Columbia College Spring 2014 TODAY

The Show Goes On Contents Come back to something THE SHOW GOES ON new this summer.

18 Varsity Show Endears and Endures More than 50 In a world of planned obsolescence and the latest Internet meme, some things do last. By Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, ’86J, ’90 GSAS areas of study 20 Another Opening, Another Varsity Show to explore Since 1894, the theatrical tradition has satirized Columbia in song and dance. and endless By Nathalie Alonso ’08 24 The Varsity Show Through the Years opportunities A look back at 120 years in pictures, programs and posters. to rediscover. 30 The Marriage of True Minds The Broadway team of Tom Kitt ’96 and Brian Yorkey ’93 delve into the reasons behind their successful collaboration. By Jamie Katz ’72, ’80 Business 35 Orestes Brings Lit Hum to Life 36 Theater District Columbia’s many theater groups give students a chance to watch, and perform, everything from Shakespeare to opera to student-written plays. ce.columbia.edu/summercc By Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA

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ABOVE: CAST MEMBERS PERFORM DURING 1980’S FLY WITH ME. PHOTO: PETER KRUPENYE PHOTOGRAPHY/COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES MESSAGE FROM DEAN JAMES J. VALENTINI Building the Best Undergraduate Experience

15 48 80 e recently marked the end of The Columbia n this issue, you’ll read about some of the remarkable Colum- Campaign, a University-wide fundraising and bians who have achieved success in the performing arts, and Coach Brett Boretti (left) Susanna Daniel ’97 Jenji Kohan ’91 (right) alumni relations effort that raised more than Isome of the unique Columbia traditions that have influenced $6.1 billion, including $980 million for under- them on their path to greatness — in particular the Varsity Show, graduate education. We raised $401 million but also groups like Columbia University Players, King’s Crown DEPARTMENTS Wfor College financial aid, $25.5 million for student advising and Shakespeare Troupe and Columbia Musical Theatre Society, to WEB EXTRAS $134.4 million for the Columbia College Fund, which supports name a few. Columbia College students interested in theater and 3 Message from Dean James J. Valentini the Core Curriculum, summer internship film can take advantage of the School of the Building the best undergraduate experience. View photos from stipends, financial aid and student services. Arts and courses in Barnard’s Department the John Jay We also endowed 43 new professorships of Theatre. 4 Letters to the Editor Awards Dinner for faculty in the Arts and Sciences. And we Columbia University’s resources — in- did it with the help of you — the generous cluding our world-renowned faculty, 16 5 Within the Family by Editor Alex Sachare ’71 View photos from alumni, parents, students and friends of Co- graduate and professional schools, hundreds All the Columbia world’s a stage. the Dean’s Scholarship lumbia College. of extracurricular opportunities, and many Throughout the campaign, many of you institutes and centers across campus and 6 Around the Quads Reception gave time, energy and financial contribu- around the globe — are among the many Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean’s Day 2014. tions to Columbia. You reconnected with things that make Columbia College special, Listen to an NPR your classmates, with your Columbia expe- and this is especially true for students in- 15 Roar, Lion, Roar interview with riences and with the institution, and helped terested in theater and the performing arts. Jenji Kohan ’91 Coach Brett Boretti builds upon the Lions’ baseball legacy. propel the University forward. You were These opportunities are enhanced by the leaders in The Columbia Campaign, and University’s location in the greatest city in 40 Columbia Forum: Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise Watch a performance I thank you for helping make us the great- the world, where students can take advan- From a collection of five one-act plays. of the Varsity Show est college in the greatest university in the tage of countless arts internships, world- greatest city in the world. I especially thank class performances and unique cultural op- By Tony Kushner ’78 college.columbia. the Undergraduate Campaign Council and portunities. Our Columbia Arts Experience edu/cct all the other College fund­raising volunteers internship program, for example, provides who gave their time and resources to help us select students with a New York-based in- PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO ALUMNI NEWS reach our goals. ternship in the arts and connects them with The momentum we have built from this special events and educational programming 46 Message from CCAA President Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 campaign will enable us to focus on key priorities that will designed to help them explore career possibilities. Our NYC Per- Columbia College Women connects female students with alumnae mentors. enhance Columbia College. We must continue to strengthen forming Arts Alternative Spring Break program gives students the College, build the greatest undergraduate experience for with a passion for performing arts the chance to attend theater, 47 Bookshelf our students and faculty, and provide for the next generation music and dance performances; participate in workshops on topics Featured: Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel ’97. of Columbians. We need to sustain the Core, which unites such as audience development and careers in arts administration; Columbia College students and alumni; we need to support and reflect on their own work and the performing arts community 49 Obituaries our students, who are at the core of the College — through on campus during spring break. financial aid, summer internships, study abroad, research and Performing arts is just one example of the many professions 49 Arnold A. Saltzman ’36 Like Columbia College fellowship opportunities, and other programs and services — that College students embark on, and one of the many passions 51 Alumni on Facebook: Richard D. Heffner ’46, ’47 GSAS facebook.com/alumnicc and we need to support the faculty who teach our students, that we support through our programs and opportunities. But who are world-class researchers, outstanding teachers and none of these programs would be possible without the support 53 Class Notes thought-leaders in their fields. We need to be the best Colum- and guidance of former students, parents of students, and friends Alumni Profiles bia we can be so we can continue to attract the best students, of the College. So I thank you, once again, for all that you have Follow @Columbia_CCAA 80 Jenji Kohan ’91 regardless of their families’ abilities to pay, and ensure a di- done during The Columbia Campaign and all that you continue on Twitter verse community where students can learn as much from one to do for the College. Your commitment to Columbia is extraor- 87 David Johns ’04, ’06 TC another as they do from our faculty. Sustaining the College’s dinary, and I look forward to working together to sustain the 96 Last Look success will take a lot of work, and your participation is essen- College, build programs and opportunities, and support the next Join the Columbia Alumni tial. I hope you will remain engaged, continue to connect with generation of Columbians. Association Network the College and take advantage of programs and opportuni- on LinkedIn: alumni. ties that we offer. columbia.edu/linkedin

SPRING 2014 3 Letters to the Editor WITHIN THE FAMILY BY EDITOR ALEX SACHARE ’71

A Football Alternative sadly lacking on campus, notwithstand- All the Columbia World’s a Stage Volume 41 Number 3 So the Lions were winless again this year — ing tremendous expenditures for facilities Spring 2014 more evidence that building a viable foot- five miles away. We request that CU commission a study EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ball program at Columbia is unlikely. The banging-head-on-wall metaphor seems to to analyze the historic failure of CU athlet- Alex Sachare ’71 never got to see a Varsity Show when I was a student. My worked together on the Varsity Show. More recently, Tom Kitt describe this entire subject and leads to my ics and make recommendations on how freshman year was 1967–68, and the Varsity Show was ’96 and Brian Yorkey ’93, the duo who won Tony and Pulitzer EXECUTIVE EDITOR suggestion: Just stop it. Give up football. to achieve competitive respectability. We one of many things at Columbia — just about everything, awards for Next to Normal and created this spring’s If/Then, met Lisa Palladino We don’t need an Eric Kandel to explain don’t point to specific issues or individu- actually — that fell victim to that spring’s demonstrations. and had their first collaboration on the Varsity Show. that this game can, and too often does, als; we simply want to have a competent MANAGING EDITOR After buildings were occupied beginning on April 23, The success of Varsity Show alumni extends beyond the stage cause permanent brain injury. It is time third-party analysis. We believe that Co- Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts lumbia’s students, faculty and alumni all I1968, and especially after the police bust in the early hours of — way beyond. Herman Mankiewicz (Class of 1917), who with Columbia made a statement about this by deserve these answers. At the same time, April 30, what passed for normal activities on campus came to Orson Welles wrote Citizen Kane, and Herman Wouk ’34, the Pu- FORUM EDITOR dropping the sport altogether or replacing a screeching halt. litzer Prize-winning author of The Caine Mutiny and many other Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard it with a touch or flag version. Encourage we also insist on the University formulat- Classes were canceled, although some faculty chose to continue novels, are Varsity Show alumni. I.A.L. Diamond ’41, Billy Wild- the rest of the Ivies to do the same. ing and executing an acceptable plan to CONTRIBUTING WRITER meeting with their students either outdoors er’s co-author on The Apartment and The I know, I know. “The alums would nev- provide state-of-the-art campus fitness Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA on campus or in faculty apartments. There Fortune Cookie, wrote four Varsity Shows, er stand for it! What about the University’s facilities for the entire Columbia commu- nity, athletes and non-athletes. were plans for a 1968 Varsity Show based the only person ever to do so. When the EDITORIAL INTERNS investment in facilities?” And so on. No on Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road but it MGM movie studio needed a logo, pub- Nicollette Barsamian ’13 Barnard, ’16 Arts doubt such a change would be difficult. But We welcome all to join CAEC (lion- was never staged. And it would not be un- licist and Varsity Show alumnus Howard Karl Daum ’15 it’s time. Columbia should lead the way. sports.org) and to support these proposals. Jeff Fereday ’72 Richard Forzani ’66 til 1978 that the Varsity Show was revived Dietz (Class of 1917J) thought of the Co- ART DIRECTOR arfield with The Great Columbia Riot of ’78. lumbia mascot and came up with the icon- Boise, Idaho G , N.J. Gates Sisters Studio The first Varsity Show I saw was in ic roaring lion. Cultural historian Jacques [Editor’s note: The writer played lightweight 2001, a few years after I began editing this Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS and Pro Football Hall CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS football for Columbia in 1969.] magazine. Sex, Lions, and Videotape also of Fame quarterback Sid Luckman ’39 were Eileen Barroso happened to be the first Varsity Show Varsity Show alumni, as are singer Jon Char Smullyan Seeking Change to be staged in Roone Arledge Audito- “Bowzer” Bauman ’68 of Sha Na Na and A group of alumni that includes former Manage Your rium of the newly opened Alfred Lerner comedian Kate McKinnon ’06 of Saturday Published quarterly by the athletes and non-athletes, Columbia Ath- Subscription Hall. I’ve attended several since then, Night Live. Columbia College Office of letics Hall of Fame members, major con- and hope to be in the audience when this Alumni Affairs and Development for tributors and a former University trustee If you prefer reading CCT online, you year’s edition takes place Friday, May 2– ut a roster of famous alumni is not alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of Columbia College. has formed the Committee for Athletic can help us go green and save money Sunday, May 4. enough. What makes the Varsity Excellence at Columbia (CAEC) to seek by opting out of the print edition. Click The Varsity Show is not Columbia’s Show an enduring treat for Colum- SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, change. The immediate spark for this was only student theatrical production — far bians is the creativity and dedication of COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS “Manage Your Subscription” at college. B the past football season but the fuel con- from it. As you’ll learn in the roundup that the students who gather each fall to begin AND COMMUNICATIONS columbia.edu/cct and follow the do- Bernice Tsai ’96 sists of a long history of sub-par athletic appears in this issue, there are many other the process of producing the latest edition accomplishment. mestic instructions. We will continue to groups that stage performances during the and spend countless hours crafting it into Address all correspondence to: Since the creation of the Ivy League in notify you by email when each issue is school year. But the Varsity Show, which the production that is seen during perfor- Columbia College Today PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO Columbia Alumni Center 1956, Columbia owns the significantly posted online. You may be reinstated to was first staged in 1894, is Columbia’s old- mance weekend. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. worst team record of any member school. receive the print edition at any time by est performing arts tradition and, argu- Naturally, some Varsity Shows are bet- New York, NY 10025 We have won 89 team championships out ably, one of Columbia’s oldest traditions of any kind. ter than others. The writing may be better in some years than sending a note to [email protected]. 212-851-7852 of a possible 1,755. Brown is the second others; same for the music and the acting and the staging. De- Email (editorial): [email protected]; (advertising): [email protected]. worst with 119 titles, 33 percent more than ow, as Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, ’86J, ’90 GSAS points spite the best efforts of the Admissions Office, not every class Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and us. This institutional futility comes despite out in the essay that introduces this issue’s theme (see contains a writer like Diamond, a composer like Rodgers or a facebook.com/alumnicc. a large athletics budget that might be jus- page 18), many of our peers have their own versions lyricist like Hammerstein. And sometimes even the best talent ISSN 0572-7820 tified in terms of student development, Nof the Varsity Show — an annual musical comedy, created by produces a show that falls short of the mark. Will this be one of morale, spirit and alumni contributions but students, that satirizes life at their school. So what’s so special those years when it all comes together? At least today’s students Opinions expressed are those of the CCT welcomes letters from readers about authors and do not reflect official only if Columbia fielded credible teams. about our Varsity Show? will have a chance to find out for themselves. articles in the magazine but cannot print or positions of Columbia College With rare exception, we do not. Our his- For one, its alumni. Some of the most prominent names in We hope you enjoy our look behind the scenes at prepara- personally respond to all letters received. or Columbia University. toric average of 1.6 titles per year has not Broadway history cut their theatrical teeth on the Varsity Show. tions for this year’s Varsity Show, at the visual history of this Letters express the views of the writers © 2014 Columbia College Today changed during the past five years, so there Composer Richard Rodgers ’23 ranks as one of the creators of longstanding tradition, the conversation with Varsity Show and not CCT, the College or the University. All rights reserved. has not been any recent improvement, the modern Broadway musical, yet before he collaborated on alumni Kitt and Yorkey, and the snapshots of the many other Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. either. shows like South Pacific and The Sound of Music with Oscar talented theatrical groups on campus. And we urge you, wheth- All letters are subject to editing for space, CAEC suggests that the administration Hammerstein II (Class of 1916) and on Babes in Arms and Pal er you happen to be on Morningside Heights or are planning a clarity and CCT style. Please direct letters concede this history is unacceptable and Joey with Lorenz Hart (Class of 1918J), he worked with them visit, to check out one of their productions. for publication “to the editor” via mail or represents a black eye for the University. on the Varsity Show. Ed Kleban ’59, lyricist for A Chorus Line, online: college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. Additionally, acceptable fitness facilities and Terrence McNally ’60, who won Tony Awards in consecu- for athletes and non-athletes alike are tive years for writing Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class,

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look forward to celebrating with former students who graduated in years ending THE in 4 and 9 throughout the weekend and L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti ’92 Joins invite other alumni, along with parents Dean James J. Valentini in Conversation AROUND QUADS and friends, to join me on Dean’s Day for thought-provoking lectures on topics ranging from science to art to literature and to engage with the Core Curriculum, the common intellectual experience that Alumni Reunion Weekend connects all current and former Columbia College students.” Alumni who attended Reunion 2013 noted how wonderful it was to be back and Dean’s Day 2014 on campus with classmates. “My 60th reunion was a remarkable B y L i s a P a ll a d i n o experience. I reconnected with old as well as long-term friends. The Mini-Core was a step back into heaven,” said Bill Frosch ’53, voicing the sentiments of many attendees. And for those who helped to plan their class’ reunion, seeing their work come to fruition was especially rewarding: “Reunion was a wonderful experience both for me and my classmates who re- turned to campus, some for the first time since graduation,” said Rachel Mintz ’93. “From the cocktail parties to the Dean’s Day talks to the barbecue to the class dinner to dancing under the stars on Sat- urday night, Alumni Reunion Weekend allowed me to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. It was excellent, and ean James J. Valentini joined about 200 College alumni, parents, students and I am so glad to have been a part of both friends in Beverly Hills on January 15 for an evening with Los Angeles Mayor planning and participating in it.” DEric Garcetti ’92, ’93 SIPA (above, left). Held at the Beverly Hills home of David Javdan ’90, the evening featured time to mingle with guests and with Garcetti as well Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 2 as a dis­cussion between Garcetti and Valentini. The mayor spoke about his time at reunion.college.columbia.edu Columbia; the Core Curriculum; the two organizations he helped to found, the Harlem college.columbia.edu/deansday Restoration Project and Columbia Urban Experience; and what he thinks about now as [email protected] mayor. See more event photos at facebook.com/alumnicc/photos_albums. 212-851-7488

If this is your reunion year, watch for Alumni Reunion Weekend materials by mail and email, go to the reunion website Catching up with friends on the Low Steps — just like the old days — is one of many things Alumni Reunion Weekend attendees can to register for reunion and Dean’s Day enjoy while back on campus. events and to get event details (reunion. PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO college.columbia.edu) or refer to the box at the top of your Class Notes column in ourteen classes will gather each class’ Reunion Committee; athletics, veterans and alumni on this issue for staff contact information. Thursday, May 29–Sunday, n cultural outings such as the New active duty, and student leadership; Dean’s Day is open to alumni of all class June 1, for Alumni Reunion York Philharmonic, American Ballet n Camp Columbia for Kids, an all-day years but if it is not your reunion year, you Weekend. The celebration is a Theatre, Broadway theater and an Saturday program for Lion cubs need to register on the Dean’s Day website chance for alumni to connect art gallery crawl; ages 3–12; and (college.columbia.edu/deansday) or by with old friends and make new n intellectual classes featuring Mini- n the all-class Wine Tasting and Star- calling the Alumni Office (212-851-7488). Fones, and to rediscover the campus and Core Courses given by Columbia light Reception with dancing on Deans’ Day information, with lecture and the city where they created memor­able faculty members; Low Plaza. registration details, will be sent to those in and meaningful moments. Celebrating n the Dean’s Day keynote lecture with “Reunion and Dean’s Day are op- non-reunion years. this year are alumni from classes ending Eric Foner ’63, ’69 GSAS, the DeWitt portunities for generations of alumni to For an idea of what to expect from in 4 and 9, from 1944–2009. Clinton Professor of History; return to campus, see classmates and reunion and Dean’s Day, check out the Highlights of the weekend will include n affinity eceptionsr for members of friends, and renew connections with the “2013 Reunion Highlights” on the reunion n class-specific gatherings planned by Columbia Daily Spectator, varsity College,” says Dean James J. Valentini. “I website.

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Columbia Campaign Raises More Than $6.1 Billion Joseph Ayala ’94 Heads Double Discovery Center

he Columbia Campaign, the nine- and Sciences departments that teach Co- lenges in the century ahead.” Bollinger also oseph Ayala ’94 is the new executive year, University-wide fundraising lumbia College students and 222 additional noted that the campaign record would director of the College’s Double and alumni-relations effort that professorships around the University; gave likely be broken by another Columbia cam- Discovery Center, which works concluded on December 31, $100 million to Columbia Athletics; and paign, adding, “We will not for a moment Jto enhance higher education Traised more than $6.1 billion. This total is gave close to $1 billion in capital funding for pause in the effort to supplement the Uni- opportunities for local low-income the largest sum raised by a single cam- projects including Hamilton Hall, the North- versity’s financial foundation, which is the and first-generation youth and adults paign in Ivy League history and the second west Corner Building for interdisciplinary eternal spring that feeds the creativity of aged 12–27. DDC’s academic enrichment largest ever raised by any university. science on the Morningside campus, the our extraordinary students and unmatched program, which serves approximately Generous alumni, parents and friends Campbell Sports Center at Baker Athletics faculty.” 1,000 students annually and has become of Columbia gave $980 million to the Cam- Complex and the first buildings on the new Dean James J. Valentini affirmed a model for similar programs throughout paign for Undergraduate Education, and Manhattanville campus. Bollinger’s message, saying the campaign the United States, focuses on ensuring more than $1 billion for student financial “Even the bare statistics underlying the was an outstanding success and set the high school graduation, college enroll- aid across Columbia’s schools, including Campaign total are amazing and should stage for a stronger Columbia. “Our ment and completion, and responsible $401 million for Columbia College students. give us heart for Columbia’s future,” Presi- challenge now is to find ways to build adulthood. Donors also gave $25.5 million for advising dent Lee C. Bollinger noted in a message upon the remarkable success of the “We are excited to welcome Joe Ayala, a at the College and Engineering through The to the Columbia community. “This vast Columbia Campaign and translate that Columbia College graduate and nonprofit Austin E. Quigley Endowment for Student personal engagement with the institution into programs and initiatives that directly leader, as the new executive director of Success, nearly $4 million for internships and commitment of resources is nothing impact Columbia College students so that Double Discovery Center,” says James J. and nearly $1.5 million for undergraduate less than extraordinary, and, so too, is the we can continue to create the greatest Valentini, dean of Columbia College and research programs. Donors endowed 43 institution’s renewed capacity for Columbia college in the greatest university in the v.p. for undergraduate education. “Joe’s new professorships for faculty in the Arts to help society overcome the fateful chal- greatest city in the world,” he said. experience in youth development and Joseph Ayala ’94 has focused on teaching and counseling youth throughout his career. advocacy, as well as his passion for help- PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT ing the youth of our community, will be an asset to the organization and to DDC’s Since 2006, Ayala has designed and center’s mission with demonstrated ex- current and future students and families.” implemented educational programs fo- perience helping New York City youth Founded in 1965, DDC was the creation cused on college access and completion at make the most of educational opportuni- Schiller To Chair Board of Trustees of Columbia undergraduates who were Publicolor, a youth development nonprofit ties,” says Roger Lehecka ’67, ’74 GSAS, moved by the disparities between their Ivy dedicated to enhancing opportunities for a co-founder of DDC and member of the onathan D. Schiller ’69, ’73L, a chairmanship, the board has become a League institution and the underserved at-risk New York City children. Before DDC Board of Friends. “His life is an prominent attorney and the recipi- vibrant community of ideas, hard work Harlem community. Annually, 90 percent joining Publicolor, he spent seven years at example of how the right help at the right ent of the 2012 Alexander Hamilton and shared commitment to Columbia. I of high school seniors participating in Prep for Prep, a leadership development time can change everything. I am confi- JAward, the College’s highest honor, know that in order to maintain Colum- DDC programs graduate on time and program for promising New York City stu- dent that his leadership and vision will has been elected co-chair of the bia’s impressive momentum, we cannot enter college the following fall semester, dents of color, which he himself attended. provide such assistance to current and University’s Board of Trustees alongside pause in our collective efforts to help this which greatly surpasses city, state and “Joe brings together a passion for the future DDC students.” current chair William V. Campbell ’62, great University prepare for the future. I national outcomes for low-income, first- ’64 TC. Schiller will succeed Campbell am looking forward to fulfilling this role generation college and minority students. as chairman upon the latter’s retirement with the same inclusive, affirmative spirit Ayala is a leader in educational advo- from the board. that Bill has brought to the board and the cacy for the local community with nearly Schiller, who played on Columbia’s Columbia community.” 20 years of experience in youth develop- JOIN OVER 3,000 ALUMNI, 1968 Ivy League champion basketball “Jonathan Schiller is deeply dedicated ment. A Bronx native, he has focused on STUDENTS AND team, is a co-founder and managing to Columbia and brings both great per- teaching and counseling underserved THEIR FAMILIES partner of the law firm Boies, Schiller & sonal insight about the institution and youth throughout his career. Ayala’s Flexner. His practice concentrates on com- admired professional experience to this background in youth development dates DINE plex litigation and international arbitra- important new role,” said President Lee to his time as a College student, when EXERCISE tion, and he has successfully tried cases C. Bollinger. “It is especially fitting that he coordinated childcare for Columbia’s before juries and judges in federal and at this moment when our University is Harlem Restoration Project. HOST EVENTS state courts throughout the United States embracing the opportunities of the 21st “The opportunity to lead a program STAY OVERNIGHT and before arbitral tribunals in Europe century, Jonathan eloquently speaks of that provides support and guidance for ACCESS OVER 200 and Asia as well as the United States. He the enduring importance of his study of young people who would otherwise not RECIPROCAL CLUBS has been honored frequently for his pro- Jonathan D. Schiller ’69, ’73L our classic Core Curriculum. He is highly have those opportunities is extraordinarily fessional service and success and is a fel- familiar with the initiatives that are es- exciting,” says Ayala. “What I love most, low of the American Bar Association. expanded role, and I am looking forward sential to Columbia’s future, both here in which is at the core of DDC’s mission, are “The University is extremely fortunate to collaborating with him to build on the New York and around the globe, and we the double discoveries: Columbia has the APPLY FOR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! to have a person of Jonathan’s talent and substantial progress of recent years.” look forward to benefitting from his lead- chance to discover the gold mine right in character to take on this leadership role “I’m honored to take on this responsi- ership together with Bill Campbell who, its own backyard, while our young people in residence at The Princeton Club of New York on our board,” said Campbell, who has bility at an institution that has meant so in his distinguished service on this board get to see one of the finest institutions in 15 WEST 43 STREET served on the board since 2003 and was much to me and my family,” said Schiller, over the past decade, has been an extraor- the world and create a set of expectations www.columbiaclub.org NEW YORK, NY 10036 212.719.0380 elected chair in 2005. “Our board and the whose three sons are all Columbia alum- dinary resource to this University and a for themselves about what is possible for University will benefit from Jonathan’s ni. “Under Bill Campbell’s extraordinary close friend to me personally.” them to achieve.”

SPRING 2014 SPRING 2014 8 9 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS Columbia Establishes Butler Aging Center Annette Insdorf Ph.D. is the to be an opera singer. But How would you describe but has a certain cult status; director of undergraduate when it came time to commit your approach to cinema? for example, his Saragossa and reflects the University’s recognition film studies at Columbia and to singing in a larger way, my My approach is, first and fore- Manuscript was Jerry Garcia’s olumbia has established a that the study of aging is inherently a professor in the Graduate father warned me that the most, sympathetic. When I sit favorite film. University-wide, interdisci- multidisciplinary. The center organizes Film Program of the School career of a performer is dif- down to watch any movie, I try plinary aging center with a and builds on existing aging-related of the Arts (which she chaired ficult and often short. He and to appreciate it in its own terms What’s your favorite place C mission to explore and better programs and activities, translating 1990–95). She is the author of my mother urged me — and — whether it’s mainstream, to be? understand the aging process and its scientific knowledge into policy and Double Lives, Second Chances: I’ll always be grateful to them avant-garde, old or new. I seem In my husband’s arms. societal implications, and named it in practice. It focuses on the systemic na- The Cinema of Krzysztof — to go to the kind of college to have developed a simulta- honor of the late Dr. Robert N. Butler ture of aging — the continual interaction Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, where my intellect could be neous emotional and cerebral What’s your most treasured ’49, ’53 P&S. The inaugural director among biological, behavioral and socio- a study of the French director’s expanded, and where I could response. I am able to feel possession? of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Ag- cultural factors that constitute human work; Philip Kaufman; and really choose a career. That things with immediacy in the I try not to get attached to ing Center is Ursula M. Staudinger, development — and will forge partner- the landmark study Indelible led me to CUNY’s Queens darkness, while taking notes to things but if there were a sud- founding dean of the Jacobs Center ships with the academic, corporate, Shadows: Film and the Holo- College. My mother had grasp — and later understand den fire in my apartment, the on Lifelong Learning and Institutional nonprofit and public sectors to develop caust. Her commentaries can recently earned a Ph.D. in — what I’m perceiving. first thing I would grab while Development at Jacobs University in be heard on many DVDs and French and was teaching running out is my laptop. Bremen, Germany, and v.p. of the Ger- policies on aging, engage communities she has interviewed more there. She inspired me to em- What undergraduate courses Isn’t that awful? man National Academy of Sciences. and effect societal change. than 100 film celebrities in brace the same career, and off do you teach? Butler was a gerontologist, psy- The Aging Lab is dedicated to research on aging as well as on ways the popular “Reel Pieces” I went to Yale for a Ph.D. in “American Film History, 1930– What’s the first movie you chiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author that individuals and society can bene- series at Manhattan’s 92nd English. 60” (also known as “Intro- recall seeing? and founding director of the National Street Y. It’s either Trapeze or Institute on Aging. “We are proud to fit from the latest scientific knowledge. The Greatest Show on have created this new center that will Dr. Robert N. Butler ’49, ’53 P&S That research enables the International PHOTO: KIM MARTINEAU ’97J Where were you born Five Minutes with ... Annette Insdorf Earth. I’m not sure mobilize the intellectual resources of the Longevity Center to develop public and raised? which one because I entire University to address the chal- policies and education and commu- lenges and opportunities that demograph- lic Health on the Medical Center campus, nity-outreach programs. The Longevity Paris until I was 3½, at What drew you to study film? duction to Genre and Auteur remember only the exhilara- ic change pose for individuals and society the Butler Columbia Aging Center consists Center is part of a global consortium of which point my parents Yale had many great film so- Study”), which is an intro- tion of the circus scenes. alike,” said Provost John Coatsworth. of an Aging Lab and the International Lon- 13 such centers, including ones in Cape decided we could all have a cieties when I was there, and ductory-level lecture course. Located at the Mailman School of Pub- gevity Center, founded by Butler in 1990, Town, Paris and Tokyo. better life in New York. We I went to the movies almost And the “Senior Seminar in What reading is on your did not have French citizen- every night. That was the Film Studies,” through which nightstand right now? ship: They were Polish- real basis of my film educa- film majors write their senior The truth? All I have is a re- Jewish Holocaust survivors tion. I got the feeling from essays. On a rotating basis, mote control to my TV, where who met in Paris on a blind my classes that everything I also offer such courses as the default channel is TCM, date at the circus. My father’s of value had already been “Polish Film,” “Holocaust Turner Classic Movies. I tend cousin lived in the Bronx written about literature. But Cinema” and “Auteur Study” to fall asleep while watching Dean’s Scholarship Reception Brings Together Donors and Recipients and urged us to move there. with film, I had something (whether Kieslowski or Philip an old black-and-white film. So we took the SS Liberty new and meaningful to say. Kaufman). Interview: Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts and eventually landed on I was lucky because my the Grand Concourse. adviser was Harold Bloom, What’s the most valuable and he convinced me not thing a professor can do for What did you want to be to leave Yale in order to try his or her students? when you were growing up? for a Ph.D. in film at NYU. Get them to think with I first wanted to be a perform- Instead, he encouraged me rigor as well as sym- er. I was always extroverted, to finish my doctorate in pathy and to write singing at parties, and turning three years, and then teach with clarity as well every street into a stage. For- whatever I want. After two as elegance. tunately, my parents didn’t years of coursework, I spent think much of my aspiration the third year writing my Are you working and insisted that I take my dissertation, and teaching a on any personal classes seriously. I did, and class at Yale on The French projects right loved school. But I had an New Wave. … I got to share now? impressive voice (mezzo- with about 20 students the I’m starting to work soprano), and I was accepted films of Truffaut, Godard, on my next book, into the singing program at Resnais, Chabrol and Rohm- which is about the Juilliard. Every Saturday, er. We were all so excited films of Polish direc- early 500 named scholarship donors and student recipients filled Roone Arledge Auditorium on February 6 at the annual Dean’s from age of 13 to the age of by the personal movies of tor Wojciech Has. Scholarship Reception. The reception gives students who receive named scholarships and the donors of those scholarships the op- 17, my mother accompanied these former film critics, and He is not well Nportunity to meet and to share stories about their College experiences. The evening’s speakers were Dean James J. Valentini (above me on the subway to this very by the cinematic language known in left, third from right); donor Daniel Loeb ’83 and one of his scholarship recipients, Zack Susel ’11; and Phillip Ross ’14, a member of the Senior neighborhood of Morningside they were using to tell their the United Fund Executive Committee. See more at college.columbia.edu/namedscholarships and facebook.com/alumnicc/photos_albums. Heights, where I was trained stories. States PHOTOS: EILEEN BARROSO

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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS that engages in buyouts, privatizations the editorial director of The Hollywood and strategic minority investments. Reporter since March 2010, previously was editor-in-chief of Us Weekly. n Modern Vampires of the City, the newest at the festival, with alumni filling roles n Stanley Lubman ’55, ’70L, a pioneer in album by Vampire Weekend, was No. from executive producer to principal cast Chinese legal studies in the United States, n The legacy of former Dean of the Col- 1 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best al- members. In addition to Gerson, others received a Distinguished Columbian in lege Jack Greenberg ’45, ’48L, a crusad- bums of 2013 and No. 4 on The Guardian’s involved in films at the festival were Sam Teaching Award from the Columbia Law ing civil rights attorney who argued the Best Albums of 2013 list. Vampire Week- Bisbee ’90, Frances Bodomo ’10, Maggie School Association on January 3. Lub- landmark case Brown v. Board of Educa- end’s members, Ezra Koenig ’06, Rostam Gyllenhaal ’99, Yana Gorskaya ’96, Jim man is a senior fellow at The Honorable tion before the U.S. Supreme Court and Batmanglij ’06, Chris Tomson ’06 and Jarmusch ’75, Gabe Liedman ’04, Colin G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute won Martin Luther King Jr. the right to Chris Baio ’07, met and began their musi- Patton ’01, Jonathan Schwartz ’03, Jenny for Global Challenges and the Law and march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., cal career while College students. Slate ’04 and Caroline Suh ’93. a distinguished lecturer in residence at was the focus of a symposium at the the UC Berkeley School of Law. He has Law School on January 24. Greenberg, n n Melissa Mark-Viverito ’91 was inaugu- Adam Kushner ’03, former executive specialized in China as a scholar and as a the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. Professor of rated as New York City Council speaker editor of National Journal, has joined The practicing lawyer for more than 50 years Law, was dean from 1989 to 1993, after on January 29, succeeding Christine Quinn Washington Post as editor of a new digital and taught at Stanford, Yale, Columbia, which he became a full-time professor in what the Daily News called “New York opinion and analysis venture that aims Eric Goldstein ’80 Harvard, the University of Heidelberg and vice dean at the Law School. He also City’s second most powerful political to deliver wide-ranging commentary on and the University of London before re- created its Human Rights Internship post.” Mark-Viverito, a council member major debates facing Washington, D.C., world’s largest local philanthropy, on July turning to Berkeley in 2002. Program, which has placed more than since 2005, was elected unanimously with the country and the world. At National 1. Goldstein has been involved in UJA- 1,500 students in human rights organiza- the support of new mayor Bill de Blasio Journal, Kushner ran all aspects of the Dede Gardner ’90 Federation activities for 25 years as a lay tions worldwide. PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO and is the first Hispanic to hold citywide weekly political magazine, from setting leader, most recently as vice chair, and office. At her inauguration ceremony, overall direction for coverage to oversee- will succeed John Ruskay, who is retiring n University Trustee Jonathan S. Lavine Mark-Viverito declared, “Today, we live in ing individual writing. Previously, he Motion Picture – Drama award at the after 15 years as CEO and EVP. ’88, managing partner of Sankaty Ad- the most unequal city in the nation. But it was a senior editor at Newsweek, leading Golden Globes, Movie of the Year at the visors and managing director of Bain is a new day in New York City. Now is the foreign coverage and writing on ideas AFI Awards and Best Film at the BAFTA n Ganesh Betanabhatla ’06, managing Capital, will be the guest of honor at time to embrace our progressive moment and trends; editor of TNR.com, where he Film Awards, among other honors. director at Talara Capital and a former J.P. Columbia/Barnard Hillel’s annual Seixas and put our values into action.” oversaw a site re-launch; and assistant Morgan oil and gas investment banker, Award Dinner, to be held in Low Ro- n managing editor at The New Republic. John Chun ’91 was appointed a judge and Matthew Schoenfeld ’08, a specialist tunda on May 15. Lavine, a former chair n David Henry Gerson ’08, who starred to King County’s Superior Court by Wash- in Morgan Stanley’s risk arbitrage group, of the Board of Visitors, will receive the n in the film Chapel Perilous, won the You- The film 12 Years a Slave, whose pro- ington Gov. Jay Inslee, effective January 6. were among those named on Forbes mag- Gershom Mendes Seixas Award in recog- Tube Audience Award at this year’s Sun- ducers included Dede Gardner ’90, Chun had been a member of the Summit azine’s “30 Under 30” list in finance for nition of his outstanding contributions to dance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture Law Group with a civil litigation practice 2014, released in January. Betanabhatla Jewish life at Columbia. which took place January 16–26. The of the Year at the 2014 Academy Awards and clerked for the Hon. Eugene Wright also was recognized in January by Oil and College was once again well-represented on March 2. Previously, it won the Best of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Gas Investor as one of its “20 Under 40” Circuit. in energy finance. Meanwhile, Amir Rao Contact CCT Online ’06, co-founder of Supergiant Games and Stanley Lubman ’55, ’70L n PHOTO: UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW It’s easy to get in touch with CCT Terrence McNally ’60’s latest play, Moth- co-creator of the action role-playing video ers and Sons, opens on Broadway on March via the web (college.columbia.edu/ game Bastion, was included on Forbes’ cct/contactus). Update your contact 24. Tony Award-winner Tyne Daly stars as n IN LUMINE TUO “30 Under 30” list in games for 2014. Janice B. Min ’90, ’91J has become the information, let us know what you a mother who pays an unexpected visit to co-president and chief creative officer of think in a letter to the editor, send n n STIGLITZ: University Professor and WILLIAMS: Gareth Williams, the Violin the New York apartment of her late son’s n Julius M. 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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT College Has Broadened Bintu Conteh ’14’s Love of Theater Roar, Lion, Roar

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rom performing Shakespeare in performance to a casual remark by a African-American performing arts tradi- Boretti Builds Upon Lions’ to musical roles to an intern- family friend. “I was doing an imitation tion at the Apollo Theater, where she ship at the Apollo, Bintu Con- of my mom, with her accent and all, procured a spring 2013 internship in the teh ’14 has turned her time at and my mom’s best friend said, ‘[Bintu] programming department through Co- the College into a training in is such a character.’ And I thought, ‘You lumbia Arts Experience. The program, Baseball Legacy Fall things theater. know what, yes,’” recalls Conteh, who co-sponsored by the Center for Career Most influential, however, has been grew up in New Brunswick, N.J., and Education and the Arts Initiative at B y L e e L o w e n f i s h ’63 her experience with the student group was around 10 at the time. “Since then, Columbia University, offers art-related Black Theatre Ensemble, which began it’s been something I’ve wanted to do.” internships in New York City and pro- with a lead role in spring 2011 as part of vides support in the form of a stipend olumbia baseball has enjoyed its share of success Gehrig Division, but Dartmouth turned the tables by winning BTE’s annual festival of one-act plays. and career counseling. Conteh provided through the years both in team and individual the rubber game of the best-of-3 playoffs at Columbia. Thus, it The show, Prophet’s Wife, was a drama administrative support and contributed accomplishments, and coach Brett Boretti hopes to was sweet revenge for the freshmen from that team when, in by Harrison David Rivers ’09 Arts about to the Apollo Archive Project, which add to that legacy when the Lions defend their Ivy front of a record-setting crowd of more than 1,000 at Columbia’s a woman married to a man without involved organizing more than 2,000 League championship this spring. Robertson Field at Satow Stadium last May, the Lions swept a genitalia. “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, colorized images of musicians who CColumbia’s most famous baseball alumnus was Lou Gehrig doubleheader from the Big Green 6–5 (10 innings) and 12–5 to others think I have the potential to carry headlined the legendary venue. ’25, who slugged home runs on South Field for two seasons earn another trip to the NCAA tournament. a show.’ That was really exciting for She continued to intern at the Apollo before launching a Hall of Fame career with the New York Boretti’s 2013 Lions were not satisfied with just winning me,” says Conteh, who had an ensemble during summer 2013, when she helped Yankees. Earlier, Eddie Collins (Class of 1907) shone at short- the Ivy League title, setting a regular season record of 16–4, role in the Kings Crown Shakespeare plan and orchestrate the first Breakin’ stop for the Light Blue and went on to a Hall of Fame career as and leading the league in batting average and ERA. To cap Troupe’s presentation of The Taming of Convention, a hip-hop dance festival a second baseman with the Philadelphia off their memorable season, the Lions the Shrew that same semester. that featured acts from around the Athletics and Chicago White Sox. More won an NCAA tournament game for She adds, “[Prophet’s Wife] was re- world. William Furio, an associate in recently, Gene Larkin ’84 stroked his the first time in school history. Trailing ally hard work because it was such a the Apollo’s programming department, way into baseball immortality with his 5–0 against New Mexico in the eighth strange play. A lot of work went into says the event showcased Conteh’s extra-inning, pinch-hit single that won inning, first baseman Alex Black ’13 got connecting to the character, but I was energy and people skills. “She was the 1991 World Series for the Minnesota Columbia on the scoreboard with a two- thankful to be part of that show … there to coordinate the back and forth Twins. And don’t forget speedy out- run homer that sparked a rally that tied It was the first moment at Columbia — calling restaurants, getting flowers, fielder Fernando Perez ’06, who scored the game. After Columbia took the lead where I realized, ‘I think I can do this.’” all while going up and down the stairs the winning run in the only game the in the top of the 13th inning on second Conteh has since worn multiple hats Bintu Conteh ’14 is pondering a career a million times,” he says. “She was just Tampa Bay Rays won in the 2008 World baseman Nick Crucet ’13’s RBI single, with BTE, which showcases playwrights in theater administration. so excited about everything.” Series. Black moved to the mound to earn the and actors of color. She was stage man- PHOTO: ERICA BOWER ’14 As a result of her diverse experienc- There have been periods of team suc- save. ager for its fall 2012 production of Fun- es with BTE and the Apollo, Conteh is cess as well. Columbia won consecutive One of the charms of college baseball nyhouse of a Negro, a 1964 one-act play Beyond BTE, Conteh has played pondering a career as a theater produc- Ivy League titles in 1933 and 1934, took is that talented position players like Black by Adrienne Kennedy, and directed the a disciple in the student troupe NO- er. “I began to realize that I like all the three of four crowns from 1960 through are often asked to contribute as pitchers. group’s spring 2013 staging of ’Til Death MADS’ spring 2012 production of aspects of theater, whether it is being on 1963 and captured consecutive titles “The more your best athletes are on the by Nailah Robinson ’13. Last fall, as BTE Patrick Blute ’12’s SPEARS: The Gospel stage or backstage,” she says. again in 1976 and 1977. Last year’s Ivy field at important moments, the better president and producer for Eisa Davis’ According to Britney, which narrates Though she always planned to be championship was the 11th for the Light your chances will be,” says Boretti. Pulitzer-nominated play Bulrusher, Con- the life of Jesus through Britney Spears involved in undergraduate theater, it Blue and their second since Boretti ar- After Columbia’s season ended with teh managed the show’s budget and songs, and portrayed Chuck Bean in was the Core that drew Conteh to the rived on campus prior to the 2006 season. a loss to Arizona State, Black was se- secured space for rehearsals. the Columbia Musical Theater So- College. “I loved that I would take a Fresh from five outstanding years at lected by the Kansas City Royals in the Bulrusher explores themes of race, ciety’s presentation of Bright Lights, science class, an art history class and Division III Franklin and Marshall, where 29th round of Major League Baseball’s sexuality and gender — the same top- Big City by Paul Scott Goodman. She a music class,” says Conteh, who as a his teams compiled a 116–82 record, free agent draft. Working exclusively as ics that prompted Conteh to major in says she particularly enjoyed her con- campus tour guide shares her enthu- Boretti did not take long to establish a Brett Boretti has led the Lions to an 89–71 record a relief pitcher, he made an impressive American studies. “I love that I get to trasting roles in the Barnard Theater siasm for the Core with prospective winning program. In just his third season in eight seasons as head coach. pro debut with a 2–2 record and 3.24 incorporate what I’m learning in my Department’s spring 2013 production students. “Something I like to say on he led Columbia to the 2008 Ivy League PHOTO: GENE BOYARS ERA. He joins in pro baseball two other classes into the kind of theater I am of Eye Piece. The non-linear play by my tours is that I want to be a genius. I title, the Lions rallying to beat Dartmouth drafted Lions who played for Boretti: interested in,” says Conteh, who cites Barnard lecturer Rinde Eckert explores want to know everything, and the Core 7–5 in the deciding game of the best-of-three playoff in Hanover, Pat Lowery ’12, the 2010 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year who two Barnard courses, “Black Women in themes of sight and blindness. One of is helping me with that endeavor.” N.H. Captain Henry Perkins ’08 moved over from second base has two years under his belt after being drafted in the 21st America” and “Explorations in Black Conteh’s characters, an elderly blind to save the game with four innings of stellar relief and also round in 2012 by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Theater,” among those she has found woman reading a magazine, provided Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a belted a big insurance home run. outfielder Dario Pizzano ’14, the 2012 Ivy League Player of most relevant. comic relief; her other part was a per- freelance journalist and an editorial pro- There were no Gehrig Division (Columbia, Cornell, Penn the Year who was selected by the Seattle Mariners in 2012. Conteh, whose parents hail from Si- sonification of death. ducer for LasMayores.com, Major League and Princeton) or league titles the following season but for the Since he was drafted, Pizzano has hit .324, slugged .482 and erra Leone, attributes her initial interest Conteh was further exposed to the Baseball’s official Spanish language website. first time Columbia did beat Division I powers in Texas (Lamar) — impressively in this age of swing-and-miss baseball — has and California (Cal-State Fullerton). In 2010, Columbia won the walked seven more times than he has struck out.

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high school in New York City. Boretti is Men’s Fencing pleased that the coaching bug has also bit- Save the Men’s, Women’s Tennis Win ten Jon Eisen ’13, a player he describes as Date! Shares Ivy Crown “the greatest overachiever I ever coached” ECAC Indoor Titles and who is now working for the RBI (Re- March 22 olumbia’s men’s fencing team earned store Baseball in the Inner City) program in CAA Alumni a share of the 2014 Ivy League Cham- olumbia’s men’s and women’s tennis teams enjoyed his hometown of Nashville. Reception — Cpionship on February 9, compiling a successful indoor seasons highlighted by wins at Baseball Boretti, whose Columbia teams have 4–1 record to tie defending champion Har- the Eastern College Athletic Conference Indoor Austin, Texas C compiled an 89–71 Ivy League record in his vard. It was Columbia’s first men’s fencing Championships. eight seasons, welcomes many voices to March 22 title since 2008 and 34th since Ivy fencing After beating five of six opponents to start their spring explore the subject of the mental game of CAA Alumni began in 1956. The Columbia women fin- season, the men’s team blanked Harvard 4–0 to win the Reception — baseball. He appreciates input from Brett ished third at 4–2, behind Princeton and ECAC title on February 17. The Lions got off to a quick Women’s Tennis Harvard, even though the Lions lost Olym- Walker, Columbia’s new director of peak Miami start by taking the doubles point as the teams of Winston performance and a former college pitcher, pian Nzingha Prescod ’15 to injury on the Lin ’15-Mike Vermeer ’16 and Dragos Ignat ’16-Richard who organizes regular seminars for the March 30 first day of competition. Pham ’17 won their matches. Vermeer, Ashok Narayana Field Hockey team. For winter break reading this year, Columbia fencing enjoyed a superb ’15 and Bert Vancura ’15 posted singles victories for the Alumnae Game Boretti distributed to the team copies of season, the men attaining the nation’s No. sweep. The other three singles matches were still in prog- Heads Up Baseball, a book and tapes by sports April 12 1 ranking and the women being ranked as ress at the time of Columbia’s clinching win, so they were psychologist Brian Cain. Baseball high as fifth. The NCAA Championships not completed. Homecoming As usual, the Lions will spend the early will be held Thursday, March 20–Sunday, Following the ECAC victory, Columbia rose six places Weekend vs. 23 in Columbus, Ohio. part of their season in warmer climes against Princeton to No. 34 in the International Tennis Association (ITA) opponents like South Florida and Texas Columbia’s men’s team easily defeated national rankings. before they open defense of their Ivy title April 29 Penn and Brown to start the Ivy meet, then One week earlier, Columbia’s women’s team beat Yale Boretti, with trophy, and assistant coach Dan Tischler leave Robertston Field at Satow Varsity C Cel- on March 29 with a doubleheader against beat Harvard head-to-head by rallying for the first time since 2006, winning the ECAC crown Stadium after the Lions swept a doubleheader against Dartmouth on May 4 to win the ebration from a 13–11 deficit as Jack Hoyle ’16, Harry 2013 Ivy League Championship. Brown at Robertson Field at Satow Stadium. Levien Gymna- 4–1 on February 9. Columbia captured the doubles point PHOTO: MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN Leading the Lions will be their tri-captains, sium Bergman ’16E and Brian Ro ’16 scored when, after the teams split the first two matches, Crystal durable catcher Mike Fischer ’14, ace left- pressure wins. A 20–7 rout of Yale gave the Leung ’15 and Tina Jiang ’17 rallied from a 3–5 deficit to May 5 Boretti, 42, a native of Beverly, Mass., who was named Ivy handed pitcher David Speer ’14 and steady shortstop Aaron Lions a 4–0 record going into their final even the final match and ultimately win 8–6. Singles vic- Football Golf match against Princeton, and the two teams League Coach of the Year last season, came to Columbia with Silbar ’14. Boretti looks for a big season from Speer, whom he says Outing tories by Jiang, Kanika Vaidya ’16 and Ioana Alecsiu ’14 a solid baseball pedigree. He was a four-year starter at catcher “has increased his velocity from the low 80s [miles per hour] to were tied 12–12 before the Tigers won two gave the Lions the ECAC Championship. for Davidson — yes, the same Davidson that ruined the NCAA the mid-80s, and he has a chance to pitch at the next level.” of the last three bouts to win 14–13 and foil Columbia’s women climbed to No. 35 in the ITA hopes of Columbia’s great 1968 basketball team. Boretti played Outfielder/designated hitter Joey Falcone ’16 GS, a former Columbia’s bid for an outright Ivy title. national rankings as of February 18, the highest in for and later was an assistant coach for the highly respected Dick Marine medic and veteran of tours of duty in Iraq and Afghani- The Columbia women swept their opening-day matches against program history. Cooke, who has been on NCAA rules committees and was an stan and son of former major league pitcher Pete Falcone, is Penn, Brown and Cornell, but lost to Harvard 14–13 to start the assistant coach for Team USA at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and back after hitting .331 and compiling a .520 slugging percentage second day. Columbia beat Yale 19–8 to keep its hopes for a share the 2008 Beijing Olympics. During his junior year, in 1993, Bo- last season. Nick McGuire ’16 may get a chance to fill Black’s big of the title alive, but Princeton, which won all six of its matches and For the latest news on Columbia athletics, retti made the Southern Conference all-star team and followed shoes, and Jordan Serena ’15, Gus Craig ’15E and Robb Paller ’16 had not lost in more than a year, beat Columbia 19–8 to drop the it up during the summer by being selected to the all-star team of will vie for playing time in the outfield. Lions to third place. visit gocolumbialions.com. the prestigious Cape Cod League, where he competed against In addition to Speer, who was 6–3 with a team-leading 2.34 such future major league players as Nomar Garciaparra, Matt ERA last season, another pitcher to watch is Joey Donino ’14, Morris and Jay Payton. who was 7–0 with 69 strikeouts in just 56.2 innings last season. Women’s Swimming and Diving Sweeps Dual Meets A learning experience that summer proved instrumental in Kevin Roy ’16 and Zack Tax ’14, who contributed important olumbia’s women’s swimming and diving team enjoyed its Dartmouth were the performances of Gabbie Toback ’17, who Boretti’s development as a coach. “I struggled with failure as a shutdown innings in 2013, and newcomer Ryan Marks ’17 are best season in program history, sweeping all Ivy opponents won the 200 backstroke in 1:58.25 to set a program and Uris player. I was a helmet-thrower,” he admits. A Cape Cod League also expected to see mound action. C in the Lions’ first undefeated dual-meet campaign. Pool record, and Mikaila Gaffney ’15, who won the 200 freestyle coach called him aside and told him sternly that tantrums had Boretti and his staff are well aware that a target will be on “If you said this to us as freshmen, or even last year, it would and 200 breaststroke and participated in the winning 200 med- no place in baseball; they hurt both the player and the team. He Columbia’s head in 2014 — the respected national publication have been completely unbelievable. To do something completely ley relay. absorbed the lesson and passed it on after he turned to coaching, Baseball America has picked the Lions to repeat as Ivy League unprecedented … it’s exciting to be a part of history,” said team “It feels absolutely amazing to finish 7–0, the best we’ve ever and now one of his greatest attributes is his ability to convey to champion — but they relish the challenge. As associate head captain Corinna Bertelsen ’14. been as a team,” said Alena Kluge ’14, whose program record in Columbia started the season with a splash on November 9, the 200 backstroke was broken by Toback. “I’ve seen a lot of im- players his hard-earned knowledge about baseball’s inevitable coach Pete Maki puts it, “Guys want to win for Boretti not just defeating Harvard for the first time in program history at Uris provement in my teammates, and being part of a team that could struggles. for themselves or their teammates. They want to win for him Pool 163.5–136.5. Wins over Yale and Penn the following week- go out like this — I couldn’t ask for more.” “This game eats you alive,” says Mike DeFazio ’06, a catcher because he is so tremendously competitive.” end sent the Lions into winter break with a 3–0 record. The Columbia finished fourth in the Ivy League Championships on on Boretti’s first team, in 2006, which won only six Ivy League Lions easily defeated Cornell and Brown, then capped their dual- February 20–22 as Harvard won for the third consecutive year. games. “I learned from coach Boretti that baseball is a game of Lee Lowenfish ’63 is the author of the award-winning biography meet season with wins over Princeton 165–131 and Dartmouth Kluge won the 200 individual medley and Gaffney finished first in failure, but you’re always one pitch away” from making some- Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman, and is a member 167–124 on the final weekend. Highlighting the victory over the 100 breaststroke. thing good happen. DeFazio now coaches for the KIPP charter of the national board of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. SCOREBOARD

Men’s fencing’s Money raised by Columbia Highest national ECAC tennis titles Number of dual-meet Ivy League national ranking and Athletics for cancer research women’s tennis ranking Columbia holds this year, wins by women’s swimming and finish at the Ivy League during its Play 4 Kay women’s in school history, with both the men’s and diving, as the Lions went 7–0 1Championships. $12,279 basketball game. 35 achieved this year. 2 women’s teams winning. 7 against league opponents. SPRING 2014 SPRING 2014 16 17 Varsity Show Endears and Endures

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n a world of planned obsolescence and the latest Internet meme, some things do last. Every year, the Varsity Show delights the Columbia community with a witty, razor-sharp reminder of what really matters in these parts. The production is a rite of spring, a heady respite before dreaded finals. It’s also the savviest take on the undergraduate experience around. If you want to know what’s uppermost on the student mind, buy a ticket. All will be revealed in the two-plus hours that send up everything from devilish administrators to Imicro-trends, from Plato to libido. Why, though, do such adolescent shenanigans endure? And Triangle Club, all you have to do is say, “Rodgers and Hammer- make no mistake; endure they do. The Varsity Show has been stein.” If that doesn’t shut them up, just add, “And Hart.” around for 120 years. That makes it one of the oldest things on Not that it’s an unbroken lineage by any means. In 1895, a bare the Morningside campus — older than the campus itself, in fact. year after its founding, the show’s leading lights, acting out of pure It’s too easy to explain the show merely by thundering, like ego, refused to mount a follow-up. WWII pre-empted the proceed- Tevye, “Tradition!” After all, plenty of our rituals have gone the ings in 1943. Creative bankruptcy and insufficient funds were at way of mandatory Latin. Most aren’t missed. Can anyone de- fault, respectively, in 1962 and 1965. The unpleasantness of 1968 scribe the Cane Spree? What was the Goodwood Cup given for, seemed, at the time, to be the final blow. anyway? Is there a single person who cares? Yet as the campus regrouped, in the four years from 1978 to Quite simply, the Varsity Show is still with us because we need 1982 precisely as many efforts to revive the show arose. The last it. From time to time, every young woman and man in the College, one, Columbia Graffiti, was a modest cabaret that wasn’t even confronting the triple threat of adulthood, the Core Curriculum called a Varsity Show. Nonetheless, the crew that produced it and the greatest city in the world, requires some kind of affirma- galvanized the Class of 1920 into donating its treasury the follow- tion. The Varsity Show offers it in the best possible way — by ing year to ensure that never again would the production mocking what’s driving them nuts and celebrating what- languish. And for a generation, it hasn’t. ever instills confidence. If the show offers up an earful It’s that unspoken ethos, transcending the years, that about the aesthetic (and nomenclatural) horrors of the defines the Varsity Show as more than a theatrical. It’s Northwest Corner Building or a particular class creep, part of the student DNA. Put it this way: In 1906, the fear not. It won’t be long before Alma Mater herself audience for The Conspirators was implored to clap its arises from her throne and appears on stage before hands and cheer to save Tinker Bell and the football you, ready to reassure and inspire. team alike. You could drop that same shtick into the Now, the show is hardly unique. Just about every out- show today and get the same uproarious result. fit of higher learning worth mentioning has its loopy an- Talk about spirit. As surely as South Field will always nual musical comedy. Columbia itself has several. A certain J.D. have scuff marks, and as surely as there is a College on Broad- program here offers The Law Revue. Over at Uris, they unwrap way, every year a distinctly Light Blue reality check of gags, bal- the Columbia Business School Follies not once but twice a year. lads, show stoppers and, of course, pony ballets can be counted Nonetheless, the Varsity Show is nonpareil. Any effort that can on to lift us out of our academic doldrums — and, for a while at attract such wildly diverse talents as John Erskine (Class of 1900), least, leave us humming. Herman Mankiewicz (Class of 1917), Jacques Barzun ’27, I.A.L. Di- amond ’41, Sorrell Booke ’49, Terrence McNally ’60, Howard Kissel Former CCT acting editor Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, ’86J, ’90 GSAS John Bateman ’38, ’39 GSAS, captain of ’64, Jon “Bowzer” Bauman ’68, Jeanine Tesori ’83 Barnard, David directed, performed and wrote — in ascending order of competence — Columbia’s 1937 football team, smokes Rakoff ’86, Eric Garcetti ’92, Brian Yorkey ’93, Tom Kitt ’96, Jenny portions of the Varsity Shows Columbia Graffiti and Fear of Scaf- a cigar while being made up prior to Slate ’04, Greta Gerwig ’06 Barnard and Kate McKinnon ’06 has folding. He is the author of “Sing a Song of Morningside,” a history of 1939’s Fair Enough. PHOTO: WIDE WORLD PHOTOS, INC. earned bragging rights. Whenever the kids in Cambridge smugly the show that appears in the 110th anniversary book The Varsity Show: mention Hasty Pudding, or Old Nassau types pile it on about the A Celebration.

