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14 Trail Blazer 20 Loyal to His Core Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L is breaking As a Columbia teacher, scholar and ground as the first female CEO of alumnus, Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 United Way of . GSAS has long exemplified the highest

By Yelena Shuster ’09 standards of character and service.

By Jamie Katz ’72, ’80 Business

26 ’ Music Man 34 Passport to After 25 years in NOLA, Scott Aiges ’86 Students intern in Mumbai, among is dedicated to preserving and other global sites, via Columbia promoting its musical traditions. Experience Overseas.

By Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts By Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA

Front cover: After participating in a United Way of New York City read-aloud program at the Mott Haven Public Library in the Bronx, Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L takes time out to visit a community garden in the neighborhood. PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR BACK COVER: PHOTO: ARNOLD BROWNE ’78 DEPARTMENTS ALUMNI NEWS

3 Message from the 45 Message from the 49 Obituaries Dean CCAA President Celebrating the achievements Fund volunteers link 52 Class Notes of current and former alumni to the College. 79 Alumni Sons and students. Daughters 46 Bookshelf Alumni Profiles 4 Letters to the Featured: Hothouse: The Art 68 Frank Snepp ’65, of Survival and the Survival Editor ’68 SIPA of Art at America’s Most 90 Melinka Thompson- Celebrated Publishing House, 5 Within the Family Godoy ’98 12 Roar, Lion, Roar Farrar Straus & Giroux by Boris Kachka ’97, ’98J. 94 Jeffrey Lee ’01 6 Around the Quads Football heads into new sea- Joel I. Klein ’67 will be son with a new look. presented the 2013 Alexander Hamilton Medal. 38 Columbia Forum: The Universe Within Exploring the history of rocks, planets and people. By Neil Shubin ’82

Boris Kachka ’97, ’98J Ana Núñez ’11 104 Alumni Corner Ana Núñez ’11 describes Joel I. Klein ’67 PHOTO: JAEGERSLOAN building bridges between cultures in East Hampton schools.

Like Columbia College Alumni on Facebook: facebook.com/alumnicc WEB EXTRAS Thank you to our Fiscal Year 2013 donors. Follow @Columbia_CCAA View a photo from Convocation. on Watch a concert by the ensemble L’Arpeggiata featuring music by Claudio Monteverdi Join the Columbia Alumni and his contemporaries. Association Network on LinkedIn: alumni. college.columbia.edu/cct columbia.edu/linkedin MESSAGE FROM DEAN JAMES J. VALENTINI Celebrating the Achievements Of Current and Former Students

ast year, I traveled around the Aap Women’s Collective, AZB & Partners, world to meet alumni, parents, Infosys Limited, Kotak Mahindra Bank, students and friends of Colum- the Marg Foundation, Mumbai Mobile bia College and to introduce Creches and Spencer Stuart. Several of myself formally as dean. I at- these students had the opportunity to at- Ltended College alumni receptions in Lon- tend a U.S. State Department event with don, and San Francisco; met Secretary of State John Kerry in June and newly admitted early decision students in one of these students, Doreen Moham- ; visited current students studying med ’15, a human rights major and pre- at in ; and attended “Co- med student, was featured on a segment lumbia 101” summer advising events in about the Passport to India effort on BBC Beijing, and . And dur- Hindi in early August (bbc.co.uk/hindi/ ing my travels, I became more and more multimedia/2013/08/130802_passport_ impressed by the passion, intelligence and sr_ak.shtml). achievements of our current and former My goal for the College this year, start- students — all 51,803 of you. ing with this issue of CCT, is for us to cel- I met two alumni in Beijing who were ebrate the outstanding achievements of so inspired by their study abroad experi- all our students, current and former. We ence in Asia that they returned to China to are building a new feature on the Col- start a college advising company. I spoke lege website that will be populated with to one in Paris who started out as a waiter stories, photos and videos by students and now owns a film company. And I vis- that showcase the creativity, talents and ited another in San Francisco who began PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO accomplishments of our student body, his career as an assistant football coach and we are enhancing the alumni section and has been the CEO of several major software companies. of our website to better feature and connect College alumni. That’s what this issue of Columbia College Today is about: (Stay tuned for details on both.) We are also busy updating our the amazing accomplishments of our outstanding former stu- Columbia College and Columbia College Alumni Facebook dents. This issue includes three features about College alumni: pages and Twitter feeds with photos, news items and posts Wm. Theodore “Ted” de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS, related to members of our unique and distinc- an East Asian studies pioneer, longtime profes- Find the College tive community, so please “Like” and follow sor and all-around distinguished Columbian; us if you have not done so already (see box Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L, the first female CEO on Social Media at left), and continue to share news about your of United Way of New York City; and Scott FACEBOOK own successes with us via email at ccalumni@ Aiges ’86, director of programs, communica- columbia.edu. tions and marketing for The New Orleans Jazz Columbia College You may have heard me say that Columbia & Heritage Foundation. facebook.com/ College is the greatest college in the greatest uni- This issue also features an article about how columbiacollege1754 versity in the greatest city in the world. I want we are preparing our current students to be- Columbia College Alumni us all to celebrate what makes us the best — the come the alumni that a future issue of CCT facebook.com/alumnicc best students, current and former, in the world. may highlight — through one of our ongoing Roar, Lion(s), Roar! internship programs, Columbia Experience TWITTER Overseas. Sixty-four students worked abroad Columbia College in eight cities this past summer, including 11 in @CC_Columbia CEO’s new destinations of Mumbai and Ban- galore, India. With support from Citi and the Columbia College Alumni State Department’s Passport to India program, @Columbia_CCAA students were provided internships at Apne

FALL 2013 3 Letters to the Editor

ni have followed, including, by happen- Volume 41 Number 1 stance, Vogelzang. “My heart leapt” at the Fall 2013 chance to race again at the Head of the

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Charles Regatta, she said. Alex Sachare ’71 Thanks in part to Darrow’s inspiration, the Columbia women’s varsity has a new EXECUTIVE EDITOR boat to race in Boston this year — another Lisa Palladino fruit of Darrow’s knack for inducing oth- MANAGING EDITOR ers to give back to the sport and the school Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts they love. As many as four alumni boats EDITORIAL ASSISTANT will be used by Columbia crews. Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard The moment will be joyful but bitter­ sweet, laden with the memory of our friend. FORUM EDITOR Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard John E. Mulligan III ’72 McLean, Va. CONTRIBUTING WRITER Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA Help Out the Band EDITORIAL INTERN The Pony Ballet The Columbia University Band Alumni Karl Daum ’15 What a pleasant surprise to turn to page 57 Association has launched a drive to help

DESIGN CONSULTANT [Summer 2013] and come face to face with the CU Marching Band beef up its store of Jean-Claude Suarès that bunch of bums from the 1940 Varsity instruments for student musicians. Show! We look better than I remember — I If you’re ready to admit that you won’t ART DIRECTOR am second from the left. be playing the old horn any more, or if you Gates Sisters Studio The Pony Ballet ruled in those days … have a spare, CUBAA would love to have CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS nobody bigger than we were. And when it for the band. We’re also hoping to fund Eileen Barroso we threw them a bump, the whole audi- repairs for some of the band’s limping in- Gene Boyars ence would cave in. strument inventory and buy some needed Natalie Keyssar Thank you for the reminder, and for instruments as well as band supplies such your great magazine! as drumsticks, reeds, mouthpieces and Published quarterly by the C. Ogden Beresford ’43 music folders. CUBAA recently received its Columbia College Office of Allendale, N.J. 501(c)(3) charitable organization status and Alumni Affairs and Development for alumni, students, faculty, parents and can provide a tax letter for all donations. friends of Columbia College. Remembering Peter Darrow ’72 For more information or to donate, go

SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, I recently had a flashback to Columbia, to columbiabandalumni.org. COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS circa 1970, when a young alumna recently Samantha Rowan ’96 Barnard AND COMMUNICATIONS recalled how Peter Darrow ’72 had ad- New York City Bernice Tsai ’96 dressed the Alpha Delta Phi house while Address all correspondence to: she was in charge. WWII & NYC Columbia College Today Darrow, who died last spring after a With interest, I read “Columbia Forum: Columbia Alumni Center distinguished law career, “came to us very WWII & NYC” [Summer 2013] by Profes- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. New York, NY 10025 much as the steadying hand,” recalled sor Kenneth T. Jackson. It mentions “Todd 212-851-7852 Caylei Vogelzang ’03. The former AD presi- Shipyards in ’s Erie Basin had Email (editorial): [email protected]; dent told the undergraduates they owed a 19,617 employees in 1943 … ” (advertising): [email protected]. legacy to future generations at Columbia. My grandfather, Charles Gilbride, work- Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and facebook.com/alumnicc. That’s the kind of Darrow pep talk that ed at Todd’s through the Depression; once drew jeers from those of us college most of his sons also worked at Todd’s. ISSN 0572-7820 buddies who were too cool to wash the In the 1970s, the chairman of the board of Opinions expressed are those of the windows or sweep the front stoop. authors and do not reflect official positions of Columbia College But Darrow defeated our cynicism with CCT welcomes letters from readers about or Columbia University. his relentless generosity. He kept up with articles in the magazine but cannot print or personally respond to all letters received. © 2013 Columbia College Today the retired cook at our fraternity until the All rights reserved. old man died. He campaigned for the ad- Letters express the views of the writers mission of women to AD in the 1990s. He and not CCT, the College or the University. helped transform the faded brownstone Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. into “the jewel of 114th Street.” All letters are subject to editing for space and clarity. Please direct letters for publi- Seven years ago, Darrow reunited his cation “to the editor” via mail or online: college crew at ’s answer to the college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. Boston Marathon. Younger rowing alum-

FALL 2013 4 WITHIN THE FAMILY BY EDITOR ALEX SACHARE ’71 Recalling a Member of the CCT Family

hen I was younger, the phrase “untimely illustrations to the editorial pages of The Gray Lady, and his work death” always struck me as off-kilter. Are “helped guide the paper into a new visual era and influenced not all deaths untimely, I thought? Wouldn’t other newspapers and magazines,” according to his Times obitu- everyone want to wake up to another re- ary. He was the design director for New York Magazine, founder markable sunrise, listen to a favorite piece of and creative director of 7 Days and POZ magazines, and oversaw musicW one more time or celebrate another family milestone? redesigns for Variety, Publisher’s Weekly, Broadcasting & Cable and As I grew older, I realized that as sad as it seems and as pain- Military History. His drawings appeared on the covers of The ful as the loss might be in the moment, some deaths are timely. New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and he designed countless My mother lived to be 99, but by the end she illustrated books, including many about cats had outlived all her friends, was in constant and dogs. He worked with Jacqueline Ken- pain and could no longer get out of bed and to nedy Onassis at Doubleday, designing Michael her wheelchair without assistance. She couldn’t Jackson’s autobiography, Moonwalk, and later even read the pages of her son’s magazine, and writing (with J. Spencer Beck) Uncommon Grace: had reached the point where every night she Reminiscences and Photographs of Jacqueline Bou- prayed for God to take her. When I got the call vier Kennedy Onassis. that she had died, I was saddened, of course, Suarès was introduced to this magazine, but somehow relieved that she was at peace. according to former editor Jamie Katz ’72, ’80 In August I read of a colleague/mentor who Business, after photographer Arnold Browne ’78 at 90 had to be moved to a nursing home by his convinced Katz that it was time to bring in a loving wife, having been robbed by Alzheimer’s pro to give CCT a better look. Another photog- of any memory of the myriad books he edited/ rapher, Leslie Jean-Bart ’76, ’77J, recommended published or the countless lives he touched. I can Suarès, and his first cover forCCT appeared in only wonder about the so-called quality of his Winter 1992–93 and marked the 10th anniver- life at this stage. sary of coeducation at the College. Suarès be- The passing of Jean-Claude Suarès on July Jean-Claude “JC” Suarès, 1942–2013 came CCT’s design consultant with the Winter 30, after a brief illness at 71, was a most un- PHOTO: NINA DURAN 1994–95 issue and, working with our art direc- timely death. JC, as everyone called him, was tor, Gates Sisters Studio, had been responsible the design consultant for this magazine for nearly two decades. for the look and design of the magazine ever since. More than that, he was a force of nature, a man who changed Suarès’ sudden death came as a shock; at the time, he already the air pressure in a room upon entering. “What have you got?” was working on several of the stories that appear in this issue. he would ask when I’d call to discuss the cover of an upcoming The CCT family extends its condolences to Nina Duran, his wife issue, but whether I had something good for him to work with of 33 years, and to all who were affected by his passing. We hope or not, he invariably came up with a strong cover and continu- he is riding one of his beloved polo ponies right now in a better ally “tweaked” it until it was just what he envisioned. place, and thinking about his next design project. Suarès was a designer and illustrator who seemed to know ev- eryone in the publishing world, and worked everywhere. He was the first art director of ’ Op-Ed page, bringing

Todd’s, John T. Gilbride ’39 Penn, handed ple in Brooklyn knew my name because I read Kenneth T. Jackson’s book excerpt, me a history of Todd Shipyards. Like the they had been employed at Todd Ship- “Columbia Forum: WWII & NYC” [Sum- Gilbride family, Todd Shipyards had its yards during WWII. It’s good to recall the mer 2013], with interest. roots in Brooklyn. While Todd’s also had tremendous work ethic of that generation, Dr. John Dunning (pictured, page 45), as- yards in Charleston, Mobile, New Or- with hope that leaders in Washington real- sociate dean of physics at Columbia, recruit- leans, , Los Angeles, San Fran- ize the contributions work and jobs have ed my father, Khatchik O. Donelian ’36E, cisco, , Tacoma and Portland, the on society. ’37E, to join the scientific staff in 1941 in what main yards in Brooklyn traced its history John T. Gilbride wrote in Todd Shipyards became known as the Project. to John Ericcson’s creation of the Monitor In Peace and War: “We subscribe to the My father worked on an early version at the Delameter iron works. American dream of a contented and pros- of Dunning’s cyclotron and, later, as the The Brooklyn yards are now history. I perous family of nations.” chief project engineer on the development still live in Brooklyn but will never forget Michael Gilbride ’76 of the gaseous diffusion process that was how when I returned from Columbia, peo- Brooklyn, N.Y. (Continued on page 103)

FALL 2013 5 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS 2013 Alexander Hamilton Medal To Be Presented to Klein

Clinton from 1993–95. He entered the Clinton administration after 20 years of public and private legal work in Washington, D.C. (See feature, Fall 2012 CCT.) Klein graduated magna cum laude from the College and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law in 1971, also magna cum laude. He has received honorary de- grees from Amherst, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Fordham Law, Georgetown Law Center, Ma- caulay Honors College at CUNY, Manhattanville, New York Law, Pace and St. John’s School of Education. He was selected by Time Magazine as one of “Ten People Who Mattered” in 1999, by U.S. News & World Report as “One of America’s 20 Best Lead- ers” in 2006, and was given the prestigious NYU Lewis Rudin Award in 2009 and the Manhat- Joel I. Klein ’67 is CEO of the Education Division (now called Amplify) and EVP at News Corp. PHOTO: MICHAEL BRANDS tan Institute’s Alexander Hamil- ton Award in 2011. oel I. Klein ’67 will be presented Klein became Amplify’s CEO and Klein has been and remains the 2013 Alexander Hamilton News Corp.’s EVP in January 2011. Prior active in Columbia University affairs. Medal on Thursday, November 14, to that, he was chancellor of the New While chancellor of NYC’s public schools, at the Alexander Hamilton Award York City Department of Education, working with President Lee C. Bollinger, Dinner, an annual black-tie event where he oversaw a system of more than he opened a new secondary school in Har- in Low Rotunda. The medal, the 1,600 schools with 1.1 million students, lem that Columbia is supporting. He also Jhighest honor paid to a member 136,000 employees and a $22 billion bud- served on the University’s Manhattanville of the Columbia College community, is get. In 2002, as chancellor, Klein launched Ad-Hoc Planning Committee and is cur- awarded by the Columbia College Alum- Children First, a comprehensive reform rently helping to develop the Mortimer B. ni Association to an alumnus/a or faculty strategy that has brought coherence and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. member for distinguished service to the capacity to the system and resulted in sig- He is married to Nicole Seligman, College and accomplishment in any field nificant increases in student performance. EVP/GC of Corp. and president of of endeavor. A former chairman and CEO of the U.S. Sony Corp. of America, and has a daugh- Klein, CEO of the Education Division arm of Bertelsmann, a global media com- ter, Julia, who is pursuing her doctorate in (now called Amplify) and EVP at News pany, Klein was Assistant U.S. Attorney philosophy. Corp., as well as a member of News General in charge of the Antitrust Division For more information on the dinner, Corp.’s Board of Directors, received a John of the U.S. Department of Justice from contact Robin V. Del Giorno, associate Jay Award for distinguished professional October 1996–September 2000 and was director, College events and programs: achievement in 2002. Deputy Counsel to President [email protected] or 212-851-7399.

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Columbia College Fund Exceeds FY13 Goal, Raises $17.2 Million

he Columbia College Fund sary class. The reunion Class of 1993 set and to have their gifts matched 1:1 by an exceeded its $16.8 million goal a reunion record as well, for most funds alumnus/a. for Fiscal Year 2013 and set a raised by any 20th reunion class. To make a gift to the Columbia College T record for giving to the Col- The Class of 2013 Senior Fund raised Fund in FY14, give by credit card at college. lege, raising more than $17.2 million. A more than $25,700, the most of any senior columbia.edu/giveonline or by calling the total of 11,908 alumni, parents, students class in Columbia College history. More Alumni Office at 212-851-7488; or mail a and friends of the College contributed than 750 students donated to the Senior check, payable to Columbia College Fund, to to the fund, which raises money for Fund and 293 signed up for the Dean’s Columbia College Fund, Columbia Alumni financial aid, the Core Curriculum, stu- 3-2-1 Challenge, pledging to give for three Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., dent services and summer internship years, to ask two friends to do the same New York, NY 10025. stipends. The FY13 total includes dona- tions received from July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013. Convocation 2013 The College community participated olumbia College welcomed 1,098 new enthusiastically in Columbia’s first Giv- students and their families to the ing Day on October 24, with more than CColumbia community at Convocation 900 donors raising $1.28 million, the on August 26. The ceremony featured remarks most of any school at Columbia. This by President Lee C. Bollinger and Dean James helped the College win the Giving Day J. Valentini, among others. The ceremony began Trustee Challenge, earning an addition- with a parade of students carrying the nearly al $98,000 in matching funds. 200 flags of the home states and countries of The reunion Class of 1988 gave the the entire College and Engineering undergradu- ate student body, including the 48 states and largest reunion gift ever: $2.7 million in 51 countries represented in the Class of 2017. unrestricted support and $19.88 million in It was followed by the Alumni Procession at total gifts to Columbia. The reunion Class Convocation, in which alumni marched with of 1963 presented a $1.98 million Class banners representing the decades of their Gift to the fund — the largest reunion PHOTO: SYDNEY SCHWARTZ GROSS ’05J graduation. Class Gift ever given by a 50th anniver-

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Giuseppe Gerbino is an time when opera emerged as a object that cannot be observed especially by the Red Army associate professor of music, form of musical theatre. the way a painting can, or Choir and Band. Their perfor- specializing in Renaissance whose temporal directionality mance style and repertory can music, and also chairs the What do you enjoy about cannot be controlled the way be hauntingly evocative and Department of Music. Born teaching Music Humanities? we do with a book when we terrifying at the same time. and raised near Brescia, First of all, the fact that you flip back and forth between Italy, Gerbino earned his un- have students from so many pages. What’s your favorite place dergraduate degree at the different backgrounds. It’s One advantage, though, is to be? University of Pavia, and both very satisfying to discuss mu- that the emotional response to I’ve always had a bit of an his master’s in music and sic with them in a way that music allows you to get into attraction for the mountains. Ph.D. in musicology at Duke. doesn’t necessarily require contact or in touch with it in But if I were to pick a city I He has worked at Columbia knowledge of music theory an instinctive and profound would say New York. I find since 2001 and was honored and instead explores music as single act of perception. At the synergy between Colum- this year with a Lenfest Dis- a fundamental aspect of the that point you can begin to ask bia and the city to be unique. tinguished Faculty Award. human experience. The sheer yourself: “Why am I reacting The experience of living in a city like New York How did you become changes you deeply — interested in music? Five Minutes with ... Giuseppe Gerbino the same way a great I began to study piano piece of music or a when I was pretty young but variety of the music we study to this piece this way?” The great book can change you my training in high school in Music Humanities, from music may sound alien at first forever. I fell in love with the was in classics, Greek and the Middle Ages to the 21st but what is important is that it city and the institution from Latin. Partly because of that, century, is a great tribute to was meaningful to the people day one and, after 12 years, I I developed an interest in the the human imagination. who created it, shared it and think it’s still the honeymoon. legacy of classical antiquity The other thing I love is the performed it. And that’s when and therefore the Renaissance interdisciplinary spirit under- the discussion takes off. To watch a concert Gerbino as a historical period during lying the Core Curriculum. As recommends, by the ensemble which classical antiquity I see it, the four components of What other undergraduate L’Arpeggiata and featuring provided the foundation of a the Western Core are not four courses do you teach? music by Claudio Monteverdi body of knowledge and phi- independent courses: litera- One that I love — which is (1567–1643) and his contem- losophy that affected the way ture, philosophy, art history open to all undergraduates re- poraries, go to Web Extras at European thought developed and music. Rather, they are gardless of their musical back- college.columbia.edu/cct. from that point on. I began to inextricably intertwined points ground — is called “Music study musicology in college, of entry into the intellectual and Myth.” It is a study of the Interview: Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts which allowed me to combine life of the West through four musical adaptation of classical Photo: Eileen Barroso these two passions, music fundamental manifestations mythology in Western culture. and classical antiquity, in their of human behavior: the lin- I usually choose five myths to historical convergence in the guistic, the abstract thinking, study in detail, for example, Italian Renaissance. the visual and the auditory. Stravinsky’s post-WWI, It’s fascinating to observe the neoclassical oratorio “Oedi- What characterizes music of same object from these four pus rex” or Prometheus and the Renaissance? points of view — almost as a Beethoven’s third symphony. My work focuses on the “quadridimensional” object — I also teach the first semester century and a half from 1500 and it’s the synergy among the of the music history survey to 1650. Probably the most four components of the Core for the major and a course on important type of music that that makes teaching any one of Bach’s vocal music, one of my was in fashion at the time them such a stimulating and favorite composers. was a rather complex form of rewarding experience. polyphony — which is to say, What music on your music for multiple indepen- Do you find that students iPod would students dent voices, both secular and from nonmusical back- be surprised to sacred. Later, as you reach the grounds are intimidated by know you have? end of the Renaissance and the Music Humanities? Perhaps the most beginning of the 17th century, Sometimes, yes. Music is an unusual item on a renewed interest in the ex- ephemeral object; it unfolds my playlist is pressive power of the human in time, and it is never present a collection of voice led to the emergence of a in front of you in its entirety songs from the new style of solo singing and in any tangible way. It’s not so former So- vocal virtuosity. This is also the easy to grasp the nature of an viet Union,

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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS n Peter Zimroth ’63 was chosen in August n Tom Kitt ’96 (music) and Brian Yorkey Plimpton and earlier as a federal prosecu- as the court-appointed monitor for the ’93 (book and lyrics), who wrote the Pulit- tor in Manhattan. He will share the SEC New York Police Department’s controver- zer Prize- and Tony Award-winning 2009 enforcement role with George S. Canellos, sial stop-and-frisk policies, charged with musical Next to Normal, are scheduled to who had been acting as interim enforce- ensuring they are conducted in accordance be back on Broadway in Spring 2014 with ment chief. with Fourth Amendment rights barring If/Then, a romantic musical about “how illegal searches. Zimroth, a former chief choice and chance collide and how we n Victor Cahn ’69 has written a new deputy prosecutor with extensive experi- learn to love the fallout,” according to its play, A Dish for the Gods, which will be ence in both the public and private sec- website, ifthenthemusical.com. The show presented Off-Broadway at The Lion tors, will develop and oversee near-term also will mark the Broadway return of Theatre on Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd St., reforms, including changes to the NYPD’s Idina Menzel, who won a Tony Award for from Saturday, September 14–Saturday, policies and training. Wicked. October 5. Produced by Rachel Reiner Zimroth was quoted in The New York If/Then focuses on a woman about to Productions, the play, which is about a Times as saying his work as the city’s top turn 40 who moves to New York intent on celebrated writer and the challenges she lawyer gave him “tremendous respect for making a fresh start, and how even small faced, the painful choices she made and the Police Department, not just the depart- decisions and random occurrences have the tumultuous relationship she shared ment in the abstract but for the people an impact on her world in ways she never with the man she loved, is directed by who serve the city and protect us.” But, he dreamt possible. It is slated to begin pre- Adam Fitzgerald and features Margot added, “at the same time, I have always view performances in Washington, D.C., White and Kevin Cristaldi. believed that effective law enforcement is in November. very important — it’s crucial — but so is n Carly Hugo ’06, an independent film the need for law enforcement officials to n Andrew J. Ceresney ’93 has been named producer and the co-founder of the film act within the law and the Constitution. co-head of the enforcement division of the production company Loveless, recently And I don’t think they are in conflict.” Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC produced Andrew Dosunmu’s acclaimed chair Mary Jo White announced. Ceresney film, Mother of George. The film portrays previously worked with White as both a the struggles of a West African immigrant corporate defense lawyer at Debevoise & living in Brooklyn and won the Cinema-

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Zahra Bhaiwala ’14 Combines Interests In Health and the Middle East

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ike so many who discover editor-in-chief of the Columbia new callings as undergradu- Undergraduate Science Journal, ates, Zahra Bhaiwala ’14 en- also spent summers 2010 and rolled in the College looking 2011 as a paid intern at Harvard, to prepare for medical school where she searched for correla- Lbut now has a new dream of address- tions between genetic ing conflict-related public health issues and birth defects in mice. in the Middle East. The Andover, Mass., native, Bhaiwala took a transitional step in who majors in biological sciences that direction this past summer as a paid and Middle Eastern, South Asian analyst in Pfizer’s Global Outcomes Re- and African studies, chose the search department, where she reviewed College largely due to her regard existing literature on the worldwide for those departments. “My inter- incidence and financial burden of bone ests in politics, international pol- demineralization and renal problems icy and culture, combined with in HIV patients. Using economic mod- my interest in health care, have eling, she projected the cost of such grown,” says Bhaiwala, citing the Zahra Bhaiwala ’14 is interested in health chal- complications. Ahmed Shelbaya ’01 PH, recent prevalence of birth defects lenges in the Middle East. director of global outcomes research in Iraq, which some believe is PHOTO: MUSTAFA HAMEED ’11, ’13J at Pfizer and a lecturer at the Mailman the result of war pollutants, as an School of Public Health, was impressed example of an issue she hopes to Cusco, Peru, respectively. Both volunteer with the approach Bhaiwala brought to delve into. “I’ve realized that the health trips were organized by the Columbia her assignment. “Zahra is passionate of a population is not just heart rate or University American Medical Students about global health,” he says. “She is blood pressure; you have to look at the Association–Premedical Chapter. concerned about the underserved and whole person, the whole society.” As co-chair of the chapter’s global vulnerable of the world. She is engaged Bhaiwala, the daughter of a Pakistani health committee, a position she has with what is happening politically, mother and an Indian father, has been held since her junior year, Bhaiwala economically and culturally around the fascinated by the Middle East since helped create a global health curricu- world, and she is culturally fluent.” high school, when she, her parents and lum that chapter members teach to After three years of scientific research younger brother embarked on a leisure middle school students at the Double as an intern at P&S and Harvard Medi- tour of Egypt, Jordan, and Discovery Center of Columbia College cal School, Bhaiwala sought more macro . During her freshman year in the once a week during the school year. She level analysis at Pfizer. “I realized my College, while on winter break, she ac- also is active with the Columbia Uni- interest in healthcare is not the scientific companied her family on a pilgrimage versity Muslim Students Association aspect,” she says. “The questions I was to the Imam Ali Mosque and the Shrine and, since June 2012, has tutored re- asking had to do with structural prob- of Imam Hussein ibn Ali in Iraq. “I man- cently incarcerated young men for the lems. How does poverty contribute to a aged to sneak out when we weren’t GED exam through Getting Out and healthcare system? What problems do doing anything and talk to people, Staying Out, an NYC nonprofit. vaccine campaigns run into?” which was fun,” recalls Bhaiwala, who Several times a semester, Bhaiwala While with P&S during her first attended an Islamic grade school where performs at campus events with CU three years in the College, Bhaiwala she achieved proficiency in Arabic. Sur, a South Asian student a cappella investigated noninvasive diagnostics “I felt really at home in a lot of those group. During her free time, she enjoys techniques for glioblastoma, the most countries. That sparked an interest for exploring the city’s ethnic neighbor- common and aggressive type of ma- me and I started following politics and hoods. “I love that you can step on the lignant brain tumor, and researched international affairs in that region.” subway and every few stops you are in the role that T cells and their receptors Bhaiwala, who grew up speaking a different demographic,” she says. play in the cancer’s development. In Urdu and Hindi and is fluent in Spanish, 2012, she received a Summer Under- also spent her freshman and sophomore Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a graduate Research Fellowship from the spring breaks taking patient information freelance journalist and an editorial pro- department of biological sciences to and performing triage at free medical ducer for LasMayores.com, Major League support that research. Bhaiwala, now clinics in La Antigua, Guatemala and ’s official Spanish language website.

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Disrupt NY 2013 competition. Marc executive producer of Watch What Hap- DaCosta ’06 and Hicham Oudghiri ’06 pens: Live, The Millionaire Matchmaker and founded Enigma in 2012 along with Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. Prior to joining Jeremy Bronfmann and Raphaël Guil- Bravo, Lehrer managed East Coast de- leminot. The web service allows users to velopment for VH1, was executive assis- search data from more than 100,000 pub- tant to Michael Ovitz at Artists Manage- licly available but hard-to-obtain sources. ment Group and was executive assistant TechCrunch, a news website focused on to George Stephanopoulos ’82 at ABC information technology companies, has News. In 2008, Lehrer was named as one hosted TechCrunch Disrupt annually of Multichannel News’ top executives in since 2011 in San Francisco and Beijing its 40 Under 40 issue. as well as New York. In this year’s New York competition, 30 technology startups n John Martin Cochran ’09 won the competed before a panel of venture capi- CBS reality show competition Survivor: tal investors and media. Caramoan, defeating Dawn Meehan and Sherri Biethman in a unanimous 8–0–0 n Eli Lehrer ’99, former development vote in the season finale on May 12 to v.p. at Bravo, is now heading Lifetime’s become the Sole Survivor. Cochran, who nonfiction development in the newly previously competed on Survivor: South created position of s.v.p. and head of Pacificand is a self-described superfan of Carly Hugo ’06 PHOTO: KRISTIN GLADNEY non-scripted development. Lehrer, who the series, was only the second player in assumed the position on July 8, was Survivor’s 26 seasons to play a “perfect tography Award in the U.S. Dramatic responsible for developing the Bravo game,” receiving no votes against him at Competition of the 2013 Sundance Film series Flipping Out, The Real Housewives Tribal Council and winning the jury vote Festival. Hugo also co-produced Acad- of New York City, The Rachel Zoe Project unanimously. emy Award nominee Vera Farmiga’s 2011 and The Real Housewives of D.C. and was directorial debut, Higher Ground, and is n Nicholas Fox Weber ’69, executive di- currently in production on HBO Docu- rector of the Josef & Anni Albers Founda- mentary Films’ documentary about the tion since 1979, has been named a cheva- late Nora Ephron, Everything is Copy. lier in ’s Order of Arts and Letters and will receive the honor in a ceremony n Robert Reffkin ’00, ’03 Business has in Paris on Wednesday, October 16. been named to Fast Company magazine’s In 2005, Fox Weber and the Josef & “100 Most Creative People in Business” Anni Albers Foundation established the list for 2013. Reffkin is the founder and American Friends of Le Korsa to further CEO of Urban Compass, an online real the work by Dr. Gilles Degois, a Paris- estate search startup, after previously based physician, to improve the quality working at Goldman Sachs, Lazard Frères of life in Senegal, one of the world’s poor- and McKinsey & Co. He helped found a est countries. Since 2011, AFLK has ex- charter school in the Bronx and launched panded the scope of its activities to help a not-for-profit, New York Needs You, construct medical centers and educational which finds mentors for students who are facilities that provide health services and the first in their families to go to college. learning opportunities to deep in the African bush where such facilities and n A company founded by two alumni Eli Lehrer ’99 programs were previously nonexistent. was named winner of the TechCrunch PHOTO: JORDAN STRAUSS, COURTESY OF LIFETIME Alex Sachare ’71

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FALL 2013 11 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Roar, Lion, Roar Football Unveils New Look

he 2013 Columbia football season brings with it something old and something new. As the revital- ized Baker Athletics Complex celebrates its 90th anniversary, the 2013 Lions will be sporting a mix of veterans and new players under second-year Tcoach Pete Mangurian — and unveiling new uniforms as well. “History tells you that your second season is when you make your biggest jump in a new program,” said Mangurian during the Ivy League Media Day teleconference in August. “Your players understand what you’re looking for and develop a work ethic. I think we’ve created competition at every position. … I also think we’re bigger, faster and more explosive than a year ago.” Columbia opens its season at Fordham on September 21, fol- lowed by the home opener against Monmouth on September 28. The Lions begin their Ivy schedule at Princeton on October 5, with Homecoming as a highlight on October 19 against pre- season Ivy favorite Penn. Seeing as the Lions seek to improve on last year’s 3–7 record (2–5 in Ivy competition) and will be doing so in new uniforms, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at Columbia The new look of the Lions: (left to right) Zach Olinger ’14, Seyi uniforms through the years. Adebayo ’14 and Hamilton Garner ’14

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Columbia student- Ivy League Ivy League Individual titles won athletes in spring individual titles won by Columbians since 2008–09 sports who earned by Columbians — the most in any five-year 10 Academic All-Ivy honors 17 in 2012–13 90 span in Columbia history FALL 2013 12 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ROAR, LION, ROAR

Homecoming 2013 Saturday, October 19, Columbia vs. Penn PICNIC, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Enjoy a barbecue buffet under the Big Tent before cheer- ing the Lions on to victory. Picnic tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children under 12 if purchased online at college.columbia.edu/alumni/homecoming by Thursday, October 17. Tickets also may be purchased on Saturday at the Big Tent ($22 for adults, $12 for children under 12). Each ticket includes an all-you-can-eat buffet, soft drinks and admission to the Columbia Homecoming Carnival. Beer, wine and cocktails will be available at an additional cost. There will also be limited cash-and-carry items. CARNIVAL, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. All members of the Columbia community, young, old and in between, are invited to participate in face painting, balloon-making, magic shows, games and interactive 1948 1978 activities. FOOTBALL, 1:30 p.m. To purchase tickets to the game, call 888-LIONS-11 or visit gocolumbialions.com/tickets. Premium chairback seats are $25; reserved bench seats are $15. Tickets also may be purchased at the Athletics Ticket Office on the fourth floor (campus level) of the Dodge Fitness Center or on game day at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium ticket windows 1, 2, 3 and 4. Tickets can be held at will call and picked up on game day at the stadium. GETTING THERE Baker Athletics Complex is located at 533 W. 218th St. (west of Broadway). Neighborhood parking is limited and preferred parking is avail- able only to those making quali- Save the fying gifts to Columbia Football. By subway, take the No. 1 train Date! to 215th Street or the A train to SEPTEMBER 21 Inwood – 207th St. (Note: Due to Football opener occasional service interruptions, at Fordham we suggest you check the MTA SEPTEMBER 28 website prior to travel: mta.info.) Football home opener vs. Complimentary shuttle buses Monmouth from the Morningside campus OCTOBER 3 1995 2011 will depart from the main gate Women’s at West 116th Street and Broad- Leadership Lionswear through the years: Opposite, lower left to right: 1905 team way starting 90 minutes prior to Council Fall Event picture; Cliff Montgomery ’34; George Kisiday ’48 TC. Above, clockwise kickoff and will return to campus OCTOBER 19 from upper left: Lou Kusserow ’49; Bruce Stephens ’78; Brian East ’14; immediately following the game. Homecoming, Wes Root ’01. football vs. Penn PHOTOS: COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS NOVEMBER 8 Women’s basket- ball opener at LIU For the latest news on Columbia athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. NOVEMBER 9 Years since the Football Columbia senior Men’s opening of the teams in student-athletes opener vs. Baker Athletics school who graduated Maryland-Eastern Shore 90 Complex 123 history 142 in May FALL 2013 13 Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L reads The Hungry Caterpillar during a United Way program at the Mott Haven Public Library in the Bronx. PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR TRAIL BLAZER

Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L is first female CEO of United Way of New York City

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s a 7-year-old, Sheena Wright ’90, ’94L watched on TV as her mother was arrested for protest- ing what she saw as racist tenure policies at Hunter College. A decade later, Wright fol- lowed in her mother’s marching footsteps and chained herself to Hamilton Hall to protest perceived racial inequality at Columbia. Now, at 43, Wright is still fighting to make a difference, except she’s traded in placards and chants for fundraising goals and board meetings. She no longer protests for social justice; instead, she executes it every day as the recently appointed CEO and presidentA of United Way of New York City. Wright is the first female to hold the title in the charity’s more than 70-year history. “The great thing about United Way is that it’s citywide. We touch about a million New Yorkers,” Wright says from her midtown office, which is decorated both with printouts of new mission statements and her 5-year-old son’s crayon drawings. “We are able to not only identify, fund and co-create significant programs but we’re also able to change policy that has an impact on systems and really can cause huge, wide-scale social change.” Wright knows the importa­nce of such relief programs. She grew up in the impoverished South Bronx during the height of the ’70s SHEENA WRIGHT ’90, ’94L COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

“My mom’s trajectory was just inspiring. Most people would think that’s it, your own life and your own success are over. Through her own striving, she demonstrated that no matter what your obstacles, you can persevere and reach your goals.”

crack epidemic with a single teen mom, who stood guard on their loved it. She was always excited to be there. She was very wide- stoop so that Sheena and her older sister, Tanya, could play out- eyed and ready to learn.” side. Undeterred by hardship, their mother, Debra Fraser-Howze, So much so that Wright woke up every morning grabbing not only finished high school but also earned a bachelor’s from books to read. “I had to make her stop reading so she would get Hunter and a master’s from Baruch. dressed,” recalls Fraser-Howze, who herself cooked with a pasta Fraser-Howze recalls asking herself, “Are you going to wind ladle in one hand and a book in the other. “We all knew she was up a statistic or are you going to get up and make things happen particularly gifted. She could breeze through something and go for you and your family?” in and ace the test. It was really remarkable.” She chose the latter. Fraser-Howze didn’t intend to let her daughter’s gifts go to “My mom’s trajectory was just inspiring,” Wright says. “Most waste. Wright was a student in the worst-performing school dis- people would think that’s it, your own life and your own success trict in the city until her mother intervened. Both sisters had out- are over. Through her own striving, she demonstrated to us that paced their peers in reading scores and Fraser-Howze petitioned no matter what your obstacles, you can persevere and reach your another school district to let them attend a high-performing mid- goals.” dle school in the North Bronx. The sisters commuted three hours Fraser-Howze devoted herself to activism, working first at the a day for the privilege of experiencing quality education for the New York Urban League and then founding the National Black first time. Both also signed up for a free after-school tennis pro- Leadership Commission on AIDS. “My mom took the issue head- gram sponsored by Pepsi. Wright turned out to be as skilled with on and said, ‘This will not be a death sentence for these members a racquet as she was with her No. 2 pencil. of our community.’ That’s just who she is,” Wright says. “And to The Pepsi executive leading the program, John Hoffman ’79 me, that’s an example of what I was supposed to do: to stand up GS, also happened to be recruiting a more diverse student body for those who have obstacles put in their path.” for George School, a Pennsylvania Quaker boarding school he had attended. He met Wright, who was already a year ahead of s early as 3 years old, Wright stood out. her peers in school, and was immediately impressed. “She was The precocious toddler sat in the back of her moth- this pint-sized little girl. She must have been 4-ft.-10, if that, brim- er’s Hunter College lecture, fitting right in at the “big ming with energy, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed,” he says. “It was ex- A people school” and even raising her hand to partici- traordinary how vibrant and mature she was for an 11-year-old, pate. “I remember touching her hair and saying ‘No, baby, you so I was sold.” The director of admissions hesitated because of can’t answer the questions,’” says Fraser-Howze, laughing. “She Wright’s age, but changed his mind after interviewing her. At 12, Wright enrolled in the high school with a full scholarship and quickly found her footing. In addition to her strong academic performance, she became the best runner on the girls’ varsity cross country team two weeks into her first year despite no prior experience.

right enrolled at Columbia before she was old enough to get a driver’s license. “She started at 16 and nobody would W have guessed it from the way she be- haved. She’s quite something,” recalls Roger Lehecka ’67, ’74 GSAS, who worked at the College for more than 30 years, the majority of the time as dean of students. “My main memory of Sheena is as a student leader. She brought people together because she was so charismatic. The ball of energy she is now, she always was.” In addition to lettering in varsity track and field and cross country, the history and sociology major was Class Day: Left to right, Hollee Freeman ’90; Dr. Michael Jones ’90, ’94 P&S; president of Delta Sigma Theta and head of the Cultural Wright; Gregory Gittens ’90; and Michelle Byrd ’91. Affairs Committee of the Black Students Organization. PHOTO COURTESY SHEENA WRIGHT ’90, ’94L Wright also co-founded the Pan-African House, a special

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Wright led the United Way of New York City’s relief efforts on Coney Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. PHOTO COURTESY UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY interest housing community devoted to raising awareness of who are walking around the greater Columbia community could diversity across the globe, especially apartheid in . aspire to,” Coleman says. “Those of us who were behind her saw “It was a great way to learn about organization and leadership her as a role model that we would strive to emulate. She was — how do you organize a collective around an issue and achieve strong and fiercely competitive on the track field, and she was results?” Wright says. equally competitive and equally strong academically, and just as The specific results she was after included more diversity in socially conscious.” the Core Curriculum and pushing Columbia to divest from com- panies that conducted business in South Africa. “We believed right’s Columbia education didn’t end at the Col- economic sanctions were a big driver in social change,” Wright lege. She returned to the Law School after a stint says. After a brawl outside student center Ferris Booth Hall in at The New York Times as an editorial assistant. De- 1987, she and fellow activists chained themselves to the entrance W spite enrolling with a 1-year-old son in tow, she of Hamilton Hall — a hallowed Columbia protest tradition. Their graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for outstanding aca- efforts spotlighted the need for greater multiculturalism, and Co- demic achievement. “Most people would have been defeated by lumbia announced an African-American studies major in 1987, that set of circumstances and she was not, which makes me think a policy of complete divestment from business in South Africa nothing will ever defeat Sheena,” says Lehecka. “If I ever needed in 1988 and the Major Cultures (now Global Core) requirement a lawyer and she was practicing law, I’d want her.” in 1990. His was not a minority opinion. In 1994, Wright landed a cov- Maurice Coleman ’91, a fellow protester and student-athlete, eted position at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a prestigious remembers Wright’s influence. “Sheena was an important part of firm famed for handling high-stakes transactions of Fortune 500 pushing the University in thinking about how it could become companies. There, she was the second black female lawyer in the better and how it could leverage its own backyard — the cultural firm’s history. Even in the corporate world, the value of social richness of Harlem — to enhance its offerings while also enhanc- justice never left her. “I started thinking about how business is ing the relationship with the community.” Coleman, an SVP at connected to inequity and how economic empowerment and ac- Bank of America, adds, “I just thought she was a leader, and she cess to capital can really level the playing field,” she says. proved herself to be exactly that.” In 1999, Wright became a senior associate at Reboul, MacMur- Despite her prep school and Ivy League bona fides, Wright ray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, where she negotiated, structured never forgot her roots, volunteering at Community Impact and and executed financial deals for clients such as Welsh, Carson, the Double Discovery Center to support underprivileged teens Anderson & Stowe. A year later, she became general counsel and in Harlem. “She was an immediate personification of what youth EVP of business development at Crave Technologies, focusing on

FALL 2013 17 SHEENA WRIGHT ’90, ’94L COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY product patents and negotiating investment partnerships. But af- that annually serve 2,100 school children and their families. Wright ter nearly a decade of mergers and acquisitions, Wright yearned developed an award-winning workforce development program for more fulfillment. “I needed to be doing work that was more that has helped 200 high school dropouts obtain their GED or high closely connected to the community that I came from and help- school diploma. She also developed a neighborhood-based Natu- ing people who started out with more similar circumstances to rally Occurring Retirement Community that annually serves more mine,” she says. than 1,000 seniors. Wright pursued her higher calling at the 205-year-old Abys- “It was wonderful to be working on the ground in the neigh- sinian Baptist Church’s nonprofit arm, the Abyssinian Develop- borhood I came of age in,” the mother of three says. “Looking at ment Corp. (ADC), one of Harlem’s largest affordable housing the young people we served in our schools or through our youth developers focusing on community and economic enrichment. In programs was like looking at me and my friends and my neigh- 2002, she was tapped to be COO and later that year was promot- bors growing up and being able to give them what I was able to ed to president and CEO. As a member of the church and a long- get. It was very, very fulfilling.” time Harlem resident, she brought new life to the role. During her During Wright’s tenure at ADC, then-chairman Larry Dais ’76 10-year leadership, ADC built 785 units of residential housing in Business — who had been Columbia’s assistant v.p. and director 78 buildings and nearly a half-million square feet of community, of the Office of Government and Community Affairs for 37 years commercial and retail space, including the first new high school — witnessed firsthand the impact she had on the community. building in Harlem in 50 years, the Thurgood Marshall Academy “ADC provided the vehicle for her to bring about meaningful for Learning and Social Change, creating more than 1,000 jobs in and measurable changes in the Harlem community,” Dais says. the process. “Sheena’s commitment to community and public service has Additionally, Wright spearheaded the creation of the Abyssin- been the core of her professional life. I think she’ll be focused on ian Schools division, which manages five educational institutions doing that for the rest of her life.”

“Expect that people will underestimate you as a woman, and use that to propel you forward,” advises Wright. PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY SHEENA WRIGHT ’90, ’94L

“It was wonderful to be working on the ground in the neighborhood I came of age in. Looking at the young people we served in our schools or through our youth programs was like looking at me and my friends and my neighbors growing up and being able to give them what I was able to get. It was very, very fulfilling.”

n her first day at United Way of New York City, Wright hit the ground running — liter- ally — as the Northeast was struck by Hur- Oricane Sandy. Without access to electricity or the office, she led relief efforts by mobilizing hundreds of volunteers to check on the elderly and disabled living in Coney Island’s high-rise apartments. She also created and managed the United Way Hurricane Sandy Recov- ery Fund, which has raised more than $10 million. Since then, her days have been spent on strategic planning sessions, fundraising and managing the exe- cution and operations of the organization. Thus far, she has already revised its mission and vision statements, and looks forward to helping the national United Way campaign double the number of kids reading profi- ciently by 2020 in some of the toughest neighborhoods. “Right now in New York City, only 30 percent of kids are reading at grade level by the end of third grade,” she says, explaining that such a deficiency at a young age leads to higher drop-out rates. “It puts us in a scary Wright with Ted Mousi (left) and Joseph Cabrera ’82 at the kickoff to the an- nual Gridiron Gala, which benefits United Way-led initiatives in NYC. place as a city without having a well-educated popula- PHOTO: COURTESY UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY tion that is going to innovate and drive the economy and be successful citizens.” ward,” she advises. “Don’t be surprised by that, because unfortu- Wright’s fierce work ethic is what impressed Robert J. Kuep- nately in 2013 in the of America, there’s still a lot of pers, chairman of the Board of Directors and chief volunteer of- disparity and sexism in the workplace that you have to contend ficer of United Way of New York City. “Her vision and her inten- with and it’s real.” From her corporate days, Wright remembers sity were clearly very appealing, which is impressive particularly meetings with mostly white men, where she would be asked to given that she’s 10–15 years younger than your typical CEO,” he get coffee or take notes. The words “I’m a lawyer just like you; says. “Her track record is impressive. She is the next-generation I’m not the assistant” became routine. “There are always going to woman to move us forward in our 75th year.” be assumptions about who you are and why you’re in the room Kueppers is not alone in singing Wright’s praises. Everyone and what you know and what you don’t know,” she says. from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to Starbucks CEO Howard Yet she’s been overcoming that type of prejudice since her Schultz has lauded the nonprofit star. Hoffman, who recruited days at the mostly white George School, when a classmate said Wright for prep school years ago, believes she can end up like an- she had three strikes against her for being black, female and poor. other illustrious College alum with a background in community That made no sense to Wright: three strikes means you’re out, service. “I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me she was running and even back then, she was very much in the game. for President of the United States,” he says. “She’s as brilliant as “Other people look at you and say those are strikes against they come. She’s a phenomenal people person. She’s very ener- you. I say maybe those are things that make me better. Maybe getic, very driven. She’s got all her ducks in a row.” they make me stronger, more resilient, more focused,” Wright Wright is open to the general idea of political office: “It is ex- says. “Those experiences of being a person of color in a country tremely important who holds political power and how policies that has a lot of racism and being a woman where there are a lot are made and resources allocated. The dearth of women in politi- of gender stereotypes — maybe those things make me stronger, cal office is astonishing, and I would not rule out an opportunity maybe better, but they definitely don’t strike me out.” to serve.” To wit, Wright is passionate about helping women in any of- Yelena Shuster ’09 is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. Her work fice shatter the glass ceiling. “Expect that people will underesti- has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly and New York magazines. mate you because you’re a woman and use that to propel you for- Follow her on Twitter @YelenaShuster.

FALL 2013 19 “For more than half a century, Ted de Bary has been the soul of Columbia College.” — Andrew Delbanco PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Loyal to His Core

As a Columbia teacher, scholar, academic statesman and alumnus, Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS has long exemplified the highest standards of character and service. The private man might come as a surprise.

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m. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS has trod the herringbone brick walkways of the Morningside campus for as long asW anyone can remember. One of the towering fig- ures of modern Columbia history, he has always stood out, always risen above the crowd. He has done so mainly by force of character, taking on challenges at every stage with discipline and purpose, loyal to his people and his principles alike. Still teaching at 94, Ted de Bary, the John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus, may be the most genuinely respected person in the University community.

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Those who knew de Bary, say, ing on in both Asia and the West 25 or 30 years ago, could easily about the values that could sustain have pictured him in a position of a human community, but there has national prominence. Secretary of been only limited exchange between State, perhaps. Wise and steady, the two conversations. Today, the unruffled in crisis, with the bow- challenges of the contemporary tied elegance and comportment world are such that the civilizing of a seasoned ambassador, he cer- process can only be sustained tainly fits the part. As one of the through an education that includes world’s leading scholars of Asian (at least in part) sharing in the tradi- thought, de Bary would have add- tional curricula developed on both ed a welcome dimension to the sides, based on classics now rec- councils of foreign policy. Indeed, ognized as not only enduring, but he did consider a career in the dip- world class.” lomatic corps when the opportu- nity arose in 1946. o understand the full arc Returning from duty as a naval of de Bary’s Columbia intelligence officer in the Pacific career, the clock must be during WWII, he was assigned to Tturned back to Septem- the Office of Naval Intelligence in ber 1937, when as an 18-year-old Washington, D.C., as head of the freshman out of Leonia (N.J.) H.S., Far East desk. “At the end of the he arrived in Hamilton Hall for the war,” he says, “I could have trans- first meeting of his required course ferred from the Navy to the State in Contemporary Civilization. His Department at a roughly equiva- CC instructor was the American lent rank to lieutenant commander, historian Harry J. Carman (Class of so it would have been a good deal.” 1919 GSAS), who would be named Instead, he chose to return Dean of the College six years later. to the academic world, where “Of course, you know that the title De Bary has been a presence on the Columbia campus for more he had interrupted his gradu- than a half-century and has fought to preserve the University’s ‘Contemporary Civilization’ so far ate studies at Harvard by en- commitments to undergraduate teaching and curricular integrity. has only applied to Western civili- listing in the service in January PHOTO: PHILIPPE CHENG/CCT zation,” Carman told his students De Bary led Columbia to the forefront of Asian studies while embodying the ideal of the virtuous citizen in every sphere of university life.

1942, soon after Pearl Harbor. After his discharge, however, de that morning. “I hope some of you will prepare yourselves to learn Bary switched to Columbia at the urging of his fellow Naval of- what is needed to bring Asia into the picture.” ficer and close friend Donald Keene ’42, ’49 GSAS, who felt they Seldom has a professorial suggestion been taken more to heart, would both benefit from advanced study with Ryūsaku Tsunoda, starting with de Bary’s enrollment in Chinese classes as a sopho- a pioneer of Japanese studies at Columbia. “With the GI Bill and a more. He added Japanese in graduate school and at the Navy’s fellowship, I was able to manage it,” says de Bary, adding, “I have Japanese/Oriental Language School. never regretted the choice.” De Bary’s erudition and leadership potential must have been Columbia hasn’t regretted it either. In the years to come, evident to his CC teacher early on, because in 1949, with de Bary de Bary — along with distinguished scholars such as Keene [see still four years away from a Ph.D., Carman charged him with de- “Sensei and Sensibility,” Winter 2011–12] — would lead Colum- veloping a core program in what was then called Oriental Civili- bia to the forefront of Asian studies while embodying the ideal zations and Oriental Humanities. of the virtuous citizen in every sphere of university life — as a A key element was the creation of a series of sourcebooks — teacher, scholar, academic leader, parent and alumnus. texts, in translation, of Chinese, Japanese and South Asian clas- There are voluminous records of de Bary’s scholarly and pub- sics. De Bary set about recruiting brilliant translators and editors lic life — 31 books written or edited, extensive correspondence, such as Keene for the Japanese texts and historian (and future CC the minutes and reports of innumerable conferences and com- and Asian Civilizations director) Ainslie Embree ’60 GSAS for the mittees, and interviews for Columbia’s Center for Oral History multiple volumes of Sources of Indian Tradition, an anthology that conducted by historian John T. Mason Jr. in 1986 and longtime includes works from , Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Associate College Dean Michael Rosenthal ’67 GSAS in 2010 The first of them was published by Columbia University Press (which have furnished some of the material for this article). For in 1958, and the series has since expanded to include volumes years, de Bary says, people urged him to write his autobiography. of Korean, Vietnamese and Tibetan classics, with others in de- Instead, he recently published The Great Civilized Conversation: velopment. They are in perennial demand, says Jennifer Crewe, Education for a World Community, which, he says, “amounts to an editorial director of Columbia University Press. “Asian Studies is intellectual biography.” In it, he shares a central idea that touches one of the press’ largest and most prestigious lists, and it couldn’t on a good part of his career. have been without Ted de Bary,” she says. “For centuries,” de Bary writes, “a conversation has been go- De Bary chaired the Department of East Asian Languages and

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Cultures from 1960–66, when he De Bary has emerged through was named the Carpentier Profes- time as a preeminent champion sor of Oriental Studies. The depart- of the Core. That mission is sup- ment grew substantially in those ported by the Heyman Center years and moved to Kent Hall, for the Humanities, which de former home of the Law School. In Bary established in 1976, and the the aftermath of the 1968 student Society of Senior Scholars, also uprising, de Bary chaired the Ex- founded by de Bary — a group of ecutive Committee of the newly distinguished retired faculty who formed Columbia University add their instructional firepower Senate. He was appointed Execu- to the Core’s multi-departmental tive Vice President for Academic teaching staff. There is a long list of Affairs and Provost — the Uni- other de Bary initiatives that have versity’s highest academic office added texture and substance to — in 1971, serving until 1978. At Columbia’s intellectual commu- the same time, he was producing nity, among them the Lionel Trill- groundbreaking scholarship on ing Seminars, the University Lec- East Asian religious and intellec- tures, the Society of Fellows in the tual traditions, especially Confu- Humanities and the Alumni Col- cianism in China, Japan and Korea. loquia in the Humanities. For all De Bary crossed over to emeritus this and more, he has earned the status in 1990 but has remained an gratitude of students, colleagues active citizen of the academic com- and alumni. He has received nu- munity in every way, and, increas- merous honors from alma mater, ingly, acted as gadfly, prodding the including the College’s Alexan- administration and faculty to hold der Hamilton Medal, the Society true to the University’s historic of Columbia Graduates’ Great commitments to undergraduate Teacher Award and an honorary teaching and the Core. doctorate, as well as major recog- De Bary chaired the late-1980s Commission on the Core Cur- There was a moment, however, riculum. Left to right, Professors Paul Anderer, Jacob W. Smit, nition beyond the campus gates, when de Bary wavered in his oth- de Bary and Steven Marcus ’48, ’61 GSAS. such as membership in the pres- erwise unshakable loyalty to Co- PHOTO: JESSICA RAIMI/CCT tigious Japan Academy in . De Bary led Columbia to the forefront of Asian studies while embodying the ideal of the virtuous citizen in every sphere of university life.

lumbia. In 1960, Stanford approached him about developing its Tao Tan ’07, ’11 Business took five courses with de Bary at the East Asian program. It was an attractive offer from a first-class in- College while majoring in and history. “The experi- stitution on the rise. “They had a lot to offer in the way of induce- ence of studying with someone who is a living link to the time ments, monetary and otherwise,” he recalls. “So I considered it. when senior faculty involvement in the Core was commonplace, I went out there, I visited and I saw what the situation was and and who wholeheartedly embraces the Core’s educational phi- what would be the situation for my kids.” losophy, is extraordinary,” says Tan, a former University senator In part, his decision depended on Keene. De Bary had gone who is now an international business consultant. “The fact that to great lengths to bring about Keene’s return to Columbia from Professor de Bary takes it so seriously is an inspiration to the rest the University of Cambridge in 1955, and felt he could not ac- of us, both as students and as alumni of Columbia College.” cept Stanford’s offer unless Keene was also brought on board. Says Andrew Delbanco, director of Columbia’s Center for So Stanford upped the ante to include Keene. When de Bary still American Studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the hesitated, Stanford sweetened the pot some more, offering the Humanities, “Through his tireless teaching he has taught — and possibility of a top-level faculty appointment with no expectation exemplified — what it means to be civilized. For more than half of teaching. For de Bary, that settled the matter — and not the a century, Ted de Bary has been the soul of Columbia College.” way Stanford had hoped. “No self-respecting college or univer- Reducing matters to their simplest terms, Peter Nosco ’71, sity would offer that,” de Bary concluded. ’78 GSAS, professor of Asian studies at the University of British In the decades since, it has become commonplace for universi- Columbia, wrote on the Columbia250 website in 2004: “Ted is Mr. ties to lure academic stars by offering reduced teaching loads. But Columbia.” de Bary is having none of it, nor is he happy about the unification of the Arts and Sciences faculties in 1991, a move he feels deprived the hen de Bary spotted a beautiful freshman, Fanny College of a faculty body dedicated to its unique curricular issues. Brett ’43 Barnard, at a Sunday afternoon tea dance As a student, he benefited from a Core Curriculum that was taught, in Barnard’s Brooks Hall during his junior year, “I and constantly reviewed and refined, by some of the leading lights Wfell in love at first sight,” he says. “I subsequently of American education — ’27, ’32 GSAS; Mark Van learned that just about everybody fell in love with her at first Doren ’21 GSAS; and Moses Hadas ’30 GSAS, among many others. sight.” They were married in 1942. Their examples guide him to this day. Housing was scarce when they returned to the New York area

FALL 2013 23 WM. THEODORE DE BARY ’41, ’53 GSAS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY after the war, and they already had two kids; two more were to he greets visitors at his screen door in an untucked work shirt. He come. They spent four years in renovated army barracks at Camp was, and remains, a dedicated vegetable gardener, growing let- Shanks, in Orangeburg, N.Y., with de Bary away in China for part tuce, cabbages, kale, collards, string beans, tomatoes and squash. of the time conducting his graduate research. In 1950, a group “We didn’t have a lot of money, and there were four kids in the of 32 families formed a cooperative and purchased a former pig family,” says his son, Paul ’68, ’71L, ’71 Business, a retired Wall farm on a wooded hillside in Tappan, N.Y., in Rockland County. Street lawyer and oenophile who lives in Cos Cob, Conn. “There They divided the property into one-acre plots and assisted each were times when it was even difficult to put food on the table, so other in building California ranch-style homes, roads and even- the garden was a big deal for my father.” tually, common facilities for get-togethers and recreation. It all The de Barys also had three daughters: Brett ’65 Barnard, a took a lot of effort, and the de Bary plot, in particular, presented professor of Japanese literature and film at Cornell; Catherine de serious challenges. It was basically a swamp. “Nobody wanted to Bary Sleight ’73 Barnard, ’77J, who succumbed to breast cancer contend with it,” he says now, chuckling at the memory. three years ago; and Beatrice de Bary-Heinrichs ’84 GSAS, who Hydrology may have been one of the core disciplines of Chi- graduated from Williams and is a junior high school teacher in nese education during the Sui and Tang dynasties more than a Springfield, Mass. So far, there are 10 grandchildren and two thousand years ago, but it was never part of the liberal arts cur- great-grandchildren. riculum at Columbia. So de Bary had to puzzle out the swamp There are many things people are surprised to learn about de problem for himself. It was not so different, at heart, from many Bary. All of his teaching in retirement has been on a pro bono basis. of the tasks he has taken on in life. He donates his publishing royalties to an endowment fund sup- He first cut trenches with a backhoe to drain down to an artifi- porting Asian Studies, and hopes to steer the funds more specifi- cial pond. The next part was tougher, he says. “I had to lay the pipe cally to instructional support for Asian Humanities. He was born at the bottom of the trench, at a bad time of the year, in Decem- in the Bronx to a German-born father and an American mother, ber. The trench would freeze up and then thaw, so the sides of the who divorced while he was a child, and his first name was abbre- trench would collapse. I had to shovel out a lot of mud to lay the viated to “Wm.” because his father was also William. One of his pipe. You have to put a bed of gravel down. It took some doing.” great-uncles, Heinrich Anton de Bary, was a celebrated botanist Yet he didn’t give in to any of the obstacles, and his family soon who discovered symbiosis. had a comfortable place to live — three bedrooms, a living room, As a teenager in the 1930s, de Bary was active in the Young kitchen and basement. De Bary still calls it home. The provostial, People’s Socialist League. He jitterbugged in Harlem and Green- bow-tied dignitary people saw on campus was, in private, a man wich to Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and of great modesty and simplicity. At home on a Sunday afternoon, Bud Freeman. After Britain came under German attack, de Bary “I have thought of myself as engaged in a continuing conversation that started long ago and will, I hope, go on long after me.”

