Columbia College Fall 2014 TODAY Columbians know it’s all about … Location, Location, Location Contents LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION 18 Majesty and Humanity Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus provides a distinctive urban oasis for teaching, learning and discovery. You Can Go Home Again BY JAMIE KATZ ’72, BUS’80 For decades, Homecoming has drawn Columbians to Baker Athletics Complex 24 Scenes from a Bygone Era for football and fun, and this year promises more of the same when the Lions take on Ivy League rival Dartmouth on Saturday, October 25. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. Archival photos show how the College and the neighborhood but be sure to come early for a gourmet barbecue under the Big Tent and a carnival used to look. with games and play areas for the youngsters. For more information, contact Jonathan Whitford, alumni affairs, [email protected] or 212-851-4488. 26 On the Heights PHOTOS: TOP, EILEEN BARROSO; BOTTOM, CCT ARCHIVES Columbia’s neighborhood, captured through the camera lens. PHOTOS BY LEslIE JEAN-BART ’76, JRN’77 32 Only in New York Alumni, faculty and students on their favorite sites and memorable experiences. BY SHIRA BOss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98 COVER: EILEEN BARROSO; ABOVE: COLIN SULLIVAN ’11 MESSAGE FROM DEAN JAMES J. VALENTINI How NYC Enriches the College Experience 10 48 83 ou have probably heard me refer to Columbia Our location in New York City means that students can take College as “the greatest college in the greatest advantage of Columbia-run career development programs such 5 Minutes with Robert Friedman Claire Shipman ’86, SIPA’94 and Katty Kay Erica Easley ’00 university in the greatest city in the world.” as the Columbia Arts Experience, Columbia Communities in I truly believe that. We are the cornerstone Action and the new Start Up Internship Program; that recruit- school within Columbia University in the City ers from a variety of industries will be on campus for job fairs DEPARTMENTS of New York. And our greatness — and insti- and one-on-one interviews; and that students can attend impor- WEB EXTRAS Ytutional history — is intertwined with the great City of New tant research conferences and related events, explore a variety 3 Message from Dean James J. Valentini York that surrounds us. of industries, corporations and professions, and take advantage How NYC enriches the College experience. Watch Wm. Theodore Founded in 1754 as King’s College in a of the College’s network of 47,700-plus de Bary ’41, GSAS’53’s schoolhouse at Trinity Church on Rector alumni, about 45 percent of whom live in 4 Letters to the Editor National Humanities Street, we moved uptown following the the greater New York City area. Medal ceremony development of the city — from a parcel When renowned speakers and world 6 Within the Family by Editor Alex Sachare ’71 of land bordered by Church Street, Barklay leaders come to New York City, they often Columbia’s campus in the city is a magical location. Read about and listen Street, Murray Street and the Hudson Riv- also come to Columbia. Celebrated Russian to rock climber er (in 1755) to a three-acre site at Park Place conductor Valery Gergiev spoke to Music 7 Around the Quads Sasha DiGiulian ’16 overlooking the Hudson River (in 1760), to Humanities students when he was in New Phillip M. Satow ’63 to receive the 2014 Alexander Hamilton Medal. East 49th Street and Madison Avenue near York City to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Listen to an episode what is now Rockefeller Center (in 1857) to opening night; internationally acclaimed 15 Roar, Lion, Roar of David Alpern ’63’s Morningside Heights (in 1897). jazz musician Wynton Marsalis spoke at Football coach Pete Mangurian stays the course. For Your Ears Only Our location “in the City of New York” an undergraduate jazz class in connection has always been a defining feature of a Col- to his role at Lincoln Center; and students 36 Columbia Forum: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Thank you to our FY14 lege education, and it provides countless attended talks by journalists Mika Brzez- Straight talk about the challenges of building a business. CCT donors opportunities, cultural diversity and experi- inski and Joe Scarborough, writers Zadie ences that only New York City can provide. Smith and Jamaica Kincaid, entrepreneur BY BEN HOROWITZ ’88 View the Columbia These are incorporated into our students’ and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, philoso- 260th timeline curricula and daily lives and contribute to phers Cornel West and Judith Butler and the exceptional value of a Columbia College many others. Students also can attend ALUMNI NEWS college.columbia. education. And today, more than ever, the Columbia’s World Leaders Forum, which edu/cct resources and diversity of the city expand in recent years has offered talks by Bill 43 Message