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Cover Story Alumni News Departments 2 l a s s o f o i n s t h e Sp e c i a l In s e r t : Le t t e r s t o t h e C 2010 J Al u m n i Re u n i o n Ed i t o r 16 a n k s o f l u m n i R A We e k e n d 2010 3 Class Day and Commencement marked a rite of Eight pages of photos, Wi t h i n t h e Fa m i l y including class photos, from passage for the Class of 2010. 4 r o u n d t h e u a d s the June celebration. A Q By Ethan Rouen ’04J and Alex Sachare ’71 4 Senior Dinner 5 33 o o k s h e l f Van Doren, Trilling Photos by Char Smullyan and Eileen Barroso B Awards Featured: Apostolos Doxiadis 6 ’72’s graphic novel Logicomix: Academic Awards and Prizes An Epic Search for Truth, and 7 Features its hero, Bertrand Russell. Smith To Coach Men’s Basketball 8 35 b i t u a r i e s “99 Columbians” Co o k i n g 101 O 10 35 5 Minutes with … 20 Chris Kimball ’73, head of the America’s Test Kitchen Arthur S. Weinstock ’41 Susan Boynton 11 Alumni in the News empire, showcases recipes that work. 37 C l a s s No t e s 12 Student Spotlight: By Claire Lui ’00 A l u m n i Up d a t e s Sun ’11 53 Thomas Kline ’68 13 Campus News Yo u n g Li o n s i n Wa s h i n g t o n 65 Michael Goldwasser ’93 14 Roar Lion Roar 24 Three young alumni are making their mark in 15 Transitions D.C. politics. By Lydia DePillis ’09 Web Exclusives at www.college.columbia.edu/cct Co o k i n g w i t h Ki m b a l l 26 Co l u m b i a Fo r u m View highlights of Chris Kimball ’73 on America’s Test Kitchen. Jonathan Cole ’64, ’69 GSAS explains how universities Je a l o u s a t Cl a s s Da y fuel innovation in this excerpt from The Great Ameri- Hear Benjamin Jealous ’94’s inspirational speech. can University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable Th e Ma k i n g o f Lo g i c o m i x See how Apostolos Doxiadis ’72 made his graphic novel. National Role, Why It Must Be Protected. Fi v e Mo r e Mi n u t e s Listen to more from Professor Susan Boynton. La s t i n g Im a g e 72 Dr o p t h e Be a t Listen to one of Michael Goldwasser ’93’s reggae songs. Cl a s s o f ’60 Ce l e b r a t i o n Enjoy Nathan Gross ’60’s singing and piano performance.

FRONT cover: Char Smullyan; BACK COVER: EILEEN BARROSO columbia college today Letters to the Editor

Freefall actually it was Socrates who made this fa- Volume 37 Number 6 University Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s art- mous utterance in the Apology of Plato, a July/August 2010 ­icle­ in the May/June CCT [Columbia Fo- Contemporary Civilization mainstay. Editor and publisher Brian Overland ’04 Alex Sachare ’71 rum] is right on the money, and I look Sa n Fr a n c i sc o Managing Editor forward to reading his book. However, he leaves out (at least in your excerpt) anoth- Lisa Palladino [Editor’s note: The error was made not by Stiles associate editor er important factor in the ongoing decline but by the editor, who heard it incorrectly and Ethan Rouen ’04J and fall of our economy, one that has a se- did not catch the mistake in print.] Associate Director, Advertising riously inflating effect on the GDP. Taren Cowan For decades, the late Columbia profes- forum editor Harriss Remembered sor Seymour Melman ’49 GSAS criticized Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard I am a three-degree Columbian, starting the effects of Pentagon capitalism and the Contributing writer with the College. As a student, I was fortu- Shira Boss-Bicak ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA military/war economy on the nation’s nate to take several courses with C. Lowell Editorial Assistants overall economic situation. Military pro- Harriss ’40 GSAS, and as a professor and Grace Laidlaw ’11 duction and the maintenance of the war Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts dean, to have worked with him on curri- economy contribute significantly to GDP Design Consultant cula and other academic projects. Jean-Claude Suarès numbers but they provide nothing to ei- What a truly fine man! A scholar, he art director ther the general well-being of the popu- cared more for what you learned than Gates Sisters Studio lation or to the real productivity of the how learned you found him to be. webmaster economy. Thomas MacLean After completing a Ph.D., I joined the Since the end of WWII, the Pentagon Contributing Photographers faculty of the Graduate School of Business has monopolized an ever-greater portion Eileen Barroso and had the opportunity to work with Tina Gao ’10 Barnard of an ever-growing federal budget (to- Lowell on a number of University com- Char Smullyan tal yearly defense-related expenditures, mittees. When the Business School dean including servicing the military fraction Published six times a year by the resigned in a dispute with the Provost of the national debt, is now around a tril- Columbia College Office of over a tenure case, it was Lowell who con- Alumni Affairs and Development. lion dollars), which has made it the single vinced me to accept the job of acting dean. dean of alumni affairs greatest economic entity in the American and development “I know that you would rather teach than Derek A. Wittner ’65 economy. Professor Melman pointed out dean,” he said, “and you can return to For alumni, students, faculty, parents and that as military production dominated friends of Columbia College, founded in 1754, an ever-greater proportion of industrial teaching when the President’s Committee the undergraduate liberal arts college of finds a new dean. Right now, the school Columbia University in the City of New York. research and development and precision needs you to hold things together and pro- Address all correspondence to: manufacturing, the United States lost the Columbia College Today ability to compete in essential areas of ci- vide a sense of calm and continuity. It may Columbia Alumni Center not be fun, Kirby, but it is necessary!” 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 vilian manufacturing to overseas competi- New York, NY 10025 tors. When New York City modernizes its Lowell always put the “necessary” first. 212-851-7852 I admired him greatly. E-mail (editorial): [email protected]; subway system or California begins build- (advertising): [email protected] ing a high-speed rail system, the only bids E.K. (Kirby) Warren ’56, ’57 Business, www.college.columbia.edu/cct for equipment or technical expertise come ’61 GSAS ISSN 0572-7820 Tu x e d o , N.Y. Opinions expressed are those of the from foreign corporations. When half of authors and do not reflect official the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge is positions of Columbia College or Columbia University. replaced, the fabricated steel components © 2010 Columbia College Today are shipped across the Pacific from China. Manage Your All rights reserved. But we can take solace in making the best (and most expensive) damn rockets, tanks Subscription and warplanes in the world — and it sure f you prefer reading CCT online, helps the GDP look good. you can help us go green and save Dave Ritchie ’73 money by opting out of the print Be r k e l e y , Ca l i f . I version. Please go to “Manage Your Sub- Socrates, Not Sophocles scription” on CCT’s home page (www. college.columbia.edu/cct) and follow the CCT welcomes letters from readers about With great interest I read of this year’s articles in the magazine, but cannot instructions. We will continue to notify print or personally respond to all letters John Jay Awards Dinner in the May/June received. 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W i t h i n t h e Fa m i l y One Tradition Grows, Another Goes

he Alumni Parade of Classes, Do yourself a favor: Keep an eye College alumni, especially those older which has been a part of Class out next spring for the Alumni Office’s than I who have led full and fulfill- Day for seven years, is one of invitation to participate in the Alumni ing lives. Some have maintained their T Columbia’s younger, lower- Parade of Classes, come back to campus relationship with the College across a key traditions. It lacks the historical and show your support for the next crop half-century or more and continue to gravitas of the Varsity Show or the “stu- of Columbia alumni. contribute their time, money or exper- dents being students” nature of Orgo Alas, one other Columbia tradition tise to support the College. Night or Primal Scream (if unfamiliar, seems to have quietly gone by the way- One such man was Arthur S. Wein- look them up at wikicu.com). It’s also side: sledding down the snow-covered stock ’41, who died in April (see Obitu- one of my favorite days of the year. Low Steps on trays purloined from aries). I looked forward to seeing Arthur For those who have yet to partici- John Jay. That’s because the dining hall at College events such as Homecoming pate (and it’s your loss), each year recently completed its first year of tray- and awards dinners because he always alumni are invited to return to campus less dining, and it looks like there’s no had a smile on his face and kind words and join in the Class Day processional going back. on his lips. He was active in his class’ af- by carrying their class banner. fairs and was a staunch support- The Alumni Office provides a er of this magazine, often calling nice breakfast at which attend- with thoughts and suggestions ees can catch up with class- and even filling in with Class mates or mingle with other of ’41 Class Notes columns in alumni. This year’s breakfast a pinch. Ray Robinson ’41, an- was held in John Jay Dining other prince, called Arthur “the Hall, a room that certainly sweetest man I’ve ever met,” brought back memories for and I heartily second that emo- those in attendance. tion. He already is missed. Alumni are given Class Day Speaking of Class Notes, I pins to mark their participa- call your attention to the Class tion; this year’s pin depicted of ’87 column and a submission Butler Library, which is now from Annie Fils-Aime Joseph ’87 in its 75th year. Then alumni in which she describes, as cor- head outside, where they line respondent Sarah Kass ’87 put Alex Sachare ’71 (left) and Eddie Eitches ’71 prepare to march up with their banners and with their class banner in this year’s Alumni Parade of Classes. it, “her experience as a doctor, a await their cue to take their photo: ethan rouen ’04J Haitian and a human” in trying place in the processional (after to help some of those impacted the seniors and before the faculty), and The folks who keep track of such by the earthquake in her homeland. march over the hexagonal pavers from things found that by removing trays, Please take five minutes to read her story. Butler to the Sundial. The walk takes diners make more careful decisions Finally, to end on a happier note, only a couple of minutes, then partici- about their food choices, and there also filmmaker Marty Huberman ’91 is pants may leave or stay to watch the are fewer service items to be cleaned. In developing a documentary to be called rest of the Class Day program from a the last year, Dining Services estimates The Streak Starts Now, about the play- reserved seating area. it has saved approximately 3,000 gal- ers on the Lions football team that What makes this event so special is lons of water once used daily to wash beat Princeton 16–13 on October 8, the reaction alumni receive as they pass the trays, and at least 50 pounds of food 1988, to end the record 44-game los- the graduating students. Once the first leftovers per mealtime. Sanitary, un- ing streak (or, to be entirely accurate, banner-carrier — this year it was Ar- used food is donated to City Harvest, non-winning streak, since there were nold Saltzman ’36 — comes into view, a nonprofit whose mission is to rescue two ties) and the success so many of the students stand and cheer and keep and deliver food to the hungry in New the players went on to achieve. He is it up until each class has reached the York City. looking for film, pictures — and stories. front of the seating area. Take it from If tray sledding had to go, at least it To learn more about the project, watch one who has done it several times: It’s went for a good reason. a trailer or contact Marty, go to www. remarkably uplifting to carry your class TheStreakStartsNow.com. banner, hear the cheers and feel the ne of the best parts of my job is connection with the graduating seniors meeting some of the remark- on this, their special day. Oable people who are Columbia

july/august 2010 3 columbia college today Around the Quads Class of 2010 Parties at Senior Dinner

A massive tent on South Field was the site of the annual Senior Dinner, where nearly 1,000 soon-to-be graduates celebrated after their final day of classes. Dean Michele Moody-Adams channeled her inner Billy Crystal and told the seniors, “You look mah-velous!” Photos: Carlos Aloya

early 1,000 members of the ees, “Columbia College Class of 2010, I 2010 earned a matching gift of $50,000 Class of 2010 marked their have two words for you: swim test.” from Board of Visitors member Charles last day of classes by getting As the seniors whooped and hollered, Santoro ’82. Ndressed up and partying in a Adam Bulkley ’10, chair of the Columbia Class President Cliff Massey ’10 wel- huge tent on South Field at the Senior College Senior Fund, proudly announced comed the seniors to the dinner, which Dinner on May 3, renewing what has that the Class of 2010 had set a record not was co-chaired by Ruqayyah Abdul- become one of the most joyous traditions just for Columbia but for all Ivy League Karim ’10 and Robyn Burgess ’10. Stu- of graduation month. Dean Michele liberal arts colleges with a participation dent Council President Sue Yang ’10 in- Moody-Adams, who experienced the rate of 92.5 percent, a figure that climbed troduced the dean, and Brian C. Krisberg raucous dinner for the first time, drew to 92.7 percent by Class Day. By surpass- ’81, chair of the CC Alumni Association, laughs and cheers by reminding attend- ing its goal of 91 percent, the Class of added brief remarks.

Community Impact Honors Wittens

olumbia’s Community Impact and its students presented the eighth an- nual “Making a Difference” Service Award to University Trustees Vice-Chair CRichard Witten ’75 and his wife, Elizabeth ’97 TC, at its 18th annual Spring Benefit Auction, which was held on May 10 at JP Morgan Chase in midtown. Witten is senior managing director of The Orienta Group, an investment and advisory firm. His wife is an Executive Committee member of the Hunter Col- lege Foundation and a director of the Fresh Air Fund. CI honored the Wittens for their “steadfast support of CI and their efforts to support education, public health and social services in the Columbia community.” Said Witten at the cer- emony, “Community Impact is a core part of a Columbia education and a core part of Columbia’s responsibility to our neighbors. It’s not just altruism; it’s life experience.” Left to right, President Lee C. Bollinger; Sonia Reese, ex- ecutive director, Community Impact; Richard Witten ’75; Through CI, 900 Columbia and Barnard students are directly improving the Elizabeth Witten ’97 TC; and University Trustee Emeritus lives of more than 8,000 low-income residents of Harlem, Washington Heights George Van Amson ’74, CI board member and master of and Morningside Heights. All proceeds from the event benefited Community ceremonies. Impact’s programs. To learn more, visit www.columbia.edu/cu/ci. PHOTO: MICHAEL DAMES

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Students Honor Davidson, Volk with Van Doren, Trilling Awards

enny Davidson, associate profes- instruction and read books under con- sor of English and comparative sideration for the Trilling Award. The Jliterature, received the 49th an- committee met weekly to confer on nual Mark Van Doren Award, the selection process and to evaluate and Katharina Volk, associate pro- nominated professors and titles before fessor of classics, received the 35th announcing the winners in April. annual Lionel Trilling Award, on Davidson, who earned a Ph.D. May 5 in the Faculty Room of Low from Yale in 1999, specializes in 18th- Library. The winners were chosen century literature, though she also is by the Columbia College Academic an expert on British cultural and in- Awards Committee, composed of tellectual history and English litera- students representing a cross-section ture. She was cited by the committee of majors within the College. for “her innovative assignments, her The Van Doren Award honors a ability to facilitate student participa- Columbia professor for his/her tion — even in lecture classes — and commitment to undergraduate her genuine care for her students’ instruction, as well as for “human- educational experience.” ity, devotion to truth and inspiring Katharina Volk (seated, left) received the Lionel Trilling Volk, who was honored for her leadership,” and is named for Mark Award and Jenny Davidson received the Mark Van Doren 2009 book, Manilius and his Intellec- Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Award in Low Library on May 5. Joining them were (from tual Background, earned a Ph.D. from left) Emelie Kogut ’10, Nirvikal Jassal ’10, Dean Michele poet, novelist and literary critic. The Moody-Adams and Anna Malkan ’11. Kogut, Jassal and Princeton in 1999 and has been teach- Trilling Award honors a book from Malkan were co-chairs of the Columbia College Academic ing at Columbia since 2002. Manilius the past year by a Columbia author Awards Committee, which selected the winners. is the first English-language mono- that best exhibits the standards of in- Photo: Tina Gao ’10 Barnard graph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman tellect and scholarship found in the poet of the first century A.D., and work of Lionel Trilling ’25, the noted Members of the Academic Awards committee members found it “engag- literary critic and author. Van Doren and Committee audited the classes of Van ing and accessible, which is a testament to Trilling were longtime members of the Doren Award nominees during the aca- Volk’s ability to demonstrate the intellec- Columbia faculty. demic year to observe the quality of their tual and cultural milieu of Manilius.” around the quads columbia college today

2010 Academic Awards and Prizes

he Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, at which Affairs Kathryn B. Yatrakis were on hand to congratulate students are recognized for their academic achieve- the students at the ceremony, held on May 17 at Faculty T ments, is a highlight of graduation week. Dean of House. Yatrakis, along with several noted faculty members, the College Michele Moody-Adams and Dean of Academic presented the awards. Following are the 2010 recipients.

Special Achievements Peter M. Riccio Prize To Be Noted Ca s h e l Ro s i e r ’10 Benjamin F. Romaine Prize Presented by Kathryn B. Yatrakis, dean of academic affairs Co r e y Br e g m a n ’10 Harry J. Carman Fellowship Ernest Stadler Prize For Excellence in the Study of Am a n d a Be n a v i d e s ’10 Classical Antiquity Jarvis and Constance Doctorow An d r e w Wa r d ’11 Fellowship Deutscher Verein Prize in i s h a n t a t s h a N B ’10 German Henry Evans Travelling Fellowship Bu c k El l i s o n ’10 Ge o r g e Ba i s o n ’10 Susan Huntington Vernon Prize Da v i d Ve g a -Ba r a c h o w i t z ’10 Ke n Ki t a y a m a ’10 Solomon and Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellowship Richmond B. Williams Travelling Ju a n Ga s c o n ’11 Fellowship Br i t t n e y Na g l e ’12 Ay o Al s t o n -Mo o r e ’11 Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize An n a Fe u e r ’11 e o m Ar i a n n e Ri c h a r d ’10 S I ’11 Ta r a Me n o n ’11 Euretta J. Kellett Fellowships Ch a r l e s Cl a v e y ’10 Dean Michele Moody-Adams joined valedictorian Arianne Richard ’10 Prizes in the Creative and Am a n d a Pa r s o n s ’10 Performing Arts Richard Lewis Kohn Traveling and salutatorian Jeffrey Spear ’10 at the annual Academic Awards Fellowship and Prizes Ceremony. Presented by Patricia E. Grieve, the Si m a s Gl i n s k i s ’12 PHOTO: TINA GAO ’10 BARNARD Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Arthur Rose Teaching the Humanities, Department of Spanish Assistantship Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize The Phyllis Stevens Sharp and Portuguese c o t t a x f i e l d o n i h a i l e s c u Fellowship in American Politics S M ’11 I M ’10 Academy of American Poets a m e s a w s o n David B. Truman Alumni Award Professor Van Amringe J D ’11 Poetry Prize Mathematical Prize Sa r a h We i s s ’10 Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize Ni c h o l a s Wo n g ’11 Fi r s t -Ye a r : Su n g Pa r k ’13 Ni c h o l a s Se r p e ’10 Salutatorian Karen Osney Brownstein Writing So p h o m o r e : Sh e n j u n Xu ’12 e f f r e y p e a r Taraknath Das Foundation Award Prize J S ’10 Ju n i o r : Sa m u e l Be c k ’11 Ni s h a n t Ba t s h a ’10 Yi t i a n Fu ’10 Valedictorian John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Ar i a n n e Ri c h a r d ’10 Mathematics Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize Arthur E. Ford Poetry Prize At a n a s At a n a s o v ’10 Jo r d a n Hi r s c h ’10 Mo r g a n Pa r k e r ’10 Prizes in the Core Curriculum Philolexian Prize Prizes in the Social Sciences Prizes in the Humanities Presented by Professor James J. Za c h a ry Go m e s ’10 Presented by Associate Professor Jenny Valentini, Department of Chemistry Presented by Professor Priscilla Re b e cc a Ku t z e r -Ri c e ’12 Davidson, Department of English and Joshua A. Feigenbaum Prize in Ferguson, Department of Sociology Austin E. Quigley Prize Literature Humanities Comparative Literature Charles A. Beard Prize Pa i g e Jo h n s o n ’10 Ba r n a r d Su s a n Ph a n ’11 Jo n a t h a n Ba c k e r ’10 Senior Thesis Prize in Art History Wallace A. Gray Prize in and Archaeology Richard and Brooke Kamin Literature Humanities Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize Rapaport Summer Music Ja m e s DeWi l l e ’10 Performance Fellowship Ni n a Ba c u l i n a o ’11 Ro n Ge j m a n ’10 Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Br i g i d Ba b b i s h ’12 Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize Chanler Historical Prize Memorial Prize Hi l a ry Ba b o u k i s ’11 Al l i s o n Ca p l a n ’11 Ka t e Re d b u r n ’10 Hi l l a ry Bu s i s ’10 Su z a n n e Da v i e s ’11 Ju d d Li n d e n f e l d ’11 Albert Marion Elsberg Prize Ju a n La m a t a ’10 Th e o Di Ca s t r i ’11 Em m a McGl e n n e n ’11 An n a Wo o d ’10 Ro s a l i n d Pa rry ’10 o l l y r u c k m a n Jonathan Throne Kopit Prize in H D ’12 Logic and Rhetoric Lily Prize in History Dino Bigongiari Prize Au g u s t d u Po n t ’10 Ha d i El z a y n ’12 Mi c h a e l Pa r a n a c ’10 Ad r i e n n e Re i t a n o ’10 Re b e cc a Fu l l e r ’10 James P. Shenton Prize in Garrett Mattingly Prize Bunner Prize El l i o t t Hu a n g ’10 Contemporary Civilization Ku r t Ka n a z a w a ’11 Ti m o t h y Tz e n g ’10 Ry a n Al b e r t s ’10 a m e s a w s o n Sa r a h Mi-Eu n Ki m ’11 J D ’10 Sanford S. Parker Prize Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize Vi c t o r i a Le w i s ’13 a n i e l i l l a r Prizes in Science and D V ’10 Ab h i j i t Na g a r a j ’10 Ed w a r d Po l l ’10 Edwin Robbins Academic Research Earle Prize in Classics Er i c Si l b e r g e r ’11 Mathematics and Public Service Fellowship Wi l l i a m St e w a r t ’12 Ma r k Ya n -We i Si m ’12 Presented by Professor James J. Jo n a t h a n De n t l e r ’10 John Vincent Hickey Award Ma d h a v a n So m a n a t h a n ’13 Valentini, Department of Chemistry e s o l a n Y H ’11 a v i n g e r l e i d e r a m e s o w d e r T U ’11 Richard Bersohn Prize Sa r a h Kh a n ’11 J L ’10 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts Ar i a n n e Ri c h a r d ’10 Ky l e Sh y b u n k o ’10 Adam Leroy Jones Prize in Logic o n e j m a n Ur s u l a Kw o n g -Br o w n ’10 Computer Science Department The Romine Prize R G ’10 Award Ho n o r s Th e s i s : Je h a n Sp a r k s ’10 Helen and Howard R. Marraro The Mariana Griswold Van Al e x Ba m b e r g e r ’11 Se m i n a r Pa p e r : Er i c a Prize Rensselaer Prize Ga b r i e l Sc h u b i n e r ’10 Ke s t e n b a u m ’10 Ta y l o r Na p o l i t a n o ’10 Ma y a Po p a ’10 Ba r n a r d

july/august 2010 6 columbia college today around the quads Smith Named Head Men’s Basketball Coach

B y Al e x Sa c h a r e ’71

an Kyle Smith pick up where Joe Ivy seasons before sliding to 5–9 in Ivy boost — and see what happens from there. Jones left off? play last year and 11–17 overall. Although Eventually we want to be a team that can C Smith, who spent 18 years as an Jones posted only one winning record compete for Ivy League championships.” assistant coach, the last nine at St. Mary’s in seven seasons (16–12 in 2007) and an Smith sees parallels between St. Mary’s (Calif.), was introduced on May 5 as the overall mark of 86–108, Athletics Director and Columbia. “When I got there we were 22nd head coach in the 110-year history of M. Dianne Murphy said he “reengaged 2–27,” he said, “so I saw it grow from 9 Columbia men’s basketball. He succeeds our men’s basketball community and (wins) to 15 to 19 to 25, and then the last Jones, who resigned after seven seasons revitalized our men’s basketball program. three years we averaged 27. It can be done.” to become an assistant to former Cornell For that, we are all very grateful.” Although Smith said, “At St. Mary’s coach Steve Donahue at Boston College. Murphy said she reviewed more than we fancy ourselves as being Ivy League A 1992 graduate of Hamilton College, 150 applications before deciding on Smith, West,” one big difference is that his Smith spent eight years as an assistant citing his “strong leadership skills, excel- former school was able to offer athletic coach at the University of San Diego and lent basketball knowledge and successful scholarships. “It’ll obviously be different, one year at the Air Force Academy before recruiting experience. He’s exactly what with a different student-athlete,” he said, moving to St. Mary’s in 2001. He rose to we’re looking for as our head basketball “but Cornell proved it can be done in the become associate head coach for the Gaels, coach.” Ivy League. What I’m taking from that is who compiled a 28–6 record last season Randy Bennett, head coach at St. Mary’s, the belief we have in ourselves. It doesn’t and reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA predicted that Smith “will be very success- matter what resources you have — you Division I Men’s Basketball Champion- ful” in his first stint as a head coach. “He have a chance if you’re working hard and ships. Smith’s primary duties included has been a huge part of what we’ve done. you get good players who are commit- coordinating recruiting, overseeing player It’s been he and I together — it’s been like ted. You have a chance to compete with development and focusing on the team’s having a co-coach.” anybody. offensive game plan. Smith said he was “very excited” to “What’s going on in the Ivy League is Jones had only mixed success during take on the challenge of taking the Co- exciting,” he added. “Cornell reached the his tenure on Morningside Heights. A lumbia program to the next level. “Let’s Sweet 16, Harvard and Princeton were popular presence on campus, he inherited try to get a winning season,” he said, very good and are expected to be good a team that went 2–25 and was winless in when asked about goals. “Let’s try to get again next year. I don’t see any reason Co- its 14 Ivy games and achieved three 7–7 there — that would be a huge confidence lumbia can’t be, too.” around the quads columbia college today

“99 Columbians” Depicts Student Diversity

B y Da n i e l l a Za l c m a n ’09

hen Angela Radulescu ’11 stum- Hong, a pre-med East Asian languages bled across Bennett Hong ’11’s and cultures major with a concentration WFacebook photo albums of in economics, didn’t often have much friends and classmates, she was impressed. time to spare. But the duo used every Radulescu, then photo editor of Spectator, moment they could for the rest of the se- had always wanted to create a unique, mester to run from dorm to dorm, spend- Columbia-centric photography project, and ing as much as four hours with each Hong, whose portraits she found remark- subject. They discussed everything from ably intimate and crisp, seemed like the one student’s summers spent teaching at Bennett Hong ‘11 and Angela Radulescu ‘11 perfect partner. So she approached him clown camp to another’s move from Af- sought to chronicle the diversity of the Co- lumbia student body. with an idea halfway through the 2009 ghanistan to the United States as part of a Photo: Daniella Zalcman ‘09 fall semester: photograph 99 students in conflict resolution program. their dorm rooms to create a “There are so many un- exhibit at 99columbians.com. Robyn Bur- portrait of Columbia’s diverse usual stories that emerge gess ’10 volunteered to manage the public student body. when you take the time to relations. On April 9, Radulescu and Hong Hong quickly agreed, and interact with someone on held an exhibit in Lerner Hall to showcase the two created a Facebook this level,” says Hong. At the their work and contributed art to several group to gauge student inter- busiest point of the project, other campus events organized by CUArts est. Within three days, the he scheduled up to four and CCSC. pair had 100 students volun- shoots in a single day, mak- “We wanted to photograph Columbians teering to be subjects. ing it a rule to spend roughly with their own ways of being,” Radulescu And so the “99 Columbi- two hours talking and two says. “These are students with a diverse ans” project was born. Rad- hours photographing. range of interests who are artists and scien- ulescu, a neuroscience and Ryan Bubinksi ’11 devoted tists and athletes at the same time. Discov- behavior major with a con- his winter break to creating an ering that range of talents in this commu- centration in economics, and interactive online gallery of the nity was an amazing experience.”

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Susan Boynton is an associ- away. My whole family lives who was studying medieval What is something your ate professor of music and in New York. manuscripts of music in To- students would never guess chair of Music Humanities. ledo Cathedral from 1750–55 about you? What classes will you teach Her research focuses on and working with a callig- I used to dance ballet. in the fall? liturgical music in medieval rapher who made incredible Music Hum and a new ped­ How do you recharge? Western monasticism, mo- facsimiles of the manuscripts. agogy class that’s for music I do yoga. nastic education and the The Jesuit was involved in department graduate stu- role of women in medieval many different things, and I If you could be anywhere dents. It’s combined with a song. The recipient of two was just focusing on that one in the world, where would professional development Fulbrights, a Rome Prize, an aspect of his work. His work you be? program including classes on American Council of Learned started as a political project, It’s a tie between Rome and C.V. writing, grant writing, Societies Fellowship and a a Spanish government com- Madrid. I spent a lot of time the job market, publications membership at the Institute mission to transcribe archival at the Academy in Rome. My and so forth. for Advanced Study, she has documents that they would second book is on this Jesuit been teaching at Columbia Where do you see Music use in negotiations with in Toledo, and because the since 2000. Boynton earned Hum fitting into a rounded the Vatican regarding the materials are preserved most- her bachelor’s from Yale and liberal arts education? crown’s claims on ecclesiasti- ly in Madrid, I spent a lot of her Ph.D. from Brandeis. Music is very much part of a cal property both in Spain time there too. What’s your favorite Where did you grow up? place in New York City? New York City. Five Minutes with … Susan Boynton The promenade by the What did you want to be Hudson near West 100th Street liberal education. When peo- and in the new world. As growing up? in Riverside Park. ple learn to analyze a painting a larger historical project, When I was in high school, I in Art Hum, the object is visu- it concerned the history of What’s your favorite food? was interested in being a pia- al; in Music Hum, it’s a sonic Spanish patrimony and cul- Indian. nist, but I liked writing about object. Music is the text. As in tural legacy. music, so in college, I thought What on your resume are Lit Hum, where people learn I’d be interested in being a Where do you live? you most proud of? to read texts closely and take music historian, a classicist or Broadway and 111th Street. The Rome Prize, a fellowship apart a text, they learn that something like that. to go to The American Acad- with music in Music Hum. Are you married? Do you emy in Rome for a year. Do you still play piano? Texts are not limited to verbal have kids? Yes. I have a grand piano at texts. Texts also are visual and I am married to Jens Ulff- What music are you listen- home. I do some informal musical. Moller, who also teaches at ing to? performances. I’ve done little Lately, a lot of children’s What are you working on? Columbia. We have a 2-year- concerts here and at home. old daughter. music! We also watch a lot I recently finished a book on of DVDs of ballet and opera. What kind of music did you a Jesuit in the 18th century Did you and your husband listen to growing up? Right now, my favorite is an meet at Columbia? amazing DVD of The Rite I listened to classical music. We met at a medieval con- of Spring and The Firebird of My father sang in a lot of ference in Kalamazoo, Mich. Stravinsky with wonderful choirs and was a very good It’s this huge conference reconstructions of the original piano player. My grandmother every year in May when the choreography and a fantastic was a voice teacher and a sing- dorms at Western Michigan orchestra performance. er. I heard a lot of early music are available. It now has and choral music growing up, about 4,000 people a year. Can you recommend a musi- so I grew interested in that. People from Europe, the Pa- cal event in New York? How did you come to cific Rim, all over the world The concert series of early Columbia? come to Kalamazoo. music at The Cloisters in a beautiful chapel, and a series I used to teach at the Uni- To non-medievalists, at Corpus Christi Catholic versity of Oregon. That it’s probably weird, Church on West 121st Street. was my first job after I but to any me- got my doctorate. I was dievalist, it’s a Interview and photo: invited to apply for a household name. Ethan Rouen ’04J job here in 2000, and I actually know that was it. I was very a number of To watch Boynton discuss how glad to come home to people who met students benefit from New York’s New York. The West their spouses rich cultural offerings, go to Coast seemed very far in Kalamazoo. www.college.columbia.edu/cct.

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n Michael F. Mundaca ’86 has been n James Shapiro ’77, the Larry appointed by President Barack Miller Professor of English, has Become a fan of Obama ’83 as assistant secretary for garnered headlines for his latest Columbia College tax policy at the Treasury Depart- book, Contested Will: Who Wrote ® ment. He previously was senior ad- Shakespeare?. Continuing this Today on Facebook viser for policy at Treasury’s Office theme, he authored an extensive of Tax Policy and was the acting as- piece in the March 26 Financial Keep in touch with sistant secretary for tax policy. Mun- Times (www.ft.com) questioning fellow alumni and get daca was appointed to Treasury in the reluctance of Shakespeare Karthik Ramanathan ’94 2007 as deputy assistant secretary scholars to accept collaboration as the latest news from Photo: Alex Kingsbury ’04J for international tax affairs. In the a significant component of Shake- private sector, Mundaca was a part- speare’s work. “Many scholars, the College and CCT. n Karthik Ramanathan ’94 has ner in the International Tax Services including some of those most left his post at the Treasury Depart- group of Ernst & Young’s National responsible for the transformations ment, where he had overseen the Tax Department and has been an in Shakespeare studies, have had issuance of more than $8 billion of adjunct professor at Georgetown a hard time letting go of otherwise debt, to work in the private sector. University Law Center. He also unsupported biographical claims Ramanathan, who joined Treasury served in the Treasury during the that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet to in 2005 from Goldman Sachs, was Clinton administration. commemorate the death of his son, Advertise entrusted with the responsibility or that The Tempest marks his leave- of ensuring the efficiency of the taking from the stage and retire- here! government’s debt auctions, a task ment to Stratford — conveniently that has only grown in importance overlooking three subsequent Connect with all in light of the financial crisis and collaborations with John Fletcher,” the increase in the deficit. Ramana- Shapiro wrote. The author of Columbia College alumni. than “has made terrific contribu- multiple volumes on Shakespeare, tions” to Treasury’s seasoned debt Shapiro is working on The Year of Reach an audience of management team,” U.S. Treasury Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. Secretary Timothy Geithner told prominent, affluent, The Wall Street Journal. n Tony Kushner ’78’s latest play, well-educated readers The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to n Mark C. Minton ’67 has been Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to who are leaders in their elected president of The Korea Newt J. “N.J.” Burkett ’84 the Scriptures, will premiere in New fields — attorneys, Society, an American organization photo: WABC-TV York next spring in a co-production “dedicated to the promotion of by the Public Theater and the Sig- physicians, politicians, greater awareness, understand- n Award-winning newsman Newt nature Theater Company, according scientists … yes, even a ing and cooperation between the J. “N.J.” Burkett ’84, ’85 SIPA has to The New York Times. The play, first people of the United States and earned another trophy for his shelf produced in Minneapolis last year President. Korea.” According to the society’s and another fascinating tale to under a commission from the Guth- website (www.koreasociety.org), he share with his New York audience rie Theater, will open on March Significant savings has served for 32 years as a senior through WABC television. Burkett 22, 2011, in the Public’s Newman Foreign Service officer, playing a and his team received the Radio Theater. Kushner has continued opportunity. Call today to prominent role in interactions Television Digital News Asso- reshaping the play after the Guthrie between the U.S. and Asia. Minton ciation’s 2010 Regional Edward production, citing his recent work find out more. served as U.S. Ambassador to Mon- R. Murrow Award in the video editing Arthur Miller plays as in- golia from September 2006–Septem- continuing coverage category for fluencing his revisions of the script. Contact Taren Cowan ber 2009 and also served as deputy large television markets. He won He is noted for his Pulitzer Prize- chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy for his coverage from Gaza in winning play Angels In America: A at 212-851-7967 or in Seoul as well as in various other January 2009. CCT profiled Burkett Gay Fantasia on National Themes. [email protected]. diplomatic posts. He also has taught in September/October 2006: www. Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts

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student spotlight Thomas Sun ’11 Strives To Eliminate Health Inequalities

B y Na t h a l i e Al o n s o ’08

he two months Thom- witnessed how the Canadian was frustrating, Sun gained a organization that recruits col- as Sun ’11 spent as a and American health systems new goal from it. “I realized if lege students to provide public volunteer at a primary work, I wanted a more global I was going to be more effec- health interventions at local care clinic in sub- perspective on health care,” he tive on the global health scene medical institutions. SaharanT Africa strengthened his explains. I would need to be more pro- “Part of why I am interested interest in global health issues While in Senegal, Sun and ficient in at least another lan- in health inequalities is because and influenced his subsequent the other volunteers stayed in guage,” explains Sun, who is I was an immigrant, and I did goals. a private, two-level building in studying French and already is not understand English when During summer 2009, Sun Medina Baye. The desert heat fluent in Cantonese and Man- I moved to Vancouver. I felt a interned at the Shifa-al-Asqam was intense, he recalls, and darin Chinese. lot of the time I was neglected (Healers of the Sick) Socio Med- power outages were frequent. Sun also considers his stay in or ignored because of the ical Center in Medina Baye, At the clinic, Sun relied on Eve- Senegal his first real exposure language barrier,” he says. “I Senegal, which focuses on all lyn Kamgang, a fellow volunteer to Islam, the country’s predom- find that I can identify with un- aspects of maternal and child who spoke French, to serve as inant religion. He found the derprivileged patients who feel health services in addition to an interpreter for him with the experience culturally enriching that they are ignored in some general emergency care. Sun doctors and nurses, who spoke and was particularly struck by sense as well.” spent his time there assisting French and Wolof, the local the role local religious lead- Through Project HEALTH, Sun the staff in day-to-day tasks language. ers, known as sheikhs, played has mentored children with such as dressing wounds. in promoting healthcare sickle cell disease and staffed “Many kids came in with initiatives. help desks at the Harlem Hos- scratches and infections be- “They were the ones pital Center and NewYork-Pres- cause they don’t have shoes. who spoke on the radio byterian Hospital emergency They play barefoot in the sand to get people to have rooms that connect underprivi- and get caught on metal. We their children vaccinated,” leged families with resources saw many injuries like those,” he says. relating to food, education, em- says Sun, who was deeply trou- Sun traveled to Senegal ployment and housing. bled by the clinic’s lack of medi- with the goal of expanding “We [the students] are the cal supplies and poor hygiene. his knowledge of global ones who are directly servicing In addition to assisting with health issues and suc- them,” says Sun, who assumed medical needs, Sun collabo- ceeded; a similar resolve a more administrative role rated with two volunteers to to broaden his horizons as a campus coordinator for create new forms and digitize steered him toward the Project HEALTH in April. “With the clinic’s medical records College two years earlier. the recent economic crisis we with the hope that these can “Columbia drew me have seen an increase in the eventually be used to produce because it’s in New York number of cases.” data for statistical analysis. City and that comes with In 2009, Sun was awarded “The expertise that we were many cosmopolitan and the Goldman Sachs Global Lead- able to offer was mostly tech- international opportuni- ers scholarship, which recog- Thomas Sun ’11, shown here in his nological,” he notes. ties,” says Sun, who nized 16 students nationwide bedroom in Senegal wearing a tradi- The Senegal internship was tional Senegalese outfit, has been con- completed the elite Inter- who excelled academically and an initiative of the One World necting Harlem families with essential national Baccalaureate demonstrated leadership poten- Foundation, a New York City- resources through Project HEALTH Degree Program, a rigor- tial. He envisions himself pursu- based nonprofit that matches since his first year at the College. ous two-year curriculum ing an M.D./M.P.H., and though young people with domestic and PHOTO: Trell Malveo for high school students he is pondering different career international projects that pro- that yields a diploma paths, the value of his experi- mote social justice. The United “He always had his notebook recognized by universities ences thus far is not lost on him. States Agency for International out in which he would take co- worldwide. “I also was drawn “I will be more aware of the Development’s Global Health pious notes of French phrases by the well-roundedness of the socioeconomic factors that im- Fellows Program provided the and their phonetic sounds, Core, which is something the pact health,” says Sun. “A doctor funding. A desire to visit Africa along with Wolof phrases and IB program also stresses and I can only treat part of the health to inform his understanding of translations,” recalls Kamgang found I enjoy.” problem.” global health issues motivated of Sun. “He did not let the lack Sun is majoring in philosophy Sun to apply, a process that re- of French or Wolof speaking and completing a pre-medical Nathalie Alonso ’08, from quired a written application and skills stop him from commu- curriculum. He became inter- Queens, is a freelance journal- a phone interview. nicating with our Senegalese ested in public health issues as ist and an editorial producer of Sun was born in China and counterparts or participating in a first-year at the College when LasMayores.com, Major League was 10 when his family emi- clinic activities.” he joined the Columbia chapter Baseball’s official Spanish lan- grated to Vancouver. “Having Though the language barrier of Project HEALTH, a volunteer guage website.

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Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS was awarded the Philolexian Award for Dis- tinguished Literary Achievement at the Philolexian Society’s annual dinner, held at the Union Theological Seminary on April 17. De Bary, the John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus of the University, was cited as “a distin- guished member of the Philolexian Society and a giant in the field of literary endeavor who is the quintessential great teacher, the quintessential great scholar and the quintessential great Columbian.” Tao Tan ’07, ’11 Business, a former student of de Bary’s, presented the award. PHOTO: RAZA PANJWANI ’07

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Roar Lion Roar n TENNIS REPEAT: Columbia’s n STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: The In addition to Lowery and Piz- field and led the team with six men’s tennis team, co-captained by Columbia archery recurve team zano, catcher Dean Forthun ’10 and home runs, and designated player Jon Wong ’10 and Mihai Nichifor won silver for the second consecu- designated hitter Alex Aurrichio ’12 Maggie Johnson ’11, who pitched ’10E, won its second consecutive tive year at the U.S. Intercollegiate were named to the All-Ivy first team. and played first base and set a Ivy League Championship and its Archery Champions at College Sta- Pitcher Don Bracey ’11 was named school record with 12 career home third in the last four years by beat- tion, Texas, on May 13–16. Colum- to the second team and infielder Jon runs, made the second team. Golf- ing Princeton 6–1 on April 18. The bia, represented by Sara Goshorn Eisen ’12, first baseman Jason Banos er Lynda Kwon ’12, who finished Lions finished the regular season ’10, Sarah Chai ’12 and Alexandra ’11, shortstop Alex Ferrera ’11 and seventh in the Ivy championships, with a 16–4 overall record and 6–1 Garyn ’11 Barnard, defeated Con- outfielder Billy Rumpke ’12 received also made the second team. in the Ivy League to capture their necticut and James Madison before honorable mention. fifth Ivy title since 2000 and eighth losing to the host school, Texas under coach Bid Goswami, who A&M, by one point. n HEPS: Columbians won seven took over the program in 1982. Goshorn won the silver medal individual titles and two relay Wong is the first Columbia ten- individually in the recurve divi- crowns at the Ivy League Heptago- nis player to become a three-time sion, winning four matches before nal Championships in Princeton Ivy champion, and Nichifor, a bowing to Jennifer Nichols of Texas on May 9. transfer from Manhattan, com- A&M 106–94 in the final. Goshorn Kyra Caldwell ’12 was named pleted his two years at Columbia earned All-America honors for the meet’s Most Outstanding Fe- with a 14–0 record. They were All- the third year in a row. Chai and male Performer. She won the 100m Ivy first-team selections in both Sydney Shaefer ’12 (compound) hurdles and 400m hurdles and set singles and doubles, and Haig were named All-America for the an Ivy record with a time of 58.24 Schneiderman ’12, who was 7–0 in second consecutive year and Lau- seconds in the latter event. Caldwell singles play at the No. 3 spot, was ren Marion ’11 (recurve) achieved then teamed with Yamira Bell ’13, named to the All-Ivy second team. All-America for the first time. Uju Ofoche ’13 and Sharay Hale ’12 to win the 4x400m relay in an Ivy- n GOLF THREE-PEAT: Clark Gra- n GEHRIG TITLISTS: Colum- record time of 3:35.69. Hale won the Soccer star Sophie Reiser ’10 and num ’11E shot a three-under-par bia’s baseball team won its second 200m dash, Jacqueline Drouin ’11 All-American fencer Jeff Spear ’10 67 in the final round at Baltusrol Lou Gehrig [’23] Division title in won the 1500m run and Monique were this year’s winners of the in Springfield, N.J., on April 25 to three years before bowing to Red Roberts ’12 Barnard took the high Connie S. Maniatty Outstanding lead Columbia’s men’s golf team Rolfe Division champion Dart- jump. Senior Student-Athlete Awards at to its third consecutive Ivy League mouth, two games to one, in the The men’s team made its mark the annual Varsity ‘C’ ‘Celebration. Championship. The Lions com- playoff for the Ivy League Champi- as well. Kyle Merber ’12 won the Photo: Gene Boyars piled a three-round score of 890 to onship. Columbia had won the Ivy 1,500m run and Jeff Moriarty ’11 beat Yale by three strokes for the crown in 2008, Dartmouth in 2009. captured the 800m run, and the n VARSITY ‘C’: Sophie Reiser ’10 team title, with Penn third at 898. Columbia compiled a 26–21 re- two teamed with Mike Mark ’10 (soccer) and Jeff Spear ’10 (fenc- Granum tied Penn’s Scotty Wil- cord, including 14–6 in Ivy play, for and Matthew Stewart ’11 to win ing) were presented the Connie S. liams for the best individual score its first winning record in 23 years. the 4x800m relay. Maniatty [’43] Outstanding Senior at 214 but lost a one-hole playoff The 26 wins were the Lions’ most By virtue of their wins, all Student-Athlete Awards at the 89th for medalist honors. against Division I opponents in received All-Ivy first team recog- Varsity ‘C’ Celebration at Levien Brendan Doyle ’12 and Michael school history. Pat Lowery ’12 was nition. In addition, because they Gymnasium on May 4. Yiu ’13 tied for seventh individually named Ivy Pitcher of the Year after finished second in the events listed, Reiser, Columbia’s all-time leader at 225, Justin Lee ’11 tied for 16th going 3–1 in Ivy (5–3 overall) and the following were selected for the in assists, was the Ivy League Player at 228 and Ford Fischer ’13 tied for holding opposing league batters to second team: Hale (100m dash), of the Year in 2009 and three times 23rd at 233. The team score com- a meager .172 average. Outfielder Bell (400m dash), Drouin (3,000m earned All-Ivy first team recogni- prises the top four scores each day. Dario Pizzano ’13, who hit seven run) and Ofoshe (long jump). tion. Spear, class salutatorian, was Granum was named to the All- of his 12 home runs in Ivy play the 2008 NCAA sabre champion Ivy first team for the third straight and batted .388 against league foes, n ROWING: Columbia’s varsity and a second-team All-American season, while Doyle and Yiu earned shared Rookie of the Year honors heavyweight eight scored a surpris- in 2009 and 2010. He received the second team honors. with Chris O’Dowd of Dartmouth. ing win in its heat at the Eastern NCAA’s Elite 88 Award at the 2010 Sprints, beating highly regarded NCAA Championships and ESPN crews from Yale and Wisconsin, The Magazine/CoSIDA’s Academic among others. The freshman eight All-America of the Year Award, the also surprised the experts by finish- first Columbian to be honored. ing second in its heat behind top- Phil Satow ’63 (baseball) and ranked Harvard. Both crews, how- Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89 (track and ever, finished sixth in their Grand field) were presented with the Ath- Finals. Columbia’s JV finished letics Alumni Awards. third in its opening heat and fifth in the Petite Final. The varsity light- n STEINMAN: Sports historian weights finished second in their and former sports information Petite Final, the JV finished third director Bill Steinman was one of and the freshmen came in fourth. seven people presented with Life- time Achievement Awards by the n ALL-IVIES: In addition to those College Sports Information Direc- mentioned in previous items, four tors of America in San Francisco other Columbians earned All-Ivy on July 5. Steinman publicized honors in spring sports. In softball, Columbia sports for 38 years, join- catcher Kayla Lechler ’12, who set ing the Athletics Office in 1970 and school records for batting (.368), retiring in 2008. He continues to runs (37) and total bases (79), was serve as a valued resource because Columbia’s men’s golf team celebrates winning its third consecutive Ivy named to the first team, and util- of his encyclopedic knowledge of League Championship at the historic Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J. ity player Dani Pineda ’10, who Columbia sports history. Photo: Dan Laukatis played both first base and center Alex Sachare ’71

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Transitions n ALUMNI OFFICE: Taruna Technology Ventures, where he been appointed director of annual Sadhoo joined the Alumni Office spent the past 1½ years as associate giving programs, effective May 1. on March 15 as assistant director director, business processes and Coufos joined the Alumni Office in for student-alumni programs. She data management. Prior to work- April 2007 from the Center for Ca- works with the Division of Student ing at CTV, Joe worked for more reer Education, starting as associate Affairs and the Center for Career than a decade as an independent director of donor relations and then Education to create opportunities technology consultant with firms becoming director of the Young for alumni involvement that will such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Alumni Fund in July 2008. As direc- support the undergraduate experi- Stanley and The City of New York. tor of annual giving programs, she ence. Before coming to Columbia, He works with the Alumni Of- will focus on bringing the College Sadhoo spent 2½ years at Queens fice to provide ad hoc reports and Fund’s direct mail, telemarketing College as coordinator of specialty data analyses for individual units and online giving programs to even advising/programs and academic as well as develop models and higher levels as well as increasing Matt Winkler P’11, editor-in- adviser. reports to support short- and long- outreach and providing leadership chief of Bloomberg and a mem- Ron Joe joined the Alumni Of- term planning. to the fund in managing trend anal- ber of the College’s Board of fice on April 21 as associate direc- Three Columbia College Fund ysis and segmentation strategies. Visitors, shares a moment with tor, data analysis and reporting. Joe staff members have been promoted. Amanda Kessler has been pro- President Barack Obama ’83 most recently worked at Columbia Eleanor L. Coufos ’03, ’06 TC has moted to associate director of the at the White House Correspon- Young Alumni Fund, effective May dents Dinner at the Washing- 24. Kessler has been with the YA ton Hilton Hotel on May 1. Fund for almost two years, notably Photo: Patti Harris working as staff adviser to the IN LUMINE TUO Senior Fund. In the past two years, the Senior Fund’s participation n AAAS: Ruth DeFries, the Denning Professor of Sustainable Devel- rates of 90.5 percent and 92.7 per- opment and professor of ecology, evolution and environmental biol- cent showed increases of 5 percent Zachary Howell, who for the ogy, and professor of philosophy Christopher Peacocke were among and 2.2 percent from the previous past three years was a member of four Columbia faculty members elected this year to the American years, respectively. In partnership the College’s Fund staff, first as a Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious with the Alumni Affairs depart- development officer working with and oldest honorary societies. They were joined by Nicholas Le- ment, Kessler has co-led the Young older alumni and then as assistant mann, dean of the Journalism School, and Peter Strauss, the Betts Alumni Spring Benefit for the past director of the Parents Fund, has two years. In her new role, Kessler been promoted to associate direc- Professor of Law. They will be inducted on Saturday, October 9, at will continue to handle these areas tor of the SEAS Annual Fund, ef- the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. as well as take on greater responsi- fective July 12. bility for the YA Fund. columbia college today

told the seniors gathered on South Field. “Now is the time for you to decide that you will move this country always forward Class of 2010 Joins and never backward. Now is the time for all of us who believe in hope, not hate, to speak up and be heard, because change hap- pens every day, not just during elections.” Ranks of Alumni Jealous, a campus activist who was suspended from Columbia before being reinstated and going on to become a Rhodes Scholar, B y Et h a n Ro u e n ’04J a n d Al e x Sa c h a r e ’71 spoke about his time as a civil rights activist in the South and P h o t o s b y Ch a r Sm u l l y a n a n d Ei l e e n Ba r r o s o warned of the need to always be questioning who are your en- emies and who are your friends. s the Class of 2010 celebrated Class Day on May 17, Presiding over her first Class Day, Dean Michele Moody- the College’s newest alumni were treated not just Adams received an enthusiastic ovation as she addressed the to mild temperatures and sunny skies but also to graduating class. “You dove into this big pond that we call Co- a rousing call to arms from keynote speaker Benja- lumbia College and you did what was required of you not only min Jealous ’94, NAACP president. to stay afloat, but to swim with assurance and power, and to do A“These are days when we each are called on to be clear about so in more than one sense,” she said, drawing a laugh with her what we want not just for ourselves, but for the world,” Jealous reference to Columbia’s famous swim test.

