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17 Students and 23 Faculty Find 27 Lit Hum 32 Alumni Book Faculty Embrace Lit Hum Challeng- for Life Club Carries On Classic Readings, ing, Fulfilling the Tradition “I left Columbia with Modern Technology “The course is a marriage an understanding of “The idea is to further “The course is not a of methodologies and the power of asking our education and what museum-like visit. the idiosyncrasies of the the right questions.” we started in Lit Hum.” It’s about the inter- individual instructor.” By Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts By Nathalie Alonso ’08 bill Campbell, Chairman of The Board of TrusTees, ColumBia universiTy rogation of texts.” By Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, Chairman of The Board of direCTors, inTuiT y imothy ross ’98 SIPA memBer of The Board of direCTors, apple B T P. C ’98 memBer of The ColumBia universiTy CluB of neW york GSAS 30 Today’s Lit Hum The perfect midtown location to network, dine with a Syllabus client, hold events or business meetings, house guests by the in town for the weekend, and much more. Numbers To become a member, visit columbiaclub.org or call 212-719-0380.

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3 Message from the 16 Roar, Lion, Roar 41 Message from the 49 Obituaries Celebrating Lit Hum, Dean CCAA President 50 Daniel J. Edelman Celebrating Lit Hum, 34 Columbia Forum: CCYA builds engagement ’40, ’41J Enriching Its Future enriching its future. Great Books among newest alumni. 51 Peter B. Kenen ’54 You can go home again — 4 Letters to the to the classics. 53 Class Notes Editor By David Denby ’65, ’66J Alumni Profiles 80 Jon Ross ’83 uring the summer before students’ first year, the When I speak with alumni about their years at the College, 6 Within the Family College hosts events around the country and the they invariably mention the Core as a defining and transforma- 89 Rachel Nichols ’03 world where alumni hand copies of The Iliad to tive experience. When I ask current students what their favor- incoming students. This gift symbolizes stu- ite course is, they consistently say Lit Hum, CC or another Core 7 Around the Quads dents’ entrance into the Columbia College Core course. Students come to Columbia College because it has this Alumni Reunion Weekend Curriculum — more specifically, into Literature great and unrivaled Core Curriculum, and when they leave it is and Dean’s Day 2013. DHumanities — and to the community of Columbians, past and the great common intellectual experience they all share. The Core present, who have delved into this text. is what makes all of you members of an Sandra Day O’Connor and Literature Humanities, which this year enduring and trans-generational intellec- Norman Dorsen ’50 celebrates its 75th anniversary, connects tual community that connects every Col- generations of College students. Each one lege student to every other student and 42 A Passion for of you has read at least four books in com- to all College alumni. That experience Civil Liberties mon — The Iliad, Oresteia, Oedipus the King begins with Lit Hum. For more than 50 years, and Inferno. These texts have remained on The Core is so important to us at the Norman Dorsen ’50 has the Lit Hum syllabus since it was initiated College that we want to provide every in 1937. Others books — ranging from resource possible to support it, to propel fought for fundamental Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Boccaccio’s The it and to enhance it. This is why, for the past freedoms and against David Denby ’65, ’66J (right) Decameron to Augustine’s Confessions and year, we have been making plans to start an Young alumni aboard the with the Lionel Trilling discriminatory legislation. Professor Emeritus in the Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse — have endowment for the Core — a foundation U.S.S. Intrepid at Alumni y alerie eiling acobs Humanities Edward “Ted” B V S J rotated on and off through the years. All upon which we can perpetuate everything Reunion Weekend Jon Ross ’83 Tayler of these texts have served the same pur- you have valued about the Core and with 46 Bookshelf pose: to develop students’ understanding which we can ensure that it will be valued Featured: Portrait Inside 96 Alumni Corner of the literary and philosophical develop- by every future College student. How we My Head: Essays by Phillip Happy Birthday, Lit Hum! ments that have shaped western thought, build this legacy will evolve through the to empower students to be critical read- several years of the endowment campaign. Lopate ’64. ers of the most significant literature and However, the first emphasis in that- cam to transform the way students observe, paign, which is beginning right now, will learn about, write about and think about be to provide the resources to enhance and the world. enrich the experience of faculty and stu- The Lit Hum syllabus is nearly the dents in Literature Humanities and Con- same for every first-year student. They temporary Civilization.

read the same texts at the same time and PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO The Core — and Literature Humani- take the same midterms and finals. They ties in particular — is central to students’ meet around tables in groups of no more intellectual development at Columbia. It Like Columbia College than 22 to raise questions about the texts and to debate the an- is what makes Columbia College unique and what makes our Today on Facebook: swers. They talk about identity, family, power, justice — about graduates unique. It is the one great common formative experi- facebook.com/columbia WEB EXTRAS the challenges of humanity. And they learn about themselves in ence that most specifically shapes our graduates’ subsequent collegetoday View a photo album of the Senior Fund 2013 Launch Party the process. lives. I hope that you will take a moment to celebrate the 75th View a photo album from the Dean’s Scholarship anniversary of Literature Humanities — to think about what you learned in Lit Hum and how the course, and your other Core Follow @Columbia_CCAA Reception and read the 2012–13 Scholarship Directory courses, had an impact on your life. Moreover, I hope you will on Twitter Share Your Lit Hum Memories Watch an interview with Rachel Nichols ’03 about enjoy reading in the following pages about the course, its faculty her series Continuum What do you remember about Literature Humanities? and students, and the role it plays in our community. View a photo album of the 2013 John Jay Awards Dinner Do you recall a favorite professor or text? How has the Join the Columbia Alumni Core course impacted your life? Please share your favorite Association Network on Listen to the Clefhangers perform Lit Hum memories with us at [email protected]. LinkedIn: alumni. columbia.edu/linkedin college.columbia.edu/cct

SPRING 2013 3 sequent generations of Columbia stu- violent tactics of the radical left will Letters to the Editor dents have benefited from Professor make this a better society. That is why Breslow’s superb teaching style. I will my parents escaped from the horrors of forever be grateful to him. the Nazis and the Communists. low gathered as many students as he could Dr. Daniel L. Lorber ’68 Dr. Roman Kernitsky ’62 Volume 40 Number 3 fit in his car and drove us over theGW Port Washington, N.Y. Colts Neck, N.J. Spring 2013 Bridge to his home. I remember watching Gutmann, a Good Man Honoring Brig. Gen. Smith EDITOR AND PUBLISHER the sun rise as we headed for safety. He fed Alex Sachare ’71 us and allowed us to sleep a bit before re- I am reading the fabulous Winter I was pleased to see the report of Scott turning us to campus. I was able to wash 2012–13 issue that arrived a day or Smith ’86’s promotion to brigadier gen- EXECUTIVE EDITOR Lisa Palladino my bloody hair. so ago, and am brought to a halt half- eral in the U.S. Air Force reported in the Professor Breslow’s freshman chem- way down page 19, in the piece about Alumni in The News section of the Win- MANAGING EDITOR istry class stands out in my memory. He Professor [David] Sidorsky (whom of ter 2012–13 issue. His dedicated service Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts made chemistry magical! Now rewired course I never encountered as a stu- to our country and his record of lead- EDITORIAL ASSISTANT from a 35-year career as an emergency dent though he sounds quite interest- ership and achievement in our armed Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard physician, I have pivoted into fighting ing). You name a James Goodman as forces clearly deserve this recognition. FORUM EDITOR climate change. Whenever discussing one of his early teachers, but I think As a guest at the ceremonies, I also Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard ocean acidification — the process of add- Sidorsky must have meant philoso- was impressed by the number of Scott’s CONTRIBUTING WRITER ing club soda to the seas — I think of him. phy professor James Gutmann (Class family, friends and colleagues who That means that Ron Breslow resides in of 1918, ’36 GSAS), who together with gathered for this milestone in his career. Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA Pride of the Lions EDITORIAL INTERN my heart and soul. Thank you, Columbia, professor Robert Carey ’29 GSAS led a Columbia graduates who participated Karl Daum ’15 I enjoyed the profile of psychology pro- for Professor Breslow. He is a great teacher fascinating advanced CC course that I in the three-day celebration in Coral fessor Herbert Terrace [Winter 2012–13]. and humanitarian. attended in the 1948–49 academic year, Gables, Fla., included John Murphy ’86, DESIGN CONSULTANT I enrolled in his introductory psychology Dr. Peter G. Joseph ’70 a course that kept us all on our toes Pat McGarrigle ’86, Jack Merrick ’86, Jean-Claude Suarès class in the early 1970s and found myself San Anselmo, Calif. thinking hard about where the world Matt Barr ’87, Arthur “Bunyan” Ajzen- ART DIRECTOR intrigued by the subject matter. I distinct- we were then living in was going as man ’83, Dr. Michael Goldfischer ’86 Gates Sisters Studio ly remember the sleepless “all-nighter” I read with great pleasure “Pride of the well as how it had gotten to where it Professor James Gutmann (Class of 1918, ’36 GSAS) and Dominic DeCicco ’84E. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS cramming for the final exam. Afterward, Lions” [Winter 2012–13]. Of the four fea- then stood. Both Gutmann and Carey at his apartment in 1979. I am happy to report that neither the Chris Balmer ’07 I changed majors from pre-architecture to tured professors, my contact was in the were fabulous teachers, and I believe PHOTO: NICK ROMANENKO ’82 appearances nor the strongly held opin- Eileen Barroso psychology. Professors such as Terrace and mid-’60s with Professor David Sidorsky. Gutmann should be remembered by ions of any of these Columbians seem to Bruce Gilbert Eugene Galanter, a noted psychophysicist, As an undergraduate I took a series of in- his correct name; he never changed it, ments rather than know how his person- have changed since the mid-1980s. Leslie Jean-Bart ’76, ’77J exemplify the scientific side of psychology spiring courses with him. It was he who and was a good man indeed. al history gives him insights. Andrew Upton ’85 Matthew Septimus rather than the pop-psychology that per- awakened me from my “dogmatic slum- Joseph B. Russell ’49 Donald Marcus ’55 Boston meates our culture. Professor Norma V.S. bers” (to borrow the words of Kant). I will New York City Brooklyn, N.Y. Published quarterly by the Graham taught my first statistics class, remember Professor Sidorsky’s lucid and Columbia College Office of and I studied graduate-level statistics at penetrating lectures as well as his quick- Scientific Methods Who Should Be Admired? Alumni Affairs and Development for alumni, students, faculty, parents and Michigan with Professor David H. Krantz, ness of mind and amazing serenity dur- Unfortunately, the article on Professor Eric Foner ’63, ’69 GSAS states [Winter CCT welcomes letters from readers about friends of Columbia College. who’s now at Columbia. ing class discussions. His intelligence, wit Carl Hart [Winter 2012–13] doesn’t say 2012–13] that the talk show of Rush Lim- articles in the magazine but cannot print or Since those college days, I’ve made a and unfailing kindness to his students what scientific procedure he used to get baugh shows “overt racism.” This is an personally respond to all letters received. SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS pretty good career teaching psychology impressed me deeply; now, many years his findings on drug use. The North Star example of Foner’s McCarthyite smear Letters express the views of the writers Bernice Tsai ’96 at a South Texas community college. I am later, I think of him with great respect and of scientific method is double blind- ex tactics, whereby he smears a radio show and not CCT, the College or the University. grateful to the world-class university that admiration. It is wonderful to know that perimentation but this isn’t usually used without disclosing any facts to substanti- Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. Address all correspondence to: All letters are subject to editing for space Columbia College Today opened its doors to a confused 18-year-old he is still going strong. with humans when it involves a sub- ate his statement. Furthermore, he states and clarity. Please direct letters for publi- Columbia Alumni Center from the borderlands, and to all the great Douglas E. Golde ’66 stance suspected of being harmful. The we should admire the American radicals, cation “to the editor” via mail or online: 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. professors who serve as role models of New York City tobacco industry rightly says that high as these are the “people who are trying to New York, NY 10025 college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. 212-851-7852 academic excellence. statistical correlation between smoking make this a better society.” Really? What E-mail (editorial): [email protected]; Ismael Dovalina ’74 At the end of my second year of pre-med and lung cancer doesn’t prove that the about all the Democrats and Republicans (advertising): [email protected]. San Antonio, Texas at Columbia in 1966, I was struggling, seri- former causes the latter. (For instance, a who have made this a better society — Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and ously discouraged and having grave doubts chromosome that has a gene for a ten- or does he think there are none? In ad- Manage Your facebook.com/columbiacollegetoday. It’s been 44 years since the night of “the about my ability to become a physician. This dency to smoke can also have a gene for a dition, I personally witnessed the thugs ISSN 0572-7820 bust” in 1968, but I’ll never forget Professor all changed in September of that year, when tendency for lung cancer.) Nevertheless, in the Students for a Democratic Society Subscription Opinions expressed are those of the [Ronald] Breslow’s actions that long night. I walked into Ron Breslow’s organic chem- the statistics and experiments with rats who used force to prevent my friend from If you prefer reading CCT online, you authors and do not reflect official As one of the walking wounded, having istry class. As any physician knows, organic make us wary of smoking. But Professor participating in naval ROTC exercises on can help us go green and save money positions of Columbia College been whacked in the head by a Tactical Pa- chemistry is the course that in those days Hart belittles the usefulness of experi- the campus. Other members of this orga- by opting out of the print edition. Click or Columbia University. trol Force billy club while simply observing “separated the men from the boys.” ments with rats. I see nothing unethical nization burned our campus. I do not feel “Manage Your Subscription” at college. © 2013 Columbia College Today the commotion (and following orders to Professor Breslow took a course with a about not experimenting on people. The that the violence and totalitarianism of the columbia.edu/cct and follow the do- All rights reserved. disperse), I was wandering around outside terrifying reputation and made it a won- opposite can be unethical, as when blacks American radicals in the past few decades mestic instructions. We will continue to the locked campus when he magically ap- derful, exciting year of detective work and were purposely given syphilis without made the United States a better society. I notify you by email when each issue is peared, extremely disturbed by what had problem solving. His inspirational teach- their knowledge. That may be scientific, do agree that radicals in the 19th century posted online. You may be reinstated to just happened to our sacrosanct temple of ing turned my academic career around, but not ethical. I assume Professor Hart were different. I made a pilgrimage to the receive the print edition at any time by learning. It was 4 a.m. and nobody could enabling me to become a physician edu- did nothing like that, but just what did he gravesite of my hero John Brown in Elba sending a note to [email protected]. get back into their dorms. Professor Bres- cator. I was happy to see that many sub- do? I’d like to know the details of experi- (Lake Placid), N.Y. I do not feel that the

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WITHIN THE FAMILY THE Reevaluating My AROUND QUADS Lit Hum Experience Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean’s Day 2013 n working on this issue’s special section celebrating the 75th Since then, I always felt I had missed out on something. I’ve anniversary of Literature Humanities, I discovered some- heard countless alumni wax poetic about the experience of read- B y L i s a P a ll a d i n o thing interesting: I actually got more out of the course that I ing a classic and then discussing it in a classroom filled with took 45 (yikes!) years ago than I ever thought. bright cohorts under the guidance of a brilliant faculty member, I always believed that because I could not walk around a and I envied them. I wished I had found the time and the drive ourteen classes will gather this n the new and improved Camp cocktail party reciting lines from St. Augustine’s Confessions to do what David Denby ’65, ’66J did in middle age — go back Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 2 spring for the College’s biggest Columbia for young Columbians, Ior conjuring images from Ovid’s Metamorpho- and retake CC and Lit Hum. (See Columbia reunion.college.columbia.edu ses, I hadn’t gotten what I should have from Forum in this issue for more on Denby’s event of the year, Alumni Re- ages 3–17; and [email protected] n Lit Hum. It took me this long to realize that retaking of the Core.) Experiencing those union Weekend. The four-day the all-class Wine Tasting and Star- 212-851-7488 enabling me to become the most pretentious great works after having spent a couple of celebration, Thursday, May 30– light Reception with dancing on guy in the room was not the course’s primary decades in the so-called real world seemed FSunday, June 2, offers the chance for Low Plaza. n (or secondary, or tertiary) goal. like an ideal solution to the “youth is wasted alumni to connect with old friends and the Young Alumni Party aboard This year’s reunion activities and lec- There is a saying that youth is wasted on on the young” dilemma. make new ones, and to rediscover the the U.S.S. Intrepid, featuring a tures will build on last year’s concept of the young; I thought the same applied to Lit But in working on this issue’s special sec- campus and the city where they spent champagne salute to veterans and innovation by exploring the “Wonders of Hum and me, and that I simply had not been tion, I realized that I had underestimated so much of their time. Celebrating are alumni on active duty; Discovery.” Columbia’s world-renowned n ready for it at 18. how much I had gotten from Lit Hum. To alumni from classes ending in 3 and 8, Dean’s Day Public Intellectual faculty and prominent alumni will pres- My freshman year was spent in the En- this day I love reading, especially old-school from 1943–2008. Reunion and Dean’s Lectures and “Back on Campus” ent the latest thought-provoking research gineering School. It seemed like a good idea words on paper, and surely I can thank my Day events (the latter take place on Sat- sessions featuring some of Colum- and understandings, demonstrating how at the time, as my dad was an accountant, I exposure to the great works in Lit Hum for urday, June 1, and are open to all alum- bia’s best-known faculty and discoveries in fields both old and new always had a head for numbers and I had nurturing that love. ni) will occur on campus and throughout alumni; have changed our historical perspective. n aced my math SAT. It took a summer job at When asked to picture my happy place, New York City all four days. the presentation of the Society of “Reunion and Dean’s Day are venues a civil engineering firm, combined with a I go to a thatched hut on a beach in Aruba, Highlights of the weekend will include Columbia Graduates’ 64th Annual for generations of College students to n blossoming love affair with sports writing where I lie on a chaise lounge and alternate- class-specific events planned by Great Teacher Awards; come together to renew friendships, ex- n largely courtesy of Spectator, to convince me ly look at the azure sea and read the book each class’ Reunion Committee; all-alumni Affinity Receptions for tend their intellectual connections to Co- n to switch to the College and an eventual ca- that is in my hand. I’ve been doing that for cultural options such as the New the Columbia Alumni Singers, lumbia and revisit the campus that they reer in journalism. 30 years and hope to be blessed to do it for York Philharmonic, New York City Columbia Daily Spectator, varsity remember so fondly,” says Dean James J. PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO The point is that during my freshman many more. I’m sure that Lit Hum is at least Ballet, Broadway theatre and art athletics, and veterans and alumni Valentini. “I look forward to seeing many year, I was just taking the first steps toward partially responsible for the fact that while gallery tours; on active duty; of you then, particularly on Dean’s Day, finding my way. It was not the optimal time for me to be exposed I’m lying there, I never feel restless or a need to “do something” to the great works of Western literature. I had my hands full with beyond reading. chemistry, physics and calculus, plus living away from home for The Lit Hum website says the course encourages students “to the first time, trying to adjust socially and putting in long hours become critical readers of the literary past we have inherited. Al- at Spec. Add the fact that freshmen took both CC and Lit Hum in though most of our Lit Hum works (and the cultures they repre- those days, and my plate seemed to be overflowing. sent) are remote from us, we nonetheless learn something about As a result, I did not give the Lit Hum readings the attention ourselves in struggling to appreciate and understand them.” they deserved. I read some texts, but not all. On occasion I took Surely, I realized, I had done the same from the countless books I shortcuts, whether it was a used Lit Hum book that already had had read since Spring ’68. If instilling the ability to think critically key (at least, I hoped they were key) passages highlighted or a is a measure of the course’s success, then I was an A student. CliffsNotes version that substituted for the real thing. The bottom That we are now celebrating Literature Humanities’ 75th anni- line was I didn’t do the work, at least not fully. versary is ample evidence that for a majority of College first-year My first-year studies came to an abrupt end in April 1968, students, its canon is not wasted on the young. After reconsider- when demonstrators occupied six campus buildings and set ing the course’s impact and discovering its true lifelong lessons, in motion events that would lead to the early termination of I’m happy to say it was not wasted on me, either. the Spring semester. While the buildings were occupied, some What was your Lit Hum experience like? What impact did the classes continued in faculty apartments, coffee shops or on course have on you? Share your memories of Lit Hum with us at campus lawns, but most just faded away. As I tried to wrap my [email protected]. Two attendees get into the swing of things at the Starlight Reception; members of the Class of 1962 share a laugh at their 50th reunion 18-year-old brain around the campus chaos, I took my “pass” class dinner. grade and went home. PHOTOS: EILEEN BARROSO

SPRING 2013 SPRING 2013 6 7 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS when I invite all alumni and parents, including those in non-reunion years, to Bernice Tsai ’96 Heads CC Alumni Affairs come to campus for thought-provoking lectures.” ernice Tsai ’96 became senior ex- dering the halls in their sweats Alumni who attended last year’s re- ecutive director of Columbia Col- or pajamas, carrying works union noted how wonderful it was to be lege Alumni Affairs on January from the Core and gathering in back on campus with classmates, whether 7, bringing the perspective of an clusters to talk about these in- for a 70th reunion or a 25th. B alumna as well as considerable corporate credible books from some of the Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz ’42, one of six experience in marketing and communica- greatest thinkers of all time. Not Class of 1942 alumni who attended, says, tions to this important position. only was there a sense of com- “We met for a luncheon in Hamilton Hall “Bernice is looking forward to work- munity and unity in all being 74 years after we entered in 1938 for Hu- ing with all of our dedicated and commit- connected to the Core, but also manities and CC classes. All of us were ted alumni, and to expanding the number in hindsight there was the amaz- happy to return to and thank our beloved of alumni who are actively engaged with ing juxtaposition of raw youth alma mater for what it has meant to us for the College,” Dean James J. Valentini being exposed to monumental so many years.” said. “Her strong background in market- works that had transcended “My 25th reunion exceeded my expec- ing and her passion for the College will time — pretty powerful — Senior Executive Director of Alumni Affairs Bernice tations,” says Cathy Webster ’87. “I caught enable her to strengthen the connections while eating ramen cooked in Tsai ’96 (right) speaks with Laura Lopez ’92, a member of the executive committee of the Alumni Association up with friends from my freshman floor, between former students and the College, tiny hotpots in their rooms! Board of Directors. from the Marching Band and Glee Club, and among former students themselves.” “In terms of a moment, I re- PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO and incredibly also met some classmates Tsai, who for several years interviewed member the first spring, sitting with whom I had never spent any time prospective Columbia students as a mem- next to The Thinker near Philosophy Hall lectual activity around me, was such an at the College. I did not think I’d be out ber of the Alumni Representative Commit- and realizing it was an authentic cast by inspiring moment and made me grateful until 2 a.m. on a Saturday, or visiting with tee, came to the College from Citigroup, Rodin himself,” Tsai added. “Sitting there for the opportunity and the environment alumni from many other classes, but both where she headed a new team focused alone in the spring, with all this great intel- to learn, explore and seek knowledge.” turned out to be memorable occasions.” on driving engagement and loyalty. She Webster’s classmate Ron Burton ’87 previously spent 12 years at American agrees: “Great time, that 25th reunion! Express, where she led marketing efforts Class of 2013 Gives Back The echoes were awoken!” for several of the company’s membership- he Class of 2013 Senior Fund kicked lege something.” He asked attendees to tell Some alumni share the Columbia bond, based businesses. off its campaign for its class gift on Jan- him why he chose that amount, with the and a reunion year, with their children. “This is a rare opportunity for me to T uary 28. The gift will be presented to hints being “James K. Polk” and “Oregon.” Ralph Schmeltz ’63 says, “I am planning take the concrete skills that I have and Dean James J. Valentini and the Columbia Col- The number comes from a historical slogan, to be at Columbia to celebrate not only my marry them with a mission that to me is lege Fund at Class Day on Tuesday, May 21. “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”, which is as- 50th but also my son Andrew ’93’s 20th. very personal, very meaningful and con- The Senior Fund Executive Committee, sociated with a dispute between England Will be great to see whoever shows up. tributes to the future of an institution that along with almost 200 members of the and the United States over the border of … Fifty-year grads are ‘old guys’ but my I believe in and love,” she said. Class of 2013 and several alumni leaders, Oregon. mind still seems 18.” Tsai majored in English literature at the gathered to generate excitement for their Covering the “1” of the “3-2-1 Challenge,” last semester and to encourage classmates Gene Davis ’75, ’76 SIPA, ’80L will match all College and earned an M.B.A. at North- to donate to the Senior Fund. gifts to the Senior Fund for the second year. For details on all events, refer to the Alumni western’s Kellogg School of Management. Senior Fund Chair Maria Sulimirski ’13 In addition, Charles Santoro ’82 pledged to Reunion Weekend materials you will receive She notes that while the mission and goals spoke enthusiastically about her time at the donate $5,000 to the College Fund when in the mail, go to the reunion website (reunion. of CC Alumni Affairs are being refined as College and noted that the evening’s event the Senior Fund has 250 donors, another college.columbia.edu) or refer to the box at part of the development of a five-year plan, was an “induction into giving.” She then $20,000 at 500 donors and another $75,000 the top of your Class Notes column in this her focus will be on alumni engagement. introduced Valentini, who as he did last year at 750 donors. issue for staff contact information. For an idea “We want to build a lifelong relationship presented his “3-2-1 Challenge,” which asks The launch raised about $7,430, securing of what to expect during the weekend, check with our alumni (starting at the point when seniors to pledge $20.13 for three years, to the dean’s match and placing the Senior out the “2012 Reunion Highlights” on the someone is a student) that creates opportu- encourage two friends to do the same and Fund well on its way to its goal of $22,000. website. nities for alumni to be involved in ways that to have their gifts matched 1:1 by an alum- nus. The dean announced that he would View the “Senior Fund Launch 2013” are meaningful to them — volunteering at personally match all gifts made at the event, Facebook album: facebook.com/Columbia events, providing experience as mentors, up to $5,440, noting “We all owe the Col- College1754/photos_albums. advocating for the College or participating in the fundraising work,” she explained. Clefhangers “We want to be inclusive, diverse and open, Celebrate 25 Years and allow alumni to partner in curating their experience as alums. We will focus on The Columbia Clefhangers, founded enhancing our communication approach, in spring 1998 by Daniel Henkin ’91, collaborating with the University and other will host a 25th anniversary cele­ key partners to create synergy and allow bration on Saturday, April 20. our alumni’s voices to help direct our effort to highest impact opportunities.” For more information, contact “Students” hear fresh perspectives at a Dean’s Day Public Intellectual Lecture; young Asked about her Columbia experience, [email protected]. Dean James J. Valentini with the Class of 2013 Senior Fund Executive Committee. alumni party aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid; and little Lions have fun at Camp Columbia. she said, “My freshman year in Carman PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN PHOTOS: TOP AND MIDDLE: MICHAEL Di VITO; BOTTOM: EILEEN BARROSO is particularly vivid. I recall students wan-

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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS n Jonathan Lavine ’88 received the 2012 among others, for Best Screenplay. Kush- submissions, organizers said. Barolini, Lansing Win MLA Award Distinguished Community Service Award ner — who co-wrote the screenplay for Also at Sundance: Valentine Road, on eodolinda Barolini ’78 GSAS, the Literary Culture, which won the Premio from the Anti-Defamation League at a din- Spielberg’s 2005 film Munich — won the which Yana Gorskaya ’96 was consulting Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Ital- Flaiano di Italianistica. She is the editor of ner in Boston on December 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Drama editor, competed in the U.S. Documentary T ian and chair of the Department of Dante’s Rime giovanili e della ‘Vita Nuova’ 5. The award is the highest for his two-part play, Angels category, and Daniel Radcliffe, of “Harry Italian, and Richard Lansing ’65, professor and is working on the second volume of honor bestowed by the ADL in America: A Gay Fantasia Potter” fame, starred as Allen Ginsberg of Italian studies and comparative litera- her commentary to Dante’s lyric poems in New England. Lavine, a on National Themes, as well ’48 in Kill Your Darlings, a film about the ture at Brandeis, received the Modern for the Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. Language Association of America’s (MLA) Lansing earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from University trustee who is as Tony Awards in 1993 for birth of the Beats and the killing of David 15th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione UC Berkeley and is the editor of The Dante managing partner and chief its first part, Millennium Ap- Kammerer that was directed by John Publication Award for a Manuscript in Encyclopedia (a Choice Outstanding Book for investment officer of Sankaty proaches, and in 1994 for its Krokidas. Alan Press ’56 and his wife, Hanna Italian Literary Studies for their work, 2000) and Dante: The Critical Complex; the Advisors, was honored for his second, Perestroika. “Dante’s Lyrics: Poems of Youth and associate editor of Medieval Italy: An Ency- “civic leadership and influ- n Katori Hall ’03 was a finalist for the since 1975, recognizes individuals whose the Vita Nuova.” The award is one of 15 clopedia; and author of From Image to Idea: ence to affect positive change n Stephen Sagner ’88 has inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for support of the college and its programs that was presented during the associa- A Study of the Simile in Dante’s Commedia. in our community,” according become the co-president and Drama Inspired by American History and whose dedication to education and tion’s annual convention in January. The MLA and its 30,000 members in to an ADL statement. Jonathan Lavine ’88 chief strategy officer of College for her play Hurt Village, which was pro- professionalism have been of particular Barolini is the author of Dante’s Poets: 100 countries work to strengthen the “It is fitting that we com- Summit, a college and career duced by the Signature Theatre Company meaning to the mission and progress of Textuality and Truth in the ‘Comedy’, which study and teaching of languages and liter- memorate ADL’s centennial in New Eng- readiness organization. Sagner, a long- in New York. The winners were Dan the institution. Press joined Guardian in received the MLA’s Howard R. Marraro ature. Founded in 1883, the MLA provides Prize and the Medieval Academy of opportunities for its members to share land by honoring Jonathan Lavine, who time nonprofit executive, formerly was O’Brien for The Body of an American and 1956 and has more than 55 years of expe- America’s John Nicholas Brown Prize; their scholarly findings and teaching ex- embodies the very principles that have s.v.p., foundation and corporate relations, Robert Schenkkan for All the Way. rience in financial services. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing periences with colleagues and to discuss defined ADL since 1913,” said ADL Na- at Local Initiatives Support Corp. Col- The prize, which carries an award of Dante; and Dante and the Origins of Italian trends in the academy. tional Director Abraham H. Foxman. “He lege Summit works with ap- $100,000 and was announced n Beau Willimon ’99, whose play Farragut is a champion for those who need sup- proximately 50,000 students on February 22, is given to North was made into the 2011 movie The port, and for those who may be bullied or at 180 high schools across the a new play or musical that Ides of March starring George Clooney and ambitious reporter, played by Kate Mara. what their own experience is, the same discriminated against.” country to help them com- “enlists theater’s power to Ryan Gosling, has written another political It’s the first major original programming way that you read a novel,” Willimon said. plete high school and prepare explore the past of the United drama: an American remake of the 1990 effort for Netflix, the video streaming and “You can read Anna Karenina in two days, n Jennifer Medbery ’06 was listed them for success in college. “I States, to participate mean- British mini-series House of Cards. Directed DVD-by-mail giant, which broke the mold or you can read it over a year. And I think among the winners of Marie Claire’s third cannot think of a better place ingfully in the great issues of by David Fincher, the series stars Kevin by releasing all 13 episodes of the show’s that’s better because it personalizes the annual “Women on Top Awards” in for me to have a positive im- our day through the public Spacey as an ambitious Washington politi- first season at one time, on February 1. experience.” October, honoring “the up-and-comers pact on the economic future conversation, grounded in cian who trades secrets with an equally “It’s fully in the audience’s hands to decide Alex Sachare ’71 leading thought-revolutions, creating of our kids, their families and historical understanding, that businesses and making names for them- communities than with this is essential to the functioning selves in fields from the military to the extraordinary organization,” of a democracy.” Katori Hall ’03 arts,” according to the magazine. Med- said Sagner. For more about the prize, go PHOTO: XANTHE ELBRICK • • bery is the founder and CEO of Kick- to kennedyprize.columbia.edu. DEAN’S DAY SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2013 NEW YORK CITY board, an educational software company n Ben Jealous ’94, president n that captures and analyzes students’ aca- and CEO of the NAACP since 2008, Jason Griffith ’92 now is the global Columbia College and the Columbia College Alumni Association are proud to demic progress, skills and weaknesses was listed on Fortune’s “2012 40 Under head of trading at Sanford C. Bernstein, sponsor Dean’s Day 2013. Scheduled for Saturday, June 1, the program provides the and which was used by 150 schools in 15 40” list in November. Under Jealous, a reporting to Chairman/CEO Robert van opportunity for alumni and parents to participate in thought-provoking lectures states last fall. “In 2009, I was working fifth-generation NAACP member and its Brugge. “As a 20-year industry veteran, and discussions with some of Columbia’s finest faculty and prominent alumni. at a high school in New Orleans, but I youngest president, the organization’s Jason brings extensive experience in global didn’t have a way of tracking students’ revenue has grown 10 percent annually equities and will play an integral role in We are proud to announce the Public Intellectual Lectures and Mini-Core grades, learning habits, behavior and and its donor base had grown nearly helping us to better serve our clients,” said Courses will build on last year’s concept of innovation by exploring the “Wonders family contacts, so I sat at my computer tenfold. With black unemployment at van Brugge. Griffith was most recently at of Discovery.” Presenters will discuss the latest thought-provoking research and understandings, demonstrating how discoveries in fields both old and new have and built Kickboard that summer,” said record highs, Jealous has expanded the Jefferies & Co., where he was global head changed our historical perspective. These stimulating discussions promise a day of Medbery. (See CCT, Summer 2012.) NAACP’s programs to include economic of equities, responsible for overseeing cash intellectual discourse, which is the cornerstone of the Columbia academic tradition. literacy training as well as and electronic trading, equity derivatives, n Tony Kushner ’78 was taking education, health and convertibles and prime brokerage as well SCHEDULE OF EVENTS nominated for the Academy environmental justice initia- as sales and research. Prior to Jefferies, Award for Best Adapted tives national. Griffith was the global head of the hedge 8:00 a.m. Registration Opens — Alfred Lerner Hall Screenplay for Lincoln, which fund investors group and equity-linked 8:30–10:15 a.m. Dean’s Continental Breakfast n stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Frances Bodomo ’10’s solutions at Bank of America, and later at with Opening Address by James J. Valentini, was directed by Steven Spiel- short film,Boneshaker, was Societe Generale. Dean, Columbia College and Vice President, berg. Although the Oscar shown at the 2013 Sundance Undergraduate Education n went to Chris Terrio for Argo, Film Festival in Park City, Alan Press ’56, s.v.p. and past CEO 8:30 a.m. Camp Columbia, ages 3–17 Kushner won the Critics’ Utah, in January. Boneshaker, of the Wealth Advisory Group, a gen- Choice Movie Award for Best which stars 2013 Academy eral agency of the Guardian Life Insur- 10:30–11:45 a.m. Public Intellectual Lectures Adapted Screenplay and was Award nominee Quven- ance Co. of America, was awarded the Tony Kushner ’78 deliv- Noon–1:30 p.m. Lunch honored by the National So- zhané Wallis, was one of Huebner Gold Medal by The American ered the 2004 Class 2:00–3:30 p.m. Mini-Core Courses ciety of Film Critics and the Day address. 65 short films that were se- College of Financial Services, its highest New York Film Critics Circle, PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO lected from more than 8,000 honor. The award, presented annually 3:30–5:00 p.m. Affinity Receptions

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CAMPUS NEWS Elisabeth Ladenson Ph.D. ’94 What drew you to studying disappointment. It’s enriched Goncourt, which was and still n GLOBAL CENTER: On January 14 a gift that will span multiple schools GSAS is a professor of French French? my scholarship so much. is France’s most prestigious Columbia opened its eighth Global at the University and will support and comparative literature as When I went to college, I literary society. By the time she Center, in Nairobi, Kenya — the first research and fellowships with a focus well as the general editor of thought that I was never Shifting to your area of spe- died, she was one of the most Global Center in Africa. Global Centers on India and emerging markets. The Columbia’s Romanic Review, going to take French again cialization, what would you respected writers in France. are designed to promote and facilitate announcement of the gift was timed to a journal devoted to the because I’d been forced to say to someone who asks, The analogy that I finally came international collaborations, research coincide with 12:12 p.m. on December study of Romance literatures. take it for something like 12 “Why should I focus on this up with is it’s as though Lady projects, academic programming and 12, 2012 — 12:12 on 12-12-12. It is the Born and raised on the Upper years growing up. My first era in French literature?” Gaga were to cap off her career study abroad. In addition to Nairobi, largest gift from an alumnus in India to West Side, Ladenson earned a name is spelled with an “S” I don’t think it’s a particu- by winning the Nobel Prize. Columbia’s network of centers that have Columbia. B.A. from Penn in French and instead of a “Z” because part larly attractive time; it’s not opened or have been announced in- Currimbhoy, who studied economics comparative literature and an of my mother’s family is that I like the period, I like What’s your favorite place cludes Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mum- at the College, is the founder of Element M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from French and she was a Fran- the authors who were both- to be? bai, Paris, Santiago and Rio de Janeiro. Capital, an investment company with a Columbia in French and My girlfriend and I focus on private equity and real estate. Romance philology. She President Lee C. Bollinger greets Mwai Kibaki, presi- bought a house in Nor- n ZUCKERMAN GIFT: Mortimer dent of Kenya, at the dedication of the Columbia taught at Virginia from Five Minutes with ... Elisabeth Ladenson mandy last year. … Of Zuckerman, the Canadian-born co- Global Center in Nairobi. n APPLICATIONS RISE: Columbia 1992–2005, after which course, there are lots founder and chairman of Boston Prop- received 33,460 applications for the she returned to Columbia; cophile. But I quickly elimi- ered by the period and who of places I haven’t been that erties, chairman and editor-in-chief of tion on the new Manhattanville campus. It College and Engineering Classes of she has been chair of the nated several other majors responded to it with great would be nice but I find that U.S. News & World Report and publisher will become the hub of cross-campus re- 2017, an increase of 5 percent from a year Department of French and and also discovered a course novels and poetry. Pre-rev- the older I get, the less I enjoy of the New York Daily News, has pledged search on brain science, bringing together ago and the second-highest total in school Romance Philology since called “French Cinema and olutionary France is a much traveling. I like my living $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Be- researchers from the Medical Center and history. The Class of 2015, the first that September. Ladenson’s books the Novel,” in which we more interesting and vibrant room quite a lot. havior Institute to support interdisciplin- Arts and Sciences as well as from Engi- had the option of using the Common Ap- include Proust’s Lesbianism watched films and read culture. But it’s oppression ary neuroscience research and discovery neering and other schools to collaborate on plication, received nearly 35,000 applica- (1999) and Dirt for Art’s Sake: French lit but we also read and awfulness that produces What books are on your by scholars across the University. Presi- pioneering research in the neural sciences tions, a record 33.4 percent increase from Books on Trial from Madame theory, including Freud. And great literature, often. And nightstand? dent Lee C. Bollinger announced the gift and an array of academic fields involving the previous year. It’s not unusual for Bovary to Lolita (2007). shortly after that, I learned the dreary 19th and early 20th An Irish novel, Skippy Dies, on December 17. human behavior. applications to spike in the first year of that — even though I was century produced incredible that’s quite good. The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind the Common App but after last year’s dip What did you want to be at Penn — my financial aid literature: Baudelaire, Flau- Brain Behavior Institute will be located n CURRIMBHOY GIFT: Delhi-based of 9 percent, the number of applications growing up? package could be applied bert, Balzac, even the crazy What would you do if you within the 450,000-sq.-ft. Jerome L. Greene entrepreneur Sharik Currimbhoy ’02 has for the Class of 2017 continues an upward You mean, did I dream of to the Columbia program at Zola, Proust, Colette. weren’t a professor? Science Center, currently under construc- pledged $12.12 million to Columbia in trend that goes back to the 1990s. being an academic when I Reid Hall. So I went off to I guess I lack imagination in was a child? No, no; are there France and didn’t come back You’re working on a book the sense that books are all kids who dream of becoming for two years, at which point about Colette now. Tell me I’ve ever cared about and I academics? I was going to be I spoke French well and had about that. can’t really imagine caring a writer, and I guess I have discovered French literature The book is my attempt to about anything else. In that become that in the sense that and had too many credits to break out of a strictly academic sense I have the best job in the I write books. But I thought I major in anything else. kind of writing. And Colette, world for me, because I get to was going to be a novelist or she’s the author of Gigi; she write and read and talk about something of that sort. Just a What do you teach? published her first book in books. writer, capital W. Graduate and undergraduate 1900 and her last book in 1949. But what does alarm me 19th-century and early 20th- Her first books were published a little bit is that they are af- century French literature under her husband’s name, fected by digital technology. courses. I also taught Lit and they were kind of sala- Yes, e-readers are wonderful COLUMBIACOLUMBIA COLLEGECOLLEGE Hum for four years and cious. She also had a career as innovations but I love books would like to get back to a journalist and as a music hall as physical objects. I don’t it. But what I would really dancer. … want to read something that AALUMNILUMNI RREUNIONEUNION WWEEKENDEEKEND like is to take a crack at CC She’s a brilliant writer but can run out of battery power and then go for the trifecta, I’m also interested in her ca- or break. I can carry a book with Art Hum. I have a great reer. She seemed to enjoy pro- around and if it gets wet, it’s Make plans now to return to New In an effort to reduce costs and be environmentally friendly, Columbia College Alumni Affairs and your class’s Reunion commitment to the Core. … vocation and doing the oppo- still readable. Yes, they’re York City and the Columbia campus Classes Committee will communicate with you via email as much In fact, when I came back site of what people expected heavy, but I can write in them, 1943 for Alumni Reunion Weekend 2013. as possible.

here, the first thing I said in of her. She bared her left I can dog ear the pages. The 1948 : Register today! For more information or to my interview was, “I really, breast on stage, creating a huge demise of bookstores alarms 1953 The weekend will feature register visit reunion.college.columbia.edu. BIA CO 1958 Class-specific activities, cocktail receptions and dinners MB OLL really regret not having taught scandal. She seems to have me because browsing in LU LE OL G 1963 planned by each class’s Reunion Committee; CO E Lit Hum as a graduate stu- been bisexual; she engaged in bookstores has been one of If you register before Wednesday, May 1, C “Back on Campus” sessions featuring Mini-Core Courses, dent.” I was not whistling a protracted kiss with her fe- the great pleasures of my life. 1968 you’ll receive a 10 percent discount on 1973 Public Intellectual Lectures and more as part of Dean’s Dixie, as they say; I male lover dressed in drag on I shudder to imagine a world all events, excluding Broadway shows, 1978 Day on Saturday; New York City Ballet and New York really wanted to the stage of the Moulin Rouge in which one can’t do that. 1983 New York City entertainment options including an art Philharmonic tickets. do that. And it in 1907. But she also became Interview: Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts 1988 gallery crawl, Broadway shows and other cultural activities; ALUMNI REUNION has not been a the president of the Académie Photo: Isabelle Chagnon 1993 All-class programs including the Wine Tasting and the Questions? Please contact Jane Bond, 1998 Starlight Reception, with dancing, champagne and sweets alumni affairs: [email protected] WEEKEND 2003 on Low Plaza; and or 212-851-7834. 2008 Camp Columbia, ages 3–17. SPRING 2013 12 SAVESAVE THETHE DATEDATE THURSDAY,THURSDAY, MAYMAY 30–-30–- SUNDAY,SUNDAY, JUNEJUNE 22,, 20132013

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT IN MEMORIAM n Karl-Ludwig Selig, professor emeritus to embrace the text, to read it ing team, which named two of Spanish and Portuguese and a Cer- with rigor, but also with plea- sculls after him. A remem- Bryan Terrazas ’13 Pursues Fascination with the Cosmos vantes scholar, died on December 1, 2012, sure. However, like all of my brance will be held for him on the Upper West Side. He was 86. best professors, Selig insisted this spring at the Columbia B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 Selig is regarded as one of the world’s that reading text was a fun- Class of 1929 Boathouse. foremost experts on Cervantes’ Don Quix- damentally serious endeavor, Karl Daum ’15 ith the goal of one day covered Terrazas’ expenses. “It was a head and using these models to make ote. Known for his course “The Novella: that text must be respected.” shedding light on some very difficult project,” Terrazas says. predictions about new situations.” from Boccaccio to Cervantes,” Selig pas- “He was resolved to fight Former students may share grand questions — “My adviser, astronomer Paul Nulsen, Born in Los Angeles to Bolivian sionately made the case that the modern as only a devotee of Don Quix- memories of Selig on the “Fans “Why is the universe was amazing. He gave me a lot of immigrants, Terrazas was 3 when his novel is dependent on Cervantes’ pica- ote could,” said another for- of Karl-Ludwig Selig” group W resque work. He also taught “Masterpiec- mer student, Dennis Klainberg on Facebook. Several of Selig’s expanding? What is the 96 percent of tough things to do, which I had worked family moved to northern Virginia. former students have taken up matter and energy we can’t see right with before, but not to that extent.” He traces his love of astronomy to a es of Western Literature and Philosophy ’84, “by staying optimistic, PHOTO: LORI GRINKER/ now?” — Bryan Terrazas ’13 has taken Just prior to leaving for Cambridge, fourth-grade field trip to the local plan- II,” also known as “Super Lit Hum.” fighting to live another day CONTACT PRESS IMAGES a collection for his caretaker, an ambitious approach to his under- Terrazas spent a week living at the MDM etarium, and now tries to instill that Those who took Selig’s class “could and keeping in close touch Gilbert Adiaba. For information graduate work in astrophysics. Observatory on Kitt Peak in Arizona, same sense of awe in others. One night never get the books, or the professor, out with all his friends, colleagues and espe- on how to donate, contact Dennis Klainberg Terrazas, a John Jay Scholar, spent which is partly owned and operated by a month, through the Harlem Sidewalk of [their] mind. Fifty years later, people cially, his beloved students.” ’84 ([email protected]) or Ted Allegaert ’87 summer 2011 at the renowned European Columbia. He slept by day and spent Astronomy project, Terrazas and fellow can recite his lectures,” said Christopher Selig had an appreciation for the row- ([email protected]). Organization for Nuclear Research nights learning how to use telescopes students from the astrophysics depart- Allegaert ’78 in a recent Spectator article. (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, which to observe changes in the brightness of ment set up telescopes in Federal Plaza Selig was born into a Jewish family in aims to understand the workings of the cataclysmic variables — binary stars in in Harlem and invite passersby to take Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1926. He and his Dean’s Scholarship Reception 2013 universe through particle physics. Fund- which a dense white dwarf star tears a look at planets and other celestial parents fled to the United Kingdom in ed by a Columbia Undergraduate Schol- matter from a normal star. Cataclysmic bodies. “It’s not like they are going to 1939, before the start of WWII, relocating early 500 named scholarship donors are invested in the future of Columbia Col- ars Program Summer Enhancement Fel- variables, Terrazas explains, allow an event where they are expecting to to Erie, Pa. Selig earned a B.A. from Ohio and student recipients filled Roone lege,” he said. “We want to remain competi- lowship, Terrazas plotted data resulting astronomers to study the relationships learn about science. I have to be able State, where he also swam; an M.A. from NArledge Auditorium on February 7 at tive, and named scholarships allow us to the annual Dean’s Scholarship Reception. do so.” from the incredibly high-energy proton between different types of stars. to engage them just like that,” Terrazas Ohio State; and a Ph.D. from the Universi- ty of Texas, where he later taught. He re- Each year, nearly 1,200 Columbia College Brandon Lewis ’13 spoke on behalf of the collisions within the Large Hadron Col- Through his undergraduate work, says. “It’s interesting to try to explain students receive named scholarship recipients. ceived his United States citizenship in 1948 lider, the world’s most powerful particle Terrazas has narrowed his interests to the concept as well as create wonder scholarships as part “What can I possibly accelerator. He then compared the re- extragalactic astronomy, which stud- and get them enthralled with the sub- and taught at the University of Minnesota, of their financial aid say to thank you for this sults against how current theories state ies phenomena outside the Milky ject. It’s a challenge, but it’s really fun.” Johns Hopkins, North Carolina and Cor- package, and this event opportunity?” he said, subatomic particles should interact. The Way Galaxy. For his senior thesis, he Given his scientific bent, few would nell before joining Columbia in 1966. Selig allows the students and addressing the donors aim: to find discrepancies that would is working with Associate Professor guess that Terrazas also is an accom- was presented Columbia’s Mark Van donors to meet one in the room. “The day signal the existence of previously unde- of Astronomy Greg Bryan to update plished clarinetist. He began playing Doren Award for Teaching in 1974. After another and share their I received my letter of tected particles or forces. models of how the universe’s first stars at 10 and, through Columbia’s music leaving Columbia in 1989, he taught at the College experiences. acceptance was a happy Terrazas, who stayed in an apartment came into being. “As Bryan learns, department, takes private lessons at University of the South (Sewanee) and at Dean James J. Valen- one but I wasn’t truly tini welcomed attend- elated until I received in the town of Saint-Genis-Pouilly in he is clearly trying to put all of this The Metropolitan Opera. He also per- the University of Greifswald, Germany. ees, saying, “We have, by the financial aid pack- Selig wrote or co-authored 45 books, The reception allows scholarship France and rode a bike across the border information into some sort of coherent forms with the Columbia University all measures, the most age that allowed it to many of which have been translated into recipients and their donors to meet. daily to CERN’s facilities, relishes having structure; he’s trying to piece together a Orchestra. diverse college among PHOTO: CHRIS BALMER ’07 become a reality.” been part of that groundbreaking experi- big picture,” says Bryan. “Like the best At press time, Terrazas was awaiting multiple languages. selective schools in the ment, known as ATLAS. “It was amazing scientists, he is forming models in his responses from several research fellow- Selig always was willing and excited to country. Financial aid is a tool that allows us To view a video from the reception as well to feel the need, the urgency, the ships and graduate programs. As speak with his students, and dozens attend- to create the Columbia that we have.” as the 2012–13 Scholarship Directory, go to drive throughout everything that he considers his next move, he ed his 86th birthday celebration last August. The evening’s donor speaker, James T. college.columbia.edu/cct. To view photos I was doing at CERN,” he says. finds himself motivated not by Harper’s Magazine Publisher John Mac­ Brett ’84, ’90 Business, echoed the senti- from the reception, go to facebook.com/ At CERN, Terrazas also real- what he has learned thus far but Arthur ’78 referenced Selig last year in ment: “We are all here today because we ColumbiaCollege1754/photos_albums. ized that he prefers astronomy by the many questions in his field his Class Day address: “He wanted you to pure physics. And so, last that remain unanswered. summer, he spent two months at “It’s really not about being the Harvard-Smithsonian Center perfect at calculating what is for Astrophysics in Cambridge, already known,” Terrazas says. Have You Moved? DATE SMART! Mass., where he created com- “It’s about pushing the boundar- puterized models to simulate the ies of what you know. That’s re- To ensure that you receive evolution of radio lobes — per- ally what research has taught me. CCT and other College Join the singles’ pendicular plumes of matter that Every single project that I’ve been information, let us know if network exclusively rise from black holes at the center a part of has incorporated this.” you have a new postal or for graduates, faculty of galaxies and are believed to email address, a new phone and students of the heat the atmospheres around Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, number or even a new name. Ivy League them. The project was funded is a freelance journalist and an edi- MIT, Stanford and Bryan Terrazas ’13, shown here at the Rutherford Observa- Click “Contact Us” at by the National Science Founda- tory atop Pupin Hall, has spent his undergraduate years torial producer for LasMayores.com, college.columbia.edu/cct few others. tion’s Research Experiences for Major League Baseball’s official sampling various aspects of astrophysics. or call 212-851-7852. www.rightstu dating.com Undergraduates program, which PHOTO: KRISTEN STRYKER Spanish language website. 1-800-988-5288

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or Reyna Pacheco ’16, squash For the latest news on has been far more than a sport. An immigrant from Mexico, Columbia athletics, visit FPacheco’s discovery of squash gocolumbialions.com. Humanities was a defining moment in her life. “I came to the United States with Columbia as a first-year, winning five my mom and my brother when I was of her first eight matches. 4. That was hard because we were Seeing that her hard work has paid here, knowing that we could be kicked off and wanting to give back, Pacheco out any day,” Pacheco says. “Because is happy to volunteer in the squash Turns 75 of that, I didn’t feel like I could dream community. “Our team here volun- very far. I felt like I was limited. But teers every week at StreetSquash and when I was introduced to squash, that I keep in touch as much as I can with completely changed my life.” the kids in San Diego,” she says. Pacheco discovered the sport in her In December, Pacheco was a mem- n the main floor of Hamilton Hall, just to the right as you approach the Dean’s Office, is early teenage years at a program in ber of a four-person delegation repre- the Witten Center for the Core Curriculum. It’s an interesting suite of rooms. The recep- San Diego similar to the one that the senting the World Squash Federation tion area has a corner cabinet filled with the current texts of Contemporary Civilization Columbia men’s and women’s teams that went before the International volunteer with at their home facility, the Olympic Committee in Lausanne, and Literature Humanities — open it and the faint, pleasant smell of new books fills the Squash helped Pacheco gain the self-confidence to SL Green StreetSquash Center in Har- succeed in school and become a Gates Millennium Switzerland, to make a case for air. There’s also a large conference room where Core faculty gather for weekly meetings, lem. At a time when she was struggling squash’s inclusion in the 2020 Olym- Scholar. offices for administrators, and a library with floor-to-ceiling bookcases and tall, sliding in school and the thought of attend- PHOTO: GENE BOYARS/COLUMBIA SPORTS INFORMATION pic Games. She was joined by WSF ing college was daunting, squash was President N Ramachandran, CEO Oladders. The bookcases contain Core texts from different eras, and often several editions of those texts, along something that Pacheco enjoyed and could pursue with vigor. Andrew Shelly and the No. 1 ranked men’s player in the world, with works of criticism and other related subjects. Taken together, they provide concentrated, tangible evi- “When I got into the program, I just fell in love with everything Britain’s James Willstrop. dence of a conversation that has been ongoing, in the case of about squash,” she says. “It taught me things I couldn’t learn in a While the other three presenters were there to inform the classroom: respect, commitment, dedication and hard work.” IOC of the global reach of squash and the technical aspects of Literature Humanities, for 75 years. Pacheco’s dedication to squash led to success in school as well. the game, Pacheco provided a human and emotional element to In all those years, countless hours have been given over She and her family began the process to gain documentation, and demonstrate the impact squash can have on an individual. to thinking about the texts. But as the College celebrates the she applied both to Columbia and the Gates Millennium Scholars “My role was to show what squash has meant to my life,” program. “I was sitting down with lawyers at the same time I Pacheco says. “If you look at Olympians, their stories are very 75th anniversary of Lit Hum, this is an opportunity to pay was sitting down to do my college applications,” Pacheco recalls. impactful in the way their sport made it into their lives. We the course itself some considered attention: as an institution With the necessary paperwork in hand and wanted to show that squash is real and that it of Columbia College; as a tradition that bonds each first-year her applications complete, Pacheco received is touching a lot of lives.” word soon after that she not only had been Save the Date! A second meeting with the IOC is planned for class as well as students across generations; as an exercise accepted to Columbia but also was one of 1,000 APRIL 6 Lightweight Rowing May, which will focus on the technical aspects of in reading and listening and critical thinking whose impact recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, D.C. event the sport. A decision is expected in the fall. across two semesters — and beyond — differs for every stu- which provides students with financial aid, APRIL 13 Baseball alumni “It was such a unique experience,” Pacheco leadership programs and academic support. weekend says of her trip to Switzerland. “Meeting all dent. There is no truth universally acknowledged about Lit “I just feel so lucky every day of my life and APRIL 18 Women’s Leadership the people behind the whole movement, the Hum, and therein lies one of its greatest appeals. so blessed to have the opportunity to be here,” Council spring event president of the World Squash Federation, the The following pages contain articles about the origins and Pacheco says of her time at Columbia. As one APRIL 26 Fencing team banquet CEO and the world No. 1 now — it was very evolution of the course and the way it is taught, the perspec- of the top recruits out of an urban squash pro- APRIL 30 Varsity C Celebration impressive to be a part of that committee and gram, Pacheco played as the primary No. 2 for MAY 6 Football golf outing to present to the Olympic Committee.” tives of the faculty who teach it and the experiences of the students who take it, as well as a look at an alumni book club CAMPBELL SPORTS CENTER SCOREBOARD whose members make selections inspired by a Lit Hum ethos. If reading this section rekindles your memories of Lit Hum, Stories Seats in Conference Square feet in please share them with us at [email protected]. theater-style rooms strength and Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts meeting conditioning PHOTO: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, ’77J 5 144 room 5 6,400 center SPRING 2013 SPRING 2013 16 17 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASSIC READINGS, MODERN TECHNOLOGY

Students and Faculty Embrace Classic Readings, Modern Technology “The course is not a museum-like visit. It’s about the interrogation of texts.”