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reporter assigned to write about the 120th was a dream of mine. It was just the coolest experience.” Varsity Show runs into an immediate access V116 cast member and V120 director Emily Feinstein ’14 Bar- problem. In a friendly but firm email, the nard calls “pieing” a fellow student “the biggest rush” of her life, producers, Allie Carieri ’15, Ally Engelberg adding: “Initiating someone into the Varsity Show is more than ’15 Barnard and Renee Kraiem ’14 Barnard, just this funny thing of putting a pie in their face. You are inviting decline a request to observe a rehearsal. them into a [more than] 120-year-old tradition.” Having consulted with the cast and other It is common for a student to be involved with multiple Var- creative team members, they cite a historic policy of keeping sity Shows. Feinstein and Silverberg, both cast members turned Athe details of the show secret from the press and public. directors, agree that having been on stage proves useful in the In its business of satirizing Columbia in song and dance, little moments of frustration that inevitably arise over the course of is off-limits for the Varsity Show. The popularity of the student- a semester-long production. “It gave me an understanding of produced musical stems precisely from its penchant for com- when things are going to be rough and the ability to encourage menting on sensitive issues with a humorous eye. The response the creative team and the cast at those moments and say, ‘Hey, from the producers for V120, however, make it clear that if any- I know that we are not comfortable with this scene or this song thing remains sacred for the Varsity Show, it’s the traditions and right now but it is going to work out,’” says Silverberg. collaborative spirit that have come to define it. After selecting a cast, the creative team goes on a weekend Except for a hiatus following the 1968 student demonstrations retreat during winter break — in recent years, these gatherings and three other one-year interruptions, the Varsity Show has have taken place at a team member’s home on Long Island taken place annually since 1894, when it was founded as a fund­ and a suite in East Campus residence hall — to develop a plot raiser for Athletics. More than 100 undergraduates — the show is and scene-by-scene breakdown of the show. “We all bring this open to participation by College, Engineering, Barnard and Gen- Columbia experience with us and what we’ve felt at Columbia eral Studies students — devote long hours each year to perpetu- and noticed that year and want to bring out in our show,” says ating this oldest of Columbia’s performing arts traditions. Solomon Hoffman ’14, the composer for V118 and V120. The process begins anew each fall, when the creative team from Though each member has specific responsibilities, the Varsity the previous show chooses its successors. (Seniors who gradu- Show is distinguished by a hyper-collaborative creative process ated the previous year are expected to return for this purpose.) in which it is typical — and expected — for the choreographer Consisting of a director, producers, writers, composers, lyricists, (in the case of V120, Lauren Wingenroth ’15 Barnard) to make a choreographer and an artistic director — nine to 10 students in suggestions about set design, or for the composer to solicit feed- total — the new team’s first task is to audition and select a cast of back from the writers and director. “It’s a unique situation where 10–15 students. In a deviation from conventional theater practices, everyone has input about everything,” says Eric Donahue ’15, co- Varsity Show characters and songs are tailored to the actors’ stage writer for V119 and V120. “Final decisions on a matter are left to personalities and vocal ranges. “It’s really nice to have someone [the creative team member who’s in charge] but, for example, I write material for you,” says V117 cast member and V119 director came up with a song idea last year. Other [creative team mem- Chris Silverberg ’13. bers] would pitch us jokes and things would come up in conver- And then there is the way actors are notified of their selection: sation; we came up with the set ideas together.” with a pie to the face. In a quirky community-building tradition In recent years, those sets have been constructed at Prentis that yields some emotionally intense moments, the creative team Hall on West 125th Street, which offers the convenience of a load- startles newly minted cast members in their dorms, often late at ing dock. Though Jiin Choi ’14, the artistic director for V119 and night, with tins of whipped cream. “I was in pajamas, my hair V120, also calls the Varsity Show “one of the most collaborative was wet, and I wasn’t wearing shoes,” recalls Carieri, an ensem- processes I’ve been a part of,” one of the set pieces she is most The cast and creative team behind this spring’s Varsity Show pose in John Jay Lounge. ble member for V118. “I remember bursting into tears because it fond of is something of her own design: a cardboard sink she Another Opening, Another Varsity Show Since 1894, the theatrical tradition has satirized Columbia in song and dance

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PHOTOS: CHAR SMULLYAN Last year’s Varsity Show, The Great Netscape, centered around a storm-induced Internet outage on campus.

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created for a V118 scene that took place in a student’s room in would care about as much as, for example, replacing humanities ollowing the final performance of each year’s Varsity sity Show, so they knew what it was like to handle original ma- Wien. “Though it felt like a minor detail, a lot of people in the au- with corporate training.” Show, the set is struck and parts of it become, as Choi puts terial, and our director, designers and producers also were able dience were able to see that sink and say, ‘That’s Wien Hall,’” she Save for the West End Preview in February, when a selection of it, “souvenirs” for the cast and the crew. Carieri kept the to guide us using their Varsity Show experience,” says Hoffman. says. “It really reminded me to think of details like that.” scenes and songs are unveiled to the Columbia community at what Ffoamcore pizza she donned for “Natural Selection,” a tap The Varsity Show, which Feinstein describes as a “rare and all- is now Havana Central at The West End, the premise of any Varsity dance number in V118 that extolled the virtues of the unusually encompassing” experience, also fosters camaraderie across genera- ounting a full-length, en- Show remains a mystery until opening large slices served by Morningside Heights institution Koronet. tions of participants. Each year, a group of its alumni perform songs tirely student-driven mu- night. The secrecy amps up the excite- Engleberg has a 110th Street sign from V119 that came apart dur- from shows past — called Class Act — during the New Student sical is, by all accounts, a ment and suspense that surrounds the ing that year’s Saturday show. “I will have that sign in my room Orientation Program. The repertoire often includes “Roar, Lion, Mlofty and demanding show but it is also a by-product of more for life to remind me that things are sometimes uncontrollable Roar,” Columbia’s fight song, written for the 1923 Varsity Show, and endeavor. The stakes are magnified practical concerns: the show typically and you just have to roll with it,” she says. “The Stroke,” a song from V102 that pokes fun at the swim test. by the show’s rich history — Varsity undergoes adjustments right up until For Kraeim, taking apart the set was bittersweet. “Every- Another event that builds camaraderie is the presentation of the Show alumni include the likes of the curtain rises. thing you put effort into is dismantled at a speed that is incom- I.A.L. Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts, held prior to a Oscar Hammerstein II (Class of 1916), A key moment in that regard is prehensible compared to the amount of work you put in,” she Varsity Show performance. The award, instituted in 2004, goes an- Richard Rodgers ’23, I.A.L. Diamond Turkey Day, a longstanding tradition says. “There is something dramatic about it, but then there is also nually to a Columbia graduate for continued commitment to and ’41 and Terrence McNally ’60 — and in which the cast and crew perform a something really important — the reminder that the actual prod- success in the arts. Among the recipients are Kitt and Yorkey, and its prominence in the Columbia com- full show for an audience of Varsity uct that we put out is only so much of what we take away from fellow Varsity Show alumni Kate McKinnon ’06, a current Saturday munity. “There is an immense amount Show alumni — the event is open to this. The family and the experience you get is so much more than Night Live cast member, and Jenny Slate ’04, a prolific comedian and of pressure to create something unique all former participants — who then of- those four shows.” creator of the animated short film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. and hysterical and touching and relat- fer constructive criticism. It takes place Close bonds often develop among the cast and creative team of With such distinguished alumni, the Varsity Show has devel- able to every person in the theater,” the week before Spring Break, leaving a single production, which is hardly surprising given the amount oped a reputation as a springboard for careers in entertainment. says Engelberg, who also was a pro- a window of fewer than six weeks for of time they spend together. V120 calls for rehearsals all semester “Producing the Varsity Show was something I always wanted to ducer for V119. “Once we get it right, show members to digest and imple- we know it’s going to be fantastic, but ment feedback. Changes can range throughout the process it’s really on from making minor tweaks to scrap- your shoulders, knowing that this is a ping an entire scene to gutting the en- large event and people are watching.” tire show. As Engelberg notes, chief among the The Internet outage that was the creative team’s challenges is crafting a main conflict of V119, for example, was show that resonates with Columbia’s introduced after Turkey Day. V116 and various undergraduate constituencies. V117 were rewritten in their entirety. In “Students need to feel that the person the latter, Silverberg originally played they are watching sing or act or dance what he describes as a “morose SEAS on stage is a part of them, a character computer programmer.” But at Turkey that could be one of their friends or Day, “they asked, why are you mak- someone they know,” says Nick Parker ing this silly, exaggerated performer ’14, the lyricist for V119 and V120. “The do this heavy, unenthusiastic charac- issue is that there is not one thing that ter?” says Silverberg. “So [the creative makes Columbia, Columbia; there team] went back and came up with aren’t just four or five things. What you something that played more to the sil- might think is a very Columbia thing, liness I brought as a performer.” The like the Core, is only specific to CC, and new part was a male student enrolled to some extent, SEAS.” at Barnard. Coming up with a plot specific to “After Turkey Day, you have all of Costume designer Isabella Rosner ’14 measures the head of actor Alex Donnelly ’14 in preparation for V120. Columbia can also be a challenge, as these different opinions in your head: Donahue learned from writing V119, what people have said to you, what long, Monday through Thursday 8–11 p.m., and for three hours do because it was the closest thing to a professional experience The Great Netscape, which featured numbers people liked, what numbers on Sundays. Extra rehearsals are usually scheduled right before that I could get in my college time,” says Carieri, who chose Co- a storm-induced Internet outage on fell flat. Making sense of all of that and the West End Preview and Turkey Day, and during the week lead- lumbia as much for the show as for the Core Curriculum. campus. While he thinks that the show putting in into the final product can ing up to opening night, known as Tech Week. “You forge a bond While some participants certainly continue to reap the ben- succeeded in giving the audience an be a challenge,” says Hoffman, who of, quite frankly, shared suffering because when you do a Varsity efits of belonging to the Varsity Show family long after they have opportunity to simultaneously laugh had to pen a few songs from scratch Show, there is barely time to do homework and you don’t sleep,” graduated, for most, the rewards are much more immediate. Says and feel proud of their school, this time in the run-up to V118. “It’s certainly a says Silverberg. “It takes over your life.” Silverberg, “It is a very cool way to participate in a Columbia tradi- around, he and co-writer Rae Binstock crunch, but it’s also really exciting to Among the Varsity Show alumni who have developed last- tion and to be involved in something that the entire student body ’15 are looking to develop a plot in get to develop better material, and by ing bonds are Tom Kitt ’96 and Brian Yorkey ’93, creators of the is interested in and everyone is going to have an opinion about.” which the stakes hit closer to home. In that point you’ve had more practice so Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Next The creative leaders behind V120 lifted their veil of The 120th Varsity Show is scheduled for Friday, May 2–Sunday, May 4 that regard, Donohue praises V118, The secrecy just long enough for CCT to photograph a it tends to happen more easily.” to Normal, who worked together on V100 and V102. [See feature Corporate Core, in which a CC student dance rehearsal in John Jay Lounge. Hoffman’s post-Turkey Day respon- in this issue.] More recently, Silverberg, Carieri and other Varsity in Roone Arledge Auditorium. For more information, visit thevarsity and self-proclaimed Renaissance man sibilities also include arranging the Show alumni have collaborated on the production of Lydia and show.com. To watch past productions, go to Web Extras at college. named Phineas takes on an administrator who abolishes the Core music for the show’s pit orchestra, which has expanded under Tom, a musical by Hoffman and Parker about two childhood columbia.edu/cct. in favor of a business curriculum. “The Internet going down in this his watch to feature more than 20 musicians from various student friends growing apart as they become adults; it was accepted for day and age lent itself to a lot of funny situations. There was a lot music groups. “It joins musicians from the classical, jazz, rock and the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival after premiering Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a freelance journalist and an of humor in that,” says Donahue. “But bringing the Internet back pop communities here at Columbia,” says Hoffman. at the Austin E. Quigley Blackbox Theatre in Lerner Hall in fall editorial producer for LasMayores.com, Major League Baseball’s official up wasn’t Columbia-specific and not something that the audience 2012. “We were working with actors who had worked on the Var- Spanish language website. She writes “Student Spotlight” for CCT.

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One of the Varsity Show’s signature elements has been the pony ballet, shown here by the chorus line from 1929’s Oh Hector!

Above, Beatrice Kay, a performer from Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe supper club, seems unsure what to make of Alexander McAllister ’40 of 1939’s Fair Enough. Below, the full cast on stage at the Hotel Astor. PHOTOS: ABOVE, ANDREW COSTIKYAN ’43; BELOW, DELAR ROCKEFELLER CENTER

The Varsity Show Through the Years

A look back at Columbia’s longest running theatrical tradition in pictures, programs and posters

ALL IMAGES COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

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Above, cast members of 1948’s Streets of New York receive some dance instruction. Below, a chorus girl with a Low Library replica on her head cavorts with the Columbia lion in 1980’s Fly With Me. PHOTOS: ABOVE, MANNY WARMAN; BELOW, ADRIAN BRYAN-BROWN

Top, rehearsing the pony ballet on Low Plaza for 1940’s Life Begins in ’40. Bottom left, getting a posture lesson during rehearsals. Bottom right, a pony ballet member is flanked by British soldiers in 1954’s Sky’s the Limit. PHOTOS: TOP, WILD WORLD PHOTOS, INC.; BOTTOM LEFT, JACK M. LEWIS; BOTTOM RIGHT, MARTIN MOLLOY ’55, ’60 GSAS

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The cast of 1980’s Fly With Me, a revival of 1920’s show, with music by Richard Rodgers ’23 and lyrics by Lorenz Hart (Class of 1918J). PHOTO: ADRIAN BRYAN-BROWN

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ilbert and Sullivan. George and Ira Gershwin. small choices and sometimes they’re bigger ones. But we often Rodgers and Hammerstein. Dorothy Fields wonder about the power of those choices and whether our life and anybody. Let’s not forget Mozart and would have turned out the way it did. Are we meant for some- Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the libretto for thing? If you find that person whom you love, are you meant to Don Giovanni and, much later, became Co- find that person no matter what road you take? What if I hadn’t lumbia’s first professor of Italian. gone to Columbia?” Yorkey agrees. “If we look back to where It’s too soon to say whether the creative we met, there was an awful lot of chance involved,” he says. partnership of Tom Kitt ’96 (music) and Brian Yorkey ’93 (book “What if Tom had not been home when Rita knocked on his Gand lyrics) will someday join that pantheon. But they’re off to door?” a good start, having won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for If/Then opens at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Sunday, their first Broadway collaboration, Next to Normal, which was March 30. also nominated for 11 Tony Awards and won three. This was Herewith are edited excerpts of the conversation. no happy-times stage show: It explored the searing anguish of a suburban American family with a manic-depressive mother at CCT: You have joined a distinguished line of collaborators in its center. Ben Brantley of The New York Times called it “a brave, the performing arts — Rodgers and Hart, Nureyev and Fonteyn, breathtaking musical,” writing, “No show on Broadway right Bialystock and Bloom. [laughter] When did you realize that now makes as direct a grab for the heart — or wrings it as thor- your creative partnership was something special? oughly — as Next to Normal does.” Angels at Columbia: Centennial Approaches, the 1994 Varsity Yorkey: Telling our story, it may seem like we went running Show, was Kitt and Yorkey’s first collaboration on a musical. to each other in a field full of pianos. But when I met Tom at The experience played a pivotal role in their lives and careers. The West End over a pitcher of beer, I thought he was sort of They were introduced by Rita Pietropinto-Kitt ’93, ’96 Arts; it a stupid frat boy sitting there with his backward baseball cap. was not the only partnership forged My first instinct was to not like him. among them — Kitt and Pietropinto- But then Tom and I started to write Kitt, an actress and drama teacher at Kitt: I was very songs together. I wrote some lyrics the Marymount School and Barnard, to the first song that he wrote for the were married in 2000 and now have Varsity Show. And it was pretty sol- three children. “I often say that I met intimidated by Brian id. Then we wrote a song for a dance both of my spouses at Columbia,” number called “The College Walk.” Kitt says. at first, especially because It’s kind of a classic show tune in Born on Long Island, Kitt was raised structure. I remember watching that in Armonk, N.Y. His many Broadway the Varsity Show people song be rehearsed and watching credits include Green Day’s American the choreographer put the dance Idiot (which won a Tony Award for were rock stars on campus. to it, and realizing that Tom and I Best Musical), High Fidelity, Debbie had done something special. And Does Dallas, Urban Cowboy and 13; he It was kind of like hanging it hadn’t felt effortful. It had felt as Brian Yorkey ’93 (left) and Tom Kitt ’96, who won Pulitzer and Tony Awards for Next to Normal, share a laugh as they prepare their also has written music for the Pub- natural as breathing. That was the latest show, If/Then, for Broadway. lic Theater’s New York Shakespeare moment when I knew that we had PHOTO: MATTHEW MURPHY Festival and TV’s Sesame Street and out with the cast of something kind of remarkable. It’s Dawson’s Creek. hard to explain exactly what that is. Yorkey was born in Omaha and Saturday Night Live. But you know it. raised there and in Issaquah, Wash., about 20 miles east of Seattle. An Kitt: I was very intimidated by Bri- alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, an at first, especially because the Varsity Show people were rock The Marriage of he was associate artistic director for seven years at Village The- stars on campus. It was kind of like hanging out with the cast of atre in Issaquah and Everett, Wash., one of the nation’s leading Saturday Night Live. They were all dynamic, they all were com- incubators of musicals. Yorkey wrote the book for Sting’s The fortable with each other. So when I was a lowly freshman going Last Ship, which opens on Broadway later this year, and has three to that table, sharing a pitcher of beer, I was intimidated. But screenplays in development. His other theater credits include when Brian and I began working together, I felt very quickly True Minds Making Tracks, the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding like I belonged, and I was just blown away by his intelligence, Banquet, and the country musical Play It By Heart. by his wit. For the whole semester that we wrote our first show The composer and lyricist took time out to speak with CCT as together, I was obsessed with what we were doing. It lived in A freewheeling conversation with the Broadway team they prepared for the Broadway premiere of their latest musical, my head every day. I would go into class and constantly think If/Then, another psychological work of feeling and wit, examin- of new ideas. Up to that point I hadn’t written with anyone else of Tom Kitt ’96 and Brian Yorkey ’93 ing the different paths life can take based on a single decision. The and I hadn’t written for the musical theater. Yet it came so easily lead character, a 40-year-old professional woman in New York, is to me, working with Brian. I just always felt inspired, and I im- played by the Tony Award–winning actress/singer Idina Menzel mediately knew that it was something that I cared deeply about B y J a m i e K at z ’72, ’80 B u s i n e s s (Rent and Wicked); the director is Michael Greif (Rent), who also di- and wanted to pursue. The experience of writing with Brian, rected Next to Normal. the satisfaction that those songs gave us, felt as important as If/Then resonates personally for both Kitt and Yorkey. “Ev- anything I was doing. So I had to believe that it was something ery day we make choices,” Kitt says. “Sometimes they’re just that I wanted to preserve and protect.

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CCT: Now that you’ve been working together for some 20 years, CCT: That talent helps keep a lot of marriages alive, too. pretty amazed that I knew this at 18 — but I knew that I needed Next to Normal, for us to achieve that, to whatever extent we did. what would you say makes your collaboration work so well? to study everything but theater. That if I really was meant to do The first is that we’re not precious about material. If something What is its genius? Yorkey: It’s very much a marriage. We understand that whatever theater, I’d find a way to do it anyway. But if I had gone to study doesn’t work as well as it can, we’ll write something else until individual bumps or hills or valleys the road may have, we’re in theater, that might be all I ever studied, and I needed to become we find the thing that really does work. The second factor is that Kitt: I think we trust each other, and I think we both bring out it for the long haul. And the most important thing is to just keep a more well-rounded person than that. And that’s exactly what we keep going — we don’t stop and say, “That’s good enough.” really wonderful things in each other. I know that Brian’s lyrics moving forward. happened at Columbia — though I think that I took the Core Cur- We keep going until we get the best thing we possibly can, un- and ideas always challenge me and keep me honest in the most riculum maybe not as seriously as I wish I had. I’d like to go back til we’ve exhausted every option that we can think of. And the wonderful way. There are times where I wouldn’t necessarily CCT: The Varsity Show played such a crucial role in both of your and take those classes again. third thing is we have people like Michael Greif, our director, go to a certain place but for his lyrics that push me in new direc- lives. Were you aware of it before you applied to the College? and David Stone, our pro- tions. Brian just looks at the world CCT: Quite a number of alumni ducer, who really hold us to a in a way that I find so beautiful and Yorkey: One of the reasons that I went feel that way. standard of integration and a surprising, and yet familiar, because Yorkey: Tom’s music to Columbia was the writers who had standard of making the music it’s a way that I want to look at the been there before me. And obviously, Yorkey: That’s good to hear. At and the text a seamless whole, world and the way I want to write embodies him in a way being a pretentious high school se- the same time I got a lot out of and help us figure out how to about the world. And when I do nior, Kerouac [’44] and Ginsberg [’48] the Core, an awful lot. It really do that — certainly with Next write about it, I trust him complete- that continues to knock were high on that list. But also being was about becoming a citizen to Normal and with the new ly, both good and bad. Sometimes a musical theater kid, I knew that of the world and a person who show, If/Then. Michael’s sense with any marriage, with any collab- me flat all the time, and that’s where Rodgers [’23] and Hart has a life of the mind of some of how to tell a story and how oration, there will be hard moments [1918J] wrote their first stuff together, sort. I double majored in Eng- to keep what’s essential and where you’re not completely on the and Rodgers and Hammerstein [1916] lish and religion, which I think cut away everything else con- same page or one person is challeng- to make me want to dig met. It just seemed like Columbia was most people might think of as tinues to teach us lessons. ing the other. But those challenges the place where musicals were made. two of the least job-specific ma- always bring out the best and we deep, and really be truthful, I actually didn’t know about the Var- jors you could pick. But I actu- Kitt: The other thing I want always come at it from a stronger sity Show, but I did know about that ally ended up in a job where I to add is that Brian is actually place afterward. and be honest, and tradition. That it drew me to Colum- use both of those majors every a wonderful musician. He’s bia in the first place, and played such day. And that’s pretty remark- Varsity Show alumni (left to right) Yorkey; Noah Cornman ’96; Matt very knowledgeable. And Yorkey: For my part — well, first of all I a role in how my life played out, is able. The things I’m able to do Eddy ’94; Joy Gorman ’96 Barnard; Rita Pietropinto-Kitt ’93, ’96 Arts; even though he may not want emotional, and not just Laura Pietropinto ’00; and Kitt celebrate at the after-party following was realizing, Tom, that you shouldn’t kind of incredible to me. in my work, I know are very the Broadway opening of Next to Normal. to sing, he writes lyrics with a expect to find your two spouses in the try to be clever. much a part of the education very strong musical sense. So Varsity Show, and then expect a sort Kitt: I didn’t know about the Varsity that I got in the classroom and when I get lyrics from him, of even-keeled life after that. [laughter] Show before I came to Columbia. My outside of it at Columbia. most times they kind of just That said, and this sounds very basic, dream then was to be a singer-song- Kitt: Brian and I still get such a sing off the page. He struc- but I love Tom’s music. The music that writer in the mold of Billy Joel and Kitt: It’s the same for me, and tures them in a way that it’s Tom writes touches me at a very deep Paul Simon and James Taylor and I was an economics major. It’s rush out of just hearing someone very rewarding to write music level, emotionally. It’s full of meaning, Elton John and Bruce Springsteen, to really a people science. You’re for those lyrics. If things aren’t and it’s full of feeling, and it’s prob- name all my heroes. It wasn’t until I studying people’s choices and sing a song that we came up with, clicking, he always has won- ing, and questioning, and romantic worked on the Varsity Show that I re- tastes and what they value. derful things to say musically and yearning, and all those things that alized how much I wanted to pursue Learning about that science was especially when you have the Idina about other ways to go. And Tom is himself. The ability to truly put composing for the musical theater. very important for me. I also even though I don’t write yourself into your writing, I think, is And as I started to realize the history took a number of really won- Menzels and Alice Ripleys and lyrics, I think my knowledge what makes a great writer. And Tom’s of the show, it became even more ex- derful music classes that opened of lyrics and scanning and music embodies him in a way that citing that I was involved in a show me up and certainly brought me where rhymes want to go also continues to knock me flat all the time, that counted, as Brian said, Rodgers back to classical music. I was a Anthony Rapps and La Chanzes helps serve what we’re do- and to make me want to dig deep, and and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, classically trained pianist from ing. So I think the great thing really be truthful, and be honest, and Terrence McNally [’60], Jeanine Tesori the age of 4, but I hadn’t been of the world singing those songs, about our collaboration is that emotional, and not just try to be clev- [’83 Barnard] as alumni. So I became serious about studying it again. even though we trust each er. Really to try to write something (Left to right) Kitt, Yorkey, Rita Pietropinto-Kitt ’93, ’96 really aware of the rich history of the I took [the Anne Parsons Bender it’s a pinch-me kind of feeling. other in our departments, we that matters and that is personal to me Arts and Laura Pietropinto ’00 attend a pre-reception show. And again, it’s really the reason Professor of Music] Elaine Sis- have real knowledge of what and to the two of us. And I think that on the night of the 2009 Tony Awards. Next to Normal that I started writing for the theater. man’s Beethoven and Mozart the other person is doing, so we do that to each other. won three, including best original score. classes. I’ll never forget the day I walked in and she put the Requiem we can write work that will hopefully arrive at the other per- I also think part of the reason we’ve CCT: Apart from the Varsity Show, on — it had such an impact on me. And I just wanted to devour son’s doorstop feeling fully formed and feeling like you can be managed to survive this long, and not always through good times, what had the greatest impact on you at Columbia? everything that he wrote. intuitive and write without much complication. is that we balance each other out well. We have very different but compatible ways of looking at the world. We also are pretty good Kitt: I was a bit of a mess when I got to Columbia. I procrastinat- CCT: In the greatest Broadway musicals, and in opera for that CCT: How powerful is it for you when all that work culminates at giving each other a ribbing, keeping each other honest and not ed a lot. I didn’t have a great work ethic. I think what I really got matter, there is a beautiful integration of the music and the lyrics in an actual production, where all of it is sung and acted and lit letting either person tip too far into the places that writers like to out of Columbia aside from the wonderful education was just the and the story — they are braided almost seamlessly. Is that an and danced? go, which include self-pity and resentment and anger and those people who were there. Everybody was striving for something important goal for you? And how is it achieved? things. They’re a part of life, but we’re I think pretty good at pull- and was in their own way doing important things. And that re- Yorkey: I really marvel at it every day of a rehearsal process or ing each other back from the brink. We had an assistant on Next To ally rubbed off on me. Yorkey: I think it’s absolutely a goal. The music and the songs a tech process. I’m amazed that people are speaking lines that I Normal who observed that we have a talent of never both being in a need to serve the story, and I think that the integration of words wrote and singing songs that I wrote the words to. It never fails to bad mood at the same time. [laughter] I think that’s pretty true, and Yorkey: I think that I chose Columbia in part because it didn’t and music is the thing that Tom and I strive for most. There are blow me away. Especially with some of the people we get to work it has stood us in good stead. have a theater major at the time. I knew somehow — and I’m three things that have really made it possible, for instance, on with, it’s astounding and incredibly humbling. It never gets old.

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Kitt: I think that Brian and I still get such a rush out of just hearing don’t want to shower and be sitting around here all clean and have someone sing a song that we came up with it. And especially when nothing happen, ’cause then I’ll be all clean and sad.” So I didn’t ac- you have the Idina Menzels and Alice Ripleys and Anthony Rapps tually shower. And David Stone called and I picked up the phone and La Chanzes of the world singing those songs, it’s a pinch-me and he said, “Is this Pulitzer Prize-winner Brian Yorkey?” And the Bringing Lit Hum to Life kind of feeling. first thing I thought was, “Oh man, I should’ve showered.” [laugh- ter] I don’t know if Tom ever knew that, because I did shower very Yorkey: One example: We had struggled to write a song for a quickly and I made it to the office in pretty good time! very emotional and important part of If/Then, late in the show. It’s called CCT: Once lightning struck, how did “Always Starting Over.” We had Yorkey: We balance your life change? gone back and forth on it and had not agreed and just weren’t having each other well. Yorkey: I think a Pulitzer is not a a good time writing it. Finally Tom prize for mortals. Tom and I certain- went away and just wrote something ly dreamed of winning a Tony, as I really full of feeling, and sent it to me. We have very different think anyone who writes for musical I poured out every last ounce of emo- theater does. But no one dreams of tion I had into the lyric. It really felt but compatible ways of winning a Pulitzer because it just like a last gasp for us. We brought it seems like something that happens into rehearsal and we were both sort looking at the world. to gods like Edward Albee and Au- of exhausted and just a little bit down. gust Wilson, not to people like us. And Idina Menzel learned it and We also are pretty good It certainly felt like a bolt out of the sang it. I think we both started to cry blue. The combination of the Pulitzer because what she did with it was so at giving each other a and the fact that Next to Normal was amazing. a hit on Broadway changed our lives probably forever. You do sort of real- CCT: Let’s talk about your winning ribbing, keeping each ize that you could do not one more the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2010. damn thing and you’ll still be a Pulit- How did that go down, for you? other honest. zer Prize winner! [laughter] Not that that’s my plan. Kitt: I’ll never forget it. I was in tech for American Idiot on Broadway — I CCT: Anything you’d like to add? was the music supervisor and I did the orchestrations and arrangements Yorkey: One thing I wanted to say — and I was sitting in the audience — I don’t know if I can put this into just talking with Tom Hulce, the words, ironically — but the thing that show’s producer. My phone rang was great about Columbia, which and it was David Stone, who in- made the Varsity Show possible, and formed me of the news. I walked made so many things possible, and up the aisle and down the aisle of really sort of helped me form my the St. James Theater going, “No f-- outlook as a human being, is that Co- -ing way! No f---ing way!” [laughter] lumbia never takes itself too seriously. Then it was announced on the “God Or at least it didn’t in my time. And mike” and the whole cast came up if anyone did, there would always be Yorkey and Kitt, at the Off-Broadway opening of Next and hugged me. It was a really, really to Normal at the Second Stage Theatre in 2008, say someone there to take them down a emotional, wonderful moment, and they don’t settle for “good enough” but “keep going peg. No one at Columbia is really all adness, intrigue, and questions of justice and revenge unexpected. I don’t think that was until we get the best thing we possibly can.” that comfortable with orthodoxy or came to Miller Theatre in November with a perfor- even in our universe, the idea that with authority. It makes for a campus mance of Euripides’ Orestes. Graduate students from something like that could happen. It felt like such a privilege be- that can be kind of difficult to manage sometimes, but it also makes the School of the Arts’ Theater Division staged the cause it’s an award for writing. That was so clear when we went for really, really sharp and funny and smart and skeptical individu- production specifically for Literature Humanities stu- to the luncheon and sat with journalists and writers of fiction and als who look at the world and want to question the received wis- Mdents and instructors; they have done so each year, albeit with different nonfiction. I felt a little bit like, “What am I doing here?” People dom and want to shake up the foundations of the establishment a plays, since 2008. “This collaboration between the Core Curriculum and are writing these important articles about this and that. I felt priv- little bit. There’s a long, long history of that. I hope and believe it’s the School of the Arts has been tremendously fruitful,” says Roosevelt ileged to be included in that company. still alive there — absorbing that ethos and looking at the world Montás ’95, ’04 GSAS, director of the Center in a smart and generous way, but also a way that’s questioning for the Core Curriculum and associate dean Yorkey: My story’s a little bit less romantic. I had just gotten back and wants to find out the truth and wants to upend the apple cart of academic affairs. “While theater students from a trip overseas and was still sort of jetlagged. And our pub- a little bit. That’s something that feels to me unique to Columbia get support to stage a play before a large au- licist, Tom D’Ambrosio, called me and said, “You guys are in the and very much an important part of who I am and what I get to dience, Lit Hum students can experience the mix for the Pulitzer, and so if it happens, we’re going to have to do today. full dramatic power of a text they have only jump right into some interviews. Can you come down to the of- encountered on the page. Experiencing the fice?” And I said, “Well, I would need to take a shower.” “Well,” he Former CCT Editor Jamie Katz ’72, ’80 Business has held senior play as it unfolds in real time is often a rev- said, “can you shower now just in case?” So I said, “Yes, I’ll shower editorial positions at People and Vibe, and now writes for Smithsonian elation for students.” now, Tom.” But then I got off the phone with him and I thought, “I magazine and other publications. PHOTOS: CHAR SMULLYAN

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he Varsity Show isn’t the only ticket on campus. Student theater groups are flourishing and perform regu- larly, from Shakespeare to musicals to student-written works. There are opportunities for students of every Ttheatrical skill level and inclination, and the shows can pack venues from Lerner’s intimate Austin E. Quigley Black Box Theatre to its huge Roone Arledge Auditorium. The following round-up offers an introduction to 10 groups that can be seen around campus. All also Columbia Musical Theatre belong to the Columbia University Performing Arts Society League (columbia.edu/cu/cupal), an umbrella organization that encourages the sharing of resources MISSION: “We pride ourselves on producing original takes on musical revivals. We strive for these types of productions and expertise and serves as an advisory board for and not just carbon copies of Broadway shows/revivals.” new groups. CUPAL also sponsors one special FOUNDED: 2000 project per semester — for example, a multimedia MEMBERSHIP: 100–150 participants, about 60% College PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: event, fundraiser, or theatrical, music or dance Average of two musicals per semester and a special project performance — as well as a spring showcase of RECENT PRODUCTIONS: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Carou- student work that includes selections from the sel, The Rocky Horror Picture Show most successful or highly anticipated productions NOTEWORTHY ALUMNI: Nina Pedrad ’11, currently a writer for the FOX show New Girl of the academic year. This year’s showcase was WEBSITE: “CMTS” on Facebook scheduled for March 8. CURTAIN CALL: “We attempt to include as many people as possible to expand our musical theater community and provide opportunities for anyone excited to perform musical theater,” says v.p. Sam Mickel ’14. “Our special Black Theatre Ensemble projects have included musical theater karaoke nights, miscasts (where students sing songs from roles/shows MISSION: “We seek to promote minority playwrights and ac- they would never be cast in) and cabarets (students sign tors, thus giving students of color on campus, and in NYC, up and choose a song to sing) for students.” an outlet for creative expression that was previously void.” FOUNDED: 2002 MEMBERSHIP: Open to everyone at Columbia, with the occasional non-Columbia cast member; average 10–12 Columbia University Players participants, about 80% College MISSION: PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: One show per semester; an “The performance of straight plays, providing the annual Spring Student-Written One-Acts Festival; this opportunity for students to propose and present nearly any spring, a second show in collaboration with Columbia theatrical work that is non-musical and non-Shakespeare.” Musical Theatre Society FOUNDED: 1906 (as Barnard College Musical Theatre) MEMBERSHIP: RECENT PRODUCTIONS: Funnyhouse of a Negro, Bulrusher, 40–50 participants per semester, about 25% Fucking A College PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: NOTEWORTHY ALUMNI: Playwright Katori Hall ’03 Four per year Theater District WEBSITE: RECENT PRODUCTIONS: Playgrounds, The Maids “Black Theatre Ensemble” on Facebook NOTEWORTHY ALUMNI: CURTAIN CALL: “Something I like to stress to those inquiring Cody Holliday Haefner ’12, Columbia’s many theater groups give students a chance to watch, and about BTE is that we are a group that is dedicated to creat- Thomas Kapusta ’12 and Brian LaPerche ’12 founded ing community,” says president Bintu Conteh ’14. “Since I The Brewing Dept., a theatrical collective in NYC, along perform, everything from Shakespeare to opera to student-written plays have been a member of this organization (since my fresh- with three Barnard alumnae man year), I have always felt like I was part of a beautiful, WEBSITE: “CU Players” on Facebook B y S h i r a B o s s ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA crazy, loving family. And I am sure anyone who does at CURTAIN CALL: “CU Players offers students with relatively least one show with us will feel the same way.” little theater background the chance to dive into the world

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CURTAIN CALL: All performances are free; every Columbia an acting workshop, with meetings every other Sunday V-Day at Barnard College of student who auditions for the spring show is cast. WEBSITE: thecumechanicals.wordpress.com CURTAIN CALL: “The Mechanicals is a way to open up the Columbia University theater community. It can be unbelievably rewarding to Latenite Theatre do theater but also incredibly daunting,” says co-founder MISSION: “V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence Maddie Ghillany-Lehar ’16. “The Mechanicals aims to against women and girls. We seek to enlighten and inspire MISSION: “We have a simple purpose: to offer our playwrights isolate acting from the stress of performance so you can our community through performances of The Vagina Mono- the opportunity to see their work on stage, giving them a really focus on the fun stuff — that is, trying to form logues as well as to raise money for existing anti-violence freedom to experiment, to take artistic risks, and above all, meaningful, believable connections onstage.” organizations.” to have fun in a non-competitive environment.” FOUNDED: Late 1990s FOUNDED: 1995, “by a group of theater and English majors MEMBERSHIP: Around 35, about 30% College who wanted to produce their own original works,” says New Opera Workshop PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Up to three performances of Hannah Ceja ’14 Barnard, co-president with Taha Wiheba The Vagina Monologues in February/March ’16. “These works were to be performed at 11 p.m., long MISSION: “Our goal is both to provide opportunities to classical WEBSITE: after other events on campus had ended and prudent singers on campus and to push the frontiers of opera by gen- “Columbia University V-Day” on Facebook artistic sensibilities have gone to bed for the night — erating new works and engaging new audiences. We hope CURTAIN CALL: “The work done by V-Day at Barnard College hence the name Latenite Theatre.” to rekindle the legacy of Columbia’s Opera Workshop, the of Columbia University extends beyond the campus gates,” MEMBERSHIP: About 45 participants per semester campus opera company that from 1941–58 commissioned says producer Anita Warner ’14 Barnard. “Our group donates 100 percent of the proceeds from The Vagina PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: One anthology of student- and performed groundbreaking new opera.” FOUNDED: Monologues to NYC-based organizations working to end written, one-act plays per semester 2013 MEMBERSHIP: violence against women and girls.” RECENT PRODUCTIONS: Amor Escandaloso by Noel Gutierrez- Spring 2014 production has 38 participants, Morfin ’15,The Hanukkah Elf by Rachel Chung ’15E, Love, about 50% College Approaching the Station by Madison Seely ’16, Nick at Nite PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: One production per semester by Emilia Lirman ’16, Goldfish by James Rodrigues ’14 RECENT PRODUCTIONS: Opera Untapped, featuring scenes WEBSITE: Latenitetheatre.com and “Latenite Theatre” on from Mozart, Bizet, Gilbert and Sullivan, and more Facebook WEBSITE: “Columbia University New Opera Workshop” on CURTAIN CALL: “We have four performances, the last being a Facebook prank show, where, really, anything could happen,” Ceja CURTAIN CALL: “Many audience members have come to us, says. “The actors and/or directors come up with various telling us they’ve never seen opera and were pleasantly ways to prank their respective shows, ranging from adding surprised,” says co-founder and financial officer Hannah a few props or extra jokes, to altering an entire script.” Rose Gorman ’16. “I think the fun, collaborative nature of this project shines through in performances, and makes the art form approachable to new audiences.” The Mechanicals of theater here at Columbia,” says treasurer Danitra Campbell ’15. “Whereas some of the other groups can be MISSION: “We seek to provide the Barnard/Columbia com- NOMADS rather intimidating for newcomers, CUP manages to feel munity with a place for students to develop their acting MISSION: welcoming.” skills in a collaborative, low-pressure peer workshop “NOMADS (New and Original Material Authored XMAS! environment. We are not professionals, nor are we teach- and Directed by Students) gives a home to the creation of ers — we are simply a group of students passionate about unique, experimental and provocative original work by MISSION: “To create an original student-written, satirical acting, and dedicated to helping each other improve.” artists from across the Columbia University community. musical, parodying the holiday season. XMAS! is for King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe Combining full-scale theatrical projects with multi-media FOUNDED: 2014 everyone!” installations, dance, music, playwriting workshops and MISSION: “King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe exists to bring MEMBERSHIP: FOUNDED: Just launched in spring semester; about 50 ‘live artwork,’ we provide a safe, professional and exciting 2006 outstanding free theater to the Columbia Community and people have expressed interest space where any member of our community can develop MEMBERSHIP: 70 cast and crew in the December 2013 show, to create an awesome experience for everyone involved.” PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: No performances; the group is their creative ideas — however wild, wacky or wondrous about 50% College FOUNDED: 1995 — from page to stage (or any other venue we can find!).” PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Two performances annually, at MEMBERSHIP: Approximately 50 participants per year; FOUNDED: 2003 holiday time roughly 60% College MEMBERSHIP: Around 60 participants per semester RECENT PRODUCTIONS: XMAS!8: Elves Gone Wild PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Generally two shows in the PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: One student-written, full-length WEBSITE: “XMAS8” on Facebook fall semester (though not necessarily Shakespeare, they play per year, usually in the Fall semester; an annual festi- CURTAIN CALL: “In its eight years, XMAS! has grown from a can be anything except musical theater). Large-scale val of student work each spring; Word Play, an annual variety show in a residential hall lounge to a full-fledged show spring semester (always Shakespeare, outdoors writer’s workshop, where undergraduate playwrights musical in Roone Arledge Auditorium,” says co-producer and staged at multiple locations around campus) and are mentored by a School of the Arts student and that Jeremy Stern ’15. “As everything in XMAS! — from the usually also a smaller production. culminates in a staged reading of their work. scripts to the set, from the score to the posters — is created RECENT PRODUCTIONS: Cymbeline; The Complete Works of RECENT PRODUCTIONS: The Gift by Anika Benkov ’16; by students, XMAS! is truly a collaborative labor of love.” William Shakespeare (Abridged); Henry IV, Part 2 Grieving for Fish by Elyse Pitock ’15 Barnard NOTEWORTHY ALUMNI: Ezra Koenig ’06 and Rostam WEBSITE: “NOMADS Columbia” on Facebook Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA is an author and contributing Batmanglij ’06 form half of the band Vampire Weekend CURTAIN CALL: Some productions have been presented off- writer to CCT. Her last feature was “Global Columbia,” in the WEBSITE: kcstumbles.tumblr.com and “King’s Crown campus at Theatre Row, Cherry Lane Theatre and the New Winter 2013–14 issue. Shakespeare Troupe” on Facebook York International Fringe Festival.

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[ COLUMBIA FORUM] The setting is a beautiful room in a pre-war, Upper West Side-type apartment building in Paradise: rococo sculpted plaster ceiling, a small chandelier at its center, a handsome marble fireplace with Egyptian and Greek tchotchkes on the mantlepiece, books in oak bookcases and an old Turkish carpet covering a worn leather divan. This is the office for the psychoanalytic practice of Metatron, the Recording Angel, a vast fiery being with a million eyes.

Metatron is seated in an Eames chair at the head of the carpet- covered divan. Sitting, not lying on the couch — this is a supervisory Dr. Arnold A. session — is Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, best-known during his lifetime as the psychotherapist of Richard Milhous Nixon. Hutschnecker Dr. Hutschnecker died in 2000. The play takes place the year after that. METATRON: And how are we feeling this morning, Arnold? In saying “morning” I am of course lapsing in Paradise into poesy, since Time doesn’t exist in Paradise. DR. HUTSCHNECKER: I feel lousy, frankly. I stayed up all night watching The Sopranos on DVD.

METATRON: Again?! Again with The Sopranos?

DR. HUTSCHNECKER: I know, I know, I can’t stop myself, I am obviously attempting some sort of negotiation: will the sexy lady analyst cure the gangster sociopath with narcissistic tendencies? It’s that episode with the nympholeptic soccer coach, you know, Tony resists the impulse to whack the guy, Tony Kushner ’78, a playwright and screenwriter, is her treatment is working! Oh, it’s so tantalizing, so excruciating! She comes so close! He is borderline, not unreachable, I believe had Dr. Melfi employed Pavlovian techniques, it reminds me of the early ’70s, the author of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia right around the Cambodia bombings, I, I .... (Silence). on National Themes, Homebody/Kabul and Oh forget it. It’s not worth our time. My neck and my back are killing me. Caroline, or Change, among other major theatrical METATRON: I would suggest that these pains are psychosomatic.

works. Two of his screenplays, for Steven Spielberg’s DR. HUTSCHNECKER: You always say that, but...

Munich and Lincoln, have been nominated for METATRON: In this case my proposal gains strength from the fact that you are dead and hence you have no body. PHOTO: JOAN MARCUS Academy Awards. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1993), two Tonys (1993 and 1994), DR. HUTSCHNECKER: I’m not arguing, I spent my life contemplating the psychosomatic, especially as expressive of the narcissistic personality under duress. But my back hurts. an Emmy (2004) and the 2012 National Medal of Arts, among other METATRON: Speaking of the narcissistic personality under duress, how is your patient doing? honors, and received numerous nominations. DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Who? Milhous? The play that follows, Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise, is METATRON: Who else? excerpted from a collection of short works, Tiny Kushner: Five One-Act Plays, to be published by Theatre Communications Group later this year. DR. HUTSCHNECKER: He told me in session yesterday that he doesn’t believe he’s dead. The real Dr. Hutschnecker, who died in 2000 at 102, was President Nixon’s METATRON: Interesting that you say discussing this television show — and I agree, it is superb, I watch it all the time, well I watch everything, I am the Recording Angel, it helps having a million eyes, I never have psychiatrist for many years. to channel surf — you say it isn’t worth our “time”, immediately after I have mentioned the fact that we are in Paradise and there is no Time here. Are you perhaps manifesting a denial of your own mortality, Arnold? Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Oh please, I lived to 102, in Connecticut, for pity’s sake don’t you think I was ready to go? My leg hurts, and don’t say I’ve got no leg. Look, it’s swollen. And I have hay fever, my face is throbbing, oddly I never had it in Connecticut, with all those trees.

METATRON: The neck and back pains, these were his presenting problems, were they not?

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DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Yes. DR. HUTSCHNECKER: He’d say yes, but he would probably be lying, he lies easier than breathing — AAAAAAAAAHHHH-CHOOOOOO. METATRON: Let’s talk about counter-transference, then, shall we? Well of what President could that not be said? They all lie, he’s just so transparent, endearing, like I said, at least he wasn’t overdosing on Halcyon, like Bush the First, at least he didn’t upchuck on the DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Dear Lord, that scarcely describes it! When I was alive I saw him once, twice a Japanese Prime Minister, at least he speaks in complete sentences, he doesn’t have a language disorder year. Up here, it’s five days a week up here, five days a week of Milhous, Milhous, Milhous! like the scary little stugatz they got in the White House now, and anyway I wouldn’t mention Freud to Milhous because it could trigger an association that could lead him to one of his anti-Semitic tirades, I METATRON: He still insists you call him — have a lot of trouble with that, it really interferes with my ... DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Milhous. MMmmilhous. Muh Muh — It’s so obvious I want to giggle, he wears Did you know that Bush and Nixon, I mean Milhous, are actually related? They’re both cousins to the his psyche on his sleeve, it’s always been endearing to me, it saves me so much work, every day he comes Stewart family, in Virginia, American aristocracy — One of the Stewarts, get this, Gladys I think her name in and he says these remarkable things ... Well, you know, his mouth, oral sadistic, a few days ago he was was, she’s the mother of — thinking of changing his name to M., just M., the initial he dropped when he became President, and of course we know what he’s really dropping or rather who he’s really dropping or rather trying, still trying to METATRON: Yes, I know, she’s the mother of Geraldine, the Queen of Albania. But speaking of associa- drop after all this ... tions, interesting that you bring up mothers just now, right after you —

METATRON (singing): “M is for the many things she gave me...” DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Nixon and Bush are cousins of the fascist Queen of Albania! You can’t make this up! But where was I? DR. HUTSCHNECKER: That mother. Her dying words to him were “Richard don’t give up. Don’t let anyone tell you you are through.” I am afraid he has taken this literally — he cannot die, mommy told METATRON: Associations, Freud, you — him not to. He has to obey, he must preserve The Idealized Mother, the Saint, formed as he abreacts the depressed controlling woman who couldn’t stop him crying, who breast-fed a cousin, a rival, when DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Yeah, right, but Freud — Who has the time? I tried Pavlov, I tried using Pavlovian Dick — I mean Milhous — was six months, who abandoned him for mastoid surgery when he was 9 techniques to get him to stop the war. Conditioning, behaviorism, that’s what works with these frenetic, months, who gave birth to Donald right after that, more betrayal, more abandonment, who left him overly-literal retentive guys, if Dr. Melfi would use Pavlov on... But he went out in the ’60s, it got all in his remarkably awkward adolescence for two years to go nurse the dying brother Harold, more touchy-feely and drugs were in and... The Manchurian Candidate. Have you ever seen it? abandonment, more guilt, well is it any wonder? What’s amazing is he did as well as he did, forget the Plumbers and the tapes and the Checkers speech, what’s amazing is he didn’t blow up the planet. METATRON: Of course. Angela Lansbury, I’m a fan of — (Silence.) DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Great film. I tried to get Milhous to forge an association: “Mom”, “Quaker”, I think perhaps in Hannah’s obsessional, controlling personality may lie the explanation of the fact that “Peace.” It never took. I used to think Kissinger was thwarting me. Now I see it was just the wrong Nixon was the last Republican President who believed in Regulation. series of associations. That mother. So she says “never die” and he can’t afford to disbelieve her, ambivalent mommy — combined of course with Oh am I depressed. And I ache all over. Did I mention my leg? Aaaah-Choo! Five days a week! Water- his paranoia — and given her obsessive-compulsive personality, paranoia’s a ... given. And his religiously- gate, Lincoln, that guy in the arena with the dust and the sweat and the blood, undaunted etcetera and inflected grandiosity, well he always believed he was immortal — so forth, you know, that Teddy Roosevelt quote? Jesus wept I could sing you the — expletive deleted — thing, he’s been on my couch reciting it for fifty years, and NOW! Milhous! Full-blown stops-out week long METATRON: Masking of course a terrible fear of — psychoanalysis with Nixon! Are you sure this is Paradise and not the Other Place? AAAAAAAAHHHH- Choooo! DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Of course! (He sneezes) AAAAAAHHHHH-CHOOOOOOOO! (He reaches for a Kleenex. He begins to weep copious tears.) METATRON: Gesundheit. METATRON: His father was no picnic either. Metatron hands Dr. Hutschnecker a box of Kleenex. DR. HUTSCHNECKER (through his tears): No, but that mother. He moves me, of course he moves me. Poor Milhous! His mother couldn’t stop him crying, when he was DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Are you handing me this box of tissues because you are suggesting that I an infant, she didn’t comfort him, she’d stand over his crib and say “He’s not sad he’s working on his am resisting? That I should be needing them not to blow my nose but to wipe tears away? That I am lungpower, listen to that strong voice, he’s born to be a leader!” Hence all the speechmaking, Madonn’!, provoked by my provocative patient rather than moved by him, I’m maybe taking refuge in anger to the mortifying rambling speeches, all the, the graphomania — he’s writing more books, did I mention staunch the inner pain towards which this counter-transference is leading me: my refugee roots, the that? — the sweaty upper lip, I mean talk about psychosomatic! — and what were all those words? rejection I felt by my motherland in 1936 when I fled Berlin? An idealized mother, of course, Berlin, Tears! Weeping! Milhous crying, crying for the mother, crying out for hard-hearted Hannah, crying out Germany, my real motherland was — blech — Austria. for mother love, for America, the Idealized Mother, which heard but would not love him and would only say “cry more, Milhous, cry more, you are ....” METATRON: Why are you sneezing? You can’t really have hay fever, here where neither pollen nor sinuses nor — Dr. Hutschnecker blows his nose and wipes his eyes. DR. HUTSCHNECKER: I know I know. He has a sinusitis flare-up every year, starting September 5 on the nose, as it were, and ending October 1. His father died September 4, his mother September 30. Ba da bing! METATRON: Remarkable, as I said, I used to wonder if he’d read Freud. Interesting, Arnold, what you said about Germany being your idealized mother, while your real mother, the bad mother — I believe you said “Blech” — is Austria, where you were born. METATRON: Have you ever asked him if he had? DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Na, und? I mean, what’s your point?

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METATRON: Well, Arnold, I mean, talk about transparent. German ideal, Austrian roots, whom else might you be describing? 46 Message from the DR. HUTSCHNECKER: I don’t — Oh. CCAA President Him. Alumni 47 Bookshelf METATRON: Ja! He always referred to Germany as Vaterland, nicht Mutterland. 49 Obituaries So perhaps here, the cause of your persistent refusal to consider the bad father introject inhabiting like a 53 Class Notes shadowy Cronus the cave of Milhous’s unconscious. 96 Last Look DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Huh. That’s god, I mean good. News METATRON: So we may perhaps want to ask, in our next session, when you first elected to treat this man, this powerful leader, grandiose, paranoiac, anti-Semitic, often described as having a Napolean Complex ... Who is it you have really been trying to treat, Arnold, whose anti-social impulses and abuses of power are With last papers due and finals you really trying to control? Who is your real patient, Milhous ... or someone else? The one who drove you around the corner, Butler Library from your motherland in 1936? Are you perhaps attempting to rewrite history through your treatment of becomes a second home to many a less-malelovent surrogate who ... students in the late spring. PHOTO: COLIN SULLIVAN ’11

Dr. Hutschnecker has fallen asleep, sitting up.

METATRON: Arnold?

Dr. Hutschnecker snores.

METATRON (in a voice like seven thunders): ARNOLD!

Dr. Hutschnecker jolts awake.

DR. HUTSCHNECKER: Whoah! I must’ve ... dozed off. I got to get more sleep, I think, it’s the — expletive deleted — Sopranos, I can’t stop watching them. That mother!

METATRON: Oh yes, Nancy Marchand!

DR. HUTSCHNECKER: She’s just the best! Isn’t Nancy Marchand here now? I’d love to meet her. What an actress! What a role! That mother! David Chase is a genius, I can’t wait for the new season!

METATRON: I’ve seen it. I’ve seen all the seasons. Of everything. Marvelous. And I think our time is up.

