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FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD

20 Students Bond Around 24 Overheard in Ferris Food Booth Commons Clubs, communities and other initiatives An illustration of the undergraduate eating based around food offer students a chance experience. to connect. By Karl Daum ’15

By Nathalie Alonso ’08

26 Epicures and 37 So Where Do You Want Entrepreneurs to Eat? Alumni follow their passions and build Alumni of all ages recall their favorite careers in all aspects of the food industry. dining choices in Morningside Heights.

By Alex Sachare ’71 14 48 54 MESSAGE FROM DEAN JAMES J. VALENTINI Food Makes for Good Chemistry

hirty-two years ago, upon my very first visit to Columbia, my hosts in the chemistry depart- ment took me for dinner to Fencing wins titles Pippa Murray ’96 Darryl Pinckney ’88 Moon Palace, on Broadway between West 111th and 112th TStreets. The Shanghai-style Chinese restaurant, located next to Bank Street Bookstore, was a DEPARTMENTS favorite in the neighborhood for students and WEB EXTRAS faculty — especially chemistry faculty, who 3 Message from Dean James J. Valentini took speakers there every Thursday after the Food makes for good chemistry. Kailee Pedersen ’17 department seminar. The restaurant closed eight years later, in 1991, only days before I 4 Letters to the Editor reads her award- winning poetry returned to campus as a professor. It had been a Morningside Heights institution for 26 years. 5 Within the Family by Editor Alex Sachare ’71 Recipes from In the years since, new eateries in the neigh- Creating a food-themed issue of CCT. Dina Cheney ’99 borhood have come — and some have come and gone. And everyone I know seems to have College Dean James J. Valentini and Associate Dean of Residential Life (now Dean of 6 Around the Quads Dean’s Scholarship one that they would regularly choose. One of Undergraduate Student Life) Cristen Scully Kromm, at head of table, enjoyed a lunch Dean’s Scholarship Reception brings together donors and recipients. Reception photos my chemistry graduate students, living on a with students last semester at John Jay Dining Hall. tight budget and wanting to get back into the PHOTO: ELENA HECHT BC’09 14 Roar, Lion, Roar John Jay Awards lab quickly, would go to Koronet Pizza for its Men’s and women’s fencing win Ivy League titles. Dinner photos $2 giant slices, remarking that it would be perfect if only the creative passion. For many Columbians, a restaurant is a place joint also offered salads. A longtime friend from out of town we go with friends to replenish our bodies and cheer our spirits; 41 Columbia Forum: Why Not Say What Happened: college.columbia. always asked to go to Symposium when he visited. And a few for others a restaurant is a business, a labor of love, a life, a way A Sentimental Education edu/cct months ago, when I arranged a breakfast meeting with an alum- to propel an entrepreneurial spirit. Anita Lo ’88 is one of them. Memories from the author’s last two years at the College. nus who lives on the East Side, he wanted nothing other than to Last September I had the pleasure of dining with two of her By Morris Dickstein ’61 come across town to eat at Tom’s Restaurant, at which he had Columbia College classmates at Lo’s award-winning restaurant, been a regular in his student days, but had not entered in three Annisa, in the West Village, and had the even greater pleasure decades. of being introduced to her. Though this was our first meeting, I ALUMNI NEWS When I became dean in 2011, Bwog, a student news blog, had seen her before, and you may have, too, on Top Chef Masters. offered a free Milano Market sandwich to the student who came As you’ll learn in this issue, food connects current students 47 Message from CCAA President Douglas R. Wolf ’88 up with the best nickname for me — “best” to be determined — whether through student organizations, special interest by open-ballot voting on Bwog.com. I upped the prize by offer- residential communities or in the dining halls. In recent years, A new logo for the CCAA. ing to buy the sandwich myself, inviting the winner to enjoy it Columbia Dining has started hosting special community events, 48 People with me in my office and offering a photo-op with a name plate for Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, Black History Like Columbia College engraved with the winning selection. When Ivan Duschatzky Month, Cinco de Mayo and other occasions. And while our Pippa Murray ’96; Richard Ravitch ’55; Andrew Carroll ’93 Alumni on Facebook: SEAS’13, creator of the now-familiar nickname “Deantini,” first-years (who have meal plans) typically connect for meals in 52 Alumni in the News facebook.com/alumnicc joined me for lunch, he ordered one of his favorites, chicken John Jay, JJ’s Place or Ferris Booth Commons, many upperclass- parmigiana. I don’t remember what I had; I just remember be- men prefer to eat at Café East in Alfred Lerner Hall, Blue Java 53 Bookshelf ing glad that the winning name turned out to be one I wouldn’t in Butler Library, Brad’s in the Journalism School, Brownie’s in regret embracing. the basement of Avery Hall, Joe Coffee in the Northwest Corner Follow @Columbia_CCAA Featured: Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy This year, I’ve been making more time to eat with students in Building or elsewhere in the neighborhood. on Twitter by Darryl Pinckney ’88 the dining halls and to have Sunday dinners with them in resi- I hope dining has afforded you many opportunities to stay dence halls. And there’s always something new to try. Recently, connected to your fellow alumni, whether from the Class of 55 Class Notes I had my first grilled cheese from JJ’s Place, in the basement of 1932 or the Class of 2014. And I look forward to connecting with Join the Columbia Alumni John Jay. Pretty good, as I told the chef. I’m looking forward to each of you through breakfasts, lunches and dinners on my trips 92 Obituaries Association Network going back soon. across the United States and around the world, to learn where on LinkedIn: alumni. Food is essential for our biological lives, but dining together you have traveled since graduation from that wonderful place 96 Alumni Corner columbia.edu/linkedin is fundamental to our social lives. That was implicit in my in- that I hope has continued to nourish you, Columbia College. Bruce Black ’76 on why he loves Columbia football. vitation to Ivan. And, while we can analyze food in the simple Roar, Lion(s), Roar, chemistry terms of energy content and composition of protein, carbohydrates and fat, preparing food is an art, and for some a

SPRING 2015 3 Letters to the Editor WITHIN THE FAMILY BY EDITOR ALEX SACHARE ’71

The One Eric Eisner ’70 Volume 42 Number 3 When I started reading Jamie Katz ’72, Creating a Food-Themed CCT Spring 2015 BUS’80’s article about Eric Eisner ’70 in

EDITOR IN CHIEF the Winter 2014–15 issue, I thought that Alex Sachare ’71 maybe there was another Eric Eisner in our class. I could not imagine the Eric Eis- hoosing a theme, any theme, for a magazine can food trucks to the creator of a subscription service that delivers EXECUTIVE EDITOR ner I knew 44 years ago becoming a “top- be a tricky proposition. A theme allows us to gourmet delights from around the world directly to your door- Lisa Palladino tier Hollywood lawyer and dealmaker.” delve more deeply into a subject of interest, to step. None of the nine are household names yet, but they follow approach it from several angles and to present it in the footsteps of some well-known Columbia foodies such as MANAGING EDITOR But the article was indeed about my old Alexis Tonti SOA’11 friend, whom I remember as being shy, in a more comprehensive way. But if we are go- restaurateur Anita Lo ’88 and America’s Test Kitchen founder and idealistic and one of the nicest people I ing to devote a series of articles to one subject, we host Christopher Kimball ’73. One thing they have in common EDITORIAL ASSISTANT have ever known. I am delighted to learn Cneed to be confident that subject will be of interest to many if not is that they all pursued their dreams and did not play it safe, Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 that he seems to have had a happy life and most of our readers or we’ll lose them after they’ve read Class instead finding a way to be involved in a field they were passion- Notes. That’s why many alumni magazines ate about. As recipe developer and cookbook FORUM EDITOR that he is helping young people from poor Rose Kernochan BC’82 neighborhoods attend good schools and don’t publish themed issues at all or only do author Dina Cheney ’99 says, “It still amazes colleges. them sparingly, preferring diverse content on me that I’ve accomplished this dream that I had CONTRIBUTING WRITER Henry Munson ’70 the hope that everyone will find something to when I was 14. I feel so lucky to be doing this.” Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98 Winthrop, Mass. In one of them, an art instructor is at the like. Read about these alumni starting on page 26. EDITORIAL INTERN back of a classroom showing slides. The Another factor is space. We’re proud of the My contribution to this issue is a compen- Karl Daum ’15 Secretary of the Treasury caption was, “You may not know much robust nature of our Class Notes and thankful dium of alumni memories of their favorite about art, but at least you know what I for our loyal team of class correspondents who Morningside Heights eateries, which starts on CCT is mistaken, and belittling, when its ART DIRECTOR like.” I brought it to class and showed it to help to produce those columns. However, page 37. It was fun to reach out to graduates of Gates Sisters Studio Winter 2014–15 edition says, of Alexan- him. His drawings were always fluid and when you add in the school news to be found all ages, members of classes from as far back as der Hamilton (Class of 1778), on page 5 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS vivid. Edward Koren ’57, a New Yorker car- in “Around the Quads,” and our other sec- the 1940s, and learn where they liked to go when (“Within the Family”): “Hamilton was Eileen Barroso toonist about whom Rosand wrote one of tions, there is only so much space remaining they ate off-campus and why they chose one the first Treasurer of the United States Char Smullyan GS’98 his books, was also a Jester cartoonist. for feature stories that explore topics of inter- place over another. Fifty years or more may have …” Hamilton was never Treasurer of the Steve Goldfield ’68 est and celebrate the accomplishments of our gone by, but the memories came back quickly United States. He was instead the first akland alif remarkable alumni, students and faculty. To as alumni recalled their favorite neighborhood Published quarterly by the O , C . Secretary of the Treasury (1789–95). devote all or most of that feature space to one PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO restaurants. I hope these recollections will stir Columbia College Office of Then, as now, the Treasurer is a presi- Alumni Affairs and Development for I was sorry to read of the death of David subject is a step that must be carefully mea- up memories for you. If you’d like to share dentially appointed officer in the Depart- alumni, students, faculty, parents and Rosand ’59, GSAS’65, a Columbia contem- sured. them, please send us a note: [email protected]. ment of the Treasury, while the Secretary friends of Columbia College. porary though not precisely a classmate. During the past several years, as we have mixed themed issues Food can be a unifying force, as we see in the article by Na- is the presidentially appointed “head” of SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, It came as interesting news that he once with those that present more diverse content, we have been think- thalie Alonso ’08, “Students Bond Around Food,” that begins on that department. The honor of being the COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS wanted to become an abstract expression- ing about how much fun it would be to do a food-themed issue. page 20 and explores the growing number of clubs, communi- “first Treasurer” is usually given (by the AND COMMUNICATIONS ist painter. What I most remember about Food is a staple of life and thus meets the most important criterion ties and other student initiatives that have developed around Treasury Department’s website, for ex- Bernice Tsai ’96 Dave Rosand, which seems to have got- for a successful theme: widespread (if not universal) interest. a shared food interest. I love the concept of Potluck House, ample) to Michael Hillegas, appointed by ten lost behind his academic eminence, is Three years ago, we marked the 25th anniversary of the gradu- where students gather for potluck dinners and regularly cook Address all correspondence to: the Continental Congress to serve, first as Columbia College Today that he was a terrific cartoonist for Jester. ation of the College’s first fully coeducational class with a look for one another, a practice that extends to the vegetarian/vegan Treasurer of the United Colonies, and then Columbia Alumni Center I thought then and would probably think at the impact that the inclusion Metta House and the kosher Beit 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. of the United States, 1775–89. now that his cartoons were far more so- of women students has had on Ephraim Food Co-Op. New York, NY 10025 Charles R. Braun ’63 Food meets the most important criterion 212-851-7852 phisticated than one would expect from a the College. Since then we’ve Alumni bond around food Pittsburgh Email (editorial): [email protected]; college humor magazine, even ours. featured themes such as the 75th for a successful theme: widespread as well, so we visited two of the (advertising): [email protected]. David Rosand ’59, GSAS’65 Many of us know that cartoonist Ed- anniversary of the founding of (if not universal) interest. class lunches that several classes Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and ward Koren ’57 went from Jester to The New Literature Humanities, the glo- hold on a regular basis — often facebook.com/alumnicc. I read the obituary for David Rosand ’59, Yorker. But not every Jester went from humor balization of Columbia, theater at at the Columbia University Club ISSN 0572-7820 GSAS’65 [Winter 2014–15], emeritus pro- (Continued on page 95) Columbia, including the Varsity Show, and the benefits of Colum- of New York — for the story on page 39. As Doron Gopstein ’63 fessor of art history. Rosand was my in- bia’s location in the City of New York. Meanwhile, the food theme notes, classmates often say at reunion that they should get Opinions expressed are those of the structor for Art Humanities circa 1965. Co- authors and do not reflect official CCT welcomes letters from readers about was always simmering on a back burner, waiting to be plated and together more frequently, and class lunches provide an ideal positions of Columbia College lumbia students will remember the class articles in the magazine but cannot print or presented. opportunity to do just that. or Columbia University. in which the instructor showed slides personally respond to all letters received. The challenge was that food is such a broad topic, and there Finally, food is fun — and a food-themed issue should be fun from the back of the room and discussed © 2015 Columbia College Today Letters express the views of the writers are a million ways to approach it. We needed to narrow it down as well. So we sent our editorial intern Karl Daum ’15 to Ferris All rights reserved. the works of art shown. and not CCT, the College or the University. and, as the Columbia College alumni magazine, connect our Booth Commons and asked him to wander among the diners and I was on the staff of the Columbia Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. readers to the subject. listen in on their conversations. A writer and illustrator whose Jester humor magazine and had gone All letters are subject to editing for space, Since a key part of our mission is to report and celebrate the work has appeared often in Spectator, the result of Daum’s eaves- through our back issues. Not only had clarity and CCT style. Please direct letters achievements of our alumni, we profiled nine young Columbians dropping is on pages 24 and 25. Rosand drawn the primary image of a jest- for publication “to the editor” via mail or who are carving careers for themselves in the food industry. These We hope you enjoy this er that we used (it had his initials, “DAR,” online: college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. epicurean entrepreneurs range from a pastry cook at the Ritz- issue. Let us know at cct@ on it) but he also drew cartoons for Jester. Carlton, New York, to the operator of one of the city’s ubiquitous columbia.edu.

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Left, Ria Coyne BC’84, GSAS’85 with Elizabeth Sun ’15. Right, the evening’s speakers, left to right: Dean James J. Valentini, Diarra White ’15 and Tracy V. Maitland ’82. PHOTOS: MICHAEL Di VITO

would not have been able to continue his College education. White said she was grateful for financial Admissions Staff Reunion A spirit of generosity and camaraderie infused the evening. aid for the “level of access it has given me,” adding that she “never would have been the first person in my family to attend an Scholarship Donors and Student Recipients Ivy League school” without it. “Thank you for the tools to live out my dream.” The benefactor of the Dr. Leo C. Mai- tland Scholarship Fund, in honor of his Meet at Dean’s Scholarship Reception father, Maitland drew a laugh from at- tendees when he said, “I’m going to get B y L i s a P a ll a d i n o right to the point. We need more money.” Financial aid, he added, gives students the opportunity to find and pursue their lmost 425 named scholar- Valentini reported that the College aid, which the dean stressed “is not a passions: “One must be passionate about ship donors and College offers 765 named scholarships this year, process, not an office, not an application, something to excel.” student recipients filled benefitting 1,181 students. Half of the Col- not an award … It’s a tool to advance Each attendee received a printed pro- Roone Arledge Audito- lege’s undergraduates receive financial the important objectives for us in the gram, which featured a letter from Grace rium on the evening College.” He thanked the donors, say- Kim ’15, the Senior Fund chair; bios of the of February 12 for the ing, “The entire class benefits from evening’s speakers; and a profile of donor Dean’s Scholarship Reception, an an- your generosity,” alluding to the fact Carlos R. Muñoz ’57, GSAS’61, who at- A ormer and current College admissions staff members from the 1960s through nual gathering that presents an opportu- that scholarships allow for a diverse tended the event with his wife, Kassie, the present gathered at Bistro Ten 18 on November 15 to swap stories of re- nity for the groups to meet, to share sto- class with students from all walks of and greeted several of his student recipi- cruitment in the days of envelopes fat and thin. ries about their College experiences and life. He also referenced the students in ents. Muñoz, who attended the College Attendees traveled from as far away as California and included several ad- to begin to build lasting relationships. the room, noting that he “wants them on scholarship, in 1996 established the Fmissions directors, listed here with their years of service: Mike Lacopo (first row, fourth The reception featured a buffet din- to think of themselves years from to- Gladys H. Muñoz Scholarship Fund in from left, director, 1971–76), Bill Oliver (back row, sixth from left, director, 1976–78), Jim ner as well as reserved seating, to en- night as donors.” honor of his mother. “I feel that I’m doing McMenamin (back row, 11th from left, director, 1981–88), Larry Momo ’73 (second back sure donors and their recipients found White, who grew up in West Or- something to return some of the benefits I row, second from left, acting director, 1980–81; director, 1988–93), Peter Johnson (sec- one another in the crowd and had time ange, N.J., described attending the received,” he says. ond back row, third from left, director, undergraduate admissions, CC and SEAS, 2004– to chat. A trio of student musicians per- Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner present) and Diane McKoy (second row from front, second from left, senior associate formed jazz throughout the night. in the fall. She said she thought she To view the complete list of 2014–15 donors director, 1980–present). Also attending were former Dean of Students Roger Lehecka ’67, GSAS’74 (back row, first from left, 1979–98) and Judge Gerald Lynch ’72, LAW’75 of The official program featured brief might not have anything in common and recipients, visit the Named Scholarships the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who was an interviewer in speeches from Dean James J. Valentini, with the honoree, Phillip M. Satow ’63, website: college.columbia.edu/namedscholar the Admissions Office (second row from front, third from left). donor Tracy V. Maitland ’82 and recipi- until in his acceptance speech he noted ships. To view photos of the reception, go to PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN GS’98 ent Diarra White ’15. Ralph Kaslick ’56 chats with Titus Willis ’18. that had it not been for financial aid, he facebook.com/alumnicc/albums.

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CAMPUS NEWS Raised in Ithaca, N.Y., Associ- You’ve been at Reid Hall since in the decade right before the Are there special challenges Eleven Faculty Receive ate Professor of French August. Tell me about it. French Revolution, when there that come with teaching in n UNIVERSITY LIFE: approach to city govern- Lenfest Award Joanna Stalnaker earned a Right now more and more was a group of philosophes who another language? Suzanne B. Goldberg, the ment and for focusing on B.A. from Swarthmore and a leven Arts & Sciences faculty Columbia faculty are teach- considered that they were There are pros and cons. Herbert and Doris Wechsler incremental, measurable Ph.D. from NYU. Her book, The ing here and, at the same changing the world — that When I was an undergradu- members have been honored Clinical Professor of Law improvements to infrastruc- with Lenfest Distinguished Co- Unfinished Enlightenment: time, we have all kinds of they were changing society ate I was frustrated because I E and a nationally recognized ture and services. Garcetti Description in the Age of the lumbia Faculty Awards for their ability partnerships with French — through their philosophy; wanted the intellectual level expert on gender and sexual- graduated magna cum to engage, challenge and inspire stu- Encyclopedia, won the 2010 universities — some of them they all considered themselves of the discussion to be really ity law, was appointed EVP laude, wrote and performed dents. The awards were established Kenshur Prize, given by the extremely prestigious and to be working on a collective high — like what I thought for University Life. Goldberg in the Varsity Show, rowed by University Trustee (now Emeritus) Center for Eighteenth-Century difficult to get access to if project. … my friends would be having is also a founder and director freshman crew and volun- Gerry Lenfest LAW’58 in 2005 and give Studies at Indiana University. you’re not coming through All of these men are in in their philosophy classes or of the Law School’s Center teered with numerous com- each honoree a stipend of $25,000 a Stalnaker has been a Colum- year for three years. Columbia’s programs. So their 60s, they’re declining, their English literature classes for Gender and Sexuality munity service and activist bia faculty member since This year’s awardees are Brian Cole, I see it as a unique oppor- they’re seeing that their — and I felt that wasn’t Law. Since July, she has been groups. He studied at 2002 and received a Lenfest professor of physics; Patricia Dailey, tunity for students to both generation is coming to an always the case. But as a lit- special advisor to President Oxford on a Fulbright at the Distinguished Faculty Award associate professor of English and work with Columbia faculty end, so the question of the erature scholar and professor Lee C. Bollinger on sexual Suzanne B. Goldberg London School of Econom- in 2014. In addition to teach- comparative literature; Souleymane and work with faculty at book is: What did things look I’����������������������������ve��������������������������� realized there are posi- assault prevention and PHOTO: COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL ics and undertook research ing, she directs the M.A. in Bachir Diagne, professor of French and these French institutions. like to them, what did their tive things to some of those response. In her new role, and human rights missions romance philology and philosophy; History and Literature at the The students also receive a lives look like, what did their linguistic limitations. Reading Goldberg will work with the campus com- in East Africa before teaching international Bradford Garton, professor of music; Columbia Global Center for lot of support navigating the philosophical projects look in a foreign language, you’re munity to create and enhance connections relations at Southern Cal and Occidental. Stathis Gourgouris, professor of clas- Europe at Reid Hall, in Paris, world outside Reid Hall. like from that perspective of always aware — even as you between the classroom and broader intel- [Editor’s note: See cover story, Winter sics; Rebecca Kobrin, the Russell and where she is spending come to possess the lectual life of the University with the goal of 2014–15 CCT.] Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of this academic year. American Jewish History; Liza Knapp language more and tackling issues of campus-wide concern. Five Minutes with ... Joanna Stalnaker GSAS’85, associate professor of Slavic more — of its material- n STUDENT LIFE: Cristen Scully Kromm How did you come to languages and chair of the Department ity, of its sounds, of the n ADMISSIONS: The College and has been appointed dean of undergradu- focus on French? What are you teaching now? their final decade? We tend to vocabulary and the particu- of Slavic Languages; Feng Li, professor Engineering received a record number ate student life for the College and Engi- of East Asian languages and cultures; I went to a public high school I direct and teach in the M.A. think of the Enlightenment in larity of certain words and of applicants for the Class of 2019. With neering. Formerly the associate dean of Molly Murray ’94, associate professor and had a wonderful French in History and Literature, and terms of what it led to, its leg- terms. You never think that 36,223 applications (3,373 early decision residential life, Kromm assumed her new of English and comparative literature; teacher. He had a Ph.D. in lin- for the undergraduates I’m acy — the French Revolution, language is transparent. You and 32,850 regular decision) from all over role on February 1. Since 2006, Kromm Carol Rovane, professor of philosophy; guistics, spoke I can’���������t�������� remem- teaching “French Theater and modern liberal democracy, know it’s not and you don’t the world, this year marks a 9.9 percent has worked with students and University and Dorothea von Mücke, professor of ber how many languages and Performance,” which I also things like that — and we forget that. increase over last year’s partners to develop pro- Germanic languages and chair of the was extremely interested in do in New York. The goal is don’t think of it as an ending. 32,967 applicants and rep- grams aimed at responsible Department of Germanic Languages. language pedagogy. He also to do a performance in French Are you enjoying any French resents the largest increase lifestyle choices and mental was devoted to using inno- at the end of the semester. foods in particular? since 2011, when Columbia health. She will now lead vative classroom methods. The course combines reading I’m here with my boys, who began using the Common the Undergraduate Student cipients for the US-Ireland Class of 2016. I became obsessed with the and literary interpretation — are 7 and 10, and with my Application. Life team in overseeing The Mitchell Scholarship provides one language. At the same time, I because you have to read husband. We’ve been making residence hall programs, year of postgraduate study in an Irish was a huge reader in English. the text carefully to be able a lot of beef bourguignon — a n CLASS DAY: Los Ange- student activities and multi- university in either the Republic of Ire- At a certain point my interests to perform convincingly. typical French beef stew, but les Mayor Eric Garcetti ’92, cultural engagement. land or Northern Ireland. Listwa, a John in literature and in the French it’s very good. And we have SIPA’93 is scheduled to be Jay Scholar majoring in economics-phi- language came together. What is your current a fantastic butcher here, a the Class Day speaker on n MITCHELL SCHOLAR: losophy with a concentration in business project? tiny, old-fashioned butcher Tuesday, May 19. The tech- Daniel Listwa ’15 has been management, will pursue a master’s in What’s your specialty? I’m working on my second shop. What I like is not just savvy, progressive mayor Cristen Scully Kromm selected as one of 12 George philosophy and public affairs at Univer- I work on 18th-century book, which is a study of the the meat you can get but the is known for his practical PHOTO: ALYCEN ASHBURN J. Mitchell Scholarship re- sity College Dublin. French literature and phi- Enlightenment philosophes and way you can go in and they losophy and history of sci- what they were writing at the give a little bit of sausage to ence. It’s a period when the end of their lives. This is your children and they know disciplines are not separated who you are and they ask the way they are now. For what you��������’re������� hav- example, one of the writers ing for dinner that Have You Moved? DATE SMART! I work on is Denis Diderot, night. 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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Changes to Frontiers of Science IN MEMORIAM

n November 19, the co-chairs and inception through evolution, conclud- Mark Strand, a professor of English Kailee Pedersen ’17 Expresses student members of the Commit- ing with the special case of our own and comparative literature and a Otee on Science in the Core hosted species. The course envisaged would be former United States Poet Laureate a forum for students and faculty mem- structured by a historical narrative, and (1990–91), died on November 29, Herself in Many Genres bers to discuss updates to the required would lead from physics and chemistry 2014, in Brooklyn. He was 80. Core course “Frontiers of Science.” The through earth science and biology to Strand, who taught at Columbia B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 committee, which has investigated po- physical anthropology, neuroscience and from 2005 until his death, was born tential changes to Frontiers since summer psychology. on April 11, 1934, in Summerside on n an “experimental autobiogra- That same year, Pedersen earned 2013, is now proposing that the course be “The second option presents seminal Prince Edward Island, Canada. He phy” titled Mythopoetics that won three medals — two gold and one sil- taught purely in seminar format. scientific ideas in the context of their initial earned a B.A. at Antioch in 1957 and the English department’s 2014 ver — in the Scholastic Art and Writing Frontiers was introduced to the Core development and acceptance, focusing a B.F.A. in painting from Yale in 1959, Philolexian Prize for Prose, Kailee Awards (one of the gold medals was for on an experimental basis in 2004 and has on ways in which scientific evidence is at which point he realized he wanted Pedersen ’17 introduces herself as The Pareidoliad) and took first place in the been reviewed and revamped periodi- marshalled. It, too, covers all major areas to be a poet. He spent a year in IIphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon in American Foreign Service Association’s cally since. It’s currently a one-semester of science, but uses great scientific break- Florence on a Fulbright Grant study- Greek mythology, who must be sacri- National High School Essay Contest. course taken by first-years and combines throughs … to illustrate and analyze the ing 19th-century Italian poetry and ficed in order for the gods to allow her Pedersen, who as a teenager penned lectures by leading scientists with semi- methods employed in the sciences. Begin- was accepted into the Iowa Writers’ father’s fleet to sail to Troy. Pedersen what she now considers an “embarrass- nars taught by senior faculty and Colum- ning with relatively simple instances, it Workshop, from which he graduated weaves the story of Iphigenia (who is ing” science fiction novel, says the first bia post-doctoral science fellows. articulates patterns of scientific thought in with a M.F.A. in 1962. spared in some versions of the myth) inkling that she might have a future The committee is exploring designs ever more nuanced ways as the semester Strand published his first poetry and the events of her own infancy into as a writer came at 12, when film critic for the course. According to its proposal, proceeds.” collection, Sleeping With One Eye a poignant personal narrative. Roger Ebert, in response to a comment “One option presents a range of topics Rather than reflecting either option Open, in 1964. Concerned with A writer and poet who already has she left on his blog, sent her an email drawn from across the sciences. It starts entirely, the revamped course also may darker themes of alienation, personal several prestigious awards under her praising her writing ability. “He was with the origins of the universe and our combine elements of the two. The com- dislocation and solitude, his poetry belt, Pedersen knows little about her very encouraging,” recalls Pedersen. planet, studies how the elements forged mittee is now working with experienced won him comparisons to American origins beyond that she was left at a Pedersen, who moved with her fam- in stars combined into the building Frontiers instructors to design, organize poet laureates such as Donald Hall, hospital in her native China as a new- ily to Nebraska just before high school, blocks of life, and tracks this life from its and present model seminars. Maxine Kumin and Philip Levine. In 1982, Strand began writing children’s born — without a note, she points out Writer and poet Kailee Pedersen ’17 chose the College in part because she — and brought to the United States at enjoys experimenting with genres. wanted to be in New York, “where the books and short stories. He also 1 by her adoptive parents. Throughout PHOTO: JON PEDERSEN publishers are.” Inspired by two of her wrote books on the painters Edward Mythopoetics she couches her experi- favorite writers — poet Anne Carson Hamilton the Musical Hopper and William Bailey as well ences, such as the alienation she felt Pedersen was selected to attend National and dramatist Tom Stoppard, who as a collection of critical essays, from her Asian roots while growing YoungArts Week in Miami in January wrote a play about classical scholar he latest take The Art of the Real, in 1983. He was up in Oklahoma and Nebraska, in 2014, during which she recited part of A.E. Houseman — she took elementary on Alexander named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987, Greek, Chinese and Japanese myths. The Pareidoliad at one of several galas and Greek as a first-year and “fell in love T Hamilton (Class of was awarded the Bollingen Prize for 1778)’s life can be found “I take on personas that are mythical participated in workshops with profes- with the idea of a classics degree, which Poetry in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize not at bookstores but on for Poetry in 1999 (for his collection or literary and play with the boundary sionals in the literary field. Among her is a fusion of learning the language, stage — and set to rap Blizzard of One). between ‘Who am I as a real person?’ mentors was Bryce Milligan, a Texas- reading the literature and learning the and R&B ballads — in Strand is survived by his partner, and ‘Who am I in the context of litera- based publisher and writer. Milligan says history,” says Pedersen, who is also the new show Hamilton, ture?’” she says. Pedersen has “a natural gift for recogniz- studying Latin and Japanese. now playing at Manhat- Maricruz Bilbao; daughters, Jessica Pedersen, who considers herself to be ing etymological associations” and adds, Since her first year, Pedersen has tan’s Public Theater. and Fritha; son, Thomas; sister, Judith “in the experimentation phase of being “Not only the range, but the usage of taught a weekly GED writing lab for The book, music and Major; and one grandson. a writer,” has been recognized for her both literary and linguistic allusions is adults through Columbia-based non- lyrics are by Tony Award- work in several genres. She was named staggering for a writer her age.” profit Community Impact. “I find that winning composer Lin- a 2014 National YoungArts Foundation In 2013, Pedersen won a $25,000 really rewarding because I like to share Manuel Miranda (In the Heights). Miranda, who PHOTO: JOAN MARCUS/COURTESY THE PUBLIC THEATER Winner for The Pareidoliad, a long-form Davidson Fellows Scholarship from my passion for writing,” she says. adapted the story from poem narrated by a woman in the the Davidson Institute for The Translit- “When you’re writing, no one can tell Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography of the Founding Father, also stars in the title role. Hire Columbians Reconstruction-era South who is forced eration of Flesh, a 60-page portfolio of you what you’re feeling is wrong,” says Though infused with hip-hop and other contemporary sounds, the musical is set Who better to hire Columbia students to marry a man who then leaves her poetry, fiction and nonfiction in which Pedersen. “It’s just you and the page.” in its true time period and features such frock-coated figures as George Washington, because she is unable to conceive. The she challenges the legitimacy of “meta- Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson. As for the star character, his life is re-framed by than Columbia alumni? That’s the idea  To view a video of Pedersen reading unnamed narrator ends up committing narratives” that attempt to universalize Miranda largely as an immigrant’s success story: Hamilton came to New York as a teen- behind “Hire Columbians,” a campaign infanticide when an adulterous relation- human experience. “Winning that was part of The Pareidoliad at the 2014 ager from the colonial island of Nevis; he authored two-thirds of the Federalist Papers by the Center for Career Education to ship with her brother-in-law produces huge,” says Pedersen, who is using part National YoungArts Gala, go to Web and became America’s first Secretary of the Treasury. Or, as an early lyric asks, “How a deformed offspring. “I wanted to ex- of the funds to pay for her College edu- Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. does a bastard, orphan and son of a whore, and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a get Columbia alumni to hire students forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a plore different narratives associated with cation and plans to put the rest toward for internships or full-time positions. hero and a scholar?” (Columbians, of course, know the answer to the last part.) Southern fiction — decay, tragedy, mad- graduate school. Exploring multiple Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a The show, which opened on February 17, was named a New York Times Critics’ For more information, go to careered ness, et cetera — but put a Greek and genres as part of a single massive proj- freelance journalist and an editorial pro- Pick; it “exudes the dizzying urgency of being caught up in momentous events as they ucation.columbia.edu/hirecolumbians. Biblical spin on them,” says Pedersen. ect “gave me a different perspective on ducer for LasMayores.com, Major League occur,” wrote the Times’ Ben Brantley. It is scheduled to open on Broadway on July 13. In addition to a monetary prize, writing,” she adds. Baseball’s official Spanish language website.

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olumbia fencing rules the Ivy League. For the first time since 2008, both the men’s and women’s teams are champions following the Ivy League CRound Robins, held February 8–9 at Levien Gym. Columbia’s women swept their six opponents to win the title outright while the men posted a 4–1 record to gain a share of the Ivy crown with Harvard. It’s the second straight year the Lions have won the Ivy men’s championship and 35th time overall; for the women, it was their first title since 2008 and their jumped out to an 8–4 lead but Columbia won the next five ninth overall. matches to pull in front and went on to beat the Quakers 16–11. Michael Aufrichtig, head coach of Harvard, which had defeated Columbia 17–10 on the previous Columbia fencing, was named the Ivy day, gained a share of the crown by edging Princeton 14–13. League’s inaugural Women’s Coach “With the men’s team, even at times when they were down of the Year for leading the Lions to they always found a way to come back,” said Aufrichtig. “When their first title since he took the helm in we were down 8–4 we all got together and said this is the time 2011. After dropping its only match to to do it and they did.” Penn State on January 17 by the closest Head coach Michael Aufrichtig (wearing glasses) receives a celebratory soaking after Colum- On the first day of action, Columbia’s men defeated Brown of margins, 14–13, Columbia cruised bia’s men’s and women’s fencing teams won 2014 Ivy League Round Robins. 19–8 and Princeton 18–9 before losing to Harvard 17–10. On the through the remainder of its meets second day, the Lions defeated Yale 20–7 to set up their final to finish the regular season 25–1 overall, the best mark in the a fast start on Day 1 with a 23–4 decision over Brown, a 16–11 match against Penn. Aufrichtig era. Columbia established a program record in wins win over Princeton and a 17–10 victory over Harvard. Day 2 Will Spear ’15 won 14 of his 15 sabre matches to gain All-Ivy and in national rankings as the squad climbed to the top spot produced more of the same as Columbia defeated Yale 17–10, first team honors for the third year in his career. Adam Mathieu Top, epeeist Brian Ro ’16 (left) lunges for a point against Princeton nationally. Cornell 20–7 and Penn 23–4 to complete the sweep. ’16 made the first team in foil and Michael Josephs ’15 (sabre) at the Ivy Round Robins. Above, Jackie Durbovich ’16 and Margaret Seven Lion women earned All-Ivy League honors. The foil “They were having a lot of fun out there,” Aufrichtig said of and Jake Hoyle ’16 (epee) earned second team honors. Lu ’16 rush the mat to hug Sara Taffel BC’17 after a victory in foil. squad of Jackie Dubrovich ’16, Margaret Lu ’16 and Sara Taffel his women’s team. “They were just fencing and the wins were “At the end of the championship, I sat the team down and PHOTOS: COLUMBIA ATHLETICS/MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN BC’17 swept first-team honors. Anastasia Ivanoff ’18 earned a just coming easy.” reminded them what our goal was this year — to win the men’s spot on the sabre first team while weaponmates Lena Johnson The men had a tougher time of it but came through in the and the women’s Ivy Championships,” said Aufrichtig. “And I Heart and Vassar at NYU’s 2015 Historical Meet. The Lions then BC’18 and Danya Hu ’18 received second team honors. Mason last match of the second day to earn a share of the title. Entering feel good about it. I can’t ask for anything more.” set their sights on the NCAAs, with the Regionals scheduled to Speta ’17 won a spot on the epee second team. the final match against Penn, Columbia was in a four-way tie One day after winning the Ivies, both teams finished the reg- be held at NYU March 8 and the Championships at Columbus, In the two-day Ivy tournament, the Lion women got off to for first place with Harvard, Princeton and Penn at 3–1. Penn ular season in commanding fashion by sweeping NYU, Sacred Ohio, March 19–22.

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The last time both men’s Men’s tennis’ national Consecutive bouts won by Points scored by Tori Oliver ’17 Years of service to Columbia Years of service to Columbia and women’s fencing won ranking, the highest men’s fencing at the Ivy at Wagner on December 30, for Associate Athletics for Senior Associate Athletics Ivy League Championships ever for a Columbia League Championships vs. one off the school record Director Ken Torrey, set Director Al Carlson, also set 2008 in the same season 13 tennis squad 8 Penn en route to the title 38 held by Ellen Bossert ’86 42 to retire in June 37 to retire in June SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 14 15 ROAR, LION, ROAR COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ROAR, LION, ROAR

Pilling Named Athletics Director Kraft’s Patriots Do It Again Robert K. Kraft ’63 (left), owner of the New England Patriots, joins eter E. Pilling always wanted to “Peter brings to this important assign- quarterback­ Tom Brady in celebrating his team’s fourth Super Bowl be an athletics director, and now ment not only professional expertise in victory in 14 years, a 28–24 decision over the Seattle Seahawks in he’s getting the chance. Pilling sports management, but a deep and abid- Super Bowl XLIX on February 1. was named Director of Intercol- ing commitment to the academic, research, Kraft, who served 12 years as a Columbia trustee and is now a legiate Athletics and Physical cultural and civic mission of higher educa- trustee emeritus, purchased the Patriots in 1994 after four years in PEducation by President Lee C. Bollinger on tion,” Bollinger also noted in the announce- which the team had the worst win-loss record and lowest revenue February 3, succeeding M. Dianne Mur- ment. “He impressed everyone who has in the NFL. With the help of franchise cornerstones Brady and coach phy, who announced her resignation last met him with his vision of the role athletics, Bill Belichick, Kraft turned the Patriots into a model of success on fall after 10 years at the helm of Columbia health and wellness can play in enhancing and off the field, to the point where Forbes honored him in 2005 with Athletics. the educational experience of all our stu- a cover story, “The Best Team in Sports: How Robert Kraft Built the Pilling has been a VP for IMG College, dents, as well as his respect for the unique Patriots into a Football Dynasty” after the team won Super Bowls in a marketing company that manages cor- values of the Ivy League in the larger land- 2002, 2004 and 2005. PHOTO: AP PHOTO/DAVID GOLDMAN porate sponsorships for athletics confer- scape of intercollegiate athletics.” ences and universities, since 2007. Prior Pilling said, “It has always been my to that, he was senior associate athletics goal to serve as an athletics director at a director at Brigham Young and associate great university. I admire what Columbia athletics director at Villanova. University represents. I admire what the Lions Look To Reprise Spring Successes “Peter has spent his career working Ivy League’s ideals are, the experience of at several of the most respected college Peter E. Pilling says he wants Athletics to con- the student athlete in terms of the overall an Columbia equal or even surpass fall, the Lions climbed as high as 13th in the sports programs in the country. His tribute to the overall excellence at Columbia. education and the opportunity to be a part its spring sports successes of a national rankings, the team’s highest rank- wealth of knowledge, experience and PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO of victories in competition, victories in year ago, when the Lions won Ivy ing ever. enthusiasm will help Columbia Athletics the classroom and victories in life. Those CLeague championships in base- The Lions feature the reigning Ivy build on a recent record of historic achievement and reach the founding principles are really what drove me to have an interest ball, men’s tennis and men’s golf and also League Player of the Year, Winston Lin ’15, new levels of excellence that we expect in everything we do as and a desire to fulfill this responsibility.” enjoyed an outstanding performance by the who in November won the U.S. Tennis As- a great university,” Bollinger said in an email to the Columbia Pilling said one of his goals was to further integrate Athletics lightweight crew at the IRA Regatta? sociation/Intercollegiate Tennis Association community announcing the appointment. into the Columbia community. “I believe that as an athletic di- Baseball will be seeking to three-peat after Northeast Regional for a second consecutive rector you need to be part of the campus community — to play beating Dartmouth for the second consecu- year, defeating teammate Ashok Narayana a role, obviously, in terms of what goes on within the athletic tive year in the Ivy League Championship ’15 in the finals. Lin heads a veteran roster Bagnoli Named Lions department, but also to be involved in the overall aspects of the Series. The Lions posted 6–2 and 4–1 wins at that also features fellow 2014 All-Ivy League university, whether it be a lecture series or other activities on Robertson Field at Satow Stadium to sweep Dragos Ignat ’16, who earned All-Ivy first singles first team selection Dragos Ignat ’16 team honors last season, is part of a Football Coach campus. That’s important to me, to be a part of the community.” the Big Green and earn their third Ivy title veteran Columbia tennis team looking to and the All-Ivy doubles first team pair of since 2008 and their 12th in program history. Narayana and Max Schnur ’15. Al Bagnoli, who won nine repeat as Ivy champion. PHOTO: COLUMBIA ATHLETICS/MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN Ivy League championships For the latest news on Columbia Columbia recorded the most wins in pro- Following a Spring Break trip to Cali- in his 23 seasons as head gram history by compiling a 29–20 record, fornia, the Lions open defense of their Ivy football coach at Penn be- athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. including 18–5 against Ivy League opponents. crown at home against Cornell on March 28. fore resigning following the Lions second baseman Will Savage ’17 was the Ivy League’s Men’s golf posted a 12-stroke victory over Yale to win the 2014 2014 season, was named Pilling contended that in seeking to improve Columbia Ath- 2014 Rookie of the Year and the winner of the Blair Bat as the con- Ivy League championship, its first since 2010 and its fourth in the Columbia’s Patricia and letics, he is starting from a good position. “I really believe there’s ference’s leading hitter, with a .414 batting average. Savage was last seven years. It was the fifth title in program history. Shepard Alexander Head been a tremendous foundation established,” he said. “There’s joined on last year’s All-Ivy League first team by third baseman Co-Ivy League Player of the Year Brandon Jowers SEAS’15 Coach of Football on Febru- been a lot of heavy lifting, a lot of building blocks that have been David Vandercook ’15 and outfielder Gus Craig SEAS’15 as well and fellow All-Ivy first team member Harrison Shih ’16 will ary 24. He succeeds Pete established. Obviously there’s been success in the field of com- as graduated pitcher David Speer ’14. Also on the Columbia roster lead Columbia’s bid to repeat as league champion. Also back Mangurian, who resigned in petition with five Ivy League championships last year, so you are three players who earned All-Ivy second team honors last year, is 2014 All-Ivy second team member Tharusyan Pillay ’17. The November following three can build off of that. There are some areas that we can continue pitcher George Thanopoulos ’16 and outfielders Jor- 2015 Ivy Championships will be held April 24–26 at seasons in which the Lions SAVE THE DATE! compiled a 3–27 record and to expand on and grow on. One of the things that really struck dan Serena ’15 and Robb Paller ’16; two who received Bethlehem, Pa. lost their last 21 games. me is that there is excellence around the campus, and the athletic All-Ivy honorable mention status, pitchers Kevin Roy APRIL 7 Meanwhile, rowing will try to build on a strong Bagnoli comes to Co- department should contribute to that continued excellence.” ’16 and Adam Cline ’16; and a 2013 All-Ivy second Academic Achieve- showing at the 2014 IRA Regatta, where the var- lumbia with a career record Pilling said he did his homework when considering this posi- team honoree, outfielder Joey Falcone GS’15. ment Luncheon sity eight lightweights won a bronze medal for the Al Bagnoli is Columbia’s 20th Low Library head football coach. of 234–99 in 33 seasons as tion. “When I was first approached about the job, I made a call After a spring sojourn through Texas, Florida and second consecutive year and the four-oared shell PHOTO: COURTESY PENN ATHLETICS a head coach, 23 at Penn to a good friend who had coached in the Ivy League at another the Carolinas, the baseball team will begin its quest APRIL 20 took home a gold medal. That was the Lions’ first Men’s Basketball and 10 at Union, and an Ivy institution. He told me, ‘That is a special place and you will love for a third straight Ivy title with a doubleheader at lightweight gold at the IRA and the first gold medal Banquet League mark of 112-49. He is the winningest coach in Penn foot- every minute and the opportunity to work there.’ When I made Dartmouth on March 28. by any Lion crew in a national championship event ball history, and his 112 Ivy wins are the second-most in league Low Library additional calls I kept hearing that message over and over, and Men’s tennis swept through the 2014 Ivy season since the men’s heavyweight crew took gold in the history. He is the only coach to capture nine outright Ivy cham- APRIL 28 pionships and is one behind former Yale coach Carmen Cozza in when I was able to get to campus I could really sense the pas- undefeated for the first time since 2000 and won its Varsity C Celebration 1929 Intercollegiate Regatta, the IRA’s predecessor. overall league titles. sion of the university and the passion of the athletic department first league title since 2010 and its 11th Ivy title over- Levien Gymnasium The Columbia heavyweights, meanwhile, posted Bagnoli, a graduate of Central Connecticut State, led Penn and that really was a key part of my interest and my desire to be all. The Lions advanced as far as the NCAA round of MAY 4 two top-10 finishes, coming in fourth of six in the to back-to-back undefeated seasons in Ivy play three times. No the director of athletics.” 16 in 2014, beating East Tennessee State and Vander- Football Golf Outing varsity eights’ Petite Final, good for 10th overall, and other coach has done it even once. Pilling earned a B.S. in accounting from BYU and a master’s bilt for the first NCAA tourney wins in program his- Hackensack Golf Club third of six in the Petite Final for freshman heavy- in sports administration from Ohio University. tory before losing to top-ranked Southern Cal. This weight eights, ninth overall.

SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 16 17 ost any denizen of Morningside Heights in recent years has spotted a tourist (or two or 20) snapping photos outside the large-windowed restaurant on the corner of Broadway and West 112th Street. Its name was Monk’s on Seinfeld but we all know it as Tom’s Restaurant. What is a pop culture icon for some means some- thing different and is real to Columbians for other reasons: It’s always Mopen in the wee hours of a Saturday night. The man behind the counter knows my name. The chocolate milkshakes are just so good. Of course, the starting point for nearly every College student’s food experience is the dining hall. All first-years sign on for a meal plan, after which enrollment is optional. Students can also opt for debit systems of varying kinds, accepted at a dozen places on cam- pus, including the venerable John Jay Dining Hall. (There’s even Food, a café with coffee and snacks in Butler, improbable as it seems to those who frequented the library in its more austere days.) Only as time passes do favorites emerge. Habits are developed, haunts found. And so if Tom’s isn’t the place that left an impression from your College days, maybe it’s The West End or V&T, The Hungarian Pastry Shop or The Mill. Maybe it isn’t a restaurant at all, but a memory of a bleary-eyed breakfast at John Jay after an all-nighter, or a dorm-room lunch of ramen noodles prepared on a contraband Glorious hot plate. Or a dinner where the food turned out to be beside the point, because it was one of those rare nights when the company and conversation somehow changed your life. Then there are the times when food is exactly the point — give me something quick and cheap. In this themed section, we look at food and some of its many meanings, albeit always through the perspective of Columbians. Among students, food is community, as Nathalie Alonso ’08 reports in her article about the residence halls and special interest groups whose activities reflect the range of campus food culture. It is also Food the backdrop against which the everyday life of the undergraduate plays out, as Karl Daum ’15 shows in his illustration of lunchtime inside Alfred Lerner Hall’s Ferris Booth Commons. For alumni, food is nostalgia, as Alex Sachare ’71 demonstrates in his article about how Columbians recall many of the restaurants that have come and gone — and for a few stalwarts, come and stayed — in the neighborhood through the years. Food is camara- derie, as Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 learned when she dropped in on lunches with the Classes of 1958 and 1963. And food is profes- sion, as evidenced by our profiles of nine alumni from the ’90s and ’00s. These graduates join an illustrious group of Lions who have made names for themselves in the industry, including Michelin star-winning chef Anita Lo ’88 and Cook’s Illustrated and America’s Test Kitchen founder Christopher Kimball ’73, and we’re eager to see what they do next. Bon appétit. Ritz-Carlton pastry cook Alexis Tonti SOA’11 Mercedes Vargas ’99 puts the finishing touches on a tray of petits fours. PHOTO: NATHALIE ALONSO ’08 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY STUDENTS BOND AROUND FOOD Students Bond Around Food Food clubs and communities offer students with similar interests a chance to connect

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ne rainy Tuesday evening last Decem- ties at Columbia that revolve partly or entirely around food. ber, just before finals week, about 20 That category also includes residential programs and niche undergraduates gathered in Alfred clubs that allow students to connect with peers who adhere Lerner Hall’s East Ramp Lounge for to similar lifestyles or eating philosophies. While the groups a messy, laughter-laden “gingerbread vary in nature, scope and the level of commitment required, house” competition organized by the they all acknowledge and promote food as a unifying aspect Columbia University Culinary Society. of campus culture. In lieu of gingerbread, participants Established in 1998, the Culinary Society is the oldest food- working in teams of two to four fashioned Hansel and Gretel- oriented student club at Columbia and, with a listserv that Oworthy structures out of graham crackers. Frosting co-president Amelia Rosen BC’15 says has more served as adhesive, while gummy worms, than 2,000 people, also one of the most popular. chocolate-covered pretzels, Skittles, yogurt- Like Cohen, Rosen, who has been involved covered raisins and other candies be- with the society since her first year, notes came decorative accents — and snacks that the group provides a space for — for the architects. Some of the students to bond: “It’s really amaz- creations defied gravity; a couple ing how friendships are fostered The Culinarian staff celebrated its “Food as Science” issue in January with a party that included a demonstration by the Chandler succumbed to it. through the Culinary Society,” Society on the chemistry of caramelizing sugar and preparing ice cream using liquid nitrogen. All materials were provided she says, adding that what also by the Culinary Society, whose makes the club fun is “getting fall 2014 events also included a everyone’s take on food. Grow- According to Tien, she and Cooper launched Culinarian communal meals a defining feature of their residential ex- truffle-making class, gourmet ing up, everybody had a different in response to what they perceived as a void not filled by the periences. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors via an popcorn tasting, pumpkin carv- culinary background.” Culinary Society’s monthly events. “Food is such an impor- application process, SICs are sponsored by Residential Life ing, and pie-making and blind Rosen also plans the launch tant way to bring students together on campus. I felt a maga- and offer students the opportunity to live with peers who cheese-tasting contests. Open to events for Culinarian, a digital zine would be a resource,” she says. share a common interest. Potluck House residents bond the entire University, the events food magazine by and for Colum- Current Culinarian editor-in-chief Meena Lee ’15 has worked over home-cooked food, while Metta House is a community reflect the light-hearted spirit of the bia students (culinarianmagazine. to expand the magazine’s scope to explore food from the per- of vegetarians and vegans. society, which describes itself on social com). Started in September 2012 by spectives of various disciplines. The most recent issue is themed The 15 residents of Potluck House share a brownstone on media as being “dedicated to the enjoy- former Culinary Society officers Aman- “Food as Science” and includes an interview with Barnard biol- West 114th Street and, as the name suggests, host frequent ment of food, drink and the culinary arts” da Tien ’14 and Manon Cooper BC’14, ogy professor John Glendinning, who studies the physiology of potlucks, usually on Fridays. Some events are for residents and “raising a greater food appreciation.” The Culinarian has published four issues to date. taste. Other themes on deck include “Food as Art” and “Food only but many are open to and well attended by the broader group attracts regular and occasional participants Typically it includes feature stories, interviews and as Culture.” “We have so much great research here at Columbia Columbia community. In addition to potlucks, residents form who are looking to relax over good — and free — food. essays, as well as recipes and restaurant reviews to help and I wanted to incorporate more of that into the magazine,” smaller dinner circles based on food preferences and dietary “There are other clubs that are more work-oriented and students navigate New York’s culinary scene. A blog on the says Lee. restrictions and take turns cooking during the week. can be a source of stress,” says Jonathan Cohen ’16, one of 15 website offers additional content. While the conversations that occur at a dormitory potluck students on the Culinary Society’s executive board, who at- “I noticed that there’s a tendency for students to want to he Culinary Society falls on the casual end of the also happen in dining halls, house coordinator Lisa Zhou ’16 tempted a replica of the Pentagon for the gingerbread house get off campus for the explicit reason of finding a really good student communities and initiatives that revolve notes that cooking for each other helps foster the tight-knit competition. “This is not stressful, it’s fun and you get to eat Roman place or an amazing donut, for example,” says Tien, around food. On the opposite, more structured community that defines Potluck House. “You feel more ac- good food. I’ve made a lot of good friends through it.” who edited the Culinary Society’s blog (cuculinary.com) for T end are Potluck House and Metta House, two complished when you make your own food and you’re more The Culinary Society is one of several student communi- two years. Special Interest Communities (SICs) where students make willing and happier to share it,” says Zhou, who moved into

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ing responsibilities such as grocery shopping. Monday through Thurs- day, two of the Bayit’s 28 residents make dinner for the entire house. Though they vary in the nature and extent of their Jewish affiliation, all residents are required to maintain a kosher kitchen. “Everyone cares about food,” says Jacob Portes ’15, who moved into the Bayit in January 2014. “You come home and there’s a nice cooked meal.” Those casual, weeknight din- ners are also a highlight for resident Julia Snyder GS/JTS’16. “It’s a nice, reflective time,” she says. “The art of listening is definitely developed over the table. We have an opportu- nity to hear about each other’s days, Potatoes were the main ingredient at a Potluck House dinner in January. exchange ideas and talk about how we’re building this community.”

