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Network STUDENTS AND ALUMNI with Columbia 24 The College Connection 30 Hands-On Experience alumNi Alumni and students forge meaningful The Columbia College Alumni-Sponsored bonds across disciplines and generations. Student Internship Program pairs students

By Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts with alumni for mutual benefit.

By Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA

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16 Class Day and 49 Relief, Recovery, Commencement 32 Vision Quest Resilience Through decades of bill Campbell, Chairman of The Board of TrusTees, ColumBia universiTy 2013 research, Dr. George 50 Nate Bliss ’05 played Chairman of The Board of direCTors, inTuiT The Class of 2013 joins 46 Alumni a key role in Coney memBer of The Board of direCTors, apple Yancopoulos ’80 over- the ranks of alumni; plus memBer of The ColumBia universiTy CluB of neW york sees numerous drug Reunion Weekend Island’s comeback from Academic Awards and advances — including a and Dean’s Day Hurricane Sandy. Prizes. breakthrough in one to 2013 By Mary Jean Babic By Alex Sachare ’71 treat eye disease. The perfect midtown location to network, dine with a Classmates reconnect on 54 Brian O’Connell ’89 client, hold events or business meetings, house guests 19 Senior By David McKay Wilson campus and throughout helped the school he in town for the weekend, and much more. Snapshots New York City. founded bounce back By Lisa Palladino after the storm. To become a member, visit columbiaclub.org or A look at the achieve- By Michael R. Shea ’10 Arts call 212-719-0380. ments and ambitions of eight members of the in residence at The Princeton Club of New York Class of 2013. 15 WesT 43 sTreeT

neW york, ny 10036 FRONT COVER: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, ’77L; BACK COVER: CHRIS TAGGART

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3 Message from the 58 Message from the 61 Obituaries Alumni and Students Benefit from Dean CCAA President 62 Daniel Hoffman ’47, Alumni and students benefit The CCAA’s Student ’56 GSAS from intergenerational Alumni Committee looks to Intergenerational Interaction interaction. identify areas where alumni can support and enhance 4 Letters to the the quality of student life. Editor his spring, at a campus event cel- begins when students are applying to Columbia 59 Bookshelf ebrating the 75th anniversary of — many are interviewed by Alumni Representa- 6 Within the Family Featured: The Tinkerers by Literature Humanities, faculty, tive Committee (ARC) volunteers — and contin- 36 Columbia Forum: Alec Foege ’88. students, alumni and parents gath- ues through Class Day, when representatives of WWII & NYC ered in classrooms around campus each alumni class march in the Alumni Parade of 7 Around the Quads to discuss The Odyssey, Euripides, Classes onto South Lawn to celebrate that year’s No shots were fired in ear- The Class of 2013 celebrates Montaigne and Jane Austen, and to deliberate the graduates. Such interaction is key to the College nest yet New York City — T at the Senior Dinner. value of Lit Hum and the Core. Current students experience: Students see their possible futures and Columbia — played a Phyllis Fletcher ’94 heard about the significance of the Core in former through alumni, and alumni remember their pasts 14 Roar, Lion, Roar significant role in WWII. students’ lives and former students heard how it and what they experienced as students. By Kenneth T. Jackson, 64 Class Notes has changed — and stayed the same — during the In my two years as dean, I have noticed again Baseball, women’s tennis the Jacques Barzun Alumni Profiles years since they took it. It was a great opportunity and again how passionate students and alumni are win Ivy League titles. for intergenerational interaction. And it was just one about seeking connections with one another. And Professor in History and 88 Louis Rossetto ’71 example of many such opportunities at the College I am committed to creating more opportunities for the Social Sciences 96 Michael Caruso ’83 each year. PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO such connections. One of my long-term goals for the 102 Phyllis Fletcher ’94 Columbia College alumni and students engage College and the Columbia College Alumni Asso- 42 WWII & Columbia: Alec Foege ’88 through internships, mentoring programs, pre-professional ciation is to match every current Columbia College student with a A Photo Essay 112 Alumni Corner advising,­ scholarship matching and at events. They engage in Columbia College alumni mentor. We will be working on develop- formal settings and less formal settings on campus, in workplaces ing and implementing this mentorship program with the CCAA and in coffee shops around the city and the world. The process and the College’s alumni relations and development staffs. This is part of my goal of 100 percent alumni engagement in the College — of encouraging every alumnus/a to be involved in some way each year. I look forward to updating you on this effort. The Columbia College experience is a continuum that starts from the point of being admitted and lasts until you celebrate Brett Boretti guides Lions to the 50th, 65th or even 80th anniversary of your graduation. For 11th Ivy baseball crown. me, there are three stages of Columbia College students: future student, current student and former student, and as alumni — former students — you play an important role as mentors, advis- ers and inspirations for our current students. In you, our talented and accomplished alumni, our students see the exciting opportu- nities that a Columbia College education can provide. If you are interested in engaging with our current (and future) WEB EXTRAS students, I urge you to get involved. Here are a few ways to do so: Like Columbia College n Alumni on Facebook: View additional photos of and a video about interview prospective students: undergrad.admissions. facebook.com/alumnicc Hurricane Sandy’s impact on Scholars’ Academy columbia.edu/admissions/archandbook/frontpage; n mentor a student: college.columbia.edu/alumni/ View photo albums from Alumni Reunion volunteer/mentoring; Follow @Columbia_CCAA Weekend and Dean’s Day 2013 n attend an event with students: studentaffairs.columbia. on Twitter Read more alumni reflections on edu/studentandalumni; and/or n Literature Humanities sponsor an internship, give students career advice or help them prepare for job interviews: careereducation. Join the Columbia Alumni Read about rower Nikki Bourassa ’13 columbia.edu/alumni. Association Network on and her Olympic aspirations Enjoy the summer. I hope to see you on campus soon! LinkedIn: alumni. Students engage with alumni at events such as a media panel columbia.edu/linkedin college.columbia.edu/cct at Bloomberg headquarters (above) and through community- building activities such as the annual Alumni Parade of Classes. PHOTOS: TOP, PETER FOLEY; BOTTOM; EILEEN BARROSO

SUMMER 2013 3 something or other in my hand and won- Letters to the Editor dering how I would get through 450 pages of fairly dense reading in a week — and if I did, how I would remember any of it. am a better scientist and person for having Russ Abbott ’62 Volume 40 Number 4 been exposed to these books and the dis- Culver City, Calif. Summer 2013 cussions they generated. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Each year, when we are evaluating ap- The series on Lit Hum in the Spring 2013 Alex Sachare ’71 plicants to medical or graduate school at issue is excellent. I shall be forever grateful EXECUTIVE EDITOR the University of Michigan, where I am for the Core Curriculum. It was then that Lisa Palladino a member of the faculty, I pay special at- my education truly began. MANAGING EDITOR tention to whether they have [studied] a Having said that, I have always regret- Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts broad liberal arts curriculum. I find that if ted that only Western Civilization was EDITORIAL ASSISTANT a student’s classes have almost exclusively covered. The world ended in Greece. The Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard been in the hard sciences, they lack some rich and manifold cultures, politics, eco- FORUM EDITOR of the maturity that I think bodes well for nomics and religions of the Near, Middle Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard success in graduate or professional school. and Far East were ignored. In that silence, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Columbia should be proud of this tra- those regions were tacitly relegated to un- Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA dition. I look forward to celebrating the importance and I, for one, left with that James P. Mirollo ’61 GSAS, the Parr Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Litera- 100th anniversary. mindset. If the world ended in Greece for ture, pauses during a Literature Humanities class in 1991. Mirollo was one of the panelists EDITORIAL INTERN Mike Imperiale ’76, ’81 GSAS Columbia graduates, the same limited at the keynote event during the Lit Hum @ 75 celebration on April 26. Karl Daum ’15 PHOTO: NICK ROMANENKO ’82 Keeping the Spirit Alive Ann Arbor, Mich. perspective might well have been shared DESIGN CONSULTANT Jean-Claude Suarès Congratulations to the CCT staff for cre- by graduates of other schools with their ating an alumni magazine that has kept I was deeply influenced by the Humani- even narrower curricula. The history of To this day I can spot the Columbia apocryphal and has a necessary touch of ART DIRECTOR Gates Sisters Studio alive the spirit of intellectual curiosity and ties courses; I had never read most of the the last century and this one so far has College graduate because in every field he verisimilitude. exploration that has been such an impor- authors we were exposed to nor was I fa- shown the huge importance of the world or she is known to be the uniquely coura- I was walking down Broadway from CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS tant part of what Columbia has stood for miliar with their ideas. beyond Greece. Most of today’s headlines geous voice asking the most uncomfort- 116th Street to approximately 113th Street Chris Balmer ’07 Eileen Barroso through the years and, in particular, for I was lucky enough to have two great deal with events in those regions. able, difficult, unanswerable questions. I with an armful of clothing for the Greek- Gene Boyars your two most recent issues celebrating teachers — very different, but both stimu- One wonders whether more broadly ed- believe the Core experience is responsible owned dry cleaning establishment. Ahead Michael Dames “the Pride of the Lions” and the Core Lit- lated my mind as nothing before. James ucated college graduates of my day might for what I describe as the CC unpreten- of me, to my astonishment, was walking Peter Foley erature Humanities course. Gutmann [Class of 1918, ’36 GSAS] was a have produced better managers of world tious search for truth. Professor Moses Hadas [’30 GSAS], the Bruce Gilbert Dr. Howard B. Levine ’64 kind and gentle scholar who pushed the affairs than the less than brilliant record of Jennifer Madrid ’92 legendary Lit Hum professor whom I had Leslie Jean-Bart ’76, ’77J Brookline, Mass. class to think for itself and guided us so the West in the 20th century — and the 21st, Bedford, N.Y. heard speak on many occasions. Natalie Keyssar gently we didn’t realize how much we too, so far. Professor Hadas walked into the dry Char Smullyan The Winter 2012–13 issue was the very best were learning. He had us to his apartment Dr. G.J. D’Angio ’43 I enjoyed immensely the latest CCT on the cleaning establishment and greeted the I have seen, perhaps ever. Good work. for tea and cookies and reminded us there Philadelphia Core [Spring 2013]. Everyone who has at- owner. Apparently, they were on familiar Published quarterly by the Columbia College Office of Dr. Paul Erik Gorrin ’63 was a world outside the College. Mark Van tended the College owes an immense debt terms. Alumni Affairs and Development for Milford, Del. Doren [’21 GSAS] was a brilliant scholar I enjoyed CCT Editor Alex Sachare ’71’s to this seminal idea. I was privileged to The owner looked at the garment that alumni, students, faculty, parents and and he did not suffer fools lightly. We were “Reevaluating My Lit Hum Experience” extend my Lit Hum experience to “super Professor Hadas had placed on the coun- friends of Columbia College. Lit Hum @ 75 reading The Odyssey and someone in the [Within the Family, Spring 2013]. Even if Lit Hum,” the “Colloquium on Literature, ter between them and said, “Euripides?” SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Time flies. Value stays. class said Odysseus was an “arrogant” you read the books more fully, there is al- Language, Philosophy and History,” in Without pause, Dr. Hadas said, “Yes. OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS Eumenides?” Bernice Tsai ’96 Lit Hum started in 1938. I took it as a man. Van Doren looked at him and said, ways a desire to re-read the Core. my junior and senior years. freshman in 1939 and again in my sopho- “All great men are arrogant. I myself am My CC ’92 next door neighbor from A student had to be nominated [to take I have never forgotten that brief, poignant Address all correspondence to: Columbia College Today more year. arrogant.” The inference was not missed by first year and I hatched a plan that at 70 we the class] by the Lit Hum faculty. This was moment. Columbia Alumni Center Initially I was annoyed to have a course any of us. would retake both CC and Lit Hum. Recent- a weekly seminar with two University John Breeskin ’57 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. imposed on me, then entranced. I took many other fine courses with ly we were emailing regarding this fantasy professors and eight students from differ- Takoma Park, Md. New York, NY 10025 212-851-7852 I have kept all the books. The binders great teachers such as James Shenton [’49, subject and hoping the College doesn’t go ent majors reading works from Gilgamesh Email (editorial): [email protected]; are cracked and the pages yellow — but ’54 GSAS], Moses Hadas [’30 GSAS] and all online by then. For us, half of the experi- to the Enlightenment the first year, then For more alumni reflections on Literature Hum­ (advertising): [email protected]. the contents priceless. Wm. Theodore de Bary [’41, ’53 GSAS] ence is the reading; the other half is being in through the 20th century for the second anities,­ go to Web Extras at college.columbia. Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and Cedric Philipp ’43 edu/cct. facebook.com/alumnicc. and was deeply influenced by all of them. a classroom with a professor and the other year. My professors included Edward Audubon, Pa. I received an amazing education at Co- Columbia College students. The diversity Said, James Wood and Hugh Amory. We (Continued on page 111) ISSN 0572-7820 lumbia, but Lit Hum was the first [course] of philosophical thinking in those intimate continue the tradition with a small group Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect official I don’t think I’ve ever read as large a per- to open my eyes to the wonderful world I classroom [settings] generated discussions I in New Orleans. The University would do CCT welcomes letters from readers about positions of Columbia College centage of an issue of Columbia College now enjoy. will never forget. well to revive this course. articles in the magazine but cannot print or or Columbia University. Today as I did of the [Spring 2013] issue Dr. Carl Norden ’56 I regret not reading even more in-depth Dr. Frederick G. Kushner ’70, ’74 P&S personally respond to all letters received. © 2013 Columbia College Today about the anniversary of Lit Hum. Philadelphia than I did at 18; but I don’t ever believe the New Orleans Letters express the views of the writers All rights reserved. My memories of this class are some- college experience is wasted. Those books and not CCT, the College or the University. what painful: Reading a book a week was Contrary to the self-congratulatory tone read and unread shaped and inspired my Unlike the ponderous chest-thumping that Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. All letters are subject to editing for space difficult for me, often impossible. But de- of the Lit Hum 75th anniversary issue thoughts, fostered dreams realized and filled the Spring 2013 CCT dealing with Lit and clarity. Please direct letters for publi- unrealized, and bonded me forever in a spite my not having completed all these [Spring 2013], my most vivid Lit Hum Hum history, I am going to take a different cation “to the editor” via mail or online: great works, I would not trade the expe- memory was standing in front of Low future with a large intellectual community view in offering my memories of my won- college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. rience for anything. I am convinced that I Library holding a paperback edition of of thinkers. derful time in the course. This memory is

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 4 5 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS

WITHIN THE FAMILY THE Influences and Inspiration AROUND QUADS

his issue of Columbia College Today focuses on stu- I’m glad programs now exist that promote interaction between Class of 2013 Celebrates at Senior Dinner dent-alumni engagement — the growing number students and alumni and urge members of both constituencies to of programs designed to build bridges between participate. these two segments of the Columbia family and the value and enjoyment this interaction can pro- ean James J. Valentini welcomed the 1,169 members it by the glow from colored vide for both. of the Class of 2013 into the ranks of Columbia Col- floodlights as well as their fast- TShortly after becoming editor of CCT, I had the pleasure of be- lege alumni on Class Day, May 21, with remarks that approaching graduation, more ing asked to participate in a program in which an alum would touched upon — in typical Deantini fashion — the hu- than 900 seniors gathered on D May 7 to celebrate the annual speak to a group of students, in an informal setting, about his mor of Dr. Seuss, the wisdom of William James and the inspira- or her career path and the twists and turns along the way. The tion of Juan Manuel Fangio. LSenior Dinner. At the time of the dinner, the program was a forerunner to the Dinner & Discussion Series and Valentini quoted from Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, pub- 2013 Senior Fund was well on its way to others described in our cover story. lished in 1990, before nearly all the graduates raising more than $25,000, the most of any When I got to the lounge on the top floor of were born: “You have brains in your head, you senior class in Columbia College history. Schapiro Hall dormitory, the site of the event, I have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself Members of the 255th graduating class was unsure exactly what I was going to say and any direction you choose.” He noted that the gathered under a tent on South Lawn, why any 20-year-old would find my words to students had brains and feet before they got to donned foam crowns and enjoyed food, be of value. But as I began to speak, I found the Morningside Heights but that Columbia pro- music, a slideshow and remarks from students to be attentive listeners with provoca- vided the shoes in terms of a College education Class President Ryan Mandelbaum ’13, tive questions, and I enjoyed relating the way featuring the Core Curriculum. Then he quot- Senior Dinner Co-chairs Helen Bao ’13 and my career had evolved while mentioning some ed another line from Dr. Seuss’ book, sales of Erin Connell ’13, who gave the evening’s of the people who had influenced me, albeit in- which annually peak around graduation time: toast, and Columbia College Student directly, along the way. “You’re off to great places, today is your day, Council President Karishma Habbu ’13. One of those people was Robert Lipsyte ’57, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!” Wearing a green bling sign with “7DD” ’59J. When I was in school, Lipsyte was a sports For wisdom, Valentini cited James’ words on (the hexadecimal number for 2013) around Members of the Class of 2013 columnist for The New York Times who often how to spend one’s life: “The best use of life is to his neck, Dean James J. Valentini also ad- turned out in wrote about what he labeled SportsWorld and spend it for something that outlasts it.” Then he dressed the gathering, declaring, “I’m only their finest for Jock Culture, the interaction between sports and offered some more concrete advice of his own: going to say two things. One, pass the the annual Senior society. He didn’t celebrate athletes but rather “Work hard, try hard, play hard” and “Life’s an swim test, and two, congratulations to the Dinner on May 7; PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO Class of 7DD, the best class ever. And if for some, a foam contextualized them, and this fascinated me; it adventure — enjoy the ride.” crown offered the also seemed to validate my subsequent career As for Fangio, an Argentinian Formula One you don’t understand that, ask a computer finishing touch. choice as something more than a frivolity, to say nothing of a race car driver, and why he should be a source of inspiration, the science major.” PHOTOS: GENE BOYARS waste of a Columbia education. Lipsyte’s career has included a dean said, “No Deantini address to students is complete with- A highlight of the evening was the an­- stint as an Emmy award-winning TV correspondent; authorship out a quiz,” and drew laughs when he said he would provide nouncement by Senior Fund Chair Maria of numerous young adult novels as well as an acclaimed book the answer in his blog a week after graduation. So I quote from Sulimirski ’13 about the fund’s record- about his battle with cancer; co-authorship of Dick Gregory’s au- the Deantini blog of May 28 (college.columbia.edu/about/dean/ setting year. More than 750 seniors con- tobiography, Nigger; and now a post as ombudsman of ESPN. blog): tributed to the campaign, 294 of whom Another influence was Leonard Koppett ’44, who was more “In the German Grand Prix on August 4, 1957, Fangio was in opted into Valentini’s “3-2-1 Challenge” to of a traditionalist than Lipsyte. Koppett, who died 10 years ago, first place when he took a pit stop at lap 13. The stop was a disas- contribute for three years, encourage two was old school; he loved analyzing the games and the people ter — a mechanic changing a wheel lost the wheel nut and spent friends to do the same and have their gifts who played them, and he relished the statistics of sports and the nearly 30 seconds looking for it (an eternity in racing) — and Fan- matched one-to-one by an alumnus/a (for A Million Reasons to Give meaning behind the numbers. His perceptive analysis led to his gio fell way behind to a very distant third place. But over the next the second year running, Board of Visitors he Columbia College Fund raised in Butler to recollections of first stepping induction to the writers’ media of both the Baseball and Basket- 10 laps he achieved what seemed impossible. He made up the member Gene Davis ’75). Because of meet- more than $2 million through a new onto College Walk to the bonds formed ball Halls of Fame. time lost in the pit stop, setting lap record after lap record, and ing the participation goal, the Class of 2013 T campaign, “A Million Reasons to from debating Dante in John Jay. I describe them as indirect influences because, unfortunately, won the race. This is often cited as one of the greatest achieve- secured an additional gift of $100,000 from Give,” which ran throughout April. Nearly Gifts to the Columbia College Fund bol- programs that promoted interaction between alumni and students ments in racing history. Charles Santoro ’82, also a BOV member. 2,500 Columbians made a gift, meeting a ster all aspects of the undergraduate expe- such as the ones detailed in our cover story did not exist at the “Fangio was put way behind due to an error by someone other Attendees also enjoyed a rousing ren- $1 million fundraising challenge to earn rience. The donors’ generosity will enhance the full $1 million matching gift pledged financial aid, provide the resources nec- time I was a student. I admired Lipsyte’s and Koppett’s work and than himself — a member of the pit crew — but he did not let dition of Sans Souci led by CC Alumni by an anonymous donor. essary to maintain the Core Curriculum, Association Executive Committee member knew both were College alumni but felt too awkward as a student the mistake keep him from trying. He seemingly had no chance The campaign used a multichannel foster improvements in student services to reach out to them on my own. I did not meet Koppett until 15 of winning the race, but he was undeterred by his unfavorable Jess Drabkin ’79 and CC Young Alumni approach including mailings, social media, and help fund summer internship stipends. years after graduation, after I had left AP and was working for the circumstances. He could have given up, but he didn’t; he simply President Calvin Sun ’08. video and email, all touching upon the Alumni support of the College Fund has National Basketball Association in charge of its editorial depart- tried harder. He did not let the seeming improbability of success million reasons to give to Columbia; these made possible enhancements to Colum- ment. And it wasn’t until I interviewed for the editorship of CCT, limit his effort.” To view photos from the dinner, go to facebook. ranged from fond memories of late nights bia’s academic and student programs. nearly 27 years after my graduation, that I finally met Lipsyte. com/ccyoungalumni/photos_albums.

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 6 7 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Dames, Gasparov Selected for Van Doren, Trilling Awards

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(Left to right) Celebrating at the May 8 ceremony were College staff and Academic Awards Committee members Rose Razaghian, executive director, planning and analysis; Dean Emeritus of Columbia College and the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature Austin E. Columbia University’s quantitative graduate programs now include online master’s Quigley; AAC Co-chair Sahng-Ah Yoo ’15; Aidan Mehigan ’16; Dorothy Chen ’13; honoree Nicholas Dames; Alan Timberlake, who accepted on behalf of honoree Boris Gasparov; AAC Co-chair Lindsay White ’13; and AAC Co-chair Cathi Choi ’13. degrees in Statistics or Actuarial Science, and online certificates in both areas that PHOTO: CHRIS BALMER ’07 you can earn in as few as two semesters. Get the flexibility and convenience of online he Columbia College Student as well as a renowned scholar and leg- Early Romantic Antecedents. Council’s Academic Awards endary Columbia faculty member. The awards are the only academic study combined with the rigorous curriculum and exclusive access to faculty and Committee presented the 2013 The Lionel Trilling Book Award is honors judged and presented by stu- practitioners that you expect from Columbia. T Mark Van Doren Award to awarded annually to a member of the dents. The 15–25 Academic Awards Nicholas Dames, the Theodore Kahan faculty whose book was published in the Committee members are selected by the Professor of Humanities and chair of the previous year and upholds a level of ex- co-chairs so the group represents a cross- Department of English and Comparative cellence commensurate with the work of section of classes and majors. The com- Literature, and the Lionel Trilling Award Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS. The award mittee seeks nominations for the awards to Boris Gasparov, the Boris Bakhmeteff was established in 1976 in honor of Trill- and committee members audit the classes Professor of Russian and East European ing, a gifted and dedicated Columbia of Van Doren Award nominees, read Statistics Actuarial Science Studies. The awards were presented professor who was committed to under- books under consideration for the Trilling Our programs prepare students to work as data These programs develop knowledge and skills for on May 8 in the Faculty Room of Low graduate education, as well as a public Award and have discussions before de- Library. Alan Timberlake, professor of intellectual known for his scholarship ciding on the finalists. professionals in a variety of growing industries careers in actuarial science including insurance, Slavic languages and director, Institute and literary criticism, which appealed to including finance, pharmaceutical research, pensions and retirement, investment, and risk of East Central Europe, accepted on a wide audience. Gasparov was honored To view photos from the ceremony, go to education, public health, and government. management. Gasparov’s behalf. for his book Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand facebook.com/columbiacollege1754/photos The Mark Van Doren Award for Teach- de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its _albums. Master of arts in statistics Master of science in actuarial science ing has been awarded annually since Full or Part-time | On Campus or Online Full or Part-time | On Campus or Online* 1962 in recognition of a faculty member’s humanity, devotion to truth and inspiring Ten Faculty Members Honored with Lenfest Awards core statistics certificate actuarial science certificate leadership. The award was established Part-time | Online Part-time | Online in honor of Mark Van Doren ’21 GSAS, en Arts and Sciences faculty mem- and Herbert Singer Professor of Contem- a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist, bers have been honored with the porary Civilization and Political Thought; playwright, critic, editor and biographer T Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Giuseppe Gerbino, associate professor Faculty Awards for their ability to engage, of music and chair of the Department of challenge and inspire students in the Music; Don J. Melnick, the Thomas Hunt Columbia College classroom. Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology Department of Statistics | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | School of Continuing Education Established in 2005 by University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution Alumni on Facebook Trustee Gerry Lenfest ’58L, the awards are and Environmental Biology; Rosalind C. given annually to recognize and reward Morris, professor of anthropology; Gerard Check out the new Columbia College exceptional teaching and mentoring. This Parkin, professor of chemistry; Caterina Alumni Facebook page at facebook. year’s recipients, who were honored at a Pizzigoni, associate professor of Latin Explore the possibilities with practical learning opportunities. com/alumnicc. Like the page to get dinner at the Italian Academy on Febru- American history; Ovidiu Savin, professor These programs include some of Columbia’s most sought-after courses. ary 28, each will receive $25,000 per year of mathematics; Melissa Schwartzberg, quants.columbia.edu/cct alumni news, learn about alumni for three consecutive years. They are associate professor of political science; Visit our website or attend an online information session to learn more. events and College happenings, view Frances A. Champagne, associate profes- and Joseph Slaughter, associate professor photos and more! sor of psychology; Jean Cohen, the Nell of English and comparative literature.

SUMMER 2013 * Online option available starting Fall 2014. 8 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS College Fetes Frances Champagne is an tive behavior. … This work the mother/infant interactions keep going with it, because Four Alumni Honored with John Jay Awards associate professor in the shows how the interplay be- in mice and rats. It’s hard to we don’t have any final an- Department of Psychology tween genes and the environ- fit research around a class swers; there’s always some- Lit Hum at focusing on behavioral neuro- ment works. It brings people schedule, and that’s some- thing more to do or some- sciences, maternal behavior past the dichotomy of nature thing they can come in and thing that we can do better. 75 Years and epigenetics. Born and and nurture and moves them do for an hour and then leave. So, I think in terms of pursu- raised in Canada, Champagne into something new. We also have students look- ing a career in academia, n April 26, alumni, parents earned her undergraduate ing at gene expression, taking that’s invaluable. Knowing And what’s your interest and students gathered in degree at Queen’s University, brain tissue and analyzing that there are these weakness- within epigenetics? Low Rotunda to celebrate and her master’s in psychia- what genes are increased and es in all the work that’s done I’m most interested in how “#LitHum75: Dialogues try and Ph.D. in neuroscience decreased in their activity. but that we can actually deal early life experiences shape on the 75th Anniversary at McGill University. She has We have students looking at with that and do better. been at Columbia since 2006 the brain, shape our behavior. Oof Literature Humanities,” an event different protein levels in the For example, how toxins in What’s your favorite place dedicated to the late Jacques Barzun ’27, and runs the Champagne Lab brain. in psychobiology and neu- the environment affect our to be? ’32 GSAS. The conversation began in PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO roscience in addition to her behavior and might increase What do you think students I go to York in Yorkshire, Eng- Low Rotunda with introductions by our accomplished alumni — Thomas $1.4 million. professorial responsibilities. risk of psychopathology or get out of working in a lab? land, quite a lot; that’s where Roosevelt Montás ’95, director of the Cornacchia ’85; Katori Hall ’03; Mike Above, Dean James J. Valentini (far left) my husband [Assistant Center for the Core Curriculum and FSchmidtberger ’82, ’85L; and Dr. joins the John Jay Scholars who presented What drew you to Professor of Psychology associate dean of academic affairs, and George Yancopoulos ’80, ’86 GSAS, ’87 the honorees with their awards, and the psychology? Five Minutes with ... Frances Champagne James Curley] is from. Dean James J. Valentini, followed by a P&S — were presented with 2013 John honorees, at the dinner. Left to right: Bryan I always had an interest We met in Cambridge, panel moderated by Gareth Williams, Jay Awards for distinguished professional Terrazas ’13; Cornacchia; Ethan Kogan ’13; in it, probably more clinically health problems; how stress It’s fine to read about find- actually, but York is an old the Violin Family Professor of Classics achievement on March 6 at Cipriani 42nd Hall; Ariana Lott ’13; Schmidtberger; Yanco- oriented; I did a master’s in does the same thing; how ings in papers but it’s quite city with so much history and chair of Literature Humanities. Street. Proceeds from the annual John poulos; and Tehreem Rehman ’13. psychiatry to explore that mother-infant interactions can another to be involved in the that you don’t get in North The panel featured Core faculty mem- Jay Awards Dinner benefit the John Jay National Scholars Program, which aims To read more about the dinner, see a interest. I was interested promote well-being or inhibit research and see how it’s ac- America. bers James V. Mirollo ’61 GSAS, the to enhance academic and extracurricular Facebook photo album and view a video, in schizophrenia and did a well-being. And then, what tually done. I think it’s quite Parr Professor Emeritus of English and What’s a talent that you’d experiences for outstanding first-year visit college.columbia.edu/news/archive/ master’s project looking at the long-term and multigener­ shocking at first — it’s a lot Comparative Literature; Julie Crawford, like to have? College students. This year’s dinner raised 2012-13. genetic and environmental ational consequences are — of work and it’s not always associate professor of English and com- To play the violin. factors and how they influ- meaning, the experiences you the most exciting work all the parative literature; and Jessamyn Con- ence symptoms in schizo- have during your life span time. But it’s about the pro- If you weren’t a professor rad, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department phrenic individuals. I liked it shape you but they can also be cess of science. So I think they and a scientist, what would of Art History and Archaeology; as well but found I couldn’t ask the passed along generations. learn a lot. you like to do? as Huilong Han ’15 and Jacqueline Bryk kind of mechanistic questions Probably run a small book- ’13. The dialogue focused on the way Lit What sort of work can under- What do you teach? I was interested in; it was fine store. It’d be nice to be Hum has changed and its current rela- graduates get involved with I teach a big lecture course, that these individuals had somewhere surrounded by tionship to the digital age. in your lab? “The Developing Brain,” and had these early experiences literature. Immediately afterward, alumni and Quite a lot: For example, be- or traumas but I wanted to also two undergraduate semi- parents were invited to join students in cause we study mother/infant What’s on your nightstand? know more, in terms of how nars. I’ve been on maternity classrooms across campus for seminar- interactions, we have under- Baby books. these experiences could lead leave, though, and I just got style discussion groups where attendees grads help with characterizing to abnormal behaviors. back this past semester. How about your DVR? Any discussed either preselected works from We’ve got you covered. guilty pleasures? the Lit Hum curriculum or their opin- How would you describe What’s the most valuable ions about what they considered to be epigenetics to a layperson? thing a professor can do for Game of Thrones, which I can’t really watch right now be- the most important part of the Core. This Through Columbia Alumni Association, Epigenetics refers to the con- his or her students? cause of the baby. Too violent. was followed by a reception featuring trol of gene activity. We have Get them to appreciate how Group Term Life Insurance is available in remarks by Valentini and Edward Tayler, our DNA but it has to do complex the process of sci- You said she’s your first? amounts up to $1,000,000, underwritten the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Hu- something, it has to produce ence and the process of dis- Yes, Isabelle. She’s 14 months. manities Emeritus, held in the Faculty by New York Life Insurance Company something, to affect our biol- covery is. You read textbooks So, does that mean you’ve Room in Low Library. (NY, NY 10010), on Policy Form GMR. ogy. Epigenetics refers to the and everything sounds so started thinking about your Throughout the evening participants factors that can control that; final and understood and research in relation to your near and far were invited to join the con- the factors around DNA clear — and something that’s For details including features, costs, eligibility, own life? versation live and share Lit Hum memor­ that can serve as kind hard to do in a lecture class ies by tweeting to #LitHum75. renewability, limitations and exclusions, please of an on/off switch to but that I can do in my Well, to some degree [laughs]. gene activity. And then seminar classes, where I But I also think there’s a risk visit alumni.columbia.edu/alumni-discounts or To explore the evening’s tweets, visit twitter. that gets laid into our can interact with the stu- of knowing too much and call the plan administrator at 800-223-1147. com/search?q=%23lithum75; to join the biology and can last dents a bit more, is get worrying too much. That’s conversation, share your own memories by across the lifespan and them to critique the sci- one thing I know from work — it’s best not to be stressed. tweeting to #LitHum75. lead to variations in ence that’s out there and stress reactivity, social realize that nothing’s Interview: Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts For more information about Literature behavior and reproduc- perfect. That’s why we Photo: Lynn Saville Humanities’ 75 years at Columbia, visit or 12 college.columbia.edu/core/lithum.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT ALUMNI IN THE NEWS n Eric Garcetti ’92, ’95 SIPA won his bid abuses in higher education winners of the Dan David to become Los Angeles mayor on May 21, finance. The Polk Awards, Prize, which is headquar- Pianist Conrad Tao ’15 Explores His Relationship to Music defeating city controller Wendy Greuel in a presented in 14 categories tered at Tel Aviv University runoff election that ended a race that lasted and administered by Long in Israel. Prizes of $1 mil- B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 nearly two years. Garcetti, a city council- Island University since their lion are granted by the Dan man since 2001 who is considered a mod- inception in 1949, place a David Foundation in each onrad Tao ’15’s extraordi- I am doing as a musician, instead of considering a concentration in philoso- erate Democrat, is the son of Gil Garcetti, premium on investigative of three dimensions — past, nary musical journey began allowing it to be a convenient ‘This is phy or sociology in lieu of a major. a former district attorney who became and enterprise reporting and present and future — for the day his parents found just what I’m good at, this is what I do.’ Tao’s mother, Minfgang Ting, is a famous for prosecuting O.J. Simpson, and rank among the most cov- “innovative and interdisci- him sitting at the family That isn’t satisfying enough,” he says. research professor at Lamont-Doherty a grandson of Mexican immigrants who eted honors in journalism. plinary research that cuts piano at 18 months, pluck- “It’s really important to me that I gain Earth Observatory and, whenever he is trace their roots to Italy. His multicultural Leon Wieseltier ’74 across traditional boundar- n PHOTO: JILL KREMENTZ Cing out Mary Had a Little Lamb to the a more critical understanding of what I in New York, Tao spends three or four heritage is considered an asset in a city as Vampire Weekend, the ies and paradigms,” accord- best of a toddler’s ability. On that same am doing.” hours a day in his family’s apartment diverse as Los Angeles. all-CC indie rock band of ing to the foundation web- piano, at 8, Tao practiced Mozart’s Piano A longing for a “challenging and practicing on his beloved piano. The “Los Angeles is ready to put the reces- Ezra Koenig ’06, Chris Tomson ’06, Ros- site. Wieseltier was one of two winners Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414 for intellectually stimulating environment” instrument originally was purchased for sion in the rearview mirror and become tam Batmanglij ’06 and Chris Baio ’07, in the “Present – Ideas, Public Intellectu- his concerto debut. Since then, he has was one reason Tao chose the College; his sister, Connie Tao ’11. “It’s nice to live the city of opportunity that I grew up in released its third album, Modern Vampires als and Contemporary Philosophers” given critically acclaimed performances the other was the Columbia-Juilliard close to a piano I have grown up with once again,” Garcetti told his supporters. of the City, on May 14, two days after ap- category. of Stravinsky, Chopin and other master Exchange, a cross-registration program and feel comfortable with,” says Tao. “It’s time for Los Angeles not just to be a pearing as the musical guest on Saturday The foundation described Wieseltier composers in venues around the world. that allows students to take lessons at Though piano is currently his sole big city, but a great city once again.” Night Live. The album, which debuted at as “a foremost writer and thinker who Tao, the only classical musician the Juilliard School, where Tao has stud- musical focus, Tao also is an accom- No. 1 on the “Billboard 200,” has received confronts and engages with the central is- n included in Forbes’ “30 Under 30: The ied with Veda Kaplinsky since he was 9. plished violinist and has received Four alumni were on the National Law rave reviews: USA Today wrote, “The sues of our times, setting the standard for Youngest Stars In The Music Busi- recognition for his original classical Journal’s list of “The 100 Most Influential blending of gospel, Motown and Sun serious cultural discussion in the United ness” list in 2011, has taken the stage piano compositions in the form of Lawyers in America,” released in March: Records adds heft to the band’s Upper States.” The award was presented at Tel with The Philadelphia Orchestra, eight ASCAP Foundation Morton Lanny Breuer ’80, ’84 SIPA, ’85L; Eric West Side Soweto-style”; The New York Aviv University on June 9. the Russian National Orchestra and Gould Young Composer Awards. H. Holder Jr. ’73, ’76L; Jay Lefkowitz Times called the songs “taut and meticu- n the San Francisco Symphony, to This fall, the Dallas Symphony Or- ’84, ’87L; and Abbe Lowell lous” and described Vampire Farah Goes Bang, an independent fea- name a few. He has given solo recit- chestra will premiere a new work ’74, ’77L. The magazine de- Weekend as “a band that ture film by Laura Goode ’06, ’08 Arts als in the United States and abroad, by Tao, The World is Very Different scribed its selections as “100 packs complex ideas into (writer, producer) and Meera Menon including multiple engagements Now, which he was commissioned lawyers who shape the legal twisted pop songs”; and The ’06 (writer, director) was named a “2013 at the Louvre in Paris. He took the to write in observation of the 50th world through their work in Washington Post wrote that Official Selection” at the annual Tribeca Spring 2012 semester off from the anniversary of the assassination of the courtroom, at the negoti- the album was “filled with Film Festival. As director, Menon also College to accommodate a busy tour President John F. Kennedy. ating table, in the classroom smart, shiny pop songs that won the festival’s inaugural Nora Eph- schedule — approximately 45 con- Kaplinsky, who describes Tao’s or in government. They showcase an expanding ron Prize, which came with a cash prize certs — that included stops in Brazil performances as “riveting,” marvels have taken on major legal and inventive musical pal- of $25,000, for “work and talent that and Germany as well as American at his maturity and drive. “Conrad battles and orchestrated ette,” adding that “Vampire embody the spirit and vision” of the late cities from Santa Fe to Kalamazoo. is one of those people who are born the biggest corporate deals. Weekend has emerged as Ephron. The film, which premiered on Most recently, in June, he released with the focus and mentality of an They’ve tackled unpopular one of today’s most authen- April 19, was included in the festival’s his first full-length album,Voyages, adult,” she says. “His natural musi- causes and helped run giant Janet Lorin ’95, ’96J tic bands.” The band was “Viewpoints” category as well as in a and performed in a music festival of cal instincts, his impressive intellect corporations.” PHOTO: PETER FOLEY formed while its members special new online division. Goode and his own design, UNPLAY Festival, and his pursuit of perfection all were undergraduates (see Menon met as undergraduates during n which was held across three nights contributed to an amazing level of Janet Lorin ’95, ’96J and John Hech- college.columbia.edu/cct, June 2007). production of Goode’s first play at Le- in Brooklyn. Each night was devoted performance as a child, and a con- inger of Bloomberg News won the 2012 rner Hall’s Austin E. Quigley Theatre. n to a different conception of classical tinuous upward trajectory through George Polk Award for National Report- Leon Wieseltier ’74, literary editor of Alex Sachare ’71 Conrad Tao ’15 is an award-winning classical pianist ing for a yearlong series that exposed The New Republic, was among the 2013 music, while the festival as a whole and composer. his teens.” explored the changing role of the PHOTO: RUIMIN WANG Eloquent and articulate, Tao musician in contemporary culture. takes none of his success for grant- “I love the work; that’s what keeps Though his trajectory in the College ed. He wonders, in fact, if he would me committed to performing works is somewhat atypical — as a result of his even be a musician had there not been Have You Moved? DATE SMART! that have been around for centuries,” Spring 2012 academic hiatus, he took a piano in the house. “I feel fortunate says Tao, who in 2011 was named a his first semester of CC before finishing that things lined up the way they did,” To ensure that you receive U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts his second semester of Lit Hum — it is he says. CCT and other College Join the singles’ and last year received the Avery Fisher nonetheless the most traditional educa­ information, let us know if network exclusively For more on Tao and to see him perform, go Career Grant from Lincoln Center for tional experience Tao has had since mid- you have a new postal or for graduates, faculty to conradtao.com. the Performing Arts. The $25,000 award dle school. He graduated from Indiana email address, a new phone and students of the is given to instrumental artists for dem- University H.S., a distance education number or even a new name. Ivy League onstrated excellence and potential. program that allowed him to keep a Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a Click “Contact Us” at MIT, Stanford and The liberal arts education he is re- busy performance schedule. “Now there freelance journalist and an editorial pro­ college.columbia.edu/cct few others. ceiving at the College “made me realize are classrooms and conversations and I ducer for LasMayores.com, Major League or call 212-851-7852. www.rightstu dating.com the importance of understanding what am thrilled about that,” says Tao, who is Baseball’s official Spanish language website. 1-800-988-5288

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 12 13 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ROAR, LION, ROAR Bartnik Leads Lions to Roar, Lion, Roar First Women’s Tennis Title n two seasons, Columbia’s women’s tennis team has gone from worst to first. I The Lions, who finished last in the league with a win- Baseball Wins 11th Ivy League Crown less record just two years ago, captured a share of the first Ivy League title in school history by sweeping Princeton 7–0 on and a 2.17 ERA during the regular season, told April 21. Columbia, led by two-time Ivy League Player of the Spectator. “I’ve been imagining this since the year Year Nicole Bartnik ’13, finished the season at 6–1 in the Ivies started — since my playing career started, really. and 13–5 overall, both program bests. Yale shared the crown It couldn’t be better. Everything we’ve worked with Columbia at 6–1 and advanced to the NCAAs by virtue so hard for this year is coming through, finally.” of a 5–2 win over the Lions on April 14. “The guys worked their butts off all year and “In our first meeting of the year, I told the team that we it’s great to see it come to fruition,” said coach had one and only one goal and that was to win the title,” head Brett Boretti, whose team last won the title in coach Ilene Weintraub ’02 said. “That was the first and last 2008 and lost to Dartmouth in the 2010 playoffs. time I ever talked about it or allowed them to speak of it. In- Speer had 12 strikeouts in the opening game stead, we focused on the process and on the little things.” against Dartmouth and reliever Kevin Roy ’16 Weintraub added that she told the team that winning a worked his way out of a no-out, bases-loaded championship “would require tremendous sacrifice on their part and when it happens in the end, then we would celebrate. jam in the 10th inning without allowing a run be- Columbia’s women’s tennis team gathers at the base of Alma Mater fore Gus Craig ’15 delivered the game-winning Today is that day.” to celebrate winning the first Ivy League championship in school RBI single in the bottom of the 10th. Columbia Bartnik was undefeated in Ivy singles play for the second con- history. broke the second game open by scoring six runs secutive season and earned All-Ivy first team honors for the third PHOTO: GENE BOYARS in the seventh inning, with Ferraresi’s two-run consecutive year. She was joined on the All-Ivy first team by Bianca double breaking a 5–5 tie and putting the Lions Sanon ’14, who earned the honor both in singles and in doubles, 100 percent every day — every time they stepped on the court, or with Kanika Vaidya ’16. Vaidya earned second team honors in every time they went to the weight room,” Bartnik said. “It just Columbia’s baseball team celebrates near the pitcher’s mound after sweeping ahead to stay. Dartmouth to clinch the Ivy League championship. By winning the Ivy League title, Columbia singles, as did Bartnik and her doubles partner, Crystal Leung ’15. feels so great to have all your hard work pay off.” PHOTO: MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN became the first team to earn a berth in the “This year, everyone was on the same page and was putting in Columbia swept four of its Ivy opponents and compiled a 7–0 NCAA Regionals. olumbia’s baseball team won its second Ivy League Speer, shortstop Aaran Silbar ’14 and outfielder Jordan Serena championship in six years and 11th title overall, sweep- ’15 were named to the All-Ivy first team; pitcher Joey Donino ’14, ing a doubleheader against Dartmouth at Robertson catcher Mike Fischer ’14, first baseman Alex Black ’13 and desig- Meili, Santos Honored at Varsity C Celebration CField at Satow Stadium on May 4 to capture the 2013 nated hitter Joey Falcone ’15 GSAS made the second team; and Ivy crown. Roy and pitcher Tim Giel ’13E received honorable mention. wimmer Katie 19th individual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Columbia then posted its first win in NCAA tournament play Meili ’13 and champion and then placing third in the NCAAs, the highest finish by beating New Mexico 6–5 in 13 innings on June 1. The Lions had Swres­tler Steve ever for a Columbia wrestler. He was recognized by the website scored five runs in the eighth inning to tie the game and won it in Santos ’13, both Flo Wrestling as the most improved NCAA Division I wrestler of the 13th on an RBI single by Nick Crucet ’13. Although Columbia of whom finished the 2012–13 season. was eliminated from the Regionals after losses to host Cal State third in the nation The Athletics Alumni Awards were presented to George Van Fullerton and Arizona State, the Lions finished the season with in their events, were Amson ’74 and Ari Brose ’84 Barnard. Van Amson, who was a Uni- a 28–21 record and matched their record for most victories in a presented with the versity Trustee from 1996–2008, competed in football and baseball season, set in 1987. Connie S. Maniatty at Columbia. Brose was a distance runner who captained the first The Lions won a school-record 16 Ivy League games during [’43] Outstanding Se- women’s cross country and track and field teams to compete as the regular season, capturing the Lou Gehrig Division with a 16–4 nior Student-Athlete Columbia Lions after the establishment of the Columbia-Barnard record. Then they swept Red Rolfe Division champion Dartmouth Awards at the 92nd Athletic Consortium. in the best-of-three playoffs, winning 6–5 in 10 innings in the first Varsity C Celebration game and 12–5 in the sec- Wrestler Steve Santos ’13 and swimmer at Levien Gymna- For the latest news on ond game. Katie Meili ’13 are congratulated by Direc- sium on April 30. Archery Wins at Nationals “It feels great,” pitching tor of Athletics M. Dianne Murphy upon Coach Brett Boretti accepts the Williams Clarence Matthews Meili, the Most Columbia won the 2013 Archery National Championship, de- Columbia athletics, visit ace David Speer ’14, who Championship Trophy from Matthew Singer of the Ivy League. being presented the Connie S. Maniatty Outstanding Senior Scholar-Athlete Awards. Outstanding Swim- feating Cal State-Long Beach 7–4 at the U.S. Collegiate Archery gocolumbialions.com. compiled a 6–2 record PHOTO: MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN PHOTO: GENE BOYARS mer in the last two Association Outdoor US Intercollegiate Archery Championship Ivy League Cham- event on May 18 in Cedar City, Utah. The Lions received a bye, pionships, won seven Ivy titles and was part of three relay cham- then beat Atlantic Cape CC 4–0 and James Madison 5–4 to earn CAMPBELL SPORTS CENTER SCOREBOARD pionship teams during her College career. She holds three Ivy its spot in the finals. records and 10 school records — five individual events and five In the women’s recurve division, Sarah Bernstein ’15 Barnard won the individual bronze medal by defeating Cal State-Long Times that Nicole Student- Baseball Outdoor track and field relays. She finished third in the 100 breaststroke at the NCAAs to Beach’s Kalie Sabajo. Bernstein was joined by teammates Tiffany Bartnik ’13 was named athletes student-athletes student-athletes who earn All-America first team status. Kim ’16 and Grace Kim ’15 in the top eight medal finishers to earn Ivy League Women’s named to Phi named All-Ivy qualified for the NCAA Track Santos, who wrestled at 149 lbs., won the first 15 matches of his both All-American and All-Academic honors. 2 Tennis Player of the Year 7Beta Kappa 9 League 21and Field East Regional senior season and concluded the campaign by becoming Columbia’s SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 14 15 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS DAY AND COMMENCEMENT 2013

Class of 2013 Joins Ranks of Alumni B y A l e x S a c h a r e ’71

ean James J. Valentini welcomed the 1,169 members of the next morning so he could nab a standing-room ticket to see the Class of 2013 into the ranks of Columbia College My Fair Lady. “If that didn’t make me some kind of an instant alumni at Class Day on May 21, saying he had calcu- New Yorker, I don’t know what would,” he said. Dlated their accomplishments: 1,946,970; 124; and 1. He As for words of advice, he noted, “Good or bad, advice is drew laughs when he explained, “1,946,970 minutes since your easy. I don’t have a lot for you. Be nicer to people, wash your very first class on September 9, 2009; 124 credits for graduation; hands more frequently, count to 100 at least twice before asking and 1 swim test.” someone to marry you. Be useful, keep your word. Re-read that He noted that the graduates swell the ranks of living CC email before you hit the ‘send’ button. Don’t put compromising The 1,169 members of the Class of 2013 alumni to 47,516 and said, “It is they, now including you, who photos of yourself on Facebook. That’s about it.” celebrated their rite of passage at Class allow me to say that Columbia College is the greatest college in Also speaking at Class Day were Bollinger, salutatorian Day and Commencement as they joined the greatest university in the greatest city in Yoshiaki Ko ’13 and class president Ryan the ranks of College alumni. Some sported the world.” Mandelbaum ’13. In addition, then-Dean of fanciful decorations on their caps while The next day, the members of CC ’13 Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger present- others wore crowns and carried toy joined some 13,000 other Columbians who ed distinguished class awards, Dean of Aca- officially graduated as President Lee C. demic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis presented swords. Dean James J. Valentini wore his Bollinger presided over Commencement. academic awards, Columbia College Alumni crown at Commencement when he asked Honored during the ceremony were the 2013 Association President Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 President Lee C. Bollinger to officially Alumni Medalists, including Stephen L. presented alumni awards and prizes, and grant the seniors their degrees. A highlight Buchman ’59, ’62L; Dr. Marvin M. Lipman Senior Fund Chair Maria Sulimirski ’13 pre- of the Class Day processional was the ’49, ’54 P&S; and Ira B. Malin ’75, co-chair sented the class gift. 10th annual Alumni Parade of Classes, of the Columbia College Fund. where the graduates stood and cheered The Class Day keynote speaker was play­ Watch the Class Day and Commencement as alumni marched with their class ban- wright Terrence McNally ’60, a native of ceremonies at totalwebcasting.com/view/?id= ners to symbolically welcome them into Corpus Christi, Texas, who recalled spend- columbiacomm. Read McNally’s keynote address Terrence McNally ’60, the keynote speaker the alumni community. ing his first night in New York City sleeping at Class Day, told the graduates, “Your at college.columbia.edu/terrencemcnally. View PHOTOS: LEFT, SUSAN COOK; on the sidewalk outside the Mark Hellinger work is just beginning.” more photos from Class Day and Commencement ALL OTHERS, EILEEN BARROSO Theatre, waiting for the box office to reopen PHOTOS: EILEEN BARROSO at facebook.com/alumnicc.

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 16 17 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Academic Awards and Prizes The Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony at which students are recognized for their academic achievements is a highlight of graduation week. Dean James J. Valentini and Senior Snapshots Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis were on hand to congratulate the students at the ceremony, held on May 21 at Faculty House. Yatrakis, along with several noted faculty members, presented the awards. Following are the 2013 recipients. The 1,169 members of the Class of 2013 are remarkable for their

EDWIN ROBBINS ACADEMIC achievements and their ambitions. Following are eight of their stories. Special Achievements Prizes in Science RESEARCH AND PUBLIC To Be Noted and Mathematics SERVICE FELLOWSHIP Matthew Chou ’14 Presented by Dean of Academic Affairs Presented by Professor Emlyn Hughes, Emily Dreibelbis ’14 Celebrating at the 2013 Academic Awards Department of Physics Kathryn Yatrakis Nicole Dussault ’14 and Prizes Ceremony were (left to right) RICHARD BERSOHN PRIZE HARRY J. CARMAN FELLOWSHIP Jake Obeng-Bediako ’14 Jake Obeng-Bediako ’14, Dean James J. Richard Fineman Hopes To Have “The Right Stuff” Valentini and Emily Dreibelbis ’14. Yoonjin Ha ’13 Julia Oktawiec ’13 ROMINE PRIZE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PHOTO: CHRIS BALMER ’07 CLASS OF 1939 SUMMER Seminar Paper: t is with some trepidation that Richard Fineman ’13 reveals Nahualate, Guatemala, where he will help build a pump, well RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD Steven Iglehart ’13 SUSAN HUNTINGTON VERNON PRIZE his life’s dream, which came into focus during an intern- and filtration system that will provide the community with a Priom Ahmed ’14 James Nugent ’13 Honors Thesis: Lorna Zhang ’13 Madhavan Somanathan ’13 Karina Yu ’13 ship last summer at the NASA Ames Research Center in reliable source of drinking water. Margarete Diaz Cuadros ’14 PHYLLIS STEVENS SHARP FELLOWSHIP Emma Gilheany ’14 Henri Stern ’13 IN AMERICAN POLITICS RICHMOND B. WILLIAMS TRAVELLING his home state of California. Not too many of his peers, he Born in Palo Alto and raised in his mother’s native Guatemala Alexa Semonche ’14 THOMAS J. KATZ PRIZE FELLOWSHIP I Bianca Capone ’16 suspects, are leaving the College with the intention of becoming City, Fineman chose the College in part for the opportunity to ex- Lara Andersson ’14 Yifei Zhao ’15 Cyril Bucher ’13 Melissa Fich ’15 astronauts. plore New York City, his father’s hometown. JARVIS AND CONSTANCE DOCTOROW ALFRED MORITZ MICHAELIS PRIZE Jiawen Tang ’15 Bernardo Sarmiento-Hinojosa ’14 FELLOWSHIP Jennifer Schmeyer ’14 At NASA, Fineman studied the ways He also was drawn by the Core Curriculum, Samuel Kohn ’13 CAROLINE PHELPS STOKES PRIZE Matthew Jacobs ’13 Kai Schultz ’14 in which the properties of light change which he found attractive for the same rea- PROFESSOR VAN AMRINGE David Baruch ’13 HENRY EVANS TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP MATHEMATICAL PRIZE as a wave travels through the interstellar sons that he studies physics. “I feel that I am ALAN J. WILLEN MEMORIAL PRIZE Prizes in the Creative Gerard Ramm ’13 First Year: Ha-Young Shin ’16 Grace Rybak ’13 medium (dust and other matter that fills more well-rounded knowing the origins of SOLOMON AND SEYMOUR FISHER CIVIL Sophomore: Yifei Zhao ’15 and Performing Arts the space between stars). The highlight of the way we think,” says Fineman. “One of LIBERTIES FELLOWSHIP MYRA KRAFT PRIZE FOR EXCEPTIONAL Junior: Sicong Zhang ’14 PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN HUMAN Presented by Professor Susan Boynton, his experience came in August, when he the things that appeals to me about physics Celina Aldape ’14 JOHN DASH VAN BUREN JR. PRIZE IN RIGHTS ADVOCACY Department of Music watched via livestream as the rover Curios- is that it goes into the core understanding of Andrew Gonzalez ’15 MATHEMATICS Erica Bower ’14 ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS ALBERT ASHER GREEN MEMORIAL PRIZE Sung Chul Park ’13 MYRA KRAFT PRIZE FOR SUPERIOR POETRY PRIZE ity landed on Mars, marking the beginning everything and every other science builds on Joel Dierbeck ’13 BRIDGES AND STURTEVANT PRIZE IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE Rebecca Liu Xu ’14 of a two-year mission to determine if the those ideas; I believe that studying the fun- STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS EURETTA J. KELLETT FELLOWSHIP BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES KAREN OSNEY BROWNSTEIN WRITING planet’s Gale Crater could have ever sup- damental background of different concepts Carrie Montgomery ’13 PRIZE Adam Formica ’13 Georgia Squyres ’13 ported microbial life. “Seeing the complicat- gives you a greater understanding of the Gavin McGown ’13 THE HERBERT DERESIEWICZ SUMMER Yanyi Luo ’13 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Prizes in the Humanities ed sequence that had to take place for it to picture as a whole.” RICHARD LEWIS KOHN TRAVELLING Nicholas Pierce ’13 FELLOWSHIP Matthew Tsim ’16 Presented by Professor Courtney Abigail Struhl ’14 land successfully was amazing,” says Fine- Fineman joined the Columbia swim team Chioma Ngwudo ’15 Bender, Department of Religion GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS PRIZE IN man. “I saw 60-year-old scientists cry; they as a first-year and was president of the Co- ORATION ARTHUR ROSE TEACHING Prizes in the SENIOR THESIS PRIZE IN ART HISTORY were so happy that it worked. There was so lumbia University Student-Athlete Advisory ASSISTANTSHIP Social Sciences AND ARCHAEOLOGY Ankeet Ball ’16 Isabel Losada ’13 much innovation that went into it.” Committee as a senior. He cherishes the bond Roko Rumora ’14 Presented by Professor John Huber, ARTHUR E. FORD POETRY PRIZE Norman Toy III ’14 CHARLES PATERNO BARRATT-BROWN Andy Nicole Bowers ’13 As a result of that experience, Fineman, Richard Fineman ’13 he shares with his coaches and teammates, Department of Political Science MEMORIAL PRIZE PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN DAVID B. TRUMAN ALUMNI AWARD PHILOLEXIAN CENTENNIAL who majored in chemical physics with a many of whom also belong to his fraternity, CHARLES A. BEARD PRIZE IN POLITICAL Michelle Dawson ’13 Simon Jerome ’13 SCIENCE WASHINGTON PRIZE concentration in math, plans to pursue Sigma Nu. “I can’t think of anyone better to DINO BIGONGIARI PRIZE SALUTATORIAN Shelley Liu ’13 William Tant ’14 GS graduate study in aerospace engineering with the goal of fulfill- have shared my college experience with,” Fineman says. Isabel Losada ’13 Yoshiaki Ko ’13 CHARLES A. BEARD PRIZE IN HISTORY PHILOLEXIAN PRIZE FUND ing a long-held but previously unexpressed ambition to explore Fineman so enjoyed his undergraduate years that he volun- BUNNER PRIZE VALEDICTORIAN Elisa Quiroz ’13 Yanyi Luo ’13 space. “There are so many opportunities right now with the teered with the Columbia College 2013 Senior Fund, a campaign Peter Conroy ’13 AUSTIN E. QUIGLEY PRIZE Leah Friedman ’13 CARL B. BOYER MEMORIAL PRIZE privatization of space flight. I want to be a part of it,” he says. that encourages seniors to donate to alma mater. “The College DOUGLAS GARDNER CAVERLY PRIZE Lorenzo Landini ’13 Claire Sabel ’13 Fineman will first take a year off from academia, during has given me so much that I should give back in any way that I Prizes in the CHANLER HISTORICAL PRIZE Gavin McGown ’13 Kyle Radler ’13 Core Curriculum David Fine ’13 EARLE PRIZE IN CLASSICS RICHARD AND BROOKE KAMIN which he plans to compete in several triathlons. In July, through can,” he says. Gavin McGown ’13 RAPAPORT SUMMER MUSIC Engineers Without Borders, he will spend two weeks in rural Nathalie Alonso ’08 Presented by Professor Susan Boynton, TARAKNATH DAS FOUNDATION PERFORMANCE FELLOWSHIP AWARD JAMES GUTMANN PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY Department of Music Joseph Betts ’15 Lewis West ’13 Sanford Diehl ’13 JOSHUA A. FEIGENBAUM PRIZE IN J.D. Nathan Chan ’15 LITERATURE HUMANITIES ALBERT MARION ELSBERG PRIZE JOHN VINCENT HICKEY PRIZE Maria Diez ’15 Maxwell Nelson ’15 James Wiseman ’13 Amanda Gutterman ’13 Anna Dugan ’14 Miriam Rosen ’15 For Zuzanna Fuchs, Wordplay Is Subject for Further Study LILY PRIZE IN HISTORY ADAM LEROY JONES PRIZE IN LOGIC Vicente Hansen ’15 WALLACE A. GRAY PRIZE IN LITERATURE Myrsini Manney-Kalogera ’13 Eric Shapiro ’13 HUMANITIES Javier Llaca ’16 uzanna Fuchs ’13 looks forward to spending the next “Linguistics is something that people don’t realize is around GARRETT MATTINGLY PRIZE HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO Annalise Perricone ’16 Jack Klempay ’15 few years of her life “playing with word endings.” us all the time,” she says, citing a favorite example. “‘Haha’ and Eric Kutscher ’13 PRIZE Amalia Rinehart ’14 DEAN HAWKES MEMORIAL PRIZE IN THE Beginning this fall, Fuchs will pursue a Ph.D. in lin- ‘LOL’ are modal particles. They don’t mean anything; they just HUMANITIES SANFORD S. PARKER PRIZE Casey Ross ’14 Jennifer Schmeyer ’14 BENJAMIN F. ROMAINE PRIZE FUND Sara Lavenhar ’14 Yuxiao Huang ’13 Caroline Sonett ’14 guistics at Harvard, where she will delve into her fasci- set the tone for whatever is being said. It’s fun to be at a party and SANFORD S. PARKER SUMMER Ridge Montes ’13E David Su ’14 Z Leah Wajnberg ’14 nation with morphology, a subfield that studies the structure of say, ‘Do you know that when you text ‘haha’ or ‘LOL’ you’re us- RESEARCH PRIZE JONATHAN THRONE KOPIT PRIZE IN ERNEST STADLER PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE Madeleine Tucker ’15 words and the processes through which words are created. ing a modal particle?’ It’s a nerdy fun fact, but it’s interesting.” IN THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY LOGIC AND RHETORIC Evan Munro ’14 LOUIS SUDLER PRIZE IN THE ARTS As a College student, Fuchs, who is fluent in English and Pol- For her senior thesis, Fuchs examined the gender and gram- Fabio DeSousa ’16 Joonwoo Park ’14 Aaron Primero ’13 Averi Israel ’13 ish and advanced in Spanish, declared a major in statistics but matical cases assigned to English nouns adopted into the Pol- JAMES P. SHENTON PRIZE IN Adam Stansell ’15 Kyle Radler ’13 MARIANA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION Xiaoshi Yang ’14 DEUTSCHER VEREIN PRIZE IN GERMAN PRIZE decided to add an independent major in linguistics after enjoying ish lexicon. “Because nouns in English have neither cases nor Reid Jenkins ’14 Samantha Zeller ’14 Samuel Walker ’14 Andy Nicole Bowers ’13 “Introduction to Linguistics.” genders, I wanted to see what happens to them when they

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He also participat- Community College in Brooklyn. me,” she says. until he traveled to Africa during his junior year to study ed in The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, a summer program Buoyed by her experience as a teaching Since her sophomore year, Fuchs’ main sexual health. in the history department that in 2011 focused on “The History assistant for two semesters each of “Intro- extracurricular pursuit has been the Col- E In Kenya, Kutscher, a history major with and Future of Pandemic Threats and Global duction to Linguistics” and “Introduction lege Group Committee at The Metropolitan a concentration in African studies, lived with Public Health.” to Statistics,” which entailed leading re- Museum of Art. The committee, which in- a family, studied Swahili and conducted The following summer, after returning view sessions and occasionally lecturing, cludes students from the College as well as field research on male circumcision and HIV from Kenya, Kutscher interned in the policy Fuchs now envisions herself as a linguistics Barnard, NYU, the Pratt Institute, Hunter risk in the Luo tribe. He walked throughout department of Gay Men’s Health Crisis professor. “Seeing [the students’] eyes College and other NYC schools, plans mu- Kisumu, a port city, conducting surveys and (GMHC), but he missed the interaction with when they get it — that’s the greatest seum events for fellow college students. discussing perceptions of circumcision with patients that he had in Kenya and realized part,” says Fuchs, whose father has taught As publicity coordinator her senior year, male residents. his interests would be best applied as a at the University of Detroit Mercy’s School Fuchs helped plan and execute an Andy “Circumcision is against the Luo culture, doctor. So six days after graduation, he will of Architecture since she was 8 months old. Warhol-themed event in October 2012 that but western campaigns funding male cir- start at Goucher College’s one-year Post- “When I finish a lecture or a review ses- she proudly says was well attended by Co- cumcision there have been very successful,” Baccalaureate Premed Program. From there, sion, I feel that I won something huge; it’s Zuzanna Fuchs ’13 lumbians. “It says a lot about the Columbia PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN he says. “I wanted to find out exactly why so he hopes to attend medical school to study the best feeling.” student body that everyone has varied in- many men were lining up to get circumcised.” infectious disease and open his clinic. Fuchs, who split her childhood between terests and that the Met brings in everyone, Kutscher discovered that Luo men be- “What I would want to be unique about her native city of Warsaw, Poland, and Royal Oak, Mich., not just the art majors,” she says. lieve circumcision leads to more pleasure my clinic is the quality of care. By mixing recalls always wanting to attend an Ivy League school. It was Nathalie Alonso ’08 and that it also increases condom use, low- a private infectious disease practice where ering HIV/AIDS risk. The project showed patients receive top-notch care with a general Kutscher that he could merge the social and Eric Kutscher ’13 STI and HIV clinic, I think the ease in which biological sciences and led to a dream: get- PHOTO: STELLA GIRKINS ’15 someone can come to one place and get every-­ Alexzander Hudson Raises Awareness of Mental Health Issues ting an M.D. and an M.P.H., then starting an thing done will increase,” he says. “Likewise, HIV/AIDS clinic in New York City. it brings people from all backgrounds to the same center … de- lexzander “A.J.” Hudson ’13 can say he was accepted cellence Award in health and wellness from Columbia Student Kutscher ascribes his interest in Africa to two classes he took creasing the stigma against HIV/AIDS.” to the College, not once, but twice. Though offered Affairs, which recognizes students who “exemplify the spirit of to satisfy the Global Core requirement, “Major Debates in the Even in his final College days, Kutscher did not take time off. admission the first time he applied, he was unable to caring for and about the members of our vast and diverse com- Study of Africa” and “Africa in Cinema.” His interest in sexual He volunteered as a peer advocate at Columbia’s Gay Health Aenroll due to a last-minute problem and matriculated munity.” health was more personal: In 2011, Kutscher was rejected from Advocacy Project and as an HIV tester and counselor at GMHC. at The George Washington University. A year later, on a whim, Hudson’s fascination with the human mind led him to pur- donating blood in NYC because he identified as a gay male. His recently completed thesis on the history of public policy and he reapplied to the College and was sue several psychology research oppor- “After this incident, I became fascinated by the public health gay bathhouses in San Francisco and New York City received thrilled to be among the small number tunities in his senior year. With funding policies around AIDS,” he says. “It got me really interested in the history department’s Garrett Mattingly Prize. of transfer students — less than 10 per- from the National Science Foundation’s the idea of ‘acceptable risk.’” Stella Girkins ’15 cent — accepted each year. Research Experiences for Undergradu- “I wanted the most challenging city ates program, he took a role as a re- in the world and the most challenging search assistant at the Earth Institute’s school in the world and they are both Center for Research on Environmental Swimmer Katie Meili Aims for 2016 Olympics here,” says Hudson. Decisions (CRED). His initial task was The Indianapolis native made the to review “The Psychology of Climate atie Meili ’13 might have been in the 2012 Summer Raised in small-town Colleyville, Texas, Meili started swim- most of his second chance at a College Change Communication,” the center’s Olympics. But 20 days before the Olympic Team Trials, ming competitively at 8. She followed in the footsteps of her older education. Honored as a Senior Mar- guide on how to effectively inform the on June 1, 2012, the record-breaking Columbia swim- sister, who, she says, “would never let me win.” With passions for shal, Hudson majored in psychology public of issues such as global warm- K mer broke her hand during a meet warm-up. art and theatre, Meili always wanted to move to a big city. And with a concentration in sociology — “I ing. Hudson now is conducting inde- She opted for surgery over a cast so she since arriving at the College, she hasn’t lost love understanding how thoughts pendent research at CRED on the moti- could get back in the water in only a few momentum in the pool. work, how they are processed and vating factors behind prosocial behav- days. And while she didn’t make it to the This academic year alone, Meili won first where certain things arise in the brain,” iors such as recycling. Since October, he Olympics, and considers the injury her most place in the Ivy League Championships in he says — and was among the 10 per- also has recruited subjects for a study trying moment, she often reminds herself three events — the 100-yard breaststroke, cent of the graduating class initiated into at the Mailman School of Public Health how lucky she was just to compete. the 200-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard Phi Beta Kappa. that examines the use of mobile dating Despite the setback, Meili plans to pursue individual medley — as well as placed third In October 2011, Hudson helped applications among gay men. professional swimming after graduation. in the National Collegiate Athletic Association start a Columbia chapter of Active This fall Hudson will begin a stint This summer, she will compete to join the for the 100-yard breaststroke and competed Minds, a national nonprofit that raises as a science teacher at a public middle USA Swimming National Team. If she makes in both the Olympic Team Trials and the U.S. awareness about mental health among Alexzander “A.J.” Hudson ’13 school in Brooklyn through Teach For it, she might have another shot at the Olym- Open Swimming Championships. Her 200- college students. “Our programming PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN America. He hopes to enter a Ph.D. pics in 2016. yard individual medley record outpaces Cris- revolves around explaining the com- program in which he can study the “It’s hard to think about the Olympics tina Teuscher ’00, a 1996 Olympic gold medal- mon mental illnesses that are in the popular dialect, which intersection of psychology and education. “I want to get some because it’s just a long time and a lot of ist and the University’s best-known swimmer. people don’t know as much about as they think they do,” says perspective and I feel there’s a lot I can learn by teaching at a things can happen between now and then,” Meili loves to win, loves to race and is Hudson, who also joined the University’s NAACP chapter upon middle school,” says Hudson, whose long-term goal is to “pur- Meili says. “But I’m definitely training in willing to make sacrifices to be successful. arriving in the College. This year, Hudson was recognized for sue social policy for education using psychology research.” the summer. Once you start swimming, Katie Meili ’13 “People have told me that they have never his extracurricular efforts with the King’s Crown Leadership Ex- Nathalie Alonso ’08 you’re in it for the long run.” PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN seen someone as competitive as I am,” says

