saw a 47-yard field goal CCT Web Extras try by Dartmouth’s David Smith fall just short To view a Homecoming photo album, MIKE M c with 27 seconds left in the game. Columbia’s go to college.columbia.edu/cct. Lions’ ferocious defense halts Dartmouth. defense, led by linebacker Gianmarco Rea ’17,

Men’s Soccer Wins 10th Ivy Title

Led by high scorer Arthur Bosua ’18 and goaltender Dylan Cas- Bosua was named to the All-Ivy First Team along with Alex tanheira ’19, Columbia men’s soccer compiled a 5–1–1 confer- Bangerl ’18 and Andrew Tinari ’17, while Castanheira and Vana ence record to earn its 10th Ivy League Championship and its Markarian ’20 made the Second Team. Markarian, who helped the first since 1993. The Lions, who finished 13–3–1 overall, tied Lions’ defense to a league-low .71 goals against average, was named Dartmouth for the league crown. It was the first championship the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and Anderson was selected as for head coach Kevin Anderson, who said the Lions “truly had a Coach of the Year. team-first mentality.” The title was up for grabs after first-place Harvard imposed sanctions on its team in midseason, making it ineligible for the championship. Columbia bounced back handily from a 1–0 home loss to Dartmouth on October 22 and won its last five games of the season, capping the streak with a 4–0 victory over Cornell on November 13 that gave the Lions their share of the Ivy crown. Bosua scored eight goals and had four assists and was named the

Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, the first Columbian to win ATHLETICS / COLUMBIA LAUGHLIN that award since Rikki Dadason ’96 in 1993. Bosua had three goals

and an assist in the title-clinching win over Cornell. MIKE M c Castanheira posted seven shutouts en route to a 9–1 record in the Columbia net. He finished first in the NCAA with a goals- against average of .290 and a save percentage of .903. The latter was the best in Columbia history, breaking the school mark of .894 set by Gary Escher SEAS’84, SEAS’86 in 1983.

10 CCT Winter 2016–17 Fencing Seeks To Engles, Griffith Lead Three-Peat Lions Basketball

Can Columbia fencing make it three in a row? Says coach Two familiar faces have taken the helm of Columbia’s men’s and women’s Michael Aufrichtig, “As the defending NCAA champions, basketball programs this season. Jim Engles, who was an assistant coach we look forward to the journey that lies ahead of us.” at Columbia from 2003 to 2008 before achieving success in eight years as Columbia was the dominant team in college fencing last the head coach at the New Jersey season, winning its second consecutive NCAA Champi- Institute of Technology (NJIT), onship and the 15th national title in school history. The takes over a men’s team that won Lions also won both the men’s and women’s Ivy League a school-record 25 games and the Championships (the two squads compete together for one CIT Championship last season NCAA crown). but lost key players to graduation. Columbia will seek to become the first team to win three Meanwhile, Megan Griffith ’07, consecutive NCAA titles since Penn State won six in a row who captained the Lions for three from 1995 to 2000. Columbia won three straight NCAA seasons before playing pro ball men’s titles from 1987 to 1989, before the championships in Europe and being an assistant became a coeducational competition the following year. coach and recruiting coordina- The 2017 NCAA Championships will be held in India- tor at Princeton, is the new head

napolis March 23–26. But before that the Lions will have coach of the women’s team. ATHLETICS / COLUMBIA LAUGHLIN their sights set on adding to their collection of 37 men’s and The men’s team, which finished

10 women’s conference titles when they compete in the Ivy third in the Ivy League last season MIKE M c League Championships in Philadelphia February 11–12. with a 10–4 record, will begin con- Jim Engles and Megan Griffith ’07 The Lions lost several stars to graduation, notably two- ference play at Cornell on January time NCAA champion épéeist Jake Hoyle ’16 and Jackie 14. The Lions went 4–5 at the start of their non-conference schedule, with Dubrovich ’16, who was runner-up in foil at last year’s veterans Luke Petrasek ’17 and Nate Hickman ’18 and newcomer Mike NCAAs. But Columbia has numerous experienced fenc- Smith ’20 leading the scoring. ers, including defending USA national champion Marga- Engles, who played basketball at Dickinson, was an assistant coach for ret Lu ’17 and five 2016 All-Americans: Mason Speta ’17 13 seasons at Wagner and Rider before coming to Columbia in 2003 and (first team), Sara Taffel BC’17 (second team), Lena John- helping head coach Joe Jones build the Lions into a consistent competitor son BC’18, Porter Hesselgrave ’18 and Calvin Liang ’19 in both league and non-conference play. He left in 2008 to become the (honorable mention). head coach at NJIT and steadily built the Highlanders, who had only Columbia won all but one match during the fall semester, competed at the Division I level for two seasons prior to his arrival, into with the women’s team losing to Princeton 16–11 at the Penn a team that won 15 games in 2012–13. He was the Metropolitan and Elite Tournament on November 5. The Lions were an over- Mid-Major Coach of the Year in 2014–15 after leading NJIT to the first all 10–1 at that event, went 6–0 at the Columbia Invitational of two 20-win seasons. on November 18 and Griffith helped Princeton win five Ivy League championships and posted 14–13 (men) hopes to build a comparable winning culture at Columbia, where she was ROAR! and 25–2 (women) an All-Ivy League player in 2005–06 and 2006–07. When she was intro- For the latest news on Columbia victories over NYU duced as coach of the Lions last spring, she described herself as “a builder athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. on November 22 in and a worker” and said “progress within our process” will be her mantra. an old-school dual As for being back on Morningside Heights, she said, “It just feels right. I meet. The Lions will know this is where I need to be and where I want to be.” gear up for the round-robin Ivy League Championships by Griffith’s team got off to the best start in school history by winning facing some of the strongest teams in the nation in the Penn eight of its first 10 games behind Camille Zimmerman ’18 and Tori State Invitational on January 15, the St. John’s Super Cup on Oliver ’17, the two leading scorers and rebounders from a year ago. Like January 21 and the NYU Invitational on January 22. the men, the women will begin Ivy competition at Cornell on January 14.

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5 468 .903 108 4 Field goals by Digs by volleyball’s Save percentage by Tackles by linebacker Teams that will qualify Oren Milstein ’20, Cassie Wes ’17, the Ivy men’s soccer goalie Gianmarco Rea ’17 for the Ivy League’s new a school record, in League Defensive Player Dylan Castanheira ’19, in the 2016 football postseason tournaments football’s 15–13 of the Year for the sec- a school record and the season, tops in the for men’s and women’s win over Wagner ond consecutive year best in the NCAA Ivy League basketball

Winter 2016–17 CCT 11 The

Columbia College alumni possess a range of knowledge, THANKS IN PART TO THE CORE Alumni in the know offer-tos but their expertise extends WELL BEYOND THE CLASSICS. fun, practical how From planning the perfect dinner party to running Interviews by ’11 a race to IDENTIFYING they can do it, Alexis Boncy SOA 98 constellations, JRN’97, SIPA’ , they tell you how. Shira Boss ’93, ’09 and here Ryan Heatwole JRN 14 Anne- ’97, SPS’ Kim Martineau JRN CCT Jill C. Shomer09 Look for To Get more/cct. online at Yelena Shuster ’ college.columbia.edu Lauren Steussy Step Up Your Crossword Game Finn Vigeland ’14, crossword contributor to The New York Times

LOOK UP WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW. Daily cross- words typically get increasingly harder as the week goes on. You won’t make it to Tuesday if you don’t check Brew a Perfect Cup of Coffee your answers from Monday. The first time I competed in a crossword tournament, “SST” (supersonic trans- Jon White ’85, EVP, White Coffee Corp. port) was an answer in the first puzzle. I didn’t know what it was, so I asked my neighbor before the second What should a coffee newbie look for in different roasts? puzzle started. Sure enough, SST was an answer in the How do the roasts affect the coffee’s taste? next puzzle, but I was ready for it that time. Coffee becomes “dark” by increasing the roasting time and temperature. CROSSWORDS RARELY INCLUDE OBSCURE As the roast gets progressively darker, the coffee bean oils are brought to the TRIVIA. bean’s surface and the taste profile becomes stronger. More subtle flavors Usually, a hard-seeming clue on a challeng- often found in lighter roasts are diminished in darker roasts; some people ing late-week puzzle is just an obscure way of cluing find dark roasts to be bitter. There are a variety of potential roast shades, a more well-known answer. Once you learn that Mel but at the end of the day, it is very much a matter of taste. Ott is crossword’s favorite baseball player because of the great combination of letters in his last name, you’ll How do the beans’ country of origin influence the flavor? recognize that you don’t have to be a sports fanatic to Each coffee-growing region in the world has unique characteristics — differ- get the clue “First National Leaguer with 500 home ent soil conditions, elevations, rainfall and cultivation methods. All of these runs.” Three letters, baseball player? Ninety percent create unique flavor profiles. For example, coffee from Sumatra, in Indonesia, chance it’s OTT. Three letters, hockey player? Probably has a full-bodied mouthfeel; coffees from Ethiopia, such as from the Sidamo or Bobby ORR. Three letters, musician? Your best friends Yirgacheffe regions, are well known for winey, thinner-bodied flavors; coffees are Brian ENO and Yoko ONO. from Colombia offer a nice balance of body and acidity — they give you a sort BE READY FOR THE REBUS. of tingly feeling on the tip of your tongue. Coffee has been grown for centuries, Intermediate solvers but now more countries have become larger “players.” For example, Vietnam looking to conquer mid-week puzzles are often sty- was a non-factor 20 years ago; today it’s the second largest global exporter! mied when they get to a rebus puzzle: a puzzle where you have to put multiple letters into one square. Be on How do you make coffee at home? Walk us step by step the lookout for wordplay suggesting a rebus rationale. through your process. An easy, elegant rebus puzzle might have the title Ideally you should grind the beans right before you brew them — this results “Jack in the Box” and fit the word HIJACK into three in maximum freshness. The only challenge is that a small home grinder may squares (H, I and JACK) and FLAPJACK into five. not yield consistent grind results, so you can get inconsistent brew. I pre-grind JOIN THE CROSSWORD COMMUNITY! for only a few days’ worth of use and store it in an airtight container. Many Follow people store it in the refrigerator — that’s fine — but beware of creating some of the robust blog commentary from prominent moisture on the coffee — that and oxygen will quickly deteriorate the flavor. figures in “crossworld,” as we call it. The New York Times Use good filtered water if you can. As for brewing methods, I use a basic, has an official column, “Wordplay,” and you can read high-quality drip coffeemaker; most of them do a fine job. I don’t recommend commentary on puzzles at “Rex Parker Does the NYT percolators — they force water over the coffee repeatedly, bringing out less Crossword Puzzle,” “Diary of a Crossword Fiend” and desirable flavor elements. Single cup systems are convenient but can vary in “XWord Info.” You can retain more knowledge and result. I often use a French press, which allows for the grinds to sit in the water pick up tips from the pros who run these sites, and if and extract the flavor profile. Get an insulated one to maintain temperature. you chime in in the comments, you might make a few friends. If you want to take it to the next level, register What should coffee lovers try in a café that they might for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (the not make at home? next one is March 24–26 in Stamford, Conn.). Only a Coffee by the cup is an affordable luxury. Try something exotic that you would few people are there to win — most go because of the not normally have. A special, high-quality single origin, like certain African fun people you meet and the chance to nerd out over or Central American coffees, is often a good place to start. When I visit a new puzzles, whether you’re a speed-solver or a novice. café I usually try its signature blend — it should represent the essence and — Jill C. Shomer highest quality of the brand and would be unique to that location. CCT Work on a Core crossword created exclusively — Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 for CCT by Vigeland

Winter 2016–17 CCT 13 Take a Better Portrait George S. Zimbel ’51, documentary photographer

ove in close. Watch the eyes. Keep it simple. Now that everything is “Mautomatic, shoot a lot of photographs. In Zimbelism, the 2015 documentary about my work, I call that ‘digital diarrhea,’ but that need not be a bad thing — if you are careful going over the shoot and eliminating all but the best shots. Then, do it again and do it again until you are down to three shots that satisfy you. Then make prints of those three, look again and pick the one that truly says what you want to say about the person. For pleasure shooters, it helps if you like your subject.”

Mark Van Doren GSAS’21, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and legendary faculty member, in 1952. Portrait by George S. Zimbel ’51.

Make Your Art Feel at Home Mel Dogan ’75, LAW’78, owner of C24 Gallery, New York City

Bought a piece of art you love? You’re going Plexiglas instead of regular glass because if • Keep oil paintings away from direct to see it every day, so make the most of it. there is breakage you don’t want any shards sunlight and heat. Sunlight will dull the Mel Dogan ’75, LAW’78 offers these tips: to cut into the work. Museum-quality colors over time, and both sun and heat Plexiglas will also eliminate any reflection. can cause cracking. • Some works don’t need frames, like large oil paintings and murals. If you are framing, • A lot of people make the mistake of buying • Lighting is important. Too much creates don’t get something flimsy; consider thicker art that is too big, and it can overpower the too much reflection; it detracts from the wood or material that has more architecture room. Larger pieces require higher ceilings, viewing and you could also lose quality. to it to lend grandeur to even a simple print. at least 12 ft. tall for a 4-x-6 ft. piece. There are special bulbs that don’t emanate the kind of heat that can cause damage. • If framing, consider your walls. Heavier • If you have a really colorful piece, con- Fluorescent bulbs are too strong; halogen frames should have a stable metal or wood sider painting the wall behind it gray. The and LED alternatives are best. If you bracket to hang on. If you’ve spent a good bit of black adds contrast that will bring want maximum attention on a piece, try amount of money on a piece, you may out the intensity better than white. pinpoint or track lighting with halogen want to have it hung by a professional. bulbs; it will direct the eye directly to the If it’s not properly hung it could fall and • Hang your art so the center of the work work and help it stand out. become damaged. I like to cover art with is at eye level. — Lauren Steussy

14 CCT Winter 2016–17 Appreciate the Night Sky Marcel Agüeros ’96, associate professor of astronomy

stronomer Marcel Agüeros ’96 was DRIER IS BETTER. Clouds obstruct stars, moon: “That’s blinding, and it’s difficult to Aoverwhelmed when he saw the so the drier the climate, the better the see the craters and maria [dark regions].” Milky Way directly overhead — with his view. In many regions, winter stargazing The noticeable redness of Mars is another eyes, not a telescope — at Las Campanas is more interesting because the skies are cool thing to look out for. While they’re Observatory in Chile. Alas, most people clearer; desert climates will have great not essential for stargazing, Agüeros says will never make it to the Southern Hemi- views year-round. a good pair of binoculars will enhance sphere to take in that view. But Agüeros your view. He also notes that a telescope has suggestions for checking out stars MAP OR APP. You can find a monthly is not necessary unless you’re trying to and planets closer to home. map of the constellations in an issue of see details, like the moons of Jupiter. Sky & Telescope magazine or check out GO TO THE DARK SIDE. Light pollution the weekly “Sky at a Glance” feature HEADS UP. The most exciting upcom- is the enemy of stargazing, Agüeros on skyandtelescope.com. Sky-charting ing celestial event is the full solar says. “Get as far away as possible apps such as StarWalk 2, SkyView and eclipse in August 2017, viewable from from any source of light,” he says, Sky Guide use your GPS coordinates a swath of 14 states from Oregon to particularly if you are in a city. Go to a to give you a view of constellations and South Carolina. “A total solar eclipse is backyard or into the middle of a park or planets in real time or direct you toward a unique experience — if you can see anywhere there isn’t bright light in your something specific you’d like to see. All one, you should,” Agüeros says. Usually eyes. If you’re serious about finding you need to do is hold up your phone or they are visible only from remote loca- dark, Agüeros recommends visiting any tablet toward the night sky. tions, most recently the North Pole and of several parks and communities in the off the coast of West Africa, but “this United States that have been declared START HERE. Where should a novice one is coming to our doorstep.” International Dark Sky Places; go to astronomer look first? “I’d look at the darksky.org. moon,” Agüeros says. But not the full — Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98

Winter 2016–17 CCT 15 ¡Olé! Get Familiar with Flamenco Brook Zern ’63, flamenco guitar player and historian

What makes flamenco a pre-eminent art ethnic group. I actually prefer the funkier forms — form? And how did you get interested in it? the deep siguiriyas, soleares and martinete and the Flamenco is the emblematic performance art uptempo bulerías. of southern Spain; it has a singular power and intensity in the way of the American Spain’s King Juan Carlos knighted you for blues tradition. The art arose from the unique raising America’s awareness of Spanish culture blend of cultures in the region: Moorish, through flamenco. How did that happen? Jewish, Gypsy and Iberian. My father played Damned if I know! But I’ve spoken and written flamenco guitar in the 1940s. Growing up, the about flamenco for 50 years and helped preserve sound annoyed me, but when I got to Columbia rare tape recordings and films. In 2008, I learned I suddenly missed it — I’ve been struggling with by email I’d been knighted. I thought it was a hoax the guitar ever since. Flamenco music features a until Spain’s ambassador in Washington, D.C., descending chord sequence called the Andalu- gave me the medal. sian Cadence. It’s a 12-beat rhythm with five accents: on 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12. How can we learn more? If you’re able to get to Spain, Jerez is the last bastion In addition to playing guitar, of cante jondo, or deep song, flamenco’s darkest style. you write a lot about flamenco Seville and Granada are also hotbeds. Otherwise, go singing. Tell us about that. to YouTube and search for “flamenco”; also try “Agu- The dance has universal appeal as a jetas,” “El Chocolate,” “Fernanda” and “La Piriñaca.” staged spectacle and the flamenco For superb modern guitar, try Paco de Lucía. For tra- guitar is admired everywhere, ditional dance, try Farruquito and Manuela Carrasco, but the singing is something of and then see rule-smashers Israel Galván and Rocío an acquired taste. That’s a shame, Molina. You can also check out deflamenco.com or because that’s where the art’s deep- my website, flamencoexperience.com/blog. est mysteries and most profound — Kim Martineau JRN’97, SPS’14 answers can be found. I attribute the most intense flamenco forms to Spain’s gitanos, or gypsies, but nowadays it’s considered bad form to single out that TRAIN FOR A RACE

Dave Obelkevich ’65 // Holds the record for most consecutive completed NYC Marathons

You’ve run the last 41 NYC marathons, with a best time of one mile, walk one minute, and so on. There’s no shame in that. 2:40 in 1982. How did the obsession start? Not only is it easier to finish the race but also you recover so I hopped in during the 1973 NYC Marathon and ran a six-mile much faster. loop around Central Park. I caught marathon fever and ran the Can you suggest a motivational book? following year with a number. A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York, What’s the most common mistake first-time racers make? by Liz Robbins. It has 26.2 chapters. I tell my friends to start at Going out too fast. If you burn 90 percent of your energy in the Chapter 18 — “Kings of Quirk” — I’m featured there with Tucker first half, you won’t have anything left for the finish. Anderson. At that point we had each run 32 consecutive years. Any other mistakes? What about running shoes? Thinking you have to run the whole race. I like the Galloway Run Bring a pair of used running shoes to a specialty running store Walk Run method: Run for 15 minutes, walk for 30 seconds, run so they can see where the soles have worn. Be prepared to spend

16 CCT Winter 2016–17 Win at Pictionary Dr. Ben Schwartz ’03, PS’08, New Yorker cartoonist

Be comfortable with Know the right things Plan your approach. Know your teammates. 1. your drawing skills, 2. to draw. You don’t have 3. Take a few seconds to 4. Sometimes it just comes no matter the level. In some to get caught up in making a think about what you want to down to how well you can read ways, I think drawing ability complete picture — you just draw and then go from there. people’s minds. might hurt you as a Pictionary need the elements that will It’s probably a fair tradeoff to — Alexis Boncy SOA’11 player, because then you start instantly be recognized. try to draw clearly rather than Schwartz creates a cartoon to worry about, “Oh, I have to frantically. The problem some CCT for CCT on the spot — draw a pig and I have to make people run into is they scribble check out the video it look like a pig.” But really quickly just to get something you just have to draw a circle out there, and then the other with a snout on it. players spend their time saying, “What is that? Is that a face?”

at least $100. It’s cheaper to get good shoes than pay for a doctor headphones. It’s easy to get wrapped up in the music and ignore if you get injured. Replace them every 300–400 miles and buy a your body. You can push too hard and get hurt. If you really need second pair so you can alternate them. it, keep the volume down. Do you suggest using a training plan? Any more tips for finishing? There’s no magic plan. Generally, you shouldn’t increase your Tell your friends to come out for the last few miles. One part of mileage more than 10 percent each week. your brain will say “Stop!” The other part will say, “But Dave, you’ll miss all your friends!” During a race, do you eat? Listen to music? If you’re 150 lbs. you’re burning 100 calories each mile; water How do you recover? won’t give you fuel. Try Gatorade, PowerBars and gels, but test For the first few days after the race, walk down the stairs backward. them out first. Don’t try something new if you’re running a It’s 50 percent less painful. marathon. As for music, New York Road Runners discourages — K.M.

Winter 2016–17 CCT 17 Transform Five Blah Foods Into Winning Dishes Christopher Kimball ’73, founder of Milk Street Kitchen, formerly of America’s Test Kitchen

Grated carrots: The French do this every day. Shred carrots and toss with a dressing made of tarragon, shallot, a touch of honey and a dash of cayenne, plus extra virgin olive oil and white balsamic vinegar. Add lots of chopped parsley.

Coleslaw: Reinvent coleslaw using Thai flavors like coconut milk, fish sauce and lime juice.

Scrambled eggs: Use extra virgin olive oil, not butter, for fluffier eggs — it has surfactants, which help to trap the steam. And oil heats faster than butter because butter contains water.

Brussels sprouts: Cook in a hot cast iron skillet to produce a rich, slightly sweet char. Top with honey, garlic, anchovies, red pepper flakes and lemon juice.

Fruit salad: Make a quick caramel sauce (use orange juice

instead of water and either a cinnamon stick or star anise) and CCT pour over peeled, sliced, seedless oranges. Chill. Serve with Greek yogurt and toasted pistachios. Orange and caramel, yum! We have the recipe from — L.S. Kimball’s Milk Street Kitchen

18 CCT Winter 2016–17 Crush Your Next Trivia Night Buzzy Cohen ’07, nine-time Jeopardy! champ

When Buzzy Cohen ’07 was young he suffered from insomnia and would stay Easy Ways You up all night reading the encyclopedia. “Then I just never stopped trying to learn Can Combat everything about everything,” he says. “Plus I have a photographic memory.” For those who are not so genetically gifted but still enjoy Trivia Night at a local pub, Climate Change try Cohen’s tips to get a higher score: Michael Gerrard ’72, the Andrew • Build a well-rounded team. Most pub trivia tends to quiz on general Sabin Professor of Professional Practice knowledge, so cover as many areas as possible. Know what you know, find other at the Law School and director of the people who know what they know and make sure it’s all complementary. Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

• Learn the host’s style. Regular hosts tend to have favorite subjects or a certain • Change all your lightbulbs to LED. style of asking questions. It’s helpful to be able to think like them, so pay attention. They cut lighting energy use by more than 80 percent. • Use context to triangulate your way to the best answer. Let’s say the question is about an American motor company that went under in such-and-such year in • Eat less beef. Beef production the late ’60s. You may not know the exact year, but if you run through defunct car has a high ratio of greenhouse gas companies like Studebaker or Packard you can make a good guess. production to pound of food.

• Go with your gut. Usually the first thing that comes to your mind is right • Walk, bicycle or use mass transit. If you — don’t waste time overthinking? it. Same goes for your teammates. If they’re must drive, use an electric or hybrid car. confident in an answer — even if it’s not their area of expertise — go with it. • Use refillable water bottles. When it comes to things outside people’s knowledge base, they tend to hold onto Never buy brands of bottled water that little piece of information they do have. that have been shipped across an ocean, such as Fiji or Evian. • There’s always bribery … Ply the quiz master with drinks! — A.B. — S.B.

CHÀO How a Diplomat Learns a BẠN Foreign Language HOLA Ray Burghardt ’67, U.S. ambassador

hroughout his 46-year career in diplomacy, Ray Burghardt ’67 has What worked well for Burghardt using the Foreign Service Tlearned several languages: He speaks Vietnamese, Mandarin Chi- Institute’s method was focusing on everyday dialogues. “Start with nese and Spanish, and has some knowledge of French and Korean. ‘Good morning! It’s raining!’ and progress to being at a store or But he’s not a born linguist. Burghardt struggled with learning Span- post office,” he says. In his State Department classes, pictures were ish in high school and at Columbia, until he spent a summer in Spain. flashed and the students had to describe what was happening. Immersed in the language, he picked it up quickly. Once he entered He also found it helpful to listen to colloquial speech in foreign- the Foreign Service, learning languages came more easily. “Language language TV shows and movies. teaching is a real strength of the State Department,” he says. Its Burghardt points out one benefit of learning any foreign language: method: first learn to speak, then learn to read. While Burghardt “It enormously enhances your understanding of English.” speaks several languages fluently, he writes well only in Spanish. “We don’t worry about how to write — diplomats don’t need that,” he says. — S.B.

Winter 2016–17 CCT 19 BREAK INTO SCREENWRITING Jason Fuchs ’09, co-writer of Ice Age: Continental Drift

WRITE THE SCRIPT If you have a brilliant idea but you don’t have credits or samples of your work, you need to write a “spec” (speculative screenplay). You should have something concrete to send out.

LEARN THE LANDSCAPE It’s virtually impossible to sell a pitch or a screenplay without representation. Studios and producers want to get something through a credible representative. Subscribe to IMDB Pro, look up your favorite writers and check who they’re repped by. The major agencies are CAA, WME, ICM and UTA; the next tier, size-wise, includes Gersch and Innovative. Seeing who represents writers you like and respect will give you a sense of JUGGLING 101 who you should target as you begin to seek representation. GET AN AGENT OR LITERARY MANAGER Roy Pomerantz ’83, 40-plus-year If you don’t have connections or contacts, there are a few ways to member of the International get some. One is to enter a script festival. Most film festivals have Jugglers Association script festivals, which are essentially contests where producers and agencies judge your script. If it’s well received, your script begins to get noticed and you get meetings with potential agents. For beginners, Pomerantz says there’s nothing better to Final Draft, the app I use to write screenplays, also holds a start with than a new sleeve of tennis balls. competition. Another way to get on people’s radars is through • The cascade is the building block for all juggling moves. the website The Black List, a subscription site where you submit Place one ball in your stronger hand and throw it in an arc, your screenplay and essentially pay for feedback and critique. slightly over your head, into your weaker hand. Keep the Readers will rate your screenplay; highly rated screenplays then ball on an even plane. Don’t reach to catch the ball; just let get distributed to production companies, lit agencies and so on. gravity drop it into your hand. • When you have perfected this move, switch hands STUDY YOUR GENRE If you are trying to sell your work, you need to be smart about so that you are tossing from your weaker hand to your the kind of spec that you’re writing and try to understand where stronger hand. it’s going to fit into the marketplace, or if it even has a place in • Once you have mastered throwing and catching in the marketplace. Does it have potential to be a blockbuster like both directions, place two balls in your dominant hand Avatar, with merchandising tie-in? Is it an independent film for and one ball in your weaker hand. art audiences? This will help you finesse your sales pitch. • Toss one of the dominant hand balls in an arc to the weaker hand. As soon as the ball starts to descend, NAIL THE PITCH If you are lucky enough to get time with someone with the ability throw the ball from the weaker hand along the same to buy your script, your pitch should be 15 minutes and you should path, underneath the oncoming ball. The weaker hand have a clear sense of what your story is and a few main plot points will need to catch the oncoming ball. so people understand what it will feel like to watch your film. • Repeat the same process with the dominant hand, then continue throwing the balls from hand to hand DON’T ADVERTISE YOUR IDEA along the same path. Congratulations! You are now Ideas are not copyrightable. You can copyright a screenplay, performing the cascade. but when you have just an idea, it’s never a good plan to share it with too many people, because that is very hard to protect. Pomerantz recommends committed, short (10–20 minutes) Other than your mom, your S.O., your team, the one smart “trial and error” practice sessions at least five days a week. confidante who gives you good input, and whoever you think — A.R.H. wants to buy it, you should be cautious. — Yelena Shuster ’09 CCT Got the cascade down? Watch Pomerantz demonstrate more advanced moves CCT Read our profile to learn how Fuchs got started

20 CCT Winter 2016–17 Pack Your Bag for Adventure Kasey Koopmans ’11 hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in five months

RULE NO. 1: BE PREPARED RULE NO. 3: FIND YOUR BALANCE Know the type of terrain you’re most likely to encounter and Without a pack, your center of gravity is roughly right below follow the weather closely over the days leading up to your your sternum. Wearing a loaded pack shifts the center of trip — it’s important to make sure that you have the supplies gravity backward, forcing you to lean forward to find balance. necessary to cope if and when conditions turn south. “Ten The heavier your pack is, the more you’ll have to lean. But Essentials” is a packing concept that’s been around for a there are some simple ways to pack your essentials smarter long time, and for good reason. It covers your survival basics: to mitigate this effect: 1. navigation (maps, compass and/or a navigation app); 1. place heavy and dense items closest to your back; 2. sun protection (sunglasses and sunscreen); 2. pack lightweight and high-volume items in the bottom of 3. insulation (extra clothing); your pack — like your sleeping bag and extra clothes — then 4. illumination (headlamp/flashlight); stack heavier items on top; 5. first-aid supplies; 3. try not to attach too many items to the outside of your pack. 6. fire (waterproof matches/lighter); Hanging items can mess with your balance and are more likely 7. repair kit and tools; to get lost (they also make you look like a rookie); and 8. nutrition (extra food); 4. keep water and snacks accessible. 9. hydration (extra water and/or a purification system); and 10. shelter. RULE NO. 4: DON’T LET INCLEMENT WEATHER RUIN YOUR DAY RULE NO. 2: GO LIGHT Line the inside of your pack with a trash bag; it’s a cheap and I am a strong proponent of ultra-light packing. To best lightweight way to waterproof your things. Keep rain gear maximize space, first and foremost, pack less. Yes, that and an insulating layer close to the top of your pack so they means you will smell, but such is life in the backcountry. It’s are accessible. OK to wear the same outfit two days in a row — I wore the same outfit every day for five months on the Pacific Coast OTHER HELPFUL TIPS Trail. Bring less than you think you need, way less. As the 1. The panacea for all blister woes is Leukotape; it’s perfect outdoors adage goes: “The fun goes up when the pack for keeping raw skin covered and clean. weight comes down!” 2. Stash high-use items — sunscreen, your navigation tool, snacks, camera, bug spray, etc. — in your hip belt pockets. 3. Keep duct tape around your water bottle for emergency use; I’ve used it to fix sleeping pads, tents, shoes — even humans. KASEY KOOPMANS ’11 — A.R.H.

Winter 2016–17 CCT 21 Create Cocktail Perfection Rina Haverly ’07, bartender and owner of The Bad Old Days bar in Ridgewood (Queens), N.Y.

1. Get yourself a set of jiggers. You use so little at a time that it’s a small investment When you start experimenting with cocktail recipes, that goes a long way, and it opens the door to a new you’ll notice most provide proportions in ounces. dimension of flavor. Angostura in a gin and soda is A jigger will have measurements down to a 1/4-oz. wonderful; orange bitters in a vodka martini shed notched in the metal, so even the less-experienced some light on the situation. There are a multitude of bartender will find them easy to use. Any cocktail that tinctures and flavored bitters available at liquor stores uses only spirits gets stirred; anything that has citrus and specialty kitchen and grocery stores, so you can juice should be shaken. really have fun with it. Black walnut bitters in a glass of whiskey with a scant amount of sugar provides cozy 2. Buy yourself a nice metal shaker set. liquid warmth in the winter. A shaker you like to look at is a shaker you’ll feel good about putting on display, and it’s one you’ll be much 5. Buy yourself a few quality spirits you’ve more likely to use. The novelty shakers you see at never tried. places like Urban Outfitters that have drink recipes/ Your home bar should have (at least!) one bourbon, measurements printed on the side of the mixing glass one gin and one fun, different liqueur. We all have are convenient but not sophisticated, and the recipes our go-to order when we’re at the bar, but the next aren’t always correct or practical. Cocktails aren’t just time you go to the liquor store, explore! There is a novelty anymore — these days you can find more a burgeoning market of small and independently and more interesting liqueurs and high-quality spirits owned distilleries creating really interesting and at your local liquor store, and we all deserve a proper delicious products and it’s worth a few extra dollars Sidecar without having to stare at some lowbrow to try something new. I often google brands I haven’t Long Island Iced Tea recipe while we shake it. heard of to learn the history of the distillery and its methods; I love to find new producers who are 3. Treat yourself to glassware that you love. making an effort to buy local grains in order to If you’re a whiskey drinker, get some heavy- make something innovative and interesting. bottomed rocks glasses with a nice bevel. You’ll feel fancy. They look great and the heft of the glass is Bonus: Now put it all together! pleasing in your hand —you may decide to splurge Like most people, my cocktail preferences vary season on that smoking jacket you’ve always wanted, too. If to season. but one drink I enjoy year-round is the you prefer bubbly, get a set of flutes or coupe glasses Boulevardier. The Rye whiskey version of a Negroni, that suit your decor. It elevates your hosting prowess it’s dark and spicy but also mildly bitter and sweet. when you serve your guests with quality glassware. My favorite version is made with 1 oz. of Willett Rye If cabinet space allows, it’s always nice to have some Whiskey, .75 oz. of Campari and .75 oz. of Dolin Rouge Cabernet wine glasses as well. sweet vermouth. Stir it with ice and then pour over one CCT big cube (king cube ice molds are available at nearly 4. Grab yourself some bitters. Haverly prepares a every kitchen/cooking store); twist an orange peel over Boulevardier at the It’s amazing how a couple of dashes of orange bitters the top to release the citrus oils into the cocktail. Bad Old Days bar — or Angostura bitters can change the quality of a drink. — A.R.H. we have the video

22 CCT Winter 2016–17 Throw a Great Dinner Party (That Includes a Great Playlist) Featuring Stephanie Nass ’13, founder/chef at Victory Club, and Ben Ratliff ’90, music writer

Let’s Get This Party Started traveled, maybe they’ve been on the subway, thing cultural, and then they sit down for Every successful dinner party starts with they’re stressed or hot or cold or whatever food inspired by the arts. People talk about careful planning. Nass, who describes herself so you want them to calm down and feel the food, how it relates to the art and that, as a “pattern-happy cake artist,” sets the welcome,” he says. And not just any bossa in and of itself, is food for thought,” Nass table ahead of time and makes place cards nova will do. “It has to be Brazilian. It can’t says. Another way to spur conversation is to avoid awkwardness about who sits where. be a bossa nova made in America.” He to replace a flower centerpiece with a little She advises a cooking “drill” — try out the suggests João Gilberto’s Chega de Saudade, sculpture — “because the guests will talk recipes before the party to avoid unwelcome Nara Leão’s Nara or Maysa’s O Barquinho. about it. It’s different and outside of the surprises. Also consider choosing courses day-to-day life.” Nass hand-paints or prints that can be made ahead of time, like soup her menus, and will sometimes include Main Course as an appetizer. Avoid anything that needs quotations to trigger conversations. extra work before serving: “If I’m sweating Once guests are seated to eat, Nass advises While guests are eating, your music over the stove, I can’t be attentive to the serving a combination of plated and family playlist should pick up speed — “music that company,” Nass says. Opt for oven-made style: “I so believe in food looking great. makes peoples’ thoughts fizzier,” Ratliff says. dishes that are easy to take out quickly. You eat with your eyes first.” But you also Playlist Prospect: The same care should go for your party’s want your guests to eat as much as they’re “Small Bebop jazz groups music options: Consider the right genre hungry for. “Serve a protein, but put sides from the ’40s and ’50s — not big or large for your guests, not just what’s popular. like vegetables and potatoes in the middle ensemble bands,” he adds, suggesting art- “Assume that if you’re having a dinner party of the table for people to pass around,” she ists like Sonny Clark, Bud Powell, Charlie you are an adult, and you want to hear music says. Nass also usually opens several bottles Parker or Thelonious Monk. Ratliff also for adults,” says Ratliff. “I love music for of wine and leaves them on the table for suggests baroque music: Choose from Bach, teenagers, but that’s for another time.” guests to serve themselves. or Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. “If it’s The host should have a conversation played on period instruments, all the better.” Playlist Prospect: Ratliff likes to start with topic or two in mind in case the table talk bossa nova: “When people are coming in goes flat. “At Victory Club events, guests The Grand Finale and sitting down and having a drink, they’ve arrive, there’s an art talk or lecture or some- A great dinner tells a story, so consider dessert an opportunity for a dramatic ending. Buy or make something ahead of time that will look and taste special. Nass is known for her edible sheets that adorn cakes (Chefanie Sheets; chefanienass.com/shop); not surpris- ingly, these are her go-to choices. Music-wise, Ratliff says, “when the meal is done and you’re sitting around in the kind of nether-zone, just eating dessert or having coffee or more drinks,” go for something surprising.

Playlist Prospect: An Internet radio station like NTS.live will keep guests on their toes without a lot of mic breaks. “By that time guests will be feeling pretty loose and you’ll want to let the DJ take over.” And when you’re just about ready for guests to leave, segue them toward the door with Brian Eno’s first ambient record, Ratliff says with a laugh. “It’s very beautiful but some people hate it.” — L.S.

Winter 2016–17 CCT 23 President Barack Obama ’83 walks to his desk in between meetings in the Oval Office, October 20, 2009. 24 CCT Winter 2016–17 The Uncertain Legacy of Barack Obama ’83 By Robert Y. Shapiro

n January 20, 2009, Barack Obama ’83 (his pick them up as part of Republican President Richard graduation coincided with my first year teach- Nixon’s “southern strategy” in 1968. As new issues arose, Oing at Columbia) became the 44th President of intra-party competition led the parties to divide ideologi- the United States and the nation’s first black President. cally, with Democrats as liberals and Republicans as con- He will leave office in January 2017 having served two servatives on economic and regulatory issues as well as full terms. While Obama’s election was an historic on individual rights and liberties, with moderates slowly event, filled with high hopes, his accomplishments and disappearing from both parties, especially the GOP. legacy are controversial and will be debated for years. By 2008, virtually every major issue divided the par- When Democratic Party candidate Obama defeated ties. Political emotions were running high, and there was Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008, George W. Bush’s a widening rift in national security and foreign policy as presidency was ending at a low point, directly related to the Democrats and Republicans came to differ on the use both the military quagmire that occurred after the United of diplomacy versus the unilateral use of military force. States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003 and to the financial cri- Adding to the conflict was the fact that with the 1980 sis at that time. The nation was entering into a Great Senate and 1994 House elections, the parties became Recession. Dealing with this posed a great challenge, but evenly matched for control of all branches of government. expectations were high — indeed too high. Working in This increased the stakes in national elections, and it Obama’s favor was his strong electoral showing: 53 per- explains why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cent to 46 percent in the popular vote and a 365–173 (R-Ky.) said in October 2010, “The single most impor- rout in the Electoral College. The Democrats won a tant thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to large majority in the House of Representatives and for a be a one-term president.” brief period in 2009 had a 60–40 filibuster-proof Senate McConnell’s statement summarizes the opposition majority. Working against Obama was an enormous (and that Obama faced in crafting policies to address the still growing) partisan divide among Democratic Party nation’s problems. Furthermore, partisan conflict affected and Republican Party leaders and voters. Widely writ- how both political leaders and the public would perceive ten about by political scientists (myself included), this Obama’s accomplishments. The number and scope of the ideologically-driven partisan divide emerged in the 1970s Obama administration’s actions and the changes that and took off by the 1990s; Bush — who aspired to be a have occurred on Obama’s watch have been enormous by “uniter” not a “divider” — had hoped to end it but failed. any reasonable metric applied to American Presidents. If It’s important to consider the history here. The two these accomplishments were largely viewed as positive, as major parties had been ideologically mixed after being his Democratic Party supporters saw them, Obama would realigned in the 1930s. Southern Democrats who were be considered one of the greatest American Presidents. If conservative on racial and labor issues countered the mainly negative, as Republicans viewed them, he would northern liberal wing of the party; moderate Republicans be one of the worst. A fair answer, however, is that the who were liberal on civil rights and other issues countered jury is still out how his overall actions will play out in the their party’s economic conservatism. The balance slowly long term. This is disappointing to those who hoped that unraveled with the ascendancy of northern Democrats his presidency would be seen as an unequivocally bright in tandem with the Civil Rights movement, which led period in American history. the Democrats, spurred by President Lyndon Johnson, to become the more liberal party on racial issues with the ome of Obama’s least controversial domestic ini- passage of landmark civil rights and voting rights legisla- Stiatives were punched through soon after he took tion in 1964 and 1965. Over time, southern conservative office: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, expanding the PETE SOUZA Democrats left the party and the Republicans began to Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover more

Winter 2016–17 CCT 25 children in need; the elimination of restrictions on embryonic stem cell research; and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, encompassing crimes related to gender, sexual orientation and disability. Obama also later filled two Supreme Court openings with women: Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the latter the first Latina Supreme Court justice. Much more controversial was Obama’s health care reform. The Affordable Care Act was historic — on the order of the estab- lishment of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The ACA expanded substantially the number of people insured by requir- ing everyone to have health insurance and helping to provide it. It imposed regulations to make medical coverage — with no limits due to preexisting conditions — available to all through the expan- sion of Medicaid (optional for states) and state or federal insurance exchanges, and provided subsidies to help individuals pay for insur- ance. Democrats hailed it as a landmark breakthrough. Republicans saw it as Big Government intrusion at its worst and as a policy that worsened the health care system. The ACA’s implementation has PETE SOUZA had problems, including some costs and providing sufficient insur- Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and senior staff react in the Roosevelt Room of the White House as the House passes the health care reform bill, March 21, 2010. ance options to individuals not covered through their employers or Medicaid. The future of the ACA will depend on Obama’s succes- sor, and there is some doubt at this writing that Donald Trump, the he politics of international relations that Obama specialized in newly elected President, and the Republican Congress will immedi- Twhile a Columbia political science major changed dramatically ately pass and sign legislation that will do away with “Obamacare.” after the end of the Cold War. His foreign and national security Disagreement has remained over the $787 billion Economic policies have led to heated debates that perhaps began when he was Stimulus Act, created to get the country out of the Great Recession. awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, not long after he took office, Unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts were later extended. for his ongoing emphasis on diplomacy. He also created controversy The national economy recovered — more jobs and economic growth, by reaching out to the Muslim world, and with his concerns about with low interest rates and low inflation — especially compared to nuclear proliferation and climate change. other countries that adopted more austere measures. Democrats Obama ended U.S. combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which praised these actions but lamented that had added government resulted in debate over the number of U.S. troops that should be left spending not been thwarted by Republicans, economic growth and to provide assistance. A high point was when he successfully ordered wages would have recovered further. Republicans criticized Obama the Navy Seals mission that found and killed Osama bin Laden in for not cutting taxes and government regulations that could have retaliation for the 9-11 terrorist attacks. But warfare in that region con- enabled the market to produce a stronger and lasting recovery to tinued, and critics claim Obama’s policies created a power void that benefit the middle class. The same debate ensued early in Obama’s gave rise to ISIS terrorist groups and prolonged the civil war in Syria second term, when the Democrats successfully opposed restoring that has resulted in millions of refugees fleeing that country. Obama tax cuts for the very wealthy. stood fast, emphasizing the need for a political solution in the region Also highly controversial, and with open questions about the long- based on the American experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was term impact, was Wall Street reform legislation (Dodd-Frank and severely criticized for not providing sufficient arms to the Syrian rebels the Consumer Protection Act) to reregulate the financial industry, whom the U.S. supported and not using U.S. air power to protect civil- and the administration’s actions to provide funds to recapitalize banks ians in places where the Assad regime and its Russian allies attacked (which the government later recovered). Partisan critics disagree on civilian targets and prevented humanitarian aid. The administration whether this regulation or intervention was too little or too much — succeeded in helping topple — leading to the killing of — Libyan dic- or even necessary. tator Muammar Gaddafi, but this produced conflict and instability in And there was more disagreement: Exceeding the initiative taken Libya, where U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was later killed by George W. Bush, the Obama administration injected more than and where ISIS made inroads. At this writing, two months before $60 billion into the auto industry to save it from bankruptcy and suc- Obama leaves office, his administration has continued assisting in the ceeded in turning it around. Democrats praised this for sparing jobs onslaught on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, providing support for the attacks and boosting manufacturing, while Republicans were less supportive on ISIS’ major strongholds in Mosul and Raqqa. of the level of government involvement. Equally — if not more — controversial was the agreement the Republicans criticized Obama’s increases in government regulation, administration reached on Iran’s nuclear program. There was vehe- for example around issues of food quality and especially around actions ment, and especially partisan, disagreement over the ending of tight that expanded wilderness and watershed protections. His administra- and effective sanctions against Iran and the freeing of Iranian funds tion aimed to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks by held by the U.S. The agreement, which was angrily opposed by Israel 2025 and created restrictions on toxic pollution that led to the closing and other allies threatened by Iran, appears to have stopped Iran’s of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants and increased nuclear program in the short term, but long-term effects are uncertain. pressure to close coal mines. Republican leaders especially complained Less controversial was the Obama administration’s effort toward about the use of executive orders to impose new regulations. the 2016 Paris Agreement on global climate change, which has

26 CCT Winter 2016–17 been hailed as a breakthrough in international cooperation. The why is his rating as high as it is? Is it that the economy has clearly administration had also earlier achieved a new START treaty on improved since he took office? That certainly has not held him down, nuclear arms with Russia. but there are several other relevant factors. One is that due to the Finally, the Obama administration’s diplomatic recognition of Cuba’s partisan divide, he gets very high ratings from fellow Democrats. government is historic. Obama was criticized in Republican Party cir- More important, U.S. casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan were greatly cles and by some Democrats for this action, but a majority of the public reduced, to near zero, whereas ongoing casualties in these conflicts quickly supported it as did the international community, especially Latin had adversely affected evaluations of George W. Bush as he neared the American countries for whom this was long overdue and for whom the end of his presidency (his rating was 20 points lower than Obama’s). United States’ treatment of Cuba had hampered diplomatic relations. Another reason Obama rates highly is that his administration has been strikingly free of scandals. His inspirational personal qualities still here were other major developments during Obama’s time in bolster his support, especially when compared with the 2016 major Toffice. Most noteworthy were the major advancements in gay party presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Trump, who had rights: first the ending of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the mili- record-high unfavorable ratings for candidates in what was the most tary, then the further legalization of gay marriage in the states, which conflict-ridden and personal presidential campaign of modern times. led quickly to the Supreme Court ruling that legalized it nationally. These qualities are further bolstered by First Lady Michelle Obama U.S. oil and natural gas production took off during the Obama years, and their daughters. The Obamas have strengthened their connection making the country increasingly energy self-sufficient. The U.S. became to the American people through their concern for veterans and military a greater international energy producer, which contributed to the eco- families, and Michelle Obama’s initiatives on education and childhood nomic recovery and especially benefitted certain states. Consumers also obesity. In addition to the Obama administration’s double-digit increase benefitted greatly from a sharp drop in the price of gasoline. On the other hand, this development on the energy front led to further partisan debates about environmental protection regulation — including conflict over the The legacy of Columbia College’s use of hydraulic fracking, which had greatly expanded production. Memorably, and painfully, ironic is that the expected progress dur- first alumnus/a to become ing an Obama presidency toward a “post-racial” America did not occur. President of the United States Rather, there was a return of racial conflict reminiscent of the 1960s, will largely depend on forces including violent protests after a number of shootings of blacks by beyond his control. police officers and subsequent killings of police. This amplified debates over racial profiling and “stop and frisk” policies. There were also new racial and ethnic-related tensions over immigration, the threat of radi- cal Islamic terrorism and the U.S. taking in refugees from the Mideast. in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs budget, new GI Bill provisions Racial resentment that had earlier divided the two parties resurfaced. for substantial tuition assistance across the next decade and multiple tax Obama was criticized on both sides, by his opponents for the disrup- credits encouraging businesses to hire veterans, Michelle Obama and tions and for not adequately backing law enforcement, and by his sup- Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden Ph.D., launched the national porters for not defending racial justice more directly and loudly. This Joint Forces “initiative to mobilize all sectors of society to give our service partisan conflict may have had racial underpinnings as well, as suggested members and families the opportunities and support they have earned.” by continued Republican accusations that he was not born in the U.S. or There is a strong Columbia connection here. The atmosphere and dia- that he was a Muslim, and in a stunning instance of political incivility logue for this began (as I was reminded by civil-military expert Army Lt. early on when he was heckled (“You lie!”) by a Republican congressman Col. Jason Dempsey GSAS’08 (Ret.), a former White House Fellow who during a major, nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress. worked with Michelle Obama on military family issues) when Obama and McCain participated in an armed services forum at Columbia dur- here does this leave us? What can we definitively say about ing the 2008 election campaign. Columbia itself, only fittingly, has since W Obama’s eight years in office? As to his place in history, it is too become a national leader in its outreach and programs for veterans. early to tell; for example, how health care reform and international agree- In the end, the legacy of Columbia College’s first alumnus/a to become ments and conflicts play out remains to be seen. Where does he stand President of the United States will largely depend on forces beyond his compared with other Presidents as they left office? We have some initial control: his being followed by someone with radically different ideas, as evidence from the President’s popularity ratings provided by Gallup and certainly appears to be the case with Trump, and the Republican Party’s other opinion polls. By these measures Obama fares very well, an aver- control of both the Senate and House of Representatives. Trump and age of more than 50 percent approving his performance as President in the Republicans are expected to seek to void much of what Obama has the month before the 2016 election. This puts him at the same level as attempted to achieve. Time is likely to tell us soon about what can be Ronald Reagan during the same month, and higher than all Presidents undone easily by executive orders and by legislation that is at the ready, since Harry Truman except for Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton, particularly in the case of the ACA. The consequences of Obama’s other whose approval was five points or more greater than Obama’s. major accomplishments that Trump has threatened, notably the land- Given the controversy over his accomplishments, we can under- mark global climate and Iran nuclear agreements, will be known later. stand why Obama’s approval rating is not higher — and why it might have been much lower. He has expressed regret that he did not do Robert Y. Shapiro is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government in more to lessen the partisan conflict and that his administration had the Department of Political Science and specializes in American politics. not thought through the consequences of U.S. action in Libya. But He received a Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award in 2012.