De Bary in his Kent Hall office, a virtual library of Asian philosophy and literature. PHOTO: NATALIE KEYSSAR

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was one of a group of student leaders wanted one,” Keene says. “Instead, invited to visit with Eleanor Roosevelt they sang songs of every kind togeth- in the White House to discuss ways of er. I can’t imagine a happier, closer- supporting the Allies. As a Fulbright knit family.” Fanny and Ted “were the Scholar in Beijing in fall 1948, he was perfect married couple,” he says. “Her among the Americans airlifted out by death [in 2009] was, I think, the worst the U.S. ambassador when the city thing that ever happened to him.” was surrounded by Mao’s revolution- De Bary has suffered other pain- ary troops. ful losses — among them his close Raised as a Protestant, de Bary con- faculty colleague Irene T. Bloom ’76 verted to Roman Catholicism in the GSAS, who chaired Barnard’s Depart- late 1940s. He is a registered Demo- ment of Asian and Middle Eastern crat. He cared about the civil rights Cultures for many years; classmates movement and took part in the 1963 such as Joe Coffee ’41, who founded March on Washington. He saw his the Columbia College Fund, CCT and first Columbia football game in 1927, many other staples of alumni life; and rooted for Hall of Fame of course, his daughter Catherine. But ’39 at Baker Field, and, losing Fanny meant losing the great as an alumnus, attended every home love of his life. game for more than 50 years (with the Dawn Ho Delbanco (who is mar- exception of sabbatical leaves). He has ried to Andrew Delbanco) has taught never learned to type. “I don’t think Asian Art Humanities for 20 years, and Ted approves of any modern device,” her late father, Wai-kam Ho, knew de says Keene. Bary in Canton (now Guangzhou) 65 “Sometimes Ted is very forbid- years ago. She was among the many ding,” Keene adds. “He comes to the who were moved when de Bary sang point very quickly and he doesn’t De Bary met Fanny Brett ’43 Barnard at a tea dance in “When It’s Springtime in the Rock- have the charm of some people. But Brooks Hall. They were married for 67 years. ies” at Fanny’s memorial service in St. when I first knew him, he was crazy PHOTO: JOE PINIERO/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Paul’s Chapel. “I have thought of myself as engaged in a continuing conversation that started long ago and will, I hope, go on long after me.”

about jazz. It was I who made him listen to classical music. His In her course, Delbanco explains some of the differences in first book was a translation of a book by [Ihara] Saikaku, Five the aesthetics of traditional Asian cultures. Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales From 17th-Century Japan. “Whereas Chinese artists often present things in the ideal, the He is not stuffy, not cold, although sometimes he might give way they should be,” she says, “Japanese artists are more likely to that impression.” find beauty in the seemingly unimportant, the broken, the aged, the imperfect. For them, true beauty lies not in perfection but eene met de Bary in the Navy’s Japanese/Oriental Lan- in the sensing of its evanescence. It’s when something is almost guage School. In college de Bary had been manager of gone that you most treasure it: so, beauty and melancholy are the Debate Council and chairman of the student govern- closely intertwined.” K ing board. “He was a year ahead of me, and he was a big As a student of Asian culture and a man who has lived a long man on campus — everyone knew what he was doing,” Keene and full life, de Bary understands the transience of beauty and the says. “I was a very little man on campus. Nobody knew about me.” melancholy of loss. There is an inner grace to him, a sense that he De Bary says they bonded almost immediately in the Navy be- has experienced and considered many things and must act on his cause of their shared experience in the Core. They roomed together beliefs. Though his age and health no longer permit him to move in Hawaii when both were assigned to the headquarters of Fleet about the campus with the spryness of years past, he is still teaching Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific two College courses this fall: his colloquium in Asian Humanities fleet. De Bary landed on Okinawa and served in the Aleutian Is- and his seminar in Eastern and Western classics, “Nobility and Civil- lands and elsewhere. All the while, he and Keene maintained a cor- ity” — words that many feel describe de Bary personally. He demurs respondence, later published as a book, War-Wasted Asia: Letters, at the characterization. “I don’t think of that necessarily in connec- 1945–46. De Bary describes Keene as his “Columbia soul brother.” tion with myself. Nobility and civility represent two aspects of the The feeling is mutual. “I knew I could always talk to him,” human ideal: personal virtue — intellectual and moral — and social Keene says. “At times when I was depressed or something, I conduct, especially in the form of dialogue and civil discourse.” would turn to him for help. It wasn’t that I needed him to say ev- More simply, he says, “I have thought of myself as engaged in erything is OK, but just being with him, I felt better and stronger.” a continuing conversation that started long ago and will, I hope, He adds, “I know my own faults, but I don’t know Ted’s, because go on long after me.” I don’t think he has them.” Keene was a frequent guest of the de Barys — “like an uncle Former CCT Editor Jamie Katz ’72, ’80 Business has held senior in our family,” Paul de Bary says — and he was delighted by the editorial positions at People and Vibe, and now writes for Smithsonian warmth of their home. “They never had a television set, and never magazine and other publications.

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After 25 years in NOLA, Scott Aiges ’86 is dedicated to preserving and promoting its musical traditions

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Scott Aiges ’86 is director of programs, marketing and communications for The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. PHOTO: KELLI BINNINGS/SCENE MAGAZINE COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

here is a small hill to the east of Congo jazz in all its many forms as well as for soul, R&B, Cajun, zydeco, Square, on the border of the Tremé and bounce and hip-hop, that’s saying a lot. French Quarter neighborhoods in New Watching Aiges backstage while the Class Got Brass votes were Orleans, which approached from a cer- tallied, it was clear he wears his role comfortably. A self-described tain angle obscures what lies beyond. Type A personality, he seemed in constant motion — attending to And so it was, after drifting through details, phone pressed to his ear more often than not. When the the quiet Quarter streets one Sunday closing act arrived, he pointed them toward barrels of ice water afternoon in March, that an intermit- and Abita beer. Next came his production manager, wielding a tent blast of horn and roll of snare decibel meter and concerns about noise levels. A stranger wan- drum was hardly preparation for the dered over to suggest an act for Jazz Fest. A text message arrived sight, upon cresting the hill, of roughly 150 students — members and he tapped out an answer. For his wife, Lisanne Brown ’86 of 13 middle and high school brass bands — milling about un- Barnard, he stopped and shared a dance. Tder a cloudless sky. All wore the standard brass band uniform of white button-down shirt and black pants; some had added bow- n the Thursday before the Congo Square festival, Aiges ties or neckties and white, black-brimmed caps. Between them is driving along Chartres Street through the Bywater they carried bass and snare drums, trumpets, trombones and neighborhood, where he has lived for 15 years. To the tubas, saxophones, a few clarinets and at least one banjo. Oright are industrial lots and the broad expanse of the The occasion was the Class Got Brass competition, part of Mississippi River. To the left, houses, retailers and restaurants in the two-day Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival. The pastel shades and various states of renovation speak to the neigh- day before had been rain-threatened and lightly attended, which borhood boom of the past five years. Aiges keeps up a tour guide made the contrast in audience patter, in between talking about all the more stark. By the time his background: He was raised festival workers laid out metal in Fort Lee, N.J., graduated from barricades to create an alley for Deerfield Academy, a boarding the bands to parade through, school in Massachusetts, and more than 600 people had gath- chose Columbia so he could be ered. Each band performed a closer to home. He met Brown five-minute program that open- while studying at Butler Li- ed with a dirge before shifting brary in December of his senior to a medley of up-tempo num- year. He’d been noticing her for bers. The energy was infectious, weeks and one afternoon, when uplifting. The audience clapped they were at the same table, and bounced and stomped and she posed the open question of sung. whether anyone wanted coffee. Microphone in hand, offer- Aiges offered to go with her. ing color commentary from his “My one smooth move,” he says on-stage spot next to the judges’ Middle and high school students carry on the New Orleans-style with a laugh. panel, was Scott Aiges ’86. The brass band tradition in the Class Got Brass competition. After graduation, the politi- competition is his brainchild, PHOTO: KIM WELSH cal science major spent time as designed to promote both mu- a freelance journalist in Nicara- sic education in Louisiana schools and the New Orleans-style gua before moving to Washington, D.C., to write for the States brass band tradition, and is one of many events he oversees as di- News Service. “Their shtick was they hired these really young rector of programs, marketing and communications for The New reporters who were willing to work for no money, and we acted Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. The foundation is one of the as the Washington bureau for regional papers in different states.” city’s central nonprofits and guardian of its cultural traditions, (His was Pennsylvania.) It was solid training, but after nearly two best known for producing the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fes- years he craved a livelier milieu. He and Brown, then still his girl- tival — Jazz Fest to the more than 400,000 attendees who come friend, pulled out a map and drew up lists of with decent to the city’s Fair Grounds Race Course over two weekends each newspapers where he might be interested in trying to get a job. spring. The multi-stage music and food extravaganza pumps Not on the list was New Orleans, although Aiges, a guitar about $300 million a year into the local economy, and though player since childhood, had lately found his way to the city’s mu- Aiges’ focus during Jazz Fest is on managing a complementary sic through a friend with whom he played in a band, The Wires. business conference, his overall work relies on its success. Refer- “He’s the one who turned me on to The Meters and Dr. John, The ring to producer Quint Davis, Aiges says, “Quint’s job is to make Neville Brothers, zydeco — . I’d known nothing. I hadn’t the money and my job is to spend it.” even known about Mardi Gras.” During lunch one day with a Aiges is well suited for his position. He has lived in New different bandmate who also was a journalist, Aiges started agi- Orleans since the late ’80s and was a longtime music writer for tating about his need for a change. The friend mentioned that the The Times-Picayune, the city’s daily newspaper, as well as the di- Picayune was hiring. rector of music business development under Mayor C. Ray Na- “It was like I was hit with a bolt of lightning. And what I said gin from 2002–05. He also has been a band manager, a booking to him was, ‘You mean, people actually live there?’ New Orleans agent and an independent events producer, through it all making was just a fantasy place to me.” himself into one of the most versed, and versatile, people on the The city also appealed to Brown, for whom Tulane offered a fit local music scene. In the crucible of the Crescent City, known for for her public health interests. (She earned an M.P.H. and a Ph.D.

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Aiges learned some hard lessons about trying to be an objective journalist while being part of the community. in epidemiology.) Aiges applied and landed an interview. With the After about a year, a posting went up for the position of music meeting scheduled on a Monday, the couple flew down on Friday reporter — the first in the Picayune’s history. “It was incredible for a long weekend: “The Neville Brothers were at Tipitina’s on that a daily newspaper in New Orleans up until the late 1980s Saturday night, and we were hooked. That was it,” Aiges says. didn’t have its own full-time music writer,” says Thibodeaux, The Picayune assigned him to St. John the Baptist Parish, part who often spoke with Aiges about their shared interest in rock of the River Parishes Bureau. Because the paper required report- music. “Scott sheepishly came to me and said ‘I’d like to apply’ ers to live in the area covered by their bureau, he rented an apart- and I said I thought he’d be perfect for it.” ment in Destrehan, often driving the 40 minutes into the city to go Aiges imagined he’d be competing against established music out at night; Brown stayed a while longer in D.C. “I had no idea writers from outlets like The New York Times, the that I was in the most obscure and Billboard, and thought his bureau in the most obscure chances slight; the Picayune’s place in the world and that no- editor viewed the beat different- body really cared what I was ly. “He told me to come down doing,” says Aiges. “I was tak- to the main office and we went ing it seriously. And I was hav- for coffee and he said — I’ll ing a great, great time.” never forget this — ‘You have “This was the industrial cor- a perfectly promising career as ridor along the Mississippi Riv- a newspaper reporter, what are er, upriver from New Orleans,” you doing? Music? Seriously?’” says then-bureau chief Ron Aiges made the case that mu- Thibodeaux, an editor with the sic coverage could encompass newspaper for 25 years. “Not more than show previews and the most scenic place you’ve reviews; he wanted to treat it as ever been, but a great place a cultural phenomenon as well to be a journalist. The politics as explore the business side, ad- are nasty and the dynamics of dressing, among other things, power — the way the indus- why the local industry wasn’t tries influence everyday life prospering the way everybody and the day-to-day operations thought it should. “And he out there — are interesting to bought it,” Aiges says. Aiges and his wife, Lisanne Brown ’86 Barnard, celebrate the Saints’ sink your teeth into.” Super Bowl victory in 2010; opposite, scenes from the Congo Square Aiges’ first byline as a music He recalls Aiges as “talented New World Rhythms Festival. writer was in October 1989 — but not at all a prima donna” PHOTOS: COURTESY SCOTT AIGES ’86; OPPOSITE, ALL COURTESY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & about a series of surprise shows HERITAGE FOUNDATION/(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT) ERIC SIMON, ERIC SIMON, KIM and recounts the time when WELSH, KIM WELSH by Harry Connick Jr. at the jazz Aiges and a photographer club Snug Harbor — and for staked out a public official’s vacation home, on the southwest cor- the next six years he attended almost every major concert and club ner of Lake Pontchartrain, on a tip that the official was using public show, going out on the local scene six nights a week. Along the equipment to make improvements to private property. The official way he met musicians, club owners, producers, record label own- spotted and confronted them, and “the next thing we knew, Scott ers and just about everyone involved in the industry. He wrote al- and the photographer are being hauled off to jail for misdemean- bum criticism and show reviews, features, musician profiles and or trespass on this guy’s property — they hadn’t [trespassed], of industry news; his articles appeared in the news, living and busi- course, but it was happening.” Thibodeaux posted bail, the article ness sections as well as Lagniappe, the Friday entertainment sec- documenting it all was published and caught the attention of the tion. In 1993 Aiges garnered a Louisiana Press Association award EPA, and the public official eventually was indicted. “He ended for a series he co-wrote about the passing of the last generation of up going to prison for violating the federal clean water act based jazz musicians who were old enough to have seen Buddy Bolden, on the story that Scott wrote, which he had to work pretty hard for; the “king” cornet player and progenitor of jazz, firsthand. that’s a pretty good indication of his determination to get the story “It was my graduate school and the place where I learned and to go full throttle at anything he did.” about everything that goes into the music and culture of New Thibodeaux adds that Louisiana is different from any other Orleans. I gained tremendous respect for it, and I enjoyed it tre- place in the country — “with a rich and exotic history and pecu- mendously,” Aiges says. liar ways about a lot of things” — and that it can be a challenge to When Jazz Fest rolled around each April, he filed daily - re adapt. “But Scott was excited about landing here and he did great views from the fairgrounds, connecting to a dial-up modem work. He was very open to my direction and guidance about not from an early portable word processor in the press trailer. “I was only the professional stuff and how to do his work better but also dumb enough to think I was reporting for The New York Times, so getting attuned to the rhythms of what makes Louisiana different I would try to see every act. I would carry my schedule around and special. He certainly embraced it and never let go.” with checkmarks on the ones I’d seen and the ones I’d missed,

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and then at 5 p.m. I’d go into the trailer and say, ‘Of all this stuff, how do I put together one piece?’” Aiges also learned some hard lessons about trying to be an objective journalist while being part of the community. “I was meeting all of these people — some of them I really admired; some of them were actually my heroes,” he says. He relates a story about The Meters, the legendary band includ- ing two of The Neville Brothers, vocalist Art and drummer Cyril, bassist George Porter Jr. and others. The group had reunited in 1989 after more than a decade apart, and through the year Aiges had interviewed band members individually, and in December reviewed their reunion concert, and in between he joined them for Thanksgiving. Come January 1990, Aiges dropped by Ultrasonic Recording Studios one aimless afternoon. A group was working on the track for Aaron Neville’s Star Spangled Banner, recorded ahead of time per CBS so he could lip-synch for the Super Bowl. In the process of layering in orchestral music, the engineers had discovered a lyrical slip-up: Neville sang “gave proof to the night” rather than “gave proof through the night.” “I walked in right when they finished fixing his mistake,” Aiges says. “This was before digital editing technology, and basically someone had to go ‘thr’ into the mic. They told me this whole story, none of us thinking it was going to be in the paper. But after I left I realized what I had and wrote it up, not thinking anything of it.” After the article ran, Aiges received a phone call from Art Neville. “He said, ‘Aren’t you the same man who came over and ate gumbo with us at Thanksgiving? Who do you think you are?’” Aiges was speechless, crushed at the thought of having an- gered the entire Neville family, New Orleans’ music royalty. “In the end, it’s probably things like that that contributed to my feeling that I didn’t want to write anymore. I didn’t want to be that guy with the notepad in the corner and have to maintain this distant relationship; I wanted to be in the mix and to have real relationships with people.” Other factors were at play. Aiges felt wrung out by the de- mands of his reporting schedule. Also, after years of 360-degree exposure to the music scene, “I thought that I was a lot smarter than I actually am; I just thought this whole thing was not that difficult, so I had this genius idea to quit a perfectly well-paying job to be a band manager and get into the music business and see if I could do it for real.” Aiges left the paper in October 1995, and the reality check followed quickly. From the challenges of getting club owners to return a phone call, to lining up gigs for a tour, to working with studios and recording budgets, to advocating for support from a music label, “It was not as easy or obvious as it seemed,” he says. Still, he persisted for six years. Notably, he worked with the Con- tinental Drifters, named in a 1994 Rolling Stone critics’ poll as one of the two best unsigned bands in the country (“They made this incredibly cool, rootsy, pop-rock sound that was a cross between The Band and The Mamas & the Papas”). Later clients included Royal Fingerbowl, the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars and a con- temporary jazz band, Astral Project. Looking back, he speaks with a weary wistfulness: “Managing a band is the best education about how to find your way around the business because you are literally involved with every single aspect of a professional career. I learned a lot. … All the bands that I worked with, none of them got rich and famous and it wasn’t for lack of trying. It’s an extremely competitive business and everything has to line up in the right way.” The experience also crystallized a question that has driven

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“How can we help musicians learn to work smarter, to take advantage of technology, to help them access the global market?”

Above, audience members join Diblo Dibala on stage during a Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival. Opposite, a dancer with N’Fungola Sibo. PHOTOS: COURTESY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION/ERIC SIMON

him in one form or another ever since: “How does one go about was hired to the newly created position of director of music busi- earning a living as a musician, not becoming rich and famous but ness development in the Mayor’s Office of Economic Develop- just being sustainable, being able to make a career out of your ment. The following summer, New Orleans Magazine cited him chosen craft? How can one do that?” among its “People to Watch,” part of the city’s arts and entertain- ment dream team “dedicated to elevating the visibility of New ne afternoon in early 2002, a friend of a friend was look- Orleans as a viable place for artists, musicians and filmmakers to ing for someone to prep a mayoral candidate, C. Ray live and work.” Nagin, on the music industry for an upcoming debate. “What I liked was his perspective,” says Beth James, who ran OToday the mention of Nagin’s name to New Orleans the economic development office. “Typically you’re either an art- residents is enough to elicit a sour reaction (he was indicted in Jan- ist or a business guy in the music industry, but Scott had a unique uary on 21 corruption charges); then he was just a businessman, understanding of both sides. Because of that, and because of his an executive with Cox Communications, president of the New personality, he was able to bring people together who had never Orleans Brass hockey team and one of 15 candidates in what the even been in the same room, much less working toward a com- Picayune billed early on as “the most unpredictable mayor’s race in mon goal.” She adds that his moral compass is unshakable. “He more than 20 years.” Aiges frankly didn’t even know the name, but tells people the truth; they can take his word for it.” he put some notes together and went to meet him. “I really liked Aiges advocated a trickle-up theory founded on the premise him. I thought he was cool. He was young, he was funny. It was the that the key to developing the local music business lay in putting first time I had ever seen a BlackBerry.” more money into the hands of the musicians, who would then At the debate the next night, Aiges recalls, the moderator asked spend it on entertainment lawyers, booking agents and manage- a music question and most of the candidates’ flubbed their re- ment companies. Then there were the owners, radio sponses; then he saw Nagin reach into his pocket, pull out his notes stations, record producers, recording studios and others in the and study them. “He took three things that I had told him and put industry who stood to benefit from a core of strong musicians. them together in his own way that was very funny and very clever The idea, says Aiges, was, “How can we help musicians learn and got a standing ovation, and I was like — this is the guy!” to work smarter, to take advantage of technology, to help them ac- The next day, Aiges volunteered for the campaign. (“I didn’t cess the global market? If they can develop more revenue streams have a job and I used to watch The West Wing — I figured that by licensing their music to film and TV, by getting more gigs in was how these guys get their gigs.”) Folding tables and plugging Europe, by getting more teaching jobs or whatever else it may in telephones turned into writing email blasts to voters and, after be, then hopefully little by little it will start to snowball.” Among Nagin was elected in March 2002, writing press releases and re- the initiatives that came under this umbrella was a deal to sup- sponding to constituent mail in the press office. In August, Aiges ply XM Satellite Radio with CDs from the city’s up-and-coming,

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“It’s been pretty miraculous getting to do all the things I love to do most. I’ve been very lucky.” and unsigned, artists, and the New Orleans Music Business Co- the governor’s August 15 ceremonial bill-signing. Op facility, developed in partnership with Tipitina’s Foundation, Two weeks later, on August 29, hit. which provided artists with computer access, training and other Aiges recalls the surreality of the time; on Saturday morning promotional resources. prior to landfall, he was at a kids’ birthday party, sitting under Most significantly, Aiges led the statewide effort to enact legis- sunny skies and chatting with the other parents about what was lation creating tax incentives for the sound recording industry. He then the earliest specter of evacuation and whether the storm based his plan on Louisiana’s film tax credit program, which had would amount to anything. Arriving home, he found Brown been passed in 2002. “Basically, I took a copy of the law, dropped standing in front of the television. “There was this enormous it in a Word document, and everywhere it said film production I purple blob over the Gulf of Mexico and we looked at each other substituted ‘sound recording.’” and went, ‘Ummmm …’” They spent the next 12 hours packing The work grew more challenging from there, and in 2005 Aiges and battening down the hatches. began lobbying in the state Legislature. As Aiges recalls, the may- The couple and their children, Ella and Ben, then 6 and 3, or’s office was indifferent to the bounced from New Orleans to Bir- bill while the governor’s office op- mingham and Huntsville, Ala., to posed it, largely because of some Nashville and finally back to East financial wrinkles that had turned Hampton to stay at his parents’ up in the film program with which place. Aiges worked remotely as it shared DNA. In the course of best he could: “I’m trying to stay in making daily trips to Baton Rouge touch with what’s going on in my he met Sherri McConnell, a lob- office at the city and everybody’s byist who had been tracking the dispersed, phones aren’t work- progress of the first entertainment ing, nobody is replying to emails, tax credits in the United States, nothing is happening — and I and in particular the film law in was the music guy, right? Every- Louisiana. She “became my crying body’s calling. Bonnie Raitt wants shoulder,” Aiges says. to know what she can do for New McConnell remembers seeing Orleans, and I can’t get anybody Aiges in committee, struggling on the phone.” with the legislative process. She In October, he returned to find offered to provide guidance pro his immediate neighborhood had bono. “He was really by himself been spared the worst of the dam- in the effort, working for the city age. The water on his property Aiges with the late blues musician David “Honeyboy” Edwards but truly out there and not being in 2008. had filled the trunk of the car they helped by whatever resources the PHOTO: COURTESY SCOTT AIGES ’86 left behind, and rose to about a city had to offer,” she says. “We foot-and-a-half in the backyard became fast friends and have been close ever since.” shed he used as an office. Their house, at three feet off the ground, Recalling the backdrop of the state’s budget crisis, McConnell was largely OK. points out that it wasn’t easy to suggest “we’re going to spend About the same time, the state hired Aiges as a short-term con- millions of dollars in providing tax breaks to people who are re- sultant, working through the nonprofit Louisiana Music Export cording music, or anything for that matter. But Scott is passion- Office that he created. His main charge: “to make sure every- ate, articulate, convincing. I gave my guidance in terms of who body knows that Louisiana is still in business.” (This included he needed to talk to. But he does his research, and his ability to executing a major concert at South by Southwest (SXSW) Music articulate the potential impact of the legislation and systemati- Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2006.) As for cally move it through the process, he did that himself.” his job with the mayor’s office, he organized a free Thanksgiving Passage remained dicey until the end, with Aiges and one of the weekend rallying event with Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue governor’s policy directors hammering out details on the last day Swingers and other bands. Not long after, the work sputtered out of the legislative session in late June. In its final form, the Sound altogether, part of the city’s vast cutbacks. Recording Investment Act created refundable tax credits ranging from 10–20 percent for recording projects or infrastructure. Na- he offices of The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foun- gin finally gave his support, and Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco dation are on North Rampart Street in the Tremé, in touted it as one in a three-part package of entertainment industry a converted house full of hallways and small rooms bills (the others focused on expanded film incentives and digi- T — rumored to have been a brothel, Aiges says. His of- tal media). Music industry professionals dreamed of siphoning fice is large and light-filled, with an L-shaped desk covered in business off from the city’s “big three” competitors, Los Angeles, papers and with awards clustered in one corner. Tacked onto a Nashville and New York. Aiges celebrated with a family trip to bulletin board are concert passes and crayon drawings by his his parents’ vacation home in East Hampton, returning to attend children. The other available surfaces — walls, table and shelves,

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The backstage view of Rebirth Brass Band; says Aiges, “When I look out and see Congo Square like that, that to me feels like a win.” PHOTO: COURTESY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION/ERIC SIMON fireplace mantel — are covered with music-related photos and cultural programs throughout Louisiana; and is the spokesman paraphernalia from his years with the foundation. He indicates a and marketer for the foundation. photo above his desk from last year’s Congo Square New World “I never saw someone who could handle five projects simul- Rhythms Festival, taken from the band’s point of view and show- taneously as he does and with the professionalism and creative ing the shoulder-to-shoulder audience: “When I look out and see vision that he does,” Marshall says. Congo Square like that, that to me feels like a win.” Aiges also oversees administration and curriculum develop- Aiges was hired at the foundation in November 2006. “Scott ment at the Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music, a free had done something very dynamic and visionary in helping the after-school program that teaches technique and theory of jazz to state establish the tax incentives for the recording industry,” execu- kids ages 11–17. Leaving the foundation office, Aiges points out tive director Don Marshall says. “And he’s always been a strong, the building next door — a former funeral home, paint-cracked passionate voice in the community for the music industry and the and Gothic-columned — that is being refurbished as the first per- arts. After Katrina we really wanted to do more for the community, manent home for the school. Plans call for seven state-of-the-art with a focus on helping rebuild the music and arts community. I classrooms including drum and piano labs and technology for was interested in creating new events and festivals to employ our capturing audio and video for distance learning. The building is musicians, helping them to get back here and survive, and Scott also to serve as a community center, with a 200-seat auditorium for had had a lot of experience in that.” concerts, lectures and other events, and a recording studio for local “It was the first time in my life where I got to a place where musicians. Aiges estimates it’s two years from opening. I wasn’t the one music guy in the corner of the building. Every- Reflecting on his work with the foundation, Aiges says, “It’s body around me was focused on the same thing, and it was all been pretty miraculous getting to do all the things I love to do most. about music,” Aiges says. I get to throw these incredible parties and hire all of these musicians His first task was planning and executing the Crescent City who are talented and inspiring, and we get to teach all these young Blues Festival, one in a new series of smaller festivals (including people how to play, and to try to help people in the community Congo Square) designed to spotlight different niches in the city’s figure out how to deal with issues, whether it’s zoning and noise musical culture. The production of these and other festivals and ordinances or accessing computer technology for the arts — it’s an concerts, like the rest of Aiges’ responsibilities, comes under the incredible platform. And we’ve got money to do all of this. umbrella of education, economic development and cultural en- “All the time people say to me, you have the best job in the richment. He also coordinates lecture series, workshops and con- world, don’t you? And I’m like, yeah, kind of. I don’t want to ferences, including Sync Up, the entertainment industry confer- gloat but yeah, I kind of do. I’ve been very lucky.” ence that takes place during Jazz Fest; oversees a grants program that distributes more than $300,000 annually to educational and Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts is CCT’s managing editor.

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College students intern in Mumbai via Columbia Experience Overseas

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

Gathering at the Columbia Global Center in Mumbai were (left to right) Ben Harris ’14, David Kang ’15, Hannah Sotnick ’15, Allison Kammert ’15, Meghna Mukherjee ’15, Srilekha Jayanthi (former CGC personnel), Anjali Chowfla (former CGC personnel), Doreen Mohammed ’15 and Shrey Chandra ’15. PHOTO: COURTESY CCE

annah Sotnick ’15 is interested in foreign ed States with valuable international work experience and says languages and cultures and says she has al- she has clarified her career vision: “The experience affirmed my ways wanted to work abroad after gradua- interest in writing and publishing and working abroad as well as tion. Last year, as a sophomore, she started expanded my interest in working in a nonprofit.” looking for a way to work or intern abroad for the upcoming summer. “I was having ince 2007, CCE has been connecting with employers and difficulty finding a way to do so that would alumni in international locations to secure summer intern- allow me a source of income to pay for housing and so forth,” ships for rising juniors and seniors. CCE’s role includes in- Hshe says. Then a career counselor told her about Columbia Ex- Sternship development, arranging for housing and connect- perience Overseas (CEO), a Center for Career Education (CCE) ing with local alumni in cities including Amman, Beijing, Hong program that sends students to foreign cities to live together and Kong, , Shanghai, Singapore and, new in 2013, Mumbai work in eight-week internships. Sotnick applied for a position and Bangalore. This year 64 students worked abroad through CEO. in Mumbai, was interviewed by her would-be supervisor over “The CEO program was designed to provide students with Skype and was offered the job. accessible international internship opportunities that leverage “I was extremely excited after learning more about the Marg Columbia’s growing global presence,” says Kavita Sharma, dean Foundation — a nonprofit art publisher that promotes Indian art of CCE. “Employers are looking for candidates who are adaptable and culture — and the internship,” Sotnick says. She was a mar- and can relate to people from all walks of life. Interning abroad keting intern and shared a corporate apartment, provided by Co- contributes significantly not only to students’ professional devel- lumbia, with the seven other Columbia interns in Mumbai. With opment but also to their personal and social development. They some others in the group, she extended her stay to travel for nine become cross-culturally savvy and aware, skills that they leverage days in the northwest state of Rajasthan. She returned to the Unit- when they return to campus and in their future professional lives.”

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The CEO program was extended to Bangalore and Mumbai as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Pass- port to India initiative, which seeks to increase the number of American students going to India for study and work. President ’83 has declared India a defining partner of the 21st century yet, as the State Department website notes, “The pool of Americans ready to manage the growing political, economic and cul- tural ties between the U.S. and India is small. This is in part due to limited opportunities for American students in India.” In 2009–10, 2,690 Ameri- cans studied abroad in India, while 104,879 Indians studied in the U.S., according to the State Department. Citi provided start-up funding for the CEO Mumbai and Banglore program. After CCE’s outreach specialists CEO intern Ben Harris ’14 (far right) met with Secretary of State develop relationships with employ- John Kerry and others at the India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue in June in New Delhi. ers that yield internship opportuni- PHOTO: COURTESY CCE ties, students are recruited to the CEO internships through listings in the campus’ online jobs database, helpful in pointing us to the right people and places in India,” LionSHARE, and through a marketing campaign that includes Kang says. “Moreover, Jill [Burya, associate director of experiential email, in-person information sessions and one-on-one counsel- education] and the dean of CCE herself [Sharma] came to India ing meetings. The information sessions help students understand to see how we were. At every moment, they did the hard work of the available opportunities and the realities of working abroad, providing chances for networking at least twice a month.” and feature a panel of past CEO participants. “Students love to “I had a chance to meet some truly amazing people: one of hear firsthand accounts from their peers,” says Heather Perceval, India’s biggest economic advisers, several alumni — from bank CCE’s associate dean for experiential education. “Knowing that CEOs to restaurant pioneers — and the bosses of my fellow CEO their peers have navigated international internships and listening interns as well,” Chandra says. to their successes and challenges makes others feel that they, too, Leeza Mangaldas ’11 was a CEO intern in Hong Kong in 2010 can take up a CEO internship.” and says that the alumni mentors there formed a community for Students apply directly to employers and are interviewed by all the interns “that exposed us to some of the best social, cul- telephone or Skype. CCE arranges and pays for housing for all tural and intellectual experiences the city had to offer.” She stays interns, and covers visa and travel costs according to financial in touch with several of them, and now that she lives in Mum- need. Before departure, CCE holds an all-day orientation that re- bai and is exploring a career as an actress, she was inspired to views health and safety, offers tips on having a successful intern- become a CEO mentor herself. “I’m thrilled, as I had benefited ship and discusses cross-cultural communication skills. Breakout greatly from the mentorship equation,” Mangaldas says. “What sessions are city specific. a privilege to be able to carry it forward.” Among the 11 students who interned in India through CEO She says of her mentee, Mohammad, “She seemed to really this summer were one from GS, two from Engineering and eight make the most of her summer in India and to make a meaningful from the College. The College students were all in Mumbai, in- contribution to the organization she interned with. It was a plea- cluding Doreen Mohammad ’15 from Jamaica, Queens, who had sure being her mentor and I look forward to hearing what she does never left the United States; Shrey Chandra ’15, who was born in next.” Mumbai and hadn’t been back since his family emigrated when Rahul Jain ’08 never had an overseas experience as a student he was 8; and David Kang ’15, a Korean-American who envisions but credits the Columbia community in Mumbai with getting someday running for Congress. “If the stipend were not available him settled in India, where he works in private equity, within two or housing not provided, I certainly would not have been able to weeks of arrival. Part of his giving back was to mentor Sotnick this have my experiences in India,” says Kang, who interned at a law past summer, when he also connected with the other mentors and firm. “I’m infinitely grateful.” interns. He says of the latter, “I’m very impressed by their indepen- CCE arranges an on-site orientation and alumni event upon dence, their enthusiasm to absorb every part of work and tackle arrival in cities that have a Columbia Global Center — this year, their internships, and their openness to India. They were fearless that meant Amman, Beijing and Mumbai. “That was really help- and took full advantage of exploring Mumbai and adapted easily ful and made us all feel very welcomed and aware of the Colum- to life. They also walked away with a fresh perspective of what it bia community in Mumbai,” Sotnick says. means to live and work in an emerging market — a first for many.” The interns also are connected with Columbia alumni living lo- Upon their return to the U.S., students participate in a follow- cally who serve as mentors. “All of the mentors were extremely up reflection session, run by CCE, where they discuss their expe-

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Reflecting on CEO Mumbai

Allison Kammert ’15 majors in economics and political science. drove me insane. When I’m in New York City and need to go to This past summer, through the Center for Career Education’s an event or meeting somewhere I’ve never been, I’ll look up the Columbia Experience Overseas (CEO) program, she was a com- address and use street signs and smartphone maps to find my munications intern at Mumbai Mobile Creches, a nonprofit that way there. It’s entirely possible to get to a location you’ve never provides daycare for children of migrant construction workers. been without talking to anyone about it. While still in India, she took time out to write about her experience. Here, there are few visible street signs, and people navigate the city via well-known landmarks. In order to get somewhere you’ve applied to CEO positions that interested me in several never been, you need to ask at least six people on the street to cities and ultimately accepted my position point you in the right direction, and eventu- in Mumbai because I wanted to go ally you’ll get there. As I’ve spent more time somewhere very different. And it here, I’ve realized that while it can, in many worked! Mumbai is really, really ways, be easier to just put an address into Idifferent, in a great way. your iPhone, I’ve loved navigating Mum- Everyone I talked to about India, from my bai and seeing how everyone here works future supervisors at MMC to my friends almost like an 18-million-person team to get from India, kept telling me that Mumbai one another to where they’re going. is a “city of contradictions.” I didn’t fully Outside of work, the other interns and I understand what they meant until my first have traveled to and explored various des- days here. tinations in and around Mumbai. Outside of There are the more obvious contradic- Mumbai, people in our group have traveled tions, like the fact that one of the most ex- to New Delhi, Goa and Agra, and people will pensive malls in India is built approximately be traveling after their internships end as 50 ft. from the edge of Asia’s biggest slum. well. Within the city, we’ve visited the Gate- But there are also the less apparent contra- Allison Kammert ’15 (right) and way of India, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Hannah Sotnick ’15. Elephanta Island, the Dhobi Ghat and many dictions. For example, in an office setting PHOTO: COURTESY ALLISON KAMMERT ’15 here, people will rarely give a definitive no other places. Socially, we’ve met a lot of to a request you’ve made. They might avoid the request, or say young ex-pats and people originally from India through co-workers maybe, or talk around the point they’re trying to make until you and some of the younger mentors to whom we’ve been assigned. finally realize you’re being denied. Similarly, people can answer We’ve met a number of truly amazing Columbians through this questions very indirectly here. You’ll rarely get a succinct answer alumni mentor program. All the CEO mentors live in Mumbai; to a question you’ve asked, and it usually takes a while to get our group consists of the owner of several world-famous res- the information you really want. taurants, several high-level business executives, a Bollywood These sort of subtler, indirect behaviors contrast sharply with actress, a research studio owner and many others who have the not-so-subtle ways people will push you out of the way if gone far, far out of their way to welcome us to Mumbai and to you’re not getting onto the train fast enough, or the bright colors make our stay here as enriching as possible. of saris or super-spicy foods. Networking this summer has benefited us in ways far beyond Life here is completely different from life in the United States, just meeting potential business connections — we’ve made from the food, clothing and weather to the way people drive, great friends with and through these alums, picked up advice interact on the train and view life in general. When you live in the that made life in Mumbai so much easier and met people with same place for a long time, you develop a strong sense of what extraordinary life experiences that have been inspiring to hear you think “normal” is. Being here has made me realize that there about. Meeting our group of mentors made me realize how is no normal, and that maybe I should more often question why I willing to help a fellow Columbian so many alums are, which has do things the way I do at home. definitely motivated me to find other ways to engage with the For example, when I first got here, Mumbai’s inefficiencies alumni network upon graduation and even before that. riences and how they will be useful in the future. They also sub- red light district, and had never had to use her Hindi. Inspired by mit a project in the format of their choosing — such as a journal, her internship experience, Mukherjee says she’s now considering photo essay or blog — presenting their experience. learning how to read and write Hindi. Meghna Mukherjee ’15, who is from India but grew up in the Mohammed looked at all the CEO cities for any internship in Middle East and Singapore, applied to several internships in the human rights or public health before choosing to work at AAWC U.S. as well as to CEO internships in India, Jordan and Hong Kong as a marketing intern. “This was my first time outside of the U.S. but chose Mumbai. “This was the first time I’d been to India with- and it was quite a transformative, as well as eye-opening, experi- out the comfort of my family and my own house,” she says. “It’s ence,” says Mohammed, who speaks Bengali and has a working really the simple things that took getting used to, like the work knowledge of Hindi. “Living through and experiencing the in- environments, figuring out my own meals and getting around by justices, inequalities and realities that I grew up hearing about, myself on public transportation, not to mention being extremely reading about and learning about, in India and across the globe, careful about food and water.” Mukherjee says that the Columbia only continues to put things in perspective for me. Not a day goes Global Center support network, her fellow interns and her mentor by without my realizing my privilege and what it means to be an were all instrumental in getting her settled. She had never been to American.” Mumbai before her internship at Apne Aap Women’s Collective Kang says his internship at the law firm was “a crash course in (AAWC), a nonprofit that works with women and children of the econ, Indian law, corporate networking and market analysis — all

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Sightseeing at the Taj Mahal and Gateway of India (left to right) were Meghna Mukherjee ’15, David Kang ’15 and Doreen Mohammed ’15. PHOTO: LEFT, COURTESY DAVID KANG ‘15; RIGHT, COURTESY MEGHNA MUKHERJEE ‘15

at the same time,” and says that after working in Mumbai and ob- They get in your way, stop traffic and wander around on pedes- serving the local work ethic, he understands why India is poised trian streets and congested roads — and no one seems to mind.” for rapid growth. “The hunger and the desire that I saw every day Sotnick noted in her blog that local women’s habits of wearing at the office is something I’ll always remember,” he says. Western dress does not extend to shoes, hair or makeup: “It’s re- Ben Harris ’14 was a fundraising intern for Mumbai Mobile freshing to go to work without worrying about makeup or frizzy Creches, a nonprofit that runs daycare centers for children of migrant hair, and wearing harem pants that would be considered pajamas construction workers who live on the construction sites (a common in the U.S.,” she wrote. practice in India). “The staff was incredible,” he says. “From day one, Another entry describes being at a restaurant and ordering Dahi they treated us like co-workers instead of foreign interns.” He adds Pakoda Chaat, following Mohammed’s observation that the dishes that meeting Columbia alumni living in Mumbai showed him a pos- with the longest names usually turned out to be the best. “When I sible new path: “It hadn’t really occurred to me that picking up and ordered, the waiter, who spoke very little English and didn’t even moving to India after graduation is a real option.” know the word water, whipped this phrase out of his back pocket Harris also was one of three CEO Mumbai interns selected to unexpectedly: ‘It’s very spicy. Order another dish!’” Nonetheless, go to New Delhi at the end of June to attend a U.S.-India higher Sotnick wrote in the blog, “I didn’t, though … and I was fine!” education summit, where Secretary of State John Kerry was a key- Kang describes walking through “the slums of Santacruz that note speaker. Harris, along with Kang and Mohammed, met three are right beside the five-star accommodations Columbia has pro- interns from Honeywell, who subsequently visited the Columbia vided for me” and every day walking past a family using a tarp enclave in Mumbai. Kang and Mohammed reciprocated with a re- hung next to a wall as a home. “The poverty is jarring, and the turn trip to New Delhi, where they were shown the Taj Mahal and skyscrapers built next to it even more so,” he says. “It has defi- introduced to local restaurants. nitely been an eye-opening experience.” All of the interns return from overseas enriched by their experi- xperiencing the local culture and sampling its cuisine is ences, and many cite new career goals, including returning to the a mainstay of the CEO experience. Living together gives countries they worked in, which in the case of the Passport to India the interns a community and support network from which program is a main objective. “That’s not something I considered be- Eto navigate the foreign city, and they typically eat out and fore this,” Mukherjee says. “Even being Indian, I had no idea what sightsee together as well as attend Columbia-organized events. this country had to offer. If I were to come back here after graduation The Mumbai interns commuted by train, which several noted to work, it would be to Bombay, which I only figured out after living was a harrowing experience, with cars overflowing with people and working here through the CEO Mumbai program.” jostling for scarce space. Mukherjee notes that everything in Mum- bai was unpredictable, including the weather, the people and the Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA is contributing writer for CCT. Her animals. About the last she says, “Cows, bulls, oxen, goats, dogs, most recent feature, in the Summer 2013 issue, was about the Columbia cats, chickens, ducks … it’s like a little farmyard on the streets. College Alumni-Sponsored Student Internship Program.

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The Universe Within Neil Shubin ’82 explores the common history of rocks, planets and people

Neil Shubin ’82 is the Robert R. Bensley Professor, organismal biology and ana­ tomy, and associate dean for academic strategy at the University of . He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. A distinguished paleontologist, Shubin has developed expeditionary research programs in realms as far afield as Asia, Africa and Greenland. In his first book, the best-selling Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body [see cover story, March/April 2011], he traced the links between human anatomy and that of the fish that first came onto land hundreds of millions of PHOTO: ©JOHN WEINSTEIN/THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY years ago. His latest volume, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, provides an even broader map of our vast existence. Shubin, as The Wall Street Journal points out, “tracks the very atoms in our bodies back to the Big Bang … What is special about the book is its sweep, its scope, its panorama.” In the following excerpt from The Universe Within, Shubin describes the high drama of a scientific expedition in the frozen ridges of Greenland. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard

Journeying to Greenland to prospect for fossils were (clockwise from top left) Professor Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of biology and at Harvard and curator of vertebrate at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (Jenkins died in November 2012); laboratory colleagues Chuck Schaff and Bill Amaral; and Shubin. PHOTOS: COURTESY BILL AMARAL; BACKGROUND PHOTO: KORHAN OZKAN

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iewed from the sky, my compan- The playbook that fossil hunters use to develop new places to ion and I must have looked like two look has been pretty much unchanged for the past 150 years. In- black specks perched high on a vast tellectually, it is as simple as it gets: find places on the planet that plain of rock, snow, and ice. It was have rocks of the right age to answer whatever question interests the end of a long trek, and we were you, rocks of the type likely to hold fossils, and rocks exposed on slogging our way back to camp on a the surface. The less you have to dig, the better. This approach, ridge sandwiched between two of the which I described in Your Inner Fish, led me and my colleagues, greatest ice sheets on the planet. The in 2004, to find a fish at the cusp of the transition to life on land. clear northern sky opened a panora- As a student in the early 1980s, I gravitated to a team that had ma that swept from the pack ice of the developed tools to make headway finding new places to hunt Arctic Ocean in the east to the seemingly boundless Greenland fossils. Their goal was to uncover the earliest relatives of mam- ice cap to our west. After a productive day prospecting for fossils mals in the fossil record. The group had found small shrewlike Vand an exhilarating hike, and with the majestic vista around us, fossils and their reptilian cousins in a number of places in the we felt as if we were walking on top of the world. American West, but by the mid-1980s their success had brought Our reverie was abruptly cut short by a change in the rocks them to an impasse. The problem is best captured by the jest, beneath our feet. As we traversed the bedrock, brown sand- “Each newly discovered missing link creates two new gaps in the stones gave way to ledges of pink limestone that, from our earlier fossil record.” They had done their share of creating gaps and discoveries, became an auspicious sign that fossils were in the were now left with one in rocks about 200 million years old. neighborhood. After we spent a few minutes peering at boulders, The search for fossil sites is aided by economics and politics. With alarm bells went off; my attention was pulled to an unusual glim- the potential for significant oil, gas, and mineral discoveries, there mer flashing from a corner of a melon-sized rock. Experience in are incentives for countries to catalog and map the geology exposed the field taught me to respect the sensation triggered by these inside their borders. Consequently, virtually any geological library moments. We had traveled to Greenland to hunt for small fossils, holds journal articles, reports, and, one hopes, maps detailing the so I hunched over my magnifying lens to scan the rock closely. age, structure, and mineral content of the rocks exposed on the sur- The sparkle that arrested me sprang from a little white spot, no face of different regions. The challenge is to find the right maps. bigger than a sesame seed. I spent the better part of five minutes Professor Farish A. Jenkins Jr. led the team at Harvard’s Muse- curled up with the rock close to my eyes before passing it to my um of Comparative Zoology. Fossil discovery was the coin of the colleague Farish for his expert opinion. realm for him and his crew, and it started in the library. Farish’s Concentrating attention on the fleck with his lens, Farish froze laboratory colleagues Chuck Schaff and Bill Amaral were key solid. His eyes shot back to me with a look of pent-up emotion, dis- in this effort; they had honed their understanding of geology to belief, and surprise. Rising from his crouch, he took off his gloves and predict likely places to make discoveries, and, importantly, they launched them about twenty feet in the air. Then he nearly crushed trained their eyes to find really small fossils. Their relationship me with one of the most titanic bear hugs I have ever received. often took the form of a long, friendly argument: one would pro- Farish’s exuberance made me forget the near absurdity of feel- pose a new idea while the other would relentlessly try to quash ing excitement at finding a tooth not much bigger than a grain of it. If the idea held up under their largely amiable tit for tat, then sand. We found what we had spent three years, countless dollars, they would both line up behind the proposal and take it to Farish, and many sprained ligaments looking for: a 200-million-year- with his keen logistic and scientific sense, for vetting. old link between reptiles and mammals. But this project was no One day in 1986, while chewing the fat with Chuck, Bill found miniature trophy hunt. The little tooth represents one of our own a copy of the Shell Oil Guide to the Permian and Triassic of the World links to worlds long gone. Hidden inside these Greenlandic rocks on Chuck’s desk. Paging through the volume, Bill spotted a map lie our deep ties to the forces that shaped our bodies, the planet, of Greenland, with a little hatched area of Triassic rocks on the even the entire universe. eastern coast at a latitude of about 72 degrees north, roughly that Seeing our connections to the natural world is like detecting of the northernmost tip of Alaska. Bill kicked things off by pro- the pattern hidden inside an optical illusion. We encounter bodies, claiming that this could be a prime next area to work. The usual rocks, and stars every day of our lives. Train the eye, and these fa- argument ensued, with Chuck denying that the rocks were the miliar entities give way to deeper realities. When you learn to view right type, Bill responding, and Chuck countering. the world through this lens, bodies and stars become windows to By dumb luck, Chuck had the means to end the debate right a past that was vast almost beyond comprehension, occasionally on his bookshelf. A few weeks earlier, he was trolling through the catastrophic, and always shared among living things and the uni- library discards and pulled out a paper titled “Revision of Triassic verse that fostered them. Stratigraphy of the Scoresby Land and Jameson Land Region, East How does such a big world lie inside this tiny tooth, let alone Greenland,” authored by a team of Danish geologists in the 1970s. inside our bodies? The story starts with how we ended up on that Little did anyone know at the time, but this freebie, saved from the frozen Greenlandic ridge in the first place. trash heap, was to loom large in our lives for the next ten years. Virtually from the minute Bill and Chuck looked at the maps in the magine arriving at a vista that extends as far as the eye can reprint, the debate was over. see, knowing you are looking inside it for a fossil the size My graduate student office was down the hall, and as was typ- of the period that ends this sentence. If fossil bones can be ical for that time in the late afternoon, I swung by Chuck’s office Ismall, so too are whole vistas relative to the surface area of to see what was what. Bill was hovering about, and it was clear Earth. Knowing how to find past life means learning to see rocks that some residue from one of their debates remained in the air. not as static objects but as entities with a dynamic and often vio- Bill didn’t say much; he just slapped Chuck’s geological reprint lent history. It also means understanding that our bodies, as well down in front of me. In it was a map that showed exactly what we as our entire world, represent just moments in time. had hoped for. Exposed on the eastern coast of Greenland, across

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The search for fossils, such as this fish gathered from a muddy area near the southwestern coast of Greenland in the 1980s, has taken Shubin to remote locations around the world. PHOTO: KEITH DOTSON the ocean from , were the perfect kinds of rocks in which elevations near camp and scan the distance with binoculars for any to find early mammals, dinosaurs, and other scientific goodies. of the exposures that figured so prominently in the paper Bill and The maps looked exotic, even ominous. The east coast of Green- Chuck had found. Our search was eased by the fact that the rock lay- land is remote and mountainous. And the names evoke explorers ers were collectively known as red beds for their characteristic hue. of the past: Jameson Land, Scoresby Land, and Wegener Halvø. With red rock on our minds, we went off in teams, Chuck and It didn’t help matters that I knew that a number of explorers had Farish climbing hills to give them views of the southern rocks, Bill perished during their trips there. and I setting off for places that would reveal those to the north. Fortunately, the expeditions that transpired ultimately rested Three days into the hunt, both teams returned with the same on Farish’s, Bill’s, and Chuck’s shoulders. With about sixty years news. Out in the distance, about six miles away to the north- of fieldwork between them, they had developed a deep reservoir east, was a sliver of red. We’d argue about this little outcrop of of hard-earned knowledge about working in different kinds of rock, scoping it with our binoculars at every opportunity for the field conditions. Of course, few experiences could have prepared remainder of the week. Some days, when the light was right, it us for this one. As a famed expedition leader once told me, “There seemed to be a series of ridges ideal for fossil work. is nothing like your first trip to the Arctic.” It was decided that Bill and I would scout a trail to get to the I learned plenty of lessons that first year in Greenland, ones that rocks. Since I didn’t know how to walk in the Arctic, and had were to become useful when I began running my own Arctic expe- made an unfortunate boot selection, the trek turned out to be an ditions eleven years later. By bringing leaky leather boots, a small ordeal — first through boulder fields, then across small glaciers, used tent, and a huge flashlight to the land of mud, ice, and the and pretty much through mud for the rest of the way. The mud midnight sun, I made so many bad choices that first year that I formed from wet clay that made an indelicate glurp as we extri- remained smiling only by reciting my own motto, “Never do any- cated our feet from each step. No footprint remained, only a jig- thing for the first time.” gling viscous mass. The most nerve-racking moment of that inaugural trip came In three days of testing routes, we plotted a viable course to the when selecting the initial base camp, a decision made in a fleeting promising rocks. After a four-hour hike, the red sliver in our bin- moment while flying in a helicopter. As the rotors turn, money flies ocular view from camp turned out to be a series of cliffs, ridges, out the window, because the costs of Arctic helicopters can be as and hillocks of the exact kind of rock we needed. With any luck, high as three thousand dollars per hour. On a paleontology budget, bones would be weathering out of the rock’s surface. geared more to beat-up pickups than to Bell 212 Twin Hueys, that The goal now became to return with Farish and Chuck, doing means wasting no time. Once over a promising site revealed by the the hike as fast as possible to leave enough time to hunt for bones maps back in the laboratory, we rapidly check off a number of im- before having to turn back home. Arriving with the whole crew, Bill portant properties before setting down. We need to find a patch of and I felt like proud homeowners showing off our property. Farish ground that is dry and flat yet still close to water for our daily camp and Chuck, tired from the hike but excited about the prospect of needs, far enough inland so that polar bears aren’t a problem, shield- finding fossils, were in no mood to chat. They swiftly got into the ed from the wind, and near exposures of rock to study. paleontological rhythm of walking the rocks at a slow pace, eyes We had a good idea of the general area from the maps and on the ground, methodically scanning for bone at the surface. aerial photographs, and ended up setting down on a beautiful Bill and I set off for a ridge about half a mile away that would little patch of tundra in the middle of a wide valley. There were give us a view of what awaited us even farther north. After a creeks from which we could draw water. The place was flat and small break, Bill started to scan the landscape for anything of dry, so we could pitch our tents securely. It even had a gorgeous interest: our colleagues, polar bears, other wildlife. He stopped view of a snowy mountain range and glacier on the eastern end scanning and said, “Chuck’s down.” Training my binoculars on of the valley. But we would soon discover a major shortcoming. his object, I could see Chuck was indeed on his hands and knees There were no decent rocks within easy walking distance. methodically crawling on the rock. To a paleontologist this meant Once camp was established to our satisfaction, we set off each one thing: Chuck was picking up fossil bones. day with one goal in mind: to find the rocks. We’d climb the highest Our short amble to Chuck confirmed the promise of the binocu-

FALL 2013 42 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY NEIL SHUBIN ’82 lar scan; he had indeed found a small piece of bone. But our hike to rom the top of the ridge, the tents of camp looked like tiny this little spot had taken four hours, and we now had to head back. white dots just below the horizon. The crest was wind- We set off, with Farish, Bill, Chuck, and me in a line about thirty swept, but the bluff of pink limestone on which we were feet apart. After about a quarter of a mile something on the ground Fseated formed a quiet shield for Farish and me to assess the caught my eye. It had a sheen that I’d seen before. Dropping to my discovery. Farish’s jubilation confirmed my hunch that the white knees like Chuck an hour earlier, I saw it in its full glory, a hunk of spot in the rock was indeed a mammal tooth. With the character- bone the size of my fist. To the left was more bone, to the right even istic pattern of three cusps and two roots, it was a dead ringer for more. I called to Farish, Bill, and Chuck. No response. Looking up, one of these beasts. I knew why. They were also on their hands and knees. We were all Armed with confidence that came from this first discovery, the crawling in the same colossal field of broken bones. team looked widely across east Greenland, eventually finding At summer’s end, we returned boxes of these fossil bones to the better mammal fossils in subsequent years. The fossils came from lab, where Bill put them together like a three-dimensional jigsaw a small shrewlike animal about half the size of a house mouse. puzzle. The creature was about twenty feet long, with a series of flat Although it lacks the sort of awe-inspiring skeleton that would leaf-shaped teeth, a long neck, and a small head. The beast had the grace a museum rotunda, its beauty lies elsewhere. diagnostic limb anatomy of a dinosaur, albeit a relatively small one. This is one of the first creatures in the fossil record with our kind This kind of dinosaur, known as a prosauropod, holds an impor- of teeth: those with cutting surfaces defined by cusps that occlude tant place in North American paleontology. Dinosaurs in eastern on upper and lower teeth with a tooth row subdivided into inci- North America were originally discovered along streams, railroad sors, canines, and molars. It has an ear that is like ours also, con- lines, and roads, the only places with decent exposures of rocks. taining little bones that connect the eardrum to the inner ear. Its The eminent Yale paleontologist Richard Swann Lull (1867–1957) skull pattern, shoulder, and limb are also decidedly mammalian. found a prosauropod in a rock quarry in Manchester, Connecticut. We don’t know for sure, but it likely had hair and other mamma- The only problem was that it was the back end. The block con- lian features such as milk-producing glands. Every time we chew, taining the front end, he was chagrined to learn, had earlier been hear high pitches, or rotate our hands, we use parts of our anatomy incorporated into the abutment of a bridge in the town of South that can be traced through primates and other mammals to the Manchester. Undeterred, Lull described the dinosaur from its rear structures in these little creatures from 200 million years ago. Who knows what fossil dinosaurs remain to be discovered deep inside Manhattan? The island’s famous brownstone town houses are made of this same kind of sandstone. end only. When the bridge was demolished in 1969, the other frag- The rocks also tie us to the past; rifts in Earth, like those that ments came to light. Who knows what fossil dinosaurs remain led us to find fossil mammals in Greenland, have left their traces to be discovered deep inside Manhattan? The island’s famous in our bodies as much as they have in the crust of the planet. The brownstone town houses are made of this same kind of sandstone. Greenlandic rocks are like one page in a vast library of volumes The hills in Greenland form large staircases of rock that not that contain the story of our world. Billions of years of history only break boots but also tell the story of the stones’ origins. Hard preceded that little tooth, and 200 million years have followed it. layers of sandstones, almost as resistant as concrete, poke out Through eons on Earth, seas have opened and closed, mountains from softer ones that weather away more quickly. Virtually iden- have risen and eroded, and asteroids have come crashing down as tical staircases lie farther south; matching sandstones, siltstones, the planet has coursed its way through the solar system. The layers and shales extend from North Carolina to Connecticut all the of rock record era after era of changes to the climate, atmosphere, way to Greenland. These layers have a distinctive signature of and crust of the planet itself. Transformation is the order of the day faults and sediment. They speak of places where lakes sat inside for the world: bodies grow and die, species emerge and go extinct, steep valleys that formed as the earth fractured apart. The pattern while every feature of our planetary and celestial home undergoes of ancient faults, volcanoes, and lake beds in these rocks is almost gradual change or episodes of catastrophic revolution. identical to the great rift lakes in Africa today — Lake Victoria Rocks and bodies are kinds of time capsules that carry the signa- and Lake Malawi — where movements inside Earth cause the ture of great events that shaped them. The molecules that compose surface to split and separate, leaving a gaping basin filled by the our bodies arose in stellar events in the distant origin of the solar water of lakes and streams. In the past, rifts like these extended system. Changes to Earth’s atmosphere sculpted our cells and en- all the way up the coast of North America. tire metabolic machinery. Pulses of mountain building, changes in From the beginning, our whole plan was to follow the trail of orbits of the planet, and revolutions within Earth itself have had an the rifts. Knowing that the rocks in eastern North America con- impact on our bodies, minds, and the way we perceive the world tained dinosaurs and small mammal-like creatures gave us the around us. aha moment with Chuck’s geological reprint. That, in turn, led us north to Greenland. Then, once in Greenland, we pursued the From the Book: THE UNIVERSE WITHIN by Neil Shubin. Copyright © discoveries on the ground like pigeons following a trail of bread 2013 by Neil Shubin. Published by arrangement with Pantheon Books, an crumbs. It took three years, but clues in the red beds ultimately imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Ran- led us to that frozen ridge I trekked with Farish. dom House LLC.

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MESSAGE FROM CCAA PRESIDENT KYRA TIRANA BARRY ’87 Fund Volunteers Link Alumni to the College

t the Columbia College Alumni As- Zila Acosta ’11 provides a unique perspective sociation Board, we’ve spent the as a recent graduate. She sees the College’s dedica- better part of the last year examin- tion to its students and the difference every dollar ing alumni engagement and build- can make in enhancing the Columbia experience. ing connections between students Former CCAA board member Don Margolis Aand alumni. We’re thrilled with the progress ’63, ’65 Business always has been passionate we’ve made, yet it wouldn’t have been possible about financial aid, giving as generously as he without another part of the CCAA’s mandate — could. Until five years ago he was not involved our leadership of the Columbia College Fund. in asking for money but for his recent 50th re- Together, these complementary roles contribute union he pursued first gifts from classmates. to students’ experiences and Columbia’s ability Not only did he reconnect with his fencing team- to achieve excellence. mates and peers, bringing some back to campus, The College Fund’s extraordinary growth dur- but by reaching out he also helped classmates ing the past 15 years has paralleled all external reconnect to alma mater. markers of the College’s ascent. This year was Chuck Callan ’78 hosted a pre-reunion party, no exception. Thanks to several hundred alumni Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 bringing together classmates and building ex- fund volunteers — including Class Agents, mem- PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO citement for reunion, and he also re-engaged bers of the Fund Development Council, Reunion with his fraternity, ZBT. He says he has had more Committees and young alumni committees — we are able to report contact with Columbia and Columbians in the last five years than remarkable results this year: in the previous 30 years since graduation. n More than 11,000 College alumni (including the Class of 2013) made a financial gift to the College. erald Sherwin ’55 has connected more students and n The College won the Trustee Challenge on Columbia Giving alumni through volunteering at Columbia than anyone, Day 2012, held last October, when alumni across the University Gwhich is why Columbia College Young Alumni created showed their support for their school by giving on one day. This an award in his honor. The Gerald Sherwin ’55 Young Alumni year it will be held on Wednesday, October 23. Service Award is bestowed upon an individual who has dem- n The College earned the full matching gift in the University’s onstrated exceptional service and has enhanced the community, April fundraising drive, A Million Reasons to Give. well-being or engagement of the College’s young alumni. The n After years of surpassing all participation levels for Senior inaugural awardees are: Fund participation among its Ivy League peers, the Class of 2013 Nathania Nisonson ’03: A champion of the fund, Nat is a consis- Senior Fund broke records for commitments to Dean James J. Val- tent leadership donor, a Class Agent and a CCAA board member, entini’s 3-2-1 Challenge: Make a gift for three and she has been co-chair of the Young Alumni years, ask two friends to join in and have your gift Fund Spring Benefit since its inception seven matched 1:1 by an alumnus/a. CCAA Columbia years ago. She also was a member of her 10th While the dollar figures are important, just as College Fund Leaders Reunion Committee. central is the fund’s role in connecting alumni Michael Novielli ’03: Known as the “grandfa- to the College and to students. Speak with fund Michael Behringer ’89 ther” of CCYA, Novi is credited with reenergizing volunteers and you realize that their passion for Ira Malin ’75 the group 10 years ago. His classmates call him Columbia, for their classmates and the College’s co-chairs “Mr. Columbia.” He is an Alumni Representative students drives their involvement. Each contact Columbia College Fund Committee member, a Class Agent, a CCT class with an alumnus/a is an opportunity to renew James Gerkis ’80, ’83L correspondent and a CAA board member; and he Columbia connections or make new ones. Most Ted Schweitzer ’91, ’94L was a member of his 10th Reunion Committee. importantly, it’s an opportunity to find ways to co-chairs The next time an alumnus/a reaches out to better students’ experiences in the same way Fund Development Council you, turn the tables. Ask why he or she makes that alumni before us enriched ours. calls on behalf of the College. Ask what’s hap- Fund volunteers provide a critical link be- Francis Phillip ’90 pening on campus and how you can make a tween the College and its alumni. They stay up to Dan Tamkin ’81 difference for a student. Whether it’s joining date on what is happening on campus and with co-chairs ARC, making calls for the fund, mentoring students and frequently return to Morningside Class Agent Program a student or providing an internship, you can Heights for special events. Their feedback helps Randy Berkowitz ’04 make a difference. Consider joining the team; the CCAA shape its agenda and advise the dean Julia Feldberg ’10 this is Our Columbia. Together as alumni, we on College priorities. Fund volunteers are a di- co-chairs make the difference. verse group of alumni who have given back to Young Alumni Fund Columbia in a variety of ways. Here are but a few Advisory Board examples:

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The Great Civilized Conversation: This collection, a poetic account of James Lendeman, whose experi- to leaders who need help navigat- Education for a World Community Jewish life in the Diaspora, is the ences call into question the future of ing a course to success through by Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, the John culmination of a five-year project maintaining a viable U.S. economy the uncertainty and challenges of Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and in which Hirschhorn drew on more (Two Harbors Press, $16.95). the business world (RosettaBooks, Provost Emeritus. De Bary advocates than 1,000 Yiddish songs (Holland e-book $5.99). for incorporating classics from both Park Press, $14). Growth and Turbulence in the Eastern and Western traditions into Container/Contained: Bion’s 100 Years of Soccer in America: modern core curricula, bringing The Little Champ: A Different Continuing Legacy edited by The Official Book of the US the philosophies and moral values Kind of Novel by Arthur M. Louis Howard B. Levine ’64 and Lawrence Soccer Federation edited by Neil of Asian civilizations to American ’59. Immigrant boxer Abe Wash- J. Brown. This book surveys current Buethe, Jim Trecker ’67 and Jacob students and vice versa (Columbia ington seeks redemption for his trends in Bionian psychoanalytic Lehman, with an introduction by University Press, $35). role in fixing the 1919 World Series. scholarship, covering topics from Sunil Gulati, senior lecturer in eco- Recounting his life as he is close to the historical/biographical to the nomics and president of the U.S. Arthur H. Westing: Pioneer on the death, he provides a rough picture clinical, theoretical, cultural and Soccer Federation. Illustrated with Environmental Impact of War by of Jazz Age America and early 20th- more (Routledge, $49.95). striking photography, this official Arthur H. Westing ’50. This collec- century prizefighting (CreateSpace USSF publication is a centennial tion addresses the environmental Independent Publishing Platform, Thomas Hauser on Sports: Re- history of soccer in the United consequences of warfare in $16.95). membering the Journey by Thomas States (Rizzoli/Universe, $45). and Kuwait, the environmental Hauser ’67. The author, best known impact of nuclear war and more What’s Going on at UAardvark? By as a boxing journalist, brings Endless Empire: ’s Retreat, (Springer, $49.95). Lawrence S. Wittner ’62. A university together an array of his articles on Europe’s Eclipse, America’s De- becomes the site of rebellion in other sports. Subjects include ten- cline edited by Alfred W. McCoy Holding the Center: In Defense Wittner’s satiric novel addressing nis pioneer Arthur Ashe, the NFL ’68, Josep M. Fradera and Stephan of Political Trimmings by Eugene the corporate takeover of higher overtime rule, the Westminster Jacobson. These essays discuss the Goodheart ’53. Goodheart argues education in contemporary America Kennel Club Dog Show and more history of empire that has domi- that non-parliamentary democracy (Solidarity Press, $14.95). (University of Arkansas Press, nated the globe for the past four requires compromise and humility $24.95). millennia (University of Wiscon- to address crisis in a time of divided The Race for What’s Left: The sin Press, $29.95). government (Transaction Publish- Global Scramble for the World’s , the Church, and the ers, $44.95). Last Resources by Michael T. Klare Law of Unintended Consequences: The Persistent Observer’s Guide ’63. As resource extraction methods How Christian Anti-Judaism to Wine: How to Enjoy the Best Heart of Wisdom by Alan N. become more complex and danger- Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism by and Skip the Rest by J.P. Bary, pen Clifford, pen name of Dr. Peter F. ous, Klare warns of the disputes Anthony Sciolino ’67. Sciolino holds name of Paul de Bary ’68. Informed Cohn ’58. The author illustrates the and environmental risks made the Catholic Church accountable by extensive interviews with wine conflicts and moral complexities inevitable by the rush to secure oil, for bigotry and authoritarianism, consumers of all levels, de Bary of medical research in this novel gas and other resources (Picador, highlighting its marginalization of uses his vast knowledge of wine about a cardiologist and the profes- $17). Jews as the precursor to the Holo- to write this comprehensive guide sor he meets through a prestigious caust (iUniverse, $20.95). (Neon Press, $19.99). fellowship (Lion Publishers, $8.95). Of Time and Place by B.R. Free­ mont, pen name of Ben Freiberger CEO Psychology: Who Rises, After Tocqueville: The Promise To Sing Away the Darkest Days: ’64. Set during the 21st-century Who Falls and Why by Dr. and Failure of Democracy by Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish global energy crisis, the novel Kenneth M. Settel ’67 with Joseph Chilton Williamson Jr. ’69. Challeng- Folksongs by Norbert Hirschhorn ’58. follows the career and love life of Cardillo. This book offers guidance ing the assertion that democracy

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oris Kachka ’97, ’98J touched a culture, and about how you make culture, as nerve when “The End,” his New opposed to commerce.” York magazine story about the state The book centers on Straus and Giroux, of the publishing industry, hit the whose differing skills, methods and tem- Bstands in September 2008. It was a time peraments served the publishing house well of great financial uncertainty. Banks were yet made for a sometimes precarious bal- crashing, unemployment was rising, the ance. Straus was larger than life, a wealthy foreclosure crisis was in full force — and the and gregarious man-about-town in a Mer- publishing world didn’t look much better. cedes convertible, his ascot trailing in the With independent publishing houses and wind. He was charismatic, brash, arrogant retail bookshops flirting with extinction and and profane, yet he radiated warmth and e-books and online retailing upending the earned his writers’ trust by demonstrating traditional business model, pessimism was the courage of his convictions; he was more rampant. than willing to lose money for the honor of The story received a lot of attention, and publishing great literature. Not that he read to Kachka’s eye it was a topic worthy of much of it. Straus flattered and coddled au- further consideration. Now, five years later, thors, but he read quickly and selectively in his first book, Hothouse: The Art of Survival order to get a feel for a manuscript: I didn’t and the Survival of Art at America’s Most read your book, he’d say, “I read in it.” Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar Straus Giroux, too, inspired faith in his writers & Giroux (Simon & Schuster, $27), takes a PHOTO: MIA TRAN ’97 — several named him executor of their deeper look at the industry by focusing on estates — and he did more than his part one of the country’s greatest and most idiosyncratic purveyors to care for them, stroking their egos and acting as confidante, of the written word. adviser and nursemaid. And though some said Giroux’s own ego The book traces Farrar Straus & Giroux (FSG) from its founding was just as formidable as Straus’, his demeanor, personality and by John Farrar and Roger Straus Jr. in 1946 and provides compel- talents couldn’t have been more different. At his funeral, friends ling portraits of the people who made it an inimitable success. eulogized him for his humility, “for his turkey-sandwich-and- Together, publisher Straus and editor Robert Giroux ’36 set Jell-O lunches at his desk” and for “a dearth of personal photos the standard for literary publishers, bucking the trends set by that could be used at the service.” He was studious and erudite increasingly corporate houses by publishing, in Kachka’s words, (he was mentored at the College by ’21 GSAS), “what they loved, and little else.” In the process they helped a thorough and sensitive editor who immersed himself in his define post-WWII literary and intellectual America with a roster authors’ manuscripts. Occasionally, though, he was troubled by that included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Joan Didion, Philip the notion that the old adage was true: that every editor was a Roth and Tom Wolfe. failed writer. Kachka’s original New York article was spurred Both men had lives outside the office — Straus in part by Wolfe’s decision, earlier that year, to was married and Giroux had a longtime partner — leave FSG after four decades for Little, Brown and but neither maintained a clear boundary between Co. — and a $7 million advance. “It seemed to the personal and the professional. They socialized signal the end for FSG’s kind of publishing,” says with authors, vacationed with them and spent Kachka. Coupled with the death of Giroux that much of their personal time nurturing them and same September (Straus died in 2004), the time bailing them out of jams. They lived and breathed seemed ripe to take stock. FSG, and for Kachka this was part of the appeal of Kachka’s friend Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris the story. Essentially it’s a portrait of “people who Review, helped him get started by pointing him are at their best while working,” he says. toward the FSG archives at the New York Public It was fitting that Kachka should be the one to Library. “He didn’t know where the bodies were write this book, and not simply by virtue of the buried,” Kachka says, “but he knew there were Columbia connection. His first job was as a fact bodies.” FSG’s current president and publisher, checker at New York, and soon he took over the Jonathan Galassi, put him in touch with the Straus magazine’s culture listings. Then, in 2004, Adam family, notably Roger Straus Jr.’s son, Roger III ’67, the Moss came in as editor-in-chief and expanded the onetime heir apparent whose working relationship with his father culture coverage, giving Kachka a shot at writing. He’s now been was often strained. The younger Straus, in addition to agreeing to writing about literature, publishing and theatre for the magazine be interviewed, gave Kachka access to his father’s unpublished for about a decade. reminiscences, held in the Columbia Center for Oral History. Kachka spent five years researching and writingHothouse in “There was plenty of untouched material,” says Kachka. his spare time — “a marathon,” he says, compared with maga- Though a behind-the-scenes tale of a literary publishing house zine writing. But his experience and his contacts made him well ran the risk of drawing a small readership, Kachka believed the qualified to tell the story of FSG. “It’s a good marriage of subject, story amounted to more than literary shop talk. “It’s a family access and me.” story, about generations and about how mores change, and it’s a family business story. And it’s a story about the rise of corporate Justin DeFreitas is a Bay Area writer, editor and artist.