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DR. ARNOLD A. HUTSCHNECKER IN PARADISE by Tony Kushner ’78 is part of a collection, TINY KUSHNER, to be published by TCG. Originally produced by the Guthrie Theater; Joe Dowling, artistic director.

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MESSAGE FROM CCAA PRESIDENT KYRA TIRANA BARRY ’87 The Gift of Knowledge and Experience Bookshelf

The Wrights of Vermont: Search- applies his theories to universities, Into Daylight by Jeffrey Harrison is tasked with delivering a living, ing for My Father’s Family by corporations and families (Cam- ’80. The author’s Dorset Prize- beating heart to an apocalyptic s president of the Columbia College Alumni Asso- These shared experiences do not end after graduation; rather, George T. Wright ’45. After his bridge University Press, $28.99). winning collection of poetry cult leader in Texas (Harper Voy- ciation (CCAA), I strongly believe that one of the they are only beginning, and they continue to grow in poignancy father’s death, Wright digs into reflects on the daily familiarities ager, $25.99). most valuable ways alumni can give back to the and gravity. For many, the idea of achieving life balance comes to his father’s genealogy to discover Medimont Reflections: 40 Years of and fragilities experienced in a Columbia community is through the gift of knowl- the fore, whether that means managing career, family, hobbies, the stories and relationships of his Issues and Idahoans by Chris Carl- long marriage, refracted through Raising Henry: A Memoir of edge and experience. Sharing this gift can be done philanthropy and/or other interests. As a graduate of the first father and his father’s relatives son ’68. In this collection of essays, the shock of a brother’s suicide Motherhood, Disability, & Dis- Athrough formal and informal mentorships between alumni and fully coeducational class of women at Columbia College, there (Wheatmark, $13.95). Carlson draws from 40 years of (Tupelo Press, $16.95). covery by Rachel Adams, professor current students, which create direct and personal connections were no footsteps for me to follow in. The experiences that we public life as a press secretary and of English and comparative literature. that benefit all for a lifetime. as College alumnae have had — the triumphs and the missteps Letters from the Attic: Save the journalist to provide a history of The Sea & Civilization: A Drawing on her background in the One of our alumni groups, Columbia College Women, has — are incredibly valuable to pass on to future generations of Co- Last Dance for Me by Charles Idaho’s politics and northwestern Maritime History of the World study of the physically disabled Young ’50. The author recalls his conservation issues (Ridenbaugh by Lincoln Paine ’81. Paine uses and outcasts in American culture raised the bar with the CCW Mentoring Program, co-chaired by lumbia College women. life through letters that he wrote Press, $15.95). the lens of maritime travel to as well as her experience raising Michelle Estilo Kaiser ’87 and Selby Drummond ’09. Now in its during WWII and reflects on fam- retell human history, examining a son with Down syndrome, the 20th year, the Mentoring Program pairs alumnae mentors from the ow in its 25th year, CCW is in a position to successfully ily life, young romance and the Report from the Interior by Paul the world’s waterways as the author provides context for un- Classes of 1987–2013 with rising junior and senior women using an expand its reach and benefit. As Kaiser describes it, “We war’s influence on his and future Auster ’69. Narrated in the second primary means of spreading derstanding the ways the disabled algorithm based on mentor and mentee responses to a short ques- Nare now in an opportune moment where the eldest of us generations (iUniverse, $34.95). person, this autobiography tracks goods, languages, religions and and their families are viewed and tionnaire. The program’s popularity has grown exponentially dur- are starting to feel the gift of time, with more independent chil- Auster’s moral, political and intel- cultures (Knopf, $40). treated (Yale University Press, $26). ing the past two decades, going from 20 matches at its inception to dren and/or comfortable careers. We have had several groups I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lin- lectual journey as he moves toward a record-breaking 290-plus matches this year! This spike in interest of alumnae in the glow of their 25th reunion looking to find a coln and the Civil War by Jerome adulthood through the postwar The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos The Rise of Women: The Grow- is due in large part to the time and effort Michelle and Selby have place in CCW, and we fully welcome their involvement in ex- Charyn ’59. Charyn interweaves 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s and the Age of Amazon by Brad ing Gender Gap in Education devoted to improving the panding intellectual, social fictional events with Lincoln’s (Henry Holt and Co., $27). Stone ’93. Stone chronicles the and What it Means for American already well-documented life rise of Bezos and the company he Schools by Thomas A. Diprete, the program, and also due to the and alum-to-alum offerings. to provide a more human and Saint Bernard’s Three-Course founded, providing a behind-the- Giddings Professor of Sociology, and demand by women to find CCW thrives on the diversity intimate perspective on him (W.W. Banquet: Humility, Charity, and scenes account of the e-commerce Claudia Buchmann. The authors connections to one another of Columbia’s alumnae. We Norton & Co.: Liveright, $26.95). Contemplation in the De Gradi- revolution (Little, Brown and Co., analyze the social influences that across generations. find a huge student demand bus by Bernard Bonowitz ’70. The $28). have caused the growing gender CCW’s student chair, Em- for non-traditional as well as Congo: The Miserable Expeditions author digs into the seventh chap- gap in higher education (Russell ily Dreibelbis ’14, has expe- traditional careers and have and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory ter of Saint Bernard’s The Steps of Jessica Darling’s It List: The Sage Foundation, $37.50). rienced the benefits of CCW found many women’s lives Taunt, USN by Andrew C.A. Jam- Humility and Pride to provide a (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to and the Mentoring Program are incredibly interesting and poler ’62. Through retelling the story spiritual guide for the Cistercian Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection Wonder Women: Sex, Power, firsthand. “I have been work- enriched by the panoply of of Taunt’s death, which occurred disciple and modern reader alike by Megan McCafferty ’95. Jessica and the Quest for Perfection by ing with CCW since I was a their life experiences.” during a 1995 solo mission up the (Liturgical Press, $18.95). Darling, armed with a “guaran- Debora L. Spar, president of Barnard Congo River, the author offers a teed guide” from her older sister, College. Drawing on research and sophomore,” she says, “but While CCW may be best glimpse into the United States’ The Tales of Hoffmann by William stumbles through junior high as she experience, Spar addresses how now that I’m a senior, being known for its Mentoring Pro- role in the birth of a nation (Naval Germano ’72. Germano argues that discovers that being herself trumps the political goals of the feminist part of CCW as well as the gram, it has many other initia- Institute Press, $44.95). the elaborate theatrical require- popularity (Poppy, $17). movement have evolved into an Mentoring Program has be- tives and its board is looking ments of composer Jacques Offen- overwhelming set of expecta- come even more important Alumnae share their knowledge and experience with students via the forward to capitalizing on this Alien Rule by Michael Hechter ’66. bach’s opera Les contes d’Hoffmann The Dead Run: A Novel by Adam tions for contemporary women to CCW Mentoring Program and through events with speakers such as in helping me visualize [my moment to broaden CCW’s The author argues that alien rule allowed directors Michael Powell Mansbach ’98. In this supernatural succeed in all areas of life (Sarah Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L (second from left), CEO of United Way of NYC. future] and prepare myself Joining Wright at a 2013 CCW brunch were (left to right) Constance scope and boost involvement. (non-native leaders) can be legiti- and Emeric Pressburger to work and surreal work, an American Crichton Books, $27). for graduation. Whether it’s Boozer ’13, CCAA president Kyra Tirana Barry ’87, Emily Dreibelbis ’14 CCW’s success is sup- mate if it provides governance that imaginatively and creatively in their police officer must track down Karl Daum ’15 job applications, interview and Michelle Estilo Kaiser ’87, ’92 PH, ’97 P&S. ported by Kim Diamon, who is both effective and fair. Reflecting cinematic adaptation (Palgrave a runaway girl while another skills or figuring out where PHOTO: REBECCA CASTILLO ’94, ’06J joined the alumni relations on historical examples, he then Macmillan, $14.95). American, incarcerated in Mexico, to start apartment hunting in team last fall. Kim’s efforts NYC, the fact that I have so many people to turn to is amazing.” have been vital in enabling CCW’s growth and expansion. She Students and alumnae are drawn to CCW because they share also works closely with Columbia College Young Alumni, an- many experiences not only during college but throughout other group that has strengthened in recent years. their lives. Kaiser says, “I believe a large factor in CCW’s rapid I am also pleased to introduce three staff members who joined growth and popularity is the fact that women are called upon to the Alumni Office this winter: Executive Director of College continually reinvent themselves, especially if they choose to take Alumni Relations and Events Jessica Green ’05 Business, Associ- a life partner and raise children.” ate Director of Alumni Relations Megan Cheever and Assistant Columbia College women represent a mix of backgrounds, Director of Alumni Relations Suzy Alpert. With the leadership professions, beliefs and cultures but something about Columbia and support of Senior Executive Director Bernice Tsai ’96, I am called us each by name — and we answered. Before we complet- confident that we will soon be able to offer alumni a much more ed our first year, we began collecting experiences and knowledge robust array of ways to participate with CCAA and to pay back that we all now share — the perks and hardships of sharing a the gift of a Columbia experience to others. Carman bathroom with three roommates, the battle against the John Jay waffle station and the freshman 15, and the thrill of read- ing Lysistrata for the first time.

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Susanna Daniel ’97 Returns to Obituaries Familiar Waters in Second Novel 1939 earned an M.D. from P&S in 1952. program director at the Bronx from the Accreditation Council Thomas H. Dawkins, retired He completed training in general Lebanon Hospital Center and pro- for Graduate Medical Education plumber, artist, Middletown, surgery and cardiothoracic sur- fessor of surgery at the Albert Ein- for outstanding direction of The B y J u s t i n D e F r e i ta s Conn., on April 30, 2012. Dawkins gery at NewYork-Presbyterian/ stein College of Medicine, a posi- Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Columbia University Medical tion he held until his retirement Surgical Residency Training He opened a plumbing business Center and joined the attending in 2003. Gerst had a distinguished program. During the Korean War, usanna Daniel ’97 set her first Iowa City. “It forced me to take my writing in Manchester after serving in the staff in 1962. In 1964, he was career as surgeon and educator he served as a medical officer with novel, Stiltsville, in the community seriously. It gave me discipline,” she says. Army Air Corps during WWII. Af- appointed department chair of and in 2003 received the Parker J. the Army in Korea. Gerst is sur- of that same name, a mile off the “It took years off the process of devel- ter retiring, he turned to art, form- surgery and surgical residency Palmer Courage to Teach Award vived by his sons, Steven ’81, ’86 south Florida coast in Biscayne oping as a writer. Not that I’m through ing the plumbing materials with SBay. The book allowed Daniel to explore developing, by any means. But it forces which he was comfortable working familiar territory — she grew up roughly you to confront your flaws.” into a variety of sculptures, many with religious themes. He trav- 40 miles away, in Coral Gables, south of Daniel felt she was strong on character Arnold A. Saltzman ’36, eled into his 90s and remained and language but needed to develop her Miami, and often visited the wood stilt active, including as a member of houses whose residents inspired several skills in plotting and action. She had a the Talcottville Congregational Diplomat and Presidential Adviser of the novel’s characters. It also earned tendency, early on, to write about charac- Church. Dawkins is survived by rnold A. Saltzman ’36, a diplomat, busi- its chief negotiator for contracts to develop the her a 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ters lost in their own thoughts — “people his son, Thomas, and Thomas’ nessman and presidential adviser, died in nation’s mineral resources. Acting as the middle- for debut fiction. doing nothing, just staring into mirrors fianceé, Catherine Rohrbach; Sands Point, N.Y., on January 2, 2014. He man between Kyrgyzstan and western compa- When she decided to write a second or sitting in airports with a drink in one daughter, Elizabeth Poreba, and A was 97. nies, Saltzman had the authority to sign contracts novel, however, Daniel feared she had hand,” she says with a laugh. her husband, John; brother, John; Saltzman, who worked until a week before on Kyrgyzstan’s behalf. In a 1992 New York Times exhausted the setting. “I thought I had One story written at Iowa proved a sort four grandchildren; four great- his death, was involved in many aspects of busi- article, he said that despite his age, working in burned Stiltsville down,” she says. of golden ticket. “We Are Cartographers” grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased ness, public service and diplomacy. He worked foreign policy and development was “better than Her husband dissuaded her of that was included in the 2001 edition of Best by his sisters, Joan and Christine; on foreign and economic policy under five U.S. taking a vacation.” notion, freeing Daniel to return to South New American Voices and earned Daniel and brother, Richard. Memorial Presidents. While negotiating policy and managing corpo- Florida for Sea Creatures (HarperCollins, PHOTO: RYAN MURPHY a teaching and writing fellowship at Iowa contributions may be made to The Emigrating from Russia, Saltzman’s family rations, Saltzman remained an active member of $25.99). “It just seemed the perfect set- as well as a fellowship at the University Nature Conservancy. settled in New York City, where the Columbia community, ting for the material I had in mind,” she says. “I of Wisconsin. The story, along with two others, Saltzman was born on October establishing a number of like to write about marriages and parents, and served as the basis for Stiltsville. 1943 1, 1916. He attended Samuel scholarships, including the Stiltsville is perfect for that: families together, Sea Creatures, by contrast, was conceived as Cedric C. Philipp, retired pharma- J. Tilden H.S. At Columbia, Arnold A. Saltzman Scholar- trapped on an island.” a novel from the start. The idea stemmed from ceutical representative, Audubon, Saltzman majored in econom- ship Fund. Saltzman was The novel’s emotional landscape is also an afternoon Daniel spent sitting in her car in a Pa., on July 18, 2013. Philipp was ics and government. He was awarded the Alumni Medal in somewhat familiar. Daniel, who suffers from in- Target parking lot. While her infant napped in the born in Iquique, Chile, on July 3, the president of his fraternity, 1964. In 1965, he helped to somnia and is the mother of two small children, backseat, Daniel listened to the Moth Radio Hour 1922. Philipp entered the Army in December 1943. Commissioned at Beta Sigma Rho, and a member found the Double Discovery centered the story on an insomniac, Georgia, broadcast of Mike Birbiglia’s one-man show, Fort Benning, Ga., he is in its OCS of the tennis team and the Program (now the Double whose son, Frankie, is closing in on 3. But from “Sleepwalk With Me,” in which the comedian Hall of Fame. Philipp was in the Debate Council. Discovery Center). In 2003, the there the story takes on dramatic complications. chronicles his own harrowing experiences with Rhineland Campaign and toward After graduating at 20, Institute of War & Peace Stud- Frankie refuses to speak and Georgia’s hus- parasomnia. She was struck by the subject’s the end of the war he joined a Saltzman left his family busi- ies — founded by President band, Graham, suffers from severe parasomnia. fictional possibilities. “I just wondered what it team in Spain to capture Hitler if ness, Premier Knitting, to Eisenhower during his tenure His dangerous, often threatening sleepwalking would be like to be married to a parasomniac,” he escaped there. Philipp was U.S. work on economic policy for as Columbia’s president — behavior causes disturbances in their Illinois Daniel says. representative on the Quadripar- the Roosevelt administration was renamed the Arnold A. community, precipitating the family’s relocation Daniel constructed a tale of a family that tite Property Control Secretariat during the Depression, serving Saltzman Institute of War to Georgia’s hometown of Coral Gables. Though hopes and may even believe that it’s merely in Berlin. Leaving the Army in PHOTO: COURTESY ARNOLD A. SALTZMAN on the Industrial Mobilization INSTITUTE OF WAR & PEACE STUDIES & Peace Studies. Saltzman they hope for a fresh start, Georgia soon finds working its way through a transition. But gradually it becomes October 1946, He drove a Jeep from Venezuela to Chile, the first trip by Commission and with the endowed two professorships herself grappling with the impact that Graham’s sleep disorder clear that the family is drifting amid dire, if understated, crisis, vehicle the length of South America, Office of Price Administration. He also served in at SIPA: the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War is having on their son as well as the implications of her relation- with disaster looming on the horizon. “I like novels where noth- totally overland. He attended the the Coast Guard as an officer, 1943–45. In 1961, and Peace Studies and the Arnold A. Saltzman ship with a reclusive Stiltsville artist for whom she works as an ing happens until the end,” Daniel says, “and then everything Woodrow Wilson School of Public Saltzman became CEO of Seagrave Corp. (later Professor of Professional Practice in International errand runner. happens — character-based novels that explode into action in and International Affairs at Prince­ Vista Resources), which made fire engines. and Public Affairs. Saltzman chaired the Columbia Today, Daniel is a long way from the sunny shores of Florida. the final act.” ton and then joined the Department Saltzman continued to work on policy in the College Board of Overseers, the University Trust- She lives in Madison, Wis., and teaches writing at the Madison Daniel captures the difficult dynamics of family life, includ- of State Office for Inter-American 1960s, first under the Kennedy administration ees, the Columbia College Fund and the John Jay Writers’ Studio, which she founded last year with author ing the sometimes conflicting pulls of personal and communal Affairs. For 30 years Philipp was an as a troubleshooter and then as an adviser for Associates. Michelle Wildgen. The pair teach eight-week courses in fiction needs. And she conveys the heightened senses that accompany executive of Wyeth International numerous committees and agencies. He also Inspired by an undergraduate art history writing and nonfiction narrative. Daniel’s inclination toward parenthood: the fear, the anxiety, the self-doubt and the com- and worked in 44 countries. On participated in diplomatic envoy work in Eastern class, Saltzman had a lifelong passion for col- writing began as a junior at Columbia. At that time the College pulsion to assess the safety of every situation, not to mention retirement, he headed a consultancy to the pharmaceutical industry and Europe under the Johnson administration, worked lecting art. He was a generous donor to galleries did not have an undergraduate writing program, “so I took the the sudden, blinding panic that can follow even a momentary was a volunteer for the Internation- with the U.S. Agency for International Develop- and museums; he assumed direction of and playwriting class,” she says. “It was a general class, held in the lapse in attention. The first-person perspective brings Georgia’s al Executive Service Corps. He lived ment and advised the Office of Economic Op- revitalized the Nassau County Museum of Fine evenings. I took it over and over.” predicament to the fore as she weighs the emotional health and in Radnor, Pa., for 39 years. Philipp portunity. Saltzman helped negotiate the Nuclear Arts and was a trustee of the Baltimore Museum A few years after graduation, while working as an editor, it development of her child against the viability of her marriage. is survived by his wife, Sue; chil- Non-Proliferation treaty in Vienna in 1967–68, for of Art. Saltzman is survived by his wife, Joan, occurred to Daniel that although she thought of herself as a “I tend to tell stories from a very personal perspective,” Dan- dren, Tad ’80 Business, Christopher which he received a Presidential Commendation. whom he married in 1942; sons, Robert ’67 and writer, she hadn’t written anything since her time at Columbia. iel says. “I like big, messy novels with a lot of heart.” and Julie; and three grandchildren. In 1992, while chairman of the investment firm Eric ’69; daughter, Marian; five grandchildren; “I realized I was going to have to make it happen,” she recalls. 1948 Windsor Production Corp., Saltzman was hired and two great-grandchildren. So she applied to the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in Justin DeFreitas is a Bay Area writer, editor and artist. Paul H. Gerst, surgeon, Tenafly, by the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan as Karl Daum ’15 N.J., on September 29, 2013. Gerst

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P&S, ’87 PH, Andrew and Jeffrey; trophoresis, bioengineering, bio­ and Joseph Wood Krutch ’24 GSAS, Hall of Fame and Museum. Braun completed an M.D. at UCSD and a and a granddaughter. His wife, physics, electro-optics, optical and classmates who encouraged served on the College’s Board of medical residency at Scripps Mercy Dr. Elizabeth C. Gerst, a former as- and electron microscopy and him to think. Pauley earned an M.A. Visitors, was presented a John Jay Hospital, San Diego. He was a lead- Richard D. Heffner ’46, ’47 GSAS, sistant dean at P&S, died in 1994. automated medical diagnosis. He in English from GSAS in 1952 and Award for distinguished profes- ing authority on micro nutrition, also researched and wrote about taught at the New Hampton School, sional achievement in 1981 and was human physiology and the impact Host of Public Television’s Open Mind information theory and meaning, the University of Minnesota Duluth an Alumni Medalist in 1988. He of diet and lifestyle upon health and pattern recognition and artificial and Stephens College. He earned a practiced in New York until 1974 disease. He authored more than 50 ichard D. Heffner ’46, ’47 GSAS, host of half-hour show History in the News. neural networks, epistemology, Ph.D. from Missouri in 1965, then and thereafter in California. Braun peer-reviewed manuscripts and a public television’s current-affairs program A year later, Heffner moved on to Man of agricultural irrigation and global taught English at Shippensburg State is survived by his wife of 57 years, number of books on nutrition, and Richard Heffner’s Open Mind, a commu- the Year, a public affairs show, and in 1956 he warming. Ornstein held 26 patents College (later University), special- Merna; sons, Lloyd, Kenneth and was the founding editor-in-chief R in the fields of histochemistry, izing in Shakespeare. He wrote Evan; daughters-in-law, Lauren, of the Journal of Medicinal Food. The nications professor and the former chair of the launched Open Mind, which he produced and bioengineering and agricultural Shakespeare: The Main Story and a Joana and Shauna; and eight grand- world’s first description and bio- Classification and Ratings Administration, died hosted from its inception until his death, with irrigation. He is survived by his play, The Rocking Chair. Pauley is sur- children. chemical characterization of a new on December 17, 2013. He was 88 and lived in unaired episodes to air posthumously. wife of 68 years, Theresa Roller vived by his wife of 57 years, Evelyn human disease, elastoderma, was New York City. Heffner joined the editorial board at CBS in 1956 Ornstein; sister, Norma O. Gold- M. (née Green); son, Christopher described by Hendler and his col- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel once 1959. In 1961, he helped negotiate the acquisi- stein; sons, Avi and Tad; daughter, ’84, and his wife, Barbara; daughter, Seymour J. Mandelbaum, profes- leagues in the New England Journal described Heffner as “one of the most intelligent, tion of Channel 13, a failing commercial station Cindy; son-in-law, Charles John- Ingrid LaBarbiera ’81 Barnard, and sor, Philadelphia, on January 23, of Medicine in 1985. A concert-level sensitive interviewers” who with “every subject in Newark, N.J. The station became New York’s son; daughters-in-law, Bernice her husband, Leonard LaBarbiera 2013. Mandelbaum was born in jazz trumpet player, Hendler com- that he chooses — war, politics, literature — first public television station and today’s WNET, Nowak-Ornstein and Lyanne ’82 Business; and five grandchildren. Chicago and raised in New York posed the original musical score for manages to humanize it and bring it up rather with Heffner its founding general manager. He LaBelle Ornstein; nine grandchil- Pauley was preceded in death by before settling with his family in the 1973 television series The Ascent dren; and six great-grandchildren. five siblings and one granddaughter. Philadelphia in the mid-1960s. He of Man. He was preceded in death than bring it down.” First broadcast in 1956, Open left in 1963 over a disagreement over the chan- A second daughter, Rani Simoff, earned his graduate degrees from by his son, Seth, and is survived by Mind examined then-contro- nel’s direction. 1951 Leonard Ornstein ’48 preceded him in death. Princeton, and his Ph.D. thesis on his wife, Joyce, and their son, Ross. versial topics: homosexuality, Heffner was the University Chester M. “Chet” Edelmann Jr., New York City in the 1870s led to alcoholism, McCarthyism, Professor of Communications 1949 1958 Leonard Ornstein, cell biologist professor of pediatrics, Bronxville, his book Boss Tweed’s New York. segregation and anti-Sem- and Public Policy at Rutgers and professor emeritus, White Herbert F. “Smokey” Stover, N.Y., on September 19, 2013. Edel- Mandelbaum’s interest was in the Myron Bander, professor of itism. Heffner’s guests in- from 1964 until his death. He Plains, N.Y., on May 7, 2013. Born in retired pilot, Laconia, N.H., on mann earned an M.D. from Cornell development of human communi- physics and astronomy, Newport cluded writers, activists and also founded the consulting 1926, Ornstein served in the Navy May 26, 2013. Stover was born in and completed his residency in pe- ties, the moral orders that shaped Beach, Calif., on December 19, politicians, from Martin Luther firm Richard Heffner As- as a hospital corpsman during Brooklyn, N.Y., on January 8, 1925, diatrics as chief resident at BMHC. them and the flow of individuals 2012. Bander was born in Belzyce, King Jr. and Malcolm X to sociates, which served such WWII. He earned an M.A. (1949) and graduated from Brooklyn Tech. During his 57-year tenure at the and information through them. He Poland, on December 11, 1937. In and Ph.D. (1957), both in biological He enlisted in the Navy and trained Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was the volume editor of Explora- 1939, his father moved the family Isaac Asimov ’39, ’41 GSAS clients as American Airlines sciences, from GSAS. He taught and as an aviation electrician’s mate. Edelmann held many prestigious tions in Planning Theory and served to what is now Ukraine. The fam- and Gloria Steinem. and Time, Inc. conducted research in Columbia’s After graduating from Columbia positions, including senior as- on several editorial boards. Mandel- ily spent the remainder of WWII Heffner was born in New In 1974, Heffner became biology department 1949–64. he was hired by Eastern Air Lines sociate dean and Distinguished baum taught briefly at the Carnegie there, part of the time in a ghetto York City on August 5, 1925. the sixth chair of the Classifi- Ornstein joined Mt. Sinai Hospital and served in various capacities University Professor of Pediatrics. Institute of Technology and Penn’s and for many months hidden by He graduated from DeWitt cation and Ratings Adminis- in 1954, where he was director of its for 37 years, finishing his career as He authored 43 scientific abstracts Annenberg School for Communica- two Polish families, before being Clinton H.S. in the Bronx and tration of the Motion Picture Cell Research Laboratory, and was a No. 1 senior captain while based and was a member of 25 national tion before joining Penn’s School liberated in 1944. The family relo- majored in history at the Col- Association of America, professor of pathology in its School in Boston. In 1975, Stover met and international medical societies. of Design as a professor in 1967. cated to displaced persons camps lege. Heffner was one of the serving until 1994. Under his of Medicine 1966–92. That year, and married Joni (Ballard) Dow; Edelmann was a lover of languages He taught planning theory, com- in Austria and Germany before earliest on-air voices for the PHOTO: RANDY MONCEAUX leadership, CARA added two he retired and became a professor they were married 38 years. After and their usage; a concert level pia- munication policy and planning, immigrating to the United States emeritus. Ornstein had a long and mandatory retirement from Eastern nist; and a faithful patron of opera, international comparative planning, in 1949. Bander attended Brooklyn Columbia University Radio new ratings: PG-13 in 1984 distinguished career in cell biology Air Lines at 60, Stover filled his the theater and the Philharmonic. community design and urban his- Tech and earned a bachelor’s in Club, where he delivered weekly current events and NC-17 in 1990. and cytochemistry, with technical time with building projects, a run He also created fine furniture and tory; he became professor emeritus physics as well as a Ph.D. from reports. He earned an M.A. in history under Heffner published his book As They Saw It: A specialties in flow cytometry, elec-­ for the city council, a brief stint in was a loyal Mets fan. Edelmann is in 2004. Mandelbaum enjoyed GSAS (1961). His principal field of Richard Hofstadter ’42 GSAS. In 1952, Heffner Half-Century of Conversations from The Open real estate and several terms on the survived by his wife of 60 years, vacationing with his family on Long research was quantum field theory published the first of many books, A Documen- Mind, in 2004. The book brings together decades YMCA Board of Directors. Twenty- Norma; children, John, Christopher Beach Island, N.J. Surviving him and elementary particle physics, in tary History of the United States, a collection of of historic and exclusive interviews conducted five winters were spent at the and Kathy; sister, Maida Heitner; are his wife, the former Dorothy particular. After a year as an NSF Obituary Submission primary documents of American history. by Heffner, who was described in his New York couple’s retirement home in Fort and one granddaughter. Memo- Rosenthal; sons, David and Judah; Postdoctoral Fellow at CERN, the After graduation, Heffner taught briefly at Times obituary by John Corry as a man who Myers, Fla., and golf remained a rial contributions may be made daughter, Betsy; a sister; and six University of Copenhagen and the Guidelines Sarah Lawrence but left to pursue broadcast- “would sooner dive under the tablecloth than favorite pastime. Stover is survived to Concordia College, Greenwich grandchildren. A brother prede- University of Paris, Bander became Columbia College Today by his wife; children, Lorinda Stead- Hospital Inpatient Oncology Unit ceased him. Memorial contributions a research associate at the Stanford ing. In 1953, he visited radio stations throughout needlessly interrupt. When he does interrupt, it’s welcomes obituaries for man and her husband, John, and or the Sierra Club. may be made to the Parkinson’s Linear Accelerator Center. In 1966 New York City to pitch an interview with Eleanor because he has something to say.” College alumni. Deaths are Herbert F. “Ricko” III; stepchildren, Disease and Movement Disorders he joined the faculty of UC Irvine, Roosevelt on the eighth anniversary of Presi- Heffner is survived by his wife, Elaine ’51 1952 noted in the next available Brenda Daniels and her husband, Center, University of Pennsylvania, where he spent the last 46 years of dent Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. Accepted by SW, ’86 TC; sons, Daniel and Andrew; and four issue in the “Other Deaths Dennis, John H. Dow, Linda Hayes David A. Braun, attorney, Mon- 330 S. Ninth St., Philadelphia, PA his career. He chaired the Depart- WMCA, Heffner’s interview marked the begin- grandchildren. Reported” box. Complete and her husband, Todd, and Mary tecito, Calif., on January 28, 2013. 19107, or to the National Parkinson ment of Physics and Astronomy ning of his broadcasting career with the weekly Karl Daum ’15 obituaries will be published in K. Dow and her companion, Leigh Braun was born on April 23, 1931, Foundation, 1501 N.W. Ninth Ave., 1978–80 and 1992–95, and was the an upcoming issue, pending Studley; and five grandchildren in New York City. He earned a Miami, FL 33136. third dean of the School of Physi- and stepgrandchildren. Stover was degree from the Law School in 1954 cal Sciences, 1980–86. Survivors receipt of information. Due predeceased by a brother, Arthur; and began his career in New York 1957 include his wife, Carol. was the chair of the mathematics friends. Memorial contributions one of the Harvard Business School to the volume of obituaries and a son, Scot. in the television industry before Sheldon S. Hendler, scientist, phy- and computer science department. may be made to Drew University publications. Following his HBS that CCT receives, it may recognizing an opportunity in the sician, musician, San Diego, on No- 1967 In 1994, he was named assistant v.p. and sent to its Office of Annual graduation, Drucker taught in New take several issues for the 1950 late 1950s to represent singers and vember 12, 2012. Hendler was born Alan Candiotti, university dean for university technology. Candiotti Giving, 36 Madison Ave., Madison, York City at the New School for complete obituary to appear. Harry W. Pauley, professor emeri- songwriters in the emerging world May 12, 1936, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and professor, Madison, N.J., on published many academically ac- NJ 07940. Social Research. The family moved Word limit is 200; text may be tus, Newburg, Pa., on February 3, of rock ’n’ roll. Braun was president He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry August 19, 2013. After graduating claimed articles on number theory. to St. Louis in 1975, where Drucker 1969 edited for length, clarity and 2014. Pauley was born on April 6, and CEO of PolyGram Records in from GSAS in 1969, then conducted as valedictorian of Francis Lewis He was also deeply involved in taught at St. Louis University and style at the editors’ discretion. 1921, in Spring Hill, Pa. He enlisted the United States in the early 1980s post-doctoral studies at UCSD and H.S. at 16, Candiotti earned a B.A. teaching New Jersey’s top high Mark L. Drucker, professor, St. then Southern Illinois University Click “Contact Us” at college. in the Navy in WWII and rose to the before returning to representing the Salk Institute, where he made in mathematics and then a Ph.D. in school students as director of the Louis, on August 12, 2013. Drucker Edwardsville. He enjoyed movies, columbia.edu/cct, or mail rank of chief radioman. He entered artists. Known as a tough negotia- seminal discoveries on the structure mathematics from Harvard (1973). New Jersey Governor’s School attended Mount Vernon H.S. At TV, reading, history, talking and materials to Obituaries Editor, the College on the GI Bill (“the best tor, he led a move in the industry of the nucleosome and contributed He was the interim dean of Drew in the Sciences in 1986 and again the College, he was president of trivia. Drucker and his companion, 1988–90. Candiotti was his family’s the senior class and active in many Carita, were in many trivia contests Columbia College Today, thing the government ever did, to demand higher royalty rates for to the development of the first University’s College of Liberal Arts which should be expanded to in- artists. Braun worked with, among antiviral drugs. After helping found in Madison, N.J., and a profes- historian, an active member of Con- University activities. He and his in the St. Louis area. He was also an Columbia Alumni Center, clude everyone who can get into col- others, Bob Dylan; Peter, Paul and the Medical School at Universidad sor, since 1980, of mathematics gregation B’nai Israel in Basking then-wife, Pamela D. Lathrop, avid Cardinals fan and attended as 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, lege”). Pauley revered the Core, and Mary; and Gordon Lightfoot. He Autónoma de Baja California, and computer science. Candiotti Ridge, N.J., and a lifelong Yankees moved to Boston, where Drucker many games as he could. Drucker 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. was grateful to study with professors also taught at UCLA and USC, and Tijuana, and chairing its first De- earned the President’s Award for fan. He is survived by many attended Harvard Business School. is survived by his children, Michael including Mark Van Doren ’21 GSAS helped found the Rock and Roll partment of Biochemistry, Hendler Distinguished Teaching in 1992 and cousins, colleagues, students and While there, he wrote articles for and Hilary; and six grandchildren.

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erty; and former wife and mother to OTHER DEATHS REPORTED his children, Randi Shamitz. 1992 Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be Meredith A. Norton, author, Oak- published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Class Notes land, Calif., on August 2, 2013. Nor- obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. ton was born on January 10, 1970, in Berkeley. She earned a degree in Columbia College Today At Columbia, Paul was a member lences to Phil’s family, who suggest gist in Boardman, Ohio. 1934 Millard L. Midonick, attorney, New York City, on January 18, 2014. fine arts and film studies from the 25 Columbia Alumni Center of Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1964 he that contributions in Phil’s memory Our 2013 football season was 1938 George W. Sferra, dentist, Gulfport, Fla., on November 6, 2013. College and spent part of her college 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 earned an M.B.A. from The George may be made to the Taub Institute another major disappointment, junior year in Milan studying fine New York, NY 10025 Washington University. He later for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease with no wins and 10 consecutive 1942 John A. Persson, retired engineer, Cranberry Township, Pa., on October 15, 2013. 40 arts. Norton worked variously as [email protected] served as a consultant to the Navy and the Aging Brain at Columbia losses. The team allowed 402 points 1943 Ernest E. Tucker, physician, Morristown, N.J., on December 16, 2013. a hymnal editor with the Anglican and Department of Defense. As University. scored by opponents (a record) 1945 Norman J. Selverstone, physician, New York City, on November 5, 2013. Church Center in New York, Hol- Your friends and classmates want one of our most accomplished and lywood assistant talent agent, Sor- to hear from you! Please send news loyal alumni, we salute Paul for his 1947 Jules L. Gladstone, physician, Monroe Township, N.J., on November 2, 2013. bonne zoology student, junior high about yourself or your family, or a devotion to Columbia and send 1948 Harvey C. Gardner, editor and actor, Nyack, N.Y., on December 11, 2013. school American history teacher, favorite Columbia College memory, him good wishes for many walks Paul Hauck ’42 and his wife, Betty, are full-time 1949 Albert E. Koska, retired insurance underwriter, Jersey City, N.J., on December 12, 2013. CEO of Norton Whittaker, graduate to CCT at either the email or postal in air-conditioned malls. residents of Florida, where Paul attends local Lewis Kurke, retired psychiatrist, Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 29, 2013. engineering student (in prepara- address above, or you can send The New York Times editions of tion to be an astronaut) and a radio news online via CCT’s easy-to-use October 24 and 27 contained obitu- Columbia Alumni Club meetings. 1950 Joseph A.M. Mehan, communications executive, Fort Myers, Fla., on December 18, 2013. sports editor in Paris before finding webform: college.columbia.edu/ ary notices for Philip Sherman Harry W. Pauley, professor, Newburg, Pa., on February 3, 2014. her métier as an author and editor cct/submit_class_note. Hobel, who died at 92 at home in 1951 George E. Chase, real estate broker, Atlanta, on September 16, 2013. after marrying, having a son and New York City on October 23, 2013, Because of illness in the family, and in turn scored only 53 points Allan W. Robbins, retired Navy officer and librarian, Alexandria, Va., on March 3, 2013. developing breast cancer. Her book, after a long struggle with Alzheim- your correspondent was unable to on offense in the 10 games, the Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Robert Zucker er’s disease. After Columbia, Phil attend the Homecoming game on lowest total on offense since 1958. 1952 Thomas E. Federowicz, retired physician, Binghamton, N.Y., on November 27, 2013. Can Be Really Distracting, published 41 29 The Birches served in WWII as a Navy officer, a October 19, which we lost to Penn, That 1958 team scored a meager 35 Robert C. Schwegler, certified life underwriter, North Tonawanda, N.Y., on June 25, 2012. in 2008, was hailed as a wickedly Roslyn, NY 11576 lieutenant and an admiral’s aide in 21–7. CCT’s alert executive editor, points during the entire season and 1954 Enno W. Ercklentz, international corporate lawyer, New York City, on January 24, 2014. funny, unique addition to the genre 41 the Destroyer Command-Atlantic Lisa Palladino, was there as usual was held scoreless in six games. [email protected] 1955 Thomas L. Chrystie, retired investment banker and executive, Charleston, S.C., on December 24, 2013. of breast cancer memoirs for its Fleet (ComDesLant). After the war and reported to me that our Class of Memories return of Columbia’s insightful observations and skewer- No news this time but I encourage Phil established Cortland Furniture 1942 was represented by Immanuel record 44-game losing streak, which Jay P. Joseph, Merrick, N.Y., on November 23, 2010. ing of cultural attitudes and medical you to get in touch. Your classmates Co., a prominent manufacturer Lichtenstein. Manny, one of our began in 1984 and ended when we 1956 Leslie Y. Rabkin, retired clinical psychologist and professor, Seattle, on January 7, 2014. behavior. Norton is survived by her want to know how you are. You and wholesale distributor, where most loyal and enthusiastic class- defeated Princeton, 16–13, on Oc- 1958 Martin F. Stein, physician, Bronxville, N.Y., on November 11, 2013. husband, Thibault J. Jousse; son, Lu- can write me at either address at he worked until 1970, when he mates, was an authority on metals tober 8, 1988, in the fourth game of Charles A. Swenson, retired software developer and editor, Alpharetta, Ga., on September 21, 2013. cas; sister, Angela; brother, Douglas, the top of the column, or use CCT’s changed to a career in the film and and metallurgical technology in his that season. Among many students and his wife, Ashante; parents, John webform: college.columbia.edu/cct/ television business. He became business career and, though he lives and alumni there is a rising tide of 1959 Evan Juro, marketing and advertising executive, Matamoras, Pa., on November 13, 2013. and Eloise; grandmother, G. Alex- submit_class_note. In the meantime, founder and owner of Cinema in Princeton, N.J., has remained restlessness and discontent over George H. Semel, plastic surgeon, Los Angeles, on December 4, 2013. andria Edwards; uncle, Edward; a best wishes for a happy spring. May Guild, Hobel-Leiterman Produc- a loyal Lion. I last saw Manny at the dismal failures of Columbia’s Richard J. Stepcick, retired design and merchandising executive, Dallas, on January 29, 2014. niece; and three nephews. Memorial the warm weather come again soon! tions and Document Associates, our 70th reunion luncheon in June football program. These sentiments 1960 Earl B. Hathaway II, corporate banker, Falmouth, Maine, on October 18, 2013. contributions may be made to the and produced and distributed 2012 in Hamilton Hall, where he were recently expressed in an American Cancer Society. many award-winning TV fea- made some interesting comments editorial and in a letter to the editor, 1961 Kenneth C. Edelin, physician, Sarasota, Fla., on December 30, 2013. Melvin Hershkowitz tures and documentaries; these about the Core Curriculum in an ex- published in Spectator, calling for the Victor Hao Li, executive consultant and professor, Oakland, Calif., on September 18, 2013. 2003 42 22 Northern Ave. include Tender Mercies, which won change with Dean Kathryn Yatrakis. dismissal of Athletics Director M. 1962 Ralph B. Dunn, attorney, Aventura, Fla., on December 29, 2013. Shannon K. Smith, grant manage- Northampton, MA 01060 Academy Awards in 1983 for best As I write some of these notes on Dianne Murphy and head football 1965 ment specialist, Jamaica Plain, Mass., 42 original screenplay (Horton Foote) November 20, 2013, I see in my per- coach Pete Mangurian. The New Geoffrey M. Horn, editor and writer, Red Bank, N.J., on November 25, 2013. [email protected] on June 5, 2013. Smith was raised and best performance by an actor petual Columbia calendar that on York Times, which ordinarily does 1967 John W. Elsberg, retired editor and poet, Arlington, Va., on July 28, 2012. in South Weymouth, Mass., and On October 1, I had a note from (Robert Duvall). November 20, 1982, 31 years ago, I not pay much attention to Colum- 1969 Arthur Schoengold, physician, Derwood, Md., on April 20, 2013. recently lived in Jamaica Plain. Paul Hauck, who reported that At Columbia, Phil earned nu- was at the old Baker Field, watching bia athletics, had a feature story in Conley E. Ward, attorney and politician, Kuna, Idaho, on October 28, 2013. She was a 2011 graduate of the Uni- he and his wife, Betty, sold their merals for freshman fencing, was the last game played there before the sports section on November 23, 1970 Anthony J. Rock, Eastchester, N.Y., on January 28, 2014. versity of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, 200-year-old house in Maryland a member of Debate Council and it was torn down and replaced by discussing the long-term failures of where she attended a master’s and are now full-time residents of was an advertising manager for Lawrence A. Wien Stadium. We lost Columbia football and some of the Richard G. Smolev, retired attorney and novelist, Kintnersville, Pa., on January 25, 2014. program in English and library Florida. Paul reports that at 93 he Spectator. He served on the Kings that game to Brown, 35–21. With me reasons for it. How President Lee C. 1972 William A. Pencak, professor and editor, Coburn, Pa., on December 9, 2013. science and was a teaching assistant. still drives to meetings of his local Crown Advisory Committee and were lifelong friends Gerald Green Bollinger will react to this situation 1981 Louis J. Brindisi III, consultant, Jamaica Plain, Mass., on June 11, 2011. During the last two years of her Columbia Alumni Club and his was chairman of the junior prom. and Ray Robinson ’41. remains to be seen, although he 1987 Karin M. Higa, art curator, Los Angeles, on October 29, 2013. life, Smith was employed in the Antique Clock Collectors Club. A As a member of the Van Am Soci- Gerald, who died in August indicated his support for Murphy in oncology research department of former member of the Gulf Coast ety and an active member of the 2006, was a prolific, famous novelist a response to the Spec editorial. the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Runners, he now “just walks in ZBT fraternity, Phil’s many contri- and television producer. His novel In contrast to our football disap- Prior to entering the University of air-conditioned malls.” I last heard butions to our undergraduate life The Last Angry Man was made into pointment, we can celebrate the 1981 Florida Hospital. Saffran also was 471 Virginia Dr., Winter Park FL Wisconsin, she taught English as a from Paul in May 2012, when were recognized by his election to a film with Paul Muni. He also was extraordinary accomplishments Alan J. Saffran, otolaryngologist, devoted to humanitarian causes, 32789. foreign language in Leszno, Poland, he sent regrets from his home in membership in Nacoms. one of the founders of Dave Gar- of our men’s cross country team, Winter Park, Fla., on September taking trips to Mexico to treat and Daegu, South Korea, and had Naples, Fla., about being unable to His wife, Mary-Ann ’47 Barnard, roway’s NBC morning news show, which was ranked among the top 27, 2013. Saffran was born in New needy children with cleft palates. Jonathan Taffler, business execu- worked at the Harvard School of attend our 70th reunion luncheon. told me that Phil frequently men­ Today, with J. Fred Muggs, and his 10 in the nation under the expert York City on July 30, 1960. He Back home, Saffran was an active tive, Wilton, Conn., on September Public Health in the grants research tioned his happy memories of his Holocaust television series brought coaching of Willy Wood. We also graduated from Bronx Science, the volunteer at Park Maitland School, 13, 2013. Taffler was born on Octo- department. Smith loved music and Columbia years, especially his him worldwide acclaim. Ray wrote have a nationally ranked women’s College and P&S (1986). At the Col- which his children attended, ber 27, 1959, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He had performed both in groups and Class Notes are submitted by colloquium seminar with Professors a biography of Lou Gehrig ’25 cross country star in Waverly serving as a science-fair judge and was the founder and president of as an experimental soloist. She was Jacques Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS and (Iron Horse) and more than 25 other Neer ’15, and a national champion lege, Saffran was a founding mem- alumni and edited by volunteer ber of the Roach Motel League, speaking to parents and students Programmed Solutions and more also an accomplished fiction writer. Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS, and books, including biographies and women’s archery team. We are still considered the oldest continuously about nutrition and health. His recently president and co-founder Smith is survived by her parents, class correspondents and the his many friendships with his ZBT portraits of famous sportsmen. Ray, waiting for the men’s and women’s operating fantasy baseball league. wife of 19 years, the former Pamela of Spitfire Product Management Richard W. and Mary Jane Sullivan staff of CCT prior to publication. fraternity brothers. Since 2003 he 92, lives in New York City and is a basketball teams to become Ivy Thompson, survives him, as do System. He also developed soft- Smith; sister, Deirdre; and brother, had served, along with Thornley loyal Columbia alumnus. League champions. As an alumnus, Saffran was an Opinions expressed are those of active member of the Alumni their children, Miles, Nathaniel ware. Taffler was a pilot, a flight Patrick. Memorial contributions may Wood (who passed away in 2011), The co-captains of that 1982 Though I write these notes in Representative Committee. Saffran and Ella; his mother, Dolores; and instructor and an avid sportsman, be made to Dana-Farber Cancer In- individual alumni and do not as one of our class vice presidents. football team were Jim Davin ’82 2013, they will be published in the did his residency at Virginia and brother, Bruce, and his wife, Elaine. and he loved to travel. Taffler is sur- stitute, PO Box 849168, Boston, MA reflect the opinions of CCT, its Phil is survived by his beloved and Mike Scavina ’83. Jim became New Year. I send best wishes and Memorial contributions may be vived by his daughters, Brooke and 02284 or via dana-farber.org/gift. wife; sons, Joseph ’75 and Michael; a sales executive with Procter & kind regards to all members of our in 1990 relocated to the Orlando class correspondents, the College area and began his practice. He made to an organization to combat Lindsay; parents, Sy and Elaine; Lisa Palladino daughter, Sara; and six grandchil- Gamble in Lancaster, N.Y., and Class of 1942, and I encourage you was ENT chief at both Orlando cancer established by Saffran’s sister, Robin, and her husband, Dick or the University. dren. He was predeceased by a Mike went to Ohio State’s medical to contact me with news of your Regional Medical Center and daughter, Ella: Cross Out Cancer, Dougherty; nephew, Casey Dough- sister, Bernice. We send our condo- school before becoming a cardiolo- families and yourselves.

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G.J. D’Angio fessor Carpenter looked at Dick of all days or any part thereof. Come by president of the foundation for two Chester J. Semel ’48 P&S reports, is even more about Columbia in most ambitious and transforming City for family visits and afforded 43 201 S. 18th St., #1818 those seated and queried pleasantly, plane, by boat, by car, by train, by years. The focus of the foundation “[Columbia] was an exciting time my next book, which I am trying initiative. a chance for this writer and he Philadelphia, PA 19103 ‘Who are you?’” subway or on foot; on your own became and continues to be global for me. I remember some of my to finish now. I have a long chapter Attending the lunch were How- to have lunch. Don’s talk about 43 From my own diary, Casa steam or with the help of spouses, history. As you [Bill] say, we of classmates. I see Arnold Zentner ’46 titled ‘Manhattan and Columbia,’ ard Cohen and his wife, Marjory; his experience flying gliders was [email protected] D’Angio/Evans has been busy. significant others and family mem- the Class of 1944 are a dwindling from time to time. I remember lun- which might interest classmates, at Richard Heffner; Mel Holson ’48E fascinating. He has done so until Bernard Weisberger writes, “What Our guests for some days were the bers; with or without wheelchairs, number. You are good to have taken cheons with Howard Schmertz, the least the Columbia part. It includes, and his wife, Phyllis; Ira Millstein recently. remembrances can I summon up son of a New Zealand friend, and walkers, crutches or canes. This is a on the task of holding us together, cafeteria, the serving lady extolling for example, memories of Nicholas ’47E; Leonard Moss and his wife, This column ends with the sad of the nine months past? It’s almost the young man’s lady friend. They not-to-be-missed opportunity to get while in the background we hear ‘the good soup today,’ professional Murray Butler (Class of 1882); of the Muriel; Irwin Nydick and his wife, news of the passing of two esteem- exactly that since the June 2 reunion were good company, full of the together for members of The Great- the wheels of time’s chariot.” option, the first year of medical colloquium course I took from Pro- Eleanor; Aihud Pevsner and his ed classmates: lunch. No exotic or even familiar exuberance of youth. Another guest est Generation! When I commented on the lofty school at P&S, the smell of spring fessors Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS wife, Lucille; Bernard Sunshine Joseph Foa of Montgomery, travels — nearest I can come is was the daughter of our incompa- Henry Rolf Hecht, my predeces- status enjoyed by his wife, Neva when they fertilized the lawn at and Jacques Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS; and his wife, Marjorie; and Barnett Texas, passed away on January 13, a trip from here in Chicago to rable housekeeper of years past, sor as class correspondent, writes, Goodwin, Bruce responded, “My Hamilton Hall, the history of the of my many years of singing in the Zumoff. Everyone gave the lunch­ 2013. His company, AJ Foa Associ- Colorado to visit my daughter and the latter having long since passed “Of course we are all in the same wife is indeed an extraordinary duel and the war.” Columbia choir; and so on. … eon a double thumbs-up. ates, was engaged in insurance and son-in-law in a suburb of Denver. away. We have maintained contact age bracket but old age seems to person. We have been married for Mario E. DeOrchis writes, “I real estate. That at least gives me a chance to with the younger lady over all the have hit me extra hard. I’m still 32 years, and every day I realize am 90, in good health, living in Richard D. Heffner died on plug my favorite mode of travel, years. She was the babysitter for my alive and breathing and wish all the how wonderful she is. She is an Delray Beach, Fla., and enjoying my December 17, 2013. His was a rail. There’s nothing like relaxing son, who is now a grandfather! The best to my classmates. Have a great economist and director of the retirement after practicing maritime Barnett Zumoff ’46, in addition to a long career in career in academia, television and by a big picture window, feet partly years pass. 2014.” Institute for Global Development law for 60 years in New York. After medicine, has had a parallel career for 30 years as a Hollywood’s film industry. For elevated, libation in hand, watching In October, I went to Boston We heard from Paul Sandhaus, and Environment at Tufts.” graduating from [high school] in more than 50 years as creator and prairies, mountains and river cross- for the first of a series of annual whose wife of 67 years, Helen, also I, as class correspondent, am 1941, I received a scholarship and translator of Yiddish literature. host of Richard Heffner’s Open Mind ings roll by, to say nothing of the big lectures I endowed. It was given says “hello.” They winter in New well aware of Neva’s achieve- a job at Columbia University. I on public television, Dick engaged cities and dwindling small towns at the Boston Children’s Hospital, Mexico and Tucson, and at this ments, having read her brilliant volunteered in WWII and spent 30 in intense yet civilized discourse through which you are passing. where I trained. The lectures are writing were expected to return to speech, “What Can We Hope For months in Africa and Europe. For- “When I was drafted into the I had a phone call from Eugene with world-renowned persons on Even with many scars of erased named in honor of one of my influ- New York in late January. We recall the World in 2075?” — which she tunately, I came back in one piece.” Army in 1944, Bernard Wishy ’48, Rogers ’45E, one of the greats in a wide range of subjects. In honor natural splendor on its face, it’s still ential mentors and role models, Dr. that Paul produced two plays live delivered at The Thirtieth E.F. Jack Greenberg ’48L reports, “I ’58 GSAS (he was also a student in Columbia’s athletics history. A of the 65th anniversary celebration America the Beautiful. I wish that Martin “Dick” Wittenborg and his on NBC in 1954 for the Armstrong Schumacher Lecture in November entered the College in 1941 and by that colloquium class) was drafted swimmer for the Lions, Gene won of our class in June 2011, he taped someday the price of a sleeper berth wife, Harriett. Those two played Circle Theatre, and that Elizabeth 2010 in NYC — and her essay, “A mid-1943 had completed enough with me, and we stayed together 53 intercollegiate events, losing only a conversation with then-College would shrink to affordable levels so an important part in shaping my Montgomery’s professional debut New Economics For the 21st Cen- coursework to have attained what for almost all of our Army service. I once when he and the declared Dean Michele Moody-Adams. It that I could take even longer trips career. A named lecture seemed was in one of them, The Millstone. tury,” published in October 2010. ordinarily could have been called don’t want to send any excerpts of winner were clocked in identical was previewed at our reunion, with by Amtrak. At the moment, the a fitting way to remember their Paul’s novel, A Choice of Evils, based With the imminence of our 70th junior status. I was in the V-12 Navy my writings about him, but men- times. After he served in the Navy Dick and the dean leading a spirited most I can handle is one night of importance for me and the many on his WWII experience as a bomb reunion, I have been thinking of College Training Program and so I tion it as a possible point of interest. and when he was 24, he swam discussion. economy-class dozing in a chair. others who had the good fortune disposal officer and his business members of my family [some now was shipped to Cornell to complete Bernard, as you may know, died in for the United States in the 1948 Dick and I had exchanged emails “Like most nonagenarians, to know them. Their four children experience in advertising, was deceased] who graced the Colum- my undergraduate education. At 2012. He was a good friend in those London Olympics. Gene recalled on December 16 about our next which is what all of us who entered were all present for the occasion. published in 1968. Paul also self- bia campus in days gone by. These Cornell I took an academic program war years and much later, after we that he was narrowly beaten for a class luncheon; given that the last Columbia in the fall of 1939 now We attended the christening of published The Patralmador Paradox include my kid brother, Dr. Norman of my choice for two semesters, retired. gold medal. was in October, as reported earlier are, the usual topics of conversation my great-granddaughter, Marga- in 2005. All that plus a successful E. Friedman ’51, now residing in except that I think I had to take “Perhaps I have said enough Barnett Zumoff, in addition to a in this column, I asked if it would are health and grandchildren — ret, in November. She is thriving, career with the J. Walter Thompson Boca Raton, Fla.; Harold T. Arbiter courses in naval architecture and to start a conversation. Let me say long career in medicine — teaching, be too soon to hold another in the and now great-grandchildren! Both as are all my family members in Agency (now JWT Global Advertis- ’22, who was my mentor when celestial navigation. After those two that I do appreciate the difficult research and practicing (still) — has spring. In support he wrote almost generations in my family are in their various pursuits. ing Agency) and 33 years with his I began the practice of law; Paul semesters I went to midshipmen’s task you have in keeping us old had a parallel career for the past prophetically, “… natural attrition good shape. As one who volun- Finally, it is my sad duty to share own agency, Paul Sandhaus Associ- Cohen ’42; Raymond M. Glueck ’45; school for something like a semester, folks sending news to you.” 30 years as a translator of Yiddish will no doubt have taken its further tarily and luckily wants to and can that Robert S. Greene ’58 Arts, a ates, in New York City. Jacques Breitbart ’46 GSAS; Robert became a naval officer aboard an literature. He is probably the most toll among us Ancients.” He died keep working, I have no plans for documentary writer, jazz musician Oscar (Bud) Harkavy and I Kassriel ’48; Donald R. Klein, who LST (landing ship tank) and went prolific living translator of Yiddish, the next day. any more books (though the door and founder of The World of Jelly have been emailing, although we was Engineering’s dean of students to sea for more than a year. After a Bernard Sunshine with 23 volumes in print; his most His program sign-off, which he remains open) but have published a Roll Morton Band, died on October never met as undergrads. When I 1969–75; and Rhoda Klein Breitbart few months of that, during which I 46 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G recent are In Pursuit of the Moment attributed to a mentor, Edward R. few political musings from time to 13, 2013, in Amagansett, N.Y. (See told him that I remember that he ’36 Barnard, ’42L, now 99, who participated in three invasions where New York, NY 10023 by Itzhak Luden and Red Shoes Murrow, was always, “Good night time on the indispensable website Obituaries in Winter 2013–14.) sat in front of me in a Contempo- resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, we took the first wave of Marines 46 for Rachel: Two Novellas and a Story and good luck.” [email protected] of my admired friend, Bill Moyers. Cedric C. Philipp, a retired phar- rary Civilization class, he said, “I N.Y. Her article, “How It Was,” onto the beach (including Iwo Jima), by Boris Sandler. Barney writes, [Editor’s note: See Obituaries in OK, that’s another plug and a maceutical representative, died in should have turned around.” about Barnard during the Great De- I got in the mail my Columbia A.B. Classmates living in the New York “It started when I was reading a this issue as well as a profile of worthy one. Audubon, Pa., on July 18, 2013. Dan Choy, in his so-called retire- pression, which was written when degree because someone in the area met for lunch in October in a newly published book of English Heffner in the Fall 2012 issue.] “Before I ramble further and ment, continues to market — with she was a youthful 90, appeared in College or University decided I was midtown French bistro. The gath- translations of Yiddish poems and I descend into hawking the merits of expanding success — his device for the Fall 2004 edition of the Barnard entitled to several credits for my ering included six wives (women remarked to a friend that I thought REUNION WEEKEND certain over-the-counter laxatives the cure of tinnitus. Magazine. military experience, which when are becoming a regular enhance- I could do better. I was immediately Columbia College Today MAY 29–JUNE 1 I’ll sign off. Come on, ’43-ers; don’t Bruce Mazlish’s latest nonfic- I also think of my old pharmacist, added to the College, Cornell and ment to our get-togethers). As challenged to make good on my Columbia Alumni Center ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS leave the two or three of us out tion tome, Reflections on the Modern Robert Jacobson, who graduated midshipmen’s credits, gave me suf- always, the focus was catching up boast and I was off and running.” 47 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott here as the lone contributors to the and the Global, has been published. from Columbia’s Pharmaceutical ficient credits to graduate. and good humor. Joseph Ienuso, a During the past two years Barney 47 New York, NY 10025 [email protected] annals of our class.” As to the critics’ response, he said: Sciences school in 1955, and my “Went to the Law School, fol- Columbia e.v.p. whose responsibil- has begun writing original poetry 212-851-9148 [email protected] Leo Stern shares, “We do more “It’s too early to say how Reflections now-retired dentist and neighbor, lowed by a job with the NAACP ities include overseeing construc- in English. He says, “Where the DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova reminiscing than we used to! I have will be received. It tries to deal Dr. Martin H. Spar ’63 Dental, and Legal Defense Fund (LDF), where tion of the Manhattanville campus, poems come from I cannot say. I Dr. Nicholas Giosa let us know [email protected] always wondered how some profes- with the historian’s effort to deal his wife, Judy, who are the proud I participated in many important was our speaker. His PowerPoint have rephrased that answer in the all is well: “I keep busy writing 212-851-7833 sors managed to remember the with the last 500 years until WWII parents of Debora Spar, president of civil rights cases including Brown presentation was impressive, and subtitle of my present volume, Gifts poetry, doing photography, cut- names of the students they taught. Bill Friedman under the rubric ‘modernity,’ and Barnard. v. Board of Education. Anyone in- so is he. It was highly informative from the Muse — a poet’s answer to ting grass and looking after the In ’41 and ’42, I was accelerating into 44 833-B Heritage Hills then the transition to what we call Finally, we note with sadness the terested in those years might want and giving perspective to the proj- an unanswerable question.” household.” the Dental School and was registered Somers, NY 10589 ‘globalization.’ The latter is then passing of Richard Bercu, my Beta to read a book I wrote about the ect were the following details: John McConnell reported two We, and the class, would love to in large premed classes in physics 44 studied, under very contested Sig fraternity brother. time, Crusaders in the Courts. I took The new campus is virtually sightings from Post Falls, Idaho: hear from more of you. Please share [email protected] and chemistry; there were more ways, under the heading of ‘global leave from LDF from 1989 to 2003 the same size as the Morningside “A Christmas tree of extra length, news about yourself, your family, than 50 students in each, as I recall. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye: all mem- history.’ I became heavily involved to return to the College as dean. campus. reportedly 88 ft., was being trans- your career and/or your travels — That did not faze Professor Herman bers of the Class of 1944, please take in this inquiry starting with my Charles Gilman Enough said.” The southern boundary, West ported east for public display that even a favorite Columbia College Farwell, who more than once sped note of our 70th reunion, to be held convening a conference in Bellagio, 45 1635 Forge Pond Rd. George T. Wright Jr. writes, “Ear- 125th Street, was originally a river, required double 40-ft. trailers. And memory — using either the email by me on Broadway, cheerily saying, Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. Italy, in 1987, backed by the Rocke­ Brick, NJ 08724 lier this year I published a book, which poses construction challeng- a 250-lb. cougar killed in a back- or postal address at the top of the ‘Hello, Stern!’ Then there was the This is our opportunity to renew feller Foundation. The papers 45 The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for es calling for creative engineering. yard in the neighboring town.” column. You also can send news charles.gilman@ time when my cousin, Dick Stern, old friendships and/or to catch were subsequently published as comcast.net My Father’s Family, which is mostly The construction budget exceeds Ira Millstein ’47E and his online using CCT’s webform: who was visiting from MIT, asked up with those classmates whose Conceptualizing Global History. about my father’s family through $1 billion. wife, Susan, lunched with Harold college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ to come to my large chemistry class. acquaintance we somehow missed “Then the Toynbee Prize Foun- I am very pleased to have received several centuries of living in New There have been significant Brown in Santa Fe, where Harold class_note. Somewhat improperly, I brought in the historic days of the 1940s. dation entered the picture. I was four responses to my requests for England (and especially Vermont). changes around Columbia since we resides. It was a great visit, said Ira. This column is a wonderful way him along. There was no assigned An exciting program awaits us, so fortunate to be awarded the prize in news. It is a hope that the response It is available from Amazon. [Edi- joined the family 70 years ago, but The winter holiday season for the class to stay connected but seating in the auditorium, but Pro- please come whether for all four 1986–87, and subsequently became increases. tor’s note: See “Bookshelf.”] There the Manhattanville campus is the brought Don Summa to New York CCT needs a class correspondent to

