Spring 2017

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Irreverent and energetic, composer THE Nico Muhly ’03 is turning the classical world on its ear MUSICMAN “I give back because the critical thinking cultivated by the Core is more 16 important today than ever before.”

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VOLUME 44 NUMBER 3 SPRING 2017

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alexis Boncy SOA’11

EXECUTIVE EDITOR Lisa Palladino

DEPUTY EDITOR Jill C. Shomer

16 28 22 CLASS NOTES EDITOR Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09

FORUM EDITOR features Rose Kernochan BC’82 CONTRIBUTING WRITER 16 Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98 EDITORIAL INTERN Aiyana K. White ’18

The Music Man ART DIRECTOR Eson Chan Irreverent and energetic, composer Nico Muhly ’03

is turning the classical world on its ear. Published quarterly by the Columbia College Ofce of By Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 Alumni Afairs and Development for alumni, students, faculty, parents 22 and friends of Columbia College. ASSOCIATE DEAN, COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI RELATIONS Hear Us Roar AND COMMUNICATIONS Bernice Tsai ’96 History professor Martha Howell GSAS’79 discusses

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3 Within the Family 34 Lions CCT ’s new editor-in-chief is a Shanna Belott ’91 and Lara Stolman ’91, familiar face. By Alexis Boncy SOA’11 Cyrus Habib ’03

4 Letters to the Editor 37 Alumni in the News

6 Message from Dean James J. Valentini 38 Bookshelf Making student health and wellness a priority. The Inquisitor’s Tale, Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog 7 Around the Quads by Adam Gidwitz ’04 Neil Gorsuch ’88 nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. 40 Class Notes

14 Roar, Lion, Roar 86 Obituaries Talking with Nich Lee Parker, head coach of men’s lightweight crew; men’s fencing defeats 88 Alumni Corner Princeton for the Ivy League Championship. An activist and athlete runs from New York City to Washington, D.C., to raise money for Planned Parenthood. Like Columbia College Alumni: By Alison Mariella Désir ’07, GSAS’11, TC’16 facebook.com/alumnicc

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88 Within the Family Telling Stories with Conviction

started this editorship in February, on a day that once would have been called unseasonably warm. Te rest of that week passed in a blur of orientations and meetings, I so that it wasn’t until the next week that I ventured from the Alumni Ofce on West 113th Street to campus — there, halfway down the march of College Walk, I paused and looked around. From that vantage point, many of the College and University’s icons assert themselves: Hamilton Hall and Low and Butler Libraries; the pedestal on which once rose the Sundial; the seat where Alma Mater still watches over all. Geographically speaking, this is where the red pin drops: You are here, at Columbia. And so I am, and I’m thrilled and grateful for the oppor- tunity. It’s my second go with Columbia College Today. I was managing editor for more than four years ending last Janu- ary, and being back feels like a homecoming of sorts. It also JÖRG MEYER feels in some ways like I never left. I may not have been on campus, but there wasn’t a week that passed without my hear- care and attentiveness into my stewardship of CCT. I also ing about College alumni making their mark on the world. carry with me the lessons taken from Alex Sachare ’71, whose A comedy sketch gone viral, a presidential legacy debated, warmth and thoughtfulness steered this magazine for more a Supreme Court nomination made. When you work with than 18 years. (You can read more in praise of Alex in this alumni the way we do at CCT — meeting them, reporting issue’s “Letters to the Editor.”) One of the frst things he ad- on their accomplishments, following the personal and profes- vised me to do, as we sat across the table from each other in a sional turns in their lives — their names, your names, become conference room in November 2011, was to read Class Notes: braided into our consciousness. More than that: We feel “Tey’re the best way to get to know our alumni.” pride in the ways you contribute to today’s news and culture. And how. Class Notes contain an incredible breadth of We are curious about your challenges. We want to hear about voices; they span more than 70 years and together refect the the journeys that shaped you along the way. And we want to collective intellect, eloquence and heart of College alumni. I share those stories. learned about your families, pastimes, professions, causes and I cut my teeth as a journalist at a community newspaper on concerns; what animates and, occasionally, what angers you. Martha’s Vineyard, and from that experience came the convic- To edit the entirety of Class Notes is also to begin to wrap tion — if I may crib from something I wrote long ago — “that one’s mind around what it means to have a readership that is everyone has a story to tell and a passion of one kind or an- 52,000 strong. other. Sometimes the story spills out so fast the pen cannot In the end, that number is what I come back to time and keep up. Other times the conversation is more difcult, the again. Te 52,000 whose connections to one another we aim essential thing fashes like a quarter on a sun-splashed sidewalk to illuminate and deepen. Te 52,000 whose perspectives — and if you do not watch and listen carefully you will miss it.” we want to share and whom we want to put in conversation Tose words remain at the core of my sensibility as an with one another. Te 52,000 who form the community that editor and writer. Learning about other people energizes me. this magazine uniquely represents. Te 52,000 for and about So does fnding the right words to convey their stories. It’s whom we tell stories. what motivated me to attend the School of the Arts, where Being your editor is a privilege and a responsibility. I look I studied nonfction writing, and what drew me afterward forward to it. to a human interest publication. It makes for a diverse beat, one that in fact contains many others — science, technology, business, politics, food, the performing arts. And the College is an ideal place to practice it. In that same excerpt I wrote, too, of the importance of Alexis Boncy SOA’11 carefulness in listening, and I promise to carry that same Editor-in-Chief

