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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 and fun, and this year promises more of the same when the Lions take on 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 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 means that students can take College as “the greatest college in the greatest advantage of Columbia-run development programs such 5 Minutes with Robert Friedman ’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 Program; that recruit- school within in the City ers from a variety of industries will be on campus for 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 , 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 Church on Rector alumni, about 45 percent of whom live in 4 Letters to the Editor National 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 (in 1760), to Humanities students when he was in New Phillip M. Satow ’63 to receive the 2014 Alexander Medal. East 49th Street and near York City to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Listen to an episode what is now (in 1857) to opening night; internationally acclaimed 15 Roar, Lion, Roar of David Alpern ’63’s Morningside Heights (in 1897). musician Wynton Marsalis spoke at Football coach 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 ; and students 36 Columbia Forum: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Thank you to our FY14 lege , 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 ’88 View the Columbia These are incorporated into our students’ and founder , philoso- 260th timeline curricula and daily lives and contribute to phers and and the exceptional 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, 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 : 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 , 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- 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 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 . 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- 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 , 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 describes­ my Columbia College experi- dustry is a dying industry, obviously. I am always interested to read CCT. As Rose Kernochan BC’82 ence to a “T” as well as my wife’s! The Journal has been downsizing for an undergraduate at Columbia College CONTRIBUTING WRITER Robert Meyers ’62 years, laying off people and turning the I was being prepared for life. But, be- Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98 Oakland, Calif. product into a shell of itself, and with its ing an undergraduate in the intense recent sale for a tiny fraction of what it college environment was also life itself. EDITORIAL INTERN sold for in 1997, it’s not going to get any I am the son of a Columbia profes- Karl Daum ’15 The [“Alumni Corner”] article by Ed Weath- ers [’68, GSAS’69] was positively the best. better. sor and for a time I thought this was ART DIRECTOR I’m a bit surprised that CCT had the temer- was in the Pony Ballet. Judging by the res- We can only hope, as you say, that fairly rare. But I have learned that there Gates Sisters Studio ity to publish it, as this magazine seems to ponses, it must have been a medical school Spec won’t “devolve into just another seems to have been many others. I can requirement and tradition. blog.” point out sons of professors of chemis- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS be dedicated solely to reflect upon success Eileen Barroso after success. After all, I have yet to read On another note, I thank Ed Weathers Steven Krasner ’75 try (my father was a chemistry profes- Leslie Jean-Bart ’76, JRN’77 anything from anybody about failures, dis- [’68, GSAS’69] for his masterful “Song of East Greenwich, R.I. sor) and sons of architecture and sons the Unsung Alumni” [“Alumni Corner”]. of fine arts professors. Char Smullyan missals, broken promises, financial rever- Sam Retrospective sals, disastrous marriages and the like, all He gets my vote for spokesperson of the My father, Arthur W. Thomas year. Right on! This letter does not address an item (SEAS Class of 1912, GSAS Class of Published quarterly by the of which have always been firmly embed- I treasure my “Core” education at Col- in CCT but is an exciting announce- Artist Sam Steinberg 1915), entered Columbia in January Columbia College Office of ded in the human condition. PHOTO: ARNON KRONGRAD ’80 Alumni Affairs and Development for After reading countless issues of CCT, I umbia. It made me a better and I ment to and request for input from 1909 and spent his entire civilian ca- alumni, students, faculty, parents and had the uneasy feeling that I was the only hope a better person. the entire Columbia community. The reer at the University. He was ener- of Columbia College. graduate who did not compose a play, Dr. Sears Edwards ’48 Class of 1975 40th Reunion Committee For details about the Sam Steinberg 2015 getic, highly motivated and intense. In SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, head a large corporation, edit a national Garden City, N.Y. proudly announces the first full retro- retrospective and related events, or to May 1954 my father was among those, COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS magazine or discover any quarks. As a re- spective on the works of Sam Steinberg, submit Sam artwork, oral histories and including President Emeritus Dwight D. AND COMMUNICATIONS Spectator Online sult, utter despair continued to constantly Columbia’s outsider artist-in-residence other items for the exhibition, email Randy Eisenhower, who were honored at the Bernice Tsai ’96 hover over my head. Not anymore. Here’s I read with keen Alex Sachare ’71’s 1967–82. Our goal is for this multime- Nichols ’75 at [email protected]. Columbia Bicentennial Dinner. My moth- Address all correspondence to: to you, Ed, because now I can go about my column “Within the Family” [Summer dia exhibition to be on display during Go Lions! Go CC’75! er next to Eisenhower, I believe. Eisen- Columbia College Today own success with a markedly improved 2014], regarding Spectator’s move to reduce Fernando Castro ’75, Pasadena, Calif.; hower asked my mother what she would Columbia Alumni Center the print version to once a week and to fo- David Gawarecki ’75, SIPA’91, like him to talk about, and she replied, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. disposition. cus on an online version of the “paper.” ew aven onn New York, NY 10025 Dr. Alfred Hamady ’44 N H , C .; about Bayeux, the first city liberated in I feel a similar sadness, and for similar ew ork ity 212-851-7852 Battle Creek, Mich. Fran Minarik ’75, N Y C ; the Normandy advance. My mother was Email (editorial): [email protected]; reasons. I, too, spent a good deal of my last Manage Your Albert Mrozik ’75, Cream Ridge, N.J.; born and educated in Bayeux and when (advertising): [email protected]. A Core Education two years at Columbia in Ferris Booth Hall, Randy Nichols ’75, TC’79, Baltimore; she came to this country she brought Online: college.columbia.edu/cct and working on Spec. I was the sports editor, as Subscription and the Class of 1975 40th her prize books and school certificates facebook.com/alumnicc. Thanks for the Spring 2014 issue featur- well, for one year, and went on to a 33-year Reunion Committee of scholarship. What a wonderful thing, ISSN 0572-7820 ing the section on the . I, too, If you prefer reading CCT online, you career as a sports writer for the Providence for a gentleman from Kansas and a lady Opinions expressed are those of the Journal, the last 22 of which I covered the can help us go green and save Professor Emeritus from Normandy to share experiences at a authors and do not reflect official CCT welcomes letters from readers about on a daily basis before re- by opting out of the print edition. Click The Summer issue was excellent as usual, dinner in New York City. And that is Co- positions of Columbia College tiring in September 2008. I left the paper to “Manage Your Subscription” at college. or Columbia University. articles in the magazine but cannot print or but I was distressed by an item in Book- lumbia for you. personally respond to all letters received. further a second career, conducting interac- columbia.edu/cct and follow the do- shelf (page 41). Maristella de Panizza I am pleased to know that the Spectator © 2014 Columbia College Today Letters express the views of the writers tive writing workshops in classrooms and Lorch is described as “professor emerita.” archives are now digitized. From them I All rights reserved. mestic instructions. We will continue to and not CCT, the College or the University. at conferences in a program I call “Nudg- Any first-year Latin student could tell you have learned that in 1952 my father was notify you by email when each issue is Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. ing the Imagination” (nudgingtheimagina that under the ERROR-SOX-LANCET named chairman of the Columbia Civil posted online. You may be reinstated to All letters are subject to editing for space, tion.com). rule, third declension nouns that end in Defense Council. And so it goes. clarity and CCT style. Please direct letters But as I watch the demise of the news- receive the print edition at any time by -or are masculine in gender. Therefore Arthur L. Thomas ’50 for publication “to the editor” via mail or paper industry, I am saddened. I, too, sending a note to [email protected]. she is professor emeritus, as that title has Greenwich, Conn. online: college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. won­der about the fact-checking process in always been used. You could argue that this 24/7, blog-and-tweet, get-it-out-there, professor now is an English word, so Latin

FALL 2014 FALL 2014 4 5 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

WITHIN THE FAMILY BY EDITOR ALEX SACHARE ’71 THE A Magical Location AROUND QUADS

or me, choosing a college to attend was an easy cover. I’d also write a feature about Columbia teams or athletes decision. for the early edition of the Sunday paper that served as a place- Satow To Receive 2014 During my junior year, I was one of a handful of holder until Saturday night’s games were concluded. So each students from my high school to attend week, I’d peck out a story on my typewriter and take it with the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s annual me on the subway to the sports department at the Times, then spring convention. Each year since 1925, when located on West 43rd Street. Medal FColumbia’s undergrads depart for Spring , high school Remember, this was the 1960s, when newspapers were a big newspaper, magazine and yearbook editors have gathered on deal — and the Times was the biggest deal in newspapers. Here campus for several days of seminars and a taste of college life. I was, this college kid, handing in a story each week and seeing hillip M. Satow ’63 will be Satow worked at Pfizer from 1967 That taste was all I needed. One of my mother’s all-time favor- it appear in the Sunday Times (sans byline, as that was reserved presented the 2014 Alexander to 1981 and held several management ite stories was how I came home after the first day of the conven- for staffers, but my story nonetheless). This experience, along Hamilton Medal on Thursday, positions, including director of - tion, sat down at our kitchen table for dinner and announced in with my Columbia degree and two-year tenure as sports editor November 20, at the Alexan- ing, Pfizer , and VP of Pfizer no uncertain terms: “That is where I am going to college.” of Spectator, helped me get my first full-time job, with the sports der Hamilton Award Dinner, Europe. He has been a director on four It wasn’t what I had learned at the seminars, or whether I department of the Associated Press at its New York City head- Pan annual black-tie event held in Low Ro- public pharmaceutical company boards learned anything at all. It was the total experience that made quarters in Rockefeller Center — built on land that was owned tunda. The medal, the highest honor paid and is currently a director of three private my decision easy. I remember climbing the subway steps after a at the time by none other than Columbia University. to a member of the Columbia College corporations. long ride, walking through the gates and approach- Location, indeed. community, is awarded annually by the Satow served for two years during ing the Sundial, then having that experience that comes when Columbia College Alumni Association for the Vietnam War as a naval officer on you see the core of the Columbia campus for the first time and here’s a marvelous old book of essays by Columbians distinguished to the College and the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp. He and realize that there can indeed be an oasis in the midst of the ca- about Columbia and their experiences, University on accomplishment in any field of endeavor. his wife raised three children, including cophony of the city. the Heights, edited by Wesley Furst, who worked in Satow is a University benefactor, a Columbia graduates Michael ’88 and Even then I thought I knew New York. After all, I was born T public relations for the University in the 1960s. Her- former director of the Columbia College Julie ’96, SIPA’01, and have five grand- and raised here. I’d been to both Mets — the art museum on man Wouk ’34, the -winning author of The Caine Fund, a former president of the CCAA and children. and the opera palace on Broadway that was Mutiny, contributed a chapter titled “A Doubled Magic” in a 2004 recipient of a Award for For more information on the dinner, knocked down in the ’60s to make way for yet another of- which he described the core rectangle of Columbia’s campus as distinguished professional achievement. contact Robin V. Del Giorno, associate fice building. I’d attended Broadway shows, swum off Coney “a peaceful oasis — I had almost said a hallowed oasis — of the He is a member of the Columbia Athletics director, College events and programs: Island, wandered the streets of the Village, ridden the Staten life of the mind, defiantly independent of the surrounding mar- Leadership Committee and the Columbia [email protected] or 212-851-7399. Island Ferry. As a young sports , I’d often taken the subway ketplace racket of .” Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, and from our apartment in the southern part of Brooklyn to Madison Wouk goes on to write, “There is a here, and space, is an emeritus member of the College’s Phillip M. Satow ’63 will be presented Square Garden in Manhattan, Yankee in and and charm, and pleasant green vistas — in the realm of lasting Board of Visitors and the CCAA Board of the 2014 Alexander Hamilton Medal in Gene Finn Is New in . I was a New Yorker. things. Here in this concourse of red-and-gray buildings, Kant is Directors. An infielder for the Lions base- November. PHOTO: YARON LESHEM/LESHEM LOFT Yet I had no idea that in a neighborhood I later learned was no mere name, Marx no mere bogey, Shakespeare no mere idol ball team in all four of his undergraduate Associate Dean Morningside Heights, some 15 minutes north of Times Square to be nodded to and otherwise ignored; and the nucleus of the years, Satow and his family in 2010 funded ene Finn has been named associ- on the Broadway local, was this amazing rectangle that is so atom is no mere vague nightmare. At Columbia these things are Satow Stadium, home of the 2013 and 2014 now a leading public charity committed Gate dean for development and vividly described by the experts in our cover story. life itself. Ivy League champions. to preventing mental illness, substance alumni relations for the College and I don’t remember what I learned at the CSPA convention semi- “I do not want to overstate the case. When raccoon coats were A successful entrepreneur and corpo- abuse and suicide among college students. VP of development, Arts and Sciences, nars. What I do remember is that they were held in these magnifi- the fashion, there were raccoon coats at Columbia; and whatever rate executive in the pharmaceutical and The Jed Foundation is partnering with the effective August 4. Finn comes to Co- lumbia from Kent State, where he was cent red-brick buildings, and that the instructors encouraged us the current collegiate foolishness may be, there is plenty of it on healthcare fields for more than 40 years, Clinton Foundation, MTV, Facebook, Med- VP for institutional advancement and to speak up, share our experiences and learn from one another as the Van Am Quadrangle, you may be sure. The wonderful thing Satow is currently chairman of the Board scape, the NFL and other organizations on executive director of the Kent State much as from the teachers. What a novel idea! about Columbia is that there is also the life of the mind at its of Directors of JDS Therapeutics, an inno- educational initiatives that provide effec- University Foundation. He managed The light bulb went on: I could get an Ivy League education highest current mark for those who want it — and that so many vative drug development and marketing tive programming and strategic direction the largest fund-raising campaign in with teachers and students from amazing backgrounds only students do want it.” company that provides scientifically sup- to universities nationwide. the school’s history, exceeding the a short subway ride away from all the things in New York that Wouk, who turned 99 in May, concludes his essay as follows: ported natural products to physicians and From 1985 to 1998, Satow was a senior goal nine months ahead of scheduled I loved (not to mention home, if/when needed). Location, “The best things of the moment were outside the rectangle of patients. JDS is the parent company of Nu- executive at Forest Laboratories. There, completion. Finn previously was as- location, location … Columbia; the best things of all human history and thought were trition 21, a leader in the nutritional sup- he held positions that included EVP, sociate VP of advancement at The One advantage of Columbia’s being in New York City is the inside the rectangle. If only you had the sense, you could spend plement industry. Satow is also co-founder member of its board of directors and University. plethora of internships, but these were not as commonplace then four years in an unforgettably exciting and improving alternation and the former chairman and CEO of president of Forest Pharmaceuticals. He “Gene brings a wealth of experience with development and alumni relations as they are now. I was fortunate, however, to stumble into a part- between two realms of magic. I did. That doubled magic is lasting JDS Pharmaceuticals, which developed founded the Marketing and Sales Depart- that will help us achieve our alumni time job that furthered my interest in journalism, and specifi- me a lifetime. All my writings, such as they are, trace back in one and marketed psychiatric pharmaceutical ment at Forest and during his tenure the engagement goals,” Dean James J. cally sports writing, and location played a key role. I became the sense or another to my four years at Columbia.” products before it was acquired in 2007 by corporation grew from a small specialty Valentini said. “We are pleased that campus sports correspondent for , calling in Noven, a publically traded drug company. pharmaceutical company to a leading he has joined our alumni relations and scores and writing stories about Columbia sports events that the In 2000, Satow and his wife, Donna multi-billion dollar New York Stock development community.” Times wanted to include but could not spare a staff member to GS’65, co-founded The Jed Foundation, Exchange-listed company.

FALL 2014 FALL 2014 6 7 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS Columbia Revises Policy, Increases Programming Columbia College Fund Raises More Than $17.6 Million

he Fiscal Year 2013–14 Columbia most donors ever from a single class. To make a gift to the Fiscal Year 2015 Col- Regarding Gender-Based Misconduct College Fund was marked by On Columbia Giving Day 2013, held umbia College Fund via credit card, go to T record-breaking giving, with on October 23, more than 1,500 alumni, college.columbia.edu/giveonline or call the olumbia in recent months has lines for gauging consent and featured A significant component of the new 11,851 donors contributing more than parents, students and friends donated Alumni Office at 212-851-7488. To give taken many steps to help pre- the tagline “Be a Leader. Make A Differ- policy involves the key personnel respon- $17.6 million, surpassing last year’s total. more than $2.47 million in a 24-hour pe- by check, please mail your check, payable vent sexual assault and other ence.” Dean James J. Valentini said educa- sible for its implementation. Investigators The money is used to support a variety of riod, also earning an additional $95,398 to “Columbia College Fund,” to Columbia gender-based misconduct on tion and would continue on an will be taking on a larger role in determin- areas, such as financial aid, the Core Cur- in funds from alumni and friends who College Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, C riculum and student services, and also offered matching challenges. Giving Day 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New campus, to make it easier for survivors to ongoing basis during the school year. ing credibility and responsibility, and will report such incidents and to educate stu- In response to student requests, a possess the requisite professional back- provides stipends for student internships 2014 will take place on October 29. York, NY 10025. dents about the subject and the resources second Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Sup- ground and training to do so. Individu- and global study opportunities. available to them. The actions, including port Center was opened in Lerner Hall als serving on the hearing panels will be Donations received from July 1, 2013, a new University Gender-Based Mis- at the beginning of the Fall semester, in drawn from a designated pool of Colum- to June 30, 2014, counted toward the FY14 Bollinger’s Term Extended Through 2018 conduct Policy for Students and related addition to the existing location in Hewitt bia professionals with expertise in student total, and several donation records were niversity President Lee C. Bollinger Lee continue as president.” response procedures announced by Presi- Hall on the Barnard campus. Staff have life who have been tasked with this duty set for the College. The Parents Fund had Uhas extended his term by two years Bollinger, Columbia’s 19th president, dent Lee C. Bollinger on August 15, come been added both to the Sexual Violence as part of their . Consistent with feder- the most donors in its history, with more at the request of the Board of Trustees. He began his term in 2002 following a six-year following a year in which the subject of Response office, which provides a confi- al guidance, students will no longer serve than 1,573 parents contributing $2.7 mil- will now hold office until 2018. term as Michigan’s president. gender-based misconduct at and dential resource for survivors and offers on these panels. Advisers, including an lion. The Class of 1964 celebrated its 50th “’s prudent management “I am deeply proud to serve as president universities drew nationwide attention urgent response through the Rape Crisis/ attorney if a student so chooses, may now reunion by raising a record-tying (with and inspiring vision have been instrumental of Columbia, where I am privileged every in making Columbia University one of the day to witness the extraordinary accom- and sparked campus protests and calls Anti-Violence Support Centers, and the accompany students who are parties to the the Class of 1963) $6 million in gifts and most exciting places in all of higher educa- plishments of our faculty, students, alumni for policy reform, including at Columbia. Gender-Based Misconduct Office, which investigative and disciplinary process at all pledges, and the Class of 1989 broke the record for the most John Jay Associates tion,” said board chair Jonathan Schiller ’69, and staff. Ours is the ideal urban academic First-year students who arrived on employs investigators and conducts hearings and official meetings. LAW’73. “The University is thriving today community, committed simultaneously to gifts (donations $1,500 and above) given at campus in August underwent enhanced investigations; manages the hearing, In addition, the new case managers em- on many levels and is well positioned for the discovery of new knowledge, open- mandatory training at the New Stu- sanctioning and appeals process; and ployed by the Gender-Based Misconduct a 25th reunion. The young alumni — those continued growth here in New York and minded reflection and constructive action dent Orientation Program (NSOP) that supports students with case managers Office will provide students with a Uni- who graduated within the last 10 years — around the globe. The trustees, therefore, to improve our city, our nation and our ever focused on Columbia’s gender-based who can help students navigate the pro- versity staff member dedicated to helping were not to be outdone, as 247 members feel strongly about the importance of having more global society,” Bollinger said. misconduct policy and resources and cess. The added personnel should ensure them access support services and secure of the Class of 2012 donated, marking the engaged students in discussions about that students have 24-hour on-call access accommodations regarding their academic consent, respect and the importance of to professional staff, while keeping fully work and housing arrangements. bystander intervention related to sexual intact existing access to peer advocates. On July 24, Bollinger named Suzanne violence and more. In the week before Bollinger noted that the latest changes Goldberg, the Herbert and Doris Wechsler 1945 · 1950 · 1955 · 1960 · 1965 · 1970 · 1975 · 1980 · 1985 · 1990 · 1995 · 2000 · 2005 · 2010 their arrival, incoming students received in Columbia’s Gender-Based Misconduct Clinical Professor of Law, as Special Ad- a five-minute video that introduced them Policy, which follow a year of conversations visor to the President on Sexual Assault to Columbia’s community standards and with students in multiple forums, reflect and Response. In a letter to the Columbia the University’s policies regarding sexual recent guidance from the House, the community announcing the appoint- respect and consent. At NSOP, new pro- Department of Education and federal leg- ment, Bollinger wrote, “One of Suzanne’s gramming was introduced including CU islation as well as recommendations from responsibilities will be to help create the Step Up, which included concise guide- members of the Columbia community. right organizational structure for the new office of the Executive Vice President for REMINISCE. RELIVE. Student Affairs so that it will better sup- Columbia Startup Lab Opens port our efforts to prevent and respond to sexual assault matters on campus.” Columbia officials, including Bollinger also announced that he had President Lee C. Bollinger and REUNITE Dean James J. Valentini, joined “charged the Presidential Advisory Com- with government officials on mittee on Sexual Assault (PACSA) with June 15 for an official ribbon- developing an ongoing, multi-year, com- cutting at the opening of the prehensive plan to address sexual assault Columbia Startup Lab in . The facility, located within our community … The EVP [for on the ground floor of WeWork Student Affairs] will then work closely with Soho West in NYC’s Silicon PACSA to help ensure that our campus Alley, provides a co-working culture does not tolerate sexual assault space with heavily subsidized and that our adjudicatory process is rent for alumni who have graduated within the past five responsive, sensitive, efficient and fair.” years and have started their Comprehensive information regarding own businesses. At right, Matt Columbia’s policies and resources con- Star ’12 (left, in white shirt) cerning gender-based misconduct, along shows off his company, Rawr ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2015 Denim, a tool that helps men with messages from the president and find the perfect pair of jeans. details on new initiatives, are available on PHOTO: MICHAEL DAMES the Sexual Respect website (sexualrespect. Thursday, May 28 – Sunday, May 31 columbia.edu).

FALL 2014 Questions? Email [email protected] 2014 8 9 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS De Bary Honored with National Humanities Medal Raised near Boston, Profes- of areas of mathematics, from You describe math as beauti- I like to go there with my sor of Mathematics Robert topology to algebra to analy- ful. Can you say more about family and look for moose. Friedman earned a B.A. and sis; it draws upon a wide that? m. Theodore de Bary an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. variety of techniques and has It’s beautiful much in the What talent would you most ’41, GSAS’53, the John in 1981, all from Harvard. He both general structural results way music is beautiful: It has like to have? Mitchell Mason Pro- has been a faculty member and beautiful examples. structure, it has an internal I wouldn’t mind playing the fessor Emeritus and at Columbia for more than 30 logic, it has defined rules, but guitar really well. My daugh- Emeritus who years and chaired the Depart- How do you split your teach- within those rules is a great ter thinks I should pick up the ment of Mathematics 2001– hasW spent his entire career at Columbia, ing between graduate stu- freedom to experiment and banjo. If I could miraculously was named by President 04. His books include Smooth dents and undergraduates? to improvise and to think cre- get good without practicing, ’83 as one of 10 recipients of the 2013 Na- Four-Manifolds and Complex It’s about 50-50. I love to atively — to both understand that would be fun. tional Humanities Medal for his pioneer- Surfaces, co-authored with teach undergraduates — the current ideas deeply and to ing work in East Asian studies. John Morgan, and Algebraic undergraduate culture here bring in new ideas, to see un- Where do you stand on The award honors individuals and Surfaces and Holomorphic is really great. We teach cal- expected patterns, to see con- sports? groups who have furthered America’s Vector Bundles. He won the culus to several thousand nections you never saw. I’m an incurable Red Sox fan. understanding of the humanities, espe- 2014 Award students each year, and many When I moved to New York, cially in the fields of history, cultural stud- for Teaching, presented annu- of those need it for econom- Tell me about the Mark Van I tried to shake them but I ies, filmmaking, cultural commentary ally by the Columbia College ics, premed or one of the sci- Doren Award. couldn’t. But I do think it’s and . In presenting Student Council in recogni- ences. So while it’s not really I was completely caught easier to like them, being here, the medals during a July 28 White House tion of a faculty member’s part of the Core, calculus off-guard. I knew that I’d than being a Yankee fan in ceremony, Obama said to the honorees, “humanity, devotion to truth at some level is an experi- been nominated but that was Boston. For a long time I had a “The moments you help create — mo- and inspiring leadership.” ence for a large segment of pretty much the last I heard chocolate lab named Fenway. ments of understanding or awe or joy or Shortly after we named sorrow — they add texture to our lives. What did you want her, we discovered there They are not incidental to the American to be when you were Five Minutes with ... Robert Friedman were two other choco- experience; they are central to it, they are growing up? late labs named Fenway essential to it. So we not only congratulate Honestly, I had always students. And it’s always a of it until they told me I won. at our dog run. you this afternoon, we thank you for an thought about doing some challenge to make it interest- There are so many wonderful extraordinary lifetime of achievement.” kind of academics. But I ing and to make it real to the teachers at Columba, in many What are the odds? De Bary began developing Columbia’s didn’t discover math until students. … departments that I think are I like to think we were the I was 15. I was at boarding I also love teaching the perhaps perceived as more first. Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41, GSAS’53 received a National Humanities Medal for his work in East Asian studies. school and blundered my more advanced courses for accessible — the humanities or Interview: Alexis Tonti SOA’11 New School Designations PHOTO: JOCELYN AUGUSTINO; COURTESY NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES way into a very advanced the majors. For example, the social sciences — so it’s really Photo: Eileen Barroso Columbia College Today has adopted class. After two weeks I knew course that really excited me nice for our department that a new style for indicating Columbia program in East Asian studies in 1949 Senior Scholars. His National Humanities this was what I wanted to do. when I was 15 — a version mathematics is recognized degrees from schools other than the while a student in the Ph.D. program, award cited his influential work in cultural of “Introduction to Modern by students as a place College. The below designations will recruiting translators for classic Chinese, studies and the humanities: “As a scholar Do you remember what Algebra” — is one that I love where great teaching be used throughout the magazine. Japanese and South Asian works to create of East Asian Studies, Dr. de Bary has fos- about it grabbed you so teaching; it’s nice to try to happens. BC a core reading list for students wishing tered a global conversation based on the quickly? communicate some of that BUS to learn more about Asian cultures. After common values and experiences shared by The subject just seemed excitement. When I first came What’s your favor- DM College of Dental Medicine helping form the basis of the program, all cultures, helping to bridge differences so beautiful, the idea that to Columbia, that’s a class ite place to be? GS School of General Studies in 1960 de Bary became head of the De- and build trust.” through these abstract and where we would have been In the mountains GSAPP of Architecture, partment of East Asian Languages and Dean James J. Valentini praised de logical methods you could lucky to have 15 or 20 stu- near Rangeley, Planning and Preservation Cultures. Since then, he has held many Bary’s work and dedication to Columbia: get insight into simple and dents and now typically we Maine, by the New GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences prestigious positions at Columbia, includ- “Ted de Bary is a Columbia College in- fundamental things. For me, have 70 or 80. Hampshire border JRN Graduate School of Journalism ing EVP for academic affairs, and has stitution. He first stepped into Hamilton it’s always been more about and close to Canada. JTS Jewish Theological Seminary been recognized with numerous awards Hall as an 18-year-old freshman from the intrinsic beauty of the What’s the most important LAW Columbia for his dedication to teaching and com- Leonia, N.J., studied CC with the future subject than about applica- thing a teacher can do for his NRS School of Nursing mitment to bettering Columbia, including College Dean Harry J. Carman, who en- tions or understanding of or her students? PH Mailman School of Public Health the Book Award, the Mark couraged him to incorporate Asia in his the natural world. Our goal as professors is to PS College of Physicians and Van Doren Award for Teaching and the studies, and began planning and direct- help students to think critically Surgeons Alexander Hamilton Medal. ing Core courses in Asian Humanities What is your specialty? and imaginatively, regardless SCE School of De Bary has left his mark on the hu- and Civilization as a graduate student. Algebraic geometry. Roughly of what the field is — to help SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied manities at Columbia, founding a number He still teaches in the Core today, at age speaking, it’s the study of them engage with complicated Science of programs to improve the University’s 95. We are so proud of Ted’s accomplish- geometric objects that are material for its own sake, SIPA School of International and cultural offerings, including the Alumni ments and congratulate him on this great defined by polynomials and because it’s beautiful, and Public Affairs Colloquia in the Humanities and The Lio- award.” several variables but it’s hard because it enriches their inner SOA School of the Arts nel Trilling Seminar. He is also responsible to give a flavor for what that lives and challenges them to SW School of Social Work To view the ceremony, go to Web Extras at TC Teachers College for the founding of The Heyman Center really means. It involves a lot stretch their mental horizons. college.columbia.edu/cct. UTS Union Theological Seminary for the Humanities, the Society of Fel- lows in the Humanities and the Society of Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

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n Sam Abrams ’86 was AIDS Prevention and n Emily Starr Bean ’06 was chosen as a Sasha DiGiulian ’16 Scales New Heights presented the Insignia of Control. In this position, 2014 Lindblad Expeditions and National Knight, First Class, of the Daskalakis will work to Geographic Education Grosvenor Teacher B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 Order of the Lion of Fin- reach at-risk populations Fellow. Out of a pool of 1,300 applicants, land, a prestigious decora- and provide information 25 teachers were selected to travel to re- ock climber Sasha Di- Youth and Adult National Climb- tion from the Finnish gov- about prevention and mote parts of the globe to gain hands-on Giulian ’16 has a pen- ing teams; DiGiulian is currently a ernment, for his compara- health management, a experience for ; chant for doing what no member of the latter. “Once she got tive research into education critical role in the fight Bean circumnavigated Iceland aboard the woman — and in some to a certain level, her talent became in the and against H.I.V. and AIDS. National Geographic Explorer. cases, no person — has even more evident. She didn’t have Finland. The presentation Daskalakis is also on the n Rdone before. to work a whole lot more to maintain took place in New York board of the Men’s In a close election on June 3, Jeffrey A series of unprecedented feats what she had,” says Vidulescu. “She City in May. Health Crisis and is Bell ’65 won the Republican primary for have propelled DiGiulian to the pin- uses her experience and she’s also known for his innovative U.S. Senate in , focusing on n nacle of outdoor sport climbing. In July very smart, which helps a lot when ’96 (music) approach to healthcare a conservative platform and a return to 2013, while exploring South Africa’s you’re in a or ascending a and Lin-Manuel Miranda through his work as medi- the gold standard. This fall, he will run Waterval Boven, a renowned climbing really hard route.” (lyrics) won a Creative Sara Just ’88 cal director of ambulatory against incumbent senator destination, DiGiulian stumbled upon At 12, DiGiulian began traveling to Arts Emmy Award for H.I.V. services at Mount (D-N.J.) to represent the state in Washing- an unconquered route that another New York City on weekends to train “Bigger,” a rousing num- Sinai Hospital. ton, D.C. climber had laid out more than 10 years on the rock walls at . Her ber that opened the 67th annual Tony n n before. A few days later, she made affinity for the Big Apple was among Awards. The awards, which were Sara Just ’88 has been In July Mark Dworkin headlines as the first person to finish the reasons she chose the College. presented August 16, recognize the named executive producer ’67 released Shift Change, the route, which entitled her to name DiGiulian rents an apartment in key technical disciplines and behind- of PBS NewsHour and SVP his sixth national docu- it. She chose Rolihlahla, Nelson Man- Chelsea and typically practices five the-scenes crafts essential to at WETA (the PBS affiliate mentary film for PBS. Shift dela’s middle name. Two weeks later, days a week for two to three hours production. Meanwhile, three alumni in Washington, D.C.). Just’s Change is about worker- DiGiulian notched a second first ascent at Chelsea Piers, Brooklyn Boulders received Emmy Award nominations this appointment follows more owned and — lingo for the first successful comple- or The Cliffs in City. Her year: Kate McKinnon ’06 for “Best Sup- than 25 years of experience businesses in the United tion of a route — in Montagu, another workout program includes several porting Actress in a Comedy Series” for with ABC News, where she States and Mondragon, Sasha DiGiulian ‘16 climbs in Kentucky’s Red Saturday Night Live, which she joined as a won nine , , and explores how South African climbing hotspot, and River Gorge. hours a week of cardio and strength dubbed that route Miss-Behaving. PHOTO: CHRIS NOBLE, NOBLEFOTO.COM to bodyweight ratio exercises. She featured player in 2012; two Alfred I. duPont-Co- the businesses can help By then, DiGiulian had traveled the spends most weekends climbing out ’99, SOA’03 for “Outstanding Writing for lumbia University Awards, local industry and increase world while accomplishing some of the ing anchors as they work their way up, West, in Europe or even in Asia — a Drama Series” for House of Cards (he is two Peabody Awards and worker engagement. most difficult climbs ever by a woman, sport climbers attach a rope to anchors trips that, combined with academic re- also the show’s creator, showrunner and a Robert F. Kennedy Jour- most notably Pure Imagination in Ken- that have been affixed permanently to sponsibilities, allow her little free time. executive producer); and ’91 nalism Award. n Courtney Reum ’01 is tucky’s Red River Gorge, which she the rock, leaving them free to focus on “It comes down to time efficiency and for “Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Mark Dworkin ’67 the new commissioner for n conquered in October 2011 during a gap executing gravity-defying, gymnastic- not procrastinating,” says DiGiulian, Series” for (she is Umar Bandial ’79 was PHOTO: COURTESY MARK the Conven- DWORKIN ‘67 year between high school and college. style moves. DiGiulian’s achievements who is majoring in creative writing also the show’s creator, showrunner and appointed to the Supreme tion Center Authority, Rated 9a on the widely used, open-ended have attracted sponsors such as Adidas, with a special concentration in business executive producer). The Emmy telecast Court of Pakistan in a cer- appointed by Los Angeles French system of difficulty grading, it Red Bull and Petzl. Each sponsor pays management. was scheduled for August 25, after this emony attended by senior lawyers and Mayor ’92, SIPA’93. Reum remains the hardest route any American her a base and covers her expens- This summer, DiGiulian traveled for issue went to press. other Supreme Court judges. Bandial will work with the Los Angeles Con- woman has climbed. “It was the point at es when she travels on its behalf. the first time to South Korea, bringing previously served as chief justice of the vention Center to drive economic devel- n which I realized that impossible doesn’t DiGiulian has also earned cash the number of countries where she’s Demetre Daskalakis ’95 has been Lahore High Court and will now be one opment and job creation by attracting exist,” says DiGiulian, the third female prizes at major climbing competitions. climbed to 33. While chasing the next named New York City’s assistant health of 17 judges presiding over major cases convention business and generating worldwide and the youngest to complete In 2011, she emerged as the Female challenge, she also teaches clinics and commissioner of the Bureau of H.I.V./ in Pakistan. tourist revenue for Los Angeles. a 9a route. She added a second 9a route Overall Champion at the International promotes climbing as an athlete ambas- to her list in April 2012 when she became Federation of Sport Climbing World sador for several charities. the first woman to summit Era Vella in Championships, in Italy. From 2010 to “Climbing serves as my passport to Margalef, Spain. 2012, she won three Sport Climbing see the world through a unique lens,” Have You Moved? DATE SMART! DiGiulian believes such achieve- Series National Championships, and says DiGiulian. “I want to transmit this ments help “open the floodgates for in 2012, she also finished first overall passion to as many people as possible.” To ensure that you receive women’s progress within the sport. at the PanAmerican Championships in CCT and other College Join the singles’ To view videos of DiGiulian climbing and When someone comes along and Venezuela. information, let us know if network exclusively more, go to Web Extras at college.columbia. shows that it’s possible, it becomes DiGiulian was 6 when she first at- you have a new postal or for graduates, faculty edu/cct. achievable in everyone else’s eyes.” tempted climbing, during her older email address, a new phone and students of the Based on her last 10 climbs, DiGiulian brother’s birthday party at a local gym number or even a new name. Ivy League was ranked at presstime as the top fe- in her native Alexandria, Va. She began Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a Click “Contact Us” at MIT, Stanford and male sports climber in the world. Unlike climbing outdoors at 9 under the tute- freelance journalist and an editorial pro- college.columbia.edu/cct few others. traditional climbers, who shield them- lage of Claudiu Vidulescu, who since ducer for LasMayores.com, Major League or call 212-851-7852. www.rightstu dating.com selves from falls by inserting and remov- 2007 has been head coach of the U.S. Baseball’s official Spanish language website. 1-800-988-5288

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IN MEMORIAM Al Paul GSAS’55, Former Athletics Director Roar, Lion, Roar l Paul GSAS’55, who oversaw the League titles and finished second in had a long and productive life.” Added construction of football and soccer the 1983 NCAA championships, losing Kevin DeMarrais ’64, who was sports Astadiums at the Baker Athletics to Indiana in double ; men’s information director under Paul: “His Complex and directed the merger of the fencing won seven Ivy titles and three accomplishments speak for themselves. Football Coach Mangurian Columbia and Barnard athletics programs NCAA championships; and wrestling He was a true fan of Columbia sports, during his 17 years as director of physi- and men’s tennis won four Ivy titles a gentleman, a man of his word and a cal education and intercollegiate athletics apiece. Paul also was instrumental in friend.” Stays the Course at Columbia, died on July 28, 2014, at his the creation of the Columbia-Barnard home in Owings Mills, Md. He was 88. Athletic Consortium — the only one For more than 50 years there was of its kind in NCAA Division I athlet- IN LUMINE TUO ete Mangurian recognized the challenges when he there, what you had to do to win. If you do the things you have talk of replacing the Baker Field football ics — paving the way for women’s n FULBRIGHTS: Nine recent alumni became Columbia’s 19th head football coach in De- to do to get there, then you’ll win. That’s our philosophy. stadium, a wooden structure built as a athletics at Columbia as it stands today. have been awarded 2014–15 Fulbright cember 2011. He was positive and upbeat then, and “Everybody wants to win, but not everybody is willing to do temporary facility in 1929, but it was Paul began his time at Columbia as an U.S. Student grants to undertake he remains positive and upbeat after two seasons in the things that it takes to do it. That’s the challenge. We’re trying under Paul’s leadership that Lawrence assistant football coach and moved to individually designed international which the Lions have won a total of three games. to change a culture here.” A. Wien Stadium got built, and was administration as an associate athletics research and study projects or primary “When I came here, I thought, ‘We’ll remodel the Mangurian says being successful away from the football field opened in 1984. Wien ’25, LAW’27 also director under , whom he and secondary school teaching in Eng- house,’” Mangurian reflected this past summer as he prepared for goes hand-in-hand with winning on the field. “I can sit here and lish-language classrooms. The winners P was the benefactor of Columbia’s soc- succeeded in 1973. the 2014 campaign, which opens on Saturday, September 20, with spend every hour I have with the players talking about ‘who do cer stadium, now called the Rocco B. “Al Paul was one of the finest men I and their destinations are Matthew a home game against Fordham. “But after talking with people you block, who do you tackle,’ all those kinds of things. That Arciniega ’14, Spain, English teaching Commisso Stadium in honor of one of have known,” said John Reeves, Paul’s and going through all these meetings, the real solution became doesn’t help them be successful here,” he says. Columbia’s greatest soccer players; it successor as athletics director. “Honesty, assistantship; Emiliano Delgado ’14, Russia, English teaching assistantship; clear: tear it down and build it again. also opened in 1984. integrity, generosity and a love for Co- Jerome Ellis ’11, , studying Afro- So that’s what we’ve done. During Paul’s tenure from 1973 lumbia to the end defined Al. His col- Brazilian music from a performance “It takes a little longer, but when to 1990, men’s soccer won eight Ivy leagues adored him. Thank goodness he and composition perspective in Salva- you’re done you’ve got what you dor; Jacob Goldwasser ’14, Germany, want.” English teaching assistantship; Kelicia To continue the analogy, Manguri- Hollis ’12, , Chinese students’ an believes a solid foundation is being Schiller Becomes Board of Trustees Chair preparation, expectations and success; laid upon which Columbia can build a Sahrula Kubie ’14, Germany, English successful football program. teaching assistantship; Pavitra Mehta he Board of Trustees announced Schiller was a member of Columbia’s “We’ve established a standard and ’11, India, evolution of the Ramayana on June 25 that, following the 1968 Ivy League championship men’s epic through Indian puppetry; Jenny we hold the players and everybody T plan announced last team, which is enshrined in Schiff ’12, Italy, philosophy in Italian involved in the program to that stan- December, Jonathan D. Schiller ’69, the Columbia University Athletics Hall primary and secondary schools; and dard in academics, career develop- LAW’73 has become chair of the board, of Fame. Columbia College has recog- Samuel Walker ’14, Germany, English ment, football, personal development. succeeding William V. Campbell ’62, nized Schiller with its highest honors, teaching assistantship. It isn’t, ‘We can be strong in this area so TC’64, with whom he had been co-chair the John Jay Award for distinguished we can be weak in another’ — we have n for the previous six months. Schiller is a professional achievement and the Al- BOOK AWARD: Ph.D., an to be strong in all four. So what you do associate professor of psychology, has managing partner and co-founder of the exander Hamilton Medal, and all three is you build a culture that’s based on, ‘I won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Sci- law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner, and of his sons are Columbia graduates. In ence Writing Award ($10,000) for his need your absolute best in every single one of the country’s most well-known addition to being a University trustee, memoir, High-Price: A Neuroscientist’s thing you do.’ That’s tiring for them. It and respected lawyers. Schiller also has been a member of the Journey of Self-Discovery That Chal- wears them down. They have only so Dean’s Council. lenges Everything You Know About many hours in the day. But that’s what “Like so many of our loyal alumni, Drugs and Society. Hart specializes we work to support and that’s what I know the significant role Columbia in the impact of drugs on the brain we have to demand. For me to do my Coach Pete Mangurian exhorts his team during the 2013 football season. Hire Columbians has played in my life,” said Schiller. and human behavior. In making the way it really needs to be done, PHOTO: MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN/COLUMBIA ATHLETICS “I know that in order to maintain Co- award, PEN’s judges noted: “Dr. Hart’s I have to demand that.” Who better to hire Columbia students lumbia’s impressive momentum, we unflinching view of his past, along with Mangurian, who has coached for more than three decades at “I firmly believe that until we create an environment where his rigorous academic inquiry, make than Columbia alumni? That’s the idea cannot pause in our collective efforts all levels and participated in two Super Bowls and five major col- they can be the most productive — and we’re all most pro- for a document of innovative thinking behind “Hire Columbians,” a campaign to help this great University prepare and profound humanity. Written with lege bowl games, recognizes that at Columbia is not the ductive in the least stressed environment we can possibly be by the Center for Career Education to for the future. I am looking forward to clarity, honesty, and courage, High same as coaching in the NFL. The oft-repeated quotation, “Win- in — we’re not going to be successful in any area. There’s a working with my fellow trustees, with ning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” doesn’t tell the full story. stress factor that you have to minimize by supporting them, get Columbia alumni to hire students Price offers a compelling argument [President] Lee [C. Bollinger] and his to reconsider this country’s policies It’s not that winning isn’t important — “This is a wins and losses getting them off on the right foot — mandatory study hall for for internships or full-time positions. superb management team [and] with on drug use, which have proved so game,” says Mangurian — but it’s far from the only thing. freshmen, weekly grade reports that we review that aren’t just For more information, go to careered students, faculty and alumni in the ineffective not only from a legal stand- “Everyone wants to talk about winning. I get it,” says Man- grades, but ‘when’s the last time you talked with your profes- point, but from medical and social ucation.columbia.edu/hirecolumbians. same inclusive, affirmative spirit that gurian. “One of the greatest coaches in any sport ever was John sor, when’s the last time you talked with the TA, what test is Bill Campbell has brought to the board perspectives as well.” Wooden [the legendary basketball coach at UCLA] and he never coming up, what paper is coming up, what test did you just and the Columbia community.” talked about winning. He talked about the process of getting have?’, where we’re up to date on everything. The advising

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process, the monitoring process, getting kids to interact with faculty … all those kinds of things become part of how they SPORTS SHORTS 2014 Hall of Fame Class To Be Enshrined live. And when football’s over, those are the skills they need to learn. HONORS: “The basis of our program is that all those skills, all those Six Columbians won Ivy League yearly awards during the 2013–14 academic year: Winston Lin l Barabas ’36, who scored the only touchdown in championships. All-American Lisa Stublić tools, all that interaction, if aligned properly, the byproduct of Columbia’s landmark 7–0 victory over Stanford in ’06 and All-Ivy Tenke Zoltani ’06 also Save the that will be us having a good football team. If you can commu- ’15, Player of the Year in men’s tennis; David Speer ’14, Pitcher of the Year in baseball; Brandon Jowers SEAS’15, the 1934 Rose Bowl, headlines the 2014 inductees to starred for the team, which won Colum- nicate, be unselfish, be disciplined, be accountable — all those the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame. A bia’s fourth consecutive Ivy crown. Date! things that are going to be required for you to be a good student Player of the Year in men’s golf; Geoff Loss ’16, Most Outstanding Performer in men’s fencing; Will Savage ’17, total of 16 former student-athletes, one head coach Also joining the Hall of Fame in the Sept. 20 or to be a good employee or to start a business or whatever it is, Football season Blair Bat winner and Rookie of the Year in baseball; and andA four teams, selected by a committee of Columbia Athletics team category are the heavyweight crew all those things are going to make you a good football player, opener: Colum- Andrew Tinari ’17, Rookie of the Year in men’s soccer. affiliates including alumni and administrators, will be inducted that went undefeated during its regular too. So aligning all those qualities is our challenge.” at a black tie dinner in Low Rotunda on Thursday, October 23. season and won the 1929 national cham- bia vs. Fordham Without success on the field to serve as positive reinforce- LIN: “All 17 individuals made a tremendous impact on Columbia pionship; the Ivy League champion and Oct. 23 ment, it might be easy to become discouraged or to say the chal- Winston Lin ’15, who compiled a perfect 16–0 record in the spring tennis season and an overall mark Athletics and on their respective varsity sports programs,” says nationally ranked 1987 men’s tennis team Athletics Hall lenge is too daunting. Mangurian does not feel that way, and of Fame black- of 31–3 last year, was named to the Intercollegiate Tennis M. Dianne Murphy, director of intercollegiate athletics and physi- and one of its stars, Howard Endelman perhaps more important, he says he’s seen no sign of it in the tie dinner and Association men’s All-America team on June 5. The cal education. “We are excited to honor a women’s team for the ’87; and the 1996 football squad that com- Columbia players despite a season in which the Lions compiled first time in Athletics Hall of Fame history, two outstanding piled an 8–2 record, the second-best mark induction cer- three-time first team All-Ivy League selection put emony a 0–10 record and were outscored by 329 points. As evidence, modern men’s teams and one of the truly great teams in in program history behind the 1961 Ivy he points to this year’s 34 first-year players, who Mangurian together a 19-match win streak that saw him knock off five nationally ranked opponents and he finished the Columbia history.” championship team. Oct. 25 describes as “more talented, better students, the strongest class Steve Franke year ranked No. 17 nationally. He is the first Columbia Columbia’s Rose Bowl win ranks among its greatest sports In addition to Barabas and Endelman, we’ve had.” And while Mangurian and his staff devote a lot of [SEAS’67] memo- player selected to the All-America team since 2003, victories. Barabas, a running back, scored on a hidden-ball play now associate head coach for Columbia’s time in the offseason to trying to identify and recruit players for known as KF-79 in which quarterback Cliff Montgomery ’34 men’s tennis, other individual inductees rial benches when Oscar Chow ’03 earned that honor. dedication Columbia, what decides the issue is when those prospects come faked a handoff to Ed Brominski ’35 going to the right, pulled the include three-time All-American and Na- for their campus visits and meet the current players. SPEER: Left-handed pitcher David Speer ’14 was ball back and slipped it to Barabas, who sprinted around left end tional Basketball Player of the Year Ted Oct. 25 “I can say whatever I want, but our real recruiters are our Homecoming: selected by the on the 27th round of from 17 yards out for the only touchdown of the game. Barabas, Kiendl (Class of 1910) and 1984 Hermann players. I promise you that when the recruits come in and they Columbia vs. baseball’s amateur draft on June 7 and signed with the who helped Columbia to a 19–6–1 record in his three varsity Trophy winner Amr Aly ’85, SEAS’85 talk to our players, if the players don’t believe in where we’re seasons, also played baseball at Columbia and later played both from men’s soccer. Renowned fencing Dartmouth going, those kids don’t come,” Mangurian says. “When those team five days later. Pitching for Mahoning Valley, the Indians’ affiliate in the New York-Penn League, Speer sports professionally. coach George Kolombatovich, who guid- kids spend the night with our players in the dorm and are The first women’s team inducted to the Hall of Fame is the 2005 ed Columbia to five national crowns dur- around our team, they get a sense of whether these guys want had appeared in 12 games through August 18, all in re- lief, with a 1–1 record. He had allowed 10 earned runs in women’s cross country team, which won the Ivy League champi- ing his tenure from 1979 to 2011, also will to be here and whether these guys believe in what’s going on, or onship behind 2012 Hall of Fame inductee Caroline Bierbaum Le- be inducted, along with four first-time nominees: basketball and [leave feeling like] ‘This is a disaster and I don’t want any part of 33 innings for a 2.73 ERA and struck out 38 batters, third- most on the team. Frak ’06, who won the Ivy title and finished second in the NCAA baseball standout John Baumann ’08, national individual fencing this’ … Even though our players went through that season last champions Emily Jacobson ’08 year, they can look these kids in the eye and say to them, ‘This HELPING HANDS: Columbia’s 34 first-year football and Daria Schneider ’10 and is where we’re going, this is what we’re doing and this is how four-time All-Ivy tennis star we’re getting there.’” players spent mornings in July working with local com- munity groups and on campus in a program, conceived Milena Kachar ’07. Mangurian also feels that despite the lack of immediate re- Other inductees include sults, he has the support he needs to build a successful program. by coach Pete Mangurian, to introduce them to life at an urban university. They taught pre-schoolers, chaperoned Jacqueline Adelfio SEAS’06, “Every part of the University, whether it be the administration SEAS’07 (softball), Liz or the faculty, that I’ve sat down with and said, ‘This is what I’d field trips for middle-schoolers, worked in a community garden and improved Riverside Park, helped Columbia’s Cheung-Gaffney ’98 (women’s like to do to facilitate our kids being more successful,’ has been soccer), John Howard Johnson supportive. I think there’s an element of trust there. I think all Office of Environmental Stewardship to boost the Univer- sity’s recycling, created databases for archival materials ’22 (men’s basketball), Kathy those people believe that we’re motivated the right way, we’re Lavold BC’03 (volleyball), Len doing this for the right reasons, and they want to be part of that. and staffed the Dodge Fitness Center. “A lot of these guys are from much different places than New York City,” said Renery ’71 (men’s soccer), Eu- Football has nothing to do with it. It’s education. And that takes gene Rogers SEAS’45 (men’s time. Mangurian. “It’s a life lesson to learn how to interact a lit- tle outside your comfort zone. One of the positives is they swimming), Bruce Soriano “We’ve spent a considerable amount of time getting it right. ’72 (men’s fencing) and Steve Unfortunately, the result of doing all these things the right way become more familiar with Columbia and the people here. This is a win-win for everybody involved.” For more on Sundell ’04 (men’s cross coun- is going to be winning — not the other way around. The last try/track and field). thing that’s going to happen is we’re going to start winning like the program, go to news.columbia.edu/newyorkstories/ 3488. Tickets to the black-tie din- we should, but only because we’ve done all the other things up ner and induction ceremony to that point correctly.” are available by contacting Cathleen Clark at cc3470@ For the latest news on Columbia athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. columbia.edu or 212-851-9610.

KF-79: In arguably the most SCOREBOARD famous play in Columbia sports history, Al Barabas ’36 Ivy League team championships Ivy League yearly awards Columbia baseball Wins posted turns the left corner and heads won by Columbia in 2013–14: won by Columbia student- players named by the men’s for the end zone to score the touchdown in Columbia’s 7–0 men’s cross country, men’s fencing, athletes in 2013–14 (see to All-Ivy League tennis team win over Stanford in the 1934 5baseball, men’s tennis, men’s golf 6Sports Shorts above) 11 teams in 2013–14 22 in 2013–14 Rose Bowl.