Smiling faces were everywhere at Class Day and Commencement.

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous ’94 exhorted graduating seniors to “speak up and be heard.” columbia college today class day and commencement 2010

Moody-Adams quoted from John Dewey, who said, “Educa- rade of Classes, with 115 alumni from as far back as the Class of tion is not preparation for life, education is life itself,” and urged 1936 marching with their class banners. The alumni were greeted the graduates to remain lifelong learners. She also referred to by a standing ovation from the members of the graduating class John Stuart Mill, who wrote that truly happy people always have as they passed alongside with their banners and symbolically their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. welcomed the seniors into the alumni community. “That object might be the happiness of others, it might be the im- Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger welcomed the provement of mankind, it might be some other art or pursuit, as students, parents and guests and also presented a number of stu- Mill says, ‘followed not as a means but as itself an ideal end,’ ” dent life and service awards, Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn she said. “Aiming at something else, Mill concludes, we will thus B. Yatrakis presented academic awards and prizes and Geoffrey find happiness by the way. J. Colvin ’74, president of the Columbia College Alumni Associa- “But now it’s your turn. You must find something in life that tion, presented alumni awards and prizes. takes you outside of yourself, something that provides a goal far Jeffrey Spear ’10 delivered the salutatory address, and Clifford richer and more compelling than the fleeting pleasure of the mo- Massey ’10, senior class president, addressed the crowd prior to ment. Your Columbia College education has taught you just how the presentation of class pins, at which several deans were as- to find such a goal, and its value in this regard may mean more to sisted by members of the 50th anniversary Class of 1960. you in the future than it already means today.” Adam Bulkley ’10, Senior Fund chair and recipient of the 2010 For the seventh year, the procession featured the Alumni Pa- Alumni Association Achievement Award, announced that a re-

Trustee Emeritus George L. Van Amson ’74 (left) presents Two graduating seniors found much an Alumni Medal to Kyra Tirana Barry ’87, a v.p. of the CC to smile about at Class Day. Alumni Association. Gedale B. Horowitz ’53, ’55L (center) and his wife, Barbara Silver Horowitz ’55 Barnard, also received Alumni Medals.

Dean Michele Moody-Adams presided over her first Class Day and urged the graduating seniors to remain lifelong learners. class day and commencement 2010 columbia college today cord 92.7 percent of seniors had donated $18,628 this year, and honorary degree recipients were NYC schools chancellor Joel I. that surpassing the participation goal of 91 percent triggered a Klein ’67, playwright Tony Kushner ’78 and the late professor C. gift of $50,000 from Board of Visitors member Charles Santoro Lowell Harriss ’40 GSAS. The Medals for Excellence, awarded an- ’82. Bulkley, accompanied by the nine Senior Fund vice-chairs, nually to outstanding alumni under the age of 45, were presented presented Moody-Adams with a scroll bearing the names of the to Ron Gonen ’04 Business and Dana Schutz ’02 Arts. 945 seniors who contributed. Ten Alumni Medals were presented, with the recipients in- While the weather was perfect for Class Day, it rained the fol- cluding Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 and Gedale B. Horowitz ’53, ’55L. lowing day at University Commencement and the sea of light Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching were present- blue in the center of campus was somewhat obscured by um- ed to Sharon Akabas, associate clinical professor, Department of brellas. President Lee C. Bollinger, who had cut short his Class Pediatrics; Michelle S. Ballan, assistant professor, School of Social Day remarks because he was to speak at Commencement, said Work; Linda F. Cushman, associate clinical professor, Department he was invoking his executive authority to shorten sections of the of Population and Family Health; Frederik B.S. Paerels, associate outdoor event, which was met with approving cheers from the professor, Department of Astronomy; and Michael S. Sparer, pro- grateful, wet crowd. In his sharply abridged remarks, he shared fessor, Department of Health Policy and Management. an old piece of academic “folk wisdom” that “if it rains on your Later, from dusk until after midnight, the lights of the Empire Commencement, you are guaranteed to have a fabulous life.” State Building were aglow in blue and white in honor of Colum- During the Commencement ceremony, the University conferred bia’s graduates. eight honorary degrees and two Medals for Excellence. Among the

Moody-Adams received a scroll bearing the names of the record 945 senior donors from Senior Fund chair Adam Bulkley ’10 (sixth from right) and the nine vice- chairs.

Students stood and cheered as members of the Class of 1980 passed by with their class banner during the Alumni Parade of Classes.

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Rain dampened those in atten- dance at Com- mencement but not their spirits. President Lee C. Bollinger in- voked his ex- ecutive privilege to cut short the ceremony, including his remarks, which can be read in full online at www.columbia. edu/cu/presi dent/docs/com munications/ 2009-2010/ 100518Com mencement Address.html.

Two happy graduating seniors join the ranks of College alumni. columbia college today

Chris Kimball ’73 brings recipes that work from America’s Test Kitchen to your kitchen Cooking 101

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he titles of Chris Kimball ’73’s published port might seem unusual, but above all, Kimball’s approach to life books, The New Best Recipe and More Best is about how to find the best, most enjoyable way to live it. Recipes, quite literally reflect his convic- It’s a philosophy that’s reflected in Kimball’s fondness for sim- tions about cooking. Kimball believes ple, unpretentious food, as well as in his personal passions, which that there is an absolute best way to cook include driving fast, gorgeous cars (“Driving with Chris in his anything and everything — and further- Maserati in Boston is a death wish,” says Bishop, who says that more, that with the right recipes, anyone once was enough for him) and the Grateful Dead (Kimball plays in can be a great cook. a Grateful Dead cover band). Kimball’s passion for well-made food This combination of practicality and luxury might have had its (and his zeal for didactic details in reci- roots in Kimball’s childhood. Though he grew up in Westchester pes) is reflected in the magazines, television shows and books County, N.Y., Vermont always has been at the heart of Kimball’s that he oversees as the head of the America’s Test Kitchen empire self-identity. His parents owned a farm in Vermont, where the fam- (www.americastestkitchentv.com), based in Boston. His official ily spent weekends and summers, and Kimball has written exten- title is founder of Boston Common Press, the company that owns sively about Vermont in his Cook’s Illustrated editor’s letters and his the various media that come out of America’s Test Kitchen. In cookbooks. The original family farm was sold, but Kimball bought Treality, Kimball is much more than just the founder, serving as a new farm in 1986 in southwest Vermont, which now includes hands-on leader and cooking guru/taskmaster to more than three livestock, bees, an apple orchard and a maple syrup operation. dozen employees who create hundreds of recipes each year. Kimball and his wife, Adrienne, and children, Whitney, Caroline, And to the public, Kimball, sporting a natty bow tie and his Charles and Emily, divide their time between Boston and Vermont. signature red apron, is instantly recognizable as the face and When speaking about his influences, it’s clear that the state is a sort voice of the America’s Test Kitchen brand. of talisman for Kimball. He reminisces about a local cook from The brand began with a small, unassuming food magazine, Cook’s his childhood as the primary inspiration for his philosophy about Illustrated (www.cooksillustrated.com), which in terms of circulation what to cook and how to eat: “The thing about Marie Briggs was is now one of the biggest cooking magazines in the country and that her farmhouse was the center of town. So when people were is edited by Kimball. It has grown to include a spin-off magazine, driving around, they would often stop by and get something to eat Cook’s Country (www.cookscountry.com); two shows on PBS, Ameri- and whoever was around would get dinner at noon. Food was the ca’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country (www.cookscountrytv.com), both center of that community and she was hosted by Kimball; a new radio show debuting this fall, also hosted the center of that community because she by Kimball; a bevy of cookbooks each year; and four successful web- was the cook. The food was simple, but Chris Kimball ’73 sites. The company is privately held and revenues are not publicly it was really good. I really liked that, and is familiar to disclosed, but the Boston Globe has estimated the gross revenue for that’s how I got started.” millions as the print and web subscriptions alone at more than $40 million a year — Kimball’s upbringing reflected the host of America’s and that’s not counting television, radio or book revenues. time (the ’60s) and place (the suburbs) of Fusing science, analytical testing and commonsense tasting, his youth, where his love of fast cars and Test Kitchen. He Kimball and his team have developed an approach to cook- Deadhead tendencies may have originat- lets the kitchen ing that is quite different from the celebrity chef phenomenon. ed. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy staff do most of Though Kimball is featured as the face of America’s Test Kitchen before matriculating at Columbia in 1969, the cooking and and Cook’s Illustrated, he and his team try to shift the emphasis to in the middle of the anti-war activities and acts as a stand-in where they think it belongs: the food. protests that consumed the University and Kimball is involved in every television and radio episode, sits in the nation at the time. “There was a lot go- for the viewer, on meetings for all the books and magazines, and tastes everything ing on,” he says. “We were always march- asking questions in Cook’s Illustrated. His workday starts at 6:30 a.m., and the edi- ing and we had strikes every May Day. I about ingredients torial director at Cook’s Illustrated, Jack Bishop, says with a laugh, don’t think I took finals more than half the and technique. “When Chris arrives on his motorcycle, wearing his bow tie, it is a time, because the school was on strike. The Photos: Daniel sight to be seen.” Kimball’s contrast of practical neckwear (chosen College was under siege for that time, and Van Ackere for his ability to keep it out of the food he cooks) and daring trans- it was a really tough time.”

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Majoring in primitive art, Kimball recalls having excellent art for pie dough, which uses vodka to create a flaky crust, is hailed history professors and cites Professor Albert Goldman’s classes as by Kimball as one of the magazine’s best discoveries and imme- being particularly memorable, but he acknowledges that he prob- diately became a classic among bakers. ably learned as much outside the classroom as inside. During his Of course, with access to so many test kitchens and sample undergraduate years, Kimball drove a cab on weekends and re- recipes, the question becomes whether Kimball cooks at home. members sitting on the roof of the student center during a protest, The short answer, at least during the week, is no. That task falls to talking a fellow protester out of throwing a Molotov cocktail. his wife, whom Kimball met when she was working at a summer After a couple of jobs in publishing and marketing, Kimball, job at a marketing seminar company, where Kimball also worked. who had always had an interest in cooking, began taking cooking Adrienne laughs when recalling how Kimball, who used to have classes. Frustrated with the lack of answers about why some reci- to walk by her cubicle when leaving, would never say goodbye pes worked and others failed, Kimball decided to start his own until one evening when she yelled out “Good night, Chris!” Adri- cooking magazine in 1980 and raised $100,000 from friends and enne, who has been married to Kimball since 1987, worked on the family to get it going. business side of Cook’s before leaving to take care of the family’s “The other food magazines weren’t really about food,” he says. farm in Vermont, their children and their daily lives in Boston. “They were about restaurants and lifestyle.” This first magazine, titled Cook’s, already bore Kimball’s soon-to-be signature emphasis on cook- drienne, as the person in charge of Kimball fami- ing. Eventually, the magazine was sold and operated by different me- ly meals, did have a wandering eye, recipe-wise, dia companies before being closed down by Condé Nast in 1990. for a while. “For years, Adrienne cooked out of In 1993, Kimball decided to try again, and this time, after buy- Bon Appétit, and I used to get really mad,” says ing back the name Cook’s, he ditched the advertisers as well as Kimball. “She used to just ignore me, and then I any lifestyle and travel articles requested by said advertisers. The shut up for about three years, and slowly I real- result was Cook’s Illustrated, an advertising-free publication that is Aized she finally had migrated to our stuff, because, I hope, she a cross between Consumer Reports and a high-end neighborhood found our stuff more reliable.” Adrienne, who now cooks exclu- recipe pamphlet. The magazine only has color on the cover; in- sively from her husband’s magazines and books, agrees, saying, side, unfussy black-and-white photos are augmented with pre- “The bottom is line is that the Cook’s Illustrated recipes work. The cise line drawings. other ones, while they may have looked good on paper, were not In 2000, Kimball started America’s Test Kitchen, now airing its 10th consistently working. Ours just ended up being better.” season on PBS. “It’s no secret that in the food world, you need to be Compared to the other cooking magazines, which are sup- on TV,” says Kimball. “If you’re not, it’s very difficult.” Unlike tradi- ported by advertising, a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated is expen- tional cooking shows, which are built around the personality of the sive, $24.95 for six issues. After Kimball placed a notice in The New chef-host (think Julia Child), America’s Test Kitchen is much closer to York Times announcing Cook’s Illustrated’s return, 1,500 subscrib- a classroom. Kimball rarely, if ever, cooks on the show, leaving that ers, many of them former Cook’s readers, immediately signed up, to the test kitchen staff. He acts in his host role as a stand-in for the and today, almost two decades later, the magazine has a million viewer, asking the reasoning behind each ingredient and technique. subscribers, a number on par with glossies such as Bon Appétit His friend and fellow PBS cooking show host, Lidia Bastianich, and significantly higher than competitorSaveur , which has about host of Lidia’s Italy, is respectful of Kimball and his team’s zeal for 270,000 paid subscribers. Cooksillustrated.com is unusual in that details. “I think they are very practical, and they take the maybes out none of its content is free, even with a subscription to the maga- of the recipes. It’s a clean, intelligent approach,” she says. Bastianich zine. A year’s subscription to the website costs $34.95. says that her show emphasizes “the freedom of cooking” and a be- In a media world that is rapidly changing and during a recession lief that “cooking is not a science,” taking a more relaxed approach where many publications’ advertising revenue has shrunk dramati- that is the opposite of Kimball’s philosophy; for him, cooking is a cally, Kimball also stands out because his magazines and website all science. Nonetheless, Bastianich suggests that perhaps her show has are free of advertising, supported only by subscription fees. “Con- gently changed Kimball’s approach to television, saying, “We have sidering what a traditional niche Chris is in, he’s been a real innova- influenced each other. He hasn’t admitted to my influence, but per- tor, and his models have implications that go beyond his amazing haps now he brings a little more passion to the show.” franchise,” says David Carr, media critic for The New York Times. The recipes for Kimball’s magazines and the television shows all Kimball is adamant about the need for consumers to pay for go through a rigorous testing process. First, readers are surveyed content and to pay for the expertise of well-trained editors and about which recipes they want to see. Next, the test kitchen tries out test cooks who develop recipes for the show and magazine. “In multiple versions of each recipe, with a working recipe being tested terms of recipe selection, having a lot of recipes is not helpful; as many as 50 or 100 times. Then the recipe is sent to a few thousand having recipes that work is,” he says. “You want someone to volunteer testers, with a few hundred of them trying it within a week stand in between the raw data and the consumer and give the and answering a questionnaire. “Unless 80 percent of the people say consumer something that’s helpful.” that they will make it again, we go back and fix it,” Kimball says. And with his gimlet eye, finicky palate and multimedia reach, “We have to go back and make it simpler, make it tastier.” Kimball wants his recipes to be the ultimate stand-in between the The featured recipes are rarely fancy; the emphasis is always ingredients and the home cook. America’s Test Kitchen may be a on simple, easy-to-find ingredients transformed into tasty, ap- democracy of recipe testers, but one very determined ruler stands proachable food. Kimball believes that everyone can agree on the above it all. best version of a dish. “This whole idea of taste being relative To watch highlights of Chris Kimball ’73 on America’s Test Kitchen, — when it comes to basic American cooking — is just not true. I go to www.college.columbia.edu/cct. mean, there are good mashed potatoes and bad mashed potatoes, and it’s not that hard to tell the difference,” he says. Claire Lui ’00 is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles have appeared The resulting recipes are impressive. Cook’s Illustrated’s recipe in Print, American Heritage and other magazines and websites.

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Recipe Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies From Cook’s Illustrated Makes 16 cookies

Avoid using a nonstick skillet to brown the butter; the dark color swirling pan constantly until butter is dark golden brown of the nonstick coating makes it difficult to gauge when the but- and has nutty aroma, 1 to 3 minutes. Remove skillet from ter is browned. Use fresh, moist brown sugar instead of hardened heat and, using heatproof spatula, transfer browned butter to brown sugar, which will make the cookies dry. This recipe works large heatproof bowl. Stir remaining 4 tablespoons butter into with light brown sugar, but the cookies will be less full-flavored. hot butter until completely melted. 1¾ cups unbleached all-purpose flour (8 ¾ ounces) 3. Add both sugars, salt and vanilla to bowl with butter and ½ teaspoon baking soda whisk until fully incorporated. Add egg and yolk and whisk 14 tablespoons unsalted butter (1¾ sticks) until mixture is smooth with no sugar lumps remaining, about ½ cup granulated sugar (3 ½ ounces) 30 seconds. Let mixture stand 3 minutes, then whisk for 30 ¾ cups packed dark brown sugar (5 ¼ ounces) seconds. Repeat process of resting and whisking 2 more times 1 teaspoon table salt until mixture is thick, smooth, and shiny. Using rubber spatula 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or wooden spoon, stir in flour mixture until just combined, 1 large egg about 1 minute. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts (if using), giv- 1 large egg yolk ing dough final stir to ensure no flour pockets remain. 1¼ cups semisweet chocolate chips or chunks 4. Divide dough into 16 portions, each about 3 tablespoons (or ¾ cup chopped pecans or walnuts, toasted (optional) use #24 cookie scoop). Arrange 2 inches apart on prepared Instructions baking sheets, 8 dough balls per sheet. (Smaller baking sheets can be used, but will require 3 batches.) 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees. 5. Bake cookies 1 tray at a time until cookies are golden brown Line 2 large (18- by 12-inch) baking sheets with parchment paper. and still puffy, and edges have begun to set but centers are Whisk flour and baking soda together in medium bowl; set aside. still soft, 10 to 14 minutes, rotating baking sheet halfway 2. Heat 10 tablespoons butter in 10-inch skillet over medium- through baking. Transfer baking sheet to wire rack; cool cook- high heat until melted, about 2 minutes. Continue cooking, ies completely before serving.

Five Tips for Cooking Success Chris Kimball ’73 offers guidelines to help you become a better home cook. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Use more salt. People Use more heat. People Taste before serving. Use sharp knives. Peo- Check your oven tem- don’t use enough salt, don’t use enough heat. People don’t taste the ple don’t have a sharp perature. Buy a $13 which is ridiculous. The People are scared of heat, food before they serve knife. (Sharpening oven thermometer, heat amount of salt you con- but heat creates flavor. it, so they don’t adjust steels don’t sharpen; the oven for 20 minutes, sume when you cook is When they sauté, they the seasonings, and they they tune up the knife. put in the thermometer a small fraction of your crowd the pan and they end up with something To sharpen, you have and check it. Often, the daily total salt intake, don’t preheat it properly, that would be improved to regrind the blade.) oven is off by at least because it’s all in the and they end up steam- by a little more salt, a So people have incred- 25 degrees. We cali- processed foods. ing the food. When you little more fresh herbs, ibly dull knives, which brate our ovens every go to professional kitch- a little more of this or a means they’re likely 30 days. That’s what ens, you see a lot of heat, little more of that. That to cut themselves. It’s people at home don’t a lot of smoke. last-minute adjustment incredibly hard to cook realize. They set their of the dish, assuming with dull knives. oven to 350, and they it’s something you can don’t realize it could be adjust, is something that 375 or 400. It could be makes a huge difference. anything. That’s why cooking times are never to be trusted. No one’s ever cooking under the same conditions.

july/august 2010 23 columbia college today Young Lions in Washington Several recent alumni are making their presence felt in the Obama administration

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or Lukas McGowan ’07, go- of the campaign’s earliest paid staffers. At ing to the office every day that stage, the job meant doing whatever he means something rather spe- By now, you’ve probably heard could to get attention for Obama, from run- cial — walking through the of the Columbia alumni who hold top spots ning road races to entering eating contests in doors of the White House. in the current administration, including his candidate’s name. Wearing a sandwich That’s where he works as a Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, board during a parade one day — as far as he correspondent for Vice Presi- ’76L; Federal Communications Commis- could get from his original investment bank- dent Joe Biden, drafting letters on behalf of sion chairman Julius Genachowski ’85; ing career plan — McGowan says he thought Fhis boss to anyone he might need to com- to himself, “I just graduated from Columbia. and of course President Barack Obama ’83. municate with: the Dalai Lama, perhaps, or But there was a lower-level surge toward I didn’t picture myself doing this!” the prime minister of Spain. Obama won Iowa, and the victory made Washington, D.C., as well, a migration of One day, it was a newly naturalized him a real contender. But that was only the recent graduates wanting to help imple- American,­ whose letter required some se- beginning for McGowan, who in the next rious contemplation. “I hadn’t given much ment the agenda that Obama had laid out several months sped through California, thought to what it meant to be an Ameri- in his campaign and learn how govern- Ohio, Wyoming, North Carolina and Puerto can citizen,” McGowan says. “It was an ment works from the inside. In addition to Rico, leaving to help organize the next area as exercise not only in writing, but it also was Josh Lipsky ’08, who works in the White soon as the last one’s primary was over. For a philosophical exercise.” House visitors office and was the subject the general election, he settled into Virginia, McGowan had never set his sights on gov- of CCT’s January/February “Alumni and his work contributed to the first Demo- ernment, but politics uprooted his life at an Corner” (www.college.columbia.edu/cct/ cratic presidential win there since 1964. early age. When he was in middle school, dur- jan_feb10), here are three more young Soon after Obama’s victory, McGowan ing Bill Clinton’s second term, his father, Ger- College alumni who are serving on the went to Washington, working on the tran- ald McGowan, was appointed ambassador to sition team until he was offered a spot on front lines in the administration. Portugal. So, the seven-child McGowan fam- the Vice President’s staff. Though the hours ily decamped to Lisbon, going from eating aren’t as crazy as his field organizing days spaghetti most nights in Northern Virginia to (he’s usually off in time for dinner), there’s having a staff of eight at a palatial residence in a European capital. a different kind of pressure — his boss, after all, is one of the men At his international school, McGowan sometimes took heat for running the country. “In the campaign, we understood that los- his country. “By being the ambassador’s kid, if America was doing ing wouldn’t be the end of the world,” McGowan explains. “Now something, I became the kid who had to stand up for it,” McGowan that we’re governing, we don’t have that choice. The stakes are remembers of his four years in the Portuguese capital. “At times, I so much higher now.” And now, McGowan is not only drafting would have to walk through a group of protesters. They were yell- Biden’s letters but also his speeches: He wrote the first draft of the ing, ‘Americans are murderers,’ and I would see the guard on the Vice President’s remarks on Earth Day and jumped at the chance to other side of the gate and he would let me in real quick.” write for an appearance in McGowan’s old turf, Iowa. McGowan, who has a ready smile and easygoing manner, On a day-to-day basis, though, there are considerable perks didn’t consider himself an activist when he got back to the States. to McGowan’s job: directing the vice presidential motorcade A political science major, he loved the Core Curriculum, played through New York City, for example, or playing basketball with intramural soccer and immersed himself in the delights of the White House staff and elected officials. Sometimes, even senior ad- city rather than College Democrats meetings. When graduation viser David Axelrod stops by to shoot a few hoops. “He’s good!” rolled around, he signed on with an investment bank in New McGowan says. York. Politics, however, got in the way again; though McGowan McGowan isn’t sure what his next career move might be — right had been supporting fellow Virginian Mark Warner for President, now, he says, there’s just too much going on to think about it. things changed when Obama jumped into the race. “Obama declared, and I knew I had to work for him,” says s assistant to the head of the Small Business Adminis- McGowan, who had been a fan of the Illinois senator since watching tration, Subash Iyer ’07 is smack in the middle of the him deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Conven- federal government’s attempt to salvage the U.S. econ- tion in 2004. That choice landed McGowan in Dallas County, Iowa, A omy, and he got there almost entirely by accident. where he was charged with spreading the Obama gospel as one At Columbia, Iyer, an economics-political science major, devoted

july/august 2010 24 columbia college today young lions in washington his extracurricular time to activities that skirt the edges of politics and ashington, D.C., would seem like a natural post- policymaking. He traveled and competed with the mock trial team, college destination for George Krebs ’09, whom practicing legal reasoning and rhetoric. His speech still is speck- his classmates know as the ebullient social but- led with debater-ish phrases such as, “At the end of the day … ”. Wterfly they elected to two terms as class president As a volunteer tutor for the college prep program Let’s Get Ready, and then president of the Student Council during his senior year. Iyer engaged directly with the kind of social need that he hadn’t After all, it would make sense for him to follow the man upon experienced growing up in suburban New Jersey. He also oversaw whom he had modeled his own administration. law and justice as the chair of the Student Council’s elections board, Krebs first saw Obama at a campaign rally in July 2007, and the arbitrating disputes that arose in hard-fought races between student next summer he passed up more lucrative internship opportunities politicians. “The act of politics has always appealed to me,” Iyer to volunteer with the campaign’s new media operation. In helping says, “although I never actually wanted to partake in the act.” to run the blogs and social networks of my.barackobama.com, Krebs So Iyer jumped into the intense life of an entry-level became part of the team that knit together thousands of consultant, putting in 14-hour days at McKinsey & Co., Obama supporters in the most successful online outreach helping to unravel the management problems of large effort politics ever had seen — exactly what Krebs had corporations. He asked for, and received, a broad range worked to achieve in his own political career. of assignments, from health care to financial services. “At Columbia,” Krebs says, “it was about having The case he most enjoyed was the only one he did a student government that interacts with the people for a public entity: a study on Maine, recommending it’s representing, one that doesn’t only come to your ways in which the state could close a budget gap with- doorstep when you’re pandering for votes but instead out cutting services. In December 2008, Iyer received keeps relationships with you for the entire time you’re a call from Karen Mills, who had headed the Maine Lukas McGowan ’07 in office and really cares about your concerns.” economic council that had brought in McKinsey. Presi- Krebs’ successful campaigns featured high fives dent Obama had just appointed her to head the Small and bear hugs rather than advanced web applications, Business Administration, and she had been impressed and promised the ability to use flex points off-campus enough with Iyer’s work on the Maine assignment that rather than comprehensive healthcare reform. But the she wanted him to come along. idea of constant interactivity carried through to his Iyer didn’t need to be asked twice. He packed up work for Obama. his life in Manhattan and moved to Washington, D.C., “I found a man who believes in that very principle soon after the inauguration, settling into an office in who just happens to be the President of the United the maze of federal buildings south of the Mall. States,” he says. “So it worked out.” When he arrived, the Small Business Administration Along with the luckiest of Obama’s volunteers, Subash Iyer ’07 itself was in need of some McKinsey magic: Its budget Krebs found his way into the administration after grad- had been cut significantly during the Bush administra- uation. He’s still doing new media, but this time for the tion, and morale was low. But the SBA had become a key FCC under Julius Genachowski ’85. The FCC has been element of Obama’s strategy to kick-start the economy; making headlines by pushing forward with “Internet legislators allocated $730 million in stimulus funding neutrality,” or keeping the web free of restrictions on to distribute to small businesses across the country and content and types of access. Krebs also is supporting looked to the agency to guarantee loans when banks a lower-profile but no less important project: expand- weren’t lending. ing broadband Internet across the country, using funds “Small businesses are something that everyone can from the stimulus package passed last year. rally around,” Iyer explains. “People realize that we’re Like Obama’s web campaign operation, the FCC also a powerful engine because we’re connected on the George Krebs ’09 is leading the federal government’s charge into the world ground to people and we can have a tangible impact, of Web 2.0. As such, Krebs has done the federal govern- and so everyone has been coming to us wanting to partner with ment’s first official live-blog and also manages the FCC’s Twitter us, from healthcare to ‘green’ jobs.” feed, which has garnered more than 341,000 followers since it start- Unlike many positions in federal bureaucracies, Iyer’s job isn’t ed in mid-August. Krebs speaks with glee of its rapid early growth. confined to the Washington bubble. He has traveled around the “In 80 tweets, I’d grown larger than the EPA! State department, you country to meet with small businesses, helping the SBA maintain have 9,000 [tweets], I’m coming after you!” he crows. a strong local presence. Recently, he transitioned from advising Krebs doesn’t plan to stay in D.C. forever — he misses the Mills on policy matters to working directly with agencies to help boundlessness of New York City and plans to leave for graduate them award contracts to small businesses — especially those school at some point. In the meantime, he says he has been pleas- owned by women and minorities — as Recovery Act money antly surprised by the atmosphere in a large federal bureaucracy flows through the federal pipeline. such as the FCC. Iyer grows animated as he talks about the problems his agency “I thought that everyone in government would just be going has been helping to solve. “It’s fascinating,” he says, describing how through the motions,” Krebs says. “Instead, they are very inter- nearly a quarter of all government contracts go to small businesses, esting people who live very full lives outside government. I have or how the SBA guarantees more than $80 billion in loans. little desire at this point to be a career employee, but being here Nonetheless, his Washington detour will not turn into a re- while the Obama administration is in town is really exciting.” route. Iyer will enter NYU Law this fall. He’s not sure what he’ll be studying, or where he might want to go after that. But he’ll definitely have something to say when classmates ask, “So, what Lydia DePillis ’09 majored in history and lives in Washington, D.C., have you done since graduation?” where she covers real estate and development for Washington City Paper.

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[ Columbia Forum] The Great American University

I do not know what I may appear to the world; Jonathan R. Cole ’64, ’69 but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy GSAS has spent nearly playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in 50 years of his life at Col­ umbia — arriving as a now and then finding a smoother pebble or a freshman in 1960 then prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great quickly progressing to ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Ph.D. student (in sociol- PHOTO: CHESTER Is a a c Ne w t o n HIGGINS JR. © THE ogy), professor, and even- NEW YORK TIMES tually Provost and Dean of Faculties. He currently is the John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University. “Some say I bleed Columbia blue,” he writes in the preface to his newest book. So The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable Role, Why It Must Be Protected (Public- Affairs, 2010) represents, in its way, a departure. Here Cole turns his gaze away from the “mother university” to reflect on the difficulties facing all of America’s great research universities today. A review in The Economist said: “His book is really three, each a magisterial work. First, he sets out an admirably comprehensive history of how America’s great universities came into being. mericans have always Then, he trawls for ex- been fascinated with inventions and scien- amples of the enriching inventiveness of these tific discovery, and we pride ourselves on institutions, listing the A extraordinary range of our ability to find solutions to formidable innovations in technol- ogy and in thinking that problems. Yet most people do not know the have sprung from their origin of the most important discoveries of research. Finally, he outlines the forces that threaten America’s research universities.” our time. Is it any wonder, given that the best- In the excerpt that follows, Cole explains why our research institutions are essential selling twentieth-century American history and how they have shaped our daily lives. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard high-school textbooks devote more space to Madonna than to Watson and Crick, that our

july/august 2010 26 Finding A Smoother Pebble: A National System of Innovation the great american university columbia college today top university professors and researchers typically miss out on could go on and on, but the point is clear. As we march through even their fifteen minutes of fame? Nevertheless, we use prod- our daily lives, all of us are continually enjoying the benefits of ucts derived from ideas generated at our great research universi- discoveries made at our great universities. ties countless times a day — whether we realize it or not. The universities play a huge role in bringing all of these inven- For example, in the morning you may brush your teeth with tions and discoveries into our daily lives, but they do not do it an electric toothbrush, then stagger into the kitchen, open the alone. The research conducted at our great universities is part of a refrigerator, and take out some orange juice. The toothbrush larger national system of innovation. That system is essentially a can vibrate thousands of times a minute, creating fluid dy- social system for producing and applying new knowledge. It is a namics that can dislodge bacteria and plaque much more ef- complex network of affiliations, collaborations, associations, and ficiently than an old-fashioned toothbrush; the refrigerator has formal relationships that includes our universities, government a compressed gas circulating through its coils; and the orange agencies and laboratories, and the private sector, including the juice has been preserved while being shipped from a distant nonprofit research sector. Each plays a critical role in enhancing location. All three are based on discoveries made in university the overall stockpile of knowledge that we possess and in bring- research departments. Contemplating that night’s dinner, you ing it piece by piece into our lives through the practical applica- take some steaks out of the freezer and make sure you have tions that make up our world. the ingredients for a salad. Most likely, you are not thinking about the fact that the meat’s fine quality is a result of artifi- cial insemination and scientific breeding techniques, both the A Productive Partnership: result of university work, or that the special tomatoes on your The Impact of Universities on counter have been genetically modified. You put a nice bottle of California wine into the fridge to chill, with nary a thought Industries and Local Economies of the heartier vines made possible by research conducted by university enologists, then turn on your favorite FM radio sta- ndustry and research universities are inter- tion, made possible through university inventions over in en- related in many ways — not only through gineering, for a little background news. licensing agreements (explored in Chapter The station gives you a weather update, based on knowl- 5), but also through production of the highly edge originating in the meteorological wings of universi- trained, talented individuals who work in in- ties. Then there are news stories about an earthquake that dustrial laboratories and through the founding measured 7.5 on the Richter scale, the number of hurricanes of companies by university faculty or former predicted for this year, and the latest public opinion poll on students. As of 2003, over 70 percent of all sci- the upcoming election, all of which are based on information ence and engineering graduates were working learned through university research. You swallow the anti- in private industry. Forty-four percent of all biotic your doctor prescribed for you, and then, as your con- the science and engineering students who had science gets the better of you, decide to go out jogging. You earned Ph.D.s were working in industry; 43 bring along some Gatorade (another university invention) so percent were working at institutions of higher learning; and 13 you won’t get dehydrated. As you begin, you notice that your percent were doing other things. It is clear that research universi- muscles are sore from your last run, and that reminds you to ties represent the main pipeline to our nation’s industrial research order some flowers for your elderly mother — her hip replace- Ilaboratories.And the 100 or so greatest research universities pro- ment surgery is tomorrow. On your way home you stop at duce the majority of Ph.D.s in science and engineering. The great the closest ATM for some cash, which, of course, uses another industrial laboratories could not function without these universi- university discovery, and later, when you’re driving to work, ties feeding them new, talented individuals on a consistent basis. you flip on the GPS to navigate a construction detour. A few Although the universities supply the talent — people with minutes later, back on route, you use your E-ZPass to glide the aptitude, the skills, and the training to contribute to industry through the bridge toll booth — which uses laser technology, — as well as many of the ideas that industry uses, however, the not to mention computers — paying a premium for driving credit for creating and developing products and services based into the city during peak hours (congestion pricing is also a on discoveries in science and engineering cannot go solely to the university invention). universities. Industry picks up where the universities leave off, Whatever your job, you are very likely to continue using playing an equal role in the innovation process. In that sense, methods and devices that are the fruits of university research there is a very productive partnership between the universities once you reach the office. As the manager of a hedge fund, for and industry. And the knowledge produced at universities and example, you would be using sophisticated mathematical pro- then developed by industry has huge societal payoffs with an grams to help make investment decisions, and the mathematics enormous impact on local, national, and international commu- and investment algorithms, of course, would be based on ad- nities. The national system of innovation in America has many vances made in universities. When you entered the office, you components, as mentioned above. Here we will take a closer look would turn on the computer to find out how the foreign mar- at the relationship between two of those components — the uni- kets were doing. In fact, all day long you would be using the versities and industry — with an emphasis on how the universi- computer and the Internet, which also began with university ties have an impact on the economies of their local communities. discoveries. If your advertising agency was using focus groups, Stanford and Boston area universities, particularly MIT, have it would be basing its work on university research, and when attempted to measure the economic and social impacts they have you took your lunch break, and the clerk at the local deli swiped had on their local communities, and the data they have generated your sandwich and soda over the bar-code scanner, you would can help us estimate the impact of universities on local commu- again be encountering a university discovery. Enough. The list nities in general. Stanford University reported, for example, that

july/august 2010 28 columbia college today the great american university since the founding of Hewlett-Packard in 1939, 2,325 members MIT alone has a huge impact on the local economy. The of the Stanford University community founded more than 2,454 BankBoston report found that “if the companies founded by companies. These companies included such giants as Cisco Sys- MIT graduates and faculty formed an independent nation, the tems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!, revenues produced by the companies would make that nation and their commercial prosperity led to the phenomenal success the 24th largest economy in the world. The 4,000 MIT-related of nearby Silicon Valley. These companies have consistently companies employ 1.1 million people and have annual world made it into the “Silicon Valley 150” — the list of the largest sales of $232 billion. … That is roughly equal to a gross domes- Silicon Valley firms, published annually in the San Jose Mercury- tic product of $116 billion, which is a little less than the GDP of News. In fact, they have not only made the list, they have consis- South Africa and more than the GDP of Thailand.” Perhaps as tently been in the top ten or fifteen in terms of rank by sales. In important as the overall effects of MIT research and training is 2008, Hewlett-Packard topped the list, Cisco was number two, the type of companies that are being formed on the basis of dis- Google and Sun were numbers six and seven, respectively, and coveries and training at the university. Noting that the MIT com- eBay was number nine, with Yahoo! twelfth. These companies panies tended to be “knowledge-based companies in software, generated $261.2 billion, or 55 percent of the total revenues of manufacturing (electronics, biotech, instruments, machinery) the 150 companies, in 2008. The total market capitalization of the or consulting (architects, business consultants, engineers),” the Stanford-founded companies on this select list totaled $415 bil- report said: “As you would expect from the most distinguished lion, or about 50 percent of the total market capitalization of the engineering school in the nation, about 50% of the firms had 150 companies. Silicon Valley is in a class of its own, but other founders who majored in engineering and another 24% in phys- cities have also benefited from their proximity to major research ical science. But fully 25% of the founders of MIT-related firms universities. A 1997 study by BankBoston concluded that the lo- majored in ‘social studies,’ and a significant number of firms cal economic impact of eight Boston-area universities was “more generated by them were related to ideas produced in the social significant than at any other time in modern economic history.” and behavioral sciences. The knowledge based companies have

A 2003 study of the economic effects of Boston’s eight research universities showed that in the year 2000, these universities provided a $7.4 billion boost to the regional economy.

The study concluded: “As jobs become more knowledge-driv- a disproportionate importance for their local economies because en, the universities produce not only the research that can lead they usually sell to out-of-state and world markets and because to the creation of new companies and industries in the Greater they so often represent advanced technologies.” Boston area, but the ability to deliver a workforce educated in The universities and the firms based on their research also emerging technologies.” It further noted that the universities were found to have a “multiplier effect” on the total number of had “served as a magnet to a number of national and inter- jobs created in the local area because, for example, for every local national companies that have located or are developing major job created by a pharmaceutical firm working on university-based research operations in the Boston area,” listing Amgen, Cisco, discoveries, there tended to be three to five additional jobs created Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sun Microsystems as examples. by the needs of that firm for suppliers of equipment and services. A 2003 study of the economic effects of Boston’s eight re- These data are now a decade old, but since 1997 MIT’s research and search universities showed that in the year 2000, these universi- development activity and its role in the establishment of new start- ties provided a $7.4 billion boost to the regional economy. The up companies has expanded dramatically. The 1997 data vastly un- universities employed almost 51,000 people directly in 2002 and derestimate the impact of MIT’s faculty and students today on the provided employment indirectly for about 37,000 other work- formation of national and international companies and the value ers in the region. (This does not include people employed by of their discoveries and innovations to our economic well-being. university-affiliated hospitals or research institutes.) A talent The fact that the universities have so strongly boosted the pool of roughly 32,000 graduates, many of whom remained in growth of technologically oriented firms is significant. The Boston, came out of the universities every year. Innovative re- independent Milliken Institute in Santa Monica, California, search at these universities had led to 264 patents, 280 commer- found that it was the high-technology sectors of the economy cial licenses for technology, and 41 start-up companies as well that determined the success or failure of a metropolitan area. as opportunities for more than 25,000 continuing education stu- High-technology activity explained 65 percent of the difference dents, many cultural and community events, and general im- in economic growth among metropolitan regions in the United provements in the housing, streets, and environment of Boston. States in the 1990s, and research centers and institutions were The universities received about $1.5 billion a year in research undisputedly the most important factor in incubating high-tech contracts and grants, mostly from the federal government. The industries. Proximity to a research university has been a critical report noted that faculty members had founded major local factor in determining where high- technology industries locate companies such as Akamai Technologies, Biogen, Delphi Com- their offices and laboratories, both because the brains located munications Systems, and Genome Therapeutics. They had also at the university represent a greater asset than ever before, spawned hundreds of new start-up companies. In fact, 25 out of and because of the increased interest among universities to be the 50 Boston-area start-ups that had attracted the most financ- involved in the early stages of company formation and the ing had been companies associated with these universities. licensing of their ideas to established businesses.

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Social, Cultural and Ethical and can potentially fall into the wrong hands, what should our attitude toward the advance of knowledge be? When we can Impacts of Universities use our knowledge for the welfare of others, what choices are we faced with? How and whether we decide to use our knowl- or many generations, we Americans edge depends on our values, and sometimes it involves making have thought of education as a public as complicated choices where both options have advantages and well as a private good. An investment in disadvantages. These are issues that are usually the province the education of our young people was of the humanities, not the sciences, and yet they are questions an investment in the nation. We created that scientists are now facing every day. This is why I insist that land-grant colleges after the 1862 Mor- the great centers of higher learning must include an emphasis rill Act in an effort to train young people on the humanities and social sciences. Great universities cannot for more skilled jobs and to improve the ignore the contributions of any of these sources of ideas. quality of our agriculture and related When we think about the contributions of the universities industries through organized research. to industry we naturally focus on the influence they have had We knew that a better-educated citizen on the growth of industrial innovation and the scientific and had greater life chances and could po- engineering feats involved in taking ideas and translating tentially contribute more to the general social welfare. In recent them into useful products. But another kind of contribution decades, we have moved away from this rationale for higher to the social and cultural life of the nation is derived from the education toward one that focuses on individual payoffs rather ideas, inventions, and discoveries made by scholars working Fthan on larger societal returns. That is a mistake. Our personal in the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. As and taxpayer investments in the American research university with the contributions of science and technology to industry, should be seen by each of us as an investment in the public the contributions in the social and behavioral sciences and the good — in the larger welfare of the nation that will improve the humanities are made through the influence of ideas, concepts, lives of all citizens. That commitment to the general good is a and methods as well as through the people who establish and fundamental part of the mission of great universities. staff organizations and businesses that depend on the training The number of consulting firms that depend on advanced university training, either in the form of Ph.D. or advanced pro- fessional degrees, and that work for industry to solve market- research problems, is staggering. The very idea of systematic marketing research comes, as we shall see, from our universities.