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES write it. If you are interested, please “But Walter was not solely a news and young folks are not all assertion inasmuch as he says he engineering class activities that defensive lineman on this year’s children and one great-grandchild. 43 years of thoracic surgery was contact Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts, man- world-class athlete. After his basket- bad, either. spends a considerable amount of took place there during summer football team, can explain the di- Some of the additional players terrific, but enough — and I teach aging editor: [email protected] ball career ended he became an In our two-family house in time playing golf and tennis. 1946 and he invites anyone who is lemma. Melka’s teams have lost 31 on the freshman team were Jay D. at UCLA. Having needed to seek or 212-851-7485. insurance company executive, Brooklyn we are blessed with It is always gratifying to hear interested to view and download of 39 games, but they continue to Battenberg, Fred Bernard and Joe refuge from tyranny, I also am which endured until retirement. tenants, two young women in their from an unfamiliar classmate. For the jpeg scans by going to app.box. be obsessed with winning. Turning Zetkulic. doing as much as I can to educate He exhibited a natural ability to be early 20s, who this morning gave anyone who has been reluctant to com/s/g45x7cwwtpxf1hd5uxa2. in his powder blue uniform has not A final question: Who can iden- younger generations about the Columbia College Today a leader whatever the undertak- me the birthday present of shovel- write, please let us hear from you. Dan says, “My whole life has been once crossed his mind. ‘I wouldn’t tify the players from our class who adaptability that leads to survival, 48 Columbia Alumni Center ing, whether in the sports world or ing the snow from our sidewalk And please, again, try to make re- touched and improved by the quit on any of my teammates be- are in the football photo section and how resilience can lead to suc- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 insurance industry. and both front stoops. That started union a priority. You can beat me up Camp Columbia experience.” In cause we’re all struggling together; of our yearbook, The Columbian of cess. Most recently I taught a class 48 New York, NY 10025 “Walter was born and raised in the day right! if I am wrong, but you will never 2008 the residents of Connecticut none of us are quitters.’” 1951? as part of Loyola Marymount’s [email protected] metropolitan New York but re- Our class president, Fred know how good it feels to reconnect acknowledged the camp’s history Thinking about all of this, I course, ‘The Literature of Exile and mained in Baltimore after his Berman, has been in touch and with your classmates after 65 years by presenting a four-month exhibit can’t help recalling our 60th class Terror.’” Dr. Peter A. Arturi shared his story: playing career. He had a genial the reunion planning meetings if you don’t show up. of Camp Columbia memorabilia reunion in June 2011, when some Columbia College Today Bob Adelman, who notes that “My folks were both immigrants personality that attracted people continue. Please, all of you who See you then. at the Old Town Hall Museum in of us had an opportunity to talk 52 Columbia Alumni Center he has been class president for more and I was lucky to have been born to him. For those who remained can, set aside the dates for Alumni Morris, Conn. informally with Austin Quigley, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 than 40 years, writes of happenings here. Also lucky to have gone to in contact with Walter, his passing, Reunion Weekend and make it a Ray Scalettar practices medicine a gentleman, scholar and much 52 New York, NY 10025 in his life since the last reunion: Columbia, with a small interruption after 66 years of friendship, leaves priority to attend: Thursday, May Mario Palmieri in Washington, D.C., and also is loved former dean of Columbia [email protected] “My wife, Judith, and I spent sum- by WWII. a significant void.” 29–Sunday, June 1. All of us who 50 33 Lakeview Ave. W. a clinical professor of medicine at College. He reminded us of the mer 2012 in the Svalbard, north of “Unfortunately I commuted to Cortlandt Manor, NY The George Washington University numeric considerations that go Eric Javits ’55L writes, “I have the Arctic Circle, watching polar Columbia from lower Westchester 50 10567 School of Medicine and Health into selecting a freshman class of recently finished Twists and Turns: bears, and summer 2013 playing County (Port Chester) and I would Dr. Alvin Eden ’48, who lives in New York City, [email protected] Sciences as well as a master of the 500 men and 500 women. We strive Episodes in the Life of Ambassador golf near Salzburg, Austria; Passau, have enjoyed my college years American College of Rheumatolo- to have students of every race and Eric M. Javits. … I devote many Bavaria, Germany; Vienna, Austria; more if I had lived on campus. practices pediatrics and is writing another book about Hubert “Buddy” Brandt is still at gy. In addition, he presents papers color, students from all (or nearly pages to my six years at the College and Budapest, Hungary; and cruis- “However, I participated at Co- it full-time in New York City, con- at professional conferences; two of all) 50 states and many foreign and Law School, which alumni, ing on the Danube River. lumbia on the basketball J.V. team childhood obesity. He also plays doubles tennis. vincing assessors and courts that, the most recent were “Complica- countries, scholars and athletes, classmates and friends will enjoy. I “The only dark cloud in our lives under Lou Rossini [’47 TC] and I as he puts it, “the real-property tions of Hip Replacement Surgery,” musicians and artists, creative describe negotiating with Panama’s occurred when our granddaughter, was invited to go out for the base- tax system is fraught with error.” at the MedStar National Rehabilita- kids as well as a few who just strong man General Omar Torrijos, Kayla Adelman, was not accepted ball team by John Balquist [’32], the Dr. Alvin Eden, who lives in have attended reunions can attest In fact, he likes calling and being tion Network in Washington, D.C., squeak under the wire. Those of of saving Ling Temco Vought from for the Class of 2017. (Kayla would coach after Andy Coakley. New York City, is “still practicing to the genuine pleasure and satis- greeted with, “Hey, are you still and “Alcohol Use and Abuse in the us who followed the conversation bankruptcy, of myriad events and have been the fourth generation of “I elected a pre-medical career pediatrics and writing another faction that is deeply felt when we around?” That alone should keep Military,” at the Society of Federal concluded the College was a little people including, among many our family to attend.) Since 2017 is and was fortunate to go to NYU book about childhood obesity. Also return to campus. Our class lunch him busy enough, but Buddy and Health Agencies in Seattle. It is a school in the big Ivy League where others, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, the year of our 65th reunion and I med with my GI Bill and war service playing tennis but only doubles.” is Saturday, and there will be other his wife, Frances, have managed busy schedule, Ray acknowledges, the likes of Harvard, Princeton Alexei Kosygin, Sammy Davis Jr., will be in Charleston, S.C., attend- scholarship. William Horton lives in Cos lectures and events to attend. Go to make more than 40 trips to dif- but he says, “I hope to continue on and Yale can skim off the cream of John DeLorean and Dame Margot ing Kayla’s graduation from the “I elected to continue my medical Cob, Conn., and let us know to reunion.college.columbia.edu to ferent corners of the globe, often this pace as long as I am well and athletic prowess in the Northeast. Fonteyn, and of my highly success- College of Charleston, I think it best experience at a hospital in Green- things are well: “Married to Doris register and for more information. accompanied by children and enjoy what I am doing.” Your Class Notes editor had ful eight years in the field of inter- for me to resign as class president.” wich, Conn., and I was a general 65 years; 17 grandchildren and A personal note, if I may: As grandchildren. There are now 10 Ray and his wife, Phyllis, have some recent conversations with national arms control. Howard Hansen sent the follow- practitioner (primary physician) in 10 great-grandchildren. Address I have mentioned in previous grandchildren, more than half a managed to do some traveling, members of the Class of 1951 who “I have now retired from law and ing note in response to the sad news Greenwich for 35½ years. I eventu- unchanged.” Class Notes columns, I have been dozen of them with Columbia di- including a photo safari in South played football at various levels diplomacy and have embarked on of the death of Dr. Tom Federowicz ally achieved board certification in We, and the class, would love working with a nonprofit, PortSide plomas. Buddy sends best wishes Africa and a tour of Scotland. He while undergraduates. Robert my third career — venture capital ’56 P&S: family medicine and after 17 years to hear from more of you. Please NewYork (portsidenewyork.org), to classmates and would welcome sends best wishes to classmates Osnos ’52 GSAS, ’56 P&S advised joined five other physicians to start share news about yourself, your for the past seven years. It has been hearing from anyone inclined to and lets us in on his discovery of he was one of the “stars” on the the Emergency Department at family, your career and/or your a struggle to get a nonprofit off the contact him. His home phone is “deep water running” as a means of 150-lb. Lions, even though he had Greenwich Hospital. travels — even a favorite Colum- ground during these past several 516-431-5498 and business phone exercise. It’s more interesting than a short career lugging a pigskin. Edgar Coghlin ’51 of Richardson, Texas, became a 2nd “My wife, Marillyn, and I have bia College memory — using years of economic difficulties. is 212-563-2200. Personal email is a treadmill or an elliptical, he says, Bob agrees that talent is key. If a Lt. in the Marine Corps and had a successful career in been married for 60 years (she is either the email or postal address Nevertheless, we managed to pro- [email protected] and business because you socialize with others as team has it, the coach can smile. an R.N.). We have six children, 14 at the top of the column. You also duce some meaningful program- email is [email protected]. you move through the water. Bob spent 48 wonderful years as material handling equipment sales and distribution. grandchildren and two great-grand- can send news online using CCT’s ming and were the recipients of The Class Notes from the Winter Finally, I am saddened to report a psychiatrist. How does he feel children, and are enjoying ourselves webform: college.columbia.edu/ the White House “Champions of 2013–14 issue included news of that John Hollander of Branford, about life in New York City? “It’s in Greenwich, a wonderful place cct/submit_class_note. Change” award last April for our the publication of Bob Goldsby’s Conn., died in August 2013. [Edi- like being let loose in a giant candy investing in the fields of health and “We lost a great classmate and said to be affluent but better yet a This column is a wonderful way work related to Hurricane Sandy book, Molière on Stage: What’s So tor’s note: See Obituaries, Winter store with not enough time and energy. My wife and I live in Palm teammate in Tom Federowicz on place for great diversity.” for the class to stay connected but recovery efforts. As an organiza- Funny. Bob reports that the book is 2013–14.] money to taste everything!” Beach, Fla., where some College November 27, 2013 — the day Dr. Murray Strober and Albert CCT needs a class correspondent to tion, we have reached out for now available in paperback. By the way, some of the other and Law School classmates also before Thanksgiving — after a Burstein ’47 wrote regarding the write it. If you are interested, please assistance in our efforts to grow, Gil Hermann is enjoying retire- 150-lb. stars were Alfred Byra and reside.” prolonged illness. Being the careful passing of Walter Budko ’47E: “[We] contact Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts, man- and our director has been in touch ment from his medical practice George Koplinka Donald Beattie. John Benfield writes, “The person Tom always was, we think must sadly report to you the death aging editor: [email protected] with a group that’s dedicated to though he is not inactive. He devotes 75 Chelsea Rd. And what about Juliet’s com- Benfields, now including seven he planned the timing so that his of our basketball teammate Walter or 212-851-7485. helping causes like ours. She called much time to teaching in the adult 51 White Plains, NY 10603 ment that playing football at Co- grandchildren, have been enjoy- large family would be present to Budko, on May 25, 2013. Walter me one evening recently to say she education program at the University 51 lumbia was for job prospects from ing each Thanksgiving in Hawaii help celebrate a life of purpose and [email protected] was the ‘gentle giant’ who led the had been contacted by a gentle- of Denver, mostly in the biological the network of former players, not for the past 34 years. significance. He was ready ‘to go’ at REUNION WEEKEND College team to the Eastern Intercol- man who offered his assistance, sciences although he is flexible and On November 23, Juliet Macur ’92 on-field glory? “Right on!” says “In 2011 (my 80th birthday), I dusk on the 27th. MAY 29–JUNE 1 legiate League title (as it was then and who asked if PortSide was is delving into history with a class Barnard, ’97J, a sports writer for Peter DeBlasio ’54L. Peter played seized the opportunity to go to Vi- “Tom made friends easily with ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS known) in the 1946–47 and 1947–48 the group that John Weaver is on the famous Dreyfus Affair. Plus The New York Times, wrote an article on the varsity team and says he enna to swim in the 13th European that big smile and even tempera- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott seasons. After graduation Walter connected with. The gentleman is he plays tennis several times a week. titled “Columbia Football’s Dogged found his career enhanced in public Maccabi Games. My family and I ment. Whether it was on the foot- [email protected] turned professional and was chosen Joe Levie. On a trip to New York Gil made time Futility.” Juliet, a former member of and private practice as a result of his had been fortunate to escape from ball field, in the Livingston Hall 212-851-9148 by the Baltimore Bullets (now the It is a source of great pride for for a mini-reunion with JV basketball the women’s rowing team, knows Morningside campus experience. that city weeks after Hitler’s An- dorm or in the classroom, he was DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Washington Wizards) and was a me that a classmate has found us teammate Norman Dorsen. her stuff. She had her share of early While speaking with Edgar schluss, and therefore I wanted the an impressive friend to have! [email protected] co-winner of Rookie of the Year and offered his assistance. With Dan Kramer ’50E has made an morning trips to the muddy waters Coghlin of Richardson, Texas, I current residual fascists in Austria “He grew up as a coal miner’s 212-851-7833 in the NBA in the 1948–49 season. the other two principal members offer of special interest to the engi- of the Harlem River for workouts discovered that he was captain of to know that we had been fortu- son in Plymouth, Pa. A bright and Subsequently, while still engaged as John Weaver of PortSide’s board being Yale neers among us. As you may recall, before rushing back to campus for the freshman football team. An nate enough to survive and that conscientious student, Tom earned a player, when a coaching vacancy 49 2639 E. 11th St. alumni, it is heartening to have all engineers were required to take a day of classes. Her comments injury during the season ended his the United States had provided me his M.D. from P&S. On the football occurred in mid-season Walter was Brooklyn, NY 11235 Columbia more significantly repre- summer classes at Camp Columbia, about the football program were playing days. Following gradua- with wonderful opportunities to field he was a proud member of designated by ownership to take 49 sented at the galley table. a Columbia-owned property near more sympathetic than accusatory tion, Edgar became a 2nd Lt. in the succeed. Lou Little’s last winning football [email protected] on that role as well. In recognition I have heard for the first time Litchfield, Conn. (Years later, the regarding who was responsible Marine Corps and had a successful “More recently, this past sum- team — one of six in the last 66 of his illustrious career, Walter was I’m writing this column in the from Richard H. Miller, who lives school abandoned the 400-acre site for a year when the Lions were career in material handling equip- mer, my partner, Mary Ann, and years. He played both offensive and one of the early inductees into the wake of the second storm of Janu- in Scottsdale, Ariz. He proudly and sold it to the state of Connecti- outscored by 354–66. ment sales and distribution. He I had a spectacular time in Uzès, defensive tackle and was respected Columbia University Athletics Hall ary, on my birthday, in fact. I must asserts he is not retired, just unem- cut.) Well, Dan has a collection of 15 Juliet concluded: “Nick Melka continues to enjoy The Lone Star France (Provence) and Belgium. for his strong abilities by all team of Fame. report that the world is not all bad ployed. However, I question that black-and-white photos of chemical [’14], a political science major and State with his wife, Billye, three “I am retired from operating — members.

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“After a successful medical ca- mentioning other jobs my wife and telligent essays. You can write him years ago. Both Ed and Clay have food, exciting events and terrific myself. wife, Anita, celebrated in mid- “Our big news is that Doris’ reer in the upstate New York ‘triple I wanted done. at P.O. Box 97, Intervale, NH 03845. been in touch with Herb Hagerty, conversation. Details will be com- It seems the discussion among December the birth of their ninth cousin, Chris Eisgruber, was city’ area, he retired in Vestal, N.Y., “We began seeing a lot of Oliver’s Henry writes that his children and the three had lunch at Clay ing soon. many of us these days focuses grandchild. According to Lou, this installed as president of Princeton and built a magnificent getaway truck in our driveway. He put a have suggested that his attempts and his wife Moira’s home. I Outside of the U.S., Columbia’s on the state of Columbia foot- is the only event that would bring last summer, just in time to try to lakeside log cabin home about an new roof on the house, built a back at retirement have been a failure. understand that Herb is living at Alumni Travel Study Program has ball. As alums we would like to him back from Florida during the deal with the meningitis outbreak hour’s drive away. He also owned porch, finished our basement, They are doing well. His oldest Sunrise on Connecticut Avenue, a put together a package for this see a winning team, but are we cold NYC winter, from which many on campus, a very difficult assign- a large tract of land, of which a por- sanded floors, installed new cabinets daughter has retired from a career senior living facility, and would be June called “Discovering Turkish prepared to do what is necessary of our class members also escape. ment. … tion was used to harvest a vegetable and counters in the kitchen, made as a management accountant. His happy to hear from classmates. His Treasures from Istanbul to An- to produce one? Len, our class Lou returned to Florida in late “Signing off from Boynton Beach; garden where family members built-in bookshelves for the living oldest son trades fixed income address is 5111 Connecticut Ave. kara.” It promises to be wonderful. historian and former Jester editor, December and is organizing our it is time for a swim.” enjoyed working together. room and my study, and painted securities in the city but spends N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008. The monthly dinners among made two tongue-in-cheek sug- spring Florida class get-together for Sad to report that Sheldon S. “Tom will always be remembered the house inside and out. Kate and I weekends in New Hampshire. Many classmates have lived all members of our fearsome class are gestions: 1) Have Robert K. Kraft our snowbirds, Florida residents Hendler, a scientist, physician and as a smiling, warm ‘gentle giant.’ thought the world of Oliver. His youngest son lives in New over the world as a result of their still going on. Attendees have been ’63 guarantee a place on his New and visitors, myself included. musician, died in San Diego on His trademark traits were sincer- “Sometimes after a day’s work Hampshire and a grandson is a careers. Ron Sugarman is a good Anthony Viscusi, Don Laufer England Patriots NFL team to one My twin brother, Maurice November 12, 2012. [Editor’s note: ity, honesty, loyalty and giving. He he and I would sit on the porch, mechanical engineer with a large case in point. He and his wife, (organizing the event), Bill Epstein graduating senior (good luck, New Easton, reports that he enjoyed See Obituaries.] was a most impressive husband have a beer, talk fishing [and] gar- control valve company. Hisako, now live in NYC after enjoy- (adjusting to “big city” life), Dick England Patriots) or 2) introduce a week of skiing at Vail, Colo., in and family man while raising nine dening. I considered him a friend. Henry’s advice to Uncle Sam: ing 44 years with the Interpublic Kuhn, Roland Plottel (trying to get a handicapping system, similar early December. Skiing six days college-educated children and 21 My daughter, a senior at New “You are broke! Stop spending!” Group, which included assignments Richard Ravitch more involved to a golf handicap, for our Ivy in subzero weather with friends Barry Dickman grandchildren. Falls High, thought I patronized His offer to all classmates: “If you at corporate headquarters and with in Columbia alumni work), Stan League football team. This may from Detroit is not my idea of fun 58 25 Main St. “To our teammates and class- Oliver and told me in no uncertain get to southern Maine or northern several operating companies in Zinberg and Aaron Hamburger. level the playing field between us at our age, but it is a testament to Court Plaza North, Ste 104 mates, count your age by your terms that I was a ‘closet snob,’ the New Hampshire give us a call and NYC, Atlanta, London and Tokyo. It Others who have attended are and other, better-endowed college how exercise can keep us young. 58 Hackensack, NJ 07601 friends, not years, and count your college professor in his refurbished we can get together to eat a meal was a good experience; as Ron put it, Herb Cohen, Peter Pressman and football teams. Len also brought Ron Kapon, our peripatetic [email protected] life by smiles, not tears!” Civil War house having a beer and chat about old times.” “never a bore, seldom a chore.” Berish Strauch. an article, salvaged from his recent oenophile, had knee replacement with a black man who lived in an Allen Hyman took part in a move, about the average cost and surgery in December. Based upon I am sorry to report the death of ungainly double wide on the other charity bike event in Israel. He SAT scores from our senior year at his successful rehab, we are looking Martin “Fritz” Stein on November REUNION WEEKEND Lew Robins side of town.” Gerald Sherwin finished high in the rankings. Columbia. It indicates that tuition forward to his being more active in 11, 2013, as the result of a stroke. He MAY 29–JUNE 1 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 The rest of Tony’s story and 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A Ralph Wagner’s son shared was substantially lower (even af- our summer lunch and tennis out- is survived by six children: Fritz, 53 ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS 55 Bridgeport, CT 06604 his other yarns are both intrigu- New York, NY 10021 that his father recently celebrated fordable) and that the average SAT ings at Danny Link’s club. Kimberly, Susan, David, Peter and ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott 53 ing and heartwarming. They can 55 an age that has been (or will be) a scores to get into Columbia were Once again, please contact me or Maggie, and 14 grandchildren. His [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] be purchased as a paperback or milestone for us all — the big 80. significantly higher than I thought, Lou Hemmerdinger (lhemmer@ wife, Sheila, a former mayor of 212-851-9148 Anthony Robinson recently pub- Kindle edition. He is the author As we move into the spring season, Did you know that Gerry so we were probably a lot smarter aol.com) with any news that you Bronxville, N.Y., died earlier in 2013. DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova lished New Water, a collection of of seven other novels and for 34 there are many events and celebra- Pomper has a blog and has written than we thought we were. would like to share in Class Notes. Fritz was a member of Sigma [email protected] 12 short stories of small-town life years taught literature and creative tions in which the school on the a new book, The New York Times on Our December lunch was held Also, if you have changed your Chi and a catcher on the freshman 212-851-7833 in the United States. As we read writing at SUNY New Paltz. Now Hudson participates involving Critical Elections? It is engrossing. at Alan Press’ office, where he email or mailing address, please baseball team. He earned his medi- his first tale, my wife, Saralee, and retired, he and his wife, Tatiana, Howard Falberg students, faculty and alumni: the We ran into Ezra Levin (who presented a talk and description inform the CCT staff: college. cal degree from Albany Medical I were seduced by his characters live in New Paltz, N.Y. 13710 Paseo Bonita Dean’s Scholarship Reception in played basketball for Rollie Rourke of his trip to North Korea, which columbia.edu/contactus. This is Center, went on to specialize in the and didn’t dare to stop reading Art Elkind writes, “I have 54 Poway, CA 92064 early February and the fabulous — that’s a trivia name) at a Co- I mentioned in our last Class part of our mission to keep all class treatment of kidney disease and until we had finished all the tales. reduced my activity at the Elkind 54 John Jay Awards Dinner in March lumbia basketball game. Ezra was Notes. In attendance were Daniel members up to date on class news was director of the department of [email protected] The following excerpt is from the Headache Center but remain presi- (both of which will have taken place wishing he was still on the court Link, Mark Novick, Ron Kapon, and activities. medicine at St. Joseph’s Medical beginning of one of the stories, dent of the National Headache Things are falling into place with by the time you read these Notes); and reliving his long, two-handed Robert “Buzz” Paaswell, Jesse As we start to count down to Center in Yonkers. called “It Can Be Did”: Foundation, a not-for-profit. In enthusiasm regarding our 60th the Student Leadership Awards in set shots. Richard Ascher and Bob Blumenthal and Al Broadwin, in our 60th reunion, only two years Beyond his successful career, “When I landed a job in 1974 as addition, I’m enjoying Core Cur- Alumni Reunion Weekend, set for April; the Mark Van Doren Award Pearlman, two other devotees of addition to Alan and me. Alan’s away, I look forward to sharing there was another dimension to an assistant professor of English riculum mini-courses for Columba Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. and Lionel Trilling Award, also in round-ball, unfortunately were not description of his trip and his news of our academic year-end Fritz’s life, which was revealed in a at New Falls State, Kate and I sold alumni in NYC and travel with my Our Reunion Committee has been April; the Senior Dinner on South in attendance. observations of the North Korean events, among them Class Day packet of newspaper clippings he our house in Wichita and bought wife, Arlene. I proudly announce meeting regularly and an exciting Lawn in early May; and Class Day Lew Mendelson took his once- people were interesting and infor- and the Alumni Parade of Classes, sent me a few years ago. Just a week a fixer-upper in New Falls, N.Y. that my son, Dr. Mitchell Elkind ’98 program will be finalized soon and Commencement in mid-May. a-year trip to the Royal Kingdom mative. We were even treated to a Commencement and Dean’s Day. after he retired from St. Joseph’s, Clearly we needed help. I called P&S, has been appointed professor — perhaps by the time you read The Sunday before the two of Bhutan. He unfortunately video, which is on YouTube, titled he was deployed on a six-month a local carpenter named Oliver of neurology and epidemiology these notes. What I do know is that aforementioned events is the stir- missed Stanley Lubman’s award “Awesome American Man Dances tour to Landstuhl Regional Medical Moore and he came by the house at Columbia University Medical there will be class-specific events ring Baccalaureate Service, held in from the Law School in early with North Koreans on May Day,” Herman Levy Center in Germany, returning to in an old panel truck a couple Center as of January 1.” throughout the weekend as well St. Paul’s Chapel, where students January. It was the Distinguished which Alan would like to think is a 57 7322 Rockford Dr. the colonel’s rank he had attained as chances to mingle with alumni speak “from the heart.” At the Columbian in Teaching Award, good representation of his present Falls Church, VA 22043 when he retired from the Army from other graduation years. end of May, alumni get a chance one of many awards Stanley has state of being. In any case, it shows 57 Reserves in 1997. Fritz had heard [email protected] Anthony Robinson ’53, who for 34 years taught Saturday is Dean’s Day, which to relive their college years with received. that traveling can be both fun and the military was short of physicians, provides an opportunity to attend Columbians of all ages during Sad news to report: Cal Jenkins informative. I invite all our class Marty Fisher shares that he and his especially at the main trauma center literature and creative writing, has published lectures by some of Columbia’s Alumni Reunion Weekend and passed away recently in Salt Lake members to share some of their wife, Doris, arrived at their Boynton in Germany where he had served most distinguished professors and Dean’s Day. City. Condolences go to Cal’s fam- travel experiences by writing to Beach, Fla., home on November 15. four times. So when he offered New Water, a collection of 12 short stories. accomplished alumni. Our class For our class, an important re- ily and friends. me at [email protected]; He writes, “We enjoyed our previ- his services, he was told that if his dinner is also Saturday, followed union is coming up in 2015 — the Fellow classmates: then I can include them in a future ous six months in the north, during 69-year-old body could pass the by dancing under the stars at the 60th (Thursday, May 28–Sunday, Be of sound mind and spirit. column. which we got our ancestral (42 of days later. I went out to the Henry Villaume has retired Starlight Reception. For more May 31). A special shout-out goes Get ready for what will be the Len Wolfe has completed his years) home in shape to sell during driveway to meet him. Before he from his thermal seminar/design information and to register, go to to our classmates in the western best 60th ever. move from Wilton, Conn., to New our next extended visit in 2014. got out, I saw him lift a small paper business and now spends his time reunion.college.columbia.edu. part of the United States. Some of It’s getting closer. We are looking Haven. For classmates who would “Florida is a magical place What’s Your Story? bag to his mouth. What was I go- writing political essays about the Dick Werksman ’58L and his the guys we are expecting to make forward to seeing you all soon. like to keep in touch with him, his for us. We open the blinds in the Letting classmates know ing to do, fire him on the spot? He free enterprise system from his wife recently visited their son, Jack the trip are: from Washington, Love to all! Everywhere! new address is 360 State St., New morning to see a beautiful blue sky what’s going on in your was a wiry black man, in jeans and home in Intervale, N.H. Henry Werksman ’86, in Europe. He is a Ronald Cowan (Seattle); from Haven, CT 06015. Len also in- with cotton clouds scudding across life is easier than ever. a rough shirt, a long-billed fishing describes his authorial self as a senior climate change adviser for Arizona, Frank Laudonio (Scott- formed me that his book, Easy Eco- the horizon. Also, we do not have Send in your Class Notes! cap on his head. I was skeptical. To “grumpy old man”; he says he the European Commission. Dick sdale); and from California, Jim Stephen K. Easton nomics, A Visual Guide to What You to root for the Knicks, Jets or Giants see if I liked his work, I told him came to Columbia with liberal continues to volunteer with the Hudson (Pacifica), Ed Rodgers 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. Need to Know, has been translated down here … what a relief. ONLINE by clicking that I wanted louvers installed in tendencies that were effectively Alumni Representative Commit- (Encino), Harold Seider, Lew 56 Englewood, NJ 07631 into Thai, its third foreign language “A recent article in The New York college.columbia.edu/cct/ the high peaks of the house. No squelched as he rebelled against tee, through which he interviews Sternfels and Shelly Wolf (all 56 translation. Len reports that he’s Times sports section had an as- submit_class_note. [email protected] easy job as I saw it. Oliver looked his Republican father, and he is Columbia College applicants from Los Angeles), Bob Teichman (Mill enjoying the amenities of his new sessment of the Columbia football EMAIL to the address at up at the gabled roof, studied the now a “closet conservative.” Maryland’s eastern shore. Valley), Ralph Tanner (Los Altos), Our November class lunch was digs and he and his wife, Ruth, are program: three winning seasons in the top of your column. job for a moment and said, ‘It can Well-informed classmates who We look forward to seeing the Bob Fairbanks (Sacramento), Gary held on November 2 at the Yale partaking of the educational and the last 50 years. This season the be did.’ would like to consider thoughts Werksmans at reunion. Berry (Westlake Village), Charlie Club and was hosted by Len cultural events available in New team went winless. [This may be] MAIL to the address at the “He worked all day. I was im- about the free enterprise system Ed Cowan and Clay Black are Sergis (Redondo Beach) and Bill Wolfe. The luncheon was attended Haven, a college city, where he the first shoe to drop in an effort to top of your column. pressed with his work, liked what from an experienced old man members of a men’s book club of Mink (Napa Valley). by Daniel Link, Mark Novick, received his graduate degree. deemphasize the sport. Is President he charged, and immediately began would do well to read Henry’s in- which Ed was a co-founder eight The reunion will have excellent Ron Kapon, Al Broadwin and Lou Hemmerdinger and his Bollinger brave enough to do it?

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I try to spend for nearly 45 years, serving as an “We spend a quiet time here. inforcement theory alone there was issues with anti-war sentiment pre- faced in treating wounded soldiers this get-together for many years un- potato. The stuff belongs to Gurlitt, as much time as possible with my adjunct faculty member on a part- My wife, Helen, paints and I read no encouragement to spend time dominating, resulted in the dissolu- and their families. He observed that til his death in 2013); Ruth Schwartz and they have no proof that it’s not grandchildren: watching Little time basis without tenure. It was and write. After 3½ months in the and energy pondering unscientific tion of the University’s agreement the mostly reserve doctors, nurses, Cowan ’61 Barnard; and Pat Mul- his; they have to make a determi- League, youth basketball, soccer interesting, therefore, some months western and northern isles of Scot- speculations of the so-called mind. with NROTC and the program chaplains and administrators who lins ’59, who succeeded Ernie as nation that it was stolen or taken and volleyball games; I even attend ago to see Steve Trachtenberg’s land, the food is exquisite. This is Fortunately, I discovered Freud came to an end in 1973 when the made up the hospital’s team were sports editor of Spectator. from the museums.” In addition, PTA talent shows and have once or defense on the PBS NewsHour of fois gras and crepes country, with and psychodynamics in Salters last Columbia students received the most dedicated and motivated Last November saw the publica- he said restitution to the families of twice been to a dance recital. the right of aging tenured faculty to several Michelin star restaurants in bookshop. Don’t get me wrong, commissions. In 2011 the University health care professionals he had tion of Double Down, a book about the Jewish owners was problematic “I work for Markel Insurance maintain employment while newly the surrounds.” my four years were not all doom Senate voted to revive the relation- worked with. The ability to airlift the 2012 presidential election by because of the difficulty of proving at our international headquarters minted Ph.D.s without academic By now, David should be home, and gloom. Representative of these ship after Congress repealed the the wounded directly from the John Heilemann and Mort Hal- ownership as well as the statute of in Richmond, Va., insuring horses, job prospects pile up unemployed having made a subsequent stop in meaningful events was attending “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan perin’s son, Mark Halperin; it is limitations. equine associations and their at the end of the production line. It Venice. the inspired lectures of Professors The return of NROTC was in to the hospital, together with medi- the sequel to their bestseller, Game The class lunch is held on the members, and I travel to horse brings to mind the economic divide large part due to the determined cal advances, had led to favorable Change, about the 2008 campaign. second Wednesday of every month shows and races around the coun- in academia, which mirrors that efforts of College alumni who had results. Fritz said he found it Mort’s youngest son, Gary, is a in the Grill Room of the Columbia try. I was president of the North in our larger society. The current David Kirk ’60, ’69 Arch., a retired Navy captain, received their commissions on particularly satisfying that some of yoga instructor; his second book, University Club of New York, 15 American Riding for the Handi- debate about tenure is one sign of campus. Many of them would not the most severely wounded soldiers Feel Better: Essays on Yoga, Medita- W. 43rd St. The cost is $31 per per- capped Association (now PATH) the turmoil in higher education that attended the September ceremony marking the have been able to afford to attend made partial or complete recover- tion, Mindful Living, and Love, was son. Email Art Radin if you plan for six years. This organization has will likely be intensified with the Columbia had it not been for their ies that seemed almost miraculous published last year. to attend, up to the day before: more than 800 riding centers in the advent of online courses. Mean- return of Naval ROTC to Columbia. NROTC scholarships. from a medical standpoint. Fritz’s Elliott Gross sent a brief sum- [email protected]. United States; it provides equine while, we adjunct faculty members Present at the ceremony in full service was the subject of a profile mary of his medical career. Since therapy for challenged youth and muddle along doing our thing, dress uniform, which he proudly in- in the Westchester edition of The graduating from Albert Einstein for our wounded warriors who many of us mainly because we en- Gibbs A. Williams writes, “I [Charles] Frankel [’37, ’46 GSAS] forms fit perfectly, was David Kirk REUNION WEEKEND New York Times. College of Medicine of Yeshiva have lost limbs in battle. As presi- joy it, waiting for the dust to settle. came [to Columbia] from Miami and [Sidney] Morgenbesser among ’69 Arch. David writes of the event: MAY 29–JUNE 1 The annual Homecoming party University, he has been a practicing dent I was invited to South Africa “On a different front, personal Beach. Upon walking the path others, and walking after class “The NROTC program was ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS was festive as always and the guest neurologist in Westchester County. and Turkey to help start therapeu- efforts to maintain some level of onto the campus for the first time with some classmates, listening warmly welcomed back to the ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott list was bigger than ever; it was He is the founding president of the tic riding in those countries. I also physical health include enrolling I didn’t see the fantasized rolling with rapt attention as Professor Columbia campus at a superbly [email protected] held at the home of Ernie Brod and New York State Neurological So- was invited by the government of in PE and weight-lifting classes green hills I had eagerly antici- Zito brilliantly analyzed literature executed ceremony at Casa Italiana, 212-851-9148 his wife, Ruthie, in Manhattan. At- ciety and a fellow of the American Taiwan to visit their country, along at the local junior college. There, pated; instead I saw the dirty grey using Freud’s structural approach. the same venue as our 50th reunion DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova tending were Barry Dickman and Academy of Neurology. with nine other national Republi- the college’s former football coach walls of Low Library. Far from I took very seriously his and their class dinner. The celebration of [email protected] his wife, Carol; Joe Dorinson and Last year German authorities can leaders, and meet with their screams at us continuously to ‘put conquering, I fell into a deep de- continual encouragement to be NROTC’s return included many 212-851-7833 his wife, Eileen; Charles Goldstein; confiscated a huge art collection political and business leaders to more effort into it,’ reminiscent of pression. Cutting through my fog true to myself.” ceremonial traditions: a Navy band, Peter Gruenberger and his wife, held by an eccentric collector Norman Gelfand learn more about their country and Joe Stanzig, PE instructor at Co- and lifting my spirit was a barrage As we’re running out of room a color guard parade of colors, Carin Lamm; Bernie Nussbaum named Cornelius Gurlitt, which 59 c/o CCT its resources. lumbia in the ’50s, to whose similar, of illuminating ideas, conveyed for this column, the rest of Gibbs’ and sideboy piping and bells to and his wife, Nancy; Howard Orlin they asserted had been looted Columbia Alumni Center “A closing note: Bill Campbell well-intended verbal blasts I now through the inspired teachings of submission will appear next issue. announce the arrivals of President and his wife, Anita; Shelly Raab by the Nazis. Gurlitt claimed he 59 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 [’62, ’64 TC] was my ‘little brother’ realize I should have listened. After my professors. After reading Plato Lou Stephens writes, “I’m Bollinger and senior dignitaries. and his wife, Judy; Arthur Radin inherited the works from his father, New York, NY 10025 at AXP fraternity. As I recall, Bill two years of classes and ongoing during my first week of philoso- working on getting another In attendance were contingents of and his wife, Miriam Katowitz; an art dealer, but the government [email protected] came to Columbia from a middle- exhortations, the pain has become phy class, I was convinced I had show for my paintings either in more than 50 midshipmen from Bob Waldbaum and his wife, Ruth; says the works were either looted or income family in Pennsylvania. tolerable, the sag and belt size are come face to face with the absolute NYC or Mexico City. Daughters SUNY Fort Schuyler NROTC Mark Weiss and his wife, Joan; bought by his father at rock bottom I begin by reminding one and all of Bill succeeded and remembers somewhat reduced, and the hearing truth. The second week I had the Phoebe and Annette had quite an and Columbia’s NROTC officer Arnie Abrams ’61 and his wife, prices from fleeing Jewish owners. the 55th reunion of the Columbia and appreciates the opportunities is still OK. At the same time, with a same awesome reaction reading impressive display of their jewelry candidates, as well as NROTC Phyllis; Michael Berlin ’59 and his In covering the story, The New York College Class of 1959. Alumni Columbia gave him, and has given nod to the inevitable, my wife and Aristotle’s Ethics. I again had the during September’s Mercedes- faculty staff and Navy brass, all in wife, Nancy; Peter Cohn and his Times turned to Charles Goldstein Reunion Weekend will take place back to Columbia tenfold or more I are getting our (financial) affairs same reaction reading Spinoza’s Benz Fashion Week. Their Anndra summer white uniform (including wife, Joan; Ira Jolles ’59 and his for expert advice. Charles, who is from Thursday, May 29–Sunday, — a wonderful example for all of and so on in order while we still Ethics the third week. By the fourth Neen trademark has been well myself as a retired Navy captain), wife, Andrea; Linda Lynn, widow counsel for the Commission for Art June 1. Our Reunion Committee is us blessed with having received a retain a modicum of rationality. It week I was overwhelmed with received — you can look for them plus Columbia NROTC alumni. far along in preparing for it and I Columbia education.” turns out not to be so easy to face information overload. online. They soon will be joining The ceremony included excellent encourage all of you to attend. For Luigi writes, “My plan for the task of completing health care “During the holiday break of e-commerce, so you can buy, buy, speeches by Bollinger, Rear Admiral updates on events and to register, longevity, if not immortality, is to directives and end-of-life instruc- my sophomore year I experienced buy. My wife, Karen, was accepted Jim Lowe ’51, Assistant Secretary of Columbia School Designations go to reunion.college.columbia. associate fiercely with youth and tions. But, once done, it is a relief.” two major events. One, I read Will as a fellow in The Writers’ Institute the Navy Juan Garcia III and others, edu. See also the reunion preview hope the wrinkles go unnoticed or David was writing from Cabrer- Durant’s The Story of Philosophy, at the CUNY Graduate Center and followed by a reception on the Casa In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia in “Around the Quads.” at least unmentioned. To that end, ets; he reports, “Cabrerets derives which deeply resonated, validating will work on short stories and her Italiana terrace.” degrees from schools other than the College. I would be remiss if I didn’t con- I teach undergraduate classes at its name from the Langue d’Oc my search for meaningful connec- screenplay. In September, there David contrasts this ceremony vey the fact that the College views the University of San Francisco’s word for goat. There is a tale that a tions and convincing me that my will be a posthumous showing of with the atmosphere he encoun- Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation reunion as an opportunity to solicit School of Management, mostly in beautiful young girl once went to major had to be philosophy. And my mother, Annette Nancarrow’s, tered on campus when he pursued Arts School of the Arts funds from you for the Columbia creativity and innovation, occasion- the lord of the chateau to plead with two, I started what was to become paintings at The Taubman Mu- post-graduate studies. “The cordial Barnard Barnard College College Fund. You are likely to be ally in family business. Interacting him that her aged grandmother no a 35-year journal. The first entry seum in Roanoke, Va. Cheers to all welcome sure was a far cry from the Business Graduate School of Business contacted by a member of the Gift with undergraduates keeps one on longer had the means to pay her was: ‘Plato said the unexamined classmates, especially fencers.” anti-war demonstrations more than CE School of Continuing Education Committee asking you to contribute. one’s toes mentally; it also serves as taxes. The lord, overcome by her life is not worth living. I say: the See you all on campus on May four decades ago in spring 1968, Please be as generous as you can. a shortcut to the latest advances in beauty, tried to have his way with overly examined life is incapable of 31. when I witnessed the sit-ins and Dental College of Dental Medicine I am saddened to learn of the personal technology devices, which her. The girl, to save her honor, being lived.’ The thrust of my life teach-ins behind the barricades of E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and recent death of George Semel. appear in the students’ hands … committed suicide. Since that time, after graduation from Columbia Avery Hall, where I was a post-grad Applied Science Last month I could not include immediately after launch … and at the New Year, a white goat has been to adequately resolve this Robert A. Machleder in the Architecture School after my GS School of General Studies the full contributions from Pat Mul- often in the middle of lectures. appears atop the cliffs. The locals problem. I would eventually learn 60 69-37 Fleet St. active duty Navy tour and while GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences lins, Luigi Lucaccini and David B. “One of the things that makes swear that it is the spirit of the girl that I was overly reliant on linear Forest Hills, NY 11375 serving in the Navy reserves.” Smith. I am including the rest of leading a course in creativity who took her life many years ago scientific logic. To obtain and sus- 60 Three quarters of a century. Many J Graduate School of Journalism [email protected] L School of Law their updates here. attractive is the rich pool of talent rather than surrender her virginity tain a balanced life I would have classmates are about to celebrate, or Pat writes, “It’s been three years in the Bay Area-Silicon Valley to the lord. to learn how to mix messy feelings In the words of President Lee C. have already, that passage of time Nursing School of Nursing since I lost my wife, Jackie. We corridor. The area is populated “Cabrerets also is famous for with my ideas resulting in what I Bollinger, the ceremony held on and that’s a matter of no small conse- P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons would have celebrated our 50th with many generous, creative its paleolithic cave, Peche Merle, refer to as experiential logic. September 30 on the Columbia quence. Three quarters of a century. PH Mailman School of Public Health wedding anniversary in July. I miss individuals, such as craigslist.org which is full of beautiful paint- “Aware of my divided self, I campus marked a historic moment. A phrase resonant with overtones of SIPA School of International and Public Affairs her lots and often think when trav- founder Craig Newmark, who are ings. The cave was discovered by initiated the first of three dedicated It was the return of Naval ROTC veneration and reverence. Yet who SW School of Social Work eling that when I get home I need to willing to spend an hour as a guest the old man who lived next door attempts to organize my chaos to Columbia after an absence of among us can say that no traces of TC Teachers College tell her about this or that, but then I speaker in the classroom sharing when he was a boy. Another cave in psychotherapy — the third four decades. The University’s adolescence yet inhabit their hoary remember she is not there to share their stories and perspectives with has been discovered nearby and was successful. Determined to fix involvement in NROTC began in frame? How will you be marking it with. I have four children and our entrepreneurship majors. archaeologists believe some of the myself, I considered majoring in 1916, and during WWII more than your 75th?