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he drama of the moment strikes people with surprising force the first time they experience it, and it never gets old. It almost feels staged. Maybe it was staged. Barry Bergdoll ’77, GSAS’86, theT Professor of Art History and Archaeology and former chief curator of architecture and design at MoMA, describes the scenario: “Soon after you enter the main campus gate at and Broadway,” he says, “just at the point where you pass A rendering of Charles McKim’s original plan for the campus shows, in the foreground, buildings (never built) that would have formed a quadrangle with Hartley and Wallach. the corner of Dodge Hall and emerge from the shadows, you are startled by the sweeping vista that opens up from Low to the far edge of South Field. Whether I’ve been away for two hours or and spaces she designs, emphasizes human purposes, values and 1760, students and faculty moved to a three-acre campus over- pleasures. looking the Hudson River at a site between Murray Street and two weeks, it never fails to surprise me and make me think, ‘This is an incredible place.’ I get emo- “First of all, it’s a place with green space. If you don’t see grass Park Place near today’s new World Center. In 1857, Colum- tional even talking about it.” and trees, you don’t really think you’re on a campus,” Halsband bia migrated uptown to East 49th Street and Madison Avenue. says. “Another thing is, no cars. Once you’re freed from dodging And in 1893, the trustees approved a general scheme proposed Noted architecture critic ’70, GSAS’72 clearly re- There are other ambitiously planned spaces that break up traffic, you can think big thoughts. You can stop and say hello to by McKim’s firm of McKim, Mead & White for the elaborate members his initiation to this scene, in 1965, when he visited Co- Manhattan’s rectilinear street grid in a significant fashion — people. You’re not under any pressure to conform to another set campus on the Heights that opened just four years later. McKim’s lumbia to attend a high school conference. “I was deeply Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, of rules. Important-looking public buildings are another marker basic plan called for a unified procession of neo-classical brick- impressed,” he says. “There was just something about the gran- Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village housing development. — buildings that you can walk into and feel connected to a bigger and-limestone buildings of equal height, symmetrically arranged deur of the space that seemed very profound and very urban to But the Columbia campus is in many respects unique: an oasis of picture. And then finally, monuments, signs — things that say, around four shaded quadrangles to the east and west of a central me. That was really the aha! moment when it all came together.” tremendous variety and drama that blends areas of intense activ- ‘This is a significant place, with history.’ If you have all those ele- axis that would be crowned by Low Library. Though never fully To Professor Andrew S. Dolkart GSAPP’77, who heads the ity with enclaves of park-like tranquility. And while Columbia is ments, people immediately understand that it’s a campus. There realized, the McKim plan forever defined Columbia’s profile. Historic Preservation Program at the Architecture School, the not alone in offering a fine urban campus, its location in the beat- are other ways to conjure it: At NYU, if you’re standing under a “It was startling — it was the next important step in American panorama illustrates the genius of Charles McKim, the principal ing heart of the nation’s largest city makes the University’s grand purple flag, you’re on the campus. But you’re really much more campus design,” says Robert A.M. Stern ’60, the famed architect architect of the Morningside Heights campus: “He holds back the spaces and distinctive features seem all the more miraculous. integrated with the city. I think there’s something very precious and planner who taught at Columbia for decades before being most dramatic moment till the absolute last second. You really What are the key elements that distinguish the Morningside about drawing a line and saying, ‘Within this space, you are free named dean of Yale’s architecture school in 1998. “It was a very have no indication that that’s going to happen until it happens. campus? Before jumping into a discussion of the Beaux-Arts to be a human being who thinks your own thoughts.’ The Co- bold idea.” And a profoundly urban one. And I think it’s spectacular. You are totally being manipulated, to pavilions and red-brick piazzas that account for so much of the lumbia campus does that, magnificently.” “The new Columbia campus was meant to be a radical break maximize the drama of architecture and through that, of course, campus’ basic flavor, architect and planner from existing campus design, which reflected this quasi-Eng- symbolically, Columbia.” GSAPP’68 thinks it’s worthwhile to step back and address a basic lish, quasi-pastoral idea of green yards where the buildings These three are hardly alone in their thinking. CCT asked a question: What is a campus? he large bronze plaque honoring Charles Follen Mc- would be set and then covered in ivy,” explains architect, au- group of experts to talk about the glories of the Morningside cam- “Everyone uses the word pretty well in sentences, they’ve got Kim on Low Plaza has no doubt been trampled upon thor and filmmaker James Sanders ’76, GSAPP’82. “The older pus, from its grand design to its quieter pleasures and epipha- that down,” she says, “but no one stops to define what a campus millions of times by people unaware of his ambitious American campuses, including Columbia’s, were usually built nies, and most acknowledged having a similar reaction to the is.” Halsband is a leading architect and planner whose many Co- master plan for Columbia on Morningside Heights, the in a Federal style or a Gothic or Victorian Gothic style, build- vista that materializes as you traverse College Walk. Three spon- lumbia projects include designing the Building T school’s fourth home since its founding in 1754. The College’s ing by building. By comparison, McKim’s was a bold Italian- taneously offered virtually the same account. It was almost like and the restoration, renovation and expansion of Hamilton Hall, earliest classes were held in the vestry room of a new school- Roman-imperial vision of the new American imperium. It was a something out of The Manchurian Candidate. completed in 2004. Her definition of a campus, like the structures house on the grounds of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. In huge piece of true urban composition, beyond anything I think

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New York had seen up to that time.” particular were absent from the original vision, a gap that would watchful eye of Alma Mater, ’s iconic statue. here does one go to savor the subtler, more pri- Curiously, the more agrarian, Thomas Jefferson-designed core take nearly a century to address fully. And only one of the four McKim’s design has everything to do with the suitability of vate pleasures — to amble or sit, commune with of the University of is Columbia’s closest American mod- planned North Campus quadrangles was ever completed — the Low Steps for hanging out, Stern explains. friends or tackle today’s KenKen puzzle in the el, embodying, Sanders says, “the idea of a unified vision, with a one bounded by Avery, Fayerweather, Schermerhorn and St. Paul’s “The risers of the steps are shallow, the treads are very deep, W Times? domed library as its focal point and a series of academic buildings Chapel. None of the similarly arranged South Campus quads ever so you move more easily on the diagonal rather than straight up The graceful, curved bench between Low Library and the cha- flanking it.” Jefferson went even further, at least in one sense: His materialized. and down. It invites people to sit,” he says. “I don’t think McKim pel — a gift from the Class of 1886 — is a popular . “They plan incorporated student quarters that were gracefully integrated One happy result has been the survival of an ample bowl of ever thought that the Low Steps would be Columbia’s south-fac- took this very hard, tough piece of stone and turned it into this with faculty homes and grouped around common green space and space that allows the South Campus to enjoy a good deal of sun- ing urban beach, but when the weather turns nice, people sit out very soft, round space. It’s just an amazing place to be,” Halsband gardens; he called the whole an “academical village,” and num- light and breathing room as well as large patches of greenery. To there and take the sun; they chat with their friends and pretend says. Bergdoll loves it, too, noting that the form replicates an an- bered it among his proudest achievements. Polshek, this open, freely accessible area, stretching close to the to be doing a little work.” Says Halsband, “You can talk about the cient exedra bench, most famously used in antiquity along the Stern marvels at the “brilliant organism” McKim created. full width from Broadway to Amsterdam and along the central architecture, but it’s really the human values that the architecture Appian Way. “They were places to gather for repose as you were “What you see on the North Campus is a kind of modern, mul- axis all the way from Low to Butler, may be the campus’ most sets up that make it a wonderful place. walking on these streets out of .” tilevel, mixed-use enterprise,” he says — “a brilliant machine, if precious asset. You don’t write home and say, ‘Gee, Another grace note is the much-im- you will, in the modern sense.” By moving a lot of earth, adjust- “It’s absolutely enormous,” he says. “I don’t know the exact Mom, I just saw a stone urn that was 10 proved quality of plantings around cam- ing the contours of the site, McKim was able to create a level po- dimensions of it, but I’ll bet it’s over four acres, and it may be feet tall.’” pus. “Columbia’s handling the land- dium, Stern says. Above it would be a set of intimate academic more than that. That’s rare, and it’s kind of centering for the Uni- scape wonderfully, which was not some- courtyards; below it, a nether world of mechanical and heating versity. I went to Yale, which has lots of wonderful courtyards, thing that was accented in the McKim systems, pipes, storage and shop space, connected by tunnels that but it doesn’t have a single central space; Stanford doesn’t either, ach of Columbia’s buildings plan,” Dolkart says. “And so I think that thread through the campus and serve up into each building. The actually, nor does Princeton.” has a story to tell, and there are that has been a real advance. It looks ter- architect and former Columbia Architecture School Dean James myriad tour-guide nuggets and rific.” Stewart Polshek likens the concept to a naval aircraft carrier: “The Escholarly treatises about the Smiling at the perennial borders at only part you see is the tower that is asymmetrically placed, and he tension between the fullness of McKim’s vision and campus to be found in , book- the foot of the College Walk retaining then a great big landing field. But underneath, there’s an army of the uneven narrative of its evolution fascinates Berg- stores and websites. One building above wall — a profusion of lush greens, thousands of people supporting that. In this case, it’s not neces- doll. He points, for example, to the asymmetry of the all excites the interest of connoisseurs: St. white hydrangeas and purple cranes- sarily populated underneath; it’s almost like a catacomb. But it T halves of the upper campus — the more densely built- Paul’s Chapel, with its Guastavino tiles bill geraniums and catmints — Hals- has lasted for so many years and has allowed for expansion and up sector east of Low Library versus the grassier, less populated and stained-glass windows by Maitland band remarks, “They’re amazing, things that would otherwise disturb life. So that’s a very subtle Lewisohn-Mathematics area. “It’s that dialogue between the Armstrong and John LaFarge. beautiful things. This really says to me, part of the campus that is relatively unknown.” planned and the incomplete that is really beautiful,” he says. “If “The chapel is a delight to me. I think ‘We love you, we love being here; we McKim’s original plan only pictured the North Campus; de- McKim’s plan had been fully realized, including its extension to it’s one of the great masterpieces of reli- want you to be here and love it, too.’ signs for the South Campus — eventual home of Hamilton Hall, the South campus, it probably would have been a little bit of a gious architecture in America,” Dolkart It’s all about happy feelings. I believe the Journalism School, , the undergraduate residence nightmare, because it was so incredibly dense.” says. “I don’t think it’s as appreciated this tiny bit of landscaping is hugely halls and student center — would come later. Residence halls in Halsband is more sanguine. “It would not hurt this campus as it should be. I love the fact that be- important for the campus.” to have more buildings added on South hind the lamps on the front façade there Sanders enjoys wandering by the Field,” she contends. “It is possible to do are scallop shells embedded in the in- stretch of Morningside Drive that runs something in a modern idiom that still re- terstices of the Greek crosses, which is by the President’s House. “I always spects the scale, color and general feeling of a symbol of welcome. The interior has find that to be a kind of lovely, campus- the older buildings.” Lerner Hall’s Broad- one of the great instal- like space,” he says. The handsome resi- way wing explicitly relates to neighboring lations, and it works with the brick and dence was designed by McKim, Mead Furnald Hall in such a way. To Halsband, the terra cotta to create a singular mas- & White. it is Davis, Brody & Associates’ eight- terpiece.” “I find Charles McKim’s vision to story Havemeyer Extension on the North Filler echoes the praise, adding a per- have a kind of fragile grandeur,” Sand- Campus that most successfully relates to sonal note: He and his wife, architectural ers says. “He believed that overnight, the older neo-classical buildings. “There historian GS’62, Greenery and sculpture add touches of beauty. the United States could create something PHOTOS: TOP, FRANCIS CATANIA; BOTTOM, COLIN SULLIVAN ’11 are monumental windows that are well- GSAS’73, were married there in 1978. as exciting or even grander than Europe, proportioned and give a lot of light to the Of the newer buildings, three in par- which had taken 600 years or 800 years inside,” she says, “and they’ve actually ticular drew comments from the expert panel, mostly in a positive to do the same thing. By God, they were gonna just do it in 10 taken the time to figure out the same brick vein: Fairchild (1977), designed by the partnership of Mitchell Gi- years,” Sanders says. “Columbia had the money, and McKim and coursing pattern, which no one else has urgola; the generically named Northwest Corner Building (2010), his partners had the vision. And there on the wilds of Morningside bothered to do.” by Spanish architect ; and Kliment Halsband Archi- Heights, something remarkable took shape. Materials, colors, patterns, textures, pro- tects’ Computer Science Building (1983), which earned nothing “Now it’s all mellowed and aged, but you can still truly feel portions, historical symbols and echoes all but praise from those interviewed for this story. McKim’s exciting vision of what it was supposed to be, and what play a part in McKim’s enduring sympho- “That is a gem; it manages through very small gestures to to a great degree it still is. I love that sense you get when you pass ny, which climaxes at the University’s cen- organize the potential cacophony of what’s around it,” Berg- Low Library and go up toward Avery. You feel that you’re float- terpiece and most famous building, Low doll says, explaining how the structure had to mesh with four ing in this wonderful classical platform, and with the trees having Library — fronted by massive Ionic col- existing buildings — Mudd, Fairchild, Engineering Terrace and grown in as beautifully as they have and the campus now being umns, aglow in Indiana limestone reflect- Schermerhorn Extension — in an already jam-packed corner taken care of reasonably well, I find it very, very moving and very ing subtly shifting hues of sunlight from of the campus. “Of course it’s a totally Columbia building,” he beautiful.” dawn to dusk. The building fairly exudes adds. “You’re not quite sure where it touches the ground and classical sensibility and authority. And on where it hits the sky. You’re not sure where it is! It is best seen Former CCT Editor Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 writes for Smithsonian The Low Steps’ design makes them ideal for sitting, creating a relaxed scene in contrast to a warm spring day, the contrast with the from Amsterdam Avenue, at 119th Street.” Stern favors it, too: “It Magazine and other publications. One of his transformative experiences the formal building behind. scene below on Low Steps is delicious: is a very sensitive insertion — probably my favorite intervention at Columbia was a senior-year College course in modern architecture PHOTO: COLIN SULLIVAN ’11 It becomes Low Beach, under the ever of the post-WWII era,” he says. taught by art historian Eugene Santomasso GSAS’73.

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Before College Walk was created, West 116th Street ran through the center of the Morningside Heights campus and was open to vehicular traffic. Above is the view in 1952 looking east from Broadway, while the photo at left from 1953 shows the familiar red bricks in their herringbone pattern. Opposite, clockwise from top: the main entrance to the West 116th Street subway station stands in the middle of Broadway (1963); a view from the auxiliary subway exit on Broadway near West 115th Street, when the University bookstore was located in Journalism (now Pulitzer) Hall (1953); The West End (1988); commerce on Amsterdam Avenue (circa 1951).

PHOTOS: WEST 116TH SUBWAY STATION, CCT ARCHIVES; THE WEST END, ARNOLD BROWNE ’78; ALL OTHERS, COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

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Opposite: Late- day sun shines on West 106th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive. This page: Some of the stately buildings that grace Morningside On the Heights Heights include (clockwise from top) the Cathedral Columbia’s neighborhood, captured through the camera lens Church of St. John the Divine, River- PHOTOS: LESLIE JEAN-BART ’76, JRN’77 side Church and Union Theological Seminary.

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What would a college neighborhood be without places to buy tools and books? Here, a look through the window of two staples, University Hardware and Book Culture, and other scenes from a vibrant neighborhood.

Above: Dance lessons on the plaza near Grant’s Tomb; play time and dog walking in Morningside Park. Right: The Northwest Corner Building at Broadway and West 120th Street brings a modern touch to a stretch otherwise lined with some of Columbia’s oldest buildings.

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The neighborhood’s food stores and restaurants come and go, sometimes with a nod to their predecessors, as with Mill Korean Restaurant and the recently closed Havana Central at The West End. Others have served generations of Columbians, while still others have joined the area in recent years.

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“One of the great things about going to school in New York movies, or on a picnic, or even to do recreational things like rock is that all you have to do to fit in here is want to be here.There’s a climbing or tag. We’ve gone to the Statue of Liberty and to place for everybody, however quirky. And in my field, art history, the Museum of Math — this being New York, we don’t run out it’s almost overwhelming: There are more people making, exhibit- of ideas. It’s been a way for me to get off campus and explore the ing, curating, writing about, buying, selling, looking at and think- city, too. After all, what’s the point of studying in New York if Only in New York ing about art here, per square foot, than any place else on earth. you’re not going to explore it?” The energy extends into our classrooms. If you want to study art Adrian Silver ’15 history, this is the place to be.” Urban studies major Alumni, faculty and students on their Robert E. Harrist Jr. GSAS’81 Boston The Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History favorite sites and memorable experiences Department of Art History and Archaeology R “The Metropolitan Opera had score desks in the B y S h i r a B o s s ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98 R back of the theater, supposedly for music students although they “I try to take the time out of my every once in a never checked. It only cost two or three bucks to see the opera and while to escape the sometimes hectic world of Columbia and to all you had to do was to be able to read music well enough to turn relax at the Met. It’s one of the most beautiful and inspiring places the pages at the right times, so you didn’t look too suspicious.” in the city. Even the building is magnificent and has a storied past. Bob Rabinoff ’69 Inside, there’s so much that every visit is its own new adventure. Software engineer When old friends come into town, I take them to the Met. When Fairfield, Iowa I make new friends on campus, I take them to the Met. When a couple of newly accepted students from my high school visited, he core of the Morningside campus is bounded by Broadway and Amsterdam, West 120th the I showed them in the city was the Met.” R and 114th Streets, but in many ways Columbia College extends throughout Manhattan Carl Yin ’17 Economics and computer science major “Going to school in New York City was such a gift. Chapel Hill, N.C. Anything I wanted to experience and learn from was at my fin- and even the outer boroughs. New York City is the classroom. Its streets, sights gertips. My freshman year I was studying art, so I would hop on the bus and head to the Met. My sophomore year it was jazz, so I and sounds offer countless opportunities to expand on the lessons of the Core, to gain hopped on the train one night to go hear Wynton Marsalis. And R when I realized I wanted to write musicals for a living, Broadway hands-onT career experience through internships, to pursue extracurricular and to experience “I love the domestic atmosphere at the Frick Museum was just down the street. Seeing Rent gave me the inspiration, those serendipitous moments that tend to leave the most lasting impressions. — a fireplace still burns in the library, surrounded by neatly passion and courage to follow my dreams.” shelved leather-bound books that emanate a slight old book scent; Tom Kitt ’96 Here, alumni, faculty and students share highlights of their time outside the gates of Columbia. the mood changes as you move from room to room; and the Ver- Composer meers, the Goyas, the Rembrandts and the El Grecos are human- New York City ized by their surroundings. There are no cameras, no cell phones, as a student was just after the students that a ramble from “One of my fondest memories “It’s exciting to convince no children and surprisingly few tourists. It’s a break from the city, Orientation when what seemed like the entire campus (and was almost any subway stop leads to great architecture. ‘Don’t miss and given its small size, a break that fits into city time.” probably just my floor) piled into the subway. We were all head- any open door’ is my mantra. In addition to walking tours of, R Pria Narsiman ’15 ing downtown for many people’s first East Village and St. Mark’s say, modernism in Midtown — from Lever House to Rockefeller and French major “In my computer science class, I sat next to a young experience. For many, the ride — full of jokes and singing — was Center to the little known Noguchi lobby design at 666 Fifth Ave. Sydney, Australia woman who had just been cast in an Off-Broadway musical. She an experience itself. And the night filled with karaoke, dancing and — I love giving students long lists of buildings to choose from for was ecstatic; because she was in New York City, she could easily late-night falafel was the ultimate way to bond in the Big Apple.” written analysis. It provokes them to go to parts of the city they attend auditions and subsequently rehearsals. I was able to do David Chait ’07, BUS’13 might not frequent, and encourages them to look up when most the same. I had taken lessons at the Manhattan School of Music, Entrepreneur of the city is wandering around looking at an iPhone.” R which had a cross-registration program, and was singing with Lincoln, Neb. Barry Bergdoll ’77, GSAS’86 “I grew up in Brooklyn, yet there were many places in the Bel Canto Opera company when I was cast in a modern-day The Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology New York City I had never been. I remember going to the Brook- showing of a Pirandello piece, The Giants of the Mountain, at the Department of Art History and Archaeology lyn Botanic Garden for the first time, with my Art Humanities old Ohio Theater. In this show, I could experience what we were R class, and visiting the Japanese garden. I was amazed that I had writing and thinking about in our Core courses.” never visited such a beautiful place in my own neighborhood.” Nairi Checkosky Balian ’88 raised in lower Westchester with high “I was a local kid, Francis Phillip ’90 Real estate investor school in the Bronx. But I was not a Manhattanite by any means R Attorney Chevy Chase, Md. and in fact was pretty parochial. I remember during Orientation, “One of my most memorable NYC moments was Brooklyn, N.Y. our floor counselor took us on an excursion to the tip of Manhattan stumbling across a silent disco under the Manhattan Bridge to ride the Ferry. The trip out was rowdy and exuber- in Brooklyn: a crowd of strangers, all wearing oversized neon ant but coming back we all got quiet, taking in the lights of the headphones, dancing to music only they could hear.” R skyscrapers, which did not even include the World Trade Center Mihika Barua ’15 R may not make NYC a great place for as- “The bright lights towers at the time. Pretty magical stuff. I’ve been here ever since.” Political science major “I’m involved with Columbia Youth Adventurers, tronomy researchers to search for the faintest objects in the night Lawrence J. Momo ’73 a mentoring program within Community Impact that takes kids sky, but it is a great place for us to share our interest with millions Education counselor from Harlem and Morningside Heights on trips throughout of New Yorkers and countless visitors. For big events, like the New York City the city. Every Saturday we go to a museum, to a zoo or to the transit of Venus across the sun in 2012, or sometimes for no better

FALL 2014 FALL 2014 32 33 ONLY IN NEW YORK COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ONLY IN NEW YORK reason than we feel like it, we take telescopes to the Manhattan walk along the High Line or eat in Chelsea Market (a converted food was amazing, but what made this outing unique was that streets and invite passers-by to take a look. It’s always fun for the bakery)? Why just quote statistics on the exodus of factories from it was a Malaysian restaurant in the heart of Little Italy, which faculty and graduate students but also a first chance Manhattan when you can visit the Meatpacking District and is adjacent to, or some consider inside of, Chinatown. The sharp for our undergraduate majors to share some of their newfound watch the shift happen before your eyes? My experience has been change in languages as you walk is remarkable.” knowledge with the world.” that after you have seen a neighborhood or a distant nation you Kareem D. Carryl ’15 Kathryn Johnston are more apt to study it and read about it.” Economics major Professor of Astronomy and Chair Kenneth T. Jackson Brooklyn, N.Y. Department of Astronomy The Professor in History and the Social Sciences Department of History R R out my Carman 13 window onto the “I remember looking R lights of the campus, and then at the beautiful uptown skyline “New York represents the essence of the idea of Amer- ica worldwide, all immigrants coming here and retaining their “Columbia’s location is a big plus for . that extends beyond. I loved being able to walk out of the Co- culture — a gorgeous mosaic. You could see what you could see The student-run club Società Italiana saw Andrea Bocelli in con- lumbia gates and hop a quick subway ride to Times Square to on Broadway all over the country. … cert in , attended a Verdi opera at the Met and viewed see a Broadway show, or to to visit a favorite PHOTO: COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY “You could hear what you could hear in schools, churches and films by up-and-coming filmmakers at the Lincoln Center Italian restaurant or to Soho to explore the modern galleries.” hallways, accents from different ethnic groups, and by taxi driv- Film Festival. They also went to the San Gennaro Festival in Little Rita Pietropinto-Kitt ’93, SOA’96 Columbia: Treasure of New York Actress and teacher ers having their own language, and this for me was cinema, but Italy and to Eataly, which has authentic Italian products not found or 260 years, Columbia has been an integral part of New New York City we were real people. … elsewhere in the United States.” York City, shaping its landscape and influencing creative “Everything was happening here in New York and constantly Jo Ann Cavallo thinkers from around the world. changing into something new. It’s all about the energy and how Professor of Italian and Chair This September, WNET (the New York metropolitan the benefits of attending Columbia University in the City of New Department of Italian R Farea PBS affiliate) explores the relationship between the city and York made it seem like anything is possible.” the University in Treasures of New York: Columbia University, the to me was Cannon’s, a divey Fernando Ortiz Jr. ’79 “A place that meant a lot latest episode of the Treasures of New York series, which is broad- official bar that used to be on Broadway. I spent a fair amount of time cast in the New York area on THIRTEEN and WLIW21. It is not dis- R there, a place that smelled bad and had moldy wood and you tributed via PBS so it does not air on other PBS member stations, Liberia although people outside the metropolitan New York area can “Don Mankiewicz ’42, Art Wellington ’42 and Don could get cheap beer. I spent a lot of time having intense conver- sations and arguments with my classmates. One late afternoon watch it via online streaming after the premiere (see link, bottom). Dickinson ’42 and I were members of the Columbia Certified De- The documentary begins in 1704 in Trinity Church with the generate Horseplayers Club. We liked to bet on the races, and junior year I went there with my friend Patrick Waters ’88 to R figure out what we wanted to do with our lives. I was intern- first recorded appeal for a college in New York; King’s College found an illegal bookie room in back of Adler’s Candy Store at officially opened, with eight students, 50 years later. The docu- ing at a law firm and thinking about (dreading) law school. My “Nothing was as fun as taking the subway, jumping off at the corner of West 106th and Amsterdam. Mr. Adler was an el- mentary traces the school’s progression to being renamed Co- a random stop and exploring the city on foot with CU friends. We derly, quiet man. He had some kind of arrangement with two other option was to become a journalist. Finally Patrick said to lumbia College and then Columbia University, the move to Mid- could have a fantastic time for very little money.” tough bookies from , Solly and Nick, who took our bets, me, ‘Marge, what do you want to do, in your heart?’ I looked up town and the creation of the campus in Morningside Heights. and saw Dan Rather on the TV and said, ‘That’s what I want to Chris McGowan ’92 paid us when we won and paid off the cops on the beat.” Along the way it focuses on legendary alumni such as Alexan- do — that’s what I’ve always wanted to do — to report the news, Private equity investor Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz ’42 der Hamilton (Class of 1778) and the Beat poets, and important Chicago Retired physician and go all over the world to do it.’ I got an internship with NBC events in Columbia history such as the Spring 1968 protests and current expansion into Manhattanville. Northampton, Mass. News shortly thereafter and that started a 17-year career in print and broadcast journalism.” “Columbia is right there for every milestone that happens Margaret Traub ’88 throughout New York City,” says producer Amanda Kinsey BC’00, R Humanitarian worker BUS’12. Treasures of New York: Columbia University features photo- R Marina del Rey, Calif. “Working for Spectator, you felt like you were working for graphic and video content from the Columbia University Archives a ‘real’ newspaper in New York, covering Morningside Heights, “As a big food lover, exploring local eateries is a hobby I as well as interviews. University President Lee C. Bollinger; ac- including crime, local politics, tenant strikes … It made you feel have picked up — from the creperie The Crooked Tree in the East tress ’94; architect Renzo , who created the like you were competing with the New York papers, instead of Village to a new macaron bakery that specializes in exotic flavors. R master plan for the Manhattanville campus; University Professor working on your campus paper. Because of Spectator I got to I have ventured around the city to areas that each have their own and the Kavli Professor of Brain Science ; Professor “What first comes to mind is my involvement in Model know Harlem somewhat. I never would have gone alone to an unique tastes: Harlem with the soul food flavors, and the bak- of Professional Practice in Film ; and author Caleb UN at Columbia and having the United Nations headquarters Carr, son of Beat poet and former College student , all all-black neighborhood in Chicago, where I grew up, but with my eries and ice cream shops that line the . I also [not far away] as a resource. As a student, I visited a half-dozen offer perspectives on life at Columbia. Spectator credentials I felt entitled to talk to anyone.” take advantage of pop-up eateries in parks and along pedestrian consulates and met ambassadors, leaders and diplomats from Kinsey says that the documentary should appeal to Columbia John “Rick” MacArthur ’78 walkways.” around the world. … At the end of my senior year I went from students and alumni but is also accessible for those who aren’t Magazine publisher Brian Sarfo ’17 Commencement, in my cap and gown, to the rostrum of the UN familiar with the school. “I hope that it sheds a bit of light on New York City Urban studies major General Assembly, where I served as secretary-general of a Model what a great impact on and important contribution Columbia has Bronx, N.Y. made to the city and the world,” she says. “I think that [viewers] UN conference with 2,000 students, welcoming delegates and in- will take away a real appreciation of the critical minds that have troducing the actual secretary-general, Ban Ki Moon, to deliver come through the school.” R the keynote address.” Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 R Chuck Roberts ’12 is an excellent supplement to lec- “Experiencing the city Paralegal Treasures of New York: Columbia University premieres on Sun- tures and readings about urban history. Why just discuss the my Columbia friends and I decided to day, September 21, at 7 p.m. on WLIW21 and on Monday, September “This past summer, Brooklyn, N.Y. importance of leisure at the turn of the previous century when push ourselves to try new restaurants every weekend. While this 22, at 9 p.m. on THIRTEEN. The program will be available for stream- you can physically go to and experience the great- has put quite a damper on my available spending money, I think ing after the premiere broadcast at thirteen.org/treasures-of-ny. est in American history? Why just talk about our plan has helped us to explore different areas of the city. One Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98 is an author and contributing writer To watch a trailer, go to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. the shift from an industrial to a when you can restaurant that stands out is Nyona, a Malaysian restaurant. The to CCT. Her last feature was “Theater District” in the Spring 2014 issue.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz ’88 talks straight about the challenges of building a business

Ben Horowitz ’88 is a co-founder and the former president of Opsware and a co-founder and current general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms. His blog (bhorowitz.com) has a readership of nearly 10 million. In his candid on- line essays, Horowitz shares the insights he’s gained while an executive at the cutting edge of tech — knowledge that has made him, according to From Kanye West, Sade and Drake, to BC’23 and George Bernard Shaw, you never know who will be quoted amidst Facebook’s , “one of the most important leaders ... in the the business advice offered by Ben Horowitz ’88 in his popular Ben’s Blog (bhorowitz.com). PHOTO: BEOWULF SHEEHAN global .” Both the blog and Horowitz’s new book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers PHOTO: COURTESY THE platform and Marc [Andreessen] became the chief technology of- OUTCAST AGENCY STARTING A COMPANY (HarperBusiness, 2014), had their beginnings in Horowitz’s frustration ficer. After a few months, it became apparent to both of us that t the end of 1998 and under immense pres- AOL saw itself as more of a media company than a technology with the management books of earlier times. “In my own experience as a sure from , which used the full company. Technology enabled great new media projects, but the C.E.O.,” Horowitz told The New York Times in March, “I would find force of its operating system to strategy was a media strategy and the top executive, Bob Pitt- myself laying awake at 3 a.m. asking questions about my business and subsidize free products in every category man, was a genius media executive. Media companies focused there weren’t management books out there that could help me. Because of in which Netscape competed, we sold on things like creating great stories whereas technology compa- the company to America Online (AOL). nies focused on creating a better way of doing things. We began the dynamic nature of management you can’t just say, ‘Do something like In the short term, this was a big victory to think about new ideas and about forming a new company. this, or do something like that ... ’” The result is a primer for business- for Microsoft since it had driven its big- In the process, we added two other potential cofounders to the people that feels really new: Horowitz’s hard-edged, astute guidance is gest threat into the arms of a far less threatening competitor. In discussion. Dr. Timothy Howes was coinventor of the Lightweight the long term, however, Netscape inflicted irreparable damage interspersed with quotes from rappers such as DMX and Nas. A Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), a masterful simplification of its on Microsoft’s stronghold on the computing industry: our work byzantine X.500 predecessor. We hired Tim into Netscape in 1996 In the following excerpt, Horowitz describes what it was like to lead moved developers from Win32 API, Microsoft’s proprietary and together we successfully made LDAP the directory the company Loudcloud during the best of times — and the worst of platform, to the Internet. Someone writing new functionality standard. To this day, if a program is interested in information times — for the digital economy. for computers no longer wrote for Microsoft’s proprietary plat- about a person, it accesses that information via LDAP. The fourth form. Instead, they wrote to the Internet and World Wide Web’s member of our team was In Sik Rhee, who had cofounded an ap- Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard standard interfaces. Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, plication server company called Kiva Systems, which Netscape it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on had acquired. He had been acting as CTO of the e-commerce divi- operating systems. Along the way, Netscape invented many of sion that I ran and, in particular, worked closely with the partner the foundational technologies of the modern Internet, including companies in making sure that they could handle the AOL scale. JavaScript, SSL, and cookies. As we discussed ideas, In Sik complained that every time we Once inside AOL, I was assigned to run the e-commerce tried to connect an AOL partner on the AOL e-commerce plat-

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form, the partner’s site would crash, because it couldn’t handle booked $10 million in . Loudcloud was taking off, coach’s voice, “Ben, well, honestly, they thought you were smok- vate funds had become completely cynical while the public mar- the traffic load. Deploying software to scale to millions of users but we were in a race against time and the competition. This ing crack.” With nearly 300 employees and very little cash left, I kets were only 80 percent of the way there. was totally different from making it work for thousands. And it meant hiring the best people and fielding the broadest cloud felt like I was going to die. It was the first time I’d felt that way as With no other options available, I needed to propose to the was extremely complicated. service, and that meant spending money — lots of it. CEO of Loudcloud, but not nearly the last. board that we go public. In order to prepare, I made a list of the Hmm, there ought to be a company that does all that for them. Our ninth hire was a recruiter, and we hired a human resourc- During this time I learned the most important rule of raising pros and cons of an IPO. As we expanded the idea, we landed on the concept of a com- es person when we had a dozen employees. We were hiring 30 money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one in- I knew that Bill Campbell would be the critical person I’d need puting cloud. The term cloud had been used previously in the employees a month and snagging many of the Valley’s smart- vestor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other 30 who say “no.” to persuade one way or another. Bill was the only one of our board industry to describe the smart cloud that est people. One of our new recruits had quit his job at AOL to We eventually found investors for a series C round (meaning our members who had been a public company CEO. He knew the handled all the complexity of routing, billing, and the like, so spend two months mountain climbing, but instead he joined us; third round of funding) at an amazing $700 million pre-money pros and cons better than anyone else. More important, everybody that one could plug a dumb device into the smart cloud and get another forfeited millions to join Loudcloud when he resigned valuation and raised $120 million. The always seemed to defer to Bill in these all the smart functionality for free. We thought the same concept from another company on the day of its IPO. Six months in, we sales forecast for the quarter came in at kinds of sticky situations, because Bill was needed in computing, so that software developers wouldn’t had nearly 200 employees. $100 million, and things seemed like had a special quality about him. have to worry about security, scaling, and disaster recovery. And Silicon Valley was on fire, and Loudcloud was billed in aWired they might be okay. I felt confident At the time, Bill was in his 60s, with if you are going to build a cloud, it should be big and loud, and cover story as “Marc Andreessen’s second coming.” We traded that our sales forecasts would hold gray and a gruff voice, yet he had that’s how Loudcloud was born. Interestingly, the most lasting our first office — where you’d blow a circuit if you ran the mi- up given that previous forecasts had the energy of a 20-year-old. He began remnant of Loudcloud is the name itself, as crowave and coffeemaker at the same time underestimated actual performance. his career as a coach the word cloud hadn’t been previously used — for a 15,000-square-foot warehouse in And perhaps, I speculated, we could and did not enter the business world to describe a computing platform. It seemed like we Sunnyvale, which was too small for us by seamlessly migrate our customer base until he was 40. Despite the late start, We incorporated the company and set the time we moved in. away from dot-com bombs to more Bill eventually became the chairman out to raise money. It was 1999. were building the We spent $5 million to move into a new stable, traditional customers such as and CEO of Intuit. Following that, he three-story stucco building with jade-col- Nike, our largest customer at the time. became a legend in high tech, mentor- greatest business ored tiles we called “the Taj” (as in the Taj And then the wheels came off. ing great CEOs such as Steve Jobs of Did you think I’d crumble? Mahal). It was also too small to keep pace We finished the third quarter of 2000 Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Eric Did you think I’d lay down and die? of all time. Then with our hiring frenzy, and people were sit- with $37 million in bookings — not Schmidt of Google. Oh no, not I ting in the hallways. We rented a third park- the $100 million that we had forecast. Bill is extremely smart, super-charis- I will survive. came the great ing lot down the street and ran shuttle vans The dot-com implosion turned out to matic, and operationally, but the —Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive dot-com crash. to the office. (The neighbors hated us.) The be far more catastrophic than we had key to his success goes beyond those at- kitchen was stocked like Costco, and when predicted. tributes. In any situation — whether it’s “I WILL SURVIVE” we fired the snack contractor for making the board of Apple, where he’s served oming off the success of our fridge look like the one in ’s for over a decade; the Columbia Univer- Netscape, Marc knew all the top venture capitalists Goodbye, Columbus, he asked for equity. EUPHORIA AND sity Board of Trustees, where he is chair- in Silicon Valley, so we needed no introductions. This was the time. TERROR man [Editor’s note: Campbell stepped Unfortunately for us, Kleiner Perkins, the firm that In the next quarter, we booked $27 million worth of new con- needed to raise money yet again. down from the post in June 2014.]; or backed Netscape, had already funded a potentially tracts, and we were less than nine months old. It seemed like Only this time the environment the girls’ football team that he coaches Ccompetitive company. We spoke to all the other top-tier firms and we were building the greatest business of all time. Then came was even worse. In the fourth Bill is extremely smart, — Bill is inevitably everybody’s favorite decided to go with Andy Rachleff of Benchmark Capital. the great dot-com crash. The NASDAQ peaked at 5,048.62 on quarter of 2000, I met with ev- person. If I had to describe Andy with one word, it would be gentleman. March 10, 2000 — more than double its value from the year ery possible funding source, in- super-charismatic and People offer many complex reasons Smart, refined, and gracious, Andy was a brilliant abstract think- before — and then fell by 10 percent ten days later. A Barron’s Icluding Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of for why Bill rates so highly. In my ex- elite operationally, but er who could encapsulate complex strategies into pithy sentences cover story titled “Burning Up” predicted what was to come. Saudi Arabia, but nobody was willing perience it’s pretty simple. No mat- with ease. Benchmark would invest $15 million at a pre-money By April, after the government declared Microsoft a monopoly, ter who you are, you need two kinds to invest money at any valuation. We’d the key to his success valuation (the value of the company before the cash goes into the the index plummeted even further. Startups lost massive value, gone from being the hottest startup of friends in your life. The first kind company treasury) of $45 million. In addition, Marc would invest investors lost massive wealth, and dot-coms, once heralded as in Silicon Valley to unfundable in six goes beyond those is one you can call when something $6 million, bringing the total value of the company including its the harbinger of a new economy, went out of business almost months. With 477 employees and a good happens, and you need someone cash to $66 million, and would serve as our “full-time chairman overnight and became known as dot-bombs. The NASDAQ business that resembled a ticking time attributes … Bill is who will be excited for you. Not a fake of the board.” Tim Howes would be our chief technology officer. eventually fell below 1,200, an 80 percent drop from its peak. bomb, I searched for answers. excitement veiling envy, but a real ex- I would be CEO. Loudcloud was two months old. We thought our business might have been the fastest grow- Thinking about what might happen inevitably everybody’s citement. You need someone who will The valuation and the size of the funding were signs of the ing of all time at that point. That was the good news. The bad if we ran completely out of money — actually be more excited for you than times and created an imperative to get big and capture the mar- news was that we needed to raise even more money in this di- laying off all the employees that I’d so favorite person. he would be if it had happened to him. ket before similarly well-funded competitors could. Andy said to sastrous climate; nearly all of the $66 million in equity and debt carefully selected and hired, losing all The second kind of friend is somebody me, “Ben, think about how you might run the business if capital we had raised had already been deployed in our quest to build my investors’ money, jeopardizing all you can call when things go horribly were free.” the No. 1 cloud service and to support our now fast-growing set the customers who trusted us with their business — made it wrong — when your life is on the line and you only have one Two months later, we would raise an additional $45 million of customers. difficult to concentrate on the possibilities. Marc Andreessen at- phone call. Who is it going to be? Bill Campbell is both of those from in debt with no covenants and no pay- The dot-com crash had spooked investors, so raising money tempted to cheer me up with a not-so-funny-at-the-time joke: friends. ments for three years, so Andy’s question was more reality-based wasn’t going to be easy, especially since most of our customers Marc: “Do you know the best thing about startups?” I presented my thinking as follows: “We have not been able to than you might think. Nonetheless, “What would you do if capi- were dot-com startups. This became quite clear when we pitched Ben: “What?” find any investors in the private markets. Our choices are to either tal were free?” is a dangerous question to ask an entrepreneur. It’s the deal to the Japanese firm Softbank Capital. My friend and Marc: “You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and keep working on private funding or start preparing to go public. kind of like asking a fat person, “What would you do if ice cream Loudcloud board member Bill Campbell [’62, TC’64] knew the terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.” While our prospects for raising money privately seem quite dif- had the exact same nutritional value as broccoli?” The thinking Softbank people well and offered to get some “back-channel” in- With the clock ticking, one unattractive but intriguing op- ficult, going public has a large number of issues: this question leads to can be extremely dangerous. formation following the pitch. When my assistant told me that tion emerged: We could go public. In an oddity of the times, the “Our sales processes are not robust and it’s difficult to forecast Naturally, I took the advice and ran with it. We quickly built Bill was on the line, I quickly answered the phone. I was eager to private funding market shut down for companies with our pro- in any environment. out our cloud infrastructure and began signing up customers hear where we stood. file, but the window on the public market remained just slightly “We are not in any environment; we are in a rapidly declining at a rapid rate. Within seven months of founding, we’d already I asked, “Bill, what did they say?” Bill replied in his raspy, open. This may sound like a crazy anomaly and it was, but pri- environment and it’s not clear where the bottom is.

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“Our customers are going bankrupt at an alarming and un- offering. The stock market was crashing, and the public market heard everything. And, as my father-in- law put it, “It wasn’t John: “Oh no. We’ll take care of her. You just take care of what predictable rate. investors we visited were visibly distressed. nothin’ nice.” you need to do.” “We are losing money and will be losing money for quite some At the end of the preparation process and after the banks had My mother-in-law, Loretta, asked my wife, “Why does I was completely stunned. I started sweating so hard that I had time. signed off, our director of finance, Scott Kupor, received a call everybody hate Ben so much?” Felicia, who is normally the to change my clothes right after the call. I had no idea what to do. “We are not operationally sound. from our banker at Morgan Stanley. most electric, outgoing person in any room, was just recovering If I returned home, the company would surely go bankrupt. If I “In general, we are not ready to be public.” Banker: “Scott, did you know that $27.6 million of your cash is from hernia surgery so she wasn’t her normal bubbly self. She stayed ... how could I stay? I called back and had him put Felicia The board listened carefully. Their expressions showed deep restricted and tied up in real estate commitments?” was discouraged. My in-laws were depressed. The employees on the phone. concern with the issues I’d raised and an awkwardly long silence Scott: “Yes, of course.” were pissed. I had no idea if I’d be able to raise the money. What Ben: “If you need me, I will come home.” ensued. As expected, Bill broke the dead air. Banker: “So, you have just over three weeks’ worth of cash a way to start a road show, an event that’s usually the cause of Felicia: “No. Get the IPO done. There is no tomorrow for you “Ben, it’s not the money.” before you go bankrupt?” a bit more fanfare. and the company. I’ll be fine.” I felt a strange sense of relief. May- Scott: “Yes.” The road show was brutal. The stock market crashed daily, I stumbled through the rest of the road show completely dis- be we didn’t have to go public. Maybe Scott then relayed the conversation and technology stocks were to blame. Investors looked like combobulated. One day I wore a mismatching suit jacket and I’d overestimated our cash problems. to me, saying, “Can you believe they they’d come out of torture chambers when we arrived. One suit pants, which Marc pointed out to me midway through the Perhaps there was another way. underwrote the deal and didn’t notice mutual fund manager looked right at Marc and me and asked, meeting. I had no idea where I was half the time. During the Then Bill spoke again, “It’s the f---ing that the cash was restricted until now? “Why are you here? Do you have any idea what’s going on in three weeks we were , comparable companies in money.” We gave them all the documents.” the world?” I thought that there was no our market lost half of their value, which Okay, I guess we’re going public. Right before we were to leave for way we’d be able to raise the money. We meant that our $10 share price was roughly In addition to the issues I had the IPO road show, I called an all-com- were going to go bankrupt for sure. I did Neither Goldman double the current benchmark. The bank- outlined for the board, our business pany meeting to share two pieces of not sleep more than two hours total during ers recommended that we lower the price was complex and hard for investors news: First, we were going public, or at that entire three-week trip. Sachs nor Morgan of the offering to $6 a share in order to re- to understand. We typically signed least we were going to try to go public. Three days into the tour, I received a flect this new reality, but they gave us no customers to two-year contracts, and Second, the company had fallen so far call from my father-in-law. John Wiley had Stanley — the two assurance that the deal would actually get then recognized the revenue monthly. in value that we would have to reverse been through a lot in his 71 years. As a boy, done. Then, the day before the offering, Ya- This model is now common, but it split the stock two for one. his father was murdered in . In order banks that took hoo, the lighthouse company of the Inter- was quite unusual then. Given the I thought the first part would go to survive, he and his mother moved in net boom, announced Tim Koogle, its CEO, fast growth in our bookings, revenue okay, but I was worried about how with an unkind man and his nine children. us public — even was stepping down. We had hit the nadir of lagged behind new bookings by quite the second piece of news would be re- There, John was abused, made to stay in the offered us the the dot-com crash. a bit. As a result, our S-1 (our registra- ceived. We had to reverse split the stock barn with the animals, while the other chil- The Loudcloud offering finally sold at Horowitz joined Marc Andreessen at Netscape tion with the SEC) stated that we had in 1995 as one of its first product managers. to get the price per share high enough dren ate his dinner. Eventually, John and his traditional closing $6 a share, and we raised $162.5 million, $1.94 million in trailing six months PHOTO: COURTESY THE OUTCAST AGENCY to go public. In theory, a reverse split mother left that cruelty by walking for three but there was no celebration and no party. revenue, and we forecast $75 million shouldn’t matter at all. Each employ- days down a dirt road, carrying everything dinner. It may have Neither nor Morgan Stan- for the following year — an incred- “Do you know the best ee owned a certain percentage of the they owned. John would recall that journey ley — the two banks that took us public ibly steep revenue ramp. Since earn- company. The company had a total in great detail his entire life. As a young been the least — even offered us the traditional closing ings are driven by revenue and not thing about start-ups? number of shares of stock. Multiply the man, before finishing his high school edu- dinner. It may have been the least celebra- bookings, we had gigantic losses. In total number of shares by the percent- cation, he left home to fight in the Korean celebratory IPO tory IPO in history. But Felicia was feeling addition, the stock option rules at You only ever experience age, and you get the employees’ share War so that he could support his mother. better, and we had pulled it off. In a brief the time made it seem like our losses number. Cut the number of shares in As a young father of five, he took every job in history. moment of lightheartedness on the plane were about four times as large as they two emotions: euphoria half and, while employees would have imaginable to support his family, including ride home, I turned to Scott Kupor, my di- actually were. These factors led to ex- half the number of shares, they’d still unloading banana boats and working to rector of finance, and said, “We did it!” He tremely negative press heading into and depression. And I own the exact same percentage of the build the Alaskan pipeline. He tragically saw two of his children replied, “Yeah, but we’re still f---ed.” the IPO. company. Nothing changed. die before he reached the age of 60. He had a hard life and was Years later, in 2012, after Yahoo fired its CEO, Scott Thompson, A scathing story in Red Herring, for find that lack of sleep Oh, but it did. As we grew from used to bad news. Felicia mused, “Should they bring back Koogle?” I replied, “Tim instance, noted that our list of customers enhances them both.” zero to 600 employees in less than 18 John Wiley did not call me for casual reasons. If he called, it Koogle? How do you even know who Tim Koogle is?” She then was “quite thin” and that we were too months, the was set for hyperbo- was serious, possibly even deadly serious. relived the conversation we’d had 11 years earlier. It went some- reliant on dot-coms. It quoted a Yankee — Marc Andreessen le and momentum. Some overly excit- Ben: “Hello.” thing like this: Group analyst positing that we had “lost ed managers oversold the dream. They John: “Ben, the office said not to bother you, but I just want to Ben: “We’re f---ed.” something like $1 million per employee spoke only in terms of shares rather let you know that Felicia stopped breathing, but she is not going Felicia: “What do you mean? What happened?” over the last 12 months,” and conjectur- than in percentages and spun stories of to die.” Ben: “Yahoo fired Koogle. It’s over. The whole thing is over.” ing that the way we did it was by having a bonfire in the parking a potential $100 per share stock price. Employees then calculated Ben: “Not going to die? What?!?! What happened?” Felicia: “Who is Koogle?” lot and getting everyone busy burning dollar bills. BusinessWeek their fantasy price per share and figured out how much money I could not believe it. I had been so focused on work that I Ben: “He was the CEO of Yahoo. We’re f---ed. I’m going to took us apart in an article that declared us “the IPO from hell.” A they would make. I was aware that this was going on, but I nev- had lost focus of the only thing that really mattered to me. Once have to shut the company down.” Journal cover piece quoted a money manager’s reaction er thought we would reverse split the stock, so I never worried again, I neglected to worry about the one thing that I should have Felicia: “Are you sure?” to our offering as “Wow, they were desperate.” One financier — about it. Like many other things that I screwed up during that worried about. Ben: “Didn’t you hear me? They fired Koogle. We’re f---ed.” who actually invested in the offering — called it “the best option period, I should have worried. Ben: “What happened?” She had never seen me that depressed before, and she never among a particularly ugly set of options.” My wife, Felicia, came to the all-company meeting as she al- John: “They gave her some medicine and she had an allergic forgot it. For most CEOs, the night before their public offering is a Despite the horrifying press, we prepared to hit the road. ways did. This time her parents were in town, so they came, reaction and she stopped breathing, but she’s okay now.” highlight. For me, it was a highlight of depression. Benchmarking ourselves against comparable companies, we set- too. The meeting did not go well. People did not realize how Ben: “When?” tled on the price of the offering at $10 per share after an upcom- close to the edge we were, so the news of the IPO didn’t make John: “Yesterday.” ing reverse split, which would value the company at just under anyone happy. The news of the reverse split made them even Ben: “What? Why didn’t you tell me?” From the book THE HARD THING ABOUT HARD THINGS: Building a $700 million — less than the valuation from the previous private less happy — in fact, it infuriated them. I had literally cut their John: “I knew that you were busy and that you were really in Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz. @ 2014 by round of financing, but much better than bankruptcy. fantasy number in half, and they were not pleased about it. No- trouble at work because of that meeting that I went to.” Ben Horowitz. Reprinted by permission of HarperBusiness, an imprint of It was not at all clear that we would be successful with the body said harsh things directly to me. My in-laws, however, Ben: “Should I come home?” HarperCollins Publishers.