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28 CCT Winter 2016–17 The Trans List

Photographer/filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’74 exhibits his “Identity” portraits, including his most recent series on transgender Americans

his past September, “Identity: documentary, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, The Now, 12 films later, his HBO and PBS’ List Portraits,” an exhibition of 151 American Masters documentaries include T photographic portraits, opened Thinking XXX, and multiple versions of The at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Black List and The Latino List, as well as The Los Angeles. The large-format images, shot Out List, The Women’s List, The Boomer List on an antique Deardorff view camera against and About Face: Supermodels Then and Now. a simple gray background, portrayed accom- For the HBO documentary, which Green- plished members of society’s more marginal- field-Sanders produced and directed, 11 of ized communities: women, Latinos, blacks, the 40 trans subjects were filmed and inter- gays and trans subjects. Shot during a period viewed by trans activist Janet Mock. “I of more than 10 years, the sets known as the consider the ‘List’ style films to be talking por- List Portraits are now being shown en masse traits, my portraiture come to life. Same back- for the first time. Yet the artist — as the drop, single light source and direct to camera Los Angeles Times was quick to point out — stare. It’s always about the subject, never about was a “straight white male” who would fit on fancy lighting or about me,” he says. none of his own lists: celebrated portraitist Greenfield-Sanders first became recog-

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’74. nized for his portraits of artists and the art Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’74 | Self-Portrait For the Annenberg exhibition, Green- world. Full sets of his 1999 exhibition of 700 field-Sanders also produced a book of all artists, dealers, critics, collectors and cura- 40 transgender subjects that includes his tors are now in the collections of MOMA Warhol’s early screen tests films and about large-format master portraits, behind-the- and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. the then-novel idea of “letting people be scenes images and personal interviews. The But his interest in marginalized groups dates themselves.” Now, he’ll watch his subjects, Trans List is excerpted in the four pages to his childhood in segregated Miami, and always searching for ways to get them to that follow. As he did for his previous “List” included his Columbia years. For many CC become relaxed as he works with them in projects, Greenfield-Sanders chose subjects students in the downbeat ’70s, the flamboy- his studio. “I always try to find something he felt could inspire and appeal to main- ant underground scene — drag queens and in common with the sitter. Sometimes it’s stream audiences while also challenging disco, punks and artists — was a source of fas- art, or music, or even politics.” Greenfield- their assumptions. The Trans List includes cination. Greenfield-Sanders had a smoother Sanders says he studiously stays away from energetic activists, tattooed soldiers, and intro to the scene than most: A local friend, strange poses or gimmickry. “It’s all very dedicated lawyers and students, as well as actress Tally Brown, took him straight to neutral and Warholian. Simple camera, sim- celebrities Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner. downtown’s white-hot epicenter. “I called ple light ... there’s not much to it.” Except Long known as one of America’s most Tally to say hello and to let her know I was when there is. Against the gray backdrops, accomplished photographers, Greenfield- now at Columbia. I also mentioned I had a in diffused lighting, his subjects — trans or Sanders added “filmmaker” to his resume car.” ... She said, ‘Babe ... pick me up at 11 cis, famous or unknown — glow with that with his 1998 Grammy award-winning p.m. and we’ll go to some parties!’ That first “celebrity shine” Warhol gave everyone. night I met Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Candy — Rose Kernochan BC’82 Opposite page: Darling, Holly Woodlawn and Viva [Hoff- CAITLYN JENNER man] at the Chelsea Hotel. I quickly shifted “IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, TV PERSONALITY | OLYMPIAN my morning classes to the afternoon,” he says. The List Portraits” is at the Annenberg Space for PRONOUN SHE “Warhol is my great influence,” Green- Photography, Los Angeles, until February 26, “For the first time in my life … I don’t have any more field-Sanders said years later, in a KCRW 2017. The Trans List premiered as an HBO secrets stored up in my soul.” radio interview. He talked about admiring documentary film on December 5, 2016.

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SHANE ORTEGA MISS MAJOR GRIFFIN-GRACY U.S. ARMY SERGEANT ACTIVIST PRONOUN HE PRONOUN SHE “That dude’s awesome at his job. “I don’t need your acceptance. I just That dude’s a chick.” need your respect.”

30 CCT Winter 2016–17 LEON ELIAS WU FOUNDER SHARPE SUITING PRONOUN HE “I hope to influence positive change and diversity through content.”

JANET MOCK WRITER | TV HOST PRONOUN SHE “We are at an evolutionary moment, one that pushes us to confront how “Wewe define are ourselves at anand know evolutionary one moment, one that another. We’ve outgrown categories pushesand definitions thatus once to held confront us. Man, how we define ourselves woman, girl, boy, masculine, feminine andno longer know reflect us all.one We’ve another.made We’ve outgrown categories andway for somethingdefinitions new.” that once held us. Man, woman, girl, boy, masculine, feminine no longer reflect us all. We’ve made way for something new.”

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32 CCT Winter 2016–17 Opposite page: CHASE STRANGIO ATTORNEY, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION PRONOUN HE | THEY “It’s a struggle to navigate the hostile systems that relentlessly harm the people I care about, particularly the many trans women of color whom I work to support and take guidance from.”

KYLAR BROADUS LAWYER PRONOUN HE DEJA SMITH MAKEUP ARTIST | DANCER “I knew that my body and my mind PRONOUN SHE didn’t conform.” “I’m alive and successful, in spite of a world that doesn’t want me here.”

The preceding is excerpted from The Trans List, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Reprinted with permission from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. All rights reserved.

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Contents 35 Alumni in the News

36 Lions Jason Wachob ’98, Ashley Walker Green ’05, Peter Thall ’64

40 Bookshelf Cooking Solo: The Fun of Cooking for Yourself by Klancy Miller ’96

42 Class Notes

85 Obituaries Jack Greenberg ’45, LAW’48

88 Alumni Corner

STUDYING IN LOW Low Memorial Library, designed by Charles McKim of the famed architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, was completed in 1895. Then-President Seth Low (Class of 1870) self-funded the building and named it after his father, Abiel Abbot Low. Until Butler Library opened in 1934, Low was the University’s main library; after Butler opened, Low became an administrative building. Named a New York City landmark in 1967, Low was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. This 1904 photo shows desks in the Rotunda’s reading room during the building’s use as a library. COURTESY WILL CSAPLAR ’57, BUS’58

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Cyrus Habib ’03 was elected lieutenant they see and share that with people. And I Princess Francois ’11 was selected as a governor of Washington state. The Demo- knew he had the ability.” On October 22, National 30 Under 30 Caribbean-American Dante Alencastre ’83 crat is now the nation’s highest-ranking premiered his docu- Emerging Leaders and Changemakers Hon- Iranian-American elected official, after mentary, Raising Zoey, about a transgender oree and was invited to the White House on defeating Republican Marty McClen- teen described as “one of Los Angeles’ October 3 to attend the first South by South don in the November general election. bravest, and youngest, trans rights activists.” Lawn Festival, “a festival of ideas, art, and Shanna Belott ’91 Lara Stolman ’91 President Barack Obama ’83 endorsed and action where changemakers, activists, and Habib, saying, “Cyrus’ intelligence, track premiered the documentary Swim Team artists came together … to share how they’re record and proven commitment to Wash- this fall. It follows a competitive New Jersey changing their communities.” ington State set him apart.” swim team of teens on the autism spectrum. Barry, a Netflix original film that debuted Joanne Kwong ’97 recently became Barack Columbians were winners in September at on December 16, follows President president of New York’s iconic Asian imports Obama ’83 the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards: The as he arrives in New York City store Pearl River Mart, which closed in 2016, popular Netflix documentary series Making in 1981 for his junior year at Columbia. after 45 years in business, due to an astro- a Murderer, created by Moira Demos ’96, The film was a highly anticipated look at nomical rent increase. Kwong reopened the SOA’08 and Laura Ricciardi SOA’07, won the President’s college days from director store on November 17 with a pop-up at 395 Vikram Gandhi ’00, four Emmys, in the categories of Outstand- with the screenplay Broadway in TriBeCa and plans to officially Adam Mansbach ’98, SOA’00 ing Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Out- by . And relaunch in May 2017 following renova- Bill Condon ’76 standing Writing for a Nonfiction Program, ’s live-action remake of the tions. Kwong told CCT: “I want to continue Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction classic musical Beauty and the Beast (set for the store’s original mission of serving as a Program and Outstanding Picture Editing a March 2017 release) has been receiving ‘friendship store,’ one that encouraged cross- for a Nonfiction Program. Kate McKinnon significant coverage in anticipation of the cultural joy in NYC for almost five decades. ’06 took home the Emmy for Outstanding film, including from Entertainment Weekly In this day and age, Asian culture no longer Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for and Good Morning America. needs to be ‘introduced’ to New Yorkers, but her work on Saturday Night Live. Pearl River still has the ability to serve as Henry Billingsley ’75 has been named to a platform for Asian and Asian-American Lions are making big waves in the film the list of The Best Lawyers in America for innovation, design and tradition in the form industry: Jim Jarmusch ’75’s Gimme 2017; he specializes in admiralty and mari- of capsule collections and collaborations with Danger, a documentary retrospective on the time law with Tucker Ellis in Cleveland. a variety of established and emerging Asian- punk band The Stooges, was released on American designers and artists, compelling Tareq Abuissa ’14 Pat Blute ’12 October 28. An AP article, “Iggy Pop: and , content that explains cultural history and Jarmusch was first, only choice for Stooges both Varsity Show alumni, premiered a tech traditions, and a regular program of curated doc,” quotes Stooges frontman Iggy Pop parody musical, South of Market: The Musical, events, performances and exhibitions.” saying “[ Jarmusch] knew all about the in October in San Francisco. The show sold — Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 group and he had been coming to our shows out its preview run in 48 hours; Venture- anyway for no reason except to come to the Beat says it “perfectly mocks tech industry show. … I thought, well, this would be a great egos,” while tech writer Melissa Eisenberg opportunity, it would elevate the group to described the show in the San Francisco have someone of this stature see whatever Examiner as “music, lights and a complete and utter satire of my life as a techie.”

Joanne Kwong ’97

Pat Blute ’12

Tareq Abuissa ’14 ELIZABETH LEITZELL

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ANDERS KRUSBERG Jason Wachob ’98 Spreads the “Wellth”

By Yelena Shuster ’09

n 2009, Jason Wachob ’98 could barely walk. Two extruded tating and doing yoga all day, but you’re throwing toxins into your vertebral discs pressed on his sciatic nerve, causing excruciat- body and home, you’re not going to be happy.” ing lower back pain. Multiple doctors told the former varsity The content — new-age-Oprah meets The Huffington Post — Ibasketball player he needed surgery. Six months later, he was features self-help inspiration and expert-based advice separated healed — by yoga. into five pillars: Eat, Move, Live, Breathe and Love. Back then, “wellness” was not the buzzword and multi-billion- Building a media company with no media background was far dollar industry it is now, but Wachob knew his experience could from easy. The former Wall Street trader told his wife — and found- change lives. That same year he launched mindbodygreen.com to ing partner — Colleen, who was supporting them at the time, that explain the links between mental health, physical strength and profitability should take only six months. It took three years. toxin-free living. “We didn’t know then how hard it is to grow traffic or ramp up “The reason ‘mbg’ is one word is because it’s all connected,” advertising,” says Colleen, now chief branding officer. “These were Wachob says. “If you’re reading all the self-help books but you’re definitely hard conversations. We couldn’t have gotten through it eating [poorly], you’re not going to be happy. And if you’re medi- without my corporate job and its benefits. We were just extremely

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passionate about wellness and realized that no one was making work all the time? Would you do this for nothing? It’s amazing. these ideas accessible to a more mainstream audience. Remember, I love it. But it’s all-consuming. For me, there’s no separation this was before the world of green juice and yoga took over the between work and life.” zeitgeist. It seemed like a big opportunity.” The former athlete attributes coaching from former Lions coach Their hunch paid off. The website currently has 12 million monthly Armond Hill (currently assistant coach of the LA Clippers) for unique visitors, revenue in the eight figures and almost $5 million in teaching him perseverance on the court and in the start-up world. raised capital (thanks to new lead investor Lew Frankfort BUS’69). “I learned that it’s easy to win but hard to lose. It’s easy to point “Jason lives the values of his brand,” says Frankfort. “He is fingers when you lose, but it’s a lot harder to stay together and get authentic, transparent, curious and determined. He demonstrates a through it. When you start losing, you can get demoralized and willingness and desire to be better, and he displays a humility and become complacent. And he wouldn’t allow us to do that.” vulnerability that motivates others to work with him.” Wachob was so inspired by Columbia that he gave $25,000 to the The website even inspired a book. Wellth: How I Learned to Build basketball program as soon as he made money on Wall Street. Hill a Life, Not a Résumé is based on Wachob’s viral blog post “39 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 39 Years.” “Wellth” stands for a new kind of currency representing happiness, health and purpose — not money. Part self-help, part memoir, the book features easily digestible “Wellth” stands for a new kind of pieces of advice, from inspirational quotes to expert advice by mbg currency representing happiness, contributors like integrative medicine specialist Dr. Frank Lipman and couples therapist Sue Johnson Ph.D. Wachob addresses every- health and purpose — not money. thing from poor nutrition (modify your diet based on different stages of your life) to work burnout (stress becomes physical and can ravage your body). The Long Island native does not hesitate to show vulnerability: He describes first loves, family deaths and even honored the donation by creating the Jason Wachob Award, which financial failures. goes to the player who never gave up on his teammates or himself. Though he is successful now, Wachob needed 10 years to find his To this day, helping others drives Wachob forward through his calling. Hoping to pay off student loans, he spent the first five years 70-hour work weeks. He keeps every handwritten letter he receives out of college in equity trading. One year he earned $800,000, but from readers about mbg changing their lives. the high-roller lifestyle didn’t bring him happiness, especially in the “I was envious of people who were clearly passionate about what soul-searching months after 9-11, so he decided to work for him- they were doing,” he says. “I went on this 10-year search for that self. He was an investor at a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare and finally found it with mindbodygreen.” company that folded; a founder of a low-carb, low-sugar cheesecake business that couldn’t grow; and the CEO of a cookie company that Yelena Shuster ’09 has written for The New York Times, InStyle, was undercapitalized in the recession. The Moscow Times and more. She runs TheAdmissionsGuru.com, Despite three failed start-ups, Wachob never gave up. “I don’t where she edits admissions essays for high school, college and master’s think everyone’s made to be an entrepreneur,” he says. “Can you program applications.

Ashley Walker Green ’05 Has the Moves on the Ice

By Nathalie Alonso ’08

igure skating coach Ashley Walker Green ’05 can pinpoint synchronized skating consist of a group of skaters moving as one the exact moment she became captivated by her sport: The unit, in various formations. year was 1988 and she was watching gold medalist Katerina “I never thought it was going to grow into a big organization,” F Witt perform at the Winter Olympics to music from the Green says of Central Park Ice, which started in 2007 and reached opera Carmen. “I saw her red Carmen dress and I thought, ‘I want new heights of success in 2016, when its Open Juvenile and Pre- to do that,’” she says. Juvenile earned gold and pewter (fourth-place) medals, respectively, Green, just 4 at the time, took her first steps on the ice soon after at the U.S. Figure Skating Eastern Sectional Championships. and has been gliding and twirling — and teaching others to do the “It was the most amazing thing because a lot of these skaters have same — ever since. The Wilton, Conn., native is the founder and been together for years,” says Green, adding that instead of focusing head coach of Central Park Ice, the largest synchronized skating on external accolades, she emphasizes internal goals, such as “staying youth program in New York City, which has four teams compris- focused on the day-to-day, on what we can do better and how we can ing some 60 skaters, ages 8–18, who compete throughout the Big make something look better and feel better for each skater.” Apple and the northeastern United States. Green directs a staff Green joined her first synchronized skating team in fourth of five assistant coaches and choreographs all programs, which in grade. As an incoming first-year at the College, she worked with

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the Columbia University Figure Skating Club to organize the now- defunct Columbia University/NYC Intercollegiate Synchronized Skating Team, which she helped lead to the U.S. Synchronized Skat- ing Championships in each of its three years of existence, from 2002 to 2004. The team practiced at Riverbank Skating Rink in Harlem. Green, who lives in West New York, N.J., with her husband and two young sons, majored in dance and twice performed in the Varsity Show. She also took dance lessons off-campus and danced with small companies in New York City. The summer after her first year, she interned with Ice Theater of New York, a figure skat- ing production company. She was a sophomore when she landed her first coaching job, at Riverbank. During her junior and senior years, Green taught on weekends at Wollman Rink, where she was a coach until 2014. It was at Wollman that Green founded Central Park Ice, which began as a class of five students. The organization is now is based out of Chelsea Piers, an indoor rink, where Green has been coaching since 2012 — the same year she became a U.S. Figure Skating gold medalist, a designation awarded to skaters who have passed one of the senior tests offered by the sport’s national governing body. Amateur skater and recent Wesleyan graduate Hannah Ryan was 8 when she began taking lessons with Green. Ryan eventually became captain of her Central Park Ice team and competed with the organization until she started college. She is now a member of an adult skating team and credits Green, whom she describes as “very patient,” with her decision to stay involved with the sport. “When I took lessons with her, ‘one more time’ never actually meant ‘one more time,’” says Ryan. “She gets you to believe it so you’ll do it a million more times.” JILL SHOMER For Green, the most fulfilling aspect of Central Park Ice is giving skaters, some of whom are not willing or able to keep up with the teaching skating skills. It’s about creating an environment where rigors of individual skating, an opportunity to practice the sport [the skaters] can succeed and grow and find out things about them- in a competitive setting, experience the camaraderie of a team and selves that maybe they didn’t realize they were capable of.” pick up some life skills along the way. “[In life,] you’ve got to be able to work with people and adjust Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a freelance journalist and an your flow for other people and that’s something that we certainly editorial producer for LasMayores.com, Major League Baseball’s official do on the ice,” says Green. “To me, coaching is more than just Spanish language website. She also writes “Student Spotlight” for CCT.

Peter Thall ’64’s Advice Is Music to the Industry’s Ears

By Lauren Steussy

t was on attorney Peter Thall ’64’s living room floor that Daryl “From the beginning, I began to care about my clients not only Hall and John Oates hashed out the song “Had I Known You as a lawyer, but also as someone who could train them to under- Better Then.” Oates strummed away as Thall made the budding stand the complexities forced upon them by the music business,” he Irock stars dinner — steak and peas, Thall recalled. His attentive- says. “It is a privilege for me to help them accomplish this.” ness to musicians like Hall and Oates also is evident in the recently Thall’s near-paternal concern for the artists he represents is seeded released, third edition of his book, What They’ll Never Tell You About in personal experience. Before even graduating from high school, the The Music Business. In the book, and across his 40-year career repre- Connecticut native had written a hit — and been sued for copyright senting creators from The Cars to Barry Manilow to ABBA, Thall infringement. It was a musical of the Gettysburg Address, performed provides the kind of nourishing wisdom that allows artists to focus by members of the local Coast Guard. But Thall was sued by a man on the creativity their work requires. who claimed he held the rights to Lincoln’s words and that Thall’s

38 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews song was an infringement. To anyone else, the suit might have been One day, while Thall’s partner dealt with a client’s Broadway an ugly foray into the adult world. But Thall was fascinated. His civ- plays, Thall handled the same client’s negotiations with Disney ics class attended the trial. While he was a College student, the case and Dreamworks for his soundtracks to Pocahontas and The Prince had already made its way into the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. of Egypt. The client happened to be in the office when an opportu- He won the case, and with it, a direction for his life. nity arose to showcase material to a London director and producer. “I wanted to be a lawyer, and I found an area of law that combined The client presented his musical on Thall’s in-office Steinway. “I my interest in music and law — and copyright, by that point,” he will never forget the sounds from the piano ringing throughout says. “So that’s how I became interested in representing creators.” the law firm even as a new and exciting matter requiring legal At Columbia, Thall studied American government. In 1967, he services was actually being created down the hall,” he says. graduated from The George Washington University Law School, Thall maintained relationships with his musician clients. He one of the few law schools at that time with a copyright specialty. continues to sing and compose songs, sometimes with clients. Upon graduating, he worked with the general counsel at the He co-wrote a James Bond theme with a successful lyricist, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, then but jokes, “Alas, they preferred Sheryl Crow’s offering to mine. with small firms throughout his 20s, helping represent musicians So disappointing.” like Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel ’65 and Miles Davis. In 1977, he Thall takes a proactive approach to the music business, always formed his own firm, Levine & Thall, in New York City. Thall spe- trying to teach musicians to fend for themselves and to know the cialized in music law while his partner took on theater law; others at the firm handled publishing, film and television. “We repre- sented all aspects of entertainment law,” Thall says. “There was a lot of synergy.” Thall co-wrote a James Bond theme with a successful lyricist, but jokes, “Alas, they preferred Sheryl Crow’s offering to mine. So disappointing.”

laws that could help or hurt them. While the presumption is that his readers are professionals who can afford managers, accountants and attorneys, he hopes the book serves as some less expensive expert advice. And the industry agrees. David Renzer, who once oversaw the largest music publishing company in the world, Universal Music Group, and now chairs Spirit Music Group, says Thall’s experience gives him a unique perspective on the business. “He has seen our industry evolve through being on the front lines of the digital revo- lution and its impact on both artists and companies.” Thall’s book closes with a speech he gave at the University of Hamburg in 2011, around the time when the music industry was grappling with a new wave of piracy. He compared the situation to the myth of Medea, which he studied at the College. Medea is driven by passion to kill her children. Likewise, those who down- loaded music illegally were driven by a passion for the music that defined their culture, Thall said. Understanding industry phenom- ena with the help of things like classic Greek mythology are one of the ways Thall has been able to adapt his knowledge to the current climate in the music world. “Nothing brings out passion more than music. And the industry executives, many of whom are not musicians ... had no understand- ing of the emotions and the character of their audience,” he says. “Functioning in my industry, I pretty much had to select a side, if you will. And the side that I chose was that of the creator.”

Lauren Steussy is a reporter based in Brooklyn. Her last CCT profile was on music critic Ben Ratliff ’90 (Summer 2016). Steussy’s work has also appeared in Marie Claire, the Staten Island Advance and the VINCENT LAFORET Columbia Journalism Review, and on Cosmopolitan.com.

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Table for One, Please

By Jill C. Shomer

eing a singleton is definitely on trend. The number of peo- sautéing meat and veg- ple living alone in the United States is on the rise, and hey, gies in a wok to be served they get hungry! And even if you’re coupled, sometimes you at lunch. “At the time it Bwant to spend a little quality time with yourself. In her new didn’t feel like a cool job, but in retrospect, it was,” she says. “The cookbook, Cooking Solo: The Fun of Cooking for Yourself (Houghton uniform wasn’t cool, but the actual preparation of food was.” Mifflin Harcourt, $19.99), Klancy Miller ’96 offers simple dining After graduation, Miller dabbled in nonprofit jobs while figuring solutions while also saluting the pleasures of cooking just for you. out what she wanted to do, ending up in Philadelphia at an NGO, Cooking Solo’s recipes cover the three main meals, dessert and enter- the American Friends Service Committee. She took a variety of taining, with everything from smoothies to sweet and savory variations classes in the evenings and on weekends, and cooking classes were on one of Miller’s favorite brunch foods, waffles. Her prose is upbeat the most enjoyable. She started considering culinary school and got and genuinely funny, and the recipes are easy to follow — most can be a part-time job in a restaurant to get more exposure. The chef sug- put together in 30 minutes or less, perfect for those nights when you gested that school wasn’t necessary to be a chef, but if Miller was want something a little nicer than takeout. interested in pastry, school was a good idea. She had spent a semester Miller, who grew up in Atlanta, first came to Columbia as a high at Reid Hall (“we read a lot of poetry out loud; recipe writing has a school student enrolled in a summer Journalism School workshop. To similar economy of words”), and returning to Paris in 2000 to study her, New York City was a at Le Cordon Bleu set her on a culinary career course. place of “monstrous adven- Miller stayed in Paris for four years, learning about pastry, apprentic- tures,” so different from ing in a bakery, working in a three-star Michelin restaurant and cook- her hometown. She knew ing for herself regularly. Kitchen work proved exhausting, so she got a she wanted to come back, job doing recipe development at Le Cordon Bleu and started writing and when she applied to about food on a freelance basis. She interviewed chef and restaurateur colleges, Columbia was her Marcus Samuelsson for a profile and he became a great mentor. They first choice. She majored worked together on several projects, and he introduced her to a num- in history, and also studied ber of valuable writing contacts and helped her get an agent. French, Arabic and film After years of writing with Samuelsson, Miller wanted to write a book studies. In Miller’s mind, in her own voice. She intended to write a food memoir — her idea for a pursuing several topics she cooking-for-one guide, inspired by her life in New York City where she was interested in felt like the knew many single people, was originally a Plan B. But sociologist Eric point of a liberal arts edu- Klinenberg’s 2012 book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surpris- cation. “You have to have a ing Appeal of Living Alone, about the sharp increase of single-person little self-awareness to go to households in America — came out around the same time she was a school like Columbia,” she pitching ideas, and provided a timely hook that her publisher leaped on. says. “Being in New York Creating the cookbook took Miller four years, from completing the City, as a student, at Colum- manuscript to production with a creative team that included a photogra- bia — you’ve kind of hit the pher, food and prop stylists, and media and promotion. “This experience jackpot. Why not learn what showed me how one tiny portion of the world works, how your piece really resonates with you?” fits into the whole piece, and then into the larger world — it’s been JILL SHOMER Miller says she “lapped it especially fascinating as a history student — how the pieces fit together.” all up,” including her Core Cooking Solo is meant not only to be a cookbook, but also a frame classes: “The Core increases your vocabulary in terms of understand- of mind: “I’ve started to see the positive side of being single,” Miller ing what the essence of something is. The experience gave me this says. “I have time for passion projects, taking different directions and vocabulary that I don’t think I would have gotten anywhere else.” seeing things through that are important to me.” She firmly believes Her first food-related job was at the College, as a first-year doing the freedom to pursue creativity and spend quality time with yourself work-study at the cafeteria in Wien. Miller was a stir-fry cook, is an indulgence that should be celebrated — preferably with waffles.

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Avid Reader: A Life by Robert When Movies Were Theater: and his race who is seeking escape. The Last Days of Night: A Novel Gottlieb ’52. Esteemed writer and Architecture, Exhibition, and the Newly sober in Berlin, a city roused by by Graham Moore ’03. Based on true editor Gottlieb chronicles his Evolution of American Film by Wil- political turmoil, Jed encounters both events, screenwriter Moore’s second life through a series of literary liam Paul ’66. The histories of theater, salvation and the lure of self-destruc- book follows Paul Cravath, a young inspirations — from the books that architecture and motion pictures con- tion. Which of these forces will take lawyer hired to defend a man being enthralled him as a child to editing verge as the author explores the ways control: despair or hope (Farrar, Straus sued by Thomas Edison over the at The New Yorker, the author’s in which one’s experience of a movie and Giroux, $26)? rights to and powers of electricity. In a passion for words prevails. For is influenced by the setting in which it world where hidden motives are ever- Questioning Return the art of writing he maintains a is viewed. What is the significance of by Beth Kissileff present, who will emerge victorious, reverence in good times and in bad, the relationship when one now has the ’90. In this novel, graduate student and to what lengths will they go in reflecting, “I couldn’t know that, as ability to experience film anywhere, on Wendy Goldberg spends a year in order to do so (Random House, $28)? would be the case my entire life, a smartphone or other digital device Jerusalem aiming to uncover the it was work that would save me” (Columbia University Press, $40)? motivations of American Jews who Cracking the Cube: Going Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28). return physically and spiritually to to Go Fast and Other Unexpected 4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster ’69. religious tradition. Very quickly, Turns in the World of Competi- Conversation with Johnny: Auster’s first novel in seven years however, she finds her objectivism has tive Rubik’s Cube Solving by Ian A Novel by Anthony Valerio ’62. tackles ideas of identity, following become twisted and wonders whether Scheffler ’12. From a conversation with Valerio redefines Italian-American Archibald Isaac Ferguson from birth, immersion causes more problems than Erno Rubik to tricks and tips from mob stereotypes in this novel about as this singular life takes four synchro- it solves (Mandel Vilar Press, $19.95). other cubers, Scheffler learns not Nicholas and Johnny — a lover nous but different paths. Same person, only about skill but also about life, Victor in the Rubble and a fighter — who engage in same body, four different loves and by Alex Finley using the cube as a metaphor for the therapeutic, quasi-philosophical lives (Henry Holt & Co., $32). ’94. What do a U.S. foreign intel- modern world: “It’s hard to solve. It dialogue. Originally published ligence agency and an international doesn’t submit easy answers. And once in 1997, the new Kindle edition State of Nature, Stages of Society: terrorist organization have in com- you solve it, you have to start all over provides a chance to discover Enlightenment Conjectural History mon? Heavy-handed bureaucracy. This again” (Touchstone, $26). Valerio’s comic twist on an old and Modern Social Discourse by satirical novel follows a global terrorist premise (Tempi Irregolari, $6.99; Frank Palmeri ’74. When it comes on the run and the American officer A Survival Guide to the Misinfor- Kindle edition). to the social sciences, certainty may responsible for catching him. Finley mation Age: Scientific Habits of not be the most useful tool. Palmeri draws upon her experience in the CIA Mind by David J. Helfand, professor of The Case Against Free Will: studies various Enlightenment to put a comedic spin on a serious astronomy. An “antidote to the mis- What a Quiet Revolution in philosophers who “changed the intel- theme (Smiling Hippo Press, $14.99). information glut,” this book works to Psychology has Revealed about lectual paradigm” with their use of navigate a world in which information For the Love of Money: A Memoir How Behaviour is Determined conjectural history, providing the basis is infinite but accuracy is scarce. Hail- by David A. Lieberman ’65. Could for modern-day study and under- by Sam Polk ’01. Polk details his ing rational analysis as the skill that the actions of human beings be standing of the early world (Columbia journey from greed to generosity as all need but many lack, Helfand urges predictable? In this analytical book, University Press, $70). he left the wealth-obsessed culture of the reader to push past the search Lieberman sets forth an argument Wall Street for the nonprofit world. for so-called “truth” to get to what outlining the probability for Black Deutschland by Darryl He learned how to extract his feelings will take the human species furthest: determinism, without associating Pinckney ’88. The author’s sophomore of self-worth from his staggering need understanding (Columbia University inevitability with doom (Palgrave novel follows Jed, a young man mar- for constant achievement (Simon & Press, $29.95). Macmillan, $79). ginalized in America for his sexuality Schuster, $24). — Aiyana K. White ’18

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An early 20th-century 1941 to a retirement home in Naples, his official retirement, Paul became view looking north Fla. His new address is 1000 Lely an administrator at a Montessori Palms Dr., Apt. E-126, Naples, FL school in Frederick, Md., before from West 116th Robert Zucker 34113. Paul is also maintaining his moving to Florida. Along with his Street. Note the 26910 Grand Central Pkwy, former residence at 796 102nd Ave. exceptional intellectual accomplish- Apt. 24G various modes North, Naples, FL 34108. In 2015, ments, Paul remains a loyal Lion fan Floral Park, NY 11005 with 70 other WWII veterans, Paul of our football and other teams and of transportation: [email protected] participated in an Honor Flight to is an attentive reader of Class Notes subway, trolley, Washington, D.C., visiting the new in CCT. We pay tribute to Paul and car and horse- Members of the Class of ’41, have a National WWII Memorial and send good wishes for the years ahead. drawn cart. healthy and happy 2017! Please take other significant landmarks as part By the time this issue of CCT a few moments in the New Year to of a 22-hour day. Paul said it was reaches you, the Ivy League football reach out to share memories of your a great experience but hard on his season will be over. We lost our Columbia days and to let us know 95-year-old body. opening game versus St. Francis how you are. You can write to either At Columbia, Paul majored in (Pa.), 13–9. Harvard scored 41 of the addresses at the top of the economics, was a member of Phi points in defeating URI, and Yale column, or to the CCT editors at Beta Kappa and earned an M.A. gave up 55 points (a shocker) in a [email protected]. We would all be from the then-named Graduate loss to Colgate. Harvard looks like happy to hear from you. Faculties, now GSAS. He studied at the best team in the Ivy League the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and in 1964 completed 1942 M.B.A. studies at The George Class Notes are submitted by Washington University. alumni and edited by volunteer class correspondents and the Melvin Hershkowitz Paul was (and is) one of the most 22 Northern Ave. staff of CCT prior to publication. brilliant members of our highly Opinions expressed are those Northampton, MA 01060-2310 accomplished Class of 1942. He of individual alumni and do not [email protected] had a long career as a consultant reflect the opinions of CCT, to the Navy and Department of its class correspondents, the College or the University. On July 28 I received a card from Defense, where he was a program Paul Hauck announcing his entry manager for special projects. Upon

42 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews under veteran head coach Tim alumni including artist Ad Reinhardt Murphy. A few years ago I heard ’35, cartoonist Chuck Saxon ’40, his- COLUMBIA SCHOOL DESIGNATIONS that every year Harvard receives torian and magazine editor Edward Barnard College unsolicited applications from 200 Rice ’40, poet Robert Lax ’38, author BC Columbia Business School high school football captains, giving and political activist Ralph de Tole- BUS Pharmaceutical Sciences coach Murphy a head start on his dano ’38 and another lifelong friend, CP DM College of Dental Medicine recruiting efforts. the late Gerald Green. GS School of General Studies I have also been thinking of our Congratulations to Spec and long GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, famous fight song, Roar, Lion, Roar, may it reign. Planning and Preservation which our class heard during the With great sadness and regret, GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1938–41 games at the old Baker Field. I saw the September 25 New York JRN Graduate School of Journalism In those years, Columbia defeated Times obituary notice for our dis- JTS Jewish Theological Seminary VMI, Army, Navy, Virginia, Georgia tinguished classmate and my friend LAW Columbia Law School and Wisconsin, and lost to Michigan Judge Leonard Garth, who died LS Library Service and Tulane. One of Columbia’s most at 95 on September 21, 2016. Len NRS School of Nursing famous alumni, Tom Merton ’38 (now served for 44 years as a senior judge PH Mailman School of Public Health deceased), who became a Trappist on the Court of Appeals for the PS College of Physicians and Surgeons monk and wrote a world-famous Third Circuit. In a ceremony on June SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering book, The Seven Storey Mountain, com- 24, 2011, Len was honored when his and Applied Science posed a phonetic version of Roar Lion, name was inscribed on the atrium SIPA School of International and Public Affairs Roar, as follows: entrance to the building. In atten- SOA School of the Arts dance were Supreme Court Justice SPS School of Professional Studies Raw lie unraw, Samuel A. Alito and Third Circuit SW School of Social Work In wack the heckis uv the hot sin vaw lee, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry. Both TC Teachers College Much under fig tree have her more, commented on Len’s exceptional UTS Union Theological Seminary Wiley sins uv nick her back her really run 40-year career on the Federal Court, Coal un behaw, while more than 170 guests attended Coal un be haw haw, the proceeding to honor Len. Chow tinker name faw have her, On January 6, 2014, Len called We say good-bye to Len and our building and that accommodated Raw lie unraw me to report that the federal govern- send condolences to his family, five adults and two babies. Our guest Faw elmer mudder on the hot sin shaw. ment, in recognition of his many including his daughter, Tobie Garth room took another two adults; cozy, all years of service as a senior judge, had Meisel; son-in-law, Michael Meisel; under the same roof. I cannot vouch for the accuracy extended the funding of his private three grandchildren; and seven As this note was being written, of this version, so corrections from chambers at his residence in North great-grandchildren. we were packing to leave for the readers will be welcome. This writer Branford, Conn. At 93, Len was Finally, best wishes to Dr. Gerald United Kingdom for two weeks to met Merton, introduced by my uncertain but optimistic about his Klingon, who celebrated his 96th attend a wedding in the Cambridge friends Edward Rice ’40 and Robert future work. My last contact with birthday on September 22 while recu- area and the christening of my wife Lax ’38, both now deceased. Ed Len was on March 5, 2015, when perating from surgery for a fractured Audrey’s “grand-goddaughter’s” baby was a talented cartoonist and Jester he called me with great anguish hip. Gerry remains alert, articulate in the Highlands. editor, later a writer and founding and mourning to report the sudden and a source of Columbiana history, The M.H. Wittenborg memorial editor of Jubilee Magazine, devoted death of his beloved wife, Sarah, at with many reminiscences of his years lecture, which I endowed, was deliv- to Catholic life and culture. Bob was Yale-New Haven Hospital. Len and as the first baseman on our baseball ered in October at the Boston Chil- a poet who retired to the isolation of Sarah had been married for 72 years. team and his friendships with team- dren’s’ Hospital. The lecturer was one the Greek islands. After Army service in WWII, mates and coaches. Gerry is a candi- of our distinguished Penn trainees, Dr. I was pleased to note that the during which Len was a first lieuten- date, along with Robert J. Kaufman, Surbhi Grover. She has devoted her September 2016 Princeton Review ant and fought in North Africa, he to become the first known centenar- professional life to helping develop- ranked the Columbia Daily Spectator graduated from Harvard Law and ian in our great Class of 1942. ing countries confront their radiation as the best college newspaper in the entered private practice in New Jersey. Contact me with your news at the oncology problems. Grover’s experi- nation, ahead of UVA’s The Cavalier He became a leading trial and trans- addresses at the top of the column or ences in India and Botswana formed Daily and Brown’s Brown Daily actional lawyer before his appoint- at 413-586-1517. the bases of her oration. Herald. This writer’s sophomore-year ment to the District Court, where he The death of my sister-in-law, a roommate and lifelong friend, the presided over many landmark cases, Vassar alumna, was reported in this late Dr. Herbert Mark, was a man- including the Three Mile Island disas- 1943 column in the Spring 2016 issue aging editor of Spec. He introduced ter. Len mentored more than 100 law along with a comment that her alle- me to several other Spec editors, clerks during his long career, adding to G.J. D’Angio giance to Vassar had flagged when including Mark Kahn and Edward his extraordinary legacy as a judge. 201 S. 18th St., #1818 it became coeducational. Her family “Bud” Caulfield. As an undergraduate, Len was Philadelphia, PA 19103 wishes it known that her loyalty to This correspondent wrote several Debate Council president, a mem- [email protected] her school was fully restored. She columns for Spec, mostly about ber of the Arthur W. Riley Society remained a staunch Vassar supporter Columbia sports, while also writing and won Gold Crown and Silver My whole family — nine adults and for decades, until her death. for Jester and Review. Through the Crown Awards. He was a loyal Lion, two babies — arrived on July 4 for our A Columbia nugget: Columbia years, Spec has thrived and earned coming to Homecoming games annual get-together week. The accom- College on East 47th Street was the national attention, while Jester and with Sarah and maintaining lifelong modations could hardly be more setting of a series of demonstrations Review have been less prominent, friendships with this writer and Dr. convenient: There was a one-bedroom, and lectures presented by electrical despite producing several famous Herbert Mark. furnished guest apartment available in engineering genius and inventor

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Nikola Tesla. The first lecture in far — one from her daughter and especially with your thoughts and director of the Physician Assistant 1888 was titled “A New System son-in-law, who now live perma- memories about the big changes Program at Western Michigan Uni- of Alternating Current Motors.” nently in Israel but make frequent in our lives brought about by the versity and president of the Calhoun It was the first salvo of the battle visits to the United States, where political, intellectual and techno- County Community Council, which between Tesla and T.A. Edison, who they have grandchildren. Rita was logical revolutions of our time. It’s ushered in the local chapters of the adamantly supported direct current planning to reciprocate in December the historian in me asking but you Urban League and the Community for the transmission of power. with a visit to Israel for a couple might find it an interesting exercise Action Agency during the civil From Bernie Weisberger: of weeks. Another visit was from to rummage through your memories rights turmoil of the ’60s. Currently “Hello, fellow sages of the Class of my granddaughter, who is doing and see where personal experiences I am director of continuing medical ’43. Remember that back in olden graduate work in Harvard’s history fit into a bigger picture. I’ve never education in the Bronson Healthcare times, even before ours, the general department; always a happy occasion believed that we are part of a ‘great- System, even at 92. Two years ago I opinion of society was that increas- for us. One more was from a former est’ generation but we surely are one was elected to the Bronson Physicians’ ing wisdom came with age. Without academic colleague at the University of the most eventful. So come on, Hall of Fame. further investigation or discussion, of Rochester. In the 1990s we used Dan D. is waiting for you.” “I remain a devoted reader of I’m sticking with that. to take walking trips in alternate subjects having to do with history, “I start this letter with a remi- years in the U.K. or in Italy — as which I taught for a number of years niscence of my Army training at many as 16 miles a day with back- 1944 at our local community college and Arlington Hall in 1942. There was packs, though we gave ourselves the at a neighbor elementary school, a mimeographed post ‘newspaper’ luxury of B&Bs every night rather Columbia College Today which was great fun. It has been a produced at intervals by and for than camping out. It was a great Columbia Alumni Center great turn except for that elusive the enlisted men under the name way to cement a friendship and the 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 hole-in-one-at the golf course — of The Barracks Bag. I was part of friendship has endured, which can’t New York, NY 10025 not even close. the editorial staff and our editor be said any longer about the hikes. [email protected] “One more thing — congratula- (Sgt. Fishel) was, in civilian life, a “Examining what else is in my tions to Dr. Henry Shinefield ’45, newspaperman. Often when there neck I find that I’m still in the Dr. John Keith Spitznagel PS’46 PS’48 on a brilliant career in medi- wasn’t much news to report and we writing game, working on another shares, “In my 93rd year I am living cine.” [Editor’s note: See Fall 2016, had space to fill, I would elaborate at article for an economics journal with happily at The Cedars of Chapel Hill Class of 1945 Class Notes. length on some wholly insignificant a young economist friend. Also, in in North Carolina. I sketch, water- CCT and your classmates would trifle, hoping that style would cover July I was a panelist on an after-show color and play the flute with a trio. I love to hear from more of you. the lack of substance. The first time discussion of a one-man, one-act think of CC every morning as I drink Please share news about yourself, I did this, Sgt. Fishel complimented play, A Jewish Joke, about the plight my coffee and read The New York your family, your career and/or your me on being a good ‘pull it out of of a Hollywood writer trapped in Times. My wife, Anne Sirch BC’44, travels — even a favorite Columbia your neck’ writer. That was his term the coils of the House Un-American NRS’47, died in 2012 and I miss her. College memory — using either the for exactly what I was doing and Activities Committee during the My best wishes to all Columbians.” email or postal address at the top of it could be useful when faced with McCarthy era. My function was to Paul Sandhaus writes, “Recently the column. a deadline and a sheet of paper as verify for the audience the accuracy returned from Santa Fe home to blank as your mind. (very good) of the history and fill in my NYC apartment and glad to “So, after a tranquil summer that the background. But my qualification report my wife, Helen, and I are still 1945 included my 94th birthday, I am for the assignment by the director, above ground. Celebrated our 70th pulling this one out of my neck. a friend, wasn’t merely my academic anniversary on October 22 with Columbia College Today I traveled nowhere but did have degree but the fact that I had lived son Richard and daughter Ellen Columbia Alumni Center the pleasure, along with my wife, through that period (as have all of us and their spouses, Kathy Spahn and 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Rita, of receiving a number of visits members of CC’43) and could offer David Rimmer.” New York, NY 10025 from friends and kinfolk near and personal testimony — very useful Dr. Alfred Hamady sent CCT a [email protected] for an audience almost all of whose hard-copy note: “A while back I sent members, from what I could observe, a letter to Bill Friedman, not know- Charles Gilman shared a memory: were not youthful but not much older ing that he had passed away. He had “The Class of 1945 is remembered than in their 70s. asked to hear from graduates from as the four-month peacetime class. “Any other highlights of my sum- the Class of ’44, as there had been a Because we received our degrees mer? Well, one, sort of. I attended dearth of word from any of us. So, over so many different years, we my only Cubs game of this season for what it’s worth, here I go again. never kept the cohesiveness with of glorious sunshine for them, along “After Columbia I served in the which we started. Our fall as fresh- Contact CCT with my Chicago-based grand- Navy’s psychiatric division during the men was the greatest experience for Update your contact daughter. As it happened, we had to war, then medical school at SUNY most of us. Seventy-five years, and it stand in line in a sudden drench- Downstate, followed by pediatric seems like yesterday ... . information; submit a ing rainstorm just before the gates residency at Children’s Hospital of “As I recall, the Pearl Harbor Class Note, Class Note opened and, once inside, dried off Michigan in Detroit. By a series of attack was on a Sunday. Many of us photo, obituary or during an hour’s postponement until coincidences I wound up practicing in had been out-of-towners most week- Letter to the Editor; the field was fit for play again. And Battle Creek, where I have remained, ends that fall. What a weekend to alas, that was a night the Cubs lost along with my lovely wife, Pauline, pick to study! We had no idea what or send us an email. — fortunately a rare occurrence. for 63 years. During that time we had was to come, and that was a worry. Click “Contact Us” at “By now you’ll suspect me of a wonderful son and I was accorded Most of us wondered about our college.columbia.edu/cct. having a neck as long as a giraffe’s, the opportunity to serve in various personal survival. The worst part was so I’ll quit. But I would really love capacities — president of the Western the Navy called its college training to hear more from some of you — Michigan Pediatric Society, medical program V-12. That was really scary.