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Richard Friedlander had a ber: Wayne Case died in Pitts- ing at Columbia, and we used to foot” more. “To keep the brain graduate-level textbook on quan- cele­bratory dinner with several of field, N.H., on February 1, 2013, joke about the pronunciation of his engaged and fingers facile,” Bob tum mechanics. It keeps me off the us: David Kirk, Art Delmhorst following a long illness. Born in hometown, Haverhill, Mass. I must continues, “I am taking continu- streets at night.” and David Goldman, who favored Haverhill, Mass., Wayne attended have said, ‘Have-er-hill,’ when he ing education classes in landscape Bart Blanchard (jblanch61@gmail. us with his photo album of class the College on an NROTC scholar- corrected me: ‘Hayvril.’ There were architecture and horticulture at com) retired in 2009 and moved reunions. ship and served in the Navy for 22 a few exchanges about some of the the local community college. I get with his wife to Denver, because, he Bob Berne ’62 Business celebrated years. He retired with the rank of names of streets and towns in Ha- a kick out of being a senior citizen says, “All nine of our grandkids live at Walt Disney World along with a commander. Upon his retirement waii after that. I thought Haverhill with the much younger students west of the Mississippi. Our main party of eight that included children he and his wife, Susan, moved to was pretty exotic, then. But I’ve there. The professors like having hobby is our grandchildren and their and grandchildren. Pittsfield. He held several positions now lived in Boston for 46 years, me in class so they can call on activities. I spent a few years with Those who attended our monthly in the area and enjoyed sailing and and all of that has become familiar someone with real-life experience. the Denver Curling Club, and I now class lunch were asked to describe camping. He is survived by Susan; territory both geographically and in We enjoy living in the Bay Area, am active with the Denver Cribbage our most memorable personal event two daughters; one son; 10 grand- pronunciation.” with its Mediterranean climate, Club. We travel when health and of 2013, apart from the 75th mile- children; and two recently arrived To Susan, Wayne’s wife of 53 and we enjoy year-round hiking, energy levels permit.” stone. Bob offered two: Walt Disney great-grandchildren. years, their family and friends, we biking, swimming and gardening. Daniel Fife ([email protected]) World with family present, and an David Kirk informed me that send our deepest condolences. The older I get, the more I appreci- practices epidemiology related to educational, thought-provoking trip Wayne had been roommates with ate our Core Curriculum. It really the adverse effects of medicines to the Lower East Side Tenement Orlin Trandahl and Paul Nagano, did teach us how to think, how and works for Johnson & Johnson. Museum to commune with family to whom I reached out by email to Michael Hausig to put ideas together and how to He summarizes, “A wife, three past. At the museum, Bob examined inform them of Wayne’s passing. 61 19418 Encino Summit express them.” grown children and two grandsons a roster of residents in the district Both promptly responded with San Antonio, TX 78259 Russ Abbott (russ.abbott@gmail. (1 and 4). I live in Merion, Pa., just that included the names of his memories of Wayne: Paul from his 61 com) teaches computer science at outside Philadelphia.” Members of the Class of ’63 gathered at the Gould/Remmer Boathouse before Homecoming for a [email protected] grandparents and their employees, home on the East Coast in Boston, Cal State-Los Angeles. He is partic­ In 2012 Harry Green (harry.green surprise presentation/celebration thanking Paul Neshamkin for his work on their 50th reunion last immigrant residents in buildings Orlin from his home on the West Judge Jose A. Cabranes, a member ularly enthusiastic about a paper he @ucr.edu) received the Roebling spring. Left to right: Stanley Yancovitz, Ed Coller, Bob Heller, Henry Black, Frank Partel, Bruce Kaplan, that no longer stand. Bob related Coast in Washington, and each un- of the United States Court of recently finished, saying, “It applies Medal of the Mineralogical Society Doron Gopstein, Neshamkin, Tom O’Connor, Don Margolis, Lee Lowenfish, Doug Anderson, Larry how his grandfather arrived twice beknownst to the other remarked Appeals for the Second Circuit, in computer science concepts to of America, its highest honor. He Neuman and Jerry Dwyer. Not pictured but also in attendance were Steve Clineburg and Phil Satow. in New York circa 1901–02: At first on Wayne’s regional dialect. New York, was appointed by Chief problems in philosophy. As it was continues to work at the Univer- PHOTO: JESSICA ROSSO he was turned around and sent back Orlin lost track of Wayne Justice John Roberts to the Foreign recently submitted for publication, sity of California, as he has for 43 to Europe because he did not have after both went into the Navy but Intelligence Surveillance Court on I can’t point to a journal reference, years. He no longer teaches but a job waiting, but he was persistent remembers their undergraduate August 9. His term expires in May but a draft is available at philpapers. maintains his laboratory, where he grandchildren growing like weeds politics, environmental issues and Teacher (crofsblogs.typepad.com/ and, successful upon his second voy- days fondly. He writes, “While 2020. org/rec/ABBAAI. I’m also in the and his graduate students work on (oldest 14; youngest 3): two boys, books for The Tyee (thetyee.ca), english). But probably the best age, he set about to begin a new life. at the College, Wayne worked According to The New York middle of organizing a 60th birth- the physical processes by which three girls; two here in Durham an online magazine based in Van- parts of my day are walks in the Times, Jose’s appointment was an- day party for Debora Shuger, my earthquakes occur. Harry remains and three in Minneapolis. Keeping couver. Three of his “old” science woods with my dog. We watch nounced as some lawmakers were wonderful wife.” active in the Senate of the Univer- busy. Recently finished my 525th fiction works were recently pub- the changing of the seasons, the working to change the Foreign In- Russ loves bicycling but con- sity of California, where he’s on goodwill visit with members of the lished in Chinese. In case you were surprisingly effective logging op- Bob Meyers ’62 is enjoying retirement and taking telligence Surveillance Act (FISA), fesses never to have taken a multi- the Academic Council and chairs Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of unaware, Crawford says, “Science erations of the pileated woodpeck- continuing education classes in landscape architecture which gives chief justices unilateral day tour, which I asked him about. the university-wide Committee on Commerce. Lots of fun.” fiction is a little-known genre in ers and very rarely the resident power to assign federal judges to “Sounds like a great thing to do,” Academic Personnel. Harry and his Hilmi Toros is a freelance writer China but my publisher and I are barred owls as they glide from tree and horticulture at his local community college. the 11-member Foreign Intelligence he says. When Debora and I were wife, Manuela, have nine grandchil- and explorer from bases in the hoping that combined Chinese and to tree. Occasionally we get black Surveillance Court and its three- in Tokyo 1½ years ago, I joined a dren, seven of whom (along with southern Turkish coastal town English texts will attract college- bears in the neighborhood but it’s member review panel, to provide one-day bicycle tour of the city and their parents) shared Thanksgiving. of Fethiye and the tiny island of age readers.” the skunks you have to watch out In the family narrative it was the at the Men’s Faculty Club (now greater ideological balance. The liked it so much I kept the bicycle “Chaos reigned,” he recalls, “but a Sovalye, which has only 50 houses Crawford and his wife revisited for. It’s not exactly The West End, grandfather who imparted a lesson Faculty House) as a bartender. He court hears arguments on surveil- for a second day. In Tokyo people great time was had by all.” and does not have any vehicles. Scandinavia this past fall, traveling or even Riverside Park, but it’s in economics. Having just enough helped me get a job there, also as a lance matters from the Justice ride on the sidewalks, which are John Garman (john@garman. Hilmi sails and travels to wherever to Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenha- pretty good.” money for a first installment pay- bartender. We served the Castros, Department, with no opposing wide enough most places to ride, net) begins with an anecdote: “Wore the wind or sun takes him. He’s gen and Malmo. They found some Just before my deadline in mid- ment, he acquired a cheap watch, the Lodges and others at various lawyers to offer contrary views or even in downtown. It would be one of my old Columbia sweatshirts anxious to keep in touch with places, like the high-tech city of Es- December, Bernie Patten sent this then promptly took it to the pawn Columbia functions. (I got to serve file appeals. terrible to ride in the streets.” to the supermarket (in Durham, classmates and welcomes meeting poo and the Copenhagen Metro, to delightful note: “Somewhere the shop where he hocked it for its full Harry Truman with Grayson Kirk, On the FISA review panel, Jose At the end of 2012 Alex Fire­ N.C.). A young cashier asked if it them whenever business and plea- be intensely modern; other places, Declaration of Independence men- value. Now with sufficient cash in who was University president joins another Democratic appoin- stone ([email protected]) retired really was from Columbia College sure (or sun and wind) bring them like the Finnish architects’ retreat tions the right to pursue happiness. hand, he put a down payment on from 1953–68, and a professor of tee, Judge William C. Bryson of the fully from his last job, as program in NYC. I said it was, and she asked to Turkey. His email is wordsmith at Hvittrask, looked up to date, My wife, Ethel ’63 Barnard, and I an expensive watch, which, again, history, in a private room.) Wayne United States Court of Appeals for officer for high energy physics at for help on how to apply. I asked [email protected]; his website is even though they are a century have taken that right seriously and he hocked for its full value. His also worked the football conces- the Federal Circuit. the National Science Foundation. her about her grades, and she re- maisondesovalye.com. old. To Crawford, “going back into sponsored many family vacations resources enlarged by leverage, he sions. He was at all times a perfect The full article, “Newest Spy For some years, in his words, “I had plied that she was a junior and had From Italy, Anthony Valerio sent Sweden on the Metro and a com- for our kids, grandkids and in-laws was able to furnish and fixture a gentleman. I never heard him Court Pick Is a Democrat but Not been giving out (or at least, recom- straight As and was interested in this email in December: “I’m on muter train over the bridge took to Puerto Rico, Greece, Italy and dairy restaurant that prospered. Bob use profanity or utter a bad word a Liberal,” was published in the mending to give out) U.S. taxpayer what Columbia has to offer. Got the tour: lecturing, reading, teaching in only 40 minutes, and Malmo was France. Last summer we all went didn’t say who inherited the cheap about anyone.” Orlin offers that Times on August 20. dollars to American universities wheels rolling with the Admissions Rome, Bologna, Genoa, etc. If any worth the trip. Copenhagen was to Ireland for three weeks and watch or who inherited the expen- while he and others were footloose Please send news! Write to me and laboratories to support research Office! They were most helpful.” of you visit Italy between now and gorgeous but made the equally returned home by crossing the sive watch, but no elaboration was and fancy-free, always looking for at either address at the top of the in elementary particle physics. This November, John and his next spring, drop me a line on my gorgeous Stockholm and Helsinki wide and weltering North Atlantic necessary for us to understand that girls, “Wayne was very much in column or send your note through Previously, as a professor of phys- wife, Nancy, plan to visit China website: anthonyvalerio.com. In his look like bargains.” aboard the Queen Mary 2. This Bob inherited through the telling love with a girl named Sue, whom CCT’s webform: college.columbia. ics, I had been taking such dollars for three weeks: Beijing, Xian and last email [asking for Class Notes On his blog, H5N1 (crofsblogs. was the first time that I traveled of the family legend a knowledge I assume he married. He was edu/cct/submit_class_note. for EPP research, so that was a nice then a Yangtze River cruise back to updates], John asked about our typepad.com/h5n1), Crawford to Ireland on my Irish passport, of finance that served him well at always loyal to Sue.” reversal. I had given up teaching Shanghai. They first went to China plans. At least for me, the less and tracks outbreaks of new diseases which came to me courtesy of my the Business School and later in his As for that dialect that left a and research some years earlier, in 1998 with a delegation led by less of a future I sense, the more im- such as H7N9 and MERS and natu- grandmother, Mary O’Connor, business career. lasting impression, Orlin remem- John Freidin becoming a professor emeritus and Wayne Smith, founder of Friend- mediate becomes the present.” ral disasters such as Super Typhoon who was born in Mayo, and my For Victor Chang, the memo- bers this exchange: “When we 654 E. Munger St. resigning all my lab appointments, ship Force International, to open Jerry Kessler ’63 is planning to Haiyan, which pose public health aunt, Joan Patten, who worked rable events of 2013 were the visits were roommates, Wayne said that 62 Middlebury, VT 05753 including the CERN lab in Geneva, Chinese homes to foreign visitors. perform one of John Boatner’s problems that, he says, “we had bet- hard assembling the necessary with his grandson (5) and one oc- something was too ‘shot.’ I said it 62 Switzerland. It’s the largest high- (In a typical Friendship Force compositions in 2014 with the ter start solving.” documents. Of course, none of the [email protected] casion with a circle of friends who looked fine to me. Wayne repeated energy physics lab in the world. program, a local chapter prepares Topanga, Calif., orchestra, which He continues, “You never really documents made absolute sense, as have remained in constant contact that it was too ‘shot.’ After several From San Francisco, Bob Meyers Recently the long-sought Higgs an itinerary of cultural activities, Jerry conducts. The piece is Cello retire from teaching. At the mo- my Irish relatives were in the habit since their teens. Of the 12 friends, go-rounds of similar comments ([email protected]) particle was discovered there and inviting members from chapters Ludens — a work for cello solo ment I’m discussing dissertation of embellishing, exaggerating and seven were able to reune for four from me, Wayne finally said that writes that he is enjoying retire- resulted in a Nobel Prize. in other countries to come and and orchestra. John composed it in issues with a super-smart young fibbing. But the Irish Consulate days in Cancun during the Year of it was not long enough. That’s ment from his planning consulting “Thus, for the first time since I stay with them in their homes for 1969 and published it in 1999. John Iranian woman, helping a Qingdao understood: ‘If it made sense, we the Tiger. For many, their ties date when I learned a little about New practice but that “adjusting to not was 14, I am completely without a up to a week.) “Now,” John says, thinks Jerry will probably play the English professor with the fine would know right away that it was back generations to family relation- England accents.” working is still very challenging” job, and I love it! I’m enjoying life “Nancy and I will just be tourists cello and John will conduct. points of translation and dealing not genuinely Irish.’ ships in China. Paul recalls, “Wayne was the first — not only to himself but also to in New York City — what better seeing a country many of us only Crawford Killian continues to with usage questions from all over, “Last year I again taught logic at Sad news reached us in Decem- New Englander I remember meet- his wife, who now has him “under place is there? — and writing a have read about. We have five have fun writing about Canadian thanks to my blog Ask the English Rice. On the final exam there was

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I volunteer for our local “But the week before Thanksgiv- sity Club of New York are always sentation campaigns for entrepre- Also in the Fall 2013 issue, Steve and his wife, Bev; Bill Brown and myself, Leonard Pack. I asked Jay book, The Logic of Alice, continue to hospital district, read, exercise and ing, Paul [Neshamkin] emailed a great place to reconnect. If you’re neurs and people seeking new jobs Steinig ([email protected]) made his wife, Nicole; and Bob Donohue ([email protected]) for an sell well. The truth book has been even write a little.” to say that someone had found in NYC, try to make one of the or new careers. He was inspired a comment about Dan Waitzman’s and his wife, Mairead. Several update; here’s his report: translated into Chinese. For rea- Gary Shapiro ’70 GSAS writes, a Columbia ’63 ring with DMA next ones, scheduled for March 13, by career facilitation breakfasts he ([email protected]) prior members of other 1960s classes also “It was great to see you [Leon- sons not understood, the Chinese “I wish I could have attended engraved inside the band and that April 10 and May 8 — it’s always attended at the Columbia Alumni reflections as to whether we would attended: Len Defiore ’64 and his ard], Jim, Alan and Bob at the version has been a best-seller and reunion. I was wrestling with some I was the only class member so the second Thursday. Check Center. He can be reached at tobias wear beanies on “graduation” from wife, Maryann; Harry Hersh ’64; Sachems’ 100th. The Krons was has routinely been between second medical issues as well as prepar- initialed. cc63ers.com for details. [email protected]. “senior citizenship.” Dan in turn Bill Mitchell ’64 and his wife, Sandi; the guy who, at our class’ 45th re- and eighth place in self-help books ing for a demanding, seven-week “Turned out the finder was a In the meantime, let us know Avi Decter writes, “In June 2012 has responded with the following: Phil Moore; Paul Kastin ’66 and his union, buttonholed me and asked there. By contrast, Health is Wealth: trip to Turkey, Bosnia, Croatia and young, retired information systems what you are up to, how you’re I retired after 13 years as executive “I should be most regretful if wife, Rosthema; Bob Klingensmith what Sachems was going to do for Small Changes Reap Big Benefits, a Greece that began later in June. I’m consulting exec named Jim Wirth. doing and what’s next. director of the Jewish Museum what I intended as a harmless ’66 and his wife, Nancy; and Bill our 100th. I replied with something summary of current scientific infor- hoping to hobble to the 60th! I re- Jim lives in San Francisco but sum- of Maryland in Baltimore. This witticism and a sardonic commen- Corcoran ’66 and his wife, Kathy. like, ‘I have no idea.’ He then said, mation about longevity, nutrition tired in 2011 after 41 years of teach- mers in Chatham, where he passes small but lively institution has tary on the politically correct term The festivities began with a ‘Good luck; I’m based in Atlanta.’ REUNION WEEKEND and exercise, has sold only 23 cop- ing philosophy full-time (at Kansas much time behind a water-proofed won national recognition from the ‘senior citizen’ caused anyone any “welcome to old town Charleston” Thus a bunch of us in the NYC MAY 29–JUNE 1 ies, most of which have probably and then Richmond), preceded by metal detector. He found the long- American Association for State distress. Such was certainly not my dinner at the Marriott’s Sapphire area got together and did our best ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS been purchased by my mother!” five years as a Columbia preceptor lost ring at that same beach, while and Local History and was the intention. Myself, whenever I buy Room, reinforced by Saturday to plan for the group’s centennial ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Classmates, especially if you and instructor while finishing my standing knee-deep at low tide and recipient of numerous grants from event and lay the groundwork for [email protected] haven’t written in a while, please Ph.D. digging 18 inches under the sand. the National Endowment for the its second century. 212-851-9148 get in touch. “Retirement has not been quiet. “It cleaned up well; he contacted Humanities, the National Endow- “Roger Lehecka [’67, ’74 GSAS], DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova I had an intensive five-week teach- Columbia to report the year and ment for the Arts, and the Institute Ron Padgett ’64 — a 2012 finalist for the Pulitzer Columbia’s retired dean of students [email protected] ing gig in beautiful Stockholm initials, exchanged emails with of Museum and Library Services. and our adviser, will probably be 212-851-7833 Prize in Poetry — has published Collected Poems, Paul Neshamkin shortly after leaving work, and Paul, then me, and handed it back “My wife, Naomi ’64 Barnard, very upset to see all this Sachems 63 1015 Washington St., I continue to write, publish and two days later during a previously Norman Olch and I spent the year after my retire- which gathers the work of more than 50 years. stuff in print, but the organizational Apt. 50 give talks. A few years ago my scheduled trip to NYC. Maybe 64 233 Broadway ment selling our longtime home in effort put forth by a bunch of old 63 Hoboken, NJ 07030 then-colleague, artist Tanja Softić, gold shrinks underwater over four New York, NY 10279 Haddonfield, N.J., and moving into fogies, plus a large number of invited me to write an essay for decades, but more likely my digits 64 a lovely apartment in Philadelphia. a ticket on the Long Island Rail- night’s toast/roast event at the youngsters who graduated in the [email protected] [email protected] the booklet accompanying her have fattened along with the rest We have very much enjoyed our road, I always request an ‘elderly Harbor Club and finalized with a ’90s, the ’00s and the pre-teens, was Homecoming this past October series ‘Migrant Universe.’ The of me, so it only fits on my little Our 50th reunion is approaching, new home and our new lifestyle. ticket,’ rather than a ‘senior citizen’ bon voyage lunch at Jack’s beautiful really impressive. We’ve all suffered was a great day for the Class of collaboration flowered and now finger now. and I hope you’re saving the date: “For 15 years, we have punctu- ticket — but that is just my per- bay view home. Photos should be major disappointments in life when ’63. The Alumni Office organized we are happy companions. The “This is actually the second time Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. ated our calendar with summer sonal preference. Nor did I intend available on the participants’ social dealing with committees but Sa- a special pre-game event just for reason for our recent travel was that ring has been lost, found and Steve Case and Bob Friedman are stays at our place in Addison, Vt., to make any connection whatso- media pages. Bill noted, “Sadly, chems’ planning committee worked our class at the Gould-Remmers Tanja’s research for an artist’s book returned. One winter in the early co-chairing the Reunion Com- a former dairy farm where we live ever between the solemn Jewish the Beta attempt to recapture Fort well. Everyone had a specific Boathouse. We were invited for on memory and loss in her native ’60s, while working ‘overnights’ mittee, which has been meeting in a restored horse barn, replete skullcap or yarmulke (also known Sumter to avenge the historic Civil area of responsibility in planning a champagne toast to salute our Sarajevo, and the trip began and at United Press International in in conference space graciously with a resident colony of brown these days as the kippah, although War loss failed due to limited group for the centennial and everyone recent 50th reunion but when I ended with my conference talks the Daily News building, I pulled provided by Steve Rodner at his bats (who have dibs on the place, the term is fairly new to me) and enthusiasm for a noble goal. Ad- delivered. The dinner itself was a arrived I was surprised to find that in Assos, Turkey, and Athens. My my gloves off in the elevator and law firm in Manhattan, and sub- having resided there since circa the humble beanie of our early Col- ditionally, the Beta group found that sell-out success. Along the way, we a large group of my friends had three children from two marriages didn’t notice until 3 a.m. that the committees also are at work. Those 1910). The viewscape out over the lege days. Although my knowl- the traditional toga party robe has raised a fair amount of seed money actually used the event to surprise are distributed around the United ring was gone. Some two years involved in the planning at this Champlain Valley and toward the edge of my Jewish heritage is sadly long been outlawed in Charleston for scholarship assistance and the me with a presentation of a beauti- States and each has given me two later a woman called to say her writing are Joel Abramson, Adam high peaks of the Adirondacks is a deficient, I do recall the wearing of social circles.” group’s ongoing expenditures. I’m ful bronze lion. Doug Anderson, wonderful grandchildren. dad was a printer at the News and Bender, Bernard Catalinotto, Lio- constant pleasure. yarmulkes at funerals and in the The ING New York City Mara- very proud of the group. Steve Barcan, Henry Black, Steve “When I left Columbia to teach had found a Columbia ring at nel Etra, Marty Isserlis, Howard “Our married son, Eliav, his synagogue, especially by orthodox thon was run on November 3. The “In addition to that crunch in Clineburg, Ed Coller, Jerry Dw- elsewhere I was carrying the torch some point, but that she had just Jacobson, Gil Kahn, Fred Kantor, wife, Alyce Callison, and their and conservative Jews; but I cannot New York Times wrote a story about September and October, life has yer, Doron Gopstein, Bob Heller, for the Core, having been not only thought of contacting the school Beril Lapson, Peter Lowitt, Mar- boys (9 and 7) live close by, so we say what the customs are in regard the heightened security around been very hectic. Or is it that our Bruce Kaplan, Lee Lowenfish, a student but also an instructor with the initials as a means to track shall Meyer, Jeff Newman, Steve get to see them regularly. And we to their use in the dressing of the the race in the wake of April’s productivity declines so much as Don Margolis, Larry Neuman, of Humanities A and Contempo- down the owner. I picked it up the Rosenfeld, Merv Rothstein, Dan have stayed in touch with family deceased for burial. Like Steve Boston Marathon tragedy. David we age that it takes a helluva lot Tom O’Connor, Frank Partel, Phil rary Civilization B. Although it next day. Schechter, Steve Solomon, Peter and with friends going back to our Steinig, I was not asked to provide Obelkevich was featured in the longer to do what we used to do in Satow and Stan Yancovitz were was always an uphill struggle to “Guess I’ll have to find a more Thall, Allen Tobias, Ivan Weiss- middle school days. I look forward one for my father’s funeral. article, which read in part: “Dave our 30s and 40s? among the group who came, and convince hidebound departments creative way to lose it a third time. man and Marty Weinstein. to seeing classmates at reunion. “On a less solemn note, I Obelkevich, who has run every “Larry Guido swung through I thank them, the Alumni Office to think outside of their silos, I like Suggestions?” I think the event will be the Until then, all good wishes to the recently uploaded to YouTube my New York Marathon since 1976 New York at the end of September and everyone else who organized to think that I had some impact on Lee Lowenfish is continuing his sort of memorable occasion a 50th Class of ’64.” electronic MIDI realization of my — a record streak — recalled how and we got together to drown some this surprise. Now, I suppose, I will a few students (and maybe even love of baseball scouting and all reunion should be. There will be a latest attempt at musical composi- close the fans got to the runners in sorrows. He had just lost his wife, have to start planning our 55th! colleagues). I seem to have taken things Branch Rickey (who, after all, range of multi-class and class-spe- tion — a trio sonata movement for 1976, the first time the marathon Jane, to the side effects of a decades- Richard Tuerk writes, “I was root in Richmond, Va., something perfected the farm system based on cific events that we can take part Leonard B. Pack flute, viola d’amore and bass, with branched out of Manhattan to long battle against rheumatoid delighted to read in the Fall 2013 I never could have imagined in the good scouting and talent evalua- in. Saturday is also Dean’s Day, 65 924 West End Ave. optional harpsichord accompani- touch all five boroughs. Coming arthritis. The specific occasion was Class Notes Frank Sypher’s remi- heady days of the NYC ’60s. New tion). In mid-December he hosted which offers the chance to relive New York, NY 10025 ment. My venture into the world of off the Queensboro Bridge, on First one of great sadness but we found niscences of the person we called Yorkers are often quite surprised a panel of three baseball scouts in our classroom experiences through 65 YouTube offers an electronic version Avenue in Manhattan, fans had some good old times to remember.” [email protected] the Yumpkee Man. I’m sure that by the vibrant art and food scenes a lively discussion of the profes- lectures with some of Columbia’s of the score, synchronized with the strayed so far into the street that Jay continued: the label we used for him was a here. The setting helps me to work sion of baseball scouting at the finest professors. It all leads up to These columns sometimes serve music. The URL is youtube.com/ it left only a narrow pathway for “I’m mostly retired but still am misnomer (and that it’s spelled with on one more book, many smaller Greenwich Village gallery Bergino our class dinner on Saturday, fol- as a slow-motion message board. watch?v=RV34dCF1B4M.” the marathoners. The runners had involved in the business economics a ‘p’): we were the Yumpkees; he projects and my urban garden.” Baseball Clubhouse. He tried to lowed by dancing under the stars In the Fall 2013 Class Notes, Gene Bill Mitchell ’64 sent a report of to form a single-file line. That was profession. [As I write,] I will take wasn’t. I’m very jealous that Mark David Alpern reports a special avoid rubber-chicken stomach at the Starlight Reception. Spiegel commented that he had lost a celebration in Charleston, S.C., electrifying, Obelkevich said, be- off in two days for a round of quar- Dintenfass used the Yumpkee reason to enjoy this past Thanks- while attending hot stove league For more information and to touch with Dodge Ely, and I asked billed as the “14th Annual Tribal cause those fans gave the runners terly meetings in Washington with Man in his first book; I wish I had giving: “Call it my ’63 Ring Cycle,” baseball banquets in Hazelton, Pa. register, go to reunion.college. if any reader had information about Gathering of the Columbia Beta so much of an emotional boost.” about four dozen of my colleagues used him in mine, a study of Henry he writes. “More than 40 years (home town of Joe Maddon, Tampa columbia.edu. See also the reunion him. David Stern ’66 responded, Theta Pi Brothers,” to celebrate Congratulations to Dave, and from around the world. We meet, David Thoreau. He would have ago I tried to master the mystery Bay Rays manager), Portsmouth, preview in “Around the Quads.” “Dodge was in business in the Bay seven decades of Jack Strauch’s may he run many marathons. analyze the world’s economic been at home in the company of of Sunfish sailing off the beach at Ohio (Rickey’s home area, where Steve Rodner has been named Area with his friend, Joe Willing- life path, achievements and recent The December 11 nomination policy problems and solve many Thoreau, Emerson, Margaret Fuller Chatham on Cape Cod with my the remarkable Portsmouth flood the chairman of the New York ham, a former Columbia grad diagnosis and recovery from of his successor brought news that of them. Unfortunately, not many and especially Amos Bronson Alcott Newsweek colleague Ed Kosner, wall murals are located), and Great State Bar Association’s section on student, in the ’70s and ’80s. I had leukemia. Bill points out that Jack, Flemming L. Norcott Jr. is retiring people listen to us. We live in times and Jones Very. I’d love to hear later editor of Newsweek, New York Neck, Long Island. [Editor’s note: entertainment, art and sports law. occasion to communicate with Joe a a Columbia footballer, was selected as a justice of the Connecticut where facts and knowledge are not more reminiscences about him and Magazine, Esquire and the Daily See article by Lowenfish on Colum- Ron Padgett has published a few years ago and asked him about as All-East and a two-time All-Ivy Supreme Court. really essential for decision makers, the uniperversity, the sophmorons News. But he and I were flops at bia baseball and coach Brett Boretti new book, Collected Poems, which Dodge, who had been a good friend linebacker. Jack is a semi-retired Columbia’s Senior Society of especially in the Congress. and the pyumpkees that inhabited sea. After we tipped over and in “Roar, Lion, Roar.”] gathers the work of more than 50 of mine in the ’60s. Joe informed comptroller for a local packaging Sachems celebrated its centennial “The railroad that lives in my his universe. pulled the boat to shore, I realized I have the sad duty to report the years. In 2012, he was a finalist for me, and I am informing you, that company in Charleston. Also in at a dinner on October 18 at the train room is thriving, and I apolo- “I enjoy my retirement in Com- I’d lost my class ring, with no death of Richard L. Knopf in Man- the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Dodge passed away sometime in attendance were Jack’s wife, Shirley University Club in New York City. gize for not having made more

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES video clips (available on YouTube Westin, have left us. enthusiasm hasn’t declined. I qualify. My goals for this year are Expect to re-up shortly with good ([email protected]).” lovely children in their mid-30s. the Port Authority of New York under the channel ‘WoodyNJ’) in “I still live in Appalachia, albeit Our youngest, Rich, is in the to spend more time fly fishing and buddy Jim Larson (Delaware). It’s Columbia Chinese lunch We moved to Vancouver in the and New Jersey, I’ve been happily a while. I’ll catch up this winter. I in western Virginia instead of rural middle of 2L at Richmond and surf-fishing the Carolina coast.” been a fun time since leaving my leader Mark Amsterdam relates, mid ’90s, where we finally found retired for just over four years. Free have several new videos cued up New Hampshire — what I long doing well with law journal and David Matthew writes, “The little town of Patchogue, on Long “I guess it’s time for an update on our true passion: running our own of the business of actually having in my mind. The priority has been ago came to refer to as ‘19th-centu- learning a southern accent. big news is that the latest family Island, in 1962.” my Columbia kids. Matt ’10, ’13L travel business. Since then, we to work for a living, I’ve had the to complete the construction of a ry Northern New England’ (I tell I enjoyed getting together at genius, Ellis Marie Matthew-Wil- Rudy Von Bernuth reports, works at the New York State At- have traveled to parts of the world time to put my Columbia political couple of new rail lines to enhance people I was an affirmative action Homecoming with Tom Chorba, liams, arrived on October 16. Her “The Indian summer of my long torney General’s Office in the civil too numerous to list. science Ph.D. to use and revisit the excitement and realism. I’ve admit, as the only applicant to the Harvey Kurzweil, Ed Malmstrom sister, Gene Aurelia, greeted her career continues, with another rights bureau. He is a Columbia “We’ve been blessed having longstanding intellectual interests. thought about dropping a note to College my year from that time ’65, Ed Botwinick ’56, Tom Har- with glee. This evens the score for extension of my assignment in College Fund Class Agent and both our children living nearby. “The first fruit of that activity The Wall Street Journal writer who and place).” rold, Ron Brookshire, the family my daughters at deuce: Elizabeth London, this time through Septem- serves on the board of Columbia “Any of you inclined to continue is my book, Chomsky’s Challenge visited my train room several years Serge Wind (swind2@nyc. of the late Steve Franke ’67E, ’69E has a son and a daughter, and ber 2014, to manage the transition College Young Alumni. Lauren ’07, the conversation, drop me a line at to American Power: A Guide for the ago and invite him back for an rr.com) writes, “While working for and other alums. Sayre has two girls. I am happily of a newly acquired medically fo- ’12 GSAS earned a master’s and [email protected].” Critical Reader, which came out in update. AT&T and Lucent Technologies, I Announcement: I am chairing managing some friends’ finances, cused charity, Merlin, into Save the her article, ‘All the Eagles and the Tom Chorba and his wife, Ce- December. Now, while I’m trying “My two middle-aged ‘children’ was fortunate to have been given the recently formed Committee for hoping to honestly beat TIAA. (So Children. More walks to work past Raven in the House Say Yeah: leste, announce that their grandson, to come up with a new book are doing well. One is a lieutenant responsibility for formulating Athletic Excellence at Columbia. It is far, very good.) Missed my Little Buckingham Palace and through (Ab)original Hip-Hop, Heritage Orson Thomas Chorba, arrived project, I’m filling in my spare time commander in the Navy, based plans for an array of fascinating dedicated to improving competitive Rock Central High reunion but St. James’s Park.” and Love,’ was published in the two weeks early, on December 22, with a blog, Talking About Politics in Washington state. The other industry issues and analytically and non-competitive athletic capa- caught up with some alums while Joe Steinberger ponders: “At American Indian Culture and Re- weighing 5 lbs., 5 oz. (tony-greco.com). lives ‘down da shorah’ in New challenging problems in a rapidly bility and performance at CU. We on a cross country wedding trip. this point, the news from our co- search Journal. She is a community Stefan Rudnicki writes, “My “I still live in Manhattan with Jersey and is about to close on the evolving external environment. welcome any inquiries or members; Still single, but open for nomina- horts is inevitably dimming. I won- activist and educator. audiobook career has continued my wife, Celia, and still love being purchase of a new house. Both are Activities included the analysis of you can write me directly or go to tions for candidates.” der if any classmates are as foolish “I still collect antiquarian books to develop and amass honors. It here. I’m writing this note from a married and my wife, Susan, and I major mergers and the design of lion-sports.org. Michael Garrett writes, “The in old age as I have been. My first focused on the earliest English now stands at more than 3,000 au- great place where I’ve spent more have three grandchildren. variable compensation for 110,000 Steve Weinberg writes, “Four organization I co-founded a few and only child, Takuma (meaning, printed books (1482–1600), still work diobooks produced, directed and/ than a little time over the past few “It’s only a 1½ years until our management employees based on married kids and seven grandkids. years ago and now lead, Colum- pathfinder), is 6. Is he the youngest at the law, still live in NYC and am or narrated. Recent milestones years: Butler Library.” 50th class reunion. I’m looking a measure of shareholder value. Work split between affordable bia Alumni Singers, is thriving child of the Class of ’66? [RF: I do still active with alma mater.” include being named a ‘Golden Please write. It won’t take five forward to catching up with many I also served directly as a senior housing and Habonim Dror camps. and a number of classmates are believe Joe wins this award.] One of our best round-ballers Voice’ by the magazine AudioFile, minutes, and your classmates old friends!” adviser to the CFO and v.p. of Hoping we’re about to end this participating, among them Bruce “My wife Keiko’s sushi bar has and top foul shooter on the squad kind of a lifetime achievement want to know how you are and 30-year clobbering of the 99 percent Trinkley and David Tilman. Our been reviewed as one of the 100 best in ’66, Ken Benoit, touched base. award. This year I was named what you are up to. You can send and rebalance our society. There’s group is the choral home of those restaurants in the U.S. (OA Guide to You may not remember but we ‘Best Voice’ in science fiction for news directly to me at either of the still no other country with anything who sang in any group while a US Restaurants). If any classmates came within a whisker of the Ivy the second year in a row. I also addresses at the top of the column, David Paglin ’66 will direct The Trial of Franklin like the DNA of the United States, Columbia student, faculty member come visit us in Rockland, Maine, crown senior year, thanks in large received a Grammy for producing or submit news via CCT’s webform: D. Roosevelt at The John F. Kennedy Center for the so we’ve got to return to respect- or administrator in any school or Takuma and I will gladly take them part to Ken. He says, “I’m entering and directing Janis Ian’s recording college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ ability and leadership, even as division. There are 2,000 of us on to dinner at Suzuki’s.” my eighth year in retirement at our of Society’s Child: My Autobiography. class_note. Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in May. planetary concerns increasingly the mailing list, and we serve and Ron Brookshire writes, “I lake house in Bristol, Conn. Health I’m planning the launch of a new trump national concerns. Let’s all sit support Columbia and today’s became a first-time grandfather on remains good although the handi- audiobook publishing initiative.” and watch around the earth as we choral singing on Columbia’s cam- May 27, 2013, to Harper Jeanne; cap has climbed up to 10. My wife, Philip Shopoff reported on the Arthur Spector Ken Wasserman (kenwass@ strategy on restructuring and other turn the large hadron collider back puses. We distribute music over her mom is my daughter Ashley Mary, and I have welcomed two passing of Leonard Don Diego, 68 271 Central Park West gmail.com) sent a nice note: “I sensitive areas of corporate concern on again and think what that means the Web and rehearse, socialize Brookshire. Then I became a grand- grandsons in the past two years, which was noted in the column last New York, NY 10024 have two kids, Sara (19) and Mike requiring out-of-the-box thinking, for our planetary civilization.” and perform under the direction father again on November 13, 2013, which is a delightful experience. issue. “Lenny, with whom I went 68 arthurbspector@ (23), and am happily married to including the design and structure David Paglin will direct The of distinguished conductors. We to Kenzie Britley; her mom is my One big surprise this year was my to school all the way from third gmail.com Amy Berlin, who is a court lawyer of the seven Baby Bells formed as Trial of Franklin D. Roosevelt at The perform college songs, folk songs, daughter Amanda Bogarad.” induction into the New England grade through Columbia, was a in family court. We have lived in part of divestiture. We encountered John F. Kennedy Center for the Per- spirituals, classical pieces and Cliff Rosenthal is finishing a Basketball Hall of Fame (the dedicated educator ... a Columbia Pete Janovsky wrote a few months Brooklyn Heights since 1993. I exciting times and intriguing chal- forming Arts in Washington, D.C., more. Our signature event each two-year stint at the new Con- ceremony was held in Worcester, man through and through.” ago with a brief account of the practice criminal law in Manhat- lenges in forging paths through the in May. It’s part of an event com- year is our reunion concert during sumer Financial Protection Bureau Mass.) — only 50 years late! I had Randy Bourscheidt says, “This Marching Band’s activities during tan and invest in micro-cap stocks. thicket of deregulation. memorating the 75th anniversary Alumni Reunion Weekend (we’ve in Washington, D.C., focusing on almost forgotten that era of my life. Oklahoma native never ‘gradu- our Alumni Reunion Weekend. I travel a bit to attend micro-cap “For the past nine years, I have of the turning-away of the liner SS had as many as 100 members make low-income issues after closing My daughters, Kerry and Erin, are ated’ from New York, where I’ve “On the Saturday of reunion, conferences. The criminal practice been teaching graduate finance, St. Louis, which was carrying more joyful noise together there). All ’66 out a successful 32-year career nurses at Bristol Hospital, follow- lived happily since college days. there was a cross-class Columbia is nothing fancy — run-of-the-mill statistics and math courses at DeVry than 900 Jews fleeing Hitler’s Ger- classmates who sang are invited running the National Federation of ing in Dad’s footsteps.” I thank Columbia for introducing University Marching Band gather- state court crimes — but it is very and at NYU’s School of Continuing many in May 1939, and who were to join us in making Columbia Community Development Credit Charles Pitchford wrote in for me to this great city, which I have ing in Carman Hall. Quite a few social, which balances nicely the and Professional Studies. I also have thus forced to return to a Europe Alumni Singers a thoroughly Unions. He will be back in Brook- the first time: “You may remember tried to serve in various ways. I former band managers, and others computer-driven investment work. been writing papers and preparing on the eve of WWII. A number of enjoyable, harmonious, valued and lyn for good in March. me as Barry Nazarian’s roomie. If spent a decade in the Cultural Af- from the ’68 period and all the time I have kept up with Mike Moore, presentations on the factors un- those passengers who survived the valuable component of Columbia Philip Myers reports, “I live in not, I will certainly understand, as fairs Department, the culmination since, attended and reminisced who is an inspiration.” derlying the financial and banking Holocaust will attend. tradition.” Winchester, Mass., with my wife, the older we get… of a city government career that about the 1964 ‘moral decay’ and Peter Wallenstein (pwallens@ crisis of 2008–09 and the Eurozone Gary Foulks writes, “The last For more information, write Anne Hoffman ’70 Barnard. We “I remember reading the note began at the Department of City other halftime shows, 3 a.m. Bar- vt.edu) reports, “After teaching sovereign debt fiscal crisis, with issue led me to catch up with Jim Michael at michaelgarrett@earth have three sons who are busy writ- Barry wrote a while back, men- Planning. I was president of the nard fire drill concerts, Carnegie history in the 1970s at the college emphasis on the effects on U.S. Larson, who is now on the East link.net. ing software, performing and com- tioning names of acquaintances Alliance for the Arts for more than Hall appearances and other land- level at various places in New unemployment. Coast, as am I. In December 2011, Elwyn Schaefer writes, “Many posing music. David and his wife, I met directly through Barry and two decades, doing research into marks of the modern band era. York, Canada, Japan and Korea “I enjoy regularly attending the I became the Emeritus Professor years ago I chose the University of Diane, are parents of 7-month-old my managing the student laundry the economic and social benefits of “A group of alumni, including (pretty special experiences all), I Met Opera and New York Philhar- of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado Law School over Colum- Andrew. They live in Brooklyn, as and/or singing in the (in)famous the arts and organizing responses Dan Carlinsky ’65, J. Donald Smith landed at Virginia Tech 30 years monic, along with playing bridge.” Louisville, where I was the Arthur bia and headed west. I’ve been in does Josh, while Jon is in Oakland. rock band we had (Brewmen and from the cultural community to ’65 and Sam Rowan Barnard ’96, ago, where I’ve had wonderful stu- H. and Virginia T. Keeney Chair of Boulder/Denver ever since. No re- “Since 1984 I’ve been an other names). Oh, those nights at crises such as AIDS and 9-11. To have helped form a Columbia dents and gotten to write a number Ophthalmology and Visual Services grets. A synopsis of my professional astrophysicist at the Harvard- Alpha Chi Rho! enhance my enjoyment of New Band Alumni Association. It’s an of books on U.S. history. I’m still at Rich Forzani for eight years. I continued at the career may be found at elwynschae Smithsonian Center for Astrophys- “My short bio: Since leaving York, I spend weekends upstate IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) charitable it. Shortly I’ll be sending off final 413 Banta Ave. Veterans Administration Medical fer.com. In December, I became of ics in Cambridge, researching how Columbia and the all-night parties in Columbia County, about as organization, with Sam as presi- copy for a second edition of my 66 Garfield, NJ 07026 Center as a cornea specialist for the counsel to Bachus & Schanker, a stars form through observations, with Barry, I worked in Harlem far from the Hudson River as my dent. The association plans regular Cradle of America: Four Centuries of 66 next year but in November 2012 I Denver-based law firm with 20 trial computer simulations and theoreti- as a social worker (yes, continued dorm room at Furnald was. Write events for alumni and provides [email protected] Virginia History (the subtitle will retired from clinical practice. My attorneys and 50 members. cal models. I have had a great time partying and playing in different me at randall.bourscheidt@gmail. support for the current band, such change) and Free to Marry: Loving I made a pre-Christmas trip to Los wife, Sims, and I moved to Wilm- “My Nebraska-born-and-bred doing this. I also like jazz and have rock bands). I moved to Canada to com.” as encouraging donations of instru- v. Virginia, both to be published in Angeles with my wife, Kathy, to see ington, N.C., to join our daughter, wife, Barb, and I live adjacent to played keyboard with ensembles ‘settle down’ and worked in social ments by alumni. Non-alumni 2014. our grandkids and their staff (that’s Beverley; son-in-law, Michael; and a 165-acre city park with views of and rock bands. I enjoy writing services in Toronto for almost 30 also can donate instruments if they “I’m in touch with classmates I our son, Casey, and his wife, Ann). granddaughter, Haley (18 months). Pike’s Peak, the Rockies and the songs and am inspired by Gersh- years. At one time I ran a welfare Albert Zonana happen to have a clarinet, trumpet met during freshman orientation Interesting how we related to 1- and We have been having a blast baby- Denver skyline. We have three win, Ellington and Jobim. office in that city. At the end of 425 Arundel Rd. or E-flat double-reed contra-bass in 1961, among them David Osher 3-year-old boys after being out of sitting Haley … I am editor-in-chief daughters and two granddogs. We “I’ve kept in touch with class- those many years I wound up writ- 67 Goleta, CA 93117 sarrusophone gathering dust in and Ahovi Kponou, though we’ve practice, but it seems that the kids of The Ocular Surface journal and recently spent quality time with mates including Dan Gover, Jeff ing social assistance policy for the 67 the attic (see columbiabandalumni. [email protected] been distressed as one by one our fall for the same tricks we pulled consult to the pharmaceutical in- Lew Davis (North Carolina), Ken May, Cliff Rosenthal, Gene Fier- Ontario government. org/instrument-drive.html). finest teachers, including James on their parents. We did notice a dustry. Sims says this means I can’t Rollston (California) and Tom man and John Akula. I’d be glad “I married in 1969 and still am Tony Greco ’76 GSAS, ’82 Business “The band alumni association ar- Shenton ’49, ’54 GSAS and Alan bit less energy on our end though claim to be fully retired but I think McMahan (also North Carolina). to hear from other classmates, too married to Susan, and have two writes, “After a 25-year career with ranged a reunion at Homecoming,

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES held October 12. Alumni joined the running for mayor when we ar- and the Alexander Hamilton Award to Aspen (upon invitation) with classmates to spend quality time Low Plaza. I didn’t make it to any other sources. I was reading my reports the birth of his third grand- present band members in material rived. Any interest? If so, write me: (2012). Classmates will have the two gorgeous (at least that’s the with each other, and we met our of the theater events or lectures but Columbia Law School magazine daughter (no grandsons yet). He ranging from ’60s-era classic fight [email protected].) opportunity to congratulate him at way I remember it), lapsed (at goal. The lunch program was the for me reunions are about people, and learned that Eric Eisner had writes, “The kids all live in Los cheers to the White Stripes’ Seven I chatted with Greg Winn a few our 45th reunion (see more later in least that’s the way I imagined it) subject of singular attention during and many splendid people in our started and funded a program in Angeles, which gives me and my Nation Army. Band alumni also sang times in the last few months and this column). Mormon girls in a green MG who the planning, and Rich Wyatt sug- class made it a great success.” Los Angeles that links promising wife, Freddie, the excuse to visit the a full-throated version of Sans Souci am grateful for the years of good This news-seeking columnist followed us into a Colorado gas gested and then hosted the main From Rod Reef ’69E: “This was students from low-income commu- Left Coast regularly. Otherwise, I do (to the amazement of current, non- humor and friendship with him. always appreciates an assist from station and proceeded to engage us event: an open microphone session my most memorable reunion to nities with some of the city’s top bankruptcy law here in New Jersey band students in the crowd, who I heard from some classmates the general news media, which hap- as they purchased a dollar’s worth called ‘40 years in 3 minutes.’ After date. We had many chances, both schools. His Young Eisner Scholars and am waiting for the economy to could not believe anyone knew the about the fate of football this past pened twice in this cycle. The New of gas. I only wish Rich were here a few volunteers kicked off the formal and informal to talk to both program, which now also includes turn around.” lyrics, or that there were lyrics). fall, and clearly the program had a York Times Book Review of December so I could tell him that I still don’t discussion, a majority of attendees Engineering School and College a branch in NYC, funds SAT prep Robert Launay writes, “I had a “Other directors of the associa- major setback. Jim Shorter and Ira 23 featured Paul Auster’s latest, forgive him. Rest in peace. shared their thoughts and exposed classmates. I was able to meet, and covers costs that financial aid heart attack in July but am recover- tion are Steven Greenfield ’83, Mark McCown commented on it, among Report from the Interior, a companion “Also, congratulations to Joe their feelings about the reunion, the talk to and listen to interesting life packages miss. YES scholars who ing well.” Tabry ’07E, Morgan Robinson ’08 others. Paul de Bary and I went to memoir to his 2012 Winter Journal. Santosuosso (we share a birthday College years, and that long time in events from people I had not seen attend schools such as Columbia Tom Keenan’s new book, and Kevin Gould ’12. The advisory games this year. This new book is a history of Paul’s two hours apart), who pedaled between. What struck me was the in many years. Although Dean and Stanford then come back to Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy board consists of Joe Klein ’58; Ed I will be diplomatic and note psychological development. The from the northernmost point of cohesiveness of the class, comprised Hubbard’s economics lecture was recruit other promising students and the Capitalization of Intimacy, Coller ’63; Dan Carlinsky ’65; J. only that the women’s swim team review calls him “one of the great Maine — where America starts, of individuals who saw the world interesting, it is fast receding from to the institutions they attend. Eric will be published in March. He Donald Smith ’65; Dennis Klainberg has beaten Harvard, Yale and Penn prose stylists of our time.” according to the sign he posted on in different ways back when and memory. This is not true for the notes that these YES graduates writes, “It’s a chilling look (excuse ’84; Cathy Webster ’87; Betsey Bena- so far this year. Tennis also has The second item appeared in his ‘crazyguyonabike’ site — to who have traveled varying paths interactions with the members of are inspirational to their younger the hyperbole; that’s what authors gh ’94, ’94E; Mike Schiraldi ’00E; been fabulous, for example. mid-December in numerous sources. Key West, Fla. An unsupported since. And yet, we were a group our class. I am glad we adopted peers, saying, “The glamour radi- are supposed to do, I’m told) at David Albert ’09E; and Stephanie I was negligent with respect to Judd Gregg has, after seven months, solo ride of just about 3,000 miles who felt like connected classmates.” Rich Wyatt’s idea for the Saturday ates from successful students with the ways in which technologies — Tarras ’10 Barnard.” the last Class Notes column and stepped down as CEO of the Securi- from August 11 to November 4. From Jeffrey Klein: “A reunion afternoon event and I will remem- whom other kids can identify.” from surveillance cameras and on- I was at a Columbia basketball this one; I have been swamped with ties Industry and Financial Markets Amazing.” virgin, I’m happy to report a highly ber the value of our time talking Eric deserves thanks and line tracking to sensors inside our game recently, and the band was personal stuff and work, so I am Association. Now, here is my John Bernson is returning satisfying experience at our 40th. and laughing together when we congratulations for his good work! bodies — are eroding what’s left of there in large numbers, performing sorry for the relative lack of news. difficulty;­ I am filing this column at home to Armonk, N.Y., following Reconnecting with old friends was plan the next reunion.” All this, following a successful our privacy, often with our consent with great cheer. The next one will be back in full the end of December for the Spring 3½ years of bank advisory and an expected pleasure. Unexpected And from Jim Weitzman: “Re- Hollywood career that included but without our full understand- It was great to hear from Nigel force. issue. What Judd plans to do next corporate finance projects in the was how much pleasure I felt con- union was good to me. I enjoyed it a 10-year stint as president of The ing. The revelations of Edward Paneth, who observed that his This being the first column of is the subject of current speculation Middle East. He keeps in contact necting with classmates I’d never immensely. . . . I especially found Geffen Co. Snowden and Chelsea Manning nationally ranked Spartans (he 2014, I wish all of the class — as but may be answered by the time with David Alger, on Martha’s really known well while in college have given us a glimpse into some is a professor of public health at well as family, partners, spouses, this issue is published. So, I leave Vineyard, and David Parshall and — Jim Alloy, Jerry Avorn, William of the ways this is being done by Michigan State) almost lost to the children and grandchildren — a for a later column a report on Judd’s Ron Dronzek, in NYC. Bonvillian et al. Repeatedly I was governments. This book lifts the Lions in basketball in Lansing, healthy new year. I figure we all next step. Judd, by the way, also Jesse Goldner attended the struck not just by the intelligence A New York Times Book Review article about Paul covers on how we ourselves are Mich. He was flummoxed, for sure. have about 30 more years to go, at was a recipient of a John Jay Award memorial service for Mark Drucker of our classmates (that’s a given), Auster ’69’s new memoir, Report from the Interior, surrendering our most personal He also acknowledged the whip- least, so I get more time to do this (1993). in St. Louis on November 9, and but also by how much work for the information. Technocreep is based ping the Spartans took out there in column. “Some news/reflections, both he provided this report: “Family public good each had done in his called him “one of the great prose stylists of our time.” on more than 25 years of research wrestling from the Lions. happy and sad,” from Doran Twer: members, friends and former chosen field. On the plane ride in, in computer security, along with As I write, I’m planning to have “For the second consecutive year, students recalled Mark’s love of I’d read our yearbook — unopened attending and presenting at hacker REUNION WEEKEND a lunch with Bill McDavid. Bill is Ron Tarrington traveled six-plus movies, TV, reading, history, trivia, for 40 years, with a nasty mildew touching the luncheon comments My good friend Frank Motley conferences such as DEF CON.” MAY 29–JUNE 1 general counsel at Freddie Mac and hours north to see my son, Aden, learning and talking. He was an smell as proof. It’s a striking, of Jory Berkwits, sitting at my reports, “With 19 grandkids and David Lehman wrote a follow- ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS continues to amaze me with his compete as a wide receiver for inveterate viewer of C-SPAN. As iconoclastic volume. How many table, who stood to ask for forgive- two great-grandkids, I think I still up note about the launch party for ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott energy and involvement with some Gettysburg. As fate would have it, they said, ‘He knew a lot about a lot yearbooks sport a funny audio/ ness that he had essentially gone own the title [for most grandkids his new book. He says, “The of- [email protected] of today’s financial issues. It seems Ron’s back was turned to the field, and never stopped learning.’ video script from a class drop- through most of his four years among classmates] but that could ficial publication date for my New 212-851-9148 like yesterday that we were listen- looking for me in the stands, on the “They recounted his many out announcing he’s a sell-out? without interfacing with the rest have changed. CC and Humanities and Selected Poems was November DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova ing to Bill and his band perform on first play of the game from scrim- efforts to help members of various Post-strike interviews with several of the class. My visit to WKCR taught me that if you have enough 5, and a day later the launch read- [email protected] campus. But in fact, it was almost mage, as Aden hauled in a 62-yard groups, in addition to his family, professors and with Provost Tru- knocked me off my feet: I walked grandkids, you will one day be ing was held at the NYU Bookstore 212-851-7833 50 years ago. I really shouldn’t note TD pass. (Aden finished his career about whom he cared in particu- man are at once insightful, nakedly into a studio only to lay eyes on famous yourself.” on Broadway and Waverly Place. that, I suppose. (Although, to that Michael Oberman as the leading receiver in school his- lar. These included the poor and confused and poignant. At the re- four guys, most of whom I hadn’t Larry Rosenwald sent “a quick The space was crowded, and it point, I’ve been thinking of our hav- 69 Kramer Levin Naftalis & tory in total yards, career-receiving underprivileged, and local mystery union, before I could congratulate seen in 40 years, arrayed around note to say a) I’m making an an- was gratifying to see some old pals ing an event in the fall to celebrate Frankel TDs and receiving TDs in a season writers. He was described as a Roy Feldman, our yearbook editor, a table, recording recollections of thology of American antiwar and from Columbia College days in- our good fortune of landing on 69 1177 Avenue of the — and led all active players in ‘kind and gentle man and an om- on how well he and the Columbian the past: Steve Silberblatt, Roger peace writing for the Library of cluding Bill O’Brien, Jim Periconi, Morningside Heights in fall 1964. Americas NCAA DIII in 2013 in career yards nivorous intellectual’ who had a staff had captured that historical Berkley ’68, Bob Papper and the America and b) I had the pleasure Steven Silberblatt ’72 and Jamie Maybe a grand dinner in the city, New York, NY 10036 per catch — 19.2.) As I write this, unique ability ‘to know how to be moment, Roy said he’d re-read the famous Robert Siegel ’68 of NPR, of a lively, fruitful conversation Katz ’72. The presentation began either on- or off-campus, modest moberman@kramerlevin. Ron is getting a new knee. I hope all a friend’ and to demonstrate ‘un- volume the night before and was who gave up his seat for me. A half- about the anthology with David with my reading a half-dozen of in scope but with entertainment. com goes well. conditional acceptance’ of others. swamped with second thoughts hour down memory lane recorded Lehman, whom I hadn’t spoken the new poems from the book. You may recall John Lindsay was “Wanted to pay public respects Mark was a humble person who about what he should have done on, gasp, a reel-to-reel recorder.” with in some time and was de- Then Ken Tucker of NPR’s Fresh Jonathan Schiller ’73L was elected to Rich Arcaro ’72, who passed was known for always treating differently. This tendency to As this column goes to press, lighted to be reconnected with!” Air interviewed me about my ca- on December 19 as co-chair of the away in January 2013. I roomed others with dignity.” consider and reconsider showed our Reunion Committee is work- Tom Barrett is a contributing edi- reer and my work. He is a veteran University’s Board of Trustees with Rich at the Psi U house senior This issue is the last one sched- up in many reunion conversations. ing hard on outreach, aiming tor to Arcadia, a literary magazine interviewer, very skillful, and my Submit Your Photo and is slated to become chairman year and traveled with him for a uled ahead of our 45th Alumni Could it be the true core of our to raise a great turnout for the out of Oklahoma City. His Borrowed only regret is that the interview Submitting a photo for upon Bill Campbell ’62, ’64 TC’s dozen weeks across the country Reunion Weekend, and I urge all curriculum?” weekend. Hope you join us and Time, a “fictive but not untrue” was not taped. At his suggestion retirement from the board. Jonathan in summer 1971 on our so-called classmates to attend. The dates are From Eric Witkin: “I thought thereby avoid the nagging concern exploration of his and his family’s I read certain poems (such as Class Notes is easier is the first member of our class to ‘hippie trip’ — tales of which I’ve Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. our reunion was a great success, about what you missed. For more past written under the pen name ‘Nirvana’ and ‘Any Place I Hang than ever! achieve this distinction and, for embellished and then bored my The Reunion Committee is trying because so many of the people that information and to register, go Thomas Shane, is a monthly feature My Hat’) to illustrate points. The ONLINE by clicking that matter, our class is among the family and friends with through- to plan a calendar of events that I know and admire showed up to reunion.college.columbia.edu. of Arcadia’s Online Sundries blog last poem I read, ‘Story of My Life,’ “Contact Us” at few to have a classmate achieve out the ensuing decades. Gas was will maximize the opportunity for at Mike Schell’s terrific cocktail See also the reunion preview in (arcadiamagazine.org). provoked a man in the audience to college.columbia.edu/cct. this distinction. In general we are 25 cents a gallon when we reached classmates to catch up with one party on Thursday, at the cocktail “Around the Quads.” Steve Stahler writes, “I continue leap to his feet and shout ‘Bravo!’ well represented on the board, California — a good thing, as the another. For encouragement, I’ve party at SIPA the next evening to pursue my passion in astronomy I am happy to report that my book MAIL by sending the with Michael Rothfeld continu- truck we purchased from the bread gone back to my September/Octo- and at both lunch and dinner on and am embarking on the second received favorable reviews in The photo and accompanying ing as a trustee. Jonathan is the man in Fairview, N.J., got only six ber 2009 column, which reported Saturday. Jerry Nadler gave a very Leo G. Kailas edition of my 2004 book, The Forma- New York Observer and Publishers caption information to father of three sons, all of whom miles per. on our 40th reunion; here are some interesting talk on a highly contro- 70 Reitler Kailas & tion of Stars. For recreation, I tramp Weekly. Interviews with me ran on Class Notes Editor, graduated from the College. In his “Rich was a person of tremen- reactions to that one, beginning versial issue at Saturday’s dinner. Rosenblatt up and down the hills of California NPR and PBS, and Garrison Keillor Columbia College Today, non-Columbia role, Jonathan is dous physical and mental strength. with my own: Many classmates gave fascinating 70 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. and sketch humans and others read my poem ‘Radio’ on his show Columbia Alumni Center, managing partner and co-founder A loyal friend. Better yet, he knew “I would sum up the reunion accounts of their Columbia and New York, NY 10022 around me. I would enjoy hearing ‘The Writer’s Almanac’ with Garrison 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, of the Boies, Schiller & Flexner law how to repair the truck. But Rich in these few words: ‘really good post-Columbia lives after lunch [email protected] from classmates!” Keillor. So it was quite a week. 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. firm. Jonathan has received both the could be painfully shy, and on conversations and respectful on Saturday, and even the weather You can write to Steve at stahler@ “In addition, the November John Jay Award for distinguished day four of the trip he killed a remembrances.’ Our goal all along cooperated with a sunny day and Every once in a while you get astro.berkeley.edu. 16–17 issue of The Wall Street professional achievement (2006) deal I negotiated to travel along was to create opportunities for a beautiful evening after dinner on news about a classmate from Joel Richard Glucksman proudly Journal contained a Masterpiece