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MESSAGE FROM CCAA PRESIDENT DOUG WOLF ’88

43 Message from the CCAA President Leading CCAA to a 44 Obituaries Alumni 47 Bookshelf Future of Engagement 50 Class Notes 92 Alumni Corner or my inaugural article as I take on the require a 10027-ish ZIP code as it once did. (Coinci- role of president of the Columbia Col- dentally, I recently met with Harvard’s alumni as- News lege Alumni Association (CCAA), I’d sociation president, and discovered that she lives like to briefly address the goals that in New York.) the Board of Directors has set for the In my more than 25 years since graduation, I next few years. Very simply, I hope have stayed involved with the College in a variety Fto lead the CCAA toward a future that is more of ways, but my greatest pleasure has been inter- inclusive, open and perhaps most importantly, viewing high school students who are prospective fun! We want to reach 100 percent alumni engage- College students — something that any one of us, ment, whether by alumni attending events, taking anywhere, can and should do. By interviewing classes with Columbia’s exceptional faculty, men- through the Alumni Representative Committee toring students, networking with fellow alumni (ARC), alumni have an opportunity to influence or contributing to the Columbia College Fund, future classes, which affects the success of the which supports the College’s many needs as well College and therefore, us all. I enjoy meeting the as Dean James J. Valentini’s priorities. Doug Wolf ’88 students and learning about their interests and tal- I’m a Bostonian, so my appointment as presi- ents, and feel as if I am part of a team of evaluators dent is an expression of a new era for the CCAA, that helps identify not only the best candidates for one in which our alumni outside of New York are as visible and College admission but also the right candidates to contribute to the have voices as important as the 45 percent or so of College alumni College’s unique student body. With only 31 percent of applicants based in the tri-state area. Being involved with the College does not being interviewed today, we need many more alumni to join ARC and help out — even interviewing just one candidate, which takes less than an hour, goes a long way (college.columbia.edu/alumni/ GET INVOLVED! getinvolved/arc). There are many ways for you to get involved, have an impact An even easier way to become engaged with the College is and have fun! Here are just a few. simply to keep up with what is happening with the College, its Attend a Columbia event. A great place to begin is Homecom- students, and the remarkable people who compose the College’s ing, which this year will take place on Saturday, October 25, 47,700-plus strong community of alumni. The Alumni Office has when the Lions host Ivy League rival Dartmouth. Catch up with been working hard to make it easier to stay in tune with the com- classmates under the Big Tent and enjoy a gourmet barbecue munity through Facebook (Columbia College Alumni), Twitter before the game while youngsters play at the open-air carnival. (@columbia_ccaa), a redesigned website (college.columbia.edu/ Interview a prospective student. Help shape future College alumni) and more, and this work is ongoing. Visit these chan- classes by joining the Alumni Representative Committee and nels to stay abreast of programs and events, to read articles about interviewing applicants wherever you live, representing Colum- your extraordinary peers, to get updates on what is happening at bia at local college fairs and/or hosting a regional program for the College today and more. The CCAA will introduce and admitted students. many programs this fall, not to mention a new CCAA brand and Connect with classmates. Reunions are a great place to catch logo, so visit these channels often. And if you have not recently up with old friends and make new ones. If your class year ends updated your profile online, do it now so that we can make sure in 0 or 5, you will be celebrating at Alumni Reunion Weekend we are connecting with you and creating programming with 2015 from Thursday, May 28, to Sunday, May 31. Join your class’ Reunion Committee and help plan the big event! Not in a re- your interests in mind. Go to “My Profile” at the upper right of union year? Send a Class Note to your CCT class correspondent the alumni website. to let your classmates know what’s been going on. The idea of 100 percent alumni engagement is exciting, aspi- rational and clear. As Columbia College alumni, we will each ap- Become a Class Agent. Class Agents share their time, connec- tions and talents as spokespeople for giving to the Columbia proach it in our own way, and some of us in multiple ways. The College Fund. By networking at reunions and alumni activities as opportunities are many. I welcome your ideas and your feedback well as writing to and/or calling classmates, you can champion as we do this together. Contact me anytime at ccaapresident@ worthy programs and give invaluable support to the College. columbia.edu. Keep up with what’s happening. Visit the redesigned alumni Roar! A late-day sun bathes the website (college.columbia.edu/alumni), “Like” us on Facebook campus in autumnal light. 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David B. Karlin, retired ophthalmic first as an employee and later as a New Jersey, where he practiced Pietro Pomponazzi: Radical Philosopher surgeon, New York City, on May 10, volunteer. He had been an active radiology and nuclear medicine. of the Renaissance received wide 2014. Karlin earned an M.D. in 1954 member of the Zebulon Baptist Zimmerman obtained his board acclaim. He stayed in touch with from Church Choir since 1988 and was certification in nuclear medicine many College classmates. Pine is Obituaries and thereafter served in the Navy. the song leader of the Zebulon in the late 1960s. As an associate survived by his wife, Anne; son, He was a clinical fellow at the Mas- Rotary Club. Kennedy retired to professor of radiology at the Albert Lewis BUS’04 and his wife, Kath- 1941 Bureau of Economic Research. sachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Zebulon in 1988 after 35 years of Einstein College of Medicine, he ryn; brother, Stephen; and many John Stathis, retired physician, Borts was an expert in international of the Harvard Medical School and service with the CIA. He was a published many original studies nieces and nephews. Longmont, Colo., on May 23, 2014. finance and transportation. He was awarded an M.Sc. by the NYU member of its Senior Executive Ser- in professional journals. He was 1955 Stathis was born on September 21, testified frequently before U.S. and School of Medicine in 1962. Karlin vice and served many years in the president of the medical staff of the 1919, in New York City, to Greek Canadian regulatory commissions. collaborated with physicists at Bell Far East. He was married to the late Barnert Memorial Hospital Center John Burke Jr., retired, Montrose, immigrants. Stathis’ father owned He published numerous scholarly Laboratories to develop the carbon Geraldine Herring Kennedy for 15 in Paterson, N.J., in the early N.Y., on January 6, 2014. Burke was a fur manufacturing business and books, articles and monographs dioxide laser and was awarded a years. They enjoyed travel, reading, 1980s and was for many years on born on October 12, 1927, in Holy- Stathis worked there during sum- as well as commentary for the patent in 1986. He was an associate attending the Raleigh Spy Confer- the hospital’s board of directors. oke, Mass., and entered the Navy mers to earn his College tuition. He Providence Journal. Borts advised clinical professor emeritus at the ence, spending time with family Zimmerman had an encyclopedic after high school. Following an attended medical school at NYU both undergraduate and graduate Weill Cornell Medical College, and friends, and checking out the knowledge of Civil War history honorable discharge, he attended and married Mary Vanta in 1944. students and led Brown’s Phi Beta associate attending surgeon at the Triangle restaurant scene. Kennedy and was an active member of the the then-named Williston Academy Stathis served in WWII and was Kappa chapter for many years. New York Hospital Queens, adjunct is survived by his sons James, and New York City and South in Easthampton, Mass., before en- stationed in Germany during the He also served on a number of professor at the NYU School of Edward Herring; daughters Dani- Civil War Roundtables. He also en- rolling at Columbia, where he was Korean War. From 1954 until his boards and advised several political Medicine, assistant clinical profes- elle Lippoldt, Michele Moore and joyed opera, classical music, ballet, employed until his . After retirement he lived in Rockaway candidates on economic and tax sor at the Icahn School of Medicine Barbara Herring; eight grandchil- wine appreciation, travel, current retirement, Burke stayed active, Beach and then moved to Juno policy. Borts is survived by his wife, Lewis Kurke ’49 Carmine P. Bianchi ’50 at Mount Sinai, and attending dren; sister Jean Kennedy Ander- affairs and classic literature. Zim- working for the Lutheran Immigra- Beach, Fla. Stathis was predeceased Muriel “Dolly” (née Levenson); ophthalmic surgeon and chief of son; and sister-in-law, Mary Ruth merman was an active member of tion and Refugee Service before it by his wife and his brother, Theo- brother, Lawrence, and his wife, Kurke opened a private practice and traveled internationally, was Retina Clinic II at the Manhattan Kennedy. Kennedy was preceded Congregation Kneseth Israel in An- moved to Washington, D.C.; for dore. He is survived by his son Beverly; and children, David and in Scottsdale. In 1983, he rejoined listed in Who’s Who in America, and Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Kar- in death by his first wife, Joanne G.; napolis. He is survived by his wife; The New York Times Election Polling Peter and daughter-in-law, Carole; his wife, Lucia Fonte, Richard and the Army and moved to Stuttgart, mentored medical and graduate lin was the lead author of more than sister Margaret Cherryhomes; and brother, Arthur; daughters Susan Department; and as a researcher for son Louie and daughter-in-law, his wife, Paulette York, and Robert Germany, then to the Army Re- students. He also was a deacon 40 articles, and wrote two books brother, Paul. and her husband, William, and the CBS News Election & Survey Fran; son John Paul and daughter- and his wife, Erin O’Cain; and three gional Medical Center at Landstuhl. and an elder at Swarthmore and chapters in many ophthalmol- Gloria and her husband, Matthew; Unit. Burke also had a plant store, 1951 in-law Arlene; nine grandchildren; grandchildren. He was chief of psychiatry in both Presbyterian Church. Bianchi was ogy books. He was a tennis player and four grandchildren. Green Pastures, on West 111th and 10 great-grandchildren. Mem- postings. He remained on active predeceased by a wife, Judith (née as well as an avid reader who Phillips A. Brooks, anesthesiolo- Street and Amsterdam Avenue. He 1948 1954 orial contributions may be made duty until 1992, when he retired Holman), and sister, Gloria Peto. He loved history. An active member gist, Longwood, Fla., December 31, was often found in the neighbor- to Assumption of the Theotokos Gerard T. “Jerry” Hurley, professor, with a rank of colonel. Returning is survived by his wife, Eleanor J. of Temple Emanu-El, he served 2013. Born in Flushing, N.Y., Brooks hood of Broadway and West 112th Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 4610 E. antiquarian book dealer, Berkeley, to Scottsdale, Kurke joined the (née Gizzi); children Margaret, - as an usher for 55 years. Karlin is was an Eagle Scout and served as a Street, where he was known by Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80246 Calif., on May 25, 2013. Born in St. Arizona Department of Corrections, son Edwards, Judith, and Joyclyn survived by his wife, Adrienne naval officer before attending medi- many as the “Mayor of Broad- or Wounded Warriors Project, PO Louis, Mo., Hurley served in the working until his 2000 retirement. Agatone; four grandchildren; and Roaman; daughter, Diane; and one cal school in Rochester, N.Y., where way.” He moved to Montrose two Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. Army during WWII in Korea, and He was a fan of opera, classical one great-grandchild. Memorial grandson. He was predeceased by a he met and married Jane Ielfield. years before his death. Burke was referred to it as “the best years of music and old movies; a voracious contributions may be made to the daughter, Linda. They moved to Orlando in 1962, predeceased by a brother, Robert, 1945 my life.” He majored in history at reader; and a capable photographer. Columbia College Fund (college. where Brooks practiced as an an- and a wife, Hazel (née Drew). He is Seymour Fisher, retired insurance the College and taught at Diablo His marriage to Nancy C. Booth columbia.edu/giveonline) or esthesiologist at Orlando Regional survived by his nieces and nephews salesman, Bethlehem, Pa., on March Valley College, Pleasant Hill, Calif., in 1953 produced four children; it Swarthmore Presbyterian Church. Medical Center for 25 years. He was Robert, Carol Burke Konrad, Wil- 7, 2014. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., for 35 years, establishing a success- ended in divorce. He is survived active in the Anglican Church and liam, and Bonnie Burke Roy as well Fisher worked for more than 50 ful film program. Hurley authored by his second wife, Nancy, whom was an avid golfer and member of as many NYC friends and his “New years as a salesman for Home the textbook Open Ended: A Film/ he married in 1969; two sons; three Obituary Submission the Country Club of Orlando. He York family,” Douglas Lasher, Co. He was an Video Source Book with the Film/ daughters; five grandchildren; and Guidelines is survived by his wife of 58 years; Carol Lasher, Nancy Lasher, Jordan accomplished pianist who loved Video Index. Onstage performances two great-grandchildren. daughters Dianne Endress and Hamowy, Amy and Dennis Marks, Columbia College Today music, literature and learning. included Krapp’s Last Tape. Also ac- her husband, Bill, Linda Cluxton Anne-Marie Lasher and Stephen 1950 welcomes obituaries for He is survived by his wife, Ellen; tive as an antiquarian book dealer, and her husband, Brad, and Susan Martin L. Pine ’54 Wood. College alumni. Deaths are he specialized in ephemera. Hurley Carmine P. Bianchi, retired profes- Nagel and her husband, Bill; son, daughters Myra Saturen and Alice noted in the next available is survived by his wife, Catherine sor emeritus of pharmacology, Phillips Jr.; and eight grandchildren. Martin L. Pine, professor of history, 1956 Benash; son, Evan; five grand- issue in the “Other Deaths Mulholland; sons Jim and Willie; Boothwyn, Pa., on August 13, 2013. Memorial contributions may be New York City, on March 15, 2014. Arthur Bank, physician, professor children; sister, Ruth; and brother, Reported” box. Complete and daughter, Katie. Bianchi was born on April 9, 1927. made to Pro-Life Action Ministries Pine earned an M.A. in history in emeritus, New York City, on Febru- Solomon. obituaries will be published in He served in the Army 1945–47, of Central Florida, Altamonte 1956 followed by a Ph.D. in history ary 27, 2014. Bank was Professor 1947 1949 an upcoming issue, pending then attended the College, graduat- receipt of information. Due Springs, Fla., or the Alzheimer’s in 1965, both from GSAS. As an un- Emeritus of Medicine, Genetics and Robert D. Kennedy ’50 George H. Borts, retired , Lewis Kurke, retired psychiatrist, ing with a degree in chemistry and to the volume of obituaries Association. dergraduate, Pine was a member of Development at Columbia, where Barrington, R.I., on May 2, 2014. Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 29, 2013. . He earned an M.S. in Phi Beta Kappa. He was a professor he was director of the Division of that CCT receives, it may 1952 Borts was born in New York City Born in New York City on Septem- 1953 from Rutgers in physiology take several issues for the Robert D. Kennedy, retired CIA ex- of history, Queens College, CUNY, Hematology in the Department of on August 29, 1927. He earned a ber 29, 1929, Kurke, after being edi- and biochemistry and a Ph.D. in complete obituary to appear. ecutive, Zebulon, N.C., on June 16, Charles Zimmerman, radiologist, and a member of the Doctoral Medicine until his retirement. He Ph.D. in 1953 from Chicago, where tor in chief of the Columbia Review, 1956 in physiology and physi- Word limit is 200; text may be 2014. Kennedy was born in Vigan Annapolis, Md., on May 3, 2014. Faculty of the Graduate School and was an internationally recognized he studied under . graduated from the College and cal chemistry. At the time of his edited for length, clarity and in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philip- Zimmerman was born in Brooklyn, University Center, CUNY. Pine was leader and important contributor Borts spent 63 years at Brown, join- then from P&S, in 1953. In 1955 he death he was retired from Thomas style at the editors’ discretion. pines, to missionary parents. He N.Y., in 1931. He attended Stuyves- a renowned scholar of the Italian in the field of hematology research. ing the Department of Economics entered the Army, serving 10 years Jefferson University and had Click “Contact Us” at college. graduated from high school in Little ant H.S. and SUNY Downstate Renaissance and a beloved teacher Across the more than 40 years of his in 1950 at 23. He was chairman of before resigning to join the held positions in numerous other columbia.edu/cct, or mail Rock, Ark., receiving an honors Medical Center. In 1955 he married for more than 35 years. He received research career as a molecular biolo- the department, managing editor Department of Mental Health. organizations throughout his career. materials to Obituaries Editor, scholarship to Columbia, where he Roslyn Riegel. Zimmerman com- the Queens College President’s gist, Bank published extensively of the American Economic Review In 1973 Kurke joined the Suffolk Bianchi was involved with a large Columbia College Today, graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He then pleted his radiology residency at Award for Excellence in Teaching on the pathophysiology and on the and a visiting professor/research County, N.Y., Health Department. number of professional societies Columbia Alumni Center, attended SIPA and the East Asian Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. and was also awarded a Fulbright protein and genetic levels of Cool- fellow at Hokkaido University, In 1979, he moved to Arizona and and served terms as president for 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Institute, earning an M.I.A. in 1952. He served as an Army captain at Fellowship for study and research ey’s anemia, also known as beta London School of Economics and became assistant director of the De- several. He authored three books 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. Kennedy loved music and worked Fort Gordon, Ga., 1959–61. He and in Italy. Pine was a distinguished thalassemia; on the mechanisms Political Science, and the National partment of Health Services. In 1982 and 200 scientific papers, lectured at the classical music station WCPE, his wife then moved to northern author and lecturer and his book of human gene regulation; and on

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OBITUARIES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY human gene therapy. He chaired several international meetings on OTHER DEATHS REPORTED Cooley’s anemia and was VP for medical affairs of the Cooley’s Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be Anemia Foundation. He continued published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Bookshelf his substantial contributions to the obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. foundation, serving on its Medical So Much to Do: A Full Life of St. Agnes Chapel of the Parish Good for You, Great for Me: that are unclear or ambiguous Advisory Board and Scientific Re- 1937 David V. Pecora, retired thoracic surgeon, McLean, Va., on July 25, 2014. Business, Politics, and Con- of Trinity Church in the City of Finding the Trading Zone and (Oxford University Press, $24.95). view Committee. Bank is survived 1940 , judge, New York City, on July 31, 2014. fronting Fiscal Crises by Richard New York 1892–1943 by Francis J. Winning at Win-Win Negotiation by his wife, Rona; sons David and 1945 Grover C. Smith, retired professor, Durham, N.C., on June 10, 2014. Ravitch ’55. From chairman of the Sypher Jr. ’63. The book’s second by ’68. This book What Stays in Vegas: The World Michael; and three grandchildren. Metropolitan Transportation Au- edition looks at the history of the describes how to deal with people of Personal Data — Lifeblood of 1947 Robert W. Minners, restaurant supply executive, Stratton Mountain, Vt., on July 21, 2014. thority to chief labor negotiator for Romanesque St. Agnes Chapel, an and build strong working relation- Big Business — and the End of 1961 1948 Norman Kelvin, retired professor, New York City, on April 14, 2014. , Ravitch offshoot of the famous New York ships while coming out ahead in Privacy as We Know It by Adam Kenneth C. Edelin, retired physi- 1949 James L. Festa, Apalachin, N.Y., on April 18, 2014. has held many high-profile posi- Trinity Church, which stood for negotiations (PublicAffairs, $25.99). Tanner ’85. Tanner uses the case cian, Sarasota, Fla., on December 27, Herbert E. Poch, retired pediatrician and professor of pediatrics, Elberon, N.J., on March 18, 2014. tions. His book is both a memoir more than 50 years on West 92nd study of Caesars Entertainment 2013. Edelin was born in Wash- 1950 George S. Fabian, Bryn Mawr, Pa., on June 7, 2014. and a guide to making public between Columbus and Amster- Jet Set: The People, the Planes, casinos to examine how companies ington, D.C., on March 31, 1939. James B. Horton, retired magazine publishing executive, New York City, on June 29, 2014. policy more effective (PublicAf- dam Avenues (Parish of Trinity the Glamour, and the Romance in gather customers’ personal data After graduating from Columbia, fairs, $26.99). Church, $35). Aviation’s Glory Years by William for use in targeted marketing and Milton L. Levine, gastroenterologist, Elmont, N.Y., on July 10, 2014. he taught math and science for two Stadiem ’69. Exploring the jet-set what such data mining means for 1953 years at the Stockbridge School Harold Abrams, physician, Trumbull, Conn., on February 1, 2014. Dwarf Planets and Asteroids: Boon Juster or The Reason For lifestyle of the ’60s after the launch consumers (PublicAffairs, $27.99). of Agriculture and then attended John D. Leahy, Denville, N.J., on October 30, 2013. Minor Bodies of the Solar System Everything by Garth Hallberg ’64. of Pan Am’s Boeing 707, this book Meharry Medical College in Nash- Robert P. Gleckler, retired sales executive, New London, N.H., on June 2, 2014. by Thomas Wm. Hamilton ’60. The Realtor Tom Hammock investi- also covers the celebrity angle as Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: ville, where he earned an M.D. in 1954 Donald R. Pevney, retired pediatrician, Riverhead, N.Y., on July 20, 2014. author provides a survey of hun­ gates the sudden death of his high well as explores how international History, Memory, and Minority 1967. He served in the Air Force dreds of dwarf planets and aster- school hero (the last man to walk travel became normalized for Culture in Germany, 1824–1955 by 1955 Michael Standard, attorney, Burlington, Vt., on July 2, 2014. 1968–71 and post-discharge trained oids, delving into their discovery, on the moon) in this novel about everyday Americans (Ballantine Jonathan Skolnik ’90. The author de- 1956 in ob/gyn at Boston City Hospital, Edward J. Grossman, Las Vegas, on May 10, 2014. naming, orbits and characteristics baseball, astronauts and love (The Books, $28). scribes how German-Jewish writers 1971–74. Edelin became the hos- Joshua Hollander, physician, Rochester, N.Y., on July 22, 2014. (Strategic Book Publishing & Reason for Everything, $15.95). drew from the Spanish-Jewish past pital’s first African-American ob/ Burton D. Strumpf, retired attorney, Somers, N.Y., on June 12, 2014. Rights Co., $15.95). Italoamericana: The Literature of and Sephardic traditions to explore gyn chief resident in 1973. In 1975, 1958 Stuart L. Huntington, Murrieta, Calif., on May 23, 2014. Slow Movies: Countering the the Great Migration, 1880–1943 their state of exile, create a German- he came to national attention when 1959 In Another Life: The Decline and Cinema of Action by Ira Jaffe ’64. edited by James J. Periconi ’70, Robert Jewish culture and process the rise he was convicted of manslaughter David Rosand, Columbia’s Meyer Schapiro Professor Emeritus of Art History and Special Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology, New York City, on August 8, 2014. Fall of the Humanities through Jaffe’s work investigates three Viscusi and Anthony Julian Tamburri. of fascism in Germany (Stanford for the death of a fetus during a the Eyes of an Ivy-League Jew by decades of films by acclaimed A nearly 1,000-page anthology of University Press, $65). 1961 Samuel L. Marateck, computer science professor, New York City, on January 14, 2014. legal abortion; the conviction was Howard Felperin ’62. This memoir international directors who create fiction, poetry, plays, memoirs and 1962 later overturned. Throughout his Jerry Engelberg, physician, Memphis, on May 16, 2014. follows Felperin as he begins slow, contemplative movies de- articles translated from Italian, America’s Darwin: Darwinian life Edelin was active in the Planned Richard E. “Dick” McKenna, retired teacher and coach, Bangor, Pa., on February 3, 2014. teaching in Yale’s English depart- spite the popularity of mainstream Italoamericana features the writing Theory and U.S. Literary Culture, Parenthood Federation of America 1963 Wallace Klein, Waimanolo, Hawaii, on October 24, 2013. ment and his subsequent move to action blockbusters (Wallflower of Italians in America through the edited by Tina Gianquitto ’91 and and the NAACP Legal Defense 1972 George P. Nikitovich, retired stockbroker, Monsegur, , on June 10, 2014. several universities in Australia Press, $27). end of WWII ( Lydia Fisher. Darwin’s ideas have Fund. In 2008, (AuthorHouse, $30.51). Press, $40). influenced biology, literature, history, 1977 Rahul Chatterjee, Saint Joseph, Mo., on May 11, 2014. presented him with the Margaret Reflections: Conversations, Essays, anthropology and more. This anthol- 1979 Sanger Award, its highest honor. Louis Petrozza, ob/gyn, Cherry Hill, N.J., on October 5, 2013. A Moveable Beast: Scenes from and Other Writings by Thomas Judging Statutes by Robert A. ogy showcases works from many Edelin was a professor of ob/gyn at 1988 Lauren V. Farber, pediatrician, Wellesley, Mass., on November 18, 2013. My Life by Barry H. Leeds ’62. Leeds Hauser ’67. This collection of short Katzmann ’73. The author, the chief disciplines to highlight that impact and chaired the 1993 James D. Frederick, author, London, U.K., on July 31, 2014. examines the life experiences and essays, stories and interviews, judge of the United States Court (University of Georgia Press, $29.95). department 1979–89. He also was literary works that shaped him, which includes previously un- of Appeals for the Second Circuit, director of ob/gyn at Boston City exploring his childhood in New published material, covers topics considers the debate around how Freak Show by Valerie Bandura Hospital. In 2007 he published a expertise in psychopharmacology, in the universe, she York City, his time in the Merchant from the Beatles to race in America judges should interpret the laws of ’96. This book of poetry delves memoir, Broken Justice: A True Story Shackman had a lifelong love of became one of its most valued Marines and his post-grad life to dating (University of Arkansas Congress (federal statutes) and the into Bandura’s life experiences, of Race, Sex and Revenge in a Boston music and enjoyed playing guitar and prolific contributors as well as (AuthorHouse, $30.43). Press, $29.95). judge’s role in interpreting those covering her family’s late-’70s Courtroom. He is survived by his and singing with several ama- a force for diversifying its ranks. wife of 35 years, Barbara; four chil- teur groups. He and Binion were Wadewitz had more than 50,000 dren; eight grandchildren; a brother; together for 41 years. “edits” or contributions to her and a sister. credit, and authored 36 “featured” 1999 articles, the highest distinction 1962 , writer and bestowed by Wikipedians based Daniel R. Shackman, psychiatrist, editor, Palm Springs, Calif., on on accuracy, fairness, style and Santa Barbara, Calif., on March April 8, 2014. Wadewitz was born comprehensiveness. A postdoctoral 20, 2014. A native New Yorker, on January 6, 1977, in Omaha and fellow at Occidental’s Center for Shackman earned an M.D. at P&S grew up there and in North Platte, Digital Learning and Research, she in 1966 before pursuing post- Neb. She earned a bachelor’s in worked with faculty and students graduate training in psychiatry at English and comparative literature to use technology and the Internet Mount Sinai Hospital. He enrolled Daniel R. Shackman ’62 and a , from Indiana, in effectively in the classroom and was in the Berry Plan, which permitted in 2011. When an expert on 18th-century English physicians in training to delay mili- sions at the Brentwood V.A. Hos- Wadewitz became a Wikipedia literature. Wadewitz is survived tary service until completing their pital. From there he transitioned contributor 10 years ago she used by her parents, Rev. Dr. Nathan R. residencies, then from 1969 to 1971 into a solo private practice. In 1986 a pseudonym, certain that fellow and Betty M. Wadewitz, and her served in the Air Force at Fairchild he relocated to Santa Barbara to scholars at Indiana would frown partner, Peter B. James. AFB in Spokane, Wash. Afterward, join his life partner, Gayle Binion. upon writing for the site. But she Lisa Palladino Shackman moved to Los Angeles, In addition to his commitment eventually made it known she was where he was director of admis- to his practice and patients, and a “Wikipedian.” A rarity as a woman

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immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States and her sister’s struggles with schizophrenia Claire Shipman ’86, SIPA’94 (Black Lawrence Press, $11.95).

The Secret Club that Runs the Shares Her Confidence Code World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders by ’97. Commodities such as wheat, B y Y e l e n a S h u s t e r ’09 soybeans and crude oil made commodity traders rich when the market for raw materials exploded s a broadcast journalist, Claire Shipman ’86, and world leaders like Christine Lagarde, head of the Interna- learned to use,” she says. “I don’t think I would have in the early 2000s. Kelly investi- SIPA’94 has reported on the collapse of the Soviet tional Monetary Fund, among others. They discovered that the been able to do the reporting for CNN in Moscow if gates the practice of gaming price Union, the Tiananmen Square protest, the Oklaho- skills that help women outperform men academically actually I hadn’t had that education. I’m not sure CNN would changes and how the market likely ma City bombing, President Clinton’s impeachment harm them in the workforce. Elementary school is where “you’ll have trusted me because I was an utterly novice was manipulated by top traders and the contested Gore-Bush presidential election, find the insidious seeds of society’s gender imbalance because reporter. And understanding the history and the (Portfolio Hardcover, $29.95). toA name a few events. Despite all of her accomplishments (and it’s there that we were first rewarded for being good, instead of politics as we’re watching a coup and watching the Peabody Awards to prove it), she had always credited her suc- energetic, rambunctious, or even pushy,” they write. Soviet Union fall apart — it could not have been The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthau- cesses to being “just lucky.” They go on to write: “Professional success demands politi- more helpful.” sen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit Now, she knows better. cal savvy, a certain amount of scheming and jockeying, a flair Shipman spent 10 years at CNN, where she racked of SS Doctor by Thanks to researching her latest book, The Confidence Code: for self-promotion and not letting a ‘no’ stop you. Women often up multiple accolades. Her reporting on the aborted ’97 and Souad The Science and Art of Self-Assurance — What Women Should aren’t very comfortable with that. [...] Every morning we have to Soviet coup and collapse of the Soviet Union won the Mekhennet. The authors detail Know (Harper Business, $27.99), co-authored with journalist drag on our office armor, trying to win a game we don’t really network a Peabody Award. She received an Alfred how Heim, a notorious Nazi war Katty Kay, Shipman realized that understand or like.” I. duPont-Columbia University Award and an Emmy criminal, evaded capture at the end women often undersell themselves, Combining personal anecdotes Award as one of the key contributors to CNN’s cover- of WWII by hiding in a working- to the detriment of their . with scientific studies, Shipman and age of the Tiananmen Square uprising, and another duPont-Columbia Award for CNN’s cover- class neighborhood of Cairo under “If I had given myself some credit Kay offer strategic advice for in- age of the bombing. Then, in 1997, she landed the coveted job of White House a false name (Doubleday, $27.95). for what I had accomplished, I think creasing one’s confidence including correspondent for NBC News. She subsequently broke the story that presidential candidate Al my reporting would have been bet- body language (stand tall with your Gore would name Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate and was the first to report that The Vanishing Neighbor: The ter and I would have taken chances legs spread wide), cognitive therapy the Florida Supreme Court had decided to allow a recount of contested ballots in 2000. Transformation of American Com- more quickly. I would delay and (banish all negative thoughts and munity by Marc J. Dunkelman ’01. think, ‘If only I could,’” she says. self-loathing ruminations), Eastern ay was a fan of Shipman’s even before they got to know each other. “When I met Exploring a shift in the structure of “There’s this string of second-guess- medicine (meditating helps center Claire, she was the NBC White House correspondent, and so she was on TV every American life as traditional neigh- ing and perfectionism that has run you) and pep talks (dare to fail and night,” Kay says. “There was this woman who I had seen on television every night and borhoods have changed, Dunkel- through a lot of my career, and so fail often). seemed incredibly glamorous and intimidating. Of course, she was, and is, one of the man examines what those changes even though I’ve obviously achieved Shipman writes from experience: Kmost unbelievably nice, kind, accessible, thoughtful people you will ever meet.” mean for the future of the country things, I think I might have broken The Columbus, Ohio, native was In 2001, Shipman became a regular contributor to Good Morning America and other na- (W.W. Norton & Co., $27.95). more stories, done even more in- a textbook overachiever — and tional broadcasts for ABC News, where she regularly interviews influential newsmakers like teresting things, if I had more easy graduated from Columbia magna Presidents George Bush and , former U.S. Secretary of State , and Vice access to confidence.” cum laude, naturally. She arrived Presidents Dick Cheney and . Part self-help guide and part busi- in 1983 as a sophomore transfer Shipman settled in Washington, D.C., with two young children, Hugo and Della, and her hus- ness advice manual, The Confidence student from Michigan, where she band, Jay Carney (President Barack Obama ’83’s former press secretary). The demands of on- Code — published in April — tapped Claire Shipman ’86, SIPA’94 (left) and Katty Kay had begun taking Russian classes. air reporting — flying across the country at a moment’s notice, 70-hour work weeks — became into the national conversation about PHOTO: THECONFIDENCECODE.COM “The rigor of the Core Curriculum untenable with family life, a revelation Shipman shared with Kay, who is the anchor for BBC women’s success in the workforce appealed to me, and knowing that World News America in Washington and a mother of four. sparked by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In in 2013. The Confidence Columbia was on the forefront of the study of the Soviet Union “We’d been sharing a lot of our common feelings about our conflicted relationship with work, Code quickly became a New York Times bestseller and garnered with the and that its scholars were doing all which is: We loved work, but we also would find ourselves confessing at times that we hope we widespread attention for Shipman and Kay, from an Atlantic mag- the cutting-edge research was really exciting to me,” she says. don’t have to be on air today — things you’re not supposed to say in television,” Shipman says. azine cover story to an appearance on The Colbert Report. The Russian studies major fondly recalls Professors Charles “And we started digging and realized, of course, we’re not the only women who feel this way. According to the book’s research, the consequences of Gati; Jonathan Sanders SIPA’76, GSAS’85; Marshall Shulman There are trends [toward] women preferring sometimes to plateau instead of moving up.” the confidence gap are troubling. Lisa Babcock, professor of SIPA’48, GSAS’59; and Robert Legvold. “I remember feeling so This realization was the inspiration for their first book, Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve economics at Carnegie Melon, reports that men initiate salary privileged to have these brilliant professors as an undergradu- More, Live Better (2009), a post- attempt to answer the “Can women have it all?” Creating a Learning Society: A negotiations four times as often as women, and when women ate. It felt like a real luxury,” she says. question that many working mothers know all too well. The New York Times best-seller de- New Approach to Growth, Devel- do negotiate, they ask for 30 percent less than men do. The Yale After college, Shipman scored a job as a production as- scribed how to achieve a flexible work environment while avoiding the deflating “mommy opment, and Social Progress by School of Management’s Assistant Professor Victoria Brescoll sistant, then later became a publicist, at CNN, and two years track.” In a moment of life imitating art, ABC allowed Shipman to work part-time while she was University Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz noticed something similar: Her brilliant female graduates shied later enrolled in SIPA. During her second year, she was offered writing the book. and Bruce C. Greenwald, the Robert away from the more prestigious and competitive banking jobs. an internship with CNN’s newly formed bureau in Moscow. “I Currently, Shipman and Kay are updating The Confidence Code for the paperback edition Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Man- And according to a Hewlett-Packard study, women applied for wasn’t really that interested in journalism. I was trying to figure but you can bet on a new book coming one day. “I really found much later in life how much I agement and Finance. Stiglitz and promotions only when they met 100 percent of the qualifica- out how to get to Russia,” she admits. What was supposed to enjoy writing,” Shipman says. “Being able to dig deep into something — which is what was so Greenwald present the case that tions; men applied when they met just 60 percent. be one semester turned into five years — and a full-time corre- appealing to me about my time at Columbia, and one reason I went back to graduate school — government policies have direct “We didn’t realize how many women, and moreover, how spondent job. (Shipman returned in 1994 to finish her master’s.) lets you get into things in a way that you can’t in daily television. With this book, people say, and indirect effects on learning and many incredibly successful women at the top of their game, She credits Columbia, where she is now a University trustee, ‘It was so helpful, thank you so much,’ and that’s just incredibly gratifying.” highlight the importance of clos- would confess to feeling like frauds sometimes or wondering for jumpstarting her career. “I was incredibly lucky to have an ing knowledge gaps to improve whether they were ready for this or that job,” Shipman says. extraordinary education in Russian and East European studies economies (Columbia University To find out why, Shipman and Kay interviewed neuroscien- as the world was changing over there, and then really, within a Yelena Shuster ’09 is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Press, $34.95). tists, politicians like Sen. (D-N.Y.), WNBA stars year or two, to be able to set out and put everything that I had InStyle and Manhattan magazines. Say hello @YelenaShuster. Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

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ourselves with Frank Sinatra’s from The George Washington gathered in a crescent to reminisce rejected because, as the promoters tribute: Here’s to the Losers. University; the commencement with me [on subjects] from Neville explained, “People come to see I welcome news from you via ceremony was held on the Mall Chamberlain in Munich through you in your specialty.” A few days email, regular mail or telephone. in beautiful weather. I flew from Dean Acheson … [from] Truman’s later, he broke the world record at Class Notes My home number is 413-586-1517. there to Boston to spend a day on firing of MacArthur to Sputnik, the shorter distance, whereupon Warm regards to all. the Harvard campus with the new then the moon landings, the the same promoters insisted that graduate’s older sister, who is part- unraveling of DNA and the human he then compete at the shorter Columbia College Today for helping to broaden our under- iron-free, self-baking electrodes for and Morality. Morris knew before way through her course for a Ph.D. genome, to Monica and Romney distance. 30 Columbia Alumni Center standing of the world. According submerged arc furnace production his death that his book would G.J. D’Angio in history, like Grandpa many and .” John’s tragic death was reported 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 to the National Endowment for the of silicon metals. be published but unfortunately 43 201 S. 18th St., #1818 years ago (though I got mine at Due to the current of in Spectator on January 6, 1943, by New York, NY 10025 Humanities website, his “efforts to John, a recognized authority did not live long enough to see Philadelphia, PA 19103 Chicago). Then it was by rail once information from ’44, I would like Paul Sherman ’43, who described 40 foster a global conversation have in the fields of electrochemistry it in print. I wrote about Morris’ 43 more, southward to New York for to exercise what little poetic license him as having received his master’s [email protected] [email protected] underscored how the common and metallurgy, held 27 patents career in the Fall 2012 issue of CCT, some family visits; this included a that I possess by nominating the at Columbia; the article also said Your friends and classmates want values and experiences shared by (1955–86) and was the author of reviewing his tenure as professor My wife, Audrey, suffered a minor trip to the Tenement Museum on late John Borican as an honorary that he was a Ph.D. candidate at Co- to hear from you! Please send news Eastern and Western cultures can 20 publications in his fields of of philosophy at Fairfield follow- stroke in May, from which she has Manhattan’s Lower East Side. I member of the Class of 1944. For lumbia. I checked with TC, which about yourself or your family, or a be used to bridge our differences expertise. He also co-authored a ing prior years at Penn State and recovered fully. It was interesting heartily recommend it. those who are not track and field could only confirm that he was favorite Columbia College memory, and build trust.” 1960 book, Industrial Electric Fur- Portland State (Oregon). He was (and heartening) to watch the day- enrolled there as a candidate for his to CCT at either of the addresses at The website further explains naces and Appliances, with Victor an authority on the works and by-day return of faculties lost, master’s and not that he received the top of the column. You may also that the medals are given each year Paschkis, a professor of mechani- philosophy of George Santayana, a mostly having to do with numbers the degree at TC. submit an update via the webform to honor individuals or groups cal engineering at Columbia. major theme of this book. — the year, month and so on. Those Paul Hauck ’42 showed his Columbia pride while A great article about John college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ whose work has “deepened the John’s family reports that he was I last saw Morris at the 70th an- gaps were almost totally closed celebrating his 94th birthday, receiving a cane with a appeared in Life magazine on No- class_note. Be well! nation’s understanding of the hu- fluent in six languages (though they niversary luncheon of our Class of within six weeks. vember 24, 1941. It includes photos manities, broadened our citizens’ did not identify the four beyond 1942, held on campus in Hamilton We were fortunate to have all lion-topped handle. reflecting the magnificence of his engagement with the humanities, English and Danish). He was also a Hall in June 2012. He was one of members of the family arrive by physique. Robert Zucker or helped preserve and expand gourmand and oenophile. six classmates who attended. We chance on a June weekend. The Regardless of John’s academic 41 26910 Grand Central Americans’ access to important At Columbia, John was a stal- had a long conversation about our group included my 11-month-old “Finally another overnight ride aficionados, John was once des- achievements, he is best remem- Pkwy, Apt. 24G resources in the humanities.” Presi- wart member of the outstanding years at Columbia and our emo- great-granddaughter, Maggie. on Amtrak back to Chicago. When cribed by the late Columbia Coach bered by me and others on the 41 Floral Park, NY 11005 dent Barack Obama ’83 presented crews of 1940 and 1941, on which tional connection to the College. All were in good health and and where possible these days I Carl Merner as “probably the Columbia track team in those days [email protected] the medal to our classmate in a cer- Robert Kaufman was coxswain. Not long afterward, Morris died prospering. travel by train, having become a greatest middle distance runner of for the friendliness and encourage- emony that took place at the White Bob, who as I write this is alive, at 91.The recent publication of Art On June 5, Audrey and I attended stubborn old crank who wants to all time.” ment that he lavished on us less I was with the track team at Baker House on July 28. Ted was one of well and lucid at 93, recently told and Morality is a fitting tribute to a fascinating talk sponsored by the avoid air travel whenever humanly If you are wondering what con- talented, mediocre runners — and Field on May 17, 1939, the day 10 to receive the honor. [Editor’s me that John was a strong and du- his career. Columbia University Club of Phila- possible. I favor no security lines, no nection John had with ’44 and with of course, by many more for the featured on the inside back cover note: See “Around the Quads.”] rable oarsman, and much admired Our Columbia baseball team delphia. The speaker was Columbia cramped coach seats to which you Columbia, I will explain. exalted status that he enjoyed as a of the Summer CCT. In sad news, Dr. John Stathis by his fellow crewsters. won the Ivy League champion- professor Shahid Naeem, and his are confined for hours at a time, and John was a student in Teachers world-class champion. My fraternity brother Sid Luck- passed away in Los Angeles, where John is survived by his son, ship for the second consecutive topic was a history of the earth. no peanuts with soft drinks or pur- College 1942–43. He worked out man ’39 was playing shortstop in he had practiced. John was on David J., and David’s wife, Marcia, year and qualified for the NCAA The 70th anniversary of D-Day chased alcohol. I don’t even miss regularly on the wooden track REUNION WEEKEND the baseball game against Prince­ the track team with me and was of Hemlock, N.Y.; sister, Judith tourney. Our outstanding pitcher, came and went. I remember that the microwaved ‘dinners’ that were constructed on South Field and, MAY 28–31, 2015 ton. There were 35–40 people in manager of the cross-country team Harriet Foley, of Union City, Calif.; David Speer ’14, led the nation historic landing well. My medical the fare of coach passengers. Are in so doing, became friendly with ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS the stands, and there was a small when I was manager of the track grandchildren, Alexandra and DJ; with four complete game shutouts. school roommate and I had just there any other grumpy ancients our track team, including yours ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott group of people and a camera at team. nephews, Frank and Jim Foley; Unfortunately, a few days before finished an all-night experiment, out there who agree? truly and other ’44 members. As a [email protected] home plate. I inquired what they Your classmates would love to niece, Judy Lynn Foley; and loving the team left for its NCAA bracket and the news came over the radio “On a less cranky note, I’m en- lowly sophomore, I was enthralled 212-851-9148 were doing and was told they were hear from you. Send me some news, companion, Claudette Malfray, of in Coral Gables, Fla., David was during . gaged happily in writing an account with John as he regaled me with DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova televising the game. It meant noth- either at one of the addresses at the France. John was predeceased by stricken with acute appendicitis Audrey’s and my plans for a trip of my tiny share of the action in recollections of his triumphs in the [email protected] ing to me at the time — certainly top of the column or through the his wife, Aina Sophia Almen, in and had an emergency appendec- to Scotland and Eire have matured. the events surrounding the march world of sports. 212-851-7833 not that it was the first televised CCT webform college.columbia. 1979 after 37 years of marriage. tomy, which removed him from We intend to visit The Donkey from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in Around the time of his sudden sporting event. edu/cct/submit_class_note. In the We send our condolences and the Columbia rotation. We lost our Sanctuary, my philasinus charity, in that spurred the Voting death in 1943, John was engaged Charles Gilman Incidentally, another first to take meantime, have a happy, healthy good wishes to John’s family. first game to Texas Tech by one run Mallow, County Cork. The facility Rights Act of 1965. If any readers of in a strenuous regimen that he had 1635 Forge Pond Rd. place at Columbia was the detona- fall. On May 16, I received a warm in the ninth inning, and lost again rescues donkeys, mules and other these Class Notes have comparable hoped would result in his becoming 45 Brick, NJ 08724 tion of a tiny nuclear bomb in the message from Paul Hauck, who by one run to Bethune-Cookman, dray animals that are abandoned recollections, especially of the U.S. the world’s first premier African- 45 charles.gilman@ sub-basement of Schermerhorn by celebrated his 94th birthday in knocking us out of the tourney. as farms become mechanized. historians contingent that took part American miler. At that time the comcast.net Professor . The New Melvin Hershkowitz April. Paul’s wife marked the David recovered and was selected Bernie Weisberger reports, in the final rally on March 24 in top miler was Glenn Cunningham, York Times ran a small article about 42 22 Northern Ave. occasion by giving him a cane by the Cleveland Indians in the “When I wrote last I had just front of the Alabama capitol, I’d be who had established many records Lacking correspondence from class it but all further, related news was Northampton, MA 01060 with a figure of a lion for a handle, 27th round of the Major League returned from sunny Cuernavaca, grateful if you shared them with me at that distance and who himself members, I feel compelled to recall suppressed until the end of the war. 42 which stimulated Paul to say that Baseball draft. Mexico, to icy Chicago, where at [email protected].” was hoping to be the first to break some of my own experiences. I [email protected] Congratulations are in order for he could now “hold fast to the We send congratulations and temperatures day after day were four minutes. In the course of his readily accept that readers may be Wm. Theodore de Bary GSAS’53, John Axel Persson, an electrical spirit of youth,” as advised in the best wishes to David for a success- low enough to do significant training, John competed against bored to death — or close! whom many of you know is a pre- engineer, died on October 15, 2013, words over the fireplace in John ful pro career. harm to the private parts of the Bill Friedman Cunningham in two 1,000-yard As a 17-year-old frosh I was eminent East Asian scholar. In the in Cranberry Township, Pa., in the Jay Hall: “Hold fast to the spirit Finally, as we have done for celebrated brass monkey as well 44 833-B Heritage Hills races and won them both. At the fairly familiar with New York latest in his long line of achieve- Sherwood Retirement Com- of youth, let years to come do many years since 1938–42, the as to my brave plans for daily Somers, NY 10589 peak of his career, John contracted City, as I had been a member of ments, Ted has been awarded a munity. He was 94. John was born what they may.” Paul, a member surviving members of our Certi- outdoor walks. 44 pernicious anemia, then incurable, the Macy-Bamberger Boys Club swf685@.com 2013 National Humanities Medal in and in 1923, at 4, came of Phi Beta Kappa and one of our fied Degenerate Horseplayers Club “We survived all that, however, and died after a short illness. Ironi- as a pre-teen and we had many to New York with his family. He most brilliant classmates, lives in convened by email and telephone and very little of note has occurred Our 70th reunion is now history. cally, that sickness is easily cured activities in town. I knew Baker earned a B.S. in electrical engineer- Florida, and a few months ago to handicap the Belmont Stakes, since except the increasingly com- For a variety of reasons, our class’ today. Field and the fact that football Class Notes are submitted by ing in 1942, after which he joined he told me that he exercises by run on June 7. The sentimental fa- mon loss of yet another of my close attendance was limited to one, “Long John” first achieved fame had previously been played on the mining and metals division of taking long walks inside his local vorite to win the first Triple Crown WWII Army pals in April. Getting Dr. Dan Choy. As Class Notes by winning both the 1941 National West 116th Street. The eye-opener alumni and edited by volunteer Union Carbide and Carborundum shopping mall. His new lion head (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Bel- down to a precious few now, but correspondent, I deputized Dan to Decathlon and Pentathlon titles; during orientation week was our class correspondents and the in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where he cane should be a useful accessory mont) since Affirmed in 1978 was reality is inescapable. report on what went on. His brief these established his athletic versa- first trip to the Village and the staff of CCT prior to publication. was a senior design engineer in the during those walks. Chrome. Our members “More and more the big events account follows: tility due to the number and vari- discovery of McSorley’s Old Ale construction department. In 1969, On May 27, I received an email — Dr. Arthur Wellington (94) in of life center around the milestones “There were 25 people at the ety of races required in those com- House — a great place for cheese Opinions expressed are those of John went to Lectromelt Corp. in message from Art Grossman, Elmira, N.Y.; Don Mankiewicz passed by children and grand- joint luncheon for ’44 and ’49, and petitions. I recall his laughter when and crackers. individual alumni and do not , as a product manager, nephew of the late professor Mor- (92) in Monrovia, Calif.; and myself children (and sometimes even two flags. Twenty-four people recounting an episode at a time During football season, I was reflect the opinions of CCT, its specializing in the manufacture ris Grossman, informing me and (91½) in Northampton, Mass. — great-grandchildren). In mid-May stood in front of the 1949 banner to when he held the world record at assistant stadium manager. My of electric furnaces and allied many of Morris’ friends and rela- agreed that California Chrome I boarded an Amtrak train from have their picture taken. And Ol’ 1,000 yards. He asked the promot- assignment was the visitor’s side. class correspondents, the College equipment. In 1987, after his tives of the recent publication of would not win the race but we Chicago to Washington, D.C., Dan stood alone before 1944.” ers of one of the big indoor track We never had much to do and it or the University. retirement from Lectromelt, John the last book Morris wrote before failed to select the eventual winner, where I watched the youngest of Of the talk that he was invited meets to allow him to compete at a was always a pleasure to welcome founded Trode Tech to work on his death in 2013. The title is Art Tonalist. So once again we console my four granddaughters graduate to give, Dan adds, “A small group shorter distance. The request was acquaintances from other colleges,