Spring 2017 CCT 3 Letters to the Editor

Thank You, Alex

Traditions matter. Tey defne and bond us. Columbia College is no exception to this principle. We have, among others, the Core Curriculum, Convocation for frst-years, the Senior Dinner and Class Day for seniors, sitting on the Low Steps on sunny days, and long days and nights studying in Hamilton and Butler, respectively. Another tradition we have is an excellent alumni magazine, Columbia Col- lege Today, which is published quarterly. About 19 years ago, after a suc- cessful career as a sports journalist and author, Alex Sachare ’71 became its editor. Tis development was the College’s great fortune. From the start, Alex understood the importance of emphasizing consis- tency and respect for the College’s rich history while incorporating novel and entertaining features that appeal to our varied constituencies and gen- erations. Each issue featured Alex’s and/or the dean’s message, Around the Quads news items, reports on our athletic teams’ achievements, a message from the Columbia College Alumni Association, updates on new books penned by alumni and professors, Class Notes and Obituaries. Alex and his staf, plus a team of freelance writers, wrote in-depth articles about alumni, students exploring the world, rising faculty stars — as well as legendary pro- fessors — and campus issues. Tank you, Alex, for your many years of great work and service to the College community. I hope this is not a full “retirement” and that occasionally you’ll still put on your writer’s hat and contribute your wisdom and warmth to CCT. Brian Krisberg ’81, LAW’84 New York City

In 22 years as a class correspondent, I’ve Alex joined the magazine after a distin- Alex Sachare ’71 had devoted, since 1998, to worked with two Columbia College Today guished career in the world of sports jour- Columbia College Today as its editor, and we editors, both of whom were terrifc: Jamie nalism, including positions with the NBA wish him well on his recent retirement. Katz ’72, BUS’80 and Alex Sachare ’71. and AP, another shared alma mater, and of We learned late last year that University I almost missed the news of Alex’s retire- course Spectator, where he was sports edi- Archivist Jocelyn Wilk had desired to digi- ment in the last issue, with his modest tor. (After I met Alex, my challenge was tize all past issues of the magazine in order farewell. [Editor’s note: See “Within the remembering how to pronounce his last to preserve them for reference and ease the Family,” Winter 2016–17.] name.) [Editor’s note: It’s “saa-share.”] ability of anyone wishing to research them. Alex, thank you for your support of the Terefore, the foundation was pleased to have class correspondents during your 18-plus– made a signifcant donation to help Vice Pro- years tenure. I’ve always especially appre- vost and University Librarian Ann D. Torn- Contact Us ciated your help in publishing photos to ton, Wilk and CCT to undertake this project, CCT welcomes letters from readers about commemorate events, such as the annual and we have done so in honor of Alex. articles in the magazine but cannot print or gathering of the new Roger Lehecka Arthur M. Delmhorst ’60, BUS’64, president personally respond to all letters received. Bernd Brecher ’54, JRN’55, vice president Letters express the views of the writers Summer Fellows. All best wishes for your and not CCT, the College or the University. retirement! Te Trustees of the Columbia University Please keep letters to 250 words or fewer. Janet Lorin ’95, JRN’96 Club Foundation All letters are subject to editing for space, New York City clarity and CCT style. Please direct letters for Tank you, Alex Sachare ’71, for your many publication “to the editor” via mail or online: Te Trustees of the Columbia University years of service to the Columbia College college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. Club Foundation have long been cognizant community as editor of Columbia College of the dedication and outstanding service that Today. I have eagerly awaited every one of