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“We had a tight-knit group of amounts from other classes and a recipient of your scholarship. I am been living in Rye Brook, N.Y., for guys. We sang our song (‘Hardly a University schools. He had been a sorry that it has taken me so long 61 years, and my wife, Iris, and I man is now alive who remembers State Department diplomat for a but I would like to extend a heartfelt recently celebrated our 64th anni- the Class of ’45!’) after too many short stint and showed his skill. thank you to you for your generos- versary. Two of our three children beers at The West End. We got quite Leonard Moss sent insightful ity in helping students like me who are involved on Broadway — as political about the class officers elec- reflections on aging. His correspon- didn’t have the financial resources musical director of several shows tion. Then a candidate was actually dence included the following: “ … when we needed it the most. I was and company manager of Wicked for kidnapped! A telephone number was I am concerned about the impact a poor immigrant who didn’t speak 15 years. Our third progeny is legal discovered. Somebody recalled the of aging on cognition. A very kind a word of English when I arrived counsel at the U.S Department of number was in Rockland County (as expert has speculated that ‘senior in New York and it was my parents’ the Treasury in Washington, D.C. I remember). We obtained a tele- moments’ occur in older folks sacrifice and the generosities of Three grandchildren are pursuing phone book, ripped it into segments because they have a long lifetime donors like you who gave me the their post-graduate college careers in and got a match in Purdy Station. of information in their brains that opportunity for a better life. I have North Carolina and Maryland. It’s Two autos were acquired and we crowds out everything new.” done OK for myself so far but I have always a pleasure to receive news of set off to free our classmate. We This one sentence does not do not forgotten those who helped me our school and its graduates.” succeeded and shocked a few people. justice to his letter but I report it along the way. I have just set up an Dr. Alvin Eden: “I am happy Teamwork! Case closed. That was thinking classmates may want to endowed scholarship for the College to report that my seventh book on my first and best political episode! share their thoughts on a subject Regards to all.” relevant to us. CCT and your classmates would Several years ago Len addressed enjoy hearing from more of you. the American Psychiatric Associa- Dr. John Keith Spitznagel ’44, PS’46 says, Please share news about yourself, tion and when at lunch sat with six “In my 93rd year … I sketch, watercolor and play your family, your career and/or your psychiatrists from Pakistan. Len travels — even a favorite Columbia told them he had presented his first the flute with a trio.” College memory — using either the paper on suicide at the 1955 APA email or postal address at the top of meeting. He said to them, “That was the column. probably before you were born,” and they all nodded, “Yes.” (We can all aiming to help international stu- childcare, Obesity Prevention for relate to similar experiences.) dents who have a need for financial Children: Before It’s Too Late: A Pro- 1946 At latest count, our classmates aid. I believe the best form of flat- gram for Toddlers & Preschoolers, was number 66. tery is imitation and I want to give published in September. The other Bernard Sunshine The column closes by asking back, just like you did. Thank you for big news in my life is that I have 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G everyone to send a bit of news or making a difference in my life and I given up tennis singles and now only New York, NY 10023 interesting experience that will be hope to carry on and pay it forward. play doubles.” [email protected] reported here. Also, you may want If possible, I would like to drop by John C. Cooper sent CCT a to reconnect with a classmate and and thank you in person next time I hard-copy note: “I was interested You will find them on the tennis usually we can help with that. Send am in Florida.” in the Fall 2016 issue’s comments courts at Baker Athletics Complex your updates to me at either of the Alan adds, “My family and I did from Thomas Weyr, who said, ‘As … Herbert Hendin and Irwin addresses at the top of this column. indeed meet with Danny for the for my adult life, it was spent mostly Nydick. Forehands and backhands better part of an afternoon when he as a writer.’ So was mine, although I look good. A conversation with was in Florida. He is a delightful earned most of my living as a lawyer. Irwin about the succession of 1947 and sincere (and successful) young Thomas also said, ‘I was a Viennese Columbia University presidents our man. What a good feeling it was to refugee who made it out in time.’ class experienced brought to mind Columbia College Today receive this note.” Of my WWII memories (I flew a Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of Columbia Alumni Center CCT and your classmates would bomber tour out of England) the one 1882) in his last year as Columbia 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 be pleased to hear from more of you. that haunts me the most occurred president. Butler had lost his eye- New York, NY 10025 Please share news about yourself, after the war in Europe was over sight and, when he walked with an [email protected] your family, your career and/or your (but not for all the refugees). What aide, she gently nudged him when travels — even a favorite Columbia follows is an excerpt from my auto- he passed students and he tipped his Dr. Nicholas Giosa’s 230-page book College memory — using either the biographical story collection Kinder, derby. I heard his last Commence- of collected poems, This Sliding Light email or postal address at the top of Gentler Wars that describes that ment address and, without a script, of Day, published by Antrim House the column. experience. The introduction explains he didn’t drop a comma. in 2015, was a 2016 category finalist how I happened to go to Columbia Butler was followed by Frank for the Eric Hoffer Award as part after reading a Lionel Trilling ’25, Fackenthal (acting president), of the Eric Hoffer Book Award for 1948 GSAS’38 story in a convoy ship Dwight Eisenhower and Grayson the Small, Academic & Independent during the war and the debt I have Kirk. In our 10th anniversary year I Press. He says, “It has been generously Columbia College Today always felt to the College for putting met Kirk in his office when anniver- reviewed in the current issue of Con- Columbia Alumni Center up with me. That follows after the sary year class presidents presented necticut River Review, the Connecticut 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 introduction. While an undergradu- monetary gifts to the university. Poetry Society’s annual publication.” New York, NY 10025 ate I lived downtown and commuted, CC’46 was the youngest class and Alan Steinberg sends news [email protected] so I met very few classmates, though ours was the (very) smallest con- of a wonderful cross-generational I did share a white rat in applied tribution. Kirk was as gracious and Columbia connection. He received David Sampliner BUS’50 writes: “I psych with Allen Ginsberg. I have appreciative receiving our modest the following note: “My name is am retired and still actively dream- a novel, Rest Quietly, Colonel Briscoe, gift as he was for substantially larger Danny Lee. I was Class of ’95 and ing of a winning football year. I’ve available in Kindle format and hope

Winter 2016–17 CCT 45 Class Notes to have my story collection printed your family, your career and/or your Columbia sports archives, in which (The United States Phil Bucklew there next year. travels — even a favorite Columbia the crew manager correctly wrote Naval Special Warfare Center), but “Here is the excerpt from the College memory — using either the down my name among the oarsmen to me in 1952 he was just this good introduction: “ … when I was email or postal address at the top of in the Columbia shell in the JV guy. ‘Want to play for us Saturday?’ discharged in late 1945 I applied to the column. race. I would hope that the sports he asked me. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘but I’m Columbia as a transfer student and archives at Columbia will someday already in trouble with our colonel was accepted. I’ve felt grateful to be digitized, if they have not yet for playing touch football with Columbia for doing so ever since, 1949 been digitized, so all can read them. enlisted men,’ so that didn’t happen. because my career there must have Spectator has been digitized and I, Instead I had lunch with Phil and his tried its patience. Not only did the John Weaver for one, greatly appreciate this. wife in their quarters and sat on the College let me withdraw without 2639 E. 11th St. “Why do I recall this? I had bench with Phil at the game. prejudice when my novel The Gesture Brooklyn, NY 11235 practiced from September to May, “That Saturday in Virginia, was accepted by Harper two weeks [email protected] day after day (in the tank in the Phil told me what he had seen at before my final exams (which I winter) and rowed diligently in Columbia: That I had ‘wanted to would have flunked, not having set Friends, your correspondent is hard- the crew races in May 1947. I had play more than any other boy’ he foot on campus in a month) but pressed to fill more space in the diligently traveled from the campus had ever known, I had committed so allowed me to reenter a year later Class Notes section of CCT. I am to the boathouse in Spuyten Duyvil strongly to making the football team and eventually graduate. When certain you all have been engaged to practice there after class and and playing in the games. This was Time magazine gave my book a full- in lives of active participation in before returning to 116th Street for news. It had never occurred to me page review with photo, I asked the this challenging year, both personal evening study. Among the races I before that I was particularly ‘stick- dean how I could keep a low profile and public. But without your notes rowed for Columbia was the frosh to-ative,’ that I was someone who on campus, to which he responded, we cannot share. We are genuinely lightweight race at Princeton in early could do what he decided to do. The smiling, that I was probably just one interested. So, please, as the sun sets May 1947, in which the members of mentoring I needed and never got of a dozen classmates ( Jack Kerouac early in these winter months, take the Columbia crew were not reported at Columbia I got that Saturday at ’44 having been one) with the same the time to send a few words to anywhere, and a varsity lightweight Little Creek, although my wife says ambitions and that I was just lucky enliven and enlighten our length- race in November 1948 in which you can’t call one day mentoring. to have gotten printed first. ening days as spring approaches. the Dartmouth crew was cited in “But I look back now and see “And this is from the story You can reach me at either of the the Dartmouth student newspaper that this insight, this gift of Phil’s collection: addresses at the top of this column. but the Columbia crew seems not to — whether you call it mentoring or have been mentioned anywhere. Ty not — lighted my way for the rest of “Paul Buckelew ’94 found the June 1947 my life. Thanks, Phil.” “We were up in the north of France. 1950 crew manager’s report in the archives. From Glenn Lubash: “After Germany had just surrendered, and Thank you greatly, Ty.” working for 19 years at three medi- we were hell-bent to get to Paris, but Columbia College Today David Berger reports: “These cal schools, being senior partner everything that had wheels had been Columbia Alumni Center days, I sometimes wear my letter in a private nephrology practice in commandeered, and we had no priority. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 sweater. My wife, who hates football Albuquerque for 17 years, working However, the captain who lived with the New York, NY 10025 but loves me, wears it from time to in several other nephrology offices stationmaster’s daughter said that a train [email protected] time. The white wool cardigan with and in primary care, and end- would come through the next day at ten, the blue C puts me in touch with ing up for nine years with a local slow enough to jump. Sure enough we CCT wishes the Class of 1950 a my youth, full of wonder, desire and Veterans Affairs clinic and hospital, saw it in the distance, like boxcars out of healthy and happy 2017! Please learning. And it puts me in mind I retired on December 31, 2016. I World War I or an American Legion act. send news to either of the addresses of Phil Bucklew SIPA’48, who retired twice before, once for three We had our parachutes and rations for above for inclusion in our Spring understood me and taught me to years after my first wife, Jean, died the black market and when we climbed 2017 issue. understand myself. in 1997, and another time for 18 in, we didn’t even notice them at first. From Arthur L. Thomas: “Phil was professor of naval They lay on straw matting and looked “In June 1947, I was asked as a science, a Ph.D. candidate I believe, like medical illustrations of some sort. lightweight frosh oarsman to go to and an assistant football coach at Most of them were from Buchenwald, the Columbia boathouse at Krum Columbia in the late 1940s. He was but some of them had been released from Elbow, across the Hudson from military and I was not. But in 1952, Auschwitz. At each stop French peasants Poughkeepsie. My function was I was an infantry lieutenant in an would toss them flowers and some tried that of a substitute oarsman. As it Army regiment on temporary duty to hand up bread and wine. They gave it turned out, there was illness among at Little Creek, Va., for amphibious- to us, of course, because they couldn’t even the oarsmen and I rowed bow in the warfare training. There were my smoke our cigarettes. We left them at the JV boat in the three-mile race at the ex-teammates, Howie Hansen ’52 Stay in Gare du Nord, waiting to be greeted by June 21 regatta. The stroke of that and Vern Wynott ’52, on the Navy Touch someone. France wouldn’t accept them all boat was William H. Hayes ’47, also base football team — and there was and they were scared to go back to Red- a lightweight; it so happened we Phil. He was at Little Creek as a (if Let us know if you have a controlled land. both were sons of Columbia faculty not the) founder of the Navy SEALs new postal or email address, “But that was in the bad old war. members. The following day, The and he was also the football coach. a new phone number or “Never, never, never again. New York Times reported the race “In WWII, as I later learned, Phil “?” results but someone else (who was had been a beach-master for Allied even a new name: not at Krum Elbow) was reported assaults in Europe and a scout for college.columbia.edu/ CCT and your classmates would as having rowed bow. The only landing zones in Japanese-occupied alumni/connect. be happy to hear from more of you. other source of information I have China. The SEALs training center in Please share news about yourself, been able to find is that from the Coronado, Calif., is named after Phil

46 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews months after my second wife, Geri, first novel were published in The and I moved to North Carolina. The Columbia Review. I had parts in two upcoming retirement will be my plays (Coriolanus and Murder in The third and final one. Cathedral) and was social chair- “Geri and I have lived in Davidson, man of my fraternity, Beta Sigma N.C., a small college town about 20 Rho. Four of us were members of miles north of Charlotte, for the past Professor Fred Dupee’s Writer’s Lab. 15 years. We enjoy our location very We used to meet at his home on much, with its wonderful view of Lake Morningside Drive to read from our Davidson, a smaller version of neigh- novels in progress (mine was a final- boring Lake Norman. Geri is a retired ist in the Dodd Mead Intercollegiate RN and is certified as a practitioner/ Literary Fellowship competition, but instructor in Brain Gym and Energy remained unpublished), and I well Medicine, which keeps her occupied. recall his advice that I lock myself She now challenges me to find some- in a room with a bottle of whiskey, thing to keep me busy after retire- presumably to loosen up my style. ment. I’ll try to write something about “During my freshman year, I real- On October 20, Howard Hansen ’52 was inducted into the Columbia University medical experiences, but with the ized that engineering was not my Athletics Hall of Fame. Left to right: Jim Mooney ’56, Hansen and Ed Botwinick reservation that I may turn out to have strong suit, so I switched to a largely ’56 outside the black-tie affair, which was held in Low Rotunda. little literary talent. Despite enjoying social science curriculum. My career relatively good health, we both find goal — to become a novelist — soon travel to be too hectic and exhausting, proved to be unrealistic. Many years CCT and your classmates would Geffen School of Medicine at and mostly choose to stay at home. If later, I attended NYU Law and enjoy hearing from more of you. Please UCLA, but after 43 years in the any classmates pass by Davidson, I’d ultimately became an international share news about yourself, your family, operating room, I retired in 1998 be very happy to get together.” patent lawyer, a profession that your career and/or your travels — even from actively caring for patients. Last enabled me to travel widely. a favorite Columbia College memory year I taught a class in Loyola Mary- “After the fall of the Berlin Wall, — using either the email or postal mount University’s (LMU) Jewish 1951 I began returning to my German address at the top of the column. Studies program. The students and I hometown, Wittenberg, where I was discussed Jerzy Kosinski’s book Steps, Columbia College Today made an honorary citizen for my work and Columbia’s Associate Professor Columbia Alumni Center on forgiveness and reconciliation, 1952 of Writing in the School of the Arts 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 subjects on which I speak widely to REUNION Gary Shteyngart’s The Russian Debu- REUNION WEEKEND New York, NY 10025 school, church and college groups. I tante’s Handbook. Kosinski, Shteyn- JUNE 1–4, 2017 [email protected] am also head elder of the Mid-Atlan- gart and I had in common that we Alumni Affairs Contact tic Region of The ManKind Project, Fatima Yudeh were refugees from totalitarianism, A thoughtful note from Richard an international organization that runs fortunate enough to have succeeded Wiener: [email protected] “I attended the College as transformational trainings for men 212-851-7834 in the United States. a veteran and hence was a bit older on four continents. I am blessed to be Development Contact 2017 “The students told their LMU than most of my classmates. As an able to share my childhood experience Heather Siemienas professor that they found value in immigrant and child survivor of the as the only Jewish student in a school [email protected] our discussion. That led to my being Holocaust, I could not have afforded of Hitler Youths, as an illustration of 212-851-7855 invited to contribute a chapter to Columbia but for the GI Bill of my favorite aphorism: ‘Sweet are the a textbook for Jewish Studies, The Rights, and had to live with my uses of adversity.’ Even at this age, I Columbia College Today Literature of Exile and Displacement; parents in Borough Park and work 16 consider each day a gift. And I will be Columbia Alumni Center my chapter is ‘Adaptation, Refuge hours a week (during the school year) eternally grateful for the education I 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and the Quest to Belong.’ There- after school as a soda jerk at Whelan’s received at Columbia.” New York, NY 10025 after, I wrote my memoirs, Vienna Drug Store in order to pay expenses. David Zinman JRN’52 writes, [email protected] Roots: Refuge and Adaptation, to tell During summers I hitchhiked around “Today (October 6) is my 86th birth- the story of my origins in Austria the West and worked on a Northern day and I write from Chautauqua, a From John R. Benfield: “My wife and my family’s escape after Hitler’s Pacific track gang, as a smelterman summer cultural center in Upstate and I met at the University of Chi- Anschluss in 1938. I expressed my at the Anaconda Copper Mining New York where I live with my cago during the 13 years I spent there gratitude to the United States for Co. in Montana, with Mexican fruit partner, Kay Kramer. Most mornings, after Columbia. After losing her to our safety and for the opportuni- pickers on an orchard farm north of I swim, then play duplicate bridge or an aggressive thyroid cancer in 2003, ties I have had (including attending San Francisco, as a short-order cook in work on plays written after I retired. Mary Ann Shaw and I have been for- Columbia) in our country. Part Chicago and so on. I am 89, with two This past summer, comedian Mark tunate enough to enjoy life together. of the story is about my return to kids and two grandkids, and have lived Russell starred in my one-acter, The “I have three successful children Vienna in 2011 to swim with one a rich, eventful life, much of which Reporter. It’s a comedy about a guy and seven grandchildren, all in Cali- of my sons as part of Team USA in is recounted in my autobiography, who tries to make a citizen’s arrest fornia. They graciously hosted my the 13th European Maccabi Games Survivor’s Odyssey … from oppression when he spots the D.A. speeding. It’s 85th birthday party in June in Ojai. (the Jewish version of the Olympics, to reconciliation. My first poetry col- based a true story that happened when After the festivities, Mary Ann and open to all age groups). lection, Sense of Time, was published I worked for Newsday. It ran under I visited the Big Island of Hawaii, “Finally, I am delighted that our in 2010, and a second, Sense of Age, is the head ‘Investigation of a Public our favorite family vacation spot for oldest grandson, entirely on his own nearing completion. Citizen Above Suspicion.’ The paper more than 45 years. after an extensive evaluation of colleges “While at Columbia, one of my included it among 50 articles picked “I still enjoy teaching as professor in the U.S. and Europe, has decided to short stories and a chapter from my as the best stories in its first 50 years.” of surgery emeritus in the David make Columbia his first choice.”

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From Philippe Stoclet BUS’54: established the first Comprehensive ABC Sports, who was inducted in a ing this note without the help of “I am still around if that is what you Cancer Center in the U.S. (prob- special category), qualified. Sadly, basketball team Hall of Famer Bob Reiss are trying to find out! Healthy, mobile, ably in the world) and here is one in both are deceased. Bob, who passed !” happy and active managing my affairs. Vienna. Of no consequence to anyone away in late April, also was inducted I have fond memories of my years else, but it was a real surprise to me. posthumously into the National both at the College and the Business “I still play tennis but on a much Wrestling Hall of Fame. 1953 School. Some 30 years ago I was pres- slower pace than when we were at “For our ‘free day,’ Jim planned Lew Robins ident of Columbia’s Belgian alumni Columbia. I saw a picture [in the to take a trip to West Point for an Eric Javits, 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 group for one or two terms. However, Fall 2016 CCT] of who impressive tour. Upon arriving on Bridgeport, CT 06604 though I am always interested to was also on our team, and he looks as October 21, we couldn’t find a park- [email protected] receive CCT, I do not participate in though he can still run. My best to all ing spot, as it was Homecoming and Columbia events at home or abroad old school friends of the Class of ’52!” Hall of Fame weekend at Army as Howard Hansen: anymore. All the best!” From “In late well. I had mixed emotions, as my Greetings, Class of 1953. As we enter John Laszlo reports: “Time October, my wife, Dianne, my son, previous visit to West Point was also the New Year, please take a moment marches on! I was delighted that my Eric, and I boarded Ed Botwinick its Homecoming, when we played to share a note about your life with wife, Pat, and I were able to take our ’56, SEAS’58’s private jet in Stuart, them in 1951. I was carried off the your fellow alumni. Retirement, family 14 children and grandchildren on Fla., at 9 a.m. The Botwinicks spend field during the first quarter with an news, travel, favorite Columbia memo- a Danube cruise this past summer. their summers at Grandfather Achilles heel problem after going ries — everything is welcome in CCT! One highlight for me was a day in Mountain in western North Caro- for the goal line from six yards out! You can write to either of the addresses Tony Misho, Vienna, where I was able to find the lina and Ed’s friendly two pilots flew my backup, had a big at the top of the column, or to the childhood apartment building where us to an airport in Tennessee, where day rushing for more than 100 yards. CCT editors at [email protected]. I lived with my parents until age 7. we picked up the boss (Ed) and con- As a team we totaled 324 yards From the second-floor window I tinued our flight north. rushing and were 10 times within witnessed the day the Nazis annexed “The weather was perfect and we the 10-yard line; we lost 14–9 with 1954 Austria and tanks, armored cars and flew mostly at 41,000 ft. at 450-475 the ball on Army’s two-inch line Frank Toner Bernd Brecher motorcycles passed noisily beneath. mph. It didn’t take long to reach our as time ran out. had 35 Parkview Ave., Apt. 4G It was not a happy memory for me destination: Teterboro Airport, N.J. scored to win but was flagged for Bronxville, NY 10708 but important for the family to see I’ve come to learn that Ed and Jim offsides. I sat out the next game [email protected] where it all began for our little fam- Mooney ’56 are precise planners, so against Cornell recuperating. ily, which was fortunate enough to it was no surprise that while getting “Sadly, we only played eight escape to the U.S. off the plane, who should be taking games in 1951, as two of our team- O, Ye Princes of Columbia, you Men “After I moved to the U.S., I began our pictures but none other than mates came down with polio during of the Class of Destiny, is there no another life, which passed through Jim, standing about 30 yards away! preseason practice and our opening end of the feats or to the accomplish- Columbia, Harvard Medical School Ed went on his way to Manhattan game was canceled because of quar- ments that you report for me to share and then to a career at Duke and the and the Hansens were chauffeured antine. Upon his retirement in 1956, in these notes? Matter of fact, I get a American Cancer Society in oncology, to Jim and his wife Doris’ mag- coach Lou Little was interviewed special kick when at Columbia alumni cancer research and administration. nificent residence in Pennsylvania, on national television one evening functions there is often a member One ironic twist from the trip to where we were spoiled for four days. by a cigarette-smoking Edward R. not in our class who says he reads our Vienna was that we found that the “On October 20, the evening’s Murrow. Murrow asked Little what notes and looks forward to doing so nearby university hospital (where my black-tie dinner function at Low his greatest disappointment was, in every new issue of CCT. So-o-o-o, doctor parents had worked) had a sign Library for my induction into the and Little replied, ‘1951 at Army!’ I you guys, keep the info coming. And, on the front of the building that said, Columbia University Athletics Hall swallowed hard! note that while we have perennials, in English, ‘Comprehensive Cancer of Fame was a once-in-a-lifetime “October 22 was Columbia’s annuals and repeats aplenty, there is Center of Vienna.’ While at Duke we athletic experience for me. A full Homecoming and we went to the often news from or about a classmate house (350), plus a waiting list. Com- game, which was against Dartmouth. we haven’t seen or heard from since ing off the stage during the induction The pregame was a marvelous brunch the middle of the last century. To ceremony, with my magnificent at The Campbell Sports Center, these prodigal sons, a very special award in hand, my eyes were tearing followed by a 9–7 victory during very welcome and please stay a while. up with gratefulness and excitement. difficult weather. All of us old-timers You may be interested in a Athletics did a most impressive job in are impressed with coach Al Bagnoli recently-issued directory, Best Global preparation and execution. and what the future holds, and are Universities Rankings, which covers “For historical purposes, a total also impressed with Director of 1,000 institutions in more than 60 of 22 football players have been Athletics Peter Pilling. countries. Alma mater is ranked Send in inducted into the Hall of Fame “On October 23, our chauffeur, among the top 10 along with two Your News since its inception in 2006. In the Jim, was probably relieved to wind up in Cambridge, Mass., one other Ivy, last go-around, in 2014, Al Barabas the Hansen visit with another drive four schools in California and two Share what’s happening in ’36 (a wonderful person of Rose to Teterboro, where Ed and his two in the United Kingdom. For details, your life with classmates. Bowl and KF-79 fame) was the sole pilots were ready at 11 a.m. to take off. including the 12 indicators used, Click “Contact Us” at football player chosen. This year, “My supporters, I thank you, google U.S. News & World Report; Paul Kaliades ’73 and Johnathan including among them Bill Wallace, while the rankings and analyses are college.columbia.edu/cct, or Reese ’02 — impressive gentlemen Bob Wallace ’53, Stephen Reich ’53, focused on assisting potential stu- email or mail to the address — joined me. Interestingly, our class Mel Sautter, Tom Federowicz, dents, we old-timers may get some at the top of your column. set a record with three inducted, Thomas Powers ’51, Gene Rossides new perspectives as well. as Bob Hartman (All-American ’49, Stanley Maratos ’53 and Daniel My wife, Helen, and I, on family wrestler) and Roone Arledge (of Seemann, and I wouldn’t be writ- visits, her high school reunions,

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woodworking shop where I tinker and take on some challenging projects.” Frank says, “Maggie has written a wonderful cookbook and delights me with great meals. We are very busy in our daily activities, the high- light of which includes sunrise walks in the park with Miss Charlotte, our yellow Lab. Life is good.” Fred Schlereth SEAS’56 writes: “Heidi and I are both well. I received a patent for a sensor that I have been working on for several years. Check it out by googling ‘sensor for sens- ing substances in an environment.’ Explosives detection is an important application, but there are many others. Now comes the task of ‘mon- etizing’ it. I feel fortunate to have the support of Syracuse University; lab space, office, technicians and materi- als. It’s a great way to spend retire- ment. Three of us 80-plus running

COURTESY WILL CSAPLAR ’57, BUS’58 WILL CSAPLAR COURTESY guys got together to win the National Masters 5k Team Championship. But, we don’t mention the number of conferences and other events, when now a member of the Board of celebrated with still shots and video teams that were competing.” visiting Washington, D.C., have Governors and Advisory Council of clips. Every recipient was awarded No, this is not a set-up — as I regularly spent delightful evenings the American College of Surgeons a plaque, as well as a commemora- was finishing this quarterly column, dining with David Bardin LAW’56 and previously was on the Advisory tive medal that he/she proudly wore the following arrived in my inbox and his wife, Livia. David had Council of the American Academy throughout the event. I was lucky to from Lawrence Merrion ’57: “I long held government positions in of Ophthalmology. “I have com- be part of the Heritage Era (1867 to received my Fall 2016 issue of CCT New Jersey and later moved to and pleted 11 missions as a volunteer 1953–54) fencing team. I remember today and your column caught my became active in political issues faculty member in ophthalmology those days, as our 1954 team was eye with the item by Jim Burger. I in our nation’s capital. Among his and surgery: six in India, three in undefeated at all levels; some of am a Sigma Chi fraternity brother longstanding causes is statehood for China, one in Uganda and one in our teammates went on to the U.S. of Jim’s and I wish to correspond the District of Columbia, a chal- Uzbekistan. My wife, Rosanne, Olympic fencing team.” with him, as he requested. We lenge not for the faint of heart. In joined me on several trips, which Frank’s deserved pride in his shared time together at the College, May, The Washington Post published gave us a wonderful chance to share and our fencing team has always and we had a mutual fraternity a letter to the editor from him, in unusual experiences.” been part of his psyche. He adds: “I brother in Bob Reynolds. Thank where he wrote (in response to an Ed says he has “presented the received an M.D. from NYU in 1958 you for writing the column, as it is article on D.C. statehood): “My honor lecture in my specialty for the and completed a radiology residency always interesting.” friends in Wyoming, population American Association for Pediatric at Long Island Jewish Medical I blush; the check is in the mail; approaching 590,000, vote for two Ophthalmology and Strabismus in Center. I served as a U.S. Navy so are Jim’s vitals. senators who participate in advising Vancouver, and gave similar honor Reserve physician (1960–62) at NH Thanks, Lawrence. As my class- and consenting (or not) to appoint- lectures at the American Academy Bremerton (Wash.). After practic- mates know, I love mash notes. ment of Supreme Court justices of Ophthalmology, in 2005 and ing in Westchester County, N.Y., Here comes a special message and in the other functions of the 2011. Rosanne and I continue I relocated to New Jersey, where I from Paul Wilson PS’61, with Senate. We in the District, popula- spending summers at our vacation practiced for 40-plus years at JFK an attachment (see below) that tion ‘672,000 (and climbing),’ vote home on Deer Isle, Maine (the Medical Center. Post-retirement, can entertain for an evening and for no senators. Most of our fellow state’s biggest lobstering town). We, I enjoyed locum tenens stints at a enlighten all of us in ’54. Paul writes: Americans would agree that denial our three children and four grand- trauma hospital in Yuma, Ariz.” “I’m mailing you a copy of a little of representation is not fair or just or children are all doing well.” Frank has been married for 33 memoir I recently wrote for my righteous as a policy for America — Fraternity brother Frank Wald’s years; he and his wife, Margaret Eliza- grandchildren and a few friends. I’m if they knew about it.” “memories of Columbia Col- beth, have raised six children, “who are sending it along for two reasons: The day after our October dinner, lege were recently rekindled by a each successful in their own endeavors, 1) It’s got some perhaps-reportable the Post published a second letter communication stating that the and they have given us five wonderful pieces about my experiences at from David. (Keep the faith!) Columbia University Athletics grandchildren, They are located on the Columbia and afterward, and 2) It’s Edward Raab reports on an Hall of Fame Class of 2016 would four corners of the map, so we keep an example (cited by The New York adventurous and fulfilling life. He have a black-tie dinner and induc- the airlines busy! Retirement life here Times, I hasten to add!) of a kind practiced pediatric ophthalmol- tion ceremony in Low Library on in Warren, N.J., is great! Maggie and of quick, not-worth-publishing, ogy for more than 40 years, but October 20. The event highlighted I travel extensively throughout the mostly-for-family memoirs that also completed law school and was 20 individuals, as well as teams United States and more recently have many people find easy and fascinat- admitted to the bar in New York from nine sports programs. Each taken to seeing Europe from a river- ing to write (… especially if they and Connecticut in 1995. He is sports field that was recognized was boat’s perspective. I have an elaborate can honor the fact that the memoir

Winter 2016–17 CCT 49 Class Notes is just their memories [which don’t Larry Kobrin LAW’57, in personal insights about the world we (in Maine) has been trying to track demand the kind of fact-checking looking at the big picture, makes live in and that we are leaving for all down the Ford Scholars in our class; Bernie Kirtman and historical explanations that “a suggestion that emerged from our children and grandchildren. (in California) and Bill Epstein biographies do]). I personally found a meeting I had with a Columbia As always, be well, do good, write (in Manhattan) have it to be a surprisingly clarifying development person relating to the often. Excelsior! been helpful in this regard. To reach exercise, particularly for examining Urban New York Fund that our Ted, email him at lizied@earthlink. and understanding the big-picture class established when we gradu- net or call him at 207-967-5258. patterns of my life. Better than my ated … this fund appears to have 1955 Ford Scholars we know about are Gerry Pomper, Herb Cohen, Tom three-year analysis.” grown quite nicely. Online reports Gerald Sherwin Cheyer, Dan Zwanziger, Jerry Paul advises, “For anyone inter- show that it is up and running and 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A Plasse, Don Pugatch, Bernie ested in writing one, I strongly provides a variety of tickets for New York, NY 10021 Chasan, Ed Goldberg Mike recommend doing it with at least one Columbia College students. My and [email protected] Vaughn. other person with whom to compare suggestion is that (members of our Back to the West Coast, Jack Stuppin notes, give feedback, correct typos, class) be given an annual report of had an artist recep- exchange enthusiastic encourage- what the fund was used for during There is always something happen- tion in Petaluma, Calif., called Past ments and help stick to some kind of each year. Specifics would not be ing at Columbia, whether it’s on Tense/Present Tense. Roland Plottel, schedule. I was lucky enough to have necessary but something like xx Morningside Heights, at the Medical We heard from four writing buddies, who were part number of Broadway show tickets, Center or at the Manhattanville who was interested in being brought of an adult-education memoir class. yy number of concert tickets, etc., campus — excitement abounds with up to date on what was happen- “Thanks for your always-interest- would be good. Quite possibly, this the opening of the new buildings on ing on the Morningside Campus, ing reports.” might stimulate interest and prompt West 125th Street. especially with Manhattanville. To request an email copy of some contributions.” Three professors were honored We are fortunate to have a devoted Paul’s 31-page memoir, email him Larry mentioned that Arnie on November 17 at the Alexander photographer in our class: A whole at [email protected]; you Kisch provided funds to endow Hamilton Award Dinner: Ronald series of pictures from our 60th Lew Sternfels will not regret it. His project hits ongoing purchases of Metropolitan Breslow, Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69 reunion was taken by me close to home, as I am at the Opera tickets for students. “Others and Kenneth T. Jackson were treated (who says lawyers aren’t creative?). Don Laufer Alfred Gollomp start of my own ‘five-year venture’ might do similar things,” he says. to much applause before a crowd in and Low Rotunda. In addition, Assistant put together the September dinner Professor of Astronomy Marcel for classmates at Calle Ocho in Agüeros ’96 received the 2016 Manhattan (in Anthony Viscusi’s A concert composed by Elliott Schwartz ’57 Presidential Early Career Award for neighborhood). was held on September 21 in NYC to celebrate his scientists and engineers. A bit of sad news to report — the Columbia Alumni Leaders passing of Al Momjian LAW’57. 80th birth year. Weekend, October 7–8, was a Word reached us through Mark success. Alumni from all over the Momjian ’83, LAW’86, Al’s son. world gathered to hear speeches and Condolences to Mark and the whole updates, including a conversation family. [Editor’s note: See Obituar- to research, write and edit my own On another matter, he suggested we between President Lee C. Bollinger ies, Fall 2016.] Dan Wakefield, memoirs. I will share more about note that when people are cleaning and Trustees Chair Jonathan Schil- our prolific that in future issues and meanwhile out their attics or garages (as many ler ’69, LAW’73. writer, gave a brief but interesting hope to call on him for some advice do at our age), if they find vintage At a moving ceremony on Sep- synopsis of what he has been doing and encouragement. material from our College years tember 16, more than 600 friends, over the past few years and with Alvin Hellerstein Judge LAW’56 that they consider sending it to the alumni, students, trustees and others whom he has been in touch. continues to represent our class in Columbia University Archives. “I honored the late Bill Campbell ’62, My wondrous fellow classmates. the pages of The New York Times, this found a whole batch of letters from TC’64 in the Roone Arledge Audi- Be all you can be. time with a September 9 story and the deans and from various profes- torium in Alfred Lerner Hall. And wake the echoes of the photo spread dealing with the com- sors and sent them to the archivist, In late summer, College and Hudson Valley. pensation settlement of the 96 cases who was quite glad to receive them.” Engineering admissions hosted the The 65th is right around the involving the families of the 9-11 Thanks, Larry, for your thoughts. second annual Alumni Representa- proverbial corner. terror attack. “Each of the 96 victims’ And a last note, to thank Alex tive Committee Appreciation Event Love to all! Everywhere! cases filed in Federal District Court Sachare ’71 for his 18-plus years of to thank ARC members for their in Manhattan was settled confiden- dedicated and determined service as work during the past year. tially under the direction of Judge editor in chief of CCT. Your classmates continue to do 1956 Bill Kronick Alvin K. Hellerstein, who oversaw all Good show, Alex, and best wishes exciting things. in Robert Siroty the cases,” the Times reported. The in your next endeavors. Los Angeles is working on a new 707 Thistle Hill Ln. headline read, “Judge in 9/11 Suits That’s it for this winter, folks. As and improved movie to be released Ben Kaplan Somerset, NJ 08873 Feels No Regret That None Ever I wrote these notes, my thoughts shortly. (coach Rollie [email protected] Went to Trial.” The subhead summed were as much on the two-weeks- Rourke’s favorite ball player) has Jerry Catuzzi it up: “Balancing a ‘Loss of Informa- away national election as on just ’54. been traveling with tion’ to the Public Against a Goal of I hoped that you went to church, to throughout the world (East and Writing my first Class Notes col- Compensating Victims’ Families.” synagogue, to the top of your moun- West). Others in our class who umn brings back memories of writ- Tony Pal- You can google the full story. tain, to your own Core CC and played for Rollie were ing my first article for Spec, in 1952. ladino, Jack Freeman, Tom Stephen All of us are justifiably proud of Humanities archives, or wherever Thank you and au revoir to Brennan Jud Maze Easton Judge Al and his ongoing service to and however you contemplate and , and Hawaii’s and his wife, Elke — who Walter Deptula. Ted Baker our nation and the law. communicate in the hopes of some own are retiring to Southport, N.C. —

50 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews for Steve’s labors as president of the column — let us know what you are care and ethical decision-making Istanbul and has placed in numerous Class of ’56. I hope to continue in looking forward to in 2017 or what in the care of the elderly. Particular international competitions. He made his footsteps. happened during 2016. emphasis is placed on cost-effective, his Lincoln Center debut in 2012 Jack Raskin, in Bellevue, Wash., patient-centered care.” in Wagner’s Rienzi with the Opera landed there after serving as a physi- In other medical-related news, Orchestra of New York. cian in Vietnam. He practiced child 1958 Jerry Keusch expanded on his And now, sports fans, an update psychiatry and now plays tennis. Jack previous appearances in this column, from Peter Gruenberger on sends his regards to Robert Cabat. Barry Dickman which related to his service as head his grandson, Ethan Abrams ’19, Robert “Buz” Paaswell is one 25 Main St. of the Fogarty International Center who became a starting pitcher for of eight people selected for a Port Court Plaza North, Ste 104 at NIH during the George W. Bush the Lions as a freshman. As Peter Authority of New York and New Hackensack, NJ 07601 administration; his comments had describes it, in 2009, Ethan made a Jersey panel to evaluate proposals [email protected] described his disgust with the politici- strange bet with his friend Mickey for replacing the bus terminal in zation of its science programs. He Moniak (an outfielder), who is one midtown Manhattan. Buz was the William Reichel, another classmate wrote, “My 2004 comments were year younger: If Mickey was ever only member of the eight-person we haven’t heard from in a long while, the sad and true description of the picked among the first 10 players jury from an eastern university. sent the following: “My career has ideological constraints being imposed chosen in the MLB draft, then Ethan I’m sad to report the passing of been in internal medicine, family on scientific curiosity, which must be would get Mickey’s name tattooed on Fred Hovasapian ’57, reported by medicine, geriatrics and bioethics. intellectually unconstrained in order his butt and vice versa. They went on Merrill Ring ’55. Fred was an out- I served 13 years on the Board of to seek fuller and better understand- to play on the same high school team standing football and baseball player Directors of the American Geriatrics ing of any issue. If not, what you get is (La Costa Canyon H.S. in Carlsbad, at Columbia. Society, one year as president and two Lysenko-style genetics. Lysenkoism is Calif.). Fast forward to June 2016: Start working on our 65th reunion. as chair of the board. I was recently still alive and well. To the point, look Ethan, having chosen to attend Snowbirds: We are planning a lun- named one of five ‘Pioneers in Geri- at an article by Peter Ferrara in the Columbia, won’t be eligible for the cheon in February in Boynton Beach, atric Medicine’ in Caring for the Ages, April 28, 2013, issue of Forbes (search MLB draft until 2018. But Mickey, Fla. I hope you will keep us all up to the official newspaper of AMDA for ‘Lysenkoism’ on the Forbes site). as a high school senior, became date by sending your Class Notes to (The Society for Post-Acute and As a reminder for our non-scientist eligible prior to his June 2016 gradu- me: [email protected]. Long-Term Care Medicine). In the classmates, Trofim Lysenko was a ation. Whaddya know? The Phillies first year that family medicine became Stalin-era Soviet agrobiologist who, used the first pick to choose Mickey a specialty, I was hired to start one of for political reasons, rejected Mendel’s (as a junior he hit .462). During his 1957 the first family medicine residencies theory of genetics and Darwinism nationally televised interview, Mickey

REUNION in the country. After 18 years, I spent in favor of the pseudoscientific idea described the bet and Ethan, in his REUNION WEEKEND [the next] several years starting family that traits acquired by an individual follow-up interview, confirmed that JUNE 1–4, 2017 medicine residencies in Boston and organism during its lifetime could be his tattoo would be applied during Alumni Affairs Contact also consulting internationally in passed on as is to the next generation. the fall term at Columbia. We’re Fatima Yudeh [email protected] family medicine and geriatrics for the He also did not believe that genes or guessing it will show up on YouTube. 212-851-7834 first three family medicine residencies DNA existed.” The class lunch is held on the sec-

Development Contact 2017 in Spain and also for Russia, Jordan, Jerry is a professor of medicine ond Tuesday of every month at the Heather Siemienas Japan and China. Since 1998, I have and international health and associ- Columbia University Club of New [email protected] been an affiliated scholar at the Cen- ate director, National Emerging York’s Grill Room, 15 W. 43rd St. 212-851-7855 ter for Clinical Bioethics, George- Infectious Diseases Laboratories, ($31 per person). Email Art Radin town University Medical Center, in at the Boston University School if you plan to attend, up to the day Herman Levy Washington, D.C. of Medicine. before: [email protected]. 7322 Rockford Dr. “In August, the seventh edition George Jochnowitz writes: Falls Church, VA 22043 of Reichel’s Care of the Elderly was “Herman Wouk ’34 finished a book [email protected] released. It is a fully updated edition at 100. He is now 101. I found the 1959 of the pioneering text for health book, read it and reviewed it. Read A concert composed by Elliott professionals interested in the the review by going to algemeiner. Norman Gelfand Schwartz was held on September unique problems of an increas- com and searching ‘Herman Wouk c/o CCT 21 at the Symphony Space/Leonard ing elderly population. The text, Looks Back.’” Columbia Alumni Center Nimoy Thalia Theatre on West 95th designed as a practical and useful Howard Winell reports that his 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Street and Broadway, in New York guide for all health professionals, family’s musical tradition continues. New York, NY 10025 City, to celebrate Elliott’s 80th birth emphasizes clinical management of Howard was a member — along [email protected] year. It was sponsored by the Ameri- elderly patient problems that range with Bob Hanning and Steve can Composers Alliance. from simple to complex. Compas- Paul, as well as Buzz Covey (now I am sorry to report the deaths of Alumni may remember the place as sion and caring for the patient have deceased) — of the Blue Notes, Mike Bromberg on August 12, the Thalia Theatre movie house. It has been highlighted through all seven the quartet that furnished the 2016, and Bob Eisenstein on since been transformed into a recital editions. Updated and reorganized soundtrack for our College years. August 16, 2016. hall. Elliott’s 80th was celebrated in chapters reflect a clinical approach to Howard’s youngest son, Jonathan, I apologize to those who have England as well; his recently com- aging, describing a clinical approach is an internationally known opera written me and did not get a pleted String Quartet No. 3 premiered to the management of older adults, singer who has performed tenor response. My daughter and her at the University of Cambridge on reviewing common geriatric syn- roles throughout the United States, family moved back to Chicago and November 3, with a London premiere dromes and an organ-based review Europe and Asia. In 2016, he sang while her husband is in Florida to follow early in 2017. of care, addressing principles of care, primarily in Germany. He was the training to become an airline pilot Classmates, please write to either including psychosocial aspects of second-prize winner of the 2015 and she is trying to find work, my of the addresses at the top of this our aging society, organization of Leyla Gencer Voice Competition in wife and I have been looking after