B y T i m ot h y P. C r o s s ’98 GSAS Gareth Williams, the Violin Family Professor of Classics and chair of Lit Hum, says that to read the course’s texts “is to introduce yourself to being unsettled about life.” PHOTO: MICHAEL Di VITO iterature Humanities can be described in many ways: ambitious, provoca- history. Charismatic, attention-grabbing and attention-seeking, to enroll as juniors and seniors. Here the success of Literature tive, imposing, eye-opening. It is the first class that freshmen encounter — he always had ambitions that went beyond being a college pro- Humanities’ older sibling, Contemporary Civilization, proved fessor, including writing music, poetry and fiction. As his biog- crucial. If the College’s freshmen could handle close reading and embodied in the gift copy of The Iliad they receive during the summer from rapher Katherine Elise Chaddock has observed, Erskine became discussion in a small class format for CC, why not for literature? America’s first “celebrity professor,” recognized as much for The first College faculty meetings to draft a humanities his potboiler novels — such as The Private Life of Helen of Troy course convened in 1934. The plan was to have a two-year hu- the Columbia College Alumni Association — and a formative experience, (1925), which was made into a silent film — as for his educational manities sequence in which undergraduates would confront lit- achievements. These began pulling him away from Columbia, erature, art and music, but difficulties in integrating music and one whose influence extends well beyond the classroom. Its teaching meth- and by the late 1920s, when the College de- art proved too much at first. Music Humani- cided to require a second semester of Contem- ties and Art Humanities (together originally ods have expanded with technology, and its texts and the conversations surrounding porary Civilization and abandon the General called Humanities B) became electives, but in L Honors course, Erskine was largely out of the fall 1937, the College introduced Humanities them have evolved with attitudes. Indeed, after 75 years, what may be most remarkable picture. A as a new Core requirement. But the seed Erskine planted had already about Lit Hum is how what began as an effort to buck the academic establishment has taken root. In a few years, a handful of the Col- n many ways, it’s striking how much of lege’s professors — including Jacques Barzun Erskine’s original vision lives on in today’s proven itself an adaptable and indispensable pillar of the Columbia College experience. ’27, ’32 GSAS, Irwin Edman (Class of 1916, Literature Humanities. Classes generally Class of 1920 GSAS) and Raymond Weaver Istill read one text per week, in translation. The origins of Humanities A — as Lit Hum was called origi- Erskine saw this effort as a remedy for what he and his col- (Class of 1910, Class of 1917 GSAS), who had Students then discuss these texts in small sec- nally — go back to the first days of the Core Curriculum. Em- leagues perceived as “the literary ignorance of the younger gen- been Erskine’s students — resurrected the tions, though there are a lot more of those sec- boldened by a successful experiment with a “war issues” course eration.” But what was truly innovative was his approach, read- General Honors course as the Colloquium in tions now — about 65 — compared with only during WWI, in 1919 the College launched Introduction to Con- ing “The Iliad, The Odyssey and other masterpieces as though they Important Books. The colloquium, which ad- 20 when the course was created. temporary Civilization in the West. A year later Professor of Eng- were recent publications, calling for immediate investigation and opted both the scope and format of the General This format matters. “A student having lish John Erskine (Class of 1900), who had championed a “liberal” discussion.” As much as it horrified some colleagues — especial- Honors course, was taught regularly, then spo- book in hand each week makes a difference education against those who wanted more pre-professional train- ly those enamored of German-style instruction that emphasized radically, for decades. in conversation,” says Christia Mercer, the More importantly, it planted the idea in Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, a ing at the College, began his General Honors seminar, co-taught memorization and rote learning — Erskine’s approach caught on, The seminar format, with no more by two professors. This course, spread out across the junior and though its impact was limited to those students enrolled in the some of the same faculty’s minds that this sort than 22 students per class, is vital to former Lit Hum chair who will resume the senior years, featured one “great book” per class, which was read General Honors seminar. of course might be appropriate for all under- Lit Hum’s success. post this fall. That’s why Lit Hum has never in translation and discussed in small sections. Erskine was, and remains, a controversial figure in Columbia’s graduates, not just a select few who decided PHOTO: MATTHEW SEPTIMUS even flirted with the idea of creating readers,

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My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and other Indestructible Hutchins’ original experiment at Chicago and the successful pro- Writers of the Western World (1996) — in which Denby described gram at St. John’s College (in Annapolis and Santa Fe). Lit Hum retaking the Core in middle age (see Columbia Forum in this issue) always has been flexible about which texts it uses, and remains so. Lit Hum On Exhibit — Harvard professor Helen Vendler bemoaned “Columbia’s ten- Indeed, this flexibility calls into question whether “great books” is dency with literary texts, which is to fasten on the political and the an accurate description of the course at all. or those who can’t get enough Literature Humanities, moral over the erotic or aesthetic or epistemological; and such an The books that make it, explains Mercer, are the “books that two 75th anniversary exhibits and an ongoing web ex- emphasis is a standing invitation to correctness or incorrectness.” people keep commenting on,” just as Virgil mined Homer but Fhibit offer the chance to go deeper. Nevertheless, this emphasis on examining the human condi- adapted him to the exigencies of imperial Rome. Mendelson says An exhibit in the Hamilton Hall lobby highlights the material tion, approached through powerful and resonant works of litera- Lit Hum embraces “books that people have been arguing about.” history of the Lit Hum texts, emphasizing that they are not only ture, remains central to the Lit Hum experience and to a Colum- The point isn’t that everyone likes them or agrees about them, he intellectual creations but also objects of craftsmanship, manu- bia College education. As Edward Mendelson, the Lionel Trilling says. “The point is they’re disturbing.” facture, publication and distribution. Two display cases focus on Professor in the Humanities, says, Lit Hum is a “course about Williams agrees. “To read these texts is to introduce yourself the contributions of John Erskine (Class of 1900) and Jacques problems people have never been able to solve.” to being unsettled about life,” he says. The course “is intended to Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS to the creation and evolution of the course. Kathryn Yatrakis, dean of academic affairs and senior associ- raise more questions than it answers, and to nurture a curiosity ate v.p. for Arts and Sciences, underscores Lit Hum’s value as a about written human experience.” The Columbia Alumni Center also will have a 75th anniver- bridge: “It provides a common intellectual experience that binds Non-Columbians often don’t appreciate the significance of ap- sary exhibit, set to open in March. students to each other, and to generations of alumni.” parently incremental changes. “What is astonishing about Colum- Columbia University Libraries’ Rare Book & Manuscript Li- bia’s Core offerings is how little they have changed over the years,” brary, meanwhile, has established an online exhibit, “Core Cur- ere’s the answer to the most common question asked says The Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, who surveyed the “great riculum: Literature Humanities” (along with a companion exhibit about Literature Humanities: The Iliad, Oresteia, Oedi- books” movement at Chicago, St. John’s and Columbia in A Great about Contemporary Civilization) featuring materials from the pus the King and Inferno. The question: What are the Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books RBML collections. Among the items are a papyrus fragment of Htexts that have been read in Lit Hum every year since (2008). (Beam is the father of Christopher ’06.) But the faculty who Homer’s Iliad dating from the first century BCE, an illuminated the course was first required? That’s it — four texts. King( Lear teach the course disagree. “The course has never been the same be- manuscript of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and early editions of Pride would make the cut were it not for several years when the sylla- cause the context has always changed,” says Williams. “The genera- Students in Lit Hum are expected, in the words of Dean James J. and Prejudice and To the Lighthouse. View these and more at bus only required students to read one Shakespeare play, leaving tion of WWII had a different experience from the first Humanities Valentini, to “engage with others in a broad way about big ideas exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/lit_hum. specific to the human condition.” it to the teachers of each section to decide which one.) A students,” and the Cold War, civil rights and women’s rights, he PHOTO: MATTHEW SEPTIMUS For those who perceive Lit Hum as a staid, inflexible “great says, all affected the context in which the course was taught. Lit Hum is a “course about problems The books that make the syllabus are the people have never been able to solve.” “books that people keep commenting on.” which were the backbone of reading assignments in Contempo- books” course, four texts is not a long list. Indeed, anyone who “Every generation has to reinvent Lit Hum,” agrees Mercer. “We wanted to present Lit Hum as edgy as it really is,” she says. rary Civilization for decades and which have made a comeback looks to Lit Hum for a fixed canon that all educated people That has never been more true than today. “The Lit Hum expe- The goal was to make the course “more alive, more vital.” Mer- at Columbia in recent years. should read is likely to be disappointed. Humanities A initially rience now is completely different from 20 years ago because our cer wanted students to be able to explore the contemporaneous More importantly, the approach matters. Any entering first- used most of Erskine’s original syllabus, as had the earlier col- students grew up with the Internet,” Williams says. “Students’ worlds and artistic interpretations of their readings. year expecting a formal literature course is likely to be sur- loquium. But the course’s administrators have since adapted minds work differently,” he adds, because they are used to easy Using the theme of “explorations,” the website allows stu- prised by Literature Humanities, because the the syllabus regularly to reflect faculty and and immediate access to information. dents to delve not simply into the context of Lit Hum texts but course’s ambitions are so much broader. As student interests. Molière and Voltaire were Paradoxically, that makes Lit Hum more valuable than ever. Lit also into the conversations that have flowed from them. For The Dean James J. Valentini says, students in Lit represented for decades but have fallen off; Hum encourages the process of “slowly unfolding a steady stream Iliad, for example, the website includes ancient depictions of the Hum are expected to “engage with others in a in the past 20 years, most students have read of argument,” says Williams, for students “accustomed to nearly Trojan War from classical pottery and sculpture, examples of an- broad way about big ideas specific to the hu- Cervantes, Austen and Dostoevsky. instantaneous communication.” He believes that “certain areas of cient arms and armor, and Renaissance depictions. But it also in- man condition.” Gareth Williams, the Violin Family Profes- the human experience resist the technological hand,” and in Lit cludes modern works, including streaming music — Bob Dylan’s It’s fair to say that this approach — what Val- sor of Classics and chair of Lit Hum, speaks for Hum, students “learn to formulate, deliver and defend arguments, “Temporary Like Achilles” (1966) and Led Zeppelin’s “Achilles entini describes as “thinking in a broad way as many instructors in rejecting the idea of a fixed both in speech and in writing.” And they learn to listen. “The art Last Stand” (1976) — as well as a clip from the blockbuster film a civilized person” — has puzzled many, both list of “classic” books. “As a classicist, I object of listening is a fundamental aspect of Lit Hum,” Williams says. Troy (2004), starring Brad Pitt as Achilles. Other texts are accom- on and off campus. In the early 1960s, a College to that sort of viewpoint. The course is not a panied by materials ranging from Hedwig and the Angry Inch (a committee reviewing Lit Hum chaired by Pro- museum-like visit. It’s about the interrogation his is not to give the impression that Lit Hum encour- 2001 musical about a rock ’n’ roll band with a transgendered Ger- fessor Fritz Stern ’46, ’53 GSAS, now University of texts,” he says. “I ask my students, why on ages a community of modern-day Luddites, rejecting man lead singer) to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a some- Professor Emeritus, had difficulty understand- earth read that book now?” technology and the Internet in favor of dog-eared pa- what irreverent artistic response by Seth Grahame-Smith to Jane ing “the philosophical or pedagogical ends of Mercer puts it another way: “We need to T perbacks full of scribbles. Nothing could be further Austen’s masterpiece. the course.” While the committee didn’t sug- get the students to read the books and feel the from the truth. Under Mercer’s leadership, Lit Hum has devel- The website, says Williams, contextualizes readings and con- gest abandoning Lit Hum, it noted that the tra- importance of them.” oped a rich online presence to supplement class readings and nects students to the history of discussion about them. “The web- ditional justifications — such as thinking in a The variety of texts that have appeared discussion. site frames the texts,” he says. “It provides supportive picturing.” Christia Mercer, the Gustave M. Berne broad way about books — were “scorned by the Professor of Philosophy, says, “Every on the syllabus during the last 75 years dis- The thinking behind the website (college.columbia.edu/core/ Mercer sees this as an aid to instructors as well. “Teachers committee.” Similarly, in a savage New Republic generation has to reinvent Lit Hum.” tinguishes Lit Hum both from great books lithum/texts), says Mercer, was to make Lit Hum more intellectu- have to finesse how much time they spend on context in class,” review of David Denby ’65, ’66J’s Great Books: PHOTO: MATTHEW SEPTIMUS programs, such as President Robert Maynard ally engaging for students, more a part of their lives on campus. she notes. The website makes this an easier task. It also provides

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additional resources for instructors such as secondary readings Core — a financial foundation that will propel and enrich the and classroom materials. Core’s future. As indicated in the Dean’s Message on page 3 of “Each generation brings new tools to the course,” says Mercer. this issue, this multi-year campaign is beginning now, and the “Why shouldn’t we use all the tools available to us to make Lit first focus of the campaign is to provide the resources to enhance Hum more engaging for students and easier for teachers to teach?” and enrich the experience of faculty and students in Literature The Lit Hum website has another motive: building connec- Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. tions among the Core courses. “I don’t want the whole to be less Lit Hum, CC and the other Core courses now are housed in the than the sum of its parts,” Mercer says. She envisions links be- sleek, burnished Witten Center for the Core Curriculum, made tween the Lit Hum website and its sister websites, say with the possible through the generosity of former University Trustee Lit Hum exploration of Montaigne linking to the Art Hum web- Richard E. Witten ’75. Located off Hamilton Hall’s main lobby, Faculty Find Lit Hum site’s information on Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. the center is a vastly improved resource as well as a clear testa- “We want to help students see the connections between the parts ment of the Core’s central place in the College. of the Core,” she says. According to Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Roosevelt “The value of technology is to expand the experience, to ex- Montás ’95, ’04 GSAS, the center’s director, the center has become tend the interaction that students have in the classroom to out of a vital meeting ground for the Lit Hum faculty. “It is a space Challenging, Fulfilling the classroom,” Valentini says. “It is something that expands and where conversations happen,” he says. enhances, not replaces.” The College has sought to expand conversations about the Core in other ways. The most dramatic has been the Core Schol- hese sorts of educational enhancements wouldn’t have ars Program, another Mercer initiative, which was launched in “The course is a marriage of methodologies and been imaginable 25 years ago, and not just because the the 2010–11 academic year. Each year the program invites any Internet was in its infancy. The growth in the size of the student who has completed a Core course to create a Core Re- the idiosyncrasies of the individual instructor.” T College since the 1980s — along with the large number flection. The program encourages students to analyze, question, of engineers and, now, General Studies students who take Lit Hum dramatize and interpret materials they encounter in the Core. — makes administering the course (indeed, all the Core) more of Authors of exceptionally creative, well-executed reflections — as a challenge than ever. But the College’s commitment to the Core judged by a student-faculty committee — are honored as Core B y S h i r a B o s s ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA Curriculum has enabled it to meet the course’s obligations as well Scholars, with their reflections posted on the Core Curriculum as implement a host of improvements. website (college.columbia.edu/core/scholars). Last year’s win- “The value of technology is to expand the he year-long Literature Humanities seminar is in many ways an ex- ercise in ambition: Take 22 first-year students through 21 or so foun- experience, to extend the interaction that students dational texts of Western literature — by Homer, Plato, Dante, Shake- have in and out of the classroom.” speare, Dostoevsky, Woolf — at the rate of about one book per week.

In the late 1980s, the primary administrator for Lit Hum and ners included a “Triptych For Ovid” by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan The purpose isn’t only to focus on plot points and comprehension but CC was a junior administrator who presided over two cramped ’12 and “The Ecstasy of Sonya” by Marian Guerra ’14, a reflection offices on the seventh floor of Hamilton Hall that were packed on a scene from Crime and Punishment. Talso to change how these 17- and 18-year-olds read, think, see the world and, in the years with filing cabinets stuffed with decades of records and old syl- Other efforts to enhance the Lit Hum experience include stag- labi, shelves of Core books and a chronically malfunctioning pho- ing a classical Greek play every fall and having Art Humanities to come, reflect upon their own life dilemmas. tocopier. The course’s instructors had to wedge themselves into instructors give guided tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art an East Campus conference room for their weekly staff meetings to students. “Lit Hum gives students a couple ities A. Its goal: to explore major works with the senior professor who served as the course’s chair. Despite these enhancements, at its core, Lit Hum remains of dozen models of how to think about of literature as a companion course to Austin Quigley, dean emeritus of Columbia College and the about small groups of students reading and discussing books a problem — the problem of being hu- the existing Contemporary Civilization, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, made en- that have stood the test of time. “The texts remain front and cen- man,” says Margo Rosen ’11 GSAS, a which features philosophic works. The hancing and institutionalizing the College’s commitment to the ter,” says Williams. lecturer in Literature Humanities based syllabus has included The Iliad, Oresteia, Core Curriculum a central thrust of his administration in the last “The course will thrive as long as those texts are animated by in the Department of Slavic Languages Oedipus the King and Inferno every year half of the 1990s and the first years of the new century, and Lit bright 18-year-olds arguing about them,” says Yatrakis, adding, and Literatures. “You get Homer’s world since its debut, with a slightly shifting Hum clearly benefited from this push. To recognize and support “It’s a wonderful foundation for the work they’re doing for the — it’s a great way to start; he works by cast of other classic works. All are chosen teaching, he created a set of eight Core chairs for senior faculty following years.” repetition and juxtaposition. Plato does for their enduring relevance to modern who taught Core courses and also established incentives for ju- Mercer puts it more simply. “Lit Hum is awesome,” she says. it dialogically. St. Augustine goes inside life. “We talk about injustice, rage, family nior faculty who taught in the Core. In addition, the College in- the individual — it’s an inward journey ties, identity, power — so many issues we stituted a Core Lecturers program, so today the Lit Hum and CC versus an outward journey. Every ap- deal with today come up over and over staffs are augmented by a handful of postdoctoral scholars who Timothy Cross ’98 GSAS, a former CCT associate editor, is the ad- proach gives you more tools, and by the Margo Rosen ’11 GSAS, a Core lecturer, compares again in the Lit Hum readings,” says Jo receive highly competitive two-year appointments with faculty vancement communications officer at Columbia Engineering. His end students have so many ways to deal notes with Richard Sacks, an adjunct associate Ann Cavallo, associate professor of Ital- professor of English and comparative literature rank and teach two sections per semester. history of the Core Curriculum, An Oasis of Order: The Core with this problem of life.” and one of a corps of mainstays who have taught ian, who has taught the course continu- Valentini is working to take this to the next level. For the past Curriculum at Columbia College (1995), is available at college. A crown jewel of the Core Curriculum, Lit Hum for decades. ally since the early ’90s. “Even though year, he has been making plans to start an endowment for the columbia.edu/core/oasis. Lit Hum was founded in 1937 as Human- PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT the texts are very far from us in terms of a

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time period, they’re very close to us in life experience.” of teaching it. (The aim is for the faculty to be evenly divided with able teaching material they know intimately. Putting your- “There’s a collegial aspect,” says Joanna Stalnaker, associate a third tenured faculty, a third junior faculty and a third graduate self in front of the major works of civilization is intimidat- professor of French, who has taught Lit Hum for seven of her 11 student preceptors.) Many instructors read the assigned text before ing,” Seidel says. “You can teach the course only one way, years at Columbia. “Everyone is reading the same works at the class, and not just the first time they teach the course, but every time. and that’s with humility. The works are so much greater same time. There are very few colleges where that’s taking place, “Anybody who reads books for a living never feels it’s the same than any of us. You don’t really teach it — you read the and that’s the most valuable thing I can think of. This course thing over and over again,” Seidel says. “The books reveal them- books alongside a lot of smart people, both people teach- sends a message that literature matters and is central to a college selves over time, with new insights and new ways of reading.” ing the course and the Columbia students.” education, and that’s something that’s endangered right now.” Elisabeth Ladenson Ph.D. ’94 GSAS, professor of French and For first-time and any veteran instructors who choose to “That’s what we do at Columbia: Lit Hum and CC,” says comparative literature and chair of the Department of French and attend, a Wednesday lunch forum, with a guest speaker on Michael Seidel, a retired professor of English who taught Lit Romance Philology, reads each work itself plus as much as she the upcoming text, helps them prepare for the week ahead. Hum for 30 years after coming to Columbia from Yale in 1977. can get her hands on about the work. “I’m old-fashioned, so it’s The Witten Center for the Core Curriculum, meanwhile, “There’s really nothing like it in the country, because of its his- not Wikipedia I’m going to rely on,” she says. “It’s The Cambridge maintains a library of resources online and at its office in tory, its intensity, that it’s a seminar and because it’s Columbia Companion to Virgil, dictionaries of mythology and things like Hamilton Hall. And the Lit Hum chair keeps materials — students. I read those books with the same intensity the last time that. It’s not just the work; it’s the context of the work, the au- notes, articles, hand-outs — that have been passed down I taught it as the first time.” Seidel adds that he misses Lit Hum thor’s life, the influences of the work, mythological references. I through the years. and sometimes wakes up longing to teach a class. prepare for class surrounded by dictionaries and reference works “The first year is an Iliad,” Rosen says. “You barely Lit Hum’s teachers hail from humanities departments such as and critiques of the work.” have time to read the work yourself before you’re with English and comparative literature, philosophy, theater, classics and Another challenge to teachers is inherent in the nature of the the students teaching it. It was life-saving that I had anthropology. The course includes about 65 sections, which puts course: With such a range of works, many are bound to lie outside generous colleagues who shared their Lit Hum notes it in constant need of those willing and able to take on the rigors the scope of individual expertise. “Some people only feel comfort- and offered guidance.” Though she has taught the course four times, Rosen still attends every Wednesday presentation. “I love think- “You can teach the course only one way, ing about the work in the company of other people who also want to think about these texts,” she says. Seidel attended the Wednesday discussions every and that’s with humility. The works are so week for decades and found them one of the most enjoy- able aspects of teaching the course. “They were always much greater than any of us.” fruitful, with fascinating insights that were invaluable to the health and vitality of the course,” he says, adding that he especially enjoyed getting to know colleagues from other departments — historians, anthropologists, Andrew Feldherr, a professor of classics at Princeton, visited one of the philosophers, sociologists — who brought their own weekly Lit Hum staff meetings to offer an expert presentation on Ovid’s perspectives. “That had a tremendous impact on my Metamorphoses, which was the featured text that week. work through the years and in the way I approached PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT the whole academic experience.” The greatest challenge (and sometimes an enticement) it Hum’s precise content is continually debated by faculty for first-timers lies in developing even a basic knowledge of all and students. A common complaint from students in re- the books. “These are towering works. One could spend one’s life cent decades has been that the Western-centric syllabus is studying any one of them,” Stalnaker says. “I’d never read Hom- L exclusionary (the “Why are we reading the works of dead er or Virgil or the Bible. I was coming into it with complete igno- white males?” argument). Faculty are more likely to argue the rance and loved the idea of reading these books myself. I now merits of one individual text over another, and parse differences think it’s crazy to work in literature and not have any knowledge in translations to decide which should be the required versions. of the Bible [for example], because it’s so influential in the history The syllabus is reviewed formally, usually every two years, by of Western literature and in our language.” current Lit Hum staff and those who have taught the course in the In addition to the Wednesday talk, first-time graduate precep- previous five years. It’s a popular meeting. “A lot of debate takes tors are required to attend a Friday seminar series, led by the chair place, often before the meeting. Discussion of and reflection about of Lit Hum — currently Gareth Williams, the Violin Family Pro- what texts should be taught go on all the time,” Williams says. fessor of Classics and chair of the Department of Classics — on He emphasizes that no text earns its place in the course by how best to teach the course. Still, aside from the required read- default: “It’s not a bunch of people who worship the Western ings and a standardized final exam, the faculty is given a good canon. Nobody is treating these as museum pieces. We’re asking deal of free rein in how to approach their classes. One’s approach what aspect of the human experience these authors articulated might lean toward the historical, classical, philosophical, anthro- that draws readers over time and strikes a chord with generation pological or textual. The discussion might be more student-driv- after generation. It’s not an act of text worship, it’s an act of text en or teacher-led. So although Lit Hum is a shared experience interrogation.” among students and faculty, individual sections tend to differ in Currently, Boccacio’s Decameron is off the syllabus, Goethe’s trajectory, character and interpretational emphasis. Faust is on. Pride and Prejudice has been suggested for the chop- “One of the most important commodities is themselves: life ping block, perhaps in favor of an alternative Jane Austen novel Gareth Williams, the Violin Family Professor of Classics and chair of Lit Hum, conducts a weekly seminar for graduate preceptors who are experience,” Williams says of the teachers. “Lit Hum is a mar- such as Mansfield Park. Several years ago, in an effort to be more teaching the course for the first time. riage of methodologies, on which we agree, and idiosyncrasies inclusive, the Mesopotamian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh was PHOTO: MICHAEL Di VITO of the individual.” added but it was removed after just one year.

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In addition to the required work, pro- by the Core, who says, ‘I’m a science guy’ fessors can add one or more texts of their or whatnot, and then they find they love own choosing. Popular selections include it,” Ladenson says. “That’s a very gratify- Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Ralph Ellison’s In- ing pedagogic experience.” visible Man and Anthony Burgess’ A Clock- Students are known to contact their pro- work Orange. Ladenson adds Margaret At- fessors after the course — sometimes weeks wood’s The Penelopiad — the story of the later, sometimes years — to tell them how Trojan War from Penelope’s point of view much Lit Hum meant to them and the im- — to the Fall syllabus, following The Odys- pact it has had on their lives. Cavallo cites a sey. In the Spring, she asks the class to vote student who returned to his home country on an additional text. “They suggest things of India and started a vocational training Lit Hum for Life like One Hundred Years of Solitude; I propose company he named after Athena. “It really things like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young touches me when students are inspired in Man,” she says. “When we narrow it down, their life choices by Lit Hum,” she says. every single time they’ve voted for Lolita. Not everyone is so converted of course. “I left Columbia with an understanding of It’s a surefire hit, and it alludes to the entire Some students don’t complete all the read- tradition we’ve read.” ings or participate actively in the discus- the power of asking the right questions.” Stalnaker doesn’t assign additional read- sions. “Not all of them care or pay attention Anne Holt, a first-year graduate preceptor, ing and instead gives her charges breathing takes notes at one of the weekly Lit Hum or have a good time,” Ladenson says. “With room to read and absorb the required texts. staff meetings. Lit Hum, as with everything, what you get B y A l e x i s T o n t i ’11 A r t s She says there’s an ongoing concern among PHOTO: BRUCE GILBERT out of it reflects what you put into it.” faculty about whether the students can and Cavallo says the romantic ideal of stu- do read all of the works versus skim, skip or rely on SparkNotes, dents debating the books in dining halls and residence halls turns and “whether the ambition of the syllabus inspires superficial out to be true. She wasn’t sure until her two children came to the n the day after his college graduation, the last thing Chuck Callan ’78 reading. My experience is that the vast majority of them do read College and reported the phenomenon first-hand, which she was and get a lot out of the experience.” grateful to hear. did before leaving Morningside was visit Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig Students are known to contact their professors at his office in Hamilton Hall to ask for a reading list. “I did not want the weeks, even years, after the course to power and pleasure of the Core to end,” recalls Callan, who majored in tell them how much it meant to them. economics. “Literature Humanities was transformative for me.” Selig obliged. Among the books were a trio by Mann (Con- ing out: It increases their appetite for reading and broadens their Ofessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man; Death in Venice; and Doc- other interests, attunes them to an ongoing and long-lasting con- Ladenson has discovered the same: “It’s a huge amount of Although the course is billed as life-changing for students, fac- tor Faustus) and two each by Flaubert (Sentimental Education; versation about the world and equips them with new ways of reading — it’s astonishing anyone does it all — but I’ve been im- ulty often get as much out of teaching it as the students do taking it. Madame Bovary) and Joyce (Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a engaging with others and with themselves. pressed by how many students do most or all of the reading and Intimacy with the texts informs the professors’ research and writ- Young Man). He also advised the short stories of de Maupassant, “The Core is about great, enduring truths that neither I nor, I come to class prepared,” she says. “And even if they don’t, it’s ing in their own fields and enriches their personal lives as well. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Forster’s A Passage to India; dare say, humanity, can live without,” Callan says. (His literary good for them to be exposed to it.” When Hurricane Sandy flooded much of Cavallo’s home in Toms Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Crane’s The Red adviser, Selig, died on December 1, 2012. See The reading list always has been daunting, for nearly any stu- River, N.J., in October, she spent the night on the kitchen counter Badge of Courage; and García Márquez’s One Around the Quads.) dent, but Williams thinks today’s students are challenged more watching the tidal surge reach the windowsills and reflecting on Hundred Years of Solitude. All told, there were “Before taking the course I thought the than ever due to technology. “The act of reading is not what it Herodotus. “I was thinking of how Solon warned Croesus that you about 30 titles. subject matter of many of the books would was 20 years ago. The Internet is a technological marvel in so never know what’s going to happen in life,” she says. “It was a In 2010, Callan visited Selig a second time, never apply to me because of the differences many ways but it perhaps has had considerable consequences confirmation of the wisdom that can be found in ancient texts.” this time at an assisted living center on the in times,” says Dana Mondesire ’14. “On the for traditional reading practices,” he says. “These books presup- “If I could teach one course forever, it’d be Lit Hum,” Rosen Upper West Side, to tell him he had finished contrary, by the end of each class I was think- pose a thoughtfulness about life and self-reflection, which are says. “But Lit Hum wants you to move on and do other things the list and to ask for more recommendations. ing about the questions posed in the works challenged by the speed of information retrieval in the Internet and come back to it, and each time you do, the books are differ- “Read them again,” said Selig. and how they may have applied to my own age. The students are as bright and committed as they ever were ent, the students are different, you’re different.” life; I found that the themes we discussed in but now are used to instant access to information and a sense of Ladenson, too, enjoys being pushed out of her comfort zone t is fair to say that, in 75 years, no student class were just so relatable.” speed. Books are slow burners. The character development and and, in fact, values the experience of teaching Lit Hum so much has left Literature Humanities untouched “It led to reevaluations of my own world- time frames are much slower than what the students are often that she’s considering expanding her horizons. “I’m toying with by the experience. Some are relieved to view. How much of what I believed was sim- used to, and that requires a recalibration.” taking CC — oh, that’s a huge slip! — I meant teaching CC, or Art Ihave made it through — and no look- ply the result of our cultural tradition?” says The first-year students are largely divided between those who Hum. It’ll be a stretch for me, which is why I want to do it.” ing back, thank you very much. Others come Michael Carter ’14. “Paradoxically, by exam- can’t wait to delve into the venerated Core courses, starting with away with a sense of satisfaction, and the con- ining the conventional, Western tradition, I Lit Hum — for many, the Core is what attracted them to the Col- Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA is contributing writer to CCT. Her last fidence that the course has in some essential became much more open to alternate ways lege in the first place — and those who possess little innate inter- feature was a profile of filmmaker, faculty member and Center for the way contributed to their becoming educated, “Literature Humanities was transfor- of thinking. Everybody always tells you that est in what they initially see as dusty, irrelevant or just plain hard- Study of Ethnicity and Race Director Frances Negrón-Muntaner in the well-rounded individuals. And many, many mative for me,” says Chuck Callan ’78. college is a place to ‘find yourself,’ to develop to-get-through books. “Sometimes you get somebody horrified Winter 2012–13 issue. more experience Lit Hum as a kind of open- PHOTO: CHRIS BALMER ’07 your opinions, to understand who you are.

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ancient texts seemed completely above my head.” She adds ing them to the resources of the University as well as New that, through Lit Hum, she gained confidence in her analyti- York City at large. cal abilities. “It set the pace for the next four years, in which “We visited the Met to see Greek and Roman art, attended I grew both as a critical thinker and an individual. Lit Hum a Medea reading at Miller Theatre and watched Oresteia at made me understand that we are not alone in our creations.” the Broadway Theatre,” recalls Caroline Shang ’13E. “These Kathryn Reggio ’14 admits she’d always been more inter- experiences added another dimension of appreciation for ested in science, “with English being the most intimidating these works, and I will never forget them.” She notes that as class on my schedule. And then when I found out that I’d been an engineering student with the option of taking Lit Hum, it assigned to the chair of Lit Hum’s class” — then Christia Mer- was no contest: “I was ecstatic about sinking my teeth into cer, the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy — “I was the classics.” definitely going to switch. “But on the first day that changed. Christia was a great f course, the books themselves are at the heart of professor with such a kind and accepting personality. Class any Lit Hum experience. When asked, most every was never intimidating; it truly felt like a sanctuary where student — past or present — can cite one (or more all thoughts were heard and encouraged. And although the than one) that had particular impact. books were challenging, I got much out of them. Most inter- O “The Histories, Don Quixote and Pride and Prejudice had the esting were the interpretations we made during class about greatest impact on me,” says Valerie Comenencia Ortiz ’14. Lit Hum provides a unifying experience for first-years, who read the the texts … these books are masterpieces because they relate Some first-years embrace Lit Hum, others are more skeptical, but none “One of the greatest things about Lit Hum is that, while it same books at the same time. are unaffected by the course. to everyone and incite a different feeling in each person.” makes no assumptions about your previous knowledge of PHOTO: MATTHEW SEPTIMUS PHOTO: MATTHEW SEPTIMUS As with Reggio and Mercer, many students credit their the texts, it takes books and authors that you already seem to seminar teachers for shaping the experience. know and shows you an entirely different side of them” ignificantly, Lit Hum creates a sense of community on sev- And Lit Hum is a great way to do that.” “My instructor, Nancy Workman, [adjunct assistant pro- Ramon Giron-Melendez ’14 also points to The Histories: “It eral levels. It provides, first, a point of connection for first- “Perhaps one of the most important lessons I took from Lit fessor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures], shows that even ‘recorded events’ are triangulated through the year students as they get to know each other and, later, a Him — and from the Core in general — was a feeling of empow- knows how to run a seminar. She took — and takes, every year evaluation of a variety of perspectives. I learned that although reliable source of debate. Many also speak to the comfort erment to search and to question,” says Scott Koonin ’02, an in- — a class of wet-behind-the-ears first-years and makes readers S our own introspection is an indispensable leap forward to figur- that comes from being in the trenches together through late-night vestment adviser and a member of the Columbia College Alumni out of them,” says Conor Skelding ’14. “And students met her ing out life, a variety of examining voices is still needed to dis- study sessions. Association Board of Directors as well as a Class Agent for the challenge and behaved intelligently. We weren’t dutifully raising cover an entire truth.” Hannah Rosner ’14 says one of her favorite memories is camp- Columbia College Fund. “I left Columbia with an understanding our hands once per class to ramble on about nothing for a ‘class “I distinctly remember discussing a particular section of Vir- ing out with friends in John Jay’s lounge to study for the Lit Hum of the power of asking the right questions and now, in my profes- participation’ grade; we were discussing literature.” ginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse that opened up the novel for me in final. “All the freshmen were walking around with these huge sional life, thoughtful questions have revealed a deeper under- “I have to give full credit to my instructor, Professor Richard a way that deeply touched me and has remained with me since, boxes of books, trying to remember what happened in book six standing of my clients’ needs, fears and desires. Questions have Sacks, [adjunct associate professor of English and comparative and which led me to explore her other novels and discover her of The Iliad three months ago, and the lounge was full of other been a differentiator.” literature], who taught me how to be both a more critical reader genius,” says Lena Moffitt ’05, who majored in environmental groups doing the same thing.” biology. Wood echoes the sentiment: “It was nice to be able to come out of “Before coming to Columbia, I got my Iliad and thought, cool, my room at 1 a.m. and say to anyone who happened to be out at that I’m gonna read the book that the movie Troy is based on,” Monde- time, ‘I’m only on book four,’ and receive their much-needed empa- “These books are masterpieces because they relate to sire says. “But after reading it and discussing it in class, I realized thy. It’s not that we all constantly discussed Medea’s plight or Odys- that the epic was so much more than what Hollywood portrayed seus’ pig-headedness, but the books really do come up in conversa- everyone and incite a different feeling in each person.” it as.” tion sometimes, and when they do, everyone has something to say.” Wood cites Lysistrata. “I found it incredible that the people of “There is always an opportunity to encounter someone who 411 BCE were making essentially the same jokes that we make is contemplating the readings and engage in a discussion,” says he College’s incoming students fall at many points along and a more emotionally invested one,” says Claire Sabel ’13. “He nearly 2,500 years later. I guess that could be seen as disheart- Justin Brathwaite ’14. “As everyone is reading the same books, the Lit Hum spectrum. At one end there are those who constantly impressed upon us that all of these books are asking ening — should our collective sense of humor have made some we are all aspiring to understand the themes at a much deeper arrive with reservations of some kind — they may be fundamental questions about what it means to be human, and more progress? — but I found it to be life-affirming, unifying, philosophical level. … The course captures the essence of what it Tintimidated or disinterested — and at the other end that they’re usually undermining their own premises rather than just funny.” means to be a Columbian, which involves being part of an intel- are those who are eager to dive into the course. With the former, offering substantial answers.” With so many texts, it’s not surprising that many current stu- lectual community where all its members debate ideas like suffer- conversion stories are common. And with the latter, the seminar Patrick McGarrigle ’86 recalls his experience with James V. Mi- dents speak to the difficulty of taking in what amounts to a book ing, truth and life’s meaning.” experience serves only to amplify their enthusiasm. rollo, now the Parr Professor Emeritus of English and Compara- a week. But some see benefits to the pace. In addition to forging bonds among first-years, Lit Hum con- “I came to Columbia largely because of the Core Curriculum tive Literature. “He brought the varied collection of classics to life “We go from Homeric poems to psychoanalytical 20th-century nects all students — current and former — to each other and to and more specifically because of Lit Hum,” says Zoe Wood ’16. with energy, humor and passion. I recall his ‘juxtaposition’ — one fiction — and, instead of feeling your way through the texts, you the College. “As someone who grew up without once opening a bible, the of his favorite words at the time — of Confessions and Inferno and have to take the plunge and let the texts confront you,” says Amir “Lit Hum is the great unifier for Columbia alumni, not because fact that the first semester of Lit Hum studies the New and Old how fortunate I was to hear this titan’s love for Dante.” McGar- Safavi ’14, a 2011 Core Scholar. “This is both a necessity — there of the conclusions that we arrived at through the texts but by the Testaments was hugely appealing. The course is about creating rigle adds that the class both prepared him for and encouraged is simply no time to leisurely muse about your reading — and a act of searching for answers in the words,” Couturier says. “I have a base of knowledge, about having a point from which you can him to pursue other literary challenges at the College, including a blessing, as it encourages us to trust our instincts and heightens been lucky enough to meet and work with Columbia alumni from go in any direction and, as you go about your career in neurosci- Quixote class with Selig and an Eliot, Joyce and Pound class with our senses.” many different generations and, while we often differ in our inter- ence or programming or Russian literature, maintain with you the now-deceased Wallace Gray ’58 GSAS. Sarah Fakhry ’14 says the pace was both surprising and enjoy- pretations and takeaways, we share the camaraderie that comes a basic understanding of the most important voices in Western “Looking back and connecting the dots from Mirollo to Selig able. “I did not think it would be possible to do each book justice, from the hard work of critically engaging with the great texts.” thought.” to Gray, the veritable Tinker to Evers to Chance of CC’s English but I was surprised at how much we covered. As a result, I am As Reggio puts it, “If anything, talking about Lit Hum is one “I was really daunted by the idea of engaging with the texts,” and comp lit department, it’s clear that Lit Hum doesn’t really now probably one of the best speed-readers! It also was exciting conversation I know that I can have with any alumni.” says Anna Couturier ’10. “I came from a middle-class California end that first year, or ever,” McGarrigle says. when we found connections and similarities between the texts, public school and, while I really enjoyed European literature, Students also sound appreciation to their teachers for direct- such as the theme of friendship in The Iliad and The Aeneid.” Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts is CCT’s managing editor.

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syllabus as far Troy the coasts of “I sing of arms and a man: his fate/had made him fugitive; h e was the first/to journey from “Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the history of war fought between Athenian wrote “Thucydides the “Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus/and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians … ” Achilleus/and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the “Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son “Tell me, Muse, of the man many ways, who was driven/far journeys “Tell “Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long to remember, in La Mancha, a place whose name I do not care “Somewhere “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way/I found myself within a shadowed forest,/for I had lost the path that does not “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way/I found myself within a shadowed forest,/for “You two who often stood by me/in times of hardship and two who often stood by me/in times of hardship “You “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name Job; and that “There “‘Yes, of course, if it’s fine “‘Yes, “Inasmuch as many “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word “In the beginning was Word, “Before “Before universally acknowledged “It is a truth Month book is read SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JAN. FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL 1937 1937 1972 1937 Year book debuted on Homer, The Iliad Aeschylus, Oresteia Plato, Symposium Bible, Luke Virgil, Ovid, Metamorphoses Shakespeare, Goethe, Faust 1937 1990 syllabus (some have gone Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1937 Bible, Genesis 1948 Aeneid Augustine, Confessions 1937 King Lear 1937 Austen, Pride and Prejudice 1985 Homer, Bible, John 1937 on and off multiple times) Euripides, The Medea 1937 Herodotus, The Histories 1938 Bible, Job 1940 Dante, Inferno 1937 Cervantes, Dostoevsky, The Odyssey 1990 Don Quixote Crime and Punishment 1952 1956 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1938 Montaigne, Essays 1937 1937 Aristophones, Lysistrata 1951 Woolf, To the Lighthouse 1990

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the book club. The group later ex- In September 2011, David Lip- panded to include Lattman, Wil- scomb ’98 GSAS, who taught the liams and McSweeney, and, most Capital Club Lit Hum section in which the book recently, Shimpi, an attorney for club’s four founding members met ew York-based alumni are not the only ones recon- the U.S. National Labor Relations necting thanks to Lit Hum and the Core Curriculum. and now is a consultant based in Board. Take Joseph Feuer ’87, ’91 SIPA, an international Washington, D.C., participated in “After spending time away development consultant who in 2010 co-founded a the group’s discussion of American from a university setting, I hun- NCore-inspired book club in the Washington, D.C., area. Pastoral via Skype. That meeting gered for intellectual rigor and Feuer is on the board of the Columbia University Club of ran more than three hours, mak- Alumni Book Club Carries On the Tradition existential inquiry through the Washington, D.C. Through his initiative, each month a subset of ing it one of their longer sessions humanities,” says Kim, a found- club members gathers at the home of Ralph Stephens ’58, ’60 to date. Lipscomb remembers that ing board member and communi- Business in Chevy Chase, Md., to discuss a text or author that particular Lit Hum class as having cations coordinator for the Shan- has appeared on the Lit Hum or Contemporary Civilization syl- a special chemistry. “I remember labus. Of roughly 25 committed participants — a mix of College “The idea is to further our education and what we started in Lit Hum.” tideva Meditation Center in Man- thinking it was somehow wrong alumni and graduates of other Columbia schools — 12–15 at- hattan. “I love being among bright tend any one meeting. “I thought it would be interesting, wheth- when the class ended — like a minds who enjoy learning for the er you’ve been out of the College 10 years or 50 years, to take great rock band was breaking up B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 sake of learning and sharing their another look at these texts, which are so profound,” Feuer says. too soon,” he says. “That sounds insights — people who make me Each month, Feuer, who started the group with Montse hyperbolic, I know. But they really think more deeply and see things Ferrer ’06 (she has since left the D.C. area), gives members a were amazing together — build- from different perspectives.” few options from which to choose. Lucretius’ “On the Nature ing off each other’s comments, f a snapshot could capture the effect that a course like Literature Humanities Though inspired by Lit Hum, of Things,” Plato’s Republic and Dante’s Inferno are among challenging each other, never the group’s picks go well beyond the works they have tackled. “It was going to be almost like a taking themselves too seriously should have on students, it might very well depict the gathering at Laura Lattman the scope of the course, both geo- second year of CC and Lit Hum with more secondary texts, but while really digging deeply into we decided to really just stick to the Core,” Feuer says. graphically and chronologically. the literature.” The group rarely reads an entire work; instead, Feuer identifies ’01’s Manhattan home on a Tuesday evening in November. To date, they have read mostly excerpts with Deborah Martinsen Ph.D. ’82 SIPA, ’90 GSAS, asso- It is gratifying for Lipscomb, I fiction published in the mid-19th ciate dean of alumni education. Martinsen then collaborates with but not entirely surprising, that Near Central Park, in the Midtown apartment she shares with As with any other book club, the members present tonight, as century and later. Since their Gareth Williams, the Violin Family Professor of Classics and Lit members of that Lit Hum sec- her husband, Lattman has laid out an antipasto platter, fruit and well as those who were unable to attend — Jennifer Kim ’01, Ben first read, Moby Dick, the group Hum chair, to develop study questions for the group. Feuer usual- tion would reconnect in such a wine for her fellow book club members. On the table is a transla- Wheeler ’02 and newcomer Nikhil Shimpi ’01 — are in it for the has tackled The Age of Innocence, ly leads the conversation although, at his invitation, a fellow from way and that Ryan would be the tion of Madame de La Fayette’s 1678 novel La Princesse de Clèves, company and community aspect. But here there also is a loftier Crime and Punishment, The Sound Harvard’s D.C.-based Center for Hellenic Studies has facilitated. one to bring them together. “Ben a seminal work of French literature and the subject of tonight’s purpose: They consider their club a vehicle for exploring universal and the Fury, A Bend in the River, “It’s a very bright group,” Feuer says. “Some do outside read- Ryan would talk about charac- discussion. It was not the most leisurely or enthralling read, the themes, as most of them did 15 years ago as first-year students in The Optimist’s Daughter and ing and bring a lot to bear. People come from a wide range of ters in Homer or Jane Austen group will conclude, but as one of the earliest incarnations of the Lit Hum or, in McSweeney’s case, as an undergraduate at George- American Pastoral. Moby Dick and fields and they generally have many interesting things to say.” as if they were personal friends — N.A. modern novel — and given its place on the Lit Hum syllabus town. In the spirit of the Core Curriculum, they select books that Crime and Punishment have ap- who drew strong reactions from from 1986–90 — it was a fitting choice. have had a widespread impact on subsequent writing and think- peared on the Lit Hum syllabus. him, sometimes amazing him Three of Lattman’s classmates, Ben Ryan ’01, William Tsu ’01 ing. “I’m very thankful that I had Lit Hum as an experience because The club tries to meet every 10 weeks, though accommodat- and sometimes really annoying him,” Lipscomb recalls. “He had and Rodman Williams ’01, it did what it was supposed ing everyone’s schedule often means varying the time between that rare ability to be insightful and hilarious at the same time, along with Brette McSwee- to do, which was give me a sessions. In addition to Lattman’s apartment, they have held and he still does. And others in the class would quickly respond ney ’04 SIPA, arrive punctu- solid foundation in the clas- meetings in Ryan’s home, at World Wide Plaza on Manhattan’s to Ben and we’d be off and running. Jennifer Kim, Ben Wheeler ally at 7:30 p.m. Within a few sics of Western Literature,” West Side and at Coffee Shop in Union Square. The group gives and William Tsu also had that ability to spark things.” minutes, a seminar-style dis- says Ryan, who majored in them the rare opportunity, they say, to go beyond the small talk Following their discussion of La Princesse, as they do after most cussion of the love triangle English and had the idea to of everyday life. “As adults, what do you do? You go to parties meetings, the group debates what to read next. While the club’s in the book is under way, in- start the club. “Our group is or you go to dinners or out to bars. It’s really hard to have a deep premise is clear, the wide range of options — and opinions — terspersed with much more focused on reading things conversation,” explains Ryan. “This way, we have to; that’s what means that it does not always translate into obvious book selec- laughter than would be that are definitively canoni- we’re here for.” tions. Ultimately, at Wheeler’s suggestion, they settle on a foray admissible in a classroom. cal. The idea is to further As in a typical Lit Hum section, the members of this book into East Asian literature — the 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes The novel, set in the court of our education and what we group bring a variety of interests, experiences and perspectives to by Japanese author Kobo Abe and a few stories and essays by Chi- Henry II, was suggested by started in Lit Hum.” the table: Kim has been v.p. of a software company and lived off nese writer Lu Hsun — though it is not a unanimous decision. Lattman, a trust and estates Ryan, a journalist who the grid in a Buddhist retreat center in California’s redwood for- If there is one thing they all agree on, however, it is that they attorney who majored in recently completed his first est; Tsu, an East Asian studies major, works in asset management; are more poised now, with more life experience under their belts, political science and French. (Left to right) Brette McSweeney ’04 SIPA, William Tsu ’01, Ben Ryan ’01, novel, reconnected with Tsu, Wheeler, who is married to Kate Cortesi ’01 and is the group’s to engage with literature. “I’m a little bit more comfortable in my With no designated modera- Rodman Williams ’01 and Laura Lattman ’01 discuss La Princesse de Clèves. Kim and Wheeler, mem- only parent, majored in history and computer science and now own skin in this stage in my life. That makes the sharing and re- tor — except for Williams’ PHOTO: NATHALIE ALONSO ’08 bers of his Lit Hum section, develops algorithms for a high frequency trading company. Wil- spect even more possible than when you are in a class theoreti- asking the group “not to at the Class of ’01’s 10-year liams also majored in history and is an administrator at Fordham cally competing with other people,” says Lattman, to which Wil- lose the thread” when he deems a thematic point worthy of prob- Alumni Reunion Weekend. (Wheeler, who as a student helped Law’s research library and McSweeney is the executive director liams adds, “Our reading lives have deepened because our actual ing — the conversation flows and sometimes swerves. The group relaunch CULPA, an independent, student-run evaluation site for of Eleanor’s Legacy, which works to advance women in elective lives have deepened.” considers the nature of romantic love and compares their reactions Columbia courses and professors, entered with the Class of 2001 office in New York State. Yet what is perhaps most interesting to how readers in the 17th century might have perceived the title but graduated in 2002 after taking a semester off to be a web de- about the group seated around Lattman’s drop-leaf table is their Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a freelance journalist and an character’s infidelity. By the end of the session, they are pondering veloper.) Their shared desire to engage in dialogues they had not newfound bond. While most knew each other in the College, editorial producer for LasMayores.com, Major League Baseball’s official whether she deserves their sympathy. experienced since college, combined with nostalgia, resulted in none would describe another as a close friend during those years. Spanish language website. She writes “Student Spotlight” for CCT.

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Lit Hum Revisited At 48, David Denby ’65, ’66J proved you can go home again — to the classics

David Denby ’65, ’66J is a familiar n the fall of 1991, thirty years after entering Colum- bia University for the first time, I went back to school name to readers of The New Yorker; and sat with eighteen-year-olds and read the same he has been a staff writer and film books that they read. Not just any books. Together critic at the magazine since 1998. we read Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Virginia Woolf. Those books. Those Earlier, he was the film critic for courses — the two required core-curriculum courses New York magazine for 20 years that I had first taken in 1961, innocently and uncon- sciously, as a freshman at Columbia College. No one and won a 1991 National Magazine in that era could possibly have imagined that in the Award. During his time at New following decades the courses would be alternately reviled as an PHOTO: CASEY KELBAUGH York, Denby returned to the Morn- iniquitous oppression and adored as a bulwark of the West. IOne of the courses, Literature Humanities, or Lit Hum, as ev- ingside Heights campus and his eryone calls it, is (and was) devoted to a standard selection of Eu- Core Curriculum roots and retook ropean literary masterpieces; the other, Contemporary Civiliza- Literature Humanities and Con- tion, or C.C., offers a selection of philosophical and social-theory masterpieces. They are both “great books” courses, or, if you like, temporary Civilization. The result “Western civ” surveys, a list of heavyweight names assembled was the New York Times bestseller in chronological order like the marble busts in some imaginary pantheon of glory. Such courses were first devised, earlier in the GREAT BOOKS: My Adventures century, at Columbia; they then spread to the University of Chi- with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, cago, and in the 1940s to many other universities and colleges. and Other Indestructible Writers They have since, putting it mildly, receded. At times, they have come close to extinction, though not at Columbia or Chicago. of the Western World (1997). In Despite my explanations, my fellow students in 1991 may well the excerpt that follows, he relates his have wondered what in the world I was doing there, sitting in struggles as an older student wrestling in his middle years with uncomfortable oak-plank chairs with them. I was certainly a most unlikely student: forty-eight years old, the film critic of New York the slippery classics of Lit Hum, in particular The Iliad. (Opposite): David Denby ’65, ’66J (seated) returned to Hamilton Denby’s other books include Do the Movies Have a Fu- Hall in February and revisited The Iliad under the watchful eye of ture? (2012), Snark (2009) and American Sucker (2004). the Lionel Trilling Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Edward “Ted” Tayler. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard PHOTO: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, ’77J

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magazine, a husband and father, a settled man who was never- selves had been robbed of body and flavor. And in so many of the theless unsettled in some way that may not have been any clearer polemics, the act of reading itself had become hollowed out — I began to suffer from an increasing sense of unreality. to me than it was to them. Was it just knowledge I wanted? I had emptied of its place in any reader’s life, its stresses and pleasures, read many of the books before. Yet the students may have noticed its boredom, its occasional euphoria. It had lost its special character Thirty years earlier, I had enjoyed Lit Hum and C.C. that nothing in life seemed more important to me than reading of solitude and rapture. those books and sitting in on those discussions. Yet strange as the debate seemed to me, it had a galvanizing effect. For months, I was angry and even pained. I felt I had been a great deal, but then had largely forgotten them, he project began when my wife suggested that I put cheated of something, and it didn’t take long to realize why. If up or shut up. In 1989 or 1990, somewhere back there, some of the disputants appeared to be far away from the books in as one forgets most college courses one takes. Cathleen Schine and I were reading, with increasing question, I knew that I was far away from them, too. I had read, I T amazement, the debate about the nature of higher edu- had forgotten, and I felt the loss as I did the loss of an old friend cation in this country. Merely reciting the cliches of the debate who had faded away. facedown in the dust; the ravaged longing for home and family who feared he might be thwarted. There was an alarming pause. now induces a blue haze of exasperation and boredom: What I worked myself into a high state of indignation, and Cathy, and meadows and the rituals of peace, leading at last to an instant A few students, embarrassed, looked down, and then he said: role should the Western classics and a “Eurocentric” curriculum both a novelist and a reader, shared my view but grew tired of of reconciliation, when even two men who are bitter enemies fall “This course has been under attack for thirty years. People have play in a country whose population was made up of people from my outrage. There she sat in our apartment in New York, read- into rapt admiration of each other’s nobility and beauty — it is said” — pointing to the top set of initials — “the writers are all many other places besides Europe — for instance, descendants ing book after book, in bed, in the living room, at the chair by a war poem, and in the Richmond Lattimore translation it has white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It’s not true, but it doesn’t mat- of African slaves and American Indians? Should groups former- the living-room window. Often she read with a cat in her lap, the an excruciating vividness, an obsessive observation of horror that ter. They’ve said they were all Dead White Males; it’s not true, ly without much power — women, as well as minorities — be animal happily purring; its mistress, lost in her reading, scratched causes almost disbelief. but it doesn’t matter. That it’s all Western civilization. That’s not asked to read through a curriculum dominated by works written its head for hours. My wife was too kind, and perhaps too busy, quite true either — there are many Western civilizations — but it by Dead White European Males? to point out something that later seemed obvious: I had become Simoeisios in his stripling’s beauty, whom once his mother doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is this.” The questions were not in themselves unreasonable, but it something of a nonreader myself; or, let us say, a reader of jour- descending from Ida bore beside the banks of Simoeis He looked at us, then turned back to the board, considering now seems hard to believe that anyone above sixteen could pos- nalism, public-affairs books, and essays on this or that. “If you’re when she had followed her father and mother to tend the the initials “DGSI” carefully, respectfully, and rubbed his chin. sibly have used, as a term of blame, the phrase “Dead White Eu- so upset about this,” Cathy finally said, “why don’t you take your sheepflocks. “Don’t Get Sucked In,” he said at last. Another pause, and I no- ropean Males.” The words have already taken on a quaint period Columbia courses again?” Therefore they called him Simoeisios; but he could not tice the girl sitting next to me, who has wild frizzed hair and a feel, as moldy as the love beads that I wore once, in the spring Thus the revenge of the reader on the nonreader: why don’t render again the care of his dear parents; he was short- mass of acne on her chin and forehead, opening her mouth in of 1968, and then flung into the back of a dresser drawer. Such you read and stop complaining? Certainly the means to answer lived, panic. Others were smiling. They were freshmen — sorry, first- complaints, which issued generally from the academic left, espe- my questions lay at hand. Columbia was only a couple of miles beaten down beneath the spear of high-hearted Aias, year students — and not literature majors necessarily, but a cross- cially from a variety of feminist, Marxist, and African-American from my apartment on the West Side of Manhattan. And the who struck him as he first came forward beside the nipple section of students, and therefore future lawyers, accountants, scholars, were answered in turn by conservatives with resound- courses, though somewhat different in their selection of texts, of the right breast, and the bronze spearhead drove clean teachers, businessmen, politicians, TV producers, doctors, poets, ingly grandiose notions of the importance of the Western tradi- had not changed much in conception. through the shoulder. layabouts. They were taking Lit Hum, a required course that al- tion for American national morale. In their consecutive stints as Reading “the great books” may seem an odd solution to a He dropped then to the ground in the dust, like some black most all students at Columbia take the first year of school. This chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William “midlife crisis” or a crisis of identity, or whatever it was. Why not poplar … (IV, 472-82) may have been the first teacher the students had seen in college. Bennett and Lynne V. Cheney said some good things about the travel or hunt elephants? Chase teenage girls? Live in a monas- He wasn’t making it easy on them. centrality of the humanities in the life of an educated person. But tery? These, I believe, are the traditional methods — for men, at The nipple of the right breast. Homer in his terrifying exactness “Don’t get sucked in by false ideas,” he said. “You’re not here the clear implication of their more polemical remarks was that if least — of dealing with such problems. But if I wanted adventure, tells us where the spear comes in and goes out, what limbs are sev- for political reasons. You’re here for very selfish reasons. You’re we ceased to read the right books, we could not keep Commu- I wanted it in a way that made sense for me. Reading seriously, ered; he tells us that the dead will not return to rich soil, they will here to build a self. You create a self, you don’t inherit it. One nism or relativism — or whatever threatened the Republic — at I thought, might be one way of ending my absorption in media not take care of elderly parents, receive pleasure from their young way you create it is out of the past. Look, if you findThe Iliad dull the gates. There were national, even geopolitical considerations life, a way of finding the edges again. wives. His explicitness has a finality beyond all illusion. In the end, or invidious or a glorification of war, you’re right. It’s a poem in at stake. Literature had become a matter of policy. But why not just sit and read? Why go back to Columbia? Be- the war (promoted by the gods) will consume almost all of them, your mind; let it take shape in your mind. The women are honor As I made my way through the debate, I began to suffer from an cause I wanted to see how others were reading — or not reading. Greeks and Trojans alike, sweeping on year after year, in battle af- gifts. They’re war booty, like tripods. Less than tripods. If any increasing sense of unreality. Thirty years earlier, I had enjoyed Lit The students had grown up living in the media. What were they ter battle — a mystery in its irresistible momentum, its profoundly male reading this poem treated women on campus as chattel, it Hum and C.C. a great deal, but then had largely forgotten them, as like? What had happened to teaching in the age of the culture de- absorbing moment-to-moment activity and overall meaningless- would be very strange. I also trust you to read this and not go out one forgets most college courses one takes. Exactly how the books bate, in a corner of the university far from the war yet obviously ness. First one side drives forward, annihilates hundreds, and is on and hack someone to pieces.” for the courses had remained in my mind, as a residue of impres- touched by the noise of battle? One way of dispelling the crudi- the edge of victory. Then, a few days later, inspired by some god’s Ah, a hipster, I thought. He admitted the obvious charges in sions and a framework of taste and sensibility, and even of action, ties and irrelevancies of the “culture wars” was to find out what trick or phantasm — a prod to the sluggish brain of an exhausted order to minimize them. And he said nothing about transcen- I could not say. That was the mystery, wasn’t it? — the mystery actually went on in classrooms. warrior — the other side recovers, advances, and carries all before dental values, supreme masterpieces of the West, and the rest of of education. Exactly how does it matter to us? The participants And I wanted to add my words to the debate from the ground it. When the poem opens, this movement back and forth has been that. We’re here for selfish reasons. The voice was pleasant but odd in the debate, however, seemed to know. They made extravagant up, beginning and ending in literature, never leaving the books going on for more than nine years. — baritonal, steady, but with traces of mockery garlanding the claims for or against the books and the Western tradition the books themselves. short, definitive sentences. The intonations drooped, as if he were embodied. At the same time, they discussed the books themselves he teacher, a small, compact man, about sixty, walked laying black crepe around his words. A hipster wit. He nearly — works of literature, philosophy, and political theory — in an had forgotten. I had forgotten the extremity of its cruelty into the room, and wrote some initials on the board: droned, but there were little surprises — ideas insinuated into unpleasantly featureless and abstract way that turned them into and tenderness, and, reading it now, turning The Iliad open W A S P corners, a sudden expansion of feeling. He had sepulchral charm, mere clubs and spears in an ideological war. Shakespeare an agent anywhere in its 15,693 lines, I was shocked. A dying word, D W M like one of Shakespeare’s solemnly antic clowns. of colonialism? Rousseau part of the “hegemonic discourse”? The “shocked.” Few people have been able to use it well since T I remembered him well enough: Edward “Ted” Tayler, profes- I W C Greek classics a bulwark of democracy? Was it really literature Claude Rains so famously said, “I’m shocked, shocked to find D G S I sor of English. I had taken a course with him twenty-nine years and philosophy that people were discussing in such terms? One that gambling is going on here,” as he pocketed his winnings in While most of us tried to figure them out (I had no trouble earlier (he was a young assistant professor then), a course in had the uncanny sense that at least some of the disputants hadn’t Casablanca. But it’s the only word for excitement and alarm of this with the first two, made a lame joke to myself about the third, seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry, which was then part bothered to read the books in question in more than twenty years. intensity. The brute vitality of the air, the magnificence of ships, and was stumped by the fourth), he turned, looking around the of the sequence required for English majors at Columbia, and I Could such classic works actually be as boring as the right — or as wind, and fires; the raging battles, the plains charged with terri- class, and said ardently, almost imploringly, “We’ve only got a recalled being baffled as much as intrigued by his manner, which wicked as the left — was making them sound? The books them- fied horses, the beasts unstrung and falling; the warriors flung year together. … ” His tone was pleading and mournful, a lover definitely tended toward the cryptic. He was obviously brilliant,