I don’t want to dismiss the other side of the story. The great that is provided in these fields by our best universities. transformation that university research has created in our lives Consider in blueprint form five domains where our univer- and society, sometimes beyond what we could have imagined sities have had an enormous impact on the direction the soci- even a decade or two ago, also has produced a host of com- ety has taken over the past fifty years: (1) independent “think plex new scientific, moral, and ethical problems for us to ad- tanks” that translate empirical knowledge into policy advice; dress and solve. Our successes have spawned new dilemmas (2) consulting firms that are used by businesses and govern- of choice. When modern biological science allows us to create ment to solve organizational problems; (3) nongovernment new and potentially lethal viruses; when nanoscientists, piec- organizations around the world and other private nonprofit ing together individual atoms, can create biological structures foundations; (4) cultural institutions; and (5) individual social that can learn from their own actions; when nuclear physics and political advisers who work for the government. There are produces the possibility of Armageddon, and creates problems hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of jobs created as well of nuclear waste disposal even when its discoveries are used as thousands of businesses spawned as a result of the training peacefully to generate power; when computer-science tech- and expertise gained at our universities in these fields. nology allows us to spy on our own citizens and abridge their There are hundreds of private think tanks, and they work privacy; when automobiles and other manufactured goods on every imaginable subject, from military preparedness to contribute to global warming; and when we have the capacity health-care reform. Some are liberal (the Brookings Institu- to clone animals and potentially human beings, we are faced tion), and some are highly conservative (the Heritage Founda- with a set of vexing and challenging problems of our own tion), but the entire spectrum of political perspectives is repre- making that are sometimes urgent and often controversial. sented in the range of think tanks that exist. Though most are New social and economic costs are thus sometimes associ- independent, some are associated with universities (such as ated with discovery. A number of questions arise that we all Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the University of Chicago’s Na- must consider as the social and ethical impacts of university- tional Opinion Research Center [NORC], and the University related research affect our world in ever more surprising ways. of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research [ISR]). Some are ex- When science and technology have the potential to be misused tremely large, such as the Rand Corporation, while others are

july/august 2010 30 columbia college today the great american university boutique-sized, specializing in just a few areas of knowledge. for the poor. Brilliantly trained lawyers and Ph.D.s are working What almost all have in common is that they recruit highly for organizations that are trying to limit the number of wrong- knowledgeable and well-trained graduates of our major re- ful convictions in felony cases through the use and analysis of search universities, most of them with advanced degrees from DNA evidence. In today’s world, NGOs are having as much Ph.D. programs or law schools. Many of the larger think tanks impact in many domains as governments are. And large, pri- have endowments, but their revenues come principally from vate foundations that support the arts, sciences, and humani- work on government contracts that require specific answers ties, as well as ongoing projects on themes designed to address to questions posed by the funding agency or from private major social, political, and economic problems, also depend businesses. They exert in- increasingly on the skills creasing amounts of influ- and knowledge of Ph.D. ence in the policymaking and professional school world, independent of graduates from our finest universities. The quality of universities. Foundation their work is often mixed, leaders and program offi- but they depend largely cers, who choose how and on our great universities where to invest scarce re- for their talent. sources, have been trained The number of con- and often had teaching sulting firms that depend or research experience at on advanced university these universities. training, either in the form Finally, we should not of Ph.D. or advanced pro- omit the contributions of fessional degrees, and that these universities to the work for industry to solve cultural institutions of our market-research problems, cities and nation. Univer- is staggering. The very idea sities produce more doc- of systematic marketing re- torates than are needed search comes, as we shall on university faculties. see, from our universities. Increasingly, these highly Polling and public-opinion trained professionals, par- firms alone hire thousands of ticularly in the humanities, people to staff their efforts to are working at museums, put their finger on the pulse libraries, media companies, of the nation. Hundreds of and arts and cultural cen- thousands of jobs have been ters. The quality of curato- created from the ideas and rial work at museums, and methodologies developed the art and science of the at research universities that restoration and preserva- have created advanced tech- tion of valuable artifacts, niques to explore questions depends on highly technical about peoples’ preferences knowledge that can only be and purchasing behavior, gained with advanced edu- and about their attitudes cation. Work at museums and opinions, and to place on virtual learning centers these views in some form of and on documentary films theoretical context. exploring historical and Nonprofit organizations The Graduate School of Journalism, which has educated many of the cultural subjects depends world’s best journalists, is reflected in the windows of Alfred Lerner Hall, are largely staffed by those the undergraduate student center. on the talents emerging with advanced training at from the advanced univer- our great institutions of sity programs…. higher learning. Nongovernment organizations (NGOs), which As we depend increasingly on knowledge as the source now number in the thousands around the world, and which set of social and economic advance, we require an increasing out to achieve a host of objectives, ranging from empowering proportion of our young people to be trained, even beyond women in less developed countries to preventing disease, find their undergraduate education. The universities are not only their talent most often at the distinguished research universi- critically important to our economic and technical welfare; ties. These graduates of our universities are contributing on they are also, both directly and indirectly, essential in creating the homefront as well as epidemiologists working for the Cen- the richness of the social fabric of the nation. ters for Disease Control; they might become medical sleuths trying to uncover the genetic makeup of a bacteria or to piece together the history of a flu that is developing into a pandemic. Excerpted with permission from The Great American University: Its Rise As social workers with Ph.D.s or lawyers who work for orga- to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be nizations such as the Urban Justice Center, they may advocate Protected by Jonathan R. Cole (PublicAffairs, 2010).

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So Lovely a Country Will Never role of logic in Lewis Carroll’s clas- man argues that fascism in WWII- Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japan­ese sic children’s book (Prometheus era Japan was as much a cultural Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Writers by Donald Keene ’42, the Books, $21.98). as a political phenomenon (Duke Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick Shincho Professor of Japanese Litera- University Press, $27.95). ’93. Frederick details the events ture and University Professor Emeri- St. James’ Church in the City of that preceded the 2006 rape and tus. This set of journal entries writ- New York 1810–2010 by Francis J. Walking Thunder: In the Foot- murder of an Iraqi girl by Ameri- ten by WWII-era Japanese liter­ary Sypher Jr. ’63. A bicentennial history steps of the African Elephant by can soldiers and explains how the figures is interwoven with Keene’s of St. James’ Church, an Episcopal Cyril Christo ’82 and Marie Wilkin- psychological consequences of commentary and reminiscences parish on New York’s Upper West son. This book introduces readers modern warfare contributed to the about the writers (Columbia Univer- Side (St. James’ Church, $35). to the elephants of the savannah crime (Harmony, $26). sity Press, $24.95). through black-and-white photo- The Grave Gourmet by Alexander graphs, essays and stories from Great Negotiations: Agreements But I Never Made a Loan: My Campion. This mystery novel, writ- African folklore (Merrill, $60). that Shaped the Modern World Career in Banking — The Early ten under a pseudonym by Milton by Fredrik Stanton ’96. The author Years by Carter C. Golembe ’45. Sa Pereira ’68, centers around a The Conscience of a Libertarian: describes eight key discussions Golembe, an economist and former French detective and her food critic Empowering the Citizen Revolu- that have shaped the course of FDIC employee, comments on the husband (Kensington Books, $22). tion with God, Guns, Gambling international diplomacy during relationship between banking and & Tax Cuts by Wayne Allyn Root the last three centuries (Westholme public policy (iUniverse, $25.95). William P. Homans Jr.: A Life ’83. Root, a candidate for the 2012 Publishing, $26). in Court by Mark S. Brodin ’69. Libertarian Party presidential nom- Lyndon B. Johnson by Charles Pe- Brodin chronicles the life of the ination, advocates income tax cuts Bitch is the New Black: A Memoir ters ’49. This biography of America’s Boston lawyer and antiwar activist and reductions in the size of the by Helena Andrews ’02. In a series of 36th president is part of a larger (Vandeplas Publishing, $29.95). government bureaucracy as ways essays based on her own experienc- series co-edited by Sean Wilentz ’72 to improve America’s political and es, Andrews explores the personal (Henry Holt and Co., $23). Edward Said: The Charisma of economic situation (John Wiley & challenges faced by professionally Criticism by H. Aram Veeser ’72. Sons, $24.95). successful African-American American Indians and the Fight Veeser, a student of Columbia- women today (Harper, $24.99). for Equal Voting Rights by Laughlin based cultural theorist and late Have You Seen My Dinosaur? by McDonald ’60. McDonald examines University Professor Said, offers Jon Surgal ’85. A friendly game of Water the Moon by Fiona Sze-Lorrain the struggles that Native American his thoughts on his teacher’s phi- hide-and-seek between a young ’03. A compilation of Sze-Lorrain’s citizens have faced in gaining and losophy and contributions to the boy and his dinosaur gets a little original poetry (Marick Press, $14.95). exercising the right to vote (Univer- field of academic criticism (Rout- out of hand (Beginner Books, sity of Oklahoma Press, $55). ledge, $39.95). $8.99). John Kluge: Stories by John W. Kluge Jr. ’05. Written by the son of Writing for the Web: 4th Edition In Search of the Blues: A Journey Raven Stole the Moon: A Novel by John W. Kluge ’37, this collection by Crawford Kilian ’62. Focusing to the Soul of Black Texas by Bill Garth Stein ’87. Stein’s protagonist of anecdotes and stories, as told on issues of content as well as Minutaglio ’76. A longtime report- is a mother grieving the death of by his father, offers a new perspec- presentation, Kilian outlines the er and professor of journalism, her young son (Harper Paperbacks, tive on the life and philosophy of strategies that make for effective Minutaglio has written a series of $14.99). the famous philanthropist (Co- Internet writing (Self-Counsel essays about the African-Ameri- lumbia University Press, $39.95). Press, $18.95). can community in Texas (Univer- Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss sity of Texas Press, $24.95). ’91. The author offers tips for meet- The Publisher: Henry Luce and The Logic of Alice: Clear Think- ing and impressing women, along His American Century by Alan ing in Wonderland by Bernard M. The Culture of Japanese Fascism with his lessons learned (It Books, Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Profes- Patten ’62. Patten examines the edited by Alan Tansman ’81. Tans- $16.99). sor of American History and Pro-

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Turning Geeks into Superheroes Apostolos Doxiadis ’72 merges math and comic books

aster than a graphing calculator. Tougher wright and novelist. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s than a complex proof. Able to turn a Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession nerdy subject into a compelling story in (1992) was an unexpected bestseller and was fewer than 350 pages. It’s Mathman! translated into more than 30 languages. The book FActually, it’s Apostolos Doxiadis ’72, who may merges math and narrative, focusing on a young be the first alumnus to fall into the same category man and his uncle, who is obsessed with trying to as Batman and Superman. Doxiadis is the co-author solve a famous mathematical problem. and on-page guide of the best-selling graphic novel “When I wrote Uncle Petros, which really Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Bloomsbury, marked my entry into this overlap, I wasn’t think- $22.95), the story of Bertrand Russell and the ing I was doing anything out of the way,” he says. search to establish a logical foundation for all of “Like all writers, I like to write about things I know mathematics. and care about.” While the graphic novel may not seem the Doxiadis came to Columbia at 15, a self-described ideal genre to attack the greatest paradoxes math nerd who “tended to view all required, non- of the 20th century, Russell as narrator adds mathematical courses as a nuisance.” Moving into enough POWs, ZAPs and KA-BLAMs to deserve John Jay just after the protests of Spring 1968 and a space alongside the best of superheroes. witnessing the toll of the Vietnam War and a junta images: “Russell had advantages that made him a Alecos in his native Greece, he got swept up in the political dream narrator. He was known for his fluency Papadatos upheaval of the moment — he can even be spotted and his dry, ironic sense of humor as well in protest footage that was used in Forrest Gump. as his unconventional ideas and behavior,” Through Contemporary Civilization and Introduction to Doxiadis says. “He was more of a Huck Finn, World Literature, he also discovered Plato and Kant and the i.e., star and teller of his own adventure, than joy of analyzing Crime and Punishment. an Ishmael in Moby Dick. Russell is undeniably Doxiadis did graduate work in applied mathematics at one of the great heroes of the quest.” the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris before returning After a brief introduction by Doxiadis, his co-author, UC Berke­ ­ to Greece to work in theater and film, winning the prize of the ley theoretical computer scientist Christos H. Papadimitriou, and International Center for Artistic Cinema at the 1988 Berlin Inter- artists Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna, the reader meets national Film Festival for his second film, Terirem. Russell pushing his way through a crowd of anti-war protestors at Since the mid-1980s, he has largely devoted himself to fic- the beginning of WWII. tion, which he says has many similarities to math, especially The protestors appeal to his pacifism and ask him to join them when he is “in problem-solving mode” during the planning and instead of going into an American university to give a speech. editing phases. Instead, Russell invites them in and proceeds on a tale that be- The departure to the graphic novel came about by luck when gins with his childhood and takes readers through an enthralling two artist friends were looking for an idea for a book, and Doxiadis narrative of his tumultuous relationships, his fear of madness and proposed his math story. He found the process frustrating, the his consuming journey into “The Crisis of Foundation,” the search writing being much more technical and exacting that what he was for unifying truths. used to as a novelist. Still, he says he would like to try again. “Russell had a tragic childhood, and his falling in love with the For now, Doxiadis is completing three scholarly papers based ‘cold beauty’ (his words) of mathematics was partly an escape on a cognitive study he recently finished on “how logical and from horrible internal insecurities and dilemmas,” Doxiadis says. mathematical thinking were born in the agonistic context of “This personal stance seemed to us to be a perfect metaphor classical Athenian democracy, through influences both from for the role that the quest for Foundations played in the troubled judicial practice but also storytelling and poetry.” times in which it took place: an almost maniacal search for com- After that, he plans to leave math alone for a while. plete certainty in an increasingly uncertain and dangerous world.” “With these projects, I feel I’m pretty much done with it for The reader also is introduced to mathematicians A.N. White­ a while and would like to go back to the usual subjects for a head, Georg Cantor and Kurt Gödel, as well as their contributions writer,” he says. What might those be? “Oh, you know, sex and to the quest. violence and passions and ideas and their interrelations — and Even without the gene-mutating exposure to a nuclear reac- suchlike!” tor, Russell is able to tackle the problems of his times in a com- Ethan Rouen ’04J pelling story that Doxiadis made seem effortless. He has had practice, though. Doxiadis has made his living in To view a video about the making of Logicomix, go to www. the arts for three decades as a film and theater director, play- college.columbia.edu/cct. vost Emeritus. Brinkley’s profile Storms of My Grandchildren: The corporates political and historical winning editor of The New Yorker, of Luce — the founder of Time, Life Truth about the Coming Climate as well as scientific perspectives analyzes the social implications of and Fortune magazines — criticizes Catastrophe and Our Last Chance (Bloomsbury USA, $25). Barack Obama ’83’s presidential many of the media mogul’s profes- to Save Humanity by James Han- campaign (Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95). sional choices while applauding sen, adjunct professor of earth and The Bridge: The Life and Rise Grace Laidlaw ’11 his contributions to American jour- environmental sciences. Hansen’s of Barack Obama by David Rem- nalism (Alfred A. Knopf, $35). discussion of climate changes in- nick. Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-

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1937 Robert M. Paul, retired teacher, Portland, Ore., on January 3, 2010. Arthur S. Weinstock ’41, Loyal and Generous Alumnus Paul was born in 1915 in New York City. He was active in Boy Arthur S. Weinstock ’41 of Notes with classmate news. Scouts, especially the Sea Scouts, White Plains, N.Y., a devoted A member of Zeta Beta and attained Eagle Scout rank. and generous Columbian, died Tau, Weinstock served on its Later, he worked in commerce for on April 17, 2010, after a brief Supreme Council in addition an importing firm and for R.H. illness. Weinstock worked for to being an honorary director Macy. Paul’s first teaching assign- Exquisite Form and was the on the Foundation Board ment was at Wasatch Academy in general manager of manufac- of Directors. Active in the Mount Pleasant, Utah. In 1942, he turing in Puerto Rico prior to congregation at Temple Israel volunteered for the Navy and was retirement. Center in White Plains, he a commanding officer of an LCI participating in the invasions of A longtime contributor to the dedicated a classroom in its North Africa, Italy and Normandy. College as well as an involved Hebrew School. Weinstock also He remained active in the Naval alumnus, Weinstock, along with was a donor to the Holocaust Reserve and retired as lieutenant his late wife, Marian E. (Betty), and Human Rights Education commander. Following WWII, to whom he was married for Center, the New York ALS and most considerate friends Paul earned a master’s in teaching 52 years, endowed the Arthur Association and the Grace I had at Columbia. These of mathematics from Columbia. He S. and Marian E. Weinstock Church Community Center in traits were part of his intrinsic taught on Long Island before mov- Scholarship for College students White Plains. character, and they persisted ing to McMinnville, Ore., where he in financial need as well as the Weinstock played baseball throughout his life. I mourn taught math and became dean of boys at McMinnville H.S., retiring Arthur S. Weinstock Recognition and basketball while at the his loss and will never forget in 1977 after 32 years. Paul began Award for participation in College, managing the latter his extraordinary qualities and his 53-year seasonal career with the intercollegiate athletics. He team. his loyalty and devotion to our National Park Service in 1947; he served as president of the “Arthur and I met in 1937, beloved alma mater.” earned a Superior Service Award. Society of Columbia Graduates, our freshman year, at Zeta Weinstock is survived by his Survivors include his wife of 66 treasurer of the Columbia Club Beta Tau,” said Ray Robinson nieces, Margaret (Peggy) Kerner years, Mary (née Benbow); daugh- of Westchester, was on the ’41, “and we remained friendly and her husband, Jonathan, and ters, Janet Bones and her husband, Board of Columbia/Barnard the rest of our lives. He loved Carol Landsman Hannett and Stan, and Nancy Trembath and her Hillel and was a 1991 Alumni Columbia, the New York Yankees her husband, Steve. husband, Rick; and four grandchil- dren. Memorial contributions may Medalist. and Temple Israel in equal pro- Memorial contributions may be made to The Salvation Army or Weinstock was the “one portions. Rain or shine, Arthur be sent to the Arthur S. and a charity of the donor’s choice. most responsible” for class attended Columbia football and Marian E. Weinstock Scholar- reunions at Arden House for baseball games and never lost ship c/o the Columbia College 1941 about 45 years, noted CCT class hope for our teams. Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, Stanley H. Gotliffe, pediatric psy- correspondent Robert Zucker “To me, he was indisputably 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, chiatrist, Pawleys Island, S.C., on ’41 in this issue’s Class Notes. the sweetest person I’ve ever 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10025 or January 30, 2010. Gotliffe was born Weinstock himself at times met.” Temple Israel Center, 280 Old in New York City and was a Navy wrote the ’41 column, stepping Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz ’42, Mamaroneck Rd., White Plains, veteran of WWII and Korea. He earned a degree in 1944 from P&S in occasionally for Stanley H. also a longtime friend of Wein- NY 10605. and was a pediatric psychiatrist Gotliffe ’41. Weinstock also stock’s, noted, “Arthur was one Lisa Palladino and Jesse for 30 years at the Bureau of Child contributed regularly to Class of the kindest, most generous Thiessen ’11 Arts Guidance in the New York City School System and for 10 years at Bergen Pines Regional Medical Center Children’s Unit. Gotliffe the rank of lieutenant commander. 67 years, Alice Newton Drury; sons, was his class’ CCT Class Notes cor- He and his family relocated to New John and his wife, Donna, Ross and respondent from 1994–2008. Survi- York City after the war, and Mullins his wife, Maria, and David and his vors include his wife, Ruth; sons, began his career at Columbia. Mull- wife, Betsy; seven grandchildren; Edward and his wife, Ginger, and ins and his family then moved to De- and four great-grandchildren. Me- Alan and his wife, Cathy; daughter, marest, N.J., where he held, among morial contributions may be made Nancy Von Eilbergh and her hus- other positions, a nine-year term on to the Loomis Village Fellowship band, Otto; and seven grandchil- the Northern Valley Regional School Fund, 20 Bayon Dr., South Hadley, dren. Memorial contributions may Board of Education. In 1961, Mul- MA 01075. be made to Columbia University lins took a position with the College 1948 Gift Systems, Columbia Alumni Entrance Examination Board, where Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4520, he worked for the remainder of his Carter H. Hills, retired diplomat, New York, NY 10025. career. Mullins was a trustee of the Arabist, Washington, D.C., on De- Carter H. Hills ’48 American University in Paris for 35 cember 8, 2009. Hills graduated from John M. Mullins, education ex- years and remained interested in the College with honors and earned of Cairo and was a fellow at the ecutive, Holyoke, Mass., on July the educational issues of the day. He an M.A. from Princeton in 1950. Johns Hopkins School for Advanced 11, 2009. Born on May 2, 1919, in enjoyed following professional ten- He received an Aramco fellowship International Studies. Hills, a Navy New York City, Mullins served in nis on TV and attending the theater. to study Arabic and Middle East WWII veteran, was appointed un- the Navy during WWII, obtaining Mullins is survived by his wife of Studies at the American University der the Eisenhower Commission

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York City and grew up in Mine- Other Deaths Reported ola, N.Y. He served in the Army and while stationed in Frankfurt Columbia College Today also has learned of the deaths of the following alumni. Complete obituaries in 1955 met his first wife, Sonja Trautner. Sanchez earned a degree will be published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information and space considerations. from the Business School in 1957 1940 Theodore S. Hecht, magazine correspondent, Forest Hills, N.Y., on January 1, 2010. and the same year received his CPA certification and began his business 1942 Waldemar R. Hertwig, retired chemical engineer, San Diego, on April 1, 2010. Hertwig entered with career at Ernst & Ernst in Manhat- the Class of 1942 but instead earned a B.S. in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1943 from the Engineering School. tan. He continued his software and 1943 Philip J. Bliss, advertising v.p. and personnel director, Portsmouth, N.H., on April 22, 2010. technology career with a number warren W. Eason, professor and musician, Columbus, Ohio, on March 22, 2010. Eason earned an of companies, including several he economics certificate and Ph.D. in 1951 and 1959 from SIPA and GSAS, respectively. founded. In 1997, Sanchez retired. william R. Loweth, Tequesta, Fla., on May 5, 2010. Several years later, he started vol- unteering full time at the Museum william M. Webb, retired engineer, Louisville, Ky., on April 16, 2010. Webb earned a B.S. and an Boat Shop. He chaired the Board M.S. in mechanical engineering in 1943 and 1949, respectively, from the Engineering School. of Sister Cities of Beaufort, volun- 1944 William V. Beshlian, physician, Glen Rock, N.J., on April 24, 2010. teered with the Friends of NC Mari- Kenneth G. Englar, retired engineer, Newport Beach, Calif., on March 2, 2010. Englar entered with time Museum and belonged to the the Class of 1944 but instead earned a B.S. in 1943 from the Engineering School. Morehead City-Beaufort Boating harold W. Polton, paper recycling firm partner, real estate development and management execu- Club. Sailing dominated his life, but tive, Pompton Plains, N.J., on April 2, 2010. he also loved model trains, riding 1945 Howard H. Bess Jr., surgeon, Denver, on May 2, 2010. Bess earned a degree in 1948 from P&S. funiculars and travel. Sanchez is survived by his second wife, Gerda; donald W. Johnson, radiologist, Bloomfield, Conn., on May 7, 2010. Johnson earned a degree in mother, Pearl; sons, Francis and his 1948 from P&S. wife, Colleen, and Michael and his 1946 Raleigh Estrada, salesman, Chicago Heights, Ill., on May 12, 2010. wife, Nancy; stepson, Paul Hohens- 1948 Henry H. McDonald, retired ophthalmologist, Pasadena, Calif., on April 9, 2010. ee; stepdaughters, Joanne Luce and salvatore S. Stivala, chemist and retired professor, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., on March 26, 2010. Louise Valdov; five grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren; and five 1949 Kenneth F. Hadermann, retired teacher and school administrator, Lake Wylie, S.C., on April 25, 2010. nieces and nephews. theodore O. Prounis, attorney and management consultant, New York City, on May 22, 2010. Prounis entered with the Class of 1949 but instead earned a degree in 1950 from the Business School. 1954 1950 Desmond J. Nunan Sr., retired educational system administrator, Ocean City, N.J., on May 5, 2010. Ralph S. Mattson, mining engineer, 1951 Ernest J. Petrulio, pediatrician, Trabuco Cyn, Calif., on October 20, 2008. Green Valley, Ariz., on October 17, 1952 Marvin L. Yates, chemist, Port Angeles, Wash., on March 4, 2010. 2009. Mattson was a Henry Krumb Scholar at Columbia. He earned a 1954 Murray Hilibrand, Dallas, on May, 9 2010. Hilibrand earned a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1955 B.S. in mining engineering in 1955 from the Engineering School. from the Engineering School and george C. Muscillo Jr., physician, Scarsdale, N.Y., on May 10, 2010. became a mining engineer, running Max R. Pirner Sr., retired engineer, Humble, Texas, on May 9, 2010. Pirner earned a B.S. in indus- gold and copper operations in the trial engineering in 1955 from the Engineering School. Orient, South America and else- 1956 Paul I. “Ivy” Bartholet, controller, Westerly, R.I., on May 20, 2010. where. Mattson is survived by his wife of 27 years, Prabha (Anneke); 1958 James R. Meyers, retired librarian, Ithaca, N.Y., on April 15, 2010. two brothers; several nephews, robert R. Ott, Mt. Lebanon, Wash., on March 27, 2010. nieces and cousins; and extended 1960 T. Irving Chang, Honolulu, on April 1, 2010. family members in Finland, Thai- norman H. Nordlund, pilot, Brookfield, Conn., on April 28, 2010. land and the Netherlands. Lisa Palladino 1965 George W. “Bud” Goth, Berkeley, Calif., on November 28, 2009. 1975 Joseph F. Slade III, physician, professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation, Guilford, Conn., on May 21, 2010. 1980 Joseph V. DiGiuseppe, deputy city solicitor, Philadelphia, on May 24, 2010. Obituary Submission 1994 Mildred E. Niss, poet and web artist, North Tonawanda, N.Y., on November 29, 2009. Guidelines Columbia College Today welcomes obituaries for to the United Nations Reliefs and Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, more than 45 years. His first job was College alumni. Please include Works Agency, where he worked in Kuwait and other Gulf states. Hills at Sperry Gyroscope, and he subse- the deceased’s full name, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt in the spoke six languages. He is survived quently helped establish the micro- date of death with year, class 1950s. He subsequently worked in by his wife, Joan; daughters, Sarah, miniature connector divisions at ITT year, profession, and city the Department of State’s Bureau Jennifer and Alison ’96; and four Cannon, Microdot and Cinch before and state of residence at of International Organizational grandchildren. founding Min-E-Con and UltiMate, time of death. Biographical Affairs. During his tenure at the both of which continue to thrive. information, survivors’ names, Department of State, Hills worked 1949 Schmid married Verda Lee Schmid address(es) for charitable in Washington, D.C., Paris (with the Louis H. Schmid, microminiature in 1975; she survives him, as do his donations and high-quality Organization of Economic Coopera- electronics expert, Oceanside, Calif., children, Marilyn, Linda, Jon and photos (print, or 300 dpi jpg) also may be included. Word tion and Development) and Rome. on November 29, 2009. Born on Rob; stepchildren, Ron, Judy, Victor limit is 200; text may be In Rome, he was deputy and acting October 1, 1927, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Ken; six grandchildren; and six edited for length, clarity and U.S. permanent representative to the Schmid graduated from Brooklyn step-grandchildren. style at editors’ discretion. UN Food and Agriculture Organi- Tech H.S., and after serving in the 1952 Send materials to cct@ zation before permanently joining Army at the end of WWII, finished columbia.edu or to Obituaries FAO. For the remainder of his career, his studies at Columbia, graduating Warren R. “Pete” Sanchez, retired Editor, Columbia College Hills was responsible for negotiating with a double major in physics and computer analyst, systems designer, Today, Columbia Alumni agreements and overseeing FAO’s chemistry. Schmid was a pioneer in banker and entrepreneur, Beaufort, Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC programs in the Middle and Near the military microminiature electron- N.C., on December 2, 2009. Sanchez 4530, New York, NY 10025. East, including Afghanistan, Iran, ics industry with a career spanning was born January 11, 1932, in New

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Columbia College Today those enjoyable and occasionally in Philosophy, to which we invited was meeting Elsie Lorenz, who was Columbia Alumni Center painful years at Columbia, I send some of this country’s most noted to become my wife. My story must 25 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 greetings and best wishes. scholars in the discipline; I believe include this beautiful and extremely 40 New York, NY 10025 “I retired from the practice of psy- it is still running. Philosophers able person, who graduated from [email protected] chiatry in New York a dozen years from the entire Northwest, includ- Richmond Hill H.S. in Brooklyn a ago and subsequently moved to a re- ing Canada, are usual attendees. month past her 15th birthday and Dr. B.F. “Billy” Levene ’38, ’41 tirement community in Westchester “Meanwhile and betimes I have was at the top of her class. She grad- Dental writes, “I went on to dental County, close to my family. enjoyed playing piano, particularly uated from college a month past school and practiced for 69 years, “Family, of course, is important with different partners in the two- her 19th birthday. Hunt described until this January. My father began to all of us and especially at this piano format, for which a body of Elsie as ‘an unusually attractive and the practice in 1905 and my son, period of life. I take great satisfac- significant music has been com- able lady.’ Kenneth, ’66, ’72 Dental, is continu- tion in the accomplishments of my posed. We have given concerts for “I completed my master’s in ing it. I captained the Columbia daughter and grandson, who have about 15 years running. I regret say- 1941. The plan was that I would chess team and have been devoted achieved success in academia, as ing I haven’t found a substitute for get a teaching job, and Elsie and to the game all my life. I play, teach well as in my accomplishment at my last partner, who passed away. I would be married. It was not to and collect: 750 books and 400 sets. reaching great-grandfatherhood.” My first wife, daughter of Delaware be. I was a Canadian citizen and We hope to attend the meeting of Stanley M. Daugert ’40, ’49 GSAS Valley artist Rae Sloan Bredin, drafted as a private. My classmates Chess Collectors International in writes: “Seventy years have passed passed away in 1978. I remarried in were all officers, usually in the Cambridge, England, this July (over since our graduation, so I suspect 2000 at 82 to a brave but loyal and Navy. When I told Elsie that I was my cardiologist’s dead body, to coin there aren’t many of us left to share loving woman of 63, Alice Vivian drafted, she said it was time we a phrase).” our classmates’ stories. For those left Daugert. We have been a happy were engaged. I had no money, but Paul Angiolillo ’38 shares, and others, here is mine, briefly: and devoted retired couple, travel Elsie had been teaching for two “Glory be. I never thought I would “I took the M.A. in philosophy fairly extensively, read widely, and years, and she bought the ring. hear from or about the Columbia in 1942 under Irwin Edman ’17 commune with friends and family “On July 14, 1941, I entered the Glee Club. [Editor’s note: Alumni (thesis on ‘Plato’s Philosophy of for talk, music and humor. Army as a private and found it was Reunion Weekend 2010, held in Art’). I was drafted in 1942 and “We are moderately active politi- not an easy life, working on the June, featured a Glee Club alumni spent much combat time in the cally, rejoiced to see Obama elected, line, checking planes and preparing gathering and performance.] It South Pacific and Luzon. I ended but wish we could be more sanguine them for flight. An order sent me to seems a distant, shadowy, vague the war in northern Luzon, then about our country’s future. We leave the base commander’s office, where event. When I entered the College shipped out to South Korea in it to the good students of Columbia, I was informed that I, a private, was in September 1934, Fred Meisel ’38, command of a HQ Co., helping including Obama, to help steer the the NCO in charge of personnel. a classmate at Great Neck High, Sixth Infantry Division personnel ship in the right direction.” This assignment came because I persuaded me to join the club with to oversee the repatriation of Japa- Jim Frost ’40, ’49 GSAS writes: had the highest score on the Army him. I was grateful to him for the nese citizen-invaders back to their “Recently, there was a notice con­ General Classification Test. suggestion, for I profited greatly for home islands. cerning an alumni reunion this “My citizenship came through. In all four years I belonged. My closest “I married an American Red June. Not having been to the cam- those days, it took at least a couple friends also were in the Glee Cub Cross worker mid-war in Brisbane pus in years, it seemed like some- of years. I was sent to the Officer those four years, and we enjoyed in 1944, and we returned to Bucks thing I might do. The occasion Candidate School in Miami and doing concerts on campus, off cam- County, Pa., — she from Manila, I was dedicated to the graduates at the School of Business at Harvard, pus (Atlantic City, for example), on from Inchon — early in 1947. I re- five-year intervals [whose class where I was the only cadet to pass the radio and one Christmas film enrolled in Columbia, completed years ended in 0 or 5]. There was one examination. Graduation made short we made in Queens, with my coursework, published my dis- an entry for the Class of 1945 but me a commissioned officer. I had second-tier beauties, each swooning sertation (The Philosophy of Thorstein none for the Class of 1940. Never a specialty number and a title be- before us with glistening eyes as we Veblen) and was awarded the Ph.D. have I written concerning my life stowed by Headquarters Army Air sang. (A widower at 92 with weak in philosophy in 1949, signed by after college, but it seems like now Force and could be assigned duty memory, how does it happen that Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia’s or never. I turned 92 in May. only by Army Air Force Headquar- I remember this now after some 75 then-new president. “I knew Harry Carman, who ters. Elsie and I were married in years?) There were venues all over “Accepting a post at Oglethorpe was on my doctoral committee, her church on September 14, 1942. the NYC area where we sang dur- University in Atlanta, I taught small and was his coauthor for a book. Elsie used to quip that it was a short ing those four years, annually. We classes consisting mainly of Georgia My wife and I visited him at his courtship, only six years. I did well were always rehearsing for a con- students in various subjects from farm. Another professor at Colum- and rose to the rank of major. cert and felt sometimes like profes- speech and writing to introduction bia, though he did not stay there “The war ended, and it was sional singers once on a stage. The to philosophy and ethics for several very long, was Harold Syrett ’38 back to Columbia to work on the dear Rev. Frederic Meisel passed on years under a unique and exciting GSAS, ’44 GSAS, the great author- doctorate, which I received in in 2004. plan. It involved teaching and aim- ity on Alexander Hamilton (Class February 1949. My doctoral di- “Finally, however great my ing at human understanding, char- of 1778). Harold and I became close desire to join the reunion in June, acter, citizenship and community friends. Erling Hunt ’30 GSAS I had to forego the pleasure, for I service. Recently, I was invited to guided my college schedule and Class Notes are submitted by am pretty much homebound. Roar, Oglethorpe to give a talk to students chaired my doctoral committee. I alumni and edited by volunteer Lion, Roar.” from the ’50s and ’60s. I spoke on owe him a ton. class correspondents and the Seymour Jacobson ’39 writes: “It ‘The Good Life, 2009.’ “As an undergraduate, I was a has been more than 70 years since “In 1962, I accepted the post of waiter at Johnson Hall and a clothes staff of CCT prior to publication. graduation, and I am amazed that chairman of the philosophy de- handler at Macy’s, among other Opinions expressed are those of so much time has elapsed. My occa- partment at Western Washington odd jobs. I was a member of the individual alumni and do not sional visits to the campus through University in Bellingham, Wash., wrestling team and represented reflect the opinions of CCT, its the years were associated with feel- and spent the next 23 years teach- Columbia at my weight in every class correspondents, the College ings of nostalgia and wonderment, ing, writing and administering single meet. Receiving my letter, or the University. feelings that also could be applied a department of six professors. I I became a member of the Varsity to my life. To those who shared established an annual Colloquium ‘C’ Club. The most important event

july/august 2010 37 class notes columbia college today ploma from the Graduate Faculty State Historian but did not accept. of the United States: The Evolution ated. From Thursday, June 2–Sun- of Political Science, Philosophy “There were many difficult of a Free People (1968), with Ralph day, June 5, 2011, the College will and Pure Science was signed by situations. I will describe one here. Adams Brown, Ellis and Fink; The sponsor Alumni Reunion Weekend Dwight D. Eisenhower. Meanwhile The black students demanded that Establishment of Connecticut State for class years that end in 1 or 6. I taught history for a year at Nutley I provide a state car they could University 1965–1985: Notes and Stay tuned. H.S. in New Jersey and then at the use to bring groups together for Reminiscences (1991); The Country New York State Teachers College at discussions. I refused. Phone calls Club of Farmington, 1892–1995 Oneonta, where I was an instruc- threatened me and mentioned that (1996); and Life with Elsie (2005). Melvin Hershkowitz tor or the lowest academic rank. a Molotov cocktail might set my “For the last book, the publisher 3 Regency Plaza, Apt. 1001-E At the end of the year, the college house on fire. Attending a confer- refused to charge me for publica- 42 Providence, RI 02903 president called me in and said ence in Saratoga, I found myself tion and wanted me to put the 42 [email protected] he wanted me to be dean, which surrounded by three large men. book on the market, but I refused. I ranked next to the president. I said One said, ‘You are Dr. Frost.’ The have given it to friends and placed On March 10, I received a brief e- I would talk to Elsie. She said it second said, ‘You have two very it in libraries, where it has been mail message from Valerie Straw, must be a mistake; nobody went pretty daughters.’ The third said, much used.” reporting that her father, Sam Pisic- from instructor to dean. I agreed ‘Too bad.’ Nothing happened, but chio, died in Sonoma, Calif., at 89. with her, but the president meant Elsie and I were very concerned At my request, Valerie subsequently it, and I became dean. My chief and kept careful watch over our Robert Zucker sent a detailed (and affectionate) task as dean was to begin conver- daughters. 41 29 The Birches review of Sam’s life and career after sion from a teachers college to a “Next it was on to Connecticut, Roslyn, NY 11576 he left Columbia to serve in the multipurpose institution. where I thought my job was to 41 Coast Guard during WWII. Sam [email protected] “Elsie was very active in One- press for new programs in the state stayed in the Coast Guard after the onta but never said much about it. colleges to increase their role as We note with sorrow the passing of war, serving as a meteorologist, a It would be tedious to mention all multipurpose institutions offering four classmates. public information/press officer of her good works. One day I saw broader opportunities for students. Edward Amontree died in and executive officer on a training her picture in the paper with three Every personnel change in my Sarasota, Fla., on February 4 after a cutter, until he retired in 1965. He noted businessmen. I learned that office had to be approved by the lifetime of practicing dentistry. had assignments in Boston, where she was on the board of the com- Commission for Higher Education. James Cronenberg of Midland, he was known as “Sam the Weather munity chest. Elsie was unhappy Work in the legislature, defiance of Texas, started with our class and Man” for his radio reports; York, with the one-room schools on the a commissioner and, as a newspa- graduated from the Engineering Maine; Washington, D.C.; Virginia; outskirts of Oneonta. She got herself per reported, defiance of the gover- School in 1942. He worked for the Cape May, N.J.; Cleveland; and elected school district trustee and nor resulted in the trustees taking El Paso Gas Co. His life ended on southern California before his retire- led a campaign to have the children control, and their policies governed January 1. ment to a rural area in Napa, Calif. bussed to Oneonta, where there the system of four campuses. There T. Hall Keyes III entered with In Napa, Sam was an employ- were very good schools. She was were legislative threats to eliminate our class. He owned and operated ment consultant for the Napa Coun- out night after night after night, the trustees. Elsie always said to a pet resort and training center in ty Welfare Department (NCWD), escorted by a gentleman from the me that we did not have to stay in Ridge, N.C., and died on January 6. at which many of his clients spoke Board of Regents to a meeting with Connecticut and that perhaps it Arthur Weinstock left us on only Spanish, so Sam enrolled at parents. It was a tough business was time for me to retire and write April 17 after several weeks of in- UC Davis to learn Spanish. He because the people did not want books. She would also say, quoting tensive care at a White Plains, N.Y., quickly passed the GED exam to to give up control of schools used from the Book of Ruth, ‘Whither hospital. Art lived in White Plains confirm his fluency and was proud by their families for years. There thou goest, I will go.’ On March and was the one most responsible of that accomplishment. He worked were even fist fights. The vote came, 1, 1983, the legislature created the for our annual reunions at Arden for the NCWD until 1980, when he and Elsie and her helpers won. For Connecticut State University, and I House for approximately 45 years. finally retired and devoted himself many decades, the children have became its president. The trustees In college, he was president of ZBT, to repairing his property, vacations been bussed to better schools. I were in control, and now the effort manager of the basketball team and with his wife to South America never did anything so noble. would be focused almost solely on took part in many other activities. and going to the theater in San “During the academic year 1959– expanding the curricula. He served as president of the Society Francisco. 60, I had sabbatical leave and “On July 1, 1985, I retired. About of Columbia Graduates, as treas- Valerie told me that Sam loved accepted a Smith-Mundt grant to this time, it was discovered that my urer of the Columbia Club of West- Columbia, jazz and the New York serve for a year as the professor of highly intelligent Elsie had Alzheim- chester and as class president; was baseball Giants. He often made neg- American history at the University er’s. She knew it but never com- on the board of Columbia/Barnard ative comments about the “Dirty of Sri Lanka. The Rockefeller Foun- plained. She liked to travel, and that Hillel; and on the Supreme Council Dodgers” and the “Damn Yankees.” dation gave me a grant to visit the is what we did: Antarctica, South of ZBT. Art and his late wife, Betty, He always wore his Columbia ring American studies centers in Japa- Pacific, Alaska and many other endowed a scholarship for needy and often spoke of his affection for nese universities. Harry Carman places. Gradually things worsened, students at Columbia College and alma mater. wrote a letter endorsing me for the and this active lady who had gotten the Arthur S. Weinstock Recognition At Columbia, Sam earned intra- grant. The funds available made it me into golf and snorkeling was in Award for participation in intercol- mural medals, was on the freshman possible to take Elsie and our two a wheelchair. I was told I could not legiate athletics. wrestling team and worked on daughters with me. It was a won- handle it, but they were wrong. Only Among those at Art’s funeral Spectator. He was a member of Il derful year. We went around the during the last four or five weeks were Phyllis and Ray Robinson; Circolo Italiano, Le Cercle Lafayette, area, visiting 17 countries. did I have professional help. Elsie Suzanne and Bob Dettmer; Char- the Newman Club, the Pre-Law “My next assignment was in the died on July 8, 2003, in our bedroom. lie Plotz; Irene Leiwant, widow Society, the Squash Club and the central administration of SUNY, Since that time, I have lived in our of Erwin Leiwant; Bob Zucker; Dormitory Council. He had close where I was the vice chancellor for 10-room house by myself. Arthur Graham ’42 and Paul de friendships with Don Mankiewicz the Colleges of Arts and Science. “My children are Roger, who Bary ’68. A group of his Columbia and me. I regret that our paths di- Syrett was there as vice chancellor passed away; Janet, a chemistry friends, at Art’s invitation and in verged after graduation, and I never for University Centers. My work professor; and Elsie, a lawyer han- his memory, attended the Hillel saw Sam again after 1942. in Albany was to make the col- dling large cases for the IRS. dinner at Low Library on April 27. I thank Valerie for her informative leges multipurpose institutions far “I’ve written seven books: Life on [Editor’s note: See Obituaries.] communication about Sam. I send removed from the exclusive role the Upper Susquehanna, 1783–1860 At a recent luncheon in New my personal condolences to her and of preparing teachers. I did well (1951); A History of New York State York, a group of us discussed from our Great Class of 1942. in Albany. Chancellor Gould kept (1957), with David M. Ellis, Syrett the advent, next year, of our 70th My Horace Mann (Class of 1938) raising my salary and assigning me and Carman; New York: The Empire anniversary of graduation. Any classmate and Livingston Hall special tasks. While in New York, State (1961), again with Ellis and thoughts of activities in which we sophomore year roommate, Robert I was twice offered the position of also with William B. Fink; A History could indulge would be appreci- Kaufman, is the patriarch of an

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extraordinary family. Bob, at 89, is dry Agency. He had many friends invoke during a brisk bout. (I am Orleans jazz. It sounded that way a contender for the record of eldest who appreciated his energy, gregari- indebted to George Kolombatovich, to me, when listening to excerpts grandpa with the youngest grand- ous personality and management the current coach, for newspaper available through the Internet. child in our class. As I write this in skills. After Columbia, George rose clippings and other data concerning Tune in. Bob was on his way to April, Bob’s granddaughter, Ruby to a prominent position as advertis- Jimmy Murray.) Copenhagen for a concert when he Lee, is just 20 months old! Ruby ing manager and media consultant Another favorite of mine was Pro- wrote, ending his note by saying, Lee’s sister, Maddie Kate (9), is a at Colgate-Palmolive Corp. Accord- fessor Frohock of the French depart- “Life can become a poem some- future Columbia cheerleader. Bob ing to our 1978 Columbia College ment. He later headed Romance lan- times, in spite of the downs.” lives in Scarsdale, N.Y., and keeps Directory, George had already retired guages at Harvard. When he died, I a close eye on all Columbia sports, by that date. sent condolences to his widow, and with special attention to crew. Bob At the time of this writing, no she replied with the comment, “He Henry Rolf Hecht was the intrepid coxswain on our further information is available always said his Columbia students 11 Evergreen Pl. great Columbia crew in 1940 and about George or his family. We were the best.” 44 Demarest, NJ 07627 1941. Splish splash! Row Lions! send our condolences to them and Do you have a teacher or other 44 [email protected] On April 19, our Alumni Office to his friends. A detailed obituary staff Columbian you particularly notified me of the deaths of David will be published in a future issue remember? If so, write to me at We mourn the passing of Henry Harrison and George Laboda. of CCT. [email protected] so it can be Griesman, who spent most of his Dave died in Madison, Wis., on Don Mankiewicz in Monrovia, shared with our classmates. life in the fashion industry as a sup- February 3, and George died in Calif., and Arthur “Wizzer” Wel- My wife and I journeyed to beau- plier of high-quality fabrics from Lake Worth, Fla., on February 26. I lington in Elmira, N.Y., had been tiful Banff in the Canadian Rockies Europe and Asia. His proudest knew both Dave and George dur- in touch with me via e-mail and in March to attend the seventh in a achievement was as an intelligence ing our college years. Dave worked telephone to discuss and handicap biennial series of seminars on child- sergeant who shortly after VE Day on Spectator and was a member of the Kentucky Derby on May 1. (By hood kidney cancers I started years ran across Wernher von Braun and the Debate Council, Blue Book edi- the time you read this, that race ago. In June, we were in Stockholm started the rocket pioneer on his tor, Columbia Community Fund will be history.) Don, Arthur and I to participate in the umpteenth of way to Huntsville, Ala. Henry’s chairman, and a member of the are the surviving members of the a series of neuroblastoma research ashes will be interred in Arlington. Earl Hall Society and the Univer- Columbia chapter of the Certified congresses she started three or more sity Christian Society. George was Degenerate Horseplayers Club, decades ago. We detoured to the manager of the Student Laundry founded on the campus in 1938 by Shetland Islands on our return just Columbia College Today Agency, chairman of the Fall ourselves and our now-deceased for fun. Columbia Alumni Center Formal, president of the Columbia friends Charles F. “Chic” Hoelzer John J. Zullo writes, recalling 45 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Student Agencies Council, and a Jr. and Don Dickinson. Over the his days as a “brown bagger” be- 45 New York, NY 10025 member of the University Chris- intervening 72 years, members fore graduating from the School of [email protected] tian Association and Nacoms. have kept in touch to discuss and Engineering. There followed a stint Dave was born in Liverpool, handicap the Triple Crown races in the South Pacific with the Navy John Golembe ’62, ’65 TC wrote to England, in 1922. He was brought (Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) during WWII. John then worked in inform the class of his brother’s to the United States in 1933 and and the Breeders Cup Champion- industry, primarily in production doings: “Carter H. Golembe, who naturalized in 1945. In 1949, Dave ships. Despite our collective exper- and marketing. A source of pride is is retired with his wife, Patricia, in earned an M.A. in economics from tise in equine genetics, handicap- his granddaughter, Dana Morgan Delray Beach, Fla., recently pub- Columbia and began a career as an ping, jockeys and post-time odds, Zullo ’03, who graduated 60 years lished But I Never Made a Loan: My economist, statistician and market our success has been erratic. As we after her grandfather. Career in Banking — The Early Years, research analyst. He worked for approach our collective nonagenar- Robert (Bob) Greene provides a a book about his distinguished several prominent firms, including ian status (Art celebrated his 90th moving tribute to Carl Viggiani, who career, which spanned the second RCA International, the Textile Eco- birthday on May 17), we retain our died on January 16. They were close half of the 20th century. nomics Bureau, Courtaulds North optimism and continue to believe friends since college days when both “After beginning with the FDIC America, Chemstrand, Monsanto, in what Frank Sinatra said in one played touch football. Bob notes that in the early 1950s, Carter moved to and Kurt and Salmon Associates. of his best songs, “Here’s To The Carl landed in Normandy on D-Day the American Banker’s Association, Dave retired to Madison and Winners!” + 6, went across Europe and was one founded a leading bank consulting lived there for several years until I welcome news from all class- of the liberators of Dachau. A sear- firm and then established one of his death. He was assistant editor of mates via e-mail, regular mail or ing memory for anyone, Bob says, the most respected and widely read our Great Class of 1942 newsletter, telephone calls. Kind regards and certainly so for someone like Carl, newsletters in the banking industry, working with our late, great editors, best wishes to all. Hail Columbia! “with the soul of an Italian artist.” The Golembe Reports. Financial writer Victor Zaro and Dr. Herbert Mark, Carl majored in Romance languages Martin Mayer called Carter ‘one of and later with myself after Vic and and became a professor at Wesleyan the most interesting and informa- Herb died. Dave was a fine writer, G.J. D’Angio in Connecticut, where he remained tive sources on the banking scene,’ with a laconic wit and penetrating 43 Department of Radiation on the faculty for 40 years. He was and a Federal Reserve Board gover- analytic comments about the absur- Oncology an expert on the French existential- nor lamented his 2002 retirement by dities of modern life. After he moved 43 Hospital of the University of ists, especially Albert Camus, whom saying, ‘Not getting the benefit of to Madison from Bayside, N.Y., he Pennsylvania, Donner 2 he met in Paris after WWII. his 50-plus years of experience and sent me his wry comments about the 3400 Spruce St. Bob was a writer of documen- his ability to analyze is a tremen- Wisconsin Badger football mania at Philadelphia, PA 19104 tary pieces for CBS and ABC, and dous loss.’ Camp Randall Stadium, contrasting [email protected] went to Washington with the leg- “As with many of his classmates, that scene with his memories of the endary E.R. Murrow at the time of Carter’s College years were inter- old days at Baker Field and Wien I remember fondly several mem- the Kennedy administration. Then rupted by WWII service in Europe. Stadium. Dave was preceded at Co- bers of the Columbia faculty and piano, a longtime hobby, “took After recovering from wounds suf- lumbia by his brother, John Francis coaching staff. An outstanding per- over.” He toured the world playing fered in the Battle of the Bulge and Harrison ’38, who also earned M.A. sonality among them was Jimmy The World of Jelly Roll Morton, a returning to Morningside Heights, and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia and Murray, the fencing coach, who was musical documentary. His group Carter finished his baccalaureate and became chairman of the English a legendary figure in fencing circles. included “heroes from whom I went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics department at Transylvania College. Jimmy was a small man, then in his had learned on the old 78 RPM in 1952 at GSAS. Subsequently, he We send our condolences to late 60s, and could beat any of us. records,” to use his words. I looked earned a law degree at The George Dave’s family and friends. A After doing so, he would chuckle into this, Bob being modest, and Washington University. Carter’s detailed obituary will appear in a and cry out, “It’s the Irish oatmeal found that their 1964 record, St. Pe- long-standing support of Columbia future issue of CCT. that does it!” He had trained in ter Street Strutters, was a landmark College was honored in 1995 by George was well known on cam- Paris with a great master, Alphonse album. According to reviews, it the establishment of the Carter H. pus as manager of the Student Laun- Kirchhoffer, whose name he would captured the true essence of New Golembe Scholarship Fund.”