Potluck House midway through her sophomore year. “One ast November, Metta House and part of cooking is cooking; the other part is sharing.” several other student clubs got Home-cooked meals are also an important together for a casual discussion component of the experience at Metta House, about food sustainability and envi- one of the few SICs open to Barnard students, L ronmental justice. Each group contributed a where each of the six residents commits to dish for the meal, which was held in the SIC making dinner once a week. Camila Marcone House, a residence hall on 113th Street shared ’15, house coordinator, has been a resident by several SICs. “We discussed the intersec- since her sophomore year and has found tion of human rights, animal rights, environ- there are social and financial advantages to mental impact and the choices we make in living with peers who share an eating phi- what we eat,” says Marcone. losophy. “When you are the only person with Among the groups that participated were The themed meal doubled as a housemate recruiting session for next semester. an alternative eating style, you can seem like the Columbia Vegan Society and the Colum- the person who is bumming everyone else bia University Food Sustainability Project. out,” says Marcone, who has been vegetarian While a group like the Culinary Society at- ness,” she says, adding, “Having people who share your ber wants to know where ingredients come from and priori- since she was 11. tracts a range of students, including some values and beliefs helps you realize that you’re not alone and tizes cooking. “All these people love to dig and weed and Metta House residents split the cost of who relish New York City’s vibrant food helps you continue.” cook — it’s wonderful,” says co-president Eleanor Goerss ’16, groceries evenly, which Marcone notes makes scene and others who would rather cook for John Hao ’18, who became a vegan a few weeks into who structures her day in such a way that it allows her time an alternative eating style more affordable. themselves, the Vegan Society and CUFSP his first semester at the College, became involved with the to cook lunch and dinner. “Having the cost shared among six people bring together peers with similar eating phi- group precisely because he sought support for his newly Contreras and Goerss share home-cooked meals often, is really helpful,” she says. “We monitor our losophies. adopted lifestyle. “I thought it’d be cool to connect with both at CUFSP events and on their own. One weeknight last spending because no one wants to overspend The Vegan Society, formerly called the people who are vegan as a way to get myself further into semester, the menu featured salmon that Contreras mari- and put the other people in the house in a Columbia Students for Animal Protection, the movement,” he says. nated in balsamic vinegar, olive oil and fennel seeds recently difficult position.” has approximately 10 members that show CUFSP has an even more specific focus, which is tending harvested from the garden. Such a setting also encourages creativity up regularly for meetings, which are held to the Columbia Community Garden in Pupin Plaza. On Contreras credits CUFSP with connecting her to peers and minimizes waste: “If someone makes weekly or biweekly and occasionally take Sunday mornings during growing season — April through like Goerss. “Being able to find those people has been an mashed potatoes the night before, the next the form of restaurant outings. The group early fall — anywhere between five and 10 CUFSP members important outlet for me because we have an interest that’s person will make potato pancakes [with the also hosts larger, campus-wide events, such meet at the garden to plant, weed and harvest. Planting hap- not necessarily common among college students,” she says. leftovers],” says Marcone. “That’s been really as documentary screenings and a vegan pens in the spring. Most crops are ready to be picked during “But we exist and it’s awesome that we have this space to fun to see.” Thanksgiving dinner. the summer, which means it is up to members of the group work with.” Cooking is also an integral aspect of life According to the club’s president, Shaine who stay on campus to harvest. In the recent past, co-pres- In describing the other rewards of being involved with at the University-owned Beit Ephraim Food Leibowitz SEAS’16, while veganism is the ident Paloma Contreras ’15 has handled that responsibility. CUFSP, Contreras echoes Cohen’s comment about stress Co-op on West 112th Street, which was es- group’s common denominator, members Previous harvests have yielded tomatoes, carrots, eggplant, relief: “There’s something great about showing up at the gar- tablished in 1972. More commonly known as bring a variety of perspectives to the table. kale, turnips and squash blossoms, along with other produce. den on Sunday morning and gathering with people who also the Bayit, which means “house” in Hebrew, “People become vegan for a number of rea- During the winter months, members gather for potlucks and want to be outside, working with dirt,” she says. “It’s very the co-op houses both undergraduate and sons, including animal rights, but also for en- to decide what to plant in the spring. therapeutic.” graduate students who are assigned rotat- vironmental concerns and health conscious- In addition to enjoying gardening, a typical CUFSP mem-

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Nick Anderer ’99 Offers Taste of Rome

passion for art drove Nick Anderer ’99 to I’m going to alter the name and figure out a new way to pres- spend his junior year of college in Rome ent it to New York so we’re not misinforming people. Food but it was “the rustic food of the people” he history is something I take pretty seriously. discovered there that cemented his ties with the city. The connection has since shaped What risks did you take with the menu at Maialino? his career, and today he is executive chef Serving offal is a big one. There is a risk associated with serv- andA partner at two restaurants inspired by the Italian capital: ing things that are a little more off-color, but we’ve had great Maialino and Marta. success selling tripe. We put it on the menu from the get-go Anderer was in his sixth year as a sous chef at Danny and after a few months, it started to gain a following. Now Meyer’s Gramercy Tavern in spring 2009 when the acclaimed we sell fried pig’s heads, pig heart salads, skewered chicken restaurateur approached him about opening a Roman-style hearts and a number of things with liver. trattoria. Out of those conversations was born Maialino (“little pig” in Italian), which opened in November 2009 at Have you chosen to modify any dishes based on feedback? the Gramercy Park Hotel. Befitting of its name, Maialino’s When we first opened Maialino, I was very stubborn about menu features roasted suckling pig alongside classic pasta serving proper al dente pasta the way it’s served in Rome. That dishes such as spaghetti alla carbonara. type of pasta, most Americans would say, is crunchy. That’s These days, Anderer spends most of his working hours at what I did for the first two or three weeks and several people, Marta, his second venture with Meyer, which opened in Sep- some of them food writers, some of them friends, started say- tember at the Martha Washington hotel. There his mission is ing, “This is delicious, but the pasta needs to be cooked just to sell a population accustomed to folding pizza on the a little bit more.” After I heard it the 10th, the 12th, the virtues of thin, crackly, Roman-style pies. Toppings 15th time, it would have been foolish to continue range from recognizable (mozzarella and basil) down my stubborn path. to unconventional (bechamel sauce, ricotta and fontina cheeses and white truffles). How would you describe your culinary Anderer, son of Paul Anderer, the Fred philosophy? and Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities, Less is more. I’m always looking to strip has worked full-time in restaurant kitchens down a dish rather than gussy it up. since he was a senior at the College. In When we do tastings, most of my com- addition to his time at Gramercy Tavern, ments are, “There are one or two too many where he cooked under Tom Colicchio (now ingredients here. We need to pull away the head judge on Bravo’s Top Chef) and the these two so that these three shine.” Then it’s current executive chef, Michael Anthony, Ander- figuring out how to make those three or four er’s resume also includes a stint at Babbo in Green- PHOTO: ALICE GAO ingredients express themselves to their utmost. I wich Village under Food Network icon Mario Batali. don’t like to manipulate ingredients too much. I do Here, Anderer talks with CCT about cooking Roman food like using modern technology but not to the point where you for New Yorkers and his foray into the pizza scene. can perceive it on the plate. You shouldn’t know that chicken has been sous-vide [vacuum sealed in a plastic pouch and What do you love about Roman cuisine? cooked in a water bath]. You should just taste it and think, It’s really aggressive and has lots of bold flavors: salty “This is delicious; I don’t know how they got it this moist.” pecorino cheese, cured meats like guanciale [pork cheek], black pepper, dry pastas and spaghettis — hearty food of A number of chefs have embraced casual concepts like you PHOTO: DANIEL KRIEGER the people. It’s not fancy food at all. In some ways, it’s kind have at Marta. Is that a way to take a break from fine dining? of sloppy. They are into offal and off-cuts of meat, which I actually think New Yorkers take pizza very seriously. And I’m really into, too. I like the way they utilize everything. even if they didn’t, I would still feel compelled to bring something new to the conversation. But chefs doing more How have you tailored Roman recipes for a New York casual things is certainly a trend and I think it’s a good one. clientele? Not everybody wants to go out and eat fancy food all the Epicures and Entrepreneurs Sometimes it seems appropriate to respect tradition. In the case time. They want to let their hair down and relax. of a dish like spaghetti alla carbonara, I wanted to respect the original ingredients and do the best version of it that we could. Where do you like to dine out? College alumni build careers in all aspects of the food industry Then there is a dish like carciofini friti— fried baby artichokes I like to keep things lively, different. I love casual, small — where I couldn’t find the carciofithey get in Italy, so I had to places. I don’t go to a lot of fancy restaurants, although I do prepare the artichokes in a slightly different way. appreciate a good, fancy dinner. I crave Asian food. I get my If I’m going to call a dish by a traditional Italian name, I’m fill of Italian food at work. going to make it in the traditional Italian way. If I can’t, then Nathalie Alonso ’08

SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 26 27 EPICURES AND ENTREPRENEURS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ALL ABOUT THE FOOD Talking Burgers with Billy Thanopoulos ’95 Delivering Delicacies from Around the World hen Billy Thanopoulos ’95 was a teenager bussing just kind of learned it on the fly, and ended up building a fairly good tables in diners owned by his parents, he never business. I grew up working there, from the kitchen to bussing tables o matter where she travels, Katerina Vorotova culture when studying abroad at Reid Hall — offers an inside imagined that he’d return to the restaurant to delivering, so I had a little experience in that industry. ’07, BUS’14 always returns with a suitcase look at her selections from Normandy, Corsica and more. business as an adult. After unfulfill- With my own family, we’d have a monthly burger of unusual foods. But the New York-based, ing stints in law and real estate, night at my house. My wife [Anastasia Thanopoulos Russian-born foodie is not one to keep a good Le Palais des Thés Whowever, he opened Brooklyn’s two8two Bar & ’96] and I would buy ground beef from Paisanos, thing to herself. So she founded a start-up François-Xavier Delmas, owner of the Paris tea shop Le Palais Burger — named after the Atlantic Avenue and we’d have friends over and everyone with Parisian friend David Foult SIPA’14 that des Thés, has traveled the world for more than 25 years search- street address — in 2011. Since then, the would comment on how good it was and allows anyone to eat his or her way around the world — sans ing for the finest teas. The Thé du Hammam is a fruity green tea relaxed restaurant and bar has wowed they’d never had anything like this and N everyone from Top Chef’s Dale Talde that I should open a restaurant. And the TSA patdown. blended from roses, berries and orange flower water that to the Travel Channel’s George Motz, then this location became available and In September 2013, the pair evokes the fragrances of a ham- with appearances in GQ and Brooklyn I used my experience with real estate launched Try The World (trythe mam (a Turkish steam bath). The Magazine to boot. Here, Thanopoulos and development to build the place world.com), a subscription service Thé des Sables was inspired by a describes how he became Boerum out, because I had contacts with con- that delivers a curated gourmet journey to Morocco where the Hill’s burger king. tractors and plumbers and electricians. package from a different country famous Damascus roses grow on to customers’ doorsteps every two the Atlas mountains. “Enjoyed hot What is the secret to a good burger? What was it like to start completely months. Vorotova and Foult work or cold, these fragrant teas are far The most important part is the meat, from scratch? with renowned chefs to select lo- more than a beverage; they are per- and we get that freshly ground every day. That whole process of opening was prob- cal, hard-to-find premium foods fume in a cup,” Vorotova says. My butcher at Los Paisanos Meat Market ably one of the most daunting experiences for each box — think Italian Urbani delivers it right to our door every morning. It’s I’ve ever had. Everything from the staffing to like when you have coffee beans and you grind installing a kitchen with a fire suppression system truffle sauces, Brazilian Bazzar La Mère Poulard them right away: the coffee, the smell — everything — all that stuff I had to figure out on the fly without brigadeiro spreads or Turkish Nar Founded in 1888, the La Mère Pou- is better as opposed to getting something that’s PHOTO: MEG MOORHOUSE having any experience. There were times during the pro- olive oil. Each box (there have been PHOTO: COURTESY TRY THE WORLD lard restaurant and bakery in Mont already ground. cess where I wondered, “Am I sinking all this money in 10 so far) also includes a “culture Saint-Michel remains a paragon to lose it all, because I’m totally out of my league?“ It took a year from guide” with recipes, a music playlist and a list of recom- of French gastronomy. With only six ingredients, including What is your trademark? when I got the space to officially open. mended films from the area. salted butter from Brittany, the sablés shortbread cookies Definitely the two8two burger [with roasted poblano chiles, cheddar In June 2014, Vorotova and Foult completed their first included here are a fan favorite. “You can’t find more tradi- and two8two sauce]. We don’t do anything really fancy. Everything What impact did Columbia have on you? round of financing of $700,000, prompting Vorotova to quit tional French cookies than La Mère Poulard,” says Vorotova. is cooked to order and the prices are reasonable. A lot of people It was definitely the four best years of my life. I met my wife there. her job as a strategy and business development manager at want to dress up burgers with a lot of different toppings. The people She was a history major like me. We started dating right before Weight Watchers. Since then, Try The World has been fea- La Maison d’Armorine who like to do that use frozen meat and want to dress the burger Christmas 1994, and she had already been scheduled to study up with other things to disguise it, but we really want our meat to abroad in Greece the next semester. I had this elaborate Spring tured everywhere from The Huffington Post to Travel+Leisure Based in Brittany, the family-owned Maison d’Armorine show. It’s marinated with salt; that’s it. We use three cuts of beef: Break planned with all my guy friends, and I cancelled it and went and MSNBC to The Wall Street Journal. The company now crafts salted butter caramels with a traditional Breton recipe, brisket, short rib and chuck. Many restaurants usually just use to Greece instead. We had only known each other for a few weeks boasts thousands of customers, with more than 10,000 boxes originally created with Breton butter and the region’s famous ground chuck or maybe leftovers from scraps. Our burgers are before that. There wasn’t email in 1994; we communicated by writ- shipped so far from its New York headquarters. fleur de sel. This treat was born after WWII when the French basically a steak that’s ground into a burger. ing letters, very romantic. There was never really a pause in the rela- The founders curated the Paris Box (their first) with the celebrated a return to the beach in Brittany. “For any French tionship after that. Now we have three kids. help of Christophe Schmitt, chef of the Michelin-starred Le person, each bite of the chewy caramel evokes childhood Why open your own restaurant? Diane in Paris. Here, Vorotova — who fell in love with French memories of seaside holidays and family trips: a nostalgic joie My parents were in the restaurant business. We’re Greek. My parents Can you still stomach burgers? de vivre,” says Vorotova. came to the United States in their early 20s. When Greeks come over My family never gets sick of burgers. We eat at the restaurant once from the old country, for some reason, that’s the business they gravi- or twice a week. It’s nice to know that our friends can come to Clovis France tate to. So that’s what my father did. At one point, he owned maybe two8two and we don’t have to clean a greasy kitchen at home. 10 diners in our area [Highland, Calif.]. He had no prior experience, Clovis France is the only mustard and vin- Yelena Shuster ’09 egar maker in Reims, capital of the north- eastern province of Champagne, and the company’s recipes date to 1797. The terrain in which the mustard seeds grow contrib- utes to their flavor, which is enhanced with a splash of wine from the finest barrels PHOTO: COURTESY CLOVIS FRANCE three years later. The recipe is unaltered today. “The most Charles Antona from Reims and Épernay. “We wanted to popular way to eat it is as a topping for Greek yogurt,” Charles Antona is a Corsican jam producer whose feature a French mustard different from the so-famous Dijon,” says Vorotova. Minnà jams are 100 percent natural and organic. says Vorotova. “The mustards from Clovis benefit from a Respecting age-old recipes —“minnà” means centuries-old heritage and premium ingredients.” Le Saunier de Camargue grandma — Antona’s secret ingredient is the Med- Le Saunier de Camargue comes from the naturally salty iterranean sun. The clementine jam featured here Clément Faugier French Mediterranean coastal area. Local sauniers collect is made from a rare species of the fruit exclusive In 1882, Clément Faugier started his candied chestnut the unrefined salt by hand once it’s crystallized by the hot PHOTO: COURTESY to the island of Corsica. “You can enjoy these jams CHARLES ANTONA company in Ardèche, a mountainous region known for its summer temperatures. Vorotova suggests using it to “finish on fresh bread, a croissant or crêpe for breakfast, or chestnuts. The first to apply an industrial production pro- a dish, as it adds a crunch and a lingering taste that brings pair with a cheese platter,” Vorotova suggests. cess to chestnut drying, he created a spread from the pulp out a range of subtle flavors from salad to fish and meat.” Yelena Shuster ’09 PHOTO: COURTESY TRY THE WORLD

SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 28 29 MIDtown eASt (47th Street and Park Avenue) the origin of the korilla name: “the name morningside needed to be something heights harlem that was memorable, it needed to roll off the tongue. It’s formed by combining the ‘k-o-r’ in ‘korean,’ the ‘I-l-l’ in ‘grill’ and then adding east an ‘A,’ because other- harlem wise it would be ‘korill’ and that didn’t sound right to my ears.” eddie Song ’08 in his east Village restaurant. upper Photo: Anne-ryAn west side heAtwole Jrn’09

colUMBIA central (116th Street and park Amsterdam Avenue) Korilla: columbia students loved upper korilla so much, they led east side eASt VIllAge Korean to the end of the online reStAUrAnt destination polls: “After (23 third Ave. at columbia started winning St. Mark’s Place) Food on nonstop, it became unfair. on the appeal of korean Students have more time; banchan (side dishes): people in Midtown are “korean food not only the Move going to vote from 9 to has a plethora of fla- 5, but columbia students vor profiles but also he orange and black tiger- will vote from 9 to 5 textures. what you’re striped Korilla food truck and after that. columbia supposed to do is eat a is hard to miss, drawing always won!” piece of meat and add crowds to sidewalks some rice to it and across New York City for midtown some other side dishes customizable Korean takeout. Founded T west — korean food is really in 2010 by Eddie Song ’08, Korilla’s midtown just an endless combi- customers line up to create burritos, times east nation of flavors and rice bowls or salads with their pick of square textures.” protein (bulgogi [marinated ribeye],

chicken, pork barbecue or tofu), rice, DUMBo murray hill vegetables, kimchi (fermented vegeta- (water Street and garment bles) and house specialty hot sauces. district Jay Street) “Because the restaurant industry the name’s pronunciation: is such a competitive thing, I always thought that we needed to do some- “I didn’t anticipate this, but thing different. Being the first Korean I now recognize the power gramercy fast-casual brand in New York City is of an ambiguous name, different, but we wanted to go further,” the power of mystery. says Song about the distinctive tiger People start thinking, ‘Is it theme. “The idea was to be visually pronounced “korea,” the striking and bold, because what we’re way a Spanish-speaking chelsea doing is presenting a new item that person would say a com- something like 99 percent of people bination of korea and haven’t tried. I need to make a good tortilla? or is it “korilla” first impression!” stuyvesant because they use guerilla Korilla’s modern twist on traditional town Korean food has been well received tactics by going on the by both New Yorkers and industry streets?’” professionals. In 2011 Korilla (rhymes greenwich with guerilla) won the Vendy Award for village Rookie of the Year, a top prize in the food truck industry. Song and the truck appeared on Sesame Street in 2012, east village

and The Village Voice named it the top FInAncIAl DIStrIct food truck in New York City for 2014. (Front Street and old Slip) on operating a food truck With more than 26,000 Twitter fol- little italy lowers and 12,000 Likes on Facebook, compared to working in a Korilla has a devoted online fan base. restaurant: “what’s interesting lower Song originally determined each day’s is that a food truck actually soho east side location through social media polls, ask- has infinite space because you ing followers to vote where the truck have the entire sidewalk.” should go and then driving the next day to where the greatest demand was. Today fans track the truck through daily tribeca chinatown Facebook and Twitter announcements; updates also are posted to the Korilla website (korillabbq.com). In October, the company opened its first brick-and-mortar shop, in the Downtown Brooklyn/Metrotech East Village, emblazoning its signature (Myrtle Avenue and lawrence Street) stripes across the building’s four-story on how customers differ: “our trucks make it a façade. The paint job made at least one mission to hit up different demographics. … we thing clear: The truck may still be on used to cast a wider net; now we are focusing on financial the move, but Korilla has arrived. the midtown and downtown lunch crowd, and on district Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 Brooklyn because it’s a borough that has a lot of MAP: SArA rAnD potential.” EPICURES AND ENTREPRENEURS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY EPICURES AND ENTREPRENEURS

Recipe Writing Is Art for Dina Cheney ’99 Going Slow with Kate Krauss ’98

hose who read about she wasn’t happy: “I wasn’t expressing s managing director ging up dirt and stalking lawyers. “My food may recognize the my creativity. I was a square peg in a of Slow Food USA, Go Slow in Your Life high ideals were deflated,” she says. name Dina Cheney ’99. round hole,” she says. one arm of a global Krauss headed to Berkeley, Calif., to 1. Buy whole ingredients. She is a prolific When the couple moved back to nonprofit dedicated to Cook them. Eat them. work “in the trenches” fighting climate recipe developer and New York a year later, Cheney was advancing its vision change for The Nature Conservancy, cookbook author, in- more determined than ever to make for the pleasures and 2. Avoid processed stuff with long an opportunity more in line with her cludingT of the forthcoming The New her dream of a career in food a real- Apolitics of food, Kate Krauss ’98 works ingredient lists. Eat real food. optimism and values. TNC’s offices oc- Milks (2016) and Mug Meals (2015), as ity. She checked out the Columbia job and tells stories at the intersection of 3. Grow some of your own food. cupied a dark basement, however, and well as Meatless All Day (2014). Among board and found that Karen Page and food and community. Start in your backyard or community she would head to the sunny streets her other credits are Year-Round Slow Andrew Dornenburg, the legendary Take the one about the postcard- garden, or on your windowsill. for walks whenever she could. At Cooker, Williams-Sonoma New Flavors cookbook author duo, were looking pretty Gilliard Farms in Brunswick, 4. If you eat meat, choose grass-fed; the Berkeley farmers’ market, Krauss for Salads and Tasting Club (think book for an assistant. She jumped on the Ga., where Matthew Raiford belongs to if you eat poultry, choose free-range. heard folk music and saw kids dancing club for the culinarily inclined). As a opportunity and worked closely with the sixth generation to call the family amidst fruits and veggies so beautiful 5. Whenever possible, know the magazine food writer she penned the the couple researching, editing and farm home. As a young man, however, story behind your food. as to be nearly “mystical.” She had a “Taste Test” column for EveryDay with writing. he was eager to get as far from it as revelatory moment, and became a reg- Rachael Ray for three years and contrib- Realizing she had to earn her “culi- possible. He served in the military for ular at the farmers’ market. “I started utes to Clean Eating, Parents, Fine Cook- nary chops,” Cheney also attended the a decade, then earned a degree from The Culinary Institute cooking. I started experimenting with vegetables. I threw ing and Cooking Light. And she paints Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) of America and spent the next 15 years as a chef and teacher dinner parties. I lost weight.” — food, naturally. from April 2002 to December 2003. For far from home. Then, in 2011, he returned to Gilliard Farms, Krauss still longed for work filled with more light, both The subject has been a longstanding an academic, artist and introvert, the where today he is a farmer, chef and restaurateur. He cooks actual and figurative. She looked for a job where she could passion for Cheney, starting in 1992 social, fast-paced world of culinary traditional Southern fare with a modern bent, and uses ingre- when, she says, she was an unhappy school was challenging. “I almost quit, dients from his farm. high school kid trying to find herself. In it was so hard for me,” she says. “I had “That’s what we’re about,” Krauss says. “People reclaim- the pages of Bon Appétit, Gourmet and to really learn how to cook.” ing parts of their tradition, and using that to celebrate their Saveur, she did just that. The exquisite After graduation from ICE, Cheney identity.” As she describes it, the member-supported organi- photos of shortbreads and lamb roasts, hustled. She taught cooking classes zation is “not more locally sourced $6 eggs at farmers’ mar- the spreads of holiday feasts and sum- and led food tours. “I had to be tena- kets” but rather about taking steps to “build a different kind mertime fêtes, the pithy pleas to chop, cious, almost obsessive. I must have of food economy … one that is good, clean and fair for all.” sauté, toss, drizzle — they all lit her sent thousands of pitch emails” for This last phrase encapsulates the official mission of Slow up. “I was writing a lot of poetry at food articles and recipe ideas, she says. Food — which originated in Italy and marked its 25th an- the time,” Cheney recalls. “The recipes Rejections piled up, but with time, so niversary in December — and lays out a far-reaching ideal. were like abbreviated poems. … I [also] did opportunities. One article led to Good means tasty as well as seasonal, fresh and local. Clean was obsessed with the mastheads. I another, and then to a book deal. The connotes healthful as well as produced in a way that is en- wanted to be those people.” PIZZA TOSS more Cheney was published, the more vironmentally sound. Fair applies to both affordability of For her Columbia application, This easy crowd-pleaser — think publishers and editors sought her food and how food workers are treated. And for all is just Cheney sculpted and submitted a clay pizza in a mug, in less than 5 min- work. that: accessible to everyone across traditions, cultures and sandwich, along with an essay compar- utes — will become one of your Today, Cheney lives in Cos Cob, nations. ing herself to it. She likened her intellec- go-to dishes. My kids request it Conn., with her husband and their two The worldwide Slow Food network comprises roughly tual prowess to the sandwich meat, and all the time. Be sure to use a high- sons. Some days, she spends a lot of 100,000 members in more than 150 countries, all working to the lettuce to her whimsical creativity quality marinara sauce. time at her computer, especially when further its mission through a mix of activism, educational and playfulness. Once at school, when 1 cup 1-inch cubes country bread, she’s in the writing phase for a cook- events and social gatherings. Slow Food USA’s wide-ranging she wasn’t studying, she was exploring such as ciabatta book. She also logs many hours in the charge includes preserving and sharing local food and food New York restaurants. An anthropol- ½ cup high-quality marinara sauce kitchen, creating, tweaking and testing culture; helping the next generation grow, prepare and share ogy major, she did her thesis on com- ½ cup shredded mozzarella recipes for her cookbooks and maga- food responsibly; and connecting communities through lo- munity cookbooks. cheese zine articles. Lest the life of a recipe cal projects, educational events and shared meals. “I think After graduation Cheney moved ½ cup coarsely chopped fresh developer and cookbook creator sound the most important thing you can do is to cook and share,” spinach leaves, washed and with her future husband, Jacob Rosen- glamorous, let Cheney set the record Krauss says. “By cooking food, you learn how food works, patted dry schein ’99 (whom she met on the first straight: “I do a lot of grocery shopping. where food comes from. You understand the story.” day of college), to California, where 1. Stir together the ingredients in I do a lot of dishes. I have a gel mat for The Cincinnati native says that food was not a particular he’d been hired as a tech writer for a small bowl, then pour into a my feet. passion growing up (she balked at eating fruit from her fam- Netscape. Cheney scoured job listings 12-oz. mug. Pack down. “It still amazes me that I’ve accom- ily’s peach tree rather than from the grocery store). She stud- for openings in food writing or mar- 2. Cover and microwave until hot, plished this dream that I had when I ied political science at Columbia and planned to become a keting but found nothing, and instead about 2 minutes. was 14,” Cheney says. “I feel so lucky political journalist, landing a job with ABC after graduation.

began working in PR for a tech firm. PHOTOS, TOP: COURTESY DINA CHENEY ’99; to be doing this.” At the time, the country was fixated on the Clinton-Lewinsky Though she flourished professionally, BOTTOM: COURTESY THE TAUNTON PRESS Hannah Howard ’09 scandal, and Krauss’ assignments demanded long days dig-

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“save the world, and have some fun Go Slow in with a one-to-one match to purchase What was your first batch of bagels like? while doing it.” She found an open- healthful, locally grown fruit and Nick: They were terrible! We didn’t know what we were ing for director of development of Your Community vegetables. The program helps peo- doing. The flavor profile was wrong. Slow Food USA, and in 2009 moved 1. Cook and eat with others, and not ple eat more healthfully, helps small Elyse: To get the chewy inside and the crispy outside is back to New York. Krauss spent just family and friends. Bring new farms succeed and helps local food not an easy thing. seven months as interim executive people and perspectives to the table. communities flourish. It was a big director and has been in her current 2. Join a community garden and win for Slow Foods, and for Krauss. What baking experience did you have before starting position as managing director since grow food with others. Krauss notes that momentum “to Bantam Bagels? January 2013. go slow” has built within the last Nick: I grew up cooking. I learned a lot from my grand- Operating from the organization’s 3. Connect with your local Slow Food quarter-century, citing as examples mother. Brooklyn base, Krauss manages chapter for events and community everything from backyard gardening Elyse: My grandfather and great-grandfather were bak- projects (slowfoodusa.org). Slow Food USA’s inward-facing to the proliferation of food trucks and ers. I loved baked goods and baking with my mom but responsibilities: She hires and leads 4. Shake the hand that feeds you. farmers’ markets. She says that more never was a baker or cook myself. the team, organizes new and existing Meet the people who grow your people want to revel in food tradition initiatives, and oversees and connects food. Shop at a farmers’ market, and innovation and to nurture com- What’s the story behind the name? approximately 175 local and campus visit a farm or buy shares from munity through food — pillars of the Nick: It originated as a simple search for synonyms for chapters nationwide. Every day is a farm that offers a Community Slow Food mission. small. “Bantam” means tiny or miniature and we liked Supported Agriculture (CSA) different. One of Krauss’ biggest She adds that they — we — have a the alliteration. program. accomplishments was lobbying for dauntingly long way to go before we Double Up Food Bucks, a program 5. Learn about your local or regional realize “a world where what’s easy What’s the key to a good Bantam Bagel? that provides Supplemental Nutri- food history and cultural dishes. and cheap is also what’s good.” Elyse: It’s got to be a burst of flavor. You have to be able tion Assistance Program beneficiaries Hannah Howard ‘09 to taste everything in that first bite.

Why are yours a better experience? Elyse: Their size allows you to have different flavored bagels in one sitting, and all the bagels are right around 100 calories. A Better Bagel, One Bite at a Time Interest in Bantam Bagels was so high after your Shark Tank episode that your website [bantam bagels.com] crashed. What happened? ick Oleksak ’06 and Elyse Oleksak ’07 run a the ABC reality entrepreneurship show Shark Tank. The pair Nick: After it aired on January 9 we had upward of burgeoning bagel business in New York City, struck a deal with investor Lori Greiner: $275,000 for 25 per- 100,000 different users trying to do something on the but the college sweethearts didn’t set out to cent of their business. website. A lot of people wanted our bagels! get degrees in dough. Nick was an econom- Now they have about 10 employees and are producing ics major and Elyse studied political science thousands of bagels a day, which they sell at their retail store What are sales like now? and sociology. The two landed jobs on and online for about $1 each. The couple talked with Elyse: We make from 3,000 to 4,000 bagel balls daily in NWall Street after graduating but say there was a CCT about their lives as young entrepreneurs and our shop. About 3,000 of those are for catering orders. part of them that was bored. their growing business. Now we’re also getting hundreds of orders daily on our Then, in May 2012, Nick dreamed one website and have a commercial kitchen that produces night about a different kind of bagel, How did you meet? thousands more bagels. PHOTO: COURTESY BANTAM BAGELS shaped like a small ball and filled with Elyse: I played lacrosse and Nick played cream cheese — sort of like a jelly do- baseball. We had a mixer at the baseball What are your best sellers? able every day. I’ll sometimes sneak in the bakery and make nut. Elyse thought that sounded tasty, fraternity house where the boys put us Elyse: The Everybody’s Favorite [an everything bagel some for myself and not share them. so they made the first batch in their on the spot and asked us to pick the filled with veggie cream cheese], The Classic [a plain ba- Brooklyn kitchen. Bantam Bagels was cutest player. I picked Nick. gel filled with plain cream cheese], Hot Pretzel [a pretzel Are they any flavors you experimented with that didn’t born. salt bagel filled with cheddar Dijon cream cheese], French make it into the shop? Soon they were experimenting with Did you cook at Columbia? Toast [a cinnamon nutmeg egg bagel with maple syrup Elyse: We made a Thai-flavored bagel inspired by our honey- all kinds of savory and sweet varieties Nick: I was at John Jay all the time, but cream cheese], Cookies & Milk [a brown sugar walnut moon in Thailand. It was a Thai spice bagel with green curry and cream cheese fillings. Their friends I tried to make Elyse something good bagel with chocolate chip cream cheese] and Grandma cream cheese. It was a little too niche. gobbled up the bite-sized bagels and want- every now and then. I made her Valentine’s Jo Jo [an Italian seasoned bagel filled with pesto cream ed to know where they could buy them. The Day dinner at the fraternity house. cheese]. Within the last few months, Oprah made you a favorite, couple realized they had a real business on their Elyse: He made crepes because it was my favor- PHOTO: COURTESY Nick: The Grandma Jo Jo is inspired by my Italian grand- Shark Tank aired and you had your first child. What have hands and decided to open a store. BANTAM BAGELS ite food. mother. My mom made her a T-shirt that says, “I’m the things been like? Elyse quit her job, and in 2013, after raising just original Grandma Jo Jo.” Nick: There’s so much happening. It’s pretty exciting and under $600,000 from friends and family, they opened a shop What was life like after Columbia? tiring. And then we have this sweet little baby boy who on Bleecker Street. Business has been booming ever since. Elyse: We had good jobs and we were both doing really well Which are your favorites? needs as much if not more of our attention. It’s been quite In November, Bantam Bagels was included in Oprah’s at them. But we’re the kind of people who get bored really Elyse: I like the classic flavors. the challenge, making sure we pay enough attention to both annual list of “favorite things.” And in January, TV viewers easily and we always have to be doing something harder. So Nick: The Weekend Brunch [an everything bagel filled with of our babies. nationwide were introduced to the Oleksaks’ bagels through we created something harder for ourselves! lox, tomato, red onion and cream cheese], which isn’t avail- Jessica Gresko ’05

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t’s just before 10 a.m. on a December Monday at The folds the whites into the batter. The finished product fills six Want To Eat? Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, and pastry cook full-sized sheet pans lined with parchment paper and doused Mercedes Vargas ’99 is in her work clothes: a white chef with non-stick cooking spray. jacket embroidered with the hotel name, an apron that Vargas began pondering a career in the food industry in As the neighborhood has changed, so have the majority of shows faint evidence of encounters with chocolate and 2002 while working in ad sales at TheStreet.com, a financial dining choices in Morningside Heights, though a few standbys remain loose pants with a fine black-and-white checkerboard news and services website. Inspired by an article she’d read Ipattern. Her dark hair is tucked into a pillbox hat. about celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis’ catering business — Vargas has worked for the five-star hotel for seven “That sounds like fun,” she recalls thinking — Vargas B y A l e x S a c h a r e ’71 years. Her days are largely unscripted, her tasks decided to study culinary arts and management determined by the number of banquets (the at the Institute of Culinary Education. Most of size of which can swell unexpectedly), her experience since has been with pastry, he West End or The Gold Rail? Tom’s or The Indeed, for many College alumni, the quality of the food seasonal offerings to be made (hot however. Vargas was the pastry chef College Inn? Pisticci or Caffé Pertutti? Colum- was only part of the reason they chose one off-campus eatery chocolate and gingerbread cookies at Gemma at The Bowery Hotel and bia Cottage or Moon Palace? over another — camaraderie often was the deciding factor. around the holidays) and last-minute has also worked at La Bottega at The Ask alumni about the neighborhood restau- Brian Krisberg ’81, LAW’84 says that when it came to area requests. Her customary first stop, Maritime Hotel, now-shuttered Pair rants they went to as students and the answers diners, “I was more of a College Inn person than a Tom’s however, is the pastry station in the of 8s on the Upper West Side and come quickly; the years since graduation fade person.” Asked why, he replies, “It was where more of my service kitchen, and today is no ex- Great Performances, a New York andT vivid memories produce lively anecdotes whether due to fraternity brothers went.” ception. She looks for order tickets City-area catering company. She the food or the prices, the location or the ambiance. The group dynamic can work both ways. One person — none yet — and disappears into describes the essence of her pro- Ray Robinson ’41 recalls Columbia­ Chemists, across may have a favorite haunt, but if the rest of the group does a walk-in refrigerator to inventory fession as “anticipating people’s Amsterdam Avenue. “The food not concur, that craving might go the desserts. She will be summoned needs and creating moments that wasn’t very good — it was drug- unfulfilled. “I remember some- back throughout the day to plate make them want to come back.” store food — but it was the place what fondly that The Green Tree orders for patrons, but right now she To that end, details elevate a dish, we all went to hang out,” he says. Restaurant had blini that I liked descends the stairs to the prep kitchen as Vargas demonstrates by adding “Nothing really positive could very much,” says Peter Jacoby ’71. in the bowels of the hotel. green chocolate discs to portions of dulce be said about the food, except “But I generally couldn’t convince The compact room is shared by the de leche layer cake. Around 2:15 p.m. she that you could eat something other people in my circle to go five-person pastry department and the garde is plating brownies, blondies and the Ritz’s for a nickel or a dime. But it was there.”

manger cooks (cold food preparation), and walk- PHOTO: NATHALIE ALONSO ’08 signature dessert, an orange-flavored chocolate always crowded; you could never College students being college ing space and work surfaces are at a premium. cake, when a request for a s’more hot chocolate get a seat.” students, quantity often trumps Music competes with the clink of metal on metal, the whir of comes in on the kitchen’s landline. With a bag of cream that “I spent half my life at Colum- quality when it comes to cuisine. blenders and the beeping of the oven. Anthony D’Adamo, threatens to overflow and a box of scones for tea service in tow, bia at The West End,” says Ana “Every Friday we went to Vic & head of pastry, stirs a coconut risotto pudding atop a portable Vargas rides the elevator to the service kitchen. After rewhip- Salper ’96, referring to the vener- Katie’s,” recalls Michael Oberman burner. Though shifts are staggered — D’Adamo comes in ping the cream and transferring it to a new pastry bag, she able Broadway pub that was a ’69. “It was double portion at the at 5 a.m. and plots out the day — the room can get snug. As sends out the hot chocolate and plates orders for cheesecake home-away-from-home for Beat same everyday price that night, many as four pastry cooks will work side by side to make and crème brulee. Each dessert is accompanied by fresh ber- poets, Spec editors, Varsity Show and while we all ended up with cookies, ice cream and other sweets for the hotel’s restaurant, ries that Vargas scrutinizes before adding to the plates. composers and other students for upset stomachs, we could not re- in-room dining, two lounges and private events. Vargas will leave at 5 p.m. but before going she must more than a half-century before sist the value. We thought of it as a Vargas begins preparing petits fours, scones and other complete one last task: several hundred cheddar biscuits. She being sold in 2006. “It was like meal with a Pepto-Bismol chaser. sweets for afternoon tea. Though she says Mondays are rela- tosses bricks of butter into the mixer with sugar, lets it whip, our ‘Cheers.’ It was nice knowing Another favorite spot was V&T. tively slow, Vargas seems to be in constant motion, shuttling then warms the mixture with a torch before combining it there was a place right down the street where you would To this day, my roommates remember the time we ate there back and forth between a walk-in refrigerator at one end of with the flour and other dry ingredients. After rolling out the always run into someone you knew and a place that always and as we were leaving were asked, ‘Have you boys paid the the kitchen, the stainless steel counter where she whisks, stirs dough, she forms the biscuits with a round cutter and layers welcomed you, whether you were a first-year new to the Co- check?’ To which I replied, ‘We paid with our stomachs.’” and slices, and a dry storage closet down the hall. Around the discs between sheets of parchment paper. Tomorrow they lumbia scene or a ‘veteran’ senior.” Michael Ackerman ’84 says timing was everything when 10:45 a.m., she cracks the first of 36 eggs that will become the will rise and turn golden brown in the oven, but for now they “Groups would go out to eat, and people were very spe- it came to Pizza Town, on Broadway near 113th. “My good custard for four varieties of quiche — bacon, bell pepper, as- go into the refrigerator. cific about which place they usually went to,” says Doug friend Herb Reich SEAS’84 and I were able to see Pizza Town paragus and mushroom — for tomorrow’s breakfast. As Vargas gets ready to go home to her partner, Howard, Wolf ’88. “There’s the experience, the continuity. People who from our windows and one late night, after watching a Twilight At noon Vargas starts making the sponge cake that’s used and their daughters, Adriana and Isabella, she reiterates that worked in those places were really good at dealing with col- Zone rerun, we went down. Since they had only six slices left in several of the hotel’s desserts. Instead of relying on mem- it was a slow day. She’s not sure what she will walk into to- lege students. At Tom’s, they always knew your order — as and we were buying two of them, the Pizza Town guys gave ory, she consults a thick binder crammed with handwritten morrow, but the reward will be the same: “It makes people people walked in they would call out your order before you us the other four so they could close up and leave. We soon recipes: eggs whites go into an oversized mixer to whip; happy,” says Vargas about the food she makes. “Being part of even sat down. My classmate Jonathan Lavine ’88 went into started to plan to go there in order to get the last slices, some- other ingredients are added to a metal mixing bowl that sits that experience is what I enjoy.” Tom’s with his daughter recently and they remembered times employing binoculars from the windows to see how on a scale (ingredients here are weighed). Eventually she Nathalie Alonso ’08 him.” many slices they had left to strategically plan our visits.”

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Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital has erased its former home. Classes Stay Connected Through Monthly Lunches For students, convenience is an important factor. Several alumni said they frequented the College Inn rather than n a cold Wednesday in December, members of the attended — some as many as 75 times — and that the gatherings Tom’s when it came to diners because it was closer to cam- Class of 1963 waved down classmates at The Grill, the average seven or eight attendees each month. pus. Pisticci, on LaSalle Street off Broadway, is a favorite for restaurant in The Columbia University Club of New The CC’58 lunches have an even longer history — more than 20 those who reside north of 120th, as are several restaurants York. They weren’t seated at their usual table, and years — and have been coordinated by Art Radin ’58 since force of habit led the later-arriving men 2003. At the November outing, several diners were along that stretch of Amsterdam. Camille’s, on Amsterdam at Oto beeline for their regular spot on the opposite longstanding attendees though Ted Story ’58 116th, is popular with East Campus residents today as well side of the room. There they found fellow had come for the first time. Most were as with younger alumni who lived there, while older alumni Columbians, but men who had graduated New York natives (three attended recall going to the Campus Dining Room on 119th east of five years earlier. Stuyvesant H.S. together), so talk Amsterdam for homestyle food at reasonable prices. The overlap in the two class lunches turned to how the city has changed Columbia Chemists was another Amsterdam favorite was unusual, as the ’63ers typically since their time at the College. among older alumni, including Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz ’42, meet on the second Thursday of the Columbia sports were a whose regular breakfast was a small OJ (“a large OJ was too month. No problem, however; once popular topic at both lunches, expensive”), a donut and coffee. “The Chemists was owned everyone was situated at the new with CC’58 discussing football by two brothers who might once have been pharmacists but spot, talk quickly turned to family, and their memories of the ’58 friends and Columbia memories. team, while CC’63 got excited While Pizza Town is long gone, V&T remains to offer the now ran this breakfast-lunch-dinner place,” he says. “It had Many other classes (including about the prospects for this same “heart-attack inducing extra cheese pizza that practi- a counter and stools on one side, booths on the other. Service 1956, 1957 and 1960) also hold year’s men’s basketball team. cally slid off your plate. The veal parmigiana was good, was hectic and orders were yelled out to cooks, with phrases regular lunches as a way to stay Neshamkin spoke about his too — a great way to satisfy your hunger pangs,” says Mark like ‘shoot one’ (a Coke), ‘draw one’ (a cup of coffee), ‘burn up-to-date with friends. CCT de- time as a member of the crew Kingdon ’71. one’ (put a burger on the grill) and ‘Adam and Eve on a raft’ cided to drop in on two of them — team and their experiences Founded in 1945 and housed at its current (two poached eggs on toast).” the November CC’58 lunch as well painting the C-rock on the Harlem location on Amsterdam between 110th and Speaking of diner lingo, Phil Satow ’63 recalls as the December CC’63 one — to get River where they rowed. 111th since the mid-’60s, V&T has satisfied that the tuna salad on toast at Columbia Chemists the scoop about what happens when In December, Doron Gopstein ’63 many generations of Columbia students. Other was called “radio,” because it was “tuna down,” classmates meet up over meals. pointed out that at reunion, classmates neighborhood veterans that remain include with down being the diner description for toast. The majority of the lunches take place at often say they should get together more the Columbia Club, which is housed within The often and then don’t follow through but that The Hungarian Pastry Shop, which shares the So how do you get to radio? “Tuna down” sounds Princeton Club at 15 W. 43rd St. Though the facility Members of the Class of 1963 class lunches allow them to stay connected. He same block with V&T; Tom’s Restaurant, on the like “turn it down,” which was the command is also shared with NYU and Williams, there’s no enjoyed lunch in December. added that not everyone knew each other while corner of Broadway and 112th, made famous often repeated when the radio in the kitchen was confusion as to from where alumni hail; the diners PHOTO: ANNE-RYAN HEATWOLE JRN’09 at the College and the get-togethers are a great by Suzanne Vega BC’81’s song “Tom’s Diner” too loud. So, “turn it down” became “tuna down” make their allegiances clear. In December, Dr. Henry opportunity to meet people with shared cultural and even more so from TV because its exterior which became simply “radio.” Black ’63 sported a Columbia bow tie, Geoffrey Thompson ’63 wore touch points thanks to the Columbia experience. Joseph Applebaum was used in Seinfeld; and Symposium, the Greek a traditional Columbia tie and organizer Paul Neshamkin ’63 wore a ’63, who was in NYC from Miami for work, said that he was happy the restaurant on the lower level of a brownstone f the college years are a time for growth and Columbia lapel pin. In November, Paul Herman ’58 wore a blue and lunch’s date change coincided with his visit. on 113th between Broadway and Amsterdam. stretching one’s horizons, the same often white traditional tie and a sailing club pin (Sheldon Raab ’58 joked As the classmates mingled over shared meals, their Columbia All have been serving Columbians, Morningside applies to food. All Columbia students and that he was surprised to learn there was a sailing club while they bonds were clear — many of the men had been friends for 50 years Heights residents and visitors for more than 40 alumni have benefited from a wealth of cu- were in school). and, as the lunch wrapped up, they excitedly planned their next I Neshamkin started the CC’63 lunches in December 2004 and month’s lunch. years. Not far behind are other Broadway main- linary choices in New York City, including many says that during the past decade, more than 65 classmates have Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 stays Amir’s Grill (for falafel) and Mill Korean right in Morningside Heights. Randy Nichols ’75, Restaurant (formerly a luncheonette renowned TC’79 cites Symposium for “pitchers of sangria, for its milkshakes). grape leaves and wonderful moussaka — prob- Not a sit-down restaurant but another old- ably the first place I ate Greek food, and I still eat timer is Mondel Chocolates, which has been Greek often.” He also fondly recalls being intro- serving candies and other delectable treats from duced to falafel at Amir’s. its tiny storefront on Broadway near 114th for On the other hand, hamburgers are a staple is famous for its huge slices, and Famous Fami- from the former site of The College Inn. more than half a century. of student dining, and older alumni may recall glia, directly across Broadway, also is popular. Many Columbia students enjoy a bagel for More commonly, Morningside Heights eateries have come Prexy’s, whose logo was a burger with a mortarboard and The coffee shop/diner is of course a staple the convenience of a grab-and-go breakfast or and gone through the years. Alumni of all ages can walk whose slogan was “The hamburger with a college education.” of the restaurant category, and the neighbor- lunch. Longtime favorite Columbia Hot Bagels up and down Broadway or Amsterdam and play the game And while Cosmopolitan Restaurant and Happy Burger, both hood has had its share through the years. is gone, replaced by an apartment building of “Remember when such-and-such was here?” The West on Broadway, are gone, nowadays Mel’s Burger Bar operates Older alumni cite Bickford’s, Rikers and Chock with Westside Market on its street level on End became Havana Central at The West End, which gave from the former location of the Gold Rail, and right across full o’ Nuts, with the latter’s “heavenly” coffee Broadway at the corner of 110th. Nussbaum way within the past year to Bernheim & Schwartz. The high- Broadway is a branch of the bringing back fond memories for several who & Wu Café, Bagel & Bakery, on the corner of profile spot on the corner of Broadway and 116th that once Five Guys Burgers and Fries were contacted for this article. Satow called Broadway and 113th, is among those pick- housed Chock full o’ Nuts now belongs to Ollie’s Noodle burger chain. it “a good, economic place to eat”; Nesham- ing up the slack. And while Absolute Bagels, Shop and Grill (Chinese). Pizza remains a staple of the kin says he “lived on date bread with cream between 107th and 108th, is a bit of a schlep, it The changing face of the neighborhood, however, means V&T dining menu, but there cheese and their coffee in my senior year”; and has its share of aficionados. some of the buildings that housed long-ago eateries are also has been no shortage of pizza- Ackerman calls it “the go-to coffee shop in the Chinese restaurants have come and gone now long gone. For example, many alumni from the ’50s and by-the-slice choices through the neighborhood, before the Starbucks revolu- from the area, including Columbia Cottage, ’60s recall a restaurant on Amsterdam and 114th called Cam- years, with several alumni men- tion.” These days, Tom’s continues to serve New Asia Restaurant, Blue Moon and La pus Grill. Paul Neshamkin ’63 says it was “the best greasy tioning Pizza Town. Koronet students (as well as the tourists who snap pho- Bella China. Many alumni recall venturing to spoon near campus,” but the expansion of what is now Pizza, on Broadway near 111th, tos of its iconic façade), and Deluxe operates Chinatown, or, for something closer, to Hunan

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[ COLUMBIA FORUM] Balcony on Broadway near 98th. the frozen eel. Back at my dorm room, I would cook some Richard Hsia ’71 fondly recalls one rice and microwave the eel, making myself instant unadon. I longtime neighborhood restaurant, also have a lingering image of the mysterious Japanese sports Moon Palace, which closed in 1991 drink Pocari Sweat, which was a and “served the best, most authen- milky semi-sweet drink that tic and [most] endearing Chinese grew on you if you weren’t too cooking, specializing in Mandarin grossed out by the name.” cuisine and friendly service. Colum­ For generations, the most bia and Morningside Heights were elegant place to dine on Morn- lucky to be home for so long — 26 ingside Heights was Terrace in years — to Moon Palace, the the Sky restaurant, on 119th near Finding My Way: epitome of Chinese cooking, Morningside Drive. Its top-floor delicious and inexpensive location boasted sweeping views at the same time. Tragically, of the city that made an impres- there is nothing like Moon sion, as did its prices. For many, Palace today.” it was the place to go to wow a Moon Palace may be gone, date, or when Dad was picking up Junior Year, 1959 but much of Broadway from campus to 110th Street is lined the tab. “Butler Terrace [as it was with restaurants offering a variety of cuisines, many of which known,] was the fancy place when include outdoor cafes when the weather permits. Le Monde, my folks came in for my birthday the French bistro on Broadway between 112th and 113th, or another special occasion,” says would fit right in on a street in Paris or Marseilles. Jon White ’85. “It had really great Filling a different niche among off-campus dining choices atmosphere and view, and often are the take-out stores. For decades the mainstays were had a harp/piano combo.” Ta-Kome (Dennis Klainberg ’84 recalls “the mystery meat Possibly because special sandwiches, I mean, the meatball heroes”) and the somewhat occasions come around only so more upscale Mama Joy’s (Nichols favored roast beef and often, however, it closed several years ago. Swiss on an onion roll and recalls, “sometimes the beef was so fresh and warm that it almost melted in your mouth”). To- Didn’t see your favorite eatery in this story, or have a memory you Morris Dickstein ’61 is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English day, Milano’s Market, just south of 113th on Broadway, sells want to share? Write to us at [email protected] and we’ll an array of heroes as well as gourmet foods from the former try to share select responses in print or online. and Theatre and the senior fellow at the Center for the Humanities, which footprint of Mama Joy’s, while Samad’s Gourmet provides he founded in 1993, at CUNY’s Graduate Center. He taught English at an alternative a block south. Hamilton Deli (“HamDel”) on Amsterdam near 116th is convenient for East Campus resi- the College from 1966 to 1971. A renowned cultural critic, Dickstein dents and a favorite of David Donner Chait ’07, BUS’13. “I About the Authors has written for The Times Literary Supplement and The New York loved the off-menu ABC Special — everyone should give it a try,” he says. Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Hannah Howard ’09 is Times Book Review, and has published a number of cultural histories, For the more adventuresome, Peter Kang ’05 puts in a Queens, is a freelance jour- a food and culture writer good word for M2M, on Broadway near 115th, which offers nalist and an editorial pro- who has written for The including Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great ducer for LasMayores.com, New York Times, Thought the standard sandwiches and steam-tray food to go as well Major League Baseball’s Catalog, AMEX OPEN fo- Depression (2009). as a variety of Korean and Japanese specialties. “I grew up official Spanish language rum, Serious Eats, Grub eating Korean food, so it was nice to have a place where I website. She writes “Stu- Street, Refinery29, Zady Dickstein’s latest book, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education could pick up some kimchi and rice. My go-to at M2M was dent Spotlight” for CCT. and oyster.com. (Liveright, $27.95), is a memoir of his youth. In its pages we learn of Karl Daum ‘15, CCT’s CCT Editor in Chief Alex his gradual emergence from the warm, enclosed world of an Orthodox editorial intern, majors in Sachare ’71 recalls eating American history. He is a many a roast beef hero Jewish community into the bracing but often turbulent air of a wider, former Spectator editor from Mama Joy’s at his and is a current columnist desk in the Spectator of- freer culture. As a young man in 1950s New York, he stands on the and editorial cartoonist. fice in Ferris Booth Hall. threshold of Sixties change, mesmerized by the vitality of the thinking Jessica Gresko ’05 works Yelena Shuster ’09 is a in Washington, D.C. Her freelance writer whose that surrounds him. most recent contribution to work has appeared in The In the following excerpt, Dickstein recalls his last two years at the Columbia College Today was New York Times, InStyle a profile of David Alpern ’63. and Manhattan magazines. College, working at Spectator and studying under a few of the finest Say hello @YelenaShuster. Anne-Ryan Heatwole professors Columbia has ever known. The best of his classes, he points JRN’09 is CCT’s editorial assistant. out, “were not simply courses but life-altering experiences.”