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Thetis, for the defeat of his own side; he then sits in his tent pages — I had a thing about the physical nature of books, and I “You may not believe that God created the universe,” playing a lyre and “singing of men’s fame” (i.e., his own) as his was happy when I realized that my idol, the great literary critic friends get cut up by the Trojans. What follows is a series of bat- Edmund Wilson, was obsessed with books as sensuous objects. tles whose savagery remains without parallel in our literature. Obviously, it wasn’t just learning that excited me but the idea of Tayler said, mournful, sepulchral, “but, anyway, look It is almost too much, an extreme and bizarre work of literary reading the big books, the promise of enlargement, the adventure art at the very beginning of Western literary art. One wants to rise of strangeness. Reading has within it a collector’s passion, the de- what God is doing in this passage. He’s setting up to it, taking it full in the face, for the poem depicts life at its utmost, sire to possess: I would swallow the whole store. Reality never a nearly ceaseless activity of marshaling, deploying, advancing, entered into this. The difficulty or tedium of the books, the dron- and fleeing, spelled by peaceful ing performance of the teacher opposites. Which is something we do all the time in life.” periods so strenuous — the coun- — I might even have spent the cils and feasts and games — that entire previous semester in a self- but he liked to jump around, keep students off balance, hint and There were other quotations on the sheet, including one from they hardly seem like relief at all. absorbed funk, but I roused my- retreat; I learned a few things about Donne and Marvell, and left John Milton, but Tayler didn’t say right then what their signifi- Reading the poem in its entirety is self at the beginning of the new the class with a sigh of relief. In the interim, he had become fa- cance might be. He looked around. Was anyone getting it? May- like fronting a storm that refuses semester for the wonderful ritual mous as a teacher and was now the sonorously titled Lionel Trill- be. Was I? We would see. Then he turned all loverlike and earnest to slacken or die. At first, I had to of the bookstore. Each time I ing Professor in the Humanities — the moniker was derived from once more. And he said it again. “Look, keep a finger on your fight my way through it; I wasn’t stood there, I saw myself serene- Columbia’s most famous English literature professor, a great fig- psychic pulse as you go. This is a very selfish enterprise.” bored but I was rebellious, my at- ly absorbing everything, though ure when I was there in the early sixties. tention a bucking horse unwilling I was such an abominably slow “The Hermeneutic Circle,” Tayler was saying. “That’s what y the time the action of the Iliad begins, the deed that to submit to the harness. It was reader, chewing until the flavor Wilhelm Dilthey called it. You don’t know what to do with the set off the whole chain of events — a man making off too long, I thought, too brutal and was nearly gone, that I never details unless you have a grip on the structure; and at the same with another man’s wife — is barely mentioned by the repetitive and, for all its power as quite got around to completing time, you don’t know what to do with the structure unless you Bparticipants. Homer, chanting his poetry to groups of a portrait of war, strangely distant the reading list of any course. know the details. It’s true in life and in literature. The Hermeneu- listeners, must have expected everyone to know the outrageous from us. Where was Homer in all And so it has been ever since. tic Circle. It’s a vicious circle. Look, we have only a year together. old tale. Years earlier, Paris, a prince of Troy, visiting the house this? He was everywhere, select- Walking home from midtown You have to read. There’s nothing you’ll do in your four years at of the Greek king Menelaus, took away, with her full consent, ing and shaping the material, but Manhattan, I am drawn hap- Columbia that’s more important for selfish reasons than reading Helen, the king’s beautiful wife. Agamemnon, the brother of the he was nowhere as a palpable lessly to a bookstore — Coli- the books of this course.” cuckold, then put together a loose federation of kings and princes presence, a consciousness, and seum Books, at Broadway and Could they become selves? From my position along the side of whose forces voyaged to Troy and laid siege to the city, intend- for the modern reader his absence Fifty-seventh, will do — where the classroom, I sneaked a look. At the moment they looked more ing to punish the proud inhabitants and reclaim Helen. But after was appalling. No one tells us I will buy two or three books, like lumps, uncreated first-year students. The men sat with legs more than nine years of warfare, the foolish act of sexual aban- how to react to the brutalities or which then, often enough, sit on stretched all the way out, eyes down on their notes. Some wore donment that set the whole cataclysm in motion has been largely to anything else. We are on our my shelves for years, unread or caps turned backward. They were eighteen, maybe nineteen. In forgotten. By this time, Helen, abashed, considers herself merely own. Movie-fed, I wasn’t used to partly read, until finally, trying their T-shirts, jeans, and turned-around caps, they had a summer- a slut (her embarrassed appearance on the walls of Troy is actu- working so hard, and as I sat on to look something up, I will pull camp thickness, like counselors just back from a hike with ten-year- ally something of a letdown), and Paris, her second “husband,” my sofa at home, reading, my one or another out, bewildered olds. Give me a beer. The women, many of them also in T-shirts, their more a lover than a fighter, barely comes out to the battlefield. body, in daydreams, kept leaping that I have it. I like to own them: I hair gathered at the back with a rubber band, were more directly When he does come out, and he and Menelaus fight a duel, the away from the seat and into the had grown into a book-buyer but attentive; they looked at Tayler, but they looked blankly. gods muddy the outcome, and the war goes on. After nine years, bedroom, where I would sink into not always a book-reader; a boon Tayler handed out a sheet with some quotations. At the top of the war itself is causing the war. bed and turn on the TV, or to the to the book trade, perhaps, but the page were some verses from the beginning of Genesis. How can a book make one feel injured and exhilarated at the kitchen, where I would open the not a boon to myself. same time? What’s shocking about the Iliad is that the cruelty fridge. Mentally, I would pull my- At the age of forty-eight, I And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And and the nobility of it seem to grow out of each other, like the self back, and eventually I settled stood in front of the shelves God saw the light, that it was good: And God divided the good and evil twins of some malign fantasy who together form down and read and read, though in Columbia’s bookstore at light from the darkness. … And God said, Let there be a a single unstable and frightening personality. After all, Western for a long time I remained out of Denby (right) studied Lit Hum under Tayler as an undergraduate 115th Street and Broadway, a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the literature begins with a quarrel between two arrogant pirates balance and sore. and again 30 years later, when he took the course as an alum- larger and better-lit place than nus and wrote Great Books. waters from the waters. over booty. At the beginning of the poem, the various tribes PHOTO: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, ’77J the store in my day, which of the Greeks (whom Homer calls Achaeans — Greece wasn’t ther men may have was so tightly packed one “You may not believe that God created the universe,” Tayler a national identity in his time), assembled before the walls of more active recollections — scoring a goal, kissing a never got away from that slightly sweet smell that new books said, mournful, sepulchral, “but, anyway, look what God is doing Troy, are on the verge of disaster. Agamemnon, their leader, the girl at the homecoming game, all that autumn-air, have. I was absurdly excited. There they were, the books in this passage. He’s setting up opposites. Which is something most powerful of the kings, has kidnapped and taken as a mis- Opocket-flask, Scott Fitzgerald stuff — but my sweet- for the Lit Hum and C.C. courses: the two thick volumes we do all the time in life. Moral opposites flow from binary op- tress from a nearby city a young woman, the daughter of one of est memory of college is on the nuzzling, sedate side. At the of Homer; the elegant Penguin editions of Aeschylus and posites. There are people you touch, and people you don’t touch. Apollo’s priests; Apollo has angrily retaliated by bringing down beginning of each semester, I would stand before the books re- Hobbes, with their black borders and uniform typeface; the Every choice is an exclusion. How do you escape the binary a plague on the Greeks. A peevish, bullying king, unsteady in quired for my courses, prolonging the moment, like a kid look- rather severe-looking academic editions of Plato and Locke, bind? Look, St. Augustine, whom we’ll read later, says that before command, Agamemnon, under pressure from the other lead- ing through the store window at a bicycle he knows his par- all business, with no designs on the cover or back, just the the Fall there were no involuntary actions. Before the Fall, Adam ers, angrily gives the girl back to her father. But then, demand- ents will buy for him. I would soon possess these things, but titles, and within, rows of virtuously austere type. They were never had an involuntary erection.” Pause, pause. … “If Adam ing compensation, he takes for himself the slave mistress of the act of buying them could be put off. Why rush it? The re- as densely printed as lawbooks. I was thrilled by the possibil- and Eve wanted to do something, they did it. But you guys are Achilles, his greatest warrior. The women are passed around quired books for each course were laid out in shelves in the col- ity that they might be difficult. I would read; I would study; I screwed up; you’re in trouble. There’s a discrepancy between like gold pieces or helmets. Achilles is so outraged by this bit of lege bookstore. I would stare at them a long time, lifting them, would sit with teenagers. what you want to do and what you ought to do. You want to go plundering within the ranks that he comes close to killing the turning through the pages, pretending I didn’t really need this out and have a beer with friends, and you have to force yourself king, a much older man. Restraining himself at the last minute, one or that, laying it down and then picking it up again. If no From GREAT BOOKS by David Denby. Copyright © 1996 by David Denby. through a series of battles. After the Fall, you fall into dualities.” he retires from the combat and prays to his mother, the goddess one was looking, I would even smell a few of them and feel the Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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MESSAGE FROM CCAA PRESIDENT KYRA TIRANA BARRY ’87

41 Message from the CCAA President CCYA Builds Engagement Alumni 42 Norman Dorsen ’50 Among Newest Alumni 46 Bookshelf

49 Obituaries here can you find almost 2,000 Columbia alum- Burgess, who works in client services for email marketing com- 53 ni in one place? At the Young Alumni Party pany Experian CheetahMail, was a leader of the Black Students Class Notes on the U.S.S. Intrepid during Alumni Reunion Organization and v. p. of campus life for the Columbia College 96 Alumni Corner Weekend. This is no surprise: CCYA is Colum- Student Council. She sees her role in CCYA as related: “When I got News bia’s strongest, most vibrant alumni program. involved I noticed that there wasn’t enough multicultural repre- WIt is a constantly evolving alumni organization with a tradition sentation at alumni programs, so I wanted to help tie my network of passionate leaders and a calendar of to the organization. CCYA offers a space multi-class events tailored to the interests for young professionals to interact with of young alumni. people from different professional back- The Columbia College Alumni Asso- grounds, leading to greater creativity in ciation (CCAA) can learn from CCYA’s all of our pursuits. That’s why even our success and develop programming that frequent happy hours help young alum- reflects former students’ ever-changing ni to become stronger adults and stron- interests and needs, in order to increase ger alumni.” connections within the general alumni During the past two decades, CCYA population. has expanded from a series of network- CCYA creates a community for alumni ing events to the multifaceted organiza- from graduation through the 10th reunion tion it is today. The recent creation of its through programs such as Community Service effort is one exam- n Social events such as the happy hour at NYC’s Sky summer rooftop cocktail parties, Room on July 26 have long been a popular part of ple. Since 2011, CCYA has been working n a wine and chocolate tasting, CCYA programming. with organizations including the Bowery n the Young Alumni Fund Spring PHOTO: SCOTT RUDD PHOTOGRAPHY Mission, Paddle for Autism, A Better Benefit, Chance, Let’s Get Ready, the San Fran- n career-focused events that bring together students and cisco Food Bank, Toys for Tots and the NYC Parks Department. young alumni, This year, CCYA will participate in Columbia Community Out- n networking events and reach Day on Saturday, April 6, which is organized by the student n community service events. organization Columbia Community Outreach. CCYA Community Like previous CCYA leaders, President Calvin Sun ’08 and Service Chair Christina Macchiarola ’10 encourages everyone in V. P. Robyn Burgess ’10 have considerable experience as Columbia our young alumni network to go out and serve their communities student leaders and a passion to keep CCYA on track and growing on that day (columbia.edu/cu/outreach). We hope other CCAA to serve our newest alumni. members will get involved as well. Sun was v.p. of his class and president of the Columbia Uni- CCAA is very interested in adapting CCYA’s approach of con- versity Asian American Alliance. Now a medical student, he is on necting classes and interacting with current students. Alumni of the Board of Directors for the East Coast Asian American Student all ages tell us that in addition to class reunions they would like Union, the oldest and largest ethnic-interest collegiate organiza- more opportunities to get together with the other classes that tion in the country. Sun says the key to CCYA’s success is its “con- were on campus when they were there. tinual shift in emphasis to respond to the desires of the newest Dean’s Day, which occurs during the Saturday of Alumni alumni and in helping graduates make the transition from college Reunion Weekend, is one such opportunity. And we are excited life by continuing the close community that existed on campus.” that the Society of Columbia Graduates has moved its Great Teacher Awards celebration to Dean’s Day so a broader group of alumni can come together for a communal celebration. This luncheon brings together faculty, students and former students — three of the College’s greatest assets — to honor our most in- spiring and supportive teachers. CCYA is a good model for CCAA and for College Alumni Affairs as we continue to think about building ever-stronger rela- tionships with our alumni. Please continue to write to me about what interests you ([email protected]). I hope to see all alumni — not just those in reunion years — on campus at Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thursday, May 30– Young alumni in the Bay Area volunteered with the San Francisco Sunday, June 2. Food Bank, one of CCYA’s growing number of community outreach PHOTO: COLIN SULLIVAN ‘11 efforts.

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A PASSION FOR LIBERTIES

B y V a l e r i e S e i l i n g J a c o b s

hen Norman Dorsen ’50 arrived at Columbia College in fall 1946, he was not your average freshman. First, there was his age. At 16, he was younger than most of his classmates. And then there was his physical appearance. Though at 5-foot-10½ he was tall enough to snag a spot on the JV basketball team, he was, in his own words, “not physically prepossessing,” especially when compared to the many WWII veterans who were flooding the University thanks to the G.I. Bill. Adding to Dorsen’s sense of isolation was the fact that he still lived at home. While other students socialized on campus, he generally trundled home on the subway to his parents’ apartment on West End Avenue and 92nd Street — where he worried obsessively about his grades. Indeed, listening to W Dorsen’s description of his college-age self (“I was pretty pathetic,” he says, laughing), one pictures a scrawny, naïve kid adrift in a sea of strapping, savvy undergraduates. But that image, like so many of Dorsen’s stories about himself, is too mod- est. In fact, Dorsen was the high scorer on the JV team during his sophomore year and later was promoted to varsity. And buried in those anecdotes are the seeds of his later success, including the intellectual acumen and work ethic that propelled him to Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard Law Review, a Fulbright Schol- For more than a arship and an endowed chair at NYU Law. Dorsen became one of the most influential civil liberties lawyers in the country, leading the American Civil Lib- half-century, Norman erties Union’s (ACLU) efforts for several decades and spearheading scores of legal challenges to discriminatory legislation and other injustices. Name almost Dorsen ’50 has fought any civil liberties controversy since the 1960s — from a woman’s right to an (Top) Photos on the walls of Norman Dorsen ’50’s office at NYU attest to the remarkable breadth of his career. abortion, to a minor’s right to a due process hearing, to the government’s right PHOTO: THOMAS F. FERGUSON ’74 for fundamental to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance — and Dorsen’s name surfaces. (Left) Dorsen with the late Supreme Court Justice William J. Bren- He has famously defended even the most unpopular parties in the cause of nan Jr. in the 1970s. preserving free speech and other fundamental freedoms, including the Nazis’ (Above) Left to right, Claudio Grossman, dean of the Washington freedoms and against College of Law at American University, Supreme Court Justice Ste- right to march through Skokie, Ill., a town that in 1977 had a large population phen Breyer and Dorsen at the Breyer-Scalia debate in 2005. of Holocaust survivors. Dorsen has received so many accolades that NYU Law PHOTOS: COURTESY NORMAN DORSEN ’50 discriminatory has set up a special seminar room to hold the photographs, plaques and other memorabilia from his long and distinguished career. legislation Dorsen cannot recall the exact moment his passion for civil liberties began, but

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there were hints of his liberal leanings during his undergraduate of whom continue to work in the public interest as civil liberties case. Indeed, during his tenure, the ACLU was involved in some effort and culminated in 2002 with the publication of IgCON, a years. He recalls one professor who labeled his opinions “a little lawyers in government and legal services organizations and as of the most famous civil liberties cases in U.S. history. new international journal of constitutional law. He employed spicy” — a characterization that Dorsen does not dispute. “I was law professors. Dorsen also played a critical role within the ACLU itself, es- those same talents when he joined forces with other law profes- no radical,” he says, laughing again, “but I definitely had views.” One of those former fellows is Judith Resnik, now the Arthur pecially after the fallout from the infamous Skokie case. In spring sors to organize the International Association of Law Schools and It may have been that outspokenness that brought him to the Liman Professor at Yale Law. According to Resnik, Dorsen’s egali- 1977, when the ACLU announced that it would defend the Nazis’ became the founding president of the Society of American Law attention of the Office of the Secretary of the Army in 1954 when, tarian attitude toward students and his willingness to engage with right to march through that Chicago suburb, 4,000 members of Teachers. only a year out of Harvard Law, he was tapped to help repre- them critically set the program apart. She tells how Dorsen listened the ACLU wrote letters in protest. Within months, the organiza- sent the Army during the McCarthy hearings. With only four to students “who may not agree with him” and always provided tion lost more than 30,000 supporters. By the end of the year, the ut the real secret to Dorsen’s success may be how person- people on the Army’s legal team, Dorsen played a critical, albeit room for genuine debate. And he matched that open-mindedness number had grown to 41,000 (more than 25 percent of the ACLU’s able he is, even with those who disagree with him. His behind-the-scenes, role: He was responsible for preparing the le- with an open-door policy, instructing his assistant never to ask who total membership) and the organization was on the verge of bank- friendships cross party lines and extend from Manhat- gal memoranda and other documents needed for the weeks of visitors were or what they wanted. He made it a practice to answer ruptcy. Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s current executive director, Btan, where he has an apartment, to the quiet corners of testimony. While Americans watched on television, a relatively his own phone whenever he could. But it was his vision, Resnik puts it bluntly: “We were faced with extinction.” Cornwall, Conn., where he spends weekends (Harriette died in new medium at that time, Dorsen got an up-close look at Sen. explains, that made the program so successful. “He was ahead of Once again, Dorsen rose to the occasion. First, he refocused 2011). On visits to Washington, D.C., he’s been known to dine Joseph R. McCarthy and his counsel, Roy Cohn ’46, ’47L, a man the curve,” she says. “Not just once, but over and over again.” the debate on the First Amendment, reminding critics that even with the legal elite — regardless of their political leanings. “He’s whom Dorsen describes as being “even less sensitive to individ- In 1967, for example, Dorsen challenged the constitutional- the most unpopular speakers are entitled to free speech. He was a likeable fellow who likes to be liked, even if it’s by the likes of ual rights than his boss.” ity of Arizona’s juvenile court procedures after a 15-year-old unflappable, recalls Romero, an important skill given the escalat- Antonin Scalia,” Romero says, hastening to add: “But just to be McCarthy’s behavior — what Dorsen once described as his boy was sentenced to six years in prison for making an obscene ing tensions. He soothed frayed relationships with former sup- clear, he has a very discerning mind.” rude interruptions, his crude jokes at the expense of others and, phone call, even though he had not been provided with an op- porters and attracted new members without compromising the Of his ability to remain friendly — even with those who op- most important, his frequent portunity to confront witness- ACLU’s core goals. “His abil- pose his liberal views — Dors- aspersions on the loyalty of his es, given written notice of the ity to remain cool and focused en simply shrugs. “No mind perceived enemies — left a last- charges or provided with an was absolutely essential for has ever been changed at a ing impression. And the experi- attorney. It was, Dorsen says, the organization at the time,” dinner party,” he says. ence (“an extraordinary moral- the “worst of both worlds,” a Romero says. Perhaps that explains why he ity play,” he says) cemented his system where children were Second, Dorsen set out to continues to pursue justice in commitment to protecting civil “subjected to the kind of incar- solve the ACLU’s internal prob- other venues. Most days you liberties and changed his life. ceration and criminal penalties lems. His knowledge of the law, can find Dorsen in his office “There is no doubt that being that adults were, but without as well as what Romero calls on Washington Square, working confronted by the McCarthy the protections of the Bill of the nuts and bolts of the orga- on another speech or law review crowd, and in particular by Roy Rights that adults had if ac- nization, afforded him a unique article. He recently finished Cohn, sensitized me to issues of cused of the same thing.” The perspective and enabled him to editing a volume of the last fairness in hearings and other case, which Dorsen successful- help shape policies and facili- 11 lectures from NYU’s James proceedings and the drastic ly argued before the Supreme tate board decisions that would Madison lecture series, which harm that the government can Court, extended constitutional ultimately right the organiza- are delivered only by Supreme do to free expression,” Dorsen guarantees to juveniles, a group tion. “He was the quintessen- Court justices and U.S. Court says. “This experience led me that previously had been with- tial senior statesman, quietly of Appeals judges. And he re- to become a civil libertarian.” out such protections. exercising leadership behind mains co-director of the law So Dorsen was “overjoyed” In another groundbreaking the scenes,” Romero says. By school’s Arthur Garfield Hays when, in 1961, after two fed- case a year later, Dorsen con- the time Ronald Reagan en- Civil Liberties Program, where eral clerkships, including one vinced the Supreme Court that tered the White House in 1981, he takes an active role in train- with Supreme Court Justice As general counsel (1969–76) and president (1976–91) of the ACLU, a Louisiana statute that denied the ACLU’s membership was ing civil rights lawyers. Dorsen fought for the constitutional rights of various groups, includ- Dorsen accepts an award from the Society of American Law Teachers John Marshall Harlan, and a ing women and children. “illegitimate” children the right growing again, its finances and from Co-presidents Carol Chomsky (left) and Margaret Montoya in 2000. Dorsen still answers his PHOTO: COURTESY NORMAN DORSEN ’50 brief stint practicing law in PHOTO: COURTESY NORMAN DORSEN ’50 to recover damages for the management were stable and it own phone and types his own New York City, he was offered wrongful death of their mother was well positioned to defend letters, many of them on the a faculty position and the directorship of the Arthur Garfield violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. against the next round of civil rights abuses. manual typewriter that sits on a stand beside his desk; the Hays Civil Liberties Program at NYU Law. It was there he met The case was important not only because it granted constitutional Dorsen, for his part, is quick to deflect praise. “It’s such a big bulky gray Royal dates to the 1960s, a tangible reminder of just his wife, Harriette, a woman who shared his liberal views (she protections to children born out of wedlock but also because it sug- story — no one person is responsible,” he says, speaking of the AC- how long Dorsen has been at this. He also still teaches, though became one of the country’s most influential publishing lawyers) gested that discrimination based on criteria other than race could LU’s success. While that technically may be true, other evidence his course load has been reduced to make room for other re- and with whom he raised three daughters. trigger a high level of scrutiny by the courts. The case helped pave points to the importance of Dorsen’s diplomacy. As J. Anthony Lu- sponsibilities (he is counselor to the university’s president and the way for other discrimination cases based on non-race classifica- kas, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, observed recently agreed to chair a major study on multi-school pro- unning the civil liberties program at NYU proved a daunt- tions, including gender. in The New York Times as early as 1978, Dorsen had a “magic touch grams). And he continues to be involved in the ACLU, both ing task. The program, which had been established three It was that kind of vision that prompted the ACLU to offer for healing organizational wounds.” And Dorsen’s team-building as a member of its National Advisory Council and an infor- years earlier in memory of Hays, also a Columbia alumnus Dorsen a leadership position within the organization — first as skills have been a recurring theme in the myriad tributes to him: he mal adviser to its current officers. In fact, in recognition of his R(Class of 1902, 1905L) and a former general counsel of the general counsel (1969–76) and then as president (1976–91). With received a Medal of Liberty from the French Minister of Justice in more than 50 years of outstanding service, the ACLU recently ACLU, was floundering. The two previous directors had resigned. the ACLU’s backing, Dorsen continued to fight for the constitu- 1983, the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President announced the establishment of the “Norman Dorsen Presi- “Three strikes and you’re out,” Dorsen recalls the dean saying. It tional rights of children, prisoners, war protesters, homosexuals, Clinton in 2000 and the first lifetime achievement award from the dential Prize,” one of only two prizes awarded by the organi- was up to Dorsen to stabilize the situation. women and the indigent. In 1969, he brought one of the earli- Association of American Law Schools in 2007, to name but a few. zation. It is a fitting tribute to a man whose life personifies the He did much more than that. He turned the program into est petitions for Supreme Court review of alleged discrimina- Dorsen recognizes the value of his ability to bring people to- ACLU’s motto: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” what Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. later called tion against a gay man. And in 1971, he argued the first abortion gether. “If I do something myself,” he says, “that’s one thing, but “the most effective and important center in the country for the rights case before the Supreme Court, a case that prefigured Roe unleashing the capacities and energies of people toward mutual Valerie Seiling Jacobs is a freelance writer, an M.F.A. candidate in training of law students for public service on behalf of individual v. Wade, where he also was counsel of record. Dorsen also wrote goals is a way of multiplying the impact and effectiveness one the School of the Arts and a teaching fellow in the College’s University rights.” Under Dorsen’s direction, the program has provided amicus curiae briefs in a number of other landmark cases, includ- can have.” In fact, his ability to forge alliances helped him found Writing Program. Before turning to writing, she practiced corporate law. practical, hands-on instruction for hundreds of fellows, many ing Gideon v. Wainwright, U.S. v. Nixon and the Pentagon Papers a global consortium of legal scholars, a task that took years of Thomas F. Ferguson ’74 contributed to this article.

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The Voice is All: The Lonely Vic- (Strategic Book Publishing and by Miles Orvell ’64. Orvell studies The Complicity of Friends: How tory of Jack Kerouac [’44] by Joyce Rights, $13.95). the nostalgic construct of Main George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and he personal essay as a literary form resists easy the form required, Lopate’s 12 years as a consulting writer-poet Johnson. Johnson explores Kerouac’s Street in American culture, includ- John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded definition; it can be erudite, intimate or irreverent, in a Manhattan public school informed his memoir, Being with dual identity as a French-Canadian Qualities of Duration: The Archi- ing its allure, ideology and func- Herbert Spencer’s Secret by Mar- as suited for debating the wider world as it is relat- Children: A High-Spirited Personal Account of Teaching, Writing, and an American, and assesses tecture of Phillip Smith [’61] and tion as a space (The University of tin N. Raitiere ’70. Raitiere discloses ing matters of the heart. Celebrated practitioners Theatre and Videotape. It was also the foundation for a teaching how being caught between the two Douglas Thompson by Alastair Gor- North Carolina Press, $39.95). the neurological disorder that include authors as varied as Michel de Montaigne, career that has since included positions at the University of cultures and languages affected his don. This book showcases the work afflicted philosopher Spencer and TGeorge Orwell and Joan Didion. Today, savvy readers Houston, Hofstra and Bennington. writing (Viking, $32.95). of architects Smith and Thompson, The Ellington Century by David explores the impact it had on the often associate the essay with Phillip Lopate Lopate’s prodigious output encompasses three whose designs embody a sense of Schiff ’67. Schiff examines the work few who knew his secret (Bucknell ’64, editor of the influential 1994 work,The Art essay collections, two novels (Confessions of a The Mating Flower by Dr. Enoch spatial quietude and inspiration of American composer Duke Elling- University Press, $95). of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Summer and The Rug Merchant), a pair of novel- Callaway ’45. Callaway’s novel (Damiani/Gordon de Vries Studio, ton and other composers of his time, Classical Era to the Present. las and three poetry collections, not to mention revolves around a mystical flower $50). their relationship to music’s modern- The Ethical Challenges of Human The latest collection from the famed essayist a volume of movie criticism, a meditation on the and the research to harness its ization and their effects on their suc- Research: Selected Essays by Frank and director of the graduate nonfiction program New York waterfront, a study of Susan Sontag love potion-like powers, leading John Dante’s Inferno, A Playboy’s cessors and music today (University G. Miller ’70. The author compiles at the School of the Arts is Portrait Inside My and the many anthologies he has edited. A guide to tales of love and crime-solving Life by Anthony Valerio ’62. The of California Press, $34.95). 22 essays that address the chal- Head: Essays (Free Press, $26), a diverse — or as for writers, To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Liter- (self-published, $10). author recounts tales of hedonism, lenges posed by the use of humans admitted in the introduction, “motley” — assort- ary Nonfiction, was published simultaneously excess and friendship from the 26 Moneywood: Hollywood in Its as test subjects (Oxford University ment of personal and critical reflections. Orga- with Portrait in February (see Bookshelf). His Betty Sue’s Homecoming and Her years his late friend and Playmate Last Age of Excess by William Sta- Press, $55). nized into four sections — “The Family Romance,” awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and Rocky Path to Respectability by recruiter — under the pseudonym diem ’69. Digging into the culture “The Consolations of Daily Life,” “City Spaces” and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Durham Caldwell ’48. In this novel, John Dante — lived in the Playboy of 1980s Hollywood, Stadiem high- Communicating the Bird by Robert “Literary Matters” — the book wrestles with topics Speaking fondly of the place teaching holds a young woman returns home 27 Mansion (Daisy H Productions, lights a crooked cast of the era’s Ronnow ’73. Ronnow explores including his daughter’s health crisis as an infant; in his career, Lopate says, “For me, teaching is a years after disappearing to find $9.43). powerful executives and produc- political, sexual and emotional his marriage; baseball; his appreciation for femme form of writing out loud. [It’s] a little like being she must adapt to small town life ers who cheated, embezzled and themes in this collection of poems fatales; his relationship with Brooklyn; and his resis- a jazz musician; it’s very improvisatory. I’m and overcome the demons from The Man Who Got Lost: North womanized their way to the top (Broken Publications, $10). tance to reading Thomas Bernhard. Throughout, chasing meaning, much the way that essays her years in NYC (CreateSpace Quabbin Stories by Allen Young (St. Martin’s Press, $26.99). Lopate’s wry voice and an awareness of his are an exploration. There’s also a psycho- Independent Publishing Platform, ’62. In this collection of articles and Casebook of Interpersonal Psy- own limits offer unifying threads. logical dimension to being a teacher where $14.95). columns written between 1978– The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis chotherapy edited by John C. In January, sitting in the book-lined, top-floor you’re in front of people with their hopes 2012, Young describes life in the on Science, Scientism, and Society Markowitz ’76 and Myrna M. office of his Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, brown- and dreams and pain. This is the drama of Vastation by Lewis E. Birdseye ’60. area north of Quabbin Reservoir in edited by John G. West, featuring Weissman. This book responds to stone, Lopate discussed Portrait, his memories being a human being and in almost every In this novel, a father and son take Massachusetts (Haleys, $15). essays by M.D. Aeschliman ’70 and the need for a foundational text to of Columbia, the writer’s life and what he still situation, it comes down to responding in a a journey on the trails of Oregon’s others. Aeschliman discusses Lewis supplement manuals on inter- hopes to achieve in a career that has already human way and in a commonsensical way.” Willamette National Forest, gain- To Show and To Tell: The Craft and scientism in two essays (Dis- personal psychotherapy (Oxford produced an entire shelf of books. Though readers of his earlier essay col- ing an understanding of life and its of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip covery Institute Press, $24.95). University Press, $55). As the son of textile clerks growing up in lections may feel that they know Lopate complexities along the way (Xlibris Lopate ’64. The School of the Arts the then-ghettos of Williamsburg and Fort intimately, he’s not as curmudgeonly and Corp., $19.99). professor assembles a comprehen- The Life & Times of Fred Wesley Inside CEO Succession: The Greene, Brooklyn, Lopate recalls his culture nature-averse as his work suggests. “In real sive guide to writing literary non- Wentworth: The Architect Who Essential Guide to Leadership shock upon entering Columbia. “I felt a chip life, I’m perfectly content to have a good The Mountain of Long Eyes: An fiction (see this issue’s featured Shaped Paterson, NJ and Its Transition by Tom Saporito and on my shoulder,” he says. “You’re dropped time, and I can even have fun at a dinner Anthology of Science Fiction and book for the story of Lopate’s People by Richard E. Polton ’70. Paul Winum ’77. The authors pres- into this genteel environment, where it is sink party,” he says. Writing offers an opportunity Fantasy by Thomas Wm. Hamilton other new work) (Free Press, $16). More than 130 photos illustrate ent a comprehensive overview or swim.” In addition, he says, “I was trying to for control, much more than he has in his ’60. This collection includes more Polton’s chronicle of the life and of how boards can manage CEO solve the problem of women” — a particu- daily life as a husband and father. “I go up to than 25 stories on subjects such The Death and Life of Main work of Wentworth, a little- succession while maintaining larly challenging endeavor for a 16-year-old my room and close the door, and I can control as time travel, alternate history, Street: Small Towns in American known New Jersey architect (Pine corporate success (Wiley, John & freshman in an all-male college. PHOTO: SALLY GALL the field of the page,” he says. horror, politics and space opera Memory, Space, and Community Hill Architectural Press, $34.95). Sons, $50). Lopate recalls positive aspects of his ex- Taking stock, he says that he’s achieved perience as well, such as working on the Columbia Review and more than he ever expected. “When I went to Columbia, a trem- founding clubs for filmmakers and jazz aficionados. He worked bling freshman, I had two models in my head,” he says. “One two jobs, one at Ferris Booth Hall where he made sure students was to become a great writer like Dostoevsky and the other were wearing the expected jackets and ties. From professors was to be an utter failure. I didn’t imagine being a successful such as Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS and Eric Bentley, he learned ‘minor writer.’ I have my place in the culture, and it’s not a huge that “when you study literature or art history with a great place, but it’s respectable. Anything I write from now on will professor, you’re studying the professor as much as you’re have to come from the pleasure of experimenting.” studying the subject.” That said, he would like to write a proper autobiography, noting During his “powerless and in the dark” years in the mid- to the difference between individual essays and memoirs. “Personal late-1960s, Lopate responded to calls for editorial assistants essays are like guerilla raids,” he says. “You get in there, you rip (ghost writers, really) on Columbia’s unemployment wall and off a sheep and you go back. earned money working on manuscripts for psychologists, social “The hope or rationalization is that people will read my writ- scientists and educators. He chronicles this early period in his ing and think, oh yeah, I feel better about my own silliness and essay, “The Poetry Years,” admitting that of his 15 years writing mistakes. It’s an attempt to create a community of consolation.” poetry: “I am tempted to rub my eyes, as though recalling a time when I ran off and joined the circus.” Despite the “bluffing” that Jessamine Chan ’12 Arts is a reviews editor at Publishers Weekly.

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Biomedical Consulting Agree- everything from brand building to The Politics of Energy and Mem- diary entries and personal doc- ments: A Guide for Academics by lead generation and sales to estab- ory between the Baltic States and uments, Hackett examines the H. Robert Horvitz and Edward Klees lishing a compelling mobile pres- Russia by Agnia Grigas ’02. Grigas religious, political and cultural ’81. A guide for academic scientists ence (Wiley, John & Sons, $29.99). dissects the relationship between impact of Bernard, only the third and physicians who are consider- Russia and the Baltic States in American to enter the holy capital Obituaries ing consulting work in the field of Glorieta by Quinn Kayser-Cochran terms of energy security concerns, city of Lhasa, Tibet (Columbia biomedicine (The MIT Press, $30). ’92. Two young lovers find each foreign policy and historical legacy University Press, $32.95). 1930 Northern Westchester Hospital in admiralty law until his retirement other during the decisive battle in (Ashgate, $99.95). Malcolm S. Mason, attorney, Ear- Mount Kisco, N.Y. He also devoted in 1982. He had a second career as Change the World Before Bed- the New Mexico Campaign of the The Generation of Postmemory: lysville, Va., on November 1, 2011. 10 years to teaching and practicing an apple farmer, which began in the time, by Mark Kimball Moulton, Josh Civil War (Westland Books, $19.95). Tokyo Utopia by Yuma Terada ’05. Writing and Visual Culture Mason was born in the Bronx in medicine in Afghanistan and Java mid 1970s when he partnered with Chalmers ’86 and Karen Good. With Observing Japanese society from After the Holocaust by Marianne June 1910. He was a 1934 graduate as a volunteer with CARE/Medico. his oldest son to acquire and operate rhyme, Chalmers teaches children Your Next Big Thing: 10 Small within and abroad, Terada ad- Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent of the Law School and had lived Survivors include his wife of 71 orchards in Eastern Washington. that, through simple deeds, kind Steps to Get Moving and Get Hap- dresses foreign perceptions of Professor of English and Compara- in the Earlysville area since 2003. years, Ann; sons, John and Terry; Biele was predeceased by his wife of words and smiles, they can change py by Ben Michaelis ’95. Practical Japan and Japanese culture and tive Literature. Hirsch posits that Mason was an expert in federal daughter-in-law, Deborah; two 61 years, Mary. He is survived by his grandsons; and two nephews. sons, John ’69 and Alec ’71; daughter, the world a little at a time (Schiffer strategies, quizzes and exercises to also how Japan should respond to the memory of others’ traumatic grants law and was legal counsel in several federal agencies, including Polly Lenssen; five grandchildren; Publishing, $16.99). help those who are feeling “stuck” these misperceptions (Bungheisha, events can shape the behavior of 1939 the National Labor Relations Board, and five great-grandchildren. to realize their purpose, achieve JPY 1,200). their family members and the cul- Thomas P. Armstrong, retired the Office of Economic Opportunity 1940 The Pope Stories and Other Tales their goals and learn about their ture at large (Columbia University and the Department of Health, business administrator, Russell, of Troubled Times by George Guida true selves (Adams Media, $24.95). Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills Press, $27.50). Education, and Welfare. Up to the Mass., on April 15, 2012. Armstrong Gilbert H. Glaser, retired medical ’89. Guida addresses Catholicism, and the Making of Political Intel- time of his death, he was serving as Paul E. Queneau ’31 and his two brothers were raised school professor, North Haven, family conflict and personal strife A Secret History of Coffee, Coca lectuals by Stanley Aronowitz. The Lead Wars by Gerald Markowitz, a senior fellow to the Administra- on the Columbia Stock farm, a Conn., on January 21, 2012. Glaser, in this collection of satirical and & Cola written and illustrated by author describes the role of the adjunct professor of sociomedical tive Conference of the United States. earned five battle stars on his ETO thoroughbred horse operation on a 1943 graduate of P&S, trained philosophical fiction (Bordighera Ricardo Cortés ’95. In this work of late Mills, a professor of sociol- sciences at the Mailman School of Mason was predeceased by his ribbon. In 1945 he returned to the Long Island, N.Y. After the Col- in neurology at The Neurological Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. In lege, he studied Japanese at Penn Institute of New York at NewYork Press, $15). artistic journalism, Cortés explores ogy at Columbia from 1946–62, Public Health, and David Rosner, wife, Irma; brother; and sister. He is survived by his daughter, Jan, and 1949, Queneau explored, mapped while serving in the Army during Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia the history of the coca leaf and its in transforming the politics of the the Ronald H. Lauterstein Profes- her husband, Ed Freundschuh; son, and photographed the Perry River WWII. Armstrong’s career included University Medical Center and then How to Look Hot in a Minivan: controversial relationship with the American Left in the 1940s and sor of Sociomedical Sciences and Mike; and two granddaughters. region of the Arctic. He retired sales, business ownership and served at Brooke AMC from 1946– A Real Woman’s Guide to Los- Coca-Cola Co. (Akashic Books, ’50s and his influence on student professor of history. An incisive from INCO after 35 years and in finally business administration with 48. He was recruited to Yale as head ing Weight, Looking Great, and $17.95). protests and antiwar movements examination of lead poisoning 1931 1971 joined the Thayer School of Gowanda State Hospital in New of the neurology section, beginning Dressing Chic In the Age of the of the ’60s (Columbia University during the past half century and a Paul E. Queneau, Hanover, N.H., Engineering at Dartmouth, teaching York. He retired in 1983. Armstrong a 45-year career at Yale. Glaser Celebrity Mom by Janice Min ’90. Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Press, $32.50). call to action for more responsible on March 31, 2012. Queneau was there for 25 years. Queneau and loved the outdoors and remained became full professor in 1963 and Min pulls together fashion, nutri- Hall of Fame edited by Franklin public health and prevention in the born on March 20, 1911, in Phila- his wife, Joan (née Hodges), spent active for years after retiring. He was named chairman when neurol- tion, fitness and beauty tips from Foer ’96 and Marc Tracy. This col- Globalization and Sovereignty: face of powerful polluters (Univer- delphia. He earned a B.A. as well their free time on their farm near was preceded in death by his first ogy became a department in 1971, Cornish, N.H. She predeceased wife, Grace Elizabeth (Bette) Cor- a position he held until his 1987 Hollywood’s top experts for new lection of biographical, sociological Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, sity of California Press, $34.95). as a B.S. (1932) and Ph.D. (1933), the latter two at Engineering, and him. Queneau is survived by his nell; second wife, Carma Goodrich; retirement. Glaser was internation- or expecting mothers (St. Martin’s and reflective pieces by numerous and Constitutionalism by Jean L. began work at International Nickel children, Paul and his wife, Jean, son, Robert; and son-in-law, Robert ally known for his clinical expertise Press, $26.99). authors, including Foer, explores Cohen, the Nell and Herbert Singer Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhow- Co.’s (INCO) Huntington, W.Va., al- and Josie; six grandchildren; seven Apolant. He is survived by his wife, and research in epilepsy and also the influences of significant Jewish Professor of Contemporary Civili- er’s Secret Battle To Save the loy plant. Queneau graduated from great-grandchildren; and brother, Jean Walther; sons, Thomas, and was a leader of a new generation of Plaguewalker by Gemma Tarlach athletes, coaches, broadcasters, zation and Political Theory. Cohen World by Evan Thomas. Working the Army Engineer School and was Bernard ’30, ’33E, and his wife, Steven James Walther; daughters, physician-scientists committed to ’90. In Tarlach’s dark fiction debut, trainers and team owners (Twelve, analyzes the new sovereignty re- with newly declassified papers, deployed to Europe with the U.S. Esther. Memorial contributions may Pamela Armstrong Apolant, Carma disease-oriented laboratory research Marcus of Ansberg, an executioner $26.99). gime emergent since 1990 and ar- Thomas reveals how President Army Corps of Engineers. He was be made to the Queneau Scholar- Lynne Goodrich Uhrich, Royanna as the basis for understanding basic in plague-ravaged 14th-century gues for the continued importance Eisenhower, also the 13th presi- awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the ship Fund, Town of Cornish, 488 Goodrich Law, Cynthia Goodrich disease mechanisms as a prerequi- Bavaria, embarks on a journey of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers of sovereign equality (Cambridge dent of Columbia, made a high- Army Commendation Medal and Town House Rd., Cornish, NH Cowan, Emily Walther Golinski and site to developing novel therapies. 03745, or the Fry Fund, Kendal at Karen Walther McCann; 17 grand- Glaser was president of the Ameri- Learn the Language and Culture of atonement and redemption while University Press, $36.99). risk but ultimately successful Hanover, 80 Lyme Rd., Hanover, children; and 23 great-grandchil- can Epilepsy Society in 1963 and searching for his missing daughter Orthodox Judaism by Sarah Bunin bluff with nuclear weapons dur- Obituary Submission NH 03755. dren. Memorial contributions may president of the American Academy (Grunaskhan Books, $8.99). Benor ’97. The author explains how Theos Bernard, the White Lama: ing the Cold War (Little, Brown Guidelines be made to Hilltown Community of Neurology from 1973–75. He was non-Orthodox Jews learn Orthodox Tibet, Yoga, and American and Co., $29.99). 1932 Ambulance Association, Box 353, editor of the journal Epilepsia and on Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day language and culture through inter- Religious Life by Paul G. Hackett, Columbia College Today Leonard S. Bases, otolaryngologist Huntington, MA 01050; American the editorial boards of many other by Rachel Pasqua and Noah Elkin ’91. actions with community veterans lecturer in the discipline of clas- Karl Daum ’15 welcomes obituaries for and surgeon, Sarasota, Fla., on Janu- Red Cross, Westfield Chapter, 48 journals. Yale honored him in 2006 Learn how to develop and deploy and other newcomers (Rutgers sical Tibetan in the Department College alumni. Deaths are ary 25, 2012. At the College, Bases Broad St., Westfield, MA 01085; by establishing the annual Gilbert mobile marketing strategies for University Press, $27.95). of Religion. Through interviews, noted in the next available was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At or The United Church of Christ, H. Glaser Lectureship and in 2010 issue in the “Other Deaths the depth of the Great Depression Second Congregational Church, 487 by creating the Gilbert H. Glaser Reported” box. Complete he and his brother, Joe, won his first Western Ave., Westfield, MA 01085. Professorship. obituaries will be published in year’s P&S tuition by betting on a Edward C. Biele, 1941 an upcoming issue, pending long shot at the races. He earned retired attorney, the rest of his tuition by working apple farmer, Seattle, on November Richard H. Kuh, retired attorney, receipt of information. Due as a shoe salesman and selling his 3, 2012. Biele was born on June New York City, on November 17, to the volume of obituaries blood. Bases graduated from P&S in 29, 1917, in Hackensack, N.J., and 2011. Kuh was briefly the Manhat- that CCT receives, it may 1936 and was elected to the Alpha grew up in Yonkers. He earned a tan D.A. in 1974, serving between take several issues for the Omega Alpha Medical Honor scholarship to Columbia and upon the resignation of Frank S. Hogan complete obituary to appear. Society. He was an intern, resident graduation entered the Law School. ’24, ’28L and the election of Robert Word limit is 200; text may be and house surgeon at Mount Sinai He applied for and was accepted M. Morgenthau. Kuh was born in edited for length, clarity and Hospital, a diplomate of the Ameri- into a naval officers program dur- Manhattan on April 27, 1921. He style at the editors’ discretion. can Board of Otolaryngology and ing his second year of law school, served as a combat infantryman Click “Contact Us” at college. a fellow of the American College of which led to four years’ service in Europe in WWII and graduated columbia.edu/cct, or mail Surgeons. During WWII, he served in the Navy during WWII. Biele magna cum laude from Harvard materials to Obituaries Editor, in the Army Medical Corps. After served as lieutenant commander Law in 1948. Kuh went into private U.S.S. Sea Devil Columbia College Today, the war Bases was a Special Fellow on the submarine practice in New York in 1948 then in head and neck surgery at the during four patrols in the Pacific was an ADA from 1953–64, serv- Columbia Alumni Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer during 1944 and 1945. After the ing as chief of the Criminal Court 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Center in New York City. He served war, he returned to the Law School, Bureau and as Hogan’s administra- 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. chiefly during the next 30 years as graduating in 1946. In 1950, Biele tive assistant. Kuh’s role in the 1964 an attending otolaryngologist at the moved to Seattle, where he practiced obscenity trial of stand-up come-

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cal Center. In 2006, he received a He is survived by his wife, Sue; Diamond Trophy from the Tri-City children, Claude Ann and David Daniel J. Edelman ’40, ’41J, Public Relations Pioneer Hospital Foundation and an award Rustin; son-in-law, Michael Conard; Peter B. Kenen ’54, Economist, Former Provost as a charter member of the Towers and three grandchildren. Memorial aniel J. Edelman ’40, ’41J, a pioneer in tors, by conducting the first modern media tour of Faith from the St. Thomas More contributions may be made to the eter B. Kenen ’54, a leading international winner of the David A. Wells Prize at Harvard for parish. An avid hunter, shooter Louis Augustus Jonas Foundation the public relations field and chairman and sending six sets of twins to 72 U.S. cities. economist and University Provost from 1958–59. His textbooks International Economics and ammo maker, he was a patron in support of Camp Rising Sun or of the international public relations In 1952, Edelman launched his eponymous member of the NRA and a life the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 1969–70, died on December 17, 2012, and The International Economy were standards for company Edelman, died in Chicago on company in a small office in the Merchandise Mart member of the California Rifle and support of Humanism in Medicine. at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was generations of undergraduates entering the field. DJanuary 15, 2013. He was 92. in Chicago. Toni became his first client, followed Pistol Association and the North P80. Kenen, who was an expert on the Eurozone, He was a founding member of the Group of Thirty, Edelman was known as a staunch advocate of by brands such as Sara Lee, KFC, Microsoft, Pfizer, American Hunting Club. Mazza- taught economics at Columbia from 1957–71, an organization that seeks to deepen understand- the public relations profession who established General Electric, Wal-Mart Stores, Abbott Laborato- rella was predeceased by his wife of chairing the department from 1967–70. ing of international economic and financial issues, high standards and a code of ethical practices, ries, Samsung, Royal Dutch Shell, Kraft, Johnson & 57 years, Rita, and daughter, Judith. Born in Cleveland, Kenen moved with his family and a member of the Bellagio Group, an interna- many of which now are standard in the field. He Johnson and Unilever. Some of Edelman’s greatest Surviving him are his companion, to New York, where he attended Bronx Science. tional group of academics and public officials from also was active in public service, working for such marketing successes were establishing the But- Marguerite Moore; children, Rita He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta finance ministries and central banks. He also was M. Gray, Patricia C. Larson, William causes as Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS terball Turkey Talk-Line and helping Advil to switch Kappa with a B.A. from the College and earned an a member and former fellow of the Council on Nicholas and Wendy; son-in-law, (now GBCHealth) and Save the Children. from prescription to over-the-counter medicine. Timothy Nichols; six grandchildren; M.A. (1956) and a Ph.D. (1958) from Harvard. From Foreign Relations as well as a consultant to the Edelman was born in New York City on July 3, Edelman also is known for creating the Mail Pref- and six great-grandchildren. 1956–57 he was a research Council of Economic Advisers, 1920, and attended DeWitt erence Service, an opt-out student at the London School of the Office of Management and Clinton H.S. He graduated Phi list for people wishing to 1943 Economics. Budget, the Federal Reserve, the Beta Kappa from the College avoid marketing solicitations, Sidney Warschausky, retired educa- Kenen was appointed provost International Monetary Fund, and, after earning an M.S. in 1970. tor, Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 9, after the protests of the late the U.S. Department of the Trea- from the Journalism School Today, Edelman is the 2011. Warschausky grew up in the Richard Stang ’48 1960s. He opposed the Vietnam sury and the Economic Advisory in 1941, became sports world’s largest public rela- Bronx and earned a B.A. (Phi Beta War and was an alternate Panel of the Federal Reserve Kappa) as well as an M.A. (1949) and Richard Stang, professor emeritus, editor and reporter for a tions firm; it encompasses delegate for Eugene McCarthy Bank of New York. Ph.D. (1957), the latter two both in St. Louis, on December 14, 2011. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., newspa- 66 offices and more than philosophy from GSAS. He served Stang was born on July 3, 1925, in at the Chicago Democratic Kenen is survived by his wife per. He was drafted into the 4,500 employees world- as a lieutenant in the Army Air Forc- Brooklyn, N.Y. At 18, he joined the National Convention in 1968 but of 57 years, Regina H.; children, Army in 1942, and while in wide, with affiliates in more es, 1943–46. Warschausky’s last 10 Army, fighting in the European also opposed the student oc- Stephanie, Joanne and her the service produced a daily than 30 cities. It has earned months of service were spent in the Theater. He then earned a bach- cupations of Columbia campus husband, Ken Cohen, Judith and newspaper that reported on numerous awards for being Occupation Force in Japan, where he elor’s in chemistry and biology as buildings and took part in a her husband, Jim Gordon, and the latest war developments. a top agency, including from taught English to the villagers. He well as a master’s (1949) and Ph.D. small faculty counter-protest. Marc and his wife, Leslie Fisher- He later served as an analyst magazines such as Adweek, later taught at Illinois for three years, (1958), both in English literature, Nonetheless, he strongly op- Katz; and five grandchildren, of German propaganda, after PRWeek and Advertising Age. at Mount Holyoke for two years studying under Lionel Trilling posed the use of police force to including Zachary Natan Cohen and at Michigan for 33 years, where ’25, ’38 GSAS. Stang specialized which he earned a commis- Edelman was presented remove the students and helped ’13 GS/JTS. Memorial contribu- he chaired the humanities depart- in 19th-century English literature, sion in Germany and served one of the College’s John ment several times. After retire- particularly the Victorian period. tend to injured students at a PHOTO: COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR tions to benefit undergraduate in the U.S. Army Information Daniel J. Edelman ’40, ’41J holds his Jay Awards for distinguished ment Warschausky was a weekly He was an instructor at the Univer- hospital near campus. In 1977, financial aid may be made to the Control Division in Berlin. street sign during ceremonies honor- professional achievement volunteer discussion leader of a sity of Washington from 1953–54, a Columbia awarded Kenen the University Medal for Columbia College Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, After leaving the service, ing him in Chicago in 2000. in 1990 and the Journalism literary group at the JCC for 18 years. lecturer at the City College of New Excellence. After leaving Columbia he taught at 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY Edelman was a news writer School’s first annual Dean’s He was a member of the Chaverim York from 1954–58 and an assistant Princeton from 1971–2004, and continued to teach 10025. Donations also may be made to Secure@ for CBS and a publicist at Musicraft Records in Medal for Public Service in 2005. B’Shirim choir at the JCC. Poetry also professor at Carleton College from part-time until 2011. Home of the Jewish Family & Children’s Service New York before moving to Chicago in 1947 to He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Ruth was a passion and he was collating 1958–61. He joined the faculty of Kenen authored and co-authored numerous of Greater Mercer County, 707 Alexander Rd., Ste become PR director of the Toni Co., which sold hair Ann Rozumoff Edelman; sons, Richard and John; his for publication. Warschausky is Washington University in St. Louis books and monographs, including British Monetary 1-A, Princeton, NJ 08540. survived by his wife of 57 years, Lor- in 1961 as an associate professor of styling products. He expanded on the company’s daughter, Renee ’80L; niece Cornelia S. ’86L; and Policy and the Balance of Payments: 1951–57, Elena Hecht ’09 Barnard raine Nadelman; children, Seth and English, was named full profes- successful advertising campaign, which used three granddaughters. his wife, Sandra Finkel, Judith and sor in 1964 and became professor twins to compare its product to those of competi- Karl Daum ’15 her husband, Gary Childrey, and emeritus in 1997. Stang’s publica- Carl and his wife, Laurie McCollum; tions include The Theory of the Novel second career as a volunteer with and was a member of Sigma Chi. significant contributions in polymer sister, Thelma Solomon; and eight in England 1850–1870 (1959) and the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Bleser traveled abroad and lived science and engineering patent dian Lenny Bruce brought him to April 13, 1922. He earned an M.S. ing and Automation, then associate grandchildren. Discussions of George Eliot (1960). He program, helping seniors fill out in Mexico and Venezuela. He was information with the American public attention. In 1980 Kuh, then from MIT in 1943 and a Ph.D. from dean of research at the School of also co-edited Critical Essays: Ford their tax forms. A year later, he a founding member of the Naples Petroleum Institute, Chemical in private practice, was hired by Stanford in 1949 under the direction Engineering. Levinthal was active 1948 Madox Ford (2002). In addition to became the program coordinator Columbia University Club as well as Abstracts Service, Derwent Infor- the family of Martha “Sunny” von of Felix Bloch. His dissertation, in philanthropy and politics and Robert B. Mellins, physician pro- his wife, Susan Hacker Stang, he is and also joined the Literacy Support an avid fisherman and boater. Bleser mation, Questel-Orbit and the Kirk- Bülow to prosecute her husband, on the magnetic resonance of the traveled to all seven continents. He fessor emeritus, New York City, on survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Council as a tutor. He also helped is survived by his wife of 56 years, Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Claus, on charges that he tried hydrogen atom, was part of Bloch’s is survived by his wife of 67 years, December 12, 2012. Born in Brook- Anton; sons, David and Sam; and the program achieve nonprofit Ellen (née Hadley); children, Philip Technology. Kaback was a member to kill her with insulin injections. Nobel Prize-winning discoveries. Rhoda; children, David and his lyn, Mellins earned an M.D. from three grandchildren. His first wife, status and acquire grants. Cushman and his wife, Carol, Steven, Susan of the American Chemical Society As D.A., Kuh established the sex- In 1948, Levinthal joined Varian wife, Kate, Judith and her husband, Johns Hopkins and subsequently Sondra, died in 1990. was named the 962nd Point of Light Copeland, Scott and his wife, Sally, and won many awards for his work crimes unit. He authored Foolish as a founding employee and was Randall, Michael and Daniel; and returned to Columbia to be trained by President George H.W. Bush in and Laura; brother, David, and his in patent information, including the Figleaves? Pornography in — and out research director and director of seven grandchildren. in pediatrics, cardiology and pulm- 1950 1992. He is survived by his wife of wife, Gail; and seven grandchildren. prestigious Herman Skolnik Award. of — Court (1967) and contributed the company. In 1953, he founded onology. He was an internationally Richard D. Cushman, retired v.p. 57 years, Pamela; daughters, Cyn- He had been a member of Temple to other periodicals. Kuh, who Levinthal Electronics Products, William A. Mazzarella, retired IRS recognized authority on childhood and general manager, Auburn, thia Louise Hickman and Melissa Stuart M. Kaback, retired scientific Beth-El since moving to Cranford in lived in Greenwich Village, was developing some of the first defi- employee, Oceanside, Calif., on asthma. Mellins established the Calif., on November 9, 2011. Cush- Cushman Banczak; sisters, Sara adviser, Cranford, N.J., on February 1966, serving as its president, chair a founder of the Village Indepen- brillators, pacemakers and cardiac January 2, 2012. Mazzarella was Pulmonary Division of the Depart- man was born February 14, 1929, Bouchonville and Cynthia Whited; 13, 2012. Kaback was born in Eliza- of its board of education and in a dent Democrats. He is survived monitors. In 1961, Levinthal joined born in Oakland on December 31, ment of Pediatrics at P&S and was in Norwich, N.Y. Drafted into the and five grandchildren. Memorial beth, N.J., and moved to Brooklyn, number of other capacities. Surviv- by his wife, Joyce Dattel Kuh; son, the genetics department of Stanford 1919. He served in China and Korea president of the American Thoracic Army, he served from December contributions may be made to the N.Y., where he spent his childhood. ing are his wife of 56 years, Marilyn; Michael; and daughter, Jody. His School of Medicine. During a two- with the Marine Corps in WWII. Society, the Fleischner Society and 1952–June 1954, receiving an honor- Literacy Support Council, PO Box He earned an M.A. (1956) and a children, Robin and her husband, brother, Joseph ’39, ’43 P&S died year leave Levinthal was director Mazzarella was a life member of the Louis Augustus Jonas Founda- able discharge as a first lieutenant 5291, Auburn, CA 95604-5291. Ph.D. (1960), both in chemistry and Jim, and Gilbert and his wife, Debo- on November 16, 2012. of the Defense Sciences Office at the 1st Marine Division Association, tion as well as v.p. of the American in the Finance Corps. He remained from GSAS. Kaback joined Esso Re- rah; and five grandchildren. the Defense Advanced Research the Chosin Few, the China Marine Lung Association. He received the on reserve duty with the Army 1955 search and Engineering Co. in June 1942 Projects Agency. He returned to Association and the Veterans of For- Physicians and Surgeons Distin- until 1964. In 1957, Cushman began Philip D. Bleser, sales manager, 1960 and retired in 2002. He held 1968 Elliott C. Levinthal, physicist, Stanford, becoming a research pro- eign Wars. He retired from the IRS guished Service Award in 2012. a 28-year career with Diamonds Bonita Springs, Fla., on October 28, numerous patents, was published John R. Tait, attorney, Lewiston, inventor and professor, Palo fessor in the mechanical engineer- in 1978 after 30 years. Mazzarella Mellins also was an accomplished International Corp., retiring as v.p. 2011. Bleser was born on May 6, frequently and was internation- Idaho, on February 1, 2012. Tait was Alto, Calif., on January 14, 2012. ing department and director of the also gave more than 3,000 hours as musician, skier, figure skater and and general manager of the Western 1933, in Schenectady, N.Y. He earned ally recognized as an expert in his born in Toledo, Ohio, and was an Levinthal was born in Brooklyn on Stanford Institute for Manufactur- an auxilian for the Tri-City Medi- gardener as well as an avid reader. Retail Division. In 1988, he began a a B.S. in 1956 from Engineering field. Kaback is recognized for his Eagle Scout before winning a full

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OTHER DEATHS REPORTED Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Class Notes obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. Columbia College Today the Humanities. My next book, The to greet our talented CCT editorial wrote a lengthy snail mail letter that Columbia Alumni Center Great Civilized Conversation, is due staff under the Big Tent before the reported on his status at home in 1938 Leo D. Kellerman, ophthalmologist, Douglaston, N.Y., on November 18, 2012. 25 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 out in spring.” game, giving me the opportunity Monrovia, Calif. Don (90) is doing 1939 Joseph R. Kuh, retired physician, New York, N.Y., on November 16, 2012. 40 New York, NY 10025 Ted is an amazing classmate. We to thank Alex Sachare ’71, Lisa Pal- well, enjoying time with his wife, William J. Stibravy, Foreign Service officer, Norwalk, Conn., on January 5, 2013. [email protected] all graduated 72 years ago, but Ted ladino and Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts for Carol; son, John; and adopted does not pay much attention to the their exceptional skills in produc- daughters, Jan and Sandy, whose 1940 Francis H. McCullough Jr., retired orthopedist, Centralia, Wash., on January 15, 2013. John R. Tait ’68 Milton Kamen ’40 writes from passage of time. ing this excellent publication. children have made Don a happy 1942 Morris Grossman, retired philosophy professor, Fairfield, Conn., on December 12, 2012. New York, “When I recently signed Tell me, friends, what are you Sitting with me at the game grandfather. Don’s father, Herman in at a senior citizen expo in NYC, doing? were my lifelong friends, Ray Rob- Mankiewicz ’17, won an Acad- William J. Scharffenberger, retired business executive, New York City and Ghent, N.Y., on Decem- scholarship to Columbia. He was the young woman at the registra- inson ’41 and Dr. Gerald Klingon. emy Award for his screenplay of ber 12, 2012. class treasurer and a reporter for tion desk noticed my year of birth Ray (91) and Gerry (92) shared Citizen Kane, and his uncle, Joseph Anthony E. Ventriglia, retired professor of mathematics, Bronxville, N.Y., on August 28, 2012. WKCR. Tait was a counterintelli- and asked if I had been in WWII. Melvin Hershkowitz my anguish at yet another painful Mankiewicz ’28, won an Academy gence special agent in the Army and 1943 Cleomenes Generales, physician, La Jolla, Calif., on December 31, 2012. I answered, ‘Yes. During WWII I 42 22 Northern Ave. Columbia loss, 21–16. Dartmouth Award for writing and directing A graduated from Vanderbilt Law. He proudly wore an Army uniform for Northampton, MA 01060 has two good young quarterbacks, Letter to Three Wives. Don himself 1944 Gordon Cotler, author, musical producer, New York, N.Y., on December 20, 2012. was an expert in worker’s compen- over three years,’ fully expecting 42 a freshman and a sophomore, and won the Harper Prize Novel award sation law and was special deputy [email protected] Robert A. Fishman, neurologist and retired hospital chair, Tiburon, Calif., on December 4, 2012. the usual response of, ‘Thank you an outstanding freshman running in 1955 for his novel, Trial, and attorney general for the Bureau of Robert Kaufman, Robert L. Rosenthal, hematologist, Flushing, N.Y., on February 1, 2013. for your service.’ a young 91, in back, Brian Grove, who looks like was nominated for an Academy Child Support. Tait also was Clear- “But what I got was, ‘It must a telephone call on October 14 a potential All-Ivy star. Dartmouth Award for his screenplay for I Want 1945 Alan A. Grometstein, retired mathematician, Stoneham, Mass., on November 4, 2012. water Bar president, Idaho State Bar have needed a good dry cleaning.’” reported the sad news of the death coach Buddy Teevens has recruited To Live! There seems to be some Committee on Ethics and Profession- 1946 Eugene Bruck, musicologist, New York, N.Y., on December 8, 2012. on October 11, 2012, of Margaret L. several good young players. We genetic basis for this multilineal al Responsibility chair and a board Cicchetti, wife of our loyal friend hope that Columbia coach Pete transmission of genius and talent. 1947 William H. Hayes Jr., retired philosophy professor, Santa Cruz, Calif., on August 27, 2011. member of the Workers Compensa- Robert Zucker Nicholas Cicchetti. She is survived Mangurian has done the same and, I was sorry to receive a note on tion Section of the Idaho State Bar, 1948 Grant B. Dellabough, family physician, Dumont, N.J., on November 21, 2012. 29 The Birches by Nick; son, Stephen James; and with his experience and leadership, December 7 from Betty Galen Idaho Trial Lawyers Association and 41 Roslyn, NY 11576 daughter, Laraine Ann. In the we continue to hope for an Ivy Reuther, reporting the death of her James St. Andrew, retired, Mooresville, N.C., on December 13, 2012. the State Board of Idaho Legal Aid 41 Spring 2012 issue of CCT, I reviewed League championship sometime husband, Leo Reuther III, on Octo- [email protected] Paul P. Woolard, business executive, New York City, on January 10, 2013. Services. He received the Pro Bono Nick’s distinguished career as an soon. ber 19, 2012, in Flat Rock, N.C., af- Award from the Idaho State Bar and 1949 Frederick W. Scholl, Hendersonville, N.C., on April 11, 2011. I recently returned from a wonder- educator and administrator in the in 1994 was nominated by President ful vacation at the Grand Velas Riv- New York State school system; by 1950 John L. Maracle, retired insurance executive, Irondequoit, N.Y., on January 3, 2013. Clinton to serve as federal district iera Maya Hotel in Mexico with my the time he retired, he was super- judge. Tait’s career was dedicated to Wm. Theodore “Ted” de Bary ’41’s book The Great 1951 Herbert H. Beardsley, Episcopal priest, Cutchogue, N.Y., on January 26, 2013. friend, Fran, and her family. There intendent of District 11 schools. We winning complex worker’s compen- were 17 of us. And by the time you send condolences to Nick and his Civilized Conversation is due out this spring. Myron “Mickey” Winick, physician and nutrition expert, New York City, on November 1, 2012. sation cases for little remuneration. read this, I’ll have returned from children on their loss. 1952 Salvatore J. Capone, retired ophthalmologist, Staten Island, N.Y., on December 16, 2012. He is survived by his wife, Christina a February trip to Ixtapa, Mexico, On October 9, Arthur Smith Bjornstad; brother, Paul; daughters 1954 John W. Brackett Jr., retired pulmonologist, Oxford, Conn., on December 8, 2012. with my family of 26, including 12 sent a picture of his 9-month-old Although they were unable to ter a short battle with pneumonia. and sons-in-laws, Gretchen Bjorn­ great-grandchildren. great-grandson, Landon, lying make it for Homecoming, Robert He was 90. I last heard from Leo Leon H. Frey, Delray Beach, Fla., on July 8, 2012. stad and Alastair Gemmell, and Wm. Theodore “Ted” de Bary on his back, looking at the photo Kaufman of Scarsdale, N.Y., and on April 23, when he sent regrets Mary Tait and Nathan Abraham; John J. McGill, consultant, Sandestin, Fla., on February 17, 2012. sent the following update: “It’s of Dean James J. Valentini on the Dr. Arthur Wellington of Elmira, at being unable to attend our 70th and a granddaughter. David R. Williams, retired music professor, Memphis, on December 6, 2012. not exactly news but I still teach cover of the Fall 2012 issue of N.Y., reported that one week later, reunion luncheon on campus in 1985 three days a week, conducting an CCT. Art’s son and grandson were on October 27, they greatly enjoyed June. Leo and Betty recently had 1955 Ihor Koszman, chemical engineer, Montgomery, Texas, on August 9, 2012. Asian Humanities course and an wondering if Landon might grow watching Columbia beat Yale 26– moved into a new house in Flat Nicola Tanelli, attorney, North Raymond D. Panetta, retired urologist, Seaside Park, N.J., on December 25, 2012. upper-level Core course, Classics up to be the fourth generation of 22 in a game shown on the YES Rock, but he was able to enjoy it Caldwell, N.J., on January 4, 2013. of East and West, on the theme of Smiths to attend Columbia, pos- Network. Columbia scored the for only a few weeks before his 1956 Stephen Forstein, retired rabbi, Topeka, Kan., on December 19, 2012. Born in Italy, Tanelli was raised nobility and civility. I commute sibly with the Class of 2034. Art’s winning touchdown in the last unfortunate death. He was buried in Verona, N.J. In high school, he 1959 Michael Marks Cohen, former naval officer, former Law School professor, New York City, on by shuttle bus from Columbia’s son, Arthur Jr. ’71, ’73 TC, became minute of the game, which was with full military honors in Arling- excelled in basketball and track but December 1, 2012. Lamont-Doherty Earth Institute an environmental attorney. Arthur called “an Ivy League thriller” by ton National Cemetery. his true passion was soccer. As a in Rockland County. Among Jr.’s son, Jeffrey ’07 SIPA, is an ESPN. Not such a thriller was our Leo came to Columbia from the 1960 Michael J. O’Connell, engineer, New Bern, N.C., on August 11, 2012. member of the Columbia team from other things I conduct a series of environmental engineer. Art (92) subsequent 69–0 loss to Harvard Barnard School in New York City. 1961 John C. Leonardo Jr., retired computer executive, Ketchum, Idaho, on December 18, 2012. 1981–83, Tanelli experienced three public meetings on Keys to the and his wife, Audre, together on November 3 in Cambridge, a He enlisted in the Army Air Corps Ivy League titles. The 1983 squad 1962 George M. Abodeely Jr., West Boylston, Mass., on June 30, 2012. Core, starting with John Erskine for 65 years, reside in an inde- score that ranks high in Ivy League after graduation and, following became the first Ivy League program [Class of 1900], Mark Van Doren pendent living facility in Venice, annals as one of the most crushing flight training in Texas and Kansas, 1963 Robert E. Dyson, Sarasota, Fla., on July 30, 2011. to compete in an NCAA Division I [’21 GSAS] and Jacques Barzun Fla., where Art, who has chronic defeats since the League began in served as a fighter pilot in the men’s soccer national championship Henry A. Sellner, retired ob/gyn, Danbury, Conn., on January 25, 2013. [’27, ’32 GSAS], meeting Fridays myelogenous leukemia, has done 1956. Columbia also lost by 69–0 to Asiatic-Pacific Theatre, flying 142 contest. According to Columbia’s at noon in the Heyman Center for well with seven years of therapy Rutgers in 1978 and lost 77–28 to missions in P-47 and P-38 aircraft. 1964 Frederick H. Levine, physician, Amherst, Mass., on September 18, 2012. 1982 men’s soccer media guide, with “miracle” drugs Gleevec and Holy Cross in 1983. Discharged as a captain in 1945, Leo Tanelli’s sophomore season, he was 1968 Barry Deutsch, attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y., on December 29, 2012. Tasigna. We send warmest greet- Easing memories of these prior was awarded two Distinguished listed as the team’s swiftest man. Class Notes are submitted by ings to him and his family, along defeats, Columbia bounced back Flying Crosses, three Air Medals, a 1969 George S. Eisenbarth, medical executive, professor of pediatrics and diabetes researcher, Golden, Tanelli earned a law degree from with a hug and high hopes for from the Harvard loss with a sur- Presidential Citation and the Purple Colo., on November 13, 2012. alumni and edited by volunteer New York Law and was an attorney Landon as a future Lion. prising and gratifying 34–17 win Heart. He was one of the greatest 1972 Richard A. Arcaro, retired electrical engineer and computer analyst, Laurens, N.Y., on January 9, 2013. with JPMorgan Chase in New York class correspondents and the Your correspondent, accompa- over Cornell at Wien Stadium on WWII heroes among many in our City for the past two years. Prior to 1984 Richard G. Anderson, art dealer and maritime preservationist, Nyack, N.Y., on January 21, 2013. staff of CCT prior to publication. nied by his devoted designated November 10, with strong running class. that, he was employed by Citigroup driver, son-in-law Steve Hathaway, by Marcorus Garrett ’14 and three After the war, Leo joined the FBI 1985 Robert Z. Mesko, development executive, Denver, on November 16, 2012. in New York City for 15 years. He Opinions expressed are those of came from Northampton, Mass., touchdown passes by quarterback as a special agent; he served at vari- is survived by his wife, Beth (née 1992 Andrew Littell, financial executive, Boston, on December 17, 2012. individual alumni and do not to the Homecoming game versus Sean Brackett ’13. We finished the ous stations and ended his career in Holmes); children, Matthew and Dartmouth on October 20. It was a schedule on November 17 with a 1975 as supervisor in charge of ma- Kevin B. Pratt, architecture professor, Ithaca, N.Y., on February 19, 2013. Isabella; parents, Orazio and Franca; reflect the opinions ofCCT, its beautiful, warm fall day, and I was 22–6 loss at Brown, giving coach jor crimes and New York airports, and brother, Pasquale, and his wife, 1993 Tania E. Gregory, homemaker, Berkeley, Calif., on December 11, 2012. class correspondents, the College impressed by the large number Mangurian three wins in his initial based at the FBI office in New York Mary Ann. Suzanne M. Weber, neuroscience researcher and lab manager, Tempe, Ariz., on January 7, 2013. Lisa Palladino of enthusiastic, rambunctious season as our head coach. We hope City. After retirement, Leo lived in or the University. undergraduates who came out to for more triumphs in 2013. Vermont and South Carolina until support our team. I was pleased On October 30, Don Mankiewicz 1999, when he moved to Flat Rock.