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Rise of Henry Ford by Richard ist and actor’s final work, written examines the transformation of the Snow ’70. Historian Snow delivers in verse, surveys characters whose Aztec empire into a Spanish colony China’s Search for Security by a fresh account of Michigan’s Ford lives are linked by acts of generos- through the visual and written Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 and the way he revolutionized ity or cruelty (Doubleday, $26.95). representations of dance in colonial Professor of Political Science, and American industry through the discourse (University of Texas Andrew Scobell. The authors explain invention of the Model T (Scribner, Bodies in Formation: An Ethnog- Press, $55). China’s international security $30). raphy of Anatomy and Surgery concerns regarding countries such Education by Rachel Prentice ’87. 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Taking a holistic establish more peaceful relations poems, the author investigates citizens (University of Pennsylvania approach that covers subjects from with the and slow what it means to look at the world, Press, $69.95). diet and exercise to test-taking down the proliferation of nuclear to live in the world and to wonder strategies, the author advises stu- arms (Random House Publishing about it in ways that are at once The Heavy: A Mother, A Daugh- dents on how to achieve academic Group, $26). speculative and specific (Lavender ter, A Diet — A Memoir by success (Sourcebooks, $14.99). Ink, $15). Dara-Lynn Weiss ’92. Against the Rewiring the Real: In Conversa- backdrop of current debates on Our Naked Lives: Essays from tion with William Gaddis, Richard Manhattan Equinox by Lou Orfan- childhood obesity and parenting, Gay Italian-American Men edited Powers, Mark Danielewski, and ella ’82. 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In this story of mental and society, and their spiritual influ- Built the American Dream by growth and indomitable will, jour- High Price: A Neuroscientist’s ences (Columbia University Press, Thomas Dyja ’84. Windy City native nalist Prager reflects on the bus Journey of Self-Discovery That $27.50). Dyja re-creates the story of Chicago accident that left him paralyzed Challenges Everything You Know

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1937 a Kellett Fellow in Economics at 1942 dale, N.Y., on August 19, 2012. George W. Hoyns Jr., retired real Cambridge University (1938–39) Warren C. Baum, retired econo- Norr graduated Phi Beta Kappa estate broker, Sugar Land, Texas, and a trustee of the Columbia mist, Bethesda, Md., on August from Columbia, from which he on September 29, 2012. Hoyns was University Press (1975–81). During 22, 2012. Baum was born in New also earned an M.B.A. from the born in New York City in 1916. In WWII, he served with the Navy in York City on January 1, 1922, and Business School (1948). He served 1945 he moved to Montvale, N.J., the Pacific. O’Connell was an eco- graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the in the Army in WWII. Norr inter- where he served on the Board of nomics editorial writer for the New College. During WWII, he served twined careers as a financial ana- Education. Hoyns worked at Ford York Herald Tribune from 1949–57. in the Office of Strategic Services, lyst, investment adviser and CPA. Instrument Co. and then in real es- He joined the U-Md. faculty in where he was based in London and He was the only analyst to serve tate. After founding George Hoyns 1962 and spent 11 years as dean worked with intelligence gathered on the Accounting Principles Board Realty he was manager for Lewis of the former College of Business from the “Ultra” project. He earned and was active on several SEC & Haring Realtors in Newton, N.J. and Public Administration, then a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard committees on reporting problems; Hoyns moved to Texas in 2011. He was v.p. of general administration and then worked for the Marshall he appeared before a Senate sub- loved science and was a member from 1973–79, when he returned to Plan and the RAND Corp., where committee on stock options. Norr of the Audubon Society. He was teaching. He was named emeritus he authored the book The French devoted much effort to improving preceded in death by his brother, professor in 1986. At 74, O’Connell Economy and the State. In 1959, Baum disclosure for investors and was Alfred; twin sisters, Harriet C. Bo- won a Fulbright grant to teach joined the World Bank, where he a frequent speaker and the author gert and Elsa R. Reilly; wife, Gloria; economics in Mexico. His wife of rose from staff economist to v.p. for of several articles and pamphlets and former wife, Muriel. Surviv- 56 years, the former Jeanne Austin, projects, policies and research. In on financial matters. He fought for ing family includes Lawrence S. predeceased him in 2009. Survivors addition to writing two books for expensing unsuccessful wells in and Barbara Hoyns, George W. III, include his children, Ellen Lewis, the bank, he chaired the award- the oil industry and for expensing Jonathan C., Elsbeth M., Andrew Stephen, Lauren and Marcia, and winning Consultative Group on the cost of stock options, and was H., James J. Dwyer and Lindsey W. their spouses; and six grandchil- International Agricultural Research. early to advocate stock buybacks. Dwyer; and eight grandchildren. dren. Memorial contributions may After his 1987 retirement from the As an activist, he ridiculed meager be made to Oxfam. World Bank, Baum was active in stock holdings of outside directors Donald W. O’Connell, prior to their being given generous emeritus 1940 several public and private organiza- professor of economics, Pen- tions in the Washington, D.C., area stock options. Norr established nington, N.J., on October 10, 2012. Albert S. Benoist, artist, author and on Martha’s Vineyard. He was eight scholarships in honor of O’Connell was born in Queens. He and futurist, retired architect, Mon­ an avid tennis player, photographer, family members at their respective earned a master’s in 1938 and a mouth Beach, N.J., on September bridge player, gardener, Redskins universities. He is survived by his doctorate in 1953, both in econom- 20, 2012. Born in Long Branch, fan and reader. Baum is survived by wife, Carol; daughter, Amy Norr, ics, from GSAS. Columbia was N.J., to a family whose patriarch his wife of 66 years, Jessie Scullen and her husband, Jeff Metz; daugh- his home from 1933–59, when he was a world-renowned pianist, Baum; daughters, Kathryn Meyer ter, Susan; and five grandchildren. left his post as associate profes- Benoist traveled in Europe during Yaverbaum and Nancy Lohman; Memorial contributions may be sor of banking at the Business his youth and attended the Lycée five grandchildren; and five great- made to Americans United for the School. O’Connell was a member Carnot in Paris. In 1929, the family grandchildren. Separation of Church and State or of the senior society of NACOMS, returned to Monmouth Beach. the . Benoist attended Columbia for Anthony E. Ventriglia, retired pro- 1953 electrical engineering. During fessor of mathematics, Bronxville, Obituary Submission summers, he was an electronics N.Y., on August 28, 2012. Ventriglia draftsman in the signal laborato- was born in New York City on June Guidelines ries at Sandy Hook and then in the 20, 1922. He earned a master’s in radar section of Camp Evans. The Columbia College Today applied mathematics from Brown war interrupted his studies and he in 1943 and continued his studies welcomes obituaries for joined the Army 100th Infantry and at Cornell until 1944. Ventriglia College alumni. Deaths are later its Signal Corps. He attended served in the U.S. Army Air Corps noted in the next available Harvard Advanced Engineer- in Langley Field, Va., employed by issue in the “Other Deaths ing School and then Navy Radar the National Advisory Committee Reported” box. Complete Training in Point Loma, Calif. He for Aeronautics, from 1944 until obituaries will be published in returned to New Jersey to train the end of the war. He was an an upcoming issue, pending Navy cadets on radar and was associate professor of mathematics receipt of information. Due radar chief on a Seatrain destined at for 45 years to the volume of obituaries for Marseille. Benoist returned to and retired in 1995. Ventriglia was that CCT receives, it may Columbia and graduated from the a member of the Mathematical take several issues for the Architecture School in 1948. He Association of America, American joined the Pratt faculty and in 1959 Society for the Advancement of Francis P. King ’53 complete obituary to appear. opened the architectural/engineer- Science, American Mathematical Word limit is 200; text may be ing firm of Benoist, Goldberg and Society and Reformed Church of Francis P. King, retired attorney, edited for length, clarity and Shapiro. Benoist was an accom- Bronxville. He enjoyed travel, golf , on July 19, 2013. King was style at the editors’ discretion. plished photographer, sculptor, and baking. Ventriglia is survived born in Pocatello, Idaho, where he Click “Contact Us” at college. painter and illustrator. He was by his wife, Lois; daughters, Patti and his brother were raised by their columbia.edu/cct, or mail predeceased by his sisters, Louise Maguire and Linda Carella; five mother, a native of Pretoria, South materials to Obituaries Editor, Phillips and Barnetta Keuper, and grandchildren; and two nieces. Me- Africa. Growing up in Idaho, he Columbia College Today, daughter Krisha Benoist-Allen. He morial contributions may be made found a spiritual connection to the Columbia Alumni Center, is survived by his wife; daughters, to the American Heart Association. mountains that lasted throughout Andrée Benoist and her husband, his life. King developed a lifelong 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 1943 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. Joseph Colquhoun, Alicia and her love of skiing and during high husband, Russell Dian; and four David Norr, financial analyst, school he swept the floors at his grandchildren. investment adviser, CPA, Scars- uncle’s printing shop to earn money

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and his wife, Julie; and four grand- OTHER DEATHS REPORTED children. Memorial contributions may be made to Van Dyke Hospice Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be & Palliative Care Center, 99 Rte 37 W, Toms River, NJ 08755. published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. 1960

1939 George A. Delatush, Tequesta, Fla., on October 14, 2012. 1941 Edward E. Fischel, physician, East Setauket, N.Y., on June 24, 2013. 1942 Edwin W. Bright, banking executive, Scarborough, N.Y., on June 14, 2013. Harold Gabel, physician, Oakhurst, N.J., on August 12, 2013. Arthur S. Graham Jr., Scarsdale, N.Y., on July 24, 2013. Michael G. Kovach, priest, Millersville, Pa., on July 12, 2013. 1944 Joseph G. Barata, retired journalist and advertising and public relations executive, Southport, Conn., October 28, 2012. Gordon Cotler, author and producer, New York City, on December 20, 2012. 1946 A. Joseph Foa, retired insurance agent and real estate salesperson, Montgomery, Texas, on January 13, 2013. 1948 Carl Gersuny, retired sociology professor, Peace Dale, R.I., on August 14, 2013. Gerald T. Hurley, professor, antiquarian book dealer, Berkeley, Calif., on May 25, 2013. David S. David ’60 Kennett Love, reporter, Sag Harbor, N.Y., on May 13, 2013. Leonard Ornstein, cell biologist and professor emeritus, White Plains, N.Y., on May 7, 2013. David S. David, nephrologist, Bev- 1949 erly Hills, Calif., on April 9, 2013. William K. Coltman, advertising executive, Cathedral City, Calif., on June 15, 2013. Born in Baghdad in 1938, David Herbert F. “Smokey” Stover Jr., retired pilot, Laconia, N.H., on May 26, 2013. immigrated with his family to New 1950 John Hollander, poet, retired professor, Woodbridge, Conn., on August 17, 2013. York City, arriving in 1950. He was Donald R. Lawrence, attorney, New York City, on June 5, 2013. placekicker for the Lions and served in the Army Reserves, from which 1951 Martin L. Katz, professor, Carolina, P.R., on October 29, 2012. he was honorably discharged fol- 1955 Ronald M. Corn, Denville, N.J., on June 26, 2013. lowing a brief call to active duty. Ludwig Dosch, Northport, N.Y., February 23, 2013. After graduating from P&S in 1964, he was attending physician and 1956 Seymour J. Mandelbaum, professor, , on January 23, 2013. professor of medicine at NewYork- Jehiel Orenstein, rabbi, South Orange, N.J., on May 5, 2013. Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell 1964 Edward N. Leavy, attorney, Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2013. Medical Center and the Rogosin 1986 Kevin A. Hall, attorney, San Francisco, on November 12, 2012. Institute in the departments of medicine, surgery and biochemis- 1992 Meredith A. Norton, author, Oakland, Calif., on August 2, 2013. try. David published more than 100 2003 Shannon K. Smith, grant management specialist, Jamaica Plain, Mass., on June 5, 2013. articles in peer-reviewed journals and was a member of the team of professionals who cared for the to go skiing. In 1949, he accepted was commissioned a lieutenant Richard A. Koerner, attorney and first dialysis and kidney transplant a Columbia College National in the Navy. After his residency judge, Toms River, N.J., on August patients in New York. After moving Scholarship and attended until he and fellowship training, he joined 10, 2012. Koerner was born in Eliza- to Los Angeles, he was a nephrolo- followed the professional option Bethesda NH as director of the beth, N.J., and raised in Union. He gist and internist in private practice program into the Law School in pulmonary and infectious disease served in the Army, 25th Infantry and professor of clinical medicine 1952. Returning to New York City branch. Brackett rose to command- Division at Schofield Barracks, at UCLA. David is survived by his after his 1957 honorable discharge er before resigning. He moved to Hawaii. He and his wife, Elizabeth wife of 45 years, Vera; daughter, from the military, King completed Southbury, Conn., in 1970, when Torrance Koerner, were married in Lisa; son, Dr. Eric ’96L, ’98 GS, ’02 his final years of law school, gradu- he became chief of pulmonary Hawaii and returned to New Jersey, P&S; three grandchildren; brother, ating in 1959. He was an editor of medicine at Saint Mary’s Hospital where Koerner graduated from Dr. Sami ’67, ’71 P&S; sister, Karen the Columbia Law Review and was in Waterbury. He directed the Rutgers Law, Class of 1959. They Chilowicz ’72 Barnard; and a num- a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. King intensive care unit for more than 20 lived in Hillsborough Township for ber of nieces and nephews. was an expert in corporations, years and was on the faculty of the 35 years before retiring and mov- corporate tax and business law Yale School of Medicine. Brackett ing to the Lake Ridge community, Norman E. Hildes-Heim, architect and represented many prominent retired from Saint Mary’s in 1996. Toms River, in 1997. Koerner was and international hotel developer, Colorado businesses. He was often He coached Little League and deputy attorney general during the Fairfield, Conn., on March 20, 2013. described as a “lawyer’s lawyer.” girls’ softball, served on the town Richard Hughes administration and Hildes-Heim was born in Fairfield An experienced mountaineer, he parks and recreation committee practiced law in Hillsborough for 35 on February 20, 1938. He was climbed peaks on four continents and helped found the Pop Warner years; he was of counsel to Koerner educated at Andover and earned and reached the summit of 51 of football program. Brackett was on & Crane at the time of his death. He an A.B. in history from the College, Colorado’s Fourteeners as well the varsity crew at Columbia and was an attorney for the Hillsbor- where he rowed crew. He spent as many other peaks. Read more returned to the sport in 1981 with ough Township and East Amwell a year at Cambridge University online at http://bit.ly/16oZZLt. the New Haven Rowing Club. He Township Boards of Education. He and earned a master’s in architec- married Nancy Bogel in 1959. She later became the municipal court ture from Harvard. Hildes-Heim 1954 survives him, as do his children judge for Hillsborough Township designed and developed hotels John W. Brackett Jr., retired pul- and their spouses: Charles and his and the Borough of Rocky Hill. at John Carl Warnecke & Associ- monologist, Oxford, Conn., on De- wife, Joanne Hayes, Robert and his He leaves his wife of 56 years; ates for InterContinental Hotels cember 8, 2012. Brackett was born wife, Kathy, Deborah Gracy and children, Allison and her husband, Group and Bechtel’s International on December 20, 1932, in Concord, her husband, Bernard, and Jennifer Mark Neary, Andrew and his wife, Division and later as a partner with N.H. He earned an M.D. from P&S and her husband, Stuart Lathers; Josianne, and Gretchen and her Hotel Development Associates. 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as a freelance writer for The New joined American Airlines. He flew came the staff attorney for the New York Times. He also coached the for the company, rising to the rank York City Department of Consumer Columbia lightweight rowing team of captain, until his retirement in Affairs for four years; next, he was while shuttling between New York 1999. Hotelling was a lifelong avia- an immigration lawyer for one year. and Boston during the time when tion fan. From his first models as In 1979 he published a handbook, he taught at Harvard. He was a a child, to the radio-controlled air- How to Avoid TV Repair Rip-Offs. In “teaching visitor” at the Univer- planes he built and raced, to DC-10 1981, Deutsch moved to Brooklyn sity of British Columbia School of jets, he loved to fly. After retire- and started a broad law practice Architecture and Landscape Archi- ment, he owned a powerful T-28 that he continued to some degree tecture and was awarded the UBC airplane in which he toured and until a few years before his death. Honorary Alumnus Award for his performed formation flying with For the last 23 years Deutsch was significant contribution to UBC. friends. Hotelling also loved music, engaged in a variety of ventures He was a lifeguard in Fairfield supporting the Los Angeles Sym- unrelated to his law practice. He ran each summer for the past 54 years, phony and LAOpera, and loved to in the Democratic Presidential New loved gardening and raised long- travel. He is survived by his broth- Hampshire primaries in 1992 and haired Highland Cattle. Hildes- ers, William and James; children, Robert B. Glassman ’62 in the guise of a persona called “Dr. Heim is survived by his adopted Joan and Steve; five grandchildren; Sherlock Litter” argued against “the son, David Kardos. Memorial con- a number of nephews and nieces; ous intersections of these and other evils of globalization,” campaigned tributions may be sent to Robert J. and his companion, Laura Divine. areas; his friendships; his father- for economic patriotism, especially Berta, Hildes-Heim Foundation, hood and grandfatherhood; and for the U.S. auto industry, and was c/o McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney 1962 his long marriage. In summer 2012, a proponent of environmental & Carpenter, Attorneys at Law, 30 George M. Abodeely Jr., insurance he and his wife of 51 years, Harriet cleanup. He was married twice but Jelliff Ln., Southport, CT 06890. executive, West Boylston, Mass., on Newman Glassman, attended his was not married at the time of his June 30, 2012. Abodeely was born 50th College reunion. His wife death. He is survived by three older 1961 on October 11, 1939, in Worcester. survives him, as do his children, Jill siblings: Ronald, Dale and Elaine David M. Blicker, attorney, Sacra- He graduated from Worcester R. Glassman Mendivil, Mark and Maibaum. mento, Calif., on October 26, 2012. Academy, where he was active Dan, and five grandchildren. After earning a J.D. at Boalt Hall, in sports, and earned a degree in 1992 Berkeley Law, Blicker practiced for economics from the College, where 1964 Andrew Littell, banker, Boston, on 34 years, specializing in nonprofits. he was in the Glee Club. Abodeely Peter K. Shack, attorney and singer, December 17, 2012. Born in New In summer 1963, he worked for the remained active with the University, Davis, Calif., on July 3, 2012. Shack York City, Littell was a graduate Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) his CC classmates and fraternity, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on of Middlesex School and Chicago in Montgomery, Ala. From 1967–70, Beta Theta Pi. Abodeely served April 14, 1943. He graduated from (M.B.A.). A managing director of he was executive director for the Le- in the Army Reserve after college Georgetown Law in 1967 and then CVC Credit Partners in London, he gal Aid Society of Sacramento. He and joined the insurance company was a Peace Corps volunteer in was responsible for European loan also was special counsel to Planned established in 1940 by his parents, Guatemala, working with small and bond trading. He is survived by Parenthood for 15 years and taught G.M. Abodeely Insurance Agency; credit cooperatives in rural Maya his wife, Brooke Russell; daughters, part time at the Division of Social he was its president for 46 years. Indian areas. There he met Kathryn Grace and Catherine; father, Walter; Work at Cal State-Sacramento. In Abodeely was known throughout Wetherell; they were married in stepmother, Leli Sudler; sister, Fran- 1967, Blicker created Child Action, New England for his knowledge of 1970. Shack worked for several ces Littell, and her husband, Adam Inc., a nonprofit that links poor surety. He enjoyed fly-fishing, hunt- years in southern New Jersey as Heath; brother, Matthew, and his families seeking childcare with the ing, reading, cooking and travel; a rural legal assistance lawyer. wife, Sheila Gallagher; stepsister, state of California. He also was a was a licensed pilot; and was active He moved in 1972 to California Isabel Black; and two nephews. Me- hearing officer for the Sacramento in his church, St. George Orthodox and worked for 10 years in the morial contributions may be made County Employees’ Retirement Cathedral, as a board member, choir antitrust section of the California to two Maine organizations: North System. In 1999, Blicker closed his member and president of the Par- Office of the Attorney General in Haven Arts & Enrichment or North practice, sold his home and joined ish Council. He is survived by his Los Angeles. In 1982, he moved to Haven Conservation Partners. the Peace Corps, a lifelong dream, daughter, Jacqueline; sister, Elaine Davis, Calif., and transferred to the going to Kenya. He formed a Saliba, and her husband, Najib, Office of the Attorney General in 1993 company owned by seven women’s brother, William, and his wife, Sacramento, where he worked in Tania E. Gregory, homemaker, groups that sold bags, baskets and MaryAnn; and several nephews the charitable trusts section. Shack Berkeley, Calif., on December 11, carvings internationally, bypass- and nieces. Memorial contributions retired from the state in 2003 and 2012. Gregory was born in Boston ing the middleman. He also raised may be made to The St. George was of counsel to Manatt, Phelps & and grew up in Aiken. She earned more than $16,000 to train Kenyan Orthodox Cathedral Endowment Phillips until his death. In addition an M.S. in public policy and electrical engineers to install solar Fund, 30 Anna St., Worcester MA to playing the piano, harpsichord administration from the Heinz energy systems. Blicker also was ex- 01604; the YMCA of Central Mas- and recorder, he sang in produc- College at Carnegie Mellon. While ecutive director of Opening Doors, sachusetts, 766 Main St., Worcester, tions of the Santa Monica Civic at CMU, she DJ’d a popular jazz a nonprofit helping survivors of hu- MA 01610; The 200 Foundation, Light Opera, the Davis Comic Op- show on the university’s radio sta- man trafficking and refugees from Box 3449, Framingham, MA 01705; era, the Sacramento Opera and the tion. With her wry sense of humor, Iraq, Afghanistan and war zones in or the Sally Abodeely Fund at St. UC Davis Choir. Shack is survived she titled her show “The Blind Africa and Latin America. Among George Orthodox Cathedral. by his wife; son, Steven; niece, Lori; Pedestrian” — she was beginning his survivors is his wife, Terrie Lind. and a grandniece and grandneph- to lose much of her vision at that Robert B. Glassman, professor, ew. Memorial contributions may be point. Gregory moved to the San Edward R. Hotelling, retired pilot, Lake Forest, Ill., on April 27, 2013. made to Citizens Who Care, 1017 Francisco Bay Area to work as the Somis, Calif., on May 21, 2012. Glassman was a professor of Main St., Woodland, CA 95695. director of a home-sharing pro- Hotelling was born on July 28, psychology at Lake Forest College. gram for senior citizens. When her 1939, and grew up in Chapel Hill, He joined Lake Forest in 1969 after 1968 son, Michael, arrived, she became N.C. He was educated at Phillips earning his Ph.D. at Penn and Barry Deutsch, attorney, Brook- a stay-at-home mother. Gregory is Academy prior to matriculating completing a post-doctoral fellow- lyn, N.Y., on December 29, 2012. survived by her husband, Henri at the College. Hotelling served ship at the Rochester Institute of Deutsch grew up in Liberty, N.Y., Mannik; son; parents, Lois and Mi- in the as a Navy Technology. Glassman’s intel- and earned a degree from the chael; brother, Alex; uncles, Serge fighter pilot from 1961–66, with lectual curiosity was part of every College in political science. Fluent and Paul; aunt, Karen Goch; and tours of duty on the carriers U.S.S. aspect of his life: his scholarly in Spanish, he began his career grandparents, Tatiana and Walter Constellation and U.S.S. Ticonderoga. work in physiological psychology, teaching at a public bilingual school Gregory, and Olga Orishyn. After the Navy, he briefly worked neuroscience, religion and science, in Manhattan for two years. He Lisa Palladino at Hughes Aircraft Co. and then psychology in business, and vari- graduated from NYU Law and be-

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Columbia College Today tioned at Langley Field in Virginia, until 1949. I credit Maurice with Nancy and by his sister, Dorothy. Columbia Alumni Center as a member of the National Ad- helping me become healthier and He maintained a lifelong friend- 25 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 visory Committee for Aeronautics more devoted to my studies. At ship with Bob Kaufman, who was 40 New York, NY 10025 until the end of the war. He was a Columbia, Maurice won Silver and coxswain of the crews on which [email protected] member of the American Math- Gold Crowns as associate business Art rowed as captain. As I write ematical Society and the Reformed manager of both Jester and Spectator, this, Bob is doing well at 92 in Your friends and classmates want Church of Bronxville, N.Y., and en- and was a member of the Columbia Scarsdale, N.Y., and maintains an to hear from you! Please send news joyed golf and travel. At Columbia, Theater Associates. He also was active interest in Columbia crew about yourself or your family, or a Anthony was manager of the fresh- president of the Pre-Medical Society and other sports. favorite Columbia College memory, man baseball team and was later a and was co-editor of Sawbones. On May 15, Dr. William Rob- to CCT at either the email or postal loyal alumnus, coming to many of How he accomplished all this while bins reported that he and his wife, address above, or you can send our reunions. He is survived by his completing his pre-medical studies Dagny, moved from Grand Island, news online via CCT’s easy-to-use wife, Lois; daughters, Linda and is still a mystery to me. I thank his Fla., to Waterman Village, a retire- webform: college.columbia.edu/ Patricia; and five grandchildren. We daughter for arousing some fond ment, assisted living and skilled cct/submit_class_note. send condolences to Mrs. Ventriglia memories of my old friend. nursing facility in Mount Dora, Fla. and her daughters. Arthur E. Smith died in Venice, Bill described the move as stressful, William J. Scharffenberger died Fla., on April 10, 2013, at 92. Art’s and he relaxed by reading the auto­ Robert Zucker on December 12, 2012, at 91. Bill son, Arthur E. Smith Jr. ’71, sent biography of Columbia professor 29 The Birches was born in Queens and came to me a memorial tribute to his father, Mark Van Doren ’21 GSAS. Bill said 41 Roslyn, NY 11576 Columbia from Jamaica H.S. He describing him as a member of a it was an interesting account of Van [email protected] was a member of the International proud lineage of several generations Doren’s life and career, to which he Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma of Scottish blacksmiths, blessed with added, “I don’t care much for his No news from classmates to report and, immediately after graduating, a unique blend of intellect, physical poetry.” for this issue. If you have updates enlisted in the Army. As a member strength and moral fiber. This news aroused memories of to share, please send them to me at of the 81st “Wildcat” Infantry Art grew up in Queens and in ru- a course I took with Professor Van either the postal or email address Division, Bill received numerous ral Southold on Long Island before Doren in 1940–41 on “The Poetry at the top of the column, or submit decorations, including a Bronze Star coming to Columbia, where he of Hardy and Yeats,” in which we them to CCT via the easy-to-use for heroism in combat. After WWII, majored in history and was captain had to read the very long Hardy webform: college.columbia.edu/ Bill began his career as a CPA with of the varsity crew, which won ma- classic The Dynasts. The class was cct/submit_class_note. We all PricewaterhouseCoopers, where jor cup races in 1940 and 1941. Art full of my friends, and at the end would love to hear from you! he worked from 1946–51, and later earned his Varsity C, was a member of the term everyone received joined West Virginia Pulp and Pa- of Crewsters and was awarded grades of A or A-, except me, who per, where he worked from 1951–55. the Bangs Cup Medal. In WWII, received a B+. I never learned why Melvin Hershkowitz He became a specialist in corporate Art served in the Coast Guard in Professor Van Doren gave me that 22 Northern Ave. reorganizations, working with Alaska and then commanded the grade but after the last class he 42 Northampton, MA 01060 Wheeling Steel (1955–63), Riegel U.S. Coast Guard cutter Agassiz in shook my hand and thanked me [email protected] Paper (1963–66), Penn-Dixie Indus- the Atlantic campaign. After the warmly for my participation in the tries, Saxon Industries and Avnet. war, Art took graduate courses at discussions. I begin with memorial tributes to He finished his career in Pittsburgh the Business School, then earned an Classmates and friends can several deceased classmates: as chairman and CEO of Wheeling- M.B.A. in 1948 at NYU’s business reach Bill and Dagny at 2831 An thony­ Ventriglia, William J. Pittsburgh Steel and as Chapter 11 school. He owned and managed Mapleton Ln., Mount Dora, FL Scharffenberger and Dr. Maurice Trustee for the Allegheny Health, A.F. Smith Iron Works in New York 32757; 352-729-6455 or send email Goodgold. Education & Research Foundation. City and on Long Island for 33 to [email protected]. Best Anthony Ventriglia died on Bill was one of the most prominent years and was a dedicated Mason in wishes to them for comfort and August 28, 2012, in Bronxville, N.Y., business executives in our class and both Nassau County and New York happiness in their new home. where he had lived for 59 years. He remained active until April 2012, State, where he was grand treasurer As I write these notes in North- was a retired associate professor of eight months before his death. He and president of the trustees of ampton, Mass., there is a lot of mathematics at Manhattan College. is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; the Masonic Home in Utica, N.Y. discussion among football fans Anthony earned a master’s in a son, F.F. (Dallas); a daughter, Eliza- In 1994, Art and his wife, Audre, about the signing of controversial applied mathematics from Brown beth Watson Scharffenberger; and moved to Venice, Fla., where he was quarterback Tim Tebow by the New in 1943, with additional studies at several nieces and nephews. Our a board member of the Venice hos- England Patriots, a team owned Cornell in 1943–44. Anthony then sympathy and condolences go out pital, president of the Country Club by Robert Kraft ’63. Six Colum- served in the Army Air Corps, sta- to Bill’s family. Estates Homeowners Association bia have played on The New York Times of March 17, and enjoyed delivering Meals On various professional football teams 2013, published a memorial tribute Wheels with Audre. Art and Audre since the 1930s, a remarkable record Class Notes are submitted by to Dr. Maurice Goodgold that attended eight, semi-annual family for an Ivy League school and surely alumni and edited by volunteer was written by his daughter, Iris. reunions and enjoyed yearly cruises more than most other colleges or Maurice, who died in 1996, was and international travel. universities, though I have not done class correspondents and the one of my dissecting partners in the Art had struggled with leuke- exhaustive research on this fact. staff of CCT prior to publication. anatomy lab at the NYU School of mia for eight years and remained Columbia’s great quarterbacks who Medicine, so we were more than physically active until a few weeks played professional football were Opinions expressed are those of casual friends. He was ethical and before his death. He is survived Cliff Montgomery ’34, Brooklyn individual alumni and do not serious, and often expressed his by Audre; son, Arthur E. Jr. ’71, of Dodgers (Columbia 7, Stanford 0 in concerns when I took frequent La Grange, Ill.; daughter Lorraine the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1934); reflect the opinions of CCT, its breaks in the smoking room at the Dietz of East Hampstead, N.H.; Sid Luckman ’39, Chicago Bears class correspondents, the College back of the lab rather than work at daughter Elizabeth Klein of Pitts- (Hall of Fame); ’43, the dissecting table with my three ford, N.Y.; seven grandchildren; Boston Yanks, or the University. partners. In those years I smoked and three great-grandchildren. (Maxwell Trophy); Archie Roberts Camel cigarettes, and I did not stop Art was predeceased by daughter ’65, Cleveland Browns, later a car-

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diac surgeon; Martin Domres ’69, Chargers, Colts, 49ers, Jets, author of Bump and Run: The Days and Nights of a Rookie Quarterback, later a financial consultant; and ’84, Lions, later a banking executive. I am also pleased to report that I have heard from Dr. Gerald Klin- gon, Dr. Arthur Wellington, Bob Kaufman and Don Mankiewicz via telephone, email and old-fash- ioned snail mail. All of us are deal- ing with various physical ailments, so ubiquitous in our over-90 age group, but all are also cognitively intact and loyal to our beloved alma mater. Long may Columbia stand! Your news and comments are always welcome at my addresses listed at the top of the column.

G.J. D’Angio 43 201 S. 18th St., #1818 Philadelphia, PA 19103 [email protected] Take your marks: The Class of ‘44 freshman track team assembles for its group photo in 1941. See the June 1 was bright, sunny and hot Class of 1944 Class Notes column by Bill Friedman ‘44 (pictured first row, second from left) for some in Morningside Heights — a great reminiscences about those pictured. If you recognize yourself, write to Bill at either of the addresses day for the 70th reunion luncheon listed at the top of his column. of the Class of ’43. It was held in the PHOTO: COURTESY BILL FRIEDMAN ‘44 Core Conference Room in Hamilton Hall, a fitting venue for the three of us old-timers: Immanuel (Manny) and topped off a four-day visit to In sad news, Harold C. Vaughan, body identified collectively as Lichtenstein ’43E and also CC ’42; sunshiny cities with a long week- a retired history teacher from Fort “The Commuters.” They are those Bernard Weisberger and me. We end in Paris, which has no equal for Lee, N.J., died on September 22, unsung, usually exhausted scholars shared the long table with men of museum-going, boulevard-stroll- 2012. who arose at an early hour, traveled the Class of ’48 and their family ing, cafe-lolling and eating. Dr. Cleomenes A.D. Generales endlessly to reach campus, often members, so we numbered about “I came home in time to enjoy died on December 31, 2012, in La were late for classes, were pressed 35 in all. The tasty main dish was a bang-up party given me by my Jolla, Calif. This news was particu- for time to squeeze in homework a variant of chicken Florentine. All family for my 90th birthday in larly sad for me, as we were close and couldn’t retire until late at night. three ’43ers spoke briefly about the August. Thereafter, I got involved friends during our college years I commuted daily from Yonkers, first 70 years since graduation, and all marginally in the presidential and had corresponded by yearly boarding a trolley, then taking the extolled the Core Curriculum. A campaign. I was lucky enough Christmas cards ever since. His two subway at 242nd Street and Broad- ’48er quite properly rose to point to share authorship of an online brothers, and sister, Helle, became way, finally arriving at 116th Street out that the courses were memo- article in The Huffington Post with my friends, too; each had a colorful more than an hour after leaving rable because of the guidance and during the Republican life. Constantine, a physician like home. I was a glutton for punish- stimulus provided by the section National Convention as well as Cleo and their father, had been a ment. After Columbia and the war, I instructors and professors. Without a subsequent joint publication of classmate of Wernher von Braun commuted to Fordham Law for my them, the mass of information a short piece in The Nation. Then, in Zurich, for example. His other J.D. and then again to NYU Law for crammed into such short bursts a website for historians, History brother I recall as Eugene, and he my LL.M. would have been more confus- News Network, invited me to be was recruited by the OSS during When we all enrolled in Colum- ing than instructive. Amen to that one of several panelists posting WWII (I surmise this from the bia in 1940, the percentage of valued observation. articles on the presidential and few snippets of those times that freshmen who commuted was We three then broke up to attend vice-presidential debates. It gave he recounted); Eugene eventually far higher than that of the Class different Dean’s Day lectures; I went me a chance to pose as a journalist, became a faculty member at UC of 2017, as the Great Depression to one by famed volcanologist Terry my original life’s ambition, and . established the doctrine that it Plank ’93 GSAS. She gave a most even to sit up until the wee hours was more economical to live at informative talk on the what, where, following each debate, posting my home than to enjoy the luxury of REUNION WEEKEND why, when and how of volcanic piece to make a morning deadline. dormitory living. MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 activity. “Things got anticlimactically There was an item in the CC ’45 ALUMNI OFFICE Contacts All told the experience was most quiet after that, and so far there’s Class Notes in the Summer 2013 is- Alumni Affairs Vanessa Scott gratifying, and I urge everyone who no major news to share with CCT sue noting that Dr. Samuel Hemley [email protected] can to come to the next Columbia readers in 2013; truthfully, the ’45 recalled coming in second as a 212-851-9148 event. reunion (and a family wedding in freshman at a cross country race DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Bernard Weisberger sent the New York the same weekend) has in Princeton and that he later won [email protected] following note after reunion: “I’ll been the highlight. But as we Chi- a gold at a cross country race in 212-851-7833 quickly sum up the past 12 months, cago Cubs fans have sadly learned Annapolis, Md., in which all Ivy which have been relatively active to say, ‘Wait till next year!’ at this Bill Friedman League schools took part. I com- and decidedly pleasant. In July time when I’ll speak up again.” 44 833-B Heritage Hills municated my chagrin to Sam that 2012, I took an eight-day trip to The son of Dr. A.L. Peterson Somers, NY 10589 he failed to mention a memorable France with my mid-20ish, oldest reports that his father is well at [email protected] JV dual cross country meet with granddaughter. We were guests of 93-plus. A retired radiologist, he NYU in 1941. Our coach, Bob longtime French friends of mine at previously was on the staff at I dedicate this report to that segment Pitkin ’34, announced before the their summer home in Provence Penn’s hospital. of the Columbia College student race that the Alumni Association

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY would award medals to the first celebrating 32 years of a wonderful as being in Purdy’s Station, N.Y. graduation, a rather wonderful three Columbians to finish. Sam marriage. From previous marriages The way this was done showed medical school classmate who very took the gold, I took the silver and I have one daughter and three sons. ingenuity. We tore a telephone sadly passed away about 2½ years Robert Roman ’44E, ’45 took the Between my last two sons, one in book apart, passed sections around ago. We have three good kids and bronze. Sam may have forgotten Maryland, the other in Colorado, I and learned the address. Next we they have their own happy families, that race but I didn’t, as it was my have four grandsons and one grand- rounded up two autos and set which of course are great fun. I re- only medal that year. daughter. My cup runneth over. off for Purdy’s. We surprised the tired about 14 years ago and remain I heard from Paul Sandhaus, Next week I am scheduled to have kidnappers — shocked them really on Long Island. I have been quite now retired. He and his wife, Helen, heart surgery. Whatever happens, — and freed our classmate. I have lucky, healthwise, and am busy divide their time between Santa Fe, it’s been a great run.” always remembered most fondly visiting the kids, traveling, playing N.M., and Manhattan. They have Since that message, we learned that fall. tennis and learning how to cook.” two children, son Richard, born in that all went well with the surgery. “Sunday, December 7, was a We also heard from Dr. Arnold 1949, and daughter Ellen, born in As Bruce put it, “Now my task is shock, but not a surprise. Most Ritterband ’50 P&S: “Served 1½ 1952. During WWII, Paul served in to recover.” college-bound teens knew for years years as an electronic technician in the Army as a lieutenant in a Bomb Like all 90-year-olds, I frequently it was coming!” the USNR after leaving the College Disposal Unit in the Pacific, a rather gaze at old photographs, recalling Martin Kurtz, who calls himself in December ’44. Still friendly with precarious assignment, and he also “the good old days,” including one the “Class of ’44 ½–’45” and lives in Ira Shein ’46, ’48 GSAS and was did Postwar Occupation Duty in of the Class of 1944 freshman track Great Neck, N.Y., writes: “A prime a lifelong friend of Bob Lipsey Japan. In the “small world” depart- team. In that picture, shown nearby, motivation for this correspondence ’61 GSAS, who died a year ago. ment, I recently discovered that was my good friend Griffith is to bring to mind that the Class of Graduated from P&S and served Paul’s wife is my cousin’s cousin’s Hartwell, first row, second from the ’45 includes a small group labeled internship, residencies in medicine, cousin. (Lack of space precludes me right, who ran the 440. If my eyes as such but really weren’t/aren’t. I fellowship in pathology at Mount from reciting the endless details.) do not deceive me, you can also suspect it is not very well remem- Sinai and assistant residency Never an idle one, Paul earned his see John Brereton, George Floros, bered that in fact, I and 75–100 oth- in neurology at the Neurologic pilot’s license at 70. He recalls his William Norcott, John Spitznagel, ers (the exact number escapes me) Institute. childhood contact with Oscar Har- Roy Kallop ’46, George Miller, of the Class of ’45 started at Colum- “Introduced to Phyllis Rosenthal kavy with this comment: “Oddly coach Bob Pitkin ’34 and me. Sadly, bia, as freshman, in a precedent-set- of Schenectady by P&S classmate enough, I met Oscar when we were Griff died in action on April 26, ting mid-year class, i.e., ‘’44 ½.’ The Dr. Jason Tepper ’50 P&S and his toddlers. His father owned a neigh- brother Dr. Cliff ‘Chuch’ Tepper ’46 borhood pharmacy/drug store P&S and Babies & Children Hospi- and I have a dim memory that my Dr. William Robbins ’42 and his wife, Dagny, tal pediatric residency. They were parents were friendly with his. The (Jason) and are (Cliff/‘Chuch’) my store had a ladder on wheels that moved from Grand Island, Fla., to Waterman Village, best friends, family pediatricians rolled from side to side to access a retirement, assisted living and skilled nursing and colleagues. Fortunate enough high shelves and I used to play on to marry Phyllis, to whom I have it between admonishments not to. facility in Mount Dora, Fla. been happily married for 56 years. I wonder if Oscar has any memory I practiced internal medicine in of that.” Schenectady from 1959 until retire- Coincidentally, I enjoyed a 1945, toward the end of the war. He College formed the class following ment in 2004. And yes, I would go lengthy conversation with Oscar, was a friendly, soft-spoken, kind Pearl Harbor and the nation’s entry into medicine again, in a heartbeat. better known as Bud, who recently teammate who never enjoyed the into the war. Later, we were folded “Have three great children, Alan, celebrated his 90th birthday at a blessing of a full life span. Accord- into the ’45s. There never was, as far Vicki and David; and eight magnifi- party in which Alan Hoffman and ing to the Columbia University as I know, another mid-year class. cent grandchildren. Oldest three are Ted Jackson were among the invit- Roll of Honor, at least 16 of our ’44 “It was a hectic time for all of us at Villanova, Tufts and the entering ed guests. Bud and his wife have classmates suffered a similar fate. and most, including myself, ended freshman class at Yale. Lauren, our been busy preparing for the sale of Looking again at that photo, if up in the armed services before Tufts girl, is interested in medicine. their home in Boynton Beach, Fla. you recognize yourself or any of being able to earn a degree. Those “Phyllis was a trustee at her alma They still have their home in New our other classmates not identi- who could returned to their stud- mater, Russell Sage College. I am a Rochelle, N.Y. fied by me, please contact me and ies, and those happy evenings in clinical professor of medicine at Al- After Columbia, Bud earned bring me up to date on yourself, the Lion’s Den, after the war. bany Medical College, and helped both his master’s and Ph.D. from your family, classmates and so on. “I was a pre-med and got into develop (Chuch Tepper and I were Syracuse and served on the faculty I welcome all news about CC ’44, medical school (NYU) early in the medical directors) the Schenectady of its business school. One of his and I know our classmates and summer of ’42 (because of the war, Free Health Clinic. Sadly, at the end main claims to fame, which is well other readers would, too. acceptances were accelerated, to of July, after 10 years of providing documented on the Internet, is his Finally, we regrettably note the say the least) and very shortly after excellent primary care services to 35 years as an expert on population passing of Howard W. Wilson. that volunteered for the Army, the uninsured Schenectadians, the clinic programs with the Ford Founda- Infantry. I remained in the States, shut down for financial reasons. tion. Bud was the author of Curbing on maneuvers, everywhere and “I thought that my 2 ½ years Population Growth: An Insider’s Per- Columbia College Today anywhere until suddenly I was dis- at Columbia College provided an spective on the Population Movement, Columbia Alumni Center charged to join my medical school excellent education, and [I had] and also wrote a widely read article 45 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 class (’48). In retrospect, it was accomplished, impressive and in The Journal of Finance titled: “The New York, NY 10025 planned this way by the powers likeable classmates (one of them Relation Between Retained Earn- [email protected] in order to keep a supply of physi- whom I remember particularly, ings and Common Stock Prices For cians (and dentists) in the pipeline Dr. Irwin Nydick ’46, ’48 GSAS, Large, Listed Corporations.” Charles Gilman shared a memory: for the duration of the war. I learned is still teaching bedside I also was in touch with Bruce “The September 1941 freshman “After medical school, my resi- medicine as a volunteer), but I did Mazlish, Professor of History class was the largest ever to that dency training awaited, then, several not love the College, which I at- Emeritus at M.I.T., whose numerous point — I believe 681! We had an years teaching at NYU Medical tended as an underage, immature books include one on experience that fall that I shall School and finally into practice on subway commuter during the war. and another on Henry Kissinger. never forget: The sophomore class Long Island. I maintained a teaching However I did and do love and am He says, “My book Reflections on the kidnapped one of our class officers. position at NYU Med throughout grateful to P&S.” Modern and the Global is scheduled A group of 10 or 12 of us met at my working years. Sadly (I really do “I offer a brief story of the chang- to be published in September, along the Delta Phi House for a ‘What do regret it), I never did get a chance to ing times,” writes John M. Khoury. with reprints of two of my other we do?’ meeting. One frosh had return to Columbia to complete my “Recently, my grandson, who is a books. On the more personal front, uncovered an out-of-town phone college education. college freshman, visited me and I my wife, Neva Goodwin, and I are number. We identified the number “I married, after medical school thought he might be interested in

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looking at the Columbia College Millicent McIntosh, Henry Wris- trademark round table and out of I would call censorship during all yearbook of 1942. It was given to ton, University President William the studio. And I believe he would the years I have been a broad- me by a friend who was graduat- McGill, coach Aldo “Buff” Donelli, have done just that! Happily, when caster … it came from the church, ing and was going into the military Robert Merton, Jason Epstein ’49, our own Paul Marks ’49 P&S suc- and was rejected out of hand by service. He saw pictures of a Eric Foner ’63 and the lovely ceeded Lew Thomas as president the industry, despite all the talk freshman wearing a beanie; every Michele Moody-Adams, dean of at Memorial and joined me on the those days about how ‘chicken’ its student wore a sports jacket, shirt the College when we celebrated program, he didn’t light up! leaders were. Indeed, New York’s and tie; The had male our 60th class reunion. And as I “Indeed, long after my own Cardinal Francis Spellman had im- students dressed as girls and so told the dean at the time, when cigarette smoke nearly obliterated mediately protested to the Sarnoffs forth. My grandson found that time asked by guests or viewers how I Allan Nevins from the screen dur- at RCA/NBC that if I went ahead very interesting. I find his world manage to engage in conversation ing our first Open Mind, I was so as planned and produced and interesting, too.” on Open Mind subjects spanning so tense in taping a special program hosted my second and third pro- Thank you to the these class- many different disciplines, I make on ‘Civil Rights In America’ with grams on homosexuality (the last mates for getting in touch! very clear that ‘Columbia did it’ … Malcolm X, Jim Farmer and oth- with Margaret Mead ’28 GSAS and CCT needs a class correspondent thanks to the College’s devotion to ers the June 1963 morning after Max Lerner, a beauty!), the church to write this column. If you are the mind-broadening liberal arts! the night John F. Kennedy made would sue for the revocation interested, please contact Alexis “These now near-six decades of his first and quite memorable of its local station’s license. The Tonti ’11 Arts, managing editor: weekly public television conversa- televised civil rights speech and result was that top network brass [email protected] or 212-851- tions have been great good fun … the NAACP’s Medgar Evers was called, asked who I was and what 7485. In the meantime, please share and I look forward to at least some assassinated in Mississippi, I lit my credentials were (they surely news about yourself, your family, more years at them, just as I hope to up and unwittingly did the same had never heard of this strictly your career, your travels or even a spend more years at my more for- damn thing to Malcolm. I suspect local ‘kid’ producer), what I had favorite Columbia College memory mal educational role as University that if the several quite scary planned for the rest of my series using either the email or postal Professor of Communications and armed guards he had brought to and who were and what was the address at the top of the column. Public Policy at Rutgers. For except the studio that morning realized stature of my future guests. And You also can send news via CCT’s for time spent at ABC, CBS and that clouds of my smoke were within the course of just one day’s webform: college.columbia.edu/ NBC — and then as the founding again nearly wiping out a guest, I back and forth the network told me cct/submit_class_note. This column general manager of New York’s would have heard more about the to go ahead as scheduled and to is a wonderful way for the class to Channel 13 — all of my years have incident. As it was, Jim more than forget the whole incident! stay connected, and we, and your been spent in the service of teaching held his own that day with Mal- “More on would-be censorship classmates, want to hear from you! … on campus and off, on air and colm X, who was still in his hugely at another early point in my broad- off! And I have myself been taught anti-USA stage, and we immedi- casting career: I was responsible so much by my encounters with so ately received a State Department then for an educational special Bernard Sunshine many wonderful Open Mind guests. request for multiple copies of the called ‘Faces of War,’ a survey 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G “Mario Cuomo instructed me so program for distribution over- of the faces men have put upon 46 New York, NY 10023 well in the difference between an seas. State obviously thought that war, from the ancients to Dwight [email protected] abiding interest in governance, such Malcolm had been bested by Jim D. Eisenhower, for which CBS as his own, and one in politics alone. ... and not just because my smoke had generously given us Sunday Richard Heffner is creator and When asked who my ‘best guest’ had gotten in his eyes. afternoon time live on its television host of the weekly Public TV series was over the years, incidentally, Ma- “Very early on, The New York network. We needed to raise some Richard Heffner’s Open Mind. I rio always comes to mind … as does Times had reviewed as ‘Breaking dollars to make the production asked Dick to reflect on some of Ed Koch … for a New York political Trail’ the first (August 4, 1956) of work, unfortunately, and a highly the incidents and personalities he duo. So do Betty Friedan and Gloria a three-program Open Mind series regarded public institution, the interviewed that stand out in his Steinem … and Elie Wiesel, with I had scheduled on the subject New York Public Library, gener- 57-year radio and TV broadcasting whom I wrote Conversations With of homosexuality, something not ously provided all of the $5,000 we career. He wrote: Elie Wiesel, based on the dozens of much talked about on the air those sought. The Saturday afternoon “Open Mind went on the air Open Minds we have done together days. Interestingly, it occasioned before our program, however, the live — without benefit of film or — our most recent on ‘FDR And one of only two attempts at what library’s chairman chose, lately, to videotape — on May 12, 1956, and The Jews.’ And, of course, Floyd surely seemed then very much a Abrams, the famed free speech, free Morningside venture, for its very press, First Amendment attorney first guests were Columbia College (three dozen more Open Minds over Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain the years) who rejects my criticism HELP SUPPORT CCT as well as Columbia professors of his Citizens United victory in the COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY brings you news of your David Donald, Richard Neustadt, Supreme Court and my description alma mater and profiles of its people you won’t find anywhere William Leuchtenberg and Allan of him as a free speech ‘absolutist,’ else. Wherever you are — Los Angeles, Louisville, London or Nevins (the -winning but keeps reminding me on the air the Lower East Side — CCT is the best way to stay connected historian hidden much of the time that the First Amendment does insist with your classmates and with Columbia. behind a screen of cigarette smoke that ‘Congress shall make no law … unwittingly blown by this com- abridging the freedom of speech, or YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION helps make all this paratively green producer/host of the press.’ possible. CCT remains free of charge — no donation is required still addicted to the filthy weed). “During a break between taping to receive the magazine or to access our website (college. “Many others associated one programs with Lewis Thomas, the way or another with Columbia great physician and prize-winning columbia.edu/cct). But if you choose to support us, you may have joined me for conversations author (The Lives of a Cell: Notes of do so online (college.columbia.edu/cct/giving), by phone on the air during the 57 years since a Biology Watcher), this eminently (212-851-7852) or by mailing a check, made payable to then, including Margaret Mead, wise and always-friendly president Columbia College Today (Columbia College Today, Ernest Nagel, Fred W. Friendly, Ar- of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can- Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl., thur Levine, Marvin Frankel, Jack cer Center lit up a cigarette, and New York, NY 10025). Each fiscal year ends on June 30, Greenberg ’45, Norman Podhoretz when I chastised him, joking that ’50, Lionel Trilling ’25, David I was of a mind to comment on and all donors for the prior year are recognized each fall Denby ’65, Charles Frankel ’37, his dangerous, nasty habit when (see Web Extras in this issue: college.columbia.edu/cct). Max Frankel ’52, Nicholas Lemann, the beady red eye of the camera James Wechsler, Herbert Wechsler, went on again, he warned me that WE GREATLY APPRECIATE your support and ask that you stay Herbert Pardes, Harry W. Jones, if I did so, he would just get up in touch and share news at college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. Donald Barr ’41, Lawrence Cremin, and walk away from Open Mind’s

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Golf is still an alternative for incident, however, when questions Anne, have been strong supporters in the history of philosophy as me and, when I can find a partner, were asked, my answers were of the College through these many two semester courses), ranging duplicate bridge. accepted, and the show went on years. from Erwin Edman [Class of 1916, “Along that line, if anyone has as planned. But what an afternoon I also am sorry to advise of the Class of 1920 GSAS’] ‘Introduc- an address for Andy Gabrilovitch and evening of tension … this passing of Leon J. Quinto ’52 GSAS tion to Philosophy,’ through the ’49, please pass it on to our editor.” time with the State, not the church, on July 25. Leon also earned M.A. year course I have just mentioned Bob Silbert wrote in with some playing would-be censor, and the and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia. He (which I came, I fear irreverently, thoughts on Alumni Reunion Week­ industry standing tall again! was an economist with IBM. to call ‘Randology’), to another end, which took place in early June: “Many of these and other pro- course that proved revelatory, “About 10 of our classmates made grams with which I have been as- Ernest Nagel ’31 GSAS’ ‘Theory of the 65th reunion of our graduation. sociated over the years (more than Columbia College Today Knowledge,’; and seven courses It was a grand affair. [Attorney 1,500) can be seen now at thirteen. 47 Columbia Alumni Center in mathematics, culminating in General] Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, org/openmind — at least those 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 yet another revelation, Edgar R. ’76L was one of the speakers [at produced once the technology and New York, NY 10025 Lorch’s yearlong graduate course Dean’s Day on June 1]. We shared the dollars were available to make [email protected] (open to undergraduates) in the our luncheon with the graduates kinescopes off the air or videotapes theory of functions of a complex of the Class of 1943. Our impres- during recording sessions. Gener- Howard Stein writes: “Since sum- variable. sion was that everybody seemed ous individuals and foundations mer 2000 I have been retired from “In the end, merely following to be having a great time. It was made the funds available to create a professorship in the Department my inclination and taking as full a very enjoyable and people seemed this increasingly valuable historical of Philosophy and the Committee program of courses as was allowed, genuinely happy to be back on electronic archive, which I have gift- on the Conceptual Foundations of without having planned to, I satis- campus. Everybody extolled their ed to PBS and to Channel Thirteen Science at Chicago. I live in Hyde fied the requirements for the B.A. in Columbia experience, particularly in New York, where each Saturday Park, Chicago. I have two children three years (without any summer the Core Humanities courses in the at noon Richard Heffner’s Open — a daughter who lives in the Bay courses) and graduated with the first and second years. Everybody Mind programs still make their Area (of California, that is — not equivalent of a double major, with we met seemed very happy to be public television debut, rebroadcast to be confused with the Bay State), honors, in mathematics and philos- back on Morningside Heights, several times the following Sundays and a son who lives in Chicago. ophy. This combination of rigorous especially some 90-year-old alumni. and Mondays on CUNY-TV, and all My previous career was rather courses, extremely good teachers It was impressive to see so many freely available at all times to every- winding, from a B.A. at Colum- (at least a few such!), with a small fairly elderly graduates appear so one, everywhere on our website.” bia to Chicago, where I earned a degree of useful constraint but great happy to be back at Columbia, and [See also feature on Heffner in the Ph.D. in philosophy in 1958 while liberty to follow one’s bent, has ever the genuine appreciation all of them Fall 2012 CCT.] teaching natural sciences in the since seemed to me pretty close to had about the Humanities courses.” Mark your calendar: A class undergraduate college; to a year at the ideal of what a college educa- Heywood Shelley ’50L, of Brook­ luncheon has been set for Thursday, the University of Michigan, where tion should offer a student.” lyn, writes, “As I am retired with Thank you to Howard for writ- time on my hands, I’ve written a ing in! CCT still needs a class cor- history of my family at Columbia Howard Stein ’47 lives in Hyde Park, Chicago, and respondent to write this column. If University. you are interested, please contact “My father, Robert Shelley Class has been retired from a professorship in the Depart- Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts, managing of 1919, attended Columbia Col- ment of Philosophy at Chicago since summer 2000. editor: [email protected] or lege in the WWI era. His friends 212-851-7485. In the meantime, included Irwin Edman (Class of please share news about yourself, 1916, ’20 GSAS), who went on to October 24, in New York. Details I earned an M.S. in mathematics; your family, your career, your become a philosophy professor of may have reached you already. to three years at Brandeis, where travels or even a favorite Columbia note at the College. My brother, As before, wives and friends are I taught mathematics; to five College memory using either the Edwin ’40, ’41E, may have been invited and we have also asked years in the computer industry; email or postal address at the top named after him. My father was a members of the Class of ’45 to join to a professorship of philosophy of the column. You also can send successful real estate developer. He us. The war years at Columbia dis- at Case Institute of Technology news via CCT’s webform: college. built several apartment buildings rupted the make-up of those classes (then about to merge with Western columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ including the Holland House in (ours included) and many ’45ers Reserve University) from 1967–73; note. This column is a wonderful Forest Hills which, at the time, was are well known to us. The idea had to a professorship of philosophy at way for the class to stay connected, the tallest building in Queens positive responses from both classes Columbia from 1973–80; then back and we, and your classmates, want “I recall my father’s excitement in the small survey I made. to Chicago in 1980. to hear from you! when the College won the Rose John McConnell’s recent request “As I look back on my un- Bowl, the then-equivalent of today’s for Gene Rogers’ address prompts dergraduate years at Columbia Super Bowl, in 1934 by a score of my welcoming contact information (1944–47), what I treasure most is Columbia College Today 7–0, won with the inquiries for classmates you would the combination of the wonderful Columbia Alumni Center play. My whole family attended like to catch up with. required courses — Humanities 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 the rematch at Baker Field in 1936, Columbia College Today’s Summer and Contemporary Civilization New York, NY 10025 which Columbia again won 7–0. 2013 issue caused me surprise and (two years each in those days). [email protected] My mother was unusually quiet smiles. When I turned to page 42 Above all, for me, was the revela- during the game; when I asked her I thought I recognized the two tory Humanities A, on literature, George Woolfe got in touch: “I am afterward why, she said she won- photos taken in 1942 as mine and, and the freedom to explore a wide constantly amazed at how active dered why the clock ran backward. sure enough, the photo credits range of interests. As to the latter, Class of ’48 [members are] in their “After service in the Army carried my name. Photographers, I was able, in three years, to take professions or communities despite during WWII, I entered the Law like elephants, usually remember a yearlong course in art history; a our advanced years. Some of us School. I graduated from the pictures they have taken. If you marvelous two-year sequence (a are still teaching or lecturing or College in 1948 and from the Law have the issue, see the photo essay graduate course open to un- practicing. Others are traveling to School in 1950, the two-year interval “WWII & Columbia,” which begins dergraduates) in Jewish history exotic places, or maybe just to see being by virtue of ‘professional

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option,’ which allowed for my is survived by his wife of 68 years, what is now Kingsbridge Avenue in it was a great event with 11 colleges first year of law school to count as Theresa Roller Ornstein; sister, the Bronx), resulting in the physical and universities participating. the last year of college. During the Norma O. Goldstein; sons, Avi and separation of the northernmost In the Winter 2012–13 issue of academic year following my law Tad; son-in-law, Charles Johnson; part of Manhattan — Marble Hill CCT, we reported the publication school graduation, I held the paying daughters-in-law, Bernice Nowak- — from the island itself, but the of a book devoted to the career of position of ‘associate,’ a teaching Ornstein and Lyanne LaBelle political boundaries unchanged. Arthur Westing. The title is Arthur position meeting with the freshman Ornstein; nine grandchildren; and [My wife] Charlotte and I lived H. Westing: Pioneer on the Environ- class in groups of 20 (the class was six great-grandchildren. He was in an apartment of the then quite mental Impact of War. A companion about 300). I went on to practice law predeceased by another daughter, new Marble Hill Houses during volume now has been published, for more than 50 years with a Wall Rani Simoff. A full obituary will be my second and third years at the From Environmental to Comprehensive Street firm and my clients included published in a future issue in the Law School, and I learned the local Security. Both books are published George H.W. Bush (the first Presi- Obituaries column. history then.” by Springer as part of its series dent Bush) and the . Thanks to George, Bob and Marv Lipman in turn wrote to Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science The law firm is Carter, Ledyard & Heywood for writing in! thank Joe for the history lesson, and Practice. For information online, Milburn, and one of its alumni was CCT needs a class correspondent though my favorite response came go to springer.com. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. to write this column. If you are from Marv’s wife, Naomi: “Didn’t “On December 8, 1941 (the day interested, please contact Alexis we lose an undergraduate (crew after Pearl Harbor), Ed was work- Tonti ’11 Arts, managing editor: member) in those waters some George Koplinka ing for Curtis Wright, a manufactur- [email protected] or 212-851- years ago? Not funny, not coura- 51 75 Chelsea Rd. er of airplanes for the military. His 7485. In the meantime, please share geous, just plain stupid!” White Plains, NY 10603 job was testing propellers and he your thoughts and stories with us I also heard from Joe Levie. Once [email protected] was on a test flight when an Army by sending a letter or email to the upon a time, he was known to be plane flew alongside and motioned postal or email address at the top of a stellar light of the law profession. WWI ended on November 11, 1918, for him to land. At that time the the column or though CCT’s easy- He has now succeeded himself and, and our country eventually began U.S. Army — there was no separate to-use webform: college.columbia. I would say, elevated himself to that honoring its veterans on that day. Air Force then — was using WWI edu/cct/submit_class_note. We, of author. His book is True Successor: Our class’ WWII veterans swapped airplanes for test flights and these and your classmates, want to hear A Novel of the New Roman Empire. It khaki uniforms and sailor hats for had markings not unlike those of from you! would be an accomplishment at any blue beanies as they began their the Japanese Air Force. age but to do so during the golden freshman year in the College in “When Ed got home, his wife years, when others have chosen to 1947 alongside bright-eyed recent REUNION WEEKEND said, ‘We had an air raid alert today.’ rest on their laurels, is something high school graduates. How many MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 “Ed said, ‘I was it.’ else again. Joe is to be admired, and members of our class surrendered ALUMNI OFFICE Contacts “Ed’s wife, Florence Dubroff read, for this effort. their light blue cap and gown after Alumni Affairs Vanessa Scott Shelley ’40 Barnard, ’41J, was editor- As for the news from my corner, graduation for the appropriate attire [email protected] in-chief of the Barnard Bulletin. my wife Karen’s and my trip to of the Army, Navy, Air Force and 212-851-9148 “My sister, Phyllis Jaffe ’49L, Maui to celebrate my brother Bert Marines? Your class correspondent DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova served in the Women’s Army Sussman ’47’s 90th birthday was does not have a list of all those [email protected] Corps (the WACs) during WWII wonderful and left us wanting who served our country during the 212-851-7833 and upon her return from service more. Hawaii is both a continent Korean War and later in Vietnam. entered the Law School as one of John Weaver away and a very different part It would certainly be appropriate three women in a class of 103, all 49 2639 E. 11th St. of our nation — kinder, gentler, if class members would volunteer of whom were WWII veterans. Brooklyn, NY 11235 warmer, and I’m not just referring to share this information from their She had a distinguished career as a [email protected] to the weather. own records or known archives; lawyer specializing in school law, I hope all had a great summer. you can send it to me at either ad- ultimately representing many of Summer heat and humidity are dress at the top of the column. the school boards in Westchester upon us at this writing, but the Our class yearbook, The County and points north. Class of ’49 can be proud of the Mario Palmieri Columbian of 1951, points out the “My niece, Carolyn LeBel ’69 spirit and vitality it exhibits as an 33 Lakeview Ave. W. significance of having an Ivy Barnard, had a long career with example for all! 50 Cortlandt Manor, NY League school like Columbia in- the New York school system that This correspondent experienced 10567 volved in military training. During included teaching English as a a number of problems along with [email protected] WWII, more than 23,000 officers Second Language. a computer crash that delayed trained on our campus. During the “My daughter, Alexandra Shel- the writing of this column two Bud Kassel took a tumble on the time we received our education ley ’96 Arts, broke family tradition weeks beyond deadline. There is final day of the ski season at Stowe, on Morningside Heights, about 10 by going to Yale as an undergradu- an upside to this: an outburst of Vt., last spring, and suffered a frac- percent of the College enrollment ate but redeemed herself by getting excitement and multiple group tured pelvis. He managed to ski to was midshipmen. Classmates such an M.F.A. at the School of the Arts. emails regarding the appearance the bottom of the slope, and after as Don Beattie, Richard Boyle, For two years she taught logic and of a video featuring the “Big C.” It weeks of hospitalization, rehab Len Stoehr and Jim Lowe, and the rhetoric at the College. She now came to us courtesy of Bill Lubic’s and wheelchairs, was ready for the late Jay Battenberg, Ken Birdsall teaches fiction workshops and niece and is a documentary short tennis courts and looking ahead to and Paul Coogan, to name a few, edits books, among those the best- of guys jumping off the rocks and the next ski season. were among that distinguished selling novel The Help. into the Harlem River: vimeo. Al Schmitt says he can’t stand group. Although the list of “My 9-year-old granddaughter com/35261042. being retired. All he does is mow survivors is thinning, the cadre of shows all the signs of following the Writing in response to the the lawn, find something to paint veterans who remain is tight-knit family tradition.” video, Joe Russell ’52L has once or think of something to complain and tries to meet annually. Plans Leonard Ornstein’s daughter, again enhanced our knowledge about. He does figure, though, that are under way for a meeting in Cindy, wrote to CCT with the news and understanding of the city we it beats the alternative. Jacksonville, Fla. NROTC members of his death at 87 on May 7, 2013. live in. He says, “Extraordinary! If Arthur Thomas values his expe- should keep in touch with Jim Leonard, who resided in Westches- anyone had told me of this I would rience as an oarsman at Columbia and Don. By the way, Don’s father ter County, was a renowned cell not have believed it — those damn and recalls the 1947 Intercollegiate served in the Navy in WWI. Don biologist and a professor emeritus fools are jumping off into the Har- Rowing Association Regatta at was with the USAF during Korea; at the Mount Sinai School of Medi- lem River Ship Canal, dug in about Poughkeepsie, N.Y., memorable as his son, Tom, became an Air Force cine. He earned an M.A. in 1949 1913 to connect the Harlem River the first post-WWII IRA regatta. Art fighter pilot; and now grandson and a Ph.D. in 1957, both from with the outlet of Spuyten Duyvil rowed bow on the JV crew; regret- Travis is a Marine who recently GSAS and in biological sciences. In Creek (the latter coming down from tably, none of the three Columbia completed his third deployment addition to his daughter, Leonard the north, roughly along the bed of shells placed among the leaders, but and is getting married to celebrate.

