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he life of an editor can moment of that decade. His iconic just topple the Defense of Marriage be literally sweet. For photos elicited a collective “Cool!” Act. At 82, Windsor champions gay Issue #17 / Fall 2011 these pages, in addi - from our office, and we knew we rights with the same fervor she had tion to reviewing had to share them with fellow alums. following the 1969 Stonewall Riots. T JASON HOLLANDER (GAL ’07) best-selling books, Also “cool” was sitting across the Lastly, some news to share: Editor-in-Chief exploring pivotal research, and in - table from the legendary Clive Davis We’re proud to report that the mag - NICOLE PEZOLD (GSAS ’04) terviewing scholars and celebrities, (“The Man With the Platinum azine won two 2011 Circle of Ex - Deputy Editor REN ´EE ALFUSO (CAS ’06) we were required to taste-test gour - Ears,” p. 32) as he discussed the cellence awards from the nonprofit Staff Writer met doughnuts (“Best of Council for Advancement JOHN KLOTNIA / OPTO DESIGN New York,” p. 20). Call it and Support of Education. Creative Director the icing on the cruller of We received a bronze for Articles Issue 17, in which we were College and University JOSEPH MANGHISE yet again amazed to discov - General Interest Magazines Copy Chief er the legions of fascinating with a subscription of more DAVID COHEN and talented people associ - than 75,000, and another Research Chief ELISABETH BROWN (CAS ’11) ated with NYU. bronze for Excellence in CARLY OKYLE (GSAS ’12) In this issue, we chose Design for our Spring 2010 Editorial Interns to feature three alumni cover, “The Icon That Al - Art / Opto Design whose life’s work was trail - most Wasn’t,” which fea - RON LOUIE blazing in their fields—pho - tured a photo by Joel Art Director tography, the music business, and evolution of his career. Davis dis - Sternfeld of New York City’s High KIRA CSAKANY civil rights. But as the stories un - covered his musical ear at the Mon - Line before it was revamped as a Designer folded, we realized that they all terey Pop Festival in 1967 and, at public park. JESSIE CLEAR Photo Research Director shared a common thread: Their ca - 79, is still searching for new stars Whether it’s through one story reers were crystallized in the turbu - while also regularly appearing on or many, we hope the Fall 2011 is - Advertising lent 1960s. Robert Gomel (“A American Idol . Finally, we are proud sue sweetens your season, too. 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BROWN a writer for The Atlantic ’s website. have graced the pages of Newsweek , Senior Vice President for University Relations and Public Affairs JILL HAMBURG COPLAN Time The New York Times is an , and , as DEBRA A. LAMORTE adjunct professor of journalism at MATTHEW HUTSON is the author well as numerous children’s books Senior Vice President for University NYU and is currently a Fulbright of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking and advertising campaigns. Development and Alumni Relations lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies (Hudson Street Press). He’s also REGINA SYQUIA DREW (WAG ’01) Deputy Director, Strategic Initiatives University. written for Discover and Scientific ANDREA VENTURA is an illus - American Mind . trator whose work has been pub - New York University ANDREA CRAWFORD has covered lished in The New Yorker , Rolling Alumni Association cultural news for 15 years. 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A MASTER’S PRICELESS WORK IS FOUND

by Megan Doll / GSAS ’08

ianne Dwyer Modes - Leonardo,” she explains. “The tran - lost work. tini had just finished sition is literally imperceptible at The provenance of the piece re - cleaning and restor - close range.” Anxious to find fur - mains murky. Unsubstantiated the - Ding Andrea del Sar - ther proof, she noted a similar cor - ories suggest that the panel was to’s Madonna and respondence in Christ’s eyes and created for France’s Louis XII cir - Child when, in 2005, gallerist and nose; the well-preserved curls of his ca 1500. The first documented art historian Robert Simon brought hair were nearly identical to owner of the painting, however, a new project to her Upper East Leonardo’s St. John the Baptist . With was King Charles I of England; the Side home. The recently acquired her heart pounding and her hands work was recorded in his collec - work, a 16th-century oil painting trembling, Modestini set down her tion in 1649. Later owned by on a walnut panel, was believed to brushes, closed her jars, and left the Charles II and the Duke of Buck - be a common copy of Leonardo da IFA for home. ingham, all trace of the painting is Vinci’s lost Salvator Mundi (Savior of The discovery of Leonardo’s Sal - lost between its auction by the the World ). Though damaged and vator Mundi —now unanimously Duke of Buckingham’s son in 1763 obscured by crude overpaint from authenticated by leading Leonardo and its acquisition in 1900 by art earlier attempts at restoration, both experts—changes the artist’s sur - connoisseur Sir Francis Cook, Modestini and Simon could see viving oeuvre as we know it. Ow - whose descendants auctioned it at passages of extremely high quality. ing to his at times unfortunate Sotheby’s in 1958. Thought to be As she set about retouching it, experimentation with pigments, only a copy, the work was sold for Modestini, senior research fellow there were only 14 known Leonar - a mere £45 and was part of an American collection until 2005, when it was purchased at an estate Though not for sale, the piece sale by the current owners, who would fetch a rumored $200 wish to remain anonymous. The panel arrived at Modestini’s million on today’s art market. home in poor condition. Earlier restoration attempts had yielded and paintings conservator in the do oil paintings prior to the discov - dubious results: At one point re - Conservation Center of NYU’s In - ery of the Salvator Mundi . “To add storers had repaired the cracked and stitute of Fine Arts (IFA), uncov - another painting to that number is bowed panel by using stucco fill, ered a work of remarkable delicacy. tremendous,” Simon says. Though gluing it to another backing, and She found the painter’s nimble not for sale, the piece would fetch painting over the suture. When technique difficult to imitate—the a rumored $200 million on today’s Modestini removed the layers of final glazes were so finely applied art market, according to ARTnews . varnish and overpaint with a mix - that they appeared blown on rather While there remains some ques - ture of acetone and petroleum spir - than painted with a brush. Three tion as to whether the work was its, she found the original paint to years into the restoration process, as painted in Florence or Milan, the be quite damaged. She also uncov - she labored over the subtle transi - panel will make its public debut at ered an interesting pentimento (ves - tion between tones in Christ’s dam - the National Gallery in London in tiges of an artist’s reconsidered aged upper lip, Modestini turned to an exhibition titled “Leonardo da compositional ideas) on Christ’s a high-resolution photograph of Vinci: Painter at the Court of Mi - blessing hand: a layer of bright pink Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and found a lan.” A documentary film of the underpaint indicating that the shocking similarity. “I suddenly re - same name, which will coincide thumb was originally laid in at a alized that the Salvator Mundi could - with the exhibit’s November open - more vertical position. For Simon, n’t be by any painter other than ing, touches on the discovery of the it was this evidence of the artist’s

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do’s authorship. (This E pentimento was pho - tographed but eventu - ally covered in the retouching process, as per Leonardo’s inten - tion.) Beginning in 2007, the panel was presented to a select group of connoisseurs during various phases of its restoration. In 2008, the paint - ing was studied at both the Metro - politan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London, where it was compared to Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks by curators, historians, and heavy - weight Leonardo scholar Martin Kemp. “Walking into the room I thought, Ah! This is really some - thing ,” recalls Kemp, Oxford Uni - versity Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art, who, as a Leonardo authenticator, dashes the hopes of would-be dis - coverers on an almost weekly basis. Kemp says that it is a clear match in terms of technique, from the way the flesh tones are laid in with thin veils of glosses to the artist’s use of his fingers in the paint on Christ’s P H O

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NYU / FALL 2011 / 11 biology the biologists compared three va - S rieties of cave fish from separate

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E similar sleep habits. They got 110 to 250 minutes of sleep per 24- THE FISHES hour period—versus more than 800 minutes for the surface fish. by Matthew Hutson Despite so few winks, the cave fish were just as active when awake as the surface fish, indicat - leep is one of the hours a night. But, according to types of cave fish to sleep only ing that a lack of sleep did not de - most mysterious be - new research on cave fish, eight is two to four hours a night, far less plete their abilities. (The haviors in the ani - not a magic number. In an alter - than the 13 hours enjoyed by their researchers defined sleep as a 60- S mal kingdom. It nate natural history, people might ancestors on the surface. And be - second period of inactivity.) doesn’t serve species have evolved to operate on only cause humans share 98 percent of It’s tough to say yet whether survival in the obvious way that two hours, or to require as many their DNA with fish, the findings the cave fish don’t need to sleep eating, mating, and preying do. as 12. may lead to a better understand - or need to not sleep. “To date, And yet its deprivation is a form In a paper recently published ing of human sleep—and why nobody really knows what the of torture—just ask any new par - in Current Biology , NYU biolo - more and more people these days function of sleep is,” Duboué ent or medical resident. To get gists Erik Duboué, Alex Keene, require an Rx to get their Z’s. points out, but the researchers through the day, most people are and Richard Borowsky found that In the new research, part of suspect that cave fish stay awake programmed to sleep about eight ecological conditions cause three Duboué’s graduate thesis project, because of their food-poor envi - I L ronment: They don’t want to miss L U S T

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12 / FALL 2011 / NYU P H CLUE: THE PHYSICIST-TURNED- O T O CONGRESSMAN WHO BEAT WATSON © F

E AT JEOPARDY! ; ANSWER: WHO IS A T

U RUSH HOLT? R E P H O T O

S parov in 1997, Horn, who is now E R V I C senior vice provost for research at E NYU, pushed to build an even more sophisticated machine, one that might grasp the complexities of speech and mimic the messy pro - cessing of the human mind. Jeop - ardy! , which has categories and clues that rely on subtlety and wordplays, seemed the perfect challenge for such a computer. Indeed, the computer’s greatest weakness is that it occasionally miss - es inferences and connections obvi - ous to human minds. In a famous gaffe during a televised round, Wat - son mistakenly answered, “What is Toronto?????” to the clue “Its largest supercomputing airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle.” (The category was GAME SHOW OVERLORD U.S. Cities; answer: Chicago.) In fairness, Watson recognized the low probability of being correct and by Nicole Pezold / GSAS ’04 wisely wagered just $947. Only in such moments do hu - t was a Jeopardy! contest for February in Washington, D.C., and then highlighting points of mans still have an advantage. Oth - the ages. In one corner: physi - Holt earned $8,600 to Watson’s probable concern. erwise Watson’s responses, as cist and U.S. Representative $6,200. The representative edged Watson was not always so pre - it searches, sorts, and ranks poten - (D-NJ) Rush Holt, a five- out the computer in playful cate - cocious. “When I left IBM in 2007, tial answers, are almost instanta - Itime winner on the TV game gories such as “Also a Laundry De - Watson couldn’t beat a 5-year- neous, leaving humans with little show back in 1976. In the other: an tergent” (clue: A three-letter old,” says Paul Horn, who pro - opportunity to even hit the buzzer. electronic juggernaut by the name nickname for the Beatles; answer: posed building the supercomputer For instance, in the round against of Watson, whose avatar is a blue- What is Fab?). But Watson, with lit orb. In just five years, Watson near-encyclopedic knowledge and had risen out of IBM’s labs to knock an array of algorithms to parse nat - Watson’s performance suggests down a string of erstwhile champi - ural language, quickly made a that even without possessing ons. The evening before their con - comeback, beating Holt’s congres - test, Holt, who is also a former sional colleagues in two later imagination, a sense of humor, assistant director of the Princeton rounds, as it did opponents in three understanding of nuance, or Plasma Physics Laboratory, tweeted televised episodes of the game show his apprehensions: “Watson was last February. Watson’s sensational appreciation of beauty, computers just a little Atari when I was on the performance, on and off air, are now that much closer to show 3 decades ago, he’s grown up suggests that even without imagi - and I’m slower than I was then.” nation, a sense of humor, under - mimicking human intelligence. And yet Holt (GSAS ’74, ’81) held standing of nuance, or appreciation his own, becoming one of only a of beauty, computers are that much when he was senior vice president Holt, Watson buzzed in first to handful of humans to beat the com - closer to mimicking human intelli - and executive director of research the clue, “Ambrose Bierce de- puter and slow its inexorable climb gence. IBM researchers predict such at IBM Corporation. “Its perform - scribed this as ‘a temporary insan - to total Jeopardy! domination. “deep questioning” technology ance [on the show] wildly surpassed ity curable by marriage.’ ” Pre - In the match, which was the first could assist physicians, for example, my expectations.” After IBM’s sumably having never known the round of an untelevised exhibition by instantly digesting a patient’s en - “Deep Blue” computer trounced feeling, the computer correctly game for members of Congress last tire, complicated medical record world chess champion Garry K as - answered: “What is love?”