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He is survived by his wife; daugh- as well as very scenic. The medical As happened to many in our and ran on the cross country team, the College, their incredibly high even a favorite Columbia College taking Humanities B. For some printed introduction to the edition ters, Loralee Neal of Longwood, meeting in London was held in class, Howard’s college days were coming in second as a freshman at SAT scores and the small number memory using either the email or reason, the schedule makers — in- of the book Ed was supposed Fla., and Leslie O’Keefe of Stony the Barbican Centre, not one of the interrupted by the war and he a race in Princeton; he later won a who were admitted. One of us postal address above. You also can stead of placing me in Colloquium to be commenting on, which a Point, N.Y.; and two grandchildren. city’s more attractive buildings. We returned to get a degree from the gold medal at a race in Annapolis (don’t remember who) wondered send news to me via CCT’s easy- 1 — put me in Colloquium 4 with jokester friend had typed up and At Columbia, Leo played fresh- took time from the meeting to visit Architecture School. He has been in which all the Ivy League schools whether we could have success- to-use webform: college.columbia. Professors Barzun and Lionel sent along for the other friend to man basketball, was on the varsity the WWII underground cabinet retired for about 10 years and lives took part. fully competed for admission if we edu/cct/submit_class_note. Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS. read and for Szathmary to light swim team, participated in The room, where Churchill and his in Greenwich, Conn., though he Years later, Sam took his wife to were applying in the current era. This column is a wonderful way “My classmates were mostly into. My recollection is that Ed Varsity Show and was a member government were bunkered during occasionally still goes to the draft- campus and tried to find Livings- Unhesitatingly, Harry said, “Abso- for us to stay connected. I hope to upperclassmen, among them such timed his arrival at class toward of Columbia Players, the Dolphin the awful weeks and months of the ing table which, he commented, is ton Hall, only to discover the new lutely. No question about it.” hear from you. brains as Richard Bauman ’45, ’46L. the end of the Szathmary diatribe, Society, the Newman Club and the Blitz. Well worth a visit. now an archaic artifact (he says the Wallach name, which, he confessed, John McConnell, our faithful I was clearly out of my league. explained what the profs and the Rifle Club. I remember Leo as an On our return, we spent a few current generation does everything upset him. Later still, he was having correspondent in Post Falls, Idaho, When the profs told us they wanted class had just heard and for once REUNION WEEKEND excellent student, a fine athlete, a days with family members on on computers, and even uses them dinner with a friend to whom he wrote that he “decided to do some- a paper, I didn’t have the slightest left Szathmary speechless.” MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 modest hero and a loyal Columbia Schroon Lake, north of Albany, to take examinations). Howard complained about the renaming, thing with his violin and viola be- idea of what to write about. I settled David Brainin writes, “Just past ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS alumnus. For myself and on behalf N.Y.; thence to Rochester, N.Y., to was a sailor until about 10 years only to find out that the same Wal- sides take up space.” He upgraded on what to a 17-year-old was the the midpoint of my 88th year, I re- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider of Leo’s friends in our class, I send participate in my granddaughter ago but has given up the pastime. lach was the friend’s brother-in-law. his instruments, received profes- most noteworthy part of the term’s tired from even part-time active law [email protected] condolences to Betty and their Sara’s ordination as a deacon of He also confessed to a love of Sam graduated from NYU sional coaching and now plays six first few books: the authors’ predi- practice. At this writing I am pre- 212-851-7846 family. the Episcopal Church. travel and takes a trip abroad on al- medical school, where he studied to eight gigs a month. John teamed lection for sex as part of their plot paring to celebrate the 80th birthday DEVELOPMENT Mara Henckler Finally, as 2013 gets under way, We had three guests for a pleas- most an annual basis, though now radiology. During his service with up with a former USO entertainer lines. I titled my paper ‘Colloquium of my wife, Sema, on December 9. [email protected] I am grateful to be in touch with ant Thanksgiving, made even more he finds it can be a bit onerous. the Army he was promoted from who brought female glamour to 4 Is in a Rut.’ I’m still active as an arbitrator and 212-851-7494 many Columbia friends and class- pleasant after a call from Sara. She Frank Herman ’45E, ’49E, ’53 lieutenant to captain in a combat troops in the South Pacific, Japan “Barzun returned the paper to an occasional mediator. I’m looking mates (several mentioned in this told me to be ready to become a GSAS went into the service after zone. After the war he came back and Korea. Columbia College Today me with the notation that I might forward to our 65th reunion and column), who continue to defy their great-grandfather come July 4! graduation. Following two years in to New York, ran the radiology Dr. Lawrence Ross ’51 P&S told Columbia Alumni Center just as well criticize the Decalogue hope to be there. Best to all.” chronological age and are function- I’m saddened to report the deaths the Navy, he returned and earned department in a major hospital us he enjoyed the piece by Dr. Paul 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 for being 10 percent about sex. I John Zanders turned 87 on Oc- ing well as they progress past their of David Norr, a financial analyst, both a master’s and a Ph.D. in and did pioneering work with Marks ’49 P&S that appeared in 48 New York, NY 10025 surmise he thought I wouldn’t tober 21. He writes, “I am in sound 90th birthdays. As Shakespeare said investment adviser and CPA, physics from Columbia. He spent catheters. this column (Fall 2012). Larry said: [email protected] know what the Decalogue was. health and, while retired from in the words of King Lear, “Ripeness Scarsdale, N.Y., on August 19, 2012; most of his career working on Sam is an avid skier; 43 years “Medicine has come a long way Actually, I did. Trilling’s com- employment, I remain active. I am is all.” To which we may add: Long Harold C. Vaughan, a retired history the theoretical physics of semi- ago, while on vacation in Colora- since I was a plodding, practicing In just shy of three months, on Sat- ments were less acerbic but hardly a member of three local coin clubs may Columbia stand! teacher, Fort Lee, N.J., on September conductors at the IBM Center in do, a beautiful young lady literally pediatrician.” urday, June 1, the Class of 1948 will complimentary. I pulled myself and belong to the Jade Buddha Warm regards and good wishes 22, 2012; and Edward M. Buyer ’43E, San Jose, Calif. However, for the fell over a mogul and landed at his Alan Berman suggested that he celebrate the 65th anniversary of its up later in the term with a paper Temple here in Houston. I reside to all. a retired electrical engineer, Adam- last 10 years he has been retired. feet. They are still skiing together also be inscribed on the Great- graduation by gathering on campus comparing Fielding’s Tom Jones in an apartment and continue to stown, Md., on February 4, 2012. Frank’s health remains good and (having moved to Colorado early Grandfather Cup (Summer 2012 for a special reunion lunch. from Humanities A favorably pursue independent living. People his only physical exercises are in their relationship, about 40 years column). Alan has four great- The Alumni Reunion Weekend with the mildly amusing Dickens often comment about the fact that I REUNION WEEKEND long walks. He reads extensively, ago). Friends have told him that grandchildren and, by the time we website (reunion.college.columbia. novel (Our Mutual Friend), which do not look my age. I accept these MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 Henry Rolf Hecht remains fascinated with his field of a movie should be made of his go to press, the fifth probably will edu) offers you the chance to make was assigned in Colloquium 4. I comments as flattery! ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS 11 Evergreen Pl. theoretical physics, attends lectures romance. have arrived. Indeed, he should a pledge to attend (reunion.college. seem to remember that I ignored “I have nine grandchildren, ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider 44 Demarest, NJ 07627 at Stanford and sometimes teaches I remember Snowmass well join Dr. Lawrence Jukofsky and columbia.edu/attend) as well as an Fielding’s (and Tom Jones’) inter- among them a 12-year-old girl who [email protected] 44 there, too. Lately, his principal oc- because the Winter Conference on Paul Rotondi with the distinction. easy way to be sure Columbia has est in sex. I ended up with a B for is pursuing the dream I could not 212-851-7846 [email protected] cupation has been finishing a book Brain Research often was held there. Recently, when I was riding your correct contact information the term even though I made the complete. She is living with her DEVELOPMENT Mara Henckler My apologies to all who sent on the theory of semiconductors. Sam tells me now that, though the the No. 1 subway, a young man (reunion.college.columbia.edu/ mistake of categorizing Tom Jones parents in New Jersey, where she at- [email protected] news or comments of late, even if Dr. Samuel Hemley had just skiing is still excellent, the confer- leaned over and said, “I am Class alumniupdate). as the ne plus ultra of the modern tends private school. This year they 212-851-7494 I previously sent an acknowledg- returned to his home in Snowmass, ence facilities have been so im- of ’98.” I realized he had spotted Watch for information via mail novel. Barzun wrote in the mar- introduced Mandarin language in- G.J. D’Angio ment. After Hurricane Sandy left Colo., when I called. Snowmass is proved that they are too expensive the Columbia ring I wear. I replied, and email in March. You also can gin, ‘Where did you get that?’ struction, and she is an enthusiastic 201 S. 18th St., #1818 me powerless for five days, my around 9,000 feet in altitude, and for most scientific meetings. “My Class is ’46,” and he blanched. contact either of the staff members 43 Philadelphia, PA 19103 computer was a shambles and I we chatted a bit about President Sam says he loved his time at I suppose he was trying to digest in the box at the top of the column. 43 [email protected] couldn’t locate any notes. In ad- Barack Obama ’83’s poor showing the College and feels privileged to our class year and the fact that we We hope to see you there! David Brainin ’48 retired from the law but is active dition, I’ve reluctantly concluded in the first presidential debate in have been Dean Hawkes’ protégé. are still around. Now, onto news from classmates. In just shy of three months, on that I’m no longer able to act as Denver, speculating as to whether He remains supportive of the track I am sorry to report the passing Durham Caldwell’s newest as an arbitrator and occasional mediator. Saturday, June 1, we will celebrate class correspondent. I will try to some incompetent physician had team and was pleased to note the of Charles J. Fabso ’47 Business in book, Betty Sue’s Homecoming and the 70th anniversary of our gradu- help in a subordinate capacity to failed to make him take precau- accomplishment of Kyle Merber Durham, N.C. A loyal member of Her Rocky Path to Respectability, tells ation by gathering on campus for the extent I can, but please send tions due to the altitude. Sam then ’12, its first sub-four-minute miler. our class, Chuck enjoyed a stellar the story of Betty Sue Hannaford, “I must have made some minor participant. She appears to have a a special reunion lunch with the notes or news directly to CCT Man- kindly offered to speak with me Sam’s current project is teaching career as a general manager of who disappears at 3. The police impression on Trilling. I haven’t genuine talent for language and she Class of 1948. aging Editor Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts at more the next day, so I called again trap and skeet shooting. He has General Electric. chief theorizes she has drowned read it, but I understand he has a rapidly is becoming bilingual (Eng- The Alumni Reunion Weekend [email protected] or via CCT’s and we had a long chat. With the five students! He adds that, at our I add with regret the death of I. in a flood-swollen stream but her character named ‘Caldwell’ in his lish/Chinese). She is able to learn website (reunion.college.columbia. webform: college.columbia.edu/ short-term memory of the typical ages, we should ignore the advice Myer Pincus ’45E, ’49L in Decem- father keeps his porch light on 1947 novel, The Middle of the Journey. written characters with ease and edu) offers you the chance to make cct/submit_class_note. 88-year-old, I hope that I do justice of others and keep doing what we ber. Following our 60th reunion in every night for 27 years, convinced “I took another term of Col- rapidity. I am a doting grandfather. a pledge to attend (reunion.college. Best wishes to you all. to all that we discussed. have been doing, since we have so 2006, Mike wrote in a letter to this she someday will come back to loquium when I returned from “I am the oldest living individual columbia.edu/attend) as well as an — Henry Rolf Hecht, Proudly ’44 Sam recalled growing up in far beaten the odds (as well as the correspondent, “A good deal of him. Through an intriguing chain the Army in 1946. I’m not sure, within my family, for generations. I easy way to be sure Columbia has If any classmates are interested Brooklyn, where he lived with his life expectancies as put forth by my openness of mind and attitude of circumstances she does, and but I think that this time they put have fond memories of my time at your contact information (reunion. in writing the column in Rolf’s uncle, who was a state Supreme our physicians). derive from those wonderful men at she brings with her a lifestyle she me in Colloquium 3. The profs Columbia.” college.columbia.edu/alumniup stead, you also can contact Alexis Court judge. He attended Boys and Columbia who inculcated that what knows will alienate her newly were Donald Frame ’41 GSAS Dr. Bob Mellins passed away date). at the above email address or at Girls H.S., which at the time was is true is what you have examined rediscovered family but which she and Arthur Szathmary. Frame on December 12, 2012. He was 84 Watch for information, via mail 212-851-7485. just Boys H.S., and had excellent Bernard Sunshine up close with an open mind. But is reluctant to give up. The novel was the good guy, Szathmary the and lived in New York City. [Edi- and email, in March, and please grades and fine recommendations. 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G truth changes as we grow older relates the smiles and tears of her intellectual. They had us rotate tor’s note: See Obituaries.] A few take a look at the reunion preview He wanted to go to Cornell but was 46 New York, NY 10023 and experience the world and other struggle to conform to small-town reading our papers out loud weeks before his death, Bob sent in this issue. You also can contact Enoch Callaway turned down. The head of his high 46 people’s truths.” family life. [See Bookshelf.] at the beginning of each class. this note: “Bob Mellins, although [email protected] either of the staff members in the 45 87 Barbaree Way school was distressed by this and, Durham also shared these The only one I remember was Professor Emeritus at P&S, is still box at the top of the column. Tiburon, CA 94920-2223 on inquiry, found that Sam fell out- I recently was asked about admis- thoughts: “The recent death of handed in by Ed Paul, later our active as a special lecturer and runs No news from classmates. Our 45 side of a quota that the college had. sions to Columbia College. This Frank Iaquinta professor Jacques Barzun ’27, ’32 senior class president. For some a research grand rounds for the [email protected] numbers decrease day by day — The young Hemley then was sent to year’s freshmen — the Class of 620 Pelhamdale Ave., GSAS at 104 reminded me of my reason Ed was ‘unavoidably late’ Department of Pediatrics. Music all the more reason for us to keep Howard B. Henderson ’51 Arch. talk to Columbia College Dean Her- 2016 — includes 1,090 students, 47 Apt. 15 collision with his formidable intel- on the night he was due to read Humanities and Art Humanities in touch. Write to me or CCT with was in the yard raking leaves and bert Hawkes, who said he should selected from more than 25,000 ap- 47 Pelham, NY 10803 lect in the spring semester of 1944, and arranged for a classmate to at the College still make it pos- news. Mine follows. generally tidying up after Hur- go to Columbia and suggested that plicants. It brought to mind a class [email protected] when I was a callow, 17-year- read the paper, which Szathmary sible for him to enjoy music and Our trip to the United Kingdom ricane Sandy when his wife called he take the admission tests. That luncheon some years ago, when old, first-term sophomore. I had proceeded to rip apart. Ed turned art. Regrettably, age has made it in October went well. The tour of him to the phone to take my call. he did and, at 15, was admitted Harry Coleman ’46E was dean of Classmates, please share news elected at the end of my freshman up at the strategic moment. He necessary for him to give up figure the Bangor region of North West Obviously, he remains in good to the freshman class. Sam lived the College. He commented about with me about yourself, your terms to apply for the Colloquium disclosed that the paper wasn’t his skating.” Wales was full of historic interest shape. in Livingston [now Wallach] Hall the continuing rise in applicants to family, your career, your travels or on Great Books in preference to but was a distinguished scholar’s Robert Silbert, upon hearing

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If the freshman class could with hurricanes, as we were in black Labrador puppy, Zeppelin. [email protected] and more of the short notes from children and six grandchildren, longtime members of the hospital Mark your calendars now for our figure out a way to climb the pole Florida when Wilma struck five She works out of her home for classmates list the everyday things who range in age from 19 months attending staff. It marked Marvin’s 65th Alumni Reunion Weekend: As we begin the New Year let’s with no mechanical help and years ago. We lived in Boynton Liberty Mutual Insurance. It must that they are doing, what their kids to 21 years.” 52nd year of service to the com- Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June 1, review our list of class officers and remove the cap, the requirement Beach and took a direct hit. be in the blood. Our son, David, have done or are doing, who they CCT is sorry to report the death munity in many varied voluntary 2014. how we keep in touch with them. to wear the silly looking cap was Sandy came into New Jersey lives in northern New Jersey and is have lost and who their friends of Bernard W. Wishy ’58 GSAS, positions on the hospital board Robert T. Snyder continues as rescinded. The pole must have at right angles, which is unusual the v.p. of a construction company. were at Columbia. Memories a history professor who taught at and committees, and as chief of the class president. He and his wife, been at least 20 feet high and was but more dangerous. Add to that a I try to keep up with what’s going are vivid, nostalgia is obvious, Columbia and who resided in San endocrine section and department Mario Palmieri Elaine, live at 150 E. 61st St., Apt. covered with heavy grease. No full moon, high tides and another on in Morningside Heights and still thankfulness is apparent. We were Francisco, on April 28, 2012. of medicine. Of course, it wasn’t a 33 Lakeview Ave. W. 12H, New York, NY 10065-8530; freshman class in Columbia’s 193- storm coming in from the West, bleed blue for our teams, whatever so lucky to be at Columbia after 50 Cortlandt Manor, NY 212-751-1106; robertsnyder@ year history had ever succeeded and you have what they called “a the sport.” the end of one war and before the 50 10567 gmail.com. Bob faithfully attends in removing the cap. Class of 1951 perfect storm.” The damage from Your reporter wishes all the beginning of the next. We should Joe Russell ’49 and his wife, Charlotte, celebrated [email protected] Columbia football and basketball became the first to accomplish the Wilma and Sandy was extensive. members of the Class of 1952 good not waste a minute of any day and games, supports alumni activities impossible. A quickly assembled Fortunately, my wife and I sur- health and good luck. live every hour as best we can, as their 65th anniversary on December 20. Bud Kassel had surgery on his and represents our class at campus gang with several NROTC fresh- vived both storms very well. Mother long as we are able. Time passes, right hand to fix what he calls his events such as the recent Colum- men ([Ollie Van Den Berg, Jay Dee Nature packs quite a wallop. Lucky REUNION WEEKEND more quickly than we realize. Live two “trigger fingers,” so that he bia University Athletics Hall of Battenberg and Wendell “Doc” for us all, there is advanced tech­ MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 your life as best as you can, as long CCT needs a class correspondent retirement party: He’s still going can continue two favorite activities. Fame induction ceremony and the Sylvester,] all on the freshman nology that can detect and follow ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS as you are able. Bob did.” to write this column. If you are in- strong, seeing patients and work- Now he can grip a tennis racket Dean’s Scholarship Reception. football team) among those at the these hurricanes and provide the ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider Richard Impola writes, “After terested, please contact Alexis Tonti ing as a writer, blogger, and editor and a ski pole with equal comfort Class v.p. Elliot Wales and his bottom locked their arms around knowledge we need for defensive [email protected] retirement from teaching at SUNY ’11 Arts, managing editor: alt2129@ at Consumer Reports; he’s been and so be able to continue his host- wife, Fran, reside at 52 Riverside each other and the pole and hung measures. 212-851-7846 New Paltz, I began to work on columbia.edu or 212-851-7485. In the with them for 45 years. Can’t keep ing functions in the Stowe, Vt., ski Dr., Apt. 15BC, New York, NY on. I was in the next tier, standing From Ted Topalian we hear, DEVELOPMENT Mara Henckler Finnish, the language of my parents meantime, please send updates to a good man down!” area. The third main event of his 10024-6501; 212-787-2309; elliot on Doc’s shoulders, also holding “After graduation and commis- [email protected] and their friends. I have translated CCT at the postal or email address at A real lift to my spirits, I received life is listening to his wife, Ruth, [email protected]. Elliot, although on to the pole. Others stood on our sioning in the Marine Corps (I was 212-851-7494 20 Finnish works, the most notable the top of the column or via CCT’s an update from Joe Russell, former sing with two choral groups. Bud mostly retired from the practice shoulders and we built a pyramid in the NROTC program) I spent six being a trilogy titled Under the North easy-to-use webform: college.colum occupant of this “chair.” He ex- adds that he is very envious of her of law, keeps busy with part-time of yelling guys. Little Al DeBartolo months in basic training at Quan- Lew Robins Star by Finnish realist author Väinö bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. pressed admiration for the content abilities. work. He leads an intellectual life [now Al Bart] climbed over all of tico, Va. Following further training 53 1221 Stratfield Rd. Linna. It was probably that book of the latest CCT before turning to Bernie Prudhomme, after 43 with frequent visits to museums, us and grabbed the cap. As far as I in California I was shipped to Fairfield, CT 06825 that won me the civilian Order of his news: “My wife, Charlotte ’51 years in Atlanta, half of which art galleries and music halls. He know no other class accomplished Korea, where I spent the last four 53 [email protected] the White Rose from the Finnish John Weaver GSAS, and I celebrated our 65th were spent with Coca-Cola, has left has a strong interest in the Colum- this amazing feat.” months of the fighting and the government.” 49 2639 E. 11th St. wedding anniversary on Decem- the big city and moved to the small bia College Alumni Association If you would like a copy of next seven months of the truce. Incredibly, we’re going to celebrate Harvey Gardner, who describes Brooklyn, NY 11235 ber 20. (She is professor emerita town of Thomson, Ga., where his and traveled recently with the Don’s book, contact him at 904-287- The next duty station was MCB our 60th reunion at Alumni Reunion himself as “’48 ex-’45 still extant,” 49 of chemistry and biochemistry at daughter and her husband have University’s Alumni Travel Study 0222 or [email protected]. Camp Lejeune, N.C., where I met Weekend, Thursday, May 30– [email protected] sent this note: “With Jean (married CCNY and the CUNY Graduate a medical practice. Bernie feels Program on excursions to Spain Here is a change of address for Carolyn, who became my wife. We Sunday, June 2. Ten of our won- in 1947), travel only between Nyack Let me begin with an apology for Center; I also am retired but active that his flying days are over and and Turkey. Theodore D. Bihuniak: Ted and recently celebrated our 57th wed- derful classmates serve on the home and second home in South the following rather poor excuse part-time as a hearing officer for the probably will no longer attend Class treasurer Willard Block his wife, Marilyn, sold their home ding anniversary. Reunion Committee: Bill Frosch, Egremont, Southern Berkshire for content. By the time you are New York City Office of Adminis- class reunions and so he takes this and his wife, Roberta, recently sold in Wilton, Conn., last October and “Leaving active duty in ’55, we George Lowry, Jay Kane, Lewis County, Mass. In touch weekly with reading this, I am confident that trative Trials and Hearings and a opportunity to send best wishes to their home in Sands Point, N.Y., moved to Florida. Their new ad- moved to Charlottesville, Va., where Robins, Jules Ross, Ed Robbins, Marcel Gutwirth ’47, ’50 GSAS and I will be back to my “old” self busy arbitrator for FINRA.) To mark all 1950 classmates. and now reside in two locations. In dress is 10100 Cypress Cove Drive, I earned a law degree at UVA. The Pete Pellett, Jim Steiner, Donald Charles Simmons.” and will have more in the way of the occasion we had a quiet dinner Arthur Thomas, reminiscing addition to their summer apartment Apt #385, Fort Myers, FL 33908; next 36 years were spent working Taylor and Ary Zolberg. Still active with the Virginia regular news to share. at home with our son James ’74 (sa- on the history of Columbia and of in NYC they have homesteaded at 239-437-2724. in the home offices of three insur- Thanks to the efforts of George Medical Reserve Corps, Dr. Sidney As for what’s happened, here lutatorian, the Mashtots Professor the United States, regards his stay 1512 Pelican Point Dr., Apt. BA 164, Myron (Mickey) Winick died ance companies, including the Pru- Lowry, I can report the good news Fink ’52 P&S “otherwise spends in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, we of Armenian Studies at Harvard) at Columbia as a high point. A de- Sarasota FL 34231; 516-972-8385; on November 1, 2012. He earned dential, Mutual of New York and that the director of Columbia’s his time hiking, playing bridge and felt the power of the storm named and his companion, Dennis Cordell. scendant of a colonist who came to [email protected]. If this plan a master’s from the University of the U.S. operation of Sun Life of Rare Book & Manuscript Library, visiting his extended family, which Sandy. Heretofore that name in- Our younger son, Josh ’79 Hamilton these shores prior to the founding does not work out, the Blocks plan Illinois and an M.D. from SUNY Canada. Retiring in ’94, we moved Michael Ryan, has offered to host an includes 15 grandchildren and five voked the charm of a lovable mutt College (history teacher at The Birch of King’s College, he considers it to become gypsies, visiting family Downstate Medical Center in to Syracuse, N.Y., to be near our early evening reception on Thurs- great-grandchildren!” who accompanied Little Orphan Wathen Lenox School in Manhat- justifiable that the crown, denoting and friends around the country and Brooklyn. Following an internship Robert DeMaria is “doing Annie. No longer is that so. The tan) and grandson Isaac (seventh- stability, remains as Columbia’s especially in Vermont. in Pennsylvania and pediatrics research for a new novel that devastation in the Rockaways and grader at Oratory Prep in Summit, symbol. Arthur notes that Profes- Class secretary George Koplinka training at Cornell he joined P&S takes place in summer 1936 in Breezy Point, Queens; on Staten N.J.) were unable to join but were sor Richard Hofstadter ’42 GSAS’ and his wife, Peg, live at 24 Mayfair and became a world-renowned Europe, especially Berlin where Island; in Red Hook, Brooklyn; with us in spirit. book America at 1750: A Social Way, White Plains, NY 10603; 914- authority on nutrition. A list of HELP SUPPORT CCT the summer Olympics took place. and along the Jersey shore is all too “Our marriage took place on Portrait is a clairvoyant observation 592-9023; [email protected]. In the Mickey’s many awards appeared in COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY brings you news of your alma I welcome any good anecdotes or familiar through the news reports. December 20, 1947, the first day of America at the time the College summer months try 802-425-3257 our 60th Reunion Directory, reaffirm- mater and profiles of its people you won’t find anywhere else. rare information about this event: But on East 11th Street, while our of that year’s Christmas break at was founded. for the Vermont connection. The cell ing his contribution to the world. [email protected].” house still stands, our basement Columbia, allowing us a week for a Rudy Weingartner has filed phone back-up is 914-610-1595. He is survived by his wife, Elaine; Wherever you are — Los Angeles, Louisville, London or the Frank Marcus writes, “This was flooded by the backup of the wonderful honeymoon in a beauti- for divorce from his second wife Donald A. Beattie keeps in touch. two sons; and two grandchildren. Lower East Side — CCT is the best way to stay connected year promises to be a busy one. I sewers at the height of the surge ful inn some miles up and across and sold the home in Pittsburgh in He has been a jet pilot, a geologist, a I know it’s late, but this is the with your classmates and with Columbia. practice, teach and pursue research and at this writing we are only the Hudson River, from which we which he lived for 25 years. After NASA researcher and manager, and first chance I’ve had to ask: Did you at the University of Arizona. I was beginning to restore normalcy after returned home to Brooklyn at the disposing of its contents, Rudy consultant for both government and make a resolution for 2013 that you YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION helps make all this an invited speaker at a pediatric the damage. It is encouraging to tail end of the heaviest snowstorm flew to Mexico City to move into private industry. Don is the author would send in news for this column? possible. CCT remains free of charge — no donation is required cardiology conference in Orange be able to report that FEMA was that had hit the city since the bliz- the home of his daughter, Eleanor, of numerous articles in professional If not, do it now! Make my days to receive the magazine or to access our website (college. County in January; later that month on the job quickly and was a great zard of ’88. I will not bore you with who has been the principal clarinet journals as well as several books in- happy. columbia.edu/cct). But if you choose to support us, you may I was, at this writing, to present help. Nevertheless, it has been a the story of our trip from Midtown of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional cluding History and Overview of Solar grand rounds in a hospital in Mi- great distraction. that night, or our struggle through for more than 20 years. Now he Heat Technologies and Taking Science do so online (college.columbia.edu/cct/giving), by phone ami. I am scheduled to give a talk at I do recall, however, that we several blocks of unplowed fresh much enjoys hanging out with his to the Moon. Sidney Prager (212-851-7852) or by mailing a check, made payable to the American College of Cardiology had a warm gathering in the tent snow while pulling our luggage on two teenaged grandchildren and Recently Don sent along a copy 52 20 Como Ct. Columbia College Today (Columbia College Today, meetings in March in San Francisco. at Homecoming. Bob Rosencrans, a borrowed sled. At the very end, continues to write compulsively. of his latest publication, an auto- Manchester, NJ 08759 Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl., In April, I plan to travel to Paris to Fred Berman, Bill Lubic and the front stoop of the house looked Sadly, we have three deaths biographical account of his life 52 [email protected] New York, NY 10025). All donors are recognized each fall, after give a talk at the European Cardiac Marvin Lipman all were in fine suspiciously like a ski jump, but to report: Emmett C. Harris of and multi-faceted career, No Stone the close of the fiscal year on June 30, on theCCT website. Arrhythmia Society. In May, I plan form and good health. we conquered it. A wonderful Bloomington, Ind., September Unturned — A Life Without Bounds. As I write this in December, it has to give a presentation at the Heart Speaking of Marv, we heard party hosted by my former room- 2012; Dr. Robert C. Runyon of Here is an amusing excerpt from been a difficult couple of months WE GREATLY APPRECIATE your support and ask that you stay Rhythm Society in Denver. That from his wife, Naomi Lipman ’51 mates, Bob Gibson ’50 and Gene Concord, Mass., January 2012; and the Columbia days we all shared: for New Jersey. in touch and share news at college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. same month, I will be pleased to Barnard, ’52 GSAS, who is obvi- Plotnik ’50, was the occasion for Dr. Harold Tapley ’51E of Bakers- “Freshmen were required to wear On October 28 and 29, Hurri- receive the Lifetime Achievement ously his press agent: “Marvin has shared joy, just a few days away.” field, Calif., August 2012. a small Columbia-blue cap for the cane Sandy came ashore. I live part-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES day, May 30. The exhibit is expected classmates have indicated they will no regrets about our life decisions classes, passed away on October not basketball), Bill Mink (one of to be “Treasures from Romanoff Ar- attend: Bill Frosch, George Lowry, and experiences, and I owe a big 25, 2012, at 104. [Editor’s note: See our favorite oarsmen), Ed Sacks chives” and should be fascinating Jay Kane, Lewis Robins, Jules thank you to Columbia for allow- Obituaries, Winter 2012–13 issue.] (enjoying the West Coast), Bernie and informative. As far as I know, Ross, Ed Robbins, Pete Pellett, ing me to spend nine formative On an upbeat note, The Camp- Kirtman (Bill Epstein’s pal back our class is the first to be offered a Jim Steiner, Donald Taylor, Ary years under her guidance.” bell Sports Center opened uptown East) and Jack Stuppin (continuing private visit to the Rare Book room Zolberg, Joseph Aaaron, Morton John will be missed by many. near Robert K. Kraft Field at the to paint). on the sixth floor of Butler. Freilicher, Larry Harte, Seymour Peter Kenen died on December Baker Athletics Complex. It is a Other members of our class who Also relating to the big week- Hendel, Arthur Hessinger, Donald 17, 2012, after a battle with emphy- magnificent edifice dedicated to a are staying fit and participating in end, I recently received a remark- Hymes, Allan Jackman, Jay Kane, sema. Peter and I were classmates at person, William V. Campbell ’62, their community are Elliott Man- able offer from Eliot Hearst, who Richard Kleid, Richard Lempert, both Bronx Science and the College, ’64 TC, who has given so much ning (teaching at the University of was captain of the Columbia chess Martin Saiman, Ken Skoug, and I had the pleasure and honor to Columbia Athletics and to the Miami), Ralph Wagner (living in team during the 1949–53 seasons Robert Walzer, Dennis Adnreuzzi, of serving for him when he was University. New England; we hope to see him when it won the national collegiate Gordon Henderson, Fred Ronai the news director of WKCR. Peter Columbia Engineering Entre- when he visits New York next time chess championship; he also was and Eliot Hearst. earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and preneurship Night was held in De- around), Mike Vaughn (professor captain of the U.S. Olympic Chess My apologies if your name is taught at Columbia from 1957–71. cember with a crowd of more than of physics at Northeastern), Stan- Team in 1962. Eliot has offered not on the list and you are planning During that time he was chairman 450. Star attractions were many ley Friedman (also a professor, at to hold a reunion event where to attend. You can make a pledge of the Department of Econom- trustees (including Campbell) and the State University of New York in he simultaneously plays 10 or 12 to attend on the reunion website, ics and was named provost. He “show and tell” demonstrations by Brooklyn) and the former WKCR chess games. He admits to being reunion.college.columbia.edu. then was director of the interna- various entrepreneurs. announcer, Dave Sweet (living in somewhat hesitant of taking on the Through this site you also can keep tional finance section at Princeton The Columbia Alumni Center Warwick, R.I., and working in the contest because very few, if any, up to date on reunion events as well from 1971–99. Peter was greatly always has something going on, Internet marketing field). masters older than 80 have ever as update your contact information respected as a result of his many most recently a special exhibit We ran into Norm Goldstein at attempted such a simultaneous with the Alumni Office so as not to publications as well as his positions, featuring a history of the Colum- an event at the Columbia Universi- exhibition. If you would like to miss any reunion-related mailings which included consultant to the bia Marching Band. The Center is ty Club of New York. Norm is back participate, or know of anyone in or emails. You also can contact Council of Economic Advisors, the located at 622 W. 113th St., between in Manhattan from Hawaii, and he other reunion classes who might either of the staff members in the International Monetary Fund and Broadway and Riverside Drive. promises to be more involved. Jud like to participate, please send me box at the top of the column. the Federal Reserve. The last time The Columbia Alumni Associa- Maze is our psychiatrist in West- their names and email addresses. I’m looking forward to seeing that I saw Peter was at one of our tion Worldwide Networking Event chester, and as for Al Momjian, we The Edouard Foundation you all! Homecoming games. I know that in this year included even more par- see his son, Mark ’83, ’86L, more recently acknowledged the exem- addition to many others, I will miss ticipation by alumni clubs around than we come across Al (still in Members of the Class of 1956 gathered in November at the Columbia Alumni Center for a signing of plary life of Morton Freilicher ’56L him. [Editor’s note: See Obituaries.] the globe and in major cities in the Philadelphia). the 2006 book Living Legacies at Columbia, edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS, provost with a donation of $5,000, in honor Howard Falberg I was happy to learn from Bob United States. The Alumni Travel A sad note to report — Ihor emeritus (seated, left); Jerry Kisslinger ’79, ’82 GSAS, chief creative officer for the Office of Alumni of his 80th birthday, to support 13710 Paseo Bonita Viarengo that he and his wife, Del, Study Program also keeps getting Koszman recently passed away. and Development (seated, right); and Tom Mathewson, manager of the University Senate office (not the activities of Post-Polio Health 54 Poway, CA 92064 continue to be blessed with good bigger. In 2013, planned trips Condolences go to his family and pictured). Standing, left to right: Vic Levin, Dan Link, Ron Kapon, Ralph Kaslick, Al Franco ’56E and International. When he was 17, 54 health. He writes, “We recently re- include “Wild Alaska Journey” friends. Steve Easton. [email protected] Mort contracted polio, leaving his turned from a visit to India. While and “Africa’s Wildlife” plus a My favorite and talented class- right arm paralyzed and his left Every so often I hear from some we have visited many nations cruise exploring the treasures of mates. arm, neck and diaphragm partially members of our class, and when I through the years, we felt that this Provence, Languedoc and Cata- Maintain your equilibrium even Using ingenuity, I assume acquired financed) and 3) travel — in that Western Civilizations”) and Peter paralyzed. After graduating from do I am delighted, as I remember country was the most complex and lonia. Included will be classical in the face of difficult times. at Columbia, they opted for an order. It was an eye-opening educa- Pazzaglini ’77 GSAS (“Philosophy the Law School, he specialized them with good feelings even interesting of them all.” music performances. It’s not too Believe that the glass is half full. 18-day trip through Germany, in- tion in what can be accomplished as a Way of Life”). Those who in trusts and estates, authored a though nearly 60 years have passed Another classmate who contin- late to get your tickets. The 60th is looming closer. cluding visits to Berlin, Munich, a in a short time. Of course, there is a attended our 55th reunion may book on estate planning and was since graduation. A good example ues to travel extensively is Arnie Believe it or not (as the saying Love to all! Everywhere! cruise down the Rhine and ending downside to the type of govern- remember Peter as our outstand- an adjunct professor at Fordham is Scott Glover, who spent the bulk Tolkin. Arnie is the father and the goes), the feisty “Class of Destiny” up at the Swarovski factory for the ment-controlled economy under ing Saturday dinner speaker. Go Law. After retiring, Mort donated of his career with ExxonMobil. grandfather of a group of Columbia (that’s us!) received another acco- 25th anniversary celebration. Talk which the Chinese operate. to heymancenter.org for further his services to the work of the Ed- During that time he was stationed alumni. Like a good number of lade: We finished Columbia’s Fiscal Stephen K. Easton about turning lemons into lemon- A number of classmates take information. ouard Foundation, which supports in Japan and Houston. He and his us did during December (includ- Year 2011–12 year as the highest 56 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. ade! In the process, they drove and adult education courses at Colum- Our class lunch in November disaster relief, medical care and wife now live in New Jersey. They ing me), he celebrated his 80th participating group in the Colum- Englewood, NJ 07631 used public transportation to get to bia and other universities. Specifi- was held at the Yale Club, with Len other services for the impoverished have two children and are involved birthday. I hope and trust that many bia College Fund. A large amount 56 most of their German destinations. cally, Peter Klein and Bob Siroty Wolfe acting as host. In addition [email protected] throughout the world. In a recent with civic activity as well as sailing members of “The Class of Destiny” of credit goes to the Class Agents: Maurice writes of his high regard took courses through the Rutgers to our New York City regulars, we newspaper article, Mort told the and boating. I hope that we will see are having similar gatherings. Don Laufer, Ron Spitz, Aaron To follow up on our class theme of for the helpfulness of the German adult ed program twice a week last were joined by Maurice Klein, reporter that he attributes his them at our next reunion (Thursday, The above reminds me that in Hamburger, Larry Balfus, Lew traveling, I received emails from people and was particularly com- fall, thus missing some of our class who was thankful that it was held continuing survival to “staying ac- May 29–Sunday, June 1, 2014). about 15 months we will celebrate Mendelson (out of Washington, Jerry Fine about his three-week plimentary of their transportation lunches. Bob reports that his course, on a day he was not working, and tive, exercising his usable muscles, I hadn’t been aware that Jack our 60th reunion. I know that Bernd D.C.), Allen Hyman, Dick Kuhn, trip last summer to Patagonia and system. “The Spanish-American War and David Schuster, who has moved benefiting from using a nighttime McGill died last year in Miramar Brecher is working on our reunion Elliot Gross and Jeff Broido (of the southernmost part of South As we are on the subject of travel, the Philippine Insurrection,” was back to Manhattan, is more fully ventilator, a wonderful wife and Beach, Fla. In July, Bob Ambrose, program and would be very happy the West Coast Broidos). America, and from Maurice Klein I have to put in a few sentences informative, as he’d never heard of retired and had the time to attend. plain, old-fashioned good luck.” John Lees, Chuck Graves ’54E and to hear from you. We heard from John Naley about his drive through Germany. about my and my wife Elke’s trip to the Philippine-American Insurrec- He and Mark Novick shared their Keep up the good work! Bob Viarengo, along with their By the way, I also would be very (living in New Jersey), who keeps Jerry and his wife, Barbara, China, as we left after the last Class tion, and the Spanish-American love of the New York Philharmonic, Our class humorist and ortho­ spouses, went to Florida for a joy- happy to hear from you for Class in touch with his Brooklyn Tech started in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Notes went to print. We spent three War really involved Mexico and led which both had attended the pre- dontist, Dr. Larry Harte, has pub- ful memorial service. Notes. Finally, as I write this toward buddies: Rod Thurston (retired and ended in Santiago, Chile. They weeks visiting eight cities in China, to the United States’ acquisition of vious night (small world depart- lished a new book, Journey with In other sad news, John Brack- the end of 2012, here’s hoping for a from Los Alamos National Labs) traveled around Cape Horn and including Beijing, Shanghai and the land that now is much of our ment). Grandchildren, A Life Story, which ett Jr. passed away on December 8, very happy and healthy new year. and Tony Coppola (living in Wilm- through the Strait of Magellan, Hong Kong, a river cruise down the western states. David Schuster, professor includes a chapter about his in- 2012, at his home in Oxford, Conn. ington, N.C.). Keeping in touch seeing some spectacular sites while Yangtze River and a two-day trip Bob attended an evening meeting emeritus of chemistry at NYU, also triguing years at Columbia. I hope He was on the varsity crew at Co- with your favorite correspondent, visiting a few national parks; they to Tibet. The most impressive part of the Columbia Club of Northern sent the following report: “On the the following excerpt reminds lumbia and continued his interest Gerald Sherwin George Raitt and Ron McPhee also walked with the penguins on of the trip was the building, road New Jersey (of which he is the im- occasion of his official retirement you of what it was like to attend and activity in rowing as a member 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A send all tidbits of information via Magdalena Island. Sounds like a development and dam construction mediate past president), which and 70th birthday in 2005, a full-day the College: “At 17 and being of the New Haven Rowing Club. 55 New York, NY 10021 Twitter and through their blogs. real National Geographic trip. that have been done in the last 10 hosted professors Richard Pious and event was held in David’s honor, or- from Brooklyn, I was not quite John earned an M.D. from P&S in 55 Who says we haven’t caught up to Maurice and his wife, Judy, years. Even some of the smaller cit- Robert Shapiro of the Department of ganized by some of his former un- [email protected] ready for the social aspect of the 1958 and served in the Navy for the modern modes of communica- took an 18-day trip to Germany, ies have 20- to 30-story buildings. Political Science; they discussed the dergraduate and graduate research education process. The kids were 12 years. He, his wife, Nancy, and Where there is news to be made, tion? Not needing a blog is Charlie principally to visit the Swarovski The people like everything presidential election on the last night students. This well-attended event, dressed in white bucks, grey flan- their children later moved to Con- turn to your favorite school in the Sergis, our award-winning radio Crystal factory in Watten, Austria American but are developing a very of the presidential debates, which the first of its kind in chemistry at nel pants and blue sports jackets. necticut, where John was president City of New York. It is Columbia announcer in New York and Los (near Innsbruch), to participate in a nationalist attitude. All the young also now are history. NYU, held on June 3, 2005, featured Fortunately, I do not recall how of several medical associations and that makes headlines locally and Angeles. 25th anniversary Swarovski event. people, of course, have iPhones, Further on the adult education an all-day symposium followed I was dressed. It was a learning was active in community organiza- around the world. We missed seeing some of our (Maurice is an an avid Swarovski iPads and computers. Everyone subject, Columbia’s Heyman Cen- by a large reception and dinner, experience.” tions. I looked at what he had writ- One of our favorite professors, class in San Francisco when the collector.) As he tells it, they had under 40 wants to 1) own a condo ter for the Humanities is offering all held at NYU. The symposium Circling back to reunion, as of the ten in our 2004 Reunion Yearbook. Jacques Barzun ’27, ’32 GSAS, basketball team visited the Bay Area been opted out of the Swarovski- (bank/government financed), spring colloquia featuring Allan included talks by former students beginning of January, the following His thoughts included, “We have whom many of us had for various — Tom Morton (still practicing law, sponsored trip, as it sold out early. 2) own a car (bank/government Silver (“Friendship in East Asian & now working in academia or the

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES pharmaceutical industry and day a week at the archives of the I founded in the ’90s and which, member who so desires to contrib- to read it, I would welcome your ways an extension of my almost mencement and beyond.” nately his wife, Kane, was sick and colleagues from universities here New York Philharmonic, where he with 43 doctors, now is probably the ute. The fund year (2012–13) ends feedback greatly.” compulsive walking around. I also attended the Homecom- couldn’t be there); Peter Cohn and and abroad as well as a finishing writes metadata for its database in largest private multispecialty group on Sunday, June 30. You can give by John’s website is johnbreeskin. “If anybody is wondering, I do ing game on October 20 and a his wife, Joan; and Shelly Raab talk by David summarizing his connection with ongoing digitiza- in Manhattan. credit card at college.columbia.edu/ com/book/book.html. in fact run into, and have come to pre-game luncheon, meeting Dick and his wife, Judy. My wife, Carol, career activities, punctuated by lots tion of all the extensive holdings “My wife, Wendy, an anesthesi- giveonline, by calling the Alumni Dick Cohen writes, “Continu- know, a fellow San Francisco fla- Lowery and his wife, Erica; David and I couldn’t make it because we of pictures. These pictures can be of the archives dating back to the ologist, works full-time. We week- Office at 212-851-7488 or by mail- ing an annual [West meets East neur, novelist and essayist Herbert Kinne and his wife, Kathleen; were vacationing in Turkey. Allan viewed on his NYU website, nyu. orchestra’s founding in 1842. These end year-round in the Hamptons ing a check, payable to Columbia reunion] established two years Gold ’46.” Tony Antonio and his wife, Carol; Gardner ’59 called the roll and edu/projects/schuster/people/ files concern music and musicians, at our house in Water Mill and in College Fund, to Columbia College ago in Chicago and last year in Martin Fisher writes from sunny and Carlos Muñoz. reported that “the party was very schuster/schuster.htm. A large cock- personnel matters and all business between try to keep up traveling, Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, Italy, Dick Cohen (San Francisco) Florida: “This is the second winter I have two deaths to report: nice, with good attendance, good tail party at David’s home on East aspects of the organization. Cur- although not quite to the level of 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., and Art Bernstein (Setauket, Long that we have enjoyed the relaxed Edward A. Earle, of Wilmington food and very good company.” 30th Street in New York was held on rently, efforts are directed toward our retired friends. Last spring we New York, NY 10025. Island) met in October — along and healthy atmosphere down here. N.C., died on April 25, 2012, and We only recently learned of the the evening preceding the event. 1943–70, the so-called Interna- toured Botswana and Namibia, I again ask all class members with their wives, Sandra Cohen and We do miss the cultural institutions Pasquale “Pat” A. Loconto, of Aus- death of Walter M. Stern on May “Subsequently, he was asked to tional Era, during which time the and in January we went to South- who want to keep in touch to Edith Bernstein — for two weeks in NYC, including alma mater. tin, Texas, died on August 9, 2012. 18, 2011. Walter was a graduate teach a few courses, but following Philharmonic’s activities broadened east Asia and Myanamar with Ira update their email addresses with of exploration in London, Paris and “I was able to get to five or so of New York Medical College the hiring of several new faculty considerably under the leadership Jolles ’59 and his wife, Andrea. In Lou Hemmerdinger: lhemmer@aol. Amsterdam. We witnessed some football games last fall, including and was awarded a fellowship in REUNION WEEKEND members he has not taught for of Leonard Bernstein. As David has between we hobnob with my Phi com. This seems to be the best way of the greatest art that man has our heartwarming victories over dermatology at Johns Hopkins. MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 several years. He continued to been attending concerts of the New Sigma Delta fraternity brothers, to stay in touch with the majority of produced and experienced great Yale and Cornell. I like our new He had been with National Health ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS do research with undergraduates York Philharmonic since 1950, he Robert Cabat, Munro Levitzky our class members. Please be a part music performed at the Royal Al- coach’s [Pete Manguarian’s] ap- Services and at his death was ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider and a postdoctoral fellow until frequently is consulted regarding ’57 and Ira. [Like Jack], I also don’t of our mission to reconnect. bert Hall in London (‘Beethoven’s proach to the game and am grimly retired from a family practice in [email protected] 2011, and decided to close his lab various files and photographs that play bridge or golf — not even ten- As spring turns to summer, I Ninth’), the new opera house in awaiting payback time when we Forest Hills, N.Y. He is survived by 212-851-7846 permanently earlier in 2012. He draw on his extensive concert expe- nis — so I intend to keep working wish every one of our class mem- Paris (‘The Marriage of Figaro’), and host Harvard in 2013.” his daughter, Sabine. DEVELOPMENT Mara Henckler continues to write papers with rience and his knowledge of music in the style of the older generation bers and their families good health the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam Gene Wagner reports, “On The Class Lunch is held on the [email protected] his collaborators in Europe and is and musicians. He studies the piano M.D.s: until death do us part. As and good fortune. (a piano recital). Art came up with September 22 we again had our second Wednesday of every month, 212-851-7494 working on an invited perspective and occasionally performs solo and they say, if I get as much joy out of the idea of each of us choosing two Columbia So Cal luncheon in Long in the Grill Room of the Columbia article on his career for the Journal chamber concerts at his home in working as others get out of golf, items from the British Museum Beach. We had seven classmates Barry Dickman University Club of New York, 15 of Organic Chemistry. He was the New York and at scientific gather- must I change? Herman Levy and preparing a mini-lecture to be and five wives, who sat separately. 25 Main St. W. 43rd St. (cost is $31 per person). recipient of a 2012 Arthur C. Cope ings in the United States and in Eu- “Incidentally, if there are any 7322 Rockford Dr. presented to the others in front of We have set a precedent [on the 58 Court Plaza North, Ste 104 Email Art Radin if you plan to at- Scholar Award from the Ameri- rope. He and his wife, Carlotta ’57 ’56ers in the Hamptons (there must 57 Falls Church, VA 22043 the item at the museum. It was a de- seating arrangement, because] our 58 Hackensack, NJ 07601 tend, up to the day before: aradin@ can Chemical Society, which was Barnard, recently celebrated their be some), can we get together for 57 lightful experience. We are already wives have bonded just as have radinglass.com. [email protected] [email protected] presented following a symposium 50th wedding anniversary, live full- lunch or dinner sometime?” discussing plans for continuing this their husbands. Attending were at a recent meeting of the ACS in time in Manhattan and participate Winter get-together in Florida, Ken Bodenstein attended the 2012 tradition next year.” Jerry Werksman, John Taussig, We’re hoping for a well-attended Philadelphia. The award consists fully in the cultural and culinary life summer get-together in the Hamp- USA/ITA National Indoor Intercol- Lawrence Merrion’s “recent bi- Ken Bodenstein, Bernie Lynch, 55th reunion, to be held Thursday, Norman Gelfand of a plaque, a cash award and of our great city.” tons — sounds good to me. legiate Championships tennis tour- ography of illustrator Pete Hawley Jon Lubin, myself and Mike Gold. May 30–Sunday, June 2. Dean’s 59 c/o CCT a research grant, which David Hillel Tobias writes, “Having In November, we had a book nament, held at the USTA Billie has been published in ILLUSTRA- We made a tribute to Ken Silvers, Day will take place during the same Columbia Alumni Center intends to use to travel to scientific just read the latest copy of Columbia signing event at the Columbia Jean King National Tennis Center TION magazine. Lawrence, a who had been a regular attendee. weekend, on Saturday, June 1. In 59 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 meetings here and abroad as well College Today, I am inspired to write. Alumni Center for Living Legacies in Flushing, N.Y., and hosted by retired architect in Concord, Calif., He will truly be missed. addition to a variety of all-class New York, NY 10025 as to laboratories and scientific The inspiration came from Jack at Columbia by Wm. Theodore Columbia. He took issue with gathered information about Hawley “Jon has since left our group events, at this writing the Reunion [email protected] institutions around the world with Katz [who reported that he is still de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS and Jerry Spectator’s comments on the Co- when they met in the ’50s at his and moved to the cold climate of Committee was recruiting a speaker which he has been affiliated. He working]. I also work full-time and Kisslinger ’79, ’82 GSAS. This lumbia team’s performance there. Fifth Avenue studio. Hawley pro- the Twin Cities. If we have any for the class dinners on Friday and It is with great sorrow that I inform also works occasionally for law enjoy every minute of it; I am medi- amazing book was sent as a gift to “I don’t think the reporter did the vided Lawrence with graphic ma- classmates living in that vicinity, Saturday and participants for a you of the deaths of three classmates: firms as an expert witness on cal director of the Liver Transplant all Class of ’56 John Jay Associate- Columbia participants justice. This terials for a paper he presented to a I’m sure that Jon would welcome class panel on Saturday. We expect Jose W. Noyes, financial executive, patent litigation issues and other Service of NYU Langone Medical level contributors to the Columbia tournament brought the best U.S. CC class in 1955. Hawley was noted a message from them; his email these events to live up to our long New York City, on October 18, 2012; matters in his areas of expertise in Center, where they have yet to fire College Fund. In attendance were men and women collegiate players for his outstanding advertising address remains jonathanlubin@ tradition of interesting speakers Arthur L. Schatten, attorney, West organic chemistry. me as clinical professor of medicine the authors and Vic Levin and to NYC, and both Columbia men illustrations for Jantzen swim and mac.com. Jon is a great guy who and lively panel discussions. New Orange, N.J., on August 31, 2012; “In addition to these profes- and surgery. In addition, I consult his wife, Fran; Danny Link; Ron and women showed they can sportswear, published in leading has had a successful and interest- this year, Stu Huntington and Paul and Michael Marks Cohen, attor- sional activities, he volunteers one for Concorde Medical Group, which Kapon; Ralph Kaslick; Al Franco play with the best. Nikki Bartnick slick magazines. ILLUSTRATION ing career. Gomperz are organizing a Navy- ney, New York City, on December 1, ’56E; Stephen Easton; and Len ’13, Columbia’s No. 1 woman, and the biography can be reviewed “As usual, Mike Gold led us in Air Force ROTC Affinity Reception 2012. They will be missed. Wolfe. (See nearby photo.) In had an outstanding tournament, at illustration-magazine.com.” a political discussion. He tried to on Saturday afternoon, to mark the Dave Clark reports on his addition to the formal signing, beating the No. 7-ranked player Jerome Tarshis writes, “Although avoid the controversy of the presi- return of ROTC to campus. experience with Hurricane Sandy. Columbia School Designations Professor de Bary regaled us with in the country from USC and the not completely inactive in society, dential election and so we settled For more details about the week- “It sure wasn’t fun, but Mike (my his knowledge of the develop- No. 4-ranked freshman in the I am more retired from a career on California propositions: a very end, go to reunion.college.columbia. second son) and I survived nearly In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia ment of the Core Curriculum; his country from North Carolina. The as an art journalist than I was the safe conversation. Everyone walked edu. Also, while you’re on the site, two weeks without heat and light degrees from schools other than the College. involvement in Asian studies at [Columbia] men’s No. 1 doubles last time I submitted an update to away happy.” update your contact information courtesy of Sandy, the ensuing Columbia; the writing of his 31st team also had a great tournament. Class Notes. Once upon a time I Yours truly attended a gathering to be sure you receive all the latest nor’easter and the incompetence of Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation book at 93; and his continued love Robin Andrews from UCLA won wrote for periodicals of wide cir- of the Columbia University Club reunion news and make a pledge the Long Island Power Authority. Arts School of the Arts of Columbia football, win or lose. the women’s singles. I was a tennis culation, among them Smithsonian of Washington, D.C., at the Library to attend. That said, we only lost two trees Barnard Barnard College Everyone who attended the event junkie for the weekend, spending magazine, American Heritage, Art of Congress on October 4, at which The annual (mostly) New York and the food in our refrigerator Business Graduate School of Business thoroughly enjoyed it. Just a note, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. each day at the new in America and (for 30 years) The Dean James J. Valentini spoke area Homecoming reunion shifted and freezer. A lot of people on the CE School of Continuing Education last year we had 22 John Jay-level indoor facility at the National Ten- Christian Science Monitor. on the theme of “Shared Ideas + to a new location for 2012: the south- and east-facing shores fared Dental College of Dental Medicine contributors. It would be nice if we nis Center.” “Now I do what the English Common Values = Community.” University Club. Those attending a lot worse. I hope our New York could increase that number to 40 John Breeskin recently pub- might call parish-pump journalism; As Dean Valentini stated in his were Ernie Brod and his wife, and New Jersey classmates got by E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and (or more) for our 60th reunion year. lished his book, Training Wheels for I write occasional pieces for a San letter dated September 28 to former Ruthie; Bernie Nussbaum and OK. I’m still in pretty good health, Applied Science On December 18, I joined 34 Beginning Psychotherapists/A Person- Francisco neighborhood monthly, students, he was interested in hear- his wife, Nancy; Allan Gardner bowl in two leagues and enjoy GS School of General Studies other Class Agents for a Columbia al Memoir, which he has been writ- the New Fillmore, which covers ing from the “highly accomplished ’59 and Ruth Cowan ’61 Barnard; attending all our family gatherings, GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences College Volunteer Celebration, ing for more than 30 years. It has upmarket though still-lively Pacific former students who care deeply Ira Jolles ’59 and his wife, Andrea; birthdays, holidays and so forth. J Graduate School of Journalism sponsored by the Columbia College info that he wishes he had learned Heights. In a way I’ve come full about the College and its future … Mark Weiss and his wife, Joan; See you at the next reunion.” L School of Law Fund. Our class has Danny Link, when he was starting in the field of circle, as my first published writing to talk about our various visions Richard Gochman ’63 and his wife, From Alvin Halpern, we have Nursing School of Nursing Stan Soren, Al Franco ’56E and professional psychology. Professor after Columbia was for the Village of the College, to use our critical Alice; Mike Berlin ’59 and his wife, the remainder of his submission myself as Class Agents. Among Fred Keller is represented in the Voice, in those years very much a thinking skills and to find things Nancy; Arnie Abrams ’61 and his from the last issue of CCT. P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons other functions, we do solicit for book as John’s mentor and there neighborhood paper serving Green- that we agree on and can all sup- wife, Phyllis; Howard Orlin and “We are greatly enjoying spend- PH Mailman School of Public Health contributions to the Columbia Col- are a few scenes referring to his wich Village. port to propel us to provide a better his wife, Anita; Clara Londoner ing time with our two grandchil- SIPA School of International and Public Affairs lege Fund, which also gives us an close friends of the Class of 1957 “As for what else I do for kicks, undergraduate experience. … We (wife of David Londoner, who, dren, Luke and Zak, who live in SW School of Social Work opportunity to reconnect with class and the Columbia College scene there is always walking in the need to come together to learn from sadly, died in 2012); Sid Rosde- the suburbs of San Diego with TC Teachers College members (we do not just ask for in general. He adds, “The book is city; I browse streets as well as one another and figure out what the itcher and his wife, Linda; Arthur my son, Marc ’95, and his wife, money). I would be remiss if I did halfway between a comic book and bookshops, libraries and art gal- very best undergraduate education Radin and Miriam Katowitz; Heidi. Marc is a partner in a small, not encourage each and every class an encyclopedia and, if you choose leries. Art journalism was in many should entail from the Core to Com- Martin Nussbaum ’67 (unfortu- successful law firm and Heidi