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If you are aware of classmates, or daughter Natalie (our younger “My first employment, which Carol, and I have lived in Washing- anyone from other classes, who de- son’s daughter) graduated from began in June 1960, was with ton, D.C., since 1992, when she was serve to be in the Columbia Univer- Notre Dame H.S. in Bethlehem, Pa. Union Carbide at its nuclear reac- promoted and transferred at Asso- sity Athletics Hall of Fame, please She was in the “top 10” in her class tor in Sterling Forest, N.Y., where I ciated Universities, which manages get in touch with Tom Powers. He and received a number of special did exploratory research using the radio astronomy facilities for the is anxious to submit the names graduation awards. Natalie wants reactor to create new businesses National Science Foundation. She of deserving Lions; selections are to pursue a career in industrial opportunities. These studies re- has now retired after 40 years. (We made every two years. Tom can be design and was accepted into a sulted in the production and sales met in 1989; two children for each, reached at 937-497-1929. number of colleges where she was of medical radioisotopes primarily boy and girl.) Finally, I’d welcome help from offered scholarships; she chose the for medical use and, aided by my “Your column and those of a classmate who wants to be my University of Cincinnati. nine-month sabbatical at the Johns prior reporters confirms what we associate Class Notes writer, and Two weeks later, our grand- Hopkins medical institutions to all have known: that Columbia who has some fresh ideas for this daughter Abigail (our older son’s study nuclear medicine, in the produces many men and women column. Don’t be bashful! Volun- daughter) graduated from Scars- production and sales of radiophar- of professional distinction but also teer! Again, you can write me at the dale (N.Y.) H.S. Abigail is interested maceuticals. The experiences at many who realized that a life of addresses at the top of the column. in the culinary arts and event plan- Union Carbide led to numerous learning, experience and interests ning. She has been accepted into peer-reviewed publications and a can be very fulfilling. Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I., handful of patents. In the mean- “I graduated from Cornell Law Sidney Prager which specializes in these fields. time, with the dedicated help of and followed that by a brief prac- 52 20 Como Ct. It was special for Maxine and I to my wife, we raised three children tice with Milbank Tweed, followed Manchester, NJ 08759 see these grandchildren, one from who now have successful careers. by 22 years in the law department [email protected] each of our three children, achieve “During my tenure at Union of Bethlehem Steel. Paper pushing these milestones as they progress to Carbide I worked my way up the became arduous; I went back to Your reporter says “hello.” I am fulfill the goals and passions they R&D management ladder, and I left New York to real estate manage- writing this in the month that is have set for themselves. in August 1978 to become the corpo- ment, where I felt rewarded. The busting out all over, as I like to Henry H. Kramer ’53 GSAS rate v.p. of R&D at Medi+Physics, a year 1987 was difficult. My third think of June. This month is great writes, “Lately I’ve noticed that subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche, in career was 14 rewarding years of because of all the weddings and many of the entries for our class Emeryville, Calif. In September 1989, tour guiding in D.C. This has been graduations and, of course, the relate classmates’ experiences after I was elected a fellow of the Ameri- followed by six years in learning beginning of summer. leaving Columbia. Now that I have can College of Nuclear Physicians. In and advocacy involving climate My wife, Maxine, and I had three finally retired, I would like to tell December 1989, Medi+Physics was change and water and energy of our grandchildren graduate, you about mine. sold to Amersham International, and conservation for ourselves and our fortunately not at the same time, “I stayed out of the draft for a I decided to stay in California and posterity. so we were able to attend all three year by enrolling in the graduate seek consulting opportunities. While “Carol and I have found living graduations in different locations. chemistry program at Columbia consulting for more than a handful in D.C. to be pleasant and reward- First up was our grandson and receiving my M.A. in chemistry of companies, I saw a need for the ing. I think Columbia prepared me Andrew (our daughter’s son), in 1953. Then I was drafted into the radiopharmaceutical industry to well to bring many issues, values from Cornell. We spent four days Army and served most of my two have a credible voice in Washington, and ideas together. In addition, the in Ithaca on Cayuga Lake, where years in Germany as a medic, which D.C., to the government regulatory arts and especially jazz have kept my daughter had rented a house so was great duty. I continued my agencies and to Congress. The radio- me good company for more than we all could stay together for the education, supported by the GI Bill, pharmaceutical industry is the most 70 years, and photography has weekend. Andrew majored in com- and received a Ph.D. in physical regulated industry in the United joined other passions. A life of civic puter science and was recruited by chemistry from Indiana University States. In March 1993, I incorporated service is a firm foundation.” Facebook for a good job in Califor- in 1960. In the meantime, I married a 501(c)6 trade lobbying organization Your reporter wishes all the nia even before he graduated. in 1959 — we recently celebrated with the name Council on Radio- members of the Class of 1952 good One week later, our grand- our 54th wedding anniversary. nuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals luck and good health! (CORAR), of which I became the executive director. I resigned from my position in August 2011 with a Lew Robins Columbia School Designations one-year tapering consultantship, 53 1221 Stratfield Rd. finally retiring at 82. Fairfield, CT 06825 In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia “While performing my duties [email protected] degrees from schools other than the College. for CORAR I was asked to create a teaching trade organization, a Our 60th reunion was a wonderful Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 501(c)3 organization with a focus success! This was the first reunion Arts School of the Arts on making family physicians aware attended by Gordon Henderson Barnard of the benefits of nuclear medicine and Harry Rice, and both were Business Graduate School of Business in the diagnosis and treatment of ecstatic about every event. The CE School of Continuing Education patients. This incorporation was following is a portion of an email Dental College of Dental Medicine accomplished in January 2000 that Gordon sent several weeks with the name Nuclear Medicine afterward: E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Industry Association and, again, “I just need to write to let you Applied Science I was employed in the position of know what a fantastic reunion you, GS School of General Studies executive director. NMIA-NA was the Reunion Committee and the GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences discontinued in June 2004. College put together. I did not know J Graduate School of Journalism “Now, what am I doing in my what to expect, but from my first L School of Law early retirement? I have writ- step into the Rare Book & Manu- Nursing School of Nursing ten more than 500 pages of my script Library [in ], I memoirs. I am finalizing a draft knew it was probably going to be a P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons of Management Nuggets, finalizing fine weekend and I would be ever PH Mailman School of Public Health a memoir of my Army experi- so glad I came. It was and I was. SIPA School of International and Public Affairs ence and finalizing a draft of a “A friend had said it would like- SW School of Social Work to-do list of actions that need to be ly be no more than an assembly of TC Teachers College addressed when someone in the old men. Nothing could be wider family dies.” of the mark! ‘Just a gathering of old Tom Whitley says, “My wife, men’ can hardly describe the lun-

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cheons and receptions and dinners from red to green so that he could It was a spectacular reunion and haft. Peter was an outstanding where the food was outstanding walk across the street. At the time, I hope we’ll all be around in five member of our class and he will and a bar was always present offer- I couldn’t see a single car up or years to celebrate the next memo- be missed by many classmates. ing first-rate wines and spirits. Nor down Avenue. Stand- rable occasion. His background and achievements can it cover talks by faculty (Henry ing behind General Eisenhower were listed in the Summer 2013 Graff ’49 GSAS in particular); tours was a freshman member of the CCT Obituaries (college.columbia. REUNION WEEKEND of the library and the new campus Class of 1953 wearing a tradi- edu/cct/summer13/obituaries). MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 north of 125th Street; a choice of tional blue beanie. After the light I hope that our class members ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS attending a Broadway show, a bal- changed and the general success- stay well and look forward to our ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott let performance or an evening at fully crossed the street, your class- 60th reunion. Thank heavens for [email protected] Lincoln Center with excellent seats mate turned to me and exclaimed, our class president, Bernd Brecher, 212-851-9148 at reduced prices; or [the experi- ‘It makes you wonder how he ever who is working on the planning DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova ence of having] reunion staff on crossed the English Channel.’” and could use help. If you want to [email protected] hand to bring a chair to someone Our Saturday class dinner was be involved, contact him (brecher 212-851-7833 needing to sit down, to produce a another special occasion in Butler. [email protected] or 914-961-4101) new identification badge to replace After we finished dinner, our Howard Falberg or one of the Alumni Office staff one left behind in a hotel room or toastmaster, Jay Kane, introduced 13710 Paseo Bonita members listed at the top of the to tell one how to get to one of the the evening’s speakers. Ken Hey- 54 Poway, CA 92064 column. Otherwise, be sure to save many buildings built or renamed man, the renowned photographer [email protected] the date! since we were there. who collaborated with Margaret “And as for the old men who Mead on a number of books, was Looking at the Summer 2013 CCT, came, I have to say I found them enthralling. Larry Harte, who has I was happy to see the list of all Gerald Sherwin interesting, both to talk with and written a number of humorous alumni classes who will be celebrat- 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A to listen to. I wanted to know what autobiographical books, was de- ing Alumni Reunion Weekend from 55 New York, NY 10021 they had done since graduation lightful, and we all appreciated his Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. [email protected] and I was most impressed with bringing free copies of one of his Lo and behold, there we were. Both their rich and varied lives. To de- books to distribute. Allan Jackman Brian Tansey and Jerry Gordon As you might have guessed by scribe our 60th reunion as no more talked about the unfortunate life of have said they are planning to now, Columbia is an institution than ‘a bunch of old men’ would his fraternity brother Jack Molinas. attend, which makes me feel great, that takes the lead in many areas, be just plain wrong because it does Lastly, Bill Frosch announced that, as I intend to go, too, along with my ranging from dealing with its not begin to describe the esprit thanks to the generosity of our wife. I hope that we will get a great alumni to getting involved in new found at the gathering and the classmates, we had exceeded our turnout. ventures. The school is still explor- skill with which it was organized. goal of $70,000 and donated more Speaking of events, I had the ing the Online Learning Initiative I attended and returned home to than $173,000 to the Columbia Col- pleasure of attending Larry Gart- plus it is building up its Global raving about the good time lege Fund. ner’s birthday gathering. It was Centers. Columbia is definitely a I had. I could not be more pleased The following is a list of class­ beautifully done with family and force in international education. that I went.” mates and their guests who at- friends. The evening was lovely. All this became evident in a special Thanks to George Lowry’s tended one or more of our reunion Some of the children put together a panel discussion in early June, persuasive efforts, Michael Ryan, events: Joseph Aaron and his wife, great group of slides that included when deans and faculty spoke at director of Columbia’s Rare Book Jane; Stanley Alt and his wife, Larry’s wife, Carol, and their the Columbia Alumni Center to an & Manuscript Library, spoke to Susan; Richard Auwarter; George children. There also were a couple overflow crowd. our classmates Thursday evening Barth and his wife, Claire; Ann of slides that included several of our The tours through the Alumni in a fascinating reception in Butler Belknap; Peter Carbonara and his classmates on campus. Travel Study Program, which have Library. He talked about some wife, Jean; Edward Clark; John I received a nice note from Jim been second to none, continue into of the library’s rare manuscripts, Condemi; Joel Danziger and his Niver, who was a member of our the late fall. In early October will including a copy of James Joyce’s wife, Joan; John Huneke and his wrestling team. I asked Jim via be “Undiscovered Greek Islands,” Ulysses that was used in the original bride, Claire Feger-Huneke; Morton email whether all was well with a cruise through the Aegean Sea; trial to ban the book in the United Freilicher and his wife, Yseult; and for him. I really enjoyed his “China, Tibet & the Yangtze River”; States. Also at the reception, Dean William Frosch and his wife, Paula; answer. He quoted True Grit’s and “Where Legends Were Born: James J. Valentini spoke about the Larry Harte; Eliot Hearst; Seymour Rooster Cogburn: “I’m RE-tired; An Exploration of Crete, Santorini importance of the Core Curriculum Hendel and his wife, Patricia; Gor- RE-laxing; and RE-joicing.” I hope & the Peloponnese.” This is good in the lives of Columbia College don Henderson; Arthur Hessinger he can come to our next reunion. stuff. graduates. and his wife, Helen; Ken Heyman; Bob Viarengo stays in good Closer to home base, the Admis- On Friday we gathered under a Mohammad Hussan; Allan Jack- health with his wife, Delores, in sions Office is prepared for the tent on South Lawn for a sumptuous man and Evelyn Topper; Jay Kane; Massachusetts. Travel remains a onslaught of applications to the Col- dinner and to hear Mike Sovern’s Richard Kleid and his wife, Rhoda; source of pleasure. lege and Engineering. One key ele- anecdotes of some of the difficult George Lowry and his wife, Judith; I had the pleasure of spending ment of this process is the Alumni moments he faced as president of Pete Pellett; Kathy Phillips; Gerald time with Herb Wittow and his Representative Committee, for the University, a post he held from which alumni like our own Larry 1980–1993. Balfus interview applicants. Larry Our special guest at Saturday’s Jim Niver ’54 quoted True Grit’s Rooster Cogburn: is chair of the Nassau County ARC. luncheon in the library of Casa All alumni should take advantage Italiana was Professor Emeritus of “I’m RE-tired; RE-laxing; and RE-joicing.” of this opportunity to meet prospec- History Henry Graff ’49 GSAS, the tive students and see firsthand the renowned scholar who has known quality of the applicants. and advised every president Pinsky; Martin Rabinowitz and wife, Sandra, in Denver several From near and not so near, many since Harry Truman. Many of us his wife, Anna; Steven Reich and times. Sandra, a wonderful artist, ’55ers attended the last supper remember the story about one of his wife, Shyla; Harry Rice; Lewis wrote a book, Thicker Than Paint, of the season before we broke for our classmates that Professor Graff Robins and his wife, Saralee; Jules about her life. Herb decided to summer recess in June. Don Laufer shared at our 30th reunion. The Ross; Elaine Rousseau; Nicho- have it printed and the result is made the usual arrangements with professor’s recollection went some- las Samios and his wife, Mary; beautiful. I found it to be a beauti- Alfred Gollomp, who came into thing like this: “One day, I was Stanley Sklar and his wife, Margot; ful story. If you are interested, con- Manhattan from the borough that walking up Amsterdam Avenue Michael Sovern and his wife, Pat; tact Herb: [email protected]. houses the Barclays Center (this is when I saw General Eisenhower James Steiner; Robert Walzer and We are living in an era when we where the men’s basketball team [then president of the University] his wife, Anne; and William Won lose some wonderful classmates. A will play St. John’s in late Decem- waiting for the light to change and his wife, Margaret Lai. recent case in point is Peter Ehren­ ber). Dick Kuhn was there (without

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY the Vagabonds and Nick Tavuchis, It’s less than two years until we for Columbia students as well as by the fact that notice of Dean’s who lives in , and Tony reach another milestone — our 60th. graduate research facilities that will Day to non-reunion classes was Palladino, who’s in ). Others Great things are happening. Get enhance undergraduate education never sent by snail mail. Note to who made an appearance were Bob set for 2015. through availability of graduate the Alumni Office: Some of us are Brown; Jeff Broido, in from San It’s going to be a reunion better study courses to College under- too “old” to rely strictly on email. Diego (without the rest of the Pony than ever. graduates. [Editor’s note: Also, And we still like to open letters. As Ballet and Dave Stevens, who re- Love to all! Everywhere! when graduate schools relocate I have said, the food at all recent sides in Philadelphia); Bill Epstein, to Manhattanville, it is expected Columbia events has greatly im- who has moved to another abode to free up space on Morningside proved. We can only look forward in Manhattan; Al Martz and Alan Stephen K. Easton Heights for the Arts & Sciences and to more of the same as we plan for Hoffman, both from New Jersey; 56 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. thus benefit undergraduates.] our 60th reunion. Herb Cohen, from Westchester; and Englewood, NJ 07631 The lectures included one given Now for the class news: In line Ron Spitz and Allen Hyman (who [email protected] by Attorney General Eric H. Hold- with the sentiment that “It’s a time is starting to think about the 60th). er Jr. ’73, ’76L. Interestingly, when in our lives to move or downsize, Anthony Viscusi, Peter Pressman, The 2012–13 College year ended asked by Dean Valentini about his and the retirement home is looking Stanley Zinberg and Aaron Ham- with two events that Class of 1956 more memorable experiences in better,” Bob Siroty and his wife, burger sent regrets. members participate in with regu- the College, he said that one of his Margo, have sold their Randolph, It should be noted that Lew larity. The first was Class Day on most satisfying occurred as a light- N.J., residence of 40-plus years. Banci’s photo was placed strategi- May 21. In attendance and march- weight football player, when he “I couldn’t believe it was on the cally in the History of the Varsity ing in the 10th annual Alumni caught a pass and ran into the end market for only a week,” Bob said. Show, a terrific book that goes way, Parade of Classes were Danny zone against Penn. As a member They are moving into a retirement way back. The tradition goes on. Link, Len Wolfe, Ron Kapon and of our lightweight football team, I community in Somerset, N.J., in a Jim Berick, who has been doing myself. This is both a privilege and can attest to the positive experience townhouse community where all a lot of exercising lately, recently an experience that I recommend that I had with teammates includ- ground and structural matters are met with the dean (Valentini, that to all class members. Ron Kapon, ing Jordan Bonfonte; Larry Cohn; provided for. Of course, is) in Florida. It looks like one of the who had an unfortunate fall last Bob Lauterborn; my brother, bedroom will be on the ground road trips coming up for the dean year before the march, was in Maurice Easton; and many others. level in case of any decreased mo- will be a visit to Cleveland. Sounds good form as he joined in carrying That experience, as Holder also bility in the next 20 years. Now for like a plan. Jim rotates between our Class of 1956 banner. We all related, turned many “city kids” the fun part: In getting their posses- Florida and Cleveland, among enjoyed the good weather (a little into teammates and solidified our sions (junk) sold, they discovered other places throughout the year. hot but definitely better than what bond at Columbia. Margo’s grandfather’s diploma, We heard from Harold Kushner the weather bureau had predicted). As always, the other topics at dated June 12, 1901, from Colum- and exchanged some thoughts When you march down College Dean’s Day were interesting and bia College, granting the degree about the late Peter Kenen ’54. Walk to the cheers of almost 1,200 demonstrated the talent of the of bachelor of laws. This diploma As (almost) everyone knows, the graduating seniors, it makes Columbia faculty. Stan and Ruth on parchment will be donated to baseball team won the Ivy League you feel young again as well as reported that the morning lecture the Law School archives by Bob’s title this past year and scared some inspired by the enthusiasm and di- by biology professor Stuart Fires- grandson. As Bob tells it, aside from big-name schools in the NCAA versity of the graduates. The Class tein was most brilliant and funny; his son likening the move to killing tournament. Jack Freeman, Ron Day keynote speaker was Terrence he addressed how ignorance and their longtime family dog, the tran- McPhee, John Naley, Jud Maze McNally ’60, the well-known play- uncertainty in the sciences, in sition went rather smoothly. and Beryl Nusbaum should all be wright. In his talk, McNally relived particular, can lead to increased sci- Mark Novick, one of our class’ proud of the boys in blue. his days at Columbia, from the entific discovery and illumination. practicing psychiatrists, is busy Things are going well with time he moved in to the dorms and Professor Firestein was a recipient planning his older daughter’s fall Chuck Garrison, who makes the surprise of sharing a room with of a 2013 Great Teacher Award at wedding. His experience should Valley Cottage, N.Y., his home. We an engineering major (“What the the Society of Columbia Graduates help us in planning our 60th are waiting for the latest install- hell was that all about? I thought luncheon that followed at Low reunion. ment in Jack Stuppin’s paintings young men went to college to Library and which, as Stan noted, John Censor is repositioning his collection. Jack, as some may recall, become great writers”) to relating was well deserved. There were company of 23 years, PCI Global, rummages on the West Coast. how the experiences of attending actually two lunches, one at Low based in New Jersey and a provider With so many people running for of management training to Global the mayorship of New York City, 500 Companies using business it is surprising that some of the Alan Press ’56 recently returned from two weeks games he developed. This method, candidates haven’t asked Richard according to John, both acceler- Ravitch for advice. Who knows? in North Korea and has written a lengthy article on ates and gives participants a more Another West Coast classmate his trip. complete learning experience. is Stanley Lubman, who still gives Good luck to John. lectures, talks and other things. On the travel front, Alan Press, Stanley is terrific at what he does. a college in the City of New York in connection with the society’s who has traveled to more unusual Berish Strauch, in Westchester, is affected and shaped his adult life. awards and the other on College places than any other classmate still plying his trade, as is Steve The second event was Dean’s Walk (a barbecue) that most of (write to me if I am wrong) re- Rabin in Manhattan. (Different Day, held during Alumni Reunion our classmates attended. I guess cently returned from two weeks in trade, however.) We hope to see Weekend on June 1 and attended Columbia wanted to make sure North Korea. You may ask, “Who them at our reunion in less than by Jordan Bonfonte; Bob Siroty; its graduates had enough lunch wants to visit North Korea?” Well, two years. No excuses. [Editor’s Peter Klein; Stan Soren and his locations. Alan has written a lengthy article note: Save the date — Thursday, wife, Ruth; John Censor and The afternoon lecture I attended on his trip, which I plan to have May 28–Sunday, May 31, 2015.] myself. In addition to listening to was given by comparative litera- presented with pictures at one of Lew Mendelson plans to be lectures by some of the most illus- ture professor Julie Crawford, who our fall class lunches. Hope many there. He’s still in Washington, trious of Columbia professors and was equally brilliant in discussing of you will be able to attend. D.C., doing good for all. alumni, it gave us a chance to visit the dramatic historical and political Also, as you may know, my A sad note to report — Gerry and exchange news with class- implications of Shakespeare’s King wife, Elke, and I are “Mexican- Pomper let us know that his wife, mates over breakfast and lunch. Lear. Her lecture was a trip into the files,” having invested enough of Marlene “Mickey” Pomper, an Dean James J. Valentini spoke at world of 17th-century Shakespeare our retirement savings in resort integral part of our class, passed Saturday’s breakfast and shared an and how theatre interacted with Mexican timeshares that we work away recently. outline on Manhattanville and how politics at that time. hard to use every week available Stalwart members of the won- it relates to the College. Presum- It should be added that our to us. At this point, we own units drous class of 1955. ably, there will be more housing attendance this year was reduced equal to the space we have in our

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residence in New Jersey, so we scores in the heavens, I’d like now fellow, 1966 and 1978; fellow of the Utah and Wyoming for five years); have enough leisure space to live to make amends. Our daughter Re- American Academy of Arts and Sci- and baseball (served 40 years on the in whether the grandkids want becca has been all of the following: ences (elected 1986); senior fellow Utah High School All-Star Game to come or not. We do enjoy the Hebrew teacher, Judaica librarian, of the National Endowment of the Committee, including six years as sun, golf and good weather of our artist, botanist and poet. Her art- Humanities; fellow at the Institute chairman; received special recogni- Mexican vacations (approximately work has appeared in the journals of Advanced Studies of ; tion awards in 1994 and 2007). four per year). This January, we Bridges and Judaism. Her best- Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton; In addition to sports activities, will host Danny Link and his wife, known publication is Alef is Silent: A editorial board, Jewish Review of Ward served on the Salvation Army Elinor, in Puerto Vallarta. Hebrew Alphabet. It was praised by Books; National Jewish Book Award Board of Directors (1962–70, chair- Our first summer class luncheon writer Cynthia Ozick for ‘bringing for Jewish Thought; Robert Kirsch man 1966–68) and on the Board of was held at Danny Link’s country to mind those traditional Victorian Award (Los Angeles Times) for Directors of the Utah Gun Collec- club, Bonnie Briar, on June 20. alphabet books, with their lovely lifetime contribution to American tors Association (1967–71). Upon Attendees were the usual suspects. tone of entering the child’s world.’ letters; and doctor of humanities, retirement, Ward commenced being Al Broadwin and Bob Siroty were Rebecca also has published several Yale (2010). a volunteer docent at the Browning the luncheon attendees and Jack botanical articles in the Washington Ward Armstrong received the Firearms Museum, where he has Katz, Mark Novick and Jerry Fine Park Arboretum Bulletin. Her most Utah Sports Hall of Fame Founda- logged more than 4,000 hours of were the tennis-playing attendees. recent publication is Raising Gladioli tion Distinguished Service Award volunteer service. I’ll say that the tennis was at a in Peshawar, a poem occasioned on March 19 in recognition and Marty Fisher writes, “We had high level (for our age group, that by the barbaric Woolwich murder honor of a lifetime of “outstanding a record (or near-record; no one is; forget Wimbledon and the U.S. in London. It appears in the July leadership and service in school, keeps score) at our class luncheon Open). But most of all, it’s a lot 2013 issue of the British monthly community, recreation and sports on May 29. Ed Weinstein hosted us of fun. Summer lunches are held Standpoint. activities.” The presentation was at at the Columbia University Club of at Danny’s club in Larchmont “My wife, Leah, and I have not the South Towne Expo Center in New York. The last luncheon had (what better way to get out of the escaped the wounds inflicted upon Sandy, Utah. been scheduled for late October city?) and fall lunches will start in those who pass their allotted biblical Ward has been involved with and was canceled on account of October at Faculty House and the threescore and ten, but we soldier sports for much of his life. His fam- Hurricane Sandy. This might have Columbia University Club of New on.” ily had a sporting goods business engendered some pent-up demand York. Please contact me via email if Bob Alter gave a presentation in Utah. At Ogden H.S., Ward was for the informal good fellowship you are not on my class notification of his latest book, Ancient Israel, captain of the swimming team and that these events encourage. Ed list and would like to join us. The Former Prophets, Joshua, Judges, co-captain of the football team. and I were joined by Pete Anker, A quick report on class fundrais- Samuel, and Kings, at the 92nd At Columbia he was a member Stan Barnett, Art Bernstein, Larry ing for the fiscal 2013 year, which Street Y on May 13. Irish poet Sea- of the varsity swimming team and Boes, Joe Diamond, Ted Dwyer, ended June 20: We met all of our mus Heaney, a member of the Bel- captain of the freshman swimming Joe Feldschuh, Jerry Finkel, Bob class fundraising goals, so thanks to fast Group at Queen’s University team. After stints with Kaiser Alu- Flescher, Sal Franchino, Dave all classmates who contributed. As and a recipient of a Nobel Prize in minum in St. Louis and Denver, he Kinne, Neil McLellan, Art Meyer- a Class Agent, together with Danny literature (1995), has called Bob’s returned to Utah to enter the fam- son, Mark Stanton and Paul Zola. Link, Stanley Soren and Al Franco work “a godsend — immediately ily business. He later was a school “Following are some random ’56E, I can only encourage you all readable, immensely learned, an supply salesman for Wolves, tidbits picked up between courses: to continue your generosity. I am education and a restitution.” Stevens & Brown and Universal “Paul has moved to Stamford, also class representative for Planned Bob is professor emeritus of He- Athletic, retiring in 1998. Conn., where he practices media- Giving. If this type of giving, which brew and comparative literature at Ward had a distinguished career tion and arbitration. Stan made the includes your will, investment, tax UC Berkeley and also a professor as a volunteer in local and regional longest trip to the lunch, from situation and financial planning, in the graduate school there; he still activities. He says, “I always felt Rhode Island, where he is emeritus is something you would like to teaches and works with graduate that as a volunteer I could pay professor at the University of Rhode explore, please email me and I will students. He has been teaching back to the various sports that had Island. Art Bernstein, who retired as put you in touch with the proper at UC Berkeley since 1967 and is been so good to me. Virtually all of a professor of computer science at representative in the Alumni Of- working on translating a large vol- my work in athletics and shooting Stony Brook, has developed the art fice who can provide additional ume of Yehuda Amichai’s poetry. sports has been unpaid except for and skill of a professional sculptor information. Think “a legacy to Bob earned master’s (1958) and the great pleasure I obtained from in Setauket on Long Island, where Columbia will be a good thing.” doctoral (1962) degrees from Har­ working with coaches, athletes and he resides. Again, please let me or Lou vard in comparative literature. His gun enthusiasts in the Utah area. “Dave enjoys his volunteer work Hemmerdinger (lhemmer@aol. career began as a writer at Commen­ “None of my volunteer work as a docent at the Met. He and his com) know of any news that you tary Magazine, where for many was as enjoyable as that with the wife, Kathleen, have retained their would like to share in Class Notes. years he was a contributing editor. Board of Directors of the Utah country home in Vermont. Ed and Also if you have changed your He has written 23 books and most Sports Hall of Fame. It is a great his wife, Sandra, divide their ‘baby- email address, postal address or recently has been noted for his organization with a great future.” sitting’ time between their local phone number, please inform the translation of sections of the Bible. Ward served 14 years on that board, son’s children and their daughter’s CCT staff at college.columbia.edu/ His Wikipedia page lists six of his including two years as president. family in San Francisco. cct/contactus; this is part of our translations of the Hebrew Bible Ward also was a volunteer of- mission to connect all class mem- as well as selections from his other ficial in the following sports: track bers with our activities. works, references and external links. and field (certified and worked as What’s Your Story? I trust that as Columbia students See also his professor web page at finish judge and clerk of course begin their academic year, you had nes.berkeley.edu/Web_Alter/Alter. for 50 years; received the Utah Letting classmates know an enjoyable summer and that you html. Bob lectures on topics ranging High School Activities Association what’s going on in your stay healthy and wise. from biblical episodes to Kafka’s track coaches’ award for volunteer life is easier than ever. modernism and Hebrew literature. service); cross country (served as Send in your Class Notes! The subjects of his writing are finish chute judge at high school ONLINE by clicking Herman Levy varied, including European novels and college meets for more than college.columbia.edu/cct/ 57 7322 Rockford Dr. from the 18th century to the present, 40 years); swimming (served more Falls Church, VA 22043 contemporary American fiction and than 30 years as starter and finish submit_class_note. [email protected] modern Hebrew literature. judge for high school meets at the EMAIL to the address at Bob’s honors and awards include regional and state levels); wrestling the top of your column. Edward Alexander writes from the Kluge Scholars Council at the (was head scorer for several state Seattle: “Because decades ago I Library of Congress; president, meets as well as three Big Sky MAIL to the address at the failed in the parental duty to hire Association of Literary Scholars, championship meets); football (was top of your column. skywriters to inscribe our kids’ SAT Critics and Writers; Guggenheim certified high school official for

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“There were no medical emer- and, including their guests, more sity of Copenhagen and the Univer- John Giorno was one of many gencies at the luncheon but if one than 100 total participants. Our class sity of Paris. He went to UC Irvine poets who appeared at the New had occurred, we had no fewer activities began Friday night with a in 1966 and served two terms as York Public Library’s gathering to than a half-dozen qualified medics cocktail party and dinner in the Kel- physics department chair, was dean discuss the Spanish poet Federico to take the call: Dwyer, Feldschuh, logg Center of the School of Interna- of the School of Physical Sciences García Lorca and to read from Finkel, Flescher, Kinne and Mey- tional and Public Affairs Building. and was on the American commit- García Lorca’s works. García Lorca, erson. This gave us a cozy sense of The speaker, Peter Awn, dean of the tee for the Board of Directors of the who wrote about his 1929–30 visit safety and security at our extremely School of General Studies, profes- Weizmann Institute of Science. He to NYC in his book, Poet in New sociable lunch.” sor of religion and director of the is survived by his wife, Carol. York, was murdered by Franco’s Yours truly attended a special Middle East Institute, talked about Leon Mir ’59E died in Brookline, troops during the Spanish Civil advance screening of the film the Arab Spring, with particular at- Mass., on February 23, 2013. He was War. García Lorca studied at GS, Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent tention to , provoking a lively a member of Phi Beta Kappa and and his brother taught at Columbia at the United States Holocaust Q&A afterward. earned his master’s and doctoral during our school years. Memorial Museum in Washington, On Saturday morning many degrees at MIT. At his death he Rick Brous, who along with Paul D.C., on May 22. It was followed classmates attended an all-class had retired as v.p. for research at Gomperz founded the Columbia by a panel discussion. The event Dean’s Day talk by Attorney General IONICS. He is survived by his wife, University Club of Northern New was especially meaningful for me, Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, ’76L, who Judith; his children, Jonathan ’98 Jersey, now is a v.p. of the Columbia as I well remember Rabbi Prinz’s shared fond reminiscences of his Business and Lisa; and two grand- University Alumni Association of stirring declaration at the civil undergraduate days, offered advice children. Southern California, proving, as rights March on Washington on on the value of public service and Warren Smith died in his home-­ Rick says, that his love for Colum- August 28, 1963, where I was on participated in another spirited town, Hampton Bays, N.Y., on bia stretches from sea to shining sea. duty with the National Guard. Q&A. January 20, 2013. After 30 years He adds that his daughter, Sharon Rabbi Prinz, spiritual leader of After lunch, a packed room teaching in the East Meadow, Brous ’95, ’01 GSAS (whose hus- the Jewish community of Berlin, heard a panel discussion moder- N.Y., school district, he retired and band, David J. Light ’95, ’02 Arts, was expelled from Nazi Germany ated by Carl Stern ’59J, former Su- became the owner of Lawnsmith’s has appeared in this column) was for “speaking out against the sys- preme Court reporter for NBC and Landscaping and the Springville named by The Daily Beast as No. 1 tematic erosion of the civil rights of now Emeritus Professor of Media House, an operator of apartment among America’s top 50 rabbis; she Jews by the Nazis.” On arriving in and Public Affairs at The George buildings. As an undergraduate, is the first woman so honored. [See the United States, where two years Washington University. The panel he pitched on the Lion varsity CCT profile of Sharon, May 2005.] later he became rabbi of Temple members and their topics were as baseball team and was president of Another ’58 doctor has become B’nai Abraham in Livingston, N.J., follows: Alpha Sigma Phi. He is survived an author. Peter Cohn, under the “the struggles of disenfranchised Mort Halperin, now a senior by his wife, Carolyn; his children, nom de plume of Alan N. Clifford, African-Americans in the segre- adviser to the Open Society Foun- Karen, Joanne, Thomas and Susan; has recently produced his second gated South reminded him of his dations on “North Korea: Should and eight grandchildren. novel. His first was The Fatherland experiences in Germany.” An orga- People in Seoul, South Korea, Be Also, if we may pay tribute to a Files. The newly published book, nizer of the 1963 march, he stood Worried?” (he thought probably non-classmate, sadly, Allan Gard- Heart of Wisdom, is about a survivor with its other leaders, including Dr. not); Bernie Nussbaum on “Hillary: ner ’59 died earlier this year. Allan of the WWII Bataan Death March Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Will She or Won’t She?” (we shall was one of the key organizers of who becomes a renowned medical Young Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy see … ); Larry Harris, a lobbyist the annual Homecoming evening researcher only to run into scientific Wilkins, Floyd McKissick and John with the law firm of Patton Boggs, gathering, which began as a ’58 fraud in his department. Peter says Lewis. Just before King’s “I Have on “Congress: Is it Worse Than It Spectator event but grew gradually the books were reviewed favorably, a Dream” speech, Rabbi Prinz Looks?” (yes, he says); Morrie Ami- to include non-’58 and non-Specta- not only by Publishers Weekly but declared: “Bigotry and hatred are tay, another longtime Washington tor participants, making it a festive also by two noted literary critics: not the most urgent problem. The insider and old Middle East hand, and always interesting event. Our Bob Levine and Bob Waldbaum! most urgent, the most disgraceful, on “Where is the Middle East Head- ties with Allen go all the way back [See Bookshelf.] Like so many ’58 the most shameful and the most ed?” (probably more chaos); and to when ’58’s Spectator managing “retirees,” Peter has kept his day tragic problem is silence.” Ernie Brod, who leads the Business board named him to our successor job as a cardiologist at Stony Brook Earlier in May, I was in Nashville Intelligence Practice at Alvarez & board. He was a good friend who University Hospital, although only for American Bar Association meet- Marsal, on “Can Financial Markets faced down a lot of adversity in his on a part-time basis. Incidentally, ings and my older grand-nephew’s Be Trusted?” (no). last few years. We’ll miss him, at his pen name was borrowed from graduation from Vanderbilt. Among The afternoon’s activities contin- Homecoming and always. the names of his two sons. He and other things I also visited the full- ued with affinity group receptions. Back to happier news. Ernie his wife, Joan, have four grandchil- size reproduction of the Parthenon Of particular interest was the Brod’s 75th birthday party, given by dren and live in New York City. in Centennial Park. It was built as a NROTC reception, organized by his wife, Ruthie, and his children, Ed Feige, professor emeritus temporary structure for the Tennes- Stuart Huntington and Bob Jes- was quite a bash. Held at The of economics at the University of see Centennial Exposition of 1897; persen in recognition of NROTC’s Glasshouses in Chelsea, it featured Wisconsin, was featured in James the city rebuilt it in 1931 as a perma- return to campus. Stuart won the a touching speech by his son, Jon; a Surowiecki’s recent The New Yorker nent one. Inside is a 42-ft. replica of (virtual) multi-generational prize; song written and performed by his column “The Underground Recov- Phidias’ statue of . I found he was accompanied by his young- daughter Joanna; and a film created ery.” Ed, a longtime maven on the the effect of the statue’s staring eyes er brother, Lee, daughter Meredith by his daughter Mara (a profession- underground economy, conducted eerie, to say the least; it reminded and granddaughter Samantha. al photographer), featuring Ernie’s a study showing that $2 trillion of me of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Princess The class events concluded old Brighton Beach neighborhood. income goes unreported annually. Ida’s invocation to Minerva: “Oh, with our Saturday dinner in Low A dozen Columbians were in atten- Ed and other experts point to the goddess wise.” Library, at which Bernie Nussbaum dance, in addition to Ernie: Arnie transition from regular paychecks announced that our Class Gift, far Abrams ’61 and his wife, Phyllis; to increasing part-time and casual surpassing our original goal, had Peter Cohn and his wife, Joan; work which, coupled with distrust Barry Dickman topped $400,000. Barry Dickman and his wife, Carol; of government, has pushed more 58 25 Main St. I am sorry to report the recent Joe Dorinson and his wife, Eileen; people to work off the books. Ed’s Court Plaza North, Ste 104 deaths of three classmates. Myron Peter Gruenberger and his wife, solution is a novel system: a single, Hackensack, NJ 07601 Bander ’61 GSAS, a professor of Carin Lamm; Linda Lynn, widow minuscule tax on all transactions [email protected] physics and astronomy at UC of Ted Lynn; Bernie Nussbaum (purchases, sales, bank withdraw- Irvine, died on December 19, 2012, and his wife, Nancy Kuhn; Howard als, etc.) to replace the income, What an excellent reunion! Our 55th in Newport Beach, Calif. Myron Orlin and his wife, Anita; Shelly payroll, estate and all other taxes. spanned the warm, sunny, long was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Raab and his wife, Judy; Bob Wald- Will it fly? We’ll see ... weekend of May 30–June 2 and was CERN (the European Laboratory baum and his wife, Ruth; and Mark Speaking of Carl Stern, his TV attended by almost 60 classmates for Nuclear Research), the Univer- Weiss and his wife, Joan. report — which aired on NBC in

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1973 and uncovered the FBI’s secret for the past 40 years. before their removal as managers. titled Beethoven: The Relentless Revo- counterintelligence programs to “As for my professional life, I am A prior investigation, which had lutionary.” By now, he should have harass and neutralize organizations a bit bemused as to how it turned failed, had been subject to intense returned from a month in Germany and individuals whose political out. While in college I intended to criticism from Congress. But my in- doing Beethoven work. activities it deemed unwelcome become a professor of American vestigation recovered $21.5 million Allen D. Klein writes, “After — was selected by the Journal- history; however, a class with Rob- for the plan participants, though 35 years as a v.p. of Schlumberger, ism School as one of “100 Great ert V. Rimini at Columbia Graduate it took many years, without any I am now engaged in international Stories” produced by its graduates Faculties [now GSAS] showed me congressional oversight hearings. tax consulting. My wife, Carol, and during the past century. An exhibit that I would have difficulty getting “My job in government also gave I divide our time among Stamford, about the story is on display at the a position at a first-rate university. me the opportunity to teach ERISA Conn., Delray Beach, Fla., and Newseum in Washington, D.C. The I received a B+ in the class, which law. I lectured extensively for the Washington, D.C., where our three Newseum recently placed Carl’s is roughly equivalent to a D in an American Bar Association on the grandchildren live with their parents 1965–1993 scripts in its permanent undergraduate course. So, the next department’s regulations and cre- — Todd Stern, who is a special en- archives. semester, I tried my hand at consti- ated the first course in the country voy for climate change with the De- The class lunch is held on the tutional law with Gerald Gunther on the labor aspects of ERISA at partment of State, and Jennifer Klein, second Wednesday of every month ’50 GSAS at the Law School, receiv- Georgetown Law, where I was an who works for .” in the Grill Room of the Columbia ing an A-. Well, I thought this was adjunct professor for many years. Michael J. Tannenbaum reports,

University Club of New York, 15 W. great; I’d become a lawyer. Being My years in government were the “My book, High pT Physics in the 43rd St. The cost is $31 per person. the son of an immigrant plumber Email Art Radin if you plan to at- from the far reaches of Brooklyn, tend, up to the day before: aradin@ I was one of the few Jews in NYC radinglass.com. who didn’t know what lawyers Frank Wilson ’59 was the Senior Goldman Sachs actually did. I didn’t know that con- Fellow at the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson stitutional law was to REUNION WEEKEND of law what filet mignon was to a Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 McDonald’s hamburger. ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS of the National Museum of American History, “Looking back on my career, ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott I think the law was a good fit for . [email protected] me and suited to my talents, later 212-851-9148 on even giving me a chance to DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova fulfill my interest in teaching. After most fulfilling and intellectually Heavy Ion Era, co-authored with [email protected] graduating from law school, I stimulating of my career. Upon Jan Rak, was published in June. In 212-851-7833 bounced around from a Wall Street my retirement in 2008, the editor conjunction, I gave a new book pre- Norman Gelfand law firm to a general counsel posi- of Pensions & Investments wrote the sentation at CERN, the European c/o CCT tion at a large privately held firm, article ‘The Man Who Was ERISA,’ Organization for Nuclear Research, 59 Columbia Alumni Center to a specialty securities law firm, describing the impact I had on the on June 13. I work full-time and 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and then to a real estate developer interpretation of the law. remain productive, including sev- New York, NY 10025 in the D.C. area, where, as general “When I retired, I went back to eral talks per year at international [email protected] counsel, I took the firm public. In my first passions: politics and civil meetings.” 1974, with the passage of the Em- rights. Living in Manhattan in the Ray LaRaja writes, “This year We begin with a reminder that our ployee Retirement Income Security 1960s I had been active in local has been quite significant for me. I 55th reunion is next spring, so be Act (ERISA), I landed in the Office democratic politics in Greenwich reached 75 years on this earth and sure to save the date for Thursday, of the Solicitor at the U.S. Depart- Village, where I was a member of recently helped my bride enjoy May 29–Sunday, June 1, 2014. ment of Labor (DOL), as counsel for Community Planning Board No. her 75th as well! She has been a Morton Kleven is already think- fiduciary responsibility; I personally 2 and where I revived a defunct sustaining joy and succor for me ing about the big weekend. He drafted or supervised the drafting insurgent Reform Democratic Club, and our three children and grand- writes, “With our 55th reunion and of the seminal fiduciary regulations the Downtown Independent Demo- children. my 75th birthday on the horizon, to implement the new law, with a crats. I also ran parts of a successful “It has been four years since I I felt the need to reflect on what staff that first year of three attorneys State Assembly campaign and an entered the world of retirement Columbia has meant to me, the straight out of law school. Those unsuccessful State Senate cam- and, to be honest, I don’t miss my College’s role in my subsequent regulations have stood the test of paign. I was most proud of being 40 years in surgery and teaching career path, and the twists, turns time, and have remained virtually an attorney when I volunteered for students and surgical residents at all and personal highlights of my unchanged for nearly 40 years. several weeks in Mississippi during — enough is enough! I did several professional life. Kierkegaard “I expected to remain just a few the Freedom Summer of 1964 under years of volunteer work in a Meals said that life is lived forward but years in government service and the auspices of JFK’s Lawyers’ on Wheels program and as a tutor understood backward. When I then return to private practice. But Committee for Civil Rights Under in an English as a Second Language think back to my years at Columbia, fate intervened in the form of a Law. Later, as a civil servant, I was program before my hip and knee I remember, of course, the fantastic major illness for my daughter. There barred from participating in these arthritis became severe enough that courses and teachers, particularly was no Obamacare, so I continued activities. But retirement in 2008 it precluded my continuing these Jim Shenton ’49, ’54 GSAS’ seminar at DOL because our family needed gave me an opportunity to go back activities (couldn’t get in and out on Reconstruction and the seminar the government’s health benefits, to those loves. I volunteered in the of cars). in Oriental Humanities taught by unavailable in a private firm be- Obama campaigns in 2008 and “In early June I attended a re- professors Arthur Danto ’53 and cause of my daughter’s pre-existing 2012 in Richmond, Va., registering union of the Vietnam 312th Evacua- Wm. Theodore ‘Ted’ de Bary ’41, ’53 condition. In the Office of the voters on college campuses, which I tion Hospital, where I was stationed GSAS. As much as I value the criti- Solicitor, in addition to the fiduciary enjoyed tremendously. in 1968–69 at a place called Chu Lai, cal thinking skills that Columbia regulations, I worked on the agree- “By the time this is published, as a busy trauma surgeon operating instilled in me and believe that Co- ments that transferred management my wife, Carla, and I will have re- on our wounded GIs. The reunion lumbia in great part made me who I of the [then-named] Central States turned from a trip to Italy, where we was held in Greensboro/Winston am today, I also value the friend- Teamsters Pension, Health and rented a villa outside Siena with our Salem, N.C. ships I formed there. Fifty-five years Welfare Funds to independent in- children, Miriam and David, their “I have been asked to serve on later, I am still in touch with Bennet vestment managers. Later, in a pro- spouses and our three grandchil- the committee for our 55th College Silverman, Isser Woloch, Harvey motion to senior policy adviser to dren, all in celebration of our 50th reunion, and I have gladly accepted. Leifert, Ken Scheffel and Jerry the assistant secretary, I was given wedding anniversary.” Speaking of reunions, I also recently Wacks, even though Harvey is the the task of leading the department’s John Clubbe writes, “Norton attended the 50th for my NYU only one who lives nearby in the investigation into the investments is giving me a contract for my medical school class.” Washington, D.C., area, my home made by the trustees of those funds Beethoven study, provisionally Frank Wilson was in Washing-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ton, D.C., as the Senior Goldman one another at that time. One im- spoke rhapsodically of the educa- Marianne: “In May, the occasion Sachs Fellow at the Jerome and Dor- mediately recognizes how small a tional opportunity he felt privileged was the 50th year of earning my othy Lemelson Center for the Study world we live in.” to receive at Columbia. “Contempo- M.B.A. from St. John’s University. of Invention and Innovation of the Allen Rosenshine writes, rary Civilization: The most perfect In August, St. John’s recognized National Museum of American “Having been forbidden by my curriculum ever devised. The my 50 years as a member of its History, Smithsonian Institution. wife from playing tennis due to my Humanities: Core courses taught by full-time faculty. Late September He says he had a ball, including second (thankfully successful) back brilliant professors. I’m not smarter marked the 50-year celebration of at a gathering with Dan Ein, Ben surgery, she permits me to continue than everyone I know but I do my wife’s graduation from nursing Huberman and Sam Tindall. skiing, if not as aggressively as in think I got a superior education to school at Queens Hospital Center. David B. Smith reports, “[At years past (maybe she’s trying to everyone I know. My Harvard and Twenty-six of her classmates this writing, my wife,] Helen, and I get rid of me!). We spend the win- Yale friends would agree.” (out of a class of about 52) came are soon to leave Turkey, where we ters in Park City, Utah, where we And he spoke with more than to Queens from 13 states for the have spent a delightful six weeks, have a condo in Deer Valley; most equal enthusiasm of the cultural event. Finally, on December 29, we and head for the Outer Hebrides. of the summer months in Lyme, wonders of New York to which he celebrated our 50th wedding an- We’ll spend three weeks there in a Conn.; and the rest of the time trav- was then exposed. His first night niversary with 80 family members tiny village, Tolsta Chaolais, visiting eling or in our downsized apart- as a freshman was spent sitting on and friends. Marianne decorated friends and enjoying the elemental ment in Manhattan. My daughter the sidewalk outside the darkened this year’s Christmas tree with landscape. Then, we’re off to the Or- graduated from Fordham School of Mark Hellinger Theatre, waiting gold ornaments and a big ‘50’ kney Islands until mid-September. Law in May, which hopefully ends for the line to form the next morn- tree-topper. “During August, Helen once the stream of tuition checks associ- ing to purchase a standing-room- “I am now in my 51st year of again will work on a fascinating ar- ated with my four children, but only ticket to see My Fair Lady. “It teaching economics at St. John’s; chaeological site, the Ness of Brod- I write one or two papers a year. gar. Situated between two large Most recently, I published an stone circles, the Ness has revealed Bill Tanenbaum ’60 returned in May from a visit to article on the rare earth minerals a walled ceremonial compound market and delivered a paper on with more than 12 stone structures, Jerusalem, Bucharest, the Normandy beaches and the private spaceflight industry. all older than Stonehenge. While Paris, a trip where he often walked 4–6 miles a day. I lean toward microeconomic Helen is digging, I’ll be writing. I industry studies and have written recently published an article on the articles on robotics, health care, Stromness Museum in the Journal not those for my grandchildren in would be like that for the next four medical tourism, viatical settle- of Museum Ethnography. private school, which now costs an years. If it was Columbia versus ments and the market for luxury “Last winter, we brought Nick order of significant magnitude more the city, the city and what it had to goods and casino gaming in Macao Card, the archaeologist in charge than what we paid at Columbia. offer frequently won.” as well as a book on the nursing of the Ness, to Washington, D.C., “I keep my mind from atrophy He spoke poignantly about his home industry. As is evident, my where, speaking at several venues, in retirement by doing marketing experiences as a gay man in the research tastes are eclectic. he introduced Americans to new consulting for a variety of organiza- ’50s. “It was an easy time to be “We are not world travelers like finds, including before an audience tions, primary among them an anti- a middle-class, white male at a some of our classmates. However, of 500 at the Smithsonian. drug effort I helped found in 1986 prestigious university. What wasn’t with two children and three grand- “After the Orkney Islands, we’ll and The Nature Conservancy, for easy was to be gay at one. This was children in Las Vegas, we venture spend a month in Cabrerets, in the which I am a Connecticut trustee. more than a decade before Stone- there a few times each year. As Midi-Pyrénnées, in a small house Beyond that, I look forward to see- wall. I was out but I felt alone.” gamblers, however, we are pitiful. set along the Célé River. There, ing our classmates next year. Hav- He spoke with introspection. “I We never win but we don’t lose there is a splendid paleolithic cave ing served as chairman of herding got through my four years despite much either. Two years ago, we with wonderful paintings called cats for our 50th reunion, however, I the distractions, in large measure took a 20-person family contingent Peche Merle. … We’ll finish our will pass on any responsibility other and thanks to Mrs. McElroy, my on a Disney cruise to the Bahamas. wanderings in Venice and return than attending our 55th. Hope to public high school teacher, who Marianne and I were to cruise to to Washington in early November. see you there.” taught us how to organize our Bermuda in June. Our two Long I hope all our classmates had as thoughts and put them down on Island children and several grand- wonderful a summer as we did.” paper in a cohesive essay. If you kids keep us active close to our Richard Engelman shares this Robert A. Machleder can write, you can get away with home in Flushing, Queens. A vaca- story: “My wife, Jane, and I were 60 69-37 Fleet St. murder. The difficulty comes when tion cottage in Sussex County, N.J., on a three-week cruise from Buenos Forest Hills, NY 11375 you get good at being glib instead gives us another regular getaway Aires to Rio with two couples from [email protected] of telling the truth, which is the goal option. our community of Longmeadow of any artist. Columbia taught me to “I have a little email contact with in Western Massachusetts, and the Terrence McNally, winner of four respect the truth but it didn’t teach my Alpha Chi Rho fraternity broth- cruise was nearing its end. We went Tony Awards and an Emmy Award, me how to write the truth. That’s ers Andy Kubishen in Virginia to the dining room and were asked among a plethora of honors and where the writer’s blocks and the and Frank Zmorzenski in Florida. if we would sit at a table for eight recognition as one of America’s demons arise to confront us. It will Both were career naval officers out with another couple who had been great playwrights, was the keynote always be hard to be truthful in our of Columbia’s ROTC program. seated a short while before. We speaker at Class Day on May 21. work but it’s the only thing that Andy and Frank are close friends naturally agreed and found our- Addressing the Class of 2013 on ultimately matters in the arts and, and visit each other on a regular selves with a gentleman who had South Lawn, Terrence allowed finally, our lives. Is it honest?” basis. Andy has become a prolific grown up in Brooklyn and attended as how he was in “an unfamiliar As for advice, Terrence’s remarks cyclist and kayaker and participates Midwood H.S. two years ahead of situation.” He continued, “Hav[ing] were blissfully brief: “Be nicer to in events up and down the eastern my wife. When asked where he had spent a lifetime putting words into people” and “wash your hands seaboard.” gone to college, he said Columbia. the mouths of characters I have cre- more frequently” are fairly represen- The peripatetic Bill Tanenbaum My wife realized that he would be ated … standing here this morning, tative of the bons mots he imparted returned in May from a visit to Je- in my class and, after exchanging the words and voice are my own to the graduates to satisfy the obliga- rusalem, Bucharest, the Normandy last names, we realized we had and the character is me. … I’m used tion that befalls the honor of being beaches and Paris, a trip where he been roommates during senior year. to standing in the dark at the back selected as the Class Day keynoter. often walked 4–6 miles a day. While This was Ira Silberman, and we of a theatre listening to actors tell [Editor’s note: Read McNally’s in Jerusalem he went sightsee- suddenly were hugging, not having you what’s on my mind.” full speech here: college.columbia. ing with Joel Levine and Joel’s seen or spoken to each other in 54 Then, crying “curtain up,” Ter- edu/terrencemcnally.] wife, Zehavit, who live in Samara, years. He is in Philadelphia and I rence brilliantly delivered his remi- Joe Giacalone writes that 2012 Israel. The Normandy beaches am in Springfield. We were both at niscences, his observations and his was a golden year, with four 50th were visited on V-E Day, May 8. Bill our 50th reunion and did not see advice to the graduating class. He milestones for him and his wife, took note of the 9,378 graves at the