Winter 2016–17 CCT 51 Class Notes their 2-year-old daughter. It was Pesos at a 13 percent discount and easier when I was younger. any you have left suffer a further 3 Kenneth Scheffel writes: “The percent reduction upon reconversion. past year proved a difficult one for Basic food supplies are rationed using me. Last July, I suffered a heart the same coupon books with stamps attack. Open heart surgery followed, as we knew in WWII, although they with six bypasses and insertion of can now be supplemented with pur- a pacemaker. Recovery has taken a chases from private vendors. Electric long time. While I’ll never be what power is limited, so Havana isn’t a I once was, I am determined to very bright city after dark. be as good as I can be. So I follow “Basic amenities are often lack- a regular exercise regimen and as ing, especially outside Havana. heart-healthy a diet as my limited Public restrooms are particularly culinary skills will permit. primitive. If you want toilet paper “Seven months after my heart or soap, you’d better bring your attack, I had recovered sufficiently to own or prepare to pay an attendant, make a Road Scholar (Elderhostel) who often ‘flushes’ the toilet with trip to Cuba. We were part of a a bucket of water. The restrooms at people-to-people cultural exchange the Havana airport were particularly program, on which both the United gross. It reminded me of the sum- Joel P. Rosenfeld ’59 (left) and Frank Wilson ’59 recently visited the States and Cuban governments had mers I used to spend on my aunt Chicago Botanical Garden with Wilson’s sister, Julie Massey. agreed. Comprised largely of retired and uncle’s farm when I was a kid. educators approved for visas by the I hope President Barack Obama Cuban government, we avoided ’83 was able to use the facilities on “In Cuba, unlike most of Latin Cuba has a lower infant mortality touristy activities — the only beach Air Force One before disembark- America and much of the United rate than my home state of Ohio. we saw was the Bay of Pigs. Our ing in Havana. The Cubans banned States, I felt absolutely safe wherever “Cubans, according to our his- program included lectures by Cuban photographs in only three places: I went. Police presence is at a tory lecturer, have strong feelings scholars, tours of art facilities and the Havana airport, the fine arts minimum, mainly confined to public of nationalism. They dislike the historic sites, and performances by museum and the Che Guevara markets and town plazas — I suspect Spanish, including the old elite who various cultural groups, adult and Mausoleum. On seeing the Havana to discourage petty theft and cur- dominated Cuban society until the youth. Our American group leader airport, we were tempted to reboard rency trading. And you never see any revolution and they’re not very fond was a former aide to Henry Kiss- our plane and return to the States. military personnel. When a member of the U.S., particularly our Platt inger and our Cuban guide came “But we were glad we stayed. The of our group asked our Cuban guide Amendment declaration of the from a peasant family that benefited Cuban people are great. They look about drugs, he responded that right to intervene in Cuba’s internal from the Cuban revolution. and act happy and they certainly whoever is caught with them goes affairs and our occupation of Cuban “We spent four days in Havana know how to have a good time. On immediately to jail, which I gather is territory (Guantanamo). Reflect- and four in the southern part of Saturday nights, they block off the not a pleasant place to go. ing more recent developments, our the island in Santa Clara, Cien- town plazas to vehicular traffic for “Everyone in Cuba has a job but Cuban guide expressed pride that fuegos and Trinidad. It proved an music, dancing and socializing. The that doesn’t mean everyone works. his father had joined the ‘volunteers’ interesting experience, which I would music is foot-tapping (even chamber Service can be very slow. I was unsure to repel the ‘foreign-backed’ invasion recommend. In many respects, it music is played with a distinctively whether it reflected the system, or the at the Bay of Pigs. represented a trip back in time. The Cuban beat). Though heavily salted Latin temperament, or a combination. “Nationalism, as our lecturer on country has seen little major con- and sugared, Cuban food is delicious When I asked our Cuban guide about Cuban religion emphasized, also helps struction since the revolution in 1959. (particularly if you avoid the govern- the requirements for membership in explain why so few Cubans practice Buildings are poorly maintained ment restaurants for the increasingly the Communist Party, he emphasized their faith. Although nominally Cath- and the Cubans drive the same cars popular private paladares). In eight ‘being a good worker.’ I left Cuba olic (many revolutionary leaders were as we drove in the ’50s. Despite the days, I gained five lbs. — all of which convinced of the superiority of our Jesuit-educated), the church was on run-down appearance, Cuba has a I lost in a single day upon returning system until Delta Air Lines left me the ‘wrong side’ in the movement for quaint, old-fashioned charm. Outside to the States and taking a diuretic. stranded overnight at LaGuardia independence and the revolution for Havana, it becomes even more No one drinks the tap water (even after canceling four straight flights on social change. Catholicism is identi- archaic. Cars largely disappear and the Cubans boil it) and bottled water which I’d been booked. fied with foreigners, especially the old are replaced with many horse-drawn can be difficult to obtain, particularly “Despite the current regime’s Spanish elite. Even today, 55 percent vehicles, while some farmers still till in Havana, where the demand is liabilities (and they are many), it of the Catholic clergy are foreign their fields with oxen. greatest. But the rum is intoxicating has brought major improvements to born. Only some 3 percent of Cuban “Like the rest of the Caribbean, (and cheap). The Cuban people look Cuba. Illiteracy has been virtually Catholics attend Mass regularly and, such as the U.S. Commonwealth of quite different from the exile com- eliminated — our Cuban guide on a given Sunday, more Protestants Puerto Rico, Cuba is terribly poor. munity in the States. They present a said his mother, a servant girl, only (largely evangelicals and Pentecostals) It doesn’t have much to offer in greater variety of hues (more like the learned to read after the revolution. may be attending services in Cuba terms of natural resources other than Cuban baseball players who defect Public education is free to all but, than Catholics. While we saw lots sugar and tobacco, neither of which than the old Spanish elite who now other than seminaries to train clergy, of churches, we found only two that is doing well in today’s world, and reside in Miami, Houston and San only state schools are permitted. were open: the cathedral in Old the U.S. embargo doesn’t help. The Juan). By the way, I saw far more And health care ranks on a par with Havana (where Columbus’ remains country is desperate for hard cur- soccer played in Cuba than baseball, I the U.S. in many respects and in rested until they were returned to rency. You’re forced to exchange your suspect because it’s cheaper — all you some respects better: If you believe Spain) and a post-WWII edifice near U.S. dollars for Cuban Convertible need is a ball. the World Health Organization, our Havana hotel in the once-affluent

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Miramar district (where many foreign ing accident I reported on in a previ- professor of law at the University of satzgruppen trial. I’ve also conducted embassies are located). Yet you see ous Class Notes column. I continue Wisconsin Law School; had been an a lengthy interview of the surviving lots of religious statues and monu- to work through the limitations on a assistant United States attorney for prosecutor from the Eichmann trial, ments and many Cubans wear crosses regular basis and am showing some the Southern District of New York, Gabi Bach (cargocollective.com/ and religious medals, including our improvement. However, it is a slow where he was chief of the Securities eichmannprosecutorinterview).” lecturer on Cuban religion. The process — although I expect age has and Financial Fraud Unit; was an I am impelled to interject two Santeria, who combine Christian- a great deal to do with it. associate special prosecutor with the observations. First, Frank’s comment ity with African Yoruba religion, “I expect to be an Alumni Rep- Watergate Special Prosecution Force; on the reception of the book is were particularly evident throughout resentative Committee interviewer and served as the United States entirely too modest and hardly does Havana in their distinctive all white once again and, as I have said on a attorney for the Western District of it justice. The following appraisal attire. While only 1,000 Jews are left number of occasions, it is something Wisconsin from 1977 to 1981. by Robert Morgenthau, the long- in all of Cuba, the main synagogue in I enjoy doing and come away with Frank is co-author of Forgotten serving former district attorney for Havana remains functional. a feeling of optimism about the Trials of the Holocaust (2014). He tells New York County, exemplifies the “Cuba wants improved rela- future. The students I see on behalf us what inspired the book and to many laudatory reviews heralding tions with the U.S. (and so do we). of Columbia are — to a person — bring us up-to-date on another matter the book’s outstanding contributions Our University of Havana lecturer, outstanding, and I must confess that of signal importance in his profes- on the subject: “Brings to the reader who is involved in the negotiations, the selection process is somewhat sional activities: “About 20 years ago, important trials that have fallen emphasized that Cuba realizes it hard to understand, as so many of upset at the intensity of the Holocaust beneath the general public’s radar. must change if it wants to improve the applicants I see would make denial movement, I put together a The authors, as both academics and economically. Cuba has few friends wonderful Columbia students. course, ‘Trials of the Holocaust,’ which practicing lawyers, bring a fresh and left. The Soviet Union is gone and “Our children and grandchildren I taught to both undergraduates and incisive approach to these trials, Russia has other interests closer are doing well and are very busy. Jill, law students. The idea was to present dissecting the strategies of the trial to home, while Venezuela (you see our oldest, has completed her second the facts of these trials (the main lawyers as well as the decision-mak- lots of pictures of Hugo Chávez documentary film (the first about Nuremberg trial; the later Nuremberg ing by the presiding judges. They throughout the island), on which menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay trial against the Einsatzgruppen manage, in each of these trials, to Cuba depends for oil, is in sad shape. was an award winner), and Tory ’91 defendants — the S. S. men who focus on the defendants, the victims, The old Cuban leadership is retiring (our youngest), has joined the faculty followed the German army eastward and the players in the courtroom and dying and the newer generation of the CUNY School of Medicine at — even Fidel’s brother Raúl — are City College. As many people have embracing change. The Cuban public remarked, your children are always doesn’t even know Fidel’s location surprising you. Our oldest grandson Frank Tuerkheimer ’60 has had a distinguished (although I missed him this trip, I is a junior in college, his brother law career. Now in private practice, he is also a did see him when he came to New is gearing up for his senior year in York to address the United Nations high school and the two youngest professor emeritus at Wisconsin Law. during our senior year).” grandsons are doing well in the city. To be continued in the next They may be Columbia-bound, but Class Notes … you never know. From Jim Thomas we hear: “Sandy and I went to All-Class in Russia and killed 1,250,000 Jews, scene. They present a vivid picture “I retired on January 1, 2015. I’m Reunion (formerly known as Dean’s mainly by shooting; the Eichmann of the Holocaust in operation, an playing lots of golf, taking care of Day) in 2016 and really enjoyed trial; and a Treblinka trial in the essential undertaking as the survivor prize-winning flower gardens, spend- it. We saw some old friends and format of a denaturalization proceed- generation decreases in number. This ing January on Sanibel Island and may have learned something in the ing against a Treblinka guard) to the book is worth reading for anyone going overseas to exciting places. We process. All in all, all is well and as students to arm them with sufficient interested in trials and for anyone have visited 54 countries so far and always, we are in the phone book detail so that they could deal with interested in the Holocaust, and it plan to add the Azores to our list in and would enjoy hearing from you Holocaust denial in the future. For is compelling reading for anyone September. So far (knock on wood) should you get down this way.” several years I also taught the course interested in both.” my health is good — I can’t walk Two quick notes: I was listen- to German students in Giessen, most Second, I strongly encourage all to 18 holes but I can do 13 — and my ing to The Moth on NPR one day recently this past May. watch a most moving and penetrat- three kids are doing well, as are my and was delighted to hear Roald “I’ve also given talks all over the ing interview with Frank at youtube. grand- and great-grand kids. All of Hoffmanrecount his experiences place on one or more of these trials. com/watch?v=w6io0u2oQ0c. the adults are working and advancing in WWII. Stephen Trachtenberg Six or seven years ago, someone Frank continues: “Since 1997, in their professions, so that is good.” has been active in publishing articles suggested a book on the topic of I have represented an indigent Bill Frye writes, “I last reported and fishing. lesser-known Holocaust trials. My defendant on death row in Alabama. about a year ago and things continue, co-author and I then each picked I’ve done this with the help of two on the whole, to be going fairly five trials beneath the general lawyers in Madison and, for several well. I continue with my law firm 1960 public’s radar and wrote about them. years, worked with law students on a reduced basis, looking ahead The main Nuremberg trial and the from the University of Wisconsin to complete retirement one of these Robert A. Machleder Eichmann trial were not included. Law School in what was essentially days. My wife, Sandy, and I are doing 69-37 Fleet St. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust has an in-house clinical program. Each a bit more traveling and I expect in Forest Hills, NY 11375 done pretty well — it was reviewed of the students, at some point, November to be one of the Florida [email protected] favorably in the New York Review of visited the client on death row Democrat lawyers on Election Day, Books. For the last two years I have in Alabama. The case is presently as I have been on many elections. Frank Tuerkheimer has had a dis- given continuing legal education lec- before the Alabama Court of Crimi- “I have some residual limitations tinguished career in the law. Now in tures at law firms in Madison, Wis., nal Appeals and, like most of these arising out of the February 2015 ski- private practice, Frank is an emeritus and New York, focusing on the Ein- cases, deals with the ineffectiveness

Winter 2016–17 CCT 53 Class Notes of trial counsel. It’s actually not easy exhibit at the Queens Museum, the Arts and Letters Award in Painting Jack Kirik and his wife, Sue, to travel 1,200 miles and have to tell wondrous Bronx Museum and the and the B. Altman Award in Paint- dropped by to visit Don Savini and the local judiciary that the local law- serenity of the Japan Society. Each ing at the National Academy, as well his wife at their farm just outside yers were constitutionally defective. venue reflected the care and intel- as grants from the National Endow- State College, Pa. They say they had The case was initially handled by ligence that collectors and curators ment for the Arts and the Pollock- a great time catching up. Don is the Equal Justice Initiative, a group and board members have given to us. Krasner Foundation. In 2013, he playing lots of golf these days. He has headed by Bryan Stevenson. One of I won’t tell you how many I visited received an Arts Writers Grant from a five handicap — he says it’s because the pluses of all this has been getting but if you guessed close to 48 I would the Andy Warhol Foundation in this ball doesn’t curve or sink! to know Bryan. agree. Liz is recovered and we are association with Creative Capital. In September, Ted Stanley was “So that’s pretty much it profes- active again.” The class sends its deepest con- the 2016 History of Anesthesia sionally. I won’t get started on the Thank you, Irwin, for presenting dolences to his wife, Mary Lucier; speaker for the department of anes- great joys of grandparenthood. We an itinerary that all New Yorkers sons, Alexey and Gabriel; colleagues; thesiology at NewYork-Presbyterian are fortunate that all of our grand- can enjoy. friends; the many students he men- Hospital/Columbia University sons live in Evanston, Ill., which is Those who attended our 50th tored; and to all who were drawn Medical Center. His talk was titled 2½ hours from Madison. It’s a little reunion will recall the exquisite into and found themselves at peace “The Story of Fentanyl.” Ted also more remote when we are in New exhibition of the works of promi- in his beautiful paintings. had dinner at the Carlyle Hotel with York City, where we go every year nent artist classmates. Among the members of the department and the from mid-December to early June.” works on display were the land- widow of E.M. Papper ’35. Papper Robert Berlind, Those of us who are year-round scapes of which 1961 was the founder of and former New Yorkers and are familiar with have been described by art critics as chairman of CUMC’s department of Michael Hausig “snowbirds” — who leave New York “possessing deceptive simplicity” and anesthesiology as well as the former 19418 Encino Summit for the south after Thanksgiving and “regal elegance.” I’m sad to report dean and VP of the University of San Antonio, TX 78259 return on or around Mother’s Day Bob died in December 2015 after a Miami Miller School of Medicine. [email protected] — would regard the Tuerkheimers long affliction with cancer. Charles Wuorinen was com- as “reverse snowbirds.” Bob earned a B.F.A. and M.F.A. missioned by James Levine, music Irwin Sollinger Aaron Michelson and his wife, Liz, from the Yale University School of and his wife, director of the Boston Symphony are approaching their golden anniver- Art. He painted prolifically and his Rona, recently celebrated their 50th Orchestra, to create several major sary and live an active life, typically works are collected by museums anniversary. They lead kosher tours musical works. In 2005, Wuorinen’s taking to ski in winter. However, that throughout the country. He wrote to China; Vietnam and Cambodia; Fourth Piano Concerto (written for was not to be this past winter, as Liz about artists (contributing nearly Ecuador, the Galapágos and Peru; the BSO, Levine and longtime was placed on temporary injured 100 reviews to art magazines) and and Tibet, and have recently added Wuorinen collaborator Peter Serkin) reserve while recovering from a knee taught art. At the time of his death India and Japan tours. In addition, was one of the first of the BSO replacement. That, Irwin advises, he was professor emeritus at the they travel for pleasure. They recently commissions Levine conducted with required that he devise an alternative School of Art and Design, Purchase visited Lapland, in Finland, where the orchestra. This was followed two itinerary that could keep him moving. College, SUNY. they drove a dog sled, a snowmobile years later by the Eighth Symphony And devise one he did: “New York Bob was intrigued by the shapes and a reindeer sledge as well as hiked (Theologoumena), a BSO 125th City has a plethora of museums and and space of night and water, and in snowshoes. They also watched ice anniversary commission, which pre- historical societies,” he says. “Why landscapes filled his canvases. hockey and ski jumping. Unfortu- miered under Levine’s direction in not visit as many of them, enjoying He was quoted describing his nately, someone had turned off the 2007. Spectacular recordings docu- the exhibits, as one could frequent? It subject matter: “I singled out water, Northern Lights. A month later they ment the premiere performances seemed like an idea, perhaps a good nighttime and trees. I would love visited Georgia, where they saw some of both of these works and are now one. The standard Met, MoMA, to be out at night, in the country of the countryside and stopped in the available on Bridge Records; go to Frick, Morgan, Guggenheim, Cooper especially, and I always felt I must capital city Tbilisi for the national bridgerecords.com/search and enter Hewitt and Brooklyn Museum were have been a nocturnal animal at day festivities. “Charles Wuorinen.” all easy to navigate. The Museum of some point. Everything is so much Arts and Design, the New Museum clearer. You didn’t see too much. and the American Folk Art Museum You walk out at noon and you just were all available and accessible. The see everything. It’s not a painting challenge was discovering the vast idea. At night a few shapes define treasures of the city in venues less themselves and they’re perfect. And well-known. there’s the space between you and “Each week I mapped out a plan whatever that is. How to articulate for my quest. Some were obscure that is the question.” and unknown to me before the As for water, Bob said: “For years, gambit; others were exciting finds. I looked at water surfaces, meditating There were many highlights. Col- on them, without thinking they were leges and universities, from Pratt paintable or drawable. But I would to Cooper Union, Columbia, NYU look at the water and it kept chang- and FIT, were on the list. They were ing and moving and I could lose a resource I did not entertain before myself in that. You forget what you’re I began. When asked by friends looking at and you forget who you what I discovered on this adventure, are and you’re just there. It’s a pure RUDD SCOTT I would have to mention the Civil meditational state. It’s wonderful.” Left to right: Jack Kirik ’61, Dave Schwartz ’61 and Mickey Greenblatt ’61 War battlefield photographs at the Bob was the recipient of the donned their freshman beanies at the Wine Tasting on Low Plaza during Staten Island Museum, the Ramones American Academy and Institute of Reunion Weekend 2016.

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Arnold Klipstein and his brother stopped in Colorado Springs, Colo., worked hard for a few years (with well. Baltimore is also a much easier Bob Rennick Robert Klipstein ’57, LAW’60 spent for a nice lunch with Cindy Sheehan, among others) and, trip to NYC and I have now attended September 11 in New York City to and his wife, Lisa. with what I could easily see was several class lunches as well.” Lee Lowenfish celebrate Robert’s 80th birthday. the coming debacle of FauxBama continues to Robert practices law full-time. in 2008, I quit the United States follow his baseball passion far and Arnold “retired” in 2012 after a 1962 in 2009. I have lived in France ever wide. He interviewed veteran Cuban

41-year private practice in gastroen- REUNION since — now in a delightful quiet baseball personages in Havana at the REUNION WEEKEND village perché about 30 kilometers start of 2016. He followed Colum- terology but has continued to work JUNE 1–4, 2017 as locum tenens physician about two north of Cannes, where I practice bia’s fine baseball program again Alumni Affairs Contact weeks a month. He has spent time Fatima Yudeh permaculture and produce tomatoes, during the 2016 season; they came in various areas of the United States, [email protected] broccoli, aubergines, quinoa and so up a little short in the their quest for including Spokane, Wash.; Newport 212-851-7834 on … in a fairly successful process a remarkable Ivy League four-peat

News, Va.; and Springfield, Ill.; and Development Contact 2017 toward achieving self-sufficiency and as league champion but finished is next headed to Manchester, N.H. Heather Siemienas autonomy (unlike musicians or film with a winning league record. Lee These jobs are part time until full [email protected] producers, broccoli rarely call me at had a most pleasurable experi- time staff is hired. Between jobs, 212-851-7855 home at 2 a.m.).” ence during the summer teaching Arnold spends time with friends and David, sounds like a good move. “Baseball and American Culture” at John Freidin family and travels both locally and But think of all the fun you missed the adult education paradise known 654 E. Munger St. abroad. Keeping up with gastroen- in this last election (written in trepi- as the Chautauqua Institution in Middlebury, VT 05753 terology challenges his mind and his dation long before the date). western New York State. Lee’s essay, [email protected] Harley Frankel fiancée Bonnie keeps him young. sent in news “Orange and Black Forever: How Arnold was concerned about about his nonprofit, College Match, A New Yorker Fell in Love with Jeff Milstein being in New York City on 9-11 but became the grand- which has had an extraordinary year Earl Weaver’s Baltimore Orioles,” went anyway. After leaving Grand father to his ninth granddaughter! helping bright, low-income kids get was published in the anthology Central, he and Robert went to the He has no grandsons — must be into great colleges. He reports that Baltimore Sports. Farhad Idjadi theater district and were surprised some sort of record! 114 of the 2015 and 2016 College writes, “I retired at how few policemen they saw. The Match seniors (75 percent) were from private practice of general trip was uneventful. admitted into a Top 25 college or surgery in 2006 and practiced For those who possess a rudi- university, as ranked by U.S. News & locum tenens surgery throughout mentary knowledge of French, Joel World Report. He says, “We believe the United States for four years. Kasow was featured in a two-page that these results are better that I am fully retired since 2011. I interview in L’As de Trèfle, the publi- those achieved by many private high enjoy spending time with our two cation of the French Bridge Federa- schools and comparable to some of grandchildren, following my long tion. Without being an ace at the the best. In addition, 97 percent passion in photography, traveling game, Joel is in the top 10 percent of of our 2016 seniors were admitted and reading. For the last three years, French bridge players (in addition to Otherwise there is no reported into at least one Top 50 college or I have been doing volunteer work in leading a sedentary retirement). The news. Please write even a couple university and 100 percent of our a clinic and find it quite rewarding.” Don Margolis interviewer also asked about Joel’s sentences to me at [email protected] — seniors were admitted into a four- writes, “[At interests outside of his favorite card your classmates want to hear from you! year institution of higher learning. the time of writing] I am looking game: music and dance. He lives in Moreover, 11 of our seniors are forward to the Columbia University Valence, an hour south of Lyons but undocumented and all 11 have been Athletics Hall of Fame induction only two hours on the high speed 1963 admitted to at least one top-ranked ceremony on October 20 when my train to Paris, which gave him a school; nine of them have been brother, James Margolis ’58, will Paul Neshamkin good base from which to “operate” admitted into a Top 25 college or be inducted. He is most deserving, 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 when he went to the opera all over university. All 11 of these students having entered Columbia without Hoboken, NJ 07030 France. The interview explains why received a $25,000 TheDream.US ever having fenced and having won [email protected] he no longer operates and while scholarship and will have sufficient the NCAA épée championship as a what is available on television and financial assistance to attend one of junior. After graduating, Jim was a DVD only comforts his decision. I sent an email in September asking the best colleges in the country.” member of the U.S. world champion- For the brave souls who want to read for news and the response was spec- Harley, this is a remarkable record. ship team, two Pan American Games Peter Broido the original article, go to https:// tacular. Thanks! I fit as much as I writes, “Last year and the 1960 Olympic team.” Joe McPhee cdn.ffbridge.fr/cms/magazine/0001/ could in this issue but some of your my wife and I moved from Chicago writes, “Many of 02/7a508e10cf1a29e39c03cc1cf8e36 news will have to wait for the Spring to Baltimore. I had some misgivings my memories of the College and 70c2aa7c288.pdf. 2017 issue. Apologies. (as we had lived in Chicago for 46 its campus have faded a bit. Living David Rubinson My wife JB’s and my summer writes, “I had years and, as older retired people, we in North Carolina further created a travels to get away from the San a long and fruitful life in the music might find it harder to make new sense of distance to those memories. Antonio heat included a month business — produced lots of great friends) but having four grandchil- But then my wife of many years, in Frisco, Colo., in August, hiking records and film music and was dren (two in Baltimore and two in a nurse educator, decided that she and generally enjoying the cooler incredibly blessed to have met and Arlington, Va.) compelled us to move. wanted to pursue a doctorate at weather, which included some snow collaborated with amazing creative It has been wonderful to be closer Teachers College. So, in fall 2015, at 12,000 ft. We caught up with icons. In parallel, I spent many to our grandchildren and slowly we we found ourselves living two blocks John Drake and his wife, Linda, days and nights doing political are making new friends. We have from the College campus. who summer in nearby Silverthorne, resistance work, thus was in jail also seen several old friends as well, “Suddenly enveloped by nostalgia, Lowell Curtis Gary Colo. We also see them during the now and again. Bush 2004 finally including and I took many walks through the Rachelefsky ski season. On the drive home, we tipped me over the edge and I — both are doing very campus and its environs, trying to find

Winter 2016–17 CCT 55 Class Notes some concrete relics of all my fading Lord: Poems by Portugal’s Rosa Alice you’re back at the Garden of Eden.’ encouraged to be ‘up for the kickoff.’ memories. I was pleasantly surprised. Branco. She and I will do a tour next Maybe not in this life, but I’m I certainly will. We remained friends The main campus has hardly changed spring, mostly in the Northeast. working on it. Until then, I can also with Keith and his wife, Laurie, over and when I wandered into Have- “I also had the good fortune contemplate that under that theory, the ensuing years, even after the meyer, I found the lecture hall was to become a grandfather. Hannah you, I and all of our classmates are onset of his illness. I will miss him locked in a time vortex and (except for Simone was born on January 9, 2016, in fact related — we just need a little and never forget him.” the replacement of the desks that had in Berkeley. I visited her in April and more documentation!” Requiescat in pace, Keith. been battered and carved-upon even planned to see her again in October. Sy Moskowitz has retired from Remember, our regular class in 1959) looked exactly the same. I I will retire soon and the question is: classroom teaching and is now lunches at the Columbia University was a zoology major and had worked Should I give up the East Coast and senior research professor at Val- Club of New York are always a great in the zoology library in Schermer- move to California? Meanwhile, I paraiso University Law School. He place to reconnect. If you’re back in horn, so I was hoping to revisit that continue to travel as much as possible; and his wife, Linda, live in Chicago. NYC, try to make one of the next place as well. But regrettably that in the last nine months I’ve been Sy taught in Cambridge, England, lunches — January 12 and February library has disappeared, to be replaced to Quito, Banhos, Guayaquil, the last summer and is an avid hiker and 9 — it’s always the second Thursday. by an unrecognizable (and I must Galápagos, around the U.S. and then climber. He would love to connect Check cc63ers.com for details (if say, less memorable) space. The West on to Portugal to visit Lisbon, Porto with classmates in the Chicago area. you’re lucky, I will have updated it). End has disappeared and Mama Joy’s and Sagres. I write just after returning Bob Shlaer writes, “Since I took (the best sandwiches) can no longer from a three-day trip to Tadoussac, up the bagpipes I have been involved be found. My fraternity house passed Canada — it’s almost three hours in events and celebrations (memori- 1964 away years ago but I was shocked beyond Quebec City, where the als, funerals weddings, parades and to see Sigma Chi, that paragon of Saguenay River flows into the St. so on) with which I previously had Norman Olch fraternities in our day, had departed its Lawrence and one can watch whales only marginal contact. The accepting 233 Broadway impressive Georgian Colonial house (including the all-white beluga) cruise culture of pipers and piping has New York, NY 10279 and moved down the street to much their rich feeding grounds.” brought unexpected rewards into [email protected] less impressive digs. I was, however, Steve Langfelder writes, “In my life and experiences that I never cheered to find that V&T is still going June my wife, Ruth, and I attended imagined existed. I am happy to report our classmates strong (although not in its original a combination 75th birthday party “In July we spent two weeks are busy. Gene Meyer writes from location). I am planning to go there and celebratory retirement party in New Zealand visiting our son, Washington, D.C.: “This past for a steak pizzaiola, that paragon of for my former roommate, Don daughter-in-law and grandson. spring, I was proud to receive some Italian cuisine that got me through Putnoi. Don spent 50 years as an A most beautiful place with a awards for my journalistic efforts. finals week. But the best of all my ophthalmologist and eye surgeon in very agreeable culture. After our I won a first-place award from The flashback experiences was taking my the Boston area, and the party was November elections the most certain American Society of Journalists and wife to Alma Mater and letting her well-attended by friends, family and way to be allowed in as a permanent Authors in the profile category for a find the owl. It is still a beautiful cam- professional associates. In addition resident is to be an experienced piece I wrote for Bethesda Magazine pus and I think we all can feel justly to rooming together for four years shepherd with a trained sheepdog about a rogue gun dealer. Then, the proud of having, if even for a short in Livingston Hall, Don and I were — not part of the Core Curriculum, National Association of Real Estate time, gotten to experience it.” best men at each other’s weddings I am afraid.” Editors gave me the gold award for Alexis Levitin writes, “I teach in 1964. I introduced him to a fam- Bob sent many pictures of the vari- ‘Best Collection of Work by an Indi- at SUNY Plattsburgh and translate ily friend, Fran, who has been his ous events he has taken part in, which vidual Covering Commercial Real poetry from Ecuador, Brazil and spouse for 52 years. Fran returned you can view at cc63ers.com. He Estate’ for three New York Times Portugal. In 2015, I had five books the favor, introducing me to her writes, “Because I am now so involved stories and also a bronze ‘President’s come out: Destruction in the After- college friend, Ruth, with whom I in piping, the stories of my recent life Award, Best Freelance Collection’ noon by Santiago Vizcaino (from celebrated 52 years on October 3. are best illustrated photographically.” for the same stories. Ecuador), Exemplary Tales by Sophia “Ruth and I have two married We are saddened by the loss of “Otherwise, I have continued de Mello Breyner Andresen (from daughters and six grandchildren. One another classmate. D. Keith Mano to serve on the board of the online Portugal), 28 Portuguese Poets: A daughter and her husband live in died in September and his obit in nonprofit Washington Independent Bilingual Anthology (with Richard Israel and we try to visit them at least The New York Times brought back Review of Books and I play a major Zenith), Fado and the Portuguese Soul annually, otherwise paying the import many memories. He led a full role in organizing and recruiting by Fernando Pessoa, published in tax to get them here. We recently and interesting life. Henry Black panels for our annual spring confer- Portugal, and Tiger Fur by Salgado moved to Wanaque Reserve, a 55-plus remembered, “The first time I saw ence. At the last one, I was privileged Maranhao (from Brazil). community that can best be described Keith was in a Columbia student to introduce the keynote speaker, my “This past spring I did a bilingual as ‘camp for big kids,’ with classes, production of Richard III. I have friend and former colleague at The poetry reading tour with Salgado clubs, trips and a social life that can be yet to see anyone do it better. His Washington Post, Bob Woodward. Maranhao, reading on the West as much or as little as one wants. voice was electrifying and his body “In addition to editing the quar- Coast at various venues (including “I retired 15 years ago from language perfect for the role. Many terly B’nai B’rith Magazine, going Mills College, the University of a career in taxes, first in public years later, we became friends at the on seven years, I am researching and Oregon, Evergreen State College accounting and then as a tax director old Baker Field, where he hosted writing a book on the five African- and the University of Washington), in corporate America. It was fun and a tailgate at every home game. Americans who were with John in the Midwest (Northwestern, satisfying and I’m glad to look back When Columbia played Yale in Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Tip the University of Chicago and the at it. These days I’m up to my ears in New Haven, Conn., we would go of my Columbia cap to Professor Jim University of Missouri) and in the genealogy, having located more than to Pepe’s Pizzeria together. Anyone Shenton ’49, GSAS’54, who furthered East (Cornell, Princeton and Brown, 500 relatives. I keep in mind this who went to Columbia football my love of history and the Civil War among others). My next book, which saying of a prominent genealogist: games during Keith’s 200-plus era; he also suggested I become a jour- was scheduled to be released in ‘Your family tree is not complete consecutive game attendance streak nalist because I was ‘more interested in December 2016, will be Cattle of the until, with one click of the mouse, will always recall being forcefully history as it affects the present.’

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“I am also grateful for my family: Allan Levine, Don Feiner, Steve literature — especially literature, like that there was no protest at the My wonderful wife, Sandy Pearl- Hochschuler and Steve Fallis.” Shakespeare, written by someone who deportation of desperate refugees man, and my three sons. Eric is a We all wish you well, Matt. would have relished the changes that from Honduras, no protest at our computer jock and jazz musician in Send in a note. Your classmates make a contemporary production failure to lead the world in opening Durham, N.C., David is a Brook- want to hear from you. closer to the spirit of the original than our borders to Syrian refugees — or lynite and a reporter for Streetsblog. one retaining all the lines. even just keeping our commitments org and Aaron is a senior at Clark “I value my Columbia classes to the translators who worked for and recently spent a semester abroad 1965 more and more each year that I the Army and had been promised studying Arabic in Amman.” teach, but I look back still more asylum in the United States. This Norman Kagan, in New York Leonard B. Pack fondly on those conversations with difference surely has probably more City, is also a busy writer. He is the 924 West End Ave. wonderful classmates who helped to do with the difference between author of six books on film, the most New York, NY 10025 me break through the barriers of our times and those times rather recent of which, Romance Film: Pas- [email protected] my youthful parochialism.” than the difference between Yale and sion Strategies in Film and Life, is a I responded to Leslie, asking for Columbia. But even though support critical history of significant romance Leslie Brisman (leslie.brisman@ more information about his two on campus for Bernie Sanders might films through the decades from yale.edu) is the Karl Young Profes- essays and recalling the classmate call to mind support for Eugene Hollywood and abroad. Norman has sor of English at Yale. He sent two who introduced us. He replied: McCarthy in the ’60s, I just don’t taught cinema and essay writing at great notes: “In the past year, I’ve “Though I am always grateful for see the passion about important CUNY and elsewhere, and for seven published two essays that may be your column, I haven’t previously things that I saw then. A number years he produced programs for the the most important of my academic thought to contribute to it because of years ago, I joined a group of United States Information Agency, career and it’s a wonderful tribute I don’t like tooting my own horn. students who managed to persuade which were shown on 600 television to our Columbia College experi- For that reason, my preference is not Yale to buy only fair-trade coffee. stations in 110 nations. ence that I can trace both these to name my own articles. I simply But if the college students of today Bernard Catalinotto and his meditations back to conversations wanted to call attention to one of were willing to put their purchasing wife, Roberta, in New York from over dinner in John Jay 54 years ago. the things that made those under- power behind fair trade in all things California, joined us for the Sep- Both my conversants were members graduate years at Columbia so rich — clothing, for example — there tember class lunch at the Columbia of the Class of ’65 (who went on to — those dinner conversations with would still be a clothing industry in University Club of New York. far more distinguished careers than Richard Bernard reports that my own) and both were conversa- Waldinger received the Herbrand tions outside the fields that became Award for Distinguished Contri- their special expertise. Gene Meyer ’64 won a first-place award from Norman butions to Automated Reasoning “My conversation with the American Society of Journalists for a piece in from the Conference on Automated Christ, now the Ephraim Gildor Deduction. The Herbrand is one Professor of Computational Theoreti- Bethesda Magazine about a rogue gun dealer. of the most coveted awards in the cal Physics at Columbia, was about field of artificial intelligence. Since the ‘Suffering Servant’ passage of 1969 Richard has worked at the SRI Isaiah, which Norman challenged me International’s Artificial Intelligence to interpret without reference to what friends whose intellectual interests the United States and there would Center in Menlo Park, Calif. He is Christians have made of it. If he chal- extended far beyond what we were be decent hours and wages in Sri a consulting professor of computer lenges his physics graduate students as doing in the classroom. Lanka and Bangladesh. Gary science at Stanford and co-author of he challenged me then, I hope it does “Is it really possible that “I couldn’t attend the 50th Engelberg several textbooks on the relationship not take them the 50 years it has taken introduced us? My reunion because my wife is declining between logic and computer science. me to come up with an answer! memory is that we were both on the with Alzheimer’s and I felt I couldn’t Beril Lapson spent a week in “The other conversation was with sixth floor of Livingston Hall and, if it leave her and couldn’t take her. But Normandy visiting the beaches of the Richard Taruskin, now Emeritus was Gary (who lived in Carman [New at the one big-number reunion I 1944 invasion. He found it “moving” Professor of Music Scholarship at Hall]) who introduced us, then that did attend, I was so pleased to take and “dramatic,” and says, “I couldn’t UC Berkeley, and opened my eyes adds to my shame at being such a bad the elevator in what was in our time imagine being one of those guys.” to ‘historicism’ and false historicisms neighbor that it took an outsider … Livingston Hall, now Wallach Hall, Matt Heller After 42 years, in music interpretation — which, “I have had the great good and find myself in the midst of a has retired from his rheumatol- through the years, I have applied and fortune of teaching at Yale for 47 coed suite on the sixth floor. I sure ogy practice in Peabody, Mass. “I reapplied to the study of English years and I often have lunch with have no nostalgia for the single sex, was fortunate to have met many literature. That was not yet the Richard my students. Sometimes we talk no sex years of yore!” Mike Fischetti wonderful people during my years Taruskin who has written the extraor- about literature, sometimes about (drpesto@hotmail. in practice as well as serve on the dinary six-volume Oxford History of their lives. But on the whole, the com) wrote: “As I read the alumni FDA Arthritis Advisory Com- Western Music; but it was already a students of today seem to me news I am most interested in what mittee, co-authoring a textbook Richard Taruskin who knew the folly much less political and much more classmates have done with their lives, on clinical research, and bringing of bowing in unthinking homage to parochial than the fellow students their interests and how they value to the forefront the incidence of original instrument recordings of com- I so much admired in my under- their education. I thought about the musculoskeletal problems among positions that sound ever-so-much graduate days. I was, for example, most important educational experi- musicians. I hope to travel with my better on modern instruments. It’s really disheartened the day last fall ences I had at Columbia after high wife, Sharon, learn to play the banjo not just that Richard taught me that that most of my ‘Bible as Literature’ school in the Bronx — some of the and perhaps write a medical novel. I it’s OK to prefer my piano to my clavi- students absented themselves to most influential and lasting learning really enjoyed getting together with chord; it’s that he taught me it’s OK participate in a protest about Hal- occurred outside the classroom. my buddies at the 50th reunion — not to be an Antonin Scalia-like ‘origi- loween costumes and racial profiling Foremost was awareness of civil Chet Salomon, Steve Solomon, nal constructionist’ when interpreting on campus. What bothered me was rights issues and Vietnam. The

Winter 2016–17 CCT 57 Class Notes societal ramifications and the need to continents) and to expose our five nately, not guiding a tour group but As I have written in previous stand for your beliefs have informed grandchildren to the wonders of with my wife or friends) to Scotland, columns, Michael Schlanger my life. Today I am writing about travel (this has included individual France, Spain and St. Petersburg, ([email protected]) my most-valued lifelong educational visits with four of them to London/ Russia. Our antiques business has worked tirelessly and generously experience — learning from how a Paris, the Galápagos, Tanzania and suddenly been doing extraordinarily putting together our Reunion Book. friend lived his life. He was recently Iceland/Greenland). I also do a well these past few months; I can’t F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “There are ill and I decided to publicly laud him: lot of bird photography, for which take any credit because I have no no second acts in American lives.” After graduation, Steve Strobach I have been fortunate enough to idea why — I wish I did! We’re As if to prove that statement wrong, SEAS’66 worked at Ciba-Geigy as win a couple of awards. My years about to do some house remodel- Michael recently sent an announce- an engineer, then shifted to human at Columbia were wonderful and, ing. I’ve gotten nowhere on the ment to many of his friends and col- resources, then joined the Peace though I don’t get to New York very publication of the collection of my leagues, which I want to share with Corps and met his wife, Natividad often, it is still very dear to me.” philosophy articles for my book, Art you here: “In 1965, I had to choose ‘Naty,’ in Colombia. They are happily I heard from Walter Reich and Existence; the manuscript is all between pursuing a career as a lawyer married and are retired there. His life ([email protected]). Walter is the done and set for print and has been or pursuing a career as a psychothera- was one of service worldwide, espe- Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor for more than a year but I’ve been pist. I am happy that I chose the law. cially in Latin America, working to of International Affairs, and the Eth- too distracted or lazy to deal with Whatever could be accomplished empower the poor and disadvantaged ics and Human Behavior Professor of copyright issues and such and deal between then and now, I hope I have in towns, cities and the countryside. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at with the details of printing. accomplished. After more than 50 He and his wife are true partners. The George Washington Univer- “By the way, you got this response years, I am pleased that I have the They brought conviction, empathy, sity Elliott School of International in pretty much the same way as my opportunity to embark on an ‘encore determination and joy to their work. Affairs. He writes: “Did you know Reunion Book contribution. I began it career,’ this time as a psychotherapist. They taught me that not to take a that I’m related, by marriage, to during a blissful San Diego afternoon In September 2017, I am return- stand is to take a stand for the status Steve Steinig? Steve is the father while sitting on a bench in the main ing to school, full-time, to obtain a quo; that borders and race and socio- of Debbie Steinig, who is married to quad of the university where I have master’s of social work and thereafter economic status are not determinants Jason Eisner, who is the brother of not taught (or even visited) for to maintain a private practice, with a of the value of a human being; that Amy Eisner, who is the wife of my several years — there at the request focus on helping lawyers. To ease the money is secondary; that community (and wife Tova’s) son Daniel Reich. I of a junior former colleague and transition, I am retiring from Zuck- is essential for lifelong happiness; saw Steve and wife Renee two week- good friend to give the first of several erman Spaeder and from trial work. and that you are most fortunate if ends ago at the bat mitzvah of Josie, lectures to his graduate class on the I will maintain a consulting practice, you and your partner have similar the daughter of Danny and Amy. art theories of Aristotle, Kant and under the name “Schlanger Litiga- interests and values. Over many Steve and I are very proud of Josie!” Hegel — and, having arrived earlier tion Consulting, LLC.” My email years and visits this relationship has I also heard from Leon Rosen- than necessary to find a parking spot, address will be michael@schlanger- enriched my life. It has been my life stein ([email protected]): first encountered your email request consulting.com. My website will be blessing to know, admire and love “Glad to hear all is well with you and for Class Notes. So now, here again, schlanger-consulting.com. Steve and Naty.” I must again thank you for all the a fortuitous empty time en attente “Whatever I have accomplished David Rassin (drassin@utmb. effort you (and Michael Schlanger) became the occasion for this unan- in the law was made possible by the edu) also sent a note: “Many thanks put into the creation of The Reunion ticipated response, a response which kindness, the generosity and the tire- for The Reunion Book, it was a master- Book, which I believe was as great a (with my best wishes and thanks for less assistance of my law firm mentors, ful job given the difficulty of getting success as anything of its kind can be. your efforts) you may print all, any or partners, associates and staff members, responses for this type of material. “I must admit that, as to my own no part of for the Notes.” and by my clients, who entrusted to I can sympathize, as I spent more contribution, it was entirely fortu- I’ve printed it all! me matters of great importance to than 10 years as associate dean and itous. When you first made the call From Noah Robbins (nrobbins@ their enterprises. To all of you count- director of the continuing medical for submissions I really thought, ‘No montefiore.org): “I spent a wonder- less individuals across many genera- education offices for the University way would I do such a thing.’ But ful evening with Bob Kronley in tions, I say ‘thank you.’” of Texas Medical Branch and the a few days later, while sitting at my Philadelphia on May 18 (I was in University of Texas McGovern desk waiting for an important email, town for a National Board of Medical Medical School at Houston and just to pass the time I thought, ‘Just Examiners meeting) in which we 1966 getting materials to appropriately for the hell of it, if I were really to discussed friends and experiences present and accredit our hundreds compose such a thing, what would it from Erasmus Hall H.S. (Brooklyn) Rich Forzani of conferences was a never-ending be like?’ And before long and without and Columbia. We were particularly 413 Banta Ave. challenge. I now work in semi- much serious effort or contempla- distressed to learn that Richard Stein- Garfield, NJ 07026 retirement as professor of pediatrics, tion I realized I had already written gesser ’66 had passed away. I recalled [email protected] primarily mentoring pediatric faculty most of it. (The awaited email did that a contingent from Erasmus (me, for academic progress and pediatric not arrive until the next day.) And Bob, Richard, Barry Herman and Aftershocks generated by the 50th residents in a successful program to — perhaps it’s a bad habit of most Larry Strenger, if memory serves reunion continue to rattle the prepare scholarly projects (I received writers — having written it I just me) wandered through the Barnard memories of our class and we are a teaching award for the development couldn’t delete it. And so you got my dormitories during Freshman Week seeing some debate among ourselves. and support of this program on its unanticipated response. I do wonder in 1961. Richard removed a sign that Good! It makes for a more interesting 25th anniversary). if any other contributors had the read “Men Not Allowed” and stuck it column. Take a look at Victor “My wife, Glennda, and I mar- same experience. under his T-shirt. Unfortunately, the Kayfetz’s plea regarding being ried at the end of my senior year “To be brief with the particulars glue side faced the skin, and he had to included on a long email string: “The at Columbia, so we will soon be of my life since my last contribu- go the St. Luke’s Emergency Depart- 50th reunion was fun. This is not. Can celebrating our 52nd anniversary. tion: I’ve done several foreign tours ment to get it removed. someone remove my email address Now we are on a mission to travel mostly by car (a few new places but “I thought that The Reunion Book from this conversation? Please? (Vaca- the world (we have visited all seven mainly revisits — these times, fortu- was fantastic!” tioning in Chania, Crete.)”