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES especially those with great dates. and selected photos I had taken of Columbia College Today Columbia College memory — wars. One of the novels was called moved to Prescott in 1996. those of you who were unable to tions after dinner were of consider- Of course, I would be remiss if the Navy on campus during WWII. 47 Columbia Alumni Center using either the email or postal The Decline and Fall of America. “It was truly one of the high- join us. able interest, much amusement I did not draw your attention to Permission was requested and 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 address at the top of the column. And here we are ‘on the brink of lights of my life and I am glad I Art Feder wrote: “It was won- and some repressed anger on the Alumni Reunion Weekend, sched- granted for use in a documentary 47 New York, NY 10025 You also can send news online destruction.’” overcame the initial resistance I derful to be back on campus, see part of those who were displeased uled for next spring, Thursday, series, Treasures of New York, which [email protected] using the CCT webform college. Sylvain Bromberger writes, had to the idea. I encourage others old friends and come away with by certain of his opinions, regard- May 28–Sunday, May 31. We will airs in September. I am interested to columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ “Some members of the class may to consider doing the same thing. It the sense that the College is very ing which your deponent further celebrate the 70th anniversary of see which made the cut, if any. Faithful contributor Dr. Nicholas note. remember my wife, Nancy, as she was a joyous occasion!” much on the upswing.” saith not. We also welcomed the our graduation — quite a mile- recalls living as Giosa checked in, sharing one of This column is a wonderful way and I started dating while I was CCT, and your classmates, would From Joe Levie: “Although I presence of Bill Lubic and his stone. It’s not too late to help with a Fulbright Fellow in a five-story his poems “in honor of my class- for the class to stay connected but a senior. Some were even at our love to hear from more of you. could only attend some of the class wife, Ruth, whom we had not seen the planning by joining the Re- walk-up in in 1950 while he mates who are still around.” we need a class correspondent wedding. Nancy passed away Please share news about yourself, events I was delighted to see old since they moved to Washington, union Committee. And it’s easy to finished his first novel. He says he to write it. If you are interested, on April 4 while at home under your family, your career and/or friends and hear Dean Valentini. D.C., and of you, John, despite do so. Just get in touch with either had to go to a public bath because A Passing Gift please contact Alexis Tonti SOA’11, hospice care. She was not in pain your travels — even a favorite Co- The legacy is in good hands.” the folly of your having chosen to of the Alumni Office contacts at the there was no bathroom except a managing editor: alt2129@colum and was lucid until the very end. lumbia College memory — using top of the column. shared Turkish toilet. In the next All that you see, all that this bia.edu or 212-851-7485. She was wonderful and I miss her either the email or postal address at Now, let us hear what is on your flat (room) was novelist/play- disclosing terribly. We were going to celebrate the top of the column. You also can collective minds. You’ll have to wright James Baldwin. As Herb day allows, is but a loan — a our 65th anniversary this summer send news online using the CCT Dr. Alvin Eden ’48’s most recent book, Fit From the overcome a little inertia to send me was exiting the building one time, passing gift; Columbia College Today along with my 90th birthday. webform college.columbia.edu/ Start: How to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Infancy, news but I guarantee, we’ll relish a stranger inquired for an artist immerse yourself in its largesse, Columbia Alumni Center “I still have my corner in the cct/submit_class_note. every word. Use either address at living there and Herb told him the embrace it with a quiet spirit of 48 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 MIT Department of Linguistics & This column is a wonderful way is now available as an ebook. the top of the column, or submit artist was out. The visitor asked thanksgiving 48 New York, NY 10025 Philosophy, with a foot on each for the class to stay connected but an update using the CCT webform Herb to share that he had dropped that the sense of sight permits, [email protected] side of the department. I stopped we need a class correspondent college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ by and gave his name … Picasso. while the senses are still clear and teaching a long time ago but I to write it. If you are interested, Marvin Lipman wrote: “My drive up from Sheepshead Bay in class_note. John McConnell in Post Falls, the cataracts Dr. Alvin Eden “continues to prac- try to keep up in some areas and please contact Alexis Tonti SOA’11, years at Columbia were arguably evening traffic. It was also good to Idaho, once again brings us views of time — with their certainty of tice pediatrics, teach medical stu- have some work in progress in my managing editor: alt2129@colum four of the best years of my life. hear Harvard emeritus med school of life in the West that most of eventual trespass — dents, play tennis (only doubles) computer.” bia.edu or 212-851-7485. Sharing that joy with a few of my professor Bob Knapp’s account Bernard Sunshine us do not experience. In July he have not yet appeared. and watch my grandchildren grow Dr. Richard J. Calame “retired classmates at reunion, especially at of a most insulting interview for 46 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G wrote, “Right now the first crop and develop into caring and re- from the practice of gynecologic one that might well be my last, was admission to P&S ... New York, NY 10023 of hay, grass and so forth is in the Regard the dance of light as it plays sponsible young adults. My latest oncology 18 years ago, and my wife John Weaver especially meaningful. Friendships, “Professor [’63, 46 [email protected] midst of harvest. We’ve had a wet with our appraisal at the varied childcare book, Fit From the Start: and I became Florida residents. We 49 2639 E. 11th St. made more than 65 years ago, have GSAS’69]’s talk on Saturday winter and the harvest looks good. times of day: the rays of early How to Prevent Childhood Obesity in spend seven months of the year in Brooklyn, NY 11235 been continued and renewed and morning (which he opened with a The late Harry Coleman’s lovely Baled hay, mostly 600- to 800-lb. dawn Infancy, was recently published as Vero Beach, and early June to late 49 memories relived. Let’s all try for gracious expression of gratitude to [email protected] wife, Lila, responded to a wonder- bales, are stacked like loaves of that steal away from the folds of an ebook.” October in Hingham, Mass., where the 70th.” his own teacher, our Jim Shenton ful photo of Attorney General Eric bread and covered with tarps to night, George Woolfe writes, “[My two of our three children reside. It is with enormous pleasure that From Fred Berman: “While I of blessed memory) was eloquent, H. Holder Jr. ’73, LAW’76 that I keep the moisture down and avoid to sculpt dimensions that we hold wife,] Mary Elaine GSAS’49, and I “I remain busy with golf, bridge, I write these notes following our don’t recall knowing him during pithy, comprehensive and soundly had clipped from TIME and sent the build-up of internal heat and dear. celebrated Bill Farren ’49’s birthday painting, gardening and reading. recent Alumni Reunion Weekend, undergrad days, my wife, Barbara, built upon an unimpeachable her. I knew of a special relation- spontaneous combustion. Each on June 2 with dinner in Greenwich My skills are limited in the first which celebrated the 65th an- and I spent time with Paul Meyer structure of factual and historical ship between Harry and Holder. farm or ranch has the bales stacked They reveal the contoured land- Village. It was his 89th. The party four of those, but I enjoy them all. niversary of our graduation. While and his wife, Alice, during the analysis. Columbia is indeed fortu- Lila wrote, “He and Harry deeply five or six deep, double or triple scapes of mountain of five included two junior college “I love to read all things about we were not strong in numbers, weekend. They deserve a prize for nate to have been able to continue admired the other even as they rows of 20 to 30 tarp-covered bales. crests, scooped-out vales and open classmates of Mary Elaine’s. The the College, but have not returned the quality of our assemblage was traveling the furthest distance of a body of study so well brought spaces; total age of the five of us was 444.” since our 50th reunion. Unfortu- rich beyond measure. The Friday our classmates for reunion, having to life by Shenton and so well they bare bold cityscapes, with Robert DeMaria GSAS’59 nately I have not been in touch with dinner provided the occasion come from their home in Portland, advanced by his former student. their towers shares a bit of his life story: “Before classmates, but did hear from Walt for the renewal of longstanding Ore.” “Lunch (with Daniel Choy Eugene Rogers ’46 was elected to the Columbia of commerce and high-rise dwelling and after my days at Columbia Henry and Claude Cornu within acquaintances as well as wonderful Paul himself writes, “Great to ’44 as the sole representative of University Athletics Hall of Fame for his illustrious places, I was in love with writing. I the past year or so.” moments of renewed connections see all of you and get reacquainted his class) was most pleasant and whose Argus-eyed windowpanes wrote a novel when I was in high Editor’s note: Ethan Davis with classmates not seen for many after these many years. Did see cordial, with good chatter around swimming career. echo school and two more when I was passed away on August 5, 2014. decades. There were also some most of you at our 25th, and Joe the long table, followed by group the mounting morning sun, again an undergraduate. I discovered He sent in this inspirational note meetings between classmates [Russell] more frequently. Alice photos that will likely embarrass and again. how to turn reality into fiction. I on July 3: who never knew each other as and I had a wonderful visit to many of us, but what the hell, we differed. Eric loves to relate that Yes, the farmers and ranchers are enrolled in all the writing courses. “Earlier this year I got a diag- undergraduates. Al Scherzer, lower , then four are getting older and it sure beats ‘I held my dean hostage [student expensively equipped and work Then there is that light that speaks I was 25 when I finally had a novel nosis of incurable and untreatable Paul Meyer, Robert Knapp and days in Washington, D.C.” the alternative. Alfred Scherzer protest 1972] and then had the their tails off, sometimes under to contemplation: published. It was called Carnival cancer. So, I am in a countdown Richard Sachs, who all made it Joe Russell has consistently joined us — long time no see, but audacity to ask him to sign my law floodlight ‘false moons.’” when the sun is in its downward of Angels. I didn’t know what the phase. I am grateful that I do not to our lunch in Hamilton Hall on provided our Class Notes with a most welcome. Regrettably we did school recommendation.’” On Class Day I proudly carried turn title meant, but I knew it was art. have to undergo either chemother- Saturday, provided a richness and welcome blend of recollection, car- not remain afterward to hear Dan’s Lila continued, “I have a picture our class banner in the traditional and the belfry sounds the Angelus I went on writing novels while I apy or radiation. I am now under unique presence for your reporter. ing and erudite observation. Noth- chronicle of growing up in Pearl on the office wall of you, Harry Alumni Parade of Classes. Sorry to for evening prayer; worked for a living. I got an M.A. hospice care. Stalwarts Bill Lubic, Dick Kandel, ing less would I have expected Harbor and living through the and Moose [Norman Cohen] at say, I was the sole participant from a time of soft illumination and long and Ph.D. at Columbia and taught “After consultation with our Joe Levie, Fred Berman, Art Feder, now. He writes, “Despite the rather December 7, 1941, attack that took the 1996 John Jay Awards Dinner our class. But as representative of shadows, in colleges. I also was an editor in minister, my wife, Judy, and I, Marv Lipman and Joe Russell small turnout for this late-stage us into WWII as a combatant. honoring Eric and Harry.” the oldest class marching, I was last when stillness becomes the coda of New York. Eventually I became decided to sponsor what we called were in attendance as well. reunion, my wife, Charlotte, and I “A highlight for me was sitting Congratulations to Eugene Rog- in the long line and was greeted the song the academic dean of The New a ‘Party B4 Parting!’ rather than a On Saturday, after breakfast, I had a truly wonderful time seeing under the tent on Low Plaza when ers on his election to the Columbia with a roar from the 1,026 graduates of closing day. School for Social Research. I might later memorial service. This gave managed to corner Dean James and talking with so many of those it started to rain at about 4 that af- University Athletics Hall of Fame. (my wife’s and my grandson, Jacob have had a chance to become the family and friends a chance to J. Valentini and suggest that if of our class (as well as several ternoon, and schmoozing with Art Gene is one of the University’s ’14, one of them). I guess they didn’t It is then that we are made aware president, but I really hated the learn about my life and talk with he could find time in his tight others) who turned up. I note as Feder and his wife, Ruth; Marvin swimming greats. His Columbia think we were still around. Truly a by this diurnal metaphor: that work. I had to get up 4 o’clock in me if they chose. It was a good schedule to say hello to our class, a special pleasure the chance to Lipman and his wife, Naomi; and career registered 56 wins and in his fun occasion. what we view the morning to keep writing. idea. We expected perhaps 100 it would be very welcome. He, in spend time with Paul Meyer, with you, our faithful class correspon- only defeat, Gene’s time and the In 2016 we will celebrate at each hallowed day — with “Fortunately I was getting estab- people but provided champagne, fact, did more than say hello; he whom I worked diligently as a dent, around a dry table, and declared winner were identical. In Alumni Reunion Weekend the 70th mindful gratitude — lished as a writer and had enough wine, punch, finger foods and showed up at lunch, surprising us fellow member of the American sharing all sorts of observations, 1945 he shattered the Columbia anniversary of our class’ graduation is but a fleeting interim; money to go to live in Europe with desserts for a larger turnout. Good all. He then spoke and there was Veterans’ Committee while we reminiscences and general good pool record for the 100-yard free- (Thursday, May 26–Sunday, May that there will come a time wherein my whole family. Life with artists thing! The event was held in the a Q&A. He gave us a significant were undergraduates, and three will, brotherhood and warmth. style. Then considered one of the 29, 2016) and it would be great if this loan — this passing gift — can and writers suited all of us. It was social hall of the Las Fuentes Re- piece of his day and his visit years afterward when he returned Stand, Columbia!” top three swimmers in the country, we turned out in numbers for the no longer be renewed. La Bohème for a few years. [My wife sort Village retirement community, was genuinely appreciated. I am from Yale Law and we studied to- From Robert Knapp: “It was Gene was a member of the U.S. parade earlier in the month (which and I] were having another child where we have lived for almost confident in saying that our class gether for the New York bar exam for me a very special and enjoy- Olympic team in the 1948 London is really a leisurely walk) and then CCT, and your classmates, and [I had] an unfinished book. I three years. It was estimated that is unanimous in feeling that the in summer ’52 (we both passed on able evening … to see once again games. held a significant reunion luncheon would love to hear from more of had to go back to work in a college. 250 people came, representing our College is in good hands. the first try, a great relief). classmates whom I had not seen PBS television telephoned me. on campus. Please keep this in you. Please share news about your- I went on to write about 20 books. Unitarian Universalist Congrega- Many of the attendees sent their “Friday’s dinner was most for many years and to recall old They had searched the Columbiana mind. I will be sending reminders self, your family, your career and/ They were a portrait of about tion and every local organization I comments and it is my pleasure enjoyable, and Professor [Henry] occasions when we were all young Collection (University archives) from time to time. or your travels — even a favorite four decades from hippies to new have been connected with since we and honor to present them for Graff [GSAS’49]’s candid observa- and innocent. The food was excel-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES lent. Great evening!” a little concerned to hear that an Show” production of Mrs. Temple’s was a nice touch. Len, accompanied by his daugh-­ “Awakened, which stars my GSAS]. I hope the following stories eyeglasses except when he was The following came from Al invited guest speaker took the Telegram. The play was staged at The exact number of our class- ter and granddaughter, recently daughter, Julianne Michelle, in will add to the colorful events Mike playing football as a Columbia end. Scherzer, who was moved to poetic opportunity to expound on some the Waldorf Astoria. Archives for mates who served in the armed completed an 18-day tour of Eng-­ the lead role, is a suspense-filled described in his book. One day, a reporter for Spectator expression: variation of ‘Obama is the worst the “Soph Show” exist as far back forces during the Korean War, as land and Ireland. No, Len did not supernatural thriller. (Julianne has Several years after we graduated, asked him, ‘How can you catch president in the history of the U.S.’ I as 1898 but we don’t know when well as the names of these class- kiss the Blarney Stone, but he dis- starred in more than 25 film and the dean and his wife, Margaret passes when you don’t have on ’49 At 65 wish I had been there to discuss the it ceased production. The Varsity mates, is information that’s never covered that if you want to exit a TV productions.) The film also Carman, invited me to spend a your glasses?’ Not to worry! Al had Under a pure blue Columbia sky man’s ignorance of U.S. history! Show records go back to 1894. been fully collected. The NROTC train you have to punch the door stars Steven Bauer, Edward Fur- weekend at their country home in a great answer: ‘When Mitch Price Comfortably cool with a slight “John, thank you for your Speaking of the Varsity Show, group does a good job of keeping in button! long, John Savage, Oscar nominee Schuylerville, N.Y. On a tour of their throws you a pass, he puts it right breeze devotion to alma mater and to the Phil Springer, co-composer of the touch, though, and every once in a Jay Lefer writes that he “avoids , Bryan Dechart and house, I was thrilled to be standing into your gut!’” Participants gathering about Alma Class of ’49. You are a friendly and 1948 and 1950 productions, recently while a classmate sends a message retirement. Psychiatrists just wither Sean Stone. in a charming small room where Eugene Goodheart was a Mater persistent hero.” completed words, music and book about his service. Willard Block away. My son, David JRN’95, “My wife, Joycelyn Engle, the dean had written a number member of the Debate Council And onto a truly resplendent I close with my heartfelt thanks for a new musical. Titled Falling wrote that he served in the Army published a ‘must-read’ book (per produced the film, her fourth. In of books. When we reached their and WKCR. After graduation he campus. to Richard for his most generous in Love, it’s the story of a modern from December 1952 until Decem- New York Magazine), called The fact, Joycelyn wrote, produced and bedroom, he pointed to a massive became the Edytha Macy Gross closing comment. If I am repeating man’s obsession with Norma Shear- ber 1954. Following basic train- Founding Conservatives: How a Group co-directed the film. Let’s be frank: brass bed and in a booming voice Professor of Humanities Emeritus Old Hamilton Hall well remem- myself I beg to be forgiven. It has er, a film actress of the silent era ing at Fort Dix he was offered an of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Joycelyn and Julianne do all the announced, “Lew, this is where we at Brandeis. Recently, Eugene bered not been my means to contribute and the 1930s. Phil’s career includes opportunity to serve in the Counter Revolution.” work, and I just get to put my name hold forth.” received an from Where I had my very first contact to the College in a manner other many hit songs, among them Santa Intelligence Corps and went to Fort Last but not least is a report on it. During the visit, the 77-year-old the CUNY Graduate Center (doc- Really not that much changed than what effort my Class Notes Baby and (How Little It Matters) How Holabird, Md., for training. He says from our unofficial but absolutely “My grandson from my older dean, his 67-year-old neighbor, Jim, tor of humane letters). And now the site for our reunion represent. It is indeed my privilege Little We Know, rendered famously his assignment with the 108th CIC first-class Florida correspondent, daughter, Joy, is now 2, and it’s and I (then 27) were enlarging the Congratulations! Your CC’53 gathering. and good fortune to be able to do by Eartha Kitt and Frank Sinatra, for the balance of his service experi- . He says, amazing what I can see through area for a vegetable garden by build- classmates are proud of your dis- this. Reunion was, for me, all of the respectively. ence was interesting and helpful “Sometimes when I relax outside his eyes.” ing a long retaining wall of concrete tinguished accomplishments. At first just unfamiliar faces above. As well, it was a reminder Two deaths have been reported: in his civilian career, but otherwise at my house in Florida I think John Miller formerly lived in blocks. The dean’s job was to mix the Before our 60th reunion in Then some names vaguely remem- of the profound importance of my David Karlin of New York City, in cannot be discussed publicly. how remarkable it is to still have Brooklyn and New Jersey, and cement in a cement . Jim’s job spring 2013, I received an email bered years as an undergraduate and May 2014, and George S. Fabian of What can be disclosed publicly friendships with people I met at “moved in 2002 to Texas in order was to carry the cement in a wheel- from Eric Wakin ’84. He wrote, Recollection of common interests how that experience has sustained Bryn Mawr, Pa., in June 2014. is that Willard, along with Mark Columbia more than 65 years ago. to marry the love of my life, Betty. barrow to the wall. My job was to “I’m the son of Thomas Wakin, and experiences me throughout my life. Perhaps Kaplan and Harvey Krueger, is a One special relationship has been Sadly, only eight years later, Betty secure the concrete blocks by shovel- who died almost 30 years ago. I Helped to meld the group together. the single most outstanding take- Class Agent. Class Agents encour- with Philip Pakula LAW’53, who passed away after a lengthy illness. ing the cement into the appropriate saw your invitation to widows to away for me was the reassurance George Koplinka age classmates to support the Co- now resides in Jacksonville, Fla. We “I am active as a lifelong Demo- holes. As I recall, it was a muggy come to the reunion. Although not A pleasant lunch well served that Dean Valentini is providing 75 Chelsea Rd. lumbia College Fund, and without were both neophytes from Brooklyn crat and former county executive day and after we worked for several a widow, I’d be interested in stop- With courteous and very helpful that sustenance in like manner for 51 White Plains, NY 10603 them the College would not be able with visions of lofty achievements committee member. I ran the 2004 hours, Mrs. Carman brought us a ping by if there were a possibility staff today’s undergraduates. 51 to achieve its financial objectives. when we rented a room in the TEP campaign in Sun City for Obama. I pitcher of lemonade and encouraged any classmates had some memo- [email protected] Solicitous of our interests and Let me offer a belated pat on the house on West 115th Street. We am an active member of Grace Epis- us to rest. As we sprawled on the ries of my father to share. Please let needs While cleaning out some files, your back to all three for their work. studied hard and prospered in our copal Church and assist at Mass ground, Jim pointed his shovel at the me know your thoughts.” REUNION WEEKEND Columbia at its most gracious. class correspondent discovered Here is some news from Peter post-Columbia careers.” (Holy Communion) frequently. I dean and remarked, ‘I don’t know Regrettably, Eric’s email got lost MAY 28–31, 2015 a dozen copies of Spectator with Suzuki that is long overdue for Stan notes that Phil served in am on the residence council of the what kind of a teacher he is, but he’s on my computer and thus was ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Table conversation soon gave way dates ranging from September 22, publication. Last winter, Peter’s the Coast Guard, taught at UC Wesleyan at Estrella Independent a damn good mortar man.’” never answered. But if you knew ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott To a surprise visit from Columbia’s 1947, to May 16, 1951. The issues article “Margaret Mead’s Research Berkeley Law School and “was a Living Residence as safety and Henry Donaghy telephoned Thomas, I’d greatly appreciate [email protected] Dean cover subjects from when we 625 on Japanese National Character” good and consistent attorney with environmental conservation com- to indicate how much he had hearing from you. Please email me 212-851-9148 With an overview of today’s college freshmen began studies at Morn- appeared in Asian Profile, Volume a major law firm before retiring mittee chair. enjoyed reading the excerpts from at [email protected] or call me at DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova programs ingside all the way to May 1951, 41 (pp. 463–477). It’s based on the in 1998 to play golf and enjoy life “My daughter, Kristin, who re- Mike’s book in Class Notes. Henry 203-372-6961. [email protected] And helpful responses to questions when Gene Courtiss, chairman of Margaret Mead Collection in the with his bride, Barbara BC’57.” ceived her master’s in applied psy- also sent the following about his 212-851-7833 and concerns. the Board of Student Representa- Library of Congress. Quoting Peter, Plans are in the embryo stage for chology from NYU in 2011, lives closest friend, Robert P. Gleckler. Mario Palmieri tives, pointed out that the admin- “Margaret Mead BC’23, GSAS’28 Alumni Reunion Weekend 2016, in Athens, Ga., and my son, Sean, As undergraduates, they were Howard Falberg Truly a most satisfying time together 50 33 Lakeview Ave. W. istration appeared to be down- never wrote about this phase of which will celebrate the 65th anni- lives in northern New Jersey.” inseparable. 54 13710 Paseo Bonita To relive again those long ago days Cortlandt Manor, NY playing the role of the College in her research and never mentioned versary of our graduation. Save the “Bob passed away on June 2, Poway, CA 92064 With colleagues who shared their 50 10567 its future planning. Other copies it in two of the grad courses I had dates: Thursday, May 26–Sunday, 2014, in New London, N.H. He 54 [email protected] lifetime stories [email protected] carry headlines for the Class of under her, one of which dealt May 29, 2016. Speak now if you Lew Robins is survived by Peggy, his wife of And were all enriched by the ’51 winning the Soph-Frosh Rush, specifically with aspects of national would like to be on a committee 53 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 59 years. Bob was on the 150-lb. A number of our classmates at- Columbia experience. No doubt you have seen, at the the Lions ending Army’s football character. No one has ever written or have suggestions to make this Bridgeport, CT 06604 football team in 1950 and played tended Alumni Reunion Weekend, head of this column, the announce- streak at 32 games, President about or mentioned this phase of reunion a spectacular event. Right 53 fullback. He was president of Psi celebrating the 60th anniversary of [email protected] Richard Sachs wrote: “The ment reminding us all that 2015 [(Class of her research because she had never now, the best person to call about it Upsilon at Columbia. From 1953 our graduation, and it was wonder- reunion was a very good experi- is a reunion year for our class. 1882)’s] death at 85, the Kentucky referred to it.” (Peter’s article, is me: 914-610-1595. Shortly after the Summer issue of to 1955 he served in the Army, and ful! About 30 classmates were pres- ence. Apart from a 10th reunion Columbia provides the venue and Wildcats vanquishing the Lions in based on research that he started in CCT published, I was thrilled to part of that service was in Korea. ent, and the majority brought their of members of Professor Larry offers housing accommodations the NCAA semifinals at Madison 2000, goes over Mead’s theoretical receive the following from Mike He was a successful sales executive wives. While most of those who Chamberlain [GSAS’45]’s senior and some planning assistance, but Square Garden and Dwight Eisen- orientation, methods and results, Columbia College Today Sovern: at Young & Rubicam and retired were there live within 100 miles of government seminar, this was my it is up to us to work through the hower being welcomed as the new and notes who collaborated with 52 Columbia Alumni Center “As a faithful reader of your from that company after many Columbia, there was also a number first reunion in 65 years. I’m glad details for our group’s activities University president in 1948. All of her on the project.) Another phase 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 alumni notes, I naturally turned to years of service. He is also sur- I went. It was nice to see and chat — and for that we need a Reunion the Spectators are in mint condition of Peter’s research involves the 52 New York, NY 10025 your latest when the Summer issue vived by his children, Laurel Anne with classmates from so long ago; Committee. Anyone who would and may be of interest to a memo- Omaha Reservation where both he [email protected] of CCT arrived. I was very pleasant- and Robert P. Jr., and a grandson, many of us had not seen each other like to participate in the planning rabilia buff. Contact me if you have and Mead conducted significant ly surprised to find your generous Robert P. III.” What’s Your Story? since June ’49. effort is invited to contact either of an interest in the collection. anthropological research, much of Joe Di Palma writes, “I am the treatment of my book. Thank you. If During his undergraduate years, Letting classmates know “I attended a Contemporary the Alumni Office personnel listed Here is some information from which is deposited in the Library executive producer of the feature some of our classmates are moved Bob spent every summer as a what’s going on in your Civilization lecture on Freud by at the head of this column. Your class president Robert Snyder. On of Congress. film Awakened, which had red car- to buy a copy, you and I will have deckhand on a fishing boat called life is easier than ever. Professor Michael Stanislawski. He location is irrelevant; telephone May 31, he and three classmates As for Peter’s world travels, we pet premieres in Manhattan, Los combined to ‘pass it along,’ because the Francis E, which was based in made an excellent presentation, cur- conference calling is available. attended Dean’s Day on campus. have not yet received a report on Angeles and Las Vegas and was I have assigned the royalties to Ketchikan, . According to Send in your Class Notes! tailed only by time constraints. I’d The article on the Varsity Show In addition to Bob and his wife, his trip last spring to Australia and released in theaters in select cities Columbia.” Henry, Bob earned so much money ONLINE by clicking be fascinated to take his CC course in the Spring CCT brought com- Elaine, the group included Elliot visitation with both Australians in the United States and Canada. Mike’s fascinating book, An as a deckhand that he was able to college.columbia.edu/cct/ on the same subject. He talked ments from two classmates. Wales and his wife, Fran; Warren and Aborigines. It was to be Peter’s Awakened was well received by Improbable Life: My 60 Years at put his younger brother through submit_class_note. about topics that would never have Ray Annino recalls being in Nadel and his wife, Susanne; 12th visit. audiences everywhere. It was also Columbia, includes memorable and private school. been discussed when we were on the Pony Ballet and says that he and Jay Lefer. Bob says the day Leonard Stoehr reports regularly shown at the Cannes International delightful anecdotes about friend- It goes without saying that this EMAIL to the address at Morningside Heights, including brought down the house with was lovely and the lectures were on the activities of former NROTC Film Festival and was released on ships and events that Mike and our colorful classmate will be sorely the top of your column. and LGBT issues, among his belly roll. Arthur Thomas superb and entertaining. Especially members. Recently he learned that video on demand in the U.S. and classmates shared during our years missed. MAIL to the address at the others. They were with us back then provided a bit of history with enlightening was Dean James Tex McNallen is recovering from Canada. This is the second feature at the College. One of my favorite During our phone conversation, top of your column. but deeply hidden. information about his father, Ar- J. Valentini’s breakfast address. open heart surgery in Goodyear, film of which I am executive professors and mentors was our Henry also told me an unforgettable “As I wasn’t able to make it to thur W. Thomas SEAS 1912, who Bob adds that the barbecue lunch Ariz. Tex’s friends might wish to producer. The first was Shannon’s dean emeritus and American histo- story about Al Ward and Mitch the Friday dinner, I was not just was the lead in 1909 in the “Soph under the big tent on South Lawn keep in touch. Rainbow. rian, Harry J. Carman [Class of 1919 Price. He explained, “Al Ward wore

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We were doesn’t make one feel old, I don’t Gallery. This is a little known gal- the reason for his charitable involve- hotel in the mountains. of our class looked very well, too, hearing from and about members Kuhn (who might make the trip to also joined by Robert Snyder ’51, know what will.” lery on campus, on the eighth floor ments: “I have always wanted to “A year later, Alpha Chi Rho considering our age. of our class. As Dean Lawrence Storrs, Conn., when the Lions play president of his class; he filled On May 31, the annual Dean’s of Schermerhorn, and is soon to give something back to individuals fraternity, located in 906 Hartley, The dean of the College, James Chamberlain once wrote, “The bi- the national champions, UConn, in us in on some of the activities of Day, held in conjunction with be moved to an expanded location who wish to rise above their chal- decided to get rid of its old upright J. Valentini, joined us at a luncheon centennial Class of 1954! No other late December). Dick was in touch “the older Columbia” generation Alumni Reunion Weekend, was on West as part of the lenges.” Stan is personally involved piano. Eddie made a deal (about with a hearty, “Welcome back to class in the history of Columbia with Ken Parker recently. Also (ha!) and reminded us once again well attended by our class mem- new Manhattanville campus. The in seeing that his gifts go to those which Ken Keller may know the the greatest college in the greatest College can claim that honor.” expected at our class supper are that we were the only class that bers. Among those who came were luncheon was followed by a visit organizations where he has input in details) to acquire the piano and university in the greatest city in Bob Sparrow, who with his family he remembered as having lost the Bob Lauterborn; Jordan Bonfonte; to the Metropolitan Museum of Art directing the use of the contributed we dragged it down the hall into the world.” We had dinners and has been involved in the Kitty Soph-Frosh Rush two years in a Stan Soren; Dan Link and his wife, to hear one of its foremost guides, funds. our room. He thereupon painted REUNION WEEKEND luncheons at Low Library, Faculty Genovese case in several ways, and row. But while we may not have Elinor Baller; John Censor; Bob a graduate of Columbia’s fine arts Congratulations to Stan and it Ming yellow and, having some MAY 28–31, 2015 House and and at- Anthony Viscusi. We’re not sure distinguished ourselves by our Siroty; Peter Klein; Jerry Fine and program, discuss the Greek and Fern! Good work! points open in his program, ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS tended “Talks Across Campus” whether Abbe Leban will make an athletics accomplishments, we still his wife, Barbara — all of whom Egyptian collection. On a sad note, Mike Spett has enrolled in a one-credit course in ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott featuring great professors and appearance from Seattle, or Ralph are active mentally and physically made the morning activities and On June 19, we had our first written a remembrance of Eddie piano instruction. He quickly be- [email protected] students. At the end, we expressed Wagner from . What with approximately one-third of lunch — and I, who attended an summer event at Dan Link’s Grossman GSAS’60, who passed came proficient and was soon play- 212-851-9148 wishes that our 65th and perhaps about Bob Schoenfeld from Long our class members still working. afternoon lecture. It seemed to be a Bonnie Briar Country Club in away on May 10, 2014, in Las Vegas. ing Bach Inventions. Returning to DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova our 70th reunions would allow us Island and Jesse Roth in Queens? On May 13, our next class year of mix-ups, in that half of our Larchmont, N.Y. We also celebrat- I am including Mike’s moving me- the room one afternoon a year later, [email protected] to get together again. In April, Dick Ravitch spoke at luncheon was held at the Faculty lunch group ate on South Lawn in ed Dan’s 80th birthday at lunch. morial to Eddie, as it brings up such I found him with a young Juilliard 212-851-7833 Hank Buchwald was sorry to a benefit at which he was honored House on campus. In attendance one section while the other half ate Normally we have a two-hour memories of our years at Columbia: student composing rock ’n’ roll miss the big weekend. It turns Gerald Sherwin by the National Parks of New York were myself, Mark Novick, Buzz in another section. tennis round robin, followed “I always stayed in touch with songs, saying ‘Any idiot can write out that he and his wife, Emilie, 55 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A Harbor Conservancy. Paaswell, Al Franco SEAS’56, Bob Lauterborn, whom I missed by lunch. Due to a rain forecast, my old roommate, Eddie Gross- this stuff.’ He introduced the kid as were on a cruise to celebrate their New York, NY 10021 Other news: Dan Hovey has re- Ron Kapon, Dan Link and Alan saying hello to, writes of the event: however, we missed our star tennis man, via phone calls and email, and the winner of WQXR’s (New York’s 60th anniversary. Afterward they 55 tired as a solo physician, enabling Broadwin. We invited Marilyn “In the morning I went to Professor player, Jack Katz; still, we eked out then when he would come to South classical musical station) ‘Musical [email protected] went to London, where Hank was him to visit with Bob Banz in Minton ’17, the 2013–14 recipient Susan Pedersen’s lecture on Britain a competitive hour of Australian Florida from Las Vegas to visit his Talent in Our Schools’ contest and inducted as an honorary fellow in Columbia is not only taking the Florida and Dick Knapp in North of our Class of 1956 Alan N. Miller in the period between the wars, the doubles (two players against one son and grandchildren. Aside from as his brother-in-law, Neil Sedaka. It the Royal College of Surgeons of lead in academia but also forging Carolina. Scholarship, to attend. Marilyn Treaty of Versailles and the adminis- and rotating) of which yours truly being very intelligent and a whiz at was on that piano where music for England. As Hank put it, “wonder- ahead in other areas — bigger and Don’t forget the 60th, Dan. is interested in having other tration of the mandates. I was with emerged the winner — then the chemistry (despite never grasping songs like Stupid Cupid were said to ful pomp and circumstance,” and better reunions, online education From Philadelphia comes word scholarship recipients interact with a British scientist friend and my rains came. The tennis was at- the concept of saturation points have been written … he gave the graduation speech and more. Entrepreneurship is a that Al Momjian has retired from our class but due to a scheduling grandson, a political science major tended by me, Dan and Jerry Fine; while pouring Fox’s U-Bet choco- “In late April, knowing he had to the newly minted surgeons of major project. Among other things his law practices. Since that day, Al mix-up, she unfortunately missed at Ithaca. I was embarrassed not to joining for lunch were Ron Kapon, late syrup half-full into his nightly a heart condition, I grew worried Britain. #StartupColumbia, the inaugural has received many awards, includ- the luncheon. That said, we look know that America hadn’t joined Peter Klein, Bob Siroty and Lou glass of milk), he had a great sense when he didn’t respond to my Dick Werksman and his wife, entrepreneurship festival, was held ing the Pennsylvania Bar Associa- forward to enhancing our class the League of Nations — must’ve Hemmerdinger. of humor and was always ready email including a 1955 photo show- Elin, came up from Maryland and on the Barnard campus in April to tion Family Law Section Lifetime luncheons to include on occasion cut class that day! The dishearten- At lunch, Jerry regaled us with with a joke. He was also a talented ing the crowds at Nathan’s hot dog afterward he sent a note to the an overflow crowd. Achievement Award. both students and faculty. ing thing about the professor’s story a story about a cruise he took that musician and an accomplished emporium. In it I reminded him of Reunion Committee: “We enjoyed Class Day usually features en- Big applause. Class Day was May 20, and was that we don’t seem to have included snorkeling in the Carib- guitarist. the night he came back empty- the reunion and want to thank all tertaining folks. This year was no Classmates on the Reunion alumni spanning many decades learned much in the intervening 90 bean. He came out of the water to “Beginning his freshman year, he handed to the car where I and our of you for the contributions you exception, as the Academy Award- Committee are Bill Langston, Ezra joined in the Alumni Parade of years. A lot of the trouble spots now hear one of his fellow vacation- shared the triple room in 930 Hart- dates awaited, with a long-winded, made to its success The indelible nominated ’89 Levin and of course Lew Mendel- Classes, marching from Butler were trouble spots way back then. ers shouting, “Who is here from ley with Elliot Taikeff and Artie moment-by-moment, hilarious mark that Columbia College made regaled the Class of 2014 and other son. Others are being added as you Library to the Sundial to the cheers “In the afternoon, Jordan Columbia University?” A strange Fischer, classmates from Brooklyn’s account of how he was held up at on me surfaces from time to time Columbians with some heartfelt read this column. To get involved, of the graduating seniors. The [Bonfonte], Stan [Soren] and I went thing to occur out of the clear Lafayette H.S. (where he was senior knifepoint for the four hot dogs but never so much as when I’m stories of his life at Columbia. reach out to either of the Alumni event featured a breakfast with to the Lit Hum lecture on Romare blue, but it turned out there was a class president). In our sophomore (only two with mustard and sau- at reunion and in the company of Other winners this year, on the Office contacts listed at the top of the awarding of pins to the banner Bearden by Professor Robert G. reason: Jerry had lost his Columbia year Elliot changed roommates by erkraut). Leaving a message on his guys I wish I knew even better.” athletics fields, were the baseball the column. carriers who this year included O’Meally. Absolutely fascinating. College ring (who else other than I received a terrific note from team, which won the Ivy title once Your scribe ran into the late Jim me, Len Wolfe, Ron Kapon, Dan Whatever it was that we thought Dan Link is still wearing his?) and Dick Wagner, who completed three again; men’s tennis, which won Phelan’s son, John ’85, on campus Link and, for the first time, Mark we might learn, O’Meally way a scuba diver found it underwater years at Columbia College and the Ivy crown and finished 16th recently. We’ll all get to see him Novick. The order of the proces- exceeded our expectations. He off the beach. I guess the moral New Columbia School Designations then transferred to Yale for four in the nation; and men’s golf and again in May. sion this year was changed so that talked about Bearden’s work, sure, of the story is you can’t keep a Columbia College Today has adopted a new style for indicating more. He has a wonderful memory crew, both finishing No. 1 in their Unfortunately there’s also sad the older classes (I guess that’s us) but more than that, he discoursed Columbia ring — or alumnus — Columbia degrees from schools other than the College. The of when he was at Columbia. As he tournaments. Ron McPhee, Jack news to report: the passing of Tom marched last as opposed to first. on the interaction between art and down. put it, he had wonderful professors Freeman and Tony Palladino were Chrystie in Charleston, S.C., and Even though we were four classes music, history and culture. I took David Gerstman shares good below designations will be used throughout the magazine. and also enjoyed his involvement proud of our guys, as was Peter Jay Joseph in Long Island. from the last marcher, with Ron away one idea for my grandson news: “My grandson, Ross Chap- with our lightweight football Chase for men’s tennis, and a host Condolences to their friends and Kapon waving his cane and doffing (who’s a guitarist) and another man ’18, begins at the College this BC Barnard College games. He has spent a good part of crewmen for the rowers. family. his hat we received what I think that will find a place in a three-day fall. He will be the third genera- BUS Columbia Business School of his life sailing all over the Dean’s Day 2014 featured Eric Members of the distinguished were the greatest cheers of all. workshop on creative thinking that tion of our family at Columbia, DM College of Dental Medicine world. He now lives in Seattle and Foner ’63, GSAS’69, author of The Class of 1955. After the parade we listened I’m putting together for the DeTao following my son-in-law, Kevin GS School of General Studies Camano Island, where he is : and The reunion planning is moving to the welcoming and salutary Masters Academy in China. Chapman ’83, and me. Also, his GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and founding director of The Center American . It was standing steadily in a positive direction. speeches. Then Class Day speaker “A friend later said, ‘Do you go grandmother is Janet Lowe Preservation for Wooden Boats; each year they room only in for the All eyes are upon us to see Dan Futterman ’89 gave a low-key to these every year? And if not, Gerstman BC’58 and his mother is GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences provide educational opportunities professor. how well we do as far as reunion keynote address, in which he why not?’ Sharon Gerstman Chapman BC’83, JRN Graduate School of Journalism to more than 5,000 schoolchildren. The Columbia Alumni As- record-breaking is concerned (in at- thanked Dean James J. Valentini for “He’s got a point. I came away so Ross is carrying on a fine family JTS Jewish Theological Seminary For the record, reunion at- sociation’s Alumni Travel Study tendance and in development). agreeing to admit his daughter to stimulated, as I always seem to tradition.” LAW Columbia Law School tendees were Kamel Bahary, Ted Program (alumni.columbia.edu/ Get ready for the good times. the College when she reached the when I go back to Columbia.” Stanley Manne SEAS’56 and NRS School of Nursing Baledes, Joel Belson, Dick Bern- research-learn/travel-study-trips) Enjoy yourself to the fullest. requisite age. Our class historian, Jerry Fine spoke with enthusi- his wife, Fern — Florida residents stein, Jack Blechner, Leo Cirino, will head to Asia in late 2014, a Love to all! Everywhere! Len Wolfe, has put this “age issue asm about the enlightening talk by and regular attendees at our Florida PH Mailman School of Public Health Charles Ehren, Howard Esterces, 19-day trip to China, Tibet and into perspective” in a recent email Professor Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69. winter luncheons — were honored PS College of Physicians and Surgeons Howard Falberg, Stanley Fellman, the Yangtze River. If you have the to me. He writes, “Upon reflection Foner’s presentation was given to a on May 16 by the Ann and Robert SCE School of Continuing Education Al Hellerstein, Dick Hobart, time … Stephen K. Easton I realized that we had our Class packed audience in Miller Theatre H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chi- SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Melvin Hollander, Bert Horwitz, The first class supper of the 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. Day some 58 years ago. If on that and was, according to all our class cago for a transformative gift they Applied Science Norman Kahn, Jim King, Walter season is getting closer. We expect 56 Englewood, NJ 07631 day in 1956 there had been a pa- attendees, one of the more interest- made that will provide funding to SIPA School of International and Public Affairs Rubinstein, William Scales, an interesting turnout — not as 56 rade of alumni who had graduated ing lectures that day. help sustain and further enhance [email protected] SOA School of the Arts Larry Scharer, Fritz Schlereth, much as we hope to get at our some 58 years earlier, they would On June 6, I was lucky enough pediatric medical research at The SW School of Social Work Herbert Schwartz, Stephen Sobel, reunion next May, but how’s this On April 29, our monthly class lun- have been in the Class of 1898. to be invited to a 1754 Society Lurie’s Children’s Hospital of Chi- TC Teachers College Ted Spiegel, Ron Sugarman, Al listing: Ron Spitz; Richard Ascher cheon at the Columbia University “When the Class of 2014 attends reception at Faculty House. The cago. The gift was made through UTS Union Theological Seminary Thompson, John Timoney, Dick (getting ready to buy his basketball Club of New York was attended by Class Day some 58 years from reception included guest speaker Stan’s family foundation, which

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES phone, I soon had a reply written Murrieta, Calif., on May 23, 2014, contribution to the controversy over Norman Gelfand with Dean’s Day, so after the break- oughly enjoyed reunion. Hats off Harris Brodsky writes, “I had caucus to support a friend as a by his (second) wife, Charlene, after a three-year battle with meta- whether undergraduate athletes 59 c/o CCT fast some went to hear the Dean’s to the organizers and participants, every intention of participating [in delegate and got swept up into telling of his fall at Christmas and static prostate cancer. He is sur- should be paid, set forth in a letter Columbia Alumni Center Day speakers and some went to the who did a terrific job. It was great reunion] but due to hip surgery becoming one myself. My wife, his losing downhill battle thereafter, vived by his wife, Paula; daughter, to The New York Times published on 59 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 second Class of ’59 panel discus- seeing old friends, some of whom I I unfortunately had to forego the Ellie, and my son, Dan, and his to which he succumbed on May 10. Meredith Stewart; granddaughter, April 5, would be to require them to New York, NY 10025 sion, “Global Changes and Chal- recognized, and reminiscing about event. Among the positives of my wife, Ophelia, are also delegates. We all will miss this gentle man and Samantha; and brothers, Bob and stay for four years or suffer financial [email protected] lenges Since 1959.” The speakers others who are no longer here. The surgery (if there are any) is that “My cousin Jimmy Festa ’49 his great stories.” Lee. He was predeceased by a penalty even greater than their were Jay Brandstadter, Ben Miller, event again caused me to remem- J. Peter Rosenfeld’s cousin lives died on April 18. He was the Buzz Paaswell also writes with brother, Edward. remuneration, and to actually study. It is with a heavy heart that I report Mike Berlin, Allen Rosenshine ber the great education that we a few blocks from my house and I family influence that brought me sad news: “Josh Hollander PS’60 the death of Eddie Mendrzycki on and Clive Chajet. The insightful received. It was heartening to hear had the opportunity to reconnect to Columbia — the first time was passed away on July 21, after a May 19, 2014. Eddie was a good presentations were followed by that Columbia continues to excel. with Peter. I also hooked up with in 1947; I was 9. He was also the brief illness. My first roommate personal friend and a friend of comments and questions from the Roar, Lion, Roar (and win some the peripatetic George Mann ’61 Columbia Lion; he let me be with (Hartley 734), Josh was a Ford covered Art Radin ’58 and his Columbia. He will be missed by all audience. more football games).” who, among his accomplishments, him on the sidelines of the football Scholar and someone who did wife Miriam Katowitz’s support of The Brain & Behavior who knew him. Lunch was a barbecue on South Joe Krieger writes about a special was the architectural designer field when Columbia beat Army. proud by the Columbia name. A On a happier note, our recent Lawn, and the panel discussion get-together of the physics majors in of the first children’s hospital in Later, he brought me to campus for junior Phi Bate, he went on to an Research Foundation in an article on mental health. Alumni Reunion Weekend, which resumed in the afternoon with our class, which took place Friday Nigeria. my admissions interview. He was exemplary career in medicine, celebrated the 55th anniversary of panelists , Jay afternoon: “It was most enjoyable “Mike Bromberg hosted a get- a dancer, an entertainer, a teacher was a leader in his synagogue in our graduation, went very well. Neugeboren, Steve Buchman and seeing all the old guys as well as together of our TEP brothers on and a director of social community Rochester, N.Y., and was a great Stuart was your reporter’s Mort Halperin’s son, Mark, and There were approximately 70 mem- Pat Mullins. Again, presentations Bill Zangwill for the first time in 55 Friday night of reunion, and I activities in Weehawken, N.J., for husband to Sheila and father to his classmate at Spring Valley (N.Y.) Mark’s co-author, John Heilemann, bers of the Class of ’59 who were were insightful and were followed years!” heard it was a smashing success. many years. three wonderful children, Susan, H.S. and freshman year roommate. are joining Bloomberg to create a present and, from what I hear, most by questions and comments. Regarding the rest of the week- All the best to my classmates.” Jerome Charyn’s short story Henry and Phillip. His brilliance He was a recipient of an NROTC website that focuses on American had a good time. The class dinner was held in the end, he continues: “I thought Pat Alvin L. Goldman and his wife, about Columbia College in the was matched by a great sense of scholarship and a member of Delta history and policy. The two are I will describe briefly what C.V. Starr East Asian Library in Mullins was by far the best speaker Ellie, are changing their permanent ’50s, Tatiana & T.S. Eliot, appeared humor and a love of knowledge. Upsilon fraternity. He earned an experienced print, TV and Internet went on during the reunion but I Kent Hall and was well attended on Saturday; he had me eating out address to Denver. He says, “Con- in the Spring 2014 issue of The He represented the best of the M.S. in computer systems manage- journalists who wrote books on the hope that others who were there by classmates and others. Steve of his hand denouncing partisan- trary to popular belief, the motivat- American Scholar. His collection of Class of 1956 and will be greatly ment. Coming from a military fam- last two presidential campaigns will contribute their reactions and Trachtenberg delivered remarks ship and gridlock until Harold Stahl ing factor was not the up-to-date short stories, Bitter Bronx, will be missed.” ily, Stu continued that tradition by based on insiders’ viewpoints. reflections for a future issue. that were at times humorous and asked why the Republican don’t law; rather, it is to be closer published in 2015. He is also adapt- If not already there, most of us serving in the Navy for 26 years, A May 15 Wall Street Journal Events for us began Thursday at times moving. stop doing such things — only to to grandchildren and eliminate the ing his novel, I Am Abraham, into a soon will be reaching our 80th year retiring as a captain. His ship as- article, “Bringing Mental Illness Into evening with the opening of an The reunion ended with a brunch learn that he blamed everything on twice yearly drive (with dog) from one-character play. of life on this planet and 58th year signments included the U.S.S. Iowa, the Light,” featured Art Radin and exhibition of the paintings of Louis on Sunday on the Barnard campus. Harry Reid and the Democrats! Lexington. We will welcome contact writes, “I as a Columbia alumnus. With this, U.S.S. Begor and U.S.S. Jamestown. his wife, Miriam Katowitz, whose Stephens. The paintings were Now for your reports. haven’t had a good year physically. I do remind you that we are two He was also stationed at Karamür- son, David, was diagnosed with mounted in a gallery in Dodge Hall Harvey Leifert writes, “I enjoyed I went in for what I thought was years away from our 60th reunion sel AS in Turkey, Edzell in Scotland schizophrenia almost 30 years ago, and the opening was enhanced the reunion, especially the chance a routine hip replacement and the and I welcome suggestions on and Misawa AB in Japan as well as after he had a breakdown during with a well-attended reception. It to catch up with Ken Scheffel (my The Bamboo Gallery in Ubud, Bali, hosted an surgeon damaged my sciatic nerve, planning for same. Please contact at the Pentagon and the National his first week at the College. After was a relaxing and enjoyable way to Carman roommate), Bennet Silver- exhibition of more than 150 of Paul Nagano ’60’s paralyzing my foot. This happened me at [email protected] or Security Agency. years of treatment and living in start things off. man, Mike Berlin and Joel Simon on April 1 of all days. The hip of Lou Hemmerdinger at lhemmer@ After he left the military, Stu semi-supported communities, The more formal reunion ’60. On this point, I’ve long wished paintings. course is perfect but the foot still aol.com with your thoughts or worked in the private sector for 18 David now has an associate’s program began with a delicious that reunion classes were grouped, doesn’t work. I think it’s coming news you have for Class Notes. years — at General Electric, Martin degree, an apartment and a job. lunch at Faculty House on Friday. not spread five years apart. In my back, so I’m keeping my fingers I trust you all had a pleasant, Marietta and Lockheed Martin But this experience alerted Art and We were joined by Dean James J. case, I probably had more total “I regret that I wasn’t able to by any classmates in the area.” crossed. The lesson is, if you have healthy and rewarding summer. — and retired in 2002. Stu was an Miriam to a greater issue: that men- Valentini, who after lunch favored friends in ’57, ’58, ’60, ’61 and ’62 attend the class dinner on Saturday Frank Gatti writes, “I missed to go in for a surgery do a diligent I look forward to another year of active alumnus of both Spring Val- tal illness is now where cancer was us with some remarks that demon- than in ’59, largely due to our because it was my wife Rose’s and reunion because my granddaugh- check on the surgeon beforehand. our involvement with Columbia. ley H.S. and the College, and was 20 years ago — a taboo subject. strated the strength of the College shared devotion to WKCR. I’d love my 50th wedding anniversary. We ter, Sierra Dunn (14), was giving “My son Ben ’88, a Columbia instrumental in organizing a Navy- Art says, “Everybody knows as well as his support for it. to see some of them again. celebrated with my son and his her credo at the Northampton, trustee, was on the cover of Fortune Air Force ROTC reception at our someone with a mental illness. It’s Following lunch we had a panel “I arrived in New York a day wife at the Water Club.” Mass., Unitarian church. Her faith/ this spring for his bestselling book, Herman Levy 55th reunion to mark the return of just not talked about.” The couple discussion, “Changes in Educa- early to visit the 9-11 memorial Of reunion, J. Peter Rosenfeld spiritual understanding at this The Hard Thing About Hard Things: 57 7322 Rockford Dr. ROTC to campus. is now on a mission to get people tion and at Columbia in the Last plaza and museum. I found the reports, “My wife, Carmen, was time in her life is analogous to her Building a Business When There Are Falls Church, VA 22043 Congratulations to Carl Stern talking. Once attributed to “bad 50 Years.” The panel members (in whole experience moving and traveling with a broken foot, and horseback riding experiences — to No Easy Answers, which tells the 57 JRN’59, recipient of the 2014 FOIA parenting,” schizophrenia is still order of presentation) were Profes- informative and recommend it to we also had to visit my 80-year-old be ready for the challenges (jump- story of his remarkable career as [email protected] Legend Award, presented by a mystery; like cancer, there are sor Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41 all returning (and resident) alums. cousins in Great Neck, N.Y., prior to ing), and to learn to relax and enjoy CEO of Loudcloud. It’s hard to I have no news to report this time Washington many causes and many effects. Art [GSAS’53] and Ray LaRaja, Mike “The reunion program itself our trip to Boston on June 2. Great the times of peace and calmness put down, and destined to be a around, which makes for a rather College of Law’s Collaboration and Miriam are major supporters Tannenbaum, Isser Woloch and was too charged, in my view, with Neck was where we saw Harris (as when you and the horse are management classic, which makes stubby little column. I urge you, on Government Secrecy, for his of The Brain & Behavior Research Steve Trachtenberg. The presenta- class-specific events competing Brodsky, who was mending from a trotting or cantering in harmony his old man proud. [Editor’s note: help me remedy that for the future. “unique role over four decades” Foundation, a New York-based tions were followed by a lively with campus-wide ones. Perhaps hip operation. with each other on ). As For an excerpt, see “Columbia Have you traveled lately? Are you as a pioneering journalist, litigant, group that provides grants to fund discussion that ended only when in future years, the class events “The only reunion thing we you might guess, her life revolves Forum.”] Ben is co-founder and still working? If not, how is retire- Department of Justice public affairs scientific research in psychiatric we had to leave the room. (David could be at the same times for all did aside from the initial reception around riding, which is often with CEO of Andreessen Horowitz, a ment treating you? I want to hear director and academic scholar in disorders. The foundation nomi- Rosand was to have been on the classes, allowing us to participate was the TEP reunion at the home her mother — my daughter, Beth $4 billion venture capital firm in your thoughts on these subjects influencing the development of the nates young researchers, and Mir- panel but he fell the day before and more fully in the general lectures, of Mike Bromberg and his wife, —a local veterinarian. Silicon Valley. and more, such as your family and Freedom of Information Act. iam (deputy controller of the City could not participate.) tours and other programs. Marlys. There we saw Arthur Rudy “I am a child psychiatrist at “My other son, Jon, has the hot- favorite pastimes. You can write A Jewish Week article by Steve University of New York) decides [Editor’s note: Rosand, the “I hope our good turnout means and his wife, Paulette; Clive Chajet UMass Memorial Medical Center test music management company me at either address at the top of Lipman on Sandy Koufax, the who will receive the grants, which Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art that we’ll be back as a group in and his wife, Bonnie; Al Gelb and and seem unable to retire. My around with stars like Sia, Train, the column, or submit an update Brooklyn and L.A. Dodgers star are intended not only for support History Emeritus and Special Lec- 2019.” his wife, Meriden; Dan Ein and clinic loses money; it’s mostly a Fall Out Boy and Gym Class via the CCT webform college.col pitcher and Hall of Famer, evoked but also as seed money to attract turer in Art History and Archaeolo- Allow your class correspondent his wife, Mariana; Bob Stone and teaching clinic, so at least that part Heroes. These names won’t mean umbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. this response from Joe Dorinson: contributions. The foundation also gy, passed away on August 8, 2014. to respond to Harvey’s comment his wife, Marcia; Vivian Freilicher of my work life might end given anything to the geezers who might Thank you for your consider- “In 1997 I co-hosted a celebration of makes grants to other institutions, CCT will publish a full obituary in on the program. A number of years [widow of Ira Freilicher]; Jim the financial problems and layoffs read this, but his bands had the ation, and all the best for a happy, ’s 50th anniversary including Columbia. If you would the Winter 2014–15 issue.] ago, Dean’s Day was combined Goldstein; and George Mann ’61. at UMass. I recently attended the official songs of the Olympics and healthy fall. of breaking modern baseball’s color like more information or want to On Friday we enjoyed a delight- with Alumni Reunion Weekend. We all stay in frequent email touch Massachusetts Democratic Party of the . Again, a barrier. I invited a host of outstand- contribute, go to bbrfoundation. ful buffet dinner in Casa Italiana. Our Reunion Committee, however, after 55 years. convention, where I was a delegate proud dad. ing baseball veterans to LIU. Most org. On Saturday the day began including me, felt that our reunions “We then went to our daughter in support of Don Berwick, a pro- “My new book, Take No Prison- Barry Dickman of the invitees showed up … but The class lunch is held on the with a continental breakfast in should be focused on the class, Patricia’s MIT Ph.D. hooding and gressive pediatrician who favors ers, was published in July. I’m 58 25 Main St. no Sandy Koufax. Two weeks prior second Wednesday of every month Auditorium in which of necessity involved con- graduation in Cambridge. Funny, I single-payer health care, repeal of sorry I missed the reunion but my Court Plaza North, Ste 104 to the event I received a letter from in the Grill Room of the Columbia Lerner Hall. We had several tables flicts with the Dean’s Day presen- had the sense from all the speeches casino gambling, an increase in the surgical mishap made it impossible 58 Hackensack, NJ 07601 Pompano Beach, Fla. It read, ‘You University Club of New York, 15 reserved for the Class of ’59. Dean tations. It isn’t a good idea to have that folks were saying, ‘We’re as state on the wealthy to go anywhere.” [email protected] have reached the wrong Sandy W. 43rd St. The cost is $31 per per- Valentini addressed those in at- the conflict and I intend to raise the good as they [Harvard] are!’ I and so on. I am not usually a Ben Miller writes, “I’ve been Koufax.’ It was signed ‘Bobby son; email Art Radin if you plan tendance, and said about what you point in a letter that I write to Dean believe this. Not sure MIT does. Democrat (mostly vote and attend reading a book by the contem- We are saddened to report the Thomson.’” to attend, up to the day before: might expect a dean to say. Valentini. I certainly get none of that from Green Party activities) but I went porary mathematician Edward death of Stuart Huntington in Speaking of sports, Len Zivitz’s [email protected]. Columbia has combined reunion Jerry Perlman writes, “Thor- Columbia.” to the Amherst town Democrat Frenkel, a Russian émigré and

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New York group and another from enormous lunches of chicken and struggling with.” a flutist and guitarist who perform climbing mountains in and would continue to attend to wish to publicize the book, whether Allen first identified bradykinin Poland’s national film institute. steak with fresh bass, potatoes in concert, and the flutist’s wife. and otherwise traveling. his routine as his health permitted. through Facebook, Twitter, email or as the mediator of the swelling It is a rare honor for a foreigner and onions cooked in lard over an Each of the three characters gives In an exchange of emails with This brought him to reflect on word of mouth, feel free to do so. If of hereditary angioedema in to receive a grant from the Polish open fire. On the warmest day we REUNION WEEKEND voice, sequentially, as in a point- Larry Rubinstein, I inquired his lifelong career. He remarked anyone has a connection to a liter- 1983 and in a 40-year career has institute. Larry also has signed a swam in the cool, translucent water MAY 28–31, 2015 counterpoint musical composition, whether he and his wife, Robin, that when he graduated from the ary agent, feel free to pass on that elucidated the plasma pathways with a North American of Grand Lake. Our most talented ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS to innermost desires, anxieties had taken their annual winter College and the Business School, information to Richard. by which bradykinin is produced. distributor that will open the film guide, a local Native American, ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott and thoughts on events as they sojourn in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he intended to change the world. Philippe de La Chapelle is His research remains in the United States. Please look could see into the water without [email protected] transpire. Syd has enjoyed an eclec- and learned that Larry’s engage- Realizing that was not to be, he affiliated with a specialty invest- active at the Medical University of at the website. If you’re anything sunglasses and knew just where to 212-851-9148 tic career as a diplomat, journalist ments in retirement in Maine are said, he found enormous satisfac- ment bank consisting of senior South Carolina and he continues like me, you’ll immediately make a find the largest fish. We all hope to DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova and entrepreneur. He was trained even more extensive than I had tion as a financial adviser in the professionals and advisory board a lecture series for students and contribution to this remarkable and go back soon. [email protected] as a concert flutist, has performed imagined. (You may recall from planning and management of members with substantial operating fellows at the university but no important project. 212-851-7833 worldwide and has released a prior Class Notes that he was the portfolios of his clients. That experience as CEOs and presidents longer sees patients in allergy and Stu Rosenbluth, Dick Schwartz Robert A. Machleder recording of solos, Flute Flight. elected head of the Friends of the his clients possessed complete of their own companies in a variety clinical immunology. and Paul Alter carried the 1962 Paul Neshamkin 60 69-37 Fleet St. Terrence McNally’s most recent Kotzschmar Organ in Maine.) confidence in his stewardship was of industries. Its website is daybreak Allen and his wife, Lee, look class banner on a perfect May 63 1015 Washington St., Forest Hills, NY 11375 work, Mothers and Sons, was on He wrote, “We stopped going readily understandable. Richard capital.com and its motto is “run forward to celebrating their 50th morning during the Alumni Pa- Apt. 50 60 Broadway March 24–June 22, and to Puerto Rico three years ago embodied the qualities of probity, by CEOs to serve CEOs.” Industry anniversary in August 2015 with rade of Classes at Class Day. Dick 63 Hoboken, NJ 07030 [email protected] was nominated for because we missed the activity in earnestness, dedication and sound sector expertise includes technol- their children, Rachel and Seth; reported that the Class of 1946 was [email protected] It seems not so long ago we were for Best Play and Best Performance Maine, and being away meant that judgment — qualities that were ogy, healthcare, business services son-in-law, Paul-Alexander; and the oldest represented. The College engaged in planning our 50th by an Actress in a Leading Role in I couldn’t have the level of involve- strikingly apparent from his speech and outsourcing, consumer and granddaughter, Sophia. graduated 1,026 women and men, Class Day came this year on a reunion. But five years have a Play (Tyne Daly). Daly plays an ment that would enable me to do and demeanor. Apart from his pro- retail, diversified industrials and On a sad note, I have learned about twice the size of our class 52 beautiful spring day. Several of our passed and the time has come to angry and embittered mother who things like be active in the Friends fessional pursuits, Richard enjoyed materials. Philippe is the senior that Howard Sokolov passed years ago. classmates joined the festivities for get together again and prepare for stages a surprise reunion and con- of the Kotzschmar Organ. I am also the ballet, loved gardening at his business development person. away in February after a long John Boatner composed and the traditional Alumni Parade of our 55th, which will be Thursday, frontation with the former lover of president of the Bicycle Coalition vacation home upstate and was Mickey Greenblatt spent four battle with emphysema. I have no performed the music for an indep- Classes, now in its 11th year. Doron May 28–Sunday, May 31, 2015. The her son, who, 20 years prior, had of Maine (it is the largest bicycle devoted to Columbia, to which he weeks in Europe this past summer, further information at this time. endent film production, Hinterhalt, Gopstein, Robert Podell and I events of the 50th were memorable died of AIDS. coalition by state population in the gave generously of his time and attending to business in Germany which was shown in Tacoma, attended a breakfast for partici- and the turnout was spectacular — Paul Nagano’s 30 years of paint- United States) and a trustee of the guidance; he served in various and then touring Switzerland and Wash., on May 7. At this writing, pants in John Jay and then proudly and our efforts will be to achieve no ing in Bali were commemorated in Portland Museum of Art and of capacities in alumni affairs, chaired France. His stepdaughter and step- John Freidin the premiere of John’s published carried the Class of 1963 banner less than the same level of success an exhibition at the Bamboo Gallery, the Bowdoin International Music many of our Reunion Committees granddaughter joined him and his 62 654 E. Munger St. composition for solo cello and past the 1,000-plus applauding next spring. To that end, if you are Ubud, Bali, July 18–August 9. This Festival. None of this could I do and was one of the founders of our wife, Nancy, for two weeks in Paris. Middlebury, VT 05753 orchestra was set to take place graduating seniors. Afterward, we interested in joining the Reunion notice of course arrives too late for from Puerto Rico. The one thing monthly class luncheons. Mickey’s son, Mark, has written a 62 on August 24, performed by the joined the many parents to watch [email protected] Committee, please get in touch with any of us to make the trip (unless I miss is being able to ride my As March took its last breath, so, book, Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Topanga, Calif., orchestra with Jerry the joyful proceedings. I hope that either of the Alumni Office contacts one has access to the time capsule bike outdoors, which I can’t do too, did Richard. He was a special Afghanistan, and the Home Front. News is short for this issue. Please Kessler ’63 playing the cello solo. many more of you will be able to listed at the top of the column. that functioned so well in Tom here when there is slippery stuff person and a very dear friend. He Reporting from Ohio, Glenn send lots for the next (Winter) is- In mid-June, my family — sons share this day with us; it’s great fun. In 1596, Johannes Kepler Hamilton’s Time for Patriots). But on the ground. So I put my bike is missed and will remain ever in Schaaf, after 10 years as a widower, sue; the deadline is September 10. Abe (24) and Luke (18); wife, Several of us expressed a desire surmised that there existed bodies it’s not too late for all to view Paul’s on a trainer and watch operas on our thoughts. Deepest condolences married Kathleen Ann Jordan Paul Alter reports the grand Kathryn Thompson; brother, Ralph to have a mini-reunion this year, smaller than planets that orbited the watercolors by going to flickr.com/ DVD to keep from getting bored to his wife, Iris [BC’63], to all who in December 2012. Kathleen has news that his son, Scott, and Freidin ’65, and his wife, Miriam so I asked the Alumni Office to sun. More than two centuries later, photos/ptnagano and clicking on as I pedal. Life is quite good here. knew the grace of his friendship multiple degrees from Ohio State daughter-in-law, Janine, had a — and I spent four days fishing send invitations to all of you to on New Year’s Day, 1801, Giuseppe “ptnagano’s Photostream.” More I miss the Thursday lunches and and enjoyed the pleasure of his and specializes in teaching early daughter, Juliana, on April 21. in the Grand Lake Stream area of join the Class of ’63 on Dean’s Day. Piazzi discovered what became than 150 of Paul’s dazzling and think of you all on the first Thurs- company, and to those who, as his childhood development classes. Mom and baby are well; Paul is northeastern Maine. We bunked Some tables were set aside for us the first asteroid, Ceres, proving exquisite works are exhibited. One day of every month.” clients and colleagues, received She has a daughter who lives with thrilled. and ate much too hearty at the Saturday barbecue on South that Kepler was right — and a picture is worth a thousand words Larry’s reverie on our class the benefits of his commitment to her family, including two young Lawn, and several of you gathered zealous quest to locate more was and the limits of my powers of lunch segues into a very sad note. professional excellence. children, in Milwaukee. Glenn’s wearing Class of 1963 baseball launched. (The term “asteroid” was expression assure that I could not Richard Friedlander BUS’63 [Editor’s Note: See Obituaries, two sons and their families live in caps (from our 50th). This was a not coined until 1802, by William do it justice were I to attempt to passed away on March 31. Earlier in Spring 2014.] the Cincinnati area with five grand- Mickey Greenblatt ’61 spent four weeks in Europe small first step in an experiment Herschel.) Asteroids that have now describe a single one of those on the month, at Richard’s invitation, children. His oldest granddaughter this past summer, stopping in Germany, Switzerland to extend our traditional reunions. been sighted, named and cataloged display. So, check out the website our first Thursday of the month graduated from the Moody Bible In attendance for lunch were Joe number in the tens of thousands. and be delighted. class lunch was held not at its regu- Michael Hausig Institute in Chicago and teaches and France, and meeting up with family in Paris. Applebaum; Steve Barcan; Henry Thus, the springboard for Tom Bravo, Paul. lar site, the Columbia University 19418 Encino Summit ESL in Zafra, Spain, using a grant Black; Ed Coller and his wife, Hamilton’s most recent book, Dwarf This update from Bill Tanen- Club of New York, but at Richard’s 61 San Antonio, TX 78259 from the Spanish government. She Mimi; Bob Contiguglia; Gerry Planets and Asteroids: Minor Bodies of baum is met with our congratula- office at Morgan Stanley Smith 61 is enjoying her free time traveling Larry Loewinger is assiduously and dinners at Weatherby’s, an Dwyer and his wife, Janie; Doron [email protected] the Solar System. tions and best wishes. He writes, Barney, where he was an SVP and in Europe. She returned for the working on what he calls “the old fishing lodge that opened in Gopstein; Bruce Kaplan and This is Tom’s fourth astronomy “On April 10 I married Ronna senior portfolio management direc- Richard Nochimson writes that summer and is returning to the project of my life.” If you go to the 1904. Ralph and I fished there for his wife, Ann; Paul Neshamkin; book published in the last four Weiss. We had been dating for sev- tor. Upon arriving we were escorted as he approaches the time to retire Barcelona area in September. website bogdansjourney.pl you the first of many times with our Larry Neuman; Phil Satow; and years, and considering his novels, eral years and it was time, as I had to a conference room where a buffet from his position as professor Glenn is active in his church will immediately see why. Larry parents in 1952. Not much has Harvey Schneier. Peter Gollon, Time for Patriots and The Moun- been a widower since my beloved awaited us. Our lunch group hav- of English at and with the Greater Cincinnati and a Polish partner are making a changed since. We slept in small Barry Reiss and Peter Zimroth tain of Long Eyes, Tom appears in Reina passed away 10-plus years ing assembled, Richard entered, (he has scheduled it for 2018), Baseball Club for children 8–18. He documentary film titled Bogdan’s wooden cabins, framed by logs also registered for the day but his golden years to aspire to be ago. On June 12 I took Ronna, my greeted us and made the announce- he has turned from the world of has been involved in the baseball Journey. Bogdan Bialek is a Catholic and heated with stone fireplaces. were elsewhere in the crowd. One as prolific a writer in his field of daughter, son-in-law and grand- ment that he had been examined academic scholarship to creating program since 1971; it includes Pole and trained who Our prey was smallmouth bass. of Dean’s Day’s featured speak- expertise as Rossini in his youth children (ages 6, 8 and 10) to Israel. by his doctors. The cancer that fiction. His book of short stories is 140 teams with approximately has spent the past 30 years striving Ralph, Miriam and I casted five- ers was Eric Foner GSAS’69, who was to opera; the latter produced It was a first visit for my son-in-law had been excised by surgery, and Huidekoper Cat, and Other Tales. He 2,100 players. Glenn estimates that to persuade the people of Kielce, weight fly rods and poppers; the gave a brilliant presentation on 38 operas by his 38th year. Each of and the grandchildren. The three- which he had been free of for many thinks people of our generation 45,000 boys and girls have played Poland, where he lives, to confront others used spinning equipment. Abraham Lincoln based on his Pu- the asteroids in Tom’s survey is de- week trip included five nights in months, had returned, was aggres- are his ideal readers because the baseball under his direction. He the truth about one of their ugliest We fished two persons and a guide litzer Prize-winning book, The Fiery scribed as to its date of discovery, . sive and was inoperable. stories are set in the ’60s and ’70s, is even a member of the organiza- events: when, in 1946, Kielce was in three single-ended, 20-ft. canoes, Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American by whom it was discovered, the “My grandchildren love to “I’m dying,” he said, his voice and many of his characters are tion’s hall of fame. the site of Europe’s last Jewish handmade of canvas and wood, Slavery. We all had a great time origin of its name, the particulars travel. They have been to the breaking with emotion, “and I about the age we were then. No In April, John Webber and his pogrom. Townspeople slaughtered with an eight-horsepower outboard reconnecting, and I crashed the of its orbit and the nature of its Colorado Rockies three times with didn’t want to tell you that in the classmates will find themselves in wife, Carla, visited with my wife, 40 Holocaust survivors who were engine hanging off the stern. The Class of 1964 luncheon to say hello geographic characteristics to the me and have hiked at altitudes of Columbia club dining room.” He his book. All his characters are fic- JB, and me in San Antonio to attend seeking shelter in a downtown fishing was superb thanks to recent to some friends I hadn’t seen in 51 extent they are known. Tom’s tech- 9,000 feet.” Another granddaughter filled a plate, gathered himself, tional. (He has it on good authority the annual Fiesta celebration. They building and, because the Com- Maine laws that limit each fisher- years. Next year we should plan nical precision is supplemented (7) “hiked with me to the summit of took a seat at the table and with — Salman Rushdie — that nobody visited the city’s historical sites, munist authorities suppressed the man’s daily take to one smallmouth something even more elaborate as with historical side notes and, Vail Mountain, elevation 10,200 feet, equanimity described his condition will believe that last statement. But consumed a few good meals and story, it left the town divided and that is at least 8 inches and no more a mini-reunion. Any ideas? where appropriate, a sprinkling of vertical climb of about 2,000 feet.” and the options available to him. he says it’s true.) attended a number of events. They embittered. than 13 inches long. Ralph and I Along that line of thought, I am his wit and whimsy. Bill adds that he sold several Then he made certain to lighten the To learn more about the fiction live in Portland, Ore., with plans to Larry and his partner have spent averaged 20 bass and pickerel a the co-chair of a Columbia College Syd Goldsmith has published parcels of his real estate business conversation. In the course of the Richard has written during the past move to Palm Desert, Calif. eight years filming Bialek’s strug- day, many of which were more than Alumni Association Board of