4 CCT Spring 2017 the 87 issues that you have edited. It’s amaz- I have always valued my College educa- demand for silence in a space where stu- ing how well a magazine can continue to tion, in large part due to the strong, smart dents have gathered twice-yearly since keep our College experience alive. women who were my classmates, room- 1975 to laugh, cheer, clap and sing “Roar, As the correspondent for the Class of 1963 mates, professors and colleagues. I am Lion, Roar” along with the band? for the past 14 years, I thank you for expand- greatly disappointed and ashamed that the We fnd the timing suspect, the “library ing the Class Notes section and allowing class writers and editors at CCT did not cast a rules” excuse disingenuous and the execu- correspondents to help our classmates stay in wider net to include more of these women tion unbecoming. better touch with one another. You have kept in the piece; we certainly merit a place at On December 15, not content to let me honest through the years by ensuring my the table of CC experts. the tradition die, the band braved subzero notes are accurate without exerting a heavy Natalie Kimmelman ’06 wind chill and performed outside Butler editorial thumb. You and your staf have gra- Brooklyn, N.Y. before a crowd of hundreds. If any stu- ciously accepted my natural procrastination dents remained in Room 209, we doubt and gently encouraged my submissions past Bring Back Orgo Night their grades were improved by the extra deadline without making me feel too guilty. half-hour of quiet time. You and I have shared a love of Columbia’s In “Rituals, Traditions, History” (“Message We applaud band members’ persistence past and present, and happily, on your watch, from the Dean,” Winter 2014–15), Dean and their fellow students’ appreciation of a the online version of CCT has become a true James J. Valentini praised College tradi- valued tradition. (All four Columbia under- archive and an extraordinary source of infor- tions as “part of our identity and part of the graduate student councils and the Specta- mation about Columbia and its history. legacy of every College student — former, Tank you for your friendship, for all you current and future … .” have done for CCT and for your promise to Which brings us to Orgo Night. continue as a contributing writer. An undergraduate admissions brochure, Paul Neshamkin ’63 “Columbia Blue,” has included a student’s Hoboken, N.J. joyous depiction of that twice-yearly event: “Te main study room in Butler Library Ignorance or Bias? starts getting packed around 11:30 p.m. … At midnight sharp … the marching band In the Winter 2016–17 issue, professor of storms into the room playing songs and read- political science Robert Y. Shapiro writes, ing jokes while the rest of us are standing on “Another reason [Barack] Obama [’83] rates the tables and chairs dancing and laughing.” highly is that his administration has been Admissions hasn’t been alone in endors- GS’ 98 CHAR SMULLYAN strikingly free of scandals.” I don’t remem- ing the more-than-40-year-old tradition. ber having even one professor in the early In a Class Notes column for the Class of tor editorial board spoke up on the band’s 1960s who was so ignorant or biased that 1955, Columbia College Alumni Asso- behalf.) We urge administrators to rethink (s)he would make such a claim. My fellow ciation former president and current class this latest casualty in what students call students would have detected sarcasm and correspondent Gerald Sherwin ’55 cited the “War on Fun.” Students who see their laughed. Mr. Shapiro, just as an example, “the always-sparkling Orgo Night.” On its sense of community weakened become what do you think about Obama using the 250th-anniversary website, the University alumni who just don’t care, and that’s in no IRS to conduct political warfare? Watergate posted Orgo Night memories from two one’s interest. Let’s go back to suspending was a Sunday school transgression compared College alumni. Te James H. and Christine the rules for a half-hour twice yearly — a to Obama’s lawlessness. Turk Berick Center for Student Advising as reasonable accommodation. Let the band Jim O’Brien ’66 well as Columbia Family Engagement rec- promote school spirit inside Butler as well Maitland, Fla. ommend attendance as a study break. as outside, in the name of tradition, for the So we were saddened and distressed sake of community building, and — dare we Missing Voices this past December when administrators say it? — for the love of alma mater. declared Butler of-limits to the Marching Steven Greenfield ’83, Samantha Rowan As a proud Columbia College alumna, I was Band because of “library rules.” Te brief BC’96, Morgan Robinson ’08, Katharine dismayed to open my last Columbia College midnight pause, they said, is too disruptive. Trendacosta ’10 and Peter Andrews ’14, Today and see the egregious underrepresen- Library rules? Really? directors, Columbia University Band Alumni tation of women in the cover article (“Te Orgo Night has always been like a Association; Ed Coller ’63, Dan Carlinsky Experts,” Winter 2016–17). Out of the 18 “Cleverest Band in the World” halftime ’65, JRN’66, J. Donald Smith ’65, Peter “experts” interviewed for the article, only performance on steroids: more Friars Club Janovsky ’68, Christopher Sten ’77, BUS’79, three were women. Moreover, these three roast than tea at Grandma’s. But as hyper- Dennis Klainberg ’84, Cathy Webster ’87, Liz women did not appear until the fnal three sensitivity has swept American campuses, Pleshette ’89, Betsey Benagh ’94, SEAS’94, interviews of the piece. (For context: Te the administration has had to feld a smat- Ben Mills ’06, Mark Tabry SEAS’07, Stepha- College has admitted women since 1983 and tering of complaints from students who nie Tarras BC’10 and Kevin Gould ’12, female students now make up 51 percent of say Orgo Night jokes make them uncom- Advisory Board members, CUBAA the student body.) fortable. So what to make of the sudden New York City