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Victor, we don’t feel sorry for stage slowly, hands tucked into the Robert Meyerson described his cigs (my Barnard girlfriend got me anyone who vacations in Crete, pockets of his black pants. The rest own plaints: “As to what I’ve been hooked in 1965)! A divorce in 2013 except maybe Theseus. ;-) of the band followed behind. He doing since last June’s ‘graduation,’ has left me bare … and with a step- And here is a solution, from Neil was handed the mic. The keyboard namely still sittin’ in yaya barking, son about to enter college it’s back Smith ’65, SEAS’66: “Following the let out the first few and fast notes of maybe growling, at anything that to work after a year off (following wonderful reunion, there has been a ‘At the Hop.’ Cooper turned, smiled, passes by my Windows window. 18 years with the Stuyvesant H.S. plethora of good conversation as we began bouncing his feet and snap- Thanks for the precis, Neil and Neill. endowment fund). Hope you are all have ‘replied all,’ with good reasons ping his fingers and then raised the My recollection is a little different still fine! On reflection, I wonder William Abrashkin, Michael — raising money and also sharing microphone to his lips.” from yours: Sha Na Na may have about Drosnin, Billy Karp, Howard memories of our departed members. “They say you can’t go back again, been (not ‘may have been’ but for Machtinger Sasha Zill. But some don’t have the time or place but we did,” Cooper said a few sure ‘were’) great at Woodstock, but and Mike Colen for this on their late-in-life email weeks later when Neill asked him they were awful at reunion, except “I heard that died — Jimmy Smolev, programs or iPhones, so I suggest a about the performance, “It was just a maybe for the one skinny guy. I sad — and I found solution: In order to fulfill the need magical night.” usually avoid has-beens like the who was in 1001B New Hall with Phil Cohen to communicate with others in the In October, Neill reminisced a plague; artists need to move on, not me, and Arne Jensen class who want to be communicated bit further: “[I’m] on the way to dwell on their greatest hits — as do ’67! Putting Arne in with Jimmy, with, I have created a LinkedIn the city of my birth, Chicago, and we all. The only thing has-beens may Phil and me was quite a leap! I am group, Columbia College Class of am reflecting on 1962 when I took have going (this time I will let ‘may active on Facebook as Neal H. Hur- 1966. I urge everyone to sign up my first plane ride from ORD to have going’ stand) for themselves, if witz and Neal Hugh Hurwitz. I’m for LinkedIn if they haven’t yet (it LGA to visit Columbia — wow! that, is their lyric lip memory. As a happy some of you are on there too. costs nothing to join: linkedin.com/ Springtime, fair winds blowing member of the audience I enjoyed “My daughter Sam graduated groups/7062149. my tie, a very special city campus pretending, but only for a moment from Chicago’s Columbia College More from Neil: “Two years and meeting a lot of guys like me, before it became embarrassing. It and is working with The Second ago, I was appointed an admin- whose parents could not afford a only served to prove Fitzgerald City improv comedy group. She istrative law judge for the United Columbia price tag but cherished right: ‘there are no second acts in should be on Broadway, of course! States Patent and Trademark Office the notion that a kid of theirs may American lives’ (except maybe in My other daughter, Sofia, is at the branch, then coming to Silicon be the first college kid in the clan, electoral politics).” University of Vermont. Bob is also not fond of requests “I was feeling 20 until I turned 71 here for funding. I can understand, in January, then a bunch of friends except for helpforzaniout.org, a and colleagues died suddenly. Can- David Matthew ’66 is working on a new set of great cause and in desperate need of cers — aggressive and terrible. So your support. yes, we are all fortunate to be here.” clinical trials to combat Alzheimer’s and has created David Matthew Sadly, from Jeff Colen ’02: “My wrote: “Guys, the blog defeatalz.org. uncle, Michael Colen, passed away I’m excited to be working on a in 2015. He is survived by his two new set of clinical trials to combat adult children and wife. Our whole Alzheimer’s. This is a terrible family misses him very much.” condition that has likely affected Valley. Unfortunately, I resigned my and at a damn fine school to boot. Neal Hurwitz: “Looking forward all of us, at least in terms of family appointment there when it moved Which meant a little bit of scholar- to [Columbia] football … still and friends. I’ve created a blog to Menlo Park, which was too much ship, a little bit of part-time work bummed by John Wellington ’57’s (defeatalz.org) to exchange informa- of a daily commute for me from my during school and lots of money to death — great Columbia man! — tion about the current state of affairs home far east of San Francisco. If be made in the summer — which and the loss of others on faculty, in research and treatment. Please you are interested in the full story, brings me to Wrigley Field, where Alan F. Westin, Allan Silver, Sidney visit and add your posts. We are pre- go to siliconbeat.com and search I sold popcorn, peanuts, Cokes and Morgenbesser, Carl Hovde ’50, paring a crowdfunding effort to raise ‘Judge Neil Smith.’ I’m doing some Frosty Malts (and watched the Terry Hopkins, Robert Belknap money for clinical trial scholarships; arbitration and mediation and high- Chicago Cubs year, after year, after SIPA’57, GSAS’59 et al. you can help us get ready right now level intellectual property consulting, year, after year). Hustling as fast as “I live next door to the Kraft on the blog if you wish. All contri- and joined Schwegman, Lundberg I could helped — I recall we earned Family Center for Jewish Student butions are fully U.S. tax-deductible and Woessner’s San Jose office. 20 percent commission, maybe 25 Life (Hillel) and recently saw Joe through the Quietmind Foundation SLW is one of the strongest IP/pat- percent — and that covered the cash Brown at Bernheim & Schwartz, and you’ll get a receipt.” Gene Leff: ent firms in the country. If I retired, I needed each semester. which used to be The West End. Sad news from I would think like a retired person, “So, at this point the sports fans Kenny Ascher lives down the “I retired from New York state which is depressing.” are thinking that I am returning block, which is the next best thing government in June after 33 years Neill Brownstein writes, first to Wrigley Field, the scene of that to being close to one of our greats, and moved to Philadelphia, where regarding the Sha Na Na concert at golden medina! But, no. One of quarterback Thomas Harrold! Our my partner of 16 years teaches reunion: “Shortly after 8 p.m., the my best childhood friends, Irwin, is reunion dinner at Low Rotunda was French literature. I’m taking the first original members were introduced. just too darn frail to deal with the strong and fun! steps in dealing with Lou Gehrig’s First, there was bassist Bruce Clarke crowds. So, I travel to Chi-Town to “I now have my first grandchild, disease, which I learned I had in ’74, then guitarist Henry Gross. take a first row seat behind his living as well as 315 cholesterol (it was 415 May. I am nearly entirely depen- Finally, Alan Cooper ’71’s name was room TV, just above the dugout with for years). I do not like what I read dent on Android and iPad apps to called. He was wearing sunglasses Irwin and his wife telling stories, about the statins and there is edema communicate, since my voice and and the same outfit he wore to eating dogs and burgers and sipping in my left ankle. I still coach/play throat were the first areas affected. Woodstock — a cabbie hat and gold beer and pausing to imagine our softball (since the ’70s) at Heckscher I’ve enjoyed the leisure time to read, vest, only this time he had a shirt lives taking any other turns than the Fields in Central Park. The worst/ even returning to Sophocles from on underneath. He strolled onto the lucky ones we rode.” craziest thing is that I still smoke Literature Humanities.”

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Jay Goldsamt wrote: “I failed Tom Chorba reports that his learned that I have cancer, thus Pindyck LAW’73, GSAPP’75. I to make it to the reunion due to an Fire Island, N.Y., summer home has joining a number of us with life- spent almost nine years at Columbia. appointment but I have been reading finally been raised 13 ft. above the threatening illnesses. By the time I have run a mid-sized manufac- your emails — the recent work in flood stage and now has a com- this is published I should know turing company for more than 30 Alzheimer’s is most promising. I manding view of the ocean, at a mere whether the chemo treatments are years, with plants in several states. I am a survivor of a rare cancer called cost of $10,000 per foot. He also effective. If so, I hope to have a work more than full time. We have GIST. I discovered I was ill seven mentions a wonderful summer 2016 decent number of years left. If not, three children, including Eben ’03, years ago and my local oncologist weekend he spent with Bill Corco- I intend to party rather intensely. JRN’15; two grandchildren; and indicated I should get my affairs in ran and their respective wives, along My bucket list is complete (except three dogs. I have stayed active with order. To make a long story short, with Rich Postupak, who stopped for an Ivy football title), having all three Columbia schools that I with excellent care at Memorial by on his way to an extended visit been determined and proactive in was privileged to attend. I have lived Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with Rich Stanhewicz. its fulfillment from an early age. in Wisconsin most of my profes- and a new designer drug, Gleevec, Steven Handel: “I accepted a Plus, once you pass 70, you are in sional life. We live in a small village which attacks the tumor directly, I visiting professorship at Harvard’s the bonus round. I’ll maintain the and spend as much time ‘up north’ remain with no evidence of disease. Graduate School of Design to take column as long as it meets with your as we can. My sons are excellent fly The American Cancer Society and over its required ecology class for the approval and enjoyment. As the bard fishermen and bird hunters, a much other cancer charities are able to grad students in landscape architec- said, ‘Golden lads and girls all must, different upbringing from mine. I feel raise money for well-known, more ture. We are trying to get ecological as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.’” indebted to Columbia for the educa- common cancers while the rare ones structure and function into the design tion that I received and feel obligated have difficulty obtaining research of public spaces, as a complement to to give back to the institution.” Allen Spiegel money. Two charities that made a other landscape criteria. I will also 1967 wrote, “In an effort

difference in funding research for my build links between the Harvard REUNION to help relieve the drought of Class REUNION WEEKEND rare cancer are liferaftgroup.com and Organismic Biology group and the Notes, here is a brief update: After JUNE 1–4, 2017 GIST Cancer Research Fund; if you Design School to involve more skills a 33-year career at the National Insti- Alumni Affairs Contact tutes of Health (the last six as the can find a few dollars for one or both, into the work of the designers. I Fatima Yudeh it will definitely be appreciated.” agreed to do this for two years, then [email protected] director of the National Institute of Daniel Speaking of research, we’ll see if I want to continue the sch- 212-851-7834 Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney

Gardner Barry Coller 2017 and — our lep. It’s been stimulating; hope I can Development Contact Diseases), I returned to NYC in noted medical experts who put on a handle the infamous Boston winters.” Heather Siemienas 2006 to become dean of the Albert much-admired reunion seminar on Mark Amsterdam: “This summer [email protected] Einstein College of Medicine. A year aging — are in discussions regarding my daughter, LJ ’07, GSAS’12, helped 212-851-7855 ago, the College of Medicine became a possible joint project concerning organize the wall that activists built a component of the Montefiore Albert Zonana Alzheimer’s/dementia and prostate in Cleveland around the Republican Health System, which serves the 425 Arundel Rd. issues. Since these are commonly National Convention to wall out Bronx, the poorest urban county in Goleta, CA 93117 linked with later years, they wish to Trump and hate. She also worked the United States, and has expanded [email protected] determine if there is a correlation with Iraq Veterans Against the to include Westchester and the between hand-eye coordination for War and helped support the Native Hudson Valley. For now, I continue urination and the possible deteriora- Americans at Standing Rock, much The mailbox was full this issue! as Einstein dean and Montefiore David Rubin tion of mental faculties. of this work with the Ruckus Society. wrote, “I am retiring chief academic officer, but I may Kenneth Fox: “My big news is My son, Matt ’10, LAW’13, works for from the Newhouse School of retire. If so, I will have the time to that we are almost finished rebuild- Marcus & Millichap in New York, Public Communications at Syracuse write a memoir for which I already ing the kitchen of our historic house, focusing on commercial finance. He’s in December and moving to Sum- have a title that might resonate, given built around 1840, after the kitchen on the Columbia College Young merville, S.C., outside Charleston. current events: Immigrant Mental- foundation partially collapsed.” Alumni and the Columbia Law I intend to play the piano (again), ity: From Displaced Person to Dean. I School Association boards and is a raise puppies (Shelties), volunteer look forward at our upcoming 50th member of the Harlan Fiske Stone for the South Carolina chapter of reunion to seeing classmates whose Society. I spent the summer enjoying the ACLU and write.” friendship was an integral part of my myself in Kent, Conn., and am very David was dean of the school Columbia experience. Sadly, some, David Koffler, proud of what my kids are doing.” from 1990 to 2008 and has such as have died, but We learn that Michael Garrett remained a full-time faculty mem- are not forgotten.” Don Shapiro has been dealt an unexpected blow. ber, teaching about 200 students a wrote, “Can’t believe Our beloved Lion mascot, who year. In 2013, he was voted “Teacher it’s been 50 years … and I’m sure Submit worked so hard at our games, was of the Year” by the graduating class. that’s true for all of us! After practic- recently informed by the administra- As dean, he established an office of ing medicine and raising a family Your tion that even though he performed external relations that developed a in the Philadelphia area, my wife, the role admirably, he for some successful career center, an alumni Karlyn, and I have been dividing our Photo unknown reason was never officially relations operation that now involves time between Juno Beach, Fla., and CCT welcomes photos approved by Grayson Kirk. As a more than 5,000 graduates and a Aspen, Colo. (summers and winters). result, he had to return all the Lion development program that signifi- Our son is Adam Shapiro ’03. that feature at least two Stan Adelman minutia he collected over the past 52 cantly increased annual fund giving. shared, “Next College alumni. Bruce Pindyck years. As his wife said, “Granted, the LAW’70, month, as we start our 50th class Click “Contact Us” at place is now pretty threadbare, but at BUS’71, wrote, “I have been blessed reunion year, I will have the honor of college.columbia.edu/cct. least I can see the walls.” in so many ways. In the best move conducting the Columbia Marching Rich Forzani: “Finally, in the of my life, I have been married for Band at halftime of the homecoming spirit of full disclosure, I recently almost 50 years to Vassar grad Candy game. Fayetteville, Ark., is now home,

60 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews where I became an ‘instant grandpa’ Marty Goldstein writes, “I teach findings. After 30 years at Mount the first time in reasonably priced six years ago when I married my wife, media studies at Santa Monica Col- Sinai I officially retired but am book form, with the surviving frag- Pat. Life has been and remains quite lege, and am contemplating but not active on the medical school admis- ments of the other two plays in the an adventure. Through the years, one ready for retirement. I am delighted sions committee. I have served on trilogy and my theory of how they side of my brain has been given over that my three grown children have the committee for more than three all hold together. I was intrigued to law and criminal justice: a job as a all settled in California and are decades and Mount Sinai has twice and puzzled by Prometheus Bound New York State parole officer, a career doing well. My eldest son is a dean honored me with awards for my when I first read it in my freshman in Massachusetts state government at a Los Angeles community college work on the committee. Humanities class and, 50 years later, highlighted by a brief stint as acting and father of a lively little girl. My “I have a lovely country house in I have finally figured it out to my secretary of public safety, then a career middle child, a daughter, is a bilin- Dutchess County, N.Y., where I go own satisfaction.” Tom Hauser, in law teaching at six law schools gual kindergarten teacher in Hum- just about every weekend. It is only author of many around the country. The journey has boldt County, Calif., photographer, a little more than an hour drive from books and biographer of Muhammad taken me to Arkansas, Tulsa, Char- and mother of two of my grandkids. my home in Scarsdale, N.Y., where Ali, wrote, “My first day of college, Mark Schlesinger. lotte, Albuquerque and other tour And my younger son is in his second I have lived for almost 65 years. The I met Several stops, and it’s been quite a ride! The year of residency in family practice country house has become a won- months ago, I got a telephone call other side of the brain has kept me at Ventura County Medical Center. derful gathering place for family and from Khalilah Ali, Muhammad Ali’s active in music, playing in big bands, I’m not complaining.” friends. As an avid gardener I spend second wife. I know Khalilah from blues horn sections, concert bands, Herbert Broderick GSAS’78 as much time as possible growing the years that I spent with Ali, first symphonies and show orchestras. summed up 50 years, “I received a all sorts of vegetables and fruits, as his biographer and then as his Not sure whether to say I’m presently Ph.D. in art history from Columbia. which my visitors help me eat. My friend. Khalilah told me, ‘I’m here retired, semi-retired or just unem- I am a professor of art history at other two passions are my Labrador, with someone who says that you and ployed, but I remain available for gigs Lehman College/CUNY, where I Hilde, and opera. I often think back his father were friends 50 years ago.’ and visiting professorships. Have have taught, among other things, to my days at Columbia College It was Mark’s son, Peter. And so life’s trombone and syllabi and will travel!” Art Humanities for 38 years. My with great fondness. In Humani- journey goes on. After college and law Jonathan Howland wrote, “I wife, Mosette, is a professor at NYU, ties I was particularly lucky to have school, I spent seven years as a practic- am a professor and director of a where she teaches architectural poet Kenneth Koch, now deceased, ing lawyer, then I turned to writing: I research center at the Department history. We have a daughter, Camilla as my professor. One of the best feel like I haven’t worked for the past of Emergency Medicine, Boston (27). We live in Manhattan and have things about attending Columbia is 40 years; just played hard.” University School of Medicine. I a house in Oyster Bay, Long Island. the lifelong friendship I developed I hope many of us can also say live in Marion, Mass., with my wife, I have a book that was scheduled with my roommate in my junior and that we played hard for these past Elizabeth, a fiber artist. Our twins, to come out in the fall, Moses the senior years, James Purvis ’68. All 50 years. Jonathan and Rachael, live in the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old Eng- my best wishes to the members of area and recently turned 40. Our lish Hexateuch. Not too long ago I The Cleverest Class in the World!” Charles Siegel grandchildren, Coco and Tavie, visit was elected a fellow of the Society of shared, “As 1968 often and are fabulous. All’s well.” Antiquaries of London.” a hobby, I have started a small Ken Settel Arthur Spector wrote, “I am a Richard Glaser shared, “Into the publishing business, Omo Press, One Lincoln Plaza, Apt. 25K psychiatrist physician in a number of wind-down. After two residencies publishing my writing and new New York, NY 10023 clinical and organizational directions. (internal medicine, anesthesia), a editions of classics. I wrote and [email protected] I consult to organizations and their fellowship (epidemiology) and eight published a book, The Humanists leaders around managing their orga- years on the staff at UCSF, I met my versus the Reactionary Avant Garde: nizations, assisting in transitions in soulmate, married, went into private Clashing Visions for Today’s Architec- No news?! CC’68, make it a 2017 leadership and working with boards practice, had two amazing daugh- ture, which architect Andrés Duany resolution to take five minutes and on organizational management. I ters (one a Duke ophthalmology said is the best book he has read on send in a note — let your classmates also work with physicians and their resident, one a second-year student the subject. I am finally living up know what you are doing! Jobs, organizations facilitating supportive at UCSF med) and retired two to the education in the classics that family, retirement, thoughts on our environments for physicians, trying years ago. Ann, my wife, retired last I got during my freshman year at Homecoming win, travels or your to prevent burnout and developing year as director of the joint medical Columbia by editing and publishing favorite CC memories are all game organizations that enhance the roles program for UC Berkeley-UCSF. a three-volume collection of works for this column. You can send your of physicians in providing for their We are a 100 percent UCSF family by Hellenistic philosophers. These notes to either of the addresses at patients. I have been married for 30 so we get to play a lot together. Now works were buried in the dialogues the top of this column or use CCT’s years and have had the pleasure of I’m trying to slip gracefully into the of Cicero, used as the discourses Class Notes webform, college. watching my three sons move out next stage: Studying Italian, making of noble Romans and interspersed columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. into their own professional roles in wine and furniture, and taking it with irrelevant material. Their the business world of finance and slow. Much thanks to Old Light real authors were known only to a start-up companies. Most recently, Blue for greasing the way.” handful of classical scholars who 1969 I visited Columbia as the father Arthur Guffanti GSAS’75 sent studied Cicero’s sources. Now, they Michael Oberman of my youngest son, William ’15, an update, “After graduation and are available to the general public for Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel moving into the same floor of the a stint in the Army, I returned to the first time, and some definitely 1177 Avenue of the Americas same dorm. I was thrilled to see him Columbia in 1971 and earned a deserve to be better-known. New York, NY 10036 fully participate in the richness of the Ph.D. From there I went to Mount “Among other books, I also pub- [email protected] College experience. During our free Sinai Medical Center, where I lished a reconstruction of Aeschylus’ time, my wife and I enjoy biking, hik- ultimately was an associate research Prometheus trilogy. It includes Neal Flomenbaum ing, exploring food and the arts, often professor in bacterial bioenergetics. Thoreau’s translation of Prometheus shared with including our dogs and children, with The research was rewarding and I Bound, originally published in The me the story of his “med graduate their various partners and friends. traveled extensively to present my Dial Magazine and now available for school doubleheader:” On May 25

Winter 2016–17 CCT 61 Class Notes he was honored at two NYC medical editorial’ was a fixture). Here are brief school graduations. First, at the Weill notes on what we’ve all been up to Cornell Medical College com- during the past 47 years: mencement, Neal helped present the “Robert is a senior editor at Neal Flomenbaum, M.D., Prize for Bloomberg News and a former Excellence in Emergency Medicine, editor at Fortune, Life, New York an award endowed by donors to that Newsday and the Village Voice. Oren medical school. Later, he received the has headed the Center on Immigra- Albert Einstein College of Medicine tion and Justice at the Vera Institute 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, of Justice since 2007. One of the for his “extraordinary career in emer- principal activities of the center gency medicine and … many con- is to oversee national networks of tributions to the health and welfare legal services providers that provide of underserved communities and all legal information and representa- populations in New York City.” Neal tion to detained adults and children was from 1996 to 2016 emergency facing deportation. Andy was a physician-in-chief and, since 1996, as sports writer at Newsday and the emergency medical services medical New York Post, a public defender and The 1968–69 Spectator editorial board met in honor of the late Chuck director, at NewYork-Presbyterian then defender general in Vermont, Skoro ’69. Left to right: Robert Friedman ’69, Nicholas Garaufis ’69, Oren Hospital. He also was professor of executive director of the Massachu- Root ’69, Andrew Crane ’69 and David Rosen ’69. clinical medicine at Weill Cornell setts State Ethics Commission and and is editor in chief of Emergency founding program director of Tena­ Medicine. Neal added that his older city, a Boston based nonprofit serv- was minister of defense in the revo- appointment and creation of a new son, Adam ’10 is living on the Upper ing at-risk urban youth. Nick is a lutionary government of Imre Nagy. science center in Kansas City, Mo., West Side (where else?), pursuing a senior district judge on the U.S. Dis- He and Nagy were executed for their followed by a stint as a government career in marketing and social media. trict Court, Eastern District of New role on June 16, 1958, and given a official at the National Science From David Rosen: “I am sad to York (Brooklyn). He is also assigned proper burial on June 16, 1989, as Foundation and my current role report the death of Charles ‘Chuck’ cases as a visiting judge in Mont- part of the fall of communism. Here as a consultant (under the name Skoro on March 31, 2016. Chuck gomery, Ala., and New Orleans. is a link to an interview with Pal: Museums+more). I recently con- was a professor of economics at Boise Jerry is a professor of medicine at vimeo.com/174388881. cluded co-chairing the Committee State from 1982 until 2000. He then Harvard Medical School and chief Henry Jackson writes: “I on Communicating Chemistry in served as campus minister for St. of the Division of Pharmacoepide- particularly remember how beautiful Informal Settings for the National Paul’s Catholic Student Center on miology and Pharmacoeconomics the campus was in spring, due in Academy of Sciences. The report the Boise State campus until 2014. In in the Department of Medicine at no small measure to the iris beds. I and guide can be downloaded at 2001 he was ordained as a deacon in Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I also remember reading somewhere, nap.edu. That role unexpectedly the Catholic Church. At Columbia, am happily 95 percent retired. My Spectator perhaps, that it was decided bookended my chemistry experience where he was one of the famed ‘Boise last honest day’s work was as EVP to discontinue caring for those iris as an undergraduate.” Boys’ recruited by Gideon Oppen- and CFO of Bluerock Media. After beds to save money, so it’s probably a From Michael Rosenblatt: “On heimer ’47, Chuck was a devoted 45 years of living and working in memory Columbians after us won’t June 30, I finished my second ‘tour member of the Spectator staff, serving Manhattan, my wife, Susan, and I have. What a shame!” of duty’ at Merck. Serving as its as 1968–69 managing editor. Upon sold our Manhattan apartment a David Ucko reports: “Always chief medical officer for nearly seven learning of his death, his colleagues couple of years ago. We now split interested in chemistry, I knew it years was a wonderful experience. on the Spec Managing Board decided our time between Newtown, Conn., was to be my major from day one. It was a real view into the practice to convene to celebrate Chuck’s and Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Fla.” As a sophomore, I was offered a of medicine and health policy exemplary life, to reminisce about the Nick shared this extra news: “In fateful choice of two work-study around the globe. In September I thousands of hours we spent together April, I became a proud grandfather, jobs: working in the stockroom started in a newly created position putting out Spec five days a week, and to Aristaeus Francis Garaufis (Ari), or in the lab of recently hired as chief medical officer for Flagship to renew acquaintances. son of Jamie Garaufis and Hollynn Assistant Professor Steve Lippard. Ventures in Cambridge, Mass. I “Editor in Chief Rob Friedman, Francis. You may recall that in Greek The choice was clear and led to believe this is the first time that a Executive Editor Oren Root, Sports mythology, Aristaeus was a son of several publications and a Woodrow life sciences venture firm has created Editor Andy Crane, Business Man- Apollo and grandson of Zeus!” Wilson National Fellowship. I then such a position. I will be a resource ager Nick Garaufis and I (features Pal Maleter has been working received my Ph.D. at MIT under for the young biotech companies editor and former sports editor) spent with The Memory Project, a visual Lippard’s former adviser, thinking that the firm has started or invested a very enjoyable evening in early Sep- archive of Hungarian-Americans I would follow a similar chemistry in. There are currently more than 40 tember at a restaurant on New York’s who immigrated to the United States research-oriented path. It was not to companies in the portfolio and more Upper East Side. Supplements Editor after WWII and the Revolution of be. I found my grad student research than 45 clinical trials under way. I Jerry Avorn was a last-minute 1956. For the 60th anniversary of less engaging and decided to focus will also focus on the biotech start- cancellation due to illness. Rob, Oren the revolution, in-depth interviews on teaching, first on the faculty of ups as they form, especially when and Nick still live in the city. Andy with subjects in cities throughout the CUNY and then at Antioch. After the team has a first-time CEO or came from Boston and I drove from United States are being made public back-to-back bankruptcies (NYC R&D team. While many of the Connecticut. Some of us had not seen in both Hungarian and English. The and the college), I left academia concepts that form the basis of the one another since graduation. We project began in early 2015 with the and chemistry, taking a position at start-ups arise in academia, the firm made it through the evening without generous funding of the Hungary Chicago’s Museum of Science and also has its own venture laboratory dissent (unlike in 1968–69, when the Initiatives Foundation, and is ongo- Industry. That led to a career in that generates ideas and compa- line ‘David Rosen dissents from this ing. Pal’s father, Gen. Pal Maleter, museums, including a presidential nies. I am excited by this career

62 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews opportunity. Even though I have South Korea, where her husband, released this past fall. My next book man, says: “Earlier in 2016, my spent my career in both academia Chad (a career Army officer), is of poetry, Poems in the Manner Of, sixth book, Administrative Law: The and industry, this will be my first assigned. Ramona, who graduated is coming in March. As the title Sources and Limits of Government time working in the biotech sector. from West Point in 2005, is retired implies, each poem in the book is Agency Power, was published. After I am looking forward to being close from the Army and is a mother of in the style of a different author publishing three books in six years, to the innovation that forms the two cute little boys. Our middle or period — from Catullus and Li I think I need at least a decade off basis of the new companies and the daughter, Hélène, is engaged to be Po on through Wordsworth, Keats, from book authorship. In June, I had entrepreneurship of the leader- married in July to Seth Alexander. Rimbaud, Rilke, Neruda, Auden, et the pleasure of returning to Beijing ship. Particularly important will be Hélène has been working in the al., right up to the present. There’s a to present a paper on our Inspec- bringing the voice of the patient fashion industry and is now easing poem in the manner of my Colum- tor General Systems at the eighth into R&D strategy and enhancing into a fashion teaching assignment bia professor Kenneth Koch, as well Sino–United States International the interface with academia and at BOCES Long Island. Sara, our as a poem in the manner of a jazz Conference for Public Administra- pharmaceutical companies in order youngest, recently ended a long run standard. On another note, I have tion, followed by a couple of days in to form effective partnerships. I in the classic dance show Jubilee! been accompanying Alan Ziegler, a Xi’an to see the terra-cotta warriors, will also resume being involved in at Bally’s Hotel and Casino in Las Columbia professor and director of visit the ancient and thriving Chi- some programs at Harvard Medical Vegas. Sara continues to pick up pedagogy in the Faculty of the Arts, nese Muslim community there and School and boards of nonprofit and dance and convention gigs and has to Columbia basketball games.” sample the superb and unusual food. Michael Aeschliman professional societies. also been working the Las Vegas is “Having taken several courses “Between the former job and territory for the educational software professor of Anglophone culture as a non-matriculated student at starting the new one, I took the and computing company Amplify. at the University of Lugano. He the CUNY Graduate Center, I am summer off — for the first time “My wife, Judith, divides her time presented one of the major papers now officially pursuing a master’s in since middle school! My wife, Patty, between caring for her mom (who at a September 2015 conference philosophy there. Thus, I am both a and I took our daughter, son, their moved into the house next door), at Cambridge University on F.R. professor (of public management) spouses and all five grandchildren substitute teaching in several Nassau Leavis and it recently was published and a student.” (the entire Rosenblatt biomass!) to County school districts and teaching as “Three Great Critics: F.R. Leavis, I hope that you are all as proud Iceland. It’s a magical place that I at Temple Sinai, Roslyn. I work at T.S. Eliot, and C.S. Lewis” in the of these distinguished classmates recommend for a family vacation. the Port Authority of New York 2016 issue of The Literary Criterion. as I am! We then ‘unplugged’ by the sea on and New Jersey. We’ve moved to His essay/review on Eliot, “Beyond Cape Ann in Massachusetts and One World Trade Center; we were the Language of the Living,” was then ended the summer with a trip de facto evicted from the original published in National Review on 1971 to the Dolomites and Lake District WTC on September 11, 2001. I still June 13, and his essay, “Trumpery in Italy. Batteries recharged, it’s on run, bicycle and play guitar.” and Social Darwinism,” appeared on Jim Shaw to the next phase.” That’s it for now. But I ask that National Review Online on August 139 North 22nd St. Mark Brodin writes: “I am in my just as you finish this column, you sit 9. He gave an address, “Com- Philadelphia, PA 19103 33rd year on the faculty at Boston down and email me some news. We munication of Sacred Heritage,” [email protected] College Law School, still enjoy- are a class community, and it takes in a doctoral summer school on ing teaching the next generation input from many to make this an cultural tourism and UNESCO Our 45th reunion was June 2–5. of litigators (if there are any, given interesting read. World Heritage Sites in Armeno Plan to attend our 50th-year the disappearance of jury trials!). I (Novara), Italy, on September 8, reunion in 2021! publish in the areas of evidence, civil and in October gave an address to CCT editor in chief Alex and criminal procedure, employment 1970 faculty and senior students at the Sachare is retiring; it seems fitting discrimination and occasionally International School of Geneva, to devote this column to him. We Leo G. Kailas (once) a biography. We have three the oldest and largest international worked together on the staff of the Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt grandsons, 4 months to 4½ years, school in Europe. Michael is on The Columbia Daily Spectator, where he 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. and rely on them when we have American School in Switzerland became sports editor. And, as class New York, NY 10022 technology issues with our iPhone.” Foundation Board and the search correspondent, I have worked with Jonathan Adelman [email protected] GSAS’76 committee for a new headmaster for him during his entire tenure at reports: “I recently became the TASIS; he has been associated with CCT. I have admired his talent and president of the Scholars for Peace in I received some fascinating updates, the school since 1971. humanity always. the Middle East, an anti-BDS group mostly about books, from a terrific My freshman week roommate, Alex writes: “After 18 years and Dov Samuel Estreicher, (combating the boycott, divestment group of classmates. My friend Professor nine months as editor of Columbia Zakheim and sanctions movement in Europe) reported he published reported that he gave two keynote College Today, I am retiring effective that works with faculty in the United a book on “something completely addresses at the Ono Academic January 1. It’s time. The last several States and abroad. I also write op- different,” a political biography of a College in Israel in July — one at years have been challenging, with eds, now 98 in the last four years, for biblical figure: Nehemiah: Statesman a conference on equality, “Achiev- my wife Lori’s cancer diagnosis in the Huffington Post (blog), Jerusalem and Sage. Dov offers contemporary ing Antidiscrimination Objectives 2010, five-year battle and passing Post (regular monthly columnist), political and military perspectives through ‘Safe Harbor’ Rules,” and in 2015; five major surgeries and History News Network, Fox News on Nehemiah’s career, initially as a one at a conference on integration replacements to assorted body parts; and Forbes, among others. I am a senior official in the Persian govern- of Israeli Arab citizens, “The Great and a heart attack that left me with professor at the Josef Korbel School ment and then as governor of the Domestic Challenge for Israel: Nor- a stent and a pile of pills. of International Studies, University province of Judea. malization of the Situation of Israeli “Work has been a blessing, keep- David Lehman of Denver, who spent 11 happy years writes: “The Arab Citizens.” Sam’s book Beyond ing me busy and involved, but it’s at Columbia getting four degrees.” paperback edition of my book Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in time to slow down and smell what Fredric Fastow: From “Our Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred America was published in March. remains of the roses. I have been Dan Feld- oldest daughter, Ramona, lives in Notes on the Man and His World was Another old friend, fortunate to have enjoyed four careers

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— 10 years as a sports writer at AP, Health Collaborative. This work by Bill Kurtis. Doug has produced That’s all he wrote, fellas. Stroke 15 years heading the NBA’s editorial/ has shown that a poor, Latino videos for litigation, studio visit videos ’em if you’ve got ’em, please! Need publications department and 18-plus immigrant population can achieve for artists, video portraits of executives more fodder, grandfodders. You years editing CCT, which has allowed measurably better health outcomes. and even an Emmy-nominated music can send in notes to either of the me the wonderful opportunity to The outcomes were published in the video. As he characterizes his career: addresses at the top of the column, connect and reconnect with so many journal Health Affairs and in 2014 we “I’ve created thousands of hours of or use CCT’s Class Notes webform, classmates and other Columbians, received the Association of American video to document, to teach, to per- college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ plus a freelance career that has seen Medical Colleges’ award for out- suade, to entertain — remembering class_note. me write, edit or contribute to more standing community service. Last it’s rude to be boring.” than 20 books plus assorted maga- year I was also proud to be awarded Larry Boorstein SEAS’78, zines and websites. the American Medical Association’s BUS’88 retired in April as an 1974 “More than any of that, I’m fortu- Excellence in Medicine Award.” AECOM certified project manager. nate to have had a true soulmate for Emilio precepts medical residents “AECOM is the world’s No. 1 Fred Bremer nearly 30 years in Lori, and a daugh- every Friday afternoon and treats ranked engineering firm by revenues 532 W. 111th St. ter, Deborah BC’14, who has grown a small panel of patients at Weill in Engineering News-Record, with New York, NY 10025 into a remarkable young woman. Cornell, where he is an associate 90,000 employees. I earned an M.S. [email protected] “It’s been a great run, and I hope professor in clinical medicine. Of the in civil engineering in 1974, a civil to continue to contribute to CCT home front, he says, “My family has engineering degree in 1978 and an With my daughter, Katie, being a and other publications on a freelance grown and fills me each day with joy M.B.A. in finance in 1988. I was high school senior, I probably pay basis, so you likely haven’t read the and love. My special and darling wife, project manager on projects with a lot more attention to the college last of me just yet.” Yvette Ortiz, with whom I live in Park consulting revenues of $6 million and rankings than most of you. You may Remember back 50 (fifty!) Slope, Brooklyn, is also an internist construction costs of $6.4 billion and be pleasantly surprised — and proud Septembers ago, and the feelings we and has practiced medicine for close deputy project manager on projects — to learn how Columbia has been had, including of adventure, as we to 20 years in the front lines in the with revenues of $1.5 million and assessed against its peers in recently entered Columbia College. We are South Bronx and is now medical construction costs of $7.0 billion. My published reports. Each analysis uses still connected. director at the Charles B. Rangel 40-year career encompassed projects a different methodology for this Community Health Center in West in 29 countries in the Americas, subjective effort. The most widely Harlem. She is on the faculty of P&S. Europe, Asia, the Middle East and publicized is the U.S. News & World 1972 “My children are unique, sweet, Africa. My biography appears in Report listing, which emphasizes

REUNION talented and doing amazing things. Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in data such as the class rank of appli- REUNION WEEKEND Yuisa Montañez BC’94, LAW’98, Finance and Business, Who’s Who in cants, SAT scores and the percent of JUNE 1–4, 2017 who was born when I was a senior Science and Engineering and Who’s applicants accepted. It rates Colum- Alumni Affairs Contact Fatima Yudeh at the College, is a partner at Loeb, Who in the World.” bia as No. 5 among “Best Colleges [email protected] Block & Partners in corporate, Best wishes for retirement to Larry. in National Universities” (tied with 212-851-7834 international business and is the Classmates, share your news by Stanford). Not too bad, but wait

Development Contact 2017 star mom of two amazing children, writing to the addresses at the top until you see what others say! Heather Siemienas Violet and Sebastian. Clarisa is an of this column or by submitting a Last fall the Wall Street Journal [email protected] accomplished dancer and studies note through CCT’s Class Notes teamed up with the Times Higher 212-851-7855 at Fiorello H. LaGuardia H.S. of webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ Education magazine to create their Music Art and Performing Arts. submit_class_note. own rankings of United States Paul S. Appelbaum The youngest, Elisa, loves math colleges, which included a survey of 39 Claremont Ave., #24 and science and plays a mean libero 100,000 current students to evaluate New York, NY 10027 in her volleyball club. Alejandro 1973 how engaged students are with their [email protected] ‘Alex’ graduated from Yale and is an studies, their interaction with teach- electrical engineer at SpaceX in Los Barry Etra ers and their overall satisfaction with Every now and then, walking Angeles. When he was a freshman 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE their college experience (among through the halls at NewYork- he took a class on Latino struggles Atlanta, GA 30306 other criteria). Their conclusion: Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in the United States and saw a [email protected] Columbia is ranked No. 3 in the University Medical Center, I run picture in the textbook that made United States — ahead of all of the into Emilio Carrillo, its president for him wonder. He asked me if the guy Bob Sacavage writes in for the other Ivy schools — and No. 15 community health. Emilio recently in the beard and black beret with first time “in decades.” After the among all universities in the world! gave in to my importuning and sent the raised fist and the sign saying College he returned to Pennsylvania Oxford and Cambridge, watch out! this note: “My love for community ‘the struggle in Viet Nam is the for law school and built a career in We’re coming for you! and population health continues. You struggle in our communities’ was me. county court as a prosecutor, then While reading a recent issue may recall the community organiz- I blushed and almost shed a tear.” as a judge, until his retirement in of Columbia magazine, I saw that ing work my friend Mariano Rey Not long ago, I was pleased to see 2014. Bob has three daughters and Andrew Burstein was quoted as and I did in the early 1970s with the a LinkedIn invitation from Doug recently became a grandfather. He saying, “Hamilton’s stock hasn’t Morningside squatters, across from VanderHoof in my inbox. (Hint: says he “hopes his grandson will be really risen” following the public- the cathedral. My days at Columbia LinkedIn is great way to stay in touch in the Class of ’38 and a member of ity from the blockbuster Broadway laid the roadmap for the rest of my with your class correspondent.) For the wrestling team.” musical. I was surprised at first, until life … My community-based efforts 32 years, Doug has been an indepen- Bob writes that Columbia ties I learned that the Louisiana State have migrated north from Manhat- dent media producer and consultant. are “with me always;” for the past University professor is an author- tan Valley to Washington Heights- Most recently, he was a full-time pro- 35 years he’s hosted a gathering of ity on Thomas Jefferson. Looking Inwood, where we established the ducer/editor on the CBS news/his- Columbians at a mountain retreat in deeper into Andrew’s past reveals NewYork-Presbyterian Regional tory series Through the Decades, hosted the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon. another amazing career transforma-

64 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews tion. For 15 years after graduation And Scott Kunst (in Ann Arbor, of the Chelsea gallery district. Mel he pointed out to someone that the from the College, he took part in Mich.) relates that his son, David, labels the gallery as his “night job,” much-hated invader Napoleon wasn’t Chinese trade, first working for a had a son, Benjamin John Kunst. which balances his hectic day job (at exactly a Spaniard but to no avail. He Wall Street import firm and later as David lives in San Francisco and is Dogan & Associates, his NYC law added “Strange grudges, no particular an independent consultant helping a manager at the Lyft ride sharing firm) quite nicely. reasons, just learn to share the damn U.S. firms establish relationships start-up. Scott is the founder of Old Mel, we could so have used you Iberian Peninsula, won’t you? What with Chinese factories. After 1990, House Gardens, a retailer of heir- last year when planning and produc- a world, n’est pas?” But he also added Andrew traded Chinese commerce loom bulbs, and plans to retire this ing Sam Steinberg 2015 for our that it’s “a beautiful country, funny for academia, earning a Ph.D. in spring after a 24-year career in the 40th reunion. language aside.” history from UVA (perhaps where historic gardening field. What does Mel has two daughters, Melodi We won’t even get into the he became interested in Jefferson — he plan to do? “I’ll finally have time BC’05 (a graduate of New York Law discussion that he was having with Fernando Castro or was his interest in Jefferson what to return to my own gardens instead School and an attorney in NYC) about whether, led him to UVA?). He spent four of running a business!” and Erin (a graduate of Boston where, when and why David would years at Northern Iowa and eight It is with great sadness that University with a master’s from walk on his knees. Albert J. Mrozik more at Tulsa. Since 2008 he has I report that another one of our Fordham in education, and a teacher The Hon. has been lecturing and penning many classmates has passed: Ralph at a private school in Manhattan). been appointed a member of the books while at Louisiana State. Coti BUS’77, LAW’77 yielded to He has enjoyed sailing around Shel- Newark LGBTQ Community Cen- Not sure what it is all about complications of a brain tumor. ter Island for many years. ter’s Board of Directors. In May, he Will yet, but serial-entrepreneur Ralph was one of the few remain- [Editor’s note: See the feature “The was elected a trustee for the Munici- Willis (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) ing generalist attorneys working Experts” for tips from Dogan on how pal Court Practice Committee for has claimed several times to be in Manhattan (he was involved in to display artwork in your home.] the New Jersey State Bar Associa- Jim Dolan retiring, however, he recently sent everything from real estate to corpo- doesn’t stay in one tion and in August he attended the a missive where he appears to have rate transactions to trust and estate place. If he and his wife, Yasmin, are International Association of LGBT started a new venture. The signature work). If you followed his frequent not on a trip to some exotic locale — Judges annual meeting. Albert’s block contained “President, Plastic Facebook postings, you knew he was Surgery Innovations,” and the email a staunch conservative who also had was seeking a vote for his “skIN3 a love of history, art and literature. anti-aging with DermaTriPlex He was a loyal member of the Class Andrew Burstein ’74, a Louisiana State technology” in the 2016 Global of ’74, helping with fundraising University professor since 2008, is an authority Beauty Awards. I bet a number of and planning of reunions. Ralph is classmates (and their wives) will be survived by his wife, Mary Alice, on Thomas Jefferson. anxious to hear more details! and son, Peter. Popping up on Facebook was a There you have it: New careers, Jon Mangana note from (Balti- new businesses, new grandchildren more). He says his son, Adam, was and, unfortunately, some sadness. I even just a walk across the Benjamin been a member of the association named the chief diversity officer at guess we need to expect it all as we Franklin Bridge in his hometown of for 23 years. Also in August, he and Jackson Prep School in Mississippi. enter our 43rd year after graduating Philadelphia on their way for brats his partner, Michael, attended the He reports: “Proud of my oldest. He’s from the College. Be sure to send and beer at Oktoberfest — they’re “Meet Me in New Hope” car club got his work cut out for him, though. in an email about what’s happening dining at a fabulous place or having rally of the Lambda Car Club Del- The irony is that Jackson Prep was the in your life and that of your family. an exquisite meal at home. In August, Val region, but haven’t had any other first school formed in Mississippi by Your old buddies of almost half a Jim was in Annapolis, Md., where he vacations because “all the money the segregationists to countermand century want to know! sailed on the schooner America 2.0, goes to the house.” the desegregation of schools.” Jon is an a replica of the original America’s I know what that’s like — I adjunct professor at the Community Cup victor from 1851, which was at recently had a concrete floor poured College of Baltimore County and 1975 the National Sailing Hall of Fame in my basement and now have to also works with a group in Baltimore and will head to Bermuda for the have new molding installed, the assisting adults in getting their GEDs Randy Nichols America’s Cup in ’17. In September, room painted and all that jazz. and attending college. 734 S. Linwood Ave. Jim headed to Nashville (Twang Robert Reilly used a speak- I got word of a trio of grandsons Baltimore, MD 21224 Town) to represent his digital start up, ing engagement as the impetus — all born in September — join- [email protected] Enradius, to his radio kin at the NAB for a family trip to Australia. In ing our Class of ’74 family. Dr. Burt Radio Show. He says had a great September, he delivered the keynote Rochelson ’s son, David (a lawyer in C24 Gallery was established in New time reconnecting with radio pals and address to a joint conference of the Manhattan), gave him Jack Hudson York in 2011 by Lions Mel Dogan helping to drag them kicking and Chartered Accountants of Australia Rochelson. Burt is the director of LAW’78 and Emre Kurttepeli screaming into the digital age. and New Zealand, held this year in ob/gyn at North Shore University SEAS’90. C24 is committed to Instead of heading south of the Melbourne. His wife, Janet BC’75, David Gawarecki Hospital and chief of maternal-fetal showing groundbreaking contem- border, this year daughter Ashley BC’06 and son medicine at Northwell Health, both porary art and provides a platform and his wife, Martha Hayes, spent Brandon (two of their three adult in Manhasset, Long Island. for artists who have achieved critical part of the summer in Oporto, Por- children) traveled along. As a part- Jon Cuneo (founding partner acclaim in diverse locales. It is rap- tugal. David shared that since no one ing gift, the institute gave Robert a of the Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca idly growing and last year the gallery would speak to him in Spanish, he Crocodile Dundee-style rabbit fur law firm in Washington, D.C.) moved to a space in a stunning was forced to communicate in English hat, apparently quite a style item in tells us that his daughter, Lucy (an new residential building on West or French. He also reported that they Aussie-land. accomplished international wedding 24th Street, just west of its original had just gotten smashed at a sidewalk Maybe he shouldn’t wear it photographer in Charleston, S.C.), location and perfectly positioned to café, so who knows what language often at home, at the risk of being gave birth to Rory Sarsfield. capitalize on the energy at the heart he was really speaking? David said attacked by a PETA person.