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES is a marine biologist for NOAA hailed from Ephesus. The historian theory, as well as in my nominal language skills by slogging through play Army again in football until Bob Berne, Art Delmhorst, Rich- in our half-century camaraderie. ’neath which not a spot of ink, as and based at Scripps Institute of Hecataeus and the first Greek city discipline, operations research. Proust (I’m about halfway through 1982. As for lightweight, it’s now ard Friedlander, Victor Chang and As 2012 slipped away with so if the Class of ’60 inexplicably had Oceanography. My older son, Ken- planner, Hippodamus, were from Part of the attraction of operations at my current pace). called ‘sprint football’ and Colum- David Goldman to the table at the much left uncertain, so much angst become extinct. neth ’91, recently moved to Boston. Miletus. Hippodamus famously research was its interdisciplinary “Vermont is as close to paradise bia hasn’t had a team in a number Columbia University Club of New in a struggling and divided nation, My very best to all. He had a successful career on Wall laid out the plan of Priene on a origins. Stanford more than met as I am likely to get. I have become of years. And, yes, the service acad- York on December 6. Only a week we bid each other a good New Street (after getting his Ph.D. in grid. (We won’t mention that in my hopes, and my office there was heavily involved in town activities, emies still dominate it. before the Class Notes deadline, Year and with a quantum of hope, theoretical particle physics at MIT the Indus valley they did the same in the small building housing the chair our local electric commission, “Another Columbia connection and me with nary a note to lead a measure of optimism and a dose Michael Hausig and finding the job market in his thing 2,000 years earlier.) Much lat- economic theorists. During the ski almost every day during the emerged in the recent 2012 elections. with. of reality that’s sobering, we send 61 19418 Encino Summit field essentially nonexistent), but er, Isidorus of Miletus, a renowned course of my career since, I’ve often season, have rationalized a medio- The incumbent in my restructured Conversation spans the range, those very same best wishes to you San Antonio, TX 78259 is now in a new phase of his life, mathematician, completed the hung out with economists and I’ve cre golf game and fly fish whenever congressional district in Maryland from economics to climate change. all and hope that you’ll join us for a 61 [email protected] developing a specialized software construction of Justinian’s Hagia written some papers in economics possible. That said, our greatest was challenged by John Delaney ’85. Victor supplies background First Thursday gathering. business and enjoying the intel- Sophia in Constantinople. journals. Many times I’ve been the joy these days comes from a close John is the son of a union electrician perspective and Bob current data Paul Nagano reliably commemo- Rabbi Clifford Miller was honored lectual climate he missed on Wall “Two of the seven wonders of only non-economist at seminars relationship with our children and and was awarded an International as we rapidly approach the Fiscal rates each Lunar New Year with a on December 1 and 2 by Temple Street. the ancient world were in western presented by economists. grandchildren and their extended Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Cliff. David Kirk relates a profes- painting. This year is the Year of the Emanu-El in Bayonne, N.J., the con- “Last winter, we spent enjoyable Anatolia: the Temple of Artemis “The attraction of chairing the families.” scholarship to Columbia. (This is sor’s lecture that Manhattan is Snake. Do visit Paul’s magnificent gregation he has served for more time with Joe Krieger and his at Ephesus and the Mausoleum economics department at Case Ben Miller reports, “I had spinal the same path that I followed.) I sinking as its tectonic plates shift. work on his website, flickr.com/ than 25 years. His wife, Debby wife, Rose, when they came out to at Halicarnassus. The Colossus Western is primarily the wonder- surgery the day after the election. I volunteered for his campaign and Everyone weighs in with opinions photos/ptnagano. Uchill Miller ’66 Barnard; daugh- California and stayed in San Diego of Rhodes, a third wonder of the ful intellectual community that its lifted a page from Ronald Reagan’s contributed where I could, mostly ters, Arielle and Adinah; and grand- for a few weeks. [As of this writ- ancient world, was but a few miles faculty members and students have book and said to the doctor, ‘I hope making telephone calls. John has an children, Zeke and Zoey Timen, ing, we were] planning to spend a off the Anatolian shore. fostered. I thought that my unit you’re a Democrat.’ He laughed. interesting background; he earned a Rabbi Clifford Miller ’61 was honored on December and Eitan Nadiv Feder, were joined week or so in the New York area in “It seems that the West owes leadership days were over, but it is And I survived, so I guess he was. law degree but made his mark as an by more than 100 guests from Cali- October to see the foliage, as well as much to Anatolian Greeks as a privilege to be in the midst of this Recuperating slowly. It’s taking entrepreneur and venture capitalist, 1 and 2 by Temple Emanu-El in Bayonne, N.J., the fornia, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, as catch up with family and friends it does to the Peloponnese and group shortly before retirement.” longer than I thought. This getting- unusual for a Democratic candidate. congregation he has served for more than 25 years. Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and with our beloved Manhattan.” mainland Greeks.” Art Lloyd ’62L writes, “Greetings old stuff is a real nuisance. He was endorsed by The Washington and New York, in addition to those To David B. Smith, I apologize After receiving a contribution from the North Country (Stowe, “Saw Ed Mendrzycki and his Post and President Clinton and won who wrote to him from far and for using a wrong middle initial. from Matt Sobel ’60E, I asked about Vt.)! For those who may remember wife, Cathy, in early October. They the House seat by a 2:1 margin. Defi- on raising tax rates. The discussion Bill Tanenbaum and Bill Cald­- near. Since earning an M.L.S. from David sent some interesting obser- his position with the economics me, and even those who don’t, were in town for a wedding. We nitely a political star in the making.” continues on capping deductions well regularly kept me up to date Rutgers, Clifford has practiced a vations about his past year’s trav- department at Case Western Re- here’s my long-postponed contribu- spent a lovely afternoon and early From Jay Neugeboren, we hear and rebates. The experiences of on observations during the presi- second profession, remaining on els, which you may recall took him serve, in the Weatherhead School of tion to the Class Notes. I have had a evening together. He looked good about his 19th and 20th books, both Storm Sandy and the ensuing dential campaign, but now it’s over Morningside Heights and catalog- for two months to Turkey, mostly Management, as I remembered him great 50 years or so after Columbia, but frail. And he tires easily. He’s a novels, out this winter and spring. nor’easter, the climate has become and seems unlikely that you want ing rabbinical literature in the on the Aegean coast of Anatolia: as an engineer, stringing wires for up to and including the present. trooper.” The first,The Other Side of the World, far more fierce and dramatic. Days a reprise. Besides, we are now into library of The Jewish Theological “When we think of ancient ham radio antennas. He responded, During law school, I married my Jay Brandstadter ’60E writes, was published in December, and without heat and nights without the 2016 campaign cycle, unfortu- Seminary. He has not retired yet! Greece and the roots of Western “Yes, I did string an antenna wire wonderful wife and best friend, “This summer and fall had some the second, The American Sun & light, power recovery on the East nately. Makes one long for the Brit- David Konstan was elected hon- civilization, Athens comes to mind, between the roofs of the buildings with whom I celebrated 50 years of Columbia content in it. In August, Wind Moving Picture Company, was, Coast, erratic. A grand piano, Da- ish system, which limits campaigns orary (foreign) fellow of the Austra- perhaps Sparta. Or, if we recall that in that era were Engineering marriage last year. We have three my wife and I visited the Adiron- at this writing, slated for publica- vid Kirk’s gift to his daughter, si- to a month. lian Academy of the Humanities. Homer, which we all read, we may and the School of Mines. Through daughters: a trial lawyer, a music dacks in upstate New York and tion in February. His new play, We lenced forever, her home awash in Otherwise, the mailbox has been Tom Lippman made a three-day envision the Mycenae of Agamem- the years I’ve done some high director and an educator. caught up with Richard Peters ’60E Gather Together: A Musical-Comical- saltwater. The saving of heirlooms uncharacteristically empty since trip to Tokyo in November to deliver non or Syracuse and Odysseus or mountain hiking and climbing but “I was in private and corporate and his wife, Ann, at their place in Tragical Thanksgiving Entertainment and irreplaceable albums; exhaust- the last issue of CCT, bringing on a paper and give a lecture, “The the walls of Tiryns. We all know I’ve never felt as exposed to a drop law practice in New Jersey for Saratoga Springs. Rich is a retired in Two Acts, received a robust staged ing effort, frenetic, manic. Through not just a state of alarm but also Arab Spring and U.S. Interests.” Talk of Helen and the Trojan War. But as I did then. seven years before joining a major marketing executive in high-tech reading recently, with Kathleen it all, the nation’s economy, still an abiding curiosity. Where have about jet lag — he arrived Wednes- how many of us understand that products and management consult- Chalfant and Paul Hecht in the moribund and static. Doctors’ fees you all been? I’ve been reading day evening, spent Thursday and the war was fought in Anatolia ing. After a successful international principal roles. This spring, Jay will face precipitous decline. Dr. David about research to achieve “induced Friday at the conference and flew and as much over Asian trade as Matt Sobel ’59, ’60E is the chair of the Department career, he and Ann now divide their teach a master class in the graduate Goldman reports as he flinches. hibernation in humans” as a pro- home on Saturday. He learned he’s the infidelity of Helen? How many time between Georgetown in D.C. writing program at the School of Medical reimbursements being tective mechanism during surgery not as resilient as he used to be. of us know that immediately after of Economics at Case Western Reserve. and Saratoga. I’ve known Rich since the Arts. reduced line by line. The futures and to increase longevity. Got me Morrow Wilson has published a the fall of Troy, Aeolian Greeks we were freshmen and he, like my- Stephen Basson writes, “Seven of some young M.D.s fade to dark, wondering whether all in the class new book, David Sunshine: A Novel established trading outposts on the self, was in the ‘3-2’ program and months ago, my son and his lovely seemingly stolen by bureaucratic had volunteered to participate in of the Communications Industry, a Anatolian shore at the mouth of “A few years after my engineer- international bank in New York got a B.S. in electrical engineering. wife welcomed a daughter, our Grinches. Doctors’ fees? Is there such a project en masse. The slow- somewhat biographical novel. A the Meander River at modern-day ing degree, I did regional water City, where I specialized in inter- Both of us also were members of the first grandchild, Phoebe. My wife nothing at all left that is sacred? ing of breathing and heart rates. A fun read. Miletus? Shortly after, at the begin- quality planning for an agency that national trade and commercial law. Dumbbells, an Engineering School has been called back to work to The lunch would not be com- suspension of eating and excreting. Sam Marateck’s paper, “Yang- ning of the first millennium BCE, a became part of the EPA when it was I eventually headed a legal and ‘honor’ society (can’t remember the help the high school where she plete without coverage of the Great A lowering of metabolic activity. Mills and Beyond,” was published huge Ionian migration settled most created years later. The others in our investigative unit, becoming the admittance criteria; perhaps it was taught for 39 years because a staff Game. Aging: Our most competi- Abstention from, you know, any last summer in the Notices of the of western Anatolia. group were engineers, biologists company’s chief ‘fraud buster’ do- beer consumption). member left suddenly; we both tive sport. Time, our formidable proclivity. The absence of all American Mathematical Society. It “Herodotus, whose histories and oceanographers, and by default mestically and overseas. After my “We also had lightweight foot- hope that this January–May stint adversary. Always a recap, a animation. A moratorium on email describes the theoretical work we all remember from Humani- I became the link to the social and retirement, I joined a British secu- ball in common. Remember light- will end her formal career. I am medical report: Everyone is more communication? To what end? Life leading up to the discovery of the ties, himself from Halicarnassus, behavioral sciences. In typical engi- rity consulting firm, where I set up weight or 150-lb. football? In 1956, giving a class on opera as a benefit or less satisfactory. David Kirk’s extension? Not a bad idea. And Higgs boson. modern Bodrum, tells us that the neering fashion, at first we did our a corporate investigation operation I was one of the student managers for the Milwaukee Symphony Or- septum deviates when his poorly who needs winter? Or was it that Sam lives in Long Beach, N.Y., first Ionian migrants did not bring planning by figuring out how much covering the western hemisphere. of the lightweights (the varsity chestra, an activity I have sustained grounded ladder falls fast. At the you all opted for early voting and an area hit hard by Hurricane women. When they conquered the waste should be removed from the I retired a second time in 1997, but was in the capable hands of Norm since retiring as a player in 2001, annual Delmhorst family football sought respite from the remainder Sandy. He was out of his home Anatolian shore, they killed all the effluent of each town, city and man- freelance as an expert witness on Gelfand and Mike Tannenbaum), but I admit to being more tired game, Art snares a hard-thrown of the drawn-out, caustic, highly until early December, and almost native men and took their women ufacturing plant. Meanwhile, I was the occasional juicy fraud case. and Rich played defensive back. than I used to be from such efforts. pass: One broken finger is now unpleasant and largely meaning- every car in Long Beach, includ- for wives. Because the Greeks reading articles written by ‘regional “Never having escaped the “Rich and I recalled the October “Our class was about 600 men; I in a cast. Bob is off to race against less $2 billion campaign cycle ing Sam’s, was damaged beyond killed their fathers, husbands and science’ scholars who originally had spell of the humanities nurtured 27, 1956, morning game against understand that nowadays a larger Time on the ski slopes of Utah. directed entirely at the 5 percent repair. His was swept into a busy sons, the women by oath thereafter been economists. They argued that at Columbia, I also have been a Navy in Annapolis. Final score: and much more diverse group His proficiency will draw that of “undecideds”? Hibernation, the intersection by the ocean surge. refused to sit at a table with their price systems could be employed semi-pro operatic baritone. During Navy 59, Columbia 0. Afterward, makes up the freshman class. I classic Western exclamation from perfect political campaign avoid- David Blicker passed away on husbands or address them by name. to induce people to behave, of the ’60s and ’70s I appeared with the team bus returned to Baker hope they have at least as rich an spectators, “Woohaah.” We ask no ance strategy. Makes sense. But October 26, 2012, in Sacramento, “Thales was the first great their own volition, in the way that various companies in the New York Field right at the conclusion of the experience as we did.” quarter, we make no concessions, why didn’t anyone let me in on Calif., succumbing to lung cancer. A Greek mathematician. Some will one wanted them to behave. Since area. The voice is still serviceable varsity’s game against Army. Final we take our lumps but hold Time how to do it? Now it’s all over. remembrance and tribute to David know that he visited Egypt, but then, these arguments have been but these days I do fewer solo ap- score: Army 60, Columbia 0. So for at bay. When we meet again we’ll Awaken. I miss your emails. The was held on November 20 in Sacra- how many know that he came used and abused and seem quite pearances and, since our move to the day: Armed Services 119, Co- Robert A. Machleder reassure each other that we’re do- honor of the class is at stake and so, mento. Don Roberts, George Perry from Miletus? Thales was in the common. At the time they were Vermont 15 years ago, restrict most lumbia 0. Ouch! You don’t forget 69-37 Fleet St. ing “just great,” same as we do on too, is the tranquility of my state and Marty Kaplan attended, and company of the early physicists novel. Anyway, that sucked me into of my singing to church, choruses days like that. There might have 60 Forest Hills, NY 11375 every First Thursday. We’ll share, of mind, make no mistake, as — comments from letters written by Anaximander and Anaximenes, economics. and the shower. I spend as much been a JV or freshman game that 60 as always, serious thoughts, tales faced with a deadline and nothing Burtt Ehrlich and Marty Margulies [email protected] both also from Anatolian Miletus. “I sought a doctoral program at time as possible revisiting the weekend to add to that ridiculous of our accomplishments with just a to write — it tends to be fragile were read at the ceremony. Heraclitus, the first Greek to for- a university that was excellent in DWMs of the literary canon and am total outcome, but enough already. Our First Thursday of the Month bit of embroidery, laugh with aban- contemplating a most embarrass- Marty Kaplan also provided mulate an atomic theory of matter, economics, particularly economic trying to keep up my creaky French As a postscript, Columbia didn’t Class Lunch brought David Kirk, don and discuss future plans, revel ing sight, our prominent blue 60 a remembrance of David at the

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES memorial service at the request of Lobanoff, put together a set of a description of his research online. illness. His obituary in the Alameda My wife, Ruth, and I enjoyed philanthropic organizations. where they stayed for the 10th year Smith Colleges and the University David’s wife, Terrie Lind. Several photographs remembering David’s Thanks, Bob, for your great con- Sun says, “He was born and raised seeing many of you at Homecom- Larry Apple’s one-act play, at Résidence de la Pinède. There, of Massachusetts Amherst) and excerpts appear below. life. For those who are interested, tributions to medical science and in New Jersey, and received his ing in October. Among those Feldman & Sons, was presented in they celebrated David’s 70th with used the time to promote his latest “David had a large network of go to youtube.com and search for for giving the rest of us another undergraduate degree at Columbia attending were Bob Kraft; Ed February as part of the Midwinter family and friends. The detailed book, The Race for What’s Left: The friends, reflecting the trust and “Celebration of Life - David M. reason to boast of our being mem- University and his law degree at Coller (back for the Marching Madness Short Play Festival at the list of favorite restaurants and the Global Scramble for the World’s Last admiration of fellow students. Blicker.” One can simply enter bers of the Class of 1962. Rutgers University. He was an avid Band reunion); Richard Gochman Roy Arias Studios on West 43rd descriptions of the feasts enjoyed Resources. He was an active leader of three “David Blicker” and the show will I received an interesting email athlete all his life, devoted to his and his wife, Alice; Don Margolis; Street. Larry also has completed can be found at cc63ers.com. A new CD by Hank Davis has service organizations on campus, come up. There are even some from Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, ’86J, beloved Navy, loving and caring to Phil Satow; Jerry Dwyer and his a film on Alzheimer’s and a full- Mouthwatering … been issued by Bear Family Records and elected chairman of the stu- shots from Columbia days. ’90 GSAS. He writes, “I have just his family and friends. He will be wife, Jane, along with grandchil- length play, MOM, that had a Robert Smith writes, “I’m active in Germany (available on Amazon). dent government his senior year. made an interesting discovery in greatly missed.” According to the dren; Doron Gopstein; and Larry staged reading through the Drama- in psychiatry research and clinical It contains excerpts from Hank’s He was active in NSA [National Spectator’s newly digitized archives obituary, a burial at sea by the Navy Neuman. (All assure me that they tists Guild of America Friday Night work as a research professor of 50-year recording career. A 50-page Students Association] and, no sur- John Freidin [spectatorarchive.library.columbia. was planned. Doug is survived by will attend reunion.) It was a Footlights program. He continues psychiatry at NYU and a research illustrated booklet includes Hank’s prise, he was NSA chairman of the 62 654 E. Munger St. edu]. In the year of your gradua- his son, Spencer. perfect day except for our loss to to work in the senior housing and psychiatrist at Nathan S. Kline time at Columbia and a song re- Student Body Presidents Advisory Middlebury, VT 05753 tion, an attempt was made to re- Dartmouth. Several weeks later I real estate business. Institute for Psychiatric Research corded with Art Garfunkel ’65. Board, selected by his peers. On all 62 vive the Philolexian Society by the sat with Henry Black and Bruce Zev bar-Lev (né Rob Lefkowitz) (NKI), where I lead a biological Walter Stein is recovering from [email protected] REUNION WEEKEND matters, he went for ‘What’s fair? assistant to the dean, Robert Pinck- Kaplan to witness the team’s great writes, “Looking forward to seeing psychiatry research group. Much the amputation of his right foot. He MAY 29–JUNE 2, 2013 What’s the right thing to do?’ Thus, After a marathon, a runner requires ert ’52, himself a former member performance in a blowout of Cor- you all at the 50th reunion and glad of this professional life is involved bravely attended a recent reunion ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS it was no surprise that later in life rest. During the past three years of the society. For a long time, I nell, a much more pleasing result. to be thriving in my almost 50th in research projects, grants and pa- planning meeting, where he sat ALUMNI AFFAIRS Robin V. Del Giorno he worked for the Congress of Ra- alone you’ve written more than did not know that any members of Jerry Glickson was awarded year of blurry mist … I mean, mar- pers. I also have a small outpatient next to me in the gimp section (I [email protected] cial Equality (CORE) in Montgom- 22,000 words, culminating in your the Class of ’62 had been inducted the Gold Medal from the Interna- ried bliss … with Shoshana (née private practice. I give medical stu- am recovering from a surgically 212-851-7399 ery, Ala.; The Legal Aid Society; thoughts about our 50th reunion as members; I thought that Philo tional Society for Magnetic Reso- Jane Wirth ’63 Barnard), after get- dent lectures at St. John’s Hospital. repaired, ruptured left Achilles DEVELOPMENT Allen Rosso Planned Parenthood; Child Action; last year. For that effort you deserve activity only got under way after nance in Medicine for introduc- ting all too friendly with the Angel My mentor and supervisor at NKI tendon). We both promise to be [email protected] and Opening Doors. many thanks and some rest, which you left campus. But I now see that tion of NMR spectroscopy to the of Death. Pleased not to have seen still leads his research department ready to dance at reunion. 212-851-7947 “Nothing David did for others you’ve clearly taken the past three Bob named two of your classmates study and management of cancer. his ugly face for more than a year. after his 90th birthday and recently Remember, our regular class could surprise any of us who months, hence the paucity of news to Philo’s ranks.” Those esteemed Paul Neshamkin The award was made in Montréal “I marked my last week at San retired as editor of the Journal of lunches at the Columbia Univer- knew him in College, but he went in this report. But please don’t rest undergraduates were John Alex- 1015 Washington St., on May 9, 2011, and was shared Diego State University, after 33 Neurochemistry, and I take him as a sity Club of New York are a great beyond expectations when he on your laurels. Send fresh reports ander and Vic Wolfenstein. 63 Apt. 50 with Dr. John R. Griffiths of the years and 60-plus publications model to emulate. My wonderful place to reconnect. If you’re in celebrated his 60th birthday by about yourself, your families and According to Spectator (Volume 63 Hoboken, NJ 07030 UK Cambridge Research Institute. in linguistics covering Hebrew, wife, Sultana, teaches two courses NYC, try to make one of the next joining the Peace Corps, which he classmates. Otherwise I’ll be out of CVI, Number 70, 16 February 1962) [email protected] Jerry is professor of radiology and Arabic and a bunch of other in French at Hofstra, and one of her few; they’re scheduled for March had wanted to do when he gradu- a job, and your classmates will be — Allen Young, we’re depending the director of molecular imaging languages, and teaching cognitive colleagues taught there part-time 14, April 11 and May 9 (always the ated from college. He spent three confined to the dark. on your editorial oversight — the By now you should have received at Penn’s Perelman School of linguistics, psycholinguistics, lan- into his 90s. I retired from one second Thursday of the month). years in Kenya, supporting the Of course, the biggest news of Philolexian Society was Columbia’s enough material from Columbia Medicine. guage and politics, and Hebrew. I clinical job about 18 months ago, Check cc63ers.com for details. first extracurricular activity and about our 50th reunion to prove Congratulations to Bob Kraft, have settled into my new projects, so now I have two jobs instead of In the meantime, if you haven’t “the third oldest literary society in that it is an unavoidable fact. We who was inducted into the Colum- including new frontiers in my re- three and can organize my work already, make sure you register for Dr. Bob Lefkowitz ’62, a professor at Duke, was the nation.” It was founded in 1802 graduated 50 years ago — an bia University Athletics Hall of search exploring common origins life and free time with greater and attend our 50th reunion! And and, like most literary societies of unbelievable landmark in life and Fame during a ceremony in Low of English and Hebrew that have personal freedom and control. It’s as always, let us know what you awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. the time, initially was a debating one that deserves to be celebrated. Library in October. been hiding in plain view for cen- sometimes stressful but also in- are up to, how you’re doing and club. In the late 1920s it altered its Our Reunion Committee has been Mike Hassan writes, “All is well turies. Not the Tower of Babel, but teresting and enjoyable. You have what’s next. constitution to encompass literary planning a weekend that we hope here in sunny Cabo San Lucas, surprising new turns in language to have the right type of creative small business efforts of women, the past three months is that Dr. and cultural activities. According will give you a chance to recon- Mexico, where I am semi-retired. I structure and history, expanding craziness. implementing microfinance and Bob Lefkowitz, the James B. Duke to the article, by Karl Schaeffer ’65, nect with Columbia and, more say ‘semi,’ as I recently completed the system I developed for analyz- “I’m not certain I’ll be at the 50th Norman Olch training people to install and oper- Professor of Medicine at Duke as ’66J, “It was famed throughout the importantly, classmates. The dates building a beach home on specula- ing and teaching Hebrew for 30 reunion. I’d like to but the NCDEU 233 Broadway ate solar energy systems. well as professor of biochemistry, city for its dramatic presentations. are Wednesday, May 29–Sunday, tion and I have attached a few pho- years to suddenly include English, meeting on clinical psychopharma- 64 New York, NY 10279 “Following that, he facilitated a was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize … The rejuvenated society will hold June 2. Plans include a reception tos [see our website, cc63ers.com] Latin and so on. cology in psychiatry may occur at 64 [email protected] two-day conference of a founda- in Chemistry for his studies of discussion meetings on various at Donna and Phil Satow’s loft on just in case someone wants to live in “Our five grandchildren are on the same time, and I often attend tion’s Latin American grantees, G-protein-coupled receptors. He is topics and attempt to promote Wednesday evening, a reception at a magical place with unobstructed their way to being bilingual in large and present at this meeting.” Although I am writing these Class none of whom even knew the oth- the 18th College alumnus/a to win other cultural activities on campus. President Lee C. Bollinger’s house ocean and mountain views, 100 or small measure. I will share my Robert, I hope you can make re- Notes in December, they will not ers, but by the end of the experi- a Nobel and the 82nd of all schools There also may be an official society on Thursday evening and a lun- yards from a pristine beach and so 70th with Shoshana and Jaxon aka union. Our 50th only comes once! appear until 2012 is history. So I ence some were making plans to of the University, faculty, adjunct journal. Dean of Graduate Faculties cheon and boat cruise touring New on. There, you have my marketing ‘Kobi Dan’ (our third grandkid, I I often receive emails and Face- take this occasion to wish all of you collaborate, and they continued to faculty, researchers and adminis- and Provost Jacques Barzun ’27, one York Harbor on Friday. There will campaign. think, age 6), and I’m planning to book links from Michael Nolan, and your loved ones a happy and do so. trators. of the notable members and once be panel discussions, tours of the “On a more personal note, I have chant the Divine Mooning (Exodus who, among many other activities, healthy new year. “Bob Randall asked to remind Bob also is widely recognized president of the society, has recalled campus, Affinity Group gatherings gotten cyber-engaged after 40 years 33, my favorite Torah selection for offers assistance with ancestry Barry Bley writes from Colorado: us all of ‘David the gardener, who for his dedication to mentoring Philolexian began to lose appeal for and ample time for classmates to of single life with the last 10 roam- 47 years) for the occasion. All this, searches. I enjoy the tales of his own “I continue my volunteer activities was bonkers for bonsai; the lawyer and his devotion to his students. College students during the Depres- discuss what they have been doing ing the globe. (The relationship is just a year after the doctor at the Irish Catholic/Jewish roots. If you with the Alumni Representative who loved being a judge; the high He has trained more than 200 grad- sion, ‘which turned all minds away for the last 50 years. On Saturday real; only the engagement was done rehab hospital told me — after a need help in researching your fam- Committee [studentaffairs.colum school football player; the politician uate and postdoctoral students in from literature and toward social we will enjoy two of Columbia’s cybernetically.)” five-month coma that my sister and ily history, contact him: mikeydavy bia.edu/admissions/alumni/re at a College that mostly eschewed his laboratory. Among his mentees problems.’” great rooms, with a lunch in Casa Marc Galanter writes, “I am brother, Sandy Lefkowitz and Larry @gmail.com. sources]. For the past 30 years or so, politics; the guy who had loved was Brian Kobilka, with whom he Philo has been fully active since Italiana and a banquet in Low married to Dr. Elizabeth Hill (also Lefkowitz ’60, helped Shoshana Michael Klare was honored to I have spent many a pleasant hour chatting with Harry Truman; the shared the Nobel Prize. Tom revived it in 1987. Currently, 73 Rotunda. a psychiatrist). On top of that, my pull me out of — that I shouldn’t appear on a panel on resource scar- interviewing applicants for admis- hiker who loved the California When it comes to his own students are members; more than Since our last column I have daughter, Cathryn, is a psychia- hope to read Torah ever again. In city at the Asia-Pacific Economic sion to Columbia. On average, I landscape; the wine maven; and, research, Bob says he remains 400 students have joined since its been contacted by many of you, trist, and our daughter Margit is my spare time, I’m formulating the Cooperation CEO Summit, held interview 50-plus each year, and more than anything else, the fascinated by the way it “continu- 1987 re-inception. including Rich Juro, Andy Lewin, a Feldenkrais Practitioner. I am a TUOT (theory of the universe and September 7–8 in Vladivostok, it is a great pleasure meeting with devoted son, brother, father and ously renews itself and always A note came from John Boatner, Bob Bilenker, Alan Jacobs, Bob professor of psychiatry at NYU other things, pronounced ‘toot’) and Russia. Featured speakers included these highly intelligent, highly mo- husband, and the loyal friend.’ feels fresh. I come to work every saying that a film on his life and Morantz, Harvey Schneier, David Langone Medical Center and direct exploring the fifth dimension with Presidents Vladimir Putin of the tivated young people. It is my way “A person’s life is best measured day with a sense of great anticipa- work was shown at the Indie Saxe, Steve Clineburg, Michael its Division of Alcoholism and Shoshana.” Russian Federation and Hu Jintao of giving back to Columbia for the by the impact on others — how tion and curiosity about what new Memphis­ Film Festival on Novem- DiLorenzo, David Orme-Johnson Drug Abuse. In addition to teach- Ralph Schmeltz writes, “I am of the Republic of China and U.S. outstanding education I received. many people did you help? How discoveries and insights will come ber 4. The film was titled Spiritual and Michael Nolan. If my email is ing, I do research on Alcoholics planning to be at Columbia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “My Columbia education was deep is the affection and admira- our way. Every question that we Transit in order to show, in John’s any indication, everyone is looking Anonymous.” celebrate not only my 50th but He also spoke at the Energetika financed in large part by a scholar- tion of those you knew? How last- can answer poses several new ones words, “the transit of my life from forward to returning to Morning- Bob Morantz is a retired neuro- also my son’s 20th. Will be great to XXI: Economy, Policy, Ecology ship from the Leopold Schepp ing are the memories you leave? that seem even more interesting Memphis to Seattle.” David Good- side, and we will have a record surgeon in Florida. He was honored see whoever shows up. Fifty-year conference on energy geopolitics at Foundation in New York City. This In all those areas, David’s life was than the one we’ve just answered.” man, a graduate of the Tisch School turnout. Look for more information by the Education Foundation of grads are ‘old guys’ but my mind the Saint-Petersburg State Univer- year the foundation has awarded one of great abundance. The years We should have anticipated of the Arts at NYU, directed and at reunion.college.columbia.edu Collier County as one of the 2012 still seems 18, until it asks my bod sity of Economics and Finance in me its Outstanding Schepp alum- were too few, but our love for him Bob’s exceptional work when he produced the film. and be sure to update your contact Men of Distinction. This was based to do something.” October. Michael was on sabbatical nus award, and I will be featured and the memories will be with us graduated, for he was barely 19. Capt. Howard Douglas Boha­ information at reunion.college. on his service to the not-for-profit David Pittinsky and his wife, this past fall from his position as a in its annual bulletin. all the years of our lives.” His list of honors is far, far too long boy, U.S. Navy, quietly passed away columbia.edu/alumniupdate. Join sector of Naples, Fla., where he is Alecia, sent detailed notes on their Five College professor (at Amherst, “On another point, now that I David’s nephew, Matthew to list here, but you may see it and on August 10 after an extended us! on the board of directors of four annual pilgrimage to Saint-Tropez, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and am happily retired from a 42-year

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES teaching career in the public schools migrant workers in South Jersey. financial aid package from Colum- list their intellectual accomplish- version of my essay, ‘Up From have implied. There are compen- up reinforcements as we traveled. years have lived in rural Vermont. of Suffern, N.Y., and Denver, I am We lost contact after he moved to bia. He played on assistant football ments. Mine have been more in Authenticity, or How I Learned to sations. How wonderful the new Reaching our goal, we were show- I dropped out in fall ’65, returned enjoying spending lots of grandpa California but reconnected at the coach Jack Armstrong ’55, ’58 TC’s the sports realm. I have the longest Love the Metal Flute — A Personal electronic devices are! The young ered with water, soda and various in ’69–’70 but didn’t graduate, time with my four grandchildren.” last reunion. Nick was an Organi- freshman team and laughed at the streak (36 years and counting) of Memoir,’ has been published as an are often criticized for their short underthings, and returned to the then finally returned and got my Steve Henick writes, “When zation Man, the Mad Man before stories I would bring back from consecutive finishes in the ING Amazon Kindle book, along with attention spans and lack of verbal dorms sated with our achievement. degree in 2000. I retired from business I quickly Mad Men, ebullient, gregarious, a WKCR. He decided that we should New York City Marathon. You can supplementary material including a abilities, and there is plenty of truth I also initiated (statute of limita- “I had a long career (30-some found out that, for me, hobbies, great guy whom I got to know bet- room together and predicted that read about this in Chapter 18 of discussion of an early 18th-century to these criticisms (and I for one tions?) the U.S. savings bond chain years) in the commercial printing sports and the like were not going ter during our reunion planning. we would be able to snag a coveted the book A Race Like No Other: 26.2 French painting depicting a one- lament the marked decline in the letter which, you may recall, swept industry as a sales exec and even­ to provide a satisfactory retire- Both will be missed. two-room suite. Sure enough, we Miles Through the Streets of New keyed flute with additional tone- quality of contemporary writing) much of the campus that year. I was tually CEO of two small companies. ment; having traveled extensively “Now for some good news: A wound up with 934-935 Furnald York by Liz Robbins, from 2008. holes. Search Amazon to find it. but I cannot help but think that the tipped to the idea by a pal at Rut- During that time I had about 20 for business, doing more was not group of classmates in D.C. has Hall, arguably the finest room on Another distinction is that I was “When I receive CCT, I always new electronic readers, comput- gers and created my own version, years of psychoanalysis, and even- high on my list of priorities either. been having more or less regular campus, and it was my home for the first U.S. citizen to finish the turn to this column on the doings ers and means of communication selling several of them, possibly to tually I decided that my true voca- Instead, I was a volunteer mediator lunches with presidential historian the rest of my time at Columbia. Comrades Marathon 10 times. This of our Class of ’65. I read with a tend to foster literacy and ease the some of you. Within a week it seem- tion was in that realm. I got my and started teaching as an adjunct Robert Dallek ’64 GSAS, who But it was not Steve’s. Trying hard is a 56-mile race in South Africa, mixture of pleasure, nostalgia and process of learning, rather than the ed everyone was trying to get some- M.A. in organizational psych at my local community college. taught some of us CC our fresh- to get through Columbia in three considered the most prestigious sadness: pleasure from learning of other way around. I never thought one else in on it. Fortunately, by the at Fairleigh Dickinson in 2002 That led to my teaching as an ad- man year. Most recently, nine of us years, he flunked a few courses ultra-marathon in the world, with the continuing accomplishments of that I should become a devoted time the administration clamped and shortly thereafter moved to junct at the University of Maryland met with him to talk presidential and his scholarship was taken more than 12,000 finishers. In the our classmates; nostalgia to think acolyte of electronic books but it down, my name was off the list and Vermont, where I practice as a University College. history and politics post-election away. He dropped out and was musical arena, I play regularly of our college years during which is a great boon to be able to look I escaped scot-free and profitable. therapist and teach psychology full- “Last spring, UMUC offered me in a penthouse conference room of promptly drafted. with the Riverside Orchestra, a lo- we, as one of the last generations to up words on the fly; to annotate, I left school after that year, prob- time as a lecturer at Norwich, which the opportunity to go back to work the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, “The next time I saw Steve, I cal community orchestra that plays grow up before the profound social highlight and retrieve one’s an- ably to the relief of several deans, is America’s oldest military college. full-time as an associate professor courtesy of partner Shelley Hoch- had just graduated and was about on the Upper West Side. My stand changes wrought by the Vietnam notations and marks; and to search returned the next, left again for two My work in the area of resiliency and as the academic director of berg. Dan Press, who knows Bob to be drafted myself. He had just partner in the first violin section is War experience, tried as best we for passages and words with such years to complete my military obli- and empowerment has gotten some the undergraduate marketing and personally, has organized what I left the Army, had married Caro- Jerry Bergman ’70. could to make sense of those unparalleled facility, to say nothing gation and hang out in California, attention and I have a devoted international business programs. I think are now four or five of these lyn and was working in Ford’s “Lyn has had a career in foreign turbulent years; and sadness at the of the conveniences of electronic and finally graduated in 1969. But cadre of students, who will be some accepted and so, at 70, I am work- enjoyable meetings. foundry in Cleveland and going currency, teaching high school thought of those who are no longer storage versus mountains upon my heart has always been with ’66. of the leaders of the next generation, ing full-time. UMUC is Maryland’s “I see Ed Leavy and Steve Case to Case Western Reserve at night. social studies and now translating with us and at the thought of our mountains of books. What a world Upon graduation, I married and both in the armed forces and in the open enrollment university and fairly regularly and also Barry I figured he’d never make it to Spanish into English. It was her facing the problems and challenges we live in! The downside, I fear, is stayed that way for seven years. I helping professions. it has a national and international Shapiro, who is a Silver Spring, Medina but, again, I was wrong. idea, 23 years ago, to cycle across of old age and retirement. How the inherent fragility of electronic remarried in 1984 to Kathleen and “My wife, Katherine, and I have student body. The school has spe- Md., neighbor. Twenty years later, a letter arrived the United States. I bought maps incredible it seems that we should media: If the Greeks and Romans we will celebrate our 29th anniver- an 83-acre farm in Berlin, Vt., where cialized in distance learning (now “I’ve been the editor of the quar- at my NBC office. I didn’t even from what was then Bikecenten- have traveled this road! had computers, I wonder how sary this spring. During all that time we raise grass-fed, all-natural heir­ online) for decades although we do terly B’nai B’rith Magazine for three have to open it. The return address nial, and we planned a 4,000-mile “In particular, I paid special at- much of their legacy would have I discovered the world of high-tech loom Normande beef cattle and offer face-to-face courses. Teaching years. I also write occasional com- was ‘Stephen J. Brown, Attorney- route from NYC to Oceanside, tention to Doug Barnert’s account come down to us.” and have had more than my share poultry and a wonderful Australian marketing and international busi- mercial real estate articles for The at-Law, Medina, Ohio.’ Since then, Calif., lasting eight weeks. Fortu- of his knee replacement surgery Finally, a personal note. I recently of good fortune in the realms of cattle dog named Boo.” ness is within my comfort zone but New York Times, along with other we have never been out of touch nately, the summer vacation from [Summer 2012 issue], for I face read Steven Millhauser’s new story, hardware and software sales, where Richard Beggs finally has hung educational administration is new, publications. We were displaced for long, and he is a cherished NYC public schools was almost 10 the same problem. So far I have “A Voice in the Night,” published I still work. I have lived in Tennes- up his suspenders. “I retired from and that makes this job interest- by last June’s derecho storm and friend. He and Carolyn drove 400 weeks that year, so we had some been able to cope, after a fashion, in The New Yorker of December 10. see, California, New York and New Daiwa Capital Markets America as ing and enjoyable. Education is finally moved back into our house miles to attend my wife Sharon’s time to rest up before resuming by resorting to a cane rather than This is a short story about a 68-year- Jersey, and have frequently relished CEO on October 1 and we sold our experiencing major changes driven in suburban Washington, D.C. wake and funeral; 500 miles five teaching in September. Las Vegas, surgery. I wish him, Paul Hyman old man (like most of us 1965-ers) being a gadfly to local town govern- New Jersey house on December 11. by disruptive technology, and the My wife, Sandy, and I have a high years later to meet my sweetheart, N.M., was on the route from and all of us who must confront remembering how as a young boy ments and boards of education. My wife, Gerry, and I stayed at our application of this technology to school senior along with a college Annie; and 400 miles last fall to be Larned, Kans., to Oceanside. It’s a the so-called senior years (what an in Connecticut he used to lie awake I have four children, three still Pennsylvania place through the achieving educational objectives senior, and I also have a 41-year- with us at our wedding. working-class town about the size ugly term!) all the best. I must say listening for the voice of God, inter- living, and two grandchildren, and holidays and headed to our Florida and student success is fascinating. old son who’s a computer guy and “Steve maintains his law practice of my hometown of Johnson City, that being a ‘senior citizen’ is not woven with the biblical tale of have absolutely no intention of home in early January. I’ll do some I am grateful that I can be a part professional bluesman (guitar and in Medina, with his younger daugh­- N.Y., and most of the people are quite like being a senior at Colum- Samuel hearing the voice of God in going gently into that good night. board and consulting work going of it.” bass) in Durham, N.C. Best to all.” ter, Jenny, as his law partner. I have Hispanic. As Lyn’s father was born bia, and the thought of graduating the night (1 Samuel 3:9). I found it Kathy and I travel, cook, read and forward.” In September, Allen Tobias gave Join them in Washington, D.C., never heard him complain about in Mexico and she speaks Span- can be daunting at times. Will we deeply moving and profound and spend time with old friends, some Harvey Kurzweil ’69L, one of the a talk at the Roosevelt Study Cen- or join us at the informal class the twists and turns his life and ish fluently, she fits right in. The have to wear beanies once again, recommend it to all classmates. of whom are reading this column. country’s top litigators, writes, “Af- ter in Middelburg, Netherlands, on lunch held on the second Thursday career have taken, and I was deeply climate in the summer is a perfect after we graduate?” And if you do not keep me posted ter graduating from the Law School Allen Ginsberg ’48’s composition of the month at the Columbia touched to hear him say how much antidote to the excessive humidity I asked Dan if he’d been in my on your doings, I promise you will I joined what was then known as of Kaddish. University Club of New York. his three semesters at Columbia of NYC, and the air at 6,500 feet is Music Humanities class and told Rich Forzani learn more about my life than you Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer In December, at a dinner in the meant to him, how they defined always clean and pure. We love it him that I remember the way he 66 413 Banta Ave. ever wanted to. & Wood, where I began practicing home of President Lee C. Bollinger, the process of learning for him and here!” clutched his flute case close to his Garfield, NJ 07026 Tom Chorba writes that his son, commercial litigation. I became a Steve Case was honored by the Leonard B. Pack what a privilege it was to spend Neil Smith (neilasmith@comcast. chest as he walked around cam- 66 Phillip, made his movie debut in partner seven years later and fully [email protected] University Trustees and awarded 924 West End Ave. any time at all at the university net) has some great, career-capping pus. He replied: “Unfortunately, I November in Silver Linings Playbook, expected to spend my entire career the Nicholas Murray Butler Medal 65 New York, NY 10025 we too often take for granted. He news: “I have been appointed by the never had the pleasure of taking a Welcome back, classmates. I think which was nominated for an Acad- at Dewey, Ballantine. Five years ago, for his work with the Columbia 65 would like to be counted among United States Patent and Trademark course with Jack Beeson. My Music I owe all of you a brief précis of emy Award for Best Picture and its the firm entered into an ill-advised [email protected] Alumni Association. In presenting us, to be regarded as a member of Office (PTO) to serve as an adminis- Humanities teacher was Peter my life after matriculation, if for no leads, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer merger that culminated in its liqui- the award, Bollinger called Steve, Andy Fisher (andrewfisheriv@ the Class of 1965 and to join with trative patent judge on the new Pat- Westergaard, whose musical views reason but to level-set my presence Lawrence, for Best Actor and Best dation last spring. I wasn’t ready to who was a trustee for 14 years, “a gmail.com) sent a great note us in 2015 as we celebrate No. 50. ent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), were at opposite poles from my here and your expectations. Actress. “Phillip appears in a scene pack it in and accepted a partnership citizen of the University.” about Steve Brown, who entered I already consider him one of the which will hold hearings and decide own in regard to his espousal of I entered the College when I was opposite Cooper. Everyone who has At the dinner I sat next to John H. with our class: “I spent a recent most important people I knew dur- important patent validity and related 12-tone music but whose analytical barely 17 and accomplished two had a career in film starts some- Coatsworth, University Provost and weekend with Steve and Carolyn ing my Columbia years and one of issues. This is a great opportunity for brilliance and ability to articulate things of note that year, aside from where, and this is a huge opportu- What’s Your Story? a leading scholar of Latin-American Brown at their year-round house the greatest of the many gifts of my me to serve the profession. I clerked aspects of musical style made the football, track and joining Sigma nity and break for Phillip. When he Letting classmates know economic and international history. in Medina, Ohio, and the log cabin years at Columbia. He will always for a judge on the predecessor to the experience of studying with him a Chi. told my wife and I that he was in I am pleased to report that Professor near Port Clinton on the Portage be my classmate and roommate.” United States Court of Appeals for most rewarding and pleasurable I successfully instigated a huge, a movie opposite Bradley Cooper, what’s going on in your Coatsworth is a strong supporter of River where they spend as much David Obelkevich (obelkevich@ the Federal Circuit in my early years, one. What fine teachers we had, and possibly the last, panty raid on we asked, ‘Who is Bradley Cooper?’ life is easier than ever. the Core Curriculum. time as possible. aol.com) wrote this in August: “My Giles S. Rich ’29L, and have wanted some of them! Sometimes I think Barnard during spring finals, ex- Apparently he is a mega star and Send in your Class Notes! Gene Meyer writes from Mary- “Steve and I have known each wife, Lyn Dominguez, and I are in to do something like this for the that I was too young to appreciate ploiting an enormous cache of fire- was voted 2011’s sexiest man alive ONLINE by clicking land, “I was devastated to learn in other since freshman week in a small town in New Mexico called profession. They are opening a new them fully. It took years after my crackers purchased during Spring by People magazine. So much for be- college.columbia.edu/cct/ the latest issue of CCT of the deaths 1961. He grew up in the projects Las Vegas (not the sin city in Nev- PTO office in San Jose, Calif. With college experience for me to absorb Break and tossed indiscriminately ing up-to-date on popular culture.” submit_class_note. of Peter Shack and Nick Rudd. I on the west side of Cleveland, the ada!). Our life here is running, cy- the new patent law, the America their wisdom, and I am still work- from a Hartley window. This was Yet another post ’66 grad who was especially good friends with oldest of 12 children, dreaming cling, bird watching, hiking, looking Invents Act, the new PTAB will have ing on it. enough to rouse the sullen study- affiliates with our class, Peter EMAIL to the address at Pete in college, while he was at that someday he would live in Me- for animals (we saw three badgers greatly expanded jurisdiction for “Yes, I was a bit extreme in the ing crowds and get them outside, Burmeister ’70 (pburmeis@norwich. the top of your column. Georgetown Law and I was work- dina, a charming little city west of recently) and enjoying a quiet rural trials on important patent validity way in which I carried my instru- where we reached critical mass edu), writes, “I have been a full- MAIL to the address at the ing and living in D.C., and later Akron. Family financial problems life before returning to West End issues.” ment cases and books! I did not and someone yelled, “Let’s go to time lecturer in psychology at when I was living in Philly and kept him from starting college until Avenue in Manhattan. Dan Waitzman (danwaitz@ mean to paint so gloomy a picture Barnard,” whereupon hundreds of Norwich University for the past top of your column. he was fighting for the rights of he was 21 and he got a generous “Most of the Columbia grads sprynet.con) reports: “An expanded as my remarks [on aging] may us marched to Broadway, picking 2½ years, and for the past nine

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Rapping at the boathouse door. time between our apartment in interviewed for (clearly that apple 67 Goleta, CA 93117 “Tis some coxswain bold,” I muttered, NYC, our home in New Jersey and also fell far from the tree). My other 67 Tapping on the boathouse door, [email protected] our summer home on Nantucket, twin is finishing her degree at Cal Only this and nothing more. where one of the annual highlights State Long Beach next semester The Cleverest Crew is at it again. Ah, distinctly I remember is the weekend visit of Kathy and (she had an academic career more Marty Goldstein writes, “It’s It was in the bright October Rich Forzani.” in line with mine).” impossible to top Jon Jarvik’s And each separate oar and rigger Harvey was a member of the Tom Harrold reports, “I practice poem [see below], but let me add Wrought its shadow on the water track team and is an avid Lions law in Atlanta with Miller & Mar- a little background. The Royal And the silken splashing, rustling sports fan. He can be seen mutter- tin, which was founded 145 years and Ancient Brotherhood of Buf- Of each catch of water bubbling ing to himself on any given autumn ago and is one of the oldest law foons, which centers around the Thrilled me with fantastic tremors Saturday at Robert K. Kraft Field. firms in the South. [RF: Tom is one crew cohort of the Class of 1967, Felt again from years before. We hear from another long- of the oldest lawyers in the South.] give or take a few years, holds And the coxswain, never flitting lost classmate. Richard Postupak I am the partner in charge of the a reunion row every five years, Ever sitting, ever sitting writes, “I left the College after international practice group and in customarily coordinated with the On the narrow seat of fiber my freshman year, having played 1987 was one of the founders of the class reunions. This year, because Near against the strokeman sure. frosh football and met some terrific world law group, which now has of construction in the boathouse And his eyes had all the seeming people from all over the United 52 member firms in 41 countries area, we chose to push it up to the Of a duyvil dreaming dreaming States. I really loved Morningside joining more than 12,000 lawyers. October Homecoming day, which And the sunlight o’er him streaming and stayed in the area for several From 1995–96, I was president of proved to be a brilliant choice, as Threw reflections on the shore. years, but then traveled to Tucum- the World Law Group. it coordinated with the opening But the coxswain sitting lonely cari, N.M., where I lived on a com- “My wife of 42 years, Connie, and of The Campbell Sports Center On the placid seat spoke only mune and gained great knowledge I are most proud of our daughter, as well as with the football game Three short words as if his soul in working with clay and also in Beth (Dr. Elizabeth V. Ratchford), against Dartmouth. In those three words he did outpour. transcendental meditation. The two who after Dartmouth and the Yale “We had our row in the morn- Nothing further then he uttered, disciplines seemed synergistic to me School of Medicine finally became ing, putting out an eight, coxed by Oars were feathered, boat it fluttered, Crew members of the Class of 1967 (give or take a few years) hold a reunion every five years. Last fall, it coincided with Homecoming and I found great peace of mind. affiliated with a decent university the redoubtable Jimmy Menasian, Till I scarcely more than muttered, on October 20. Standing outside the Big Tent, left to right: Tom Huseby ’69, Carl Carlson ’65, Dave Green ’69, Eric Dannemann ’67, Dick “Through total happenstance, and did her residency in internal as well as a four, which I helmed. It “Other friends have flown before.” Hansen ’62, David Blanchard ’67, Gerry Botha ’67, Jon Jarvik ’67 and Dick Dumais ’67; kneeling, left to right: Bob Malsberger ’67E, Proctor I became interested in philosophy medicine at Columbia. She is the was a daunting experience for me Quoth the coxswain Schenk ’69, Jeff Brensilver ’67, Charlie Miller ’67, Jim Menasian ’67, Marty Goldstein ’67 and Robert Chapla ’68; front: John Gormley ’69. and, in the early ’70s, was for some director of vascular medicine at at first, since this was a four rigged “Pull that oar.” PHOTO: MARTY GOLDSTEIN ’67 reason granted a fellowship to the Johns Hopkins. A couple of years with the cox in the bow, facing Paul Gewirtz’s son, Julian, College of Philosophy in Sansepol- ago, Beth and I had a nice lunch forward, with the crew behind recently was named a Rhodes cro, Italy. This is in a beautiful area with my former Columbia room- him facing backward, giving me a Scholar. Julian, a senior at Harvard, event sponsored by the Society of of the game to ice the deal. Coach and magnificent real estate star he was a neighbor in Furnald. He of southern Tuscany, just north of mate, Dr. Ed McCarthy, who is a feeling akin to driving a car from will pursue a degree in modern Columbia Graduates (SOCG) and Kyle Smith is the real thing! lawyer Andy Herz, now more says, “I am writing because I have Umbria. After graduation, I was an preeminent orthopedic surgeon at the back seat. It was spooky at first, Chinese studies at Oxford. Con- hosted by Paul de Bary, with Bill I went away inspired by Bill’s actively involved in good causes; started teaching at SIPA as an ad- instructor at the college for several Johns Hopkins. Beth’s husband, Jack especially after the apprehensive gratulations to the Gewirtz family. Campbell ’62, ’64 TC, chairman of commitment and ready to call each he says he is so glad he has more junct and have been thinking a lot decades, until it became defunct, Ratchford ’03 P&S, unfortunately head crew coach warned us of the University’s Board of Trustees one of you, both for a donation time for outside good deeds. about our days as college students. occasionally traveling back to the went to Princeton undergraduate difficult tide and current condi- and the evening’s speaker. Bill’s to the Columbia College Fund I was happy to see Paul, Paul The course is titled ‘Modern Rus- REUNION WEEKEND U.S. as well as throughout the but he saw the light and graduated tions, as well as the fact that an report on the state of Columbia was (college.columbia.edu/giveonline) and Andy, all of whom enjoyed sian History from the Inside.’ We MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 world. One of my great life experi- from the Medical School. He is in the eight costs around $30,000 these upbeat. Among other things he and to encourage you to come to Bill’s comments. I also had a chance start with perestroika and go to the ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ences was having a conversation neurology department at Johns Hop- days, and even minor repairs to talked about how the University is Alumni Reunion Weekend (Thurs- to talk to Bill about football, and he present. I enjoy being part of that ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider for several precious moments kins and they have two sons, ages 4 the fiberglass and carbon fiber making progress on many fronts, day, May 30–Sunday, June 2), as is as positive about the new coach community again. Teaching makes [email protected] with the Dalai Lama, in the early and 7, who are very good and loyal constructions cost thousands. We including rankings; how the Col- many of you have in the past. Our as you might expect. We agreed me feel 20 years younger. I try to 212-851-7846 ’90s. Since leaving the world of Georgia Bulldawg fans.” got the hint: Don’t screw up. lege is the center of the University last one had a great turnout, and I that beating Yale and Cornell this get to the campus early to walk DEVELOPMENT Heather Hunte education, I have earned my keep Barry Nazarian shares, “I “We didn’t, and managed a good family; and how our Global Centers am sure this one will be even better year was good, and that the close around and reminisce. I was quite [email protected] as a baker of French pastry, having moved from New Jersey to San row, with no damage other than to are doing well, with interest in Co- attended; there seems to be strong losses to Dartmouth and Penn (Ivy proud to get my first paycheck; it 212-851-7957 taken an extensive training pro- Diego, where three of the four our aged bodies, and after wash- lumbia growing around the world. interest. The Reunion Commit- champs) also boded well. was good for once to get a check gram in Auxerre, France. I find this children I raised as a single parent ing the shells down and putting Arthur Spector All in all, he was impressive tee is working with spirit, energy Speaking of football, I read that from Columbia. new vocation has many parallels to have migrated, one by one, during them away unharmed, we went 60 Riverside Blvd., in his comments and thoughtful. and wit. I predict good cheer and we have an incoming first-year next “George Bernstein, a professor my early days as a potter. the past 15 years. I trained 200 to the tent for the most excellent 68 Apt. 2703 As you may know, Bill has had good fun. Look for information at fall — 7-foot-1, from Minnesota. I at Tulane, provided good profes- “While I have never achieved miles a week my first year in this buffet luncheon, with a wonderful 68 New York, NY 10069 enormous success in Silicon Valley reunion.college.columbia.edu. And hope that is right. He should fit in sional advice to prepare me for this the great accomplishments or land of cyclists and runners. [RF: setup outdoors for the many kids arthurbspector@ — he was great friends with Steve while you’re at it, take the time to well with our 6-foot-11 returning assignment. In some way, teaching wealth of so many of my class- Barry is an ardent cyclist.] I haven’t who attended. We all felt part of a gmail.com Jobs and is on the board of Apple update your contact information so forward, Cory Osetkowski ’16. this course is a kind of looking back mates, I am constantly reminded found work yet and can only hope wonderful tradition, and shared our — and so he brings to Columbia you don’t miss any news about the John Roy sent in some great at my career for the last 25 years. of my incredible good fortune in this dearth of jobs persists.” love of the College and the whole Greetings to the class. Winter ap- a sense of the importance of being weekend (reunion.college.colum news. “Son Noah Roy ’95, ’99 PH I have done work as a lawyer on finding a gentle, satisfying and Finally, yet another voice from Columbia community. proaches as I gather notes for this open-minded and innovative while bia.edu/alumniupdate). (also a Ph.D. from Penn) married Russian matters — transactions, intellectual path through life, and I the West weighs in. Neill Brown- “The game against Dartmouth column; always a great time to also being careful. Bill also was re- Returning to the subject of the the lovely Ann Fuller in Forest Hills, arbitrations, regulatory and anti- wish all of you the peace and love I stein writes, “Glad to report that all was a good one, close, with Co- reflect upon the good days ahead for freshingly appreciative of the Core SOCG event, there was a group of Queens, on November 18. They live bribery issues — and continue to have gained on my way.” is well with the Brownsteins, with lumbia showing up and playing us all. I do like snow and am looking and the special nature of Columbia four from the Class of 1968: Paul in Maryland. Noah is a researcher at do so. In the early ’90s, my wife, Ron Brookshire writes, “After four granddaughters — all West hard, a good omen for the new forward to some in Central Park and in the City of New York. de Bary was very funny in his in- NIH and Ann is a nurse. Patrice, and I lived in Moscow, retiring I went back to work for a Coast — although two are in Seattle head coach, Pete Mangurian. We at my place in Saratoga. To those of I am interested in athletics, too, troduction of Bill. Paul Gallagher “My days have been brightened where I managed the office of a former boss to help out for a while. and two are in the San Francisco then resumed our gathering at the you who are in Naples, Fla., Tel Aviv, as you know, and Bill showed great was in from New Haven, Conn., here by teaching the Great Books at Washington, D.C., law firm and Now, years later, I guess he thinks Bay Area. During 2012, I feel that new [Havana Central at The] West Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Boston, confidence that we are moving in where he and his wife, Pam, have a local college. Patrice started a local tour company. he still needs help. Thank goodness time and Neill were in sync; mostly End, over dinner and libations — a Washington, D.C. and New York — the right direction. Football for sure moved to be closer to his consult- “I look forward to seeing you We are now based in Washington, it is three miles from home and I was doing what I wanted to do truly wonderful day we all wished and all the other great places around had a better year. I am hoping that ing firm. He looked great and was in May.” raising Roman and Artyom, our only part-time. More important when I wanted to do it. In the previ- would never end. We’ll be back for the world — accept what will be my the basketball season ends well. in good humor. (I think that he Congratulations and look for- sons adopted from Siberia. Both news is that my oldest daughter is ous year, there had been too many our 50th in 2017.” belated wishes that 2013 be a great One highlight so far was the team’s does work with Yale, too; he will ward to seeing you, too! are growing into fine young men, married and living in Indio, Calif. ‘gotchas,’ where I spent precious The aforementioned poem by year for you and your families. crushing Villanova on its court; we have to clarify at some point.) Then I heard from Randy Bregman. if I may say so myself. I split my She works in the Cal State system time in ways that did not seem that Jon Jarvik: In early December I went to an hit 21 foul shots in a row at the end there was the always charming It had been a while but I do believe time between D.C. and New York