NYU / FALL 2011 / 13 IN BRIEF

TAUB CENTER RECEIVES NEW dergraduate courses in Israel Studies neurobiology and behavior at the and many others through support SUPPORT FROM NAMESAKE each year, supports the work of University of California, Irvine, of the endowment. The Estate of Henry Taub has do - doctoral students, sponsors an array Carew also served on the faculty at • Charles and Claire Brunner have nated $5.4 million to the Taub Cen - of public lectures, hosts visiting Columbia’s medical school, and as informed NYU of their commit - ter for Israel Studies at NYU, a gift scholars from Israel and the Arab chair of the psychology department ment to leave a legacy of $1.2 mil - that will help secure the program’s world, and runs a postdoctoral fel - at Yale. lion to establish the Claire H. and financial future. In addition, the lowship program. The center is cur - Meanwhile, Geeta Menon, a Calvin R. Brunner Permanent Henry and Marilyn Taub Founda - rently working on a book series and 21-year veteran of the faculty at Scholarship Fund in Liberal Stud - tion has committed to provide sig - developing a master’s program, both the Leonard N. Stern School of ies, which will create a nearly full- nificant annual support to the center in Israel Studies. Business and an expert in market - tuition scholarship for students in through 2013. These contributions “Henry Taub contributed to the ing, has risen to its helm as under - the Liberal Studies program. reflect a long history of generosity center in more ways than just his graduate dean. • NYU’s 1831 Fund was started by from both Henry Taub and the generous financial support—he students to help create scholarships Henry and Marilyn Taub Founda - constantly challenged us to broaden NEW GIFTS EXPAND for incoming students in need. The tion. Established in 2003 to advance our activities and expand our hori - RESEARCH ENTERPRISES Class of 2011 raised $11,000, which the study of modern Israel, the Taub zons,” says Ronald Zweig, profes - ACROSS CAMPUS will be matched by President John Center today is a preeminent pro - sor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies The following are just some of the Sexton and University Trustee H. gram of instruction and scholarship and director of the center. “His ad - important gifts the university has re - Dale Hemmerdinger (WSC ’67). in Israel’s recent history, society, vice was always sage and his support cently received: Alumni, faculty, and staff have con - and politics—made possible by grew along with our program.” • Boris (WSUC ’88) and Elizabeth tributed an additional $27,000. Henry Taub and the Henry and The philanthropy of Henry Taub Jordan have donated $5 million to Marilyn Taub Foundation. and his family has had an extraordi - establish the Jordan Family Center $50 MILLION DONATION Henry Taub, founder of Auto - nary impact within NYU and in the for the Advanced Study of Russia. CREATES NEW HASSENFELD matic Data Processing (ADP), one field of Israel Studies in general. The center will focus on the re - CENTER FOR CHILDREN of the world’s largest providers of search, study, and promotion of NYU Langone Medical Center an - business outsourcing solutions, died CHEWING ON THE PAST the history, culture, politics, and nounced in October that the Has - in March 2011. He graduated from A smile may be key to unlocking economy of modern Russia. senfeld Foundation has donated $50 NYU in 1947 with a degree in ac - the secrets of human evolution. Moreover, it will provide a forum million to establish a new children’s counting, served as a trustee of Timothy G. Bromage, professor of for undergraduate, graduate, and hospital. The Hassenfeld Pediatric NYU, and, in addition to the Taub biomaterials and biomimetics at the public discussion about modern Center will be part of the new Kim - Center for Israel Studies, established College of Dentistry, has created a Russia, and will host lectures and mel Pavilion, and will feature a ded - the Henry and Marilyn Taub Pro - new field of study called human pa - other events featuring prominent icated entrance off 34th Street and fessorship of Practice in Public Serv - leobiomics, which draws connec - figures and experts throughout this First Avenue, creating a uniquely ice and Leadership at the Robert F. tions between bone and tooth broad and vibrant field of study. child- and family-friendly setting. Wagner Graduate School of Public microstructure and their relation - • A $1 million gift by the Zegar The facility will be the only pe - Service. His other philanthropic ship to the development, physiolo - Family Foundation through its diatric center in Manhattan with all work included founding the Taub gy, and metabolism of ancestral trustees Charles (GSAS ’77, ’05) private patient rooms. Child-friend - Institute for Research on humans from different regions of and Merryl Zegar will help build a ly elevators and waiting rooms, Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging the world. In other words, the sci - greenhouse on top of the new Cen - along with views of the East River, Brain at Columbia University, and entist will look at fossilized mouths ter for Genomics and Systems Bi - and indoor/outdoor recreational providing major support for the to gain a sense of the pace and pat - ology building, which will allow space will serve to make patients Taub Center for Social Policy Stud - terns of their owners’ lives—all with research scientists to conduct cut - and their families more comfort - ies in Israel. He served in the lead - the help of a $1.02 million grant ting-edge experiments. able. ership of many organizations, fromtheMaxPlanckSociety,which • The Andrew W. Mellon Foun - The Hassenfeld Foundation— including as president of the Amer - awarded Bromage the 2010 Max dation awarded NYU a $2.5 mil - under the direction of its president, ican Technion Society and as co- Planck Research Award. lion grant, which includes NYU Langone Medical Center owner of the New Jersey Nets. He $500,000 toward a permanent en - Trustee Sylvia Hassenfeld, and her is survived by his wife of 53 years, NEW CAMPUS LEADERS dowment to support graduate study family—is located in Providence, Marilyn, three children, and 10 Neurobiologist Thomas J. Carew in humanities departments, includ - Rhode Island, and has provided grandchildren. recently joined NYU as dean of the ing philosophy, English, and histo - decades of support for children’s The Taub Center offers approx - Faculty of Arts and Science. Previ - ry. The grant will impact 80 educational, social, and medical imately a dozen graduate and un - ously the chair of the department of students over the next four years, services.

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neuroscience THE FRAGILE X FACTOR

n 10 years, alleviating some of the brain involved in form - of the symptoms of Fragile ing, storing, and processing I X Syndrome (FXS)—the memory. In the new research, most common genetic published in Proceedings of the cause of mental retardation and National Academy of Sciences , autism—may be as simple as pop - NYU neuroscientists Eric mathematics ping a pill. Scientists are zeroing Klann, Charles Hoeffer, and He - in on the cellular and molecular len Wong, together with Aparna impairments inflicted by FXS Suvrathan and Sumantra Chat - Cardio Computing and testing new pharmacological tarji in India, looked at the ef - therapies. And now researchers fects of FXS on the mouse at NYU and the National Cen - amygdala, a part of the brain es - lood flow is one of the vanced than its predecessors, and ter for Biological Sciences in sential for emotional processing. fundamental mecha - honored the researchers with the Bangalore, India, have identified They found the same type of ir - nisms of human life, 2010 Gordon Bell Prize at its Su - a key abnormality in the emo - regular signaling there, too. B but it remains in many percomputing Conference last No - tional center of the FXS brain— Further, when they briefly ways a mystery. So little is known vember. Biros, who is now and found it to be reversible. applied a drug similar to those in about the behavior of red blood associate professor of biomedical FXS is caused by a repeated current human trials, one of the cells that stents and other devices engineering at Georgia Institute bit of DNA on the X chromo - irregularities was reversed. used to aid the heart and circula - of Technology, started the initial some, which makes it appear Chronic application, they sur - tory system often run the risk of research for the program in 2000, “broken” under a microscope. mise, might have even more inducing clots or destroying red while working with NYU computer As a result of this stutter, a gene dramatic benefits, essentially re - blood cells in the process. By an - scientist Denis Zorin and then- is silenced, failing to produce a ducing many of the widespread ticipating potential changes in red doctoral student Lexing Ying protein that would normally reg - problems with cognition and blood cells, doctors might avoid (CIMS ’00, ’04). Ten years and ulate the communication be - emotional functioning caused these sometimes-deadly side ef - many algorithms later, the team tween neurons. Without it, the by FXS. fects. But first they’d need some - grew to include members from the brain fails to learn and adapt as it “Studies like these are hope - thing of a crystal ball. Oak Ridge National Laboratory— should and people with FXS may ful, because [in FXS] there are George Biros, a former post - which ran the simulation on its have hyperactivity, epilepsy, re - changes in the brain that have doctorate in computer science at Jaguar supercomputer—as well as duced intelligence, and depleted been taking place over the whole the Courant Institute of Mathe - NYU research scientist Shravan social awareness. course of brain development, matical Sciences, and his research Veerapaneni. Previous research on mice but even an acute application of team set out to build just that. The And their work is not yet done. models has this drug can re - result: blood flow simulation soft - One major innovation of the pro - shown the con - verse some of ware that can render red blood gram is its ability to anticipate the dition causes those effects,” cells traveling through plasma. changing shapes, or deformation, overactivation Klann says. He The ultimate goal is to create of red blood cells, a shift previous - of a particular suspects that something “like weather predic - ly unrendered by researchers. As chemical recep - eventually drugs tion codes, but for blood,” Biros the simulations continue to reveal tor in the brain, in this class could explains. this morphing, Biros and his col - and one drug help people with The simulation marks an im - leagues will investigate the poten - therapy now FXS even after mense technological leap; the tial indications of this discovery being tried out on people blocks they’ve reached adulthood: “I Association for Computing Ma - and how it might be applied to such receptors. But these studies think the therapeutic window is chinery deemed the software medicine. have mostly tested the effects of larger than previously thought.” about 10,000 times more ad - —Elisabeth Brown FXS on the hippocampus, a part —Matthew Hutson

16 / FALL 2011 / NYU S RESEARCH Q THE U A social work many simply don’t know where to adult mental health R

turn or how to enroll in adult pro - services is through E GROWING PAINS grams. But these services play a cru - their physical health- cial role as foster youth are more care providers. likely to suffer from abuse, neglect, Another critical factor is the or most teenagers, turn - and women in the United States and the confusion that comes with presence of “key helpers”— ing 18 calls for a party. each year, but it need not be so having to frequently change homes, friends, mentors, or caregivers— F But for those in foster rough, researcher Michelle Munson schools, friends, and guardians. who aid in the management of care, the birthday means believes. Titled “Making the Transition,” mood or emotional difficulties in being thrown into adulthood, often Munson, an associate professor at the study followed a group of 18- these young adults’ lives. While it with little-to-no financial or emo - the Silver School of Social Work, to 25-year-olds in Ohio and was is well known that support from tional support. All the government- recently concluded a study on how funded by the state’s Department of adults is important, Munson now funded programs that kept the young to guide vulnerable young adults Mental Health. Munson concluded hopes to uncover “the core, the adults fed, clothed, and healthy sud - who have lost mental health servic - that one of the more promising ingredients of a relationship that is denly end, including mental health es in particular. While some former ways to reconnect young women— helpful to young adults with emo - care. The transition, known as “ag - foster youth no longer find therapy especially those who are pregnant tional problems.” ing out,” happens to 26,000 men or behavioral assistance necessary, or parenting young children—to —E.B.

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But af - North Tower and the ensuing memories kept resurfacing, and ter 9/11, she was experiencing something entirely different. rethink our approach to teach - She wondered: “What happens ing about trauma in our [social student outreach when you are going through work] schools,” Tosone says. the same trauma as your clients?” “It is an elective at this point, Tosone embarked on a re - and it needs to be infused Small Businesses, search project to help find an throughout the curriculum.” answer to that very question. Briana Barocas, director of re - Big Ideas She surveyed nearly 500 mem - search at the Center on Vio - bers of the National Association lence and Recovery echoes this. of Social Workers who lived and In 2008, she was part of a team, A STERN PROGRAM TURNS worked in Midtown and Lower along with Mills, that published STUDENTS INTO KEY CONSULTANTS Manhattan, and who were di - a Public Safety Trauma Re - rectly involved in helping 9/11 sponse study examining the sup - by Sally Lauckner / GSAS ’10 victims. More recently Tosone port programs available to NYC replicated the study in New Or - police officers, including 9/11 leans following Hurricane Kat - first responders. They also sur - ast February, Yoel students are given the opportuni - rina. One of the biggest veyed mental-health profession - Borgenicht filled ty to work with prominent takeaways was the phenomenon als who provided crisis support out an application organizations such as the Metro - of shared trauma. “You have ex - to those officers at Ground Zero L that forever changed politan Opera, Habitat for Hu - perienced the trauma yourself in and found results similar to those the way he does manity, the Legal Aid Society, or addition to working with others of Tosone. “A lot of the clini - business. Borgenicht, the presi - the William J. Clinton Founda - who are suffering from that same cians we spoke to were grap - dent of King Rose of New York, tion. Borgenicht applied through trauma,” explains Tosone, pling with their own reactions a Harlem-based construction the Clinton Foundation and was whose study revealed that, just to the event and their own pro - company that focuses on high- matched with a group of three like their patients, individual cli - longed exposure,” Barocas says. end renovations, aspired to ex - MBA students and their mentors nicians react differently to shared “We found that clinicians pro - pand the revenue and staffing of from Booz & Company, a con - trauma. viding disaster support require his two-and-a-half-year-old sulting firm. Some reported a greater abil - additional training and ongoing business, but was at a loss on how Working with King Rose ity to empathize with their pa - peer support.” to do so. “I felt like my experi - construction was a natural fit for tients, while others were Tosone next plans to con - ence and abilities had taken the Raha Nasseri (STERN ’12), who mentally and emotionally ex - duct a study in Israel in order to business as far as it could go, but previously served with Engineers hausted and suddenly found compare how the three envi - their jobs overwhelmingly diffi - ronments differ in impact— cult. Linda Mills, executive di - New York City was an acute, President Yoel Borgenicht had rector of NYU’s Center on man-made attack; New Orleans such a positive experience Violence and Recovery and a is chronically exposed to natural professor at the Silver School of disasters; and Israel is at constant working with one student that Social Work, for example, was risk for man-made terror. These after the final presentation, he able to process her trauma from elements are key in figuring out 9/11 in a useful way. Mills lives why certain clinicians thrive un - offered to hire her. just blocks from Ground Zero der specific conditions. The re - and a piece of fuselage landed search is especially timely, I wanted to exponentially in - Without Borders in Peru and as a on the roof of her apartment Tosone says, given the rise in crease the size of the firm,” he civil engineer for a construction building, displacing her family prominent natural disasters over says. “I knew I needed guidance.” company in her native Iran. “I for several weeks after the inci - the past few years, including It turns out a group of gradu - wanted to get a clear snapshot of dent. “My personal 9/11 expe - major earthquakes in Haiti, ate students could help with the the entire consulting process,” rience allowed me to help others Chile, New Zealand, and Japan, solution. Established in 2002, the Nasseri says, explaining what has as a clinician [and became] the as well as violent tornadoes in Stern Consulting Corps, or SCC, attracted some 500 Stern students canvas for my own recovery and the southern United States. “I matches qualified grad students to participate in the program. “I also for building my capacity to want to figure out how the cli - from the Leonard N. Stern wanted to learn how to solve help others recover,” she says. nicians who were traumatized School of Business with non- problems and how to present One thing that concerned al - but still able to do their jobs profits where they consult with projects to clients.” most all the clinicians involved managed it,” Tosone says. “We small businesses in underserved After an arduous 10-week in the studies was their lack of do know that the first thing cli - New York City communities. process of conducting market re - formal disaster training and un - nicians need to do is help them - After a grueling application search on similarly sized compa - certainty about how to help vic - selves. Unless they do, they can’t process, which includes several nies and holding a series of tims of trauma. “We need to help others.” rounds of interviews, accepted (CONTINUED ON PAGE 20)