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Following the conference, the exhibit an eight-point IQ decline by Joining me at the gala were ble could make it. I attended the 30th, family flew to Sydney, where Robert 38, as compared to controls. Dan Gottlieb, Mark Abbott, Ken not really knowing what to expect, and Janet enjoyed several plays and Hmm, does that explain why the Tamashiro and Rob Erlanger. and was pleasantly surprised. You cer- operas at the Sydney Opera House. stoners of our generation are not I have attended Alumni Leaders tainly won’t regret making the effort. Ashley visited museums throughout all senile already — pot just wasn’t Weekend for a number of years; More information, I expect, will come the trip; the Hellenic Museum of as potent back then? My attempt this year was the 12th edition. The in the Spring issue’s column but for Melbourne was one of her favorites. to add humor aside, Jason believes weekend began with a Friday eve- the moment you might consider Brandon pursued more athletic that legalized marijuana is extremely ning reception at Casa Italiana. The saving the date. As you’re probably activities, especially enjoying scuba detrimental to students, workers and Saturday schedule included morning starting to notice — as people do who diving off Manly Beach near Sydney. society in general. and afternoon discussion sessions are our age (ahem) — time is picking After receiving many compliments On the home front, Jason’s twin for the attendees, who were alumni up speed. Really picking up speed. So following the conference, Janet boys returned home for the summer leaders from across the University June 1 is practically tomorrow. mentioned that Robert’s head was after their freshman college year and and the world. I attended a panel As it seems with all things going to swell so much that his new he and his wife, Jennifer, learned they discussion, led by Mozelle, about Columbia, a committee has been hat would no longer fit, but his ego must book a week in advance in order leadership in volunteer organiza- formed. I know that because I’m on returned to normal size when he was to have a family dinner. Always close tions and then, in the afternoon, it. As of September, the Reunion humbled on the way home. On both to the political scene, Jason recently I attended an interesting student Committee also includes Efrain legs of their return flight (Sydney to said, “What a crazy convention and leader panel about current student Agosto, Craig Brod, Mark Gold- Los Angeles to Chicago), the pilot election! Even Paul Ryan must look organizational challenges. berger, Bill Gray, Jon Lukomnik, asked for doctors on board to assist in out in his primary for an ambush In addition to the Saturday Brent Rosenthal and Dan Sang. a medical emergency. Internist Janet from an unknown political stalker. night gala, another highlight for me New recruits are most welcome. attended to both distressed passen- I’m going back into my hole!” was the Saturday luncheon, which The reunion has been on the mind gers. Robert said that seeing his wife I’m ready to join him. Whatever featured a conversation between of Gairy Hall: “I recently met up with possibly save lives during those two the outcome, by the time you read this President Lee C. Bollinger and old friends and fraternity brothers at flights, he was reminded of the rela- the election will be over — hooray! University Trustees Chair Jonathan the Barnard-Columbia Jam, hosted tive importance of having an M.D. Good travels and new ventures Schiller ’69, LAW’73. Their discus- by the Black Alumni Council, on versus a C.P.A. after one’s name. — how exciting! Let me hear from sion touched on the University Barnard’s campus. I’m currently at the While he flies frequently he said, “I more of you, classmates, and I’ll expansion and, most interestingly, Atlanta Veterans Affairs regional office; have never been on a plane where the share whatever you send. the future of university education. I’ve been in Atlanta for ages now with pilot asked for any C.P.A.s on board Please send updates to kenhowitt76 my wife and daughter, an Auburn grad. to identify themselves and assist in an @gmail.com or through CCT’s My son, Gairy Hall Jr. ’11, BUS’16, is accounting emergency.” 1976 Class Notes webform, college. the CCYA president. I can’t believe You go, Janet! columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ that next year is the 40th reunion — Robert has been the managing Ken Howitt note. Talk about career, family, are we getting young or what?” director of valuation and forensic 1114 Hudson St., Apt. 8 children, grandchildren or memo- Note: CCYA stands for Colum- consulting firm Willamette Manage- Hoboken, N.J. 07030 ries. All stories are welcome! Also, bia College Young Alumni. I don’t ment Associates for more than 25 [email protected] if you are making a trip to NYC, suppose Gairy Jr. could join our years. Janet and Robert say they please get in touch. Hoboken is Reunion Committee? enjoyed seeing so many classmates at On October 8, a group of CC’76ers only an eight-minute boat ride I also heard from Simon Luk, who last year’s 40th reunion. attended the Columbia Alumni from Manhattan; it would be is partner and chair of Asian Practice Bob Schneider and his wife, Association Alumni Leaders great to see all of you! at Winston & Strawn, an inter- Regina Mullahy BC’75, spent three Gala, where Mozelle Thompson national law firm. He has recently weeks in Texas this summer, visiting SIPA’79, LAW’81 was honored as published a book, Private Mergers their daughter, Meg, and doting on one of 10 alumni to receive the 2016 1977 and Acquisitions in Hong Kong, as well their granddaughters while visiting Alumni Medal. Mozelle also has a REUNION as an enlarged edition of a previous REUNION WEEKEND their son, John Schneider ’07, and graduate degree from Princeton (a book, Private Equity in Hong Kong JUNE 1–4, 2017 his wife, Stephanie Pahler BC’06. small New Jersey university). and China, both with LexisNexis. Alumni Affairs Contact Bob and Regina are empty-nesters Mozelle has served on our Fatima Yudeh Get excited for Reunion Week- now, with Meg spending her final Reunion Committees for many [email protected] end 2017 and send me an update in year of graduate school as an M.B.A. years and is a tireless volunteer for 212-851-7834 the meantime! You can use either candidate at Rice. In September, Columbia in many areas. He always Development Contact 2017 of the addresses at the top of this they traveled to Green Bay, Wis., has time and a willingness to share Heather Siemienas column or submit a note through for a wedding, with the reception his caring, knowledge and experience. [email protected] CCT’s Class Notes webform, college. at Lambeau Field. Bob found the He is a member of the Columbia 212-851-7855 columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. long stretches of open highway in College Board of Visitors and also Wisconsin’s rolling hills preferable serves on the Dean’s Technology David Gorman to the freeways and high-speed traf- Advisory Committee at SIPA. 111 Regal Dr. 1978 fic in Houston. Mozelle received a John Jay DeKalb, IL 60115 Jason Turner is working on a Award for distinguished professional [email protected] Matthew Nemerson national campaign to slow the adop- achievement in 2014. His business 35 Huntington St. tion of state-legalized marijuana. He career crosses the United States, Well, it’s coming. Our 40th class New Haven, CT 06511 says that THC (tetrahydrocannabi- from New York and Washington, reunion is scheduled for Thursday, [email protected] nol) levels today are on average 10 D.C., to Silicon Valley — with June 1–Sunday, June 4. It goes with- to 15 times higher than 30 years ago consulting clients for his business out saying that it would be great if as By the time you read this our new and that heavy users of marijuana situated many places in between. many members of our class as possi- President will be well into the pro-

66 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews cess of picking his new Cabinet and my wife, Cailín Heffernan, was served to put me back in touch with the best off-campus CU apartment I am hopeful that a few sensible but given a successful reading in May Dave Margules, which has been a living experience.” right-leaning folks from the class or by Boomerang Theatre Company, great pleasure. My favorite place to Please send me a present of more from Columbia will be connected to which will be mounting a full live was 13 Carman, of course.” notes for the New Year! the administration as conservative production in NYC for fall 2017. To Steve and all you Carman New Yorkers. We certainly learned Something to consider as side trip fans out there — that is true in CC and Hum that Hobbes had to perhaps for Reunion Weekend 2018 old-school Columbia! 1979 be considered along with Locke. — celebrating our 40th!” A bit farther ahead on the multi- I will say that, given the role Staying in the arts and heading generation plan is Jeffrey Moerdler, Robert Klapper the Russians seemed to have out to the “left coast,” Peter Samis is of Mintz Levin, who reports: “This 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 played behind the scenes, I am a changing his role out west: “I’ve scaled has been a big year for the Moerdler Los Angeles, CA 90048 little disappointed that none of our back to part-time at the San Francisco family! Our son, Eric GSAPP’14, [email protected] 38-year inventory of class columns Museum of Modern Art, after passing married Yaffa Jarashow. His twin, and communications have been the torch of interpretive media to the Jonathan, and Jonathan’s wife, Kayla James Gershfield reports on his featured in any WikiLeaks. Such a capable hands of the next generation Frielich Moerdler BC’13, had our recent work with the Alumni Repre- breach would at least have been a and participating in the opening of first grandchild, Zachary. Finally, our sentative Committee (ARC), which sign of respect for all of you and the SFMOMA’s expansion. son, Scott, and Scott’s wife, Shira he joined last year: “I interviewed a powerful connections and ideas you “After five years of research and Konski, had our second grandchild, couple of College applicants. It was a have wielded for the last third of a writing with my fellow author, Mimi Celia Rose.” great experience. I am looking forward century as disconnected elites. Michaelson, our book, Creating the And while I still see cute little to participating again this year and Still, in memory of Hillary and Visitor-Centered Museum, was sched- 18-year olds with beanies when my interviewing more students than I did what almost was, please remember uled to be released the day after mental Facebook kicks into gear about last year. ARC can use all the help it that in our emails the capital letter Thanksgiving! It’s been a long time all of you, comments like “Nothing can get (most applicants are not inter- “C” after a name or phrase still only coming. I see this as the capstone to new to report except that my grand- viewed due to a dearth of interview- refers to “who owns New York…” my museum career. son is 8 months old and is the cutest ers). I encourage fellow alumni to join and not CLASSI … oh never mind. “Next I’ll be heading to Beijing baby ever!” from Marvin Siegfried the committee and get involved. What a new world … New York with a league of extraordinary put it all back into harsh perspective! “I’m a senior software engineer at now has to share even baseball glory American art museum educators to Peter Triandafillou works at the Thomson Reuters in midtown Man- with Chicago and when we pass alma meet with our Chinese counter- Huber Resources Corp. in Orono, hattan working on Big Data projects. mater driving down the West Side parts and will give a keynote at Maine, and notes that he is still a It’s been 37 years since I graduated Highway we now have a stretch of road that gathering. Beyond all that, I’m professional forester — probably one from the College as a computing adopted by the President … go figure. looking forward to devoting some of of very few who were in our (or any science major, and I have worked in Trying to bring art and perspec- my newfound free time — when I other) class at Columbia. The irony the computer software field since tive to the insanity around us, Paul find it! — to extending the research is he really is a city boy and was a then. It is amazing how the field has Phillips, the music guy at Brown I began when I was an undergrad commuter when he was at school. developed, in terms of software tools in Providence, R.I., noted that in at Columbia, at Berkeley and in At the other end of the envi- and technologies, computing theory October “the Rhode Island College Paris junior year. It centers on ronmental world (just kidding) is and algorithms. I am especially inter- Symphony Orchestra premiered world views; how they develop and Thomas Reuter at General Electric ested in connecting with others who Brass Knuckles, my latest composi- shape our lives. There might just be in the authentic original GE town majored in computing science at the tion. Written in August and sub- another book there!” of Schenectady, N.Y. Tom notes that College in the 1970s and 1980s and titled ‘Pugilistic Prelude in Rondo By the way, Peter’s Columbia his favorite room at school was on finding out how their careers have Form for Large Orchestra,’ it’s a housing inspiration for these great 4 Furnald, which he says had a “just developed through the years. Please topical work inspired by the bare- museums was 629 Furnald! barely river view.” contact Robert for my email address fisted brawling of the 2016 election. Joseph Schachner, who works A snippet of river adds $1 million if you would like to get in touch.” “Earlier this year, Naxos Records at Teledyne LeCroy, the maker of to any coop on Riverside Drive, so After a seven-year stint as a head released two recordings I conducted complex scientific equipment, noted cherish those memories, Tom. of unit in the European Com- and produced with the Brown in his message to your humble scribe Tom believes his room is now the mission’s Directorate-General for University Orchestra: Manhattan the shocking reality that many of women’s bathroom. I can’t believe all Translation, based in Brussels, in Intermezzo, with pianist Jeffrey us have recently experienced as he bathrooms on campus aren’t unisex 2010 Xavier Huguet became a Biegel; and Anthony Burgess: turned 60: “I became a grandpa!” and all-gender now … senior translator and reviser. In Orchestral Music. Both recordings The question of the column this Another lawyer, Paul Feldman, January 2015, Huguet married have received excellent reviews, with time was “What was your favorite of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth in Franco-Trinidadian choreographer Manhattan Intermezzo topping the place where you lived while at Arlington, Va., writes to say that the Nadine Ganase. classical charts in March as the best- Columbia?” and Joe said in his case only place to live on campus in the Ethan Heisler updates us with selling Naxos CD worldwide.” it was Beit Ephraim (also called “the day was Hartley! the news that he “retired from Congratulations, Paul, on your Bayit,” which means “the house”). And finally, at least someone is Citigroup on May 27 after 22 years success. I’m not sure if that means a Steve Zaris, of McCarthy Duffy staying up late making sure we are all and launched a consultancy under gold record but it sounds impressive. in Park Ridge, Ill., has family news: safe and that would be Jeff Canfield the banner ‘The Bank Treasury Paul says that his apartment at “I’m excited to report that my son, of the Department of Defense, who Newsletter.’ I am currently seeking 504 W. 110th St. was his favorite; John Zaris ’20, resides on 8 John Jay. says he is “moving to a new position board seats on banks.” he lived there for eight years after Son Nick is a sophomore at Denison as deputy director of the Middle Robert C. Klapper: Without school as well. and daughter Penelope is a high East and Africa regional center.” stating the obvious, your belly is Another talented classmate is school sophomore. This year marks (Which sounds right out of Home- slightly bigger, your hair is no longer Henry Aronson, who writes: “Love- 35 years practicing law in Chicago. land Season 6.) Jeff ’s favorite digs dark and there is a solar panel on top less Texas, the musical I wrote with Our common trade has recently near campus was “541 W. 113th St., of your head. Mother Nature is all

Winter 2016–17 CCT 67 Class Notes around us, but it is Father Time who all of whom had the good fortune Oscar Shamamian GSAPP’85 Seth Haberman reports: “I sold is inside us. We are aging. We are to have played for Coach and were is closing in on 30 years as a my latest company to Comcast and closer to the end than the beginning. touched by his influence through the founding partner of Ferguson & now have a job for the first time in These are the times where you get years. He will be sorely missed by me Shamamian Architects, which is 30 years.” to reflect on the top 10 moments of and all of the Columbia family. widely recognized for traditional Thanks to all who wrote in. Have your life — perhaps one of them was The financial services industry and classical residential design. He a great start to 2017! crossing Broadway in the middle of held its annual charity dinner, and writes, “Walking past Low Library Charles LaRocca. the night, experiencing the best of I ran into He is every day, I couldn’t help but be Barnard; the birth of your children; the chief investment officer at LCJ inspired by classical forms, propor- 1982 or marriage. From a food perspective, Associates, a financial planning and tion and detail.” REUNION REUNION WEEKEND at this point many of us have traveled wealth management firm. Charlie Oscar is currently at work on JUNE 1–4, 2017 to the places we just read about while lives in the Dyker Heights section architectural projects in Los Angeles, Alumni Affairs Contact taking art history and making that of Brooklyn with his wife, Theresa, Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard, as well Fatima Yudeh class come to life. The top 10 meals and their two children. as in the Bahamas and Canada. A [email protected] of all time is a thought that I enjoy On October 20, the Colum- monograph of his firm’s work, New 212-851-7834 contemplating, which brings me to bia University Athletics Hall of Traditional Architecture: Ferguson Development Contact 2017 my Columbia memory for this issue. Fame inducted a new class, which & Shamamian Architects: City and Heather Siemienas Here is a list that perhaps some included former baseball coach Paul Country Residences was published in [email protected] Eric Blattman, Shawn of you share: 1. Biting into a slice of Fernandes. 2011 and he is hard at work on Vol. II. 212-851-7855 FitzGerald eggplant pizza at V&T, where the and I were honored to Oscar resides in New York City with chewiness of the dough is like the be among some of the all-time great his wife and two daughters. Andrew Weisman greatest bialy you’ve ever eaten. athletes, as well as coach Paul, who is Richard W. Hayes writes that he 81 S. Garfield St. 2. Taking a bite of a croissant from doing well and spends time in South received his fifth fellowship to the Denver, CO 80209 The Hungarian Pastry Shop, where Florida near his grandchildren. MacDowell Colony and his second [email protected] I have added to the bite additional It was great to see many of you at fellowship to Yaddo, where he is butter and apricot jam for the Homecoming on October 22, where writing a book, Housing New York: Greetings, gentlemen. As I write sweetest and most flavorful culinary the day was highlighted with a come- The Recent Past. His research was this, autumn closes in and I have experience, washed down with the from-behind victory. Football is funded by a grant from the New York completed my preparations for the greatest pre-Starbucks cappuccino challenging but there are some bright State Council on the Arts (www. election. I have duly registered to I’ve ever had. 3. Sitting on Low Steps spots in the recent recruiting class. clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/23-08- vote — as I’m sure you all have Joe Ciulla in the springtime, unwrapping the Congratulations to 2016/richard-hayes-awarded-nysca- — and I will not allow Francis white paper that contains my Mama on the marriage of his daughter, grant). He was also named a life Underwood to miss out on a second Joy’s roast beef hero. I didn’t know Brittany, to Matthew Mitchell. The member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. term. As for the real election, I leave roast beef could taste so buttery. newlyweds will live in San Diego. From Enrique Josephs: “My son, that to the rest of you. Four years in the life of a Many of us celebrated our 40th- Enrique Jr., has been blessed with the Checking in this quarter, for the 60-year-old is about 5 percent of the year high school reunions this year. position of narrator for Showtime’s first time, is the esteemed doctor Bob time we’ve been on this planet, but It never ceases to amaze me how weekly Inside the NFL. EJ has been a Diamond. I must admit that I am for some reason many of those top you can go so long without seeing producer for NFL Films and was the impressed with Bob’s accomplish- 10 food moments still come from childhood friends and you pick up first to narrate the New York Giants’ ments, but more so with his daughter Morningside Heights. right where you left off. highlights since Giants Hall of Ruth ’20. As many of you may have Hope this triggers some of your Best wishes on a happy and Famer Frank Gifford started doing it heard, The Wall Street Journal and The memories. Roar, lion, roar! healthy holiday season, and please 40 years ago. EJ has narrated the Jets, New York Times recently released their write: [email protected]. Cowboys and Lions highlights and college rankings. Accordingly, the the popular Top 100 Players of 2016 University came in third nationally 1980 countdown (seen by 25 million view- and at the top of the heap in the Ivies! 1981 ers weekly). He wrote, directed and It’s now statistically impossible to Michael C. Brown produced the Colts’ highlight piece, gain admission to the College, so I’m London Terrace Towers Columbia College Today Next Man Up. His first major project guessing Ruth is an exceptional young 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F Columbia Alumni Center was the voiceover of NFL Presents: lady! Bob wrote that he is “happy to New York, NY 10011 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Super Bowl 50. He accomplished all report Ruth is ‘carrying the torch.’” [email protected] New York, NY 10025 of these projects since his start with Bob’s friends, family and col- [email protected] the company in December 2015.” leagues have noticed he has acquired Winter is a wonderful time to be in From Joshua Friedman: “My a shade of green from envy over Mike Kinsella NYC. The holidays seem to bring out CCT thanks for firm, Friedman & Houlding, is work- Ruth’s dorm room — a campus-side the best in people, and we are blessed his two years of service as a class ing on an interesting case. We repre- single in Furnald. For those of you with a great family and friends. correspondent. If you are interested sent a class of women truck drivers not aware, the refurbished Furnald I had the honor of attending a in taking over the CC’81 Class who have been sexually harassed or (at least they left the lobby intact!) memorial service for William V. Notes reins, please reach out to cct@ assaulted working at a long haul firm. is now a first-year dorm. Even with Campbell ’62, TC’64 on campus on columbia.edu. Being a class corre- I thought my classmates might be a great housing lottery number, September 16. With heartfelt words spondent is a great way to stay con- interested in reading about the prob- the best Bob could get as a senior by classmates, friends and trustees, nected with the College and with lems women face in non-traditional was a street-side single in Furnald. “Coach” had a tremendous sendoff. classmates. In the interim, while employment. There is a good article Times do change, although as Bob The Class of ’80 was also represented we search for a new correspondent, on the problem, published in a new, notes, “The campus still mostly looks Mario Biaggi, Shawn FitzGerald, by please send your updates to cct@ online magazine, Mary Review: identical. If I blinked, I could be Brian O’Hagan A.J. Sabatelle, and columbia.edu. maryreview.com/trucking.” back in 1978.”

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Bob is a physician-scientist/phar- both admitted to the society for And, equally important, we thought Balram family lost their home in the maceutical executive, lives in subur- their outstanding commitment to you were the applicants best able to Gorkha earthquake in April 2015. ban Philadelphia (Penn Valley, Pa.) the College. help others develop their knowledge, While the Nepalese government has with his wife, Martha Ortiz (Harvard Let’s keep those notes coming in! understanding and insight at the not rebuilt a single home, and has ’83), and their other potential Lion, Send them to the addresses at the same time. Essential to your success made it almost impossible for the Ethan (14). Bob can be contacted at top of this column or through CCT’s in this endeavor will be learning other big NGOs to help, Micro-Aid [email protected].” Class Notes webform, college. perspectives and ideas that are has provided a permanent, comfort- Thanks for checking in, Bob! columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. different from your own — perspec- able and safe home for this family On a personal note, yours truly tives and ideas that may challenge for generations to come.” helped to host the annual Great you, perspectives and ideas that my Gideon Besson: “I live in North Teacher Awards ceremony at 1983 cause you to question equally your Carolina and have been in private Low Rotunda, held on June 4 this own beliefs and those of others. medical practice since 1997, special- year and given by the Society of Roy Pomerantz There is a method that can guide izing in pulmonary disease, internal Columbia Graduates. The event Babyking/Petking you on how to do this. It is called medicine and sleep disorders. Two coincides with All-Class Reunion 182-20 Liberty Ave. ‘Beginner’s Mind.’ kids and a dog. I keep in close touch (formerly known as Dean’s Day). Jamaica, NY 11412 “To have ‘Beginner’s Mind’ with a few classmates.” For those of you who are unfamiliar [email protected] means engaging with the world-the Elliot Quint: “Roy, thank you for with the society, it is Columbia’s world of ideas and the world of the good work you do as CCT’s CC’83 oldest alumni-run organization. It’s On August 29, Dean James J. Valen- people-without preconceptions, with point man. No doubt it is difficult to been around since 1909 and has tini welcomed the Class of 2020 at an openness to consider all opinions, get anything out of some of the more as its primary mission to celebrate Convocation. He gave the following all ideas, all possibilities. Shunryū reclusive classmates, like me. great undergraduate teaching at the inspirational speech: “I am sure a lot Suzuki writes, ‘In the Beginner’s “My wife, Janice, and I retired to College and Engineering. This year of people have congratulated you on Mind there are many possibilities; in Laguna Beach, Calif., three years marked the 68th annual presenta- your admission to Columbia. I will the expert’s mind there are few.’ The ago. Though we miss Boston, we tion of the award. The 2016 winners also, but not just for the achieve- ‘expert’ Suzuki refers to is someone have enjoyed meeting people and were Professor Adam Cannon from ment. Rather, I am congratulating who is convinced that he or she creating a community for ourselves. SEAS and Professor Julie Crawford you on your good fortune in being already knows and understands, We have even attended a few CAA from the College, both exceptionally presented with an opportunity — someone who believes he or she of SoCal events; there is an active talented teachers! Yours truly is cur- an opportunity to profit from and already has all the necessary insight group here. During the past few rently president of the society. contribute to the special experi- — someone who thinks nothing years I have spent time trying to I have two photos from the event. ence that a Columbia education more need be considered. Being raise funds, and more importantly One, here in the magazine, features offers. That special experience is that kind of expert negates all the awareness, for suicide prevention. fellow society Board of Directors fundamentally an endeavor to find opportunity of being at Columbia. My daughter, Rebecca, my only member David Filosa and I helping knowledge, to develop understand- Beginner’s Mind is important in child, took her own life in 2010. to lead the celebration’s attendees in ing, and to gain insight. To engage your academic work, which is why I Since then I have supported The the singing of Sans Souci. Another, in finding something, the first have presented it in the first lecture Samaritans and the American Foun- which you can see at college. step is to accept that you do NOT of every chemistry course I have dation for Suicide Prevention, most columbia.edu/cct in the Class Notes already have it. We admitted you taught for many years, and now recently walking with thousands of section for this issue, features Can- NOT because we thought you had at Convocation for several years. others through the night in the Out non and Crawford with fellow board mastered your knowledge, under- Beginner’s Mind is the prerequisite of the Darkness Walk. member Glenn Silbert SEAS’75, standing and insight, but because for scientific discovery. It is the “I remain close to Sam Park PS’79 and me. we thought you were the applicants prerequisite for all intellectual dis- SEAS’83 and have had sporadic On a happy related note, Michael best able to develop that knowledge, covery. It is at the heart of the Core but really great meet-ups with a few McCarthy ’83 and Alex Moon were understanding and insight here. Curriculum, the central component other classmates in Chicago and of a Columbia College educa- elsewhere the past couple of years.” tion, which many of you will begin Wayne Allyn Root: “The reality tomorrow with your first Literature TV show I created, Las Vegas Law, Humanities class. Beginner’s Mind was recently renewed by Investi- is the essence of what it means to be gation Discovery for 2017. I am a thinking person. And our world creator and executive producer. I needs thinking people — especially have a new reality TV show on the today, when there are so many way, with the pilot filmed recently, unwavering opinions and so little about rookie police officers on the understanding.” streets of Las Vegas. I am co-creator Jon Ross: “When a natural and executive producer. My other disaster strikes somewhere in the TV show, Ghost Adventures, is still world, like the recent earthquakes the No. 1 highest-rated show on in Italy and in Myanmar, people Travel Channel for the 12th straight often ask, ‘What can I do to help?’ season. I am producer. DAVID DINI SIPA’14 DAVID Here at Micro-Aid, we have the “My radio show, WAR Now with On June 4, during Reunion Weekend 2016, the Society of Columbia answer: Rebuild people’s homes Wayne Allyn Root, replaced Mark Graduates awarded the 68th annual Great Teacher Awards to Engineering and get them back to their normal Levin in the afternoon drive time Professor Adam Cannon and College Professor Julie Crawford. David lives! I am happy to report that the slot in Las Vegas (3–6 p.m. daily). Filosa ’82 (left) and Andrew Weisman ’82 led attendees in the singing of Micro-Aid house for our beneficiary It’s quite an honor to be the guy two “Sans Souci” at the ceremony. family in Nepal is complete. The million Las Vegans listen to on their

Winter 2016–17 CCT 69 Class Notes way home from work. I was recently them. Don’t you remember that from Kevin Chapman has published are interviewed. Please volunteer for given the premier political column your Contemporary Civilization and his second novel. A Legacy of One is this important committee. Mark Kerman in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Literature Humanities courses? What, the story of fictional Sen. Jonathan SEAS’83, BUS’87 largest newspaper in the state of you didn’t read those books? Well, Prescott III ’93, whose destiny and is assistant VP at Columbia Facilities Nevada. My column appears twice never mind. After almost 14 years in political future reaches a critical in charge of residential and com- per week. The newspaper calls me Southeast Europe and Greece, I have crossroads after Jonathan attends the mercial operations. He oversees eight ‘The Conservative Voice of Nevada.’” a unique and detailed view of the celebration of his 20th Columbia million sq. ft. of residential space. As a Ed Joyce: “So how is it, you crises within the European Union. College class reunion. A substantial student, Mark was president of ZBT ask, that my wife, Linda Joyce Like any large-animal veterinarian portion of the story takes place at Interfraternity Council. He and his

BC’83, and I (and our amazing will tell you, the best way to determine Columbia during Jonathan’s college wife live near Columbia. Their daugh- eight teammates) will take 10 days a horse’s health is not by looking at years, where his experiences and ter, Emily ’19, was a graduate of the off from our crazy work schedules, its teeth, but by examining it from the friends influence the politician he first class of the Columbia Secondary fly nearly 6,000 miles to Israel rear end. Problems that are not appar- will become. Columbia alumni will School for Math, Science & Engi- and cycle in the five-day, 300-mile ent at the horse’s mouth in Brussels recognize the setting and many of neering. Mark’s other daughter, Jenna, Wheels of Love bike ride for ALYN or Luxembourg are much more clear the experiences, and I hope will is a senior at this high school. Frank Kar- Hospital? After you watch this at the rear end, in Greece. That is why relate to the personal journey that Mark is in touch with picki, Joe Mataloni, amazing two-minute video, you most Greeks are not surprised by or is Jonathan’s life. The book is avail- Glen Meyers Kurt Lundgren will understand, how can we not?: disapproving of the so-called Brexit able in trade paperback and Kindle ’84 and (Columbia youtube.com/watch?v=fr1U92- vote. Who would not jump from a ebook formats from Amazon. baseball legend). Kurt is tied for third bO5s&feature=youtu.be. sinking ship, or one that is structur- Search for Kevin G. Chapman or in Columbia career wins (18) and is “Our journey began on Novem- ally failing? For details and analyses visit Kevin’s author page at amazon. first in strikeouts (270). After gradu- ber 6. The wonderful Jewish, Arab on these questions, my fellow alumni com/Kevin-G.-Chapman/e/ ating from Columbia, Kurt pitched and Christian children of ALYN can contact me via email. The present B00J1GJZNM. Kevin says he would in the Mets’ minor league system. Hospital thank all of you who will situation involving the E.U., Greece love it if classmates would write He also pitched for various semi-pro graciously support Linda, me and and others is related to Contemporary reviews on Amazon. Don’t worry, no leagues. He spent five years in the our team (Grumpy Roadsters) in Civilization and Lit Hum courses. real secrets are revealed and all the Mets organization, the last three for this incredible, heartfelt endeavor Remember your reading of Homer’s names have been changed to protect Class AA Jackson in Mississippi. (wolusa.org/goto/grumpyroadsters). Odyssey and other books: What were the innocent among us. His best year was 1985, when he Wishing a Shana Tova (‘Happy the praiseworthy traits of Odysseus George Wilson attended went 8–4 with a 3.21 ERA to earn New Year’) to each of you and and other heroes? Is there an Ameri- Columbia Alumni Leaders Weekend “Pitcher of the Year” honors for the your families!” can character who embodies those in early October. He spent time with Jackson Mets. From the Nanuet H.S. Kevin Berkowitz: “I live in Thessa- same traits? Yes — Bugs Bunny. Now David Filosa ’82, Donna MacPhee Hall of Fame link: “‘My time in the loniki, Greece, with my family, though would you admit Bugs Bunny and his ’89, Leslie Zahm ’99 and Steven minors was awesome. Most of the [as I write this] I am in the United nation into your political and currency Kane ’80, LAW’83. I also attended stars on the Mets roster through States for a few months. Greeks like union? If you did, how wise would and sat with Ed Joyce and Ken the ’80s came up with me or I with to enjoy the basic human pleasures you be? How long do you think your Howitt ’76 at the luncheon. I also them,’ Kurt says, citing players like of life despite what goes on around union would last?” spoke briefly with Andrew Barth Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, BUS’85. Andrew is a University Lenny Dykstra, Dave Magadan, trustee, chair of Capital Guardian Kevin Elster, Randy Myers and Rick Trust Co. and a director of Capital Aguilera, the latter two being his Group International. He com- roommates at various times.” peted for four years on Columbia’s Unfortunately, after rotator cuff wrestling team, was part of three surgery in 1986, Kurt’s fastball Ivy-League Championship teams plummeted from the low 90-mph and was named an All-Ivy wrestler. range to the low 80s. Kurt is an In 2011, he received a John Jay attorney and partner in Thwaites & Award for distinguished professional Lundgren, a commercial litigation achievement from the College. firm in Elmsford, N.Y. He lives in George, Gary McCready, Kevin Nanuet with his wife, Teresa, and Chapman and I participated in a sons, Christopher and Alec. Columbia College Alumni Asso- Looking forward to seeing you ciation Board of Directors Serve at some Columbia events in the Committee call. The Serve Commit- New Year! tee exists to determine appropriate thanks for all College volunteers based on volunteer roles. This year, 1984 we are focused on thanking Alumni Dennis Klainberg Representative Committee volunteers. Berklay Cargo Worldwide Only 30 percent of applicants to

DAVID POMERANTZ DAVID 14 Bond St., Ste 233 Columbia are interviewed by alumni Great Neck, NY 11021 Columbia’s Homecoming win against Dartmouth on October 22 was a through ARC, which puts us far [email protected] treat for longtime Lions football fans. In the stands were, back row: Steve behind our peer institutions. Anyone Coleman ’83 and Brian Krisberg ’81; middle row: Steve Barcan ’63 and Lee who is interested in doing interviews Philip Segal Lowenfish ’63; standing, at left: Roy Pomerantz ’83, and front row: Stanley this year should contact me. The yield Super sleuth has written Mandel ’61 and Barry Mandel ’88. is higher for admitted students who a new book, The Art of Fact Investiga-

70 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews tion: Creative Thinking in the Age of From Class President Larry issue of CCT highlighted my ral Society; this season’s concerts Information Overload. He says, “I’m Kane, by day a top-notch attorney, long-range weather forecast success include performances in Carnegie a lawyer with a small firm that does by night a wrestling coach to (college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/ Hall, Lincoln Center, St. Patrick’s fact-finding, mostly for other lawyers. disadvantaged youth in Northern winter15; go to the ‘Lions’ section).” Cathedral and St. Bart’s Church. I Tom Vinciguerra I wrote the book because of the mis- California and at all times a dutiful ’s most recent even participated in a small backup conception that with a person’s Social and super-proud father: “Two of my op-ed piece in The New York Times, group for a recording with Peter Security number and a few databases, daughters, Charlotte (12) and Cait- “Who Stole My ‘Star Trek’?” was Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary it’s easy to find out lots of information lin (10), and a few of their friends published in September in honor of fame). And best of all, at a recent about an individual. If that were true, have organized the First Annual the recent 50th anniversary of Star rehearsal I caught up with Glee our clients would get those databases Noe Valley Girls Film Festival. See Trek’s debut. Club legend Eric Hanson ’82. and they wouldn’t need us. Investiga- this nice article about the festival in At my high school reunion, I ran Looking forward to hearing Rob Ripin, tion is as much an art as it is a science. a June issue of Time For Kids maga- into who is a partner from you! Shoot me an email at Instead of logical deduction, a good zine: timeforkids.com/news/calling- at the New York law firm Hogan [email protected]! fact finder needs to use intuition and female-filmmakers/432216 Lovells. Rob has advised on cutting- creativity, as nobody has the time or Congratulations to Alfredo edge capital markets and other the budget to look everywhere. The Brillembourg Sr., Pravin Dugel finance transactions and focuses on 1986 book is aimed at lawyers, journalists and Paul Schwarzbaum, whose cross-border capital raising. John Phelan Everett Weinberger (I was one for 19 years before going children, Alfredo, Tara and Ezra, ably represented 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B to law school) or anyone else who is respectively, joined the Class of 2020. our class at Alumni Leaders Week- New York, NY 10023 faced with a fact-finding problem and Todd Sussman had a great end, October 7–8, reporting that it [email protected] asks, ‘Where do I start?’” summer. He writes, “I had the good “just gets better and better. Good Bruce Skyer Mazel Tov, ! “I’m fortune to work on not one but two speakers, all focused on helping happy to say that I’ve joined the official Barbra Streisand projects. I to build skills in fundraising and Hope you’re well and that you had United Synagogue of Conserva- am listed as the Liner Notes Editor networking, and developing one’s an enjoyable winter holiday season. tive Judaism as its chief financial for her new hit album, Encore: Movie personal brand. We heard from I’d love to hear from you with any and operations officer. USCJ is the Partners Sing Broadway, and I have students who are club presidents. So news or thoughts you’d like to share umbrella organization for approxi- the same credit listed in the gorgeous impressive! As a past Alumni Repre- with classmates. Drop me a line mately 600 conservative congrega- souvenir program for her latest con- sentative Committee regional chair, in 2017! You can write to either tions in North America. Interestingly, cert tour, The Music...The Mem’ries...The I participated in the admissions of the addresses at the top of the my journey through the nonprofit Magic! Both projects were true labors review and enjoyed meeting other column, or use CCT’s Class Notes sector began at my own synagogue, of love and called upon my knowledge ARC chairs. Columbia regional webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ so it is personally meaningful to have of her career and music, as well as my clubs are alive and thriving, and submit_class_note. an impact on an organization so vital creative writing experience. Interest- France won the award for best club. to American Jewry.” ingly, my first published pieces about It has more than 2,000 members. David Lapsed Great Necker Barbra appeared in Spectator 1981–84. I had the pleasure of sitting next 1987 Lewinter is having a banner year. This was the summer of a lifetime.” to one of its board members, who REUNION REUNION WEEKEND “Life is great. My wife, Linda BC’85, Many thanks to all for your is from Long Island and works JUNE 1–4, 2017 LAW’88 (née Friedman) and I have condolences on the passing of my in Paris. So all good. Good cross Alumni Affairs Contact three wonderful kids. My eldest, pollination from all the schools, father and special thanks to my dear Fatima Yudeh Rebecca, is married and works in friends and CCT Class Notes col- including Barnard.” Matt Bartels, [email protected] PR for Havas. Ben ’16 works for leagues, Roy Pomerantz ’83 and Jon Congratulations to 212-851-7834 Jay Barth, David Feldman, Accenture as a management consul- White ’85, as well as neighbor Adam 2017 James Hagani, Dennis Hirsch, Development Contact tant in the digital media group. My Bayroff ’83 and his wonderful wife, Heather Siemienas Jeffrey Lautin, Ashok Nayyar youngest, Jessica, began at Maryland. Margo, for visiting my mother’s and [email protected] Martin Tell. I retired from law (SVP, general home during the Shiva period. They are proud parents, 212-851-7855 counsel of Dun & Bradstreet) in as their children entered the College 2008. A few years later I started my with the Class of 2020. Our class is Sarah A. Kass wealth management firm, Lewinter 1985 tied (with the Class of ’81) for hav- PO Box 300808 Wealth Advisors. The firm has been ing the most legacy students in the Brooklyn, NY 11230 growing quite rapidly and I love the Jon White Class of 2020! [email protected] work. The firm was originally set up 16 South Ct. Of course, as our kids go off as a pro bono exercise to help young Port Washington, NY 11050 to college, that leaves us with Plans are under way for our 30th couples get off on the right track [email protected] more time to rediscover long-lost (yes, 30th — no way to escape that financially in life but has morphed pastimes. Please share what you are number) reunion, Thursday, June Ron Burton into a for-profit venture.” Judah Cohen has exciting news: “the doing now, or what you hope to 1–Sunday, June 4. and Steven Waldman Bruce Furukawa From — acceptance of our twin sons, Jordan be doing. On the Columbia front, are co-chairing the journalist and entrepreneur, who and Jonathon, to the College. Prob- please consider joining ARC. I have Reunion Committee. Members (and in 1999 founded Beliefnet.com ably most excited is our eldest daugh- found it to be a rewarding experi- the list is growing daily, so apologies (which became the Internet’s largest ter, Gabriella BC’18, who is looking ence. We want as many potential to anyone who joined after this went Laura Adams, Steve multi-faith spirituality website) — forward to having her baby brothers applicants as possible to meet mem- to press) are Amitay, Sandy Asirvatham, Kyra now comes LifePosts. As stated on join her on campus. They are spending bers of the Columbia community. Tirana Barry, Joey Bernstein, Jon the website: “LifePosts’ mission is a gap year in Israel but will return next After 25 years of regular vocal Bram, Doug Cifu, Sean Couch, to ensure that every person’s life year to join the Class of 2021. inactivity, I have finally reawakened Michelle Estilo Kaiser, Greg Fon- story can be beautifully told, vividly “I am sure many readers saw this my cords by singing on a regular dran, Nancy Friedman, Gerri Gold, celebrated, and preserved.” already, but the Winter 2015–16 basis. I rejoined the New York Cho-

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Greg Gonzalez, Ed Ho SEAS’87, Ed Hoffman, Lee Ilan, Dora Kim Baer, Ilene Weinstein Lederman, Joe Liu, Christina Musrey, Richard D. Simonds, George Stone, John Sun, Jonathan Wald and yours truly. Ilene already wrote to talk about the wonderful planning luncheon she had in San Francisco with committee members Kyra and Bruce, as well as Randy Bessolo. Join our Facebook group, Columbia College Class of 1987, or check college.columbia.edu/alumni/events/ reunion-weekend-2017 for updates. As a preview of things to come, Lee Ilan sent the following: “I attended All-Class Reunion last June. In addition to (of course) participating in our upcoming 30th, I highly recommend going to a reunion in a year that’s not your own. I had some nice conversations with friends from CC’86 (like fellow ’57, BUS’58 WILL CSAPLAR COURTESY Glee Clubbers Dan Chenok ’86 and Rich Goodstein ’86), but I also went to an astrophysics lecture by all our donations — of amounts large reminded of how many beautiful survived my second Florida summer the still-brilliant-and-going-strong and small — add up to show broad Class of ’87 connections I’ve made (this was the hottest summer ever — Professor David Helfand and met support for these activities. I’ve been after graduation, at reunions and even the native Floridians said so) and current members of the Marching contributing fairly small amounts for other alumni events. Some of my it was not so bad. I have not endured a Band. Not trying to catch up with 30 years and feel very much a part of dearest friends from our class I hurricane, but … classmates allows you to tour the the class. My intention is that all of didn’t even know as a student (that’s “Florida, at least where I am, is campus and take in all the other us will feel welcome and appreciated what happens when you live in the surprisingly age-diverse. It is not just reunion activities, which was terrific. in that role. Spectator offices for four years!). So a bunch of retirees anymore, although And my 5-year-old loved the Camp “I went to the Columbia College give yourself the gift of not only the snowbirds start coming down Columbia activities — she proudly Fund volunteer kickoff meeting in reconnecting with old friends but in late October and stay until May. shows off the pirate-themed picture September. In addition to getting making new ones! The only thing that isn’t so great is Eli Kavon frame she decorated. tips on overcoming the fear of Back to the news. commuting on I-95 here, where you “Moving on to our reunion, I am talking to classmates (who knew we is beginning his second full year have 20-year-olds doing 80 mph and excited to catch up with classmates. were such an intimidating bunch?), as rabbi of Congregation Anshei 80-year-olds doing 20 mph. Even though I’m not a large donor, we got updates on the development Shalom in West Palm Beach, Fla. He “Sadly, my husband, Theodore I agreed to co-chair the fundraising of the Manhattanville campus and writes blog posts for The Jerusalem Baer Jr. GS’54, passed away this past committee to emphasize that every- some fascinating history on the Post website (jpost.com) at “Past February. We had a great 23 years; one’s involvement is welcome and development of the Core Cur- Imperfect: Confronting Jewish His- I just wish he had had more time to encouraged. Your participation is not riculum. I learned that the Business tory.” Eli is also writing a biography enjoy living in Florida full time. contingent on how much or whether School will move out of Uris, freeing of his father — a WWII veteran, “I travel back and forth to NYC you give financially. Many of us also up space for Arts and Sciences. nightclub singer and cantor — as about once a month for personal contribute by interviewing prospec- And my appreciation for the Core well as collecting essays of his own and work reasons, so I still get my tive students, mentoring current increased — the small classes, from the past decade to be published. New York fix. The flights between Dora Kim Baer students, organizing and attending discussion format, the teachers’ writes that after Palm Beach International to the alumni activities (e.g., Columbia Col- preparation, and attending concerts 31 years of living and working in New York area are frequent and lege Women, athletics alumni events, and art exhibits with classmates. NYC, she moved to South Florida in convenient. If anyone is visiting in regional gatherings, etc.), and keeping “So please open your hearts and February 2015 to join AVM, a hedge the Palm Beach area let me know. I’d us all connected (thank you, Sarah your ears when your classmate calls. fund based in Boca Raton. She says, be glad to show you around.” Kass!). All of these efforts enhance Give them a few moments to talk “It has been a great experience so far Dora, I believe I can safely speak the vibrancy of our class, the reputa- about how you can be part of our class and it was a good change for me. Reg- for all of us when I say we send our tion of Columbia and the experi- gift. Our many donations add up to ulatory reform has greatly changed deepest condolences on your loss. Garth Stein ence for current students. We all are be transformative to current students’ the banking/financing industry, so reports that his grateful for the contributions of our experience. Thanks for listening.” it was nice to make the transition to oldest son, Caleb (20), is at Berklee John Jay Associates-level and major Remember, too, that we want the private buy side. I live in West College of Music, while his second gift donors. Their support provides YOU at reunion and as important as Palm Beach across the Intracoastal son, Eamon (17), is being recruited significant resources for financial aid, the class gift may be, YOUR PRES- Waterway from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, for Division III soccer. Garth’s the Core Curriculum, student activi- ENCE is what really matters! Your of all things. The weather has been youngest son, Dashiell (9), is, ties and stipends for internships. But classmates want to see you. And as easy to adjust to, especially when I according to his dad, “just happy to the strength of our donor pool is that is the case around every reunion, I’m know it’s freezing up north. I have be in the fourth grade.” Garth’s third