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by the proprietor across many years. to finance class mailings and other It is adjacent to the High Line public functions. I hope you will respond park, which opened less than a year to this one request for dues and ago to rave reviews and already is a will do so immediately. I realize the featured New York attraction. After expenses of Christmas and other lunch, we had the very special treat holidays, and income taxes cloud of a guided High Line tour by Kevin, the horizon at this time of year, a widely acclaimed writer, many of but the $2 you give to the class whose novels focus on life in New now may well mean the success or York, set in historic context. His in- failure of our attempts to put 1946 sights and information, delivered in back on its feet.” delightful fashion, added immeasur- Fifty-six years later, CC ’46 is go- ably to the experience. ing strong, so I suppose the appeal George Levinger, professor of was successful. Members of the Class of ’46 and their wives gathered for lunch in Man- psychology (retired) at the Univer- hattan in May, followed by a guided tour of the High Line public park by sity of Massachusetts in Amherst, Kevin Baker ’80. Taking in the beautiful surroundings were (seated, left traveled the furthest. He is writing Bert Sussman to right) Helen Aronson, Marvin Aronson ’46, Don Summa ’46, George a memoir that includes a recount- 155 W. 68th St., Apt. 27D Levinson ’46, Mike Pincus ’46 and Aihud Pevsner ’46; and (standing, left ing of the Frosh-Soph Rush. George 47 New York, NY 10023 to right) Irwin Nydick ’46, Baker, Marge Sunshine, Josephine Hendin and reported that as v.p. of the sopho- 47 [email protected] Herb Hendin ’46. mores, at the last minute he was PHOTO: Bernie Sunshine ’46 thrust into the leadership of the class Joseph P. Rumage, our class eye at the rush when it was discovered physician and surgeon, wrote to us Albert Rothman chimed in years at Columbia, thanks to a that freshmen had kidnapped the from Gretna, La., his home base: be­fore reunion: “I hope many of us Pulitzer Scholarship, mean more president the night before. “I had hoped to visit with you and ’45ers are still above the ground, to me than all the subsequent stud- John McConnell responded perhaps catch the Columbia crew and maybe I simply can’t find ies, including engineering at the from Idaho to the class luncheon after my Class of 1950 NYU Medical them. How I would love to hear College, which I didn’t care for. I announcement, saying Idaho was School reunion breakfast on April 10. from others who linger here and wish I had been able to study more a bit of a distance from midtown “However, they race now at 10 remember me, whether positively humanities. But to an offspring of Manhattan, and he would not be a.m. somewhere on Long Island. In or the reverse. Hal Samelson, Ron poor immigrants, a good job was with us. John writes: “We are in the old days, it was at 2 p.m. on the Graham and Johnny O’Connor the primary need. My family con- a house on the Rathdrum Prairie, Harlem River across from the old are gone. I miss them deeply, as sidered themselves deprived, but sandwiched between Coeur Polo Grounds. well as others [whose names] don’t the word ‘poor’ was never their d’Alene, Post Falls and Hayden, “Anyway, enjoy your news come to my aging mind. identification. And the draft board a 45-minute drive from Spokane, items , and I’ll try again soon. Keep “In many ways, it is the happiest had me in its sight at the elbow of Wash. Weather here is beautiful. up your good work!” time in my life. Am I nuts? No. I WWII.” Last year at this time, we had six In early February, my wife, feel fully alive and active, grateful The Class of ’45 is still looking feet of snow. This year, we have Shirley, and I flew to Hawaii for for surviving heart bypass, cancer, for a class correspondent to write had a total of less than five inches, our oldest grandson’s wedding. He hip replacement and so on, and a bimonthly column for Columbia leaving concerns about water had requested I act as officiate. He especially clinical depression a few College Today. If you want an open levels throughout the region. Ski- lives in a lovely home on Maui, one years ago. Oh, and I’m four inches platform and a chance to reconnect ing is still great at elevations above of Hawaii’s principal islands. The shorter with severe spine issues with classmates, please contact 4,000–5,000 feet.” wedding took place on the lawn. that hardly bother me and go into Associate Editor Ethan Rouen at John, from this and previous cor- Of course, in my brief address to abeyance when I hike. [email protected]. Until then, respondence about your surround- the couple I urged them to stand “No longer interested in my for- please send notes about your life, ings, you probably could write together forever to withstand “the mer studies and career in chemical thoughts, travel, family and experi- Paradise Found. slings and arrows of outrageous for- engineering and chemistry. B.S. ences at Columbia to the postal My wife and I recently moved tune” as well as enjoying the “Joy Ch.E. at Columbia, Ph.D. in chem- or e-mail address at the top of the house (back to New York City, af- of the World.” Flying 11 hours each Ch.E. at UC Berkeley and both column. ter 55 years in New Rochelle), and way was made even more onerous industrial and university positions. some things that turn up catch the on our return trip by an all-night After retiring in 1986, I became eye. Like a note from Mike Pincus. layover in Los Angeles requiring a a published and prize-winning Bernard Sunshine Some years back, he wrote in part: fresh hobble through security. The writer, poet and author: A Brooklyn 20 W. 86th St. “A good deal of my openness of wedding and attendant parties had Odyssey: Travails and Joys of a Boy’s 46 New York, NY 10024 mind and attitude derived from already proved exhausting enough. Early Life. Working on two more 46 those wonderful men at Columbia But such age-related complaints [email protected] books, including Travels Without who inculcated, in most of us I are really asides. The weather was Charley, about a 10-week trip in my Our class luncheon in New York think, the sense that what is true is perfect. The 6-foot-4 groom was truck, hiking all the National Parks on May 6 brought us together for what you have examined closely incredibly handsome, the bride, in the West. an enjoyable afternoon of good with an open mind. But, it may not Hollywood beautiful. So what more “Writing is much more to my fellowship, reminiscences and per- be true forever. In a sense, truth can you ask? liking than anything before it. sonal anecdotes. Wives were invit- changes as we grow older and Since returning at the end of Another passion is regular hiking ed, and four brave women added experience the world and other February and continuing until (I am a trails patrol volunteer in the beauty and grace to the event. people’s truths.” now, physical problems have been various parks in the SF Bay Area). Present were Helen and Marvin Send me your thoughts about huge time guzzlers. I know that And, of course, my loving children: Aronson, Josephine and Herb Mike’s statement. It can bring an other classmates have struggled entrepreneur Denise, teacher Lynn Hendin, George Levinger, Irwin interesting exchange of views. with as much and more. They have and son Joel, professor and head Nydick, Aihud Pevsner, Mike I also came across the first CC told me it would be impossible to of the Department of Molecular Pincus, Paula and Mal Ruderman, ’46 Newsletter (December 1954). find space in their minds or the Biology at UC Santa Barbara. Also, Don Summa, Marge and Bernie I had been elected class president time to compose a note, however four grandchildren and two great- Sunshine, and special guest Kevin and reported: “I am frankly sorry simple. grandchildren of various ethnici- Baker ’80. [See photo.] that one of the first official acts of In my case, the next months pro­ ties, which delight me: Mexican, We lunched at Moran’s Restau- our group (the officers) has to be a mise renewed energies, and I look Japanese, Caucasian (what an odd rant, a 19th-century throwback, request for class dues, but as you forward to hearing from classmates. name to avoid ‘white’!). which boasts a large collection of can understand, it is not possible for While we are still around — “But I must add: My first two sparkling Waterford crystal acquired one or two individuals to continue though sadly in dwindling num-

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bers — I believe we should speak my children.’ This is basically why articles appear from time to time de- stint with the National Institute of up. We are those special people we decided to move to Mayflower scribing black holes as a place from Mental Health in Washington, D.C. with genuine memories of the instead of to my place in Falmouth. which nothing can escape. Well, at Dick retired from academic life Depression, WWII, Roosevelt and It will be readily available to us least three ’49ers have done just that! in the late ’90s but took on a new Hitler, and Chang Kai-Shek and his should we feel the need to escape Chet Nedwidek popped up on career in public mental health. madame. We were just students — institutional living, and it will pro- my computer screen with another For his many years of service on most still in our teens — walking vide a place to stay when my son one of his fantastic wood turnings, mental health boards, local and on Van Am or going into Hamilton and his family visit. a blue-ribbon effort in a wood state, and as a child psychiatrist when the news of Pearl Harbor hit “Arthur Bradley was my neigh- turning competition. The extraor- for various community agencies us. We have, of course, since then bor to the north in Hartley. He dinary skill required for even the helping kids, he was honored as shared the memories of the string mentioned in the March/April CCT most basic of wood turnings is a the recipient of the 2010 Lifetime of unbelievable assassinations and that in 1945, he’d been stationed at wonder. To infuse the high order Career Leadership Award from Vietnam and the Moon Shot with a ‘port near Tokyo,’ which was, in of aesthetic as expressed in this the North Carolina Council of the rest of the world. fact Yokosuka. When Arthur came artwork by Chet continues to be a Community Programs, a state- But only those of us who were to visit me in the ’60s at Ste-Adèle, in source of wonder and admiration. level organization of mental health there in mid-century can truly the Laurentians, we played golf. The And congratulations are in order agencies. Dick has published ar- measure the validity of the com- player we were paired with turned again for the illustrious Charlie ticles in professional journals and is parisons made so often between out to be an American who had also Peters! His book on Lyndon John­ the author of the book Adolescents then and now. been stationed in Yokosuka.” son, with a June publication date, In Psychiatric Hospitals: A Psycho- Recently, we lost Peter Bres- Larry Spelman writes: “My is available to all reading this. dynamic Approach to Evaluation and cia, like us Class of ’47, but also a wife, Dorothy, and I are still happily Charlie’s insights and analysis have Treatment. He sends greetings to all graduate of Columbia’s School of retired in Sarasota, Fla. In pursuit enlivened and enlightened political classmates and to members of the International and Public Affairs. of activities, I have become an avid discourse for a great many years. tennis team. Peter spent his entire career work- tenor banjo player (1920s songs, Third, and I save the best for last, Sad to report, Alfred Arees of ing nobly in the Foreign Service in none of that bluegrass stuff). I am is the word I received from Basil Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., died in places such as Afghanistan. We owe now a member of two bands, the Shanahan, of Bangor, Pa. Basil wrote March 2009. him and the thousands of anony- Gulf Coast Banjo Society, which has in response to my plea for word Our class reunion took place in mous public servants who spend its weekly gigs from October–May from all of you. It is appreciated for June, but due to lead-time require- their lives working for us and their on Thursdays at Snook Haven in that to begin with. But there was ments for Class Notes, we shall country more than a moment of Venice, Fla., during the day, and a sad note to the content of Basil’s have to wait for the next issue to respect. [See May/June Obituaries.] the Sunshine Mummers String letter. Basil is under the impression report on attendees and activities. Peter is gone. But we are still Band, which has its weekly gigs on that, having failed to achieve public In the May/June issue, we re- here. If we hadn’t learned the essen- Wednesdays, also in Venice. Dick acclaim or some appropriate form ported the publication of Roland tials before we got to 116th Street, Hyman lives in Venice, and he has of celebrity, he represents some Glenn’s book, The Hawk and The we then were nourished on the visited our banjo performances. “underclass” of Columbia College Dove, but neglected to include the Core Curriculum and a long list of He has intimated that one of these graduates. The class celebrities, be publisher’s information. The pub- brilliant teachers. (My favorite was days, he will bring along his electric they public figures whose wealth or lisher is Smith/Kerr Associates, Gilbert Highet.) We know up is not keyboard and join our playing, but awards of recognition are respected 43 Seapoint Rd., Kittery Point, ME down and right from wrong. so far we have not had that plea- achievements, are a minor percent- 03905; phone/fax, 207-439-2921; Our responsibility is to use our sure. If any classmate likes happy age of College graduates. Most of us e-mail: [email protected]; www. ability to think and to distinguish banjo music and comes to any of were, and are, ordinary guys who SmithKerr.com. appeals to reason from “you betcha.” our gigs and introduces himself to have led simple lives of no special I look forward to hearing from me as a classmate, the hot dogs or note except that the conduct of those you. cheeseburgers are on me.” lives was inspired by our Columbia George Koplinka CCT is looking for a new Class years. 51 75 Chelsea Rd. Notes correspondent for the Class I hope that Basil will accept his White Plains, NY 10603 Columbia College Today of ’48. If you’d like to volunteer a membership in our class as having 51 [email protected] Columbia Alumni Center few hours a month to keep in touch significance. And, as one who would 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 with classmates and write about remain in obscurity but for the So, what about Len and Fred? If 48 New York, NY 10025 what they are doing, please contact priv­ilege of writing this column, I we roll back the clock more than 60 [email protected] Ethan Rouen, associate editor: say, welcome back. And thank you years, Len Stoehr and Fred Kinsey Columbia College Today, Columbia for responding to my plea. Basil did are roommates during their junior George Woolfe writes: “CCT came Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., express a desire to be in touch with year at Columbia College. They this week, and despite all the disrup- MC 4530, New York, NY 10025. Or classmates, and his e-mail address is share a double room on the third tion in our house, I took the time to e-mail him at ecr2102@columbia. [email protected]. floor of the now defunct Phi Kappa read Durham Caldwell’s ’48 Class edu, or call him at 212-851-7485. That’s it for July. Enjoy your Psi fraternity chapter on West 113th Notes. Add Elaine and me to the list Until a correspondent is found, summer. At this writing, my toma- Street. After graduation, they go of those who are joining Durham in please send news to the address at toes are in the ground, and hope their separate ways and do not the great state of Massachusetts. the top of the column. springs eternal for a fruitful harvest! reconnect until some 40 years later. “We moved to Mayflower Place, Len was enrolled in Colum- a continuing care retirement com- bia’s NROTC program, and upon munity on Cape Cod in West Yar- John Weaver Mario Palmieri graduation he was commissioned mouth, in April. It is only about 20 2639 E. 11th St. 33 Lakeview Ave. W. an ensign in the Navy with a three- miles from Durham’s hometown in 49 Brooklyn, NY 11235 50 Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567 year obligation. After a few years Falmouth and my house there. 49 50 of Navy life and while stationed in [email protected] [email protected] “This is my second sojourn in a Hawaii, he had an epiphany and retirement place, and I can recom- I feel thrice blessed! After a lack Dick Brunstetter, after graduating decided that naval service was not mend such a move to our fellow of word from any of you, I was from P&S in 1955, entered the field such a bad deal. Len “re-upped” classmates. Not only is caregiving pleased to find my inbox had not of psychiatry and child psychiatry. and served for 22 years as a naval lifted from the shoulders of your one but three notes, putting an end He practiced and taught in several officer. Prominent years were spent spouse or offspring should a debili- to the fear that the Class of ’49 had U.S. cities but for more than 20 commanding a submarine on tating illness occur, but your wife disappeared into a black hole from years has remained settled in the patrolling missions in the Pacific no longer has to cook dinner every which the screams of “Help” could Winston-Salem. N.C., area. Among Ocean. He retired in 1973 as a cap- night, nor clean up afterward! not be heard. his posts have been professorships tain. Following his discharge, Len “As a fellow resident once said I did poorly in Professor Farwell’s at the medical schools of Tulane held a variety of engineering and to me, ‘Moving here is my gift to basic physics course but popular and Wake Forest and a four-year management positions, and today

july/august 2010 41 class notes columbia college today he works part-time doing patent to the Handley cake! completed their 45th winter in know it. The Police Athletic League searches for a law firm. He has been How about this sports item Puerto Rico and are back in New provided free tickets to Yankee married to Jan for 27 years. They from [the Myrtle Beach] Sun News: Jersey for the summer. Marty got Stadium where I saw Joe DiMaggio, live in Arlington, Va., and own a Dave Zinman finished first in the tied up with a “little heart prob- Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg and retreat house on a lake near the Blue 65-and-over mile run at Coastal lem” as he called it, but all is well. Ted Williams. Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Len’s Carolina University this spring. Best of all, he learned to say “Hel- Also, there was always a hand- interests include tennis, grandkids, No real surprise, because Dave got lo” in Tagalog, Korean and Hindi ball game in the playground 10 the lake house, reading and con- his varsity letter in track 59 years from the multicultural nurses blocks away. Some days I would necting with old friends. ago at Columbia. As Dave said at in the hospital. His e-mail is to- spend the entire day playing hand- Fred’s career took a different the finish line, “These weary legs [email protected]. Ralph Lowen- ball. If you could win, you could trajectory. He married after gradu- are still a-truckin’, despite some stein co-authored a book with John stay on the court. And then there ation and returned to Columbia for heavy huffing and puffing along C. Merrill that came out in January: were the ongoing softball games in graduate work in anthropology. the way.” Stan Schachter, our rov- Viva Journalism: The Triumph of Print the empty lot on the corner. After completing an M.A. in 1953, ing reporter in Florida, sent news in the Media Revolution. (Available Of course, June was the time of Fred was drafted into the Army. about Marvin Berkman, who at from Amazon and other Internet graduations. Speaking of which, my Upon completion of his military the time of our graduation was bookstores for those with grand- wife and I happily attended three obligation, Fred was employed captain of the varsity track team. children who can help with a com- of our grandchildren’s high school as an archeologist and curator at Despite Marvin’s mentoring, puter order.) Sam Haines, class graduations. One of our grand- the Pennsylvania State Museum. Stan’s own track career was short- v.p., is in a nursing home in Bergen daughters will be attending Wash- After eight years, he accepted a lived. Marvin, and the late Mark County, N.J. Fraternity brothers ington University in St. Louis, one dual position as director of Frank- Winfield, went on to accumulate and close friends should keep in of our grandsons will be attending lin and Marshall College’s North numerous victories for the Lions. touch with Sam. The New York Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. (hav- Museum and as a member of the Marv’s career led to a Harvard Times reported the death of Allison ing been valedictorian of his high college’s anthropology department M.B.A., retail experience with Stacey Cowles, who died on April school class), and another grandson in Lancaster, Pa. Fred retired from Bloomingdale’s, a marriage in 1963 24. Allison was the wife of Arthur will attend Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. F&M after 27 years and founded and resettlement in the Midwest. Ochs Sulzberger. Columbia’s I couldn’t talk them into going to an archeological consulting busi- In 1975, he moved to Los Angeles, Alumni Office reported the death Columbia. ness. Now fully retired, Fred and acquired a carwash business, built of John W. Garrett, of Asheville, Peter G. Lee writes: “I began his wife, Carol, live in Manheim, an empire and turned it over to his N.C., on January 10. Frank Lewis my career working for defense Pa., where they enjoy traveling, son. Now he can come and go as had a serious automobile accident and defense-related companies. landscaping, reading and volun- he pleases, has time to enjoy with last August. His car was totaled DuPont (smokeless gun powder), teer work. three grandchildren and a daugh- when another vehicle turned into G.D.-E.B. Division (nuclear subma- Happy ending? Yes! About 20 ter who is an attorney in San Jose him. Frank is pleased with his ex- rine) and Secondary Lead Smelters years ago, Len and Fred reconnected and who recently appeared before cellent overall recovery, feels fine (ballasts and bullets). Anyway, it after ’51’s 40th reunion. They began the California Supreme Court and and is hoping he can make the 60th is not a distinguished career, but it exchanging visits several times a won her case. reunion despite a couple of linger- kept me out of military service. year, with and without spouses. A No doubt about it. The Core ing problems. Keep in touch with “I have four children, three sons big event last year was when they Curriculum has created great di- Frank at [email protected]. and a daughter. They are all engi­ attended each other’s 80th birthday versity in our classmates’ careers. Something to think about: The neers. I have a most wonderful wife bash. Recently, the classmates en- Consider Peter T. Suzuki, who online-only Columbia College Fund who is a chemist. We met at a scien- joyed a boys’ weekend at the lake earned a master’s in 1952 from 57th Annual Report (http://fund. tific conference. She thought I was house. As Len said, it was comical; GSAS’ anthropology department, college.columbia.edu/annual a salesman, so I sold myself to her. “Two old deaf guys shouting at each studying with such luminaries as report) noted that $14.6 million was We have been making beautiful other.” Both would enjoy hearing Alfred Kroeber, Joseph Greenberg, donated in Fiscal Year 2008–09. Our chemistry. from any of the old gang. Len can be Margaret Mead ’28 GSAS and class, consisting of 295 members, “After coming to the United reached at [email protected] and Harry Shapiro, to name a few. had 98 donors who contributed States in 1940, I finally had the Fred at [email protected]. After studying at Yale and Leiden $52,431. Next year is a reunion year. opportunity to visit my birthplace, Fortieth reunion, good; 50th University in Holland and acquir- Can we double our giving and a small village in southern China. reunion, better; but the 60th will ing a Ph.D. in anthropology, Peter make a big splash? Yes we can! My wife saw her home in Shanghai. be the best! Planning is under way, had a long tenure in the academic However, everything has changed. and the Alumni Office has assigned world with institutions in Turkey, My house was torn down, and my Jennifer Freely, assistant director of the University of Maryland, in Sidney Prager wife’s home is now housing five alumni affairs, to help our nascent Europe and finally retiring from 20 Como Ct. families. committee with the planning for his professorial appointment at 52 Manchester, NJ 08759 “My wife and I like outdoor Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, the University of Nebraska. Most 52 activities such as hiking, sightseeing [email protected] 2011. Information will be forthcom- recently, he has published an and gardening. We bought a small ing via e-mail, phone calls, literature article in Indigenous Policy Journal Here we are in the midst of sum- camp with three acres of land in up- and this column. Your ideas and (September 2009), “Margaret mer. July: hot, hazy and humid. But state New York. It became our place suggestions are most welcome. Jen- Mead’s Unpublished Field Notes also, it’s time for the beach, picnics of refuge, where we can unwind nifer can be reached at 212-851-7438 on the Omaha Tribe: Three Unpub- and ballgames with hot dogs, ham- and relax. Since we like the place, we or [email protected]. lished Ceremonies.” The material burgers, beer and soda. The lazy thought we could we retire there. John Handley reports all is well is based upon Mead’s documents days of summer that remind us of In 1987, we replaced the one room with his family, and he and his wife, stored in the Library of Congress when we were kids, playing in the shack with a Lincoln log cabin. We Mary, still live in Santa Barbara, since summer 1930. Peter’s paper park, running under the cold water purchased the cabin kit and friends Calif. Spring skiing has been good goes over numerous Omaha Tribe of the open fire hydrants or if you helped put it together. After it was at Mammoth Mountain, with 11–14 ceremonies, which he discovered were lucky, going to camp. What finished and comfortably livable, we feet of snow in the high peaks. Like were not included in Mead’s book, freedom we had, away from the realized it was not good for an old so many of us octogenarians, John The Changing Culture of an Indian house all day, just having to be back couple to live there year-round. This and Mary devote considerable time Tribe. In addition to anthropologi- in time for dinner. Remember wait- place is too remote. It has no public to grandparenting and graduation cal research, Peter has been going ing for the bells to announce Good transportation, limited medical ceremonies. It recently was cap to Perth, Australia, twice each year Humor or Bungalow Bar and hold- facilities, and only mom-and-pop and gown time for granddaughter since 2006. There, he keeps his wid- ing on tightly to that nickel or dime shopping. The winter is too harsh, Maria, who hopes to be accepted at owed sister company and has time that you needed for that special with temperatures 20 degrees below Brown in the fall. Her Dad, Mark, to ponder his next publication. summer day treat. Many of us were zero and 300 inches of snowfall each will get a second star as a rear admi- A few final notes: Martin L. so poor that we were inches away season. That situation, we cannot ral in the Navy, adding a little icing Katz and his wife, Olga, recently from welfare, but we didn’t even handle. But, it is still an attractive

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place to spend summer and fall. We Committee of the LeDucq Founda- mine,” Herman writes. Shirley, will celebrate their 50th an- are now a ‘snowbird couple.’ ” tion. Dr. Andrew Wechsler has writ- In 1957, Herman earned his doc- niversary on August 1. Here’s to a James D. Kelly writes: “I was ten, “Bob Wallace set the direction torate in high-energy physics from happy 50 more years together. They supposed to graduate with the for what will probably turn out to be Columbia and has held positions have two sons and four grandsons Class of 1953, so few in the Class of the largest private foundation sup- at the University of Rochester and (in the words of our classmate, 1952 are apt to know me. I went on porting cardiovascular research. In- Harvard. He was one of the primary “Boys are us.”). Saul is considering to Columbia’s graduate school for dividuals supported by the LeDucq actors at Stanford in the creation of moving back from Beverly Hills economics and ended up working Foundation represent the highest SSRL and Linac Coherent Light to New York so that he can “hang as an economist at IBM’s Armonk level of cardiologic investigation on Source. around Hamilton Hall” to see if he HQ for 27 years. I have a message both sides of the Atlantic.” Herman has written more than can assist grandsons Max and Ross for all of you out there: Despite Bob has written more than 250 100 scientific articles and is a fellow with their admission to Columbia appearances, the earth is not flat, articles or book chapters. He was a at the APS and the American Asso- College. He was talking to Stan and the sun does not revolve around resident on Dr. Michael DeBakey’s ciation for the Advance of Science. Swersky, who lives in Weston, Fla. the earth. As with physical science, service in Houston and later worked He is working on a collabora- Stan has successfully recovered assumptions using common sense with Dr. Denton Cooley. Amazingly, tive effort with a group of physics from serious surgery and is well alone frequently lead to the wrong Bob claims that it is quite likely he experts he organized from nine enough to play golf again. conclusions. I knew from my studies would never have pursued a career Middle Eastern countries, includ- It’s always good hearing from of the history of economics that in medicine if it had not been for ing Jordan, Iran, Israel and Egypt. fellow members of “The Class there were, indeed, bubbles in both football coach Lou Little, who took If their work is successful, Herman of Destiny,” and it’s even better the worldwide real estate market a great deal of interest in the young believes it will dramatically help when someone contacts me whom and in most stock markets, despite men who played for him. He’s sure all countries in the Middle East. we haven’t heard from for a long assertions from Fed officials that that Little had a great deal to do with Renee and Herman have been time. Demetrios “Jim” Caraley is a it was impossible to know that a his acceptance at P&S. married 57 years. Their wedding wonderful case in point. Jim’s career bubble exists until it bursts. Some of Bob and Betty have been happily took place the day after our gradu- involved academia at Columbia and us knew that huge bubbles existed. married for 55 years. They have ation in 1953. They have three Barnard, where among other honors I acted on that knowledge and got three children and six grandchil- children and seven grandchildren accorded full professors, Barnard out of the stock market long before dren. Talking to Bob on the phone, I and live on the Stanford campus. honored him with a special chair, it crashed. Finally, it is essential that learned that since his retirement, he Keep up your innovative, dedi- the Janet Robb Professorship of the the federal government continue to has been involved in a program to cated, enthusiastic work! Social Sciences. Jim held full profes- run large budgetary deficits until it is provide tutoring and mentoring to sorships at Columbia and Barnard. clear that the economic recovery will inner-city children in Washington, He is a prolific author and has been not abort and send us reeling into D.C. In addition, he has become Howard Falberg editor of several scholarly journals another Great Depression. Common addicted to playing golf and carving 13710 Paseo Bonita such as Political Science Quarterly, sense says that big federal deficits two decorative decoys a year, which 54 Poway, CA 92064 and since 1992 has been president must be reined in. Wise economic he gives away to friends and family. 54 of the Academy of Political Science. [email protected] policy says, ‘not so fast.’ Before we What a great classmate! Here’s One of Jim’s comments to me was curb the deficits, let’s be sure that the to many more years of productive I’m feeling great, since a good “Columbia College, especially the crisis is really behind us.” activity! number of classmates have re- humanities Core, really shaped my Sorry to report the passing of Sad to say, Jay Levine passed sponded to my “agonized call for life, and I advise anyone who I think Donald J. Engel, a retired comp- away on February 22. Jay earned help” regarding information. Many has a chance of getting in to apply to troller from Hopewell, N.J., on his M.A. in English and compara- of our classmates are involved in the College as the best undergradu- September 11, 2009. tive literature in 1954 from GSAS activities, regardless of retirement, ate institution in the country.” Good wishes and good luck to and became a professor in Chicago. and concentrate on business or I couldn’t have said it better. all. I left Florida in May and will The American Physical Society, community, family or sports, hob- Peter Kenen refuses to retire. be in my New Jersey home until in recognition of scientists who bies or travel, or just plain leisure. Although he ascended to emeritus December. Please feel free to send have worked to uphold human Peter Ehrenhaft is serving as an status at Princeton some years me any information or updates. rights, awarded Herman Winick arbitrator in an international com- ago, he continues to teach, write its Andrei Sakharov Prize on Feb- mercial dispute. Peter and his wife, and travel. Peter is a prolific writer ruary 14. The award is named for a Charlotte ’57 SW (whom he met in and has three new papers, all Lew Robins Russian physicist and Nobel laure- his last year at Columbia), recently forthcoming, on the reform of the 1221 Stratfield Rd. ate who campaigned extensively spent two weeks in China to see international monetary system. His 53 Fairfield, CT 06825 against nuclear proliferation in the terra cotta warriors in their areas of interest involve him in a 53 the former Soviet Union. Herman pit and cruise down the Yangtze great deal of international travel. [email protected] Peter and his wife, Reggie, have In 2008, Bob Wallace received the four children and four grandchil- Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Larry Kobrin ’54 is senior counsel at Cahill Gordon dren, one of whom is a freshman at Award. At the time, Dr. Eugene Columbia in a joint program with Braunwald of Harvard Medical & Reindel, practicing real estate and corporate law. the Jewish Theological Seminary. School and Brigham and Women’s Peter is another example of how Hospital in Boston called our dis­ one can be retired, involved and tinguished classmate “a giant in suspects that he was nominated for River. Peter also serves as national having fun. He is happily involved cardiovascular surgery.” Among his his work to pressure the Iranian treasurer of Compassion & Choic- in deep sea fishing and enjoyed many medical achievements, Bob government to release Iranian es, which seeks to allow Medicare the sailfish he caught on a deep was the first surgeon in the nation physicist Mohammad Hadi Had- to reimburse doctors who provide sea trip. to perform the Rastelli operation izadeh Yazdi, who had been one of end-of-life counseling. Arnie Tolkin is not only fascin- to correct transposition of the great his colleagues in a physics project Alan Fendrick and his wife, Bev, ated by genealogy but he also does arteries with ventricular septal de- Herman started in 1997. In 2001, are well and were planning to leave something about it. He has uncov- fect and pulmonary stenosis. After Herman organized a letter-writing Sarasota in late May for their home ered relatives all over the world, serving as the chair of Mayo’s de- campaign on Hadizadeh’s behalf, in the Berkshires. Among their fam- and shortly, Arnie and his bride partment of surgery from 1968–79, recruiting 32 Nobel Prize laureates ily sources of pride is their grandson, will be off to Africa to visit with Bob went to the Georgetown Uni- in the effort. Later, he was able to Jonah, who has been playing the relatives he found in Johannesburg versity School of Medicine, where help Hadizadeh secure research cello since he was 5 and will be part and Capetown. Arnie maintains a he became the chief of the Division positions at Ohio and Harvard. “I of an interscholastic student high strong Columbia connection, since of Cardiothoracic Surgery. got very upset that a guy like him, school orchestra giving a concert at his grandson, Aaron ’08, is engaged In 1999, Bob was v.p., president whom I respected so much, should Alice Tully Hall. to Dena ’09 Barnard. “We are now and chair of the Scientific Advisory be in prison for views so similar to Saul Turteltaub and his wife, three generations of Columbia grad-

july/august 2010 43 class notes columbia college today uates with a great deal of loyalty to Professor Elaine Sisman revealed get ready, be prepared, rejuvenate champagne in France, and Ralph the College and the University,” the secret narratives in the prob- yourselves. Before you know it, the Kaslick and Mark Novick, who Arnie said. lematic opera Don Giovanni. You 60th will be upon us. went by mistake to Faculty House, Bret Charipper is living happily get to see and know the profes- Love to all, everywhere! where we usually go. in Manhattan and would be inter- sors “up close and in person” (per The next event was Class Day ested in getting together with class- Howard Cosell). on May 17, where Steve Easton mates for coffee or lunch. His e-mail Dean Michele Moody-Adams Alan N. Miller and I carried the class banner. May address is [email protected]. recently gave a stirring talk at the 257 Central Park West, 18 was Commencement, also a Larry Kobrin is now senior Columbia University Club to a 56 Apt. 9D great occasion, despite rain all day. counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, throng of alumni and friends. She 56 New York, NY 10024 Then, as I said, another class lunch practicing real estate and corporate certainly makes the rounds, not [email protected] and Dean’s Day. law. I’ve known through the years only with alums but also with By the end of April, we were get- that Larry has always had a “full students. We can’t wait to see what The weather is nuts this year. Temps ting close to our $100,000 require- plate.” Like many of us, he is ex- classes she will teach, once she finds can vary by 50 degrees within one ment to fund our 10 annual class ploring new areas of involvement. the time in her busy schedule. week in the Northeast. I heard from scholarships, which we started at He noted he and his wife, Ruth, and The party’s over — it’s time to Lou Hemmerdinger that Florida our great 50th reunion, and I fully their children hold eight Columbia call it a day. And so went the 55th was not so great either. expect to meet this. The student re- degrees. reunion for the Class of ’55, who We had a well-attended monthly cipients I and others meet are inter- I am pleased to have heard from will be described by many as the lunch in late April — 10 guys made esting, intelligent and unexpectedly so many of our classmates. Many most memorable class in Columbia it. We tried out the new third-floor accomplished. Keep your money of us share similar activities and history — record-breaking atten- dining area at the Columbia Uni- coming to the Columbia College concerns, so that between reunions dance participating in wonderful versity Club, which got excellent Fund (www.college.columbia.edu/ we have an opportunity to send events. Thanks go to the Reunion reviews. giveonline), as it serves a great info for our Class Notes for sharing Committee from all over, specifi- Alan Broadwin brought photos purpose. and for mutual interest. cally Herb Cohen, Jim Berick, Bob of his two new grands, very cute. Next, as usual, my plug for Brown, Don McDonough, Lew Buz Paaswell still is acting taking courses at Columbia taught Mendelson, Bob Pearlman, Al president of CCNY, but the school by super professors. Next fall, I am Gerald Sherwin Martz, Roland Plottel, Jay Joseph, found a permanent replacement to taking two great ones, one with the 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A Arnie Schwartz, Mort Rennert, start in August, and this is making Parr Professor Emeritus of English 55 New York, NY 10021 Stanley Lubman, Dick Kuhn, Buz’s wife, Roz, happy for the end and Comparative Literature Jim 55 Stu Kaback, Larry Balfus, Jeff of his temporary position. Mirollo and another with retired [email protected] Broido, Bill Epstein, Elliot Gross, Alan Press still is wandering the professor Peter Pazzaglini. Jim One of the significant initiatives Berish Strauch, Ferdie Setaro, Jack out-of-the-way parts of the earth gave a marvelous talk at our 50th being put forth by the University is Stuppin, Alan Sloate, Bob Schiff, (places I would never go), and after reunion lunch. In the spring, we the establishment of Global Centers Chuck Garrison, Jack Freeman, lunch, we went to his office and he have at the Heyman Center for the around the world. The most recent Alfred Gollomp, Allen Hyman, showed me photos of indigenous Humanities Professor Emeritus ones are in Mumbai and Paris. This Don Laufer, Ezra Levin, Steve people seen on his travels. of Slavic Languages and director is being done to enhance Colum- Rabin and your roving reporter. Dan Link is back from Florida, in University Seminars Robert bia’s global perspective in teaching Sid Sheinberg gave a speech on and we greeted him with 40 de- Belknap on Russian short stories and research. President Lee C. Bol- Saturday morning amidst the grees and wind. He arranged lunch (my fourth course with him; he linger has led the charge in opening meeting and greeting and eating at his Westchester club for May 20, is superb). Anyone interested in these facilities. Added to this are and toasting. Who else did we espy which included tennis (I tried not to courses at Columbia, which I am the alumni travel programs, which around campus? From near and far: fall this time). enthusiastic about, can contact me. continue to play a role in getting Marty Dubner, Abe Ashkenasi, Jerry Fine is back from vacation I got a 10-year economic and alumni closer to the University and Ross Grumet, Aaron Hamburger, in the Far East. He and his wife, international forecast from our faculty. In October, an exciting tour Abbie Leban, Bernie Kirtman, Barbara, used Odysseys Unlimited class economist in Palo Alto, Tracy will be conducted exploring the Bob Kushner, Harold Kushner, again, and they raved about this Herrick. If this is correct, it has mysteries of the Ottoman Empire — Bob Loring, Ron McPhee, Gerry travel group when we had dinner. some frightening prospects, and I “Empires of the Sea.” Pop quizzes Meyerhoff, Beryl Nusbaum, Gerry It was fortuitous, as Helene and hope it is partly wrong. may be given at each port. Pomper, Chuck Solomon, Ben I were considering this outfit for So guys and dolls, our 55th Before the World Cup reached Kaplan, Ron Spitz, Lew Sternfels a trip to northern Italy the end of reunion is scheduled for Thursday, its peak of excitement, in the spring and Ralph Tanner (other attendees September, and we signed up. June 2–Sunday, June 5, 2011. We Columbia alumni in Johannesburg will be named in the next issue). Peter Klein, Al Franco ’56E and have had two small meetings, attended an exciting opening of the Unfortunately, we missed Bill Bob Siroty came from New Jersey combined with lunch, so far and Johannesburg alumni chapter. The Langston, Igou Allbray, Bob for the lunch. Bob agrees with me plan to have the first major one in turnout was beyond expectations Dillingham, Bill Epstein, Alfred that Dean’s Day combined with September. Please let me know of — considering that there are more Gollomp, Roland Plottel, Mike Alumni Reunion Weekend is a any ideas and if you want to join than 150 alumni in this part of the Liptzin and Dick Carr, among oth- mistake, as I have heard from many the Reunion Committee. When in world. Back on campus, Columbia ers, who all sent regrets. We’ll get others. And we both miss the full my apartment, an inducement is once again hosted the World Leaders them at the next reunion. day in April with three sessions sandwiches from the Second Ave- Forum. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs How did the class make out with of about six choices each. Now nue Deli, probably more important of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen spoke regard to the Columbia College we have two sessions with a total than my sparkling personality. about U.S. military strategy. The Fund? The results will be covered in of eight choices. It also distracts As usual, we wish you all health, school also featured a visit by French detail in a separate note to the class from the purpose of class-specific happiness, a little wealth and lon- President Nicolas Sarkozy, who ad- after the books are closed for the reunions with a whole University gevity. We expect only concerned dressed an enraptured audience in fiscal year on June 30. A preliminary event and eliminates one event a children and extraordinary grand- Low Library. Columbia continues to look shows positive results. year for alumni to get together. children. Love to all. get high-profile people. Sad notes to report: Condolenc- Lenny Wolfe was a last-minute The Café series at PicNic Market es go to the families and friends of attendee at the lunch and a plea- & Cafe continues to sell out every Jim Gherardi, Jerry Rosenthal and sure to see after a long absence. Herman Levy Monday evening. Recently, Profes- Bede Sullivan, who passed away Maybe we will use his Yale Club 57 7322 Rockford Dr. sor Ira Katznelson ’66, as part of over the past several months. again in the fall. Falls Church, VA 22043 Café Social Science, discussed My fellow classmates, there is Missing due to various problems 57 [email protected] how fear shaped policy during the little to say after such a glorious good and bad at the last minute Roosevelt and Truman years. In a weekend. It was wonderful spend- were Maurice Klein with a cold, Marty Fisher: “One bit of good Café Humanities chat, musicology ing those days with you. However, Ron Kapon suffering drinking news to balance the bad: Sam Lip-