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FILM AND TV TO THE GREAT WHITE WAY T UR E There’s no shortage of singing in this fall’s TV lineup, with MATTHEW MORRISON (TSOA ’01) reprising his role as choir teacher Will Schuester on Fox’s Glee , and the debut of NBC’s Broadway musical drama Smash , directed by MICHAEL MAYER (TSOA ’83) and starring DEBRA MESSING (TSOA ’93) and Anjel - ica Huston… GARRET DILLA HUNT (TSOA ’91) returns as the clueless patriarch for Season 2 of the Fox comedy Raising Hope , while HBO’s How to Make It in America is back in the Big Apple

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I Barre None JENNIFER HOMANS PRESENTS BALLET’S UNTOLD STORY N by Amy Rosenberg P H

n a 1965 article for Life ry. It goes further than that too: ty”), she says no one hopes she is O T O S

magazine, world-famous The finale of its more than 500 wrong more than she does. As she © T I M

choreographer George Bal - pages is an epilogue titled “The puts it: “I have spent my life de - E & L

anchine wrote, “In ballet, a Masters Are Dead and Gone.” In voted to this art form. I, of all peo - I F E P I

I C complicated story is impos - it, Homans (GSAS ’08), a distin - ple, am going to be standing up T T U R

sible to tell. We cannot use words. guished scholar-in-residence who when I see something worth stand - E S / G E

We can’t dance synonyms.” This danced professionally for many ing up for.” T T Y I may be true, but the story of bal - years, observes that Balanchine’s It’s no exaggeration to say that M A G E let itself—its role in history, cul - death in 1983 marked the start of a ballet has been her life’s devotion. S ; B N ture, and politics, its significance, slow decline for ballet, a collapse Homans, who grew up in Chica - F and its development over time—is into present-day mediocrity. go, began dancing when she was 8 indeed complicated. Now, with “[B]allet seemed to grind to a years old. She liked it and “just the publication of Jennifer crawl,” she writes, “as if the tradi - kept going,” she says. Like most Homans’s Apollo’s Angels: A Histo - tion itself had become clogged and professional ballerinas, she did not ry of Ballet (Random House), that exhausted.” The art, she concludes, attend college immediately. After story has been fully told. is dying. Her remarks set off a fierce graduating from high school, she Named one of the 10 best books debate on blogs and in print, with enrolled in the University of North of 2010 by The New York Times critics, balletomanes, dancers, and Carolina School of the Arts and and called by one Times critic “the scholars all passionately arguing ei - then moved to New York and only truly definitive history” of ther that ballet is dead or that it is studied at Balanchine’s School of ballet, Apollo’s Angels traces the vibrantly alive. American Ballet. She performed evolution of the art from its origins For her part, Homans is just glad with the Chicago Lyric Opera Bal - in the courts of Renaissance that people are talking about it. let, the San Francisco Ballet, and France, through its embellishment Denounced for her grim predic - the Pacific Northwest Ballet, danc - in 19th-century Russia, to its most tions (one critic accused her of ing a range of 19th- and 20th-cen - recent apogee with the New York “living in the past”; another of tury classics. When she was 26, City Ballet in the late 20th centu - “railing against [her] own mortali - Homans suffered an injury that to try to find out more but had biblio file trouble locating compelling ac - counts. “There aren’t many good FORTUNATE SONS: THE 120 While China’s quest to become a books about the history of ballet,” CHINESE BOYS WHO CAME TO major power may seem a recent she says. “The more I read the AMERICA, WENT TO SCHOOL, phenomenon, the authors illumi - more I realized that what I was AND REVOLUTIONIZED AN nate an earlier era of critical re - looking for just wasn’t there, and ANCIENT CIVILIZATION form. In the 19th century, as its maybe I could write it.” (W.W. NORTON) empire teetered amid a brutal civil Fourteen years later, Apollo’s LIEL LEIBOVITZ war and the West’s scramble to Angels is proof of the extraordi - VISITING ASSISTANT “open up China” to trade, the Qing nary effort that went into doing PROFESSOR AT THE Dynasty sent 120 boys to the Unit - so. The same critics who took is - STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF ed States to learn the keys to sue with Homans’s dire outlook CULTURE, EDUCATION, technological innovation. Their praised the depth of her research, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT stories—particularly that of Yung her “piercing intelligence,” and AND MATTHEW MILLER Wing, the first Chinese to gradu - the “heart” and “feeling” in her ate from Yale College—reveal an words. The bulk of her research influential coterie cau ght between took about 10 years, carrying her nativism in America and mistrust to archives throughout Europe— for the newfangled ways they but a large portion of her work brought back home. Nevertheless, took place at the barre, too. “In this cohort planted the seeds of order to tell ballet as an intellectu - modernity, engineering railroads LEFT: BALANCHINE’S PLOTLESS al history, you have to get behind into China’s hinterlands and re - PRODUCTION JEWELS (1967), WITH shaping its methods of banking ITS EXTREME EXTENSIONS AND the steps and understand their or - JAZZ-AGE HIP THRUSTS, WAS EM - ganizing principals,” she says. “For and international negotiations. In a BLEMATIC OF A NEW ERA IN BALLET. many of the periods I studied, I starred review, Publishers Weekly RIGHT: IN 18TH-CENTURY FRANCE, pronounced it a “gripping tale” DANCE FASHIONS FOLLOWED COURT took ballet masters’ notes and frag - DRESS, INCLUDING THIS COSTUME IN - ments I found in the archives and that “reads more like a novel than SPIRED BY MARIE ANTOINETTE. tried to visualize and concretize an obscure slice of history.” the dances, to feel what it was like —Nicole Pezold kept her off the stage and in bed doing them.” for a while. That’s when her focus Getting behind the steps al - began to shift. lowed Homans to place the dances DAY OF HONEY: A MEMOIR OF Annia Ciezadlo’s memoir is a deli - “During that period, I spent all in context—to understand, for FOOD, LOVE, AND WAR cious fusion of literary genres: one of my time reading,” she explains. example, how the movements (FREE PRESS) dash travel guide, one pinch ro - “Having come from an academic changed after the French Revolu - ANNIA CIEZADLO mance novel, and a hearty helping family”—both of her parents tion because new animosity to - GSAS ’00 of Middle Eastern history and food taught at the University of Chica - ward traditional, aristocratic male lore. With humor and honesty, go—“I’d always had reading as a dancers created unprecedented Ciezadlo tells the story of her part of my life. Also, this was in opportunities for ballerinas. This, marriage to Mohamad, a Shiite Mus - the mid-’80s, and the dance world Homans believes, is what knowl - lim from Lebanon, and how the was in an uncertain state. I found edge of ballet’s history should do— newlyweds—both journalists—were that I wasn’t getting the kind of increase our understanding of the touched by the September 11 at - stimulation I’d been getting earli - nuances of history in general. tacks and the Iraq War, which the er on.” Homans made the diffi - That’s why, in her classes on Eu - couple covered from Beirut and cult decision to stop dancing ropean and Mediterranean cul - Baghdad for Newsday, The Chris - professionally. She enrolled at Co - ture, she focuses on dance: “It’s a tian Science Monitor , and The New lumbia University, eventually marginalized subject within the Republic. The author’s entry into earning an undergraduate degree humanities,” she says. “There are her new surroundings is through in French literature, and then went introductory courses for literature, food as she experiments with the on to get her PhD in modern Eu - art, and theater, but dance has not cuisine, preparing such delicacies ropean history from NYU. had a place as a serious academic as Batata wa Bayd Mfarakeh (crum - But she couldn’t move away field.” But the story of ballet, she bled potatoes and eggs) and from ballet entirely. “It was still a believes, is a crucial part of the sto - Yakhnet Kusa (zucchini stew). passion,” she says, “and studying ry of Western civilization. “In Saveur heralded it as a “warm, hi - history made me realize how little fact,” she says, “dance in general is larious, terrifying, thrilling, insanely I knew about its past.” She began part of our civilization.” smart debut book.” —Carly Okyle

NYU / FALL 2011 / 29 comedy WHY WRITE A BOOK LIKE THIS? Ben: We just thought that most screenwriting books are theory written by professors, but there’s COURT JESTERS the other like 90 percent of screen - writing that’s the business and how IN THE KINGDOM OF HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS, A PAIR OF you sell your idea. Tom: You need to cross-reference SCRIBES WRITES FOR THEIR LIVES those books’ authors and the movies that they’ve written because the an - by Renée Alfuso / CAS ’06 swer is almost none. If they know so much about how to sell a screen - play, I assure you from having writ - ten a book that they would not be ack in 1988, a group honesty and sage advice, the book with practical advice on script for - writing books about it, they would of 11 feisty under - has been praised by Library Journal matting, pitching ideas, and the be writing movies. classmen started a as “the first screenwriting manual messy process of arbitration. Bcomedy troupe at that is as entertaining as it is in - NYU Alumni Magazine sat WRITING FOR THE STUDIOS NYU that soon formative.” (Plus, some proceeds down with Lennon and Garant to MEANS HAVING TO transformed into the absurdist MTV from the book will be contributed discuss their journey from vulner - COMPROMISE YOUR VISION. series The State —a superdry, bit - to the USO.) Tales of executives able freshmen beaten up by mug - IS THAT TOUGH? ingly sarcastic sketch-comedy show falling asleep in meetings and om - gers to adults beaten down by the Tom: We always compare our - for Generation X that gained a cult nipotent movie stars are coupled studio system. selves to [court composer Antonio] following and launched the careers Salieri. We’re like the Salieris that of its young stars, nearly all of whom never met a Mozart. So we’re not still work in show business today. tortured; we’re happy Salieris. Thomas Lennon (TSOA ’92) and Ben: As soon as you understand Robert Ben Garant (TSOA non - what the job is, it’s the greatest job grad alum) are two of those now- in the world. We’ve been around grown-up misfits, best known for long enough to work with talent - creating the Comedy Central hit ed people who are a pleas - Reno 911! But the funnymen are ure, and also with also prolific screenwriters—hav - untalented people ing penned feature films together where it’s a nightmare for almost every major studio that crushes your soul. over the past 10 years. So But you keep going. when the self-described “man - That’s the system. ic” scribes needed something Tom: You just have to do during the 2008 writers’ to get over things strike, they turned to a new very quickly, be - medium. cause you’re going In Writing Movies for Fun and to get fired over and Profit: How We Made a Billion over again. You’re Dollars at the Box Office and You going to watch people Can, Too! (Simon & Schus - throw away things that ter), the authors pull back you’ve slaved over writ - the silver screen to reveal ing, on a total whim, be - the elation and ugliness of cause the actor refuses to working in Hollywood, wear a hat. based on their experience with both blockbusters ( Night IN THE BOOK, YOU at the Museum ) and flops ( Taxi ). SAY THAT IT’S With its combination of brutal IMPORTANT TO BE FLEXIBLE LIKE A REED. SCREENWRITERS LENNON (RIGHT) Ben: Exactly. So many people AND GARANT DEMONSTRATE “THE ART OF NODDING” WHILE TAKING with books on screenwriting talk NOTES FROM STUDIO EXECUTIVES. about it like you’re this precious