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Meili. “I often go 40–50 days at a time without taking a day off. … hard when all your friends are going out, and they can stay up groundwork for At Your Service. Now, each Barnard/Columbia chapter, Shaw has taught As you get older, you learn to push your body in different ways. as late as they want, and they can eat whatever they want … semester approximately 30 College and post- more than 45 health workshops in public high You can push your limits and see how far you can go.” when I had to go to bed because I was exhausted or I had prac- baccalaureate students devote four hours a schools throughout New York City. As a se- That’s not to say that everything has been smooth sailing. Wak- tice the next morning ... It’s a hard sacrifice when you are going week to TCC, two of which are spent engag- nior, Shaw also was president of the Columbia ing up for 6 a.m. practice every day, committing time to train and through it, but it’s so worth it in the end.” ing residents in recreational activities. University American Medical Students Asso- travel for meets, all while taking five or six courses at a time was “TCC could really benefit from extra hands ciation – Premedical Chapter and community exhausting, Meili says. But she attributes most of her success to [Editor’s note: Another senior has set her sights on the 2016 Olympics. and extra people to talk to residents who adviser for McBain residence hall. her coaches and teammates. Read about rower Nikki Bourassa ’13 at college.columbia.edu/cct; click might not have many friends or family who The Torrance, Calif., native chose the “I always say that if I hadn’t come to Columbia, I wouldn’t on Web Extras.] visit,” says Shaw. “And there was also the College for the opportunity to live in New have gotten this good at swimming,” she said. “It was definitely Grace Lee ’14 PH need of pre-med students [at Columbia] who York City, a decision she relishes every yearned for meaningful patient interaction.” time she escapes to Lincoln Center to catch Shaw, who majored in biology with a a performance by the New York City Ballet. concentration in art history, became in- A dancer herself since she was 4, Shaw Gerard Ramm Studies His Native American Heritage volved with TCC during summer 2011 sees a direct connection between her love of through an internship offered by the Earth art and her work at TCC. “A lot of people ith the support of the College’s Henry Evans Trav- his senior thesis on the treatment of Native American figures in Institute Center for the Study of Science and at the end of life start to think about what elling Fellowship, Gerard Ramm ’13 will devote contemporary American literature. “There is a lot of Native Ameri- Religion. She has accepted post-graduation makes life meaningful. Learning about art several months immediately after graduation to can literature that gets overlooked in curricula and a lot of Native employment at TCC and hopes to enroll in Ashley Shaw ’13 and what has inspired people to make art W exploring his Native American heritage. American traces and symbolism that get overlooked in contempo- medical school in fall 2014. PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN throughout the ages — whether it is religion, Ramm, a registered member of the Quapaw tribe, will live with rary literary criticism,” Ramm says. “How we deal with the pres- In addition to palliative care, Shaw is in- politics or just the need for expression — is relatives in Quapaw, Okla., while studying ence of indigenous figures in the larger trans- terested in adolescent medicine as a result of her involvement with what makes life meaningful. I feel those two areas of my studies the tribe’s language with an elder. He also will national literary canon is interesting to me.” Peer Health Exchange, a national teen-oriented health education are congruent and complementary.” assess online Quapaw language databases, Ramm, who felt alienated from his organization. During the last four years, through the organization’s Nathalie Alonso ’08 which he hopes to expand. “I want to learn Native American roots while growing up the Quapaw language as fluently as possible,” in Old Saybrook, Conn., is grateful to the says Ramm, who claims tribal ascendancy College for enabling him to explore his per- through his father. “Many Native American sonal history in an academic setting. “Com- Devyn Tyler Juggles Interests in French and Acting languages are in dire threat of extinction.” ing here was an opportunity to rediscover Ramm’s desire to strengthen and preserve a lot of issues,” he says. “There are a lot of y the time Devyn Tyler ’13 enrolled in the College, she past semester she co-taught an extracurricular French course to the Quapaw language stems from the in- resources here, a lot of Native American had landed minor roles in The Curious Case of Benjamin middle schoolers at the Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learn- dependent summer research he conducted students and Native American events and Button, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, and The ing and Social Change in Harlem, where she had her students with funding from an earlier fellowship, the professors from whom I learned.” Great Debaters, directed by Denzel Washington. For the research a French-speaking country. “That wide, diasporic view Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, While Ramm, a Junior Phi Beta Kappa B past four years, however, her film career has been largely on hold of the world that French gave me and that made me so excited in awarded each spring to five sophomore inductee, chose the College for its academic in favor of a degree in French and Francophone studies. college — I wanted to expose them to that,” she says. minority students with the goal of preparing reputation and location, he also sought a Since the Spring 2011 semester, Tyler Tyler first studied French at The High them for doctoral study. Fellows meet faculty, school where he could nurture his lifelong has had the support of the Mellon Mays School for the Performing and Visual learn about the process of choosing and ap- Gerard Ramm ’13 passion for music and theatre. He played Undergraduate Fellowship, awarded Arts in Houston, the city her family re- plying to Ph.D. programs and receive yearly PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN the saxophone with the Columbia Univer- each year to five sophomores of under- located to when her native New Orleans stipends and summer research funding for sity Jazz Ensemble and appeared in several represented minorities who are interested was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in the remainder of their College careers. Ramm spent summer 2011 plays with the Barnard theatre department. His most enjoyable in and demonstrate potential for doctoral 2005. Tyler, who had just started high in Quapaw, simultaneously studying and helping to organize portrayal, however, was Bottom in the King’s Crown Shakespeare study and professorial careers. Fellows school in New Orleans, evacuated ahead his tribe’s yearly powwow, which he fondly recalls witnessing Troupe’s spring 2012 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. meet faculty and graduate students in of the storm and, despite seeing the de- as a child. Then, last summer, he attended the Dhegiha Gather- “It’s a huge comedic part and it was so much fun,” recalls Ramm. various fields, learn about the process of struction on television, was initially resis- ing in Quapaw, which brings together speakers and teachers of During the next year, Ramm plans to apply to graduate pro- applying to graduate school and receive tant to starting over in a new state. “I was the Dhegiha family of indigenous languages. “I was exposed to grams in either literature or Native American studies. “My goal is financial support and research training forced to, because we couldn’t go back the ways people teach and learn language and the stakes for lan- to bring perspectives on Native American culture and politics into for the duration of their College careers. home,” she says. “Even if we did go back, guage revitalization and survival,” says Ramm. a discourse of current cultural studies,” he says. “It took me from being a sophomore, not our house wasn’t going to be there.” An English and comparative literature major, Ramm wrote Nathalie Alonso ’08 knowing what a Ph.D. was or why it mat- Tyler’s transition to the College was tered, [to having it] explained to me, not smoother; she knew she wanted to go to only what it is, but also why it’s important Columbia from the moment she first vis- and how I can get there,” Tyler says of the ited the Morningside campus as a high Pre-Med Ashley Shaw Connects Students with Elderly Patients program. school student. “When I saw it I thought, Tyler, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in ‘That must be what college is.’ It was my he elderly nun, a resident at ArchCare at Terence Car- had sent her $5 to buy a Diet Coke — she loved Diet Coke. I French, credits the course “Major Debates Devyn Tyler ’13 first ‘picture’ of college,” she says. dinal Cooke Health Care Center (TCC) in New York remember the sort-of smile on her face. I sat with her for an hour in the Study of Africa” with broadening PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN After graduation, Tyler, who played City, was quickly declining. A once-gregarious teacher, or more, in silence, just holding her hand.” her view of the French-speaking world Mariana in the King’s Crown Shakespeare T she had lapsed into near silence by the time Ashley Such experiences had prompted Shaw to start the volunteer and French colonialism. “I realized I could go to many different Troupe’s Spring 2010 production of Measure for Measure, plans to Shaw ’13 delivered an envelope in July 2012. At Your Service program, which connects Columbia students places and understand many different histories,” she says. take time off from academia to pursue acting more intensely. “I’m “She held my hand and gripped it,” recalls Shaw, a pre-med with elderly TCC residents to provide long-term companionship After spending the Fall 2011 semester in Paris through the Co- going to take at least a year to get back into the film industry and student who was then interning at the extended care facility for for those nearing the end of life. With grants from the Columbia lumbia-Penn Program at Reid Hall, Tyler became a peer adviser theatre and get artistically productive again,” she says. the terminally and chronically ill. “I asked if she wanted me to College Alumni and Parent Internship Fund and the Work Ex- in the Office of Global Programs, where she was a resource for fel- Nathalie Alonso ’08 open the envelope for her. She indicated that she did. 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are times when we’ve met since then that he’s reiterated that idea. the overarching mission is the same: to enrich the student experi- It really affected my freshman year and the choices I made. I was ence, strengthen alumni ties to the College and in general bridge the more open to considering different things when I was choosing gap between life as a student and life after graduation. clubs; I joined the entrepreneurship club [Columbia Organization “Our 47,500 highly accomplished alumni are one of the great- The College Connection of Rising Entrepreneurs] early on, and since then it’s become an est resources the College has and I am grateful that they are important part of my Columbia experience.” He adds that he’ll be eager to share their experience and expertise with our current on the executive board, as treasurer, next year. students,” says James J. Valentini, dean of the College and vice Betanabhatla believes strongly in this type of informal meeting president for undergraduate education. “The intergenerational with students. community is a key part of the Columbia College experience. Alumni and students forge meaningful bonds “I pay for breakfast and talk about whatever students want Alumni help students imagine career paths and envision life af- to talk about,” he says. “Unless you ask, you never know the an- ter Class Day, and current students, in turn, provide alumni an swer to things: ‘Do you know someone who can help me? I’m opportunity to relive their time on campus. We all benefit from across disciplines and generations thinking about journalism.’ or ‘Do you know someone who can this alumni-student relationship.” help in human rights?’ They discover the concept of a network The opportunities for connection take many forms, from and the power of the community that they belong to. career-related programs to mentorships to community-building B y A l e x i s T o n t i ’11 A r t s “To say that student-alumni interaction is important is under- activities. While one office usually takes the organizational lead, selling it,” Betanabhatla adds. “It’s an essential or critical part of the programs more often than not are the result of staff members

Alumni and students mingle in Low Rotunda at Media Networking Night on March 11. Media Networking Night has proven to be extremely popular, with students and alumni filling Low Rotunda. PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT

ne Saturday afternoon last June, 70- promised to be responsive if they contacted him. undergraduate experience. One of the unique elements of the CC throughout the College pooling expertise and resources. plus incoming students — along with Among those students was Nikhil Nayar ’16. A few weeks undergraduate education is having access to general life mentors or CCE spearheads the Columbia College Alumni-Sponsored Stu- their family and friends — attended a later, back home in Yardley, Pa., Nayar began putting together professional, career-oriented mentors who are a subway ride away. dent Internship Program (see page 30), Columbia Exploration Ex- Summer Advising session in Alfred his Fall class schedule. As his thoughts turned to majors and pos- It’s embodied in the name of our school: Columbia University in the ternship program, Columbia College Dinner & Discussion Series, Lerner Hall. After greetings and infor- sible career paths, he went to the Center for Career Education City of New York. That prepositional phrase says a lot.” Media Networking Nights and more. Student Affairs also tailors mational remarks by administrators (CCE) website to scroll through alumni profiles and immediately programs toward professional subjects, from industry-specific and alumni, copies of The Iliad were recognized Betanabhatla. Nayar’s curiosity about finance made ntergenerational interaction is becoming a definitive part of the panel presentations such as Doctor in the House, Legally Speaking handed from alumnus/a to student, Betanabhatla, who works for a New York-based investment firm, Columbia College experience. While alumni-student relation- and MBA Marketplace, to lecture series such as CSA Talks, which one by one, in a ceremonial welcome a natural go-to. A few emails later, they arranged to meet for ships can grow from less formal encounters, the shift in large provides a platform for people “with experiences worth sharing.” to the Columbia community. “You brunch near Union Square. Ipart reflects the effort of the College and many of its units, in- Student Affairs also oversees programs in conjunction with could see the enthusiasm on their faces,” Ganesh Betanabhatla ’06 “It was a great experience,” Nayar says. “Basically he gave cluding CCE, Columbia Student Affairs, Columbia Undergraduate the Alumni Office. These include the Dean-in-Residence Dinner says of the incoming students. “But I could also see people were me an intro to what Columbia was, and what the experience was Admissions and the Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and and Discussion Program at the Living-Learning Center — the Onervous. It brought me back to how I felt, embarking on that jour- like. He got me very excited about coming here.” Development (CCAAD). Working on their own and in partnership College’s all-class integrated residential community — where ney, having so many different thoughts and questions.” Importantly, Betanabhatla also drew out some of Nayar’s other with each other and alumni groups — such as the Columbia Col- Cristen Scully-Kromm, assistant dean for community devel- On his way out, Betanabhatla stopped by a group of six or sev- interests. lege Alumni Association (CCAA) and the Columbia Alumni Asso- opment and residential programs, hosts an intimate, monthly en students and introduced himself. They ventured a few ques- “When he realized I was interested in tech startups,” Nayar re- ciation — staff members have developed an array of programming dinner with an alumnus/a for LLC students. There’s also the tions — about the city and college and even life after college. He calls, “he said, ‘You’re going to have a lot of time to think about to increase and enhance the quality of engagement among students Alumni Parade of Classes at Class Day and Convocation, which chatted for a few minutes, then gave each his business card and your career; make sure you consider all of your options.’ And there and alumni. Specific goals vary from one program to the next, but reinforces and celebrates Columbia bonds.

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The Alumni Office additionally puts students in contact with months later, during the send-off reception he hosted with his Addressing more broadly the value of students speaking one advertising, newspapers and more. alumni through events such as the Dean’s Scholarship Reception wife, Anita Vela-Johnson ’83 Barnard, he made a point of collect- on one with alumni, Salas says: “When you see an alum who Off-campus, two dozen students attended a CCE panel dis- and the Columbia College Senior Dessert Reception. The former ing their email addresses. has been out of Columbia for five, 10, however many years, and cussion at Bloomberg headquarters in Midtown. Hosted by Janet gives scholarship recipients and scholarship donors (and/or their “I’d seen and interviewed dozens of students during the last they’re successful and they have interesting jobs, you see the pos- Lorin ’95, ’96J, the panelists included journalists John Brecher ’73; representatives) the chance to meet. Sponsors learn about students’ 14 years but what I hadn’t done was make that connection after- sibilities. Yes, the alumni are emissaries [for the College] but it’s Robert E. Friedman ’69, ’71 GSAS; Jared Sandberg ’90; and Nick paths to Columbia and lives at the College as well as their plans ward,” says Salas, who also is president of the Columbia Univer- more than that — it’s about showing here’s what life can be. You Summers ’05 (all of the panelists but Sandberg are former editors- for the future; students learn about donors’ experiences as under- sity Club of San Antonio. “I thought, I don’t want to lose them can read about people’s accomplishments and that’s great, but in-chief of Spectator). The panelists described their career paths, graduates and their professional endeavors. The latter, held for the anymore — once you’re admitted, you’re [on your way toward when you meet someone and talk to them, and they’re articulate stressing the value of a broad liberal arts education for journal- first time this spring, brought seniors together with members of becoming] an alum, and part of the alumni network — and that’s and accomplished, the student says, ‘That can be me.’” ists, then answered students’ questions, staying afterward to chat Columbia College Young Alumni to learn about the opportunities something I really want to develop going forward.” more casually with individual students. to engage with the Columbia community after graduation, both in While in NYC in October, Salas gathered the entire group for elping students to see a pathway — or rather, to see Other destinations for CCE-sponsored site visits included NYC and through regional and international alumni clubs. dinner at V&T Pizzeria. “They’d never been,” he recalls with a many pathways — is a central goal of the career-ori- Bloomingdale’s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the head- The Alumni Office also collaborates closely with Columbia laugh. “I said, ‘How can you have been here for a semester and ented programs that take place throughout the year. quarters of Major League Baseball. College Women, whose mission is to create networks within the not been?’ So I got to introduce them to that. But what I really These run the spectrum from large-room lectures, to CCE’s Columbia Exploration Externship program, which H alumnae and student communities while building on the legacy wanted to know from them was, ‘How’s it going?’” networking events, to small group dinners. While the backdrop matches first-year students with alumni in an array of industries of women at the College. CCW’s flagship activity is its mentoring Kelly Echevarria ’16 and Matthew Sheridan ’16E were among varies, alumni speakers often hew to the same model: They de- for a three- to five-day job-shadowing experience during Spring program, begun in 1993, which connects alumnae with female the seven. “Simon was great at interacting with all of us on an scribe their careers and the forces that shaped them, illuminate Break, also took place in March. Among this year’s participants

Elliot Sloane ’83 spoke with a group of students at a Dinner & Discussion Series event on March 4. (Left to right) Hooman Mehran ’86, Rick Wolf ’86 and Mark Berman ’86 proudly carry their class banner in this year’s Alumni Parade of PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT Classes at Class Day. PHOTO: SUSAN COOK undergraduates in one-on-one matches. This year, there were individual basis as well as in a group,” Echevarria says. “I could 175 matches. “The program is not meant for the students to find tell that he was concerned that we were doing OK and getting what it means to work in their industry and field questions from were Shen Qiu ’16 and Albert Pan ’16, who worked with Venture a job,” says Michelle Estilo Kaiser ’87, ’97 P&S, co-chair of the through freshman year. He called a few weeks later to check up students on matters both professional and personal. for America COO Eileen Lee ’05. (The nonprofit trains and places CCW Mentoring Committee, “although that’s first and foremost and to ask about others in the group … and asked us to make sure A survey of March and April alone illustrates the variety. The top college graduates at start-ups around the country to give them on their minds. And certainly the relationship is different for ev- they were doing OK. That’s what I really appreciated about him.” CSA Talks series welcomed Li Lu ’96, ’96L, ’96 Business, a leader experience in the world of entrepreneurship.) The last day of their eryone; there’s chemistry involved. But we hope both parties get Echevarria continues: “I love having the relationship with him of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and chairman and externship coincided with an especially big day for VFA — the fi- something out of it that’s really valuable, even if it’s just one con- that I do. If ever I need anything, I can talk to him and he’s always founder of Himalaya Capital, and Jodi Kantor ’96, a New York Times nal selection of its 2013 fellows — and Qiu and Pan were greeting versation that sticks in their mind.” looking out for us. A lot of things at Columbia are stressful and reporter and author of The Obamas. The Columbia College Dinner candidates, observing group interview sessions and taking pho- For some students, relationships with alumni are forged even career-focused and everyone’s looking for alumni relationships & Discussion Series featured Elliot Sloane ’83, founder and CEO of tographs. In the process, they’d read applications of many of the before they begin their first year. Through the work of the Alum- to get a job — but it’s nice to have this casual, general support the communications firm Sloane & Company, and David Feith ’09, fellowship candidates, themselves college seniors. Earlier in the ni Representative Committee (ARC), many high school seniors relationship, more of a family-type relationship than one that’s an editor with The Wall Street Journal and chairman of Citizenship week, the two had, on their own initiative, conducted interviews meet alumni during interviews, through welcome receptions for based on getting ahead or getting into the job market.” First. And the Dean-in-Residence Dinner and Discussion Program with nine of the 10 VFA staff members to learn more about their accepted students or at send-off receptions for those who decide Sheridan echoes the sentiment: “It was cool to know that he was brought in actress and Barnard theatre professor Rita Pietropinto- backgrounds as well as their positions with the company. to attend. looking after our well-being, and to be able to tell our friends, ‘Oh, Kitt ’93, ’96 Arts; she spoke about breaking into show business as Reflecting on the externship, Pan says, “I had a lot of upper- Simon Salas ’79, ’83L, ’83 SIPA, who chairs the San Antonio/ we’re going to meet ‘our alum.’ They all wished they had someone well as her experiences with the Tony Award-winning play Next classmen telling me, this is what you have to do to get into invest- South Texas Valley region for ARC, had a particularly meaningful like that from their cities. … Simon had given me advice not to sign to Normal, written by her husband, Tom Kitt ’96, and Brian Yorkey ment banking, and I was pretty set to do all the steps. But now it experience last year. Of the eight students who attended his wel- up for so many classes, which I’d ignored — and then got slammed ’93. There also was a Media Networking Night, which allowed stu- got me thinking about all the diverse possibilities — like during come reception in Spring 2012, seven chose Columbia. Several and had to drop one. But I was able to tell him, ‘You were right.’ dents to chat with alumni who work in film, television, marketing, my summers I don’t have to intern at a bank … Talking to a lot

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 26 27 THE COLLEGE CONNECTION COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY THE COLLEGE CONNECTION of people, finding out about their experiences and seeing other when you are young you have to depend on alumni for oppor- necessarily in the arts but they were certainly life mentors, which the various questions I thought about as a student.” people’s resumes, it’s really like wow, there are so many more tunities, and when you are old you offer opportunities back to was really important.” He adds, “As I think about the greatest inflection points of my options out there. [You can] live your life and try to do interesting the University, which is really good. It’s a win-win effect, because Rick Wolf ’86, in concert with the Alumni Office, began a tra- life, there’s normally someone from the Columbia alumni world things other than just following the generic path.” you get something and then you give back.” dition of alumni-hosted Thanksgiving dinners for students who who came before me who has mentored me or provided me with Of the VFA staffers in particular, Qiu says, “The more interest- can’t make it home for the holiday. “Part of what drove me is transformational advice and altered my perspective on things in ing part is their personal story, their motivations and inspirations, peaking with alumni about the reasons they get involved that I had almost no relationships with alumni as a student,” says a way that I hadn’t thought possible.” and how to plan your college life and career. We heard that some with students underscores this idea of a community in ac- Wolf, who invited students to his Scarsdale, N.Y., home for sev- Betanabhatla cites his relationship with Adam Beshara ’96, of them, for example, went to [a big banking company] and then tion — one whose members help each other in the ways eral years. “It’s an attempt to contribute to building a community ’04 Business as an example. The two met when Betanabhatla was quit after a year because it was boring or tedious to work in a Sthat they can, when they can, and also enjoy that sense and helping these students see that when they get out, they’re a junior and Beshara was leading JP Morgan’s investment bank- huge company where you’re only functional. We were surprised of building and belonging to something greater than themselves. part of a larger community of alumni and that they should be ing recruitment effort on campus. Beshara became Betanabhatla’s to hear that, even though the name is prestigious, it’s not very “Above all else Columbia is a community of people. Through contributing the same way.” main point of alumni contact both during recruitment and after challenging or meaningful for intellectual people to work there.” our interactions with one another, we have created a unique oppor- Brett Bernstein ’84, who also has hosted the dinner, says, “Giv- graduation, once he started with the company. He adds that the experience opened up his and Pan’s thinking tunity for students and alumni to learn, grow and pursue knowl- ing money for some people is easy, and for others it’s a stretch. This “On the career end, those first few years are challenging from about the future: “Should we work in those huge-name compa- edge throughout our lives,” says Kyra Tirana Barry ’87, president is another way of giving support that’s meaningful. Hopefully a physical, mental and emotional standpoint, in terms of hang- nies or should we do something like entrepreneurship or a busi- of the CCAA. “Students benefit from the wisdom and guidance it makes students feel good and comfortable and that Columbia ing in,” Betanabhatla says. “There was comfort in having a Co- ness that we like, like an NGO or nonprofit? It’s very inspiring.” alumni provide, while alumni are enriched and energized by the truly is more of a community.” lumbia alum at the bank who knew what I was doing there, For Lee, who has worked for VFA for 2 ½ years, Qiu and Pan new ideas, enthusiasm and talents that students bring to the table. Both spoke to the fun of meeting such a diverse group of stu- who knew what I was going through, who could be there with

Janet Lorin ’95, ’96J hosted a panel on journalism at Bloomberg headquarters in Midtown on April 4 that featured (left to right) Nick Sum- Li Lu ’96, ’96L, ’96 Business, an investment banker who is the founder and chairman of Himalaya Capital Management, spoke with stu- mers ’05, Jared Sandberg ’90, John Brecher ’73 and Robert Friedman ’69, ’71 GSAS. dents at a CSA Talks event on March 28. PHOTO: PETER FOLEY PHOTO: KATHERINE CUTLER had just the experience she was hoping for. “I thought I only had Alumni are able to share in students’ journeys — once again ex- dents. “Some of them are quite inspiring as to how they got to col- advice and point me in the right direction. I talk to him to this four options coming out of school,” she says. “It was either in- periencing intellectual wonders and professional pursuits, while lege and what they’ve overcome,” says Wolf. “They’re a uniquely day about career choices.” vestment banking, consulting, law or medicine. And so I went enjoying the growing stature of a Columbia College degree.” impressive bunch of students — all very Betanabhatla adds that when his into consulting … [I liked] the idea of being able to expose two Jerry Sherwin ’55, who is among the College’s most active intelligent, very driven, much more poised older brother passed away in 2008, freshmen to something other than that, and the idea of trying to alumni, echoes the sentiment: “Participating in student-alumni than I was at that age — by miles.” He Get Involved “Adam was there to say, ‘I understand make an impact on somebody.” programs has made for the most rewarding experiences I have laughs. “It’s nice to see who’s at the College n For information about interviewing prospective you’re an ambitious kid but there are The students also spoke to the value of connecting with Lee been involved with over the past many years. It has made me feel these days and to feel that connection to the students through the Alumni Representative some things that are more important herself. like I have never left the school.” school when you host.” Committee, go to undergrad.admissions. than your job.’ He talked to me about “We can relate on a lot of different levels even though she Pietropinto-Kitt, who as a senior was the student representative Betanabhatla, who has met with a columbia.edu/alumni/resources. balance and family. He said you have to graduated 10 years before,” Pan says. “She was asking us, ‘Do on the Board of Directors of the CCAA, recalls the value of her own number of students in addition to Nayar, n To help students with career preparation or do these things. He understood who I you go to these restaurants, these places?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I do!’ early experiences with alumni. “It certainly was a direct connection says that alumni-student relationships are to sponsor an internship or externship, go was and the parts of Columbia that had She’s been really helpful and down to earth. Before, I would have with what the alumni community was after graduation, which I among the things he valued most when he to careereducation.columbia.edu/alumni/ shaped me and were in me. He was just been hesitant to reach out to people, but now it’s given me a dif- found very comforting, because I didn’t want to leave. I was so was a student as well as now, as an alum- opportunities. a great mentor — personally and pro- ferent perspective on how they’re just willing to be there.” happy here. It was a very nice bridge for me to see that there was nus: “I love being part of the Columbia n To find out about Columbia College Women fessionally.” Qiu adds, “I’m from China and in Chinese universities people this big network, and I relied on people like Jerry Sherwin and family — getting to know students and and other student-alumni programs, go to don’t have a very strong connection with alumni. Here we have Brian Krisberg [’81, ’84L] and Lisa Landau [Carnoy ’89], all of these learn about their interests and I hope, in college.columbia.edu/alumni/getinvolved. Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts is CCT’s managing an Alumni Center and it’s a very dynamic relationship, because alumni who were just always there to give advice. They weren’t some way, be helpful as they think about editor.

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opportunities, late in the fall semester and in January; ad- ministrators then help them one-on-one to prepare cover let- CCASSIP Provides ters and resumes. Accepted interns attend a half-day train- ing session and are taught workplace etiquette and how to handle scenarios that might arise: What if you come into work early and there’s nothing to do? How do you handle Hands-On Experience water cooler gossip? When is an appropriate time to con- nect to a coworker on LinkedIn? How do you dress? Special emphasis is placed on getting the most out of the work re- lationships — getting to know the employer and expanding Columbia College Alumni-Sponsored Student Internship Program one’s network. To that end, each intern also is paired with an alumni men- pairs alumni with students for mutual benefit tor. The mentors, who don’t work at the same company as the intern and might not even be in the same field, are recruited and matched by CCE based on several factors including ca- B y S h i r a B o s s ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA reer interests, shared majors or shared class activities while on campus. (Mentor recommendations also come from CCAA and Columbia College Young Alumni.) The mentors serve as hen Dr. Thomas Nero Jr. ’89 was an under- also worked with his patients, interviewing them, taking their vi- additional contacts to answer questions and discuss concerns graduate, the philosophy-religion major tals and sitting in during consultations and procedures. about working in the real world and life beyond college. The Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. ’78 (center) stayed in touch with wasn’t sure what career path he would “I had a vague inclination to be an ER doctor, and I’ve com- By design, CCASSIP students do substantive work. Saman­ CCASSIP interns Samantha Peltz ’14 and Christopher Perkins ’14 even pursue. The summer between his soph- pletely changed because of the internship. Now I want to be a tha Peltz ’14 and Christopher Perkins ’14 were placed in the after the program ended. PHOTO: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, ’77J omore and junior years, exploring an cardiologist,” Angrand says. “Dr. Nero was such a great mentor Newark, N.J., office of the Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. ’78, interest in medicine, he interned with Dr. and doctor, by the end of the summer I pretty much wanted to do U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Third Circuit, who also WGeorge Hashim ’67 GSAS, a professor at the Medical School study- what he does.” is a University Trustee and adjunct faculty member. Their main in discovering what I want to do. I might like to pursue some- ing autoimmune disease. “It was a transformative experience, and CCASSIP is the result of a partnership between the Columbia project was to help Greenaway prepare a speech to be given at thing in pharmaceuticals.” She noted that many of the company’s convinced me I could go to medical school,” says Nero, now a car- University Center for Career Education (CCE) and the Columbia Columbia in celebration of Constitution Day (September 17), leaders have advanced degrees, which has inspired her to think diologist in private practice in Stamford, Conn. College Alumni Association (CCAA) to provide work experience which celebrates the signing of the U.S. Constitution. “I feel I’ve about getting a master’s or Ph.D. Never having forgotten his pivotal internship, Nero contacted and career mentoring for students. Alumni sponsors arrange read about every civil rights case in the history of the country,” A successful internship program draws on the talents of both the College about 1½ years ago seeking to provide a similar ex- for internships at their workplaces; CCE supplies the students Peltz says of the research effort. “It was one of my favorite experi- parties: Students are expected to work hard, and alumni sponsors perience for today’s College students. The timing was perfect. He with training and follow-up, including goal-setting workshops ences and opportunities I’ve had through Columbia.” must do their part to make sure the experience is meaningful. was told about a program set to debut in summer 2012: the Co- and tips on getting the most out of an internship. In addition, Greenaway respects the interns’ abilities and wants to ensure “It’s not easy, it’s not like you can get a free employee — that’s lumbia College Alumni-Sponsored Student Internship Program students attend social and networking events organized by CCE that both he and the interns get the most out of the relationship. not the point,” Nero says. “I spent at least an hour a day with (CCASSIP). Nero happily signed up to take on a student intern, for all CCASSIP participants and, at the end of the summer, each “What I’ve learned is, they have much more to contribute than them I’d otherwise spend on work. The aim is to get them excited and Ruth Angrand ’13, an art history major and volunteer with submits a project, in the format of their choosing, about their ex- you might think,” he says. “The real point of this is: Can Colum- about the field.” Angrand says she had many discussions with the Columbia University Emergency Medical Service, landed the perience. Some created blogs recording their work experiences; bia kids get an opportunity to do something they wouldn’t other- the doctor, not only about patients and procedures but also about opportunity. others submitted a letter, essay or photo essay. wise be able to do? The question is never, ‘Are they capable?’ but women in medicine, the business of having a private practice As opposed to a research internship or shadowing experience, CCE works with the Alumni Office to identify potential alumni are you going to be able to give them enough to do so they feel “and of course Obamacare.” the CCASSIP internship was very hands-on, Angrand says. She sponsors. A committee of volunteers led by Jonathan Sobel ’88 and they’re making a worthwhile contribution?” Greenaway, too, made sure to mentor the interns closely. In helped Nero organize an event to train lay people in CPR and Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 then reaches out to prospects on an individ- Michael S. Satow ’88 arranged for Corinna Bertelsen ’14 to work addition to making himself available for daily discussion time, he ual basis; potential sponsors also receive a letter from Dean at Nutrition 21, a supplement company in Purchase, N.Y., of which arranged for guests from other fields of law. “It gave me specific- James J. Valentini, describing the program and encouraging he is president and CEO. Among other things, she prepared data- ity about what options I might have after law school,” Peltz says. their participation. “This program has and will continue to bases using information from human clinical studies and crafted “Judge Greenaway takes mentoring very seriously. How acces- build upon existing alumni engagement in student career PowerPoint presentations to be used for R&D and marketing pur- sible he was was amazing, especially for how busy he is.” development,” says Kavita Sharma, dean of CCE. poses. Because of the company’s small size, Bertelsen also was able Greenaway says that CCASSIP is a great example of one way “I found internships to be extremely helpful in guiding to interact with the executives. For example, she joined in on a con- that alumni can give back to the College that doesn’t involve writ- my early career choices and believe that it is my job to help ference call with a media consulting firm and the head of sales and ing a check. “No matter what the professional endeavor, there are current students so that they too are able to make educated marketing regarding Nutrition 21’s approach to social media, and opportunities for Columbia students to have challenging and in- decisions about their career paths,” says Stacy Rotner ’99, subsequently created and ran the company’s Twitter feed. teresting experiences, and it’s as or more rewarding for the alum corporate responsibility manager at the law firm Sidley Aus- “It was great having her. She made a real contribution — it’s as for the student,” he says. In January, he met with Peltz and tin in New York; Rotner was an alumni sponsor both last good for business as well as good for the student,” Satow says. “I Perkins about possibly turning his Constitution Day speech into year and this year. “CCASSIP provides invaluable opportu- think if people knew the quality of the candidates they could give a book and how they might help with that. nities for students while it helps to build and strengthen the offers to, they’d realize they’d be lucky to have the opportunity Nero believes so strongly in the internship program that he Columbia College community.” to work with them because they’re so impressive.” He says a bo- has been trying to convince fellow alumni to participate, includ- Last summer, 27 rising juniors and seniors participated nus was hearing how campus life today is both different and the ing his wife, Elizabeth Zimels ’89, a veterinarian. “The more we in eight- to 12-week internships at 20 alumni’s workplaces, same as when he was in school. get involved with the College as alumni, the better the College including AOL Ventures, NBCUniversal, Public Art Fund, The internship was Bertelsen’s first experience working in an will be,” Nero says. “We should stay involved. Our college expe- Peppertree Engineering, The Kitchen and The Jed Foun- office. She says she learned how tough it is to handle a 9–5 job, rience should never end.” dation. This year the program has grown to more than 40 with a commute, and find time to keep up consistent training Michael S. Satow ’88, president and CEO of Nutrition 21, says Corinna Bertelson ’14 “made a real contribution” during her CCASSIP internship interns. (Bertelsen is a member of the varsity swim team). She says she Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA is contributing writer for CCT. Her last summer. CCE recruits students to the program in part through also realized the advantages of working for a small company, as most recent feature, in the Spring 2013 issue, was about faculty mem­ PHOTO: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, ’77J information sessions, which cover an array of internship well as her affinity for the field: “This program was illuminating bers’ experiences with teaching Literature Humanities.

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 30 31 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Vision Quest Through decades of research, Dr. George Yancopoulos ’80 oversees numerous drug advances — including a breakthrough in one to treat eye disease

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r. George Yancopoulos ’80, ’86 GSAS, ’87 proud that the Merck executive had made it big, very big. P&S seemed to have it all in spring 1987. “My dad knew scientists didn’t make much money, and he With his newly minted doctorate in wanted to educate his son to make money,” says Yancopoulos. biochemistry and molecular biophysics “He’d read about Roy Vagelos, and he told me, ‘Why don’t you in hand, he’d accepted a faculty post at be like Roy Vagelos?’ When I hit a rough spot in grad school, he P&S and had won a coveted $2 million told me, ‘Just call Roy Vagelos, he’ll help you out.’” award from the Lucille P. Markey Chari- Yancopolous never called Vagelos. But his father’s advice was table Trust to support his research across present in his mind following his meetings with Schleifer, as he de- eight years. signed his post-doctoral life. It was settled. He turned down the $2 But the Columbia research labs had yet to be built and the million Markey award. He turned down the Columbia faculty po- Dtimetable for their completion kept shifting. Through research cir- sition. And he joined Schleifer as Regeneron’s founding scientist. cles in biotechnology’s early days, he’d met Dr. Leonard Schleifer­ , “I gave up eight years of guaranteed funding for a company an enterprising neurologist intent on using gene technology to that at the time was located in Len’s apartment on the Upper East regenerate neurons — the impulse-conducting cells that serve Side,” says Yancopoulos, who now is president, Regeneron Labo- as the functional unit of the nervous system. ratories. “It was a convergence of things (opposite) As Regen­- The company was named Regeneron, and Schleifer wanted — meeting Len, my dad pushing me and eron’s founding Yancopoulos to be its founding scientist. my intrigue in building something from scientist, Dr. George “Len was a very ambitious, big-thinking kind of guy who was scratch. If it didn’t work out, I figured I Yancopoulos ’80, charismatic, honest and genuine,” says Yancopoulos, who received could try my hand at the academic track.” ’86 GSAS, ’87 P&S led the team that a 2013 John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement With both a medical degree and a doc- created EYLEA, a from the College in March. “We really hit it off.” torate, Yancopoulos was armed with the drug used to treat At the time Schleifer approached him, Yancopoulos, the son skill set essential for successful drug dis- age-related macular of Greek immigrants, was hearing little cheering around the Sun- covery. He had the advanced knowledge degeneration, the day dinner table in Queens about his career in academic scientific of science, honed in Columbia’s research leading cause of vision loss in older research. His father, Damis George Yancopoulos, who patched to- laboratories. He also had the keen under- people. gether a living at jobs that ranged from furrier to insurance sales- standing of disease, developed at P&S, PHOTO: BEDFORD PHOTO-GRAPHIC man, reminded his son that the grant covered the laboratory’s which opened his eyes to the unmet medi- equipment as well, leaving him with a relatively modest salary. cal needs that could be addressed through “I thought I’d hit the big time,” says Yancopoulos of his academic pharmaceuticals. By 1989, Yancopoulos, Schleifer and two other prospects. “I thought my father would finally be proud of me.” Regeneron employees moved into 10,000 sq. ft. of lab space in the His father, however, had a different path in mind for his first- former Union Carbide complex in Tarrytown’s Eastview section, born son and namesake, the valedictorian at Bronx Science as about 22 miles north of Morningside Heights. well as the College. Perhaps it was in the private sector, putting his scientific talents to use healing patients, one at a time, as a wenty-four years later, Regeneron has emerged as New physician. Or he could continue his research in a corporate phar- York’s largest biotechnology company, with 2,000 em- maceutical lab, discovering drugs that would alleviate human ployees, up from 1,000 in 2009. Its campus of offices suffering for millions. His son might even earn a fortune. T and laboratories now sprawls over close to 590,000 sq. George’s father was always talking up Dr. P. Roy Vagelos ’54 ft. in Tarrytown, and a trophy case in Regeneron’s lobby high- P&S, also the son of Greek immigrants, who vaulted from academ- lights its meteoric rise. In 2011, Crain’s New York Business cel- ic research to chief scientific officer of Merck & Co., and later was ebrated Regeneron as one of the New York area’s fastest-growing the Big Pharma giant’s CEO. He’d often clip articles about Vagelos public companies. Another honor came in September 2012 from from Greek newspapers to send his son, detailing how Greece was Science magazine, which named it the world’s best employer in

SUMMER 2013 32 DR. GEORGE YANCOPOULOS ’80 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY DR. GEORGE YANCOPOULOS ’80 Regeneron is New York’s largest biotech company, with 2,000 employees and 2012 revenues of nearly $1.4 billion. the biopharmaceutical industry. “He’s highly skeptical of his data and doesn’t believe his own “We were a little arrogant and naïve,” he says. eChiara was part of the Yancopoulos research team The company lived up to Crain’s billing with revenues of results until he has gotten them in multiple ways, using multiple A seemingly promising drug to treat obesity met a similar fate that found a way to better understand the genetic code nearly $1.4 billion in 2012, tripling its totals for 2011. Driving the methods,” says David Glass ’81, who was Regeneron’s v.p., mus- in 2003. of human beings by manipulating the genes of the explosive growth is the drug EYLEA, used to treat age-related cle diseases, from 1991–2005 and now teaches at Harvard Medi- Regeneron, however, hadn’t wagered its entire pot of invest- Dlaboratory mouse, a close mammalian cousin whose macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in people cal School and conducts research in Cambridge, Mass. “He’s one ment capital on just one or two drugs. There always were several genes are remarkably similar to humans. aged 50 and older. of the strongest scientists I’ve ever worked with.” more in the pipeline. When scientists mapped the human genome, they were able This disease is caused by abnormal growth of blood vessels The success of EYLEA is the latest triumph for Yancopoulos “When we had the failure, we already had new things we to identify the 25,000 genes that compose the human genetic behind the retina, in the back of the eye. The blood vessels be- in a brilliant science career that was nurtured at Bronx Science were working on,” says Yancopoulos. “It’s best to keep investing code. While the genes were identified, the function of many of come weak and prone to leakage, which damages the retina. in the mid-1970s, when he conducted a research project on a in the next great thing. You can’t wait for a drug to fail. You’ve got these genes was still unknown. EYLEA’s active ingredient — a genetically engineered molecule single-celled organism, Blepharisma. He was named a finalist in to create a new bet.” Yancopoulos’ team engaged in what is known as the “knock — binds to a protein that encourages blood vessels, and does so the 1976 Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition, which Having top leadership helped, too. As Regeneron suffered out” process, in which a gene is made inoperable and scientists in a way that inhibits blood-vessel proliferation. solidified his dream of becoming a scientist. through a bout of start-up pains in the mid-1990s, Schleifer heard observe how its absence changes a mouse’s functioning. Know- The drug won approval from the FDA in November 2011, after As a Columbia freshman, Yancopoulos took a position working that Vagelos, the pharmaceutical executive whom Yancopoulos’ ing what a gene does is a first step toward developing drugs to more than a decade of research and clinical trials. In January 2012, in the laboratory of Professor Jonathan Greer ’81J, who used X-ray father suggested should be his son’s role model, had reached the either increase or decrease its function. the company forecast EYLEA sales of $125–$150 million that year. crystallography to study how proteins worked. It was fascinating mandatory retirement age at Merck. Schleifer wondered if Regen- While there are other “knock out” technologies, Yancopoulos’ By year’s end, EYLEA had become so popular among ophthal- yet painstaking research, and Yancopoulos eventually grew rest- eron might woo him to chair the company’s board of directors. laboratory has developed a group of technologies — subsequent- mologists that sales reached $838 mil- less with the pace of progress. Yancopoulos doubted he’d come on ly adopted by the National Institutes of lion. Plans to market the drug in Latin By his senior year, Yancopoulos board. “My dad had been telling me Health — to determine the function of America, Japan and Europe are under decided to move on. He’d become en- for 20 years to call Roy Vagelos,” says thousands of unknown genes. The Re- way. thralled by new technologies that al- Yancopoulos. “I told Len: ‘What, are generon method does gene knock outs “It’s now one of the top five block- lowed scientists to clone genes, so he you crazy? Roy Vagelos isn’t going to rapidly, and at scale, rather than one or busters in biotech history,” says Yanco- dropped crystallography to dive into return your phone call.’” a few at a time. poulos. “We’re so well positioned right that nascent field. But Schleifer called Vagelos, and The VelocImmune mouse — which now. In the last few years, we’ve gone Yancopoulos lived on campus but Vagelos did return his call. It turned Regeneron calls the largest mamma- from a company that was struggling to typically made it home to join his out that Vagelos, one of the Univer- lian genetic engineering project ever one that’s profitable. It’s a very exciting mother and father for Sunday dinner in sity’s most generous benefactors, had accomplished — has substituted the time for us.” Middle Village, Queens. He captained read scientific papers Yancopoulos had genes from the human immune system the Columbia crew team his senior published during Regeneron’s early into mice, which then have the capa- t Regeneron’s Westchester year and kept in shape by running to years. The man who led Merck to the bility of producing human antibodies campus, Yancopoulos greets Queens on some Sundays — an eight- pinnacle of the international pharma- that can serve as potent therapeutics. a visitor wearing jeans with a mile jog through Central Park and over ceutical industry was now interested “Until you have a tool, you can’t white button down over a the 59th Street Bridge. in the Westchester start-up whose first Dr. Leonard Schleifer, president and CEO of Regeneron imagine what you can build with it,” A Yancopoulos, who in March received a 2013 John Jay (left); Yancopoulos; and Dr. P. Roy Vagelos ’54 P&S, gray T-shirt, and three pens in his shirt’s His one regret: not accepting an in- drug approval was still 13 years away. Yancopoulos says. “At one point, I was Award for distinguished professional achievement, is chairman of Regeneron’s Board of Directors, at the breast pocket. He lives in Yorktown, described by a colleague as “all science, all the time.” vitation to row with the national light- “George had demonstrated leader- 2013 John Jay Awards Dinner in March that honored asked, ‘Why are you spending a couple N.Y., with his children, Damis George PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO weight team in 1980. ship in cloning important genes that Yancopoulos and four other alumni. of million dollars on it? It’s just a drain (17), Luka (15) and Demetra (12). His “I went to medical school instead,” might have an impact on disease, and PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO on the company.’ But I said, ‘Let’s let other daughter, Ourania (19), attends Washington University in St. he says. “I always wonder how I would have done on the team.” it was clear that he would eventually the guys figure it out,’ and they did.” Louis. score by making an important drug,” says Vagelos. “I was willing Yancopoulos’ scientific rigor has paid dividends on Wall Street As Regeneron’s chief scientific officer, Yancopoulos oversees rug discoverers like Yancopoulos have to learn to be pa- to make a bet on that.” as well as in medical clinics, as Regeneron developed into what’s the company’s robust research program, which has deep Colum- tient. It took Regeneron two decades to earn its first drug Vagelos, who has been chairman of Regeneron’s Board of called a FIBCO — fully integrated biotech pharmaceutical com- bia roots. The company research efforts focus on two platforms: approval, in 2008, and it can cost more than $1 billion to Directors since 1995, joined the company just as Yancopoulos’ pany, which takes a drug from discovery to manufacturing and the technology that creates new approaches to doing research, Dtake a drug from concept to market. In 2012, the com- team was developing the scientific tools to transition Regeneron marketing. Regeneron has funded its research through partner- and the research itself, with Yancopoulos helping to find new pany had three drugs on the market, 12 drugs advancing through from a company focused on neurobiology, creating drugs to ships with major pharmaceutical companies around the world. targets, developing molecules for those targets, creating clinical clinical trials and more than a dozen under development that are treat neurological diseases, to one that used mouse genetics and “When Roy came in, our stock was $2 a share,” Yancopoulos opportunities and then bringing a drug through the federal ap- candidates for tests on humans. The drugs under development mouse technology to develop therapeutics for a broad range of said in March. “Two years ago it was $18. Since EYLEA won ap- proval process. cover the gamut of human maladies: cancer, eye diseases, pain, in- diseases. proval from the FDA, the stock price has risen to $172. Our mar- Yancopoulos meets regularly with the scientists to plan and flammation, bone disease, muscle disorders, metabolic disease and Tom DeChiara ’90 GSAS, Regeneron’s senior director of trans- ket capitalization is now valued at $16 billion.” strategize about their projects while also making sure that prom- obesity, infectious disease and cardiovascular disease. genic technology until 2011, arrived in Tarrytown in 1992. He had Yancopoulos’ father passed away in 2010, before EYLEA hit ising candidates move through a rigorous scientific process. “It never ceases to be an adventure,” says Yancopoulos. “My begun to explore embryonic stem cell technology and Yancopou- the market and became a biotech sensation. Would he be proud Drew Murphy ’87 GSAS, s.v.p., Regeneron Research Laborato- theme has always been that you need to be willing to risk failure. los saw its promise. of his son today? ries, was a teaching assistant in Yancopoulos’ class in molecular Scientific research is a business of failure, and you have to keep DeChiara learned quickly of Yancopoulos’ leadership talent “My dad was an old-time guy, a WWII veteran, a tough sort biology at Columbia. learning from it.” and scientific acumen. For example, DeChiara says, Yancopoulos of guy who rarely expressed anything so positive,” Yancopoulos “George is all science, all the time,” says Murphy, who joined One such failure came in 1997, five years into development of a is methodical and contemplative at meetings as he listens to what recalls. “Even in 2010, I still wasn’t good enough; he was still ask- the company in 1999. “He tends to look at things differently. The drug for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as everyone has to say, and then offers his interpretation of the data. ing me if I was pushing myself. But at the funeral, a bunch of his researchers will have meeting after meeting and come up with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Results were unfavorable from the Phase 3 He can be a taskmaster as well. cronies told me what I knew deep down inside: He was always a consensus view of how to proceed. Then George will pull out clinical trial, in which large numbers of people were tested to con- “He holds your feet to the fire, but not in a demeaning, nega- bragging about me to them.” something from a different point of view. He’s always right.” firm the drug’s effectiveness, monitor side effects and compare it tive way,” DeChiara says. “He does it in a way that makes you re- Yancopoulos also will go to great lengths to make sure his to commonly used treatments. The drug was never brought to alize that you’ve erred. He says you were wrong, but won’t make David McKay Wilson, a columnist at The Journal News in White findings stand up. market. you feel like a moron.” Plains, N.Y., also writes regularly for TC Today at Teachers College.

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WWII & NYC No shots were fired in earnest, yet New York City — and Columbia — played a significant role in WWII

Kenneth T. Jackson, the Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, has taught at Columbia since 1968. Though he hails from Memphis, the former Air Force officer is a preeminent authority on New York City and the leader of an annual all-night bike ride from Columbia to Brooklyn. His many books include Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), Empire City: New York Through the Centuries (with David S. Dunbar, 2002) and The Ency- PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO clopedia of New York City (as editor, 1995). When asked by New York magazine to describe what he does for a living, he answered, “I read a lot. … and I talk about New York City, just about all the time.” The excerpt that follows is from the book that accompanies “WWII & NYC,” an exhibition staged by the New-York His­ torical Society this past spring (Jackson was president of the so­ ciety from 2001–04). Both the exhibition and the book describe New York’s pivotal role in the 20th-century war that was one of the United States’ greatest military moments. In the short term, Jackson says, the war stimulated New York’s economy, but in the longer term, the city lost ground to places in the South and West that could better accommodate huge factories and military bases. Readers can view “WWII & NYC: Harbor Tour With Kenneth T. Jackson,” on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=SnoxyvkTVaA. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard

The S.S. America makes its way up the busy Hudson River in 1940, steaming past the skyline of lower Manhattan. PHOTO: McLAUGHLIN AIR SERVICE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, PR 043, DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTIONS, THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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n December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes ington to demand more war contracts; the city, he said, had vast he Army’s recruiting office at 39 Whitehall Street in and the Red Army, both of which desperately needed them. Mean- launched a surprise Sunday morning resources to support the war, including millions of square feet of lower Manhattan became one of the busiest such fa- while, America’s shipyards produced so many vessels that by the attack on the United States Pacific Fleet empty factory space, tens of thousands of vacant apartments, and cilities in the United States as New Yorkers, like their end of the conflict, the United States Navy was not only larger than at its anchorage at Pearl Harbor in the three hundred thousand unemployed workers. countrymen across the land, joined the service to that of any other nation, but it was larger and more powerful than Hawaiian Islands. The skilled pilots of With the entrance of the United States into the war, the mili- defend their country. Between 1942 and 1945, more all other navies in the world combined. the Rising Sun disabled or sank all eight tary presence in and around the city grew dramatically. Bases thanT a million persons in the metropolitan region served in the While World War II helped end the Great Depression of the American battleships in port and killed like Floyd Bennett Field and Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, Fort armed forces, and military uniforms became ubiquitous on the 1930s by providing jobs for the unemployed, New York was more than 2,400 sailors, soldiers, and Dix in New Jersey, Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, Fort Tilden city streets. The New York area became a major center for train- slower to come out of the crisis than other industrial cities, and civilians. The next day, a resolute FDR in Rockaway Beach, Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook, and Camp ing as well. Roughly twenty-four thousand men were graduated it received smaller war contracts than other places. In part, this spoke of the attack as “a day which will live in infamy” and asked Smith to the north all expanded swiftly. The Navy established from the U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School at Columbia reflected the federal policy of favoring big companies because Oa joint session of Congress for a declaration of war against Japan. the Eastern Sea Frontier, under the command of Vice Admiral University, meaning that more officers were trained in New York they could ramp of war production faster than smaller compa- On December 11, Germany declared war on the United States, Adolphus Andrews from his headquarters at 90 Church Street during World War II than at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. nies could. The degree of concentration was startling. Through even though Hitler’s defensive agreement with Japan did not re- in Manhattan, to monitor ship movements along the coast. It also The Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service the summer of 1942, the largest one hundred firms in America quire the Third Reich to act unless Japan were the victim, not the installed a submarine net between Staten Island and Brooklyn to (WAVES) had its most important national training site at Hunt- had received seventy-three percent of the war contracts by dol- aggressor. prevent incursions by U-boats into the harbor. Coastal artillery er College (now Herbert H. Lehman College) in the Bronx, the lar value. But Gotham’s twenty-seven thousand factories, ever When the United States entered the war, New York was the batteries went up along the south shore of Brooklyn, the east side United States Coast Guard maintained its largest training station small, averaged only fifteen employees each, nothing like Gen- largest city in the world, with more than seven million residents of Staten Island, and on the edges of Long Island Sound. Fortu- at Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, and two-thirds of all merchant eral Motors, Ford, and the Chrysler Corporation. And New York in the five boroughs and another four million in the nearby sub- nately, they never were forced into action. seamen who sailed the Liberty and Victory ships carrying supplies companies typically were not oriented to the production of tanks, urbs. Even during the Great Depression, New York’s harbor was The only real Axis test came in the early morning hours of to the front were trained in the city. rifles, boots, artillery, airplanes, jeeps, trucks, armored personnel the busiest, its skyscrapers the tallest, its land values the high- June 13, 1942, when a U-boat took advantage of fog and landed The industrial achievement of the United States in World War II carriers, and other major instruments of war. Not surprisingly, est, and its industrial output the greatest of any city in the world. four German saboteurs on the beach at Amagansett, Long Island. was phenomenal by any measure. In 1940, when President Roos- Detroit received approximately six times the per capita volume Fifth Avenue already was synonymous with shopping, Broad- Carrying four crates of explosives and $84,000 in cash, they were evelt issued a call for the production of fifty thousand airplanes per of contracts as New York did, and Newark, San Francisco, Cleve- way with theater, Madison Avenue with advertising, and Wall instructed to wait six weeks and then begin to destroy American year, it was widely felt to be a pipe dream. Yet by 1944, American land, and Los Angeles garnered four times as much as Gotham. Street with finance. The great radio networks and publishing war-making facilities. Unfortunately for the saboteurs, a Coast factories were producing almost one-hundred thousand airplanes As a result, New York still had an unemployment crisis as late as empires were all headquartered in Manhattan, and the New York Guardsman patrolling the beach spotted them soon after they per year — about twice as many as both Germany and Japan to- 1942, when a special delegation went to Washington to convince Stock Exchange was the financial world’s dominant trading floor. had buried their uniforms and detonators. In desperation, they gether and almost as many as the rest of the world combined. Sta- federal officials to spend more money in the nation’s largest city. Once war was declared, residents of the city faced the un- paid the beach patrolman $260 to buy his silence. They took an tistics for jeeps, artillery pieces, self-propelled guns, oil, aluminum, With the delegation’s success in Washington, New York’s indus- and bombs were equally dramatic. The nation produced so many try grew rapidly. By 1944, there were a record 1.86 million people Would American coastal cities — New York chief among them — trucks and shoes that it shared its resources with the British Army in manufacturing jobs in the city, of which seven-hundred thou- become targets for bombing? What about submarine attacks?

known. They had read in newspapers and listened on radios early morning commuter train to Manhattan, while the Coast about the Luftwaffe blitz on London in the fall of 1940. Would Guardsman immediately reported the incident to his superiors. American coastal cities — New York chief among them — be- The hunt was soon under way. come targets for bombing? What about submarine attacks? After Trying to blend in with the millions of other people in the great all, German U-Boats — Hitler’s fleet of attack submarines — had city, the four conspirators took a room on the Upper West Side, already been waging a relentless under sea war against Atlan- mingled with other sightseers at Grant’s Tomb, walked around tic shipping, and they would presumably redeploy to American Columbia University, shopped at the Rogers Peet men’s store on waters to attack defenseless oil tankers and cargo ships along the Fifth Avenue, listened to jazz, and visited a brothel. Despite their East Coast, crippling American supply lines. infiltration, the saboteurs never blew up anything. They were Initially, the Empire City did seem vulnerable. Although Ger- caught (along with four accomplices who had come ashore in man bombers never had the range to reach the United States, Florida) after two of them traveled to Washington and confessed U-boats could reach New York, and during the first four months to the FBI. President Roosevelt ordered a closed military trial for of 1942, enemy undersea vessels sank eighty-seven ships in the the Germans. All were sentenced to death; FDR commuted the Atlantic. One of the first victims was theCoimbra , a British tanker sentences of the two who had confessed; the remaining six were transporting American oil to Britain. On January 5, 1942, thirty executed on August 8, 1942. miles off Long Island, she was sunk by a single torpedo from a Although sabotage remained a real threat, not all losses came U-boat, and the captain and thirty-five crewmen perished; only at the hands of the Axis. On February 9, 1942, the S.S. Normandie, six injured survivors were rescued from the freezing waters of the most luxurious ocean liner in the world, was moored at Pier the Atlantic. 88 on the West Side. Once the property of France, which was at New Yorkers quickly adapted to the mobilization that war this point occupied by Germany, the ship had been confiscated demanded. Thousands of volunteer aircraft spotters and air raid by the United States after war began and rechristened the U.S.S. wardens turned out for duty twenty-four hours a day. On June Lafayette for the purpose of taking American troops to Europe. 13, 1942, a giant “New York at War” parade saw five hundred The ship caught fire during its conversion when sparks from a thousand participants march up Fifth Avenue from Washington welder’s torch allegedly ignited a pile of life vests. Several fire- Square to 79th Street. It took eleven hours for all the civilians and boats and dozens of fire companies were on the scene within members of every service to pass in front of more than two mil- minutes. But the flames were not easily extinguished, and the lion cheering onlookers. Two days later, Mayor La Guardia told firefighters poured so much water into the vessel that, in the early Navy midshipmen stand at attention with their respective units during a drill on South Field in 1942. radio listeners in his weekly program that he would go to Wash- hours of February 10, 1942, it capsized at its berth. PHOTO: PACH BROS., N.Y.; GIFT OF CHARLES A. RIDDLE III, COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER 2013 38 39 KENNETH T. JACKSON COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY KENNETH T. JACKSON sand were war-related; this was sand other ships were repaired adjust their aim to control for the media prowess was tapped in at a time when one million men at the yard during World War II, tossing of the sea. the service of the war effort. From from the area were in the armed including the Royal Navy battle- In Queens, the Steinway the former Paramount Studios services. The year before, almost ship H.M.S. Malaya, which was Piano Company manufactured lot in Astoria, Queens, the Army three-hundred new industrial refitted in Brooklyn to relieve the glider wings on behalf of General Pictorial Service made military plants opened in New York be- pressure on British shipyards. Aircraft Corporation. On D-Day, training films and instructed tween January and April. The The Brooklyn Navy Yard was these gliders were towed behind combat cameramen and photog- products turned out in the city’s but one of forty ship-building regular aircraft and then cut loose raphers. At its peak it had both factories were wide-ranging: air­- and ship-repair facilities in the over drop zones in France to take military and civilian employees, plane parts, metal products, spun city. Bethlehem Steel’s Staten airborne assault troops behind including famous New York glass fibers, optical lenses and Island yard built forty-seven enemy lines. Aircraft parts were and Hollywood filmmakers, the prisms, dehydrated foods, bombs, destroyers, seventy-five landing made in Long Island City, and most renowned of whom was canvas goods, tents, tarpaulins, craft, five cargo ships, and three the Aluminum Corporation of John Huston, director of The Mal­ haversacks, leggings, mattress ocean-going tugs during the war. America built a 101-acre, 1.1-mil- tese Falcon. Particularly moving covers, powder bags, bandages, Todd Shipyards in Brooklyn’s lion square-foot plant along Mas- was the story of Harold Russell, and life preservers. The Canal Erie Basin had 19,617 employees peth Creek that employed ten a demolition expert who lost his Street area was covered with in 1943, occupied mainly with thousand workers and produced hands. To inspire other maimed small electrical and metal shops, building and repairing destroy- millions of tons of aluminum. soldiers, he was the focus of a many of which contracted with ers. They reputedly could take a The City’s garment indus- film made in Queens calledDiary the War Department. vessel that had been badly dam- try, long the center of American of a Sergeant. Russell later became The Brooklyn Navy Yard was aged by a German torpedo and clothing manufacture, produced better known when he starred in the busiest such facility in the put it back in service in a matter a substantial number of military the 1946 Hollywood filmThe Best world. With more than seventy- of days. Over the course of the uniforms. The Amalgamated Years of Our Lives. five thousand employees (versus war, Todd repaired and refitted Clothing Workers of America ne- But New York’s most impor- over fifty-five thousand at the William W. Havens ’46 GSAS, who began his career working on some three hundred vessels and gotiated for the Army and Navy tant contribution to the war effort the Manhattan Project at Columbia and was for nearly two de- Philadelphia Navy Yard or more cades the University’s director of nuclear science and engineer- built twenty-four landing craft contracts to be dispersed among remained a secret until long after than twenty thousand at the ing, scans the screen of a cloud chamber in Pupin, watching the of the type which took Ameri- its many union shops in different the final surrender. The develop- Wilmington Shipyard) working tracks of nuclear particles. The chamber is an apparatus, weigh- can soldiers to the beaches of cities, but New York was assured ment of the atomic bomb began seven days a week and around ing more than 300 lbs., for making visible the paths of submicro- Normandy on D-Day. that its fifty thousand metropol- in the Pupin Physics Laboratories scopic nuclear particles. the clock between 1942 and 1945, PHOTO: MANNY WARMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COURTESY COLUMBIA Other New York factories itan-area members would have of Columbia University, where the “yard” was a world unto it- UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES were equally busy with work. work. A contract for more than Leo Szilard and Nobel laureate 1.2 million overcoats (valued at Enrico Fermi, among others, be- New York’s most important contribution to the $2.8 million) was issued in 1942. gan experimenting with nuclear New York and Philadelphia fission. The early effort employed shared a contract for one hun- a group of physicists at Columbia, war effort — the Manhattan Project — remained a dred thousand Navy uniforms, while members of the football and the Army gave contracts for team helped move hundred- secret until long after the final surrender. one-hundred-twenty five thou- pound packs of uranium. After (Top) John R. Dunning ’34 GSAS (left) and Eugene T. Booth at the sand garments to shops in Brook- control panel of a cyclotron in the basement of Pupin in 1967. 1942, the bomb’s production was self. Its two-hundred-ninety acres contained seven huge dry docks, Inside a converted ice plant on Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn, Pfizer lyn and Manhattan. The United At that site, 25 years earlier, they witnessed the first demonstra- overseen by the Army Corps of forty-seven mobile cranes on tracks, eight piers, two colossal steel — a Brooklyn company founded by two German immigrants in States Naval Clothing Depot, at tion of atomic fission in the United States. (Above) A certificate Engineers. The Corps named the shipways, two twelve-hundred foot-long graving docks, found- 1849 — built the first factory to mass-produce the world’s first Third Avenue and 29th Street in awarded by the War Department to Columbia in 1945 for its part project the Manhattan Engineer ries, machine shops, warehouses, a power plant, and a hospital. life-saving antibiotic, penicillin. Having beaten other companies Brooklyn, was among the larg- in the Manhattan Project. District, believing that following PHOTOS: COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES It was crisscrossed by nineteen miles of paved streets and thirty in finding a way to mass-produce the brand-new drug, Pfizer est and most sophisticated cloth- the convention of naming engi- miles of rails. Pier G was home to the Hammerhead, the largest bought the ice plant on September 20, 1943, and quickly convert- ing production and distribution neering commands for the city in crane in the world at the time. And just outside the gates were ed the factory into the first penicillin factory in the world. Amaz- plants in the world. Within its walls, over a thousand employees which they were headquartered would avert suspicion. Eventu- more than eighty supporting factories, which together reduced the ingly, within three months of the plant’s opening on March 1, manufactured, packaged, and shipped all the white twill and blue ally, even as it moved across the country, the entire undertaking amount of materials that needed to be transported there. 1944, it produced most of the penicillin to go ashore with Ameri- flannel uniforms and auxiliary garments that were worn by sailors would come to be known as simply the Manhattan Project. Its lead The Navy Yard was the foremost builder of battleships in the can troops on D-Day, June 6, 1944. By that date, American peni- of the entire United States Navy. researchers moved to the University of Chicago and then to Oak world, and it produced more of them than Japan during World cillin production was one-hundred billion units per month, and In the New York area, heavy industry was located in the sub- Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington. In Los Alamos, New War II. The U.S.S. Arizona, which was bombed and sunk at Pearl Pfizer was making more than fifty percent of it. An advertisement urbs rather than in the city itself. Long Island in particular had been Mexico, the final development of the weapon occurred, headed by Harbor — taking more than one-thousand sailors to an early of the time depicted four military men and women at the center important in aviation history from the time the Wright Brothers J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had grown up at 155 Riverside Drive death — was built there at the end of World War I. So too was the of a line of civilians. Beneath them, a caption read, “These are first demonstrated the possibility of controlled flight. Republic Avi- on the Upper West Side. battleship U.S.S. Missouri, on whose deck the Japanese formally alive today…because of PENICILLIN.” ation’s Farmingdale plant made more than fifteen thousand P047 surrendered on September 2, 1945. In addition, the workers at the The Carl L. Norden Company developed and manufactured Thunderbolt fighters, many of which provided air support above © The New-York Historical Society, 2012. Reprinted from WWII & NYC Brooklyn Navy Yard built battleships Iowa and North Carolina and the top-secret Norden bombsight for the Army Air Forces, which Allied armies in Europe. Similarly, Grumman Aircraft Engineering with the permission of New-York Historical Society and Scala Publish- five aircraft carriers (including the Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Bon needed it for bombardiers over Germany and Japan. The Nor- Corporation in Bethpage was the major production center for the ers Ltd. WWII & NYC was published in conjunction with the exhibition Homme Richard, the Bennington, the Kearsarge, and the Oriskany). den Company had its headquarters and major production facil- Navy’s Hellcat fighter planes and Avenger torpedo bombers. And WWII & NYC, which was on view this year at the New-York Historical They also constructed eight large ships designed to ferry tanks ity at 80 Lafayette Street in Manhattan and an additional factory in New Jersey, the Curtiss-Wright Company made aircraft engines Society, recalling New York’s crucial and multifaceted role in winning the onto the beaches on D-Day. at 50 Varick Street. Meanwhile, the Sperry Gyroscope Company and propellers in Caldwell and Paterson. war while commemorating the 900,000 New Yorkers who served in the Warships built at other facilities were frequently brought to the in Brooklyn and the Ford Instrument Company in Long Island Many of the metropolitan area’s contributions to Allied victory military and exploring the many ways in which those who remained on Brooklyn Navy Yard to be fitted with guns. More than five thou- City were producing other devices to help naval gunnery officers were intellectual and psychological rather than physical. The city’s the home front contributed to the national war effort.