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City. Patrice manages a program for istration materials. If you are not philosophy, English, law, business, and I initially were in a high-rise David further reports, “I contin- far those incredible memories of to say goodbye to 42nd Street and balance of the class. This yielded Russian orphans to visit the United a singer, please attend the concert; medicine, art history, international apartment on 110th and Morning- ue to work at our firm, PEI Funds, growing up as an undergrad at retire. What truly accounted for my about 15 responses (some will States and possibly themselves be you will have a great time.” affairs, history, statistics, public side, a great location because of which invests in private equity Broadway and 116th are indelible leaving when I did was that, while appear next issue), but I hope more adopted. Jeff, thanks for the invite. It health, urban affairs, music, real the proximity to Columbia. Now, secondaries, in venture capital and keepers.” I was still the best at what I did in classmates will send in news soon. “One of the benefits of spending sounds like fun. Maybe we can do estate, mathematics, physics, astron- we’re in another high-rise on the other private equity funds and pri- From Doran Twer: “Much to Times Square and Las Vegas, the part of my time in NYC has been Roar, Lion, Roar? omy, astrophysics, chemistry — edge of Fort Greene in Brooklyn. vate companies. This is a firm that my surprise and delight, a svelte airport scenes were really getting a renewal, after many years, of my Larry Susskind wrote, “My lat- and others whom we might call My son, Woody III, also lives in I co-founded 20 years ago. I expect and gray-bearded Ron Tarrington to me and I wanted to be involved Leo G. Kailas friendship with Peter Janovsky. We est book is called Water Diplomacy: professors of entertainment such as Brooklyn and is a junior at the to be doing this forever, subject to showed up unannounced (as he with my grandsons and daughters. Reitler Kailas & meet every few weeks for lunch in A Negotiated Approach to Managing Jon Bauman (Sha Na Na, still going School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, ultimate mortality constraints. I love had threatened in a phone conver- Some days I miss the action; other 70 Rosenblatt Rock Center (in honor of Colum- Complex Water Networks, written strong), and for those who may re- where he studies film and video. my work, and the longer I work, the sation a year ago) at my son Aden’s times I get a grip on reality (which 70 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. bia’s previous real estate ties and with Shafiqul Islam. I teach environ- call Paul Spitzberg from Little Rock, The contrast between our idyllic more I can give to Columbia, which Gettysburg vs. Dickinson football was never my forte). New York, NY 10022 the annual band Christmas evic- mental policy and planning full- Ark., I believe he is a renowned star life in San Carlos, a small town just has been fundamental to my forma- game on the evening of November “My wife of 43 years, Robin, and [email protected] tion) to discuss politics, education, time at MIT (42 years on the faculty) of television poker. I remember play- north of Palo Alto, Calif., and our tive, marital and parental years. I 2 in Carlisle, Pa. (think Jim Thorpe). I are blessed with two daughters family and children, careers and the and help run the Program on Nego- ing with him — I was pretty good, renewed urban adventure is great, met my wife, Jane ’76 Business, at It was our first face-to-face since and three grandchildren, two great My friend Phil Russotti gave me meaning of life. All of these subjects tiation at Harvard Law. I’ve passed he was very good — at the end of and that’s part of the enjoyment. the Business School.” graduation. Happy to say that he boys and [as of mid-November] this good news: “I’m leaving for look different from our earlier the management of the Consensus the hallway in New Hall. I’m even a member of the Colum- From Houston, Gary Mason got to see Aden score on a 59-yard a three-week-old granddaughter. Punta Cana, Dominican Repub- viewpoint in Carman Hall except, Building Institute, the not-for-profit Well, that’s it from here. I really bia University Club of New York, offers reflections on one day in his TD reception for his Gettysburg Life has been good — never perfect lic, for a destination wedding for of course, the meaning of life.” that my wife, Leslie Tuttle, and I do hope to see all of you at reunion. so will meet classmates for a drink life, writing: “Today is Sunday. I team. Ron had driven seven or — but still a privilege to be here. Dennis Graham’s oldest son, Scott. Randy, make sure George comes started almost 20 years ago, on to I have discovered that the Class of with little prompting.” slept alone on the floor last night, eight hours from Raleigh directly “Biggest bummer is our sports [Also attending will be] Terry up from New Orleans for reunion, the next generation, although I am 1968 is a class that College students Jim Gagné writes, “After gradu- favoring it over my mattress. My to the game and then turned right teams, i.e., Columbia football and Sweeney. This follows Dennis’ and please. And how old are your chief knowledge officer. have heard about. When you say ating from Albert Einstein College spine — particularly L5 to S1 around after the contest. He’s still basketball, a real travesty that Terry’s trip to London earlier this sons? Maybe we can recruit for “I’ve been married for 30 years you are ’68, the response is a of Medicine in 1973, I did two years [vertebrae] — seems to need more dancing (a reference for those who should once and for all be acknowl- year for my youngest son Peter’s Columbia. to Leslie, a photographer who has curious, knowing look. My guess of internal medicine residency at the firmness these days. [As I write], remember the Martha and the Van- edged and addressed. We simply wedding. So that’s what we’re do- Jeff Kurnit is ebullient over hav- spent most of her professional life is they have seen David Shapiro old Lincoln Hospital in the South my wife is in New York visiting her dellas/Dionne Warwick campus are a non-contender and should ing: globetrotting and following our ing free time and still singing. He documenting the status of women sitting in the President’s Chair in Bronx. During the middle 1970s, it 90-year-old mother who, though concert) to his own drummer.” stop playing in the Ivies if we con- kids all over the world.” writes, “My wife, Abby ’68 Barnard, in developing countries. Our Low Library. And by the way, Da- seemed to me that NYC was falling suffering dementia, lives by herself Dick Menaker writes, “I’m in tinue to lose in 69–0 games to John News arrives from David and I enjoy retirement. After 60 son, Noah, a mediator in NYC, vid, a female colleague of mine’s into decaying little pieces, and I in Astoria. My companion today active practice [Menaker & Herr­ Harvard. I need to stop writing Lehman, editor of The Oxford Book of years of having to adhere to school recently started at NYU Law. He’ll son is a young, aspiring poet living couldn’t wait to move to California. was The New York Times. The blue- mann]. Our settlement of the Leh- ­ about this because I really get crazy American Poetry, series editor of The calendars — Abby as a high school be married this summer to Dafna in Chicago. I told his mom I knew I settled in Los Angeles shortly after wrapped Sunday paper was in its man Brothers liquidation issues from the scene. Best American Poetry and poetry co- science teacher and me as a college Alsheh, who helps to manage the you and could arrange a meeting finishing my training and have spot on the driveway waiting for with Citibank is on the front page “Anyway, still love rock and ordinator of The New School’s Writ- English professor — we love being amazingly sustainable IceStone between her son and you — he been here ever since. In 1989, I me to retrieve it with my freshly of today’s [November 19, 2012] Sinatra, read a ton and pray for Is- ing Program: “Classmates might able to do things when we please. company in the Brooklyn Navy can’t wait, says you’re great! married Vassar alumna and fellow brewed Gevalia coffee and mug Wall Street Journal. No retirement rael. That’s a pretty quick summary, like to know that in April we will In October 2011, we spent nearly Yard. My daughter, Lily, runs a See you in a few months, I hope. internist Mary Hardy. in hand. plans for the moment; our firm but there it is. Just one more thing: observe the 25th anniversary of The two weeks in Italy and, in October dance company in Baltimore, Ef- “In addition to general internal “Later, the temperature reached recently re-upped on our lease for My ‘big brother,’ Joe Cody ’66, Best American Poetry — the annual 2012, we spent another two weeks fervescent Collective, and is a force medicine, I’ve developed some the glorious 70s, so after cleaning another 10 years. Still playing ten- passed away too young, at only 57, anthology that I initiated in 1988 in Arizona and New Mexico, part of for arts collaboration in B’More. Michael Oberman expertise in treating addiction and the pool of a plague of acorns, I nis and the cornet, the latter in the in 2001. I miss him constantly and — with a special volume, The Best that time visiting family. These are “I have teams of MIT, Harvard Kramer Levin Naftalis & chronic pain. I’m somewhat of a settled on my sunlit patio to read Bronxville Pops outdoor concerts never would have gotten through of the Best American Poetry. Former trips we would have had to make in and Tufts students working on 1) 69 Frankel computer geek and have developed about the immortality of a little during the summers. Can’t hit the the College without him. A terrific, U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky is the summer before we retired. How Middle East water negotiations, 69 1177 Avenue of the my own website, jamesgagne.com, jellyfish being studied in Japan for high Es with the same power as wonderful human being.” choosing the poems from the first nice it was to travel at a different 2) efforts to protect the interests of Americas for patients who want to know its ability to clone itself seemingly singer Johnny Amoroso, however, Rick Winston writes: “Vermont 25 volumes in the series. Scribner time of year! indigenous people (Mapuche) in New York, NY 10036 more about who I am and how I forever. This made me reflect on who also plays in the Pops. Of History, the journal of the Vermont will publish. I remain the general “Shortly after we returned Chile from the adverse effects of moberman@ approach medical care. what exactly I have been up to. course he’s almost 80, so there’s Historical Society, has published editor. The year’s regular volume, from the Southwest, our daughter, hydro-development, 3) sustainable kramerlevin.com “I remember my years at Co- So I thought I would chronicle a still time to catch up with him.” my article, A Sinister Poison: The Red The Best American Poetry 2013, will Miriam Kurnit-Katz ’00 Barnard, city development in Malaysia and lumbia fondly. I learned a lot and single, relaxed day as a way of From Larry Wolfson: “After a Scare Comes to Bethel. It examines come out in September. had our first grandchild, Charlotte 4) helping coastal New England Congratulations to Jerry Nadler, grew intellectually. But the experi- sharing news. Watered the indoor 40-year career in advertising, sports a forgotten episode from 1950, in “Meanwhile, I am working on a Beatrice Katz. Naturally, we are communities anticipate and respond who has been reelected to an 11th ences that stand out are playing Rafus palms, picked the last of and marketing, and helping Times which two nationally known sum- manuscript of my New and Selected thrilled. When Miriam goes back to to the impacts of climate change. full term in Congress. in and composing music for the the now-ripe Satsuma oranges Square make a comeback, I retired mer residents of Vermont came Poems to be published by Scribner work, we will be taking care of the From freshmen to postdocs, my Bill Stadiem’s latest book, Mon- Marching Band (the cleverest band from my yard, disconnected the in September 2011 after working under suspicion of aiding the Com- in April 2014. My last nonfiction baby one day a week, another op- students are amazing. I recently eywood: Hollywood in Its Last Age of in the world), Tau Epsilon Phi and, 17-year-old KitchenAid dish- for a few firms through the years. munist Party. One was East Asia book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Song- portunity afforded by retirement. returned from the Salzburg Global Excess, was published in January. of course, the 1968 rebellion. My washer and moved it to the garage The best was a nine-year run with scholar Owen Lattimore, who had writers, American Songs, won the We also deliver Meals on Wheels Seminar in Austria. We are working (See Bookshelf.) brother, David ’71, still lives in in anticipation of the delivery Katz Communications, where I sold been named by Sen. Joseph Mc- Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP one day a week and are active in with the Organisation for Economic From Woody Lewis: “I’m writing Morningside Heights. He’s a pro- of its replacement. Checked my television time for 25–30 stations Carthy as the ‘No. 1 spy’ in the State in 2010.” synagogue choir and with The Vil- Co-operation and Development to this from the fourth floor of Butler fessor of music at Queens College. daughter’s latest Facebook photo in the Midwest. I followed that Department, and the other was Arc- Richard Smolev writes, “My lage Light Opera Group. implement multinational corporate Library. Since relocating from the Alas, I haven’t had time to pursue posting. Put in a brokerage order to with four years at Madison Square tic explorer and scholar Vilhjalmur “We look forward to seeing old social responsibility guidelines in Bay Area back to New York City in music since leaving Columbia, and sell naked puts on the S&P weekly Garden’s fledgling cable network Stefansson. It’s a fascinating story, friends at the Barnard and Colum- 44 countries. I try to reflect on all mid-2010, I’ve probably spent more I miss it.” index. RSVP’d to a friend’s annual … all sports. I left to become a v.p. and the entire article can be read at bia reunions in June. And speaking these ongoing efforts in my blog time here, or in the Business School John Bernson reports, “I’m in Christmas party. Bought tickets on- for Dorna USA and introduced vermonthistory.org/journal/80/ Submit Your Photo of reunion, Columbia Alumni (theconsensusbuildingapproach. library at Uris, than I did when I was the Middle East, based in Beirut, line for the Memorial H.S. Theatre the now-common rotating signage VHS8001SinisterPoison.pdf. I’m Submitting a photo for Singers is holding an event on blogspot.com). in the College or B-School. I work doing bank advisory and corporate production of Almost, Maine. that runs the length of basketball doing more research on this period, Class Notes is easier the Saturday of Alumni Reunion “I hope to make it to at least part mostly from my home office these finance projects. In September, my “Next, I’ll move on to Rodney courts — first the pros, then we and I hope to write a book about than ever! Weekend, June 1, and we hope that of our 45th reunion. There are a days, running my Web software wife and I attended the wedding Yee’s yoga tape ‘Back Care Yoga for added colleges and Major League other events that unfolded during everyone will either attend or par- great many classmates I’d really like consulting business. After a second in New York of David Parshall’s Beginners,’ to help me stretch after Baseball. Got to know and become the McCarthy era in my adopted ONLINE by clicking ticipate. We will celebrate the 140th to see. As far as retiring? No. I’m go- stint with Cisco Systems as a solu- daughter, Lily ’01, ’10 SIPA, who sitting and thinking at this laptop. I real friends with some awesome state.” “Contact Us” at anniversary of the founding of the ing to keep teaching until someone tions architect, and working with has a Ph.D. in sustainable develop- want to be limber tomorrow when athletes and executives. I stayed for The about-the-author line that college.columbia.edu/cct. Columbia Glee Club. Anyone who tells me that I’m not following the a couple of startups, I’m enjoying ment. Both of Lily’s siblings (Jane I bend over an operating micro- nine terrific years before I was lured accompanies the article says that sang with any campus organiza- conversation.” being independent. Five years ago, ’06 and Anthony, who entered with scope to perform a half-day of cata- to Spectacolor to sell permanent Rick “was co-owner of Montpelier’s MAIL by sending the tion at Columbia or Barnard is wel- Larry, sounds like a good plan if while still in California,­ I earned an the Class of 2002 and completed ract extractions scheduled for my and then digital signage, which Savoy Theater for 29 years, and is photo and accompanying come to participate. There will be you have the energy for the students. M.F.A. in fiction from Bennington his B.A. at the University of Ver- patients. In the afternoon, it will be Times Square has always showed currently programming director for caption information to a rehearsal on Saturday morning I saw Ted de Bary ’41, ’53 GSAS at a through its low-residency program. mont) attended the College.” my turn to be a patient when I visit off. Eventually we were acquired the Green Mountain Film Festival.” and a concert in the afternoon. We recent Columbia event, so you have I’m editing the draft of a novel in my David — who joined the email the doctor for my cholesterol and by Clear Channel and not much Please see the Obituaries’ Class Notes Editor, did similar events during reunion another 30 years for sure! spare time and also working on a chain between John and me — muscle enzyme assay. fun was happening anymore. From Other Deaths Reported box for Columbia College Today, in 2010 and 2011, and the concerts We have and have had a distin- series of personal essays. noted that Lily and her husband “Yup, the Class of 1969 sure feels the late ’90s through 2011, I was information on the passing of Columbia Alumni Center, were extraordinary. Both were guished group of professors through “It’s great to be back in New met in Beirut in 2001 under John’s a long distance away, but those v.p. and district manager, calling George Eisenbarth. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, recorded, and CDs are available. the years. I wonder if our class York, particularly when I run into “oversight as Lily’s godfather,” were the best days, when Morn- on clients and ad agencies in the To get news, I sent a blast email New York, NY 10025. If you want to sing, there will be may have some national record (it classmates like Robert Friedman leading John to add, “I am her very ingside Heights was the center of Midwest and Southeast. to all classmates for whom we have information in your reunion reg- wouldn’t surprise me): professors of on the subway. My wife, Cathryn, proud godfather.” our universe. Time passes but so “Then, last August, I decided email addresses, and a letter to the

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES novel, Offerings, was published Rob Leonard directs our atten- range from device development to feel like, whenever I want. to the Western Wall three times, over. I wanted a take-back, a redo, determination (to keep going and “I know that most of my class­ October 15 by Academy Chicago tion to several recent articles in drug discovery, biodefense, clinical “So how do I plan to spend the including once as a family and to wake up in the morning and be growing) and ass-kicking fun (my mates who contribute to CCT Publishers. Here is what one reader which he was featured, including evaluative research and health free time looming ahead of me for once for the start of the Sabbath on okay. joie de vivre). regularly talk about their profes- posted on Amazon: ‘The fantastic one in The New Yorker from July 23, policy. He is e.v.p. of life sciences years to come? Well, I made several Friday night, which was amazing. “Rather than just allowing the “Other visualizations I have done sional achievements, children and knotty debut novel from Richard 2012, “Words on Trial.” You can at MacAndrews & Forbes and has decisions already. We floated in the Dead Sea, took pain to set my agenda, I did some include: do a ridiculous number of grandchildren. My progeny may be Smolev unfurls in the world of Wall find it on its website. Rob contin- been a director of CircuLite since “Travel (domestic): There are sev- the cable-car to Masada (my climb- critical thinking about my situa- pull-ups; run five miles (runners’ summarized briefly. I’m the proud Street machinations, and serves as a ues, “For some comic relief, TIME November 2011. eral cities and areas of the country ing days are history), went to Shab- tion. I set some goals that I could euphoria — YEE HAH!); backpack owner of a 14½-year-old Labrador modern day reminder of the extent recently deemed me the second “In addition to his work with I have always wanted to see but bat services at the Jerusalem Great live into. I had promised my chil- in the Grand Canyon (and looking retriever who is a dropout of the that the dealings of Wall Street smartest rock star in history, behind MacAndrews & Forbes, Dr. Rose never had the time: Charleston, Synagogue, stayed on a kibbutz, dren I would do everything in my at and showing my photos); bound Canine Companions of America affect the day-to-day existences Brian May of Queen, who is an has been chairman of the Depart- S.C.; Savannah, Ga.; the Grand saw more ruins and archaeologi- power to survive. What would that across high peaks (a fantasy visual- program. She’s been a delight and of individuals. With Offerings, astrophysicist. I believe I shall sue! ment of Health Evidence and Policy Canyon; New Orleans; Chicago; cal sites than I can remember and look like? I would be paralyzed. I ization). no disappointment in terms of Smolev crafts a cracking narrative Heck, I went to Columbia! See at the Icahn School of Medicine the California vineyards; Big visited a secret, underground started asking myself many ques- “Another technique is to recall needing drug rehab, penal incar- of financial intrigue that forces you entertainment.time.com/2012/09/ since 2008. He also has served as a Sur; and others. I might become bullet factory from the 1948 war tions. What kind of role model do your best accomplishments, suc- cerations or long-term residential to confront the role of Wall Street in 07/school-of-rock-10-super-smart- director of SIGA Technologies since adventurous and rent a car to drive for independence. My wife and I I want to be for my children? How cesses and triumphs. Recall the care for dementia. I will miss her your own existence while following musicians/#class-acts. 2001, becoming chairman and CEO cross-country, stopping off at these even had ceremonial bar and bat can I use my remaining time to qualities that enabled your success. dearly when she’s gone. an intricate narrative to its logical “If the New Yorker article whets in 2007. places on my way to the West mitzvahs in Jerusalem! teach my children about life and Recall how you felt. Remind your- “In terms of my professional endpoint. This one is impossible to your interest, here is more: A clip “From 1994–2007, he was chair- Coast, then traveling to Vancouver, “Exhausted, we got home two death? What messages do I want self that the person who achieved career, I started working as a put down and will leave afterim- from a recent Nightline I appeared man of the Department of Surgery Canada, to visit friends and return- days before the start of the rocket to leave them with? What kind of that was and still is you.” psychology aide at the Washington ages in your head months removed on: abcnews.go.com/Nightline/ and surgeon-in-chief of NewYork- ing to the East Coast by driving launching from the Gaza Strip. father and husband could I be with DC VA Medical Center, during after finishing the novel. I have video/missing-ariz-girl-911-tapes- Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia through the rest of Canada. For Our daughter, however, got the full advanced ALS? How do I want to my summers in college. Right not read a thriller as top-notch and released-16354671. And two short University Medical Center. Dr. Rose those who have innocently listed experience of life as an Israeli, with be remembered? Who am I? Who Paul S. Appelbaum after college I earned a Ph.D. in high-stakes this year.’” clips in which I explain forensic is a past president of the Interna- your address with the Alumni Of- visits to bomb shelters in Tel Aviv will I be when I am paralyzed? 39 Claremont Ave., #24 clinical psychology and have since Joseph Stillman reports, “After linguistics: investigation.discovery. tional Society for Heart and Lung fice, don’t grab your shotgun and and Jerusalem. She stuck it out, Who do I choose to be? 72 New York, NY 10027 devoted my professional career a career working on policy and com/videos/solved-forensic- Transplantation and was also the hustle your spouse, kids and pets however, and is now back at Bar- “I began to form a vision of how 72 to working with combat-related [email protected] programs concerning urban pover- linguistic.html and hofstra.edu/ Morris & Rose Milstein Professor of to a locked room in the house if in nard, where she majors in environ- I wanted to be and how I didn’t post-traumatic stress disorder, for ty in the nonprofit and foundation Academics/Colleges/Hclas/FLP/ Surgery with P&S’ Department of the middle of the night you hear mental policy. If anyone wants to want to be, as the disease pro- Jeffrey Laurence received the Red the past 30-plus years at the VA worlds, several years ago I decided MAFLP/index.html.” Surgery. … banging on your front door: Just know of a tour company that does gressed. I knew that terminal illness Ribbon Foundation Visionary Award Medical Center in San Diego. to jump into the trenches, and have “Dr. Rose has an M.D. from P&S peer through your window and if a great job on guided tours to Israel sometimes turns formerly kind for his work in the fight against “While I officially retired from been teaching social studies in a and a B.A. from Columbia.” you see a guy standing on the front with a Jewish orientation, please be and loving individuals into angry, AIDS. In addition to his day job as the Department of Veterans Affairs high school in the South Bronx. It Jim Shaw Richard Belous writes, “I have steps with a toothbrush in one in touch ([email protected]).” bitter tyrants. I would not inflict my a professor at Weill Cornell Medical in 2007, I work as a contractor pro- is by far the hardest, and often the 71 139 North 22nd St. read the column through the years hand and a rolled-up sleeping bag Bob Brintz has written “A Path suffering on my loved ones. Rather College, Jeffrey is senior scientific viding my experience, skills and most rewarding, job I have ever Philadelphia, PA 19103 but until now I have never sent in in the other, it’s me, ready to accept to Survival Part II,” a sequel to a than suffering, I chose happiness. consultant at the American Founda- support to the previous and current had, keeping me young and on my 71 anything (except money). your kind offer of hospitality! post on patientslikeme.com for “I started to close my eyes and tion for AIDS Research. The award generation of veterans as both a [email protected] toes. (When asked, I tell my kids I “To make a long story short, I “Travel (foreign): I am seriously those “PLMers” who have ALS create a mental vision of myself in ceremony and dinner took place consultant and clinician. I also am 149 years old. Sometimes they If you are not receiving the ’71C earned a Ph.D. in economics. I am considering renting an apartment (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a wheelchair, paralyzed, smiling, at the recently renovated Capitol maintain a teaching appointment believe me.)” eNews and would like to, please v.p. of research and chief economist for one summer in Madrid and more commonly Lou Gehrig’s my family around me also smiling, Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y., and on the faculty of UC San Diego in William C. Longa notes, “Buoy- email me. for United Way Worldwide (the na- using that as a base to explore the disease) and their friends. (The feeling love for my family and feel- was a benefit for Lifebeat, Music the Department of Psychiatry. In ed by the come-from-behind win Dennis Langer, a clinical profes- tional and international headquar- rest of Spain and maybe the west original “A Path to Survival” was ing their love for me, everyone just Fights HIV/AIDS. my spare time, I enjoy the ambi- at Cornell and the earlier win sor in the department of psychiatry ters for the United Way network). coast of France. It would certainly included in the ’71C eNews of being themselves. This visualization Jeff Matloff, writing in for the ance of living in coastal southern against Yale … and somehow not at Georgetown’s School of Medicine, I also am an adjunct professor in force me to improve my mastery March 2012 and excerpted in our would manifest a few years later first time in 40 years, shares some California and occasional forays discouraged by the 69–0 drubbing is a director of Innocoll, a biophar- economics at The George Washing- of Spanish. Later on, I hope to visit Spring 2012 Class Notes.) as part of my reality. [Here, on the memories of back when. “When into the arts/culture. My biggest by Harvard … Jack Probolus, John maceutical company. According to ton University. India, Japan, Eastern Europe, the In Part II, Bob, who is paralyzed website, Bob inserts a photograph I first interviewed at Columbia regret of late is that I’ve not traveled Hughes ’71 and I forged ahead with his Innocoll biography, “Dr. Langer “My wife, Debbie, and I have five Nordic countries and Brazil/Argen- and on a ventilator for life support, of such.] in 1967, I was told by an assistant much in recent years. However, this an on-and-off tradition of attending is a director of Myriad Genetics, children who range in age from 28 to tina/Chile. sets out specific techniques for “How did this transformation dean that it was much like the condition is somewhat mitigated the Columbia/Brown contest at Myrexis and several private health 9. The 9-year-old has expressed inter- “Classes: As to be expected of an dealing with ALS (and, in broader from dread of paralysis to ‘para- Marine Corps: It would make by the knowledge that, despite my Brown. Sadly the tailgate and two care companies. He has served as est in Columbia. We live outside of Ivy League student, I plan to enroll scope, life). Some excerpts follow; lyzed and happy,’ and from fear of a man of me. I knew that it was relatively sedentary lifestyle, I can early field goals by the Lions were a director of several public and Washington, D.C. In a household of in a few language classes, starting italics and capitalization are Bob’s. death to acceptance, happen?” an all-male, Ivy-League institu- drive my Porsche in nearly perfect the highlights, and the finish was private biotechnology, specialty vegetarians, I remain the only meat with Italian (always wanted to “Your unconscious mind is Bob then starts discussing par- tion — intellectually rigorous and year-round weather.” yet another defeat. The weather was pharmaceutical and diagnostic eater (if you don’t count the cats). read Dante in the original, though I conditioned to interpret these ticular techniques. This excerpt is challenging. I will always appreci- Whether battling AIDS or great and we had a delightful mini- companies, including Sirna Thera- “I don’t believe that most people have been warned it is the equiva- losses of self-image and of so many from his section on visualization: ate the quality of the education I helping veterans, let us know how reunion of former crew guys, which peutics (acquired by Merck & Co.), want to retire. What they want is a lent of reading Chaucer in Ye Olde pleasures, or even the threat of “I frequently did visualizations of received as well as the intellect of you’ve made the world a better will likely repeat itself next season. Ception Therapeutics (acquired by long vacation.” English), to be followed by French, these losses, as highly aversive. rigorous exercises I used to do. Pick my peers who provided me both place, too. Others were invited but must have German, Latin and ancient Greek. As you consciously dwell on these something you were really into and a foundation for my strengths and had a premonition of the outcome.” Another goal is improving my losses, you reinforce this negative can’t do anymore. Place your visu- an awareness of my limitations.” REUNION WEEKEND Jack Probolus followed up on baking skills and becoming adept conditioning, which signals for you alizations in the present tense! As for life since graduation, Dr. Eric Rose ’71, ’75 P&S has been appointed MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 the note from William: “It was in- in the cuisines of France, Vietnam to react with aversion, and your “Roadbike up a steep hill: the Jeff says, “As an intellectual and ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS teresting in that the cost of parking chairman of CircuLite. and India. mood deteriorates. … key is to make the mental image as social late bloomer, I also credit my ALUMNI AFFAIRS Robin V. Del Giorno exceeded the price of admission “Reading: I am now at the point “There are two qualities of the vivid and detailed as you can. Re- Columbia experience for teaching [email protected] to the contest on the gridiron. Yes, where I can no longer fit additional mind that come into play if we are live the experience. Get all of your me basic social skills (mostly from 212-851-7399 our optimism still blooms despite Cephalon), Transkaryotic Therapies Julio Rivera Jr. reports, “I long books in my condo. I have estimat- to break this downward spiral. senses involved. Recall and feel the my peers) on how to get along DEVELOPMENT Heather Hunte the travails and fluctuations of (acquired by Shire plc), Pharmaco- ago decided that once I had ac- ed that if I were to read two books First, the main determinants of how feelings. See and feel the strength with, and thrive later, in the agora [email protected] the team. We are yet again in the peia (acquired by Ligand) and Cyto- cumulated a certain amount in a week, I could dispose of my we feel emotionally emanate from in your muscles as you power to of life. Learning social skills from 212-851-7957 building mode. Some positive and gen Corporation (acquired by EUSA financial assets, I would stop work- entire holdings by the time I am our subconscious mind. Second, the the top and crest the hill. Then treat adolescent males, however, may encouraging signs and perhaps Pharma). … He received an M.D. ing and begin a life of leisure. So, 100. And all those read books will subconscious is very malleable. We can yourself to the downhill side — 60 have had its pitfalls, as I remained Barry Etra a dynasty is in the making! Let’s from Georgetown University School effective January 3, I ceased being be contributed to my local public retrain (reprogram?) our subconscious mph on a bicycle, BOOYAH! What a committed bachelor with utterly 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE hope.” of Medicine, a J.D. (cum laude) from a productive member of the Ameri- library as I finish them so that oth- if we put our (conscious) mind to the a rush! too brief moments of sybaritism for 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 Frank Motley sent a brief note: Harvard Law School and a B.A. in can labor force and started living ers can enjoy them as well.” task. “What does this do for me? many years. That condition finally 73 [email protected] “Nothing much to report: entering biology from Columbia.” on the proceeds from my portfolio. Alex Sachare writes, “My wife, “But first, let me tell you where I Road biking is no longer a loss. It’s changed a few years ago when I my 35th year as dean of admission Eric Rose ’75 P&S, e.v.p. of life Now I can stay out at night as long Lori, and I spent 18 days in Israel came from. When I was first diag- no longer a cause for bad feelings. married Nancy, also a ‘first-timer.’ I Our 40th approacheth apace. Let at Indiana University’s Maurer sciences at MacAndrews & Forbes as I want without having to wake last fall, touring the country and nosed I was a bundle of negative, Rather, it is a cherished memory, a cannot directly credit this achieve- us not go gentle — make plans to School of Law, enjoyed the holidays Holdings, has been appointed up at 6 a.m. in order to be at my visiting with our daughter, Debo- harmful emotions — anger, fear, memory I enjoy recalling. The vi- ment to my college experience. I attend Alumni Reunion Weekend with most of my 19 grandchildren chairman of CircuLite. According office by 8:30. I can stay in bed rah ’14 Barnard, who spent the worry, despair. I dreaded becoming sualization is also a mood elevator. do thank Columbia, however, for and thus reaffirm our (relative) (!) and enjoying Hoosier basketball to his CircuLite biography, “Dr. all day if I want (which is highly semester at Tel Aviv University. paralyzed. I expected to be dead in This particular visualization also having also taught me the powers youth. For those who have yet to after several very difficult seasons Rose is a recognized leader in unlikely, as I hate being indoors “We had a fabulous time seeing two or three years. I wasn’t ready reinforces my sense of strength (of of discipline and sublimation to mark the calendar, the dates are without ‘the general,’ Bobby academic medicine and surgery when there is so much to see and the sights from Tel Aviv to Jerusa- to die. ... I felt like I was failing my will), power (to make a difference), have waited this long to find the Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June Knight.” and an entrepreneur. His interests do here in NYC) and do whatever I lem, the Galilee to Eilat. We went wife and children. My life was endurance (to go the distance), love of my life. 2. And for those who want more

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES information or need to update their Fred Schneider’s law partner Fred Bremer that Ed Kornreich recently was individual DAs are limited to cases extend his real estate career. A re- reported that he’s maintained his wicked grin. contact information, visit reunion. retired after 22 years together, so 74 532 W. 111th St. named a “2013 Lawyer of the Year arising in their own borough. (If cent Facebook post says he “added ties to Columbia. He looks forward To all mentioned above or not college.columbia.edu. Fred is now a partner and head of New York, NY 10025 for New York” by Best Lawyers, the you listen closely, you may hear a job at Ralph Coti Real Estate to to CCT and news about the Col- mentioned, please take no offense! Mike Byowitz is a member of the matrimonial and family law 74 respected peer review guide, in “ching-ching!”) his timeline.” (Has Ralph Coti lege. During the past 22 years, For many, Schuyler, Opus Dei and [email protected] our stalwart Reunion Commit- department at the firm of Ballon the area of healthcare law. Maybe The career of Steve Simon is ’77L, ’77 Business become the new after a few stops along the way what both provided were and are tee. He is routinely selected as a Stoll, an 80-plus-year-old firm. His I don’t know what you guys were they will make “beautiful music” more along the lines of NCIS. Steve “Donald”?) with the U.S. Army Medical Corps, serious touchstones in their lives. Super Lawyer in New York each wife, Harriet, is the director of the thinking as you watched the amaz- together! (Sorry, again.) Ed is a worked in and around the Middle Ted Gregory was among a small David has been in cardiology No offense intended to anyone, just year in his specialty of antitrust. Office of Attorneys for Children ing “12-12-12 concert” last year, longtime partner at the Midtown East for the State Department until group of alumni inducted into the practice in Lexington, Ky. He says, sharing stories and memories. His daughter, Suzanne ’13, will at the Appellate Division, 2nd but it seemed to me that parts of it law firm Proskauer Rose. 2003, interrupted by a five-year Columbia University Athletics Hall “Every time I ride my bicycle past At the same time as all of the graduate in May — quite a treat to Department, of the New York State were like the soundtrack to our life Before moving on, we need to stint at the Clinton White House of Fame at a black-tie dinner the a tobacco field, I know I have job above was going on, I was seriously commemorate his 40th! Courts. Their older daughter, Lau- story. We grew up on The Who, the note that in an ad in another publi- and three years at the International Thursday before Homecoming. security.” This fall, daughter Darcy involved in the two other Roman Bob Pruznick also is a Reunion ren, is an assistant v.p. at BHI Bank, Rolling Stones and Bruce Springs- cation, The New York Area’s Top Rated Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) This year there were only 18 former ’16 Barnard started college. During Catholic communities at Colum- Committee member; he wrote formerly Bank Hapoalim; their teen (to name but a few), from our Lawyers, said, “We salute Arthur in London. (For those outside the student-athletes so honored. Ted Family Weekend in October, he bia: the Woodstock Jesuits and the a piece for our 30th that wasn’t younger, Stephanie, is a second- days before Columbia to the days Schwartz, rated as an AV Preemi- military-industrial complex, the IISS also was honored at halftime dur- walked the Columbia campus with Catholic Campus Ministry. Fran published then, so here it is: “When year law student at CUNY in Long after. But it was strange to see that nent Attorney by Martindale-Hub- website says it is “a world-leading ing Homecoming. Ted is director his daughter, wife and sons. “It Minarik was, too, and he became we arrived on College Walk in 1969 Island City. Fred is looking forward our idols have aged significantly. bell for 15 years, one of New York’s authority on global security, political of diversity initiatives and talent was my first trip back in years, and my godfather when I converted to full of excitement, ambition and to seeing everyone in May. After all, Bruce is 63, Pete Towns­ leading plaintiff’s employment, risk and military conflict.”) Steve be- retention for the University’s Office all of us loved it — the combina- Catholicism on Pentecost Sunday in muted apprehension, we were not Greg Gall is an architect, living hend is 67, Roger Daltrey is 68 and civil rights, civil liberties and union- came a senior fellow for Middle East of Alumni and Development and tion of old and new, the excitement St. Paul’s Chapel my freshman year. dissimilar to cohorts 40 years before in Tarrytown, N.Y., and practicing Mick is 69. side labor lawyers.” For more than studies at the Council on Foreign has 14 years of experience in the of the coming century. Makes me Funny thing: Before I got mar­- or since — or were we? As the first mostly in the tri-state area. He is on It is amazing how differently 30 years, Arthur has been general Relations. More recently, he was the executive search field. proud to be a graduate of that great ried in St. Paul’s Chapel the sum- class to make an informed choice the CU Fencing Alumni Committee­ a half-century has affected each counsel for numerous labor orga- senior director for the Middle East When UNC’s Kenan-Flagler College.” mer after graduation, Fr. Paul to attend Columbia since the ’68 and coaches fencing at the Hack-­ of these cultural icons. Bruce and nizations and, for the past 15 years and North Africa — basically, all the Business School inaugurated a bust, we were either full-blooded ley School in Tarrytown. Greg is Mick seemed still full of youth- has been an elected Democratic Arab Spring countries — at the Na- combined M.D./M.B.A. program, Aquarians or incredibly tolerant, involved in the community in Tar- ful vigor, while Pete and Keith District Leader or State Committee tional Security Council (the group, through which students get the two Ted Gregory ’74 was inducted into the Columbia open-minded young men. Our rytown as a trustee of the historical seemed to have succumbed to the member for various areas in lower chaired by President Barack Obama degrees across a five-year stint, it University Athletics Hall of Fame and also has a freshman year opened with a society and a member of Little Gar- ravages of the years. Mick was still Manhattan. He is lead lawyer for ’83, that includes all of the adminis- must have been a challenge to find bang, literally — the small bomb dens, where he often jogs. Greg’s strutting and grinding, while Pete’s Advocates for Justice Chartered tration’s top officials). Steve says he professors with experience in both new job at Columbia. planted in Alma Mater — and ended wife, Kim, is global director for in- voice and presence seemed like a Attorneys, a public interest law now is “back to think tanking” at fields.Steve DeCherney, however, precipitously after the massive dustry sales enablement at IBM; his weaker rendition of his glory days. firm that, his website says, “goes the IISS. He will take over both the fit the bill. Having both an M.D. and demonstrations of the April student daughter, Christine ’12 Haverford, Perhaps it is a good lesson for us. toe-to-toe with wrongdoers such as Washington, D.C., and Gulf offices master’s of public health, he had After months of impossible-to- Dinter checked the books and strike led to the shortening of the is at Shelburne Farms in Burlington, As is inscribed above the fireplace corporate polluters, discriminatory of the organization. He adds, “I’ll the medical side covered. His long coordinate schedules, Jim Dolan couldn’t find a record of my being semester. Whether you loved those Vt., pursuing her interest in sustain- in the John Jay lounge, where we employers and unsafe manufactur- miss working the beat I’m on now career running various global drug and I finally met for drinks and confirmed. But since it was well heady days or regretted the chaos ability education and farming. They assembled almost 40 years ago for ers.” but you know, I’m really getting too testing firms gave him the business some fine munchies at Baltimore’s documented, including the center and the diversion from scholarship, have a ‘camp’ on Galway Lake, Class Day, “Hold fast to the spirit When you hear of a high-profile old for it anyway.” (Especially if the experience. And now Steve has new Four Seasons Hotel. After spread in Jesuit Magazine a couple you must admit that we shared just west of Saratoga, N.Y., where of youth. Let the years come, do political scandal, many of us Arab Spring becomes the Arab Fall!) been appointed adjunct professor of catching up on current events, we of months later, with pictures, he incomparably interesting times at they spend time in the summer and what they may.” instinctively start to look for news Similarly spanning the globe healthcare business for the school. (of course) reminisced about our somehow got it all resolved so one of the preeminent hubs of the when they can get away. The latest news shows that the of D.C. attorney Abbe Lowell. is Ken Krug, CFO of The Asia He writes, “It is a little weird, but College days. We hadn’t realized that I could be married “in the counterculture. Coming of age dur- Steve Hornstein lives in Falls Class of ’74 has a firm grasp on the Sure enough, reading the accounts Foundation for the past couple of I must be one of the only M.D.s to our mutual connections — mine all Church.” Terry Mulry was my best ing an era when one questioned not Church, Va., where he says life is “spirit of youth”; many in the class last fall of former CIA director years (previously he was CFO of be a professor in both a med school second-hand but his first-hand — man and Steve Eichel ’76 was one only authority but also reality, the interesting. In 2012 he received a are charging ahead in their career David Petraeus and “unpaid social The Jewish Federation of Greater and a business school.” with Schuyler Hall, the Opus Dei of the ushers. I won’t list the Bar- Class of 1973 certainly had a claim sweatshirt from Eastern Virginia path at an age when members of liaison” Jill Kelley, we were not Los Angeles and, before that, an We got an update from Bryan residence at Columbia. Numerous nard credentials of my former wife to distinction, dubious or not. Medical School for doing well on older generations were booking shocked to find Abbe involved. executive of the RAND Corp.). The Berry in Joliet, Ill., about his chil- classmates were mentioned: Fr. or two of her attendants — all that “If you believed the rhetoric, his independent study; had poetry time to receive a gold watch at their The surprise was that Abbe was Asia Foundation website describes dren. His eldest daughter, Adrienne, C.J. McCloskey, Bruce Grivetti, is another story, and many of you we were stardust, we were golden, published in an international col- retirement party. Here are just some representing Kelley. Turns out itself as “a nonprofit organization gave Bryan his first grandchild. Michael Ansaldi and my former know parts of it. Ask if you want to and we were finding our way back lection; and received another one- of the stories I have been privy to: he took the case as a result of a committed to the development of Bryan’s son, John, is engaged and roommate, Norman Nicholais ’76E, know more. to the garden. We hoped, as Ten gallon blood donation pin and I caught up with Roger Kahn longstanding relationship with the a peaceful, prosperous, just and training as a U.S. Navy pilot. His among others. The Columbia University Band Years After implored, to change the T-shirt. He’s looking forward to a while back and got an update Kelleys. That was not enough to open Asia-Pacific region.” What middle child, Sister Aeiparthenos, One of Jim’s stories was about Alumni Association is looking for world. We pushed idealism to expo- reunion. on him and his family. About two stop the gossip website Gawker clued me in on Ken’s international is a nun who recently celebrated standing in line to score tickets Steven Lawitts! The band is updat- nential proportions — we couldn’t Joel Glucksman originally was years ago he left Burnham Securi- from commenting, “It’s like hiring travels were Facebook postings. her three-year vows and is the as- for the Metropolitan Opera Gala ing mailing lists and looking for be co-opted, wouldn’t sell out and in CC ’72 but left for a year to do ties, a boutique investment bank, David Boies because your friend In October, he said he was in sistant leader of the Novitiate of the Honoring Sir Rudolph Bing with current emails. Steven, when you would never grow to resemble our his Army Reserve active duty and for Northeast Securities (both in got a speeding ticket.” Islamabad (Pakistan) and in De- Servants of the Lord and the Virgin Bruce and Michael, after which Jim read this, please email me, and I’ll fathers. And then you hit 60, and thus graduated in ’73. He lives in Midtown). He continues to focus Another classmate involved cember, he wrote, “I’m at the Asia of Matará in Upper Marlboro, Md. became an opera buff, too. After get your address to them. Steven is the lyrics to the Kinks’ ‘A Well-Re- New Jersey but has been back to on healthcare deals (e.g., he recent- with controversy is Peter Sullivan, Foundation office in Phnom Penh Bryan and his wife, Jill, joined their Bruce moved out of Schuyler, his the first deputy commissioner with spected Man’ start to sound like an campus often, as two of his three ly sold a medical device company a partner in the Midtown law firm (Cambodia) serving as officer in daughter on a five-day pilgrimage mother paid for me to feed him; I the NYC Department of Environ- indictment; one wonders where our sons and his nephew are College for “a bigger medical company in Gibson, Dunn. Peter and his team charge until December 25.” to Italy followed by an 11-day cooked meals for the three of us us- mental Protection and lives in the youth, with its naïve optimism and alumni. At 63 and a grandfather, New Jersey” and is also working have been representing UBS in the Another international and mili- pilgrimage to Israel. Bryan adds, ing my hot plate, electric coffee pot greater NYC area. its wonderful excesses, has gone. he’s “somewhat nostalgic for my on a sale of a company in Israel). worldwide regulatory investiga- tary note came from up the Hudson “The company of a nun wearing a and toaster oven. I wonder how Meghan Schneider, daughter of “Well, I hope that some small own days on campus. It was an ex- His older daughter, Amanda, is tion surrounding UBS’ involve- River. Peter Zegarelli, a dentist in habit opened a lot of doors in the many current Carman or John Jay Bob Schneider and Regina Mul- part of that radical heart still beats citing time to be there, and great to completing the “post-bac, pre-med ment in the setting of London Tarrytown, N.Y., sent in news on Holy Land.” residents have the kind of kitchens lahy ’75 Barnard, has been invited within you, that you haven’t been be in NYC; I just wish that I could program” at Columbia (which I am Interbank Offered Rate interest his two kids. He writes, “James was There you have it. Classmates we all had back in the days when by the Harvard College Undergrad- crushed completely by convention go back and redo the Core.” guessing is a program for young rates. He also is representing UBS an infantry officer with a platoon of doing business together and taking the only meal plan option was 15 uate Research Association to attend and responsibility and you can ’Tis a consummation … devoutly folk with undergraduate degrees to in 25 other civil actions in the Marines and Afghan soldiers in the care of business around the world. meals, M–F, but not of any great the National Collegiate Research still follow your bliss. If so, please to be wished. May we all reune in qualify for medical school), and his United States. Marjah area of Helmand Province. It is clear from these short vignettes quality! (In a separate conversation Conference at Harvard. Meg is a carve out a few days from your May! To whet — a class recep- other daughter, Charlotte, studies I recently found out we have a He soon will be off to Okinawa. that the Class of ’74 has “held fast later that evening, Bob Schnei- senior at Penn. Bob and Regina impossibly hectic schedule to make tion will be held at the Columbia art history at NYU. Those getting real life Law & Order equivalent in He was married last November.” to the spirit of youth”! der reminded me that he lived recently returned from a visit south a pilgrimage back to Morningside University Club of New York on Roger’s Facebook posts know he our class. Joe Ippolito has been a Daughter Clare graduated from in Schuyler his freshman year, to see son John ’07 and his wife, Heights to recapture the magic Thursday, May 30; a High Line always seems to be off to some rock New York ADA for 34 years. What Colgate last year and is at the Taylor 1972–73; Bob graduated in three Stephanie, in Houston. While there, of our shared youth. Consider tour and lunch, led by landscape ’n’ roll venue around town. What is unique about his career is that he Institute for Global Enterprise Randy Nichols years. Michael Ansaldi had told they visited Galveston, Texas; Baton participation in our [40th] reunion architect Steve Cantor, is scheduled is left out is that he frequently sits works at the Office of the Special Management at Franklin College, 734 S. Linwood Ave. Bob about 21 great meals a week!) Rouge and New Orleans; a Loui- activities; you might just rediscover for Friday, May 31; a Class of 1973 in with the bands — he plays the Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of where she is working on a master’s 75 Baltimore, MD 21224 Michael Liccione ’80, an honorary siana plantation, Oak Alley; and yourself in the process as you panel discussion, Affinity Recep- drums. (There is some apropos quip New York. I asked what the “spe- in international management. 75 classmate — he didn’t graduate Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas. [email protected] reconnect with kindred spirits and tions and Wine Tasting will be held here about “marching to the beat of cial” part of the title was about, Returning to these shores (liter- until 1980, after making a million In Baton Rouge, their three favorite enrich the social fabric of your life on Saturday, June 1; and a reunion a different drummer,” but I won’t and he said his office has jurisdic- ally) is Howard Tom ’77 Business. After starting a recent email with sandwiches at Mama Joy’s — was things were the Louisiana Old with fascinating new acquaintanc- brunch is set for Sunday, June 2. reach for it. Sorry, I guess I did.) tion over narcotics felony cases that After a long career in the Navy, “this is the first that you or anyone also mentioned by Jim. While all of State Capitol, the Old Governor’s es. Tempus fugit — memento mori!” That and much, much more is not When Roger said he was doing arise anywhere in New York City’s Howard is using his training from from CC ’75 has heard from me this was going on, Terry Mulry just Mansion (the “Little White House” Well said, Bob! to be missed. healthcare deals, I let him know five boroughs, while the borough’s the Business School and UCLA to since graduation,” David Cassidy watched, listened and gave us his built for Huey Pierce Long when he

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES was governor) and the Capitol Park don’t forget to pay it! If you haven’t state-of-the-art center it is today. have been to campus recently and started college (Pace) and sixth fall in high def from the Met over Columbia and stay in touch with a lot more,” he says. “I was married Museum, especially its exhibits yet donated, please consider doing Finally, to all classmates, please seen all the construction at the new grade (Trevor Day School). Sadly, I four glorious nights. This was a peak few great teachers and a handful of about three years ago, but I still feel on Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, the so now, and be generous. You may send me an update in 2013. You Manhattanville campus near West lost my sister, Solange MacArthur experience.” friends from WKCR. Life is good.” like a newlywed!” all-but-forgotten John Fred and his give by credit card at college.colum can use my email address at the top 125th Street. As for our careers, 67 ’87 P&S. My latest book, L’Illusion Chuck Meltzer is doing well. Conductor-composer Paul Phil- Ed Ferguson closes the column Playboy Band (who recorded “Judy bia.edu/giveonline, by calling the of the column or submit through percent of us plan to be doing the Obama: Chroniques d’un intellectual He writes, “Living in wine country lips is in his 24th year as director for us: “I can’t remember when I in Disguise (With Glasses))” at a Alumni Office at 212-851-7488 or CCT’s easy-to-use webform: college. same thing a year from now, while liberal aux États-Unis, came out in north of San Francisco. Practicing of orchestras and chamber music last wrote, so am not sure whether recording studio in Baton Rouge. by mailing a check, payable to Co- columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ 5 percent think they may be able to France in September and I had the head and neck surgery at Kaiser at Brown. “I conducted a gala there’s much to report. In light of As usual, our class was repre- lumbia College Fund, to Columbia note. retire within the year. incomparable pleasure of doing a Permanente. Feel very fortunate performance of Beethoven’s Ninth at December’s sad events in Con- sented at several Columbia events College Fund, Columbia Alumni Send in some questions you’d promotion tour in Paris.” to have had Columbia as part of Veterans Memorial Auditorium in necticut, all ‘news’ seems mundane this fall. Ira Malin attended the Co- Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, like to have the class answer (note Chuck Spungen is doing his my prep for what has been a very Providence in 2012 with the Brown beyond the grateful realization that lumbia Alumni Leaders Weekend, 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10025. David Gorman my new email address, at the top of part to keep the country strong. good life and career to date. Still University Orchestra and Chorus one’s children are alive and well. I and both Ira and Bob Schneider 111 Regal Dr. the column). Thanks to everyone “For many years I manufactured have fond memories of the March- and will lead the BUO on a concert hope all of our classmates’ families attended the annual Society of 77 DeKalb, IL 60115 who responded. components for hydraulic systems ing Band and the antics. Looking tour of Ireland in 2013. My most re- are doing well, and best wishes to Columbia Graduates meeting and Clyde Moneyhun 77 Also, visit the reunion website, in a factory outside of Chicago. We forward to perhaps catching up at cent compositions are Battle-Pieces, everyone for 2013.” [email protected] dinner, all in October. 76 Boise State University reunion.college.columbia.edu, to were pioneers in bringing manu- the reunion.” a song cycle on poems by Herman My recent books in progress Department of English No news to start off 2013 but I hope stay up to date on reunion events as facturing back to the United States Turning to the creative arts, Melville, which was premiered in have included What is Gnosticism? 76 200 Liberal Arts Building and expect to have some items to re- well as to make a pledge to attend in the 1990s by use of robotics Frederic Lahey is founder and di- 2011 by baritone Andrew Garland Robert Klapper by Karen L. King, Harvard Divin- 1910 University Dr. port next time. Of course, this partly and to update your contact informa- and automation. In 2011 I sold the rector of the Colorado Film School, with the Pioneer Valley Symphony 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 ity School Professor of Divinity. In Boise, ID 83725 depends on you. Email makes it tion, if needed. company to a buyer who is making which, he notes, was recognized (which I also conduct), and Jack and 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 September, she unveiled a newly easy — use the address at the top of Paul Tumbleson writes, “Last good on a promise to keep up in- by The Hollywood Reporter as a the Beanstalk, a collaboration with 79 [email protected] [email protected] discovered Gnostic fragment the column or the webform at col summer I observed my 10th an- vestment and expand the Chicago top-25 global film school in 2011. two-time Grammy winner Bill she titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Larry Lubka reports a season of lege.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. niversary with Chubb Group of In- plant. I am now looking to embark He continues, “We had a delegation Harley, who premiered it in 2012 On January 1, Richard N. Baer was Wife,” which also was featured in changes. His daughter was married I am also, at the insistence of my surance Companies’ house counsel on a second career.” out from the Hunan province this with the Allentown Symphony named s.v.p. and general counsel of Newsweek. I wonder whether Terry in the fall at a winery in Sonoma graduate students, on Facebook. office in Manhattan. Two months Jeffrey E. Baron has tales of fall that is proposing that we create Orchestra.” Liberty Media Corp. Richard was Mulry, Sigmond Wissner-Gross County; the wedding was outside Thinking seriously about a Twitter later, Hurricane Sandy flooded our coincidence to share: “My wife, a Colorado Film School at their Paul’s book, A Clockwork Coun- former e.v.p. and chief legal officer and other religion majors and and in perfect Northern California account, too. I’ll let you know. building in lower Manhattan and Harriet, and I live in Park Slope, university in China. Our program terpoint: The Music and Literature of of UnitedHealth Group, where students have been following this weather. Larry was delighted that knocked out all power and phones. Brooklyn. I am a partner in a small is just 450 undergraduates, but our Anthony Burgess, the first compre- he oversaw the company’s legal, as much as I have. Dan Gottlieb and his wife could As of today [December 27], we are law office, Baron & Shelkin. Scott students make more than 1,000 hensive study of Burgess’ music regulatory and compliance matters. REUNION WEEKEND Paul Valliere Ph.D. ’74 GSAS, a attend. still unable to return due to the Shelkin and his wife, Linda, were films a year, with some excellent and its relationship to his writings, He holds a J.D. from Duke. MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 favorite Columbia professor who Larry also left his law firm of continued lack of telephone (and a year behind me at Brooklyn Law ones in the mix. My wife, Elizabeth, is due out in paperback this year. Joe Ferullo has been promoted to ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS now has been at Butler University 17 years to set up Lubka & White Internet) service, so I have been School, and Linda set Harriet and opened a restaurant, TreeHaus, this Amittai Aviram and his partner, s.v.p. at CBS Television Distribution. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Leigh Ann Preston for many years, wrote to me on in Monrovia, Calif., just outside working remotely via computer me up on a blind date. The rest is past year that received ‘Top of the Octavio, moved from New York He is in charge of programming [email protected] the subject: “I imagine there’s not Pasadena. To his surprise, he’s still from my daughter’s bedroom and history. Town’ designation in Denver and City to Boston last August “so I and development with colleague 212-851-7438 enough material on the papyrus excited about practicing law and look forward to resuming my life “My older daughter recently a number of great reviews, but it could start work in September at Maureen FitzPatrick. The division DEVELOPMENT Matt Marsallo to allow for much of an interpre- is looking for good lawyers: “One as a commuter in 2013.” finished her last class at the Bank didn’t have a great business plan, so MathWorks (makers of MATLAB produces shows, including Judge [email protected] tation, though who knows. The more time into the fray! My hope is Tom Reuter reports, “[I’ve been] Street School and will walk in May we’re closing it. and Simulink) as a senior software Judy, Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight 212-851-7452 study of Gnostic traditions con- to grow the office and then set up a spending a lot of time visiting my or June. She also was Linda and “My son, Xavian, is finishing engineer on a compiler-related and The Rachael Ray Show, which are tinues to flourish.” Paul continues satellite office in Sonoma in about Matthew Nemerson two sons. Tim ’11 is a former Ron Scott’s flower girl, a while ago. My up a B.F.A. at a local university team, thus completing my career syndicated to TV stations around to work on Russian and Eastern five years. Now if the government 35 Huntington St. Paul campaign worker and now is younger daughter took off from while working for an art consult- change from literature professor. the country. The newest, a late-night Church tradition. He brought out can only find some funds to fix 78 New Haven, CT 06511 a fundraiser for the Cato Institute school and has alternated working ing service, creating art collectives I finished my computer science talk show starring Arsenio Hall, a fairly big book, Modern Russian all that broken infrastructure. Not 78 in Washington, D.C. Matthew ’07 is in my office and teaching at our and being a sought-after curator for dissertation just in time and have debuts in September. matthewnemerson@ Theology, in 2000 and earlier this only is my daughter up in the area, gmail.com a second-year resident in orthope- Hebrew school. She’s applying for night spots. My daughter, Aubrielle, heard officially that I have been The news from George Jirotka year Cambridge published the running a race car program at dic surgery at Monmouth Medical transfer now. My office handles has started high school, which she granted my second Ph.D. is that he still is a Circuit Court book he spent the last six years on, Infineon Raceway (now Sonoma As the Reunion Committee con- Center in New Jersey. Watching the immigration and naturalization judge in the 6th Judicial Circuit in Conciliarism: A History of Decision- Raceway), but my son — who tinued the countdown to our 35th hours he puts in helps me under- matters, house closings, wills and west central Florida. “I handle gen- Making in the Church. graduated from Dartmouth — Alumni Reunion Weekend (Thurs- stand why I did not want to be a estates, matrimonial and L&T Joel Frullo ’79 has been promoted to s.v.p. at CBS eral civil trial cases such as contract Dean James J. Valentini is plac- moved to San Francisco to set day, May 30–Sunday, June 2), we doctor. My wife, Grace ’78 Barnard, work. I recently ran into Joe Cirni- disputes, automobile accidents and ing special emphasis on alumni up an office for the management started a new tradition with our teaches computer technology, and gliaro at Villabate Alba bakery in Television Distribution, where, with a colleague, he other liability/damage claims and engagement with the College. consulting firm he works for.” first class column survey, sent out in I continue my work improving Brooklyn, and we’re planning to is in charge of programming and development. mortgage foreclosures — lots of There are myriad opportunities for After more than 11 years work- December. Ten percent of the class the efficiency of large engineering get together. I hope to renew some mortgage foreclosures,” he writes. alumni to engage, including: the ing with Columbia donors and responded, a fine number given organizations.” old friendships.” “Best wishes to all!” Alumni Representative Committee alumni, Dan Baker is taking his that I only have emails for about Bruce Fraser’s family members On the medical front, Raphael loves, and declared that she was “So far, MathWorks is a fantastic Thomas Pontos recently began (interviewing potential students); leave of the Alumni Center to 80 percent of you. [Editor’s note: have been light on their feet. He Kieval is a “rheumatologist practic- going to audition at the film school place to work, and Boston is a working at a new company in Silver externships (allowing a student devote himself full-time to his non- Update your contact information notes, “Since the last time I re- ing for the past 25 years in Brockton, in January. I’m still trying to get wonderful place to live. Our Spring, Md. He writes, “After 32 to shadow you at work); sponsor- profit consulting practice. “I’ve with Columbia at college.columbia. ported, I have again moved firms, Mass. I am married to Nadine Evans more interesting projects off the apartment is across the street from years of software engineering with ing summer internships at your had a great run here at Columbia,” edu/cct/update_contact_info. CCT this time to Sidley Austin. I’ve been ’79 Barnard and we have three kids, ground while getting over-involved the Back Bay train station, on the a B.A. in philosophy, I am still doing firm; coaching alumni on best job writes Dan. “It’s been incredibly can then pass an updated email list there now more than seven years. Jacob (26), Adam (23) and Sarah in the media end of state govern- border between the Back Bay and interesting work and trying to help interview practices; and lots more. fulfilling to be part of our develop- to Matt.] I will be adding questions It is a great firm and I practice (20).” ment. Denver has matured as our South End neighborhoods, and six the world as best I can. So far, it Another of Dean Valentini’s goals ment program, working with leading up to May and hope to be real estate finance. We’re in better Alec Bodkin writes, “I’m study- family has grown, but we still have blocks from Copley Square. Octavio has been commercial, military and is to create a mentorship program generous fellow alumni and dedi- able to put together a class “life shape than my last firm, Dewey ing new mood drugs, seeing patients occasional pangs from missing life is having a great year, too: Spain medical. Printers, disk drives, blood through which every undergrad- cated colleagues. I feel called to survey” for the reunion, which 91 Ballantine. My two children have and consulting for lawyers. I am in downtown Manhattan.” chose him to represent it as curator analyzers, elevators, centrifuges, uate has an alumni mentor to new challenges and this is the right percent of you say you would likely not yet approached college age; starting to organize home con- Pulitzer Prize winner Tim at the prestigious Venice Biennale switchboards, EEG machines, radar connect with throughout his or her time to make the leap.” Dan can fill out. we’ll see if they will follow their certs and searching for money to Weiner says, “I’m a very lucky art exhibition; he is curating the for the Navy, fighter planes for the time at the College. Classmates continue to be reached at dpb21@ Based on the survey I can tell dad into the law. In the meantime construct a website. My avocations and very happy guy. My wife of 19 headliner show of Shirin Neshat at Air Force, autonomous navigational interested in these and other op- columbia.edu and looks forward you that about 20 percent of you they are not following me in their are squash, daily workouts and years, Kate Doyle, was recognized PhotoEspaña as well as the project vehicles for the Army, point-of-sales tions should visit college.columbia. to hearing from classmates and all are planning to be at the reunion extracurricular activities, as both studying philosophy. My middle last year with a major award for her rooms at the first Lima Biennial in devices for school cafeterias, green edu/alumni/getinvolved. If you the other good friends he’s made and another 50 percent are think- are near-professional status in the son, Sam ’12, is home working on a human rights work in Guatemala. Peru. My son, Blake, finished with whole-house battery backup and haven’t already, please consider during his time at Columbia. ing about coming. Either number ballroom dancing world, sweeping scheme to bring classical music back Our daughters are thriving, one a honors at Fordham Law last spring fixing a few washing machines, getting involved. It’s incredibly In sad news, Andrew Thurman would be some sort of record for us, up awards on both coasts!” to the people [through] informal junior at LaGuardia and the other and works at Kirkland & Ellis in dryers and ovens! Thanks, Colum- rewarding to coach the College’s passed away on October 22. He so that is good news. Also, 50 per- John R. (Rick) MacArthur kvels, but high-quality musical events. finishing eighth grade at Cathedral. the Big Apple, living in Long Island bia, for the Marching Band, which progeny! earned a law degree from William cent say they are planning to give “Last year I was proud to join Through Sam’s efforts I have gotten My new book, Enemies: A History City. I am in touch occasionally with made it all happen, and my mentor, And, of course, the Columbia & Mary and became an expert in money to Columbia and only 18 the ranks of my fellow ’78ers, Joe interested in opera after a lifetime of of the FBI, comes out in paperback Alex Demac.” Eliot Solomon ’73.” College Fund year will be drawing medical ethics. Donations in his percent wouldn’t consider it at all. Greenaway and Tony Kushner, dismissing it in favor of ‘pure’ music. soon, made some top 10 lists and Marvin Siegfried has been Having ridden his bicycle across to a close a few months after you name may be made to The Chil- Eight-eight percent of us now have as Class Day speaker and even I saw Janáček’s Janůfa last night and sold well here and abroad. I’ll be teaching high school for more than the United States and through 46 receive this (on Sunday, June 30). If dren’s Center (tccokc.org), which he some sort of positive relationship prouder of my daughters, Sophie was floored, and made it through writing books for the rest of my 25 years in Brooklyn, following five of the 50 states, Jeffrey Light has you have an outstanding pledge, and his father developed into the with the school. Thirty percent of us and Emme, who respectively Wagner’s Ring for the first time this life. I teach the occasional class at years practicing law. “I enjoy this a turned his attention to the rest