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Normandy American Cemetery in fact that we are getting older and dent. Norman seized the offer and ton University’s Jackie Robinson Colleville-sur-Mer; most of those look forward to meeting the next reported on crew races worldwide, Project has completed a children’s buried there were killed on D-Day, generation when it arrives. including the . book. Titled Jackie Robinson: More June 6, 1944. “In June, we celebrated our 54th Then there is the story of his Than a Baseball Player, A Hero, the There are 185 known moons of wedding anniversary and 53 years revival of The Varsity Show musical book includes important infor- the planets and dwarf planets in our since the Class of 1960 graduated starring athletes in drag, Nothing mation on Robinson’s life after solar system. In his third astronomy from the College. We continue to Sacred, which he wrote with Frank baseball and the impact he made as book in as many years, Moons of the be amazed at how long it has been Decker (now deceased). Richard an informal civil rights leader (and Solar System, Tom Hamilton covers and how much we have seen along Rodgers ’23 and Oscar Hammer­ is quite topical in light of the recent them all. To give you a taste, here the way.” stein II (Class of 1916) were in release of the Robinson biopic is one piece of information: As the Two sad notes: Norman Hildes- the audience on opening night 42). The book has been translated moon travels around Earth, we can Heim died peacefully in his home and wanted to bring the show to into Spanish. The Jackie Robinson observe its several phases, which in Fairfield, Conn., on March 20. Broadway. Alas, that did not come Project staff is seeking publication take an average of 29.53 days to His obituaries acknowledge his ac- to pass. And the stories go on. But options and would be interested in complete. The phases include the complishments as an architect and our space is too limited. suggestions. Richard, an associ- new moon, the waxing crescent, international hotel developer. He Norman was delightful compa- ate professor of sociology at GW, the first quarter, the waxing gib- earned his degree in architecture at ny, dedicated to a legion of friends can be reached at 202-994-6345 or bous, the full moon, the third or Harvard. He designed and devel- who returned his warmth and [email protected]. last quarter moon, and the waning oped hotels for InterContinental friendship and will remember him Jeff Rudell updated his website, crescent. So when do we see the Hotels Group and Bechtel Corp.’s fondly. Condolences to the vast scubadivechamber.com, and added half moon? “The only Half Moon,” International Division, and he was circle of those he befriended and to a link to a copy of his book Bends Tom informs us, “was Henry a partner with Hotel Development his adopted son, David Kardos. Explained: How to Plan a Safe Dive. Hudson’s ship; there is no lunar Associates. He rowed lightweight We received late word that He also hosted a video on Twitter phase with that name.” The names crew at Columbia and later coached David S. David ’64 P&S died at (@effr) explaining the Air France of the moons and their meanings, the Columbia lightweights, a posi­- his home in Beverly Hills on April flight 447 crash. discoverers, discovery dates, orbits, tion he balanced with an assign- 19. He was a nephrologist and an Bob Salman was one of six inau- sizes, geology and much else can be ment teaching a course in architec- attending physician at NewYork gural inductees on June 13 into the found in Tom’s book. ture at Harvard; he also was the Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Monmouth County Democrats Hall Peter Phillipes sends greetings freelance crew correspondent for Medical Center. He moved to Los of Fame. Former Gov. James Florio from retirement in Florida: “My The New York Times, and a lifeguard Angeles, where he was a nephrolo- was the evening’s guest speaker. wife, Suzy, and I have lived in Ven- at Jennings Beach in Fairfield each gist and internist in private practice Bob’s plaque was presented to him ice, Fla., for more than seven years summer for some 54 years. But that and a clinical professor of medicine by the mayor of his town, Jonathan and have never questioned our is only a beginning in describing at the David Geffen School of Hornik. Three days later, on June decision to leave the cold weather Norman. He was an original; or Medicine at UCLA. We send our 16, Bob and his wife, Reva, cel- behind. We also have become ac- perhaps he was a gentleman from condolences to David’s wife, Vera; ebrated their 50th anniversary. Bob tive in the community, enjoying a an earlier era. He lived his life with daughter, Lisa; son, Eric; and three continues to be active in the practice remarkable range of cultural activi- an easy grace and a driving abun- grandchildren. of law with the Wall Street/New ties (the Sarasota area offers opera, dance of energy. If those qualities Keep writing and be well. Jersey law firm of LaRocca Hornik two symphony orchestras, five seem in conflict, Norman managed Rosen Greenberg & Blaha (where I theatre companies and a variety of them in splendid harmony. He am special counsel). individual performers and touring carried himself with an elegant self- Michael Hausig Gene Milone’s term as president Broadway shows, as well as the confidence that was disarming. The 19418 Encino Summit of Division B Commission 25 on Ringling Museum Complex) and legacy of stories he leaves behind 61 , TX 78259 Astronomical Photometry and working with several local civic are legendary. [email protected] Polarimetry of the International organizations. I am co-president of There was, for example, the Astronomical Union has ended, and the Jewish Congregation of Venice, evening when Norman, on 42nd Barry McCallion and Joanne Ca- he was pleased that a resolution on program chair for the Columbia Street, spotted a familiar chauf- nary were in southern Africa with guidelines for optical and infrared University Club of Sarasota, parlia- feured limousine with a recogniz- the Alumni Travel Study Program passbands was passed by the IAU mentarian of the board of directors able license plate. When a red light in May and early June. Their previ- at its General Assembly in Beijing at of the Sarasota Opera Guild and stopped traffic Norman strode to ous plans to visit the Galápagos the end of August 2012. The com- secretary/treasurer of the Venetian the vehicle and inquired whether Islands and Machu Picchu were mission had been trying to get such Golf & River Club Property Own- the occupant was headed for somehow sidetracked but with a resolution passed for 60 years, so ers Association. Morningside Heights. Though he luck those destinations await them. he regarded this as a feather in the “We also have engaged in some did not know Norman at all, the Barry continues to work on the old cap! exciting foreign travel, including occupant acknowledged that to be series of unique, so-called artist’s Gene also noted the imminent trips to South America and the his destination, and so Norman got books he began several years ago. availability of the second edition Antarctic in 2009, the Far East in himself invited to return to campus The books are represented by of his two-volume work Solar 2010, Israel and Jordan in 2011, the in style, riding beside a somewhat Priscilla Juvelis, Inc., and several System Astrophysics: Planetary Caribbean in 2012 and the British bewildered Grayson Kirk (president examples were on view at The Atmospheres and the Outer Solar Isles this year. In 2014, we will sail of the University from 1953–68). New York Antiquarian Book Fair System, co-authored with William on the new Regal Princess for a When we were undergraduates, at the Park Avenue Armory Anti- J.F. Wilson and for which he uses month in the Mediterranean and The New York Times reported crew quarian Booksellers’ Association of the formal name Eugene F. Milone. across the Atlantic back to Florida. races with greater interest than it America last spring. Gene noted it was quite a challenge “Our family is spread across covered basketball or professional Dr. Ted Stanley accepted an to keep up with the burgeoning the country. Daughter Debra and football, so much so that for each invitation to join the Board of Di- research on both the solar and her family live in Irvington, N.Y., race that the newspaper followed, rectors of a public company called extra-solar systems, the latter now with one son away at college in it listed the names of the oarsmen INSYS Therapeutics, which sells occupying a significant portion of California. Son David and his in each competing shell. Eventu- pain relief products. Ted now is the second volume, but he believes family live in Emmaus, Pa., with ally that ended, much to Norman’s on the board of directors of seven they were successful. one son a junior at Temple and consternation. Norman, so the private and two public companies. I noted a number of inoper- another entering Widener in the story goes, walked into publisher In addition, this past spring he was able email addresses in my recent fall. Son Larry and his family live Arthur Sulzberger ’51’s office and awarded The Utah Governor’s request for updates. If you have in Marin County, Calif. With three expressed his displeasure with the Medal for Science and Technology changed your email address or are grandsons turning 20 this year, two inadequacy of coverage, where- for his innovations. not receiving requests for Class turning 18 and our only grand- upon Sulzberger offered Norman Richard Zamoff writes that Notes from me, please provide me daughter 14, we are accepting the a byline as an unpaid correspon- the staff at The George Washing- with your current information. My

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Sunday morning brought the fi- 212-851-7852.] phone is 561-736-6907. Michael The next day, Henry and Don nal chance to gather, with our class may regret it but he says, “There is marched in the academic proces- brunch in Low Library’s Faculty plenty of room, so come visit.” sion at Commencement and wit- Room. And then we said goodbye, John Freidin Barry Leeds, Distinguished nessed me acting as the Honorary until we meet again. 62 654 E. Munger St. Professor Emeritus of English at Hood Marshall through the cer- The verdict on the reunion? Middlebury, VT 05753 Central Connecticut State Uni- emonies. If you have never come to “Wonderful,” “Bravo,” “Terrific,” [email protected] versity, has continued to teach his a Columbia Commencement, you “What a great time,” “I had a blast” Mailer and Hemingway courses really should try to find an excuse and “Truly memorable” were From Fethiye, Turkey, a seacoast for the 10 years since his nominal to attend. It is an extraordinarily among the flood of comments I town on the Mediterranean, Hilmi retirement. This May marked 50 happy occasion. received. Toros ’63J writes that he spends years of university teaching for Leading up to reunion, we each Ben Tua says, “Apart from his time “sailing and writing, if Barry. He and his college room- received a Class of 1963 50th meeting up with friends and their not traveling.” Hilmi retired early, mate, Howard Felperin, who reunion pin in the mail from Dean spouses, one of the things I like twice. First, from the Associated reunited in New York at our 50th James J. Valentini and were able about our reunions is speaking with Press, where he was a reporter, edi- reunion, have discovered that the to purchase our own Columbia classmates whom I did not know tor and correspondent in its Miami, friendship between two guys in blue 50th anniversary tie thanks to while at the College. I have met New York, United Nations and their 72nd years is as rewarding as Robert Prenner of the Ben Silver ‘new’ classmates at each of the three bureaus, and then as chief of that between two 21-year-olds. Collection. To complete our spiffy reunions I have attended, and this press operations with the Food and Larry Wittner, professor of his- outfits, we were each handed an of- one was especially rewarding in Agriculture Organization of the tory emeritus at SUNY Albany, has ficial Class of ’63 baseball hat when this regard. United Nations in Rome. He enjoys retired from 43 years of teaching we arrived for Alumni Reunion “I especially enjoyed learn- being in contact with classmates and has used his newly found Weekend. With so much branding it ing about the really interesting, through email (wordsmithsailor@ leisure to write a novel, What’s Go- was a cinch to recognize classmates creative, courageous and sometimes hotmail.com) or Facebook. ing On at UAardvark? He describes throughout the weekend. idiosyncratic things that both new From Durham, N.C., former the book as “an over-the-top satire Our schedule for the weekend acquaintances and classmates class president John Garman about corporatization and rebellion was a full one, and each event whom I have known for years have recently traveled for a month to on a modern university campus.” has been called “the best” by at done. It was tremendously impres- Venice, Florence and Rome and sive. As an indication of the quality “actually saw what we only read of the event for our class, my wife about in Art Humanities. Four Larry Wittner ’62 has retired from 43 years of told me, without prompting, that it thousand photos later, I’m still was terrific — and I am quite sure trying to understand and absorb teaching and has written a novel, What’s Going she meant it.” it!” John keeps in contact with On at UAardvark? Doron Gopstein writes, “Our Dick McKenna, Richard Harbison reunion was about far more than and Joe Leska, who, he reports, memories. It was truly memorable. “are all healthy and living life to Larry is the author or editor of least one classmate. It started on Thanks to everyone who was there its fullest.” John and his wife have another dozen books but this is Wednesday evening at a reception for being there, for your friend- five grandchildren between 2 and his first work of fiction. When he at Donna and Phil Satow’s terrific ships and for sharing parts of your 14 who “are growing up fast. What entered Columbia in 1958, he re- loft. On Thursday, we enjoyed a life stories and who you are now.” more could one ask for?” ports, he was planning to become picnic lunch on South Field along Sadly, many classmates were Andrew Jampoler’s fifth book, a novelist, but was sidetracked by with the 50th reunion class from unable to attend. Larry Kettner Congo: The Miserable Expeditions and his interest in history. Now he has Barnard. That evening we were wrote in ahead of time: “I had been Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, returned to his first love. guests, along with the 25th reunion looking forward to getting together USN, has been published. He says, class, at the President’s House. with classmates at the reunion. “It is the sad story of the United Events began Friday with our Unfortunately for me, I’m in the States and the Congo during the Paul Neshamkin class boat cruise and luncheon on middle of a series of every-other- last decades of the 19th century. I 63 1015 Washington St., the Hudson River, a perfect place week chemo sessions that pretty tell the story as a biography of the Apt. 50 to be on the warmest day of the much knock me out for a couple of first resident American diplomat Hoboken, NJ 07030 year. That evening, we had dinner days. The reunion coincides with in Equatorial West Africa, Emory [email protected] at Sparks Steak House. Excellent one of those bad periods. Taunt. He died on the river in Janu- food, great company and an open “I was especially looking ary 1891.” Well, our wonderful 50th reunion bar — what more could you ask forward to seeing one of my best I know Andrew would be is gone but not forgotten. The for? friends from Columbia, Ed Coller, especially pleased if his classmates events leading up to it and the Saturday brought us to Casa who I notice is on the Reunion would help him tell readers about many stories told and heard will Italiana for our class lunch in the Committee. I’d love to get together his book. Publishers increasingly fill these notes and probably spill beautiful Il Teatro. Here, each with him in one of my good weeks leave the marketing of their publica- over into the next issue. Many class member (and members of to catch up on the last 50 years.” tions to their authors. You may reach of us on the Reunion Committee Engineering’s Class of ’63) passed Dov Grunschlag wrote, “I was Andrew at [email protected]. worked on this for more than 1½ the mic and had an opportunity making plans to attend and then Meanwhile, Andrew continues years, and I have included a salute to share some key moments from my wife broke her ankle (in a very to research and write history and to all 25 of them on our website, their life at Columbia or beyond. It unexciting slip and fall). She had to travel: “My wife and I are pre- cc63ers.com. We owe every one of was fascinating; we are an interest- surgery and will have limited paring for a cruise into the North them our thanks. ing group of guys! It also turned mobility for a couple of months, and Baltic Seas that will require A few weeks before reunion out that a surprising number of which eliminated all travel plans. I something over a dozen maritime there was Class Day, and several of us are married to the Barnard girl am very sorry to miss the reunion.” history lectures.” us took part in the Alumni Parade we met as undergraduates. That Elliott Greher wrote, “I am Michael Stone and his wife, of Classes. Bruce Kaplan and evening, the class banquet was deeply sorry to decide not to come Shelley, moved from a condomini- Doron Gopstein held our ’63 held in Low Rotunda. Even though to the 50th. For various reasons I um into a lovely house in Boynton banner proudly, and Henry Black, we suffered through a hot night missed all the earlier ones but I was

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not going to do so this time around. ever since. I am an experimental of which is the famous Mall of est in coming so that attendance Health, however, has done me in. elementary particle physicist and America in Bloomington, Minn.). I next year is as high as possible. I walk poorly even with a cane. I have led several large international was also fortunate to travel all over Obviously, a 50th reunion is see poorly because of limited vision collaborations. I remain active the world. We live in Syosset, N.Y., significant for many reasons. Let’s in one eye and none in the other. and hope to be at it for some time and have two children (Jason, an make it memorable. When I retired 13 years ago, I did not to come. I am married to Martha attorney and clearance officer with Ivan Weissman reports that at realize how health would do me in Mann Slagerman, a psychoanalyst First American, and Pamela, who is Class Day in May, he, Howard even though I finally had the time with a practice in Santa Monica.” a director at American Express). We Jacobson, Peter Thall and Fred to travel and, to a certain degree, the Charles E. Miller joined the law also have two grandchildren who Kantor carried our class banner funds to travel where I wished. Now firm of Sills Cummis & Gross as are aspiring athletes.” during the Alumni Parade of the reunion takes its turn.” senior counsel and co-chair of the It is my sad duty to report Classes. The speech by playwright Richard Goldwater (né Gold- Intellectual Property Law Group the death of Byron C. Cohen, in Terrence McNally ’60 received a wasser) writes, “I left Columbia in in the firm’s midtown Manhat- Kansas City, Mo., on May 10, 2013. standing ovation. You can find it at 1963 feeling like a miserable failure tan office, where he continues his He had run an art gallery there and college.columbia.edu/Terrence academically and intellectually, practice of counseling, licensing, you can still visit his website at McNally. It is inspiring and, al- and feeling deeply the loss of the litigation and dispute resolution, byroncohengallery.com. though intended for the Class of friendships for which there was no mainly in the fields of chemical Remember, our regular class 2013, well suited for a class ap- longer a supportive context. and pharmaceutical patents. lunches at the Columbia University proaching its 50th reunion. I highly “LSD use during the 1970s Frank Sypher responded to my Club of New York are always a recommend it. helped me to recover or perhaps list of the top 10 moments of 1963, great place to reconnect. If you’re discover my wits, the downside of emailed to classmates before re- in NYC, try to make one of the next which was the sense that I had a union. He says, “And yes, there was ones, scheduled for October 10, Leonard B. Pack Columbia education lying dormant that strange man who whenever I November 14 and December 12 — 924 West End Ave. within me. Not that I understood passed him on the southwest corner it’s always the second Thursday of 65 New York, NY 10025 anything while I was at Columbia; of Broadway and 116th, outside of the month. Check cc63ers.com for [email protected] I knew I was just accumulating Chock Full o’Nuts, would shout at details. impressions and collecting data me: ‘Youooooo … YUMKEE!’ Once In the meantime, let us know Bob Gunn sent a great report on that I might get back to later. The I stopped and asked him what that what you are up to, how you’re “what’s been happening in my LSD galvanized all that, obligating meant, and he said it was all in the doing and what’s next. life.” He writes, “After 40 years, me to reanimate the investment in leaflet he had. So I asked him if I I retired from my last full-time my brain that medical school had could have a leaflet, and he said, church job as a United Church of REUNION WEEKEND mummified. A kind of intellectual ‘No! You YUMKEE!’” Christ pastor. I moved to my own MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 rebirth occurred during my psy- Mark Dintenfass added, “I apartment in Astoria, Queens, ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS chiatry residency (what else could knew the guy’s performance well, and continued my private practice ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott I do, go into show business?) when and I wrote him into my first of psychotherapy in Manhattan [email protected] I realized that I could think about novel, which partially takes place (which has been going for about 212-851-9148 Hamlet and King Lear as if they on Morningside Heights, but I 35 years). Having published one DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova were patients of mine. Suddenly, I hadn’t thought about him in a book, Journeys Into Emptiness: [email protected] was no longer an intimidated dolt couple of decades or more. Now Dōgen, Merton, Jung and the Quest 212-851-7833 but a wise counselor to the severely I’m back there in my mind. Can it for Transformation, my plan was to miffed. I loved practicing what is really be half a century? Norman Olch finish putting onto my computer now the lost art of psychotherapy “For the record, I’ve never 64 233 Broadway several other books that had lain (done in by Big Pharma and the attended reunions because they New York, NY 10279 dormant in my mind, to polish my Profit Motive), but in my spare time inconveniently come just when the [email protected] piano playing, to begin doing some when not busy being divorced, spring term at Lawrence University chamber music and to focus on my I have struggled to accomplish (where I’ve spent my career teach- The big news lies ahead: our 50th practice of Zen Buddhism. what anybody at Columbia in ing) is reaching its paper-grading, anniversary Alumni Reunion Week- “So far, I have almost finished those days might want to do over a exam-preparing, student-needy end is next year and runs for five the first draft of my memoir, lifetime: come out with a Theory of climax. I really would have liked days: Wednesday, May 28–Sunday, received ordination as a Soto Zen Everything. After all, if one thinks to come to this one but couldn’t June 1, 2014, one day longer than all Buddhist priest and am just begin- that one has figured out Hamlet’s manage it. My regards to my old the other classes‘ celebration. ning to do some chamber music. mystery, then figuring out the entire friends from Spectator who are on Steve Case has agreed to chair In addition, I am teaching several universe is the logical next step … ” the Reunion Committee — Dave the Reunion Committee. In the courses: ‘The Depth Psychologi- So starts a long and fascinating Alpern, Doron Gopstein and Larry past Nick Rudd took charge, but cal Dimensions of Inter-religious note from Richard. Visit cc63ers. Apple — and give a special hello to with his passing someone had to Dialogue and Double Belonging’ com for the full text and visit his Gary Rachelefsky. He and I grew step up to take the reins. We are at Union Theological Seminary in websites, rolesandrules.com and up on the same block in Brooklyn.” grateful Steve did but are mindful the City of New York, ‘Transfer- profitandentropy.com, to learn Bill Goebel wrote ahead of time, he cannot do it alone. ence and Countertransference’ at more. “[My wife] Barbara and I are look- During the summer, a prelimi- the Metropolitan Institute for Psy- David Hitlin ’68 GSAS writes, ing forward to seeing my fellow nary organizational meeting was choanalytic Psychotherapy and a “I was at the Saturday lunch at alums at Sparks, a restaurant where held by some classmates who live senior thesis seminar at New York but had to leave while I entertained and was entertained in the New York City area. We Theological Seminary. This is what the microphone was being passed many times during my career at need broader participation and in- retirement looks like to me. around, as I had matinee theatre TIAA. In fact, I had lunch there the put, however. We want to fill those “A couple of years ago, I was de- tickets, so I’m taking this opportuni- day after Paul Castellano’s murder, five days with programs that are lighted to join with fellow Columbia ty to say a few words here instead. which Pat Cetta, the owner, liked not only fun but also are meaning- alums who had been members of “I, along with quite a number of to call ‘the incident.’ I retired as an ful to everyone. the Glee Club at Alumni Reunion physics majors in our year, stayed associate general counsel and team If you are unable to participate in Weekend. It was a great rendez- on at Columbia for grad school. leader in September 2000 after a NYC planning sessions, please send vous, organized largely through the The department had, at that time, career of 28 years. Although it was me your ideas and suggestions. extraordinary efforts of Nick Rudd seven current or future Nobel stressful work, it was intellectually (You can also get in touch with ’64, ’67 Business, who unfortunately Prize winners; what better place stimulating and rewarding, and I either of the Alumni Office contacts passed away last year. May the mu- to be? I got my degree in 1968 and worked on and closed more than at the top of the column for ways sic continue! Greetings to all!” stayed on for a year. I then spent 10 $3 billion worth of commercial real to get involved.) And perhaps most Piqued by this, I asked Bob, “Can years at Stanford before going to estate transactions throughout the importantly, start speaking to class- one be, and are you, simultaneously Caltech in 1979, where I have been United States (the most memorable mates in your area to generate inter- a Christian and a Buddhist? Are

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Frank Snepp ’65, ’68 SIPA Chases the Truth From Saigon to Los Angeles

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rank Snepp ’65, ’68 evacuation, he would become Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzez- a desk analyst and a field op- SIPA stood on the roof one of the CIA’s first whistle- inski, and was a publicity sec- erative, running a key network of the U.S. embassy in blowers, and his legal battle to retary for Jacques Barzun ’27, of informants. It was difficult, Saigon. It was April 30, publish his exposé would go all ’32 GSAS, I.I. Rabi ’27 GSAS and dangerous work that exposed F1975. In a few minutes, the last the way to the Supreme Court. Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS when him to the underside of the war CIA chopper would evacuate Afterward, he would become they went on lecture tours. Most and placed him in morally am- him to the U.S.S. Denver. The an award-winning investigative importantly, the Morningside biguous situations. He helped North Vietnamese were shelling journalist, exposing corruption Heights campus exposed Snepp South Vietnamese President the city. The air was filled with on the national and local levels. to people with backgrounds he Nguyen Van Thieu flee Saigon smoke as hundreds of South Snepp could not have predicted had never encountered. “Colum- in the middle of the night with Vietnamese struggled in vain to the path his career would take, bia is such a terrific institution suitcases full of gold; he was enter the embassy and board a but he knows that it started at for anyone who wants to go almost killed by an American flight. Bowing to the inevitable, Columbia. into government or journalism, soldier for providing medicine Snepp boarded the helicopter, Born in Kinston, N.C., Snepp because you’re always rub- to a wounded prisoner; and he knowing that he was abandon- came to Columbia as a self- bing against the rough edge of interrogated high-ranking pris- ing friends and colleagues to described conservative South- reality,” he says. “It teaches you oners, including Colonel Nguyen the North Vietnamese. erner with a taste for “drunken to be tolerant, it teaches you to Van Tai, a top Communist The would be a saber duels” with Princeton be watchful, it teaches you to operative who had come south decisive moment for Snepp. An- students. Columbia offered understand the values of people to coordinate North Vietnam’s gered by how the CIA and State him unique opportunities: He who don’t look like you ... a will- counterintelligence and terror Department had handled the attended lectures by Henry ingness to keep your eyes open network in Saigon. for other people’s truths.” As he spent more and more After studying Elizabethan time in-country, Snepp’s views literature, Snepp spent a year on the war and America’s at CBS News as a desk assis- involvement began to change. “I tant for Walter Cronkite and loved the people, but I loathed Mike Wallace. He then re- the [South Vietnamese] govern- turned to Columbia to study ment,” he says. He saw fellow at the School of International staffers at the U.S. Embassy Affairs (SIA, now SIPA). who “threw up their hands” Snepp’s politics and aca- and descended into booze and demic specialization made drugs, and he encountered him a strong candidate for spectacular corruption among the CIA. He was recruited the South Vietnamese elite. by SIA’s Associate Dean Snepp’s disenchantment Philip Mosely, who had was made complete by the helped shape America’s evacuation of American forces post-WWII foreign policy from Vietnam. The evacuation and was one of the world’s removed American personnel leading authorities on So- and some Vietnamese safely, viet affairs. “[Mosely] said, but it left behind hundreds, per- ‘Frank, I don’t think you’re haps thousands, of Vietnamese sophisticated enough to be “assets” who had worked for in the State Department. the United States, often at great How would you like to be a risk. Snepp believed that mis- spy?’” Snepp agreed. management, arrogance and After a year in Europe, political pressure at the CIA and the CIA detailed Snepp to State Department had aban- Vietnam in 1969. Turning doned these men and women down the traditional two- to the harsh treatment of the year assignment rotation, invading North Vietnamese. he remained in-country, For him, the loss was personal. becoming one of the Saigon “Some dear friends didn’t get station’s top experts in out, and killed themselves.” Frank Snepp ’65, ’68 SIPA, seen in this recent photo from San Diego, had a career with the CIA and now is an investigative journalist in North Vietnamese strategy Once stateside, Snepp was Los Angeles. and psychology. Unusually awarded the CIA’s Medal of Mer- PHOTO: COURTESY FRANK SNEPP ’65, ’68 SIPA for the agency, he was both it for his analyses during the last

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months of the war. He pushed the CIA to investigate and report on the failures of the evacua- tion and to organize a rescue of its Vietnamese partners. After being rebuffed for a year, he quit the agency and wrote Decent Interval, a book documenting the evacuation and his time in Saigon. A.J. “Jack” Langguth, chief of The New York Times’ Saigon bureau during the war, is unequivocal about Decent Interval’s impact. “I’m not par- ticularly sympathetic to Frank’s former employer [the CIA],” he says, “but I think Frank’s book is the single finest record of that shameful episode.” Published in 1977, Decent Interval provided one of the earliest of several revelations about the agency, and the CIA sued Snepp to prevent publica- tion. In 1980, the case reached the Supreme Court; Snepp lost. The consequences were devastating. Decent Interval had already been published but the Above, a BBC TV crew member agency seized the book’s royal- films Snepp in 1991 on the ties. “One day [he] had $300,000 roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon for a documentary. At in the bank, the next day [he] right, Snepp receives the CIA had nothing,” says Langguth. Medal of Merit in 1975 from That year, Snepp became an CIA Director William E. Colby. investigative journalist. For the PHOTOS: COURTESY FRANK next two decades, he contributed SNEPP ’65, ’68 SIPA to periodicals such as The New York Times, Granta, McCall’s, Snepp focuses on new journal- Village Voice, The Washington ism projects and on raising his Post, Playboy and Newsday. With young daughter. (“My hope is Wallace’s help he returned to that she’ll go to Columbia, and broadcast news, working with that she won’t become an local news stations in Southern actress.”) California and nationally with As a journalist and an intel- ABC’s World News Tonight ligence analyst, Snepp says (1987–92), CBS (2003–05) and that he sees “information as NBC, beginning in 2005. Working an instrument of change”; his for World News Tonight in 1987, heroes are Wallace and national he confirmed that the Iran/Con- security journalist Seymour tra conspiracy was backed by the “Sy” Hersh. He credits Columbia Reagan administration by getting with his belief in the power of Eugene Hasenfus, the surviv- knowledge: “Columbia teaches everyone, and I’m not sure that’s differently. For him, Decent In- ing crew member of a downed you that seeking the truth is the worthwhile. The WikiLeaks people terval is on par with the leaking Sandinista cargo transport, to responsibility of every thinking and Manning seem to be nihilists, of the Pentagon Papers by Dan- confirm that he had signed a person. During the worst days and I don’t understand that.” iel Ellsberg in 1971. Ultimately, government secrecy agreement. of Vietnam, it made me realize Nevertheless, Snepp is he says, “people will give Frank Snepp won an Emmy in 1997 for that if I could get the truth out, unwavering in his belief that the kind of acclaim that Ellsberg his investigation of Mexican drug it would make a difference.” it is vital to expose the truth, gets now.” trafficking; and in 2006, he won When asked about modern- no matter what the personal a Peabody award for “Burning day whistleblowers such as cost. “If we don’t have genuine Ted Rabinowitz ’87 is a copy- Questions,” an exposé of Los Julian Assange and Bradley whistleblowers who are will- writer and author. His first Angeles’ Playa Vista housing Manning, Snepp is careful to draw ing to stand up, we’re in real novel, The Wrong Sword, was development, which had been distinctions. “You can walk into a trouble. But you’ll get trashed. published last year by Musa sited over a toxic landfill. Now newspaper office and blow every- No one loves a whistleblower.” Books under the pen name Ted living in Southern California, thing you know and mow down Langguth sees things a little Mendelssohn.

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY they fully complementary, or do Brigham and Women’s Hospital, alchemical writings. since you asked … ” you have to shave off some edges to and I continue my career-long “The influence of the Core Steve Steinig (sms24@optonline. get them to coexist?” study of the molecular basis of Al- Curriculum at Columbia, which net) responded to Dan Waitzman’s Bob replied: “There are two zheimer’s disease (with a laboratory washed over me, was instrumental question in our Spring 2013 column. levels to your question: One has to of about 15 fellows and grad stu- in causing me to circle back, after Speaking both of our Freshman do with whether one can practice dents). The field has moved steadily forays into investment banking and Week and of our eventual mortality, as both a Buddhist and a Christian forward, and a company I helped the nonprofit world, to reengage the Dan had mused, “Will we have to with integrity. The other has to do to start in 1986, Athena Neurosci- basic questions about existence that wear beanies once again, after we with whether institutions of Bud- ences (then called Elan), designed we addressed as undergraduates. graduate?” dhism and Christianity allow what monoclonal antibodies, the best of I would be glad to hear from class- Steve’s response: “Dan’s ques- we often call ‘double belonging,’ which is now in advanced (phase 3) mates. My email is jimsiegel77@ tion about whether we’ll have to and that has to be answered by clinical trials and has shown some yahoo.com.” wear beanies once again after we specific institutions. In my case, as real promise in slowing down the I’ll bet ours is the only class in this graduate was chilling. It made me a minister in the United Church progression of Alzheimer’s. I also issue of CCT that has two references aware that I don’t know if a kippah of Christ (think Pilgrims), I have do basic research on the mechanism to Carl Jung in its Class Notes! is worn by the deceased in a tradi- not found any problem. Generally, of Parkinson’s disease. Gene Spiegel (genespiegel@ tional Jewish funeral. (I remember there is no problem with Buddhists “Polly and I have two married gmail.com) shares, “After gradua- being asked to provide a tallit to having a Christian affiliation; the children, a son in Boston’s Back Bay tion I wandered around California the funeral home for my father’s Christians are more likely to take and a daughter in Santa Barbara, for several years before becoming but don’t remember being exception. My answer in both cases Calif., who have collectively given a teacher of transcendental medi- asked for a kippah.) So the answer is there is no problem being/doing us three grandchildren thus far. We tation (TM) in 1971. I traveled to your question is, yes, I may well both. That is the gist of the course I do some traveling and grandchild throughout the United States, have to wear a beanie at the end.” am teaching at Union Seminary.” care but both of us are very much lecturing and teaching, for seven Bob’s website is deepjourneys.net, working full time and have no years. In ’77, I became a stock- and his email address is drrwgunn@ plans to retire. Polly is an urban broker and did that for 25 years, Rich Forzani gmail.com. planner and is the chief planner of with some occasional extended 66 413 Banta Ave. I crossed professional paths with the town of Brookline (and my life!). vacations. I retired in 2004. Garfield, NJ 07026 Bob Henn recently and coaxed “Best regards to our classmates.” “I have lived in Atlanta since [email protected] him into sharing. He writes, “At John McDougall (johnmcdoug ’74. In 2004, I remarried and have the same age as most of us in the [email protected]) writes, “I practice two children, Alexander (8) and James Larson writes, “My wife, Class of 1965 (I hesitate to mention criminal law and plan to continue Clara (4). My wife, Katrin Kohl, is Judy, and I [going on 44 years to- it in print — it seems so old!), I’m for at least a couple of more years. a deputy director at the Centers gether] retired to Delaware in 2009 still working more than full-time at All things considered I’m in great for Disease Control and Preven- after law practice and kid-raising my chosen vocation as a business/ health, and my marriage is doing tion, and I am a full-time dad. The in western Colorado, my home real estate transactional lawyer in fine as well. My two grown sons are only persons I am in touch with venue. She is from New Jersey and Northern California while I and pursuing careers successfully at this from my college days are Margo liked the idea of coming to her my wife, Rebecca, put our four point. Thankfully, the economy in Brewer Harrison ’65 Barnard and home area. Sometimes the weather Bruce Zimmer. I have tried to get sort of sucks, but there is a longer in touch with friend Dodge Ely, growing season for gardening, plus Reg Maton ’66, ’67E, ’70E is principal partner of to no avail. Because my wife is more frequent golfing and water German, we spend a month every sports. Son Taylor and family are Think Strategic Technology Partners, an IT consult- summer in Europe, usually in in Denver, with two kids; daughter ing firm in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Majorca, Spain. It’s a good life. As I Barbara, with boyfriend of several write, my 70th birthday is coming years, is in Maryland. We enjoy our up in a week, and it does give one still-rural lifestyle but now with the kids through college — none, alas, the Bay Area is doing better.” pause. It sounds so old, although I advantages of big city fixes closer at Columbia. At least I still have I recently visited with Jim Siegel, am in pretty good health for an old to home. We see Ken Rollston, my health. One of my principal who is nearly finished writing his codger. El Schaefer and Tom McMahan pleasures is getting out on my road new (second) book. He followed “Well, that’s the last 48 years in a on occasion. Does anyone have bike along the California coast and up with this description: “Called nutshell. Hope it helps.” contact info for Gary Foulks?” in its surrounding hills with my The Inner Divinity: A New Work-View If anyone has any information Reg Maton ’67E, ’70E is prin- friends, an experience that’s all the Based on Jungian Psychology, it’s an about Dodge, do let us know. cipal partner of Think Strategic sweeter for still being able to do it attempt to render accessible the Also, I asked Gene whether Technology Partners, an IT consult- at this age. full range of Carl Jung’s visionary he has continued with his TM ing firm in Palm Beach Gardens, “All four kids, Christopher (17), thinking to an audience outside the practice, and whether it fit in with Fla. He played varsity baseball and Andrew (19), Laura (21) and Mat- Jungian community, a challenge his commercial and family life. football at Columbia and was an thew (22), are doing well and may that remains unaccomplished. Gene responded, “I became a TM assistant varsity football coach for actually earn an independent living Without exaggeration, Jung’s work, teacher simply because I wanted Aldo “Buff” Donelli. Upon gradu- for themselves one of these days. if properly understood, can in to be able to teach people whom I ation he worked for AT&T, then My best to everyone.” a new stage of the Judeo-Christian met. I had no intention of making CBS in New York from 1970–1982, Bob’s email address is rhenn@ tradition while transforming our it a full-time gig. But one thing led where he was director, planning hennetzel.com. understanding of human nature. to another and there you have it. and business development and I emailed Dennis Selkoe (dsel Since his ideas are compatible with I was actually the Southeast area director, human resources. He kowpartners.org), who responded: many key aspects of Eastern philos- coordinator, in charge of the whole also was director of information “Life is very good for my wife, ophy, it’s possible for the first time Southeast minus Florida. I do still technology for CBS. Polly, and me here in Boston; we’ve to glimpse the outline of a single, practice TM, not so much out of Reg joined Tiffany & Co. in New been married more than 45 years, unified belief system. This prospect habit but because I continue to York as v.p. and CIO. He worked and together since my freshman should not be surprising because experience the benefits I noticed at Tiffany from 1983–93, when he year at the College. We met at a the world’s major religions and when I first started: clearer think- joined Olympus America on Long Delta Phi fraternity party, which perennial philosophies are different ing, greater energy and heightened Island as its CIO. He went on to be I had actually arranged (as a new facets of the same something. Jung’s sense of calm and happiness. All s.v.p. and CIO of Standard Micro- recruit) with the Dalton School, ideas have an empirical foundation those things certainly made being systems Corp., Symbol Technolo- where she was a junior. Love at first because they’re based on his inter- a stockbroker a lot easier, and defi- gies and Scholastic. Reg retired in sight (for me). pretation of symbols issuing spon- nitely make me a better husband 2008 and moved to Florida. “I am a professor of neurology taneously from the psyche that are and father. I didn’t mean to turn He and his wife, Cynthia, have at Harvard Medical School and found in myth, dreams, religion and this into an advertisement, but been married for 24 years. They

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have lived in Greenwich, Conn., be full of it with people who knew a few classmates including Geoff “In spare moments, I write and Vero Beach, Fla. They have six you when you were 18!” Dutton and Peter Burmeister ’70.” stories, memoirs and essays that I children and 10 grandchildren. Reg George Appelbaum writes, Paul Hirsch lives in Pacific Pali- publish at the wonderful cowbird. and Cynthia reside in Frenchman’s “Living in rural Northern Califor- sades, Calif., with his wife, Jane. com. For now, though, I simply Landing in Palm Beach Gardens, nia, married 29 years, no children, He writes, “We moved here from do what makes sense to keep us where they are active members of retired in 1999 from 23 years as a New York in 1983. I have been a going, and on the side create stuff Jupiter First Church. Legal Aid attorney; still practicing feature film editor for the last 43 that more or less gratifies me.” Paul Kastin writes, “Entered law part-time out of my home, gar- years. I won an Oscar in 1978 for Jonathan Sunshine writes, “For with the Class of ’66 but graduated dening, playing music, traveling Star Wars. I was nominated again many years, I was the director of with the Class of ’65, not because and learning languages (currently in 2006 for Ray. My credits are on research at a physician specialty I’m smart but because I went to up to eight). Best wishes to all IMDB.com. After attending Brown society, doing research studies and summer school two summers. classmates.” and Columbia, respectively, our publishing papers. (By the time Played tennis and swam, enjoyed An illustration of the late B. daughter, Gina, and son, Eric ’03, this ended, I was an author on fraternity life immensely (Beta Michael Noone was included in have followed me into the movie more than 200 papers.) However, house: ’nuf said!), went to Chi- Marjorie Haun’s recent book, Saving business, she as an editor and he two years ago, the society made cago’s graduate school of business. the Vietnamese Orphans: The Heroes of as a post-production sound mixer. the research department part of its Honestly, absent help from the the Vietnam War, Book Two: Operation Eric and his wife, Katherine, a advocacy/lobbying unit. I felt this dean of students, I’d still be there! Babylift. Michael will be further music editor, are the parents of didn’t augur well for the opportu- “Thought all the while in college recognized at the 2013 Operation Joseph Hirsch, born January 18, nity to continue to pursue objective and grad school that I was going Babylift Reunion event in Dana and live in Brooklyn. Gina lives research and, in any case, I’d been to take over my family business, Point, Calif., by his widow, Lana, here in Los Angeles. I hope to work interested in getting back into a teach art history, live semi-rural who is honored by his inclusion in for a while longer. My ambition is broader whirl of health policy and life would be good. A month the book. The illustration shows to choose the date of my retirement work. So I left for a project that was prior to finishing at Chicago, I Michael and Lana, greeting their rather than let the market make ongoing at the Urban Institute, a learned the family business was daughter, Jennie ’99 SW, at JFK on that choice for me. We’ll see how liberal Washington, D.C., think history. So I worked for a huge the occasion of her arrival as an that goes.” tank with a large health policy company in Chicago for a bit, then infant from Vietnam in 1975. Ken Benoit writes, “I retired group. That was interesting and a smaller one for four years. In Marvin Pilo ’83L writes, “After from my surgery career in 2007 enjoyable. But the funding for the ’74, I relocated to Atlanta to run years teaching political science at and settled on Cedar Lake in project ran out about a year ago, a still smaller firm. A slump left Clemson, I switched careers and re- Bristol, Conn., for my retirement and I found myself involuntarily that company with a Lear jet and a turned to Columbia for law school. years with my wonderful Irish and unhappily retired. Mitsubishi turbo prop, and I could Upon graduation, my wife, Jackie; wife of 37 years, Mary. Most morn- “Intellectually, however, I knew use the planes anytime the owner children, Elissa and Michael; and ings, I spend my time watching there were lots of things out there didn’t! I ran that company until I moved to West Hartford, Conn., magnificent sunrises and catching to do, and it took only about three he sold it four years later, at which where I practiced law for 27 years, largemouth bass from my boat months until I was busy. At this time I started my own firm in the specializing in commercial real with my Golden Retriever, Maggie, point, I’ve found enough worth- perishable protein (meat, poultry, estate finance, acquisitions, dispo- and most afternoons I play golf while and interesting activities to seafood) business. It’s never won- sitions and leasing. I joined Jackie with my geezer friends. Life is keep triplets busy. A partial list: I derful, but never awful, either. in retirement in 2010 and we love good. volunteer at the National Museum “Shortly after moving to Atlanta, the freedom and flexibility we now “I married off my two beautiful of Natural History, as a tutor for I met and married a Romanian girl, have to do the things we could not daughters in 2011 and now have a immigrants learning English, and educated in Paris and an art his- find time for when we were work- wonderful new grandson; another in a program that does tax returns tory major at Emory. We have three ing and raising a family. This in- is due in June. The joys of being a for free for elderly and low-income terrific children and four terrific cludes traveling, taking courses for grandparent are unmatched and people. I’m taking a fistful of grandsons. One of my sons, Avery pleasure and reading voraciously. make the old age process a lot courses in Osher programs, a loose ’01, attended Columbia, where he Of course, we spend a lot of time more fun.” network of minimal-tuition courses ran the largest on-campus student in Brooklyn, satisfying our greatest Geoff Dutton writes, “In Janu- specifically for retirees. There’s also organization, Ferris Reel, was a passion: visiting our children and ary I got a pretty good job offer a Columbia alumni book club here member of the Ivy championship five grandchildren.” after having decided to retire last in the D.C. area that’s working its golf team, received the Eisenhower Michael Harrison writes, “My summer. I accepted, and now work way through the classics that are watch as the scholar-athlete of his wife, JoAnn ’66 Barnard, and I wel- full-time documenting insanely read in CC and Lit Hum. Another class and graduated summa cum comed our third granddaughter in complex software that’s used to book club I’m involved in is com- laude and Phi Beta Kappa. I tell July. Our son and daughter-in-law effect high-frequency trading of posed of alumni of my high school him that between the two of us, we live nearby, so we see quite a bit of financial instruments and other and ‘meets’ by email chat. had an average academic career one another. more or less dubious exploits of big “We have five grandchildren, there. He works with me now. “I am completing my 10th year at data. Although I’m a tech guy, this ranging in age from 4–9. We get “My wife and I have made for- the Agency for Healthcare Research is by no means an ideal gig for me together about every four to six eign travel a priority, going abroad & Quality, which is part of the U.S. given its implications for society. weeks. We much enjoy time with a minimum of 30 days annually Department of Health & Human But I have a kid in middle school them and wish more frequent irrespective of our ability to afford Services, and have no retirement and a wife who’s been in the job visits were feasible.” it or our kids or our businesses. plans. After more than 30 years in market for a while, so my toils pay Lots of countries, some earlier than academia, my job at AHRQ remains our bills, bankroll my girl’s future most travelers — e.g., Burma and a fresh and welcome second career. schooling and provide us with Albert Zonana Cambodia in the late ’80s. It’s a I help plan and oversee research affordable health insurance. 67 425 Arundel Rd. lifestyle choice that we’re glad we and pilot studies aimed at improv- “In 1995, I moved to Europe for Goleta, CA 93117 made. The only difference as the ing the delivery of health care and three years to tie up some loose [email protected] years went on is where we sat in effective implementation of admin- ends of my geospatial research the plane and some improvement istrative and technical innovations from the 1980s and pick up a Ph.D. My wife, Diane, and I recently in the quality of lodgings. (including health information During that time I married for the returned from a memorable trip to “I loved the College and technology). second time, and then came back Israel. We visited with my 96-year- proudly support it, sometimes the “In my limited spare time, I to settle down in Belmont, Mass., old uncle and my two cousins, Columbia College Fund, some- continue choral singing with the where our daughter was born. whom I had not seen for 57 years. times Athletics. The Betas from American University Chorus and Then, with no regrets, I exited I am sad to report that Joel A. our era get together somewhere help facilitate a weekly Torah study the geospatial world to work as Linsider, who was retired, passed different almost every year. You group at our local synagogue. In the a writer because that’s where the away in Jerusalem on June 28, know what I learned? You can’t past few years I have heard from money seemed to be. 2012, and John L. Dent passed

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY away in Etobicoke, , Mas and me were brief enough, … And gentlemen in England now grand tradition, and I encourage Canada, on May 7, 2013. and impressive. In addition, Andy a-bed/ Shall think themselves classmates to join the parade the No other news this time. Please Herz talked about spending time accursed they were not here … next time around. do write. You can send updates to outside of work doing good deeds, That fought with us upon Saint In fact, next year’s Class Day me at the email address at the top of and Paul de Bary spoke about the Crispin’s day.” would be an especially meaningful the column or via CCT’s easy-to-use value of the Core Curriculum as So, to the gentlemen who time to participate as it is but a short webform: college.columbia.edu/cct/ the College’s unique academic pro- couldn’t come: We assembled, time before Alumni Reunion Week- submit_class_note. gram from which we all benefited. spirited and vibrant, laughing and end (Thursday, May 29–Sunday, That night, our cocktail party clearly curious, surely grateful June 1). This is our ninth reunion, a and dinner with keynote speaker for the energy and vitality that kinder way of saying that we com- Arthur Spector Robert Siegel of NPR was fabu- we brought to the reunion. I hope memorate our graduation every 271 Central Park West lous. Everyone seemed to be in that you are having a good 2013, five years and it will be 45 years 68 New York, NY 10024 grand humor, looking alert and and maybe I will see you later this from our graduation next spring. arthurbspector@ cheerful and engaging and enjoy- year, perhaps at a football game — Some of us are already engaged gmail.com ing themselves. Especially fun was Homecoming could be the place with the Alumni Office staff in plan- a rendition, before we ate, of Roar, (Saturday, October 19; see “Roar, ning the event. Soon you will begin Summer in New York City — swel- Lion, Roar, enhanced by members Lion, Roar” in this issue). to receive teasers and other materi- tering hot as I write this. of the cello ensemble String Theory, And by the way, to Paul Brosnan als encouraging you to attend, for Our reunion was a success on including Nathan Chan ’15, a and the former Lions baseball it is the level of attendance that many fronts though I wish I had nationally renowned musician and players: congratulations to the Ivy makes or breaks a reunion. If you more time to spend with class- Columbia College/Juilliard stu- League Baseball Champs of 2013. are interested in helping in the plan- mates. The turnout was very good dent. They were stunningly good The whipped the ning or if you would like to share though the Reunion Committee, and charming and played short Big Green for first place in the play- thoughts on what might lead you to headed by Mas Taketomo (salute join us (or what might turn you off), to Mas), received a number of let me know or contact one of the notes from classmates who wanted Mark Rosenzweig ’69, the Frank Altschul Professor of staff members listed at the top of the to come but had conflicts. I have column. We had a rousing turnout no doubt that our 50th reunion will International Economics and director of the Economic for our eighth reunion, with a good result in the best turnout ever. Growth Center at Yale, has been elected as a member mix of those who are regulars and I hope everyone received Paul those who were first-time attendees. de Bary’s wine book, The Persistent of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the very least, save the dates on Observer’s Guide to Wine, sent out your calendar and stay tuned for by the committee. Thanks to Paul details. for the reduction in cost; the book pieces before dinner. (My nephew, off and had success at the NCAA Bob Papper reported in May, “I is great. Go buy it for your friends. Ben Spector (12), performed with national baseball tournament, too. retired from full-time work on May And before I forget, the Reunion Nathan for two pieces; thanks, I continue to expect much from the 19 and moved west to Las Vegas. Committee included (I bet I miss Nathan, and thank you, Ben — this Lions this year in football, basket- I am now distinguished emeritus someone so I am sorry in advance): uncle was happy, indeed.) ball and soccer. And the women’s professor of journalism at Hofstra Pete Janovsky, who led the effort Robert was a pleasure to listen sports are just fabulous; the tennis and I’ll continue my research on with regard to the class bios and to — enlightening, enthralling team was the Ivy League champ! the radio and television news remembrances (thanks to him for with that grand voice, and a true industry, but I’ll do it poolside focusing on this); John Roy and journalist. This renowned citizen from Sin City. Visitors with return REUNION WEEKEND Nigel Paneth, who worked on the of the airwaves had much to say passage are welcome.” MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 programming; and Greg Winn, about media, media objectiv- Jonathan Schiffer writes, “I have ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Jeff Kurnit, Ira Goldberg, Jim ity, newspapers, NPR and so on. spent 50 percent of my career teach- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Shorter and Buzz Zucker. Ross (Hamilton, Jay and Columbia’s ing in universities (in the United [email protected] Ain made the effort to raise funds founders would be proud of him States, , Hong 212-851-9148 for the Class Gift. for his dedication to this essential Kong, Netherlands, Russian Federa- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova On behalf of the class, I also thank national goal of being informative tion) and 50 percent working on [email protected] the Alumni Office for its efforts. and objective, and reporting the Wall Street (for a major credit rating 212-851-7833 So — onto the weekend itself! national and international news.) agency, where I analyzed sovereign The weather was great and the My wife and I were pleased Michael Oberman risk in the former Soviet Union, campus activities and lectures were to sit with Bill McDavid and his 69 Kramer Levin Naftalis & China and Israel). I am now semi- rewarding. (If you want to see the wife at the Saturday dinner. The Frankel retired — I have a small financial- class photo from our Saturday din- former rock-and-roll band man 1177 Avenue of the economic consultancy — and will ner and the list of all registrants, go from Columbia is still active and Americas move to southeast Florida this year. to college.columbia.edu/cct/sum has a 10-year-old — so it’s clear New York, NY 10036 I am divorced with a daughter (16). mer13/features4.) he is staying in good health. (Last moberman@ I have visited Columbia many times The Thursday cocktail party time I played squash with him I kramerlevin.com in recent years, using the library at John Slattery’s home was a was injured for a couple of years; system and the Alumni Center and pleasure and many made it (thanks I am healed now and ready again To my eye, South Field on a sunny engaging in ad hoc discussions with to John and his wife, Kathy). The with a request for two minutes rest spring morning bedecked for Class a variety of people. The quality of cocktail party on Friday, at Faculty between points.) Day is as pretty a sight as I know. facilities is excellent, as is the quality House, also was fun. My wife and I After dinner, my wife and I And, on May 21, we had such a of undergraduates, which convinces enjoyed spending some time after- danced for a while at the Starlight sight for Class Day 2013. For the me that if I were so unfortunate ward with Greg Winn and his wife, Reception, held on Low Plaza. ninth consecutive year, I held up as to have to apply for admission Vera. They are such fun, full of good The band’s lead singer, a female one end of the Class of 1969 banner to the College nowadays, I could cheer and good thoughts, and Greg vocalist, was sensational; she did “I in the Alumni Parade of Classes; never hope to get in.” is just the same, full of infectious Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Irv Ruderman, now a regular From Bob Brookshire: “I am laughter as always (and with a book Peas and the like. at the event, anchored the other alive and well and living in Rancho about to be published, too). If I may, a brief thought from end. We were joined by Arnold Palos Verdes, Calif. My wife, Jodie, Our Saturday luncheon in Kent Henry V: Rady ’69E, whose son, Michael, is from Palos Verdes. Our daughter, Hall was perfect: the elegance of “He that outlives this day, and was among the graduates. As Devon, is a freshman at Northwest- the room, the comments by Nigel, comes safe home,/ Will stand a tip- always, our class banner generated ern. She is on the basketball team. Larry Susskind, Jon Bauman, Jim toe when the day is named,/ And excitement and applause on the Her declared major is cognitive Shorter, John Roy, Greg Winn, rouse him at the name of Crispian part of the newest alumni. It is a science with a minor in business.

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Current grade point average is 3.62. 150th anniversary of the start lege. Adam and Amanda have two Mark Rosenzweig, the Frank Great college; great experience; of the Chinese working on the boys: Leo (5) and Sal (3). Altschul Professor of International great scholarship. I am in reinsur- transcontinental railroad; [there “Patty is very involved with Economics and director of the ance with THB Intermediaries. THB will be] scholars, performers and grandchildren, friends and cultural Economic Growth Center at Yale, is now part of AmWINS Group, major public figures from both activities, so, after having a large has been elected as a member of which is one of the largest whole- countries, an online multi-lingual show displaying her collected the American Academy of Arts and sale insurance brokers in the U.S. digital archive of historic materials, works, created during the last Sciences. Mark is a development See you at the reunion.” and U.S. and Canadian archives several years, she has decided to economist who pioneered the use Johan Andersen writes, “I live in and oral histories of descendants take a sabbatical from her work as of microeconometric methods for the Lakes Region of New Hamp- of railroad workers. Stanford was an artist. studying the causes and conse- shire and am semi-retired. I may be built with Leland Stanford’s wealth “It is now three years since I quences of economic development. the only member of the class who and much of that resulted from returned to Merck after an 18-year Good columns require input is a grocery clerk. Looking back at the railroad, so the project is a long- hiatus, this time as the company’s from classmates, and I’d appreciate Columbia, my biggest regret is that overdue acknowledgement of the chief medical officer. There seems hearing from you with personal or I took to heart Dean David B. Tru- contribution of Chinese labor to to be a pattern of my leaving and professional news, or your views man’s advice that Columbia isn’t establishing the university and the returning to organizations! I am on our College years. Hearing from a trade school. I never did find the U.S. as a whole. To the university’s finding the mission of inventing you now would be a big help. perfect career. My biggest happiness credit, the administration is enthu- new drugs and vaccines, and get- is that the theatre experiences I had siastically supporting the effort, ting them to the people who need (mostly at Barnard) led to a lifelong and we hope eventually to build them, to be fulfilling. The activities Leo G. Kailas involvement in community theatre a monument to those workers on and mindset this time around are 70 Reitler Kailas & that has allowed me to play some campus.” You can check out Chine truly global — a real contrast from Rosenblatt of the great parts and to make won- seRailroadWorkers.stanford.edu. my first ‘tour of duty.’ My travel 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. derful friends. Other news: I am Woody Lewis writes, “After a schedule now includes China, New York, NY 10022 single with two wonderful children successful 2012 as an independent India, Brazil and Africa; these are [email protected] and two perfect grandchildren. Son Web architect, I joined EMC in Janu- all places that simply weren’t on the Johan IV has son Johan V.” I am writing these notes as I look From Jeffrey Klein, who lives in out to the sea on Paros, a Greek California: “Late last year, Colum- John Borek ’71 is writing a college memoir called island in the Aegean Sea. My wife bia flew me in to kick off its first and three grown children are here Media Day. The former, longtime Collegiate. and we are enjoying what may be editor of The Wall Street Journal and one of our last “only immediate I keynoted a panel on investigative family” vacations together. The reporting. Here is a link to a short ary as advisory solutions architect, radar the last time I was at Merck. weather, food and company are report by the moderator, the head Digital Strategy Practice, EMC I commute between Boston and glorious! of the J-School’s Stabile Center for Consulting. My expertise in social New Jersey and have offices in both Lew Lane reported the follow- Investigative Journalism: watch- publishing and content manage- locations. ing summer news: “While other dog-watcher.com/2012/11/21/ ment is being put to good use and “There are aspects of academia classmates are toying with the idea biodiversity-in-the-investigative- I’m writing an e-book on those top- and academic life that I miss. But I of slowing down or retiring all ecosystem/#more-842. She ics as we speak. I’m also putting my find that the work I do now takes together, I have actually signed on accurately characterizes me as the Bennington College M.F.A. to use, advantage of all my past experi- for something new and more to do. panel’s flame/bomb thrower — writing short stories and personal ences in medicine. There is the “Starting in 1980, after I finished and why not at our age? essays and continuing the draft opportunity to have real impact on orthopedic surgery and hand sur- “This second link is to Spectator’s of a novel. My son, Woody (III), human health. My responsibilities gery training, I was a hand surgeon live-tweet-recap: alumni.columbia completed his junior year as a film include representing the interests in private practice in an academic spectator.com/2012/11/columbia- and video major at the School of of patients and medicine inside the setting at North Shore and LIJ media-conference-live-tweet-recap. Visual Arts in Manhattan. My wife, company, providing counsel to the on Long Island. That changed Based on the dozens of students Cathryn, and I recently moved from CEO and board on medical issues, dramatically in October 2011, with whom I spoke afterward, Brooklyn back into ‘the city.’ When patient safety and providing ad- when I signed on to the new joint today’s undergraduates seem very we first came back East in mid-2010, vice with regard to initiatives in the venture medical school opened intrigued by the values forged dur- we lived on 110th and Morning- emerging medical regions of the by the North Shore-LIJ Health ing our era.” side. I was in the Butler and Uris world and to the corporate social System and Hofstra. I joined the Judd Gregg is now CEO of the libraries far more than I had been responsibility programs. And there newly renovated and expanded Securities Industry and Financial as an undergrad or M.B.A. student, are several trips per year to Wash- full-time orthopedic department. Markets Association, a leading a place to get away from the home ington on matters of policy.” The key attraction for me was trade association for the capital office. Recently saw Bob Merlis — Joe Chasnoff writes, “I’ve had a markets business. who was in from L.A. for a show by satisfying and financially successful Hilton Obenzinger has retired his client Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top/ life making cabinets, furniture, gifts Submit Your Photo from his full-time position directing Moving Sidewalks) — and Gregg and art out of wood. I spend a lot honors writing at Stanford and now Geller at a performance by The of time on human rights issues and Submitting a photo for teaches a few courses, including one Nighthawks, the blues band fronted presently I’m involved in promot- Class Notes is easier in American Studies on standup by Mark Wenner ’71.” ing home rule for Monroe County, than ever! comedy (Lenny Bruce, Richard Michael Rosenblatt writes, “My W.Va., in order to ban hydraulic ONLINE by clicking Pryor, and more). wife, Patty, and I have five grand- fracturing here. My two daughters “Contact Us” at He’s working on several books children. We are fortunate to have live and work in New York State.” college.columbia.edu/cct. and also is associate director of all of them living in New England. In a May 16 article on databases Stanford’s “Chinese Railroad Work- Rose (8), Gregory (6) and Arianna used by pharmaceutical compa- MAIL by sending the ers in North America Project.” The (10 months) are the children of our nies to track prescribing practices photo and accompanying work of the Chinese building the daughter, Mia, and her husband, of individual doctors, The New caption information to transcontinental railroad is almost Kevork. Mia works part-time as York Times included a quote from Class Notes Editor, legendary in the U.S. and China but a lawyer in a local firm. They live Jerry Avorn, who is described as “a Columbia College Today, hardly anything is known of the nearby in Newton, Mass. My son, professor of medicine at Harvard Columbia Alumni Center, individual workers who labored Adam, and his family moved from Medical School and a pioneer of 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, under very difficult conditions. Palo Alto, Calif., to Burlington, Vt., programs for doctors aimed at 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. Hilton adds, “We’re planning 1½ years ago when Adam took his counteracting the marketing efforts for a conference in 2015 for the first faculty job at Champlain Col- of drug makers.”