Spring 2017 CCT 5 Message from the Dean Our Community’s Highest Priority

n early February we had a snow day on campus. Classes were canceled and nearly a foot of snow fell in New York City. I surprised students by joining a snowball fght on Low Plaza, I while Dean’s Ofce staf served hot chocolate in Hamilton Hall. It was an unexpected opportunity for us to come together as a community. I’ve been thinking about that snowball fght lately because we have been very focused on campus wellness this semester. Te Oxford English Dictionary defnes wellness as “the state or condition of being in good physical, mental, and spiritual health, especially as an actively pursued goal.” Tat’s what our students seemed to feel during the snowball fght, and something they tell me they want more of in their day-to-day lives. Te essential goal of higher education is to prepare students for life after graduation. At Columbia College, we do this on a vari- 20 ety of levels, from ofering a dynamic curriculum and extracurricu- ’ lar activities, to providing faculty the resources they need to best educate students, to facilitating student success through enhanced career advising and student wellness programs. While we have had a strong support system in place for many years — including professional Residential Life staf and student MICHAEL EDMONSON RAs in all of our residence halls; academic, study abroad, fellow- ship, fnancial aid and student organization advisers; and access to After the roundtable, I asked students why the snowball fght was University resources such as Columbia Health and Counseling and such a special experience. One student said: “We know that every Psychological Services — we have been working to enhance and Columbia student is incredibly intelligent and takes very intense expand support for student health and well-being. academic courses. So it’s easy for us to forget that every Columbia In Fall 2016, we created a director of wellness position to sup- student is also still a kid who enjoys snowball fghts, loves to watch port the undergraduate community’s priorities. In recent years, movies with friends on Low Steps, is excited by the idea of receiving we have improved our Medical Leave of Absence Policy and have free Columbia stickers and wants to take pictures with Roar-ee to expanded support for frst-generation and low-income students and put on their Instagram.” other communities. While we are focused on educating students for their lives after Recently, we augmented staf training for recognizing and respond- graduation, we also need to remember that they are kids, young ing to student mental health emergencies, retrained student-facing people who are still developing the tools they need to succeed, College staf and are now training all College staf (including me). personally and professionally. And though we cannot solve all of We also plan in the coming months to train Core instructors, direc- the problems that students face on- and of-campus, there are steps tors of undergraduate studies and student leaders. we can take as a community to instill a greater sense of health and As we work on these initiatives, I have been grateful for our stu- well-being. dents, alumni and parents, who have ofered their time and thoughts We are now making student well-being our highest priority, and as part of this conversation. Students have written op-eds and arti- we will continue to look at ways to address stress and to enhance cles, told me about formal and informal initiatives that they have student resources. We are committed to providing Columbia started on campus to support fellow students and volunteered to College students with health and wellness tools that will serve them represent the College at the 2nd Annual Ivy League Mental Health not only while they are here, but also for many years to come. Conference, which was hosted at Brown in February. We also recently organized a community roundtable with stu- dent leaders and College staf to brainstorm ways to reduce the pressure that students feel. Ideas included adding mental health programming to the New Student Orientation Program and adding more small-scale opportunities for “fun,” such as movies, concerts or James J. Valentini games on campus. Dean