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He was planning to be copoulos M.D., Ph.D., on being 82 report that the Core Curriculum is the Upper West Side with my wife, City sensibility of [Pete] Hamill’s loved to converse with my father in and would correct all until they [email protected] in Australia for the holiday season selected to receive a 2013 John Jay in great shape. The College winner Anne Doyle ’95 SIPA; my daughter, The Invisible City: A New York Italian. KLS would insist on sitting correctly pronounced his name, to watch the Rolex Sydney Hobart Award for distinguished profes- Remember when you were young was the Jesse and George Siegel Rachel (a fifth grader at The Chapin Sketchbook and introduces readers to in the front seats of taxis so he could “Sailig.” He maintained a close Yacht Race and will hike, trek, sional achievement. George is and your mother would chas- Professor in the Humanities Cathy School); and our dog, Elliot. I have the denizens of The Golden Grotto, speak with the different drivers relationship with hundreds of his climb and ride in Tasmania this president of Research Laboratories tise you for succumbing to peer Popkin, who is a mainstay of the aged somewhat but remain signifi- a bar one street below street level in about their home countries, often former students, many of whom year, being sure to stay away from and chief scientific officer at -Re pressure? “If Billy jumped off the Literature Humanities faculty and cantly better looking than Messrs. a university neighborhood that just exchanging words in their native are now world-renowned in their those devils! generon Pharmaceuticals. He has bridge would you do it, too?” well known for hosting reunions Shine, Miles and Hernstadt, along might look familiar to Columbia tongue. Professor Selig always fields. When Michael Oren ’77, Robert C. Klapper: This issue’s a distinguished record of scientific The right answer was, of course, with her former Lit Hum students with David Fishman, Larry Sacks alumni. The book reminds us that lamented the fact that young ’78 SIPA, Israel ambassador to the Columbia thought returns to my achievement and is the author of a no. The true answer, however, when they are seniors. Her accep- ’82E and Charles Hess ’83, by all although our lives might seem like people were not better versed in United States, was honored with a freshman year and my mother’s substantial number of publications; was probably yes. David Shine tance speech was inspiring. objective measures.” isolated incidents, we can live with geography. He had an outstanding John Jay Award for distinguished visiting our great university for the he also is a member of the National understands this social dynamic Following Gavin “Iron Fist in Oh, yeah! Trash talk. Excellent! the hope that, when all is said and memory and tremendous intellec- professional achievement, a first time. To paint the scene, I am Academy of Sciences. [Editor’s and managed to persuade several the Velvet Glove” Miles’ advice, Not to be outdone, David Fish- done and we look back, we might tual curiosity. Once, he was mugged ticket and personal invitation was pretending to be an octopus hold- note: See Web Extras at college.co members of the illustrious Class of Phil Teverow writes, “Gavin man, an associate at Robert A.M. just find that the parts have merged while waiting for the subway to get extended to KLS. Tom Glocer ’81, ing five boxes and suitcases. As lumbia.edu/cct for a photo gallery ’82 to join him as he plummeted Miles gently offered the opportu- Stern Architects, reports, “I haven’t to create a satisfying whole.” to one of his classes at Columbia former CEO of Reuters, regularly we enter the elevator my mother of the March 6 event.] off the bridge and into the pages nity to join him and other College strayed too far from campus and Looking forward to reading this and afterward spent several weeks invited KLS for Thanksgiving din- immediately smiles and begins a I received a nice email from Ray of CCT. Huzzah! In recognition of friends in providing an update. No live with my wife, Stephanie, on one! in the hospital. To pass the time, he ner. Mike Schmidtberger ’82, ’85L, a conversation with the only other Stukes in response to last quarter’s his contribution, he is this year’s pressure, really. 110th Street just east of Broadway, Finally, the thoughtful and erudite recreated the great texts in his mind. managing partner at Sidley Austin, adult standing in the mobile cube. report on the Grinder aka Dave winner of either Brooklyn Dodgers “I’m writing from Brooklyn, with daughter Claire in her junior Thomas O’Keeffe reports, “After During my last visit with him, he was an executor of KLS’ estate and She makes it clear that this is the Cromwick ’80E. Ray is a sales box seats or 2012 rink-side Rangers where I’ve been tucked away year at Brandeis. This fall, I have a several years of teaching at Stanford seemed at moments to be confused. regular visitor (along with Ted greatest day of her life and this executive with Meggitt Polymer tickets. almost since graduation. My wife, new book coming out, co-written and living in San Francisco, I have Before I left, however, he demanded Allegaert ’87). Dr. Paul Maddon innocent bystander will be the Solutions and lives in Atlanta with David reports, “I am a partner Josephine, and I have three kids. with Robert A.M. Stern ’60 and moved back to the East Coast to be- to know whether Barack Obama or ’81, ’88 P&S, ’88 GSAS, a University recipient of this emotional barrage. his family. We look forward to at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Rosie is a junior at Oberlin, Henry Jacob Tilove, Paradise Planned: The come chair of the West Hemisphere Mitt Romney carried Wisconsin. trustee, spoke movingly about KLS She then remembers that common seeing him at a baseball game this Jacobson in New York and am co- is a first-year student at St Andrews Garden Suburb and the Modern City.” Area Studies program at the U.S. De- Perhaps the most famous classes during his John Jay Award accep- courtesy dictates that she introduce season. head of the firm’s M&A practice. in Scotland and Ruben is still This is so cool! Jody, whose partment of State’s Foreign Service he taught were Modern European tance speech in 2009. Professor Selig herself. Pleasantries are exchanged Jim Gerkis has been named to My wife, Karen, high school junior trapped in the NYC public school undergraduate degree is in urban Institute in Washington, D.C.” and American Literature-Philoso- encouraged Paul to write his term as she states, “Hi, my name is Lil- the board of governors of the son, Matthew, and I live in Ar- system as a high school sophomore. studies and master’s is in public Well, I must say that I’m quite phy II (“Super Lit-Hum”), Artistic paper on his favorite Wagner com- lian Klapper,” whereupon a very Columbia University Club of New monk, Westchester. My daughter, Professionally, I’ve never shaken the administration, will be lining up gratified by all these contributions. Theory and the Renaissance, No- position, even though its relevance sweet and soft-spoken Asian man York. In addition to his work with Rachel, will graduate this spring merchant impulse that sustained outside Barnes & Noble the night Keep ’em coming! vella-Boccaccio to Cervantes, and to the course was tangential at best. sticks out his hand and says, “I’m the Columbia College Fund’s Fund from Northwestern, and Karen and me through college at Furnald Gro- before the release date. Don Quixote, pronounced with an I was honored to have KLS join my Dr. Lee.” My mother responds, Development Council and partner- I are looking forward to moving cery. I help clients turn food ideas The final esteemed member of “x.” His philological proof for this family to celebrate major holidays REUNION WEEKEND “Oh, what kind of doctor are you?” ship at Proskauer Rose, Jim has back to the city as soon as Matthew into food businesses and help them the Shine bridge-jumping team, was the pronunciation of the word and he spoke at the last several ’83 MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 He explains he is chairman of the been a driving force for fundrais- heads off to college. Haven’t been run those businesses. Strangely Larry Sacks, writes, “I have been “quixotic.” KLS is regarded as one reunion dinners. Dozens of former ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS astrophysics department at either ing for our class. to a Grateful Dead concert in many enough, it’s kept me busy as a solo living in London for more than five of the foremost experts in the world students attended his 86th birthday ALUMNI AFFAIRS Leigh Ann Preston MIT or Caltech (I can’t remember Congratulations to Shawn Fitz- years, but did see Neil Young on practitioner consultant for the last years now with my wife, Kay, and on Don Quixote. He loved to tell celebration on August 14. [email protected] which). To my chagrin (story of my Gerald and David Malooff on his recent tour — spectacular.” 16 years, and I love doing it.” son, Benjamin, who is in year five students that every major novel de- The last year of his life, Professor 212-851-7438 life), my mother rolls her eyes. The their sons’ admittances to the Col- To paraphrase Jacques Cousteau, Alas, the Furnald Grocery is no (fourth grade to you Colonials). pends on Cervantes’ paradigmatic Selig shared with me that he was DEVELOPMENT Matt Marsallo elevator door closes and I am once lege. Nothing better than seeing “Who knows why the humans more but its soul lives on. I recently was granted indefinite and primogenitor text, a variegated hallucinating and dreaming about [email protected] again trapped in first-generation your child attend alma mater and do what they do?” (Substitute Also leaping off the “bridge” this leave to remain by the home office tapestry that works backward and a river. His former students know 212-851-7452 immigrant hell here in America. follow the legacy tradition. “salmon” for “humans,” pronounce quarter was another of our accom- so will likely be staying here for forward. KLS spoke with a unique the symbolism of the river in Huck As the elevator begins to rise, this Hope to see you around campus with a French accent and you’ll plished esquires, Edward Hern- some time (though after earlier, Roy Pomerantz vocabulary that often is imitated by Finn. It represents adventure and most brilliant, learned man states, or up at Robert K. Kraft Field. Drop remember what I’m referring to.) stadt. He reports, “I live in Brooklyn similar stints in Hong Kong and 83 Babyking/Petking former students. With a stentorian the unknown. He requested that “I know … my mother doesn’t me a note at [email protected]. My wife, Jody ’84 Barnard, ’85 SIPA, with my documentary filmmaker Sydney, who knows?). I am a 182-20 Liberty Ave. voice replete with inflection and his body be cremated and his ashes think I’m a real doctor either!” and I will be swimming back to wife, Maia Wechsler ’83 Barnard, director in risk management with 83 Jamaica, NY 11412 passion, he remarked, “Don Quixote dispersed in the Hudson River by With all due apologies to those Manhattan as soon as our last one and my daughter, who is a junior in Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Int’l.” [email protected] has a certain universality, richness the Columbia crew boathouse. A of you reading this column, who Kevin Fay heads off to college as well. high school. I suspect that my son, A quick sidebar with Larry: and density which creates a literary service will be held for him at the labored endlessly on your theses 8300 Private Lane David, hope to see you there who is a sophomore at Colorado What’s your favorite copula, It is with great sadness that I report virtuosity.” In fact, Professor Selig boathouse. and are proud recipients of a Ph.D., 81 Annandale, VA 22003 and thanks for getting the ball College, spends too much time Gaussian, Archimedean or T? the passing of my friend, mentor and Don Quixote had a lot in com- Jack Abuhoff: “I’ve decided to I want you to know, I have all the 81 rolling! celebrating the recent referendum Jeffrey Lautman and his wife, and extended family member, mon. Both were art-minded philolo- re-read Quixote (with careful atten- kfay@northridge respect for what you’ve done. capital.com Following David’s lead, Gavin victory in his new home state and Teri ’81 Barnard, proudly announce Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig, on De- gists. They had no trouble creating tion to the text) in a personal tribute But when your days on this earth Miles writes, “I am an executive skiing. I am a partner in Hernstadt the engagements of both their chil- cember 1, 2012. I met Professor Selig a world of art though the manipula- to the Great Professor.” are over, and if you should meet I keep checking the mail (OK, ADA at the Kings County District Atlas and focus on employment dren, Adira and Yaniv: “Adira will (KLS) when I was a high school tion of words. Don Quixote was part Frank Antonelli: “I do not think my mother in heaven, when she email) for updates from the Class Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, and intellectual property litigation. be wed to Simeon Botwinick from senior. I was invited to a reception of the picaresque tradition, a literary there is a kid who went to Colum- introduces herself, please, just first of 1981 and, as of the CCT dead- where I specialize in fraud investi- Like most Columbia grads, I spend Riverdale (Yeshiva University) on for prospective freshmen at Dr. genre that fascinated KLS. bia in our generation who does not names. line, had nothing to report. This gations and prosecutions. My wife, most of my time trying to look June 16, and Yaniv will be wed to Frederick Lane ’28, ’32 P&S’s home The American epic and literary include Professor Selig on his list of God bless you, Mom, and to all rejection is making me feel empty, Sarah Berger, and I live in Brooklyn as good as Evan Hollander and Talya Margulies (Stern College for overlooking Long Island Sound. tour de force Huckleberry Finn also favorite professors.” of the mothers from the Class of even depressed … similar to how with our son, Benjamin, who is wondering if in my next life I can be Women) on July 18.” Professor Selig was the featured was a Selig favorite. He brilliantly 1979. Roar, lion, roar! I felt on November 6. (Q: For the a senior at The Beacon School in John Rexer, who lives in Guatemala Jeffrey is the chief of nephrology speaker and he spoke passionately examined the topos of trickery in bankers out there, can I put a “stop Manhattan. I have fond memories and is busy managing a booze em- and chief of staff at Hillcrest Hos- about Columbia’s Core Curriculum, relation to the protagonist, Huck What’s Your Story? payment” on the last check I wrote of my years at Columbia and the pire around his ridiculously good pital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. outstanding faculty and talented Finn. As I was an Ivy League Letting classmates know Michael C. Brown supporting Mitt Romney after the friends I made there. I remain a Ilegal Mezcal.” Teri is the business manager for students. Significantly, during my student who performed juggling 80 London Terrace Towers fact?) strong believer in the Core Cur- Edward, thanks for checking in. Cleveland Kidney & Hypertension last visit with KLS two weeks before tricks for money while people what’s going on in your 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F We have had a good run of class- riculum, although I haven’t yet had John, in case you’re reading this, Consultants. After two weddings he died, I read to him the faculty waited on Manhattan movie lines, life is easier than ever. 80 New York, NY 10011 mates reporting in, so I’m going to occasion to reference the ‘Myth of I enjoy small batch, hand-crafted, in the space of about a month, he names and course listings from the Professor Selig used to call me Send in your Class Notes! [email protected] consider this column to be halftime. Er’ professionally (but I’m pretty artisanal mezcal. Just saying. If says, they will no doubt take some most recent CC course catalog. We Columbia’s own picaroon. ONLINE by clicking I hope everyone enjoyed the sure it’s applicable).” you care to write in, that would be kind of vacation! also spoke about his many former Professor Selig was a great teach- college.columbia.edu/cct/ “Courage is rightly esteemed the holidays and had a safe and happy Given Gavin’s legal focus, and awesome, too. The talented Lou Orfanella has students who had visited him this er to a generation of College stu- submit_class_note. first of human qualities because it New Year’s celebration. Don’t my lengthy career in the asset man- Also succumbing to peer pres- announced the upcoming release fall. His love for Columbia and, dents. Befittingly, he was honored guarantees all others.” forget to send me an update in agement industry, I’m surprised sure, the (by all accounts) hand- of his latest novel, Manhattan most notably, his former students with the Mark Van Doren Award EMAIL to the address at That’s a quote from Winston 2013! Use my email address at that our paths haven’t crossed. some Evan Hollander writes, “I Equinox. From the press release: “It was unwavering. for great teaching. Every former the top of your column. Churchill in Great Contemporaries, the top of the column, or submit (Anyone from the SEC who hap- am a partner in the New York takes the intertwined storylines of Professor Selig was first and fore- student of his now confronts a text MAIL to the address at the also cited by Paul Reid in the through CCT’s easy-to-use web- pens to be perusing this column: office of Arnold & Porter, having [Armistead] Maupin’s Tales of the most a scholar. Dennis Klainberg with greater acuity and intellectual preamble to The Last Lion. Reid ob- form: college.columbia.edu/cct/ I’m kidding.) recently made the move after 18 City, the multiple narrative voices ’84, a fellow CCT class correspon- rigor. Incredibly, he gave a thesau- top of your column. serves, “He believed in virtue and submit_class_note. I attended last year’s Great years at White & Case (the last 12 of [Bret Easton] Ellis’ The Rules of dent, used to bring KLS the results rus to his medical aides and worked

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Jim Weinstein ’84: “Karl-Ludwig and the Blowfish Monday After Selig was a unique man. He was the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am. not just a scholar but also a teacher Frank’s company also represents Jon Ross ’83 Proves a Little Help Can Go A Long Way and an adviser. In the days before international golf clients including coeducation, the Dean of Students Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey and B y J u s t i n D e F r e i ta s Office on the 200 level of Hamilton the Golf Channel’s Charlie Rymer. was smaller, and it was adjacent to He earned a master’s in sports ad- his office. The line to see the profes- ministration from Ohio and worked t 51, Jon Ross ’83 steps in two to three years later py — 10 years here, 15 there,” told that you’re going to rule sor was often longer than the line to for years with Jack Nicklaus. Frank has found a way to as the NGOs depart for the next Ross says. “It made me realize the world,” Ross says. “I wish see the dean or any of his assistants! lives in a beachfront community in channel his bound- international crisis but without that you didn’t have to be locked someone had told me it’s really He took a tremendous interest in Charleston with his wife, Debbie less energy for the fully resolving the situation left into any one thing forever. That helpful to start at the bottom his students and, in his retirement, (a former NC State basketball star), Agreater good. After successful behind,” says D. Leslie Winter, really had an impact on me.” and learn everything.” always would talk about which ones who announces college and WNBA careers on Wall Street and in a longtime friend of Ross and a Upon graduation, Ross ac- From there, Ross forged a 15- became doctors, professors, lawyers games for ESPN, CBS and FOX Hollywood, he founded Micro- member of MicroAid’s board of cepted a position at the Wall year career as a freelance pro- and other professionals. He had an Sports Net. He has three children, amazing memory for names, places, Joey (17), who competes in AAU Aid International, a nonprofit directors. Street brokerage firm Paine ducer of television commercials. dates, articles and scholarly research. basketball; Frankie (15), who for which he travels the globe Ross’ eclectic journey began Webber, then headed west after Though he was no television fan, “His story from his years before competes in the Special Olympics; building homes, replacing tools at the College, where he studied a few years and landed a job nor had he any love for advertis- Columbia is even deeper than his and Patrick (11). Frank has set up a of livelihood and restoring self- an array of subjects en route to as a creative executive at 20th ing, the money and the freedom academic career: as a boy and a charity on Frankie’s behalf, Frankie sufficiency for disaster victims a degree in urban studies. He Century Fox. Dissatisfied with to set his own hours enabled teenager, he was raised in a middle and Friends, to raise awareness in far-flung locales. credits his curiosity and appreci- endless dealmaking that result- him to pursue interests such as Two villagers paddle new MicroAid canoes across Lefaga Bay. class family in Germany, but with about special needs children. Anti- The mission is simple: to keep ation for different cultures to his ed in few completed projects, world travel and volunteerism. PHOTO: JON ROSS ’83 the rise of Hitler, his family wisely bullying is another of the charity’s the focus on the victims long study of anthropology. “It com- he left in 1989 for New World The latter included his work with decided to leave. He and his fam- themes. Frankie is scheduled to after the world’s attention has bined so many elements of my Pictures, the small, prolific the Southern California chapter organizations and international programs operating at the ily were some of the last Jews to speak at St. John’s University on escape, [traveling] to the United April 22 to promote the charity. He moved on. “No other organiza- diverse interests and education: studio established by maverick of the Achilles Track Club (now NGOs. Once funding is in place, same time, and to raise at least Kingdom and then on one of the regularly speaks in front of thou- tion takes this long-term, hands- architecture, human interaction, director Roger Corman. With no Achilles International), an organi- Ross returns to the site, buying $250,000 annually. And, I hope, last boats from there to the United sands of people. Patrick is involved on approach to helping people,” art, science, religion,” Ross says. hands-on filmmaking experi- zation for people with disabilities local materials and hiring locally to inspire people to help those States. His family settled in Erie, Pa., with travel soccer and basketball. Ross says. “I bring a lot of that to the work I ence, the one-time major studio that he’d established in 1987. to complete the project at mini- in need,” Ross says. and he excelled in high school and Frank keeps in touch with Kurt Once the initial rush of aid do now, and it has informed my exec began his new career with Ross ran the club for 20 years, mal expense. Every dollar donated to Micro- got an undergraduate degree from Lundgren (former CC baseball and press coverage has faded, life along the way.” that age-old initiation assign- guiding blind runners in races Most recently Ross helped the Aid goes to programs; the over- Ohio State. [Professor Selig] had pitcher and New York Mets pros- MicroAid (microaidinternational. One of the most enduring ment: a coffee run. He spent and marathons, training other roughly 260 people of Matafa’a, head is funded by the board and tremendous energy and worked pect), a lawyer living in Nanuet, org) looks for small projects lessons of Ross’ academic career the next year learning every job guides and handling fundraising, a remote village on Lefaga Bay by Ross, who doesn’t take a sal- 80-hour weeks, or so it seemed. He N.Y., and with John McGivney, who with the potential for big impact came outside the classroom, at in the studio, including electrical administration, press and out- on the southern coast of Samoa, ary. He funds his own part with also had great empathy for student- works for the IRS on Long Island. athletes, perhaps because he was Other CC friends include Frank Lo- in hard-hit towns and villages. a cocktail party meet-and-greet work, camera work, set building reach. He also volunteered for to replace canoes destroyed in savings from his careers and on the swim team at Ohio State faso ’83E, Beemie Bajraktari ’92, Bob The nonprofit has constructed with alumni. “An older alum, and design. It proved to be a three years with Habitat for Hu- the 2009 tsunami. The loss had from the proceeds of a small and understood the academic and Flock, Glenn Meyers ’84 and Mike homes in Sri Lanka and built maybe 70 years old, spoke about life-altering experience. manity, earning certification as a been crippling, as canoes are business he founded in 2003: athletic burdens of student-athletes. Dichiaro ’84, all of whom regularly canoes and replaced fishing kits his varied career, which included “Growing up in New York construction crew leader while necessary for families to cross Soothe Your Soles (soothe I also recall that he did graduate attend Glenn’s annual charity golf for villages in Samoa. “MicroAid stints in business and philanthro- and going to Columbia, you’re building houses for low-income the bay to attend school, to shop yoursoles.net), cleansing towels work at Texas and could reminisce tournament in New City. families in the Los Angeles area. and to catch the bus for the for feet that Ross created and about what Texas was like in the Gary McCready writes, “Our In 2009, Ross gave up his 90-minute commute to jobs in markets to yoga studios, spas 1960s as well as being on trains 1983 Facebook reunion page can be television career and combined the capital of Apia. In ordinary and resort hotels. “It pays for my from St. Louis to Austin, including found at facebook.com/Columbia his various skills and interests times, villagers would need to nonprofit habit,” he says. every stop in between.” 1983. It is very basic, so please [Editor’s note: See obituary in forward recommendations to me to by founding MicroAid. The build only a single canoe every “Jon is an enthusiastic, Around the Quads.] spice it up (or to correct typos). Ad- idea stemmed from his travel few years and, because of the thoughtful person with a me- Andy Gershon and his wife, ditional admins are welcome; just experiences as well as from rarity of the occasion, the skills thodical approach to problem- Gail, hosted a well-attended ’83 email me. Please ‘like’ it and pass it a 2008 project for which he were not necessarily passed solving,” Winter says. “He has reception at their home on Decem- on to all you know in ’83 in the Col- was commissioned by a Wall down to the next generation. But never sought personal financial ber 1. Their son, Alex, is a talented lege, Barnard and Engineering.” Street firm to help distribute after Ross arrived and secured gain; he seeks to assist others. left-handed pitcher who spent While we’re on the subject of relief funds in Sri Lanka, which the materials, he and the villagers He has foregone lucrative op- much of the evening showing reunion, make a note that the dates was still suffering in the wake set up a makeshift factory, build- portunities to do the work that my son, David, different baseball are Thursday, May 30–Sunday,­ of the 2004 tsunami. When the ing 16 canoes in six weeks. The gives him greater satisfaction.” pitching grips. Andy runs the Safe June 2. Look for information at Haven JV league for which Alex reunion.college.columbia.edu. And project’s funders backed out, elders also used the opportunity MicroAid’s name derives is a tournament-winning pitcher. to be sure that you receive all the Ross made sure his time and to teach the craft to the younger not only from the size of the Alex’s sister, Sophie, plays basket- updates from the Alumni Office, research would not go to waste, generation, several of whom projects it focuses on but also ball and her team is ranked 10th update your contact information going solo and raising money to used their newfound knowledge from the fact that it takes rela- in the country. I spoke with Kevin at reunion.college.columbia.edu/ build houses on the island. Thus to get jobs building canoes in tively little money to complete Chapman and his son, Ross; Eric alumniupdate. MicroAid was born. other villages. them. For example, Ross says, Wertzer; David Einhorn ’86L; Eric I attended the 2012 Alexander Though Ross has since added MicroAid, which is based in it only costs about $7,000 to Epstein; Ed Joyce; Steven Green- Hamilton Award Dinner, honor- a board of directors, MicroAid Ross’ adopted hometown of build a house in Sri Lanka. field; and David Hershey-Webb ing Jonathan D. Schiller ’69, ’73L, remains largely a one-man opera- Venice Beach, Calif., currently “A small amount of money at the event. David regularly per- managing partner of Boies, Schiller forms his guitar songs at the Living & Flexner, in November. David tion. After conferring with village raises $30,000–$50,000 per proj- and a small amount of help Room in Manhattan. Many of us Boies was seated at the table next to elders and religious leaders, as ect. The next venture, scheduled can do a lot of good,” he says. attended the Columbia-Bucknell me. I now know how my son feels well as local nonprofits and the for this spring, is in Peru, with “Just because I can’t build a basketball game after the event. when he spots David Wright at a departing NGOs, Ross — along projects planned for Burma, hundred houses doesn’t mean I really enjoyed hearing from NYC restaurant. with his board — starts raising Haiti and Nicaragua. I shouldn’t build one.” CC baseball great Frank Antonelli. Jon Ross, founder of MicroAid funds. Then, acting as project “The five-year plan is to train Frank is president of Empire Sports International (see Alumni Profile in Jon Ross ’83 and a felled tree, soon to become one of 16 canoes. manager, he makes a first visit to three other project managers Justin DeFreitas is a Bay Area Management. He has been involved this issue) writes, “With so much PHOTO: TUILAGI ASA the area to coordinate with local so that we can have multiple writer and graphic artist. with directing major golf events tragedy in the news [as 2012 came including the Ryder Cup, Memorial to a close], you may not have seen Tournament, U.S. Open, and Hootie that a category 3 cyclone (sustained

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES hurricane winds of 120 mph and Despite having suffered a stroke the richer for our time as his stu- that make me jealous. Our young- a patented device, developed at the extreme destruction) devastated and being confined to his bed due dents and friends. Gaul and parties est, Lucas, was accepted early University of Connecticut, for the Samoa, including our little canoe to various illnesses these past few at Saint A’s. He was a fixture at decision to the Class of 2017. He’s conversion of waste cooking oil to village of Matafa’a. years, he was resolved to fight as Columbia.” very excited (as are we!). My wife, biodiesel fuel. My trip to Italy in late “I finally was able to contact only a devotee of Don Quixote could: Louis Tsiros: “I was acquainted Nicole ’88 Barnard, is pursuing fall was productive with respect to them. Nobody was hurt and the by staying optimistic, fighting to with Professor Selig during the a college counseling certificate teaching law and to the commer- canoes survived, but most of the live another day and keeping in last year or two of my studentship through the UCLA Extension cialization of the biodiesel reactor. houses and gardens were destroyed close touch with all his friends, col- at the College, albeit fleetingly. I program. Last but not least, I am I would love to hear from former and the villagers lost most of their leagues and, especially, his beloved remember him well, though, and I at Crédit Agricole by day and the residents of 7 Jay whom I knew possessions and clothing. Ten students. do so with a smile. May he rest in board chair of the French-Ameri- during our freshman year.” families are living in the church. Having been one of many to peace.” can School of New York by night. Major league congratulations go The entire island will be without share time with the professor these Adam Belanoff: “I’ll remember We are working hard to obtain out to Tom Cornacchia, who was electricity for months. [As of this last few years — including at his Professor Selig fondly although, approval to transform a defunct, presented a 2013 John Jay Award writing] I will be going to help in birthday in August, where 10 of us despite many positive interactions 130-acre golf course in White for distinguished professional mid-January — bringing a gen- from various ’70s and ’80s classes with him through the years, I never Plains into the new home for the achievement on March 6. Tom is erator, water purification system, were on hand to honor him at his was able to take his Don Quixote FASNY campus as well as for an a managing director and head of building tools and donated cloth- nursing home — I will miss the course. I am aware of how much I 84-acre nature conservancy — an sales for fixed income, currencies ing. Already, a wonderful company, Great Professor. But I am heartened missed.” exciting and unique project we’ve and commodities in the Americas LifeSaver USA, has donated one to have made many new friends Michael Ackerman: “I met Karl- dubbed ‘Greens to Green.’” at Goldman Sachs and a member of its revolutionary water filtration who believe, as I do, that he was Ludwig Selig in an elevator in Ham- Congratulations to Mischa and of the Columbia College Board of systems. … If anyone can spare a a true original and a tour de force ilton Hall when I was a freshman. all other ’85ers who now get to add Visitors. [Editor’s note: See Web financial donation, I will make sure in his own right. We are blessed to Though we’d never met and I had the “P” (for Parent) designation to Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct it goes toward helping the village in have known him. never seen him, I recognized him their Columbia credentials. for a photo gallery of the event.] Michael Skrebutenas ’86, COO of New York State Homes and Community Renewal, was honored in the most efficient and appropriate For those who would like to share immediately from the descriptions Regarding another class mem- Finally, congratulations to many October as the Tim O’Hanlon Unsung Hero of the Year by the Supportive Housing Network of New York. manner. Thank you.” memories, there is a “Fans of Karl- I’d heard from others. We wound ber with a “P,” David Zapolsky’s of our classmates celebrating their Alumni at the ceremony included, left to right: Christopher Browne ’88; Ira Gilbert ’84; Richard Froehlich Dr. Larry Herman’s twins, Jona- Ludwig Selig” group on Facebook. up chatting for a few minutes and son, Ian ’15, will major in computer (first) half-century this year. Some ’85, ’88L; Christopher Betts ’84; Skrebutenas; Ralph Fasano ’85 TC, ’86 TC; and Ted Houghton ’87. than ’16E and Daniella ’16 Barnard, The professor was thrilled to forever after the Great Professor science (my son, Isaac ’14, made of you already have hit this mile- began at Columbia this past fall. His know of the group and, because of remembered my name, where I’d the same choice and has been knee- stone. Happy birthday to all! oldest, Amanda, is at Maryland. his failing eyesight, I read his “fan lived at the time and whom I knew deep in problem sets). Ian also may the jury is still out on that one — for the African continent (developing each unique individual human cre- Don Steinberg reports, “I’ve mail” to him over the years (and who knew him. Through him I minor in jazz music; in his high but unquestionably it keeps Amber partner nation capabilities for secu- ates meaning in his or her world. become a staff writer at The Wall was honored to do so). Perhaps discovered Gogol’s ‘The Nose’ (one school days, he made several cross- Everett Weinberger and I moving! I sure hope in some rity and humanitarian assistance/ Rooted in existential philosophy Street Journal, covering a range of some of these memories can be of my favorite short stories) and he country journeys to New York to 86 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B lab at CU there are some smart folks disaster relief). Additionally, CJTF- — part of that 20th-century stuff entertainment — movies, music, shared as well at a celebration of told me countless other great tales. A play in jazz festivals/competitions. New York, NY 10023 discovering how to tap the insane HOA goes after the bad guys in that we never seemed to cover in CC comedy, books and so on — in the his life, to be scheduled. unique man and a great part of the Congratulations to John Phelan’s 86 energy that three little girls can area, so I’m eager to join the mission. — we try to help our clients see [email protected] paper’s new ‘Arena’ section on Fri- As he would surely want us to Columbia community.” daughter, Unity, who has been produce. It is enormous. That’s about the size of things from their choices and possibilities, often days. It’s a step up from publishing shout in his honor, “Love live the Dr. P. Langham Gleason: “I accepted as an apprentice for the Careful readers of the Winter “Of course, all have Columbia here. Best to all college mates wher- where they previously thought the Art Garfunkel Lived Here newslet- text!” never had a class with Professor New York City Ballet. 2012–13 issue of CCT would have gear in their closets and I believe ever they may be.” they had few to none. And this link ter in Carman Hall. I also have a new Above all, it must be noted that Selig, yet he always treated me and Tony Pagan left his position at read the Alumni in the News sec- Melody shows signs of being a star Share your news with the class both to philosophy and to how one book, The Kickstarter Handbook: Real- Roy Pomerantz ’83 was as great a my brother, Douglas ’83, like celeb- the Mailman School of Public Health tion and seen a smiling photo of soccer player for the Class of ’31. by getting in touch with me using creates meaning in everyday life is Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors friend and spiritual son as the pro- rities when he ran into us walking and has accepted a position at the U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Yes, that is 2031. Read that year my direct email, at the top of the easy to see once we start looking. and Entrepreneurs, which explains fessor could have had. Roy invited across the campus. He was a gifted Morris Heights Health Center, a Scott F. Smith in uniform with a again. I believe I will be 106 with a column, or via CCT’s easy-to-use I edit a daily website, The New how to take advantage of the online him to many a family occasion (or people-person and a legendary federally qualified health center chest full of medals. That’s right, kid in college! At least there will be webform: college.columbia.edu/ Existentialists (newexistentialists. crowd funding phenomenon.” brought the party to him!), visited part of Columbiana. The likes of in the Central Bronx, as its senior brigadier general! Uh-huh! The air cars and affordable space travel cct/submit_class_note. com), where we publish the work The Washington Post announced often with his children and gave him shall not quickly pass our way director of planning and develop- Class of ’86 now has a general in by then. of existential psychologists from all that Marcus Brauchli is stepping the professor much solace and again. Thanks for reminding us to ment. Tony and his team of plan- its ranks. Scott was promoted in a “We’ve lived in Miami for the over the world relating the practice down as executive editor but he is support. He was called first when- take a moment to remember this ners and fundraisers are responsible ceremony on September 21 at U.S. last two years while I worked at Sarah A. Kass of existential psychology to such staying on as v.p. ever the professor was in need or beautiful man.” for fund development, strategic Southern Command headquarters U.S. Southern Command as the PO Box 300808 topics as baseball, yoga and coffee. My baby products company, Re- simply had a question. And if Roy [Editor’s note: See obituary in partnerships and implementing the in Doral, Fla. SOUTHCOM is executive officer for the four-star 87 Brooklyn, NY 11230 I could go on about this for gent Baby Products, signed a license was unavailable, yours truly got Around the Quads.] organization’s strategic plan. responsible for all partner-nation general in command, Gen. Doug 87 hours, but I’d rather let Alissa [email protected] recently with Nickelodeon for the the call: “Where is Roy?” — the Eric Lanzieri wrote, “After years building and U.S. military activity Fraser, USAF. It’s been a fascinat- Burstein share this story with you. right to use the Dora the Explorer, answer usually was “in China” of working in law and related in Central and South America and ing year, including extensive travel To start this short but in many Alissa, who is earning a Ph.D. in SpongeBob SquarePants and Blue’s — “I need him!” Blessings to the Jon White industries, I have been the director the Caribbean. throughout Latin America and ways poignant column, I take you education at Bar-Ilan University in Clues characters on our items. My Pomerantz family for their acts of 16 South Ct. of the paralegal program at Lincoln From General Smith himself, we the Caribbean, which offered a to our roving reporter in Oklaho- Ramat Gan, Israel, has been facing pet company, Petking, recently kindness and love. 85 Port Washington, NY College of New England since hear the following about the cer- phenomenal education on working ma City, Cathy Webster Ph.D. the realities of daily existence, with signed a license with America’s Ted Allegaert ’87 and Mike 85 11050 2010. I love teaching. This past emony: “I was blown away by the with heads of state, NGOs, private She writes, “While we have been tensions as they have been in the Vetdogs. A percentage of the pro- Schmidtberger­ ’82, ’85L were [email protected] November I gave a presentation energy, dedication and generosity and public endeavors, and foreign living our own little lives, our fear- Middle East. She told me of this ceeds is donated to this outstanding most instrumental in ensuring the at the law school of the Univer- of my Columbia colleagues, Phi militaries along with close interac- less class correspondent, the one experience while studying: charity, which trains dogs to help professor’s business and personal Joseph Novak is posted with the sity of Salerno in Italy. This was a Gamma Delta brothers and dear tion with the State Department and and only Sarah Kass, has earned “I was sitting in the music library disabled veterans. affairs were kept in order. On all U.S. State Department in Montréal. special experience for me, as my friends from as far back as grade the intelligence community. her Ph.D.! Sarah’s degree in clinical at Bar-Ilan University when an air Though belated, my best goes matters legal and financial, these He writes, “I serve as the deputy paternal grandparents emigrated school ... simply incredible. Aside “Some other Columbians have psychology has been awarded by raid siren was heard in the center out to the Class of ’83 for a happy men showed the greatest degree chief of mission and alternate U.S. to Connecticut from the city of from ’86ers, there was representa- trod the SOUTHCOM area of Saybrook University in San Fran- of the country during the recent Op- and healthy 2013. May your dreams of passion, attention, affection and representative to the International Scafati, only 15 miles from the tion from Classes of ’84, ’85 and responsibility during the last couple cisco. She also did coursework in eration Pillar of Defense (when Is- be fulfilled and your families be patience that could be imagined. Civil Aviation Organization. ICAO university, more than 100 years ’87. It was a momentous occasion of years, including Ambassador London, which allowed us to enjoy rael acted to stop the missile attacks safe. Peace to all. Below are some thoughts from works to ensure the security, safety ago. The student government of for me and my family, made all the Hector Morales ’85 and Dan Foote a wonderful weekend together one on civilians coming from the Gaza fellow alumni. and sustainability of international the law school posted two videos more intense with the presence of ’86 (deputy chief of mission in the damp Halloween. Now, back to Strip). This took us by surprise, and Mike Schmidtberger ’82, ’85L: aviation, a field where the United of my presentation on YouTube. so many friends. Not for College Dominican Republic following a your regularly scheduled program- we ran to the ‘safe room’ shelter. Dennis Klainberg “He was ready. Profound thanks to States is an important player. After Everyone involved is motivated days alone, my CU pennant flies tour in Haiti). I also understand that ming … ” I couldn’t imagine being under Berklay Cargo Worldwide all of you for helping to look after several postings in South and to continue some type of cultural proudly in my office!” Col. Chris Riga ’87, Army Special Thank you so much, Cathy! I attack with a better group of people 84 14 Bond St., Ste 233 him when he needed it and for the Southeast Asia, my wife, Tahmina, or educational exchange, and I am Scott adds, “I’m married to Am- Forces, will take command of a unit could not have said it better! — music professors who proceeded 84 Great Neck, NY 11021 good times you shared during his and I are enjoying Montréal and looking forward to it. ber and our twins, Mazie and Mari- next summer that works extensive- For those who don’t know, and to compare the timbre and rhythm [email protected] better and later days.” eastern Canada, including side “My involvement with southern sha, are 7; we also have Melody ly throughout Latin America. I’m sure this encompasses the ma- of the siren to some musical compo- Alex Navab ’87: “God bless the visits to New England.” Italy began nearly 20 years ago, (2½). Fortunately, they all take after “In January I moved on to be jority of you, my specialization is sition they were just studying! The With a heavy heart, I am saddened professor and rest his soul. What Mischa Zabotin reports, “Our when I succeeded in finding their mother and are beautiful and deputy commander, Combined Joint in existential psychology, a way of whole scenario remains surreal.” to advise you of the passing of a unique and wonderful man! We oldest son, Sacha, is enjoying his relatives after a generation without bright. Theoretically, having young Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF- practicing psychology that focuses All I could think of was how Professor Karl-Ludwig Selig on are all lucky to have had Professor first year at Bates, where he’s on contact. I also work with companies kids when you’re in your 40s is sup- HOA) in Djibouti. CJTF-HOA’s much less on diagnosis and the amazing it was that such creativity December 1, 2012. Selig in our lives. Our lives are all the rugby team and taking classes in Southern Italy to commercialize posed to ‘keep you young.’ Well, mission is similar to SOUTHCOM’s medical model and more on how and learning could take place under

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES such conditions. Because humans munity Service Award. The ADL, Emily Miles Terry of the 1967–68 Ivy League Champi- of our mental health infrastructure under President Barack Obama ’83 possess these awesome capabilities according to its statement, “is rec- 89 45 Clarence St. onship basketball team. last year when Tropical Storm Irene and the Secretary of State). Starting is just one of the reasons I chose ex- ognizing Lavine’s immense civic Brookline, MA 02446 I hadn’t been inside Low Rotunda closed our only state psychiatric this summer, Pete will work for the istential psychology — an approach leadership and influence to effect 89 since Dave worked there sorting hospital, it’s never dull. Still, we try director general of the State Depart- [email protected] that really appreciates each person’s positive change in our community. books and things for his work- to find time to recreate in our beau- ment on human resource policy humanness — for my life path. Lavine believes strongly in giving Our long publication lead time study job in the ’80s. The Alumni tiful state on our mountain bikes, coordination for the department as And then, like a gift from the back to his community. Together for CCT makes it difficult for this Office dressed up the room mag- skis and kayaks, and we were all a whole (a change of pace from his heavens, I got a message from the with his wife, Jeannie, Lavine has column to run important informa- nificently for the evening. hoping for a snowy winter.” usual stuff, he says, but interest- incomparable Judy Kim, whom helped create, grow and sustain tion quickly. Though this message While there, it was nice to catch Oh, snow. I could do without ing nonetheless, as it relates to the I saw for a flash at reunion. She numerous organizations focused from Brian O’Connell came in late up with John Vaske ’88 and Lisa snow. One thing I always appreci- question of what the United States wrote, “I live in Stamford, Conn., on improving the lives of children last fall, it’s no less critical now. Landau Carnoy. Also in atten- ated about working at a university wants from its diplomats); Mariana and work at RBS. Sarah Kass plans and families around the world.” I’ve written about Brian before. dance was Raymond Yu, who has was that when it snowed, that is working on energy policy in the to help me find a place to buy Jonathan, a Columbia trustee, He is the founding principal of been working in his family’s real snow got shoveled faster than you India/Pakistan region. groceries in Stamford other than is managing partner and CIO the Scholars’ Academy, a gifted estate development and manage- could say “snow day.” Catherine On a different and more somber Target!” of Sankaty Advisors, which he grade 6–12 school of just less than ment company since graduation. Prendergast might know what I’m note, it was gut-wrenching for me So, I must extend much gratitude founded in 1997. Sankaty, the 1,200 students, in Rockaway Park, Raymond sent an update: “We have talking about. She reports, “I’m a to read and hear about tales from to my brother, my sister-in-law and fixed income and credit affiliate of Queens. In the fall his school was developed and manage office/retail professor of English at the Univer- Hurricane Sandy in October and my nephew, of course, who live Bain Capital, is one of the leading ravaged by Hurricane Sandy and and market rate apartment buildings sity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- November. My family was lucky to In December, Herbert Block ’87 (left) and CCT Class Correspondent near Stamford, as do my sister-in- global credit and distressed debt then looted. Brian writes, “We need throughout NYC but a significant paign. My husband, John Tubbs, not have had any damage or incon- Eric Fusfield ’88 (right) participated in an international conference law’s parents, for enabling me to managers, with approximately $19 help. I ask that you help us get the number of our projects are in the and I are cracked up daily by our venience in Maryland but I know on Holocaust-era property restitution in Prague, Czech Republic. have enough familiarity with the billion of assets under manage- word out to Columbia alumni. Our affordable housing space. We com- 8-year-old son, Siggi, who likes to many of you were not as fortunate. They are shown here with Norman L. Eisen, U.S. ambassador of the area to help Judy get her grocery ment. Through the Crimson Lion school lost a tremendous number of pleted our 16th affordable housing do his homework ‘with the college Isaac-Daniel Astrachan was United States to the Czech Republic. Block is assistant e.v.p. of the shopping done. Phew! Thank Foundation, which they launched books, musical instruments, sports project/building in Harlem last year. students’ at Starbucks. Having re- one such person, and wrote about American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Fusfield is director goodness the dissertation defense in 2007, Jonathan and Jeannie equipment, office furniture and I also recently became chairman of cently finished a term as director of his experience in Battery Park of legislative affairs at B’nai B’rith International and deputy direc- is done. provide financial support to many technology. In the aftermath, more the board of directors of a commu- my university’s first-year composi- City. “We were in the evacuation tor of the B’nai B’rith International Center for Human Rights and community-based organizations. than 80 iPads and several iMacs nity bank based in New York City.” tion program, I’ve started a blog zone but we decided to stay and Public Policy. Steve Silverstein sent a note: were stolen. Our stage, brand new Also at the Hamilton Dinner was of advice, firstyearcomp.com, as ride out the storm. As the storm REUNION WEEKEND “Still two kids, now 7 and 4, boy curtains and gymnasium floor are Raymond’s wife, Ya-Ning. The Yu a form of public outreach. Buried, looked to be calming down, the MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 and girl, and one wife. I am chang- destroyed. Our fitness room is in family has three children (13, 11 and therein, is a memory of ‘Logic and water started to rise, and from our Goldman and Sara Goldman “One of the great things about ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ing jobs but as I am on gardening shambles. The school was flooded 10) and lives in New York. Rhetoric.’” 28th-floor apartment we watched (née Silver) has been accepted to being a Columbia alumnus in NYC ALUMNI AFFAIRS Cynthia Wood leave, I am unable to disclose my with seawater and sewage from the I have a report from Udita as the Hudson expanded into our Columbia! Congrats to Shmuel ’15 is that it makes the city feel like a [email protected] future employer. I will continue water treatment plant across the (Malhoutra) Nabha, who probably streets and we saw the West Side and the whole Goldman family. small town; I always am amazed 212-851-9645 to provide debt financing to com- street from our building.” Rachel Cowan Jacobs does not see much snow these Highway become a river. As the Jacqueline Harounian was at how frequently I run into fellow DEVELOPMENT Mara Henckler modities trading companies.” According to Brian, more than 313 Lexington Dr. days. After several decades of water was heading north on the named one of the “Top 50 Women ’91ers and get a chance to recon- [email protected] Mark Timoney, who lives in half of the students and staff were 90 Silver Spring, MD 20901 living all over the world, Udita is West Side Highway, and as base- Lawyers” in New York by Super nect. As a further reminder that 212-851-7494 Westchester County, N.Y., and left homeless by the storm. Some 90 delighted to be based in Mumbai ments were filling with water, we Lawyers. Her practice focuses on middle age is upon us, these run- [email protected] Eric Fusfield works for HSBC Bank, also sent students’ homes burned to the with her daughter, Naia (9). She’s could see buildings losing power matrimonial and family law in the ins typically involve our children. 1945 South George greetings. “All is well with my wife, ground; some staff members’ It’s 2013. Only two more years involved with a variety of nonprof- and going dark. Looking west we New York metro area. Most recently, I had the fortune 88 Mason Dr. Maria, and our kids: Ines Maria homes were filled floor to roof with until our 25th reunion, so save the its, including some in academia saw bright flashes of light in New Jennifer Ashton writes, “I to run into Noah Greenhill at a 88 Arlington, VA 22204 (Sarah Lawrence ’14), John Lucas seawater. Yet, one week later, 60 date (Thursday, May 28–Sunday, and healthcare. She hopes anyone Jersey, as electrical transformers recently was named senior medical birthday party. Also, my oldest son [email protected] ’15E, and Ana Gracia and Ricardo percent of students and more than May 31, 2015)! traveling her way will get in touch. were blowing up. We also saw a contributor for ABC News and is classmates with Edward Ryeom David (both still in high school).” 95 percent of staff were present in In more immediate develop- Anita Bose is a woman after my large flash when the 13th Street appear regularly on Good Morning ’91E’s son and my middle son is Congratulations to Stephen Sagner, Don’t forget that 2013 is our 25th two relocation schools in East New ments, kudos to Rukesh Korde, own heart. Before starting a new job Con Ed transformer blew, which America and World News with Di- classmates with Stefan Reyniak’s who has been named co-president reunion year — a big one — so York, Brooklyn. who has been promoted to partner last fall as chief strategist at Cooney/ led to most buildings in Manhattan ane Sawyer. I maintain my private son!” and chief strategy officer of College start planning your trip. The dates Brian has worked tirelessly to within the Washington, D.C., office Waters Group, a New York-based below 23rd Street going dark. practice in ob-gyn and I love the Hope everyone is having a great Summit, a nonprofit that works are Thursday, May 30–Sunday, build the Scholars’ Academy since of Covington & Burling. healthcare communications group “Ironically, out of the six build- world of news, as it gives me the 2013. Until next time, cheers! with students to encourage their June 2. The Reunion Committee 2004. The school started as a pro- In random encounters, Eleni of companies, she did what I dream ings in our complex, which sits opportunity to explore current success in high school and col- has been working for months gram while he was principal of P.S. Passalaris bumped into Colin of doing again someday: take a long on the edge of the Hudson, our medical and health issues in all lege. “College Summit is the gold to plan a terrific weekend. On 114Q, a K–6 school. In 2005, the gift- Campbell when they were picking hiatus from the working world to building was the only one to lose fields and convey key information Jeremy Feinberg standard in student-led college and Thursday evening, we’ll join the ed program was expanded to be a up their children from a mutual travel through Southeast Asia for a power (slightly frustrating to see to millions of viewers every day. 315 E. 65th St. #3F career readiness, so I cannot think members of the 50th reunion class stand-alone school and then added friend’s birthday party. Both live in few months, then spend a summer your neighbors in the next tower Whether it involves interviewing 92 New York, NY 10021 of a better place for me to have a for a special reception at President one grade each year. In June 2011, New Jersey, albeit 40 minutes away as a beach bum. While in Krabi, with power, cable, etc.). Compared experts or delivering the expert 92 jeremy.feinberg@ positive impact on the economic Lee C. Bollinger’s house; after- the Scholars’ Academy graduated from one another. In Jersey talk, 40 Thailand, she got together with to others who lost everything, commentary myself, it keeps me verizon.net future of our kids, their families ward, our class will continue the its first class of high school students. minutes could as well be 40 states Nancy (Pak) Marshall; Nancy’s though, we were only inconve- up to date and learning every day. and communities than with this ex- festivities at the Skyline Room and When Brian wrote to me, he was away, right? husband, Jim Marshall; and their nienced. School was closed and the Also, my new book, Your Body What this column lacks in number traordinary organization,” Stephen Terrace in Faculty House. Among still living in a hotel as he waited for Two or four states away, depend- children, Cecelia and Ryan. In July, office did not have power, so we Beautiful: Clockstopping Secrets to of updates it more than makes up said in a press release. “College the other events are Friday’s his house to be habitable. ing on how you drive, comes news Colgate-Palmolive relocated Nancy spent the week at home, walking Staying Healthy, Strong, and Sexy in for in the quality of the news. Summit’s strength is developing walking tour of the High Line and Contact Brian at principal@aol. from Jill Mazza Olson. “My hus-­ and clan from Bangkok to Warsaw, down the 28 floors once a day to go Your 30s, 40s, and Beyond, was pub- John Vagelatos and his wife, curriculum and in-school program- reception at The Standard, and com or via LinkedIn. band, Tod, and I enjoy raising our where she is marketing director for see friends, and walking back up in lished in paperback. It is a head-to- Karen, welcomed a new addi- ming. That expertise combined Saturday’s class-specific dinner fol- Last November, my husband kids (Zoe, 15, and Finn, 11) in central Europe. the evening to go to bed. Building toe guide to health and wellness tion in the days before Hurricane with innovative initiatives like its lowed by dancing under the stars Dave Terry ’90 and I attended the Middlesex, Vt. We’re definitely Dan Sackrowitz has left the Bare codes will change. The current for women 30 and older.” Sandy. Kate weighed in at 6 lbs., 10 College Knowledge­ Challenge, at the Starlight Reception. Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner transitioning into a new phase of Necessities underwear world for flood zone map is obsolete.” Greg Ostling writes, “I am a oz. The proud dad is already teach- which recently launched with Look for more information at in Low Rotunda. Jonathan Schiller parenting as the kids move into Loehmann’s “outerwear” world, Let us hope that the only storm corporate partner at the law firm ing her the words to Roar, Lion, Facebook and the Bill & Melinda reunion.college.columbia.edu. ’69, ’73L was the recipient of the adolescence. where he is v.p. for e-commerce. any of us should experience in the of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Roar! Having met Kate shortly after Gates Foundation to create college- Also, to ensure that Columbia can 2012 Alexander Hamilton Medal. “My work life remains interest- Mariana and Peter Neisuler and future is a storm of good luck. where I focus primarily on mergers her birth, I’m more than willing going apps for students, makes get in touch with you about the The medal, the highest honor ing and challenging. A few years their sons left Moscow in summer and acquisitions. My wife, Angela, to endorse her as a member of the College Summit incredibly attrac- event, please update your contact paid to a member of the College ago I got a new title and role — v.p. 2011 for their obligatory domestic and I live on the Upper West Side. Class of 2033. tive to corporations, foundations information at reunion.college. community, is awarded by the Co- of policy and legislative affairs posting within the Foreign Service Margie Kim Angela is a physician on staff at I also learned that Jason Griffith and others looking to invest in columbia.edu/alumniupdate or call lumbia College Alumni Association. — at the Vermont Association of and will be in Washington, D.C., 91 1923 White Oak Clearing NYU, and we have three wonder- has joined Sanford C. Bernstein as solutions that work today and into the Alumni Office (212-851-7488). Jonathan, a University trustee and Hospitals and Health Systems, through 2015. Pete is in the State Southlake, TX 76092 ful sons, William (8), Daniel (6) and global head of trading. the future.” Thanks for your updates and a member of the Dean’s Council of where I’ve been for 10 years. I Department’s Bureau of European 91 Peter (1). The boys love visiting the Congratulations, Jason! margiekimkim@ Plaudits (and a mazel tov) also please keep sending them to me at the Law School, received a John Jay spend much of the year on policy and Eurasian Affairs covering hotmail.com Columbia campus and The Cathe- I hope that next time we’ll have go out to Jonathan Lavine, recipi- the email address at the top of the Award for distinguished profes- development and the legislative the Benelux countries (Belgium, dral Church of St. John the Divine. a column filled both with lots of ent of the Anti-Defamation League column or through CCT’s easy-to- sional achievement in 2006. Among session at the state house. Given Netherlands and Luxembourg) and Greetings, all! Whenever we are up there, we like updates and lots of good news. New England region’s highest use webform: college.columbia. many professional and personal Vermont’s ambitious health care Mariana is in the Office of the Chief I think this is a CC ’91 first: to grab pizza at V&T and cookies Please don’t be shy about writing honor, the Distinguished Com- edu/cct/submit_class_note. accomplishments, he was a member reform agenda and the devastation Economist (a newly created office The child of two classmates, Alan at the Hungarian Pastry Shop. in; I’d love to hear from you. Use