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES column — under the heading of tennis pro who best exemplifies was part of an award-winning ’71C should remember from their consultant to amFAR. New York; his Yiddish Quartet and niversary of his first publication. professors and alumni, who give ‘The Palpable Presence of Time’ — the spirit of excellence in competi- project that combined retail space junior high days. I certainly do. Mark Hoffman, who sent a dra- Piano Quintet are touring the United Well done, all! Keep up the good Dean’s Day and Mini-Core Course that I wrote about Wordsworth’s tion, sportsmanship and love of the with a high-rise condominium “I visit Stockholm whenever matic set of then-and-now pictures States and Israel and being recorded news. lectures during the weekend. But great poem ‘Tintern Abbey.’” game. Internationally ranked Butch building, rumored to be teetering possible to watch my grandson, showing a marked transformation on Paumanok Records; and his I think almost everyone is drawn Finally, Bill Schur writes, “After Seewagen (George Seewagen’s son) after the roof of the attached super- Elliot (4), grow and develop into in hair distribution and sarto- new piano concerto, Archangel, will to reunion by the chance to catch REUNION WEEKEND 23 exciting years with the South- was his Columbia coach (1969–79), market collapsed. a bright little guy who speaks rial tastes, is still in the insurance premiere at the New York Reper- up with the classmates we were MAY 29–JUNE 1 western Bell, then SBC, now AT&T and it speaks of his high regard for “After that, we also had an Swedish and English and is always business after 41 years. He consults tory Orchestra and the Orchestra close to as well as to have surprise ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS legal department, I retired at the Lloyd that he had Lloyd present unexpected resignation of Latvia’s ready to play ‘What’s this called in on all sorts of group insurance, Sinfonica de Puerto Rico. Finally, his encounters with those we forget we ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott end of December. I’m considering him for his induction in the Eastern government, the 18th in 22 years (I Latvian?’ with me. pensions, executive benefits and Second Symphony will be recorded in were close to. You’ll never know [email protected] whether to teach, write, consult, do Tennis Hall Of Fame in 2005.” think we beat Italy!). “My youngest son, Matiss (18), property and casualty plans for England during the 2014–15 season. whom you could meet unless you 212-851-9148 legal work pro bono, volunteer or Juris Kaza wrote in December: “In Latvia, eyes are also on is applying to U.S. universities (he business. He writes, “I spend much Fred Schneider has lots of come! DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova just quietly disappear.” “Since last [reporting to ’71C], developments in the Ukraine, holds a U.S. passport). He wants to time these days interpreting the good things happening. His older An unusual number of class- [email protected] I have changed ‘jobs.’ I left the torn between an opening to the follow his mother into the film and Affordable Care Act and its benefits daughter, Lauren, is working on an mates have popped up lately in 212-851-7833 Latvian news agency LETA after European Union and pressure and media industry, so the closest he and tax consequences for clients M.B.A. at NYU and at this writing the media: PBS, NBC, ABC, USA Jim Shaw six years and became a contract enticements from an increasingly could come to Columbia (which he and prospects alike. My wife, Jana, was to be married in February in Fred Bremer Today and a couple in The New York 71 139 North 22nd St. stringer for The Wall Street Journal authoritarian and corrupt Russia, did consider applying to) may be and I have been enjoying the Dallas Manhattan. His younger daugh- 74 532 W. 111th St. Times. I’m sure there have been a Philadelphia, PA 19103 and Dow Jones Newswires. I which offers a customs union but NYU. He already has been admit- area since October 2006, having ter, Stephanie, will have her law New York, NY 10025 lot more, but these are the ones that 71 worked for the latter in Frankfurt little aside from oil and gas to ted to Emerson in Boston but will lived in Tulsa, Okla., for the previ- degree from CUNY in May. His 74 I know of (mostly due to posts on [email protected] [email protected] and Stockholm in the early 1980s circulate inside the customs union. wait to hear from NYU, USC and ous 24 years.” wife, Harriet, received the Howard Facebook). If you are not receiving the ’71C when it was called AP-Dow Jones There are some superficial similari- Chapman. Adweek named Rick Kurnit No. A. Levine Award for Excellence in One of the unique aspects of our Following the death of musician eNews and would like to, please Newswire. So it was a kind of ties with conditions in Latvia — or “In October, Matiss, my wife, 21 of “The Adweek 50”: “the pow- Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare time at Columbia was that we Lou Reed, PBS aired Lou Reed: Rock email me. return to the fold. rather, what Latvia could have Una, and I were in Newton, Mass., er players who make the wheels last May in Albany. And Fred (not each were free to form our own and Roll Heart, a 1998 documentary Remember Jonathan Schiller ’69, to celebrate my mother’s 100th turn across media, marketing and to be outdone) recently celebrated subculture. There was no sense of by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. ’73L, reserve forward-center on the birthday. She is still looking after technology.” Rick, a leading lawyer his second anniversary as a partner having that infamous figure, “the The one-hour American Masters great Lions basketball teams of our the family home she and my late for the advertising industry, was and chair of the matrimonial and big man on campus.” It wasn’t the documentary chronicles Reed’s Columbia years? He has been ap- Lloyd Emanuel ’71 was inducted in the New Rochelle dad bought in 1959. She is still go- the only attorney included on the family practice at Ballon, Stoll, quarterback of the football team career, starting with the creation of pointed co-chair of the University’s (N.Y.) Sports Hall of Fame for his tennis career as a ing strong.” list. The banner publication of Bader & Nadler in Manhattan. (perhaps for good reason!), the The Velvet Underground in 1965. Board of Trustees, along with cur- Remember back 47 Septembers the advertising industry, Adweek, Bill Miller was recognized in president of our class or the heads USA Today quoted Timothy, who rent chair Bill Campbell ’62, ’64 TC, player, college coach, professional coach and instructor. ago, and the feelings we had, includ- summed up Rick’s practice with October by the Society of Motion of any of the many clubs or groups said, “Lou Reed’s music was the and will succeed Bill upon Bill’s ing of adventure, as we entered Co- these words: “If Kurnit hasn’t Picture and Television Engineers on campus. We each formed our backbeat to our lives and his lyrics retirement from the board. Jon is a lumbia College. We are still connected. negotiated your employment con- for contributions spanning de- own community that combined were our conscience.” Around managing partner and co-founder “Journalism is something I hope faced outside the EU and having tract, you probably know a CEO cades. Bill was governor, section floormates from different years, this time I saw Facebook com- of the law firm of Boies, Schiller & to do for several years more. I taken a different political and for whom he has.” Rick reports chair and engineering v.p. at vari- Columbians who shared our politi- ments from a couple of classmates. Flexner, where he focuses on com- like it and I will not be joining the economic path. Paul S. Appelbaum that his NYC law firm, Frankfurt ous times, and pioneered a pro- cal or social interests, and people Pinchas “Paul” Giller, a profes- plex litigation and international chorus of those from ’71C who will “Like the Ukraine, there are 72 39 Claremont Ave., #24 Kurnit Klein & Selz, has grown to gram where he matched donations we simply enjoyed being around. sor at both the American Jewish arbitration. Dave Newmark ’70, happily announce their retirement pro-Western and pro-Russian divi- New York, NY 10027 65 lawyers, focusing on entertain- made by other SMPTE members There was no caste system that University and the Ziegler School David Boies and now Bill are three in the next year or two. Good for sions, even along East-West lines. 72 ment, media and marketing law, to pay for student memberships; placed some classmates in groups of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, [email protected] formidable names with which to them, but I’m not ready. As far as I Regions in Eastern Latvia were the providing nearly a full range of more than 250 students are now higher or lower than others. wrote, “Very upset about Lou Reed be associated. But I’m sure that am concerned, the rock ’n roll gen- only parts of the country to have Bruce Jacobs recently presided legal services, with a particular members as a result. Bill retired So here we are almost 40 years … New York in the ’70s, itself a lost Jon’s name is also. eration that saw 1968 doesn’t head voted for Russian as a second state over the inaugural Forum on emphasis on litigation and trusts from ABC-TV in 2008 after 33 years after graduation, with Alumni time.” Darryl Chin, an author and Fellow class correspondent for the rocking chair that easily. language in a 2012 referendum Quantitative Finance in NYC, and estates work. Rick says that in the technical side of television Reunion Weekend planned for writer in Brooklyn, posted: “RIP Bernard Sunshine ’46 attended an “Some of the stories I have (the proposal was overwhelm- sponsored by the Jacobs Levy he plans to continue practicing as and consults from time to time to Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. Lou Reed. OMG they’re dropping event and filed a report for us. Ber- covered for the WSJ include Lat- ingly voted down). The East — the Equity Management Center for long as it remains fun and the firm “keep myself out of trouble.” Sure, there will be great events, but like flies: the people who made nie was president of the Columbia via’s progress toward joining the region of Latgale — also has its Quantitative Financial Research flourishes. Moving west, Bruce Rush what many of us really are looking NYC what it was in my lifetime are College Alumni Association in the Eurozone on January 1, and last own dialect and, in contrast to the at the Wharton School (wharton. As I write this column, the writes in (for the first time, brave forward to is seeing members of going fast.” 1970s, subsequently was the sena- summer’s Latvian Song and Dance largely Lutheran rest of the coun- upenn.edu/jacobslevycenter). He cherry trees that line both ends soul) from Santa Monica, Calif., our “posse.” That said, reunion At the other end of the music tor who represented University Festival, where one of the conduc- try, is predominantly Catholic with and his business partner, Ken- of College Walk are wound with where he is a clinical psycholo- attendees have frequently com- spectrum is The Sing-Off, a five- alumni in the Columbia University tors of a 15,000-voice choir was a a smattering of Old Believers and neth Levy, endowed the center in strings of white lights, bouncing gist and an adjunct professor of mented that their big surprise was year-old a cappella competition Senate and in the ’90s was presi- 100-year-old man from Michigan Russian Orthodox. honor of the 25th anniversary of reflections off the late fall snow psychology at Pepperdine. He has how much they enjoyed finding show that airs on NBC. Dr. Burt dent of the University’s Alumni (born in Latvia under the Russian “Interestingly, the ethnic Rus- their firm, after which it’s named. beneath them. By the time you’re a “wonderful” family, including out what happened to the many Rochelson (chief of obstetrics at Federation. He writes: czar). I also wrote a feature on a sians who have been present in The forum drew a large crowd of reading, it will be much closer to wife Lynn; daughter Claire; and classmates outside their inner circle North Shore University Hospital “Lloyd Emanuel is now an Soviet-era garbage dump that has this part of Latvia for centuries, practitioners and academics, who spring. But I hope you all had a son Colin. Bruce also is a fee-for- — the guys who were on their Car- in Manhasset, N.Y.) posted that the official part of the City of New been transformed into a mainly but who live in a predominantly heard the partners give the keynote chance to return to campus at some service provider at the Los Angeles man floor freshman year, their lab fiancée of his second son, Ellis, is Rochelle’s (N.Y.) 325-year history. clean facility that grows strawber- Russian-speaking local environ- address on a concept they devel- point to enjoy the beauty of the County Department of Mental partner or even the person they sat part of the all-female group Ele- In an impressive ceremony in ries and tomatoes year-round in ment, are Latvian nationalists and oped called “leverage aversion.” scene. Health, testing and evaluating next to during an early-morning CC ment. They hung in with incredible October, Lloyd was inducted in the automated greenhouses heated patriots, as I found out on a trip It updates one of the foundational children. In his spare time, he is the class. Both groups were an integral performances but were eliminated city’s Sports Hall of Fame, sharing and lit by biogas from the moun- to the Latgale area recently for an theories of modern finance regard- California program director and part of our Columbia experience, toward the end of the competition. the distinction with home-grown tain of decomposing garbage (most upcoming look at Latvia ahead of ing the risk-return tradeoff to Barry Etra a martial arts therapist for Kids and some members of both groups Someone posted a YouTube clip sports luminaries so honored in of which is covered by grass that is the transition to the euro. factor in the potentially harmful 73 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE Kicking Cancer. And he “eats and may be on campus for reunion. on Facebook that featured Darryl recent decades. The inscription trimmed every summer by a herd “Of more immediate concern to effects of leverage, or borrowed Atlanta, GA 30306 sleeps once in a while.” I encourage you to think about Downing, who does business honoring him is permanently of sheep). the Baltic States is the placement, money. They also presented the 73 Also in California is Jerry Se- the three to five classmates who development in Harlem, at Denny [email protected] installed in the City Hall. “One story I would rather have reportedly based on Western intel- first Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for bag, who is a professor of clinical come to mind when you reflect Moe’s Superstar Barbershop. The “Lloyd was cited for his stellar not had to cover was the disaster ligence but confirmed by Russia, Quantitative Financial Innovation By the time these Notes are read ophthalmology at Doheny Eye on your College days — the ones clip was from HLN’s TV show, career as a tennis player, starting at in November, when a supermarket of medium-range, tactical-nuclear- to Nobel Laureate Harry Markow- it will be 2014, 45 years post our Institute in Huntington Beach, with whom you may stay in touch. What Would You Do?, and involved New Rochelle H.S. and continuing roof collapsed in a Riga neighbor- capable Iskander missiles in itz in recognition of his recent work year of entry into the College. Who Calif. Jerry is one of the world’s Then try to remember the guys who the reluctance of a black guy to at Columbia, where he was captain hood, killing 54 people (including Kaliningrad. Russia threatened to on individual retirement invest- woulda thunk? leading authorities on vitreous (of make you wonder, “What ever hap- have his hair cut by a “white dude” of the tennis team and had a suc- three firefighters hit by a second do this unless it got firm promises ment planning. East Coast news first:Michael the eye). He has written two books pened to (fill in the blank)?” and the whole issue of what has cessful record in tournaments; he collapse when they rushed in that NATO anti-ballistic missile Jeffrey Laurence was featured Shapiro conducts not only the and 66 articles on various related Some classmates will return to been termed “reverse racism.” This later was a college coach, profes- to rescue victims) and injuring doz- systems were not directed at Rus- in a recent HBO documentary, The Chappaqua Orchestra but also the subjects and he recently delivered Morningside Heights to see the seems to be an issue that will keep sional coach and instructor. ens of others. I was at the disaster sia, but at possible rogue-state mis- Battle of amFAR, about the founding West Point Band’s Jazz Knights, the plenary lecture to two vitreo- campus — the part they knew four popping up until we all internalize “In 2011 he was named Man site twice, mingling with people sile attacks, and now has executed of the first American AIDS research the Traverse Symphony Orchestra retinal societies in Nagoya, Japan. decades ago, the great additions the lessons from the late Nelson of the Year by the United States awaiting word on the survivors on this threat. The appearance of organization. Jeffrey directs the and the Springfield Symphony He has been chosen as a “super and the incredible new campus Mandela. Tennis Association for his lifetime and the dead, or just laying flowers the missiles in a Russian enclave Laboratory for AIDS Virus Research Orchestra. In addition, he has cre- doctor” for Southern California emerging between West 125th Street Paging through The New York contribution to the game. In 2001 and candles as the scope of the bordering Lithuania and Poland at Weill Cornell Medical Col- ated scores for a new NBC crime for the past five years by his peers, and West 134th Street. Others will Times one Sunday last fall, I saw a Lloyd received the George Seewa- catastrophe became evident. The has a superficial similarity to the lege and NewYork-Presbyterian show; his Second Sonata is being and his third book on vitreous will come back to have their minds full-page ad featuring Montefiore gen Award, given to the Eastern supermarket opened in 2011 and Cuban missile crisis that most of Hospital, and is a senior scientific performed in Los Angeles and be published in 2014, the 25th an- opened once again by world-class Medical Center, the University Hos-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES pital for the Albert Einstein College he was in Naples, Italy, and then through Butler at midnight during addresses at the top of the column, under 40” list in Fortune. She lives “Dean [Robert L.] Belknap [’57 practicing psychiatry in suburban up my baton in June 2012. My of Medicine, in the Bronx. While a week later on the Cote d’Azur, exam prep week last December. or submit an update through in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with her SIPA, ’59 GSAS] said that half of us Connecticut for 23 years. Now that wife, Judy Fink, also retired from reading through the “article,” I France. In December he posted They were playing Roar, Lion, Roar. CCT’s webform: college.columbia. entrepreneur husband, Max Hoat, would wind up in jobs that didn’t my two eldest sons are in college her job directing school and public noticed it featured Dr. Mark Mehler from “near Bali, Indonesia, on the The video was titled “Orgo Night.” edu/cct/submit_class_note. CEO of Livestream. exist back in 1977. I laughed then. I and the two younger ones are in programs at the Stone Barns Center in his role as chairman of the de- nearby island of Lombok” while on There you have it. Classmates in Go Lions! While Paul’s career is winding ain’t laughing now.” Harold and his high school, I’ve indulged my for Food and Agriculture. We sold partment of neurology at both the work for the foundation. He added, the news and traveling around the down — General Motors, Deutsche wife, Rivka, manage a “multina- intense longing for my hometown, our house in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Montefiore Medical Center and the “Going next to Jakarta.” That was globe. The kids of classmates going Bank, IBM, E2open, Open-Xchange tional establishment,” with son Manhattan, by opening an office and moved to Dummerston, Vt., Albert Einstein College of Medicine. three countries in three months! in wonderful directions. And videos Clyde Moneyhun AG and now Match My Email for Gil in his first year at Penn, and in Greenwich Village. I come in near Brattleboro, where we live on I don’t know how he keeps up with Barry Klayman, a partner at of the poor pre-meds continuing to 76 Boise State University Salesforce.com — his wife Anna’s daughter Amalya, a Penn graduate, at least one day each week to see 17 acres at the top of a mountain all the areas under his purview the law firm Cozen O’Connor in be abused by the rest of the College Department of English career is blossoming. She is the di- working on an M.Phil. in musicol- patients, visit with friends and overlooking the hills of southern — they have a Headache Center, Wilmington, Del., posted photos student body. How can this not 76 200 Liberal Arts Building rector of Community Care Profes- ogy at Gonville and Caius College, walk, walk, walk. Would love to New Hampshire. I keep busy cut- a Sleep-Wake Disorder Center, an on Facebook of his son’s wedding make you want to take a few days 1910 University Dr. sionals at St. Mary’s for Children Cambridge. hear from any NYC classmates and ting wood to heat the house and Autism and Neurodevelopmental last November and added, “Kim off to come back to Morningside Boise, ID 83725 in Queens. In the last five years, get together for whatever.” building trails on our property so Center and much more. (It gives and Matt’s wedding was a typical Heights and relive our glory days? [email protected] he says, he has finally found his Don Guttenplan has great news: we can hike, cross country ski and me a headache just thinking of the 350-person Israeli wedding. Beauti- For more information and to regis- true vocation: building handmade Matthew Nemerson “My wife, Maria, and I are very snowshoe from the back door. stack of journals on his nightstand; ful, big families, big traditions, big ter, go to reunion.college.columbia. Gara LaMarche shares the good fences from black locust (a kind of 78 35 Huntington St. proud that our daughter, Zoe, has “I recently began teaching jazz I wonder if it also gives him a sleep party!” edu. See also the reunion preview in news of his marriage on September tree) and blogging on GroundRe- New Haven, CT 06511 been accepted to the Class of 2018! part-time at The Putney School disorder?) Kevin Ward, a longtime financial “Around the Quads.” 28 to Lisa Mueller, a Seattle native port. He attached a picture of one 78 Time to dust off that Lit Hum shelf (where Harry Bauld ’77 used to matthewnemerson@ Due to the slow adoption of state adviser in Paramus, N.J., tells us and director of development and of his fences in his message to me. gmail.com in my study.” teach English), and I’ve gotten legislation recognizing same-sex that the daughter of Ted Gregory communications for Sanctuary for Very handsome. Not to be outdone, Jeffery involved playing trumpet in the marriage, we have not received attends Barnard. Ted is the director Randy Nichols Families, a New York City organiza- As I write, it’s 15 degrees and start- Moerdler’s son is at grad school surprisingly decent music scene word of a “state-sanctioned” gay of diversity initiatives and talent 734 S. Linwood Ave. tion working against domestic ing to snow — New Year’s Day at Columbia: “Eric is getting a in Brattleboro. Judy is involved marriage of a classmate … until retention for Columbia Alumni and 75 Baltimore, MD 21224 violence and sex trafficking: “We David Gorman evening. I’m thinking of a long ago master’s in real estate develop- in various volunteer projects, and now. The December 1 edition of Development and is once again 75 [email protected] were married in Watch Hill, R.I., 77 111 Regal Dr. December day, shortly after finals, ment from the Architecture School there are plenty of things to keep The New York Times carried an an- living in the Morningside Heights near Westerly, where I grew up and DeKalb, IL 60115 when I was walking across the and he loves it. He is the first one us occupied. Our son, Nathan, nouncement that broke a barrier for area. This is going to be relatively short! where I worked at the beach during 77 South Field walkway toward the of my kids to attend Columbia!” will soon reach the age where he [email protected] the Class of ’74. It read, “Thomas An update came in from Dan I’m writing the column in Decem- the summers of my childhood and subway with a suitcase in hand, Merrick Reefer and the Rev. John Angius, soon to be the retired se- ber while supporting my clients Columbia days. Dan Baker, my Hmm (riffling through papers) ... an incomplete paper tucked in my Gregory Morgan were married nior partner of the Angius & Terry as they get ready for end-of-year Carman Hall roommate, was in the looks like I have reports from Larry things. Snow was collecting on the Friday at Christ and St. Stephen’s law firm in Walnut Creek, Calif. processing, including all tax noti- wedding party and played the part Moss and Harold Lehmann (see octagonal black bricks and I was Jeff Canfield ’78, who works in the Department Episcopal Church in New York, His son, Dan, had a “beautiful fications. Ugh! I promise to have of me in a performance during the below); a shout-out from Dave filled with the sense that winter of Defense, is the deputy director for battlespace where Mr. Morgan, a priest, is baby boy, Daniel Vincent Angius, more for the Summer issue. In the rehearsal dinner of Lisa and Gara: McAvoy (from Boston, where he break offered an endless and assistant to the rector.” (To be clear, in October.” I asked him the signifi- meantime, I can’t let the opportu- The Early E-Mails. A few days after is a managing partner with North- needed rest. Probably I took a trip awareness for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. we are not placing any special im- cance of the “Dan” name, and he nity to report the following pass: we returned from our ‘mini-moon’ western Mutual); and an update to Florida to see my grandparents portance to the “state-sanctioned” replied, “I think passing down the In the fall, I attended one of my on Nantucket, the Democracy Alli- on Neal Wolkoff, who chairs the after hanging out with high school designation and are pleased to name ‘Dan’ is a product of both favorite Columbia events — Co- ance, an organization of progressive board of OTC Markets Group. friends over New Year’s. Time to More family updates from needs to purchase his own health report any unions of our classmates. my own and my son’s ego. So lumbia Alumni Leaders Weekend, donors and activists, announced my Larry is with Seyfarth Shaw, wake up … Joseph Schachner: “I am an empty- insurance, and leads mountaineer- Please send in announcements that much for noble causes.” To which held on campus October 11–12. appointment as president. I started where his practice mostly involves Tom Mariam has made the nester; my older daughter is mar- ing trips for Colorado Outward we should have made, even if they I responded, “As it was written in Alumni were there from many on November 18.” commercial real estate. He works move to an iconic NYC law firm, ried and my younger one now lives Bound.” occurred a while ago.) The Book of Fred (a long-lost, and University schools, although I Until September 2011, Gara was out of the New York office but but I’m sure the ex-WKCR maven in Manhattan, which she learned to Sigmund Hough Ph.D. writes The last we heard, Thomas was rightfully so, scripture): ‘And Dan spent most of my time with Col- president of the Atlantic Philanthro- started in Chicago; wait, let me will still be found in his spare time love while she was a student at Bar- with lovely thoughts of his time the headmaster at the Barstow begat Dan that begat Dan.’” lege folks. We talked about many pies, a global foundation, and for backtrack. in the dressing rooms and press nard. She thought living in suburbia on the Heights and his life today: things, among them the Core Cur- the past two years he’s been a se- So, after college, Larry spent boxes of New York sports teams, (for free) and having to take a train “At half a century, I have begun to riculum, Class Notes for Columbia nior fellow at the Robert F. Wagner two years at the Jewish Theological filing for his own network of radio to Manhattan was a form of child appreciate and really understand College Today, networking and Graduate School of Public Service Seminary and got married. After stations. He writes, “I am happy abuse. She is student-teaching; she the teachings and lessons learned John Chen ’74 posted on Facebook that he has traveled especially reunion planning. And at NYU, also doing stints as a senior that he earned a law degree from to report that I have become the wants to be an English teacher. Both during my Columbia College to 750 cities in 30 countries. Among the latest was a you know I’ve been talking about fellow at the Tides Foundation and Chicago and spent many years at director of business development my parents passed away in the past days. Not only [the keys to] career that last one for a while! a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. In the firm of D’Ancona and Pflaum, and marketing for Curtis, Mallet- year, my mom at 89 and my father success and [knowledge from] stop here in the U.S., in Virginia Beach, Va. The highlight of the weekend addition, he has been taking care which merged into Seyfarth in 2003. Prevost, Colt & Mosle, one of the at 92. At work, I’m a senior software prestigious academic discus- for me and for Ira Malin was his of his grandson, Sam (2), while his Divorced in 2000, Larry has been leading international law firms engineer at Teledyne LeCroy. sions … but also the challenge of recognition at the CAA Alumni older daughter, Una, has published “dating” (as he puts it) Lauren Class and the second-longest continually (LeCroy was bought by Teledyne protecting oneself and one’s family School in Kansas City, Mo. But the When a classmate has four Medalists Gala on Saturday eve- one young adult novel and finished Schneider, who lives in midtown operating law firm in the United last August.)” against unfairness, inequality and Times says that he now works in children, we need to spread out the ning. I reported last spring that Ira a second; she is now working on a Manhattan, which explains his States.” Kevin Vitting also has kid discrimination. To remain strong, New York “overseeing maintenance news on his offspring. Dr. Steve had been recognized, and this was collection of humorous essays to be move (back) to New York. Larry has James “Huck” Hill offers these news: “My son, Matt, finished his seek and remain with good people and budgets of telecommunica- Blumenthal, a pediatrician in Port- the big finale — another outstand- published this year. two daughters: “Elena (26), who kind words: “My first and last stop first semester at Rensselaer. He’s and be up to the challenge of tions networks at CenturyLink” land, Maine, shared news on two ing Low gala! I was so pleased My close friend from Carman is married, lives in Chicago and on the radio is WKCR. A year of dual-majoring in computer science correcting the wrongs and, most (the lesser known, third largest of his four. His eldest daughter, to see Ira’s wife, Janet Serle, and Hall days right through to gradua- manages a pet store, and Adele (22), listening to its music — jazz, clas- and computer systems engineer- important, being a part of correct- telecom, which provides services in Kelsey, is a violinist who earned children, Beth ’11 and Allyson ’17. tion and after, Paul Sterne, writes who is a graduating senior at the sical, raga, bluegrass, funk, folk, ing. I told him to hurry up and fin- ing and addressing needed change. 38 states). He also freelances as an a B.A. from The Colburn School, Ira, Janet and I walked into Low that as an empty-nester at last, he ‘other’ CC (Colorado College).” blues, electronic oddities, etc. — ish; the way Obamacare is going, Perhaps the biggest gift Columbia organist at various churches in the in Los Angeles, and is finishing just before Dean James J. Valentini, has time to report some news. First, Larry conveys greetings to his feeds the soul now as it did in 1974. his country really needs him!” College provides is the develop- New York area and earned a doctor- a master’s in music at the New and then met up with Beth and the on the prospect of getting older: “I buddies from Columbia soccer, When our sports get airplay, win, Jeff Canfield is keeping us safe ment and refinement of character, ate in administration, planning and England Conservatory of Music. rest of Ira’s family at the reception. never liked 60-year-olds and now I adding, “I’d love to go to a CC lose or roar, their songs are our in the Department of Defense, moral values, ethical understand- social policy from Harvard. She’s good enough to substitute Now, it’s time for all of us to get am one of them.” soccer game sometime but haven’t songs, too.” where he was “appointed in April ing and awareness to address the It was hard not to be impressed in the violin section for the Boston to work on some of the items men- But, he adds, there are compen- made it yet.” Larry notes that he Chuck Callan, whom I saw at 2013 as a defense intelligence senior good and the bad in life. For that, by the Facebook posting by John Symphony Orchestra. His second tioned above. Our next reunion is sations: “In the Buddhist lifecycle, I won the Dwight D. Eisenhower Homecoming with Alex Demac, level executive and assigned as dep- my tuition is a real value that can- Chen announcing that he had daughter, Cory, graduated from fast approaching, and we need to have progressed to the hermit stage, Student Watch Award in 1977. is keeping up with folks in the uty director for battlespace aware- not be measured in dollars. At this traveled to 750 cities in 30 countries. Boston University and recently left start thinking about it. Please look having exited the householder “Alas, the watch was stolen a College tradition. He writes, “Alex ness for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I’m time of year, I am thankful for the “How about you?” he added. His for Korea to teach English. on Facebook for the “Columbia phase.” His son, Ben, left for UC couple of years ago. Memories of Demac and I met for lunch last also celebrating my granddaughter continued connection with good latest photo was from his vacation One Facebook photo merits a College Class of 1975” page, Like it Santa Barbara in September; daugh- the College remain.” fall and discussed Shakespeare, Marissa’s fourth birthday.” people. in Virginia Beach, Va. Just a wild mention. Tim Marcovy, a partner and contribute to it! And then, too, ter Kate works in sales at box.com As for Harold, he recently re- the Core and related topics. Ben Rob Freeberg writes, “Since “Sorry; every once in a while, a guess, but I bet that Ken Krug with Willacy, Lopresti & Marcovy let me know if you are interested in San Francisco, while daughter ceived two promotions at the Johns Caplan and I got together in Wash- I have only sent updates to CCT person (a psychologist, smile) needs (CFO at The Asia Foundation and in Cleveland, posted a picture of his and willing to serve on our (gulp!) Erica works for The Weinstein Co. Hopkins Medical School — one to ington, D.C., between one of his when I’ve reached a milestone, I to not just talk about professional nominally living in Berkeley, Calif.) taxi driver’s license from 1974. 40th reunion committee. as a post-production director in Los full professor and one to interim many European trips. We all had a figured it’s about time to announce accomplishments but personal feel- could give John a good run for the A great YouTube video came my Finally, send cards, letters and Angeles. His eldest daughter, Ra- director of the school’s Division lot of fun at my pre-reunion Cinco my retirement from teaching. After ings and thoughts as well.” title of “most traveled classmate.” In way showing the Columbia Uni- emails so I will have lots to report. chel, is the chief digital officer of the of Health Sciences Informatics. de Mayo soiree.” 30 years of directing the New Ro- Tim Riedler is another of our October, I saw a Facebook post that versity Marching Band parading You can reach me at either of the City of New York and made the “40 In reference to the latter, he says, As for Alex, he says, “I’ve been chelle H.S. band program, I hung wandering Lions, with an itiner-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES ary worthy of Ambassador Chris Of Columbia interest, during the I studied cities, along with their Richard Cooper is “considering stayed with me all these years: a debate, we have been trying to He recently celebrated his 31st an- He is survived by his daughters, Dell or a feature in The Wall Street past two years I have sung the The politics, history and role in America. seeking the Libertarian Party nomi- One night during our junior figure out the direction of the stock niversary, and he and his wife have Brooke and Lindsay; parents, Sy Journal. He writes, “Sorry I missed Star-Spangled Banner at several CU I have wanted to hold this job since nation for governor of New York. year, Robert Darnell M.D., Ph.D., market and where the economy is four children: Michael (27), Adam and Elaine; and former wife, Randi the reunion [last year]. The last basketball games.” I was in the ninth grade and wrote I have previously served as state M.O.U.S.E. and man from U.N.C.L.E. headed. (25), David (21) and Daniel (15). Shamitz. few years have been hectic. I’m Midwesterner (now) Rob Blank a paper about New Haven’s his- chair of the Libertarian Party.” — now professor at The Rockefeller Eric Goldstein is leaving Paul, Congratulations on a successful Our condolences go out to the a foreign service lawyer with the sends this update: “I was delighted tory and planning. I am delighted News from Mark Itzkowitz: University and, in my opinion, Weiss, where he was a partner medical practice and on a long and Taffler family. U.S. Agency for International De- to catch up with many classmates and excited to contribute to my “My whole family has a Columbia future Nobel Prize winner — and in the litigation department, to fruitful marriage! [Editor’s note: See Obituaries for velopment but will be retiring in a at reunion last spring. On return- hometown in this great way. Come connection now. My older daugh- I were watching the news in the become CEO and executive v.p. of This next update came to me more on Saffran and Taffler.] few months. My wife and I bought ing home, I started a job as chief of visit or send me your ideas! At my ter, Laura ’13 Arts, received her TV lounge at John Jay. Our heated UJA-Federation of New York, the from Elliot Cafritz ’82 via Jeff I am stepping down as the CCT some land in Abruzzo (Italy) and endocrinology at the Medical Col- appointment press conference, I M.F.A. in October. She is the man- conversation took us from the largest local Jewish charity in the Pundyk and concerns a new book class correspondent for 1981. It has we’ll start building our retirement lege of Wisconsin. After a sheltered made references in my comments to aging editor of Untapped Cities lounge into his dorm room, where world. He has been involved with by Lincoln Paine, The Sea and been a privilege reporting on the home there this spring. We’re now career in which I only had to worry the Yankees and Jane Jacobs, which and has had her articles featured one entire wall was covered by the organization for 25 years as a Civilization: A Maritime History of class, as it has allowed me to stay in in Cairo but after three years in about my own lab and patients, I made an impression with the local there and in The Huffington Post, a red poster of Lauda in his Fer- lay leader and in 2013 was named the World. The online reviews are touch (albeit from a distance) with Moscow, where President Putin now find myself responsible for a press. Business Insider, Words Without Bor- rari Formula One car. His face was vice chair. He begins in his new post very favorable. And on November Columbia College. While attending shut down our program, I’m tiring group practice and others’ research My daughter Elana is at Simmons ders, The Culturist and elsewhere. permanently disfigured by a burn this July. 11, there was a gathering of several Columbia and living on the Upper of working in countries where programs as well. I’m finding the in Boston (in a fancy apartment “My younger daughter, Me- from a horrific crash he suffered in a I look forward to hearing from alumni at the Politics and Prose West Side in the late 1970s was not we’re not particularly welcome. management side both challenging overlooking Fenway Park — yikes) lissa ’13 Barnard, was the school’s race in Germany. It was at this mo- you. Send your submissions to either bookstore in Washington, D.C., easy for me, it was a tremendous Before Moscow I was in Baghdad and fun, despite the turmoil related earning a master’s in archiving, and ‘poster child’ in the Summer 2013 ment, staring at this poster, that Bob address at the top of the column, or where Lincoln gave a reading. life experience and great prepara- for a year (also some prickly local to the Affordable Care Act and the my daughter Joy is a sophomore in Barnard Magazine, having been relayed the story that is the subject you can use CCT’s webform: college. Mark Allen sent sad news tion for all that has followed. If you relations, to put it mildly) while NIH research budget.” international studies at American in featured on the inside cover for of Rush. But he said something columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ about the death of his dear friend have not attended a reunion in my family was ‘safe-havened’ in Henry Aronson is in Brooklyn Washington, D.C.; she’ll head off to the ‘Barnard Now: An Appeal for that night that has stayed with me. note. Dr. Alan Saffran ’86 P&S. Alan many years, you should before too Budapest, where we’d spent the and plying his career on the Great China this summer. My wife, Marian Annual Support’; she also had He said that Lauda’s wife was a passed away on September 27, long, as the campus looks fantastic previous four years. White Way. He writes, “I continue Chertow ’77 Barnard, is a professor her photography (From the Roots) beautiful model and that even after 2013, at 53, from pancreatic cancer. and the undergraduates actually “It’s been a great career overall to sport the ’80s big-hair as musical of industrial ecology at Yale and displayed in two exhibitions at this life-threatening and disfigur- Kevin Fay At the College, Alan followed a look happy! and my Columbia education has director of Rock of Ages on Broad- spends her own time in China and Barnard during her senior year, ing tragedy, she did not leave him. 81 8300 Private Ln. always been the bedrock. My way, the 34th longest running India when not down the street. and she combined her photo- I remember looking at his face Annandale, VA 22003 daughter, Pallas, started Wellesley show in Broadway history, which These are good times for us. graphs with my father’s to prepare and imagining the power in their 81 kfay@northridge Paul Feinman ’81 was designated by Gov. Andrew this year, and my son, Laurens, is is coming up on its fifth anniversa- I know we’re a few months in, a grandfather/granddaughter relationship. Three decades later, capital.com skipping the last two years of high ry. My own show, Loveless Texas, is but Happy New Year to you all! book (one of her senior projects), whenever the phrase ‘true love’ is Cuomo as an associate justice of the Supreme Court school to start at Bard College at on the development roster of ROA Losing Balance. She is helping me mentioned, I go back to that dorm I apologize to the class for missing Simon’s Rock in the Berkshires. producer Jeff Davis, with a work- in my legal practice while she room and look at that poster and the deadline for the Winter 2013–14 of New York, Appellate Division, First Department. REUNION WEEKEND Although having both kids go off shop in Florida scheduled for 2014. looks for a more desirable (as if hear that story again. Thanks, Bob. edition of CCT. I did receive one MAY 29–JUNE 1 to college at the same time comes My wife, Cailín, and I lost our that were possible) position in her Go see that movie. update prior to the deadline, which ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS with sadness and is a shock to old Italian greyhound, Wee Seán, chosen fields of anthropology and Can you believe all we had was appears first here. pre-med track and was a sports- I turn this column over to ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott ‘family life’ at home, it’s good to who passed away in September at photography and contemplates a TV lounge? On October 1, 2012, the Hon. caster at Columbia Television. He Michael Kinsella, a longtime [email protected] have them moving successfully on 16, and have welcomed a new IG graduate school. Roar, lion, roar! Paul Feinman was designated by did his residency at Virginia and friend. Michael resides in Con- 212-851-9148 to that next phase. Not to mention puppy, Wee Chappie, who is a rock “You can guess their mom’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo as an associ- was a board-certified otolaryngolo- necticut with his wife and two DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova that this opened up the possibility star: beautiful, endlessly energetic (Ellie Louis ’79 Barnard) and my ate justice of the Supreme Court gist and a partner in an Orlando daughters, who are about the same [email protected] for imminent retirement for me, and dangerously destructive. His pride at both. Ellie and Melissa Michael C. Brown of New York, Appellate Division, practice. Beyond being an accom- age as mine, so we have much in 212-851-7833 particularly attractive with all the hobbies include terrorizing his were featured in the ‘Alumnae 80 London Terrace Towers First Department. The First Depart- plished doctor, Alan was a great common (note: Michael has been tumult around. Maybe now I’ll 11-year-old sister, Luna Rae.” Robert Klapper Daughters’ section of Barnard 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F ment hears appeals from the trial father, husband and friend. He able to retain his hair; mine has have time to go back and read all Another of our musical class- 79 8737 Beverly Blvd., Magazine some time back, and both 80 New York, NY 10011 courts in Manhattan and the Bronx, was a member of the Roach Motel departed). I hope you will support those pages from Herodotus that mates is Paul Phillips, who writes, Ste 303 attended the mother/daughter cel- [email protected] which represents a tremendous League, a fantasy baseball league Michael as the class correspondent weren’t assigned in Lit Hum!” “In 2013 I led the Brown Univer- 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 ebrations at graduation. Those of number of cases due to the high that was formed in 1981 and is the as you all have supported me. He Dan Pincus, who is in New York, sity Orchestra on a concert tour of [email protected] us from across the street were able Spring is a wonderful time here in number of appeals from these oldest continually operating fan- can be reached at mgk1203@gmail. says, “I’m a classically trained tenor Ireland. Also, [with librettist Bill to enjoy the events on campus. New York City as Central Park be- boroughs. Paul says that appellate tasy baseball league in the world com or 16 Millwood St., Milford, who has sung in and around New Harley] I won the North Cam- To start, it’s my duty to report that “It was wonderful to spend gins to bloom, people are out and decision making is a collaborative (I’m not in a position to confirm CT 06460. York since 1981. Later, I became bridge Family Opera 2012 Proposal our 35th reunion is nearly upon us. so much time in Morningside about riding their Citi Bikes and process and very different from be- or deny this fact but you have to Very best to the Class of 1981! a reform cantor and have served Competition and plan to spend Be sure you’re saving the date for Heights while the girls/women baseball season is in full swing. ing a trial judge but he enjoys the admire their persistence — wow). several congregations. Now, I spend much of 2014 on sabbatical from Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thurs- were in school. It’s amazing to see Coach Brett Boretti and a group of new position. In close proximity Alan participated in this league my time leading classical music Brown composing the opera with day, May 29–Sunday, June 1. Our how much the area has changed alumni got together in February to Paul are several other Colum- from 1981 until his death, officially Andrew Weisman classes at senior residences, raising Bill. The premiere is scheduled for Reunion Committee has been hard since 1979. Hard to believe that it’s to kick off the season. Coming off bians: Roland Acosta ’79, ’82L; the winning the league’s 2013 title on 82 710 Lawrence Ave. money for music programs at NYC March 2015.” at work planning activities for our been 35 years since I was the first one of the best seasons ever last Hon. David Saxe ’63; and the Hon. the day after he passed away. He is Westfield, NJ 07090 public schools, leading therapeutic Jonathan Soffer writes, “I teach group, plus there will be a range of to graduate college in my family. spring, the coach and his staff have Rosalyn Richter ’76 Barnard. survived by his wife, Pam; mother, 82 [email protected] drum circles at health care facilities history at NYU and am working multi-class events that we can take Ellie and I continue our private assembled a high-quality team that The next update is for all class- Dolores; brother, Bruce; and chil- and, of course, singing concerts and on a book on Tammany Hall and part in. Saturday is also Dean’s practices, psychology and law, in surely will continue the winning mates who either a) have a tattoo dren, Miles, Nathaniel and Ella. Greetings, gentlemen! I trust all is leading services when called upon. the construction of New York’s Day, which offers the chance to the Boston area, which somehow tradition. [Editor’s note: See story they’d like removed or b) have Thanks to Mark for bringing this well and that all your “doomsday infrastructure.” relive our classroom experiences seems further from New York now on Boretti and Columbia baseball a son or daughter with a tattoo, to my attention and for providing prepping” came in handy during I may need Jonathan’s book through lectures with some of that the girls have graduated. Best in “Roar, Lion, Roar.”] which they would pay to have re- such a thoughtful message to the the recent polar vortex. What’s Your Story? because after 10 years I have left Columbia’s finest professors. It all wishes.” I had a nice dinner with Jack moved. (I fall in the latter category; Class of 1981. Our condolences go Checking in this quarter is our the presidency of the Connecticut leads up to our class dinner on Sat- Robert C. Klapper: My wife and Hersh ’80E, Dave Maloof and it’s a long story.) Dr. Jeffrey Rand out to the Saffran family. award-winning physician Sal Volpe. Letting classmates know Technology Council to become the urday, followed by dancing under I saw an incredible movie by Ron Harlan Simon ’81 at Carmine’s is a board-certified dermatologist I also was informed of the death Not only has Dr. Sal been running what’s going on in your new economic development admin- the stars at the Starlight Reception. Howard called Rush, which takes in Manhattan. The red sauce was in Manhattan with a specialty in of Jonathan Taffler, who passed his own high-tech primary care life is easier than ever. istrator for the city of New Haven For more information and to regis- place around the 1976 Formula delicious, and the great stories laser tattoo removal and is the away on September 13, 2013, after practice for more than 20 years but Send in your Class Notes! and our new mayor, Toni Harp. ter, go to reunion.college.columbia. One season (essentially our fresh- kept us in laughs! Jack is managing only doctor in the country whose a hard-fought battle with cancer. he also is chief medical officer for Aside from steering what should edu. See also the reunion preview man year at Columbia — as if money out of Santa Monica, run- practice is exclusively devoted to Jon was a business executive who Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) ONLINE by clicking be a billion dollars in new building in “Around the Quads.” that were so long ago; for many of ning marathons and flying planes removing unwanted tattoos. Jeffrey resided in Wilton, Conn. He was the Network, a technology firm that college.columbia.edu/cct/ and housing development, I get to Jace Weaver is the Franklin us, it’s like yesterday). It was not in his spare time. Dave is an expert uses the PicoSure laser, which president and founder of two firms integrates vital bio/pharmaceutical submit_class_note. oversee the fun departments, seven Professor of Religion and Native incredible because it was about in maritime law, an avid Jets fan he says reduces the number of (Programmed Solutions and Spitfire information with electronic health in all, including around 300 people. American Studies and director of Formula One racing, a subject and has a son, David II ’17. “The treatments by half and allows for Project Management System). Jon records to support healthcare pro- EMAIL to the address at We create jobs; train people; and the Institute of Native American about which I know nothing. It Big H” (Harlan) is a partner in a effective removal of difficult colors. was described by his friends as a fessionals. He is happy to report, the top of your column. deal with the airport, parking, arts Studies at the University of Georgia was incredible because of the story hedge fund business in NYC. In his practice, Jeffrey sees many force of nature who was a pilot, “My two sons continue to refine and marketing, and I hope we can in Athens. This March, his 12th it told about two men, drivers Stan Lazusky checked in from Columbia students and children flight instructor and sportsman. He their acting chops by participating MAIL to the address at the add IT soon. When I came to Co- book, The Red Atlantic: American In- James Hunt and Niki Lauda. And Hershey, Pa., where he runs his ex- of Columbia alumni as well as developed software, possessed a in their schools’ dramatic and musi- top of your column. lumbia it was as much for the urban digenes and the Making of the Modern it made me think about a moment ecutive search firm focusing on the international patients who book photographic memory and had an cal productions. The position at location and offerings as anything. World, 1000–1927, will be published. from my time at Columbia that has healthcare industry. Always up for appointments while visiting NYC. insatiable curiosity about the world. PDR continues to prove interesting

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES as the company develops products “Larry Sacks ’82E was at the “1990. ‘Four weeks, gentlemen. I found it hard to believe that they a mutual friend’s birthday party. two terms at Oxford in the spring Rueda for their suggestions about 1. For details and to register go to and services, many of which inte- dinner, flying over the wine-dark Four.’ Professor Gray’s baritone were talking about our alma mater. Paul is married to Libby O’Conner and will graduate with honors from what was worth paying attention reunion.college.columbia.edu. grate with electronic health records.” seas from London where he works boomed through the small seminar I always thought of the school I Foglino ’85 Barnard and teaches Harvard in May.” to in 2012 and my darling Melissa Now, on to the updates: It is also worth noting that Sal in financial services and where he room in Hamilton Hall. It was a attended as the ‘scruffy’ Ivy, but math at The Brearley School. He is This past October I attended for bearing with me all the time it With health care a major topic, fully revealed himself as a CC is getting ready to move with his gray, cloudy, chilly day outside the Columbia is scruffy no more. a former CU marching band mem- Columbia Alumni Leaders Week­ took to get this survey finished. National Kidney Foundation presi- graduate by taking exception to family from a flat to a proper house slightly grimy window, and nearly “I felt much more at home, how- ber and is in touch with Robert end, which included a talk about the “My list of the Top Twelve (of dent Bruce Skyer is in the news. the fact that my current employer, in the suburbs. Stately plump Evan as drab inside the room. It certainly ever, after serendipitously sitting Kahn, Dennis Klainberg ’84 and Manhattanville campus. To share the pops) for the year follows: 1, As noted in various outlets, Bruce Janus Capital, has three chief Hollander was also there. Evan had not been painted in 20; no, 30 down at a table already occupied Steve Greenfield ’82. some of the highlights, the new The Mars Volta, ‘Noctourniquet’; expressed “[thanks] to NKF’s investment officers (one of which lives on the Upper West Side with years. Brown streaks ran down by my freshman-year John Jay Jon Ross wrote toward the end campus brings the future forward, 2, Burial, ‘Street Halo/Kindred’; patient constituency and those of is yours truly); he pointed out that his wife and daughter and reported over what had once been ornately roommate, John Cody. My eyesight of last year: “I wanted to take this as there will be 17 acres and 6.8 3, Actress, ‘R.I.P.’; 4, Flying Lotus, our professional members who are the Roman god Janus had two that he is content at his law firm, carved wooden molding, staining isn’t what it used to be, so I didn’t moment, in this season of thanks- million square feet of space, links ‘Until the Quiet Comes’; 5, Goat, on the front lines caring for dialysis faces and therefore we should only Arnold & Porter, where he is a the paint where the heating pipes recognize John across the table. But giving, to express my appreciation among disciplines and campuses, ‘World Music’; 6. Tame Impala, patients for their work in reaching have two chief investment officers. partner specializing in restructuring leaked hot water during the winter when he heard my voice (which for your support. And I want to the highest standards for sustain- ‘Lonerism’; 7, Sigur Rós, ‘Valtari’; out to lawmakers. However, our I’d point this out to the CEO but and bankruptcy. months. The iron radiator under the still carries), he picked up his head specifically mention the tragedy in ability (New York City’s first LEED 8, Galactic, ‘Carnivale Electricos’; 9, work is not over, and we will he’d probably can me if I did, so I “Michael Offen ’84, the group’s window hissed occasionally during and boomed out a very welcome the Philippines. Of course, my heart platinum plan for neighborhood Bat for Lashes, ‘The Haunted Man’; continue to make sure kidney guess I’ll hold off … for now. favorite investment banker, was a class to remind the students that greeting. I also caught up with goes out to the survivors of that di- development), 6,000 new university 10, Crystal Castles, ‘Crystal Castles patients have access to the care and Also touching base this quarter bit late to dinner, but when he did they sat in the same room, with the another alumni author and Spectator saster and hope that the emergency jobs and thousands of construction- (III)’; 11, Stars, ‘The North’; and 12, treatments they need.” is noted esquire David Shine, who appear he reported that he is now same hissing radiator, where Lionel colleague, Eric Laursen ’82, who has response is continuing to help those related jobs during the next several Ondatrópica, ‘Ondatrópica.’” Despite a little rainfall, the an- has an interesting update complete with Guggenheim Partners in New Trilling had first taught Ulysses to written a book about the history of in dire need. I wanted you to know, decades, and an urban campus that nual outdoor Columbia Alumni with a Homeric reference. Before I York and lives with his wife and eager boys in tweed jackets. Wallace Social Security called The People’s since [my nonprofit] MicroAid is a welcomes visitors through open Association soiree during Art Basel REUNION WEEKEND get to it, though, I wanted to share three kids in Rockland County. Gray had been one of them, and Pension. I’m looking forward to long-term, disaster-recovery organi- streets, ground-floor retail, plazas Miami provided a well-needed MAY 29–JUNE 1 that I did a bit of (to quote Derek There, he said, he cultivates his now he was teaching another gen- reading it.” zation, I will go there to help down and public programs. break during an otherwise terribly ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Zoolander) “investagatory journal- garden, because he must. Gavin eration of philosopher kings, only Teddy Weinberger had dinner the road. Our mission is to stay The New York Post ran the fol- hectic time. Yours truly (Dennis ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott ism” and discovered that David is Miles, executive ADA (rackets bu- Joyce was not on the fall semester with my family during his recent focused on areas after the world’s lowing story about Dan Loeb’s Klainberg) was able to jog over [email protected] co-head of Fried Frank’s Mergers reau) in Brooklyn, won the night’s reading list for Contemporary visit to the United States for his attention has moved on. MicroAid holiday card: “Irascible hedge fund from the beach (I was handling the 212-851-9148 and Acquisitions Practice. Among ‘Best Hair at Age 52’ contest; he Civilization. But Plato’s Republic niece’s bat mitzvah. Teddy also is still working in the Indian Ocean billionaire Dan Loeb’s holiday Scope Art fair’s shipping needs) DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova other achievements, he was named reports that his son, Ben, has was, although the memories of it spent time with Adam Bayroff. basin (tsunami 2004), Myanmar card is full of over-the-top family and meet with dear friends Ber- [email protected] a “Dealmaker of the Week” by started college at Oberlin, where he were fading in the minds of the 15 Adam’s son, Logan, recently (cyclone 2008), and Haiti (earth- achievements past, present and nardo Burstein and his wife, Lynn, 212-851-7833 The American Lawyer for his role in will seek to forge in the smithy of young men sitting in silence before graduated from Penn. Teddy and quake 2010). In your thoughts and future — including a Loeb moon and Seth Schachner ’85. Bernardo advising Merck in its $41 billion his soul the uncreated conscience the gray-haired professor. Only four his wife have raised five children generosity surrounding this new landing. Bearing the tag line ‘Not Dennis Klainberg is one of Miami’s best legal eagles, merger with Schering-Plough, and of the Miles clan. Phil Teverow is weeks until the semester exam. A in Giv’at Ze’ev, Israel. He is a true disaster, please don’t forget those Your Ordinary Family,’ it features 84 Berklay Cargo Worldwide while Seth wheels and deals in he is the director of New Class- the founder of a specialty foods thousand pages left to read, and Renaissance man, having been left behind.” on one side a Facebook page-in- 14 Bond St., Ste 233 international media. Seth, his wife, rooms Innovation Partners, a not- consulting business based in 3,000 behind them to review. Wally an assistant professor of religious I spoke to Steve Coleman at spired spread of Loeb clan pictures 84 Great Neck, NY 11021 Allison, and their two kids visited for-profit K–12 education reform Brooklyn and has two kids in col- Gray was an icon: chairman of the studies, writer (he recently hit No. Homecoming on October 12. He that include the wet suit-wearing [email protected] the show the next day, and my company. lege (Oberlin and the University English department and professor 399 in his bi-weekly columns on has a daughter, Sarah ’15. Steve Third Point founder surfing an sons and I met Bernardo, Lynn and So, David, what are you doing of St Andrews) and one soon to be for over 20 years. His senior semi- life in Israel, and he writes for sev- attended the 100th anniversary enormous wave, a mocked-up shot Alumni Reunion Weekend: a his daughter two weeks later at with all your spare time? entering. The financial impact on nars and lecture classes on Eliot, eral American Jewish newspapers), Sachems dinner. More than half of him cheekily engraving a giant chance to reunite, to see old friends Bernardo’s second business, The David writes, “Our friend him of all this college, Phil reports, Joyce and Pound were always over- businessman and tennis instruc- the members of the Senior Society ‘LOEB’ tattoo on his wife Marga- and make new ones, to introduce Guitar Nook. Check it out (and David Fishman and the eminent has sometimes left him feeling like subscribed. English majors battled tor. Teddy’s daughter, Rebecca, is of Sachems attended, including ret’s back ‘circa 1953,’ plus shots of our families, network, celebrate the make purchases) online. The lunch architect Robert A.M. Stern [’60] a patient etherized upon a table. to have him for an adviser. Yet he a professional Israeli basketball former Dean of Students Roger the couple and their kids in exotic successes of our classmates, com- at the nearby Jewish deli wasn’t have published their architectural “I (David Shine) have been still relished the opportunity to player. Lehecka ’67, ’74 GSAS. locations, one of them on a boat.” miserate over departed friends, too shabby, either! history book, Paradise Planned: The living in Armonk, Westchester, for teach freshmen and sophomores in Bruce Abramson reports, “I am Steve also sent in a press release The grandfather of one of my talk about the old times, talk about On December 11, two of our for- Garden Suburb and the Modern City. 15 years, but my wife and I have the ‘Core Curriculum’ classes of Lit- about to launch a series of monthly issued about David Nagle, who has son’s Little League teammates is a the new times, rewind, reconnect mer varsity wrestlers, Andy Barth To celebrate, several classmates held been unable to resist the siren call erature Humanities and Contempo- continuing legal education webi- been named president of Nature’s great Columbia supporter. Herbert and relive the great experience that ’83 and Yossi Rabin, who both a dinner in David’s honor at the of NYC and will be moving back rary Civilization. The great works of nars through Lawline.com on the Way Purewater Systems of Pittston, Soroca ’63, ’66L was a varsity crew was Columbia ’84. won the Dwight D. Eisenhower original Wolfgang’s Steakhouse on this fall when our youngest leaves literature, philosophy, politics and broad topic of ‘Strategy in the Age Pa. The press release notes that Watch Award for the highest GPA Park Avenue (where, David noted, for college. The dinner was long, economics — the basis of Western of IP Holdup.’ The talks will run David had been the company’s v.p. among athletes (in 1981 and 1982, the Guastavino tile interior is one we stayed late and before we knew civilization. They were the bedrock one hour each and are CLE-accred- of sales and marketing and that he respectively), had a personal 30- of the few landmarked interiors in it rosy-fingered dawn crept in.” of the Columbia education, and ited in many states. Though they has more than 25 years of business Steve Coleman ’83 attended the 100th anniversary year reunion in Los Angeles. Andy New York City). After four years Gents, thanks for writing in, and brutal courses for young college all hew to a common theme, I have experience, having managed two is the chairman of and a portfolio of work on the book project, David I look forward to hearing from all men, no matter how well prepared designed them to be independent. start-ups in addition to holding dinner of the Senior Society of Sachems. manager at Capital Guardian Trust reports that he finally understands of you again soon. in high school. Professor Gray was My first talk is ‘Winning the After- executive level roles in two other Company, a division of the Capital that man is born free, but every- molding minds; shaping the course market.’ The other talks are not yet companies. He holds a master’s Group Companies. Yossi is the where he is in chains. of lives. He loved every minute scheduled but I plan to cover the from Scranton. member and coached crew after Thanks to the leadership of owner and manager of Kochavim Roy Pomerantz of it. He prowled the front of the following topics: patent strategy in Wayne Allyn Root sent me a graduating from CC. He also was Reunion Committee chair, Arthur Real Estate in Jerusalem, Israel. 83 Babyking/Petking crowded room, making eye contact the modern economy, the strategic holiday card noting that his book close friends with late former Dean C. Kohn, meetings have expanded Also, Yossi and his wife, Ko- Columbia College 182-20 Liberty Ave. with each student, pouring ideas benefits of IP valuation, the strategic The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide, Harry Coleman ’46. to included Ben Pushner, class chava, get a mazel tov on the birth 83 Jamaica, NY 11412 into their minds like fine wine into a uses of big patent data, the strategic was a No. 1 national bestseller, Steven Greenfield writes, “It president Larry Kane, Alfred Tor- of their third grandchild, Bat-Iyan Alumni on Facebook [email protected] two-week-old jack-o’-lantern.” side of IP licensing, strategic copy- stayed in the top five in bookstores took about 12 months longer than res, Paul Auwaert, John Perfetti, Rabin, on January 4. David Rubel writes, “Thought right in the digital age, strategic for 10 consecutive weeks and was it should have, but my 2012 music James Gorton, Ken Ofori-Atta, Pastrami dreams, and hope to Kevin Chapman and his wife, I’d pass on the good news. Colum- navigation of the standard-setting No. 1 in the world in three catego- survey is complete and available Virgilio Lozza, Averill Powers and see you all at reunion. Sharon Gerstman Chapman ’83 bia admitted my daughter, Abigail, process and strategic IP exclusivity ries at Amazon. His new book, The at permanentransience.blogspot. Dennis Klainberg. Check out the Barnard, are proud to report that early decision. Yippee! In October, in a competitive economy. Murder of the Middle Class, is coming com. Please have a look when you Special note: Many of you have Columbia College their son, Ross, has been accepted I was invited to take part in the “Although I am presenting the out in July. get the chance. Remember 2012? mentioned through the years that Jon White to the Class of 2018. Sharon’s father annual CAA Alumni Authors Book materials in a CLE course, the ma- Wayne traveled the world in The year of Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ you wanted greater participation 16 South Ct. Alumni page! is Dr. David Gerstman ’56, so Ross Fair, which is part of Columbia terials and presentations are geared 2013 for speaking engagements, vis- and Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me with our friends across Broadway. 85 Port Washington, NY facebook.com/ represents their third generation at Alumni Leaders Weekend. During toward anyone interested in the iting South Africa twice and going Maybe’? If it already seems a dis- So this year, we are pleased to 85 11050 alumnicc Columbia. the lunch, held in Lerner Hall (a interplay between IP rights and on his first safari! He was invited to tant memory, this survey will serve report that the Barnard Class of [email protected] Kevin is writing a novel and far cry from the old Ferris Booth), business strategy — technologists, address the Conservative Political as a refresher of sorts. 1984 has been working with us Like the page to get was kind enough to share one of we were treated to a conversa- managers and investors as well as Action Conference in Washington, “Because it took so long for me from the start. What’s more, our This edition’s updates include a alumni news, learn his favorite chapters — a flashback tion between President Lee C. lawyers. If you would like details D.C., alongside Mitt Romney, Sarah to get through this time around, first reunion event will be a shared variety of news from around the about alumni events and to the old college days (set at Bollinger and chair (now co-chair) or know anyone who might want Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul I am dispensing with the usual event, much like last year’s suc- world, around the New York area College happenings, Columbia) of Jonathan Prescott, of the Board of Trustees William details, please let me know. I will and Ted Cruz. The card adds, “[My introductory material, snark and cessful Thursday evening event at and around campus. the protagonist, and his conscience V. Campbell ’62, ’64 TC (still the share the abstracts of the various wife, Debra, and I] are so proud all, in favor of getting to the heart the home of Roy Pomerantz ’83. Joseph L. Novak continues his view photos and more. and confidante, Frank Elkhardt. An football coach to me). Listening to talks.” of [our daughter], Dakota. She of the matter. … I want to thank, So please save the date: career with the U.S. State Depart- excerpt: them sing the University’s praises, I met Paul Foglino ’84, ’85E at received three ‘firsts’ during her as usual, Steve Holtje and Luis Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June ment. He is based in Montreal,