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membrance: “Walter Herbert Sokel share your news with the rest of had to buy U.S. sugar at 30 cents a where everything is constant [GSAS’53], 96, who taught in the the class, already. pound while the world price was action, motion and violence in a Columbia humanities and German Remember, our regular class less than a dime. Hard to compete constant barrage of computer-gen- For 32 Years, David Alpern ’63 Offered departments 1953–64, died in San lunches at the Columbia Univer- with the duty-free imports allowed erated frenzy, Ira Jaffe’s thoughtful, Francisco on February 21, 2014. The sity Club of New York are a great by NAFTA! peaceful, transcendental book is luck of the draw placed me in his place to reconnect. If you’re in “I’ve been living in central a breath of fresh air, highlighting Ears on the World freshman humanities class; I chose a NYC, try to make one of the next Alabama since buying American more contemplative, insightful second one in my sophomore year. lunches, scheduled for September Candy. Hate the summers, like the films, offering a useful antidote to His intellectual energy, effortless 11, October 9 and November 13. It’s winters. Hate the lack of culture, the nonstop kineticism of main- B y J e s s i c a G r e s ko ’05 erudition and rapier wit left an always the second Thursday. Check restaurants and so forth, love the stream modern cinema.” indelible impression. Woe, though, cc63ers.com for details. cost of living and the absence of Ira lives in New Mexico and is tacked on a landing include Washington Post PostE- to the student who didn’t do the In the meantime, let us know traffic. I also started a microwave founder and former chair of the that leads to a loft in verything deputy editor Amanda reading because Herr Professor what you are up to, how you’re snack business here and am now in Department of Cinematic Arts at David Alpern ’63’s New Erickson ’08, WNYC Morning Edi­- Sokel might summon you without doing and what’s next. the process of moving it to South- the . York City apartment tion host Soterios Johnson ’90, notice to the front of the class to ern California. So at a time when I At the reunion many of you Sare about a dozen plastic bins JRN’97 and freelance radio discuss an idea. A half-century later should be relaxed and retired, I’m promised to write to me. Please filled with tapes and CDs. There newsproducer and editor Isaac- I reunited with him and he told Norman Olch working long hours reintroduc- do. Your classmates want to hear me that a secret to his humanities 233 Broadway ing snack items into a new market from you. are some 1,500 recordings in Davy Aronson ’02, SOA’09. 64 teaching success was participating New York, NY 10279 area. Sounds like I’m bitching but all, and for years Alpern added Aronson has returned to beforehand in seminars on the great 64 really I’m loving it. [email protected] REUNION WEEKEND a new one every week. co-host with Alpern numerous books with such Columbia liter- “I have two children and two MAY 28–31, 2015 Each is a recording of his times and says Alpern “cares ary giants as Jacques Barzun [’27, The 50th reunion has come and stepsons. Son No. 1 graduated ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS weekly radio show, For Your about journalism and he cares GSAS’32], Moses Hadas and Lionel gone, and by all accounts it was a from Cornell, Penn Law and Johns ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Trilling [’25, GSAS’38].” wonderful experience. There was Hopkins and is now traveling the Ears Only (formerly about the next generation of [email protected] Lee adds, “Sokel later taught at record turnout, the weather cooper- world as a consultant regarding on Air), which celebrated its journalists. I think that’s his last- 212-851-9148 Stanford and Virginia and wrote ated and whether it was the panel microfinance. My daughter gradu- 32nd anniversary in April. On ing gift to Columbia students.” DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova the indispensable The Myth of discussions, the boat cruise around ated from Barnard, got an M.A. in those recordings, Alpern’s Alpern took a buyout from [email protected] Power and The Self: Essays on Franz Manhattan or the dinner at the Four nutrition from BU and is starting voice mixes with his guests: Newsweek in 2002 but contin- 212-851-7833 Kafka. In 1998 he was honored Seasons, everyone seemed to be a business about food allergies. Nancy Reagan and Hillary ued to host Newsweek on Air with the Austrian Cross of Honor enjoying themselves immensely. Both have given me beautiful Leonard B. Pack Clinton, Katharine Hepburn until 2010, shortly before the for Science and Art. How moving Most important, of course, was the granddaughters. Stepson No. 1 has 924 West End Ave. and Katharine Graham, Bill financially ailing magazine was that experience must have been opportunity to renew friendships, a successful jewelry business in 65 New York, NY 10025 Gates and Jay Leno. Behind the sold by for a man who immigrated alone relive shared experiences and even south Florida and has also given 65 [email protected] scenes of most of the shows, Company, at which time he to America in 1938 with only a meet some classmates not known me a beautiful granddaughter. And meanwhile, are the Columbia David Alpern ’63 has interviewed many of the biggest names in found nonprofit funding and re- letter of introduction from Thomas prior. Elliot Kornberg summed it stepson No. 2 manages a surf shop Although it seemed unimagin- students who have served as politics and entertainment from his radio studio. named the show For Your Ears Mann that enabled him to win a up in an email: “What an amazing in Santa Barbara, Calif., and is hav- ably far in the future in 1965 (not scholarship to Rutgers.” reunion.” ing too much fun to start a family. to mention how ancient the world Alpern’s interns for decades. PHOTO: JESSICA GRESKO ’05 Only. At its height the show Harley Frankel’s nonprofit, All of this would not have been Roar, Lion, Roar!” of 1915 appeared to us then), our Now, however, Alpern is retir- was broadcast on some 200 , has become one possible without Reunion Commit- Yoel Magid (né Joel) GSAS’69 class’ Alumni Reunion Weekend, ing. He has scheduled his last Spectator, he joined Newsweek worked on the show, confirm- stations; today it’s on about 40. of the nation’s best at helping tee co-chairs Steve Case and Bob earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in celebrating the 50th anniversary show for the end of September. magazine soon after graduating ing appearances, doing research In April, the San Francisco- low-income students get into the Friedman and committee members English. He was teaching at Rutgers of our graduation, will take place He says he’s enjoyed his time and had jobs there as a writer, and making sure Newsweek based agreed country’s great colleges. Harley Joel Abramson, Adam Bender, when he was “hit by Zionist light- next spring, Thursday, May 28– behind the microphone “trying poll director and editor. guests were paid. In the early to help preserve the show by writes, “College Match has the Bernard Catalinotto, Lionel Etra, ing” at the beginning of the 1973 Sunday, May 31. This is a perfect to understand the world and In 1982 the magazine launch- 2000s, intern ’03, now creating a free, searchable most extensive college site visits Marty Isserlis, Howard Jacobson, Yom Kippur War and volunteered time to reconnect and to entice present it in a way that is useful ed its own radio show, News- an award-winning playwright, archive (archive.org/details/ program of any nonprofit in the Gil Kahn, Fred Kantor, Beril in Israel. He stayed for 25 years others to join you at the big event and understandable to other week on Air. Alpern, already a successfully pushed to have the foryourearsonly). Already, the country and raises average SAT Lapson, Peter Lowitt, Marshall working on a kibbutz, teaching at a or, by submitting news about your- people.” He doesn’t have a date frequent guest on other radio students introduce the show’s show’s last three years are on- scores by 345 points. Meyer, Jeff Newman, Steve kibbutz school and at Ben-Gurion self to this column, giving them “This year College Match got 25 Rosenfeld, Merv Rothstein, Dan University of the Negev in Beer- something to talk about if you can’t for a last show, but anticipates shows, was tasked with helping last segment, a replay of one of line. Alpern says he’s pleased it students into Middlebury (ranked Schechter, Steve Solomon, Peter sheba, and writing about kibbutz make it there in person. that it will be within the year. create and co-host the hour- the stories that ran on the show will live on. And he is ready to No. 4 in National Liberal Arts Col- Thall, Allen Tobias, Ivan Weiss- life. He became world secretary of I returned from a vacation to Alpern turned 72 in August and long program. The format he the same week a year ago. get the archival tapes and CDs leges by U.S. News & World Report), man and Marty Weinstein. Habonim-Dror, an international find happy news in my mailbox: says he wants to spend more helped create stayed largely Former intern Jimmy Vielkind out of his apartment and into a 22 into Smith, 19 into Vassar, eight Steve Grossman SIPA’67, Zionist youth organization with a wedding announcement from time traveling with his wife, unchanged through the years: a ’07, the Albany bureau chief new home. into Brown, four into Dartmouth BUS’68 was unable to be at the camps and groups in 14 countries. Jim Murdaugh that he and Gary Sylvia Clark, and playing tennis, mix of domestic and interna- for the political website Capital and several others into Harvard, reunion. He wrote, “I had planned He also served briefly in the Israeli Smith were married on June 5 although he says he feels “quite tional news plus entertainment New York, recalls Alpern’s tip To listen to an episode of For Yale, Princeton, UPenn and to attend the 50th with great en- army (“I got through it without in Nantucket, where they have mixed” about retirement. segments, often something for being on-air: “Speak one- Your Ears Only, go to Web Extras Cornell. College Match students thusiasm, but my wife took a bad hurting myself or anyone else.”). spent summers for several years. I “I love to do this show. It’s about a recent book or movie. third more slowly than you at college.columbia.edu/cct. were also accepted by Swarthmore, fall and I’m needed at home to care Yoel married twice, and his actually saw both Jim and Gary in Williams, Amherst, Wellesley, for her (and the five dogs and two children and grandchildren live in Carnegie Hall in February, when always interesting. It’s always Another show constant: normally would. Don’t rush.” , Carleton, cats). So I guess I’ll have to wait for Israel. He returned to the United the symphony orchestra of the exciting,” he says. Columbia interns. Alpern Alpern says he’s been de- Jessica Gresko ’05 lives in Davidson, Rice, Bowdoin, Pomona, the 60th or 75th!” States in 1999 and retired last year Shepherd School of Music at Rice Alpern started out not in started hiring students during lighted to watch former interns Washington, D.C. She was a Claremont-McKenna, Hamilton, Steve continued: “After gradu- after nine years as executive direc- — where Gary is the associate dean radio but as a print journalist. A the show’s early years and like Vielkind go on to careers in Newsweek on Air intern during Haverford, Grinnell and Emory. ate school I embarked on a career tor of a synagogue in Scarsdale, of music — presented an outstand- history major and news editor at never stopped. Hundreds have the media. Other former interns the early 2000s. “During the past three years, in international business. I lived at N.Y. His partner, Karen Levin, ing program. Also in the audience 51.3 percent of the College Match various times in Europe — Italy, recently retired as director of were Barry Levine, LinYee Yuan graduates have been accepted by Spain and the United Kingdom Columbia’s National Center for ’02 and Evans Richardson ’02. Directors subcommittee tasked with calendar. It’s Homecoming (the for Best Historical Album of the community. It is awarded annually an Ivy League university or an Ivy- — and traveled to about 70 other Disaster Preparedness. He writes, Don Bachman sent a nice up- developing an increased sense of game is against Dartmouth and year for his 10 CD box set The Sun by the Columbia College Alumni equivalent like Stanford, Duke or countries. I became fluent in five “In my first year of very pleasant date: “I certainly hope to attend our pride and loyalty to Columbia by this year we will win — promise). Blues Box: Blues, R&B and Gospel Association for distinguished Wellesley. Only one Ivy is missing languages and made a bit of retirement, I’ve spent lots of time 50th reunion and would be happy expanding and potentially reinvent- Plan on coming to the tent at Baker Music in Memphis 1950–1958. service to the College and accom- from this list and sadly, once again, money, most of which was lost in a walking, reading and listening to to help in the organization of the ing Alumni Reunion Weekend and Field (now Robert K. Kraft Field Phil Satow recently learned that plishment in any field of endeavor. it’s alma mater. Ninety-five percent bad divorce and then much of the good music.” Yoel can be reached event. I am officially retired from Homecoming, enhancing existing at Baker Athletics Complex) for the he will be presented the Alexander [Editor’s note: See “Around the of College Match graduates receive rest when our Congress caused the at [email protected]. my group but working on a per traditions and possibly creating pre-game festivities. I am working Hamilton Medal on Thursday, Quads.”] their college degrees.” entire U.S. hard candy business to Ira Jaffe SOA’67 has a new diem basis three to four days per new or rediscovering forgotten on adding something special for November 20, at the annual Alex- Phil, you’ve been deserving of This column is the thinnest I go under, thanks to the price sup- book, Slow Movies: Countering the week doing diagnostic radiology. ones. If you have ideas, please send our class only. ander Hamilton Award Dinner. The this award for a long time. Con- have submitted in many years. ports paid to (the very few) U.S. Cinema of Action. One reviewer I am involved with our state and me your thoughts. In the meantime, Hank Davis won the Memphis medal is the highest honor paid to gratulations! What happened? You could write. sugar producers. I had acquired wrote, “Given the often mindless national radiology associations and put Saturday, October 25, on your Blues Society Blues Music Award a member of the Columbia College Lee Lowenfishsent this re- Your class correspondent wants to the American Candy Co., and we films that now rule the multiplex, am secretary of our county chapter

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seemed to intervene. The latest tie, lion cufflinks and a massive I’m still competing. I figured if I Albert Zonana columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ art and art history. I spoke to him CCT issue did, in fact, persuade me lion belt buckle. kept at it, I’d finally throw farther 67 425 Arundel Rd. note. recently and always enjoy his wit to stop procrastinating. Rich Postupak, who entered than Gene Thompson. I’ve won Goleta, CA 93117 All best for an enjoyable fall. and wisdom. “After an entire adulthood as a with us as freshmen, writes from the USA Track & Field National 67 Mark Lebwohl ’74, chairman [email protected] lawyer/litigator in Manhattan, I France of another of our original Masters Championships twice and of the department of dermatology stand almost fully retired from the classmates: “I had a wonderful in 2011 took second at the World Mark Dworkin writes, “I’ve led Arthur Spector at the Icahn School of Medicine . I recently celebrated my and totally unexpected visit from Masters Athletics Championships a varied life since graduating. 68 271 Central Park West at Mount Sinai, is president of the 48th wedding anniversary with an old friend earlier this year. John in Sacramento, Calif. Finally, after Though I have not been active in New York, NY 10024 American Academy of Dermatol- Kathy, whom I met at Columbia, Longueil somehow tracked me a hip replacement in 2012, I’m back alumni affairs, I deeply treasure 68 ogy, an august body that includes arthurbspector@ and am the very pleased father of down during a trip to Paris, where at it. I’m currently ranked third in my experience at Columbia, both gmail.com roughly 17,000 members. His term three sons, ages 38 to 47, who are he was attending an art seminar the U.S. and fifth in the world. It’s for the content of what I learned expires this year and he reports making their way in the world quite as a guest lecturer, and walked in fun, with great people, and it keeps and the rigorous academic envi- I continue to think about a fall that the new VP, based on elec- constructively. I’m still resident of unannounced to my pastry shop me out of my wife’s hair.” ronment with its broad intellectual event for our class, as waiting until tions, will be Ken Tomecki. (That the house in Yonkers we bought in Auxerre. I almost dropped a Tom Chorba writes, “I enjoyed scope that prepared me well for a 2018 for our 50th reunion seems also makes Ken president-elect for in 1976 and experience pleasant large bowl of crème patisserie on the CCT article in the Spring 2014 life of changing careers — college like a long time. I spoke to Paul de the following year.) Congratula- reveries of my years at Columbia in the kitchen floor when I saw him. issue about Stefan Rudnicki and teacher, community organizer, Bary, with whom I recently had tions to Ken! The organization is my leisure time. My principal avo- He hasn’t changed so much that I his career in audiobooks. I wonder single dad, home builder and, for dinner, and a few others about the the largest and most influential in cations have been practicing Judo didn’t immediately recognize him. if Stefan also records poetry and if the last 30 years, a documentary idea, and there seems to be interest its field in the United States, and it (for the last 30 years) and trying “John and I played frosh football he might give a reading at our 50th filmmaker, working with my life if it’s held on campus. (As an aside, is noteworthy that two CC grads to advance past the novice level in together way back when, spend- reunion in two years (perhaps Ele- partner, Melissa Young. This Paul really does know wine; I hope are among its leaders. speed skating (for the last 10 years); ing many hours at The West End gy Written in a Country Churchyard). summer our feature documentary you will read his book, The Persis- I have been busy this year. I In February, (left to right) Leonard Pack ’65, Barry Levine ’65 and both have been wonderful stress and on trips to various museums I know that the Class of 1966 has Shift Change became our sixth tent Observer’s Guide to Wine.) recently completed a financing for Jim Murdaugh ’65 attended a performance at Carnegie Hall of relievers and fitness regimens. around Manhattan but lost track several poets as well and I would national broadcast on PBS. It is I’m afraid this column is brief the , which was chal- the symphony orchestra of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice, “I read with sadness that Larry [of each other] after we both took enjoy an afternoon session listen- about worker , a busi- but I will ramp up for the next few. lenging and innovative, and I will where Murdaugh’s husband, Gary Smith, is the associate dean of Guido’s wife died. Larry has been ‘.’ At any rate, we spent ing to some of their works. If this ness model of growing interest in I was pleased to hear from Paul be involved soon in a financing music. one of the best of us, and has the rest of the afternoon reminisc- describes you or any ’66 classmates a time of economic challenge and Spirn, who extended an invitation for the State of Maryland, among PHOTO: SHIRLEY LEVINE earned our sincerest condolences.” ing about old friends and old you know who are poets, please reduced opportunities for working to a June party in Northampton, other projects. I am spending a In other sad news, Jim Siegel’s times until he had to catch the contact me at [email protected].” people. The documentary visits Mass., celebrating his wife Anne’s little more time biking and have brother, Bobby ’68, died on May 20 train back. I am now considering a Speaking of Tom, my wife, employee-owned cooperative busi- exhibit at the Smith College Mu- begun to swim regularly. I enjoy of the Massachusetts Medical Bell said, resonated with everyday of sudden internal hemorrhaging. long-delayed visit to the States to Kathy, and I enjoyed a wonderful nesses across the United States and seum of Art and newly published the latter a good deal and suspect Society and of our hospital medical voters more than political insid- I’m sure several of us remember reconnect with other classmates, so weekend in June with him and his includes unprecedented coverage ebook. Both are titled The Eye is a it may be better for me than my staff. When my wife decides to ers. ‘I think a lot of people who him. You can write to Jim at jimsie thanks again to Joh n for awaken- wife, Celeste, at their house on Fire of the remarkable Mondragon co- Door: Landscape, Photography, and the Central Park running, of which I retire from her pediatric practice, predicted I wouldn’t win, which [email protected]. ing memories.” Island. operatives in the Basque region of Art of Discovery, and her website, am doing less and less. I expect to accelerate withdrawal was virtually everybody, under- On the same subject, John follows Also on a personal note, my northern Spain. Don’t miss it; you theeyeisadoor.com, has information I hope everyone enjoyed the from professional stuff in favor of estimated the difference between with this note: “I had an incredibly niece, Deanna Russo, is part of can contact your local PBS station about both. I was sorry not to make summer and that if we organize an travel, painting and goofing off. party activists — the type of people Rich Forzani happy experience several months a new television show, Satisfac- for when it will air in your area.” it, but do check out Anne’s photog- event this fall, you can come. Most “My younger daughter had boy who are on the county committees 413 Banta Ave. ago when I was able to locate a long- tion, that began in July on USA Steve Drimmer is owner and raphy and get the book. importantly, I hope you and your and girl twins in October, born — and the typical voters,’ Bell said. 66 Garfield, NJ 07026 lost friend, Rich Postupak, while on Network (Thursdays at 10 p.m.). past managing partner of Iconmo- It was great to see Paul at our families are all well and laughing weighing about 800g and 16 weeks ‘The typical voters were very open 66 a trip to France. I must say that while She plays the sister of the main fe- bile and president of both Silver- reunion. He looked the same as and finding these days to be good [email protected] early. After four months in the to the message I had in this race. I Rich is not engaged in a daily way male character and will be a series light Entertainment and Mt. Hope he did a few decades ago. He and ones. And don’t forget, send your hospital they came home and are got a lot of resonance on it.’” First, I offer kudos to our champion- with the intellectual pursuits I al- regular. Check it out if you can but Mines. According to a Worldwide Anne live in Nahant, Mass. updates! I can be reached at the now the equivalent of four-month- Jeff should know that his class- ship varsity teams this past year: ways expected, he brings incredible heads up — it’s a bit racy. Branding press release, he was Phil Mandelker, who lives in addresses at the top of the column, old babies. Miraculously, they mates will be following the election men’s golf, men’s tennis, baseball, love and imagination to his art. And I have deliberately avoided recently named by the company as Tel Aviv, has moved on to a more or submit your news via the CCT are developing normally without closely. men’s cross-country and men’s if any of you have sampled one of hounding all of you for news due a “Worldwide Branding Entre- creative agenda and lifestyle. He webform college.columbia.edu/ any notable deficits, but they are Derek Wittner has sent news fencing. Despite finishing third in his pâté feuilletées, you will agree.” to the summer season. However, preneur of the Year” in Business writes, “Having made a successful cct/submit_class_note. keeping their parents very busy. about his forthcoming retirement: the Ivy League, men’s basketball Ron Brookshire sent a loving please be prepared for my usual Management. Iconmobile is one exit from my oil exploration com- They live in Washington, D.C., and “My wife, Kathryn, and I are both also turned in its best record in 46 and proud description of his importunities going forward, as of the leading international design pany, I am getting on with life and we try to get there as often as pos- retiring — she from Columbia after years. This is the first time in many granddaughter’s first birthday we wish to continue our bulked-up agencies and technology suppliers trying the paths not taken. While Michael Oberman sible. Our other two children are 25 years, [ending her career there] years that we have achieved for this column. Sadly, Ron died column. In the meantime, consider in the mobile world. Silverlight still keeping a small office at the 69 Kramer Levin Naftalis & single. One is a surgeon in Virginia as senior associate dean of student within the league regarding titles. in August, shortly before it went this question: How many of you Entertainment offers managing firm I was last associated with and Frankel and the other an entrepreneur in affairs, and me, as VP of alumni May it continue and provide our to press. He was a larger-than-life recall the Chock Full o’Nuts on services for the entertainment trying to finish the last case on my 69 1177 Avenue of the Boston. We tore down and rebuilt affairs and development at Cooper students and alums with reasons to individual — loving, gentle and a the corner of Broadway and West industry. The Mt. Hope Mine is agenda, the new is painting, our house in East Orleans, on Cape Union. We planned to move during cheer. I will also continue my efforts friend to many. He will be missed. 116th? Not only was the the world’s largest undeveloped drawing and, most recently, print New York, NY 10036 Cod, in anticipation of retiring the summer to Kennebunkport, to encourage a top-down review of I’ll have more about Ron, including terrific but they had little premade deposit of molybdenum, estimated making. The last is the real chal- moberman@ there. As I write, we should be Maine, where we purchased a CU athletics and athletic facilities. a note from his friend and Colum- sandwiches wrapped in waxed pa- to begin commercial production lenge. But somehow it seems to be kramerlevin.com moved in by July. Lots to be thank- home this past year. We have sum- In a little less than two years will bia football teammate Fran Furey, per for lunch, along with excellent in the next several years. Steve working. One of my pieces, a sugar ful for!” mered there for almost 10 years and be the Alumni Reunion Weekend in the next column. crunchy donuts. Also, the College also sits on the board of the Aspen lift etching, was chosen for the Tel This column is about carrying the Jeffrey Bell won the Republican will now be there year-round. We celebrating the 50th anniversary Rich Beggs writes, “My wife, Inn at West 113th, where the juke Music Festival and School. Aviv Museum of Art’s collection Class of 1969 banner in meaning- primary election for U.S. Senate in look forward to finding new things of our graduation, an obviously Geri, and I were back in the Poconos machines at every booth offered I’m happy to report that I have of works on paper by new — can’t ful ways. It begins with Class Day, New Jersey and will face Democrat to do. I hope to consult for educa- significant occasion. I mention for the summer. I’m fully recovered five plays for a quarter. Even at decided to step down from my really say ‘young,’ now can I? — held on May 20, where for the Cory Booker in the general election tional institutions and Kathryn will this so that those of you with busy from total shoulder replacement. that time it was a real deal. And work as assistant superintendent of artists. 10th year running I marched with in November. According to The see where her interests take her. schedules can commence plan- Back to playing golf (reasonably while much has been said about the Santa Barbara County Educa- “I am working on an artist’s our class banner in the Alumni Jersey Journal, Jeff won the nomina- “My daughter, Lisa, lives in ning; the dates are Thursday, May well) and exercising. I spend most The West End, how many of you tion Office. I have had a rewarding book of dry point works illustrating Parade of Classes. Irv Ruderman tion for the second time. Thirty-six Hoboken, N.J., with her family; 26–Sunday, May 29, 2016. It may of my time with Geri and friends, recall that it had an outstanding 46-year career in public education, a poem I wrote in the ’70s. Also, a also held the banner and as we years ago he unseated longtime she is a dean of students in a local well be a sort of last grand hurrah golfing, dining, drinking, telling ‘war steam table where one could obtain beginning in the South Bronx and couple of my teachers in drawing approached the end point, we were senator Clifford Case in the pri- school. My stepsons are Chris for many of us, at least as far as stories.’ I also spend time invest- hot sandwiches and other items ending in Santa Barbara. I have an- and painting feel that I am about suddenly joined by Renato Maz- mary but lost the general election Balmer ’07, SOA’14 and Andrew convening with a large number of ing, reading, trying to follow world until all hours of the morning? swered the call of the school bell in ready for a show, though that will zolini, whose daughter, Camilla to Bill Bradley. Balmer ’10; Chris’ graduate degree old friends. So please, start think- events on and Columbia I will be at Homecoming on September for 67 consecutive years require a lot of work. (Now that my ’14, was among the graduates. According to the Journal of June is in film.” ing about it. news on Jake [Novak GS’92]’s blog.” Saturday, October 25, and hope as a student, teacher, principal and friend wasn’t elected president [of Bill Bonvillian’s son, Marcus ’14 3, Jeff said he ran to “make sure the Finally, a note from Owen I bumped into Michael Gar- In case you’re wondering, the to meet with as many of you as administrator. It will be good to do Israel] and I won’t be faced with the (who graduated in February), also public hears about two issues: re- Zurhellen: “Out of the woodwork rett at Dean’s Day this past May. blog can be found at culions.blog possible. Please try to attend. If you other things. temptation of a job in his office, I participated in Class Day, and Bill turning the dollar to the gold stan- I come, especially in anticipation Michael was our lone cheerleader spot.com. haven’t been in a while, I can tell As for what you are doing, don’t should have the time.) We’ll see.” was there as well. dard and [the idea of doing] away of our 50th next year. I’ve been prior to the coed era, and you may Bill Hiney ’67 reports, “Still you it’s a very enjoyable event and forget to tell us all about it. Write I hope to get The banner also took center with the ’s policy meaning to reappear for quite remember him as our once and fu- retired (sort of). I coach soccer and perfect to bring your entire family me at one of the addresses at the to consult with Phil. David, who stage in our class photo at the Sat- of charging no interest on federal some time, but I do lead an active ture lion. He was in partial regalia track and field, and really enjoy it. to, including the grandkids. Lots of top of the column, or submit news helped with my modest print col- urday dinner of Alumni Reunion government debt. That message, life in which other matters always this time with a lion-embroidered Speaking of track and field, at 69 activities and games. via the CCT webform college. lection, is an expert in the world of Weekend (May 29–June 1), which

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Mike missing only the company of class- Rosenblatt at Le Monde and, after , and state of Columbia then (1969) and granting a petition for a writ of a second master’s, in leadership, Milan, Italy, and taught in the ’80s also organizes the Earth2Class mates who didn’t join us. taking a walk around the Law Meyer Schapiro [’24, GSAS’35]. now; three hours with current fac- habeas corpus in which he had from Bank Street Graduate School, and ’90s at UVA and in French Workshops for teachers at Lamont- We had six class-specific events, Bridge and adjacent campus, we They changed my life.” ulty stars teaching Lit Hum and CC the satisfaction of freeing a man which she earned while teaching Switzerland. He and his wife have Doherty Earth Observatory, a well- open also to our Engineering arrived at the Northwest Corner Rich (Woj) Wyatt: “It was fun topics, Augustine’s Confessions and wrongly imprisoned for many and being an assistant principal in lived in Switzerland (Ticino) and recognized program that brings classmates: a Thursday reception Building for the class reception, seeing friends and classmates Sigmund Freud; and our conclud- years. I particularly appreciated the lower school at Bank Street. My Italy (Tuscany) for many years. together research scientists, teachers at the home of Mike Schell and his luncheon and discussion led by whom I hadn’t seen in years, mak- ing Saturday dinner. Dinner was, the concept that in making judicial son, George, and daughter, Shirley, Michael’s new edition of Charles and students. In his spare time Mike wife, Kathy (with remarks by Dean Rob Friedman with Foner and ing new friends and reliving some for me — and happily for Kathy decisions, while a judge may select are well-entrenched in the artificial Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was is an avid kayaker, and you may see James J. Valentini and Jonathan Rosenthal. It seems that the more of the memories of our young lives as well — a special and enjoyable from a range of discretionary op- intelligence (big data) and repro- published in 2012 and he writes him in his decal-covered, Columbia Schiller, now chairman of the things change, they still seem the at Columbia! On the sobering side, evening. It was a mix of reengage- tions that may technically qualify ductive rights fields, respectively. widely for journals, including blue boat on the Hudson. University Board of Trustees); a same. The rather moving memo- the memorial service for those who ment with friends from back in as dispensing ‘justice,’ the goal is to My wife, Merle, is into her second a monthly column for National Congratulations, Mike! Friday afternoon hike from Baker rial service was highlighted by the had passed was very moving. I the day and interesting, enjoyable select from that subset of options a year of fulfilling a dream to produce Review Online; he has written for Sam Estreicher writes, “At Athletics Complex into Inwood chassanute of Irv Ruderman. For look forward to working with the introductions to several folks I had decision that is ‘right.’” a play based on the book The Full its print edition for 30 years. His its May 21 annual meeting, the Park; a Friday reception and din- the dinner in Low, Mike Rosen- Reunion Committee on the 50th not known. Norbert Rainford was Dick Menaker: “The Reunion Catastrophe, by David Carkeet. book, The Restitution of Man: C.S. membership of the American Law ner in Kent Hall’s C.V. Starr East blatt and I sat with Joyce and and urge all of the Class of 1969 — at the top of the latter list for me. I Committee added a new event that My fellow class correspondent, Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, Institute unanimously approved the Asian Library (with welcoming on one side and Jack both College and Engineering — to have come away with a firm but worked out better than expected Randy Nichols ’75, asked me to is due out in a French translation. final draft of the Restatement Third remarks by Dick Menaker and an Schachner (with his beanie and attend.” undoubtedly typical resolution to — a hike in Inwood Park. A bus include this note to you about a Several of his 200-plus published es- of Law, of which I am open mike discussion); a recep- ‘stay in touch’ in all cases. picked us up at College Walk and planned retrospective on the works says and reviews on philosophical the chief reporter.” tion/lunch and panel discussion “Kathy and I hosted the open- shuttled us to Baker Athletics of Sam Steinberg, Columbia’s out- and literary-critical issues have been Bill Schur is still happily retired Saturday in the Northwest Corner ing night reception, our third (the Complex. We got a tour of the new sider artist-in-residence 1967–82. reprinted. Michael is involved in in Texas, dabbling in website Building (panel chaired by Rob Michael D. Aeschliman ’70 is a professor of Anglo- others were in 2004 and 2009). I athletics facility first, then walked The Class of 1975 Reunion Com- international education as a board design and being active in his local Friedman with guests Profes- phone culture at both the University of Lugano and was pleasantly surprised to learn to the park. Our guides were Jen- mittee is spearheading the project member and the main curriculum civic organization. sors Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69 and from several guests that Kathy had nifer Hoppa, northern Manhattan and hopes to have an exhibition adviser to the TASIS Foundation Michael Rosenthal GSAS’67); a me- the Catholic University of Milan. assured them we would be doing parks administrator for the NYC at Alumni Reunion Weekend next (Switzerland). His son, Adrien, morial session recalling classmates it again for the 50th. The splendid Parks Department, and Leslie spring. recently opened a successful, highly Jim Shaw who had passed away, with Irv evening for us was capped off by a Day, author of the Field Guide to the Randy writes, “We are in the regarded, small Italian restaurant, 139 North 22nd St. Ruderman chanting a memorial wife) … lively discussion ensued. Jack Schachner: “My wife, fascinating post-mortem chat with Natural World of New York City and planning stage for this important Bottega, at 1729 Maryland Ave. in 71 Philadelphia, PA 19103 prayer; and a Saturday dinner in Nick Garaufis gave a wonderful Claudia, and I had a fine time at the two young Columbia bartend- an expert on Inwood’s trees. And Columbia event and are in the pro- downtown Baltimore; his daughter, 71 [email protected] the Faculty Room of Low Library account of his life and career (still the Saturday evening events. At ers — one from Moscow and the what trees! It is the largest stand cess of setting up a website both to Anna, lives in Illinois and is a (with my welcoming remarks waiting for the book to come out). dinner, I sat next to a classmate other from southern California of virgin forest within the five facilitate the submission of works translator. The board of directors of the Union and a speech by Nick Garaufis). I’m already gearing up for the I had never spoken with, Jerry — during which they shared their boroughs. The hike also included a for the exhibition and to provide a Holding B.A., M.A., M.Phil. of Orthodox Jewish Congregations Among other things, there were 50th.” Nagler, and had a fascinating con- reasons for coming to Columbia visit to caves, spectacular views of permanent database documenting and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia, of America, also known as the also Dean’s Day lectures for all Bob Appel: “I enjoyed being versation. Claudia and I danced and their perception of the differ- the Hudson from the westernmost Sam’s massive output. Since this Michael says he remembers with Orthodox Union (OU), has unani- classes and the Saturday night back on campus and participat- under the tent until 1 a.m., which ences between their classes (2016 ridge, and an account of the area’s database will only list works by immense admiration and gratitude mously appointed Allen I. Fagin, Starlight Reception, with dancing ing in the general activities and pleased her tremendously. The and 2017) and ours. See you all in fascinating history — apparently genre and year, the identity and lo- the Core Curriculum and his own former chairman of Proskauer and music on Low Plaza. Here are lectures. Also, seeing the few guys band was great.” 2019.” the park was home to estates, asy- cation of holders will remain at all great teachers, Edward W. Tayler, Rose, as EVP and chief professional some reactions. I knew. I’m sure the 50th will be Jerry Nagler: “I greatly enjoyed Mark Webber: “My wife, lums, retreating Revolutionary War times confidential unless released Joseph A. Mazzeo [’44, GSAS’50], officer. Ron Alexander: “Friends, old even better attended!” attending our reunion, and it Pamela, and I thoroughly enjoyed troops and some strange lights put with the holder’s consent to any , Allen is a graduate of Harvard and new: Old friends attended, Stuart Scott: “My first and last makes me regret that I have been the 45th reunion. As devotees of in by August Heckscher. A little parties interested in displaying or [’46, GSAS’53] and Lionel Trilling Law and the JFK School of Govern- and with them conversation was impression from my first CC’69 remiss in attending others. It didn’t Broadway theater, we commenced more than a dozen classmates and acquiring the work. We hope to [’25, GSAS’38], whose stature has ment at Harvard, where he earned a unimpeded by years of separation. reunion was: Why did it take me take long for me to reestablish the weekend with the reunion guests took part. One suspects less bring Sam’s quirky vision of the only grown with the passage of J.D. and a master’s in public policy, The absence of old friends was so long? It was a wonderful experi- acquaintances and feel like I was group by attending If/Then, with than 10 percent of our class has world to a wider audience than he years and the increasing vulgarity both in 1975. He then served as regretted. Most joyous of all was ence from start to finish, and af- back in 1969. I actually felt 45 music and lyrics by Tom Kitt ’96 ever set foot in this jewel of a park. was able to reach during a lifetime of contemporary culture. a law clerk to the Hon. Robert L. meeting classmates previously un- terward I was left feeling let down years younger! Unfortunately this and ’93. We followed It’s a great place to spend an after- spent largely on the Columbia I must admit, the last part of Carter, United States District Judge known. Our classmates, whether like when I would return home youthful feeling only lasted until I up the next morning with the Mu- noon, and the splendid weather campus selling paintings and Her- Professor Aeschliman’s note made in the Southern District of New renowned or not, have pursued from summer camp as a youth. arrived home later that evening. sic Humanities seminar ‘The Great made it even better.” shey bars. Do you have a Sam or a me envious! York. fascinating paths, personally and Seeing faces I had not seen in 45 “Nick Garaufis gave an infor- Blue & White Way: Columbians I hope these reflections resonate Sam story to tell?” If so, Randy can edits The Best Beginning in 1976 Allen prac- professionally. Learning about years, I’d have a flash of memory mative and elucidating talk about and American Musical Theater,’ with classmates who attended the be reached at [email protected]. American Poetry series, which I ticed law at Proskauer, where he each life story was a celebration, of that same person in his fresh- the workings of Washington, D.C., which discussed the influence of 45th reunion and encourage all Fred Kushner sent the following have enjoyed reading. The latest specialized in employment law, individually and collectively, of the man beanie, walking across South and being a federal judge. How- Columbia alumni on Broadway. It classmates to resolve to attend the news: “It’s been a busy year for the edition includes a piece titled “Judy co-chairing the firm’s Labor and diversity of the human experience. Lawn or one of the walkways in ever, my ears especially perked was refreshing to have been one of 50th. And while I still have your Kushner clan. I was reappointed Garland: The Road Gets Rougher.” Employment Law Department for By contrast, in the quiet moment the quad. up when he uttered those magical the younger alumni at that lecture. attention: Send me your news so to the FDA Science Board and It includes the following passage, many years. He was Proskauer’s of a class memorial, we paused “Sharing the common spaces words, TaKome and Mama Joy’s. We had a special bonus when you can reconnect with classmates worked on the focused update of which is both nostalgic and intrigu- for those whose life stories came and events with other graduating I thank and congratulate the Daniel Lazour ’16 and his older long before 2019! the heart attack guidelines, and ing: “By the time he [] to an end and reflected upon the classes was also a real hit. We have Reunion Committee members on brother, Patrick, from Boston Col- recently came back from my 40th took up the guitar and changed ever more important directive carpe a wonderful family! The lectures their excellent organizational skills. lege, performed a selection from reunion for P&S. My son, Jared ’06, his name, he had wandered so far REUNION WEEKEND Submit Your Photo diem. I look forward to the 50th.” were also reminders of the superb They must have gone to a very one of their works in progress. PS’12, recently finished his internal into Woody Guthrie territory that a MAY 28–31, 2015 Submitting a photo for Steve Valenstein: “The best education that current students good college. I look forward to our Perhaps they will add to Colum- medicine residency at Columbia reader confronting an article in The ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Class Notes is easier part was seeing and being in the are receiving. All in all, it was a 50th, when even more of our class bia’s legends on Broadway. and will start a cardiology fellow- Nation entitled ‘Woody, Dylan, and ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott company of people who all shared terrific experience and I will make may be in attendance.” “On Saturday I attended the ship there. My other son, Adam Doubt’ could be forgiven for think- than ever! [email protected] those formative years. Although sure my travel plans include be- Mike Schell: “I was pleasantly luncheon and panel discussion. ’03, has been appointed the editor ing that it concerned the singer’s ONLINE by clicking 212-851-9148 our waistlines and hairlines have ing on the East Coast for the next surprised because everyone says There I was reminded that when of ‘PostEverything,’ the new digital relation to Arlo Guthrie’s papa on DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova “Contact Us” at moved in opposite directions, our reunion.” the 45th is anti-climactic and treated Columbia alumni assemble, ‘they news and opinion magazine for The the one side and the condition of [email protected] college.columbia.edu/cct. smiles and words have mellowed Hart Perry: “It was great to have with relative disinterest. Not so. We have all forgotten the same books,’ Washington Post. My wife, Ivy, has epistemological uncertainty on 212-851-7833 MAIL by sending the over the years. the opportunity to catch up with had a good, diverse group of class thus demonstrating that the Core been busy moving households.” the other when in fact the piece “I enjoyed meeting Dean [James friends from college. The event members. They were engaged and Curriculum is still vibrant after al- Leo G. Kailas Michael D. Aeschliman addresses allegations that Woody photo and accompanying J.] Valentini and speaking with him was well organized and entertain- engaging, and suitably alive, but most a century. I was reminded of Reitler Kailas & GSAS’91 celebrated 40 years of Allen had misbehaved with his caption information to at the Schells’ home at the opening ing. By coincidence, I was halfway not too for Columbia sophisticates. I the relevance of Thucydides when 70 Rosenblatt happy marriage to Lynn Fleming adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.” Class Notes Editor, reception on Thursday night, and through reading Eric Foner [’63, thought the program and the events one of the professors remarked that 70 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. Aeschliman BC’69 on June 15. He Mike Passow is completing a Columbia College Today, later doing some catching up with GSAS’69]’s book about Lincoln. It were just right. Highlights included to the current student body, the New York, NY 10022 is professor emeritus of education 44-year career as an earth science Columbia Alumni Center, Jon Schiller. Friday’s tour of the was rewarding to hear his lecture the folks that my wife, Kathy, and events of Spring 1968 might as well [email protected] at Boston University, where he educator by retiring from Dwight 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, athletic facilities at Baker Athlet- about Lincoln and to have him I enjoyed encountering anew at have been the Peloponnesian Wars. taught 1996–2011, and profes- Morrow H.S. in his hometown of 6th Fl., New York, NY 10025. ics Complex and the hike through participate in a panel discussion the opening night reception; Eric “At the dinner on Saturday, I I am happy to report that my oldest sor of Anglophone culture at the Englewood, N.J. However, Mike Inwood Park were memorable. after our lunch. Brought back fond Foner [’63, GSAS’69], twice — once reconnected with a number of daughter, Arianne, was married on University of Lugano, where he will continue to be active in the

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I also ical policy at WellPoint, the nation’s offices in London, Sao Paulo, the tri-state area and can rearrange setting up a webpage to facilitate Roar, Lions, Roar! Sinai Hospital. His son, Rohan ’15, Fred Bremer solved the mystery of Dr. David largest health benefits company — Chicago and . Allen your schedule to accommodate the submission of works for the Staying in touch with all of you is majoring in math and economics 532 W. 111th St. Melnick’s move to Manhattan. who did attend the weekend. Not retired from Proskauer at the end them, I urge you to participate in exhibition as well as to provide a has gotten easier through the years. with a minor in computer science; 74 New York, NY 10025 Turns out he is conducting infec- all was lost; at the Friday dinner I of 2013 to devote himself, as he future parades at Class Day (there permanent database documenting There’s email, of course — and he’s managed to get a single dorm 74 tious disease testing at AstraZeneca introduced Alan to Ed Kornreich, [email protected] puts it, “with far greater intensity is one at Convocation as well). Sam’s massive output. As this da- please update your address with room every year, thus besting his in Wilmington, Del., but is able to a health care lawyer and partner at to communal activity.” “This year I carried the ’71 ban- tabase will only list works by genre the Alumni Office if you haven’t dad. It doesn’t seem that long ago that do a lot of his writing and analysis Proskauer Rose in Manhattan. An OU press release notes that ner with two classmates who were and year, the identity and location done so lately (college.columbia. Mark Turco has shocked all who we were all nestled in the six square on a computer anywhere. He is Bob Adler wrote that he and it is “the world’s largest kosher taking part in the parade for the of holders will remain at all times edu/cct/update_contact_info) knew him (and himself!) by carving blocks of the main Columbia cam- choosing to do it in New York so his wife, Anne-Marie, are buying a certification organization. Founded first time: Ed Chin, who is retired confidential unless released with — but also social media. Jeffrey out a career with the law firm of pus on Morningside Heights. Now he can be close to his daughter and house in Belfast, Maine. The closing in 1898, the OU and its more than from his internal medicine practice, the holder’s consent to any parties Jackson recently asked me to con- Beveridge & Diamond in Wash- we are spread across the United new grandson. I also overheard date was May 30, so they should 500 employees certify nearly two and Ed Wallace, who practices interested in displaying or acquir- nect with him on LinkedIn, where ington, D.C. His joys in life (aside States and around the globe. As far a conversation between David be set by now. As I recently noted, million products and ingredients in real estate law in New York City ing the work. We hope to bring I learned that he is now senior from clean colonoscopies) have as Alumni Office records can tell us, and his pal Dr. Larry Stam — a Bob relocated to New England from 8,000 plants in more than 83 coun- and whose son, Will Falk-Wallace Sam’s quirky vision of the world to adviser for finance and enterprise been seeing his hometown St. Louis the Class of ’74 lives in 39 of the 50 nephrologist at New York Method- Montclair, N.J., and is weighing tries” and has youth and educa- ’14, was participating in the day’s a wider audience than he was able development at the U.S. Agency for Cardinals win several . states plus Washington, D.C., and ist hospital in Brooklyn — during whether to retire. Bob posted a pic- tional programs, disability support ceremonies. (Will was a computer to reach during a lifetime spent International Development. He is a He wishes his classmates “equal Puerto Rico. At least thirteen class- which they discovered they live a ture on Facebook of a red ukulele he networks, a political action arm and science major and works in San largely on the Columbia campus graduate of Johns Hopkins School contentment with their lives.” mates live abroad, from Canada to block apart, around East 72nd and bought at a Belfast fundraiser. He publishing and other services. Francisco at a tech company.) selling paintings and Hershey bars. of Advanced International Studies Michael Vitiello and his wife, Bangkok. Park Avenue, and planned to get noted, “I will soon be taking orders Vince Rigdon (Fr. Vincent J. Rig- Both Eds were greatly impressed Do you have a Sam or a Sam story and lives in the Washington, D.C., Mary Baroni, celebrated their 10th Despite the increasing demands together. for matching earplugs. Order early don) reports, “I am pastor of Our with the adulation that the parade to tell?” area. anniversary in July. Michael con- of family, work and health prob- I think it was at the Thursday and often.” (Maybe Bob can have a Lady of the Presentation Catholic received from the graduates. (Alex If you do, contact Randy at rcn2 Another LinkedIn buddy is John tinues his research on aging, sleep lems, we had the highest reunion night cocktail party that I learned career as the new Tiny Tim — if he Church in Poolesville, Md. I have Sachare, a longtime parade par- [email protected]. Miller, who says, “For me lately it’s and cognition at the University of attendance of any class between that Dr. Mark Lebwohl, chairman can master the 1929 classic Tiptoe been here for five years. Poolesville ticipant, was also present but was If you are not receiving the ’71C been all about family events. My Washington, staying busy in his the 25th and 50th reunions! For of the Department of Dermatology Through the Tulips!) is a great place, in the Agricultural feeling the effects of a knee that is eNews and would like to, please youngest, Becca, is beginning her spare time reading, cooking, travel- some it was the first time they at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, Dr. Tom Long could not attend Reserve of Montgomery County. in need of replacement and did not email me. sophomore year at Johns Hopkins ing and giving dinner parties. Mary returned to campus while others has been installed as the president- because “my son is getting married It’s country living 35 miles from march.) Remember back 47 Septembers in . My recently accepted a gubernatorial have never missed a reunion. elect of the American Academy of in California that week.” Tom was the White House. I’m quite happy. “I won’t attempt here to reprise ago, and the feelings we had, eldest, Sarah, who holds a doctor- appointment to the Washington Almost 80 classmates (with about Dermatology; he will officially start a dermatologist in Providence, R.I., I’m a member of the Columbia the many notable official parts of including of adventure, as we ate in physical therapy, recently State Nursing Commission. 50 guests) attended one or more his presidency in March 2015. That for many years and has now moved University Club of Washington, the Class Day ceremony, but there entered Columbia College. We are married. That was my first time Ernie Sosa attended medical events. It started on Thursday reminds me that Mark was also to West Palm Beach, Fla., to be a D.C. and I understand that our was one unofficial aspect that I do still connected. giving a daughter away; it was a school at Weill Cornell Medical night at a cocktail party at Arnie included in New York magazine’s dermatologist at the VA Medical Columbia alumni group recently feel deserves comment, especially beautiful and emotional ceremony, College and spent most of his Chavkin’s penthouse and cul­ annual list of “best doctors” in Center there. No details yet on why got a Columbia coat of arms to in light of the student activism that and I managed to make it through career there; he is the president of minated Saturday night with the June. he moved (seeking a melanoma display there. characterized our years at Colum- Paul S. Appelbaum the father/daughter dance without the Weill Cornell Medical College class dinner in the Northwest Alex Sachare and his wife, Lori, bia. By my count, a clear majority 39 Claremont Ave., #24 falling apart. Now I’m arranging to Alumni Association. Two years ago Corner Building (that’s the newish renewed their wedding vows in of the mortarboards worn by the 72 New York, NY 10027 take my son, Adam, his wife and he moved to the Manhattan VA as science building on the corner of March in celebration of their 25th Class of 2014 were marked with a 72 my two grandsons for their first trip a faculty member and runs its urol- West 120th and Broadway). For- Jocko Marcellino ’72 and Sha Na Na celebrated the [email protected] anniversary. The sunset ceremony band of red tape. For those not al- to Walt Disney World in August. ogy service; he has been “delighted mer dean GSAS’69 band’s 45th anniversary in July with a Grease sing- took place on the beach in Aruba, ready familiar with it, the ‘No Red Richard Macksoud “continue[s] I’m looking forward to creating to take care of our vets.” He’s been was the featured speaker at the with the local rabbi officiating. Tape’ movement at the College practicing law on my own, which memories for them that will last for married for 34 years to Kathleen dinner. along at the Hollywood Bowl. Why Aruba? Alex writes, “I bought (and, indeed, more broadly in the you can do if the law is trusts and a long time to come.” Cannon and has two sons, one of “I had not attended any re- a timeshare there more than 30 University community) is a group estates with some tax and corporate Clicking around LinkedIn, I whom is a cardiac anesthesia fellow unions,” wrote Dr. Frank Russo, a years ago and Lori and I have that is fighting for better [preven- mixed in.” Richard and his wife are found Jim Wilentz, who practices at Weill Cornell while the other dentist in Wayne, N.J. “While the A double congratulations! gold mine?) but I’ll dig deeper and gone there every year since we’ve tion of and response to] sexual moving from Nashville to Madison, interventional cardiology and en- “invests other people’s money.” lure of reconnecting with my old On a personal note, I want to report in a future column. known each other. It’s a special assault practices across the board Miss., to be near their oldest daugh- dovascular medicine at NewYork Ravi Venkateswaran recently buddy, Joe Barone [president of relay that David Bremer, son of Kevin Ward has been at nearly place that has become like a second at Columbia, including education ter. Of the change he says, “If you Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia returned to the United States Alpha Research and Technology Fred Bremer (I want a little bold- all of our reunions but had to home, and we look forward to and prevention programs, support told me when I was at the College University Medical Center and is (Seattle) after more than 25 years in Old Saybrook, Conn.], whom face type action, too!), graduated miss this one because his fourth returning every year.” Alex and services and disciplinary policies. that I would move to Mississippi, an assistant professor of medicine working in the oil and gas industry I had not seen or spoken with in from York Prep in Manhattan in son, Brian, was graduating from Lori also celebrated the graduation “Addressing the serious issues I would have said that you were at Weill Cornell Medical College. in India and Nigeria. He was 40 years, was my primary draw, it the spring and is now a freshman Bergen Catholic H.S. on the same of their daughter, Deborah BC’14, surrounding sexual assault at the crazy, but here we are closing soon If you’re on LinkedIn or Face- involved in start-ups early on as a was great to see some classmates at Brandeis, outside Boston. In weekend. He passes on that Brian in May. An environmental policy campus — which have garnered on a 4,800-sq.-ft. house on six acres book, send me a connect or friend technical head and in 2006 made I remembered and to meet others addition, last May marked my 40th was the starting point guard for the major, Deborah is a program coor- such widespread publicity in other on a lake for $580,000. Cannot beat request and make it easier for us to the move to Nigeria to start Hardy with whom I had spent my college year in the same apartment on school’s basketball team and hopes dinator in the Law School’s Social news and social media — is a mat- that in the Northeast.” Richard’s be in touch. Oil and Gas in Nigeria in Lagos. years.” West 111th Street. I moved from the to do the same for the University Justice Initiatives office. ter that should be important to us oldest daughter is married to an Finally, Randy Nichols ’75 wrote When that was sold to a local part- Another reunion-goer was Rich- eighth floor of Hartley in laundry of Rochester, where he is now a Peter Jacoby writes, “On May as alumni, whether or not we have attorney and has a son, “the reason to say that his class is planning ner in 2013, it was time to return ard Chen. Richard is the informa- carts down Amsterdam Avenue freshman. Kevin is a longtime 20 I attended Class Day, preceded sons or daughters at Morningside, we are moving. My youngest is an a Sam Steinberg retrospective as stateside. Ravi is semi-retired yet tion technology manager for Maher — and then just stayed. (Okay, I financial adviser for Merrill Lynch by the Alumni Parade of Classes. and I hope that our [CC’71’s] par- attorney with NASA and is recently part of Alumni Reunion Weekend he and some colleagues have start- & Maher, a Neptune, N.J., firm did cheat a little by combining that in Paramus, N.J. I have taken part in the latter ticipation in the Columbia College married to an attorney. Almost 2015. If you have a Sam (I certainly ed Triumph Oil & Gas Group in involved in instructional design apartment with the one next door.) Robert Heimer almost could ceremony, as well as stayed on for Alumni Association will give us a enough for a bar association.” do), even if you can’t lend it for the , for which they are raising training and human resource con- We get a revealing pastiche of not attend our last reunion, in 2009, Class Day, for several years and I forum in which to take part in that Jocko Marcellino reports on the exhibition, please let Randy know: money and acquiring leases. Ravi sulting. He and his wife, Julia, live the lives of some classmates from because he was on a business trip have never failed to marvel at how ongoing dialogue.” latest doings of Sha Na Na, “from [email protected]. and his wife are getting involved in Englishtown, N.J. the emails explaining why they to Russia. In the end he managed the organized presence of alumni Fellow class correspondent Randy the Lions Den to Woodstock to the in the local Seattle community and Ken Krug, CFO of The Asia could not attend reunion. I am it by flying to the reunion directly resonates so well with the graduat- Nichols ’75 sends the following: Hollywood Bowl.” The group is look forward to traveling. They Foundation in San Francisco, also leaving out some of the health ex- from Moscow. This time, however, ing class; it provides a tangible “‘Want a paintin? Got boids, celebrating the 45th anniversary Barry Etra maintain an apartment in Chennai, had never attended a reunion. cuses (one fellow suffered a recent it couldn’t be avoided; he emailed, connection between them and the moimades, snakes! Need a Hoishey of its first shows on campus and 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE India, Ravi’s hometown. Looks like he will be coming to pelvic fracture; another was having “Unfortunately, I will be at a con- almost eight decades of College bar?’ What Columbian of our appearance at Woodstock with a 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 Lastly, the Class of ’75 is planning New York a lot more in the next a foot operation). ference in Rome.” Bob is a research graduates who participate. generation (and many before and return to the Hollywood Bowl, the 73 a Sam Steinberg retrospective at its few years, though — his son, Scott Kunst, landscape historian scientist at the Yale School of Public [email protected] “Before the parade, the Alumni after!) can hear those words and famed amphitheater in California, reunion next year. All those with Joshua, recently entered the Ph.D. and owner of Old House Gardens, Health and has been studying the Celebration Breakfast also offers not recall Bronx outsider artist and for a Grease sing-along. Cast in the Forty-five years since we set foot “Sams” or stories about Sam, please program in education and Jewish a purveyor of heirloom bulbs, in global AIDS epidemic. a marvelous opportunity to break Columbia icon Sam Steinberg? movie as Johnny Casino and the on campus. Lo, how the footsteps contact class correspondent Randy studies at NYU. Ann Arbor, Mich., wrote, “Unfor- Richard Briffault, vice-dean and bread and share stories with folks You may have heard it already but Gamblers, Sha Na Na performed have fallen! Nichols ’75 at [email protected]. At the Friday cocktail party and tunately, I’m lecturing at a three- professor at the Law School, said, who predated and succeeded our if not, listen up! The Class of ’75 six songs on the original Grease The Brooklyn Brahmin Nanda As the first (and only?) class to have dinner, which took place in the day conference at Mount Vernon “In January I committed to a con- days on Morningside Heights. hopes to sponsor a Sam retrospec- soundtrack. The hit ballad Sandy, Kirpekar remembers “jumping on a Sam grace the cover of its year- Hamilton Hall lobby, I spoke with the weekend of the reunion. I really ference in Montana on what turned Lastly, the event has given me a tive for Alumni Reunion Weekend sung by John Travolta, was co- the waterbed listening to Disraeli book, it is our duty to participate! Brian Eskenazi and learned he is hoped to attend.” out to be reunion weekend.”