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Although far removed (Left, top) The aca- demic procession at from the battlegrounds Commencement in of Europe, Africa and 1944 makes its way up the steps of Low Asia, Columbia played Plaza between lines a significant role in of uniformed midship- men standing at at- WWII. Pupin Physics tention and civilians in Laboratories on the academic dress. (Left, bottom) V-12 students Morningside Heights in naval dress race to campus was the site of class in Hamilton Hall in 1943. (Opposite) the Manhattan Project, Students stand guard where the development of with binoculars and fire extinguishers atop the atomic bomb began. Butler Library (then Approximately 24,000 called South Hall) dur- ing an air raid drill in men graduated from December 1941.

PHOTOS: (LEFT, TOP) the U.S. Naval Reserve 1944 COLUMBIAN; (LEFT, BOTTOM) COURTESY BERNARD SUNSHINE Midshipmen’s School at ’46; (OPPOSITE) JACK M. LEWIS ’42, ’43E, ALL COURTESY COLUMBIA Columbia during WWII, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES meaning more officers were trained during that time in New York than at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

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(Opposite) Columbia competes against the Midshipmen’s School during winter 1943– 44. (Clockwise from top left) John R. Dun- ning ’34 GSAS (right) describes to George Pegram (Class of 1903) his “atomic pinball machine,” which he used to ex- plain atomic energy to the public; Army reserve students take an exam prior to going on active duty, May 1943; Frank D. Fackenthal (Class of 1906), who was acting president of Columbia from 1945–48, receives a plaque from the Navy Department “for effective coop- eration in training of naval personnel during World War II”; students buy war bonds in 1942; children study a 1948 exhibit dealing with Columbia’s role in the atomic energy program; Valentine Diehl ’41, a Marine lieutenant, recruits students in February 1942.

PHOTOS: (OPPOSITE) PHILIP S. LACY; (CLOCK- WISE FROM TOP LEFT) COLUMBIA PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE; ALUMNI FEDERATION OF COLUMBIA UNIVER- SITY; MANNY WARMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; JOHN MLADINOV ’43, ’43E; MANNY WARMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; JACK M. LEWIS ’42, ’43E, ALL COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

SUMMER 2013 45 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Alumni Relive Their Campus Days Nearly 4,000 alumni and guests enjoy campus and NYC at Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean’s Day 2013

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Blue skies and festive banners welcome alumni to campus; Dean James J. Valentini chats with two alumni at the Saturday afternoon affinity reception for varsity athletics. PHOTOS: LEFT, EILEEN BARROSO; RIGHT, MICHAEL DAMES

lmost 4,000 College alumni and their the Celebration of Service to Columbia, Community and Coun- guests returned to campus and to venues try, an interfaith service held in St. Paul’s Chapel. throughout New York City from May 30– Another new event was the presentation of the Dean’s Lead- June 2 for Alumni Reunion Weekend and ership Award, which recognizes those who demonstrate ex- Dean’s Day 2013. Gathering this year traordinary class leadership and honors an alumnus/a “whose were classes that end in 3 and 8, and all behavior raises the sights of all classmates and has a positive alumni and parents were invited to Sat- impact on the College’s fundraising priorities.” The inaugural urday’s Dean’s Day, which offers lectures and Mini-Core Courses recipients were CCT Class Correspondent Paul Neshamkin ’63; Athat allow alumni to relive their classroom days while offering University Trustee Jonathan S. Lavine ’88; and Board of Visitors parents a taste of what their sons and daughters experience. Member Andrew Borrok ’93, ’01 Business. Each was honored at Among the weekend’s highlights were Thursday’s cultural his Saturday class dinner by Valentini. Even Butler Library dresses up for Saturday night, events in Midtown; Friday’s Mini-Core Courses and the Young Several reunion classes set records with their Class Gifts this which includes (left) dancing under the tent at the Alumni Party aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid; and Saturday’s address year. The Class of 1963 presented the largest 50th reunion gift to Starlight Reception and (above, left) attendees by Dean James J. Valentini, Public Intellectual Lectures and the date with $1.925 million, the Class of 1988 presented the largest taking a break and reminiscing on Low Steps; on presentation of the Society of Columbia Graduates 65th An- reunion gift ever with $19.88 million and the Class of 1993 pre- Friday night (above, right) celebrants-turned-sailors nual Great Teacher Awards. Perennially popular events, such sented $242,612, a class record. gather aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid at the Young as Camp Columbia for Kids, the Wine Tasting and the Starlight Alumni Party. PHOTOS: MIDDLE ROW RIGHT, MICHAEL DAMES; Reception all were back and offered something for every age To view more photos from Alumni Reunion Weekend, Dean’s Day and ALL OTHERS, EILEEN BARROSO group. Some classes also held panel discussions, giving alumni a the Young Alumni Party as well as to view class photos and the list of chance to revive their Columbia-honed debate skills as well as to Dean’s Pins recipients, go to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. discuss a current topic of interest. Sunday offered a new event,

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ore than eight months after Hurricane Sandy made landfallM on the night of October 29, the reverberations are still being felt, especially in the coastal areas of New York and New Jersey. At the time the storm hit, Nate Bliss ’05, who has worked on Coney Island economic development issues for eight years, shifted immediately into a relief role for the battered neighborhood on the southern edge of Brooklyn and has been focused on recovery ever since. On a different peninsula, in Rockaway Park, Queens, Brian O’Connell ’89 saw Scholars’ Academy, the public school that he founded in 2004, severely damaged by floodwater. His was the simultaneous challenge of seeing to the students’ education as well as the school’s restoration. In both cases, these hard-working and dedicated alumni contributed to the rebuilding of their communities. Read on for their stories.

On Saturday (clockwise from top left), Society of Columbia Graduates director Ronald Mangione ’69E (far left) and president Guy Longobardo ’49E (far right) present the 65th annual Great Teacher Awards to Engineering professor Shih- Fu Chang and College professor Stuart Firestein; Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, considers how to integrate scientific expertise with democratic values during a Mini-Core Course; two attendees share a laugh at the Class of ’43 and Class of ’48 combined luncheon; guests catch up during an afternoon reception; and little Lions enjoy Camp Columbia for Kids. New York’s coastal areas, including Coney Island and the Rockaway Peninsula, suffered tremendous

PHOTOS: CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: EILEEN BARROSO; damage from Hurricane Sandy. In Coney Island’s Sea Gate community, many beachfront homes were MICHAEL DAMES; MICHAEL DAMES; SUSAN COOK; battered by the storm surge. SUSAN COOK PHOTO: BEBETO MATTHEWS/AP/CORBIS

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n a cold, sunny morning in late March, a group of elected officials, business owners and civic leaders crowded a small stage on the Coney Island board- walk to proclaim the amusement mecca open for the 2013 season. Palm Sunday opening day is a longstanding tradition with longstanding rituals: the blessing of the rides, the breaking of a bottle of Brooklyn egg cream on the Cyclone roller coaster. This year, the Oceremonies held particular significance. Just five months earlier, Hurricane Sandy had decimated the iconic beachfront commu- nity, and at times it seemed doubtful the rides would ever run again. (Opposite) Nate Bliss ’05 stands in Up on the dais, seated next to U.S. front of the Wonder Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a young Wheel, one of Coney man with short dark hair listened at- Island’s iconic tentively as one dignitary after another amusement park attractions, which stepped to the microphone. Though he was damaged by didn’t speak, Nate Bliss ’05 has been Hurricane Sandy but an indispensable figure in Coney- Is reopened in March land’s recovery. In fact, when Dennis after $1 million in repairs. Vourderis, co-owner of Deno’s Wonder PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR Wheel Amusement Park and the morn- ing’s emcee, introduced the people on stage, he said of Bliss, simply, “Everyone knows Nate.” This was true enough before Sandy and it’s even more so now. Bliss has worked on Coney Island economic development issues for eight years and is the city’s point man on ambitious plans to revitalize “the people’s playground.” He wears several hats: a v.p. of the New York City Economic Development Corp.; president of the EDC-funded Coney Island Development Corp., which is charged with implementing strategic and rezoning plans; and interim executive director of the Alliance for Coney Island, a recently formed group of businesses and civic organiza- tions dedicated to the neighborhood’s improvement. Busy as he was with development work, it went on the back burner for a while after October 29. When the hurricane struck, Bliss swung instantly into relief mode. He worked nearly non- HURRICANE SANDY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY HURRICANE SANDY

stop for weeks — shoveling sand off the boardwalk, organiz- service, but not Nate,” he says. “Nate gets stuff done. He’s not the 20th century was the area’s heyday, especially after subway parks. A private company runs the two new parks that have gone ing volunteers, knocking on businesses’ doors to see what they afraid to get his feet wet, to get his hands dirty.” service linked Brooklyn to Manhattan in 1915, delivering hordes up on city-owned land: Luna Park, which opened in 2010, and the needed — and soon thereafter helped launch an initiative called Pinsky, Bliss’ boss at the EDC, says that Bliss combines the of daytrippers to its beach, amusement parks and cheap enter- Scream Zone, which opened a year later. Another major project, #ConeyRecovers. Operating under the auspices of the Alliance technical and management acumen to see a capital-improvement tainment. Following WWII, a number of factors contributed to Steeplechase Plaza, was set to open on Memorial Day. It will be an for Coney Island, #ConeyRecovers is a central resource for grants project to completion — be it an amusement park or sewer sys- Coney Island’s decline: air-conditioning, which made it more outdoor plaza with retail and performance space and a restored and information to help residents and business owners rebuild. tem — with more intangible qualities. bearable to stay indoors; the expansion of automobile ownership, 1919 carousel. Both Luna Park and Steeplechase Park resurrect the City Hall took note of Bliss’ actions, and in early December he “Where I think he’s particularly effective is in dealing with the which put less-crowded Long Island, New Jersey and Connecti- names of long-closed attractions from Coney Island, hearkening was named leader of a newly created Business Recovery Zone in people in the community, making himself really a trusted part- cut beaches within easier reach; and the city’s overall economic back to its glory days and, the hope is, heralding new ones. Beyond south Brooklyn, tasked with helping small businesses get back ner,” says Pinsky. “There are a lot of people who bring only one troubles in the 1970s. the amusement zone, a YMCA is under construction and rehabili- on their feet. Shortly after that, EDC President Seth Pinsky ’93 set of skills. Nate is a unique individual in that he is not just em- When Bliss started working in Coney Island in 2005, the city tation of several neighborhood parks also is in the works. asked Bliss to join the citywide Special Initiative for Rebuilding pathetic but able to turn that empathy into action.” was in the throes of writing a comprehensive plan to stimulate In November, New York City voters will elect Bloomberg’s suc- and Resiliency. The initiative, headed by Pinsky at the behest of And even with hurricane recovery dominating their efforts in economic growth in the neighborhood. Securing its distinctive cessor. At the moment, Bliss isn’t heading for the door, but the ar- Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will make recommendations on how recent months, Pinksy adds, “Nate and his team have not lost character as an amusement destination was a central piece of rival of a new administration, he says, is a natural turning point for New York City should rebuild from Sandy and prepare for the sight of the long term and the need to keep thinking strategically that strategy. At that time, the trash-strewn, vacant lots along someone in his position. Whatever his next job may be, Bliss knows impact of climate change on critical systems and infrastructure. while helping people on a tactical level.” the boardwalk were being eyed for high-rise hotels and condos, he’s been fortunate to have begun his career on turf as unique and The group’s report was due in May. For his part, Bliss was deeply moved by the community’s de- something few Coney Islanders wanted to see. So the city bought rich with history as Coney Island. Disasters make for extraordinary times, and though some of termination to dig out from the hurricane’s wreckage. “People about seven acres from condo developers — an acknowledg- “There’s a saying in Coney Island: ‘Once you have sand in his responsibilities will dial down as the recovery moves forward, didn’t sit on their hands for a moment,” he says. “They started ment, says Bliss, “that amusement parks will have a hard time your shoes, you never get it out,’” says Bliss. “For better or worse, Bliss has put in a lot of evening and weekend hours to keep up rebuilding their businesses as soon as they could.” surviving, given the vagaries of the real estate market. If the city I’ll always have sand in my shoes.” with it all. But his EDC colleagues, he says, work just as hard; long No one denies, however, that the neighborhood has a long was serious about preserving Coney Island, it had to do that.” hours go with the territory. Fortunately, he enjoys what he does. road ahead. For all the celebratory vibe of opening day, some of The city, however, had no wish to actually operate amusement Mary Jean Babic is a freelance writer who lives in Brooklyn. “It’s a privilege to help New York City and its neighborhoods and the neighborhood’s 50,000 residents remain displaced and out residents reach their full potential,” he says. “It’s rewarding work.” of work. Many businesses are yet to reopen; some have closed for good. “There’s optimism,” Bliss says, “coupled with the new he morning after the storm, Bliss was one of the first city reality.” employees to reach Coney Island. Driving down Ocean Parkway from his home in Prospect Heights, he knew rowing up in Virginia with Yonkers-born grandpar- things were bad before he even reached the northern ents, Bliss visited New York City frequently enough to edge of the neighborhood. Electricity was out, cars were scattered know that he wanted to live there one day. It was one Tpell-mell and sand covered the road several blocks inland. “The of the strongest draws for attending Columbia, and he scariest thing was when people started opening their doors and soaked up all the city had to offer — music, food, neighborhoods. rolldown gates and seeing what was behind them,” says Bliss. “It GOn campus, he was “a real explorer” of academic paths and ex- was five to eight feet of stillwater flooding that killed us in Coney tracurricular activities; he tried pre-med before settling on urban Island.” studies as his major. For one season he rowed with the lightweight Some landmarks were shuttered for months, including the crew and became fascinated by what he calls the city’s “forgotten New York Aquarium, which had been a week away from break- urban waterfront,” the Harlem River, where the team practices. ing ground on a 57,000-square-foot shark exhibit and suffered $65 He also started a Bliss family tradition: His sisters Rebby ’07, million in damage, and the original Nathan’s Famous hot dog ’13 Business and Samara ’13 both followed him to Columbia. emporium, which had never closed a day in its 96-year history. When he’s not working, Bliss is the bassist and backup vocalist Both reopened in May. for a pop/punk/indie band called the Aye-Ayes. He’s also plan- That first day, Bliss set up an impromptu relief center in the ning his wedding next year to Amira Ibrahim ’05 Barnard. They parking lot of MCU Park, the Brooklyn Cyclones’ baseball sta- didn’t know each other during their time on campus but friends dium. The parking lot quickly became an operations base from introduced them shortly after graduation. “So clearly,” says Bliss, which Bliss directed the efforts of volunteers and a host of aid “Columbia has had an influence on my life trajectory.” groups including the American Red Cross, FEMA and the Na- Bliss’ employment at EDC began in 2005, when he took a sum- tional Guard. Barely a year earlier, Bliss had taken a catastrophe mer internship in its development department. He parlayed the response class while studying for a master’s in real estate from internship into a full-time job as a junior project manager, and in NYU. Now, he faced a full-on catastrophe in his own backyard. 2010 he was promoted to his current position. All along, Coney Lola Star, who owns the Lola Star Souvenir Boutique on the Island has been his territory. boardwalk, says that Bliss “was an absolute hero” in those first The neighborhood offers a feast for an urban policy guy to sink awful days. “I don’t know what we would have done without his teeth into: amusement parks, entertainment, a major transit Nate,” says Star. “His dedication to and love for Coney Island center, a beach and a diverse population. “The people are awe- during this tragedy were absolutely extraordinary.” some,” says Bliss, who has collaborated with “pastors from local The image of Bliss shoveling sand off the boardwalk is one that churches as well as burlesque dancers and freaks from the enter- will stay with the Wonder Wheel’s Vourderis, but he already knew tainment venues.” And after working side by side with residents of Bliss’ dedication from years of working with him on redevelop- after the hurricane, Bliss says his connection to Coney Island now ment efforts. “He’s at meetings, he’s at grand openings, he’s at rib- “is doubly strong.” bon cuttings,” says Vourderis, whose family has owned the Won- Perched on the southern edge of Brooklyn, about an hour by der Wheel and adjacent amusement park for 40 years. “He’s part subway from Midtown, Coney Island — which actually is not of the family, part of the fabric that makes up Coney Island today.” an island but sits on a peninsula — has drawn recreation seek- Vourderis sees in Bliss a sincerity and attention to detail not ers since the 1830s, when sweaty Manhattanites traveled there Bliss has been working in Coney Island since 2005 and says wherever his career takes him, “I’ll always have sand in my shoes.” often found in city staffers. “A lot of these guys will give you lip by steamship or carriage for a seaside vacation. The first half of PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR

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n a brisk February morning, 20 middle cipal at The Belle Harbor School in the Rockaways (then just an school honor students, most with a elementary school), O’Connell was struck by the local class num- parent or two by their side, sat before bers: Of the 125 fifth-graders graduating from his school, only 24 plates of bacon and eggs in the second matriculated to Rockaway Park’s only middle school, P.S. 180. floor library at Scholars’ Academy, “Parents vote with their feet,” O’Connell says. “For a lot of rea- an accelerated New York City public sons, they didn’t feel a viable middle school option was in their school for sixth through 12th graders in community.” Rockaway Park, Queens. With the support of his regional superintendent, Kathleen M. “This,” school principal and founder Cashin Ed.D. — now a member of the New York State Board of Brian O’Connell ’89 told the gathering, “is my favorite day of the Regents — O’Connell drafted the plan for a different kind of school Omonth.” on the edge of Queens. As an accelerated program, it would re- The students had earned their special before-school breakfast quire applicants to score high on the city’s standardized tests. As a with O’Connell through a combination of good grades and good meritocracy, it would retain the Rockaways’ top talent, regardless character. During the next hour these Outstanding Scholars of the of race, religion, neighborhood or financial situation. Month were celebrated; the principal read glowing letters from Anywhere other than a school hallway O’Connell could be the teachers and the students posed for pictures snapped with an mistaken for a politician or corporate executive, with his direct iPad before beaming parents. For these kids, it was an achieve- manner and tailored suits. But here at Scholars’, he seems more ment on many levels: some of them still lived in hotels, or with like a fun uncle. “Hey, Mr. O!” the students call out, holding their extended families or in the few rooms in their homes not doors for him, asking about his weekend. destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Outside his second floor office, O’Connell stops. “See this,” he Scholars’ Academy sits in the middle of the Rockaway Peninsu- says, slapping a wall that’s covered with photos of his wife and la, on a slice of land less than a ½-mile wide, sandwiched between two kids, of students and of school sporting events. “This is my Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. When Sandy made landfall Facebook. No one can hack it.” here on October 29, it flooded the school in minutes. Saltwater Inside, a small Irish flag hangs over his desk. His father is mixed with overflow from a sewage treatment plant next door. Irish. On one bookshelf is an autographed picture of The Sopra­ The basement became a fish tank of floating waste. The gray-black nos’ Paulie Walnuts. His mother is Italian. Through the window, water came up through the first floor, destroying everything that the football field of next-door Beach Channel H.S. stands against wasn’t suspended four feet up. The new gym floor, bought with Jamaica Bay. “That’s where I made a 95-yard touchdown run,” the help of parents and local businesses, rippled and cracked. Black O’Connell says. “I’m sure that’s why I got into Columbia.” Scholars’ Academy, founded by mold soon covered everything, working up the walls toward the O’Connell was an all-city fullback and rushed for just shy of Brian O’Connell ’89 in 2004, moved classrooms on the second floor of the two-story building. 1,000 yards his senior year, 1984. Recruited, he played all four into its two-story home in Rocka- Scholars’ Academy was among the hardest hit of all New York years at the College, at a time when the program wasn’t quite way Park (Queens), N.Y., in 2005. It City schools by the hurricane. It was also the last one to reopen so storied. “Sports Illustrated covered us one year, and not be- was flooded from Hurricane Sandy plus toxic overflow from a sewage afterward — nearly three months later, on January 11, which cause we were great,” he says, laughing. When his team broke treatment plant next door, and its happened to be O’Connell’s birthday. Remarkably, thanks to the the school’s 44-game losing streak, he swung from the goal posts students were bussed to other school administration’s quick redirection of students to tempo- with the other players. schools for nearly three months. At rary schools in East New York, most of the kids didn’t miss a O’Connell graduated with a major in political science, though Mill Basin Elementary School, they were greeted with welcome cards single day of school. his mother told him: “You should become a teacher. You’ll never made from construction paper. “You stood out,” O’Connell told the 20 middle-schoolers. “You be bored.” He says she couldn’t have been more correct. “I’m rest- Scholars’ reopened on January 11 avoided distractions. You earned this.” less. I have a lot of energy. It’s still something I manage and focus.” and in early February, O’Connell After Columbia, O’Connell substitute taught in Brooklyn while posed with some of his students in cholars’ Academy grew from O’Connell’s vision. Born in earning a master’s in elementary education in just five months at front of a sign bearing the slogan that came to define their rebuild- Brooklyn, raised in the Rockaways by a taxi driver father Adelphi University on Long Island. He also owned two taxicabs ing effort: Rockaway Resilient. and a mother who worked in the cafeteria at Far Rockaway that he managed out of Howard Beach Taxi. During Easter recess PHOTOS: TOP LEFT AND BOTTOM: MICHAEL SHEA ’10 ARTS; ALL OTHERS, H.S., he grew up watching its best students endure long one year, his driver wrecked a car on the Van Wyck Expressway; BRIAN O’CONNELL ’89 Sbus rides to the city’s top middle and high schools. In 2003, as prin- his second car had engine troubles and was down for the count. 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“I spent the whole break taking the front end off one car with a “The school is literally smack in the middle of the peninsula,” ratchet set and putting it on the other car. It was mechanical, fin- O’Connell says, thumping a map of the Rockaways on his office ger-banging, hand-scrapping, back-breaking work,” he says. “I re- wall. Despite the technology and all the innovative learning strate- 58 Message from the member thinking, ‘This isn’t for me.’ I knew I had to throw myself gies, he considers the central mission of Scholars’ Academy “posi- 100 percent into education.” tive integration” in the middle of a socially, economically and reli- CCAA President He was hired full-time as a fifth-grade teacher at P.S. 236 Mill giously diverse community. “The round tables are about equity,” 59 Bookshelf Basin in Brooklyn in 1992 and rose to assistant principal in 2000. he says. “The triads are about social cooperation.” But that December, he found himself “in a funk,” having lost out Alumni 61 Obituaries on a principalship. He turned to technology, always his hobby- e lost our home. We lost our business. Eight horse, and started videotaping his best teachers in action in the feet of water covered everything,” says Lin- 64 Class Notes classroom. On staff development days, he showed the videos to tia Lyons, whose sixth-grade son, Caleb, staff, and the highlighted teacher would present on how his or had just received his Outstanding Scholar 112 Alumni Corner her style worked. certificate from O’Connell. After the storm, the family bounced In April 2003, O’Connell was promoted to principal of Belle from“W a Hilton to a friend’s home to staying with family to a rental News Harbor School, the elementary school where he realized just how near their property so they could continue down the long road of few Rockaway students stayed in the Rockaways for middle and reconstruction. high school. That summer he was tapped by Cashin and started Such stories were typical among Scholars’ families and many Members of the cast of the 1940 on what he calls “the dog and pony show of selling a school.” others across the city, and NYC public schools shut down for an Varsity Show, called Life Begins He pitched the district and the community the idea of a gifted unprecedented five days after the storm. When they reopened, in ’40, take advantage of beauti- ful weather on March 20, 1940, to middle school program that could retain the peninsula’s best and O’Connell’s students were displaced out and around the five bor- rehearse on Low Plaza. Their dance brightest. oughs. With the help of Google Docs and cell phone contact with routine, “Pony Ballet,” included Scholars’ Academy opened in 2004 as a sixth-grade middle parents, his assistant principals pinpointed the neighborhoods student-athletes with a combined school program, with the students divided between two loca- with the highest densities of Scholars’ students. They set up char- weight of more than two tons. Life Begins in ’40 was written by tions in East New York. A year later the staff and students moved ter bus depots to transport kids from those neighborhoods to famed Varsity Show alumnus I.A.L. into a permanent home, which they shared with a struggling temporary schools in East New York. “I didn’t even know how Diamond ’41, who went on to write local high school, P.S. 180. By 2006 Scholars’ had morphed into we’d pay for it,” O’Connell says. “But I figured, hey, that’s what Some Like It Hot (1959) and The a full middle school, hosting grades six through eight. In 2007, FEMA is for.” (FEMA did come through with some funding.) Apartment (1960) with Billy Wilder. PHOTO: WIDE WORLD PHOTOS, INC., based on community response, it expanded into an accelerated Yet the night before that first day back, a major miscommuni- COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY high school program by adding one grade a year until 2011, when cation occurred. The NYC Department of Education sent a notice ARCHIVES its first senior class graduated. P.S. 180 was eventually phased out to parents to have their kids at the Scholars’ Academy site to meet and Scholars’ Academy has since earned straight A’s on its NYC district busses, not at the bus depots the Scholars’ staff had set up Department of Education Progress Reports for both the middle and already communicated about to parents. and high schools. O’Connell drove to Scholars’ that morning from the Bay Ridge If you found yourself in a Scholars’ classroom today and hotel where he’d been living with his wife and children since the thought you’d wandered onto the set of Star Trek, you couldn’t be storm. Fourteen students had shown up at the school (the majority faulted. Technology is one of O’Connell’s core interests, and us- had gone to the bus depots anyway). It was freezing. A nor’easter ing it to enhance the classroom experience was a founding tenet was approaching the city. of the school. It shows. There’s more technology packed into the “I got on the bus with them and asked, ‘How many of you 700-sq.-ft. rooms than your typical Apple store. The white boards have electricity?’” he recalls. Not a single hand went up. “How are digital — three, four, sometimes five to a room. All the admin- many of you have heat?” Not a single hand. “How many of you istrators and teachers carry iPads. There are carts with dozens have hot water?” Not a single hand. “How many of you want to of iPads and Kindles for the students to use. There are few text- go to school?” Every hand on the bus shot up. books and no paper. Every lesson is posted online and beamed All told, Sandy displaced 30 percent of the school’s staff and 60 to the walls and the tablets. Parents have logins to the school’s percent of its 1,200 students. The Department of Education com- website and can track their children’s progress. mitted $200 million to repair the flooded and broken building but The curriculum is built around the SCALE-UP model, which even with such funding the work was slow. Demolition teams places students at round tables, not desks, in “learning triads” or brought down walls, chiseled away the rotted gym floor and col- “cooperative learning groups” to encourage collaborative learning lected all the school’s trashed paper records in a cargo container and team problem solving. “It’s about promoting interdisciplinary by the front door. For their part, the parents, students and teach- learning, where it fits,” Cashin says. “We created a strong frame- ers worked just as hard, bearing down on the work of teaching work with lots of reading, fiction and nonfiction, a lot of writing and learning in their temporary East New York schools. and a lot of project-oriented learning. Brian took that framework Four months later, when the kids finally moved back into the and moved it to a new level. He’s so talented, so intelligent that he Rockaway Park school building that had become a home away saw how technology can reach out to parents, enhance communi- from home for so many, O’Connell handed them all T-shirts. On cation and heighten integration in the classroom.” the front, it read “Scholars Strong,” and on the back, “Rockaway Approximately 25 percent of Scholars’ Academy students Resilient.” come from east Rockaway peninsula, which is predominantly black and Latino, and another 25 percent come from the west For more photos of and to view a video about Hurricane Sandy’s impact peninsula, which is primarily white. Roughly 40 percent of the on Scholars’ Academy, go to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. students come from District 27, which makes up the outer edge of Queens. Ten percent come from elsewhere in the city, some as Michael R. Shea ’10 Arts is a freelance writer who lives in New York far away as Park Slope in Brooklyn and Forest Hills in Queens. City.

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Next to Last Words by Daniel Hoff- ers such as Walter Lippmann and Japan and the Culture of the Four An Artist in Venice by Adam man ’47. The late poet laureate’s Theodore Bilbo, who sought to Seasons: Nature, Literature, and Van Doren ’84. Painter Van Doren 13th collection of imaginative safeguard racial segregation, man- the Arts by Haruo Shirane ’74, the combines narration, history, s an alumna, two of my sat alongside alumni to discuss the poetry explores the cosmos, politics, age capitalism and assert global Shincho Professor of Japanese Lit-­ sketches and maps with 25 of his favorite days on campus objectives of student-alumni engage- history, nature, love and grief (Loui- power (Liveright Publishing Corp., erature and Culture. Shirane dis- watercolor paintings of the Italian are Convocation in Au- ment programs, the benefits of these siana State University Press, $16.95). $29.95). cusses textual, cultivated, material, city (David R. Godine Publisher, gust, when a new group programs to both students and alum- performative and other representa- $26.95). of first-year students of- ni, and best practices to communicate You’re My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon A Tale of Two Cities by Charles tions of nature in Japan as well as Aficially enters the Columbia -commu student-alumni engagement oppor- of Dog Terms for People by Don­ Dickens, edited by Michael D. the cultural construction of the four The Moment of Racial Sight: A nity, and Class Day in May, when the tunities to both constituencies in or- ald Friedman ’49, with illustrations Aeschliman ’70. A new edition of seasons as a Japanese aesthetic History by Irene Tucker ’87. The College welcomes its newest alumni. der to maximize participation. by J.C. Suarès. Friedman defines the classic novel on the French (Columbia University Press, $25). author analyzes racial perception an array of dog-centric idioms, Revolution, with introduction and from the Enlightenment to the The students’ energy, enthusiasm What we are learning is that Col­ proverbs and metaphors (Welcome notes by Aeschliman, the professor The Universe Within: Discovering HBO series The Wire (The Univer- and anticipation is abundant at Con- umbia has many wonderful programs Enterprises, $12.95). emeritus of education at Boston the Common History of Rocks, sity of Chicago Press, $45). vocation. Four years later, that energy and opportunities for students and University (Ignatius Press, $11.95). Planets, and People by Neil Shubin translates into cheers and exuberant alumni, as described in the cover story Tales to Tell: Memoir by Tracy G. ’82. Paleontologist and geologist Rage Is Back: A Novel by Adam “woo-hoos” when those same stu- of this issue, and that both students Herrick ’56. Herrick recounts rising The Oxford Book of American Shubin explores the unexpected Mansbach ’98. A father and son are dents — now the graduating class — and alumni want to increase direct to the top of the nation’s largest Poetry chosen and edited by David links among human biology, the reunited in New York, rallying watch the alumni march during the connections with one another. Both securities firm, experiencing vivid Lehman ’70. Beginning with the planet and the universe and dem- with graffiti artists to bring down Alumni Parade of Classes on Class A growing number of programs, such as this Media want more informal interactions, premonitions of his son’s death work of 17th-century poets such onstrates how the evolution of the the man running for mayor Day. The moment is an affirmation of Networking Night on March 11, provide opportunities for more events spread out during the and becoming a young scholar as Anne Bradstreet, this anthol- cosmos can be seen in our bodies (Viking, $26.95). students to engage with alumni. the importance of alumni to students, students’ campus experience and and a champion of the free market ogy features 1,100 poems with (Pantheon, $25.95). PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT (Xlibris Corp., $19.99). informative notes for the novice Year-Round Slow Cooker: 100 who are soon to become alumni them- easier access to engagement oppor- reader (Oxford University Press, A Steven Spielberg Film, Lincoln: Favorite Recipes for Every Season selves. What happens during the four years from Convocation to tunities. Alumni are enlivened when they meet with and engage Free to Learn: Why Unleashing USA, $35). A Cinematic and Historical by Dina Cheney ’99. Cheney offers Class Day is a focus of the Columbia College Alumni Association with our extraordinary students, and students are grateful and the Instinct to Play Will Make Companion by David Rubel ’83; 100 recipes for the slow cooker, an (CCAA) Board of Directors, and in particular of its Student Alumni feel a sense of connectedness when they find alumni who want Our Children Happier, More Self- Death, Dying, and Organ Dona- afterword by Tony Kushner ’78. underappreciated tool that can be Committee. to advise and support them. Reliant, and Better Prepared for tion: Reconstructing Medical Eth- Rubel’s narrative, combined with used to cook modern, colorful and The Student Alumni Committee, co-chaired by Dan Tamkin This feedback has been very helpful to the CCAA board as it Life by Peter Gray ’66. Develop- ics at the End of Life by Frank G. art and first-person recollections, flavorful meals with ease (Taunton ’81 and Scott Koonin ’02, seeks to help the College improve stu- works with the Columbia College Alumni Relations Strategic mental psychologist Gray argues Miller ’70 and Robert D. Truog. Miller provides an account of the making Press, $19.95). dent life by exposing students to the knowledge, experience and Task Force, which is led by the Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. ’78, the need for self-directed learning and Truog undertake an ethical of Lincoln as well as the histori- guidance that alumni have to offer. This interaction can be enrich- a University trustee who has been an active alumnus since gradu- and free play for children from a examination that aims to honestly cal events upon which the film is Impossibly Glamorous: How a ing to students and alumni alike and can provide ation. The task force, with CCAA board support, biological perspective (Basic Books, face the reality of medical practices based (Disney, $45). Misfit from Kansas Became an $27.99). at the end of life (Oxford University Asian Sensation by Charles Ayres a model for students of what it means to be an worked hard this spring to develop a plan to CCAA Student Press, $57.50). The Kickstarter Handbook: Real- ’00. In this memoir, Ayres, an active member of the alumni community. serve alumni. The board’s intention is to have a Fear Itself: The New Deal and Life Crowdfunding Success entertainment personality in Japan, Working closely with Student Affairs and the Alumni Committee final report by this fall to guide the Alumni Office. the Origins of Our Time by Ira Offerings by Richard Smolev ’70. In Stories by Don Steinberg ’83. In this addresses such issues as sexuality, Alumni Office, the committee looks to identify CO-CHAIRS Behind this recent activity is a dynamic new Katznelson ’66, the Ruggles Profes- this novel, Kate Brewster becomes book for entrepreneurs, artists and discrimination, love, poverty and areas where alumni can support and enhance the College leader, Bernice Tsai ’96. As the senior ex- Dan Tamkin ’81 sor of Political Science and History. the first woman to run a Wall Street innovators, Steinberg, a business substance abuse (Impossibly Glam- quality of the non-academic areas of student life ecutive director for alumni affairs and communi- Katznelson examines the New institution and perseveres through journalist for The Wall Street Journal, orous Studios, $16.95). Scott Koonin ’02 (residences and dining, student advising and activ- cations, Bernice has had an immediate and signif- Deal Era in America and argues family crisis, illegal trading schemes lays out strategies for leading a ities) as well as create meaningful interactions be- MEMBERS icant impact on the College’s alumni affairs and that democracy was rescued but and attacks on her integrity (Acad- successful kickstarter campaign International Interplay: The tween alumni and students throughout a student’s Jean-Marie Atamian ’81 communications efforts, supporting and shaping distorted by southern lawmak- emy Chicago Publishers, $26.50). (Quirk Books, $14.95). Future of Expropriation Across undergraduate journey. This past year, the com- Eric Branfman ’69 the strategic planning process as well as lead- mittee planned a CCAA board meeting devoted to Michael Braun ’70 ing the increasingly important Alumni Affairs student-alumni programs, focused on the key role David D. Chait ’07 and Communications team. The CCAA board of data in enhancing alumni participation and the Alexandra Feldberg ’08 couldn’t be more delighted to have her as a part- transition from student life to alumni life, attended Stephanie Foster ’12 ner and looks forward to working with her team student council meetings and selected the alumni Lauren Gershell ’99 on behalf of the more than 47,500 College alumni. prizes awarded to seniors on Class Day. Ellen Gustafson ’02 If you see Bernice at an event, please introduce Part of the process is to hear from students di- Stephen Jacobs ’75 yourself, or reach out to either one of us (bst8@ rectly, and their voices informed the discussions Barry Levine ’65 columbia.edu or [email protected]) at the board’s January meeting. Working closely Ira B. Malin ’75 with your thoughts on how to engage 100 percent with the three student representatives to the board Teresa Saputo-Crerend ’87 of Columbia College alumni to better support our (Maryam Aziz ’13, Allan Kang ’14 and Maria Steven Schwartz ’70 wonderful community. Sulimirski ’13), the Student Alumni Committee Gerald Sherwin ’55 Happy summer, and I hope to see you at Con- developed an agenda for the meeting and ques- Roxann Smithers ’99 vocation’s Alumni Parade of Classes on Monday, tions for the board members, and invited students AFFILIATE MEMBER August 26. to participate in intimate roundtable discussions. Randy Berkowitz ’04 More than 20 students attended the meeting and

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1926 Warnock and his wife, Dorothy, wares and Audio Business Divi- fired when an on-air fistfight broke lec Foege ’88 says tinkering — the Along the way he wrote books about Sonic Youth, lived in Short Hills, N.J., for more sion. Fabso was a member of the out between guests. A Reader’s Digest impulse to experiment with existing Clear Channel and Pat Robertson. In 2005 Foege than 50 years. She predeceased Congregational Church of Easton, editor, he worked with writers such objects and technologies to make founded his own business, Brookside Research, an in- him. Warnock is survived by his where he was chair of the Board as Ray Bradbury, Ishmael Reed and “something genuinely new out of the vestment research company. Foege credits his range daughter and son-in-law, Margaret of Deacons, the Board of Finance Czeslaw Milosz. His book, Stolen Athings that already surround us” — is a crucial of interests in part to the realization, during his time and Eugene Carlough; daughter, and the Board of Stewardship and Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic factor in America’s centuries-long success story. at Columbia, that the divide between the sciences Eleanor; and one grandson. Memo- Missions. He is survived by his wife (1982), was a National Book Critics New York In his new book, The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, and the arts and humanities is not only artificial but rial contributions may be made of 64 years, Joan Winsko Fabso; Circle Award nominee. In a to the College (college.columbia. children, Joan Fabso Cassell and Times paid death notice, John Leon- DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great also constraining. And conquering that divide, he edu/giveonline), the Law School her husband Ronnie, and Charles; ard said, “Not since Marx, Darwin (Basic Books, $26.99), Foege makes his case by im- says, is a crucial element in tinkering. (giving.columbia.edu/giveonline) and three grandchildren. Memorial and Freud has there been anyone parting great tinkering tales past and present, from “Tinkerers need to be dilettantes,” he says, “and or Winchester Gardens Association contributions may be made to The so opinionated” and “Mr. O’Keefe lesser-known endeavors of the Founding Fathers I mean that in the best sense. You have to let a bit Scholarship Fund, 333 Elmwood Congregational Church of Easton, is a better writer than Darwin.” to the prolific output of Thomas Edison’s labora- of air into your thinking.” Ave., Maplewood, NJ 07040. PO Box 37, Easton, CT 06612; note O’Keefe’s invented family holiday, tory to modern-day innovators, entrepreneurs and The idea for the book came from one of Foege’s in the check’s memo line “Book of “Festivus,” appeared in a Seinfeld 1943 educators. editors, but the concept really came into focus Remembrance — Charles Fabso.” episode, written by his son Daniel. Malcolm R. Warnock ’26 Harold C. Vaughan, retired history Each weekend in a Chappaqua bar, In some respects, Foege says, tinkering is not as when Foege faced a typical latter-day consumer 1950 easy as it used to be. Electronics manufacturers and electronics quandary: The screen on his Black- teacher, Fort Lee, N.J., on Septem- he spoke multiple languages with ber 22, 2012. Vaughan was born Alfonso A. Lordi, sales manager, his wife and anyone else who would their overzealous legal departments are increasingly Berry broke, rendering the device unusable. He Malcolm R. Warnock, retired attorney, Maplewood, N.J., on in New York City on October 26, Denver, on January 22, 2012. Lordi listen; he spoke 40 languages in all, determined to discourage us from cracking open those took it to a licensed dealer but the sales repre- October 9, 2012. Warnock was born 1923. He did not attend his College was born on January 6, 1925, in with varying accuracy. O’Keefe is sleek cases of molded plastic and brushed aluminum sentative said they were no longer allowed to fix in Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up in commencement, as he was already Mount Vernon, N.Y., and was a survived by his wife, Deborah; sons — corporate America recently succeeded in making them. “That was my favorite part of the job,” he Cranford, N.J. He entered Prince­ off to basic training in Biloxi, Miss., 50-year resident of Dover, Mass. Daniel, Laurence and Markham; and it a criminal act to hack your phone in order to switch told Foege. “Now all I get to do is sell phones.” He ton but transferred to the College. followed by pilot training with the He was a decorated WWII tech ser- one grandson. carriers. But despite efforts to keep our curiosity at informed Foege that all he could do was sell him a Army Air Corps at Elon University. geant serving directly under Gen. He earned a degree from the Law 1952 bay, Foege believes we’re in a golden age of tinkering. new BlackBerry, at the full retail price. School in 1929. During WWII, After the service, Vaughan returned Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 9th “Thanks to innovations such as the 3D printer and Foege decided to research cheaper replace- Warnock worked for the predeces- to Teachers College for an M.A., Army Headquarters Company. He Mark Flanigan, retired naval of- the $35 Raspberry Pi computer, high-tech tinkering ments online. “What I stumbled onto instead was a sor of the Air Force and then on graduating in 1945. He began a 38- fought at Normandy, in the Battle ficer, Washington, D.C., on May 26, year career as a high school history of the Bulge and into Germany. 2012. Flanigan was born on October is increasingly within the reach of everyone,” Foege short video on YouTube [that] showed a pair of hands the Manhattan Project. Until he retired in 1973, he worked for the teacher in New York at Collegiate Lordi was then sent to Okinawa 5, 1930, in Manhattan. He was says. “In addition, crowd funding sites such as Kick- disassembling a BlackBerry and replacing the screen Lehigh Valley Railroad. Warnock School in 1947. He taught at Brook- Island to prepare for the invasion of commissioned in 1955 and began starter and Quirky make it easier than ever to fund a in a matter of minutes,” he writes. He ordered a new was an avid tennis player into lyn Friends School from 1949–59 Japan. He was awarded six battle service in the Office of Naval Intel- new idea, and incubators such as Tech All Stars and screen from an online retailer and fixed the device his 90s. He narrated his church’s and at Ridgewood [N.J.] H.S. from stars and the Meritorious Service ligence. In 1965, after completing his PHOTO: ABIGAIL POPE Y Combinator provide much-needed mentorship himself for less than a quarter of the cost of replacing Christmas pageant for 40 years and 1959–85, where he introduced a Award for Outstanding Combat first tour of active duty, Flanigan re- and networking resources to young entrepreneurs.” it. Foege had tapped into an online network of DIYers often had the lead in amateur plays stock market course. Vaughan was Performance. After the war Lordi turned to Morningside and served Yet he also argues that the tradition is at risk. and discovered that tinkering is indeed alive and well. and musicals. He was a trained recognized in 2000 with a special attended Columbia, reuniting him for four years as assistant dean of “For many generations in the postindustrial age, puttering The most interesting case studies Foege presents are of modern- singer, a painter and an antique tribute at Brooklyn Friends. He was with Eisenhower, then University the College, with responsibilities around with the mechanical devices that surrounded us was day tinkerers who are attempting to instill a bit of that old-time clock collector, and he read widely. a devotee of theatre and the arts, au- president, who often called on him including the direction of Colum- thor of seven history books, a world to entertain foreign dignitaries. bia’s Upward Bound compensa- practically a rite of passage and, for many, a way of life,” Foege spirit in younger generations. One is Gever Tulley, who started traveler and an ardent supporter After graduating with a degree tory education program. Coaching writes. “After an era of economic excess that transformed our Tinkering School, an adventurous and industrious six-day overnight Obituary Submission of civil rights. Vaughan is survived in business, Lordi embarked on a Columbia’s 1966–67 College Bowl nation from one of doers to consumers, the United States risks camp in San Francisco in which kids work on a series of ever-larger Guidelines by his sister, Dorothy V. Brophy; 40-year sales career for Mennen, team, Flanigan told Spectator: “I am losing its hallowed tinkerer tradition as well as the engine of projects. The first camp, in 2005, saw the kids progress from build- nephew, Thomas E. Brophy; nieces, Playtex and Exquisite Form. A the only coach on campus with an innovation that fueled an unprecedented era of growth.” ing chairs to building bridges and towers, ultimately uniting these Columbia College Today Diane V. Brophy and Meta A. Bro- mechanical whiz, he was quick to undefeated, untied and unscored- Foege himself has long been a tinkerer of sorts, and he re- concepts for their final project: a 100-ft.-long roller coaster. welcomes obituaries for phy; two great-nephews; and two fix anything with a motor. In Dover, on team.” Resuming active duty, calls cycling through an array of hobbies and scientific pursuits “The detail with which they remember riding the roller coaster College alumni. Deaths are great-nieces. he was a member of the local VFW he co-authored recommendations and a longtime member of Saint to the chief of naval personnel for while growing up in Rye, N.Y. In fact, he says, he well may have or flying the hang glider that they built,” Tulley says, “the minutiae noted in the next available 1946 tested every chemistry set on the market, and even survived a they remember and the principles that are burned into their brains issue in the “Other Deaths Dunstan’s Episcopal Church. Lordi countering the 1969 NROTC crisis Charles J. Fabso, retired sales mana-­ was predeceased by his wife of 40 on the nation’s campuses, which few experiments with Presto’s infamous hot dog cooker — that from those experiences — those are lasting, durable memories.” Reported” box. Complete obituaries will be published in ger, Durham, N.C., on January 17, years, Elisabeth Perry Lordi, and is Flanigan had experienced as as- almost medieval device that impaled a sausage on a bare rod Like Tulley, Foege believes that the importance of tinkering 2012. Fabso was born on June 19, survived by a son, Alan; daughter- sistant dean. He earned an M.A. an upcoming issue, pending connected directly to an electrical outlet. As a teenager his has not been generally recognized in recent years, and his book 1925, in New York City. He gradu- in-law, Pamela; three grandchildren; in modern European comparative interests turned to rock and jazz. “But I was drawn as much to represents an effort to give the tradition its due. He’s optimistic. receipt of information. Due ated from Stuyvesant, where he two of his three brothers, Frances literature at Harvard (1960) and the gear as to the music,” he says, “tweaking amps and effects “I believe Americans are beginning to unlock a new level to the volume of obituaries was president of the senior class “Dick” ’50 and Gerardo ’48; and taught at Columbia, Hunter and the pedals to alter the sound of my guitar.” of consciousness about tinkering,” Foege says. “Having lived that CCT receives, it may and a member the National Honor their wives and children. Defense Intelligence School. Flani- Foege attended Columbia because he felt it was the most through the era of mammoth corporate conglomerates, we as a take several issues for the Society (known as Arista in NYC gan retired in 1990 with the rank of countercultural of the Ivy League schools, having nurtured the country are returning to our tinkering roots and fully appreciat- complete obituary to appear. public schools). At the College, Daniel L. O’Keefe, retired magazine captain and had been awarded the budding talents of writers such as Allen Ginsberg ’48 and Jack ing the power of our historic pioneering spirit.” Word limit is 200; text may be he was president of Beta Theta Pi. editor, Chappaqua, N.Y., on August Navy Commendation Medal. He edited for length, clarity and After earning an M.S. from the Busi- 29, 2012. O’Keefe was born on is survived by his wife, the former Kerouac ’44. He became a writer for SPIN, Rolling Stone and Peo- style at the editors’ discretion. ness School in 1947, Fabso joined February 25, 1928, in Jersey City. He Doris Rohte ’53 Barnard, and their ple, and later was one of the founding editors of In Touch Weekly. Justin DeFreitas is a Bay Area writer, editor and artist. Click “Contact Us” at college. General Electric, where he was earned a Ph.D. at The New School daughters, Page and Meg. manager – sales, Audio Products for Social Research and studied at columbia.edu/cct, or mail 1954 materials to Obituaries Editor, Department, and manager – sales, St. Catherine’s College Oxford as Home Laundry Department. He a Rotary Fellow. His journalism Peter D. Ehrenhaft, attorney, International Dispute Settlement expropriation (Cambridge Scholars Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz, tion and proposes a plan for a Columbia College Today, later was director of marketing, career started in high school with Washington, D.C., on July 25, 2012. Riddhi Dasgupta ’07. by Dasgupta Publishing, $82.99). University Professor. Stiglitz more just and prosperous future Columbia Alumni Center, Consumer Electronics Division, speeches around the country for Ehrenhaft was born in Vienna, Aus- analyzes international disputes assesses the implications of an (W.W. Norton & Co., $16.95). 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, for Philco-Ford. He retired from Junior Achievement. O’Keefe had tria, and came with his family to over land rights and proposes solu- The Price of Inequality: How To- economically divided society on Karl Daum ’15 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. GE as general manager, Sales and a New York radio show, “Youth the United States in 1938. He grew tions to the issues that arise from day’s Divided Society Endangers democracy, policy and globaliza- Distribution Department, House- Demands the Answer,” but was up in Queens. Ehrenhaft served in

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in 1970 from Adelphi. Exposed to jazz, loved going to the theatre and Wall Street at 16 as a runner for his was an avid reader. He also took OTHER DEATHS REPORTED Daniel G. Hoffman ’47, ’56 GSAS, father’s firm, he swore he “would great pleasure in cooking for family never work on Wall Street again,” and friends, smoking a fine cigar, Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be Former U.S. Poet Laureate recalling in Institutional Investor that flopping the nuts at the poker table “the pay was low, the trip [from and watching a winning New York published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of aniel G. Hoffman ’47, ’56 GSAS, an graduated the next year with a B.A. in English, fol- home] was terrible, and the job Yankees season. He is survived by obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. was awful. I thought there must his wife; sister, Carol Einstein Neu- author, professor and 22nd Poet Laure- lowing that with an M.A. (1949) and a Ph.D. (1956), be a better way to make a living.” komm; daughter, Susanna Einstein 1932 Vincenzo R. Onorato, Carmel, Calif., on February 20, 2013. ate of the United States (1973–74), died also in English. He taught briefly at Columbia, then In 1957, however, he rejoined his and son-in-law, David Zimmerman; 1939 Robert L. Pelz, attorney, New York City, on March 30, 2013. on March 30, 2013. He was 89 and lived at Swarthmore for 10 years before moving to father’s specialist firm, which be- stepson, Ashton Chandler Mac- 1940 Din Swarthmore, Pa. Penn in 1966, where he was the Felix E. Schelling came known as Phelan & Co., and Dougall Ballou, and step-daughter- Albert S. Benoist, artist, author and futurist, retired architect, Monmouth Beach, N.J., on Sep- Hoffman was a prolific poet who also wrote free Professor of English Emeritus until his retirement became managing director after his in-law, Laura Williams Ballou; tember 20, 2012. Melvin H. Intner, Maplewood, N.J., on March 30, 2013. verse and scholarly essays. His first book of po- in 1993. Many of his poems are set on Cape Rosier father’s death in 1966. As New York four grandchildren; and first wife, 1942 Arthur E. Smith, Venice, Fla., on April 12, 2013. ems, An Armada of Thirty Whales, was published in in Maine, where he spent summers. Stock Exchange president (1980–84), Nancy York. 1944 Richard E. Bader, physician, New York City, on April 16, 2013. Howard H. Wilson, Three Mile Bay, 1954, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize the same Hoffman received an honorary Doctor of he was instrumental in Wall Street’s N.Y., on January 30, 2013. multimillion-dollar investment in 1964 year and was chosen by W. H. Auden as part of the Humane Letters in 2005 from Swarthmore. Other 1945 the computerization of many of the Frederick H. Levine, retired car- Louis A. Collins, Boonton, N.J., on April 3, 2013. Charles A. Kiorpes, retired business executive, Yale Series of Younger Poets. Other works include, honors include the Memorial Medal of the Magyar Big Board’s high-tech operations. diovascular and thoracic surgeon, Palm City, Fla., on March 22, 2013. but are not limited to, Poe P.E.N. for translations of Hun- He then became chairman and chief Amherst, Mass., on September 18, 1946 S. Irving Sherr, door corporation executive, Sarasota, Fla., on March 24, 2012. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe garian poetry, grants from executive from 1984–90. Phelan was 2012. Levine was born in Brooklyn, 1948 Donald L. Auperin, Amityville, N.Y., on February 10, 2013. Merrill L. Brockway, director and (1971); Brotherly Love (1981); the American Academy and commended for his response to the N.Y., and grew up in Queens. At producer, Santa Fe, N.M., on May 2, 2013. Hang-Gliding From Helicon: Institute of Arts and Letters Black Monday crash of 1987, telling Columbia he was a member of Beta 1951 Robert Nielsen, New and Selected Poems, as well as the Ingram Merrill The Wall Street Journal at the time, “If Sigma Rho, the Columbia College retired teacher and guidance counselor, Senior Olympian, Montgomery, Ala., on March 15, 2013. Allan W. Robbins, Alexandria, Va., on March 3, 2013. 1948–1988 (1988), winner Foundation, fellowships from we close it [the market], we would Citizenship Council, the Seixas So- 1952 of the 1988 Paterson Poetry the Guggenheim Foundation never open it.” Survivors include ciety and the Pre-Med Society and David A. Braun, attorney, Montecito, Calif., on January 28, 2013. Spectator. Prize; a war memoir, Zone and the National Endowment his wife of 57 years, Joyce Campbell wrote for He earned an 1953 Aristide R. Zolberg, professor emeritus, New York City, on April 12, 2013. Phelan; sons, John ’85, Peter and M.D. from Harvard, cum laude, in of the Interior: A Memoir, for the Humanities, and the 1954 David; sister, Elizabeth Lawlor; and 1968 and was elected to the Alpha A. Joshua Sherman, attorney, investment banker, academic, Middlebury, Vt., on April 6, 2013. 1942–1947 (2000); Darken- American Academy of Arts six grandchildren. Omega Alpha Honor Medical Soci- 1956 William V. Silver, advertising display executive, New York City, on May 8, 2013. ing Water (2002); Makes and Letters’ Arthur Rense ety. Levine completed his training 1958 Myron Bander, professor of physics and astronomy, Newport Beach, Calif., on December 19, 2012. You Stop and Think: Sonnets Prize. 1961 at Massachusetts General Hospital Leon Mir, Brookline, Mass., on February 23, 2013. Warren C. Smith, retired teacher, Hampton (2005); and The Whole He also was a Chancellor Thomas E. Bratter, psychologist, in Boston and served in the U.S. Bays, N.Y., on January 20, 2013. Nine Yards: Longer Poems Emeritus of the Academy Salisbury, Conn., on August 3, 2012. Public Health Service for two years 1959 Allan D. Gardner, retired advertising executive, Hillsborough, Calif., on March 19, 2013. (2009). His final collection, of American Poets and Bratter was born on May 18, 1939, at the National Institutes of Health 1960 Next to Last Words: Poems, from 1988–99 was Poet in and grew up in, Scarsdale, N.Y., National Heart, Lung, and Blood David S. David, nephrologist, Beverly Hills, on April 9, 2013. Norman E. Hildes-Heim, architect , was released this year (see Residence at the Cathedral where he also raised his family. Institute. He was on the staff at and international hotel developer Fairfield, Conn., on March 20, 2013. He earned a degree from Teachers MGH and an associate professor at Bookshelf). Church of St. John the Divine, 1963 Byron C. Cohen, art gallery owner, Kansas City, Mo., on May 10, 2013. College and worked at The John Harvard Medical School until he 1967 Born on April 3, 1923, where he administered the Dewey Academy, a residential high was named chief of cardiovascular John L. Dent, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, on May 7, 2013. Joel A. Linsider, retired, Jerusalem, on Hoffman grew up mostly in American Poets’ Corner. June 28, 2012. PHOTO: ELIZABETH Mc FARLAND, COURTESY school for bright, troubled adoles- and thoracic surgery at Detroit Larchmont, N.Y. His father UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS Hoffman joined the Council cents in Great Barrington, Mass., Medical Center Sinai-Grace Hos- 1972 Harvey S. Hirsch, psychiatrist, New York City, on March 13, 2013. was a financial adviser and of the Authors Guild in 1974 which he established. He is sur- pital. Levine was a member of the 1977 Paul R. Pastorini, physician, New London, N.C., on September 28, 2012. Mark V. Sutton-Smith, his mother a high school English teacher. Hoffman and later was one of three plaintiffs in The Authors vived by his wife of 49 years, Carole American College of Surgeons, the Swarthmore, Pa., on March 12, 2013. entered Columbia as a pre-engineering student Guild et al. v. Google Inc. (2005), the purpose of Jaffe Bratter; daughter, Barbara ’90; Society for Vascular Surgery, the So- but was called up to serve in the Army Air Forces which was to prevent Google from providing a son, Edward ’87; daughter-in-law, ciety of Thoracic Surgeons and the during WWII, serving stateside as a technical writer complete searchable index of extant books. Andrea; three grandchildren; and American Association for Thoracic tained for several years. Last year Claudia; three nieces; a nephew; siblings Nancy Phillips, Nancy Surgery. He is survived by his wife, Darrow raised funds to purchase and two goddaughters. and as the editor of an aeronautical research Hoffman married poet and Ladies Home Journal Polikoff and Stanley Newman. Patricia ’65 Barnard; daughters, a shell for Columbia’s women’s journal, The Technical Data Digest, which featured editor Elizabeth McFarland in 1948; she died in Memorial contributions may be Shira and Hallie; sons-in-law, Mark crew team. After their mother died 1997 abstracts for articles relevant to military research 2005. He is survived by a son, MacFarlane, and made to The John Dewey Academy Enstrom and Jamie Sklar; brother of cancer in 2001, Darrow and his Laura L. Tatum, architectural and development. daughter, Kate Hoffman Siddiqi. c/o Mario Verdolini, 450 Lexington Gary; and five grandchildren. brother, Duncan ’71, established records archivist, Guilford, Conn., Hoffman returned to Columbia in 1946 and Karl Daum ’15 and Lisa Palladino Ave., New York, NY 10017. Fighting Chance, a free-of-charge on October 13, 2012. Tatum was 1972 cancer resource center. Darrow is born on October 5, 1975, in Astoria, 1963 Peter V. Darrow, attorney, New survived by his wife, Denise V. See- Ore. At the College, she discovered the Air Force and reached the rank sity Law School from 1965–72 and year starting in 1971 until his retire- Gilbert W. Einstein, artists’ York City and Sag Harbor, N.Y., on gal; brother; children from a former her professional and personal call- of colonel in the Air Force Reserve. at Penn’s law school in the 1980s. ment in the late 1990s. Astrachan is representative, New York City and May 19, 2013. Darrow was born marriage, Meredith ’04 and Peter; ings: the professional via work at He simultaneously earned degrees Survivors include his wife of 54 survived by his wife; son, Isaac- Wilmington, Mass., on September in Ann Arbor, Mich., and earned and sister-in-law, Wendy. Memo- Columbia’s Avery Architectural & from the Law School and SIPA in years, Charlotte Kennedy Ehren- Daniel ’90; daughter-in-law, Meghan 21, 2012. Einstein was born in New a master’s from Trinity College, rial contributions may be made Fine Arts Library, and the personal 1957 and went to Washington, D.C., haft; children, Elizabeth Rankin, Farley; and one grandson, as well as York City in 1942 and gradu- Oxford. In 1978, he graduated from to Fighting Chance – Free Cancer through her delight in the vibrancy in 1961 to serve as senior law clerk James and Daniel ’93; a brother; and his books: An End to Dying (1956), ated from Bronx Science. After his Michigan Law. During his 35 years Counseling Center, PO Box 1358, of life in New York City. Upon Laura L. Tatum ’97 to U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren. He six grandchildren. The Game of Dostoevsky (1965), Rejoice College graduation he enlisted in as a corporate attorney Darrow Sag Harbor, NY 11963. graduation, Tatum took a position then entered private practice and, in (1970), Katz-Cohen: A Saga of Three the Navy, where he served as Lt. was a partner in two firms, Mayer in the MoMA library before return- also often wrote about food, keep- 1968, became a partner at the firm 1955 Generations (1978), Malaparte in Jassy j.g. in the U.S. Pacific Fleet during Brown and DLA Piper. He was 1991 ing to school to earn an M.S.I. in ing a blog and contributing to then known as Fried, Frank, Harris, Samuel Astrachan, novelist, Gordes, (1989, 1994), Hotel Sevilla: Rockaway the early part of the Vietnam War. president of the Columbia Chapter Juan J. Calderon, attorney, San library and information services several books. She is survived by Shriver & Kampelman. In 1977, France, on August 5, 2012. Astra- Beach (1996), Le General, Ses Filles In 1967 Einstein returned to New of Alpha Delta Phi and helped the Antonio, Texas, on June 12, 2012. in 2002 from the University of her husband, Andy Benner; sister Ehrenhaft joined the Department of chan, who was born in the Bronx in (1998), Dans les Jardins De La Marquise York and earned an M.B.A. from chapter’s alumni group acquire the Calderon was born in Mexico on Michigan. Tatum spent much of her Jesse; brother Mitchell; and parents, the Treasury as deputy assistant sec- 1934, wrote most of his first novel, (1999), Winston (2001) and Treife: la the Business School in 1968. In 1972 AD house from Columbia in the November 23, 1968. As an attorney career in Manuscripts and Archives Bill and his wife, Lynda. She was retary for tariff affairs. He returned An End to Dying, during his junior fable de l’architecte (2004). he incorporated G.W. Einstein Co., 1990s. Darrow was chairman of the on the Southside of San Antonio, at Yale University Library; she predeceased by her mother, Teresa to private practice in 1980 and was and senior years at Columbia. which represents a select group board of The Cambodia Trust as he was affectionately known as “el worked at UC Berkeley for one year Karch Tatum. Memorial contribu- a partner in the Washington offices He married Claude Jeanneau in James J. Phelan Jr., bank executive, of contemporary fine artists and well as on the board of Everybody abogado de los Latinos.” Calderon and in 2011 joined the Canadian tions may be made to The Center of several firms. In the late 1980s, 1960 and began dividing his time New York City, on May 21, 2012. specializes in 20th-century works Wins. He began rowing in 1968 at was a dedicated Spurs fan and Centre for Architecture in Montreal. for Land Use Interpretation (clui. Ehrenhaft was an appellate military between the South of France and the Phelan was born on May 7, 1931, in on paper. It was there that Einstein Columbia and in 1998 organized season ticket holder. He is survived She held leadership roles with the org) or the Connecticut Food Bank judge with the Air Force Court of United States. He taught creative New York City. A Marine Corps vet- met painter Anne MacDougall; a team reunion to compete in the by his parents, Alfredo and Sara; Society of American Archivists and (ctfoodbank.org). Military Review. He was a lecturer writing at Wayne State University eran of the Korean War, he earned they married in 1981. Einstein had Head Of The Charles Regatta in brothers, Alfredo Jr. and his wife, the International Confederation Lisa Palladino at The George Washington Univer- in Detroit for one semester of every a business administration degree an encyclopedic knowledge of Cambridge, Mass., a tradition main- Aurora, and Otoniel “Tony”; sister, of Architectural Museums. Tatum