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YELLOW JACKETS – N N K ; R I G T H T © Z A K O R T H protect through venom and candor. Funnily enough, another member of The State made his literary debut this year: Michael Showalter, writer and star of TV shows While timing their own dinners such as Stella and films such as The Baxter and Wet Hot American Summer , brings his wit and wordplay to the aptly titled Mr. Funny to mother’s tray, father’s tongs, Pants (Grand Central Publishing). The quasi-memoir—which The Daily Beast calls “reminiscent of works by Steve Martin, George or baby’s saucer-sized cheeks, Carlin, and Woody Allen”—details Showalter’s struggle with pro - crastination and writer’s block in an intimate, almost stream-of- consciousness style. they can sting any intruder repeatedly The Brooklyn-based comic found trying to write a serious mem - unlike the honeybee’s suicidal sortie. oir too nerve-racking, and soon decided that the book would be about writing the book. So rather than recount his life story, Mr. Funny Pants weaves together random bouts of silliness, occasional I like that. I like X memories, and some harsh dissections of his high school poetry who calls people out at brunch and first head shot. Chapters on “How to Write and Sell a Hollywood Screenplay” align with Showalter’s day job teaching graduate screenwriting at the Tisch School of the Arts, which he says he en - through simple narration: joys more than acting. “It’s almost like doing stand-up because I’m your mouth never stops moving. performing and trying to hold everyone’s attention,” he explains. “But it’s an idealistic environment where you’re just existing in a perfect world unscathed by the business.” –R.A. Or, you eat off other plates as if they’re your own. little Oscar Wilde staring out the and Avenue B, never. window and waiting for a muse— Ben: Yeah, it was like Somalia, Or, you check your BlackBerry when no one but it’s more like ultimate fighting. but now it’s cute. There’s like You roll with the punches be - cupcakes, Hello Kitty stores, and is talking about you. cause, man, you’re going to get ironic T-shirts all over the place. Or, you laugh whenever you insult someone. punched. Tom: Now it’s adorable and we Tom: Maybe living in the Village can’t afford to move back. in the ’80s was just good practice A startling attribute I wish I could emulate because we got mugged so much. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER if only my sting possessed such integrity. Wearing a bright yellow bow tie ABOUT PERFORMING ON my second week in New York CAMPUS AS STUDENTS? was probably the reason I got Tom: Our first paying gig was from Toxic Flora: Poems beaten nearly to death across the opening for Dennis Miller at the by Kimiko Hahn, street from [NYU’s] Brittany Loeb Student Center. NYU Creative Writing Program adjunct faculty Hall. Almost murdered—week Ben: We got paid like $1,000 split No. 2. When we came to New 11 ways and then they asked us if York, it was right after the Tomp - we wanted to eat and everybody kins Square Park riots and the ordered so much Chinese food Village was so dangerous, we that it ended up costing more than Reprinted from Toxic Flora: Poems by Kimiko Hahn would not go to Avenue A after they had just paid us, and they Copyright © 2010 by Kimiko Hahn dark under any circumstances, were so angry. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Co, Inc.

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32 / FALL 2011 / NYU The Man With the Pl atinum Ears

After more than four decades, music maestro Clive Davis still hears the hits BY JASON HOLLANDER / GAL ’07

NYU / FALL 2011 / 33 omen tucked daisies into their hair. Men frolicked in kaftans. Both wore beads around their necks and nothing on their feet. For three days in June of 1967, the Monterey International Pop Festival was a coming-out party for the hippie culture that would soon transform the country. Set inside a converted livestock pen, nearly 100,000 flower children grooved to dozens of acts, includ - ing a few that most had never heard before—a Texas girl named Joplin, a guy from Seattle named Hendrix, and a British band called the Who.

Standing amidst this oasis of peace, Sarah McLachlan, Luther Vandross, Patti he explains. “I never thought I would be Wlove, and hallucination was the perfectly Smith, Usher, and Alicia Keys, just to doing anything else.” One day, a former sober, 35-year-old, brand-new president of name a few. colleague hired away by CBS was looking Columbia Records. Smartly dressed in The heralded “magic ears”—with to bring in an expert in contracts. Turned khaki pants and a tennis sweater, he’d which Davis has produced or executive- out Davis was the man for the job. And come just to observe. Columbia wasn’t big produced nearly 60 albums—bridge wild - suddenly, at 28, he was sitting in a slick on rock music; it was known for folk acts ly distinct genres, and have weathered the new office as assistant counsel for CBS’s and Broadway cast recordings. Yet almost industry’s recent and rocky digital meta - subsidiary Columbia Records, where he instantly, the New Yorker was transfixed— morphosis. Staying visible all the while soon helped represent them in a crucial he’d never experienced anything like this has helped him stay current. His annual record-club monopoly case filed by the back in Greenwich Village, let alone pre-Grammy Awards party remains a hot - Federal Trade Commission. This gave him Brooklyn. “Socially, those people could ter ticket than the Grammys itself. And vast exposure to the industry’s inner work - not have been more welcoming, kind, Davis has been a fixture on the ratings ings and brought him into the good graces communal, pure, innocent, and warm,” re - juggernaut American Idol since its incep - of Columbia President Goddard Lieberson, calls Clive J. Davis, now chief creative of - tion. Of his four Grammy Awards, two whom Davis would succeed in 1967 after ficer of Sony BMG. “Musically, on the have come for mentoring Idol winners—he another heir to the title unexpectedly re - other hand, there was a revolution right produced 2008’s Best R&B Album, the located to San Diego. in front of us. It was vibrating. It was self-titled Jennifer Hudson , and 2005’s Best The journey from studious lawyer to heavier and harder. It was electrifying.” Pop Vocal Album, Breakaway , by Kelly music rainmaker was so full of twists Davis (WSC ’53, HON ’11) immediately Clarkson. He was inducted into the Rock that Davis still smiles when remember - signed Big Brother and the Holding Com - and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and the ing the opportunities that unfolded early pany, and lead singer Janis Joplin was so theater at the Grammy Museum in down - in his career. But he’s just as quick to clar - excited that she famously proposed they town Los Angeles was renamed the Clive ify that he has never relied on serendip - should “consummate” the contract (he Davis Theater in 2011. ity. “I stand far more for preparedness and graciously declined). More acts followed, mastery of one’s craft, and not leaving and Columbia quickly transformed into t’s a lot of success for a guy who plays things to luck,” he says. That’s one of the one of rock’s heavyweight labels. Mon - no instrument, has no musical train - reasons he helped create the Clive Davis terey was like a gateway drug for Davis, ing, and whose exposure was original - Department of Recorded Music at NYU— now 79, leading to decades and decades of ly limited to the crooners on WNEW’s where he serves as chief adviser—in 2003. other musical highs. As head of Colum - IMake Believe Ballroom . In fact, after The department, which was recently ele - bia—and then Arista, J Records, and BMG graduating from Harvard Law School in vated to an institute after a second $5 U.S.—he would nurture the careers of Car - 1956, Davis was for years content to work million gift by Davis, is one of the first los Santana, the Grateful Dead, Billy Joel, behind the scenes at a big Midtown firm, to offer students training to become cre - Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Her - which happened to count CBS as one of its ative music entrepreneurs (and, maybe, bie Hancock, Rod Stewart, Prince, Aero - clients. “I was drafting contracts, doing tax the next Clive). smith, Whitney Houston, Pink Floyd, and estate planning, nonlitigation work,” Investing in young talent inevitably

34 / FALL 2011 / NYU hits a personal note for Davis, who is tive kept his focus—even after mov - Davis knew that education, and even - an active member of the Tisch Dean’s ing in with his newly married sister tually the pursuit of law, would be Council. He was just a freshman on in Bayside, Queens, and doubling his “the vehicle to allow me to rise above scholarship at NYU when both of commute time to school. Dropping my station.” Back then, the notion of his parents died from natural causes out “was never an option,” he says. becoming a music deity would have within six months of each other. De - “Never crossed my mind.” His par - sounded as bizarre as the thunderous spite the physical and emotional toll ents—his dad was an electrician and guitar chords he first heard that sum - of this loss, the Crown Heights na - salesman—hadn’t gone to college, and mer in Monterey. But rise he did. Conversation with Clive…

NYU Alumni Magazine recently sat down with Davis in his corner office at the top of the Sony BMG building in Manhattan, where he reflected on his more than 40 years in the music business.

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38 / FALL 2011 / NYU P H O T O © B R E A K I N G G L A S S P I C T U R E S : E D I E & T H E A : A V E R Y L O N G E N G A G E M E N T

EDITH WINDSOR (RIGHT) AND THEA CLARA SPYER MET IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1963 AND, THOUGH NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO MARRY UNTIL 2007 , WERE A DEVOTED COUPLE FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES. nosed, at 45, with multiple sclerosis; when Edie took early retirement and evolved into her full-time care - The relationship giver; when they did financial planning. Until 2007. Thea’s doctor said she had only one year left. Thea, by then paralyzed, proposed again. This time, doors were open. With friends, they flew that may usher to Toronto (Canada had enacted marriage equality in 2005), hauling a duffel bag of tools to take apart and reassemble Thea’s giant motorized wheelchair. Edie in a new era for festooned an airport hotel conference room with palms and white fabric. She wore pastel silk, offset by a burst of fresh white flowers, while Thea chose all gay rights began black with one red rose. Canada’s first openly gay judge officiated: “You have found joy and meaning to - gether and have chosen to live your lives together,” he in a typical way one evening in Greenwich Village. intoned. “To this moment you’ve brought the fullness The year was 1963, the restaurant Portofino—a fash - of your hearts and the dreams that bind you togeth - ionable Friday-night spot for women, and about the er.” When Thea welled up with tears, Edie dabbed only place a white-collar lesbian could be out and at them dry. They exchanged wedding bands. ease. Edith Schlain Windsor (GSAS ’57)—Monroe-es - Two years later, Thea was gone. Edie suffered a que, cherubic cheeked, and her hair in a perfect heart attack in her grief. And then the Defense of flip—was an NYU-trained mathematician and fast- Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 federal statute, kicked rising IBM programmer, just back from a fellowship in, transforming Edie’s story from personal tragedy at Harvard University. She was tired of being single to public issue. DOMA recognizes marriage as “only and past ready to jettison the “therapy” meant to a legal union between one man and one woman. make her straight. ‘Spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex Friends brought Thea Clara Spyer to her table. A who is a husband or wife.” This definition has con - child of European refugees, Thea was charismatic sequences far beyond simply barring one group of and intellectual, a psychology PhD from Adelphi Uni - people from saying “I do.” Married couples, accord - versity who’d interned at St. Vincent’s Hospital. The ing to the federal tax code, can transfer money or angular brunette mesmerized Edie. Thea was more property from spouse to spouse upon death without experienced, having been expelled from Sarah triggering estate taxes (the “unlimited marital de - Lawrence College for kissing an older woman. And duction”). But gay couples, after DOMA, have no she seemed a bit more comfortable in the Village’s such rights, even if the marriage is recognized by small lesbian underground of bars, run by the Mafia, their state of residence, as Edie and Thea’s was by where even huge bouncers at the doors couldn’t pre - New York. vent the occasional violent police raid. So at 80, alone and living on a fixed income with a They danced. weakened heart, Edie paid a $363,053 widow’s tax “We immediately just fit, our bodies fit,” said Thea, from her retirement savings. And with that payment, in the award-winning 2009 documentary film, Edie Windsor v. United States was born. and Thea: A Very Long Engagement by Susan Muska and Gréta Olafsdóttir. Their connection was passion - ate, and they became inseparable. In 1967, Thea pro - posed with a round diamond pin, because a ring There’s more at would draw unwanted attention. “She was beautiful,” Edie said in a recent inter - view. “It was joyful, and that didn’t go away.” stake in the case, For more than four decades, they shared life and love in an apartment on Fifth Avenue near Washing - now before the U.S. District Court in the Southern ton Square, where Thea also saw patients. But while District of New York, than recovering federal estate straight friends married and raised children, those taxes, say Edie’s lawyers, Roberta Kaplan of Paul, doors were closed to the couple. IBM rejected Edie’s Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and James Es - insurance form naming Thea as beneficiary. Legally, seks, director of the ACLU’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual they remained strangers—when Thea was diag - Transgender & AIDS Project. Recognition for Edie