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Her responsibilities include John Kikoski ’93 Business, had a Leyla Kokmen of the Arts James Schamus, while fundraising, communications and son, Armas Said, in September. REUNION WEEKEND 440 Thomas Ave. S. at Columbia, and even worked on marketing. Maggie is an associate professor at MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 94 Minneapolis, MN 55405 marketing his first film, The Wed- Michael Kingsley also is in a Seton Hall Law in Newark, N.J., ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS 94 ding Banquet, during my senior year new job. After seven years as a tele- and lives in NYC. ALUMNI AFFAIRS Patricia Carchi [email protected] internship. I’m hoping that 2013 vision producer — and a decade Joshua Ross finished his first [email protected] Alison Gang sent a lovely update will be the year that I expand my of media experience before that semester of the M.A. program in 212-851-7807 on all she’s been doing since gradu- writing career to full-time, covering — he began as a media specialist East Asian languages and cultures DEVELOPMENT Harrison Kobb ation, saying she was motivated film, TV and media, as well as at PR firm Emanate in October. He at GSAS. [email protected] to write after looking through the writing a humorous memoir about counsels on media strategy and Edward Wladis recently won the 212-851-7444 Spectator archives: spectatorarchive. dating, love and life.” helps place stories and guests on annual ASOPRS Research Award Betsy Gomperz library.columbia.edu. She started by Alison also is on the board of TV, radio, in print and online. His from the American Society of 41 Day St. working as a photographer in New directors for the Columbia Alumni clients include Bank of America Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstruc- 93 Newton, MA 02466 York for a few years, then moved Association of San Diego. Class- and The Hartford, and he also does tive Surgery for his research into the 93 back to California, where she grew mates can keep up with her at work with KFC, National Geograph- molecular biology of ocular rosacea. Betsy.Gomperz@ gmail.com up. She put her film studies major alisongang.com or @alisongang or ic and more. Michael’s wife, Harra, At the same meeting, he also won to use in Los Angeles as a page at email her at alison@alisongang. started this fall as an assistant the Bartley Frueh Award for the Our 20th Alumni Reunion Week- the Studios at Paramount in Hol- com. principal at P.S. 83 in the Bronx, best presentation. A few days later, end is only a few months away and and their son, Aaron, is 2. his work on possible new therapies we hope to have a great turnout. I am happy to be back in touch for thyroid eye disease was chosen If you haven’t marked your calen- Jennifer Goldstone ’95 is COO of the Birthright with Laura Margolis, a fellow Chi- as one of the best presentations at dars, please do so and try to come cago native. She and her husband, the American Academy of Oph- see your classmates; the dates are Israel Foundation, a nonprofit that funds educational Brian Frank, live in Los Angeles thalmology annual meeting. Ted is Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 2. trips to Israel for young Jewish adults. with their rescued dog and two in private practice in Albany, N.Y., Saturday, June 1, also is Dean’s Day. cats. Laura, an actress, a few years and recently was promoted to as- John Kim ’00 and Sarah Farkas were married in Pittsburgh on September 22. Left to right (all CC ’00 We have a great Reunion Com- ago appeared in the ABC series sociate professor at Albany Medical unless noted): Michael Marks, Reza Vahid, Jesse Leff, Robert Hoffman, Sami Mesrour, Charles Saliba, mittee that has been meeting since lywood. From there, Alison worked Janet Balis Allen lives in New Dirty Sexy Money with Donald College. His wife, Lianne ’00L, also Nathan Shafroth, the bride, Evan Hutchison, the groom, Ejike Uzoigwe ’01 and Stephen Miller. October and is well on its way to in script development for a TV York City with her family, includ- Sutherland, Lucy Liu and Blair works in Albany. They have two planning a dynamic weekend for all production company, then moved ing three kids, who are doing well Underwood. It was very cool to daughters, Molly (5) and Becca (2). of us. Our class-specific dinner will to the TV channel AMC, where, as a and enjoying school, friends and see her in ads for the show on the Travis Ketner opened a law may be directed to The Center for be held at the STK Rooftop at 26 If you can’t make it to New York take place on Saturday, followed by publicist, she worked with legend- many activities. Janet rejoined AOL NYC subways! She also starred in office in his hometown of San Land Use Interpretation (clui.org) Little West 12th St. from 6–8 p.m. It this June, be sure to send an update drinks and dancing under the stars ary stars such as Eva Marie Saint a little more than a year ago to lead the horror film The Strangers, and a Antonio. The Law Office of Travis or Connecticut Food Bank (ctfood looks like a gorgeous venue. Then, in honor of our 15th reunion. We at the Starlight Reception. Please and Roddy McDowall. After that, sales strategy for the company, but sequel to the flick is rumored. Ketner (1423 W. Martin St., San bank.org). of course, there’s our main class want to know how you are doing! also consider contributing to our Alison shifted into a more academic last May she took on a new role as Brian, whom I often sat next to in Antonio, TX 78207) will focus on dinner on Saturday, followed by Class Gift in honor of this milestone: setting at the UCLA Film & Televi- publisher of The Huffington Post. history classes, is e.v.p. and global criminal defense as well as the drinks and dancing at the Starlight REUNION WEEKEND college.columbia.edu/giveonline. sion Archive, where she was in “I’m very much enjoying the new head of content at Beats Electronics. pro bono representation of autistic Reception. Laurent Vasilescu MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 For more information on re- charge of research and licensing of challenge, as we’ve launched new In his spare time, he manages rock children vis-à-vis the public school As of December 17, our class 127 W. 81st St., Apt. 4B ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS union, go to reunion.college.col UCLA’s Hearst Metrotone News experiences around the world, legends Fu Manchu and up-and- system. had raised $40,705 for our Class 99 New York, NY 10024 ALUMNI AFFAIRS Patricia Carchi umbia.edu and, while you’re there, Collection to TV and film produc- built new partnerships with coming punkers FIDLAR. It is with great sadness that I Gift from 44 donors, up from 99 [email protected] laurent.vasilescu@ make a pledge to attend and also tions. In 2000 she moved to San incredible brands like TED and Thanks for the news and please report that Laura Tatum died on $39,000 from 32 donors at that time 212-851-7807 gmail.com update your contact information so Diego to pursue a master’s in mass Oprah, and moved into original keep the updates coming. October 13, 2012, of ovarian cancer. last year. I’m sure by the time you DEVELOPMENT Harrison Kobb you don’t miss any news about the communication/media studies at video with HuffPost Live,” Janet Laura grew up in Portland, Ore., receive this CCT, our numbers will Greetings, Class of ’99. By the time, [email protected] big event. Consider, too, joining the San Diego State. writes. “It’s a very different scale and, after graduating from Tigard be closer to $50,000, thanks to the you receive this update, we will be 212-851-7444 “Columbia College Class of 1993 -- For the past decade Alison has newsroom than the one I remem- Ana S. Salper H.S. in 1993 headed east to Colum- hard work of our Gift Committee. a bit more than a year shy of our 20th Reunion” Facebook group! been the communications director ber at WKCR!” 96 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA bia and NYC, where she discovered Sandie Angulo Chen Hope to see you all in June! 15-year Alumni Reunion Weekend Kenneth Ehrenberg ’05 GSAS is for University of California Televi- Also taking on a new challenge Brooklyn, NY 11201 her personal and professional 98 10209 Day Ave. Aviva Sufian has moved to (save the date: Thursday, May 29– an assistant professor of philosophy sion, the UC San Diego-based TV is Paul Bollyky, who has accepted 96 callings: the professional via work Silver Spring, MD 20910 Washington, D.C., where she now Sunday, June 1, 2014). That’s correct. [email protected] and research associate professor of channel for the 10-campus UC a position as an assistant professor at Columbia’s Avery Architectural 98 is director of regional operations Fifteen years. … I hope you’ll come [email protected] law at Buffalo. He earned a law de- system. She writes, “While UCTV at Stanford with a joint appoint- Classmates, we’re light on mail — Fine Arts Library, and the personal for the Administration for Commu- out for it! gree at Yale before earning a Ph.D. can still be seen on TV in major ment in immunology and infec- a state of affairs that must be rem- through her delight in the vibrancy I hope all of you will consider re- nity Living. ACL is a new agency In the meantime, a few of us met at Columbia. Ken recently married California markets, our primary tious diseases. He and his family edied. Write me with your news, of life in the city. Upon graduation, turning to Morningside Heights for within the Department of Health in October over drinks and dinner Hanako Sakanushi of Yokohama, focus is now online and we’ve had have moved to Palo Alto, Calif. whether about yourself or your Laura took a position in the library our 15th Alumni Reunion Weekend, & Human Services that focuses on at Rosa Mexicano (Union Square) Japan, and “had a wedding recep- great success with sharing our vast Also on the move is Ayanna family, career, travels or plans. You of the Museum of Modern Art Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 2. increasing access to community- to catch up informally. Andrew tion in Faculty House on November collection of lectures, documen- (Parish) Thompson, who plans to can use the above email address or before returning to school to earn It’s a great way to reconnect with based supports for older adults Park, Dominique Sasson, David 20 (although the wedding itself taries, concerts and more with move with her family from Scotts- CCT’s webform: college.columbia. an M.S.I. in library and information classmates and/or to show your and people with disabilities. Evans ’99E, Wendy Liu, Ben Free- took place July 31 in Buffalo). In millions of viewers on our website dale, Ariz., to Washington, D.C., this edu/cct/submit_class_note. This services from Michigan in 2002. kids where you went to college. For Best wishes to Lori Meeks, who man, Sameer Shamsi and myself attendance were many Columbi- (uctv.tv), YouTube channels and summer to join the faculty at The column is a terrific way to stay Laura spent much of her career in those who reside in the area, just married Jason Webb on December were in attendance; unfortunately, ans, including Addison Golladay; iTunes. While I thought I had put George Washington University. connected; let’s use it! Manuscripts and Archives at Yale hop in a cab or on the subway for 8 in a beachside wedding in St. Charlie Leykum was stuck at the Peter Hovde; David Mantell ’92; my film studies major to rest, that Thanks to everyone for the great University, starting as a 2002 Kress a ride back to 116th Street. There’s Petersburg, Fla. Lori and Jason are airport. We are hoping to have Prudence Soobrattie; Jennifer turned out not to be the case when, updates! Until next time. Fellow in Art Librarianship. still time to register. Go to reunion. professors of East Asian studies; a few more informal gatherings (Weiner) Rosenthal ’93 Barnard; in 2010, I was brought on as the Sarah Katz Laura shared her erudite pas- college.columbia.edu for more in- she is an associate professor of during the next year running up to Milind Shah; Patti Ybarra ’94; Jay film critic for San Diego’s only daily 1935 Parrish St. sion and inquisitive zest with her formation and also to update your religion and East Asian languages reunion, so please reach out to us if Michaelson; Thomas Vinciguerra newspaper, now called U-T San Janet Lorin 97 Philadelphia, PA 19130 longtime partner and husband, contact information, if needed, so at Southern Cal. Lori’s 2010 book, you want to meet. ’85, ’86J, ’90 GSAS; Guy Tower ’12 Diego. Balancing a full-time job and 730 Columbus Ave., 97 Andrew Benner. Married on Janu- the Alumni Office can be in touch Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Fe- I also heard from Jason Scherer, [email protected] GS; Anne Wei, who did a post-bac a heavy freelance writing load isn’t 95 Apt. 14C ary 16, 2009, they made a home in about the weekend. male Monastic Orders in Premodern a software engineer at Google in at the Architecture School in 2012; always easy, but it’s hard to com- 95 New York, NY 10025 Ruth Mason and her husband, a mid-century, modern, wood-and- You also can join our class Face- Japan, won the 2012 John Whitney New York. He is happily married Adam Fields ’96; Anne Sutherland plain when you’re lucky enough to [email protected] James Wetterau ’05 GS, welcomed glass cabin on a pond in Guilford, book page, “Columbia College Hall Prize from the Association for and has a child. ’96; Andrew Shiner ’96; Ashley have two jobs you love.” their second son, Wiley Wetterau Conn., with their two beloved cats, Class of ’98.” Asian Studies. Josh Shaevitz is a professor of Normand ’97 Barnard; James Wet- Not only does Alison write I hope this finds everyone doing Mason, in October. Wiley joins Blini and Nutkin. One highlight of our class’ Congratulations on all of the won­ physics and genomics at Princeton. terau ’05 GS; Ruth Mason ’97; Ihsan reviews but she also contributes well as we begin to celebrate our brother Felix (2). Deepest condolences to Laura’s reunion events is the Friday night derful personal and professional (Yes, he confessed that he moved Dogramaci ’02 GSAS, ’05L; Alex features on local film festivals and 40th birthdays. Matthew Morningstar is vice family and friends. Contributions reception, which this year will news, Lori! to rural central Jersey.) This little

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ner at Kantor, Davidoff, Wolfe, named Emily J. Levine. Many Mandelker, Twomey & Gallanty. Columbians celebrated with us: He represents individuals and Noam Elcott ’00; Penny Sinanoglou businesses in the areas of com- ’00; Chanchal Dadlani ’99; Elaine Rachel Nichols ’03: From Math Whiz mercial litigation and employment Shen; Elissa Curtis; Yaacob Dweck law. The firm also handles estates ’02; Richard Mammana ’02 and his law, real estate, corporate work wife, Mary Mammana ’04; Noah to Model and Movie Star and matrimonial matters. Feel free Strote ’02; Lara Fogel ’02 Barnard; to reach out to Daniel at kokhba@ and Anand Venkatesan ’03. B y Y e l e n a S h u s t e r ’09 kantorlawonline.com and/or visit “A few weeks after we got mar- kantordavidoff.com. ried, we moved to Berlin for the I’m also happy to report that academic year. Emily has a sabbati- ike she did on most days orientation her first day on Nichols has developed John Kim is hitched! John and Sara cal from UNC-Greensboro, where during her junior year, campus (she entered with a cult following as a sci-fi Farkas were married in Pittsburgh she is a European history professor. Rachel Nichols ’03 the Class of ’02). “It was siren who can beat up bad on September 22, with many And in Berlin I am launching the walked past the ads out- such a nice first impression,” guys and look good doing it. Columbians in attendance: Mike first international office for JSTOR, Lside the Broadway gates on her Lee, an investment banker at Her oft-admired silhouette Marks, Reza Vahid, Jesse Leff, the scholarly research platform, Rob Hoffman, Sami Mesrour, and also have fellowships from way to class. This time, however, Barclays, recalls. “Objectively, can be attributed to celeb- Charles Saliba-Revuelto, Nate the German Marshall Fund and she stopped at an image of a she’s stunning, but when rity trainer Valerie Waters, Shafroth, Evan Hutchison, Ejike the Bertelsmann Foundation (for sun-kissed, blue-eyed blonde you speak to her, you see who was recruited to turn Uzoigwe ’01 and Stephen Miller. whom I am consulting on educa- staring from behind a 26"x50" she’s just a down-home her model body into a mus- (See nearby photo.) tion tech in Germany).” GUESS poster. “You should buy Maine girl who didn’t seem cled one on Alias. Nichols Congrats to the couple! Reema Kapadia’s daughter, this one,” a street vendor said. to be tainted by the apathy gained 15 pounds of muscle Please send in news about your- Rhea Samira Parekh, was born on “This girl goes here.” New York is known for.” for G.I. Joe, for which she self, your family, your job, your September 17, Reena’s husband’s, Little did he know that “this In fact, if the math-whiz- also underwent six weeks travels or anything you wish to and Rhea’s father’s, birthday. She girl” was staring right at him. cum-model hadn’t been of weapons training along share with classmates! You can use weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz. and was 19 the above email address or CCT’s inches long. Reema is in New York Since being spotted by mod- discovered, she likely would with co-star Sienna Miller. webform: college.columbia.edu/ and works in investor relations at eling agents as a sophomore, have been a suit-sporting For Conan, the quick study cct/submit_class_note. Credit Suisse. the Maine native has starred in banker. “When I was a mastered swordplay and Andrea Dennigan ’01 (née Cherkerzian, center) married Peter Mark Jackson is now assistant high-profile ad campaigns, tele- freshman, all the seniors horse riding. Dennigan on June 17 at the Castle Hill Inn in Newport, R.I. In at- general counsel with the Brooklyn vision series and feature films. were reading Liar’s Poker. The belle of the battle tendance, among other CC alumni, were the bride’s sisters Sara Jonathan Gordin Navy Yard Development Corp., You may recognize her from her Everyone wanted to get into gets her close-up in her Cherkerzian ’94 (left) and Lisa Cherkerzian Hill ’95 (right). 01 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. working on sustainable develop- role as Rachel Gibson on ABC’s banking after that,” Nichols current lead role. She’s PHOTO: WHITE LOFT STUDIO Los Angeles, CA 90068 ment and historical restoration Alias or her appearances in the says, noting her original starring in the second 01 projects. [email protected] filmsAlex Cross (which also motivation for modeling season of the sci-fi crime Israel Gordan wrote with exciting sacrifice allows him to work on cookbook slated for publication By the time you read this, we’ll news: “As of August 1, I am the featured Matthew Fox ’89), Star was to pay for an M.B.A. (at series Continuum, where physical measurements of biologi- in January 2014 and has also been be three months into 2013. I hope cantor and the director of religious Trek, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Columbia, naturally). she plays a detective from cal systems in his laboratory. He writing the Taste Test column everyone’s years are off to a great school innovation and synagogue and Conan The Barbarian. Today, But fate had another plan. 2077 who’s stranded in teaches an intro science course for the magazine Every Day with start! programming at the Huntington Nichols has reached a place While meeting a friend for present-day Vancouver, geared toward producing math- Rachael Ray for more than three Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg (N.Y.) Jewish Center, which involves where fan sites document her lunch, Nichols had a chance trying to stop criminals and physics-savvy biologists. In years. Her husband, Jacob “Koby” and his wife, Paola, welcomed their family programming and other every stilettoed step. Yet unlike encounter with a Next mod- from the future. The show 2010, Josh received a Presidential Rosenschein, works at Goldman daughter, Maia, on September 28. responsibilities. On September 8, my most starlets, the economics eling agent, who snapped was an immediate hit; with Rachel Nichols ’03 met her best friend, Early Career Award for Scientists Sachs, where he is a v.p. in the Maia joins brother Camilo. Simon is wife, Abby, gave birth to our second major does her own taxes, Polaroids of her on the spot. almost one million viewers, and Engineers from President strats group with responsibility for a legal aid lawyer in Northern Vir- child, a son we named Eli Jonah at Albert Lee ’02E, ’07 Business, during tweets with proper punctuation From there, she began mod- Continuum’s first episode Barack Obama ’83, which was very policies, documentation and com- ginia, “enjoying the ample paternity the brit milah ceremony we held on orientation. exciting; the ceremony took place munications. Dina and Jacob have leave that legal aid gives its staff in September 16, right before Rosh Ha- (@RachelNichols1) and speaks in eling in New York during PHOTO: COURTESY ALBERT LEE ’02E, ’07 BUSINESS was the most-watched at the White House. two sons, Max (5) and Abe (3½), lieu of a living wage.” shanah. We then closed on our new SAT-worthy sound bites. her sophomore year, then premiere for Canadian Josh and his wife have a daugh- and live in Connecticut. Russell Strom and his wife, house on September 20, and moved Despite studying algorithms went on leave to pursue her mate sitting at Tom’s having channel Showcase. Other ter, Maina (7), and a son, Rishi (5). Sameer Shamsi reports that Meghan, welcomed Cora Belle in on September 23, right before Yom instead of acting, Nichols credits career in Paris full-time. She cat- black and white milkshakes, networks caught on and state- Josh and his father, Michael, who Tom Leggett married Ingrid Chen Casillan-Strom on September 19 — Kippur. Things have been busy but alma mater with fueling her me-­ walked in runway shows and talking about our upcoming side fans can now watch both teaches in the physics department on November 3 at the Ronald after 40 hours of labor. it was great to start the new Jewish teoric rise. “Coming to New York posed in major campaigns for psych midterm,” says Lee. “She seasons on the Syfy channel. at Columbia, attend the Columbia- Reagan Building and International Tamer Makary’s wife, Efstathia, year with a new child and a new and going to Columbia really the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch. was a total dork who took Despite her success, Nichols Princeton football game every Trade Center in Washington, D.C. gave birth to son Sebastian on De- home!” helped make me the person Despite her success, drop- meticulous notes. She always is happy to be one star in a year; it falls around the same time Columbia people in attendance cember 6. Mom and brother Alec Caroline B. Giordano joined the who was able to get into the ca- ping out of school never was an made sure she understood constellation of many. “I like as his father’s birthday. were Sameer, Chris Loncar ’99E, are doing well. firm of Miller Canfield in Ann -Ar On the author front, Dina Crissy Rosenberg and Jayne Tan Liz Salamy ’02 and her husband, bor as an associate in the Litigation reer that I have now,” she says. option. Nichols returned to Col- concepts and would be the to be a working actor,” she Cheney’s third cookbook, Year- ’97E. Austin Gelbard ’99E and Philippe Chahine, welcomed their + Trial Group. Previously, she was “It’s funny, but I was really shy in umbia eight months later and one person who went to the says, “because I can go outside Round Slow Cooker: 100 Favorite Marysol Sanchez unfortunately second daughter, Ava Simone, on a judicial intern for The Honorable high school and I know you hear finished her degree by schedul- TA’s office hours. She was who and take out my trash without Recipes for Every Season, was pub- could not attend. Tom and his wife December 6. Ava joins sister Leila. Helene N. White, U.S. Court of Ap- a lot of actresses say,” — here, ing classes for two days a week, you copied class notes from.” makeup, with dirty hair and lished in January. The book aims reside in New York and Tom is an David Shapiro and Amy Gansell peals for the Sixth Circuit. she does a spot-on nerd impres- often from 9 a.m.–9 p.m., model- The transition from still cam- wearing sweatpants, and no- to debunk myths about the slow executive director at UBS. Barnard ’98 were married July 29 at Aaron Cohen was married to sion — “‘Oh, I was dorky,’ but it’s ing the rest of the time and era to live action was only a body is taking my picture.” cooker and show how the eco- That’s all the news for this Matisse in Washington, D.C. They Liana Yoo ’08 Business on Septem- true. My high school yearbook doing homework during photo matter of time — and talent. nomical appliance excels at year- go-around. Please email me if you reside in Brooklyn, N.Y. Attendees ber 29. He writes, “I met Liana prediction would’ve been most shoot breaks. “Much to the dis- Nichols had acted only once, by To watch an interview with round cooking. Among the recipes want to include any updates as we included Michael Bilsborough, through Alastair Wood and his likely to live in a small shell may of my bookers, I was very accident, in an eighth-grade play Nichols discussing Continuum, are brisket with pomegranate, red approach our reunion year! Susie Helft ’99 Barnard, Sacha Mo- wife, Alisa Wood ’08 Business (née wine and caramelized onions (win- barak ’08 Arch., Chandra Pradhu- Amarosa). Alisa is Liana’s Business under a rock. But at Columbia, strict about not working when where she was a last-minute go to Web Extras at college. ter chapter); lamb stew with fava man ’98 Barnard, Althea Viafora- School classmate, and we met when for the first time in my life, I was I had school,” she says. “I loved substitute for a football player columbia.edu/cct. beans, roasted garlic and chick- Prisca Bae Kress ’00 GS, Nikki Zeichner ’01 Alastair and I visited Alisa on her on a campus with like-minded being here. At the first sight of with stage fright. Despite her peas (spring chapter); strawberry 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B Barnard, Peter Zuspan and David’s Business School trip in China in people and I felt as though I spring, when everyone was on inexperience, she nailed her first Yelena Shuster ’09 writes for rhubarb cobbler (summer chapter); 00 New York, NY 10011 sister, Becca Shapiro, managing edi- spring 2008. belonged.” the Steps, I didn’t want to be audition — for Sex and the City, Cosmopolitan, New York and and beef bourguignon with mush- 00 tor of Columbia magazine. “Our wedding was September [email protected] Nichols met her best friend, anywhere else.” no less — and the rest is IMDb Manhattan magazines. Follow rooms, turnips, rutabagas and Matthew Rascoff was married 29 and the ceremony was at St. Albert Lee ’02E, ’07 Business, at “She was just another class­ history. her on Twitter @YelenaShuster. carrots (fall chapter). Daniel Kokhba is happy to an- in Durham, N.C., on September Paul’s Chapel, officiated by Uni- Dina is working on a vegetarian nounce that he became a part- 23 to a “beautiful, brilliant woman versity chaplain Jewelnel Davis.

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Lots of Columbia bridesmaids also started working for Planned child, Sophie Lynn, on December 8.” reminder to send in your news and Speaking for those who know and groomsmen were in atten- Parenthood Mar Monte as associate Adam Kushner is executive updates — don’t be shy! This col- them both, we wish them nothing dance. Among the groomsmen medical director for primary care. editor of National Journal, a weekly umn needs your input. Feel free to but happiness. were Paul Roland ’99; Alastair She lives in the Mission district of political magazine based in Wash- contact me at [email protected] “Many alums were in atten- Wood ’01; Alok Verma ’01E; San Francisco with her husband ington, D.C. or via Columbia College Today’s web dance, including Michael Bazyle- Laurance Guido Pascal ’00, ’01 and two kids. Afia Owusu-Sekyerewrites, “I submission form: college.columbia. wicz ’04E; Becker Chase; Pepin SIPA; Alan Rappeport ’02J; Adam Anna (Nelson) Fleming wel- live in Indianapolis and am a brand edu/cct/submit_class_note. Gelardi ’05E; Stefanie Goodsell Reese ’05 P&S; and James Tierney. comed her first baby into the world manager within the men’s health On to the news. ’09; Teresa Herrmann; Stephanie Bridesmaids included Erika Yoo on November 12, a son, Jasper business unit of Eli Lilly.” Lauren Ende and her husband, Huffman; Kent Parmington ’08; ’05 P&S, Elisabeth (Cohen) Rol- Thomas Fleming. Kristin Connors and Brian Daniel, welcomed their first child, Casey Potash; Annelise Schantz and ’98 Barnard, Alisa Wood ’08 Viviana Rodriguez, along with Kaderli are engaged to be married Arielle, on September 17. Lauren is ’04 Barnard; Grace Souter (née Business (née Amarosa), Kristin her husband, Stuart Luth ’01 Colby, in June. a surgical pathology fellow at The Coyle); Julia Werb ’06, ’13 Business; Barbato ’08 Business and Kristin has successfully produced her first Raquel Gardner writes, “I Johns Hopkins Hospital, having Lily Wohl; and Weston Friedman Reilly ’08 Business.” film,White Alligator (whitealligator recently finished my residency finished her residency in pathology ’08. The evening included many Congratulations to everyone on themovie.com), which she wrote in neurology at UCSF and have at the Hospital of the University of highlights, not least of which was a their marriages and babies! and starred in. It’s a comedy about started a fellowship in behavioral Pennsylvania. Lauren also shares lovely speech by Lily that brought the racism she encountered in the neurology at the UCSF Memory that Shirley Cho Fulmer ’04E and much of the audience to tears. entertainment industry as a white- and Aging Center. My husband, her husband, Ryan, welcomed their A fun time was had by all, and Sonia Dandona skinned Puerto Rican actor. It is now Jonathan, recently graduated from first child, Hannah, in November. everyone left Lake Placid wishing Hirdaramani making the festival circuit. Viviana the M.D.-Ph.D. program here and Congratulations to both sets of the weekend could have lasted just 02 2 Rolling Dr. still lives on the Upper West Side. started his residency in lab medi- parents! a bit longer. 02 Old Westbury, NY 11568 cine. My son, Azaria (16 months) Brian Cabezas married Grace “Congratulations, Lauren and already is quite a character!” Ouma in July and began an M.B.A. Dan!” [email protected] REUNION WEEKEND Steven Ling writes, “I had at IE Business School in Madrid, Becca Brown married Devin MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 Lachlan McG. Smith writes, “I live an extremely busy but fun-filled Spain, in November. McKnight in September in her ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS in Providence, R.I., and am in my summer 2012 in NYC pursuing my Joseph LoGiudice is in a Ph.D. home state of Vermont. Columbians ALUMNI AFFAIRS Sarah Trimmer Shannon Munoz ’07 and Sean Kelly ’05E were married on August 25 in Napa, Calif. Columbians in at- third year of radiology residency at passions while being on hiatus from program in social welfare at The in attendance included Daryl Weber [email protected] tendance included, left to right: Carter Reum ’03, Courtney Reum ’01, Michael Brown Jr. ’06, Aubrey Brown with plans to pursue a car- the actuarial profession. I recently Graduate Center, CUNY, and is ’02, Jenn Weber (née Legum), Anya 212-851-7977 Medal ’07, Cassandra Hamar ’07, the bride and the groom. diovascular imaging fellowship at played in an amazing concert with studying policies and practices that Cherneff, Bennett Cohen, Rujeko DEVELOPMENT Amanda Lasker PHOTO: PATRICIA MARK PHOTOGRAPHY Yale in 2014. But most importantly, the New Amsterdam Symphony affect the LGBTQ and disability Hockley and Anna Sternoff ’05 [email protected] on October 30, my wife, Meghan, Orchestra with Elaine Tai ’03E, populations. Barnard. After graduating from 212-851-7883 and I welcomed into the world a where we played the works of Mo- Congratulations to Robyn Mar Georgetown’s McDonough School restorative justice programs in Al- community-based nonprofit, People progress. The article was headlined, daughter, Emmelyn May Smith! Michael Novielli zart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. and Ría Tabacco, who were mar- of Business last spring, Becca be- ameda County, Calif. (And hangs United for Armstrong Park, that “In Katrina’s shadow, New Orleans’ We couldn’t be happier.” World City Apartments I also enrolled in a six-week acting ried in October. They met in law came a communications specialist out with me a lot.) helped rebuild and re-open Louis startups take flight.” (See Around Beth Stein Lipschitz and her 03 Attention Michael J. program at the Ted Bardy Acting school at NYU. Robyn is a lawyer at Applegate. Ariel Daube is finishing a pediat- Armstrong Park, home of Congo the Quads in this issue and the husband, Nat, welcomed their 03 Novielli, A608 Studio, which has been 20 hours in the criminal defense practice of Alexandra Hartman and Andrew ric residency at Children’s National Square, the historic birthplace Alumni Profile in the Summer 2012 second daughter, Hannah Reed, on Block 10, No 6. Jinhui a week of intense and fulfilling The Bronx Defenders. Tolve celebrated their first anniver- Medical Center in Washington, D.C., of jazz. In 2012, his organization issue.) October 29, just as Hurricane Sandy Road, Chaoyang District classes. I have been continuing sary in October. The couple, who and recently matched at a fellowship produced 15 weeks of free, all-ages Teddy Diefenbach finished his began. Beth, Nat and sister Evie Beijing, 100020, People’s my improv comedy training at the began dating senior year after taking at Columbia in pediatric critical care. musical and cultural programming. master’s in interactive media at look forward to an upcoming NYC Republic of China Upright Citizens Brigade Improvi- Claire McDonnell Music Hum together, was married After completing a degree in Recordings and more information the USC School of Cinematic Arts, visit with Hannah, including a stop [email protected] sational and Sketch Comedy Train- 636 SE 1st St. on October 1, 2011, in Highlands, urban planning and urban design can be found at armstrongpark.org. where he wrote a thesis on narrative to show her the Columbia campus. ing Center and the Magnet Theater, 05 Belle Glade, FL 33430 N.C. A number of College and En- jointly at Harvard and MIT, Ben Don’t hesitate to email Ben at ben@ systems design in video games. He Miriam Sheinbein is headed to As much as we try to avoid the use and have been performing on stage 05 gineering graduates made the trip, Harwood moved to New Orleans armstrongpark.org if you’ll be in then founded Rad Dragon, a game claire.mcdonnell@ New York next month for Alison of clichés, sometimes there’s sim- every chance I can get.” gmail.com including Regina Bennis-Hartman to work on Katrina recovery efforts. New Orleans any time soon. development studio based in Los Hirsh’s wedding; Karen Austrian ply no better way to communicate Jason Colombo, v.p. for asset ’09, Sarah Rae Murphy ’05E, Chris- Since 2009 he has worked in afford- What’s going on with you these Angeles. The studio’s game, The is flying in from Kenya to attend. our feelings: Time flies! It’s hard management at Goldman Sachs, Hello from San Francisco, Class tina Baumel, Amanda Ramsdell ’12 able, sustainable recovery housing. days? We all want to know, so send Moonlighters, was selected and Miriam is on the clinical faculty to believe that 2013 is upon us and married Jessica Levin at the Ritz- of 2005! I’m excited to join you as P&S and Carolyn McCormick. After He was responsible for writing an update! shown by the IndieCade festival at for the UCS-SFGH Family Medicine that our 10-year Alumni Reunion Carlton in San Juan, Puerto Rico. the new Peter Kang. Let’s start the quite a few years abroad and away, recovery and redevelopment plans the Electronic Entertainment Expo Residency Program but recently Weekend is just a few months Jessica is an associate at Morrison updates with a few weddings. Andrew and Alexandra moved back for several important neighbor- last summer, and Rad Dragon re- away. I’ll be coming in from Beijing Cohen, a Manhattan law firm. Cedrick Mendoza-Tolentino to New York following their wed- hoods, authoring and passing Michelle Oh Sing leased its first game for iOS devices, especially for the weekend, and I Sam Arora writes, “I married my wrote in about a Columbia wed- ding. They live in Brooklyn, where significant sections of the city’s post- 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 Shove Pro, in November. hope to see you there as well. The sweetheart, Jaime Bugaski, in Wash- ding weekend extravaganza: “On he is a writer and she works on Katrina master plan and securing 06 Philadelphia, PA 19107 And now for a series of wonder- dates are Thursday, May 30–Sun- ington, D.C. On hand for the celebra- June 23, Lauren Parmington mar- sustainability and labor issues. more than $35 million of state and 06 ful wedding announcements. [email protected] Manage Your day, June 2. To find out more, to tion were Jonathan Manes, Dana ried Dan Long at the Lake Placid In addition to tying the knot, our federal housing funds to fund work This past November, Emily Lo make a pledge to attend or to up- Peritz (née Hopp), Karen Sagall Lodge in Lake Placid, N.Y. The classmates continue their adven- on 2,000 lots and homes. Seth Wainer recently started a married fellow MIT graduate stu- Subscription date your contact information with ’03E and groomsman and Columbia ceremony was a beautiful bookend tures as playwrights, home owners, Ben now is a project manager at position with the White House’s dent Marcus Gibson in her native Columbia, please visit reunion. roommate Vincent Schoefer ’03E.” to a courtship that, for those who doctors and more. C&G Construction of Louisiana, Office of Science and Technology Philadelphia area. She took a break If you prefer reading CCT college.columbia.edu. Feel free Lastly, Will Hu had a mini Co- have had the pleasure of spending Michael Yates Crowley is a Lila where he coordinates projects with Policy and ran into Wayne Ting, from her architecture thesis-writing online, you can help us to email me with any questions lumbia reunion at his wedding to time with Lauren and Dan through Acheson Wallace American Play- the City of New Orleans and many who works on the National Eco- to celebrate with guests from go green and save money about the weekend. Also “like” our Jessica Meksavan ’05 Barnard. The the years, began years ago at a Hal- wrights Program fellow at Juilliard nonprofit organizations. These in- nomic Council. around the world, including several by opting out of the print Facebook page, “Columbia College reception was held at the Westin St. loween party at the Nancy Whis- and frequently performs with his clude the Riggio Foundation’s Proj- Talibah Newman ’13 Arts was Columbians and Carman 13-ers: edition. Click “Manage Your Class of 2003 - 10 Year Reunion.” Francis in San Francisco. Classmates key Pub just south of Canal Street. theater company Wolf 359 (wolf359. ect Home Again, which is building awarded a 2012 Director’s Guild Anissa Bazari; Allan Fong ’05E; So that you’ll know a bit more in attendance included Gaurav How were we all supposed to org). 200 homes in the heavily flooded of America Student Film Award in Emily Kleinman; Jean Lee ’05; Ran- Subscription” at college. about some of our classmates when Shah, Daniel Dykema, Michelle know that Dan, who was shocked Brendon Jobs loved his second Gentilly neighborhood, and Brad the African-American category for dy Li ’06E and his wife, Norah Li columbia.edu/cct and follow you catch up with them in a few Hodara, Shelly Mittal and Daniel that he was being put into a cab summer in Washington, D.C., but Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, her short film,Busted On Brigham (née Garry); Peter Liou ’08; Krishna the domestic instructions. months, here are a few updates. Lee. given that Lauren’s apartment was has decided to stay out in Philly, as which is building 150 houses in the Lane. She is in post-production Rao; Jonathan Talamini ’07 and his We will continue to notify Andy Shin is the co-founder only two blocks away, would be Germantown is taking off and he’s devastated Lower Ninth Ward. Ben on her thesis film,Sweet Honey wife, Christine Talamini ’07 (née and CTO for a fashion start-up, the one to win over Lauren’s heart? settling into home ownership with also is on the board of the Historic Chile’, which will premiere in the Lin); Becca Tam ’05 (née Anderson); you by email when each Vaunte. He recently moved back Angela Georgopoulos Dan endured much to be the one his partner. Faubourg Tremé Association and Columbia University Film Festival Anne Thomas; Michael Vary and issue is posted online. You to New York City after living in 04 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 lucky enough to stand at the shore Vanessa Carr is an independent chairs its Economic Development later this year. his wife, Jackie Vary (née Matayo- may be reinstated to receive the Bay Area, where he started New York, NY 10038 of Lake Placid as Lauren’s father filmmaker in San Francisco. Since Committee. On December 5, Jennifer Med- shi); Vidya Vasu-Devan; Dave Wei; Togetherville, a company acquired 04 guided her down the long set of graduating from the UC Berkeley In December, Ben purchased and bery (née Schnidman) was featured Susan Wei ’08E (née Liu); Jerry Wu; the print edition at any time [email protected] by sending a note to cct@ by Disney. stairs and over the gravel-covered Graduate School of Journalism, began restorations on a 200-year-old on CNN.com for her work with and Sevinc Yuksel ’06E. Rachel Lynn Kalin (née Reich- Hello fellow CC ’04ers! I hope you path — endless hockey games, sail- she’s worked on projects with The historic “Creole cottage” house of Kickboard, a software company Kinara Flagg ’11L and Paul Fileri columbia.edu. ard) writes, “My husband, Matthew are all well and looking forward ing events and hikes up, through New York Times and PBS. She’s his own in the Tremé neighborhood. that provides a centralized location were married on August 11 at The Kalin, and I welcomed our first to spring. As usual, just a friendly and around the Adirondacks. making a documentary about That’s also where he founded a for teachers to record their students’ Ram’s Head Inn on Shelter Island,

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Go to reunion.college.colum best man (and best twin) Philip Larissa Silva and diving coach Gor- bia.edu to get more information and Fileri, Nattha Chutinthranond, don Spencer were in attendance. to make a pledge to attend. Also, Umrao Sethi and Laura Stedman. David D. Chait April and Michal met in Haiti please take a minute to update your Friend and Kinara’s fellow Law 1255 New Hampshire Ave. following the 2010 earthquake and contact information on the site so School classmate, Andrew Case 07 N.W., Apt. 815 now live in Michal’s hometown of Columbia can send you the latest ’11L, officiated. 07 Washington, DC 20036 Bratislava, Slovakia. news related to reunion. You also Other CC alums enlivening the [email protected] Joanna Loewenstein is engaged can contact either of the staff mem- celebration included Patrick Cic- to Leon Skornicki ’06 Princeton of bers noted at the top of the column. cone ’03, Max DiLallo, Jeffrey Sted- The Class of 2007 has been up to Caracas, Venezuela. Also, join our CC/EN Facebook man ’05, Laurel Combs, Ed Combs some amazing things! Lenora Babb writes, “Kori Gatta group, “Columbia University Class and Julia Werb. The newlyweds are Sarah Smick directed, co-wrote, and John Estrada ’07E are engaged of 2008.” Now, onto a few updates doing well: Kinara clerks for U.S. produced and is starring in her first and will be married in the fall. John from classmates. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton feature film, “a bro-mantic dark proposed to Kori where they met, Joshua Robinson has some pretty in New Haven, Conn., where they comedy called Friended to Death, on Amsterdam Avenue near their big news to share. “First, I proposed live with leurs chats, Anouk and about a guy who fakes his death old dorm, Wien.” Also, “I recently to Daniella Zalcman ’09 on the Guillaume. Kinara was admitted to on social media to see which of his visited Suzanne Hopcroft and steps of the Met. It had been a long the New York bar in January and so-called ‘friends’ care enough to Jonny Rose ’04 at their beautiful time coming, but I still managed to will begin a clerkship on the United show up at his fake funeral. I’m apartment in Long Beach, Calif., surprise her with an elaborate ruse. States Court of Appeals for the thrilled to be nearing completion where they recently moved. By For the record, she said yes. Making Second Circuit in September. Paul is on it and look forward to premier- all accounts they are enjoying the things even more interesting for us, completing a dissertation in cinema ing it in early 2013.” The film has sunshine and the beach.” we moved to London (my home- studies at NYU. been profiled in Indiewire and The In October, Christina Myers ’08 town) in November, where I started Marc Pimentel ’10 P&S married Examiner. produced and performed in an am- as The Wall Street Journal’s European Camilla Benedicto ’08 PH in Boston Kasia Nikhamina shares, “My bitious theatre project, Those Whom sports correspondent and sports on August 25. April Lee ’10 SIPA husband, Ilya Nikhamin, has the Gods Love, in the Downtown editor of WSJ Europe. After three was maid of honor. Groomsmen launched his own bicycle shop, Los Angeles Arts District through months of covering nothing but the included Tahmid Chowdhury, Redbeard Bikes, in DUMBO in her budding theatre company, Kids New York Giants, I’ll be glad to trade George Eng ’13E, 14 P&S; James Brooklyn. (And as we know, behind Terribles. She also has launched a in one football for another.” Vedia Biton ’08 and Vladimir Eidelman ’08E were married on August 12 in a seaside Jewish ceremony and reception in Istanbul, Turkey. Ji ’10 P&S; Ani Ravi; and Eugene every great man is a great woman “found space” theatre experience, Tarin O’Donnell moved to Mi- Among the Columbians in attendance were, left to right: Blake Rego ’08E, Michelle Mayer ’08, Oleg Otlivanchik ’08E, the bride, the groom, Tsai ’10 P&S. Bridesmaids included … I’ve been helping him out behind where the audience arrives at a ami last summer and recently started Kseniya Shelkovskaya ’08 Barnard, Yoni BenTov ’08E and Journee Isip ’08. Cindy Cheung ’09 GS. the scenes.) The big draw is that he restaurant with a prix fixe dinner; working with Google, doing market- PHOTO: TIM RYAN SMITH Also in attendance were Michael offers professional bike fittings — a conspicuous character then acts ing for Google+. “I’m enjoying living Bouton ’10 P&S, Mai-King Chan ’10 highly recommended for anyone as guide, escorting guests to an un- in the tropics with a Penn graduate P&S, Eunji Choi ’06E, Maggie Chou who’s experiencing pain or discom- disclosed loft location for the show. and soaking in the ‘Meeyami’ flavor. tion at the University of Tennessee Julia Feldberg Lauren “Casey” Hayes gradu- Atlas Foundation, an NGO that ’10 P&S, Evan Davidson ’06E, Bran- fort while riding. Swing by the shop The experience aims to keep the My apartment is always open to vis- at Chattanooga. 10 4 E. 8th St., Apt. 4F ated from a conservatory program develops and implements develop- don Hays ’10 P&S, Helen He, John when you’re in town! The address audience on its toes and sets a tone iting Lions, unless Anna C. Lindow Daniella Zalcman and Joshua New York, NY 10003 at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting ment projects throughout rural Kaczmar ’10 P&S, Sasha Katsnelson is 165 Front St., and our website is of excitement and surprise from is occupying the guest room, which Robinson ’08 also will be walking 10 last June and now is the develop- Morocco. Living in Marrakech is [email protected] ’06E, Emily Niu ’10 P&S, Kristen redbeardbikes.com.” the beginning. The story unfolds as she does frequently.” down the aisle soon. The engaged ment director of True False Theatre an adventure, between learning the Pastor ’10 P&S, Melissa Sum ’10 Christine Kwak has finished a satire about Hollywood itself told Karl Moats ’11 Business now couple recently moved to London, Hello, Class of 2010! Thank you for and an associate company member languages, hitching rides on the P&S, Damani Taylor ’10 P&S, Nicole her third semester as a visiting through the eyes of a smart young travels the world as a v.p. of market- where Joshua is a sports editor for sharing your wonderful updates. of Theatre East. She also is recently backs of motos and exploring the Taylor ’12 P&S, Peggy Tseng ’13 lecturer in the music department woman trying to find her place ing with Adobe. His work was fea- the European edition of The Wall If you are reading this column but engaged to Caleb Deats ’11L and is mountains just outside of the city. P&S, William Tseng ’08 PH, Zachary at Cornell, although, she notes, “I in the real world. Check it out at tured in a New York Times/Wall Street Street Journal. have not received an email from planning her wedding, which will It seems, though, that I’m never far Wright ’10 P&S, Schonmei Wu ’10 left Ithaca and moved back to NYC kidsterribles.com. Journal international ad campaign. Hurricane Sandy dealt a devas- me asking for your submissions, be held on a farm in her home state from home, as my neighbors hap- P&S and Vijay Yerubandi ’10 P&S. a while ago. My husband, Eddie I’m excited to announce that I Karl met Newt Gingrich and his tating blow to many New Yorkers. please make sure your email ad- of West Virginia in August. She pen to be Columbia folk, too!” Robert McNamee writes, “I am Kim ’08, ’14L, transferred over the (David Chait) am engaged to Aman- wife, Callista, in a gym in Singapore Marissa “Isang” Smith did her dress is updated with the College. is glad her Columbia friends will And finally, our quarterly happy to report that on September summer to Columbia Law School. da Mullens ’13 Arch. I proposed to (Newt was only touring), saw the part in the weeks following the You can do so at the following finally have a reason to visit after installment from Chris Yim, who 15 I married the beautiful Erin [As I write,] my chamber group, Amanda in September on a trip to prime minister of Japan in Tokyo tragedy to help. Isang had planned link: college.columbia.edu/cct/ years of listening to her wax poetic has some incredibly exciting news Aycock in a nondenominational Solisti Ensemble (solistiensemble. Washington, D.C., where we met. and swam with beluga whales at to run in the ING New York City update_contact_info. about the Mountain State. to report: ceremony at the Hempstead House org), is awaiting its Carnegie Hall SeaWorld Orlando. Marathon. After it was canceled, Congratulations are in order for Michael Cloney is a student at “If you’re reading this, it means at Sands Point Preserve in Sands Stern Auditorium debut on Janu- Ladies, Karl also enjoys candlelit she decided to be a campaign man- a few of our recently engaged or P&S. As an undergrad, he met his that you’ve survived the 12-21-12 REUNION WEEKEND Point, N.Y. In attendance were ary 18, 2013. Should be an exciting dinners, long walks on the beach ager for Run Anyways, which was married classmates. now-wife, Tania Harsono ’11, in apocalypse, and I just want to say MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 many old Columbia friends, includ- night. Winter plans include spend- and Justin Bieber songs. His num- formed in the aftermath of the hur- As of this writing, Jacob Tadros Ferris Booth. The couple was mar- ‘Congratulations, you’re a trooper.’ ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ing my best man, Will Thomas, ing lots of quality time with my sis- ber is 801-228-8387. ricane. The group raised $16,000 ’10E and LeAnn Chavez were to ried on July 28, 2011. In the post-apocalyptic world, my ALUMNI AFFAIRS Sarah Trimmer and his wife, Megan Thomas ’01 ter, Michelle Kwak ’12, who works by facilitating a marathon-distance be married on February 10. They Emelie Kogut writes, “I have hope is that you will turn to me as [email protected] Barnard; CJ Zopf ’06E and his wife, at Ralph Lauren in Seoul, Korea, run in Central Park and also col- met their freshman year in Carman. gone back to school after working your fearless leader. My campaign 212-851-7977 Stephanie Zopf ’06E (née Flores), and visiting for the holidays.” Alidad Damooei lected enough supplies to fill five The bridal party included Rebecca at various legal jobs in New York starts here. DEVELOPMENT Julia Pollan Jalal Ahmed ’06E, Emily Doherty, Love is in the air for CC ’07. c/o CCT trucks. Now, Isang is helping turn (Fuller) Kingman ’11, Sara Yee ’10E, and Switzerland. I’m in my first “On a lighter note, I am still [email protected] 09 Yasmine El Gabbani, Brit Cowan Rachel Rosenberg ’06, a second- Columbia Alumni Center Run Anyways into an official char- Toukam Ngoufanke ’09E and Kyle year at Boston University School of alive and kicking. The 2012 holiday 212-851-7941 ’07 Barnard, Yasmine Cathell ’07 year resident in family medicine at 09 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ity that will continue as a force in Jurado ’09. Law and I’m very happy to have season left me with a few extra Barnard, Anna Tkacheva ’07, Brian Beth Israel Medical Center, married Neda Navab New York, NY 10025 the athletic community. Abby Oberman writes, “My Chloe Brighton ’08 and Suhaydee pounds that I am hoping to shed French ’08 and Peter Petraro.” Khalil Savary, a second-year pe- 7 Soldiers Field Park, [email protected] Isang’s commitment to running now-fiancé, Bryan Finkel, proposed Tejeda ’12 in my first-year class now that it’s 2013. But hey, what Jason Colombo, v.p. for asset diatrics resident at Jacobi Medical 08 Apt. 7C is a full-time profession. She is a last August during the final stop of section.” are New Year’s resolutions for if management at Goldman Sachs, Center in the Bronx. The two were 08 Boston, MA 02163 This fall, Lindsey Frost Cleary coach for City Coach and JackRab- our cruise through Europe (on the Rachel Vishnepolsky has not to fantasize about washboard married Jessica Levin at the Ritz- featured in The New York Times [email protected] married Jonathon Cleary in Chat- bit Sports in New York City. top of Mount Solaro, Capri, to be been awarded the NSF Graduate abs that are hiding under there Carlton in San Juan, Puerto Rico. wedding section in October. tanooga, Tenn. Eva Fortes, Holly Don’t forget to send me an exact!). I have been overwhelmed Research Fellowship, to be used somewhere? This past year, I have Jessica is an associate at Morrison Thomas Weldon ’08 and Ma- It’s been nearly five years since Chung, Cyrus Ebnesajjad and Soo update in 2013! Use my email ad- by the well wishes of so many toward her mathematical research been incredibly grateful for learn- Cohen, a Manhattan law firm. rissa Doyle were married on Sep- we graduated and (for most of us) Han joined Lindsey in the celebra- dress at the top of the column or Columbians, and I hope many on smooth dynamical systems. ing the values of discipline, hard Sam Arora writes, “I married tember 1. The wedding ceremony entered the real world. Incredible! tion (see nearby photo). Lindsey submit through CCT’s easy-to-use of them will be there to celebrate Alexandra Stein writes, “I’ve work and grit. Thanks to those my sweetheart, Jaime Bugaski, in took place at the Second Presbyte- An amazing team of our classmates lives in Tennessee, where she is a webform: college.columbia.edu/ when Bryan and I get married this moved to Morocco, where I am who heard me complain and for Washington, D.C. On hand for the rian Church in Pittston, Pa. are hard at work on the Reunion research associate in STEM Educa- cct/submit_class_note. September.” the program manager for the High everything that has humbled me in

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She and Benjamin Clark, to highlight the issue of climate campaign in communications at the staff, students and parents Please email [email protected]. who’s a 2L at NYU law, decided to change here at home, recognizing national headquarters in Chicago. I hope this note finds everyone well finally ditch Manhattan and move that building a domestic climate She was in charge of the national Mail or email orders to: and enjoying these early months to Williamsburg, which they love. movement is the most promising Hispanic media operation. She Columbia College Today of 2013. Nicole Catá is in her second way to shift the United States’ cur- shares, “I landed that job because Columbia Alumni Center As many of you may know, we year at The George Washington rently obstructionist stance in the Columbia’s Alumni & Parent In- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. lost a member of our class and the University Law School, where she negotiations. ternship Fund supported my stay in New York, NY 10025 Columbia community a few months is a member of The George Wash- David Zhu is working in Hong Washington, D.C., so I could intern Email: [email protected] ago. On November 6, Gelseigh ington International Law Review and Kong for Goldman Sachs IBD. at the White House during summer Online: college.columbia.edu/cct/advertise_with_us Karl-Cannon passed away in a research assistant for professor He attended President Lee C. 2011. I want to show my gratitude Telephone: 212-851-7852 Denver, after she was hit by a truck Thomas Buergenthal. Although Bollinger’s Hong Kong reception by including this in Class Notes.” Deadline for Summer 2013 issue: she will be in school for a few more in October. He is involved with Brenda P. Salinas was accepted Thursday, April 25, 2013 semesters, she hopes to devote the Columbia University Alumni as one of three Kroc Fellows at Na- Answers to Lit Hum Quiz her career to advancing the rights Association Hong Kong, already tional Public Radio. She is proud on Inside Back Cover of women and girls throughout having organized a recent gradu- to be among the WKCR alumni to the world. This summer, she will ates gathering with CUAAHK pursue a career in public radio and 1. Humanities A. marry her high school sweetheart, V.P. Danny Lee ’95 as well as the encourages us to listen for her. Ben Theodore, in their home state annual Christmas Party. David Pat Blute is excited to be the 2. The Iliad, Homer; Inferno, of New York. invites anyone in the Class of 2012 Harwich H.S. (Cape Cod, Mass.) tary education). He’s working using after four years of sitting Dante; Oedipus the King, Congratulations to Nicole! in Hong Kong to reach out to him. graduation speaker this summer. part-time with La Camaronera in dorm room closets (I was a Key to Alumni Cor- Sophocles; and Oresteia, Also in Washington, D.C., is Jesus Madrid reports from He currently is in Seattle doing food truck so he invites the class shoulder-bag kind of girl) and the ner on Page 96 Aeschylus. Josefina Aguila, who is a 1L at Puerto Rico: “Since leaving our be- freelance movie editing. to “stop by if you’re in town!” Columbia crown pendant that I got 1. Plato Georgetown Law. loved alma mater, I’ve been work- Veronica Hylton, who has Willie is looking forward to a trip as a freebie at a senior 2012 event 3. Confessions, St. Augustine 2. Swift 14 Keeping the theme going is Zila ing with the Cayo Santiago colony returned to Columbia as a coordi- to Orlando next summer. and which is hanging on a chain 17 (off syllabus in 1942–43); 3. Goethe 3 12 16 Essays, Michel de Mon- Acosta, who left Goldman Sachs to of free-ranging rhesus macaques nator in the American Studies de- Celine Pascheles started her around my neck as I type. 4. Sophocles attend the Law School. At the time in Puerto Rico, where I’m a field partment and lives with Columbia first year at Stony Brook University “My Columbia experience was 8 10 taigne (1960–61); History 5. Montaigne 4 15 18 of the Peloponnesian War, of writing these notes, he was in manager for a project from the Uni- roommates, attended her depart- School of Medicine. She loves it a mix of the good, the great, the 6. Sappho 13 the midst of first semester finals. versity of Chicago investigating ment’s staff and faculty holiday and is living her dream of becom- bad and sometimes the I-don’t- Thucydides (1937–38); and 7. Ovid 11 Luanda Garcia is a second- variations of maternal behavior. party in December. She also ran in ing a doctor. even-have-the-words-to-deal- 2 9 Aeneid, Virgil (1952–53). 8. Rabelais year corps member in Teach For One of the advantages of living on President Lee C. Bollinger’s Fun Kelicia Hollis sent an update with-this. But it was an experience 19 9. Austen 7 4. Jane Austen, whose Pride America, teaching kindergarten in a Caribbean island is that I get to Run for the first time, writing, from Ann Arbor, Mich.: “Transi- that certainly contributed to my 10. Euripides 6 and Prejudice has been Atlanta. host friends such as Chithra Ven- “Glad I finally had a chance, as I tioning from the bustling vibrancy personal development, furthered 5 20 taught since 1985–86. Lety ElNaggar writes, “I’ve katesan ’12E, Shoshana Spellman was too lazy as a student!” of being an undergraduate in my sense of independence and 11. Dostoevsky been in Egypt since late October on ’12E and Anna Brown ’12 Barnard Paul Hsiao lives with Eric Tang New York City to my suburban added a complexity of thought 12. Thucydides 5. Lysistrata, Aristophanes. 21 a Fulbright Scholarship to study in my beachfront apartment. With ’12E and Eric Chung ’12E on the college-town graduate student life and experience both inside and 13. Voltaire 1 6. The Medea, Euripides. the nay and kawala, reed flutes that, I urge friends to please visit Upper East Side. They live near in Ann Arbor has been smooth. I’m outside of the classroom. I pray 14. Cervantes 15. Virgil 7. that have been performed in tradi- me before September!” Haenna Lee, Anupriya Kohli and definitely caught in the maize-and- that all is well with my classmates, 22 Plato and Shakespeare. tional Egyptian/Arab music since Nora Dooley is spending a year Sarah Gordon ’12E. Paul invites blue fever that other UMich fans and that our lives are not only 16. Aeschylus 8. Bible, Job was added in the age of the pharaohs (they have in South Africa as an intern for the class to let him know if anyone have, and I love my department in full of good intentions but filled 17. Herodotus 23 1940–41. actually found these instruments in Grassroot Soccer (GRS), an NGO is in the neighborhood. the School of Education. with love, respect and compassion 18. St. Augustine ancient Egyptian tombs, and they that uses the power of soccer to Some of our classmates have “Yet, even as I’m adding another for ourselves and others. I look 19. Woolf 9. Metamorphoses, Ovid. are played from Morocco to Iraq). stop the spread of HIV, both by returned to school. layer to my identity, Columbia forward to witnessing the great- 20. Dante 10. Shakespeare: Hamlet, Henry I’m studying these flutes as they’re working in communities all over Willie Avendano ’12E has still leaves its mark through the ness of our impact in the coming 21. Shakespeare IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, performed and taught in folkloric sub-Saharan Africa and with part- enrolled at Florida International friends that I (try to!) catch up with years!” 22. Homer King Lear and Twelfth Night. and classical music contexts and ners across the globe. She encour- University in Miami for a second from time to time, the Columbia 23. Alma Mater have been keeping a blog about ages classmates to explore ways to bachelor’s (this time in elemen- backpack that I’ve finally started

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How Well Do You Know Lit Hum? Test yourself (sorry, no blue books) with the following quiz. Answers on page 94.

1. What was the original name for Literature Humanities?

2. Four books have been required texts throughout the 75 years Lit Hum has been taught. Name them.

3. Four books have been required texts in all but one year that Lit Hum has been taught. Name them.

4. Which female author’s book was the first added to the list of required texts?

5. From what Lit Hum text is the following quotation taken: “No man is ever going to get satisfaction if the woman doesn’t choose that he should”?

6. An original Lit Hum text in 1937–38, this work by a Greek tragedian was dropped from the curriculum seven times before its most recent reinstatement in 2003–04. Name it.

7. Two authors have had 12 of their works taught as required texts, more than any other authors. Name them.

8. What was the first book of the Bible to be added to the Lit Hum curriculum, and when? 9. From what Lit Hum text is the following quotation taken: “The hero’s mortal body dissolved on his upward path, as a leaden pellet / shot from a broad sling melts away in the midst of the sky”?

10. When Lit Hum was created in 1937, this author had five works among the required readings. Name the author and, to be considered a true Lit Hum expert, the five works.

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Come celebrate Alumni Reunion Weekend 2013 — the reunion that everyone is looking forward to! Classes 1943 In addition to class-specific events throughout the weekend, you can join all Columbians celebrating their reunions on Friday, May 31, at the “Back on Campus” sessions, including Mini-Core Courses, engineering lectures, tours of 1948 the Morningside campus and its libraries and more. There will also be unique opportunities to engage with the 1953 city’s arts community through theatre, ballet, music and art gallery tours. 1958 Columbians will be dispersed throughout the Heights and greater Gotham all weekend, but Saturday, June 1, is 1963 everyone’s day on campus. This year’s Saturday programming encourages all alumni to come back to celebrate some 1968 of the best aspects of Columbia at Affinity Receptions and to return to the classroom to hear some of Columbia’s 1973 best-known faculty and alumni at Dean’s Day in a series of Public Intellectual Lectures and Mini-Core Courses. The day wraps up with the reunion classes’ tri-college Wine Tasting, followed by class dinners and a 1978 final gathering for champagne, dancing and good times on Low Plaza at the Starlight Reception. 1983 1988 Dates and Registration Information 1993 Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 2, 2013 1998 2003 For more information or to register, please visit 2008 reunion.college.columbia.edu. If you register before Wednesday, May 1, you’ll receive a 10 percent discount on all events, excluding Broadway shows, New York City Ballet and New York Philharmonic tickets.