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stepson, John Wellington, an artist. the Sunningdale Country Club in later episodes, starring the late, tal engineer. Art (92) and his wife, “My wife and I, collaborating Scarsdale, N.Y., has been trying great actor Raymond Burr. Audre, together for 65 years, reside with my son, designed our apart- to improve his distance off the tee Columbia’s men’s basketball in an independent living facility ment in New York City. It is high by at least 15 yards with special team ended the season in last place in Venice, Fla., where Art, who has Class Notes over the city, small but with a exercises with his driver. He also in the Ivy League; we lost our final chronic myelogenous leukemia, magnificent view of Midtown. We reports with pleasure that his two games on the road to Harvard has done well with seven years also worked on the design of our younger granddaughter, Ruby and Dartmouth, for a final record of therapy with “miracle” drugs I answered, ‘Yes. During WWII I dropout left because he was fortu- president and CEO. Starting with home in East Hampton, N.Y., an ad- Lee (4), has been admitted to the of 12–16 (including four wins and Gleevec and Tasigna. Due to a production error, proudly wore an Army uniform for nate enough to get draft-avoiding one employee, the business later dress that has become much more Riverdale Country School, the l0 losses within the league). Among Your correspondent, accompa- the first three pages of Class over three years,’ fully expecting employment riveting P-47 fighter had plants in three states, up to 300 fashionable in the 25 years we have alma mater of Bob’s wife, Susan. our notable victories were a 75–57 nied by his devoted designated Notes in the Spring 2013 issue the usual response of, ‘Thank you planes (Thunderbolts) on Long Is- employees and lasted for 35 years, lived there. Several times yearly we Ruby Lee’s older sister, Maddy rout at Villanova on November driver, son-in-law Steve Hathaway, were a reprint of the columns for your service.’ land. Of the four who graduated, I at which time we sold it. The new occupy our apartment in Paris in Kate (13), already is an excellent 20 at Villanova, Pa., and a 78–63 came from Northampton, Mass., from the Winter 2012–13 “But what I got was, ‘It must lost track immediately of Jacobson, owners moved it to Pennsylvania, the 6th Arrondissement for weeks age-group golfer and is a prospec- win over Harvard in Levien Gym to the Homecoming game versus issue. The news from those have needed a good dry cleaning.’” and I hardly ever again saw the Illinois and Iowa. (Sadly, the main at a time. We have as many friends tive Columbia cheerleader, having on February 10. Harvard won the Dartmouth on October 20. It was a columns (1925–48), along brilliant Fred Lightfoot ’42E, [who plant in Queens was shut down. there as in New York. Fortunately, attended several Homecoming Ivy League championship for the beautiful, warm fall day, and I was with their new submissions, began with our class but graduated I believe the savings in electric- my wife speaks French fluently. If game celebrations with Grandpa second consecutive year and played impressed by the large number can be found in this issue. Robert Zucker in ’42 from Engineering and] who ity and gas, plus lower taxes and need be, I can add, ‘What’d they Bob and Grandma Sue. Fore! in the NCAA tourney. of enthusiastic, rambunctious CCT regrets the error. 29 The Birches also became a naval officer and union wages, paid for most of the say?’ Arthur “Wizzer” Wellington Columbia coach Kyle Smith undergraduates who came out to 41 Roslyn, NY 11576 spent the rest of his life teaching purchase price. I was sorry that “I owe a lot to Columbia College has been in touch via email and recruited two talented backcourt support our team. I was pleased [email protected] in a school near Greenport, N.Y. I generations of employees — my old and the Engineering School for snail mail from his home in Elmira, freshmen, Grant Mullins ’16 and to greet our talented CCT editorial Columbia College Today saw the most of Seth Neugroschl friends — who couldn’t or didn’t the tools they gave me, including N.Y. Art, at 92, still drives around Maodo Lo ’16, for the team as well staff under the Big Tent before the Columbia Alumni Center Albert Sanders writes, “I have ’40, ’41E in New York City; he had relocate, lost their jobs.) building my character. I learned town in Elmira, with frequent vis- as returning sophomore Steve game, giving me the opportunity 25 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 been vaguely aware that the reports a variety of engineering jobs and “My youngest brother, barely that setbacks can’t all be avoided its to the Off Track Betting venue, Frankoski ’15, a 3-point sharp- to thank Alex Sachare ’71, Lisa Pal- New York, NY 10025 on activities of the Class of 1941 consultancies and may be remem- 50, left first. I think he was bored, but what can be avoided is dealing where he recently won a few shooter. We lost our gifted point ladino and Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts for 40 [email protected] have been gradually working bered by readers for his tenure possibly because he did little engi- with them in less than the most substantial trifecta wagers. Despite guard, Brian Barbour ’13, to gradu- their exceptional skills in produc- their way forward in Class Notes. as Class Notes correspondent for neering work. Our middle brother, effective way. This, plus learning numerous physical ailments, Art’s ation. He was among the best in ing this excellent publication. Bernard Queneau ’30, ’33E writes, How far forward I hadn’t realized the Class of 1940, until he died [in in his middle 50s, was in poor what ‘really counts,’ has helped to cognitive status is excellent, as the nation in assist/turnover ratio Sitting with me at the game “This 100-year-old is slowing down until recently, when I noticed that November 2010]. health. I was just 60, and would make me a happy person.” evidenced by his sharp handicap- and in foul shooting percentage. were my lifelong friends, Ray Rob- but hopes to attend the Senior Soci- it was the oldest of the numbered “Immediately upon graduation, I probably have continued because From the Spring 2013 Class ping at OTB and his lucid letters Let us hope coach Smith will lead inson ’41 and Dr. Gerald Klingon. ety of Sachems centennial celebra- classes reported by a correspondent. became an ordnance engineer at the I loved my work. Still, under the Notes, which were not printed in to me, written in perfectly legible this team from the bottom to the Ray (91) and Gerry (92) shared tion in New York on Friday, October That and two other observations Pentagon (then still under construc- circumstances, I fantasized that this that issue due to a production error: longhand script. As of this writing, top of the Ivy League in the 2013–14 my anguish at yet another painful 18.” He signed off with a smile. impelled this letter. First, the entire tion) in Virginia, and then at the was an opportunity for my ‘second Robert Zucker: “I returned he was scrutinizing the entries and season. Columbia loss, 21–16. Dartmouth CCT also received a note from [Spring ’13] cover being devoted Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. chance,’ a way to spend the rest of from a wonderful vacation at the has two good young quarterbacks, Steve Georgiou of the Graduate to ‘Lit Hum Turns 75,’ and second, However, in a fit of boredom and my life doing work that was more Grand Velas Riviera Maya Hotel in a freshman and a sophomore, and Theological Union in Berkeley, Ca- your appeal for something to print. ill-considered youthful rebellion, I significant and more fun. I tried to Mexico with my friend, Fran, and St. Bonaventure University has initiated a Robert an outstanding freshman running lif., a scholar of the late Robert Lax “‘Lit Hum’ turned out to be what enlisted in the Army Air Corps to get my middle brother interested, her family. There were 17 of us. I back, Brian Grove, who looks like ’38, that St. Bonaventure University we called Humanities A. It brought enter its military academy (then at but without success. After a lifetime then took a February trip to Ixtapa, Lax [’38] Week featuring lectures, performances a potential All-Ivy star. Dartmouth in upstate New York has initiated a back the memory of my first confus- Yale) as an aviation cadet to gain a in which the moment I entered Mexico, with my family of 26, and discussions. coach Buddy Teevens has recruited Robert Lax Week featuring lectures, ing day at the College in 1937, when more practical technical education my office, my phone was ringing including 12 great-grandchildren.” several good young players. We performances and discussions. The someone that my notes indicated and become an Air Force officer. and people were waiting for me Wm. Theodore “Ted” de Bary hope that Columbia coach Pete inaugural Lax week took place was ‘Mr. [Mark] Van Doren [’21 This academy was once described with sheaves of papers to read and ’53 GSAS also sent an update: “It’s odds for the 2013 Kentucky Derby. Among the Class Notes that were Mangurian has done the same and, March 4–8, and it will be celebrated GSAS]’ told us that we were the as ‘a concentration camp on our sign, I responded by doing little for not exactly news but I still teach Here’s to the winners! not published due to a production with his experience and leadership, every two years. Lax, who died in first freshman class in a large side.’ In addition to harmless ter- months — just an extended vaca- three days a week, conducting an Dr. Gerald Klingon has kept in error in the Spring CCT were: we continue to hope for an Ivy 2000, was an American poet, artist American college to spend a year rorism, we had to listen repeatedly tion. I tried to get into some similar Asian Humanities course and an touch with me via frequent tele- Robert Kaufman, a young 91, League championship sometime and spiritual thinker. At Columbia studying great books. He said part to how inferior we were to the business but found it difficult with- upper-level Core course, ‘Classics phone conversations from his in a telephone call on October 14 soon. he studied under Mark Van Doren of the reason for this experiment cadets ‘back at the Point.’ Finally I out support. The most minor things of East and West,’ on the theme apartment on York Avenue in reported the sad news of the death Although they were unable to ’21 GSAS and developed influential was that great books were easier was commissioned and became a became time-consuming tasks. of nobility and civility. I commute NYC. He remains attentive to all on October 11, 2012, of Margaret make it for Homecoming, Robert friendships with Thomas Merton to read than to read about. He also squadron engineering officer. I had to find and visit a typing by shuttle bus from Columbia’s developments with the Columbia L. Cicchetti, wife of our loyal Kaufman of Scarsdale, N.Y., and ’38, ’39 GSAS (a Trappist monk and said that undoubtedly there would “After the war, there was service. I had to go to the post office. Lamont-Doherty Earth Institute in football, basketball and baseball friend Nicholas Cicchetti. She is Dr. Arthur Wellington of Elmira, writer) and Ad Reinhardt ’35 (a be books written about us and the tremendous confusion resulting I hired an assistant but there wasn’t Rockland County. Among other teams, with many insightful com- survived by Nick; son, Stephen N.Y., reported that one week later, painter). experiment. (My second day’s notes from the ‘re-conversion’ in which enough work for him though there things I conduct a series of public ments about recruitment, game James; and daughter, Laraine Ann. on October 27, they greatly enjoyed The following update was not referred to ‘Dr. Van Doren.’ All my all the industry that had become was too much for me. meetings on Keys to the Core, strategies, coaching, and wins and In the Spring 2012 issue of CCT, watching Columbia beat Yale printed in the Spring CCT due to a notes for the rest of the year called part of our magnificent war “Since then I have spent a happy starting with John Erskine [(Class of losses. Gerry, 92, has been in touch I reviewed Nick’s distinguished 26–22 in a game shown on the production error: him ‘Prof. Van Doren.’) machine now underwent the same 33 years, doing all the reading I 1900)], Mark Van Doren [’21 GSAS] with former athletics director Al career as an educator and adminis- YES Network. Columbia scored Milton Kamen ’40 writes from “And what a year it was! I con- process in reverse. My problem had never had time for, thinking and Jacques Barzun [’27, ’32 GSAS], Paul, who lives in Maryland. Ger- trator in the New York State school the winning touchdown in the last New York, “When I recently signed sider this extraordinary teacher was that in those days, before the about all of humanity’s important meeting Fridays at noon in the ry’s son, Robert, an Amherst and system; by the time he retired, he minute of the game, which was in at a senior citizen expo in NYC, to have molded my character. civil rights law, large corporate problems and solving many of Heyman Center for the Humanities. Boalt Hall Law School alumnus, is was superintendent of District 11 called “an Ivy League thriller” by the young woman at the registra- Further, long after I graduated and engineering employers (the most them (at least to my own satisfac- My next book, The Great Civilized an honorary Columbian and shares schools. We send condolences to ESPN. Not such a thriller was our tion desk noticed my year of birth he retired, I went on visiting him likely employment prospects) still tion), traveling, writing essays and Conversation, is due out in spring.” his father’s enthusiasm for our Nick and his children on their loss. subsequent 69–0 loss to Harvard and asked if I had been in WWII. at his home and he continued to be sought people with WASP names. letters to the editor. I divorced and Ted is an amazing classmate. We athletic teams. Roar, Lions! [Editor’s note: Arthur Smith on November 3 in Cambridge, a friendly and gracious to me. So our last name became ‘Sanders,’ remarried happily to Margot Wel- all graduated 72 years ago, but Ted Don Mankiewicz and his wife, passed away on April 10, 2013. He score that ranks high in Ivy League “I transferred to Columbia’s En- a variant of the old family name lington, a sweet-natured and intel- does not pay much attention to the Carol, are doing well in Monrovia, sent the following note last winter.] annals as one of the most crushing Class Notes are submitted by gineering School in 1939 to study ‘Sokalner.’ Nevertheless, after los- ligent woman interested in some passage of time. Calif. They have sent me several On October 9, Arthur Smith defeats since the League began in alumni and edited by volunteer industrial engineering. There were ing several jobs, a kindly relative of the same things that interested written cards and notes, and I have sent a picture of his 9-month-old 1956. Columbia also lost by 69–0 to only six of us. Soon this had been suggested I might be better off me and, actually, with a career talked with Don on the phone in re- great-grandson, Landon, lying Rutgers in 1978 and lost 77–28 to class correspondents and the reduced to four. With war about on my own and loaned me a few involving them, like architecture Melvin Hershkowitz cent months. He is 91 and function- on his back, looking at the photo Holy Cross in 1983. staff of CCT prior to publication. to break out, our most charming thousand dollars. (My father had and urbanism. She is retired now 22 Northern Ave. ing well, despite the usual ailments of Dean James J. Valentini on the Easing memories of these prior and nicest fellow student, Henry died suddenly in my junior year.) In but was executive director of the 42 Northampton, MA 01060 of chronologic age. He told me cover of the Fall 2012 issue of CCT. defeats, Columbia bounced back Opinions expressed are those of (Hank) Wheeler, got a fantastic eventual partnership with my two Municipal Art Society of New York [email protected] that his granddaughters, Sara (13) Art’s son and grandson were won- from the Harvard loss with a sur- individual alumni and do not break. His uncle was the com- younger brothers, both mechanical for many years. I am so proud of and Rebecca (10), are both brilliant dering if Landon might grow up to prising and gratifying 34–17 win mander of Naval Base Cavite in engineers, we started Allen-Stevens her. I am proud also of my son, On March 1, Bob Kaufman re- students; he already is planning to be the fourth generation of Smiths over Cornell at Wien Stadium on reflect the opinions of CCT, its the Philippines and Hank dropped Corp., a die casting foundry in James ’76, ’82 Arch., an architect ported from his home in Scarsdale, help them apply to Columbia. One to attend Columbia, possibly with November 10, with strong running class correspondents, the College out with a direct naval commission Queens, N.Y., making all sorts of and an author (Celluloid Skyline) N.Y., that he was preparing for his of the major television networks is the Class of 2034. Art’s son, Arthur by Marcorus Garrett ’14 and three to be with his uncle. We were all precise metal parts and assemblies and screenwriter (the PBS series annual family and golf holiday planning to revive the crime series Jr. ’71, ’73 TC, became an environ- touchdown passes by quarterback or the University. so envious. Sadly, however, Hank used in hardware, appliances, New York: A Documentary Film); my on the island of Jamaica. At 92, Ironside, for which many years ago mental attorney. Arthur Jr.’s son, Sean Brackett ’13. We finished the died in the service in 1943. Another automobiles, toys and so on. I was daughter, Avis, a lawyer; and my Bob, the most senior member of Don wrote the pilot and several Jeffrey ’07 SIPA, is an environmen- schedule on November 17 with a

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22–6 loss at Brown, giving coach Society, the Newman Club and the [a career in] international pharma- Hospital in NYC, followed by a Da- teaching at Vassar until 1980. Since active in church and community father was Walter J. Pitkin, a former by traditional practices, instead Mangurian three wins in his initial Rifle Club. I remember Leo as an ceutical marketing. Married 60-plus mon Runyon Fellowship. I found then, I’ve lived by my freelancer’s affairs. We have room for guests. Columbia professor and the author invoking out-of-the-box thinking. season as our head coach. We hope excellent student, a fine athlete, a years to the same wonderful lady, time during all this to marry the wits, aided after 1987 by Social Come visit.” of Life Begins at Forty. Paraphrasing Dan says that he is retired, but for more triumphs in 2013. modest hero and a loyal Columbia Sue; three highly accomplished lovely Geraldine Morrell Caruso. Security and TIAA-CREF. From the Spring CCT Class that title, I think an appropriately his present vigorous lifestyle leads On October 30, Don Mankie- alumnus. For myself and on behalf kids; and three grands. A heart “I was recalled to the Air Force “In 1981 and 1982 I got lucky Notes, which were not printed in current theme for the Class of 1944 me to conclude that his retirement wicz wrote a lengthy snail mail of Leo’s friends in our class, I send valve replacement, leg artery by­ in 1950 during the Korean War and when I was introduced successive- that issue due to a production error: should be: “Life Begins at Ninety,” life is far more active and satisfying letter that reported on his status at condolences to Betty and their pass and pneumonia recently hit served at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, ly to Bill Moyers and Ken Burns, Dr. G.J. D’Angio also included an age now reached, and enjoyed, than the lives of all non-retired home in Monrovia, Calif. Don (90) family. me at 90-plus.” Miss. … After being discharged, both of whom I’ve intermittently this report: “Our trip to the United by most of our surviving class- scientists. More about Dan in the is doing well, enjoying time with his As 2013 reaches its midway Cedric noted that the likelihood I moved with my family to Long worked for as historian and writer Kingdom in October went well. The mates. next issue. wife, Carol; son, John; and adopted point, I am grateful to be in touch of his making reunion was remote Island, where I practiced medicine for their documentaries. Learning tour of the Bangor region of North We heard from Dr. Daniel Choy I have spoken several times by daughters, Jan and Sandy, whose with many Columbia friends and but sent best wishes for success. for 41 years in partnership with Dr. to write for TV was a great, rejuve- West Wales was full of historic inter- ’49 P&S, whose exploits in the fields telephone and email with another children have made Don a happy classmates (several mentioned in From Leo Stern Jr.: “In fall 1939 William Walker. My wife and I have nating experience. est as well as very scenic. The medi- of laser research, spine surgery and physician classmate, Dr. Francis grandfather. Don’s father, Herman this column), who continue to defy I began Humanities A with 20-odd three children: Our son and oldest is “Midwest, ho! I moved again cal meeting in London was held in medical invention are legendary. Rigney ’49 P&S, who resides in Mankiewicz ’17, won an Acad- their chronological age and are other students, mainly freshmen, a lawyer practicing in Jericho, N.Y.; to the Chicago area in 1990 to be the Barbican Centre, not one of the Dan and I recently discussed his California and has distinguished emy Award for his screenplay of functioning well as they progress the class instructor being Lionel our older daughter is an R.N.; and near the first of my eventual six city’s more attractive buildings. We memoirs, which were published in himself as a world-renowned Citizen Kane, and his uncle, Joseph past their 90th birthdays. Please Trilling [’25, ’38 GSAS]. His memo- our younger daughter worked as a grandchildren. And I got happily took time from the meeting to visit 2008 as Choy’s Luck: Shanghai to New psychiatrist. Francis is the author, Mankiewicz ’28, won an Academy send your news and comments to rable characteristics were a chain- reinsurance broker. Five grandchil- remarried. I’ve had a lucky and the WWII underground cabinet York, a Life of Inventions, Medicine, with Lemuel Douglas Smith, of Award for writing and directing A me at my email or home address. smoking habit and a young, wispy dren and six great-grandchildren satisfying life, so thank you, Co- room, where Churchill and his and Adventure — a book well worth The Real Bohemia: A Sociological and Letter to Three Wives. Don himself Your phone calls are also always countenance that was best recalled later, our three children live near us lumbia, especially for Contempo- government were bunkered during reading. It convinces its readers that Psychological Study of Beats, a book won the Harper Prize Novel award welcome at 413-586-1517. by our description, ‘mascara blue on the Island, with the grands and rary Civilization and Humanities A the awful weeks and months of the the old adage, “Truth is stranger about the Beat Generation pub- in 1955 for his novel, Trial, and was As Shakespeare said in the eyes.’ At that time I had a retentive greats scattered about. and B, the foundation stones of all I Blitz. Well worth a visit. than fiction,” is not just a hackneyed lished in 1961. Francis had earlier nominated for an Academy Award words of King Lear, “Ripeness is memory (long since disappeared) “During the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s I know, believe and have done.” “On our return, we spent a few expression. been attracted to the behavior of for his screenplay for I Want To Live! all.” To which we may add: Long and could quote from Professor was president of the medical board Dr. G.J. D’Angio: “It has been days with family members on Dan, who has lived life to its beatniks and had, over the course There seems to be some genetic may Columbia stand! Trilling’s remarks in class as well as and director of medicine at Syosset a wonderful 70 years. People Schroon Lake, north of Albany, fullest, reveals that after CC and of a year, performed a variety of basis for this multilineal transmis- from our reading material. I was de- Hospital, president of the Nassau actually paid me to do what I N.Y.; thence to Rochester, N.Y., to P&S he trained in oncology at Co- tests and interviews with numer- sion of genius and talent. lighted when I received a personal Hospital Medical Staff Organiza- wanted and have fun doing it! I am participate in my granddaughter lumbia and with the Air Force. Dan ous beatniks, which leads us to I was sorry to receive a note G.J. D’Angio letter from him congratulating me tion and a member of its medical forever grateful for our great Core Sara’s ordination as a deacon of the has distinguished himself with recall the late Jack Kerouac, one of on December 7 from Betty Galen 43 201 S. 18th St., #1818 on my final exam paper but highly board. I also was assistant profes- Curriculum, where my education Episcopal Church. numerous inventions, particularly the most famous beatniks. Reuther, reporting the death of Philadelphia, PA 19103 embarrassed when he chose to read sor of clinical medicine at Stony really started. I left Columbia in “We had three guests for a pleas- in the field of laser technology. He Among the honors enjoyed by her husband, Leo Reuther III, [email protected] it to the class as an example of duti- Brook School of Medicine. Another 1942 to attend Harvard Medical ant Thanksgiving, made even more is the creator of the Laser Knife Francis was his designation as chair- on October 19, 2012, in Flat Rock, ful recall of his lectures. My wife thing of which I am proud is my School. The war ended during pleasant after a call from Sara. She and AEROPLAST, a surgical and man emeritus of Raphael House in N.C., after a short battle with By the time you read this, we will carefully filed it on our bookshelves. association with a group of doctors my surgical internship. Two years told me to be ready to become a burn dressing sprayed from an San Francisco, a multi-service shelter pneumonia. He was 90. I last heard have celebrated the 70th anniver- “Trilling was fond of referring and others at Northrop-Grumman with the Army Air Corps in Japan great-grandfather come July 4!” aerosol can, primarily to be used to for homeless families. He had served from Leo on April 23, when he sent sary of our College graduation at to Dante’s Inferno and its narrator, who prepared the astronaut team followed; then to the University Finally, I’m saddened to report treat serious burns sustained from with distinction as chief of staff and regrets at being unable to attend Alumni Reunion Weekend with a Virgil, who, at the middle of his life, for ascent in the module. of Florence — thanks, G.I. Bill — the deaths of David Norr, a finan- an atomic attack. He advises us a member of the board of directors our 70th reunion luncheon on cam- June 1 luncheon in Hamilton Hall. was aged 35. ‘The years of our life “We have traveled extensively in for immersion in Italian art and cial analyst, investment adviser that his other inventions include of California Pacific Medical Center. pus in June. Leo and Betty recently I’ll report on all the good times and are three score and ten,’ says the Europe and enjoyed many winters history. Tuberculosis interrupted and CPA, Scarsdale, N.Y., on Au- coronary artery laser angioplasty, One of his quotes reported on the had moved into a new house in reminiscences in the Fall issue. The Bible. Trilling wrote a novel, The in our home in the Virgin Islands my medical training but eventu- gust 19, 2012; Harold C. Vaughan, which bypasses the traditional Internet is: “I’m known as having an Flat Rock, but he was able to enjoy class photo taken at the luncheon, Middle of the Journey, the protagonist and then in Florida. The limitations ally I became a pediatric radiation a retired history teacher, Fort Lee, balloon method with the use of institutional memory … I’m vitally it for only a few weeks before his however, may be found on the CCT being 35. Fast forward to Trilling’s of age have kept us at home this oncologist. Having published N.J., on September 22, 2012; and a laser. He has also devised an interested in life and activities and unfortunate death. He was buried website (college.columbia.edu/ obituary in 1974. My wife produced year, where we are blessed with and lectured widely on childhood Edward M. Buyer ’43E, a retired artificial heart and, in the area of work.” with full military honors in Arling- cct) as part of this issue’s reunion our carefully filed letter and exam- wonderful help and our nearby cancer, I became known: received electrical engineer, Adamstown, orthopedics, percutaneous laser I met up recently and unexpect- ton National Cemetery. follow-up article. ined the date. Lionel Trilling died at solicitous family.” an honorary degree (Bologna) and Md., on February 4, 2012. disc decompression. He cured one edly with Alan Hoffman in the Leo came to Columbia from the If you attended the luncheon or 70 and wrote the letter to me at 35!” From Bernard Weisberger: fellowships (London, Prague, et of his friends of the annoying ill- oddest of places — a beauty salon Barnard School in New York City. any other reunion events, please Dr. Felix Demartini ’46 P&S “Where have the last 70 years gone? al), gold medals and so forth — all ness of tinnitus with an ingenious in White Plains, N.Y., patronized REUNION WEEKEND He enlisted in the Army Air Corps share your thoughts and stories graciously called to say he could not Here’s how, for me: Right after that offset by deflationary chagrin technique, even though he was by my wife, Linda, and by Alan’s MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 after graduation and, following with me by sending a letter or email be present for the reunion luncheon. Pearl Harbor I began seven months when I bit off more than I could never trained in the field of audiol- wife, Ellie. Alan reports recent ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS flight training in Texas and Kansas, to the postal or email address at the During the conversation, he recalled of intensive Japanese language chew. ogy. Dan has never been tied down contact with Bud Harkavy. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott served as a fighter pilot in the top of the column or though CCT’s his College, P&S and subsequent study on campus; from there, went “My first wife, nursing educator [email protected] Asiatic-Pacific Theatre, flying 142 easy-to-use webform: college.col years with nostalgic affection. Lou straight into the Army’s top-secret Jean Chittenden Terhune R.N., 212-851-9148 missions in P-47 and P-38 aircraft. umbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. Little, the football coach at the time, Signal Intelligence Service for more B.S., and I had two sons. One is a DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Discharged as a captain in 1945, Leo Knowing we would encounter was one of the many Columbia training in translating intercepted professor of pediatrics (University [email protected] was awarded two Distinguished a delay due to CCT’s publishing mentors to whom Felix considers and decoded Japanese radio mes- of Rochester) and the other an HELP SUPPORT CCT 212-851-7833 Flying Crosses, three Air Medals, a schedule, I wrote a letter to class-­ himself indebted. Little was more sages, which I spent the war doing Episcopal priest. One of my two COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY brings you news of your Presidential Citation and the Purple mates a while ago, encouraging than a football coach. He was a man in Washington, D.C., New Delhi granddaughters also is an Episco- Bill Friedman alma mater and profiles of its people you won’t find anywhere Heart. He was one of the greatest them to contribute special “life who took a fatherly interest in his and finally Kunming, China. Back pal priest (and married to one). She 833-B Heritage Hills 44 else. Wherever you are — Los Angeles, Louisville, London or WWII heroes among many in our updates” for this issue. Here is what young squad members and taught home in March 1945, I migrated will make me a great-grandfather Somers, NY 10589 the Lower East Side — CCT is the best way to stay connected class. I received: them important life lessons — westward and, thanks to the ever- in July. The other granddaughter is [email protected] After the war, Leo joined the FBI Cedric Philipp wrote: “Seventy among them, that winning is fine, blessed G.I. Bill, earned a history an outdoor life and lore instructor with your classmates and with Columbia. as a special agent; he served at vari- years. Wow. That December I was but the way one plays the game is Ph.D. at Chicago. in South Carolina. Greetings from your new class ous stations and ended his career in in the Army. Commissioned in what’s important. Little remained a “Onward and upward: I spent “Jean died in 2004. I then married correspondent. I entered Columbia YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION helps make all this 1975 as supervisor in charge of ma- ’44, I led a platoon on to Omaha friend and adviser long after Felix 16 years (1952–68) as an academic Dr. Audrey Evans, with whom I with the Class of 1944 as Seymour possible. CCT remains free of charge — no donation is required jor crimes and New York airports, Beach, some fighting in Belgium. graduated. rolling stone, teaching at Antioch, had worked, often at a distance, William Friedman and still practice to receive the magazine or to access our website (college. based at the FBI office in New York In ’45, was dropped into Spain, Felix became the CEO of Wayne State and the Universities since we met in 1955. Audrey is law under the name of S. William columbia.edu/cct). But if you choose to support us, you may City. After retirement, Leo lived in where ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan [Class NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago and Rochester. In those English and an internationally Friedman. I hope to abide by the do so online (college.columbia.edu/cct/giving), by phone Vermont and South Carolina until of 1905] suspected Hitler would try and is an emeritus professor of years I married, fathered three chil- famed pediatric oncologist. She also lofty standards maintained by my (212-851-7852) or by mailing a check, made payable to 1999, when he moved to Flat Rock. to escape. Then came nine months internal medicine at P&S. He has dren and published the first few originated the successful Ronald illustrious predecessor, Henry Rolf He is survived by his wife; daugh- working under Gen. Lucius Clay in lived in Florida since his retirement of 17 books, some for classrooms McDonald Houses — ‘homes away Hecht. Columbia College Today (Columbia College Today, ters, Loralee Neal of Longwood, Berlin. To decompress, I drove with several years ago. and academic peers, more (my from home’ — for the families of I was thinking about my Col- Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl., Fla., and Leslie O’Keefe of Stony ex-Marine Ray Heckmann in a Dr. Thomas C. Catalano sent favorites) aimed at general audi- children in-hospital or requiring umbia freshman track and cross New York, NY 10025). The fiscal year ends on June 30, Point, N.Y.; and two grandchildren. Jeep through South America, from greetings, writing, “My four years ences. ‘Dropped out’ for four years repeated outpatient visits. There are country coach Bob Pitkin ’34, who and all donors are recognized each fall. At Columbia, Leo played fresh- Venezuela to Chile by land. at Columbia were incredibly stimu- of freelancing and working as an now more than 300 worldwide. served under head coach Carl man basketball, was on the varsity “Returned to Columbia for law lating and then, by grace of Uncle editor at American Heritage, dur- “I fully retired last September; Merner and who won the Heptago- WE GREATLY APPRECIATE your support and ask that you stay swim team, participated in The school. Bad job market. Then Prince­ Sam, I was in med school at Long ing which time got divorced and Audrey a few years back. Aside nals high jump in 1935 with a leap in touch and share news at college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. Varsity Show and was a member ton’s grad school for international Island College of Medicine. Intern- moved back to New York. Finished from deafness, I am in excellent of 6'-2½" — a mark now eclipsed by of Columbia Players, the Dolphin affairs, the Department of State and ship and residency at St. Vincent’s off my academic life with part-time health. Audrey also is well and is many female high jumpers. Bob’s

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Bill Struning chimes in with this friend. I send you my best wishes. novel (The Mating Flower: A Botani­ New Jersey, a member of the honor can highly recommend it. by Henry Kaiser during WWII for widespread through households. As happened to many in our note: “Will report on my activities With Robert Browning, I quote, cal Murder Mystery) and moved out society and a member of the cross Henry Shinefield ’48 P&S has his shipyard employees, it was “No antibiotics, aseptic or anti- class, Howard’s college days were (such as they are) at a later date. ‘Grow old along with me! The best of the big house into an apartment country team that won the state had a fascinating career. My tele- now offered to the public. Its major septic techniques were effective in interrupted by the war and he However, I wanted to express my is yet to be,/The last of life, for on the water. There I read, play the championship. He entered Rutgers phone notes were incomplete and hospital was in Oakland, Calif., stopping the epidemic. However, returned to get a degree from the thanks and appreciation to Henry which the first was made ...’” recorder with a ‘consort,’ kayak, in 1941, made the varsity track team poorly supplemented by my failing with a small outpatient clinic above we found that if we placed a small Architecture School. He has been Rolf Hecht for his many years as My Beta Sigma Rho fraternity and in general lead the good North- and won a letter. When the Army memory, so I asked him for an email a drug store on a main street in San amount of a staphylococcal strain retired for about 10 years and lives CC ’44 class correspondent. He brother Dick Farber writes, “After ern California life. That I do, despite took over the Rutgers campus in repeat. Here it is (with some editing). Francisco. of low virulence in the nose and in Greenwich, Conn., though he did a great job of gathering and enough years of working in techni- a painless neuropathy of my right 1943, he transferred to the College, “Your phone call took me back “I visited Dr. John ‘Jack’ Smillie umbilicus of the infants we could occasionally still goes to the draft- reporting on what must have been cal electronic activities, I retired leg, which requires me to use a cane where he was on the varsity two- to September 1941, Hamilton Hall, (chief of a staff of two pediatricians) prevent serious staphylococcal dis- ing table which, he commented, is a relatively small member base and have been leading a pleasant or walker. mile relay team. After graduation, my first Columbia freshman class and asked whether I could help ease. Not only was the epidemic at now an archaic artifact (he says the (WWII did not help). CC ’44 was life. My wife and I have three chil- It is with some reluctance that I he entered General Theological with Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS. during my time off, so I could un- the Cornell nursery stopped with current generation does everything fortunate to have him representing dren, seven grandchildren and, as turn this over to a successor. I hope Seminary, graduated with a mas- There was Enoch Callaway, in a derstand the program. He agreed, this approach, but so, too, were on computers, and even uses them us. We also were fortunate to enjoy of a little less than two years ago, someone steps forward, and that ter’s of divinity in ’48 and was light blue freshman beanie, in row and my resulting experience led me severe nursery outbreaks in other to take examinations). Howard the long-term services of Walter our first great-grandchild. We had he enjoys it as much as I have. ordained an Episcopal priest. After one, first seat, ready to partici- to believe that the future of health parts of the United States. was a sailor until about 10 years Wager in pre-Hecht years.” the second wedding in the family [Editor’s note: CCT thanks Enoch serving several parishes, in 1951 pate in a phenomenal Columbia care lay in some similar system. Pa- “During the 12 years I left the ago but has given up the pastime. Henry Hecht (“proudly ’44”) earlier this month in Akumal, Callaway for his service as class Clarence became the first chaplain program called Contemporary tients would pay a defined fee for a West Coast, I stayed in touch with He also confessed to a love of responds as follows: “I’m doing Mexico (about 1½ hours south of correspondent. Any CC ’45-er who to Episcopal students at Rutgers. Civilization and Humanities edu- defined period of time for complete Dr. Smillie in San Francisco. In travel and takes a trip abroad on al- OK, all things considered. Since be- Cancun). We will have our third is interested in helming this column From 1953–65, he served as vicar cation — a program for all entering health and medical care. The physi- 1964, he informed me that he was most an annual basis, though now ing hit by some sudden weakness family wedding in June. My sons, should contact CCT Managing of St. James’ Episcopal Church in students, regardless of their major, cians are paid a defined salary and now in charge of the entire San he finds it can be a bit onerous. in February 2012, I have difficulty Martin ’71 and Andrew ’75, and Editor Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts at 212- Hackettstown. a program that was just eight years the result would be the delivery of Francisco KP program and offered Frank Herman ’45E, ’49E, ’53 walking or concentrating while one grandson (Martin’s son Aaron 851-7485 or [email protected]. In 1962, Clarence formed the old at the time. first-class, cost-controlled care. This me the chief of pediatrics position, GSAS went into the service after at my desk, but fortunately no ’05, the one who just got married) In the meantime, please share news Heath Village corporation, which “I am 89 and enjoying my retire- program now cares for approxi- which I accepted. Leaving New graduation. Following two years in pain and still reasonably alert. Not went to Columbia and are doing on your life, career and family as built the Heath Village Retirement ment, here in New York City, with mately one-third of the 30,000,000 York in July 1965, I began 40 years the Navy, he returned and earned much more to report — family was well. My wife and I are slowing well as thoughts on or memories Community, where he and Jean the company of my magnificent people in California and has of involvement in active pediatrics. both a master’s and a Ph.D. in planning a belated 90th birthday down in activities but what do you from your College days with CCT. now live. This was originally an wife, Jacqueline, daughters, Kim multiple programs throughout the “For 25 years at KP, I was in physics from Columbia. He spent celebration for wife Hattie and me expect from older age? Stay well.” Please mail to Columbia College To­ affordable retirement community and Melissa, their husbands and United States. charge of the clinical practice of a most of his career working on in May; we both turned 90 early Finally, we note with sadness day, Columbia Alumni Center, 622 with four levels of care: indepen- eight grandchildren ages 3–16. We “Dr. Smillie asked if I would like staff of 15 pediatricians, con- the theoretical physics of semi- this year. While I had to give up the passing of Gordon Cotler, W. 113th St., MC 4530, New York, dent living (like an apartment); miss, because of infrequent visits to to join him on completion of my solidated a first-class pediatric conductors at the IBM Center in being class correspondent, I would Robert A. Fishman, Richard Bader NY 10025; call 212-851-7852; email hotel (cleaning service and meals); Los Angeles, our third daughter, Jill, public health service. I said I would, residency program and continued San Jose, Calif. However, for the still love to hear from remaining and Robert L. Rosenthal. [email protected]; or use CCT’s assisted living; and full nursing her husband and the ninth grand- if I hadn’t promised to join my older my staphylococcal research. Most last 10 years he has been retired. friends at [email protected]. webform: college.columbia.edu/ care. He was an executive director child, Shane (5). brother (my role model and father importantly, in my final 20 years Frank’s health remains good and Best wishes to you all.” cct/submit_class_note.] until 1978 and he and Jean became “My retirement comes after hav- figure) in his busy Paterson, N.J., at San Francisco KP, I founded and his only physical exercises are My old Yonkers H.S. buddy, Enoch Callaway Dr. Chester Semel ’48 P&S licensed nursing home administra- ing the pleasure and excitement pediatric practice. . . . So off I went co-directed the Kaiser Permanente long walks. He reads extensively, Wilton Entwistle, tells us he prefers 87 Barbaree Way interned at Mount Sinai, did a year tors; he also earned a master’s of of a 64-year span with reward- to New Jersey in July 1953, where I Vaccine Study Center, a center remains fascinated with his field of to be addressed as “Bill” and states: 45 Tiburon, CA 94920-2223 of surgical residency at Duke and education in gerontology from ing involvement in a variety of spent six years in a busy, outstand- that is arguably one of the finest, if theoretical physics, attends lectures “Though I never graduated due [email protected] then finished his surgical training Teachers College. disciplines in the field of pedi- ing, fee-for-service, private pediatric not the best, in the world. With a at Stanford and sometimes teaches to a call from the Army in ’42, the at the Staten Island United States I could go on but to summa- atric health and medical care. practice. However, there were large defined patient population, a there, too. Lately, his principal oc- College has followed me over these This will be my last set of Class Public Health Service Hospital. rize: Clarence and Jean have eight After completing my third year laboratory follow-ups from my sophisticated computerized patient cupation has been finishing a book many years. My Army service took Notes, as my short-term memory After his residency, he remained children and one foster child. He of pediatric residency at Weill California experience that I wanted information system and a skilled on the theory of semiconductors. me to Europe in ’44 with the 95th is beginning to cause troubles. I’ve in the U.S. Public Health Service received a humanitarian award Cornell Medical Center, in 1951, to complete. So with considerable data analytic team, we did large- Dr. Samuel Hemley had just Infantry Division, 377th Medical been asked to say a little something system for about four years, as from the Hackettstown Chamber I entered and spent two years in regret, I told my brother that I had scale Phase 3 patient studies that returned to his home in Snowmass, Battalion, and while we were in as a sign-off, so allow me to recount assistant chief of surgery at Staten of Commerce, periodically is track the U.S. Public Health Service as to leave the practice. led to approval for a number of Colo., when I called. Snowmass is Germany I received a wound from a bit about myself. As a professor Island and deputy chief of surgery and field official for high schools a member of the Communicable around 9,000 feet in altitude, and a land mine that qualified me for a in the Department of Psychiatry, I at Baltimore. Prior to Staten Island, and colleges, was twice a candidate Disease Center’s [now Centers for we chatted a bit about President Purple Heart. I continued with the left UCSF in 1965 to go to the San he took two-plus years off to work for State Senate, chaplain of the Disease Control and Prevention] Dr. Henry Shinefield ’45, ’48 P&S is 89 and enjoying Barack Obama ’83’s poor showing 95th until the division was brought Francisco VA Medical Center for on an Indian reservation in the Hackettstown first aid and rescue first Epidemic Intelligence Service in the first presidential debate in back to the United States for the a variety of reasons and retired north of Washington State with squad, chaplain of the Hackett- officer class. That experience began retirement in New York City. Denver, speculating as to whether purpose of training for the war with from the VA at 70. I did volunteer his new wife. There he had many stown fire department, treasurer with eight weeks of training and some incompetent physician had Japan. But Harry Truman dropped work for a while, until I discovered interesting experiences. of the National Interfaith Coalition resulted in being ‘knighted’ as an failed to make him take precau- a couple of A-bombs, and that war that there were interesting, paying Chester and his wife later moved on Aging, founder of the Episcopal epidemiologist and rewarded with “I found a friend and former critically important vaccines. These tions due to the altitude. Sam then ended while we were still in the jobs for psychiatrists with an outfit to Beverly Hills, where he began Society for the Ministry on Aging, an assignment for two years with colleague, Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, vaccines are currently recom- kindly offered to speak with me U.S. called Traditions Behavioral Health. his private practice of surgery. They lecturer in gerontology at Cente- the California State Health Depart- who offered me a job in the infec- mended for routine administration more the next day, so I called again “My wife, Aurelia, and I were I worked for them for some years, were happy there, and for 51 years nary College in Hackettstown and ment and Laboratories in Berkeley. tious disease department at the to infants, children, adolescents and we had a long chat. With the married in ’44, and we decided until I began having strokes. Then he was the surgeon for the USC an occasional substitute teacher at “A major portion of my time was Weill Cornell Medical College. It and some adults in the U.S. and short-term memory of the typical to move to California, where I I discovered I had severe aortic ste- football team and went to all of various locations. He also serves involvement with a serious epidem- turned into six years of excitement throughout the world. 88-year-old, I hope that I do justice worked with Occidental Life Insur- nosis. Fortunately I was able to get their games. He and his wife both Rutgers in various capacities. ic of Western equine encephalitis and discovery with an opportunity “There is a brief summary of my to all that we discussed. ance Co. (later a part of Transam- into a protocol at Stanford, where learned to fly a plane and took Finally, he and Jean are certified both clinically and in the laboratory. to see and understand the internals diverse pediatric life, an experience Sam recalled growing up in erica Life) in its home office (not in they were evaluating percutaneous many trips together. One took them graphologists, graduates of Feli- There also was an investigation of a of academic medicine with its posi- across 64 years that includes time Brooklyn, where he lived with his sales) and remained with the com- valve replacements. My new cow to Mexico, where the plane broke cian College (Lodi, N.J.) and do polio epidemic in the Berkeley Hills tives and foibles. in public health, fee for service uncle, who was a state Supreme pany for 37 years, ending up as an valve functions almost perfectly. down. They had to fly home com- handwriting analysis as a hobby. as well as an eye-opening experi- “My time at Cornell was devoted pediatrics, academic pediatrics Court judge. He attended Boys and associate v.p. before resigning at 62 Unfortunately, I developed an mercially, since they didn’t have And, oh yes, he was awarded an ence when I was sent to Harlan to teaching patient care and inves- and last, longest and probably Girls H.S., which at the time was to enjoy retirement. Aurelia and I infection that was a marker for enough money for the repairs. honorary doctor of divinity degree County, Ky., to investigate a severe tigative laboratory work. A major most important, prepaid pediat- just Boys H.S., and had excellent have traveled across a large part of colon cancer and ended up with a The Rev. Clarence Sickles was for by his theological seminary. I’m outbreak of hepatitis. portion of the latter involved com- ric practice and vaccinology. All grades and fine recommendations. the world but now live a quiet life hemi-colectomy. After all that, and many years the CCT class correspon- sure I still missed something! “The assignment in California bating my favorite bacterial enemy, diverse, interesting and instructive. He wanted to go to Cornell but in Laguna Woods, Calif., having because of persisting short-term dent, so I thought he would be an Clarence has been so-called was notable not only for the public the staphylococcus, particularly For me, a fascinating continuum in was turned down. The head of his resided here for 23 years. We have memory problems, I gave up the appropriate subject for my terminal retired for some time but, predict- health experiences but also because studying how it created problems in excitement.” high school was distressed by this three children, six grandchildren practice of medicine. Class Notes. When I called, I found ably, has not been idle. He recently it led to my introduction to a medi- the nursery. Then, this bacteria was The following updates are car- and, on inquiry, found that Sam fell and six great-grands to show for Then Dorothy, my wife of 56 him living with his wife, Jean, at 68 completed a book, The New Ten cal practice in which I would ulti- producing a worldwide epidemic ried over from the Spring issue, outside of a quota that the college our production line. Aurelia and I years, died of a glioblastoma. Since Heath Village, Hackettstown, NJ Commandments, which follows the mately spend 40 exciting years of both in hospitals and communities, having not been printed due to a had. The young Hemley then was celebrated 69 years of married life then I’ve been living with a widow 07840. We had a long talk, which development and changes of Mo- my medical life. I had heard about a and in particular with newborns, production error: sent to talk to Columbia College on March 6 and my 90th birthday named Dot Potter who had been (given my failing memory) he kindly ses’ laws from the 15th century to method of delivery of medical care who became infected (colonized) Howard B. Henderson ’51 Arch. Dean Herbert Hawkes, who said came on March 15. I’m sure most a close friend of both Dorothy’s supplemented with additional notes date. He said that those interested based on a prepaid system rather with the staphylococcus. Infants was in the yard raking leaves and he should go to Columbia and sug- of our gang is in the same age area and mine since around 1956. I’ve and press clippings, which reflect 93 in reading it should send him a than a fee-for-service system that would go home without disease generally tidying up after Hurricane gested that he take the admission that I am, and several have passed published a memoir (Asylum: A years of life well spent. letter at the address mentioned was being carried out by a fledging only to return in two to six weeks Sandy when his wife called him to tests. That he did and, at 15, was on. But all of us must face that Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Les­ Clarence was president of his earlier in the column. He sent me organization called the Kaiser Per- with severe lung, brain, blood or the phone to take my call. Obviously, admitted to the freshman class. eventuality. So, go with God, old sons about Our Mentally Ill Today), a high school graduating class in one and I’ve read half already, and manente (KP) Health Plan. Created skin disease, which often became he remains in good shape. 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Wallach] Hall and ran on the cross accomplishment of Kyle Merber “One day Plimpton suggested the continuing rise in applicants to bia in July 1944 to study engineer- The gathering storm would send me loquium 1 — put me in Colloquium supposed to be commenting on, country team, coming in second as ’12, its first sub-four-minute miler. that I go out to La Finca to meet the College, their incredibly high ing, I expected to transfer to the to war 4 with Professors Barzun and Lionel which a jokester friend had typed a freshman at a race in Princeton; Sam’s current project is teaching Papa. I felt it was inappropriate, SAT scores and the small number School of Engineering after four The Class of Forty-Four in its essence Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS. up and sent along for the other he later won a gold medal at a race trap and skeet shooting. He has not having been invited. He said who were admitted. One of us semesters, at that time the normal Is a story of the loss of innocence “My classmates were mostly friend to read and for Szathmary in Annapolis in which all the Ivy five students! He adds that, at our Papa said it would be fine. I said (don’t remember who) wondered entry path to that school. However, Back home in forty-six I applied for upperclassmen, among them to light into. My recollection is that League schools took part. ages, we should ignore the advice he didn’t know me, I was sure he whether we could have success- during the first year, I discovered readmission such brains as Richard Bauman Ed timed his arrival at class toward Years later, Sam took his wife to of others and keep doing what we didn’t know my writing. I didn’t fully competed for admission if we what was then termed Professional But received a letter of rejection ’45, ’46L. I was clearly out of my the end of the Szathmary diatribe, campus and tried to find Livings- have been doing, since we have so want to disturb him. Evidently he were applying in the current era. Option, now 3-2. By remaining My College record was their objection league. When the profs told us explained what the profs and the ton Hall, only to discover the new far beaten the odds (as well as the carried the message that I refused Unhesitatingly, Harry said, “Abso- in the College for three years and I asked the dean for an interview they wanted a paper, I didn’t class had just heard and for once Wallach name, which, he confessed, life expectancies as put forth by to visit Papa unless he read some lutely. No question about it.” then transferring, my College He listened to me very seriously have the slightest idea of what to left Szathmary speechless.” upset him. Later still, he was having our physicians). of my books. John McConnell, our faithful scholarship would continue for And enabled me to get my degree write about. I settled on what to David Brainin writes, “Just past dinner with a friend to whom he “As I was checking out of the correspondent in Post Falls, Idaho, four academic years and I would That’s how I am Class of Forty-Seven a 17-year-old was the most note- the midpoint of my 88th year, I complained about the renaming, Ambos Mundos on my way to wrote that he “decided to do some- receive both degrees. I have never A graduate of the Lion’s Den worthy part of the term’s first few retired from even part-time active only to find out that the same Wal- Bernard Sunshine Q Airlines, a telephone call came thing with his violin and viola be- regretted that decision! Because of Former U.S. Poet Laureate books: the authors’ predilection law practice. At this writing I am lach was the friend’s brother-in-law. 46 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G from Mary Hemingway, personally sides take up space.” He upgraded the wartime accelerated schedule, Daniel Hoffman ’56 GSAS died on for sex as part of their plot lines. I preparing to celebrate the 80th Sam graduated from NYU New York, NY 10023 inviting me for lunch, a few drinks, his instruments, received profes- I completed both degrees in four March 30, 2013. You can read more titled my paper ‘Colloquium 4 Is birthday of my wife, Sema, on medical school, where he studied [email protected] maybe some fishing with Papa. sional coaching and now plays six calendar years, continued on to in The New York Times (nytimes. in a Rut.’ December 9. I’m still active as an radiology. During his service with “‘I can’t, I’m leaving,’ I said. to eight gigs a month. John teamed earn my master’s degree in electri- com; search by keywords “Daniel the Army he was promoted from The San Francisco Chronicle ran an “‘Stay another couple days,’ she up with a former USO entertainer cal engineering in 1950 and was an Hoffman”) and in Obituaries in this lieutenant to captain in a combat essay by Herbert Gold on January said. who brought female glamour to instructor in the EE department for issue. John McConnell ’46 “decided to do something with zone. After the war he came back 2, 2011; with Herb’s permission, “‘I’ve got to drive to Detroit. I troops in the South Pacific, Japan four years. I was on campus for a Please share news about your- to New York, ran the radiology I’ve included an adapted excerpt promised my daughters I would and Korea. total of nine years. self, your family, your career, your his violin and viola besides taking up space.” He department in a major hospital and here: see them for Christmas.’ Dr. Lawrence Ross ’51 P&S told “That was followed by 36 years travels or even a favorite Columbia now plays six to eight gigs a month. did pioneering work with catheters. “In Havana, 1959, I was camped “‘They can wait,’ she explained us he enjoyed the piece by Dr. Paul with the General Electric Co. in College memory using either the Sam is an avid skier; 43 years out at the Ambos Mundos Hotel, to this divorced father. Marks ’49 P&S that appeared in Schenectady, N.Y., as an engineer email or postal address at the top ago, while on vacation in Colorado, trying to write a film script based “‘No. They can’t.’ this column (Fall 2012). Larry said: and engineering manager. I mar- of the column. You also can send “Barzun returned the paper to arbitrator and an occasional me- a beautiful young lady literally fell on my novel, The Man Who Was Not “There was silence. Then she “Medicine has come a long way ried Carol ’49 Barnard. We have news via CCT’s easy-to-use web- me with the notation that I might diator. I’m looking forward to our over a mogul and landed at his feet. With It. I had driven my beat-up, hung up. That silence by that click since I was a plodding, practicing three children and seven grand- form: college.columbia.edu/cct/ just as well criticize the Decalogue 65th reunion and hope to be there. They are still skiing together (having badly used Ford to Key West and was my last communication from pediatrician.” children, all living within 10 miles submit_class_note. This column for being 10 percent about sex. I sur- Best to all.” moved to Colorado early in their then flown to Cuba by Q Airlines Mary Hemingway. Alan Berman suggested that he of our home in Burnt Hills, N.Y. is a wonderful way for the class mise he thought I wouldn’t know John Zanders turned 87 on Oc- relationship, about 40 years ago). (slogan: Ten Minutes, Ten Dollars). “Years later, after his death, I also be inscribed on the Great- “Since retirement in 1989, I have to stay connected. I hope to hear what the Decalogue was. Actually, I tober 21. He writes, “I am in sound Friends have told him that a movie I hoped to work quietly in an exotic found in a collection of Heming- Grandfather Cup (Summer 2012 been a participant in a weekly from you! did. Trilling’s comments were less health and, while retired from should be made of his romance. tropical world. way’s letters a request to a friend column). Alan has four great- philosophy group (reading and acerbic but hardly complimentary. employment, I remain active. I am I remember Snowmass well “However the Cuban revolution to send him any books that were grandchildren and, by the time we discussion), now in its 40th year, at I pulled myself up later in the term a member of three local coin clubs because the Winter Conference on was in progress. I came upon bod- available by me.” go to press, the fifth probably will the First Unitarian Society of Sche- Columbia College Today with a paper comparing Field- and belong to the Jade Buddha Brain Research often was held there. ies left in the streets of Havana. That Herbert Hendin, who was a star have arrived. Indeed, he should nectady. I have never passed up the Columbia Alumni Center ing’s Tom Jones from Humanities A Temple here in Houston. I reside Sam tells me now that, though the was one distraction. Also, George player on the College’s varsity tennis join Dr. Lawrence Jukofsky and opportunity to brag about the Core 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 favorably with the mildly amusing in an apartment and continue to skiing is still excellent, the confer- Plimpton was heading out every team, recently wrote to President Paul Rotondi with the distinction. Curriculum and its contributions to New York, NY 10025 Dickens novel (Our Mutual Friend), pursue independent living. People ence facilities have been so im- morning to work on his Paris Review Barack Obama ’83 soliciting his Recently, when I was riding the my professional and personal lives. [email protected] which was assigned in Colloquium often comment about the fact that I proved that they are too expensive interview with ‘Papa,’ as Ernest membership in the “Left-Handed No. 1 subway, a young man leaned I read with enjoyment David Denby 4. I seem to remember that I ignored do not look my age. I accept these for most scientific meetings. Hemingway liked to be called. In Tennis Lions” club. The president over and said, “I am Class of ’98.” I ’65, ’66J’s book, GREAT BOOKS: My From the Spring 2013 Class Notes, Fielding’s (and Tom Jones’) interest comments as flattery! Sam says he loved his time at the evening upon his return from qualifies on all counts: left handed, realized he had spotted the Colum- Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, which were not printed in that is- in sex. I ended up with a B for the “I have nine grandchildren, the College and feels privileged to the Hemingway compound, La plays tennis, a Columbian. No bia ring I wear. I replied, “My Class Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writ­ sue due to a production error: term even though I made the mis- among them a 12-year-old girl who have been Dean Hawkes’ protégé. Finca, we would have dinner to- answer yet, but Herb hasn’t given is ’46,” and he blanched. I suppose ers of the Western World [see Colum- Durham Caldwell’s newest take of categorizing Tom Jones as the is pursuing the dream I could not He remains supportive of the track gether and he would tell me about up hope. he was trying to digest our class year bia Forum, Spring 2013] and have book, Betty Sue’s Homecoming and ne plus ultra of the modern novel. complete. She is living with her team and was pleased to note the their progress. The annual meeting of the and the fact that we are still around. read with great interest through the Her Rocky Path to Respectability, tells Barzun wrote in the margin, ‘Where parents in New Jersey, where she at- founding members of the club I am sorry to report the passing years articles in Columbia College the story of Betty Sue Hannaford, did you get that?’ tends private school. This year they brought Mal Ruderman, Bernie of Charles J. Fabso ’47 Business in Today, particularly the Spring 2013 who disappears at 3. The police “I must have made some minor introduced Mandarin language in- Sunshine, Tom Silbiger ’59, ’59E Durham, N.C. A loyal member of issue, about the evolution of Lit chief theorizes she has drowned in a impression on Trilling. I haven’t struction, and she is an enthusiastic Columbia School Designations and their wives to Herb and his our class, Chuck enjoyed a stellar Hum. May it continue for another flood-swollen stream but her father read it, but I understand he has participant. She appears to have a wife, Jo’s, home for dinner in April. career as a general manager of 75 years!” keeps his porch light on every night a character named ‘Caldwell’ in genuine talent for language and she In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia Whenever we gather at class General Electric. Dr. Jacob J. Stam, of Palm Beach for 27 years, convinced she some- his 1947 novel, The Middle of the rapidly is becoming bilingual (Eng- degrees from schools other than the College. luncheons, dinners or reunions, I add with regret the death Gardens, Fla., shares this poem: day will come back to him. Through Journey. lish/Chinese). She is able to learn inevitably talk turns to the Core of I. Myer Pincus ’45E, ’49L in I was in the Class of Forty-Four an intriguing chain of circumstances “I took another term of Col- written characters with ease and Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Curriculum (Humanities and CC) December. Following our 60th originally she does, and she brings with her loquium when I returned from rapidity. I am a doting grandfather. Arts School of the Arts and its effect on us. This year, Lit- reunion in 2006, Mike wrote in a From Boys High School and lived in a lifestyle she knows will alienate the Army in 1946. I’m not sure, “I am the oldest living individual Barnard Barnard College erature Humanities celebrates its letter to this correspondent, “A the city her newly rediscovered family but but I think that this time they put within my family, for generations. I Business Graduate School of Business 75th year. Hard to realize that we good deal of my openness of mind So I went to the Ivy League by subway which she is reluctant to give up. me in Colloquium 3. The profs have fond memories of my time at CE School of Continuing Education were enjoying its fruits at virtually and attitude derive from those The College then was in some turmoil The novel relates the smiles and were Donald Frame ’41 GSAS Columbia.” Dental College of Dental Medicine its beginning. wonderful men at Columbia who We all were involved by the gathering tears of her struggle to conform to and Arthur Szathmary. Frame Dr. Bob Mellins passed away I am sorry to report the passing inculcated that what is true is what storm small-town family life. [See Spring was the good guy, Szathmary the on December 12, 2012. He was 84 E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and of Eugene Bruck, who was a highly you have examined up close with The war was heating up to a boil 2013 Bookshelf.] intellectual. They had us rotate and lived in New York City. A few Applied Science regarded musicologist. Among his an open mind. But truth changes as Going to college was off the norm Durham also shared these reading our papers out loud at the weeks before his death, Bob sent GS School of General Studies many accomplishments, Eugene we grow older and experience the I don’t suppose many of us are still thoughts: “The recent death of pro- beginning of each class. The only this note: “Bob Mellins, although GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences produced the first recording of elec- world and other people’s truths.” around fessor Jacques Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS one I remember was handed in Professor Emeritus at P&S, is still J Graduate School of Journalism tronic music in the United States. To recall Lindbergh and Father Coughlin at 104 [see Winter 2012–13 Obituar- by Ed Paul, later our senior class active as a special lecturer and runs L School of Law Shifting into Notes from the The German [American] Bund in ies] reminded me of my collision president. For some reason Ed was a research grand rounds for the Nursing School of Nursing Spring CCT, I was asked about Columbia College Today Madison Square Garden with his formidable intellect in the ‘unavoidably late’ on the night he Department of Pediatrics. Music admissions to Columbia College. Columbia Alumni Center Hitler ranting on the radio spring semester of 1944, when I was due to read and arranged for a Humanities and Art Humanities P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons This year’s freshmen — the Class 47 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Churchill pleading for us to go was a callow, 17-year-old, first-term classmate to read the paper, which at the College still make it pos- PH Mailman School of Public Health of 2016 — included 1,090 students, New York, NY 10025 I had received my draft board notice in sophomore. I had elected at the end Szathmary proceeded to rip apart. sible for him to enjoy music and SIPA School of International and Public Affairs selected from more than 25,000 ap- [email protected] the mail of my freshman terms to apply for Ed turned up at the strategic mo- art. Regrettably, age has made it SW School of Social Work plicants. It brought to mind a class Ordered to get my physical without fail the Colloquium on Great Books in ment. He disclosed that the paper necessary for him to give up figure TC Teachers College luncheon some years ago, when Allen S. Brower ’48E writes, “I At college I was ill at ease preference to taking Humanities B. wasn’t his but was a distinguished skating.” [Editor’s note: See Spring Harry Coleman ’46E was dean of was an accidental member of the With Cs and Ds and absentees For some reason, the schedule mak- scholar’s printed introduction to 2013 Obituaries.] the College. He commented about Class of 1947. Arriving at Colum- My career at college had become a bore ers — instead of placing me in Col- the edition of the book Ed was Robert Silbert, upon hearing

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The class photo taken at the ture for 50 years, the last 40 of them 2013. there is a group of Lions who get over the years, and the places we and more of the short notes from year promises to be a busy one. I medal at graduation, for I have luncheon, however, may be found at UC Berkeley. Like many of us I’m afraid that’s it for now. Send together for periodic luncheons. picked were always age-appropri- classmates list the everyday things practice, teach and pursue research always been involved both in on the CCT website (college.colum who became academics, I am sure, I in your updates! Your classmates Ronald G. Granger ’54 Dental, ate for our grandchildren. We trav- that they are doing, what their kids at the University of Arizona. I was literature (primarily as a poet) and bia.edu/cct) as part of this issue’s drew on those readings and discus- want to hear from you. a “snowbird” from Maine, has eled to destinations such as Rock- have done or are doing, who they an invited speaker at a pediatric science (primarily as a writer and reunion follow-up article. sions constantly over the years. become a member and no doubt ing Horse Ranch in Highland, N.Y., have lost and who their friends cardiology conference in Orange founding editor of books and jour- If you attended the luncheon or As testimony to the effect of the is benefiting from Stan’s bountiful Hersheypark in Pennsylvania and were at Columbia. Memories County in January; later that month nals on scientific vanguards, such any other reunion events, please Core Curriculum, there were times George Koplinka knowledge of the literary quali- the mountains in New York State. are vivid, nostalgia is obvious, I was, at this writing, to present as neuroscience and psychoneuro- share your thoughts and stories when, talking with new colleagues, 51 75 Chelsea Rd. ties of James Joyce. Ron retired as As time went by and there were thankfulness is apparent. We were grand rounds in a hospital in Mi- immunology). with us by sending a letter or email something about our conversation White Plains, NY 10603 a professor and department chair, more grandchildren, and they got so lucky to be at Columbia after to the postal or email address at the led me to stop and ask, ‘Did you go [email protected] affiliated with dentistry, at Boston older, we visited places such as the the end of one war and before the top of the column or though CCT’s to Columbia?’ The Core has a way University. Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore beginning of the next. We should Marv Lipman ’49 was one of 10 Alumni Medalists easy-to-use webform: college.col of shaping how we think about Our class fencing champion, Robert Other news items: Allan W. National Memorial, Yellowstone not waste a minute of any day and umbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. literature and a lot else. (By the way, Nielsen, died on March 15, 2013. Robbins of Alexandria, Va., died National Park, Monument Valley, live every hour as best we can, as honored at Commencement on May 22. CCT needs a class correspon- after our 50th class reunion, my While at Columbia he was the on March 3, 2013. No details are Zion National Park, Grand Teton long as we are able. Time passes, dent to write this column. If you wife, Stephanie ’57 Radcliffe, told holder of both the NCAA and ICFA available. Dr. Gerald Adler is re- National Park, Jackson Hole and more quickly than we realize. Live are interested, please contact Alexis me that she found Columbia men foil championships. Bob was instru- covering from hip surgery. Thomas Bryce Canyon. your life as best as you can, as long ami. I am scheduled to give a talk at “At Columbia, I was an editor Tonti ’11 Arts, managing editor: infinitely more interesting than Har- mental in bringing the “Iron Man” J. Joyce is living in Brevard, N.C. We now have nine grandchil- as you are able. Bob did.” the American College of Cardiology both of Jester and The Columbia [email protected] or 212-851- vard boys.) trophy for fencing to Morningside He retired to the mountains after a dren, with five in college and two Bob sent another note for this meetings in March in San Francisco. Review. My best friends there were 7485. In the meantime, please send “I also was moved by Joe Rus- Heights during his college career long career in the insurance indus- high schoolers who will enter issue: “I live about a mile from the In April, I plan to travel to Paris to Thaddeus Golas, Norman Kelvin, updates. Your classmates want to sell’s letter [also in the Spring issue] and was recently inducted into the try in the metropolitan New York college in September. As we were College at Riverside Drive and give a talk at the European Cardiac Marshall Mascott, Allen Ginsberg hear from you! about Professor James Gutmann Columbia University Athletics Hall area. Tom is an outdoors kind of a planning, it looked to be difficult to West 90th Street, where I’ve lived Arrhythmia Society. In May, I plan and John Hollander ’50; with the and the accompanying photograph. of Fame. guy. Hiking is his major love and it get 17 people together this summer for 51 years. Both daughters have to give a presentation at the Heart latter two I shared poetry prizes You may remember that at that time, In the opinion of your Class helps him to keep in shape. because of college and summer REUNION WEEKEND left the homestead — the older one Rhythm Society in Denver. That awarded by W.H. Auden, Stephen the College didn’t have majors or Notes writer, nothing is more Recently, Condé Nast Traveler jobs the grandchildren had. It was MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 in New Canaan, Conn., and the same month, I will be pleased to Spender and Mark Van Doren ’21 concentrations; instead, we collected important than keeping in touch magazine arrived at my home. A then suggested by my daughter-in- ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS younger one on East 86th Street. receive the Lifetime Achievement GSAS. Van Doren and Jacques ‘maturity credits’ to make sure that with those classmates who shared feature article described a seven- law Maryellen that we go on a trip ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott My wife and I have the apartment Award from the Pima County Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS were my two we studied some subject(s) in depth. our Columbia College experience. week trip in Asia that included the during Christmas and New Year’s, [email protected] (unfortunately, not on the river Medical Society in Tucson, Ariz. favorite professors, and I kept in I accumulated them in English and Many of us are now caregivers to most fabulous sights in the Far East when all the kids were free. 212-851-9148 side), and if my conscience was “In addition to the above, I try to touch with both until they died, philosophy. I applied to Harvard spouses or loved ones, or we our- and accommodations at the most My wife and I decided that this DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova bigger I might feel guilty about keep in touch with my three grown visiting Dr. Barzun in his home in graduate school in philosophy, and selves are receiving care from a fam- luxurious hotels. The cost: $48,000 should be different, special and [email protected] living in a large apartment, but children and six grandchildren, San Antonio several years ago. I Professor Gutmann advised me ily member. My recent telephone (economy class) plus $6,000 for air- educational. We chose Italy. Every- 212-851-7833 truthfully I feel great about it. I was who range in age from 19 months possess books written by each. to apply for as many fellowships calls to Dolores Nielsen, Robert’s fare. It made me think about one of one agreed this would work. So really looking forward to seeing to 21 years.” “In the ’60s, while helping to run John Weaver as I could find (to ‘get my name widow, and Edward P. Hardy Jr. my Korean War adventures, when we had my wife and me, our three old friends at Alumni Reunion Below are new notes received the MIT Neuroscience Research 49 2639 E. 11th St. out there,’ he said). He urged me have strengthened my own resolve I was stationed at Yokota AB near children and their spouses, and Weekend at the end of May. My for this issue. Program, I founded the still extant Brooklyn, NY 11235 particularly to apply for an obscure to be more aware of what it means Tokyo. I was selected to be the lead nine grandchildren, ages 15–23. wife and I often take walks up Charles Cole, who lives in Wa- graduate program in scientific com- [email protected] award, the Henry Fellowship, to assume total responsibility for navigator for three four-engine B- We all left from New York a few Broadway to the College, and old verly, Ohio, writes, “Why not a note munication at Boston University as which he said was always given to another person’s life. A friendly 29s on a mission called “Operation days before Christmas (on different memories come flooding back. I from an 89-year-old? Life has been an adjunct professor. From 1968–91, Marv Lipman was one of 10 someone from Harvard or Yale but note or an occasional call can make Handclasp.” It was supposedly the planes for safety) and arrived in can’t believe that was almost 65 good. College, law school and a I co-taught a graduate course in Alumni Medalists honored at that might carry some weight with a difference. On the other hand, Ed first post-WWII visit of Ameri- Venice. There, we visited St. Mark’s years ago.” career in labor relations with several scientific communication at UC San Commencement on May 22; there the Harvard committee. One Friday told me that he always reads my can military aircraft to Australia. Square, the canals and bridges, Richard Impola writes, “After corporations until age 70. Then 10 Diego until I retired to Amherst, will be an evening event celebrat- in April I got a letter admitting me column in CCT, and that made me In three weeks’ time we visited the Bridge of Sighs and the Doge’s retirement from teaching at SUNY years of consulting, which were where I became an off-campus ing the medalists in Low Library to Harvard, with a scholarship in feel good, too. Darwin, Melbourne and Sydney Palace, and took a boat ride to the New Paltz, I began to work on surprisingly rewarding. The six member of the Neuroscience and on Saturday, October 12, as part of philosophy; the future seemed well Some time ago, art critic Ferdi- along with the north island of island of Murano and gondola rides Finnish, the language of my par- ‘kids’ have done well: three retired, Behavior Graduate Program at Alumni Leaders Weekend. I have arranged. But the next morning I nand Protzman wrote in The Wash­ New Zealand before returning to on the canals. We then traveled ents and their friends. I have trans- grandchildren numerous and scat- UMass Amherst. For the first sev- mentioned my indebtedness to got a telegram from Harvard, telling ington Post the following paragraph Japan. My total cost for this travel through the stunning panorama of lated 20 Finnish works, the most tered. Luckily see them twice a year. eral years in Amherst, I produced him for having introduced me to me that a Henry Fellowship was to about Donald Holden and his extravaganza amounted to $20. Tuscany to Pisa, with the famous notable being a trilogy titled Under Still run most days. Columbia track films on local cultural events for Brooklyn. Clearly, he remains a re- send me to ‘the other Cambridge,’ to watercolors: “Few can claim mas- Classmates! Here is the deal. Piazza dei Miracoli with its Leaning the North Star by Finnish realist au- coach Carl Merner said repeatedly, the benefit of shut-ins and chaired source for continuing class pride. study English. So I owe to Professor tery of the medium and he is one Tell me about a comparable travel Tower. En route to Florence, we vis- thor Väinö Linna. It was probably ‘Run every day, you’ll live to 100 a monthly open-poetry reading. I note here Joe Russell’s Letter Gutmann, one of the kindest, wisest of them. His paintings highlight his experience that you had and I will ited a local Tuscan farm and winery that book that won me the civilian years.’ … Eleven to go. I hesitate Then my wife’s illnesses and my to the Editor regarding Professor men I have ever known, the course consummate skill as a watercolor- publish the details. in the countryside for a lunch with Order of the White Rose from the to write but I’ve never ‘enjoyed’ a post-polio (since 1954, I’ve had James Gutmann (Class of 1918, ’36 of my professional life, just as I do ist as well as his quietly spiritual Have a great summer, and don’t local specialties and wines. In Flor- Finnish government.” sick day, same for wife, Hannah. polio-caused weakness in one leg GSAS) in the Spring issue. There Alan Brown four years earlier. artistic vision.” So, it is no surprise forget to send in your contribution ence, we had a visit to the Academy Harvey Gardner, who describes Enough said. Ran today, temp 40˚. and overcompensation-caused cannot be any one of us fortunate “My very best to all my class- that 22 of Don’s watercolors will be by Sunday, June 30, to support of Art, where Michelangelo’s statue himself as “’48 ex-’45 still extant,” Oldest son is Charles Jr. ’74. This weakness in the other) slowed me enough to have known the profes- mates.” on permanent display at the Federal CCT in this fiscal year (though of David is housed. Nearby is the sent this note: “With Jean (mar- is my fourth note since 1948, all down, and I became a founding sor whose life was not touched and If I recall correctly, Don Fried- Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. they welcome your contributions Duomo, celebrated for its magnifi- ried in 1947), travel only between published.” member of a post-polio support influenced by him. man is from my birthplace, Wood- Congratulations, Don. anytime!). It’s how we keep in cent dome. Florence and the fine Nyack home and second home Former class correspondent group to which I still belong. As I was writing just now, the mere (Long Island), N.Y., as is Bob Here is some news from NROTC touch. You can give by credit card arts are synonymous, and a tour of in South Egremont, Southern Theodore (Ted) Melnechuk, of “My philosophy about life? “chirp” of incoming email inter- Rosencrans. classmates. Leonard Stoehr report- at college.columbia.edu/cct/giving the Uffizi Gallery demonstrates this. Berkshire County, Mass. In touch Amherst, Mass., writes, “Taking as About a dozen years ago, after giv- rupted me — and I now add the That’s all for now. Be sure to ed that B. James Lowe has relocated or by calling 212-851-7852, or mail We then traveled along the famous weekly with Marcel Gutwirth ’47, prime examples the various kinds ing a guest lecture on neuroscience following from a too-long silent Don send in your updates! from Albuquerque, N.M., to Florida. a check, payable to Columbia College “Sun Route” motorway to the ’50 GSAS and Charles Simmons.” of information published about to my grandson’s middle-school Friedman. His new address is 115 Lake of the Today, to Columbia College Today, medieval city of Assisi, renowned Still active with the Virginia my classmates, here are some facts class, I advised the students always “I bet you’ll get a lot of responses Woods Lane, M4076, Saint Johns, Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. for its 13th-century Basilica of St. Medical Reserve Corps, Dr. Sidney about me. to work at something you love, so to the Lit Hum piece in the Spring Mario Palmieri FL 32259. Jim’s wife, Suzette, died 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl., New Francis. Now we have a Pope Fink ’52 P&S “otherwise spends “I’m 85, have hearing aids, that you will enjoy the entire week CCT, but here’s mine anyway. The 50 33 Lakeview Ave. W. recently. More detailed information York, NY 10025. Francis, who took his name from his time hiking, playing bridge and still drive but walk with a cane. I and not just the weekend! articles revivified memories that Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567 can be obtained from Donald A. the famous saint. visiting his extended family, which was happily married to my dear “Alas, this long-winded (and have been with me for a long time. [email protected] Beattie by phoning him at 904-287- We were in Rome for New Year’s includes 15 grandchildren and five wife, Anna, for 65 years, though yet selective) account sounds like a “My first semester at the College, 0222. Len also indicated that James Sidney Prager Eve. While there, we visited the great-grandchildren!” I’ve been widowed now for 6 ½ draft obituary. (Well, I am 85.) Best I took Hum 1 with Alan Brown, Ray Annino has posted on his B. “Tex” McNallen is recovering 20 Como Ct. Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, Robert DeMaria is “doing re- years. We had two daughters and wishes.” who left to become president of website (rayannino.com) a slide- from open-heart surgery. 52 Manchester, NJ 08759 the Roman Forum (the political search for a new novel that takes two sons. A born New Yorker, CCT is sorry to report the death Hobart and William Smith Colleges. show of his new watercolors and a An NROTC reunion is in the [email protected] center during the Roman Republic), place in summer 1936 in Europe, I attended Brooklyn Technical of Bernard W. Wishy ’58 GSAS, What it did to (and for) me we now collection of his older work. They works. Keep in touch with Jim and the Arch of Constantine, the Arch especially Berlin where the summer H.S., where at 14 I published a a history professor who taught at would express with the phrase ‘It include landscapes, seascapes, Don for the “All Hands on Deck” Your reporter and his wife, Max- of Titus and the Colosseum. The Olympics took place. I welcome any prediction of properties of the first Columbia and who resided in San blew my mind’ (I was 16). It also sailing vessels, seashores, forests, whistle. ine, have been taking our family next day we went to the Vatican