40 / FALL 2011 / NYU and Thea’s marriage at that court—or, if it’s ap - came to have the attitude that same-sex marriage pealed, by a higher court, possibly the Supreme should be legal,” Egan says. Court—would set a precedent that gay and lesbian Alongside public-opinion shifts, legislative action people have equal protection under the Constitu - has been brisk. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (which barred tion. It’s impossible to predict whether this will be openly gay men and women from serving in the mil - the case, of several pending nationwide, that the itary) was repealed in 2010. In June 2011, New York Supreme Court will choose to hear. But it may be. State approved same-sex marriage, joining Connecti - And if it is, Windsor v. United States may shape the cut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, future of gay rights in America. and the District of Columbia. In mid-July, President Obama “proudly” announced his support for the Re - spect for Marriage Act, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler Legally, Marriage is about (D-NY), which would bar the federal government from denying gay and lesbian spouses the same rights and far more than sentiment. legal protections straight couples receive. And a judicial development last February was also It’s one way that government conveys rights and priv - significant: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said ileges to citizens, including Social Security, inheri - that the Justice Department will no longer defend tance, tax relief, bankruptcy protection, resident DOMA. (That role, including in the Windsor case, de - status for a spouse who’s a foreign national, parent - volves to Republican leaders in Congress.) Holder hood, custody, adoption and property rights, and called parts of DOMA unconstitutional because they many others—1,138 benefits in all. By denying such violate the equal protection rights enshrined in the rights to LGBT spouses who are considered legally Fifth Amendment. There’s no reason, he wrote, to married in the (now six) states that permit it, DOMA justify treating gay men and lesbians differently from has created a category of second-class citizens, the heterosexuals. And he tied the decision directly to Windsor complaint argues: “Singling out one class of Edie: He resolved to make the announcement, he valid marriages and subjecting them to differential said, after reviewing some “new lawsuits,” specifical - treatment is…in violation of the right of equal pro - ly naming Windsor’s case. tection secured by the Fifth Amendment to the Con - “The Holder letter was a game changer,” says Ken - stitution.” There are some 80,000 same-sex married ji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of couples in the United States today, the ACLU says. Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law and author Along with rights, marriage also confers a differ - of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights ent sense of identity. Even after 42 years together, (Random House). “It signals a kind of change in the Edie gave a rousing speech at a rally on the steps of zeitgeist. While it’s not binding on any federal court, City Hall in Manhattan, shortly before Thea died: it will be immensely persuasive. The question is “Married is a magic word, and it is magic through - whether the Supreme Court accepts that argument out the world. It has to do with our dignity as human or not.” In August, the Department of Justice went beings, to be who we are openly. People see us dif - even further, directly advising in a brief to the court ferently. We heard from hundreds of people, from of the Southern District of New York that Windsor be every stage of our lives, pouring out congratulations. granted a tax refund because DOMA’s definition of Thea looks at her ring every day and thinks of her - marriage is unconstitutional. self as a member of a special species that can love Along with equal protection, there’s another angle and couple, ‘until death do us part.’ ” Windsor’s to the anti-DOMA cases: states’ rights. As rooted in lawyers contend DOMA denigrates Edie and Thea’s the 10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to “loving, committed relationship that should serve as the United States…are reserved to the States….” a model for all couples.” When it comes to marriage and family law, the feder - The Windsor case comes at a momentous time, al government has generally deferred to the states, when marriage equality, and gay rights broadly, have Constitutional scholar Yoshino explains. DOMA “cre - become the civil rights issue, says Patrick Egan, a ates a federal intrusion into a traditional state do - public-opinion scholar and assistant professor of main,” he says. Plus, there’s another subtlety at work: politics and public policy in the Wilf Family Depart - Conservatives tend to favor empowering the states, ment of Politics. And 2011, especially, looks to be a shifting power away from the federal center. So con - turning point. “Historians will probably look back on servative judges, who might not otherwise support this year as the moment a majority of Americans gay marriage, could overturn DOMA simply because

NYU / FALL 2011 / 41 it overextends the federal hand. stallations of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), If either the equal protection or states’ rights ar - and Edie worked on its behalf, loading giant tapes gument persuades a court to rule likewise, the deci - into the computer and creating documents on the de - sion will have far-reaching implications, says Edie’s partment’s mathematical typewriter. One of two or counsel, the ACLU’s Esseks. Bans on same-sex cou - three women in the department, she was eager to ad - ples adopting, for example, would need to be re - vance and soon found work as a programmer at viewed. Anti-LGBT employment discrimination would Combustion Engineering, Inc’s facility on West 15th be hard to justify. Denying health care and pension Street, which also relied on the UNIVAC. There she benefits to same-sex spouses of public employees worked with physicists, beginning her shift at mid - could be defeated. Ignoring harassment of LGBT stu - night, loading tapes and interpreting the information dents in schools could become illegal. “Every nook that appeared on the UNIVAC’s tiny screens. and cranny of LGBT rights law will be affected,” Es - When she wasn’t working or studying, she read lit - seks predicts. erary magazines at the Bagatelle, a lesbian hangout Still, these rapid developments unfold against a on University Place between East 11th and 12th backdrop of pervasive, sometimes violent discrimi - streets. “When someone walked in who I knew worked nation. The FBI reports 1,223 hate-motivated at NYU, I was panic struck,” she says. She was espe - crimes against gay men and lesbians occurred in cially terrified once to be summoned by the FBI, 2009, the most recent year for which data is avail - which had to give her security clearance to work for able. Only six states allow same-sex marriage; the AEC. Gay people were being purged from gov - however, these marriages are not recognized in the ernment at the time, yet she determined that she’d vast majority of states. Twenty-nine have explicit tell the truth if asked. She just didn’t want to go to constitutional bans on same-sex unions while 12 jail. “I found out that impersonating a man was ille - other states have statutes against them. As Rachel gal, so I wore crinolines and a marvelous dress to Maddow of MSNBC joked, gay-marriage rights meet the FBI,” she says. Their only concern, she dis - “kick in and out like cell phone roaming charges covered, was her sister’s relationship with a teachers when you cross state lines.” As such, much dis - union. crimination remains in employment, housing, pub - Soon she moved to an apartment on Cornelia lic accommodation, and credit. Transgendered Street (rent: $37.50 a month), finished her degree, people especially lack legal protection. and got hired at IBM, thanks to connections she’d forged at NYU. Her work involved programming lan - guages and early operating-system software: “I was working on interactivity 25 years before the Internet.” The start of Edie’s life with Thea was eventful— Edith Windsor personally, professionally, and politically. In 1968, flourishing in their careers, they bought a house to - was born in Philadelphia in 1929, not long before her gether in Southampton and a motorcycle custom- family lost their home and business in the Great De - painted white. IBM named Edie senior systems pression. She graduated from Temple University with programmer, its highest technical title. In June 1969, a degree in psychology, was briefly married and di - after a vacation in Italy, they returned home to an vorced, and then moved to New York to start over. eerily tense West Village, with police everywhere. She landed in the NYU neighborhood in the early They quickly discovered the Stonewall Inn had erupt - 1950s—her first apartment was on West 11th Street ed in riots the night before. in a third-floor walk-up with a bathroom in the hall. “Until then I’d always had the feeling—and I know At 23, after a series of dead-end secretarial jobs, she it’s ignorant and unfair—‘I don’t want to be identified enrolled as a graduate student in math, which had with the queens,’ ” Edie admits. “But from that day interested her in college, “to find myself in a profes - on, I had this incredible gratitude. They changed my sion,” as she says. life. They changed my life forever.” She also worked for NYU’s math department, en - In the years that followed, Edie marched holding a tering data into its UNIVAC, the world’s first com - Gay Liberation Front banner, paraded with rainbow mercial electronic computer. It occupied an entire flags, and for one Village Halloween Parade, she and floor, weighed eight tons, and performed about 1,900 Thea loaned their cream-colored Cadillac convertible calculations a second—state of the art in the early to a gay-rights group. A giant sign on the back sport - ’50s. NYU had one of only a few dozen UNIVACs in ed their names: “Donated by…,” and seeing it, Edie the country. The university was also one of six in - recalls feeling okay with being so visible: “I said to

42 / FALL 2011 / NYU Thea, ‘It’s a whole new world.’ ” and getting set to roll in the morning three or four. When IBM moved Edie’s group out of town in Marriage equality at the end of life is a little-noted but 1975, she took a severance package and began a sec - key aspect of the Windsor case. Without a recognized ond career as an activist, she says, “for just about marriage, a same-sex spouse could, for example, de - every gay organization that existed then or was being spite a lifetime shared, be forbidden from writing an formed.” She manned the telephone tree for Gay & epitaph or arranging a funeral. Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, computerized the mailing lists for the East End Gay Organization, and helped to found Old Queers Acting Up, an improv group whose skits tackled ageism, racism, and ho - mophobia with the rallying cry “out of the closet, onto LAST November, the stage.” She persevered as the atmosphere down - SAGE honored Edie with its lifetime achievement award. This year, she was also honored by Marriage Equality New York, received the City Council award at its Gay Pride celebration, and, with her attorneys, received the ACLU Medal of Liberty. The exhausting, exciting season ended at a press conference in Wash - ington, D.C., helping Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Nadler introduce the Respect for Marriage Act. Edie spoke at the Rayburn House Office Building, visibly moving the gathered crowd with her story. “Spending the day with Edie in Washington is like spending a day with Mick Jagger,” attorney Kaplan says. “A Congressional aide told her she was the Rosa Parks of our generation.” Edie recounted her season making history in the THEA (LEFT) MARRIED EDIE IN 200 7, AND DIED TWO YEARS LATER. cozy galley kitchen of her Southampton home, paint - ed white and decorated country casual. Straw hats town evolved from the free-love ’70s to the “Si - hung on the wall, wicker baskets sat on wide-plank lence=Death” militancy of the ’80s AIDS epidemic. floors, and a glass jar of granola was set on the count - When New York City established a domestic-partner er. On her bookshelf, recordings of Schubert, registry in 1993, she and Thea were No. 80 in line. Beethoven, and Haydn shared space with workout But her real sense of community blossomed, she tapes and a home-repair manual. In a crisp pink ox - says, when in 1986 she joined the board of Services ford shirt, Gucci belt, fuchsia nail polish, and black & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), which serves jeans—and still that perfect blonde flip—Edie dis - 2,500 seniors a month in New York City and has 23 pensed hugs, even to a visiting reporter, along with affiliates nationwide. coffee and croissants. A pair of young children, off - Gay and lesbian seniors’ lives have been so cir - spring of the one dear cousin she says always ac - cumscribed compared to the lives of the young that cepted her, read by the pool. Later they were to see SAGE’s mission of creating community is especially the latest Harry Potter film, and Edie would visit with powerful and poignant. Denied the right to raise legal - City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. ly recognized families, and often shunned by their sib - The case still has her pinching herself, she says, lings, many LGBT adults of Edie’s generation live in and wishing Thea could share in it. isolation—one reason that Mayor Michael Bloomberg “We never dreamed it,” Edie reflects. “We didn’t ex - and SAGE in 2011 announced a new city-funded pect marriage, even 10 years ago, and I never ex - LGBT senior center for the Chelsea neighborhood. pected I’d be looking at a piece of paper that said While being alone isn’t uncommon among the elder - ‘Windsor versus the United States of America.’ Fight - ly, “aging without family support is far more profound ing is very hard—we spend our lives coming out, in in our community,” says Catherine Thurston, SAGE’s different circumstances. We’re never all out, some - senior director of programs. “The majority of folks we how. It takes a lot of guts to stand up and let people work with do not have adult children.” know—people you’ve lied to much of your life—that Caring for Thea dominated Edie’s last years with not only are you a lesbian, but you’re a lesbian fight - her, when preparation for bed might take an hour ing the United States of America.”

NYU / FALL 2011 / 43 Former Life photographer Bob Gomel reflects on the many American stories told with his camera BY ANDREA CRAWFORD

44 / FALL 2011 / NYU A THOUSAND WORDS

NYU / FALL 2011 / 45 PREVIOUS SPREAD: MALCOLM X PHOTO - ABOVE: MARILYN MONROE ATTENDS A PARTY GRAPHS CASSIUS CLAY ON FEBRUARY 25, FOR BROADWAY’S THE SOUND OF MUSIC IN 1964, THE NIGHT THE BOXER KNOCKED OUT 1961, ONE YEAR BEFORE HER DEATH. SONNY LISTON TO BECOME HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. THE NEXT DAY CLAY REVEALED RIGHT: PERHAPS GOMEL’S MOST FAMOUS THAT HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NATION PHOTOGRAPH WAS THIS BIRD’S-EYE IMAGE OF ISLAM. OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ’S CASKET LYING IN STATE AT THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA IN 1969. TOP: THIS IMAGE OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. GOMEL RIGGED STROBE LIGHTS AROUND THE KENNEDY INSPECTING THE SPACE CAPSULE IN 200-FOOT DOME, STRUNG A WIRE WITH A 1962 REMAINS ONE OF GOMEL’S FAVORITES. PULLEY TO PLACE THE CAMERA IN THE MID - “IT’S JOHN KENNEDY, BUT IT’S NOT THE WAY DLE, AND RAN A ZIP CORD—TO TRIGGER WE ANTICIPATE SEEING HIM,” GOMEL SAYS. THE CAMERA—TO WHERE HE WOULD BE “IT’S JUST ONE OF THOSE OFF-GUARD STANDING WITH THE REST OF THE PRESS. MOMENTS THAT NOBODY FOCUSES ON.” THE RESULTING PHOTOGRAPH APPEARED ON THE COVER OF LIFE MAGAZINE.