72 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews children’s book, Enzo’s Very Scary Richard Simonds says, “I enjoy Divya was doing a year abroad at After 21 years at Emory, in Halloween, was recently published practicing law at Alston & Bird in Edinburgh), our outings are filled Atlanta, as assistant and then associ- and his fourth is scheduled for New York, where I am a partner in the with excitement and star power. ate professor of history and African- Leslie publication next spring. He said he finance group. I recently spoke about Patti Smith showed up for lunch at American studies, this fall Harris is hard at work on a new novel, but FinTech at a conference in Tel Aviv, the little hole-in-the-wall restaurant moved to Northwestern as writes, “And no, The Art of Racing in which was my first visit to Israel. where Divya and I were, a place I’ve professor of history. She and her the Rain is not a movie yet.” “My wife, Julia, and I live in been going to since my freshman partner, Pam Xami Hall, “are enjoy- Lisa Hertzberg Long, Soon, we hope! Scarsdale, N.Y., although I’m not roommate, ing Chicago and Evanston!” Leslie Garth also recounted the following sure where we will go when we introduced me to it some 30-plus says she “will continue writing and tale: “I was wearing my Columbia become empty-nesters. My eldest years ago, after it was featured in a teaching African-American history, T-shirt in the gym and a young son, Richard, is a sophomore in little-known 1980s movie. particularly slavery and urban his- Ilene Wein- woman said, ‘Did you go to Colum- college, thinking about majoring Congratulations to tory.” Leslie’s time at Columbia “was stein Lederman bia? So did I!’ I asked what year. She in physics or philosophy, and my on the bar mitzvah critical to [my] development as a said 2012. I felt old. But then I said, ‘I other sons, Charles and Henry, are a of her son, Max, in July in San Fran- historian, particularly classes with the was in the first coed graduating class!’ junior and freshman, respectively, at cisco. Once again she and I (and our late James Shenton ’49 and mentor- Because if I’m going to be old, at least Scarsdale H.S. dads, Ed Weinstein ’57 and Alvin ing from Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69.” I can stand for something!” “I’ve been reading a lot of clas- Kass ’57) had parallel milestones as Leslie says she was honored to Suze Kim-Villano sent in what sics lately, including rereading Lit my nephew, Judah, celebrated his be in conversation with Profes- she called her “one-year update:” She Hum books such as Cervantes’ Don bar mitzvah in August. Judah’s dad sor Foner in February 2015 about says, “I left teaching and am working Quixote and Rabelais’ Gargantua is my brother, Danny Kass ’95. Can his book Gateway to Freedom: The as the administrative director of the and Pantagruel, as part of a project. we get Judah and Max to make it Hidden History of the Underground Sacred Music Academy of Notre I’ve discovered the social media site three generations? Railroad, which discusses the Dame (sma.nd.edu and facebook. Goodreads to be a good place to No pressure, guys. No pressure. travails of formerly enslaved African com/notredamechildrenschoir) share my book thoughts.” Americans in New York City, at the and director of the Lyric Choir for A few other tidbits come from Schomburg Center for Research children with special needs. This Farah Chandu, who said that while 1988 in Black Culture. A video of the mixed-ability choir focuses on sing- her own children did not want to go evening program is available at Eric Fusfield ing and musical instruction through to Columbia, her nephew/godson has livestream.com/schomburgcenter/ 1945 South George Mason Dr. Elizabeth DuPont sacred music in a safe and respectful started a doctoral program in chemis- events/3691823. Arlington, VA 22204 Spencer Susie Marples environment. We are a mixed-ability try at Columbia. Farah wrote that he and were [email protected] group, joined by other members of “is busy torturing undergrads as a T.A.” in the audience. the Notre Dame Children’s Choir. I Ah, happy days! I wish everyone a happy and Shep Long love working with this organization Cathy Webster had a reunion notes that his former healthy 2017 (our next reunion will John — just in its fourth year — includ- lunch with Ed Hoffman this past Carman Hall roommate, be just one year away then) and look Vaske, ing children from diverse social, summer in Los Angeles. She said has reached a career forward to receiving more updates milestone. Goldman Sachs recently in the upcoming year. Send them announced John’s retirement after to the addresses at the top of the 28 years with the firm; John was column or use the CCT Class Notes Jennifer Hirsh Overton ’88 is Catholic Relief a co-chairman of the investment webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ Services’ regional director for West Africa and recently bank’s mergers and acquisition team. submit_class_note). “Over the course of his career, John relocated to Baltimore from Nairobi. has enhanced our client franchise by building meaningful and longstand- 1989 ing relationships with numerous clients, has led a number of signifi- Emily Miles Terry 45 Clarence St. economic and ethnic groups in they swapped theme park stories cant transactions, and has played a Brookline, MA 02446 Northern Indiana in seven choirs and reminisced over Peruvian food. central role in growing our natural [email protected] from birth to 17. Good times! resources business across regions,” “I recently sang in another Sacred Last but certainly not least, my senior Goldman officials wrote in Liz Music graduate recital and I sing at dear Carman 5 friend, the incom- a memo shared with The New York I was happy to hear from Pleshette, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in the parable Divya Singh, recently met Times and The Wall Street Journal. who wrote in about Jennifer Hirsh Overton Basilica Schola. I perform a cappella me in New York City for lunch on writes, her summer: “I was lucky enough Renaissance choral music with Col- her way home to Seattle following a “After five years in Nairobi, Kenya, I to spend a whole week in Atlanta Wanda Marie legium Musicum and I cantor Masses one-month stint in Malawi. Divya have taken up a position at Catholic with the amazing Holland Greene. at my church. My four kids are not has given up her medical practice on Relief Services as the regional director She was leading too far away and we try to get together the West Coast to travel the world for West Africa. I relocated to Balti- professional development for school on breaks during the summer. and teach orthopedic medicine and more last year, where I am lucky to see administrators and I was one of the Nancy Kauder “My sister invited me to Vietnam surgery in developing countries. and Marty Schreiber lucky recipients of her talent and Dan Javitch to visit a ChildFund site and, while Myanmar, China and Tibet are all on ’87 regularly, as we live in the same wisdom. Also, popped in Vietnam, we cruised Ha Long the itinerary. To hear about Divya’s neighborhood. We keep in touch with in [in Chicago] for a visit this Sharon Moshavi. Bay. My family later joined me in adventures, check out divasingh. My first daughter summer before heading off to his Korea, and then I celebrated my blogspot.com. recently started her second year at whirlwind sabbatical adventures.” father’s 80th birthday with all of my As is always the case with Divya Haverford College; I hope daughter I found Dan, with a little help family in Seoul. My 50th year has (with whom I traveled through No. 2, a rising junior in high school, from Facebook, in Laos. Of his trav- been the best so far!” Europe during junior year while will end up at 116th Street.” els, Dan writes, “I am on sabbatical

Winter 2016–17 CCT 73 Class Notes for this school year. I am nearing 20 years and our three girls are super — Catherine in 2015. Lila is a preco- years of teaching high school English mile-a-minute craziness and laughs. cious toddler who keeps the first- 1991 and ESL in San Francisco. For the We recently added a mini Australian time parents busy. Diego works in past five years, I’ve taught at a small, Labradoodle to the family fun.” The Bank of Nova Scotia’s New York Margie Kim public school, the Academy. I have Last summer I ran into Anne office as VP, chief compliance officer 1923 White Oak Clearing been eligible for a sabbatical year for Pfitzer at an Upper West Side gather- and regulatory counsel. Diego, Jeanne Southlake, TX 76092 more than 10 and finally stopped ing. She was going to Kenya the next and Lila live in New York City. [email protected] putting it off (maybe because of the day; Anne is family planning team In August, Mariana and Pete impending 50-year-old doom). I have leader for USAID’s flagship Maternal Neisuler packed up their sons, Alex Jacqueline Harounian, a partner been traveling around Southeast Asia and Child Survival Program, support- (12) and Martin (10), and house and in the AV-rated (the highest rating a and connected with Steve Briones ing women’s health programs. She moved to Amman, Jordan to begin law firm can receive in peer reviews) ’88, who lives in Bangkok and is often travels for Jhpiego, an interna- their next post with the Department matrimonial firm Wisselman, doing well. I also reconnected with tional nonprofit affiliated with The of State. Before they left, friends Harounian & Associates in Great Liz Pleshette in Chicago during the Johns Hopkins University that works came from far and wide to Wash- Neck, N.Y., published her first summer; she remains the same won- with health experts, governments and ington, D.C., to give them a merry book, Divorce Reality Check: Smart derfully irreverent person I remember community leaders to provide high- July weekend send-off. I traveled the Split Solutions for Civility, Clarity from Carman 12. quality health care. shortest distance from my suburban and Common Sense. It is available “I planned to be back in the Bay Maryland home to the Smithsonian in major book stores and online. In Area in November and then on National Portrait Gallery, where we addition, this past fall Jacqueline the East Coast for a few months at 1990 officially kicked off our good-bye presented at national conferences for the start of 2017 before heading to party for Pete. Those in attendance the Association of Divorce Financial Sri Lanka, where I’ve spent several Rachel Cowan Jacobs — honestly, I’m surprised we didn’t Planners and at the Long Island Tax summers working in educational 313 Lexington Dr. get kicked out for having too good Professionals Symposium. policy consulting and curriculum Silver Spring, MD 20901 of a time —included Judy Sham- Warren St. John is editor-in- development, for the spring.” [email protected] panier and Dan Sackrowitz, who chief of Patch, a community-specific Joanna Usher Silver recently traveled from Westchester County, news, information and engagement started in real estate sales at Corcoran German Gomez reports that after N.Y., and were pleased to discover network. He is the author of the in New York. Of her new direction five years at the U.S. Department their Amtrak car was next to the bar national bestsellers Rammer Jammer Joanna says, “After several years of Justice he returned to private car; Colin Campbell from Piscat- Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into working in sales for luxury media practice and now works at Hogan away, N.J.; and Joel Tranter from the Heart of Fan Mania and Outcasts brands at Condé Nast, I made the Lovells in Washington, D.C., in the Berkeley, Calif., after a layover of a United: An American Town, a Refugee transition to residential sales in the general counsel’s office. German and few days in Denver to visit Brian Team, and One Woman’s Quest to city from the white-hot High Line his wife, Libby, and their children, Timoney. Why the Portrait Gallery, Make a Difference. A former reporter Park/Chelsea area to the Upper Ava (11), Lola (9) and Felix (7), you ask? Colin was itching to see an for The New York Times, Warren has Upper East Side (Harlem!) to live in Arlington, Va. German says exhibit on some all-time great pro- also written extensively for The New everywhere in between and around. everyone is doing great in school. fessional athletes, which we eventu- Yorker, New York Observer and Wired. Remember when we first got to He enjoys spending Saturdays pac- ally found — but what turned out to Betsy Kalin has been busy travel- Columbia and we were warned never ing the sidelines while coaching his be an even greater draw for some of ing the country with her award- to go to Morningside Park? Well, kids’ soccer teams. us was the number of Pokémon that winning documentary (10 awards!), now they sell multi-million dollar German also reports that his twin, Dan was able to capture. East LA Interchange, which chron- condos next door! My husband, Diego Gomez, and his wife, Jeanne During the weekend, we were icles the story of Boyle Heights, David Silver, and I celebrated 23 Haney, welcomed daughter Lila joined by Sharon Rogers and Calif., one of America’s great places Steve Winick, so it really turned of activism, social change and diver- into a nice 26th mini-reunion. News sity. Betsy was happy to catch up from this crew: Dan is the president with Bob Kolker and Vera Scanlon of yourhearing.com, a Danish ’90 at a March screening in NYC; at company that sells hearing aids. the time of writing she was looking Wait, what did you say? He was as forward to seeing more Columbia surprised as anyone that a career in friends on October 30, when her the mattress industry could lead to a film was scheduled to be screened as job in audiology. Steve continues to the Best of Festival Award Winner be an expert in folklore and Renais- at the Arlington International Film sance music. Did anyone catch him Festival in Arlington, Mass. She has talking about the Easter Bunny on also been doing a campus screening CBS This Morning in April? Joel is tour from UCLA to Northwestern busy being an attorney, and a dad to Dartmouth and hopes to bring to 4-year-old Ellison, and Colin is the film to Columbia soon. still showing up to teach economics In December 2015, Betsy was at Rutgers. As for me, my younger profiled by CAA Arts Access. daughter started kindergarten in the Go to alumniarts.columbia.edu fall, and I, too, finally get to experi- and search “Betsy Kalin.” For more In July, several members of the Class of 1990 gathered at Rachel Cowan ence a life where both children are information about the film, visit Jacobs’ home in Silver Spring, Md. Back row, left to right: Dan Sackrowitz, in the same place during the school eastlainterchangefilm.com. Pete Neisuler, Judy Shampanier and Sharon Rogers; and front row, left to day and follow the same academic Hope you are staying warm this right: Colin Campbell, Joel Tranter, Jacobs and Steve Winick. calendar. Time flying has its perks! winter! I would love to hear from

74 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews more of you at my email address at online environment around life’s lege. “The kids are old enough that “We packed our bags and moved the top of this column. Until next most important topics.” The goal is we’re starting to do more interest- to San Francisco. It’s a bit of a time, cheers! to “make life a little more effective ing travel,” Orly writes. “Enjoyed a homecoming for us, since we grew for mom and dad, while preparing mother/daughter trip to London in up together in the Bay Area,” Ocean the next generation of digital citi- June. We arrived the morning of the writes. “I recently joined GoPro, 1992 zens to be even more effective than Brexit returns, which made for some where I oversee the media division

REUNION we are,” he says. interesting discussions. I reconnected (the folks who make all the crazy REUNION WEEKEND You can find them on “all the with old friends, attended a Clinton videos you see everywhere), and our JUNE 1–4, 2017 standard social media,” Will says. fundraiser hosted by Leslie Vinjam- three kids are quickly becoming Alumni Affairs Contact Fatima Yudeh “And, please do not hesitate to uri GSAS’01 (who is at the School Golden State Warriors fans. I’d love [email protected] reach out to me directly to catch up. of Oriental and African Studies at to hear from any ’94 folks here.” 212-851-7834 Columbia, and many of my fellow the University of London) and saw Sounds like there will be at least

2017 Lions, comprise many of my fondest the city like a tourist for the first time one more classmate out there soon: Development Contact Mark Robilotti Heather Siemienas memories and enduring friendships. since I was my daughter’s age. says he is joining [email protected] I look forward to hearing from you!” “My daughter gave me a historical private equity firm TPG as manag- 212-851-7855 Obviously, Will is wrong here. tour of the National Portrait Gallery. ing director and deputy general If you write to anyone to share an Her favorite thing was the day at counsel of TPG Growth, its venture Olivier Knox update from your life, you’re writing Hampton Court, which is run as a capital and middle market buyout 9602 Montauk Ave. to me ([email protected]). living history museum — very inter- fund. “After commencing work in Bethesda, MD 20817 active and fun for kids. Unfortunately New York, the family will relocate to [email protected] she’s not yet old enough to shop with San Francisco in 2017,” he writes. 1993 — particularly sad given the great And Tom Lecky reports that Keep the Class Notes coming, folks! exchange rates post-Brexit!” after 17 years at Christie’s, he Don’t make me have to start making Betsy Gomperz Also in London during the sum- stepped down as head of the books things up here! 41 Day St. mer was Kim Yao, who reports that and manuscripts department and I first heard from Brad Randle- Newton, MA 02466 she’s had a number of fun travels took over as proprietor of Riverrun man. Sorry, I mean doctor and pro- [email protected] with family to various destinations Books & Manuscripts in Hastings- fessor Brad Randleman! “I’d like to including London, Iceland, Venice, on-Hudson, N.Y. “I will continue report a job change!” he announced. Hello, CC’93! The column took a Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and to specialize in rare, antiquarian and Brad and his wife and family hiatus for this issue but will be back Maryland. Kim lives and works in unusual books, and will continue to have made a big cross-country move. in 2017. Let’s start the New Year lower Manhattan as a principal for appear on Antiques Roadshow, which After 18 years in Atlanta, includ- off right by taking a few minutes her firm, Architecture Research I have done since 1999,” he writes. ing 17 at Emory and holding the to send in a note. What are your Office. She taught a historic The business concentrates not only Hughes Professorship in Ophthal- plans for the New Year? Keep your preservation studio at GSAPP this on buying and selling material but mology there, Brad is going to be classmates up to date by writing to past fall and planned to join the also on consultancy and appraising. professor of ophthalmology at the either of the addresses at the top of board of AIANY (the New York Tom and his wife, Amanda Lecky Keck School of Medicine of USC the column or by using CCT’s Class chapter of the American Institute of BC’94, have two sons, John (15) and director of the Cornea, External Notes webform, college.columbia. Architects) in 2017 as VP of public and Wyatt (12). Disease and Refractive Surgery Ser- edu/cct/submit_class_note. outreach. Her kids, Maximo (7) and Thanks for all the updates! Keep vice at the USC Roski Eye Institute Sarabeth (10), attend PS-IS 276 and ’em coming. in Los Angeles. “Fight on!” he says. her husband, Paul Lewis, is an archi- I also received a long, lovely note 1994 tect with the firm LTL Architects from Will Jackson, a first-time and is on the faculty at Princeton. 1995 Class Notes submitter. He and his Leyla Kokmen Negar Nabavinejad LAW’97 wife, Arwen, live in Pearland, Texas, c/o CCT sent a few highlights: “Married with Janet Lorin with their children. Son Mitchell Columbia Alumni Center three kids, practicing law at Goldman 730 Columbus Ave., Apt. 14C is a senior in high school and is 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Sachs and involved with Columbia New York, NY 10025 gearing up to leave his parents and New York, NY 10025 College via the Alumni Representa- [email protected] younger sisters (Madison, Taylor and [email protected] tive Committee.” She adds that she Riley) behind for college. most often sees Russ Sacks, Shawn Thanks to Ryan Poscablo, Hilton Will writes: “I came to a realiza- Plenty of news this time around, Landres and Shahzad Bhatti. Romanski, Jessica Zimmerman tion last year that my 20-plus-year so let’s dive right in. Anna Ivey Karthik Ramanathan was named and Emily Hu for answering my call journey in the corporate world was launched a software product, inli.ne, to the advisory board of the Journal of for updates. I urge others to take a no longer fulfilling my dreams. So, a digital tool to help students with Portfolio Management. He works for few minutes and drop me an email as countless Lions have done before their online college applications. “I’m Fidelity Investments and notes that at [email protected]. me, I grabbed the nearest parachute based out of Los Angeles, and we he and his wife, Innessa Manning Jessica Zimmerman became and jumped out of the plane … at have some nice alumni events here,” BC’94, live in Lexington, Mass., and senior rabbi of Congregation Sherith least I hope that was a parachute!” she writes. “Always happy to see look forward to attending the annual Israel in San Francisco last July and The parachute? A technology other Columbia people in SoCal.” Columbia/Harvard football game spent her first two months of the start-up called MyFamilyPlan. Orly Mishan sent a note that each year with their boys. job on maternity leave following Rather than butcher his prose, I’ll let she’s lived in Newton, Mass., for Change is afoot for a few of our the birth of her son, Zachary. Says Will describe what he’s doing: “Our 13 years with her kids, Abe (7) and classmates. Ocean MacAdams Jessica: “The best part of my hospital Family Effectiveness Solutions will Tamara (12), and her husband, Tim writes that in August, after 26 years stay after delivery was the visit of allow the entire family (mom, dad Crawford GSAS’01, an international in New York, he and his wife decided the physician covering the obstetri- and kids) to collaborate in a private, relations professor at Boston Col- to “head back to where it all began.” cal service — Dr. Emily Hu PS’00!”

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Zachary and sister Arielle (2) program and code. “I’m still passion- Jen Abreu (née Banks) writes Band’s River Tour this year, I feel have been keeping Jessica and her ate about surfing and motorcycles, that she lived in Lisbon, Portugal, compelled to leave you with this: husband busy. but spend less time on boards and for five years, where her husband is “The great challenge of adulthood Jessica’s news gave me a great rea- bikes than I would like,” he writes. from and where her son, Fergus (3), is holding on to your idealism after son to get in touch with Emily, an “Overall, life is good.” was born. Jen and her family then you lose your innocence.” old friend from Carman. She lives Hilton’s wife, Emily Meyer, moved to Washington, D.C., where — Bruce Springsteen in San Francisco with her husband, continues to dominate the world of Jen was a fundraiser for the Brook- John Tang LAW’96, and their boys, children’s clothes with Tea Collec- ings Institution. The family recently Derek (6) and Morgan (4). tion. I can attest — they are popular relocated to Boston, where Jen 1997

“Amazingly, I am still at the on the Upper West Side, and my launched a nonprofit and fundraising REUNION REUNION WEEKEND same job I’ve had since finishing my daughter and I are big fans! Emily consultancy, Banks Grants. Jen writes JUNE 1–4, 2017 residency at Stanford,’’ Emily writes. founded the company 14 years that she had a great time at reunion Julia Lyon Alumni Affairs Contact She moved to the Bay Area after ago; it’s an independent, profitable, seeing (with whom she Fatima Yudeh graduating from P&S and is in her female-run company “that continues roomed in Carman for the weekend [email protected] 12th year of private ob/gyn group to kick ass,” Hilton says. — apparently, sleeping in those twin 212-851-7834

practice. She delivers babies at Cali- Hilton and Emily’s son, Clement beds was a stark reminder that we Development Contact 2017 Caitlin McEl- fornia Pacific Medical Center in San (8), and daughter, Georgia (6), are are no longer 18), Heather Siemienas Francisco and also has a full-time having fun growing up in Palo Alto, roy, Dulcie Lin, Nadia Kihiczak, [email protected] office practice of ob/gyn. “Life is Calif., where he’s a climber and she’s Jun Lee, Juan Tinoco and Pavel 212-851-7855 pretty busy but I feel lucky to have a a dancer and artist. Vaynshtok SEAS’96, among oth- Ryan Poscablo Sarah Katz healthy family and a job that I enjoy was for six years ers. Reunion inspired her and Kate 1935 Parrish St. so much,” Emily writes. a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Cronk SEAS’96, Mike Lee and Hilton Philadelphia, PA 19130 Also in the Bay Area is conducting investigations into bank, Pam Garas to have a Boston-based Romanski. [email protected] Upon Cisco’s CEO wire, mortgage and tax fraud, as well mini-reunion with their families. Jen transition in spring 2015, Hilton as identity theft, cybersecurity and describes watching their children play was appointed Cisco’s chief strategy money laundering. He also led inves- together as “surreal and delightful.” CC’97, where is the love? Not much officer by the company’s CEO tigations that led to convictions for If there are any other Boston news reported by all of you this and Hilton’s boss, Chuck Robbins. racketeering, terrorism and violent ’96ers out there, feel free to look Jen round, so I hope you are saving it all “We’ve managed to increase the price crime. He is now in private practice up to join other mini-reunions she to share with us at our 20th reunion! of the company’s stock more than and opened the New York office of may organize. Hope you will join us Thursday, June 30 percent since last year and I am litigation firm Riley Safer Holmes Klancy Miller writes that she, 1–Sunday, June 4. To learn more, having fun with my responsibilities & Cancila. His practice centers on too, had a wonderful time at reunion. go to college.columbia.edu/alumni/ for Cisco’s corporate strategy, M&A, civil litigation, white-collar criminal [Editor’s note: Read more about events/reunion-weekend-2017. equity investments, alliance partner- defense and regulatory compliance. Miller in “Bookshelf.”] She saw Ali- And in the meantime, please send ships and innovation centers,” Hilton Ryan met his wife, Christine son Hills, who recently moved from me your updates so that I can share writes. “It’s been a wild, sometimes Schessler Poscablo, in law school. London to Texas for work. She also them in the Spring 2017 issue of tough, ride, but a really great one.” They live in Brooklyn with their enjoyed seeing Stacie Hoffmeister CCT: [email protected]. Hilton has been active in trying two sons and daughter. Ryan earned (née Sumter), Rose Kob and Frank I do have one exciting update: Erich Anderer to bring more women and people of a master’s in public policy from Wang SEAS’96, among others. was appointed chief color into tech. He recently received Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School Klancy attended the Class of 1996 of neurosurgery at NYU Lutheran All Star Code’s Visionary Award in of Government. panel, which discussed the creation Medical Center in June. He has been East Hampton, N.Y. All Star Code of Columbia’s Center for the Study a clinical assistant professor at NYU is dedicated to the mission of help- of Ethnicity and Race; while there Langone Medical Center in Man- ing young men of color learn how to 1996 she saw her good friend and former hattan since July 2010. Erich simul- roommate Robin Shulman, whose taneously is an attending physician in Ana S. Salper husband, Marcel Agüeros, was one the division of neurological surgery 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA of the panelists. and in the department of orthopedic Brooklyn, NY 11201 Klancy recently saw Lauren Klein surgery at Maimonides Medical [email protected] in Paris. They studied together at Center in Brooklyn, most recently as Columbia Reid Hall during junior year (when its director of neurotrauma. College Greetings, classmates! Alas, after I was there too!). Lauren has been all of the reunion news, I only have living in Paris for 18 years but is Alumni a meager report this time around. relocating to Barcelona. In addition, 1998 Thanks to all of you who wrote in! Klancy sat next to Vivien Labaton Chris Holst Sandie Angulo Chen on Facebook is an intellectual prop- BC’96 at the Democratic National 10209 Day Ave. erty attorney with his own practice in Convention in Philadelphia. Vivien facebook.com/alumnicc Silver Spring, MD 20910 the suburbs of Philadelphia. He also was there with her colleagues from [email protected] Like the page to get serves clients throughout the United Make It Work, an organization she alumni news, learn States and abroad; his field of exper- co-founded and co-directs that works tise is in copyright and trademark law. to advance economic security for I hope you all had a wonderful 2016. about alumni events Catherine Miller is assistant dean women and families. Congratulations are in order for Dan Kellner, and College happenings, for administration at Florida State That’s it for now. Please keep who was awarded the view photos and more. University College of Law. sending in notes to ana.salper@ Order of Ikkos by the United States It was great seeing both Cath- nyumc.org! Having attended five Olympic Committee this past sum- erine and Chris at reunion last year. of Bruce’s shows on the E Street mer because one of his foil students

76 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews earned a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games. Established just 1999 before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Order of Ikkos gives Adrienne Carter and each U.S. Olympic or Paralympic Jenna Johnson medalist the opportunity to recognize c/o CCT one individual for his or her role in Columbia Alumni Center helping the medalist achieve his/ 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 her Olympic dreams. Each awardee New York, NY 10025 received a medal uniquely designed [email protected] to represent the Olympic and [email protected] Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Dan received his award from Race With the holiday season just behind Imboden, the bronze medalist for us, we have a couple of glad tidings the men’s team foil (the first team to from our intrepid classmates. Sahil Godiwala bring home the bronze medal since took the subur- Several members of the Class of 2000 gathered in the Black Hills of the 1932 games). ban leap, moving to Montclair, N.J., South Dakota for a July 4, 2015, post-wedding barbecue. Front row, left to Great work, Dan, on your amaz- in 2013, after years in Brooklyn and right: Doug Marvin ’00, groom Dan Keane ’00, bride Jennifer Tomscha and ing coaching success! San Francisco. “There is no greater Evan Hutchison ’00; and back row, left to right: Jonathan Ryan ’00, James Daniel Jean-Baptiste joy in this world than commut- Renovitch ’00, Brendan Colthurst ’00, Bill Russell ’00 and Alex MacFarlane ’00. announced that in September he ing to/from Manhattan. None,” he launched Grid-NY, a guide for writes. Luckily he found a silver those looking for fun new dining, lining: “At least we have space to us at [email protected] or 2015 DUII Prosecutor of the Year by shopping and entertainment experi- store the back issues of The New [email protected], the Oregon DUII Multi-Disciplinary ences in New York City. “We don’t Yorker we haven’t gotten to yet.” or use the CCT Class Notes Training Task Force on April 28. list everything, just what we think Naturally, there is also more space webform, college.columbia.edu/ Please share news about yourself, you’ll really enjoy,” he says. His site for Sahil’s expanding brood. His son, cct/submit_class_note. your family, your career and/or your also highlights “featured New York- Thomas, was born in April 2015, travels — even a favorite Columbia ers” and covers not only Manhattan joining his daughter, Margot, who College memory — using either the but also the other boroughs. was born in December 2010. Sahil’s 2000 email or postal address at the top of Congratulations, Daniel! wife, Sarah, is a psychotherapist with the column, or by using CCT’s Class Annie Rawlings Chechitelli her own practice in the city. Sahil left Prisca Bae Notes webform, college.columbia. SEAS’98 shared on Facebook that the Federal Reserve Bank of New 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B edu/cct/submit_class_note. she moved from the Washington York at the end of 2013 after about New York, NY 10011 D.C., area to Seattle to start a job five years in the legal function, where [email protected] in Amazon’s education group. Her he was an officer and counsel in the 2001 family of five is nicely settled and enforcement/litigation/investigations Dan Keane and Jennifer Tomscha happy in Mercer Island, which is group; he also did some crisis-related were married in the Black Hills Jonathan Gordin surrounded by Lake Washington. policy work. He joined the Bank of of South Dakota on July 3, 2015. 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. “We all have Seahawks gear and New York Mellon in January 2014 Dan reports: “Jenny and I live in Los Angeles, CA 90068 KEEN shoes,” she says. as the global head of the supervisory Shanghai, where Jenny’s the associ- [email protected] Hope your 2017 is starting off and regulatory practice group within ate director of the writing program great! Please send in a note to either the legal department. “We’re all doing at NYU Shanghai. I teach writing Sam Polk wrote that his memoir, of the addresses at the top of the well,” Sahil writes. “It’s been fun there, too. Our son, Wilder, was For The Love of Money, was released page or through CCT’s Class Notes catching up with people at weddings, born there in April. Life is good.” on July 19; on July 30, he and a co- webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ reunions, on Facebook and so on.” Michael Saarinen and Karen founder launched a social enterprise, submit_class_note. Jason Scherer SEAS’10 brings Rosenberg were married on June 25 Everytable, that makes healthful us news from the wilds of Gramercy, at the Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club. food affordable for everyone. Sam’s where he has an extremely long com- Since 2012, Ben Strauss has been other big news is that his son, Jude mute across town to Google. A single living in Pittsfield, Mass., with his Vere Polk, was born in August. dad to a daughter, Jason is a software wife, Jessie Fried, and sons, Morrie Congratulations to Sam! engineer on Google Play Music, a Fried (8) and Ruben Fried (6). After Jasper Cooper and his wife, streaming service similar to Spotify. being senior counsel for the Americas Josiejing, welcomed their son, Zed Marketing plug from Jason: “Every- region at Saudi Basic Industries Corp., Tang Cooper, on August 3, weighing one should try it out!” In his spare a global leader in the petrochemicals in at 6 lbs., 5 oz. Zed joins a sister. time, Jason makes electronic music. industry, Ben accepted a position as Congratulations to Jasper He also decided one Columbia VP, associate general counsel, of Berk- and Josiejing! degree simply wasn’t enough so he shire Bank in May. Ben is proud to Michelle Grzan Bass and

ANUJ BEHAL ANUJ earned an M.S. from SEAS, where be a part of “America’s Most Exciting her husband, Joel Bass, welcomed Michael Saarinen ’00 and Karen he worked with professors Eitan Bank” because of its focus on helping Emilia Ivana Bass on August 4. Rosenberg were married on June 25 Grinspun, Al Aho and Dan Ellis. In people and serving local communities. Emilia (“Mila”) joins sister Zara. at the Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club. in another fun Columbia connection, Ben and his family love the Berkshires Congratulations to Michelle At the reception, left to right: Eric Dan now works at Google, too. and invite everyone to visit. and Joel! Czepyha ’00, the groom and Tara Make it a 2017 goal to send in a Congrats to Kimberlyn Silverman Stephen Luk wrote that Brian Gangadhar ’00. Class Note! You can write to (née Trotter), who was named the Gum married Hannah Kim on

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July 30 in Claremont, Calif. Ste- Spanish-speaking client division phen Luk, Kevin Yao SEAS’01, of Franklin D. Azar & Associates, Evan Sidarto SEAS’01, Cho-Nan a large personal injury practice in Tsai SEAS’01, Lani Park, Ashran Denver. I lead a team of five bilingual Jen and Cindy Chen SEAS’01 attorneys who serve Spanish-speak- were in attendance. ing clients. We are the only law firm Congratulations to Brian with a specialty division of bilingual and Hannah! lawyers — not just bilingual staff.” Ronen Landa and his wife, Yael, welcomed their second child, son Idan Erez Landa, on September 6. 2003 Idan joins sister Adi. Michael Novielli Congratulations to Yael Jurong East Street 21, Block 208 and Ronen! #08-181 Make it a New Year’s resolu- Singapore 600208 tion to send in a Class Note. I’m at [email protected]

[email protected] or you can use STUDIO HOUSE OF TALENT CCT’s Class Notes webform, college. Shelly Mittal ’03 married Prashant Ranyal on May 29. In attendance were columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. I was back on campus in early Octo- (left to right) Chris Anderson, Joyce Chang Anderson ’02, Michelle Hodara Best wishes for a wonderful 2017 ber for Alumni Leaders Weekend, ’03, Curtis Saueressig, Melissa Nguyen BC’04, Ilene Weintraub ’02, the to all! my first one in the seven years since groom, the bride, Jessica Berenyi ’03, Dana Zullo ’03, William Hu ’03, I left New York. It was exciting to Jessica Meksavan BC’05, Gaurav Shah ’03 and Raheleh Hatami ’03. connect with fellow Columbians 2002 from around the world and to see

REUNION firsthand how far both the College Will, to the world on April 16. I REUNION WEEKEND and the University have advanced in recently returned to Google after a 2004 JUNE 1–4, 2017 key areas such as alumni engage- 5½-month maternity leave. After Alumni Affairs Contact ment and renovation to our campus. being a die-hard New Yorker, I Jaydip Mahida Fatima Yudeh I hope that I’ll be able to see many haven’t quite yet accepted that my 76 Courter Ave. [email protected] Maplewood, NJ 07040 212-851-7834 of you at our 15th reunion in two son will be a California kid, but we’re [email protected] 2017 years, if not sooner! still enjoying life in San Francisco, Development Contact Christina Heather Siemienas While in town I caught up where we get to see Daniel Dykema Mather Henry Pruitt. Mark Wood [email protected] with and Nikki and ” Hello CC’04! recently 212-851-7855 “Ashleigh” Thompson BC’03, who Lindsay Shrier Bourkoff writes, graduated from an oral/maxillofacial just recently gave birth to a daughter, “After being a financial adviser surgery program at Harbor-UCLA Sonia Dandona Hirdaramani Naomi Emilia Dykema. Nikki since graduating, last year I pursued Medical Center. He is an oral surgeon 2 Rolling Dr. updated me on Shelly Mittal’s wed- the next stage in my professional in private practice in Los Angeles. Old Westbury, NY 11568 ding which she, Daniel and a number development and became a certified Please send in updates, as we want [email protected] of other Columbians attended, financial planner. I practice at my to hear from as many folks as pos- including Michelle Hodara, firm, Shrier Wealth Management. sible. Career and family updates are Jessica Berenyi, Dana Zullo, Hi, all! Please send updates to I enjoy my career and have found always fun but please also reach out William Hu, Gaurav Shah, [email protected]. I would love advising clients on all stages of their to share about trips you might take, Raheleh Hatami, to hear from more of you! Jessica Meksavan financial life to be fun, challeng- events you have attended or are look- Richard Mammana was elected BC’05, Rebecca Capua BC’03, Arch- ing and stimulating. Addition- ing forward to or even interesting as a member of the Connecticut ana Pinnapureddy BC’03, Kanchana ally, I’m treasurer of Beth Jacob books or shows you have come across. Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Pinnapureddy BC’03, Joyce Chang Congregation and provide pro bono You can send updates either via third-oldest learned society in the Anderson ’02, Melissa Nguyen financial advice to recently divorced the email at the top of the column United States. The Connecticut Acad- BC’04 and Ilene Weintraub ’02. individuals through The Jewish or the CCT Class Notes webform, Eaton emy sponsors eight lectures during the I also caught up with Divorce Assistance Center of Los college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ Lin, Natan academic year, publishes monographs who is an assistant professor at Angeles. On the home front, class_note. Bourkoff and several academic series, and Weill Cornell Medical College and and I live in Los Angeles supports research through grants. assistant attending radiologist at the and are raising three ‘tween’ kids! Liana Coya has a new job at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Our oldest son is only eight years 2005 Steven Chao Better Mortgage. She is its chief Medical Center. is also away from college — ahhh!” Adam Kushner Columbia College Today valuation officer and received her at NewYork Presbyterian/Queens as and his wife, Columbia Alumni Center Senior Residential Appraiser desig- a colorectal surgeon and an assistant Maria Simon, welcomed their son, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 nation from the Appraisal Institute. professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Felix Parks Kushner, to the world — Lorraine Liang New York, NY 10025 Pooja Agarwal finished her Medical Center. nine months to the day after their [email protected] LL.M. from Penn Law in May recently graduated from residency at wedding. Adam writes: “Felix is while continuing her work as associ- Rochester and started a job at Good named partly for various luminar- David Lehman: ate general counsel for Penn. Samaritan Hospital as a urologist ies (Mendelssohn, Frankfurter) but “This year I started a Anna Martinez writes, “I’m a with the Suffolk Urology Associates. mostly for the luck and joy we feel 501c3 foundation dedicated to teach- Charlotte Will busy mom of a 2-year-old, and I (née Evans) writes, in having him. Parks is for Rosa ing children from slum areas hard and have landed the job of my dreams. I “My husband, Tyler, and I welcomed Parks. Big brother Jack (5) loves the soft skills through photography. We am the supervising attorney of the our son, Arthur Livingston Cutting baby and always wants to hold him.” are currently in Kenya and Haiti, with

78 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews almost 400 students. We use photo- investors and workers. I live in Port- Medical School Regional Campus specialized in real-asset investment graphy as a vehicle to teach highly land, Ore., with my wife and our son — a move I’d been eagerly looking management since 1987. He is the translatable, yet basic, skills — typing, (2), who already knows the Colum- forward to for quite some time — to energy sector leader on the listed- English and computer usage all are bia fight song word for word.” forge community partnerships in infrastructure team. Jonathan recently required with digital photography. From Kate Lane Shaw: “In life course health research and to revisited Morningside Heights while Check us out at photostart.org. March 2016 my husband, Blake help build out our clinical research in town for a conference and was During the summer, Emily Shaw SEAS’05, SEAS’11, and I network. I’ve dreamed of living in very happy that Max Soha is still in Schwarz moved to San Francisco welcomed our son, William. We’re Orlando since I was a teenager, so operation. His wife, Stephanie Feld- and works at Stanford. She is looking thrilled to report that he is a happy this move has been a huge upgrade, man BC’05, recently celebrated her forward to connecting more with and healthy baby and loves spending even with the hurricane taking aim at first year as a professor at Arcadia in Columbians on the West Coast! time with his friends Winfield (son my neighborhood! its M.F.A. program. She is working From Jacob Shell: “I started my of Jessica Fjeld), Miles (son of “This summer brought excit- on her second novel after the recent fifth year as an assistant professor Nate Bliss and Amira Ibrahim Bliss ing changes in other ways as well. publication of The Angel of Losses in of geography and urban studies at BC’05), Mirele (daughter of Mike I guess the first of those is that I paperback. Jonathan and Stephanie Temple in Philadelphia. In 2015 I Ciccarone), Aviv (son of Honora married my amazing colleague and live in the Philadelphia suburbs with published a book, Transportation and Burnett BC’05) and Eloise (daugh- life partner of five years, J Sumerau, their two daughters. Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals and the ter of Anya Cherneff and Bennett on June 25! We had a tiny and Andrew Rios reports: “On Sep- Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Cohen). Will looks forward to join- entirely self-planned wedding at tember 16 I married Puja Patel (whom Mobility. I am working on a second ing them all in the Class of 2038.” my parents’ home in Tallahassee I met in grad school at UC Berkeley) book project, about the use of From Jenny Madden (née Kore- and enjoyed every minute of our in Sonoma, Calif., surrounded by our trained elephants for transportation cky): “My husband, Greg Madden, special day. Because of my move closest friends and family.” in the Indian-Burmese borderlands.” and I are happy to announce that to Orlando, my spouse and I now From Jeffrey Schwartz: I“ Martina Sherman (née Brendel) we gave birth to a son last year and spend most of our time here instead earned a master’s in addiction is pleased to announce that she was recently celebrated his first birthday of driving 4½ hours back and forth counseling in 2015 and became a recently named a partner at DeBof- with a number of fellow alums. We live between Tallahassee and Tampa. licensed associate substance abuse sky, Sherman & Casciari (formerly in Jersey City, N.J.; I own an interior We also still have our little apart- counselor in Arizona not long ago. I DeBofsky & Associates), a Chicago design firm, Jenny Madden Design, ment in Tampa, as J remains on the provide group and individual coun- law firm specializing in plaintiff-side and Greg works for JPMorgan Chase.” faculty at University of Tampa and seling for drug and alcohol addiction employee benefits litigation. From Alexandra “Xan” Nowa- loves it there. Our next big, exciting and am undergoing training to treat Jeremiah Boswell: “As of kowski: “Hello from my new house change will be submitting the full problem and compulsive gambling. November I accepted a role with the in Orlando! As I write this, we are manuscript package for our edited My website is SchwartzSubstance NBA to develop a curriculum and feeling the first impacts of Hurri- volume on trauma-informed health AbuseTherapy.com and I can also be content for youth basketball.” cane Matthew and are expected to research, which will likely come out found on psychologytoday.com. I’m From Marisa Marconi: “I am receive a direct hit later tonight. I still in late 2017. Overall it has been a planning to start a Ph.D. program in excited to share that after 10 years wouldn’t be anywhere else if I could! great year for us and we’re looking the next year or two and I am look- as a project manager, I ventured out In July I was promoted to assistant forward to many more together in ing forward to returning to CU for a on my own this past summer and professor with the departments of life and in scholarship!” visit — the first since 2005!” started my own business plan writ- geriatrics and behavioral sciences and From Jennie Magiera (née Katie Herman and Mike Noble ing and consulting firm. I special- social medicine at FSU College of Cho): “I recently wrote a book, welcomed their son, August “Gus” ize in writing business plans that Medicine, where I have been faculty Courageous Edventures: Navigat- Herbert Herman Noble, on January 4, accompany immigration petitions since January 2014. I then trans- ing Obstacles to Discover Classroom 2016. Keri Wachter and her husband, for immigrant and non-immigrant ferred in September to our Orlando Innovation. It’s based on my TEDx Brendan Norwood PS’09, welcomed talk, ‘Power to the Pupil.’ It explores their first child, Estelle, in July. how educators can find the courage Stuart Weinstock SOA’09 and to take risks in school and create Aliza Weinstock BC’05 are proud to opportunities for their students.” welcome their first legacy applicant, From Kunal Gupta: “I began a David Benjamin, born on Septem- startup to make a smart community ber 8. Stuart is an adjunct professor organizing assistant for social move- of film studies at Columbia and is ments at https://better.space. I also the film programmer for Colum- enjoyed returning to the Columbia bia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish campus to hear [journalist and activ- Studies. Aliza teaches second grade ist] Shaun King speak in October.” at the Solomon Schechter School of From Natasha Shapiro: “I’m Manhattan. David is hard at work an attending neonatologist at on tummy time. NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens From Mallory Jensen LAW’12: and have moved to Forest Hills, “My husband, Brian Crist, and I Queens, with my husband, and girls welcomed our daughter, Amalthea, Ellie (almost 4) and Evie (almost into this world on August 24. We 2). Would love to get together with live in San Francisco, where Brian is Several members of the Class of ’05 met with friends and their future Lions. anyone else in the area! My email is a lawyer for Uber and I am a lawyer Left to right: Mike Ciccarone ’05 with daughter Mirele and wife, Sophie; Jeff [email protected].” with O’Melveny & Myers. We can’t Engler ’05; Jessica Fjeld ’05 with son Winfield and husband, Ben; Kate Lane Jonathan Treitel recently joined wait to bring Amalthea to New York Shaw ’05 with son William and husband, Blake Shaw SEAS’05; and Amira CenterSquare Investment Manage- and to Columbia for her first stroll Ibrahim Bliss BC’05 with husband, Nate Bliss ’05, and son Miles. ment, an investment firm that has down College Walk!”