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Museums and Michelangelo’s (chairman for three); Layman of the He was a good enough student to ciation and shot his age at 72! prizes and previously were pub- Life has a way of providing us fall, alumni will have a chance to Through ARC, Lew Mendelson breathtaking Sistine Chapel. We Year, Red Triangle Award, named have the time to excel in football “His ol’ teammates greatly lished in a number of anthologies. with both good and sad experi- explore “Town & Country Life in is recruiting high school seniors strolled through St. Peter’s Square Y Golf Honoree for volunteer work; and be a big-hitting first baseman missed seeing him at their periodic “Despite an almost fused back ences. Ron Sugarman looks ahead Tuscany” with guest lecturer Dr. in Washington, D.C., to apply to and to St. Peter’s Basilica to see and chaired the Personnel Commit- in baseball. He and I spent many gatherings because of his health and two hip replacements, I still with both pride and high expecta- Angela Puglisi. It’s not too late to the College as well as soliciting Michelangelo’s Pietà, which is con- tee for 12 years ending in 2006. hours together in the off-season on issues. play a good round of golf with my tions. He has two grandsons who join the group. money for the Columbia College sidered among the most compelling “Gratefully, I learned to play the handball courts with coaches “Our thoughts and prayers are spouse. We have six kids and 10 are 2. Ron loves them and is opti- Our classmates are always do- Fund as a Class Agent. In addition of all works of art in the Western handball at Columbia and had the Lou Little, John Balquist ’32, Lou with his wonderful wife and his grandchildren between us, and an mistic: “Both look like Columbia ing something, either at Columbia to Lew, other CC ’55 Class Agents world. That same night we dined privilege of playing in one game Rossini and Paul Governale ’43 — three daughters.” active family life all over Florida. material,” he says. or in their own neighborhoods. are Aaron Hamburger and Don at a typical Roman restaurant with of doubles with Lou Little. At the he was a very versatile athlete! Your reporter is sad to report the The family has won major fishing Time marches on. In a little less Dick Kuhn paid a visit to Jadwin Laufer, who coordinate and host wine and music and then enjoyed Springfield Y, I played competitive “Tony was a leader in the locker death of David Braun on February contests in the Florida Keys. We than a year we will celebrate the Gym, home of Princeton basket- class dinners in the New York an illuminated night tour of the city. handball for 35 years and, although room and Mr. Cool on the playing 3, 2013; an obituary appeared in have abundant mango and banana 60th anniversary of our graduation ball, squash, fencing and track area. We get a regular group of This was a magical trip (com- I no longer play, I still work out field with great storytelling ability. The New York Times. I met Dave by trees and live surrounded by gar- at Alumni Reunion Weekend 2014 and field, to see his alma mater attendees — Alfred Gollomp, Bob pletely escorted) and the first time regularly. To this day, his football teammates chance at Rockaway Beach the sum- dens, as every potted plant I had (Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1, battle its fierce rival in basketball. Schiff, Ron Spitz, Bill Epstein, our nine grandchildren had been “My wife, Jean, and I were mem-­ remember his stories of the old mer before we began at Columbia; in Washington, D.C., or New York 2014). If you are able to be part of We also heard from Alan Sloate, Anthony Viscusi, Al Martz and out of the United States and to bers of the former 1637 Old First preseason camp at Baker Field’s we were both looking forward to grows into bushes and trees here.” our reunion, please contact Bernd who is active in Westchester in a Herb Cohen. Europe. Although Maxine and I Church, Congregational in Spring- Manor House, and how the ‘Night starting. We were not close but I Brecher ([email protected] lot of ways. Bob Schoenfeld wrote The burning question for Walt had been to Italy twice, and had field for 53 years, where I served as Riders’ would deplete our ranks always considered it an honor that or 914-961-4101). from Plainview (Long Island), Deptula is: How is your autobi- REUNION WEEKEND seen almost everything we saw on chairman of the board of deacons in the dark of the night … or re- Dave remembered how we met and Please stay well and enjoy life. N.Y. Great to hear from the former ography coming along? Other MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 this trip, the magic of this time was and moderator, headed four fund minding us about celebrating new thought of me as a friend. Hope to see you on campus. hoopster whose father, Sam ’30, former athletes of note are the late ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS seeing Italy through the eyes of our drives and was on the board of Columbia President ‘Ike’ Eisen- Your reporter wishes all the was a big-time referee and player Willy Storz, who would have been ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott grandchildren. trustees for 43 years, the last four as hower’s birthday at our training members of the Class of 1952 good for Columbia. Bob has produced a terrific with the current group run- [email protected] Robert Walker writes, “I wasn’t chairman. table as Doc Barrett rolled in his big luck and good health! Gerald Sherwin special film about his dad, which ning for the school, and Stanley 212-851-9148 the brightest light on the 116th “I have been a member of Ki- birthday cake, only to be instructed 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A I am sure is available for viewing. Zinberg, who with Barry would DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Street campus; however, I was will- wanis for the past 43 years, past by Little that ‘the cake was for 55 New York, NY 10021 We’ll be in touch to get the good make wonderful additions to this [email protected] ing to work. Dean Harry Coleman president, life member of Kiwanis coaches only’ while we sang Happy Lew Robins doctor involved in class activities. year’s group of fencers. 212-851-7833 [email protected] ’46 was a big help! It was a pleasure International and coordinator for Birthday to Ike. Or the ‘hot toast’ 1221 Stratfield Rd. Tony Blandi resides in Florida, My fellow classmates. to see him again much later when our community partnership with story at our pregame meal at Bear 53 Fairfield, CT 06825 Howard Falberg Exciting and informative events where he’s taking in the sunshine, It is less than two years until the I headed the local division of the Washington Elementary School Mountain Inn before the Army [email protected] 54 13710 Paseo Bonita have permeated the University and for the most part. His motto is, magic 60th comes upon us. University’s $200 million campaign. (built in 1918). Also a past president game at West Point. Each table had Poway, CA 92064 the College during the past sev- “Stay well. Do good things. Drink There is a lot to do but most of “Others at Columbia who meant of the Springfield Junior Chamber baskets of hot toast, which Little I hope everyone enjoyed Alumni [email protected] eral months. In February, Trustee good wine. Stay in touch.” We all, just be there. Showing up is so much to me were baseball coach of Commerce and a past board discovered and ordered John Bate- Reunion Weekend. The deadline for Emeritus George Van Amson ’74 received a call from Abbe Leban more than half the battle. John Balquist ’32; Tony Montana, member of the Foundation of man, our assistant coach, to take this issue of CCT fell before the big There are times when you receive had a lengthy “sit-down” discus- (a close friend of the late Ferdie This could be the best weekend for whom I worked three times a Springfield Technical Community them all back to the kitchen. Tony event, but we’ll have a full report word from classmates you haven’t sion with President Lee C. Bol- Setaro), who has relocated to the ever. We’ll keep you posted. week from 8 p.m.–midnight, all College and the Employers Associa- was a master at telling those types on all the doings in the Fall issue. heard from for some time. Jerry linger at the Columbia University Bay Area. San Francisco versus Love to all! Everywhere! through college, flipping hamburg- tion of Western, Mass. of stories! If you attended, please share your Gordon is a case in point. Jerry and Club of New York before a crowd Wilmington, Del. — mmmmm. ers in the Lion’s Den; and Frank thoughts and stories with me. The I were able to get together often of alumni and friends. Much was John Naley let us know that Sorrentino, my four-year super class photo, however, may be found when we both lived in Cincinnati, discussed about the present and his good buddy, Ron McPhee, is Stephen K. Easton roommate. Irv Milowe ’53’s 100-page book of poems, Strawberry on the CCT website (college.colum where a well-organized Columbia future of the school, including out of the hospital and recuperat- 56 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. “Sorry to hear from Howie bia.edu/cct) as part of this issue’s College Club was formed; then my Global Centers, online learning, ing from an operation. No one is Englewood, NJ 07631 Albatross, is available on Amazon. Many of the Hansen of Tony Misho’s passing. reunion follow-up coverage. work took me to California. And Manhattanville and more. Other tougher than Ron. [email protected] Tony and I played on Columbia’s poems have won prizes. Meanwhile, Irv Milowe sent the so, recently, I was happy to hear noteworthy events at the club Jack Freeman, who attends all baseball team and in the summer following fascinating email: from Jerry and his wife, Pat, who included a lecture by Professor Ira receptions involving sports, was Our class continues to be active, of our junior year played nine “I work part-time in psychiatry have now moved to Jupiter, Fla. As Katznelson ’66, who spoke on his seen at the Basketball Alumni and a number of class functions games in Brazil and Puerto Rico. “My wife and I lived in the same “After graduation, as an ROTC and psychoanalysis and I am a pro- he put it, “We are enjoying every new book, Fear Itself: The New Deal Reunion in early February. Jack have been well attended. We had Tony was special, an outstanding apartment area in Springfield when Naval Officer, Tony spent two fessor of psychiatry at the Univer- minute of it except for the difficulty and the Origins of Our Time. forgot where he was — he brought a February class luncheon at the football and baseball player. we were kids. The love of my life years in the Pacific aboard ship sity of Miami, which is five minutes I’m having adjusting to the iPod, Also in February, a panel and dis- his mitt to the event. Columbia University Club of New “After graduation I was drafted and I have made our home in Long- and was recruited to play football away from home in Coconut Grove, iPad, iPhone and texting.” cussion of the healthcare industry Did you know that Allen Hy- York. In attendance were Al Franco into the Army. Following Radio, meadow, a suburb of Springfield, for for the Amphibious Force team Fla. An interesting project has been By George, does he have com- landscape took place at the club’s man probably owns the record for ’56E, Ron Kapon, Ralph Kaslick, Radar and then Guided Missile 54 years and celebrate our 61st an- at Coronado, Calif. Billy Wade of the China American Psychoanalytic pany. Columbia Networking Night. More being hood marshal at University Al Broadwin, Maurice Klein, Stan School at Redstone Arsenal near niversary in July. I’ve had a good life Vanderbilt fame and Chicago Bear Alliance, through which we trained We received, sadly, unfortunate than 250 Columbians were in atten- Commencement? He did it again Soren and me. As usually happens Huntsville, Ala., I remained there thanks in good part to Columbia.” stardom was the quarterback in hundreds of Chinese therapists via news about the death of Dave Wil- dance to meet, greet and socialize. this year. when Columbia alums get together, for the balance of my service. Upon James Santos writes from Stowe, the same backfield and Colum- Skype. This came about as we su- liams on December 6, 2012, in Mem- Ten esteemed faculty members We usually don’t go across the we had wonderful discussion. We returning home I entered the insur- Vt., “Then: After graduating with bia teammate Bob Schwegler, a pervised our starting group’s work phis, where he had lived for many were presented the Lenfest Distin- street for news but Toni Coffee ’56 covered a litany of places of recent ance business with MassMutual in an engineering degree from Lehigh, UDT member, played his usual during the Chengdu earthquake, years. He had gone there from the guished Columbia Faculty Awards Barnard, widow of Donn Coffee, travel, continuing work involve- Springfield, Mass., and six years went to GE followed by military linebacker position. and were then asked by the Chinese Eastman School of Music to become at Casa Italiana on February 27. received an Alumni Medal this ment for some class members, later I joined Pension & Health service and owning a novel and “Football teammate Bill Wallace government to start six, two-year chairman of the music department This event is one of the school’s year at Commencement. Truly information on the adult education Associates as a consultant for technical remanufacturing business recruited both Tony and me into the psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Memphis. Larry premier gatherings. [See Around deserved. available at various colleges in the corporate pensions and employee with its attendant stresses. life insurance business with Home programs throughout China. We Gartner, Dave’s roommate for three the Quads.] Larry Balfus, who attended the area, including Columbia, and an benefits, retiring as a partner and “Afterward: Consulting services Life of New York in 1954. Tony was have 100 graduates, 250 in their years at Columbia, recalls him with Dean James J. Valentini was Dean’s Scholarship Reception on v.p. in 1996. coupled with new product devel- appointed manager of a scratch fourth year of training and 250 on great admiration as a wonderfully made honorary men’s basketball February 7, still is toiling away on “Thankful for my schooling, I opment in the ergonomic, exercise agency in Orlando in 1961, a move the waiting list. Amazing that if warm and sensitive person and a coach when Columbia played Yale Long Island, doing yeoman’s work What’s Your Story? have been a reader in Springfield’s and appliance fields for me and that was recognized for much of his psychoanalysis disappears in the musical genius who was a great at Levien Gym on March 1 and for the Alumni Representative Com- Letting classmates know Read Aloud Program for 20 years clients. success. He subsequently opened United States, it will survive in teacher and composer. Larry says received a rousing cheer when he mittee (ARC) of Nassau County. and a tutor for 12 at Kensington “Now: Good fortune. I still ski branch offices in Tallahassee, Day­ China. I also am the poetry editor Dave even taught him to appreciate was introduced at mid-court. The Our Hall of Famer, Barry what’s going on in your Avenue Elementary School (an In- and play tennis. Returned to carv- tona, Jacksonville and St. Augus- for its magazine. and understand modern classical Lions smothered the Yale Bulldogs Pariser, is active with the Columbia life is easier than ever. ternational Baccalaureate Primary ing stone and exhibiting regionally. tine. Being the astute leader he was, “My spouse is a Psy.D., also an music. by double figures, 59–46. fencers in addition to painting. Send in your Class Notes! Years Programme School built in Still have my pickup truck and he became president of Home Life analyst, and we have been doing Larry also recalls that Dave was The eighth annual Columbia With the basketball season ONLINE by clicking 1908), chairman of my 50th and crane. Married for 46 years to my Manager’s Association and the research work on a new form of an incredibly fast typist on the Alumni Association at Sundance ending a few months ago, the college.columbia.edu/cct/ 55th junior high school reunions, beautiful wife, Ruth, and have two Florida General Agents and Manag- couples therapy with a number of IBM electric machine. He worked Film Festival event took place in Columbia Club of New England submit_class_note. and chairman of my 50th, 55th and lovable children. I am fortunate ers’ Association. Tony’s football and international colleagues. his way through Columbia typing January in Park City, Utah, with held a special alumni function in 60th high school reunions. but still keep my fingers crossed! baseball teammate, Steve Reich ’53, “A second major project recently admission letters in the Admis- contributions from more than 50 Cambridge. We were hoping to see EMAIL to the address at “Giving back to the community Regards to all classmates.” became his biggest producer for reached fruition, as a 100-page sions Office at night. He was so fast alumni, students and faculty. It our New England classmates — the top of your column. has always been a priority of mine: Howie Hansen sent this sad many years! Tony retired at 60. book of my poems has been they fired all the other typists. “He gets better and better for the school Harold Kushner (probably watch- MAIL to the address at the I have been a volunteer with the news: “We lost another outstanding “Other achievements along the published. Strawberry Albatross is added something quite special to in Morningside Heights. ing the Celtics), Eddie Goldberg, YMCA of Greater Springfield for football teammate and classmate in way: He became president of the available on Amazon. Many of the my Columbia experience,” says We cannot forget the Alumni Lew Banci, Ralph Wagner and Ted top of your column. 57 years; on the board for 20 years Tony Misho on October 15, 2012. Florida Left Hander’s Golf Asso- poems have won state and national Larry. Travel Study Program where, this Baker (still sprinting in Maine).

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES extremely interesting conversa- Hemmerdinger in addition to Ed American know-how in market- double’ during the winter holi- “Evolution of a Printmaker,” at cct) as part of this issue’s reunion tion with Al Broadwin, from an and Ed’s wife, Vicki. In attendance ing, Len’s book will be a welcome days, attending two class lunches the Maine Jewish Museum in follow-up article. engineering perspective, on some were Dan Link and his wife, Elinor; addition to simplifying some of the separated by six days and 3,000 Portland, Maine, from January The Class Lunch is held on the of the engineering problems con- Mike Spett and his wife, Lisa; Lou misunderstandings of our economic miles. The first was organized on a 10–February 25. It was curated by second Wednesday of every month, nected with the battery failure of the and his wife, Anita; Bob Siroty and system. beautiful Sunday afternoon by Stan Bruce Brown and held in memory in the Grill Room of the Columbia recent Boeing 787. Al runs his own his wife, Margo; Lee Seidler and Another condition of our aging Barnett and Martin Brothers and of David Gamper and David University Club of New York, 15 W. engineering consulting firm and has his wife, Gene; Howard Hansen (not old) class members is downsiz- hosted by Haig Bohigian and his Becker, who were former students 43rd St. The cost is $31 per person. been involved in efficacy manage- ’52 and his wife, Dianne; Gershon ing. In the last two years, I know wife, Valerie, at their lovely home of Elliott’s at Bowdoin. The Portland Email Art Radin if you plan to at- ment problems of various products. Vincow and his wife, Dina; Stan that at least two of our class mem­ in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., overlooking Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram tend, up to the day before: aradin@ We were all impressed with his Manne and his wife, Fern; Dan bers, Lou Hemmerdinger and my the Hudson River. Also attending covered Deedee’s show on January radinglass.com. knowledge and comments. Kazimir; Murray Eskenazi; Eric brother, Maurice Easton, have were Larry Boes, Joe Feldschuh, 6 (preview) and January 20. On February 7, I, Vic Levin and Donath and his wife, Mariel; Marty moved out of their residences of Bob Flescher, Sal Franchino, Steve Deedee began her significant REUNION WEEKEND his wife, Fran, attended the annual Mayer and his wife, Susan; and me. many years. Lou moved to a senior Fybish, Dave Kinne, Mark Stanton printmaking in 1957, while a student MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Dean’s Scholarship Reception in In addition, Ed had invited the community, while Maurice moved and John Wellington. at Smith, with a woodcut, “Daedalus ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS support of our Class of ’56 scholar- then-acting dean of the Engineer- to a smaller residence in the same “I subsequently left for California and Icarus.” Her works show a po- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott ship students. We currently support ing School, Don Goldfarb, to fill us area he’s been living in Birming- to spend Christmas with my son litical message; she was influenced [email protected] 14 students (three of whom just in on the expansion plans at Co- ham, Mich. For those of you in and his family in Orange County, by her reading as a teenager of 212-851-9148 graduated with the Class of 2013) lumbia, including the development North Carolina, Maurice will be and I was fortunate to be included Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova through two scholarships. The stu- of the Manhattanville campus. One spending more time in that area, the following Saturday in a class Girl, the civil and women’s rights [email protected] dents hail from places ranging from of the things that impressed me too, as his son lives and works in lunch organized by John Taussig movements, and later by “images 212-851-7833 Bernard W. Nussbaum ’58 and The Hon. Judith S. Kaye ’58 Barnard the metropolitan area to as far away is how active and integrated the Charlotte. Both Lou and Maurice and Gene Wagner, which included of cruelty and suffering around the were honored at Columbia/Barnard Hillel and The Kraft Center for as Turkey and include the South- Engineering School has become related that the worst part of John Ahouse, Ken Bodenstein, globe.” Norman Gelfand Jewish Student Life’s 2013 Seixas Award Dinner on May 2 in Low east, Midwest and Southwest areas with the College, so that engineer- downsizing was getting rid of all Mike Gold, Lewis Schainuck From 1984–2006, Deedee was 59 c/o CCT Rotunda. Nussbaum is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz of the United States. We even have a ing students can take many of the their accumulated “stuff.” and Gerry Werksman, in bright director of the Maine Humanities Columbia Alumni Center and served as White House Counsel to President Clinton, while member of the Quapaw Indian tribe Columbia liberal arts courses while As a Class Agent for the Colum- and sunny Long Beach, this time Council and is a longtime member 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Kaye is of counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and is a of Oklahoma [see “Senior Snap- getting their engineering educa- bia College Fund, I again encourage overlooking the Queen Mary and of the Portland-based Peregrine New York, NY 10025 former chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. shots” in this issue], which shows tion; likewise, interested College each of you, our Columbia family the Pacific Ocean. The California Press. [email protected] PHOTO: MAX W. ORENSTEIN the diversity of our student body. students can take engineering members, to consider making a contingent also included five wives While in NYC February 7–11, All of our scholarship students are courses to see if they have talent contribution to the Columbia (albeit at a remote table). yours truly met Kathleen and Dave John (Jack) Kauderer shares some bright and motivated, with most of in that area. By the way, from my College Fund for the current fiscal “Both lunches were delightful Kinne for dinner. I also paid a visit memories of one of his instructors. who is retired from a career teaching in Worcester. I live in Amherst with them indicating their desire to go College, Engineering and Business year, which ends on Sunday, June occasions with much good fellow- to campus, where I called on Alex “In my first semester at Columbia, immigrant children in the Cam- my wife, Eleanor (Ellie). We are a on to further education and careers School contacts, I am informed that 30, or to get a head start on next ship and reminiscing, and I heart- Sachare ’71, Lisa Palladino, Alexis in fall 1955, I took Humanities A. bridge public school system. We blended family with six children in areas such as law, journalism and the greatest current demand is for year’s contribution. I assure you ily recommend these opportunities Tonti ’11 Arts and Elena Hecht ’09 My instructor was Louis Simpson have a son and a daughter who and five grandchildren. I am one social services. Spending just two engineering graduates. that all donations, large or small, are to all classmates who are able to Barnard of CCT and on Nick Mider, [’49 GS, ’59 GSAS], a demanding are both seniors in college and will of those elected to Amherst town hours one evening with some of our This kind of get-together reminds accepted and put to good use by the participate.” formerly of Alumni Affairs. In and excellent teacher. His obituary graduate this spring on the same day meeting. I was involved years back scholarship students has impressed me of the every-five-year class College. You can give by credit card More reporting from the Long the spirit of the Core Curriculum, appeared in The New York Times from Smith and Boston University. in the Civil Rights struggle, includ- upon me the high standards that get-together that is our College at college.columbia.edu/giveonline Beach lunch comes from Gene I also visited two of my favorite and other papers upon his death This means that, much to our disap- ing in Mississippi, and have served our admissions department has reunion. It is not too early to remind up until midnight EST on June 30. Wagner: “Our final luncheon for haunts, the Metropolitan Museum at 89 on September 14, 2012. He pointment, we could not both attend on the Amherst Human Rights (6.9 percent acceptance rate for the everyone that our 60th anniversary You also may call the Alumni Office 2012 was held on December 22, at of Art and the American Museum won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in both graduations. We planned to Commission. Ellie and I are part of Class of 2017). I encourage any class will take place in June 2016, a mere at 212-851-7488 during business Parker’s Lighthouse in Long Beach, of Natural History, and attended 1964 and published many books split up, with one parent at each. a group of five who have a regular member who is interested to mark three years away. I encourage every hours, or mail a check, payable Calif. We have a great nucleus of a concert of the New Amsterdam of poetry and literary criticism. He “For the past several years, the current affairs radio show, Focus, their calendars for next February; class member who’s interested in to Columbia College Fund, to guys who enjoy the camaraderie Symphony Orchestra at Symphony later taught at UC Berkeley and four of us have taken a vacation to- which airs on the UMass-Amherst it is always a stimulating evening. having a part in planning the event Columbia College Fund, Columbia of old friendships, good food and Space in which a friend played the SUNY Stony Brook. I assume some gether. It is always a special time for radio station, WMUA 91.1 FM, Sun- If you are interested in receiving to contact me at tball8000@earthlink. Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., meaningful conversation. cello. of my classmates also encountered us. Last year it was a trip to China days from noon–1 p.m. I have been biographies of our students, please net to share their views. MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY “We even have a group of wives him as an instructor and might be that included Beijing, Shanghai, a Quaker most of my adult life.” contact Saskia De Caires, director, Gershon Vincow has been 10025. If mailing a check be sure to who join us but sit a distance away interested in his great accomplish- Chengdu, Xi’an, Hong Kong and From Norman Bernstein we donor relations: sdd2128@columbia. studying, writing and teaching for allow several days for it to arrive by from the ‘Old Lions.’ If there are Barry Dickman ments as a contemporary poet. In the Li River valley. Exhausting. This hear, “In December, I won a land- edu or 212-851-9719. many years with Joan Burstyn, June 30 if you wish to receive credit any classmates who plan to be in 25 Main St. retirement, I have had the time year it will be a safari in Tanzania. I mark environmental case in the Also in attendance was Socrates whom he terms his “study buddy.” for this fiscal year. Southern California this year, we 58 Court Plaza North, Ste 104 to explore poetry, which premed hope that this tradition can continue United States Court of Appeals for Nicholas, who was hosting his two They recently published Search­ If you are interested in any sort could be flexible about changing Hackensack, NJ 07601 studies did not leave room for. I as the children become more inde- the Seventh Circuit. It held that a scholarship recipients. ing for God: Study Partners Explore of “legacy” contribution to Colum- our luncheon dates to accommo- [email protected] stumbled on his poetry just this pendent, but we will have to wait superfund remediation trust (of If any class member is interested Contemporary Jewish Texts. Gershon, bia, please contact me at tball8000@ date them.” past fall.” and see. We also have a summer which I am one of the trustees) can in setting up a named scholarship, who along with a number of our earthlink.net. Elliott Schwartz, the Robert K. Bernie Nussbaum was the co-hon- Richard Lacoss ’60E writes, “I home on the Maine coast where we bring a direct action against the please contact either me or Sydney class members, graduated from Please let me or Lou Hemmer­ Beck Professor of Music Emeritus at oree at Columbia/Barnard Hillel’s stayed on for another year after CC spend time together. owner and its insurer of an Indiana Maisel, assistant director, class Lincoln H.S. in Brooklyn, became dinger ([email protected]) know Bowdoin, writes, “In October I was 2013 Seixas Award Dinner, held in graduation and obtained a B.S. from “Finally, we are at the age when superfund site to compel it to pay giving: [email protected] or a respected teacher and eventually of any news that you would like to the guest composer at the Univer- Low Library in May. His co-honoree the Engineering School. After that health issues tend to become more for the environmental cleanup 212-851-7492. vice chancellor for academic affairs share in Class Notes. Also, if you sity of Maryland, Baltimore annual was the Hon. Judith S. Kaye ’58 Bar- I was off to UC Berkeley, where I important. I am happy to say that I that the trust is conducting. The I plan to invite at least one of our at Syracuse; he retired in 2009. have changed your email or mail- Livewire New Music Festival and nard, the former chief judge of the earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineer- am quite well, although I have new owner and its carrier wanted (and scholarship students to our monthly Ron Kapon, our peripatetic ing address recently, please inform Symposium. My music was also New York Court of Appeals. This is ing. Then back to my home state of hips that slow down my passage got from the lower court) a ‘free campus luncheons to share their oenophile, gave a three-hour lecture either one of us as well as the CCT performed at Tufts (November) far from their first joint effort; when Massachusetts to work on nuclear through airport security and, ap- ride.’ The trust, according to the view of current Columbia goings- to senior citizens in Greenwich, staff (college.columbia.edu/cct/ and at the cell in NYC (December). Bernie was editor-in-chief of Specta­ test monitoring at the MIT Lincoln parently, I had a silent heart attack Seventh Circuit, which reversed the on. So that’s another reason for our Conn., “Confessions of a Wine Non- contactus). This is a part of our mis- For the NYC performance, the en- tor, he coordinated some journalistic Laboratory. I’ve been there ever and now sport a blocked artery. I lower federal court, is not confined metropolitan alums to attend! Please Snob.” Ron has a video of his lec- sion to connect all class members semble mise-en featured a work of projects with Judge Kaye (then Judy since, 40 years up until retirement, say ‘apparently,’ because I don’t to a ‘contribution action,’ which contact me at [email protected] ture (interesting and entertaining) at with our activities. mine for chamber orchestra, Texture, Smith), who occupied the same post and part-time for the last several know when it happened, but the arguably has a shorter statute of if you need more information. vimeo.com/59696001. This lecture As we celebrate the Class of 2013, composed almost 50 years ago. with the Barnard Bulletin. Readers of years. I may be the last person in the cardiologist assures me that it did. limitations and other procedural On February 25, Ed Botwinick was set up by his good friend Fred we can reflect on our own Colum- “A new CD of my music has this column may recall that a couple world to spend his entire career at All in all, though, everything is restrictions. ’58E hosted our annual Florida get- Brooks. Kudos to Fred for letting bia experiences. been released on the Metier label of years ago Bernie was hired by the one organization. But it has been fun, working fine.” “On a separate note, fine art pho- together. This is an event that the Ron loose on Greenwich’s senior (United Kingdom). It features the judge to sue the state in an effort to with a chance to work on and direct Frank Gatti writes, “I am a child tographs that I took in Spain last late Alan Miller ’57E, ’58 Business citizens. London-based Kreutzer Quartet increase judicial salaries. many diverse projects ranging from psychiatrist. I participate in the summer while traveling with my inaugurated a number of years ago. Len Wolfe reports that his book, Herman Levy and also includes live performanc- A report on our 55th reunion seismology, sonar and aeroacoustic care of children and their families, wife, Michele, and our daughter, It seems to grow in stature every Easy Economics: A Visual Guide to 57 7322 Rockford Dr. es of my music at the Library of will appear in the next issue of surveillance to artificial intelligence, avoiding the insurance-generated, Sarah-Judith (15), were displayed at year. Ed hosted this year’s event What You Need to Know, has now Falls Church, VA 22043 Congress in Washington, D.C. (my CCT. If you attended, please share computer architecture and image 15-minute medication check that a reception on March 9 at the Vintol- at his Stuart, Fla., home (approxi- been published in Chinese. Based [email protected] 70th birthday concert in 2006).” your thoughts and stories with me understanding. threatens to undercut any quality in ogy Wine & Spirits shop and gallery mately an hour north of the Fort upon my recent visit to China and Elliott’s wife, Dorothy (“Deedee”), for this column. The class photo, “My home base now is Cam- child psychiatry work. I am on the in Scarsdale, N.Y. Fifty percent of Lauderdale area). The organization Bob Lauterborn’s experience in Carlos Muñoz writes, “I had the had an exhibition of about 40 of however, may be found on the CCT bridge, Mass., where I live with my faculty and teach at the University the proceeds went to the Perform- of the event was helped by Lou educating our Chinese brethren on pleasure of experiencing a rare ‘’57 her prints covering half a century, website (college.columbia.edu/ wife of 30 years, Cynthia Oldham, of Massachusetts Medical School ing Arts Center in Purchase, N.Y.

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Kenneth Scheffel and Clive clinging to the coast of Indochina on touches on his early childhood and Chajet report that they are well the South China Sea. A destination some of his experiences in stateside and that no news is good news. so remote that rarely, if ever, did it hospitals. But its burden is a most Allan D. Gardner succumbed register on the itinerary of places compelling, gripping and haunting to a brain tumor on March 19, we longed to visit. And then, in the account of his experiences treating 2013. Our sympathies go out to his mid-1960s, it erupted into our con- Marines for the horrific injuries suf- family. sciousness and held us enthralled, fered in combat, under a workload Fred Knauer sent the following: dominated our conversations, be- that was endless and exhausting, “It is with great regret and sadness came a focus of endless debate and in a facility surrounded by rice I report Saul Brody died on March a goad to political engagement. It paddies that served as Viet Cong 21, 2013. I was told he had never redrafted the finely drawn blueprint launching pads for grenades and recovered from a recent series of we had designed for our lives in con- rockets, where machine gun fire strokes.” sequence of the high or low number punctuated the nocturnal music of We have a bit of advice from on our draft cards and the distance lizards and mosquitoes. Paul pro- Gene Appel. “Fellow Columbians to the horizon beyond which our vides portraits of the men he served of 1959: My wife, Linda, and I draft deferments disappeared. with, highlighting their fortitude, offer our congratulations to all of Possibly it hastened the advent of skill and heroism performing in an you who are here to read this! It’s fatherhood, which had become operating room under siege, and an accomplishment to have lived a basis for draft exemption. The records their revelries and hijinks three-quarters of a century, and I obsession only increased and grew in their off-hours. He describes hope you have had many successes. darker with the passage of time. with exquisite precision and clini- Left to right in forefront: Jack Kirik ’61, ’63E; Jim Ammeen ’61, ’62 If you really wonder what success is But the physical reality of Vietnam, cal detail the surgical procedures Business; and William V. Campbell ’62, ’64 TC gathered at the open- “One of the pleasures of ‘cleaning house’ is the discovery of the unexpected,” Paul Nagano ’60 writes for you, I constantly refer to Emer- for most of us, never became more performed. Significantly, despite ing of The Campbell Sports Center on October 20. from Honolulu. “I was going through letters my mother saved (she saved all the correspondence I sent son’s definition, which is framed on than an abstraction. Not so for Paul the grim setting, it is a memoir not her when I went away to college and into the Navy), and I came upon a birthday card that I sent to my our entryway to our house. To save Brief. For Paul, quite unexpectedly, without humor and not without dad in November 1956. To show him where I lived, I did an ink and watercolor sketch out of my dorm you the trouble of looking it up, the war zone became his home for a romance. less places in Alaska, the Catskills of the New Jersey Democratic State window in Livingston Hall. No iPhone camera then.” here it is: ‘To laugh often and much; year that spanned 1969–70. Paul was assigned to Hootch 8, and the West. committee and expects to be elected ILLUSTRATION: PAUL NAGANO ’60 to win the respect of intelligent Upon finishing New York Medi- hootches being the wooden lodges “Living some six miles from in the June primary, as there is no or people and the affection of children; cal College, Paul enrolled in the that housed the officers of the First Sunlight Mountain Resort, I ski only token opposition. to earn the appreciation of honest Berry Plan, which enabled him to Medical Battalion Hospital. And so there regularly. Bill Tanenbaum April 2013 marked Rabbi Clif- “This summer we are all hiking amazing Pacific coast — more than activities. We worked for a number critics and endure the betrayal of complete a residency in orthopedic his book is titled Hootch 8: A Combat comes to Vail in the summer and ford B. Miller’s retirement from in Glacier National Park.” comparable with California’s, what of Democratic candidates in our false friends; to appreciate beauty, surgery with the proviso that he Surgeon Remembers Vietnam. It’s a we get together when he is here. I the pulpit of Temple Emanu-El in We have heard from two of our with the Andes on the other side. largely right-wing state of Arizona, to find the best in others; to leave serve two years of active duty in must-read. And I recommend that am still in close contact with Josh Bayonne, N.J., after 25 years with class’ authors who continue to They went to the dry northern area from President Barack Obama ’83 the world a bit better, whether by a the Navy immediately thereafter. you purchase the book, as all pro- Pruzansky, Richard Friedlander the congregation and after 65 years be productive. Jay Neugeboren to Ovalle, then east to one of Chile’s down to the local level, and even healthy child, a garden patch, or a Unbeknownst to Paul, the Marine ceeds are being donated to injured and Harris Markhoff. leading worship and teaching writes, “My 19th and 20th books, mountain observatories and saw for a couple of candidates for non- redeemed social condition; to know Corps drew all of its medical per- veteran charities. “Social networking (e.g., Face- Jewish studies. He considers it both novels, were published this the moon, spiral nebula and Jupiter. partisan elected positions. even one life has breathed easier sonnel, administrators and other Paul and his wife, Rochelle, book) provides a steady stream of semi-retirement, as he continues season — The Other Side of the World Peter says it was amazing. “We lobbied our state re-dis- because you have lived. This is to non-combatants from the Navy. also a physician, live in Rockland contacts from old friends seeking to catalog rabbinic literature in the (December) and The American Sun Jerry Perlman brings us up to tricting commission to draw more have succeeded.’” Paul, along with the late Dick County, N.Y., where for 30 years my opinion on a variety of malig- library of the Jewish Theological & Wind Moving Picture Company date. “After completing my ortho- equitable congressional and legisla- Gene continues: “I am pleased Nottingham, who were together Paul has maintained an orthopedic nancies. Thankfully, most of them Seminary more than 30 hours a (March). Also, I was invited to teach pedic residency, I was fortunate to tive districts, and largely succeeded. to say, although there could be in medical school and orthope- practice. Their four children, Andy, have done well. week. Soon he hopes to announce a master class this spring for the meet and marry Norma Diamond Therefore we were able to help elect more, life for us has been full of dic residency at the Hospital for Joanna, James and Amanda, and “Last summer I was in Bar Har- his new address in Caldwell, N.J. graduate writing program of the of Chattanooga, Tenn. We have two a Democrat in our congressional good memories. Last year, how- Joint Diseases, were dispatched grandchildren live nearby. bor, Maine, for the wedding of my On May 2, Marshall Berman School of the Arts.” sons. Doug founded Sports Media district in a close race, so now the ever, culminated in the fact that all to Marine Corps basic training at Ira Jaffrey has a new career and oldest grandson and to visit all four gave the 2013 Mumford Lecture at Not to be left out, Jerome Advisors in New Canaan, Conn., Arizona congressional delegation is of a sudden, I realize, I ain’t what Camp Pendleton MCB, Calif., then a full and active life. He writes, “I of my East Coast grandchildren. the Spitzer School of Architecture, Charyn’s latest novel, Mr. and Mrs. while Jeff is a partner at LNK Part- majority Democratic. The Arizona I used to be! As a matter of fact, to Field Medical Service School closed my clinical practice (West- The holiday season was spent with CCNY, on the theme “Emerging Lincoln, will be published next ners, a private equity firm in White State Senate and House Republican I’m feeling decrepit! So maybe that for training in combat surgery and ern Slope Oncology Associates), my oldest son and two of my six from the Ruins.” year. He also is working on a study Plains, N.Y. They each have three majorities were greatly reduced. is why our class is not sending in on to the First Medical Battalion which I established here in Colo- grandchildren, skiing in Mammoth, After a 12-year relationship, of Emily Dickinson. His 11th in a sons, so if I can play first base, we Obama of course lost the state, news. Who the hell wants to talk Hospital, First Marine Division, in rado in 1997. I am now full-time Calif. Doug Kendall and Sauddy were series of crime novels, Under the Eye have our own baseball team. which he knew he didn’t need to about arthritis, prostate problems, Da Nang. (Dick was rotated out at The Calaway & Young Cancer “My middle son is a Ph.D. married in Beverly Hills on March of God: An Isaac Sidel Novel, recently “We live in Wilton, Conn., where win for an Electoral College victory. loss of strength, stumbling, short- of Da Nang as a result of a knee Center in Glenwood Springs. This mathematician on the faculty of 7. They met in the building where was published (the entire series I enjoy golf, painting, travel and, “Healthcare was a major issue ness of breath or — I forgot what I problem. You may recall, as I do is my third incarnation as a medi- the University of Washington and Doug had his office with Mor- is available as e-books). The Isaac most of all, time with the grand- and we worked with organizations was going to say?! with sadness — for Dick and I cal oncologist. At 73, I am actively rapidly becoming an authority on gan Stanley in Beverly Hills. She Sidel novels are being turned into kids. I have given up surgery and to help overcome misinformation “Don’t worry about all that and were teammates on lightweight practicing and continuing clinical mathematical modeling of climate sometimes brought him pumpkin an animated series for television. emergency call duty, and work in the being propagated against Obam- just be happy you are still here! crew — that after practicing research. I lecture on neuroendo­ change. muffins (his favorite), which she As of this writing, Jerome was set office three half-days a week. Fortu- acare. Our other issues included My advice to everyone is pick up orthopedic surgery for many years crine tumors as well as cancer “Having gone through two made through her work at the to read from an earlier novel, The nately we all have been healthy and education and election integrity. that phone and call someone you in Flushing, Queens, he developed genetics. divorces, I am presently footloose Maple Drive Café. Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, at the able to enjoy it all. Looking forward “I’m a precinct committeeperson haven’t heard from for longer a brain tumor and died two years “I am on the board of directors and fancy-free.” Allen Lowrie works for the Navy American Library in Paris in May. to the 55th reunion.” (so is Toby) and I’m also a delegate than you want. Second, give a big later, in 2004.) of the Chabad Jewish Community Peter Schweitzer offers a recol- in Mississippi. He says that many Jerome lives in New York and From Arthur M. Louis: “I have to the Democratic Party’s state hug to the person closest to you. Paul was no stranger to war. Center in Aspen. We have broken lection of our recently departed there are on pins and needles about Paris. He visited Richmond (and a new book, The Little Champ: A Dif­ convention, which meets quarterly Third, smile at the world around WWII broke out only weeks after ground for our temple, which classmate, humorist Nelson Lyon. furloughs because of the sequestra- the White House of the Confedera- ferent Kind of Novel, based on the life around the state. We still managed you and say, ‘Damn it, I made it Paul was born in Soroca, Roma- should be completed in about 18 “I was not only a classmate of tion issue. cy) late last year while researching of Abe Attell. Attell was the early to spend a lot of time with our to 2013.’ And that’s the news from nia. Early life was a succession of months. Nelson at Columbia but also at the Arnold Klipstein sold his gas- his novel on Lincoln, but was un- 20th-century featherweight boxing children and our grandsons, three Portland!” flights from one refugee camp to “I bike all summer, ski all Pingry School, located at the time troenterology practice in July 2012. able to meet with David Peck, who champion who was implicated in of the four being in Minnesota with Thanks, Gene, we needed that another to escape the Nazi occupa- winter, fish and hunt. Last year I in Hillside, N.J. We were part of the He still practices, though, and con- was out of town. the fixing of the 1919 World Series my younger daughter, and to enjoy reminder. tion and the thuggish Romanian shot a cow elk to fill my freezer Class of 1956. Nelson was a bril- tinues to do temporary physician J. Peter Rosenfeld and his wife, (the Black Sox series). It is my at- our season tickets to the Arizona Black Guard. When he was 9, Paul with lean, hormone- and additive- liant writer even in prep school.” work as an independent contrac- Carmen, recently returned from tempt to get inside Attell’s head and Diamondbacks and to the Arizona and his family landed in Paris free meat for my grandchildren. I tor (locum tenens). He finished a Chile, where they visited with Car- write the autobiography he never State U (Toby’s undergrad alma Robert A. Machleder where the sting of anti-Semitism am going to Nicaragua to fish for three-month stint with a nice group men’s brothers, in-laws and one did. Because I took liberties with mater) baseball team. 60 69-37 Fleet St. was ever-present during his school Tarpon in-country. An avid fisher Michael Hausig of physicians and staff in Spokane, daughter. Peter met with prison the facts, I changed the name of the “This year we’ve already seen Forest Hills, NY 11375 years. The family emigrated to for salmon and trout, I have fished 61 19418 Encino Summit Wash., in April. Arnold enjoys just system authorities in Chile, where principal character, although he is some extreme national and state [email protected] New York one year before Paul the Kola Peninsula (Ponoi River) in San Antonio, TX 78259 concentrating on patient care. He he hopes to start a project to test his easily recognizable.” legislation, such as interfering with (and all of us) donned freshman Russia, in Ballyhinch in Ireland, in [email protected] looks forward to enjoying the sum- concealed information detection Hal Stahl has been busy. “My voting rights, so we are going to The formative years of our adult beanies on Morningside Heights. Río Grande in the Patagonia region mer at home in New England and technology. wife, Toby, and I spent a lot of continue our political activities in lives were directly affected in a After years of fits and starts, of Argentina and in the Miramichi Bob Salman was nominated for his then seeking another assignment They took a drive up Chile’s time in 2012 with election-related 2013.” variety of ways by a slender tendril Paul has finished a memoir that River in Canada as well as count- third, four-year term as a member in the fall.

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On a sad note, John Leonardo her. She never made it. She married live a mile from Augusta National, century. In 1971, I established my leaves you to face the fall alone.’ suffered a heart attack while skiing an Italian. getting tickets to the Masters isn’t own practice in New York.” Starting this fall I will be in Italy on December 19, 2012, near his “The only American I was en- any easier. “This year we’ll attend But in 1995 Peter discovered until spring, and so on. Would love home in Ketchum, Idaho, and died gaged to was attractive but lacked one practice round and have to Montana. “It was the first place to hear from you.” en route to the hospital. We offer sanity. We broke up when she watch everything else on TV. We I’d been where you could build After 44 years as a litigator in our sincerest condolences to his called me from jail for bail. see my brother, Mike, and his wife something without tearing Indianapolis, Larry Gaston (lwgas wife, Ann. “How did Woody Allen put it when they come down from New something else down! So I moved [email protected]) retired two years ago. when he paraphrased Groucho? York. Somehow they get tickets for to Bozeman, becoming one of the “Now,” he writes, “I’m reading ‘I wouldn’t date any woman who the entire tournament! Mike is a state’s few Modernists. In 2004, for pleasure and trying to stay out John Freidin would want to date me?’ Well, New York State Senator from the [architect] Lee Pomeroy asked me of my wife’s way. September will 62 654 E. Munger St. that old chestnut has finally been Finger Lakes region. I’d like to hear to return to New York to design the be our 50th anniversary. I spend Middlebury, VT 05753 disproved. I am blissful with my from Columbia football teammates. Fulton Street Transit Center. I ac- a lot of time volunteering at the [email protected] 30-year-old bride … so happy; my Contact me at [email protected].” cepted, with the proviso that he try Crossroads of America Council of immune system is flourishing. Neilson Abeel, a first-rate sailor, to find me a commission in China, the Boy Scouts of America. Never Who can top this update from “A year-and-a half-ago, Cherry and his wife, Tori Bryer, confess where the world’s largest projects thought I’d buy a Scout uniform Richie Hassan (richiehassan@ and I were married in Santa Moni- to being passengers on “the only were being built. He was unsuc- at 72!” netzero.com)? He writes, “It’s a ca, Calif., in a park overlooking the cruise we’ll ever take — 20 days cessful but in 2005 I found myself Chris Haakon (cphaakon@aol. strange tale. I’m actually writing a Pacific. In addition to the passing aboard the Holland America ms in Chongqing — population com) has enjoyed our Class Notes memoir about my adventures. But crowd, some of my dearest Colum- Veendam.” They traveled from Val- 33,000,000 — as chief consultant of during the past 50 years but never it’s all true. bia friends attended, including Bill paraiso, Chile, south through the CTDI, Third Design Institute, with submitted anything about himself. “Where to begin? Well, I mar- Campbell ’64 TC, Que Spaulding, Chilean Archipelago, the Straits of a staff of 600. We did mixed-use Here’s his summary: “I was a ried my eighth fiancée. That’s J.D. Ramsey ’68 and my brother, Magellan and the Beagle Channel; projects for the government and charter member of the team that correct. Before I married Cherryly Mike Hassan ’63, the best man. past Cape Horn; across the Drake new towns, all enormous and very brought varsity soccer to Columbia, Serondo Llego, a Filipina, seven “But the coup de grace was Passage; along the western shore of rewarding. I loved everything and I played in a men’s league for ladies had agreed to become my Buzz Congram! He went online the Antarctic; then north via the At- about my life there, save the fact 20 years more. After graduation I Richie Hassan ’62 married Cherryly Serondo Llego in Santa Monica, Calif., on October 2, 2011. Colum- wife ... but did not. in Massachusetts, became a pastor lantic to Montevideo, Uruguay and that I could rarely see the sun joined the Navy, served 33 years, bians on hand to celebrate included (left to right) Que Spaulding ’62, ’63 Business; the groom; the “This started in 1998. The in the Universal Church and flew Buenos Aires. They went ashore through the pollution. I returned had four commanding officer as- groom’s brother, Mike Hassan ’63; Buzz Congram ’62, ’65 Business; and William V. Campbell ’62, ’64 TC. American love of my life rejected to Los Angeles to marry us. It was often but missed the Falklands due to New York but had not lost my signments in Naval Intelligence and PHOTO: JOSEPH PADILLA me. Twice. So with a broken heart I perfect! I’m firmly ensconced on to summer winds of 60 mph. “In wanderlust. then retired as a captain. Around headed to St. Petersburg, Russia. I cloud nine.” winter,” Neilson says, “they can “In 2007 I flew to Dubai to the same time I started working for interviewed 32 women, all of whom Perseverance pays. Bravo! blow 100 mph. Spectacular light, work with an Egyptian architect a small subsidiary of Paramount literary critic, mostly for The Jewish down the Hudson. Well, as many sabbatical and worked at the largest wanted to leave their broken nation Victor Cassidy (victorcassidy@ icebergs, glaciers, whales, seals and for the CEO of Al Rajhi Develop- Pictures, spun the company off, saw Daily Forward and Haaretz (Israel’s of you may know, Professor Dupee mental hospital in New Jersey (my and marry me. Of course I chose yahoo.com) continues to write birds.” ments, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He it become employee-owned and in left-wing newspaper), and teach- was the chairman of the English major was abnormal psychology). the prettiest, Elena, who for a year books, mostly about art. In 2011, The International Tribunal for the persuaded me to become Sulamein the 1990s became its CEO with 600 ing as a volunteer in the Lifetime department and a renowned expert After the year was up, I enrolled extracted funds from me … then he published Sculptors at Work: Law of the Sea, in consultation with Al Rajhi’s chief consultant. I spent employees. When Boeing bought Learning Institute. on Henry James. It was Professor in the fall semester, but two weeks married her Russian boyfriend. Interviews About the Creative Process. representatives of Argentina and half my time working in Cairo the company, I ran it for two years Dupee who introduced me to going before classes began I contracted “Slightly deterred, I traveled Last year he organized a memorial Ghana, recently appointed Bernie designing projects even larger than then retired. to Columbia. While there I met and whooping cough. Contracting to Ukraine in 2008 still seeking show for Steven Jay Uri (1939–93), Oxman ’65L ([email protected]. those in China, and the other half “Currently I consult and sit on Paul Neshamkin had so many wonderful professors. whooping cough at 21 ain’t no walk tall blondes sans conscience. I’d a forgotten Chicago sculptor. For edu) to the arbitral tribunal in a in Riyadh designing similar stuff eight boards of mid-sized compa- 63 1015 Washington St., There was Andrew Chiappe ’33, ’39 in the park. I would rather have arranged to wed one of three the show, Victor penned a book- dispute between the two nations in-house. All that ended in 2010. So nies. My wife and I will celebrate Apt. 50 GSAS, who taught Shakespeare in had a root canal. So I enrolled in the beautiful ladies, Anya, Svetlana length catalog. Now he’s writing over the detention of the Argentine with mixed feelings I returned to our 50th this September. We are Hoboken, NJ 07030 a way I still remember. Professor spring semester and thought ‘What and Eckachinarina. I went with about artistic collaboration based naval training ship ARA Libertad. California, this time to San Diego. in excellent health and enjoy hav- [email protected] Joseph Rothschild ’52, ’52 GSAS the hell? I’ll enroll for three semes- the encouragement of my friends, on his interviews of artists in New The Libertad was visiting Ghana I’m still practicing with no thought ing our three children and seven taught me about East Central ters and take some graduate school especially Lee Black. He wrote York, Boston, on the West Coast when a Ghanaian court ordered it of retiring. Robert Berne ’60, my ex- grandchildren near our home in You should be reading this column Europe. Professor James Zito ’48 courses so I can graduate in May.’” a scintillating song, Oh! Svetlana, and, he hopes, Europe. Ecology is detained pursuant to a U.S. Federal roommate and the Columbia Lion, Northern Virginia. It has been a soon after our terrific 50th Alumni taught an English class in which After retiring as v.p., internation- to the tune of Oh! Susanna. This Victor’s second interest. In 2007 he Court judgment against Argentina is one of my best friends. And I’m great 50 years.” Reunion Weekend. Granted, I am every book we read was ‘the best al trade, from a national association trip took two months and a pile of published Henry Chandler Cowles: for defaulting on bonds. still in awe of Jerry Speyer; we Gerry Sorin (gerald.sorin70@ writing it months before but I know book ever written.’ And who can in Washington, D.C., Charles now money, but all three decided not to Pioneer Ecologist, a biography. Vic- Peter Berman ’69 Arch. (pber chat occasionally.” gmail.com), retired Distinguished it will be terrific because I already ever forget Professor Dwight Miner resides in Secaucus, N.J. “I received wed me, to my chagrin. tor has been married for nearly 30 [email protected]) left the Peter had raised his daughter, Professor of American and Jewish heard from many of you who plan­ ’26, ’40 GSAS, who when teaching an outstanding education at “So I abandoned tall blondes years to Donna Hapac, a sculptor. College in 1960 for the School of Amanda, as a single parent since Studies at SUNY, New Paltz, missed ned to be there. The Fall column Contemporary Civilization had us Columbia,” he said. “I was a poor and headed to the Philippines. They live in Chicago. Architecture. In his second year she was a young girl. Amanda now our 50th reunion to celebrate his will have a full report on the all mesmerized?” student, a goof-off, but I had the There I met two pretty ladies, From Texas, David Cohen there, two professors invited him lives in Dallas with Peter’s two 50th wedding anniversary in Paris weekend. If you attended, please Mel Gurtov writes, “Fiftieth privilege of studying under Fred Juliet and Noemi, who said they ([email protected]) to join them in a competition for grandchildren. with his wife, Myra. Last Novem- send me your notes now, and I will reunion? Impossible. Warm greet- Keller, the great Sidney Morgen- would marry me. I rejected Juliet, writes that he recently had an unex- the new Boston City Hall. They “Wishing my classmates a won- ber, Gerry published his eighth include them. ings to classmates from my farm in but thought Noemi would come pectedly delightful experience: “A won, and the building was built. derful summer,” begins Anthony book, Howard Fast: Life and Literature In the meantime, this issue has a Deadwood, Ore. Duty called in our through. I sent her money for a former girlfriend from Barnard lo- Peter then felt that to return to Valerio (anthony@anthonyvalerio. in the Left Lane, which received the follow-up feature with photos, plus apple orchard; so sorry I was not year, during which she asked for cated me via the Internet. Although Columbia would be unfulfilling. com). “I’ll be golfing in the after- National Jewish Book Award in you can see our class photo in the able to be with you.” Submit Your Photo more for an array of tragic occur- I am happily married and living After extraordinary efforts, he noons after a winter of physical Biography, Autobiography, Memoir online version of that article at col Barry Austern writes, “I was not Submitting a photo for rences. She’d say, ‘My father died, far from her, it’s been delightful to gained admission to King’s Col- therapy ostensibly for my legs. In for 2012. It is the only biography of lege.columbia.edu/cct. able to make it, but I do say hi to and we can’t bury him. Can you relive our New York days. Perhaps lege, Cambridge. There he studied the mornings I’ll write — love the Fast and was described in Publish­ I also heard from some of you everyone. I guess the only exciting Class Notes is easier send me $100?’ When I agreed, this is something we all should do.” architecture for two years, married heat — and promote the new print ers Weekly as “an excellent prism who couldn’t attend but sent greet- news for me was that in November than ever! she’d bump me: ‘Thank you. I love David found his way to Houston an American, got two degrees and edition of Bart, a Life of A. Bartlett through which to review ... Leftist ings to classmates. I took a ‘MacMania’ cruise that was ONLINE by clicking you. Can you make it $150?’ After via Boston to pursue a career as a loved every minute. Giamatti. Giamatti, you might activity ... and the anticommunist Roland Droitsch writes, “Alas, I two weeks of instruction on Mac her father died, her mother died. construction manager for landmark Peter recalls, “Were it not for the recall, left the presidency of Yale to hysteria of the 1940s and ’50s.” In am one of those who was not able computers. It left from Sydney, “Contact Us” at Next she was robbed. Then she office buildings. When economic fact that my wife was miserable in become president of the National 2003 Gerry won the National Jew- to come to reunion. Even though I Australia, went up the coast of college.columbia.edu/cct. contracted dengue fever. And on storms blew too hard, he changed England and the economy was in League, then commissioner of ish Book Award in History for his am getting older, I clearly remember Queensland, then through three MAIL by sending the and on. Were her pleas real? Had course and became a financial disarray, I might still be there. At baseball. He was famous for his previous book, Irving Howe: A Life of those wonderful days at Columbia. ports in New Caledonia. In between she had the worst luck or could she planner. He and his wife have three any rate, I returned to the School essay, Green Fields of the Mind, a Passionate Dissent. I do not even know where to start, we woke up bright and early to see photo and accompanying have been a scammer? sons, all with degrees from the of Architecture, got the American little of which goes like this: ‘It “After a dozen years out of the but I will let you know how I came the total eclipse of the sun.” caption information to “My friends advised me to University of Texas in Houston, degree I needed for architectural breaks your heart. It is designed to classroom,” Gerry writes, “I was to that wonderful college. I lived Charles Bremer did not attend Class Notes Editor, abandon my insane quest but I which “has been very good to us registration and began my ap- break your heart. The game begins asked by senior students at New way up on the Hudson River and a reunion; he matriculated in 1957 Columbia College Today, was a football player on the 1961 and made urban living sane.” prenticeship: first with Marcel in the spring, when everything else Paltz to return last spring [2013] to great friend of the family was pro- and therefore considers himself a Columbia Alumni Center, championship Columbia team, and Joe Nozzolio enjoys living in Au- Breuer (the youngest member of begins again, and it blossoms in teach the Honors Seminar. Despite fessor F.W. Dupee, who had a house member of the Class of 1961. “All 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, I’d taken many shots to the head. So gusta, Ga. He and his wife settled the Bauhaus) and ultimately with the summer, filling the afternoons having to face grading papers there on the river where there was my college friends were members 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. I pressed on. After sending Noemi there because of “her family and Paul Rudolph, arguably America’s and evenings, and then as soon as again, I said ‘yes.’” a slight bend in it. From his porch of ’61. However, between my junior airfare, I went to LAX twice to meet year-round golf.” Although they most talented architect of the 20th the chill rains come, it stops and Since 1993 Gerry has also been a you could see miles and miles and senior years, I took a one-year