46 / FALL 2011 / NYU A BRASH 22-YEAR-OLD DANCING AROUND THE RING, HIS GLOVED FISTS RAISED IN VICTORY AS HE PROCLAIMS HIMSELF “THE KING OF THE WORLD ”: THIS MAY BE THE MOST FAMOUS IMAGE OF MUHAMMAD ALI WHEN HE WAS STILL CASSIUS CLAY—AND HAD JUST DEFEATED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION SONNY LISTON IN ONE OF BOXING ’S MOST STUNNING UPSETS. BOB GOMEL WAS THERE SHOOTING PHOTOS FOR LIFE MAGAZINE, HAVING journeyed to Miami Beach in February 1969—the magazine’s last decade as the 1964 to shadow Clay in the days leading country’s premier newsweekly—he pho - up to the bout. But it was an image Gomel tographed a long, impressive list of world (STERN ’55) captured during the afterpar - leaders (John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, ty—of Malcolm X snapping a photo of the Nikita Khrushchev, Patrice Lumumba, new world champion—that the Library of David Ben-Gurion, Jawaharlal Nehru), ac - Congress deemed worthy of acquiring tors (Marilyn Monroe, Warren Beatty, Joan last year. From behind the bar, the former Crawford), athletes (Arthur Ashe, Willie Nation of Islam spokesperson smiles Mays, Sandy Koufax, Arnold Palmer, Joe broadly as he holds the camera to his Namath), and other personalities of the era face. The seated Clay wears a tuxedo (Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, Benjamin and bow tie, his hands resting in loose Spock). When President-elect Kennedy took fists on the counter. He appears to mug a walk with 3-year-old Caroline on the day for the camera. her brother, John Jr., was born; when Mar - It’s a moment of connection between tin Luther King Jr. gave his speech at the friends, revealing a playful side of two March on Washington; when the Beatles powerful men whose public personas were appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show ; Gomel often serious, angry, or in Clay’s case, captured it all on film. downright crazy. The photograph also Like any enduring image, says Ben bares a secret between them: The boxer Breard, who featured many of Gomel’s had been persuaded by promoters not to works in an exhibition earlier this year at announce his conversion to Islam before Afterimage Gallery in Dallas, the photo - the fight. The following day, he would graphs are important not only because of make the announcement to the world. their historical and cultural significance. Getting behind the scenes and using “Of course, there’s an element of being photographs to tell a story was what Life at the right place at the right time to did best, and it was what attracted Gomel capture the moment, but then you’ve got to the picture magazines. As a young man, to do it artistically,” Breard says. The he turned down other journalism jobs and images reveal the photographer’s sense went without work for nearly a year wait - of humor and humanity. “There’s a ing to break in. When the chance came, positive feel to his work,” Breard adds. Gomel made the most of it. From 1959 to “It’s uplifting. Even though those were

NYU / FALL 2011 / 47 LEFT: FAMED PEDIATRICIAN DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK —BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE COMMON SENSE BOOK OF BABY AND CHILD CARE —IS ENTERTAINED BY TWO YOUNG PATIENTS DURING AN EXAMINATION IN SEPTEMBER 1962.

BELOW: AFTER FILMING CONCLUDED, BUT BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE GRADUATE , GOMEL SPENT A DAY WITH DUSTIN HOFFMAN —HANGING OUT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, POSING FOR A SCULPTOR, AND, AS SEEN HERE, PICKING UP HIS UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK.

RIGHT: JOHN LENNON CANNONBALLS INTO A POOL IN 1964 AS HIS FELLOW BEATLES PAUL MCCARTNEY (CENTER) AND RINGO STARR BRACE FOR THE INEVITABLE SPLASH. THE BAND WAS IN MIAMI FOR THEIR SECOND LIVE PERFORMANCE ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW —WHICH WAS WATCHED BY 70 MILLION AMERICANS.

48 / FALL 2011 / NYU hard times the country went through, tures), and he started tagging along on their and Shell Oil, also tested technological and [there’s] a hopeful aspect to everything.” assignments. After graduating from NYU creative boundaries at Life . His image of the Born in Manhattan and raised in the and serving four years in the U.S. Navy, he Manhattan skyline during a blackout in No - Bronx, Gomel discovered photography as a was promptly offered a job at the Associated vember 1965 is striking, with a full moon boy, struck by an image taken by his teacher Press. But by then, he had changed his mind illuminating the dark sky. But from his van - hanging in his classroom at the Ethical Cul - about what he wanted to do. “I just felt one tage point on the Brooklyn waterfront that ture School on Central Park West. It was a picture wasn’t sufficient to tell a story,” he night, the moon was behind him. “It oc - black-and-white picture of a manhole cover explains. “I was interested in exploring curred to me that the only way we’re all get - on a cobblestone street with some pigeons something in depth. And, of course, the ting along this evening is because we have a around it. “I sat next to that picture, and I mecca was Life magazine.” He turned down full moon,” he says. “I wanted to tell that…in was just entranced by it,” he says. Gomel the offer from AP. a single picture.” So he rewound his film, joined the teacher’s photography club and At Life he was able to shoot the stories changed lenses, turned around and clicked, began learning on a borrowed camera. When that appealed to him, and the recent exhi - placing the glowing orb just where he want - World War II ended, he got a job delivering bition included some of his favorites. For ed it to be in the dark quadrant of the frame. groceries by bicycle to buy his first camera one photo-essay, he documented what hap - After a long debate, Gomel says, the editors and soon convinced his parents—his father pens to the family dog when the children decided to run it—the first double-exposure was an optometrist; his mother, an NYU return to school, highlighting one forlorn Life used in a news story. graduate, was a teacher—to let him appro - basset hound, in particular. For another Gomel believes photographers have the priate a closet for his darkroom. series, he arranged for humorist Art Buch - responsibility to be truthful reporters but When Gomel arrived at his mother’s alma wald to go back to Marine boot camp in - also must be clear about what story they’re mater in 1950, he began working for student cognito for a week, to relive his days as a trying to tell. “Photography is all about publications, covering basketball games, recruit. The humor and power of these im - having something to say before you pick which NYU then played at Madison Square ages endure, even for those too young to the camera up to your eye and push the Garden. There, he befriended “the fellows know Art Buchwald. button,” he says. “Are you happy about who worked the night shift” for the Daily Gomel, who later worked in advertising something, displeased about something? Mirror , the Daily News , the Associated shooting national campaigns for clients And if so, how are you going to express that Press, and UPI (then called ACME Newspic - such as Volkswagen, Pan Am, Merrill Lynch, on a piece of film?”

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S TE NO (iUniverse). the Fifties (Comfort Pub - lishing), a collection of his GEORGE JUNGHANNS / short stories, has been se - GSAS ’57 / published The lected as one of three Phoenix Circa Anno Domi - short-story finalists in the ni (Gauntlet Books) in 2011 Next Generation Indie 2007. The title represents Book Awards. the fact that the Phoenix’s true nature, as Halley’s JOSEPH BRANDES / Comet, was unknown GSAS ’58 / has had his through the ages. book, Immigrants to Free - dom: Jews as Yankee CLARK M. ZLOTCHEW / Farmers! (1880’s to STERN ’57 / wrote Once 1960’s) (Xlibris), enter a Upon a Decade: Tales of second printing. 1960s

CAROL ABAYA / GSAS CEO since 1996. At the ’63 / popularized the term request of Congress, “sandwich generation,” de - Berlowitz is currently scribing people looking af - directing an assessment ter both their children and of humanities and social aging parents. She current - sciences and their role in ly writes a weekly column education. on the subject for www.new jerseynewsroom.com. ALFRED J. SCHIAVETTI JR. / STERN ’69 / re - LESLIE BERLOWITZ / ceived an honorary degree ARTS ’65 / has been from Monmouth University named president of the in May. Schiavetti is presi - American Academy of dent of consultancy at Arts and Sciences. She Navesink Associates and has led the academy as its is a trustee of Monmouth. P H O T O © R

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L REGINA SNOW MANDL / MIGUELINA CUEVAS- Y ARTS ’71 / has been POST / ARTS ’72, in America’s inner cities. STANLEY J. ANTONOFF / June 2011. He was nomi - trustee-at-large of the STEINHARDT ’74 / WSC ’53, DEN ’57 / au - nated by his medical American Inns of Court traveled to Belize to BERNARD GARDNER / thored Bygone Chronicle: school, the New Jersey Foundation in Alexandria, serve as a Peace Corps WSC ’52, MED ’56 / just Once Upon a Time… Medical School. VA. For more than 25 years, volunteer with her published Nuggets-Five (AuthorHouse), a book of she has specialized in fami - husband after retiring Plays (iUniverse). Gardner humorous short stories. ESTELLE BREINES / ly law, estate planning, and as principal of Owasco is professor emeritusof STEINHARDT ’57, ’86 / administration. Mandl also Elementary School in surgery at New Jersey MARINOS A. PETRATOS / published a memoir of serves the NYU Lawyer Auburn, NY. The couple Medical School and has ARTS ’56 / was elected her childhood in Borough Alumni Mentoring Program, met on a 1976 Peace staged four of the plays lo - to membership in Alpha Park, Brooklyn, called designed to mentor under - Corps posting in Jamaic a. cally since 2007. Omega Alpha, the national Brooklyn Roots: A Tale of graduates interested in a

medical honor society, in Pickles and Egg Creams career in law. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 53)

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alumni profile al, where disabled joggers country and has established O T O C

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Central Park with about Washington, D.C., and has M ACHILLES HEALS 10 runners and now counts helped nearly 500 wound - some 500 members in New ed soldiers to become by Brian Dalek / GSAS ’10 York City alone, with ad - physically active again. ditional chapters across the Becoming a nonprofit United States and in more leader for the disabled is a UNNING COACH DICK TRAUM’S IDEAL than 70 countries. It has at - long way fromTraum’s ini - TRAINEE IS NOT THE SWIFTEST ATHLETE, tracted the support of for - tial life goal. At age 24, he mer President Bill Clinton had dreamed of starting his R NOR ONE WITH THE MOST ENDURANCE. HE’S and former New York own business and had al - more likely to approach the New York City in 1976, he became the first Governor David Paterson. ready completed a BS and somebody like Donald Marathon?” Arthur, now person ever to run the In 2010, Prince Harry of MBA at NYU. He had fin - Arthur, who received a 66, remembers thinking New York City Marathon Wales, Cindy and Meghan ished all course work and heart transplant in 1995. Traum was crazy. Since on a prosthetic leg. McCain, and Heather Mills taken the written exams Less than a year after sur - then, however, he’s com - Since that first triumph, all joined more than 5,000 for his doctoral dissertation gery, Arthur joined pleted 42 marathons and Traum, 70, has coached participants (able-bodied on industrial psychology Traum’s running club, plans on running one in thousands of athletes with and not) in the 8th Annual when his plans were side - Achilles International, just each U.S. state. It’s no sur - disabilities—runners with Achilles Hope & Possibili - tracked. On May 30, 1965, to power walk around prise to Traum, who be - multiple sclerosis, those ty, a five-mile race in Cen - during a Memorial Day Central Park, but Traum lieves that everyone is paralyzed from car crashes, tral Park. More recently, weekend trip with his new soon posed the same chal - capable of pushing them - and the blind. They have the club has expanded its fiancé, he stopped to get lenge he asks of everyone selves beyond their pre - all found a community presence in 16 other gas on the New Jersey in the group: “Want to run conceived limits. After all, with Achilles Internation - marathons throughout the Turnpike en route to