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standing of how any literary works were put together, how to live inside them as intimate human experiences that nevertheless t was startling, even disorienting, to return to resisted yielding up their meaning. No one else taught quite the same way, from inside the belly Columbia from my summer as a camp counselor of the whale, yet there were so many subjects I was hot to ex- plore that I often split the difference, signing up for the first half of in 1959. I reentered a world at once familiar and Fritz Stern [’46, GSAS’53]’s course in modern European history, then the second half of Trilling’s course on modern writers. In hard to recognize. those days Europe, with its checkered history, salad of languages, My first two years in college had been taken up with required new books, plays, music, and art at just the moment they were and flourishing arts, was all that really mattered to us. It was the Icourses, especially the literary terrain covered by the first year exploding on the New York scene — in chic and shabby art cine- great mountain we were trying to climb. Though I kept up with of Humanities and the social and intellectual history packed into mas, unconventional performance spaces, grungy off-Broadway contemporary American writing as it came out, it never crossed Contemporary Civilization. There were also follow-up courses theaters, and out-of-the-way galleries. my mind to try a course in American literature; we patronized it introducing neophytes to music, the visual arts, and, most in- It was a minor miracle that our venture took off at all since college as a provincial offshoot of great European traditions, something tensely, the key social issues of the modern world. This last course, papers didn’t usually publish extensive literary supplements. But it you could pick up on your own if you really cared to. The feeling embracing major theorists from Marx, Weber, and Durkheim to also unfolded at the cusp between two decades, a moment when for Melville and Emerson, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, Cather and Friederick Hayek and Hannah Arendt, had always faced stub- the whole direction of American culture was in play and the staid Wharton, did not take me by the throat until years later. Some born resistance from specialists in the social science departments. official culture of the 1950s was loosening up, freeing itself especially of this was sheer intellectual snobbery, an unthinking contempt It was dropped as a requirement soon after I graduated, yet it fur- from the heavy hand of the cold war. Now the stultifying consensus for the local and familiar. We prided ourselves on being cosmo- nished a terrific background for every kind of liberal arts major. was coming apart and New York was where much of it was happen- politan, shunning any hint of cultural boosterism. The American As a sweeping introduction to modern social thought, it lent ing. We had ringside seats though without knowing it we were also writers I had been force-fed in high school, from Longfellow to encouragement to generalists, not specialists, motivating stu- among the contenders, eagerly looking for new openings. Carl Sandburg and Stephen Vincent Benét, seemed banal com- dents to overstep arbitrary academic borders and delve into re- With his precise mind and exacting sense of language, Sam pared with more demanding modern writers like Eliot. But it’s lations between one field and another. By focusing on ideas — proved to be a rigorous editor of other people’s prose. I loved The jewel in the crown would also possible that the Christian coloring of early American litera- Durkheim on suicide and anomie, Engels on historical material- fingering review copies, spinning off ideas for essays, cajoling ture put me off despite the Hebraic roots of Puritan culture, about ism, Arendt on totalitarianism and terror — it resisted the tide of reviewers, assigning and editing their articles. It was as if all of be my faculty adviser Andrew which I knew next to nothing. narrow empirical work that dominated the social sciences, just twentieth-century culture had become our own playground. In Stern’s course I did my term paper on the notorious Kishinev the kind of work that one maverick faculty member, C. Wright We found recent graduates to write pieces on the new paintings Chiappe ’33, GSAS’39’s pogrom in Russia in 1903, a massacre that had drawn worldwide Mills, attacked that year in his book The Sociological Imagination, of Willem de Kooning; on the films of Eisenstein, including the condemnation. Reading up on it, I learned more about Russian inspired in part by [Lionel] Trilling [’27, GSAS’38]’s Liberal Imagi- brilliant second part of Ivan the Terrible, which had been shelved Shakespeare class. history and the besieged, often endangered lives of Russian Jews nation. Showing how institutions condition individual lives, Mills while Stalin was alive; on the latest Faulkner novels, The Town than I’d ever known, though I was only a generation away from argued for a more humanistic, less quantitative form of social ob- and The Mansion. I myself chose, not so unpredictably, to review of my time had to be spent on my courses. I was now at liberty to that world. It brought to mind stories of harassment and persecu- servation, something closer to literature than to empirical science. a book called The Cruel God, a study of the Book of Job by a Chris- take a number of electives. The jewel in the crown would be my tion I’d heard from my mother, distant memories of her child- This was the spirit in which Trilling had taken apart the Kinsey tian scholar. Working through my own problems of faith and faculty adviser Andrew Chiappe [’33, GSAS’39]’s Shakespeare hood in the Ukraine. Slow, patient research, the nitty-gritty of his- report, though Mills and Trilling were far apart politically. doubt, I read that peculiarly modern biblical work as an existen- class, which, in the course of a year, promised to take us through torical documentation, usually bored me, but here was a subject I was never going to be a social scientist but I returned to school tialist text about an absurd universe, a challenge to the orthodoxy nearly all thirty-seven plays. (One exception was that travesty of that kept me riveted. I cited everyone from Tolstoy to the Hebrew with a new job that pretty much demanded that I become a gen- represented by Job’s false comforters, who insist that if Job suffers Falstaff, supposedly written for the pleasure of the queen herself, national poet Bialik on this notorious atrocity. It was a small- eralist. I’d grown more involved in writing for Spectator, mostly as he must have sinned since God is neither cruel, capricious, nor The Merry Wives of Windsor.) Despite his remote, seigneurial man- scale rehearsal for the Holocaust, about which I knew even less. a straight news journalist, occasionally as a reviewer of books and unjust. This was no news to biblical scholars but momentous for ner, the rotund Chiappe was the most mellifluous of lecturers. Soon afterward, taking Trilling’s course, I was especially drawn plays. However, the preceding spring the incoming editor in chief, me, a literary as well as a theological adventure. I was taken with He was superb at reading aloud, especially with characters like to Dostoevsky, Freud, and Kafka, perhaps the most “Jewish” of Bill Bishin [’60], had had a vision. Though he himself was a prelaw the sheer sublimity of God’s answer through the Voice from the the self-pitying, self-dramatizing Richard II. Yet Chiappe was no the modern writers, despite Dostoevsky’s fierce Christian anti- student, he thought the state of reviewing in America was appalling Whirlwind, God’s willingness to engage with his human chal- preening performer but an analytic reader adept at finding the Semitism, so evident in his voluminous Diary of a Writer. — middlebrow, complacent, and superficial — especially at its most lenger, coming to meet him, awing him into submission without key to what held each play together — the bold, intuitive patterns No teacher could have been more unlike Chiappe and Zito influential, in theNew York Times Book Review. He was sure that even responding directly to the difficult questions Job had raised. of imagery, the layered psyche of the characters, the coursing va- than Trilling. He was not at his best in a large lecture class, since an undergraduate newspaper could do better, and he called in me Most of the subjects covered in The Supplement were more con- riety of the language, the themes so arresting they seemed like his whole approach was musing — conversational rather than and my pal Sam [Cherniak ’61, LAW’80], also a Spec writer, to figure temporary. One of Sam’s teachers, a densely brilliant critic, Quentin today’s coinage. It was as if he had the playwright in his blood, analytic. His was the sidelong glance, not the frontal attack. Where out how it might be done. (We must have been seen as the paper’s Anderson [’37, GSAS’53], reviewed Leslie Fiedler’s sexually charged so deeply had he penetrated Shakespeare’s mind and universe. Chiappe hovered slightly above his auditors, surveying the land- resident literary intellectuals.) In our no-holds-barred conversations magnum opus, Love and Death in the American Novel, under the pro- Chiappe’s performance had a sequel, for he went on leave at scape of a lush kingdom called Shakespeare, and Zito lobbed bril- we hatched a high-minded plan for what was essentially the New vocative title of “All Discontents and No Civilization.” Fiedler was midyear and my old mentor and tormentor, Jim Zito [’48], took liant insights, like heavy-duty ordnance, at his amazed student York Review of Books, a full four years before that paper appeared in very much in the sexual vanguard of the moment, arraigning Amer- over the class. From the outset, in a rare moment of humility, he audience, Trilling, seemingly casual, even unprepared, appeared 1963 in the midst of a New York City newspaper strike. ican writers for their discretions and suppressions, and Anderson re- prepared us for the cacophonous notes we might be hearing from to be mulling it over as if for the first time — the author, the work, Our more modest version would be published periodically as spectfully dissented. A recent graduate, Morton Halperin [’58], who him. His opening words, delivered as a warning and an advance its place in the culture — awaiting some shaft of inspiration. Often a supplement to the newspaper, but we also planned to distrib- had moved on to Harvard — he would later become one of Henry apology, came from Love’s Labour’s Lost: “The words of Mercury it never arrived, and only the quest itself, the alert, patient waiting, ute it separately to college campuses around the city. It would be Kissinger’s best and brightest — reviewed work on game theory are harsh after the songs of Apollo.” Yet as Zito tracked a path left an impression. When it did arrive it could be worth the effort. made up of extended review essays written to severe standards. and nuclear war. We set up a debate between an old-style cold war through the problem plays and the great tragedies, Shakespeare One day he opened a class devoted to Kafka’s Trial with the lament We would search out contributions not solely from undergradu- liberal, James Wechsler [’35], who in the thirties had been a crusad- himself grew more dissonant. As the universe of his plays dark- that he had nothing to say, nothing that stood up to the extremity of ates but from anyone we admired — faculty members, graduate ing editor of Spectator, and Jeffrey Hart [’52, GSAS’61], a teacher of ened, the very music of Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello the subject. This is a book in which a kind of Everyman is arrested, students, cultural figures. It was set to begin publication in the mine and a young Burkean conservative — he would later become turned increasingly harsh. Between Chiappe’s fluent insight and grilled, charged, and finally executed for a free-floating offense fall, edited by Sam and me, and its title, The Supplement, would a fixture at William Buckley’sNational Review. To this I added a com- Zito’s acrid brilliance, I sensed we were taking in more than the never specified — he is merely “accused of guilt,” as if accused of be as austere and unflashy as our conception. For me the proj- mentary that said, in effect, a plague on both your houses. It was a genius of Shakespeare or the wild reach of poetic speech. As they being accused. Trilling described going to each of his colleagues in ect would pay back some of the debt I owed for the intellectual heady time, and we felt that we had the wind at our backs. plumbed his characters, his language, the remarkable coherence Hamilton Hall, asking them in turn if they had anything he could awakening of the last two years. It would keep me in touch with Since I was not actually majoring in Spectator, at least a fraction of his metaphors and allusions, we were gaining a better under- say. Each one proved more voluble than the last — this was a fac-

SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 42 43 MORRIS DICKSTEIN ’61 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY MORRIS DICKSTEIN ’61 ulty of world-class talkers, bursting with clever ideas — but some- Above all there was something seductive about him. Radiating adventure. It left me with a fascination with Hegel, especially his how it was not exactly what he wanted to say, at least not on that charm, intelligence, and mystery, Taubes drew men and women way of mapping history and consciousness, something I would day. Before we knew it the class was over. Without quite realizing irresistibly into his orbit. Yet from our lowly viewpoint he also pursue ham-handedly for years to come. what had happened, we’d heard an impromptu lecture on how seemed to have the perfect family, a beautiful and brilliant wife, It’s strange that I should be writing about my undergraduate difficult it was to talk about Kafka’s work — indeed, how difficult the dark-haired Susan, and two attractive children. On the day of courses and teachers more than half a century later. But the best of it was for any reader, especially the boldly interpretive reader, with a nuclear air-raid drill, when all of us were supposed to take cover, these were not simply courses but life-altering experiences. Teach- his will to knowledge, to measure up to the exigent demands of I saw the four of them standing in mute protest on the steps of ers like Chiappe, Zito, and Taubes not only opened me up to new modern literature. Low Library, as if on a windswept English heath. This momentary subjects but left me rapt with excitement, whether or not they could This proved to be the major theme of his seminal essay on view became an indelible image of a destiny I naively imagined serve as models for what I myself might do. I had just begun to think modern writing that came out in Partisan Review about six months for myself, the youthful fantasy of a life that fused intellect, per- of teaching as a vocation, thanks to Trilling and [Jacques] Barzun later. But where in class he had mildly satirized his loquacious col- sonal courage, social witness, and family feeling. In my mind’s eye [’27, GSAS’32]; in my own teachers I could see what made it attrac- leagues, here he turned his artillery on his complacent students, I could see myself as part of such a family, striking a solitary pose tive. They were careful scholars but also freewheeling minds, seem- the ones in the very course I had just taken. He — no, the writers of courageous dissent. ingly interested in everything, following questions wherever they themselves — had asked them to gaze into the abyss, and they had It was through Jacob that we encountered Susan Sontag, an in- led. It became clear that teaching literature would require a knowl- politely, affably complied; the abyss had gazed back into them, as structor in sociology who doubled as his teaching assistant. She edge of different cultural traditions, an understanding of technique Nietzsche had anticipated — and found them hollow. Instead of must have fallen under his spell when he taught at Harvard, where in the arts, an ideal openness to new work, a Hegelian feeling for rising to the challenge, we had greeted the extreme visions of the she had done graduate work. We assumed they’d had an affair, the zeitgeist of an era, a full sense of the larger world in which art modern writers with an amiable tolerance, a vast complacency — though she was also very close to the other Susan, his wife. All of and culture were embedded. This was a daunting prospect, though at least that was how he saw it for the purposes of this essay. Much us were madly in love with the mysterious and articulate Sontag. I would never have thought of it in such exalted terms. as we looked up to him as a critic, we were taken aback by the She exuded the combination of beauty and intellectual cachet we It worked to my benefit as a college student that I was still not a caricature, which also seemed a wild distortion of what had hap- also projected on Jacob and his family. Fifteen years later I shared particularly fast reader, especially for an English major. I had to resist pened in class. To me the modernists of the 1920s — Joyce, Kafka, a cab with her as we were returning from a midtown conference. Blinding flashes of illumination the temptation to load up with heavy reading courses; this would Proust, Eliot, Yeats, and Mann — were as unsettling as they had By then she was a star and I had been reading her for years, first in have left me always behind, playing catch-up. As a perverse way been to his generation almost forty years earlier. Far from asking us Morningside Heights publications, including The Supplement, then were much more common in the of lightening my load, I signed up for a new language, German, to gaze into the abyss, he made it clear from the beginning that he in Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. A wave of nos- though it met first thing in the morning five days a week. Steering was tired of student writing, bored above all by student seriousness, talgia welled up, and I began reminiscing about those days when classroom of Jacob Taubes, an away from excess reading, I signed up for Otto Luening’s offbeat and he considered assigning papers confined to straightforward she assisted with Jacob’s classes and graded his term papers. She survey of the history of opera and Howard Davis’s popular course factual accounts of the writers’ lives. He didn’t follow through on blew up at me, not for the last time. “I was never anyone’s assis- unsung, almost unpublished in Northern Renaissance art. I felt a need to educate my senses; my this demeaning threat but the impulse, layered with his custom- tant,” she shouted angrily. “I never graded anyone’s papers.” I was mostly literary mind was too much given to processing everything ary irony, made his point: he wanted us really to respond to this professor of religion. verbally, abstractly. Words, words, words were my default medium. work — and, to my mind, we did, at least as far as young people Jim Zito ’48’s ... opening words, Instead, I was also learning to hear, to see. Luening was a well- could. Our pride was wounded, we felt used, insulted, but there feeling mellow, aglow with idealized recollections, but she seemed known composer and pioneer of electronic music. Always playful, was something admirable about Trilling’s crankiness, his restive delivered as a warning and an horrified to be reminded of the days when she was not yet famous, slightly stooped, speaking gently as he illustrated his points at the refusal to settle or be pleased. not yet somebody. I was shocked yet amused by this absurd fit of piano, he passed quickly over the chestnuts of the nineteenth-centu- Columbia College in those days was full of great teachers, but advance apology, came from pique but even more stunned to hear personal history revised in ry repertory to focus on earlier and later work, on Monteverdi, who Trilling, an uneven one, taught in this existential way, as if lying in the presence of a living witness. She had somehow fashioned a helped create opera in the first place, on Mozart and Gluck, on the wait for a genuine encounter. Often the encounter remained tan- Love’s Labour’s Lost: “The words myth of her own origins. late Verdi of Otello and Falstaff, on Debussy’s only opera, Pelléas and talizingly out of reach, so that we learned more from reading him Taubes’s courses were existential in their own way, for what- Mélisande, on Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, above all on opera as drama — than from hearing him in the flesh, especially since he held himself of Mercury are harsh after the ever their initial plan they seemed to drift spontaneously. One the drama in the music, not simply in the story. He skipped Puccini’s apart, genially inaccessible. Blinding flashes of illumination were course was set to open with lectures on Hegel’s Phenomenology more famous operas to expose us to his final work, the unfinished much more common in the classroom of Jacob Taubes, an unsung, songs of Apollo.” of the Spirit, to be followed by readings in major nineteenth-cen- Turandot, and reminisced about studying with his mentor Ferruccio almost unpublished professor of religion whom my friends had tury thinkers who rebelled against his influence but could not Busoni, who had died in 1924 with his own opera, Doktor Faust, also begun following years earlier. Religion was his formal department escape it, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and the so-called incomplete. It took years for what Luening called the “schlockmeis- but the knotty history of modern intellectual life was his actual Young Hegelians, such as Ludwig Feuerbach. Hegel’s bravura ters” of the Met to catch up with his taste and broaden its repertory subject. Lacking any gift for doing philosophy, I had shied away account of human consciousness, with its dialectical exposition to include more challenging, less crowd-pleasing works. from him despite the incandescent reports. But from the middle of the relation between master and servant, proved to be one of In the same venturesome way, Howard Davis lured students of my junior year I began auditing his classes, with mounting ex- the most difficult books ever written, yet I found I could follow it into his course with the sure-fire promise of the delights of Rem- citement. He was the son of the chief rabbi of Zürich, and by the under Jacob’s tutelage. I was primed to read the whole sequence brandt and Rubens, then spent the whole semester on meticulous age of twenty-four he had written and published an immensely of thinkers he had influenced, but no sooner had we finished studies of the delicate craft of earlier painters like the Flemish Jan ambitious thesis on Western eschatology, in German. His publica- grappling with Hegel than a new star arose on the horizon. Jean van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tions since then had been tantalizingly few, though we managed Genet’s play The Balcony, set in a brothel at a moment of revolu- portraits, religious subjects, and altarpieces were executed with as- to dig them up. He was certainly no scribbler; this added to his tion, had just opened off-Broadway, and Taubes decided that its tonishing precision and psychological insight. I loved their minute mystique. Still, his improvised lectures were so precise they could action was the perfect working out of Hegel’s dialectic. Reading visual detail, their sense of individual character in relation to social have been published verbatim. His ever-shifting courses were rich Hegel had long been a hot ticket in Paris but this was an unex- position. They brought religious imagery into the real world yet with subjects otherwise left out of the curriculum: metaphysics pected turn. So the second half of the semester was spent entirely painted secular subjects with the same exquisite refinement. Hav- and existentialism (shunned by the positivists in the philosophy on Genet, France’s once-imprisoned, gay, outlaw writer, whose ing prepared the way, Davis had no doubt we could go on to ap- department), psychoanalysis (despised by the behaviorists in the work was then new to New York. More than a decade later the preciate the more accessible Rembrandt and Rubens on our own. psychology department), and Marxism (completely out of favor in French founder of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, published his Both courses bestowed lessons that stay with me even today in the the economics and politics departments). All these were in vogue most recondite book, Glas, with double columns composed of opera house or the museum, gifts that keep on giving. in Europe, where he must have taken his cues; he was our living facing commentaries on, guess what, Hegel and Genet. I couldn’t conduit to the preoccupations of the modern European mind, believe that he had not somehow gotten word about Taubes’s Copyright (c) 2015 by Morris Dickstein. Reprinted by permission of especially the line that stretched from Hegel to existentialism. PHOTO: COURTESY SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE idiosyncratic course, which turned into a surprising intellectual Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author.

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MESSAGE FROM CCAA PRESIDENT DOUGLAS R. WOLF ’88 47 Message from the CCAA President 48 People 52 Alumni in the News A New Face for the CCAA Alumni 53 Bookshelf 55 Class Notes he Columbia College Alumni Asso- sion for the lion’s face? Would there be overlap 92 Obituaries ciation was born in 1825 to serve the with the other undergraduate schools? Many 96 Alumni Corner alumni and strengthen the bonds of of those issues are not relevant with straight- fellowship as well as the connections forward symbols such as the crown or with a News to the College. In our 90 years since, building like Butler Library. Yet, there was a Tthe CCAA has evolved in a variety of ways — to growing desire among the group for something include women, to embrace greater diversity and that expressed more warmth than an inanimate Students enjoy the warm weather to become a dynamic and tightly knit community object and that was easily recognized as being with a game of Spikeball. nested within a University with 17 schools and Columbia. PHOTO: FRANCIS CATANIA three affiliates. Midway through our debate — which was While all positive, these changes have also led reminiscent of a Core Curriculum seminar — to confusion among alumni and students about we discovered in the University Archives that who we are and what we do. Last year, we reaf- the CCAA, led by a Class of 1909 alumnus, had firmed our role in serving College alumni with proposed and helped influence the establish- the development of a five-year strategic plan ment in 1910 of the lion as Columbia’s mascot. for alumni engagement and a goal of inviting With this serendipitous discovery, the tide be- greater participation from and transparency for all gan turning toward reestablishing the lion as a 47,000-plus alumni. To energize and rally our great symbol deeply and historically connected to the group, a new look and feel seemed appropriate to College. The task force decided that our lion — carry us into the future and establish a new phase which needed to represent our varied former of alumni engagement. and current student body — had to have ele- Thus, creating a brand that all alumni can con- ments for everyone: thoughtfulness, wisdom, nect with and feel pride in was our objective as confidence and nobility. The lion visage should a small task force kicked off a CCAA branding not be too detailed or specific so each could see initiative early in 2014. We are now preparing to in the face what they wanted, a reflection of the share the fruits of our labor after 12 months of diversity and fierce independence of our alum- focus groups, interviews, working sessions, “mood ni, something that is a source of pride for us. brainstorms” and more. At the outset, we were After a lengthy process and the involvement of clear in our hopes for the new brand. It should 50 alumni across generations and with different communicate change, welcome participation, levels of engagement, the CCAA has developed establish the CCAA’s role for all alumni and in- a new logo to represent us and all of you. In the spire the community. On a tactical level, we have coming month, you will see our new logo in heard alumni express confusion because of the its home on our website, in emails, in Alumni high volume of emails, invitations and activities Reunion Weekend materials, on Facebook, on coming out of the various schools, groups, aca- Twitter and more. Look for it. demic departments, regional clubs, the Universi- We are a diverse, independent-minded, opin- ty itself and of course, the two alumni associations ionated bunch and we tried hard to cherish those — the College’s (CCAA) and the University’s, the qualities while creating something that can evolve Columbia Alumni Association (CAA). with time to be a symbol for all. We hope you will The task force considered many visual options be as excited as we are for this new era. for our new branding, including icons such as Alma A core group of alumni played an integral role Mater and the King’s College crown, along with more in this endeavor and deserves special thanks: Allen whimsical and abstract ideas. We thought about the Rosenshine ’59, chairman emeritus of BBDO World- meaning of each and the importance of represent- wide; Kyra Tirana Barry ’87; Stefanie Katz-Rothman ing the College experience rather than choosing ’88; Renan Pierre ’86; and Bernice Tsai ’96, senior symbols that were more synonymous with the executive director, Columbia College alumni University. We reviewed the logos of peer relations and communications. institutions, of Columbia schools and of Roar, Lion(s), Roar! institutions outside higher education. When the idea of using a lion emerged, taking us away from the traditional The lion has been a symbol of Columbia crowns, we hesitated. A lion is used by pride since 1910. PHOTOS: TOP AND BOTTOM: EILEEN BARROSO; Athletics. What would be the right expres- MIDDLE: SANDY KAUFMAN

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A chance assignment while working on an archeo-

Pippa Murray ’96 in logical dig in Crete the summer after her first year at the College her studio with the brought forth Pippa Murray ’96’s artistic passion. tools of her trade. An art history major, Murray spent the summer of 1993 as the PHOTO: PETER LUND draft person for a British School at Athens dig in Palaikastro, Crete, sketching the pottery and items discovered on the dig. The arche- ologists in charge had agreed to restore a local monastery in ex- change for access to the site, and the group decided to incorporate a traditional mosaic into the building’s façade. As the resident art- ist, 19-year-old Murray was asked to create a culturally appropri- ate mosaic; 22 years later she owns Pippa Murray Mosaics, creat- ing works for civic institutions (like an 800-sq.-ft., sea life-themed floor for the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, Calif., and mosaic-embellished city benches in Castro Valley, Calif.) and han- dling numerous private commissions across the United States and Europe. Thinking back on that first mosaic, she says with a laugh, “I had to learn the technique, and this was a big challenge because This pomegranate tree mosaic is one of Murray’s custom designs. this was 1993, so the Internet wasn’t an option — you couldn’t PHOTO: MICHAEL KEENEY just Google how-to and watch a YouTube video.” She turned to the Core, reading classic authors such as Pliny picture as a mosaic); opus vermiculatum, made up of extremely and Vitruvius for ideas, and asked locals for input. Eventually small pieces that follow intricate designs; and opus sectile, which is she created a 3-by-10 meter, gray and black pebble mosaic (sourc- made by laying down large slabs of stone or tile in a design (many ing the stones from local beaches) of concentric circles and a medieval floors are in this style). For opus tessellatum and opus Macedonian star, inspired by the Minoan designs on the pottery vermiculatum commissions, Murray uses hand-cut techniques to she was sketching. She was instantly hooked on the process. “It preserve the classic look of the design. “I’ve had many people try hit all those buttons,” she says. “It was physical, because we had to talk me into [using] water jets and I’m not against technology, to haul big buckets of pebbles up from the beach; it was technical; but there’s something that’s lost with a water jet when you’re going and I was allowed to be creative — I could respond to the materi- for a handmade, timeless look — you can see it, you can see how als and I could play with texture and pattern.” it’s manufactured,” she says. Murray continued to work in Greece each summer as an Typically, clients approach Murray with an idea, and she undergraduate and as a graduate student, studying traditional sketches a design, incorporating their vision and hers. She then artistic techniques and design methods along the way. “I de- works with her staff to cut materials and arrange them by hand veloped mosaic radar,” she says. “I was chasing them all over in the mosaic. Murray’s projects can take from a month to a year Greece and Italy with open, open eyes looking at all these an- to complete, depending on the level of detail and size of the work; cient traditions.” the staff fluctuates as well, with the current staff numbering four. Raised in South Salem, N.Y., Murray spent much of her child- “Pippa is a listener,” says Elizabeth McMillan, who hired Mur- hood abroad, the daughter of an Irish mother and an English father ray to create several mosaics for her home in Southern Spain. “She (Stephen Murray, the Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval works with people — every one of her mosaics is a response to Art History and director of Art Humanities) with whom she trav- a particular place and to particular people.” McMillan describes eled extensively. She earned a master’s in the science of classical how, while at a Spanish flea market, she and her husband found archeology by research from The University of Edinburgh in 1998, a stall selling tesserae (mosaic tiles) that had been discovered in where she focused on Greco-Roman mosaic technique and design, a field from a Roman settlement. Wanting to incorporate the real and a master’s of fine arts from The California College of Arts and tesserae in a modern mosaic, they turned to Murray, who took Crafts in 2005. Her studio is in Sausalito, Calif., where she and her inspiration from the classic Roman mosaics of the region to create husband, Zach Serber ’96, live on a 1963 American Marine sailboat small mosaics for their walls and a large one for their living room with their daughter, Ithaka (8). floor. “She has a wonderful aesthetic sense; she’s playful at times, Murray is known for her use of traditional techniques: She and yet classic,” McMillan says. cuts pieces of stone, ceramic and glass by hand with a mosaic Murray says that a big appeal of working with mosaics is that hammer (an arced double chisel) and a hardie (a chisel-shaped she gets to adapt ancient methods to fit with modern design aes- anvil), two critical pieces of a mosaic artist’s toolkit. Says her fa- thetics in a lasting way. “Each project presents a new set of chal- ther, “Pippa can make a mosaic look so like a late Roman mosaic lenges and interests, and I love that,” she says. “With mosaics the that most people would be fooled.” past is present, and the physical marks left by people still live in There are three main types of mosaics: opus tessellatum, which some way.” is made up of small squares and lines (what most people typically Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

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ing person I’ve ever worked with.” more year at Columbia, when his childhood home burned down, Richard Ravitch ’55 In 1975, New York Gov. Hugh Carey called upon Ravitch to Andrew Carroll ’93 and with it his family’s photo albums and letters. rescue the near-bankrupt New York State Urban Development “I had a turning point when everything was wiped out,” recalls Corp. He was appointed UDC chairman, and across the next two Carroll. “It inspired my mission to preserve the past.” Conquers Crises years led it out of crisis. Immediately following, Ravitch was a Preserves the Past The life-and-death issues that come to life so poignantly in the key player in New York City’s 1975 fiscal crisis. Though he was war correspondence echo Carroll’s determination to highlight the B y L au r a B u t c h y SOA’04 not in a public office, he worked with Carey and others to prevent B y D av i d M c K ay W i l s o n circumstances around the deaths of some famous Americans. In bankruptcy on several occasions through the years. Franklinton, N.C., he put up a plaque in Cutchins Funeral Home Detroit’s bankruptcy may have faded from the head- In 1979, Carey appointed Ravitch chairman of New York City’s Andrew Carroll ’93 is on a mission to help America to commemorate the 1946 death of heavyweight boxer Jack John- lines, but the long recovery continues, in part under the experienced Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Ravitch describes his four remember. Following the publication of four best-selling collec- son. On the night of his death, Johnson left a diner in a rage after guidance of Richard Ravitch ’55. Building on a diverse career as a years at the MTA as “exhilarating” despite having to wear a bul- tions of war correspondence, his latest effort recognizes forgotten he was refused service, speeding off in his car — only to drive successful businessman, politician and financial adviser, Ravitch is letproof vest after an MTA security guard at his office was shot by corners of the nation’s history — from the site of Martin Luther off the road. Ambulances would not transport blacks, so the local now senior adviser to Detroit’s Financial Review Commission. a man threatening to kill Ravitch. “I put together a plan to rebuild King Jr.’s almost-fatal stabbing on West 125th Street in Harlem to black funeral home transported Johnson to the hospital, where he Last year also marked the release of Ravitch’s first book, the subway systems and build Metro-North,” Ravitch explains. the dormitory at Wisconsin where Sierra Club founder John Muir was pronounced dead. So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal “It was an incredible feeling of accomplishment.” Under Ravitch’s had his epiphany about the wonders of America’s wilderness. Then there was the case of Thomas “Pete” Ray, a member of Crises. Part memoir and part how-to for managing various busi- leadership, the New Haven and New York Central commuter lines On a month-long cross-country trip last October, Carroll the Alabama Air National Guard, whose plane was shot down ness and government fiscal challenges, the book chronicles his six of Conrail were taken over by the MTA as Metro-North, and the stopped at several such places to raise community awareness by in the CIA’s 1961 botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. To prove decades of public service leading to his current position, includ- city’s IRT, IND and BMT subway lines were updated with stainless installing plaques to mark the sites. In San Antonio, he visited that the United States invaded Cuba, the Cubans kept his body ing his role leading New York City out of its 1975 fiscal crisis. cars that could be cleaned of graffiti. the Menger Hotel, where he installed a plaque noting the contri- until 1979, when Ray’s sister won its release for burial in a letter- “He’s preeminent in dealing with fiscal crisis,” says attorney Ravitch has continued to advise government agencies and lead- bution of preservationist Adina De Zavala, who made a valiant writing campaign that finally convinced Cuban authorities. Judah Gribetz ’49, LAW’52, who has worked with Ravitch on nu- ers since that time, perhaps most visibly when he was asked to step stand against the destruction of the Alamo Mission’s Long Bar- A plaque was unveiled at a ceremony — which included a 21- merous projects. “There are few people in as lieutenant governor of New York in racks in the early 1900s. gun salute — last April at the Birmingham cemetery, . who know more about the financial as- 2009 under Gov. David Paterson ’77 after Carroll detailed De Zavala’s story in his 2013 book, Here is “It’s a lesson about the Cold War,” says Carroll. pects of government at the federal, state Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned. Commut- Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History, a folksy trav- Carroll continues to research as he travels, looking for places and local levels.” ing between New York City and Albany, elogue about his experiences discovering overlooked incidents where history and his path cross. When visiting a town, he often A native New Yorker, Ravitch grew up Ravitch analyzed state infrastructure and in American history. He says De Zavala’s civil disobedience has asks the librarian or town historian if there’s anything of historic on the Upper West Side with his father, made recommendations for the strained been overshadowed by the philanthropy of Clara Driscoll, who significance that has been overlooked. Then he scours local his- who owned HRH Construction, and his state budget. financed much of the Alamo’s early reconstruction. “Driscoll gets tory books and documents to learn more. That’s how he found stay-at-home mother, who played cello “He did a lot of tremendous work for all the credit but De Zavala stopped her from tearing down the out about the sinking in 1865 of the ship Sultana in the Mississippi and sculpted. Although he briefly attended Gov. Carey, and he did it again as lieu- barracks,” says Carroll, who lives in Washington, D.C. “She barri- River near Memphis. More than 1,400 lives were lost in the na- Oberlin in Ohio, Ravitch returned to New tenant governor for David Paterson,” caded herself inside until the governor agreed not to tear it down.” tion’s deadliest maritime incident. York to be near his mother after his father says Gribetz. “He’s extremely capable The project is part of Carroll’s multi-faceted pursuits in his- “It’s like a treasure hunt,” he says. “I like to explore. It might passed away during his freshman year. in understanding how legislatures and tory, which include giving speeches and serving as director of be a parking lot or a church. It has been an incredible experience “I can’t imagine going another place in government offices work, and he knows Chapman University’s Center for American War Letters, set to sharing my passion for preserving what’s lost.” New York other than Columbia. … I was how to compromise and get results.” open in Orange, Calif., in May. The collection will include more interested in American history and gov- Ravitch’s masterful grasp of finance than 100,000 letters Carroll has amassed during the past 16 years, David McKay Wilson, a columnist for The Journal News in White ernment, so I was looking for that in New and dedication to public service made including a new trove gathered on his recent journey. Plains, N.Y., profiled particle physicist Carl Haber ’80, GSAS’85 for the York City,” Ravitch says. As a student, he Richard Ravitch ’55 and his wife, Kathy Doyle, at him an obvious choice when Detroit Carroll’s dedication to celebrating “forgotten history” evolved Summer 2014 CCT. was inspired by such legendary thinkers a May 2013 book party at Waterside Plaza. faced its own bankruptcy woes, although from his work preserving war correspondence — specifically, a as Lionel Trilling ’25, GSAS’38; Jacques PHOTO: GORDON ERIKSEN he describes the situation as very different letter he read in 1999 about an incident in New Jersey, when Pres- Barzun ’27, GSAS’32; and Henry Graff from New York in the 1970s. “New York ident Abraham Lincoln’s son slipped on a train platform and was GSAS’49, his adviser. “My intellectual interests and political and was almost broke in 1975 but was still a thriving city and center saved by a man named Edwin Booth. About a year later, Lincoln social values came from my years at Columbia and began by being of commerce, entertainment and media,” Ravitch says. “Detroit’s was shot by Booth’s brother. exposed to extraordinary people,” Ravitch says. problems were far more serious, from 50 years of neglect.” The De Zavala plaque in San Antonio was one of about 10 that Ravitch focused his studies on American politics, writing his After advising the bankruptcy judge about the feasibility of Carroll has designed, financed and installed. In Manhattan, he thesis about the Progressive Party of New York and serving as plans for five months last year, Ravitch thought his work was put up a plaque in the New York Hilton Midtown to commemo- co-chair of Students for Stevenson during Adlai Stevenson’s 1952 done. “Then the governor asked me to be adviser to the financial rate the first mobile telephone call in 1973; it was made by a Mo- presidential campaign. After graduation, he briefly worked in control board created to supervise the bankruptcy,” Ravitch says. torola engineer named Martin Cooper, who was walking nearby Washington, D.C., but soon decided he didn’t want to make a In the coming years, he will attend meetings in Detroit and pro- with the 10-pound contraption. career as a political staffer. vide advice from his home in New York. “He was almost hit by a car while making the call,” Carroll In 1960, Ravitch settled in New York to join his cousins in the Working from New York allows Ravitch to spend time with says. “They were a distraction from Day One.” family building business, and he loved the work. He is most his wife, Kathy Doyle, and his two sons and 13 grandchildren. He In Brooklyn, he discovered the Cypress Hills Cemetery mau- proud of Waterside Plaza, a complex of four residential towers also continues his public service as a community leader. He was soleum that’s the final resting place of Dr. Thomas Holmes, who with numerous amenities overlooking the East River. As detailed the first president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of attended P&S in the 1840s and is known as the father of embalm- in his book, the project took 10 years from conception to obtaining New York and he serves on a number of boards. ing for his work during the Civil War to preserve the bodies of the necessary permissions and financing to completion in 1974. Looking back on his career, it is easy for Ravitch to identify Union soldiers for their final journey home. The cemetery- in Although he has since held other positions, Ravitch still plays his favorite endeavors. “Public service,” he replies without hesi- stalled a bench and marker by the mausoleum. an active role in Waterside. Peter Davis, Waterside’s managing tation, adding, “I love business, too. I have a lot of pride when I “Andrew reached out to the cemetery, and it came as a surprise director and son of its architect, describes Ravitch as a citizen look around this city and see all the things I built.” to us,” says Andrew Desmond, Cypress Hills’ VP. “It’s amazing politician. “He’s the most engaged private citizen I’ve ever met,” how he has dedicated his time and energy to recognizing histori- says Davis. “If he has a good idea, he won’t rest until that idea is Laura Butchy SOA’04 is a professor of humanities at Plaza College cal places and notables that many people never knew about.” Andrew Carroll ’93 (right) installed a plaque at the Menger Hotel in turned into reality … He’s the most insightful and strategic think- and a freelance dramaturg and writer based in Queens. Carroll’s keen interest in preserving history dates to his sopho- San Antonio last fall; here, with hotel historian Ernesto Malacara.

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ALUMNI IN THE NEWS Bookshelf Jerry Nadler ’69 (D-N.Y.) was elected to his 12th term as a member of Congress representing the 10th congressional Starting from Staten Island: author, a retired astronomer, details have helped to propel scientific roll musician from his childhood district of New York, which includes Western and Lower Memories of Peace and War in all known terrestrial impact craters research, Weisberg argues that the in Mexico to his emergence in the the 1930s and 1940s by George T. on the planet as well as some ex- growing divide between qualitative 1960s rock underground in San Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Nadler, who was first Wright ’45. The author’s memoir traterrestrial craters (Strategic Book and quantitative research threatens Francisco and subsequent global elected in 1992, defeated Conservative party candidate recounts coming of age on Staten Publishing and Rights Co., $21.50). to slow scientific progress (Wiley, fame (Little, Brown and Co., $30). Ross Brady and independent Michael Dilger. Island, from an insular childhood, $34.95). n n n to summer camp in upstate New Gateway to Freedom: The Hid- Every Hero Has a Story by Mark York, to Columbia and military ser- den History of the Underground Thomas Hauser on Boxing: Anoth- Binder ’84. The author collects and Several alumni were cited by Forbes magazine recently. vice in WWII (Wheatmark, $17.95). Railroad by Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69, er Year Inside the Sweet Science by retells heroic tales such as “Jack Zak Ringelstein ’08 was named on the 2015 30 Under 30: the DeWitt Clinton Professor of His- Thomas Hauser ’67. Sports journalist and the Beanstalk” and “Sinbad” Education list for his work as cofounder of Uclass, a plat- Fighting the Great War at Sea: tory. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Hauser collects his essays on boxing in this chapter book written for all form for storing and analyzing educational curriculums. Strategy, Tactics and Technology historian draws on research into written during 2013, including his ages (Light Publications, $24.99). Ashley Kahn ’83 (left) accepts his Grammy on February 8. Marco Zappacosta ’07 was on the 2015 30 Under 30: Retail & by Norman Friedman ’54. In this the development of anti-slavery piece on prominent promoter Don PHOTO: HARRY WEINGER monograph, naval analyst Fried- networks in the North and new first King (The University of Arkansas F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ecommerce list as cofounder of Thumbtack, an e-commerce man concentrates on maritime hand accounts of slave escapes to Press, $24.95). Ghostreaders Framed African platform that helps users hire professionals for services. Temple University. Kahn, a music journalist and a professor warfare during WWI and the elevate the Underground Railroad American Literature by William J. Jared Hecht ’09 made the 2015 30 Under 30: Consumer Tech of music history and criticism at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute development of naval technology, from folklore to sweeping history Crime’s Keeper by Richard Rye (pen Maxwell ’84. Using nearly 14,000 list as the cofounder of Fundera, an online marketplace for for Recorded Music, also co-produced the album. This was strategy and tactics leading up to (W.W. Norton & Co., $26.95). name of Elan Gerstmann ’82). In Ger- pages of newly released FBI files, small business loans. And Jonah Van Bourg ’07 and Moran his third time in the Grammy album note category; he previ- WWII (Naval Institute Press, $85). stmann’s debut novel, psychologist the author exposes the bureau’s Baldar ’09 placed on the 2015 30 Under 30: Finance list for ously received nominations for essays written for a Coltrane Charles Anthon: American Clas- Dan Fisher receives a federal grant policing of five decades of African- their roles as executive director and a VP at Goldman Sachs, anthology and a Nina Simone anthology. The Evolution of Law Reform in sicist by F.J. Sypher ’63. Sypher’s to conduct experiments in a prison American literature starting in 1919 China: An Uncertain Path edited biography traces the renowned 19th- recently shaken by a riot. While and studies its effects on this pe- respectively. n n n by Stanley B. Lubman ’55. This century scholar’s legacy in American attorney Becky Goodnow tries to riod’s writers and styles (Princeton n n n collection of articles by Chinese education and academia (Scholars’ thwart him, the two are unwittingly University Press, $29.95). Matthew Wilson ’00 was featured in a Washington Post article and Western authors discusses the Facsimiles & Reprints, $55). drawn together amid a string of un- Bernadette E. Brown ’99 has been “One clown, two openings: Actor/director juggles his own history of law reform and govern- explained prisoner deaths (Kindle What We See When We Read by named director of the Center for Sex- commedia and a hit farce” about his work directing One Man, mental institutions in China from Chesapeake Country text by Direct Publishing, e-book $2.99). Peter Mendelsund ’91. In this fully ual and Gender Diversity at Duke. Two Guvnors for 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, Va., while simul- 1978 to present day (Edward Elgar Eugene L. Meyer ’64, photographs illustrated book, Mendelsund Previously at the California-based taneously preparing to put on a one-man commedia dell’arte Pub, $450). by Lucian Niemeyer. Now in its The Fall of the Ottomans: The explores how the reader imagines National Council on Crime and show, The Great One-Man Commedia Epic. Wilson earned an second edition, this book surveys Great War in the Middle East by fictional characters and places, Delinquency, where she focused on M.F.A. from the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Aging Wisely: Strategies for Baby the Chesapeake Bay’s 8,000 miles Eugene Rogan ’82. Drawing on arguing that this visual process is LGBT youth within the juvenile jus- Classical Acting and is the founder of Faction of Fools Theatre Boomers and Seniors by Dr. Robert of shoreline and surrounding archival research, consular records, unique to reading (Vintage, $16.95). tice system, Brown will promote and Company, which in 2012 won the Helen Hayes Award for A. Levine ’58. Providing personal land, captures its history and con- journals and diaries, Rogan ex- support LGBTQI inclusion at Duke. outstanding emerging troupe. accounts, medical research and templates its future in the face of plores the Ottoman Empire’s role Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Bernadette E. Brown ’99 social history, the author advises climate change, population growth in WWI, showing how the war and Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Pal- n n n n n n mid-lifers and the elderly on how and a declining maritime industry its ensuing treaties influenced the estine by Lital Levy ’96. The author to improve quality of life while (Abbeville Press Publishers, $34.95). modern Middle East and surround- examines the relationship between John Coletti ’97 has been awarded a fellowship from the Alumni were well represented at the 2015 Academy Awards extending longevity (Rowman & ing regions (Basic Books, $32). Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Pales- New York Foundation for the Arts in poetry. The award of- on February 22. Graham Moore ’03 won for Best Adapted Littlefield Publishers, $40). Willful Ignorance: The Mismea- tine from the turn of the 20th century fers an unrestricted cash grant of $7,000 to artists working in Screenplay for The Imitation Game while Dan Futterman ’89 sure of Uncertainty by Herbert I. The Universal Tone: Bringing My to the present in prose, poetry, film 15 disciplines and is designed “to empower artists at critical was nominated in the Writing, Original Screenplay category Impact Craters of Earth: With Weisberg ’65. Tracing the historical Story to Light by Carlos Santana and visual art by both Palestinian stages in their creative lives by providing cash grants and for Foxcatcher and Dede Gardner ’90 was a producer of Selma, Selected Craters Elsewhere by evolution of probability and ex- with Ashley Kahn ’83 and Hal Miller. and Jewish citizens of Israel (Prince­ entrepreneurial training.” Coletti is the author of the books nominated for Best Picture. Moore gave what was widely Thomas Wm. Hamilton ’60. The plaining how statistical methods This memoir follows the rock ’n’ ton University Press, $39.95). Mum Halo (2010) and Deep Code (2014), among others. talked about as the most moving acceptance speech of the

n n n night, using the opportunity to focus on suicide awareness and depression. “I would like for this moment to be for that Yuntong Ma ’12 has received a Gates-Cambridge Scholar- kid out there who feels like she doesn’t fit in anywhere,” he ship, awarded to outstanding applicants from countries said. “You do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it’s outside the United Kingdom to pursue graduate degrees your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the at the University of Cambridge. Ma, a third-year medical same message along.”

student at Washington University in St. Louis, will use the n n n scholarship to pursue an M.Phil. in sociology; she plans to study the experience of infertility and assisted reproductive Maggie Gyllenhaal ’99 won a Golden Globe for Best Actress technologies in the British Chinese community. She majored in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for her work in The Honorable in neuroscience and behavior at the College. Woman. Kate McKinnon ’06 has been tapped as a cast mem-

n n n ber of the upcoming all-female reboot of Ghostbusters; the film, directed by Paul Feig, will also star Melissa McCarthy, Ashley Kahn ’83 won a Grammy for Best Album Notes for Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones. the never-before issued John Coltrane album Offering: Live at Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