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How about scape and on elusive writers like He is the recipient of two Fulbright (where his longtime girlfriend/ of food critic who has enough self- psychiatry in central Massachusetts, was plenty of deferred maintenance chemistry on solar energy conver- $10 for each year since graduation? James Agee and Leonard Michaels, awards and the author of two books fiancée lives and works); he recently control to take a bite of everything helping to close a state hospital, to address, plus the upgrading of sion and making hydrogen as part Or, better yet, $100 for each year? If themselves bold essayists who and numerous articles on Uruguay. returned from a six-week Deloitte and pass it on. When I taste some- start an inpatient psychiatry unit a weekend house to one in which of artificial photosynthesis. My you have already made your dona- blurred the lines between fiction After marrying an Englishwom- internship in Hyderabad, India. thing I like, I don’t leave a morsel. in our local hospital, work in every we would live for half the year. The work was honored with the William tion, thank you for supporting the and nonfiction.” [Editor’s note: an in January, Gary Schonwald “Nicholas (24) — following his As a result, I have to exercise like aspect of community psychiatry other half, and you can probably H. Nichols Medal Award by the continued excellence of Columbia. See the featured book in the Spring now divides his time between New recent graduation from Gettysburg, crazy — running, swimming and and run a private practice of marital guess which one, we repaired to New York Section of the American You can give by credit card at 2013 CCT.] York, where he is a lawyer, and where he was active in student lifting weights. That’s the only way and family therapy. Twenty-one Key West, Fla., where Jane and I Chemical Society (newyorkacs.org/ college.columbia.edu/giveonline, In To Show and To Tell, Phil “gives England, where he is a solicitor. government, intramural sports and to avoid being a blimp when you’re years ago, I moved to Brookline immediately began working on a meetings/Nichols/2013Nichols. or by calling the Alumni Office at away all his trade secrets — a I am saddened to report the keeping regular company with his writing about food. I’m proud to in suburban Boston, worked for a self-financed documentary about php). I was elected to the National 212-851-7488 or by mailing a check, thoughtful guidebook for writers of death last year of Fred Levine. serious girlfriend — is taking a two- say I weigh less today than at Co- large HMO and then in the student the town’s many writers, starting Academy of Sciences in 2010 and payable to Columbia College Fund, literary nonfiction that could serve A pre-med at the College, Fred to-three-year break from academia lumbia. Ask any retired journalist health service of Boston University. with John Dos Passos and Ernest received a Lifetime Achievement in to Columbia College Fund, Colum- as a commentary on his essays. It graduated from Harvard Medical before seeking an M.B.A. He is a what they’re doing and they’ll say, After retiring two years ago, I be- Hemingway, moving forward Graduate Education Award from bia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., threads its way around the pitfalls School and trained in surgery at membership consultant at Tenley ‘I’m writing a book.’ That’s enough came more active in Rotary Interna- through Robert Frost, Wallace Rochester the same year. MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY of personal writing: the need to turn Massachusetts General Hospital Sport & Health Club (Washington, to deflect all questions for 10 years. tional, a worldwide humanitarian Stevens, Tennessee Williams, James “My wife, Marcia, and I cele­ 10025. oneself into a character; to write in Boston with a specialty in car- D.C.), where he spent the past I’m writing a book, truthfully, about organization. I am also a profession- Merrill, John Hersey, John Malcolm brated 47 years of marriage this Remember, our regular class honestly, assertively about friends diovascular and thoracic surgery. several summers as a lifeguard. my adventures in the far corners of al zaydeh (Yiddish for grandfather), Brinnen, Truman Capote, Hunter summer, with two sons and their lunches at the Columbia University and family; and to find exactly After two years at the Heart, Lung Tenley being five minutes from the Asia. But the writing comes after looking after grandchildren while Thompson and Richard Wilbur to families, including two delightful Club of New York are always a where and how to sign off.” and Blood Institute of the National Schlanger house, Nicholas keeps I’ve had my fill of reading — catch- their parents work.” such present-day literary luminaries granddaughters. With no teaching great place to reconnect. If you’re Foreign Affairs ran a review of Institutes of Health, he was on the me company while I ponder this ing up on all the books I’ve wanted Philip was disappointed that he as Alison Lurie, Robert Stone, Judy obligations, Marcia and I have in NYC, try to make one of the next Energy for Future Presidents: The Sci­ staff at Massachusetts General for ‘golden years’ stuff. to read for decades.” was not able to celebrate reunion Blume, Michael Mewshaw, Ann been snowbirding in Sarasota, Fla., ones, scheduled for June 13, July ence Behind the Headlines by Richard several years before becoming chief “Ben (22), at the University of with the class. “As the president- Beatty, Harry Mathews — and the the past few years — sun, beach, 11 and, after our summer break, on Muller, a physics professor at UC of cardiac surgery at Sinai Hospital Michigan, is obtaining a double elect of the Rotary Club of Brookline, list goes on and on. It’s a fascinating golf; it really beats the Rochester September 12 — it’s always the sec- Berkeley. The book addresses the in Detroit. He is survived by his degree in mechanical engineering Rich Forzani I was hosting a team from Brazil. project that has given us access to (and NYC) winters.” ond Thursday. Check our website at future of energy use. The reviewer wife, Patty, two daughters and five and computer science while also 413 Banta Ave. Our club is sponsoring a clean water some of the more interesting people Manny Rabinowitz has been cc63ers.com for details. writes, “[Muller] frames his highly grandchildren. (See Obituaries.) serving as a lead writer and senior 66 Garfield, NJ 07026 project in a village in the Recife in Key West. At the end of each of “married to Judith Bilenker ’65 In the meantime, let us know readable book as a series of explana- Finally, I am deeply saddened editor of The Gargoyle, Michigan’s [email protected] metropolitan area. I expect to attend the more than 30 interviews we’ve Barnard since the world began.” what you are up to, how you’re tory memoranda to a hypothetical to report the death of my wife, Jac- 120-year sibling rival of Columbia’s its inauguration there in two years. done so far (with another dozen Manny has two sons, Ted ’87 and doing and what’s next. U.S. president, covering all the queline. We met while I was in the Jester; Ben performs as a stand-up My greetings go out to you all. By In November 2011, I was privileged or so to come), I asked each of our Alan (Princeton), and two grand- proposals currently on the table and College, and in the decades that comic in local clubs in Ann Arbor now, we’ll have had our spring get- to join a team of Rotarians who subjects about his/her position on sons. “I practiced law in NYC until some not yet there and acknowl- followed Jacqueline always felt a (for profit; as he says, he ‘doesn’t together weekend, and I hope this REUNION WEEKEND traveled to Mali, in West Africa, to the city’s rampant feral chicken 1989, when we moved to Florida, edging that his conclusions and close affinity with the Class of ’64. give it up for free’). Ben has had column finds all of you well and MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 immunize children against polio. I population. Putting together their where I was vice chair of American recommendations will infuriate She edited and proofread my Class summer and school-year intern- looking forward to a wonderful ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS was surprised that I could still speak answers produced a nine-minute Media, an NYSE company that some segments of the public.” Notes, and after each monthly class ships at General Motors, Toyota and summer. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott French well enough after 50 years film calledWriters on Chickens, published the National Enquirer, Richard, a longtime nonbeliever lunch in New York she was always General Electric. Upon graduation Thank you to those who re- [email protected] to give a speech to Rotary clubs in which was shown at the 2013 Key Star, Soap Opera Digest, Country in climate warming, attracted con- eager to hear news of the class. The in 2014, he aspires to do his part to sponded to my email requesting an 212-851-9148 Bamako about our campaign to West Literary Seminar, the theme Weekly and Weekly World News. The siderable attention last year when loss for me and our son, Alexander, help save Planet Earth.” update. As you will see, it resulted DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova eradicate polio. of which was ‘Writers on Writers.’ company was sold in 1999–2000 he wrote a New York Times op-ed is immense. Many of you have sent Michael can be reached at msch in contributions from classmates [email protected] “My greatest accomplishment (Chickens, which can be seen at and I retired. Since then, I have piece, “The Conversion of a Climate- messages of condolence for which I [email protected]. who normally might not have writ- 212-851-7833 and joy is my marriage of 44 years vimeo.com/52501065 — password: been able to indulge an old passion Change Skeptic,” stating that “global am very grateful. Stan Sesser wrote, “After 25 ten, and those are exactly the folks to the amazing Dr. Lucy Winters kwchickens — has almost nothing for photography. Judy and I have Norman Olch warming is real and humans are Requiesat in pacem. years in Berkeley, interrupted by we want to hear from, along with Sandler, our two sons and four to do with the more ambitious been fortunate to travel to many 64 233 Broadway almost entirely the cause.” more than a decade in Asia, I’ve you usual suspects. It was possibly grandchildren. I also am lucky to film about Key West’s writers, the parts of Asia, Africa, Antarctica New York, NY 10279 In the last column I reported that now come full circle, back to Berke- my promise in the subject line not have two healthy parents. As I write, working title of which is Republic of and South America, and look [email protected] Barry Bley has spent 30 years as a Leonard B. Pack ley. My partner, Yai, who teaches to ask for money that encouraged 10 members of our family are leav- Letters: The Writers of Key West.) forward to more of the same.” volunteer with the Alumni Repre- 924 West End Ave. philosophy at Ramkhamhaeng most of you at least to open the ing on a Caribbean cruise tomorrow “In other news, our twin sons We have lost two more of our The Class of ’63 recently celebrated sentative Committee, interviewing 65 New York, NY 10025 University in Bangkok, has been email. And as Ron Brookshire com- to celebrate my parents’ 72nd an- turned 30 on March 22 and Gra- classmates. Dr. Henry A. Sellner its 50th anniversary — a wonderful applicants for admission to the [email protected] granted a leave at full pay to get ments, “At our age I enjoy reading niversary and Dad’s 100th birthday. ham, the older one by 10 minutes ’67 P&S died in Danbury, Conn., on milestone but also a reminder that College. In an update, Barry reports, In its wisdom, the state of Florida (though it didn’t seem that long), January 25, 2013. After being named in one year we will do the same “Judging from the applicants I Seeking news for this column, I’ve renewed his driver’s license by mail [at this writing was to] marry the Phi Beta Kappa at the College and (Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June interviewed this cycle, Columbia’s been asking classmates for their Gene Leff ’66 is a deputy commissioner in the last year for another six years.” wonderful Meredith Bichsel on medical school at P&S, he practiced 1, 2014). tradition of excellence will continue.” “thoughts on retirement, if ever.” Carey Winfrey writes, “In sum- June 15 at a church near our house ob/gyn for 35 years in Danbury, In the past, Nick Rudd was the Jerry Zuriff “retired in 2008 after Here is Michael Schlanger’s res- New York State Department of Environmental mer 2011, I turned 70 and completed in Amenia. As for the big five-oh where he created WomanCare. driving force behind our reunions. 40 years as a professor of psychol- ponse: Conservation in Albany. 10 years as editor of Smithsonian reunion, I was planning to attend, Later in life, he traveled to Central We must now look to others to turn ogy at Wheaton College and from “Now in my 43rd year of unremit- magazine, all within about two if only for a day or two. To any America to bring his expertise to our 50th into the success it should M.I.T., where I was a psychologist ting toil in the law, I am receptive to weeks. That struck me as a telling classmate still fearful of taking the rural clinics. be. Please contact me (or either of in the Mental Health Service for 35 entertaining thoughts of retirement. his doctorate. As for my career in about what we are doing but more moment to hang up my typewriter, plunge into retirement, as I must Robert E. Dyson died in Sara- the staff members noted above) years. Now in happy but active re- If any classmates have suggestions journalism (remember what news- importantly, ‘getting to meet each so within a few hours of my retire- confess I was, I would say there’s sota, Fla., on July 30, 2011. with your suggestions and your tirement, still living with Elizabeth about what a person as eccentric papers are?) here’s the story: Two other again’ (without any recollec- ment party in Washington, D.C., nothing to fear but boredom and, I wish we’d been able to say hello availability to help in the planning. in Cambridge, Mass., where I have as myself might do in my golden years ago, a new group of editors tion of who the others are — LOL).” where my wife, Jane, and I had I’m extremely happy to report, I to them both at the reunion. Requies­ Class writers have drawn atten- a small part-time psychotherapy years, I’m open to hearing them. I at The Wall Street Journal discovered I believe that sums it up; none lived for a decade, we cashed in our haven’t been bored for a minute. cat in pace. tion recently. The New York Times practice in Harvard Square.” only want ‘serious’ suggestions, so, that for 10 years they had been of us knew all the other 599 ’66ers. frequent flyer miles and boarded a And now to tennis ... ” I hope that our 50th Reunion ran a Sunday review of two books For his 70th birthday, Jerry and Mike Cook, you need not apply. paying a Bangkok-based reporter So this, at least, is a chance to touch plane for New Delhi and five weeks Rich Eisenberg writes, “It seems Class Gift breaks all sorts of records. by Phillip Lopate: Portrait Inside Elizabeth “spent a joyous few days “I’m happy to report that my — namely, me — to travel around base belatedly. By the way, your in India. It was a wonderful trip, and both way too long and just yester- If you want to make sure that it My Head: Essays and To Show and To in New York City sampling the three ‘boys’ (all of whom still call the world, all expenses paid, to response was so amazing that I I didn’t have a second for second day that we were at Columbia and does, please make your donation Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction. Met Opera, the New York Philhar- me ‘Daddy’), are having a good write about food and travel. They had to save some contributions for thoughts about leaving a job I loved. taking regular trips up to the boat- now. You have until midnight Noting that in past collections, Phil monic, the American Symphony time. Teddy (27) — following a quickly brought that to an end and the next issue. You can see some photographs house. I have read Class Notes but EST on Sunday, June 30, the end had covered a range of subjects Orchestra, the Frick Collection and satisfying academic and baseball ca- I accepted a buyout, with many We’ll open with a note from Pat from that trip as well as from the have not really contributed. How- of Columbia’s fiscal year, to make while paying attention to his in- the Museum of Arts and Design, reer at Davidson College (Division fine meals under my belt. If anyone Rapp ’74 GSAS, who was exactly month we just spent in Southeast ever, in light of the reunion and your gift online. If mailing a check ner life, the review observed that all of which I highly recommend to I), two years teaching and tutoring wants restaurant recommendations the kind of long-lost classmate I’d Asia (more frequent flyer miles) at life’s transitions, I thought I would or calling in your gift to the Alumni Portrait “gives full play to an even classmates.” fifth-graders at the Simon Elemen- in Asia, I’m the person to ask: stan. hoped would respond. He writes: “I jpgmag.com/people/grawells. add a few comments. Simply put, Office, please allow a few days be- wider range: immensely readable Marty Weinstein spent five tary School in Anacostia (Washing- [email protected].” never had much sense of belonging “When we returned from India, life has been a great ride. I am the fore the 30th to be sure it is received essays on his family, on remain- weeks teaching in Uruguay and ton, D.C.), and one year taking the I asked Stan two questions: How to a class. I had friends from the we moved into what had been Tracy H. Harris Professor Emeritus in time. (See the how-to below.) ing a baseball fan, on his sex life Argentina. Marty is Emeritus Pro- accounting and finance courses not did you keep the weight off with dorms, from my classes, from the our weekend house (in Amenia, of Chemistry at the University of The one record I’d like to see the (‘Duration; Or, Going Long’), on fessor of Political Science at William available at Davidson — is complet- such a career (or did you)? And fraternities and the bars, but they

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES were from various classes. I waited started my own large print publish- Elizabeth, founded the Brooklyn- Barnard, remains busy with her despite his initial trepidation re- around Columbia until they gave ing company, which lasted 10 based company Liddabit Sweets multimedia business and with garding the competition, has been me a Ph.D., so I had friends across years. In 2006 I got involved with a a few years ago with her friend helping our daughter, Lydia ’04, doing well. My other son, Casey, is quite a range of classes. If others community newspaper, the Granite and business partner, Jen King. with August wedding plans (I house-hunting for his family in Los experienced a similar lack of class, State News in Wolfeboro Falls, N.H., They produce artisanal caramels, remain in my bunker, doing what Angeles and learning how little a it might relate to our low write-in which I now edit along with the candy bars and other wonderful I’m told). So, we’re all busy and lot of money can buy. My niece, rate. Carroll County Independent. I publish confections, retailing them at vari- reasonably productive.” Deanna Russo, has a recurring role “I’ve had a good life. It’s been books on the side at The Large Print ous NYC markets and online, and My correspondence with Robert in Being Human, a TV series involv- quite a ride. A short marriage, and Book Company. wholesaling them to a number of Meyerson began with the following ing a werewolf, a vampire and a no kids, but I’ve lived and worked “I eloped with my sweetheart, stores in the Northeast and other email from him: “I’m killing time ghost. She is the human. P.S. — It is in Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico Sue, in 1965 while still at the Col- spots across the country. They’ve waiting for my wife and have an not a reality show. and various U.S. and European lege and we have two children and also recently published The Liddabit idea for Class of ’66 Notes. Which Hurricane Sandy convinced my cities. There’s been lots of other one grandson.” Sweets Candy Cookbook, which has would you rather hear about: wife not to ever relocate to a seaside travel, lots of laughs, lots to think Daniel Gardner, who among been well-received. how decrepit NYC seems when I community, so we’re now consid- about. At the moment I live in other roles is a professor of physi- “We’re enjoying being close to return there for a funeral, my life ering somewhere in the desert, Brooklyn and teach part-time at ology and biophysics and head of our longtime California friends with Hegel or my decision to work hopefully geographic rather than NYU-Poly, formerly Brooklyn the Laboratory of Neuroinformat- again, and Jan is especially happy to forever?” intellectual. If any of you have a Polytechnic University. It’s all fine ics with Weill Cornell Medical have her garden back, yet we miss I suggested he do it all, and Bob large and luxurious vacation home, Since 2005, when a group of alumni raised money to honor former Dean of Students Roger Lehecka by me. College, writes, “There often is that the energy and excitement of life in responded with this: feel free to invite us for a week or ’67, ’74 TC upon his retirement, 23 students have received stipends, allowing them to take unpaid “I have an attitude, which may intermediate stage in which you’re Manhattan. We figure it’ll take us a “OK. So let’s start with Hegel. more. Your presence is welcome but summer internships in places ranging from New York to Geneva to Addis Ababa. Several students have congealed into permanent not sure whether you are alive or while yet to decide where we want What would you like to hear — not required. gathered with Lehecka in May in front of Hamilton Hall: (left to right) Mandeep Singh ’15, Lehecka, form during my college years, so dead. This is not a plea for money to live when we grow up.” my first impression of his mad Keep those cards and letters Roniquee Marksman ’14, Holly Berlin ’13, Carrie Montgomery ’13 and Tomasz Otlowski ’13. I’m curious to find out if other ’66 but Weill Cornell Medical College From Gene Leff: “In 2011, I philosophy in CC, where a huge coming. PHOTO: JANET LORIN ’95, ’96J alumni are comfortable in this ‘at- is most appreciative of the donors became a deputy commissioner in Sasha Zill opined from the back titude.’ (If they are, that also might who support its mission of advanc- the New York State Department of of the room and I never knew relate to our low write-in rate.) The ing medical care and scientific Environmental Conservation and anyone before or since named Zill, Albert Zonana “When Art moved to the Bay had received numerous notes from Lions played superbly at times attitude, in simple vernacular, is understanding, and training new moved to Albany. I supervise the let alone Sasha? Or how I wrote 67 425 Arundel Rd. Area in 1979 to work for Kaiser, we you about our recent reunion, but this season. You may have seen the ‘nothing matters.’ Variations in- generations of physicians.” study of fracking, the cleanup of my master’s thesis about him and Goleta, CA 93117 renewed our friendship. He was a reunion itself had him swamped team shock Villanova basketball clude ‘it’s all lies’ and ‘so what.’ Na- George Gutman shares, “Here’s toxic waste sites, the regulation of wound up liking the guy? [RF: Zill [email protected] fast and loyal friend and loved Co- with work. Pete Janovsky, mean- on television. We beat Cornell in a ively, ‘nothing matters’ might seem my last decade, in a nutshell: In pesticide use and the regulation of or Hegel?] Perhaps my run-in with lumbia and his fellow Beta Theta while, was working on the class televised game, too, and at home a negative attitude but actually it’s 2004, after having lived in and solid waste disposal.” the idiot local school superinten- Joel Greenberger writes, “I am Pi members. He and his compan- bio book. So, I decided to await the I saw them beat Penn. Some good a great freedom, not for positive or raised our two kids in southern Gene, your latest work is of cur- dent who misquoted Hegel in our professor and chairman of the ion of many years, Daniela Karo, book and then do something using wins for sure. Coach Kyle Smith negative, but for eliminating that California for 27 years, my ombuds- rent interest to many of us. Perhaps local weekly and whose defense Department of Radiation Oncology hosted a memorable Columbia that work of art as a starting point. is sensational; we can expect lots duality. It makes me laugh, with man wife, Jan, was becoming you could offer some insight? was that he was actually quoting at the University of Pittsburgh College Beta reunion in South Lake Thus, I will be brief — this time. from this team and from the coach the sheer joy of it. Do whatever you frustrated by her long commute to William Roach writes, “OK, Dennis Green, that great Hegel and live there most of the year. Tahoe 10 years ago. By all accounts, it seems that the next year. John and I agreed we want. I guess, for many of ’66, this work. She started looking for a job Rich, although you could make up scholar and coach of the Minnesota However, I am in Boston every “Dave Filipek ’67 GS, Bob Dono- turnout for the 45th reunion could may be the alumni combination for meant family and career. Wonder- closer to home and took a job in much more interesting stuff, here’s Vikings? Or my spying a portrait month for research collaborations hue ’65 and I visited Art often in re- be record-breaking. I hope so. We wins for the future. ful. For others, maybe ... other lives. Manhattan, where she could walk a snapshot of what I’ve been up to of the handsome devil in Berlin’s at Brigham and Women’s Hospital cent months at his Pleasanton home will know by the time you read The women’s and men’s swim Like most people, I was raised a cer- to work across Central Park. We for the last few years. National Gallery, after attending and at M.I.T. I play the trumpet in in the East Bay. I saw Artie three this column. I hope that I will have teams both came in second in the tain way; it was to try to be cheerful, were bicoastal (‘practicing bi-coas- “At the end of 2010, I retired our son’s show there at the Galerie several professional and vocational days before he died; aside from seen lots of you well, energetic Ivy League during the dual meet helpful, constructive. So, I try to do tuals,’ as our friends described us) from my law practice at McDer- Michael Janssen Berlin? Or my groups and frequently have brass tiring easily, there was no indication and in good spirits. A full report season, with the Lions men and that. In fact, I live by a great many for a couple of years, then I decided mott Will & Emery but worked experience, firsthand, of Hegel’s quintet rehearsals at my other that his time was near. He went will be in the Fall issue. If you at- women beating powerhouse Prince­ rules, way too many probably. But to take a somewhat early retirement part-time for one of my large concept of quantity transforming house in Lincoln, Mass.” out a winner — he had picked the tended, please share your thoughts ton. With baseball and women’s they’re just my rules; I wouldn’t from my professor gig at UCI Medi- hospital system clients, setting up into quality in his Phaenomenolo- Joel hopes to entice Mark Schles- Baltimore Ravens to go all the way and stories with me to put in this tennis having won Ivy titles, let’s even try to defend them. cal School and join her in New York. its in-house office. That took about gie des Geistes, after buying an- inger to join one of those brass ses- and he won the jackpot in a Super column. The class photo, however, hope football is on the upswing “I’m in the physics racket, so Jan retired in 2011 and we bought 18 months, after which I retired other bank this past December 31? sions. Both are alumni members of Bowl pool run by fellow California may be found on the CCT website now, too. maybe I’m too close to the life cy- a car and took off on a 4½-month for real and assumed the chair- I hardly know where to begin!” the Cleverest Band. Beta Dave Filipek (who else?). (college.columbia.edu/cct) as part cles of solar systems, galaxies, our road trip back to our home in Costa manship of the American Heart Geoff Dutton writes, “If you Anthony Sciolino has authored “He wasn’t so lucky on the of this issue’s reunion follow-up REUNION WEEKEND universe. From a purely technical Mesa, Calif., which had been rented Association’s national board. The hanker to be in touch, send an inter- a book, The Holocaust, the Church, health front, however. He had a article. MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 perspective, whatever people do out during our absence. AHA has occupied much of my esting message to geoff@maxentro and the Law of Unintended Conse­ tough last year. He was courageous As an aside, we sent Paul de ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS or don’t do, it doesn’t matter. But “I continued teaching after my community service time for the last pyproductions.net and I will surely quences: How Christian Anti-Judaism under difficult physical duress; he Bary’s wine book, The Persistent ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott the attitude feels much deeper than retirement (until this year) and am 20-plus years and remains a labor respond. All the best.” Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism. He accepted his situation with grace Observer’s Guide to Wine, to all [email protected] just a technical calculation. Maybe pursuing research on a couple of of love. When I rotate off the na- Gathering for lunch on April 2 is a retired New York State family and rueful philosophy. ‘The worst classmates to entice them to come 212-851-9148 it’s genetic. Both my parents were long-standing projects in computa- tional board in June I’ll assume the at Evergreen restaurant (East 38th court judge and permanent deacon thing,’ Artie said to me a couple of to reunion, or at least to enjoy some DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova bent the same way. tional biology, work which doesn’t volunteer leadership of the AHA’s Street) were a peripatetic and ever- of the Roman Catholic Diocese of months ago, ‘is that I am going to wine more than usual. [email protected] “Anybody else out there care to require a laboratory or grant joint advocacy initiative with the shifting group of ’66ers, noshing Rochester, N.Y. miss out on a lot of the fun.’ We are Paul, your book is wonderful! 212-851-7833 comment? Not that it matters.” applications. I’ve been compiling Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and catching up as they have for a Fran Furey ’66 writes, “It is with certainly going to miss having fun And with its Core relevance, it is Tom Beeler ’67 GSAS writes, “I and organizing family history and to combat childhood obesity. Com- number of years. Present were Mi- sadness that I report the passing with him.” especially special. Michael Oberman stayed on at Columbia for a mas- stories, particularly those of my bating childhood obesity has been chael Garrett, Mark Amsterdam, of Art Silvers ’68E of Pleasanton, Martin Goldstein, who lives in John Chee was in NYC from Kramer Levin Naftalis & ter’s in English and for a doctorate, parents’ experiences as refugees in an AHA goal for many years and Herb Hochman, Richard Zucker Calif., on February 4, 2013. Art had Culver City, Calif., sent this note to Hong Kong during the basketball 69 Frankel but though I finished the disserta- wartime France, which I’ve been still seems a bit like sweeping back and Richard Forzani. Regulars been battling Stage 4 melanoma for CCT: “The crew cohort pictured in season. He and I get together on 1177 Avenue of the tion, I never filed it. Reason was I posting on gutmanfamily.org. the sea, as a third of the nation’s who were not there this time are the past year. the Spring 2013 CCT — The Royal occasion when he is town, and so Americas got sucked into the book publish- “Jan, too, seems to be restless, children are overweight or obese. Gene Leff, Bob Gurland, Dan “Art was a fellow rugby player, and Ancient Order of Buffoons — we did this time as well. He joined New York, NY 10036 ing business as a result of the 1968 and she’s signed up as a reservist But with the foundation’s funding Gardner, David Tilman and Rick a fraternity brother and a football mourns the loss of a friend, mentor me and my wife for February’s moberman@kramer protests; [I worked] on The American for FEMA as part of its Alternate support, the AHA will marshal Reder. Many others have showed teammate. We met as teenagers and fellow crew mate, Norman Columbia-Harvard basketball levin.com Heritage Dictionary of the English Lan­ Dispute Resolution cadre; she’s other organizations that are active up from time to time, and anyone on the football field at Baker Field. Hildes-Heim ’60.” game, which turned out to be on a guage and became editorial director been deployed for month-long in the fight at the grassroots level who is interested is invited. Let Artie was born in Brooklyn and Sunday due to snow the prior day. Hank Reichman reports: “I’m of two scholarly reprint publish- stints in Connecticut and New and intensify the effort to reduce me know and we’ll put you on the raised in Woodmere (Long Island), It also appropriately took place on now halfway through California ers, the second of which moved to Jersey, helping FEMA in its role of the problem substantially by 2015. mailing list. N.Y., where he captained the Arthur Spector the Chinese New Year, which sure- State University’s early retirement Boston to become a division of G.K. providing assistance to victims of I suspect this will keep me out of From your correspondent: I am football team at George W. Hewlett 271 Central Park West ly was helpful for the Lions; they program, which is limited to five Hall & Co. By 1978 I was president Hurricane Sandy. mischief for the next few years. involved in managing my employ- H.S. At the College he joined Beta 68 New York, NY 10024 whipped the Crimson, who were years, teaching for six months each of Hall, which published scholarly “Our son, Dan, finished a B.A. in “Otherwise, I keep a hand in er’s top software clients, in terms Theta Pi, played varsity football arthurbspector@ red-faced by the time they were year. But to fill the time I’ve become books. … I later left to run a British history and business at Brook- one construction project or another of keeping them happy and spend- and captained the 1967 rugby gmail.com sent packing back to Cambridge. active in the American Association large print and audio book publish- lyn College and moved back to and luxuriate in the general enjoy- ing. My son, Rich, is completing football club. A five-year engineer- And while Harvard was crowned of University Professors (AAUP). ing subsidiary in New Hampshire, California; he’s looking for a job ment of retirement. My spouse, his first year at the University of ing student, Art earned a B.S. at the I’d hoped to persuade Mas Take- Ivy League champion and was In April 2012, I was elected national [which I did] until 1995, when I in finance research. Our daughter, Deborah Rosenberg Roach ’66 Richmond School of Law and, Engineering School. tomo to write the column, as he an NCAA first-round winner, the first v.p. and last summer I also was

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES appointed to chair the association’s I made two documentaries with engine. The hardcover version is law and employment (predomi- Leo G. Kailas Committee on Academic Free- Juan Gonzalez ’58, about Haiti and prohibitively expensive, as such nantly employer side) law. 70 Reitler Kailas & dom and Tenure, known since its migrant workers respectively. My books are; but academics with suit- “The three kids are all success- Rosenblatt creation nearly a century ago as wife is making a documentary on able privileges at their institutional fully launched. My oldest son, Will 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. Committee A. veteran suicides. My son, Nicholas, library can obtain cheap paperback (UVa.; UConn Law), practices law New York, NY 10022 “AAUP was founded in 1915 by graduated from med school and copies, roughly $30, provided in Boston and is the father of my [email protected] a group of leading American schol- has started his residency at Co- their library also takes the relevant two grandsons. My daughter, Aliza ars, including such Columbia no- lumbia. My son, Michael, is in 11th Springer Law, Social Sciences, and ’02 (Stanford M.D.) spent the year in Fred P. White ’73L, dean and profes- tables as John Dewey and Charles grade and can dunk basketballs.” Humanities Series. In modern fash- Kenya as the chief resident in a hos- sor of law at Texas Wesleyan School Beard. It has evolved through the Bill Bonvillian continues to ion, individual chapters can also be pital in Naivasha. My youngest son, of Law, has been honored by the years into a combination of a pro- direct the MIT Washington Office, downloaded in digital form. Rafe (GW; UConn Law), practices Law School with the Distinguished fessional association and a union, working on innovation policy “The background is that I of- law in Hartford. The last few years Columbian in Teaching Award for known mainly for its vigorous issues, particularly advanced manu- ficially retired from the University have been particularly happy and excellence in teaching, scholarship, defense of academic freedom. A facturing, in collaboration with the of New South Wales in March 2011. satisfying for me. My second mar- writing and achievement in his cho- bit more than three-fourths of our federal R&D agencies. He is at work My research, writing and publish- riage, to Dr. Amy Ehrlich Charney, sen field. The award was presented 48,000 members are in chapters on a book on barriers to innova- ing activities are now conducted in a clinical psychologist, has been a to him in January in conjunction with collective bargaining rights. Of tion within established “legacy” conjunction with the University of resounding success — who knew with the Association of American course, state laws vary and the U.S. economic sectors, and continues to Sydney, as an honorary fellow of the that marriage could be such fun? Law Schools annual meeting in Trustee Michael B. Rothfeld ’69, ’71J, ’71 SIPA, ’71 Business (third from left) was honored at Community Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that teach science and technology policy Unit for the History and Philosophy About nine years ago, I fulfilled a New Orleans. I have connected Impact’s Gala Benefit Auction on March 7 with the “Making A Difference Service Award.” The award tenure-track and tenured faculty at courses at MIT, Georgetown and of Science, and as a member of the longstanding dream by building a with Fred at various reunions and recognizes people whose belief and investment in Community Impact’s work helps the organization private institutions are somehow Johns Hopkins School of Advanced history of early modern science beautiful house on a tidal marsh in he is among the nicest and most serve neighbors in need in Upper Manhattan. On hand to honor Rothfeld were (left to right) Trustee ‘managers’ and not covered by International Studies. Son Marco ’14 research team in the Sydney Centre Wellfleet, Mass., on Cape Cod. We sincere human beings I have en- Philip Milstein ’71, Trustee Emeritus and Columbia Alumni Association Chair George Van Amson ’74, the National Labor Relations Act, spent his junior year at Oxford this for the Foundations of Science. I spend as much time there as pos- countered in the legal profession. Rothfeld, Trustee Mark Kingdon ’71, Community Impact Director Sonya Reese and Trustee Lisa Carnoy a ruling that seems at minimum year and son Rafe works in Geneva, was named an Honorary Fellow of sible throughout the year. Congratulations, Fred! ’89. To view an album of the event, go to facebook.com/columbiacollege1754. hopelessly dated and under increas- Switzerland. Campion College, the only private “My best friend and roommate Not to be outdone by Mr. White, PHOTO: MICHAEL DAMES ing challenge. Hence, I don’t think Alan Sullivan writes, “I’ve liberal arts college in Australia (if for several years at Columbia was Fred Kushner writes, “This has there is much of a chapter, although worked as a trial lawyer in Salt the latter fact can be believed!). My Jon Souweine. We remained close been a busy year for the Kushner I’m sure there must be individual Lake City for the last 38 years, and retirement has proven very fruitful until his untimely death about two Columbia clan. My son Jared ’06 by the University. There were other the direct interaction that makes Juan Uranga writes, “Work- members, at Columbia. If any I have no plans to stop anytime in research and publication terms, years ago. He was a lawyer and is an intern in internal medicine at topics covered but this was the the difference. I like my students ing full-time as an attorney for Columbia faculty are reading this, soon. I’ve been married to the same so far, as my website outlines.” community activist in Amherst, P&S. My son Adam ’03 has been most revealing about the future of at John Jay College of Criminal farmworkers in the Salinas Valley I’d love to hear from you. In fact, woman, Gayle Morris, for a little Joseph Contiguglia is professor Mass., for many years. Sadly, he promoted to executive magazine the College. And about the dean: Justice very much. I teach in the of California. My wife, Anna I’d love to hear from any classmates longer than that, and we have two of clinical environmental health contracted leukemia and died from editor of National Journal in Wash- He seems not only willing to share M.P.A. program. The students Caballero, also an attorney, is on or other alums who are higher ed remarkable sons, two generous sciences, Tulane University School complications from a bone marrow ington, D.C. I was vice chair of the his views but also eager to do so, are bright, hard-working and Gov. Jerry Brown’s Cabinet as the faculty, full- or part-time. … daughters-in-law and two perfect of Public Health and Tropical transplant. ‘heart attack guidelines’ put out and willing to listen, too. motivated. I am also happy to do Secretary of the State and Con- “AAUP work brings me often grandchildren. On one of our first Medicine, and is on the teaching “One of my law partners is Tom by the American Heart Associa- “I’ve had a late-life conver- my one-day-a-week legal work for sumer Services Agency. I split my to Washington, D.C., as well as to dates — this would have been in faculty of the South Central Center Divine, whom I did not know un- tion and the American College of sion from the world of journalism my friend Tom DiNapoli, the New time between our home in Salinas quite a few other places across the 1967 — Gayle lost an earring on for Public Health Preparedness til he joined our firm several years Cardiology and presented them to to biotechnology. I chair a small York State comptroller, one of the and our home in Sacramento. country, but I’m also taking advan- the floor of the dining area at The & South Central Public Health ago. I have stayed in touch with our international convention in San public company in Canada, Im- nicest people you could meet in Was looking forward to spending tage of my non-teaching months for Gold Rail, and I had to get down Leadership Institute. He retired as Jory Berkwits and Dick Wetzel Francisco this year. I am looking munovaccine, that has experienced government, or indeed anywhere. Easter vacation with three of our recreational travel. My wife, Susan, on my hands and knees to find it. an Air Force colonel after almost 30 and recently reconnected with Jeff forward to transitioning to more of a breakthrough in treatment of ovar- “Oxford University Press’ The five grandchildren.” and I went to Turkey in September I never found the earring and de- years, having served as a surgeon Bush and Richard Steffenhagen. a teaching position.” ian cancer. Early days yet, but the Oxford Handbook of New York State Joseph Spivack reported on a (I highly recommend a visit!) and cided never to eat at The Gold Rail and medical commander in many “Finally, a word about the effect Len Lavine noted, “I planned to data is encouraging. I am married Government and Politics, edited by busy year: “Our older daughter plan other jaunts for the summer. again. I want to publicly thank my places around the world as well as Columbia had on me. I was raised be in New York City for my annual to Marjorie, and my two children, Gerald Benjamin ’70 GSAS, came continues her studies in early child- The children are launched: Our son freshman roommate, Joe Materna, serving as the International Health in and attended a small prep school extended weekend around Dean’s Adelaide ’00 and Hal ’08, are both out at the end of 2012 and included hood and special education (double is a paralegal for a labor-side em- for lending me the money to take Specialist to the Surgeon General. in West Hartford, Conn., which Day, June 1. I have a timeshare at back in London, pursuing careers in my chapter on the New York State major) at Eastern Nazarene College ployment law firm in Oakland, her out on the town; I’m sure I paid From Lewis Wise: “My post- at the time was a small, insular, the West 57th Street by Hilton Club law and acting. Journalism is still a Attorney General. SUNY Press is in Quincy, Mass. She is scheduled Calif.; our daughter is a high school him back. Columbia condensed bio starts with conservative, non-diverse suburb. hotel, the same block as Carnegie part of my life, indirectly, as I have due to publish my next book, The to finish in December 2015. Our social studies teacher with Teach For “My best memories of Columbia my graduating from UConn School Columbia had a profoundly broad- Hall. I’ll spend one day at Columbia been active in the effort to reform the Art of the Watchdog: Fighting Fraud, younger daughter recently was America in inner-city New Orleans. mostly relate to the English depart- of Law with high honors, following ening and liberalizing effect on me while taking in a couple of shows British press after an era of wholesale Waste, Abuse and Corruption in Gov­ accepted to Kenyon College in Finally and thankfully, we all have ment, in other words, to Lionel which I served a two-year clerkship (not just politically although that, and museums. Recently, I’ve had a criminality. Parliament recently ernment, co-authored with David Ohio, which is well known for its our health.” Trilling [’25, ’38 GSAS], Fred Dupee, with the chief judge of the U.S. too). When I graduated I was a far couple of emails from TEP brothers, passed a reform package proposed Eichenthal, in the fall. I am grateful writing program, among other From Hart Perry: “I am direct- Kenneth Koch, Wallace Gray [’58 District Court in New Orleans. The more tolerant and intellectually and one requesting historical informa- by our tiny charity [Media Standards to report that my wife and children strengths. She recently finished her ing a documentary about Willie GSAS], Michael Rosenthal [’67 clerkship was a terrific experience politically engaged person because tion about our former fraternity at Trust], so the spirit of revolution are doing well. Warm regards to appearance as Becky Two Shoes in Mitchell and soul music in Mem- GSAS] and Homer Brown. They but, perhaps more importantly, I of that experience, and I have 627 W. 115th. I work for the Depart- from our days on Morningside classmates.” her school’s wonderful production phis. I had the pleasure of meeting made a huge difference in my life developed a lifelong love affair with always been truly grateful for it.” ment of Defense and expect to be Heights is alive and well on this side Lennard Davis writes, “I’m a of Urinetown. She took AP exams with Greg Geller about music because they taught me how to the Big Easy. I return often to visit With the quarterly publication ‘furloughed’ for 20 percent of the of the pond.” Distinguished Professor of English, this spring and will graduate at videos and films for the Rock and read.” friends and to enjoy the food, music schedule of CCT, news items sent time between May and June 2013.” I also caught up with good- Disability Studies and Medical Edu- the end of June. Unfortunately, our Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. John Schuster reports, “My long- and general, unique ambience that to me soon after your receipt of Another distinguished class- hearted lawyer Dan Feldman, who cation at the University of Illinois at elderly Bichon Frisé passed away awaited, very large (and obscure) make the place so special. the current issue can appear in the mate, Albert Scardino, reported reports: “In 2010 I switched from Chicago. I have a book coming out during the winter. Our cat has taken book about the scientific career “My next stop was the Justice following issue (in this case, Fall from England: “Very good visit full-time government work and in the fall, The End of Normal: Identity over his bed and appears to be What’s Your Story? of Descartes in the context of the Department in Washington, D.C., 2013). I am, once again, in need this week [March 21] from Dean one-day-a-week academic work in a Biocultural Era. I’m also working thoroughly enjoying it! crucial generation of the Scientific where I worked for about eight of personal news or reflections on James J. Valentini to meet Lon- to full-time academic work and on a book about the Americans with “My wife is head of the advertis- Letting classmates know Revolution has finally been pub- years in the Civil Division as a trial how the College experience af- don alumni, parents, students, one-day-a-week government work. Disabilities Act, set for publication ing and public relations special- what’s going on in your lished. Despite appearances — and attorney and branch director. The fected your life. I would especially prospects and friends. During a I am enjoying the new arrange- on its 25th anniversary in 2015.” ization at The City College of life is easier than ever. to the chagrin of many philosophers section I worked in was respon- like to hear from classmates who wide-ranging interview before an ment even more than I expected. My friend and adviser in col- New York, where she has taught Send in your Class Notes! and historians of philosophy of my sible for representing government have not recently appeared in this audience of 100 or so guests, we Throughout most of my life, I lege, Andy Kiorpes, reported on since 1993. They are getting ready ONLINE by clicking acquaintance — the book is a work agencies and officials in cases of column and from classmates for dwelt for a time on the relation- thought I could only be satisfied the passing of his heroic father, to start a master’s program in college.columbia.edu/cct/ of history, by a historian, and aimed national significance throughout the whom the University does not ship between the College and the by exercising some positive impact Charles ’45, ’48E: “My dad passed branding and integrated com- primarily at historians of science country. The work was invariably have email addresses. University, particularly on the on the lives of masses of people as away [suddenly] on March 22. munications next fall, which is submit_class_note. and early modern European intel- challenging and fascinating but Finally, here is the first notice of sometimes troubled engagement an elected official; and indeed, I He entered the College in 1941, exciting but keeps her very busy. EMAIL to the address at lectual history. Its title is Descartes- with three kids to feed and educate, our 45th Alumni Reunion Week- of the Dean’s and President’s continue to take satisfaction in my but his education was interrupted She enjoys helping her students get the top of your column. agonistes: Physico-mathematics, I left Justice for private practice in end, Thursday, May 29–Sunday, offices. Dean Valentini discussed accomplishments in that regard. by WWII. When he returned to internships that can launch them Method and Corpuscular-Mechanism, my hometown of Hartford, Conn., June 1, 2014. Those wanting (or, his relationship with President Lee To my surprise, however, I now Columbia, he transferred to the into a professional career in PR. I MAIL to the address at the 1618–1633. Details can be found at where I joined a medium-size should I say, willing) to join the C. Bollinger and declared that the find at least as much satisfaction School of Engineering and was work for a small bank consulting top of your column. the publisher website, springer.com. general practice firm. I ultimately Reunion Committee should let me place of the College has never been in helping what must be at most awarded a B.S. in 1948. He regu- company in Manhattan. Our spe- Just type my name into the search developed specialties in land use know. more assured or better supported 150 students a year. I suppose it is larly attended CC ’45 reunions.” cialty is bank loan credit reviews

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for community (i.e., smaller) banks years at Clare College, Cambridge. Corp., which is widely recognized around the country. It’s kind of a I was asked to return to Clare to as the worldwide leader in display bar at hand. credit audit function, which helps give a reading of my poems on optimization for smartphones, tab- Louis Rossetto ’71 Goes from Wired to Chocolate “When Louis showed me keep the banks healthier than they April 23.” lets, HDTVs and digital cinema. TCHO headquarters, I remem- might otherwise be. I do bank “The three of us met in Amherst, B y D i n a C h e n e y ’99 stress testing, which is the regula- visited a local winery, had lunch ber thinking how perfect it was tory flavor of the decade. I am Jim Shaw at a historic inn and throughout that he’d opened a chocolate finishing moving our stress testing 139 North 22nd St. the day discussed our years on he path from founding issue, raise funds and recruit (including banner ads). With late companies have tended factory: the ultimate expres- program from Excel into Access 71 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Morningside Heights. We pledged and overseeing Wired editors and writers, moving to both businesses having reached to focus on the quantity, rather sion of a dreamer’s mentality,” (with the help of a consultant). I [email protected] that it would be more like 40 days magazine to running San Francisco in the process. break-even and the magazine than the quality, of cocoa beans. says James Truman, former am in the process of learning more rather than 40 years before we get the luxury chocolate The magazine launched in Janu- generating $25 million in sales, “Cacao farming is a commodity editorial director of Condé than I ever wanted to know about Eli Rubenstein writes, “I have been together again.” Tmaker TCHO may seem an ary 1993; the second issue cov- Rossetto and Metcalfe sold business, with no incentive for Nast, who knows Rossetto Access! Life is busy and good.” practicing law since 1974 and have Alan Flashman: “I am happy to unlikely one. Yet, for Louis ered the creation of the Internet the magazine to Condé Nast in farmers to focus on quality, as through Wired. “Louis really Larry Rosenwald says, “Not been at Goulston & Storrs since announce the [March 2013] pub- Rossetto ’71, ’73 Business, in Geneva. “From there, it was a 1998 and the web business to most chocolate made is milk does dream things into being. too much to report, except that a) 1977. I alternate my time between lication of Martin Buber’s classic our first granddaughter was born the New York and Boston offices. I and Thou in my new translation it made sense: In both jobs, he rocket ride,” Rossetto says. Lycos in 1999. chocolate. And milk chocolate is “Wired might seem logical last June, adorable beyond words Although we maintain homes in from German to Hebrew. As I am was able to innovate. In his down sold on the basis of the flavors and prescient in retrospect,” (so I won’t even try), and that b) both cities, I still consider Boston expert in neither language, it was a Such a propensity toward time, Rossetto of caramelized milk and sugar he adds, “but at the time, I seem to have become, without home. long haul. I originally worked on it change took root at Columbia became an angel — the chocolate flavor is an independently launching quite knowing how, a writer about “My wife, Emily ’72 Barnard, and to make the work understandable where Rossetto, who grew up investor and spent afterthought.” a highly complicated and Yiddish literature, publishing think I expect to celebrate our 42nd anni- in current Hebrew for social work in Great Neck (Long Island), time with his chil- Rossetto realized that TCHO expensive magazine about a pieces about translation and loving versary this June. Our two children students of family therapy. N.Y., studied political science. dren, Orson, born needed to partner with farmers then-marginal subject out of analyses of poems by Itzik Manger are grown and busy establishing “I see Buber as an important As a partici­pant in the student in 1997, and Zoe, to help them yield the most San Francisco seemed beyond and Jacob Glatshteyn.” their own families. Our son, Isaac, link between the individual and protests that rocked Columbia born in 1999. One flavorful raw material. The reckless. But Louis isn’t reck- Finally, David Lehman gave lives in Boston and our daughter, relationships. Buber’s estate people me the following very complete Abigail ’05, lives in New York. found the translation in my course (along with campuses nation- of his investments result: TCHOSource, a program less, exactly. He’s an inven- report, which certainly warrants “I am chair of the Board of material and chose to bring it wide) in the late 1960s, he saw was in a San through which the company tor and a pioneer, and once kudos: “As series editor of The Directors of the National Multiple out — 6 ½ years ago. Time moves firsthand how people could Francisco-based partners with farmers in Peru, he believes in something he Best American Poetry, the annual Sclerosis Society (NMSS). We raise slowly around here. I hope that the impact the course of events. chocolate busi- Ecuador and Ghana, helping won’t stop until everyone else anthology that I initiated in 1988, I more than $200 million each year young Israelis who filled the streets Unsure what to do next, but ness, Xocomaya them implement better bean shares his belief. I’m always am happy to report that The Best of to combat MS and its effects on and tents of the Israeli protest of with a sense that he should at- (the name was fermentation and drying prac- impressed not just by his bril- the Best American Poetry: 25th An­ the lives of people affected by it. Summer 2011 (barely reported in tend graduate school, Rossetto later changed to tices. The program also provides liance but also by his deter- niversary Edition was published in Assuming the chairmanship has the United States) will find support earned an M.B.A. and wrote a TCHO, pronounced partner farmers with Flavor mination, discipline and sheer April. Robert Pinsky, two-time U.S. caused me to wind down my prac- in this new/old work. novel, Take-Over (1974). cho¯), founded by Labs (like the one TCHO uses stubbornness in the pursuit of Poet Laureate, made the selections tice somewhat but the work with “I am even more happy to re- for this commemorative volume the society, although sometimes port the marriage of my daughter, Having settled on writing as Timothy Childs, in San Francisco), where they what he sees as possible.” celebrating our first 25 years. There very frustrating, is almost always Debbie, nearly two years ago; the a career, he decided to travel the housemate can make their own chocolate. TCHO, which now has 40 were launch readings scheduled immensely rewarding. If anyone in birth of my first grandson, Yoni, the world in search of stories. In of an early Wired “There, they can calibrate their employees and hundreds of in Boston (April 4) and New York the class has reason to have any in- seven months ago; and the mar- Rome, Rossetto helped former employee. “I never palates with TCHO’s,” says Ros- consumer and professional City (April 11). terest in NMSS, please be in touch.” riage of my daughter, Miriam, in Columbia Italian professor had a notion of setto, and “for the first time in products ranging from choc- “The regular volume in the Lloyd Emanuel, John Bleimaier, May. My son, Kobie, is making a Pier­-Nico Solinas write Ultimate becoming the next their lives taste the chocolate olate bars and drinking choc- series — The Best American Poetry Dick Fuhrman and Richard Hsia, career in photography, especially Porno: The Making of a Sex Co- Willy Wonka,” ad- made from their own beans and olate to cacao nibs and cou- 2013, with selections made by after dinner at Havana Central at music videos, in Tel Aviv. lossal (1981), about Tinto Brass’ mits Rossetto, who understand how their efforts verture disks for chefs, also guest editor Denise Duhamel — The West End, were “among the “My wife, Gilda, and I are in our Caligula. In Amsterdam, he wrote became involved affect the result.” runs an ongoing test program will appear this September. Launch throng packing Levien Gym to the 44th year of marriage, perhaps a readings for the book will take rafters,” Richard reports, as the class record, as we married at the for a political and economic in the business in The company, which gives free to engage its consumers in co- place in Atlanta during Labor Day Lions hosted Princeton on Febru- start of junior year. We have been in newsletter; in Afghanistan, he 2005. “It’s just that daily tours of its 25,000-square- creating its bars. One recent weekend and in New York City on ary 22. At the annual Burgers and Be’er Sheva for nearly three decades. covered the war against the So- Childs reminded foot San Francisco waterfront result of this process: TCHO’s Thursday, September 19. Basketball event, the classmates “I work privately in child, ado- viet Union. Returning to Amster- me of myself when facility, also innovates in its prod- first flavored bar, Mokaccino, “My other news is that Scribner especially “enjoyed the burgers and lescent, adult and family psychia- dam, he worked for a translation I started Wired. uct development and marketing. made with Blue Bottle Coffee. will publish my New and Selected camaraderie.” (The following night try and teach in Jerusalem and Tel company that was launching a I wanted to help According to Rossetto, dark This comes as no surprise for Poems in November. So this will at Levien the Lions shot 2-for-20 Aviv social work schools part-time. magazine focused on language him realize his chocolate has been marketed a company that — as Rossetto be quite a year on the publications in the second half, but during the Gilda is a family therapist in a technologies. With a “front row dream.” Rossetto with language associated with describes it — “marries Silicon front. New poems of mine have ap- game hit 22 of 26 from the free- child guidance clinic and the Rab- seat” to such innovation and an also wanted to other food and drink categories, Valley innovation to San Fran- peared in The New Yorker, The Atlan­ throw line and six three-pointers, binical Court. She has become a tic, Poetry magazine, The American and beat Penn by 17.) marvelous quilter. My avocations awareness of the burgeoning PC show his children such as wine and coffee. But cisco food culture.” Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Three ’71 friends have the Inter­- are hiking, doing the ancient Greek revolution in the United States, firsthand “what terms such as “vintage” and After all, he says, “The world Common, Green Mountains Review, net to thank for a December 2012 I missed at CC and reading the Rossetto came to believe that it takes to build a “single origin” not only don’t does not need another choco- Boston Review, Slate and Virginia reunion. Lewis Rosenthal, an Foucault lectures as they come out. “those who were creating and company.” apply well to chocolate, they also late company. It needs people Quarterly Review. I also have been attorney in upstate New York, was I also have attended some doctoral using digital technologies were Rossetto could confuse consumers and convey who want to innovate and writing essays, several of which reading the Huffington Post and courses in philosophy. the most powerful people on not resist the call nothing about how the choco- invent the future.” have been published in The Ameri­ found an article about the new “I am near completion of a pro- the planet, driving more positive of innovation. He late will taste. TCHO’s solution: can Scholar and Slate. My transla- iPad, written by Raymond Sonei- fessional autobiography looking Louis Rossetto ’71, ’73 Business outside tion of Guillaume Apollinaire’s ra. Lewis forwarded it to Robert back on what is to my mind the change than the priests, politi- TCHO’s factory at San Francisco’s Pier 17. joined TCHO as develop several chocolate bars, Dina Cheney ’99 is the author cians, generals or pundits.” CEO and creative each with a different dominant of three books, including the long poem Zone, on which I have Pu, a probate judge in Brattleboro, horrifying way that my profes- PHOTO: MARK LEET worked on and off for decades, is Vt., and wondered if it was their sion has developed. Then I think I With his partner, Jane Met- director in 2007 flavor attribute, such as “Nutty,” recently released Year-Round finished and will appear in the next mutual friend with whom they will run for cover (something we calfe, Rossetto decided to start In 1994, the couple intro- and, with Childs (who left the “Fruity,” “Citrus,” or “Chocolatey” Slow Cooker: 100 Favorite Rec- issue of Virginia Quarterly Review, both had lost contact many years do in the South [of Israel] pretty Wired magazine to tell the duced Hotwired, which Rosset- company two years ago), has (these flavor terms are also the ipes for Every Season. She also along with a translator’s note. ago. Of course it was. regularly).” stories of the individuals, com- to asserts was the first online come up with new ways to products’ names). A graphic on is the “Taste Test” columnist Finally, at the request of the Library Robert reports that Ray, now Bennett Alan Weinberg, bestsell- panies and ideas driving the publication to include original source and process cacao the packaging then does double for Everyday with Rachael Ray of Congress, I have written a 5,000- residing in Amherst, N.H., not far ing author of The World of Caffeine, digital revolution. The couple content (rather than material beans and create and market duty by showing the complete magazine and is at work on a word essay on ‘Peace and War in from Robert and Lewis, “is a theo- is looking for an agent for several worked from 1988–93 to write a repurposed from other media) high-quality chocolate. For one, flavor spectrum while also indi- vegetarian cookbook slated for American Poetry’ for its website. It retical physicist and cosmologist completed manuscripts. He de- business plan, create a dummy and Fortune 500 advertising Rossetto explains, larger choco- cating which flavor infuses the publication in 2014. will be posted soon. who now does advanced display scribes the novels as: “Simon Magus: “Oh, one more thing. As a Kellett technology and is the creative force The First Vampire, a truly original, Fellow back in the day, I spent two behind DisplayMate Technologies historically based story of a figure

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While we and daughter Elizabeth works for Harlem. the Neil Selinger Class of 1975 the centuries, from Rome, to Tran- Paul S. Appelbaum and computer analyst. CCT will have seen some progress on some of continue in our careers of multiple Carnegie Hall. Raouf Abdullah (while on Scholarship. Kudos to Ira Malin, sylvania, to Basque and finally to 39 Claremont Ave., #24 publish a more complete obituary these issues, but it is amazing how decades, our kids are moving on in At least three classmates have campus you knew him as Ralph Richard Witten, Steve Jacobs and England. 72 New York, NY 10027 in a subsequent issue. glacial that progress has been in bold new directions. Understanding kids who have gravitated to some Williams): Had been an attorney at Steve Krasner for their diligence “Manci’s Girl, an updated noir [email protected] nearly half a century! how our buddies of yesteryear are of the biggest names in the “dot- the Federal Trade Commission in in working through the details. thriller in which a beautiful, young, Some notable events occurred doing often means understanding com” world. While Kevin Ward Washington, D.C., for many years. Thanks also go to Neil’s widow, ambitious woman manipulates the Keith Luis (or at least his alter ego, Barry Etra during our four years on Morn- what is happening in the lives of toils away in his fourth decade as In December, he posted that he Rima Grad, and the Selinger family men surrounding Manci, the crime Dr. Louie) recently had a new CD 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE ingside Heights that seem to have their offspring. a Merrill Lynch financial adviser opened law offices in Lanham, Md. for allowing us to recognize Neil in boss of the Philadelphia mafia, released by Tain-Hamilton Re- 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 slipped through the pages of his- Let me shamelessly start by in New Jersey, his son, Matt, is Les Bryan: Posted last Febru- this way, and to all of the classmate only to be finally undone by her cords. Fillin’ the Billie, a rockabilly- [email protected] tory. The Environmental Protection announcing that my daughter, living the good life in the YouTube ary, “I just received my first Navy donors who also signed on. When love for the big man. inflected disc, features guest artists Agency was created in 1970, and Katie, has recently been admit- division of Google in Silicon retirement check — 27 years of we work together, we do make a “Expiration Date, a Christian Evan Johns (two guitar parts) and By the time you read this, our 40th today it holds sway over issues ted to Columbia Grammar and Valley. (Notes Kevin, “Talk about active and reserve service is paying difference. science-fiction adventure thriller, Leeann Atherton (one vocal). Keith Alumni Reunion Weekend will be as broad as the Keystone Pipeline Preparatory School in NYC, where being at the center of the earth!”) off. Full retirement looms closer.” For the first time in six years — in which Galahad Jones, a super- performs the other vocals and history; such is the timing of the and the location of manufacturing she will start ninth grade next fall. Matt’s brother, Mark, is a senior (Les has recently been principal at since he made the move from radio secret agent, is called out of retire- plays the guitars, mandolin, wash- world of Class Notes. I hope every- plants. In 1971 the gold standard She is following in the footsteps of at Fordham, and sibling Jamie a Department of Defense School in to multimedia and joined Com- ment to combat a psychotic, ren- board and additional percussion. one had a terrific time. A full report ended (which some associate the children of Larry Silverman, is a sophomore at Holy Cross Europe.) cast — James Dolan returned to egade, brilliant cardinal who plots The genre is bluesrock, incorporat- will be included in the Fall issue. If with the inflation of the 1970s and George Van Amson and the late and active on its varsity lacrosse Steve Dworkin: Has been at Country Radio Seminar, the annual to use viral agencies to achieve ing elements of urban and country you attended reunion, please share beyond) and, important to our class, Jeff Rosecan (among others). Some team. Brian, Kevin’s youngest, is a Citigroup Global Markets in Los country confab, which took place in control of the Catholic Church and, blues, rockabilly, New Orleans your thoughts and stories with me. the 26th Amendment was ratified of you may know that Columbia junior at Bergen Catholic H.S. Angeles for the past few years. He Nashville in February. Afterward, ultimately, the world. R&B and zydeco. You can find the The class photo, however, may be giving the right to vote to 18-year- Prep was started in 1764 — a de- Also out in Silicon Valley is Hen- had formerly been at Bear Stearns he wrote of sharing “stories of glory, “The Case of the Missing Rembrandt, title track at most online stores. Or found on the CCT website (college. olds (perhaps influencing the recent cade after the creation of Columbia ry Knapp (29), son of Rob Knapp, and then J.P. Morgan after the 2008 tales of shame and a lot of laughs!” an action mystery set largely on you can hear it free at reverbnation. columbia.edu/cct) as part of this reelection of President Barack College — to “prepare” the young who is an attorney at his Manhat- financial collapse. (I urge you all to take a look at the the Columbia campus in which a com/drlouie. issue’s reunion follow-up article. Obama ’83). It may be that the event men who were going to attend the tan commercial litigation law firm philosophy professor is drawn by Richard Avila brings us up to Joe Seldner was happy to see so with the most enduring impact College. Nowadays, it has no affili- Mulholland & Knapp. Henry is circumstances into acting as a top- date. Following graduation from many classmates at the pre-reunion happened in 1972, when President ation with the College and is coed. in Facebook’s mobile app group. Stewart Levy ’74 is an attorney in New York City flight detective. It is the first book Columbia, he took some time off event with Eric Holder, among Nixon visited China and normal- And, no, I doubt my Columbia Rob’s eldest daughter, Esther (32), in a projected series, The Columbia from school but was prompted them Marc Jaffe and Ray Vastola. ized relations. This contributed to connections had any influence. is a doctor at Montefiore Medical specializing in litigation and entertainment law. Mysteries.” by Watergate to attend Harvard Joe regretted not being able to the birth of a new superpower that An update came from Dr. David Center in NYC in the (depressing As for your correspondent, I saw Law. He earned a J.D. in 1978, then attend reunion; he and his brother profoundly changed our world. Melnick (senior medical science but important) specialty of pedi- that computer security expert Mark returned to Southern California were climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, A really big year was 1973, when director for AstraZeneca, the atric oncology. Aaron (28) studies An item not related to kids — picture Jim posted on Facebook Seiden was again quoted in The (where he’d grown up) to clerk courtesy of the artificial hip manu- we saw the Supreme Court rule British pharmaceutical company graphic design at Parsons in NYC. even though he has five (!) — came about the same time; he is always New York Times (March 27), which for a federal trial judge, after facturer that made both of their hip against state laws against abor- in Wilmington, Del.). He relates Rounding out the Internet trio is in an email from Victor Fortuno. He one to play any role to the fullest!) identifies him as “a member of the which he moved to San Francisco replacements! Joe is developing and tion in Roe v. Wade. That same year that he’s continuing work on the Scott Kunst’s son, Dave. Scott runs is “transitioning” from his 30-year A couple of weeks ago, he also Security and Stability Advisory in 1980. Richard is a bankruptcy producing movies and TV, giving marked the start of the Arab oil development of new antibiotics Old House Gardens (his heirloom career at the Legal Services Corp. in posted a picture of a red fox in his Committee of the International lawyer —“an expert in debt, so to workshops and trying to find a embargo that led to smaller cars and recently received approval bulb company) in Michigan. Dave Washington, D.C., which “ended” backyard. My sister lives just a few Corporation for Assigned Names speak.” After working for private home for The Parenting Channel and the 55 mph national speed for a new treatment of MRSA (the seems to be a rising star at Grou- with Vic’s title being v.p. and gener- blocks north of Jim, in a densely and Numbers, which oversees the firms, large and small, and for (see: Food Channel, Travel Channel limit. That year also brought about antibiotic-resistant bacteria increas- pon in Chicago. (I’ve lost track of al counsel. All the quotation marks populated area of Baltimore City, domain name system.” the government collecting debt in and so on). His son, Dan, left Cali- the end of the draft. (Need I remind ingly found in hospitals). David what Scott’s other son, Scott Jr., is are due to the qualifying phrases in Md., with Loyola and Marymount Philadelphia has vibrant theatre, Bankruptcy Court, he started his fornia for Europe after 11 years, and you of that terrifying day the previ- plans to continue research into up to these days.) his note such as, “My wife tells me in between. We shared stories about and I attend. Seminar, a sharp, witty own bankruptcy debtor practice his daughter, Laura, has been in and ous February 2, when the drawing other “highly antibiotic-resistant Update: In a recent column I that I’m too young and not ready all the foxes. If you want to get in on play by Theresa Rebeck, is about, as in 1995. out of Ecuador with granddaughter was held — à la Shirley Jackson’s pathogens,” including drug-resis- mentioned that Roger Kahn’s to retire just yet but I plan to take the joke, contact Jim! the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, “four Married once and divorced Liliana in tow; a grandson is on the book The Lottery — to determine tant tuberculosis. elder daughter, Amanda ’10, was some time to see how I might adjust Here’s a reach-out to one of our aspiring novelists enrolled in the once, Richard is the proud father of way. “Hasn’t always been easy or priority numbers for conscription? I His daughter, Katie ’03, is an “completing the post-bac, pre-med to retirement.” He refers to a “trial class’ attorneys, Gerard Francis private weekly workshops of rock- Patrick, a freshman at UC Berkeley smooth,” says Joe, “but it’s always was No. 35; do you remember your ADA in Manhattan and is married program at Columbia.” Roger retirement” and concludes, “I do Keating. Gerry, you and Bob star literary editor Leonard.” In the and “a serious and disciplined been interesting.” number?) In 1974 we saw India suc- to a Columbia P&S professor. Son emailed news that Amanda has think it might be nice to at least get Schneider have business interests lobby afterward, out came “Leon- young man of great courage,” with Ain’t it the truth … cessfully test an atomic bomb and, James is busy buying and selling been admitted to medical school. a taste of retirement while I’m still together; have you two been in ard,” who had absolutely nailed an unusual set of interests: politics, after our graduation, Nixon become companies at a private equity Congrats, Amanda! young(ish), healthy and able to re- touch? Gerry is a criminal defense the portrayal. After complimenting history, drama and boxing. Patrick the first President to resign. group. David adds, “We used to The support for these Internet ally appreciate it.” Why do I expect lawyer in Florida. After further REUNION WEEKEND him, I mentioned that because the won a regional theatre competition This little walk down memory joke that James would come work careers doesn’t only come from to get word within a year or so that research, Bob learned that Gerry MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 play was set on the Upper West in high school with Marc Antony’s lane highlights the significant for me when I set up my own today’s youth. A recent news item Vic has bounded out of his La-Z- attended Chaminade H.S., which ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Side and I went to Columbia, it funeral oration for Julius Caesar, world events that we shared four company. It now seems consider- said that 57 percent of Baby Boom- Boy and started doing something both Bob’s sons attended. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott reminded me of some Columbia and he scored a TKO in his first decades ago and is meant to ac- ably more likely that I will end up ers have used social media. As new and exciting? Following the announcement of [email protected] professors who were sophisticated intercollegiate boxing bout. complish two things: First, I hope working for him.” proof, I am introducing “Facebook There you have it. Some class- the resignation of Pope Emeritus 212-851-9148 and wanted the best from their stu- Richard notes that his hobbies it brings back memories of our Stewart Levy sends greetings. Factoids” (short items pulled from mates are continuing on in their Benedict XVI, I had lively communi- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova dents. He smiled and replied, “Oh, are “tennis — I am a ranked player bygone days on campus and re- He writes, “I am a partner in an my Facebook Wall — don’t worry, longtime jobs, while others are cations with classmates and others. [email protected] I went to Columbia, too.” Turns out for my age group — and restor- minds you to make plans to return NYC law firm, Eisenberg Tanchum I have done my best to fact-check altering their “timeline.” Some of (Weird — a couple of issues ago, I 212-851-7833 he is Rufus Collins ’84 (who has ing the 1966 Oldsmobile Cutlass to Morningside Heights Thursday, & Levy, specializing in litigation them). In future columns I hope our kids are moving into the same wrote in these notes about the book acted in five shows on Broadway, ‘muscle car’ I got my parents to Fred Bremer May 29–Sunday, June 1, for our and entertainment law. All three to give more details about these careers that we considered, while The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval says the playbill), and we had some buy for themselves when I was in 74 532 W. 111th St. 40th Alumni Reunion Weekend. children are finished with college: classmates’ posts but until then, others are moving into ones that Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation, of the same professors. high school, and which my now New York, NY 10025 Second, it’s my hope that you the youngest recently graduated here they are: didn’t exist in 1974. Can’t wait to about Pope Celestine V.) Following When I included that item in our 95-year-old mother has decided [email protected] share this thumbnail history lesson from Michigan; oldest son is a Ralph Coti: Announced he has get together to discuss all of the the recent announcement, I wrote class’ eNews, Ray Gaspard respond- to entrust to me to restore. It’s a with your kids to assure them that Stanford Law grad and practices moved his law offices from the above and more at our 40th reunion to Fr. John (CJ) McCloskey. He ed: “I’m one of the producers on The real piece of American industrial During our four years on campus, all of the chaos we are witnessing entertainment law in Los Angeles; Wall Street area to a posh East 61st next May! responded that he has been doing a Trip To Bountiful on Broadway, which archaeology as well as a lot of fun society, the economy and world at home and abroad is nothing daughter is a Muhlenberg College Street location between Park and good number of interviews for both stars Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams to drive on a Sunday afternoon. politics were in a state of turmoil. new. We experienced all of these grad and media director for an Lexington Avenues. He’s just a secular and Catholic media. CJ also and Cuba Gooding Jr. Always great Think of the Beach Boys singing Feminism, abortion, gay rights, historical moments, which echo NYC marketing firm. She’s also the stone’s throw from Trump Tower! Randy Nichols noted that, while a former resident of [getting the eNews].” 409 and you’ll get the idea.” Kent State and Watergate all fought those of today, while enduring mother of a 1-year-old girl — our (“The Ralph” has a nice ring to it!) 75 734 S. Linwood Ave. Maryland, he’s a Redskins fan. But If you are not receiving the ’71C Richard sends best wishes to all with a multitude of other issues to an economic crisis equivalent to first grandchild.” Dr. Reginald Manning ’78 P&S: Baltimore, MD 21224 since the ’Skins weren’t in the Super eNews and would like to, please classmates and especially his fresh- gain our nation’s attention. The re- the one we are just coming out of. From San Francisco comes word Last we knew he was an assistant [email protected] Bowl, he did cheer for World and email me. man suitemates in Carman, Jon cessions of 1970 and 1973–74 brack- Forty years later, most of us are of Tom Ferguson. In January professor of clinical surgery at the Super Bowl XLVII champions the Remember back 46 Septembers Berlin ’74 and Brooks Ballenger, eted our undergraduate years. The looking back on a pretty good four 2012, he started a job as the chief Department of Orthopedic Surgery I hope all will find this big and Bawlmer Ravens! ago, and the feelings we had, saying, “Guys, it would be so great Cold War, Vietnam and the Arab oil decades. As we said in the ’70s, financial and operations officer of at P&S. Now his “timeline” on marvelous news: The scholarship When not praying, preaching at including of adventure, as we to hear your news!” boycott, among others, screamed in “Keep the faith!” the Episcopal Diocese of Califor- Facebook has been updated to from our successful 35th reunion retreats, hearing confessions, giv-