6 CCT Spring 2017 Around Quadsthe

Gorsuch Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court

eil M. Gorsuch ’88, a conser- from the White House. He is currently a from the perspective of those who wrote vative federal appellate judge judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for it. He is also committed to textualism, the who has distinguished him- the 10th Circuit, in Denver. practice of considering only the words of N self across a 25-year career Te seat Gorsuch would fll has been the law being reviewed and not legislators’ in the American judicial system, has been vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia died in intent or the consequences that might come nominated as the 113th justice of the U.S. February 2016. President Barack Obama with a law’s implementation. Within the Supreme Court. ’83 had nominated D.C. Circuit Chief legal community he is widely praised for Te nomination was announced on January 31, ending weeks of speculation surrounding whom President Donald J. “If I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit Trump would name. At this writing, the Senate hearing on the nomination was to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws scheduled to begin on March 20, with a of this great country.”— Neil M. Gorsuch ’88 ruling not expected until at least April. “Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confrmed I will do Judge Merrick Garland for the role, but his writing, a skill that — along with a pen- all my powers permit to be a faithful ser- Republicans refused to hold hearings to chant for strong opinions — he cultivated vant of the Constitution and laws of this consider confrmation. at Columbia. He penned an occasional col- great country,” Gorsuch said after Trump’s Gorsuch subscribes to originalism, a phi- umn for Spectator, “Fed up,” and co-founded announcement, which was televised live losophy of interpreting the Constitution the Federalist Paper, which at the time was part newspaper and part opinion journal; a 1989 Spectator article noted that “the Feder- alist established the validity of a conserva- tive view at Columbia.” Gorsuch was born in Colorado and moved to Washington, D.C., as a teenager when his mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, became the frst woman to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. He was a political sci- ence major at the College, graduated from Harvard Law in 1991 and subsequently attended Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, earn- ing a Ph.D. in legal philosophy in 2004. From 1993 to 1994 he was a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White, then a retired member of the Supreme Court, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. He practiced law for a decade at the Washington, D.C., frm Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel before serving in the Justice Department from 2005 to 2006. President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch to the Court of Appeals in 2006, and he took ofce that same year. If confrmed, Gorsuch would be the second Columbian to serve on the country’s highest court. John Jay (Class of 1764) was the frst chief justice, serving from 1789 to 1795. Gorsuch and his wife, Mary Louise, as he received the presidential nomination. — Alexis Boncy SOA’11

Spring 2017 CCT 7 Around Quadsthe

Garcetti Re-Elected as L.A. Mayor

Eric Garcetti ’92, SIPA ’93 was elected to a second term as mayor of Los Angeles on March 7. While the ballots were still being counted as CCT went to press, the victory was said to be one of the biggest landslides in the city’s history, with Garcetti, a Dem- ocrat, holding more than 80 percent of the vote over SUPPORT 10 lesser-known rivals. “I want to thank the citizens who voted for me; you made this moment possible,” YOUR CCT he told supporters at a victory party, speaking in both Columbia College Today has English and Spanish. Garcetti has been L.A.’s mayor since 2013 and is often mentioned as a future can- always been your magazine — didate for higher ofce. He is a fourth-generation the place to read about the Angeleno and a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve. incredible achievements and remarkable stories of College alumni, faculty and students. Please consider visiting college.columbia.edu/cct/giving by June 30, 2017, to make a tax- deductible contribution to CCT. VITO I MICHAEL D Dean’s Scholarship Reception

On February 7, more than 400 guests gathered in Alfred Lerner Hall’s Roone Arledge Audi- torium for the Dean’s Scholarship Reception, Columbia an annual event where donors and students meet and discuss shared College experiences. At right, speakers Li Lu ’96, BUS’96, LAW’96, Jewelry donor of the Li Lu ’96 Scholarship, and Tay- 1754 Crown Cufflinks, lor M. Fogg ’17, a recipient of the Philip and Studs, Lapel Pins, Cheryl Milstein Scholarship. Above, chatting Pendants. at the reception (left to right), Stephen Case Lions, CC Designs. ’64, LAW’68; Sohbet Dovranov ’20, the recipi- Fine, Handmade. ent of the Charles Hayden Memorial Schol- arship Fund; and Zachariah Calluori ’17, the CUJewelry.com recipient of the Edwin H. Case Memorial Scholarship Fund. Dean James J. Valentini (917) 416-6055 also spoke, thanking donors for their generosity. [email protected] Learn more about the speakers and view the list of donors and recipients: college.columbia. edu/namedscholarships.