from CCAA President Doug Wolf ’88 the academic experience. PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO Clinton, Nicholas Sarkozy, Vladimir Putin Leading CCAA to a future of engagement. Students go to the symphony, opera and and the Dalai Lama, among others — all museums; tour neighborhoods on bicycle to learn about New because of our location in New York City. 44 Obituaries York City history; and study New York City landscape, architec- This issue of Columbia College Today focuses on the great City ture, culture and ecosystems, all as part of their coursework. The of New York that surrounds us, and particularly our neighbor- 47 Bookshelf Like Columbia College Columbia Arts Initiative “Passport to Museums” program gives hood, Morningside Heights. Both the city and the neighborhood Featured: The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance — Alumni on Facebook: students free access to a variety of cultural destinations including have changed since many of you were here but they remain as What Women Should Know by Claire Shipman ’86, SIPA’94 and Katty Kay facebook.com/alumnicc MoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the New-York Historical central to our identity as a college as they were 260 years ago. We Society and Socrates Sculpture Park; the Ticket and Information encourage you to visit the Columbia College Timeline (college. 50 Class Notes Center offers reduced-price or free tickets to theater, dance and columbia.edu/timeline) to learn about College history; to view 77 Alumni Sons and Daughters music performances; and the Urban New York program provides our Instagram page (instagram.com/ColumbiaCollege1754) to Follow @Columbia_CCAA students with a chance to receive free tickets to exciting trips see images of the present-day campus; and to share your memo- Alumni Profiles on Twitter around the city and to interact with faculty in social settings. ries of Columbia College and New York City on the Columbia 62 David Alpern ’63 Students can participate in internships at world-class institu- College Alumni Association Facebook page (facebook.com/ 73 Jordan Sprechman ’83 tions and large corporations such as Bloomberg, Christie’s, MTV, alumnicc) or via email at [email protected]. Amnesty International, Lincoln Center, Louis Vuitton, The New 83 Erica Easley ’00 Join the Columbia Alumni Association Network York Times, the New York Philharmonic, UBS and Viacom. They 92 Alumni Corner on LinkedIn: alumni. can carry out research at premier facilities such as Memorial Sloan Kettering, the American Museum of Natural History, the Michael I. Sovern ’53, LAW’55 looks at an improbable life. columbia.edu/linkedin Bronx Zoo and the Wilderness Society. FALL 2014 3 fix-it-later mentality that can creep into the Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean’s rules of grammar don’t apply, but once Letters to the Editor business of gathering and disseminating Day, Thursday, May 28–Sunday, May you add the adjective it becomes the old the news. With a newspaper, as I tell my 31, and into the summer. The exhibi- Latin title. I understand the desire to make students, there is an expectation of cred- tion may also travel to other venues. the language gender-neutral and I am Songs from Unsung Alumni ibility. Online blogs/stories? Who knows? The event and its related activities will happy to use firefighter and mail carrier Volume 42 Number 1 Thank you, Ed Weathers [’68, GSAS’69] I warn them about being careful in taking be a gift to the 2015 reunion classes and instead of fireman and policeman (though Fall 2014 (“Song of the Unsung Alumni,” “Alumni as gospel information gleaned online. Just Dean’s Day attendees. I still use freshman and first baseman). But because it’s online does not necessarily if gender neutrality is our goal, why in- EDITOR IN CHIEF Corner,” Summer 2014), for reminding me Alex Sachare ’71 that although the only time I may see my make it accurate, I tell them, but who vent artificial feminine forms such as name in print is if this letter is published, I knows if they will take that advice to emerita? If you are going to feminize EXECUTIVE EDITOR can wear my Columbia colors with pride. heart? the phrase, she becomes professorette Lisa Palladino Roar, Lions, Roar! When my 6-month-old granddaugh- or professatrix. You aren’t going to do MANAGING EDITOR Gretchen Hudson ’93 ter is old enough to ask me what I used that, are you? Alexis Tonti SOA’11 BIRMINGHAM, ALA. to do for a living, I will tell her proudly Thomas W. Lippman ’61 that I worked for a newspaper. She’ll WASHINGTON, D.C. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT scrunch up her face and say to “Papa Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 Thanks for printing Ed Weathers [’68, Columbia Connections GSAS’69]’s piece in “Alumni Corner.” It Stevie,” “A what?” The newspaper in- FORUM EDITOR des cribes my Columbia College experi- dustry is a dying industry, obviously.