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syte, Robert Lipsyte’s son, a profes- Dale Mitchell, the excellent singles my children (Michele ’86 and Ben Steve Paul and Howard Winell. To sor of creative writing at Columbia, batter and consistent .300 hitter who ’91). We pledged to pick up the see a loving, eloquent and touch- practices what he preaches. His new is now remembered as the final out conversation at our 55th reunion.” ing eulogy by his son David, you book, The Ask: A Novel, is reviewed (on a called strike) in Don Larsen’s Elliott Schwartz: “Two CDs of can check out the following link: by Slate: 1956 World Series perfect game. my music have been released this thecoveys.net/Buz_Covey.html. “ ‘The outer borough Socrates “This recollection could have past year. One contains all six of my Amy and Joel Levine continue of Lipsyte’s new novel, The Ask, is been improved because I had only chamber concertos, performed by their gastronomic travels, most Milo Burke. As a reviewer, I will one good opportunity to listen to the Boston Modern Orchestra Proj- recently to France, London, New describe him as a development George privately after one of our ect on the orchestra’s BMOP-Sound England and New York; their officer at a university in New York recent ’57 luncheons. I arranged a label. The other disk, on the Innova reviews appear on their blog, that aspires to be more prestigious. one-on-one get-together with him Recordings label, includes a piece http://aswelikeit.vox.com. Joel In Lipsyte-speak, Milo is “one of at an upper Broadway diner 15 for saxophone quartet and piano has moved from ophthalmology those mistakes you sometimes find blocks from Baker Field. I knew I (I’m the piano in the recording), a to being a foodie to a third career in an office,” hired to “grovel for wanted to repeat the experience work for large wind ensemble and as a financial maven, assisting at more money” for an institution even while I was enjoying it, but recorded bird sounds (performed his daughter’s hedge fund, and where “people paid vast sums of the exigencies of time and location by the Harvard Band) and a trio for he offers this advice: “As far as money so their progeny could take to meet intervened. I never saw the unlikely combination of violin, investing is concerned, a long-ago hard drugs in suitable company.” George again. contrabassoon and piano. I’ve been teaching has paid off for us: ‘An Milo has a “good [expletive] job.” ’ “The lesson to be learned: Seize traveling a bit lately as well, with investment is something that gives “[Sam’s] book of short stories the life experiences you know you visiting residences at festivals and you a safe, measurable, consistent is called Venus Drive: Stories. It (as want to repeat and cut through conservatories in Birmingham return.’ Anything else is specula- well as his two intervening books) the protocol and procrastination, (United Kingdom), LePoet-Laval tion with risk capital, and the past is available on Amazon and at which prevent you from enjoying (Provence) and the Hong Kong In- few years have accentuated the your local bookseller. them, now. You will not regret stitute of Education/MUSICARA- risk part of that equation. Class of “The Ask seems to be a big hit, so them, as I regret never having MA Festival. In May, I received ’58 alumni should remember to congratulations, Bob. spoken again with George, a fine, an honorary doctorate from the hedge their risks and enjoy their “And now we turn to the bad generous, unassuming, truly mod- University of Southern Maine, and ‘Golden Years.’ ” news. est man. in the fall, my wife, Deedee, and I Sounds easy ... “George Dickstein died on “Diana Olick, daughter of Phil will head for England to take up Stu Huntington reports, “My February 3. It is coincidental that Olick, has been mentioned promi- a fall term fellowship at Robinson wife, Paula, and I went to a party on he joins his good friend and fellow nently on NBC’s Nightly News. Al- College, University of Cambridge.” March 7 at Harriet and Irv Micklin’s Jamaica H.S. 1953 graduate, Joel though I have not seen her on screen, John Taussig: “Class of ’57 lovely horse ranch, which sits on Schwartz, in the hereafter. They Brian Williams gave her a generous graduates in Southern California the Santa Rosa Plateau, above the are the first members of our little credit early in April for her reporting recently held our third lunch gath- Temecula Valley in southwest 1957 luncheon group to pass on. on the continuing foreclosure crisis.” ering in the past 1½ years. This one Riverside County, Calif. Other CC “If you want to contact George’s Marty then reported on the was to recognize and celebrate our ’58 alums and their spouses attend- widow, who lives in Riverdale, May 26 class luncheon, held at the 53rd year post-graduation and to ing were Marcia and Rick Brous, drop me a line.” University Club in NYC: continue our sharing of memories Jane and Ira Carlin, and Helen and Marty then provided us with “Attendees were Neil McLellan, from those formative years. At- Harold Wittner. Arthur Freeman some personal recollections of George Lutz, Alan Brown, Ed tendees were John Ahouse, Ken was there, but his wife, Carol, was George: “We lost another friend and Wein­stein, Sal Franchino, Joe Bodenstein, Mike Gold, Jonathan at their East Coast home. Jack companion on February 3 when Feldschuh, Mark Stanton, Bob Lubin, Ken Silvers, John Taussig McGroarty was accompanied by George ‘slip’d the surly bonds’ of Klipstein, Martin Fisher, Art and Gene Wagner. his friend Patti Kelly. We enjoyed mortality to join his forefathers on Meyerson, Paul Zola, Jerry Finkel “We met on May 1 at Parker’s a look around the ranch, a visit to the inevitable journey we all must and Martin Brothers. By my count, Lighthouse at the foot of the Long the stables, tasty hors d’oeuvres take. George was a good friend: there were six doctors, four law- Beach Marina. The background and a fantastic dinner, but most of quiet, subtle, intelligent and rock- yers, two educators and one CPA views of the close-by Queen Mary all an afternoon with some of the solid. He was not the hail-fellow, in the group. This was our first get- in the marina, along with the nicest people in the world! And we well-met person one might imagine together since early December, and many boats [crossing] the harbor, roared, Lion, roared, just loudly being the center of attention at a we were all able to take up where provided an ideal backdrop for our enough to wake the echoes of the fraternity house party. He was not we left off in 2009 without skipping conversations, which flowed as Temecula Valley!” a cynosure but rather existed on a beat. We may be able to squeeze freely as the Pacific waters. Chuck Golden observes, “Have the fringes of the main event. If one in one more 1957 luncheon prior to “We plan to meet again in the you noticed that the 1958 column were lucky enough to encounter the summer hiatus. Otherwise we early fall.” is getting ominously closer to the George there, one could have will get together in the fall. beginning of the Class Notes than been impressed by the breadth of “These luncheons form a helpful the end?” his intellect and the depth of his bridge between reunion years. Barry Dickman Thanks for the reminder, Chuck! passion. The specific passion with We have about two more years 25 Main St. Having left a Wall Street firm, which I happened to connect was until our 55th; it is gratifying to 58 Court Plaza North, Ste 104 first to become associate house George’s simple and complex love see so many classmates brought 58 Hackensack, NJ 07601 counsel to a commercial real estate of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball together under one roof with good [email protected] developer in White Plains and then club, circa 1947–57. We could have fellowship as the only item on the to open his own office on Long talked for hours about the exploits agenda.” We were sorry to learn of the death Island, Chuck has been a country of Jackie, Duke, Peewee, Gil, Roy Alan Frommer: “Seen recently of Dr. William G. “Buz” Covey lawyer for 40-plus years. When ... yes and predecessors and role at Jimmy’s Café in Wellesley Hills, on May 28, 2009. After graduating the real estate downturn began, players such as Pistol Pete Reiser, the Mass., were Al (aka Robert) Raab from P&S, Buz had a long career he closed his office and moved his unfortunate center fielder who kept (Bethesda, Md.) and myself with as a hematologist in Connecticut practice to his home. Even though bumping into short outfield walls at our wives of 50 years, Fran ’61 and eventually became medical his wife, Sheila, works in a shop in Ebbets Field, and Whitlow Wyatt. Cornell and Judy ’59 Cornell. It director of the Jewish Home for the Huntington four days a week, leav- This is not to mention Andy Pafko, has been 19 years since Robert and Elderly in Fairfield. He is survived ing Chuck as a “househusband” whose acquisition from the Cubs Fran moved from the Bay State, by his wife, Bonnie; children, Anne by default, he still has more time to was a godsend, and Ralph Branca, and a lot of ‘catching up’ was ’94 P&S, David ’00 Business, Aaron, devote to his five grandchildren (all son-in-law of a part-owner of the done in a too short period of time. Michael and Laura; and seven of whom live on Long Island), HO Dodgers. He served up the now Robert and I both have our team grandchildren. Classmates may re- scale model railroading, tennis and seriously disputed pitch that Bobby jackets (wrestling and crew) that member Buz as the bass in the Blue to a timeshare in Aruba every win- Thomson hit in 1951. And there is continued to get use over time by Notes, along with Bob Hanning, ter. 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Chuck continues to follow the team (a PA28-151, which led me into the ago for Medford, Salem, Portland More contributions like this would “as a way of reliving the past and joys of aviating). and Gresham, Ore., are still in use. be welcome in our Class Notes. trying to stay and think young.” A “My Captain Midnight book A major factor in my success was Joe Calarco writes that, “Things little genetic boost doesn’t hurt: His finally appeared, and I flew from Columbia’s emphasis to look at the are a bit crazy right now, but here’s dad lived to 101. Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., big picture, the inclusive potentials, a brief summary: We recently closed The class lunch is held on the to get some of the illustrations. not limiting the problem to just the my production of A Midsummer second Wednesday of every month “I’m quasi-retired (no writer who immediate needs! Night’s Dream after a five-month in the Grill Room of the Princeton/ can still write is ever really retired), “But Norm Gelfand asked, ‘What run in our repertory. My son, Joey, Columbia Club, 15 W. 43rd St. ($31 living in Florida with my wife and, are we doing and thinking now?’ got married in Los Angeles. We per person). E-mail Art Radin if at this time, a very affectionate cat.” “Doing: Trying to stay healthy, recently added a pair of stunning you plan to attend, up to the day From David Smith, “I had such active and productive. B&W speakers to our surround- before: [email protected]. a wonderful time at our 50th re- “Healthy: routine exercise (three sound system. I am getting back union I’m writing to share some of miles on treadmill three times per into weight training after recent our retirement life with my class- week, 15 miles on bike two days per knee surgery and plan to add water Norman Gelfand mates. My wife, Helen, who also is week); watch what I eat (keep my aerobics. My wife, Sue, continues to 59 c/o CCT retired, and I have continued our eyes on the food); use my mind (play teach special education.” Columbia Alumni Center world travels, but on a more ex- a lot of bridge and love Sudoku). Stan Feld reports, “The Class 59 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 panded scale. Last year, we spent “Active: volunteer coach since of 1959 had a great 50th reunion. New York, NY 10025 three months in Paris and traveled retirement in 1999 in football and Many wonderful comments have [email protected] in Turkey and Syria. In the fall, wrestling in the Portland area (2004 appeared in our class’ CCT column. we went to Scotland for a month, State Championship 3A); volunteer “I hope my comments stimulate Steve Kallis Jr. writes, “So much followed by two months in Italy, help at local community center (de- all of us to keep communicating so has happened in half a century. mostly in Ferrara and Venice with veloping bridge and biking groups we have a fabulous 55th reunion. When I graduated, after serving side trips to Bologna and Ravenna. and educational arts classes). “I started a social network called my obligatory time, I went after We recently left for two months “Stepping forward: Any time I Columbia College CC’59 nine my dreams, formed years before. in Turkey. We’ll spend a few days see something I don’t like but feel months prior to our reunion. We I had the space bug, and in time in Istanbul, a week in Cappadocia I can effect a change, I do. (I’ve had 200 valid e-mail addresses out was hired by the Chrysler Space and return for a month to the same stepped into an argument at a bus of our class of 660. One hundred Division, ending up in Huntsville, house where we spent April last stop between a teenager and an thirty classmates signed up for the Ala., where I worked on the Saturn year, in Yalikavak on the Bodrum old bag lady, stepped into the path social network. I/IB program as part of the Apollo Peninsula. Bodrum is the home of an escaping thief who the cops “I realize I might have been a Project. The Huntsville years were of Herodotus and the Mauso- then picked up off the ground, pest and apologize. I have been great, and although my contribu- leum, one of the seven wonders pushed and cussed at an unruly told by many of you that joining tions to the overall effort were tiny, of the ancient world. We’ll finish crowd in San Diego that separated the social network amplified the they did help. To this day, I mourn our sojourn in Edirne, ancient my son and grandchild from me). reunion experience and so I accom- the emasculation of the manned Hadrianopolis and site of Sinan’s “I’m not afraid to speak or vote plished my goal. space effort, viewing the shuttle finest mosque. After a month back the less popular position because “The social network facilitated program as a step back from great- in Washington, we’ll return to my values are not negotiable. As reconnection of past friendships ness. As the prospect of meaning- Orkney and to Lewis in the Outer my wife, Linda, says, ‘I may not be and stimulated new friendships. ful manned space exploration Hebrides for July and August. Sep- right but I’m sure!’ ” As we get older, social networking waned, I found myself working tember will find us again, as every “Thinking: I’m concerned there will be important for our health. in a whole new area — interactive year, in Venice for a month. is not enough time left in my life to The Columbia College CC’ 59 computers. I spent the majority of “Helen is a wonderful photogra- accomplish my cares and respon- network should be used to increase my professional career with Digital pher and a member of the Society sibilities. First, I feel it is now my our fond memories at Columbia Equipment Corp., where I found of Woman Geographers. She responsibility as the last living College. a home publicizing new and in- documents our adventures with member of my immediate family to “The network is private and novative ways to apply computer her insightful photographs. I write leave the memories and stories for available only by my invitation. If technology. Through the years, I’d about the wonders of what we are my grandchildren. What these indi- you are interest in joining, please developed an interest in motion seeing and experiencing.” viduals felt and taught us through e-mail me: [email protected]. picture production and its tech- From Eugene Appel ’60E: “Most their examples and values represent “I am trying to keep CC ’59 alive nology, eventually to the point of of you know of my participation their souls. Therefore, I plan in the and active. I wrote that my wife of developing a computer system to in Columbia football; what you next few years to retrace my path 47 years, Cecelia, and I were going generate control tapes for the opti- probably don’t know was the driv- and record on videotape places, to New York City. I asked for some cal printers found in motion-pic- ing incentive. As a first-generation people and stories of our family and hot suggestions. Michael Marks ture film processing laboratories. American from Hungarian/Jewish friends. wrote a note with wonderful sug- “Long before PCs, I had acquired (Levite) immigrants, Appel-Lobl- “Also, before I die I want to gestions. Jack Kahn offered to take a PDP-8/e minicomputer, which I Almasy, first to attend college (Co- leave my eulogy on videotape to me around the College. installed in my home and which I lumbia), football and engineering be played at my funeral. I’d like to “The Columbia communications used to develop software avocation- presented me with a determined share in the last laughs and the last department is putting ‘Names in ally. I’d acquired some professional objective where failure was not an tears. As an example, in case some the News’ and ‘What Is Doing at 16mm cameras and made a number option! of you can’t make it, a couple of Columbia?’ on the network once a of industrial films to publicize “My 39 years of engineering years ago I had a urinary infection week to keep us informed. the company products. I’ve kept included a master’s, ’73 UNC- and my testicles enlarged about “As a stimulant for communica- my finger on the pulse of several Chapel Hill, in environmental en- 10 times. The only thing I could tions, I have asked members of the technical specialties and probably gineering; registration P.E. licenses think about if I die from this, at network to talk about their travel will continue to do so until my last in New Jersey, California, Oregon least my friends could say, ‘Appel and travel plans. Cecelia and I breath. I’ve also been a writer, sell- and Florida; and disciplines of had balls!’ always have been active travelers. ing my first article and short story mechanical, civil, environmen- “On a more serious note, I want We recently went to Turkey. We within 1½ years after graduating. tal, system controls, structural, to close on what my dad taught me. plan to go to Vietnam, Cambodia I’ve sold stories, articles and guest water, waste water and construc- The two most simple and important and Thailand in January. This sum- editorials ever since. An old-time tion management. The results values he left for me were, ‘Be the mer, we are spending a month in radio show, Captain Midnight, was of my work exist in New Jersey, best you can be’ and ‘Make the Colorado. In the fall, we are going something I aspired to develop Wisconsin, Washington, California world a better place.’ I hope we all to take a car trip around the Finger a book on, and in gathering data and Oregon. I’m especially pleased have time to do that! My defini- Lakes in upper New York State. for the work, I learned how to fly, to say construction management tion of success lies in Ralph Waldo “I would love you to share your eventually acquiring an airplane plans set forth more than 20 years Emerson’s Success.” travel experiences with all of us

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either through the social network Farsi: “I recently started the third of how a group of men still strug- School of Music and Art as an art or our CCT column. Here is a taste and final quarter of the first year. gling to emerge from their history student (M&A, as we referred to of our Turkey trip. I am holding my own and now of Remington typewriters, carbon it fondly, sent 11 of us to the Class “Turkey: Beyond Istanbul. In imagining that I will proceed with paper, mimeograph machines, of ’60), and “purposefully rejected September 2009, I spent almost year two in the fall. At the end of Kodachrome and videotape were opportunities for a life in the arts.” three weeks traveling in Turkey. that year, I’d plan to go to Iran (if through the efforts of Lee induced He pursued a career in banking, It is a country of varied terrain, that’s possible), try to spend time to overcome their hardwired tech- initially several years at the Bank bustling cities, quiet villages and with some Iranian docs and see if nological limitations and register of New York, thereafter as the friendly people everywhere. One’s I can get an up-close feel for why on an instantaneous, interactive president and CEO of two banks experiences in Turkey can be as full we can’t seem to do anything about communications vehicle. in New Jersey. Putting the banking of contrasts as the country itself. A this mess. One thing I’ve recently And if you have not visited and career aside, a new life started: “I modern shopping mall filled with learned: the European system for registered on this website, please be became an inventor, then started a young people and families; Mc- training physicians that so many sure to do so: http://CC1960.ning. plastics manufacturing company. Donald’s and KFC next to Turkish of our classmates know about com. This site is private and avail- In 2000, with my wife of now 40 fast food in the food court; ancient originated in pre-Islamic Persia (at able only to members who have years, we moved to Latvia, hoping ruins (Ephesus, Perge, Aspendos); the Academy of Gundishapur) and signed up. If you haven’t joined and expecting to be able to make magnificent, mysterious tufa struc- was exported to the Italian medical already, e-mail Lee at jlrathome@ some minor difference toward this tures (Cappadocia); mountains and schools in the 13th century.” juno.com and he’ll enroll you. society’s recovery from the de- lush valleys growing everything J. Peter Rosenfeld and his lovely In the March/April issue of bilitations wrought by more than from olives to pomegranates; and wife, Carmen, along with Norman CCT, we included some comments 50 years of foreign occupations: towns overlooking the really tur- Gelfand and alumni from other regarding the class survey. Among first the Soviet Union’s, then Nazi quoise Mediterranean are a few of classes, attended an interesting them, a submission by one of our Germany’s and again, for the long the delights awaiting the traveler. lecture by Professor David Helfand classmates of several suggested pull, by the Communist Soviet See Istanbul, the city that straddles of Columbia’s Department of additions to the questionnaire, Union. It will take at least another two continents. Go to Ephesus Astronomy. one such addition being a play on generation for a meaningful recov- (preferably late in the afternoon the falakros, or Bald Man Paradox, ery. So we are here and here to stay. when the crush of cruise ship tour- propounded by the classical Greek I have not been back to the States ists has left). Spend a few days on Robert A. Machleder philosopher Eubulides of Miletus now for four years, although our a Turkish sailing boat called a gulet 69-37 Fleet St. (forgive me for bringing him up kids and grandchildren live on the dipping in and out of coves along 60 Forest Hills, NY 11375 again). As framed by our classmate, East Coast. My wife occasionally the Mediterranean and Aegean 60 it read as follows: “Since graduating gets back in the context of her work [email protected] coasts, hiking in the hills while at from Columbia, I still have all my within the Methodist Church.” anchor. And take a hot air balloon Gremlins were afoot. Those eva- hair; I have lost some of my hair; I And, despite his decision to ride over the fairy chimneys of nescent creatures whose meddle- have lost most of my hair; I am not pursue careers other than in the Cappadocia (you’ll be sorry if you some antics are responsible for bald, I just have a very wide part.” arts, Juris “wound up being stuck don’t).” sabotaging the work-product of All responses to the survey having in a museum anyway.” Collected Steve Trachtenberg has been those who pride themselves on been submitted in anonymity, the and displayed in the Department traveling, too. He writes, “Just exerting no less than the most de- clever wag’s identity was unknown. of Architecture and Design of the back from Tangiers, Morocco. manding, exacting and punctilious Now Sidney Hart has revealed Museum of Modern Art are every- Went to attend board meeting of attention to their efforts. The Re- himself to be the author, and to day objects that merit recognition Museum Morocco TALIM. While union Committee drafted, scoured, establish the bona fides of his claim, as masterpieces of design, balanc- walking around, found a small edited, caught errors, re-examined has submitted the several other pro- ing function and form. MoMA schul on a side street. Nice but out and proofread innumerable lists posed questions as well. The door has designated them “Humble of business.” and letters, documents and sched- to survey questions having long Masterpieces.” There enshrined From Allen Rosenshine, “I have ules, and yet ... how else other than been sealed, the responses received is a design version of one of Juris’ done something I never thought the mischievous work of gremlins and tabulated, and the results inventions. The work named “Bot- I would do: a blog. I’m doing this to explain that in scrutinizing the distributed, Sidney’s proposals will tles” can be viewed on the MoMA in spite of my antipathy towards draft necrology of deceased class- have to rest in quietude until when website, http://search.moma. most blogs and bloggers, largely a mates — two score eyes plus eight next a questionnaire is assembled org/?q=bottles+juris+mednis. result of 1) being a poster boy (or — only Bob Morgan was sharp for a subsequent reunion we can Don Patterson writes that as a old man) for the new-media chal- enough to notice that the list con- petition their inclusion. Or, perhaps, commuter from New Jersey and lenged and 2) the torrent of inanity, tained a name preceded by “Mrs.” we can explore with Lee Rosner the member of the varsity tennis team, insanity, irresponsibility, down- who, to be sure, never was nor ever feasibility of a rolling survey on the 80 percent of his extra time and so- right lies and pure claptrap that could have been a member of the class website, to include Sidney’s cial life revolved around members typifies much of the blogosphere. class (and, it now seems, was the questions and others, as well as of the team. “My best friends were Rather, I’m doing it because (no wife of a former faculty member)? topical matters of interest as they brothers Les ’62 and Lloyd Moglen. surprise to those who know me) Gremlins. Or perhaps we were so arise, keeping the class engaged in They became California doctors. I enjoy now and again expressing caught up individually in search- making its views known on current Unfortunately, my old doubles an opinion. But I find no pleasure ing for names of those we knew events concerning the world at partner, Lloyd, died in July 2002. in expressing them to myself, since and reflecting on the memories large and alma mater in particular. In the ’70s and ’80s, my business that rarely results in any meaning- of those we knew well, that our Meanwhile, Sidney remains oc- took me to San Francisco, where I ful response or discussion. That is eyes were misty and our minds cupied in his practice of psychiatry, spent my weekends with Dr. Les in fact what I hope my blog will distracted. And how else to explain is working on his third novel “and playing tennis; he also taught me to encourage. So if you are interested, that on the list of committee mem- from time to time bombards friends ski at Squaw Valley.” Don wonders or whenever you have absolutely bers at the foot of the letter placed and family with my sardonic or whether anyone has been in touch nothing else to do, you can find my in each Reunion Mug, the name blistering satires.” with Paul Standel and Reynolds blog at allenrosenshine.com. It’s of Lee Rosner had been omitted, Juris Mednis sends greetings Acker, two other members of the called My Two Cents (and Worth and not caught in time? Gremlins and well-wishes to all from Latvia. tennis team. He would like to make Every Penny). Feel free to 1) ignore pried his name loose? No excuses. Regrets that he could not make the contact with them. it, 2) respond to postings on it, 3) An unpardonable error on our part 50th reunion but promises to make The undergraduate friendship pass it on to others and/or 4) write to have omitted Lee of all people, a later anniversary and hopes that between Irving Chang and Bill it off as just more claptrap.” whose vision conceived a class we all stay mentally and physically Tanenbaum became stronger I have gone there, and as you website and whose dedication fit till then. when their daughters, Kimberly might expect it is worth reading. and labors saw it to fruition. The Juris’ life, which began in Latvia, Chang ’95 and Betty Tanenbaum Frank Wilson has provided an website, a modern marvel, is and has come full circle. He came to the ’96, became friends. It grew deeper update on his progress in learning shall remain a sterling example United States, attended The High and more poignant when Bill’s

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Irving received his law degree book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom from the University of Michigan. Kippur, Machzor Eit Ratzon, will He clerked for the Hawaii Supreme be published this summer. This is Court, was a deputy prosecut- a follow-up to Siddur Eit Ratzon, a ing attorney and established a prayer book for Sabbath, festival highly successful private practice and weekdays that he published from which he retired in 2004. He a few years ago. Information chaired the boards of the Hawaii about both can be seen at www. Youth Symphony and the United newsiddur.org. A pair of volumes Cerebral Palsy of Hawaii, and on mathematics education he remained active in leadership posi- co-authored, Navigating Through tions in Hawaii with regard to Co- Discrete Mathematics in Grades K-12, lumbia affairs. Each of his children, were published in 2008 and 2009 sons Timothy and Jonathan ’98, by the National Council of Teach- and daughters Allison ’94 and Dr. ers of Mathematics. Kimberly ’95, attended Columbia. Mich Araten was honored by Bob Rennick ’61 (right) and his wife, Lisa, celebrated their 40th wed- Irving was passionate about food Westchester Jewish Community ding anniversary last year with Jon Liebowitz ’61 and his wife, Ruth, at and cooking. He had been writing Services, the largest not-for-profit, Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Mass. a cookbook. He tended beehives nonsectarian human services agen- PHOTO: Courtesy of Bob Rennick ’61 and made honey (Bill Tanenbaum cy in Westchester, for his 20 years has a sealed bottle of honey that he of leadership on the board and for wife, Reina, died six years ago, and Irving’s e-mail and home addresses received from Irving; he will open his guidance in the last three years Irving immediately reached out to, among others, fraternity broth- it this Rosh Hashanah in bitter- as president of the board. WJCS with his support, friendship and ers and fellow members of the sweet remembrance). programs span generations with encouragement. Irving’s empa- lightweight football team. Several of T. Irving Chang died on April 1. an emphasis on mental health thetic words helped immeasurably those I was able to reach, Claudio As I write this, one month and issues, reaching 18,000 individu- to raise Bill’s spirits. An e-mail con- Marzollo, Neil Markee and Victor a fistful of days before reunion, I als. Programs include services for versation ensued that blossomed in Chang, soon let me know that they think, “Damn, how sad he’ll not young children with early signs of a continuous, frequent and lengthy had corresponded or spoken with be there; how sad there’ll be no autism, adults dealing with end of dialogue that touched on the wide Irving. opportunity for us to sit and talk life and bereavement issues, and range of interests and concerns On Friday, January 15, I wrote and continue to spin out the many victims of abuse and trauma. WJCS of each, sprinkled with Irving’s to Irving as class correspondent to interesting threads of conversa- provides counseling in schools and excellent, politically incorrect sense “extend [on behalf of all the class] tion we had started four months in homes for children of all ages, of humor. With the approach of a figurative hug, a spark of light earlier.” home health aides for seniors and the 50th reunion, Irving inquired when there appears only darkness, Reaching out to classmates to en- has 12 group homes for develop- whether Bill planned to attend. warmth in the most chilling of courage them to return to reunion mentally disabled adults. In the Bill was undecided. Irving was moments, and a spiritual blanket resulted in wonderful responses past year, it has set up a program not. Though his health had been of affection to see you through that and warm phone conversations. It to provide financial, legal and emo- compromised by both an invasion which awaits.” also brought news that some had tional counseling to those affected of cancer that had passed and Irving replied immediately and died. We learned from Nicholas by the recent financial crisis. quintuple heart bypass surgery, thus began an exchange of corres- Bassiliou’s son that Nick had died, and though the journey to New pondence, lengthy, discoursive, as we learned from William Mol- York from Honolulu, place of his filled with our respective memories loy’s son that Bill had died. Bill’s John Freidin birth and always his home, was of Columbia, views on society and son, Bill Jr., wrote that his father 1020 Town Line Rd. certainly no stroll in the park, the politics, reflections on family, and, “was a wonderful man/dad/ 62 Charlotte, VT 05445 prospect of the 50th filled him with of course, progress reports on his teacher, and I miss him every day. 62 [email protected] enthusiasm. It was an enthusi- condition. “I loved my time at Col- He died on July 25, 2007.” asm so contagious that Bill was umbia and I loved New York,” he Please send us your remem- An obituary for Conrad M. Sher- instantly persuaded that the two wrote, and he relished recalling his brances of Irving, Nick and Bill. To man, whose death Frank Grady meet at alma mater this June. days on the lightweight football the families of each, we send our reported here several issues ago, With the dawning of the new squad and relating the colorful de- heartfelt condolences. appeared in the May/June issue. year, Irving had news to impart. He tails of those games. He spoke of the Next issue: news of the reunion. Harry Green recently completed sent an e-mail to Bill. Their relation- punishing emotions that plagued Please send me your impressions. 40 years as a faculty member at the ship, he said, was such that he would him following his diagnosis, emo- [Editor’s note: Go to www.college. University of California (combined not want Bill to first learn the news tions compounded by the fact that columbia.edu/cct to listen to Nathan Davis and Riverside campuses). by reading obituaries in Columbia his wife Jocelyn’s only, younger Gross’ singing and piano performance Thanks to the university’s vision College Today. He again had been sister had been diagnosed on Sat- at the reunion.] of long ago, he writes, “UC has a invaded by cancers; his body was urday, January 16, with cancer and defined-benefit retirement pro- riddled with it; his doctors had given had been given a life expectancy gram that reaches 100 percent at 40 him about six months to live. “Damn even shorter than his own. He Michael Hausig years service. As a consequence, I it,” he wrote. “I was so looking despaired that Jocelyn would suffer 61 19418 Encino Summit have retired to help with the finan- forward to the reunion.” two such losses within a brief span San Antonio, TX 78259 cial calamity that has befallen the Bill, crestfallen, having just of time and that he was helpless to 61 university.” Nevertheless, Harry [email protected] returned from a visit to England counsel or console her. maintains his high-pressure labora- and France and having opened the As his condition deteriorated, and This is the third reminder for our tory and pursues his research e-mail, informed me of Irving’s con- the nature of the cancers had still to 50th reunion, which will take place into the physical mechanisms of dition on January 14. We felt that be established, Irving explored the Wednesday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, earthquakes at depths greater than to mention this in the Class Notes availability of alternative treatments 2011. A committee has been formed 50 kilometers, where frictional would be inappropriate and an and experimental treatment trials. to plan the event with the help of processes are quenched by pres- affront to Irving’s pride and privacy, Richard Friedlander contacted the Alumni Office. Anyone interest- sure, and identification of rocks but we agreed the news could be oncologist Ira Jaffrey. Ira graciously ed in helping should contact Tony that have surfaced from hundreds shared with classmates who had offered to be of assistance, and I Adler (awadler@spartacom of kilometers depth during conti- common bonds with Irving. Armed provided Irving with Ira’s phone mercial.com) or Burtt Ehrlich nental collisions. Although Harry with the class e-mail address list numbers. Irving’s deterioration ad- (burtt@ bloomberg.com) with their has curtailed his teaching, he has (neither complete nor always cur- vanced rapidly; too rapidly for him ideas. enhanced his external service. On rent), I sent the news and included to seek Ira’s help and advice. Joe Rosenstein’s new prayer July 1, he will become the presi-

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dent of the Tectonophysics Section and flew Lockheed P-3 airplanes York) and the other in Norwalk. and not-so-famous people. Their of the American Geophysical in search of Soviet submarines. By Conn. Stephen’s granddaughter, memories start with the return of Union. Harry’s wife is a professor his own account, he passed the next Miriam, is, he writes “very cute, as the doughboys from WWI, include of cell biology, and their family 10 years in the aerospace industry all babies are.” Stephen’s wife of 22 the 1920s (remembering Hard- is growing by leaps and bounds; learning how to be a capitalist. years, Maria, teaches sociology at ing’s death), the Depression (one grandchild No. 8 is due in August. Andy has spent the last decade Stony Brook and also has a profes- woman was paid $7.50 a week as Congratulations! in retirement researching and sorship at a university in Warsaw, a seamstress), WWII (two were in Phil Eggers reports the sad news writing full-time. He has pub- Poland, her hometown. Stephen the V-12 program) as well as more that his wife of 26 years, Jane Jaffe lished three books: The Last Lincoln and Maria recently bought a beau- recent history. Writes Peter: “It’s Young, died a year ago of mesothe- Conspirator: John Surratt’s Flight from tiful new apartment in Warsaw been a grand adventure, probably lioma. They were colleagues in the the Gallows; Sailors in the Holy Land: and go there twice a year. “With more for me than the interviewees.” English Department at the Borough The 1848 American Expedition to the Warsaw as our base, we take vaca- Peter’s e-mail address is epetek1@ of Manhattan Community College Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and tions all over Europe. We shipped gmail.com. since 1965. Phil chaired the depart- Gomorrah; and Adak: The Rescue of a car there because it is much more Allen Young sends a brief note ment for 18 years, and Jane chaired Alfa Foxtrot 586, which the U.S. Na- expensive to buy cars there (VAT) that underscores some of the prog- the faculty union, the Professional val Institute Press selected as “Book than here, and we had one car ress made at Columbia since our Staff Congress, for eight years. of the Year” in 2003. His fourth more than we needed anyway. For times: “I am proud of track and field Her daughter, Phil’s stepdaughter, nonfiction book, Horrible Shipwreck: the first time in my life, in 2007, I athlete Cory Benton ’10 and happy Victoria Young Salganik, is a senior A Full, True and Particular Account, became politically active. I am an to know that his coming out as a gay social worker at Johns Hopkins hos- the story of the wreck of the British enthusiastic supporter of Barack man (a black gay man) was a good pital. She and her husband, Jonas female convict transport Amphitrite Obama ’83, believing him to be the experience for him. Our college has Salganik, have a daughter, Natasha in 1833 off the French coast — all best president we have had since had a pretty good overall record as a (6), Phil’s first grandchild. but three aboard drowned in sight FDR. I am sure this will stir up a lot progressive place.” In 2008, Penguin Academics of hundreds ashore — will be of disagreement. Classmates who Benton said that coming out to his published Phil’s two-volume writ- published in December. From his are interested in discussing these coaches and teammates was a better ing textbook, Steps for Writers. Phil photograph online, Andy looks just issues should e-mail me at scole@ experience than he expected. You is retired from his full-time posi- as he did in 1962. His e-mail ad- notes.cc.sunysb.edu.” may read more at the prominent tion but continues to teach world dress is [email protected]. David Brothers lives in Fairfield, GLBT website www.advocate.com, literature at BMCC/CUNY. His In 2008, SUNY Stony Brook made Conn., and has been practicing where Allen learned this news. son, David, earned his bachelor’s Stephen Cole a Distinguished Pro- ophthalmology for nearly 40 years. Crawford Kilian writes that he at Harvard and doctorate in cello fessor in recognition of his scholar- “Now,” he says, “I practice less “experienced life as a retread this performance at Juilliard. David’s ship — 10 books and some 50 and ride my bicycle more. Sound spring. I took a job at a Vancouver- new CD, Kingston Morning, a com- articles in professional journals familiar? I used to ride the hills in area community college, subbing bination of reggae, bluegrass and for an instructor who’d fallen ill in other musical modes, is about to be the first week of the semester. It released. Phil’s daughter, Wendy, went well, but today’s students’ earned her B.M. and M.M. at Peter Krulewitch ’62 has been working on a book addiction to their cell phones is Westminster Choir College/Rider of oral histories of New Yorkers over 90, the oldest starting to look like a public health University. She sings, composes problem. They couldn’t seem to and teaches voice in Connecticut. being Jacques Barzun ’27. go more than 15 minutes without Bill Campbell e-mailed news texting someone! I finally laid down that he, Russ Warren, Lee Black, the law, and we got back on task. Ed Little, Richard Hassan, Tom — and his many contributions to Vermont, a legitimate escape. My Now I’m back to retirement … at Vasell and Buzz Congram, as well that university, where he has been wife, also a physician, and I have least for a while.” as teammates Tom O’Connor ’63, a professor for 42 years. This des- cycled out west and in Europe and Crawford is working on the third Mike Hassan ’63, Al Butts ’64 and ignation is a high honor, one that have deferred cycling on our next edition of his Writing Science Fiction Len DiFiore, attended the Annual only about 25 of more than 1,000 trip through South America next and Fantasy, which should be out Columbia Football Golf Outing in faculty members have received. month. I try to return to Columbia late this summer. He says, “Amaz- May at a course in New Jersey. The Stephen continues to teach and and Manhattan, still the center of ing that the book has carried on night before, they met at Smith & pursue research. His main interests the world, periodically. V&T Pizze- since 1998.” The Tyee (http://the Wollensky Steakhouse in the city. are the sociology of medicine and ria and Mondel Chocolates still gen- tyee.ca) continues to publish his “We use this occasion as one annu- education. In his words, “I have erate vibrant gustatory memories. book reviews and articles, and he al team reunion,” Bill writes. “The broad themes that I stress in both My pre-med niece recently took me keeps blogging away on topics other happens at Homecoming. It of these courses. For medicine, I to a luncheonette in the East Village ranging from swine flu to English is a great get-together for all.” think we are over-‘medicalized.’ that brought back vivid memories usage. Russ Abbott was scheduled to There are too many operations of ‘The Japs,’ the counter luncheon- give a keynote address to the Emer- performed, too many pills and ette that offered dinner for $1.50. geNET workshop on engineering too many tests performed, all of I also remembered the incredible Paul Neshamkin emergence in York, United King- which do not make us healthier. I intellectual exchanges in CC and 63 1015 Washington St., dom, but the volcano in Iceland discuss the reasons why this is so. Humanities, where a full profes- Apt. 50 prevented him from flying across For education, I stress my belief sor leading the class was loudly 63 Hoboken, NJ 07030 the Atlantic. You can contact Russ that we can’t solve our problems addressed as ‘a snob.’ I must have [email protected] at [email protected]. by changing the schools. Instead, been dreaming!” David has three Andy Jampoler lives in Loudoun we have to look at the society in children and four grandchildren. I recently reached out to all of you County, Virginia’s “Lost Corner.” which the schools are embedded. He can be reached at bros180@ by e-mail (if you didn’t hear from He and his wife, Suzy, a geogra- That society is anti-intellectual and optonline.net. me, it means I don’t have a good pher, have been married 45 years. does not value book learning. Also, Peter Krulewitch has been e-mail address for you — please They have children and grandchil- there is no payoff in our society for working on a book of oral histories send me one) and asked for news, dren in Pennsylvania and Iowa. learning a lot. Look at the recent of New Yorkers over 90, the oldest especially from those of you who After nearly 25 years as a naval frightening decline in college at- being Jacques Barzun ’27, who last have never sent in a note, and re- aviator, including command of a tendance by males.” year gave Peter a five-hour inter- ceived the following: land-based maritime aircraft squad- Stephen has two sons, one a view in San Antonio, where Barzun Richard Weisman writes, ron and a naval air station, Andy professional photographer and is retired but continues to read and “This will be my first update retired from the Navy as a captain. cabinetmaker and the other a write. He was 102 last November. since I graduated. I’ve maintained During his career, he served in market researcher. The former The book is already more than 400 contact with my dear friend Paul Vietnam, worked at the Pentagon lives in Hampton (upstate New pages and includes both famous Lehrer over all these years. I’ve lost

july/august 2010 49 class notes columbia college today contact with a few other class- grandson live two blocks away, and New Jersey called Insight|SQW, Aaron, I don’t know how often mates. I have been teaching at York I volunteer at our grandson’s public and I am in my 12th year of teaching you get to Fort Worth, but you University in Toronto since 1969 school (as well as doing a volunteer grad students in a master’s in com- might try getting together with — recently received acknowledge- research project on H.L. Mencken munications program at Seton Hall Arnie Barkman, Mike Bumagin, ment as a 40-year veteran. I am a at a local university). Through early University. I guess one of the biggest Bruce Miller or Bob Whelan, who professor in the Law and Society July, I’ll be a part-time enumerator honors I have been given was to gather for bagels fairly regularly. program and for the past two years for the census. I put this job roughly receive the highest award a New Harley Frankel’s nonprofit, Col- have been director of the Graduate at the difficulty level (high) of brew- Jersey resident can get. It’s called the lege Match, had a spectacular college Program in Socio-Legal Studies, ing the coffee (and thus determin- Governor’s Gold Medal, and it was admissions year even though this a program I helped found. I have ing the mood of Columbia on any given to me in recognition for a state- was a very competitive year in the been a dual citizen of the United given day) at John Jay first thing wide pro-bono campaign I created to admissions world. He reports, “For- States and Canada since 1997 and in the morning in 1960–61. Being promote multiculturalism. I married ty-six percent of College Match’s still vote in U.S. elections. I married married to a Barnard girl (Margaret, my lovely wife, Maureen, 34 years low-income students of color from a wonderful woman, Maureen, in for 47 years), I sided with her when ago, and we live in Fort Lee, N.J. I inner-city public schools were admit- 1981. She had the misfortune to Columbia went coed and did not often see my college roommate, Dr. ted into Ivy League universities or get breast cancer, from which she enamor myself to the Columbia p.r. Evan Silvy, and we talk about our Ivy equivalents like Wellesley, MIT passed away in 1995. I have since machine. Will try to make the 50th ‘school days’ on many occasions.” and Stanford. This included three 2001 been sharing my life with reunion.” Walter promises to try to make at Yale, three at Stanford, eight at another great lady, April. Maureen When I asked Mike if there were one of the class lunches soon and Dartmouth, nine at Wellesley, two and I had two sons, Daniel (26) and any classmates he’d like to be put catch up on things. each at Harvard, MIT and Amherst, Steve (22). I consider it the great- in touch with, he replied, “No, Aaron Malakoff writes, “I live and four at Brown. Unfortunately, est and most rewarding learning not really. There were three of us in New Braunfels, Texas, and work no College Match students were experience of my life to have raised from Montana (I from Helena) in part-time as a hospice and pallia- admitted into Columbia.” them more or less singlehandedly the class. I’m in touch with John tive care consultant. I spent most Sorry, Harley. I’ve got my fingers after their mother died. I have no Barovich ’64, from Billings. I’m long of my professional career as a solo crossed for a big Columbia year for plans to retire soon. I enjoy the out of touch with Roland Trenouth, practice urologist in San Antonio, your group soon. freedom and opportunities that from Missoula. I’ve been close but in 1998 I sold my cystoscope Alexis Levitin teaches at an academic career affords, and friends with the only Barnardian and was the first to do a fellowship SUNY-Plattsburgh, near the besides, I have unfinished busi- that fall from Montana, Carol Miles, in palliative care at the University Canadian border. Recent travels to ness — another book to complete. from Livingston. We celebrated 50 of Texas Health Science Center in Brazil and Ecuador have resulted I got a Ph.D. in sociology from UC years of friendship last fall. We met San Antonio. After that, I was the in three books in the last year: a Berkeley but switched to interdis- on an Undergraduate Christian medical director at the hospice in co-translation of Tapestry of the Sun: ciplinary work after completing Association hayride in fall 1959. My New Braunfels until I quit working An Anthology of Ecuadorian Poetry, an LL.B. in 1985. I remember an wife and I married in the Columbia full-time so that I could travel for the English version of a multi- absolutely extraordinary seminar I chapel the week of my graduation. longer periods. My convivant, lingual book of 22 sonnets called took with Professor Daniel Bell at The next day, I took her to a Mets Judy, and I like to involve our- Consecrating the Alphabet and Brazil: Columbia in 1962–63. I think just doubleheader. She had a year left at selves with the local populace on A Traveler’s Literary Companion, for about all eight of us in that seminar which he was the editor. He is now became academics. If I were to de- finishing work on a children’s book mand of my students today what called Invitation to Rio. Sandwiched was expected of us in that seminar Bob Contiguglia ’63 recently was honored with the between work was a month living on a weekly basis — completion Werner Fricker Builder Award by U.S. Soccer at its in the Galapagos Islands as well as of a major work in classical social a week on Isla Grande in Brazil. theory and readiness to discuss it annual meeting. Bob Contiguglia recently was in detail — my students, graduate honored with the prestigious Wer- as well as undergraduate, would ner Fricker Builder Award by U.S. think I was either joking or had Barnard, so we repaired (by train) our travels, and we have had some Soccer at its annual meeting. The taken leave of my senses.” to Montana, where we took a whole interesting visits to the rainforest in honor is bestowed annually to an Victor Margolin writes, “I am year’s worth of education courses Ecuador and in helping start a pal- individual who has worked tire- an emeritus professor of design and returned to New York, where liative care program in Guatemala lessly in furthering the interest of history at the University of Illinois I got a job after the start of the aca- City. I hope to return to Vietnam soccer, without regard to personal Chicago. I am working on a large demic year replacing a woman at and see it with different eyes be- recognition or advancement. world history of design, which I Oceanside (Long Island) H.S. who fore I get too old and can still see. Bob is the former president of plan to finish in about two years. had made the mistake of showing “My son, Jamie, lives in NYC, the U.S. Soccer Federation, which Recently, I have given lectures her pregnancy. I taught that year and I visit him around Labor Day. culminated a three-decade career in in Poland, Spain and China, and and then did the master’s program We have a long-standing tradition which he excelled as a player, coach spoke in May at a conference of at Columbia’s J-school while my of attending the U.S. Open each and administrator at nearly every Turkish design historians in Izmir. wife paid the bills as a teacher in year. Unfortunately, the U.S. Open level of the game. During his tenure Travel plans for work include Hicksville. The rest, including a is never close to a second Thurs- as U.S. Soccer president, several Santiago, Chile, and Montreal, turbulent time covering desegre- day. I spend quite a bit of time on milestones were achieved, includ- Canada. So, life as a retired profes- gation as education editor of the the tennis court even though most ing a U.S. Women’s National Team sor is not bad. I have been nomi- Atlanta Constitution, getting fired of my friends have switched to victory in the spectacularly suc- nated for the third time for the for rabble-rousing, being saved by golf. Still, I like playing singles, so cessful 1999 FIFA Women’s World Design Mind award, which is part arbitrator Hugo Black Jr. (yes, the it is usually with younger people Cup, the largest women’s sporting of the National Design Awards son) is history.” and keeps me humble. I also attend event in history; the tremendous at the Cooper-Hewitt National Walter Guarino writes, “Things a ski seminar in Colorado that is run to the quarterfinals by the U.S. Design Museum.” have been exciting recently. I have led by an aikido master. It is a most Men’s National Team in the 2002 Mike Bowler writes, “I taught been interviewed a lot by national rewarding way to begin the year. Korea/Japan FIFA World Cup; and high school; worked nearly 40 years and local media (CBS TV, BBC TV, “I know there must be many of an Olympic gold medal won by the in the newspaper business, the last USA Today, WOR TV, FOX TV, New our class here in Texas, and I would U.S. Women’s National Team at the 35 at the Baltimore Sun (the last 10 York Times, et al.). It is a result of like to get in touch with them. I at- 2004 Athens Olympics. of those as education editor); three the fact that I have become a media tended an alumni get-together last Michael Nolan writes, “I recently years at the Institute of Education expert on things such as Super Bowl year in Austin, which is a 45-minute found a photo of me and Harvey Sciences (research and statistical advertising, ad trends, social media drive from here, but at that particu- Milk, a friend and political adviser arm of the Department of Educa- and most recently, Tiger Woods as lar function, there were very few of of mine, from early 1978. It got quite tion). Our son, daughter-in-law and a brand. I run a branding firm in our generation present.” a response when I posted it on

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Facebook. Quality ain’t great but lots Everett Koop on the Communica- program, rather than looking at In addition to Mike the Honoree, of meaning.” tion in Health Care Project, which the titles of the panels, I look to see his wife, Roberta, and their sons, For those using Facebook, I rec- seeks to encourage the effective which panels Steve is on. I always Jonathan and Alexander, we had a ommend searching for classmates communication of information that attend those, and I get to them early “Class of 1965 table” populated by like Mike (or me) and becoming our individuals and families can un- because admissions and college Allen Brill, Ira Gomberg, Stephen “friends.” There are a lot of us out derstand and use to maintain good counseling professionals across the Hoffman, Bob Kronley (who came there, and you might be interested health and prevent disease. Allen’s country and around the world hold from Atlanta to attend), Leonard to see what we’re up to. Maybe we son Sanford is professor and chair him in such high regard. I have yet Pack, A.G. Rosen and Michael should start a Class of 1963 page. of the Department of Philosophy to sit in on one of Peter’s panels Schlanger. Mike’s star power drew Phil Satow recently was honored at Northwestern. His son Matthew where the room was not standing 1,150 attendees, a record for this at the annual Varsity ‘C’ Celebra- moved with his family to Mel- room only.” prestigious annual event. A high- tion for his many contributions to bourne, Australia, to become CEO William R. Fitzsimmons, dean light was the presentation to Mike Columbia athletics and in recogni- of Lonely Planet, the travel guide of admissions and financial aid of a “Mensch” T-shirt by Jonathan tion of his leadership gift to provide publisher. at Harvard, said: “Steve’s retire- and Alexander. major improvements to the baseball “My daughter Rachel and her ment marks the end of an era. He I ran into Ira on April 17 at a facility at Baker Athletics Complex. husband, Duane, are expecting their made enormous contributions to performance of the Broadway play Congratulations, Phil, and thank first child,” Allen adds, “and Mat- the college admissions profession Red, a fascinating piece about the you from all of us. thew and Liz are expecting their and to the students he served. No artist Mark Rothko. Ira and I are If you are back in NYC, I hope first daughter. That will make seven one cared more about students now Rothko experts. that you will try to make the next grandchildren. What blessings!” or worked harder to do the right Our class China expert, Ken Class of ’63 lunch, scheduled for Steve Henick writes, “After thing for them. His candor, his Dewoskin, has been appointed Thursday, July 8 (and then again in retiring in 2004 from a career in concern for the highest ethical stan- an independent director of Agria the fall starting on Thursday, Sep- international business and want- dards and his wisdom were the Corp., a China-based agricultural tember 9 — it’s always the second ing a purpose rather than leisure, stuff of legend … Like his beloved solutions company. Agria’s March Thursday). Check our website at I looked for a second career, some- Yankees, he’s at the top of his game 10 press release announced “the www.cc63ers.com for details and thing I would simply enjoy doing. I — and he’s a sure bet for the Hall appointment of a preeminent China to review pictures of gatherings to initially trained to become a media- of Fame.” strategist, Kenneth J. Dewoskin, see if you can spot an old friend. tor. I still mediate as a volunteer, Steve will celebrate in August Ph.D., as an independent director of In the meantime, let us know but I was given the opportunity with a month in France, and af- the company. A former partner of what you are up to, how you’re to teach and that has become my ter a one-year break will teach a strategy and business development doing and what’s next. main interest. I split my time course in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky at a big four accounting firm, Dr. between Anne Arundel Commu- at Horace Mann. Unfortunately Dewoskin is a well-regarded and nity College near Annapolis, Md., Steve’s final hurrah was marked regular presenter on China business Norman Olch where I live, and the University of by a mishap. While boarding an issues throughout the U.S., Europe 233 Broadway Maryland University College.” Amtrak train bound for Washing- and Asia, including at the World 64 New York, NY 10279 At Anne Arundel, Steve created ton, D.C., to visit the admissions Economic Forum. He has lived and 64 and teaches courses on the impact office at Georgetown, he fell, broke worked extensively in both China [email protected] of globalization, and at the Univer- his leg and had to undergo surgery. and Japan over the past 45 years.” My freshman CC instructor was the sity of Maryland, he teaches man- Ivan Weissman and David Schil- Ken is a senior adviser to Deloitte then–27-year-old historian Robert agement courses. “I also am director ler, head of the Upper Division at China and a director of Deloitte’s Dallek ’64 GSAS, who has gone on of Anne Arundel’s Institute for the Horace Mann, went to his Manhat- China Research and Insight Center. to write highly regarded books on Future, so I work full-time. I truly tan apartment to cheer him up, and He also is a senior adviser to The American presidents and American enjoy it and the course design. The my wife, Jacqueline, son, Alexan- Conference Board, where he over- foreign policy. At their class lunch constant work aimed at improving der, and I held a Passover Seder sees a range of leadership activities in April, our Washington, D.C., online education and the institute at his home. The class wishes him spanning workforce, financial and classmates invited Professor Dallek help keep me up-to-date.” well in retirement. strategic areas. Ken is a former as their special guest. Dan Press Peter Trooboff received the professor of international business writes: “The informal and stimulat- Leonard J. Theberge Award for and the chairman and professor ing lunch conversation with Profes- Private International Law from the Leonard B. Pack of Asian cultures at Michigan. He sor Dallek was like a typical CC American Bar Association’s Section 65 924 West End Ave. also has taught executive education class, unstructured and covering of International Law. The award was New York, NY 10025 programs for Michigan, Singapore a great deal of territory, including given for Peter’s “distinguished, 65 Management University and [email protected] the good old days at Columbia, an long-standing contributions to the Wharton. He has presented on assessment of the Obama presi- development of private international This issue of CCT immediately China business issues across the dency (largely favorable), the war in law.” Peter has been practicing law follows our 45th reunion. Unfortu- United States and throughout Asia Afghanistan (largely unfavorable), with Covington & Burling in Wash- nately, submission and publication and Europe, in the World Economic thoughts on prior administrations ington, D.C., for 35 years. schedules do not permit reunion Forum, Chamber of Commerce, and Kant’s categorical imperative After 25 years, Steve Singer is news here, since the deadline was Economist Intelligence Unit, Eurasia (largely un-understandable). Class retiring as director of college coun- late April. Our next column, to be Group, the Conference Board, U.S.- members in attendance were Barry seling at the Horace Mann School guest-written by classmates who China Business Council, China- Shapiro, David Levine, Gene Mey- in New York. Steve estimates that attended the reunion, will provide Britain Business Council and World er, Jack Ventura, Sheldon Hoch- he has counseled more than 4,000 full coverage of that eventful Transportation Forum. Ken has berg, Peter Trooboff, Ed Levy and students. “It has been a great job weekend. authored numerous articles during his wife, and me. Everyone in atten- and a wonderful experience,” Steve I mentioned in my last column his career, including a regular col- dance received an A, and Professor said. As many of you know, Steve that Mike Cook, a partner in the umn for the China Economic Review, Dallek even offered to convert my is one of the premier and most Business Reorganization Group and previously wrote regularly for 50-year-old C to an A.” famous college counselors in the of Schulte Roth & Zabel, was to The Far Eastern Economic Review. His If you live in the Washington, United States. The headline in the receive the Professor Lawrence P. influential views have made him D.C., area, or are just passing Horace Mann Record reads, “Singer, King Award at the 2010 luncheon sought after by some of the world’s through the capital, you can reach College Counseling Legend, to of the Bankruptcy and Reorgani- most prestigious media outlets, Dan at 202-298-1882. Retire in August.” The tributes have zation Group of the UJA — Fed- including The New York Times, Fi- Allen Goldberg writes from the been pouring in. Peter V. Johnson, eration of New York’s Lawyers nancial Times, Economist, South China Midwest that he has retired as pro- director of admissions at Columbia, Division, on May 3. Thanks to the Morning Post, People’s Daily, CNBC, fessor of pediatrics at Loyola Uni- told the Record that when he attends organizational efforts of Allen Business Week, Fortune, Asian Wall versity and now is working with college admissions conferences, Brill, the event turned into a mini Street Journal, The Washington Post, former U.S. Surgeon General C. “Whenever I peruse the conference class reunion of “friends of Cook.” Red Herring, BBC World Services