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY being appointed program director (Rolling Stone, The Nation, Mother Columbia dormitories looked like “In 2001, the Darrow brothers, of the orthopedic surgery resi- Jones and so forth) and author, orphanages. You could see the following our mother’s death from dency and the orthopedic faculty Bob Dreyfuss lives at the beach ghosts of desperate abandoned cancer, started Fighting Chance, a member overseeing orthopedic in Cape May, N.J., with his wife, sophomores floating behind their free-of-charge counseling center on education of students in the new Barbara. He writes, “Visitors look- windows. The new dormitory, the eastern end of Long Island for medical school. In this position I do ing for a weekend at the beach, however, was more closely and those diagnosed with cancer. Those research, oversee hand surgery for especially classmates, are welcome. more aptly modeled after a state wishing to do so may send a dona- the hospitals and residency, mentor We bounce back and forth between prison. A concrete block structure tion in Peter’s memory to Fighting residents in many aspects of their Cape May and New York City. Our with a brick façade and interiors Chance, PO Box 1358, Sag Harbor, training, help put together cur- son, Justin, lives in Chicago, and painted in an institutional sea NY 11963 (fightingchance.org).” ricula for the new medical school our daughter attends Montclair foam, it was brutalist in a way If you are not receiving the ’71C and, of course, still take care of State University.” that [Ludwig] Mies van der Rohe eNews and would like to, please patients in my job as hand surgeon would never have imagined. email me. (got to pay for it somehow). “‘My shared room was part of Remember back 46 Septembers “Because of this, I’ve also gotten Jim Shaw a suite, but it was a suite in name ago, and the feelings we had, even more involved in the national 71 139 North 22nd St. only. The suite had a bathroom, a including of adventure, as we hand surgery and orthopedic Philadelphia, PA 19103 useless hallway and two rooms. entered Columbia College. We are surgery worlds. Technically this [email protected] The rooms each contained two still connected. means more hours of ‘work’ for student prisoners. The prisoners me but, honestly, much of this is Arvin Levine writes, “I have slept on metal cots that were as far not work at all. Rather, I am do- joined Teradata, a leading data away from each other as a lack of Paul S. Appelbaum ing many new things that I find warehouse company, after three desire for intimacy would dictate. In 72 39 Claremont Ave., #24 exciting and stimulating. I liked years on the other side at Credit the fronts of the rooms were built- New York, NY 10027 what I was doing before I took Suisse. I took advantage of some in plywood armoires that were [email protected] this position, but I love what I’m ‘enforced’ down time to march intended to hold our intimates. And doing now. When others our age with other ’71 alumni at Class there were two plywood closets. Several classmates have proud news are thinking about slowing down, Day in May. We were a random The plywood was not a design to report regarding their children. that’s the furthest thing from my sampling, I think, mostly sharing element. It was just the cheapest Steve Fleet notes that his daughter mind. our gray hair and memories of CC material available in an era before Julia graduated as a D.O. (osteo­ “I’ve been blessed on the home and .” Mr. Seconds. We were not worthy pathic physician) from the Univer- front, too. My wife, Nancy, and I John Borek says, “I’m writing of fine-grained veneer. We were sity of New England and plans to have been married 34 years and a college memoir called Collegiate. temporary immigrants to this great start a family practice residency at are wonderfully happy. Nancy is Here’s an excerpt: world of the intellect. We lived in UMass Memorial Medical Center in in her fourth salaried career (in ad- “‘When I was 11, my parents student steerage.’” Worcester. Steve’s daughter Jessica dition to the unpaid motherhood sent me to a Boy Scout camp in Duncan Darrow’s brother, Peter is a registered echocardiography career), currently as a toy buyer the North Country of New York Darrow ’72, was well known to technician recently graduated from at a local independent bookstore. State. Neither they nor I knew what many in our class. Duncan writes, Bunker Hill Community College in Our daughter is a fourth-year ADA summer camp was. To my father, “Peter died on May 19, 2013, of com- Boston and still looking for a job. So in Manhattan and married to, of camp was the Civilian Conserva- plications related to his four-year if you know of an opening. … all people, an orthopedic surgery tion Corps of the 1930s, where he battle with multiple myeloma. He John Miller is taking his resident; our son is a business was uprooted to the Blue Moun- died surrounded by his entire family, youngest daughter, Becca, to Johns consultant for PWC in its capital tains for nine months because his including me; his daughter, Mer- Hopkins this fall, where she will market division. We enjoy family mother could no longer feed him. edith ’04; his wife, Denise; son, Peter start her freshman year with plans time at home, on the golf course, To my mother, who never went to Jr.; and two friends with whom he to major in biomedical engineering. on our little sailboat and by going high school, it was an opportunity rowed 40 years before, Paul DeMar- His other daughter, Sarah, also is in- to ‘hot’ new restaurants that the to display her domestic skills to the tini ’72 and John Mulligan ’72. terested in the sciences; she recently kids find in Manhattan. Life has scoutmasters. Mom packed my duf- “After graduating from the Col- earned her doctoral degree in physi- been good to us. I am humbled fel bag with 1) a folding stool; 2) a lege, Peter obtained an advanced cal at Ohio State, which is by and so grateful for the good well-gowned and bejewelled Infant degree at Trinity College, Oxford, where his son, Adam, earned an fortune that we have had.” of Prague to watch over me in the and then graduated from the M.B.A. Notes John, “I can actually Len Levine reported that he woods; 3) a canister set — coffee, University of Michigan Law School, understand what he does — ha!” attended Dean’s Day in June and tea, sugar and salt in descending where he was elected to its Law In June, I spotted Josef Stern particularly enjoyed the informal sizes; and 4) a cookbook — the kind Review. Peter then returned to New around the neighborhood; it was gathering of alumni on hand. you give to brides. I quickly fell into York City, where he embarked on great to see him again. With Josef Semi-retired, having semi- a marginal existence. a successful career as a corporate was his son, Rafi, who was looking completed a career as an inde- “‘Preparations for college were lawyer, including a partnership at forward to his wedding the follow- pendent, investigative journalist along these lines. The canister set Mayer, Brown & Platt and, toward ing week. Josef teaches philosophy and infant had been replaced by the end of his career, at DLA Piper. at Chicago and for several years has objects with greater functional- “While at Columbia, Peter lived lived in Jerusalem (and you think What’s Your Story? ity — a portable television set, for three years in the Alpha Delta you have a long commute). He a hernia-inducing IBM Selectric Phi fraternity, his beloved ‘AD.’ works in two main areas: contem- Letting classmates know typewriter, three floor lamps, a Peter was elected president of AD porary philosophy of language and what’s going on in your driftwood-framed portrait of my and in his mid-30s became active in medieval philosophy, especially life is easier than ever. mother and me that longed for the the AD alumni group, spearhead- Jewish and Arabic philosophy. Last Send in your Class Notes! sea, a calendar and pen set made of ing its reacquisition of the fraternity year, Josef visited Shandong Uni- marble and brass, a travel alarm, a house from the Columbia housing versity in China, where he spoke on ONLINE by clicking mantel clock, a cookie jar masquer- authority. With its independence Maimonides and medieval Jewish college.columbia.edu/cct/ ading as a drum majorette, a black assured, AD had a renaissance and thought. submit_class_note. vase with black fabric flowers and Peter was actively involved in guid- Jeffrey Laurence plays a promi- several suitcases full of underwear. ing the house’s renovation. nent role in a documentary on the EMAIL to the address at I was a hick. I was a hick in an “Peter also was chairman of the early days of AIDS, The Battle of Am- the top of your column. Ivy League School. I was a hick in Board of Trustees of The Cambodia fAR, which was selected for Robert an Ivy League School in the most Trust, which for some 30 years has Redford’s Sundance Film Festival MAIL to the address at the sophisticated city in the world. treated victims of land mines that last December. HBO bought it and top of your column. “‘I was assigned to Carman continue to explode, unexpectedly, will air it early in December this Hall, the ‘new’ dormitory. The old across the Cambodian countryside. year. It also was selected for the

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Tribeca Film Festival, where it was Peter started with his brothers and resident of Furnald and all-around tee. We need volunteers to make a given a red carpet opening. (Its friends and that offers free counsel- good guy. Nat has been married to small time commitment to contact co-directors already have won two ing for people with cancer (PO Box Liz Kingma for 19 years, and by the a handful of classmates, either in Oscars and had a feature film come 1358, Sag Harbor, NY 11963). time this is published his youngest your area, your profession or from out this summer, Lovelace, about the will be (gulp) 11. Nat is the CTO of some group you were involved Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace.) Northrop Grumman. So for those with while on campus. A short Gregory Doane, a psychiatrist Barry Etra of you who didn’t know, he is alive phone call is often all it takes to in California’s San Fernando Val- 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE and teching. get a classmate to show up — and ley, was at Columbia this spring, 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 Start making plans for our 45th! higher attendance makes reunion joining alumni of the Columbia [email protected] Hasta. better for everyone. Send me an University Singers “in living email or contact one of the Alumni through music our own Columbia Those who missed our 40th Office staffers listed at the top of REUNION WEEKEND fun and nostalgia, including con- reunion (I, unfortunately, among the column if you can spare a few MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 certs in Puerto Rico, with members them) missed a great time. We had moments to help. ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS from the 1960s on. I was looking 50 ’73ers in attendance, purport- Here is a father-son Class Note ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott for roommates Steve O’Connor ’74, edly the most ever. Highlights where both have remarkable recent [email protected] noted poet and author who teaches included a College/Barnard/Engi- achievements. As age has its privi- 212-851-9148 writing in Columbia’s M.F.A. pro- neering ’73 reception at the Colum- leges, it is only proper to start with DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova gram, and David DiJohn ’74, who bia University Club of New York, the father, Dr. Mark Lebwohl. Mark [email protected] paralleled my path and became a in Midtown; a tour of the High is the chairman of the Department 212-851-7833 pediatrician. Saw Tom Bonczar.” Line Public Park led by landscape of Dermatology at Mount Sinai In addition, Greg recalls, “I was architect Steven Cantor (see the Fred Bremer Hospital in NYC. He also is chair- a waiter at College Inn, a campus May/June 2010 CCT); an evening 532 W. 111th St. man of the Medical Board of the guide and a taxi driver for spare reception at Cellini in Midtown; 74 New York, NY 10025 National Psoriasis Foundation and money. Life then was terrific, and an address (to all classes) by Eric [email protected] was recently elected president of the revisiting Columbia is enriching Holder ’76L; a luncheon with guest American Academy of Dermatology. as hell.” speaker Alan Brinkley, the Allan By the time you read this, a momen- Mark needs to wear all these Jazz pianist Armen Done- Nevins Professor of American tous occasion in Columbia’s nearly hats to be able to make endless lian and his wife, Rose, recently History and Provost Emeritus, 260-year history will be taking tuition payments for his son, Andy returned from their second visit to on the presidency of JFK; and a place: The external structure of the Lebwohl ’04, ’07L. Andy’s four St. Lucia, “where the snorkeling dinner with guest speaker Ronnie nine-story Jerome L. Greene Science years at the College didn’t come (our favorite mutual pastime) is Heifetz, who founded the leader- Center will be virtually completed. cheap, but then neither did his three great.” In addition, he reports, “I’m ship center at the John F. Kennedy What makes this most significant is years at the Law School. All must working on an album for release School of Government at Harvard. that it is the first major building in have seemed worth it when Andy later in 2013 that will feature my Many thanks to Mike Byowitz Columbia’s new, 17-acre Manhat- joined the law firm of Dewey & solo piano arrangements of songs for reporting in my stead! Kudos tanville campus, which stretches LeBoeuf in NYC. Andy discovered, by Sayat-Nova, an 18th-century especially to the Reunion Commit- from 125th Street to 133rd Street, however, that the life of an associate troubadour. I recently finished my tee — Mike, Steven Cantor, Rich Broadway to 12th Avenue. had a “crushing workload” and 25th year of adjunct teaching in Canzonetti, Steve Flanagan, Greg Soon to follow as part of the first “there was more I wanted to be do- The New School for Jazz and Con- Gall, Marc Jaffe, Don Jensen, Bob phase of the project (which will ing,” so he left to earn his M.B.A. at temporary Music program and my Pruznick, Steve Sims, Jim Thom- keep morphing until 2030) are the Yale — and thus two more years of 20th year in the William Paterson ashower, Ray Vastola and Lou construction of buildings for the Ivy tuition. (As an aside, ironically, University Jazz Studies Program Venech. For a photo of those who Business School, the Engineering Andy did corporate bankruptcy in its music department. When I attended our Saturday dinner and School, the School of the Arts and and insurance regulatory law at reflect on my time at Columbia, a list of registrants, go to college. SIPA. I hear talk of new dorms, Dewey & LeBoeuf — ironic because I’m humbled with gratitude for the columbia.edu/cct/summer13/ restaurants, jazz clubs and the like the firm itself went bankrupt in pivotal opportunities it afforded features4. that will create a robust extension 2012, well after Andy had left.) me to study, network and grow in While a fellow at the Yale Entre- a first-class school and city, and to preneurial Institute in 2011, Andy develop lifelong friendships with Joe Seldner ’73 climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with his developed a business plan that several classmates and professors.” combined two of his interests: ka- You can view Armen’s performance brother. raoke and comic book superheroes. clips at youtube.com (search for his Thus was born, in 2012, Karaoke name) and find more information Heroes, a karaoke bar with a su- at armenjazz.com. [Editor’s Note: In non-reunion news, Joe Seld- of the Morningside Heights cam- perhero theme in downtown New See profile in Summer 2012 CCT.] ner climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with pus we all knew. The 40th Reunion Haven, Conn. Reviews have been Finally, some sad news: Peter his brother. Joe has shifted from Committee is looking into arrang- great, and Andy plans to expand Darrow passed away on May movie production into TV but is oc- ing tours of the area and perhaps as a chain of karaoke bars in other 19. According to his obituary in cupied mostly with writing, speak- even holding an event at the site. college towns. Sounds like those The East Hampton Star, Peter, who ing and executive communication. Speaking of our 40th reunion, nine or so years of tuition might rowed competitively while at Mike Byowitz’s daughter, I hope you have blocked out actually pay off! Columbia, could often be seen in Suzanne ’13, joined the ranks of Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1, As one of the kids of our class- his shell in Sag Harbor Cove. A alumni progeny from ’73. This also 2014 (and perhaps a few days on mates leaves the law, at least one graduate of University of Michigan includes the sons of Bob Pruznick either side) to be back on Morning- other is diving into the pond. An- Law, Peter was a partner in the and Howard Gould, who both side Heights with the guys with drew Blumenthal, son of Dr. Steve firm of DLA Piper, with special graduated in 2012. whom you shared so much. Have Blumenthal (pediatrician in Port- expertise in foreign debt financ- Sam Radin married Sara Nelson you shown your family the dorms land, Maine), spent the summer as ing. Those of you who have been in May. Sam is the president of an and classrooms where you spent an intern at Latham & Watkins, the back for reunion know that Peter insurance advisory service in Man- your “wonder years”? Where you NYC mega-law firm. We’ll have to was active in planning the event hattan and is a founding board protested against/for the Vietnam wait to see how this other Andrew, and was a regular presence. His member of the Norman Mailer War? The route you used during the who is another son of a doctor, likes ashes will be spread in Sag Harbor, Writers Colony in New York City. “streaking” craze? Tom’s Restau- the law. (I do seem to recall that where his family has a compound. I was in Washington, D.C., rant is still there, waiting to serve Andrew is an accomplished concert Memorial donations have been in June and had lunch with Nat you a delicious cup of “creamo”! pianist, so you never know!) suggested for Fighting Chance, a Heiner ’72, a founder of the music The Class of ’74 also could use An update came in from Dr. Sag Harbor-based program that group , former head your help on the Reunion Commit- Alan Rosenberg in Chicago. He

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY says, “I’m alive, well and recently OUT List aired on June 27, the 44th ing to Wikipedia, is “dedicated to attended the Society of Columbia celebrated my 35th wedding an- anniversary of the Stonewall riots ending the abuse and exploitation Graduates luncheon on Dean’s Day. niversary. I very much enjoy my in NYC, which many say marks of children worldwide through Various news media turn to Paul work in clinical and pharmacy the start of the gay liberation the production of documentary Argenti, professor of management policy for Wellpoint (the parent movement in the United States. films and other media that raise and corporate communication at company of many health insurance Timothy, who began the series in social awareness and effect political Dartmouth Tuck School of Business, firms around the country).” 2008, combines portrait photo- change.” for insight. He was recently quoted I hope to get more info from graphs and video interviews to Shine Global’s first film, War/ in the on NYC Mayor Alan for a future column. give greater understanding of the Dance, tells of the plight of children Michael Bloomberg’s advisory As some of you guys are too world; in making the films, he has growing up in a war zone in north- choices. Though he describes him- busy or too lazy or too modest (you spoken with prominent members ern Uganda. It was nominated self as a lifelong New Yorker, Paul can choose) to send updates, I’ve of the black, Latino and, now, gay for an Academy Award for Best also has taught as a visiting profes- taken to checking for leads on my segments of our society. Documentary Feature in 2008. Its sor at the International University Facebook page. This has proven Another classmate involved in the second feature-length documen- of Japan, the Helsinki School of especially fruitful of late. Here is arts, but at the local level, is Darryl tary, Harvest Zone, highlighted the Economics, Erasmus University, this edition of “Facebook Factoids” Downing. As proprietor of the mar- 400,000 migrant worker children Ray University and Singapore (mostly fact-checked by getting in keting company I-AM-HARLEM, in America. Profits from the Management University. Paul is an touch with the classmate involved): he promotes small businesses and productions are funneled back to English mastiff owner, Yankees fan, After seeing a picture of Tim cultural institutions in Harlem. organizations that are dedicated to and food and wine expert. Marcovy, who lives in University Darryl handles publicity for events helping the children featured in the In a New York Post article on Heights, Ohio, at the Western from “Silicon Harlem Presents Shine documentaries. unions and the mayoral race, Reserve Rowing Association, I Gigabit Harlem” (produced by the There you have it. Stories of our former MTA labor negotiator Gary contacted Tim and found he is an Harlem Business Alliance) to those kids leaving the law while others Dellaverson pointed out the “un- active crew member and coach sponsored by the Harlem Arts are just entering. Classmates cel- sustainability of costs” of current for the group. He remains a law Alliance. ebrating the engagement, marriage union retiree benefits. Regarding partner with Willacy, LoPresti & From the Northwest, in the shad- and graduation of their offspring. pensions, he said, although there Marcovy in Cleveland. Tim adds, ows of Microsoft, comes news from And we witness the vibrancy of a is $9 billion budgeted for the next “Thanks for checking in. Don’t Jim Pleasants. Our Bellevue, Wash., class that continues to be creative year, the cost will far overreach have to troll the obits yet.” classmate (who runs his own law and to contribute to our society. that amount. “It wasn’t sustainable I also saw a picture of Ed Berl­ practice) says, “I’m busier than usual Make sure to block off time in your at 4 ½ [billion],” he notes. iner, who lives in West Orange, N.J., because I am president of the United schedules to come back for reunion. Now working for Greater Media with his granddaughter, and found States Curling Association, impor- You’ll get to hear a lot more stories (owners of WMMR, WMGK, WPEN out she is his fourth grandchild tant to the roughly 16,000 curlers in than I can squeeze into these and WBEN-FM), Jim Dolan lives (can anyone beat this?). Ed retired the U.S.” Who knew there were so columns and also see the start of the in Philadelphia, across the street from Bell Labs 10 years ago and many devoted to pushing massive new Manhattanville campus! from The Franklin Institute and The has since joined Yeshiva University granite stones across ice rinks? Barnes Foundation (the new one), as director of science management Since 1998 curling has been in the old Board of Public Education and a clinical professor of physics. an official Olympic sport, which Randy Nichols building — a deco delight with 12-ft. He emailed, “Any hope of very means Jim will be off to the 2014 734 S. Linwood Ave. ceilings and other original features. early retirement ended after this last Winter Olympics in Sochi, , 75 Baltimore, MD 21224 Jim and his wife, Yasmin, recently Passover, when our daughters-in- in February. He added that his el- [email protected] returned from a trip to Italy. They law said I needed more bedrooms der son, Chris, is a programmer for started on the Amalfi Coast, then if I wanted the families of all three Amazon in Seattle and his younger Commencements, reunions and moved on to Positano, where Jim sons to join me during the holidays. son, Nick, recently finished his first Dean’s Day all have passed, locally said he channeled his “inner goat- So I just added onto the house. Now year of law school at the University or more broadly, depending on ness.” (Did you ever get to the cans, it looks like retirement is still a few of Washington, also in Seattle. your friends, families and others. Jim?) Next was Capri, then on to years away.” Albie Hecht, who lives in If you follow Columbia, you see Pompeii, where they were amazed I thank Ed for his 30 years of inter- Montclair, N.J., began at WKCR his lots about them in the Columbia by its expanse, and finally to Rome, viewing applicants to the College. freshman year. Little did he know media. And if you are one of those where they saw the new Gatsby (in Some Facebook postings didn’t that this would lead him to a me- readers, you already know that Ira English with Italian subtitles). Jim require any fact-checking. Ken dia career that includes founding Malin was one of the 10 recipients said, “Just had to do it, vecchio mio Krug (CFO of The Asia Foundation SPIKE TV (“the network for men”), of the Alumni Medal at this year’s [old sport]!” in San Francisco) added a picture If you don’t follow Jim on Face- taken at his son Joshua’s graduation book, you should — some of the from Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Paul Argenti ’75 was recently quoted in the New pictures he posts are a riot! Peter Zegarelli (dentist in Tar- A founding partner of the law rytown, N.Y.) had a photo from his York Post on NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s firm Falcon & Singer, Raymond daughter Clare’s graduation from advisory choices. Falcon advises clients in matters the Taylor Institute for Global En- of estate planning, probate and ad- terprise in Switzerland (she earned ministration of decedents’ estates, an M.S. in international manage- being president of Commencement. I got to know Ira concentrating in planning for fami- ment). Dr. Burt Rochelson (chief Entertainment and producing when he co-chaired Orientation ’73 lies with special-needs members. of obstetrics at the North Shore some of Paramount’s biggest films with Eve Szabo Thaler ’75 Barnard He recently was a co-presenter of University Hospital on Long Island) (such as The SpongeBob SquarePants and I was a member of the person- the seminar “Trusts 101” at a Na- shared a picture of his son, Ellis, Movie and The Rugrats Movie). His nel committee, working under the tional Business Institute seminar in with his new fiancée. Mark Mogul works have received numerous leadership of Penny Liberatos ’74 White Plains, N.Y. (president of Mogul Technology in Academy Award nominations. Barnard. (The next year, I chaired In addition to traveling to Co- Port Washington, N.Y.) posted shots These days Albie splits his time the personnel committee for Orien- lumbia, S.C., for work most weeks, I from when he walked his daughter, between being CEO of Worldwide tation ’74 with Steve Eichel ’76 and (Randy Nichols) have managed to Perri, down the aisle at an outdoor Biggies, a digital entertainment Robin Greene Hagey ’76 Barnard.) fit in several personal trips. In April, wedding on Long Island in June. studio that creates original multi- Dean’s Day brought Bob Schneider I went to Wisconsin, where most Timothy Greenfield-Sanders media projects, and his work with a to campus, and Bob reported seeing of my family lives. During Easter (portrait photographer and videog- nonprofit film production company Dr. Louis Dalaveris at the sessions weekend, I attended a powerful rapher in NYC) added to his series called Shine Global. Founded in with comp lit professor Julie Craw- presentation of The Hammer, pre- of HBO documentaries on the 2005 by Albie and his wife, Susan ford and U.S. Attorney General sented by my brother’s Assemblies lives of minority groups when The MacLaury, the company, accord- Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, ’76L. Bob also of God church. We had a big family

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reunion on Easter Sunday, and then This spring, the American Bank- and I to the Institute of Contempo- Robert Bressman has become a later in the week my mom and I ruptcy Institute gave Robert Reilly rary Art. On Sunday and Monday, director at the law firm of Goulston went to , Wis., where we its publication of the year award for they were all over, culminating & Storrs in New York. He previ- attended the Collie Club of America his book, A Practical Guide to Bank- in the Penn Commencement at ously was a partner at the law firm National Specialty. While there, I ruptcy Valuation. He received the Franklin Field with Vice President of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. also drove up the Great River Road award in April at the 31st annual Joseph Biden giving the com- Patrick H. Griffin ’80 P&S has to Winona, Minn., where I found meeting of the ABI at the Gaylord mencement address. On a pure been appointed chief medical of- the gravesite of Norman Nicolais National Resort and Convention business note, Bob’s firm, Cuddy ficer at Synergy Pharmaceuticals, a ’76E, one of my Columbia room- Center in National Harbor, Md. & Feder, was recently named one developer of drugs to treat gastroin- mates. (Sophomore and junior years Robert has been married to Dr. of the New York area’s top-ranked testinal disorders and diseases. He we lived on 9 Jay, right next to Terry Janet Steiner Reilly ’75 Barnard for law firms in 2013, based on overall did a residency in internal medicine Mulry.) On that trip I also saw 38 years. They have three children: ratings with Martindale-Hubbell. at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, hundreds of bald eagles (check Ashley ’06 Barnard, Brandon and Joseph Tato is the U.S. head of then a fellowship in gastroenterol- out the National Eagle Center at Cameron. Robert and Janet live DLA Piper’s Projects and Infra- ogy at Brigham and Women’s nationaleaglecenter.org), sand hill in Barrungton Hills, a suburb of structure Practice Group and is Hospital in Boston. Before joining cranes, ice on the Mississippi and Chicago. a partner in the New York office. Synergy, he was on the faculty of much, much more. P&S. Several weeks later, I was in Tony Anemone writes that after Philadelphia for a Columbia recep- After what he characterizes as “a staggering 28- 10 years of mostly administrative tion at the new Barnes Foundation, work (chair of foreign languages along the Benjamin Franklin Park­ plus years of covering culture” at The Village Voice, and literatures; associate dean for way. After touring the galleries, Michael Musto ’76 has moved on. faculty affairs) at The College of President Lee C. Bollinger and William and Mary and The New others gave remarks and took School, “I am happy to report that I questions. My question: “Will any Samuel M. Shafner is a partner Joe represents independent power have returned to full-time teaching of the iconic Morningside campus at the Boston law firm of Burns & producers, equity investors, project and writing. The high point of this sculptures be moved to the new Levinson and chairs its International sponsors, financial institutions and past year was the publication of Manhattanville campus?” The Practice Group. In February he was governments in developing and fi- I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the complete answer: “No.” the sole American speaker in Brus- nancing of power, oil and gas, LNG, Ordinary: The Notebooks, Diaries and In June, I attended the confer- sels at the European Private Equity water and wastewater, telecom- Letters of Daniil Kharms, edited and ence “From Enemies to Allies: An and Venture Capital Association’s munications, waste management translated with Peter Scotto ’75.” International Conference on the kickoff to its new corporate venture and other infrastructure projects in After what he characterizes as War of 1812 and its Aftermath,” capital subgroup. In April he led a the U.S., Africa, Latin America and “a staggering 28-plus years of cov- at the U.S. Naval Academy. A panel of “funds of funds” at a Mon- Europe. He also represents sponsors ering culture” at The Village Voice, scholarly conference with more treal venture capital conference. He and financial institutions in mergers Michael Musto has moved on. He than 150 participants from the hasn’t spoken in the U.S. since June and acquisitions, restructurings and writes, “I assure you my future United States, United Kingdom 2012, when he chaired a life sciences workouts in the energy and infra- will still be filled with writing and Canada, it included various venture capital conference in Boston, structure areas. In April, Joe moder- about movies, theatre, nightlife and lectures and field trips covering but he has more speaking events ated the panel “Project Finance for everything else that I’ve always many of my current passions: the scheduled for this fall. Wife Rosalyn a Changing Power Supply” at the immersed myself in. I’m grateful War of 1812 and the growth of Weiss Shafner ’74 Barnard works for Platts 28th annual Global Power to have had the opportunity to U.S. sea power, both in the nascent Northrop Grumman. Two of their Markets Conference in Las Vegas. run free and explore topics I cared U.S. Navy and the fleet of priva- four children are married (one in In addition to all that he does for about so passionately.” teers that harassed the mighty Baltimore, one in Israel), and they Columbia, Richard Witten serves British Navy in many battles, on have five grandchildren. on the board of Harlem Children’s the high seas and our . This was a big spring for Bob Zone. President Barack Obama ’83 David Gorman (The War of 1812 was “the war Schneider and his wife, Regina called it “an all-encompassing, all- 111 Regal Dr. no one wanted, no one won and Mullahy ’75 Barnard. First, they hands-on-deck, anti-poverty effort 77 DeKalb, IL 60115 that changed nothing,” according were in Philadelphia for the that is literally saving a generation [email protected] to many historians.) If you recall wedding of son James to Claudia of children.” from last year, I’m also passionate Patane. Eugene Rice ’76 and wife Keep the cards and letters com- Once again, it’s been quiet out there. about sailing vessels — from the Jeanne Kolva and Dr. Steven A. ing so I can continue to love writ- I hope to have things to report Class A Tall Ships (the U.S. Eagle, Fiamengo ’76 and wife Teri Mur- ing these Class Notes! We can and soon. Remember, we keep track of Brazil’s Cisne Blanco and Ger- dock attended and were seated do make a difference. Go Lions! such life passages as publications, many’s Gorch Folk II), through the with Bob and Regina. (Geno, Dr. awards and recognitions; promo- Class Bs (like the Pride of Baltimore Steve and Bob all lived at Schuyler tions and retirements; kids’ college II and the privateer Lynx) and Hall in their freshman year.) Clyde Moneyhun admissions and graduations; and the small (like the schooner Lady I couldn’t make the wedding Boise State University sightings, memories and reflections. Maryland, the skipjack Sigsbee, the but joined Bob and Regina in 76 Department of English Or, even better: Ask yourself what classic yacht Elk or the Chesa- Philly during Penn’s Commence- 200 Liberal Arts Building you would be interested to learn peake Bay log canoe Daisy Bell) to ment and reunion weekend. Their 1910 University Dr. about your classmates, then send the tiny things (sailfish, Bermuda daughter, Margaret Veronica Boise, ID 83725 me that sort of info about yourself! dinghy or Thistle) that I sailed on (always just Meg to me!), was one [email protected] You can use either address at the the Chesapeake Bay when I was of the graduates and also won top of the column, or CCT’s web- growing up. If any of these mag- numerous awards. James and I’ll open this installment with a plea form: college.columbia.edu/cct/ nificent vessels come your way, Claudia, just returned from their for news. Please take five minutes submit_class_note. Peace out. please visit (and support!) them. honeymoon in Italy, joined us for to let the rest of us know what’s Ed Pagani is CEO of LGC dinner. We had an enjoyable day happening with you: job, family, North America, which focuses together — and probably the “easi- your kids’ accomplishments, travel, Matthew Nemerson on customers in forensic science; est” day of the weekend for the visits with other ’76ers, shout-outs 35 Huntington St. pharmaceutical and biotechnology Schneiders! On Friday, they also to classmates and reminiscences 78 New Haven, CT 06511 research; development and quality attended several of Meg’s events about our time on the campus. matthewnemerson@ control; food chain and environ- and some of Bob’s reunion events. Email is best, though you can use gmail.com mental surveillance and safety; and On Saturday, in between meals and either address above or CCT’s life science, genomics, proteomics visits, Bob had a short business en- webform: college.columbia.edu/ Kudos to everyone who worked and basic research. gagement, and so Meg took Regina cct/submit_class_note. on the 35th reunion; it was better

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY than ever to see folks and to see the are those guys now.” hockey reporter Jeff Klein ’79.” dinner was not; a buffet would campus shine. Mark Axinn says, “I was re- Donald Simone writes, “I joined have kept people moving better. I received many comments on elected chair of the New York State Hunton & Williams with three of All that said, it was a really good the weekend’s activities. Dr. Alex Libertarian Party at our annual my former real estate partners from time.” Demac writes, “The reunion was convention this past spring, and Thacher Proffitt & Wood a year ago. Chuck Meltzer writes, “Attend- absolutely delightful. The best I am pleased that my small party We have been incredibly successful ed reunion with some trepidation part was simply connecting with continues to promote peace and in- and have added eight real estate but am glad I went. … It was nice classmates, old friends and new, dividual rights in this age of statism associates in the last year. to see my roommates, Fred Rosen- at the various events. I am grateful and tyranny from state, national “I attended the first two nights stein and David Freinberg; friends to the Columbia staff and Reunion and local governments. Otherwise, of reunion and then much of the from 11 John Jay; Ken Rose; Dean Committee for putting together a for my day gig, I am a partner in a day on Saturday. The High Line Margolis; and Tom Bisdale. And fantastic program, from the walk- mid-Manhattan law firm, special- tour with Professor Kenneth not to forget good friends Claire ing tour with Professor Kenneth izing in real estate development and Jackson was amazing. He related Tse ’78 Barnard and Amy Gerwitz Jackson to dancing on Low Plaza. commercial litigation.” the changes from NYC in 1978 ’78 Barnard. While time and dis- Thanks, too, to Ric Burns for his tance may separate us, the bonds fascinating presentation at the class made during our College days are dinner.” Peter Samis ’78 spent the summer in Williamstown, strong, and for that I was happy to Paul Phillips writes, “I pulled reconnect with them all.” an Ivy League hat trick during Mass., as a Kress Summer Fellow in Museum Education Peter Samis, “SFMOMA just reunion. That Friday afternoon I left at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. closed its doors for 2½ years to work at Brown, drove down with more than double in size. I spent the my family to attend the reunion summer in Williamstown, Mass., as dinner, then continued on to - Robert Lewton writes, “I will to now in an incredible way. The a Kress Summer Fellow in Museum ton where, the following afternoon, soon celebrate 30 years as a financial one drawback: It was difficult to Education at the Sterling and Fran- we, including my wife, Kathryne adviser with Merrill Lynch. Feels hear him on the walking tour (the cine Clark Art Institute. Have got Jennings, attended a wonderful like yesterday. Live in Millburn, N.J., bus ride over when we got stuck a book to write on visitor-centered production of Into the Woods at the with my wife and two daughters.” in traffic was terrific). The Friday museum interpretation.” McCarter Theatre Center; many cast Tom Mariam writes, “Happy dinner with our classmate serenad- Michael F. Forlenza has been members were former students of 5th of July from Amsterdam, ing us was cool. Saturday was elected to the Board of Directors of hers, mine or both of us.” where this morning, in front of our wonderful. I attended one of the the Houston Geological Society for James “Huck” Hill says, “My hotel, aptly named Pulitzer, I liter- [Dean’s Day] lectures, the varsity 2013–14. HGS is the world’s largest wife, Kristi Pfister Hill ’78 Barnard, ally ran into an old friend, David athletics Affinity Reception and the local geological society and was and I arrived on campus Friday Friend ’77; he and his wife, Wendy, wine tasting — all great. Our class established in 1923. Michael will be night; Kristi attended her class are staying at the same hotel and dinner worked, too. Just wished the editor for the HGS Bulletin. dinner high up in the Sulzberger also will be on my and my wife, we had more time to hang out with Gary Pickholz writes, “I became building and I joined the 1978 din- Alyce’s, flight back to NYC. And classmates.” a grandfather! Impossible, as we ner crew in Low Library. The CC that was just a few hours after Al- Chris Dell writes from Germany, are only 29, correct? I attended the ’78 faithful at Low had a fun-sized yce and I were hosted at a Fourth “My life at U.S. AFRICOM is a lot July 4 barbecue of the American group, and at dinner music man of July party at the U.S. Embassy in less stressful than anything else ambassador in Tel Aviv, which is Steve Bargonetti gave us a stellar, Brussels by Ambassador Howard I’ve done for the last decade or always fun and a chance to meet solo performance on his gorgeous Gutman ’77 and his wife, Michelle. more, and I’m trying — with mixed up with many Columbians. Israeli Martin guitar. Steve delivered one We also had a private visit with results so far — to join in the culture Ambassador to the U.S. Michael killer set after another of jazz, rock him earlier in the week. of fitness that pervades our nation’s Oren ’77 announced at the barbe- and funk anthems, and we just “Regarding reunion, my warriors. Stuttgart itself isn’t a terri- cue he will not seek a second term, chilled. Steve ended the night with thoughts are how seamlessly we bly exciting town, but it’s two hours and I hope will be down the hall an epic version of The Star-Spangled mesh even after 35 years of mostly from everywhere. It’s nice to be able from me at Columbia writing his Banner that electrified and tapped being apart. The ’78 bond is strong. to go to Alsace for lunch at a fine next book. Recently returned Spe- into everybody’s inner Hendrix. As I was honored to give the introduc- auberge, or pop down to Munich to cial Ambassador to the Silicon Val- his guitar echoed off the walls of tory remarks at our class dinner. catch the Springsteen concert. ley Akiva Tor, Interim Chairman of Low, I mused, has anyone else ever It meant a lot to me to be chosen, “As for reunion, I only attended the Karnit Flug ’86 rocked this anthem in here before? and I thank those who made that the class dinner and the party. … I GSAS and former (and soon-to-be Perhaps a brush with history, and decision. … I was impressed by really enjoyed Ric Burns’ after-din- ambassador) Dore Gold ’75, ’79 definitely a great night. Hope to the participation of our class in a ner talk. And, as I said that evening, SIPA, ’84 GSAS were among those see you all at our four-o in ’18.” variety of events. The High Line I think it’s pretty remarkable that slurping down chili dogs and Tom Bisdale, who is still work- was a highlight with the walk and between Ric and Tony Kushner, enjoying the fireworks.” ing at Hearst after 30 years, writes, commentary by Professor Kenneth the Class of ’78 has significantly Rob Blank says, “It was great “I spend a lot of time on several Jackson. It was a perfect reunion shaped the perceptions of an entire to see all who attended reunion. nonprofit projects and playing in event, giving us an opportunity generation of Americans about the I am settling into my new job at our community concert band as to explore, learn and socialize at meaning and significance of the the Medical College of Wisconsin. well as in Ragtime, Dixieland, sax the same time. The reception with Civil War. I’m sorry Jim Shenton Month one was given over almost and big band ensembles. The recent Barnard that night was also nice. ’49, ’54 GSAS isn’t alive to see this entirely to meeting and greeting. reunion was the best in memory, We should make sure this happens part of his legacy. Of course, the real Among the faculty I found Jack perhaps because I attended more every reunion (and with Engineer- purpose of a reunion is to compare Kleinman ’64. Month two promised events than before. The coordina- ing, too), as we all went to school yourself to everyone else and I’m more of the same. tion of several events with Barnard together. Perhaps such an event pleased to report that from this “As for reunion, the best events was welcome after years of trying should be the focal point of an eve- perspective it was a smash success. were the Professor Kenneth Jackson to do so. During the three nights I ning rather than a complementary Despite Teddy Faraone’s hair, I’d High Line walk and the pre-tour participated, I talked at length with function, as it was this year. still rather be living my life than reception at Jonathan Freedman’s classmates, often several times, “On a more personal note, I anyone else’s! I hope everyone else home. Thanks much to the Freed- unlike past years, when everything broadcast a lot of live updates for felt exactly the same way.” mans and to Professor Jackson for was rushed on Saturday night. Per- Knicks and Ranger playoff games Edward Ferguson writes, “I their generosity in making these haps most memorable was talking this spring for WFAN and CBS attended the reunion dinner on possible. Friday dinner was also to some recent alumni at the bever- Sports Radio. I always think of Saturday but couldn’t stay for the great, with thanks due to Steve Bar- age table who, while being most my WKCR roots when I do them. Starlight Reception. The cocktail gonetti for a fantastic performance. pleasant, seemed to regard me as an It was nice to be on the Rangers hour was good for seeing and talk- Saturday dinner’s highlight was the ancient historical figure. I guess we beat with The New York Times ace ing with people but the sit-down fact that it was the best-attended

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Alumni Sons and Daughters

Sixty-two members of the College Class of 2017 and six members of the Engineering Class of 2017 are sons or daughters of College alumni. This list is alphabetical by the parent(s)’ last name.

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Jemma Armi Clement Armi ’67 Madison Jones Clayton Jones ’81 Garrett Ryan Denis Ryan ’87 Santa Barbara, Calif. • Cate School Wayland, Mass. • Wayland H.S. Scottsdale, Ariz. • Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School Jason Avigan David Avigan ’85 Nathan Kim Angela Kim ’89 Sharon, Mass. • Maimonides School Mamaroneck, N.Y. • Scarsdale H.S. Solomon Seckler Jonathan Seckler ’87 Boca Raton, Fla. • Pine Crest School Samuel Balzac Frederick Balzac Jr. ’80 Stephen Koh * Alexander Koh ’86 Jay, N.Y. • Keene Central School New York City • NEST+m Jesse Silbert Richard Silbert ’81 Weston, Conn. • The Harvey School Olivia Barry David Barry ’87 and Margot Krisberg Brian Krisberg ’81 Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 New York City • Professional Children’s School Gabriel Raab Eric Raab ’82 Hoboken, N.J. • Riverdale Country School East Brunswick, N.J. • Rae Kushner Yeshiva H.S. Justin Kung David Kung ’84 Daniel Bergerson Shawn Bergerson ’87 Chevy Chase, Md. • Montgomery Blair H.S. Ravi Sinha Abha Sinha ’88 and Wayzata, Minn. • Breck School Pankaj Sinha ’86 Matt Landes David Landes ’77 Bethesda, Md. • Georgetown Day School Rachel Blumenthal David S. Blumenthal ’81 New York City • SAR H.S. New Rochelle, N.Y. • The Frisch School Brian Solender Michael Solender ’86 Emily Lang Joseph Lang ’85 Scarsdale, N.Y. • Scarsdale H.S. Henry Bram Jonathan Bram ’87 Seattle • Lakeside School Bronx, N.Y. • Ethical Culture Fieldston School Jeremy Staub Arthur Staub ’82 Kyle Lee * Chester Lee ’79 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. • Ethical Culture Fieldston School Samir Canning Robert Canning ’81 Madison, N.J. • Madison H.S. Wellesley, Mass. • Wellesley H.S. Kyle Dartnell-Steinberg Bruce Steinberg ’78 Jonathan Lesser Stephen Lesser ’66 London, England • The American School in London Noah Zweben * Lynn Charytan ’87 East Hampton, N.Y. • Ross School Potomac, Md. • Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School Amber Sun Lazarus Sun ’81 Simon Levinson Felicia Levinson ’88 Irvine, Calif. • University H.S. Dylan Cooper Pace Cooper ’85 Larchmont, N.Y. • Mamaroneck H.S. Memphis • Margolin Hebrew Academy - Feinstone Maeve Tobin Daniel Tobin ’82 Winston Lin Richard Lin ’84 Potomac, Md. • Winston Churchill H.S. Ethan Cooper Pace Cooper ’85 Poquott, N.Y. • Ward Melville H.S. Memphis • Margolin Hebrew Academy - Feinstone Nia Hollister-Bernier Christie Tongier ’88 Sally Lindsay Charles Lindsay ’75 Asheville, N.C. • Asheville H.S. William Cornacchia Thomas Cornacchia ’85 Palm Beach, Fla. • Darien, Conn. • Darien H.S. George Van Amson George Van Amson ’74 Miranda Litwak Nathaniel Litwak ’86 New York City • Trevor Day School Bradley Davison Henry Davison Jr. ’83 ° Chappaqua, N.Y. • Greeley H.S. Skillman, N.J. • Peddie School Nathan Werner * Robert Werner ’77 Larissa MacPhee Donna MacPhee ’89 and Long Valley, N.J. • West Morris Central H.S. Jonathan Deluty Sheldon Deluty ’77 John MacPhee ’89 Englewood, N.J. • Ramaz Upper School New York City • Ethical Culture Fieldston School Aaron Yodaiken Victor Yodaiken ’78 Austin • Westlake H.S. Eliza Feinberg Jack Feinberg ’72 Allison Malin Ira Malin ’75 Manhattan Beach, Calif. • Mira Costa H.S. New York City • Horace Mann School Jennifer Yu Song Yong Yu ’87 Glen Head, N.Y. • Jericho Senior H.S. Megan Felder Frank Felder ’87 David Maloof II David Maloof ’80 Darien, Conn. • Fairfield College Preparatory School Ridgewood, N.J. • Ridgewood H.S. Lucas Zabotin Mischa Zabotin ’85 Larchmont, N.Y. • French-American School of New York Brandon Mazzeo * Vincent Mazzeo ’76 Rebecca Fisher Frederick Fisher ’84 Gulf Stream, Fla. • St. Andrew’s School Cherry Hill, N.J. • Cherry Hill H.S. East * Member of the Engineering Class of 2017 Nicholas Mehmel Robert Mehmel ’76 ° Deceased J. Christian FitzGerald Shawn FitzGerald ’80 New York City • Bronx H.S. of Science Plandome Manor, N.Y. • Friends Academy Hayley Mendelson Eric Mendelson ’87 Nine incoming College transfer Jordana Fremed Eric Fremed ’79 Miami Beach • Ransom Everglades School Teaneck, N.J. • The Frisch School students are sons or daughters of Gregory Momjian Mark Momjian ’83 Mira Frenkel David Frenkel ’83 Radnor, Pa. • Radnor H.S. College alumni. Tucson • Catalina Foothills H.S. Christine Nelson Frank Nelson ’85 STUDENT PARENT Lauren Haberman Sinclair Haberman ’78 Rye, N.Y. • Rye H.S. New York City • Ma’ayanot Yeshiva H.S. Elizabeth Boylan Nicholas Boylan ’86 Annie Ninivaggi Angelo Ninivaggi ’89 and Scott Fischbein Peter Fischbein ’60 Yoon Ji Han Jinduk Han ’85 Anne-Marie Wright ’89 Hong Kong • Chinese International School Salt Lake City • Olympus H.S. Suzie Kim Jong Bum Kim ’86 Brynn Harris Edward Harris ’82 Emma O’Hanlon Neil O’Hanlon ’72 Hannah Lynch Ralph Lynch ’86 Houston • Kinkaid School Los Angeles • Brentwood School Makaylo Van Peebles Mario Van Peebles ’78 Olivia Harrison David Harrison ’83 Alia Padilla Rafael Padilla ’80 Victoria Saia Vincent Saia ’79 Bronx, N.Y. • Riverdale Country School Manhasset, N.Y. • St. Paul’s School James Tenrai Kevin Wakayama ’72 Carolyn Ho Geoffrey Ho ’83 Isabel Rothberg Adam Rothberg ’81 Princeton, N.J. • Lawrenceville School Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. • Croton-Harmon H.S. Hannah Weinstock Peter Weinstock ’89 and Lisa Weinstock ’89 Danielle Jacobs Gary Jacobs ’85 Eitan Rothman * Mark Rothman ’85 New York City • The Hotchkiss School Los Angeles • Shalhevet H.S. Ourania Yancopoulos George Yancopoulos ’80

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY event; it was great to see everyone. candidate for mayor of my home- to California in 1989 and is v.p. of later we remain great friends.” Low point was campus housing. town, New Haven, Conn., but de- marketing at Azul Systems in Thomas Costigan lives in Falls Carman still sucks and the price cided a few months ago that victory Sunnyvale. From time to time Church, Va., with his wife of more was high for Spartan accommo- was not possible and subsequently each year he passes through NYC, than 32 years, Lucy Buchness. Their dations. Alumni Office staff was pulled out and endorsed another either for tech events or to change son, Nolan, is a senior at Radford terrific; thanks to everyone!” candidate, joining her campaign planes. He has been found by a few University. Tom is a database ana- Don Guttenplan is “just ending as co-chair. The stars were just not classmates from the CU Marching lyst for Promontory Interfinancial a three-year gig writing about aligning with many folks in the race Band and the GSAS history pro- Network in Arlington, Va. education in Europe for the Interna- and there are no runoff provisions gram as well as the Classes of ’76, Allan Hoving sends regards to tional Herald Tribune. Still writing if one candidate is far ahead out of ’78 and ’79, mostly via LinkedIn. fellow ’79ers. Allan, who fondly for The Nation and planning to use six or seven. Howard remains amazed by how recalls attending classes in Hamil- my newfound free time for writing It was great to catch up with time flies and how technology ton Hall and reading the news on that feels more like my own and everyone at reunion. As many helps people get back in touch after WKCR during Phil Schaap ’73’s for other projects.” of you said, it was great to see so 30-plus years. He was married from Saturday night jazz program, en- Richard Schloss is “working full- many classmates and I hope we can 1986–06 and his sons, Mark (23) and tered book and magazine publish- time in my private psychiatry prac- manage to find ways to be together Chris (20) have busy lives: Mark is ing upon graduation. Now “out of tice in Huntington, (L.I.), N.Y. My before five years slip by. Think an aspiring bassist and print,” Allan earned a master’s in wife, Meredith Jaffe ’82 Nursing, about a larger ’78 contingent at on the East Coast and Chris is a online media in 2010 at Quinnipiac has a dental practice in Huntington Homecoming on Saturday, October goalie for his college’s soccer team University. He has been married as well. My older son, Bradley, com- 19, for starters — we can try to or- in Saratoga, Calif. for 20 years, has two children (one pleted his first year at Touro Law in ganize a group along with stalwarts Robert Darnell is a professor starting college), lives in Westport, Central Islip, N.Y., and my younger Tom Mariam and Fred Rosenberg at The Rockefeller University, an Conn., and works in Old Saybrook. son, Jason, graduated in May from in a few weeks. investigator at the Howard Hughes David Friedman writes that the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with a Medical Institute and a neuro-on- “only new thing to report is that our B.F.A. in communications art.” cologist, and now has the additional son, Daniel ’16, completed his fresh- REUNION WEEKEND Ian Silverman writes, “I’ve role of president, CEO and scientific man year at Columbia and loved MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 been a rabbi at E. Northport Jewish director of the New York Genome every minute of it. He’s officially a ALUMNI OFFICE Contacts Center on Long Island for 10 years. Center. At the time of this writing, full-fledged New Yorker as well.” Alumni Affairs Vanessa Scott I recently negotiated a long-term he was also busy training for the Dr. Larry DiFabrizio and his [email protected] contract with the congregation. NYC Triathlon in July and hoping bride, Claudia ’80 Barnard (née 212-851-9148 Sons Marc and Alan are in or aim- to beat his time from last year. Let’s Martin), recently celebrated their DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova ing for grad school.” hope the run went well for him! 27th anniversary. In 2012, after close [email protected] Michael Wilhite ’07 Arch. writes, David Hachey writes, “I recently to two decades in a successful pri- 212-851-7833 “I returned to Columbia for gradu- married off my oldest daughter, vate practice in pulmonary, critical ate school in 2006–07 and worked Robert Klapper Lindsay, and it caused me to reflect care and sleep medicine, Larry was in NYC for the first time afterward. 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 on many things, including how appointed director of the Pulmo- Prior to that I worked with Bill 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 quickly time passes (it is hard to nary Faculty Practice at Mount Sinai Campbell ’62, ’64 TC at Intuit and [email protected] believe that we graduated nearly 35 Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep was on the Oakland, Calif., Jack Lon- years ago). I’m also proud to report Medicine Faculty Practice Associ- don Aquatic Center board with Rob- First things first: Our 35th Alumni that my younger daughter, Carly, ates Hospital, where he continues ert Kidd ’70. My relationship with Reunion Weekend will be held began the nurse practitioner pro- to care for his patients and conduct Columbia during the last 39 years Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1, gram at Columbia after graduating research. Larry’s wife, together with has been wonderful. I continue to be on campus and throughout New from Hamilton College last year. her sister, are principals of Hays supportive of Columbia activities, York City. It’s never too early to She’s carrying on the Columbia Worthington, a wholesale jewelry events and sports programs, and Co- save the date; we want as many tradition and I couldn’t be happier. business engaged in the buying and lumbia alums have been supportive classmates there as possible. Also, “I also recently celebrated my selling of estate and fine jewelry, of me. Thank you, Columbia!” if you’d like to be involved in 35th anniversary as a wealth ad- with headquarters in New York Robert Muirhead of Resources planning the weekend’s events or viser at Northwestern Mutual, so it City. Larry and Claudia are the Global Professionals writes, “My with fundraising for our Class Gift, has been an eventful year.” proud parents of Baxter, who is a wife, Susan, and I enjoyed the get in touch with the appropriate Dr. Mark Eberle is a clinical as- junior at Brown. They welcome old sociate professor of medicine in the and new friends and can be reached Division of Rheumatology at NYU at 646-861-1422. Andres Alonso ’79 ended his tenure as CEO of Langone Medical Center. Frank Aquila’s daughter, Jil- Robert Davis, president of Davis lian, will continue the Columbia the Baltimore City Public Schools and accepted a Design & Development, updates us tradition this fall when she starts with exciting news of his marriage her master’s at Teachers College. five-year term as a professor of practice at Harvard in June “to the lovely Alisa Gar- Frank heads the global corporate Graduate School of Education. rett ’87 UCLA. Alisa is a talented practice at Sullivan & Cromwell in painter, phenomenal mother of New York. two great children and just crazy Robert C. Klapper: “As of this in summer fun with an Alumni Office staff member listed enough to spend the rest of her life writing, I have plans this summer extended second honeymoon to at the top of the column. Volun- with me. My son, Louis, who is a to lecture at The Florence Acad- Hawaii in July. Fabulous sights, teers are needed! film student at the Academy of Art emy of Art. My lecture will be the wonderful food, lots of sun and Andres Alonso ended his six- University in San Francisco, was same one that I gave at The J. Paul sand. Perfect way to celebrate 34 year tenure as CEO of the Baltimore best man. Getty Museum to an audience of years of wedded bliss with the City Public Schools on June 30 and “My great friends David Braham 1,000 here in Los Angeles and at woman of my dreams.” accepted a five-year term as profes- and Tor Braham attended. I met the orthopedic meetings in Boston, Henry Aronson says, “Looking sor of practice at Harvard Graduate Braham brothers on my first day Colorado and New York. The talk, forward to beginning pet therapy School of Education; he started in at Columbia. I flew alone from my ‘Michelangelo’s Sculptures: How training with Luna, my 11-year-old July. native Los Angeles in August 1975 he Manipulated Anatomy,’ explains Italian greyhound. As a commuter, John A. Don practices workers’ to NYC, found my way to campus with detailed photographs how the I didn’t have many close friends compensation law in San Diego. He and finally the second floor of Car- master conveyed complex human among my fellow students, so there manages his own firm and lectures man. There I met my roommate, Tor, emotions by gently manipulating was no one to see at the reunion so I to consumer groups throughout and his brother, David. We did not the anatomy. didn’t attend.” the state. immediately like one another. At all. “The presentation, including the As some of you know, I was a Howard Green ’80 GSAS moved That changed quickly. Some 38 years surprise ending where I discover

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something no one has described his work, he has been consulted by support of the losing presidential and reminiscing about our days on before, is part of my strong desire both the State Department and the candidate (as someone who sup- Morningside Heights. to connect my vocation and avoca- White House. Most recently, Pax ported Columbia athletics during tion of surgery and sculpting Christi Metro New York honored my years on Morningside Heights, in marble. The sixth sense we Dave by creating an annual Maloof you grow accustomed to losing). Andrew Weisman all have developed through the Family Young Peacemaker Award The next few emails focused on his 710 Lawrence Ave. years in our chosen professions is for Catholic high school students in encounter with President Barack 82 Westfield, NJ 07090 truly the beauty of growing older. the New York metropolitan area. Obama ’83 when they were stu- [email protected] Every time I begin an explanation Joe Ciulla’s daughter, Brittany, dents. Here is the edited version: of where this love of art and its has relocated to San Diego. Jay “I was hanging with Sandy Gents, didn’t hear from anyone connection to science comes from, Kutlow and Mike Manuche — be Roberts (from Antigua) in front of this period. Given it was summer, there is always one answer — it is on the lookout! Furnald Hall in spring 1981 … The I will extend a dispensation but do the shared experience that we all Finally, congratulations to my buzz around the minority students not vex me again. (A little Caligula have because Columbia College daughter, Kate, who was married was there was a black kid coming reference.) I look forward to hear- insisted we study Art Humanities. to Alexander Greeley (a Harvard from a college in California who ing from you. You can use either “The world is such a different man) this summer. The Harvard was thinking of transferring to the address at the top of the column, or place today than it was during the Club has never seen so many College as a junior. So Sandy Man CCT’s webform: college.columbia. four years we spent on Morning- Columbia alums in the room, with (his nickname) and I went to see the edu/cct/submit_class_note. side Heights, but in many respects three decades represented. I thank guy from Occidental College, who nothing has changed at all. I hope all my classmates and friends who was at the MLK Lounge. … After each of you reading this column attended. greetings, he asked a few questions Roy Pomerantz gets to reflect on your own tran- Write at one of the addresses at that guys from California ask. My Babyking/Petking scendent lessons imparted by the the top of the column, or feel free to response? ‘It’s a culture shock, man. 83 182-20 Liberty Ave. Core Curriculum. Roar, lion, roar!” call me at the office: 212-373-1007. No cars, forget about women.’ Jamaica, NY 11412 (In spring 1981, relations between [email protected] Columbia and Barnard were at a Michael C. Brown Kevin Fay nadir.) ‘No sunshine in January Our 30th reunion was a resounding London Terrace Towers 8300 Private Lane and February. And if you want to success and we set a 30th reunion 80 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F 81 Annandale, VA 22003 succeed, bury yourself in the stacks gift record, raising $620,000. You can New York, NY 10011 kfay@northridge at Butler Library. Don’t drink on see the photo of all who attended [email protected] capital.com Thursdays at The Pub. And don’t the Saturday dinner and the list of eat at Takome deli unless you have everyone who registered at college. Congratulations to our baseball We have three updates. no money.’ It looks like he took my columbia.edu/cct/summer13/fea team on a historic season that gave Michael Strauss reported in advice; the rest is history.” tures4 (go to the class photos). More us an Ivy League Championship from Port Jefferson, N.Y., where he I’m re-reading the entire account than 30 Barnard ’83 grads attended and our first NCAA tournament runs his law practice and where he and still chuckling. You did such several of our reunion events. victory. Coach has lives with his wife, Marianne, and a great job selling Columbia, I’m The following is a collection of built a program that we can all be their three children. Their oldest, surprised he attended! news items from conversations proud of, and with a win over New Elizabeth, graduated from URI this Michael Horowitz and his wife, throughout the weekend: Mexico, our players have proven past May with a B.F.A. in theatre. Jeannie Gutierrez, “emptied the Paul Lerner and his partner, that we can play with the best of Their middle child, Matthew ’16, nest” and, in the process, moved Steve, are frequent reunion attend- them. Eric Blattman traveled to is grinding through Contempo- from Skokie to Bucktown (a neigh- ees. They live in Los Angeles and California to watch the games and rary Civilization and thinking of borhood in Chicago most similar Steve is a music teacher. reported that position-to-position, becoming a history major like his to NYC). His daughter, Maya, Chris Wood wore a handsome our team matched up equal or bet- father. Their youngest, Caroline, is is a sophomore studying dance Columbia tie. He is a high school ter than our opponents. In fact, two a high school sophomore and has at Cornish College of the Arts in Spanish teacher and lives in Mas- of our guys signed pro contracts, become a recognized photographer Seattle. Their son, Eli, completed his sachusetts. His favorite Columbia Tim Giel ’13 with the New York and poet, all the while working at a first year with Teach For America in professor was Wallace Gray ’58 Yankees and Alex Black ’13 with the local restaurant (note: in the world Oxon Hill, Md., where he teaches GSAS. Kansas City Royals, and our honor according to Fay, “Children should Spanish and coaches the girls’ Nicholas Paone’s daughter, Abi- roll was extensive. Good job! be employed”). basketball team at Potomac H.S. gail (16), is a future Broadway star. I received a nice note from John Michael stays in touch with Joe Jeannie is a clinical She has been pursuing musical Metaxas, who can be heard in the Sbiroli, who lives in Locust Valley, specializing in helping families with theatre since preschool. Nick lives New York area on WCBS Newsra- N.Y., and whom he sees at his autistic children. in West New Jersey and is a lawyer dio 880, where he delivers coverage Midtown club. Michael is ending his third year on finance and other subjects on the Michael’s law practice is on Main as the founding president of the TCS weekends. In addition, he practices Street in Port Jefferson, in an office Education System, one of only two Columbia College immigration law at the Sandberg building that includes his largest nonprofit higher education system; Law Group in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. client, who is the area’s busiest it includes three professional colleges Alumni on Facebook Bruce Paulsen and I caught home builder. For recreation, he can (The Chicago School of Professional up over a porterhouse steak at be spotted on the golf course during Psychology, Pacific Oaks College STK in the Meatpacking District. the warm weather months. and Children’s School, and the Santa Bruce was recently recognized by Last winter, Michael attempted Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law). Check out the new Chambers USA for his excellence to attend the Columbia-Harvard He would love to hear from others Columbia College in litigation as part of Seward & basketball game only to have his interested in higher education in Kissel. Always the avid sailor, he plans ruined by a blizzard. As a the United States and internation- Alumni page! and his daughter spent much of result of power loss for days, he ally, and looks to grow the system facebook.com/ the summer on Long Island Sound. says he would gladly support any in terms of disciplines and locations alumnicc Dave Maloof, long recognized politician in favor of burying the ([email protected]). as a “Super Lawyer” in his field power lines and thus moving into Finally, as I write, I am going to Like the page to get of international shipping law, has the 21st century. meet up with Steve Wadyka ’83 alumni news, learn recently been traveling for another I had several emails from Henry tomorrow night at a bar in George- about alumni events and reason: He and his family have Berumen, hilarious in content, town. Steve is a patent lawyer at College happenings, been developing recreational facili- which I doubt CCT will permit me Greenberg Traurig. We hope to ties for the children at a refugee to include without some editing. stimulate the local economy by view photos and more. camp in Lebanon. As a result of Henry began by scolding me for my purchasing a couple micro-brews

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Michael Cataldo send their best movingly about the friendships he McConnell, specializing in DHCR Seth Farber works in the Justice wishes to the class. made at Columbia. litigation, and is a professional Department under New York State Anthony Marcus is the Paris Dan Jaffe is a professor at Case musician. He has been supporting Attorney General Eric Schneider- Club representative for the U.S. Western Reserve University Law and hosting events for Manhattan man. Seth was a trombone player Department of the Treasury. School. His sons, Jacob (19) and borough president candidate Gale in the CU Marching Band. Peter Ripin is a litigation partner Micah (17), are both figure skaters Brewer (D-N.Y.). (Dan Jaffe says Eric Wertzer is the senior direc- at the law firm Davidoff Hutcher and are competing in the U.S. Na- David wrote and posted a song tor, international and comparative & Citron in . tional Championships. about Anthony Weiner, ‘Dumb law programs, at Columbia. Eric He lives with his wife, Marianne, Dr. Ramon Parsons and his Guy, Smart Phone,’ on YouTube comments that with the increase and his daughters, Abigail (14) and wife, Constance Vasilas Parsons ’83 that is a tour de force. He strongly in size of the College and with the Isabella (12), in Ardsley, N.Y. Peter’s Barnard, met sophomore year and recommends you check it out. My College’s enhanced selectivity/ cousin is Peter Simonson. Peter look forward to celebrating their kids and I love it!) prestige, some of the character of Ripin also attended Stuyvesant 27th anniversary. Constance works David Einhorn and his wife CC has been lost. Eric has particu- with Andy Barth. in property management. Ramon have two daughters (4 and 6). larly fond memories of the faculty Speaking of Andy, his son, Andy has been a professor at P&S for David is an intellectual property members’ accessibility and their Jr. ’16, has been named a team 17 years. He is also the chairman lawyer and wine connoisseur. emphasis on teaching when we leader for the 2013 U.S. men’s free- of the Department of Oncological Myles Hansen, my 14 Jay were students. style World Team by USA Wres- Sciences at Mt. Sinai. He lives in floormate, is a talented wrestler. Othon Prounis is a partner tling, the national governing body Manhasset. His son, Richard (23), He has an M.B.A. from Washing- at Ropes & Gray specializing in for the sport in the United States. is a graduate student in Sheffield, ton University and is an antitrust mergers and acquisitions. He is Our Andy was the team captain for England. Daughter Antonia (19) layer with Monsanto. Myles is also a member of the firm’s Policy Columbia’s varsity wrestling team is studying at Johns Hopkins and in contact with 14 Jay floormate Committee. He has been named as a senior in 1982–83 and en- daughter Paulina is 17. Mark Licht. one of the Best Lawyers in America dowed the Andrew F. Barth Head Robert Drew teaches com- Another 14 Jay floormate, Peter from 2005–13. I had not seen him Coach of Wrestling. munications and media studies at Simonson, and his wife, Jane, live in 30 years but recognized him Elliot Sloane sent this update: Saginaw Valley State University in in New Jersey. They have a daugh- instantly; he looks the same as he “Personal: Married to Polly Leider Michigan. He is married to Amy ter, Melanie ’17 Barnard. Peter is an did when he represented our class ’84 Barnard, a producer at CBS Keogh ’84 Barnard. They have two ob/gyn. in the Senate. Othon was a cam- News. About to celebrate 24 years boys (15 and 17). Robert wrote a Kevin Chapman and his wife, pus leader and tireless Columbia of marriage. Three kids: Jack (21), book on karaoke. Sharon ’83 Barnard, celebrated supporter during his tenure at the a senior at Johns Hopkins; Char- Atul Khanna ’83E completed their 30th wedding anniversary College. I was thrilled to see him lie (17), a high school senior at the 3-2 Engineering/College by going to a Mets game. Kevin is at the cocktail reception and look Fieldston; Juliet (15), a sophomore program. He is single and in the assistant general counsel at Dow forward to working with him on at Fieldston. Professional: Run hedge fund business. He lives in Jones & Company. class events. Sloane & Co., a financial and crisis Manhattan. Geoffrey Mintz continues to Paul Saputo is director of tennis grow his hat company, That Way at The River Club. He is single and Hat. His mother (a former profes- Anthony Marcus ’83 is the Paris Club representative lives on the Upper West Side. sor of education at Teachers Col- Bert Alexis is the senior director, lege) and father, Norman Mintz for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. M&A legal group for Ooredoo in (a Columbia executive v.p. when Qatar. He interviews prospective we were students), are both well. Columbia students in Qatar. His Geoffrey’s brother, Doug ’84, is a Jonathan Green is senior coun- communications firm (sloanepr. children, Kimia (12) and Lucas physician at the Hospital for Spe- sel for the Department of Law com). Work for a great group of (6), attend the American school in cial Surgery in Manhattan. for the City of Chicago. He had a clients: New York Life, AT&T, Qatar. Gary McCready and his wife, terrific time at the Friday dinner American Express, Walgreens, Wayne Root’s daughter, Dakota, Jane, have a son, Ben, who is a at V&T. He particularly enjoyed Cablevision, Boone Pickens, Elliott recently won the John Harvard philosophy major at Rutgers. Gary reconnecting with Rich Pressman. Management. Sold the business in award. He also shares: “My book, is manager, storage and open VMS Jonathan is in touch with President April 2010 to publicly traded MDC The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Barack Obama and spoke with Partners. Retain a significant mi- How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper Rob Kahn lives on the Upper him after our 25th reunion. Jona- nority stake.” During Obamageddon, hit the No. 1 West Side. than reports that Attorney General John Kiernan is the director of bestseller list in three categories on Carl Faller lives in Columbus, Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, ’76L and the asset management at Invesco Real Amazon: Finance, Economics and Ohio, and specializes in affordable President have discussed the com- Estate in Manhattan. He has been Politics. And it hit No. 1 political housing. parative strengths of CC basketball married for six years to Catherine hardcover bestseller at bookstores Miles Ladenheim is a psychia- in the ’70s and ’80s. Ruvolo ’86 Dartmouth. They have across America (according to Book- trist. Matt Stedman has been mar- two 21-month-old boys and live in Scan). It remained in the Top 5 for Larry Lester lives in Queens and ried for 11 years. He and his wife Oyster Bay, N.Y. 11 weeks. teaches at the Hunter College Elem- live on the East Side of Manhattan. I almost didn’t recognize Jay “I’m also proud to report I was entary School for gifted children in Their son, Ben, attends The British Lippman without the propellers a featured speaker at the business Manhattan. International School of New York. on his head. conference Mega Partnering in Stephen Holtje lives in Brook- Matt is in the Wall Street bond Andy Gershon and Eric Ep- Los Angeles in June. Other speak- lyn and writes about sports and business and is the managing di- stein both generously hosted pre- ers included fashion guru Donna jazz. He is also a talented jazz rector at Seaport Group. reunion events at their homes. Karan, former Governator Arnold musician. Thomas Johns is e.v.p. and Dan Loeb was the keynote Schwarzenegger and NFL Hall of P.J. Pesce’s son, Paolo, took general counsel for The Hampshire speaker at the Saturday class din- Famer Michael Irvin of the Dallas incredible photos of the entire Management Group. ner. He reminisced about being Cowboys. Quite a crowd!” reunion. Please contact me if you George Wilson reports that Ben a college student at a time when Steve Coleman’s daughter, Sar- would like me to forward them Heimsath recently celebrated his papers were written by hand and ah ’16, is a sophomore at Columbia to you. P.J. recently sold a pilot to 30th wedding anniversary. Ben the only way to contact your par- this fall.