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BOOKSHELF COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY For Darryl Pinckney ’88, History Is Personal Class Notes B y J u s t i n D e F r e i ta s Columbia College Today daughter of my granddaughter, editor Gerald Green JRN’47 (now her in the clinic or on the wards in arryl Pinckney ’88 grew up in a middle-class Indian-­ nonfiction works Sold and Gone: African American Literature and Columbia Alumni Center Ann, and a 2-month-old in Cold deceased). Roger had a wry sense Philadelphia with their sick child, apolis home, surrounded by books on post-WWII U.S. Society (2001) and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature 30 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Spring, N.Y., Charlie Maxwell Far- of humor, often expressed between and/or had benefited from a stay African-American identity and politics. (2002), in addition to writing for the stage. Pinckney, who with his New York, NY 10025 kas, son of my granddaughter, Mary. puffs of his ever-present pipe. He at the Ronald McDonald House. “In the kind of house where I grew up there partner, English poet James Fenton, divides his time between New 40 [email protected] Having the advantages of intelligent was an Air Force pilot and was She founded that charity 40 years were very key texts — books that my parents had, York and England, is working on his second novel, Black Deutsch- and successful parents, I am certain shot down and killed in combat. ago and established the first Ronald Dthat their parents had, that their friends had,” he says. land, about a black man’s experience living in Berlin in the 1980s. Your friends and classmates want that Olivia and Charlie will be Jack Arbolino, a good friend McDonald House as a home away One day the black experience would become the focus of With Blackballed, Pinckney has come full circle by returning to hear from you! Please send news qualified to do well at Columbia in of mine since our days together at from home for children needing about yourself or your family, or a 2031–32 and the years to follow. Horace Mann, was wounded in medical care and their families. Pinckney’s work as a novelist, playwright and essayist. But as to his parents’ library in earnest, using their collection of books favorite Columbia College memo- January is also a big Columbia the battle of Okinawa, returned to Thus, though the award title may a youth, Pinckney wasn’t interested. He turned away from the as the source material for a history of the very topics he avoided ry, to CCT at either of the addresses birthday month. In addition to my Columbia as an associate in our be a little unwieldy, it obviously weighty topic of African-American history. He didn��������������’�������������t want to be- in his youth: equal rights, black voting rights and racial justice. at the top of the column. You may own natal date, Don Mankiewicz Admissions Office and later be- means what it says and was com- lieve that it applied to him, that he was subject to the standard “It is a book very much in honor of my parents;” he says, “a also submit an update using the celebrated his 92nd on January 20 came a dean at GS. He founded the posed from the heart. rules and risks of blackness. way of remembering them.” webform college.columbia.edu/ and the late Donald McKeon ’40, Advanced Placement Program at We are due to attend a medical “The subject of equal rights had been a family Pinckney’s parents grew up in segregated Geor- cct/submit_class_note. Be well! BUS’40, one of my oldest Columbia the College Entrance Examination meeting in Slovenia in June. We’ll theme for as long as I could remember,” he says. gia. “My father studied chemistry, but pharmaceuti- friends, was also born on January Board. Jack’s son, Philip ’68, and seize the opportunity to see a little “It was an ongoing discussion. And I was getting cal companies weren’t hiring blacks then,” he says. 20. Don McKeon was a self-taught grandson, Jamie ’93, complete a of the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia; Robert Zucker sick of hearing about it.” “He went to dental school at Howard University polymath, trained as an internation- three-generation Arbolino trifecta. it is Slovenia’s next door neighbor. 26910 Grand Central al accountant, fluent in French and Jack passed away in 2005. I first heard of that region when I In the closing pages of his latest book, Black- because he had a family on the way.” His mother 41 Pkwy, Apt. 24G African dialects, an encyclopedic balled: The Black Vote and US Democracy (New York worked briefly as a child psychologist, “but mostly Floral Park, NY 11005 sports fan and a tireless letter writer Review Books, $16.95), a history of the struggle for she stayed at home; it said that you were middle [email protected] to me from all over the world dur- black voting rights, Pinckney describes his reaction class if your wife did not have to work.” ing his Navy service in WWII and Following a June medical meeting in Slovenia, to his sister’s effort to tell him, circa 1968, about Pinckney’s parents were passionate about the Friends, it’s been quiet this quarter later overseas work assignments. G.J. D’Angio ’43 is planning a trip with his wife the 1930 lynching of their mother’s cousin. “I fled,” struggle for equal rights. “They wanted a life free of but I know that you are out there, He grew up near the Columbia Pinckney writes. “I got away from that contagious Jim Crow insult for their children,” Pinckney says. and I’d love to hear from you. Write campus and died of heart disease in to the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. form of blackness, the historical truth.” “They opposed the tactics of black militants in the me about your lives and families, 1984 in Tampa. Yet it was just a year or so later, at 17, that he late sixties, but understood their frustration and sus- travels and pastimes. I can be I am fortunate, too, in my PHOTO: BEOWULF SHEEHAN reached at either of the addresses continuing contact with Dr. Gerald As I write these notes, our visited Venice and happened on La turned toward that truth. In the pages of The New picion. As members of the GI Bill generation, they at the top of the column or via a Klingon (94) in New York City; Dr. Columbia football program is in Scuola Dalmata, one of the many York Review of Books, he discovered Angela Davis believed in the NAACP. They counted on political note submitted using the webform Arthur Wellington (94) in Elmira, turmoil following the resignation guild halls scattered across that — “glamorous and brilliant” — and James Baldwin coalitions and were never separatists.” college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ N.Y.; and Robert Kaufman (93) in of coach Pete Mangurian and the fabulous city. (The murals of the — “a great literary figure. Pinckney’s mother and father lived long enough class_note. Happy spring! Scarsdale, N.Y. Gerald, Arthur and hiring of a consultant by President life of St. George by Carpaccio that “They opened doors,” Pinckney says, and also to see Barack Obama ’83 inaugurated as President Robert are all cognitively intact. Lee C. Bollinger to look into the adorn the walls are well worth the taught him that “it was OK to be bookish and black.” but had very different reactions to his historic vic- So is one of my oldest and best program. It is idle to speculate visit.) There is also La Riva degli These discoveries paved the way to an enlightening tory. While Pinckney’s mother embraced Obama, Melvin Hershkowitz pals, Ray Robinson ’41, another here what will happen next. I am Schiavoni around the corner from experience as an English major at the College. (Pinck- his father responded with an “embarrassed am- 42 22 Northern Ave. vigorous and l ucid 94-year-old in certain that our excellent CCT St. Mark’s Square; it, too, recalls ney entered with the Class of 1975 but graduated later bivalence” that was “an expression of his anxiety Northampton, MA 01060 New York City; he is author of a bi- editor in chief, Alex Sachare ’71, one of the several present and past ography of Lou Gehrig and many will publish additional informa- political entities across the Adriatic. due to a delayed final exam.) “Columbia had incredible that he and his generation were being pushed aside DrMelvin23@gmail. com volumes on baseball history. tion as it becomes available. In the Bernie Weisberger addresses English professors, then and still,” he says. “It was a … that the truth of his generation’s experience in a As I write these comments between On a more sobering note, our meantime, I send warm regards to the following note to his fellow mad place, really exciting. Even the required courses segregated America could be forgotten.” Thanksgiving and Christmas in Class of 1942 was the first class to all classmates and their families. Class of ’43 members —“we happy had someone exciting teaching them. And your peers Using Pinckney’s parents’ books and others, 2014, it is sobering to report that the graduate into WWII after Pearl few.” He writes, “Only my decision were as important as your professors. So many weird Blackballed not only traces the history of the struggle activities of classmates are declining Harbor. Many classmates enlisted to help maintain our class’ tattered people, and each with their own reading list for you.” for black voting rights but also the differing perspec- in the face of ongoing old age, in- immediately and received their G.J. D’Angio reputation as correspondents (hint, A book borrowed from Elizabeth Hardwick, co- tives among African-Americans as to how to reach firmities, illnesses and deaths. Such degrees later. A few years ago I 43 201 S. 18th St., #1818 hint!) moves me to write now, as founder of The New York Review of Books who was teaching cre- that goal. While the book concludes with “What Black are the realities of daily life in our learned that 14 members of our Philadelphia, PA 19103 life has been very quiet since I last ative writing at the College, brought Pinckney’s intellectual pursuits Means Now,” an essay on the history of the black middle class nonagenarian generation. class were killed in WWII, although [email protected] wrote in June. However, there are some benefits I cannot vouch for the accuracy “I [had shared] that I was writing to a more personal level. In J. Saunders Redding’s On Being Negro and the contemporary debate surrounding “post-blackness,” to longevity. As I approach my 92nd of that number. Two of my good I did not renew my medical license a memoir of my visits to Selma and in America (1951), Pinckney read of the 1930 lynching in Atlanta of the bulk of the volume is as much memoir as political and social birthday in January 2015, I am pleas­ friends were in that group: Philip at the end of the year, thus reach- Montgomery, Ala., which took place theology student Dennis Hubert for having spoken to a white girl. analysis, drawing on the views and experiences of Pinckney’s ed to report that I am now a great- Bayer and Roger Dounce. ing another milestone. 50 years ago in March, to join with He immediately recognized the name of his mother’s cousin. It was parents as well as his own relationship to that history as a man grandfather of both a 14-month-old Phil was a small but tough half- In November, my wife, Audrey, African-Americans fighting for their an inescapable reminder for Pinckney that “no matter what class who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement. in Hyattsville, Md., Olivia Stefanick, back. In 1940 he scored the winning and I went to Latimer in Bucking- voting rights. Well, it’s done, and I you were in, you were not immune. The violence of racism could “History is not out there,” Pinckney says. “It’s personal. It’s touchdown in our 19–13 triumph hamshire in England. The occasion repeat that if any of you took part or find you anywhere.” sitting next to you.” over Georgia at Baker Field, and in was still another honor for her. She know someone who did and wants Pinckney became a contributor to The New York Review of Class Notes are submitted by the same year played in our 7–6 win was the first to win the “Outstand- to see my 10,000 or so words on the over Wisconsin. With several other ing Dedication to Families Affected subject, advise me at 522 Church Books at 23 and went on to write a novel, High Cotton (1992), and Justin DeFreitas is a Bay Area writer and graphic artist. alumni and edited by volunteer classmates, including Jack Arbo- by Cancer Award.” It meant more St., Evanston IL 60201 and I’ll email class correspondents and the lino and Donald Seligman BUS’47, to Audrey than most other awards a copy to you. It isn’t intended for staff of CCT prior to publication. Phil enlisted in the Marine Corps because she had been nominated general publication. I see that a immediately after Pearl Harbor, by the parents of children with movie, Selma, has been made about You Have to F**king Eat by ting their children to eat (Akashic and find the self in the 21st century family life after being abandoned by Opinions expressed are those of Adam Mansbach ’98, illustrated Books, $14.95). (Kelsey Street Press, $15). their father and left by their mother became an officer in combat in the neuroblastoma, a type of child- the subject, and am curious to know individual alumni and do not Pacific campaigns and died a hero hood cancer that was the major what rough handling Hollywood by Owen Brozman. Mansbach’s to live with their oppressive great- in the battle of Peleliu while trying focus of her laboratory and clinical has inflicted on the historical facts Rings Jasmine Dreame Wagner The Perfect Place Teresa E. Harris reflect the opinions of CCT, its sequel to the international best- by by aunt (Clarion Books, $16.99). to rescue a fellow Marine. research during her active years. this time. See what I mean by ‘life class correspondents, the College seller Go the F*** to Sleep provides ’00. Wagner plays with abecedar- ’04. Harris’ latest novel follows Karl Daum ’15 Roger was a gifted writer for Both Audrey and her work meant a has been quiet’? a profane yet loving read for ian form in this poetry collection young Treasure and her sister as they or the University. Jester, where we worked together lot to these parents. Many of those “I did take a fall while out walk- parents who struggle with get- to stitch together space and time learn to cope with non-traditional under the brilliant and productive British families had actually met ing last July and suffered a frac-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES tured radius, but somehow I don’t of August to have two stents put travel, hobbies and/or whatever sixth great-grandchild. Congratula- resulted in a disrupted connection Still practicing pediatrics.” a grand affair with a distinctly ments to campus and, if you are so think a step-by-step account of into the third artery. else you’d like to share. You can tions! Can anyone top this? with the original entering class. Dr. Sidney Fink PS’52 retired Columbian “flavor.” His best man inclined, to take advantage of some every X-ray, test, physical therapy “Don’t have a helluva lot of write to either of the addresses at Fritz Stern, an award-winning Nevertheless, I was fortunate to at- from active medical practice in was Neeraj “Nick” Bhatia SEAS’05 of what New York City has to offer. session and clumsy experiment in strength or stamina but enough to the top of the column. You may historian and a University Professor tend classes with some great teach- 2008 but is an active member of the and additional groomsmen were You can go online to read more and being left-handed would hold your get a few hours of work done each also submit an update using the Emeritus, wrote to The New York ers — Lionel Trilling [’25, GSAS’38], Virginia Medical Reserve Corps. Michael Wasserman SEAS’05 and to register at college.columbia.edu/ rapt attention. I’m all better now, day. As Bette Davis said at 92, ‘Old webform college.columbia.edu/ Times about the fall of the Berlin Jacques Barzun [’27, GSAS’32], He retains his good health by Vivek Natarajan SEAS’05. Their alumni/events/alumni-reunion- which is what matters. Doing lots age ain’t for sissies.’ Be of good cheer cct/submit_class_note. Be well! Wall in a letter appearing Novem- Meyer Schapiro [’24, GSAS’35] and hiking and square dancing, and presence was further testimony to weekend. of reading, rejoicing in following and have a happy year in 2015.” ber 10. He said, “‘How the Berlin Theodosius Dobzhansky, among also plays duplicate bridge with the lifetime imprint of the Colum- We have only one update this the progress of my grandchildren Joe’s medical problems are be- Wall Really Fell,’ by Mary Elise others. the Peninsula Bridge Society in bia experience. column: Hubert (Buddy) Brandt and (through my wife, Rita) my coming characteristic of the Greatest Bernard Sunshine Sarotte (Op-Ed. Nov. 8) rightly “My Columbia education initiat- Newport News, Va. A favorite re- A joyous occasion like this one continues fully engaged in lead- wee great-grandchildren, and oth- Generation as we age but let’s not 46 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G emphasizes that the citizens of ed one of the central endeavors of membrance from his time at CC is stands out as reason for hope in ing and directing the law firm he erwise demonstrating that despite forget Davis’ caveat. Surely others New York, NY 10023 East Germany who in 1989 took my life, what the Germans would “a dinner that several pre-med stu- these times when the news is a heads in Manhattan. Furthermore, lots of mileage the old engine is of you will know what we are [email protected] to the streets in peaceful but risky call Bildung (self-development). dents gave in honor of chemistry daily diet of misery and violence. he plans never to retire. In the still running. talking about, and have experiences demonstrations demanding an end In my retirement especially it has Brandt family now are three gen- “At this writing, Rita and I plan of your own to share. Tell us about It was a first. Our class invited to subjugation prepared the way for been a source of deep satisfaction erations of CC graduates: Buddy, to be off for 10 days in January and them for next time. You can reach CC’45 to join us for a luncheon the end of the wall. to expand upon what a fortunate his son Jimmy ’79 and Jimmy’s February on a cruise through West me by writing to either of the ad- on December 11. We met at Le “It was a propitious time for boy was exposed to at CC.” Herbert Hendin ’46 had an article on the treatment daughter Lindsay ’08. Indian islands such as Barbados, dresses at the top of the column or Perigord, one of New York’s finest revolt because the self-liberation of Frederick M. Kafka SEAS’49 of PTSD in veterans published in the professional Buddy sends his regards to all Antigua and St. Thomas. Yo, ho, ho via the CCT webform college.colum traditional French restaurants and the Eastern bloc was in full swing, writes, “I was originally a member our classmates, as do I, along with and many a rum punch at the din- bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. the perfect setting for good fel- pioneered by the Solidarity move- of the Class of ’46 but spent 2½ journal of the American Association of Suicidology. a request that you write me soon. ing table. Maybe some interesting lowship, interesting conversation ment in Poland and ultimately years in the army, returning to CC All news is welcome, whether of things will happen that I can write and reconnecting. The classes had favored by the reformist instincts in fall 1945. Got married in June your whereabouts, your wander- REUNION WEEKEND about next time and, if not, I’ll in- common experiences at an unusual of the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. 1946 to Mildred BC’49. Attended professor Dr. Charles R. Dawson There has been a resounding ings or your wonderments at this MAY 28–31 vent some. Meanwhile, best wishes time in Columbia’s storied history, Gorbachev. Engineering and worked part-time, [GSAS’38] in spring 1948. We did silence with regard to my Class moment in life. I can be reached ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS to all of you remaining ’43-ers, and including WWII and an academic “The victory was theirs, not ours, graduating with a B.S. in 1949. so in recognition of his outstanding Notes mailbox. Please, friends, let at either address at the top of the ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott hang in there.” calendar of three 16-week semes- except for the renewed validation of Have lived at 24 Field Ln., Roslyn teaching ability and with gratitude us hear from you. As elder states- column or via a note submitted [email protected] ters. The stellar efforts of Irwin our faith in freedom and our horror Heights, NY 11577, for 31 years. We for the strong personal support he men among the alumni voices, through the CCT webform college. 212-851-9148 Nydick and Henry Shinefield ’45 of surveillance by the Stasi, the East have three children, six grand- extended to his students.” please be assured that everyone columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan Bill Friedman contributed substantially to the German secret police. It is indeed children and, so far, one great- Dr. Yale Enson returned to reading this magazine is interested note. [email protected] 833-B Heritage Hills afternoon’s success. a moment to be remembered in grandchild. Worked for a chemical Columbia as a fellow in the Nobel in what you have to say. Every stu- 44 212-851-7833 Somers, NY 10589 The featured speaker was ortho­ all its greatness and present-day distribution company part-time Prize laboratory of Dr. Andre Cour- dent who is transformed by those swf685@aol.com Columbia College Today pedic surgeon Dr. Russell Warren relevance.” until last year and still get involved nand in 1959. He joined the Faculty memorable years as a Columbia George Koplinka Columbia Alumni Center ’62. He was a Columbia football An article by Herbert Hendin with the company’s profit-sharing of Medicine in 1961, devoting his College student becomes an alum- 75 Chelsea Rd. Just when I thought the Class of 45 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 great, and his professional creden- appeared in the professional journal plan from home. Celebrating my career to studies of abnormalities nus or alumna with a respect for 51 White Plains, NY 10603 1944 tank was beginning to run dry, New York, NY 10025 tials are distinguished as well: team of the American Association of Sui- 90th birthday this week (December of the pulmonary circulation. He antiquity and the knowledge to be [email protected] as evidenced in the Winter 2014–15 [email protected] doctor for the New York Giants for cidology, which is titled Suicide and 12) in good health. That’s the story! retired in 2000 as Emeritus Profes- acquired therefrom. issue, I received the following wel- 30 years (and counting); surgeon- Life-Threatening Behavior. The article, Greetings to all fellow alumni sor of Clinical Medicine. A lifelong We owe them our participation. In the words of “Sans Souci,” come email from Joseph Cowley CCT wishes everyone in the Class in-chief at the Hospital for Special “An Innovative Approach to Treat- (including those in my original New Yorker, Yale and his wife, You have your assignment. Write “What if tomorrow brings sorrow Sr. GSAS’49: of 1945 a happy spring! Writing Surgery for 10 years; orthopedic ing Combat Veterans with PTSD at Class of ’46 and fellow alumni of Beatrice, moved to Vashon Island me at either address at the top of or anything, Other than joy? …” “From the looks of the Winter in this quarter was Lawrence surgeon-in-chief at New York Risk for Suicide,” was published SEAS’49).” off the coast of Seattle (dimensions the column or through the CCT So, how do we remember our issue, I guess there aren’t too many Aronson: “Northern California Weill Cornell Medical College for 10 on October 13, 2014, and relates the In mid-December, Dr. Nicholas of Manhattan, population 10,000) webform collge.columbia.edu/cct/ class president, Robert Snyder of us left from the Class of ’44 to is wonderful for its climate and years. Russ gave interesting insights experiences of military combatants Giosa wrote, “At this late age, I’ve where they live surrounded by submit_class_note. LAW’55, who died unexpectedly make news. So let me fill you in a intellectual stimulation of all types. into his career and the challenges of that have haunted them as veterans received a delightful Christmas children, grandchildren and orcas. May the promise of spring on December 10? bit on [my life]. However, I miss the friends I had at keeping the Giants healthy. and both the successes and failures present: My book of collected This rural setting has relieved him lighten your hearts and enable Without a doubt Bob was one “I’ve published about 16 books one time in New York. I also miss Classmates and significant of psychiatric treatment for these poems, This Sliding Light of Day, is of the burdens of curbside parking your nimble fingers. of the most enthusiastic Columbi- but no longer have the energy to do practicing medicine and I no longer others in attendance were Herbert people. It is forward-thinking in being published by Antrim House and permits nature photography, ans I ever met. Our paths began original work, so for the past five play racquetball. The experience of Hendin; Mel Holson and his wife, the conclusions it draws. Herb in Simsbury, Conn. Santa Claus birding, gardening and singing in crossing at Dean’s Day during the REUNION WEEKEND or six years have been adapting the being at Columbia College with its Phyllis; Ira Millstein and his wife, devotes a substantial part of his finally arrived.” the Vashon Island Chorale (pres- tenure of Dean Austin Quigley and MAY 28–31 classics for students reading at level remarkable professors was wonder- Susan; Leonard Moss and his wife, psychiatry practice to the research Thank you to these gentlemen ently rehearsing Faure’s Requiem continued doing so through this ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS four of the English Ladder Series, ful and, as I read about them, I am Muriel; Irwin Nydick and his wife, and implementation of programs for getting in touch. CCT, and your Mass). He sends greetings to col- past fall. Our last communication ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott a course for ESL students. The first very proud of the accomplishments Ellie; Bernard Sunshine and his for problems confronting military classmates, would love to hear leagues, friends, classmates and occurred when he called me with [email protected] book I did was an adaptation of of the University.” wife, Marjorie; and Barnett Zumoff. veterans. from more of you. Please share fellow alumni. a reminder to attend the Lions’ last 212-851-9148 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor In other CC’45 news, take note: Also attending were Marc Ham- Herbert Gold phoned to send news about yourself, your family, Thank you to these alumni for football game of the season. Was DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan Dostoyevsky for IBC, a Japanese Alumni Reunion Weekend is almost burgh; Jack Greenberg ’45, LAW’48 greetings. Herb is famous for walk- your career and/or your travels — getting in touch! CCT, and your Bob an athlete? Tennis, maybe. But [email protected] publisher; I found I liked doing it so here. The dates are Thursday, May (former dean of Columbia College ing the hills of San Francisco and even a favorite Columbia College classmates, would love to hear at his summer home in Sag Harbor, 212-851-7833 much that I have continued. 28–Sunday, May 31, with Dean’s and vice-dean of the Law School) reported that activity was put on memory — using either the email from more of you. Please share N.Y., he could whip anybody with “In addition to that one, so far Day coinciding on Saturday, May and his wife, Debbie; Martin Kurtz hold for a bit during rehab for a or postal address at the top of the news about yourself, your family, Mario Palmieri his skill as a croquet player! I’ve done Dostoyevsky’s The Broth- 30. It’s a great time to visit campus, ’45; and Henry Shinefield ’45 and hip replacement. He will be 91 in column. You also can send news your career and/or your travels — 50 33 Lakeview Ave. W. During a CC event on campus ers Karamazov, The Kreutzer Sonata get reacquainted with the neighbor- his daughter and grandson, Kim- March and continues strong with online using the CCT webform even a favorite Columbia College Cortlandt Manor, NY Bob introduced me to his mother, by Leo Tolstoy, Alice’s Adventures in hood and, most importantly, catch berley and Sam Putzer. his latest novel, When a Psychopath college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ memory — using either the email 10567 Silvia Snyder. I learned that Mrs. Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and up with old friends. For more Irving Ackerman, Howard Falls in Love. class_note. or postal address at the top of the [email protected] Snyder was a volunteer at Christian The Golden Bowl by Henry James, information on events, or to register, Cohen, Paul Marks, Fritz Stern I am sorry to report the death of column. You also can send news Help, affectionately known as and I’ve begun adapting James’ contact either of the Alumni Office and Don Summa expressed regrets Lawrence H. Fuller on November online using the CCT webform Alumni Reunion Weekend is nearly CHIPS, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Portrait of a Lady. staffers listed at the top of the col- and sent regards to all. 1, 2014. Columbia College Today college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ upon us, and this is the last time The organization, supported by “My wife died in 2006, and I umn; you also can go online to In the previous issue, the College Columbia Alumni Center class_note. you will hear from me in CCT a group of Roman Catholic nuns, moved in with a new lady friend college.columbia.edu/alumni/ advised and I reported the number 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 before it takes place. I hope you al- serves hot meals daily to the needy here in Westport, Conn., at the be- events/alumni-reunion-weekend. of men in our class as 129. I learned Columbia College Today New York, NY 10025 ready have the dates saved but just and, at the time, Mrs. Snyder was ginning of this year, after dating for For those who make it to in December that our size is actually 47 Columbia Alumni Center [email protected] John Weaver in case, they are Thursday, May 28– there every day to help with the five years. I had a heart attack at the reunion, CCT hopes to get a note 100. The substantial drop suggests 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 2639 E. 11th St. Sunday, May 31. Our class will be serving. Before long I spoke to the end of May, died and was brought from you about how it went and the probability of error in the previ- New York, NY 10025 Dr. Alvin N. Eden writes, “Listen- 49 Brooklyn, NY 11235 marking the big 65, which is hard Mother Superior about my connec- back to life. I spent 15 days at the what you did. For those who ous report. With this latest informa- [email protected] ing to part of The Ballad of Baby Doe [email protected] to believe (“feels like yesterday,” as tions with a supplier of tableware Bridgeport hospital in intensive and cannot make it, CCT — and your tion our actuarial expert, Alan I thought back to my music appre- they say) and an accomplishment and agreed to contribute paper intermittent care, then 30 days in classmates — would love to hear Berman, says we are still ahead of Dr. Anson Kessler starts off this ciation class with Douglas Moore Since the last writing, yours truly worth celebrating. It will be an coffee cups. No, no, said Mother rehab. Had two stents put in two from you all the same. Catch us up the curve, which he attributes in column: “Unfortunately, many in 69 years ago as if it was yesterday. had the pleasure of attending the excellent opportunity to renew old Superior. Only china would do. It of my arteries, and then I had to go on what’s happening with you and great part to education and income. our class had their years at Colum- All is well except for a stenotic aor- wedding of my and my wife acquaintances and make new ones, took some effort but with the help back to the hospital at the beginning your families, recent or upcoming Alan also reports the arrival of his bia interrupted by the war. This tic valve that will be replaced soon. Karen’s son, JonAlf ’05. It was to see the changes and enhance- of my Rotary Club I collected and

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES delivered 500 mugs of assorted lumbia football should be, and must Winter 2014–15 issue. Therefore, I Lew Robins I found his answer modest and to Richard Werksman shares, “I’ve mitzvah last May in Pacific Pali- Matt Loonin, among others. description to the good nuns (elimi- be, competitive within the values of report that in November 2013 I was 53 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 the point. He said, “I tried to help been interviewing College ap- sades, Calif., where the band played Unfortunately, Walt Flanagan nating the inappropriate designs)! Ivy League athletics.” invited to teach a class in Loyola Bridgeport, CT 06604 my staffs recognize their strengths plicants through the Alumni Repre- Roar, Lion, Roar at an after-party in will not make it — but there’s Thank you, Silvia. Finally, class VP Elliot Wales Marymount’s (LMU) course ‘The [email protected] and abilities, and to realize that we sentative Committee for years, and honor of “Grandpa Bernd.” still time, Walt. Ben Kaplan, who Bob was a wizard at planning LAW’54 has agreed to serve as our Literature of Exile and Terror.’ The are all in this together.” for a long time none of the students recently visited with Jerry Catuzzi, reunions. Our class had a bunch, class president and will be instru- subject was Jerzey Kosinski’s book I was delighted to receive the fol- That’s all for this column. As I recommended made it. Then, last is not expected but Jerry could be a REUNION WEEKEND including a major event for the mental in planning our next reunion Steps and Gary Shteyngart’s book lowing fascinating email from Pe- ever, you can write me at either ad- year, a young lady I recommended “dark horse.” MAY 28–31 25th and continuing every five (Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, ter G. Wilson PS’57: “I have been dress at the top of the column or via highly was wait-listed and eventu- The reunion will have some- ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS years through to, most recently, the 2016). Please offer to be helpful! each author having had a turbulent ‘promoted’ to professor emeritus of the CCT webform college.columbia. ally admitted. I recently received thing for everyone. A sampling of ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott 60th, held in June 2011. Our guest youth that included persecution clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell edu/cct/submit_class_note. an email from her telling me how what you’re in for: [email protected] speakers were always distin- and exile from Poland and the Medical College, continue to teach great her freshman year is going. It On Thursday, a special reception; 212-851-9148 guished faculty members, and Bob Columbia College Today U.S.S.R., respectively. Each of them medical students and residents was personally very rewarding, and On Friday, a special breakfast for DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan supervised the Reunion Commit- Columbia Alumni Center became a successful American. and do committee work. My wife, Bernd Brecher I recommend interviewing candi- our class only, lectures by faculty, 52 [email protected] tee to make sure no important 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 “My family escaped from Nancy, and I celebrated our 50th 35 Parkview Ave., Apt. 4G dates to my fellow alumni. It helps including one for our class only by 54 212-851-7833 details were overlooked. Was there New York, NY 10025 Hitler’s fascist Austria in 1938, and wedding anniversary by taking Bronxville, NY 10708 keep you in touch with the College Stanley Lubman, lunch, a tour of ever a more enthusiastic alumnus [email protected] I was fortunate enough to have a three children and their spouses, [email protected] and the younger generations.” Gerald Sherwin Manhattanville and a reception/ than he? Probably not. He attended Bronx Science, Columbia and Chi- six grandchildren and various Find out more at college.colum 55 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A dinner on campus for our class reunion, walked in parades, car- John Laszlo writes, “I have fond cago education that led to my ca- others to Puerto Rico. I still see Bill Howard Falberg, whom I asked bia.edu/alumni/getinvolved/arc. New York, NY 10021 only; and ried class banners, never missed memories of my undergraduate reer as an academic surgeon. I was Frosch PS’57 and Bob Walzer from 20-plus years ago to take on the Dr. Richard K. Bernstein SEAS’55 [email protected] On Saturday, which is also class-sponsored events, attended career at Columbia, though I left privileged to serve as the president our august class.” role of class correspondent, has writes that he learned as an engineer, Dean’s Day, the Dean’s Continental and suffered through one losing for Harvard Medical School after of the largest and most influential In a subsequent phone call, requested a leave of absence to 45 years ago, that the only way he There are no Ivy schools that “show Breakfast, a special panel, an array football season after another at three years. My faculty adviser and society in my specialty — an honor Peter shared that as a practicing attend to a number of matters. As could survive his longstanding their stuff” more than CU in terms of affinity group receptions (relive Baker (now Robert K. Kraft) Field, tennis coach, Tex Adams, advised that I achieved in the United States psychiatrist for more than 57 years your well-paid, permanent class Type 1 diabetes was by maintaining of events, traditions and awards. your past!), a wine tasting and a and rooted religiously for the Lions me not to waste my time applying that likely would not have been he has specialized in the following “prexy,” I’ve volunteered to once normal blood sugars. This violated Think about it! There’s the John Jay reception and dinner on campus on the basketball court. Alums like to med schools because they would available to me anywhere else in areas: psychoanalysis, depression, again pick up this task, which I the teachings of professional medical Awards Dinner in March and the for our class only. Bob are hard to come by and he never take me. Fortunately I did the world. crisis intervention, medical illness handled for a number of years after associations and still does, he notes, Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner This is it! Our 60th is here. There will be missed but not forgotten at not listen to the advice of someone “My teaching at LMU was well psychotherapy, consultation and graduation. So, please, help me — probably because physicians are in November; for the holidays, is still time to join the select group our 65th reunion in 2016. [Editor’s who did not want to lose even a received, leading to an invitation organic disorders. all of us — in the following ways: taught to attempt to treat the grave there’s the Yule Log Ceremony of classmates at our 60th. You note: See Obituaries.] mediocre starter from the tennis in 2014 to submit an essay, ‘Refuge, I also learned that Peter has been Send me your Class Notes items: results of the disease rather than to and the Tree Lighting Ceremony, won’t regret time well spent. Ralph Lowenstein JRN’57 will team! My education about conflicts Adaptation and Quest to Belong,’ instrumental in decreasing from 20 personal, professional, family or prevent them. which is attended by more than Remember — the school looks appear in A Wing and A Prayer, of interest began right there at for a forthcoming book, The Litera- percent to 10 percent the number friend-oriented, about accomplish- to us for leadership, both in fund- a documentary scheduled to be Columbia. The liberal arts classes ture of Exile and Terror. The editors, of patients who didn’t take care of ments or everyday life. Pile it on. raising and in participation. shown by most PBS television sta- at the College served me well in Holli Levitsky, who heads LMU’s themselves after receiving a kidney Get in touch with me, too, if you Class of 1955! You are the best. tions in 2015. The film, produced my career and life, and I hope that Jewish Studies Program, and transplant. Interestingly enough, have questions or suggestions for Richard K. Bernstein ’54 has started a series of Love to all! Everywhere! and directed by Boaz Dvir, traces the quality of the faculty remains Monica Osborne, who is a visiting he told me there were three crucial the column. It’s fun and worth all YouTube and Facebook video classes about diabetes Your Reunion Hot Line for 1955: the American origins of the Israeli that high. assistant professor in Pepperdine’s questions/factors that contributed our whiles, and Columbia’s. Thank 917-763-7061. Air Force in 1948. Ralph is also “[My wife,] Pat, and I say that Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute to this reduction: First, did the you. management called “Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes University.” listed in the credits as historical aging is not for the faint of heart. for Jewish Studies, have accepted patient have an adequate support In the meantime, I have already adviser on the film. Ralph served You see the natural development my essay for publication.” system that encouraged him/her heard from several of our classmates. Stephen K. Easton in an armored battalion, not the of unnatural things — like balance Maxine Prager wrote with sad to take his/her medication on David Bardin LAW’56 became Richard adds that he earned a 500 students, alumni, faculty and 56 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. Air Force, during Israel’s War of problems, trouble sticking to tasks news about her husband, Sid schedule? Second, did the patient interested last year in the potential medical degree at 48 so that his community members; there’s the Englewood, NJ 07631 Independence. He is believed to be and various physical ailments that Prager, who wrote this Class Notes have a good relationship with a vulnerability of electric bulk power studies could be published. He annual Dean’s Scholarship Recep- [email protected] the only Columbia undergraduate should not be happening to you. column for five years: “Sid passed relative, friend or doctor? Third, did facilities to geomagnetic distur- has since published many journal tion, giving student recipients and who left school in 1948 to serve as But there it is and be grateful for away on January 19, 2015, after the patient have the money to pay bances caused by space weather articles and nine books, including scholarship donors the opportunity Our class attendees at the Home- an American volunteer during the what you still have and can enjoy. fighting a five-month battle with for the medication? storms from the sun. He is working three e-books. For five years, he has to meet one another (there’s even a coming football game on October war. One student from the Law “We have been living in Atlanta cancer. His funeral was a military Following a long and productive up comments, as a private citizen, conducted a free monthly Internet scholarship sponsored by our Class 25 were Ron Kapon and myself. School and one from the General since 1986, when I left Duke Uni- funeral with all military honors. It career, Peter stopped seeing patients to be submitted in a Federal Energy diabetes seminar with about 35,000 of 1955); and there are student tradi- We were able, at our designated Studies master’s program also versity Medical Center after 27 was quite a beautiful and outstand- about two years ago. He feels lucky Regulatory Commission rule- subscribers at askdrbernstein.net. tions such as the always sparkling CC’56 table (wish more of you ing funeral, which may seem to have a great family and loves that making proceeding that opened on Two months ago, he began releas- Orgo Night, which features the Co- were there), to spend at least half like an oxymoron but is not; the he now has time to change diapers January 21. He is also taking a grad- ing Internet, YouTube and Facebook lumbia University Marching Band. an hour discussing with Dean funeral was a fitting tribute to an for his grandchildren. uate course in homeland security video classes titled “Dr. Bernstein’s We are the best at reaching out and James J. Valentini the current The upcoming book The Literature of Exile and Terror outstanding life. If only Sid could Several days after reading about at the University of the District of Diabetes University.” Thus far, moving people in the community to issues affecting Columbia. One of will feature an essay by John Benfield ’52 on the have heard others talk about the Israel Sturm in the Winter 2014–15 Columbia. He and Edward Cowan about 22, 29-minute sessions have come together. the topics was the problems that mark, the imprint, the legacy he issue of CCT, Sol Heckelman sent frequently compare notes on local, been released. Dick still treats On a similar note, reunion plan- academically advanced colleges subject of “Refuge, Adaptation and Quest to Belong.” left (I hope he knew) on so many me a note. national and international issues. patients from all over the world and ning is coming together very nicely have in striking a balance between — both those who knew him well Sol was a member of the TEP Saul Turteltaub writes, “Alvin trains medical students. for our guys, with plenty of the academics and fielding a competi- and those who hardly knew him fraternity and the president and Hellerstein was in Beverly Hills Now, for a little about my life. class taking part (Lew Mendelson tive football team. The conclusion, served. Ralph was 18 when that great years and joined the American but who wish they’d had the op- treasurer of the Seixas Society. for his daughter Dina’s ‘Woman of I taught a course, “Fundraising and Stanley Lubman will give a if any, seems to be that Columbia happened; he made up for lost Cancer Society. ACS had moved portunity to know him better. Sid He later had a fascinating, highly the Year’ award from Temple Beth and Friend Raising: Your Future lecture on economics and China, is not about to give up football, time at Columbia during the sum- its national headquarters here and lived a life worth living, a life of productive career as a licensed Am congregation. Unfortunately, in the Not-for-Profit Universe,” for example). and current faculty, students and mers and graduated with our class. asked me to direct the research achievement and success, a model psychologist and a licensed school [my partner, Shirley,] and I were last fall at Berkshire Community Among those whom we will alumni would like to see a more In the Fall 2014 CCT, reference program — largely an administra- for many to emulate. His family psychologist. For 10 years he was out of town and missed him. College in Pittsfield, Mass. My see at Alumni Reunion Weekend competitive team. You may have was made in this column to my tive position and a huge change and friends will miss him terribly.” responsible for evaluating young- “Our son, Jon, was inducted into wife, Helen, and I marked our 56th are Ralph Wagner, Jack Freeman, read about changes in Athletics collection of Spectator copies and from basic and clinical research, CCT sends its condolences to sters in New Jersey to determine the Beverly Hills H.S. Hall of Fame anniversary on February 1 and Norm Goldstein (transferred to related to this; if you would like their availability to a memorabilia patient care and teaching. Much Maxine and to the rest of Sid’s fam- whether they should be placed for directing Cool Runnings, While are looking forward to celebrating New York from the Big Island), Neil more information, please contact buff. It has since been claimed by less stressful. Then I graduated to ily and friends. in special education classes. For You Were Sleeping, and National the college graduations in May of Opdyke (we’ll talk about football me for an update. a class member and is no longer retirement with just a smidge of Thanks for your submissions. 20 years, until he retired in 1999, Treasure and National Treasure: Book our two oldest granddaughters, at some point), Allen Hyman, Our class luncheon was held available. biotech consulting. It’s been a very CCT — and your classmates — he was the director of special of Secrets.” Samantha Savitch (from Wesleyan) Anthony Viscusi and Jeff Broido. November 18 at Faculty House. In In what may turn out to be a trib- rewarding life with a loving wife, would love to hear from more of education in a New Jersey school Ron Sugarman writes, “I’ll keep and Emma Moskowitz (from Pace). There will also be Herb Cohen, attendance were Robert “Buzz” ute to faithful and loyal Columbia four successful children and six you. Please send your news to district. it simple. I think that I might be Emma’s sister, Maya, is moving Mike Liptzin, Dick Kuhn, Ezra Paaswell, Mark Novick, Gerry football fans like Bob Snyder, Uni- grandchildren to show for it. I hope either of the addresses at the top of Frankly, I was both fascinated by setting a new age record. Had no closer to her at Oberlin while direct- Levin, Don Laufer, Cleveland’s Fine, Stanley Soren, Al Franco versity president Lee C. Bollinger all the best goes also for my mates the column, or submit an update and curious about all that Sol has grandchildren prior to April 11, ing a documentary about nighttime own Jim Berick, Larry Cove and SEAS’56 and myself. has promised a comprehensive in the Class of 1952. Godspeed!” via the CCT webform college. accomplished. Thus, during the 2011. And I’m currently anticipating patrons at small-town and highway Richard Mazze. Take your pick of Gerry reported on his enroll- review of the football program. As John Benfield says, “I was dis- columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ course of our conversation I asked the arrival of No. 4 in the second diners throughout America. The old acquaintances Alfred Gollomp, ment in the fall Mini-Core Course, reported in The New York Times on appointed by the absence of Class note. In the meantime, enjoy the him what he thought had been week of April. Record or not, it’s all youngest of our seven grandkids, Henry Weinstein, Jacob Kirman, “Building the Great Cathedrals,” November 21, Bollinger stated, “Co- Notes from 1952 graduates in the spring! his most important contribution. very satisfying.” Jared Brecher, celebrated his bar Sandy Autor, Eddie Goldberg and taught by Professor Stephen Mur-

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Gerry also rocco, where he was director of the their return to the Northeast, I Jersey), Jim Barker (Connecticut), said he intended to sign up for the Tangier American Legation Mu- encourage all of you to add to your Pete Anker (Connecticut), Steve winter/spring course covering the seum, a cultural center, museum calendar the next class lunch. We Fybish (NYC) and Carlos Muñoz Shakespeare plays Othello, Macbeth and research library concentrating try to have a lunch once a month (New York). and Julius Caesar. For more infor- on Arabic language studies. He and always have an interesting Marty adds, “The New York Times mation about this program, please now lives in Philadelphia and is an group with a lively discussion. All had a nice article about educational contact Coreen Boothe in the accomplished artist. classmates are more than welcome. institutions in NYC in its locally dis- Alumni Office: cb2889@columbia. “Thor, Louis, Peter and I were Just email me about your interest tributed Metro section. Columbia edu or 212-851-7849. fraternity brothers in Phi Gamma in attending and I will make sure leads the way with its magnificent Buzz reported on recent family- Delta so this was a mini-reunion you have the necessary informa- Manhattanville (West Harlem) related travel, which resulted from of sorts. tion. campus, which is rising on more his son’s moving to California “Nothing much to report other- On a sad note, I was informed than three city blocks north of the as well as Buzz’s own work as a wise. A Thai language edition of my by his sister, Bettina Vozick, that elevated 125th Street subway sta- professor of civil engineering and book, Easy Economics: A Visual Guide Michael Vozick passed away in tion. It is quite a sight … the crown- director of the University Transpor- to What You Need to Know, was pub- December 2013 after a sudden ill- ing achievement for President Lee tation Research Center at CUNY. lished this past summer; separate ness. His life embodied the pursuit C. Bollinger.” Al and I reviewed some year-end mainland Chinese and Taiwanese of independent thinking, always Robert Gnaizda writes, “Since tax planning items related to accel- language editions had already been questioning the status quo and graduating from Yale Law, I have erating deductions, pension plans published. those in supposed authority — the followed a policy of not being wed- and 401K contributions. Al also “I hope all classmates are well, values we were taught at Columbia ded to one type of job. I was a trial discussed the effects that planning and hope to see you all sometime College. He will be missed by all tax attorney for the government for one’s grandchildren’s college soon.” who knew him. Classmates wishing and a medium-sized tax law firm. I education can have on obtaining As of this date, we have set our to contact Bettina or Mike’s family was then a founder of three promi- financial aid. This is an area that Al class Florida get-together for the may write to Bettina: tvozick@ nent public interest law firms: handles through one of his financial first or second week in March in gmail.com. California Rural Legal Assistance advisory services. the Fort Lauderdale area. News That’s all for these Class Notes. (helped represent Cesar Chavez), Mark reported on his psychiatric from that will be included in the Please send in your news or com- Public Advocates (the first public counseling work, which keeps next column. ments! Wishing each and every one interest law firm in the West) and him active. He also skis one week As of this writing, Columbia of you good health and graceful Greenlining Institute (one of the a year out West with his 70s-and- basketball has been doing well aging. nation’s preeminent public interest over ski group. (e.g., we led No. 1 Kentucky at the advocates against the banking Leonard Wolfe, our class histo- end of the first half before losing industry and corporate America in rian, writes, “[My wife] Ruth and by just 10 points). We selected Herman Levy general). I recently returned from several February 28, the last Ivy League 57 7322 Rockford Dr. “In between, I served as a chief weeks in Hawaii. It was our fourth game against Harvard, for a class Falls Church, VA 22043 deputy and senior adviser for Gov- trip there and was as delightful as basketball outing (organized by [email protected] ernor [Jerry] Brown as a so-called it has always been, though much Ron Kapon). Stay tuned for our expert on prisons, employment, has changed since our first visit in next column for a full report. George Betts writes, “I’ve converted welfare and economic development 1963. … Early planning for our 60th to Judaism and for Rosh Hashanah during the early part of his first “Ruth and I visited Peter Poole reunion in June 2016 (Thursday, I chanted in Hebrew in the Oneonta term. in his summer home in Sugar Hill, June 2–Sunday, June 5) continues, synagogue (chapter 29: v. 1–6). For “Since retiring from Greenlining N.H., a few months back. He lost and we are moving ahead with a me it was a big deal; not so for oth- Institute at the end of 2008, I dis­ his wife, Rosemary, after many reunion gift of a Columbia College ers. It was a big deal for me because covered what I probably knew all years of marriage but seems to be coffee mug. Any suggestions for a 63 years ago I hitchhiked from the along: I had no all-consuming hob- surviving well. He continues to witty saying to match the Colum- Midwest to Times Square to see bies. As a result, I am now a full- write and is doing research for a bia logo are welcome. We are also some action, or so I thought, as I time general counsel for the leader- novel he is working on. Louis Cor- considering reaching out to select had grown up in an expensive, so to ship of the 5,000 African Methodist nell and his wife, Sally, were there classmates to ask if they will give speak, suburb of Chicago where no Episcopal churches, the 40,000 and Louis looked to be in great individual presentations about Jews or African-Americans resided. Latino evangelical churches and the shape and very much the same as the work or activities that they are A few years later, I fell in love with a National Asian American Coalition. he always was. involved in. Buzz Paaswell, for beautiful young woman from Paris, We are major advocates before example, is agreeable to a brief France. She oversaw an Off-Broad- the banking regulators and the presentation of the work he has way theater on the Lower East Side. Department of Justice’s Antitrust been doing in public transporta- She was Jewish. Division on behalf of minorities and What’s Your Story? tion, and Ron Kapon has agreed to “We have four children and 12 low-income families. Letting classmates know a discussion on wines, which items grandchildren, all of whom are “I am married, have two sons what’s going on in your are included in his wine publica- truly beautiful. and am still waiting for my first life is easier than ever. tions and his teachings at Fairleigh “How I would like to hear from grandchild. Send in your Class Notes! Dickinson. Other volunteers are classmates. [My address is] 284 “I last visited Columbia during welcome; email me about it at Brady Rd., Worcester, NY 12197.” our class’ 50th reunion and was ONLINE by clicking [email protected]. Marty Fisher shares, “It was pleased to see that at long last our college.columbia.edu/cct/ The response to me by volun- so good to get the [Fall 2014] CCT College more accurately reflects submit_class_note. teers interested in becoming Class with the dramatic photo of Colum- the demographics and diversity of EMAIL to the address at Agents has been underwhelming. I bia’s campus looking south to a America.” encourage more of you to consider sparkling NYC.” Yours truly visited with Eloise the top of your column. participating in this worthwhile He reports that attendees at our and John Norton at the memorial MAIL to the address at the endeavor, which involves being July 29 class luncheon were Mark service for John’s brother, Edward top of your column. a spokesperson for giving to the Stanton (New Jersey), Sal Franchi- W. Norton, at the Westminster D.C. In keeping with this issue’s theme, here’s a look at John Jay Dining Hall from an earlier era. If you visit today, you’ll note that the wood Columbia College Fund. It is also a no (New Jersey), Mike Lipper Presbyterian Church in Washing- hasn’t changed — the way students dress for meals is another story. good opportunity to reconnect with (New Jersey), Stan Barnett (Rhode ton, D.C., on November 15. PHOTO: COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

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Barry Dickman tor of nuclear medicine and molecu- essential that you email Art Radin Foundation in New Orleans. Our my cameras and editing equip- assent to their marriage. We duti- At this writing, in December, tion, which gets under way the 58 25 Main St. lar imaging and reduced my time if you plan to attend, up to the day youngest son, Jonathan ’07, is in ment. I guess many things aside fully performed both. Having given we are planning another trip to see afternoon of Thursday, May 28, Court Plaza North, Ste 104 to three days a week, I would have before: [email protected]. his fourth year of graduate studies from us become ancient.” our consent we began helping our grandchild. It seems we will and proceeds through Sunday Hackensack, NJ 07601 the opportunity to join the group, at in mathematics at Dartmouth and Bernie Pucker hardly acts (as though our suggestions were be loaded down with gifts, but we morning, May 31. [email protected] least intermittently. … This has not hopes to defend his thesis next year. ancient with all that is going on. of any importance to the couple) leave after Christmas, so no one Planning for reunion began in been the case, as I seem to be trying Norman Gelfand “Recently I connected with Her- He writes, “All continues to move with the wedding preparations. should be confused about the pur- earnest in November, thanks to Here’s an update on a couple of to do five days’ work during the 59 c/o CCT bert Dean, and Nina and I hope ahead, albeit it more slowly than At last the details were set, the day pose of the presents. It is just the the dedicated class members who ’58 authors. Bob Levine writes, three days I am at the center.” Columbia Alumni Center to visit him and his wife, either in anticipated. On April 30, 2014, our approached and we were back on natural overreaction of grandpar- were active on the Reunion Com- “My fifth book, Aging Wisely, was Stan adds that in May he will be 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Worcester, Mass., or Miami — or, building at 171 Newbury St. was a plane traveling to the ceremony. ents to the birth of a grandchild. mittee in consultation with Alumni released in August. The book the highlighted speaker at a meet- New York, NY 10025 most probably, somewhere in sold, and this was done with the full Though the date was far from I suspect that 2015 also will be Office staff. One of the inaugural describes the aging process, the ing of the World Association of Ra- [email protected] between.” intention of our moving our gallery optimal for our sons, both were able spent on TSA security lines leading meetings took place on December diseases associated with aging and diopharmaceutical and Molecular The day after Virginia voters sent to 240 Newbury St. We had worked to make arrangements that allowed to more flights to connect me with 4 with Bob Berne as committee what we can do to maximize our Therapy in Innsbruck, Austria. A celebration of the life of David two new Republicans to Congress, out a thoughtful schedule for the them to be at the wedding. In the my far-flung family. They cover chair, David Kirk, Art Delmhorst physical and cognitive function, Bernie Nussbaum has made Rosand GSAS’65 took place on the chairman of the state Republican move, with the hope that we would end, what had been intended as a 12 time zones from Oakland to and Victor Chang in attendance, as well as our productivity and headlines again, in a way. A Decem- campus on November 10 in St. Party, Pat Mullins, announced his be in, open and running in a newly small affair turned into an event Abu Dhabi and as long as I can, I Larry Rubenstein and Steve So- pleasure, as we grow older. ber New York Times front page article Paul’s Chapel. David was to be retirement. In recent years he has renovated space by September. with about 250 guests; how I am not will visit them when it is good for lender participating by telephone, “Also, my wife Anne’s and about Hillary Clinton began, “As a member of a panel at our 55th overseen a party deeply divided “We encountered much red tape sure, but I think a good time was them. and Robin Vanderputten Del my historical folk art collection a young lawyer for the Watergate reunion last summer. A fall, and between moderate Republicans and in Boston, and have finally received had by all. I look forward to hearing from Giorno, associate director, College will be featured in a show at the committee in the 1970s, Hillary what turned out to be his fatal ill- a Tea Party-influenced insurgency. approval to move artwork into Our next flight was to Oakland, all of you. Stay well and have some events and programs, and Sydney Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Rodham caught a ride home one ness, prevented him from doing so, As party chairman he set the party’s the space. As I write, our goal is to Calif., to help our younger son fun. Maisel, assistant director, class in Hartford, Conn., October 2016– night with her boss, Bernard Nuss- to our loss. He will be missed. agenda and, perhaps most impor- open our first exhibitions in the new celebrate Passover. The observance giving, Columbia College Fund, January 2017. If any classmates baum. Sitting in the car before going Murray Epstein PS’63 writes, tantly, helped with fundraising. Pat’s space on January 16, 2015. The blog was complicated by a game involv- also in attendance. All, and others REUNION WEEKEND have an interest in folk art and want inside, she told him she wanted “I retired from the University of retirement was covered in The Wash- is 171to240newbury.blogspot.com. ing the Golden State Warriors, for who attended meetings and made MAY 28–31 to come to Westport, Conn., they’re to introduce him to her boyfriend. Miami Miller School of Medicine ington Post and he says that it’s one “It really is a remarkable space whom he works. Nonetheless we contributions subsequent to the ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS welcome to stop by and see the ‘Bernie,’ she said, ‘he’s going to be after being a faculty member in the of the few times that the newspaper and parallels what we created at had a good holiday and a good preparation of these Class Notes ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott pieces in place at our home before president of the United States.’ nephrology and hypertension divi- said something nice about him. 171 Newbury across 46 years. It visit. (whom I hope to acknowledge at [email protected] the museum takes them next year. “Mr. Nussbaum, stressed by the sion for 39 years. But this formality Steve Kallis sends comments on encompasses well over 5,000 sq. Our next trip was to New York a later date), deserve our apprecia- 212-851-9148 My email is [email protected].” pressure of that tumultuous period, merely cleared the deck for me to a December 4 article from General ft. and will be primarily devoted for our 55th class reunion, during tion for putting together a splendid DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan Neil Harris’ latest book is blew up at her audacious naïveté. pursue my clinical investigative Aviation News about the New York to the display of the collections we which we had a great time with event. We look forward to it being [email protected] Capital Culture, a study of Carter ‘Hillary, that’s the most idiotic interests to further study patients City Drone Film Festival. The ar- have assembled over the years. In friends and classmates. A get- as successful and well attended as 212-851-7833 Brown, whom after an apprentice- thing,’ he screamed. She screamed with chronic kidney disease. I am a ticle by Ben Sclair reported, in part, order to move, we have to trans- together of physics majors, hosted our 50th reunion. ship with legendary art historian back. ‘You don’t know a goddam consultant to several pharmaceuti- that the festival “is the world’s port 6,000–7,000 art objects. About by the physics department, was a Robert A. Machleder John Roberts writes from Edisto Bernard Berenson perfected the art thing you’re talking about!’ she cal companies, primarily in the EU first event exclusively dedicated 40–50 percent of them are ceramics. special treat. 60 69-37 Fleet St. Island, S.C., to bring us up to date of museum showmanship as direc- said, and then called him a curse and Japan with the hope that I can to celebrating the art of drone cin- “We are very excited about this My daughter had to go to New Forest Hills, NY 11375 on his career since 1960. Following tor of the National Gallery of Art word. ‘God, she started bawling me convince them to sponsor large, ematography. The festival provides entire endeavor and look forward York in June for work, and her new [email protected] graduation he earned a master’s 1969–92. Neil is professor emeritus out,’ he recalled. ‘She walks out and multicenter clinical trials using a a platform for aerial filmmakers to greeting any and all members husband accompanied her. We flew in journalism from Iowa and of history at Chicago. slammed the door on me, and she new treatment paradigm to reduce to showcase their work (shot any- of the Class of ’59. Clearly it’s not to NYC and did our best to show By now you may have received returned to Morningside Heights We also heard from Fred Silverb- storms into the building.’ cardiovascular complications such where in the world), emphasizing something that we would have him around while my daughter registration materials for and de- as a science writing fellow at the latt, who was on the swim team “It turned out she was right and as stroke, heart attack and conges- innovative flight technique, aes- undertaken at our present age if was in meetings. One morning we tails about our upcoming Alumni Journalism School for the 1967–68 and reports, “I’m still carrying on he was wrong. Ms. Rodham, who tive heart failure in patients with thetic beauty and more. Director, not for the fact that our son, Jon, is took him to see St. Patrick’s Cathe- Reunion Weekend, celebrating the academic year. It was a particularly the spirit of competitive athletics, later married that ambitious boy- chronic kidney disease. landscape photographer and aerial working with us. dral, Temple Emanu-El and FAO 55th anniversary of our gradua- interesting year, he notes, “be- finishing third in my age group (75– friend, Bill Clinton, believed even “Recently, the prestigious British cinematographer Randy Scott “We recently visited with our Schwarz. Each was, in its own way, 79) at the 2014 70.3 Ironman World then that life would take her to the medical journal The Lancet invited Slavin founded the festival in 2014 granddaughter, Abby Pucker ’14, a new experience for him. My older Championships held at Mont- White House and now may seek to me to write an editorial describing with a desire to change the percep- who lives in Los Angeles and works son was in the city at the same time, Tremblant, Quebec, on September 7. return not as a spouse and partner, my proposed treatment approach. tions of drones. ‘I’m tired of drones for United Talent Agency. Ties to so we were able to see him, too. Columbia School Designations The race consists of a 1.2-mile swim, but on her own terms.” The editorial, which was initially being synonymous with question- Columbia continue in wonderful As frequently happens in a a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile Not exactly breaking news, as published on October 28, was well able legality and FAA regulation. and meaningful ways, and we are marriage, my daughter announced Columbia College Today has adopted a new style for indicating run. The race was covered by NBC Bernie told his friends about this received. I want to celebrate the art of aerial grateful for them.” that she was going to have a baby. Columbia degrees from schools other than the College. The Sports and I was a featured athlete incident years ago. But fun to see it “My wife, Nina, and I are fortu- cinematography.’” If you are reading this, it means Sonic inspection indicated that it below designations will be used throughout the magazine. in the televised show. I participate in the newspaper! nate to be able to travel frequently. Steve writes, “This story is that you are interested in what was going to be a girl, an observa- in the annual homecoming alumni Our annual Homecoming party, Most recently we traveled to Israel particularly poignant to me. I was your classmates are doing — and tion that proved correct. My wife BC Barnard College swim meet at Columbia every “A Moveable Feast,” was held at and then to Petra. Because I’ve been involved with motion pictures for they would like to hear from you, and I were of course anxious to see BUS Columbia Business School year. This event is a lot of fun and I the Brooklyn Heights home of Ar- invited to organize and chair a sym- many years, and I flew for years too. If you are traveling, if things our first grandchild and so left for CP Pharmaceutical Sciences encourage my former teammates to thur Radin and Miriam Katowitz. posium at the World Congress of as well. In one of my films, I took a are happening in your family, Israel in early September. Because DM College of Dental Medicine get into the pool and start training. Enjoying the party were Ernie Brod Nephrology in March in Capetown, short shot from an aircraft in flight please share news of your experi- I was so close, relative to being in GS School of General Studies When not training, I’m an infectious and his wife, Ruthie; Peter Cohn we plan to extend our stay in South (archive.org/details/Clear_201403). ences with your classmates. Our Chicago, I decided to spend Rosh GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Barry Dickman disease physician and a professor of and his wife, Joan; Africa and travel to Durban and to As a pilot, I consider drones flight reunion had more attendees than Hashanah with my eldest son, Preservation medicine at Brown.” and his wife, Carol; Joe Dorinson one of the game parks in Kruger hazards. expected, which perhaps reflects who lives in Abu Dhabi. It was GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Congratulations to another and his wife, Eileen; newcomers National Park. I have been invited “The development of high- that we are a class in more than the unlike any New Year that I had competitor, Jim Sternberg, who Harvey Feuerstein and his wife, to visit China in May for a lecture definition digital cameras has led formal sense. Rather, we are truly ever observed, but the observance JRN Graduate School of Journalism was a member of the U.S.A. team Audrey; Bernie Nussbaum and his tour. That will allow Nina to travel to ‘digital cinema,’ where films interested in one another. was done with care and respect for JTS Jewish Theological Seminary that won the silver medal at the wife, Nancy; Howard Orlin and with me and visit China for the first are made with not one frame of Since I have some space I will tradition. That it was done publicly LAW Columbia Law School Senior World Bridge Federation his wife, Anita; Shelly Raab and time. motion-picture film stock. follow my own advice. After all, in a conservative Arab state says a LS Library Service Championships held in Sanya, his wife, Judy; Sid Rosdeitcher and “Our family’s Columbia connec- “When I was active in filmmak- being a class correspondent is not lot about how little we understand NRS School of Nursing China, in October. his wife, Linda; Bob Waldbaum tion continues. I was privileged to ing, in addition to making films, a full-time job and I have a life about attitudes in the Middle East. PH Mailman School of Public Health Stan Goldsmith, another class- and his wife, Ruth; Mark Weiss attend both the College and P&S, I got involved in the engineering beyond CCT! In retrospect, 2014 While I was in Abu Dhabi my PS College of Physicians and Surgeons mate who hasn’t learned how to and his wife, Joan; Arnie Abrams and all three of our children are also of motion picture-related items (I seems to have been a year spent granddaughter was born and I am SCE School of Continuing Education retire, told Art Radin that he can’t ’61 and his wife, Phyllis; Michael graduates of the College; in sum am a life member of the Society of on those aluminum tubes with ap- happy to say that mother, daughter SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and attend the class lunches because Berlin ’59 and his wife, Nancy; and we are blessed with a quintuple Motion Picture and Television En- pendages known as airplanes. and father are all doing well. We Applied Science — even though he works nearby, Clara Londoner (widow of David Columbia legacy. Our eldest son, gineers). Recently, the FAA started A year and a half ago my spent a month with the happy at Weill-Cornell Medical College/ Londoner). David ’01, followed in my footsteps developing regulations for using daughter, who had been working in family before returning to the cold SIPA School of International and Public Affairs NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — The class lunch is held on the and is a nephrologist at Cornell drones in motion picture produc- New York at the Israeli Consulate, of Chicago. SOA School of the Arts “my schedule does not give me the second Wednesday of every month, Medical Center. Our daughter, tion, a step toward decreasing moved to Israel. Not surprisingly, a Thanksgiving was spent in Oak- SW School of Social Work opportunity to go off-campus for in the Grill Room of the Columbia Susanna ’03, recently received a potential incidents with manned man was involved in her decision land, requiring yet another flight, TC Teachers College lunch. I had thought that when I University Club of New York, 15 B.S.N. from Johns Hopkins and is aircraft. Yet the new equipment has and my wife and I were “invited” and included turkey and a Warriors UTS Union Theological Seminary stepped aside (not down) as direc- W. 43rd St. ($31 per person). It is as a nurse at the Ochsner Medical made obsolete my faithful tools: to go to meet the man and give our victory.