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Thanks to all who wrote in! Ph.D. thesis on China-India rela- CCT wishes the Class of 2005 a tions and followed that by spending happy and healthy start to 2017. If a month in Washington, D.C., as you would like to take on the class a visiting fellow at the Center for correspondent role — a great way to a New American Security working stay connected to the College and on China-India related projects and your classmates — please reach out also doing some public speaking.”

to [email protected]. After nine years with Alvin PENNENGA CAT Ailey American Dance Theater, Sean Wilkes ’06 (center) recently was married in Sarasota, Fla., accompanied Emily Hawkins recently accepted by groomsman Bob Wray ’06 (left) and best man Brian Wagner ’06. 2006 a position with Macy’s as director of media relations. She plans to Michelle Oh Sing continue blogging Broadway reviews Michael DiBiasio released his Kasia Nikhamina shares, “Red- c/o CCT at To See Or Not To See (tsontsnyc. first feature film, The Videoblogs, beard Bikes is celebrating four years Columbia Alumni Center com) and to keep close ties with the about mental health in the age of in business! We recently expanded 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 arts community. tech. The film is available on iTunes, our service department and set up a New York, NY 10025 Beth Katz writes, “It was an excit- Verizon Fios, Amazon Video and dedicated fit studio across the street. [email protected] ing year! After finishing my Ph.D. in other platforms. Our fleet of bikes includes Parlee, policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Sean Wilkes writes, “I recently Mosaic, Seven, Brompton, Giant/ I hope you had a joyous holiday sea- Graduate School, I began working was married to the lovely Moira Liv, Specialized, Gunnar and All- son and a great start to 2017! Thanks, in institutional research, with a focus Fischman in Sarasota, Fla., and very City. My husband, Ilya, and I invite as always, for your submissions and on student equity, at a community much enjoyed and appreciated the you to DUMBO to say hi, check for checking out this column. college in Los Angeles. My son, company of my groomsman Bob out the shop and try out some bikes Lindsay Granger married Michael Hayden, was born just in time to Wray and best man Brian Wagner. if you’re inclined! If your bike gives Weaver Jr. on July 2 in Park City, attend Reunion Weekend 2016 with Moira and I have since moved to you pain, get in touch to book a fit- Utah, and was surrounded by Colum- my husband, Andrew Hemingway, Honolulu, where I am completing ting ([email protected]).” bia College love. Jeanine Edwards, and me. Hayden went to his first my residency in psychiatry at Tripler Edward Hambleton writes, “The Francesca Black (née Eugene), Columbia lecture at 19 days and slept Army Medical Center.” Texas Chili Queens food truck is Danielle Satterwhite, Alicia Harper, through the whole thing! I so enjoyed Until next time! Send updates to going strong after a successful first Rebecca Phipps and Namrata seeing many old (but not that old) [email protected] or through year! It’s the world’s only drag queen Khimani were bridesmaids, with faces at reunion and I would love to CCT’s Class Notes webform, college. food truck and is owned and oper- John-Michael Grzan, Carly Baratt reunite with classmates in the L.A. columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. ated by yours truly.” and Josh Rodriguez ’05 in atten- area. I know you’re out there!” Earlier this year, Earnest Sweat dance. In addition, the whole affair Jaime A. Madell and Negisa was appointed the first investor-in- was captured beautifully by Molly Balluku SEAS’06 are thrilled to 2007 residence at Backstage Capital. He Condit. Shout out to the Columbia announce the birth of their daugh- REUNION says, “I’m responsible for leading the REUNION WEEKEND Admissions staff, circa fall 2001, for ter, Luna Balluku Madell. Jaime is a investment team’s due diligence pro- JUNE 1–4, 2017 admitting these amazing people, who derivatives attorney at Paul, Weiss, cess and providing portfolio compa- Alumni Affairs Contact have become lifelong friends! Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and nies with sales and growth strategy. If Jonathan Ward Fatima Yudeh writes, “At Negisa is a bankruptcy and restruc- [email protected] you know any interesting, early-stage Oxford, I recently submitted my turing attorney at Kaye Scholer. 212-851-7834 startup teams please have them con-

Development Contact 2017 tact me on Twitter at @earnestsweat!” Heather Siemienas Earnest also continues to share his [email protected] insights as a venture capitalist to first- 212-851-7855 time founders through his blog, The Importance of Reading Earnest. David D. Chait I hope you all had a great 2016. 21 Sherbrooke Dr. Share your news for the new year by Princeton Junction, NJ 08550 emailing me at david.donner.chait@ [email protected] gmail.com.

Thank you everyone (as always) for the updates; it’s so exciting to hear 2008 what our classmates are up to. Liz Miller (née Epstein) writes, “Jona- Neda Navab than Miller and I have some exciting 353 King St., Apt. 633 news to share! We welcomed our sec- San Francisco, CA 94158 ond son, Zachary Levi, on September [email protected]

SHAUN ROBY, OF SUNSET PHOTOS ROBY, SHAUN 11. He joins Nathaniel (14 months). Lindsay Granger ’06 married Michael Weaver Jr. on July 2 in Park City, We are overjoyed with happiness.” Neda Navab married her best Utah, surrounded by Columbia College friends. Left to right: Joshua Simeon Siegel welcomed his friend, Andrew ElBardissi, in an inti- Rodriguez ’05, Jeanine Edwards ’06, Francesca Black ’06 (née Eugene), third son, Micah, in July. mate ceremony in Vallery, France, on Danielle Satterwhite ’06, Alicia Harper ’06, Lindsay Granger ’06, Rebecca Congratulations, all! Business July 22. The couple met in 2011 while Phipps ’06, Molly Condit ’06, Namrata Khimani ’06, John-Michael Grzan ’06 is also booming for many of attending Harvard Business School. and Carly Baratt ’06. our classmates … Three Columbia alumnae were in the

80 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews bridal party, including Neda’s sister pursue my passion in wine. After an and maid of honor, Negin Navab amazing 10 weeks at the Interna- ’12, as well as Neda’s undergraduate tional Culinary Center, I passed roommates, Amanda Rosencrans my Court of Master Sommeliers and Lauren Abbott. Also in atten- certified exam in September. I’ll be dance were Danielle Slutzky, Vania a wine consultant at Astor Wines & Herdoon, Daniel Rumennik ’07 and Spirits starting in October — come Wayne Ting ’06. by and see me any time!” In other wedding news, Max Rachel Belt left Haiti after five Zeiberg SEAS’08 married Meng years and has moved to Switzerland Zhou at Bridal Veil Lakes in to take a job with Gavi, The Vaccine Portland, Ore. In attendance were Alliance, an international organiza- Danny Zuffante, Ben Hansen, tion that brings together public and Hans Sahni, Jessica Lee-Hansen, private sectors with the shared goal Paula Navratil, Artia Moghbel of creating equal access to new and SEAS’08, Jessica Shynn BC’08 and underused vaccines for children liv- Kaitlyn Busler ’10 and Ralph DeBernardo ’09 were married in Ocean City, Leon Levy. ing in the world’s poorest countries. N.J., on June 4, with many alumni in attendance, including wedding party Keeping the happy wedding Congrats, Rachel! members best man, Gene Kaskiw ’09; groomsmen Clark Koury ’09, Gary announcements going is Andre Cara Radzins (née Seabury) Burey, Mesko ’09 and Tyler Duffy ’09; and bridesmaids Jackie Klatsky ’09, Megan a psychiatry resident at and her husband welcomed a son, Donovan ’10 and Jane Gartland ’10. Many other alumni friends are pictured. NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell, Nathan David Radzins, on July 28. who married Laura Galinko (Tufts Share your news with classmates ’11), an anesthesiology resident at by writing to the addresses at the by family and friends. Kaitlyn and com or use CCT’s Class Notes NYP Weill Cornell, in a traditional top of this column or by submitting Ralph met in the Athletics training webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ Jewish ceremony on September 4 in a note through CCT’s Class Notes room in 2006, when Kaitlyn was a submit_class_note. Garrison, N.Y. Many College alums webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ freshman on the field hockey team were in attendance: Daniel Cama- submit_class_note. and Ralph was a sophomore on the cho, Laura Cole, Christopher football team. The couple officially 2010 Haas, JoAnn Kintz, Lucas Martin, started dating in August 2008 and Jivaji More, Mona Soliman ’11, 2009 got engaged in May 2014. Columbia Julia Feldberg Eve Torres, Kimberly Traube and alumni at the wedding were best One Western Ave., Apt. 717 Sarah Wansley (newly married to Alidad Damooei man Gene Kaskiw; groomsmen Boston, MA 02163 Tommy Crawford, an ’09 Yale grad). c/o CCT Clark Koury, Gary Mesko and [email protected] Elizabeth Smith writes, “This Columbia Alumni Center Tyler Duffy; and bridesmaids Jackie has been an exciting year for me. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Klatsky, Megan Donovan ’10 and Hello, 2010. Raph Graybill recently In January, I received my black belt New York, NY 10025 Jane Gartland ’10, as well as many moved to Seattle, where he is an in Brazilian jiu-jitsu from Renzo [email protected] alumni guests. The couple resides in attorney with Susman Godfrey. Gracie after more than a decade of the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from Yale Law in practice. It was incredibly humbling Kaitlyn Busler ’10 and Ralph This past summer, Jenny Lam 2015, Raph spent the past year in and overwhelming! On the career DeBernardo were married in Ocean independently curated an interactive Montana clerking for the United front, I left American Express to City, N.J., on June 4, surrounded exhibition, LEXICON, and offi- States Court of Appeals for the cially launched her artist representa- Ninth Circuit. Seattle is also home tion business, both of which have to Raph’s sophomore-year room- been successes so far. She was also mate, Jon Hollander. Substantial recently selected as the first-prize amounts of skiing in the Northwest winner in the National Park Ser- are planned. vice’s Centennial Project, has begun Valerie Sapozhnikova gradu- taking illustration commissions, has ated from Harvard Law in May. been writing for Time Out Chicago She spent the summer traveling and recently returned to New York and visiting exciting new places — for a weekend to celebrate Julia Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Alekseyeva ’10’s wedding. Azerbaijan — and spent time with Know someone who needs family in Moscow. In October, she admissions essay help? Yelena put aside the luxury of traveling Shuster beat out 40,000 students and being a student and started as to win the Campbell’s Tomato an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Soup $100,000 American Dreams Moore. As awesome as traveling is, Contest in 2005. Now, she’s giv- Valerie says she is happy to be back ing eighth-graders (and up) the home in New York and looks for- competitive edge at TheAdmissions ward to catching up with classmates. Guru.com. And for every paid essay Kevin McKenna started teaching she edits, she donates one to an in the history department at Lewis Neda Navab ’08 married Andrew ElBardissi in Vallery, France, on July 22. underprivileged student. and Clark College in Portland, Ore., Left to right: bridesmaids Lauren Abbott ’08, Amanda Rosencrans ’08 and Happy 2017! Send in a note for while he finishes his dissertation at Negin Navab ’12, and the bride. the New Year to damooei@gmail. the University of Washington.

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Kaitlyn Busler and Ralph DeBer- And, of course, from Chris Yim: tive business schools angling to get nardo ’09 were married in Ocean “On a rare sunny day in San Francisco, 2011 invites to their first Indian wedding. Samantha Glover City, N.J., on June 4, surrounded by I was standing at my bus stop, heading married Diego Nuriel Moghavem and family and friends. Kaitlyn and Ralph to work, when a drone flew overhead. de Lima Ferreira on August 6 in Sean Udell met in the Columbia Athletics train- I gave it the finger and it proceeded to Connecticut. The couple met in Rio c/o CCT ing room in 2006, when Kaitlyn was take photo after photo of me dressed de Janeiro’s Copacabana neighbor- Columbia Alumni Center a freshman on the field hockey team in my Versace suit. I hated it in that hood while Samantha was studying 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and Ralph was a sophomore on the moment. I was looking at the disease in Brazil during her third year of law New York, NY 10025 football team. The couple started dat- of technology staring right back at me. school. They knew right away that it [email protected] ing in August 2008 and got engaged “When I got onto the bus, a lady was forever and they spent the next [email protected] in May 2014. Columbia alumni in sat down next to me and started couple of years in an inter-continen- the wedding party were best man telling me about her childhood in tal relationship. In attendance at their Gene Kaskiw ’09; groomsmen Clark Iowa. She offered me a plum, which We know 2011 was a weird year for wedding were some of Samantha’s Koury ’09, Gary Mesko ’09 and Tyler I politely refused because I am on a most of us, but we think it’s easy to friends from John Jay 5. Shortly after Duffy ’09; and bridesmaids Jackie low-carb diet. We exchanged many say 2016 has been the weirdest since getting married, the couple moved to Klatsky ’09, Megan Donovan and pleasantries before she invited me to then. We hope the world is intact by São Paulo, Brazil, where Samantha Jane Gartland. There were many a yoga retreat that upcoming week- the time this is set to publish, since does capital markets work at Shear- alumni guests at the wedding as end. After texting with my wife, we’re writing in October and it genu- man & Sterling. If you find yourself well. The couple resides in the San Grace, we decided that we would inely feels day-to-day right now. That in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, let Francisco Bay Area. attend Sacha’s retreat in Calistoga. being said, some pretty awesome her know! From Jessica Guo: “Hello there! “Never ever have I experienced a stuff happened to our class in 2016 Many of our classmates are This year (2016) marked the first time weekend so therapeutic and cathartic. and we’re happy to share the news also in new jobs doing exciting Princess Francois since graduation that all of my senior I spoke in tongues for the first time with you now. As always, it’s great to work. started year suitemates reunited: Angela and opened up many pathways for get your updates all year! Feel free to an assistant principal position at Hebberd (formerly Zhen Lu), Lien chakra to start flowing. I had lucid drop us a line at [email protected] MESA Charter H.S. in her home Hoang, Katherine Vance (née dreams where Varun Gulati SEAS’10 and [email protected]. borough of Brooklyn this summer Poulsen), Claire Zukowski, Lisa and I strapped ourselves into a drone Like most years before it in human after teaching for five years. She was Kawamoto and me. All six of us, that took us to a distant moon. As we history, 2016 was a year in which selected as a National 30-Under-30 plus Aaron Hsieh ’09 (our sophomore colonized this new place, we insti- weddings and engagements took Caribbean-American Emerging Julie DeVries year RA), met up in Flagstaff, Ariz., tuted that every child meditate and place. married Dieter Leaders and Changemakers Hon- for my wedding, which took place in eat cacao in their early development. Brommer on August 7 in an art gal- oree. In addition, she was invited a meadow just outside Sunset Crater “I awoke from that dream and the lery in Washington, D.C., where they to the White House to attend the Volcano National Monument. I was rest that was the retreat with a new both have extended family. Dieter and South by South Lawn Festival. Jan van Zoelen delighted that all could join from far- perspective on humanity, life and Julie met at a middle school dance recently moved flung places, especially Lien Hoang, my path for achieving life serenity. in the seventh grade. They lost touch to Donetsk, Ukraine, to work as a who is based in Vietnam. Those of I didn’t think that I would find it so in college but ran into each other on Russian-speaking delegate for the us who could stick around visited the early, but I have rolled away the stone the street when they were both living International Committee of the Red Grand Canyon the next day, hiked that covers my intention for life and in Boston post-college, and started Cross. He visits conflict-related pris- down part of the Hermit Trail and search for Truth. This may scare some dating. He proposed on a walk in oners, helps restore family links, tries drove back via the Navajo Nation. I and leave others uncomfortable, but the woods in Exeter, N.H., on the to find the whereabouts of missing will be in Flagstaff for two more years I am no longer the man that I once trails they ran together on the cross people and tries to convince (always finishing my Ph.D. in plant ecology. I was, the one that left Columbia in country team in high school. They live confidentially) the armed forces to welcome more visitors to this beauti- 2010. I have been freed. in Berkeley, Calif., where Dieter is a follow international humanitarian ful part of the country.” “I bid you adieu, beloved one.” mechanical engineer specializing in law, i.e., the Geneva Conventions. concrete and Julie is in her third year at UC Berkeley Law. Matt Pruznick JRN’14 got engaged to his girlfriend of four years, Missy Sohigian, while on Read vacation in Italy this summer. They CCT will be having a surprise wedding CCT — in which neither knows the desti- nation until arrival at the airport — Online sometime in 2018. Matt lives in the To opt out of the print East Village and is an editor for two edition, click “Manage trade news magazines covering the AV industry. He and Missy met on Your Subscription” at New Year’s Eve 2012 on a party boat college.columbia.edu/cct on the Hudson River. and follow the domestic Dhruv Vasishtha, who has a PRESTON TRAUSCHT PRESTON serious update for once, proposed instructions. You’ll receive Jessica Guo ’10 married Ian Keirsey on June 24 in Flagstaff, Ariz. Left to to his better half and the love of an email when each new right: Angela Hebberd ’10 (née Zhen Angela Lu), Lien Hoang ’10, Katherine his life, Molly Spector BC’11, in issue is posted. Vance ’10 (née Poulsen), the groom, the bride, Aaron Hsieh ’09, Claire July. They’re now both fending off Zukowski ’10 and Lisa Kawamoto ’10. requests from friends in their respec-

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manically ‘coding’ my data (matching qualitative data to a numeric code, which designates its meaning). In between staring at text and Excel files, I slipped in a few dips in the beautiful Lac Léman (that’s Lake Geneva, for non-locals) and enjoyed a few EuroCup games. Highlights of the summer include Kimberly Rubin’s visit (we were randomly assigned to each other as roommates freshman year!), a California road trip and the chance to present my research on early venture evolution at the Academy of Management’s annual meeting. Lesson learned — the next time nerves hit (I was speaking along- side cool scholars), I must channel Amy Cuddy’s Wonder Woman vibes! Hope to see more Columbians on this side of the world soon!” Congratulations to Kimberly Rubin for being accepted into and

COURTESY WILL CSAPLAR ’57, BUS’58 WILL CSAPLAR COURTESY deciding to attend Chicago Law. Nettra wishes her the best of luck in her first year! In other words: All those long e-commerce, information security Producer Pat Blute and musical Speaking of starting classes, Hannah D’Apice hours spent in the Slavic languages and privacy, trade secret theft, data director Tareq Abuissa ’14 came started pursu- department are finally being put to breaches, internal investigations and together to produce a “Varsity Show ing an M.A. at Stanford this past good use. It was a long road there referrals to law enforcement. for Silicon Valley” in the form of South fall and lives in Menlo Park, Calif. Michael Egley for Jan. After graduation, he was for is back in his of Market: The Musical (somamusical. She says she would love to get in a year a paralegal at Cleary Gottlieb hometown, training, teaching and com), which played in San Francisco touch with alums in the Bay Area. Thomas Shay Hill in Paris, then studied Russian for refereeing jiu-jitsu out of Renzo October 20–23. The musical also also began pur- six months at the Odessa National Gracie Pittsburgh. He’s an active starred Varun Gulati SEAS’10! suing a degree this past fall, a Ph.D. Polytechnic University, then finished competitor in the International Jessica Greenberg, a medical in urban planning at the Harvard a two-year master’s in economic and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation circuit, student at Yale, and Oren Brecher Graduate School of Design. social history at Oxford (alongside medaling at World and Pan Ameri- ’11, an anesthesiology resident at We wish you the best of luck, Diana EC townhouse 805 roommate can Championships in gi and no-gi Yale New Haven Hospital, got Hannah and Tommy! Greenwald ) and then taught in jiu-jitsu. He heard about jiu-jitsu engaged in January 2016. Thanks to all those who sent in Moscow for six months before mov- from a podcast, gave it a try and fell Congratulations! updates. I encourage everyone else to ing to Ukraine. He encourages you in love with it. You can follow him Derek Turner says hello from drop me a line, as we’d love to hear to find out more about the important on Instagram at @born2grapple. northern California: “As my gradua- from you — [email protected]! work done by the ICRC in Ukraine tion from Stanford Graduate School and in other conflict areas. of Business approaches, I’m plan- Eric G. Rosenberg, after 2012 ning to move back to my beloved 2013

completing a one-year post-law REUNION home state of Arizona to search for REUNION WEEKEND Tala Akhavan school fellowship in cybercrime and acquire an established, profitable JUNE 1–4, 2017 c/o CCT and identity theft at the Manhat- business from a retiring owner. It’s a Alumni Affairs Contact Columbia Alumni Center tan District Attorney’s Office in way to gain leadership in (and own- Fatima Yudeh 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 October 2015, has been working ership of) a growing organization [email protected] New York, NY 10025 at boutique cyber and intellec- 212-851-7834 without the startup headaches of [email protected] tual property law firm DeVore & Development Contact 2017 finding product-market fit. It’s been DeMarco. In March, Eric helped Heather Siemienas a blast living in Palo Alto, including draft an amicus curiae (“friend of the [email protected] reconnecting with Chuck Roberts Class of ’13, let’s start 2017 by send- court”) brief on behalf of the Federal 212-851-7855 and Ryan Gallagher SEAS’12, but ing in some notes; your classmates Law Enforcement Officers Associa- it’s time to put my over-education want to hear from you! For now, Sarah Chai Jacki Karsh tion, the Association of Prosecuting to work. If you’re around Stanford here is a note from c/o CCT Attorneys and the National Sheriffs’ before June, reach out! Otherwise, (née Bryk) JRN’14: “Armed with her Columbia Alumni Center Association that was filed in the you’ll find me in the Grand Canyon master’s, Jacki, a native New Yorker, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 United States District Court for the State, wandering the desert in search moved to Los Angeles, where she New York, NY 10025 Central District of California as part of an acquisition target.” spent several months in a prestigious [email protected] of the litigation between Apple and Nettra Pan sent an update from fellowship at NBC Nightly News’ the United States concerning the Switzerland: “I spent the summer West Coast outpost. Jacki pursued iPhone’s encryption. As an associate, The Class of 2012 continues to completing field work for one of her on-camera news career and Eric has been counseling clients on accomplish some very cool things! the papers in my dissertation, then landed a job as a reporter for the L.A.

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County Channel, LA36. In this role, States District Court for the Eastern choral music program for displaced A LinkedIn article of Fatima- Jacki has interviewed countless lead- District of Pennsylvania in 2017. children within an emergency refu- tou’s new role explains, “MCH is ing figures that shape the future of Back on the campaign trail, Alex- gee camp in Berlin. The Columbia dedicated to helping unemployed, L.A. County — the most populous andra Svokos got Rudy Giuliani’s community was instrumental in underemployed, and/or profes- county in the United States. spit on her face while covering the this project’s development, from sionally dissatisfied individuals and “Jacki covers a wide range of top- presidential debates for Elite Daily. spreading the word to support and communities hack their careers and ics for the show LA Now, including She is looking forward to the release advisement to volunteering in the gain employment suitable to their political developments, social issues of the next issue of CCT, when the classroom. This fall, Kate planned needs, goals and desires.” impacting communities, advances election will be over. Please send to write and record music with her Congrats, Fatimatou! in healthcare, education reform and help to [email protected]. sister, Izzi Eberstadt BC’16. They Please continue submitting transformative infrastructure. Jacki Tareq Abuissa and Pat will also join French filmmaker updates to kdc2122@columbia. also is a web correspondent for the Blute ’12 wrote a musical in San Brune Charvin in residence at The edu or via the CCT Class Notes entertainment digital entity ‘Young Francisco that sold out the entire Watermill Center this winter to webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ Hollywood,’ is the host of Westside preview run in 48 hours. It’s a tech co-produce and soundtrack a short submit_class_note. TV on westsidetoday.com and was parody called South of Market: The documentary on their work in Berlin. a moderator of and anchor for Musical. SOMAMusical covers Stay tuned! MontyTV at the annual Montgomery topics including founder FOMO, Stephanie Osahenrunmwen 2016 Odiase Summit in Santa Monica. women in tech, the downsides of is in graduate school at the REUNION REUNION WEEKEND “The Columbia Alumni Associa- the on-demand economy, venture University of Oxford, completing JUNE 1–4, 2017 tion of Southern California invited capitalists and even tech media. a one-year M.S. in evidence-based Alumni Affairs Contact Jacki to join its board and she now The show premiered October 20 social intervention and policy evalu- Fatima Yudeh chairs the Membership Committee. at Z Space in San Francisco. Tareq ation. In addition to her schoolwork, [email protected] Jacki was an ambassador for the CAA and Pat are Varsity Show alumni she is planning a few trips around 212-851-7834 of Southern California at this year’s and the project was inspired by that Europe and the Mediterranean. Development Contact 2017 Alumni Leaders Weekend in early experience. The show promises to After graduation she plans to return Heather Siemienas October. In September 2015, Jacki “change the world,” they say, with a to New York City. [email protected] married Jeff Karsh. Together they fresh take on the tech industry. The Classmates, please send updates 212-851-7855 enjoy hiking all around the United team is a mix of professional San to [email protected] or use States and long-distance biking.” Francisco-based performers from CCT’s Class Notes webform, college. Lily Liu-Krason shows such as Beach Blanket Babylon columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. c/o CCT and tech employees from Dropbox, We want to hear from you! Columbia Alumni Center 2014 Emergence Capital, Silicon Valley 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Bank and more. New York, NY 10025 Rebecca Fattell Chris Zombik has been work- 2015 [email protected] c/o CCT ing for an education startup in Columbia Alumni Center Shanghai since June 2015. He Kareem Carryl Hi everyone! I’m Lily Liu-Krason, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 says he is having an amazing time c/o CCT your new class correspondent. I New York, NY 10025 learning Mandarin while exploring a Columbia Alumni Center studied math and creative writing [email protected] hyper-dynamic city that is uniquely 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 at CC and recently finished a three- Chinese and cosmopolitan. New York, NY 10025 month backpacking trip doing social George T. Phillips is a third-year Kate Eberstadt recently returned [email protected] science research. I’m currently based at the Georgetown University Law to the United States after founding in San Francisco and would love to Center and will clerk for the United and directing The Hutto Project, a I hope you had a great time at hear from you and grow our Class Homecoming on October 22! For Notes, so email me what’s new with me, it’s always a great time when you: [email protected]. members of our class are able to get Jessica Geddes works at a together, even if it’s only for a day. If community health nonprofit in you have photos, stories or memo- Greensboro, Ala., where she recently rable moments from the event, feel went to an Auburn football game … free to send them to me. but we know she misses the Colum- Here are two updates from our bia football games more! Speaking class: Angela Song writes, “Robert of which, Homecoming was Octo- “Bob” Lou and I are excited to ber 22 — hope you made it! have started our first year of medical Jackson Fisher works at David school together at Penn’s Perelman Black Literary Agency in New York School of Medicine!” and says, “If any fellow Lions are Congrats, Angela and Bob! sitting on great book proposals, they Doreen Mohammed ’17 wrote in can send them my way!” to give a great update on Fatimatou Aram Balian is an outreach Diallo. She writes “Check out how chair for our Reunion Commit- one of our young alumnae is making tee so contact him if you want to such strides in her career and profes- get involved. It’s never too early to sional goals by becoming MyCareer- save the date for our first Columbia Robert “Bob” Lou ’15 and Angela Song ’15 marked the start of their clinical health Hacker’s CFO less than two years reunion, which will be Thursday, studies at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine at their White Coat Ceremony. after graduating from the College.” June 1–Sunday, June 4!

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Board of Directors. Lang is survived born on June 14, 1921, in Pelham, retired. Stewart connected with other 1942 by his wife of 69 years, Marion; N.Y. He earned a degree from P&S medical professionals through the daughter, Nancy; sons, Wesley Jr. and in 1945 and began his career with Virginia Society of Anesthesiolo- Wesley W. Lang Sr., retired business his wife, Mary Margaret, and Kenneth the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy gists, Medical Society of Virginia and executive, Stamford, Conn., on April and his wife, Deborah; and six grand- 1942–50, with his Foreign Service American Board of Anesthesiology 11, 2016. Lang was born on March 17, children. Memorial contributions taking place at Guam N.H. in the and was also a member of Court 1921, in New York. He served in the may be made to St. Jude Children’s Marianas Islands. He later was an Street United Methodist Church, the Army Air Forces in WWII and earned Research Hospital. anesthesiologist at Lynchburg Memo- American Legion and the Bedford an M.B.A. from NYU. Thereafter, he rial Hospital, Centra Lynchburg Country Club. He is survived by his was employed by A.D. Juilliard, Pfizer, Thomas W. Stewart, retired General Hospital, Centra Virginia wife, Selene Carson Stewart, whom Schrafft’s and B. Altman & Co., where anesthesiologist, Lynchburg, Va., Baptist Hospital and Bedford he married in 1954; daughter, Martha he was CFO and a member of the on March 27, 2016. Stewart was Memorial Hospital, from which he Stewart Doolittle; sons, William and

Jack Greenberg ’45, LAW’48, Former Dean of the College, Law School Professor and Civil Rights Attorney

Jack Greenberg ’45, LAW’48, Greenberg worked for the American Laws degree for his efforts toward an emeritus dean of the College, Civil Liberties Union, the American “furthering social equality.” Later in emeritus Law School professor, Jewish Congress and the LDF, writ- life, he worked on global issues, influential civil rights attorney and ing briefs and other legal papers. particularly on the discriminated former leader of the NAACP Legal After graduating from the Law Roma population in Europe. Defense and Educational Fund School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Greenberg left the LDF in 1984 (LDF), died on October 12, 2016, in Scholar, Greenberg was recommended and joined the Law School, where New York City. He was 91. by Gellhorn to Thurgood Marshall for he had been an adjunct starting in Greenberg was born on Decem- a position at the LDF; 11 days before 1970, as a professor and vice dean. ber 22, 1924, to Jewish parents from his 28th birthday, Greenberg was argu- He became the Alphonse Fletcher,

Poland and Romania. He grew up ing one of the key cases under Brown v. Jr. Professor of Law and taught POLLARD DAN in Brooklyn and the Bronx and, as Board of Education before the Supreme courses in constitutional law, civil he recounted in his 1994 memoir, Court. Marshall, who had joined the rights and human rights law, as well also published articles in the Colum- Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedi- federal bench in 1961, appointed as a class on civil procedure and a bia Law Review, Harvard Law cated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Greenberg that same year to succeed seminar called “Kafka and the Law.” Review, Yale Law Journal, NYU Law Civil Rights Revolution, early in his him as director-counsel of the LDF, He created the school’s Human Review and Michigan Law Review. life developed an acute awareness of causing friction in both the African- Rights Internship Program, which In 2001, Greenberg was awarded disadvantage and inequality. American and Jewish communities. has placed more than 1,500 students the Presidential Citizens Medal by Greenberg entered the College Greenberg litigated the 1961 case that at organizations around the world. President Clinton, who deemed him intending to become an accoun- resulted in James Meredith’s integra- Greenberg was dean of the “a crusader for freedom and equality.” tant, like his father, but said that his tion of the University of Mississippi, College 1989–93. He maintained his Greenberg remained hopeful, writing absorption in his Core and Humani- and 1972’s Furman v. Georgia, in which passion and devotion to civil rights in his memoir, “… while we should ties classes steered him toward human the high court put in place a de facto on campus, spearheading a mission seek justice for its own sake, those rights work. He entered the Navy in moratorium on capital punishment in to increase diversity within the for whom that is not reason enough 1941 and recalled being disturbed the United States. All told, Green- College faculty and student popula- should understand that without by the brazen racial prejudice he berg argued 40 cases in front of the tion. He stepped down as dean in justice there will be no peace.” witnessed. His time in the military Supreme Court, as well as hundreds 1993 in a University shake-up but Greenberg’s marriage to Sema included in 1945 serving as a deck of similar cases in the lower courts, remained a professor at the Law Ann Tanzer ended in divorce in officer aboard a tank landing ship in fighting for many rights previously School until retiring last year. 1970. Greenberg is survived by the Pacific Ocean theater and fighting denied to black Americans, including His books include Race Relations his wife of 46 years, Deborah M. in the battles of Iwo Jima, Okinawa voting rights, equal pay for equal work and American Law (1959), Judicial Greenberg LAW’57 (née Cole); chil- and Iheya Jima. and fair housing. He co-founded the Process and Social Change: Consti- dren from his first marriage, David, After the war, Greenberg Mexican American Legal Defense and tutional Litigation (1985), Crusad- Sarah GSAS’86 and Ezra; his wife’s enrolled in the Law School and Educational Fund, drafted a New York ers in the Courts: How a Dedicated children, Suzanne Greenberg and was particularly affected by Walter City law that denied tax exemptions to Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil William Cole ’84, whom he adopted; Gellhorn LAW’31’s “Legal Survey” private clubs that discriminated on the Rights Revolution (1994) and even a brother, Daniel; and five grandchil- course, which offered students the basis of race or gender and founded the cookbook, co-authored with former dren. He was predeceased in 2011 by opportunity to gain work experience Earl Warren Legal Training Program. Harvard Law dean James Vorenberg, a son, Josiah LAW’81. with civil rights organizations. Dur- In 1984, Columbia presented Dean Cuisine or the Liberated Man’s — Lisa Palladino and ing his four semesters in the course, Greenberg the honorary Doctor of Guide to Fine Cooking (1990). He Aiyana K. White ’18

Winter 2016–17 CCT 85 Obituaries his wife, Carol Welstead Stewart, and Congo, the United Kingdom, Laos, Robert and his wife, Cleo Sander U.S. Ambassador to the Ivory Coast 1955 Obituary Submission Stewart; six grandchildren; and three and three tours in Greece, the last also Guidelines nephews. He was preceded in death as U.S. ambassador. In Washington, Abraham Ashkenasi, retired Columbia College Today welcomes obituaries for College alumni. by his brother, Samuel, and son, D.C., he served as deputy assistant professor of political science, Berlin, Deaths are noted in the next Thomas W. Jr. Memorial contributions secretary of state for East Asian Germany, on March 27, 2016. Born available issue in the “Other may be made to Red Bird Mission. and Pacific Affairs and as VP of the on May 14, 1934, in Brooklyn, Deaths Reported” box. Complete National Defense University. After N.Y., Ashkenasi earned a master’s obituaries will be published in an retiring, Stearns held the Warburg in international relations from Johns upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of 1948 Chair for International Relations at Hopkins in 1956. He conducted his obituaries that CCT receives, it may Simmons College, also publishing doctoral residency at Columbia. After Joseph J. Fusco, take several issues for the complete retired physician, two books and numerous articles on four years in the Air Force stationed obituary to appear. Word limit is 200; Hillsdale, N.Y., on June 16, 2016. U.S. foreign policy. In 2014, he was in West Germany, joining the reserve text may be edited for length, clarity Fusco was born on August 3, 1928, made Grand Commander of the as a captain, Ashkenasi taught at the and style at the editors’ discretion. in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. Order of the Phoenix by the presi- University of Maryland overseas while Click “Contact Us” at college. columbia.edu/cct, or mail materials He earned an M.D. at NYU Bellevue dent of the Hellenic Republic. conducting his doctoral research at to Obituaries Editor, Columbia College of Medicine, interned at Stearns is survived by his wife of the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free College Today, Columbia Alumni Cincinnati General Hospital and was 57 years, Antonia Stearns (née University Berlin, earning a Ph.D. in Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, a resident at Philadelphia General Riddleberger); sister, Mary Lou public law and government in 1964 4th Fl., New York, NY 10025. Hospital. During the Korean War, Stearns Roppoli; children, Joanne, from GSAS. After a year teaching at he was a captain in the Air Force Pamela Pollack and her husband, Hofstra, he accepted a teaching posi- Medical Corps and was stationed in Fred, Christopher, Jonathan and his tion at the Free University, becoming a The Rise and Fall of the Newark News: France, where he met his wife, Isabell. wife, Barbara, David and his wife, tenured professor in 1971. Ashkenasi A Personal Retrospection and edited Fusco finished his residency with Dr. Virginie, and Emily Stearns Fertik focused on minority and refugee issues and wrote the preface for William M. Paul Beeson, an infectious disease and her husband, Elliot; and eight worldwide, with a special focus on Ashby’s Tales Without Hate. In March specialist at Yale. Following training grandchildren. Memorial contribu- Israel and the Occupied Territories. 1968, Eldridge marched with and at Hartford and Grace-New Haven tions may be made to the Association interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King hospitals, Fusco joined the Rip Van for Diplomatic Studies and Training Jr. during King’s visit to Newark. He Winkle Clinic in Hudson, N.Y., or to Doctors Without Borders. also interviewed President Nixon on as an internist and was appointed television. An advocate for civil rights to Columbia Memorial Hospital’s and civil liberties, Eldridge won Department of Medicine in 1958. 1949 numerous awards from the NAACP, After the clinic’s dissolution in 1964, the American Jewish Committee he continued in private practice in Neil Warner, music arranger and and Jewish Council for Public Hillsdale and joined Prime Colum- conductor, New York City, on Affairs, among others. He was instru- bia Greene Medical Associates in August 30, 2016. Born Warner Neil mental in the establishment of the Hudson. He completed his career Shilkret, Warner graduated from the Newark Public Information Office on staff at the Pine Haven Nursing College magna cum laude at 19 and in 1970 and served as a special aide Home and Rehabilitation Center in was a Korean War veteran. He had a and adviser to Newark Mayors Philmont, N.Y. Fusco is survived by prolific musical career in TV, adver- Kenneth A. Gibson and Sharpe his wife of 60 years; children, Joseph tising (he won several Clio Awards) James. Eldridge was president and and his wife, Karen Parker, Joan and on Broadway as an arranger Abraham Ashkenasi ’55 executive director of the Newark and her husband, Gerard Walshe, and the original conductor of Man Preservation and Landmarks Com- John and Frances; a grandson; a of La Mancha. He is survived by His career included guest professor- mittee; in 2014, it presented him niece; and four nephews. Memorial his wife, Naomi; children, Julie and ships at UCLA and UC Berkeley, a with a Lifetime Achievement Award contributions may be made to The James; daughter-in-law, Kim; sister, visiting fellowship at Haifa University, for 40 years of service. Eldridge’s Community Hospice of Columbia Marilyn; and one grandson. Israel, and a research fellowship at wife, Marjorie, predeceased him on - Greene, 47 Liberty St., Catskill, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His September 30, 2015; they had been NY 12414 or The Roeliff Jansen many major publications include married since June 15, 1957. Eldridge Community Library, 9091 Route 22, 1952 writing Modern German Nationalism is survived by their sons, Martin and Hillsdale, NY 12529. (1976) and Palestinian Identities and Frederick; three grandchildren; and C. Donald “Don” Mohr, retired Preferences (1992), as well as editing one great-grandchild. Monteagle “Monty” Stearns, attorney, Washington, D.C., on The Worldwide Refugee Crisis (1988) retired ambassador, professor, July 14, 2016. Born in Hackensack, and The Future of Jerusalem (1999). Cambridge, Mass., on May 14, 2016. N.J., on August 7, 1930, Mohr lived 1961 Stearns grew up in Carmel, Calif., most of his adult life in Manhat- Bernard Miller, and New England. In 1943, while at tan. He earned a degree from the 1957 electrical engineer Stanford, he enlisted in the Marine Law School in 1955 and worked at and real estate entrepreneur, Corps, completed Officer Candidate Schieffelin & Co., Moët Hennessy H. Douglas Eldridge, reporter and Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 20, 2016. School and was assigned to the U.S.S. and LVMH, from which he retired author, East Orange, N.J., on April 11, Miller was born on June 20, 1939, in West Virginia. Following WWII, he in 1994. He is survived by his wife 2016. Eldridge was Spectator editor- New York City and grew up on the graduated from the College with a of 52 years, Mariavittoria Serafini in-chief and later a reporter for Lower East Side and in Rockaway, degree in English. A Foreign Service Mohr; children, Christopher, and the Newark News and the Hudson N.Y. He earned All-City honors officer for more than 40 years, Stearns’ Chantal Mohr O’Rourke GS’97; Reporter and the deputy editor for as a basketball player at Hebrew assignments included Turkey, the and three grandchildren. the Montclair Times. He authored Institute of Long Island. Following

86 CCT Winter 2016–17 alumninews his graduation Phi Beta Kappa from auditor general of Pennsylvania and in his heart. He started making 1966 from the Business School and the College, Miller earned a B.S., received commendations from the documentary films in the late ’60s embarked on a career in finance, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical State Senate and House. Tsucalas was supporting the Civil Rights, Anti- joining Chase Manhattan Bank in engineering, all from Engineering. a C.F.A. and principal of John James War and Feminist Movements and its Special Development Program. He worked in cutting-edge aviation Tsucalas & Co.; VP of leveraged was directly involved in the emerging He ultimately pursued private and aerospace projects for Hughes buyouts and private placements for wave of independent film and video business interests. Sargent was an Aircraft in Culver City, Calif., in Butcher & Singer in Philadelphia; as a founding member of Newsreel, avid automobile and sports fan and the 1960s. In the early 1970s Miller and investment officer for John co-owner of Odeon Films and execu- steadfast friend to many, including co-founded Unigon Industries, Hancock in Boston. His writings tive director of the Association of his Phi Gamma Delta fraternity where he developed Doppler ultra- appeared in city, national and inter- Independent Video and Filmmakers. brothers. He is survived by his wife sound technology. Miller entered national publications, and he was a Jacobs was a founding trustee of the of 50 years, Susan Deane Sargent; the real estate industry in NYC in guest speaker on economic, financial Sundance Institute and board mem- brother, Bruce, and his wife, Janet; the 1980s. At the time of his death and political analyses regarding ber of the American Film Institute, and one nephew. he was a significant real estate owner developments in the United States the Independent Feature Project and in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Miller and the Middle East and was a the Southern Documentary Fund. In was a noted philanthropist; an avid volunteer adviser to the DOD on Los Angeles, he produced narrative 1978 runner, having completed four NYC economic development. Tsucalas was television films for The Film Foundry, marathons; and a Talmudic scholar. a first lieutenant in the USAF and his own production company and John C. Ohman, attorney, He is survived by his wife of 48 received the Air Force Commenda- others including Mirage Enterprises, New York City, on March 7, 2016. years, Margareta (née Hirsch); chil- tion Medal for “Meritorious Service” CBS and Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ohman earned an M.A. from dren, Eric LAW’95, George ’93 and and the National Defense Service He held executive positions at Trans- GSAS in 1981 and a degree from Lea Miller Kronenberg ’99; and 15 Medal awarded during the Vietnam Lux Corp. and Hallmark Entertain- the Law School in 1992. He was grandchildren. Memorial contribu- War; he developed a screenplay about ment. Jacobs taught for five years at an acknowledged classical music tions may be made to BINA Stroke the day-to-day living, loves and losses California State University - Long expert, one of his passions; another and Brain Injury Assistance, 2511 of injured female veterans. Memo- Beach. He earned an M.F.A. in film was the New York Yankees. Ohman Avenue I, Brooklyn, NY 11210. rial contributions may be made to in 2004 from SOA. Jacobs is survived was a successful attorney in New Columbia University with memo by his wife of 31 years, Lynn Good- York as a partner at Brown Raysman John J. Tsucalas, financial analyst, “Crew Shell in memory of John pasture; daughter, Keelia; brother, Millstein Felder & Steiner, remain- investment banker and writer, Phila- Tsucalas.” Tsucalas is survived by his Jim; and cousin, Howard Muscott. ing as partner after its merger with delphia, on September 21, 2016. wife of 23 years, Joanne, among others. Thelen Reid, and subsequently as Tsucalas earned a B.A. in economics a partner at Vandenberg and Feliu. and was elected by classmates as a 1964 He had recently joined McGlinchey permanent class officer and a mem- 1963 Stafford, where he concentrated his ber of Sigma Chi and the Varsity C Malcolm B. Sargent, financial practice on complex commercial, Club. As president of the Colum- Alan P. Jacobs, film professor and executive, Assonet, Mass., on June business and technology litigation. bia Club of Philadelphia, he was producer, entertainment executive, 26, 2015. Born in St. Louis, Sargent He is survived by his mother; two presented an Alumni Medal in 1986. Chapel Hill, N.C., on February 22, lived most of his life in Westfield, sisters; wife; and two daughters and Tsucalas earned an M.B.A. in finance 2016. Born and raised in Manhattan, N.J., New York City and Assonet, their mother. from Wharton. He was deputy Jacobs was a lifelong New Yorker Mass. He earned an M.B.A. in — Lisa Palladino

OTHER DEATHS REPORTED 1949 Robert B. Goldberg, retired business executive, Manhasset, N.Y., on April 2, 2016. Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming Richard C. Kandel, New York City, on November 23, 2016. issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of 1953 Mitchell Price, retired fire department personnel director, obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the Hudson, Fla., on January 8, 2016. complete obituary to appear. 1956 John M. Easton, San Diego, on August 31, 2016. 1957 Denis B. Frind, attorney, Portland, Ore., 1941 Charles M. Plotz, retired rheumatologist, Brooklyn, N.Y., on October 6, 2016. on November 20, 2016. 1963 D. Keith Mano, writer, New York City, 1944 Bruce Mazlish, historian, author and professor emeritus, on September 14, 2016. Cambridge, Mass., on November 27, 2016. 1966 Richard H. Steingesser, Providence, R.I., on August 31, 2015. 1942 Leonard I. Garth, federal judge, North Branford, Conn., on September 22, 2016. 1971 Mark A. Allen, scientist, Glendale, Calif., on October 22, 2016. Robert J. Kaufman, retired corporate attorney, 1974 Ralph C. Coti, attorney, Hawthorne, N.Y., Scarsdale, N.Y., on October 30, 2016. on September 14, 2016. 1943 Felix E. Demartini, retired physician, Vero Beach, Fla., 2000 Anoop Nagwani, Berkeley, Calif., on December 3, 2016. on November 7, 2016. 2006 Layla Hall, West Newton, Mass., on November 8, 2016. 1945 Melvin M. Grumbach, pediatric endocrinologist, 2007 Analisa R. Smith-Perez, attorney, Jamaica Plain, Mass., San Francisco, on October 4, 2016. on November 27, 2016.

Winter 2016–17 CCT 87 alumnicorner

“The Lilac Bush,” annotated

PJ Sauerteig ’15 analyzes the literary references in a song from his latest album, The Ascension of Slow Dakota

erforming under the name Slow Dakota, PJ Sauerteig ’15 The 19-track album, released July 22, references T.S. Eliot, William blurs the lines among music, literature and art; his third Blake, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and many album, The Ascension of Slow Dakota, is an exploration other literary legends. Six of the tracks feature narrative voice-overs P of musical styles and literary allusions that defies easy performed by Columbia faculty: Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey categorization. Reviewer Andrew Keipe of PopMatters wrote, “The Professor of Philosophy; Margaret Vandenburg GSAS’96, a senior Ascension reads like a mini encyclopedia of the Western canon,” lecturer in English at Barnard; and Joseph Fasano SOA’08, an adjunct while Observer’s Justin Joffe wrote, “The Ascension of Slow Dakota assistant professor of writing in the Faculty of the Arts. packs itself so full of theological, literary and poetic references so Sauerteig, a double major in creative writing and psychology at as to almost laugh in the face of the three-minute hit singles and the College, now attends NYU Law. Below, he shares an annotated tight, 30-minute garage records.” lyric from “The Lilac Bush,” breaking it down Lit Hum-style.

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