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Please search Fellowship (from Boise State his Wikipedia page or — and this is Nation and lives in London; he is starting engineering school in the hazi attack and it’s been interesting. a wood-burning stove and WWII ment. And today, when I submit share what you are reading; some of University’s Arts and Humanities truly awesome — his IMDb entry. wrote, however, from Chicago, fall. Looking forward to another As someone said, the United States damage. It has a lot of old features these notes, Habemas Papam, “we us might want to read it, too. Institute) to translate the poetry of Please share your news; class- “the first stop on the college tour great 35-plus years (lost my parents may have pivoted to Asia but the like clay pipes for plumbing. I have a pope” — Pope Francis. CJ I began this column writing contemporary Catalan writer Ponç mates want to hear from you! You for my daughter, who will be last year, both in their mid-90s).” action has moved to Africa. spend part of my time working on was far too busy to offer comments about what we can accomplish Pons. can contact me at the addresses applying in the fall. We’re staying Paul Phillips writes, “Just re- “I spent three years in Kosovo a catalogue of the Bernard Beren- for CCT, but he has been much when we work together. If you’re My wife, Nancy Buffington, who at the top of the column or send a with Don Share, my Carman turned with the Brown University as ambassador. Challenging and son collection of Renaissance art at in the press. To read one of the reading this, please consider the has a Ph.D. in American literature note via CCT’s easy-to-use web- roommate (and best man at my Orchestra from a successful tour of fun, to say the least, keeping the the Villa I Tatti. It is a collaborative interviews, go to hughhewitt.com/ following: First, it’s never too late and 20 years of experience in univer- form: college.columbia.edu/cct/ wedding). Looking forward to see- Ireland, with concerts in Dublin, Kosovars on track, the Euros in line project that I hope to finish this father-c-j-mccloskey-reacts-to- to make a donation to the Colum- sity teaching, has started a business submit_class_note. ing Morningside Heights [during Limerick and Wexford.” and the Serbs at bay. Before that, year.” pope-francis. bia College Fund. You can give by in public speaking coaching. My reunion] and particularly pizza at Also in the music biz is Henry two years in Kabul. Not recom- Mark Freyberg writes from his Randolph M. McLaughlin and credit card at college.columbia. son, Jesse, will graduate from high V&T with Steve Ackerman ’79, Sid Aronson. “I’m director/keyboards mended (even my wife doesn’t eponymous law firm, “All is well his wife, Debra S. Cohen, are co- edu/giveonline (up until midnight school this year and will attend Matthew Nemerson Holt ’79 and Jeff Klein. The whole at Rock of Ages, which is approach- listen, though, as she’s back there with family and law practice. Live chairs of the Civil Rights Practice EST on Sunday, June 30) or by Whitman College next year. We have 35 Huntington St. campus visiting thing makes me ing its fourth anniversary on again, not happily). Not sure in Westchester with my wife, Laurie. Group of Newman Ferrara, a calling the Alumni Office at 212- seven more years before we cross 78 New Haven, CT 06511 realize yet again how lucky I was!” Broad­way and is now among what’s next, as I’m thinking about Our two sons attend the University New York City-based litigation 851-7488, or by mailing a check, that bridge with my younger boy, matthewnemerson@ Bruce Steinberg, also from Lon- the 50 longest-running shows in winding up this career, after 30- of Michigan and the University of firm. They handle cases involv- payable to Columbia College Gabriel. gmail.com don, gets the class legacy award. Broadway history! My wife, Cailín plus years, and trying something Miami.” ing employment discrimination, Fund, to Columbia College Fund, Please send news to me using “It’s a wonderful time for our Heffernan, and I have our fingers new. My daughter and stepson are Rob Blank is leaving the Univer- voting rights, police misconduct, Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. the email at the top of the column A record number of notes for this family as our son, Kyle, is entering crossed for a workshop of our both first-year undergrads in the sity of Wisconsin and taking a job as fair housing and marriage equality. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New or CCT’s easy-to-use webform column and I have squeezed you Columbia this September. He is musical, Loveless Texas, this summer United Kingdom (the advantage of chief of endocrinology at the Medical Randolph also is a tenured law York, NY 10025. Keep in mind (college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ all in, so sorry for lots of edits. A incredibly excited and we are very (lovelesstexas.com). I’ll be playing being EU citizens).” College of Wisconsin. “It’s hard, as professor at Pace Law; Debra is an that Columbia’s fiscal year ends class_note). Your classmates want to full reunion report will be in the proud of him! He will be the fourth piano and keys with the Rocktopia Maybe with adjoining offices to I’ve had a good, 12-year run there. adjunct professor at Pace. on June 30. So if you are calling in hear from you! next issue. If you attended, please generation of our family to go to project, blending symphonic music Chris in the Columbia ring of the I’m looking forward to building the In addition to the daily grind, your donation or mailing a check, share your thoughts and stories Columbia. In addition to myself, with classic rock; we kicked off a Pentagon, we find Jeff Canfield, program at the new place.” Bob Schneider and his wife, Regi- please do it before that day. with me for this column. The class there is my grandfather, Max, tour in May.” who is “returning from Afghani- The award for most career mile- na Mullahy ’75 Barnard, have been Second, there is another advanta- David Gorman photo, however, may be found on enrolled at Columbia in 1909; my Robert Muirhead reports, “The stan and retiring after 30 years age while staying in the U.S. surely running the roads. Bob and Regina geous date when the end of the 111 Regal Dr. the CCT website (college.columbia. father, Herbert ’52; and my brother, big news from Manchester, Conn., of military service and about to goes to Marc Matsil: “Following a have been going back and forth to tax year rolls around, at the end of 77 DeKalb, IL 60115 edu/cct) as part of this issue’s Neil ’83. Kyle has lived his entire is the arrival of our first grandchild, commence service as a defense in- stint as commissioner of natural and the Washington, D.C., area to visit December. (I schedule my annual [email protected] reunion follow-up article. life in London, so it will be interest- Celeste, to our oldest daughter. My telligence senior leader at the Joint historic resources in New Jersey, my son James and his fiancée, Claudia donations around those two dates!) One person who couldn’t make ing to hear his thoughts on the wife, Susan, and I are proud and Chiefs of Staff. Celebrating 36 years wife and kiddies escaped for five Patane (both Penn grads), and Third, our 40th reunion is ap- Things seem to be running a bit it to our 35th was Dr. Steven American university experience.” happy!” of marriage and the addition to our years to Alaska, where I had over- to Philadelphia, where daughter proaching (Thursday, May 28– behind here at the column. I failed Wexner, who was installed that Richard Schloss of East North- Nicholas J. Serwer writes, “For family of our first grandchild.” sight of parks, natural resources and Meg is a senior at Penn and where Sunday, May 31, 2015). Who will to acknowledge friendly greetings weekend as an honorary profes- port, N.Y., writes, “I run a busy the last few years, I’ve been general Bob Crochelt’s life sounds like streams (and King salmon — have James and Claudia’s wedding is stand now and volunteer as a I received from Jamie Fee and Jo- sor of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow private practice in general psychia- counsel of Ancora Capital Manage- a TV show from the ’90s. “I’m you ever supervised a salmon? — being planned. Back to the grind Reunion Committee member? Our seph Cornelius in 2012. About the State Medical University, only the try in Huntington, N.Y. My wife, ment, a fund management company. entering my 20th year practicing not easy!), the convention center — in January, American Lawyer work starts soon. Contact me! same time, Sheldon Deluty wrote third foreigner to be so honored. Meredith Jaffe ’82 Nursing, has a We manage a private equity fund rural general surgery, currently at and museum. My wife landed a gig Media and Martindale-Hubbell Finally, and this is the easiest, to say that his daughter, Danielle, John Crabtree always supports dental practice and is also at the that invests in Indonesia. I commute SEARHC Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital as financial reporter for the South- named Bob one of the 2013 Top keep the cards and letters coming, will graduate from Barnard in the class by hosting great events Developmental Disabilities Institute between Singapore and Jakarta. in the island community of Sitka. east Alaska NPR affiliate and ended Rated Lawyers in Health Care. so I can continue to love writing 2014, and that his son, Jonathan, at his Chappaqua, N.Y., inn. He in Smithtown, N.Y. My older son, This year marks my 20th working Sequestration has impacted the her Alaska career in government as In January, Robert Sclafani par- Class Notes! We can and do make was accepted into the Class of writes, “Having owned and oper- Bradley, is attending Touro Law in Asia.” budget a bit but there are whales the head of press and media for the ticipated in a memorial service at a difference. Go Lions! 2017. (His graduation should coin- ated Crabtree’s Kittle House for 31 Center in Central Islip, N.Y., and my Alaska Department of Environmen- the University of Colorado School cide with our 40th reunion.) years, I am now opening a restau- younger son, Jason, was to graduate tal Conservations (yup, working for of Medicine for George Eisenbarth It also was in 2012 that Andy rant in Tarrytown on the Hudson from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in Dr. Deepak Awasthi ’82 accomplished his lifelong Sarah Palin — oy). ’69. George was a pioneer in diabetes Clyde Moneyhun Sama was appointed president of River. Rivermarket Bar & Kitchen May.” “We’ve been back for two years. research and had been the director 76 Boise State University the American College of Emer- will feature fresh products from My buddy Jerry Marshall, of goal of traveling to all 24 time zones by visiting I’m the New York State director of of the Barbara Davis Center for Department of English gency Physicians. Andy earned local farms, a greenmarket and a Memphis, is a rare Columbia cotton Samoa/American Samoa last July. The Trust for Public Land. … Our Diabetes, on the medical school 200 Liberal Arts Building an M.D. from Cornell in 1981 and shop featuring the greatest organic, king. “Elizabeth and I have been 9-year-old twin girls, Beckett and campus, for more than 20 years. 1910 University Dr. interned at North Shore University biodynamic wines and spirits under married since 1981 and are still Simone (Lit Hum lives in our prog- George passed away on November Boise, ID 83725 Hospital in Manhasset, where he one roof. Opening was scheduled going strong; two kids are in high Peter McAlevey of Thunderbird out the front window, bears in the eny), miss the humpback whale 13, 2012. As his colleague in Colo- [email protected] is now head of emergency services for late May.” school: Ben, a senior, plays lacrosse Pictures says, “Recently finished yard, berries will be coming up companions but have adapted to rado, Robert spoke frequently with as well as being s.v.p. of emergency Marc Bogatin, an attorney in and is a St. Louis Cardinals fan. producing writer/director George soon and I’m still in love with my our funky-but-chic digs in West him about his time at Columbia and Last summer, Kevin Farrelly mar- services for the North Shore Long NYC, reports that son Jacob finish- Mollie is in 10th grade, dances with Gianfrancisco ’88’s feature film wife, Dr. Donna Smith, a fabulous Cornwall, Conn.” in New York. He was always warm ried Stephen Klein at the Columbia Island Jewish Medical Center. Nor ed his sophomore year at Syracuse Ballet Memphis and plays violin,” debut, Kill Her, Not Me. At the obstetrician.” Anthony (Skip) Piscitelli, a and personable. He will be missed University Club of New York in is this all: Andy has held a number and son Joshua finished Stuyves- Jerry writes. “Talented kids, and same time found out my son, Sean, Joseph Smith works in commu- partner at Wilson Elser in the by all. Midtown. Acting State Supreme of academic positions and cur- ant H.S., with plans to head to lots more on the ball than I was at who is going into his senior year at nications for the Mohegan tribal Government Affairs Practice, was It’s always good to hear from Court Justice Michael D. Stall- rently has an endowed professor- Oberlin next year to study film- their age. Toronto, was awarded one of the government in Connecticut. Joseph “the former chief lobbyist for NYC classmates who read these notes! man, who presides in New York, ship at the medical school of NYU. making, a passion his father shares. “Things are working well in the few coveted summer internships at says, “The tribe are the owners and under Mayors Giuliani and Bloom- Jeffrey Shapiro read that the Co- officiated. Kevin graduated from I was on the Christmas card Their trip to the New York Film world of self-employment. I started Sports Illustrated!” operators of Mohegan Sun casino berg focusing on the State Assembly lumbia University Marching Band Fordham Law and is in private list of our ambassador to Bel- Festival is an annual tradition. my own business in 2008 after Robert Anthony notes, “I write (part Mohegan on my mother’s and Executive Chamber.” is looking for its former members. practice in New York. gium, Howard Gutman; the card Victor Leong is an orthodontist spending 29 years with Cargill as a technology and travel features for side). I’m editor of the tribe’s After 25 years as a full-time I’ll pass on Jeff’s name to the band. Congratulations, Kevin and included a picture of himself, wife in Palo Alto, Calif. He writes, “My cotton trader. I manage several pri- Black Enterprise, the New York Daily newsletter — shades of the old clinician in ob/gyn, Joseph Schifil- And next issue, expect to read Stephen! Michelle ’78 Barnard and son Collin oldest son is graduating from UC vate trading accounts and consult News, PC World and other publica- days at Spectator, where I was once liti now is a risk manager for his more about what Jeff’s been up to As news from the rest of you with Hillary Clinton on her visit to San Diego this summer. It’s hard to in commodities. I have a thriving tions and websites. On March 26, accidentally stabbed with an X-acto medical group: “As the multi-spe- for the last almost-40 years! was sparse this time around, I’ll Brussels, and another of son Chase. believe how time has gone by but I commercial arbitration practice, I was honored by the New York knife to the elbow by Chris Owens cialty physician group caring for And now, what are classmates catch you up on what’s happening Howard quotes a column from a am enjoying life out on the coast.” a sorry symptom of the lack of Association of Black Journalists. ’80 while doing layout. Guess that Kaiser Permanente patients, we are reading these days? A sample: The with me. After 11 years as an ad- Belgian newspaper pointing out Larry Friedman is a lawyer at legal discipline in the international I’m a top 100 Pinterest pinner (1.3 kind of thing doesn’t happen much responsible for 250,000 members in Dark Monk: A Hangman’s Daughter ministrator at Delaware and Stan- that, during his time as ambassador, the St. Louis law firm Thompson cotton trade. Leaving Cargill was million followers), and moderated at the Spec offices these days.” At Georgia, primarily in the Atlanta Tale (Oliver Pötzsch), Young Thur­ ford, I moved back onto a tenure the approval rating for the United Coburn: “I’ve been a partner since the best trade I ever made — at 56 a panel at Social Media Weekend at Mohegan Sun, he often bumps into area.” good: The Making of a Supreme Court line at Boise State. It’s been a good States in Belgium has risen dra- 1991. I’m also an empty-nester, I absolutely love being in control of the Journalism School in February. another WKCR man, Mitch Etess Joseph Schachner writes, “My Justice (Larry S. Gibson) and The move. I direct a writing center and matically: from a low of 8 percent with a daughter (elementary school my own life.” My work is linked at newyorkbob. ’81, who runs the place. older daughter earned a Ph.D. in Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life teach writing and translation in in 2007 (two years prior to his ap- teacher) in Austin and a son (musi- Laurence J. Quinn reports, “It’s com.” This is Carl Strehlke’s 30th year psychology, applied for an NIH and Heroic Death of Father Mychal the English department. I received pointment) to 46 percent. It added cian) in Boston; I told them they had now 30 years that I have been teach- Ambassador Chris Dell sent as a curator of the Philadelphia grant for proposed research and Judge (Michael Daly). Lots of people tenure this spring, got a Faculty that Howie has become “such a to live in cities that rhyme. I would ing high school science and am this note (highly redacted of Museum of Art. “I spend about received a score that in any previ- are reading just about anything International Development Award well-known personality in Belgium be happy to see classmates who finishing 10 years of civic duty, first course): “Am currently on detail to half my time in Florence, Italy, ous year would have resulted in

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stitution but the other lessons from Anything. And since my excite- American Samoa last July. He Stan Lupkin ’62 has been a friend as a computer science major. ter (newsmanager.commpartners. that four-year period of time also ment of late pales in comparison also is a member of the Travelers’ of Dennis’ father for decades, and Kai-Fu is married to Shen-Ling com/accnj/issues/2013-02-08/5. helped shape who we are today to my son’s, I figured I would Century Club, having been to 125 we shared many Columbia stories. and father to Cynthia and Jennifer html). Meanwhile, I am publish- — along with, of course, those late share that the overachieving but countries. Deepak practices neuro- Stan’s son, Jonathan ’89, ’92L, also ’12. ing my new novel, which is based nights at Barnard. Roar, lion, roar!” well-grounded kid who shunned surgery in the New Orleans area. was at the event. Jonathan recently Another John Jay Award recipient on characters who are Columbia Please send news to me using alma mater (for that place out west Deepak, don’t forget to make founded the law firm Rakower was Michael Schmidtberger ’82, College and Barnard graduates, in the email at the top of the column with an endowment that rivals your 13-D filing, as you probably Lupkin in Manhattan. ’85L, my friend for more than 30 weekly installments on my blog or CCT’s easy-to-use webform (col the GDP of Austria) stayed in Palo have more than a 5 percent stake in Dennis is a tireless Columbia sup- years. Mike was a campus leader. He at goodreads.com. You can follow lege.columbia.edu/cct/submit Alto, Calif., after receiving a B.S. one or more airlines as a result of porter and was a tremendous friend played JV basketball, co-founded the along at goodreads.com/author/ _class_note). Your classmates want last year and will receive an M.S. all your frequent flier miles. to the late Professor Karl-Ludwig Columbia Guide to New York, of which show/5194743.Kevin_G_Chapman. to hear from you! in alternative energy policy and The other exciting event this Selig. In fact, Dennis arranged Pro- he was editor in-chief, and was a “My son, Connor, completed finance as we read this. If nobody quarter, which I’m proud to an- fessor Selig’s last visit to Columbia. resident counselor. He was elected his second and third semesters of else writes in this summer, I’ll tell nounce, is that our highly accom- KLS met with then-Dean Michele to the University Senate, casting his college at Marist in Poughkeepsie, Michael C. Brown you about my bicycle trips in the plished colleague, Mike Schmidt- Moody-Adams at Faculty House. vote to admit women to the College. N.Y., and is enjoying his computer London Terrace Towers next edition.” berger, has joined the pantheon of I was honored to be there with my He was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa science studies. Meanwhile, my 80 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F As the correspondent for a other Class of ’82 notables (Frank three children, and I have a memo- and awarded the Bennet Cerf ’20 other son, Ross, is Mr. High School New York, NY 10011 class whose average age is well Lopez-Balboa, Tracy Maitland, rable videotape of the gathering. Memorial Prize for critical writing. as a junior and continues to be as [email protected] past 50, I’ve noticed the column Jamie Rubin, Charles Santoro and My wife, Debbie, our children Later, he served with me on the Co- busy as can be.” is dominated by certain themes: George Stephanopoulos) by being and I attended the Columbia/Yale lumbia College Alumni Association Kevin was on the planning com- It was a pleasure watching our professional accomplishments (we honored with a John Jay Award for basketball game March 1. After Board of Directors from 1998–2008. mittee for our 30th reunion and has baseball team once again this hope well deserved), transitions distinguished professional achieve- having dinner at V&T, we arrived With Margaret Sung, whom he consistently been one of the most season. Coach Brett Boretti had (early retirement, new spouse, etc.) ment. The award was presented late and, incredibly, had to settle married in St. Paul’s Chapel in 1995, active members of our class. Marc Mazur ’81 and his family spent the holidays with Clayton our squad playing against the and with increasing frequency, the on March 6 at a black-tie dinner for “standing room only” tickets. Mike is father to daughters Calee Kenny Chin submits this report: Jones ’81 and his family in Jupiter, Fla. Left to right: William Mazur best competition in the country death of one of our classmates. It at Cipriani 42nd Street. A number Moreover, dozens of Columbia and Mollie. Mike is a managing “Ken heads the banking and ’12, Mazur, Jones, Madison Jones ’17, Jamie Mazur ’15 and Mazur’s and proved that we can hold our is always difficult to report on the of classmates attended, including students stood on their feet for the partner of the New York office of finance practice at his firm, and wife, Nora Mazur ’81 Barnard. own. Their feats included a big death of a classmate, but in this Joe Cabrera and Charles Santoro entire second half. Columbia won Sidley Austin, a global law firm with continues to be ranked as a ‘Super win against Arizona, the defend- case, it is especially difficult in that (each of whom was a dinner co- the game, and it was great to see the offices in 18 cities around the world Lawyer’ and a ‘Best Lawyer’ for ing NCAA champs, and an Ivy it involves not the classmate but his chair; Charles also delivered a enthusiasm and energy of the Co- and more than 1,700 lawyers. bank financing in various published a grant; however, this is the year recent discoveries, along with the League championship sweep over daughter. Martha Corey-Ochoa, wonderful, heartfelt speech). Also lumbia fans. We also attended the In January, Debbie and I attended lists. Ken has been speaking on fi- of the sequester, and the NIH has hype and business gold rush, in the Dartmouth. Eric Blattman and I the daughter of George Ochoa, on hand were Dave Filosa, Frank winning women’s basketball game a Kraft Family Center for Jewish and nancing topics to groups at the New not released any grants yet. My modern-day search for extended visited with the team in Miami and jumped to her death from the 14th Lopez-Balboa, Lloyd Green, Alex between Columbia and Dartmouth Student Life reception honoring Ju- York City Bar, the American Bar As- younger daughter is finishing a health. watched two well-played games. floor of her dorm (John Jay) on the Moon and Tom Nevitt. March 9. I strongly encourage you dith W. Schwartz ’78 Barnard for her sociation and the Practising Law In- graduate program at Hunter to “On my family front, my daugh- The football team had its annual first day of orientation at Columbia Mike, on behalf of all our class- to go to a CU basketball game next years of leadership and dedication stitute. Ken also is chairman of the become a teacher; she will student ter, Marja, began medical school golf outing and the Class of ’80 was last year, on August 27. She was mates, I wish you a hearty con- season, especially if you have kids as president of the center’s board of Board of Directors for the Charles teach this fall.” at the Loyola University Chicago well represented. Our fivesome of 18 and a member of the Class of gratulations! For those who were who want to experience basketball directors. B. Wang Community Health Center My report: Daughter Joy (19) is Stritch School of Medicine in Chi- Scott Ahern, Eric Blattman, Joe Ci- 2016. Her obituary was noted in the unable to attend, you can view the sitting a few rows away from the Brad Gluck writes, “I’m starting and is recruiting additional board a frosh at American, where she fin- cago, and my son, Cam, is a Red ulla, Shawn FitzGerald and myself Winter 2012–13 issue of CCT, and award ceremony here: youtube. action. my 20th year as a radiologist on members. His wife, Lisa, is senior ished a year as a national officer of Cross disaster coordinator for mid- carved our way around the course. she was unquestionably an incred- com/watch?v=F257025iJmU. I attended the John Jay Awards eastern Long Island. With my wife, counsel at Empire State Develop- NFTY, a Reform Jewish leadership coastal Virginia. My wife, Maja, Joe was especially prolific with his ibly bright, talented and motivated Let’s keep those emails coming! Dinner on March 6, where four Karen, we have fun, 9-year-old, ment, New York State’s primary group. Daughter Elana (23) gradu- was named Female Litigator of 3-wood and Scott sank some big young woman. My heart goes out You also can send news to me via classmates from the 1980s were identical twin daughters. We re- economic development agency. ated from Clark and plans to go to the Year - Midwest by Benchmark putts. A.J. Sabatelli joined us for to George and his wife, Melinda CCT’s easy-to-use webform (college. honored. Kai-Fu Lee’s achieve- cently visited Morningside Heights. His son, Nicholas, is a freshman at grad school in Boston. Wife Marian Litigation, so I never even try to win dinner, where we honored longtime Corey ’95 Arts, as I can only imag- columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ ments were noted in the dinner bro- I was thrilled to show my children the University of Michigan in the ’77 Barnard, a professor at Yale, arguments at home. I wish the best football supporter Tom Nevitt ’82. ine the grief they must feel. George note)! chure, as he was unable to attend. 309 Havemeyer, the most memo- College of Literature, Science, and is running a large international to all classmates, and good luck to Lanny A. Breuer has returned to sat next to me in several Latin Kai-Fu founded Innovation rable classroom of my education. the Arts. His other son, Austin, is environment conference in South the Lions.” the law firm of Covington & Burl- classes and was a brilliant student Works, a company devoted to Though it had been renovated for a sophomore at Legacy H.S. They Korea this summer — amazing Robert C. Klapper: “My thoughts ing as vice chair, working closely (summa cum laude), a quiet but Roy Pomerantz investing in and building Chinese the modern era, it still had intimi- were looking forward to seeing timing, don’t you think? I run the for this column go to the part of my with senior leadership on the firm’s friendly guy. Since hearing this, I Babyking/Petking businesses specializing in the dating charm. everyone at reunion.” Connecticut Technology Council Columbia education that did not long-term strategy. He rejoins the have prayed for the Ochoas but also 83 182-20 Liberty Ave. Internet, mobile Internet and cloud “I have been in contact with fenc- Teddy Weinberger writes, and am running for mayor of New take place in the classroom (and firm after serving four years at the for all freshmen at Columbia, as Jamaica, NY 11412 computing. When he finished his ing teammates Tai Park and Mark “Through the years I’ve thought a Haven, a job that is open for the I am not referring to those nights Justice Department. Lanny has had the transition to college, especially [email protected] time as president of Google Greater Warner and 17-year classmate Rich lot about the Columbia University first time since our 15th reunion. at Barnard). What I am referring a distinguished career in the legal a highly competitive college, is not China in 2009, Google’s search and Garden. Rich and I were classmates Wind Ensemble and our conduc- Remember when I used to talk to, rather, is the financial burden profession. easy. I thoroughly enjoyed class cor- translate had all advanced to No. in nursery school and elementary tor, Bob Freeberg ’78. The truth is about this in college? Stay tuned. my education placed on me. My Drop me a line at mcbcu80@ respondent Dennis Klainberg ’84’s 1 in the market. An expert in his school, at Columbia and during that, in terms of actually learning mother and father made it very yahoo.com. 50th birthday celebration at his field, Kai-Fu not only cultivated residencies at Mount Sinai Hospital. something at Columbia that has clear that the American dream was Andrew Weisman home in Manhasset (Long Island), innovation in the workplace but Mark’s oldest son is a sophomore been helpful in my life, I would REUNION WEEKEND there for me but I would have to 710 Lawrence Ave. N.Y. Among the guests was at- also inspired the next generation. at Occidental and his parents hope have to rate my years with the MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 figure out how to pay for it myself. Kevin Fay 82 Westfield, NJ 07090 torney Michael Ackerman ’84, who He taught at Carnegie Mellon — that he someday runs for public ensemble at the top. Unlike most of ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS “This journey led to many hours 8300 Private Lane lives in Los Angeles. As a former from which he earned a Ph.D. with office. Mark’s younger son is a high the other people in the ensemble, ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott [email protected] working at hotels in the Catskill 81 Annandale, VA 22003 CU Marching Band member, he a groundbreaking thesis project: the school senior and is working on his I did not come from a high school [email protected] Mountains. Many of the guests and Greetings, gentlemen! I trust all gave rave reviews of the Marching world’s first speaker-independent college application essays. Tai is in marching band. My Jewish high 212-851-9148 kfay@northridge their insufferable demands would is well. As I sit down to write this Band exhibit that was on display continuous speech-recognition private law practice specializing school (Yeshivah of Flatbush) had DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova capital.com make you crazy, but there were quarter’s edition, I find myself in in the Columbia Alumni Center system, which Business Week named in white collar criminal defense. It an orchestra but somehow I man- [email protected] a few who took me under their Marc Mazur and Clayton Jones the midst of the Charlton Heston chronicling decades of perfor- “Most Important Innovation of seems like yesterday but I remem- aged not to learn how to sit in a 212-851-7833 wings. One such individual taught spent the winter holidays in Jupi- Holiday Season (some of you may mances by the “Cleverest Band in 1988” — and his lectures have been ber that winter 30 years ago when band until I got to Columbia. My Robert Klapper me a life lesson more valuable than ter, Fla., with their families. Jupiter know it as Easter, while others may the World.” Michael is in contact attended by half a million students Tai sat at the dining room table in technical skills were good but it 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 any I learned in the classroom. He in December is a tremendous place prefer Passover); my wife insists on with fellow band members Harlan in China. In addition, he has shared 1410 East Campus marveling about was tough hanging in there fresh- 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 said, ‘Robert, whenever you’re in a to be. watching The Ten Commandments Simon ’81 and Jim Reinish ’82E. his knowledge in seven books, with this ‘new Sony Walkman’ gadget. man year while I struggled with [email protected] room with a bunch of folks trying John Luisi writes from Staten every year. Really thinking about Joe Halio ’74, Dennis’ neighbor, two becoming best-sellers in China: Things have really changed.” matching my reading of the music to make a deal, remember one Island: “When the Spring CCT ar- making the move to atheism. also was in attendance. He is a Be Your Personal Best and Making a Kevin Chapman: “I am happy to Bob’s waving of the baton. I Theodore “Ted” Anton writes, thing: there is always a sucker — rived, I wondered which classmate Checking in this quarter is the family practice physician on Long World of Difference: The Kai-Fu Lee to report that I was recently named loved playing for the band, and I “To my Class of ’79 mates, my and, if you look around the room had won a Nobel Prize or become distinguished and well-traveled Island. Joe spoke about the enor- Story. the winner of the ACC New Jersey am proud of the fact that, thanks new book came out on May 1 on and you don’t see who the sucker leader of a sovereign nation (or Dr. Deepak Awasthi. Deepak has mous influence Professor Peter Kai-Fu also is known in China Corporate Counsel Association’s to Bob and the wind ensemble, a subject of increasing importance is, it’s you!’ outer borough, at least). When I ticked a significant item off his Pouncey ’69 GSAS had on his life. as its most influential microblog- inaugural Fiction Writing Competi- I became an accomplished band to all of us. Called The Longevity “So remember, fellow ’79ers, the realized that a haiku would have bucket list, having accomplished Professor Pouncey left Columbia to ger on Sina weibo, China’s Twitter. tion. My story, Fool Me Twice, was player, going on to play in bands in Seekers: Science, Business, and the Core Curriculum was our most amounted to a feature in our Class his lifelong goal of traveling to all become president of Amherst Col- His commitment to education was reprinted in the February 2013 issue Atlanta, Miami and Jerusalem.” Fountain of Youth, it tells the story of valuable jewel from this great in- Notes, I felt compelled to write. 24 time zones by visiting Samoa/ lege and now is back in NYC. clear from his time at the College of the NJCCA’s monthly newslet- Jonathan Adams writes with

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sad news: “Jon Goldman passed class photo in the online version premieres in February at Tenri away in March [at 50]. He had been of that article at college.columbia. Cultural Institute in New York. maybe squeeze out a dirty teaching in NYC public schools edu/cct. Highlights of the concert included Michael Caruso ’83 Shoots Down Bogeys limerick. Meanwhile, Michael and then at the Beacon School. He the first complete performance leaves behind an 11-year-old-son, of his 1982 song cycle the nurtur­ could crank out an Ezra Pound REUNION WEEKEND Jake. An article remembering Jon, ing river (based on the sonnets of canto off the top of his head. MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 at Smithsonian Magazine published online in New York Press, James R. Murphy) and the world- ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS He has an incredibly fast, facile can be found here: nypress.com/ premiere performance of his 2012 ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott y a m i e at z u s i n e s s mind. Let me point this out, blackboard-awards-jonathan-gold Stephen Crane song cycle, Versions B J K ’72, ’80 B [email protected] though: I got a better grade man-beacon-students-remember- of the Truth (Frank’s first new vocal 212-851-9148 than he did in music theory. jon-their-inspirational-teacher/.” composition since 2003), which DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova A few excerpts follow: was commissioned by The ASCAP s an editorial sapling wallop him. “It was one of the named editor-in-chief in 2011 fol- “The ambition,” Caruso says, “is That always pissed him off.” [email protected] “‘Mr. Goldman taught lasting Foundation’s Charles Kingsford at Vanity Fair, Michael scariest moments of my profes- lowing a stint as deputy editor of to put Smithsonian on the same Caruso’s first magazine job 212-851-7833 Caruso ’83 once sional career,” Caruso says. “I WSJ. Magazine, The Wall Street level as The New Yorker and The after college was at The New lessons that stay with me some 10 Fund. Also on the program was looked Norman Mailer was virtually hyperventilating.” Journal’s lifestyle magazine. His Atlantic and the best magazines Yorker, where he was a mes- years after graduation from high Dennis Klainberg Setting the World at Five and Seven. school,’ wrote one former student, Berklay Cargo Worldwide The concert was part of the fourth Adead in the eye and asked him Mailer had submitted a current publication reflects the in the country.” senger. Within a few years, he 84 nominating him for a Blackboard 14 Bond St., Ste 233 annual Composers Now Festival. to rewrite a major feature story. typically brilliant meditation on aspirations and scope of its par- Enterprise and creativity was executive editor of the Award. ‘He was an amazing edu- Great Neck, NY 11021 The program also included Pal­ Caruso knew he was commit- Bret Easton Ellis’ blood-soaked ent, the Smithsonian Institution, come naturally to Caruso, whose Village Voice; at 29, he was cator who opened our minds to so [email protected] indrome, a piece for solo piano. It’s ting literary lèse-majesté. It American Psycho. But Caruso which comprises 19 museums father, Jerome, is a renowned recruited to Vanity Fair by Tina many things and really impacted a completely monophonic work crossed his mind that the pug- felt Mailer’s piece could be and galleries, nine research industrial engineer (his Sub-Zero Brown, who hired him again the way I think to this day.’ … First and foremost, apologies to containing only seven pitches nacious Mailer might actually more compelling, and he asked centers, the National Zoo and 177 refrigerator systems and Wolf when she launched her short- “Goldman’s mother, Isolde Yossi Rabin for preempting his that remain registrally, rhythmi- him to dig deeper, affiliate museums. The magazine cooking appliances set a stan- lived Talk magazine in 1999. Goldman, said more than 100 on-time contribution with our cally and dynamically the same to make it tougher is a money-maker for the larger dard of excellence in kitchen The Smithsonian opportu- students and former students at- memorial column for Professor throughout the work in order to and more personal. entity, which is about 70 percent design). “I learned so much from nity was enticing enough to tended his funeral, which was held Karl-Ludwig Selig (Spring 2013). convey to listeners that the music in Long Island. Yossi and his wife, Kochava — is the same forward and backward. “I wanted him to talk federally funded, Caruso says. him,” Caruso says. “We do very pry Caruso out of New York, “‘He loved the students,’ she aka, the couple with nine children The piece was composed in 1984 about violence in Though the publication is editori- much the same thing in different at least for part of each week. said. ‘I think that’s why he liked — welcomed their second grand- while Frank was at the College. America, and about ally independent, “we certainly mediums. It’s form and function He has been shuttling by train it. It made him feel good to take son, Yeeshy Shimone, on August Frank notes, “The music I wanted his own history of have to be responsible to the at the same time.” between Washington, D.C., and a young person, who might not 20, 2012, in Jerusalem. After more to write at the time was diametri- violence.” institution,” he adds. “So it’s like Growing up in suburban Lake his Park Slope, Brooklyn, home know or be exposed to different than 22 years in computer software cally in opposition to the music my Mailer stared back so many things in life — you’re Forest, Ill., Caruso was a serious (a weekly commute that may literature, and teach them about it. development, Yossi successfully professors wanted me to write, or so and said nothing. navigating a situation that can be sports fan who watched the soon end if he finds the right “‘One of his former students, now switched jobs in 2010 to become a we all thought at the time.” “He sort of knitted somewhat complicated.” Notably, Chicago Bears train every year place closer to work). His wife, a teacher, was crushed and said real estate agent in Jerusalem run- Ben DiLullo reports, “My best these massive brows at a time when general interest at their nearby practice facility Andrea Sheehan, is founder she was a teacher today because of ning his own independent opera- and proudest update is that my Jonathan’s influence.’ tion, Kochavim Real Estate. wife of 18 years, Stacey, and I have that he had, and I magazines have been pummeled and shared in the frustration of a and CEO of Outthink, a digital “Goldman grew up in Hunting- Congratulations to Fred Fisher! a son, Daniel. He is approaching waited and waited,” by the recession and the digital century of Cubs fans. “It teaches education startup in partner- ton, Long Island, and lived a few He writes, “Our older daughter, 2 and is simply awesome! A very Caruso says. “Finally revolution, Smithsonian has you suffering,” he says of his ship with the BBC. They have years in Israel as a child. Upon Talia ’13, graduated with a degree happy surprise in 2011. he started nodding. increased its print circulation to baseball loyalties. “It teaches four children: daughters Asia graduating from Huntington H.S., in psychology. As Talia prepares to “Stacey and I are blessed with ‘OK,’ he said. ‘I think more than 2 million. “Sometimes you a Zen state of patience and (“my wife and I fell in love in he moved to Manhattan to attend enter the real world, our younger three other terrific kids: Gabriella, I know what you we feel as if we’re the last man incremental pleasure.” Asia”) and Jazz (“my favorite Columbia, where he obtained a daughter, Rebecca ’17, is excited Michael and Daniel. Gabriella want.’ And he went standing — and thriving,” says Lured by the cultural life music”), and twin boys Dash bachelor’s degree in compara- about her matriculation in Sep- began high school this year and, off and wrote it.” Kathleen M. Burke, a senior edi- of New York City, he came to and Jett (as in Jett Rink, the tive literature and later a master’s tember. Her interest is history and although college is a few years Since that mem­ tor at the magazine. Columbia and buried himself brooding antihero of Giant, degree in French literature. political science. My wife, Mary ’83 away, she is beginning to think “He also studied at Oxford Barnard, ’88L, and I could not be about where to go. I reminisced orable face-off more Caruso succeeded Carey under an enormous courseload played by James Dean). University and worked with the more proud of their continuing our about Columbia — how excited than 20 years ago, Winfrey ’63, ’67J, whose version — possibly, he thinks, a record Caruso is only the fourth National Shakespeare Institute at family’s Columbia tradition. I was when I was accepted and Caruso has led mag­ of Smithsonian was deemed (33 credits in his peak semester) editor in Smithsonian’s 42- Stratford-upon-Avon. “Mary practices law in Cherry the first few days of orientation. I azines as varied as America’s “Most Interesting” — and graduated summa cum year history. His predecessors “The Beacon School, a selective Hill, N.J., and I practice general am not sure where Gabriella will Details, Los Angeles, magazine in a nationwide study laude. His favorite professors served for 10, 20 and 10 years, secondary school on West 61st and vascular surgery at Regional end up but I hope she is as excited Men’s Journal and conducted by the research were Joseph Bauke ’63 GSAS for respectively. Whether or not Street, was created in 1993. Gold- Surgical Associates in Voorhees, and happy as I was. Michael is my Maximum Golf, earn- firm Affinity in 2011. During the Lit Hum; Wallace Gray ’58 GSAS Caruso hangs in that long, it’s man was a part of the founding N.J.” 12-year-old stud, absorbing books ing an industry-wide transition, Winfrey encouraged in English; and Karl-Ludwig Selig, clear that he loves his work. faculty and said that helping to Condolences to the family of and martial art training with equal reputation as an Caruso not to feel beholden with whom he took “five or “As an editor-in-chief you establish the school was one of his Richard Anderson. During the gusto. He wants to go into law biggest professional accomplish- course of his too-short life, he trav- enforcement or medicine — maybe editor who swings to anything the magazine had six” interdisciplinary literature feel like you’re a fighter pilot ments. … eled worldwide, working in finance both. for the fences. “To be been doing. “I told him I be- courses. “Everybody should have and there are bogeys coming “In addition to teaching English, and then in the art world as a gal-­ “I am beginning my 23rd year the boss you’ve got lieved it was time for the maga- a professor like that — he was at you left and right. And if Goldman was a fencing coach lery owner. His passion in recent at Pfizer. Although the pharma- to get the best work zine to be rethought,” Winfrey just off the charts,” Caruso says you’re in a great groove, you’re at Beacon. He was an avid and years, however, was the S.S. Colum­ ceutical industry has gone through out of people,” says says. Caruso has done just that, of Selig. shooting ’em down left and talented fencer, Isolde Goldman bia Project, his effort to rescue, repair some tough times in the last few Caruso, 51. “Some- giving much of Smithsonian a “Michael was probably right. You’re solving problems, said, and was a member of the U.S. and bring the oldest surviving years, I am still proud to work for times that involves fresh look while developing new the smartest student I met at you’re putting out fires, you’re Junior Olympic Team when he was American passenger steamship to an organization that helps people being demanding departments, revamping exist- Columbia,” says Caruso’s col- making it all work. This is a in high school. the Hudson River Valley. Check out heal and live longer. and pushing them. ing ones and matching themed lege buddy, rock musician Dave really cool job. I’m thrilled to “‘Shakespeare was always his his work on sscolumbia.org. “As I approach the big 5-0 I am big love,’ she said, remembering happy about the last half-century And other times it in- issues and topics with the best Giffen ’86, who now is execu- have it.” how much Goldman loved reading but even more excited about the volves hand-holding writers he can corral: Walter tive director of the Coalition for Smithsonian magazine Editor-in-Chief when he was growing up. Jon White next 50 years. Bring it on! Best and late evenings Isaacson on Steve Jobs as a the Homeless in New York City. Former CCT editor Jamie Katz “Goldman has an 11-year-old 16 South Ct. regards to all my classmates!” Michael Caruso ’83 will do whatever it over drinks.” design genius; Frank Deford on “I remember having trouble ’72, ’80 Business is a former 85 takes to get the best from his writers, son named Jake, who Isolde Gold- Port Washington, NY Mark Rothman helped Demo- Caruso now prac- the little-known British roots in one of my English classes senior editor of People maga- whether it means pushing them beyond man said was his ‘best friend.’” 11050 crat Eric Garcetti ’92,’ 93 SIPA, the their comfort zones or holding their tices those skills at of the modern Olympics; Ruth where we had to write poetry zine and deputy editor of Vibe The Fall column will have a [email protected] newly elected mayor of Los Ange- hands and nurturing them. Smithsonian maga- Reichl and Mimi Sheraton on in the style of Ezra Pound. And who has frequently contributed full report on Alumni Reunion les, reach out to the Los Angeles PHOTO: LANDON NORDEMAN zine, where he was food; Paul Theroux on travel. that’s just not my scene. I can to Smithsonian. Weekend 2013. In the meantime, ASCAP Award-winning composer Jewish community during his this issue has a follow-up feature and music journalist Frank Oteri’s campaign. Eric had won the most with photos, plus you can see our musical works received their world votes in the field of eight candidates

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Because no and academia’s early embrace of Irene says the book brings together Sharon had been serving a recess graduating from law school in 1991, bia sports “win” in their lifetime and candidate earned at least one vote digital technologies and its current race studies, philosophy, history appointment to the NLRB since and it was a real pleasure.” are beginning to lose hope. We were more than 50 percent of the votes, exploration by many of the newer of medicine and literary criticism, January 2012. This nomination is for Blake Allen wrote, “This Ivy as optimistic that night as Lions fans Eric faced a runoff against Greuel firms. In the construction of five to and engages work ranging from a full term. League-educated molecular biolo- can be but, alas, the long-awaited on May 21. six full-scale pavilions, we hope to the writing of Immanuel Kant, And last, but certainly not least, gist is still working in real estate. I victory proved elusive yet again. Gary Klein reports that after de- highlight the near future of archi- Wilkie Collins, John Stuart Mill a hearty congratulations to Jim am sole proprietor of Allen Realty Still, we cheered for the Lions, who cades of living on the Upper West tecture as well as look at innovative and Charles Darwin to the HBO McKnight, who along with his and somehow I have survived really did look like the better basket- Side, minutes away from campus, formal solutions in addition to television series The Wire. It seeks wife, Betsy, welcomed their second the economic crisis, at least so far! ball team. his family (wife, Courtney, and exploring new building techniques. to locate the most familiar critical child, Thomas James, on Thanks- I got my license in the summer A few weeks after the game, Bill children, Madelyn and Owen) are The exhibition runs from early June understanding of race — the idea giving Day. Little Thomas joins his between freshman and sophomore wrote with this update: “It’s hard moving to Montclair, N.J. to early September.” that it is “socially constructed” — sister, Katherine (2). Jim says that year at Columbia and I still use it to believe, but it’s already been 15 Christopher Mount wrote from We extend our condolences to within a longer historical trajectory. both kids are “keeping us very busy every day. My primary focus is on years since I left Lehman Broth- Los Angeles: “I will curate an ex- the family of Nicola Tanelli, an What might we learn about the (and happy).” exchanging (essentially trading) ers and New York to come up to hibition devoted to the prolific and attorney from North Caldwell, N.J., social, political and epistemological any real property anywhere for Boston to work at State Street. Al- often radical architecture designed who passed away on January 4, functions of race, the book asks, other real property. I live and work though it’s a painful reality that my in Southern California during the 2013. by noticing that it is only at the Eric Fusfield in Colorado Springs but do some children, Pete (14) and Matt (12), In January, Sam Bloom ’88 (right) traveled to China to visit Michael last 25 years. The exhibition, ‘A A quick note: Please make sure end of the 18th century that skin in 88 1945 South George business in Denver as well. I do just are tried-and-true Boston sports Langer ’88, then based in Beijing for his work with Cross-Border New Sculpturalism: Contempo- to update your email addresses particular came to be privileged as Mason Dr. about every kind of real estate, from fans, I have managed to get them Communications. Bloom teaches at Barnard and FIT. The two are rary Architecture from Southern with the College (college.columbia. the primary designation of race? Arlington, VA 22204 houses to commercial property to to occasionally root for Columbia seen here on a side trip to the Forbidden City. California,’ has been in the works edu/cct/update_contact_info) and Our classmates are not just [email protected] property management. We are in a teams. Even though we lost that for more than a year and is part of with me. As I send email remind- producing books, however. Sandy strong market and I would love to basketball game, it was one of the the Getty Foundation’s 2013 initia- ers prior to my submission, my Asirvatham has been working on It would be hard to find a more help any fellow alumni make some best teams I have seen since the the owners, is Tortilla Republic, a ing mostly in insurance and finance, tive focusing on architecture in Los lack of your current email address a project, MOBTOWNmoon.com, professionally diverse cross-section good yields or buy that Colorado Matt Shannon and John Dwyer ’86 modern Mexican grill and tequila I took the entrepreneurial plunge in Angeles. To take place in the main will preclude your receiving a re- which has been described as “The of Columbia alums than the class- property of their dreams.” era. My brother, Larry ’86, and his bar on Robertson Boulevard in 2011 and started Coppersea Distill- space of The Geffen Contempo- quest to submit your information. Dark Side of the Moon like you’ve mates who wrote this month. The Blake represented Columbia in son, Patrick (12), also were at the West Hollywood (tortillarepublic. ing, a craft distillery based near rary at MOCA, the exhibition will Too many emails bounce routinely, never heard it. More than 40 musi- Class of ’88’s very own Hollywood the fall at “the inauguration of the game. Larry has two other boys as com). We have been open a little New Paltz in the Hudson Valley. It focus on the most expressive and so thanks for keeping your infor- cians, all from Baltimore. Classic screenwriter, Andrew W. Marlowe, president of Colorado College, here well, Joe (10) and Stephen (7). more than a year and have become has been a challenging project but experimental architecture built by mation current. Pink Floyd, thoroughly reimagined.” offered this update on his latest in the Springs. Those who know “As Larry and I both played on a favorite for celebrities. It is a well worth the effort. We’re distill- architects and firms such as Frank Sandy says, “It’s a dream come project: “The TV show I created, me well, including how I took a the club squash team at Columbia, modern take on Mexican cuisine ing spirits, focusing on whiskies Gehry, Hodgetts & Fung, Franklin true for me. I’m very excited and Castle (which airs on ABC, Mondays nap rather than walk at gradua- I’ll put a plug in for the new varsity and this is our second location. and eau de vies (or eaux de vie for the D. Israel ’71 Arch., Thom Mayne, Everett Weinberger proud.” at 10 p.m.), recently finished filming tion, will be happy to know that I squash program that started last The first opened two years ago in Francophiles out there). We’d love Michael Rotondi, Eric Owen Moss, 86 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B Thomas Duval reports on a its 100th episode. I am creator/ finally donned the Columbia blue year. I took my son Matt to watch Poipu, Kauai (Hawaii). We are in to see folks for a visit.” Coy Howard & Company, Daly New York, NY 10023 career change. “After producing executive producer and head writer. for this event. It was a pleasure and the Columbia/Harvard match, the planning stages of taking the Wayne Stoltenberg has an Genik Architects, Cosia Day, Pat- [email protected] Westborough, Mass., singer-song- We are in our fifth season. If you’re I encourage anyone to represent and coach Jacques Swanepoel and concept international, with the first update, too. “After a 15-year career rick Tighe, LOHA, Michele Saee, writer Luanne Crosby’s new CD, not familiar, the show follows the Columbia whenever possible. No his team were appreciative of our to be in London. I wish I had this in investment banking with Credit Greg Lynn, Ball-Nogues, Neil De- We have no news to report this issue. Ceremonies and Celebrations; Songs for exploits of the ruggedly handsome tradition is stronger than ours! Of support; we saw some excellent when we were all students in NYC. Suisse and Bear Stearns, focused nari, Hagy Belzberg and Michael Please send your updates on your the Rituals of Life, I left my day job mystery writer Richard Castle as he course I may be biased. My pride in matches, especially the rematch of Back then all we had was Lucy’s.” on the domestic energy sector, I Maltzan among others. family, work and personal lives to with Nuance Communications in consults on New York’s strangest the University seems to grow year last year’s individual champion- Personally, Kirk also has a lot to became the s.v.p. and CFO of Cinco “The exhibition commences me at the email address above or via March 2009 and accepted an invita- homicides. after year.” ship match between Ramit Tandon celebrate. He writes, “Ray Munoz Resources, a private, U.S.-focused with work built in the mid-’80s CCT’s easy-to-use webform: college. tion to join the U.S. Foreign Service. “As a fun addition to the TV The Fall column will have a full ’15 and the Harvard No. 1. and I will soon celebrate our 10- independent exploration and pro- as postmodernism was waning columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ I completed my training with the series, our fictional writer Castle report on Alumni Reunion Week- “As three of my siblings also year anniversary. We are one of the duction company. Cinco’s financial and examines the reasons that Los note. You know that you always State Department and have been has released four very real mystery end. In the meantime, this issue went to Columbia (Larry along 1,800 same-sex couples who were backers include Yorktown Partners Angeles became the birthplace check this column, so please help at my first assignment for the past novels through Hyperion Books, has a follow-up feature with photos, with Jon ’93 and Fiona ’00), I get a legally married in California before and affiliates of KKR. Cinco engag- of a new way of practicing and make it more interesting — we all year as a vice consul in Vancouver, each of which has become a New plus you can see our class photo in lot of alumni updates from them. the decision got reversed with Prop es in hydraulic fracture stimulation thinking about building, ultimately, want to hear about our classmates’ B.C. I was fortunate enough to York Times bestseller, with the third the online edition at college.colum My black sheep brother, Eamon, 8. We are grandfathered!” of its wells, a process highlighted a more formalist and less unify- doings. Don’t be shy! And in the work there during the 2010 Winter in the series, Naked Heat, debuting bia.edu/cct. played football at Cornell. I keep in You can find Kirk on Facebook and horribly misrepresented by the ingly coherent form of architecture meantime, have a great summer! Olympic Games (and unfortunate at No. 1.” Keep the updates coming! I touch with Paul Childers and get or, for more information, go to kirk film Gasland. I am happy to report than elsewhere. The show follows enough to be present during the Closer to Morningside Heights, look forward to your emails. I also my West Coast updates occasion- pereiradesign.com. that Cinco has safely fracture-stimu- this trajectory until the present, 2011 Stanley Cup final riots). Steve Cohen and his wife have encourage everyone to join the ally from Matt Sodl ’88. Larry and lated dozens of wells, adding to the when the city has arguably become Sarah A. Kass “Now, following a year of lan- established themselves in the New Columbia College Class of 1988 I hoped to return to the victory po- industry’s total of more than one the creative heart of American 87 PO Box 300808 guage training in Washington, D.C., York legal community. He writes, Facebook page; it’s a convenient dium at the Columbia football golf Rachel Cowan Jacobs million wells completed this way architecture. This exhibition will Brooklyn, NY 11230 I took up my current assignment in “I am married and the very proud way to stay in touch with class- outing this spring, assuming Chris 90 313 Lexington Dr. without incident. discuss the geographic, political and [email protected] Tokyo, where we’ll be until 2014. My father of two beautiful children, mates (facebook.com/#!/groups/ Della Pietra and John Alex don’t Silver Spring, MD 20901 “I am active with the Columbia socio-economic conditions for this wife, Carole, and daughter, Kate (9), Nina (5) and Leo (3). We live on 415004051893008/?fref=ts). sandbag their scores too much.” youngrache@ golf program’s alumni committee development as well as highlight It’s hard to believe that a year has are enjoying the adventure so far. the Upper West Side, not far from If you have had the good fortune hotmail.com and [at this writing was to] help how the early work of Gehry, Israel, passed since we gathered for our “I’m still working in dribs and Columbia, and have watched the to dine at Taste at the Palisades in host the men’s team on its spring REUNION WEEKEND Mayne and Rotondi allowed for an 25th reunion. It does really seem drabs on music, mostly produc- changes in the neighborhood with Southern California, you’ve seen Hold onto your hats and have a trip to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 ‘expanding of possibilities’ for form. like yesterday, except for the fact ing and playing on recordings for interest and joy. It is a whole new the interior design of Kirk Pereira seat — this column is long! I am married with two children, ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS “First acknowledged by Charles that our classmates have all been friends using the Internet to trans- world up here. I am a partner at ’90, who started with our class. In December, Dave Hunt proud- Cassie (12) and Blake (10), and ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Jencks as the ‘LA School’ in the quite busy! fer things back and forth. I’m also Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Kirk’s company, Kirk Pereira De- ly informed me that his son, Andy, reside in Westlake, Texas, which [email protected] early ’90s, this ‘movement’ has Esther K. Chung, a professor digitally recovering things from doing mergers and acquisitions; I sign, does commercial, residential was admitted early decision to … is in the DFW area and in close 212-851-9148 transformed into a larger ‘galaxy’ of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical tapes I have, including the song I love it and work hard. My lovely and even set design. Perhaps there Princeton. Folks, this is no easy feat, proximity to active gas well devel- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova encouraged by the many theoretical College at TJU in Philadelphia, is did with Todd Sheaffer ’86 for the wife is English and a lawyer; she is an aesthetic gene for fine design, so even though it’s not Columbia, opment.” [email protected] and practical aspects of the Los An- beginning work on the third edi- Blockade (‘You Can’t Hide Me’), does cross-border M&A. I am as Kirk’s grandfather is the famous I’m sure you all join me in congratu- Sara Wasserman and her 212-851-7833 geles environment. These include tion of Visual Diagnosis and Treat­ and the first gig of our band, The pleased to report that our kids architect William Pereira, whose lating Andy (and his parents). husband, Eric Fuller, also have two an inherent willingness to explore ment in Pediatrics, for which she is Dogs (which later became Sheaf- are not old enough to know what Emily Miles Terry firm, William L. Pereira and As- According to Michael Kinst­ children (9 and 11), boys they ad- and to manufacture by hand; an editor-in-chief. If you have photos fer’s band From Good Homes), at corporate lawyers do.” 45 Clarence St. sociates, designed San Francisco’s lick’s tally, he is in good CC ’90 opted in 2006 after becoming their affection for improvisation; the use of pediatric conditions that you’d Ferris Booth Hall in 1987.” Another Manhattan attorney, 89 Brookline, MA 02446 Transamerica Pyramid building as company in the Bay Area, where he foster parents in 2003. The family of inexpensive building techniques like to contribute to the book she And with Tom creating the David Stoll, also weighed in: “I live [email protected] well as the master plan for the city frequently sees fellow transplants has lived in Eugene, Ore., since and materials; the impermanent asks that you please contact her at unlikely link between the worlds in the Carnegie Hill section of Man- where I grew up, Irvine, Calif. Luis Andrade; Theo Hartman ’92 1999. Sara works part-time as a da- nature of the city as a whole; its [email protected]. of music and government, we can hattan and am a trusts and estates I ran into Bill Walsh and his brother, Of his work Kirk says, “My and his wife, Anne Hayes Hart- tabase specialist for Lane Council variety of industries and clients; the Irene Tucker, my former Spec easily transition to great news from partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley Larry Walsh ’86, at the Columbia/ most recent restaurant design man; Ethan Rafferty ’92; and Gabe of Governments, and Eric works benign weather; and the confluence colleague who is a professor in the Sharon Block: She was renomi- & McCloy. This past semester I Harvard men’s basketball pre-game project, of which I also am one of Kra. Michael reports: “After work- for the University of Oregon.

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Karin Small Wurapa has been Jamie recently got his bar mitzvah George was Linden’s best man a mer with the kids. I’ve also been mobile. The whole idea behind the other news, my son is 2 and I enjoy colleague Elisa Zuritsky as writers, news like this — here’s to being whisked away to the scenic byways date, so we are looking forward few months later. having a great time taking Colum- book is that you can learn what motherhood more than I could ever producers and executive story able to report only happy and posi- of Columbus, Ohio, since finishing to that with both joy and appre- Noreen Whysel had a vacation bia’s Mini-Core Courses. I started you need to know in just an hour have anticipated!” editors. The two most notably col- tive goings-on next time. her medical training in New York. hension as we start the process to Ireland planned shortly after about four years ago and I’ve been a day. I hope it comes in handy for I hope you have a fun and laborated on Sex and the City and Take care till then. She is a mother of three munchkins again. I run my busy advertising she sent me this news, and I’d say taking them pretty regularly year- some of our fellow alums! I’ve also happy summer. Until next time … are working together again on the (daughters Sydney and Jordan, and marketing law practice as a she deserved it! “On February 9, I round. Alumni from all different been traveling a lot for work, and cheers! NBC show Smash. Julie described and son Christian) and married to partner at Venable, and I recently planned, co-produced and MC’d classes sign up. It is a lot of fun and the good thing is that it provides their teamwork, saying, “It’s really Betsy Gomperz Ray, an orthopedic surgeon. Karin was elected to a second term on the the second annual Information Ar- good mental calisthenics. Plus, by an opportunity to catch up with like a marriage. There are many 41 Day St. has taken a hiatus from clinical board at the Promotion Market- chitecture Institute’s World IA Day my calculations, I’ve completed classmates. I had dinner with Jeremy Feinberg weeks when we definitely spend 93 Newton, MA 02466 medicine and has been focusing her ing Association, now the Brand (worldiaday.org) at Bloomberg in another round of CC, Lit Hum and David Soloff on a recent trip to 92 315 E. 65th St. #3F more time together than with our Betsy.Gomperz@ attention on family, public health Activation Association, having NYC, part of a single-day, 21-city Art Hum — I think I’ll petition the San Francisco and met up with New York, NY 10021 families.” gmail.com initiatives and the publication recently co-chaired it 34th Annual festival of the Information Archi- College for a second B.A.” Catherine Geanuracos and Joel jeremy.feinberg@ Given the hordes of devoted of her daughters’ book, Mimi the PMA Law Conference in Chicago. tecture Institute (iainstitute.org), a Winding up this column is Barron on a swing through Los verizon.net fans of the two shows, it seems Greetings, classmates. It was great Mermaid and The Pearl Necklace. As I’m hoping to stop to draw breath professional association for which I exciting news from Vera Scanlon. Angeles. I have plans to see Mela- only appropriate to say keep up to see everyone a few weeks ago at a board member of the United Way soon, but for now I’m just holding have been consulting for almost 10 “On August 14, I was sworn in as a nie Seidner and Kif Scheuer on Hello again! I asked for more news, the great work! our 20th Alumni Reunion Week- of Central Ohio, Karin also works on tightly and enjoying the ride!” years. My girls are at Bronx Science United States Magistrate Judge for my next trip to San Francisco.” and you were kind enough to For the first time in more than end! Unfortunately, this issue went to promote wellness and good Lori and Peter Spett relocated in (10th grade) and Hunter College the Eastern District of New York. After almost 20 years shuttling oblige. Let’s get right to it. 20 years of serving as your class to press before the big event, but nutrition. 2010 from Manhattan to Boca Ra- H.S. (7th grade). I went back for I am based at the United States between New York and Europe, Our own Eric Garcetti has been correspondent, I heard from Dara- please email me about your experi- Heading east, Greg Palega ton, Fla., where Pete has a solo law a master’s at the Pratt School of courthouse in downtown Brooklyn Michael Block now lives in Buenos elected mayor of Los Angeles! Lynn Kubovy-Weiss. Dara, who ences for the roundup in the Fall dropped a line from North Caro- practice representing victims of Information and Library Science, (visitors welcome). On November Aires with his Argentine wife and Following a protracted campaign, lives in lower Manhattan with her column. The class photo, however, lina, where he recently was named financial adviser misconduct and where I study digital humanities 9, there was a formal public inves- three kids. He has plans to host he defeated city controller Wendy husband and two children, passed may be found on the CCT website medical director of regulatory other clients involved in general and cultural informatics. My poster titure ceremony at the courthouse John Ehlinger for a visit. Michael Greuel in a run-off election held on along the exciting news that she (college.columbia.edu/cct) as part affairs at MedManagement. He’s business disputes (spettlaw.com). on ‘Folksonomies in Museums’ with a swearing-in, some speeches ran into Michael Stewart ’92, who May 21. recently wrote The Heavy: A Mother, of this issue’s reunion follow-up able to combine his medical and Their children, Benjamin (3) and was accepted at the IA Summit in and a nice reception. Cousins and also lives in Buenos Aires, last Eric held a campaign event in a Daughter, A Diet — A Memoir, article. law degrees daily to help clients Julia (1), enjoy the local pursuits of Baltimore in April.” friends came from Ireland, Califor- summer while having drinks with a New York City on March 22, hosted which was published in January. As respond to Medicare fraud investi- sandcastle building and strawberry Nicholas Stern lives in Green- nia, Maine, Missouri, Boston and mutual friend. by Peter Hatch and his wife, Hilary Dara explained, the text “chronicles REUNION WEEKEND gations and other Medicare audits. picking. wich Village with his wife, Court- Baltimore, which was touching. It Justin Kerber lives in Saint Louis. Hatch, at their apartment. Several of the efforts — and unexpected chal- MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Greg says work is busy, challeng- Sounds like quite the life! ney, an interior designer, and their was a nice Columbia moment, as This year, he’s been serving as a our classmates were in attendance, lenges and controversy — involved ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ing and always enjoyable but not Checking in from Harrison, N.Y., three children. He runs his own one of the speakers at the inves- hospital chaplain at Barnes-Jewish including Jean-Luc Neptune and in helping my then-obese 7-year-old ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott so much that he doesn’t also spend is Lauren Zinman. “I am in-house 50-person, high-end residential con- titure was Robert A. Katzmann Hospital as well as visiting a small Dane Holmes. Although we have a daughter reach a healthy weight. [email protected] time with his three daughters. counsel at Tradition Energy in struction management and general ’73, U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Jewish community in Quincy, Ill., class with diverse political leanings, The book has received a great deal 212-851-9148 Centrally located in the D.C. Stamford, Conn. (after being the construction firm, Stern Projects, Court of Appeals for the Second two times a month. Quincy is about there is nonetheless something of attention, and I was interviewed DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova metro area, Melissa Steinman and general counsel of EDGAR Online which specializes in the renovation Circuit, for whom I clerked in two hours north of his home and tremendously uplifting about being about it on the Today Show, The [email protected] Liz Poston often play host for Co- for almost six years), and really of Manhattan townhouses and 2000–01. District Judge Nicholas across the Mississippi River from able to say we knew the mayor of Dr. Oz Show, Starting Point, Fox & 212-851-7833 lumbia-on-the-Potomac reunions, enjoy the new position. Addison apartments. Garaufis ’69 also was on the bench Hannibal, Mo. He’s looking forward a major metropolis back when he Friends, HLN’s News Now, Good when friends such as Claudine Armstrong ’86 appears weekly on We can also findGregory Tor­ for the ceremony. to getting certified as a professional took Lit Hum. Day New York, The Joy Behar Show, Leyla Kokmen Wolas Shiva, Chris Alexander CNBC giving reports on the energy borg in New York, where he is a “In other Columbia connections, hospital chaplain. Justin enjoys his Congratulations, Eric! Anderson Live and on radio stations 440 Thomas Ave. S. and/or Laura Schiele Robinson market for my company. My twins, sports and corporate lawyer. After I visited with Eric Haxthausen in periodic encounters with Chris Ken Hayes recently became a across the United States as well as 94 Minneapolis, MN 55405 roll into town. Visitors, please call Matthew and Samantha (14), are working with several NYC law October in Washington, D.C. Eric Front, whose kids play in the same published author under the nom de television news shows in Australia, [email protected] if you’re in the area and thirsty. both taller than I. I have a 10-year- firms, he founded a law firm and a works on climate change issues. indoor soccer league as Justin’s older plume K. Scott. Listed as a self-help Canada and the United Kingdom.” Melissa notes, “I’ve been busy old daughter, Ava, as well. I have sports consulting firm. It represents In December, Molly McDonald son, Eli. text, Amazon describes Ken’s Congratulations, Dara! Jon Bonne sent a great update in both my personal and profes- been married to Daniel Zinman, a number of MLB clubs in a variety and her husband, Jonathan Gelber, John Griffin writes, “In 2009, book, Drive Me To Think, as a good Finally, there is the news I wish from San Francisco, where he has sional life. My boys, Charlie (14) with whom I went to Fordham of areas, including salary arbitra- visited NYC from Atlanta. It was I was widowered but still see my read for anyone “who isn’t using I didn’t have to report. We lost spent six years as the wine editor and Jamie (11), are growing by Law, for 15 years.” tion, and represents individuals and great to see them.” teenage stepson once every few their drive time to make their lives two members of our class recently. and chief wine critic of The San leaps and bounds (as in, literally Rick St. Hilaire is celebrating his ownership groups in the acquisi- Well, dear classmates, this col- months. After 15 years writing and flourish.” First, I heard of the passing of Francisco Chronicle. “Certainly not … Charlie just hit 6 ft.). Charlie 20th anniversary as an attorney. He tion, sale and day-to-day operations umn concludes the direct solicita- producing historical and pop culture Congratulations on publication, Andrew Littell at 44 on December a bad gig as journalism jobs go; is a high school freshman and a is in private practice after having of professional sports franchises. He tion program I enacted a couple documentaries for various cable TV Ken! 17, 2012. Andrew earned an M.B.A. perhaps without the glamour of champion debater who also plays served for 15 years as a prosecutor, and his wife, Karen, have a son and of years ago to get people to write series, I went back to school and got Rebecca Johnson ’06 GSAS wrote from Chicago and was a managing the old WKCR days,” Jon writes. banjo and sings lead in his band. with seven of those years as an daughter, Jeff (12) and KeIly (9), and to me. I divided the alphabet into my J.D. I am now a civil litigation at- in via CCT’s online note submission partner at CVC Credit Partners in “But I’m gratified that my endless elected chief prosecutor. He writes they live in Manhasset, N.Y. groups so as to get a reasonable torney in L.A., where I draw on my form (college.columbia.edu/cct/ London, where he was responsible hours at The West End served a the award-winning blog Cultural My birthday twin John Vincenti number of replies for my approach- extensive knowledge of entertain- submit_class_note). She has relo- for European loan and bond trad- larger purpose. Wine (along with Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire (of Six Milks fame) and his wife, ing deadline. I need to give a huge ment industry issues from my years cated to Bogor, Indonesia, as part of ing. According to an online obitu- food) has become a major franchise (culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot. Robyn, can be found in Glen Rock, shout-out to those of you whose last of production work. Would love to her role as director of education, pro- ary, Andrew was an avid traveler for the paper and in my time here Manage Your com) and focuses his legal practice N.J., along with their sons, who fin- names start with S–Z. Your reply connect with any Columbia lawyers fessional development and outreach throughout Europe who never lost I’ve shared in two James Beard on cultural property and museum ished third and first grades. I could rate was astronomical! I conclude in SoCal for networking.” for the Center for Environment, sight of his roots in New England. Subscription law, government relations, criminal hear a chuckle in his email when this column with my familiar, Elizabeth Wollman was awarded Economy, and Society at Columbia. We also lost Kevin Pratt, a justice and nonprofit counsel. Rick he wrote, “Both of our sons are do- friendly nudge that everyone is tenure at Baruch this past year as Rebecca earned a master’s in conser- professor of architecture at Cornell’s If you prefer reading CCT Columbia College recently was named affiliate associ- ing well and making their parents always encouraged to drop me a well as a promotion to associate vation biology at Columbia and has College of Architecture, Art, and online, you can help us ate professor at Plymouth State Uni- proud, although my younger one, line with news. Happy summer! professor of music. Her second book, been developing conservation edu- Planning (AAP), on February 19, Alumni on Facebook go green and save money versity, where he has been teaching clearly to punish his father for Hard Times: The Adult Musical in cation and training programs at the 2013, at 43. Tim Griffin passed by opting out of the print cultural property law since 2007. He some unknown transgression, has 1970s New York City, was released in University since 2001. Rebecca will along the sad news. According to edition. Click “Manage Your presented a panel in October 2012 become a Philadelphia Phillies fan. Margie Kim October. remain a Columbia employee and Tim, Kevin had just gotten tenure at the International Association of Still, we must love our children, no 1923 White Oak Clearing Finally, Melanie Jacobs writes, will act as an on-the-ground pro- at Cornell, where he focused on Check out the new Subscription” at college. 91 Prosecutors meeting in Bangkok on matter what their faults. Southlake, TX 76092 “I wanted to share that as of July gram manager and liaison between renewable energy and sustain- Columbia College columbia.edu/cct and follow global antiquities trafficking and “I practice law, partnered with 1, 2013, in addition to my regular the U.S. and Indonesian partners. able design. In Kevin’s obituary, margiekimkim@ Alumni page! the domestic instructions. serves on the Archaeological Insti- my brother and father, in lower hotmail.com professorial duties, I also will be She welcomes visits from classmates the dean of AAP, Kent Kleinman, We will continue to notify tute of America’s Cultural Heritage Manhattan. I’ve been working a associate dean of graduate and who happen to be in the area. described Kevin as “one of a kind, facebook.com/ Policy Committee. lot with Italian clients through the Greetings, all! international programs at Michigan Rebecca recently enjoyed a trip a whirlwind of creative energy and you by email when each alumnicc George Suarez married Sao years, which helps me practice Noah Elkin has big news: “My State University College of Law. to Palo Alto, Calif., where she intellectual generosity.” Tim also issue is posted online. You Paulo native Sonia Akamatsu last what little language skills I have. first book, Mobile Marketing: An This is a relatively new position and caught up with David Derro. She indicated that at Kevin’s memorial Like the page to get may be reinstated to receive June after a three-year, NYC-SP Our offices were closed for two Hour a Day, was published in De- I am excited to interact with LL.M. said that David is a manufacturing service, Harvard Graduate School alumni news, learn the print edition at any time courtship. They live in NYC, where months after Hurricane Sandy but cember. Co-authored with Rachel and M.J. students from around the engineer at Spectra-Physics. of Design co-director Sanford about alumni events and by sending a note to cct@ Sonia is acclimating well. Attorney we are reopened and getting back Pasqua, it’s packed with proven globe through my travels, teaching I was pleased to see a brief item Kwinter ’90 GSAS referred to Kevin College happenings, Linden Thomas got himself reg- to normal, and planning to relocate techniques and strategies that and recruitment as well as by work- in Crain’s New York Business on as “the most important architectural columbia.edu. istered in City Hall as an officiant — still downtown, but uphill. We teach how to successfully build ing extensively with our foreign stu- Julie Rottenberg. The article noted critic in three generations.” view photos and more. and conducted their ceremony. are planning to visit Italy this sum- your business and brand with dents on campus in East Lansing. In Julie’s longtime partnership with It’s never easy to have to share