52 / FALL 2011 / NYU RICHARD TRAUM HAS COMPLETED THE NEW YORK CITY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51) years with the company. winning Best Musical In MARATHON 20 TIMES, MOST RECENTLY ON A HANDCYCLE. EDNA WELLS HANDY / Rush oversaw the expan - the Heights . She is an an - WSC ’72 / has been award - sion of Baird’s financial nouncer for HBO Sports Philadelphia. As Traum able to run a mile com - ed the Ida B. Wells-Bar - services around the and has worked on-cam - stood behind his car while fortably. nett Justice Award for her world. Before joining the era in dramas, sitcoms, its tank was being filled, That was thousands of work as commissioner company, he spent nine and soaps. the driver of an old miles ago. Like many oth - of the department of years at Fidelity Invest - Chrysler lost control. The ers in the mid-1970s, citywide administrative ments. JOSEPH P. ESPOSITO / man’s foot accidently hit Traum was swept up by services. The award is ad - LAW ’78 / has been se - the accelerator and he the running boom and ministered by the New CATHY E. MINEHAN / lected for membership in rammed into Traum, kept testing his limits. York County Lawyers’ STERN ’77 / has been the International Associa - breaking both of his legs With the support of Association and the Met - named dean of the Sim - tion of Defense Counsel. at the upper thigh. His Roth, YMCA running ropolitan Black Bar Asso - mons College School of He is a partner in the right leg became infected coach Robert Gover, and ciation for distinguished Management, the first Washington office of with gangrene and was then-New York Road service in combating MBA program in the coun - Hunton & Williams LLP, amputated just above the Runners President Fred discrimination and advo - try focused on women. where he practices com - knee. “You lose a leg, it’s a Lebow,Traum ran his first cating human rights. Minehan served 39 years plex civil litigation. big thing, but I guess I NewYork City marathon with the Federal Reserve HOWARD LISCH / System, most recently as DAVID PENNEY / WSUC STERN ’72 / has formed the president and CEO of ’78 / was appointed asso - In 1976, Traum became Lisch & Lisch LLC with his the Boston Bank. ciate director for museum the first person ever daughter, Melissa, to prac - scholarship at the Nation - tice public accounting. BLANCA CAMACHO / al Museum of the Ameri - to run the New York STEINHARDT ’78 / fin - can Indian in Washington, City Marathon on a LEONARD RUSH / ished a three-year stint as D.C. Penney is also an STERN ’74 / has retired a member of the original adjunct professor of art prosthetic leg. as CFO of Baird, a finan - Broadway cast of the history at Wayne State cial-services firm, after 11 2008 Tony Award– University. wasn’t devastated,” Traum in 1976, with a time of recalls. “I was like, ‘Okay, 7:24. He officially became you get an artificial leg the first person with a and just continue.’ ” prosthesis to run the Traum had never been race—or any marathon 198 0s one to worry about his that anybody knew of. health—before or after Traum has now run the GREGORY C. BUFFALOW as two books of poetry, magazine and has also the accident. He had NYC marathon 20 times, / LAW ’80 / has joined The Ordinary Living and penned histories of King wrestled at Horace Mann though he finished his the firm of Satterwhite, Hapax Legomena (both Kong and Close Encoun - School on the UpperWest most recent in 2010 as a Buffalow, Compton, and Mellen). ters of the Third Kind Side and then at NYU, participant in the hand- Tyler LLC, in Mobile, (both Applause Theatre & and so was always fit. But cycle division. (He gave AL. He recently authored MICHAEL L. GROSS / Cinema). in 1975 he grew con - up traditional running an article, “Force Majeure: MED ’83 / co-founded the cerned when someone he when his left knee was re - Recent Cases, Boilerplate Active Center for Health LISA J. BRZEZICKI / knew suddenly died of a placed 11 years ago.) De - and Analysis,” for The & Wellness in Hackensack, STERN ’84 / was ap - heart attack. So Traum spite the rigors of training Journal of Maritime Law NJ, which offers health pointed senior vice presi - plopped down $300 for 300 Achilles Internation - and Commerce . and fitness therapies. dent of bank partner classes at the West Side al team members each Gross is also the orthope - programs by Mazooma, YMCA, where he met year, heading to the start - BARBARA BLOCK dic director of sports an online debit payment Peter Roth, who coached ing line on the day of a ADAMS / GSAS ’81 / , medicine at Hackensack system. him and became a close race remains his greatest professor emerita from University Medical Center. friend. “I told him, ‘You moment of pride and sol - Pace University, published ERIC COMSTOCK / WSUC have to know that in this ace. “There is a tremen - a memoir in 2011, The RAY MORTON / TSOA ’85 / , a jazz/pop pianist class, we run. Everybody dous amount to do before Stone Man and the Poet ’83 / has published Music and singer, completed his has to do that, including the marathon,” he says. (iUniverse). She has also on Film: Amadeus (Hal second consecutive sea - you,’ ” Roth recalls.Traum “When the gun goes off published The Enemy Self: Leonard), a history of the son at the Oak Room Sup - learned how to hop and and I finally start, my re - Poetry & Criticism of Lau - making of the Czechoslo - per Club at New York’s skip on his artificial leg. action is, ‘Okay, now this ra Riding (Univ. of vakian production. Morton Algonquin Hotel last Janu -

Three months later he was is when I can relax.’ ” Rochester Press), as well is a senior writer at Script (CONTINUED ON PAGE 55)

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LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAM 212-998-6880 HEN JANE KATZ WAS MARRIED IN 1996, fly race for the American ROBERT F. WAGNER team. Upon returning to GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HER “SOMETHING BLUE” WAS A PAIR OF PUBLIC SERVICE the United States, she 212-998-7537 W ULTRAMARINE-TINTED SWIM GOGGLES soon discovered a rela - [email protected] that she wore on her Swimming titles and was a taught her how to swim at tively unknown sport SCHOOL OF CONTINUING head. She signs e-mails member of the U.S. Syn - the tender age of 2, and called synchronized swim - AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 212-998-7003 with “splashes” rather chronized Swimming Per - she raced in her first swim ming and helped create [email protected] than “sincerely,” and, for formance Team at the meet with a neighborhood its first team at City Col - SCHOOL OF LAW her, the acronym BYOB al - 1964 Summer Olympics in team five years later. As a lege. She was attracted to 212-998-6410 ways implies Bring Your Tokyo. And while still ac - sophomore at the City the artistic and musical [email protected] Own Bathing suit. “I al - tive in competitions, she College of New York in components of this form SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ways felt klutzy on land, is also a celebrated edu - Harlem, she was selected of swimming, and she 212-263-5390 [email protected] but in the water I feel cator and coach; earlier to be a member of the proved to be a natural— graceful and serene,” she this year, Katz was induct - U.S. team competing at earning the title of U.S. SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK says. “It’s physiological ed into the National Jew - the Maccabiah Games in Masters Synchronized 212-998-9189 and psychological.” ish Sports Hall of Fame Israel in 1961. “I hadn’t Swimming National Solo [email protected] Katz has incorporated for her achievements as taken many trips and had Champion for 14 years THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL water and swimming into both an athlete and a never been on a team of (1974–87). Early on she OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN every aspect of her life mentor. that magnitude,” Katz re - often had to explain what DEVELOPMENT and, at 68, she is still a Her passion for all calls. “It was a kind of cul - synchronized swimming 212-998-6942 formidable athlete and things aquatic began in ture shock.” was to others, and re - [email protected] advocate for the sport. So 1945 at a public pool on But Katz adapted members a spoof done on TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS far, she has won 34 All- the Lower East Side of quickly and went on to the sport for Saturday 212-998-6954 [email protected] American U.S. Masters Manhattan. Katz’s father win the 100-meter butter - Night Live in 1984, when

54 / FALL 2011 / NYU ther to instruct kids in the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 53) and enter - C city’s public schools. She ary. He will be performing tainment- L completed her master’s in the show, Helluva Town: industry education administration A New York Soundtrack , professionals. A

at NYU while teaching around the country with S swimming full time at his wife, Barbara Fasano. BEV S Bronx Community Col - THOMSON / NOTES lege. Since 1989, she has MARK JACKSON / STEIN - been a professor of health TSOA ’85 / was awarded HARDT ’86 and physical education at the 2010 Distinguished / was nomi - John Jay College of Crim - Achievement Award by nated for the inal Justice, where she nTelos, a networking firm Maxwell Medallion by the teaches aquatic fitness where he has worked for Dog Writers Association and swimming to New four years. Jackson led a of America for The Ruff York City policemen and team to build fiber-optic Times , a 2010 newsletter firefighters. She also networks in previously she published for Saint teaches water therapy poorly connected areas Vincent’s Hospital on be - courses to the elderly and of Alleghany County, VA. half of the donors and to NYU physical therapy volunteers who gave students, and helped cre - MARY JANE VIAGGIO their support and service ate the Kids Aquatic Re- HAYES / STEINHARDT to the patient pet-care Entry (KARE) program ’86 / completed her program. with the New York City book, Emma’s House of Department of Juvenile Sound (St. Augus - JOHN BABCOCK / LAW Justice to share the bene - tine), which is about a ’87 / has again been fits of swimming with deaf child who is bullied, named a North Carolina troubled youth. “It builds and received a grant Super Lawyer, a peer- confidence, and they from the St. Johns Cul - nominated list of top make friends and social - tural Arts Council for the attorneys in the state. ize in a way they might play she wrote. Viaggio Babcock is a partner in not normally,” Katz ex - Hayes is now studying the firm Wall, Esleeck, plains. “The water is dem - screenwriting at the Uni - Babcock LLP, which con - ocratic. It works for versity of North Florida. centrates on numerous everyone and it is the aspects of corporate law. great equalizer.” JOHN MEGA / GSAS ’86 / For Katz, the water can has been promoted to JOSÉ RAMÓN FERNÁN - also console and comfort. the position of assistant DEZ-PEÑA / WAG ’87 / “When my husband vice president of Middle - was honored in June with passed away, that was the sex Savings Bank. Mega a $25,000 Champions of only place where I had re - has worked at the bank Health Professions lief—physically, emotional - for 15 years, previously Diversity Award from the ly, mentally, and as information technolo - California Wellness Foun - spiritually,” she says. It’s gy officer in its systems dation for his ground - that unwavering belief in support division. breaking work the restorative power of directing the Welcome water that drives her to TIMOTHY E. MULLINS / Back Initiative. share her passion with as TSOA ’86 / recently pro - many people as possible. duced three episodes of LUCINE KASBARIAN / AFTER FIVE DECADES AS A COMPETITIVE SWIMMER, 68-YEAR- “When a person floats for Nick Zedd’s The Adven - WSUC ’87 / has pub - OLD JANE KATZ (PICTURED AT TOP IN 1990) HAS BEEN IN - DUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME. the first time, it’s price - tures of Electra Elf , a pub - lished The Greedy Spar - less,” she explains. “They lic-access cable TV show. row: An Armenian Tale it was first recognized as graceful, but you’re nearly shriek with joy and He recently started work (Marshall Cavendish), an an official Olympic event. drowning.” they’re so excited, the as a financial adviser with illustrated children’s “It was hysterical,” she Katz’s talents in the smile just envelops their Edward Jones in Manhat - book based on a tradi - admits. “But while it looks water have always extend - face. They hug and kiss tan and Williamsburg, and tional folk story about easy, you’re working very ed to teaching; even as a you…or they take your specializes in working greed, manipulation, and hard. You have to look child she helped her fa - next class.” with artists, freelancers, judgment.

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58 / FALL 2011 / NYU 1990s PATRICIA MOYNAGH / PAUL LEMPA / WSUC ’92 service agency. KEVIN HUFFMAN / LAW tion as executive director GSAS ’90, ’95 / , a mem - / had his painting of Hall of ’98 / has been appointed for the Miss America Pro - ber of the faculty in the de - Fame pitcher Satchel Paige THOMAS ASHFORTH / education commissioner of gram in Puerto Rico, which partment of government shown at the National Art SCPS ’96 / has been Tennessee. Huffman was is participating in the Miss and politics at Wagner Col - Museum of Sport in sum - named principal of previously head of public America pageant after an lege, was granted tenure mer 2011 as one of the win - Transwestern Commercial affairs at Teach for Ameri - almost 50-year absence. and promoted to the rank ners of the national Negro Services’ northeast region’s ca, and he is its first alum - of associate professor in League Conference Art agency leasing and tenant nus to be appointed as JENNIFER M CCASLAND May. She was the co-editor Contest. advisory services groups head of a state education DALY / STEINHARDT ’99, of and a contributor to Si - based in New York City. department. ’00 / and CHRISTOPHER mone de Beauvoir’s Politi - YASMINE BEVERLY RANA DALY / TSOA ’06 / were cal Thinking (University of / TSOA ’93, ’94 / has had TARA HANDRON / TSOA FRANCIS M. HULT / CAS married in February 2006. Illinois Press), and is cur - her book, The War Zone Is ’96 / has been appointed ’98, STEINHARDT ’01 / They opened Kinespirit, a rently working on a book My Bed and Other Plays , regional vice president for has published Directions gyrotonic and Pilates about freedom and the published by Seagull Books’ Caron Treatment Centers in and Prospects for Educa - personal-training studio, challenges of coexistence. In Performance series and Washington, D.C., and the tional Linguistics the same year and expand - the University of Chicago greater D.C. region. Caron (Springer), a collection of ed to its second Manhattan SPIROS G. FRANGOS / Press. is a leading nonprofit work by 14 scholars in the location in 2008. They also WSUC ’91 / was promoted provider of addiction treat - field. It covers the use of welcomed their first child, to associate professor of LYNN BODNAR KELLY / ment for individuals and eye trackers in second Everett Cash, in September surgery at NYU School of WSUC ’94, WAG ’98 / has families. language acquisition re - 2010. Medicine in the section of been named CEO and presi - search, computer gaming, trauma, critical care, and dent of Staten Island’s Snug AMY WU / CAS ’96 / has and the bilingual education LISA REYES / STEIN - surgical emergencies. Addi - Harbor Cultural Center and accepted a full-time lectur - of deaf students. HARDT ’99 / won a New tionally, he has published his Botanical Garden. er position at Shue Yan York Emmy Award in April first novel, Reflections in the University in Hong Kong. FOTINI LIVANOS / CAS 2011 in the category of Stream (Frangos). ELIZABETH WOLFSON / She previously worked on ’98 / started her own line Sports Series Coverage for SSSW ’95 / has been ap - various projects for the of handbags after leaving her work covering the PETER GLAVAS / WSUC pointed chair of the mas - University of Hong Kong’s the real estate industry. World Series in Philadel - ’92, DEN ’97 / has been ter’s in clinical psychology Journalism and Media The bags are carried in phia. Reyes is currently a named program director program at Antioch Univer - Studies Centre. Bloomingdale’s and in reporter and fill-in anchor of the General Practice sity, Santa Barbara. Wolfson specialty shops around the at News 12 Westchester. Dental Residency at Staten joined Antioch as full-time ANGELA NITZSCHE / world. Island University Hospital. faculty in August 2010 af - SSSW ’97 / married Francis KEN SCHNECK / CAS ’99, He maintains a private ter serving as an instructor Michael Gibbons on June 19, GIANCARLA SAMBO / STEINHARDT ’01 / was practice specializing in in the program for nearly a 2010. She has worked for GSAS ’98 / , attorney at elected to Selectboard in prosthodontics in Great decade, while also serving the Zucker Hillside Hospital law, has been appointed by Brattleboro, VT, for a three- Neck, NY. as director of a family for the past four years. the Miss America Organiza - year term.