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES cause it ended rather early when My best wishes to all for a healthy, U.S. — fully see the benefits of lo- New York sun, we swapped says, “as a blend of Pretty Woman was duly inspected, works very weird enough.” chairs the center’s programs and [members of the Students for a happy and prosperous 2015. I look cating title to assets in trust-friend- stories, laughed and recalled when and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s well and is in its fifth heating sea- From Fairfax, Va., Jeffrey exhibits committee. Dan claims Democratic Society] shut down forward to being with you at the ly states like South Dakota, Alaska, we were last there. Our pride in the Nest.” He’s now marketing his film son. Also, I continue to be involved Milstein (jeffrey_milstein@msn. that his “hobbies are marriage (47 the College in the spring; I did 55th. Nevada and several others. The tax College grew as we mixed with the by showing it at festivals. “Kind with digital photography, mostly com) wishes our classmates who years), Morris dancing and English some work recording interviews savings alone can be significant. splendidly diverse and interesting of unusual, but very lucky so late nature, any proceeds from which are turning 75 this year, as he is, country dancing.” for the oral history project during He says he selected SDTC undergraduates in the stands. in life, finally to find what I really I use to support land trust and “a hearty congratulations and best Bernie Patten PS’66 reports that the shutdown. My professional Michael Hausig because it is the industry leader “Prior to the game we enjoyed a love to do. I am about to start on preservation organizations.” wishes! Three-quarters of a century his book, Truth, Knowledge, or Just life was as a newspaper reporter, 19418 Encino Summit and is the biggest, most innovative fine buffet, loud Columbia Univer- my next movie.” Anthony Valerio will be in is a real milestone. Enjoy each day Plain Bull: How to Tell the Difference, freelance writer and public rela- 61 San Antonio, TX 78259 trust firm in the U.S. that’s most sity Marching Band music and more Jane and Jim Spingarn (jimsp Rome for a couple of months this and carpe diem!” was translated into Chinese and tions professional. In the course [email protected] favorable for sheltering ownership time with friends. Among them [email protected]) live happily spring and asks that any classmates From South Carolina, Pete Ste- published in mainland China, of my freelancing, in addition to of assets. South Dakota has next were Stan Waldbaum and his wife, in Jupiter, Fla., in winters and Jim traveling nearby let him know at venson (pete@marinesurveysinc. where the book became a bestseller. writing many other things, I wrote After more than 40 years in the to the lowest taxes of any state (no Jewel, Gary Roxland, Burtt Ehrlich says they are “pleased our son, [email protected]. com) reports “lots of interesting If you log onto Amazon China, you six books about boating.” workforce, Michel Araten retired as income, estate or sales taxes) and ’61 and his wife, Fran, and Paul Robert ’89, BUS’94, and his family Writing from Houston, David things happened in my life. A two- will find more than 100 reviews In his newspaper career, John a managing director last year from offers “dynasty” (infinite duration) Neshamkin ’63. are nearby in Palm Beach Gardens. Cohen (davidcohen.robert@gmail. cent synopsis: Graduated, got mar- in Mandarin with an average star was a general assignment reporter JPMorgan Chase, where he focused trusts, privacy and the best asset “At halftime we walked higher Our daughter, Liz BC’92, and her com) gets the prize for the most ried, served in Vietnam, remained rating of 4.74. Neither Prometheus as well as an education, medical on credit risk, capital, portfolio protection laws. Clients do not up the stands to visit Tom Vasell family live in Rye, N.Y. I retired two succinct life summary: “Four in the Marine Corps Reserve until Books, the American publisher, nor and science writer. In the public management and regulatory is- need to live in South Dakota or and his wife, Kathy, Russ Warren months ago after nearly 53 years in grandchildren, one more on the retirement as a major. Two children the Chinese publisher can explain relations field he managed a cor- sues; he now consults for several even visit, though there are some and Walter “Buzz” Congram. the securities brokerage business way. I have decided to live until who have given me five grandchil- why more than 100,000 copies have requirements. He says that some Tom is happily retired. Russ is (not working too hard the last few they all graduate from college. At dren. Remarried in 1986, two more been sold this year except that the are now calling South Dakota still tending to injured New York years at Stifel Nicolaus). I’m trying least one from Columbia.” children and four grandchildren Chinese readers appear interested “Switzerland on the Prairie”! Giants football players. And Buzz to perfect my bridge skills and, of “For the first time in several for a total of nine. Worked in and in books that improve them and After more than 20 years in Japan, Norm Solberg ’61 Norm adds that the company has had a wonderful career as the course, golf. [At this writing] we years,” John Golembe (evjohn@ around the textile industry for 48 their thinking. That’s the good will move back to the United States to work for a knows how to structure foreign in- crew coach at Northeastern. He had plans to travel in February to golembe.com) insists, “my wife, years. Still consulting — techni- news. The not-so-good news, Bernie bound investments, which appeal looks terrific and was recently Antarctica, which will add to the Evelyn, and I have avoided the curse cal products, particularly civil adds, is that his health book, Health trust firm in South Dakota. to many non-U.S. persons — espe- inducted into the Northeastern exciting places we’ve been fortunate of ‘living in interesting times.’ We engineering. Started three busi- Is Wealth: Small Changes Reap Big cially those who want to put funds Hall of Fame. While all of us were enough to have seen.” spent a couple of pleasant months in nesses, two manufacturing, cur- Benefits, has sold only 23 copies, or invest in property in the U.S. but chatting, Bill Campbell TC’64 and Peter Kindlmann (peter.kindl Germany visiting family members, rently operating Marine Surveys most of which were purchased by porate press office, participated institutions. He also authors journal need the right vehicle. several other renowned Columbia [email protected]) is now fully enjoyed a range of proud-grandpar- in Easley, S.C., where I have lived his mother. Bernie wrote the book in training corporate executives articles, has recently edited a book Norm is excited about this alumni were on the field to present retired from teaching electrical en- ent events (graduations, concerts, since 1988. First great-grandchild as a public service to summarize the for television interviews, man- on credit risk, conducts profes- opportunity. He has much work re- awards to current outstanding gineering at Yale, which he did for theater performances, etc.) and did due in March while I will be in current scientific information on nu- aged the public relations services sional and university seminars, maining to be completed in Japan Columbia athletes.” more than 40 years. He writes, “I’ve some relaxing travel. Certainly a the Caribbean aboard a 42-ft. trition, exercise and longevity and for major businesses and wrote and speaks at conferences. During and China before relocating, but Dennis Wilder GSAS’63 (den always been an adjunct, probably high point was returning to New Catalina. Despite my advanced age to counter the vast and growing speeches for corporate executives. the last year his speaking engage- will be moving his family soon. [email protected]) stayed in a unique record at Yale, but appar- York City as tourists and enjoying a I recently pitched four innings in a body of myths and misinformation His lifelong love of sailing led him ments have included conferences in Gerry “Frenchy” Brodeur had New York for a year after gradu- ently not long enough to enable it lovely Greenwich Village evening softball game.” about good health. to write articles for the magazines Barcelona, Spain; Nice, France; and surgery on November 17 to remove ation to get a master’s in psychol- to realize what lots of other schools with Phi Ep fraternity brother Paul Gerald Sorin GSAS’69 (gerald. On August 9, the Catholic War Yachting and SAIL, in addition to Scottsdale, Ariz. He is active with his right kidney. An MRI, looking ogy and then moved to UCLA for know: craftsmanship and scholar- Wachtel ’61 and his wife, Ellen. The [email protected]), who lives in Veterans of the U.S.A. elected his boating books. He and his wife, Westchester Jewish Community for something else, disclosed a large a Ph.D. Since then he’s lived in Los ship need to be linked in engineer- four decades since we’d last been New Paltz, N.Y., published five Thomas Moran BUS’71 (thomashe Susan, finished a cruising sailboat, Services, the largest non-sectarian growth on the organ and the only Angeles, “although somehow,” ing. With a consulting practice together vanished magically over essays this past year, four in the [email protected]) its national Sea Sparrow, from a bare hull and social service agency in Westchester, option was to remove the kidney he says, “New York will always parallel to my teaching, I taught the several hours of wonderful conver- Israeli newspaper Haaretz (English treasurer. This election makes him sailed to Maine, Bermuda and Cen- and participates in organization along with the growth. The surgery be home (I’m from the Bronx).” way an architect might — from an sation. In retirement I’ve become a edition). These included reviews of treasurer of three organizations. The tral and South America, covering assessments for United Jewish went well and he was released from He married a wonderful woman applied point of view. Between 1999 nostalgic reunion aficionado, and I the novels Suddenly, Love by Aharon other two are the Catholic Veterans more than 25,000 miles. Appeal. the hospital approximately a week (then a girl of 20) from Westches- and 2004 I was director of Yale’s look forward to whatever the Class Appelfeld and Panic in a Suitcase of Nevada Charity Foundation and “More recently,” John continues, Michel can be found at his home later. ter, N.Y. They have lived happily undergraduate studies in electrical of ’62 has in store for 2017. Which, by Yelena Akhtiorskaya; the latter Our Lady of Peace Post 1947 of the “I have written a seventh, more se- in Westchester, his apartment in Jack Kirik spoke with Frenchy together for 48 years and have a engineering. by the way, will also be the 100th was one of The New York Times “100 Catholic War Veterans. Upon retir- rious book — a book stimulated by New York City (so that he can attend as he was on his way home from son and a daughter, ages 38 and 42, “My separation from Yale ini- anniversary of my father’s gradua- Notable Books of 2014.” For more ing from the U.S. Treasury in June the extreme political partisanship some of the monthly Columbia the hospital. He was in good spirits respectively, and two grandchil- tially made me feel rather gloomy tion from Columbia College (Harry on Gerry’s publications see amazon. 2005, Thomas moved to Las Vegas that is simultaneously dividing our lunches) or his vacation house in and is confident that his doctors dren, all of whom live in Southern but after a while it was made easier Golembe (Class of 1917, Class of com/author/geraldsorin. to be near most of his six children. country and paralyzing our politi- Stephentown, N.Y., in the Berkshires. got it all. California. by a clearer look at what I’d left 1919 PS)).” A SUNY distinguished professor His wife of 41 years passed away on cal processes. Uncommon Sense: A He and his wife, Abby, love having Best wishes to Frenchy from the Dennis “enjoys boating and behind. Most of all I miss interact- Crawford Kilian writes from emeritus of American and Jewish November 22, 2012. Though belated View from the Middle addresses a their sons, David and Jeff, and their class for a speedy recovery. tennis, which one can do all year ing with good students.” Vancouver that in September, he studies, Gerry was urged, 14 years in doing so, we send him our deep- number of critical issues facing our wives and five daughters — their Keep the news coming in 2015. out here. Another love has been Looking back on his Columbia and his wife revisited Scandina- after retiring from classroom teach- est condolences. country, not the least of which are granddaughters! — up for skiing You can write me at either address playing the clarinet in a klezmer education, Peter feels that his via. They spent several days in ing, to teach a seminar on American the increasing role that corporate and summer fun. The oldest will be at the top of the column or via the band, which I did for many years. decision to major in physics was Helsinki, where Crawford sat in on culture for its Honors Program. America is playing in our political applying to college next year. CCT webform college.columbia. I love traveling by cruise ship and “particularly apt as a precursor to a couple of Finnish classrooms. He “I couldn’t refuse a ‘command Paul Neshamkin process and the increasing concen- After working in Japan for more edu/cct/submit_class_note. have circumnavigated the world, my work in engineering. Physics is writes, “All the teachers and pupils performance,’” he said. He also is 63 1015 Washington St., tration of wealth in the hands of a than 20 years, Norm Solberg plans as well as South America, among a reassuring source of fundamen- knew just what they were doing director of the Louis and Mildred Apt. 50 small percentage of our population to relocate back to the United my many voyages.” tals in the ever protean landscape and seemed to be enjoying them- Resnick Institute for the Study of Hoboken, NJ 07030 along with the concurrent shrink- States for his young son’s educa- John Freidin Although a licensed psycholo- of engineering.” He says the best selves. A Helsinki bookstore also Modern Jewish Life and a volunteer [email protected] age of the middle class. Essentially, tion. He explains that, after review- 62 654 E. Munger St. gist, Dennis never entered private course he ever took was Moses impressed me with its broad range instructor in the Lifetime Learning this book is my effort to get people ing how best to fill a need without Middlebury, VT 05753 practice and has been in business Hadas’ “Ancient Greek Drama,” a of Finnish magazines and books, Institute at New Paltz. In November, Phil Satow was thinking about pragmatic ways to starting over as a lawyer from [email protected] for most of his career. Since 1980 vividly remembered capstone to his all ruinously expensive. Then [we Dan Stone (d.stone@uwinnipeg. awarded the Alexander Hamilton deal with these and other serious scratch, he found a great solution he has been president of Califor- Columbia liberal arts experience. took] a hop across the Baltic to ca) retired as professor of history Medal, Columbia College’s highest problems faced by our country and signed up with South Dakota Ed Pressman reports on Home- nia Care Centers and a few other Peter and his wife, Marcia, cele- Sweden, where I visited friends at at the University of Winnipeg award. Many of his friends in the rather than relying on liberal or Trust Company (SDTC) in Sioux coming: “On October 25, Paul businesses, most of which have ­brated their 50th wedding anniver- the European Center for Disease (Canada) in 2007 and was prompt- Class of 1963 joined him at the Al- conservative ideology. If you go to Falls, S.D. This will “repot” his law Alter, John Freidin and Kathryn provided housing and treatment sary this year. Marcia has been a Control and dined on reindeer ly appointed professor emeritus. exander Hamilton Award Dinner the website un-common-sense.net, practice (he does cross-border wills Thompson, Burt Lehman and his services to adults with mental ill- practicing potter (functional items stew in Stockholm’s Old Town — His publications since retirement to salute his achievement. In atten- you can get a comprehensive sense and trusts work) and means he can wife, Brenda, Ed Pressman and ness or developmental disabilities. in stoneware and porcelain) for perhaps the most attractive tourist include “Cepelia and Folk Arts dance were Steve Barcan; Henry of what the book is about.” offer more to clients. Marcia Gellert, Stuart Rosen- For the last 15 years Dennis has more than 30 years. Her studio is trap in the world. Otherwise, I en- Industries in Poland, 1949–1956,” Black; Jerry Dwyer; Bob Kraft; Since 2003 John has borne a Norm says that, as the result of bluth and Lorrie Gerson, and Peter written screenplays as a hobby in their house. joy writing articles for Vancouver’s The Polish Review (2009) and Mov- Harvey Schneier and his wife, singular complication with which pressure on offshore tax havens, he Yatrakis and his wife, Kathryn (“like everyone else in L.A.,” he Peter adds, “An example of my online magazine The Tyee (thetyee. ing South: The Other Jewish Winnipeg Barrie Mandel; George Violin and he has had to contend on a regular has witnessed a major, largely un- (dean of academic affairs for the says). A year ago he began a new personal explorations are under- ca) and covering the politics of Before the Second World War (2014). his wife, Joan; Bob Krane’s widow, basis, and he has done so with acknowledged change in the best College) assembled in front of The career, producing full-length taking at 71 the replacement of our public health. The West African Dan is doing research on the Polish Diane (Bambi); Barry Reiss; Doron wisdom and tolerance. This is destinations for private capital. For Campbell Sports Center and then features from scripts he’s written. oil furnace and all its plumbing — Ebola outbreak has dominated my art treasures evacuated to Canada Gopstein; Robert Heller; Lee explained on the home page of the several reasons, the United States went to the football stadium to Recently he completed his first entirely by myself. That included blogging since last summer. I think during WWII. He was president Lowenfish; and Larry Neuman. I book’s website. Take a look. It will is now the place to be. Surprisingly watch Columbia play Dartmouth. film, Beauty in the Broken, a roman- moving the 450-pound boilers! I about writing more science fiction of the Jewish Heritage Centre of was also there, and Don Margolis cause you to smile. few people, however — even in the Under an azure sky and warm tic comedy that’s best described, he really enjoyed it. The new system novels but the present century is Western Canada (2010–13) and planned to come but had to cancel

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES at the last minute. Dorset, Vt., and the rest of the year New Yorkers rarely think of Puerto Norman Olch years I have published 19 scholarly special privileges; at least two of our address that appeared in the last Western World, about going back to Congratulations again, Phil! in Scottsdale, Ariz. He writes that he Rico when we want to go to the 64 233 Broadway books and more than 160 peer- events will take place in Columbia’s column. It is [email protected]. the College to reread the CC and Phil Averbuch writes, “My “would love to work part-time but warm; it’s usually Barbados, St. New York, NY 10279 reviewed scholarly articles. I am great venues, including a class lun- Fred Collignon (fcollig@berke Humanities canon (see “Columbia grandson, Matthew ’19, has been malpractice premiums for mam- Croix, Jamaica and so on. But it’s [email protected] completing my 43rd year of teach- cheon on Saturday at Casa Italiana ley.edu) reports, “I stopped teach- Forum” in the Spring 2013 CCT). notified of his early acceptance to mography are prohibitive. My wife, so nice to head there — no cus- ing political science at Tennessee and a class reception and dinner, ing courses last year, four years After word of David’s transition the College. For those of us who Cindy, is a successful artist.” toms, U.S. dollars and, two blocks I am writing these Class Notes in Tech in Cookeville, Tenn.” and a Sunday brunch and farewell, after my promotion to professor went out, The New Yorker’s distin- have had a child or grandchild go Art Eisenson reports, “After a behind the beautiful hotels on the January. If you missed my winter Jeff Newman’s son, David, was in Low Library. Mike Cook has emeritus, Department of City and guished theater critic, John Lahr, to Columbia, I don’t have to tell you string of inevitable coincidences, I beach, you can find Walgreens, column, and at the risk of being the subject of a PBS NewsHour generously arranged for space at Regional Planning, at Berkeley. But tweeted the following: “Farewell just how exciting this event is. To became a co-owner of Metan Wen CVS Pharmacy, McDonald’s and redundant, I wish you and your profile on a website David created his law firm to be provided to our I now have a new unpaid career David Denby, a masterly film critic all others, I hope you in some way Zhi Ku, a business selling the skills The Home Depot.” loved ones a 2015 of good health, to help doctors use big data to find class on Thursday for a welcome as governor nominee for Rotary and cohort, after a distinguished 16- get to share in the joy. Matthew is a and narratives of older American Paul Reale GSAS’67 recently had happiness and prosperity. and share information about ill- reception, and two anonymous and District 5160 in northern California. year ride at The New Yorker. Power senior at Pine Crest School in Fort writers to the TV and feature an album of his music, Seven Deadly Barry Shapiro writes from nesses and treatment effectiveness. generous classmates are subsidizing I get to work with and travel to 72 to your pen!” Lauderdale, Fla. My wife, Judy, and industries of the BRIC countries Sins, released by Naxos. From his Washington, D.C., that he had a David heads up the emergency a class reception on Friday night at Rotary clubs, 10 Rotaract (mostly Jan DeVries (devries@berkeley. I live in Coral Springs, and I practice [Brazil, Russia, India and China], in album notes: “He holds degrees great time at our 50th reunion last room at Mount Sinai Hospital in the Metropolitan Club, a historic campus) clubs and 56 high school edu) writes, “I do enjoy reading orthopedic surgery. I know I’ll get it partnership with Metan Develop- from Columbia and the University spring, “and that I’m enjoying my Manhattan. (I had watched the private club at 1 E. 60th St., near Interact clubs for the next three about my classmates in CCT, so right eventually.” ment Group, which is mainly in of Pennsylvania, where he studied post-retirement career as a labor ar- broadcast without realizing David Fifth Avenue. years, trying to give inspirational here is a bit of news about me: Gerald Berkowitz shares, “Since China. One can be in a business with George Rochberg and George bitrator (for the benefit of our math is Jeff’s son.) You can see the profile We are also arranging two class- speeches, unite clubs in collabora- I retired from my position at last I wrote, about a decade ago, like this from any place with Inter- Crumb. Between 1969 and 2004 he major classmates, this means I’m at pbs.org/newshour/bb/one- specific panel discussions manned tion on service projects locally and Berkeley this past summer — or as my retirement continues to be the net access, so my wife, Sara, and I was professor of music at UCLA, just like Judge Judy for employer- doctor-prescribing-data-improve- from our class’ deep pool of talent. internationally, and raising money we academics more delicately put best years of my life. To recap: grad left Los Angeles for Albuquerque, and was awarded the Luckman union disputes — but without the healthcare. As of this writing, we’ve scheduled and volunteers. My member-con- it, I became an emeritus. I don’t school, M.A., Ph.D., 30-odd years N.M. Hundred-mile views from Distinguished Teaching Award in robes or attitude).” A few days later, Jeff, the execu- an economics panel on Friday stituency across this district is only feel fully retired yet, as I spent last as an English professor, mainly in the house and yard, great sunsets, 1995. Reale is the recipient of six Gene Meyer writes, also from tive director of the National Child afternoon featuring Jeff Bell, lately 7,500 — about half my old council term as a visiting fellow at Oxford, the Midwest. The usual publish- good Italian food and affable awards from the National Endow- the D.C. area, “I’m pleased to Labor Committee, had a letter the Republican candidate for U.S. district’s size in Berkeley. trying to finish several projects, or-perish bumps along with some people. It’s a good place to write.” ment for the Arts, and the Beeler report that my book Chesapeake published in The New York Times Senate from New Jersey; Barry “The work seems mostly to draw and am back teaching at Berkeley journalism and a few books, a Len Lippman sends his best Memorial Composition Prize for Country - Second Edition has been commenting on a Times editorial Herman, a career UN economics on whatever skills were developed for the spring semester. Despite couple of which are actually good. to his classmates and writes, “I wind ensemble composition.” published. This is essentially a 25th that called for a ban on child labor all this, I am trying to pause to I loved teaching and reveled in the graduated from NYC School of You can learn more and preview anniversary edition of the book in tobacco fields. “I have to keep smell the roses. My wife, Jeannie, fact that I was being paid (if not Medicine in ’67. I retired last De- the album’s tracks at classicsonline. first published in 1990, which sold up with my son,” he says. and I bought a vacation home on much) to do what I would rather cember from active practice after com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid more than 32,000 copies. What I had lunch at the Columbia David Denby ’65, JRN’66 is leaving his role as California’s north coast, where we do than anything else. And then I being part of an ob/gyn group =2068214. distinguishes this second edition is University Club of New York with film reviewer for The New Yorker to be a staff hope to spend more time watch- found myself getting bored — not in Hartford, Conn., for 40 years. I The Society for Neuroscience a 3,000-plus-word new introduction Gary Schonwald LAW’67, who ing surf crash on the rocks and burned out, just bored — around now enjoy ‘owning my time,’ trav- presented its 2014 Award for (‘Chesapeake Country Revisited,’ divides his time practicing law writer contributing longer, critic-at-large pieces. whales spout in the distance. Can’t the same time that my university eling and spending time with my Education in Neuroscience to in which I write a lot about climate between New York and London. complain.” began pointedly reminding me seven grandchildren, who range Richard Olivo; he shares it with change and its effects on the bay), a Ivan Weissman and Howard Elliot Dorff GSAS’71 (elliot.dorff that one benefit of a low-paying job from 3 to 17. My wife, Arlene, and Eve Marder of Brandeis. Richard different format (square instead of Jacobson, together with Doron professional who is working on in the political part of my life and @sbcglobal.net) shared this: “CCT with a good pension plan was that I celebrated our 50th wedding an- writes, “For some reason, the rectangular) and updated captions, Gopstein ’63 and Lee Lowenfish ’63, international development-related in the years hustling alumni and just came today, and it reminded they’d pay me almost as much to go niversary on December 20. We live society was slow to support the index and recommended reading form a battle-scarred core of regu- issues, international financial regu- donors for money and student me of your request to share news. away as to stay. So I took very early in the greater Hartford area but teaching that its own members do, list. It is a coffee table book, with lars at Columbia basketball games. latory and policy reform, foreign help as a department chair/dean. I am among those who have been retirement in 1999 and moved to spend lots of time in the city.” and I’m pleased to report that my photos by Lucian Niemeyer, who Remember your reunion pledge aid and aid-effectiveness policies, Getting Rotarians to move in a com- reticent to write because it will England with not much more than Jack McMullen writes, “This efforts have changed that. Starting initiated the project in the late 1980s. to send me information for Class micro-financial services for the mon direction is a bit like herding sound like bragging. At the same the luggage the airline let me take past July, two friends and I walked in 2005, I organized a series of “Other than gearing up to pro- Notes. Either of my listed ad- poor, and reform of global econom- cats — too many CEO-personality time, you asked for information, so on the plane and a checkbook. the Camino de Santiago — the annual teaching workshops for the mote the book, I continue to edit dresses work, or there’s always the ic governance; and Steve Merrill, types. But it’s fun creating honest here goes. “I settled in central London and, medieval pilgrimage path that dates society’s national meeting, and in the quarterly B’nai B’rith Magazine. option of submitting news via the executive director of the National ‘do-good’ persuasion that works “After college I completed rabbin- building on contacts I had made back to, I think, the time of Char- 2010 I wrote a grant to the National Our winter cover story was ‘Israeli CCT webform college.columbia. Academies’ Board on Science, regardless of ideology and political ical school at the Jewish Theological through the years, began a second lemagne. Having only two weeks, Science Foundation for the society Hospitals Transcend Borders,’ edu/cct/submit_class_note. I look Technology, and Economic Policy. party. It’s a great way to stay intel- Seminary of America and a Ph.D. at career as a theater critic, for the we did the final 135 miles of the to develop a web portal to list and about Israelis treating sick Palestin- forward to hearing from you. At our class lunch on Saturday we lectually active, make lots of friends, Columbia in philosophy. Since then I website theatreguide.london and Camino but that was twice what we review resources for higher educa- ians and Syrians. I also continue will have a panel of distinguished find excuses to travel abroad and have taught at the American Jewish for the industry newspaper The needed to qualify for a certificate tion. Serving as project director for to write for The New York Times psychiatrists discussing psychiatric to mix with the natives (on service University in Los Angeles full time REUNION WEEKEND Stage. I’m at the theater an average of completion at the Cathedral in three years with a superb board and for Bethesda Magazine, where and psychological issues relevant projects) and in general to continue and I have been a visiting professor MAY 28–31 of four nights a week, write my re- Santiago at the end of the walk.” of editors was productive and I am a contributing editor. I have to people our age. This panel will trying to save the world. My chal- at UCLA School of Law every other ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS views the next morning and spend Look at our website, cc63ers.com, pleasing, and I am glad to have our one son still in college (at Clark), include Alan Green, chairman lenge will be trying to create a new year since 1974, teaching a course on ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott the rest of my days doing as little for a picture of Jack and friends. efforts recognized in this award. another living and working in of the Dartmouth Department of career that’s this satisfying when Jewish law. I have served on three [email protected] as possible, as slowly as possible.” Peter Broido writes, “After “I still teach at Smith, where Brooklyn, and my oldest is doing Psychology. my commitment ends in 2020. presidential advisory commissions 212-851-9148 Ira Malter spends the summer in moving to the Midwest in 1963 for I enjoy meeting a new group of computer work and playing bass Reunion planning is being “At home, Joan and I have our — on health care (Hillary Clinton’s DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan medical school — Washington Uni- students every spring in my neuro- in a Brazilian jazz band in Durham, handled by our Reunion Commit- 45th anniversary April 11, and we effort), on responsible sexual behav- [email protected] versity, St. Louis — and then on to physiology lecture and lab course, N.C. My wife, Sandy, makes my tee, co-chaired by Larry Guido and expect our grandchildren to be up ior, and on reviewing and revising 212-851-7833 Chicago for residency and practice but I’m no longer splitting the year life possible.” Jay Woodworth. At this writing, to five in number by December.” the federal guidelines on research on Submit Your Photo in general surgery, [my family is] with Harvard. For a dozen years Michael Gunter SIPA’66 writes, Leonard B. Pack those involved in the planning David Denby JRN’66 (david_ human subjects. I am now a member moving east in the spring. [My I spent the fall semesters as an “As a Kurdish studies scholar, I 924 West End Ave. are Mike Bush, Mike Cook, Bob [email protected]) made the of the Smithsonian Institution Na- Submitting a photo for wife and I] have a daughter in associate director of the Derek Bok was invited to give the graduation 65 New York, NY 10025 Donohue, Peter Fudge, Stephen news on December 15 with the tional Museum of Natural History’s Class Notes is easy! Baltimore with two children, a boy Center for Teaching and Learning, address at Soran University in [email protected] Hoffman, Bob Kronley, Barry announcement that he would be broader social impacts committee and a girl, and a son in Arlington, but I took a buyout when Harvard the Kurdish region of Iraq. More Levine, Ed Malmstrom, Mike transitioning out of his regular re- and the state of California’s com- ONLINE by clicking Va., with two boys. We plan to put College had its severe financial than 700 were in attendance and This is the last Class Notes column Newell, Leonard Pack, Archie viewing of films for The New Yorker mittee to set guidelines on stem cell “Contact Us” at our condo up for sale in March crunch in 2009.” my speech ‘The Prerequisites of you will see before our 50th Roberts, Mike Schlanger, Steve in early 2015 to be a staff writer with research within the state. college.columbia.edu/cct. and move after it sells. The net Remember, our regular class Successful Kurdish Independence’ reunion, which will take place as Steinig and Brian Wangsgard. a broader focus, including contrib- “I am a past president of four MAIL by sending the result: I will make it to more of the lunches at the Columbia University was broadcast live throughout the part of Alumni Reunion Weekend, Additional information is uting longer, critic-at-large pieces. scholarly organizations — the photo and accompanying Columbia class lunches and get Club of New York are a great place virtually independent Kurdish Thursday, May 28–Sunday, May available at college.columbia.edu/ David joined the magazine full-time Academy of Jewish Philosophy, the the opportunity to see victorious to reconnect. If you’re in NYC, try region. Based on my interviews 31. The College will provide a host alumni/events/alumni-reunion- in 1998 as a staff writer and film Jewish Law Association, the Society caption information to Columbia football games.” to make one of the next lunches, while in the Kurdish region and of activities for all classes, notably weekend, and you can also see the critic. His “The Ten Best Movies of of Jewish Ethics and the Academy Class Notes Editor, That’s the spirit, Peter! scheduled for March 12, April 9 and the research I did for my recently Dean’s Day on Saturday, which preview in this issue of CCT. Hope 2014” appeared on newyorker.com for Judaic, Christian and Islamic Columbia College Today, Barry Reiss writes, “Forty-nine May 14 — it’s always the second published book, Out of Nowhere: offers the chance to relive the intel- to see many of you at this singular on December 13. His first article for Studies — and I am also a past presi- Columbia Alumni Center, years ago my beautiful wife, Bren- Thursday. Check cc63ers.com for The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War, lectual excitement of our classroom event in our lives! the magazine, “Does Homer have dent of Jewish Family Service for Los 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, da, and I honeymooned in Puerto details. I published ‘How Formidable Is experiences through lectures by In the meantime, information Legs?,” published in 1993, grew into Angeles. I serve on the board of the 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. Rico. [As I write] we are heading In the meantime, let us know ISIS’ on the website of the presti- alumni as well as some of Colum- continues to come in from class- a book, Great Books: My Adventure Jewish Federation Council of Greater back tomorrow to revisit this island what you are up to, how you’re gious Middle East Policy Council bia’s finest professors. As the 50th mates. with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Los Angeles and I chair the Conser- with all its lovely memories. We doing and what’s next. in Washington, D.C. 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Jewish Law and Standards. I am also cent of any real estate commissions if all goes well, I plan to attend [our] been doing great things as a Seattle category of Best Fantasy for my and natural history museum that is few hours to admire ‘wall hangings’ Great Courses, a lifelong learning co-chair of the Priest-Rabbi Dialogue earned that originate from any reunion with my wife, Betty. Seahawk, including scoring the narration of Alex Bledsoe’s Wisp of modern and worth a visit. of North America’s great animals program, many of which have sponsored by the Board of Rabbis of source in the Columbia network.” “I reside in Genoa, Nev. (just only TD of the game against the a Thing: A Novel of the Tufa, a year’s “Traveling to northeast Wyo- that he happened to shoot over Core Curriculum books as part of Southern California and the Arch- So if any classmate (or any other east of South Lake Tahoe). My Arizona Cardinals in November. best science fiction kudo from ming, we saw Devils Tower, the the years. This big-game hunter their syllabi. diocese of Los Angeles. I have writ- Columbia-affiliated person who is spouse and I are retired and enjoy- Best wishes to him for a successful AudioFile magazine for Robert extraterrestrial landing spot in certainly loves the great outdoors; “May I recommend a book that I ten more than 200 published articles reading this column) refers a listing ing it. We have two grown children and healthy career. Silverberg’s Nightwings, also read Close Encounters of the Third Kind (a he may be a Lion of a hunter, but he just purchased, Columbia University and 12 books on Jewish thought, law or a buyer to Paul, the College will and expect a third grandchild Roger Low sent a photo of by me, and finally the top science special moment for me in the film has the heart of a kitty-cat. in Pictures? and ethics (some of them prize win- be the beneficiary. Paul has added shortly. We have led an interest- himself holding a rather magnificent fiction prize of them all, the Hugo, industry, too long to get into here). “From Little Rock we drove to “I also recently got a set of ners) and I have edited or co-edited that, on any deals that come to ing and eventful life together. We snake at the ninth birthday party awarded to me at the World Sci- We also stopped at Sturgis, S.D. — Wichita, Kans., and can only report Wedgwood plates made in 1932 another 13 books. pass, the contribution would be on travel often and enjoy hospitality of his elder grandson. His younger ence Fiction Convention in London motorcycle rally heaven — and the that Applebee’s is apparently the that have 12 scenes of Columbia. “Much more important than behalf of the Columbia person who from our many friends.” grandson turned 1 after Christmas, for my editorial and podcast work next day went to Mt. Rushmore and best restaurant there. Look for them on eBay. They are all of that, though, is that my wife, referred the business to Paul. Dean Mottard writes that he and his granddaughter turned 7 in with Lightspeed magazine.” eastward through the Badlands NP, “The next day, we drove almost usually on sale. My set, said the Marlynn BC’66, and I have four Paul offers this explanatory biog- and Eugene Thompson enjoyed January. Roger’s wife of 47 years, Bob Klingensmith and his wife, then on to Sioux Falls, S.D., for the 600 miles to Denver to be a guest at seller, were used at SIPA by its wonderful children and eight unbe- raphy: “I entered Columbia in fall the Steve Franke Memorial Bench Helen W. Bryan BC’67, accompanies Nancy, took a “bucket list trip” in night. From there, we skipped to a Beta Theta Pi fraternity reunion. dean and were used by many for- lievable grandchildren, all of whom 1961, a graduate of Stuyvesant H.S. ceremony at Homecoming. Dean him in the photo. She is the author of August and September, visiting 25 Kohler, Wis., and played the four The brethren of this frat have been eign dignitaries in the 1950s. (They make sure that I am not overly and the son of a widow. My finan- writes, “Steve’s immediate family War Brides and The Sisterhood. states in 60 days and traveling more great golf courses at the famous having mini-reunions for at least 15 don’t show it much.)” impressed with what I have done! cial aid package was $1,550 ($1,100 was there and it was great to see Neill Brownstein writes, “En- than 10,000 miles. He writes, “We American Club Resort (Whistling years, with brothers taking turns as Charles Siegel wrote from “I still love teaching, so I am not for tuition and $450 for residence at [his widow] Diane again and to joying a rolling celebration of No. both turned 70 on November 1 (yes, Straits, Blackwolf Run, etc.). hosts on their respective home turfs; California. He says, “Last year was yet planning to retire. Marlynn and New Hall, no loans). I worked part- meet his sons and brother. Gino 70 with family and friends starting the same birthday) and decided [to “Next, we went to Chicago to several members from the graduat- an interesting one for me. I got an I traveled extensively years ago time jobs to pay for food. I have and I stayed with Ed Malmstrom in Palo Alto, Calif., then to Park mark the occasion with] a massive visit with Nancy’s sister and her ing classes of 1964 through 1968 initiative on the city of Berkeley’s when the children left for college, always felt a sense of indebtedness ’65 and his wife, poor Julie, that City, Utah, and then to Disneyland. trip around the United States to see husband, both retired professors always attend. This time the host ballot advising the city and state to and I cannot think of anything I for the opportunity that aid package Friday night. (On Monday, Ed and Add on the San Francisco Giants dozens of national parks (NPs) as of history from Denison, followed was Mike Moore ’65 and his wife, pass a ‘right-to-request’ law, which would rather do now than interact 2014 World Series — life could not well as relatives and high school by a stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., Betsey, who together organized a makes it easier for people to choose with students 50 (oh my!) years be better. [My wife and I] right- and college classmates, but this to visit Spencer Falcon (retired great weekend. Their son, Dennis, is part-time work or other flexible younger than I am. They keep me sized from our very large Palo Alto column will focus on Columbians. doctor of psychology and hospital VP of sales for the Denver Broncos working arrangements. I wrote the young in spirit, even if I cannot do Bob Klingensmith ’66 toured 25 states in 60 days home of four decades to a condo “We began by heading north administrator) and Earl Werner and set up a tour of the Broncos’ text of the initiative and created a most of the things that they easily during an American road trip, visiting friends in Menlo Park for the next two from Thousand Oaks, Calif., to (recently retired as a noted profes- stadium for one morning; Betsey website with information about it. I do with their electronic devices. decades. Go SF Giants!” Portland, Ore., to visit our son, Jed sor of marine biology at Michigan). set up an afternoon tour of the Dale found that I was very slow at gath- “Warm congratulations to Jim including Stuart Hankins ’66, Spencer Falcon ’66, Randall Bourscheidt writes, “I (38). We’ve done this often but this Spencer and Earl are also fellow Chihuly ‘Garden and Glass’ special ering signatures, so I had to hire Murdaugh on his wedding. Jim recently established the Archive of time it teed us up for a journey to footballers, rugby players and AXP exhibit at the Denver Botanic paid signature gatherers. This was and I were in the same CC class, Earl Werner ’66 and Mike Moore ’65 along the way. New York City Cultural Policy at several parts of the northwestern frat mates. We kicked things off by Gardens. We also had dinner at the an experience in itself, since most and I distinctly remember many of the New York Public Library. It in- United States that we’d never watching Animal House and quickly Moore residence on Friday night, of the people who work gathering us objecting strongly to Augustine’s cludes records of the city’s extraor- seen. After a few days with Jed (a identified and related to our respec- dinner at the Denver Chophouse signatures are somewhere near thought, at which point he shouted provided. Having my own small Julie high-tailed it to their place dinary history of working in part- chef) and several great Portland tive ‘impersonators,’ then talked for on Saturday night and a Sunday the edge of homelessness, and the out, ‘He’s not that bad!’ I don’t real estate company offers several in Florida. Guess they were afraid nership with cultural groups that restaurants, we visited both Mt. St. hours about the pranks we pulled brunch before departing. person who managed them tended know if Jim still thinks that way benefits: In this case, a chance to we’d come back!) Thanks to all have become among the greatest in Helens and Mt. Rainier, followed at Chi Rho before it was thrown off “Friends and wives in atten- to arrive an hour late, leaving me but I still have major problems with contribute to the Columbia College involved in making this happen. the world — like the Metropolitan by the Washington state wine campus (just like in the movie). We dance included Bill Mitchell ’64 with lots of time to interact with Augustine.” Fund and a chance to rekindle my “The ‘bad’ news is that Leo Museum of Art, the American Mu- regions of the Yakima and Walla spent the next day canoeing down and Sandy; John Dudgeon ’66 and the signature gatherers. Ed Goodgold ([email protected]) photography career, this time as an Vozel ’65 only looks about 50. He seum of Natural History, the Brook- Walla Valleys. From there, we the Huron River and the third Jeanne; Dave Filipek ’65 and Bev; “I received endorsements from makes a brief appearance around 21 artist, with my firm as a would-be wouldn’t tell me what he’s been lyn Museum and (more recently) went to Riggins, Idaho, for white- day going to Michigan’s opening Jim Boosales ’65 and Bonnie; Bob groups such as the Sierra Club, the minutes into the Showtime docu- patron.” drinking to stay so young.” the Studio Museum in Harlem. The water river rafting on the Salmon football game. It was interesting to Donohue ’65 and Mairead; and Berkeley Democratic Club and the mentary on the prog rock group Derek Wittner (derek.wittner@ Also there were Tom Chorba; archive includes filmed oral history River in Hell’s Canyon. We then watch a college football game in Gene Chwerchak GS’67 and Sherry. Green Party, and from Berkeley’s Genesis, Genesis – Sum of the Parts. gmail.com) reports, “Just a note that Bob Klingensmith; myself; Bill interviews with individuals who’ve drove to Glacier NP in Montana front of 109,600 fans, about 10 times We also said ‘goodbye’ to brother mayor and seven of our eight See if you can catch it, and Ed, on all went as planned — my wife, Campbell ’62, TC’64; Ed Malm- played key roles in developing this and viewed its great peaks and the number that usually show up at Ron Brookshire, who passed away council members. My argument demand. I enjoyed it! Kathryn, retired from her position strom ’65; Lee Black ’62; Joe Mat- policy, an element inspired by my dwindling glaciers, which now Wien Stadium for Homecoming. about a month before this gathering in favor of the measure was in Gad Heuman (g.j.heuman@ as senior associate dean of students thews; Rich Coppo ’69; Jack White history professor, James Shenton seem to be on the global warm- “Spencer and Earl both are from that he had so looked forward to the ballot pamphlet mailed out to warwick.ac.uk) writes, “Thinking at Columbia and I as VP of alumni SEAS’68; Harvey Rubin SEAS’65; [’49, GSAS’54], who told his classes ing endangered list. Before going Western Pennsylvania and were attending. He was the captain of voters, but no one submitted an ar- about a recent batch of Class Notes, affairs and development at Cooper Buzz Congram ’62; Tom O’Connor how the very idea of oral history there, we learned that Bill Mitchell recruited to go to Columbia by my our ’65 football team and was loved gument against. In November, the I can report an advantage that aca- Union on June 30. In August we ’63; Al Butts ’64; and Ed Little ’62. was developed at Columbia. This ’64 (fellow footballer, rugby player father, Floyd Klingensmith ’38, by all. We’ll all miss his great smile, measure passed with more than 78 demics do have: Retirement means moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, Robert Eric Meyerson: “I missed archive builds on my career in and frat friend) and his wife, president of the Western Pennsyl- hearty laugh and huge hugs. percent of the vote. Because it was little change. I retired as a professor where we bought a home last year you all at my Live Wake on August cultural policy, from the Cultural Sandy, were visiting offspring vania Alumni Club for 17 years. “We traveled throughout the an advisory measure, I still have to emeritus from university teaching and had summered for 10 years. We 9, in celebration of my 70th birthday Affairs Department of the City of in Whitefish, Mont., so we spent Kudos to my dad for recruiting Southwest for another 10 days but try to get the city and state to actu- in Britain three years ago but have are happy to be here after sorting (the invitation read, ‘pay your New York to the Alliance for the a half-day with them and got a dozens of athletes, including dear didn’t see any more Columbians. ally pass right-to-request laws. continued doing many of the same through all one must do after 20 respects now and you can skip his Arts, this city’s leading advocacy tour of one of the most charming friend and mentor Bill Campbell We look forward to seeing many “Early in the year I published a challenging things: writing, editing years in our home in New York. We dreary funeral’). Well, maybe not and research organization.” towns of Wild West lore. ’62, TC’64, captain of our only Ivy more, though, at our 50th in 2016.” book connected with the initiative, an academic journal, dealing with hope to do consulting work here all, as one Columbian dropped by Stefan Rudnicki reports, “It’s “We returned to Idaho to visit League Championship football The Politics of Simple Living. The book graduate students and lecturing and writing on education while with his new bluegrass band, Long been a year of high-power change Nancy’s relatives in Sun Valley for a team (1961) and a longtime chair of begins by citing international com- (including occasional stints on Cu- enjoying our new adventure. My Road Home; it was Dr. Banjo him- and honors for me. In March my few days, and from there went east Columbia’s Board of Trustees. Albert Zonana nard ships in the Caribbean). On [former] roommate, Ralph Freidin, self, Peter Wernick GSAS’73. company Skyboat Media launched to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to visit the “We then went to western 67 425 Arundel Rd. that score, classmates who travel is in Boston with his wife, Miriam, “What’s that you say? ‘Atwater, an audiobook publishing initiative, Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. It Pennsylvania to have a high school Goleta, CA 93117 What’s Your Story? to the Caribbean may be interested as are other friends with whom we Minn., is not on my itinerary.’ and we now have more than 60 just so happened that Stuart Han- ’62/CC’66 collective 70th birthday [email protected] in the new edition of my book, The hope to catch up. Regards to all.” Why not? Isn’t one place as good audiobook releases on our list; kins of Little Rock, Ark. (another party ... After four days of golf and Letting classmates Caribbean: A Brief History. And I’m as another? Isn’t Atwater as exotic we specialize in genre classics by football, rugby and frat friend who fun evening gatherings, it was time Jerry Kaiser wrote, “I retired from know what’s going on still living in London with my wife, in its way as, say, Auxerre? Well, folks like Fredric Brown, Shirley has his own law firm specializing to point the compass in another teaching mathematics and comput- in your life is easy. Ruth Weinstock BC’66. Oh, and Rich Forzani here’s an option for you: come to Jackson, Dorothy B. Hughes, Joe R. in real estate) owns a condo there direction and begin the journey er science at the high school and Send in your Class Notes! there’s the small matter of a grand- 66 413 Banta Ave. my 70 + 248/365th etc. — because Lansdale, Manly Wade Wellman and said that we should cancel home. This part included the Blue college levels and now interview son (my first), now 1 year old!” Garfield, NJ 07026 winter is when Minnesota achieves and Donald Hamilton, but also fea- our hotel plans and stay with him Ridge Parkway, Great Smokey Columbia applicants for admission ONLINE by clicking Paul Hyman (paul.hyman@ [email protected] its true Hegelian idea of itself. But ture a massive audio reenactment and his wife, Dottie. They became Mountains NP and Knoxville and [through the Alumni Representa- college.columbia.edu/cct/ phpnyc.com) founded PHP Realty do write first, as I wouldn’t want to of the epochal history of the House our guides and dinner partners for Nashville. Our one-night stand in tive Committee]. I go fishing as submit_class_note. Services, a boutique real estate firm Henry Chessin: “This email serves feel obligated to pull you out of the Un-American Activities Commit- three days and nights and we had a Nashville included southern-style much as possible and enjoy going catering to buyers and sellers in as proof that I am still among the ditch during a surprise blizzard. tee, 30 Years of Treason, compiled ‘tour-iffic’ time. seafood and some rocking Vince to rock concerts, symphony con- EMAIL to the address at the New York City market, in 1998. living and still cognizant enough to Make sure you bring your hat and and edited by critic and former CC “We then continued east to Cody, Gill country-western music. certs and musicals. This winter it’ll the top of your column. In the spirit of giving back, and in desire to see how those young fel- gloves. I’ll supply the skis and professor Eric Bentley. Wyo., partly as a tribute to the late “From Nashville we went to be the Temptations and the Four commemoration of our 50th re- lows who shared my college years boots (provided your feet are a “Recent honors have included Joe Cody and partly due to its fame Little Rock, Ark., where we again Tops, Jay and the Americans, the MAIL to the address at the union, Paul has made a marvelous have fared through life. Hope that reasonable size).” an Audie Award from the Audio as the home of Buffalo Bill Cody. It visited with Stuart Hankins and his Beach Boys and the Oakridge Boys. top of your column. offer: “I pledge to donate 25 per- everyone is well and happy. In 2016, Tony Helfet’s son, Cooper, has Publishers Association in the has a seven-acre, must-see old west wife, stopping at Stuart’s office for a I also have a few courses from The

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Greg Winn wrote a note fol- and Kensington; and parts of Bay Nick’s portrait was painted by and rewarded them with tours of lowing his month-long Holland Ridge, Dyker Heights, Red Hook, Kyle Keith and was unveiled by the Johannesburg control tower, America Line cruise adventure. Sunset Park and Midwood. From Nick’s sons, Jamie and Matthew, experience on Airbus and Boeing Sounds like he and his wife, Vera, 2001, Jerry served as either the surrounded by Nick and Betsy. flight simulators, and a flight on a had quite a trip. He reported that ranking member or chair of what is Ed Hyman expresses regret that commercial aircraft. he “played trivial pursuit and ship now the House Judiciary Subcom- he missed our reunion due to a fam- Don missed our 45th reunion for Olympics, and saw some shows mittee on the Constitution and ily emergency. He writes: “To bring one of the best acceptable reasons, and lectures.” They started from Civil Justice. In 2014, he changed everyone up to date, my oldest son, the birth of a granddaughter. Istanbul after a five-day stay — leadership roles to become the Cameron, is an immunologist and I thank Nick, Ed and Don for “our vision of Turkey and things ranking Democrat on the Subcom- transplant specialist, has finished emailing me, and I also thank Jerry, Turkish has gone through an ir- mittee on Courts, Intellectual Prop- med school and is now completing whose biannual news item comes to reversible and positive shift, except erty and the Internet. He is also Ph.D. research on host-donor dis- me in all the newspapers. It would for the calls to prayer five times the highest-ranking Northeastern ease. Devon, my youngest, finished be a great help if other classmates a day.” He continued, “Istanbul, member of the House Transporta- his bachelor’s in both the USC send me their news so that we can Ephesus, Marmaris and Anatolia tion and Infrastructure Committee School of Cinematic Arts and the keep up to date with one another’s are clean, friendly, artistic and and an Assistant Democrat Whip. USC Roski School of Fine Arts, won lives in this notable year, the 50th enjoyable places. And the Turks On November 21, a special the Handtmann Photography Prize since we entered the College. have a kind heart, caring nicely for ceremony was held at the United and was off to Harvard for a semes- cats all over the place.” States District Court for the Eastern ter. D is now back in Hollywood, REUNION WEEKEND In addition to stops in Turkey, District of New York, to honor where he is involved in document- MAY 28–31 they spent time in northern Egypt Nick Garaufis LAW’74 and to ing the decreasing diversity of seed ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS (“in bad shape”), on the western unveil the official portrait of him stock worldwide, as he [did] with his ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Nick Garaufis ’69, LAW’74 has been elevated to senior status as a coast of Greece (“Olympia and that now hangs in the court’s Handtmann film on the increased [email protected] judge with the United States District Court for the Eastern District Corfu, which I highly recommend”) ceremonial courtroom. Supreme use of GMO-based plants. Jim Shaw ’71, LAW’75 admires the image of his father, Wally Shaw 212-851-9148 of New York. Here, Garaufis (at left) at the portrait unveiling ceremo- and then on to Sicily, “where I Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was “I teach at Berkeley and am a ’40, in part of Donald Gensler’s mural Lifelong Learning. The elder DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan ny in November with his sons, Jamie and Matthew, and wife, Betsy. visited the two towns where The among the speakers. The unveiling forensic expert throughout the Shaw passed away in January; see Obituaries. [email protected] PHOTO: RICK KOPSTEIN/NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL Godfather: Part II and The Godfather: of Nick’s portrait marked the occa- United States. My wife, Deb, PHOTO: CARY SHAW 212-851-7833 Part III were shot, and the [most] sion of his taking senior status on practices psychotherapy and is a incredible archeological museum the court. He was recommended Feng Shui master, most recently Leo G. Kailas parisons showing that after nations us. For whatever the reason, we in the world in Naples. We also for appointment by Sen. Daniel for a well-known Chinese firm that 70 Reitler Kailas & union Committee consists of Dan edu/alumni/events/alumni- reach about half the per-capita GDP have a brief column. had several port visits in Spain — Patrick Moynihan in 1999, was recently went through a success- Rosenblatt Feldman, Stuart Garay, Norman reunion-weekend. of the United States, higher income I continue to marvel at the Colum- Barcelona, Cartagena, Málaga and nominated by President Clinton in ful IPO. We live in Muir Beach, 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. Greene, Bernie Josefsberg, Tom Looking forward to seeing you no longer increases self-reported bia basketball successes. Kyle Smith Cádiz — then south along the coast February 2000 and was confirmed Calif., and would love to hear from New York, NY 10022 Keenan, Leonard Levine, Frank all! happiness. It goes on to outline po- is a superb coach and the team is of Morocco and west 300 miles to unanimously by the Senate in May classmates who are coming to the [email protected] Motley, Alan Myerson, Martin lices that would let people downshift playing well; some of you may have the lost and particularly pleasing 2000. Nick has served as a U.S. dis- SF Bay Area (415-388-4479).” Newhouse, Jim Periconi, Steven economically, including by choosing seen us leading No. 1 Kentucky at Portuguese island of Madeira. trict judge for the Eastern District Donald Schenk BUS’71, after Michael Aeschliman GSAS’91, Schwartz, Alan Solinger, Phil Jim Shaw part-time work. halftime on television in December. Across the Atlantic and home to of New York since August 28, 2000, many years as a managing director professor of anglophone culture, Wang, Dov Zakheim and me. 71 139 North 22nd St. “I had planned to retire at the be- Reid Feldman is staying in NYC Tampa and Naples, Fla.” and — with lifetime tenure — he in the corporate finance depart- University of Italian Switzerland, On Thursday night, we’ll kick Philadelphia, PA 19103 ginning of the year so I would have for a while, from Paris, and I hope Charming to hear of the wonder- plans to continue. (Within the ment of Bankers Trust, formed and professor emeritus of educa- off the festivities with a reception [email protected] time to spend on this initiative. My to see him while he’s in the city. ful travels! federal judiciary, a judge who takes ACA Associates in 1989. Based tion, Boston University, sent a brief at the Platt Library at the Century boss was disappointed to hear that Last year, I had dinner on New We all met 50 years ago and with senior status may continue to serve in Manhattan, ACA advises note on the passing of Holland Association, and Friday night will Arvin Levine: “It has been a produc- I wanted to retire, and after I spent Year’s Eve with him and his wife a little bit of luck we have another as long as he or she wishes; taking aerospace companies on market Hendrix, the 14th president of be the cocktail party at the home tive fall for my family. My daughter, about 15 minutes telling him about at an elegant restaurant off Central 30 years for this column. Remember, senior status creates a vacancy for a trends and finance companies on Union Theological Seminary. Mi- of Mark Pruzansky. Mark and his Livia, earned her Ph.D. and had her the initiative, he got the idea that I Park. you can write me at either of the new active district judge.) due diligence of both airlines and chael writes, “Holland was one of wife, Sheila Erlich Pruzansky, are first child (my fourth grandchild) should try working part-time in- I also had lunch recently with addresses at the top of the column or Justice Sotomayor described aerospace companies. But Don the finest human beings it has been proud parents of two CC gradu- while my wife, Gila Berkowitz, ‘gave stead of retiring. It took a lot of effort Paul de Bary, who continues to be via the CCT webform college.colum Nick as a “mensch,” and classmates especially wanted to share news of my privilege to know. I never saw ates and have graciously hosted birth’ to a long-gestated novel, The but he managed to get the proposal a great friend. We were working bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. will immediately recognize the ap- the work he is doing for Wonders enough of him in this life, and now the Friday night reception for most Ugly Sister, a romance about the through the company bureaucracy. on an idea for Columbia that, if it Happy New Year 2015 (belat- propriateness of this description. In of Aviation, a South Africa-based he has departed for what I hope is a of our major reunions. Holocaust that she self-published In January 2014, I began working comes to fruition, will earn us a edly)! I hope all of you are well and his remarks, Nick confided that his organization dedicated to using better one. He pleased his Maker.” In addition to the programs that (actually, we self-published it, as Iron three days a week. Now, I am not plaque in our name. enjoying these years, getting some wife, Betsy Seidman, called the cer- aviation to inspire that nation’s Peter Joseph reported, “My will be offered to all College classes, Dome Press; it’s available on Ama- only an advocate of flexible work Russell Needham writes, “Just exercise and taking part in some emony the “bar mitzvah that [Nick] youth; Don shared with me an ar- proposal in the MIT Climate CoLab our Saturday luncheon will include zon). My son, Jacob (aka JJ) is part of time but a poster child for it as well.” returned from one of those bucket good cheer! never had”; Nick called it “the ticle he wrote for Soaring Magazine, contest for a U.S. Carbon Price won a discussion concerning the surren- a start-up app company called Glide Come on CC’67, where are you? list trips. Flew to Bangkok for a few only unveiling I ever want.” After from which I drew the following: the popular choice award, and I and der of privacy to technology; it will (also the name of the app), which I’d love to see a fuller mailbag, days of river boating and seeing thanking the judges who attended, Wonders of Aviation implements my team members on the project feature Thomas P. Keenan SEAS’71, everyone is invited to download to virtual or otherwise, in 2015. You hundreds of Buddhist temples. Michael Oberman the other court employees, his law outreach programs by providing attended the Crowds and Climate a professor of computer science at their smartphones and use. can reach me at either address at Then it was on to Singapore via the 69 Kramer Levin Naftalis & clerks past and present (clerks are rewards, recruiting role models and Conference [in November] in Cam- the University of Calgary and the “Meanwhile, I continue to be the the top of the column or submit Eastern & Oriental Express. Finally Frankel the recent law school graduates mentors, improving knowledge of bridge, Mass. I’m active with the author of Technocreep: The Surrender quotidian actor in this theatrical, an update via the CCT webform spent a few days at historic Raffles 1177 Avenue of the who each spend a year with him, and access to aeronautical training Citizens’ Climate Lobby, whose ad- of Privacy and the Capitalization of working for a living, as usual, for college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ Hotel in Singapore before going to Americas now up to about 50), and his family and scholarships, providing a forum visory board includes James Han- Intimacy. Tom will speak about the a large corporation. I played with class_note. Bali, an idyllic Hindu island in the New York, NY 10036 members and friends, Nick took a for the exchange of information and sen, [director of the Climate Science, intrusive nature of technology with the Columbia wind ensemble this I look forward to hearing from midst of the Indian Ocean. moberman@ moment to describe the resolution supporting aviation employment. Awareness and Solutions Program Joseph DeMarco, who is in private past fall. At first I just sat in when you. “Still living in Manhattan since kramerlevin.com of one civil case before him that The group taps a network of aviation in the Earth Institute and an adjunct practice and previously served as a alumni were invited to join an open graduation from the College. I get resulted in greatly improved living industry executives, primarily in senior research scientist in the Earth prosecutor with the U.S. Attor- rehearsal. But when we were invited back to campus several times a year On November 4, Jerry Nadler conditions for individuals with seri- South Africa, who love their work Institute], and former Secretary of ney’s Office. Later on Saturday, the to come back and play in the concert, Arthur Spector to attend chamber music concerts at was elected to a 12th full term as a ous mental illness. He pointed out and are committed to increased Labor George Shultz. We’re making keynote speaker at our class dinner I couldn’t resist. So Ferris Booth Hall 68 One Lincoln Plaza, St. Paul’s Chapel and for free events member of Congress, where he has that federal trial court judges are diversity. As one example, the progress in Congress on a carbon will be John D’Emilio GSAS’72, (no longer its name) got to hear my Apt. 25K almost weekly during the academic served — in between our class re- empowered “to benefit those who organization identified students at fee and dividend program and had a preeminent scholar in the field dulcet tones yet again. I also chatted New York, NY 10023 year. I have also joined the 1754 So- unions — since 1992. He represents can’t protect themselves. It’s not impoverished schools who wanted a presence in December in Lima, of gay studies who teaches at the with the guard at Furnald (still its arthurbspector@ ciety (for those putting the College the Tenth Congressional District just about helping society, it’s about to build model planes and then used Peru, [at the U.N. Climate Change University of Illinois at Chicago and name). He’s our age and has quite an gmail.com or University in estate planning) of New York, which comprises helping people, often one person at their interest in them as a motiva- Conference, COP20].” has been the recipient of numerous interesting life story. and have attended lecture lunches Manhattan’s Upper West Side a time.” tion for learning math and science. I will devote the rest of the awards in his field. John will talk “I don’t know if I could have I have been swamped with work at Faculty House.” (including the College), the Theater As he did as the main speaker The organization has also helped column to our 45th reunion, which about his experiences and insights imagined this future for myself but recently and have not pursued Bali sounds really good [as I District and Times Square, Chelsea, at our 45th reunion, Nick repeated students obtain scholarships to some will take place during Alumni as a pioneer in the gay rights move- I certainly am not complaining. contributors for Class Notes as I write this, because] the cold seems Greenwich Village, SoHo and Wall what he sees as his mission: “Put of South Africa’s leading aviation Reunion Weekend, Thursday, May ment and gay studies field. Somehow I keep using something have in the past. Of course, it may to be arriving in full force in New Street; the Brooklyn neighborhoods plainly, it’s easy to do justice. Much universities. The organization also 28–Sunday, May 31; it promises to For more details and to register, from college in almost everything also be a quiet period for many of York! of Borough Park, Bensonhurst more difficult to do right.” has selected promising young adults be an excellent program. The Re- keep an eye on college.columbia. I do.”