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Foundation awards for food and and where they now live. The Boston. wine coverage, and twice been a lovely story of how the couple met David Miguel Gray was mar- business.” Beard finalist for wine writing.” at a party was featured in the New ried in April to Christina La Valley. Phyllis Fletcher ’94 Connects the Dots Fletcher, who speaks candid- This November, Jon is publish- York Times Weddings/Celebrations Other CC ’96ers in attendance were ly about growing up half-black ing a book, The New California Wine: Section on February 17. David Nelson, David Kaufman, A Guide to the Producers and Wines Jessica wrote that Allyson Baker, Mustafa Wahid, Michelle Kim, and poor — what she describes To Career in Public Radio Behind a Revolution in Taste, about a friend since College orientation, Patrick Hsieh and Michael Bell as as an “invisible minority” — is the state’s new generation of wines signed the ketubah. Jessica is a rabbi well as Joseph Hundley ’97. David, B y E l e n a H e c h t ’09 B a r n a r d most interested in covering ar- and winemakers. “What’s happen- who works for Next Dor, a research who has been the Mellon Assis- eas that are overlooked or not ing now in California wine is as group that works with synagogues tant Professor of Philosophy and spoken of. “I was always listen- revolutionary as the 1970s work of to bring in younger members. assistant professor of psychiatry at n 2002, jobless after the “The Greaseman” Tracht, Rush desire for a major with as few employed for nearly six years as ing for gaps, things that weren’t people such as Robert Mondavi. It I’m also happy to share an up- Vanderbilt, recently accepted a job dot-com bust, Phyllis Limbaugh and Ed Koch. Or, as credit requirements as possible, a software engineer in Seattle. being covered on KUOW at has been a good time to be on my date from Mark Kravitz, who lives as assistant professor of philosophy Fletcher ’94 went for a Fletcher notes, “anyone who allowing her the freedom to take In October 2002, post-pool the time,” says Fletcher of her beat,” he writes. in Aventura, Fla. He has taken over at Colgate, so the newlyweds will swim and emerged from could rap on a mic.” classes from many academic realization, Fletcher volun- post-college listening habits. If that wasn’t enough to keep his family’s property investment move to Hamilton, N.Y., this fall. him busy, Jon also has taken his and management company; his Branden Emmerson lives in Ithe pool with a career epiphany. Nonetheless, for Fletcher, “It areas. She interned as an under- teered for a KUOW pledge drive, “A lot of those things had to do work global as a columnist for the partner, Jon, works with him. The South Australia with his wife, Mi- “I thought, ‘Man, what if there took a really long time to con- graduate at the Schizophrenia where she connected with a with race, some of them had United Kingdom’s Decanter maga- couple is raising son Hershel (6) chelle, and their daughters, Alyssa was a radio I could listen to nect the dots and say, ‘Oh gee, Research Unit of NewYork KUOW reporter. Less than two to do with poverty and I was zine. Despite his busy work sched- and daughter Ava (2). (4) and Catherine (6 months). while I was swimming?’ and months later she began a news always quite willing and able to ule, he still gets to the East Coast Mark also is involved in Jewish Branden works in the public hospi- [then] I thought, ‘Wait a minute! reporting internship at the walk headfirst into those types regularly to visit his girlfriend philanthropy. He sits on the boards tals as an anesthetist. He loves the I listen to this station [KUOW, station, which led to freelance of stories. I felt like that was in Brooklyn. He can be found on of the Greater Miami Jewish Fed- relaxed lifestyle in Australia but a Seattle-based NPR founding work. But Fletcher credits the both my opportunity and my Twitter (@jbonne). “Hope to see eration, which recently gave him a misses good NYC bagels. member] all the time; if I’m so true launch of her radio career obligation.” some of the CC ’94 posse as I start young leadership award, and the Whitney Chiate (née Berkholtz) obsessed with it that I wish that to her decision that same year Since her first piece as a barnstorming this fall on behalf of Central Agency for Jewish Educa- lives in Tiburon, Calif., outside of the book,” Jon adds. tion. He joined the national board San Francisco, with her husband, the one hour that I can’t listen to do something creative with KUOW intern about racism Jorge Salva launched his own of Keshet, an organization focused Greg Chiate, and their children, to it I could listen to it, then the letters from a college corre- that happens over the phone, practice with his law partner, op- on the full inclusion of LGBT Jews son Max (5) and daughter Benton maybe I should work there.’” spondence with her estranged known as linguistic profiling, erating out of Rockefeller Center. in Jewish life, and he began work- (2). Following Columbia, Whitney Now, more than a decade father, who was in prison at the she has helped to expose the Fietcher & Salva’s mission is to ing with the Diller Foundation in worked in NYC in investment into her career as a radio time. Beginning her freshman abuse of a state database of handle the legal needs of entrepre- California. banking. After a couple of years, journalist at KUOW and with a year and lasting two years, their unemployed job seekers; re- neurs and small and developing Mark and Jon hang out with she moved to San Francisco and 2006 reporting fellowship on written connection temporar- searched a story on the school businesses, taking care of everyday Rabbi Jon Berkun and his family. worked in technology for a few NPR’s National Desk under her ily rekindled their relationship. districts hit hardest by the and unexpected legal issues and Hershel will be in school next years before deciding to go back belt, it’s clear that Fletcher’s When he passed away in 1995, recession; and, in a piece for minimizing litigation risk. Jorge’s year with Jen Glueck’s (née Ross) to NYC for culinary school. After venture comes after he and his daughter, Tessa (6). Jen also has an- graduating, she moved back to realization led her in the right she tucked the letters away. the anniversary of the Family partner spent almost a decade as other daughter, Monika (8). Jen left San Francisco to start a catering direction. She has garnered Years later, inspired by a and Medical Leave Act, shared associates in large New York-area the University of Miami in Septem- company, Cooking in Heels, which numerous awards, including an conversation with friend Marc information about a little- firms. For more information, visit ber and joined a private practice, she ran for about six years before RTDNA/UNITY Award from the Maximov ’94, Fletcher was mo- known Washington State law the firm’s website: fs-lawpartners. Reproductive Health Physicians, hanging up her heels for mother- Radio Television Digital News tivated to use the letters in an that doubles maternity leave. com. which specializes in reproductive hood. She loves being at home Association and UNITY: Journal- artistic way. Thanks to the family “Anything where I can give in- And finally, a bit of news from endocrinology and infertility. with her kids and keeps busy by ists of Color, RTDNA’s National of Dina Guttman ’94, Fletcher formation to help somebody,” my own world here in Minne- volunteering and getting involved Edward R. Murrow Award and discovered the nonprofit audio says Fletcher, “I love that.” apolis: I’m happy to report that with the Alumni Representative an Alliance for Women in production studio Jack Straw In 2011, Fletcher earned a in February my husband, Patrick Ana S. Salper Committee interviewing College Trochlil, and I welcomed our new 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA applicants. Media Foundation’s Gracie, all Productions and, using the master’s in communication 96 daughter, Rory Bennette. She joins Brooklyn, NY 11201 Marc Menendez lives outside in 2012, for her story “Secrets Guttman family’s tape recorder, with a focus in demogra- our older daughter, Emery (6), who [email protected] of Chicago in Naperville, Ill., with of a Blonde Bombshell.” The applied and was chosen to be phy from the University of is thus far thoroughly enjoying her his wife, Susan, and sons, Alex broadcast detailed Fletcher’s an artist-in-residence in 2003. Washington — a track that new role as big sister. We are all Hello, my classmates! I am pleased (10) and Nikolas (7). Marc coaches discovery that Ina Ray Hutton, The resulting radio documentary, once again offered her the very happy, if sleep-deprived, and to report that a large number of all of his sons’ travel sports teams the famed white leader of “Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill,” was freedom to take classes from trying to remember how to take you responded to my desperate (football, baseball and basketball) an all-female band from the featured on the Peabody Award- many departments — and in care of a newborn after six years. mass email, so thank you. To those plus spends lots of time traveling 1930s–’50s, was actually a winning website Transom.org in May was preparing to edit a I’m on maternity leave but plan to who responded and whose notes and going on family adventures (lo- black woman who had passed 2004. It wasn’t long thereafter series on black life in Seattle. return to my job in public relations don’t appear in this column, please cally and internationally). In 2012, at Optum, the health services arm look for them next time around. he left Tesia Clearinghouse (the as white for most of her life. that KUOW offered Fletcher a As for what the future brings, of UnitedHealth Group, where I On to the news. Steven Hong company he built in 2003 and sold Listening to Fletcher’s own full-time position filling in for a Fletcher is keeping an open handle external communications is assistant professor of medicine in 2008, though he remained on as story, it seems apparent that colleague while he studied at mind. “I know exciting things about many of our health manage- and public health and community president through the transition) to radio should have been an obvi- the Journalism School. will happen, but I have no ment and consumer services. medicine at the Tufts University formally lead as president and CEO ous destination from the get-go. Fletcher began at the station plans,” says Fletcher. “That’s That’s it for now. Thanks to School of Medicine and an attend- of WorkCompEDI, a company Marc A Seattle native, Fletcher was Phyllis Fletcher ’94 is a news editor with KUOW in Seattle. as an education reporter — a why whatever happens will be everyone for the great updates! ing physician in the Division of launched in 2006 that continues to PHOTO: JOSH KNISELY raised almost exclusively by position she helped develop exciting!” Until next time. Geographic Medicine and Infec- be the largest workers’ compensa- her mother, a regular KUOW — before being promoted to tious Diseases at Tufts Medical tion/automobile/personal injury listener, and has described that’s something I could do.’” A Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia her current position as a news To listen to Fletcher’s broad- Center. He is an infectious disease Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Janet Lorin trained physician and does inter- clearinghouse in the country. hearing the “Morning Edition” member of the John W. Kluge University Medical Center and editor. Wayne Roth, president casts, past and present, 730 Columbus Ave., national clinical research on HIV/ Marc also continues to lead theme song as the signal that [’37] Scholars Program at Colum- the New York State Psychiatric and general manager of KUOW, visit phyl.com or KUOW.org/ 95 people/phyllis-fletcher. Apt. 14C AIDS in Namibia. The purpose of ANDA Systems (dental adjudica- she was late for the school bus. bia, which pays full tuition while Institute and, after graduating, says of Fletcher, “The amount New York, NY 10025 his research is to optimize delivery tion system and Software as a Her sophomore year of college providing mentoring and special spent one year working for of responsibility in her work, her [email protected] of antiretroviral therapy using the Service [SaaS] vendor) as COO and brought a love for New York programming, Fletcher was a Columbia psychology professor good work and what she brings Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard, public health model of care. managing partner; Image Manage- radio that included Howard self-proclaimed “academic dilet- (now also executive vice dean of to it are really quite remark- editorial assistant at CCT, is a Mazel tov to the former Jessica Yannis Macheras earned a J.D. ment Systems as managing partner Stern (to whom she listens to tante” — her choice to study the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) able for someone who’s got a writer and a dancer based in Zimmerman, who in February from Tulane’s School of Law in 1999 (enterprise doc management SaaS); this day), G. Gordon Liddy, Doug psychology was born out of the Geraldine Downey, before being lot of years ahead of her in the New York. married Jonathan Graf, a rheuma- and has since worked for American and WCEDI Management Solutions tologist. The ceremony took place in Tower Corp. in various leadership as chairman (business process San Francisco, Jessica’s hometown roles; currently he is a v.p., based in outsource and optical character

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES recognition/mailroom services). As Lorts, was born in December. Sarah Katz Visual Effects For A Miniseries, The Alumni Office reports that if that wasn’t enough, Marc recently Bryant Jenkins and his family 97 1935 Parrish St. Movie Or A Special for her work our class raised $68,497 from 131 launched a few new companies recently moved from the suburbs Philadelphia, PA 19130 on the History Channel film Life donors as of the beginning of June. in different industries, including to San Francisco and he is busy as [email protected] After People, and again in 2011 for Congrats to our class for its con­ AgencyRTS (insurance and financial a consultant for several infrastruc- a Visual Effects Society Award for tinued support of the College. services) and Academic Credential ture projects around California. CC ’97! Where is the love?! I find Outstanding Supporting Visual Evaluation Institute (translations He hopes to see classmates who it very hard to believe that none of Effects in a Broadcast Program for and credential evaluations), and he may have meandered to Northern you have started new jobs, had ba- her work on the TV show Lost. Prisca Bae continues to work with numerous California. bies, gotten hitched or otherwise ac- Dennis says, “I think she’s too 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B start-up/incubator companies as Steven Kasow is a pastry chef. complished great things during the modest to ever raise the subject 00 New York, NY 10011 board adviser and investor. Marc Stephane Gruffat is in London last several months. You just don’t of such nominations but I think [email protected] writes that if any CC ’96ers are in his working at Credit Suisse. He, his seem to want to share the news having someone nominated for an area, they should please drop him wife, Pauline, and sons Alexandre with the rest of us. Please send in Emmy deserves some attention!” Gideon Yago was profiled in a note! (7) and Jack (3) have been in Lon- your news for the next edition of According to IMDb, Melinka has April in New York magazine for Brandon Kessler runs Chal- don for more than 11 years. They Class Notes! Send me an email or been a visual effects producer on his new project; the article noted, lengePost (challengepost.com), a miss parts of life in New York and use CCT’s webform: college.colum 17 film and television projects, “Former The Newsroom writer website where various organiza- go back frequently to visit fam- bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. including Skyfall, Captain America: and MTV News correspondent tions can challenge software de- ily and friends (including Mark I do have one piece of happy The First Avenger and Black Swan. Gideon Yago will write a drama velopers to build things and solve Levine, Alexandre’s godfather). news to share: Cindy Warner gave Congratulations, Melinka! for Starz. … Airborne is about problems with software. Brandon’s Sam Shanks works at Briar Cliff birth to a son, Eli, on November 11, the early days of the Vietnam company does this for businesses University in Sioux City, Iowa. and he is adorable and loved by all. War as seen through the eyes of REUNION WEEKEND in all industries, nonprofits and the He recently was granted tenure, Cindy is a food lawyer at PepsiCo. the young men in a helicopter MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 federal government. Brandon lives promoted to the rank of associate Look forward to hearing from unit, and according to Starz’s ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS in Brooklyn in Park Slope with his professor of theatre and appointed all of you soon. statement, the show will be ‘both ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott wife and three kids. as the division chair of General surreal and stylized.’ Spartacus: [email protected] Adrianna Melnyk has started Education and Honors. War of the Damned’s Rob Tapert 212-851-9148 a job as v.p. of development and Taariq Lewis lives in San Fran- Sandie Angulo Chen will executive-produce. … ” DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova marketing at the Visiting Nurse cisco and writes that he avoids Bry- 10209 Day Ave. In August, Eric Yellin and his [email protected] Association of Hudson Valley. She ant T. Jenkins as much as possible. 98 Silver Spring, MD 20910 wife welcomed daughter Helena 212-851-7833 loves it — the office is close to her Taariq recently founded a software [email protected] Sarah (they call her Lena). Eric home in Bronxville and allows startup, Orb, which is working hard Laurent Vasilescu writes, “She is beautiful and A not-so-mini Columbia reunion convened at the wedding of Will Hu ’03 and Jessica Meksavan ’05 her to spend more time with her to replace group email software for Happy summer, Class of ’98. You 127 W. 81st St., Apt. 4B already madly in love with her Barnard at the West St. Francis in San Francisco on September 12. Front row, left to right: Shelly Mittal husband and her son, Dennis (18 university alumni. Taariq writes are reading this after our 15th 99 New York, NY 10024 older brother, Nathan.” Eric was ’03, Emilie Lara ’05 Barnard, Meksavan and Hu; second row, left to right: Vicky Wang ’04, Jennifer Lee months). VNA provides a range that he misses New York City very Alumni Reunion Weekend but laurent.vasilescu@ promoted to associate professor ’05, Sandy Huang ’05, Hsin-Yi Huang ’05 Barnard, Diana Finkel ’05 Barnard, Louis Che ’05 Barnard, of services from home health care much and hopes to come back soon CCT went to print right after the gmail.com of history (with tenure) at the Elissa Gaw ’04, Amy Hsieh ’03 Barnard, Momoko Nakamura ’04 Barnard and Nnamdi Ofodile ’05; third and hospice to community educa- — go Lions! He sends big shout- festivities so I could not include a University of Richmond in Febru- row, left to right: Icy Liu ’05E, Gloria Tai ’05 Barnard, Gaurav Shah ’03, Rebecca Capua ’03 Barnard, tion and bereavement support to outs to all the CC ’96 folks with new report in this issue. The full report Greetings, Class of ’99. By the time ary and, in April, his book, Racism Nikki Thompson ’03 Barnard, Nisha Verma ’05, Sunny Hwang ’05, Jing Cai ’04E and Lulu Zhou ’04; and communities in Westchester and babies whom he sees on Facebook. will be in the Fall issue but the you read this, we will be a little in the Nation’s Service: Govern­ back row, left to right: Mike Lee ’04, Daniel Lee ’03 and David Chen. Putnam counties. Kay Park had her second baby class photo may be found on the less than a year shy of our 15-year ment Workers and the Color Line in PHOTO: MARK KURODA Eric Keck recently bought a (a girl, Phoebe Kaplan) last No- CCT website (college.columbia. Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thurs- Woodrow Wilson’s America, was farm with a focus on sustainability vember. Son Sydney is 3. edu/cct) as part of this issue’s day, May 29–Sunday, June 1, 2014, published. and crop/animal rotation, and Jonathan Meyers got married reunion follow-up article. Also, so start planning! Sarika Doshi launched Rank Jonathan Gordin to me using the email at the top of Michael Novielli produced 100 organic free-range on the beach in the Hamptons last whether or not you attended We heard from two classmates & Style (rankandstyle.com), a 01 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. the column or via CCT’s easy-to- 03 World City Apartments chickens in July. Eric writes that August to Kelly Ann Noto. He reunion, please send me an email for this issue. Tom Russell con- new fashion/tech website, in Los Angeles, CA 90068 use webform (college.columbia. Attention Michael J. although the work is hard, he is also has been promoted to v.p. of to update us on what you’re up to fesses that it has been several years March to “revolutionize the shop- [email protected] edu/cct/submit_class_note). Novielli, A608 having a blast. strategy and business development all these years post-graduation. since his last update in CCT. Tom ping experience for consumers Block 10, No 6. Jinhui David Frost earned a Ph.D. in at the NBC News Group, oversee- Chas Sisk was proud to an- left New York in 2007 and lives in of fashion and beauty products. I hope everyone is enjoying the Road, Chaoyang District philosophy in July 2011 from UNC- ing digital strategy for MSNBC, nounce wonderful news about his Toledo, Ohio, with his wife, Laurie, Rank & Style is the first web and summer! My Facebook feed has Sonia Dandona Beijing, 100020, People’s Chapel Hill and teaches philoso- CNBC, NBC News and the Today wife: The Rev. Cathy Chang was and their children, Grace and mobile platform to use science been humming with lots of baby 02 Hirdaramani Republic of China phy at the University of Wisconsin- Show. ordained as a Unitarian Univer- Michael. Toledo is his wife’s home- and technology to simplify how news. Keep all the good news 2 Rolling Dr. [email protected] Stevens Point. He is looking for Uchenna Acholonu and his wife, salist minister in a ceremony on town and the children enjoy being women shop via ‘top 10s,’ which coming. Old Westbury, NY 11568 teaching and other opportunities Colleen, who recently moved to February 24 at their church, First close to their grandparents. Tom are created utilizing an algorithm Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely [email protected] Thank you to all who attended our that might bring him back to the Long Island, welcomed their son, Unitarian Universalist Church has been with a real estate invest- that methodically researches and and her husband, Jack Doyle, are big 10-year reunion. Stay tuned New York City area. He says he Devin Chima Talt Acholonu, in of Nashville. Congratulations to ment trust, Health Care REIT, for aggregates relevant data from the proud parents of Marcelle Jean I hope everyone’s year has been for the next issue of CCT for a full would be happy to hear from any March. Sister Kiera is apparently Reverend Cathy on, as Chas put it, two years as director of financial most popular department stores, HS-Doyle. Marcelle was born on going well. I have a light column recap. If you attended, please share folks who want to reminisce. tolerating the addition. “reaching her goal after 11 years reporting. Tom says it’s hard being boutiques, fashion blogs and January 7 in San Francisco. this time, so please send lots of up- your thoughts and stories with me. Biella Coleman loves Montreal, Deganit Stein Ruben lives in of hard work.” What wonderful away from the excitement of the style magazines. Relying on this Jorge Herrera and his wife, Vic- dates for my next one to soniah57@ The class photo, however, may be where she is the Wolfe Chair in Sci- Savannah, Ga., with her husband, news, and perhaps Cathy will one big city, so he comes back to NYC data, each list captures the 10 best toria Moreno-Herrera, welcomed gmail.com. Thanks! found on the CCT website (college. entific and Technological Literacy Jesse, and their girls, Jordan (8) day have the opportunity to give several times a year, especially to items within a fashion or beauty their third child (wow!), a daughter, Agnia Grigas’ (née Baranaus- columbia.edu/cct) as part of this at McGill. Her first book, Coding and Elana (4). Degi is looking to the invocation or benediction at a catch Yankees games. product category based on their Carolina, on January 20, one day kaite) book, The Politics of Energy issue’s reunion follow-up article. Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of get back into teaching English or Columbia event! Beau Willimon ’03 Arts is in popularity, quality, value and after Jorge’s birthday. and Memory Between the Baltic States For now, let’s get right to the Hacking, has been published, and writing at one of the local colleges Dennis Machado had nothing rehearsals for his play The Parisian stylishness. Ronen Landa and his wife, Yael and Russia, was released in January. updates. a great overview of her work can in Savannah, which is what she did new to add about his life (he Woman at South Coast Reper- “Situated at the intersection Levi Landa, welcomed their daugh- It has received excellent reviews Edmund Wagoner writes, “As it be found at chronicle.com/article/ before her kids were born. joked: “Working at TIAA-CREF tory in Costa Mesa, Calif. Beau of fashion and technology, Rank ter, Adi Zohar Landa, on February from a number of Columbia fac- has been a decade, I figure I ought Hacking-the-World/138163. (Ac- I have more news to report next for the last six years. Still have also is the creator, producer and & Style fills a void in a growing 13 in Los Angeles. Adi weighed 6 ulty members. to check in. I completed law school cording to several classmates, Biella time, so stay tuned — and please three kids for the last four years. show runner of House of Cards, market and is focused on mim- lbs., 5 oz. Charlie Katz-Leavy and Michelle at Ohio State and worked for 3 ½ is being modest in her update, as keep those notes coming so I don’t Still married for the last 11 years. a Netflix original series star- icking the best of research brands My year started off with some Leavy (née Bertagna) welcomed Em- years in litigation at Steptoe & John- she has become very prominent have to mass-email you again! I I’ve had a nice streak of con- ring Kevin Spacey and Robin such as Yelp, CNET, Consumer baby celebration as well. My wife, ily Rose to the world on December son. I left the law firm world in time and is the leading expert on the leave you with this: sistency!”). But he did have an Wright. As producer, Beau also is Reports and Zagat and apply- Jamie Rubin ’01 Barnard, and I wel- 30. As the daughter of two Lions, she to ride the early wave of the shale network of hacktivists known as “It is an impressively arrogant update about a friend, Melinka working on two documentaries:­ ing it to the fashion and beauty comed our second daughter, Jesse already is preparing for CC Class gas boom and performed oil and Anonymous.) move to conclude that just because Thompson-Godoy, whom he Odyssey, about travel adventur­ er space to empower and inform Rose, on January 23. Jesse weighed of 2035! gas work throughout Appalachia. Congratulations, Biella! you don’t like something, it is em- met up with during her recent Karl Bushby’s quest to circum- consumers.” 5 lbs., 15 oz. Mom, sister Julian and Rajan Bahl, a child and psychia- In 2012, I partnered with a mentor Abigail Sara Lewis is the associ- pirically not good. I don’t like Chi- visit to NYC. She does visual ef- navigate the world on foot, and Sarika is the CEO and co-founder. the baby are all doing great! try fellow at UCSF who will gradu- from Steptoe to form our own firm, ate director of the Athena Center nese food, but I don’t write articles fects for movies and TV and was Westerly, about surfing legend Congratulations to Lauren Congratulations to our new par- ate in June, has opened a private Goddard & Wagoner. We have a for Leadership Studies at Barnard. trying to prove it doesn’t exist.” nominated in 2008 for a Primetime Peter Drouyn’s mid-life choice to Sobel for making partner at Shutts ents and, to all classmates, please practice at 2477 Washington St. in fairly diverse litigation practice Her son, Fitzgerald Arthur Lewis- —Tina Fey Emmy for Outstanding Special become a woman. & Bowen in Miami. keep in touch! You can send news San Francisco. based in Clarksburg and Grafton,

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W.Va. In addition to the boring through her blog, valedictorians classmates who want to catch up. Excellence for African Ameri- Laos and San Diego. I worked at stuff, I married my wife, Alana, and guide.com, or follow her on Twitter Jenn planned to complete her first cans. Previously, he was a senior The Studio Museum in Harlem, have a son, Benji (2). I live outside @StefanieWeisman. half-marathon in April in Wash- education policy adviser to the taught English and traveled Morgantown, W.Va.; would love to ington, D.C. — the Nike Women’s U.S. Senate Committee on Health, widely, and pursued (OK, am still connect with any Columbians who Half Marathon— with friends and Education, Labor and Pensions pursuing) a Ph.D. in art history at REUNION WEEKEND find themselves in northern West family, including Diana Tyson Mc- and also was a Congressional Black UC San Diego. This year, I happily MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Virginia. I can be reached at eddie@ Callum, cheering her on! Caucus Foundation Fellow. find myself back in NYC after ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS goddardlawwv.com.” Eugene Cho graduated from Thanks to everyone who con­ accepting a curatorial position in ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Michelle Schwartz writes, “I live St. George’s University’s School of tributed to this edition of Class contemporary art at the Brooklyn [email protected] in Manhattan with my husband Medicine in April and will spend Notes. Keep them coming! Museum — so far, so delightful. 212-851-9148 and two kids, a boy and a girl (the the next three years completing an Between work, dissertation-writing DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova second born in October). I’m a trusts emergency medicine residency at and re-acclimating to NYC (in itself [email protected] and estates attorney at Fulbright & the University of Connecticut. Claire McDonnell a full-time job), life is a little hectic, 212-851-7833 Jaworski.” C. Colin Brinkman wrote, “I 47 Maiden Ln., 3rd Fl. but I couldn’t be happier to be here Lisa Bearpark (née Pettersson) Angela Georgopoulos married Julianna von Zumbusch 05 San Francisco, CA 94108 doing what I love at one of NYC’s writes, “I gave birth to a son on 04 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 in 2009. I received a Ph.D. in micro- claire.mcdonnell@ great institutions. Come visit!” April 7, and [at this writing] my New York, NY 10038 biology and immunology from the gmail.com Dan Binder reports, “Aside from husband and I are planning to [email protected] University of Virginia in 2010 and my day job at Episcopal H.S. in move to Stockholm, Sweden, in now am a post-doctoral fellow at Whether it’s chicken coops, art Houston, I’ve been volunteering at June, leaving New York after 13 I hope that you are all doing well the University of Maryland School museums, new babies, operas or the Houston Livestock Show and years. Still going strong with and enjoying the warmer weather, of Medicine in Baltimore work- endodontics, the Class of 2005 has Rodeo, the nation’s largest rodeo. I theatre, producing and acting but which here in New York took ing on regulatory T-cell migration been up to some big things lately. also am a member of the Board of taking a break to be a mother for longer than usual to grace us with and function in organ transplant Perhaps that’s not so surprising in Trustees of Saint Stephen’s Episco- Matthew Jalandoni ’05 married Darcy Copeland in Columbus, Ohio, on September 29. Among the the next couple of months. I was its presence. As always, here’s a tolerance.” this year that many of us turn 30! pal School in Houston.” Columbians in attendance (all CC ’05 unless noted) were: back row, left to right: Olivier Manigat, Greg sad to miss the 10-year reunion friendly reminder to send in your Congratulations to Allison Su- Speaking of birthdays, I had a Brendon-Jeremi Jobs says, “I’m Jones, John Reuter, Paul Hlavaty, Ravi Desai and Ali Manigat; middle row, left to right: Jonathan Shukat, but with everything going on, it news and updates — don’t be shy! dol Bechtel and her husband, who blast at my 30th birthday party in listening to Invisible Man on Audible Tracy Reuter, Ben Supple, Joe Ward, Nnamdi Ofodile, Paul Santiago, Sety Britton ’05E, Chuck Britton, was not possible. I’m sure it was a Feel free to email me at aeg90@ welcomed twins Cassidy and Chase March in San Francisco. Colum- for the first time and it’s blowing Jason Auguste and Diana Auguste ’06; and front row, left to right: the groom, the bride and Jeff Otis. blast and I send my best wishes to columbia.edu or via CCT’s web- on October 3 and are enjoying life bians in attendance included my mind. ‘Remember, your power PHOTO: PICTURE THE LOVE everyone who was there!” form: college.columbia.edu/cct/ as a family of four. She is complet- Vanessa Carr, Beverly Chung ’09 is in your invisibility.’ I’m only sorry Anne Melzer writes, “I’m a submit_class_note. ing her anesthesia residency at UVa. Business, Patrick Cushing ’06E, that it took me so long to find the pulmonary and critical care fellow Eric A. Smith has been named and will start a cardiothoracic anes- Niko Klein, Ramsey McGlazer, time to [discover] this hallmark of out of the process. Be the move- Michelle Oh Sing a fund called Eachwin Capital.” at the University of Washington. COO at Crowdnetic, a provider of thesia fellowship at Emory in July. Diego Pontoriero ’07E, Tom Pyun the Renaissance. My life as a teacher ment,” Syga says. 06 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 Ganesh Betanabhatla recently I’m working on my master’s of transparency-enabling technologies Eva Gardner ’06 GSAS gradu- ’07 PH, Bartek Ringwelski, Marija continues to grow more complex Hao Tran is engaged to Eliza- Philadelphia, PA 19107 joined Talara Capital Management epidemiology, doing research in and data to the private investment ated from NYU Law in 2011 and Ringwelski ’09 PH and Ted Summe and purposed with each year. I was beth “Lizi” Chorney ’05E. Hao [email protected] as a managing director. He will smoking cessation. I spent last year and crowd-funded securities indus- promptly moved to Alaska. She is ’06E. recently voted onto the Board of proposed to Lizi on December 12 assume primary responsibility for with my husband working at a try. Previously, he was employed in her second year clerking for a Kristian Hansen has been busy Directors for Germantown United on the Low Steps, where they met. Carly Miller moved back to her building the firm’s E&P private rural hospital in Alaska.” at Union Bancaire Privée, a Swiss federal district court judge in An- building chicken coops — his Community Development Corp. Lizi is a radiology resident at Mt. hometown of Minneapolis in Oc- equity investment platform and Joshua Marks writes, “I am private bank. chorage and spends her free time company, Laughing Chickens, I also am on the teacher advisory Sinai Hospital, having graduated tober after a wonderful 10 years of will be jointly based in New York completing my general surgery Congrats, Eric! engaged in backcountry skiing, makes rustic coops from re- board for the Historical Society of from Geisel School of Medicine at living in New York City. In Decem- City and Houston. residency at Thomas Jefferson Congratulations also go out to mountain biking, ski marathons, claimed redwood fences and sells Pennsylvania.” Dartmouth in 2010. Hao graduated ber, she started working at the Best Talibah L. Newman ’13 Arts’ University Hospital this June, after Roy Altman, who was recently glacier-gazing and other perfectly planting boxes, composters, chalk- Michael Sin writes, “I’m a real from NYU College of Dentistry Buy Corporate offices as a product thesis film, Sweet Honey Child, de– having spent this past year as an ad- awarded the Federal Prosecutor ordinary Alaskan activities. She boards and doghouses nationwide estate agent at TOWN Residential in 2012. He is a dental resident at manager in social commerce. buted at the Columbia University ministrative chief resident. In July, of the Year Award in the Southern encourages anyone planning a trip through Williams-Sonoma. in the 730 Fifth Ave. office, focusing Yale-New Haven Hospital and will This is the first retail company on Film Festival. Her short film, Busted I will start a fellowship in trauma, District of Florida. north to reach out. Luis Saucedo earned an M.B.A. on sales and rentals in Manhattan pursue an endodontics fellowship her resume, as she’s worked at on Brigham Lane, recently was on surgical critical care and emergency We have a slew of job news. After five years in finance, Esther from Yale in 2012 and is a Presiden- and Brooklyn. I can be reached at Temple thereafter. companies such as A&E Television HBO On Demand and HBO GO. general surgery at the Hospital of Anjlee Khurana practices enter- Chung decided to do a post-bac tial Management Fellow at Ginnie at [email protected] if Bindu Suresh inquires, “I’m a Networks, Scholastic Publishing, She is working on her first feature, the University of Pennsylvania.” tainment law in Nashville. She and apply to medical school; she Mae, where he works on housing anyone is interested in getting an newly minted medical doctor and Fox News and Thomson Reuters. which she will direct and write. Leah Rorvig writes, “I spent a writes that the local music scene is now is at Weill Cornell Medical Col- finance policy and government and update on New York real estate or am starting a residency program Seth Wainer recently became The new Vampire Weekend weekend recently in Blooming- second to none. lege. She also had her first child as industry communications. Ginnie just wants to catch up over coffee.” in pediatrics in Ottawa in July — the senior technology policy ad- album, Modern Vampires of the City, ton, Ind. While there I celebrated Jon Schalit was married in she was applying to medical school. Mae provides a government guar- Ellen Reid announces, “My that’s a major life event, no?” viser to the Office of Mayor Cory was released on May 14. The band with Leah Miller-Freeman, who November 2012 and is an associate Congrats, Esther! antee on mortgage-backed securi- opera, Winter’s Child, was part Yes, Bindu, it is! As are some Booker in Newark, N.J. features our own Ezra Koenig, recently got an M.F.A. in paint- corporate attorney at Blank Rome In February, Tricia Bozyk Sherno ties backed by government-insured of a new opera workshop at the Class of 2005 babies. Mike Brown Jr. recently left his Rostam Batmanglij and Chris ing from Indiana University. Her in Los Angeles. and her husband, Joseph Sherno, mortgages. It is a federal agency Hammer Museum in Los Angeles Rebecca (Pollack) Kee announc- post at AOL Ventures to start his Tomson, as well as Chris Baio ’07. students made this segment about Jax Russo is senior counsel, welcomed their first child, Charles within the Department of Housing on June 1: wildup.la/events/first- es, “Another John Jay 11 baby has own $30 million venture capital [Editor’s note: See Alumni in the her: journalism.indiana.edu/class director for Heineken USA, and Miles. They live in Jersey City and and Urban Development. take-west-coast-opera-workshop. been born! Bill Kee and I, who fund, Bowery Capital. The fund News.] work/j210_stlayton_spring2013/ Matthew Abrams recently was Tricia has been a litigation associate Steve Mumford reports, “In 2012, I’m also composing music for a new met on John Jay 11, recently had launched to the public in May living-outside-the-lines. promoted to partner at the law at Debevoise & Plimpton in New I moved from Seattle to Washington, production of Prometheus Bound at our second son, Benjamin Michael, and is based in New York and “I have one year left toward my firm of Russo & Burke. York for the past five years. D.C., to begin a Ph.D. program in the Getty Villa in Los Angeles in born in San Francisco on January San Francisco, with a focus on Columbia College M.D. at UC San Francisco and I’ll Crystal Proenza moved to Katie Zien writes, “In August, public policy and administration at September: us1.campaign-archive1. 5. We look forward to instilling in investing in the next generation of Alumni on Facebook apply to residency in family medi- Miami in 2008 and recently was I defended my dissertation and The George Washington University, com/?u=f0ca2d2aefbeac1ecf2e2518 him the same love of Nussbaum enterprise software companies. cine this fall.” promoted to v.p. of marketing for joined the faculty of McGill’s English concentrating in program evalua- c&id=a74a3ad991.” & Wu bagels that we have in our Ross Gabrielson ’12 Business Stefanie Weisman is thrilled to Colliers International|South Florida department. I’ve had an excellent tion. So far, I love being back on the Matthew Jalandoni says, “I have older son, James (2).” writes, “Well, 2012 was a big announce the publication of her Commercial Real Estate Services. year teaching theatre and perfor- East Coast, despite the superstorms, been on active duty as a captain in Natasha Shapiro and her hus- year. My wife and I are proud Check out the new first book, The Secrets of Top Students: In March, Oleg Ilitchev ac- mance studies to undergraduate and look forward to reconnecting the Army JAG Corps since graduat- band, Vladimir Kovtun, had a to announce that our daughter, Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing cepted a role as s.v.p. and CFO of and graduate students in Montreal, with Columbians in the area.” ing from the University of Wiscon- daughter, Elizabeth Sydney, on Madeline, was born on October 13. Columbia College High School and College, a guide for U.S. operations of Argo Group, a and I am preparing for a summer of Michelle Kraics was promoted sin Law School in 2010. I met my January 11. Maddie already is a real character Alumni page! the high school and college set on global property and casualty insur- research and conferencing in various in January to director at Citigroup wife, Darcy Copeland Jalandoni, at Becca Israel writes, “On October and has a great sense of humor. facebook.com/ how to achieve academic success. ance and reinsurance business. locales throughout the Americas. I in the Municipal Securities Division. Wisconsin Law and we were mar- 24, I gave birth to a son, Aviv Moshe. It is so much fun being a dad. A It’s based on her own experience Jenn Martinez recently joined am looking forward to transforming Ru Hockley writes, “At Claire’s ried in her hometown of Columbus, He’s 4 months old, laughs at every- special thank you to those of you alumnicc — she was valedictorian of Stuy­ Compete (a Kantar Media com- my dissertation, which treats theatre urging and out of a desire to sup- Ohio, on September 29.” thing and has discovered his feet, in the Class of 2006 who helped Like the page to get vesant and received the Albert pany) as sales director for retail, history in the Panama Canal Zone port her foray into Class Notes Syga Thomas has launched which he finds fascinating. I live in welcome Maddie into the world alumni news, learn Asher Green Memorial Prize for CPG and technology. She looks for- throughout the 20th century, into a correspondence, I am submitting MAONO, a luxury clothing design D.C. and work at DOJ but am mov- — especially Danny Concepcion, about alumni events and the highest G.P.A. in our Columbia ward to providing customers with book manuscript.” my first update! Condensed life and manufacturing company. “We ing my family to Boston this fall to who was at the hospital even class — as well as the insight of digital behavioral insights and David J. Johns ’06 TC is now the summary: In the shockingly large create luxury staples to outfit the clerk for a judge in the [U.S. District before my parents arrived! Earlier College happenings, 45 other outstanding students. media measurement solutions and first executive director of the White number of years since Columbia movers, shakers and influencers of Court, District of Mass.].” in 2012, I graduated from the Busi- view photos and more. You can get in touch with Stefanie welcomes inquiries or emails from House Initiative on Educational graduation, I have lived in NYC, the world, kicking the middleman Thanks for the updates! ness School and started working at

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Cooper Schilowitz and Lindsay reta, Lucy Chen, Nick Camp and Sohacheski shared huge life mo- Janna Weaver ’13 TC in their wed- ments. Rachel gave birth to a son, ding party; Sam Ashworth ’10 GS David Theodore, and Lindsay mar- and David Mazzuca ’07 as readers; ried Steven Turk of West Orange, Nicolas Alvear and Ben Katz ’06 as N.J., in California. ushers; Maryam Parhizkar and her J.D. Stettin is making some ensemble for ceremony music; and exciting professional moves: “After many members of the Columbia four years of business development community in attendance. They with green tech startups here in thank all of them for making the New York (including the verti- start of the Weaver-Ma union so cal farm and ecologic solutions), wonderful! I have joined the country’s No. 1 Jacob recently started a job as FHA finance team at Greystone & an investment analyst for Amici Co. I am responsible for debt and Capital, a hedge fund based in equity packages for multi-family New York. Annie works for Google, and healthcare properties, from where she is an enterprise partner development to acquisition and ev- manager. They enjoy the West Coast erything in between. Though I am lifestyle and would love to see you based out of company headquarters if you’re ever in San Francisco! in Manhattan, many of my clients Last September, Lauren Accor– are in the Southwest and I spend dino (née Shearer) and Michael much of my time in California and Accordino ’07 walked down the Texas.” aisle. They traveled to the Maldives Clayton Broyles ’09 and Katie Paddock were married on June 25, 2012, at Lake Mývatn, Husavík, Mark Clemente moved to Sin- and Dubai thereafter. They recently Iceland. They hosted a post-wedding celebration in Breaux Bridge, La., on November 24. Among the gapore in the spring. He is director added a new member to the family, guests at the celebration were (left to right) Austen Bakker ’08, Vik Ashok ’08E, the groom, the bride, of marketing/operations and di- a Goldendoodle puppy, and live in rector of tennis for Savitar Group. Los Angeles. In addition to her day Casey Russell and Eric Pogue ’10. Lindsey Cleary ’09 (née Frost, center) married Jonathan Cleary on October 6 in Chattanooga. Friends He also hopes to represent the job in finance, Lauren co-founded PHOTO: KADY DUNLAP PHOTOGRAPHY in attendance from the Class of ’09 were, left to right: Eva Fortes, Holly Chung, Cyrus Ebnesajjad and Philippines in the Southeast Asian The Green Leaf Academy, an Soo Han. Games for tennis in December. education enrichment company for PHOTO: SOLI PHOTOGRAPHY The Varsity Show honored Kate Simeon Siegel shares, “Little By the time you read this, we Chenni Xu is a consultant for elementary students. McKinnon with its annual I.A.L. Liam Siegel celebrated his first will have held the Young Alumni Emerging Asia Group, which is Anastasia Pastan (née McLetchie) Diamond [’41] Award for Achieve- birthday on February 21!” Fund Spring Benefit (scheduled for headquartered in Shanghai. “I and Nick Pastan were married performed at the Calle Ocho-Miami recently wrapped filming on its first Julia Feldberg ment in the Arts on May 5. Kate Very exciting! May 10). The benefit host commit- wish I could have attended the last summer. Many Columbia and Carnival on the stages of Telemun- short and soon will be launching a 10 4 E. 8th St., Apt. 4F (who was Kate Berthold during Dan Wang reports, “This year tee was full of classmates including reunion and I hope everyone had Barnard classmates traveled to do and Cubana de Television. YouTube channel. Joanna also has New York, NY 10003 her time at the College) has been on looks to be a busy one for Marisa Allison Bajger, Dan Bajger, David a good time. If anyone is visiting Washington, D.C., to help them Giselle hopes her classmates will started doing stand-up comedy. [email protected] Saturday Night Live since last April. Sires and me. We will get married Chait, Samantha Feingold, Arvind Shanghai, please email me: chenni. celebrate, including Ben Reininga, support her by liking her artist page Stephanie Lindquist left New Thanks, everyone, for sharing. this summer with many of our Kadaba, Geo Karapetyan, Ethan [email protected].” Caitlin Hodge ’08, Liz Gordon ’08, on Facebook or following her on York in September to live for a year I hope all of you are well as we We’re happy to celebrate your Columbia friends in attendance. Marcovici, Andrew O’Connor and Clayton Broyles and Katie Pad- Lan Wu ’10E, Caitlin Martin ’09 Instagram or Twitter @gisellegastell. as a visiting artist at the American reach our three-years-out-of-college successes! Jonathan Wegener and Ali Rohrs Dan Shapiro. dock were married June 25, 2012, Barnard, Stephanie Dumanian ’07 She will let you know when she Academy in Rome with her partner milestone. For the first time since will even serve as officiants. After Finally, the new Vampire Week- at Lake Mývatn, Húsavik, Iceland. Barnard, Nicklas Volbi ’07E and officially releases her first single, and Rome Prize winner, Glendalys graduation, I have some news of that, we’ll move back to New York end album, Modern Vampires of the They hosted a post-wedding cel- Greg Pupo. More recently, Anasta- “Mienteme.” Medina. Stephanie’s work can be my own to share. After working David D. Chait City (it’s been six years in the Bay City, was released on May 14. The ebration in Breaux Bridge, La., on sia left teaching and New York City, Daniel Duzdevich earned an viewed at stephaniealindquist.com. in corporate strategy and develop- 07 1255 New Hampshire Area). I am finishing my Ph.D. in band features our own Chris Baio November 24. Among Columbians and moved to Cambridge, Mass., M.Phil. in biology from Churchill She also recently co-founded ment at Time Inc. for 2½ years, Ave. N.W., Apt. 815 sociology at Stanford this spring as well as Ezra Koenig ’06, Rostam attending were Austen Bakker, where she studies at Harvard Law College, Cambridge, studying the MasterDabblers (masterdabblers. I joined the marketing team at Washington, DC 20036 and, in the fall, I’ll start as an assis- Batmanglij ’06 and Chris Tomson Vik Ashok ’08E and Eric Pogue ’09. School. gross structure of DNA sequences com), which shares tips on how to 1stdibs, an online marketplace [email protected] tant professor of management at the ’06. [Editor’s note: See Alumni in Robert William Shaw III mar- Maxie Harnick (née Glass) and that cause Huntington’s Disease. expand your creative practice and for high-end luxury goods. I am Business School. Marisa will con- the News.] ried Shannon Marie Kelley on April Evan Harnick were married on He has returned to Columbia in develops mailings with successful enjoying the challenge of learning I hope that everyone is having a tinue to be the director of product 6 in Miami Shores, Fla. Robert is July 7, 2012, at the Harvard Club of pursuit of a Ph.D. from the Depart- contemporary artists to give people SEO marketing, an entirely new great spring! We have a number strategy for Gigya, a Silicon Valley- a legal intern at the Miami-Dade New York City. ment of Biological Sciences. In materials and instructions to push field for me. I live in the West Vil- of exciting updates from our based social media company.” Neda Navab state attorney’s office in Miami; he Alidad Damooei graduated 2011 he received the departmental their creative boundaries. lage with my boyfriend, Gregg (a classmates. Kasia Nikhamina writes, “My 7 Soldiers Field Park, earned his J.D. from Pepperdine. from Yale Law in May. He enjoyed teaching award and in 2012 he re- After graduation, Mark Holden non-Columbia grad, I’m ashamed On March 6, many came out husband, Ilya (aka Redbeard) and 08 Apt. 7C his three years of law school but is ceived an award from the Paul and was a research associate in inter- to admit). to celebrate the College’s annual I invite everyone to visit Redbeard Boston, MA 02163 excited to start the next chapter of Daisy Soros Fellowships for New national economics at the Council After seven amazing years on REUNION WEEKEND John Jay Awards for distinguished Bikes at 165 Front St. in DUMBO, his life. This summer he will move Americans, which is funding two on Foreign Relations in NYC for a the Morningside campus, Matt [email protected] MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 professional achievement. CC ’07 Brooklyn, for bicycles and acces- back to New York City and will years of his graduate research. His year. On leaving CFR, he applied Amsterdam ’13L is done with ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS attendees included Anna German, sories. We launched the shop last For those who made it to our start his legal career at Sullivan & first book, Darwin’s On the Origin of to law school and then for most of Columbia (at least for now). He ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Allison Bajger, Dan Bajger and November and are enjoying the five-year reunion, how amazing Cromwell, where he will gain Species: A Modern Rendition, will ap- a season was a ski lift operator at looks forward to joining most of the [email protected] David Chait, among others. challenges and joys of being a mom- was it?! I hope you had a chance experience across different areas of pear in early 2014. Excitingly, it will Vail Resorts in Colorado. He started rest of his College classmates in the 212-851-9148 After six months in Chicago and-pop. We carry, among other to reconnect with friends, meet a corporate law. feature a foreword by evolution- at Harvard Law in fall 2011 and “real world” for the first time. DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova working on the Obama campaign’s brands, Brompton folding bikes and few new faces and catch up on life! David Cooper graduated from ary biologist and journalist Olivia expects to work in Houston after he Mary Ann Bonet shares, “For [email protected] digital team and four months of Lynskey titanium road bikes. Like Milestones like these are phenom- St. John’s School of Law this spring. Judson! graduates. the past year, I’ve been teaching 212-851-7833 travel (and recovery time), Leah us on Facebook at facebook.com/ enal reminders of the common He has accepted a job offer from Joanna Sloame left her job as a Rebecca Feinberg has begun a gallery and studio-based programs Sandals has returned to New York redbeardbikes.” history we share as well as the Alidad Damooei the New York City Law Depart- multimedia editor at the New York Ph.D. in anthropology at UC Santa for school, youth and family audi- and joined Global Health Strate- Olivia Roszkowski is the execu- remarkably different paths we are c/o CCT ment. David will start work in the Daily News last May to move to Los Cruz, where she will learn all there ences at several museums, includ- gies, a consulting firm serving tive chef of La Nuit Restaurant & embarking on. Please send me 09 Columbia Alumni Center fall in the Special Federal Litigation Angeles to pursue comedy writing. is to know about Italy, EU immi- ing the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, international health organizations. Tapas Lounge in NYC. Check out notes about your reunion experi- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Division as an assistant corporation That summer she started working gration and foodways while living the Museum of the City of New Whitney Wilson joined The her blog: oliviathechef.com. ences for the Fall issue of CCT! New York, NY 10025 counsel. at Jimmy Kimmel Live! as the digital in a tree house by the sea cliffs. York and El Museo del Barrio. I’m Corcoran Group and is focusing on Kelvin Jiang ’07E, Tanya Lind- The class photo, however, may be [email protected] Giselle Gastell is working on her media coordinator. She maintains Eliav Bitan recently completed excited to head back to Morning- residential sales in South Brooklyn. say and Earnest Sweat will have found on the CCT website (college. first EP, which is in Spanish, with the show’s social media presence, his first year at Virginia’s Darden side Heights this summer to start She teaches weekly yoga classes at to say “so long” to the case study columbia.edu/cct) as part of this Jacob Weaver and Annie Ma were producer Alejandro Jaen. In March website and YouTube page. On the School of Business in Charlottes- the Art & Art Education Program YogaWorks and enjoys spending discussions and ’80s theme parties issue’s reunion follow-up article. married in May 2012 at St. Paul’s she performed on America Tevé’s side, she has been learning impro- ville. He is excited about working Ed.M. at Teachers College. I look time with Igor Zelenberg ’07E and as they get ready to graduate from And now, the notes … Chapel on Columbia’s beautiful “El Happy Hour.” You can check visation at Second City though its in the private sector this summer forward to juggling work and their dog, Bean, in and around Kellogg School of Management in On back-to-back weekends campus. They were fortunate to it out on YouTube: youtube.com/ Conservatory program. Her sketch after three years in the nonprofit school in the months to come!” Cobble Hill. late June. in February, roommates Rachel have Allison Halff, Greg Legor- watch?v=BoDfU1OENys. She also comedy group, The Living Room, world. Earlier this year, Joseph Johnson

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Penelope is CNN sent a reporter to campus, REGULAR CLASSIFIED RATES: $3 per word for one issue, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and “I am leaving my family behind, spending the summer at home in and Nutella-gate, which got a men- discounts for four consecutive issues. Ten-word minimum. the Philippines. In addition to his including my newborn son, but New Zealand and encourages all tion on CNN’s food blog. I’ve been Phone (including area code) and PO boxes count as one word. main role, Joe has occasionally filled my father did a similar thing when to take a trip Down Under. She back to campus a bunch of times Words divided by slashes, hyphens or plus signs are counted in as sideline reporter for several of he left his family behind in North plans to travel in Southeast Asia to say hello to friends and ran into FOR SALE individually. Email and web addresses are priced based on their teams’ games. He will return Korea to pursue a better life in the and Europe before heading to many classmates at Homecoming length. No charge for Columbia College class years or to the United States soon, hopefully South. I wonder if he thinks he England in October to pursue an last year, which was awesome. I ampersands (&). We boldface the first four words at no charge. in time for Triple Crown season. should have stuck around to greet M.Phil. in environmental policy at made the best friends of my life at STRAWBERRY ALBATROSS by IRV MILOWE, Class of ’53 much acclaimed Additional boldface words are $1 per word. Heidi Bonilla ’13 PH writes, Dennis Rodman. Surprisingly, the University of Cambridge. Columbia and, though we’re all poetry volume @ Amazon.com. Display Classifieds are $100 per inch. “Hello CC ’10! I recently finished Father Yim supported my decision Kelicia Hollis writes from scattered across the country now, my master’s in public health at to move out west to pursue the Michigan: “I am really happy to be we’re planning our next reunion.” PAYMENT: Prepayment required on all issues at time of order. Mailman, where I received my dream. I am glad to be out here in consistent contact with many of Brenda Salinas is “having a RENTALS Check, money order, MasterCard, Visa and degree in health policy and man- with friends, working together my Columbia friends and mentors. blast” as an NPR Kroc Fellow. As of Diners Club with MasterCard logo only. agement. I am an ambulatory care on something that we believe will I am also happy to say that I am this writing, she’s had eight of her Naples, Fla: Luxury condominium overlooking Gulf, two-month minimum, No refunds for canceled ads. manager for Brookdale University impact the world for the better. two-thirds of the way through my radio stories air nationally! She’s 802-524-2108, James Levy ‘65CC, ‘68L. 10% discount for Columbia College alumni, faculty, Hospital and Medical Center in “California, I’m home. Sun, graduate program at the Univer- proud to be among the WKCR staff, students and parents Brooklyn.” please greet me warmly and bless sity of Michigan: two degrees back alumni who have gone on to a Eric Bressman, Jonathan Feld, me with a tan similar to the one to back! I’m blessed and I hope the career in public radio, including the Mail or email orders to: Michal Cohen ’11, Miriam Wise- that I had gotten my senior year at same for all of my fellow Columbi- host of All Things Considered, Robert Columbia College Today man ’11 and Jordan Katz ’11 shared Columbia. Mamba, out.” ans. I’m interning in Shanghai this Siegel ’68 [see June 2008 CCT]. Columbia Alumni Center a magical weekend getaway in the Thanks for the great updates. summer after years of trying to get Thanks for the awesome up- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. East Bronx, N.Y. They took time Keep them coming! to China, so if you’re in the area, let dates, Class of 2012, and keep them New York, NY 10025 out of their busy lives to revisit old me know! Chase after peace and coming! Email: [email protected] memories and catch up on where happiness; the rest will follow.” Online: college.columbia.edu/cct/advertise_with_us Telephone: 212-851-7852 life has taken them these last few Colin Sullivan Paul Hsiao, who is rooming with 1754 Crown Cuff Links, Studs, Lapel years, all the while rediscovering 11 c/o CCT Eric Tang ’12E and Eric Chung ’12E Tala Akhavan Pins, Pendants. Lions, CU designs. Deadline for Fall 2013 issue: what made their time together at Columbia Alumni Center on the Upper East Side in the same c/o CCT Fine, hand-made. (917) 416-6055 Friday, July 26, 2013 Columbia so special. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 building as Lauren Kwok ’12E, says 13 Columbia Alumni Center Gabriella Ripoll graduated from New York, NY 10025 that living so close to fellow Colum- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 [email protected] NYU Law this spring. She writes, [email protected] bians “feels like EC again!” New York, NY 10025 “Apparently more than a few of my Right after graduation, Richard [email protected] peers also decided to make the same I hope everyone has a terrific Lenz performed in a six-date East terrible decision of going to law summer. Send a note and tell me Coast tour with his band, Bob Congratulations, Class of 2013! As school, as I’ve run into Nishi Kumar, about it! You can send updates to Crusoe, along with Chris Pitsiokos the newest members of the Colum- Shana Knizhnik and Billy Freeland me at the above email address or and Nat Flack ’13, opening for bia College Alumni Association a literary salon. Professor Selig from 1966–67, my sophomore year. took eight shots from the field and ’09 taking classes at NYU Law. via CCT’s easy-to-use webform: the Sediment Club. Later in the (CCAA), we have earned our own Letters met my wife at this dinner as well. In those days at Columbia, there made them all. We won the game. Assuming all goes to plan, I’ll stay college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ summer, he visited Germany and column in Columbia College Today, (Continued from page 5) You could imagine my surprise was applause at the end of the last Who makes all of that many shots in NYC and work for a small law class_note. Let’s fill this column Texas before returning to New where we can inform each other — one day as I was presenting the class. In this case, it was a stand- in a game? firm in Times Square. Meanwhile, next time. York, where he worked at Book and the rest of the Columbia family prosecution’s case to a Manhattan ing ovation. We had taken up a My visual memory is of Normie’s I remain a hermit in my apartment Culture and other odd jobs. After — of our post-college whereabouts Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig grand jury to see that Professor collection and bought him a gag distinctive driving, twisting, left- except when I come out to sing and injuring his arm, Richard went and achievements. As we close our It was with deep sadness that I Selig was seated among them. Of gift, a chemistry set, and he said, handed shooting. dance for NYU’s Law Revue (it’s like Sarah Chai home to Baltimore to heal. While last chapter as undergraduates, read of Professor Karl-Ludwig course, he could not vote in the “This is how it all started.” We also David Berger ’50 The Varsity Show but lawyerier). Also, c/o CCT there, he took photographs during may we reflect on our four years of Selig’s passing [Spring 2013, case; I learned from colleagues presented him a bottle of Scotch, Madison, Wis. congratulations to Fran Bodomo, 12 Columbia Alumni Center his walks, especially to and from study including the Core, countless “Around the Quads”]. Like count- that he was quite an inquisitive, to which he replied, “And this is who is presenting the short film she 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 physical therapy, later processing hours in Butler and the hard-earned less other students, I considered analytical juror. what it all led to.” Tuskegee Experiment wrote and directed, Boneshaker, at New York, NY 10025 and printing his works in a friend’s sunny afternoons on the lawns. Our him my favorite professor. More- We would see or speak to each I have since learned how fa- A comment on the letter from my film festivals all over the country, [email protected] darkroom. The photographs have appreciation of and connection to over, he made me feel, as he did other from time to time in later mous his career was from an early classmate Donald Marcus ’55 including Sundance. Boneshaker stars been compiled into a book, Balti­ Columbia will remain in our memo- many others, as if I were his favor- years, and I attended the rowing age, and my chemistry department [Spring 2013]. I believe he is re- Quvenzhané Wallis of Beasts of the It’s been a full year since we more, Bound, which will be out this ries, knowledge and relationships, ite student. I know and was forever team’s first celebration in his honor. friend borrowed that issue from ferring to the Tuskegee Syphilis Southern Wild fame.” crossed the stage at South Lawn in year or next. In January, Richard and our involvement in the CCAA grateful that he promoted my elec- As Professor Selig’s physical health me with gratitude. I contacted Pro- Experiment when he talks about As always, some final words those Columbia blue graduation returned to New York, staying will provide us with an important tion to Phi Beta Kappa. declined, he expressed concern fessor Breslow about a decade ago, blacks purposely being given from Chris Yim: “In the past few robes — a year filled with exciting with Alex Calhoun ’11 and Alex’s community for years to come. I had Professor Selig for my over the fate of his treasured books; and he replied that he remembered syphilis. In this study started in weeks, I have quit my job, packed experiences like touring with a wife, Nora Nicholson Calhoun ’10, As your class correspondent, second semester of Lit Hum — his I tried to reassure him. There came that year’s class. With hindsight, 1932, a group of rural black men my bags and driven cross-country band, airing radio stories nation- in Queens. He worked another I am excited to share your news legendary course on Cervantes’ a time when I said that he could finishing my 40th year as a profes- with syphilis were being fol- to begin a start-up accelerator in the ally and spending time abroad! textbook rush at Book Culture and and stories through this column. Don Quixote — and an individual benefit from a hearing aid, and he sor myself, I only wish, as a stu- lowed to study the natural his- Bay Area. I moved out here with a Hannah D’Apice is finish- installed the show NYC 1993: Ex­ Whether you are volunteering in a tutorial in which I read a different got very upset. Our contact dimin- dent, I had come to know more of tory of the disease. The problem former roommate, Zak Ringelstein ing her first year with Teach for perimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star lesser-developed country, working significant text each week. I was ished. I greatly regret that — I my Columbia professors as more was that when penicillin was ’08, to help him build his company America in Dallas, where she at the New Museum. Richard was into the night as a newly hired quite anxious one morning, run- blame myself. I so wish that Profes- than just my classroom teachers. found to be an effective treatment United Classrooms (uclass.org). teaches sixth-grade world history. in London as of this writing. analyst or road-tripping across the ning late for the tutorial, until I sor Selig could hear me now, for Bill Stark ’69 in the late 1940s, it was not of- UClass is a Facebook-era platform She is a corps member leader for After traveling last summer, United States, please let me know spotted him sitting across from me I would convey, once more, that St. Louis fered to the men and they contin- that connects classrooms around TFA’s regional programming and Laura Ly is back in New York City, what you are up to! Send me a on the subway, equally late and he was the quintessential teacher ued untreated in the study until the world, preparing the students of has become involved in local edu- working in the newsroom at CNN. message by email or via CCT’s easy- fully enjoying a jelly doughnut. whose influence on me is enduring Norman Dorsen ’50 1972. While this was not much today for the globalized world that cation reform as a volunteer and She shares, “It’s a fast-paced blur of to-use webform (college.columbia. Professor Selig and my Viennese and ever endearing. It was good to read the article about better ethically, they were not they will graduate into. Currently activist. She is teaching English in writing, researching, calling sources, edu/cct/submit_class_note) so mother delighted in talking to Gary J. Galperin ’77 Norman Dorsen ’50 [Spring 2013]. given syphilis, as appears to be we are crashing in the bedroom of Indonesia this summer as part of a reporting stories and assisting with your updates may be shared with each other in German, and he New York City I’d like to add a detail of his basket- commonly believed. Wikipedia our other former roommate, Varun school partnership program. day-to-day television news produc- your classmates and friends. loved that they both were epi- ball prowess, a memory I’ve carried has a good account of the history. Gulati ’10E, and he’ll join the team Peng Deng spent the past year tion. I’ve been in the newsroom Congratulations on this immense cures. Years later, Professor Selig Pride of the Lions top-of-mind for 65 years. Bill Mink ’55 as well. It’s an exciting new start, in New York working at Sive, for stories such as snowstorm achievement and have a great sum- joined us and another professor I enjoyed the coverage of Professor We, the Columbia junior var- Napa, Calif. picking up and leaving the city that Paget & Riesel, an environmental Nemo, New York Fashion Week, mer, wherever it takes you! for dinner and discourse in my [Ronald] Breslow (Winter 2012–13). sity, were playing an away game. I had grown to love. I will miss you, law firm, and OasesRE, a real the presidential inauguration, even home, an evening that he dubbed I had him for organic chemistry On that unfamiliar court, Dorsen

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