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AYALA SELLA ’S / CAS THEO THIMOU / GSAS ’00 the official website of na - name of her business this Kissinger Associates, ’00 / first book, a collec - / is co-author of Clark tionally syndicated radio year to Legacy Connec - a strategy consultancy. tion of poetry titled Solilo - Howard’s Living Large in and TV host Clark Howard. tions Films. quies of a Crosswalker , Lean Times (Avery), a New RON GRABOV-NARDINI / has just been released York Times No. 1 bestseller ARIELLE NOBILE / TSOA JOSHUA COOPER RAMO / LAW ’02 / was made part - by Wasteland Press. (paperback how-to, advice, ’01 / had a daughter, Maia GSAS ’01 / was appointed ner at the international law She currently lives in and misc. list). He works as Lucia, on August 26, 2010, to the board of directors of firm Akin Gump Strauss Brooklyn. director of content for with her husband, Starbucks. Ramo is also Hauer & Feld LLP. He is a

www.Clark Howard.com, Nicolas. She changed the managing director at (CONTINUED ON PAGE 60)

NYU / FALL 2011 / 59 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 59) CAS ’03 / and HEBA VICTORIA PARIS SACKS / in D.C. She now goes by Europe. Camacho is mar - member of the firm’s tax NASSEF GORE / CAS ’02 / CAS ’04 / won the first Jennifer Smith-Parker. keting the script and work - practice and his clients in - welcomed their baby girl, place Montgomery Watson ing as a part-time English clude hedge funds and pri - Amina Khurram Gore, into Harza Consulting Engi - CHERYL TEXIERA / TSOA professor in Texas. vate equity funds. the world on February 15, neers/AEESP Master’s The - ’04 / was cast as Tina, a se - 2011 in Philadelphia. Amina sis Award for contributing to ductive barfly, in Showtime’s CRISTI HEGRANES / GSAS ALI WEISELBERG / CAS is the niece of KIRAN GORE the advancement of envi - Shameless . She has also ap - ’05 / won the Society of ’02, DEN ’06 / has been se - / GAL ’06 / , YOMNA ronmental science and engi - peared in Parks and Recre - Professional Journalists’ In - lected as one of the Best 50 NASSEF / CAS ’08 / , and neering. She earned an MS ation on NBC and is novation Prize for her work Women in Business in New TARA GORE / GAL ’14 . from University of Rhode Is - currently working on new with the Press Institute. She Jersey by business journal land’s Graduate School of comedies, including ABC’s founded the group to train NJBIZ . The award was EVITA NANCY S. TORRE / Oceanography in 2010. Happy Endings . women in developing coun - judged on the basis of dedi - CAS ’03 / is practicing as tries to become journalists. cation to business growth, an adoption attorney in New RACHEL SHER / STEIN - JENNIFER ZAHRT / GAL professional and personal York City. She works with HARDT ’04 / has joined ’04 / was hired last spring DAN KARTZMAN/ CAS accomplishments, communi - Greenberg & Greenberg, and Chicago law firm Butler Ru - as an associate editor at ’05 / was recently profiled ty involvement, and advoca - is legal counsel to Spence- bin Saltarelli and Boyd LLP The Threepenny Review , a in the book Dig This Gig cy for women. Chapin Adoption Services. as an associate. She will literary magazine based in (Citadel) by Laura Dodd. He concentrate on complex Berkeley, CA. is currently working in STEPHEN ACUNTO JR. / BROOKE KOSOFSKY business dispute cases. Brooklyn in the home per - SCPS ’03 / has joined the GLASSBERG / CAS ’04 / is CALEB D. CAMACHO / formance field, improving news and opinion magazine now merchandising editor at JENNIFER C. SMITH / CAS GAL ’05 / has written an the energy efficiency of The Week and its website Good Housekeeping maga - ’04 / of Fresh Meadows, NY, award-winning film script, houses. TheWeek.com as an account zine. Prior to that, she was married Caleb Anthony The Dance of the Living , manager. fashion features editor of O, Parker of Savannah, GA, on about a Jewish doctor ac - KATHARYN KRYDA / The Oprah Magazine . November 15, 2010 in Wash - cused of spreading the CAS ’05 / graduated from KHURRAM NASIR GORE / ington, D.C. The couple lives plague in 14th-century (CONTINUED ON PAGE 61)

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alumni media PAGE 60) C the University of Illinois Col - L Star Wars for the People lege of Veteri - A nary Medicine S in May 2011. S She is now AMIE WILKINSON (CAS ’07) and Casey vorite scenes are the ones where it’s a whole family,” practicing in NOTES Pugh were eating brunch in Brooklyn two Wilkinson says. “You can see that it’s like Mom is oper - the Washing - years ago, dreaming about how cool it ating the camera, Dad’s playing Darth Vader, the kids ton, D.C., would be to somehow re-create George are Luke and Obi-Wan, and they’re using the dog as metro area. J Lucas’s 1977 epic Star Wars . Even cooler, Chewbacca.” —Renée Alfuso they decided, would be to piece it together with eclec - JAMES M CLEOD / STEIN - tic 15-second scenes provided by fellow HARDT ’05 / was featured superfans of the film. Wilkinson, a soft - in a group exhibition titled ware developer and co-creator of Know Concepts in Glass at the Your Meme—which documents quirky or New Art Center in Newton, viral videos and was selected as one of MA, last April. Time magazine’s Top 50 websites of 2009—was confident they’d receive a ASHLEY COZINE / TSOA number of fun clips. ’06 / is in production for He never expected that nearly 2,000 the SAG New Media Web submissions would pour in from around Series Look Up in the the world—ranging from Lego lightsaber Sky , and recently wrapped battles to an all-female squad of the SAG Indie short films Stormtroopers in go-go boots. With such On the Mountain and a variety of visual styles, it doesn’t take Dessert & Suicide , and is a Jedi to see why the crowdsourced re - in festivals with the short make has become a Web sensation. “A film By the Numbers and project like this could only work with a the feature A Perfect Life . really substantial fan community that was willing to put in the effort,” explains CHRISTINE ELLIOTT / Wilkinson, who produced and developed CAS ’07 / and JORDAN Star Wars Uncut with Pugh and two HOLLANDER / TSOA ’07 / friends over the course of a year. The are getting married this team divided the original film into 473 November. They met fresh - scenes that fans shot using any tech - man year in Hayden Hall. nique (see right). Once it was all pieced back together, the clips formed a full- EMILY HEROY / CAS ’07 / length movie that’s now constantly was named one of the top changing based on viewer voting. 100 “most inspiring people The site won a 2010 Primetime Emmy delivering for girls and Award for Outstanding Creative Achieve- women” by Women Deliver, ment in Interactive Media, beating out for her work with the Gen - the sites for Dexter and Glee to become der Across Borders blog. the first Internet-only production to Heroy was also profiled by score an Emmy. It was also likely the USA Today as part of its cheapest. “Our budget was 100 bucks a coverage of International month for servers and that was it,” says Women’s Day. Heroy was Wilkinson, who is now busy developing a recently engaged to Yale P H Fillingham. video sharing website, VHX.tv. But the O T O team is still in talks with Lucasfilm to S C O U

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NOTES Even if you’ve long since graduated, NYU can help database meets their specific job search you make your mark in almost every imaginable field, needs. There are also a number of free job from science and business to social work and the arts. postings available to all alumni via a sepa - NYU’s Wasserman Center for Career Development rate link on NYU CareerNet. For details, offers an array of services for alumni at all stages of call the center at 212-998-4730. their careers, including free counseling and workshops, For those looking for a home base from which to job postings, and a full-service business center. conduct their job search, three-month access to Wasser - The best way to take advantage of news and bene - man’s spacious career resource center near Union Square fits from the Wasserman Center is to join the alumni is available for $75. In addition to use of the computers, listserv (send a blank e-mail to join-career-alum - printers,Wi-Fi, fax machine, career literature, and coffee [email protected]), which blasts subscribers with infor - station, alumni may hold five-minute walk-in sessions mation on free panels and workshops, job postings, and with counselors for résumé and cover letter critiques, as strategies for enhancing careers. well as quick career-related questions. All graduates are also eligible for free 15-minute Graduates who wish to consult with experienced career counseling appointments with Wasserman’s sea - professionals in particular fields may also request infor - soned experts to learn, for example, the most effective mational interviews with fellow alumni in the Mentor way to conduct an online job search or how to transi - Network program.Those who would like to share their tion to a new industry or graduate-school program. own experiences and advice can volunteer to mentor (Longer 45-minute appointments are available at a rate current students as well. of $125, which includes access to the center for three So whether alumni are embarking on their first job months.) hunt or looking to switch careers midstream, NYU can Additionally, Wasserman offers alumni several op - play a valuable role in fostering their professional de - tions for viewing job listings through NYU Career - velopment. Net, the center’s online employment database. For For more information about the Wasserman Center’s those who wish to maximize their search options, full alumni services, visit www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment. NYU CareerNet access, which includes listings geared toward more recent alumni, is available for three To expand your NYU network, visit the alumni website, NY U- months at a rate of $75. Alumni can explore a free two- niverse , at www.alumni.nyu.edu. And if you have ideas for new week trial of this service to determine whether the groups, we welcome suggestions at [email protected].

Obituaries New York University mourns the recent passing of our alumni, staff, and friends, including:

CHARLOTTE BLOOMBERG / STERN ’29 CHARLES REINWALD / LAW ’49 FRANCES WINOPOL KLEIN / SCPS ’82 HENRY SUSS / ARTS ’35 ALBERT W. TIEDEMANN, JR. / GSAS ’49 HENRY E. SAUVAGEOT / TSOA ’97 SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ / ARTS ’38 ROBERT SCHEIN / STERN ’50 MANISH ACHARYA / TSOA ’06 JEAN (ULLMAN) BLAKE / WSC ’40 HARVEY POHL / STERN ’52 HOPE REICHBACH / CAS ’10 BERNARD SCHEUER / ARTS ’40, DEN ’43 HAROLD A. LUBELL / WSC ’53, LAW ’56 BARUJ BENACERRAF / FORMER MED FACULTY NORMA LEE O'HARA / STEINHARDT ’41 EDWARD G. OBERST / STERN ’53 EDA GOLDSTEIN / SSSW PROFESSOR EMERITUS MILDRED ROBBINS LEET / WSC ’42 RICHARD H. SCHNOOR / ENG ’53, ’58 MARKETA KIMBRELL / TSOA FACULTY MAYBELLE MACNICOL / STEINHARDT ’44 EDWARD LIEBLEIN / ENG ’55 TOM MANGRAVITE / TSOA FACULTY ANTHONY LOFASO / ENG ’46 NELSON J. KISTLER / WSC ’56 WILLIAM F. MAY / FORMER STERN DEAN BETTY MANN GRINDLINGER / STEINHARDT ’47 SVERRE LYNGSTAD / GSAS ’60 HOWARD NEWMAN / FORMER WAGNER DEAN MELVIN RISCOE / STERN ’47 RICHARD SCHMUKLER / STEINHARDT ’61 NORMAN REDLICH / LAW FACULTY ABNER J. ZALAZNICK / WSC ’48 ALVARO BECHARA / LAW ’66 ROBERT SKLAR / TSOA PROFESSOR EMERITUS

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