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Steve Simon, a senior fellow at tion (and many before and after!) Gothamist. In addition, through the 40 years. He is also a trustee of The well-known at court and through- time, a more complete answer was 18 years. Peter lives in Canterbury, tion “Latin America in Construc- the in Washing- can hear those words and not recall Alumni Representative Committee Nature Conservancy’s Mashomack out the area, and has numerous fans given — no iconic art will leave N.H., with his wife, Kelly, and their tion: Architecture 1955–1980” will ton, D.C., wrote, “I’m supposed to be Bronx outsider artist and Columbia (ARC), he interviews Maryland Preserve in Shelter Island, his fam- and friends on the police force. He Morningside but art for Manhat- children, “along with more goats be presented. Barry can be reached in Beirut on May 30 for a meeting.” icon Sam Steinberg? You may have residents applying to Columbia. ily’s “home away from home.” lives with his partner somewhere tanville is not yet planned; in and chickens than anyone who at [email protected]. We didn’t get a specific reason heard it already but if not, listen Another classmate enjoying a Longtime Providence Journal in the wildwoods of New Jersey, fact, most of the areas of the new rode the subway to college would Thanks to Peter and Barry for why Tom Sawicki, director of pro- up: The Class of ’75 is aiming to second career is Peter A. Garza- newspaper contributor and sports where Bert hunts for furry creatures campus are still in the planning have expected.” their news; to the rest of you, let’s gramming for the American Israel sponsor a Sam Steinberg retrospec- Zavaleta, who in June finished writer Steve Krasner covered the and tender young shoots. stages with funds being sought for Here’s hoping I hear from more fill up the column for next time. Public Affairs Committee in Jeru- tive for Alumni Reunion Weekend another year of teaching AP litera- Boston Red Sox for 22 years — Several issues ago, I let you buildings, institutes and programs. folks for future issues! Write me You can write me at either address salem, wasn’t able to attend but he and Dean’s Day 2015. We already ture to high school seniors. He is including World Series titles in 2004 know that Bob Schneider had been Art (and great art) will come! at either address at the top of the at the top of the column, or submit did pass on the news that it’s been have a retrospective committee the adviser for his school’s chapter and 2007, and several no-hitters — asked to contribute his favorite Topping off the weekend, I had column, or send news via the CCT an update using the CCT webform a big year for him and wife, Susie: that includes classmates, other of the National Honor Society and along with Super Bowls and other Penn memory, and I told you I brunch with Fran Minarik. webform college.columbia.edu/ college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ both of their sons were married. Columbians, curators, museum created a scholarship fund, now athletics events. In his second career, would report his favorite Columbia All my meetings included plot- cct/submit_class_note. class_note. Tom also mentioned that he’d been professionals, alumni leaders and in its third year, which awards Steve conducts interactive writing memory. His response: “Best single ting, planning and scheming for hoping to see Tobias Nascimento, “fans of Sam.” (As someone said, $25,000 each year to students. workshops in classrooms and at day was marrying Regina Marie Alumni Reunion Weekend 2015. an associate teaching professor at “Please take this as intended; we Peter is also the coordinator for conferences around the country. Mullahy BC’75 at the Church of And I filled in the weekend with David Gorman Matthew Nemerson in Manhattan, are all sons of Sam.”) We have theater for the Texas University He calls it “Nudging the Imagina- Saint Christopher on November 29, luxuriating at the Waldorf Astoria 77 111 Regal Dr. 78 35 Huntington St. who did attend reunion. extensive archival material and Interscholastic Academic Competi- tion” (nudgingtheimagination. 1980. As memories go, the Sunday and seeing Cabaret at the former DeKalb, IL 60115 New Haven, CT 06511 From Boston came word from artifacts, including Spectator articles, tions. He is a regional chair for com). The workshops often call of the 20th reunion, which Regina Studio 54. (How many of you have 77 78 [email protected] matthewnemerson@ Stuart Offner, partner at the law Sam’s New York Times obituary and ARC, and several of his inter- for participants to collaboratively and I attended, was also memo- Studio 54 memories?) gmail.com firm Mintz Levin: “Still trying to co- magazine articles — and this collec- viewees have been admitted and create narratives, mysteries, tall rable; early that morning I received To further address reunion, your From Philadelphia, Peter Schneider ordinate with two graduations and tion is growing. We’ve also received enrolled! Peter is a vestry member, tales, media articles, mystery dinner the Columbia College Dean’s Pin Reunion Committee has been think- reflects on beginning his “fourth My apologies for not having a a wedding (sounds like a movie offers of Sam’s artwork and other Sunday school teacher and choir theater scripts and video magazine capping an excellent reunion week- ing outside the box, coming up and decade as a lawyer at Community “real” column. I find myself delight- title … ).” memorabilia from those who can member at the Episcopal Church scripts, and everything ties into the end, and that night I was reelected executing on WAIs and is committed Legal Services, where I defend fully overwhelmed by my new job Roger Cohen, owner of auto- still put their hands on them. of the Advent in Brownsville, curriculum and the Common Core as vice chair of the Columbia to holding an incredible and creative low-income homeowners from as economic development admin- Kthonous Market Solutions in Do you have a Sam and/or a Texas. He recently completed his State Standards, which are becom- University Alumni Club of Nassau Reunion, full of WEEs! You’ve begun foreclosure.” (He neglected to istrator of New Haven, Conn., and NYC and Pennsylvania, said, “Am Sam story to tell or know someone certificate in translation and inter- ing the norm in schools across the County — proof I had done good to receive communications. Please add that he is now supervising I didn’t have time this summer to in the middle of a heated election who does? By now, you’ve already pretation and is a candidate for a country. Steve delivers professional work in my initial term as officer of plan to attend; the dates are Thurs- attorney there.) Peter’s wife, Susan attend to the important duties of campaign.” Roger is active with received more detailed information master’s from Texas. Several of his development to teachers. This the group.” day, May 28–Sunday, May 31. Since DeJarnatt, teaches law at Temple, being your humble alumni scribe. I the Lancaster County Democratic on where to learn more and how paintings have been exhibited at summer, he conducted a sports Joel Stern has lived in Los Ange- these Class Notes were submitted and his son, Rafael, had a good first will make every effort to do better Committee. to contribute to this effort. You can the Brownsville Museum of Fine camp for underprivileged middle les for 35 years and makes his living in June, the communications you’re year at Macalester in Minnesota — for next time. My favorite excuse for not at- also contact me at rcn2day@gmail. Arts and in private galleries, and school students in Central Falls, as a business analyst and origami receiving are much more current! for which, to Peter’s mild regret, he One update came in, though, tending reunion came from Patrick com. This will be a significant his works have been sold to private R.I., affiliated with Write on Sports, artist. His analyst work takes him You may notice a clear thread turned down admission to CC. from Gary Pickholz in Israel. He Dowd, retired president and CEO of event and a contribution to the collections. Peter has a place in Sit- which was founded nine years ago to studios like Sony and Fox as well running through our pre-reunion Of hobbies and pastimes, Peter writes, “Despite the rockets, I man- Coventry Health Care. He now lives entire Columbia community, in ges, Spain (near Barcelona), where in New Jersey by retired AP editor as hospitals and software compa- and reunion events, both those writes, “I am interested in Latin- aged to sell the first Israeli edu-tech in my hometown of Eugene, Ore. 2015 and continuing for years, all he summers and plans to retire. Brian Yake. nies. His origami work has been scheduled and those in the plan- American politics and culture startup to a global 10 university (population 156,185). He decided he as a gift from the Class of 1975! Phelps Hawkins and his wife, Steve also coaches youth baseball featured on TV (Marvel’s Agents ning stages. While not to minimize and have amassed a fairly good and broke the [anti-Israel] boycott needed a weekend home — is that Now news about classmates: Sandra, continue to enjoy “the and Little League in his hometown of S.H.I.E.L.D), in commercials the talents and contributions of the collection of 20th-century Mexican as well. [As I write], this week we what you call it if you are retired? Fernando Castro’s troupe soothing breezes” of Savannah, (East Greenwich, R.I.) and local (Verizon) and in magazines. His many doctors, attorneys, finan- political graphics. I play trombone had three to four rocket attacks — someplace smaller, so he bought TA’YER Multicultural Performance Ga., after four years spent in Bul- Amateur Athletic Union programs, latest book, My First Origami Kit, ciers, entrepreneurs, business lead- in a local community orchestra, daily on our offices in Tel Aviv; a place in Vida, Ore. (population Collective continues to perform. In garia. Last spring they celebrated most recently with 13-year-olds. was published in 2013. His oldest ers and other professionals among for which I recently performed [my colleagues and I] go out on 867). Patrick lamented by email, February, it presented 10 perfor- the graduation of son Bradshaw Steve and wife, Susan Oclassen, daughter graduated from the Law our classmates, we’re especially Brahms’ Fourth and Peter and the Rothschild Boulevard and watch “Unfortunately, I am caught in the mances of two short plays dealing from SMU Law. Other than fa- are approaching their 37th wed- School and works for the Baltimore trying to involve artists, writers, Wolf for the first time since Colum- the ‘Kipat Barzel’ [Iron Dome air Vida Vortex. Still have contractors with immigration and the colonial therly pride, Phelps is amazed that ding anniversary. They have three City State’s Attorney’s Office. His musicians, poets, historians, cura- bia. Does anyone else remember defense system] blow them up here and the roof is being replaced experience for Latin Americans. Bradshaw managed to get it done grandchildren and recently became son works in New York in the tors and any other creative people the ‘off-color’ version of Peter that midair, the white contrails of the next week. Wish I was going.” Pieces were adapted from the magic in three years while helping to care great-grandparents — they are very entertainment industry. His young- who have not been especially en- we did with the Barnard-Columbia two rockets coming together with There you have it. A fabulous realist Colombian authors Gabriel for two young children and work- happy to be in the Grandparents’ est child just finished high school. gaged in the past. Men of the cloth, Chamber Orchestra, with Professor a boom. No one bothers to go reunion where we drank, ate and Garcia Márquez and Ricardo Car- ing at least 30 hours a week in a Union now! Steve will be grooming “Phew,” he says! of all faiths, we’re also looking for Karl-Ludwig Selig narrating? into shelters anymore. And then shared tales of our lives during the rasquilla. On his own, Fernando Dallas law firm. After finishing one granddaughter Juliana to play at In May, yours truly made a trip you! If any of this fits, step up! “Hearing parts of the Association everyone returns to the office as past four decades. We saw new gave poetry readings recently in the summer session of teaching, the Columbia, as he was fortunate to do to the NYC area to see classmates And all, please, when a class- for the Advancement of Creative nonchalant as an afternoon in an buildings on campus and returned Northern California communities Hawkins family happily spent the as co-captain of the baseball team and attend Dean’s Day. On Friday mate contacts you, respond. Send Musicians festival on WKCR’s web office in Geneva. Back to our meet- to old haunts like Hamilton Hall. of Sacramento and Point Arenas. rest of the season in the northern when he was a Lion. I met Fernando Castro, David reunion suggestions (and of course stream this year brought back more ing, back to the trading room, back But mostly it was a chance for all of He serves as a grant panelist for Adirondacks at their lake home Sending greetings from Gawarecki and Bert Mrozik in items for Class Notes) to me. Final- great memories,” Peter adds. “I to accounting — and succeed on a us to reconnect with our buddies of the California Arts Council, the northwest of Lake Placid. “A little Northern California, Fr. C. John Newark, N.J., for an afternoon of ly, Like us on Facebook (facebook. regret that I haven’t stayed in good globally competitive basis. Kafka 40 years ago and the institution that statewide organization that funds sailing, fishing and mountain air “CJ” McCloskey III continues his fun, food and frolic. The four of us com/ColumbiaNYC75) and follow touch with old friends, and I’d love would comprehend.” changed our lives. Hope to see even and promotes art activities through- were just the ticket,” they report. pastoral work as a priest of Opus were friends in high school and us on Twitter (@CC75Reunion). to hear from them.” Write him at I’m sure many of us have friends more of you in another five years! out the state, which he has been One of the original CC’75 Dei. He is also a prolific writer and have stayed in close contact, but I [email protected]. and relatives in Israel; I have a sister, involved with since the late 1980s. regulars, Steve Jacobs is usually radio media commentator. Sam- had not seen them in years. Still, Enthusiastic congratulations and my wife, a brother, there. In May, Fernando was in NYC, at- there, often quietly and behind-the- plings of his work can be found at Fernando, David and I found each Clyde Moneyhun to Barry Bergdoll, who spent the REUNION WEEKEND tending the same-gender wedding scenes. A founding member of the catholic other (without use of cell phones!) Boise State University past seven years at MoMA as the MAY 28–31, 2015 of his nephew. He says it is “great to law firm Landman Corsi Ballaine city.com/mccloskey. CJ is an avid at the train station. Bert met us 76 Department of English Chief Curator of ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS What’s Your Story? see the day when gay people have & Ford, Steve is looked to by at- squash player. (In one of those later at a Spanish BBQ joint and 76 200 Liberal Arts Building Architecture and Design but is ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott the same rights to the true pursuit torneys, accountants, insurers and extreme coincidences that make brought some potent homemade 1910 University Dr. now making a full-time return to Letting classmates know [email protected] of happiness.” other clients to avoid, resolve or me love the job of correspondent, wine, which added greatly to the Boise, ID 83725 Columbia, in the Department Art 212-851-9148 what’s going on in your Living in the Washington, D.C., litigate a broad range of complex CJ and I chatted on Pentecost Sun- festivities. At the end of the day, History and Archaeology, where he DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova [email protected] life is easier than ever. area since 1985, Howard Elman is problems. Steve and his family live day. I was confirmed as a Roman it was a little more somber as we is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of [email protected] Send in your Class Notes! on the faculty in the Department of in Greenwich Village and class- Catholic in St. Paul’s Chapel on made a visit to Henry Winters’ For this issue I heard only from Art History and Archaeology. Un- 212-851-7833 Computer Science at Maryland. He mates always love to see him and Pentecost Sunday 1976, with Fran still-unmarked grave. Peter Papps, who earned an LL.M. derstandably, he confesses to being ONLINE by clicking Randy Nichols received a Ph.D. from Yale, where especially his daughter, Michele, at Minarik as one of my sponsors.) On Dean’s Day I met up with from The George Washington “daunted” as well as “thrilled.” college.columbia.edu/cct/ 734 S. Linwood Ave. he also became a huge fan of New Homecoming. A longtime member The Hon. Albert J. Mrozik Jr. Bob Schneider, and we attended University and spent 25 years as Barry will remain a part-time cura- submit_class_note. 75 Baltimore, MD 21224 Haven pizza. He’s traveled exten- of the Columbia College Alumni (aka Bert) is a former judge and several events together, including an assistant U.S. attorney and U.S. tor at MoMA, working on such 75 sively through work and otherwise; Association Board of Directors, now chief municipal prosecutor the Society of Columbia Graduates attorney in New Hampshire. He projects as “the vast Frank Lloyd EMAIL to the address at [email protected] he was in and Spain this Steve also is on the board of Music in Newark, N.J. His schedule is luncheon, where the year’s Great recently retired after three years Wright archive that Columbia’s the top of your column. “Want a paintin’? Got boids, moimades, summer. Howard says he misses Before 1800 (mb1800.org), which outrageous — night courts some Teacher Awards were presented. In as an assistant district attorney in Avery Library and MoMA jointly snakes! No paintin’ today? Need a NYC in many ways (he would like has been presenting vocal and in- nights, long arraignments and other a session about the Manhattanville New York City. He also has served acquired.” He invites classmates to MAIL to the address at the Hoishey bar?” to know how to get decent pastrami strumental chamber music, mostly situations when “pesky judges just campus, I again asked about plans as a Greek Orthodox priest at vari- track him down on campus or next top of your column. What Columbian of our genera- anywhere else) and enjoys reading in Morningside Heights, for nearly string it all out, for hours!” He is for art on the new campus. This ous parishes in New England for spring at MoMA, where the exhibi-

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My update is as follows: My Robert Klapper ly became a full-fledged member of compete with the best of the best in wife, Marian, and younger daugh- 79 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 the company for Gelsey Kirkland college baseball. ter, Joy (20), spent the summer in Los Angeles, CA 90048 Academy of Classical Ballet. I have I know it is hard to believe, but China, enjoying themselves when 79 also become a grandfather — still we will celebrate the 35th anniver- Keeping Score with Jordan Sprechman ’83 [email protected] not holding their breath because of trying to wrap my mind around sary of our graduation at Alumni the pollution. Marian was in After 35 years, what I remember that. Her name is Lucy Liles Nancy Reunion Weekend next spring; sk native New Yorker he may not appear to have a Sprechman has had a pas- and broadcast with Columbia and nearby, working on a National from freshman chemistry is that Nickerson (Class of ’35).” the dates are Thursday, May 28– Science Foundation grant about the it takes two atoms and Robert C. Klapper: Circling back Sunday, May 31, so mark your Jordan Sprechman glamorous job. But Sprechman sion for the stats side of sports TV alongside Ronald Blum ’83, environment and industrial ecology one oxygen atom to make water. to where we began this column, the calendars. Bruce Paulsen, Ariel ’83, LAW’86 “Mets has scored a decade of base- for as long as he can remember. now a sports writer for AP. for Yale. Joy was in Shanghai, work- In other words, it’s the bonding calendar says it has been 35 years Teitel and Steve Kane have joined or Yankees?” and ball history and recorded such He insists, however, that he For Sprechman and his ing at a Chinese Internet company that matters. And for those who at- since we graduated from Colum- me on the Reunion Committee and Ahe’ll respond adamantly, “Can’t memorable moments as Johan wouldn’t be in his scoring seat friends, including Blum, Edward prior to starting her junior year at tended Alumni Reunion Weekend bia — our shared experience. The we could use your help. So practice say.” One doesn’t become an Santana’s no-hitter for the without the late Bill Shannon. Barbini ’83 and David Newman American University at Peking this spring, which celebrated the Columbia thought that I have in your disco moves and drop me a official scorer without loving Mets and Derek Jeter’s 3,000th Shannon scored and covered ’83, reporting on and scoring for University in Beijing. 35th anniversary of our gradua- connection with this milestone is to note with comments, questions or baseball, and presumably a hit as a Yankee. Lions football as a stringer for Columbia athletics was about Their travels left me and my tion, this column is all about those imagine the four dorm rooms that suggestions. Or better yet, join us team as well, but as the official For Sprechman, the art of the Associated Press while “getting the players’ stories out eldest daughter, Elana (24) — a interactions. Please send me your I slept in. My freshman year was at and be part of the planning. Contact scorer for both teams’ home scoring involves more than Sprechman attended the Col- and learning” says Blum. “We master’s student in thoughts on the big event. You can Carman, the highlight of which was either of the staff members at the and archiving at Simmons in write to either address at the top of meeting the great Doc Deming. My top of the column, or me. games Sprechman knows applying the 36 pages of the of- lege, and in 1979 he became an were just doing what we were Boston — in New Haven, where the column, or submit an update sophomore year I slept in Hartley, Until then, send me your news! impartiality is key. ficial MLB rulebook. It requires official scorer for the American doing and having fun doing it.” we took responsibility for many through the CCT webform college. with the highlight being the day There’s no reason to wait until re- Sprechman started scoring an understanding of the game’s League and later the official Despite his involvement things, including the care of her columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ Jerry McMannus ’80 revealed to me union to start getting reacquainted. for the Major League Baseball nuances and an eagle eye. In scorer for MLB in New York City. with Columbia sports, Sprech- new kitten, the first pet in our fam- note. that The Flintstones was actually a It would be great to hear a little Commissioner’s office in 2000. the second it takes an infielder In 1990, when AP relied on man always intended to go ily in a generation. Elana spent the Andy Semons reports that his cartoon version of The Honeymoon- something from everyone who Splitting a season’s worth of to bobble a grounder and allow freelance stringers rather than to law school. He majored in summer as an archivist at the New “later in life” business venture, a ers (perhaps the greatest fact still in plans to attend. I suspect it could Mets and Yankees games the other team to score, the staffers to cover games, Shan- history and after earning a Haven Museum. small ad agency called Interplan- my head). My junior year I lived in even spark a domino effect; the between Howie Karpin — his co- visible difference between a non was swamped. Sprech- J.D. worked at various firms My job — overseeing develop- etary that’s based in SoHo, is enter- John Jay, selling life-sized Barnard more classmates who speak up official scorer — and part-time hit and an error blurs. A final man offered a helping hand before joining J.P. Morgan ment, planning, housing, transpor- ing its third year and doing well. bears and used Lacoste shirts from about their plans, the more others tation, permitting and marketing The agency was formed by five my dorm room with Stew Levy who may be on the fence will stringers, Sprechman juggles call depends on details all the with the reporting and after a (then Chemical Bank) in 1993. for my hometown and our really alumni from and Mather SEAS’79 to help pay for tuition. decide to go. Write me at either nights at the ballpark with his way down to the positioning of time asked about becoming While the prospect of a sports great and smart new mayor — is (including Andy) and currently My senior year, due to a great address at the top of the column, full-time job as a wealth adviser the fielder’s feet, from which a scorer. “And after [Bill gave career tempted him, he feared fascinating, immersive and intel- handles a number of nonprofit and lottery pick, I had a single room in or submit an update via the CCT at J.P. Morgan. He also scores for Sprechman can discern the me] the usual and obligatory, that working in the business lectually challenging in a way that financial services accounts. Furnald; my fondest memory is of webform college.columbia.edu/ the New York Jets and Columbia fielder’s intent and the play ‘You’ve got to be out of your “would have stripped away the I have never experienced before, David Silberklang happily co-producing the Furnald Folk Fest cct/submit_class_note. football and is the head of the that should have been made. mind, we get paid 110 bucks a intrigue and the romance and with the possible exception of my announces “the birth of my first with the great Jack Garden. tournament information desk at Working live, Sprechman avoids game, 10 bucks after scoring the fun of sports.” first software start-up in 2000. grandchild on March 20, a boy So many dreams and wishes oc- the U.S. Open tennis champion- television replays as much as the game, 100 bucks to put A highlight of his scoring ten- Cities, especially medium-sized named Noam (to my daughter, curred late at night while my head Michael Kinsella ships. “There’s a lot of variety in possible. “We don’t want to rely up with all the guff,’ I said ‘OK’ ure came on July 9, 2011, when ones in the North and Midwest, Yael, and son-in-law, Mati).” His rested on the pillow, looking at the 16 Millwood St. probably capture a greater range of news update also includes the ceiling of those dorm rooms. What 81 Milford, CT 06460 this life,” says Sprechman, who on replay because you lose the anyway,” Sprechman says. the Yankees played the Tampa the parallel complexity, agony and March publication of his history 35 years from graduation means 81 lives in Manhattan with his wife, spatial relationship. In slow mo, Shannon insisted that to Bay Rays at home. Jeter was one [email protected] ecstasy of life in America today than book, Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in to me is that since then there have Barbara, and dog, Brewster. everything looks like a hit,” he become a scorer, one had to away from the statistical mile- any other setting. They are flourish- the Lublin District. been 35 other alumni who have Summer in New England finally Working behind the scenes, says. watch a lot of baseball. So stone of 3,000 hits. “Any scorer ing as the successful and sought-af- In other book news, fresh from slept in those very rooms. arrived toward the end of June Sprechman shadowed him — will tell you that no matter the ter platform for expanding schools the publication of his The Red What a great alumni venture it and, with it, a reemergence from for 10 years — and in 2000, outcome, they wanted it to be a (in our case, from Yale to private Atlantic: American Indigenes and would be in our “Google this” and our winter cocoon and a return after Shannon lobbied for clean hit,” says Sprechman. Any kindergartens) and hospitals (New the Making of the Modern World, “Google that” world to actually to seeing neighbors, grilling and an expanded scoring team, ambiguity in the call might spur Haven’s is now the fourth-largest 1000–1927, Jace Weaver is complet- communicate with or meet those tending to long-neglected gardens. Sprechman was offered a posi- controversy. During Jeter’s next in the country), and as playgrounds ing another, Oklahoma Revolution: 35 individuals who literally slept in Thanks to all who wrote, and I look of the many bright innovators and Radicalism against Racism, 1923, the same place as I. What dreams forward to hearing from everyone tion. After passing an exam, he at bat, the shortstop worked professionals (from recent grads about the little-known struggle of did they make come true? Truly a again soon. officially scored his first game the count full as the crowd’s an- to retirees). They are also the entry socialists and American Indians lifetime ago. Roar, lion, roar! Steve Williams moved partially that same year. ticipation and excitement grew. point for first-generation opportuni- against the Ku Klux Klan between back to the United States with his All of this isn’t to say that When Jeter blasted a home run ty seekers from every corner of the 1917 and 1924. Jace is also on the wife of 27 years, setting up a home REUNION WEEKEND Sprechman jumped into the deep to left field, Sprechman globe, especially Central America, advisory board for a retrospective in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after living MAY 28–31, 2015 press box without any experi- sighed in relief. who complain little, work hard of Columbia artist-in-residence for 25 years in London. He writes, ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ence. He started scoring for For Sprechman, the beauty and thrive without the benefit of Sam Steinberg that’s being put “With two kids still living in Kens- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Mann while in high of statistics is the unique way an organized industrial world, the together by the Class of ’75 for ington and a younger one attend- [email protected] school there, and also snuck in which they tell the story of kind that greeted — albeit harshly Alumni Reunion Weekend 2015. ing high school in sunny Florida, 212-851-9148 as well — many of our great-grand- Anyone who has “Sams” they’d I have the pleasure of commuting into Columbia basketball the game. “One of the things DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova parents. like to include should contact between the two … This nomadic games — abetted by his friend that appeals to people about [email protected] It makes for an amazing series either Jace or David Gawarecki ’75 life is far less exotic than it sounds, Josh Ehrlich ’77, who was sports is the ability to compare 212-851-7833 of 12- and 14-hour days that chal- at [email protected]. but better than living somewhere on the JV basketball scoring what’s happened across gen- lenge and energize me. Glen Savits updates us with Michael C. Brown like New York!” crew — to do minutes played erations,” he says. One Columbia note from work: professional and family news: “I 80 London Terrace Towers Out on the West Coast, Douglas for the Lions. Once at the Col- Reflecting on his role in Our corporation counsel is Victor am pleased to announce the open- 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F Sadownick Ph.D., a licensed mar- lege, Sprechman expanded his America’s greatest pastime, Bolden ’86, who was in law school ing of my new firm, Green Savits, 80 New York, NY 10011 riage and family therapist, is the reach. As a sports writer for Sprechman adds, “A large part with President Barack Obama ’83. in Florham Park, N.J. We specialize founding director of the Antioch [email protected] Spectator, he covered every- of human endeavor is trying to He is now going through the pro- in the representation of employees University LGBT Specialization cess of becoming a federal judge — in all employment matters includ- It’s almost fall here in New York and director of Colors: LGBTQ thing from women’s volleyball make sense of what’s other- exciting for the town, although we ing discrimination, harassment and City and the campus has never Youth Counseling Center, which to wrestling and of course, wise a chaotic universe. Being will of course lose him from our whistle blowing. looked better. I offer a big con- offers free LGBT-affirmative baseball. He also wrote for the able to be part of what creates administration. “My daughter Juliet ’12 (24) has gratulations to our baseball team for counseling to youth 25 and under. Columbia Sports Information that basis of comparison and Send in something great when finished her commitment with winning a second consecutive Ivy Douglas is in the Los Angeles Office’s newsletter, Lines on what stitches together the you read this and I promise to get Teach For America and is starting League title and for representing us area where he is a private practice Jordan Sprechman ’83 scores for both the Mets and the Yankees. Lions; called soccer, basketball continuity is humbling.” the usual reminder out next time. a job as a middle school science admirably at the NCAA regionals psychotherapist specializing in PHOTO: BRYAN HERITY and football games for WKCR; Karl Daum ’15 Enjoy the fall and write if you get teacher for Success Academy in in Miami. Coach Brett Boretti and gay-centered depth psychology. work, or retire! Harlem. My son Gabriel (18) recent- his players showed us that we can Jonathan E. Aviv PS’85 recently

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The professor would The Mysteries & Dangers of Acid recently named to the board of from with a geo- coverage,’ said David Newman, where he taught constitutional listed in Best Lawyers in America sity trustee and a tireless supporter have suggested that I use the Reflux and its Connection to America’s trustees of the Freer Gallery of Art science degree and is now enrolled the Mets’ senior vice president of law. Columbia is all for giving its (2010–14) and in New York Super of the College. My wife and I really superlative ‘deliziossima’ and he Fastest Growing Cancer With a Diet and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in a Ph.D. program in geological marketing and communications. prestigious alum’s library a home. Lawyers (2008 and 2011–13). In enjoyed spending time with Steve would have been correct.” That May Save Your Life. In the book, of the Smithsonian Institution. (To- at USF’s College of ‘It’s about opportunities, not issues. ‘We’re very proud that President 2014, he received the Outstanding at the dinner. Steve recently joined While my wife and daughter he says, he links the “extremely gether they form the Smithsonian’s Marine Science. Katy’s research has It’s about looking forward, not Obama is a Columbia graduate, 50 in Business Gerrard and me as CC’83 represen- shopped at the Ponte Vecchio in acidic, highly processed food of national museums of Asian art.) taken her to many distant lands backward.’ He said that Kaufman and we take quite seriously the Award from the Asian American tatives on the alumni board. Florence, my sons and I checked the Western diet to acid reflux He remains on the boards of the St. with a notable focus on Antarctica. will help bring the Mets exposure request for qualifications necessary Business Development Center. Teddy Weinberger’s son, Ezra, out the Tutto 99 Cents shops. Also disease, and ultimately [makes] Louis Symphony; Jazz St. Louis; Philip’s mathematician/physicist in ‘fashion, food, entertainment to host a presidential library that ’s book The inspected a container of infant noteworthy was my visit to the the link to esophageal cancer, the and New York City’s La MaMa, a son, Henry, has been accepted and lifestyle — things that target furthers both his mission and val- Murder of the Middle Class: How to tubs for my company before they largest synagogue in Rome. In the fastest growing cancer in America nonprofit that supports theater and into a highly selective program different audiences in addition to ues, and the university’s mission Save Yourself and Your Family from shipped from the factory in Kiryat film before the tour, the narrator and Europe. The book provides a Shen Wei Dance Arts, an interna- to become a Navy pilot; rather the sports audience.’” of education and public service,’ the Criminal Conspiracy of the Centu- Malachi, Israel. Ezra was on his way commented that many Jews who solution with the Acid Watcher’s tional dance company. extraordinary, given that he was up Jon Ross updates us on his non- said Columbia spokesman Robert ry is available on Amazon. Here’s to India following the inspection. fled Spain during the Spanish Diet, a unique dietary program that profit, MicroAid. He writes, “I did Hornsby.” a taste of what others are saying Ezra, safe travels! Inquisition ended up in Rome. So, combines low-acid foods, a high fi- a project in Samoa (2012) where Athletics Director M. Dianne about it. Dr. Benjamin S. Carson Dennis Klainberg ’84 was kind too, when the Jews fled Libya in ber component and a balance of the we built 16 canoes, one for each Murphy spoke at a recent Colum- Sr., emeritus professor of neuro- enough to pass along an email the 1960s, many ended up in Rome three macronutrients (proteins, fats, The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. in the village of Matafa’a, bia College Alumni Association surgery, oncology, plastic surgery about a Sam (“the hoisheyman”) where they could practice Judaism carbs) to keep the body acid-free to replace those lost in the 2009 Board of Directors meeting. Some and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins retrospective that may take place freely. Although the Jewish commu- while maintaining excellent health Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution named tsunami. Since the entire village sports highlights from the 2013–14 School of Medicine and author during Alumni Reunion Weekend nity was virtually wiped out during for years to come.” William Carey ’81 to their board of trustees. helped with the project — the year: Men’s cross country won of the New York Times bestseller 2015. For more information, or if the Holocaust, there are more than Thanks to Jonathan for the diet elders teaching everyone the art the 2013 Ivy League Heptagonal America the Beautiful says, “In The you have a Sam or a Sam story to 15,000 Jews living in Rome. tips and congratulations on the of carving an outrigger canoe — it Championship title. Women’s cross Murder of the Middle Class, Wayne share, contact class correspondent Anyone who is interested in publication of his book! was like canoe college. After that, country won its 16th consecu- Allyn Root does a magnificent job Randy Nichols ’75 at rcn2day@ photos of the trip should send me Jeff Gracer practices environ- Please keep me posted on the against all the hot shots from the one of the young craftsmen even tive Metropolitan Championship of exposing and highlighting the gmail.com. I have several original an email. mental law at Sive, Paget & Riesel latest developments, and I look service academies. got hired to build two canoes in a title. Men’s basketball finished tactics used by those who wish to Sam paintings that I cherish. Looking forward to seeing you in NYC, where he focuses on re- forward to hearing from everyone Now here’s where all this gets neighboring village. All that, alone, 21–13 overall, the most wins for fundamentally change America One of the hazards of modern at Homecoming on Saturday, mediation and redevelopment of soon. weird. First, my daughter, Izzy, is would have been a fabulous Micro- the program since 1967–68 and its from a free and prosperous society technology is using the email cc October 25! contaminated sites, environmental scheduled to graduate next year Aid success story. Well, recently, first 20-win season since 1969–70; to a ‘utopian’ society in which all scroll feature and pressing the aspects of real estate and corporate from Hamilton with a geoscience I was contacted by a guy in Apia Alex Rosenberg ’15 was named the necessities of life are provided wrong name. In an email to China transactions and environmental Andrew Weisman degree; she spent last November in (the capital of Samoa) who puts on first team All-Ivy League after by government while the middle about ordering rattles, I copied Dennis Klainberg litigation. He is active in global 81 S. Garfield St. Antarctica and is currently doing a yearly festival featuring canoe putting together one of the finest class is replaced by the dependent Jack Abuhoff instead of Jack, my 84 Berklay Cargo Worldwide efforts to strengthen environmental 82 Denver, CO 80209 research at USF’s College of Marine races, traditional Samoan dancing, offensive seasons in Columbia class. There is much useful and warehouse manager. What a great 14 Bond St., Ste 233 compliance and to mitigate and 82 Science. My wife is named Jody arts and culture. He wanted in- history. Fencing finished seventh well referenced material in this way to reconnect with my longtime 84 Great Neck, NY 11021 [email protected] adapt to climate change. As Jeff and my son is named Henry. I had formation about the canoe project at the NCAA National Champi- resource for those wishing to be friend. Jack has been president and [email protected] notes, he and his wife, Ellen Archer, Greetings, gents. I trust all is well to verify that I wasn’t accidentally (he read about it on our MicroAid onships. Wrestling earned three well-informed.” CEO of Innodata since 1997. will soon be empty-nesters — much and that your respective summers copied on a correspondence with Facebook page) and was asking automatic bids and one wild card Former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, In July I spent two memorable Our 30th reunion, as Richard Rog- to their surprise and amazement! went swimmingly. Yours truly went myself. me a lot of questions about where, bid to the 2014 NCAA Champion- president of the Heritage Founda- weeks in Italy with my wife and ers ’23 and Oscar Hammerstein II Congratulations, Jeff, on the on a lengthy, somewhat quixotic Keep those notes coming! Write how and who built them. ships in Oklahoma City. Women’s tion and author of Falling in Love our children, Rebecca (11), David (Class of 1916) so poignantly put it, empty nest, but beware: These tour of Europe and the Middle East. to me at either of the addresses­ at “The upshot is that he is hiring swimming and diving posted a 7–0 with America Again, says, “I co- (9) and Ricky (6). We visited Rome, was “a real nice clambake …” creatures have a nasty habit of I managed to knock a few items off the top of the column, or send your our village to build 20 canoes for dual-meet record for the first time founded the U.S. Senate Tea Party Sorrento, Capri, Pisa, Florence and Spearheaded by Reunion Com- returning! my bucket list, including a visit to news via college.columbia.edu/cct/ the festival. Twenty! This will be a in program history. Baseball went Caucus to protect the middle class. Venice. It brought back fond memo- mittee co-chairs Arthur Kohn and Donald Siegel has been the Saudi Arabia. The warning on my submit_class_note. village-wide project, and they will 13–3 in the Ivy League, tying for Our great middle class made Amer- ries of the European trip I took with John Perfetti, with the help of com- dean of the School of Business at entry document (“If you’re caught be paid more money than they first in the Gehrig Division, then ica the greatest country in world Leonard Rosen, Eddy Friedfeld mittee members Virgilio Lozza, SUNY-Albany since 2008. Don re- in possession of drugs you will be have seen in many years. All 300 beat Penn and Dartmouth in play- history. The middle class created and Adam Bayroff after we gradu- Larry Kane, Averill Powers, Alfred ports these are exciting times at the executed”) provided an interesting Roy Pomerantz members of the village will benefit. offs for its second consecutive Ivy the American Dream. Today it’s all ated from law school in 1988. It is Torres, Paul Auwaerter, James Gor- school: “Last August, we opened contrast in political zeitgeist for a Babyking/Petking This is one of those surprising championship. Men’s tennis went being taken away by big govern- impossible to visit Italy without ap- ton, Ben Pushner, Kenneth Ofori- our $64 million School of Business resident of Colorado, where certain 83 182-20 Liberty Ave. benefits of the MicroAid work: the 20–1 overall, 7–0 in the Ivy League ment, big business, big unions, big preciating our Columbia education. Atta and Dennis Klainberg, the Building, which was recently voted drugs may soon become legal. 83 Jamaica, NY 11412 multiplier effect. I hope this makes and were league champions. taxes and regulations. Wayne Root I could hear the Wagnerian records event was great fun for all. It also the fourth most attractive business Checking in this quarter was the [email protected] you as happy as it does me.” Banking and finance partner is a middle class warrior. Wayne has from Music Hum as our gondolier was a great success for the College, school facility in the world based eminent jurist Philip Smith. For New York Mayor Kenneth Chin was interviewed by drawn up the blueprint for passed the Palazzo Vendramin-Ca- as the Class of 1984 raised a total of on an online survey conducted by those who have not kept in contact “Juggle This! 2014” was held at is courting President Barack NY1 News as part of a series on bit- the middle class and restoring the lergi, where Wagner died. I pictured $470,575 for the Columbia College topmanagementdegrees.com. My with Philip, he is a partner at the Barnard, and I had the pleasure of Obama with respect to his planned coin. Bitcoin, a virtual , has American Dream.” my Art Humanities flash cards (I Fund and a total of $1,390,743 com- latest books are The Oxford Hand- law firm Seyfarth Shaw and works reuniting with Professor Richard presidential library. As a June 6 New been the subject of increased scru- Kevin Chapman was the lone wish I saved them) while visiting prehensively for the College. book of the Economics of Gambling in its Manhattan office. Friedberg [GSAS’62], former chair- York Daily News article reported, tiny by law enforcement as it has member of our class to carry the Sistine Chapel and Michelan- and The Chicago Handbook of Uni- I did a little digging and, accord- man of its Department of Physics “Obama is a graduate of the Ivy become a popular tool for funding the banner during the Alumni gelo’s David. The huge emphasis on versity Technology Transfer and Aca- ing to the firm’s website, Philip and Astronomy. Professor Fried- League school. President Obama illegal activity. The New York State Parade of Classes at Class Day. our meals made me reminisce about demic Entrepreneurship.” Don says “concentrates on securities class berg’s daughter, who also attended may have roots in Chicago, but Department of Financial Services noted that he was Carlo Collodi’s Italian Picareseque Columbia College he is in NYC often for fundraising action defense, merger and ac- the festival, is Cindy Marvell Fried- Mayor de Blasio wants his legacy has been working on proposed in Tokyo that day and Gerrard novel The Adventures of Pinocchio Alumni on Facebook and is pleased to see how beautiful quisition litigation, Securities and berg, a world-famous juggler and to live on in New York City. … ‘I regulations of bitcoin. Ken was Bushell assured us he will make it and the puppet’s obsession with the Columbia campus and sur- Exchange Commission investiga- former International Juggler As- think Columbia University is a quoted as saying that increased next year. food. My brother recommended we rounding area have become. tions and enforcement, corporate sociation first-place winner. Cindy perfect place for President Obama’s regulation, with the implied notes, “I will be eat at Il Profeta in Florence, where Don Weinreich GSAPP’85 governance and control disputes, saw one of my juggling shows museum,’ he said. ‘We would do assurance of legal recourse and there next year! (Not as dedicated they served a house specialty pasta Check out the practices architecture as a partner investigations of banks and other when I was a student at Columbia anything we can to be helpful.’ De safety, could make it a more viable as it sounds; my daughter is Sarah with a secret sauce (more than 100 Columbia College in Ennead Architects in NYC. In financial institutions, complex and has remained a friend for more Blasio added he personally reached option for the average consumer. ’15.) Thanks to Kevin for march- years old) that my 9-year-old rated addition to education, cultural breach of contract and business tort than 30 years. The highlight of the out to Obama’s team to urge the He also said that any regulations ing; I did it once many years ago No. 1 in his life. Alumni page! research and medical projects, Don claims, trade secrets claims, credi- festival for me was passing six 44th President to install his library that would make it more difficult with Roy [Pomerantz] and it was I also spotted in a Venetian bak- facebook.com/ and the firm have been collaborat- tors’ rights and worldwide asset clubs with my daughter, Rebecca at his alma mater once he leaves to finance illegal activities using a blast. We were actually reminisc- ery marzipan, a delicacy Professor alumnicc ing with Stanford and the Office of recoveries, private international (11). Rebecca is also a talented tap office in 2017. ‘We’re certainly going bitcoin would likely force such us- ing about it just two weeks ago at a Karl-Ludwig Selig used to rave the United Nations High Commis- law and white-collar criminal dancer. She recently performed a to work hard to get it done,’ de ers back to more traditional means dinner we both attended.” about. After sending a photo to sioner for Refugees to study new investigations and proceedings.” tap routine at the 92nd Street Y with Blasio said. ‘Chicago may have a bit of financing their activities. As an aside, Steve’s daughter Eddy and his brother, Leon Fried- Like the page to get and better ways to plan refugee There were a number of high- three other dancers in front of more of a hometown advantage, but we Ken has more than 25 years of worked with former University feld ’88, over the Internet, Eddy alumni news, learn camps. Their research has taken profile cases mentioned on the site than 700 audience members. don’t give up easily.’ experience providing legal and Trustee George Van Amson ’74 this noted: “You found the marzipan! about alumni events and the team to Rwanda and Jordan. — some real grist for an interesting David Newman was quoted in “But he’ll be fighting against transactional advice to a variety of summer. Meanwhile, the dinner he Are you bringing any back?” College happenings, A description of the project can be autobiography! The New York Times about Harold bulldog Chicago Mayor Rahm clients in corporate and financing referred to was The Kraft Center Indeed I did, and after deliver- found at enneadlab.org (Ennead Philip lives in Harrison, N.Y., Kaufman’s joining the Mets com- Emanuel, who is vigorously court- transactions. He is a Recognized for Jewish Student Life Seixas ing it to Leon, he declared: “Best