july/august 2010 51 class notes columbia college today and major newswire services. academic tenure but also because, ally every cable network. Newsweek Division and had the best record in Ken earned a Ph.D. from Colum­ he claims, he was able to view named Mark one of America’s 50 the league, but lost the Ivy League bia in 1974. A fluent speaker of Man-­ these contests as a sports matches, most influential rabbis. He was title to Rolfe Division winner darin Chinese and Japanese, he has ones that he could only rarely win, ordained a reform rabbi by the Dartmouth two games to one. I also studied at National Taiwan but where one could sometimes Hebrew Union College-Jewish was impressed with our come- University and Kyoto University. checkmate the opponent.) Leon Institute of Religion in New York from-behind win in Cambridge for [Editor’s note: CCT profiled De- also spends much time traveling to City. He has been the rabbi of two the second game of a doubleheader woskin in November/December various parts of the globe and will congregations in Connecticut for and the first game, the hapless 2007: www.college.columbia.edu/ be guiding an exclusive, luxury tour more than 38 years. Harvard team scored one run to cct_archive/nov_dec07/updates2. of the Greek Islands and Istanbul Columbia’s 24 runs. Isn’t there php.] (Tuesday, September 21–Wednes- some mercy in baseball, especially Dr. Gerald Kruglik, like your day, October 6, all of which, as Arthur Spector if there is a second game and the class correspondent, had a conflict- former president of the Classical Al- 68 271 Central Park West first game is seven innings? ing obligation that required him liance of the Western States, he has New York, NY 10024 To the men’s tennis and golf to miss our reunion. “I am sorry to done many times before. He also is 68 teams, both Ivy champs, congratu- [email protected] have missed the reunion, to which in the process of turning his lengthy lations! I had been looking forward. But published article, “Heidegger’s Aes- Greetings and salutations. Sum- I received a video shot and ed- my class at the University of Santa thetics,” into a book. Leon can be mer seems to have arrived quickly ited by Bob Brandt’s son, Austin, Monica, where my wife, Barbara reached at [email protected]. in New York City. I hope to get to showing Austin and Ryan (his Bottner, and I are in the master’s Finally, on a more somber note, Saratoga soon for some fresh air. Or other son) doing skiing tricks and program in spiritual psychology, please turn to the Obituaries in the maybe Sitka, Alaska, from where flips and summersaults on the skis. meets that weekend. Students are May/June issue for notice of the some amazing pictures arrive regu- Bob, they seem like daring fel- not allowed to miss a class, which death of Roger Wetherington in larly, compliments of Bob Carlson. lows readying themselves for the meets only one weekend a month. July 2009. I ran into Ira McCown at the gym, Olympics. I enjoyed the video. I So in the spirit of reunion, and this and he forwarded a note that I will would have included the YouTube column, so diligently shepherded summarize. He claims I look great link here, but I wonder what the by Leonard, I shall report Class Stuart Berkman (thanks) and suggests that I could appropriateness of that is. I bet you Notesy items: My wife, a writer Rua Mello Franco, 580 run another NYC Marathon — can still downhill ski with them if (she’s published more than 40 66 Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro wrong guy. Maybe Buzz Zucker. they slow down a bit. books for children), and I have 66 25960-531 Brasil Ira looks trim and in good spirits. Mike Olneck sent a note that I written four kids books together: [email protected] His daughter is at law school, and should forward to Bob and others. Wallace’s Lists and the Pish and Posh his son is a paralegal. I learned a He wrote, “I was perusing the series are published by Random Byron Michael Noone was re- bit about his dad, who had been a recent CCT Class Notes, and had House. I live in Los Angeles, not membered at the Vietnam “Opera- surgeon and was in both WWI and an idea for the Class of 1968. People far from USC; am semi-retired tion Babylift” 35th Anniversary WWII. Amazing. of our era frequently mention their from the practice of radiology; oc- Program, held at the New Jersey I received a brief “hello” note grandchildren. How about sending casionally am in contact with Bob Vietnam Era Educational Center from Bill Joseph. As usual, a spur- out a call for notes from those of us Szarnicki, even more occasion- on April 24. Byron’s widow, Lana, of-the-moment idea turns into a who are, in the title words of Martin ally with Ron Chevako and Jim and daughter, Jennifer Nguyen “Next time, pal” — he was in for Carnoy’s book, ‘fathers of a certain Carifio; and welcomed my first Noone ’99 SW, spoke at the event, his daughter’s graduation to be a age,’ i.e., fathers with high-school or grandchild on May 12, Miranda and Lana celebrated Byron’s work rabbi. So as Bill wrote, “Being mar- younger kids still living at home? Nicole Kruglik, all 6 lbs. and 10 oz. and life during her remarks. Please ried to a cantor and now having a For some, these will be folks in of heart-stopping beauty. I do an contact [email protected] for rabbi for a daughter, I find myself ‘second’ families; for others, like me, occasional interview for the ARC further information. at Stephen Wise in your neighbor- they will be ‘late bloomers.’ You and watch the continued travails of We recently learned about two hood, but that’s as close as I’ll get.” might get some interesting themes.” the football and basketball teams events in Massachusetts featuring Congratulations, Bill. You may Mike is professor emeritus of with unabated sadness.” Alan Feldman reading for National be the only one who can hold a educational policy studies and Gerald has a wonderful e-mail Poetry Month. Both were held in service at home — or on the road sociology at the University of address: [email protected]. April, at the Dover Town Library if you can find your daughter for Wisconsin. Feel free to write to him and let him and at the Framingham Public a visit. It is a fascinating thought, Mike. know what he missed at reunion. Library. I received a wonderful note from I am sure Pete Janovsky, with his Professor Leon Rosenstein ’72 Nothing further to report at this Ira Goldberg. His daughter, Sho- wonderful twin daughters (who GSAS notes that his book, Antiques: time. Have a pleasant summer shana, will be off to the University must be fifth-graders now) would The History of an Idea, is doing well, (and greetings from our part of the of North Carolina in public health, agree. having been reviewed with praise Southern Hemisphere, where July where my daughter, Hannah ’06, I received a nice note from in international journals, and so is is the most temperate and pleasant finished her first year. Shoshana Doug Freundlich sending me his antiques business, given this month of the year). and Hannah know each other from condolences for my mom’s passing sluggish economy. Having retired Columbia and before. So Professor away. (Thanks, Doug.) He also had from full-time teaching two years Jon Kotch will be educating our been a little under the weather and ago, Leon still finds opportunities Albert Zonana daughters. Thanks, Jon. Hannah is is, I hope, feeling much better now. to give lectures on various subjects, 67 425 Arundel Rd. enjoying Chapel Hill. Doug’s Venere Lute Quartet has a from philosophy to art history to Goleta, CA 93117 Mas Taketomo sent a note on third CD on the way, and he will religion. He recently, for example, 67 a Glee Club Reunion, held during let us know when it is out. [email protected] gave the annual member’s lecture to Alumni Reunion Weekend/Dean’s Doug, maybe you can perform the Mingei International Museum Rabbi Mark Golub, who was gen- Day on June 4–5. Sounds like a with the Quartet at our next re- (in San Diego, where he lives) on eral manager of WKCR while at large crowd was expected. I hoped union. That would be grand. “The Ten Criteria of Antiques Col- Columbia, is president and founder to go. They may have let me sing. I received this note from Roger lecting and Connoisseurship.” He of Jewish Education in Media, a Mas said I could play the piano Wyatt with news that should lift finds that the only part of university nonprofit that produces Shalom TV with them. one’s spirits; tragedy followed by life he really misses is the interac- and L’Chayim on cable television. I enjoy hearing from Paul Bros- good things sounds good to me. tion in the classroom with students. Shalom TV was launched in 2008 nan. I appreciate the political humor, Roger wrote me: “My current news (Leon does somewhat guiltily also as a mainstream, free, video-on- but I am restraining my enthusiasm packet is personal. After living in admit missing the lengthy battles demand network and now is avail- for sharing — but two Arlington Kansas for many years, I moved he used to have with the univer- able in more than 37 million homes fellows might agree on things. to Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1998. sity administration, which he was across the United States, including Paul, I am sure you noticed that Last year was a rollercoaster of able to survive not only because of 1.5 million Jewish homes, on virtu- the baseball team won the Gehrig a year for me. In October, Hilary

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Thomas Kline ’68, ’75L Helps Return Stolen Art

n the movies, Indiana the temporary order, Kline’s been in the restitution field, and “Teaching forces you to Jones acts alone in taking firm won the case and the mo- with Andrews Kurth, ever since. think more broadly about back pilfered artifacts. In saics were returned to Cyprus. “I just found it a fascinating things, keep up on all aspects reality, he surely would Gary Vikan, director of the area, particularly with my moth- of the law,” he says. “When you benefitI from the help of Thom- Walters Art Museum in Balti- er being an artist and having a do litigation, you learn a lot as Kline ’68, ’75L. more, befriended Kline while pretty good background in art about a little, about one issue.” Kline, a New York native serving as a witness on that and art history from Columbia,” Sometimes, Kline says, the and father of three who now case. “Tom emerged as a lead- he notes. solutions to his cases get inno- resides in Washington, D.C., has er in the area,” Vikan says. “The Kline grew up on the Upper vative. Ten years ago, he repre- been a pioneer in the field of art case was precedent-setting in West Side, moving with his sented a Czech Jew named Eric restitution law during the last due diligence with trafficking in family to Scarsdale, N.Y., when Weinmann who was looking two decades and has been in- antiquities.” he was 9. After high school, he for some artwork his mother volved in cases that twist from Kline’s tone is generally calm, came back down the Hudson had abandoned in Berlin during The Netherlands to Indiana, but discussing the aftermath of to major in government at the WWII. “He was in his 30s [during from Berlin to Connecticut. the Cyprus case brings out ex- College. “It’s kind of a family the war] and he remembered “I started off representing hilaration: “Oh man, the issues tradition,” he says of Columbia, this painting,” a Courbet. the Greek Orthodox Church in were incredible!” he says. “I was referring to his father, Eugene Weinmann had discussed Cyprus,” Kline recounts of his learning about the art market, ’33, ’35L, and his late brother, his search with a friend, who first restitution case, in 1989. international trade … it was Robert ’66, ’70L. then discovered the paint- An art dealer from Carmel, Ind., fascinating!” Before attending the Law ing by chance, hanging in the had purchased four famous Yale University Art Gallery. “He mosaics in The Netherlands, found it when he went back not knowing they had been for an alumni reunion!” Kline stolen from the church in the says. “That was very strange. aftermath of the Turkish inva- So we made a claim.” To return sion of Cyprus in 1974. the painting, Kline’s team had The church asked Kline’s law to prove that its then-owner firm, Manatt, Phelps, & Evans, had purchased the work after to represent it in recovering the Weinmann’s mother had fled mosaics. “U.S. Customs would Germany, and that she had not not seize them, so the only sold the painting voluntarily. option we had was to litigate,” “The case was not excep- Kline says. tionally long in settling, but Kline ended up with a high- it felt that way at the time,” wire act. “[The Carmel dealer] Kline says. “We had to do an agreed to a temporary order incredible amount of research against selling the mosaics, on to show Weinmann’s story was condition that we go to trial in more likely to be right.” 60 days.” Kline’s team packed When they won the case, Thomas Kline ’68, ’75L holding the Augsburg Book of Nobles, a 16th- 25 depositions into that time century book of German prints and drawings that turned up stolen Weinmann just wanted to get and proceeded with a trial that in New York. Kline represented the German state of Baden-Wurtten- the painting back, Kline says. became politically contentious. burg and prevailed in getting the book returned. “He didn’t want a financial set- “There’s an entity called the PHOTO: TOBIAS EVERKE tlement, he didn’t care about Turkish Republic of Northern that. So he arranged with Yale Cyprus that’s only recognized Less than a year after the School, Kline taught social for a 10-year loan, and he hung by Turkey, and lawyers for that Cyprus case, Kline — then with studies at a public high school the painting in his dining room.” country showed up claiming to the firm Andrews Kurth — took in Manhattan, a four-year pe- “Tom’s an idealist,” Vikan be plaintiffs,” Kline says. “There on restitution once again. “I did riod that “really rounded me says about his friend. “The was an argument over unrec- a case for a German church out,” he says. He still teaches, cases he takes are for the ognized governments, whether from Quedlinburg, which was having taught a course on underdog.” His speech slows we should recognize their ac- the royal capital, involving cultural property for 10 years slightly. “He’s a just, good per- tions … there was a multitude recovering medieval religious in The George Washington son. He brings his values into of issues I hadn’t anticipated.” objects stolen by an American University’s Museum Studies the courtroom.” Nevertheless, five months after lieutenant,” he says. Kline has Program. Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts

McLellan, my wife and companion School of Professional Psychol- May, I vacationed in Vienna and fine restaurant in Saratoga. We are for 21 years, died. She lived her ogy. This year started out with a Salzburg. Whatever the rest of the so overdue. All the best. life on her own terms while she bang. In February, I met the lovely year brings, I will engage it with I had lunch with Paul de Bary as battled cancer for 31 months. In Letitia, and we clicked deeply. resilience, resourcefulness and part of our once-in-a-while lunch July, in Hawaii, my son, Owen, We are exploring and deepening imagination that are the hallmarks event, and he reported he will be married the lovely Maggie. They our relationship. In late April, I of a Columbia education.” off to Argentina in the fall, and yes are in Boston, studying to be started my sixth residency at the Roger, when you get back I — I think I have this right — there psychotherapists at Massachusetts Experimental Television Center. In hope we can rendezvous at some are more than 700 de Barys in Ar-

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Scott Nordlicht is a physician the Department of Music at Smith specializing in cardiology and College. He has written extensively internal medicine at The Washing- about Papal music and musicians ton University Heart Care Institute as well as the music of the Renais- School of Medicine in St. Louis. sance. Richard has been chair of His webpage links to a YouTube the Department of Music (1983–88, interview, in which Scott describes 1991–93, 2002–05) and secretary of his role as a patient advocate: “I the Faculty (1987–90). particularly enjoy becoming a pa- I know there is news out there tient’s advocate, helping individu- about our classmates, but it would als navigate their way to sustained be really great if the news out there wellness,” he says. Scott is listed in would simply show up in my e-mail Best Doctors in America. He enjoys inbox. Let me hear about your per- swimming, weight lifting, movies sonal and professional news and/or and reading. your reflections on how the College Crooners Larry Teitelbaum ’71, Lawrence Masket ’71, Rob Mayer ’71, Henry Reichman is a profes- years have impacted your life, Elliot Cahn ’70 and Alan Mayer ’72 broke into a full multi-part harmony sor in the Department of History, looking back now on 41 years since rendition of “Roar, Lion, Roar” at a wedding in Sonoma, Calif., in May. PHOTO: CAROL BLACKWELL California State University, East graduation and just about 45 years Bay, in Hayward. He specializes since our freshman week orientation. in the history of Russia/U.S.S.R. Postscript: Five members of our gentina. I also received a note that ties, and the abolition of the death and European history since 1789. class participated in the Alumni Dan Carr, chief medical officer and penalty.” As an avid baseball fan, Hank also Parade of Classes at Class Day president of Javelin Pharmaceuti- It’s been several years since an teaches a course on the history of on May 17: Neil Flomenbaum, cals, will be honored at a Chabad item about Mark appeared in this baseball. He has been chair of the me, Manny Organek, Richard event in New York. Good deeds column, so, I went to his webpage Academic Senate and a Statewide Rapaport and Eric Saltzman. are good for sure. Greg Winn to get his current bio. Mark is pro­ Academic Senator. He received The Class of 2010 also reflected called to tell of some good news fessor of law and former associ- the CSUEB Outstanding Profes- participation by members of our that I am sure he will share with ate dean for academic affairs at sor Award in 1999 and is listed class with four legacies: Adam us when the time is ripe. He is in Boston College Law School. He has in Who’s Who Among America’s Flomenbaum ’10, Abby Oberman grand humor, enjoying retirement published extensively in the areas Teachers. Hank’s book, Railwaymen ’10, Billy Organek ’10 and Gabriel of sorts, teaching and traveling. of employment discrimination, and Revolution: Russia, 1905, was Saltzman ’10. Eric had even more I still work on municipal financ- constitutional criminal procedure, published in 1987. He is associate reason to be grateful that day: his ing, now 35 years later or so. Still evidence and litigation. Mark was editor of the American Library As- father, Arnold Saltzman ’36, led the enjoying working with the clients; named BC Law’s 2002–03 Faculty sociation’s Newsletter on Intellectual parade, commemorating three gen- the travel; and the opportunity to Member of the Year by the Law Freedom and author of Censorship erations of College graduates in the help government entities with their Students Association. The Black and Selection: Issues and Answers for Saltzman family. As Neil, Manny, financing needs. My girlfriend and Law Students Association awarded Schools, the third edition of which Richard and I carried the Class of I recently went to Miami Beach, and him the Ruth Arlene Howe Award was published in 2001. 1969 banner (which, as always, I must admit I like palm trees and in 2005 and 2006 and the Anthony David Bradley is an associate attracted cheers from the graduat- sunny days and swimming pools. P. Farley Excellence in Training professor and tenured reader in the ing seniors), Eric moved back and Neil Anderson, I understand, Award in 2008–09. linguistics department of La Trobe forth along the line photographing enjoys Naples, Fla. The Internet (especially univer- University in Bundoora Victoria, the occasion. For sure, at our own I hope the Glee Club reunion sity websites) is a helpful way to Australia. He has conducted exten- Class Day, I did not foresee a day turns out to be a good time. Mas learn about classmates who do not sive research on endangered lan- 41 years in the future when a Dean will report on it for sure. I hope all send in news, and I found informa- guages, sociolinguistics, historical Michele Moody-Adams would is well with classmates, and do send tion about several classmates whom linguistics, geolinguistics, language recognize a daughter of mine as a in notes when you can. I do not believe have appeared in policy and phonetics/phonology graduate of the College, but I do CCT. Arnold Barnett is the George in Southeast, East and South Asia confess experiencing during this Eastman Professor of Management across many years, especially on Class Day a misty-eyed moment Michael Oberman Science and Professor of Statistics at Tibeto-Burman languages. David’s as I realized that the ’10 after my Kramer Levin Naftalis & MIT’s Sloan School of Management. teaching areas include language daughter’s name and the ’69, P’10 69 Frankel His research specialty is applied across time, language in Asia and after mine will constantly confirm 69 1177 Avenue of the mathematical modeling with a language in society. He has had our shared membership in the Americas focus on problems of health and extensive contacts with Asian Columbia community. And, if that New York, NY 10036 safety. He has received the Presi- universities for more than 25 years; wasn’t enough, the event produced moberman@ dent’s Award and the Expository has participated in establishing, copy for the class column! kramerlevin.com Writing Award from The Institute obtaining funding for and running for Operations Research and the exchange links in China, Thailand, As happens too often and too con- Management Sciences, a profession- Japan, Indonesia and India; and Leo G. Kailas sistently, I did not receive any news al society in the field of operations has had many years of fieldwork 70 Reitler Kailas & from classmates for this issue. How- research, management science and experience in China and Southeast Rosenblatt ever, I came close: Mike Tracy ’68 business analytics, in 1996 and 2001, and South Asia. David is a fellow 70 885 Third Ave, 20th Fl. was kind enough to let me know and is an INFORMS fellow. Arnold of the Academy of the Social Sci- New York, NY 10022 that Mark Brodin’s latest book is is an expert on aviation safety and ences in Australia. [email protected] William P. Homans Jr.: A Life in Court has been quoted in a variety of re- Elliot Rosen is associate profes- (released in paperback in January). cent articles on airline safety issues, sor in medical and molecular Our 40th Alumni Reunion Week- Looking at the product description including airport security issues. In genetics at Indiana University end took place in June, and I agreed on Amazon, I was pleased to note 2008, Arnold chaired a conference School of Medicine in Indianapolis. to act as reporter. Because of this that it states Mark is a graduate of at Sloan called “To Keep or Not He received his Ph.D. from the column’s deadlines, a full report of the College and gives our class year Keep the Electoral College.” He has University of Iowa and was a post- the festivities will be included in the — but, of course, that fact I knew. written op-ed pieces for The New doctoral fellow at UC San Diego. September/October issue of CCT. The description says that the book York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The research in Elliot’s lab focuses Stay tuned! is about a Boston lawyer who spent The Boston Globe and USA Today. on studying the physiologic roles of Also, please try to open your his 50-year career working for “the Arnold has been honored on 10 coagulation and hemostatic factors wallets — even in these difficult poor and downtrodden, the protec- occasions by students at MIT Sloan using genetically modified mice. economic times — to the institu- tion of our most basic civil liber- for outstanding teaching. Richard Sherr is a professor in tion that played such a key role in

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our development and in assisting in Beacon, N.Y., on May 8. “Come us on the path of life. You can give and listen to the exhilarating mix via www.college.columbia.edu/ of tabla, viola and sitar!” giveonline or mail a check to the The poster notes that “John Dub- Columbia College Fund, Columbia ­berstein has played sitar for 35 Alumni Center, 622. W. 113th St., years. A student of Harihar Rao, MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY Punita Gupta and Manilal Nag, 10025. he in recent years has taken a One news item from Richard tack away from a strictly classical Howard: “If you come across the presentation of Indian music. The print edition of The Chronicle Review, current music will be featured in it features three photographs that I support of holographic laser dome took for Spectator way back when. I projection works. John also (when do quite a bit of work for the Chroni- not windsurfing the Hudson) per- cle and the editor knew I had been at forms on vocals and guitar with the Columbia in 1968, so she requested Bad Boys Blues Band.” the photographs. The stock photo Ken Cowan: “I have been at usage fees would have paid for a SciClone Pharmaceuticals Interna- semester’s tuition in 1968! For me, a tional for 13-plus years. I spent a parent with two kids in college right number of years in Singapore but The Feinberg family now has three generations of College graduates. now, that is quite a revelation, infla- now am at the corporate HQ in Rebecca Feinberg ’09 (center) graduated magna cum laude. Her father, tion calculator notwithstanding.” San Mateo, Calif. We continue to be Jack Feinberg ’72, is on the left, and her grandfather, Judge Wilfred Also some sad news on the busy despite the economy. I go to Feinberg ’40, ’43L, is on the right. passing of two classmates: Robert New York several times a year, but W. Butterfield, sexton, Bethlehem, the visits are never long enough. I Pa., on January 5; and Stephen miss Mama Joy’s roast beef heroes though it may lack Columbia’s and how some things have re- G. Plummer, chairman and CEO, with Russian dressing, lettuce and culinary equivalents, such as mained the same. (Same with class- Crumpler, N.C., on October 20. Swiss cheese. In the spring, the best Mama Joy’s, more than makes up mates!) Some have done both. For place to eat a sandwich was on for it in the quality of its pubs and example, Ferris Booth Hall is gone, the steps in front of Low Library, of course its architecture. My thesis replaced with a sleek and modern Jim Shaw washing it down with a quart of concerns Aristophanes’ play The Alfred Lerner Hall. But downstairs, 139 North 22nd St. Miller High Life. Those were the Clouds, which may have been on in Roone Arledge Auditorium, 71 Philadelphia, PA 19103 days! Things were simpler then, or our reading lists as freshmen, but you will see that it is really our old 71 at least more immediate.” repays a visit. And to be sure, as Wollman Auditorium. Remember [email protected] Ed Wallace writes about rights to I discussed at more length in my classmates performing there in Sha Contributors to this column make public expression, balanced with Class Notes submission last year, Na Na and other bands? several references to an eatery you rights not to experience it, in a New www.college.columbia.edu/cct/ I attend reunion, and I always may remember. That may be in re- York Times op-ed piece published jul_aug09/class_notes#cy197, have a great time. It’s wonderful sponse to an e-mail I sent to the class, April 16. He describes his experi-­ reading classics beats reading de- to be with old friends and to make mentioning a number of experiences ence as a New York City council- positions, an avocation from which new ones. We all experienced so we may have in common. man getting a six-word legislative I retired in 2003.” much together. Forty years will By the time you read this, I will amendment passed and his chagrin Rob Mayer: “The photo near have gone by in a blink. Keep your have sent a Class eNewsletter, which at the results. www.nytimes.com/ these Notes shows Larry Teitel- eyes open for this. See ya there! I am restarting. If you have not re- 2010/04/17/opinion/17wallace. baum, Lawrence Masket, me, Elliot ceived it, I may not have your correct html?scp=1&sq=edward%20 Cahn ’70 and my brother, Alan ’72, e-mail address. Send it to me at the wallace&st=cse. at a spring 2010 wedding, as we Paul S. Appelbaum e-mail address above. Eddie Eitches: “Son Etan gradu- were about to break into a round 39 Claremont Ave., #24 Vincent Rigdon: “I am pastor of ated from Columbia P&S in May. He of ‘Roar, Lion, Roar.’ Elliot was an 72 New York, NY 10027 Our Lady of the Presentation Par- will be an ER resident at Beth Israel original member of Sha Na Na, and 72 [email protected] ish in Poolesville, Md. It is a very in NYC. He is excited at moving I was a four-year member of the happy assignment.” from Washington Heights to First Columbia Glee Club. ‘T’ (Larry), There’s a definite California flavor Pete Hamlin: “Yes indeed, 40 Avenue and East 16th Street. Daugh- ‘Spider’ (Lawrence) and Alan all to this column. Peter Levitan, in years has passed by in a blink. So ter Eliana ’13 finished her first year can sing pretty well, so our rendi- Los Angeles, “get[s] such a kick much has happened to all of us at the College. Only freshman to take tion of ‘Roar, Lion, Roar’ was in full out of reading items from Armen that I won’t even begin to start (at Dad’s urging) Eric Foner ’63’s multi-part harmony. Donelian, who was a neighbor individual news this time, but I do 1820–60 American history course. “Larry and his wife, Barbara on the legendary (?) fourth floor want to say for our school, not just Hoping both will follow Dad’s lefty Felsinger, have a son, Ben Teitel- of Furnald in our day, and follow- our class, that we have a President, (president of largest federal worker baum ’08, and a daughter, Sophie ing his jazz career. The latest turn Barack Obama ’83; a governor of local in D.C.) footsteps.” Teitelbaum, who attends UC Berke- in my legal career (my seventh New York, David Paterson ’77; U.S. David Lindley: “My wife, Jane ley. Barbara’s older brother, Stan career since graduation — in turn, Attorney General, Eric H. Holder ’71 Barnard, and I are grandpar- Felsinger ’66, was a basketball star children’s theater manager, restau- Jr. ’73, ’76L; and international news ents. Our older daughter, Camilla at Columbia immediately before rant reviewer, freelance journalist, reporter, commentator, interviewer Lynch, and her husband, Brian, our era (when a 6-foot Jewish guy nonprofit arts administrator, script and formulator of policies, George had a son, Jack. Looks like both could still excel in the Ivy League). reader and literary/theater scout) Stephanopoulos ’82 . We can be parents and all four grandparents; He was All-Ivy in 1966 along with follows stints at New York and proud of what CC (Columbia Col- strange, this gene thing. Dave Newmark ’69. And just to L.A. law firms, and subsequent lege, Contemporary Civilization or “Jack and I share a middle name, complete the circle, the guy whose positions as a senior lawyer and both?) has done for all our minds.” Morrison, my mother and his great- daughter was getting married in executive at Fox and indie Interme- John Dubberstein sent a link to grandmother’s maiden name. I May is Dave Newmark’s dentist!” dia Films. I started a solo practice a colorful poster for a performance have threatened to get us matching Hang out with your friends, in 2002 and also began teaching as by the Clear Light Ensemble at the kilts.” too! Alumni Reunion Weekend is an adjunct at Loyola Law School “School of Jellyfish for the Ad- Michael Straus: “By the time Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, (a course I created covering film, vancement of sustainable living you read this, I will have com- 2011. Mark your calendars now. television, music, theatre and new and renewable energy through: ar- pleted, d.v., a master of philosophy The campus is beautiful (espe- media financing — the first such chitecture, design, permaculture, degree studying ancient Greek at cially in June), and it surprises how law school course in the country, I performing arts and chocolate” Cambridge, a university which, much some things have changed believe).”

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Peter recently organized and and board member of the Trinity Steven Niles performed a thesis (known as Tony while on campus). moderated a symposium for the College, Oxford Society, as well as production for an M.F.A. in new He recently sent in word that he still Beverly Hills Bar Association on a board member of Everyone Wins, media and performance at the owns Barton-Sharpe (the high-end new developments in entertain- a nonprofit literacy and mentor- Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn furniture concern) in NYC and ment financing. Reflecting on the ing organization. After Columbia, (there it is again!) in April. The is surviving the challenges of the differences between broad-based Peter earned a B.Phil. from Trinity work, a multimedia piece includ- economic downturn. Marcos keeps television programming when College, Oxford, and a J.D. from ing multichannel video and com- in touch with crew teammate John there were only three networks the University of Michigan Law positions that Steven played on the Pototsky ’74E, even though John and today’s more fragmented cable School. piano and sang, is about a bipolar lives in France most of the time. Yet, world, Peter notes how common movie director who has problems he adds that “I have not spoken censorship was for the edgier acts. with his medication and seeks with Jonathan Oberman (who lives “For their 1967 appearance on Barry Etra alternate forms of healing. Wow. in NYC) in more than 25 years. The Ed Sullivan Show, The Rolling 73 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE Steven Messner begins his term How odd is that?” Stones complied with CBS network Atlanta, GA 30306 as president of the American Soci- By the way, Jon is a law profes- censors’ instructions to change 73 ety of Criminology in November; sor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo [email protected] the line ‘Let’s spend the night he muses that “having lived on School of Law in New York. together’ to ‘Let’s spend some There is a great piece about Phil 120th between Amsterdam and When President Barack Obama time together,’ but Mick Jagger Schaap in the spring Columbia mag- Morningside in the early ’70s, how ’83 needed advice on ways to exaggeratedly rolled his eyes every azine, for thems of you that never could I not have developed an in- strengthen black colleges, he called time he sang the line. By contrast, read it (or even look at it). Unfortu- terest in crime?” How not, indeed. upon Ronald Mason. Ron is the later that year The Doors agreed nately, the timing is such that by the Until we note again … president of Jackson State University to the censors’ demand that lead time this is published, you may not in Jackson, Miss., and has joined the singer Jim Morrison change the still have the magazine … advisory board of the White House lyrics to their hit single ‘Light My In order of appearance: Jose San- Fred Bremer Initiative on Historically Black Fire’ by altering the line, ‘Girl, we chez recently completed another 74 532 W. 111th St. Colleges and Universities. One of couldn’t get much higher’ to ‘Girl, book (with three co-editors), The New York, NY 10025 its central tasks is to recommend we couldn’t get much better.’ The Iraq Papers, which “does what few 74 ways to increase college attendance [email protected] band agreed to the change, but had books did to explain the Vietnam among racial minorities. no intention of honoring the agree- War for many of us back then.” Morningside Heights is being trans- As the children of many class- ment. Morrison sang the original What he is proudest of are his formed at a remarkable pace, yet mates move from college to their line, on live television and with no daughters. Desi is a TV show host, this transformation seems to have own careers, I will try to pass on delay. CBS was powerless to stop hosting LatinNation on Sunday achieved “stealth mode” for many. the occasional insight into what it, and a furious Sullivan refused to afternoon on New York’s channel 9, The implications for Columbia and they are up to. While I don’t have shake the band members’ hands.” a show on the Music Choice cable the community are significant. many details (yet), I have learned Also in L.A., Jack Feinberg network interviewing celebrities While we were on campus that Steve Dworkin’s son, Adam, received his Ph.D. in physics from and a show on MTV2. Hannah is in the early ’70s, crossing 110th wrote a play that was staged at UC Berkeley in 1977 and has been starting her own assisted-living Street was an act of bravery. Few a theater in the East Village last a professor of physics, astronomy facility and says there won’t be any of us traveled much further north April. Adam is attending NYU and electrical engineering at USC “early admission” for Jose and his than Plimpton on Amsterdam in the graduate dramatic arts since then. His research focuses on wife, although he says, “I have my or Riverside Church. Nobody program. Steve is doing municipal lasers and nonlinear optics. Jack’s doubts.” The youngest, Leina, is crossed to the forbidden zone east finance at J.P. Morgan in Los Ange- daughter, Rebecca ’09, gradu- an art major at Pratt, not far from of Morningside Drive. All of this les, but work conveniently brings ated magna cum laude, the third where Jose teaches poli sci and ur- appears to either have changed or him to New York on a frequent generation of Feinbergs to do so. ban studies at LIU Brooklyn. “Life,” will soon do so. basis. Jack’s father, Judge Wilfred Fein- he says, “could not be better.” The advent of the Manhat- In the current environment, do berg ’40,’43L, is a senior judge on Continuing in academia (and tanville campus (roughly West you think Adam in theater or Steve the U.S. Court of Appeals for the publishing), Joel Pfister is the Kenan 125th Street to West 134th Street, in finance has the more stable career? Second Circuit. [See photo.] Professor of the Humanities and Broadway to the Hudson River) It started with a short e-mail from Back on this coast, Peter V. Dar- chair of the Department of English will change nearly a mile north of Larry Silverman (a partner with row has joined DLA Piper’s corpo- at Wesleyan. His fifth book, The the Morningside campus. A string Covington Burling, the New York rate finance practice as a partner Yale Indian: The Education of Henry of luxury high-rises and high-end law firm) asking if I knew anything in the New York office. Peter was Roe Cloud, was published last year. retail space along 100th Street from about Simon Taylor (a long-lost previously at the law firm Mayer Recent “lecture gigs” have taken him Broadway to Columbus should friend from College days). Hitting Brown, where he was a partner to China, Japan, England, France, bring in upper-income households a few directories and the Internet in the firm’s banking and finance Germany, Denmark, Norway and to Manhattan Valley (the one-mile reunited the two — and unearthed group for 25 years. He regularly Israel. Joel notes the passing (mourn- area south of campus). Across the another missing classmate. represents issuers, underwriters fully) of two of his favorite profes- past five years, there already has Ends up, Simon and I share a lot and placement agents in cross- sors, Robert Egan (drama) and James been a great migration of upper- of geography — except in exactly border securities offerings, as well Shenton ’49 (history) a number of income professionals into Harlem, the reverse order. I was born in as structured finance transactions years back. especially the 20–30 blocks north of Sausalito, Calif., grew up in Oregon, in emerging markets. In addi- Kirk Moritz is tennis director Central Park, to the east of campus. came to New York to go to the Col- tion, Peter represents institutional (along with Joe Perez ’79) of the While Columbia once was an lege and spent part of my junior year lenders in secured and unsecured CityView Racquet Club in Long island of academia and middle class in London at the London School financings, including acquisition Island City (www.cityviewracquet. surrounded by areas of poverty, we of Economics. Simon was born in and leveraged financings. He also com), which was built on top of soon will be an institution cozy in London, briefly moved to Oregon advises SEC-registered companies the Swingline Staple building and our nest surrounded by upper- with his family, also came to New in complying with their disclosure has helped overcome the dearth income neighbors, fancy restaurants York for college and recently started obligations and counsels U.S. of indoor facilities in NYC. Kirk and high-priced shops. This sounds a securities firm in Sausalito. (OK, so hedge funds in their private equity and Joe ran the East River Tennis more like the physical setting of maybe it won’t make it into the next investments and joint ventures. Club for 25 years previously; they Harvard, Princeton and Stanford — volume of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!.) Among his other accomplish- are happy to see the Columbia all wonderful institutions, but with Simon attended Harvard Law. ments, Peter is chairman of The tennis teams continuing to win Ivy very different environments. “The Being the 1970s, he went to Florida Cambodia Trust, the leading League championships (Kirk was times they are a’ changin’ ” — but to be a poverty and civil rights provider of relief and rehabilita- part of the first two). Kirk and his for better or worse? lawyer. In the 1980s, he returned to tion support for landmine victims wife, Julie, have lived in Manhat- It has been “many a moon” since NYC to various law firms and even- in Cambodia. He also is an officer tan for 30 years. we heard from Marcos Delgado tually became a partner at Snow,

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Becker, Krauss. In 2004, Simon organizations and artists. In May, David Gorman 30 years, having represented large started his own law firm while also he was interviewed by artist Sandra 77 111 Regal Dr. national companies, particularly in being CEO of the NASDAQ broker- Payne as part of the Hatch-Billops DeKalb, IL 60115 the high-tech, telecommunications, dealer investment bank ACN Collection’s Artist and Influence 77 financial services, healthcare, su- [email protected] Securities (with offices in Palo Alto, Series. He cofounded the public art permarket, and oil and gas sectors. West Palm Beach, New York and organization, Art Across the Park, Brief notes first. Rev. Thomas He has developed a practice in the London). The firm does a mix of which was instrumental in creating Worcester S.J. has been promoted intersection of real estate and com- investment banking, consulting and some of the early contemporary site- from associate professor to profes- munications issues. intellectual property law for clients specific art works/projects in public sor of history at the College of the Given how challenging the next in life sciences, alternative energy parks throughout New York City. Holy Cross. Ron Fried was named few years will be in and around and agribusiness. While updating my profile on as one of seven Norman Mailer New York government with major Welcome back, Simon! LinkedIn, I came across Stanley Fellows and is spending a month budget and political issues, Jeff will There you have it. Lost classmates Fertig, s.v.p. at HBO International. in Provincetown, Mass., at the continue to be in a fascinating front- reappearing, a presidential appoint- After taking a couple years break Norman Mailer Writers Colony row seat to how we manage to deal ment and another example of the from his studies at Columbia working on a new novel, his third, with some vexing problems. He has achievements of our progeny. As (majoring in French), Stan went to I believe. Ron also mentions plans served in numerous governmental you can tell, the virtual mailbag was Harvard for a Ph.D. in Romance to take Damien Bona out to dinner positions, including as the repre- not as full as it usually is. Please take languages and then to Yale School for his birthday. sentative of the president pro tem a moment to dash off a quick note of Management, where he earned The township of Edison, N.J., of the New York State Senate on the about yourself, classmates or your an M.B.A. Prior to moving to has a new business administra- New York State Financial Control kids. And if you have been wonder- Executive Row for HBO, he was tor — none other than Dennis Board, which provides review and ing about a buddy from 40 years s.v.p. for Warner Music Group and Gonzalez. Dennis, who picked oversight with respect to the finan- ago, let me see if I can locate him. Columbia Music Entertainment up a degree from Michigan Law, cial management of the New York (Japan). previously was the acting business City government and related public Marc Kozinn practices cardiol- administrator for Trenton, where authorities, and as a member of the Randy Nichols ogy in Buffalo, is on the faculty he lives. He worked for Trenton in New York State Banking Board. 75 734 S. Linwood Ave. of SUNY-Buffalo and attending various capacities since 2000. Jeff earned his J.D. at NYU and Baltimore, MD 21224 cardiologist at Erie County Medical Meanwhile, in April, Jim from 1981–82 served as a law clerk 75 Center, and does clinical research. Shapiro, the Larry Miller Profes- to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant [email protected] He directs an echocardiography sor of English and Comparative ’44, ’49L, United States district I’m writing this in late April, in and non-invasive imaging lab, Literature at Columbia, published judge and later chief judge for the the run-up to our 35th reunion. speaks and consults nationally for a widely discussed and enthusiasti- Southern District of New York. Throughout the year, many of us the pharmaceutical industry, and cally reviewed book, Contested Will: Another New York mover and have dug up memorabilia. Those publishes in the field. Marc has Who Wrote Shakespeare?. This is Jim’s shaker is Martin J. Cicco, and with of you who have visited the CC ’75 been married to Betsy for 30 years. third book on Shakespeare, com- the acquisition of his firm MJC network at www.columbiacc75. Their first granddaughter arrived pletely rethinking what many of us Associates, a commercial real estate ning.com have seen some of mine. in March. Wedding bells and ad- who teach English dismissed as a advisory boutique, Marty now is Recently, I received an e-mail in- ditional baby showers are in store nutty sidetrack in literary studies, senior managing director and head vitation to rehearse and perform for the summer. the debate over whether Shake- of Evercore’s Real Estate Advisory with other Glee Club alums dur- At their 18th Annual Spring speare was indeed the author of practice. Marty, who will be based ing Dean’s Day/Alumni Reunion Benefit Auction, Columbia’s Com- the writings attributed to him. Not in New York, founded MJC As- Weekend. We were asked to send munity Impact (CI) presented its that there is any good reason for sociates in January 2007. You may Glee Club stories, and I responded Eighth Annual “Making a Differ- doubting that, but the motives and remember that prior to MJC As- with the following: “I remember, ence” Service Award to Elizabeth rationales of the deniers turn out to sociates, Marty spent 29 years at as a tender frosh from the sticks, (Lisa) and Richard Witten. Richard have multiple kinds of interest and Merrill Lynch, ultimately as vice- going with my fellow Glee Club- is vice-chair of Columbia’s Board significance. chairman of Global Commercial bers to buy tuxes before our first of Trustees and the senior manag- Best wishes to all! Real Estate and global head of Real concert. It was a hoot. We went to ing director of The Orienta Group, Estate Investment Banking. some shop downtown on the sec- an investment and advisory firm. Marty has served on the advisory ond floor and had an elderly man Lisa is an executive committee Matthew Nemerson boards of the Business School’s Paul assist us. Imagine maybe a dozen member of the Hunter College 78 35 Huntington St. Milstein Center for Real Estate, the guys tossing tuxes around, trying Foundation and a director of the New Haven, CT 06511 University of Wisconsin’s James A. to find ones that fit. Of course, Fresh Air Fund. Richard and Eliza- 78 Graaskamp Center for Real Estate [email protected] there was no discussion of style — beth (Lisa) were recognized for and the Wharton School’s Samuel they were all basic tuxes, the only their steadfast support of CI and At the time of the last column, I Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate kind available in those days.” their efforts to support education, was just going into a cast to repair Center. In addition, he is an active I am pretty sure that Mukund public health and social services my Achilles tendon, and now, a member of the National Association Marathe and Bruce Grivetti were in the Columbia community. [See few months later, I am walking of Real Estate Investment Trusts tossing the tuxes that night with “Around the Quads.”] again and even visited New York and The Real Estate Roundtable. me, and probably others of you as Next issue, I’ll be reporting on recently without worry about how Marty is a former trustee of both well. And Jim Dolan’s reporting our 35th reunion. Go Lions! to use crutches to get around. So the Urban Land Institute and The on his discovery of a decaying yes, time heals all. International Council of Shopping audio tape, reported in his recent Some of our high-profile class- Centers. In 2006, he received a John e-mail, is another gem. How many Clyde Moneyhun mates have new roles. Jeffrey A. Jay Award for distinguished profes- classmates were being cheered 76 Program in Writing and Moerdler, the New York practice sional achievement from the Col- while they were streaking through Rhetoric leader of Mintz Levin’s Real Estate lege and in 2008 he was presented campus? What do you remember 76 Serra Mall 450, Bldg. 460, and Communications practices, the Industry Achievement Award about those days? Room 223 has been appointed by New York by NAREIT. With degrees in art history from Stanford University State Governor David Paterson Keeping with our New York Columbia and Brown, and training Stanford, CA 94305 ’77 and confirmed by the New theme, Tony Kushner’s latest play, in museology from the Metropoli- [email protected] York State Senate to serve as com- The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to tan Museum of Art and the Whit- missioner of the Port Authority of Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to ney Museum of American Art, Hor- No notes this issue, friends. Send New York and New Jersey. Jeff will the Scriptures, his first epic-size work ace Brockington has held curator, family and professional news to serve a five-year term. about American life since his Pulitzer historian, educator and art adviser the address above, and I’ll make Jeff has been a general commer- Prize-winning Angels in America: A roles with numerous museums, sure it gets into a future issue. cial real estate attorney for almost Gay Fantasia on National Themes, in

july/august 2010 57 class notes columbia college today the early 1990s, will have its New tourism industry, acting as chair- credit. When I was busy pitching of the Council on Foreign Relations York premiere next spring in a co- man of the Travel Industry Associa- the idea to my bosses at Newsweek and received the 2010 Atlas Award production by the Public Theater tion of America in 2006 and 2007. over martinis, none of them real- as “Global M&A Lawyer of the and the Signature Theater Company. He was inducted into the Travel ized I was just recycling a headline Year.” In June, he received the 2010 The play, which explores politics, Industry Hall of Leaders in 2008. I’d found in the subway one day Burton Award for Legal Achieve- marriage, sex, radicalism and the Jay joined Disney in 1986 as di- in ’78. In a leftist magazine titled ment and became chairman of the labor movement under the roof of rector, strategic planning and devel- Seven Days dropped on the subway, board of The NALP Foundation for a retired longshoreman’s Brooklyn opment, advancing to more senior I read the headline: ‘1968, End of Law Career Research and Education. brownstone, was first produced positions there, and later became the Postwar World,’ written by that Richard Milford updates us with under a commission from the Guth- s.v.p., corporate alliances. He then notorious German radical Danny news since Columbia. “I graduated rie Theater in Minneapolis as part of led Disney Regional Entertainment the Red. from Mount Sinai School of Medi- a festival of Kushner plays last year. before moving to Paris as president, “All I did was add 10 years to cine in 1983. Completed orthopedic Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal) Euro Disney, before becoming its the concept! But the truth was, residency at Albert Einstein in 1988. directed the Guthrie production, as chairman and CEO in 2000. A na- Danny was right: There are those Hand surgery fellowship in 1989. he will the new one, which will run tive New Yorker, Jay has an M.A. in ‘moments in time,’ as someone Practicing in Maryland since then, in the Public’s Newman Theater. economics and an M.B.A. from the once put it, when all the lines in living in Hagerstown with my wife, The production is expected to cost University of Chicago. Before join- history cross: In the case of 1968, Susan, and kids, Chris and Kate. slightly less than $1 million, with ing Disney, he held positions with it was not just assassinations and “Recently got back from a week the Public and the Signature, both Chase Manhattan Bank and the riots from Chicago and to Colum- in Haiti. Our team went in week not-for-profit companies, sharing Marriott Corp. bia itself … it was also the year of three post-earthquake. We had the cost. Finally, a real view from inside the Prague Spring (and the Rus- many of our supplies flown in with Tony said that the scope and Hollywood through a recent blog sian crackdown), student riots that us — orthopedic implants, x-ray themes of the play and its 11 charac- of Peter McAlevey, president of convulsed France, the Tet Offensive machine and anesthesia supplies ters remain intact from the Guthrie Thunderbird Pictures. that led to the end of the Vietnam — which significantly aided our production, but that the script has “I don’t think a lot of our class­ War and more. And in movies, as productivity. Got to reacquaint also been influenced by his recent mates follow my blog, www.the Harris points out, it was the year in myself with general orthopedic work editing volumes of plays by wrap.com. I’d never pretend to which the Academy Awards almost trauma and even a little low-level Arthur Miller. “If it feels at some be a book reviewer. On the other equally split the difference between plastics (in my real life I’m a hand point like a Broadway run is what hand, it’s been years since I’ve read the ‘old’ Hollywood of big-budget surgeon). We would scour the should happen after this co-produc- a book like Mark Harris’ Pictures musicals like The Sound of Music general medical clinics and tent cit- tion, great,” he said. at a Revolution: Five Movies and the and historical epics like Cleopatra ies of Port au Prince and Cité Soleil Now let’s move to Hollywood, Birth of the New Hollywood, now and Dr. Zhivago, and the ‘new’ Hol- in our ‘ambulance’ (an appliance where The Walt Disney Co. recently in paperback. Now, you have to lywood of The Graduate and Bonnie delivery truck with four mattresses announced that James “Jay” Rasulo understand, there’s a lot of jealousy and Clyde that would lead, the next thrown into the back) and bring the will become senior e.v.p. and CFO. here. For one thing, it seems like year, to Easy Rider (the movie that orthopedic cases that they couldn’t Jay has been chairman of Disney virtually everyone I know has won changed everything) and an era of handle back to our hospital in Pierre Parks and Resorts and is a 23-year a Pulitzer Prize: My college room- unprecedented cinematic upheaval. Payen for surgery. One of the docs Disney veteran. In his new role, he mate Tim Page (for criticism for The (Go to the blog for a lot more in our group did a direct human-to- will oversee the company’s world- Washington Post), Ric Burns (for his fun copy.) human transfusion of his blood (O wide finance organization, corporate documentary, The Civil War), play- “So, like I say, I’m jealous of all negative) into one of our patients strategy and development, brand wright Tony Kushner (for Angels in of them, from my friends with the when there was no other source management, corporate alliances, America) and so on. Pulitzers to a writer like Harris available. An immeasurable and investor relations, treasury and risk “And now it’s Kushner’s com- who can manage such material overwhelming experience; I had management activities, controller panion Mark Harris’ turn for the to the filmmakers and producers, half-heartedly wanted to do some- functions, information systems, kudos. But that’s not really what famous or not, who were there. thing overseas for some time, and corporate responsibility, real estate makes me jealous. Rather, it’s that I “And now, thanks to this book, the immediacy of the earthquake and taxes. thought I had a lock on that old ‘an- you can be jealous, too!” got me off the chair and into action. “Jay is a versatile executive who niversary year’ business … maybe My daughter, Elana (20), and I “Regards to various members has done a great job over the last my one great contribution to jour- visited New York in mid-May and of the Class of 1979 who have been several years and has helped me to nalism. (Many would say my ‘only’ decided to exercise my un-casted with me at virtually all stages of shape Disney’s strategic direction,” contribution.) You have to under- foot by touring the Columbia cam- my education: John Pagano and Disney President and CEO Robert stand, until I came up with it over pus. Unbeknownst to us, it was Tom Whelan (Saint Mel’s grammar A. Iger said. As part of this growth a couple of drinks with Mike Ruby Class Day and Commencement. school in Flushing); Joe Ferullo, strategy, Jay has overseen a major (then foreign editor of Newsweek) The day was spectacular and, to Ray Dorado, Tim Murphy ’79E, Jim expansion of Disney’s California and Mimi Sheils (business editor) conclude our Hollywood theme, Hagan and Marc Libidois (Fordham Adventure at Disneyland Resort, and Lynn Langway (arts editor) at the place looked like a movie set. Prep in the Bronx); Neville Alleyne, which culminates with the opening a steakhouse in Manhattan in 1983, Everything was first-class and Jack Garden and Rob Haber of Cars Land in 2012, and of Hong no big magazine had ever run one the tents, seats, temporary stands (Mount Sinai School of Medicine); Kong Disneyland, where work is of those now ubiquitous ‘that was and fences looked so much more and Rob Riederman (Albert Ein- under way on the creation of three the year that was’-style stories. upscale — may I say professional stein orthopedics). Now I don’t have original new lands. He also has led “Even though I left Newsweek — than in our day that it was like to go to all those other reunions!” negotiations with the Chinese gov- for Disney shortly after, Newsweek watching Avatar and the original Rolando T. Acosta recently was ernment to begin development of a continued working on a piece built Star Trek back to back. We had appointed by the chief judge to the new theme park in Shanghai. around 1968 and how it changed real soul in our days, but wow, New York State Commission on In addition to park expansion, history, only to be beaten to the they sure do things in style today. Judicial Conduct. Rolando was Jay has been the principal architect punch by Time magazine’s ‘Annus Anyway, kudos to alma mater, the elected to the New York City civil of the growth of the award-winning Mirabilus’ cover in 1988, looking place seems to be doing just fine. court in 1997. In 2001, he was named Disney Cruise Line, which is add- back to 1968 from the Martin Luther the acting Supreme Court justice to ing two new ships, Disney Vacation King assignation to the riots in Chi- preside over, and spearhead the Club and Adventures by Disney. Prior cago to Nixon’s election. Of course, Robert Klapper creation of, the Harlem Justice Cen- to becoming head of Disney Parks today everyone’s doing it, from U.S. 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 ter, a multi-jurisdictional problem- and Resorts in 2002, Jay greatly im- News & World Report’s recent ‘1957: 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 solving court. The following year, proved the operating performance The Year that Changed America’ 79 he was elected to the Supreme [email protected] of Disneyland Paris, now the No. 1 to Newsweek’s finally running my Court, and in 2008, he was ap- tourist destination in Europe. ‘1968’ issue last year, 40 years later! Congratulations to Frank Aquila, pointed an associate justice of the Jay has been an advocate for the “Actually, I can’t take too much who recently was elected a member Appellate Division, First Depart-