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES where he serves as the deputy bia went undefeated in conference four-year bill can now approach a of the column, or submit news via “He will join our older son, Ross to Columbia via early decision chief of mission and alternate U.S. play and won the Ivy title. Of course, quarter of a million dollars), let me CCT’s webform: college.columbia. ’15E, on campus next fall. Bill and and will be in the Class of 2018, representative to the International Kevin’s relationship to Columbia make a plug for two other things edu/cct/submit_class_note. I are excited and proud to share continuing the Columbia tradition Civil Aviation Organization. The soccer extends back to his member- for which you can volunteer. First, the Columbia tradition with our that Maria and I started 30 years U.S. Mission to ICAO is focused ship on the team 1981–84 (during the the Admissions Office is always newest Lion-to-be and are looking ago. Michael is the oldest of our six on improving the security, safety heart of the team’s eight consecutive looking for alumni volunteers to Sarah A. Kass forward to four more years of eat- children and is thrilled to be a Lion. and economic sustainability of Ivy titles); he also was an assistant interview prospective students 87 PO Box 300808 ing at V&T.” “Maria and I met at Columbia international civil aviation, an men’s soccer coach 1988–93. through the Alumni Representa- Brooklyn, NY 11230 in 1987, were married in 1994 and area in which the United States is At a Columbia event this past tive Committee; you can find more 87 live with our kids in Closter, N.J. [email protected] the world leader. During ICAO’s fall, I was truly fortunate to catch up information here: undergrad.admis Eric Fusfield Maria is an endocrinologist in recent General Assembly, the U.S. with a group of classmates. In the sions.columbia.edu/admissions/ Although thankfully these occa- 88 1945 South George private practice and I am a cardiac Mission hosted a huge delegation corporate world, Michael Cho, who archandbook. Second, the Center sions are still not the norm, I once Mason Dr. surgeon, currently chief of adult from Washington, D.C., which founded Destination RX, now DRX, for Career Education is looking for again find myself with a heavy 88 Arlington, VA 22204 cardiac surgery at NewYork- included the Secretary of Trans- in 1999, sold the company to Con- alumni who can offer internships heart at having to report the death [email protected] Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia portation, the (acting) Secretary of necture in January 2013. Michael (clearly, if you are located in New of Karin Higa, who passed away University Medical Center and Homeland Security and the admin- now leads Connecture’s private York, it is easier for internships on October 29, 2013, following Positive reviews of last spring’s associate professor of surgery at istrators of the Federal Aviation Medicare exchange business as during the semester; but summer or a battle with cancer. Her friend 25th Alumni Reunion Weekend Columbia. I see and work with Administration, the Transportation chief innovation officer and will no between-semester opportunities are Karen Walker sent the following continue to roll in. Margaret many of our classmates and credit Security Administration and the doubt continue to do great things. valuable as well). Go to careeredu remembrance. Traub-Aguirre writes, “It really Columbia for so many of the op- National Transportation Safety Ed Scott is a managing director cation.columbia.edu. “Karin was an expert in Asian- warmed my heart to see so many portunities that I’ve had.” Board. The mission’s activities can at Concord Investment Partners Finally, congratulations to those American art who worked for fantastic people, whom I’ve missed Another parent who is kvelling be reviewed at icao.usmission.gov. Holdings in Riverside, Conn. Con- of you who have children who many years as a curator at the and whose lives have developed (bursting with pride) is Carl A member of the State Depart- cord is a private equity firm special- received early decision acceptances Japanese American National Mu- so wonderfully. We really have Schaerf, whose son, Gabriel, com- ment’s political cone, Joe also has izing in buyouts, middle market at Columbia or elsewhere. You seum in Los Angeles. She was well the greatest graduating class. pleted his bar mitzvah ceremony Columbians gathered to celebrate the bar mitzvah of Carl Schaerf served in Jakarta, Indonesia; Islam- and turnaround investments, with may remember that the Class of respected for her expansive knowl- Plus I feel like no one has aged!” at Congregation Agudath Israel ’88’s son, Gabriel, on December 1. Left to right: Schaerf, Andrew abad, Pakistan; Dhaka, Bangla- a preference for investments in the ’85 led the way last year in legacy edge and numerous contributions (Columnist’s note: I guess I’m in of West Essex, in Caldwell, N.J., Hyman ’88, Molly Chrein ’88 Barnard, Jonathan Lavine ’88, Hal desh; Manila, the Philippines; and manufacturing, distribution and admissions to Columbia, and in the [toward] increasing understanding the minority on that last point.) in December. “My son performed Shapiro ’88 and Daniel Goldberger ’88. Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has served high technology sector. Fall 2014 issue, look for the list of of Asian-American and contem- Margaret is director of global com- beautifully and led the service from PHOTO: OLGA STARR in Afghanistan, meeting with Ha- In the legal arena, after extended classmates who will create a multi- porary art. Karin organized many munications at International Medi- start to finish,” Carl writes. “He mid Karzai, Ahmad Shah Massoud work in the public sector, Hector generational relationship with the notable exhibitions, including a cal Corps, in which capacity she put on tefillin(prayer phylacter- College. My middle son, Noah, landmark 1992 show of art made recently traveled to the Philippines ies) competently, unlike his father, It’s never too late to sign up to the Albright Stonebridge Group, was blessed to receive good early at internment camps during WWII for typhoon relief work. who stumbled on it.” The Class of attend and join in the fun. But why a global commercial diplomacy news and will be joining the Duke and a 2008 show devoted to the art Steve Stastny also shared that ’88 was well represented at the bar not do so now? The dates are firm founded by former Secretary Paul Getzels ’85 is a member of the New York City Class of 2018. We are extremely of ikebana, or Japanese flower ar- he and his wife, Lauren, enjoyed mitzvah, as Jonathan Lavine, Dan- Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1, of State Madeleine Albright and Bar Chorus, the legal professionals’ chorus, which happy, very proud and we get to rangement. She had been named a attending the reunion festivities. iel Goldberger, Andrew Hyman, and you can register at reunion. former National Security Adviser continue wearing blue and white curator for the Hammer Museum’s Steve, a Tulane Law graduate, has Hal Shapiro and Molly Chrein ’88 college.columbia.edu. Sandy Berger. Eric is an s.v.p., as- held its 20th anniversary concert last fall. college attire — albeit a slightly ‘Made in L.A.’ Biennial for 2014 practiced law in Birmingham, Ala., Barnard were all on hand for mazel Sharon Bernecki DeJoy is an sisting clients in China and other different shade. but was forced to step down due for 21 years. After years of working tovs. assistant professor of health at Asian markets. Prior to joining the to her illness. Karin lived in Los for large firms, he opened a solo Keep the updates coming! I West Chester University of Penn- firm, Eric was the deputy assistant and many other Afghan leaders. Morales has shifted to the private Angeles, where she grew up. She is practice in 2011 and is listed in both look forward to your emails. I also sylvania, where she directs the U.S. trade representative for China He has studied French, Indonesian sector, both as counsel to Baker & Everett Weinberger survived by her husband, Russell the employment and commercial encourage everyone to join the undergraduate program in health affairs, responsible for Taiwan and and Bengali in depth. No matter McKenzie in Washington, D.C., 86 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B Ferguson, as well as her mother litigation sections of Best Lawyers in Columbia College Class of 1988 promotion. Sharon says, “I am also China. From 2004 to 2006 he was where he is, Joe follows the Giants, and as vice-chair of Global Strategic New York, NY 10023 and brother. America. Steve and Lauren reside in Facebook page; it’s a convenient a certified professional midwife, at the White House as the National the Yankees, the Lions and Notre Associates, which provides strategic 86 “Throughout her illness, Karin Vestavia Hills, Ala., with their boys, way to stay in touch. although I am not currently prac- Security Council’s director for [email protected] Dame football, and can be found consulting and investment services was remarkably courageous and John Michael (11) and Ross (8). ticing. My husband, two youngest Asian economic affairs. Eric also reading The New York Times. to leading international businesses Happy 50th birthday, classmates! I continued to live her life with zest, Also representing the Class of kids, dog, cat, hamster and I live has held a number of positions at REUNION WEEKEND Back in New York, Paul Getzels with a focus on Latin America, Asia know; it’s painful to see that in print even taking up cycling and travel- ’88 in the legal profession is David together peaceably in southeastern the Department of State covering MAY 29–JUNE 1 continues as a member of the New and the United States. but we should be proud that we are ing to visit the White House for Stoll, a partner in the trusts and Pennsylvania.” Asian economic issues in the Bu- ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS York City Bar Chorus, the legal Brian Margolis enjoys his legal the youngest of the Baby Boomer an event organized by The White estates department of Milbank, Amy Asch recently shared that reau of Intelligence and Research. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott professionals’ chorus, which held practice at Orrick, Herrington & generation, or those born between House Historical Association and Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New she lives in Inwood (the tippity Eric is married to Michelle [email protected] its 20th anniversary concert last fall. Sutcliffe (he has been recognized 1946 and 1964. Throughout 2014, hosted by Michelle Obama in York. “I live in Carnegie Hill,” top of Manhattan, near Columbia’s McGrath, a social worker, and 212-851-9148 The chorus is directed by Paul’s by IPO Vital Signs as one of the top 12,500 of those born in 1964 will celebration of American art. Life David says. “I run through campus football stadium) and is working they have a daughter, Catherine DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova wife, Cathy Schneider. Its mission 100 IPO lawyers in the U.S.). turn 50 each day. So, happy birth- is precious and short, and goes virtually every weekend on my for Playbill, singing with River- (6). Eric has periodically stayed [email protected] is to be a goodwill ambassador of Outside the law and medicine, day and congrats on hitting the fast. Karin was an inspiration for way to Riverside Park and still love side Choral Society and “looking in touch with a number of his 212-851-7833 the New York City Bar, performing Bryan Barnett, having left Con- golden jubilee of birthdays! how we should make the most of seeing it.” forward to reunion.” CC classmates from Carman 11, primarily at community venues corde Investment Services, is an Also, I hate to remind you, but every single day, and appreciate Donna Renaud Schober has Emily Miles Terry Michael Barry writes, “I am a including Rob Kaplan, a partner at such as senior residences, homeless independent consultant and Micro- age 50 is when the American Can- every single hour. It is a testament “been busy for the past several 45 Clarence St. real estate developer and hotelier. Debevoise and Plimpton, who also shelters, AIDS and cancer patient soft Office specialist/instructor. cer Society suggests you should to Karin’s gift for friendship that years as an active Columbia Alumni 89 Brookline, MA 02446 I own a company, along with my lives in Washington, D.C.; Gina residences, and pediatric and John Phelan’s daughter, Unity, start screening for colorectal cancer. more than 500 people attended her Representative Committee (ARC) 89 brother, David ’87, called Ironstate (Shishima) Sosa, a patent attorney [email protected] rehab facilities. Paul’s expanding has been asked to join New York If you want to make a party of it, memorial in Los Angeles in early member, interviewing approxi- Development (ironstate.net). I in Austin; Laura Offut, a doctor in voice-over career (encompassing City Ballet as a member of the corps contact Jack Merrick, who, as was December. Karin was a wonderful mately 30 applicants per year. My I’m thrilled that our long-awaited develop and own properties in Philadelphia; Matt Irvine, a police nearly a decade) includes projects de ballet! reported here four years ago, helps classmate and a dear and loving daughter, Morgan, spent last sum- reunion is nearly upon us and, New York City, Jersey City, Hobo- lieutenant in San Francisco; and for companies such as WFAN (the In the medical world, two class- organize “Scopefest” colonoscopy friend, and she is missed hugely.” mer in Barnard’s High School Pre- even more importantly, that I’ve ken and other urban areas in the honorary Carman resident Karen sports-talk radio station in New mates have new positions: Lane parties. Thank you, Karen. College Program Summer in the heard from so many classmates region.” Michael also shares that (Mochizuki) Kano. Eric’s New York), Phillips (corporate videos) Palmer is now secretary-elect at the Congrats to Mark Fortier for be- As an existential psychologist, City and had a blast covering more who are planning to go. The he has joined the Columbia Uni- Year’s resolution is to catch up and a variety of films, commercials Society for Pediatric Urology, and ing appointed managing director, I know — and I always remind boroughs than I ever did! Because Reunion Committee has been in versity Medical Center Board of with all of them soon. and book trailers. Lucas Collazo is now surgical direc- head of global defined contribution people — that while death is what she’s now a high school senior, I am full swing planning a full and Advisers. Michael is not a medical Mark Zoland is a surgeon in On Morningside Heights, after 20 tor of the Adult Congenital Heart research and product development makes life precious and fragile, taking a sabbatical year from ARC. exciting weekend. Even if you can doctor but the board is made up of private practice in NYC, practicing seasons as head coach of women’s Program at Inova Health System. at State Street Global Advisors. He we have to celebrate life. And we In the past year I’ve been able to only come for a few hours, it’ll be individuals with varied profes- open and advanced laparoscopic soccer, Kevin McCarthy has Kudos to Mark Rothman for joined from Alliance Bernstein and do have a celebration in our class catch up with Tom Boytinck ’90 and worth it because, as one of our 25th sional backgrounds. surgery. He writes, “My specialty resigned to pursue other opportuni- joining me and others among the previously worked at Aegon for as well, as we congratulate Nancy Tom Kamber ’89.” reunion organizers, Matt Engels, I heard from fellow Carman and passion is sports hernia sur- ties. Kevin was only the second head Class Agent ranks. more than 20 years. Silver Basri and her husband, Bill Congratulations to our newest says, “The 25th reunion is it — the 11 resident Eric Altbach, who gery. I have recently been granted coach in program history; in his 20 Aside from being a Class Agent The proverbial mail bag was far Basri ’84, who received the won- Columbia legacy parents, spouses next big reunion after this one, has lived in Washington, D.C., patents on two inventions: a new years, he compiled an overall record and helping the Columbia College too empty this time around. Send derful news on early decision that Michael Argenziano and Maria we’ll all be running around NYC since 1997. He worked primarily mesh for inguinal hernia surgery, of 162–145–36. His most successful Fund raise money for the next in your updates! You can write me their son Noah will be a member Rodino. Michael writes, “My with artificial hips and knees, and in government before moving to and a tray that promotes sharps season came in 2006, when Colum- generation of Columbians (the total at either of the addresses at the top of the Class of 2018. Nancy wrote, oldest son, Michael, was accepted it just won’t be the same.” the private sector last year to join safety in the operating room. The

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two companies owning the mesh, together in New York, continuing SurgiSure and Conform, are in the their parents’ tradition of going to unseen. With its second season often dyed bright, punk-rocker process of bringing the products to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Jenji Kohan ’91 Finds Humor and Truth premiering in June, Orange has hues. In her most recent market. I live in Scarsdale with my Parade balloons being blown up. also received critical acclaim. Christmas card, she and her wife, Stacey, and have three boys, Margaret has a new job as a private two dogs and a whole lot of fish.” banker at J.P. Morgan. This is the Taylor Schilling (“Piper Chap- husband, writer Christopher In Life’s Darker Moments Gil Greenman was married in next step in a career that began in man”) was nominated for a Noxon, pose with their kids — September 2012 to Dr. Lisa Hebner tech startups and then progressed Golden Globe; Regina Spektor, ages 8, 12 and 14 — in match- Vila, a clinical psychologist. Gil to private equity/VC investing and B y K i m M a r t i n e au ’97J who wrote the show’s theme ing Hoodie-Footie pajamas. says, “I split time between Wash- advisory services. Margaret now song, “You’ve Got Time,” was Kohan credits Ullman with ington, D.C., where I work at the helps individuals who had wealth n a period that many break into New York’s spoken obnoxious,” says Lippit. “It ting on the staff of a television nominated for a Grammy. helping her make the leap law firm of Williams & Connolly, created through tech IPOs and would describe as a golden word scene. Aspiring to be the was just her curiosity; she was show,” he told her. Though Weeds and Orange are from writer to show-runner, a and Seattle, where Lisa lives with other sources to manage and grow age for television, Jenji next Spalding Gray or Joe Frank, always observing.” Undeterred, she drove cross- both premised on privileged kind-of CEO of the series who my three stepchildren, Audrey (15), their assets. She loves the more Kohan ’91 has created not she landed an internship at While honing her powers country and settled with a friend white women breaking the law, controls all creative decisions, Sam (13) and Joey (9). My children personal aspect of the work. in Washington, D.C. (really, Alex- And that’s all, folks. Hope to one but two hit TV shows: Franklin Furnace, a performance of observation off-campus, in Santa Cruz, Calif., where she Kohan warns that it would be from writing to casting to the andria, Va.), are Quinn (17) and hear from you soon. You can write IWeeds, a satirical take on the art space located at the time in Kohan concentrated in English began writing speculative scripts “reductionist” to read more final cut. The Emmy she won as Jacqueline and Julia (both 13).” me at either of the addresses at the war on drugs, and Orange Is the TriBeCa, where she ran errands and pushed the envelope in for Roseanne, Seinfeld and The into her artistic intent. She is supervising producer on Tracey See you all very soon, I hope. top of the column, or via CCT’s New Black, an equally subver- and helped set up shows. her writing at school. Lippit Simpsons. One day she handed similarly cagey about whether Takes On in 1999 sits on her webform at college.columbia.edu/ sive look at the criminal justice On weekends, Kohan ex­plored. remembers with a hint of envy her scripts to her sister-in-law’s drugs should be legalized or mantle, and to this day, Kohan cct/submit_class_note. system. Queen of a new, edgier From Morningside Heights to the “A” that Kohan earned for father, who passed them to a the criminal justice system re- follows Ullman’s “sane and Rachel Cowan Jacobs Happy spring! brand of storytelling, the Emmy- SoHo, she wandered a different a paper that used an Elvis bust literary agent. Soon Kohan was formed. Neither show explicitly healthy” management style. 90 313 Lexington Dr. winning Kohan has found a way avenue each time. “I’d stop in lamp to launch a discussion of working on The Fresh Prince of makes a case for either. “I’m By that, Kohan means wine Silver Spring, MD 20901 90 Margie Kim to bring laughs and sharp social places and listen in on conver- philosophers John Locke and Bel-Air starring Will Smith. an entertainer,” she says. “I’m with lunch, no slacking off so [email protected] 1923 White Oak Clearing commentary to mainstream sations,” she said. “In New York David Hume. Kohan worked on several here to start conversations. that everyone goes home at a 91 Our class’s Facebook group Southlake, TX 76092 television. more shows, including Friends The criminal justice system is decent hour and creating a safe (Columbia College Class of 1990) 91 “Jenji is one of the great show- and the sketch-comedy show clearly broken but it’s boring to environment that encourages margiekimkim@ is growing by leaps and bounds, hotmail.com runners of our time,” says Kevin Tracey Takes On, with Tracey sit and talk about that.” risk-taking. That combination right in time for reunion next Beggs, chairman of Lionsgate Ullman. Itching to create a series Avoiding formulaic conven- has inspired an unusual degree spring (Thursday, May 28–Sunday, Greetings, all! Television Group, producer of of her own, she wrote the pilot tions, Kohan has occasionally of loyalty among her crew on May 31, 2015). This group is a great Joel Rubenstein has returned to Weeds, Orange and Mad Men. for Weeds, a comedy-drama taken risks that her colleagues Weeds and Orange, where place to catch up with classmates the United States after three years “It feels like every one of her about a widowed soccer mom have warned against. After lead “Jenji’s sets and Jenji’s rooms professionally and socially in of working with a private equity characters is real, and not a turned dope dealer. Kohan says Weeds character Nancy Botwin are happy sets and happy between issues of CCT. To join, firm re-launching bankrupt food please message administrator companies in Scotland. Joel is now television creation. That is a she wanted to do an outlaw burns down her house at the rooms,” says Beggs. Emily Glickman on Facebook and a v.p. with Nielsen’s market and unique skill set.” show, and that while pot was end of Season 3, Kohan insisted In those sets and rooms, she will add you. To hold you over brand adviser group, based in To survive in show biz it helps illegal it was the “funny drug. It on changing the popular theme Kohan is training the next until you can get on Facebook, let’s Parsippany, N.J. He says he misses to have a thick skin. Kohan served my goals,” she says. song, “Little Boxes,” to custom- generation of talent, which will catch up with a few folks. living in Edinburgh but says that developed hers around the Showtime bought it, and ized main titles, or credits, most certainly include more Nancy Pak; her husband, Jim access to NYC is a decent trade-off! dinner table, where she tested across an eight-season run signaling the show’s transition women. For now, she is one Marshall; and their two children Jonathan Ross writes, “My wife wits against a family of writers: that ended in 2012, Weeds to new narrative terrain. It was of few women to have risen and dog are firmly ensconced in and I welcomed twins (boy and girl, Emmy-winning father, Buz; racked up numerous awards, chancy but as a result, Weeds so high. Her main motiva- Warsaw, Poland, where they moved Leo and Hannah) earlier this year, acclaimed novelist mother, Rhea; including Emmys for cinema- never got stuck in suburbia, tion in striving to become the in July 2012. Nancy is the marketing thus bringing our brood to three director of the Central Europe East along with Madeleine (4). We live in and twin older brothers, Jono tography and sound mixing. unlike Desperate Housewives, boss, she says, was to have region for Colgate-Palmolive. The over-abundantly sunny Santa Mon- and David (co-producer of the The show was nearing its end says Beggs. “We say to our- flexibility in raising her family. family is enjoying a more suburban ica, Calif., and love it. After working ’90s sitcom Will & Grace). In the when a friend mailed Kohan a selves at the studio, never bet As for her own creative needs, existence (compared to their previ- for Fox studios in film distribution, Kohan household, bathroom copy of the memoir Orange Is against Jenji,” he says. Kohan says she likes to work ous home of Bangkok) but Nancy I am now actually ‘making the film’ humor was dismissed as too the New Black, about a Smith There are also few sacred in a noisy room, usually coffee still misses the Big Apple. as a film producer. I am currently easy, and the bar to say some- graduate who goes to jail for cows in her work. When it shops, with a bag of sunflower Adam Jacobs is “living on a for- producing a feature length film for thing funny and original was set a drug-smuggling stint in her comes to getting laughs, all seeds and above all, a deadline mer tree farm in rural New Hamp- HBO about the only verified person almost impossibly high. “Com- past. Kohan saw in author Piper ethnic groups are fair game, not ticking away. shire with my wife, Vivian, and to have walked around the world. edy was serious business in my Kerman the opportunity to cre- to mention potheads, narcis- She is working now on a new our daughter, Kara (3), who warms Look for it on HBO later this year my former-linguist heart with her (with a little luck). I would love to house,” she says. ate a fictionalized version of the sist moms, old people and series about witches in Salem. animated chatter in her three na- hear from and reconnect with other Growing up in Beverly Hills, girl-next-door who could bring gangsters. She is an equal op- It sounds like more gloomy tive languages: Italian, Hungarian ’91-ers.” Kohan had an early narrative together worlds divided by race portunity offender, which is one material awaiting a humorous and English. I left academia in In other career news, John Chun ear that was tuned toward and class. reason, she says, she will rarely treatment but Kohan promises Jenji Kohan ’91 (right) and Orange Is the New Black actress 2006 and am now chief scientist at was appointed a judge to the King the Valley, where her mother Dascha Polanco (“Dayanara Diaz”) on set at Kaufman Astoria “We talk about this country call out colleagues for making the series will look nothing like 1010data, a NYC-based ‘big data’ County Superior Court in Washing- insisted all the “interesting sto- Studios in Queens during a Season 1 filming break. To show her as this big melting pot, but it’s sexist remarks. What she will what has come before. software firm. Most weeks I spend ton state. He reports that Noah Elkin ries” could be found. But when support, Kohan often wore an orange backpack and matching a mosaic,” she told Terry Gross call out is work she considers a couple of days in NYC and/or recently visited Seattle and they had it came time for college, Kohan accessories to shoots. on NPR’s Fresh Air last summer. substandard. “What offends me To listen to the interview with Cambridge, Mass.; I’d love to a terrific time at dinner. John lives went East, first to Brandeis, “There are all these pieces that more than something sexist Kohan on NPR’s Fresh Air, go to catch up with classmates in either in the Green Lake neighborhood of area. Or come visit us in Hungary, Seattle with his wife, Elizabeth ’00 then transferring to Columbia City, there’s always something In her spare time, Kohan are next to each other. They’re is something poorly written or Web Extras at college.columbia. edu/cct. where we spend a few weeks a TC, and their two kids. They’d love as a sophomore. “I liked the funny going on.” Her friend Miya wrote fiction. After winning not necessarily mixing. I’m unfunny or clichéd,” she told year at our little place in the village to have Lions as guests! legacy, the campus and the Lippit ’91 remembers Kohan several contests, she wondered looking for those spaces where Fresh Air. of Hosszúhetény, near Pécs.” Jacqueline Harounian was Core Curriculum,” she says. dragging her to estate sales not if she might be able to write people actually do mix, and The sly, antic humor that Kim Martineau ’97J writes Margaret Flynn reports that her named a “New York Super Lawyer “You’re there to learn and grow so much for the vintage finds for TV after Columbia. Her prison happens to be a terrific Kohan brings to her characters about earth and environmental son, Carson Robison (6), Alexandra in Family Law” for the fourth con- and absorb and figure stuff out.” but more to catch a glimpse boyfriend was skeptical. “You’d one.” can be glimpsed in her public science at Columbia’s Lamont- and Madeline Nobert (Lisa Dab- secutive year. She was also named One of the things Kohan of something intimate about have a better chance of getting Kohan pitched the idea to persona, from the cat-eye Doherty Earth Observatory in ney and Craig Nobert’s daughters) one of “Top 50 Women Lawyers” in hoped to figure out was how to people’s lives. “It was never elected to Congress than get- Netflix, which bought the series glasses to the tousled hair Palisades, N.Y. and Zachary and Lilah Shapiro New York by Super Lawyers, as well (Kirsten Mellor’s kids) spent as a “2013 Women Leaders in the the night before Thanksgiving Law” by New York magazine. An-

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Alexandra Colacito (née Hersh- professor at UW and joined her students will create business plans was very, very excited to have her Ivy, who was promptly modeling Jeremy Weinstein. ability to hit Tom’s anytime — she’s Jennifer Madrid strongly urges dorfer) wants to hear from you if at reunion events last spring. She and help market products as part first sleepover, as both couples’ Columbia garb. Eliza is enjoying Elisabeth Porter is a supervising on West 108th Street — and admire all of you to have a voice in the you live in Massachusetts or Rhode recently wrote a book on startup of this year’s fundraising efforts to kids stayed over as well.” the adventure of parenting. She attorney at Choice Legal Group in her self-discipline. “In 2012 I started next generation of Lions by join- Island — “closer to Providence than culture in New York City called purchase a building for the organi- Some classmates were not able recently moved back to New York Fort Lauderdale but her greatest swimming in the mornings with a ing the Alumni Representative Boston.” Her email is alexandra@ Venture Labor: Work and the Burden zation. He was recently recognized to make it to reunion but there City from Santa Monica, Calif., and joy is curating in her home her masters/triathlon team at Dodge. Committee (for more info, go to colacito.com. She’s a stay-at-home of Risk in Innovative Industries, and for his work on behalf of Queens were good reasons. Here is news is doing social media consulting growing collection of her 4-year- Anyone nearby who is looking for a undergrad.admissions.columbia. mom raising a 4-year-old son but she has a fellowship at Central and was named a Queens Fellow, from some of them, and hopefully for several education and nonprofit old son’s wonderful art (still using workout should join us,” she writes. edu/admissions/archandbook/ plans to return to work when he European University’s Institute for part of the Jewish Community all of you will make it to our 25th! clients. that art history degree). “I’m in the slow lane.” She and her frontpage). “I do interviews as starts kindergarten. She earned a Advanced Study, in Budapest, to Relations Council of New York. George Kolombatovich moved Thanks to Rachel for all the Hope you all are having a great husband, Kelly, recently welcomed regional ARC chair of Westchester. law degree at UC Hastings in San complete her next book on mobile Adrian was honored for his work to Los Angeles last summer to updates and thanks to all of you 2014 so far. And send in your news! their fourth child, Rieve, whose It really does make a difference,” Francisco in 1998 and practiced liti- data and health hacking. She has strengthening the borough, valuing begin work for the new mayor of who shared them. Please continue You can write me at either of the ad- arrival made it two boys and two she writes. Jennifer is married to gation before opting for the “more two 5-year-old boys, Hammer and its diversity through proactively L.A., Eric Garcetti ’92, ’93 SIPA. to send news! dresses at the top of the column or girls. Patricia also gives seminars as Ivan Madrid ’89 and hopes that balanced life” of being a paralegal Gordon. If that doesn’t sound like uniting neighborhoods and com- George is Eric’s associate director via CCT’s webform: college.colum a licensed presenter of “Parenting is one of their children will end up and using her fillable hours with it will keep her busy enough, the munities, building partnerships of homeland security and public REUNION WEEKEND bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. Heart Work.” at Columbia — “but that’s up to hiking, camping, biking and travel- family will be shuttling between MAY 29–JUNE 1 Until next time … cheers! Our next update takes this them.” She loves being the 2014 ing. She married solar engineer Seattle and Budapest for the next ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS column from the Upper West co-chair for the Metro New York Mark Colacito in 2009; they live in two years. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Side to Tokyo. Laurie (Freeman) North Red & White Ball, which is North Attleboro, Mass. Alexandra Dennis Kiely ’96L also made Oliver Staley ’93 is a reporter at Bloomberg News [email protected] Olivier Knox Lebrun has been living in Japan for hosted by the Red Cross. is in touch with Eva Graburn (“via an appearance at reunion. He is a in London, and he and his family enjoy life across 212-851-9148 9602 Montauk Ave. 8½ years with her husband, Ken; As I write this column, there’s a the Internet; she remains in Portu- real estate attorney and lives on the DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova 92 Bethesda, MD 20817 their daughter, Sylvan (11½), and snowstorm in Jerusalem — a rare gal”) and Dalia Cohen, “because Upper West Side — not too far from the pond. [email protected] 92 son, Max (10). “Oh yes, and two occurrence — per a report from we play Scramble With Friends and Columbia — with his wife, Lena [email protected] 212-851-7833 Labradoodles,” she says. Laurie Tobie Strauss Sherebrin. Tobie Words With Friends together on our ’01L, a bank regulatory attorney, Music therapy, a dispatch from Ja- has moved from being a practic- moved to Israel a month after iPhones!” and children, Norah (7) and Fiona and advancing the next generation safety. He helps to oversee the Leyla Kokmen pan, a fundraising start-up, a slow- ing lawyer to recruiting them, as graduation and earned a Ph.D. in And me? You’ll have to write to (5). of leaders. police, fire and emergency man- 94 440 Thomas Ave. S. lane social and How To Get Your she built a Tokyo office for Major, Hebrew language from the He- find out. Elena Cabral ’99J may have had Luckily, Dave Shimkin made it agement departments, the mayor’s Minneapolis, MN 55405 Poem on a Street-Cleaning Truck Lindsey & Africa. brew University of Jerusalem. She one of the shortest treks to reunion. to reunion before his move to the crisis response team, the gang 94 [email protected] — all in my inaugural column’s First-time Class Notes contribu- embarked on a one-year post-doc- She came from her office at the Jour- West Coast last summer. He works reduction and youth development packed mailbag! I hope I haven’t tor Chris O’Brien recently launched toral fellowship at the University Betsy Gomperz nalism School, where she teaches at Cozen O’Connor’s Los Angeles program, and security at LAX and Our 20th reunion is getting closer! forgotten anyone, and if those who a start-up, iKeedo.org, which he of Toronto in August 2009, then 41 Day St. and advises students. Previously, office, after taking and passing the the Port of Los Angeles. He says Hard to believe that so much time wrote to catch up but didn’t want describes as “the only fundraising extended her stay as a professor of 93 Newton, MA 02466 she worked for the Miami Herald California bar. He lives and works that he is having an amazing time has passed since graduation but to be in CCT have changed your platform to monetize the actions of modern Hebrew. That second year 93 and Scholastic News, and she is in downtown L.A. and his practice working with Eric. I hope you’re saving the date for Betsy.Gomperz@ minds, send up a flare! an opposing force.” Suppose you — “over winter break,” in fact — gmail.com thrilled to be back at alma mater. focuses on hospitality, construction, In August Rebecca Shulman Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thurs- The first person to respond was support Cause X. You pledge to she and Shi Sherebrin got married Elena and her husband, David, food and environmental clients. Herz moved to Peoria, Ill., with day, May 29–Sunday, June 1. Our Jessy Randall, who sent a nostalgic give a certain amount every time a in New Jersey. A blizzard deterred The Dynamic Duo is at it again! I have two children, Sebastian (10) Paul Bua writes, “Greetings from her husband, Nathaniel, and their Reunion Committee has been hard nod to Tom’s and a thought- powerful interest group takes to the about one-third of the expected recently heard from Alan Freeman, and Paloma (6). She had a blast San Francisco. Been out in the Bay children, Charlotte (11) and Alex at work planning activities for our provoking note about seeing one of Twitter social media site to oppose guests but did not prevent Tobie who reported that he and his wife, reconnecting with old pals at the Area/Silicon Valley for 14 years (9). Rebecca is a museum and art group, plus there will be a range of her poems (“Why I Had Children”) it. You can set a cap so that the inter- and Shi from boarding a plane for Remy, “joined (literally) dozens festivities. after playing politics in the Beltway education consultant and blogs multi-class events that we can take picked to adorn a street-cleaning est group won’t break the bank. Israel the next day for a celebration of other Columbia alumni for a Another short commute was and gigs in Boston and New York. about the field at rebeccaherzcon part in. Saturday is also Dean’s Day, truck in Sydney, Australia, as part Dickie Bernard broke his Class in Israel. That one was attended showing of If/Then, the newest had by Joe Laszlo. Living at West Working on Paul v 3.0 at this point, sulting.com; click on “blog.” which offers the chance to relive of that city’s writers festival. “How Notes silence with a dispatch de- by the family of RivkA Matitya ’89 production by Brian Yorkey and 110th and Broadway meant he as the tech scene here is moving fast Alex Khutorsky, who lives in our classroom experiences through my poem got chosen is a mystery Tom Kitt ’96. Tom’s wife, Rita couldn’t claim travel as an excuse and furious. Interesting times. Still New York, was sorry to have missed lectures with some of Columbia’s — other poems on other trucks Pietropinto-Kitt, was on hand for to miss the festivities. Joe is mak- trying to wrap my head around reunion and hopes to make it next finest professors. It all leads up to were by Yeats, Rilke and Berry- the show, as was Jon Mathews, ing good use of his master’s in graduating 20 years ago. Was time around. our class dinner on Saturday, fol- man, among others,” she says. Chris O’Brien ’92 launched a start-up, iKeedo.org, and it was great to catch up with international relations (from The happy to attend our reunion briefly Robert Tsai joined Merrill Lynch lowed by dancing under the stars “This will clearly be the highlight which he describes as “the only fundraising platform both of them. There were quite a Fletcher School); he helps manage (was recovering from illness) and right after graduation in 1993 and, at the Starlight Reception. For more of my poetry career.” few other Columbia friends there the mobile division of the Interac- see some classmates. Still get back after finishing the analyst training information and to register, go to It was fun to hear from fellow to monetize the actions of an opposing force.” as well, including Amit Bose ’94 tive Advertising Bureau, which he to New York regularly to see family program, was sent to its Hong reunion.college.columbia.edu. Carman 7 inhabitant Wendy and Liz Hale ’93 Barnard. We had a describes as “the United Nations and friends and hope to be more Kong office. He worked for the And now, a few updates from Greene, who headed to Chicago preshow cocktail reception as well of Internet media companies.” bicoastal in 2014. If you are heading company in the equities depart- our fellow CC ’94 classmates: after CC for film school and stayed tailing how he went to Miami Law, Barnard (née Karin Zuckerman), as a post-show ‘talk-back’ with Getting a fractious and highly to the Bay Area or want to talk tech ment for 17 years, primarily in Roy Gal sent a lovely note, for about six years. “That was clerked for a bankruptcy judge who passed away in October 2010, Brian and Tom, who won a Pulit- competitive industry to agree on (data science, Internet policy, etc.) equity derivatives trading and highlighting his 11/11/11 marriage seriously cold,” she writes. She in Miami for a year, did stints for and by Ilana Sobel ’89 and her zer Prize in 2010 as well as three standards for digital marketing is a drop me a line.” proprietary trading. In 2011, Rob to Christine Norred, which Joseph went to work as a producer and two NYC-based firms there and family. The couple moved back to Tony Awards for their show Next continual test of diplomacy skills. Sharad Samy made it to reunion joined Soros Fund Management’s Biello attended. Roy also shared showrunner for A&E Network ultimately returned in 2001 to the Israel in August 2011. Tobie works to Normal. The new show was ter- Arsenio Santos traveled far to with his wife, Katherine; unfortu- Hong Kong office as a portfolio the more recent happy news that and Discovery Channel. Last year, Big Apple, where he practices cor- at the Academy of the Hebrew rific, and it’s been great fun to see partake in reunion, coming from nately, he was the only member manager, managing money for the on July 24, 2013, he and Christine she moved from production to porate bankruptcy law and raises Language. She adds: “Recently them enjoy such success in such his home in the San Francisco of his 616 Suite Posse to do so. He Quantum Endowment Fund, but welcomed a son, Peregrine Joseph. network and is an executive pro- two daughters (13 and 10). we had the pleasure of hosting a difficult field. My best advice to Bay Area, where he has lived for met Katherine in London in 2009. left the firm last year. Presently Congrats! ducer for History, “where I oversee You’ll want to keep an eye out Rob Scheinberg ’91 and his family classmates in the New York area 20 years. For the past two years, She is from Wales, and a graduate he is semi-retired and taking it Roy is now in his eighth year at shows in production and develop for Kiernan O’Connor’s book, ex- for lunch while they were visiting is to buy tickets for the Broadway he has been quietly focused on of the University of Cambridge. easy by doing lots of hiking, golf the University of Hawaii Institute new series. I love it.” pected in mid-2014 and tentatively Israel for a week. They live in debut ASAP; they won’t regret it.” breathing life into Circa, his news They have two girls, Seren (3) and traveling. Rob met his wife for Astronomy. Last year he became David Abbott is finishing a titled Boomer Doom: Why Boomers Hoboken, N.J., where Rob is the I ordered tickets to see the show startup company. He says the only and Cariad (1), and live in Darien, in Hong Kong and they have two the head of outreach and fundrais- master’s in music therapy at NYU are Doomed to Fail at Retirement, and rabbi of a local synagogue.” in March and can’t wait. vacation that he has taken of late Conn., with their dog, Marlin. In boys (14 and 10), both born and ing for the institute, as well as lead and interning at Beth Israel Medical What You Can Do About It — Before Randa Grob-Zakhary chimed in [Editor’s note: See feature with was to reunion! early 2010, Sharad resigned as a raised in Hong Kong. for its national office as a partner Center. Music therapy? “A col- It’s Too Late! To tide you over until from Switzerland with a cheerful Yorkey and Kitt in this issue.] Adrian Bordoni both planned partner in Orrick Herrington & Maria Ricci is back in New York in the Gemini Observatory, while league’s nutshell description is ‘like then, how about kiernanoconnor. summary of life since Morningside And now, a shout-out to Rachel and participated in reunion. He is Sutcliffe and became the general City after a short assignment in still teaching and doing research. shrinks with guitars,’” he explains, blogspot.com? Heights: “M.D., Ph.D. (neurosci- Mintz, who is essentially serving the executive director of Woodside counsel of Aladdin Capital Hold- Washington, D.C. She continues “Everyone is invited to see what the adding, “In the hospital, we tend Kiernan lives in The Woodlands, ence), Johns Hopkins; McKinsey as my guest columnist for the on the Move, a grassroots com- ings, a Stamford-based hedge her valiant work as an Interna- IfA is doing at facebook.com/uhifa to focus on alleviation of pain and Texas (“just north of Houston”). He 01–04; start-up in early childhood remainder of this column! Rachel munity organization. Among other fund. Sharad reports that “after a tional Woman of Mystery. or on Twitter @UHIfA,” he adds. anxiety but can also get into deeper, and his wife, Jackie, are home- education; now CEO of the LEGO was able to provide updates from things, he is partnering with tech long evening at The West End dur- Oliver Staley is a reporter at Not many other written updates more psychotherapeutically ori- schooling their children, Patrick Foundation since June 2012. Live a lot of you. companies, schools and nonprofits ing reunion, Dev Lahiri; his wife, Bloomberg News in London. His arrived this time though I did have ented work, especially with patients (10), Catherine (8), Mary Margaret near Zurich, Switzerland, with Gina Neff is a professor of to coordinate the first Queens-wide Mythili Rao Lahiri ’94 Barnard; children are 6 and 3, and he and his a delightful, impromptu catch-up facing life-threatening illness.” (5) and Agnes (1). “I hope to return husband, Eric, and two LEGO communications at the University 3-D printing and robotics com- Raj Ananth ’93E; and his wife, family enjoy life across the pond. session with Shawn Vietor More­

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Catching up the inclusion of arts in community training and consultancy projects; daughter, Dvir Hallel, in July. could come up with a navigational ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Edgar Lewandowski and his and her family reside in Los Ange- on two decades in five minutes is development strategies. they are also one of the sector’s Sister Lior is 4. Jill is the executive system for paratroopers. “These [email protected] wife, Melanie, welcomed a son to les, so I’m fortunate to be able to a challenge but I can tell you that Jamie has had a long history of largest grant-makers. Their corpo- director of T’ruah, a rabbinic hu- paratroopers are jumping out of 212-851-9148 their family last April (their second see them regularly. Shawn lives in Brooklyn, is a lawyer working in the arts. His previous rate community investment team man rights organization. She and their plane in the middle of the DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova child) and Edgar was elected part- Richard Plotkin and his wife, for a foundation, looks great and job was at the National Endowment helps corporations develop better her husband, Guy Austrian, also a night, trying to find their location,” [email protected] ner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Emily, welcomed their first child, has a beautiful family. More than rabbi, live in Washington Heights. she explains. Tracy and her team 212-851-7833 in November. Arya Emily, on August 10. They anything, I’m grateful that she saw Dr. Nelson Tieng is one of five designed a vest that uses Haptic Laurent Vasilescu Jordan M. Rosenbaum was happily reside in Buffalo, N.Y. me and shouted out as I aimlessly physician owners of a new urgent technology, or vibration sensors. A 99 127 W. 81st St., Apt. 4B named partner at Stroock & Stroock Congratulations to both couples! wandered around with the baby in Jesse Levitt ’97’s new Brooklyn restaurant, 1 Knicker- care practice, MDxpress Urgent vibration on the right or left shoul- New York, NY 10024 & Lavan. His corporate practice Last summer Jonathan Lemire her stroller. Care, in Mamaroneck, N.Y., which der indicates a turn. focuses on capital markets and left New York’s Daily News after 12 99 laurent.vasilescu@ Also on that Thanksgiving trip, I bocker, is located in a former speakeasy and brothel opened in March 2013 (mdxpress. John D. Alfone writes that after securities, corporate governance, years to take a job with the Associ- gmail.com caught up with Danny Franklin and and will offer a contemporary take on turn-of-the- com). eight emotionally grueling years mergers and acquisitions, private ated Press. He reported on New his kids, who trekked into Manhat- Boris Kachka reports that his as part of the post-Katrina New By the time you read these Class and public securities offerings, cor- York City’s 2013 mayoral election tan from their home in Brooklyn to 19th-century fare in NYC. son, Asher Elias, was born October Orleans cultural renaissance, he is Notes, we’ll be a few months shy porate reorganizations and general and now covers City Hall and the hang out for an afternoon. Danny is 5; he’s happy, healthy and growing packing his bags and expanding of our 15-year Alumni Reunion corporate law. Bill de Blasio administration. He on the leadership team at Benenson nice and chubby. his Gulf Coast Godfatherdom by Weekend, which will be held I was excited to get an email and his wife, Carrie Melago ’04 Strategy Group, the research and for the Arts, where — since joining CSR programs and tools, and their Aba (Yankah) Rogers and her relocating to Houston. Highlights Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. from Carrie Russell, who writes, GSAS, a metro news editor at The consulting firm that ran award-win- the group in 2009 — he was chief of philanthropy division champions husband, Bradford Rogers, wel­ from last year included his annual Our Reunion Committee is in full “My first novel, Drowning Cactus, Wall Street Journal, were named one ning polling programs for President staff and director of public affairs. informed giving through the de- comed a daughter, Aria, on Sep­ visit to the fair city of L.A. with his swing with planning; we held an came out last summer. It’s satirical of The New York Observer’s “Media Barack Obama ’83’s 2008 and 2012 He also has been chief of staff in velopment of tools, processes and tember 7. video production company, Corsair informal gathering at the Lambs fiction about an urban gardening Power Couples” for 2014. They live campaigns. Danny is developing op- two other jobs, at the New York research while also helping fami- Jesse Levitt ’00 GSAS has Media Productions, where he met Club in NYC on November 21, and instructor and a cactus thief who in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, with their portunities for the business after its City Department of Cultural Affairs lies and corporations better design opened a restaurant, 1 Knicker- up with Gloria Bradbury ’97, the will continue organizing and final- unwittingly find themselves in the son, Beckett (2). recent acquisition by Kantar, the data and to Columbia’s president, Lee their giving programs. Aun writes bocker, in Brooklyn. The restaurant head of marketing for animators izing events through the spring. middle of a controversy about the Thanks to all who wrote in. investment management division C. Bollinger. He provided strategic that it is an exciting and rewarding is located in a former speakeasy Brain Zoo Studios. He was also in Of course, the highlight will be our U.S.-Mexican border. You can read Please keep in touch! You can write of WPP. counsel to the Agnes Gund Founda- path for him. and brothel, of which some of the production last summer on a 1950s class dinner on Saturday, followed about it on my website: carrierus me at either address at the top of Keep the updates coming! Until tion from 1997 to 2005. Anastasia Thanopoulos (née original architectural features have period piece, The Arnold Travels, for by the Starlight Reception on Low sellbooks.wordpress.com. the column or via CCT’s webform: next time. Jamie writes that he loved his Yatrakis) and her husband, Billy been restored, and will feature a which he is seeking distribution as Plaza. Check our Facebook page “I was for a number of years an college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ time in Washington, D.C., where he Thanopoulos ’95, live in Brooklyn contemporary take on turn-of- well as a sales agent. for news: facebook.com/groups/ environmental attorney but once class_note. happily discovered good theater and and have three sons, George (8), the-19th-century restaurant fare in Darrell Cohn sent a note from ColumbiaCollege99. And for my children were born (now 2 and Janet Lorin restaurants. Among some memora- Niko (6) and Teddy (2). Anastasia NYC. Everyone is invited for din- Jerusalem, where it snowed the information about the weekend at 5), I took some time off and re- 95 730 Columbus Ave., ble Columbia events were an alumni is busy working in real estate as ner and hopefully soon for brunch day he emailed me (December 12). large and to register, go to reunion. turned to writing, which I studied Sonia Dandona Apt. 14C evening for Tom Kitt ’96 and Brian an associate broker with Skyline as well. He recently started working for a college.columbia.edu. at Columbia. I’m living in Scotland 02 Hirdaramani 95 New York, NY 10025 Yorkey ’93’s If/Then at the National Realty, and Billy is in his second Liliana Lopez is senior officer startup, Woxxer.com, in the prod- On to some updates! while my husband, a psychology 2 Rolling Dr. Theater [see feature in this issue] year with his restaurant, two8two of corporate communications at uct management group. Darrell’s Rebecca Pawel shares the good professor, is on sabbatical from his 02 Old Westbury, NY 11568 [email protected] and Juliet Bellow’s show, Diaghilev Bar & Burger in Boerum Hill. Their Amtrak. She is editor in chief of Am- wife, Leah, is a modern dancer news that she returned to Colum- job in Pennsylvania, which we usu- [email protected] I hope the occasion of our 40th and the Ballets Russe, at the National nephew, George Thanopoulos ’16, trak Ink magazine. Liliana lives in with the Jerusalem Dance Project. bia in September as a Ph.D. student ally call home.” birthdays will inspire classmates Gallery of Art this past fall. Juliet, my is playing on the baseball team this Bethesda, Md., with her daughter. in the Department of English and I had the pleasure of visiting Happy 2014, CC’02! It may seem who have never written in to send freshman-year Carman suitemate, year. Malla Haridat has a new role Comparative Literature. She says old friends Rashmi Menon, Heidi a while ago that we rang it in, but an update. teaches art history at American. Stephen Gargiulo is a manag- on the Center for Career Devel- Sandie Angulo Chen it’s utterly weird being a full-time Yeung and Erica Easley in southern I wish you a happy and healthy Congratulations to Mike Stan- Back in New York, Jamie is ing director in the fixed income opment’s Professional Pathway 98 10209 Day Ave. student again, especially after California in January, where they year, with plenty of updates to ton and Jamie Bennett on their excited to be living in Brooklyn sales and trading team at the global Program’s team at Manhattan Silver Spring, MD 20910 spending so many years on the all live. Rashmi and her husband, share. new jobs. Heights. financial services firm Cantor College as the employer and alumni 98 other side of the desk as a high Jason Kanji, have two boys, Vivek Zena (Park) Tsai had another [email protected] Mike gave up his membership Fitzgerald & Co. Stephen joined outreach specialist. Last summer, school teacher — a bit like being 18 and Nikhil, and live in Los Angeles. healthy baby, this time on June 2. in a small subset of our class when Cantor from Citigroup, where he she was named a finalist in the Happy spring, Class of 1998! I’m again! She had a pretty good time Heidi and her husband, Jim His name is Kyle Emerson Tsai. He he changed employers for the first Ana S. Salper was a director and senior CMBS Count Me In Urban Rebound afraid there’s not much to report as an undergrad but admits she’s Murphy ’00E, live in San Diego was born at 8 lbs., 11 oz., and 20.5 time since leaving Columbia. He 96 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA trader in the global securitized program for her business, Mom and this issue, although we do have having even more fun the second with their daughter, Laura. Rashmi, inches. He joins sister Zoe, who is writes, “In November, I moved Brooklyn, NY 11201 markets business. Prior, he was a Daughters. our first update from Eugenia time around. Heidi and Jim are doctors and from The Bond Buyer, the financial 96 managing director in mortgage Desiree Ramos Reiner is Zuroski Jenkins. We wish her the best of luck in Erica, who also lives in L.A., runs a [email protected] newspaper where I spent 18 years trading at Bear Stearns. celebrating two years as deputy Gena writes, “I’ve never submit- her new journey! successful sock company, Gumball in pretty much every role under Aun Koh decided to step out of Keep those notes coming, my director of communications at the ted an update for CCT, but 2013 Boris Peresechensky has been Poodle (gumballpoodle.com). We the roof, to join a municipal-bond operational work with the commu- fellow CC ’96ers. Otherwise I will Brennan Center for Justice at NYU was a pretty big year so I thought living in Florida for 10 years. (No were all excited to learn that Be- Manage Your insurance company, Build America nications agency The Ate Group, have to fill this column with per- School of Law, where she says she I’d share. I live in Hamilton, doubt he enjoys better winter yoncé wore Erica’s “gangsta” socks Mutual, as head of strategy and which he and his wife founded, to sonal notes about my children (e.g., has the pleasure of working with Ontario, with my husband, Derek. weather than we in the Northeast, in her “Pretty Hurts” music video. Subscription communications. start a journey within the nonprofit Isabelle lost her third tooth recently lots of Columbia College alums, We have a daughter, Ruby Lynn given our single-digit temps of late. That’s all for now, but I’d like If you prefer reading CCT “Beyond that seismic event in sector (Ate is still being run by and Maximillian is obsessed with including its president, Michael (2). I’m a professor of English and I’m envious!) Boris manages fixed to hear from more of you; I know my career, the rest of life remains Aun’s wife, Su-Lyn Tan, and Batman). Until next time, I leave Waldman ’82. Desiree is also enjoy- cultural studies at McMaster Uni- income investments at a boutique there’s lots of news to be shared. online, you can help us stable — still commuting a little too business partners). His new post you with this throwback: ing her newest family addition, versity, where I recently received investment management firm, You can write me at either of the go green and save money long from White Plains (about 40 is director of marketing, advocacy “Lunch is for wimps.” Alejandro Noah, born last April. tenure, and my book, A Taste for Semper Capital Management. addresses at the top of the column by opting out of the print minutes north of Manhattan). My and development as well as the — Gordon Gekko He and his brother, Antonio Tomas China: English Subjectivity and the or via CCT’s webform: college. Classmates, please do not hesi- edition. Click “Manage Your wife, Beth ’95J, and I are bracing corporate community investment (3), should be hitting Morningside Prehistory of Orientalism, was pub- tate to email me with updates or columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ for the tween years with our kids division at the National Volunteer Heights in 2028. lished in May.” questions as we approach reunion! note. Subscription” at college. (10 and 8), who already fill our & Philanthropy Centre, Singapore. Sarah Katz Nicolay Todorov lives in Congratulations, Gena! You can also send news via CCT’s columbia.edu/cct and follow ‘free time’ with everything from NVPC is Singapore’s leading con- 97 1935 Parrish St. Los Angeles and is producing a And to the rest of the class: Let’s webform: college.columbia.edu/ the domestic instructions. synchronized swimming to chess nector of volunteers and donors Philadelphia, PA 19130 documentary on tornadoes for aim for a full column next time — I cct/submit_class_note. Jonathan Gordin We will continue to notify tournaments and Cub Scouts.” with appropriate charities and 97 The Weather Channel. Another know you have exciting news to 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. [email protected] Mike did take a detour from nonprofits. It is also the lead capac- documentary series he produced share, whether it’s about family, 01 Los Angeles, CA 90068 you by email when each The Bond Buyer to earn a degree at ity builder for the sector, providing In November, Sarah Bunin Benor this year, Futurescape, aired in the career, travel or personal accom- Prisca Bae 01 issue is posted online. You [email protected] Harvard Business School in 2002. leadership programs, skills train- won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish fall on Discovery Science. plishments (or perhaps you have 00 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B may be reinstated to receive His wife sits two rows away from ing and grants for nonprofits, and Literature’s Choice Award for her Tracy Hammond, director of something to say about all of them!). New York, NY 10011 Though we’re several months in, the print edition at any time me at Bloomberg, where she covers it runs Singapore’s biggest online book, Becoming Frum: How Newcom- the Sketch Recognition Lab and a You can write me at either of the 00 this is my first chance to wish ev- [email protected] by sending a note to cct@ U.S. interest rate markets. donations portal (SG Gives) as well ers Learn the Language and Culture of professor at Texas A&M, is mak- addresses at the top of the column or eryone a Happy New Year. I hope Jamie in January became execu- as the country’s most comprehen- Orthodox Judaism. In addition she ing waves with computerized via CCT’s webform: college.colum Kim Worly Salzman is an attorney it’s off to a great start! columbia.edu. tive director of ArtPlace America, sive volunteers portal (SG Cares). was included in the The Jewish Daily navigational technology that she bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. for the United Nations High Com- Annie Marquit (née Lainer) and