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Special thanks to our Columbia by September 10. Write me at either is alive, you may not be aware Rothman — all of whom have be- sherpas, Robin Del Giorno, Renée address at the top of the column or that the print version has taken a come Columbia parents, coinciden- Hites, Fatima Yudeh and Megan via the CCT webform college.col major redirection and is becoming tally — for taking time out of their Cheever, for their guidance and umbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. a weekly publication this fall with busy schedules to catch up this past coordination. more frequent updates online. spring. I’ve had some great meals in Alumni Sons and Daughters Our first event, with special Amr Aly is part of a stellar group New York and Seattle, heard about REUNION WEEKEND thanks to James Gorton and his of 16 former student-athletes, a the latest trends and caught up with MAY 28–31, 2015 lovely family for their hospitality, legendary head coach and four great stories about their students’ ad- Sixty-eight members of the College Class of 2018 and four members of the Engineering Class of 2018 ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS was held on Thursday evening at outstanding teams that will be ventures in Venice, Senegal, ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott the Gortons’ beautiful home on the inducted into the 2014 class of the and the high-tech world of NYC. are sons or daughters of College alumni. This list is alphabetical by the parent(s)’ last name. [email protected] Upper East Side. Great food, wine Columbia University Athletics Hall If you are interested in partici- 212-851-9148 and conversations were shared, of Fame this fall. All will be honored pating in reunion planning, get in DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova STUDENT PARENT STUDENT PARENT STUDENT PARENT and a spirited visit from Dean with a black-tie dinner and induc- touch with either of the Alumni Of- [email protected] James J. Valentini capped this truly tion ceremony in Low Library on fice contacts listed at the top of the Anna Palmer-Alonso Jose Alonso ’79 Roya Gheissari Ali Gheissari ’79 Kurt Moskovitz Martin Moskovitz ’85 212-851-7833 n magical evening. To paraphrase Thursday, October 23. The induct- column. More directly, you also can Woodcliff Lake, N.J. n Pascack Hills H.S. La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. Flintridge Preparatory West Orange, N.J. n Kushner Yeshiva H.S. School the dean, the value of a Columbia Jon White ees were picked through a vote of reach out to the staff members who Michael Anagnos George Anagnos ’80 Ohemaa Ofori-Atta Kenneth Ofori-Atta ’84 College education today is extraor- 16 South Ct. a selection committee of Columbia are working with our class: Suzy Haworth, N.J. n Riverdale Country School Robert Godfried David Godfried ’84 Accra, Ghana n Ghana International School dinary, which means the value of 85 Port Washington, NY Athletics affiliates, including alumni Alpert, assistant director, alumni Manhasset, N.Y. n Manhasset H.S. Michael Argenziano Michael Argenziano ’88 and Talia Pinker * Edieal Pinker ’89 your diploma is higher than ever! 85 11050 and athletics administrators. [Edi- relations, in the Alumni Office at n Emily Greenberg Jonathan Greenberg ’84 Rochester, N.Y. Brighton H.S. Maria Rodino ’88 n This was also the first time that [email protected] tor’s note: See “Roar, Lion, Roar” in [email protected] or 212-851- Closter, N.J. n Northern Valley Regional H.S. Cooperstown, N.Y. Cooperstown Central School our class had an official reunion this issue.] 7846 or Renée Hites, assistant direc- Matthew Ratner Evan Ratner ’85 Jessica Gruenstein David Gruenstein ’77 Short Hills, N.J. n Newark Academy event with the gals from Barnard, This column should be titled Congratulations, Amr! tor, class giving, Columbia College Jason Avigan David Avigan ’85 n Sharon, Mass. n Maimonides School New York City Ramaz Upper School and there were at least 20 alumnae “Celebrating Back at Columbia,” Recent celebrations haven’t been Fund, at [email protected] or Francis Kosarek Michelle Rivera ’88 Zoe Guttenplan Don Guttenplan ’78 n and guests, as well as around 60 as many of you have enjoyed or limited to the Columbia campus. 212-851-7452. Nicole Babendreier * Gerard Babendreier ’84 n Charlotte, N.C. Charlotte Country Day School of us with guests. Indeed, as Ria reconnected recently with the In June, John Phelan and Tom I look forward to sharing more Rockville, Md. n Oakcrest School London, England South Hampstead H.S. Luke Roberts Darrol Roberts ’86 Coyne BC’84, GSAS’85 and her school or campus, or have plans to Scotti were in attendance for the exciting Reunion 2015 updates in Lauren Haberman Sinclair Haberman ’78 n Elizabeth Barnett Richard Barnett ’75 n Milton, Mass. husband, former Dean of Students do so soon. wedding of Harold Ullman’s this column in the next few issues! Pelham, N.Y. n Pelham Memorial H.S. New York City Ma’ayanot Yeshiva H.S. for Girls Roger Lehecka ’67, GSAS’74, at- Dan Poliak LAW’89 was co- daughter, Rachel. Abigail Rubel David Rubel ’83 Noah Basri William Basri ’84 and Nancy Basri ’87 Christopher Hall * Michael Hall ’84 Chatham, N.Y. n Chatham H.S. tended, we may have gained brag- chair of his 25th reunion at the Law Mazel tov to the Ullmans! Minneapolis n Blake School-Northrup Campus Rumson, N.J. n Academy of Allied Health & Science ging rights as the first or at least School and spent a few weeks in I heard from several of you on Everett Weinberger Talia Rubin Michael Rubin ’87 Avidan Halivni Isaiah Halivni ’88 Newton, Mass. n Gann Academy (New Jewish H.S.) one of the few classes to have the NYC this spring. the East Coast. David Fleiss is 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B Max Binder Mark Binder ’84 Deerfield, Ill.n Chicagoland Jewish H.S. 86 Providence, R.I. n Classical H.S. privilege of celebrating with two Paul Getzels and his wife, Kathy moving from Washington, D.C., New York, NY 10023 Garrett Ryan Denis Ryan ’87 Paul Hirschhorn Philip Hirschhorn ’84 deans during a reunion class event. Schneider ’88, attended Dean’s to the Cleveland area. Thanks to 86 Scottsdale, Ariz. n Wyoming Seminary College [email protected] Jack Blattman Eric Blattman ’80 Montclair, N.J. n Montclair H.S. Friday offered informal gather- Day, which was held the Saturday Seth Schachner, who texted me a Norwalk, Conn. n King Low Heywood Thomas School Preparatory School ings and our class was treated to of Alumni Reunion Weekend. He photo of my coffee in Miami. And As we turn 50, don’t despair — Adrian Ivashkiv Lionel Ivashkiv ’80 James Brett James Brett ’84 and Patricia Brett ’87 New York City n Trinity School Daniel Salas Simon Salas ’79 a tour of the High Line, followed writes, “We heard a fabulous lecture I ran into Charles Passy at the you’re not in this alone! Here is a list Greenwich, Conn. n Greenwich H.S. San Antonio, Texas n Keystone School by drinks at The Standard Hotel. about Abraham Lincoln by one of Javits Center this summer while of celebrities who also have turned Nathaniel Jameson Robert Jameson ’93 Katherine Seidler-Broekman Jennifer n Alexandra Silvera David Silvera ’86 Saturday’s events included lectures my favorite professors, Eric Foner exhibiting at the Fancy Food show. or will be turning a half-century New York City LaGuardia H.S. of Music & Art and n and meals. ’63, GSAS’69, a leading authority Charles is a writer for The Wall this year and still look great: Sandra Broekman ’93 Performing Arts Bryn Mawr, Pa. Episcopal Academy Fair Lawn, N.J. n Fair Lawn H.S. Most exciting was the Saturday on the Civil War and Reconstruc- Street Journal. Bullock, Russell Crowe, Michelle Ana Siracusano Luciano Siracusano ’87 Peter Kalicki Jan Kalicki ’68 n class dinner with our Engineer- tion, and he signed for me a copy Speaking of the East Coast and Obama, Nicholas Cage, Lenny John Butler John Butler ’73 Alexandria, Va. n New York City Laguna Niguel, Calif. n Santa Margarita Catholic H.S. ing confrères. We were treated to of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, celebrating back at Columbia, in Kravitz, Rob Lowe, Elle Macpher- Nicole Smith Richard Smith ’89 Juliette Kang John Kang ’84 n an after-dinner presentation by The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and less than a year we will celebrate son, Keanu Reeves, Courtney Love, Stephanie Cajigas Antonio Cajigas ’83 New York City n The Bellevue, Wash. Lakeside School Michael Massimino SEAS’84, American Slavery. Brought back the 30th anniversary of our College Courtney Cox, Stephen Colbert, Katonah, N.Y. n John Jay H.S. Paul Kay Peter Kay ’83 Isabel Sollohub Darius Sollohub ’83 astronaut extraordinaire (“the first great memories of my undergradu- graduation by gathering on cam- Matt Dillon, John Leguizamo, Da- n Ross Chapman Kevin Chapman ’83 Eugene, Ore. n South Eugene H.S. Glen Ridge, N.J. Glen Ridge H.S. astronaut to tweet from space” ate years.” pus for Alumni Reunion Weekend. vid Spade, Janeane Garofalo, Calista Princeton Junction, N.J. n West Windsor-Plainsboro as noted on Saturday Night Live). I hope many of us will be able to It’s never too early to save the date, Flockhart, Don Cheadle, Marisa To- Ethan Danial Mojdeh Khaghan ’88 Jacob Stone Stephen Stone ’81 H.S. North n Modestly describing his career as attend Dean’s Day next year, as it so mark your calendars for Thurs- mei, Eddie Vedder, Bridget Fonda, Miami Beach, Fla. n Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Valley Village, Calif. Valley Torah H.S. that of a “mere civil servant,” he will be our own Alumni Reunion day, May 28–Sunday, May 31. I am Mariska Hargitay, Laura Linney, Alex Chen William Chen ’77 Academy Belle Mead, N.J. n Montgomery H.S. Sophia Tepler Isidore Tepler ’76 nonetheless regaled us with stories Weekend (more on that later in the delighted to share with you that I Sarah Palin, Tracy Chapman, Hank Theodore Kleinman Howard Kleinman ’84 Westport, Conn. n Greens Farms Academy n and treated us to a PowerPoint column). am co-chairing our Reunion Com- Azaria, Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Niles Christensen Jens Christensen ’84 New York City Trinity School Menlo Park, Calif. n Menlo School Justin Udry Stephen Udry ’85 presentation about his training, his Several classmates have returned mittee along with John Phelan Rosie Perez, Monica Bellucci, Clive Rebecca Landau Nathan Landau ’79 Kenosha, Wis. n Tremper H.S. n famous Hubble Space Telescope to alma mater to hang their profes- and Leslie Smartt. While John is Owen, Guillermo del Toro, Diana Georgianna Bonodona Martin Cicco ’78 Berkeley, Calif. Berkeley H.S. repair mission and his exploits as a sional shingles. Colin Redhead is leading the charge on event plan- Krall, Robin Givens, Teri Hatcher, New York City n Horace Mann School Maegan Wang Philip Wang ’70 Matt Landes David Landes ’77 Singapore n Raffles Junior College professor at the Engineering School. the deputy treasurer of the Uni­- ning and Leslie is the point person Bobby Flay, Steve Austin, Jeff Bezos, n Dylan Cooper Pace Cooper ’85 New York City SAR Academy H.S. Afterward, many of the 150 or versity, and Konrad Motyka is on communications, I am heading Wynonna Judd and Melinda Gates. Memphis n Margolin Hebrew Academy Feinstone Tina Robert Watson ’86 so dinner attendees went to Low the facilities director for the new up the fundraising efforts. We will Congrats to Sam Abrams ’89 Emily Lavine Jonathan Lavine ’88 Great Neck, N.Y. n John Miller Great Neck North H.S. Yeshiva of the South Weston, Mass. n Dana Hall School Plaza for the Starlight Reception. It Manhattanville campus. I ran into be in touch with you regularly (who started with our class) for Yael Waxman Daniel Waxman ’89 Ethan Cooper Pace Cooper ’85 n included champagne and dancing Konnie at Commencement as I was regarding special class events and being awarded the Insignia of n Hudson Lee Douglas Lee ’86 Cedarhurst, N.Y. Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns Memphis Margolin Hebrew Academy Feinstone Oakland Gardens, N.Y. n Stuyvesant H.S. under the stars (actually, under a trying to maneuver around the our fundraising goals. Knight, First Class, of the Order of Yeshiva of the South and Rockaway tent, though many of us wound up various blockades. We also encourage you to join the Lion of Finland at the residence Chase Levitt Myron Levitt ’78 Daniella Wilner Philip Wilner ’79 Emily Daly Peter Daly ’85 n n on the Steps!). Speaking of celebrating at the committee to help us make of Finnish Consul General and n Scotch Plains, N.J. Wardlaw-Hartridge School New York City Ramaz Upper School Sunday brunch featured class Columbia, my son Isaac ’14 has the weekend a success. Thank Ambassador Jukka Pietikäinen Redmond, Wash. The Overlake School William Lopez-Balboa Victor Lopez-Balboa ’82 awards and goodbyes, with plans officially joined the latest group of you to those who have already in NYC in May. Sam received Mira Davis Jeffrey Davis ’79 New York City n Saint Paul’s School * Member of the Engineering Class of 2018 to stay in touch and a hope to meet Columbia College Today recipients. volunteered: Paul Bongiorno, this honor in recognition of his Caldwell, N.J. n Solomon Schechter Day School again in five years. I know many of you are (or may Tom Carey, Stephen Carty, Brian advancement of the understand- Maeve Lyness Anne Lyness ’87 Jonathan Deluty Sheldon Deluty ’77 Shaker Heights, Ohio n Shaker Heights H.S. Three incoming To see a class photo from reunion hope to become) alumni parents Cousin, Aaron Freiwald, Julius ing of Finnish education in the Englewood, N.J. n Ramaz Upper School with list of registrants, go to the and have experienced or will get to Genachowski, Ken Handelman, United States. He conducted a Meaghan Mahoney Karen Mahoney ’88 students are sons or daughters of n CCT website for the Summer 2014 experience Commencement activi- Karen Harris, Kevin McCarthy, lot of research on Nordic as well Isaiah Feldman-Schwartz Joel Feldman ’85 Commack, N.Y. Commack H.S. College alumni. Northampton, Mass. n Northampton H.S. issue. ties from a new perspective. It was Mark Rothman, Tom Scotti, Ste- as American education systems. Lindsey Mendelson Victor Mendelson ’89 STUDENT PARENT For next time, I’d love to hear clearly very special to celebrate all phen Sivakoff, Joseph Titlebaum, Much of this research will appear Genna Fukuda James Fukuda ’82 Miami n Ransom Everglades School about your favorite part of the of the events, and I was so proud Tom Vinciguerra and David in his book, The Children Must Play: Weehawken, N.J. n Weehawken H.S. Zoe Levine Bruce Levine ’76 Alexander Meshel Adam Meshel ’92 and weekend — or, for those who didn’t of my son’s accomplishments. I Zapolsky. Education, Business and Conflict, to Jamie Feldman * Demetria Gallegos ’87 Samara Meshel ’92 David Medoff Richard Medoff ’78 attend, to receive an update on your also had the chance to meet many On a related note, special thanks be published in 2015. Sam is well New York City n Columbia Secondary School Roslyn, N.Y. n Portledge School Christina Park Hyun Park ’84 life. To get your news in the Winter of his fantastic Spectator compatri- from me to Tom Scotti, David known in Finland as a result of his issue, please get in touch with me ots; while the old Spectator spirit Zapolsky, Steve Carty and Mark dealings through the years with

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Finnish authorities and researchers. ally bright and talented NYC high remember where you come from, Eric Fusfield a people person. She had the on Saturday at Tom’s. Some things It was good to remember what a computer programmer at Intuit He even met his future wife, Laura, school students seeking entrance and I would not be writing this 88 1945 South George remarkable skill of making friends never change.” we were all like as young college and practically a tai chi master. at a reception that the ambassador to Columbia. I also welcomed first- column today had it not been for Mason Dr. wherever she spent her time in the Victor Mendelson, who lives students and the good times … ” “I practice law (litigation and held to celebrate Finnish Indepen- years as part of “Columbia 101” my predecessor on these pages, 88 Arlington, VA 22204 various schools she attended, the in Miami, remarked, “Our class I ran into Rachelle Tunik at our white collar criminal defense) in dence Day. events, once again handing the Rob Wolf. And that makes it extra [email protected] hospitals in which she trained, her was treated to a unique dinner on Friday night event. Afterward she Manhattan and live in Westchester Onneksi olkoon, Sam! incoming students copies of The special to celebrate with him and pediatric practice, the neighbor- Saturday in Low Library at which wrote, “This was the first time I’ve with my wife, Lucy, and our kids, Neil Stern shared an update: “I Iliad. And perhaps my proudest with you the publication of the first It was great to hear recently from hoods in which she lived, and the Dean [James J.] Valentini joined had the flexibility at work to make ages 12, 8 and 3. In addition to took my daughter, Rachel (a very moment was celebrating with my two installments in his young adult my former Carman Hall suitemate medical center in which she was us and addressed the best class in it to reunion and I am so glad I Mike, Andrea and me, reunion hopeful Class of ’22!), to the cam- mentor’s family as his son, Benja- science fiction book series,Khronos Matthew Herenstein. He writes, “I treated. She kept her many friends Columbia’s history. I’m told the went! Among the dear friends I brought back fellow Carman 5ers pus during Father’s Day weekend. min Schneider ’17, was accepted as Chronicles. But I will let Rob tell have never sent in an update, so I close throughout her life. regal venue was arranged by our was delighted to see were Ellen John Loza and Desi del Valle, who Showing her Carman, John Jay and a transfer student into the College! you in his own words: will use this opportunity to start. I “She became an active sup- own Lisa Carnoy, who is a Uni- Leuchs, Betina Jean-Louis, Julie has been an actress for many years some of my old haunts brought Paul Verna knows what I’m “I started working on a single live in Teaneck, N.J., with my wife, porter of the National Brain Tumor versity trustee. Michael Behringer Trelstad, Graham Trelstad, Alex and recently was in Orange Is the back a lot of great memories. It’s talking about. He has spent the book six years ago, devoting as Sharon, and children, Jacob (20), Society. Team Lauren, the bike ride and Chris Della Pietra did a great De Giorgis, Erik Price and Mat- New Black. On the Saturday night been a great ride; the years have last few years as the regional ARC many hours on mornings and Gabriel (19) and Jamie (17). After team she captained, participated job fundraising and making the thew Engels. Lovely to see them of reunion, we also hung out a fair flown by! All is well with our chair for Maine. Paul said that this weekends as I could while keeping practicing law for seven years and in the Boston Brain Tumor Ride case to support the College, while and so many others from our class, amount on the Starlight Reception family. My wife, Eliza, and I have past year was stellar for his com- busy during the day as director managing a for more over the last four years, raising Wanda Holland Greene and Brian COOP and Carman 11. I only wish dance floor with Isaac Castaneda, three teenagers who keep us busy, mittee. He wrote, “We’ve always of communications at the Center than 10 years, I now manage a real money for basic research into brain O’Connell provided passionate I had made it to all the ’89 events, who lives and runs a business in and my job as senior partner at my done a decent job interviewing for Court Innovation (where I’ve estate development and manage- tumors. Two years ago she lobbied and impressive speeches about as I was sorry to miss some people! the Dominican Republic, and consulting company, McMillan- candidates in this area. But this worked for the past 15 years, help- ment firm, the Orlo Fund, based the U.S. Congress and Senate on what Columbia did and meant for You never know what you might Ahpaly Coradin, who practices Doolittle, keeps me constantly past season, I made a concerted ing promote justice reform). What in Laurel, Md. I am in touch with behalf of legislation supported by them. The all-class Starlight Recep- learn from a classmate.” law at his own firm in Miami.” on the road to places like Seoul, effort to greatly expand our rep- emerged were the first two books only a few class members, includ- the National Brain Tumor Society. tion on Low Plaza after dinner was Julie Kowitz Margolies and Charles Radi, who lives in London and Hong Kong.” resentation. I helped recruit new in my Khronos Chronicles series, ing Jay Kupietzky, who lives in This past year she spoke out packed with people, including her husband, Alex Margolies, Miami and is VP and principal If we can get an update from volunteers and worked hard to The Alternate Universe and The Israel, and Josh Rochlin, who’s in nationally on the negative effects of many ’89-ers who couldn’t make it have made it to reunions but were cloud architect for Boston-based a guy who entered with us but motivate existing ones. The results Escape, which tell the story of a gay New Jersey.” the federal sequester of funds for to the dinner.” particularly impressed with the Cloud Technology Partners, was graduated in 1989, then why can’t I were gratifying. Our completion teenager from an alternate reality Ah, yes — freshman year on the brain cancer research.” Victor and his wife, Lisa, have 25th. Of the festivities, Julie com- up for reunion. Charles writes, hear from our 800-plus classmates? rate was 82 percent, which was in search of his missing father. Carman mezzanine, where Mat- Keep the updates coming! You three children; daughter Lindsey mented, “It was great to reconnect “Alumni Reunion Weekend was Please send me something, either vastly higher than in previous “They’re the kind of science fic- thew and my eight other floormates can write me at either of the ad- ’18 just started at Columbia. He with friends who were an integral such a memorable time. It brought to one of the addresses at the top years, when we were somewhere tion books I wish I’d read as a teen- formed one of the most eclectic dresses at the top of the column, says, “The Columbia world is part of one of the most formative me back to my college days and of the column or via the CCT web- in the 30 percent range. About ager. I never encountered someone groups I have ever encountered, or submit your news via the CCT all of the wonderful people who form college.columbia.edu/cct/ two-thirds of these interviews like my protagonist, Claude — a let alone lived with. Late-night bull webform college.columbia.edu/ attended Columbia. The weekend submit_class_note. were done by Maine volunteers, cool kid who just happened to be sessions were almost a daily occur- cct/submit_class_note. I look started for me with a reunion We’d love to hear from you! with the rest handled by student gay. The process of coming out for rence. Topics of the day included forward to your emails. Sarah A. Kass ’87 and Paul Verna ’87 are both dinner at The Palm with some interviewers working through the me started in high school but it religion, sports, the Reagan-Mon- I also encourage everyone to join members of the Alumni Representative Committee of my teammates from the ’89 Admissions Office. Most of the lo- took years for me to feel proud and dale election and, I have to admit, the Columbia College Class of 1988 football team and other classmates, Sarah A. Kass cal interviews were done in person, comfortable. Maybe if I’d had more Star Trek. (It was an all-male floor.) Facebook group; it’s a convenient and have been interviewing high school students including Kirk Ruddy, Matthew PO Box 300808 including a Super Saturday at the role models, even in literature, I’d It’s also where Matthew, a Long way to stay in touch. Engels, Chris Della Pietra, Brian 87 Brooklyn, NY 11230 L.L. Bean Flagship store! Others have had an easier time. Island native, taught me that the who want to come to Columbia. O’Connell, Matt Assiff, Matt 87 were done via Skype.” “The publishing process has been words “eye” and “oy” are actually Engels, Sean Fuller, Mark Zielin- [email protected] He adds, “As happy as I was an adventure. My literary agent supposed to sound the same. Emily Miles Terry ski, Bennie Seybold, John Alex, I find that one of the best parts of with how our team performed, I’m circulated the manuscripts to a Congratulations to Liz King 45 Clarence St. small — Lindsey will be rooming periods in each of our lives and to Michael Behringer and Angelo being a Columbia College alum determined to hit 100 percent next handful of publishers, and although Humphrey, whose Idiot’s Guides: 89 Brookline, MA 02446 on the 12th floor of Carman with feel that even with the passage of Ninivaggi. is helping others who either want year!” none bit, some provided helpful Gluten-Free Eating was published in 89 Emily Lavine ’18, whose father, 25 years since we were all together, “Our Saturday dinner was in [email protected] to get into Columbia or who have If you have never interviewed feedback. Inspired, I rewrote them January. She writes, “At the same Jonathan Lavine ’88, and I met in the bond we forged remains.” Low Rotunda. I must admit that recently gotten into Columbia and any College candidates, consider until I and my beta-readers (includ- time, I received my certification as I imagine most of us never consid- one of Esther Fuchs’ classes during Jeff Udell appreciated how the the last time I was in Low, I was an will one day join us as alumni. This signing on for one or two inter- ing my son and my friends’ teenage a culinary nutrition expert from the ered our 25th reunion when we my sophomore year. Jonathan has 25th reunion marked “the first time incoming freshman. The atmo- year I had the privilege of rejoin- views in the fall in your area. ARC kids) agreed they were ready. But Academy of Culinary Nutrition. were deciding which college to remained a good friend and we that our ‘core four’ Ruggles suite of sphere was just right for a speech ing after a long hiatus the New will provide you with the neces- with only five major houses left and This year I’m launching my online attend. Why would we? And who introduced our girls, who decided three years all made it back to the from two of our distinguished York City branch of the Alumni sary materials; all you need to do independent publishing thriving, services for those transitioning would ever think it would arrive so to room together. In the annals of same reunion: Erik Price, Michael alums. Wanda Holland Greene Representative Committee (ARC), is show up, talk to students who I decided to go it alone. I hired a their eating habits. I still have an soon? But it did — in the form of a Columbia coincidences, I lived on Schrag, David Streitfeld and me. started us off with a rousing walk for which I interviewed some re- really want to talk to you and hear cover designer and copy editor and active editing business but last fall glorious May weekend in 2014 — the 12th floor of Jay my freshman Though we typically all get together down memory lane followed by about your Columbia experiences self-published. I launched the books I shifted to a job in internal com- when hundreds of members of the year (as did my brother, Eric ’87, once a year, this visit in Morning- a solo song paying tribute to Co- and find out what they think they with a wonderful celebration in munications for PPD, a contract Class of ’89 (too many to name in BUS’89, two years before me).” side Heights was special and it truly lumbia. She was followed by Brian can contribute to the College June at the home of my friends, Su- research organization.” this column) came back to campus. Victor is co-president and a seemed as if we were, albeit briefly, O’Connell, who shared some great Manage Your culture based on their experiences, zanne Waltman and her husband, Lawrence Trilling reports from Some of us have returned regularly director of NYSE-traded HEICO reliving the Columbia experience. stories about what had already background and education. You Martin Friedman ’85. Among those Hollywood, “I’m married to Jenni- since 1989 and some of us not at all, Corp. He and Eric and their father, “A highlight for Erik and me happened during the weekend as Subscription might be surprised how much you who turned out were Julia Fitzger- fer Kattler Trilling BC’88. We have but regardless, our connection runs Laurans ’60, BUS’61, took over the was when we ran into a gaggle well as an inspiring message about enjoy it — especially if they get in! ald and Kevin Kelly ’85. a 16-year-old son and two daugh- deep and the natural rapport that company in 1990 and have been of reunioneers from the Class of how far we have all come. We If you prefer reading CCT For more information, check out “I’ve also been asked to host a ters, ages 14 and 11. We live in Los resumes between us is remarkable. running it since then. Victor says, 2009 and they mistook us for the stayed up to the wee hours of the online, you can help us college.columbia.edu/alumni/get regular podcast on the New Books Angeles, where I am a television I think Raymond Yu captured “It’s been a lot of fun and we’re Class of 1999. We’re getting old but night and grabbed king-sized slices go green and save money involved/arc. Network (newbooksnetwork.com). director, producer and writer. I am the essence of the weekend by not- lucky to have wonderful people I guess we can still party like it’s from Koronet. It was a great finish by opting out of the print Books by classmates are in the The show is called New Books in an executive producer on the NBC ing how everyone was in such good who’ve made the company the 1999. Erik lives in Berkeley, Calif., to a spectacular weekend.” news again, and I invite you first Science Fiction and Fantasy. I’d love drama Parenthood, which stars spirits. Buoyed, I imagine, by the highest performing U.S.-based works for the Pac-12 and has two Doug Teasdale traveled to edition. Click “Manage Your to be on the lookout for Garth the support of my fellow Colum- BC’88.” joy of seeing classmates, the beauty aerospace company during the kids, the oldest of whom is going reunion from his home in St. Louis, Subscription” at college. Stein’s newest novel, his fourth, bians. They can buy my books on Larry also passed on the sad of campus and our own personal time we took control.” to college this fall at the University where he has his own corporate columbia.edu/cct and follow which arrives on shelves at the Amazon, follow me on Twitter (@ news that his friend Lauren Farber victories over life’s logistics. That Anne Pfitzer attended Friday of Washington. law firm. He was pleased with the domestic instructions. end of September. A Sudden Light, RobWolfBooks) and subscribe to died on November 18, 2013, after we were able to somehow get there night’s reunion event at ink48 on “Mike attended reunion with his the high attendance of people Garth says, is part historical novel, the New Books in Science Fiction and a long struggle with brain cancer. is, in itself, just short of miraculous. her way to , Kenya. Of wife and Carman 5 hallmate, Dr. from Carman 4 including Alex We will continue to notify part coming-of-age tale and part Fantasy podcast.” Lauren, who lived in Wellesley, Raymond also said of reunion, “I reunion she wrote, “I am very glad Andrea Franchett. Mike practices Margolies, Danielle Klausner, you by email when each ghost story, set entirely in the Rob, we are all so happy for Mass., was a had a great time and a lot of fun I made the detour to spend a night law at his own firm in Berkeley Dave Winter, Debbie Rosenz- issue is posted online. You world of Northwest big timber. you here. I hope that, as I followed School of Medicine graduate and reconnecting with old friends and in New York and see classmates I and Andrea has a family practice weig, Steve Chulik, Eli Neusner, may be reinstated to receive It’s the follow-up to Garth’s last in your CCT column-writing a partner at the Holliston Pediatric making new ones during the Thurs- hadn’t seen since 1988. I remem- there. They have three kids in high Paul DeMartino, Jennifer Fudge the print edition at any time book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, footsteps, I will soon follow in Group. She and her husband, John day reception at Josh Krevitt’s bered more people than I expected school and junior high. Ryan, Marc Hanes, Susan Loring, which spent 3½ years on The New your book-publishing footsteps — Miller, have two children, Zachary office and at the Saturday class din- (facial recognition coming more “Dave also lives in Berkeley, Alex Pustilnik, and by sending a note to cct@ York Times bestseller list and was although I’m betting any book by and Rebecca. ner on campus. I was glad to have easily than names!) and I really en- near Mike and Erik, has been Dave Gordon.” Doug noted that columbia.edu. translated into 35 languages. me will not be science fiction … I According to the funeral home attended and I think everyone there joyed catching up with roommates, married for 14 years to the lovely he caught up with Renny Smith, I believe it is important to hope. obituary, “Above all, she was was as well. We ended the evening dormmates, classmates and friends. Deborah Fink, an actress, and is Roger Rubin, Dave Winter, Marc

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Hanes, Sarah Russell Bowman, freshman Carman 12 floor, includ- at Louisiana State University this one of the Alumni Office staff stan. (OK, the family didn’t go to connected to remarkable individu- some we’d seen recently, some But I have a solution: Send me Justin O’Grady, Pam Haback ing Lashauna Bryant, Daniel Hal- past summer. Before that, he was members listed at the top of the Afghanistan.) Life in Budapest als, from the Native Americans, not in years? (And also when we a note. And you know what? It Mancuso SEAS’89, E. Paul DiMar- berstam, Jill Pollack, Liz Pleshette, director of Kansas’ University column. Alumni Reunion Weekend is wonderful, Kris says. She has explorers and pioneers who first couldn’t quite get it together to doesn’t even have to be about you. tino SEAS’89, Duchesne Drew Josh Krevitt, Margot Lockwood, Honors Program and a professor is just a school year away, so mark wanted to live there ever since she set foot in America to the patriots, stand sufficiently still for the class Write in about your friends and and Mike English SEAS’89.” Ellen Wohl, Marci Lobel and of U.S. history. While admitting to your calendars now for Thursday, and Amy Zalman traveled there inventors, artists and activists who photo, much to the chagrin of our the great things they’re doing. I’ve Jason Carter, who lives in Wash- Anne Pfitzer. (I hope I didn’t forget being a little anxious about living May 28–Sunday, May 31. I’ll see in 1990, just after the big political transformed it. Andy kicked off his photographer.) been doing this for 20 (20!) years ington, D.C., and is an associate di- anyone.) It’s amazing to me how way down south in Dixie, Jon has you there. changes in Eastern Europe. She excursion in May at the Princeton Was it the graceful speech Anne now. More often than not, the rector in the criminal division of the influential that freshman experience nothing but praise for the students, says, “In those days, for New deadline rolls toward me and I re- Department of Justice, attended the was and how close we all still seem teachers and staff of the up-and- Year’s Eve, we were in Kossuth alize, too late, that I have no news reunion Wine Tasting, Saturday’s to feel to each other, despite the coming Honors College. Margie Kim Lajos Square in front of Parliament to share. My pledge is that I will do class dinner and the post-dinner fact — at least in my case — that I And, per Jon, “If any of you have 91 1923 White Clearing and drank Russian sparkling wine ’93 has collected approximately 100,000 my best to send out reminder notes Starlight Reception. He writes, “I probably didn’t even hang out with college-age kids that, um, didn’t Southlake, TX 76092 for 50 cents a bottle.” unpublished letters from around the world of wartime and seek your input. But please had a great time catching up with most of those people over the next make our alma mater’s increasingly 91 Happy fall! Don’t forget to tell don’t wait for me. margiekimkim@ classmates, especially Steve Mack, three years! It was also cool to talk difficult admissions cut, you should hotmail.com me all about it, either by writing correspondence for Chapman University’s Center for And until next time, for those of Greg Lee, Wid Hall SEAS’89, to so many people with whom we have a look at the nation’s terrific me at either of the addresses at the American War Letters. you who were at reunion, I hope Souren Ouzounian, Marci Lobell had classes or saw around campus Honors Colleges and programs. Greetings, all! I hope everyone top of the column or by submitting you share my fond memories of a and Rob Kaplan. Everyone is doing but didn’t necessarily socialize with. LSU’s is residential (best dorm on enjoyed the summer and had a an update via the CCT webform starry night, “Welcome Back Alum- so well, and Columbia looks great! I It made me really appreciate what the beautiful campus), tuition is free chance to get away. I have a few college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ ni” emblazoned on Low Library, look forward to the next gathering.” a great experience Columbia was for qualified students and I hear the items for you this round. class_note. Until next time … cheers! Club, where he discussed his latest Kornblut gave during dinner, city views from Faculty House and Souren Ouzounian lives in and how I was influenced in small football team is pretty good, too. Lee Benaka writes, “On April book, Here Is Where: Discovering recounting her two decades of a delightful time catching up — and Short Hills, N.J., but is intent on ways by so many groups of people. Geaux Tahgers, I think …” 26 my bluegrass band, Hollertown, America’s Great Forgotten History. work in journalism (including remembering. raising Red Sox fans and remarks, I think the Alumni Association did Does count as the opened for Laura Cantrell ’89 at Olivier Knox Andy received high marks for her much-lauded work as deputy “Reunion was fantastic! From a terrific job with the dinner and the heartland? Laura Gramling Perez Iota Club & Café in Arlington, Va. 9602 Montauk Ave. his talk from classmates, includ- national editor of The Washington 92 REUNION WEEKEND Professor Eric Foner ’63, GSAS’69’s small touches (my kids loved the writes, “After 12 years as a litigator There were a few other College Bethesda, MD 20817 ing Thad Sheely, Doug Meehan Post running the paper’s Pulitzer MAY 28–31, 2015 lecture on Lincoln to dinner in the fleeces and the bar glasses). Overall, in New York and Milwaukee, and alumni in the audience, including 92 BUS’08, Pete Sluszka and Rachel Prize-winning coverage of the [email protected] ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Low Rotunda, it was all very spe- it was a great night.” six years as the head court commis- Matt Lieppe. Laura’s new CD, No Mintz, among others. National Security Agency leaks by ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott cial. It was also great to see 7 Jay so Margot Lockwood, who lives sioner (sort of a state court magis- Way There from Here, is excellent. You have all been generous with I’d love to hear from more of )? [email protected] well represented.” in Palo Alto, Calif., with her family trate) in Milwaukee County, I spent “I work for the National Marine updates — until now! The CC’92 you for next time. And your class- Side note: Congrats to Anne, 212-851-9148 Souren is an investment banker and manages digital transfers and the last year running for a spot Fisheries Service, where I focus on cupboard is bare, people. You need mates would, too! Write to me at who will be a John S. Knight Jour- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova at Bank of America Merrill Lynch payments for Wells Fargo Bank, on the Milwaukee County Circuit programs to gather fisheries-de- to help stock it! Send your news either address at the top of the col- nalism Fellow at Stanford during [email protected] with Lisa Carnoy, Tom Yang and wrote: “It was great to catch up Court. The campaign was a great pendent data and reduce bycatch. to either address at the top of the umn, or submit an update via the the 2014–15 academic year. 212-851-7833 Kaivan Shakib, who also attended with old friends and finally pick up experience and a huge undertaking. My son, Ike (15), enjoys DJ-ing, column, or submit a note using CCT webform college.columbia. Or was it when Shawn Landres reunion. some Columbia gear for my kids.” All worth it, though — I won and and my daughter, Dinah (13), plays CCT’s webform college.columbia. edu/cct/submit_class_note. announced Imara Jones’ cell phone Janet Lorin When I spoke with Lisa at the Another reunion recap came from was sworn in as a judge on August the harp. My wife, Danielle BC’91, edu/cct/submit_class_note. Happy fall! number and asked everyone to text 730 Columbus Ave., ink48 event on Friday, she men- Ellen Vaknine, who says, “Saturday 1. I’ll start in the Children’s Court works with the elderly in North- In the meantime, I can report him heartfelt pleas to join us at the 95 Apt. 14C tioned how excited she was about night was the quintessential Colum- Division handling foster care and west Washington, D.C.” that Eric Garcetti SIPA’93 and I put reunion. Which he did. While I’ll 95 New York, NY 10025 her professional move from head of bia evening, beginning and ending delinquency cases, and will rotate to Hylarie Kochiras is a Fondation in a strong showing at the May 3 Leyla Kokmen go on record to say I don’t think it’s [email protected] the global capital markets division on the Steps (albeit this time with a different division every few years. Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, White House Correspondents Din- 440 Thomas Ave. S. right to publicize someone’s per- at Bank of America to an executive a glass of chilled, crisp white wine “Life is great here otherwise. My Fernand Braudel-IFER Postdoc- ner. The annual black-tie D.C. affair 94 Minneapolis, MN 55405 sonal contact info, it was nice to see Most of us have hit the milestone role in the U.S. Trust, where she in my hand), surrounded by many husband, Edgar, and I miss New toral Fellow at École Normale serves as a fundraiser for a series 94 Imara, and he seemed genuinely of turning 40, and we are reaching [email protected] will manage the Northeast opera- smiling and familiar faces. Our din- York but our old house in an inner- Supérieure de Paris. During the of journalism scholarships. (Barack pleased to have made it. another scary one next year — our tions of U.S. Trust and join Bank of ner in Low was yet another opportu- ring Milwaukee suburb is a great next academic year, she will be a Obama ’83 also attended.) How to choose the highlight of our Perhaps it was one of these mo- 20th reunion! Alumni Reunion America’s operating committee. nity to enjoy the wit and wisdom of place to raise our daughters, Anna European Institutes of Advanced 20th reunion? ments, or perhaps you had your Weekend will be held on campus Married couple Cristina classmates and confirm to ourselves (12) and Lidia (10), and we get back Studies fellow at Istituto di Studi Let’s set the stage a bit: A lovely, own highlight: catching up with and throughout the city Thursday, Benedetto and Rob Laplaca live that Columbia alumni are doers and to the East Coast for visits every Avanzati in Bologna, Italy. She Betsy Gomperz temperate spring weekend with old old friends and acquaintances, May 28–Sunday, May 31, so mark in Weston, Conn. Rob is a litigator thinkers, united by the common now and then. My fellow Columbia previously held fellowships at Tel 41 Day St. friends converging on Columbia talking about kids and jobs and your calendar and stay tuned for in Westport, Cristina is a clinical theme of making our communities a alums don’t get to Milwaukee very Aviv University’s Cohn Institute, 93 Newton, MA 02466 from near (Long Island, Brooklyn, travel and memories, remember- details. If you are interested in join- psychologist and they have two better place to be. Delighted to see so often, but I’m always glad to hear at Bucharest’s New Europe College 93 Manhattan) and far (Los Angeles, ing who we were at Columbia and ing the Reunion Committee, contact Betsy.Gomperz@ children, Will (16) and Caroline (15). many friends!” from anyone who does!” and at the ’s gmail.com New Orleans, Chicago, Miami, Mas- how we’ve evolved into the people one of the Alumni Office contacts They both attended Saturday’s class Ellen lives in the Five Towns You can find Laura on Facebook. Center for Philosophy of Science. sachusetts, Minneapolis). Opportu- we are today. listed at the top of the column. dinner in Low. Of it Cristina writes, area of Long Island and owns a Amy Zalman has been appointed Her research focuses on the early Andrew Carroll has been busy. As nities to catch up, both at the official I had a wonderful weekend Congratulations to three class- “We are both still talking about Manhattan-based boutique kosher CEO and president of the World modern philosophy of science, and you may have read in this column happenings — lectures, lunches, an spending time at both the official mates for publishing books this year. what a great time we had. There catering company. Future Society, which a press release her publications include “The Me- or in the feature pages of CCT, event hosted by Sharene Wood at and unofficial events with Ayanna Tova Mirvis has a new novel, was a pretty big turnout from our describes as “a nonprofit educational chanical Philosophy and Newton’s in 1998 he founded the Legacy her Harlem Haberdashery — as well Parish-Thompson, Mary Killackey, her third: Visible City. It’s set on the and scientific organization dedicated Mechanical Force” (Philosophy of Sci- Project, an all-volunteer initiative as unofficial ones such as dinners, Marina (Gurin) Groothuis and Upper West Side. “Two of my char- REUNION WEEKEND to exploring possible, probable and ence, 2013), “By ye Divine Arm: God that honors veterans and active- cocktail receptions, breakfasts and Kay Bailey. And there were so acters actually have a Columbia MAY 28–31, 2015 potential futures … [with a mission] and Substance in De gravitatione” duty troops by preserving their strolls around town. many delightful conversations, connection — my main character, ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Columbia College to understand and identify the (Religious Studies, 2012), “Spiritual wartime correspondence. Through The main event, a dinner held with Sanjiv Jhaveri, Josh Shannon, a young mother who watches her ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott social, economic and technological Presence and Dimensional Space the years Andy has traveled to all on Saturday, started with a Wine Elliot Regenstein, Alfredo Jollon, neighbors from her window, went Alumni on Facebook [email protected] developments that shape the course beyond the Cosmos” (Intellectual 50 states and around the world Tasting under a tent on Low Plaza, Aaron Katzel, Erik Groothuis, to Columbia College,” Tova says. 212-851-9148 of human society.” Among other History Review, 2012) and “Locke’s collecting approximately 100,000 a stone’s throw from all those Mark Salzberg, Sofia Dumery, “And another of my characters DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova positions, Amy previously was the Philosophy of Science” (Stanford unpublished letters from every places we frequented two decades Jon Katz, Alex Rosenstein, was an art history professor at [email protected] chair of information integration for Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009). war in U.S. history; he recently ago: Hamilton Hall, Butler Library, Steve Ruddy, Derek Fairchild- Columbia.” Check out the 212-851-7833 Columbia College the Department of Defense and a Ani Mekhjian moved to Lex- donated his collection to Chapman John Jay, Carman. (Robert-Paul Coppoletti, Mark Robilotti, Tova has lived in Newton, Mass., Rachel Cowan Jacobs professor of strategic studies at the ington, Ky., with her family in Au- University and is its director at the Sagner showcased some true brav- Estelamari Rodriguez, Shelley for about 10 years. She has three Alumni page! 90 313 Lexington Dr. National War College in Washing- gust. She hopes her three boys do Center for American War Letters ery by staying in Carman during Schneiderman Ducker and many, kids, ages 15, 11 and 6. Tova’s two facebook.com/ Silver Spring, MD 20901 ton, D.C. She knows Arabic and not start speaking with a southern (warletters.us). reunion, and by his report, nothing many more. previous novels, The Outside World alumnicc 90 youngrache@ Hebrew, was a Fulbright Scholar, drawl! She’s also discovered that In addition, this past spring much has changed.) Then it was I have barely scratched the sur- and The Ladies Auxiliary, take place hotmail.com and has a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern she has a lot to learn about horses. Andy embarked on a coast-to- on to dinner at Faculty House and face of the events and those who in the world of Orthodox Juda- studies from NYU and an M.F.A. Kris Fresonke is the political coast drive to bring attention to afterward back to the Steps for attended reunion, and I apologize ism. Read more about her work at Like the page to get It’s wonderful to hear from people from Cornell. chief in the U.S. Embassy in Buda- extraordinary but forgotten and un- dancing and assorted reminiscing. to everyone I missed — both that tovamirvis.com. alumni news, learn in the heartland, such as Jonathan Won’t it be fabulous to catch up pest. Kris has been in the Foreign marked historic sites for his “Here As for the highlight, there are weekend and in this column. I I remember meeting Tova our about alumni events and Earle (go Carman 8!). After 17 with old pals and make new ones at Service for seven years, taking hus- Is Where” all-volunteer initiative, many contenders. Was it the cock- know I haven’t at all captured the freshman year in the Spectator offices. College happenings, years teaching history at Kansas, our 25th reunion? You could even band Richard Major and their kids, which launched in 2008. Many of tail hour before dinner, when we breadth and depth of the things Karen Alpert (née Schwartz) Jon was named the Roger Hadfield get in on the planning by joining Matilda and Oscar, along to tours these sites are where significant fortified ourselves at the open bar you’re all doing with your lives writes from the Chicago suburbs Ogden Dean of the Honors College the Reunion Committee! Just contact in India, Slovenia and Afghani- events occurred, and others are before catching up with classmates, today. that she has a new book based on

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Another Up- imprint of HarperCollins bought soon … unless you send me notes! husband, former Columbia swim- per West Sider, Dan Gati, has three Finds Footwear Success the rights to the book, released this Write me at either address at the top mer Jason Chechitelli ’96, whose kids with his wife, a pediatrician. spring with the title I Heart My of the column, or submit an update children were swimming against Dan gets the award for coolest Little A-Holes: A Bunch of Holy-Crap via the CCT webform college.col mine (although thankfully not in career change, having given up rom bacon to beer to The company sold more attention promised by small wear. Her socks cover themes Moments No One Ever Told You About umbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. the same age group). We shared a the legal profession in 2006 for the Barack Obama ’83, than 250,000 pairs in 2013 and classes. She cites courses such as food and drink (pizza, Parenting. She writes, “It’s a hilari- I want to hear from you. funny moment at their Old George- high-stakes world of poker. He Erica Easley ’00 knows expects to double that in 2014. taught by University Professor vegan, whiskey), learning (math, ous take on some of the experiences “Lose your dreams and you town Club pool, in Bethesda, is now the lead producer for the what people like — and With availability in roughly 400 and David Eng, science, bookworm) and lifestyle I’ve had being a parent, including might lose your mind.” Md., as we mutually admired our World Series of Poker on ESPN. Fhow they want to show it. As stores worldwide, Gumball as well as Robert G. O’Meally’s (boss lady, nerd, punk rock). chapters like ‘Going from one kid to — Mick Jagger Columbia caps. Unfortunately we Dr. James Koutras, a Manhat- the founder and owner of the Poodle socks have been featured “Jazz and American Culture,” “I’m always looking for words two is, uhhh, how do I say this, let forgot to snap a photo. tanite, is doing the reverse com- novelty sock company Gumball in media from Marie Claire to The as particularly influential. that sound good,” she says. me see, hell’ and ‘Why I’m a worse That’s it for now but if you’re on mute to Staten Island University mom than you.’” Sarah Katz Facebook, please ask to join the Co- Hospital, where he is the co-chief in Poodle, Easley designs color- Huffington Post. In December She also says that although “Examples are ‘beer’ or ‘bacon,’ Diana Reilly has published her 1935 Parrish St. lumbia College Class of ’98 group. abdominal imaging and emergency ful knee socks that pop with 2013, Beyoncé wore a pair in she didn’t major in business, which are very much on-trend first book, Scattered: The Forced Re- 97 Philadelphia, PA 19130 We’d love to hear from you! radiology. personality. Even mega-star her “Pretty Hurts” video, dancing running a company comes right now. There’s a huge craft location of Poland’s Ukrainians After 97 As always, you can also write Caitlin Schrein, who lives in Beyoncé is a fan. in glittery gold socks embla- naturally to her thanks to the beer movement, and people are [email protected] World War II. This nonfiction book me at either address at the top of Washington, D.C., recently com- Easley didn’t always dream zoned with the word “gangsta.” College: “Columbia, with its just bonkers about bacon. But describes the forced resettlement of CC’97, where is the love?! I know the column, or submit an update pleted a Ph.D. in evolutionary an- of running a sock company, but “Never in my wildest dreams rigorous course load and high they’re also really fun words; the Ukrainian minority in Poland the quiet just means that you have via the CCT webform college. thropology at Arizona State. While her personal style (the native did I expect that essentially the expectations for its students, they’re fun to say.” 1944–47. It is told through the lives been up to such great things that columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_ finishing her dissertation, she was Californian says her “uniform” biggest pop star in the world is a great training ground for Fun is a constant at Gumball of three siblings, one of whom was you haven’t had time to write. But note. the science specialist for the Smith- is shorts and knee socks) led [would] be wearing my socks being able to juggle informa- Poodle, which now has four Diana’s maternal grandmother, please, send in your updates so we sonian Science Education Center who encounter different fates. all can hear about your lives and and taught a graduate course at her to notice a hole in the — that’s incredibly gratifying,” tion and have your mind be full-time staff members. The Diana lives in Connecticut with her latest accomplishments. You can Adrienne Carter and The George Washington University industry. During the 2008 presi- Easley says. able to move quickly between company name comes from husband and kids, Olivia (2) and write to either address at the top of Jenna Johnson called “Public Understanding of dential election she decided Easley, an English major, different subjects.” Easley’s collection of vintage toy Alex, born in 2013. the column or submit news via the 99 c/o CCT Science.” She says she’s really look- that the best way to show her chose Columbia for the combi- Easley’s English degree has poodle decor and an antique CCT webform college.columbia. 99 Columbia Alumni Center ing forward to experiencing D.C. patriotism was through her sig- nation of the big city benefits come in handy, as she has gumball machine she keeps in edu/cct/submit_class_note. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 (i.e., having a life) now that she has nature accessory. Wanting to of attending school in New developed a knack for choos- her apartment. Andy Windak, Ana S. Salper I do have a few wonderful New York, NY 10025 the time. support Obama but unable to York City and the personal ing words that people want to the company’s graphic designer, 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA updates, though. [email protected] Married couple Laura Colarusso find any suppliers of presi- says that Easley’s love of vintage 96 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Catrell Brown has joined the JRN’09 and Jason Saretsky live in [email protected] dential-themed socks, Easley clothing and design are reflected 96 Export-Import Bank of the United Cambridge, where Jason is the head [email protected] States as VP for public affairs. Ca- As Laurent Vasilescu mentioned coach of the Harvard cross-country designed a pair with “Obama” in the socks’ old-school vibe. Melis Behlil, who earned a Ph.D. trell came to the bank from the Ex- in his farewell dispatch, we will and track teams. (We’ll forgive written in big letters down Describing the brand as bold, in film studies, lives and teaches in ecutive Leadership Council, where be taking over Class Notes as he them.) Laura, who has written for the sides. Her first order was kitschy and iconic, he says, “Her . She is spending the fall she was director of communica- embarks on a new adventure. , Newsweek and the for 1,200 pairs (the smallest design sense is coordinated 2014 semester at MIT as a visiting tions. Prior to that role, she was VP We attended the recent Alumni Daily Beast, is a freelance journal- batch the manufacturer would loudness. It tries to make a scholar and would love to meet up at a public relations firm and held Reunion Weekend as civilians, not ist. They have an 18-month-old produce) and, after quickly sell- statement — as do our socks.” with classmates in the area. Please multiple positions on Capitol Hill. realizing we should have been daughter, Olivia. ing out in stores in Los Angeles Says Easley, “I’m really contact her at [email protected]. She completed her graduate work keeping tabs on who was there We have a lot of writers in our and at the Democratic National proud of the fact that I got an John Scott is a partner at Reed at SOAS, University of London. and with whom and doing what. class. Michael Erman is at Reuters Convention in Denver, Easley English degree and can still be Smith in the financial industry On June 13, John Dean Alfone We’ll do our best to give a recap and Eli Sanders, who won the group. He specializes in complex screened three of his short films at for those who couldn’t be there Pulitzer Prize for feature writing a launched a fledgling business. successful in business; getting financial services litigation and Khon’s Wine Darts Coffee Art in and for those who, maybe like us, couple of years back, is an associate Los Angeles-based Gumball a science degree doesn’t mean business disputes, representing Houston. John continues to work didn’t get around the entire crowd. editor at The Stranger in Seattle. Poodle has seen terrific growth you have to be a scientist, domestic and foreign clients in the on his first feature-length film, While a torrential downpour The Saturday of reunion brought since those 1,200 Obama getting a humanities degree financial services industry. John Substance Redux, and is fundraising kept us from enjoying cocktails on more unpredictable downpours, socks and now has more than doesn’t mean you have to be and his wife, Rachelle (née Brutus) for the project. the rooftop of the Yotel, we com- reminiscent of our Commencement, 80 designs. Customers range a struggling poet. … You can BC’98, a psychiatrist at Queens Keep the wonderful news com- mandeered an inside bar, where but a good gang of alums found from leagues and turn your degree and educa- Hospital Center who recently ing, CC’97! dozens of classmates gathered. their way to shelter at the barbecue CrossFit competitors to comic tional experience into anything opened a private practice in Man- Josh Rosenstein, Gary Sultan and on South Lawn. Brad Neuberg is enthusiasts and teachers. you want, and the most impor- hattan, live in New York with their David Schach SEAS’99 braved the doing well in California; he is a se- children, Camryn (7) and Ethan (5). Sandie Angulo Chen outdoors, or at least until the wind nior software engineer at Inkling, a Easley jokes, “Everybody has to Erica Easley ’00’s Gumball Poodle company sells socks with a tant thing is just love of learn- This past June, Mirella Cheese- 98 10209 Day Ave. forced them inside. digital publishing startup. Laurent wear socks sometime, so it’s a bold, kitschy esthetic. ing and an inquisitive mind.” man presented a photo series Silver Spring, MD 20910 Josh is a partner at Sandler Reiff Vasilescu was also at reunion, in good industry to be in.” PHOTO: ANDY WINDAK Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 based around the Japanese idea of 98 Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, a the company of his wife, Sophie [email protected] shokunin (mastery of one’s profes- boutique firm in Washington, D.C., Anderson. They report health and sion) as part of a PechaKucha Congratulations are in order for where he practices political law happiness from the Upper West night at the Parrish Art Museum Amy Kristina Herbert SOA’01, (lobbying, elections, PACs, govern- Side. Hoberman’s work in transformable Mraz represented CC’99 and the along with the usual array of cock- banker at Royal Bank of Canada in Water Mill, N.Y. PechaKucha is DM’12, who wrote via Facebook to ment ethics and the like). He could One of the highlights of the design ranges from the aforemen- event was organized by the inde- tails, cheese and hors d’oeuvres, in the healthcare group and lives an art concept from Japan in which say that she finished her pediatric make only Friday’s festivities weekend was Columbia Engineer- tioned really cool toys to retract- fatigable Sam Rowan BC’96. The and a buffet dinner capped off in Tribeca with his wife, Stacey, members of a creative community dental residency this past summer. because he was celebrating his ing’s Magill Lecture in Science, able window shades to the arch band alums were delighted to be with a rallying speech from Sa- and their daughter, Ellie. Scott discuss and present their projects She continues, “Now I can get a anniversary with his wife, Shayna. Technology and the Arts. Alums anchoring the medals ceremonies serenaded by members of the cur- meer Shamsi and David Schach Napolitano — who was not in at- in 20 slides that are shown for 20 part-time job and go back to acting. They have a son, Zeke (2). He says, interested in materials science at the 2002 Winter Olympics. rent marching band (and may have SEAS’99. For those who don’t tendance as far as we could tell but seconds each. You can check it out Did you think I retired my M.F.A.? “I’ve been teaching him to sing gathered in Mudd to hear Chuck The Columbia University even learned some new verses to know, Sameer, who was a major has promised to help with our next on Mirella’s lifestyle blog, Santo- No … dentistry is my day job!” Roar, Lion, Roar in anticipation of Hoberman SEAS’85 speak. In ad- Marching Band rallied alums from old chestnuts). force behind our reunion, works happy hour — started at Meadow sha, at santoshablog.com. It’s a small world when you’re his joining the Class of 2033.” dition to playing with some really across generations to a corner of Class of ’ found their way at Evercore Partners, where he has Lane Capital in 2013. Nina Tan- Mirella left her job as a producer a Columbia grad. This summer Gary works at Barclays and lives cool toys, they had the opportunity Lerner Hall, where the alums belt- to SIPA (apparently attendance helped to set up its private capital nenbaum is a managing director in the entertainment industry a my husband, Hans Chen ’97, and on the Upper West Side with his to see that the tradition of students ed out songs they were surprised was unexpectedly high; we had advisory group. of alternatives at AllianceBern- couple of years ago and developed I were lucky enough to cheer wife. rescuing alums from technology to remember and tell stories they to change venues). From the 15th In other financier updates: stein. She recently caught up with Santosha, which led to her current Columbia swimmer Jack Foster David has started his own tech- failure remains strong at AcIS. clearly will never forget. Martin floor we witnessed sunset views Tony Munoz is an investment Konrad Fiedler in New York and