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Tom Barson: “I read with sad- classmates could not; he made me “These criticisms include that writing newsletters before the class his mind blown by a bald eagle Erik Bergman was elected eseltier, literary editor of The New two such different areas. ness in CCT of the death of Profes- take a full frontal look at Karl Marx, the administration failed to consult correspondent position was created seen from the back of a bouncing president of the Board of Directors Republic for 31 years, announced Michael Trittipo, who lives in sor David Rosand [’59, GSAS’65; just as Rosand made us look at the with students before promulgat- by CCT). In January, my dad died jet-boat on Oregon’s Rogue River of Open Adoption and Family he was leaving the 100-year-old Minneapolis, worked at the De- see Winter 2014–15 Obituaries]. I male nude. ing the new process, contrary to at 95 (see Obituaries). He was a through a half-ton pair of Army- Services, the Pacific Northwest’s liberal American magazine. Seems fense Language Institute Foreign remember my first Art Hum class “If I kept up with Wallerstein, I assurances it had provided; rather, master of all trades, and a jack of issue binos.” Check out his website largest adoption agency. Erik is an that the new owner, Facebook co- Language Center in Monterey, with him; it would have been caught up, in a way, with Rosand. the policy was adopted and a few none. Physician, professor, sculptor, at belizebirds.org. adoptive father of two daughters founder Chris Hughes, wanted to Calif., for a couple of years after spring 1969. He began with another Personal and business travel in student leaders were then simply filmmaker, repairer of all things In keeping with the recurring placed through the agency. He make the publication less like The graduating. He then studied law David — Michelangelo’s. Slide after the past few years gave me the briefed on it two days before its mechanical and electric, and family theme that you never know where says, “Open adoption changed New Yorker and more like … umm at University of Minnesota Law slide, starting with from-below opportunity to view, carefully and release. The policy thus announced man. His helpfulness, scientific in the world you’ll meet a class- my life for the better. I’m proud … Facebook. One staff member School and was a lawyer at views, he progressed through the in person, the world he showed ex cathedra does not guarantee approach, talent for design and mate, I’m writing this column from to serve a progressive, pro-choice wrote that staffers were happy to Fredrikson & Byron in Minneapo- work; he remarked upon the stance, our Art Hum section in black-and- accommodations, such as housing construction, and warm sense a meeting in Phoenix, where yes- agency that is making adoption write more for the web, “but not lis. Since 1997 Mike has been the the sling, the oversized hands, the white slides. David ‘in the flesh,’ and academic changes, to assure of humor are much missed. He terday at breakfast Nunzio Pomara more humane across America.” if you were going to turn the print director of technology for the Min- undersized genitals (being worldly in Florence, is an overwhelming that survivors of sexual miscon- moved to Philadelphia in 2001 and stopped me to say hi. Nunzio is a Erik is in his 15th year at global magazine into a vestigial limb.” No nesota State Bar Association. sophomores, we didn’t giggle), the experience, worlds apart from a duct will not be brought into by 2003 he was on a mural. geriatric psychiatrist and a profes- PR agency Waggener Edstrom word yet on Leon’s plans. From Jerusalem comes word apparently resolute and confident classroom image. You can walk contact with their assailants. Nor In addition to my dad’s Colum- sor at NYU, where he specializes Communications in Portland, Ore., It should be noted that other that a child is born! They call her does it establish clear sanctioning bia connection, my mom was Gerry in the diagnosis and management and is also serving a one-year term Columbia alumni joined Leon at the Zohar and she is the first grand- guidelines, leading to a very real Sax Shaw BC’40; her brother was of cognitive impairment. (Could as area governor for Toastmasters exit: the magazine’s editor (Franklin child of Tom Sawicki. Tom shares Nathanial Wander ’72, GSAS’80 writes a website possibility that disparate penal- Burton R. Sax ’48, BUS’49; one of be a popular person at our 50th International, overseeing 25 Toast- Foer ’96) and two contributors that she is the daughter of his ties will be imposed for virtually my brothers is Richard Shaw TC’68; reunion.) Nunzio earned his M.D. masters clubs in the Portland area. (Sean Wilentz ’72 and William De- younger son, Ariel, and that her detailing the avian wildlife of Belize: belizebirds.org. identical acts of misconduct. and my daughter is Amy Shaw ’08. at SUNY Downstate and trained Into the valley of 2015 rolled the resiewicz ’85, JRN’87, GSAS’98). My name means radiance or splendor. “Moreover, after eight months Family was often Columbia, and in psychiatry at Metropolitan 600 … a (very) belated New Year apologies to any other Columbians From London we get news from of delays, Columbia released one so also Columbia (and you) have Hospital-New York Medical Col- to all! omitted from this list. Chris Hansen that he and Wai gaze. Then he switched to a slide around the statue and every part of year’s worth of aggregate data on often seemed like family. So there is lege. He and his wife, whom I also News came in from two other Liang Tan are now legally married. of David’s face from above, which it glows — the hands, the nice ass, incidents of sexual and domestic special meaning when I once again had the pleasure of meeting, live classmates in the mid-Atlantic re- They had a ceremony at the govern- showed the anxious face that Mi- the seemingly tree-length arms, the violence on campus, which Presi- sign off with: in Westchester. Most impressively, Fred Bremer gion. Jonathan Cuneo, who lives ment offices a short while ago, chelangelo had hidden from floor oddly tight chest, the great haircut. dent Lee C. Bollinger had initially Remember back 48 Septembers Nunzio remembered that we’d 74 532 W. 111th St. in Washington, D.C., with his wife, though England “back dates” the or street-level viewers. I probably But still, these are all floor-level agreed to provide on January 30, ago and the feelings we had, includ- been in the same junior high school New York, NY 10025 Mara Liasson, and children, Mia marriage to when their civil union would have gotten the point even views. Probably 99 viewers out of 2014, following months of student ing of adventure, as we entered graduating class in Brooklyn, [email protected] and Eli, updated us on his law firm, took place — February 14, 2006. if he — Rosand — hadn’t made it 100 can’t pick up on that little bit pressure. Student groups have Columbia College. We are still which I hadn’t even known. Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca. It has now I emailed him shortly before the verbally: A part of all of us is afraid, of fear. Thanks to David Rosand, complained that the data aggrega- connected. Steve Schacter became a grand- Big Eyes, a movie released in grown to 20 attorneys and added a grand event, “CCCongratulations whether we show it or not. I can.” tion precludes determining whether father twice over last fall, and the December, reminded me of our Brooklyn outpost. I’m sure future (as in Columbia College Congratu- “I can’t say that I followed his Tom adds as a postscript: “Im- any of the incidents are ascribed to a kids were born wearing Columbia days on campus. As you may be columns will have more on this. lations)! I’d say (in typical Columbia class so well for the rest of the manuel Wallerstein still publishes serial offender. Paul S. Appelbaum blue: Daughter Joanna ’05 and son- aware, the plot involves popular I saw a Facebook post from dark humor) that there is still time term. I was struggling. As my AEPi a perspicacious and outrageous “The University also has refused, 72 39 Claremont Ave., #24 in-law David Parker SEAS’04 had portraits of saucer-eyed waifs that Barry Klayman (partner of the law to back out, but I guess I would be fraternity brothers were happy to twice-monthly commentary at bing assertedly due to privacy concerns, New York, NY 10027 a daughter in September, and a boy were drawn by a female artist in firm Cozen O’Connor in Wilming- 8½ years too late!” point out, my presence at Columbia hamton.edu/fbc/commentaries/ to disclose even the number of stu- [email protected] was born in October to daughter the 1950s and 1960s. In the midst ton, Del.) announcing that his son, This column must end with a was thanks to an admissions policy index.html. He’s still assailing dents suspended, on probation or Margot ’10 and son-in-law Josh Ma- of her heated divorce from her Matthew, was admitted to the bars sad note: Michael Gaye ’75 passed that sought to enroll a ‘national’ centrist politics and still urging me given access restrictions following For someone like me, living on rans ’08. “Yes, both daughters and husband, it comes out that he had of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- away last September. An obituary student body — a nice-sounding to take sides. Great stuff.” its investigations — data that clearly Morningside Heights, it’s reassur- both sons-in-law [are] undergrad been fraudulently claiming to be the vania, the State of New Jersey and handed out at his memorial service goal that they suspected to be at Meanwhile, for the beginnings would not identify any students ing to know that our class’ reach alums,” he says. artist. If this sounds familiar, it may the U.S. District Court of the East- says, “It was clear Mike never least partly anti-Semitic in motiva- of a full view of Stalin, read Joshua involved in the process. These sanc- doesn’t end at the Hudson. One Congratulations to all! forgot where he came from. From tion. Whatever the politics, I came Rubenstein’s review in The Wall tions were already suspect; as the example is John Wisnioski, who Keep the updates coming, folks! publicist to green energy entre- to Columbia from small-town Ohio, Street Journal, November 21, 2014, of administration has confirmed, no calls himself “a boring guy” but As always, you can reach me at the preneur to political consultant, he thinking that I had made it only the first volume of Stephen Kotkin’s student had been expelled for viola- doesn’t sound the least bit boring email address listed at the top of Open Adoption and Family Services, the Pacific North- always put the community before to realize quickly that most of my biography Stalin. tion of the pre-existing policy. to me. A little research reveals that the column or submit an update west’s largest adoption agency, elected Erik Bergman ’73 himself. He was the wind beneath classmates were smarter and far Peter Jacoby: “Readers of general “As alumni, we have a vested John is CEO of Baseten Capital via the webform college.columbia. the wings of his collegiate friend, better prepared — both by educa- news media, Spectator and a variety interest in seeing that Columbia Management in Singapore. After edu/cct/submit_class_note. to the role of president of the Board of Directors. Gov. David Paterson ’77. He was tion and background — than I was. of social media have long been properly discharges its responsi- college he earned an M.Sc. at the also a key asset to the success- “After graduation (without the aware of the ferment among the bility for the welfare of students. London School of Economics, an ful Barack Obama Presidential marked reduction in academic student body and many alumni re- (That interest must be even more M.B.A. from Stanford and a Ph.D. Barry Etra be from memories of the “famous” ern District of Pennsylvania. Barry Campaign Initiative in the State of standards and accountability garding the adequacy of Columbia’s pointed for the many alumni whose from Cambridge. For more than 20 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE campus artist, Sam Steinberg, who wrote, “Judge [Gene E.K.] Pratter New York.” driven by two ‘strikes’ in our four procedures for investigating and children or grandchildren now years he has worked in the finan- 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 sold his pictures of “hoises with one of the Eastern District administered Mike will be sorely missed by years, would I have even gradu- sanctioning sexual offenses com- attend the school.) It is therefore cial sector, focused on hedge fund [email protected] eye” and “Hoishy bars” in front of the oaths and had very kind words his many friends at Columbia. ated?) I scuttled back to the Mid- mitted by students against fellow incumbent on all of us to continue and alternative asset businesses, Ferris Booth Hall. for Matthew, who is serving as her There you have it. News from west. But seeds had been planted. students. to monitor Columbia’s performance including stints at leading financial Once again, pleas for notes went It gradually was learned that clerk this year. The ceremony took Perhaps it’s a need to prove to “On September 6, alumni re- in dealing with ‘gender misconduct’ firms such as Merrill Lynch and Sa- unheeded. Please note my calls! Sam did not both draw the outlines place in the courtroom where I myself that I really belonged, per- ceived a communication from Dean and to make our views known lomon Brothers. John says he visits And remember, you can write me and color in the figures. Does tried my first jury trial. What goes haps just an affinity for the life of James J. Valentini regarding the whenever we believe it is falling the Bay Area regularly to see his two ways: at either of the addresses anyone remember who did the around …” Columbia College the mind, but I’ve been rehashing new procedures and practices that short of appropriate norms.” children, who are students there. at the top of the column or via the drawing and who did the color- There is some rare news about Alumni on Facebook and extending that famous (and Columbia, however belatedly, had In 1959, my dad, Wally Shaw ’40, And he’s part of an email-linked CCT webform college.columbia. ing? If not, I expect we will get the classmates living in the Midwest sometimes reviled) Core Curricu- now adopted as part of a revised took me, Jim Shaw, to Homecom- network of former Columbia edu/cct/submit_class_note. definitive word this spring if the that comes courtesy of their Face- lum ever since. policy on student ‘gender-based ing at what was then Baker Field. At rugby players around the world. Michael Amdurer GSAS’83 Class of ’75 delivers its planned book profiles. Peter Chen (who “That same spring of 1969 I took misconduct’ — the euphemism for the class table before the game there Nathaniel Wander GSAS’80, writes of his 24th year in Denver, Sam Steinberg 2015 Retrospective lives in Naperville, Ill.) retired a Check out the a sociology intro course with Im- rape, sodomy and other forms of were nametag stickers and we cal- who graduated with us but started singing its praises and contradic- during Alumni Reunion Weekend few years back from his position as Columbia College manuel Wallerstein [’51, GSAS’55]. I sexual abuse. culated the year I would graduate with the Class of ’69 — he took tions: “against gun control, trying to — their 40th reunion — Thursday, a software engineer at AT&T Bell don’t think, at that time, I under- “While these changes do from college. So I proudly affixed a two years off to go to Israel at the pass a fetal rights bill, but we have May 28–Sunday, May 31. A few Labs. He is now pursuing his pas- Alumni page! stood a word he said. But since then represent improvement over the Columbia name tag with ’71 after time of the 1967 Six Day War — legal pot …” He has been manag- decades ago I saw a framed “Sam” sion for living things as an adjunct facebook.com/ he’s published four volumes of The deeply flawed prior practice, and my name. That year seemed so far is another classmate leading an ing the remediation of a large fuel in the dining room of Scott Kunst professor in the health and science alumnicc Modern World-System and I’ve read it would be inappropriate to ‘make in the future. My dad was 40, and I ex-pat life. Nathaniel has a Ph.D. spill at Kirtland AFB in Albuquer- in Michigan, and I have a framed division of the College of DuPage and wrestled with all four. He’s 88 the perfect the enemy of the good,’ could not understand how he could in anthropology but, according to que, and now is a grandfather “Sam” that proudly graces a wall in Glen Ellyn, Ill. His split interests Like the page to get now, and if he’ll still write them, I’ll alumni should be under no illusion remember his college experience 20 his website, has been “working to (his daughter in Berlin being the in our guest room. If you also have are evident from his post-Colum- alumni news, learn read them. Wallerstein (looking far that this development has mooted years earlier. transform [himself] into a profes- mother; she is a German-English one to loan, please let me know so it bia education: he earned an M.S. in about alumni events and past Columbia) was as energized serious (and, in the opinion of this Come full circle, I am CC’71 (and sional ornithologist” since moving translator). His son, Zachary, is can be added to the show. genetics from Chicago in 1976 and College happenings, as I had been traumatized by the writer, well-justified) dissatisfac- LAW’75), and I have been class a few years ago from Edinburgh starting physician’s assistant school. Stop the presses! (I always an M.S. in computer science from view photos and more. events of the previous spring. And tion with the University’s response correspondent for the 44 years since to Belize. He originally “turned Other than issues with aging par- wanted to say that.) Word came DePaul in 1982. It is wonderful to he was able to do what our SDS to this dire problem. graduation (including as class VP to the study of birds after having ents, he says, “Life is good.” out in December that Leon Wi- see a classmate be able to work in

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When he was though his love for it began as a kid. had the pleasure of visiting with New York, NY 10025 ment and integration of all aspects Many promised to remain in closer work, Loveless Texas, the Musical, in There are a lot of old friends who finally able to communicate with By the time he was 7 he was play- his undergraduate adviser, Ken- [email protected] of diversity programs and policies touch in the coming years. Like advance of a November workshop really want to hear about you and the outside world, he let us know ing various keyboard instruments neth T. Jackson, the Jacques Barzun for the Mount Sinai Health System Tom Tuggle ’78, I’m sure many and early 2016 production by your family! that he survived but “had to burn and as a 10-year-old fifth-grader Professor of History and the Social Jeffrey Malkan, of Saint James, to ensure diversity and inclusion as went home and played an Allman Boomerang­ Theatre Co.” some chairs and eat the neighbors at Broad River School he founded Sciences, who was one of the prin- N.Y., shared a poem: an integral core institutional value Brothers Band album, maybe Not be outdone, another of our to survive.” the Silver Streaks band. He and the cipal organizers of the scholarly and resource across the health Brothers and Sisters, which greeted great talents, Steve Bargonetti, REUNION WEEKEND We hope the chairs were rickety Silver Streaks still perform together meeting. As an added benefit, Ken As a child I braced for fame, system, including the medical and our first days at Columbia. We all notes, “I’m music director/arranger/ MAY 28–31 and the neighbors tasty! after all these years. Check them out experienced Hurricane Sandy, I lisped in numbers for they came, graduate schools, graduate medi- are already looking forward to the performer for Father Comes Home ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS In December, Judge/Professor at silverstreaksband.com. which stranded him with old But genius is a slippery slope, cal education and the Mount Sinai next party. from the Wars at American Reper- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Bruce J. Einhorn visited Oxford, Rudy is also a proud papa; his Columbia friends (and married I’m sorry Alexander Pope. Hospitals Group. He graduated “In addition to myself, the group tory Theater (ART) at Harvard. [email protected] in England, where he delivered daughter, Chelsea, graduated from couple), Mark Goldfield ’74 and from Weill Cornell Medical College comprised Al Borgo, John Carlin, The play and music are written by 212-851-9148 his fourth annual series of lectures Southern Connecticut State in Mary Hatch BC’74, in Prospect A prodigy must show some zest, and completed clinical training in Blaise DeFranceaux ’76, Tom Eisen Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan on international human rights law December. Heights. As this anecdote relates But I was known to be a pest, pediatrics at Mount Sinai. ’78, Michael Huber, Gregory Parks. During a recent fantastic [email protected] and legal education. Bruce reminds Here’s a reunion challenge unlike to our current doings, Ken has My parents would have felt elation, Still following the Columbia Lackey, Ivan Lansberg, Dan Roth- run at NYC’s Public Theater, The 212-851-7833 classmates and other Columbians any other: Guy Golembiewski and arranged to have Professor Jackson If I had coped without sedation. basketball team as a season ticket stein ’76 and Tom Tuggle 78.” New York Times and Time magazine Randy Nichols that in 1754 it was a group of Oxford his wife, Andrea, are planning to speak at our reunion dinner. holder is Ken Howitt, along with Sounds like a great time. Surely called it one of the best plays of 75 734 S. Linwood Ave. dons who established King’s Col- attend our 40th with their children, Ken also recently posted this on My youth thus passed within a daze, his daughter Katherine ’13. Ken other classmates are having get- 2014. Diane Paulus is the artistic Baltimore, MD 21224 lege in New York City. Originally daughter Ani (2) and son Guy Facebook: “Saved from oblivion, I actually enjoyed that haze, says, “If you are in town, get in togethers, even if it’s just two or director at ART.” [email protected] located at Trinity Church in Lower (4 months). Guy challenged any I am now finally in eBook! My I thought that it was just a phase, touch to meet us at a game.” Manhattan, King’s was to be a classmate to attend and bring two academic obscurity is now assured Poetic dissipation pays. Ken will be a grandfather come Think reunion, even if you don’t Church of England rival to those biological children younger than but is there escape?” Check it out; February and enjoys his newish want to admit to 40 years! Your more puritanical, Cambridge- his! Guy adds, “What can I say? I’m the book, originally published in Allen Ginsberg never said please, position as membership coordina- Henry Aronson ’78 is working on songs for his Reunion Committee has been established colleges of Harvard a late bloomer!” 1992, is The Unbounded Community: Sophomore year, I shot the breeze, tor for the Hudson County (N.J.) show Loveless Texas, the Musical, which will be thinking it for the last year, and we and Yale. From a little acorn of an After a number of years in private Neighborhood Life and Social Struc- I don’t know what the heck we tried, Chamber of Commerce. have some good stuff planned for Anglican school the greatest of practice, Guy became involved in a ture in New York City, 1830–1875. No one recalls or maybe they died. Rob Brager reports all is well; produced in 2016 by the Boomerang Theatre Co. you. Of course, you know that one non-denominational, liberal arts variety of professional and leisure Bob Schneider and his wife, no updates. of our signature events will be the universities emerged, including activities including medical-legal Regina Mullahy BC’75, recently I’ll bet you guess what’s coming This column is a wonderful way Sam Steinberg 2015 Retrospective. Columbia University’s charter consultation, practice management traveled to Texas to visit their son next, for the class to stay connected, and three meeting for a drink. Why not I imagine a lot of us will be The Sam Committee has tracked school, our Columbia (formerly consultation, continuing medi- John ’07, his wife, Stephanie BC’06 My explication de texte, a new class correspondent should tell us about it, along with all the going back to school in the future down more than 100 Sams, and King’s) College. cal education and limited clinical and John and Stephanie’s daugh- With mock discernment I would be in place by the Summer issue. big headlines in your lives? Let’s because it’s fun, easy and, as we the best of them will be on display On a recent trip to Washington, practice for family and friends as ter, Elsie. While there, they visited savor, Thank you to those who volun- make 2015 a year to get reacquaint- near 60, we have both the time during Alumni Reunion Weekend, D.C., our Columbia College Fund well as inmates of the Lucas County the LBJ Presidential Library and Pretending I could taste that flavor. teered! ed. You can write me with updates and mindset to really get what Thursday, May 28–Sunday, May assistant director of class giving Correctional Facilities. More recently, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In the meantime, your friends at either address at the top of the they were trying to tell us 40 years 31. A number of the found Sams Heather Hunte visited with several he’s been chief medical information Back to reunion. I went to class, but wasn’t willing, and classmates want to hear from column or via the CCT webform ago. I asked you what classes you are owned by your classmates. ’75ers. She stopped in Baltimore to officer, McLaren Northern Michigan In the almost 40 years that I’ve Apologies to Lionel Trilling, you. Please send news about your- college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ would take if you were back on Some of these are also posted to have drinks and munchies with me Hospital, acting as a liaison between been your class correspondent, I’ve To finish the list you assigned to self or your family, or a favorite class_note. campus. Kevin Vitting took the Facebook; you can see them at at Tapas Teatro, a bistro attached to the IT and medical staffs. Andrea is enjoyed the notes and emails from read, Columbia College memory, to Thanks, and enjoy the spring! bait and shared that, “I’ve been facebook.com/Steinberg2015. the historic Charles Theatre. Later a physician specializing in physical you and seeing you on occasion. Apologies to Edward Said. CCT at either of the addresses at enjoying Professor Eric Foner ’63, Fall is a time when a number of that week, she met with Michael medicine and rehabilitation. They re- You, my classmates, have made the the top of the column. You may GSAS’69’s massive open online Columbia events take place, and Flagg in Washington, D.C., and side in Boyne Falls, Mich. The couple task fun and worthwhile. As we ap- My brain leaked more than a also submit an update using the Matthew Nemerson course (MOOC) on the American ’75ers were at many of them. Ira came away with a surprise. Mike plans to stay in Carman for reunion, proach Alumni Reunion Weekend, colander, webform college.columbia.edu/ 78 35 Huntington St. Civil War on edX.org. It features Malin and Bob Schneider repre­ has a Sam — a young lady in a along with the kids and their nanny. which includes Dean’s Day, those I’m sorry Johnny Hollander, cct/submit_class_note. New Haven, CT 06511 videotaped lectures with links sented the class at Columbia miniskirt, we hear. New Jersey residents and those feelings are even deeper, as I am Poems can be funny, but life is no matthewnemerson@ to student chat groups and rare Alumni Leaders Weekend, October We’re waiting for pictures and concerned with the environment hearing from more of you. Due to joke, gmail.com documents. Readings are optional, 10–11. Ira Malin, Richard Witten details, Mike! got great news just before the the Sam project, I’m also hearing I wasted your time, Kenneth Koch. David Gorman there are no essay exams and it’s and David Gawarecki were in the Rudy Gisolfi was one of a dozen holidays when a consent judgment from folks other than classmates, 77 111 Regal Dr. I’m sure that all will be resolved free.” Big Tent at Homecoming, October sportsmen honored by the Norwalk was reached requiring Occidental and even some who are not Co- The romance of the open road, DeKalb, IL 60115 by the time you read this, but how If Kevin could go back to school 25, where David worked a table to (Conn.) Old Timers Athletic Associa- Chemical Corp. to pay the state lumbians. The Sam stories they’ve When Steven Jobs was writing code, [email protected] much fun was it to see Colum- he would enroll in “The American publicize the Steinberg retrospec- tion at its recent 52nd annual awards $190 million to resolve its liability shared have been humorous, touch- Tempted me, but looking back, bia mentioned as an option for Landscape to 1877,” because “my tive. He talked to lots of alums and dinner. Rudy started playing orga- for economic and natural resource ing and very real. I can almost hear I never read Jack Kerouac. All the news in this column is ow- President Barack Obama ’83’s new hobby is American history.” found a number of Sams. Steve nized football in his junior year of damages and past cleanup and re- Sam’s voice or see his expression as ing to Arto Becker. Speaks for itself, presidential library? It’s just my Few of us have seen, or influ- Jacobs and Ira Malin attended the high school and never looked back. moval costs related to contamina- I read some of them. Whether you I wish that I had been precocious, I’d say. luck that between all the Presi- enced, the world as constructively Alexander Hamilton Award Din- He started every game on defense tion of the Passaic River. Michael remember classmates or professors, But I lacked that narrow focus, Arto writes, “On November 1, 10 dents who attended Columbia or as Ambassador Chris Dell, now a ner on November 20. during his two seasons, set school Gordon of Gordon & Gordon rep- we bet you remember Sam. The Like so many baby boomers, alumni and their wives gathered for Yale undergraduate or graduate big-time American globetrotting Although he didn’t graduate un- and state records, and won several resented the state in this litigation. Sam Steinberg 2015 Retrospective Who aspire to be late bloomers. dinner at Rosa Mexicano in New schools — eight possibilities! — executive. He writes, “I’m doing til later, we consider Daniel Deneen awards. He then was recruited by “These settlements represent the will be a once-in-a-lifetime experi- York City. This reprised a dinner none chose their alma mater for well in Mozambique, where I’m ’80 one of us! Dan reconnected more than 20 colleges in the United largest environmental cost-recov- ence to see lots of Sams together, to If anyone asks, I’m doing quite well, this group had 14 years ago. We’ve a presidential library or historical the country manager for Bechtel. with several ’75ers last fall when he States and Canada, and at Columbia ery litigation case in the history of hear Sam stories and to remember In one of the better circles of hell, missed the fun since, and each of us center. I guess the curse of the My parish includes South Africa, was found peeking at the Steinberg he played on the varsity team for New Jersey and the single largest an almost-forgotten Columbia insti- I have no complaints, at least in said so to one or the other through great Nicholas Murray Butler Tanzania and the rest of the re- Facebook page. Dan lives in Ver- all four years, 1971–74, under Bill economic damages recovery of tution. Your classmates and friends theory, the years — and we finally did it (Class of 1882) (he ought to have gion, so I get to do a fair amount mont and spends some of his free Campbell ’62, TC’64. Rudy was a its kind,” Mike reported. He lives expect to see you there. I’m sorry Dante Alighieri. again. And again, we had a great been Harding’s VP and then … as of traveling. I think I’ve adjusted time in local theater. In December, kicking specialist and defensive in Short Hills, N.J., with his wife, Registration for reunion and time. We spent five hours at the res- we all know) continues in some pretty well to the private sector he was a member of the cast of The end, and as a senior he kicked a last- Arlene, a professor of mindfulness Dean’s Day will open soon, if it So that brings me to the end, taurant but still Tom Eisen ’78 wrote small way. but there have been surprises as Parish Players’ full-stage produc- minute field goal to defeat Princeton. at Montclair. They have three chil- hasn’t already. When it does, get I’m sorry if my words offend, afterward that he wished for more Henry Aronson writes, “I bade a well. In the end, I find it’s no more tion of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk He capped his collegiate career by dren: one works in Los Angeles on busy. Here’s one URL to keep an An honest man admits when he time for unstarted and unfinished sad farewell to Rock of Ages, which efficient or better organized than Wood. A review reported, “Deneen receiving All-Ivy League Honorable the TV show Scandal, one teaches eye on: college.columbia.edu/ cheats, conversations. closed on January 18 as the 27th government!” shines as the blind Captain Cat, Mention. preschool in Cambridge, Mass., alumni/events/alumni-reunion- Sincerely yours, John Keats. “More sentimental feelings longest running show in Broadway Chris, now that I have switched tapping his way front and center. While we remember his football and one will attend college in the weekend. See you there! followed in emails after the party. history. Now in preparation for 54: over to the government I can say O’Leary finds as many ways to prowess, Rudy’s sport of choice fall. Mike and “his gang” spent the Follow us on Facebook: facebook. Dr. Gary Butts is chief diver- John Carlin said that everybody The Musical, an immersive homage that each sector is dysfunctional in amuse as he has roles, with or growing up in Norwalk was base­ holidays in Morocco. com/ColumbiaNYC75 and on sity and inclusion officer for the is interesting and engaged in their to the disco era being developed for its own special way. But the public without his tinfoil hat or poisonous ball. He began playing in Little Kenneth Scherzer made a Twitter: @CC75Reunion. Follow Mount Sinai Health System and lives and careers. That is a testa- Broadway. Also in prep for perfor- sector certainly offers the greatest plans for his wife. And Deneen and League Baseball when he was 9 and return appearance to Morningside Sam on Facebook: facebook.com/ senior associate dean for diversity ment to Columbia. mances of the classical/rock fusion leverage if you can manage to get it [his co-star] rock the house as the continued playing through the years Heights several years ago, on Oc- Steinberg2015. programs, policy and commu- “I don’t know the particulars group Rocktopia, whose April con- working well.

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Chris added that if he could start New Haven is that my wife often computers, no cell phone, no fax Michael Kinsella latest developments, and I look My recent work has emphasized over again, he would take more leads rich and famous Yale alumni machines, no GPS and the only 81 543 Nelliefield Trl. forward to hearing from you soon. patent damages and technology li- astronomy and physics classes around in her capacity as a profes- thing that made a tweet had feath- Charleston, SC 29492 You can reach me at my email censing, though I remain interested because “I just love looking at the sor in charge of travel excursions, ers. Every Sunday when I see that [email protected] address or new mailing address, in many of the topics that [I have stars.” for which she lectures on the oar, it reminds me of waking up both listed at the top of the column, worked on]. I am excited about join- For another take on govern- environment while everyone else early to go to practice before my Greetings to all in this first column or via the CCT webform college. ing this team that shares my goal of ment, we move to Mark Axinn, eats and takes pictures for a week freshman chemistry class. I had so of the New Year, and thanks to ev- columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ transforming business strategy and who is “well into my fifth year as in some exotic place. And if I can few hours to study that everything eryone who took the time to share note. economics for the digital economy.” chairman of the Libertarian Party entertain these retired corporate I read had to be digested at that updates for this edition. My wife, Deborah, along with of New York, the only economi- chieftains at the nightly cocktail moment. There was no time for Leading the charge of the green many other College alumni and cally and socially tolerant political parties and make adequate small a second look. In the cycle of life, brigade in NYC is James Klatsky Andrew Weisman friends, gathered on Broadway party in New York, and somehow talk as the faculty spouse, I get to and as busy as I have become, that LAW’84, who reports, “I am an 82 81 S. Garfield St. on November 5 for a night at one into my 34th year in a Midtown tag along for a fraction of the fee oar reminds me of how my journey attorney and a sole practitioner, Denver, CO 80209 of this season’s biggest shows, a boutique law firm doing mostly (which is usually more than a sum- started. and an avid user of Citi Bike! I am [email protected] revival of Terrence McNally 60’s real estate development and mer rental for a small second home Columbia no longer resembles getting to be known around the It’s Only a Play. McNally began his related matters. My wife, Becky in Montauk). So, in this relaxed ca- the school that we knew 40 years courthouse as the lawyer with a Gents, I trust all is well. And yet, theatrical work early, majoring in BC’83, and I have a house near pacity I will soon be heading from ago but we were all there, in our bike helmet in his briefcase. Enjoy- as you can see, we got shut out this English at the College and partici- Akron, Ohio, where we hibernate Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur and own way, pulling that oar, trying ing empty-nester life now that both time around. It’s been a while since pating in the 66th Varsity Show. whenever possible in front of the Singapore by train. While there, to get it to crack, so we could keep of my children are working and that’s happened so I will dispense Steven Greenfield shares his fireplace in the winter or on the perhaps I can study great cities and something. I feel lucky that I can have their own apartments.” with the vitriol. If it happens again, annual music picks with the class, front porch in warmer weather.” new transportation systems to get hold and see what I kept, but it’s Congratulations to James for though, you can bet your socks writing, “As was the case in 2012 Paul Lerner ’83 and Stephen Reis were married on October 25 at If he could take a course on the pointers to help my “not quite an really only the memories that mat- making up for my heavy carbon that I’ll pin an epistle to the Class (2013, actually), I am coming out the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Left to right: Andrew Heights, Mark would opt for Asian mega-city” but still quite ter. Let me know what you’ve kept footprint! of 1982 on the front gates of the with this survey so late in the Gessner ’83 and his husband, Garth Huggins; the grooms (Lerner philosophy. wonderful very big town of New stashed away somewhere all these Also in NYC, A.J. Bosco sends University that would impress following year that I am not going is at left); Douglas Murray and his husband, David Lyle ’83; and Sometimes I think that no fami- Haven, where I remain delight- years, and what helps remind you note of a cheery reunion of room- Martin Luther himself. How’s that to take the time to make general Michael Lavine ’83. ly has more Columbia connections fully challenged as the economic of how far you’ve come. You can mates and hallmates who gathered for a CC’esque reference? comments on the year in popular PHOTO: PEARDON CARRILLO PHOTOGRAPHY than the Flores clan of Hartford, development chief. always write me at the addresses at around the holidays at Pete’s You have my addresses at the music. Suffice it to say that, around Conn. John Flores LAW’81 gives Until we meet again, write with the top of the column. Or send your Tavern, near Gramercy Park. In top of the column. I can also be 2008, I witnessed a young female us the rundown on his daughters: news and views when you can. thoughts via the CCT webform addition to A.J., the group included reached via the CCT webform performer from the West Coast, Jon Ross continues his efforts rns for 25 years (he was the head of “My youngest, Jessica ’10, will college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ Tom Leder, Stuart Christie, John college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ whose name I have long since in Burma on behalf of MicroAid Global Mortgage and Asset Backed graduate from Cornell Law in class_note. Denatale, Greg Staples and Jesse class_note. forgotten, predict that in five years International, helping residents Trading and Originations from May and plans to start a job with a Robert Klapper Roar, lion, roar. Davis. A.J. writes, “It’s hard to be- the compact disc would be extinct. deal with the effects of the cyclone. 2006 to 2008), among other jobs. He NYC law firm after the bar exam. 79 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 lieve we’ve been friends for more While it continues to lose ground He writes, “I heard amazing stories is a trustee at the Intrepid Fallen (I have had to deal with another Los Angeles, CA 90048 than 37 years!” Roy Pomerantz to digital distribution, streaming of horror and devastation from Heroes Fund. REUNION WEEKEND color in the house aside from light John DeNatale sends word that Babyking/Petking (naturally) and, oddly enough, a the night of the cyclone (category Andrew Botti also passed along [email protected] MAY 28–31 83 blue!) My middle daughter, Me- he and his wife, Mary Crowley 182-20 Liberty Ave. revival of LPs, the CD hardly could 5 hurricane) but also of survival. a press release with career news: ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS lissa ’07, is an elementary school Marc Jensen is still rowing, kind of. BC’81, both ran the Paris marathon Jamaica, NY 11412 be declared an endangered spe- One story was about a 90-year- “The law firm of McLane, Graf, ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott teacher in NYC and she will be He writes that he is “helping to pro- this past April with a group of cies as 2013 came to a close. Also, old grandma whom her family Raulerson & Middleton Profes- [email protected] [email protected] getting married in August. (The mote the arrival to the East Coast friends. Mary works at the Vera whereas electronica releases have put into a plastic washtub as the sional Association is pleased to 212-851-9148 first wedding for my children, so on June 5 of a full-scale replica of Institute of Justice, and John is an On December 10, while in an Atlan- dominated my album of the year storm surge started flooding in. announce that Andrew P. Botti has DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan I expect to cry a lot!) My oldest, L’Hermione — a 216-ft. frigate made assistant dean of communications ta airport bar, I watched on ESPN2 in recent times, this year’s choices The grandkids swam alongside been named to [Massachusetts [email protected] Danielle ’04, works at the Law famous because in 1780 she carried at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School as the Lions valiantly competed are very different, drawing on her all night, making sure she Gov.] Charlie Baker’s advisory tran- 212-851-7833 School Admissions Office and is the Marquis de Lafayette and word of Law. against No. 1 ranked Kentucky. Of Europop, folk and psychedelia. stayed afloat in the raging 130 mph sition committee on jobs and the pursuing an advanced degree at of Louis XVI’s support for the Michael C. Brown Across the pond, Philip Frayne the same game, Kevin Chapman “My thanks once more go to winds! I met her; she’s now 97. economy. A director in McLane’s TC. Having a law degree from a American Revolution. She will visit 80 London Terrace Towers is the minister-counselor for public writes, “Columbia ran out to an Steve Holtje and Luis Rueda for When you are there in the delta litigation department, Andrew has Washington, D.C., law school was 10 American cities, including New 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, 11–0 lead and led the entire first half their suggestions about what was — with its vast watery landscape of represented large corporations, not enough for her. York. My passion for this project New York, NY 10011 where he recently attended Reid and the first seven minutes of the worth paying attention to in 2013 open rice paddies and marshy islets smaller businesses and family- “My wife, Lucille, is a tenured led to my becoming one of the [email protected] Hall’s 50th anniversary celebration second half before Kentucky finally and to my partner, Melissa, for her (like the Florida Everglades, times a owned and operated enterprises in professor at Gateway Community volunteer sailors who will work to at the Hôtel de Talleyrand. Phil asserted itself and won the game, moral support throughout the time hundred) — you realize how terri- complex commercial and employ- College. I enjoy my job at Boston bring her across the Atlantic starting Your Reunion Committee was spent a semester at Reid Hall back 56–46. But the Lions held Kentucky it took to finish this survey.” fying a hurricane charging across it ment-related disputes for over 20 Mutual Life Insurance Co. but I in late April. I have never worked hard at work this past winter plan- in the day. to its lowest point total of the year His list of the Top Twelve must have been, and how helpless years. He has tried numerous cases have to deal with Patriot fans.” so hard, except when I was a light- ning our upcoming 35th reunion, Finally, as we reflect on the past and its slimmest margin of victory (albums) for 2013: 1. The Limiña- it must have made people feel. No to verdict in both state and federal Alex Demac forwarded me a weight rower for CU, to be up to a Thursday, May 28–Sunday, May and look toward the future, the fol- to date. A nice performance!” Kevin nas, “Costa Blanca”; 2. The Focus wonder 300,000 drowned; there court, and has appeared on behalf note from Bennett “Ben” Caplan physical demand like this.” 31, which includes Dean’s Day lowing note from Greg Harrison and Sharon’s son, Ross ’18, plays Group, “The Elektrik Karousel”; was no place to go, no escape. Now, of employers before various admin- about a great Columbia tradition. You can learn more at hermi on Saturday, and we urge you to sums up how fortunate many of with the Marching Band. 3. Sigur Rós, “Kveikur”; 4. Julia years after the storm, even though istrative and legislative agencies Ben writes, “I have had conversa- one2015.com. Great to see Marc join us on Facebook (“Columbia us are: Bruce Abramson SEAS’87 Holter, “Loud City Song”; 5. Burial, houses have been rebuilt, people such as the Massachusetts Commis- tions with many of you about following his passion. College Class of 1980 Reunion”) to “I am not the most acclaimed, shares, “I’m thrilled to announce “Rival Dealer”; 6. Tim Hecker, “Vir- still need basic things like clean sion Against Discrimination. … going to the Varsity Show this year From me, Robert C. Klapper: keep up with the latest plans. You accomplished, smartest or wealthi- that I have joined Keystone Strategy gins”; 7. Sleigh Bells, “Bitter Rivals”; water and sanitation, either because “Andrew is recognized as an ac- (Friday, May 1–Sunday, May 3). Standing in the stairwell inside my also can read more and register at est alumnus of the Class of ’81 but as a senior expert, resident in the 8. Public Service Broadcasting, “In- they lost it during the storm or tive advocate for business interests Why go? Well, we are not getting home in Ventura, Calif., is the 12- college.columbia.edu/alumni/ I am grateful. Having buried two NYC office. Keystone is a global form, Educate, Entertain”; 9. Juana never had it. Through MicroAid across Massachusetts. He has been any younger … The show will of foot hollow wooden oar from my events/alumni-reunion-weekend. brothers and my father in the last strategy and economics consulting Molina, “Wed 21”; 10. Broadcast, we will do what we can to alleviate a lead proponent for maintaining course be superb. And when I let freshman year on the crew team. We look forward to seeing you! few years, then having to hospital- firm specializing in the analyses “Berberian Sound Studio: Original some of the suffering.” the current state of the law con- the producers know that some This is the oar that I pulled as hard I also look forward to reconnect- ize my teenage son this past year, I that the digital age both enables and Soundtrack”; 11. Autechre, “Exai”; Through a press release, we cerning non-compete agreements alumni of the show might come, as I could through the waters of the ing with classmates for these Class can honestly say it was the higher demands. It provides clients with and 12. Polvo, “Siberia.” learn that “Intrawest Resorts Hold- in Massachusetts, and the broad they said they’d love to have us. I Hudson and Harlem rivers, hoping Notes. But there’s no reason to wait critical skills that were developed two distinct yet complementary Wayne Allyn Root writes, ings, a leading North American and necessary protections such also can guarantee that the results and praying that it would crack until an occasion like reunion to by my Columbia education that types of service: strategic advising “[My daughter] Dakota graduated mountain resort and adventure agreements afford employers. An- will be more satisfying than going because I was told that if I could renew our commitment to sharing helped me through extensive soul- and expert testimony. from Harvard magna cum laude company … announced the hiring drew is admitted to the Supreme to a Columbia football game!” crack that oar, I could keep it. It updates for these pages — the searching and to answer questions “Given my own longstanding in May, and my wife and I are so of Thomas F. Marano as the com- Judicial Court of Massachusetts Need I mention that in New Ha- took me the entire year … and one column is an ideal way for us to such as ‘why?’ My son is better, commitment to understanding the very proud of her. Meanwhile, I pany’s CEO, effective immediately. (1991) and the U.S. District Court ven, Conn., where we worship the day it cracked. I don’t have many be in touch and keep up with one my daughter is vibrant, my wife relationship among the changing had a sterling year that included [He] will also serve on the com- for the District of Massachusetts, as Shubert Theatre, half the famous relics from our time at Columbia another’s milestones any time. is more radiant than when we economics of information, strategic [my giving] business and political pany’s board of directors.” well as the First and Eighth Circuit shows that opened here were writ- but this one means a lot. Write me with your news at either married 20 years ago and I have a behavior and litigation and regula- speeches all over the world, in- According to the press release, Courts of Appeal. Andrew earned ten by Columbia men who cut their How simple life was 40 years address listed at the top of the renewed perspective on life. May tory settings, the fit seemed natural. cluding Hawaii and Singapore. Thomas had been chairman and his J.D. from Northeastern.” teeth writing the Varsity Show? ago. Buying a subway token, living column or via the CCT webform the New Year bring peace, toler- Keystone’s expert witness group My projects for 2015 are a new CEO at Residential Capital (also On November 20, I attended the Good idea, Ben. in that dreadful freshman dorm, college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ ance and healing for all of us.” promises to provide a particularly business book and my own news/ known as ResCap) from 2008 to Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner Finally, a perk of my life in Carman, hearing of the future of class_note. Please keep me posted on your good home for my own practice. politics website.” 2013. He also worked at Bear Stea- honoring Phillip M. Satow ’63. I had

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES the pleasure of sitting with Steve “I am in frequent communication nominated for essays written for ing time with Howard Snyder in an eye out for registration and my wife, Susan Scheman Ratner national publications and we of the thin blue line that protects Coleman and his daughter, Sarah with Ben Heimsath and his wife, a Coltrane anthology and a Nina Shanghai and Ed Leibowitz ’85 in event information, if you haven’t BC’86, and boys (22, 19 and 16). have syndication agreements with the weak. There is a great deal of be- ’15. Phil told a great story about Sandi. They continue to thrive in Simone anthology. He is a music Los Angeles. Our family has adjust- received it already, and please sign Our oldest, Alexander, is a senior at papers around the state. hind-the-scenes work that the men how, as an unheralded infielder for Austin, Texas, and enjoy [spending journalist and professor of music ed to the transition from Manhattan up in the coming weeks to be there. Yale, my middle son, Matthew ’18, “On a more somber note, last and women of law enforcement the Lions baseball team in all four of time with] their first two grandkids, history and criticism at NYU’s to the Bay Area suburbs, although Our goal is “85 in 85”— that is, to is a baseball player at Columbia year most of us turned 50. In the do to help and protect those who his undergraduate years, the coach Nicholas (2) and Holly (1), born to Clive Davis Institute of Recorded my lovely wife, Kathryn, commutes get 85 classmates to attend. The — go Lions! — and my youngest, midst of my routine colonoscopy cannot protect themselves from could never seem to remember their daughter, my goddaughter, Music. often to NYC for work with PwC. 30th reunion classes have boasted Daniel, is a high school junior at we discovered a stage 3 cancer. I predators and violent criminals. his name. Satow Stadium is now Kristin Lee Marker, and her hus- I look forward to connecting with as many as 95 attendees in recent Newark Academy. I am still very had no risk factors, no family his- “My years at the College gave the home to the 2013 and 2014 band, Colin. The Markers live in other Columbia alums on the West years and our class had more than much involved in Columbia athlet- tory — nada — and only a vague me a worldly perspective that Ivy League baseball champions. L.A. I visited Kristin and saw the Dennis Klainberg Coast.” 70 turn out for our 25th, so we ics, mostly the tennis team but also symptom. By the time you all read allows me to talk with people Significantly, the current coach no Heimsath grandkids while I was 84 Berklay Cargo Worldwide From Wade Dizdar: “My poem think this is an attainable goal. the baseball team. I have inter- this, I’ll be done with treatment and from all walks of life. When I am longer has any trouble remember- there for Paul’s wedding.” 14 Bond St., Ste 233 Memories II, written about UVA grad The Reunion Committee has viewed for the College [through have a terrific prognosis. But I want involved in a violent crime inves- ing Satow’s name. Andy Barth BUS’85 writes, “This Great Neck, NY 11021 school, was one of two honorable held multiple meetings to ensure the Alumni Representative Com- to say to the folks who haven’t done tigation it is difficult to remain I spent time at the dinner with year I will enjoy my 30th year at [email protected] mentions for January on Goodreads. that we create a range of events, mittee] for many years and really it, go get your screening. It’s really objective; however it is a necessity Paul Maddon ’81, Michael Schmidt- Capital Group Companies. I have I submitted Entenmann’s Days with opportunities to meet our enjoy it. I remain a proud alum! not that bad and could save your to treat all parties fairly in pursuit berger ’82, Doug Wolf ’88, Brian enjoyed many responsibilities in Bill Maxwell writes, “Greetings (Memories) for February.” Barnard and Engineering class- “I am on campus a bunch these behind — literally!” of the truth. I come from a long line Krisberg ’81, Phil Milstein ’71, Ira that time, investment and manage- from St. Louis, where [on account Robert Zecker writes, “It was mates, include our families and days for Barnard and Columbia Malin ’75, Dave Javdan ’90, Daniel rial, and am now focusing mostly of what happened in Ferguson] great to see folks at the 30th re- just have fun. In addition, there is a events and to visit my son, and I Tamkin ’81, Special Adviser to the on investing again in our fixed we’ve entered world history for union, especially fellow Marching full slate of University-wide events absolutely love it. Also, I watch Dean James McMenamin, Dean income funds and accounts. My the first time since the 1904 World’s Band members Dennis Klainberg, (including Dean’s Day lectures on many Columbia baseball games North Carolina Health News, the online health James J. Valentini, David Filosa philanthropic involvements include Fair, and mostly failed the test. Ben Pushner, Steve Greenfield ’83, Saturday, family-friendly activities and tennis matches. I hope to be at news service launched by Rose Hoban ’85 in ’82, Stephen Jacobs ’75 and Gerald a number in Los Angeles (Hun- This note is inspired in part by the Stan Alama SEAS’84 and Steve and affinity group receptions). reunion (for once!).” Sherwin ’55. tington Library, California Science appearance of my old friend Dave Holtje ’83, and Glee Clubbers Thanks again to everyone who Ron Sunshine, who lives in 2011, has finalized agreements with a national My wife and I attended the bar Center, Pomona College) and New Cowan’s good news about his Wayne Weddington, Ari Brose has participated in the effort so Pennsylvania, has been a bandlead- publication for syndication. mitzvah of Oliver Simon, the son of York (American Ballet Theatre). I appointment as an L.A. Superior BC’84 and Beth Knobel BC’84. far: Brian Cousin, John Phelan, er and recording artist for 25 years. Mark Simon ’84 and his wife, Me- am still involved in wrestling and Court judge.” Nothing too new here — I traveled Tom Scotti, Steve Carty, Aaron His band is based in NYC and he lissa, in November. Jim Weinstein have started a nonprofit in Los Bill is an English professor at this past summer for research [and Freiwald, Michael Cho, Karen Har- plays two Fridays a month at Swing ’84 and his wife, Alicia SIPA’01, also Angeles called Beat the Streets – Los Washington University in St. attended a] conference at Oxford, ris, Heather Paxton, Joe Titlebaum, 46 in Midtown. Since taking up I got a shout-out from Rob Ripin, of public servants and I am proud attended, as did Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Angeles; it brings after-school pro- Louis. He published his third book, England (Mansfield College at the Leslie Smartt, Abraham Thomas, music full time in 1991, Ron has who was a joint Stuy/CC classmate. to serve my community and to be a who is currently doing some deals grams to underserved communities F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s university). Ken Handelman, Tom Carey, Paul performed and/or recorded with Rob has been keeping the world safe brother to my brothers and sisters with Daniel Schultz in the health and schools. It is modeled after the Ghostreaders Framed African Ameri- “Just before reunion I was work- Bongiorno, Tom Vinciguerra, Steve artists such as Dr. John, the P-Funk for corporate finance for more than in law enforcement. My hope and care area. Paul and my wife are Beat the Streets organization started can Literature, in January. ing at the Library of Congress and Sivakoff, Julius Genachowski, Horns, Wilson Pickett, Tower of 25 years and is a partner at the New prayer is that you have all found both ob/gyns and shared life in New York. Also, as one of the three tuba had a chance to catch up with Rob David Zapolsky, Kevin McCar- Power, Charles Brown, Pinetop Per- York office of Hogan Lovells, where satisfaction and meaning in your experiences. Paul Maddon ’81 was “I will also be the team leader for players to grace the Columbia Rubinson. He teaches law at Bal- thy, Michael Krumper and Mark kins, David Johansen, Gary “U.S.” he has a broad capital markets trans- careers, as I have. also there. the U.S. men’s freestyle wrestling University Marching Band during timore. Still enjoying life in Nova Rothman. Bonds, Medeski Martin & Wood, actional practice and has represented “On a lighter note, anyone who I am thrilled to report that Ed team at the 2016 Olympics. Excited our tenure, I’m sure he is thrilled Scotia at my little farmhouse.” Now to the news. AWB and Johnny Copeland as well issuers, underwriters, corporate wants to enjoy beautiful New Joyce and Linda Gerstel BC’83’s to add that I will be shoulder to that the world now recognizes “it’s Any other submissions from Larry Rogers writes, “I doubt I’ll as bands like Blues Traveler, The trustees and depositary banks in Hampshire can contact me for the daughter, Sarah ’19, was admitted shoulder with Kyra Tirana Barry all about that bass.” classmates will make the next be able to make our 30th reunion, Holmes Brothers and Joan Osborne. both equity and debt offerings. inside scoop at Frederick.Lulka@ early decision. ’87, who is serving in the same Jonathan Duitch reports, “I’ve column! but I did want to update you on Rose Hoban writes, “Three years I also heard from Columbia soc- dos.nh.gov. It is still a somewhat David Lyle shares, “It’s a girl! role for the U.S. women’s freestyle passed the 30-year mark since When I was in Miami recently my writing activities. Last year was ago I left my relatively easy, cushy cer Hall of Famer Amr Aly, who is undiscovered gem for outdoor Robert Lucero and his wife, Olga, wrestling team. What I enjoy the moving to Israel after graduation. I was thrilled to see Columbia’s a breakout one for Carol Storm job as the health reporter at the local practicing law at Mayer Brown and fun.” celebrated the birth of their first most, however, is serving on the I continue to guide groups of visi- basketball team on national TV (my nom de plume) as House Arrest, NPR affiliate (in North Carolina’s anticipates a busy first half of 2015. Dave Nachmanoff writes, “I will child last week. She is Nina Violetta Columbia University Board of tors to Israel and Poland on Jewish come very close to defeating No. 1 Crystal and Gold and Love Beyond Research Triangle region) to launch Larry Slaughter, my Jay 11 be returning to the United Kingdom Lucero. Rob’s adult sons, Matthew Trustees. This is a great group of educational journeys to explore the Kentucky. But more to the point, as Time were all published online by North Carolina Health News, an freshman floormate, says he wants this spring for another tour with (22) and Martin (20), also welcome people who are completely commit- past, present and future narra- heralded by Michael Ackerman, Blushing Books. (They’re available online health news service. I started to be part of the reunion action. So [folk-rock musician] Al Stewart, and their baby sister. Robert and his ted to Columbia. tives. My wife, Laurie, and I have we did win if viewed in the light through Amazon and Barnes & the service because in a state of we know the investment banking once again we will be at the Royal family live in Deep River, Conn. “Family life is excellent. My raised three children and now are of our Marching Band song (to Noble as well.) Blushing Books is nearly 10 million there was only one sector will be well represented. Albert Hall in London (Saturday, From Rob: “‘Nina was born wife, Avery, and I will celebrate experiencing empty nest syndrome the tune of “Oh, Who Owns New the oldest and one of the most re- other full-time reporter covering Of course, if you live in Moscow, May 16, and Friday, May 22). That early Thursday morning [Decem- 27 years of marriage in October. (it has its moments). York …”) — “Oh, Who Beat the spected e-book houses on the Web, the health beat and I felt the issue it’s a little harder to get to NYC for is the first place I saw Al perform ber 11, 2014], 19 inches long, 7 lbs., Our children are all moving ahead “When our daughter, Merav, Spread?” and it pays considerably more needed more coverage than I was reunion, so Serge Ozerov BUS’89 when I was studying at Oxford 4 oz. Olga and Nina are both vigor- productively. Emily (24) will earn who is doing a triple major in Write me with news! I can be than the publishers with which able to do in the 50-second bursts says he won’t be able to join us. during my junior year as part of ously healthy. a master’s in communications philosophy, political science and reached at the addresses listed at I’ve worked. My next goal is to sell allowed on the radio. However, in Serge lives abroad with his wife the Oxford-Columbia exchange “By the way, [my partner] Doug’s management in May from USC’s economics at the Hebrew Univer- the top of the column or via the to a major New York house such order to do that, I needed to start a and two children. He has spent the program (in the ’84–’85 school and my two girls, Mary and Frances, Annenberg School for Communica- sity of Jerusalem, asked me what CCT webform college.columbia. as Harlequin or Avon. Although not-for-profit and take on the roles last six years working as CEO of year). I came back and played there are 4 and thriving; they enjoy play- tion and Journalism. Catherine (22) I knew about Adam Smith or Karl edu/cct/submit_class_note. I’d be the first to admit I haven’t of administrator, editor and fund- DeltaCredit Bank, a subsidiary of with him in 2006, and again in fall ing violin and taking swim lessons. graduated from USC in 2014 and is Marx, I just said, ‘Good luck!’ Our always appreciated the value of raiser as well as lead reporter. I now the French banking group Societe 2013, when we played his entire They’re very athletic, and they cer- preparing to apply for a physician son, Nadiv, is finishing a long five my B.A. in English literature from understand folks who start their Generale, and in December moved Year of the Cat album with many of REUNION WEEKEND tainly didn’t get that from me. This assistant degree. She is currently years in the Israel Defense Forces, Columbia, the editors who worked own businesses much more acutely: to Rusfinance Bank as CEO. the original musicians. MAY 28–31 past fall, Doug and I took our family volunteering with International combining being a commander with my manuscripts went out of the obsession, the long hours, the See you in May! “Regarding the May shows, the ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS to Los Angeles to attend the October Medical Corps providing typhoon with Yeshiva studies. Our young- their way to tell me they’ve never frustrations and the satisfaction of second night was added because ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott 25 wedding of Paul Lerner and relief in the Philippines. Andrew ’16 est, Naomi, after two years of seen copy as smooth and profes- creating something out of nothing. the first sold out so quickly! We [email protected] Stephen Reis at the Beverly Wilshire (20) is majoring in political science. national service, has spent the last sional as mine. And it sure beats “I give my husband, Steve, Everett Weinberger also play frequently in the United 212-851-9148 Hotel. Michael Lavine and Andrew Avery (18) is a freshman at USC.” five months in Central America working!” tremendous thanks for his support 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B States and I’ve been able to see a DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan 86 ‘Andy’ Gessner were also there from We are truly fortunate to have doing what young Israelis do; may Evan Ratner BUS’91 sent in his and tolerance of — ahem — de- New York, NY 10023 few of my friends from Columbia [email protected] New York for the occasion. Andy a classmate who serves on the she return home safely.” first submission: “After college, I creased remuneration and endless in different parts of the country. 212-851-7833 [email protected] attended with his husband, Garth Board of Trustees. Congratulations, Adam Dicker has exciting news: played on the pro tennis circuit for hours! (We celebrated our third If anyone is curious to hear some Huggins. At the dinner reception Andy! “My son, Shimshon ’19, was accept- Jon White a few years, which was grueling anniversary in November.) I now A detective, a rock guitarist and a music, please check out davenach. that followed, Paul and Stephen Finally, Ashley Kahn has been ed to Columbia, early decision!” 85 16 South Ct. but great fun. Then I made my way have five folks working for me, reverend walk into a bar. This is com. And if you can, come out to a seated their guests with Columbia nominated for a Grammy Award Eric Wakin writes, “I’m in my Port Washington, NY to Goldman Sachs M&A, went to we’re recognized as the leading not the start of a joke but perhaps show and say hello!” connections at the ‘Rodgers and for his liner notes for Offering: Live second year as Robert H. Malott 11050 graduate school for business and source for health care coverage what would happen if our class- The Rev. Jim Mitulski recently Hammerstein’ table. Love it. Michael at Temple University, a 1966 concert director of library and archives at [email protected] subsequently worked for DLJ/ in North Carolina, and money, mates Fred, Dave and Jim were to finished his term as pastor of the had been instrumental in helping album by legendary saxophon- the Hoover Institution at Stanford, Credit Suisse for around 18 years. I in the form of donations, grants, meet up for drinks. Read on! Cathedral of Hope United Church Paul and Stephen connect with the ist John Coltrane, released in where I’m also a Research Fellow. As you read this column in March, left in 2009 and am now a partner sponsorships and income, is finally Fred Lulka, our man in Concord, of Christ, the largest LGBT church pianist and vocalist who entertained September. This is Ashley’s third Work has taken me to Asia, Europe our Alumni Reunion Weekend is at a long/short credit hedge fund arriving. We finalized agreements N.H., writes: “I work tirelessly as a in the world, and has started as with songs from the classic Ameri- time being nominated in the album and the Mideast this past year and I less than 100 days away, Thursday, near my home. with a national publication, we’re detective for the New Hampshire pastor of Metropolitan Community can songbook during dinner. note category; he was previously had the pleasure of recently spend- May 28–Friday, May 31! Keep “I live in Short Hills, N.J., with referenced widely in state and State Police. I am proud to be a part Church of the Rockies in Denver,