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of resource development! Too often local communities are trampled on and forgotten, kicked out of their houses and off their farmlands, David Johns ’04, ’06 TC Works to Improve Eq- even though the iron ore, copper and other minerals their lands produce let us build our buildings, uity and Accountability in Education bridges, cars and essentially live our modern lives.” B y D av i d M c K ay W i l s o n Jenny Bach-Lee (née Bach) mar- ried David Lee in June in Manhat- tan. Jenny is pursuing a master’s in ong involved in notes, face considerable chal- few African-American teach- Senate Committee on Health, mental health counseling at Alliance issues of race and lenges in American society. ers. A year later, he enrolled Education, Labor and Pensions. Graduate School of Counseling, education, David Johns talks often about a at Teachers College, where he “I came to Washington to which is part of Alliance Theo- Johns ’04, ’06 TC 2002 study that said there delved into education policy. make a more systemic impact,” logical Seminary; she will begin a now works in the are more black men in prison “David is a terrific amalgam says Johns. “It’s important to counseling internship in May and will graduate in 2015. David gradu- LWhite House, where he helps than in college. As a counter, of idealism and pragmatism,” find ways to scale up best prac-­ ated from Binghamton in 2005 and to lead the effort by President he cites the work of Howard says Aaron Pallas, professor of tices, using policy as a tool to is an associate at RCC Ventures in Barack Obama ’83 to narrow University associate professor sociology and education at TC. make changes on a larger scale.” Manhattan. the achievement gap for Ivory Toldson, who found that “He remains idealistic about Working on the Senate Matthew A. McMillan writes, African-American students. in 2012 there were 600,000 the promise of extending the committee, Johns learned that “In November I was conference “I’ve had an interest in how more black men in col- legislation can move chairman for the 46th Annual educational opportunities lege than prison. Johns at a glacial pace. Talks International Association of Politi- are afforded to nontraditional says it’s important to on reauthorization of cal Consultants World Conference, students, including low-income change the narrative the Elementary and Sec- held in Antigua. I also sit on the board of directors of the organiza- minority students,” says Johns, and support educational ondary Education Act tion. Through my firm, BuzzMak- executive director of the White programs for African- — known as No Child er, I’ve now advised heads of state, House Initiative on Educational American men. Left Behind — began opposition leaders, senators and Excellence for African-Ameri- “We need to invest in 2007; they were not Trevor Sagan ’02 married Lauren Connor in Palo Alto, Calif., on October 5. Left to right: John Culley ’04; governors in 16 countries.” cans. “I’ve been grappling with our time to engage with concluded by the time Laura Pietropinto ’00; Victoria Dower ’03 and her husband, Graham Dower ’03E; the bride; the groom; Please do send me updates these issues over the course of young boys of color,” Johns left the commit- Sarah Keck and her husband, best man David Keck ’04; and Leslie Goodman and her husband, Eli about you and other classmates — my lifetime.” says Johns. “Black men tee in 2012 to work Goodman ’02. I’d really appreciate them! Since joining the White are achieving at higher on Obama’s reelection PHOTO: VERO SUH House in February 2013, Johns rates than in the past.” campaign, where he REUNION WEEKEND has crisscrossed the nation, Education has played was policy and research MAY 29–JUNE 1 26 months older. social entrepreneur, a documentary Sim and Shaun Ting in Singapore. speaking to educators and a big role in Johns’ rise director in the swing ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Sheethal Shobowale’s son director and a new media artist. Jeff was visiting Andrew, who is community groups about the to the White House. state of Nevada. Obama ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott will turn 2 on April 15. She has Also in the arts, Viviana Rodri- doing a rotation with Hasbro in its administration’s dedication to Raised by a single won the state by six [email protected] been working at Google in media guez has started a film production Hong Kong office, and Kenneth 212-851-9148 improving equity in the U.S. mother in the predomi- percentage points, research for 3½ years and can be company with her husband and and Shaun live in Singapore. DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova education system. Its program nantly minority Los which raised Johns’ reached at sheethalshobowale@ co-producer, Stuart Luth ’01 Colby. In other news, Adam Libove [email protected] begins with increasing access Angeles suburb of Ingle- profile in the Obama gmail.com. Morning Dove Films focuses on writes, “In October my wife and 212-851-7833 to quality pre-kindergarten and wood, he rode a bus 45 camp. Trevor Sagan was married to narrative work with social interest I moved to Sunnyside, Queens. extends through K–12, where minutes each way to a While acknowledging Lauren Connor in Palo Alto, Calif., themes. It’s a great community and we are Angela Georgopoulos on October 5. The couple honey- Andres Zuleta has officially enjoying have more space.” 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 the administration wants to charter school in Pacific that No Child Left Behind mooned in Bora Bora. Trevor runs launched his new company, Bou- Ariel Schrag writes, “My novel, 04 New York, NY 10038 increase the supply of well- Palisades, an upscale was not a panacea a production company, Sasquatch tique Japan. You can reach him at ADAM, will be published in June.” 04 qualified teachers, develop neighborhood on the for all that ails the U.S. [email protected] more public-private partner- city’s west side. education system, Films, and recently started work- boutiquejapan.com. Justin Sellman shares, “I’m David Johns ’04, ’06 TC leads White House ing at Facebook headquarters in Let’s fill up the mail bag for next developing a travel bag line for the Hello CC’04! I hope this edition of ships and provide funding for At Columbia, Johns efforts to shape educational policy. Johns says that the law’s Menlo Park, Calif. time. You can write me at either savvy international traveler and Class Notes finds you all well in community-based organiza- helped found Columbia PHOTO: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION requirement that student Also at the wedding were John of the addresses at the top of the festival-goer. I’m also working with your corner of the world. Before tions that support students in University Concerned achievement data be Culley ’04; Laura Pietropinto ’00; column, or via CCT’s webform fashion brands to make their busi- we get to the news, I remind you their educational journey. Students of Color after a series American Dream to all children, made public — and broken Victoria Dower ’03; Graham Dower college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ nesses more efficient through the to mark your calendars: Thursday, The administration has also of campus incidents — in- regardless of the color of their down by a student’s race and ’03E; best man, David Keck ’04, and class_note. use of iPad logistics technology.” May 29–Sunday, June 1 is our his wife, Sarah; Eli Goodman and Jessica Macari writes, “My 10-year Alumni Reunion Weekend. pushed its accountability agen- cluding a satirical article in a skin. And his experience work- socio-economic level — has his wife, Leslie; and Justin Restivo, a husband, Ariel, and I welcomed Eli Yes, it’s hard to believe but it’s been da through grants in its Race campus publication and an or- ing on Capitol Hill has taught brought much-needed attention student in the Film Studies Program Michael Novielli Isaac on July 19. He was 21 inches a full decade since we donned our to the Top competition, which ganization’s critique of affirma- him how to craft policies that to the needs of schools in the at SoA. 03 World City Apartments long and weighed 7 lbs., 5 oz. He Columbia blue caps and gowns aims to hold teachers respon- tive action — sparked student can garner bipartisan support.” nation’s poorest neighborhoods. Christopher Allen was featured Attention Michael J. joins sister Layla (2). We live in and said goodbye to College Walk. sible, in part, for their students’ debate on racial issues. It led Johns’ studies at TC led him “The shining of a bright light in The Huffington Post in December 03 Novielli, A608 Raleigh, N.C.” The Reunion Committee has a academic achievements. to a week of silent protests in to Washington, D.C., where as on this data has resulted in a in an article about arts organizations Block 10, No 6. Jinhui Lien De Brouckere writes, “Last number of great events planned, In the Midwest, Johns has February 2004 by hundreds of a fellow with the Congressional more thoughtful conversation that are dedicated to community- Road, Chaoyang District summer I moved to Washington, all culminating in a class dinner on worked with officials and students, who urged changes in Black Caucus Foundation he on the underachievement of building with “programs that Beijing, 100020, People’s D.C., to join an NGO, Global Rights, South Lawn on Saturday. Please educators in Detroit and St. the Core Curriculum, sensitivity worked on the reauthorization African-American students,” are innovative, challenging and Republic of China as its director of natural resources like the Columbia University - Class Louis on creating access to training on racial issues and the of the Head Start program, says Johns. “And that conversa- diverse.” He is the founder and [email protected] and human rights. I really enjoy of 2004 Facebook page (facebook. director of UnionDocs Center for my work with local civil society com/CU2004) to stay up to date school-based employment creation of an office of multicul- which funds early education tion needs to continue.” Documentary Art, in Williamsburg, Happy Year of the Horse, to those organizations in Afghanistan, the on all events and news. Also, go development opportunities tural affairs. for the children of poor fami- Brooklyn, a community of experi- who celebrate the Lunar New Year. Democratic Republic of Congo, to reunion.college.columbia.edu for African-American men and After graduation, Johns lies. He landed a job as an aide David McKay Wilson, a col- mental media-makers, journalists I was fortunate to catch up with Uganda and Kenya to ensure re- to register for reunion and to the boys. Making that leap from began teaching kindergarten at to U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D- umnist at The Journal News in and artists who present, produce a few classmates during my travels source-rich communities can assert reunion preview in this issue’s school to workforce is crucial The School at Columbia Univer- N.Y.) and subsequently become White Plains, N.Y., also writes for and publish various works of art. during the winter holidays, includ- their legitimate rights, meaningfully “Around the Quads” for info. Five for black men, who, Johns sity, where he was one of the a senior policy adviser to the TC Today at Teachers College. After Columbia, Christopher studied ing Jeffrey Hsieh and Andrew Han participate in the decisions that years ago, we smashed reunion at Trinity College Dublin, then was a ’03E in Hong Kong and Kenneth affect them and share in the benefits attendance records … let’s aim to

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her husband. Britney Williams Ruven is an in-house attorney and was recently named a director at v.p. at Two Sigma Investments USA Network in program acquisi- in New York City, a technology tions, and Dan Jacobs is attending company that applies a rigorous, the Business School’s Executive scientific method-based approach Education Program while working to investment management. at Clayton Dubliler & Rice. Domi- Daniella Ross is graduating nique (Phelps) Clayton moved to from Michigan State’s College of Atlanta, while Jon Sabatini doesn’t Veterinary Medicine this May. spend more than three days in Caitlin Verrilli ’14 Business is a any one city (though he’s based in director at New York City Health Boston) working for Accenture. and Hospitals Corp., focusing on “I was recently made v.p. of healthcare IT. public relations at Full Picture (the Mollie Melissa Kornreich ’09L same company I worked for in was married in November to Mat- college) and I’m handling publicity thew David Podolsky ’09L. She is a for Brooklyn Decker, Adriana Lima, litigation associate at the Manhat- Camila Alves, Revlon, vitamin- tan firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, water, Living Proof and Zappos Meagher & Flom. Couture.” Also in November, Nick Sum- Alumni met in December for an evening of art at Dave Fierman See you all at reunion! mers married Eliza Gray ’10J. ’05’s gallery, Louis B. James, in Manhattan. Left to right: Paul Nick is a staff writer at Bloomberg Reyfman ’05, Ling Wu Kong ’05, Kavior Moon ’05, Coco Cioroiu ’04, Businessweek in New York, where Fierman and David Shapiro ’01. Claire McDonnell he covers Wall Street.

05 47 Maiden Ln., 3rd Fl. Peggy Hannon reports, “In 2012 David D. Chait ’07, ’13 Business and Amanda Mullens ’13 Arch. were married on October 20 in Palm Beach, Fla. Left to right: Wayne San Francisco, CA 94108 I relocated to San Francisco to be Ting ’06, Kwame Spearman ’06, Christina Giaccone ’07 Barnard, Subash Iyer ’07, Jarod Were ’07E, Helam Gebremariam ’07, Zulekha do it again! biking, paddling, caving, shooting, 05 closer to my family and to work claire.mcdonnell@ Inayat ’07E, Michael Glennon ’15 Business, Tom Lightcap ’07, Mohan Ramaswamy ’04E, Martin LaSalle ’07, the bride, Marc Tracy ’07, Congratulations to Andrew cliff-diving, rappelling and urban gmail.com out of my company’s headquarters Nishant Dixit ’07, the groom, Andrew Russeth ’07, Arvind Kadaba ’07, Neda Navab ’08, Jason Chekofsky ’11 Business and James Wil- Briggie, who married Melissa Jean tunneling. in the Bay Area. As a national sales liams ’07. Currier in November in Connecti- Phil Wallace is now v.p. of busi- Happy 2014, Class of 2005. Those manager at SunEdison, I bring PHOTO: MUNOZ PHOTOGRAPHY cut. Drew is a paralegal at the New ness development at Ranker.com, two numbers are growing star- financing solutions to solar energy York firm Fross Zelnick Lehrman & which is based in Los Angeles. tlingly distant from one another … projects around the country. In Zissu. The couple founded EV2BK In September, Sophie Beal’s Speaking of long distances, in 2013 I helped to build commercial Nick Barr writes, “I’m in the schools. I also began my blog on coterie of CC people attended the Scarborough in Charleston, S.C., as Productions & Management, a book, Brazil under Construction: November, I traveled from San and municipal renewable energy midst of a Ph.D. program in social Education Week, ‘Teaching Toward opening: Paul Reyfman, Ling Wu an associate attorney. New York company that manages Fiction and Public Works, was Francisco to Delhi to celebrate the projects in California, Arizona, work at USC, where my research Tomorrow,’ was on a panel for Kong, Kavior Moon, Coco Cioroiu Teddy Diefenbach is a game local artists and bands. published. Also, on Halloween, marriage of Aashti Bhartia ’06 to Massachusetts, New York and interests include mindfulness-based NBC’s Education Nation and was ’04, David Shapiro ’01 and me. designer at four-man game studio Congratulations also go to Sophie and her husband welcomed Kunal Agarwal. It was a lovely New Jersey. Other highlights interventions, emotion regulation interviewed by Secretary of Educa- Tanya Franklin shares, “I gradu- Heart Machine; he successfully Solomon Moshkevich, who mar- daughter Simone Victoria Shen celebration, not least for the won- of 2013 included a swim from and post-traumatic stress disorder, tion Arne Duncan on C-SPAN. I ated from UCLA Law with special- raised funding for its game Hyper ried Ekaterina Moshkevich (née into the world. Congrats, Sophie! derful Columbians in attendance. Alcatraz to San Francisco with my among other things. Other than was most excited to meet President izations in public interest law and Light Drifter and secured publishing Ivanova) in October in Carmel, Christine Vu Luu moved to Courtney Johnson (a second-year dad, and getting engaged to Ryan that I live in Los Angeles with my Barack Obama ’83 at the White policy and critical race studies and on all major consoles. Teddy is based Calif. They met three years ago Memphis in August. She is a law M.B.A. student at the Stanford Flannery ’04E after a bike ride up anxious dog, Winston.” House to receive a White House am the inaugural David J. Epstein in Los Angeles and is a founding while both were studying at the clerk for a federal district judge and Graduate School of Business), Eliza- Mount Tamalpais!” Natasha Shapiro Kovtun an- Champion of Change award for Education Law Public Service Fel- member of the digital design collab- Stanford Graduate School of Busi- is having a great time. She hopes beth Dwoskin and I were there Phil Sandick writes, “In 2013, nounces, “Last year brought me the being a Connected Educator! You low. I represent students in special orative workspace Glitch City. ness. Katya is from Moscow, and to begin practicing patent law after from California. Michael Crowley I began wrapping up law school greatest gift possible, my amazing can learn more at teachinglikeits education and discipline matters Jeremy Kotin is thrilled to the newlyweds now live in the her clerkship, perhaps in Northern and Josh Hadro made the trip from at Northwestern (J.D./LL.M. in daughter, Elizabeth Sydney Kovtun. 2999.com.” and advocate for school policies have become the creative director Mission Dolores neighborhood of California, Seattle or Chicago. New York. Matt Niederhauser international human rights) and She turned 1 on January 11.” Italome Ohikhuare writes, “I’m that promote restorative justice of Tandem Pictures in NYC last San Francisco. Matthew McAndrews is start- hopped over from his home base helped my African Lookbook JonAlf Dyrland-Weaver writes, in my last semester of the M.F.A. practices. I also blog about my work year and to continue his creative Josh Forester recently became ing an M.B.A. at Indiana’s Kelley of Beijing (you might have seen his business partner launch and direct “I believe this is my first time film program at The University at mentalhealthadvocacyservices. relationship with director Baz a national champion at the 2013 School of Business as well as a photographs recently in The New the Museum of African Design in sending something to the Class of Miami. I’m set to produce and wordpress.com.” Luhrmann. He is especially proud Checkpoint Tracker Adventure marketing leadership development Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek or Johannesburg. In May, my wife, Notes section (which is pretty sad, star in a short film I wrote as my of the tribute film he edited with Racing National Champion- program at DuPont. His plans also London’s National Portrait Gallery). daughter and I will move to At- since I knew Peter Kang and my thesis, The Mermaid. It’s about a Baz for Vogue editor-in-chief Anna ships, a 30-hour race through the involve moving to Philadelphia, Anya Cherneff, who lives in Am- lanta, where I’ll clerk for a federal dad, John Weaver ’49, is a class young girl’s loving but volatile Michelle Oh Sing Wintour this past winter. wilderness. It involved orienteer- and he would love to connect with sterdam with her husband, Bennett judge for two years.” correspondent). Anyway, here’s relationship with her schizophrenic 06 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 Justin Ifill writes, “I had the ing, running, trekking, mountain any Columbians in the area. You Cohen, stopped en route to Nepal Mike Camacho reports, “After my update: I have been teaching brother. It’s based on my experi- Philadelphia, PA 19107 pleasure of attending the wedding can reach him at mmcandrews@ where her nonprofit, Empower spending 4½ years in Amsterdam, computer science at Stuyvesant ence living with my brother, who 06 of Dan Kessler and Emily Fox last [email protected] gmail.com. Generation (empowergeneration. in November 2013 I relocated H.S. for six years, doing my best suffers from the illness. My goal is October in California. Many alumni Walker Young and his wife org), brings clean, affordable and to Hong Kong to lead one of through the years to send good to raise awareness about schizo- Hello, Class of 2006! I hope your were in attendance, including Julia Columbia College moved to Los Angeles so that he safe energy products to people in AlpInvest’s business lines for the students Columbia’s way. Last year phrenia in general; so much more 2014 is off to a great start. Here are Nagle; Jon Posen ’07; Anna (Posner) Alumni on Facebook could start a job with The Walt need. All in all, Aashti and Kunal Asia-Pacific region. I’ve been with I co-founded CSTUY (cstuy.org), needs to be done. I’ll let everyone some updates I received from our Harb ’06 Barnard and her husband, Disney Co. He works in the inter- were thoroughly feted by their AlpInvest for seven years, taking a nonprofit focused on provid- know when the film is finished. classmates around the globe in the Raja Harb; Ted Malawer; and Blair national labor standards division, friends from around the world. up posts in New York, Amsterdam ing meaningful computer science I would love to share it with my final weeks of last year. Bodine. It was a beautiful wedding focused on the social compliance Read on for updates on adven- and now Hong Kong. I’m looking education to students who would Columbia community!” Montse Ferrer recently moved and I look forward to more excuses Check out the audit process across the extended tures the world over: forward to meeting more Columbi- otherwise be unable to have it. In Dave Fierman notes, “In 2011 from Singapore to Hong Kong to to head to the West Coast. I recently Columbia College supply chain. This division ensures Yuma Terada owns a Tokyo- ans in Hong Kong, so please reach December, CSTUY was officially I opened, along with R.J. Supa, a be an associate in litigation and closed on an apartment in Queens that Disney-branded products are based literary agency startup, out!” recognized as a 501(c)(3) organiza- contemporary art gallery on the dispute resolution for Clifford and love being a homeowner! Look- Alumni page! manufactured according to ethical Cork, exclusively representing Michael Sin advises, “Last year tion, which will allow us to raise Lower East Side, Louis B. James Chance, a British international law ing forward to the many mini CC facebook.com/ and humane standards and best Japan’s most prominent novelists, was a great one in real estate and funds so that we can put together (louisbjames.com), representing and firm. In early December, she met up 2006 reunions we have throughout alumnicc practices. manga artists and critics. He’d love 2014 looks to be even better. I have weekend and summer programs. exhibiting emerging and estab- with Columbia friends Alex Roberts the year.” Jesse Stowell sent in news on a to hear from anyone interested in been having a wonderful time On a personal note I got engaged lished local and international artists. ’05E, Mike Camacho ’05, Nishant Sam Schon and his wife, Katie, Like the page to get number of alums: “Jaclyn Duran working with his agency or its art- helping people find the apartment to Jamie Thiessen in October and Recently we opened a group show Dixit ’07 and Matias Vammalle ’05 welcomed a daughter, Clare, in alumni news, learn recently returned from American ists: [email protected]. of their dreams or meeting their we are starting to plan our wed- called ‘Touch the Moon,’ curated GS for a night of reminiscing, sing- October and have been reading to about alumni events and Samoa for a program with the Ruven Ellberger ’08L and his investment goals. If you have [New ding, looking at November 2014.” by Kristen Lorello ’04 Barnard and ing (Roar, Lion, Roar) and debating her ever since. College happenings, Department of the Interior. She wife, Lauren Aliza, welcomed York City] buying or selling real Jennie (Cho) Magiera reports, featuring the work of Christian (JJ, Carman or the LLC?). My congrats to all on their lives in Washington, D.C., and their second daughter, Liana Sarit, estate needs, please feel free to reach “Last year was an exciting one! I Dietkus ’13 Arts. Our next show is a As reported by The Post and professional and personal successes view photos and more. regularly sees Margaret Johnson on December 23. Maya Rose (2) out at [email protected]. I am the digital learning coordinator three-artist show; one of the artists Courier, Susannah R. Knox has and joys and my continued thanks ’04E, who moved to Baltimore with is thrilled to have a baby sister. love to help!” for a network of 29 Chicago public is Nora Griffin ’11 Arts. A small joined Nelson Mullins Riley & to everyone who contributes to

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Ph.D. in economics from MIT and is David D. Chait resourced high school students on an economist at the Federal Reserve 4621 Old Cheney Rd., their way to college. Before that I Bank of New York. He says that he’s 07 Apt. 6 taught middle school in Indianapo- Neda Navab “looking forward to reconnecting 07 Lincoln, NE 68516 lis with Teach For America and 08 353 King St., Apt. 633 with my fellow Columbians.” [email protected] edited websites after graduating San Francisco, CA 94158 Betsy (Remes) Purves was mar- from the Journalism School.” 08 ried in Suffolk, England, on August [email protected] I hope this edition of Class Notes Andrew Russeth, Marc Tracy 24; she and her husband were finds everyone well! Here are and Avi Zenilman attended Kanye David Henry Gerson recently delighted to be joined at the wed- some exciting updates from our West’s concert in Brooklyn on produced and acted in a feature ding by Camilla Rockefeller, Emily classmates. November 20. They sang along to film directed by a filmmaker Low, Taylor Harwin and Hannah Katerina Vorotova has turned every word of “New Slaves” and he met at Sundance in 2011. It Girer-Rosencrantz ’08 Barnard. her passion for travel into a busi- applauded when Kanye argued was shot this past summer on Betsy works in arts fundraising in ness. In May 2013, she launched that Drake had been robbed of an the beautiful island of Martha’s Washington, D.C., and her husband Try The World, the first online dis- MTV Video Music Award (“Best Vineyard (eternalreturnfilm.com). will move from London to join her covery platform for international Male Video,” which was given to He writes, “We are now editing in the United States early this year. products. Starting with curated Bruno Mars). and raising additional funds for Claire Blatz earned a master’s gourmet subscription boxes from Ambalika Pinto Sudan hosted post-production. Having a vision, in professional French-English cities such as Paris, Tokyo and a wonderful, Bay Area CC reunion and then watching over time as translation from the ITI-RI transla- Rio, Kat hopes to bring the joy of in September. Among the guests hard work brings it together and tion school of the University of discovering foreign cultures to were Casey Levine, Annie Honart, inspires others, has made this both Strasbourg (France), and is a pro- Emory Dabney ’10 married Jay Dolan on June 8 in Richmond, Va. Front row, left to right: Lauren Ko ’10, Jennifer Velloza ’10, Becky Gallt hundreds of thousands of people Lucía Plumb-Reyes ’06, Lukas incredibly challenging and the fessional translator in Strasbourg. ’10, Abby Stone ’10, Sari Ancel ’10E, the bride and the groom; and back row, left to right: Colin Cameron ’09, Ari Zolin ’10, Elijah de la across the globe. The company has McGowan, Earnest Sweat, David most gratifying of experiences!” In the wake of the Super Ty- Campa ’10, Eric Sadur ’10, Andrew Balmer ’10, Richard Brown ’10, Daniel Spiro ’10, Alex Covino ’10, Rick Fudge ’10, Ruth Singer, Marc received coverage on ABC News, Schor, Marco Zappacosta, Stephen Zak Ringelstein founded UClass, phoon Haiyan/Yolanda that struck Rios ’10, Alyssa Montalvo, Niket Pandey ’10 and Julia Reingold ’10 Barnard. The Huffington Post and NY1, Wang ’06E, Alana Weiss, Jessica the global lesson exchange, after the Philippines in early November, PHOTO: EAGLE EYE PHOTOGRAPHY among others. She is graduating Isokawa and Diego Pontoriero teaching in U.S. public schools and Mark Clemente felt he needed to with an M.B.A. from the Business ’07E. international schools for four years. do something that could help. He School in May. After graduating with an M.B.A. Just a year old, UClass connects came up with the idea of having a Club, was indeed a great success. of 2009 will celebrate its five-year tions with his conservative Indian to get into too much trouble. She is Rina Haverly writes, “A new last spring, Kelsey Doorey launched teachers and students across 86 charity tennis event and exhibition Attracting more than 150 kids and reunion Thursday, May 29–Sunday, relatives. He is also enjoying some now back in Chicago. The Class of bar will be opening in Bushwick, a website, Vow To Be Chic, where countries. Wendy Kopp, founder match that would support the Hai- adults, the event raised more than June 1, with events planned for on newfound free time in which he 2009 can follow her adventures at Brooklyn, at the hand of a CC ’07 people can rent designer bridesmaid of Teach For America, sits on the yan victims. After sharing the idea $15,000 in donations. One hundred campus and throughout NYC. It’s has been playing capoeira, hiding her blog, artistsonthelam.blogspot. alum! The Bad Old Days will mod- dresses. Check it out if you or a UClass board. Last summer, Zak with some of his Singapore friends, percent of the proceeds have been a not-to-be-missed opportunity to and losing at trivia night. com, or on twitter, twitter.com/ el itself on a vintage living room friend is planning a wedding! was invited to the White House and through the great support of donated to GK1 World (Singa- see your friends and catch up on Maya Koenig-Dzialowski is thejennylam. and will welcome both locals and Love is in the air for many to discuss education policy with the Columbia University Club of pore), the official representative all the adventures you’ve had since at P&S and started her clinical far-flung individuals who want a classmates. President Barack Obama ’83 and Singapore, “Hit for Haiyan” was of Gawad Kalinga Philippines, to graduation. And let’s be honest, we rotations in January. Last summer, soft place to land. Please join us in I’m particularly thrilled to Secretary of Education Arne Dun- put into motion. support the rebuilding of the 11.3 all miss Morningside Heights, from she conducted a needs assessment Julia Feldberg late spring for food and drink and share that I, David Chait, married can. If you are a teacher, sign up for A former captain of the men’s million lives affected by Typhoon the Low Steps to our favorite spots in Kampala, Uganda, for a newly 10 666 Greenwich St., Apt. 607 a relaxing evening on our rooftop Amanda Mullens ’13 Arch. on free at uclass.org. varsity tennis team, Mark’s goal for Haiyan. Through the generous on Broadway and Amsterdam. For opened adolescent health clinic at New York, NY 10015 deck. Updates as to our opening October 20 in Palm Beach, Fla. Caroline McNamara did a 717- the event was not only to share his support of SACAC and the Hol- more information and to register, Mulago Hospital. She interviewed 10 [email protected] schedule and construction progress Columbia College alumni in atten- mile road trip through California love of tennis but also to bring the landse Club, the tennis fundraiser go to reunion.college.columbia.edu. 120 adolescents using a question- will be posted to our Facebook dance included groomsmen An- at the end of August. She started Singapore and tennis communities offered fun tennis games, raffle You can also check out the reunion naire that she developed around The Class of 2010 has many great page. We look forward to seeing drew Russeth, Marc Tracy and Avi at the wedding of Meg Lundy in together for a common cause. As prizes and a chance for spectators preview in “Around the Quads.” medical, psychological, reproduc- updates to share. I’ll dive right in: some friendly faces!” Zenilman, as well as Wayne Ting Napa, then drove to the Mojave to this project began to take shape, to watch Singapore’s top-ranked Stephanie Russell-Kraft tive health and logistical needs. Morgan Parker’s first book of Yonatan Brafman and Ariela ’06, Kwame Spearman ’06, Subash visit Rebecca Kelly ’09 and ended Mark realized something remark- tennis players compete in a series recently married Zachary Henson She is working with two pediatri- poetry, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Rosenberg Brafman ’09 welcome Iyer, Helam Gebremariam, James in Los Angeles with Paul Soto and able. He explains, “The immense of exhibition matches.” in Brooklyn, surrounded by many cians at school on this project and Me Up At Night, was selected by the birth of their daughter, Elleora Williams, Neda Navab ’08, Arvind Sam Roberts. Caroline writes, “It support, kindness and generosity dear friends from Columbia they have presented preliminary poet Eileen Myles for the 2013 including maid of honor Hyun findings at conferences in New Gatewood Prize. Morgan earned Zahara. Yonatan writes, “She is Kadaba, Nishant Dixit, Martin was a great adventure and I feel that emerged among so many REUNION WEEKEND Young Kim. Stephanie spent the York and Uganda. She is in the an M.F.A. in poetry from NYU already working her way through LaSalle and Tom Lightcap. Also lucky for all my Columbia friends people from different backgrounds MAY 29–JUNE 1 The Iliad! More chewing than read- joining in the celebration were Mo- who made my trip possible!” joining together to help support last two years earning a master’s in process of refining her results for in 2012 and her work has been ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Rachel Belt Berlin and is excited to be back in publication. featured or is forthcoming in ing at this point, though.” han Ramaswamy ’04E, Christina recently finished her the Philippines [was incredible]. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Alex Alvarez Zulekha New York, where she is a reporter After finishing her M.B.A. last numerous publications, including shares, “I recently Giaccone ’07 Barnard, degree in humanitarian manage- From the planning stages to the [email protected] Inayat ’07E, for the legal news site Law360. spring at Yale, Tiffany Dockery Tin House, Painted Bride Quarterly wrote for a satirical, animated Jason Chekofsky ’11 ment and is working in the Haitian organizing to coordinating donors 212-851-9148 Jarod Were ’07E, Camille Williams is moving to moved to Seattle to work for Ama- and the anthology Why I Am Not A news program for Fusion, the new Business, Angela Prime Minister’s Office in commu- and volunteers, it was a proud mo- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Buenos Aires in March on a Ful- zon as a senior product manager. By Painter. In 2013, she was a finalist cable network from ABC/Univi- Serratore ’13 Arch., Maureen West nications and aid effectiveness. ment to witness such dedication [email protected] Calvin Sun bright English Teaching Assistant- day, she works on a classified prod- for The Poetry Project’s Emerge- sion. I’m moving to Los Angeles ’14 TC, Michael Glennon ’15 Busi- is finishing up and resolve by everyone involved 212-851-7833 early this year in order to pursue ness and Alex Ely ’16L. medical school and hopes he will in making this event a true success. ship for nine months. Afterward uct for Amazon (no, not the drones) Surface-Be Fellowship. A Cave more TV writing work with Fusion Nick Weiler writes, “On June be an emergency medicine doctor The event included speakers Alidad Damooei she will spend a couple of months and by night and on weekends, she Canem fellow, Morgan lives with while trying to avoid driving for 22, I married my longtime sweet- by April! He adds, “I’m also lead- including the vice-chairman of 09 c/o CCT traveling around South America. is falling in love with the culinary her dog, Braeburn, in Brooklyn, as long as humanly possible. Fortu- heart, Meaghan Pugh, in Calistoga, ing an expedition to Antarctica this Gawad Kalinga, Margo Encarna- Columbia Alumni Center Sadly, she will miss our five-year delights of Seattle and enjoying where she is education director nately, there are plenty of amazing Calif. I also defended my thesis December and then possibly going cion, and Jo-e Villagarcia, founder 09 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 reunion but she welcomes our the natural beauty of the Pacific at the Museum of Contemporary college friends — including my last fall and am in the final throes direct from the southernmost of #givingisscocial. Each speaker New York, NY 10025 classmates to let her know if they Northwest. She also completed her African Diasporan Arts. See recent freshman year roommate from of completing my dissertation for part of the world to Pakistan for a shared his or her insight on how [email protected] are in Buenos Aires. first half-marathon in November in publications and upcoming read- Carman 3, Sasha Silver —in L.A. a Ph.D. in neuroscience. I traveled wedding.” Typhoon Haiyan affected so many Akash Gupta is taking a year Philadelphia and is looking forward ing dates at morgan-parker.com. to ease the transition. I’ll miss New to Washington, D.C., in January Christine Han graduated from lives in the Philippines and how If you enjoy reading these Class off from medical school at Yale to to training for her first full marathon Jordan Hirsch writes, “A few York every day but am excited for for a short fellowship with the Boston Law last May and, after trav- the community could help in the Notes to learn what your classmates do an epidemiology fellowship this spring. items of note! I’m getting married the new opportunities That Other National Academies of Science eling in Asia and Europe, started a rebuilding process. have been doing the past few years, at the STD Prevention Division of Jenny Lam was recently in Mi- on June 22 to Samara Jaffe ’13 Coast has to offer.” and work at the Marian Koshland position with the U.S. Department of In the end, Mark writes, “The then surely you will enjoy our first the Centers for Disease Control in ami, where she attended Art Basel Barnard, and I hope many friends Josie Swindler Raymond ’08J Science Museum, and will pursue Justice based in San Juan. She writes, Hit for Haiyan charity tennis event, Columbia Alumni Reunion Week- Atlanta. He finds that his new posi- and what seemed like a million from Columbia and Barnard will has exciting news: “My husband, opportunities in science journalism “I’ll be here for two years and I’d held at the prestigious Hollandse end! Mark your calendars: the Class tion creates entertaining conversa- parallel fairs. She tried her best not be in attendance. I’m in my second

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Lauren “Casey” Hayes-Deats Anne Reilly writes, “I gradu- and say a brief toast in their honor In June 2011, Sean became part writes, “I am still adjusting to the ated from Fordham Law in May about the importance of commit- of the Teach For America 2011 terms ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ after 2013 and am a federal law clerk ment, dedication and unconditional Colorado Corps, where he was marrying Caleb Hayes-Deats ’11L for the Hon. William J. Zloch in the love. a special education teacher in a on August 24. It was a beautiful, Southern District of Florida.” “My son, Jackson Carman Denver middle school. During perfect day on a farm in West Jill Larson became engaged to (named after the dorm), is starting that time, Sean’s students achieved Virginia, and lots of Columbians David Byeff on November 29. Jill to walk, and it’s a miracle witness- the second-highest improvement were in attendance. Alice Sturm ’10 is the director of special projects ing him via FaceTime every day. in standardized test scores of all was a bridesmaid and Jacob Lasser and strategy at Sakar International, Love is kind, love is patient.” special education students in the ’12 sang during the ceremony. a consumer electronics manufac- “I close my update with this: city. While teaching, Sean earned After the wedding, Caleb and I turer, and David is an attorney at Please follow me on instagram@ a master’s in curriculum and honeymooned in France, where I Weil, Gotshal & Manges. They are fatboyyim.” instruction from Colorado. After discovered that there is a limit to planning a summer 2014 wedding. Tiffany Jung followed up Chris’ finishing the corps in May 2013, the number of croissants that I can Finally, Chris Yim shares his note by saying, “I recently joined he joined the founding adminis- consume. quarterly musings: “Is there Chris Yim’s book club, which has trative team for Academy 360, a “[As I write,] having returned anyone out there with some good been life-changing. We read novels health-and-wellness elementary to New York, I am now working to advice about how to convince a that Chris has written.” school in Denver’s Far Northeast produce the inaugural production girlfriend who lives in New York Ting Ting Guo writes, “After community. As the student services of The Cake Shop Theater Com- to make her way out west to San spending the past 1½ years as an coordinator, he supports teachers pany, which I co-founded with Francisco? I love New York and all, expat in China, I’m excited to share and service providers, manages Katie Lupica ’11. Our New York don’t get me wrong, but I’ve had a that I’ll be back on campus in Au- education programs for students premiere of Ferdinand Bruckner’s sip of the California Kool-Aid and gust to start at the Business School with special needs, carries out Pains of Youth in a new version by am here for the time being. I’ll give (with a few CC ’10 and CC ’11 the school discipline process and Martin Crimp was scheduled to you some pros and cons. classmates!). Leading up to school, analyzes academic and behavioral open in February.” “Pros: 1. It’s cheaper to live here. I’ve chosen to leave my job — I pre- data. In June, Sean will move to Sue Yang reports, “I am at Har- You can spend a lot of money on viously worked at a venture capital Philadelphia to start a one-year, Nicole Catá ’11 and Benjamin Theodore were married on June 22 in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Left to right: Hilary Baboukis ’11; George vard Business School with Katie post-baccalaureate pre-medical Escandon ’11; Sara Weaver ’12 Barnard; Stephanie Tarras ’10 Barnard; Laura Benton ’11 Barnard; Ivy Fortmeyer ’11; James Caldarise ’13; Omstead ’10, Edward Kim ’10 and program at Bryn Mawr as he pur- Camille Hutt ’11; Amanda Wild ’11E; Jon Jager ’11 GS, ’11 JTS; Sarah Sechan ’11 GS, ’11 JTS; Daniel Miranda ’10E; Nancy Huemer ’10 Bar- Otto Magdanz ’10!” sues a career as a physician. nard; Louise Beck; Paul Lerner; Brian Wong ’11E; Jose Delgado ’12; Melissa Caffrey ’11; Kristin Berry ’11; Adina Levin ’11; Janine Balekdjian Lauren Patrick is a second-year Lauren Patrick ’10 is a second-year medical student Nuriel is back home in California ’13; Neeraj Borle ’11; Rebecca Greenstein ’10 Barnard and Devon Grandy. medical student at the University of at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in his second year of an M.D./ PHOTO: ALAN WEISS Rochester School of Medicine and M.P.P. program at Stanford. He Dentistry. Last summer she won a and Dentistry. spends most of his time somewhat grant sponsored by the American successfully trying not to fail out, Nicole Catá married her high Feld ’10, Eric Bressman ’10, Jacob all, and for the entire school commu- ing in an array of extracurricular Society of Hematology to conduct and his research interests are cur- school sweetheart, Ben Theodore, Hartman ’10, Boaz Cohen ’10, Ariel nity. Thank you and God bless you activities, including chapel choir, a research and recently presented rent but you can also snag some fund — to volunteer with an NGO rently in surgical outcomes and in on June 22 at the River View in Schaap ’12, Michael Abramson ’13, always. Roar, lion, roar!” hand press printing workshop, a her findings in a presentation and deals. You just have to get really dedicated to providing protection, patient-physician (or surrogate- Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. The Tzipora Quint ’13, Daniel Boiarsky Paul Hsiao, Jennifer Ong, Diane web coding course, an innovation poster session at the national confer- good at Craigslist. 2. You live more personal well-being, economic physician) communication. He Jewish ceremony took place at ’13 and many others. Wang and Michael Chan ’12E say and entrepreneurship workshop, ence in New Orleans. healthfully because the work-life empowerment and reintegration is a voting member of both the sunset in a setting overlooking the “The couple had been dating farewell and good luck to Chris ‘Building a Business’ lectures at Gabriella Ripoll writes, “I balance is better and because the services to women and children American Medical Association and Hudson River and the Palisades. since college and everyone had a Cheung as he shifts within Unilever the business school and a women’s graduated from NYU Law last bars aren’t open until 4 a.m. You who have been affected by human California Medical Association The couple live in Washington, blast seeing them tie the knot.” to its Shanghai division. leadership development program. May, passed the Florida bar and can wake up on Sunday and have rights abuse. I will volunteer in Ha- Houses of Delegates. Two years D.C., where Nicole is a joint degree Paul thanks Emily Ahn for host- I am still involved with 10 Speed work in a boutique general practice a full day. 3. California has so noi for 12 weeks. I’m always happy ago, Nuriel co-founded The Rap In- candidate at The George Wash- ing him for Thanksgiving in Mas- Labs as a part-time contractor. It’s law firm, Arrufat Gracia, in Times much to offer — mountain ranges, to meet up fellow alums: tg2251@ sider — the authoritative source for ington University Law School and Sarah Chai sachusetts. He was looking forward a bit too much, really, but this is the beaches, a coastal highway and caa.columbia.edu.” questionably reliable entertainment the Elliott School of International 12 c/o CCT to spending the New Year in Hong eclectic and relentless lifestyle that I fresh herbs. news — with Jonathan Tanners, Affairs. She is scheduled to gradu- Columbia Alumni Center Kong with Columbia and Hong am used to!” “Cons: 1. Instead of a bro finance Dhruv Vasishtha and Rajib Mitra ate with her J.D. and M.A. in May 12 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Kong Students and Scholars Society Aditya Mukerjee, who began culture, you have a bro start-up Nuriel Moghavem and ’11E, and TRI continues to be his 2015. She is a legal fellow for the New York, NY 10025 alumni, including Andrea Mui and pursuing a master’s in computer Manage Your Justin Cheung ’12E. scene. 2. The public transportation 11 Sean Udell main distraction outside of school. International Human Rights Clinic [email protected] science with the Cornell NYC Tech kind of stinks. A car is nice if you c/o CCT He is also working on launching at the Jacob Burns Community Emily Kwong dropped a note program this past fall, is taking Subscription can have easy access to parking. 3. 11 Columbia Alumni Center The Prognosis, a healthcare issues Legal Clinics and this June will be I continue to be amazed by the up- from Fairfield, N.Y.: “Since Colum- a leave of absence in the spring People are more attractive in New 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 blog featuring the voices of young a summer law clerk in the New dates I receive from our classmates. bia, I’ve continued to fall head over semester to participate in the Blue- If you prefer reading CCT York, in case you’re shallow like New York, NY 10025 leaders, with Jason Han ’12. York office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Patrick Blute received rave heels for radio. After graduating I print Health accelerator for Board- online, you can help us Time that. [email protected] With all of that self-aggrandize- Bernsen & Loewy, an immigration reviews on BuzzFeed and in taught youth media in India and rounds, a startup he cofounded Vanity Fair Benjamin Jack ’07E. go green and save money “In other news, there have been [email protected] ment out of the way, we’re ready law firm. Ben works on teacher and for his production, then returned to the United States with Aditya by opting out of the print some Columbia moments these to hear about the cool things that retention and recognition at DC SPEARS: The Gospel According to study documentary [making] shares, “Boardrounds reduces past few months. We found a ran- We are thrilled to report that the you are doing! Send your updates Public Schools. to Britney, which showed at the in Maine. I am splitting my time emergency room readmissions by edition. Click “Manage Your dom roommate on Craigslist who 2011 Class Notes column has our way via email, text, Facebook, Michal Cohen shared news of Snapple Theater in midtown Man- between two radio internships — improving communication among Subscription” at college. was CC (what up, Maciej Paluch been resuscitated with your new, carrier pigeon, et cetera, et cetera! the wedding of Oren Benzaquen hattan on November 7. with StoryCorps and Radio Rook- inpatient and outpatient physicians columbia.edu/cct and follow ’00?!), forming an intergenerational bicoastal class correspondents! We look forward to hearing from and Emily Berkower ’12 Barnard, Michael W. Hannon writes, ies — making pennies and living and offering dynamic incentives the domestic instructions. apartment. I also have recently Nuriel Moghavem and Sean you soon. which took place in “a beautiful “Taking our Columbia motto to with my parents (this is the life of a for scheduling timely post-dis- ceremony in New York on January heart (In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen), wannabe producer, I’m told).” charge follow-up care. Benji and We will continue to notify joined a CU 2010 book club, open- Udell are teaming up to deliver the The notes below were received ing up many intellectual pores and most up-to-date alumni information by CCT before Nuriel and Sean 26. Their wedding celebration was this summer I’ll be entering a Catho- Yin Yin Lu is at Oxford pursuing I are looking forward to building you by email when each stimulating conversation on tran- that a quarterly magazine could helmed the column: a wonderful opportunity for friends lic monastery in the California desert a master’s in English language. Boardrounds this spring!” issue is posted online. You scendent levels. We’re reenacting Lit offer. Starting today, you can send Zila Acosta writes, “This past from Columbia to reconnect and (stmichaelsabbey.com). I could not She writes, “My dissertation will Congratulations are in order for may be reinstated to receive Hum with wine and food, mixed your news to Nuriel (nurielm@ Christmas break, Brian Grimes reminisce about their years on cam- be more grateful to my Columbia be on one of the most fascinating Amanda Schiff ’14 TC and Scott the print edition at any time in with juicy Columbia gossip and gmail.com) and/or Sean (sean. and I got engaged. We met in Lit pus. In attendance were many Col- professors and classmates for my linguistic phenomena in the 21st Bromberg, who were married on talk of how great it is to be an Ivy [email protected]), or by using Hum and he proposed on College lege alumni, including Michal Co- time in Morningside Heights and for century: the hashtag. But this is just June 30 in Roslyn, N.Y. A number by sending a note to cct@ League graduate. Deep stuff. CCT’s webform (college.columbia. Walk among the lights.” hen, Gilad Bendheim, Jordan Katz, the — perhaps largely unintentional the beginning; my objective is to of Columbians attended the beauti- columbia.edu. “I had the honor of being present edu/cct/submit_class_note), and News also has reached CCT of Daniel Swartz, Miriam Wiseman, — preparation you provided for write a book on the subject! Outside ful ceremony. at the engagement of Mr. Kanye we’ll make sure that it makes it into several CC ’11 weddings. Jonathan Berliner ’09, Jonathan religious life. I’ll be praying for you of my studies, I’ve been participat- Tarini Shrikhande sent an up-

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Come one, come all! working with local teenagers, both she met coaches and team executives Constance Boozer is also “Roar, lion, roar — wherever in and out of the classroom, on de- from the Indiana Pacers and the indulging her academic passions. you may be. Miss you, Class of veloping their conversational Eng- Houston Rockets. In January, Tyler She recently moved to Hyde Park 2012.” lish skills. In his free time, James transitioned to the global merchan- and began a two-year program at Miyako Yerick will graduate also has been working on his own dising group. Chicago, where she will pursue pic rowing coach inviting me to minutes of work. The training is in May with a master’s in global cultural education, focusing on Tyler has been fostering her a master’s in public policy with a train at the Elite Rowing Center in the hardest I have ever done and Answers to Varsity Show Quiz on inside back cover policy studies from the University learning the local Tyrollean dialect. passion for basketball outside of focus on political institutions and Princeton. After a couple of months leaves me at a level of exhaustion 1. Joan of Arc of Texas. She also made the 2013 He has taken to his environment, her career as well, as a volunteer for urban policy. The material has been of a trial period in the fall and my I didn’t think was possible. While U.S. national Taekwondo team hiking in the Alps and experienc- the youth basketball program New manageable for her so far, and she second-place finish in the single at the training is grueling it is easier 2. Terrence McNally ’60 (sidelight: music and lyrics for that and represented the United States ing all that the alpine culture has to Heights in Harlem. She helps coach says her biggest challenge is sur- the East Coast speed orders in No- because of my remarkable team- VShow were by Ed Kleban ’59, Tony-winning lyricist of offer. He made a short visit home basketball teams for girls in the viving the winter in the Midwest! vember, I was invited to stay full- mates. The women at the center are A Chorus Line) to the United States for the holi- sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Constance continues, “Another time. This training center is home from schools all over the country days before returning to Austria In addition to having a full-time CPR has entered my life. This to Olympians, Olympic medalists and from all different backgrounds 3. Herman Mankiewicz (Class of 1917) for a second semester. job as an IT research analyst in time it’s not the Columbia Political and world record holders. As there yet we train every day as one team 4. Dick Hyman ’48 Katie Bentivoglio also has New York, Takeshi Kaji volunteers Review but rather the Chicago Policy are only about 25 women training with one goal — to win gold med- STAY IN 5. The pony ballet been involved in education as a social media coordinator for Review, where I am the senior edi- at the center, it is a huge honor to als at the Olympics. TOUCH overseas. Last August she moved the Icelandic organization Arctic tor on urban affairs. If I’m not in be considered, let alone invited, to “At Columbia I rowed in the 6. Jacques Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS be here. The level of excellence of varsity eight for four years and was to Cairo, Egypt, to work at the Circle. This past October he took the computer lab trying to figure 7. Richard Rodgers ’23, Lorenz Hart (Class of 1918J) and American University in Cairo with a weekend off to attend its annual out why my STATA code doesn’t these women is both inspiring and a two-time captain. I am so grateful Oscar Hammerstein II (Class of 1916) To ensure that you receive its president, Lisa Anderson ’76 assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, work, I’m either at an Institute of intimidating; I am awestruck on to be part of the Columbia athletics CCT and other College com- SIPA, ’81 GSAS. During college, where he live-tweeted and up- Politics event or uptown exploring a daily basis by the quality of the family and I hope to one day repre- 8. False. For many years the Varsity Show was staged in athletes. Some women have been to sent the United States and Columbia munications, please Katie studied modern standard dated the organization’s Facebook Chicago.” midtown, in theaters and hotels including the Arabic for four years, including page during the event. He ob- Samantha Warren sent an two and even three Olympics, and at the Olympics. Go Lions!” Waldorf=Astoria. let us know if you have three summers studying in Tunisia served conversations and debates exciting update about her rowing just this past summer the women’s For a final update, I congratulate a new postal or email and Morocco through the Depart- among major figures in Arctic life. She writes, “After graduation I eight broke the world record. It’s Allison Lieblein ’13E and Will 9. Sid Luckman ’39 address, a new phone num- ment of State’s Critical Language public policy, business and science. moved to Princeton, N.J., and began exciting to be a part of all this. Kender on their recent marriage! 10. I.A.L. Diamond ’41 wrote four Varsity Shows, 1938–41. Scholarship. Katie first traveled to He also met Kuupik Kleist, the training for the World Rowing Un- “With two or three practices a Allison and Will met at Columbia ber or even a new name. Bonus: Women first appeared in the Varsity Show in 1936 Egypt during summer 2012, when former prime minister of Green- der 23 Championships, which were day, this training is a full-time job. and were married on October 12 Click “Contact Us” she interned at the U.S. Embassy land, and Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, held in Linz, Austria, last summer. My daily practices combine on- in Dana Point, Calif. More than but adverse audience reaction led the show to return at college.columbia.edu/cct in Cairo and witnessed Egypt’s the president of Iceland, as well After racing and traveling around the-water training, weight lifting 20 Columbia grads attended the to male-only status until 1956, when women were or call 212-851-7852. historic presidential elections. She as Google’s Eric Schmidt, during Europe for a couple of weeks I flew and cross-training on an erg, some wedding. reintroduced to the cast. subsequently parlayed her passion a panel discussion. 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VARSITY SHOW QUIZ

How well do you know the history of one of Columbia’s great traditions?

1. What was the name of the first Varsity Show, which was staged in 1894?

2. This four-time Tony winner wrote 1960’s A Little Bit Different. Name him.

3. The writer of 1916’s The Peace Pirates collaborated with Orson Welles on the Oscar-winning screenplay for Citizen Kane. Name him.

4. Dead to Rights, performed in 1947, was composed by what noted jazz pianist?

5. When the College was all-male, one of the regular features of the Varsity Show was a chorus line of students in women’s outfits and makeup. What was this VShow staple called?

6. The writer of 1928’s Zuleika achieved fame as an educator and author. Name him.

7. Three Broadway legends collaborated on 1920’s Fly With Me. Name them.

8. True or false: The Varsity Show always has been staged on the Columbia campus.

9. What Hall of Fame quarterback, wearing suit in photo above and escorting former Columbia football captain John Bateman ’37, ’38 GSAS, appeared in 1939’s Fair Enough?

10. Only one man has written four consecutive Varsity Shows by himself. He later teamed THE CAST OF THE 120TH VARSITY SHOW HAMS IT UP DURING A PROMOTIONAL PHOTO SHOOT. with Billy Wilder to pen screenplays for classics such as Some Like It Hot, Fortune Cookie, PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN Irma la Deuce and The Apartment. Name him.

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