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My 8-year-old son David’s Man- Weekend ever. I hope to emu- to agency commissioners and U.S. companies and individuals hattan travel baseball team, The late this great success next year. other city government senior staff on domestic and international Spartans, finished its season 16–0 Speaking of which, the dates for in fall 2003 and, never expecting matters. You can find out more at and won the championship game our 30th reunion are Thursday, to stay in government more than wg-law.com. Harold resides in Liv- 12–0. His coach is a former profes- May 29–Sunday, June 1. If you’d two years, I figured it would be ingston, N.J., with his wife, Stacey, sional (Chicago White Sox) and like to be involved with planning, an interesting, worthwhile local and their three children. this was his first undefeated team. you can get in touch with one of endeavor that would bring me Federal Communications Com- The team will compete in national the Alumni Office staffers listed at back to NYC after years of living mission chairman Julius Gena- tournaments this fall with David the top of the column. Otherwise I abroad and give me an oppor- chowski stepped down from his playing third base. encourage you all to block off that tunity to deploy my operational post on May 17. Julius led the FCC Being involved with the 30th re- portion of your calendar with a big skills in a new context, the public during a time of rapid growth union was a 2013 highlight for me. “X” and starting planning your sector. I was right about all of and transformative change in the I encourage all of you to participate return trip to Morningside Heights. that, but I underestimated the technology, media and telecom- in our 35th. So now that I’m an alte kocker (old degree to which I would find a munications sector, particularly fart), you’ll excuse me as I sprinkle niche in city government as an around broadband — high-speed the following observations with ad- operations professional, and the Internet. In his remarks announc- REUNION WEEKEND jectives from my mamaloshn (mother extent to which the Bloomberg ing his decision, he said, “Over MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 tongue) — especially since this administration would strive to the past four years, we’ve focused ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS year’s National Spelling Bee was transform local government, not the FCC on broadband, wired ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott decided on the spelling of knaidel/ just through innovative policy or and wireless, working to drive [email protected] kneydl, and Class Day speaker and strategy, but through thorough economic growth and improve 212-851-9148 playwright Terrence McNally ’60 and thoughtful restructuring of the lives of all Americans. We’ve DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova harkened back to “Columbia’s the people, processes and technol- taken big steps to build a future [email protected] reputation as the Jewish commuter ogy that comprise service delivery. where broadband is ubiquitous 212-851-7833 college in the Ivy League.” I came because I was curious and and bandwidth is abundant, Dennis Klainberg Indeed, this year for what I optimistic but I stayed because the where innovation and investment Berklay Cargo Worldwide believe was the 10th time [Editor’s work was big, impactful, challeng- are flourishing … 84 14 Bond St., Ste 233 note: Correct!], Class Day featured ing and, most of the time, without “We adopted a landmark over- Great Neck, NY 11021 the Alumni Parade of Classes, at precedent or blueprint. haul of multi-billion dollar univer- [email protected] which I was once again honored to “My first eight years in city gov- sal service programs, modernizing represent our class. It’s a thrilling ernment were spent at the Depart- them from telephone to broadband Several months ago, yours truly experience, with the graduates ment of Small Business Services, and creating the Connect America had the privilege of celebrating cheering us as we pass through where I held five different positions Fund and the Mobility Fund, an my 50th birthday with neighbors their ranks with class banner in leading programmatic units and unprecedented commitment to and friends, including Columbia hand, giving us the rush of a rock divisions, strategic planning, and broadband infrastructure. To un- College alums and quasi-family star (or something similar: must agency operations and technology. leash the enormous opportunities members Stanley Lupkin ’62; consult Vampire Weekend). It’s My last two years in city govern- of mobile, we pioneered incentive Jonathan Lupkin ’89, ’92L; Michael immensely rewarding when a ment have been with the Mayor’s auctions and other cutting-edge B. Ackerman (flying in all the way classmate such as the aforemen- Office — helping to institutionalize spectrum policies. To fuel Ameri- from Los Angeles!); Manhasset tioned Dr. Godfried agrees to join (across city government) many ca’s innovation economy, we put neighbors Dr. David Godfried and share in what is best described of the innovations and programs in place the first rules to preserve and Dr. Joe Halio ’74; and dear as a mechiah (pleasure). It’s even that we created and implemented Internet freedom and openness. To friend Roy Pomerantz ’83. Unable more divine when a gaggle of during the last decade. Still lots to drive competition and empower to attend but generous with their classmates is on hand to represent do and not much more time to do it consumers, we opposed and modi- well wishes were Eddy Friedfeld the class, and undoubtedly the in! I have worked with some of the fied transactions where necessary, ’83 (who honored me by tell- highest degree of naches (joy) is ex- most amazing, smart, talented and deployed technology to drive ing Mel Brooks about my love perienced by those whose children dedicated people you could imag- transparency, and took unprec- of his work!), El Gray (the right are attending and/or graduating. ine. Never in my wildest dreams edented enforcement actions. We honorable class senator!) and Jim Mazel tov and thanks to Fred did I think that in government I helped harness the power of digital Weinstein (who honored me with Fisher (daughters Talia ’13 and Re- would have the longest stretch of technologies to give students a the responsibility of shipping the becca ’17), Kevin Liss (sons Jeremy time (in my career) with the same better chance, people better health lightweight crew’s oars to Henley ’13 and Daniel ’16), Arthur Kohn employer. Ten years! Never say care, and make Americans safer Royal Regatta, held annually on (son Samuel ’13) and John Travis never, folks. in their homes and communi- the River Thames near London). (daughter Cosima ’13) for making “I have taught at SIPA for ties while also guarding against One striking gift presented by this year’s participation the best the last five years as an adjunct digital threats and strengthening Dr. Halio was a 1975 essay by ever. Arthur, it should be noted, professor, so while I look forward cybersecurity. Today, America’s Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig that plays a leadership role in our class to returning to the private sector broadband economy is thriving, was published in the Columbian. fundraising and has done a stellar in 2014, I will continue to teach with record-setting private invest- So moved was I by this gesture, job in making our class look good! courses at SIPA on public manage- ment; unparalleled innovation in and by this remarkable writing (in ment and fostering innovation in networks, devices and apps; and which he presents his views on the the public and nonprofit sectors. If renewed U.S. leadership around superiority of a Columbia educa- Jon White and when you are in NYC please the world.” [Editor’s note: See fea- tion), that I made a similar gift to 16 South Ct. say hello: [email protected]. It ture on Genachowski in Summer Mr. Pomerantz at the class dinner 85 Port Washington, NY would be great to catch up.” 2012 CCT.] during his 30th reunion … and was 11050 Harold Ullman announced that President Barack Obama ’83 it a hit! Hundreds of alums spent a [email protected] he joined the Wall Street-based law concurred and added, “Thanks to few moments reading, remarking firm of Wuersch & Gering as a tax his hard work and his leadership, and demanding a copy for their At this point in our careers, many partner and will continue to advise the FCC has made extraordinary own. (A copy has been scanned of us have, or are about to, switch foreign and domestic businesses progress on both fronts.” and emailed to them, and to you, jobs or careers. And we have and private clients. WG is a general Julius has moved to The Aspen my classmates — if you didn’t get several such stories to share this practice firm with an international Institute, a non-partisan organiza- it, please advise.) column. focus. It provides a broad range of tion based in Washington, D.C., as Speaking of this event, kudos to Kevin Kelly has worked in legal services to foreign enterprises a senior fellow. the Pomerantz family for hosting the Bloomberg administration and individuals investing in the Larry Slaughter joined Lazard as one of the best-attended Thursday for the last 10 of its 12 years — United States or transacting busi- managing director and vice chair- night events of Alumni Reunion “lucky enough to be introduced ness with U.S. companies and to man, investment banking, effective

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June 3. Larry was at JP Morgan for has truly been a year of highlights. tion Winner (i.e., No. 1 student) in New York City Coalition Against 26 years, where he was co-head of In April I checked off a lifetime both departments, he spoke at both Hunger, has launched a national North American Investment Bank- “bucket list” item when I attended of his departmental graduations. initiative to revolutionize the way ing, having previously been head the first round of The Masters with His awards were based largely people volunteer to fight hunger, to of European Investment Banking my youngest son, Josh. Everything on his success in researching an make such efforts far more effective Corporates in London. During I had read about how TV doesn’t American studies honor’s thesis (hungervolunteer.org).” his tenure at JP Morgan, Larry led do it justice is an understatement. on the Astor Place Riot in NYC in Jon Rutchik, his wife, Beth, many transformative M&A and Absolutely incredible. For all you 1849, and writing and directing and son, Rex (6), returned home capital markets transactions in aero- golfers out there, do whatever you a play produced by the theatre to California from a trip to Iceland space, automotive, capital goods, have to do to make an early April department on the same subject. and Greenland in June. He writes, chemicals, healthcare and other trip there. So Professor Kenneth Jackson’s “South Greenland was unique industries. He spent two decades In June, my wife, Allison ’86 Bar- course on the history of the City of and fantastic! We ventured around in London, where he was co-head nard, and I were honored to receive New York has reverberated down Eskimo villages where icebergs of European M&A and head of our synagogue’s Holy Community a generation! hover in coves out one’s window, the European financial sponsors Award. In July, I attended the Major Josh was recently named by and we looked for rare earth business. From 2008 until his return League Baseball All-Star Game at the U.S. Environmental Protection minerals, seals, and minke, fin and to New York in 2011, he was head Citi Field. In August, our entire Agency as the Superfund Legal humpback whales as well as Norse of European Investment Banking family made our first trip together Enforcer of the Year in recognition ruins. We handled narwhal tusks Corporates. to Israel (I have a large number of his negotiation of a multi-party and ate narwhal (no actual sight- Todd Hughes has produced of family members there, but had agreement for the cleanup of a de- ing, though). I sketched, painted a documentary, Dear Mom, Love never been). Truly unforgettable. funct copper mine in near and visited with local artists. The Cher, which premiered on Lifetime And finally, this September, Allison the Duck Valley Indian Reservation weather was great — in the mid- in May and honored the remark- and I look forward to celebrating of the Shoshone Paiute Tribes. This 60s! Visiting the polar ice cap was able life story and perseverance of our 25th anniversary. A truly special is the second time in Josh’s 15-year amazing considering it reaches Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt. Cary year. We are very blessed. legal career at the EPA that he has north to the pole. I am already Berger wrote the original score won this award. planning our next adventure to the for the film (Todd and Cary have Josh’s daughter, Marnina, is east or northwest of that country. been collaborating for 30 years, Everett Weinberger studying communications and “Iceland was more European including on the 1986 short The 86 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B theatre at UCLA. Josh’s wife, Diane but the nature was staggering and Horror and Mystery of the Succubus, New York, NY 10023 Schon Wirtschafter ’86 Barnard, my favorite part was that very few which starred Karl-Ludwig Selig); [email protected] teaches at the Black Pine Circle tourists were anywhere except at John Tanzer ’87 was the director of School in Berkeley, where their the gas station stops around the photography. Todd produced the Thanks to all those who responded youngest child, Rafael, is thriving ring road. Waterfalls and sharp documentary Hit So Hard about to my email appeal for news! Many in middle school. Josh and Diane jagged mountain tops everywhere Courtney Love’s band, Hole, (also emails bounced back, so if you hear are musicians as well, most recently you turn. We did get to fly-fish for with John) and executive produced from me in late June, please write playing violin and singing (respec- arctic char and drive a bit off-road. Room 237 about obsession with me at [email protected] and I’ll tively) in a klezmer Purim Spiel. Hotels were small but charming Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. make sure that Columbia updates Dave Nachmanoff writes, “I’ll and of course the cod and char Kudos to John Phelan for repre- its database. [Editor’s note: You can be playing at the Royal Albert Hall were delicious. My son now speaks senting our class at the Glee Club also contact Columbia directly with in October, when I’ll be accompany- fluent Icelandic (kidding), but he alumni concert that took place any contact information updates: ing my longtime favorite singer- can pronounce the names of many during Alumni Reunion Weekend. college.columbia.edu/cct/update_ songwriter, Al Stewart (‘The Year towns in the north and east fjords: I sang in a similar concert at our contact_info.] of the Cat’). We’ve toured as an Akureyri, Húsavík, Seyðisfjörður, 25th reunion, and it brought back Borgarfjörður and Djúpivogur! some great memories (aside from This country also has lots to offer getting to see so many Glee Club Todd Hughes ’85 has produced a documentary, and is highly recommended. “legends”). “As for work, I continue to enjoy Speaking of Glee Clubbers, I Dear Mom, Love Cher, which premiered on Lifetime treating and evaluating patients met in New York this spring with in May and honored the life story and perseverance with neurological problems and several when they came for family occupational issues and/or envi- campus visits. David Zapolsky of Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt. ronmental exposures to solvents or and his son, Ian ’15, joined me and metals; I also teach and do medical my son, Isaac ’14, for an adventure legal work. In 2012, I was promoted with the Mets at Citi Field. (The John Yeh wrote that the robotics acoustic duo for more than 10 years. to associate clinical professor at company was certainly superior to team Landroids, which he has The first place I saw him play was UCSF. We very much enjoy Marin the play by the home team on the coached for the past six years, the Royal Albert Hall in London County and the nature here. My field.) David is settling into his role won the 2012 world champion- while I was on a junior year abroad tennis game is solid as well, and I as general counsel of Amazon. Ian ship and was invited to the 2013 at Oxford (part of a program that have been successful in singles in and Isaac, unbeknownst to each White House Science Fair. John’s Columbia had just introduced) in my USTA leagues. Connect with other, were in the same computer son, Karlin Yeh (17), is on the team. 1985. I appeared there with him in me at [email protected] or on science class last semester. Small John started the team for Karlin 2006, and never guessed I’d get to Facebook.” world indeed. and his friends when they were in come back for another show there. Congrats to Derrick Harris, in Tom Scotti, his wife, Karen, and kindergarten. It began as a weekly For a lot more information about Atlanta, for having his company, their daughter, Anne ’17, joined us LEGO play group and grew from my music and what I’ve been do- StandBy Talent, nominated to the for brunch this spring near campus there. “Once they had a taste of ing since my Columbia days, visit 2013 Inc. 5000, a list of the fastest as well. Tom works for Consensus winning, there was no stopping davenach.com. growing companies in America, Advisors in Boston, where he has them!” says John. You can see a Joel Berg says, “I have two bits sponsored by Inc. magazine. The been a managing director since photo of the winning team and a of exciting professional news. I am company made the list based on its July 2011. very impressive list of their awards appearing, along with Academy 1,100 percent growth during the last Finally, as I invited you all to at landroids.org/awards. Award-winner Jeff Bridges and three years. StandBy Talent places share highlights from your half- Joshua Wirtschafter wrote from others, in a documentary on hunger IT contractors in the Atlanta market century birthday celebration year, Berkeley, Calif., to kvell about his in America called A Place at the Table. but has clients across the country. let me share a few of my own. I son, Eli, who recently graduated It is still in some theaters but is also Derrick’s prior entrepreneurial have chosen to spread out the cel- from UC Berkeley with a double available online and on DVD (mag venture, from 2004–07, was an HR ebration (punctuated by sporting major in theatre and American pictures.com/aplaceatthetable/). consulting and staffing firm called events) throughout the year. 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He writes, “We are always seeking 30, joining their brother, George (3). and record the audiobook in his network for sharing medical imag- new clients and would love to help Dave Romine lives in Narberth, final days. ing information. I enjoy early-stage fellow alums with their company’s Pa. (close to Philadelphia), with companies and am passionate talent acquisition needs. We also his wife, Kathryn, and their sons, about innovative technologies, fill accounting, financial, HR and John (16) and Alex (10). Dave says, Sarah A. Kass especially in healthcare. office support roles on a contract, “I have been to every Columbia PO Box 300808 “Personally, I’m happily married contract-to-perm or direct hire football game played at Penn for 87 Brooklyn, NY 11230 with a daughter and three sons basis.” You can find out more at the last 12 years (happens every [email protected] between the ages of 3 and 8. Their standbytalent.com. other year) and have yet to see the ages currently limit the amount of A film and video editor for Lions win.” Work life is the focus of this col- volunteer activities I can do, but I more than 22 years, Eric Pomert George Warren and his wife, umn, with lots of promotions, job still try to be as involved as I can.” (in Berkeley) is making good on Sarah Thomas, took their son changes and new career directions! Ara, who is from Washington, a wish he has long kept at bay. Benjamin (16) to visit Columbia Rima Jolivet has taken a position D.C., has lived in Boston since Several of his friends encouraged in June. They have three other as director of professional and busi- 1999. He is in touch with several him to jump into the breach, so this children keeping them busy in ness development at the Centering Columbians, including Martha Co- fall he will teach a class at the adult Austin: George (21), Andrew (19) Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit lon-Ho ’88E; Steve Bezirganian ’86, school in Piedmont, Calif.; it’s and Hilleary (12). that developed and promotes an ’87 GSAS; and several members called “Editor’s Eye: Cinema Ap- Unfortunately, I have to report innovative, evidence-based model of the Columbia Armenian Club preciation from the Cutting Room that Kevin Hall passed away in late of group care for maternal and child including Ed Tekeian ’90 GS; Tom Perspective.” To find out more, 2012. Thank you, Tom Marrinson, health. With the new position, Rima Momjian ’89; Mark Momjian ’83, visit ericpomert.com. for bringing this to my attention. said, also came a move to Boston. ’86L; Souren Ouzounian ’89; and Joe Rio was the first invited Tom is a partner at Reed Smith in In the last issue, we reported on Claire Kedeshian ’86 Barnard. He speaker in June at the new Con- Chicago and briefly worked with Irene Tucker’s new book, The Mo- added, “I’m connected with many sumer Financial Protection Bureau, Kevin at that firm. ment of Racial Sight: A History. Just alums on LinkedIn, which makes it where he addressed the impact From the legacy.com memorial weeks later came her promotion to easier to keep up to date.” of federal legislation on the LGBT for Kevin, I learned he passed away full professor at UC Irvine. Eli Kavon, a rabbi at Beth Ami community and on the banking suddenly on November 2, 2012, In more news from the academic Congregation in Boca Raton, Fla., and financial sectors’ diversity while in L.A. on business. He is sur- world, Steve Bloom was promoted reported that he is at work “at- policies. Joe adds, “Too big to fail vived by his spouse, Mark Khoury; and now too big not to care!” parents, Anthony and Gillian Hall; A few months ago, Ben Field and siblings, Melissa and Ian. Joe Rio ’86 was the first invited speaker in June at started a job as executive officer Kevin was born in Nairobi, of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Kenya, and earned a J.D. at Cornell the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Council, which represents 89 unions in 1991. He had a successful law and about 100,000 working families career and became partner at Lin- in Silicon Valley. He writes, “We klaters in New York, then in 2006 to professor of physics and astron- tempting to break new ground in are doing our best to reverse the joined Reed Smith as partner and omy at Hampden-Sydney College the formulation of a prayer service trend of income inequality in one moved to San Francisco. In 2009, in Virginia. His area of research is and liturgy for Holocaust Remem- of richest parts of the country. Last Kevin joined LiveDeal, initially high-energy astrophysics. brance Day (Yom HaShoah).” fall we led the campaign to raise the as general counsel and then was When Eric Rubenstein heard He said, “My hope is to imple- minimum wage to $10 in San Jose, president and CEO before he left in about Steve’s news, he wrote, “Steve ment this liturgy at my synagogue and there’s more in store.” early 2012. That year he completed and I were astro majors back in the for next year’s commemoration. I Adam Pergament, in Laguna an executive M.B.A. at the Stanford day. We’ve gone different routes. In try to tap into Jewish sources that Beach, Calif., is a real estate broker Graduate School of Business. He 2002, I left .edu and went to .com provide a meaningful and relevant with Sotheby’s International Real- was a member of the board of di- and .mil — that is, I took a position post-Shoah theology that redefines ty. Adam previously had founded rectors of the San Francisco YMCA as an R&D scientist and also joined our approach to God in the wake a design and marketing studio, and the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. the Navy Reserve. I’m now presi- of the seminal events in Jewish Swiftpictures, and photographed There was a memorial in San dent of a small software company, history in the last century. My hope many prestigious homes in Los Francisco for Kevin, which Tom ImageInsightInc.com, that puts out is that my liturgy will take root in Angeles, which led him to join So- attended. Tom writes, “I was ‘GammaPix’ software, which uses other synagogues across the coun- theby’s. He moved to L.A. 26 years honored to offer a memory from smartphones and video cameras to try and throughout the world.” ago when he attended Loyola Law. his days at Columbia to the many detect gamma ray radiation. Theo Le Guin writes, “Having loving friends and family members “On the military side,” Eric add- left my policy and market research who attended Kevin’s remem- ed, “I was promoted to lieutenant Eric Fusfield career of 25 years last year, I am brance service in San Francisco. commander in the Navy Reserve 88 1945 South George returning to my original interests His larger-than-life personality will about 1½ years ago. As things have Mason Dr. (and CC major) in the visual arts be missed.” turned out, I use astronomy in both Arlington, VA 22204 and am opening a gallery, Upfor. On July 7, there was an article my civilian and military capacities.” [email protected] It will open in early September in on the front page of The New York Eric and his wife, Debbie Farbman Portland, Ore., and will feature Times Sunday Arts & Leisure Rubenstein, have been married for I’ll dispense with rhetorical ques- contemporary art with an empha- section on David Rakoff. It was a nearly 25 years and have three sons. tions like “Has it really been a sis on digital and new media.” heartbreaking piece because David Madeleine Villanueva has re- quarter-century since we graduat- Congrats to Mitch Earleywine passed away from cancer about a joined the academic world, begin- ed?” because I’ve already achieved for being named director of clinical year ago in August [Editor’s note: ning a master’s program in public Zen-like acceptance of the passage training at the See Fall 2012 Obituaries]. David no administration at Baruch College of time, and skip right to the 25th Program at SUNY Albany. He also doubt would have appreciated the via the National Urban Fellows reunion, which was an event wor- was elected to the executive board rich irony that his final work, Love, program. She said (with a chuckle), thy of the august anniversary. of the National Organization for Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: “One week in, and it’s very evident Reunion co-chairs Stefanie Katz- the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He A Novel, was published posthu- I should have paid more attention Rothman, Jon Sobel and Doug writes, “I had a blast recently with mously and is garnering positive in statistics while at Columbia!” Wolf reported: “Our 25th reunion Phil Birnbaum and his family at press. The article detailed how We welcome to the column was a huge success. Despite brutal a museum in Albany when they David wrote the novel in rhyming Ara Kouchakdjian, who sent in heat, more than 195 classmates and were visiting from Chicago.” iambic pentameter in between his first update. He said, “Profes- guests made the trip to campus Congrats to Ted Kenney and surgeries and chemotherapy, and sionally, I’m the v.p. of product from as close as the Upper West his wife, Yim, on the birth of their how friends such as NPR’s Ira management at LifeImage, the Side and as far away as Beijing twins, Karen and Lena, last October Glass helped him get it published nation’s largest and most utilized and Zurich — thanks to Frank

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Marinaro and Yuri Lustenberger- End, I needed to take a short nap Center as well as data director for Elizabeth Gabre-Sellassie, ever Kim for making the long trip! For before going to my next social en- Better Health Greater Cleveland. He busy with her Midtown bridal some it was their first time back gagement, our class dinner, which holds two master’s, in mathematics salon, Designer Loft, which she to campus since graduation. The was packed with people I hadn’t education, from Teachers College opened in 2002, wrote in earlier this highlight of the weekend for many seen in years. I sat with Carlos and a Ph.D. in statistics from Penn. year. Her salon features top and was our class dinner at Casa Itali- Cruz and Mónica Byrne-Jiménez He is a 20-year resident of Shaker emerging bridal couture designers, ana. Class v.p. Corney Gallo gave (and others) and we got clobbered Heights, Ohio, with his wife, Sheryl including a number of designers remarks and honored the memory at trivia but had a great time. After Hoke Love, an intellectual property whose work is shown at the salon of classmates who passed away. spending a few hours with folks on attorney at Jones Day, and their exclusively. Elizabeth has run into Dean James J. Valentini presented The Steps, the evening ended as so sons, Kevin (13) and Brian (11). several alumni at work; she created University Trustee Jonathan Lavine many did at Columbia: in the wee My former Spectator co-sports a gown for Tamara Straus ’91’s one of the three inaugural Dean’s hours of the morning with good editor, Shep Long, wrote, “I did sister, Rachel, and attended the Leadership Awards for his extraor- friends getting a Broadway shake not attend the reunion but I did get wedding in Salamanca, Spain, this dinary class leadership during a at Tom’s.” to enjoy a mini-reunion in March summer. Accompanying her to the reunion. Jim McMenamin, the man In non-reunion news, Eve at the NCAA basketball tourna- wedding was Becca Moss ’90. Paige responsible for admitting all of us Newhart dropped a note saying, ment in Austin. I met up with Brad Stevenson, when she is not work- to the College, emceed an animated “I am a physician and I work at Mitchell, Steve Silverstein, Scott ing as an artist or belly dancing, and highly competitive interactive Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Marantz and Geoff Hoffman, plus occasionally helps Elizabeth with trivia contest (one of the questions Los Angeles in hospitalist and pal- Tom Leder ’89, for a great weekend bookkeeping. Rebecca Fine was a was “What was our admission liative care medicine. I have three of eating barbecue, watching bas- recent bridal client. Elizabeth also rate?”; answer, 28.63 percent). The kids (8, 10 and 12).” ketball, drinking beer and generally mentioned that she saw Angelo winning team is now proudly Laura Prendergast wrote, “My acting like college students. This is Ragaza, Jasmine Rodriguez ’89 sporting Columbia ‘C’ hats. biotech startup, VectorGen, is becoming a biannual tradition for Barnard and Desi Del Valle in June “Thanks so much to the amazing seeking a senior researcher in HIV us, with prior reunions in Houston and celebrated the Supreme Court’s Reunion Committee for its hard biology and/or gene therapy to (2009) and Scottsdale (2011). historic decision on marriage rights. work and dedication to raising form a mentoring relationship for “I live in Massachusetts,” Shep Patrick Nolan, who has been money, creating the program and help with our next grant applica- continued, “and am broker and a rising star in my industry for encouraging friends to attend. Shout- tion. We are targeting a September co-owner of a residential real estate many years, most lately as a v.p., outs go to Stephanie Schwartz for deadline for STTR and R03 ap- brokerage by day and aspiring the editor-in-chief and an associate suggesting we do a trivia game, to plications to the National Institutes baseball umpire (mostly high publisher of Penguin Books, mar- Carl Schaerf for helping with the of Health, NIAIDS division. I also school level) in my spare time. I’ve ried Clément Louis Georges Marie trivia questions and providing other am seeking assistance with a grant also taken up running to combat Gaujal in June at the Wythe Hotel in wit and wisdom, and to Regina application to secure funding for a middle age and completed my Brooklyn. After graduating, Patrick Noch for creating a ‘Top Songs of pilot program, ‘StreetCard,’ to use second half-marathon during Me- earned a master’s in peace studies 1988’ playlist. CC ’88 set records for information technology to stream- morial Day weekend. I’ve vowed from the University of Ulster in donations and participation for our line the process of getting benefits to run 50 races before I turn 50 in Northern Ireland. His husband is an Class Gift. More than 200 classmates to homeless persons. 2016 and am even blogging about independent translator in Paris and donated, exceeding our goal of 185. “I have completed a full-length it at 50races.blogspot.com.” resides there and in Manhattan; he We raised $2.7 million in unrestricted screenplay, which was scheduled Finally, one of the most impor- graduated from EMLYON Business gifts and a total of close to $19.88 to be read at the July and August tant updates I’m likely to submit School in Écully, France. million in gifts to the College and the meetings of an Albany (N.Y.) area about myself: My wife, Hedieh, I heard from Anthony Fusco, University.” screenwriters’ meet-up group. gave birth to our second child, who lives in Hamilton, Mass., with According to Sharon Levin, “Also, I am advocating for a and first daughter, on July 8 in his wife and children (18, 16 and “The reunion combined two of homeless person whom I met Washington, D.C. Esther Bessie 13): “These are busy and exciting my favorite things about going to while a student at Columbia, and Fusfield arrived a crisp 13 minutes times for us. I am a partner in the Columbia: the great people and the who is now incarcerated in Au- after hospital check-in, weighing law firm of Glovsky & Glovsky in fun neighborhood places to eat and burn Correctional Facility, doing 8 lbs., 7 oz. Like her 2-year-old nearby Beverly, Mass. My practice drink. (Although there were fewer 25-to-life for a murder I am certain brother, Manny, she has a chance consists of estate planning and jelly bracelets and parachute pants he did not do. I have submitted to graduate from college before her elder law.” than I remember from the ’80s.) requested documents to the In- dad attends his 50th reunion. Though Anthony has not been Saturday started with an early nocence Project for consideration in touch with the Columbia gang eggplant pizza lunch at V&T with of his case under the auspices of in a long time, he still plays basket- REUNION WEEKEND friends, including Ellen Pluta and the Bloodsworth grant, which was ball and is looking forward to our MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Abe Glazer, who both look amaz- awarded to the NYPD in conjunc- big reunion in 2014. I’ll spell it out: ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ing and are doing great things in tion with the Innocence Project, 25 years! ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott NYC and Rochester. After a stop to locate and categorize missing [email protected] by the ‘lunch under the tent,’ a evidence.” 212-851-9148 group of us spent the afternoon at Congratulations to Thomas Love Rachel Cowan Jacobs DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova the former West End (now Havana on a recent professional honor. 313 Lexington Dr. [email protected] Central) drinking and eating chips According to a press release, he 90 Silver Spring, MD 20901 212-851-7833 — just like we did in 1988 (except “has been named a fellow of the youngrache@ for the chips). American Statistical Association, the Emily Miles Terry hotmail.com “In addition to Ellen and Abe, nation’s preeminent professional 45 Clarence St. Cornelia Gallo and her husband, statistical society.” ASA president 89 Brookline, MA 02446 It was my and Sharon Rogers’ great Peter, were there (Corney counsel- Marie Davidian said, “His accom- [email protected] honor in June to have surprised ing me about life just like she did plishments have contributed greatly Laura Shaw-Frank at her school’s in college), as were Jake Goldberg to the advancement of statistical Organizers are already planning end-of-year awards ceremony. We (who was excited about his oldest science and have rightfully earned our 25th Alumni Reunion Weekend, took time from work to head up getting ready to graduate from him the respect and admiration of which is coming at us next spring, to Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community high school), Sean Wright and his ASA peers.” Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1. School in Baltimore to applaud his wife (who are having a lovely Tom is professor of medicine, If anyone would like to get involved her when she won Teacher of the time in Houston), Elisa Pollack ’88 epidemiology and biostatistics in planning or fundraising, please Year. The awardees (one from each Barnard (living on the Upper West at Case Western Reserve and the contact one of the Alumni Office division of the K–12 school) are se- Side with her family) and others. Center for Health Care Research staffers listed at the top of the col- lected by the head of school and the As happened so many times in col- & Policy at Case Western Reserve umn. The more the merrier, so mark divisional principals. Even though lege after an afternoon at The West University MetroHealth Medical your calendars now! Laura’s husband, Aaron, is the high

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school principal (when she was hired in 2004 to teach Jewish his- tory, he was lower school principal, so no nepotism there), he recused himself from the selection process. Laura has been teaching there for nine years, and from what I know and have observed of her in this role, this award was long overdue! The most fun part was magically appearing in the room (along with her mother and children) when her name was announced. Sharon and I felt like we were on the “Jerry Springer/Ricki Lake/whoever-does- this-type-of-talk-show-now Show.” But wait, there’s more to celebrate. Laura successfully defended her dissertation prospectus on “Jewish Marriage in America, 1820–1920” in April, which makes her officially A.B.D. (All But Dissertation) for her Ph.D. in Jewish history from the University of Maryland. Mazel tov! It’s always great to hear from Marian Wright. She reports, “My family and I — husband Greg Boester and boys Cole (11), Wyatt (9) and Rhodes (7) — live in Rye, N.Y., where we have been for about 10 years. The boys, especially Cole, are huge into soccer (go Chelsea!) Several alumni and their families caught up at the NCAA Super Regional baseball game between Colum- but also enjoy reading and just bia and Arizona State, held at Cal State Fullerton in June (the Lions lost). At far left, Don Chiesa ’88 being outside. Two years ago, we fi- stands with his son, Jonas; Jon Dwyer ’89 and his wife, Yvette, are in the middle with their clan; and nally found a great cottage on Lake Matt Sodl ’88 is at far right. Caspian in Greensboro, Vt. We have spent time as a family in Greens- boro each summer since Cole was done this fall, I am going to focus a U.K. recruitment firm. That fell road trip to Los Angeles. First stop small and, in fact, my mother’s on writing, something I haven’t through while I was there, but I was Eric Haxthausen, who’s excel- extended family has been sum- been able to do for years. Very loved London and so stayed a few ling in Washington, D.C. He also mering there since the 1940s. The excited for that. months and traveled — made it to took some time off (with a cool trip cottage is right down the lane from “I am in touch with Gabe Kra, Spain, Israel, Germany, Morocco to Costa Rica) but now works for my grandfather’s house, where I who lives in the Bay Area with his and South Africa. While in Lon- the U.S. Agency for International spent summers growing up, and wife, Julie, and four kids; Ted Ac- don, I had dinner with Chris Alex- Development in its climate change nearby are lots of other cousins and worth ’90E, ’92E, who recently had ander, who was visiting from Los office — something about con- old friends. In 2012, after I led an his second son and lives with the Angeles with his partner, Michael. necting climate work to The World extensive rebuild of the house, we boys and his wife, Maddie, in Bos- Chris is doing well (and looks Bank and other investments. I may spent a glorious, very relaxed and ton; Jenny Harvey (née Thomp- great) as an s.v.p. of corporate com- not know what that means but he very outdoorsy summer there. Our son), who lives on the Upper West munications and publicity at 20th seems to love it. plan is to spend all summer every Side with her husband, Steve, and Century Fox Television. “Next stop was Charlotte, N.C., summer there going forward. To their three kids; and Susie Marples “Once I got back to New York, for a visit with Juhayna Kassem be able to give our kids the types of ’88, who lives downtown with I spent a few weeks working Davis ’90 Barnard; her husband, summers I had as a kid — simple, hubby Nelson Young and their two and seeing friends. Made sure to Ashley; and their sons, Laith and and focused on nature, sport and boys.” spend time with Susie Wu Dare ’90 Kais. Juhayna has a private medi- family — is a fantastic feeling. I’m going to close out this col- Barnard, who lives in Manhattan cal practice and moved to North “Other than that, I spend my umn with an epic (in a good way) with her husband, Hunter, and Carolina a few years ago from NYC. time running the household and tale from Rachelle Selmon. She daughter, Savannah. Bina Kalola From there I headed to Tennessee, raising the kids. This type of life is begins, “I’m finally facing the mu- ’91 Barnard also is in the city, look- where I made friends listening to most certainly not what I imagined sic and writing in for the first time. ing fabulous and doing well as country bands. I was falling in love I would be doing when I was a I’ve been in touch with quite a few a managing director at Bank of with the United States again. CC student, but I find that my people through Facebook, which America Merrill Lynch. Anette “Next I headed to Arkansas, education has played a big role in has been a wonderful way to stay Kreipke lives in New Jersey, has a where I spent two nights hanging our parenting. We have managed in touch and know what people place I envy in Asbury Park with and having fun with Sally Graham to raise boys who love to learn and are up to. If I wrote about all of the her husband, Djidja, and is taking and Warigia Bowman. Sally moved who question the world around people I’ve been in contact with, I some time to stay home with her back to be closer to family after them and enjoy and appreci- could fill the entire magazine, so I daughter, Mia. She was recently a long run at CNN. She’s now ate what the world has to offer will stick to those I’ve seen in my on the TV show Chopped for a a company spokeswoman with (at least most of the time!). Our travels over the last year. Mother’s Day special, so check that Entergy Arkansas and is active in youngest tells us he is going to go “In March 2012, I lost my hu- out online to see what she’s up to community theatre, most recently in to Columbia, and I have taken the man resources position in New and how culinary school honed a production of the comedy Dearly boys to campus quite a few times. York, so decided it was time to sell her skills! Also saw Eric Prager, my Beloved. She’d love to reconnect They are very impressed by it, and the apartment and move to Los favorite sushi buddy, who is mar- with folks and can be reached at it’s fun to see it through their eyes. Angeles. However, while waiting ried to art history professor Karen [email protected]. Warigia helps In addition, now that Rhodes is to sell my apartment, I got an offer and is a partner at the law firm to make the world a better place; in school full-time and once my I couldn’t refuse to go to London K&L Gates. she is a professor at the University current (Rye) renovation project is and discuss opening an office for “Then I started my three-week of Arkansas Clinton School of Pub-

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I also was Madi and Bram (I missed out on a anyone who wants to go on safari “Have seen just one more honored last year to help John chance to see their youngest, Ava). to contact her at African Wildcats Columbia person — took a quick Poneros after he had a sports injury. Third, and perhaps most unex- Adventure Safaris (wildcatssafaris. trip up to San Francisco to take a “Kristen and I recently took our pectedly, I saw Rob Carey and com). prep course to get my California HR children to the Columbia campus his girlfriend, Janet, in — of all “After exploring Texas (and certification (I passed!) and met up and were pleasantly surprised places — Las Vegas, at the World making more friends in Austin with Jeannine DeLoche and her when my daughter, Campbell, Series of Poker. While playing in a thanks to Warigia), I headed to daughter, Margot, for sushi. Jeannine declared that we were no longer in tournament in June, I provided live Tucson, where I spent a few days looks great, is doing well and is an NYC and clearly had gone to Con- updates on social media. Imagine with Lisa Robinson; her husband, s.v.p. in marketing at Wells Fargo. necticut! It is a wonderful campus my surprise when between updates Ken; and daughter, Harper. Lisa She recently visited NYC (her home in a great city. Best to all!” I got a message from Rob, explain- is a well-regarded photographer since Columbia, until she moved to Jack Hidary announced his can- ing that he was in the area and ask- who already has published a book San Francisco a few years ago) and didacy for New York City mayor. ing whether it would be OK if he of photography, whose work is in caught up with Lisa Quirindongo, According to a press release, he and Janet came to watch. The two museum collections and who has who lives in Fairfield, Conn., with has more than 15 years of active had been driving across the United shown in NYC. If you haven’t seen her husband and two kids, and participation in public service. In States and were in nearby Laughlin, her work, it’s amazing, and can be Steve Naidich and his wife, Rachel, 2005, Jack and David Yassky, then Nev., at the time that he saw my found at lisamrobinson.com. who also have two little ones. a City Council member, advocated update. The three of us caught up “As I headed into southern “Am loving L.A. and so glad for energy-efficient taxicabs; the over the all-too-short dinner break California, I met up with the stun- I moved here. It’s hard not to be two worked with drivers to save and, thanks to Rob, I had my first ning Jennifer Lee (go Carman 11!), happy when the sun always shines. thousands of dollars per cab each experience of having a fan club who is a sociology professor at UC As of this writing still job hunting year in fuel costs, and today the rooting for me at an event. Irvine and an avid surfer, having but don’t mind unemployment majority of the 13,500 taxis in New Rob wasn’t the only alumnus learned from her beau, Mike. I so much when I can be hiking in York are energy-efficient vehicles. of our vintage at the World Series had actually seen her and Mike the hills and bike riding along the Jack has been involved in of Poker this year. I also caught up the year before in NYC while she beach. numerous civic groups, includ- with David Hantman ’91 and Lucy was on sabbatical as a Russell Sage “Looking forward to seeing ing as a partner at Partnership for Ruwitch Langer ’93, each of whom Foundation Visiting Scholar. more Columbians here (shout-out New York City, as a trustee of the was in town at the same time I was. “Since arriving in L.A. in April, to Chris Heck, Liane Weintraub Citizens Budget Commission and That’s all for now. I hope to hear I have had drinks with Rich Yaker (née Manshel), Hyun Bae ’90E, as a member of the Association for from as many of you as possible (go Carman 11!) and Balan Venugo- Jeff Rake and Paulette Light) and a Better New York. He is on several for the next issue — it’s always pal. Rich married Jennifer Gaynor wherever I travel. And definitely advisory boards, including those of more fun that way. Please send in May in Marina del Rey, Calif. let me know if you’re visiting L.A.” National Renewable Energy Labo- notes to me using the email at Rich is an engineering manager If this column is not enough for ratory and Google X. He also is on the top of the column or through at Herbalife and also helps others you, you can celebrate that our the board of XPRIZE Foundation. CCT’s webform: college.columbia. through his company, Conscious class finally has its own Facebook Jack is a founding member of the edu/cct/submit_class_note. Life Coaching, and as CTO at One- group (Columbia College Class of Clinton Global Initiative and was Giving. Balan hasn’t aged a bit and ’90). This is a great place to catch up named by the World Economic is a v.p. at Morgan Stanley. As of this with classmates professionally and Forum as a “Global Leader of Betsy Gomperz writing, he owes me a tennis match! socially and to plan for our 25th re- Tomorrow.” The campaign made 41 Day St. Saw Vicki Curry ’90 Barnard, who union (Thursday, May 28–Sunday, its official announcement through 93 Newton, MA 02466 looks fantastic and was senior press May 31, 2015). To join, please mes- a video posted on its website, jack Betsy.Gomperz@ secretary for L.A. Mayor Antonio sage administrator Emily Glick- formayor.com. Best of luck, Jack! gmail.com Villaraigosa; now she’s serving as man on FB and she will add you to I would love to hear from more the group. See you at reunion! of you. Send in those updates to What a great reunion we had! It me by email or submit them using was fantastic to see so many class- CCT’s webform: college.columbia. mates attend our 20th — our stron- Margie Kim edu/cct/submit_class_note. Until gest showing yet! Many thanks to Manage Your 1923 White Oak Clearing next time … cheers! our Reunion Committee for putting 91 Southlake, TX 76092 together a terrific weekend and to Subscription margiekimkim@ those who sent me follow-up notes Jeremy Feinberg to include in this column. If you prefer reading CCT hotmail.com 315 E. 65th St. #3F On Thursday night, our class online, you can help us Greetings, all! 92 New York, NY 10021 organized a screening of Neil go green and save money Stephen Fealy shares this up- jeremy.feinberg@ Turitz’s new movie, That Thing by opting out of the print date: “I’m an orthopedic surgeon verizon.net With The Cat. About 15 classmates edition. Click “Manage Your specializing in sports medicine and attended including Joe Laszlo, shoulder surgery at the Hospital Although the mailbag was pretty Addison Golladay, Alan Freeman, Subscription” at college. for Special Surgery in NYC. I’m light this time, that won’t stop me Rachel Mintz, Adrian Bordoni and columbia.edu/cct and follow married to Kristen Gesswein Fealy from reporting a few encounters Stephen Morfesis. According to the domestic instructions. ’90 Barnard. I am happy to report with classmates. Neil, folks seemed to like it, and his We will continue to notify that this year I was chosen to First, congratulations to Michael “general rule of thumb is, as long become the orthopedic consultant Fisher and his wife, Lynn, on the as they don’t hate it, I consider it a you by email when each for the Play- bat mitzvah of their daughter, Zoe success. Anything north of that is issue is posted online. You ers Association. This is a particu- Rachel, this past May in Forest just a bonus, and I’m pretty sure no may be reinstated to receive larly fun honor, as my three small Hills, N.Y. I had the pleasure of at- one hated it. Therefore, victory!” the print edition at any time children continually ask when we tending the ceremony and luncheon According to one anonymous by sending a note to cct@ will get autographs and tickets for and can truly say that Zoe (and her source who is not related to Neil, he games. Also, as a former Columbia parents) did a tremendous job. remains the greatest filmmaker of columbia.edu. baseball player who never made it Second, a business trip to this or any time! ‘big time,’ I have been having a ton Chicago gave me my first chance Friday night had not one but

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two parties. There was the class he recognized us! Alan Cohn, who lives in Washing- It’s been a slow news quarter, cocktail party that about 75 class- Saturday had a full schedule ton, D.C., with his wife and kids but I do have a lovely update from mates attended and that I heard of events, including the alumni and serves as the assistant secre- Kay Bailey, who recently started a was a great event. A group of us, barbecue and the class dinner. At tary for strategy, planning, analysis job as a grant writer for the Wash- however, arrived in town too late the barbecue, I caught up with and risk in the Department of ington Office on Latin America to make it, so we started the night Ezra Kenigsberg, who recently Homeland Security’s Office of (WOLA.org). WOLA is a nonprofit at V&T. The group included Ali relocated to Austin, Texas, where Policy, and Alan Freeman, who that promotes human rights, social Towle, Sandra Johnson, Robyn he works for Dell, as well as Rita also lives in D.C. with his wife and justice and democracy in Latin Tuerk, Julie Davidson Hassan, Pietropinto-Kitt, who recently had two boys and is a partner at Blank America. George Hassan, Patti Lee and a third baby and was joined by her Rome, came to get me to visit our Kay is responsible for WOLA’s Drew Stevens ’93E to start. It had kids and husband, Tom Kitt ’96. I fathers — Peter Cohn ’58, Arthur relationships with charitable foun- been a few years since I’d seen also saw or briefly caught up with Freeman ’58 and Paul Gomperz ’58 dations, writing grant proposals, Drew, who lives in San Francisco Axuve Espinosa ’93E, a Carman — who were celebrating their 55th working with funders during a with his wife, works in technology 11 floormate, whom I learned reunion. We took a great picture project and reporting back when it’s and launched a men’s shirt com- recently got married in a ceremony with all of our parents outside of done. She says, “Since a lot of that pany called Drew Shanklin (Shirts) officiated by Frank Ballabio ’93E Low Library and discussed later interaction happens in writing, I (drewshanklin.com). We were then and attended by Neil Turitz (all in the evening how particularly write a lot, which I love. And I write joined by a group that had been at Carman 11!); Nina Lieberman (née special that moment was for each about an organization whose work the cocktail party, including Thad Abraham) and her family; Rohit of us. After dancing under the stars I am very proud of and whose staff Sheely, Shiva Sooudi Farouki, Aggarwala, Risa Arbolino, Adam on Low Plaza until after midnight, and history I have tremendous Sandra Fahy, Jennifer Larrabee Fels and Sean Doherty. the Class of ’93 continued the respect for. This lets me be involved and Lerya Goitia Smith. in helping out my favorite region, After a delicious dinner served speaking Spanish and Portuguese, by none other than Aldo himself, Kay Bailey ’94 recently started a job as a grant and being peripherally involved in a bunch of us headed down to the legal/policy reform, which is the class “after-party” at O’Flaherty’s writer for the Washington Office on Latin America closest I want to come to practicing Ale House and Restaurant on (WOLA.org). law again. The job is just a dream Restaurant Row. It was fun to see come true. I walk around wanting so many familiar faces and I wish I to pinch myself.” had a chance to speak with every- Our class dinner on Saturday fun at a bar near Koronet Pizza In other news, Kay writes, one in the room! Fortunately, I was was held on the 15th floor of SIPA. (allowing for everyone to sneak daughters Amanda and Elisa are able to catch up with or hear about We did not have a professor speak out at different times to get a slice 4½ and “like to wear fake tattoos Isabel Barbosa Kallman, who lives and instead had a brief visit from and refuel). When the bar closed on their faces, draw on their legs in NYC with her husband and son Dean James J. Valentini. During the around 3 a.m., yet another group and decorate cardboard boxes. and runs a parenting blog called cocktail party and dinner I caught of us went to the market next door, Like their mother.” Alpha Mom (alphamom.com); Ben up with Andrew Ceresney, who grabbed some beer and finished That’s it for now. More updates, Besley, who lives in Southern Cali- recently was named co-director the evening sitting out on The please! We’re all eager for your fornia with his wife and is doing of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Steps, not wanting the weekend news. Send them to me at the email well in real estate; Chad Moore, Commission’s Division of Enforce- to end. address at the top of the column or who lives in Los Angeles and is a ment (congratulations, Andrew!); Finally, we were sad to miss use CCT’s webform: college.colum video game writer/designer; Matt Joel Lusman, who runs a New classmates who had long distances bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. Streem, who lives in Cleveland York-based hedge fund and lives to travel (e.g., other continents) and and is an entrepreneur; Lorenzo in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife those who were prevented from Wyatt, who lives in Connecticut and son; Amy Ahn, who lives making it due to personal circum- Janet Lorin and is a general contractor; Joel in NYC with her family; Alyson stances. Fortunately we get to do it 730 Columbus Ave., Cramer, who lives in Chicago with Berliner (the first person I met at all again in five years! 95 Apt. 14C his wife and kids and runs the Columbia in 1989!), an ophthal- New York, NY 10025 Chicago office of Conning; John mologist who works at Regeneron REUNION WEEKEND [email protected] Trbovich ’93E, who lives in Winter Pharmaceuticals; Andrew Borrok, MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Park, Fla., with his wife and three who leads our class fundraising Congratulations to three Ph.D. ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS kids and works in private equity; efforts, lives in NYC and works holders who wrote with updates ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Matt DeFilippis, who lives on in real estate; Richard Carrick, a about their careers. [email protected] Long Island with his family and is musician who taught at Columbia Paul Scolieri is a tenured profes- 212-851-9148 in charge of music licensing for the this year; Christine Coster, who sor at Barnard and holds the title DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova American Society of Composers, works in insurance; Catherine of associate professor of dance. His [email protected] Authors and Publishers; Rebecca Hong, who lives with her family book Dancing the New World: Aztecs, 212-851-7833 Polyakovsky, who lives in Seattle near Columbia but is about to Spaniards, and the Choreography of with her family; Seth Pinsky, who move to the suburbs; Michele Leyla Kokmen Conquest was the inaugural publica- works for the City of New York Smith and her husband; Amanda 94 440 Thomas Ave. S. tion in the Latin American and and recently became a father; and Schachter, who is an architect in Minneapolis, MN 55405 Caribbean Arts and Culture series, Chris Collins ’93E, who lives in NYC; Rhanda Moussa, who is [email protected] funded by the Andrew W. Mellon San Francisco and is a real estate an in-house attorney at Barclays; Foundation. He’s also at work on developer. Jennie Kim Harman, who lives in It’s hard to believe, but we are a second book, a biography of Ted Then, there were those whom Brooklyn with her husband, Jason, coming up on the two-decade Shawn, who is known as “the father I saw across the crowded room and their son and is an in-house at- mark since our graduation. How of American dance.” but did not have a chance to talk torney for CME Group; and Andy is that even possible, when none Between graduation at Colum- to: Aileen Torres Martin, Micky Schmeltz, Miriam Friedlander of us has aged a bit? But 20 years bia and being granted tenure at Iriarte, Addison Golladay, Yumi and Linda Appel Lipsius. I also is an impressive marker — let’s be Barnard, Paul earned a Ph.D. in Koh, Karla Lema, Rachel Mintz spent time with Sara Niego, who sure to celebrate together! Alumni performance studies at NYU’s Tisch and Mar Wolf, among others. On grew up with my husband and Reunion Weekend is Thursday, School of the Arts and completed our way home, Patti Lee and I now lives with her husband, Petr, May 29–Sunday, June 1. Please two fellowships at Harvard. He along with our husbands walked and three children in Avon, Conn., save the date, and if you’d like to lives with his partner, Lavinel Savu past Tom’s Restaurant, and stand- where she is a psychiatrist, as well get involved with planning events ’94, assistant managing editor at ing there in the window was Pete as Liz Hale ’93 Barnard and Jeanne or with fundraising, contact the InStyle magazine. (of the Broadway Shake fame)! We Marie Liggio ’93 Barnard. appropriate staff member listed at Ben Michaelis, a clinical psych- had déjà vu and were thrilled that As our dinner came to a close, the top of the column. ologist, writes that he, too, has pub-

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Melinka Thompson-Godoy ’98 Helps Create Movie Magic

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atching James Negative’s visual effects artists Thompson-Godoy’s experience a teenager, and even before, Bond motorcycle and a film’s director as well as with Skyfall marks part of what I loved to watch HBO Behind across rooftops, the visual effects and production she describes as her “favorite the Scenes,” she says. “You moviegoers rarely teams. On location, Thompson- year.” In 2012, she moved to would see it all come together. I Wstop to think about the hundreds Godoy often interacts with the London to accept a position at always wanted to do that.” of people who make those visual effects team and many Double Negative just in time for After researching New York moments possible. If all goes other artists, including the the Olympics and the Queen’s schools that offered film majors, well, what is real and what was director, editors, special effects Diamond Jubilee. Her resume Thompson-Godoy decided she created through effects blends department and art department. already included memorable proj- wanted to study more than film together into movie magic, “Melinka worked with her ects all over the United States, and chose the College. “The created by film experts such as team of artists to deliver on from her first gig in Los Angeles idea of having a Core Curricu- visual effects producer Melinka schedule 403 stunning visual on the Kevin Costner vehicle For lum and learning about every Thompson-Godoy ’98. effects shots,” says Leslie Ler- Love of the Game (1999) to as- discipline was very cool to me,” The work of a visual effects man, who was VFX producer sisting on the first season of the she says. producer changes day to day, and Thompson-Godoy’s client hit television series Lost (2004) She majored in film studies which is one reason Thompson- on the 2012 blockbuster Skyfall. on location in Hawaii. and earned a spot on the Godoy loves what she does. “In the film world, the edit and/ Travel is natural for Thompson- Dean’s List all four years; off- At her desk at Double Negative or the artistic design can change Godoy, who was born in Colombia campus, she took as much film Visual Effects in London, she jug- overnight. Sometimes a shot and, starting at 4, lived in many work as she could find. As an gles budgets and spreadsheets you’ve been working on for locations throughout the U.S. as intern on the George Clooney to ensure effects are finished months can end up on the cut- her family moved to follow her and Michelle Pfeiffer romance on time and to the satisfaction ting room floor. Melinka always parents’ education and work. One Fine Day (1996), Thompson- of the client and her company. handled those pressure situa- She also has been fascinated Godoy observed everything She is a liaison between Double tions with poise.” with film from an early age. “As in the production. “I’m detail- oriented, and producers had a hand from beginning to end,” she says about her choice to become a producer. “I learned what I wanted to be as well as what not to do.” After graduation, Thompson- Godoy was senior assistant to Ted Hope, a producer and then– co-owner of the independent film company Good Machine. She later was a production executive on the unconven- tional biopic American Splendor (2003) and the film adaptation of the play The Laramie Project (2002) before reuniting with a friend from Carman 8, Chris Perkel ’98, to produce The Town That Was (2007), a documentary about a town in Pennsylvania destroyed by an underground mine fire; Perkel also directed. “Melinka’s greatest strength, in my opinion, is her commit- ment,” Perkel says. “She works harder and cares more than anyone and that’s why every- one loves working with her. She loves films, she loves her work and she’s completely dedicated Melinka Thompson-Godoy ’98 in the lobby of her office at Double Negative Visual Effects. to the tasks at hand and the PHOTO: EMILY PEARCE welfare of the project.”

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lished his first book, Your Next Big Edelman as managing director and deputy chief of staff to Sen. Charles Thing: 10 Small Steps to Get Moving general counsel with the Children’s E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). In this role Though she had never work­ and Get Happy. It’s aimed at helping Defense Fund and started at Ohio he worked on a range of issues ed in the field, visual effects people make good decisions when State University as a.v.p. of compli- including power deregulation and company Amoeba Proteus they are feeling stuck. Ben, who ance operations and investigations. economic development for upstate earned a Ph.D. in clinical psycholo- Chris is still enjoying Columbus New York, and he aided in launch- hired and trained her as a gy from NYU in 2004, worked as an with his wife, Lauren, and their ing several New York State-based visual effects coordinator in expert for the court system in New children, Lincoln and Grace. businesses. Constantine lives with 2003. “Being that I was always York for a few years and ran the Pete Freeman is a partner in the his wife and son in Bronxville, N.Y. so fascinated with what hap- psychological assessment service at real estate and finance group at Kate Villa has spent the years pens behind the scenes, visual St. Luke’s Hospital before opening a Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman since graduation as a fundraiser effects is almost like working private office in 2005. in Washington, D.C., and lives in for nonprofit companies in NYC with a magician who shows In his clinical practice, Ben Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Jill and New England. She now is a you how the trick you always works with people from diverse Fine ’96 Barnard, and children, Lily fundraising consultant with CCS liked was done,” Thompson- backgrounds with an emphasis (9) and Max (6). and spent a large portion of the last on helping those who feel stuck in Aun Koh is in Singapore run- year in Bangor, Maine, working Godoy explains. “It was really their creative process, often writers ning his integrated communications with local authors Stephen and cool, and each year the tech- and performers. His practice is agency, The Ate Group. Aun writes Tabitha King to raise $9 million for nology advances.” downtown and he lives with his that his company has carved out a the Bangor Public Library. For the next few years she wife and two kids in Brooklyn. Ben great niche as the best local agency Maurice (Mo) Toueg recently worked for several companies writes for The Huffington Post and for public relations, events and finished celebrating his 15-year an- and productions, including Psychology Today. Check out his social media for lifestyle industries, niversary with Capstone Partners, Lost. She became visual ef- website: drbenmichaelis.com. with a strong focus on food and an executive search firm. He writes fects producer at Look Effects Svetlana Bochman, formerly beverage, luxury and hospitality. that, as a creature of habit, he still in 2007. During her four years Brook, has been appointed director Aun and his wife recently cel- lives on the Upper East Side, a block of the City College Writing Center. ebrated their son’s second birthday. away from where he grew up. at the company, she worked She oversees 40 tutors and staff In addition, last year he relaunched Wendy Lefko Messeloff and her on films as diverse as the with the goal of providing one- his website, Chubby Hubby (chub husband live in Wendy’s home- fantasy sequel Underworld: on-one tutoring for City College byhubby.net), after taking a year town of Cleveland with their kids, Awakening (2012), psychologi- students, helping with their course off to focus on work and parent- Alex (6) and twins Dahlia and Ariel cal thriller Black Swan (2010), papers and any other writing. ing. Now, Chubby Hubby has (4). Wendy recently began as a grant comic book adaptation Captain She continues, “I also serve on more than a dozen writers spread writer at the Cleveland Museum of America: The First Avenger committees to help promote better around the world and a full-time Natural History. She writes that she (2011) and historical drama writing among students and am editor based in Hong Kong. The recently had the privilege of hear- The King’s Speech (2010). The part of several college-wide initia- website is getting a lot of attention; ing one of her favorite Columbia tives. I’m excited because I’m work- Aun was in the Tōhoku region of professors, Andrew Delbanco, variety in content is one of ing on bringing online synchronous Japan in early February at the invi- deliver a guest lecture at a local the aspects of her work that tutoring to City College so that tation of the Japanese government, university, and that it was such a stimulates Thompson-Godoy. students can get tutored in real time and the Japanese government pub- pleasure to hear him again after Her efforts haven’t gone from home.” lished a booklet covering Aun’s all this time and to find that he unnoticed. In 2008, she was Svetlana has earned a Ph.D. in experience and observations. remains not only the passionate and nominated for a Primetime English and taught as an adjunct Aun also spends time pursuing thoughtful scholar and lecturer she Emmy for her contributions assistant professor of English for his culinary interests. In May, he remembered but also a genuinely to the History Channel film more than 10 years, mostly at CUNY. took part in the Noosa International gracious human being and just a Life After People, and she was Her specialty is 19th-century British Food & Wine Festival, where he nice guy. Wendy stays in touch with literature and she has published spoke and cooked. He also partici- Ed Rosenfeld and his wife, Jen nominated for a Visual Effects and spoken at conferences on Jane pated as one of the judges in the Rosenfeld ’96 Barnard. Ed and Jen Society Award for her work Austen, Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Australian heat of Diageo’s World’s live in Stamford, Conn., and have on the sixth season of Lost in Holmes. Finest Cocktail contest, as well had their hands full since the birth 2011. Svetlana married Alon Bochman as the Asian heat of Diplomatico of their fifth child, a girl named Thompson-Godoy’s current ’02 Business and they have two Rum’s World Cocktail Competition. Yael, in July 2012. project is The Hunger Games: daughters, Rachel Alice (8) and Constantine Dimas was pro- Jeremy Craig is coming up on Catching Fire. The much-antici- Emma Sharon (5). “Since I love moted earlier this year to s.v.p., as- 13 years in Singapore and writes pated second film in the series, 19th-century British literature, I set management, at Loews Hotels. that he is still doing a great job at set to release in November, is named my daughters after Lewis In this role, he is responsible for avoiding the real world by running Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Won- conceiving and implementing key an SAT preparation company sure to be filled with incredible derland and Jane Austen’s Emma,” brand-defining initiatives, cultivat- (testtakers-sg.com), which helps visual effects created in part she writes. ing revenue-generating strategic finance his numerous golf trips. by her. Although, she points She also had a company, Boch- partnerships and repositioning Elizabeth Yuan moved to New out, “If we do our job properly, man Tutoring, with five tutors hotels through real estate program- York in March from Hong Kong, then no one notices. It’s a offering graduate school admissions ming. Constantine began his career where she had been a digital pro- curse and praise that no one consulting and test prep for the with Loews as the director of food ducer for CNN.com International knows how much work you GMAT, GRE, LSAT and MCAT. She and beverage for the company’s since 2007. She now works for WSJ. put into something.” spoke several times at Columbia flagship property, the Loews Re- com and writes that she is excited about graduate school admissions. gency Hotel. He became v.p. of food to be back in the United States and To view a clip of the official and beverage for the brand in 2010 in NYC after having left 14 years Skyfall trailer, which show­ and took on the role of v.p. of asset ago. She also would be happy to cases Thompson-Godoy’s Ana S. Salper management in early 2012. Under hear from classmates: eyuaninhk@ work, go to YouTube.com. 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA his leadership the company already gmail.com. 96 Brooklyn, NY 11201 has established partnerships with That’s it for this time. If you have [email protected] well-known names in the industry sent notes and they have not yet Laura Butchy ’04 Arts is including Lure Fishbar, Exhale spa appeared, bear with me; they will a professor, dramaturg and Greetings, classmates! I hope you and INK Entertainment. be featured in the next column. For writer based in Brooklyn. had a fun and relaxing summer. In addition to having owned now, I leave you with this nugget Chris Glaros recently left a several hospitality-related busi- from one of my favorite musicians: job working with Marian Wright nesses, Constantine served as “If you don’t know the blues …

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY there’s no point in picking up the living south of the equator or several years at the Los Angeles York International Fringe Festival guitar and playing rock and roll or move back to his adopted home of Free Clinic. Now he is at T.H.E. (To in August. She continues, “Since any other form of popular music.” sunny Los Angeles in August. He Help Everyone) Clinic in South Los the last reunion, I have transitioned — Keith Richards has been playing his own brand Angeles and is helping to start a out of my Wall Street/finance of country/folk/rock in clubs and clinic for adults and children with career (Morgan Stanley) to a full- cafés, which, he writes, “definitely developmental disabilities, The time soprano career in opera and Sarah Katz sticks out and is unique here in Achievable Clinic. Sarah received jazz. My productions and concerts 97 1935 Parrish St. Latin America.” tenure at Hebrew Union College, have taken me all over the United Philadelphia, PA 19130 Petra Lappalainen is proud to where she teaches contemporary States and Europe and to some [email protected] announce the birth of her second Jewish studies and linguistics prestigious stages such as Carnegie child, Saga Lucia Annika Lap- to HUC master’s students and Hall, Boston Symphony Hall and Thanks, CC ’97, for writing with all palainen, on June 8 in Melbourne, undergraduates at the USC. She Jordan Hall. I also married my your news! Please continue to send . Saga is sister to Magnus published a book based on her then-fiancé, David Berry, a partner word of our classmates’ exciting Brenchley (8 ½). The family planned dissertation, Becoming Frum: How at Flagship Ventures who focuses endeavors. to spend time with relatives in Newcomers Learn the Language and on innovating, entrepreneurship First off, we have some pub- from July ’13 to January ’14. Culture of Orthodox Judaism, and and investing in new ventures in lished authors in our midst! Boris Petra would love to catch up with she is founding editor of the Journal life sciences and sustainability. We Kachka’s first book, Hothouse: The CC alumni visiting Helsinki. of Jewish Languages and the Jewish enjoy our busy lives in Boston!” Art of Survival and the Survival of Art Rebekah Gee married David English Lexicon. Adria Armbrister added a status at America’s Most Celebrated Publish- Patron in October 2010. Their twins, I look forward to hearing from update to our class Facebook page. ing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Elizabeth and Eva, were born on more of you soon! She “is still single and child-free, came out in August (see Bookshelf November 5, 2012. living in Colombia and working in this issue). Boris explains, “It’s Many of you wrote in with excit- for the Inter-American Develop- the unauthorized cultural history ing professional news. Erich Ander- Sandie Angulo Chen ment Bank.” She said the hours of the prestigious FSG, and I’ll er is a neurosurgeon at Maimonides 10209 Day Ave. are long, especially on Fridays and defer to the blurb from Junot Díaz, Medical Center in Brooklyn. Henry 98 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Saturdays, and she is traveling too who calls it ‘Mad Men for the Grosman ’05 Arch. officially laun­ [email protected] much for work and not enough for literary world.’ Toni Morrison said ched his own architecture practice, herself. nice things about it, too. There’s BanG studio, with a classmate from Hello, Class of 1998! Usually our Mazel tov to Shira Schnitzer, much more about it on my website the Architecture School. He writes: post-reunion Class Notes column who married Graeme Cohen on (to spare me any more embarrass- “It’s been a little more than a year is huge and filled with names but June 16 in her hometown of Rock- ing shilling): boriskachka.com.” and it’s going well. We’re doing a lot unfortunately I was unable to ville, Md. Shira and Graeme live in Meanwhile, Susanna Daniel’s of residential work including two attend. A few classmates, however, Brixton, a super-cool neighborhood second novel, Sea Creatures, came apartment renovations in NYC, and came to the rescue. in London (very Brooklyn, appar- out in hardcover in July. Abraham we’re designing the interiors for the Andy Topkins was sweet ently), and she does high-level Verghese, a physician and three- largest residential development in enough to send a reunion update fundraising for Imperial College time bestselling author, called it “a downtown Brooklyn. Our website is via Facebook. He mentioned that London as well as cooks at every captivating, haunting novel” and b-an-g.com.” Christopher Johnston Brooks Herman and his wife, possible opportunity. Library Journal called it “substan- lives with his wife, Rachel Reinhard Joanna Herman (née Erman), came Thanks to Shira’s June wedding, tive domestic drama.” ’96 Barnard, in Oakland, Calif., and in from San Diego, Calif. (they have my husband, Hans Chen ’97, and I A number of you wrote in to teaches English at Oakland H.S. two kids, Jacob and Sophie). Kate were able to have dinner with Julie share that you live abroad. Jenny He spent the summer in Chengdu, Olivier came in from Spain. Matt Yufe and her husband, Michael Vendetti Fernandez is a writer/ China, training a new batch of Peace Ahn was there, having recently Dreyer. Julie was about to start her editor living in Hong Kong since Corps members. taken a new job in-house at Oracle. first day at Anheuser-Busch InBev 2011 with her husband, Juan, and Shana Kusin writes, “In July I Alejandra Montenegro Almonte as a v.p. for global innovations. their daughters, ages 6 and 4. They joined the faculty at Oregon Health was there with her husband, Jorge. Julie is a rock star brand manager are having a blast and traveling and Sciences University as an She’s general counsel of a big airline who spent seven years at Unilever around Asia. She would love to assistant professor of emergency services company, gategroup, in and was selected in May as one of connect with anyone who is in the medicine and toxicology and also the Washington, D.C., area. Hilton Brand Innovators’ (a community of area. Daniel Anderson has been as the clinical informatics director Marcus attended as well. After more than 2,000 brand managers) teaching English at the Hiram for the emergency department. I’ve years in D.C., he recently moved 2013 “40 Under 40” Brand-Market- Bingham School (a British model been at OHSU doing a fellowship back to NYC and lives in Brooklyn. ing Champions. Not only does Ju- secondary school) in Lima, Peru, in medical toxicology for the last Jeannette Jakus and Ben Korn- lie have a new job but she also has and, as of this writing, was decid- two years (graduation is in two feind attended the Friday cocktail a new address, as she and Michael ing whether he wants to continue weeks!). Other news: This month I reception. Jeannette reported that bought an apartment on the Upper also completed a yearlong creative she spoke mostly to people she al- East Side, across the street from her writing fellowship at The Attic ready knew, including Justin Gar- previous one. Columbia College Institute and am trying to wrap rett and his wife, Rachel, who live up the first draft of my novel (aka, in Brooklyn with their daughters, Alumni on Facebook REUNION WEEKEND ‘The Great American Medical Rock Jane and Roxanne; Andy, who also MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 Novel’ — must … finish … ).” has two kids; and Brooks and Jo- ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Dr. Wei Angela Liu has been anna. Jeannette adds, “I spoke with ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott named head of physical medicine Abigail Lorge, who is married and Check out the new [email protected] and rehabilitation at Phelps Memo- lives in Connecticut. She gave birth 212-851-9148 Columbia College rial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hol- to her first child, Eliza, on May 1, DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Alumni page! low, N.Y., where she will oversee and still managed to show up to [email protected] inpatient and outpatient rehabilita- the reunion looking fabulous!” facebook.com/ 212-851-7833 tive care. She is a faculty member Yelena Dudochkin, who wasn’t alumnicc at the NYU School of Medicine and able to attend, wrote with an excit- Laurent Vasilescu Like the page to get a practicing doctor at the Rusk In- ing update about her career switch: 99 127 W. 81st St., Apt. 4B alumni news, learn stitute of Rehabilitation Medicine. “I’m sorry to have missed the New York, NY 10024 about alumni events and Mark Bunin Benor and Sarah reunion but I was creating the role laurent.vasilescu@ Bunin Benor live in Los Angeles of Chernyafka in the world pre- gmail.com College happenings, with their daughters, Aliza (10), miere of The Magic Mirror, an opera view photos and more. Dalia (8) and Ariella (5). Mark is by Polina Nazaykinskaya.” The Greetings, Class of ’99. By the time a family doctor and worked for production was part of the New you receive this issue, plans will be