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES another LGBT-affirming church. Ah, teens! We can’t force them to Heights upon graduation. So, groups couldn’t stop the church” these properties. lake. We all look forward to visiting I have been bumping into MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY We also heard from Eric Pomert, follow in our footsteps! what’s happened in the past 27 [from allowing the construction,] “I also spend a chunk of time Hana at Columbia next year and Columbia classmates by accident 10025. who shares, “I’ve been film editing Farah also said that she and years? Jim and his wife, Dianna, he said. volunteering. This year I became a spending more time in New York.” and on purpose left and right these Can’t wait to see you all in May. for about 25 years and recently Lee Ilan met up for the People’s live in the quaint town of Ashburn- Margaret Traub-Aguirre lives in board member of Columbia College Jonathan Cohen and his wife, days, or so it seems. Until then, happy spring. developed a film class curriculum Climate March in New York City ham, Mass., with their children, Marina del Rey, Calif. “Doubt I will Women and chair the CCW Men- Cindy Cohen (née Ceresney), live It turns out that Steve Rosenberg that I’m teaching in adult schools in September and had a great time Stephanie, Chelsea, Nicholas, Ella ever tire of seeing the ocean and toring Committee. You may know in Bergen County, N.J. Cindy is a SEAS’90 works with my husband in Piedmont and Richmond (Bay together. and Lydia. Until recently Jim had sunshine every day,” she writes. that CCW is being ‘re-launched’ pediatrician practicing in Rockland in the Wireline Competition Bureau Margie Kim Area, California). It’s called ‘Edi- Now I have the incredibly sad spent the entirety of his profes- “But I miss New York, family and this year with expanded goals and County, N.Y., and Jonathan is of the FCC. Steve has been at the 91 1923 White Oak Clearing tor’s Eye: Cinema Appreciation duty to report the death of Amy sional career in the public sector. friends, so I try to visit a few times programming to reach and to bring president of Genesis Computer FCC for five years. After Columbia, Southlake, TX 76092 from the Cutting Room Perspec- Fowler. Amy lived just down the He was a tenant rights organizer a year. I am approaching 10 years together more of our alumnae. It’s Consultants. Their daughter, Yael he earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in margiekimkim@ tive.’ For years clients and friends hall from me on the fifth floor of with the Boston Housing Authority with the humanitarian organiza- all very exciting, and I encourage ’19, will begin Columbia in the fall physics at UCLA. When he told me hotmail.com told me I should teach about film Carman freshman year and was right out of school while earning a tion International Medical Corps. everyone to see what we are up to and their son, Daniel, is in 10th that his wife is building a detector storytelling, so it’s gotten off with a among the first people I met at master’s in public administration As anyone who watches the news at college.columbia.edu/alumni/ Greetings to all! bang and I’m developing my notes Columbia. Divya Singh, who from Clark. From there he leapt knows, the world has seen an in- getinvolved/CCW. Of course, I A floormate from Carman 8, into a book about how film story- shared the suite with Amy, along into local government adminis- ordinate number of crises this past would love to hear directly from Heather Lubov ’91 is now executive director of Heather E.G. Brownlie, married telling both reflects and shapes our with Holly Gilbert and Cindy tration as the chief of staff for a year, between Syria, Iraq, Gaza anyone who wants to mentor Douglas Edwin Smith on May 3, minds.” Lash ’86, collaborated on this note mayor in Gardner, Mass., for six and the Ebola crisis. So it’s been a students! New York City’s City Parks Foundation, a nonprofit 2014, on Castaway Cay, Disney’s Also on the West Coast, Paul about Amy: years, then as a town administra- challenging time for me and my “[As I write,] this past weekend that develops free and accessible programs in private island in the Bahamas. The Spinrad is living happily in San “Many of us were saddened by tor in Ayer, Mass., for six years. colleagues. I had the rare pleasure of see- ceremony was held on the beach Francisco with wife Wendy and the recent death of Amy Fowler. He landed in Winchendon, Mass., “On a sunnier note,” Margaret ing my old roomie, Adrienne parks across the five boroughs. with a reception onboard the Dis- kids Clara (7) and Simon (6); he is Born in Louisiana, she grew up in where he has been town manager writes, “I recently had lunch with Waterston. She stayed with us for ney Dream cruise ship. Following an editor for Timeline, a technology Nashua, N.H., the only girl amongst for 14 years. Mary Shein Santamarina, who the weekend and hand-delivered a honeymoon in the Caribbean, and media startup. three brothers. She was one of the In addition to his public service shared the latest on her two boys a fabulous oil painting that she grade. The Cohens have recently for X-rays that will launch on a Heather and Doug returned to Keep the notes coming! You can first in her family to attend college work, during the last few years and her husband, and her always- painted just for me. She has re- been in touch with Bonnie Host, rocket, all I could think was, “Wow, their home in Orlando and their write me at either address at the and was proud to maintain the Jim has developed a thriving solar entertaining tales from New York ally started to take her art to the Jeffrey Weinberg and Anne-Marie there’s a lot of science in that house- respective careers in the transpor- top of the column or via the CCT connections and friendships she power consultancy. As an active Surrogate’s Court. I also met up next level. She’s taking classes Brillantes. hold.” Steve and I did not know tation industry. webform college.columbia.edu/ formed at Columbia. A genuinely player in Massachusetts’ robust with Alex Wallace Creed. You at Penn, where she resides with Thanks to everyone who got in each other at Columbia but when Congrats to Heather and cct/submit_class_note. kind person toward everyone she solar marketplace, Jim has been a wouldn’t know by her relaxed and her husband, Tim (who teaches touch but I’m always eager to hear we met at an FCC colleague’s cock- Douglas! encountered, Amy never lost her development partner in the deploy- effervescent demeanor that she there), and her lovely boys, Max from more of you. I can be reached tail party in November, he looked Heather Lubov writes, “In small town humility and honesty. ment of ground-mounted solar has the weight of NBC News on (10) and Ian (5). Adrienne also has at either address at the top of the so familiar that I just knew he had November I started a new job as Sarah A. Kass She majored in psychology and power facilities. One project, the her shoulders. What a delight to begun showing her art at local art column or via the CCT webform to be from college. I love how small the executive director of the City PO Box 300808 spent her professional life in execu- Iron Horse Park landfill site in Bil- chat while watching the Rock- shows/galleries and developing college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ this world can be. Parks Foundation (CPF), which 87 Brooklyn, NY 11230 tive recruiting and development. lerica, Mass., was recently awarded efeller Center Christmas tree go up her website, where she posts all class_note. In December, I caught up with runs, among other programs, Sum- [email protected] She loved sports, gardening, travel one of the Environmental Protection outside her office window. I also her work fit for public consump- Dan Sackrowitz BUS’98. No lon- merStage, the (totally cool) free and living in New Jersey with her Agency’s first Superfund Excellence was in D.C. and visited Sara Just, tion: aquadesign.us/Adrienne ger in the fashion business, Dan is summer concert series that takes REUNION WEEKEND Good news from the highest ranks husband, John. Even during her in Site Re-use awards. who at the time had just barely Waterston.html. now a mattress professional — he place in Central Park and around MAY 28–31 of government! In October, Presi- cancer diagnosis and treatment, Even more enjoyable to Jim, taken over PBS NewsHour yet had “And what’s a holiday without a is VP of e-commerce for Sleepy’s NYC. I have gone to SummerStage ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS dent Barack Obama ’83 reappointed she maintained her optimism and however, has been his involve- time to sit and talk about life and party and a fabulous mini-reunion — and commutes from Westches- with many Columbia friends — it ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Herbert Block to be a member of humor. She is survived by her ment with SonPower (son-power. family and our days at Columbia. I with classmates? My freshman ter to company headquarters in started in 1986, so I remember lots [email protected] the U.S. Commission for the Preser- husband, her father and her three com), of which he is a co-founder. also made it to Boston and visited roommate, Elizabeth Zimels, Hicksville, N.Y. of fun shows during our college 212-851-9148 vation of America’s Heritage brothers. Those of us who knew SonPower is a solar company that with Jonathan Lavine, who has stopped by on her way to play in a Here is a shout-out to Joy Kim years and beyond — and hope that DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan Abroad. Since 1999, Herb has been her will always remember her joy, focuses on bringing solar power to been a good friend and a generous hockey game. She is a veterinarian Metalios, who married Steve many others have as well. I encour- [email protected] assistant EVP of the American energy and generosity.” houses of worship in an effort to supporter of my organization. and lives with hubby Tom Nero, Metalios ’89, has three busy kids age classmates in NYC to visit 212-851-7833 Jewish Joint Distribution Commit- As Divya and I recalled in the relieve their budget stress and help Like Mary, Alex and Sara, he has a cardiologist in private practice, and lives in Greenwich, Conn. In this summer and to get in touch tee. He was first appointed to the days and weeks after Amy’s pass- them become “green witnesses” carved out an extraordinary and and their son, Henry, in Wilton, Rachel Cowan Jacobs December, Joy achieved the top if they’d like to be involved with Commission for the Preservation of ing, Amy really was one of the in the community. The first group meaningful career while maintain- Conn. I also caught up with Kelvin 90 313 Lexington Dr. level of sales production for 2014 CPF.” Heather can be reached at America’s Heritage Abroad in 2011. most amazingly positive people procurement, part of an initial ef- ing an incredibly compassionate Leung ’88, BUS’02; his wife, Kathy; Silver Spring, MD 20901 at William Raveis Real Estate. Her [email protected]. Herb has held numerous positions we knew. I was always struck by fort for all of the United Methodist and giving spirit. As Dean James J. and their daughters, Sophia (11) [email protected] sales volume of more than $25 mil- Julie Black shares, “Early last in New York City government since her Facebook posts, where she churches in New England, is on the ‘Deantini’ Valentini would say, we and Audrey (9). They are longtime lion in residential sales qualified her summer I completed a self- graduating from Brooklyn Law modeled her latest wigs and hats street right now. have the best class! I feel honored residents of Pelham, N.Y. Kel keeps Did anyone other than Judy Sham- for the company’s Chairman’s Elite designed, trans-state triathlon School. rather than bemoan the loss of her SonPower’s work reaches well to know such exceptional people.” himself busy working for Master- panier catch the December 2 New Club and also placed her in the top journey to raise awareness about I also have good news for New hair. She described her numerous beyond churches in the United Well said, Margaret. Card and avidly rowing crew for York Times Health section article by 1 percent of real estate agents in the transportation fuel supply and Yorkers, as Joe Feuer SIPA’91 is emergency room trips as adven- States, as 10 percent of its proceeds Please keep sending updates their local rowing club. fellow Carman 8 resident James United States. demand issues. Starting in Tusca- back in town! Joe wrote to say that tures rather than trials, and was is used to deploy solar power and photos! I look forward to hear- “We all felt very old when we Kanter, “I Was My Own Trauma Nice work, Joy! loosa, Ala., I swam one day, rode after being away from our lovely always the first person to cheer me solutions in the missions field in ing from you. realized mid-party that my daugh- Unit”? It’s quite a gripping read, My final plug before seeing my bike approximately 900 miles city for 12 years, having lived in up if I posted about things going developing nations worldwide. ter, Emily, and her friends are the and James reports that he is almost everyone at Alumni Reunion Week- across four states in two weeks and Washington, D.C., Georgia and wrong. Divya recalled that a week If there are any Columbians with same age we were when we met … back to his pre-bike accident self. end, Thursday, May 28–Sunday, topped off the journey with a short Ukraine, he is back to take on the before her passing, Amy went an interest in solar power deploy- Emily Miles Terry and we felt blessed.” James is EU correspondent for The May 31: Please show your Colum- run and then some dives into a role of executive director for corpo- to Las Vegas with her father and ment generally, or in solar power for 45 Clarence St. Jeff Kateman LAW’92 lives in International New York Times and bia love, appreciation, recognition pool in Austin, Texas (I was a diver, rate leadership at The Conference brother and expressed nothing but houses of worship here and abroad 89 Brookline, MA 02446 Southern California and writes: lives in Belgium. He’s been with or however you want to label it after all, for the Columbia swim- Board. Technically, he is still a gratitude and joy for being there. more specifically, Jim would love to [email protected] “I can’t believe it’s been 25 years! the company since 2005. From both by making a donation to the ming and diving team). resident of D.C. and commutes to I know how much I already miss hear from you to see if there is op- My wife, Nam [Kim LAW’92], The New York Times’ website, “His Columbia College Fund in honor of “The journey was a concatena- NYC four days a week. her, and I also know how blessed I portunity for collaboration. Contact I recently caught up with Anne- and I had a great time at reunion. previous experience includes four our 25 years since graduation and tion of much of what I’ve been Brother, can you spare an apart- am for having had Amy in my life. him at son-power.com. Marie Brillantes, who lives in After law school I moved to Los years in Southeast Asia where he by attending reunion. Think of how through since graduation, including ment? Those of you who knew her will, David Stoll writes, “I am a trusts South Nyack, N.Y. Anne-Marie Angeles and started practicing at was editor-in-chief of The Cambodia much fun it will be to see your cam- a life-changing experience when I Farah Chandu writes that, much I’m sure, agree. and estates partner at Milbank, writes, “These days I am keeping Latham & Watkins, where I am a Daily newspaper. He later studied pus BFFs, reconnect with long-lost sold my Jeep Wrangler in 2006 to to her chagrin, neither of her kids Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and live busy with my kids, Emily (19), partner specializing in mergers and law and regulation as a Knight friends, get to know acquaintances help defray the costs of getting a applied to Columbia. However, in Carnegie Hill. I jog through the Adrian (15) and Olivia (10). After acquisitions. Fellow at Yale, earning a master’s. better and meet classmates (sort of master’s in economics. I then went she recounts the tale of how her Eric Fusfield campus pretty much every week- college and medical school I was a “I met Nam at law school, so James has won awards for his like me and Steve — see above). three years without a car in two U.S. daughter, now a first-year at Smith, 88 1945 South George end and always think it looks better physician-researcher but left that Columbia has certainly been a reporting on markets and antitrust You can give online by going to cities that are not well equipped for went on a tour of Cornell with Mason Dr. than ever. For people who haven’t whole gig about four years ago to special place for my whole family! and has contributed to prize-win- college.columbia.edu/alumni/give those without vehicles. Laura Ting’s daughter, who is now Arlington, VA 22204 been back to Morningside Heights stay home to be with my kids. I She and I have two girls. Hana ’19 ning coverage of banking scandals or by calling the Alumni Office, “I chronicled much of my triath- a sophomore at Cornell. Farah said [email protected] recently, the big and terrible change had always invested in real estate (whom we are thrilled to see join and the euro crisis. He received the 212-851-7488; or mail a check, pay- lon trip in real time on my Facebook that all she and Laura could do is the big and ugly apartment as a hobby but now it has grown the ranks at the College) is a senior 2009 Reporting Europe Prize for able to Columbia College Fund, to page as well as on an event page: was roll their eyes at them from a Jim Kreidler wrote for the first building being built just north of St. into a reasonable investment so I at Harvard-Westlake School. Emma an investigation of the European Columbia College Fund, Columbia facebook.com/JBOiltri. I am still in few feet back. time since leaving Morningside John the Divine. Protests by many spend part of my time managing is a sophomore at Harvard-West- Union Emissions Trading System.” Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., the process of blogging about the

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She is the director of some gorgeous beach days and will get my master’s in social work sitting in my studio and remem- cess. Luckily, I took notes, pictures with our cancer products.” the Contemporary Art Initiative watched our four children (and from Penn in May 2016. I do con- bering.” The drawings were made and videos, and the underlying Philip has been in pharma since at Westfield World Trade Center potential Columbians) play beauti- sulting with Bread & Butter, which with black gouache and brushes on memories are still extremely vivid his mid-20s, working first at Bayer, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s fully together. In the fall Jenny was helps nonprofit organizations raise various sized pieces of paper. Mala (theoilplatform.blogspot.com).” then Sanofi, then to the smaller- Tisch School of the Arts. While in New York City and caught up money and awareness.” celebrated the release with shows Would love to hear from more scale Medivation 2 ½ years ago. “I she is a fan of NYC, she is also a with Thad Sheely, Shiva Sooudi Rebecca recently spoke to Anne in Philadelphia and Hudson, N.Y., of you! Remember, I’m reachable really like what I do and love the traveler with several globetrotting Farouki, Sandra Fahy and Nelson Kornblut and Susannah Rosen- at the beginning of the year. Find three ways: at either of the ad- autonomy of working from home,” adventures planned for this year — Eubanks ’94 over dinner and stock and reports that both are out more at behomeherebook.com. dresses at the top of the column or he says. to Uganda, Kenya, Brazil and Italy, drinks; even more recently she doing well: “Susannah is in Toronto Dr. Jennifer Glueck (née Ross) through the CCT webform college. caught up with Robyn Tuerk over with her husband and two kids, has moved from South Florida to columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ drinks. working for the Art Toronto: To- the Chicago suburb of Highland note. Ali Towle coordinated a get- ronto International Art Fair. Anne is Park and set up a private practice Until next time … cheers! Erin Dracos Scott ’93 released her first book, together in mid-November for a spending the year in California with in reproductive and endocrine Yummy Supper, which features gluten-free recipes weekend of football. On Saturday, her husband and two kids, doing a health. She and her husband, Ali, married couple Julie David- fellowship at UC Berkeley.” Markus, live in nearby Wilmette, Olivier Knox and Scott’s photography of her creations. son Hassan and George Hassan, Rebecca is also in touch with Ill., with their daughters, Monika 92 9602 Montauk Ave. Thad Sheely, Robyn Tuerk and Rachel DeWoskin, who “was on (10) and Tessa (7). You can see Bethesda, MD 20817 I — along with some spouses and the road last fall promoting her more about her at glueckmd.com. [email protected] As for me, I hope you’ll tolerate a among other places. kids — met at Robert K. Kraft new book and is doing great in I heard the news about Jen’s wee personal note: If you subscribe Isolde also provided updates Field to watch the Lions take on Chicago with her husband and two move from Ronen Glimer ’96 and The mailbag was a little thin this to SiriusXM, you can hear my new about Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg, Cornell in one of the more exciting kids, writing and teaching.” his wife, Amy Abrams. They live quarter but we’re going to make (two episodes as of this writing) Herby Raynaud ’97, Diana Mc- football games of the season (the Thanks to everyone who wrote in Brooklyn with their kids, Ruby up for our quantity issues with radio show on Wednesdays at 2 Clure and married couple Erin second and third quarters were in! As always, I hope you are doing (8) and Noa (6), and run Artists quality. Please keep those updates p.m. on “POTUS,” Channel 124. Or Dracos Scott and Paul Scott. the highlights). After the game we well and I welcome your updates. and Fleas, a vintage market in coming! I know, I know, but your you can consider this your warning Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg lives met up with Joan Campion ’92 to You can reach me at either address Williamsburg and Chelsea Market Friends from the Class of 1993 got together in November for classmates actually do want to hear to change the channel. Either way. in Stockholm with her husband and take in some men’s soccer and then at the top of the column or via the (artistsandfleas.com). the Columbia-Cornell football game and then for dinner at V&T. from you. Write! You can reach me at the two children. She was on campus headed to V&T for dinner. Sandi CCT webform college.columbia. Hope to see you all at the Clockwise from left: Julie Davidson Hassan, Sandi Johnson, Jed Meyer piped up to report addresses at the top of the column with daughter Yasmine last year Johnson joined us, and later, Neil edu/cct/submit_class_note. Until reunion in May. There will be Ali Towle, Robyn Tuerk and Betsy Gomperz. that he was recently named global or via the CCT webform college. for our 20th reunion and enjoyed Turitz. It was a memorable CC’93 next time. events for kids, too, so bring your research director at Annalect, an columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ meeting up with old friends. It’s evening. little ones along. Go to college. Omnicom Media Group company note. been nine years since her first novel, On Sunday, Ali, Julie, George, columbia.edu/alumni/events/ REUNION WEEKEND earned an M.F.A. and was for 10 blacklisted Hollywood filmmak- in New York City. He joined Annal- Uptown and Down, was published, Sandi, Thad, Robyn and I (plus my alumni-reunion-weekend for more MAY 28–31 years an actor before succumbing ers who sought exile in Europe. ect more than two years ago after but she has been working on a new husband, Mike) went to MetLife information and to register. to her “yogic passions.” Rachel Rebecca also edited a book that ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS nearly 20 (!) years at Nielsen, a gig Betsy Gomperz book and is involved in relaunching Stadium to see the San Francisco I will be happy to take first-time ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott enjoys blogging about dating (call- was published last year, Cinematic that took him to Atlanta, Chicago 41 Day St. the Columbia Alumni Association 49ers take on the New York Giants CCT contributions at reunion, [email protected] ing it “the other path to spiritual Homecomings: Exile and Return in and Shanghai. Jed manages re- 93 Newton, MA 02466 club in Sweden. in an NFC match-up. All in all, it but you can also always reach me 212-851-9148 enlightenment”) and writes that Transnational Cinema. search and insights teams in Latin After many years of working was a great weekend with great at the addresses at the top of the Ann Zipkin Betsy.Gomperz@ DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan she “believes in nerdiness, laughter (née Obringer) is America, the Asia-Pacific region, in financial services technology, friends and some pretty good column! The CCT webform works, gmail.com [email protected] and existential amazement.” If any doing a second year-long tour in Europe, the Middle East and North Herby Raynaud ’97 decided to pur- football (says the Patriots fan)! too: college.columbia.edu/cct/ 212-851-7833 classmates make it to Vancouver, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies, America “to help Omnicom clients As I sit to write these Class Notes it sue his entrepreneurial dreams. He Thank you to everyone who submit_class_note. Rachel invites you to stop into due to her husband’s business, understand the rapidly changing is December, but you will read them is CTO and technical co-founder shared updates. I hope to get more Janet Lorin a class and say hello! Check out Tradewind Aviation. Ann writes media and consumer landscape,” in early March. In my last column, of digital fashion media platform for my next column! 95 730 Columbus Ave., rachelyoga.com. that her sons, Luc (9) and Ben (7), he says. Jed, his wife, Julie, and I mentioned that Eric Roston TheRunthrough. He is also a coach Apt. 14C Ana S. Salper Lisa Moore recently completed seem to be handling the transition their two school-aged daughters, GSAS’98 was living in Montclair, and mentor at the Peter Westbrook New York, NY 10025 96 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA 16 years with the Government from their home in Connecticut Veronica and Natalie, have called N.J., because I had heard that from Foundation, a celebrated inner- Leyla Kokmen [email protected] Brooklyn, NY 11201 Accountability Office. In recent to the French schools well, as they Park Slope, Brooklyn, their home Thad Sheely. Well, this time I heard city youth fencing and education 94 440 Thomas Ave. S. [email protected] years she has led reviews of federal have done it before. Ann is keeping for 12 years. directly from Eric, who says, “I program. Herby was a founding Minneapolis, MN 55405 As we get ready to commemorate housing programs, including hous- busy with her own business, de- Philip Fischer gets it: He sent write about climate change and en- member of the organization while [email protected] 20 years since our graduation, I’m Greetings, classmates! ing assistance for the elderly and signing university and high school his first CCT contribution after ergy for Bloomberg. My wife, Karen a Columbia student; he later joined happy to share more professional Taariq Lewis lives in San Fran- for persons afflicted with HIV, and alumni magazines as well as logos, seeing my appeal for material in a Yourish JRN’98, is a graphics editor its Board of Directors after retiring Happy news from Amit Bose and personal good news about cisco, works in the Bitcoin space housing programs that encourage brochures and posters. previous column, writing, “Things at The New York Times. We moved to from competitive fencing. SIPA’95, who writes that he and classmates. and writes that he recently ran into work and self-sufficiency. Jeremy Craig SIPA’97 has lived are going well on this end. Busy as the New York area after a decade in Diana McClure is engaged in his wife, Gira, welcomed their Michael Kingsley has a new ad- fellow CC ’96ers at random. These Juan Espino completed an in Singapore for 14 years and has usual with life, but all is good.” Washington, D.C., last year when a somewhat bohemian existence daughter, Ilina, on May 1, 2014. dition to his family. Samuel Milton include “partying at Mighty” M.P.A. from Harvard’s John F. Ken- been running an SAT prep company, Busy “as usual”? YOU GUYS she took that job. Our daughter, on the banks of the East River, in “She’s kept us busy,” Amit writes, joined Aaron (3½) last September. with his McBain roommate Seth nedy School of Government in 1998, starting an International Baccalaure- (as they say on the webternetz), Madeline, is 7 and having a great Brooklyn. She is focused on writ- adding, “in September, I started Michael, his wife, Harra, and the Jacobowitz, dining with Janet then worked for Policy Studies ate prep company and consulting in Philip got married! On June 23! To time in first grade! I recently took ing, recently began contributing to as associate general counsel at the boys live in Hartsdale, N.Y. Go and separately having lunch Associates, a research and evalua- the education sector. He writes that his partner of eight years, Kenneth her to Columbia for the first time to the International Review of African U.S. Department of Transportation. Michael has been running media with Stacie Hoffmeister, who is tion firm in Washington, D.C., until he spends his spare time considering Karp! Congratulations! see if she could find the owl in the American Art and is planning for Things are going well in D.C.” relations for a Wall Street broker- doing interesting work in product 2005. Juan then entered a Catholic whether to adopt a cat, maintaining Philip continues, “We threw a folds of Alma Mater’s gown. She did retirement in the tropics. I received a nice note from Re- age firm, Convergex, for a year and branding and developing her own religious order, Disciples of the a single-digit golf handicap, trying 50th birthday party for Ken but (with some help ... )!” Erin Dracos Scott and Paul Scott becca Oppenheimer (the scientist he enjoys working with old media startup company. Hearts of Jesus and Mary, whose to recreate the tagliatelle al ragu didn’t tell any of the guests that the I also heard last fall from Elena are living the good life in Berkeley. formerly known as Ben), who is colleagues at Bloomberg, Fox and Rachel Scott lives in Vancouver origin is in Spain. For his formation bianco he once had in Florence and event was also going to be a wed- Cabral JRN’99, who had recently Erin, a writer, photographer and chair of the astrophysics depart- elsewhere. I ran into him in the and is the director of Teachers’ Col- he attended Saint Damasus Eccle- growing basil. His business interests ding, so it was kind of a surprise, attended the “Taste of Woodside” entrepreneur, recently released ment at the American Museum of elevator at Bloomberg. lege and Development for YYoga siastical University in Madrid. Juan allow him to travel widely in the which was nice for us, as we’re event hosted by Adrian Bordoni her first book, Yummy Supper, with Natural History and an adjunct Mala Iqbal, who lives in New (a community of yoga studio and was ordained as a priest in June region and leave his adoptive home not kids and didn’t have to deal and featuring Rachel Mintz’s fan- wonderful recipes and gorgeous assistant professor of astronomy at York, writes that the book she lifestyle centers based in Vancou- 2013 and was assigned to a parish — which, he says, is a wonderful with the myriad questions and tastic photography of Woodside. photographs all her own (yummy Columbia. She writes that she “has worked on for more than three ver). In addition to creating and in Littleton, Colo., for three years, place but a very small (and very unsolicited advice that come with Adrian is executive director of supper.com). Paul is an educator been hard at work over the years, years, Be Home Here, is finally out. overseeing the 200- and 300-hour before moving to Alexandria, Va. expensive) island. weddings. We were able to do it Woodside on the Move, an organi- and teacher at Head-Royce School mainly focusing on finding planets It contains 140 pages of images, teacher trainings, Rachel teaches Rebecca Prime is a noted film Ernest Garnier is an internist at exactly as we wanted.” zation that does wonderful work and is working on transformational around other stars.” about which she says, “My inspira- workshops and classes, and loves historian and last year published SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Philip works for San Francisco in the community. Elena writes, “It global educational initiatives. Rebecca Femia (née Weinberg) tion came from all the parts of to work as an educational consul- a well-received book, Hollywood He lives in Valley Stream, Long biotech company Medivation: “I was a great night of delicious food, Jenny Hoffman, who has lived wrote in with an update about everyday life — daydreams, bus tant, with a focus on anatomy and Exiles in Europe. The book ad- Island, and is married with four am the local medical science liaison beautiful pictures and Class of ’93 in Rome since graduation, traveled herself and several classmates. Re- rides, Grimms’ fairy tales, looking sequencing. Since graduation, she dresses the lives and work of the children.

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Keep those notes coming! You acre vegetable farm without farm- search concerns issues in the philoso- raising her daughter, May, surfing you can reach us at the addresses For those of you who have can reach me at either of the listed hands, producing naturally grown phy of mind and cognitive science, and working with her husband in at the top of the column. There’s contributed to our Class Gift — addresses or via the CCT webform heirloom and open-pollinated and he is working on a book on the his various businesses. Apparently also the CCT webform college. thank you! As you know, every gift college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ vegetables in Warwick, N.Y., where psychology of imagination. living in Southern California is columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ counts toward the all-important class_note. they go on weekends. Feel free to Anthony Lemaire is an assistant kind of nice! note. participation number that publica- Here’s your food for thought for drop in during growing season professor of surgery at Rutgers’ There’s more news to be had, tions such as U.S. News & World this edition: (April–September), pick your own Robert Wood Johnson University my dear CC’98ers; I know it. Write Report look at when determining REUNION WEEKEND “Don’t cry because it’s over. veggies and watch their 4-year-old Hospital and was inducted as a me at either address at the top of rankings. It’s never too late to give, MAY 28–31 Smile because it happened.” steer a tractor. Learn more at russo fellow of the American College of the column or submit an update and you can support our campaign ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS — Dr. Seuss familyfarm.com. Surgeons. He lives in Princeton, via the CCT webform college. by visiting college.columbia.edu/ ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Omar Chaudhry appeared on a N.J., and recently celebrated his columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ giveonline. [email protected] local news program, Diverse Long second wedding anniversary. note. Keep the news coming! I can 212-851-9148 Sarah Katz Island, on the issue of civil rights. Keep the updates coming! As I look forward to hearing from be reached at either address at the DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan 1935 Parrish St. The topics covered were freedom ever, you can write me at either ad- you! top of the column or via the CCT [email protected] 97 Philadelphia, PA 19130 of expression, privacy and human dress at the top of the column or via webform college.columbia.edu/ 212-851-7833 [email protected] rights. The 30-minute show aired the CCT webform college.columbia. cct/submit_class_note. on November 8 and November 9 edu/cct/submit_class_note. Adrienne Carter and Prisca Bae John Dean Alfone’s newest project, on News 12 Long Island. Jenna Johnson 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B The Arnold Chronicles, recently Joe Delafield recently returned 99 Columbia Alumni Center 00 New York, NY 10011 Jonathan Gordin played at the 27th Dallas VideoFest. to New York after living in Los Sandie Angulo Chen 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 [email protected] 01 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. According to the festival website, Angeles for several years. His wife, 98 10209 Day Ave. New York, NY 10025 Los Angeles, CA 90068 it’s “a period piece that follows the Nim Tottenham BC’96, joined the Silver Spring, MD 20910 [email protected] I’m excited to kick off our column [email protected] Liza Mamtani ’03 and Alexander Mnatsakanov were married on random journeys of two Korean Columbia psychology department, [email protected] [email protected] with some great news from Natalia July 26 in the Dutch countryside. Here, the bride with friends in War veterans, Arnold and Charlie, so they are back in Morningside Petrzela (née Mehlman). Natalia I know it’s been a while since the Amsterdam the day before the wedding. Back row, left to right: as they travel through the 1950s Heights with their two daughters. Happy spring, Class of ’98! As we toast in the New Year in is thrilled to announce that her holidays but this is my first chance Raheleh Hatami ’03, Sandra Hu-Torres ’03, Alicia Li Cho ’03 and American South/Southwest in Joe, an actor, can be seen Off- Let’s get started with some baby Class Notes, we are also celebrat- book, Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, to say that I hope everyone had an Mamtani; front row, left to right: Kanchana Pinnapureddy BC’03, search of meaning.” John says there Broadway this spring, in the Mint news. Anne Pordes Bowers and ing all the change for the Class of and the Making of Modern Political amazing time, and to wish you all Archana Pinnapureddy BC’03 and Misato Sakamoto ’03. are plans to turn it into a TV pilot, Theater’s production of Ferenc her husband, Pete, who live in 1999, even in just the short time Culture, will be out in April. a wonderful 2015! and he would like to hear from Molnar’s Fashions for Men. South London, welcomed a son since reunion. Congratulations, Natalia! Kim Bosse (née Harris) recently anyone who is interested in work- Swati Khurana’s photo essay, last summer. Jack Samuel Pordes On the job front, Caitlin Schrein Glenn Yiu writes that after being opened a business, Birch Road She was 20 inches long. rated UH-60A/L and UH-60M ing together. Diwali, Once Hidden, Now Lit Large, Bowers was born at home on recently started at the National on the opposite coast from his wife Cellar, a social club, in the Lincoln John Balzano and Anthony Black Hawk pilot. Elaine Baumgartel is the news was published on October 22 in August 6, and he made his debut Science Foundation, where she is for two years while doing fellow- Park neighborhood of Chicago. Porto ’97 welcomed their son, Patricia Marinoff got engaged director at KUNM radio in New the science writer and social media ship training in vitreoretinal surgery She describes it as a members-only Sebastian Anthony, on October 31. to Stuart Winchester JRN’08 on Mexico. Before becoming news manager for the Directorate for at Duke, he has joined the faculty at club unlike any other private club, Sebastian weighed in at 6 lbs., 9 oz. July 9. The wedding will be June director, Elaine wore many hats the Biological Sciences. As part UC Davis as an assistant professor; with a casual and comfortable Jonathan Lemire and his wife, 27 at the Angel Orensanz Center in at this public radio station: local Omar Chaudhry ’97 appeared on Diverse Long of her work, she helps to explain he is setting up a laboratory focus- environment that is accessible and Carrie Melago GSAS’04, announced Manhattan. anchor of NPR’s Morning Edition, Island to discuss issues of civil rights, freedom to the public and policy-makers ing on retinal disease research. affordable for most. Membership the birth of their second son, Flynn Richard Mammana is book reporter in the KUNM newsroom, the important scientific advances Alan Moses also has made the brings access to 3,000-plus sq. ft. Hamilton, on November 6. They are review editor in ecclesiology for and host and producer of the of expression, privacy and human rights. being made by federally funded move out west, but to Southern of space for meetings with clients, so happy to have Flynn in their fam- Anglican Theological Review, a quar- KUNM Call-In Show. As a gradu- researchers and science programs. California. He and his wife, Mi- entertaining friends or quiet date ily and report that Beckett (3) is prov- terly journal published in Chicago. ate student in the communication Daniel Alarcón’s second novel, randa Calderon ’01, relocated to Los nights. The club has no sign, no ing to be a spectacular big brother. Anna Martinez and her husband and journalism M.A. program at The New York Times. She has a col- visit to New York in December. At Night We Walk in Circles, was Angeles after years in Toronto. They storefront and no advertising. You Jonathan is covering NYC Mayor welcomed their first child, a boy, Eli New Mexico, Elaine completed laborative photography project on Pete is doing a three-year doctorate one of five novels selected for the would be psyched to reconnect walk in through an unmarked Bill de Blasio SIPA’87’s administra- Amin, on August 23. He is healthy her thesis project on the West Mesa view at the Smithsonian National in educational psychology (which Slate/Whiting Second Novel List. with classmates who are in the L.A. door with fingerprint entry; each tion and other political stories for AP. and they are excited to be parents. murders, the unsolved killing of 11 Museum of Natural History in Anne explains is the United King- Congrats, Daniel! area, so please reach out to them. member receives an oak locker in He was recently profiled in The Bos- Agnia (Baranauskaite) Grigas is women found buried in the desert Washington, D.C., part of the Be- dom’s version of school counselor), Tamara Baxt Clemmons is proud Nissim Schaul has a few updates, the state-of-the-art cellar where he ton Globe for his career in journalism proud to announce that she will join in 2009, and how the media covers yond Bollywood: Indians in America and Anne is going back to running to report that her husband, John both professional and personal: “I or she can store a favorite wine or and his time running high school Truman National Security Project as violence against women. exhibition, which runs until March her own consulting business. Anne Ray Clemmons, was elected to the recently released a CD, New Music spirit. Anyone who wants to learn and college track. The family makes a security fellow in 2015. She looks Monique Chang and Dan Russo 2015. The Schomburg Center for says she and Pete are thrilled with Tennessee House of Representatives for Old Instruments, which consists more can submit a request for their home in Brooklyn. forward to connecting with fellows GS’96, BUS’98 live near Robert K. Research in Black Culture (New parenthood and grateful for the on November 4. John Ray defeated of music I wrote for the Baroque information at birchroadcellar.com. Congratulations to all the new in Los Angeles and Washington, Kraft Field and enjoy Columbia’s York Public Library) commissioned U.K.’s maternity leave and national a 28-year incumbent in the August ensemble Flying Forms between Congratulations to Kim! parents, and regards to all! I’d love D.C., and across the country. new waterfront access at Muscota her to make an embroidery based health system. Anne and Pete may Democratic primary and ran unop- 2006 and 2009. The music is exactly Andrew Rudman wrote with to hear from more of you in 2015. Photographer Mike Mellia lives Marsh. They have a new venture in on a stanza of Ntozake Shange’s be new parents but they have been posed in the November election. He what it says it is: contemporary clas- an exciting update: “I live in Los You can always reach me at the and works in New York City. He addition to their day jobs — a 12- “for colored girls” poem. This past married for nearly six years. was proud to receive the support sical/experimental music for old Angeles with my wife, Punam, and addresses at the top of the column. has an impressive portfolio, and year, Swati also was published in Jordan Konig wrote in with of many of his Columbia friends (Baroque) instruments. It’s currently our 2-year-old daughter, Uma. After Or send a note via CCT’s webform as his website (mikemellia.com) The Weeklings, The Asian American career and move updates. After and lightweight crew teammates, available as a physical CD and in earning an M.A. in mathematics at college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ explains, his “allegorical imagery Literary Review, Jaggery and The Los 11 years in Dallas with the federal including Emily Parker, Jay Car- lossless download format at cdbaby. Boston College in 2005, and briefly class_note. relates to larger conceptual ideas, Columbia College Angeles Review of Books, and she district court and U.S. Attorney’s son, Tim Hogan ’97, Claire Ponder com/cd/flyingforms; it’s also avail- flirting with the idea of an academic telling stories through a painterly Alumni on Facebook received a Kundiman fellowship Office, he has moved to Washing- Selib BC’97, Geoff Warren ’98, Tim able for normal mp3 download on career, I hit the road with my group, technique and creating cinematic for Asian-American writers. ton, D.C., and joined the Depart- Howell ’98, Dave Blaschak SEAS’95, iTunes. The Two Man Gentlemen Band, Sonia Dandona compositions. Mike’s signature After graduating, Peter ment of Justice as a trial attorney Nate Sadeghi-Nejad ’97, Dan Rich- “I live in Paris with Sarah Elzas. and spent the better part of the last 02 Hirdaramani style is a distinct aesthetic that com- Langland-Hassan was in the band with the Tax Division. On his road man ’98, Neil Patel SEAS’98, Chris I compose, and she is a journalist decade barnstorming across the 2 Rolling Dr. bines an old-world sense of beauty Check out the Elk City for a number of years. The trip from Texas to D.C., Jordan McKenna ’95, James DeFilippi ’00, for Radio France Internationale, country and Europe, playing ’20s- Old Westbury, NY 11568 with complex modern ideas. He has Columbia College band released a few albums on indie stopped in Nashville for dinner Mayur Khandelwal SEAS’98, Greg mostly covering France for the and ’30s-style novelty music while [email protected] held several solo art exhibitions in labels and toured internationally. with Cathy Chang, Chas Sisk Ventresca ’00, Andrew Baxt ’04, English service.” occasionally working on mathemat- NYC and Europe, and his work has Alumni page! He married Antoinette Schindel JRN’03 and their children, Cai and Nashville mayor Karl Dean ’78 and Congratulations to Jason ics textbooks. Since early 2013, I’ve Happy (almost) spring! been commissioned by a variety of facebook.com/ BC’98 in 2004 and earned a Ph.D. in Mei. Chas recently started covering Bill Hudgins ’72. O’Reilly, who married Lauren Viles been the series composer and song- Tom Schneider is excited to commercial clients.” alumnicc philosophy from the CUNY Gradu- politics and business for WPLN/ Tamara and John Ray, both on August 31 in Augusta, Maine. writer for a new Disney cartoon introduce Fiona Serene Schnei- These Class Notes are too short! ate Center in 2009. He is an assistant Nashville Public Radio and Cathy members of the men’s lightweight In the meantime, I hope you series Wander Over Yonder (working der. Fiona arrived on October 10, I know they don’t represent the Like the page to get professor of philosophy at Cincinnati is doing interesting and innovative crew (Tamara was coxswain), all are making plans for our 15th as Andy Bean). The show starts its weighing 6 lbs., 15 oz. The whole breadth and depth of what our alumni news, learn and Antoinette is a benefits attorney work in home pastoral care in a met during their freshman year reunion. Please save the date: second season early this year.” family is doing well. classmates are doing and enjoying about alumni events and at Keating Muething & Klekamp, pilot program started under the at Columbia’s old boathouse. The Thursday, May 28–Sunday, May Nice to hear from you, Andrew! Daniel Lupo married Kelly in their lives. Let’s do better. Write also in Cincinnati. They have two Affordable Care Act. couple welcomed their third son in 31. Check college.columbia.edu/ Michelle Grzan Bass and her College happenings, McSween on March 14 and, at me at either address at the top of sons, Avery (7) and Jude (4), who Before he left Dallas, Jordan July and live in Nashville. alumni/events/alumni-reunion- husband, Joel Bass, welcomed their this writing, was set to graduate the column or send news via the view photos and more. are interested in Pokémon, Star Wars also caught up by phone with Erin That’s all for this column. Send weekend for more information and daughter, Zara Rixie, on October 18 from U.S. Army Aviation Center of CCT webform college.columbia. and Crazy 8s. Peter’s academic re- Harken McConkey. She’s busy us your news in 2015! Remember, to register. at 6:22 p.m., weighing 8 lbs., 5 oz. Excellence on January 29 as a dual- edu/cct/submit_class_note.