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ment. Prior to becoming a judge, ible voice (the previous singer had Well this time out, you leave me no ever-dangerous Dr. Donald F. Fer- Rolando held various positions sounded like a dying raccoon). This choice. Submissions are few and guson. Donald is a Kenpo Karate within the Legal Aid Society, includ- American Idol find of ours was none uncharacteristically economical. black belt and four-year student ing attorney in charge of the Civil other than Suzanne Vega. What a I’m forced to include an item from of Krav Maga, a particularly lethal Division in the Brooklyn Neighbor- memory! Let me know if you have Ed, if only to hold off the Class of martial art also known as Israeli hood Office and director of com- a special Columbia memory (and I ’80 from inching into our beloved jujitsu. For those of you who are munity relations. He also served as don’t mean herpes). space. Take this as a warning. This new to blood sports, Krav Maga deputy commissioner for law en- time out you’ll hear from Ed; next is used by the IDF Special Forces forcement and, subsequently, first time I may be forced to recount any units, and several closely related deputy commissioner of the Com- Michael C. Brown number of Pundyk family dinner variations have been developed mission on Human Rights. Rolando London Terrace Towers conversations. and adopted by law enforcement is the immediate past president of 80 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F So, what’s up with Ed? He and intelligence organizations the Association of Judges of His- 80 New York, NY 10011 recently was appointed chair of including the Mossad, Shin Bet, the panic Heritage, sits on the Board of [email protected] the regulatory subcommittee of FBI, SWAT units of the NYPD and Advisers of the Louis Stein Center the American Bar Association’s United States special operations for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law Thank you to all who attended Committee on Institutional Inves- forces. Rumor has it that this mar- School and is a fellow of the New Alumni Reunion Weekend in June tors. Ed is general counsel at the tial art was developed in response York Bar Foundation. and to all who contributed to our University of Virginia Investment to a group of soldiers being fed Jeff Tolkin and his wife, Laurie, reunion Class Gift. The Reunion Management Co. Or so he claims. kasha varnishkes, which was so celebrate their 32nd anniversary Committee did a fantastic job put- Vladimir Berezansky Jr. became lacking in flavor that several of this year. “We continue to live on ting together a wonderful week- the head of compliance for VTB them became enraged and struck Long Island in the town next to end, and it was great to reconnect Capital in Moscow. Vlad is returning out viciously at the barrack’s cook. the one where we both grew up with classmates after 30 years to Moscow from Geneva, where he When pressed on the martial and are still happily in love after away from alma mater. headed compliance for the Russia/ arts issue by yours truly, Donald all these years. All three of our [Editor’s note: Because of CCT’s CIS region at a major Swiss bank. responded: “I am hoping the UFC children are gainfully employed, publishing schedule, reports from You can follow Vlad at his (stub- starts a division for overweight which in this economy is some- reunion will be published in the bornly English-language) blog: people 50 or older. I am really thing for which we are grateful September/October issue.] www.nashagazeta.ch. looking forward to using every- (Michelle ’09 Business works at Dion Kekatos was back on cam- Marc B. Mazur, chair of Elswor- thing I learned in Contemporary American Express). Remarkably, pus; he is a partner at Seeger Weiss thy Capital Management, has been Civilization. I would first engage my travel business (World Travel in New York City. He has signifi- appointed director of Fibrocell Sci- my 50-plus-year-old, overweight Holdings) is going strong. We cant experience in civil litigation ence, a biotechnology company. opponent in a Socratic Dialogue distribute cruises and villas. These and has handled many complex Kevin Fay reports that two of and then pounce when he least two verticals are the best values in cases on both the federal and state his daughters had graduations this expects it. Just like a CC professor.” travel these days, and that is a key level. A lifelong New Yorker, Dion year: Courtney from UVA and Em- In between workouts, Donald element to our success. For anyone has served in various roles for ily from Episcopal H.S. Courtney recently managed to become CTO, interested, go to CruisesOnly.com the U.S. Attorney in the Southern is going to stay in school, as she distinguished engineer and e.v.p. for cruises and VillasofDistinction. District. has been accepted to the Curry of CA (formerly known as Com- com for villas. The villa business, Phil Adkins checked in from School of Education at UVA. Emily puter Associates). while much smaller in scale than London, where he runs Cadenza is going to start in the fall at James A big congratulations on this is the cruise business, is a really cool International, which provides Madison University. clearly in order! I did a little back- business and is exploding. While investment banking and corporate Daniel Gordis reports from ground checking and also discov- most of our business is either fami- finance advice specialized to com- Israel: “My Saving Israel: How the ered that Donald earned a Ph.D. in lies or groups of friends wanting to panies in the Far East. Jewish People Can Win a War that computer science from Columbia in travel together, this year alone, we I urge you all to make it to Baker May Never End recently won the 1989, was appointed an IBM Fellow have booked a singing star, a num- Field this fall to watch the football 2009 National Jewish Book Award.” in 2001, chief architect for IBM’s ber of NFL stars, numerous other team play. Coach Norries Wilson So, all, you’ve been amply Software Group and was named by celebrities and a king. We called and his staff have done a fine job warned. This issue you heard from ChannelWeb one of “25 Technology the king’s assistant to ask how they with player development, and we Ed. Send copious and verbose Thought Leaders For 2010.” got to us, and she said Google. are excited about the prospect for updates to [email protected] Pretty impressive. I’m guessing Thomas Friedman has it right: The this season. or who knows what I may publish the clock on his microwave doesn’t world is flat, and the power of the Please feel free to drop me a line next … constantly blink 12:00. Internet and information is king!” at [email protected]. Keep those e-mails coming. Robert C. Klapper: Although Cheers! it has been three decades since we Andrew Weisman were tortured by this institution (I Jeff Pundyk 82 710 Lawrence Ave. mean that in a loving way, Peter 81 20 E. 35th St., Apt. 8D Westfield, NJ 07090 Roy Pomerantz Pouncey), I have a daily reminder New York, NY 10016 82 [email protected] 83 Babyking/Petking in my bedroom of those hallowed 81 182-20 Liberty Ave. [email protected] days. My wife has allowed me to Greetings, gentlemen. As I put digit 83 Jamaica, NY 11412 keep at home the simple oak stool It’s a sad state of affairs. A sad, sad to keyboard, the spring is turning to [email protected] where I sit and put my shoes and state of affairs, indeed. How sad? summer, the SEC is turning Gold- socks on every morning. This oak I’ve been writing this column for man, Tiger Woods is turning to golf If the nomination of Elena Kagan stool, which was recently repaired some years now and for all those (failing to qualify for a tournament (HLS ’86) to the Supreme Court is by my next door neighbor (the Bob years, Ed Klees has been pester- for the first time since 2005; his grip confirmed, I will have a law school Vila of Ventura, Calif.) is the same ing me to mention him. He’s tried doesn’t appear as steady, insert classmate on the Supreme Court. stool that Jack Garden and I used exaggerating things; he’s tried your inappropriate comment here President Barack Obama and to audition acts for the Furnald Folk outright making things up; he’s …), BP is turning the Gulf Coast Kagan both were members of the Fest during our senior year. We begged; he’s cried; he’s sworn any into an unprecedented ecological University of Chicago law school produced this show, as some of you number of blood oaths. And for disaster area and a young man’s faculty. Elena’s mother, Gloria may remember, and I will never all of those years I’ve managed to mind turns to thoughts of love; Kagan, taught my wife at Hunter forget the highlight of the auditions fend him off. How? Because I’ve it’s my anniversary today, 24 years elementary school/high school where a young Barnard student sat had so much other material that married to my beautiful wife, Jody in Manhattan, a feeder school for on that stool and with her very first there simply wasn’t enough room (née Abramowitz) ’84 Barnard. Columbia and Kagan’s second- words, Jack looked at me with eyes without encroaching on territory Seems like just a moment. ary school alma mater. While it is wide open listening to this incred- already ceded to the Class of ’82. Checking in this period, the humbling to have classmates like

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Kagan and Obama, it is also intel- her dad debated current events at of the decade, which will be a much tions, though I moved much of the lectually bonding to have shared in the dinner table. While other kids shorter entry. Latin material (and one African their academic experience. shopped and gossiped, Dakota was “I am an editor and writer who record) that had aspirations toward I spent most of April in China devouring books on science, math, has contributed freelance to the mainstream pop into the primary conducting business. Thomas history, literature, politics and busi- website Culture Catch, to CD NOW section, making these CDs eligible Friedman, The New York Times col- ness. I often traveled to business (back when it was independent and for Album of the Year. The year in umnist, is right: The world is flat. events and political speeches with had its own content) and to several music was not an outstanding one, After years of searching for several my home-schooled daughter in music publications you likely have but neither was it the weakest I day-old U.S. newspapers, I was tow. While other kids came home never heard of. have witnessed this decade. Some now able to instantly download to empty homes, Dakota’s mom, “A year overshadowed by the interesting pairings can be made (for 99 cents) the Times and Wall dad or both were there every day bizarre, pathetic and avoidable from the records in the survey, Street Journal on my Kindle. My to share meals and a bedtime kiss death of Michael Jackson on June 25 starting with the euphonious coin- BlackBerry provided immediate and prayer. While others were out also will be remembered for Kanye cidence that albums titled Ay Ay Ay access to e-mail. The new, five-star learning to drive so they could at- West’s gauche antics, interrupting and Hu Hu Hu both made the top- Ritz Carlton in Guangzhou (15 tend more parties or experimenting the MTV Video Music Awards 10 list. The survey contains two minutes from the biannual Canton with alcohol and drugs, Dakota presentation to Taylor Swift for best records from Philadelphia bands Fair) rivals any New York hotel. was practicing the sport she loves, female video to argue that Beyoncé (Espers and A Sunny Day in Glas- I used to survive on soup and fencing, with dedication, intensity deserved it more, and for the an- gow) and two from 6-foot female noodles at the Canton Fair. Dining and passion. The result? She became noying ubiquity of the Jonas Broth- singers from the United Kingdom, options now include Papa John’s, one of the elite junior fencers in ers and Miley Cyrus, not to mention one backed by a band (Florence McDonald’s and even a kosher America, winning the Pacific Coast certain moody vampire/werewolf Welch of Florence + the Machine) food court. Skype gave me a free Championship and representing the types on the silver screen. Bob and the other not (Imogen Heap). and instant audio and visual con- United States at World Cup events in Dylan released a Christmas album, There were two epic-scale produc- nection to my family. The factory I Germany and Austria. and WFMU listeners had numerous tions (Oneida’s triple-disc Rated visited in Guangzhou had wireless “Was all the discipline and sac- suggestions for song titles (‘Harsh, O and the Decemberists’ rock- Internet access. And the nonstop, rifice worth it? Recently, Dakota the Hard Old Angel Stings,’ ‘O operatic The Hazards of Love). Also, 15-hour flight from Newark to achieved her lifelong dream. She Little Ton of Deathlyphlegm,’ ‘I’ll Be two bands with Japanese names Hong Kong is a dream come true was accepted at both Harvard and Hoarse for Christmas’). Ken Freed- (Asobi Seksu and Nisennenmon- after decades of having to endure a Stanford. She also was accepted man, WFMU’s station manager, dai), two albums with national several-hour stopover in Tokyo. at Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke, threatened to keep playing tracks capitals (from opposite ends of I hired a driver to take me from Chicago, UC Berkeley, USC and from the Dylan record until listen- Eurasia) in their titles (Goodnight Guangzhou, China, to Hong Kong. several more of the elite schools ers donated a threshold amount to Oslo and Destination Tokyo), two The level of development in even in America, an unheard-of record the broadcaster. A sure sign of the from electronica-geek special- the most remote towns in southern for a home-school kid. At a time of apocalypse came toward the end ists (Étienne Jaumet and Thomas China is daunting. Some U.S. re- educational freefall, it is a remark- of the year, with the emergence of a Watkiss), and one CD from a wan porters claim China’s economy is a able story. With America’s public self-possessed, 15-year-old muskrat Air imitator (Au Revoir Simone) to bubble that will soon burst. I have school system ranked at or near the with blow-dried hair named Justin pair with the real thing (Air’s not spent the last 20 years building bottom of the industrialized world Bieber as the new teen heartthrob. very good Love 2). Several worth- partnerships with Chinese busi- (and Nevada near the bottom of In more considered news from 2009, while acts narrowly missed the top ness people and am awed by their that), with record dropout rates, blues/roots guitarist Elijah Wald 10 list, notably Regina Spektor’s work ethic, technological sophisti- grade inflation, violence, gangs, wrote a book, How the Beatles De- Far, Espers’s III and Nisennenmon- cation, entrepreneurial spirit and drugs, teen pregnancies, and the stroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative dai’s Destination Tokyo. At the other talent. Despite a highly flawed scandal of graduating high school History of American Popular Music. I end of the scale, particularly disap- government, China thrives based seniors requiring remedial math looked just at the eyebrow-raising pointing were Forro in the Dark’s on privatization, risk-taking, profit and reading before starting college, title chapter and thought it was Light a Candle, Asobi Seksu’s Citrus, incentive and industry. If we are to Dakota’s story offers hope. Dakota ridiculous. Whatever Wald’s merits Passion Pit’s Manners, and Peter compete, we need to examine the proves the American Dream is as a writer and musician, grotesque Bjorn and John’s Living Thing. In underlying basis for their success. alive, if only we’d stop depending overgeneralizations like ‘black the realm of retrospectives, the There continues, however, to be on government to save us. popular music is superior to white compilation of the music of Ethio- an unfortunate disconnect between “The sad reality is that teachers’ popular music’ (I am paraphrasing) pia’s Mulatu Astatke, New York- the economic growth in Asia and unions and government aren’t the ought not to stand unchallenged. Addis-London: The Story of Ethio Jazz political reform. This was most solution. They are the problem. Our Wald’s argument is that black musi- 1965-1975, will be a revelation to evident by the unrest in Bangkok, public schools get worse every year, cians typically had to scratch out a those (myself included) who had forcing me to cancel my trip there yet teachers’ unions demand more living in the industry and therefore never been exposed to his work, at the last minute. money. Dakota proves it doesn’t learned craftsmanship in songwrit- and the special expanded edition Wayne Allyn Root: “This is the take a state-certified teacher, or a ing. White musicians, by contrast, of Radiohead’s OK Computer with story that the teachers’ unions wish teachers’ union or a village to raise were given more resources through alternate takes and bonus tracks had never happened. This is the a child. It only takes two loving fatter recording contracts, enabling is well worth a hearing. In jazz, story that proves all their hysterical parents who give a damn. One them (from the Beatles onward) the new recordings by the Steve Leh- demands for more money are noth- home-schooled girl has driven a luxury of noodling around in the man Octet, the Vijay Iyer Trio and ing but a sham. This is the personal stake through the heart of the public studio, with detrimental effects on Medeski Martin & Wood stood story of my daughter, Dakota Root. school education sham. ‘Home the music by moving it away from out. The year in classical music saw In each of the books I’ve written, I’ve school to Harvard’ is a powerful its essence. Since I am not any kind noteworthy releases from the col- taken great care to acknowledge my story that every parent should be of a rock ’n’ roll fundamentalist, I lective Alarm Will Sound and from beautiful and brilliant little girl. allowed to offer their children.” do not buy this line of reasoning. Chen Yi, as well as a reconstruction “Dakota has been home-schooled Steve Greenfield: “I have posted “For the second year running, of the Ninth Symphony of the late since birth. While other kids spent my music survey for 2009 (and just I will list my top 10 pop/rock re- Alfred Schnittke by Alexander their school days being indoctrinated four months and a bit after the year cords (original releases only) here Raskatov. Album of the Year hon- to believe competition and winning ended!) on my blog, Permanent in order of preference. For 2009, ors go to Animal Collective for are unimportant, and that others Transience, http://permanentran I thought about eliminating the Merriweather Post Pavilion. Over the are to blame for their shortcomings sience.blogspot.com. Although it is Latin and ‘world’ (miscellaneous) course of the decade, this band has and failures, Dakota was learning exceedingly long (a new personal categories and grouping under the been growing in confidence while the value of work ethic, discipline, high of 66 CDs were reviewed this rubric of pop anything not jazz avoiding the pitfalls of hubris and sacrifice and personal responsibility. year), I hope you will click on the or classical. In the end, I decided pretension. It has also managed While other kids were becoming link and take a look. I will probably that there is still some usefulness to stay out of a creative rut, even experts at partying, Dakota and soon add my top 100 pop albums in maintaining separate classifica- as it continues to make music the

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same way it has all along — child- “text” and his guilty pleasure Inter- mittee. During the administration California lifestyle but still miss like, volatile, hard to pin down, yet view magazine. As our incarnation of President George W. Bush, he New York. I plan to come to the streaked with brilliance. The list of of Don Quixote, he warns of the served first as deputy assistant 30th reunion.” the top 10 follows: dangers and pitfalls of growing old for domestic policy, then general David Adler produced the “1. Animal Collective, Merri- in America and pities us all with “la counsel in the Office of Manage- NOVA documentary Mind Over weather Post Pavilion lucha de la vida.” But despite the ment and Budget, and finally, as Money (about behavioral econom- “2. Broadcast and the Focus physical pain and daily suffering he special envoy on human rights in ics), which aired on PBS on April 27. Group, Broadcast and the Focus Group endures since his stroke, his mind North Korea. The president of WGBH is Jonathan Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age is as active as ever, and he is no less Years earlier, Jay served as direc- Abbott, who also is a neighbor of “3. Zero 7, Yeah Ghost anxious to discuss current events tor of cabinet affairs and deputy Ben Pushner, who recently joined “4. Black Moth Super Rainbow, and the books he is reading. Over- executive secretary to the Domestic a Providence-based law firm, Rob Eating Us all, Professor Selig wishes to stay Policy Council for President Levine & Associates, which handles “5. Flight of the Conchords, I connected to Columbia and reach George H.W. Bush. primarily plaintiffs personal injury Told You I Was Freaky out to his beloved students. Jay was active in the Soviet Jewry and residential real estate in Rhode “6. The Fiery Furnaces, I’m Go- One such student, a London- movement and has represented the Island, Massachusetts and Con- ing Away based managing director at United States at the U.N. Human necticut. “I am admitted in all three “7. Matías Aguayo, Ay Ay Ay Morgan Stanley, recently surprised Rights Commission in Geneva, as states. Counsel referrals encouraged. “8. Metric, Fantasies him. “On a recent weekend visit well as at the International Confer- Commuting regularly to Providence “9. Natalia Lafourcade, Hu Hu Hu to NYC, John Travis reconnected ence on Anti-Semitism sponsored but still happy to be living in New- “10. Robyn Hitchcock & the with former adviser and professor by the Organization for Security ton, Mass., with my wife and fifth- Venus 3, Goodnight Oslo” Karl-Ludwig Selig over coffee on and Cooperation in Europe, in and seventh-grade daughters, and Michael Marzec, publisher and the Upper West Side. Swathed in a Berlin. He lives in New York with 2-year-old black lab mix we adopted COO of Smart Business Network, paisley silk scarf, the professor, true his wife, Elena Neuman, and their from a shelter when he was a puppy. attended the Journalism School and to form, traversed a wide range three children. Also happy to hear at any time from recently participated in his 25th of topics including Don Quixote, Gideon Rosen is delighted to classmates who are passing through J-School reunion. Michael encour- literary perspectives on border report that his daughter, Grace, Providence or Boston.” ages all classmates to check out his crossings, the importance of the will be joining the Class of 2014. Reggie Henderson, Phi Ep website, www.sbonline.com. In book in a digital age, memories of Gideon teaches philosophy at member and former school record- the past several years, SmartBusi- Kristallnacht, Barcelona, Bologna, Princeton, where he lives with holder in the pole vault, caught up ness has expanded from four to 19 London hotels and bookshops, his wife, Lisa; Grace; son, Simon, with us. His post-Columbia path publications. It specializes in local Richard Wagner, Arturo Toscanini, (Class of 2021?); and a fox terrier led back to Rochester to get an business-to-business management President Barack Obama ’83, The named Harvey Rosen, who is M.S. in computer science from RIT. publications offering management New York Review of Books, Columbia definitely not college material. Reggie then returned to NYC and strategies to build a successful bureaucracy and esteemed former Greg Deligdisch, v.p. of market- worked for a commodity trading corporate culture. The company is colleagues, including professors ing, Patina Restaurant Group, is firm, Mint Investment. Next it was in most major markets including Joseph Bauke, Wallace Gray and thrilled to have moved back to the off to Tokyo, where he worked for Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dal- Peter Pouncey. Upper West Side at the beginning of Mitsui, Citibank and finally finan- las and Philadelphia and has both a John, in turn, shared some high- April. After 17-plus years in Chel- cial risk management software and print and online presence catering lights of the years since graduation: sea, it feels good to be “back home,” advisory firm The Kamakura Corp. largely to mid-level executives. It yielding to the charms of GSAS or close to it, on beautiful Riverside (www.kamakuraco.com), where he has published feature stories on dropout Gabriela Herzog, swearing Drive in the low 90s. Now, V&T is is now a v.p. But not in Japan any- Wayne Huizenga (Blockbuster), Ted allegiance to The Queen and siring but a brisk 15 minute walk — not a more. Since starting with Kamakura Turner (CNN) and John Paul Dejo- two children, Maximilian ’11 and subway ride — away! in 1995 (in the seaside area around ria (Paul Mitchell). Cosima ’13. John moved from NYC After 15 years in a business Kamakura, Japan), Reggie has Michael has been married to to London in 1993 after practicing partnership, Richard Manion returned to his beloved Rochester Paula Huber, an accountant, for law at Sullivan & Cromwell and “left to start my own Los Angeles from where he telecommutes to the more than 21 years. Their daughter now is at Morgan Stanley, focusing architectural firm, Richard Manion new Kamakura Headquarters in Julie is a sophomore at the Univer- on raising equity for clients in Eu- Architecture. I continue to specialize Waikiki. Reggie is still pole vault- sity of Cincinnati. Their daughter rope, Africa and the Middle East. in luxury private residences, largely ing (including a recent jump of 12 Megan is a junior in high school Elsewhere on the Upper West on the West Coast, but also work in feet, 2 inches), and his son, Shawn, and interested in design. Side, John caught up with his New York and overseas. I have two also is a pole vaulter, leading the Looking forward to seeing you boarding school roommate Barak apartments at 15 Central Park West high school pack in Rochester and at some Columbia football games Zimmerman over smoked fish at the among my New York projects and hoping to attend Syracuse in 2011. this fall! renowned “Sturgeon King,” Barney 10 houses in Shanghai, in addition Reggie’s also finding a lot of fellow Greengrass. They walked off lunch to eight residences in California. It alumni on Facebook. with a reminiscent, 45-block stroll has been exciting to design apart- “N.J. Burkett, Channel 7, Eyewit- Dennis Klainberg down Broadway. Barak, who moved ments at 15 CPW, a building con- ness News” ... or as we know him, Berklay Cargo Worldwide back to the Upper West Side four ceived by a former mentor, Robert Newton J. Burkett, was able to take 84 JFK Intl. Airport years ago from Los Angeles, is a web A.M. Stern ’60, for whom I worked a moment from his extraordinarily 84 Box 300665 consultant with clients in entertain- in the mid-1980s. A monograph of busy and successful life to check Jamaica, NY 11430 ment, toys and healthcare. (Yes, he my work will be published in 2011 in. “I am still processing all that I [email protected] likes to play doctor.) He was looking by Images Publishing, as part of its witnessed in Haiti, where I spent a forward to summer, when he bikes New Classicist series in architecture, week on assignment after the earth- When Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig the city and canoes the Hudson. He and any interested classmates can quake. The scope of the destruction calls — and he is gracious enough says the water isn’t as toxic as it used view some of my projects at www. and human suffering was impos- to do so quite often, especially to to be. richardmanion.com.” sible to convey on television. Apart wish this writer a hearty “Good Mazel tov, Jay Lefkowitz and Madhu Alagiri checks in for the from 9-11, it may be the greatest Shabbos” each Friday afternoon — Julius Genachowski ’85, on being first time! “I went to medical school catastrophe I’ve ever seen.” my staff is instructed never to place awarded the 2010 Seixas Award and then onto a urology residency In addition to receiving Emmy him on hold and to ensure that I by Columbia/Barnard Hillel and in Philadelphia. After that, I took Award nominations this year drop everything, for, I can say with The Kraft Family Center for Jewish a pediatric surgical fellowship in (already a three-time winner in his absolute certainty, that whatever the Student Life. San Diego and stayed on at UC San career), N.J.’s station, WABC-TV, topic, he will share a lesson in life Jay is a senior litigation partner Diego as an associate professor of was honored with the coveted that will prove both remarkable and in the NYC office of Kirkland and surgery. I am married with girl-boy Edward R. Murrow Award from au courant, as if he were once again Ellis and a member of the firm’s twins (11) and a daughter (7). We the Radio Television Digital News teaching us with his passion for the Worldwide Management Com- have become used to the Southern Association for Newton’s coverage

july/august 2010 61 class notes columbia college today of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza at Columbia already. It is a truly unchanged since 1961, still boasting “I have never been to war, but the in January 2009. wild experience to participate as a its undulating lunch counter in streets of Port-au-Prince resemble N.J. lives in Long Island with parent in this process. butter cream Formica, while one sets for a bad war film. Rubble and his wife, Margy, and children, Jay block down, a warning shot across dust are everywhere. Two-story and Amanda. [Editor’s note: CCT the caffeinated bow of the neighbor- homes and businesses flattened. profiled Burkett in September/Oc- Everett Weinberger hood, was a doomed black-lacquer Others are severely damaged, tober 2006: www.college.columbia. 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B establishment with the almost leaning precariously into the streets edu/cct_archive/sep_oct06/cover. 86 New York, NY 10023 parodically striving name Crêpes or over the adjacent properties. Im- php.] 86 and Cappuccino. The owners had promptu, disorganized ‘tent’ cities [email protected] And this “just in” from Bill Reg- wrapped the sickly tree out front — little more than lean-to’s covered gio: “My son, Billy, is a sophomore By the time you read this, we’ll in bright blue fairy lights, which with sheets, plastic bags or pieces of at the Engineering School and is know how John Chachas did in illuminated the empty interior in a tarp — are strewn everywhere any having the time of his life. And, my the Nevada Republican U.S. Sen- dejected glow. It lasted less than a public square or roadside clearing daughter, Katie, was just accepted ate primary in June. In late April, year. The colossus towering over this once existed. Large piles of refuse to Columbia College! A true-blue I heard John speak at a fundraiser particular moment shuddering be- cover many corners. The stench Columbia family.” in Sam Katz’s beautiful apartment, tween decadence and recovery was assaults you quickly, making your joined by Michael Lustig. John is not Bartholdi’s Lady Liberty but the eyes and nostrils burn. Most heart- facing a competitive race for the first of Calvin Klein’s bronzed gods, breaking of all are the dazed facial Jon White Republican nomination in Nevada, high above Times Square. Leaning expressions. People look confused, 85 16 South Ct. especially from Sue Lowden, a for- back, eyes closed, in his blinding as though they had expected to have Port Washington, NY mer Nevada state senator and Miss white underpants against a sinuous already awoken from what must 85 11050 New Jersey. Whatever the outcome form in similarly white Aegean surely be just a bad dream. Many [email protected] John, we’re proud of you! plaster, his gargantuan, sleeping, survivors report feeling as though Ellen Bossert, a Columbia groinful beauty was simultaneously the world was coming to an end. I Although I am writing this column basketball star and inductee in the Olympian and intimate, awesome cannot imagine the end of the world before our 25th Alumni Reunion Columbia University Athletics Hall and comforting. Here was the city looking much worse. Weekend, you will be reading it of Fame, recently met with Governor in briefs: uncaring, cruelly beautiful “Work for the medical team after … so please be patient, as the Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacra- and out of reach.” started immediately. Baby Ebenezer next column will be chock-full of mento as part of the Green California Read the full piece here: http:// and his father, who had been wait- reunion updates. Summit. She leads the marketing nymag.com/news/features/64944/ ing since morning for the doctors, In the meantime, Judah Cohen area for Philips Color Kinetics in index1.html. met us at base. He was 1 month old, lives in Newton, Mass., outside of Burlington, Mass. The company severely dehydrated from diarrhea. Boston, with his wife, Sherri Cohen works with large-scale color “solid- His mother died three days post- (née Rabinovitz) ’91 Barnard; their state lighting” displays and fixtures. Sarah A. Kass partum, in the ‘evenment,’ or ‘event,’ daughter, Gabriella (14); and twin Ellen has an M.B.A. from Harvard. PO Box 300808 as the earthquake is called. We sons, Jordan and Jonathon (12). Congratulations to Michael 87 Brooklyn, NY 11230 took turns caring for him: gently, Judah works for AER doing climate- Mundaca for being appointed by 87 slowly, giving him anti-emetics [email protected] related research, consulting and President Barack Obama ’83 as and formula, even as we settled our seasonal forecasts. He also holds a assistant secretary for tax policy at As promised in the last issue, Annie belongings. His father, a widower research affiliate appointment in the the Treasury Department. Michael Fils-Aime Joseph has graciously at 24 with five other small children, civil and environmental engineering also served under Presidents Bill offered to share her reflections on looked almost as helpless. department at MIT. “One of the ac- Clinton and George W. Bush in the bringing her experience as a doc- “Over the next six days, there complishments of which I am most Treasury from 1995–2002, handling tor, a Haitian and a human to help was more of the same: children with proud is that I have received fund- international tax and electronic some of the many affected by the malaria and scabies, hunger and de- ing from both the U.S. and Russian commerce matters. In between Trea- earthquake. This is her story. hydration; pregnant women without governments for my new ideas and sury stints, he was a partner with “I was so busy when the news prenatal care whose hospitals had approach to seasonal forecasting. Ernst & Young in Washington, D.C. hit. Evening clinic was in full swing. been damaged or destroyed, whose Something hard to imagine back He collected three post-Columbia An earthquake seemed almost doctors were dead or off dealing when we were students at Colum- degrees: a master’s in philosophy ridiculous to me. My first thought with their own losses. We treated bia and Russia was the ‘evil empire.’ from Chicago, a law degree from was ‘Why Haiti?’ The last thing Haiti elderly diabetic and hypertensive I am in touch with David Avigan, UC Berkeley and master’s in law needed was another disaster — of patients who had not taken meds in Barry Kanner, Martin Moskovitz, from the University of Miami. any kind. No one had any idea how a month. The surgical team cleaned David Reich and Barry Schwartz,” Readers of New York magazine bad things were till later that night. wounds and changed dressings that Judah said. in March may have seen David “The next few sleepless nights had not been tended to for weeks. On the home front, I was privi- Rakoff’s essay in the “My First were spent in collective shock, glued “During the week, we saw an av- leged to attend Admitted Students New York” issue. Next to a photo to CNN. No word from family, erage of 300 patients a day, all with Day. Our son, Isaac ’14, went to of David as a freshman in John Jay friends — only silence greeted our multiple and varying complaints. an activities fair (where he signed was his essay about the dangerous persistent and futile cell phone The complaints we never heard, up for half a dozen activities on all but thrilling Columbia neighbor- attempts. Once the extent of the however, were of anxiety or depres- ends of the spectrum, from College hood of the early 1980s. I will leave catastrophe became clear, there was sion. Instead, patients reported Democrats and the Science Maga- you with an excerpt: no question — I had to go. The de- palpitations, chest pains, anorexia, zine, to the Marching Band and “New York in 1982 was only tails of when and how were quickly insomnia or vague abdominal dis- Glee Club), ate in Jay (we walked beginning to shake off the traces of decided. Gaskov Clergé Foundation, comforts (all signs of Post-Traumatic around on Jay 14 and Carman 7 — its Ford to City: Drop Dead near a nonprofit organization that I have Stress Disorder). In Haiti, it is not looked amazingly like it did nearly bankruptcy. Infrastructure was still worked with for years, would put acceptable to have anxiety or depres- 30 years ago), was entertained by a crumbling, the subways were still together a disaster mission, with ro- sion. It is perceived as weakness, and series of a cappella groups, took a covered in graffiti. The term yuppie tating groups of medical profession- one cannot afford weakness in the coach bus tour around Manhattan, would not be commonplace for an- als, one week each. Local lodging face of all the devastation and death. returned for a midnight run to the other few years (and it would be at and transportation were secured. “Our mobile clinic traveled to var- Spectator offices and Koronet Pizza, least that amount of time before the Having participated in previous mis- ious areas in Port-au-Prince, seeking slept with two other students in a city opened its first Banana Republic sions to Haiti’s southern province, I out tent cities and communities that room on Jay 6 and texted us at 3:20 or Cajun restaurant to clothe and felt I would be prepared for what lay were off-radar to the global media. a.m. He came home the next day, feed them). Coffee still meant a pa- ahead. I was comfortable with work- This is the work that GCF has been having heard David Helfand and per cupful from Chock Full O’Nuts. ing under less-than-pristine condi- doing in Haiti, on a yearly basis, several other presentations, com- There was a remaining franchise at tions. Nothing could have prepared for the last 11 years. Our clinic was menting that he was missing being 116th Street and Broadway, probably me for the devastation. usually a makeshift tent, or church,

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or school. Every neighborhood in of Ireland, Galway, and the National Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld also prompted the move, Ethan says Port-au-Prince is affected. Everyone University of Ireland, Maynooth, wrote in: “I married Howard Wies- simply, “I think it was just time. My knows someone who has died. All where I am a visiting scholar. My re- enfeld ’87L and went on a five- wife is from Berkeley as well, and essentials are in short supply. Relief cent publications include Anarchism month honeymoon. When we the fact that my employer turned is still only trickling in. Some areas and Utopianism (co-edited with Ruth returned, I went back to Columbia out to be flexible, enabling me to have been wholly ignored. Our Kinna), The New Utopian Politics of to get my Ph.D. in management stay in publishing, made everything teams did the best we could, saw as Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed from the B-School and then moved possible.” many as could make it to the clinics, (co-edited with Peter Stillman) and downtown to join the faculty of the I also caught up with Amy working till near dusk. numerous articles and book chapters Stern School of Business at NYU. I Weinreich Rinzler, who is also “It has taken me a while to tran- on anarchist and utopian political was promoted to tenured associate vacating New York City along sition back to life as a busy ob/ thought, ecological and post-capi- professor in 2002 and then full with her husband, Brad, daughter, gyn. All the usual politics of the talist politics, and the politics of art, professor in 2008 and was blessed Sophie, and son, Brody, to nearby day seem banal. Minor complaints work and love. I live in Dublin.” with four terrific kids along the Chappaqua, N.Y. seem selfish. I keep imagining Nikos Anreadis sent the follow­ way. One of the best things about I apologize for such a short how the people in the tents are ing update: “I graduated from being at Stern is the time I get to column this issue, but many of you coping each time it rains, how Boston University Law School, spend with Ellen Pluta, who teaches have been a bit … um … elusive? many have become ill from pneu- then spent three years as a pension there along with me and is much You know who you are. monia, tuberculosis or worse. consultant at Deloitte & Touche. I’ve beloved by our students, and Sha- “The story of Haiti and the earth- been running my family’s private ron Koren, who is only one block quake is one of overwhelming mortgage and real estate business away at Hebrew Union College. Rachel Cowan Jacobs destruction and crippling losses. It since 1995. I married Yvonne Knapp This fall is going to be a double 313 Lexington Dr. also is the story of people who are ’90 in 1996, and we have a daughter, Columbia homecoming for me: 90 Silver Spring, MD 20901 resilient and brave, having been Sophia (10), and a son, Georgie (8).” My oldest daughter, Yael, will be 90 [email protected] dealt blow after blow, by man and James Friedman keeps connected joining the Class of 2014, and I will by nature. People are homeless with alma mater. After graduating, be back on campus at the Business In the world of Class Notes, it’s and afraid, but they wake up every he worked for a few years and then School for a one-year sabbatical. wedding season. Congratulations morning and look for reasons to returned to campus to attend the “Ellen: Now that I have ratted and best wishes go out to two push forward and try to improve Business School, graduating in 1995. you out, you have to send your classmates. Margaret Flynn and their lives. I feel very privileged to Since then, he has been on Wall own updates to CCT! Sharon: Dave Robinson were married in be Haitian and to have been able to Street, first at Goldman Sachs and Congratulations. I can’t wait to buy July 2009 at the beach in Bay Head, serve those that deserved it most. I for the last five years at SIG (known your book! Fellow CC ’88ers: Over N.J. Their son, Carson (2), played hope to return soon, to continue the for options trading). James lives on the next year or so, if it is a nice ring bearer. Many Columbians work that is so desperately needed.” the East Side of Manhattan with sunny day, and you find yourself were in attendance, including Liz his wife, Alison, and sons, William in Morningside Heights, come and Sieczka and Jim Felakos ’92, Gabri- and Jack. They regularly attend CC join me on the Steps, and don’t el Kra, Steve and Jenny Thomp- Abha Jain Sinha cultural and sports events, such as forget your sunglasses!” son Harvey, Karena O’Riordan, 9633 Eagle Ridge Dr. Spring Kids Reading at Alma Mater Enjoy summer days ahead, fel- Michael Behringer ’89, Lisa Dab- 88 Bethesda, MD 20817 and an occasional football game or low CC’ers. ney and Craig Nobert, Sean Ryan, 88 Homecoming. He mentioned that he Brian Kennedy, Kirsten Mellor, [email protected] is always interested in reconnecting and Steven and Laura Schiele Summer is here, and the Columbia with folks! Emily Miles Terry Robinson. [See photo.] campus looks beautiful! On a recent Alex Wallace Creed is really 89 45 Clarence St. Joel Tranter and Mia Houter- visit, my kids were amazed at the enjoying her involvement with the Brookline, MA 02446 mans were married in December flurry of activity and vibrant energy College’s Board of Visitors. She 89 in Mendocino, Calif., and in March [email protected] surrounding the Steps. I was delight- says, “There are a lot of interesting hosted a party in Berkeley to cel- ed to hear from many of you this time. things going on at the school, and Fortunately for this column, I have ebrate. Joel and Mia live in Berkeley, Salma Hasan Ali is a freelance I am constantly reminded what a a CCT scoop because I heard from where they grew up. At their party, writer based in Washington, D.C. special place it is.” Ethan Nosowsky, whose career in I caught up with Brian Timoney, She recently went to Pakistan with Craig Blackmon’s wife, Tiffany book publishing I have followed Dan Sackrowitz, Judy Shampanier Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three McDermott ’87 Barnard, wrote in for years. Ethan was a longtime and Chihiro (Adam) Wimbush. Cups of Tea, and humanitarian Todd that “Craig has created a novel busi- editor at Farrar Straus and Giroux, After graduation, Chihiro spent Shea, and has written about their ness model for Washington State, one of the country’s most presti- more than a decade producing work. Salma writes about cross- a lawyer handling your real estate gious publishing houses. He’s now and performing music as a D.J. cultural issues, U.S.-Muslim world transaction. He named the business editor-at-large at Graywolf Press, an and musician in the Bay Area, then relations and people making a dif- Walawreality. Super-busy when independent literary publisher, as moved into radio as host of the ference. Her personal essay, “Paki- the man you work for is the man in well as a consultant for the Creative world electronic music program, stan on the Potomac,” appeared the mirror. In Seattle, we don’t get Capital Foundation, where he runs Your Blue Room. More recently, Chi- in Washingtonian magazine (www. to see many Columbia grads, but their Innovative Literature grant hiro transitioned to film, helping washingtonian.com/articles/ we have a cool ski house at Mount program. Of the Literature grant produce films by Asian-American people/10466.html), and her articles Ranier and would love visitors.” program, Ethan writes, “Creative directors including Wayne Wang have been published in newspapers Patrick Crawford updated us as Capital Foundation mixes venture and directing his own short nar- and magazines around the world. follows: “I got an M.A. in philosophy capital concepts and applies them to rative film, Double Features, which Laurence Davis writes, “Follow- (studying with Richard Rorty) and the creative field, traditional grant has played to festival audiences in ing my graduation from Columbia a J.D. at the University of Virginia. I making and artist services — grants Austin, Vancouver, Los Angeles, College, I spent two years working then practiced tax law with Shear- average around $35,000. They’ve San Francisco and Oregon. on the legislative staff of U.S. Senator man & Sterling in San Francisco been around for 10 years and Chihiro is focused on producing John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). before joining the faculty/staff at are best known in the visual and a diverse range of documentary I then moved to England, where I Stanford Law School as a Law and performing arts world.” But after films. He has shot art installations completed my doctoral degree at Business Fellow. I then became an 18 years in New York City, Ethan is in gallery spaces and traveled to a Oxford with a thesis on the political assistant professor at American Uni- returning to San Francisco where remote field of dreams in Cambodia thought of the English poet, artist versity School of Law. Since moving he grew up, along with his wife, to video its first national baseball and craftsman, and revolutionary back to California — Los Angeles — Cristina Mueller (also in publish- team. For the past two years, Chi- socialist William Morris. I have since I have taught and am now in private ing and a former editor for Lucky hiro has been working on a project taught politics and sociology at Ox- practice with a boutique firm, The magazine). He’ll continue working called Redemption, documenting ford, Ruskin College, University Col- Brager Tax Law Group, doing tax for Graywolf and Creative Capital homeless shopping cart recyclers in lege Dublin and National University controversy work.” from there. As for what exactly West Oakland, their lives and the