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under way for our 15-year reunion. Prisca Bae Save the dates now: Thursday, 00 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B May 29–Sunday, June 1. Hopefully, New York, NY 10011 we will have as great a turnout as [email protected] we did for our 10th. If you want to partake in planning, please do not No updates in the inbox this time hesitate to reach out to me or one around. Let’s do better for the of the Alumni Office staff members future. Your friends and classmates listed at the top of the column. want to hear from you! You can In terms of class giving, I’m write me at the email or postal happy to share that we broke address above, or submit news via several records last fiscal year. We CCT’s webform: college.columbia. had the most participation ever edu/cct/submit_class_note. for our class, and we raised more than $90,000, surpassing our initial goal of $60,000. I want to give a big Jonathan Gordin shout-out to former Alumni Office 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. staff member Harrison Kobb, who 01 Los Angeles, CA 90068 was tasked with our class in recent [email protected] years and was instrumental in our reaching our goals. I hope everyone enjoyed the sum- Now for some nice updates: mer! My Facebook feed has been Brad Neuberg married his love, humming with lots of baby news. Abby Volk, on July 27 in a beauti- Keep all the good news coming. ful and historic gold rush town Courtney Vowels and her hus- called Nevada City, located in band, John Garnevicus, welcomed Northern California near the Yuba their son, Elijah Forster Garnevicus- River. Guests also attended a Vowels, on April 29. Elijah weighed wedding retreat, which involved 8 lbs., 14 oz. and was 22 inches long. swimming and relaxing by the Jasper Cooper and his wife, river, for a few days before the Josiejing Weng, welcomed their Brad Neuberg ’99 married Abby Volk on July 27 in Nevada City, big event. They even had a yoga daughter, Vali Weng Cooper, on Calif., near the Yuba River. The couple is pictured with (far right) teacher on site to teach poses May 23. Susan Kassin ’99. and share positive karma. Susan Adam Sokol and Bingyi Huang Kassin was there; unfortunately, I welcomed their son, Aaro Magnus could not make it. Sokol, on December 1. Adam is an 2012. In November, Tze wrapped his work went to a series of lectures Tony Castaneda lives in Wash- architect whose practice is based in second feature film, a crime thriller and performances on campus and ington, D.C., where he works for Buffalo, N.Y. (with lots of current starring , Alice on a Chelsea Art Gallery Crawl. a defense-related company. Prior projects in China as well). Eve and Logan Marshall-Green, Friday night was a ton of fun, as to that he was in media, first as a Katie Campion Land and Mat- green-titled Cold Comes the Night. He Dean James J. Valentini joined us for journalist covering the Iraq War for thew Land ’05 welcomed their first co-wrote and directed the movie. drinks at a class reception at Avenue the and later as child, Nina Jane Land, on April 2. Max Saffian and his wife, Randi, before we joined the Young Alumni a producer for Charlie Rose. Tony They happily reside in Tulsa, Okla. are the proud parents of Lane Party on the U.S.S. Intrepid. It’s a has swung by a couple of alumni Congratulations to all our new Thompson Saffian, born on June 4. shame that this is technically our events in the D.C. area and vows to parents! Michael Canino ’02E has a last year as young alumni, but we’ll be more proactive. (I hope we will Jeff Lee announced the launch private psychiatry practice in Phila- always be young at heart, right? see you at our reunion next year, of Ryan Lee, a gallery he formed delphia. Something like that. Tony.) with business partner Mary Ryan James Cain was recently married Saturday was a packed day with Tony also reports that when he and which opened to the public in in Austin. He and his wife have more lectures and events on cam- was in New York recently he ran late April. The gallery is located at moved there, as he is starting a pus, but the highlight was our class into Mikhail Goberman ’00. I then 527 W. 26th St. in New York (ryan job with a commercial real estate reception and dinner on South reached out to Mikhail, who has leegallery.com). Congratulations private equity firm. Field, followed by the all-class had some truly amazing years to Jeff! [Editor’s note: See alumni Lindsay Jurist-Rosner is a v.p. of Starlight Reception on Low Plaza. since graduation. He spent some profile in this issue.] marketing at Simulmedia, a Union And many of us continued the fun time backpacking in the Congo, Please keep in touch; you can Square Ventures-backed technology at The Heights (followed by kara- where he discovered a passion for write me at the addresses at the top start-up. oke) late into the evening. Some wildlife, and now he works in the of the column or submit a note via of the folks who made it to The primates division at the Bronx Zoo. CCT’s webform: college.columbia. Heights included Hector Rivera, He recently finished a book about edu/cct/submit_class_note. Michael Novielli Michelle Hodara, Alex Specht, his experiences and it has received World City Apartments Andy So, Jeffrey Hsieh, Michael some interest from publishers, so 03 Attention Michael J. Chee, Nimmi Pillalamarri and maybe we’ll see it on the shelves Sonia Dandona Novielli, A608 Raheleh Hatami. And throughout someday soon. The tentative title is 02 Hirdaramani Block 10, No 6. Jinhui the course of the weekend, former From the Congo to the Bronx: How I 2 Rolling Dr. Road, Chaoyang District class presidents Kimberly Grant, Helped Heal a Wounded Gorilla — and Old Westbury, NY 11568 Beijing, 100020, People’s Lee Goldberg and Bryan Berkett Myself. [email protected] Republic of China were in attendance. That’s all the updates we have [email protected] In other reunion news, our class for this go-round. Again, by all I hope everyone enjoyed the sum- successfully raised $67,206 from 174 means, if you are interested in mer. Please send me updates at Thank you to the Reunion Commit- donors in support of financial aid, getting involved with planning our [email protected] or submit a tee, and to all who attended Alumni student services, summer intern- 15-year reunion, please email me note via CCT’s webform: college. Reunion Weekend, for making our ship stipends and the Core Cur- and I will put you in touch with columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ 10th an absolute blast. The festivi- riculum. Including dollars raised for the Reunion Committee, or contact note. Thank you! ties began on May 30 with a recep- Athletics, CC ’03 raised more than the appropriate staff member listed Tze Chun and his wife, Cara tion at Greenwich Village Country $98,000 in Fiscal Year 2013. at the top of the column. I hope to McKenney, had their first baby, Club at Bowlmor. On Friday, those Those who have more news to see many of you next May! Henry Hazelwood Chun, on July 14, who were able to get away from share from our reunion should

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Art Means Business for Jeffrey Lee ’01

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Washington, D.C., to be near his mother’s family. His father remained in Seoul, visiting the family twice a year. Lee’s upbringing, he says, did not include much art appreciation, so Art Humanities marked his first significant encounter with the subject. In his spare time, Lee hopped around museums to view firsthand some of the very art that he was studying in class. “Having the city as an integral part of my college experience was life-altering,” he says. He decided to stay in New York the summer after fresh- man year. Browsing through job listings at the Center for Career Education he stumbled upon an internship opportunity at the Mary Ryan Gallery, then on West . As Ryan’s intern, Lee worked on the estate of Louis Lozo- wick, a Russian émigré artist who died in 1973. Much of the collection eventually went to the Whitney. The experience gave Lee his first glimpse of art world business and it dawned on him that this was something he could do with his life. When he returned to Columbia his sophomore year there was no question that he’d major in art history. He held internships Jeffrey Lee ’01, who co-owns the Ryan Lee Gallery in NYC, credits Art Humanities for his career path. each summer while in college PHOTO: DEREK PIECH — at MoMA, at Cooper-Hewitt — and he studied abroad in rim and welcoming in more than ever to break out of intentions of taking up a math Paris his junior year. This af- black-rimmed glasses, existing ideas of what photogra- or science major vanished as forded him the opportunity to Jeffrey Lee ’01 is a phy can be. he grew more engrossed, espe- travel around European cities, gracious guide around Clearly, this is what Lee loves cially once the syllabus hit the “which is basically like walking Tthe new Ryan Lee Gallery, which — championing artists whose 20th century; socialist realism around museums,” he says. One he co-owns with Mary Ryan, in work speaks to him — and he was an early passion. of his favorite trips was to Istan- the Manhattan neighborhood of has built a career doing just Lee became smitten with bul, where he visited the Blue Chelsea. On this June day, the that. For more than a decade, Columbia when, while visiting a Mosque and Hagia Sophia. gallery is exhibiting the work of Lee worked at the former Mary friend at The Juilliard School, he In 2003, Lee bumped into Ryan young artist Bradley Castellanos. Ryan Gallery, which occupied strolled across College Walk and at an art auction. She offered him Lee draws a visitor’s attention to the same ground-floor space on took in the campus for the first the job of assistant director at Castellanos’ technique of layer- West 26th Street. This spring, time. “It was love at first sight,” her gallery. He accepted, and a ing paint over large-format pho- he and his former boss became he says. Learning about Colum- few years later he rose to gallery tographs, lending an otherworldy business partners, launching bia’s academics, the Core Cur- director. feel to the stark landscapes. their eponymous joint venture. riculum excited him as a way to Ryan calls Lee “a great art They hardly look like photos at It all started, Lee says, with explore subjects he might not dealer,” with a keen eye for iden- all. Lee explains that because the Art Humanities class he otherwise have chosen. tifying exciting art. “It’s easy to do photography is ubiquitous these took his freshman year. “That Born in Seoul, Lee was 7 when it when the names are known,” days, on social media and else- was a wonderful, eye-opening he moved with his mother and she says. “It’s more difficult to do where, young artists are driven experience,” says Lee. His initial older sister to the suburbs of it when people are starting out.”

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Lee likens his job to that of a literary agent — he sells art he loves to appreciative buyers and also helps new artists navigate the business side of the creative enterprise. He maintains relationships with collectors, curators and other serious buyers while always being on the lookout for compelling artists to rep- resent. Since he started in the business, Lee says, art fairs have become more critical for getting artists, dealers, gallery owners and buyers together. He goes to about five a year, indulging his passion for travel. Everything, however, is done in the interest of artists. “The more visibility the gallery can have, the better it is for the artists,” says Lee. The economics of running a gallery are daunting. Lee pro- vides this example: If a gallery mounts a show with 10 paint- ings, each priced at $10,000, and all sell, the gallery will end James Maclean ’03 and Sanne Grandt were married on August 25, 2012, in Waitsfield, Vt. Columbians up with $50,000 after splitting on hand to celebrate included (left to right) Andrew Brill ’03, Josh Lebewohl ’03, Jonas Mendoza ’03, the proceeds with the artist Cezary Podkul ’11J, the bride, the groom, Ellen Kettle ’93 Business, Graciela Ibanez ’08J, Romy Lipkis (standard practice). That’s a ’03, Charles Williamson ’13E and Travis Tatko ’03. PHOTO: BIRKE PHOTOGRAPHY trifle in pricey Manhattan, and it’s rare for a show to sell out. A robust network of collectors please send along an update and passionpassport.com/current-trip out this summer. I also designed behind the scenes is essential. I’ll include it in a future column. and see a short movie that I made the film Only God Forgives, with That’s why having an experi- In other news, Christine Mur- about it at vimeo.com/70130892. I , which was released enced partner like Ryan, who phy gave a gift to the Aaron and was able to take this trip because I in art house theatres.” started her gallery in 1981, is James Satloff Scholarship Fund. won Passion Passport’s Bucket List Afia Owusu-Sekyere writes, “I Christine had been the first recipi- Initiative travel grant contest. Coin- recently moved to San Francisco so valuable, says Lee. ent of this scholarship — which cidentally, the founder of Passion to take a new role in marketing “This allowed us to get a James Satloff ’84 established when Passport is Zach Glassman ’09. It’s at Genentech. I look forward to new gallery that can focus on his father, Aaron Satloff ’56, turned funny how things work out when reconnecting with the many CU contemporary art from all over 65 — and she said she wanted to you take a risk to really pursue alums living here in the Bay Area.” the world” — the gallery will give back to the scholarship that what you love doing; it seems like Jonas Divine writes, “I am sorry feature both emerging and had helped her. In response, James the pieces have fallen into place I missed the 10th reunion. I have established artists — “and that matched her donation 100-to-1 and there are only more and more been living in since fall gives a nice dialogue on how with a gift to the scholarship in her opportunities for me to be creative! 2011 and am a procurement man- art can look,” Lee says. honor. I am realizing that living the free- ager for Vale Canada, the base met- Christina Wright writes, “I was lance life is pretty rewarding.” als division of a large diversified Ryan Lee Gallery’s inaugural bummed to miss reunion but I Seth Wax writes, “In June, mining company. I try to get back exhibition, of art by Korean- was actually at Michael LaVigne’s I graduated from the Rabbini- to New York as often as possible born artist Sangbin IM, ran from wedding in Keystone, Colo. In cal School of Hebrew College, a but it is also great to spend time April 26–May 24. terms of life updates, last June I left pluralistic school in Newton, Mass. in another one of the most diverse Like any art dealer, Lee gets my job as an admissions counselor Starting in July, I became rabbi at and multicultural cities in North a buzz from closing a sale, but at Marquette University to pursue Congregation Mount Sinai, an in- America. Looking forward to con- says nothing brings him joy a graduate certificate in digital dependent synagogue in Brooklyn necting with alums in Canada!” like “placing work that you’re storytelling, also at Marquette. Heights, N.Y.” Alex Farrill shares, “My wife, passionate about from artists This was one of the best decisions I Janice (Shore) Berg writes, “In Abby Walthausen ’06 Barnard, and have ever made. I am now writing October 2012 I started my own law I live in Brooklyn. I am the chief you care about very much with for a Milwaukee-based arts and practice in family law in Houston, data scientist at RUN, a mobile institutions and private collec- entertainment magazine, thirdcoast- and in February of this year I ar- ad tech startup in Manhattan. We tors. It’s just so gratifying.” daily.com, as well as for the popular gued a case in front of the Supreme recently announced a $1.5 million competitive swimming website Court of Texas. I’m still waiting on investment from Verizon.” Mary Jean Babic is a freelance swimswam.com. the decision.” Lien de Brouckere shares, “I writer who lives in Brooklyn. “In April, I spent a week in Beth Mickle reports, “I’m a recently moved to Washington, Her most recent article for CCT Germany with one of the oldest production designer for film and D.C., and am excited to be working was a profile of Nate Bliss ’05. members of Facebook, 103-year- television, and I designed the sets in a new job with Global Rights, an old Oma Ella Kastner. You can for 2 GUNS, the Denzel Washing- international NGO, as its director read much more about the trip at ton/Mark Wahlberg film that came of natural resources and human

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of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, continuing a few projects on racial health disparities, environmental health and health care systems. Would love to get in touch with anyone in the area!” Carrington Lee says, “In May, I joined law firm Sullivan & Cromwell as assistant manager of associate development. I’m still in the Financial District and excited for the new opportunity.” Caitlin Verrilli ’13 Business re- ports, “I graduated in May with an M.B.A. and am a program director at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.” Maggie Gram was finishing a Ph.D. at Harvard this past summer. She writes, “This fall I’m headed to St. Louis to take a postdoc at Wash- ington University. I’d love visitors; I haven’t spent very much time in St. Louis but I hear it’s a great town!” Saadya Scott Zakheim says, “My wife, Rebecca; our daughter, Olivia (1); and I moved back to our home state of Maryland in early July. I recently took a job at Shot Tower Capital, a boutique invest- ment bank in Baltimore focused on media and entertainment. I will lead its business development efforts. Rebecca and I were married in April 2011 and spent the last two-plus years on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.” Smith Kidkarndee reports: Keri Wachter ’05 and Brendan Norwood ’09 P&S were married on October 20 in Larchmont, N.Y. “I recently graduated from Pace Columbians in attendance included (left to right) Eva Rosen ’05 Barnard, Jackson Shafer ’05, Leela with a doctorate in school-clinical Sarathy ’05, the groom, the bride, Paul Wright ’05, Merry Boak ’05 and Justin Ifill ’06. child psychology. I hope to open a PHOTO: RJ KERN private practice in the fall.” Elizabeth Saylor is a doctoral can- didate in modern Arabic literature at rights. I get to advise its country of- or otherwise. You can write me at of our seven Ruggles 2 suitemates UC Berkeley’s Near Eastern studies fices in Nigeria, Uganda, Burundi the email or postal address above, — reunited in Bangalore, India, for department. She is writing her dis- and Afghanistan on programming or submit updates online via CCT’s Brian’s wonderful wedding and sertation, “A Bridge Too Soon: The around natural resource extrac- webform: college.columbia.edu/ related festivities. Life and Works of Afifa Karam: The tion and protecting communities’ cct/submit_class_note. Luis Saucedo also reports im- First Arab-American Woman Novel- rights, and also implement projects Also, don’t forget to mark your promptu reunions with erstwhile ist,” with the intention of completing with additional partners to build calendars for our 10th reunion: dormmates: “Last year I started a Ph.D. next year. In addition to capacity of local civil society May 29–June 1, 2014. It’d be great working down the street from a thesis writing, Elizabeth is teaching organizations to support affected to see as many of you as possible! couple of Carman 12ers in Wash- Arabic language and literature at communities.” If you want to be involved with ington, D.C. — Marika Bertram UC Berkeley, work she loves and planning, get in touch with either (née Butler), who works at HUD, has done since 2009. Elizabeth spent of the Alumni Office contacts at the and Matthew Rotman, who works the past two summers running an REUNION WEEKEND top of the column. at the Department of Energy.” Arabic language program in Sidi MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 This year has held many a major Bou Said, Tunisia. This past spring ALUMNI OFFICE Contacts career move, and actual move, for she spent two weeks in Morocco as Alumni Affairs Vanessa Scott Claire McDonnell some classmates: a lecturer with a Cal alumni travel [email protected] 47 Maiden Ln., 3rd Fl. Josh Hadro was appointed group. And in June, she joined her 212-851-9148 05 San Francisco, CA 94108 deputy director, reference and family in NYC to celebrate the DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova research services, at the New York graduation of her best friend, Alisha [email protected] claire.mcdonnell@ Public Library. He previously was Lenora Liggett ’04, from her medical 212-851-7833 gmail.com executive editor for Library Journal, residency program in social medi- Angela Georgopoulos Happy fall! To think that 10 years a trade magazine that covers the cine at Montefiore Medical Center 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 ago we were recently minted library profession. Hospital in the Bronx. 04 New York, NY 10038 graduates of Contemporary Civi- Merlin Chowkwanyun was fin- Hot off the presses, here are a [email protected] lization inching our ways toward ishing his dissertation and gradu- few classmates who’ve made the legal drinking age … ating with a joint-degree in history news lately: It’s been quiet — no doubt a sign My 2013 started with a Colum- and public health from Penn this Syga Thomas’s company, that everyone had a busy summer. bia College reunion, or a Ruggles past summer. He says, “For the Maono, was covered in The Huff- But why not share a little about it reunion to be more precise. Aashti next two years, I’ll be a Robert ington Post: huffingtonpost.com/ with classmates? We want to hear Bhartia ’06, Jenn Legum Weber, Wood Johnson Foundation Health laura-dunn/giving-back-through- your news, whether family, career Brian Overland ’04 and I — four & Society Scholar at the University fashi_b_3461167.html.

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Vidya Vasu-Devan ’06 and Krishna Rao ’06 were married in June in Los Gatos, Calif. Among the guests were (left to right) Emily Lo Gibson ’06 and her husband, Marcus Gibson; Sara Rosenberg ’06; Randall Li ’06E and his wife, Norah Li ’06 (née Garry); the groom; the bride; Anthony Bisio ’06E, ’10 PH; Blair Bodine ’06; and Anne Thomas ’06. PHOTO: RUCHIRA CHOPRA

Ken Harada has been named Warren (D-Mass.). It is great to be One of these four sentences is a lie. look forward to hearing from more managing director at Guggenheim working for my home state senator This past June, Vidya Vasu- of you next quarter! Partners. and I love being back on Capitol Devan married Krishna Rao under Doug Imbruce’s company, Hill.” the redwoods in Los Gatos, Calif. Qwiki, was acquired by Yahoo! Laura Stedman (née Schnaidt) They were thrilled to celebrate with David D. Chait And no Class Notes would be graduated from law school in May great friends from the Class of 2006, 4621 Old Cheney Rd., complete without a wedding or and starting this fall will be an including Anne Thomas; Blair 07 Apt. 6 two, not least a Carman love story. associate in the New York office of Bodine; Emily Lo; Sara Rosenberg Lincoln, NE 68516 Katie Herman and Mike Noble Shearman & Sterling. and her fiancé, Anthony Bisio ’06E; [email protected] were married January 4 in Wash- After six years at Google and Norah Li (née Garry) and her hus- ington, D.C. They met freshman YouTube, Andrew Stinger has band, Randall Li ’06E; and Andrew I hope that everyone had a great year in the Carman elevator after thrown his hat into the start-up Lichtenberg and his fiancée, Mi- summer! As usual, members of the attending a campus punk show ring. He is now v.p. of marketing chelle Lee. Vidya and Krishna are Class of 2007 are up to exciting and in Lerner Hall. Katie finished an at AppStack, a mobile technology excited to be starting their married inspiring things. M.F.A. in poetry at Maryland this start-up funded by Google Ven- life in Seattle. Riddhi Dasgupta shares, “In past spring, and Mike is a program tures and TomorrowVentures. Aaron Karp writes, “On May April, I published International coordinator at the National Foreign Sean Wilkes writes that 2012 26, I married the love of my life Interplay: The Future of Expropriation Language Center. was busy. “After finishing grad and the funniest girl I’ve ever met, Across International Dispute Settle- Keri Wachter married Brendan school at Harvard in the spring, the Carla Pasquale. Three generations ment. Last year, our think tank The Norwood ’09 P&S on October 20 Army sent me back to Washington, of Columbia Karps were at the Wilberforce Society (at Cambridge in Larchmont, N.Y., surrounded D.C., to attend the Uniformed wedding, including best man and University) fulfilled its commission by family and friends including Services University of the Health brother, Joshua Karp ’04, ’07L; to draft a proposed Constitution of Columbians Merry Boak, Justin Ifill Sciences, the military’s medical bridesmaid and sister, Rachel Tunisia, which has been construc- ’06, Eva Rosen ’05 Barnard, Leela school at Walter Reed Bethesda, for Karp ’10; sister-in-law Rona Behar tive to the post-Arab Spring gover­- Sarathy, Jackson Shafer and Paul my M.D. I also met up with Brian Karp ’04; father, Hillel Karp ’71; nance in that country. We were Wright. Wagner, Sam Schon and Sydney uncle David Karp ’72, ’79L, aunt blessed with the featuring of this Be sure to keep sending your Jones ’06 Barnard at Robert Wray’s Barbara Illowsky P. Karp ’80 P&S, proposed constitution on BBC latest news and stories of the Colum- wedding in December. Good times, and grandmother Deborah Burst- and NPR, and our think tank was bians you’re running into out there great cigars and fantastic whiskey ein Karp ’43 Barnard, ’89 GSAS. commended with a Special Men- in the wild world beyond Morning- were shared by all.” Also in attendance from the larger tion in Prospect magazine’s Think side Heights. Ganesh H. Betanabhatla recent- Columbia family were grooms- Tank Awards 2013. On a personal ly joined Talara Capital Manage- men Alexander Crohn, Jason Li- note, I’ll be kicking off a J.D. at UC ment, an energy investment firm chtman ’06E and Jared Hutter ’09 Berkeley, so all Columbians are Michelle Oh Sing with offices in New York and Hous- Arch., along with Sonia Marquez welcome to pop into my humble 06 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 ton, as a managing director. Ganesh ’04, Robert Johnson, Sy Cabria, abode on the West Coast! Reinven- Philadelphia, PA 19107 will lead the firm’s private invest- Amanda Houle ’06 Barnard, Leora tions and new pastures!” [email protected] ments in the oil and gas sector. Holzer (née Rosenblum) ’06 Bar- The American Comparative Dan Kessler is a soon-to-be mar- nard, Alan Rabinowitz ’06E and Literature Association (ACLA) has Emily Ross writes, “After working ried man. He also is the new director Danaya Mesa ’10. I was lucky to conferred top honors to Veli N. on President Barack Obama ’83’s of eCards for Hallmark. Plus, he’s share the day with so many Lions!” Yashin for a presentation made at reelection, I have joined the Wash- one of the writers behind the hit Thanks to all for sharing these its 2012 annual meeting, held at ington, D.C., staff of Sen. Elizabeth young adult novel The Social Code. meaningful updates with us. We Brown. In addition, Veli’s essay,

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Eric shares, “Matt’s intended, Dani Pasternak, got a glimpse of what she is getting herself into upon join- ing what can only be described as the 806 family. At the time of writ- ing this Class Note, they all eagerly await Matt and Dani’s union in early August.” Shafaq Khan and Usman Arain tied the knot on March 30 in Mor- ristown, N.J., with their dynamic, beloved Columbia friends in attendance. Tamara Lee also shares some big news: “I don’t frequently have big life updates, but I suppose when I do, I have a lot! On May 19 I graduated from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, I got married to my medical school classmate, Andrew Lenis, on May 25, and we traveled to Thailand for our honeymoon. I’m literally still in the clouds, writing to you from a plane, as we are moving to Los Angeles to begin our residencies at Carolyn Braff ’07 and Andrew Herman were married on March 23 in Philadelphia. Columbians in atten- UCLA, Andrew in urology and I in dance included (left to right) Sonali Phatak ’07E, Aditi Sriram ’07, Ed Hambleton ’07, the bride, Sasha ophthalmology. I will pursue my Silver ’07, Brendan Shanahan ’06E, Emily Kleinman ’06, Casey Levine ’07 and Rebby Bliss ’07. clinical residency combined with Ph.D. research at the Jules Stein Eye Institute’s EyeSTAR program. “Euro(tro)pology: Philology, World NYC and China, and taught adults ness School. My fiancée, Amanda Looking forward to reconnecting Literature, and the Legacy of Erich and kids. Last year, along with two Mullens ’13 Arch., and I moved to with Columbia alumni in L.A.!” Auerbach,” has been selected as friends, she co-founded The Move- Lincoln, Neb., in June for Travefy, a the winner of the 2013 Horst Frenz ment Creative, an organization that travel software platform I founded Prize and will be published in the brings parkour to hundreds of New while at Columbia. Neda Navab Yearbook of Comparative Literature. Yorkers through regular classes and Carolyn Braff writes, “I got 7 Soldiers Field Park, Veli was awarded his prize at the citywide festivals. Nikkie’s organiza- married on March 23 in Philadel- 08 Apt. 7C 2013 ACLA conference in Toronto tion works with adults, children, phia! I am still Carolyn Braff (I’m Boston, MA 02163 in April. He is a Ph.D. candidate schools, the NYC Department of not changing my name), and my [email protected] in comparative literature (Arabic, Parks and Recreation, The New husband is Andrew Herman. The German, Turkish) at Columbia. School and other organizations. Columbians at the wedding did Congratulations on our five-year TurboVote, founded by Seth Flax- Nikkie says, “We believe everyone a rousing rendition of Roar, Lion, reunion! Seeing 271 of our class- man, recently secured $1 million in deserves a chance to learn parkour, Roar during the cocktail hour. mates on campus and throughout funding across three years from the so we give back by hosting dona- “I graduated from the Universi- New York during Alumni Reunion John S. and James L. Knight Founda- tion-based sessions every week. ty of Chicago Booth School of Busi- Weekend was spectacular. The first tion. (See alumni profile in Spring Fellow alums are welcome to drop ness a week after the wedding, and note I am sharing is from a fellow 2012 CCT.) by and experience our welcoming started a new job in July, working Columbian who graduated 40 Colleen Darnall, an independent community. You can learn more at in marketing at Gatorade, which is years before our class, Buzz Zucker music copyist in New York, married themovementcreative.com.” headquartered here in Chicago. I’m ’68. He wanted to send a personal Zachary Dietz, a music director and Nick Weiler wrote, “I am near- really looking forward to all of the message after meeting so many of conductor. The two were featured ing the completion of my Ph.D. change to come!” us during the weekend. in The New York Times on May 19. in neuroscience at Stanford and, Mike Gambacorta is marketing He writes, “Some of my most Elyse Oleksak shares some much more exciting than that, on director at WebThriftStore, “a web enjoyable moments on Saturday exciting (and delicious) news: “My June 22, I wed my girlfriend of five startup that sells donated items were spent talking with some of husband, Nick Oleksak ’06, and years (and fiancée of one year!), and shares the proceeds with our your classmates, both at the wine I are opening a bagel shop in the Meaghan Pugh. We were high charity partners. We always need tasting before dinner and outside West Village called Bantam Bagels. school classmates in Oakland, Ca- more donated items and more after dinner. So please tell them Our mission is to ‘change the way lif., and rekindled the relationship shoppers!” that Buzz from ’68 enjoyed meet- you bagel’ by providing New after we returned from our out-of- Samantha Feingold writes, “I ing them all and will be looking Yorkers with fresh, mini-bagel balls state collegiate tours of duty. The am excited to announce that I am for them in five years to make sure filled with cream cheese. We plan ceremony took place at Meaghan’s engaged to Dr. Jonathan Criss (’97 that they are still having fun.” to open our doors at 283 Bleecker family home in Calistoga, Calif.” Yale), an ophthalmologist and Alisa Brem is an assistant devel- St. in September.” Check them out Erica Borghard Soofian and surgeon. We are getting married in opment manager at Grosvenor’s at bantambagels.com. David Soofian ’04E are happy to NYC in spring 2014 and are hap- Washington, D.C., office, where she John Shekitka writes, “I’m announce the birth of twins Natalie pily living in New York City.” works on urban infill mixed-use pleased to report that I’ve returned Fay and Oliver Jack on December Jeffrey Feder ’07E, ’08E and the real estate developments. She also to Morningside Heights full-time to 16. newly engaged Matthew Kondub opened a bar, Thomas Foolery, in continue my doctoral study at Teach- Earnest Sweat completed an trekked to Merion, Pa., for a week- July in Dupont Circle; some other ers College.” M.B.A. and graduated from the end to visit Eric Bondarsky and CC ’08ers have invested. She says, Parkour, the discipline of treating Kellogg School of Management. Nina Cohen ’09 Barnard in a partial “If you’re in D.C. come visit the the world as an obstacle course, has He will move to San Francisco to reunion of EC Suite 806. The miss- bar at 2029 P St. N.W. It’s a place been Nikkie Zanevsky’s passion work for The Bridgespan Group in ing member of that suite, Daniel to be a big kid with tons of games, since her Columbia days. During the the fall. Friedman ’08E, had already danced local kid food like grilled cheese last several years, she’s been featured I (David Chait) also completed with the rest of them at Matt’s and PB & J (from The Big Cheese), in The New York Times, performed in my M.B.A., in May, from the Busi- engagement party the week before. homemade ice cream sandwiches

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Maxime Glass ’09 and Evan Harnik were married on July 7, 2012, at the Harvard Club in NYC. Top row, left to right: Monica Ierardo ’09 Barnard, Katy Marcus ’07 Barnard, Dan Gendler ’09, Valerie Smith ’09, Matt Rowen ’09, Arielle Siboni ’09 Barnard, Maya Pariser ’08 Barnard and Jenny Cohen ’06 Barnard; middle row, left to right: Sydney Newman ’11 Barnard, Jennifer Zigler ’08 Barnard, the groom, the bride, Nicole Scalmandre ’10E, Lindsay Braverman ’05 Barnard; Bianca Livi ’05 Barnard and Shana Attas ’09 Barnard; and front row, left to right: Sophie Scharf ’07 Barnard and Ava Friedmann ’09 Barnard. PHOTO: SARAH LEHBERGER FOR AFTERGLOW PHOTOS

(from Captain Cookie & the Milk- ficking with the Haitian govern- across the stage on Class Day. The soon afterward. This fall, he heads man), soup (from Soupergirl), and ment’s child protection agency. Class of 2009 has now spent more to his first assignment with the 2nd quiche and pies (from Whisked!). Rachel Sales (née Trager) time as Columbia College alumni Infantry Division in South Korea. All of the drinks (beer and alcohol) says, “For the past year, I’ve been than as Columbia College students. Josh hopes that his fellow alumni can be made into floats and you can living in Tel Aviv, Israel, with my That is a scary thought, as for many will appreciate reading that when play Plinko to determine the price husband, Ben. I’m the director of of us the memories of Columbia are a very senior ranking officer spoke of your Smirnoff Ice. It’s a really fun recruitment for the Israel Experi- still so fresh. to his infantry officer class about and silly place (thomasfoolerydc. ence, the leading educational Well, it is time to make some the possibility of pursuing graduate com).” tour company here. If anyone has new memories with your old degrees through the Army, he high- Anushka Shenoy is starting friends, siblings or cousins who college buddies! Please mark your lighted the opportunity to study medical school at the Oregon are interested in participating in calendars for our five-year reunion, at Columbia and commented: “I Health & Science University in Taglit-Birthright Israel this winter, Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June mean, how cool would it be to earn Portland, Ore. She says, “Anyone feel free to get in touch with me 1, 2014. If you would like to help a degree from Columbia Univer- in Portland should look me up!” at [email protected]. I’d with planning for the weekend, sity?” There is lots of love for alma Since graduating, Melody be happy to help them get to the please touch base with one of the mater on the Hudson from that fort Quintana has lived in San Fran- country for free!” Alumni Office contacts listed above. on the Chattahoochee. cisco and been a content strate- Reunion is a great opportunity to In August, Dan Trepanier gist at Facebook. She writes, “It’s catch up with old friends and relive moved from the East Village in REUNION WEEKEND been nothing short of amazing to some of the excitement of the col- New York City to Los Angeles, MAY 29–JUNE 1, 2014 be part of the company through lege experience (even if it is just for both for a change in lifestyle and ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS such a critical growth phase, and a couple days). Until then, we will to continue growing his brand ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott I’ve truly fallen in love with the have to make do with catching up TSBmen.com (the men’s style blog [email protected] Bay Area. That said, I’ve recently the good, old-fashioned way: read- that Dan started at Columbia and 212-851-9148 decided to move on to my next ad- ing these Class Notes and logging that he now manages full-time DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova venture, which will bring me back into Facebook. with a team of four). Comparing [email protected] to NYC for grad school. I’ll start an Jack Cantrell became engaged West Coast and East Coast men’s 212-851-7833 M.F.A. in interaction design at the to Constanza Jacobs ’10 Barnard fashion will make for an interesting School of Visual Arts this fall. I’m Alidad Damooei on March 14. Jack is pursuing dialogue, and he hopes to get more excited to explore a new creative c/o CCT a J.D./M.B.A. at Virginia while closely involved with Hollywood discipline and connect with fellow 09 Columbia Alumni Center Constanza works for The Kinetix styling as well as spend a large Columbians back in the city!” 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Group in New York City. amount of time on the beach. Rachel Belt recently finished New York, NY 10025 Josh Mathew was commissioned After working for three years the coursework for a master’s in [email protected] as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army in in government and politics in humanitarian health program February. He graduated from the Washington, D.C., MaryAlice management and returned to Haiti More than four years have passed Army’s training course for infantry Parks decided to make a career to research the issue of child traf- since we all proudly marched officers and entered Ranger School shift and, this year, completed a

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY master’s of science in broadcast camping honeymoon in southern lumbians who would like to come the opportunity. journalism from the Journalism Utah for July.” meet the dolphins and learn about “In other news, my son, Jackson School. MaryAlice heads back to Congratulations are in order for our research. Carman, has impressed me with his D.C. this fall for a fellowship with a few of our classmates who are ei- “I visited Columbia for Com- development. He is an explorer like ABC News. You can view her work ther starting or recently graduated mencement 2013 because my little Columbus (my namesake), and he at maryaliceparks.com. from school. sister graduated from Barnard, speaks weird baby languages. Not Yitian Liu ’13 P&S in June began Gabriella Ripoll writes, “Gradu- and I experienced great nostalgia to be cliché, but it’s like witnessing his work as a general surgery ated from NYU School of Law! In being on campus and watching a miracle every day. Unfortunately, resident at the Cleveland Clinic. the spring I was again in the law as the new graduates danced and I had to leave him behind with my Yitian is excited to finally have his school musical, NYU Law Revue, cheered to Jay-Z’s Empire State of folks, so he’ll speak better Korean first real job, apartment and car. this year joined by 1L (now 2L) Mind.” than I do. Silver linings, people. He welcomes all classmates to visit Shana Knizhnik — small world! Hieu Pham shares, “It’s odd to “A few last tidbits that I must him in Ohio! Look for me in NYU Law Revue’s fill out my current city as Chicago. confess: I have found that a great Yitian is not the only member of ‘Staff Editor’ video! When I pass the Yup! I’ve made the move to the way to make extra money is to the Class of 2009 to recently finish bar I’m settling at a general practice Windy City on a four-year contract ‘airbnb’ your room out and sleep in medical school. Phil Mitchell firm, Arrufat Gracia, in Times with Saveur magazine as its Chicago the living room. I am beginning to graduated from Emory University Square in NYC. Exciting times.” correspondent. think Tiger won’t win that major. School of Medicine in the spring Deysy Ordonez-Arreola ’13 “OK, not quite — I hope you And your life isn’t less meaningful and began a residency in orthope- GSAS earned a master’s in East weren’t fooled because 1) such a just because you don’t get Insta- dic surgery at Vanderbilt in July. Asian languages and cultures. She title doesn’t exist, and 2) only in gram likes on your photo; I remind As some of our classmates com- is part of the faculty at Hunter Col- my dreams would that happen. myself of this often.” plete their graduate studies, others lege, CUNY, and hopes to pursue a But I am in Chicago to pursue are returning to school. Siobhan Ph.D. in history in the near future. even more higher education and Gilbert, for example, recently left In September, Jon Hollander rack up the debt. So if you find Colin Sullivan her job as a research associate at will be starting an M.B.A. program yourself in town, please hit me up. 11 c/o CCT the New York City affiliate of PBS. at the Stanford Graduate School of My spacious apartment in Little Columbia Alumni Center She received a full-ride scholarship Business. Italy should be able to squeeze in 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 to pursue an M.F.A. in playwriting Ben Freeman graduated from another person.” New York, NY 10025 at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Harvard Law in May and is thrilled Lekha Menon is excited to move [email protected] and is beginning graduate studies to be returning to New York this back to New York to start a new role this fall. fall. with Health Leads. She also looks I hope everyone enjoyed the sum- After working in investment forward to reliving East Campus mer. Hard to believe that fall is banking, Valerie Sapozhnikova 1010 days with Maria Alzuru, nearly here! Unfortunately I have Julia Feldberg decided to make a career transition. Nausheen Hakim, Sami Ritter and no updates, so I’ll just use this 10 666 Greenwich St., She begins at Harvard Law this fall Cristina Ciprian-Matthews! space to ask for your contribu- Apt. 607 and is excited about going back to And last but not least, our quar- tion for next time. Whether you New York, NY 10014 school. terly installment from Chris Yim: have successes and life changes to [email protected] share, or just want to say hello, it’s important for us to stay connected. Hi 2010, thanks for submitting Chris Yim ’10 is founding a company called UClass You can write me at the email or your exciting updates. Let’s kick postal address at the top of the col- off our Fall notes with a couple of with two former roommates from Columbia — umn, or submit updates via CCT’s wedding announcements: Zak Ringelstein ’08 and Varun Gulati ’10E. webform: college.columbia.edu/ Milan Cox (née Rodriguez) cct/submit_class_note. writes, “I am excited to share that I was married on May 18 to Jordan Charlesa Stoglin relocated to “A new season means new city, Cox, the cutest, smartest boy in the Memphis from Phoenix in Decem­ new job and a new start. Yup, I did Sarah Chai world. My bridesmaids included ber 2012. She will be a 1L at the it. I made the migration westward c/o CCT Stephanie (Baker) Summerhays University of Mempis Cecil C. to find greener pastures in the Bay 12 Columbia Alumni Center ’09, who was my freshman and Humphreys School of Law this fall. Area. That’s not entirely true: I 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 sophomore year roommate (she Hannah Salomons writes, came west to pursue an opportu- New York, NY 10025 entered with us but graduated a “Hello, classmates! This January, I nity and support a mission that I [email protected] year early), and Lauren Ford ’09. packed my car with all my belong- am entirely passionate about. Happily living the newlywed life ings from the small NYC apart- “I am founding a company called As of this writing, I will have while starting my fourth year as a ment where I had been living with UClass with two of my former returned to UC Berkeley for my fundraiser at the Smithsonian!” best friend Danielle Adelfio ’10E roommates from Columbia — Zak second year of law school. It was Katherine Vance writes, “I got and drove down to live in the Flor- Ringelstein ’08 and Varun Gulati lovely catching up with so many married on April 6. It was great to ida Keys! I am an educator at the ’10E — and we are working to con- classmates while I worked in New see my Columbia suitemates, Dolphin Research Center, where nect students and teachers around York this past summer. Jessica Guo (who was my maid of I spend my days playing with the world to improve the quality Congratulations are in order for honor), Lisa Kawamoto, Claire Zu- dolphins, teaching school groups of education. We just wrapped up Ali Hard and Michael Weng ’11E, kowski and Angela Lu. We missed and visitors of all ages about how an accelerator here in San Francisco who got engaged in January and Lien Hoang, the sixth member of amazing dolphins are and writing called Hub Ventures and are con- are planning a summer wedding our EC townhouse, who lives in curriculum for the new College tinuing to build our company with in Connecticut for next year! Ali is Vietnam. It was great to get together of Marine Mammal Professions, all that we’ve learned. I am living also a new board member of the again, and the Houston weather which will run its first academic the dream here, working with best Columbia Club of Boston and is cooperated for a lovely picnic recep- year in 2013. It has been a huge friends, being part of a social cause enjoying connecting with alumni tion at Hermann Park. My husband, life change and adjustment from that I believe in and rediscovering in the Boston area. Robert, and I are working on Ph.D.s NYC to the Keys, and I certainly the importance of adaptability. Derek Turner reports from in math at Rice in Houston. My area miss my friends and family in the What’s the lesson learned here? Michigan, “Detroit has been earn- of research is knot theory. I taught tri-state area, but I have aspired Sometimes, you just gotta quit ing unsavory superlatives lately, but my first class (Calculus II) last to work at the Dolphin Research your job, jump in a car, chase that the Columbia contingent semester, which was fun and Center since I came to summer one thing you care about, swallow isn’t! Todd Nelson and I work and exhausting and prevented us from camp here as a 12-year-old, and it your pride, dig into your savings, live in the heart of the ‘Arsenal going on a honeymoon right away, feels great to have finally achieved be kind and humble, find free food of Democracy,’ doing our part to so Robert and I were planning a that dream. I welcome visiting Co- where you can and thank God for create jobs here. I recently started a

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new gig at a tech training insti- And improving my Khmer …” in the music business who were I fell in love.” tute and co-working space called Jenn Leyva, who lives and arranging a tour of Japan. He told Paul Hsiao, Eric Tang ’12E and Grand Circus. So for all those Lions works in Yongin in Bundang- Malcolm that the ship for the East Eric Chung ’12E welcome Alex wanting to learn coding or start a gu, South Korea, is putting her would be leaving that night, and Harstrick back to New York. Paul business, consider Detroit. Curious? chemistry degree to good use as a asked him to come along and play writes that he is excited for upcom- Come visit!” kindergarten teacher by day and guitar with the group. ing adventures with the old EC RA Dominique Mann started a job a revolutionary fat activist and “It was only after boarding the crew, Sonal Bothra, Allie Davitt as a producer at MSNBC, where writer by evening and weekends. ship that Malcolm realized that he and Chuck Roberts. Paul also looks she books guests for segments of For Kelicia Hollis, summer had been hoodwinked by a band forward to seeing Emily Ahn and various shows. She writes, “On-air brought the opportunity to work of pirates, and that the story about Lauren Kwok ’12E around the city! guests include political figures, abroad as an intern at the Shanghai the Japanese music tour was really Upon finishing her first year at experts, entertainers, activists Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, just a front for the group’s smug- the Harvard Graduate School of and everyday people. Working China. “Working as the inter- gling operation. He found himself Design, Wen Wen worked for the at the White House and for the national programs intern at the conscripted by the pirates to help summer as an architect at a design President’s reelection campaign UM-SJTU Joint Institute lined up traffic Cuban contraband through office in Beirut, Lebanon. She was definitely prepared me well for perfectly after completing my first the Mississippi Delta. As he gener- involved in the Alumni Representa- this job, and I love working in the year in my M.A. program, and ally disapproves of the Cuban tive Committee while in Cambridge, newsroom. Now that I’m in New doing independent research while trade embargo, Malcolm was more interviewed several applicants to York again, I have been able to abroad has taught me a lot. Let the than happy to work with the group Columbia College and attended the reconnect with friends and other blessings continue!” for a while, but when part of his new admits meet-and-greet in April. alumni. They have really been a As a member of the Puerto Rico left ear got snipped off in a spon- Yin Yin Lu writes, “A few months support system, and I look forward national field hockey team, Leticia taneous knife fight he decided that ago, I left the corporate publishing to staying in touch with everyone.” Freaney has been living in San Juan a life of crime was not for him. He world to work at 10 Speed Labs, a Elizabeth Kipp-Giusti spent a for the past year. She played in jumped ship in Veracruz, Mexico, boutique media agency based in dynamic and intense 10 months her first international field hockey and headed for the hills. midtown Manhattan. We create serving as a corps member in the tournament in Panama in late June “Malcolm is currently living at websites and apps (and even print Americorps NCCC (National Civil- and celebrated her 23rd birthday an undisclosed location in the Sierra packaging) for a wide range of ian Community Corps). Based out shortly before the tournament. At Madre mountains with three loyal clients in an equally wide range of of McClellan AFB in Sacramento, the time, she was a server at Chili’s pet wolves he has nurtured from industries. No two projects, much Calif., her service included projects and practicing with her team. Look- puppyhood. He thanks Columbia less days, have been the same! in Salt Lake City serving the Utah ing ahead, Leticia hopes to use her College for many fond memories, “I’ve also been developing a Food Bank; in Moonachie, N.J., visual arts major to have her first but most of all for supplying such video series for my Lexicography on disaster relief after Hurricane solo gallery show before the end vivid material for his strong and Society titled ‘What’s Your Word?’ Sandy; and in Portland, Ore., work- of fall. Last but certainly not least, ing in a youth development center. she is the owner of a kitten since The 10 months became a heuristic January. Madeleine Jensen ’12 is starting a Ph.D. in molecular aid, pushing Elizabeth to learn more Madeleine Jensen is excited to about the social and environmental be moving to the West Coast this and cell biology at UC Berkeley as a National topography of the country as well fall to start a Ph.D. in molecular and Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. as to consider multiple career paths cell biology at UC Berkeley as a Na- in the nonprofit sector. Certifica- tional Science Foundation Graduate tions gained during that same time Research Fellow. She looks forward still active imagination.” It features students and profession- frame included training in First Aid, to joining friends and all of the Nettra Pan recently completed als of different backgrounds speak- Hazardous Waste Operations and Columbia alumni in the Bay Area. the Columbia-Sciences Po five-year ing about words that resonate Emergency Response, Red Cross Malcolm Culleton, who B.A./M.A. program in Paris, grad- with them in either a positive or and First Responder. Though back writes that he has been “leading uating with a master’s specialized negative way. It will be launched in NYC, Elizabeth says she has a tempestuous life of fortune and in the management of public and on YouTube sometime in the next gained a world of experience on the adventure,” sent in a creative and hybrid institutions with concentra- few months — if you are in the West Coast and is grateful for the detailed account of adventures tions in emerging economies and NYC area and have a word you’d adventure! since graduation: East and Southeast Asia (where she like to share, please drop a line to At the beginning of June, Evan “Unaware of what the future grew up). Congratulations, Nettra! [email protected]. Miller took a trip to sunny Califor- would hold, Malcolm walked On June 11, she wrote, “Yesterday “Another update on the lexico­ nia with Ross Morand and Antho- out from the gates of alma mater evening, I went to a great event graphy front — my review of ny Potter. They ran the 2013 Rock in search of the untamed frontier with University Professor Joseph Michael Adams’ From Elvish to ’n’ Roll San Diego Marathon with across the Hudson. He walked Stiglitz, organized by the Columbia Klingon: Exploring Invented Lan- Team in Training, raising more for many days and spent many Club of Paris, whose president, guages was published in Dictionar- than $10,000 for The Leukemia lonesome nights in the forest, using Maxime Riché ’05E, has become a ies: Journal of the Dictionary Society of & Lymphoma Society. Evan and his spacious sky-blue graduation friend. Professor Stiglitz’s insights North America (Volume 33). It’s my Anthony ran the half-marathon robes as a tent. Eventually, he found were quite motivating in the sense first official academic article!” while Ross ran the full marathon, himself in New Orleans, where he that our generation has a lot to Lots of love from both new and finishing his first marathon in 3 got a part-time job painting houses tackle! I’m excited to see how busi- familiar contributors this time hours and 23 minutes. Way to go, and quickly worked his way up nesses can meet the growing eco- around — keep the updates com- guys! The three enjoyed an extra the social ladder. Before long, he nomic, social and environmental ing, 2012! day off from working in NYC to go received an offer of a high-paying demands and am looking for jobs jet skiing in the San Diego marina job at a prestigious Fortune 500 at forward-thinking companies in on the Monday following the race. company, and was on the verge of business strategy. Tala Akhavan Gillian Rhodes sent this update signing on, when he befriended an “In Europe, I had the chance to 13 c/o CCT from Cambodia: “I recently bought old, one-eyed trumpet player on the get to know inspiring leaders in Columbia Alumni Center a motorcycle to get around Phnom banks of the Mississippi River. The the fast-growing tech and social en- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Penh. Clearly things are getting man overheard Malcolm playing terprise scene through my role as New York, NY 10025 crazy here. I work for a major guitar and said he was impressed Paris ambassador of the Sandbox [email protected] television network and am on a by his picking style. They jammed network. Our applications for mission to up the quality in back- for a bit, earning tens of dollars the 2013 class are open: sandbox- I hope everyone enjoyed a restful up dancing. Then it’s just raising worth of tourist change, until the network.com/apply. and celebratory summer. Since funds to launch a contemporary man told Malcolm that he was con- “Oh, and it’s true what they say graduation in May, members of dance company in the next year! nected to some important people about Paris — a very romantic city! the Class of 2013 have been busy

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY adventuring across the country Yun and choreographer Stephen Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud spent recommends as a “breathtaking and beginning new academic and Petronio. This fall, she will start at the summer in an internship at and unforgettable” experience. professional careers. NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to the National Association of Latino She looked forward to joining Yoonjin Ha has been rehearsing pursue an M.F.A. in acting with the Elected and Appointed Officials. He Sanford C. Bernstein in July as an at the Baryshnikov Arts Center Class of 2016. plans to begin his legal education in institutional equity research sales in NYC for a developing project In early June, Kevin Zhai ’12 September at Cornell Law. associate. She was to be working involving opera, dance and theatre. hiked Mount Si in Seattle with Iman Nanji kicked off her post- alongside Tania Harsono ’11, her For this project Yoonjin is proudly Daphne Chen ’14 and Christine graduate adventures with a road close friend and NSOP orientation working with established figures Currie ’12E. trip across the country, visiting leader. in the industry, including direc- Ryan Cho recently entered several national parks, monu- Aaron Kohn arrived in Johan- tor Paul Warner, composer Du active duty in the Army and will ments and fellow alumni across nesburg in early June. There, he attend the Quartermaster School 11 states. Before moving back to will be the director of a new mu- in Fort Lee, Va., for four months. her hometown of Los Angeles in seum in South Africa, the Museum of African Design. The museum is STAY IN part of a large regeneration project Yoonjin Ha ’13 has been rehearsing at the Barysh- in Johannesburg’s downtown nikov Arts Center in NYC for a developing project area that uses the arts to stimulate TOUCH cultural unity and progress. To ensure that you receive involving opera, dance and theatre. Environmental science major CCT and other College infor- Natalia Martinez spent the summer in Denali National Park Preserve, mation, please let us know After completion of his studies, he early September, Iman spent the Alaska, where she works for Ara- if you have a new postal or will take on an assignment as a de- summer in New York City, where mark. Her work there is focused on email address, tachment commander of an Aerial she trained for her new job at projects involving energy manage- a new phone number Delivery Unit in Nebraska. JPMorgan Chase. At the firm’s L.A. ment, environmental management Isabel Losada fostered her pas- office she plans to join the Private system planning, waste reduction or even a new name. Click sion for art history this past summer Banking Division as an asset man- and renewable feasibility assess- “Contact Us” at college. as an intern at The Frick Collection agement analyst on the ultra-high ments. In her spare time, when columbia.edu/cct or call in New York City. This fall she will net worth team. she isn’t taking care of her recently 212-851-7852. attend the Courtauld Institute of Art Natassia Miller recently adopted sled dog, she enjoys hiking in London to pursue a master’s in completed a road trip down the and playing softball. art history. California coast, which she highly

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I felt like a foreigner while discover- academic growth of their children. places around the community, and involved in their children’s educa- ing and understanding how every- To accomplish this, I organized I contacted the single Spanish radio tion but were limited because of thing worked. In addition, surpris- parent meetings throughout the station in the area. The number of the language barrier and cultural ingly, the English language became district to help them understand parents who attended meetings differences. It brings to mind my an obstacle again, as I felt that my the school system. For example, at grew from there, reaching as many mother’s experience when she tried proficiency was not enough for me the high school level there was a as 170, so that we ultimately had to become involved in the school to to keep pace with the academics. meeting that explained the gradua- to break down meetings by grade provide us with the necessary sup- However, I learned to use sup- tion requirements, Regents exams, level to allow for more meaningful port. I remember she attended PTA port services, such as the Writing report cards and more. Parents also participation. meetings and such but was discour- Center, which helped me improve had a chance to meet their kids’ Based on my own experiences as aged due to language and cultural my weaknesses. At the same time, guidance counselors. In addition, a high school and college student, differences. Parents like her who I felt welcomed by the Columbia workshops were created to teach and my mother’s experience, I have seek involvement or are intimidated community because of its diversity, parents how to use online tools been able to identify and tackle by the school are now learning and I no longer had to be “careful” to check their kids’ grades, atten- specific concerns and obstacles that about available resources and can with my accent. Ultimately I grew dance and so on. At the elementary many Spanish-speaking families face comfortably become engaged and academically, overcame obstacles level, parents were informed about in our school district. For example, take a more active role in the school and made the Dean’s List. the importance of reading and I encountered one recently arrived and their children’s education. I would have never imagined learned about common community student who didn’t know whether to I certainly learned a lot in my that all these experiences would resources such as library programs take a bilingual social studies class in first year, and throughout this past uniquely prepare me for my role, and town recreational activities. which she might more easily obtain summer I worked with administra- beginning last November, as a Parent participation was an ob- a high grade or take a regular social tors and school staff to reflect on last conduit between the East Hamp- stacle at the beginning, when only studies class taught in English that year and to develop a road map for ton School District and its grow- 18 showed up for a meeting I had might be more challenging and put this year. We will continue trying ing number of Spanish-speaking called of all Spanish-speaking fam- her grade at risk. However, when to increase communication with families. Based on the New York ilies of high school students. How- she learned about the available sup- parents through meetings and to State Report Card for 2011–12, the ever, these 18 parents helped me port such as extra help, she went encourage their participation. With percentage of Hispanic or Latino better understand their needs and ahead with the all-English class. For the support of school personnel we students in the district is 41, while concerns, which helped me to plan her and for many other recently ar- have planned school events, such the largest racial/ethnic group is meetings and programs for the rest rived students, it was all about being as parent-teacher conferences and white, at 51. I was hired to improve of the academic year. For the sec- aware of the available support ser- college information sessions, to communication and thus facilitate ond meeting I called all Spanish- vices and using them productively. accommodate Spanish-speaking broader access to district resources speaking parents ahead of time to The response from Spanish- families. I am optimistic that our that are underused due to the lang- inform them about the subjects that speaking families in East Hamp- school community will continue to uage barrier and to create the op- were going to be explained; I also ton has been outstanding. I have provide our students with more portunity for the meaningful partic- advertised the meeting with flyers learned that many families had opportunities to excel regardless ipation of parents in promoting the at markets and frequently visited been seeking to become more of their background.

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Answers to Quiz on Inside Back Cover Letters 1. Doug Jackson ’76 in 1975 and John Witkowski ’84 in 1982. (Continued from page 5) 2. Lou Kusserow ’49 returned a kickoff 100 yards vs. Dart- mouth in 1948. used in refining uranium 235. At on the design and construction of first ionization smoke and fire detec- 3. Johnathan Reese ’02 rushed Columbia, my father worked along- the Hanford, Wash., atomic plant. tor using a radioactive source resem- for 3,321 yards in 1998–2001 side Enrico Fermi, Eugene F. Wig­ He was convinced atomic energy bling the ones in common use today. and John Witkowski ’84 passed ner, Edward Teller and Leo Sziliard, could be developed safely and for Armen Donelian ’72 for 7,849 yards in 1981–83. all major figures in the Manhattan good and peaceful purposes. Hudson, N.Y. 4. William V. Campbell ’62, ’64 TC Project. My father contributed to classi- and Robert K. Kraft ’63. Everyone at the time knew that fied sections of the National Nucle- Corrections 5. 93 yards, John Witkowski ’84 the Germans were working on a ar Energy Series and to program re- The Summer 2013 issue contained to Mark Milam ’86 vs. Buck- similar project and that someone ports for Nuclear Reactor and Pro- several errors. Bookshelf had an in- nell in 1983. was going to build a bomb. Later in cess Plant Projects exceeding $250 correct listing for You’re My Dawg, 6. 93 yards by three players: his life, my father said he was glad million, and he was the author of 22 Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People; John Nork ’49, ’53 P&S vs. it was the United States, and not patents and applications, many of although written by Donald Fried- Lafayette in 1946; Jimmy Henderson ’85 vs. Yale in Germany or Russia, who did it first. them classified. man, the book was not written by 1984; and J.R. Clearfield ’92 It was for our protection, he said. My father’s early employment Donald Friedman ’49. Also, in the vs. Bucknell in 1989. However, my father had mixed included the engineering, construc- listing for Ira Katznelson ’66’s book 7. Paul Governali ’43. feelings about the bomb. He was glad tion and supervision of the subways Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Ori- 8. , who coached the the war would soon be over as a re- for the NYC Board of Transporta- gins of Our Time, Walter Lippmann Lions for 236 games from sult of its use and that it saved many tion. And, with the American Dis- was misidentified; he was, in fact, an 1930–56. Little also had more American and Japanese lives that trict Telegraph Co., he developed, author, a founding editor of The New wins (110) and losses (116) would have been lost in the planned designed, constructed and imple- Republic and an influential colum- than any other Columbia American land invasion of Japan. Yet mented the engineering of detection nist. Finally, in the feature “Schol- football coach. he was petrified by the reports of the and signaling systems using elec- ars in the Storm,” profiling Brian 9. In 2005, when Prosper Nwo- first use of the bomb delivered on Hi- tronic, thermoelectric, pyrometric, O’Connell ’89, the Department of kocha ’06 returned a kickoff 94 yards for a TD vs. Fordham. roshima. He didn’t know the United photoelectric and pneumatic sens- Education committed $200 million 10. Michael Quarshie ’05 in 2005 States was going to explode it. He ing elements. He made a demon- to repair schools throughout NYC, and Andrew Kennedy ’11 in thought we were two years away stration model of a nuclear (radium) not only Scholars’ Academy. 2011. from completing the project. powered thermoelectric battery gen- CCT regrets the errors. After the war, my father worked erator. And my father invented the

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A l u m n i C o r n e r Building Bridges Between Cultures In East Hampton Schools

B y A n a N ú ñ e z ’11

Ana Núñez ’11 was featured in a June 10 article in The New York would verbally test me on the material — then send me back to Times discussing her role as a liaison with the East Hampton (N.Y.) study more if I made mistakes. Sometimes this process took hours School District, working to facilitate communication between the dis- and caused many tears. In addition, my aunt would test me in the trict’s administrators and teachers and Spanish-speaking families. Núñez morning before school while doing my hair or having breakfast. herself attended schools in East Hampton after moving to the United This was tedious and time-consuming, but it prepared me well. States from Ecuador as a fifth-grader. Here, she reflects on her own In East Hampton, my routine was very different. I would ar- transition, the challenges of being an international student and how her rive home by bus, have something to eat and hang around. It was experiences learning to navigate American schools are helping her now. up to me whether I did my schoolwork properly and on time. At first, my mother tried to check on my homework and mirror my was 3 when my mother left my sister and me in Ecuador, aunt’s support, but it was hard for her to be on top of it because in search of better work and opportunities in the United of the language barrier, the difference in the educational systems States. We were left with and time constraints due to her grandparents, aunts and work. That is when I replaced uncles, who played the my aunt’s academic regimen Irole of diligent parents. My with my own initiative. I mother was physically absent struggled at the beginning but for six long years; however, dur- soon became aware of resources ing that time she was financially at the school such as homework present, providing us with the club and extra help, resources best education and fulfilling our not common in Ecuador. After needs. Little did I know back a while, I realized I was most then that everything we had comfortable when I was in was thanks to 20-hour shifts she school. I learned the language was working in a cosmetics fac- in two years and was able to tory in New Jersey. enroll in advanced classes for In 1999 my mother visited the rest of my education. Ecuador for the first time since By the time I got to high Ana Núñez ’11 chats with Teresita Solis, who is from Costa Rica being away. I remember I was and has a son at East Hampton H.S. school things were smoother. very excited to welcome her in PHOTO: GORDON M. GRANT/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX I was lucky to be surrounded the airport, although the visit by classmates who were on the turned out not as pleasant as I imagined, as she was essentially a college track and advised by knowledgeable parents. The entire stranger to me. Two months later, my sister and I moved to East college process was foreign to me: In Ecuador, typically you take Hampton, N.Y., to live with her. The first two years were miser- an entrance exam for the college you want to attend (there are able. I was thrown into an unknown environment where the only limited choices) and then if you pass the test, you enroll — that’s person I knew was my sister, who was going through her teenage all. There are no such things as extracurricular activities, com- years; I was in the fifth grade. Classes were taught in English and munity service, SATs and so on. Here, I became aware of what I the majority of the students were American. There were about should be doing and how to prepare thanks to conversations in eight other kids who were learning English, including one who the classroom. I mirrored my classmates’ trajectories, building up had recently arrived to the country like me. In addition, classes a resume and registering for all necessary tests for a competitive were taught differently than in Ecuador, with students switching school. My mother’s role in my education was limited to review- classrooms for different classes. ing my report card and signing checks for standardized tests. The routine surrounding my schoolwork also changed drasti- Columbia was the second college I visited, and the minute I cally. In Ecuador, elementary school education is very demanding, got there, I knew I wanted to attend. My mother was hesitant and my aunt, who was my school guardian, would not allow me because of the cost, but I wanted to risk it. Luckily Columbia to obtain grades below a 19 (90s in the U.S.). I would get home, provided me with a generous financial aid package, and I also switch out of my uniform, have lunch and do homework. My received a Gates Millennium Scholarship. In addition, I held aunt would check it all and if there were no mistakes I was al- small jobs throughout the school year and during the summer. lowed to play with kids from my neighborhood. To prepare for Columbia and the college system were overwhelming at first. exams, I would study after finishing my homework and my aunt (Continued on page 102)

FALL 2013 104 Homecoming Football Quiz

To get in shape for the Homecoming game against Ivy League preseason favorite Penn on Saturday, October 19, try your hand at this quiz about Lions football through the years. (Answers on page 103.)

1. Name the two Lions who have won Ivy League Player of the Year honors. 2. What was the longest play in Columbia football history? 3. Who are Columbia’s all-time leaders in career rushing yardage and passing yardage? 4. Two Lions were listed among the NCAA’s 100 Most Influential Student Athletes, as chosen in 2006 in conjunction with the NCAA’s centennial. Name them. 5. How long was the longest passing play in Columbia football history? 6. How long was the longest running play in Columbia football history? 7. This Lion won the Maxwell Award as college football’s national Player of the Year in 1942. Name him. 8. Here’s an easy one: Who was the longest-serving coach in Columbia football history? 9. When was the last time a Columbia player returned a kickoff for a touchdown?

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Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS is one of the world’s leading scholars of Asian thought and ranks among the towering figures of modern Columbia history. Read about his remarkable life and career, page 20.