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absent classmates we would have And yes, next time — when very much loved to have seen at there hasn’t been a reunion to fill reunion. Luckily, we have a few the column, we’ll take a few lines interim updates. Todd Lao — via to catch you up on us, too! Laurent — reports that he and his wife “joyously welcomed their REUNION WEEKEND baby girl, Lizzie, in March. Todd MAY 28–31, 2015 actually walked his wife down the ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS aisle twice, once when they met at ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott Tom Yee SEAS’99’s wedding and [email protected] then again at their own wedding.” 212-851-9148 We caught up with Kandi DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Birdsell Parsons at the nuptials of [email protected] Matt King ’01 and Brian Cruey at 212-851-7833 New York’s Royalton Hotel. Kandi is heading back to be a lawyer at Prisca Bae the Federal Trade Commission 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B after giving birth to her third child, 00 New York, NY 10011 Violet. 00 [email protected] David Karp is senior counsel at Steven Melzer ’05 and Tracy Massel BC’06 were married in November in Rockland County, N.Y. Left to right: Dina Kalnicki Cohen BC’06; the Securities and Exchange Com- I don’t have any news to share, but Miriam Kalnicki BC’00; Purvi Dave BC’06; Shikha Singhvi BC’06; Seema Shah BC’06; Reka Sumangali BC’06; Sheera Hopkins BC’06, BUS’14; Lisa Zebrowski ’01 and Scott Reilly were married on October 12, mission, where he has worked for I do want to take this opportunity Michael Kalnicki SEAS’02; Marc Tobak ’05; Elizabeth Berkowitz ’06; Daniella Fischetti BC’06; Alex Port ’09; Suzanne Schneider ’05, SOA’14; 2013, in York, Maine. Left to right: Tania D’Alberti ’01, the groom, five years. He sadly (for us) had to to remind you that next spring Caitlin Keryc ’05; Olin Williams ’05; Rachel Kalnicki GS’78; the bride; the groom; Evan Deutsch ’05; Tunie Hamway Deutsch BC’04; Caroline the bride, Jessica Macari ’03 (née Slutsky), Chrissy Okereke ’01 and miss reunion to play Mr. Mom to we’ll be celebrating the 15th an- Sherman ’08; Tamar Zeffren BC’06; David Zionts ’05; Josh Levine ’07, PS’14; Rachel Feinmark ’05; Lizet Lopez Shuja ’05; Matthew Mandel- Sara Gosline ’01 (née Schumacher). his two boys (the youngest is less niversary of our graduation at berg ’05; Edward Rueda ’05; Andrew Lebwohl ’04, LAW’07; Keren Rosenbaum Chubak BC’05; Jeff Chubak ’04; and Eliana Meirowitz ’05. PHOTO: PATRICK Mc NAMARA PHOTOGRAPHY than a year); his wife, Jacqueline Alumni Reunion Weekend. Mark PHOTO: H&H PHOTOGRAPHERS Karp ’02, who is finishing her your calendars; the dates are residency at Johns Hopkins, had a Thursday, May 28–Sunday, May dug up a syllabus from a class they married Daniel King on September 30-hour shift. 31. Also, if you’re interested in Congratulations, Tamer and Photographer Mike Mellia re- the top of the column or submit completed a Ph.D. in ecology and took together in fall 1998, “Origins 29, 2013, at The Eagle’s Nest in the After completing the Knight- helping to plan the big event, now Effie! cently had a solo exhibition, “Our an update via the CCT webform evolution at Stony Brook and of Capitalism.” picturesque Catskill Mountains. In Bagehot Fellowship for financial is the time to get in touch with one Christian Sparling and Jackie Side of the Story: ,” at college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ started a postdoc at Connecticut. Cocktails kept us circulating (and attendance were Adrienne Buck- journalists a few years back, Daniel of the Alumni Office contacts listed O’Neill Sparling BC’03 crammed Tapir Editions Gallery in Tribeca class_note. We all look forward to Lien De Brouckere shares, “I’m reminded us how difficult it is to ley (née Lehman), with husband Sorid parlayed his new business at the top of the column. They’ll as much life change as possible in NYC. The work included 14 hearing from you! enjoying my work with an NGO pose 125 revelers for a photograph). Mike and daughter Susan, and skills into a fresh career path, first point you in the right direction. into the summer of 2014. Christian portraits of South Sudanese who in Washington, D.C., supporting We had the pleasure of dining with Jonathan Speier SEAS’97. Anna at the New York Fed and now at That being said, I see no reason reports, “Our son, Olin Luca, was escaped their country’s conflict the rights and empowerment of Alberto Goldberger SEAS’99, and Daniel reside in New York’s Deutsche Bank, where he is a VP in to wait until then to catch up with born in May, joining Violet (3). I and are now in America working Michael Novielli communities across Africa and Dylan Hightower SEAS’99, Jessica Hudson Valley. fixed income strategy. He lives in one another. Send an update and started a job at the Relay Gradu- as supermodels, actors and hu- World City Apartments Afghanistan affected by resource Walker BC’99 (née Barkhuff) and Saul Blecker and Gregg Hans- Manhattan with his wife and their let us know what you’ve been ate School of Education after eight manitarians. The exhibition closed 03 Attention Michael J. extraction. I’m also really looking Martin Mraz. Dylan and Alberto bury were at 1020, too, as were young son, David Morris. up to. You can write me at either years with Un common Schools. in April, but you can see images 03 Novielli, A608 forward to a three-week bike left us for a moment to join fellow Guillermo Silberman, Susan Kas- Although Allison Margolin address at the top of the column, And we moved from New Jersey from that and other of his shows at Block 10, No 6. Jinhui trip in late fall on the Karakoram C.P. Davis Scholars Vikram Sheel sin and Robert Sherer SEAS’99. helped plan reunion, she wasn’t or submit an update via the CCT to Portland, Maine, in July. New mikemellia.com. Road, Chaoyang District Highway, starting in Pakistan, Kumar SEAS’99, Jamil Ellis Saul is enjoying life as a Brook- able to make the trek from Los webform college.columbia.edu/ baby, new job, new home!” Allison Lloyds O’Neill and her Beijing, 100020, People’s continuing through China and SEAS’99, David Evans SEAS’99 lynite, living in Park Slope with his Angeles. She is a lawyer with her cct/submit_class_note. Best of luck to Christian and husband, Matthew C. O’Neill, are Republic of China then to Kyrgyzstan! I can’t wait for and David Schach SEAS’99 for family (three kids!). He is a doctor own practice, which specializes Jackie! proud to welcome Caroline Rebecca [email protected] the stunning and remote mountain a photo-op. Dylan also delighted as well as an assistant professor in drug-related cases. In true L.A. Courtney Reum was appointed to the world! At 7 lbs., 2 oz., she was views, the people, the experience us by letting us spend time with at NYU School of Medicine in fashion, Allison is also developing Jonathan Gordin by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti born at Greenwich Hospital. Campus is alive again now that the of staying in a yurt for the first time his husband, PJ Mehaffey. Chris Manhattan, where he does research a pilot about a criminal lawyer, 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. ’92, SIPA’93 as a commissioner for Margarita (Maggie) O’Donnell fall semester has begun. It’s times and the all-around challenge.” Hardin and Emily Ford, both in quality of care. After time in pharmaceutical companies and the 01 Los Angeles, CA 90068 the Los Angeles Convention Center ’04 and Gareth Eckmann SEAS’03, like this that I miss being so close Tim Carter LAW’10 writes, Brooklynites, caught up over Argentina, Brazil and China, Guill- drug war. We assume she’s pulling 01 Authority. SEAS’04 welcomed a daughter, to alma mater, having spent five “Since finishing law school, I have [email protected] dinner. Chris works in academic ermo, who works at W.P. Carey, from her own experience. Congratulations to Courtney! Alessandra Mary-Jeanne Eckmann, years living in China, so I encour- lived in Massachusetts where I’m publishing. Emily works for is bringing his real estate prowess We have some plans for the I hope everyone had a great sum- I’m guessing the light mailbag on March 21. Alessa was born in age those who live in or near New Columbia Engineering and lives in back to Manhattan; hopefully he Notes column. First, we’ll be meet- mer! means everyone has been busy. Washington, D.C., where Maggie York City to go back to campus Fort Greene, along with a few other can apply those skills to finding his ing over cocktails and snacks at Lisa Zebrowski married Scott But why not tell us about it? If you and Gareth have lived since mov- often for alumni events or just ’99ers, Ruth Kaplan, Nazli Parvizi own home. a different restaurant before each Reilly on October 12 in York, Maine, haven’t shared your news lately, ing from New York two years ago. to walk through our old stomp- Manage Your and Mike Erman. Welcome back! issue, and will report back. Think surrounded by friends and family. please do! My addresses are at Ken-David Masur has been ing grounds. Our next reunion is Andrew Chen won the prize Susan lives in Baltimore; she is of this as yet another chance to She writes, “We had a beautiful the top of the column, or you can appointed assistant conductor of four years away, so you shouldn’t Subscription among classmates for furthest an assistant astronomer (tenure keep track of NYC’s foodie innova- wedding with lots of fun dancing at submit an update using the CCT the Boston Symphony Orchestra wait until then to reengage with distance traveled (for the second track) at the Space Telescope Science tions. In this case, we sipped wine our reception. We got a Columbia webform college.columbia.edu/ for a two-year term beginning with campus. If you prefer reading CCT reunion in a row!). He came over Institute. Her recent studies focus and sampled flatbread pizza (figs, picture toward the end of the night; cct/submit_class_note. I hope to the 2014–15 season. Also, together That being said, it’s understand- online, you can help us from China, where he teaches Eng- on how disk galaxies obtain the arugula — pretty good) and risotto Kristy Bryce (née Overman) had hear from you soon. with his wife, pianist Melinda Lee able that many of you have not go green and save money lish to businessmen. Jen Maxfield ordered dynamical state that they tots (a little less delicious than already left the party.” Masur, he is artistic director of the been back recently. Our classmates by opting out of the print Ostfeld just had to trek across the have today. we’d hoped) at The Plaza’s Todd Samantha Earl gave birth to Chelsea Music Festival, an annual are living interesting lives and edition. Click “Manage Your Hudson from New Jersey, where Robert has moved back to his English Food Hall. Stay tuned! We George Halsey Manheim on May 3 Sonia Dandona summer music festival in NYC accomplishing awesome things, she works for WNBC-TV as a home territory; he lives in Lower may institute a bar night sometime at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Hirdaramani that’s been lauded as “a gem of a including the following: Subscription” at college. reporter, covering politics, crime, Queen Anne, Seattle, and works in where you can come and spill your Sam and her husband live in Wash- 02 2 Rolling Dr. series” by The New York Times. It in- Yoni Appelbaum writes, “A columbia.edu/cct and follow education and weather in the advertising technology (as well as news in person. ington Heights, and Sam works at 02 Old Westbury, NY 11568 troduces multi-sensory, innovative year after graduation, I was back on the domestic instructions. Garden State. Jen and her husband, really enjoys being an uncle). Next up for Class Notes: themes! World Monuments Fund helping [email protected] programs by fusing performing, campus to marry Emily [née Press- We will continue to notify Scott Ostfeld ’98, have three chil- In addition to ranking as the Have you been doing anything to manage historic/cultural pres- visual and culinary arts in many man] SEAS’03, SEAS’04 at Faculty dren (7, 6 and 3). Blecker brood’s favorite babysitter, sporty? In addition to all the usual ervation projects in India, Turkey, Ellen Gustafson recently released venues throughout Manhattan House. We live in Cambridge with you by email when each Like so many great Morningside Gregg works for in life updates, we especially want Iraq, Myanmar and Thailand. her first book, We the Eaters: If We and features the world’s leading our children, Elisheva (6) and issue is posted online. You nights, this one found a lot of Co- Queens in the credit card division to hear next quarter about all your Samantha, congratulations on Change Dinner, We Can Change the musicians and exciting newcomers Joshua (4). This summer I defended may be reinstated to receive lumbians packed into 1020. Anna and has taken up running with a marathons, triathlons, mudders, George’s birth! World. Check it out for your fall on both the classical and jazz music my dissertation in American history the print edition at any time Remet was there, and in addition vengeance. color runs, soccer leagues, fan antics Tamer Makary and his wife, Ef- reading and learn more about our stage. at Brandeis and took up an appoint- by sending a note to cct@ to telling a romantic story about How many marathons has it or any other ways you’re keeping fie Adamopoulos, welcomed their role in the global food system. Happy fall to everyone, and ment as a lecturer on history and finding love at the farmers market, been now? the old machine in good working third child (and first girl), Isabella, Ellen lives in San Diego with her don’t forget to send me your news. literature at Harvard.” columbia.edu. she told us about life upstate. Anna Of course there were many order. on March 30. naval officer husband. You can write to either address at Matthew Aiello-Lammens

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Paul also has started a new Meirowitz; Caroline Arfa Massel Raisa Belyavina writes, “This fall vency matters and advising lenders happy, healthy fall! job, as director of media analytics BC’94, BUS’00; Nicki Ashcroft I’m entering my second year as a and borrowers in non-distressed at RealityMine. In addition, Paul BC’06; Sarah Schmidt BC’06; Brett doctoral student at Teachers College, transactions. I’ve also been active still hosts a weekly jazz show on Bell BC’06; Anna Landau BC’06; studying comparative and interna- REUNION WEEKEND in Citizen Schools and Discovering WKCR (89.9 FM); it airs Tuesdays Emily Epstein BC’07; Elizabeth tional education and sociology.” MAY 28–31, 2015 Justice, introducing underserved from 6 to 9 p.m. and is accessible Stone BC’05; Tamar Essner BC’06; Melanie Lee writes, “Peter Kang ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS middle schoolers to the justice sys- online. Paul, who is a member of Jennifer Sokoler BC’06; Renee and I recently celebrated our third ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott tem through a mock-trial program. Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Freed BC’59; Bekki Cooper Nadis anniversary, and I finished my first [email protected] SuperLawyers recognized me as a summa cum laude, has hosted a BC’06; Zachary Jacobs LAW’07; year as founding principal of the 212-851-9148 ‘rising star’ in each of the last two show with WKCR for 13 years. Barbara Gutfreund Arfa JRN’70; Queens H.S. for Language Studies, DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova years. I look forward to hearing Andrea and Paul both majored in Harvey Arfa LAW’69, BUS’70 and a district high school in Flushing, [email protected] from old friends and former class- music and give a shout-out to their Berish Strauch ’55, PS’59. Queens. Hooray!” 212-851-7833 mates and any other alumni in the fellow music majors. Andrea also Michael Marsh, along with his Rebecca Karp writes, “I’m a he- greater Boston area.” You can write Claire McDonnell majored in economics and Paul wife and two children, lives in the matology/oncology fellow at Beth him at [email protected]. 47 Maiden Ln., 3rd Fl. also majored in classics. They look St. Louis area. He was recently pro- Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Lily Binns writes, “I am in 05 San Francisco, CA 94108 forward to seeing our classmates at moted to the position of chief legal Boston. I’m also super excited to get my seventh year as co-executive 05 reunion next year! officer for one of the Midwest’s married in NYC this November!” claire.mcdonnell@ director, development, at Pilobolus gmail.com Courtenay Aja Barton has been largest privately held buy-here- Max Shterngel says, “I live in Dance Theater and am still based named associate director of stew- pay-here automobile dealerships. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and am Mariely Hernandez ’07 married Michiel Maes in the Dominican Republic in April. Hamming it up were, in New York City. I’m interested in Greetings from San Francisco! ardship at the Kirstin Ellis (née Ericson) says, in my fifth year as an international sitting, left to right: Deborah Plum ’07, Luca Faloni, Carsten Boers and Eliza Kennedy; and standing, networking with people interested I’ve been hard at work on my Foundation. She also recently “I’m an employment, real estate disputes attorney at White & Case. left to right: Fahad Al Saud, Alexis Dixon, Justin Pifer, the groom, the bride, Linette Lopez ’08 and Jared in board work, raising money and company, True Link, for the past completed a workshop through and securities attorney in Los Ange- I play trivia on Wednesday nights Spafford. the business of entertainment.” couple of years. We’re a venture- Cave Canem, the leading support les, where I live with my husband, in the East Village with a group of PHOTO: ADAM COHEN Lily encourages classmates to reach backed startup that builds technol- organization for poets of African Matthew, and son, Andersson ’05 Columbians — join us (iam out to her at [email protected]. ogy that protects senior citizens descent. John.” [email protected]). Roar!” Winston Song and Amy Hsieh from scams and fraud. And … Claire Snyder has lived in down- Jonathan Yee writes, “Uncle I’m eager to reunite with you Victoria Baranetsky writes, cally integrated, private real estate 2014 issue), writes: “In 2012, Jonny have welcomed their first baby, we’re hiring! Check out truelink town Jersey City for three years and Benny has been on a ripper of a all next spring at Alumni Reunion “Farewell to ravage!/Twenty-nine investment and development and I moved to Southern California, Nathaniel Ellis Song. Winston is card.com or email me if you’d teaches seventh-grade literature at bender for two-plus years.” Weekend (Thursday, May 28–Sun- to thirty,/like New York to San firm in Newark, N.J. He shares, where he is a successful singer- a VP at Vestar Capital Partners in like to learn more. I’m the only Link Community Charter School in Graham Donald writes, “I am day, May 31). If you’re interested in Fran.” “We specialize in the acquisition, songwriter for DJs and pop artists NYC. Columbian on our team but given Newark, N.J., and she continues to in my penultimate year of general helping to plan the big event, get in She adds, “I am finishing as the development, rehabilitation and around the world and where I am John Kim is a pulmonary and the steady stream of us moving love both. surgery residency at UCLA and touch with one of the Alumni Of- First Amendment fellow at The management of undervalued and completing my M.F.A. in poetry critical care medicine fellow at west, I hope that won’t be the case Evita Morin (née Mendiola) will be applying for a vascular sur- fice contacts listed at the top of the New York Times in September and distressed multifamily residential at UC Irvine. I am also a Ph.D. Hospital. for much longer. SW’09 and her husband welcomed gery fellowship. I enjoyed catching column. In the meantime, send in hope to move to San Francisco to properties ranging from two to candidate in comparative literature Read on for news from our class- their first child, a girl named Eowyn, up with fellow Columbians at the an update so your erstwhile crushes begin a life of hiking and lawyer- 25 units. Our investments span a at Yale and am teaching a writing mates. I received many an update on June 3. Evita also was promoted wedding in May in Sonoma of and long-lost pals from study group ing from the best coast.” number of counties across northern and literature course at Occidental Angela Georgopoulos this issue in anticipation of our to VP of transformational services Peggy Hannon and Ryan Flannery can also start eagerly anticipating To the entire class, let’s fill the New Jersey including Essex, Union, in Los Angeles.” 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 impending 10-year reunion — yikes! at Haven for Hope, a nationally rec- SEAS’04. Things got wild.” seeing you. mailbag for next time. You can write Passaic and others. We are excited Geoffrey Karapetyan is thrilled 04 New York, NY 10038 Matthew Niederhauser spent ognized program that brings people Isabelle Levy reports, “I me at either of the addresses at the to announce the firm’s first modern to share that he married Jay Serpe 04 the entirety of the World Cup in from homelessness to housing. In received my Ph.D. in comparative top of the column, or send a note renovation in Maplewood, N.J.” ’08 Princeton on May 10 in Beacon, [email protected] Brazil covering the tournament for her role, she is honored to present at literature from Harvard in May, Michelle Oh Sing through CCT’s webform: college.co Kendall Severson writes, “My N.Y. Geo proudly reports that the I hope everyone had a terrific time . social work, nonprofit and leader- and my children, Flora (3½) and 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 lumbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. husband, Ryan Severson, and I wel- Columbian contingent sang Roar, at Alumni Reunion Weekend. Do Juliet Grames is an associate ship conferences across the nation. Rafi (1), marched with me and 06 Philadelphia, PA 19107 comed a daughter on May 23. Her Lion, Roar with more enthusiasm you have any highlights to share? publisher at Soho Press, where she Pedro Tsividis is midway received their own mini-diplomas. 06 name is Caroline Blake Severson and school spirit than the Princeto- [email protected] Did you make an unexpected con- acquires and edits 25 titles a year. through a Ph.D. program in cogni- My dissertation is titled The Poetics David D. Chait and she is just as sweet as can be.” nians doing . Columbia nection with an old friend? Revisit Elizabeth Claire Saylor is on tive science at MIT. of Love in Prosimetra across the Me- Brian Wagner checked in from 4621 Old Cheney Rd., Max Bauer recently left his job as College was well represented by favorite haunts or find something the verge of completing a Ph.D. Tanya Franklin began a new dieval Mediterranean. I’m going to his stateroom on the U.S. Navy 07 Apt. 6 a labor attorney and is now a crimi- wedding party members Alexan- new in the neighborhood? Write in modern Arabic literature at UC position with the Partnership for Los be an adjunct at Hunter in the fall guided missile destroyer USS Ross 07 Lincoln, NE 68516 nal defense attorney in Boston. dra Epstein, Olivia Gorvy ’08 and and tell us about it! In the absence Berkeley. Next stop, she says: the Angeles Schools; she is the director in the Department of Classical and (DDG-71), where he is temporar- [email protected] Monica Ager Jacobsen started Caitlin Shure as well as guests Al- of news, I’ll just urge you to send unknown! of school culture and restorative Oriental Studies.” ily serving as the ship’s public a job last fall as an attorney adviser lie Fisher ’11, Jordy Lievers, Laura reunion recaps or a more gen- Dan Binder is holding down a communities, supporting 16 schools. Amisha Patel says, “I am a affairs officer during a transatlantic As usual, members of the Class of in the Office of the Legal Adviser Kleinbaum ’08, Shruti Kumar ’08, eral update for next time. I can be teaching job at Episcopal H.S. in Steven Melzer celebrated his cardiology fellow at Northwestern deployment to Spain. No other Co- ’07 have some very exciting updates at the Department of State. She Ted Malawer ’06, Ethan Marcovici, Houston and slowly but surely marriage to Tracy Massel BC’06 in and will be spending the next lumbia graduates are to be found to share! writes, “It is an incredibly fascinat- Bryan Mochizuki, Jake Olson and working toward a doctoral degree November in Rockland County, year under a Fulbright-Fogarty for hundreds of miles, he says, but Daniel Simhaee graduated ing place to practice law, and I his wife, Luciana, Yael Ross, Nick in educational leadership. Beyond N.Y. They were joined by many Fellowship in New Delhi, India, the experience has increased his from medical school at Michigan really enjoy my work. Most of my Serpe ’10, Joanna Skornicki (née STAY IN that, he used his well-earned sum- Columbia and Barnard friends and studying pre-hospital systems of appreciation for the return of Na- in May 2013 and moved back to non-official travel is to friends’ Loewenstein) and James Williams mer vacation to get more involved family including Dina Kalnicki care for patients with heart attacks val ROTC to Morningside Heights. New York for his residency. This weddings, including the weddings ’08. Other Columbians joining in TOUCH in the local music scene, working Cohen BC’06; Miriam Kalnicki in India.” Marc Pimentel graduated from past year, he has been living in of Sonya Thomas and Daniel Bliz- the festivities were Hillary Brody behind the scenes at Houston’s BC’00; Purvi Dave BC’06; Shikha Rob Crauderueff writes, “After an anesthesia residency in June Brooklyn with Josh Rosner ’08 and zard in May and Elian Maritz and BC’08, Erin Byrne BC’09, Erin Free Press Summer Fest music fes- Singhvi BC’06; Seema Shah BC’06; completing my master’s in city and has begun a two-year Harvard enjoying exploring Williamsburg Jonathan Taylor LAW’07 in June.” Debold BC’07 and Nic Cory. To ensure that you receive tival and spinning tracks at Rice’s Reka Sumangali BC’06; Sheera planning from MIT, I founded my Medical School fellowship in pa- and Greenpoint. By the time you John Dwyer shares, “On June 9 Andrea Steele (née Derricks) CCT and other College com- radio station, KTRU. He’s also Hopkins BC’06, BUS’14; Michael consulting firm, Crauderueff & tient safety and quality at Brigham read this, he will have completed I successfully defended my Ph.D. married Cody Steele ’07 in Mystic, munications, please getting involved in Goruck — ask Kalnicki SEAS’02; Marc Tobak; Associates, helping cities, commu- & Women’s Hospital in Boston. his transitional year internship at in the field of climate science Conn., in February. him about it. Elizabeth Berkowitz ’06; Daniella nities and corporations make the Ted Summe SEAS’06 launched New York Hospital Queens and within the Department of Applied Sonya Thomas recently married let us know if you have Andrea “Andie” Cortes-Comerer Fischetti BC’06; Alex Port ’09; Su- transition to the green economy.” Discover.ly to help job hunters, begun his training in ophthalmol- Physics and Applied Mathematics Daniel John Blizzard. According to a new postal or email and Paul Burkey were married zanne Schneider SOA’14; Caitlin Tian Zhang updates, “I have recruiters and networkers get vis- ogy at NYU. Thirsting for even at Columbia. This fall I will do my The New York Times, “The couple address, a new phone in 2009 at St. Paul’s Chapel on the Keryc; Olin Williams; Rachel started my last year as a hematol- ibility across their social networks. more training, Daniel recently postdoctoral studies at MIT.” met at Yale, from which they number or even a new Columbia campus and celebrated Kalnicki GS’78; Steven Melzer; ogy oncology fellow at Duke and Summe started the company two went through a 200-hour yoga Love is in the air for many of received medical degrees and mas- nearby at Terrace in the Sky at Evan Deutsch; Tunie Hamway hope to find my first real job next years ago with investment from teacher training program with our classmates: ter’s of medical science degrees.” name. Click “Contact Us” Butler Hall with several other Deutsch BC’04; Caroline Sherman year. My husband, Andy Wang, Salesforce.com, Bessemer Venture Yoga To The People. He hopes to Suzanne Roszak (née Hopcroft), Francesca Butnick recently at college.columbia.edu/cct members from the Class of 2005. ’08; Tamar Zeffren BC’06; David my daughter, Vivianne, and I were Partners and Atlas. It already has teach yoga in his spare time. who married Jonny Roszak ’05 on married Clifford Silverman; their or call 212-851-7852. Last fall they moved from Zionts; Josh Levine ’07, PS’14; Ra- thrilled to welcome a son, Ethan, more than 5,000 users, with hun- Gerard Barrett is CEO of March 23 (and whose wedding marriage was also featured in The the Upper West Side to Inwood. chel Feinmark; Lizet Lopez Shuja; on April 19. We love living in the dreds more signing up each week. PrimeLerner Companies, a verti- photo appeared in the Summer New York Times.

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Partners. The newlyweds have no in comparative literature at Harvard ’11. Really looking forward to Nuriel Moghavem and had a great time in the “city of lications from her research. There, plans to leave the city anytime soon. in May. He is forgoing the academic bringing back the world’s greatest 11 Sean Udell dreaming spires” and also ex- she received an M.S. in medical Esteban Villafuerte and his route and instead started a tutoring condiment (Kurdistan’s Family Columbia Alumni Center plored Barcelona, Rome and Flor- sciences. While applying to medical wife, Stephanie Villafuerte (née and test prep business on the Upper Sauce) for New York barbecues.” 11 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ence, she looks forward to catching schools, Natalia performed oncology Pagan), celebrated five years of West Side (where he lives with his Alexandra Stein shares, “I have New York, NY 10025 up with other CC’11 alums. She is research at Columbia, working with marriage in May. They are proud wife). been living in Morocco since Oc- [email protected] now based in Pennsylvania, where multiple myeloma patients daily. residents of Astoria, Queens, and Oriana Isaacson is leaving the tober 2012. I am developing social [email protected] she is completing a Ph.D. on the Anthony Patterson is transi- work in NYC public schools as Pacific Northwest and moving to projects in rural areas for a large history of health politics in Puerto tioning from working at Success a teacher (Esteban) and a school the Bay Area. She accepted a posi- Moroccan agricultural corporation We received a tremendous number Rico. Academies to becoming a full-time counselor (Stephanie). Their lives tion at Crystal Springs Uplands as its social and environmental of- of updates this summer and are feel- Peter Licursi recently started M.B.A. candidate at UC Berkeley’s changed dramatically this year School in San Mateo, Calif., where ficer. This involves lots of travel to ing pretty small next to the amazing a job as a fact checker at The New . He ex- as they entered parenthood in an she will be the associate director of remote places, use of three to four things that our classmates are up to. Yorker. Previously, he was an edito- pects to graduate in 2016 and looks unconventional way: by being admissions for a 6th–12th grade in- languages in any one conversation To everyone who didn’t send news rial assistant at Bidoun magazine, forward to a series of eye-opening foster parents for the past several dependent school. Oriana says she and many cups of sugary mint this time around, hit us up! We’d which covers art and culture from experiences until then. Anthony months to a teen who has a baby is excited about her first big move tea. I teach yoga on weekends and love to know what you’re doing. the Middle East. continues to passionately share the daughter of her own. They say it’s since heading west right after col- hope to develop yoga programs A lot of our classmates are over- Steven Martinez is a research gospel message of Jesus Christ. one of their most challenging and lege and her first real job change next year for children in Morocco.” seas. After working for the Columbia specialist with ESPN’s statistics Isaac Lara is pursuing a joint rewarding experiences yet! in five years. She looks forward Chris Yim writes from abroad, Global Center in Beijing for a year as and information department. He M.P.A./J.D. at Harvard’s John F. Ralph DeBernardo proposed to reconnecting with Columbians “Oi, tudo bem? Aloha from Rio de a research fellow, Sean Quirk started recently relocated from Connecti- Kennedy School of Government to Kaitlyn Busler ’10 on May 25 on who live in the area and to being Janeiro, where I am enjoying the a job in the Navy, where he serves cut to Los Angeles — which one and Columbia Law School. After the beach in Kaitlyn’s hometown of back in her home state. sights and sounds of the World as a surface warfare officer on a of our correspondents considers graduation, he was accepted into Longport, N.J. Kaitlyn was incred- Cup. I’m here with college room- destroyer in Japan. He sees the Navy to be an additional promotion. He the Coro Fellows Program in Pub- ibly surprised and overwhelmed mates Justin Leung ’09 and Varun as the intersection of his interests, thanks Columbia for his sports lic Affairs and completed a year- REUNION WEEKEND with joy; of course, she said yes! Gulati SEAS’10. The summer has studies and ideals. He lives in Tokyo media career’s taking off. long rotation in various consulting MAY 28–31, 2015 The proposal was all on camera, been a whirlwind, and it’s not slow- and is based just south in Yokosuka. After graduating from Harvard projects in the commercial real Darcy Brown ’08 and Henry Miller were married on May 10 in East ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS as Ralph hired a photographer to ing down. I’ve been lucky to have We thank Sean for his service. Law in May, Samantha Glover estate industry. After that, he was a Amherst, N.Y. Left to right: Sean D’Arcy ’81, Connor ’18, the ALUMNI AFFAIRS Vanessa Scott secretly capture the occasion. the opportunity to travel, watch the Jana Johnson is a Peace Corps finalized plans to relocate to Miami full-time police investigator at the bride, Sean D’Arcy SEAS’09, the groom and Margaret D’Arcy ’14. [email protected] PHOTO: KENNETH BROWN After the proposal, Ralph and U.S. team kick Ghana’s butt and volunteer in the health sector in in September to work at Greenberg Civilian Complaint Review Board, 212-851-9148 Kaitlyn went to a beach bar, where mingle with a few of the locals. I Paraguay. Her commitment runs Traurig. examining allegations of miscon- DEVELOPMENT Esfir Shamilova Ralph had organized a surprise stayed with Kate Steiker-Ginzberg 2014–16. She lives in Valenzuela, Holly Stanton works with duct ranging from stop-and-frisk [email protected] Mariely Hernandez writes, “I SEAS’09, Margaret D’Arcy ’14 and party of 50 of their closest friends ’12 for a night as well. The Colum- Cordillera, a beautiful, tranquilo SculptureCenter in Long Island to improper search warrant execu- 212-851-7833 married Michiel Maes (a Belgian, Connor Heeb ’18. and family. Other Columbia alumni bia network is incredibly hospitable. (read: calm, relaxing, chill) com- City, Queens, as exhibitions and tions. Isaac left that job to intern manager at Bain & Co) in the Jeremy Lopez recently earned in attendance were Gene Kaskiw Julia Feldberg Thank God for Facebook’s graph munity known as La Ciudad de program manager, and is indepen- at the Technology CEO Council Dominican Republic in April. The a Ph.D. in experimental particle (who was celebrating his birthday!), 666 Greenwich St., search. la Piña. She spends much of her dently producing artist books and in Washington, D.C., where he ceremony was officiated by Nicho- physics from MIT. He lives in Megan Donovan ’10, Jane Gartland 10 Apt. 607 “By the time you read this, one time learning the two national exhibitions. worked on behalf of technology las Sharma SEAS’08, with Linette Boulder and is a postdoc at the ’10, Frances Callaghan ’10, Juliet 10 New York, NY 10015 of my best friends, Zak Ringelstein languages, Spanish and Guarini, Shira Schindel is v.p. of content companies to lobby Congress to Lopez ’08 as maid of honor. Other University of Colorado. Hatchett ’10 and Erin Conway ’11. [email protected] ’08, will have tied the knot. I’ll be and working with her community’s and acquisitions for Qlovi, an edu- pass immigration reform. CU alumni in attendance were Tito John Lee writes, “This summer, Ralph and Kaitlyn met on cam- in his wedding, shedding tears municipality on a range of projects cation technology startup. Previous- Peter Labuza SOA’14 has been Hill ’05, Kapil Verma, Kristel Car- I was fortunate to be invited to pus in 2006 and started dating in I hope everyone in the Class of of joy on his and Leah’s behalf. focusing on personal/community ly, Shira worked at ICM Partners, quite busy in the film world: he rington, Iman Wilson, Deborah and attend the 64th Lindau Nobel 2008. They are moving to Palo Alto, 2010 had a great summer. As It’s rare that you’re able to find a development and health. Specifi- where she assisted client Dr. Seuss finished a master’s at Columbia, Plum, Amit Bedi SEAS’09, Dheerja Laureate Meeting in Germany. Calif., in September, when Kaitlyn always, thanks for sending in the person in life that you behold as cally, her initiatives include sanitary Enterprises and managed a range of went to the Cannes Film Festival Kaur SEAS’08, Tracy Chung ’08 It’s an annual meeting in Bavaria, begins her M.B.A. at Stanford. The wonderful updates! magical and truly beautiful. I know bathrooms, recycling and garden- subsidiary rights in the literary de- and moved from New York to Los and Greg Damis-Wulff.” where Nobel laureates meet with couple is planning a 2015 wedding. I also remind everyone that that they’ll take wonderful care of ing. Jana is also organizing the next partment. Shira lives in New York Angeles to begin a Ph.D. in cinema young scientists from around the Danny Ferraro and Taylor Alumni Reunion Weekend, which each other. … Piña Festival, which takes place and returns to Morningside Heights studies at USC. Even more exciting world to connect, educate and in- Eichenseer SEAS’09 recently will celebrate the fifth anniversary “I’m playing golf in my free every summer (there, December to conduct mock interviews with is his first book, Approaching the Neda Navab spire. This year’s meeting focused moved to Austin, Texas, to form an of our graduation, is fast approach- time, getting my handicap under to February); it will showcase a the Center for Career Education and End: Imagining Apocalypse in Ameri- 353 King St., Apt. 633 on physiology or medicine and alternative rock band, Just Walden. ing — Thursday, May 28–Sunday, 10 again. I spend too much time plethora of pineapple-based food to mentor undergraduates through can Film, which will be published 08 San Francisco, CA 94158 featured 37 Nobel laureates and They have been building a follow- May 31. It’s hard to believe that it’s with Varun, airbnb-ing our place creations. Jana says she is enjoying Columbia College Women and the in October. There will be events 08 approximately 600 young research- ing around Austin by playing live been nearly five years since gradu- and scheming ways to side hustle. the beautiful people, intercultural Columbia Organization of Rising celebrating the launch in Los Ange- [email protected] ers from 80 countries. It was an shows and released their debut ation! Mark your calendars, and By the time you read this, I should exchange, abundance of fruit trees, Entrepreneurs. les, New York and San Francisco, Happy fall. Before we get to our amazing experience, and I had the album, High Street Barton Blues, in please consider joining a Reunion be engaged to a really wonder- bright sun and opportunity to learn. Through the Teaching Residents and he hopes you can make it to (few) updates, I have a request: that opportunity to meet many of my May. Check them out at justwalden. Committee if you’re interested in ful gal that I met in New York at Since the Season of Cambodia at Teachers College program, Eliz- them. More information is avail- you send news! I know that many heroes in medicine and neurosci- com. helping to plan what will be an church one Sunday in 2011. She’s Festival in NYC last year, Melissa abeth Pino is finishing a master’s able at thecriticalpress.com. of us keep in touch in other ways ence. The meeting reinvigorated Amari Hammonds is going back exciting weekend. You can get in the bee’s knees, and I can’t wait to Im has been working in Cambo- in teaching English to speakers of Karen Woodin Rodriguez has and on a one-on-one basis, but my enthusiasm for medicine and to school — Stanford Law, to be touch with one of the Alumni Of- have the rest of our lives together. dia for the festival’s organizer, other languages and is working been in Mumbai, India, for three this column is a great way to reach research, as I reach the halfway exact — after five years, four cities fice contacts listed at the top of the “UClass is going strong, as we Cambodian Living Arts. CLA is a to be certified in New York as an years and is staying on for a fourth. many classmates at the same time point in my M.D./Ph.D. work in and five different jobs in public rela- column for more information. are serving teachers with our K–12 nonprofit dedicated to the develop- ESL teacher for K–12. She has been She is launching an education and for everyone to stay connected. robotics and spinal cord injury.” tions and politics, most recently as John DeChellis will start at curriculum planning software for ment of the Cambodian arts sector. student-teaching at a high school company to teach high school Tell us about your career, travel, a staff writer for the mayor of New Chicago’s Booth School of Business school districts around the United She leads the Creative Industries in the Bronx and hopes to work at students leadership skills through family, hobbies, accolades and York City. She spent her last weeks this fall after a rewarding three States and expanding into other Program, the profit-generating an NYC high school in the fall. Model UN, and she’ll work with everyday activities. I can be reached Alidad Damooei in NYC hitting up Smorgasburg, years as a general management markets. Think of a Dropbox for arm of the organization focused Several classmates have decided the American School of Bombay, a at either address at the top of the c/o CCT watching free outdoor movies and consultant. K–12 education, where teachers on finding paid work opportuni- to go back to school. After imple- leader in technology integration, as column or via the CCT webform 09 Columbia Alumni Center riding her bike down the Greenway Adam Valen Levinson writes, can share standards-aligned cur- ties for artists. She notes that it has menting a rapid HIV testing pro- a research associate. On a (literally) college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ 09 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and across the Manhattan Bridge. “I’m pretty gosh darn stoked to call ricula with one another. The new been a wonderful opportunity for gram at Berkeley H.S. in California, funny note, she’s been trying out class_note. Now for the news: New York, NY 10025 She’s also been doing outreach for Harlem home again, as I’m mov- site is on uclass.io. Please spread her not only to invest in something Joey Shemuel is moving to Eugene, the LGBT stand-up scene in Mum- Darcy Brown married Henry [email protected] Columbia Alumni Allied Against ing back to start Alma’s doctoral the word and reach out to me if she’s passionate about but also to Ore., to study alternative economics bai and will soon move into more Miller ’07 University of Texas on Sexual Assault (she appreciates and program in sociology and to hold you have any ideas for partnership have a deeper connection to her and learn how to weld steel bikes. mainstream material. She also at- May 10 in East Amherst, N.Y. She Andrew McNellis recently married thanks those who wore red at Com- down the East Coast fort for Jer- or fundraising opportunities. family in the countryside. She in- Natalia Fontecilla was accepted tended camel fair. If you����������’re��������� swing- and her husband graduated from Allison Russo BC’09 in Bethel, N.Y., mencement) and encourages every- emy Goren [SEAS’07]’s Shanghai- “Lastly, someone recently asked vites any Columbians to drop her a to the Icahn School of Medicine at ing by Mumbai, let her know, as medical school in May and Darcy surrounded by many friends from one to join the Facebook group if based educational consultancy. me, if I could do college all over line when planning travel through Mount Sinai and will likely attend she’d love to host Columbians will be a resident in anesthesiol- Columbia including groomsmen they haven’t already, and to email This past summer I graduated again, would I go to Columbia? I Southeast Asia (melissaannim@ this fall. After graduation from CC, ([email protected]). ogy while Henry is a resident in Dustin Newman and Aaron Len- [email protected] with from Goucher with an M.F.A. in told them that without a doubt I gmail.com). Natalia worked at the National Nilkanth Patel was married in internal medicine at Albany Medi- non as well as bridesmaid Amanda leads on contact info for influential something, pretended to be Indian would, and that that experience Linda Magaña had been abroad Institutes of Health in Bethesda, London on June 1. In attendance cal Center. Present at the wedding Rothman BC’09. Andrew has lived alumni to sign the joint petition for for an indie movie in Chicago and has probably been the single most since graduation and moved back Md., performing infectious disease were fellow Spectator alums Ben were fellow Columbians and rela- in New York since graduation and students, faculty and alumni. galumphed off to Iraq to shoot a defining moment in my life (aside to the United States in July after and immunology research, and was Cotton, Thomas Rhiel, Betsy tives Sean D’Arcy ’81, Sean D’Arcy works in equity research at Evercore Robert Kohen finished a Ph.D. TV pilot with Charlotte Kaufman from finding Jesus). Thanks, all.” three years at Oxford. While she lucky enough to have three pub- Morais and Emily Tamkin ’12.

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Thomas and Raphael Pope- ing for the Obama administration sions (sometimes banal, sometimes contact alumni to ask for donations Sussman also recently celebrated has been truly rewarding … the thrilling) and with elected officials for current-use funds to support the one-year anniversary of opportunity would not have been who are actually getting things financial aid, the Core Curriculum, Classified their online magazine, BKLYNR, possible without Columbia’s sup- done. It’s such a change from summer internship stipends and which features in-depth reported port. Mentoring has been a big part Congress (no offense, Hill friends!). student services. Out of the 20 Advertising journalism about major political, of [my] growth and passion after I love seeing the impact our work Class Agents who participated, economic and cultural issues fac- college. has on the region, on people’s lives Greg Paul won the “Most Gifts ing Brooklyn. and on my neighborhood. Plus I Received Award”! Also, as a result BoardRounds, a health-tech get to nerd out about renewable of their efforts throughout the year, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES startup founded by Aditya Muke- energy and greenhouse gas emis- CC’13 surpassed both its dollar Sarah Chai rjee and Benjamin Jack SEAS’07, sions — what could be better?” goal of $15,000 and donor goal of LASER TATTOO REMOVAL. Board Certified Dermatologist specializing exclu- c/o CCT is an inaugural member of the Co- After two years in Chiang Mai, 200! sively in Laser Tattoo Removal. Columbia Alumnus — Class of 1981. Located in 12 Columbia Alumni Center lumbia Startup Lab in SoHo. The Thailand, Claudia Sosa is moving Others have remained involved in CLASSIFIED AD INFORMATION Manhattan at 347 Fifth Avenue. Phone 212-358-7500. 12 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 two are excited to join classmates to Myanmar to be the new online the Columbia community through New York, NY 10025 and alumni in this new space as content manager at Proximity De- the Columbia College Alumni REGULAR CLASSIFIED RATES: $3 per word for one issue, www.TattooRemovalExpert.com discounts for four consecutive issues. Ten-word minimum. [email protected] they shape the future of emergency signs. She’s thrilled by the prospect Association. Julie Hall and I were room follow-up care. of traveling through and writing both elected to the Columbia Col- Phone (including area code) and PO boxes count as one word. Thanks for all the great updates! As of July, Gillian Rhodes has about Myanmar at this exciting lege Young Alumni Board this past Words divided by slashes, hyphens or plus signs are counted Let’s get right to them: lived two years in Cambodia. She point in its history. She invites summer. individually. Email and web addresses are priced based on Paul Hsiao, Sarah Ngu, Chuck writes, “Phnom Penh is chaos — classmates to hit her up if they’re After brief post-graduation length. No charge for Columbia College class years or Roberts, Alex Harstrick and Allie traffic laws exist but are completely ever in need of a couch to crash on stints researching at a think tank ampersands (&). We boldface the first four words at no charge. 1754 Crown Cuff Links, Studs, Lapel Davitt, who spent time with Sonal ignored and the day is not complete in Yangon. in India and organizing business Additional boldface words are $1 per word. Pins, Pendants. Lions, CU designs. Bothra in New York, say good luck if you haven’t seen a building going Derek Turner writes from the conferences in Bahrain, Evan Wel- Display Classifieds are $100 per inch. Fine, hand-made. (917) 416-6055 to her as she plans to move to the up or an empty space where some- Motor City: “Awash with guilt from ber made the leap to Dushanbe, PAYMENT: Prepayment required on all issues at time of order. [email protected] West Coast! thing used to be. And yet, somehow, having introduced my wife, Katie, Tajikistan, where he taught English Check, money order, MasterCard, Visa and Richard Lenz celebrated his 25th I miss the chaos when I’m not here, to Detroit just in time for its worst to Persian language speakers at the Diners Club with MasterCard logo only. birthday on April 26 with David another fact that astonishes me. winter in centuries, I’m letting it all Tajik Academy of Sciences. He also No refunds for canceled ads. Beal ’15, Chris Pitsiokos and Ray “I recently got back from Malay- burn off in the Midwestern summer interned at the International Orga- Worried about climate change? Garneau ’10. Richard volunteers sia, where I was choreographing sun. Life in the start-up scene of nization of Migration and studied 10% discount for Columbia College alumni, faculty, Investing in fossil fuel stocks at the Columbia photo darkroom and performing for the Sibu Inter- Motown continues to brighten, Russian intensively at Moscow staff, students and parents bets against our kids’ future and is an assistant at a Chelsea art national Dance Festival with one of though there is a ways to go before State University’s Dushanbe cam- Mail or email orders to: gallery. This past May, he worked my Cambodian students. We were the gleam of this underdog city pus. After visa issues forced him Columbia College Today with Ray on a movie in Oklahoma, one of 18 groups from all over compares to that of our college to spend time in Abu Dhabi for a Columbia Alumni Center where he also learned to pull up Asia and had a great time, though town. couple of months, Evan is back in 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 6th Fl. catfish traps and shoot five types there’s still a lot to learn. For my “Morningside’s impact cer- . He says he is excited New York, NY 10025 of guns. dancing partner/student, Dara, it tainly hasn’t faded yet. In fact, to be spending another year there, Email: [email protected] In addition, Richard writes that was his first time on an airplane! the topic for my senior thesis, this time as an Online: college.columbia.edu/cct/advertise_with_us Reduce the endowment’s Bob Crusoe, a band he is in with Sharing that experience with him Native American water rights, is manager at the American Chamber Telephone: 212-851-7852 ecological and financial risk Chris and Nat Flack ’13, has re- was very cool.” becoming the starting point for of Commerce in Kazakhstan and as united and, as of this writing, had As of this writing, Isabel Ricker my entrepreneurial daydreams a master’s student at the Kazakh- Deadline for Winter 2014–15 issue: Learn more and take action at Friday, October 24, 2014 two New York shows scheduled will have been in Washington, (and the substance of grad school stan Institute of Management, DivestColumbia.org for the summer. D.C., for two years, and she is still essays). I wonder how many other Economics and Strategic Research Dominique Mann sent an up- enjoying every minute of it. She Columbians have dusted those in Almaty. date from Washington, D.C., where writes, “About a year ago I some- theses off and used them for any- As always, I encourage more she works in constituency press at what accidentally moved from thing besides sabotaging their san- of you to submit updates on your the White House. She started the advocacy to urban planning, and ity during senior year. That was whereabouts and activities. Even if gig in May, after working in New it is awesome! I’m a climate and a topic of conversation when the what you’re up to doesn’t feel like my time there to get a better under- to begin my master’s of music at Morgan. He is based in New York updates on jobs, philanthropic or York for a year as a producer at energy planner for the D.C. region inspiring Alex Boyce, returning a milestone, your classmates want standing of Internet regulation and Eastman School of Music in flute but travels occasionally to Latin extracurricular endeavors, engage- MSNBC. She has enjoyed recon- (for the Metropolitan Washing- stateside from a two-year jaunt to hear about it! Send news to me governance, especially as it pertains performance and literature. I’ll also America. ments or anything else you’d like necting with Columbia alumni in ton Council of Governments aka in India, paid a visit and got the at the email address at the top of to free speech issues and enhancing be auditioning for professional After graduation, Richard Leong to share in CCT. Washington and visits New York MWCOG). I get to interact with the Turner Detroit Tour — an experi- the column or by using the CCT democracy.” Alexander hopes to orchestras within the United States took graduate classes in education often. Dominique says, “Work- people on the ground making deci- ence open to any Columbian with webform college.columbia.edu/ return to the United States for law and will have a small teaching through the University of Min- an interest in this town. Hurry, cct/submit_class_note. school to become a constitutional studio for flute students!” nesota and taught fifth-grade math though, as it’s a limited time offer. lawyer with a focus on Internet law. Many classmates are consulting. in a summer enrichment program Answers to Quiz The West is calling me home.” This past summer, Zahra Samantha Hing works in public with a local community organiza- on Inside Back Cover I hope you will all continue to Emily Dreibelbis Bhaiwala interned at the World sector consulting for IBM in Wash- tion. He writes, “I’m excited to be Alumni Corner 1. The 9 train send your exciting updates. 14 c/o CCT Health Organization in Geneva. She ington, D.C., Natalie Paret works a fully fledged elementary school (Continued from page 92) Columbia Alumni Center worked in the global polio eradica- in management consulting at teacher this fall!” 2. Miriam and Ira D. 14 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 tion department doing data analysis Accenture with a specialization in Finally, Schneider Rancy is an Wallach Art Gallery confronted as Columbia’s presi- This book would not have Tala Akhavan New York, NY 10025 and political security risk assessment sustainability and nonprofit con- office and research assistant at the 3. 1897 dent, perennial issues that con- been written nor my life lived as 13 c/o CCT emily.dreibelbis@ for Syria, Iraq and Pakistan. Now sulting, and George Phillips is a Hospital for Special Surgery in the 4. The Sundial tinue to divide campuses. For it has been without the countless Columbia Alumni Center gmail.com she is pursuing an M.S. in health eco- political consultant. George also is office of Dr. Scott Wolfe, chief of 5. Low Library, Philosophy example, is Columbians — my teachers, my 13 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 nomics at Harvard School of Public at The George Washington Univer- the Center for Brachial Plexus and Hall, , fair? Do we pay great researchers colleagues, my students and the New York, NY 10025 Since graduating, members of Health. She says she still hopes to sity Law School, with graduation Traumatic Nerve Injury. There he St. Paul’s Chapel too much and great teachers too wonderfully generous alumni and [email protected] the Class of 2014 have embraced escape to NYC as often as she can. planned for 2017. studies patient outcomes concern- little? What is right and what is friends who supported Columbia exciting opportunities across the In an exciting cross-class collab- Iani Alecsiu joined Morgan ing long-nerve grafts and nerve 6. Ferris Booth Hall wrong with lifetime tenure for and me. My gratitude is boundless. As Columbia’s fiscal year came to globe. Here are just a few examples oration, Eric Ingram, Miriam Stanley as an analyst in the institu- transfers, brachial plexus injuries, 7. Samuel Johnson faculty? What should we do to an end in June, several of our class- of what this incredible class has set Pensack ’13, Blair McClendon ’13, tional equities division. distal radial fractures and ulnar 8. Morningside Park, keep colleges and universities Michael I. Sovern ’53, LAW’55 was mates made a valiant effort to help out to accomplish. Thuto Durkac Somo and Bern- Duncan Dickerson was an ana- impactions, and degenerative con- West 125th Street, open to those who cannot afford the 17th president of the University, the Columbia College Fund reach Alexander Andresian is working hard Fasenfest ’16 are writing and lyst at KKR but has shifted gears ditions of the wrist. He also writes Riverside Park, to pay? (On this topic I note my serving 1980–93. He currently teaches its fundraising goal. Class Agents toward an M.S. in social science of directing a feature film called The and is now attending Rice’s M.B.A. fiction and poetry and hopes to West personal motivation: “I could the “Legal Methods” course in the Law such as Iman Nanji, Andrew West the Internet at Oxford. He describes Park. It’s based on a story by Eric’s program, where he is excited to begin medical school by fall 2016. 9. The Battle of not bear the thought that under School and has vowed to continue to and John Kenney participated the degree as having “started in 2009 mother, Julia Ingram. continue his athletic career in track Thank you for your submis- Harlem Heights my leadership Columbia might introduce students to the law as long in Class Agent Outreach Night, out of the Oxford Internet Institute. Caroline Sonett is pursuing a and field. sions! Please feel free to reach out 10. McKim, Mead & White become inaccessible to students as he can “lurch to the lectern.” a phone-a-thon in which Class It involves one year of taught classes career in music this fall. She writes, Bruno Rigonatti Mendes has via mail or email (see addresses like me.”) Agents from all graduation years and a dissertation. I’m hoping to use “I’m heading to Rochester, N.Y., begun an international career at J.P. at the top of the column) with

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY A l u m n i C o r n e r Quiz: Columbia in NYC A Look at an Improbable Life In keeping with this issue’s theme, we offer this quiz on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus and New York City. B y M i c h a e l I. S o v e r n ’53, LAW’55

olumbia has never been dull. But the last half of emplified my view that a university’s own actions are powerful the 20th century and the first years of the 21st have lessons and that it is the president’s responsibility to see that the been particularly lively. Beginning with a war university lives up to its ideals. Students have a keen eye for hy- hero who would leave Columbia’s presidency for pocrisy.” America’s, the period included the student pro- For excitement, no one who was there on December 11, 1991, tests and building takeovers of 1968, the advent will ever forget our evening with Salman Rushdie. His novel The Cof coeducation, the preservation of need-blind admissions in the Satanic Verses had prompted Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa, face of punishing financial pressures, the University’s opposi- condemning Rushdie to death and calling on all zealous Mus- tion to apartheid culminating in its deci- lims to execute him. Rushdie was brought sion to divest, the extended celebrations to campus in an armor-plated, bomb-proof of Columbia’s 200th and 250th birthdays, car and delivered his remarks surrounded and now the construction of a campus in by armed guards. Manhattanville that will match in size the Our honorary degree recipients were a one on Morningside Heights. Most impor- rich source of fun. Memorable moments in- tantly, these years saw Columbia decline cluded playing Body and and recover to stand once more among the Soul at an alumni lunch, Harry Belafonte world’s leading universities. I have been singing Day-O responsively with 35,000 peo- here for all of it — sometimes as observer, ple who had gathered for Commencement sometimes as actor. and Bob Hope answering my injunction to Looking back, I decided I had some sto- limit his remarks to five minutes by saying, ries worth telling. The result was An Improb- “I usually take that long to acknowledge the 1. Columbia students know the 1 train well, but what number train able Life: My 60 Years at Columbia and Other applause.” (discontinued in 2005) used to share the line with the 1? Adventures. Most of the stories are about Returning to the presidency’s challenges, Columbia, and the ones that aren’t usually I observe that, “A common refrain of depart- 2. While Columbia students can take advantage of the city’s many recount adventures into which I was drawn ing executives is that it’s time for me to go cultural destinations, there are also great opportunities right on by fellow alumni. For example, because of because I have accomplished what I set out campus. For example, what is the name of the art gallery on the ’45, LAW’48, I helped rep­ to do. No retiring university president can eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall? resent the victims of America’s most cruel honestly say that unless his or her goals were and inhuman case of racial exploitation insufficiently ambitious. There will always 3. In what year did Columbia move from its East 49th Street location since the abolition of slavery — the Tuskegee be needs unfulfilled, challenges unmet, more to Morningside Heights? syphilis experiment, in which the United to be done.” In a rare moment of humility, I States Public Health Service arranged the confess that, “I left more than enough for my 4. In 1910, the Class of 1885 gifted which well-known Columbia denial of treatment to black men diagnosed The Columbia successors to accomplish.” landmark to the College? with syphilis “with the idea,” in the words An Improbable Life is much more than the presidency is not only 5. Which four Columbia buildings are National Historic Landmarks? of the service, “of eventually bringing them sum of its anecdotes. It interweaves three to autopsy.” a challenging job; themes. It is first, a personal story — the jour- 6. , which opened in 1999, was built on the site of Because of another alum, Ira Millstein ney of a fatherless adolescent from the South which building? SEAS’47, LAW’49, I became chairman of it is also a source of Bronx to the presidency of the University he Sotheby’s, the venerable auction house, excitement and even entered at 17. The story is enlivened by the 7. What was the name of King’s College’s first faculty member when it was in deep trouble. Because of Ber- appearance of all sorts of notables — from (simultaneously the school’s first president)? nard Jacobs LAW’40, I became a member of of fun, improbable as Averell Harriman and 8. Name the four generally accepted boundaries of Morningside the board of the Shubert Organization and LAW’59 to Walter Mondale and The Rolling ultimately president of the Shubert Foun- that may sound. Stones. (As you may have noticed, the mem- Heights. dation. The chapter on that theater experi- oir is a name-dropping art form.) 9. Which revolutionary war battle occurred where Barnard College ence includes cameos by Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close and Daniel Second, the book is an account of Columbia’s transition from is located? Radcliffe. riot to renaissance in the late 20th century. Already in decline, But my 13 years as Columbia’s president take center stage. Columbia was crippled by the student riots of 1968. The book 10. What is the name of the architectural firm that designed the The Columbia presidency is not only a challenging job; it is also recounts those events and their consequences, Columbia’s climb original Morningside Heights campus? a source of excitement and even of fun, improbable as that may back to a position among the greatest universities in the world sound, and my book reflects all these aspects. and my role in those events. Sampling the challenges, for example, I say: “Our strong stances And, third, the book offers my responses to the key issues I Answers on page 91. on freedom of expression, apartheid, and other thorny issues ex- (Continued on page 90) Above: A view of the Morningside Heights campus in the 1940s looking northwest toward , FALL 2014 the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. 92 PHOTO: CCT ARCHIVES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage Columbia University PAID 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Permit No. 724 New York, NY 10025 Burl. VT 05401

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