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supplement the great footage he programs, including assistance to already has. He also is looking for Haitian immigrants in Westchester backers. Check out www.The County and counseling for students StreakStartsNow.com and http:// interested in public interest careers. roarlions.blogspot.com. Jennifer and her husband, Andy, That’s all for now. Summertime live in Irvington, N.Y., with their is here. Hope you enjoy it! Until children, Sophie (6) and Lucas (4). next time … cheers! Jennifer is in touch with Alyson Berliner, Adam Conner-Sax and Scott Levine, all of whom live in the Jeremy Feinberg New York area and whom she tries 315 E. 65th St. #3F to see as often as she can. Jennifer 92 New York, NY 10021 also is in touch with Seth Pinsky, 92 who was appointed president of the Margaret (Flynn) Robinson ’90 and Dave Robinson were married in jeremy.feinberg@ verizon.net NYC Economic Development Corp. July 2009 at the beach in Bay Head, N.J. Their son, Carson (2), was ring in February 2008. Seth stepped into bearer. Many Columbians were in attendance, including (front row, left The streak of full mailbags con- this new role just seven months to right) Jim Felakos ’92, Liz Siecska, Jenny Thompson Harvey ’90, the tinues. Thank you all so much for before the collapse of Lehman bride, the groom, Kirsten Mellor ’90 and Laura Schiele Robinson ’90; writing in! Oddly enough, all of the Brothers ushered in the ensuing and (back row, left to right) Steve Harvery, Gabriel Kra ’90, Rosemary updates, except for my own, came economic downturn. Since then, Hugh, Karena O’Riordan ’90, Michael Behringer ’89, Lisa Dabney ’90, from the West Coast. Let’s get to it. he has worked to reevaluate the Sean Ryan ’90, Brian Kennedy ’90 and Steven Robinson. I received the good news that agency’s strategy for expanding the Sean Rodgers found his name on city’s economy and redouble exist- neighborhood battle to shut down Side with our daughters, Abby and the Investor’s Daily Digest’s “Forty ing efforts to position the city as the the recycling center they use as a Chloe.” Under Forty” list this year. Sean, a international center for innovation. lifeline. The filming is nearly com- After a long two years of plan- corporate partner at Simpson Th- Lots of “congratulations” are pleted, and the production team ning and construction, Christopher acher, has been with the law firm due to our classmates. On the baby is fundraising for postproduction. (Glover) Mehta, her husband, Salil since December 1995, after attend- news front, Jennifer told me that To find out more or to support this Mehta, and their three children ing law school at UC Berkeley. Nina Abraham recently had a baby, project, e-mail chihiro_wimbush@ moved into their new apartment First-time correspondent Bon- and I heard from Thad Sheely yahoo.com. To watch a sample from on Riverside Drive. They say it’s nie (Carlson) Solmssen wrote to that he and his wife, Gabby, had a Redemption and other projects, check nice to be so close to Columbia tell of her first Columbia alumni second son, Nicholas, on April 15, out http://kpacific.wordpress.com. again. Christopher and her older event: a “clean the beach” event in to keep brother Ben company. Thad Chihiro lives in San Francisco children, Anjali and Rohan, trav- Venice Beach, Calif. Bonnie is tak- has an exciting year ahead of him, and misses New York City from eled to Kenya in December 2009 ing a break from her career as an as the New York Jets will be playing time to time. to attend Eme Essien’s wedding. architect to raise her twins (4), who in their new stadium this fall. I hope everyone enjoyed their It was an amazing trip that started pitched in at the alumni event. On the wedding front, Rohit time at reunion. It was a whole lot with seeing many animals on safari Staying with West Coast devel- “Rit” Aggarwala married Elizabeth of fun to see so many people. More and culminated in the beautiful opments, I heard from Robert Haga Robilotti ’99 on April 10 at St. Pat- about the weekend in the next col- wedding ceremony. Alethia Jones ’92E. Robert and his wife, Apryl rick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. Rit umn. Until then, happy summer. also attended and joined the Mehta von Arlt, are the proud parents of was the director of long-term plan- crew for part of the safari in the son Dashiell Beckett, born on Febru- ning and sustainability in the Office Masai Mara. Christopher also has ary 19 in San Francisco. Dashiell of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Margie Kim been busy volunteering at her kids’ was welcomed home by sister Ava overseeing plans for the city’s c/o CCT schools, Brearley and Mandell, but Olivia (3). Congratulations! infrastructure and environment. 91 Columbia Alumni Center is looking forward to her next big Finally, my own news. I am ex- He also was Bloomberg’s chief 91 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 project (TBD). cited to report that I will be return- adviser on environmental policy. New York, NY 10025 Alexander Rivkin went to Yale ing to the Columbia campus this Rit stepped down from the position margiekimkim@ medical school and did his residency fall as a professor. I’ve been asked in June to move to California with hotmail.com at UC San Diego. He runs an aesthet- by the Law School to join its adjunct Elizabeth, who began a fellowship ic medicine practice in Los Angeles faculty and teach an ethics and in infectious diseases at Stanford Hello to all! I wasn’t sure if I’d have and has been living there for seven professional responsibility course University Medical Center in Palo anything for this column, but I years, enjoying the sunshine. He to second- and third-year law Alto, Calif., in June. Though Rit and received some great updates at the misses the energy of New York and students. My father was a professor Elizabeth spent many years on the last minute. visits several times a year. Alex- (of physics) at Columbia for many Columbia campus, they did not Chad Sweet wrote: “After leav- ander hopes to make his practice years, so it feels especially good to meet until 2002, when they were ing the government as chief of staff bi-coastal, with offices in Manhattan have a “Professor Feinberg” back both on the Board of Directors of of the Department of Homeland and Los Angeles. He keeps in touch on campus. I’ll keep you posted on the Columbia College Alumni As- Security, I co-founded the Chertoff with Julia Rosen (now Swift), Tina how it goes. sociation. Group (www.chertoffgroup.com) Wolfson and Josh Saltman as well Seth Rockman is an associate with former secretary Michael as a surprising number of Columbia professor of history at Brown, Chertoff. We’ve grown from two alums in L.A., thanks to the alumni Betsy Gomperz where he is a specialist in revo- people and one office to 28 people network. 41 Day St. lutionary and early republic U.S. (including the former director of Marty Huberman has an excit- 93 Newton, MA 02466 history, with a focus on the rela- the NSA and CIA, a former U.K. ing new project in the works. For 93 tionship of slavery and capitalism [email protected] defense minister and a former head all of us who remember when “The in American economic and social of Britian’s MI-6) with offices in Streak” was broken (and for those I know my last column was a short development. In April, Seth was Washington, D.C., New York and who don’t), you will be interested one, so thank you to everyone who selected by the Organization of London. Also, I’m really proud to know that Marty, an award- wrote in and provided me with American Historians to receive the of my wife, Julie Spellman Sweet winning filmmaker, is producing a updates this time! 2010 Merle Curti Award, which is ’92L, who left Cravath as partner feature documentary on the ’88 CU Jennifer Friedman is director of given annually for the best book to become the general counsel and football team. It’s titled The Streak the Public Interest Law Center at published in American social or third-highest corporate officer of Starts Now, and is in the planning Pace Law School in White Plains, intellectual history, for his book, Accenture, a Global Fortune 500 stages. Marty is looking for photos N.Y., where she is the first person to Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, company. Julie and I live in NYC and/or film from the game and hold the position and is respon- and Survival in Early Baltimore. Seth near Columbia on the Upper West the celebration after the game to sible for creating new pro bono will spend the 2010–11 academic

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Michael Goldwasser ’93 Drops the Beat

B y Jo n a t h a n Le m i r e ’01

rabbi’s son walks into “Being at Columbia was compilations albums. They’d response from rock or Floyd a recording studio great for me as a musician, not carry the boxes of CDs to small fans, but even those Floyd fans and makes a reggae just because of the academic record stores in Brooklyn and who told us they wanted to version of a Beatles side, though I did take quite a the Bronx and slowly began hate it, couldn’t,” he says. Aalbum. few music classes, but also be- to make inroads in the reggae “I’m not suggesting that the No, that’s not the set-up to a cause it kept my career alive,” world, even though their leader Easy Star versions are likely to joke. That’s the life of Michael says Goldwasser, an urban didn’t exactly look the part. eclipse the originals, but I can’t Goldwasser ’93, one of reggae’s studies major who formed the “I don’t think the fact that stress enough how ingenious most successful — and perhaps R&B band Special Request after I’m Jewish and not Jamaican they are in and of themselves,” least likely — producers. arriving on Morningside Heights. held me back,” Goldwasser says Cooper, now a national Goldwasser, the driving force Goldwasser, who spent two says. “I was already somewhat correspondent for The New behind Easy Star Records (www. years hosting shows on WKCR, known as ‘Mikey the White York Times. “Dub Side of the easystar.com), has received wild performed relentlessly in clubs. Guitarist’ in music circles so I Moon is an amazing, pains- acclaim for releasing reggae- He vividly remembers playing had that credibility already. And takingly thought out concept flavored song-by-song covers at the now-defunct Wetlands in reggae stars are down-to-earth, album that I think would stand of three classic rock albums. 1994 and asking for the score humble people, people who on its own for a listener who Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the of that night’s New York Knicks- were not getting rich quick, and had never heard Pink Floyd.” Moon turned into Dub Side of Houston Rockets NBA Finals they weren’t judging me.” The album sold an impres- the Moon. Radiohead’s OK Com- game, only to be informed of the “What has been astonishing sive 160,000 copies worldwide. puter morphed into an album O.J. Simpson police chase that about Michael’s reggae career Easy Star found similar suc- named Radiodread. And last had just captivated the nation. is the speed with which he was cess in 2006 with Radiodread, year Goldwasser produced his welcomed and taken which Rolling Stone praised for most ambitious project yet: The seriously by many its “innovative arrangements Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely of reggae’s greatest and attention to detail.” Hearts Club Band became Easy artists,” says Michael Snagging a cult following, Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band. Cooper ’93, who was Easy Star launched a touring “I wasn’t intimidated by The in Goldwasser’s first band and acquired a famous fan: Beatles, and their fans knew I’d band, The Feds. “Any New York City Mayor Michael treat their music with respect,” man-bites-dog sense Bloomberg’s daughter Emma, Goldwasser says. “We just, about Michael playing who asked the group to play at shall I say, have a slightly differ- reggae seems to fade her wedding. ent interpretation.” when people hear his Goldwasser, who has also Goldwasser was born in music and realize that written original compositions West Virginia, but his parents he is the real deal.” for TV shows such as CSI: — including his father, the Easy Star’s big Crime Scene Investigation and rabbi — moved the family to break came in 1999, movies such as Woody Allen’s New York when Michael was when Goldwasser was Cassandra’s Dream, tackled 7. Immediately, music became convinced to try a history’s biggest band for his a major part of Goldwasser’s reggae version of Pink third tribute album, which was life, and his jazz-loving parents Floyd’s iconic album, released last year. claim he began writing songs Reggae producer Michael Goldwasser ’93 Dark Side of the Moon. “Radiohead has said very soon after he learned to talk. with David Hinds of Steel Pulse. “We were mak- nice things about our work, “Music was always there, PHOTO: Courtesy of Michael Goldwasser ’93 ing great traditional which is very satisfying,” says and by the time I was 15, I Jamaican reggae but Goldwasser, who lives on a kib- started performing at clubs in But Goldwasser’s heart selling, at best, a few thousand butz an hour north of Tel Aviv, New York City,” Goldwasser thumped to a reggae beat, and copies,” Goldwasser says. “We Israel, with his wife, Ami, and says. “My parents were very he soon quit a clerical job at had to try something different. 2-year-old daughter, Tali, and supportive. They knew I was a Metropolitan Hospital to pool “At first, I was skeptical [and] runs his business remotely. good kid, and they knew that resources with a few friends I knew the album only inciden- “I haven’t heard from any- even if I was playing at a bar, I — each donating $1,000 — to tally. But I came up with a few one in the Beatles camp yet,” wasn’t going to get in trouble. start a new label, which took basic arrangements, listened he says, chuckling, “but I would “Actually, my father drove me the name Easy Star. and thought ‘This might work.’ ” love to get a phone call from to most of my shows,” he says “It was not my life’s dream Using the stage name Mi- Paul McCartney.” with a laugh, “because I couldn’t to sit in an office and wear a chael G, Goldwasser took years take my guitar on the subway.” tie,” he said. “We complained to slowly craft the album, using To hear Easy Star cover The Columbia’s location in the about the dearth of quality reg- traditional Jamaican instru- Beatles, go to www.college. city, just a few subway stops gae at the time, and we decid- ments and rhythms yet faithful- columbia.edu/cct. away from Greenwich Village’s ed to do something about it.” ly maintaining the songs’ struc- thriving music scene, made The friends started amassing ture and spirit. It was released Jonathan Lemire ’01 is a staff Goldwasser’s college choice a tracks that had never received by Easy Star in 2003. writer for the New York Daily simple one. a proper release and produced “We expected a negative News.

july/august 2010 65 class notes columbia college today year at the Huntington Library to as the second-in-command. He then ’98E and Aimee Shaw ’99). I wish many updates. And I am hoping to write a new book for University of spent two years at U.S. News and I could share the photo with you, see Rachel’s award-winning per- Chicago Press about shoes, shov- World Report, where he reported but CCT only prints photos with formance someday. els, hats and hoes manufactured from Pakistan after 9-11 and from a alumni in them, and future alums Here’s another update from Shazi in the North for use on Southern dozen U.S. states, covering the 2000 don’t count. Visram: “My husband, Joe, and I slave plantations. Florida recount, poverty issues and On April 2, Jacie (Buitenkant) had our first human happy baby Finally, congratulations to Brian scandals in the Catholic Church. He Jacobowitz and her husband, Sander, on January 31. His name is Zane Yorkey and Tom Kitt ’96, who won then headed to the Philadelphia In- became the proud parents of twin Amirali Visram Kulak. And the little the Pulitzer Prize in the drama cate- quirer, where he covered City Hall. boys. Max Devin weighed 8 lbs., feller is so sweet and happy. We live gory for their play, Next to Normal, Last year, Mike’s first book, One 5 oz., and Tyler Eric weighed 7 lbs., in Jersey City with our other son, which was found to be a “distin- Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the 3 oz. Everyone is doing well. Jacie with fur, Willy, and are loving how guished play by an American au- New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, works in compliance at Moody’s different life is with a baby.” thor, preferably original in its source Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Investors Service and lives in New More great news: Jenn Kaufman and dealing with American life.” Food, a critically acclaimed exam- Jersey with her family. and her husband, William Haft, ination of America’s mania for In professional news, Adrian Sas recently celebrated the arrival of pets, was published. He spent is the creator, producer and director Aaron Kaufman-Haft. Aaron was Leyla Kokmen two years on the project. [Editor’s of It’s My Park, a weekly documen- born on April 21, weighing 7 lbs., 7 94 440 Thomas Ave. S. note: CCT featured this book in tary series about New York City’s oz.; measuring 20 inches; and sport- Minneapolis, MN 55405 September/October 2009: www. parks, museums and recreational ing an adorable coif. Jenn, William 94 college.columbia.edu/cct/sep_ facilities, showing on NYC TV and their dog, Anderson, moved [email protected] oct09/bookshelf2.] His freelance Channel 25. The series, now in its to Chicago in fall 2008 and settled Some of our classmates have been work has appeared in Slate, The sixth season, highlights the city’s into a cute house in Lincoln Park a in the news lately: New Republic, The Daily Beast, The parks system; segments also stream month before Aaron’s arrival. Karthik Ramanathan, who has Washington Monthly, The Washing- on the Parks Department’s website And there’s still more great been overseeing the Treasury De- ton Post, The Boston Globe, New York which Adrian helped design: www. news, but not really baby-related. partment’s office of debt manage- Press, Obituary Magazine, Philadel- nyc.gov/parks/video. Recently, I checked in with the ment, announced that he is stepping phia and Men’s Journal. Congratulations are in order for hardest working international rock down from this post in order to Mike and his wife, Keltie Hawk- Marissa Greenberg, who updated star in our class, Scott Hoffman, return to the private sector. Karthik ins, have a daughter, Eleanor, who us for the first time to say she has aka Babydaddy, whose band, Scis- joined the Treasury Department in will be 3 in August. received a National Endowment sor Sisters, is about to release its July 2005. Before that, he worked for “I’m looking forward to recon- for the Humanities Faculty Grant third full-length album. Here’s Goldman Sachs. necting with Columbia cronies in to work on her book, Metropolitan what Scott had to say: “Been in Amanda Peet welcomed her sec- D.C.,” Michael writes. Tragedy, 1567–1667. An assistant the studio for most of the 2½ years ond child on April 19 in New York. English professor at the University since we got off the road from the Molly June joins sister Frances. of New Mexico, Marissa’s book last one. We got our buddy Stuart On the more personal news front, Ana S. Salper will focus on how dramatic trag- Price to co-produce this one (he I caught up with Ayanna (Parish) 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA edy from Shakespeare to Milton had just done Madonna’s Confes- Thompson and her family on a 96 Brooklyn, NY 11201 grappled with changes in London. sions on a dance floor and the Killers’ recent trip to Arizona. Ayanna is 96 She says: “My interest in Renais- last one). The album’s called Night [email protected] doing well and continues her work sance English drama was nurtured Work and it came out on June 29 as a professor of English at Arizona Not even baby news? That’s hard at Columbia, especially by Jean in the United States and June 28 State University. to believe. Please write so we can Howard, who supervised my everywhere else. We started a That’s it for this time. Please fill this column. undergraduate thesis.” Marissa, world tour in June beginning in the send news! her husband, Adam Lyons ’96, ’98 United Kingdom.” GSAS, a litigation attorney, and Scott will surely be in a city near Sarah Katz their son, Leam (3), have lived in you soon (the tour starts with the Janet Lorin 97 1935 Parrish St. Albuquerque, N.M., for four years. U.K., followed by Europe, Japan, 95 127 W. 96th St., #2GH Philadelphia, PA 19130 In personal news, I was chat- Australia and more), so definitely New York, NY 10025 97 ting with a fellow mom at our check scissorsisters.com for a sneak [email protected] 95 children’s gymnastics class, and it preview and the complete schedule. [email protected] CC ’97, where’s the love? Not one of turned out to be not only a fellow I received this tidbit from the We all appreciated the Core Cur- you sent an update. I know you’re Columbia alumna but the CCT CCT crew, via Business Wire: riculum when we were students. up to great things. Please tell us all class correspondent for 1990, Ra- “Stephen M. Gracey has joined Roosevelt Montás holds the title of about it! chel Cowan Jacobs ’90. It’s a small the litigation department at the Director of the Core, a job he’s had world for Columbia graduates! law offices of Ulmer & Berne. As since summer 2008. Have a great summer, and don’t an attorney with Ulmer & Berne, Roosevelt teaches CC these days Sandie Angulo Chen forget to write in with your updates Steve’s practice focuses on product and did a stint teaching Lit Hum 98 10209 Day Ave. — they don’t have to be milestones! liability and life sciences litigation. while completing his Ph.D. in the Silver Spring, MD 20910 He is well versed in prescription English department; he graduated 98 and drug product liability matters, [email protected] from GSAS in 2004. Lauren Becker consumer product liability matters, “I am one of those people who Let’s start off with more baby 99 19 Devalan St., Apt. 3N toxic tort and exposure matters. He never left,” said Roosevelt, who news. Daniel Pianko and Melissa Brooklyn, NY 11231 also represents clients in commer- grew up in the Dominican Repub- (Epstein) Pianko are the proud 99 cial litigation including breach of [email protected] lic until age 12, then in Queens. parents of Noah David, born Janu- contract, fraud and other business Roosevelt often is called upon to ary 20. Sister Bella is 3. The Piankos Hello there. I’m happy to report disputes. Prior to joining Ulmer & give talks about the Core at various live in Manhattan and recently had that Rachel Jackson has written in Berne, Steve was an attorney with events, including Alumni Reunion a mini-reunion with Brooks Her- again: “Here is another update re- Frost Brown Todd. He received his Weekend. We hoped to see him man and Joanna (Erman) Herman, garding my film 3 Things. Our East J.D. from the University of Cincin- in June. who were visiting New York from Coast premiere was at the Charles- nati College of Law.” Congratulations to Michael California. Brooks e-mailed me an ton International Film Festival, and And this happy news was spot- Schaffer, who returns to his home- adorable photo of his kids, Jacob I won the award for Best Actress ted in April 11’s New York Times: town of Washington, D.C., as editor and Sophie, with Bella Pianko, in that festival. We are hoping this “Dr. Elizabeth Victoria Robilotti of Washington City Paper. Samuel Kornfeind (son of Ben is the first of many awards for the and Rohit Thomas Aggarwala Mike began his career at City Kornfeind and Jeannette Jakus) film.” [’93] were married [April 10] at St. Paper, first as a staff writer and then and Rohan Jain (son of Nirad Jain I am hoping this is the second of Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan.

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The Rev. David P. Dwyer, a Ro- the way from Copenhagen for the man Catholic priest, performed the festivities. ceremony. Dr. Robilotti, 32, is keep- Sitting across from me at din- ing her name. She is a third-year ner, Dr. Emmy Pointer and Dave resident in internal medicine at St. Burkoff, who live on the Upper Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, and West Side with their dog, Walter, is to begin a fellowship in infectious and cats, Dr. Furr and James, diseases at Stanford University shared a plate of vegetarian selec- Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., tions from the truly astonishing in June. She graduated cum laude buffet of Korean delicacies. The from Columbia, from which she also estimable Mike Erman and his received master’s degrees in history fiancée, Sinead Carew (yay!), were and public health. She received a close at hand, keeping tabs on Kon- medical degree at New York Medical rad’s kim chi intake. I had to give College. [...] Mr. Aggarwala, 38, a toast and was too nervous to eat known as Rit, is the director of long- even half the things I wanted. Es- term planning and sustainability ther Chak, who sat next to me, was Reshan Richards ’00 married Jennifer Butler in Wilton, Conn., in June in the office of Mayor Michael R. supportive, and distracted me with 2009. Celebrating with them were (left to right) Marina Chan ’00, Nel- Bloomberg. He oversees plans for news about Aaron Kaufman-Haft, son Chan ’00, Ommeed Sathe ’00, the bride, the groom, Greig Bennett the city’s infrastructure and environ- and soon everyone was back on ’01, David Torres ’00E, Rushika Conroy ’97, Tejpaul Bhatia ’00E, Homin ment. He is also Mr. Bloomberg’s the dance floor celebrating with Jen Lee ’00, Andrew Warshawer ’00 and Yasanthi Alahendra ’94. chief adviser on environmental and Josh and Total Soul (the band). PHOTO: Patricia Kantzos Photography policy. He recently announced plans It was way too much fun. to step down from those positions That’s all for now. Please write in June, and will join Dr. Robilotti in with your news, complaints, up- grease from municipal water sys- Sonia Dandona California. [...] Though the couple dates, questions and so on. Thank tems and turn it into biodiesel fuel. 02 Hirdaramani spent many years on the Columbia you! BlackGold is now at work on 2 Rolling Dr. campus, they did not meet until its first large-scale demonstration 02 Old Westbury, NY 11568 2002, when they were both on the project, for the San Francisco Public [email protected] board of the Columbia College Prisca Bae Utilities Commission, which will Alumni Association.” 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B use the rehabilitated sewer scum to Ben Letzler has joined the Office Yay! Elizabeth has promised to 00 New York, NY 10011 power vehicles in the water depart- of the Attorney General in Boston write soon with details and will be 00 ment’s fleet. Emily also is in talks as an assistant attorney general [email protected] sending an alumni-filled photo, so with other municipal water authori- with the Insurance and Financial watch out. On March 26, Kelly Alderson wel- ties, including Philadelphia’s. Her Services Division. Recently, he also I saw a ton of Columbia people comed into the world a son, Andrés company’s annual revenues last welcomed two cats into his world, at Jen Song’s wedding in May, Radics Alderson (Andy), in Lima, year were $1.4 million, and she ex- Abelard and Héloïse. and here’s a brief, alumni-filled Peru. Kelly and her husband, Axel pects the firm to turn its first profit James P. Houtsma and his wife, summary. Before the ceremony, on Radics, enjoy living and working next year. Emily and her husband Erin, welcomed their first baby on a barge in the East River, I chatted in Peru, where they have been for have an infant son, Max. August 14, 2009: Connor Kerr, Lion with the nation’s newest naval three years. Lots of exciting baby news this in training. intelligence officer, James Boyle, month … Dr. Jacqueline Corona is a who bragged that he’s able to arrest Corinna Schultz (née Russell) research fellow in the Department anyone claiming to be a pirate. Jay Jonathan Gordin and her husband, Matthew Schultz, of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Cosel, an avid swimmer, giggled 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. are excited to announce the birth at Morgan Stanley Children’s nervously in the background. Then 01 Los Angeles, CA 90068 of their first child, Oliver Ansel, Hospital of NewYork Presbyterian- Jen married Josh Oberwetter, an 01 on March 27. The couple lives in Columbia University Medical [email protected] all-around super-awesome guy, and Providence, R.I., where Corinna is Center. everyone was very happy. Back on Hi everyone. Hope your summer finishing her pediatric residency Jon Fischer lives in London and dry land, I milled around with Kon- is off to a great start! and looking forward to a “normal” is having an amazing time. He often rad Fiedler, recently in from Los Rich Luthmann recently joined schedule this coming year as chief sees Fabian Chrobog, who, accord- Angeles, and Eli Sanders, mainstay the boutique estate planning and resident. Matthew still is working in ing to Jon, apparently knows every- of Seattle’s The Stranger. Eli is a ter- probate litigation firm Borteck, Cambridge but for a new company, one in the city! Barclays Capital rific writer and also does a weekly Sanders & Torzewski, with offices Forrester. They are adjusting to life moved him there a few months ago local news roundup on Seattle’s in New York City and Livingston, with a newborn and loving all of it! for work, and he is using the oppor- NPR station, and was recently N.J. Emily Huters announced that tunity to travel a lot within Europe. asked on-air what it means to be an Rich reports, “The CU Rugby she and her husband, Trey Hatch Will Hunter visited during Easter associate editor at The Stranger. He Football Club Annual Alumni ’01L, “welcomed our son, Henry weekend, and they had a ton of fun. replied: “It means I free associate all match took place on May 1 at Charles, on February 25. As you day long.” Baker Field (alumni versus current can imagine, we are still pretty Angela Garbes ’99 Barnard, Pat- players). I’ll let you know as to sleep-deprived at this point, but Michael Novielli ty Wortham ’99 Barnard and Avi how it goes but invited to attend we are so in love with our little guy 03 World City Apartments Ziv ’99 Barnard led the charge as and expected were Stu Dearnley, and love being parents. Attention Michael J. everyone paraded to the reception, Dan Wetmore, Mike Mahoney, “In somewhat alumni-related 03 Novielli, A608 followed closely by Chris Hardin, Matt Hughes, Chris Miller, Billy news, Henry shares a birthday Block 10, No 6. Jinhui in a pastel shirt, and the radiant “Jesus” Traux (hopefully with his with my old roommate Cheyenne Road, Chaoyang District Emily Ford, in a fetching rosy- wife, April Traux), Eddie Torres Picardo ’02, and one of his first Beijing, 100020, People’s plum dress. Toward the middle of ’02, Joe Viola ’02E, Paul Sheridan visitors in the hospital was Kelly Republic of China the pack were Jenn Alzona, her ’00 and Ike Ibe ’01E.” McCreary ’03 Barnard.” [email protected] dance-floor alter ego Jenn Ruby, Emily Landsburg has launched Alex Eule and Michelle Eule ’01 and her husband, Jarrod Ruby. I her second start-up, BlackGold Barnard were delighted to welcome I hope that you’re able to take some straggled along at the back with Biofuels, a clean-energy company their daughter, Madeline Cayla, on time away from the excitement of the Chicago-loving Ethan Fischer, with four employees. After years April 22. Mom, Dad and baby are summer barbecues, picnics and Brooklyn’s own Matt Poindexter of research in a north Philadelphia doing great. beach outings to celebrate the suc- ’01, and Ben Hall ’99E and Catie industrial plant, the company has Congrats to all the new Colum- cesses and exciting events of our Zeidler ’99 Barnard, who came all developed the technology to remove bia parents. Please keep in touch! classmates.

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in comparative literature from faculty of the Prison University Rutgers with a dissertation examin- Project’s College Program at San ing emigration in contemporary Quentin State Penitentiary. The only Senegalese novels and music. operation of its kind in California, Tarek Adam ’04E and Robert the College Program offers hun- Reyes ’05 have been in touch dreds of men the opportunity to start recently despite the distance their college careers and earn as- between them. Tarek is finishing sociate degrees. As part of a faculty a biomedical research fellowship composed largely of professors and in Heidelberg, Germany, while doctoral candidates from UC Berke- Robert completes the last semester ley, Claire teaches developmental of his pre-med post baccalaureate math and is working to restructure program in Carbondale, Ill. Robert the pre-college math program, and and Tarek met up in January when Ramsey teaches English courses Tarek made the transatlantic flight including “Critical Thinking” and to St. Louis for a medical school “Modern World Literature,” the interview. Both are excited about Prison University Project’s answers Maureen Falcone ’03 (née Powers) married Tony Falcone in May 2009 in beginning medical school in the to Logic and Rhetoric and Lit Hum. her hometown of Allentown, Pa. Elizabeth Martin ’03E (front row, left) fall! Tarek and Robert will attend If you want to learn more about the and Diana Pietri ’03 (back row, left) were bridesmaids, and Kate Sawyer The Saint Louis University School Prison University Project, please ’03E, Rachel Przytula Woods ’03E and Jeremy Woods ’05 attended. of Medicine and The University e-mail Claire and Ramsey at claire PHOTO: Wesley Works., Inc. of Texas Medical Branch Medical [email protected]. School at Galveston, respectively. David Mills writes: “My service Mike Jones writes, “I went to wich Village. After nearly 10 years Vishal Arya writes, “I am finish- as a small enterprise development Albert Einstein for medical school, of living uptown, it is a welcome ing my first year at University of Peace Corps volunteer in Cam- finishing in 2007. I matched in change. In addition, I took the Chicago Booth School of Business. eroon ends in July. Then, I’ll be emergency medicine at Jacobi opportunity to make another big I am spending the summer as a heading back to the States to eat as Medical Center in the Bronx and move: I proposed to my girlfriend product manager intern at Apple much pizza as my body can handle was recently selected as chief of five-plus years, Barbara Luxen- and plan to see if California living and get settled in Philadelphia as resident. During that time, I also berg ’05 Duke, and we are starting is all everyone says it is (I am I prepare to start the J.D./M.B.A. have continued to work as a medic to plan a wedding for next spring.” pretty sure it is). Before starting at program at Penn this fall.” in NYC and am the director of a This summer, Alan Lue is work- Apple, I was in South Africa for Shaanan Meyerstein writes: small nonprofit ambulance squad, ing on the Research & Investment 10 days attending four World Cup “Following graduation, Ariel the Central Park Medical Unit Management Team at Research matches.” Daube and I traveled the world (www.cpmu.com). I have also Affiliates, an investment manager Congratulations to my good for medical work and tourism. We made it my passion to travel the in Newport Beach, Calif., before friend Miklos Vasarhelyi, who will then moved to Israel and for the world, having hiked the Scottish returning to UCLA Anderson to be returning to Columbia’s campus last four years have attended the Highlands, backpacked across finish his master’s in financial engi- this fall to attend the Business Ben Gurion University of the Ne- Italy a few times, hiked the Inca neering. Also in California, Victoria School. Congratulations also go gev/Columbia Medical School for Trail to Machu Picchu and recently Sharon is entering her final year of out to Alex Hardiman and Brian International Health in Beersheva returned from Tanzania, where I her dermatology residency. Platzer, who were married in June, (the southern region of Israel). In summited Mount Kilimanjaro.” Katori Hall is the author of the and Logan Schmid and Christina addition to the regular American Joseph Lyons, who works in play The Mountaintop, which was Tobajas, who were married in medical curriculum, our school Houston as a v.p. in derivative awarded England’s 2010 Olivier Manhattan on July 18, 2009. Logan focuses on training healthcare sales in the global commodities Award for Best New Play. It is divulged: “We met at a party in professionals who will work in division of Citigroup, married scheduled to be performed on Wien our sophomore year. The underserved, poor areas around Kristen Elizabeth Olson in Austin Broadway next fall. Referencing party was broken up by campus the globe. We have been exposed on March 27. The Mountaintop, The Wall Street security, but we’ve stayed together to a diverse patient population of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s first book Journal writes, “The two-person all these years!” Bedouins, Ethiopians, Russian and of poetry, Water the Moon, was production is set in a hotel room On April 17, the Young Alumni South American immigrants, Af- released in February. Her website on April 3, 1968, the night before Fund held its annual Spring Benefit rican refugees and so on as well as is www.fionasze.com. King was murdered. A hotel maid, in Manhattan. Our class had a diverse medical pathologies. One Raj Patel writes, “I recently left Camae, brings King coffee, and the strong showing, including Vignesh of the most impactful experiences private practice to become in-house two start a conversation. It turns Aier, Etel Bugescu, Avram Drori, we had was working in a hospital corporate counsel for United Air- out that Camae is not who she ini- Julianna Dudas, Daniel Goldman, that came under rocket fire during lines in Chicago. I’ve saved several tially seems. The play depicts King Adam Kaufman, Igor Margulyan, the Gaza War in 2009. complimentary flight passes for Col- in private moments: taking off his Hamesh Mehta, Denaka Perry, “Upon graduating in May, Ariel umbia friends who’d like to visit!” shoes, talking to himself and, later, Eric Requenez, Yekaterina (Kat) planned to begin a three-year resi- Matt McMillan, a political con- smoking and flirting with Camae.” Reznik, Julia de Roulet, Richard dency in pediatrics at National sultant living in Washington, D.C., Tosi, Miklos Vasarhelyi and Ash- Children’s Hospital in Washing- won his 12th Pollie Award from ley Vereschagin. ton, D.C., and Shaanan a three-year the American Association of Politi- Angela Georgopoulos As usual, please don’t forget to pediatric residency at Schneiders cal Consultants and was named 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 send me any and all updates! Children Hospital/Long Island to the prestigious “Democratic 04 New York, NY 10038 Jewish Medical Center in Queens.” Campaign Dream Team” by Aris- 04 Monica Pasternak writes: “I am [email protected] totle International. He has advised Peter Kang finishing my third year of medical several high-profile foreign and Greetings, fellow alumni! I hope 205 15th St., Apt. 5 school at the University of Miami domestic leaders, parties and advo- you’re all doing well and getting 05 Brooklyn, NY 11215 Miller School of Medicine and have cacy organizations on communica- the chance to enjoy summer. On to 05 decided to pursue an M.D./M.B.A. [email protected] tions and new media strategy. the news: I will be completing my M.B.A. Sarah Secules Smee writes, Mike Ren is v.p. of a U.S. private Summer is upon us! Hope you’re during the 2010–11 school year “Ryan Smee and I are proud to equity firm in Shanghai, focusing all doing well. and will graduate from medical announce Beatrix Eleanor, born on private, pre-IPO and cross- Claire McDonnell and Ramsey school in May 2012. I am dedicating December 8.” border investments in tier two and McGlazer live in San Francisco’s ’Ro spare time to research in high-risk Adam Libove writes, “I moved tier three Chinese cities. In May, neighborhood. The highlight of their obstetrics (maternal fetal medicine) from the Upper East Side to Green- Mahriana Rofheart earned a Ph.D. year has been joining the volunteer and volunteering with the medi-

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cally underserved via our school’s planned to continue her intense planning a fall wedding in South May 27, I graduated from the Har- Department of Community Service. study of aerial acrobatics and Carolina. Tova Katz recently gave vard Graduate School of Education As I write this, I am in Key West for hopefully learn some Portuguese. birth to a boy, Amiel David. She, with an Ed.M. specializing in edu- a month doing my family medicine Jeremy Kotin co-produced and her husband and son will be mov- cation policy and management.” rotation, and spend my mornings co-edited the hit of the Tribeca ing in July to Boston, where Tova Eric Bondarsky, Nina Cohen kayaking before work; living the Film Festival, Monogamy, directed will pursue an M.B.A. ’08 Barnard, Lindsay Sohacheski dream!” by academy-award nominee Dana ’08 and Lena Hourwitz visited In May, Jessica Fjeld graduated Adam Shapiro and starring Chris Sara Pollack ’07 Barnard, Reina from UMass, Amherst, with an Messina and Rashida Jones. On his David D. Chait Potaznik ’07 Barnard and Isaac M.F.A. in poetry. She is planning producing team were Jeff Mandel 1255 New Hampshire Ave. Greenbaum ’06E in Washington to return to Columbia in the fall for ’96 and Tom Heller ’05 Business. 07 N.W., Apt. 815 Heights for an enjoyable Sabbath law school and is excited to be back The film will be traveling the film 07 Washington, DC 20036 experience replete with excellent in the city. Anna Brian Lee also festival circuit for the rest of 2010 [email protected] food, plenty to drink and Kattan graduated recently, with an M.B.A. and will hopefully have a wide to Settle. The occasion was the from UC Berkeley Haas School of release shortly thereafter. Sean CC ’07, hardly missing a beat. You visiting of a few Ukrainian friends, Business. And Steph Katsigiannis Wilkes is done with his tour at the are all up to amazing things. Here who were in town briefly for busi- graduated from Fordham Law. She Pentagon and is in Cambridge for are some exciting updates: ness and pleasure. will join Kasowitz Benson Torres & the summer to study biology at On April 17, many of our class- Edward Fox writes, “I’m off to Friedman in New York in the fall. Harvard. mates attended the annual Young pursue a Ph.D. in economics at Jeanelle Folkes writes: “I After two years of working Alumni Fund Spring Benefit, held Michigan in the fall. My plan is to graduated in May from Teachers at Scholastic Publishing on its at the New York Tennis and Racquet also pursue a concurrent J.D. at College with an M.A. in higher website, Carly Miller has moved Club. Attendees included Arvind Harvard or Yale. It’s a long pro- and postsecondary education. I on to FoxNews.com as a strategic Kadaba, Geoffrey Karapetyan, Jes- gram, but on the plus side, by the recently purchased my first home, analyst to improve the website sica Zen, Todd Abrams, Benjamin time I’m finished with it, everyone so I’m incredibly excited about in its entirety. Marc Pimentel Baker, Gerard Barrett, Matthew will have flying cars.” that. I marched in the Alumni recently returned from a month Barsamian, Aaron Bruker, Christian Phillipa Ainsley shares some Parade of Classes on May 17 at of learning acupuncture in China, Capasso, David Chait, Luciana exciting news. “Johan Warodell ’09 this year’s Class Day, representing where he climbed the Great Wall Colapinto, Tamsin Davies, Caitlin GS, ’10 GSAS, and I got engaged our class (and then running over and saw the Terra Cotta Army. He Shure, Charlotte Cowles, Adrian on April 10 in the Brooklyn Botanic to my own ceremony, lol).” graduated from P&S in May and is Demko, Samantha Feingold, Emily Garden! We’re moving to Berlin Loren Crowe, who joined the at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hoffman, Daria Leonyuk, Jessica and then to Stockholm, as I will be Army on the day of his last final for an anesthesiology residency. Wong Zen, Jacob Olson and An- doing my master’s at the Stock- in May 2005, writes: “After being Emily Ross has had an exciting drew Ward, among others. holm School of Economics starting commissioned as an infantry officer couple of months. After applying Erik Lindman participated in a this autumn. The wedding will and graduating from the U.S. Army to graduate schools during the four-artist show held at London’s probably be in 2012 and horribly Ranger School, I spent two years as winter, she has accepted an offer Hannah Barry Gallery. Titled New inconvenient to travel to.” a rifle platoon leader with the First to return to Columbia in the fall Work, New York, the show highlight- Mimi Arbeit writes, “I’m finish- Infantry Division at Fort Hood, and will study for a master’s in ed contemporary abstract painting ing my third year of teaching in Texas. After being promoted to cap- public policy at SIPA. While leav- from New York City and ran from Boston-area public schools. I will tain, I returned from a deployment ing Washington, D.C., after almost April 30–May 27. Erik writes, “This be starting an M.A./Ph.D. program to Afghanistan last year, where I four years will be hard, Emily is is my first major show outside of in child development at Tufts in was stationed with my guys along looking forward to going back to the States!” September. Additionally, I recently a volatile stretch of the Pakistan NYC. Stephen Kunen is a legal in- border in eastern Afghanistan. I’m tern this summer in Las Vegas for getting ready to head to Georgia for the in-house counsel of Zuffa, the Erik Lindman ’07 participated in a four-artist show continued training, and I hope to parent company of the Ultimate deploy to Afghanistan again in the Fighting Championship. held at London’s Hannah Barry Gallery. near future.” Elizabeth Berkowitz married Thanks for the updates, and hope Marc Tobak ’05 in October 2009 in to hear from the rest of you soon! New York City. Several members Kasia Nikhamina’s debut play, got engaged to Matthew Lowe ’05 of the Classes of 2005 and 2006 Redbeard & Domicella, a bold ret- GS, ’05 JTS, and we’re planning a attended and were in the wed- rospective of her young marriage July 2011 wedding in Boston.” Michelle Oh ding party. Marc graduated from told in “he said/she said” fashion, Among those in NYC, Zak Ko- 17 John St., Apt. 2D Harvard Law in 2008, clerked for was performed at the Too Soon stro writes, “I’m bartending at Son 06 New York, NY 10038 Federal Judge Miriam Goldman Festival at The Brick Theater in Cubano, a restaurant and nightclub 06 Cedarbaum (who witnessed the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in June. in the Meatpacking District. I work [email protected] civil license at the wedding) and Please e-mail themayorshotel@ Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sat- As always, there are exciting up- is an associate at Davis Polk & gmail.com if you’d like to join the urday. Great food, live music and dates from our classmates on aca- Wardwell in NYC. Elizabeth has mailing list. a D.J. on Friday and Saturday demic, professional and personal interned or worked at the Peggy Xavier Vanegas writes, “An spinning the hottest house, Latin fronts. Hope you enjoy the column! Guggenheim Collection in Venice, animated kids show I’m develop- and pop. Best of all, no cover. Great Have a great rest of the summer, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston ing with Cathleen Cimino ’08, The happy hour Monday–Friday, 4:30– and I look forward to updates from and the JFK Library and Museum, Fink Forest Friends, won the Fred 6:30 p.m. Would love to see some you for a future column. and is interning with the 20th Rogers Memorial Scholarship from fellow Columbians at my bar!” Emily Bean has been living in Century Drawings & Prints depart- the Television Academy of Arts Riddhi Dasgupta writes, “Chris- a 15-person cooperative house ment at the Morgan Library. She and Sciences Foundation in March! tian Capasso and I backpacked in Berkeley, Calif., for the last 1½ completed a graduate certificate in The award was presented by Mrs. around Morocco and Spain. It was years. She works in Oakland as museum studies at Tufts in 2008 Rogers (she is a pistol) at the Fred a rewarding, sobering and fun a bilingual kindergarten teacher and completed an M.A. in modern Forward Conference in Pittsburgh, experience. We received excel- and plans to stay, pushing the art: critical studies at GSAS in May. a convention of child developmen- lent tips from Julian Himes and system and educating the future Elizabeth will begin a Ph.D. in art tal psychologists and children’s TV Nishant Dixit, who had waded the world-changers for at least another history at the Graduate Center at programming executives. Other same waters a little while ago. The few years. Emily eagerly looked CUNY in the fall. than that, I am still directing music Djemaa el Fna (Assembly of the forward to her (well-deserved) Samuel Schon became engaged videos and commercials as steps Dead) in Marrakech was a fave. On two-month summer vacation in to Katie Wray, a cousin of Robert toward directing feature films.” a separate note, some Kiwi friends Argentina and Brazil, where she Wray, this past spring. They are Elizabeth Epstein shares, “On and I recently ran the Chris Hoy

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Half Marathon in Edinburgh. It’s Center. “Come visit!” she says. to see if they could inhibit plague Orleans, Tennessee, St. Louis and my second demi-marathon, and I Matthew Birkhold occasionally growth. He now is preparing for finally Chicago. If anyone wants to hope to graduate to a full one soon. goes to Princeton to pursue gradu- medical school, which begins in house this road-tripping duo along Sore muscles, soaring spirits.” ate study in German literature. “Se- August. the way, please let them know. Fol- Riddhi adds, “In late April, we cretly,” jokes Irina, “he just wants Robert Kohen is enjoying life as lowing their adventure, Kevin will held a Columbia College young to study Russian and will travel to a graduate student. As of May, he be doing a post-graduate year at alumni punting and pimms event the Nevsky Institute of Language completed his first year of study Durham University in England. He in Cambridge, England. It was and Culture in St. Petersburg this at Harvard, where he is pursuing will be getting a master’s in modern very nice to share this place with summer to fulfill his lifelong goal a Ph.D. in comparative literature. history while playing basketball for old friends and new.” of reading Anna Karenina in the Robert is focusing his studies on the university. Francesca Butnick graduated original. And I will be there, too.” 20th-century critical theory and Isabel Broer moved in early from Harvard Law in May. Begin- Abigail Rosebrock is pursuing cinema. He presented his first June to Colorado, where she will ning in September, she will be a Ph.D. in English literature at Co- paper in April, discussing films by teach secondary math for two clerking at the Supreme Court of lumbia. Fascinated by bestiaries, she Pasolini at an academic conference years with Teach for America. Isa- Israel for Justice Neal Hendel. plans to be a medievalist and write at the University of Wisconsin. bel hasn’t had enough of Columbia Karen Ensslen graduated from sketch comedies for smallGRAND Robert is spending the summer yet, though; she will be back on law student to student-at-law, and on the side. Dianna Ng ’07 is finish- researching in Paris. campus for law school in fall 2012. thinks that “Toronto is the new ing up medical school at NYU, but Last summer, Tiffany Dockery Jael Hernandez-Vasquez also Brooklyn.” will devote her life to literature a traveled to Tanzania to work for will join the ranks of TFA in Phoe- Thank you again for all of the la François Rabelais. The sensa- CARE International. There, she nix, where he will teach eighth- submissions! Have a great sum- tional six are working on opening wrote human interests stories for the grade special education. Jael writes, mer! the Book Museum for Fairy Tales Women and Girls Empowerment “The recent institutionally racist with Alternate Endings. It will be Program, designed promotional bill will not hinder this Latino from designed by Dan Taeyoung Lee ’09, materials and trained staff. Upon pursuing his goals!” Neda Navab who plans to attend the Graduate returning to the States, she joined If you need friends to visit in 08 53 Saratoga Dr. School of Architecture, Planning Google as a member of the inaugural other parts of the country, look no Jericho, NY 11753 and Preservation next fall. “The START program, spending four further. Ruqayyah Abdul-Karim 08 Book Museum is neither a library months in Mountain View, Calif., in will be moving to Washington, [email protected] nor a college, but is what the author an intensive training program before D.C., for a two-year fellowship in Elizabeth Carmel Grefrath is wished and was able to express in moving to her permanent role on the bioethics research at the National engaged to Joshua Kahlil Sessions. the form in which it is expressed,” Google Affiliate Network team in Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Elizabeth studied history and explains Irina. If anyone knows or Chicago. She is an account coordina- Gabe Saltzman looks forward to English and has worked at the lives a fairy tale with (preferably) tor. She is loving Google, Chicago seeing friends while he works in Columbia University Oral History an alternate ending, please contact and her new puppy, Jake. New York until November. He Research Office in various roles Irina. then plans to move out west to ski since 2004 and now directs the for the year. Those hoping to be Rule of Law Oral History Project, Julia Feldberg invited — and maybe even get free which focuses on civil and hu- Alidad Damooei 10 Columbia Alumni Center lessons — should take the chance man rights abuses in the post–9-11 09 c/o CCT 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 to talk him up this summer. Esha United States and the history of Columbia Alumni Center 10 New York, NY 10025 Gupta returned home to Oklaho- the Guantanamo Bay Detention 09 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ma and stopped by New York for a [email protected] Center. Joshua is the author, under New York, NY 10025 wedding before she moved to Los his pen name, Joshua Furst, of [email protected] Amidst the flurry of final papers Angeles in June. There, she lives in the acclaimed novel The Sabotage and exams, class dinners and cer- Santa Monica on Ocean Avenue. Café and the story collection Short The Class of 2009 continues to amaze emonies, it is hard to imagine life Esha plans to study for the GMAT People. He teaches fiction writing with its travels, studies and work beyond school. Alas, by the time and find a job in the entertainment at Columbia and The New School across the world. Our updates for you are reading this column, we industry while she’s there. If any for Social Research. The couple will this issue come from Boston, India will finally be Columbia College Columbians are in the L.A. area, wed in October in New York City. and points in between. alumni. Whether you’re excited or Esha would love to hang out! Lauren Abbott is working at Ernest Herrera is studying law panicked about your new life in Last but not least, some of us UBS on the Latin American Emerg- at the University of New Mexico the “real world,” take a moment to will be returning to New York City. ing Markets trading desk. “In in Albuquerque. He has spent check out what some of our class- Jeff Schwartz will be producing order to get to work, Lauren wakes the first year trudging through mates are doing this summer and “The Unsilent Film Series” at Le up at 4 every morning!” says dis- mandatory courses, but he is look- in the year ahead. Poisson Rouge. The series will gruntled roommate Neda Navab. ing forward to next year, when Some are revving up for school feature acclaimed live musicians This summer, Lauren is traveling he will study immigration and mode once again. Alana Sivin playing over classic films. Jeff also to South Africa for the World Cup criminal law. Ernest bought his deferred admission to a J.D./M.A. is looking for a full-time job in to watch France play Uruguay and first snowboard and is enjoying the program in cultural studies of com- the entertainment industry. Laura Italy play Paraguay, “and to swim slopes. This summer, he is taking parative law and education policy Taylor likely will travel to Singa- with the sharks.” law classes in Guanajuato, Mexico, at Loyola Chicago in order to teach pore and/or Brazil this summer. Chris Sauer is finishing up through a program run through first grade for a year at Harlem Next year, she plans to dance with his first year at the Yale School of UNM. He also will be an extern for Success Academy in East Harlem. Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, work at Medicine. He recently was elected a Mexican lawyer in Mexico. Devora Aharon is traveling this Steps Dance, most likely teaching to serve as the Medical Student After graduation, Akash Gupta summer and then will attend babies, and audition for Broadway Council president. spent a few weeks in California Mount Sinai School of Medicine in shows. Adam Bulkley, having Irina Ikonsky can be found at with Ariel Zucker, and they went the fall. Alise Green is spending the retired from his duties as head of Harvard pursuing graduate work backpacking at King’s Canyon. In summer working in New York City the 2010 Senior Fund, went home in Slavic literature. She travels to March, Akash went to India, where before moving to England to receive to Baltimore for a few weeks and New York as much as possible to he spent several months working her master’s in sociology from the then returned to New York City spend time with Lauren La Torre, at various public health NGOs all London School of Economics. to start at Barclays during the first who is going to be an educator around the country. At the end of Kevin Bulger and Patrick Foley week of July. and plans to write children’s books June, Akash started working in a are going on a cross-country road As always, please don’t hesitate on the side. “They will be phe- tuberculosis/plague lab at Weill trip starting in New York. They plan to reach out to me with your news. nomenal,” predicts Irina. Amber Cornell Medical College in New to visit Ohio, Madison, St. Paul, the I hope you are all enjoying the Lee Nicole Moorer is working York City. His project screened Dakotas, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, summer! at Columbia’s Double Discovery some new antibacterial compounds California, Arizona, Texas, New

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