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ment Agency. Shaun Ting recently In residency, Davis were married in July in San returned from the United States, see kids. Happily in love, Diego. They say, “Columbia is a where he visited his brother Yan north of the border. particularly special place for us. We Ting SEAS’05, who has moved to From Delia DeRose: reconnected at the Columbia five- Los Angeles to pursue an M.B.A. Instructional Coach year reunion and started dating a Thanks for all the updates! I look Wife, toddler-wrangler, poet few months later. There was quite forward to hearing more soon. You Beautiful chaos a Columbia crew at our wedding! can reach me at either address at the Caitlin Verrilli writes, We are so grateful that all our top of the column or via the CCT New year and new job friends could join us to celebrate webform college.columbia.edu/ I’m helping reform healthcare our special day.” cct/submit_class_note. Bronx Partners for Health The couple lives in Seattle, where From Edward A. Rueda: Harmony works for Amazon and I am thirty-two. Fareed works for McKinsey. Angela Georgopoulos Put that chainsaw down, In conclusion: 04 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 young man! Ten-year reunion New York, NY 10038 Oh no! Swish, plop, roll. Smiles, gossip, drinks, memories [email protected] Xan Nowakowski writes, See you there, OK? days: research on health Come on, CC’04ers: Let’s not let nights: teach self new guitar skills this column turn to tumbleweeds! work, play, find balance Michelle Oh Sing It’s a great way to stay up to date Becca Israel writes, 06 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 on one another’s lives: job changes, S.E.C. — new job. Philadelphia, PA 19107 family news, exciting travels, career Son turned two in October. [email protected] achievements and personal mile- Boston, freezing cold. Lauren DeLauro ’06 and Andrew Senno were married on Septem- stones — we want to hear about Benjamin Harwood shares, I hope your 2015 is off to a great ber 27 in a ceremony at St. Paul’s Chapel; a reception followed at any and all of it. You can write me Backyard sunshowers, start! Next year at this time we’ll be The Plaza. Left to right: Megan Ivey ’06, the bride, Amy Cass ’07 at either address at the top of the Sawdust, crawfish, bourbon, gearing up for our 10-year reunion, and Lauren Baranco ’06. column or send a note via the CCT sweat which seems impossible to believe PHOTO: HECHLER PHOTOGRAPHERS webform college.columbia.edu/ NOLA on the rise. (Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, cct/submit_class_note. Claire Tamarkin Snyder titled 2016)! I’m already looking forward her poem, On Teaching 7th Grade to reconnecting with many of you Jordy Lievers ’07 and Jared Eaton were married on September 20. Back row, left to right: Tim Paulin Michael Novielli Literature at a Charter School in then. For now, here are some up- ’08; Bryan Mochizuki; Jake Olson ’07, BUS’14; Krista Worby BC’07; Matt Barsamian; Ted Malawer ’06; press on this in the last several REUNION WEEKEND World City Apartments months. Here are some examples: Newark: dates from our brilliant classmates: Patrick Barrett ’09; Erin Byrne BC’09; Tom Keenan ’07; Hillary Sullivan; and Conall Arora ’06; middle 03 MAY 28–31 Attention Michael J. galvanizeu.com/press.” Grading bad essays Liesl Yamaguchi’s translation row, left to right: Luciana Olson ’07; Olivia Gorvy ’08; Laura Kleinbaum ’08; Erin Debold BC’07; Carly ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Novielli, A608 Zach Munoz writes, “I obtained Only mitigated by of the Finnish masterpiece The Sullivan ’07; Caitlin Shure ’07, JRN’13; Liz Ichniowski ’07, BUS’13, SIPA’13; and Tricia Ebner ’07; and ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Block 10, No 6. Jinhui my architectural license in Texas All these hugs I get Unknown Soldier (by Väinö Linna, front row, left to right: Shruti Kumar ’08; the bride; and the groom. [email protected] Road, Chaoyang District last May and now reside in Denver, From Seton Hawkins: published in 1954) will appear in PHOTO: JENNA MARIE PHOTO 212-851-9148 Beijing, 100020, People’s where I’m a registered architect at Working in NY the Penguin Classics series in April DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan Republic of China Fentress Architects. I spent the past Producing jazzy content (U.K. release). [email protected] few years in Texas and Las Vegas Insert third line here Justin Ifill writes, “I am happy [email protected] 212-851-7833 Soong were married in San Fran- David D. Chait September 20, I married Jared Ea- working on a range of projects, Teresa Herrmann writes, to announce that I got married this cisco at the Legion of Honor on 4621 Old Cheney Rd., ton, whom I met at the American I sincerely hope that 2015 is off to a from hospitality to educational and Claire McDonnell married to pepin past November in an extremely September 13. (The venue houses 07 Apt. 6 Repertory Theater Institute for great start for each and every one institutional facilities. I’m enjoying 05 47 Maiden Ln., 3rd Fl. creative life in brooklyn small ceremony. A grand party one of the original The Thinker stat- Lincoln, NE 68516 Advanced Theater Training at Har- of you. And for those of you who the Denver sunshine.” San Francisco, CA 94108 with endless pasta is pending but I am glad to have ues, by Rodin, identical to the one [email protected] vard. We had a blast and both the follow the lunar calendar, Happy Justin Sellman is running the claire.mcdonnell@ From Ruben Harutunian: (finally) tied the knot! Also, Ifill on the lawn outside of Philosophy Class of 2007 and the Varsity Show Year of the Sheep! e-commerce and global wholesale gmail.com Moved to Armenia Events had its first event on the Hall.) They were joined by Richard I hope that everyone stayed warm family were well represented. Tamar Simon works for Soda- sales divisions for luxury acces- Wife, daughter and son in tow West Coast, in Los Angeles, this Rosenblum SEAS’04, Rafael Pastor this winter and is ready to enjoy “Columbia alumni in atten- Stream’s new professional division, sories maker Ghurka. Hello, Class of 2005! I’m excited DiplomatsRUs past September; it was exciting, as ’72, Jonah Van Bourg ’07, Zach spring! Here are some exciting dance included Tim Paulin ’08, helping restaurants, hotels and Adam Kushner was named edi- to see many of your pretty faces Tian Zhang writes, was hanging out with Beth Katz, Rose ’05, Sandra Amari Rose, updates from our classmates. Bryan Mochizuki, Jake Olson, offices with a kitchen become more tor of The Washington Post’s Sunday at our 10-year reunion, Thursday, Research and patients Dan Kessler and Dylan Diehl ’05.” Monica Sethi, Kelsey Osgood, Maria Barbu writes, “My hus­ Krista Worby BC’07, Matt Bars- sustainable with water-filtration “Outlook” section (which includes May 28–Sunday, May 31, with 2 great kids, Viv and Ethan Jeremy Kotin is excited to have Moran Baldar ’09, Samantha Shap- band, David Nida, and I welcomed amian, Ted Malawer ’06, Patrick systems. She’d love to connect with the newspaper’s nonfiction book events taking place both on cam- Onc job Duke July completed his second year as cre- iro, Adam Zucker and his wife, our son, Edmund Daniel, on August Barrett ’09, Erin Byrne BC’09, Tom Columbians working in hospital- coverage). He will also remain as pus and at venues around Manhat- Tian adds, “I am finishing my ative director of Tandem Pictures, Marisa Zucker, Leslie Verbitsky 18. Edmund weighed 6 lbs., 13 oz. Keenan, Hilary Sullivan, Conall ity or at any firms that provide editor of PostEverything, the digi- tan. You can find more information oncology fellowship and will start which released its Sundance Film and her husband, Dave Verbitsky We’re so excited!” Maria also shares Arora ’06, Luciana Olson, Olivia employees with beverages. She can tal magazine he launched for the and register by going to college. as a GU oncology attending at Festival hit, The Sleepwalker, with SEAS’06, Sean Mirmelli SEAS’05, that she is an associate at Morrison Gorvy ’08, Laura Kleinbaum ’08, be reached at tamar.simon@gmail. Post in 2014. He and his team are columbia.edu/alumni/events/ Duke in July. The kids are growing IFC Films this past November. Zac Kleinhandler and Robert Mahoney in NYC. Erin Debold BC’07, Carly Sullivan, com. always on the prowl for good story alumni-reunion-weekend. big — Viv is almost 3 and Ethan is Jeremy also had a dream come true Gutmann ’05. Simeon Siegel recently wel- Caitlin Shure, Liz Ichniowski, Tri- Daniel Shamah writes, “My ideas, so “pitch me,” he says. Inspired by last issue’s haiku almost 1!” in collaborating with director Baz Lauren DeLauro married comed a son, Asher Herbert. He cia Ebner and Shruti Kumar ’08.” wife, Danielle BC’03, and I moved Yvette Siegert SOA’07 received submission by Nathanial Becker In other news, Alyssa Wiesel Luhrmann on videos for his “Baz Andrew Senno on September 27 shares, “Mom and big brother Erica Borghard GSAS’14 shares: about two years ago to Scarsdale, a literature fellowship from the Chase, our classmates have chimed (née Apfel) teamed up with Sharon Dazzled” holiday windows for at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia. Liam are doing great!” “In May I received my Ph.D. in po- N.Y., where we’re raising our National Endowment for the Arts to in with similarly poetic updates Brumer to form Pop of Color, an Barneys New York. Jeremy is also The wedding was followed by a Samantha Feingold Criss is litical science. During the summer three children. I’m a counsel at translate Argentine poet Alejandra about their lives. app development startup. They proud of creating the video portion reception at The Plaza Hotel. The excited to announce that she mar- I started a job at the United States O’Melveny & Myers in New York Pizarnik’s collection, Extracting Isabelle Levy writes, recently launched their first app of jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato’s couple resides in New York City. ried Dr. Jonathan Criss (Yale ’01) Military Academy at West Point, focusing on bankruptcy and bank- the Stone of Madness, which will be NYC Winter: on the App Store. Called Clixt, it’s album, Live in NYC, which was Columbians in attendance were on August 31 at The Pierre in New where I am an assistant profes- ruptcy litigation. During Labor published in April. Teach Lit Hum, Roar, lion, roar! free and turns the pictures you nominated for a 2015 Grammy. Megan Ivey, Lauren Baranco, Seth York City. Columbia alumni in sor in the Department of Social Day weekend, Danielle and I were I’ve managed to catch up with Fun with kiddies, husb.! take into puzzles that friends and Jonathan Ward, who is in gradu- Zuckerman, Kelly Gavin Zucker- attendance were Brandon Arbiter Sciences as well as the executive in Boston, where we were lucky a number of Columbians while Erin Drummond writes, family can solve. Contact Alyssa to ate school at Oxford, spent last year man and Amy Cass ’07. SEAS’06, David Whittemore ’06, director of the Grand Strategy Pro- to have dinner with our former in Singapore, including Kenneth Life in Oregon learn more: [email protected]. in China and India for doctoral Thanks to all who contributed Rick Calmon SEAS’06, Katie gram. Also, my twins, Natalie and roommates, Yoni Appelbaum and Sim, Shaun Ting, Elaine Han coming to a close with an Michael Sin has updated contact research and is now back in the to this column, and I hope more of Hanus Doscher GS/JTS’06, Keith Oliver, turned 2 in December!” his wife, Emily Pressman SEAS’03, BC’03, Jee Young Kim BC’03, Tami M.F.A. abroad information for those who want to United Kingdom to complete his you will do so. You can reach me at Greenberg LAW’11 and Ted Spie- Siheun Song is proud to an- SEAS’04.” Chiu ’04, Korwin Chiu ’06 and From Italome Ohikhuare: keep in touch. He is a licensed real final year of the degree. He has also either of the addresses at the top of gel ’54. In addition, after 11 years in nounce a $100,000 investment from Mike Tamir writes, “I’m run- Chris Cheng SEAS’06. Miami never sleeps estate salesperson with Rutenberg, been writing on foreign affairs for the column or write me via the CCT New York, Samantha has relocated Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s In- ning a new data science master’s Kenneth Sim works for the Sin- and neither does she 127 E. 56th St., Fl. 4, New York, NY American and British think tanks. webform college.columbia.edu/ with her husband to sunny South novation Fund (yeifund.com) in her program, GalvanizeU, and data gaporean government, currently the female Spike Lee 10022; 917-903-3188; michael@ Megan Browder will graduate cct/submit_class_note. It’s a thrill to Florida; she is a lawyer and Jona- startup, Rally Bus; the new platform science consulting group for as director (strategic planning) for themermaidfilm.com rutenbergnyc.com. from Yale Law this spring. join you in celebrating your profes- than practices ophthalmology. allows users to crowd-fund and fill Galvanize. 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misses her native Texas, Elizabeth is Qualified Health Center in central excited to be back on the East Coast New Jersey. and invites fellow Columbians to Jessica Guo writes, “After get in touch: elizabeth.nguyen@caa. Columbia I moved back to Arizona columbia.edu. to study plant ecology at Northern Akash Gupta will complete Arizona in Flagstaff. After getting medical school at Yale this year. my master’s, I started my Ph.D. He plans to move to Boston for his at Arizona State in Tempe, only residency, where he’ll join Ariel miles from my parents’ house. Zucker after five years of being in My life is made better by Mom’s a long-distance relationship. In the home cooking; my dog, Fauna; and interim, Akash will be in South Af- climbing and hiking adventures rica for an HIV/tuberculosis rota- in this beautiful state. Right before tion in Tugela Ferry, and he hopes Thanksgiving, I got engaged to Ian that he will be able to visit Cape Keirsey, my partner in crime. I look Town. Akash enjoys capoeira, a forward to seeing everyone at the Brazilian form of martial arts, and five-year reunion!” recently began to learn climbing. Olivia Frazao is based out of San Francisco and launching a community living startup in REUNION WEEKEND multiple cities in the United States MAY 28–31 (buildcampus.com). Michael ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Bossetta will start a Ph.D. next year ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott with Copenhagen’s political sci- [email protected] ence department, researching the 212-851-9148 effects of contemporary populism DEVELOPMENT Sarah Fan in the E.U. and United States. [email protected] Hieu Pham writes, “I was at 212-851-7833 Wendy Mu’s wedding in Baltimore Julia Feldberg on October 18. Wendy married Wendy Mu ’10 married Zachary Cordner in Baltimore on October 18. Back row, left to right: Hieu Pham 10 666 Greenwich St., Zachary Cordner (M.D./Ph.D. at ’10, Kevin Chou ’10, Eric Silberger ’11, Jack Lu SEAS’10 and Jennifer Chen SEAS’10; front row, left to Apt. 607 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) right: Joy Lee ’12, Jayati Nigam BC’10, Veronica Zhang ’10, Diana Jiang SEAS’10, the bride, the groom, Laura Cole ’08 and Lucas Martin ’08 were married on July 26 at the Brooklyn Winery. Holding flag, left New York, NY 10015 at Grace Methodist Church on a Jacqueline Yang SEAS’10, Ying Wang ’12 and MacKenzie Yang ’11. to right: David Cole and Mark Munn; back row, left to right: Alec Turnbull ’08; Frenchie Caballero ’08; [email protected] beautiful and warm fall day. Diana JoAnn Kintz ’08, LAW’14; Sarah Wansley ’08; Kimi Traube ’08, SOA’14; Mona Soliman ’11; Chris Haas Jiang SEAS’10 was the maid of ’08, PS’15; Andre Burey ’08; and Dan Camacho ’08; front row, left to right: Eve Torres ’08; Sarah It’s hard to believe but this is the honor. I played master of ceremo- dents (the ones who felt they could others so poorly, I’m not sure if are hard politics. I don’t wish it VanLandingham BC’08; the bride; the groom; Jivaji Moré ’08; Elizabeth Sessions ’08 (née Grefrath); last Class Notes update you will nies with Jayati Nigam BC’10 at the afford it and were willing to spend this Ferris wheel is in a slow-down on anyone. Also, weddings are and Casey Palmer ’08 (née Acierno). read before our five-year reunion in reception, held at Petit Louis Bistro. their own money) helped me buy cycle or on its way to shutting off. expensive (in case you’re new to PHOTO: DUTTON & JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY May! If you haven’t signed up, go It was great to see the bride and 60 copies of The Picture of Dorian “I’m writing this note from the game). When I was describing to college.columbia.edu/alumni/ groom as well as to catch up with Gray, because we wanted to read my office. Today, the Bay Area wedding planning to a friend a few events/alumni-reunion-weekend old friends.” it and couldn’t get the resources experienced its worst storm in five weeks ago, that person immedi- After an adventurous year of tied the knot on July 26 at the but let’s resolve to write more (and and follow the link for registration. Catherine Carberry earned an through traditional routes. years. My building lost power and ately asked if he was invited to the living in Brooklyn with Josh Ros- Brooklyn Winery, accompanied by more often!) in the months ahead. And consider the following to be a M.F.A. in fiction from Bowling “Please stay tuned for informa- it felt like World War Z clawing my wedding. When I didn’t respond ner ’08, Dan Simhaee moved to maid of honor Sarah VanLanding- You can reach me easily at either preview of the exciting things our Green State last August. Her fiction tion about my DonorsChoose.org way out of there. Thank God for in the affirmative, the conversation Stuytown and began his residency ham BC’08 and bridesmaids Sarah address at the top of the column classmates are doing. and essays have been nominated page (I’m in the application pro- the flashlight on the iPhone. To be took a turn for the awkward — one in ophthalmology at NYU. He’s Wansley and Eve Torres. The or via the CCT webform college. Nina Theresa d’Amore Beary for the Pushcart Prize and have ap- cess). If you are willing and able, honest, it’s nothing more than a of many that I’m sure that I’ll be “really excited to have started celebration saw a strong showing columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ was married on August 23 to peared in North American Review, In- I hope you’ll consider donating to little bit of rain; I didn’t even have put in. If anyone has recommenda- training in my specialty of choice.” of fellow alums. After all, they note. Graham Edwin Gilkerson. The diana Review, Greensboro Review, The my classroom and my kids. to set my windshield wiper setting tions for things to do in New Zea- I’d love to hear from even more met during freshman year while ceremony was performed at The Rumpus, Tin House and Sou’wester as “If you’re interested in sharing on high. land/Australia, please pass them of you in 2015. You can write me living on Carman 11! They live in Old Post Chapel at Fort Myer, well as on NPR. She is an assistant your writing with my students, “My update this quarter pertains along: [email protected]. at either address at the top of the Chelsea, having not strayed too far Alidad Damooei Va., and the reception was held at editor at Bartleby Snopes and is and/or visiting our classroom as mostly to the next step of my “Last bit of my update: I turned column or submit news via the since graduation. 09 c/o CCT the Chevy Chase Club in Chevy revising a novel and short story guest speakers or judges for when dream. I grew up playing competi- 27 on December 7 and realized CCT webform college.columbia. Betsy Remes Perves was mar- Columbia Alumni Center Chase, Md. Four of Nina’s brides- collection. we put Lord Henry on trial for tive golf, winning the Virginia state that if you’re ever going to get me edu/submit_class_note. ried in England in August 2013 and, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 maids were Columbia classmates Laura Taylor shares, “After accessory to murder, feel free to title three times for my age group. a gift, just make it a pair of shoes after a year-long visa process, has New York, NY 10025 and sorority sisters: Emelie Kogut, spending four years dancing and email me: mstaylorseniorenglish@ I had an overbearing father who — hiking, dress, basketball, soccer, finally been joined by her husband [email protected] Kelly Michele Guerotto BC’10, singing professionally, I felt like gmail.com.” was hyper-competitive and shortly casual, boat. I feel like a diva for Neda Navab in Washington, D.C. She is a fund- Erica Dorfman ’11 and Monica something was missing. I didn’t Finally, musings from Chris after my 14th birthday, I burnt out saying this, but I can’t have enough 08 353 King St., Apt. 633 raiser for the Shakespeare Theatre It’s a short column for our first Gorman. Nina is the director of experience the kind of fulfillment Yim: “Sometimes I find myself and gave up the game I once loved. shoes. I wear a size 10.” San Francisco, CA 94158 Company. Class Notes of 2015. Don’t you investor relations and strategic and pride I hoped I would when wondering, ‘What’s the point?’ Now that I’m back in California, [email protected] As you may recall, Rachel Sales want to read, and share, more planning at Bearch. Graham is the performing here in New York This experience of life feels like one I’ve realized that the passion and (née Trager) SOA’11 launched Pink about what’s going on in your founder of Fellow Health, a health or abroad. Don’t get me wrong: giant Ferris wheel that’s perpetu- the talent are still there. So I’ve Nuriel Moghavem and On May 25, James Long and Pangea in 2010. Since then, the lives? Remember, I can’t do this care fund based in Austin. Seeing 20 countries in 10 months ating through cycles of high and taken up a full-time coach and 11 Sean Udell Mika Shiramizu were married by company has grown to be a site without you. Write, write, write. Justina Kaminskaite Dillon was awesome. I’ll never forget the lows, happiness and sadness, found consultants for my nutri- Columbia Alumni Center John Atlas ’09 in Half Moon Bay, full of inspiration and information You can reach me at either address and her husband, J. Matthew Dil- crazy experience that was being a success and failure, worth and tion, fitness and mental sharpness. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Calif. The wedding party featured for women travelers, by women at the top of the column or via the lon, welcomed their first child, son principal singer/dancer on a cruise self-deprecation. In Silicon Valley, I’ll be playing Monday qualifiers, New York, NY 10025 Michael Lock as the best man, and travelers. Rachel says, “We now run CCT webform college.columbia. Azuolas Benedict. Justina is a Ph.D. ship. particularly, it feels like you’re traveling around the country to [email protected] John Atlas, Dustin Coleman, Jeff travel writing workshops at college edu/cct/submit_class_note. I’ll candidate in clinical psychology at “That said, now, I’ve found my playing a game. Smiling for people PGA events as I attempt to get into [email protected] Regier SEAS’05, Sarah Robbins, and campuses across North America look forward to hearing from you. the Derner Institute of Advanced career: I’ve absolutely fallen in love that you no longer find pleasant, the playing field. I’ve submitted my Rie and Yuki Shiramizu. Other Li- and in partnership with compa- And thanks to those who did check Psychological Studies of Adelphi with teaching. I’m a 9th grade writ- laughing at terrible jokes, shaking entry into Q-School [annual qualify- I hope everyone has had a great ons in attendance were the groom’s nies, including REI and Hostelling in. Let’s get to them! University and lives in Brooklyn ing and 12th grade honors English hands to step on backs while ing tournaments,] and the PGA has start to the new year. We have lots father, Thomas Long ’74; Jason International. We’re also running a Elizabeth Nguyen graduated with her family. teacher at Manhattan Center for noticing subtleties that enable you my tour playing card on hold. In of wonderful updates from our Bello; Zach Hoopes ’12; Wayne bunch of international retreats this from the University of Texas School In August, Allison Lacko Science and Mathematics in East to play the game just a little better short, this post-apocalyptic scene class to share! Remember that you Ting ’06; and Maddie Wolberg year with upcoming ones in Costa of Law last May. In October, she returned from Peace Corps Costa Harlem. My students are amazing than your opponent — that person has confirmed my decision to make can email us your news anytime; BC’13. The couple honeymooned in Rica, Venice and the Swiss Alps.” moved to Washington, D.C., to Rica, “donde aprendí hablar como tica.” and high performing but we don’t you used to call your friend. With my wildest dream a reality. we are excited to hear from you! Italy and lives in Houston. It’s a short column to kick off the begin a two-year fellowship with Now she is learning how to dance have enough funding for materials the way the world seems to be “In other news, I am planning Caronae Howell GSAS’14 soon Laura Cole and Lucas Martin first Class Notes of the New Year, a federal agency. Although she salsa and works at a Federally and supplies. Luckily … my stu- trending, with humans treating my wedding. Wedding invites will start medical school, after a

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Keep the news coming in 2015! and was featured in Columbia Maga- the 2016 Olympics in Rio. create opportunities for connection ceremony, the Columbian tradition Avanzini SEAS’14 also joined As always, you can reach us at the zine that same month (magazine. Izzy reports that the team is with classmates whom you might of protest has been alive and well — VFA and now work for Dinner addresses at the top of the column columbia.edu/features/fall-2014/ in the midst of the World Rugby not be in touch with otherwise. and our class has helped carry on Lab in New Orleans, Hatchbuck or via the CCT webform college. start-me). You can also check out an Women’s Sevens Series, the interna- For example, maybe you’re new the spirit. Jasmin Neal, Briana Rice, in St. Louis and Rokk3r Labs in columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ article here: news.columbia.edu/ tional circuit of six tournaments that to a particular city and it turns out Kristin Emodi and Reni Benson Miami, respectively. note. newyorkstories/3482. is part of the qualification process there are one or two classmates participated in the citywide Mil- Spencer writes of his experi- Derek Turner sent an exciting for the Olympics. The WSS kicked who are there also and to whom lions March NYC on December 13 ences: “The best part of working update from Detroit: “Continuing off in Dubai late last year, and the you could reach out. Or maybe with more than 60,000 other march- in a recovering city like Baltimore Sarah Chai my long arc back to the Southwest, second round was hosted by São someone is working in the same ers including Ganiatu Afolabi ’12, (and admittedly, it’s no New York) 12 c/o CCT I was accepted to Stanford for a Paulo on February 7–8. Round three field as you are and could be a Jasmine Sudarkasa ’13 and Michele is that you can see and feel [the Columbia Alumni Center joint M.B.A. and M.S. environment will be in Atlanta March 14–15, if resource. And so on! Acheampong ’13. Our classmates impact of your work] on a regular 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and resources program to start anyone happens to be in the neigh- basis. It creates a unique platform New York, NY 10025 in September. My goal? Double- borhood. For more information to provide value in a developing [email protected] down on my Columbia thesis topic and a look at the schedule beyond community.” of water in the West in an attempt March, check out worldrugby.org/ David Najem ’14 plays professional soccer in Elizabeth Rodriguez is an Not too long ago, I grabbed brunch to save my home state of Arizona womens-sevens-series. Germany’s Fourth Division for FC Eintracht operating room unit representative with the phenomenal Anoushka from the worst drought in 1,200 Good luck, Izzy! at Overlook Medical Center. She Vaswani and the exuberant Kenny years. These three years in Detroit Mary Escherich and James Bamberg; in the last two seasons he has scored is excited to start at Rutgers New Durell at the San Francisco Ferry have been incredible and I’ve seen Laird were married on August 1. Jersey Medical School in August. Building. It was a much-belated a city move forward in leaps and The couple met in high school in four goals and has had four assists. Onella Cooray has been the reunion of Columbia friends in bounds, but I’m going to leave it New Canaan, Conn., where they production manager, editorial and the Bay Area. We had a lovely to its native sons and daughters to grew up. They became engaged social media, at Clean Plates since time and I was reminded of how take it from here. That’s right — the summer after Columbia gradu- You can write me at either recognize the importance of being June. She writes, “Clean Plates is wonderful it is to reconnect with your window of opportunity to ation and were married at the Inn address at the top of the column part of this critical time in history an omnimedia start-up that brings Kayte Dzime-Assison ’11 and Luke Abaffy were married in Sep­ college friends and to chat like no visit Motown is closing! Hit me up at Longshore in Westport, Conn. or via the CCT webform college. and supporting a moment that will together the worlds of sustain- tember in Maryland. Back row, left to right: Kevin Plybon ’11; time has passed. and I’ll show you what makes this Both are about halfway through columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ be remembered for years to come. able and conscious consumerism, Vickeidy Pena Bastalla; Suraj Kumar ’11; and Kamille Turner If any of you have seen class- place one of the most unique cities their second year at NYU School note. Thanks, and I look forward to Reni also reported that alumni foodie and nutrition to deliver ’11; and front row, the bride; the groom, Gabrielle Apollon ’09, mates recently, I hope you will in America. For those in the Bay of Medicine, and they live on the hearing from you! from other years close to ours have information, recipes, tips and SIPA’10; Sybren Hoekstra ’10; and Yasmin Kahan-Groves ’11. share that with us! Now on to the Area, see you soon.” Lower East Side. engaged in the discussions, includ- news in an easy-to-read, fun PHOTO: LIZ FOGARTY updates: Ilya K. Wilson is working in so- Heather Braunagel and Kyle ing Sabaah Jordan ’13, who has format via email, website, iPhone After obtaining an M.Sc. from cial media marketing and backend Stupi ’12 became engaged on Emily Dreibelbis been integral in organizing in the app and social media. I started at Oxford in 2014, Catherine Crooke support for ChildCry, a small non- October 25. Heather and Kyle 14 c/o CCT Black Lives Matter movement and the company as an intern during few years working with various roommates (in a one-bedroom in moved back to Brooklyn and now profit that currently feeds children were both Columbia athletes all Columbia Alumni Center was interviewed by MTV (mtv. the spring semester of senior year nonprofits and hospitals and Harlem!) Gabrielle Apollon ’09 works at the Iraqi Refugee As- in 22 countries worldwide and four years; Heather played on the 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 com/news/2031498/meet-young- thanks to the Center for Career completing a post-baccalaureate and Yasmin Kahan-Groves (maid sistance Project, which advocates uses 100 percent of its proceeds to women’s volleyball team and Kyle New York, NY 10025 people-organizing-2014-protests- Education’s Virtual Internship pre-medical program at Columbia. of honor). Friend and former and provides legal assistance for provide the meals. In her free time on the football team. emily.dreibelbis@ civil-rights-movement). Ganiatu Program, and it’s been a valu- At press time she was still not sure bandmate Kevin Plybon stood at refugees in the Middle East. she travels (Albuquerque, Mexico After graduating, Kyle earned gmail.com Afolabi ’12 was part of a CBS panel able experience working with the where she would go but said she’s his seat during the ceremony and In December, Paul Hsiao and City, Kraków, Prague, Berlin and a master’s in exercise physiology discussion that aired nationally on company, as it is moving forward excited and honored to have the accompanied Kayte on guitar as Jennifer Ong visited Chris Cheung, Rome are next on her list for 2015!) from LIU Brooklyn while working I hope this issue of CCT finds you this topic (cbsnews.com/news/ rapidly. I encourage fellow Co- opportunity to become a physi- she sang Bob Dylan’s “Make You who is working in Hong Kong at a and is preparing to take the LSAT. as a certified trainer at Fusion Physi- well. Just a year out of school, our diverse-millennials-unafraid-to- lumbians to check us out at clean- cian. Even with all that going on, Feel My Love” to Luke. Also in at- food startup called Bread and Beast. Thanks for all your awesome cal Therapy and Sports in Chelsea. class has been up to some incredible debate-race-relations). plates.com. The iPhone app will Caronae continues to write: She is tendance was Kamille Turner and Paul gives a shout-out to Jennifer for updates, Class of 2012. I encourage In June he started the doctorate pro- things. Here are some inspiring up- In December, Erica Bower and help you find clean eating and almost done with her first novel, a several other former bandmates, her highly buzzed-about blog, That you to continue sending them my gram at New York Medical College. dates from 2014ers across the United Sabrina Korman attended COP20, responsibly sourcing restaurants young adult fantasy story that fo- among them Javier Ramos ’11 and Working Life (thatworkinglife.com). way, as I know exciting things are He loves it, and he recently learned States and around the world: the United Nations Climate Change in NYC and Los Angeles.” cuses on a young girl’s interactions Sybren Hoekstra ’10. In addition, Paul is excited to happening in your lives! that he will spend his first clinical Walid Ahmad SEAS’14 has Conference in Lima, Peru, where A big “thank you” to everyone with a series of mythical creatures. Kayte is an indie musician (stage welcome Emily Ahn back to New position at the VA hospital in New been doing market analytics for they worked with thousands of for your submissions! Let’s keep in After Election Day, Alexander name: Kayte Grace) and has been York; she returned in November York City. He’ll graduate in 2017. IBM, consulting North America other delegates from around the touch — my door (in Los Angeles) Ivey left his job as an opposi- making music and traveling the after working between New York Tala Akhavan Heather did a year of investment sales and marketing executives. He globe to achieve stricter greenhouse and my inbox (on email, Facebook tion researcher at House Major- country performing since gradua- and Madison, Wis. Last but certain- 13 c/o CCT banking in the financial technology has been working to help the firm gas emission targets and a more and the address at the top of the ity PAC and started working for tion, booking her own national tours ly not least, Paul hopes that Alex Columbia Alumni Center group at Citibank after graduation. recognize trends and prospects, equitable and sustainable future. To column) are always open. Brunswick Group as an executive and releasing several albums and Harstrick, who recently joined 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 She left her position in August to and to transition the company’s read more about their experiences, on its insights team. He’s still in singles. She is proud to report that the Army Reserve, had a safe and New York, NY 10025 become a business development business to growth strategies. check out their delegation’s blogs: Washington, D.C., but reports that she was praised by The Washing- happy holiday season. [email protected] associate at Vettery, a growing Walid also shares an update sustainus.org/agents-of-change- he’s gotten out of politics, perhaps ton Post as “impressive” and “a In July, Charles Lopresto started startup that leverages technology on David Najem, who graduated blog and columbiasd.org/. for good. talented musician” who “writes medical school at Touro College of It may be March, but this is my to streamline the career recruiting early, in December 2013, to play Spencer Wolfe and Forrest And, in what we anticipate will great pop songs with smart lyrics Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem. first opportunity to say Happy process. professional soccer following a Miller SEAS’14 live together Manage Your become a trend for our Class Notes, and a country feel.” During her time He was pleased to find among New Year, Class of 2013! I hope The couple is planning a Sep- decorated Ivy League career at in Baltimore, where they work there are lots of weddings to an- at Columbia, she was featured on his new peers Jason Lim GS’12, everyone had a wonderful holiday tember 2015 wedding in Trumbull, Columbia. He has been playing in at local start-ups. After gradua- Subscription nounce! the YouTube homepage for a week Robert Post SEAS’12 and Mikail season. Almost two years out of Conn., where Heather grew up. Germany’s Fourth Division for a tion, both were accepted for the If you prefer reading CCT Elissa Cashman married Con- as the “unsigned pick.” Kayte and Kamal SEAS’12. He writes, “It is college, and our classmates have Before I wrap up, I encourage club called FC Eintracht Bamberg, Venture For America fellowship, online, you can help us nor Dalton in Wilmington, Del., Luke live in Santa Monica, Calif., a pleasure to be back in New York many accomplishments and mile- more of you (all of you, really!) and scored four goals and four as- a career accelerator that pairs go green and save money last May and moved to Philadel- although the two are itching to go on City, attending a school very close stones to celebrate. Here are some to submit news for the column. I sists in the past two seasons. recent graduates with start-ups in phia during the summer so she an around-the-world voyage in the to the main Columbia campus. updates on your friends: know that there are a million ways In late November, the Ferguson, low-income cities; the nonprofit by opting out of the print could start medical school at Jef- coming year. When I need a change of scenery, Last spring, Isadora (Izzy) to keep up with friends these days, Mo., grand jury decision not to in- strives to revitalize American edition. Click “Manage Your ferson. She says it was a lot of fun Finally, coming in just days be- it is nice to be able to walk a few Cerullo was invited to try out for but Class Notes is an ideal way to dict a police officer in the killing of cities by providing a recruiting Subscription” at college. to reunite some of the ski team for fore the Class Notes deadline, Zila blocks to Butler or any of the other the Brazilian women’s national reach all our classmates at once Michael Brown was released, and in arm for young companies and columbia.edu/cct and follow her wedding. In attendance were Reyes Acosta and Brian Grimes beautiful libraries on campus. I rugby team and was subsequently and to be plugged into a class net- December, the grand jury decision job security for graduates who the domestic instructions. Ashley Ellenson SEAS’11, Garrett shared news of their marriage at hope to attend some of the alumni offered a full-time contract for one work. We’re not looking for every not to indict a police officer in the would otherwise not be able to try We will continue to notify Fitzgerald SEAS’09, SEAS’14, Jamie St. Paul’s Chapel with a reception events if I ever have free time away year. She left her job as a clinical re- detail about your personal life, death of Eric Garner was released. their hand at entrepreneurship. you by email when each Kessler BC’11, Ava Ferenci BC’11 at Low Library. Their coveted from my studies!” searcher in the surgery department but consider sharing “high-level” Since then, people across the coun- Spencer works for ZeroFOX, a issue is posted online. You and Spencer Hattemer GS’11. wedding date (12/13/14) made Aditya Mukerjee and Benjamin of the Hospital of the University of news: new jobs, grad school admis- try have been actively protesting cyber-security solution for social may be reinstated to receive Kayte Dzime-Assison (now news in several outlets, including Jack SEAS’07, co-founders of the Pennsylvania and has been living sions/accomplishments, marriages these decisions. Close to home, media-based cyber threats, and Kayte Abaffy) married Luke The New York Times and the New health-tech start-up BoardRounds, in São Paulo for six months, train- and family, trips that have been from a student-led silent protest in Forrest works for PathSensors, a the print edition at any time Abaffy in September in Maryland. York Post. Zila and Brian met in are enjoying working out of their ing full-time as Brazil develops taken or are planned, geographic the Law School on November 25 biotech firm developing mobile by sending a note to cct@ Among her bridesmaids were fel- Literature Humanities our fresh- new space at the Columbia Startup rugby (and especially women’s moves and other life events. to “the die-in” on December 4 at pathogen detection technologies. columbia.edu. low Columbians and post-college man year. Lab in SoHo. The Lab opened in July rugby) at an extraordinary pace for Sharing this kind of news can the College’s annual Tree Lighting Kevin Suh, Ben Xue and Aldo

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between Johns Island and Stratton Main Ave., 5th Fl., Norwalk, CT home since 1970 and he contrib- and his first cousin and godfather, Mountain with his last years spent 06851; themmrf.org/investors/ uted to the book Voices of Sag Axel von dem Bussche, was one in Stratton. Memorial contributions our-supporters/george-norma- Harbor: A Village Remembered. He is of the few conspirators against may be made to Visiting Nurse As- fabian-fund. survived by his wife, Elaine Con- Adolf Hitler to survive. At 15, Obituaries sociation and Hospice of Vermont gress; son, Adam; daughter-in-law, von dem Bussche came alone to and New Hampshire, 66 Benning James B. Horton, retired magazine Cece Cutler; cousin, Joan; Adam’s New York City, where he attended 1933 2014. Pecora was born on October 1959, Lee left the private practice wonderful years together. Shaw St., Ste 6, West Lebanon, NH 03784. publishing executive, New York mother, Patricia Stegman; and one high school. At the College, he Eugene M. “Gene” Kline, retired 2, 1916, in Yonkers, N.Y. He was a of hematology to serve as the first is survived by his sons, Cary, City, on June 29, 2014. Horton had a grandson. A memorial event is studied art history and painting 1948 attorney, Port Chester, N.Y., on member of Alpha Phi Delta and the chief of hematology at Maimonides Richard TC’68 and James E. “Jim” varied and distinguished career as planned for March 28 in New York but his tenure was interrupted by October 10, 2014. Kline graduated Dolphin Society (Columbia swim- Medical Center, where he started ’71, LAW’75; five grandchildren, Norman Kelvin, retired professor, a magazine executive, turning trou- City. For details, email congress@ two years of service in the Army; from DeWitt Clinton H.S. At the ming alumni). Pecora graduated a fellowship program. He did including Amy Shaw ’08; and New York City, on April 14, 2014. bled magazines into successful and fordham.edu. Memorial contribu- he was stationed in Germany College he was coxswain and Phi from the Yale School of Medicine research on lupus and leukemia companion Pearl Novick. Kelvin received a scholarship to profitable icons of their decades. He tions may be made to Amnesty as an interpreter and translator. Beta Kappa. Kline earned a degree in 1941. From 1943 to 1945 he and was one of the founding mem- the College and attended until he graduated from Brooklyn Friends International, Doctors Without Encouraged by his friend Andre 1945 in 1935 from the Law School and served in the surgical service of the bers of Acute Leukemia Group A entered the Army in July 1943. School and earned an M.B.A. from Borders, Channel 13 or American Kertèsz, von dem Bussche took up was a James Kent Scholar. He prac- Army, where he met and married (later CALGA). After a detour into Grover C. Smith, retired profes- He served in the Medical Corps NYU in 1960. Horton spent his early Friends Service Committee. photography, achieving success in ticed law for just shy of 80 years, Dorothy Beavers, an Army nurse. administration starting in 1971 sor, Durham, N.C., on June 10, as an X-ray technician at Schick career at The Wall Street Journal, Cur- journalism, commercial work and 1956 with a brief interruption for military He returned to New Haven to (director of medicine at Brooklyn 2014. Born on September 6, 1923, General Hospital in Clinton, Iowa, tis Publishing Co. and Young & Ru- art photography, with pictures in service during WWII. In Septem- complete his residency in general Jewish Hospital and various posi- in Atlanta, Smith attended public and in the Philippines. He was bicam. As VP of CRM and general Edward J. Grossman, chemist, Las many museums, libraries and pri- ber, he announced his retirement and thoracic surgery. Pecora was a tions at SUNY Downstate Medical schools and four times won the discharged in March 1946 and manager of its magazine publishing Vegas, on May 10, 2014. Grossman vate collections. He is survived by from Phillips Nizer, where he had founding member of the American Center, including dean and acting annual statewide high school returned to Columbia, financed by division (1969–73) he turned Psychol- was born on August 30, 1935, in his son, Nicolas; daughter-in-law, practiced since 1943. His dedica- College of Thoracic Surgery and president), Lee returned to teach- competition in Latin. He entered the GI Bill. When Kelvin returned ogy Today from a losing operation Brooklyn, N.Y. There, he mar- Mary; and three grandchildren. tion to the law was leavened by a a diplomat in both general and ing as director of hematology/ Columbia with a full scholarship, to Columbia it was as a pre-med into a highly profitable magazine ried his first love, Ronnie. While His wife of 51 years, Judy, died in lifelong love of jazz, art, the ballet thoracic surgery. As chief of surgery oncology at Brookdale Hospital joined the Debate Council and but he quickly discovered that and launched Intellectual Digest. earning an M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. 2013. and New York Giants football. Kline at the New York State Hospital at from 1982 to 1998. From 1998 to wrote for Jester and the Columbia he wanted to study literature. He He was general manager of Dow (1960), both in chemistry and both 1970 was married for 70 years to artist Ray Brook, in the Adirondacks, 2012, he donated his services to Review. Elected to Philolexian in earned an M.Phil. in 1950 and a Jones’ National Observer (1975–76) from GSAS, he became known as Harriet Kline, who died in 2010. he developed several surgical Methodist Hospital, and later did 1943, he was awarded the society’s Ph.D. in 1960, both in English and and group VP for business affairs “Eddie Chase, the rock and roll Holland L. Hendrix, seminary He also was predeceased by a son, procedures, including transtrachael the same at Maimonides and Long poetry prize. Smith earned a B.A. comparative literature from GSAS. at Playboy Enterprises (1976–78), chemist of Columbia,” for his mu- president emeritus, Albuquerque, Robert ’66, LAW’70, and is survived aspiration. He also created one of Island College Hospital. Lee’s wife with honors in English literature, His dissertation topic was George where he launched Food & Wine. As sical collaboration with his future N.M., on November 26, 2014. Hen- by Robert’s widow, Georgann the first surgical intensive care units died in 2004. He is survived by then an M.A., also in 1945, and a Meredith and was published president and CEO of HAL Publica- brother-in-law, Neil Sedaka. In drix first went to Union Theologi- Kline Ohsman; his son Thomas ’68, in the country. Pecora was widely his children, Nancy, Ted and Ken- Ph.D., in 1950, both in English and in 1961 by Stanford University tions (1980–86), Horton took Working 1978, Grossman moved his family cal Seminary as a student. In 1975 LAW’75; and four grandchildren. published and was considered to be neth; son-in-law, Gordon Johnson; comparative literature from GSAS. Press as A Troubled Eden: Nature Woman from bankruptcy to one of to Las Vegas to become chief chem- he graduated with two degrees: an Memorial contributions may be an expert in the surgical treatment daughters-in-law, Deborah and He was the Alexander M. Proudfit and Society in the Works of George America’s “hottest” magazines, as ist for Rom-Amer Pharmaceuticals. M.Div. and an S.T.M. He then un- made to the New York City Ballet, of tuberculosis. In 1998 he pub- Muriel; eight grandchildren; and Fellow in Letters 1945–46. Smith Meredith. Kelvin later wrote E.M. recognized by Adweek in 1982 and He was an avid bowler and golfer. dertook doctoral study in New Tes- David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln lished an autobiography, Between one great-grandchild. taught at Rutgers and Yale and Forster (1967). As a graduate 1983, and acquired Success. Horton In 1993, he remarried, to Charlene tament at Harvard Divinity School, Center, New York, NY 10023 or to the Raindrops. He and his wife had then for 41 years at Duke, retiring student he taught at Rutgers and was an adjunct professor of publish- Jennings. She survives him, as where he earned a Th.D. Before 1940 the Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. celebrated their 70th wedding an- in 1993. His publications include at Columbia. He began teaching at ing at NYU (1980–86), a member of do his sons, Gary and Barry, and returning to Union in 1990 as aca- 53rd St., New York, NY 10019. niversary on July 22. He is survived Wallace M. “Wally” Shaw, retired T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: A Study City College in 1961 and remained Ex-Members of Squadron A, Veteran their wives, Tahimi and Theresa; demic dean and associate professor by her and his daughters, Michele anesthesiologist and professor, in Sources and Meaning; Letters of there and at the CUNY Graduate Corps of Artillery, Sigma Chi (a Sig- stepdaughter, Vicki; and six grand- of New Testament, Hendrix taught 1937 Pecora and Ann Diamond. Philadelphia, on January 2, 2015. Aldous Huxley; Waste Land; and T.S. Center until he retired as Distin- nificant Sig) and the University Club. children. Memorial contributions at Haverford and Barnard, where David V. Pecora, retired thoracic Born in New York City on June Eliot and the Use of Memory. He held guished Professor in 2006. Kelvin He is survived by his wife, Ines; may be made to Nathan Adelson he was also director of academic 1939 surgeon, McLean, Va., on July 25, 21, 1919, Shaw was married to Guggenheim and NEH fellowships wrote poetry and also drew and daughters, Elizabeth, Jennifer and Hospice Foundation. development. During his Barnard Geraldine “Gerry” Sax BC’40 and was a member of the National painted throughout his life. He Christiana; and a granddaughter. years he also taught at Union. His from 1942 until her death in 2003. Association of Scholars and an married Phyllis in 1956. She sur- 1961 doctoral dissertation centered on 1951 Obituary Submission After medical school (NYU, 1943), honorary member of The T.S. Eliot vives him, as do their daughters, archeological study of Greek cities Guidelines Shaw served in Britain in WWII, Society, which he led as president Elizabeth and Jane. Robert T. Snyder, judge and attor- of the New Testament era and the attaining the rank of major. He 1989–91. Smith is survived by his ney, New York City, on December institution of “benefactor” in the Columbia College Today was director of anesthesiology at second wife, Dulcie Barbara Soper 1950 9, 2014. Snyder was born in the life of those cities. Hendrix was welcomes obituaries for then-named Mid-Island Hospital, Smith; four children; and two George S. Fabian, Bryn Mawr, Bronx on April 7, 1930, and grew the author most notably of Thes- College alumni. Deaths are Bethpage, N.Y., for 36 years, retir- grandchildren. Pa., on June 7, 2014. Fabian was up on Long Beach on Long Island. salonicans Honor Romans. Elected noted in the next available ing in 1989. Shaw was assistant born in Budapest and immigrated He was president of the Class of president of Union in spring 1991, issue in the “Other Deaths 1947 Reported” box. Complete clinical professor of anesthesiology to the United States in 1947. He 1951 and a 1955 alumnus of the Hendrix was not an ordained min- obituaries will be published in at the Albert Einstein College of Robert W. Minners, restaurant earned an M.B.A. from Chicago Law School. Snyder was a labor ister but he was an active member an upcoming issue, pending Medicine for 20 years. He held supply executive, Stratton Moun- and had a prolific career in market lawyer and served 19 years as a of the Southern Baptist Church receipt of information. Due offices in local, state and national tain, Vt., on July 21, 2014. Born on research and advertising; he was judge with the National Labor growing up. He later switched to the volume of obituaries medical societies, and published June 17, 1925, in New York City, active and respected in industry Relations Board. In recent years he his denominational affiliation to that CCT receives, it may 18 scientific journal articles. An Minners enlisted in the Army and groups. Fabian was elected to the was an arbitrator. Snyder played Unitarian Universalist and was the take several issues for the Stanley L. Lee ’39 avid filmmaker, Shaw became the served in the Japanese theater in Market Research Council Hall tennis throughout his life and first Unitarian president of Union. complete obituary to appear. highest-ranked amateur film- WWII. In 1953 he founded Minners of Fame in 2009. He was a music followed Columbia’s football, After leaving Union, he served Word limit is 200; text may be Stanley L. Lee, retired hematolo- maker in the Photographic Society Design in New York City, which lover, passionate reader, tennis basketball and baseball teams. He in various other organizations. edited for length, clarity and Wolf von dem Bussche ’61 style at the editors’ discretion. gist, New York City, on July 27, of America, winning awards soon became known as the premier player, skier and traveler. He is played jazz as a teenager and then Hendrix is survived by his brother Click “Contact Us” at college. 2014. Lee was born on August 27, worldwide, and was president of firm in the china, glass and silver survived by his wife of 49 years, at the College as manager of the Wolf von dem Bussche, photog- Dee and Dee’s wife, Charla; three columbia.edu/cct, or mail 1919. He earned an M.D. from Har- the Society of Amateur Cinema- area of the hotel and restaurant Norma; son, Andrew; daughter, Marching Band. Turning to classi- rapher, Mission Viejo, Calif., on nieces; and three nephews. His materials to Obituaries Editor, vard, Class of 1943A. After begin- tographers and Video Makers. industry. Throughout his life Jennifer; son-in-law, Vincent; and cal music as an adult, he participat- August 12, 2014. Von dem Bussche brother Clyde predeceased him. Columbia College Today, ning his medical training at Mount He built or fixed (for free) many Minners was an avid skier and two granddaughters. Memorial ed in chamber music groups in Sag was born on February 13, 1934, in Columbia Alumni Center, Sinai, he entered the Army in 1944 things for many people. No fix was competitive tennis player. He was contributions may be made to Harbor, Manhattan and Sanibel, Germany into an aristocratic fam- 1972 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, and served as a medical officer in more significant than reviving his a charter member of the Stratton The Multiple Myeloma Research Fla., and played clarinet in the Sag ily that traces its roots to the 12th George P. Nikitovich, retired stock- 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. the Pacific and Japan until 1946. He wife when her heart and breath- Mountain Country Club. He and Foundation, Attn.: The George Harbor Community Band. Sag century. His parents were Adolf broker, Monségur, France, on June married Ann Rosenthal in 1947. In ing stopped. They had another 28 his wife, Maria, split their time and Norma Fabian Fund, 383 Harbor had been Snyder’s second and Margot von dem Bussche 10, 2014. Born in La Réole, France,

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Olsen, retired professor, Gainesville, Fla., on December 4, 2014. he was twice invited to lecture on James Joyce at Trinity College 1960 John H. Boone, attorney, Oakley, Calif., on October 24, 2014. Dublin. McAlevey is survived by Stephen B. Brown, attorney, New York City, on December 27, 2014. his wife, Melissa Hufjay McAlevey; Elliot M. Olstein, attorney, Butler, N.J., on November 27, 2014. their daughters, Rowan and Bailey; Letters Alumni Corner 1962 Anthony J. Forlano, retired hotel and hospitality management worker, Mount Pleasant, S.C., on and two adult sons, Harry and (Continued from 4) (Continued from page 96) December 13, 2014. Sean. A college education fund has 1963 David S. Chessler, retired economist, Waltham, Mass., on November 19, 2014. been established for his daughters: my Bruce Black ’76 majored in English Alan S. Foust Jr., Algard, Norway, on November 19, 2014. McAlevey Education Fund, PO Box to humor. Unless I am mistaken, this dangerous sport? Its continu- the team — Lions — kept lining the future Trappist monk Thomas ation condones that these young up, regardless of the score, until literature and earned an M.F.A. in writ- 1965 Donald A. Ursem, technology executive, Tucson, Ariz., on September 1, 2014. 4166, West Hills, CA, 91308-4166. Merton ’38, GSAS’39 published athletes should be subject to the the final whistle sounded. I loved ing in 1999 from the Vermont College of 1975 Robert S. Schwartz, Forest Hills, N.Y., on July 1, 2014. 2018 cartoons in Jester, not all of them considerable hazard of brain injury. how the players gave everything Fine Arts. The author of Writing Yoga: 2009 Natasha S. Chichilnisky-Heal, graduate student, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., on November 18, 2014. Joshua Villa, student, Azusa, monkish. Ad Reinhardt ’35, who in The fact that Columbia can record they had and kept trying, week A Guide to Keeping a Practice Jour- Calif., on December 5, 2014. Villa fact did become an abstract painter few winning games has nothing to after week, because that’s what the nal as well as stories for children that graduated from Gladstone H.S. in of the highest distinction, was a do with this suggestion, though the game demanded and what they have appeared in Cricket and Cobble- Nikitovich grew up in New Jersey, Condolences may be sent to 425 Covina, Calif. An honors student lively illustrator for Jester and its long list of losses doesn’t encourage had learned as Columbia student- stone magazines, he lives with his wife attending Abraham Lincoln H.S. in Riverside Dr., #10F, New York, NY who excelled in math and swam editor in chief. Your Rosand obitu- persistence. No; it is simply true athletes to demand of themselves. in Sarasota, Fla., where he continues to Roselle. He earned a B.A. in history 10025, and memorial contributions on the Gladstone swim team, he ary makes me wonder if Jester has that football is associated with a risk It’s what life demands, too — to face his fears about writing while work- and Spanish and in 1975 an M.B.A. may be sent to Riverkeeper or Trout was chosen by a faculty panel to a secret history, of contributors of irreparable cerebral damage for give our all, to tackle tough ques- ing on a mystery novel for young adults. from the Business School. Fluent in Unlimited. speak at his high school gradua- who went from jesting to at least those who play the game. Columbia tions rather than run from them, English, French, Spanish and Serbo- the appearance of Dignity with a should take the responsible stand even if there are no apparent an- 1978 tion. At the College, he was active STAY IN TOUCH Croatian, Nikitovich was a stock- in the Columbia Mentoring Initia- capital D. and ban the sport. swers; to seek a new idea, a new To ensure that you receive broker for 30 years, specializing Peter C. McAlevey, film producer, tive and Proud Colors. He also was Jerome Tarshis ’57 Dr. Giulio D’Angio ’43 way of viewing the world, despite CCT and other College in the management of investment Los Angeles, on August 15, 2014. the first-year representative of the San Francisco Philadelphia opposing viewpoints and other ob- portfolios for foreign clients. He For most of his career, McAlevey stacles that might stand in our way. communications, please let Columbia Queer Alliance. Among us know if you have a new was passionate about trout fishing was a Hollywood film executive, A Responsible Stand? Correction The players in Columbia blue his survivors are his parents, postal or email address, a and environmental protection. His producer and marketer. He began Gerardo and Julietta; and brothers, The suicide of an Ohio State player Steven Handel ’66, the subject of keep trying, striving, seeking. Each new phone number or even survivors include his children, Maia his career as a staff writer for Gerardo and Jeffrey. and an article in The New York Times an alumni profile in the “People” year, each game, they face their a new name. Click “Contact and Austen; a grandson; his father; Newsweek’s “Inside Sports.” He Lisa Palladino put the issue of football at Columbia section of the Winter 2014–15 issue, fears and they do not give up. Us” at college.columbia.edu/ his siblings, Maia, Vesna and Paul; contributed to entertainment news front and center. was listed with an incorrect class That’s why I love Columbia cct or call 212-851-7852. George P. Nikitovich ’72 and seven nieces and nephews. and was soon recruited by Jeffrey Isn’t it time for Columbia to drop year. CCT regrets the error. football.

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remember an autumn afternoon in my first year at Col­ fear yet keep going despite these feelings. umbia. I was an 18-year-old freshman trying to make On that Saturday afternoon, I felt a deep kinship with the my way through the thicket of existential questions that Columbia players who had the guts to take the field despite, I awaited me in my classes in Hamilton Hall and else- imagine, knowing the odds were stacked against them. They where on campus. still wanted to play the game and were still curious about how It was Saturday, and I was sitting alone in my dorm the plays in their playbook might unfold. They still had the de- Iroom on the sixth floor of Carman listening to the AM-FM radio on sire to take the field and experience the game in ways that might my desk. The raspy voice of a WKCR sports announcer was giving be new to them and that might open up new ways of under- a play-by-play of the football team’s progress up standing the meaning of the game. Their cour- and down the gridiron at Baker Field. age inspired me to keep asking the hard ques- Every 10 minutes or so, I turned off the radio in tions my CC professor demanded that we ask, an attempt to write a paper for my Contemporary even when I felt the questions seemed pointless Civilization class. I don’t remember the paper’s or unanswerable. topic, but I’m sure it involved Plato, Aristotle, In each of the Great Books that my classmates Augustine or Hobbes and, most likely, the mean- and I read — from Homer and Descartes to Marx, ing of existence. I remember thinking a lot about Tolstoy and Woolf — we studied how men (and the meaning of existence in my student days (and women) struggled with questions about exis- in the many days since then, thanks to my Colum- tence and the meaning of life, and what it meant bia education). If you read the Great Books, you to live a good life. That same struggle played itself had to think about the meaning of life and your out on the football field each weekend. role in the grand scheme of things. You had to ask Columbia football taught me as much about questions with no apparent answers. And, if you the meaning of existence as any of the Great were like me, you often felt fearful and defeated for Books that I read in my classes. It taught me not knowing those answers. Bruce Black ’76 the principles on which I’ve built a life — that a The CC paper was due on my professor’s desk meaningful existence didn’t need to rely on win- on Monday morning. When I could no longer bear those uncom- ning; that success isn’t determined by how much money a person fortable feelings of defeat, I reached for the dial on the radio again might earn in a lifetime; and that the deeper meaning of existence and listened to another few minutes of the game. The disappointed is to be found not in one’s outward trappings but rather in the way sound of the announcer’s voice revealed how the game was go- one faces life’s challenges. ing for the Lions. That Columbia’s football team was still on the As I listened to the team grapple with its Ivy League opponents field, still playing, helped put my questions about existence into each week, I learned from the players who suited up in Columbia perspective. blue how to find the patience, Columbia might have lost that It wasn’t the final score that inspired courage and stubbornness to face day. I don’t remember, nor can I whatever challenges life might tell you what their win-loss re- me to root for the Lions but, present to me. “You gain strength, cord was that season or in any of courage and confidence by - ev Pave the way now for future students, faculty, and pivotal projects through Planned Giving. the seasons while I was a student rather, the refusal of Columbia’s ery experience in which you re- in the mid-1970s. But I became a ally stop to look fear in the face,” By funding a scholarship through a Charitable Remainder Unitrust (CRUT) invested alongside Columbia’s robust fan of Columbia football, none- players to give in to defeat. wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, who endowment, Alex Li knows that he will enable students to have the same transformative experiences he cherished theless. It wasn’t the final score lived in New York with her hus- at Columbia College. The CRUT provides Alex and his wife lifetime income now — and makes so much more that inspired me to root for the Lions — or for any of Columbia’s band and future U.S. president, Franklin, while he attended the Law i other teams, for that matter — but, rather, the refusal of Columbia’s School from 1905 to 1907. It was at Columbia that I learned the truth possible n the future.

players to give in to defeat. That kind of determination and cour- of Roosevelt’s words so that, like Columbia’s players and coaches, I Learn more at giving.columbia.edu/PlanNow age inspired loyalty. could look fear in the face and meet the next challenge, and the next. Or contact the Office of Gift Planning at 800-338-3294 or [email protected] As an 18-year-old, I wanted Columbia to win as much as any- Some of my fondest memories of Columbia are those Saturday one and dreamed of victories that would lead the Lions to an Ivy afternoons when I turned on the radio in my dorm room and lis- League Championship like the one that the football team had tened as the Lions lined up for another play in the rain or snow or captured in 1961. Instead, what I learned from rooting for Co- wind that blew off the Harlem River, and kept lining up until the lumbia week after week was the difference between dreams and final whistle sounded. I loved listening to the games. I loved that reality, and how to face discouragement, disappointment and (Continued on page 95)

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