8 CCT Spring 2017 StudentSpotlight

COLUMBIA ATHLETICS Jackie Chulya ’17

By Nathalie Alonso ’08

eigning Ivy League Player frst place in two of their four tourna- of the Year Jackie Chulya ments. She says she takes most pride, fast facts ’17 looks back with amuse- however, in having “stayed committed HOMETOWN: Bangkok, Thailand ment at the disappoint- through the ups and downs” of her career, ment she felt when her including a frustrating performance at the MAJOR: Economics and math joint major Rfather announced that, as a gift for her U.S. Girls’ Junior championships in 2012 CLUBS: Women’s Golf Team, Thai Club 7th birthday, he would introduce her to that led her to consider quitting the sport. KUDOS: Dinah Shore Trophy, Ivy League golf. “I wanted an actual present, like a “I’m just glad I never gave up and tried to Player of the Year 2015–16, Women’s Golf doll,” she recalls. fnd ways to improve,” she says. Coaches Association All-American Scholar, Chulya’s father, who had taken up golf It’s the mental challenge that golf poses, William Terminello Award (co-winner) recreationally as a graduate student in Chulya adds, that drives her. “No matter Cleveland, hoped to one day see his daugh- how much you practice or how hard you ter on television playing the sport profes- work, it comes down to being able to make to pursue the sport professionally. However, sionally. Trough the years, as she honed clutch putts and overcome your fears when she says that her time at Columbia has her stroke under the searing Bangkok sun, you’re under pressure,” she says. rekindled that dream and in August she Chulya made that dream her own. She Born in Cleveland, Chulya was just a will attend the newly established qualify- now appears well-positioned to achieve few months old when her parents relocated ing school for the Symetra Tour, the ofcial it, following a standout junior season for the family — which includes her older developmental tour for the Ladies Profes- the women’s golf team in 2015–16. After sister, Jessica, who played golf at UC Davis sional Golf Association Tour. Her goal is to posting a scoring average of 74.95 — the — back to their native Tailand. Accom- qualify for the prestigious LPGA Tour. “[At second-best in Lions history in a single panied by one of her parents, from the Columbia] I started enjoying golf a lot more season — Chulya became just the second time she was 12 Chulya spent summers and I got better as well. Tat combination female Columbian to be voted Ivy League competing in golf tournaments in the of being able to play well and enjoy it at Player of the Year; she became so by a United States. She began her Columbia the same time sparked my interest again in unanimous vote. In the process, she set career at Engineering, but transferred to playing pro golf,” she says. single-season program records for most the College following her sophomore year birdies made (62) and Par-4 scoring (4.16). after discovering that she preferred Core Nathalie Alonso ’08, from Queens, is a During the Fall 2016 season, Chulya, classes over engineering classes. freelance journalist and an editorial producer who shares the title of team captain with By the time she started college, the rigors for LasMayores.com, Major League Baseball’s Camilla Vik ’17, helped the Lions take of golf had diminished Chulya’s aspirations ofcial Spanish language website.

Spring 2017 CCT 9 Around Quadsthe

FRANCIS CATANIA DidYouKnow? Columbia Has Miles of Books

You may have spent hours in the Butler stacks, but did you know that Columbia’s on-campus and afliate library system comprise 21 separate libraries? All those libraries hold a total of 11.9 million volumes — not to mention 179,457 videos, DVDs, CDs and sound recordings. Tat adds up to 246 miles of materials! Learn more at library.columbia.edu/about/facts.

Five Alumni Honored

Five College alumni were honored on March 1 at the 39th annual John Jay Awards Dinner. Te event, which drew upward of 400 attendees to Cipriani 42nd Street, raised more than $1.3 million for the John Jay National Scholars Program. Tis year’s honorees for distin- guished professional achievement were (left to right) Toomas Hendrik Ilves ’76, former president, Republic of Estonia; Joseph A. Cabrera ’82, vice-chair – Eastern Region, Colliers International; Jenji Kohan ’91, execu- tive producer and screenwriter; David B. Barry ’87, president, Ironstate Development Co.; and William A. Von Muefing ’90, BUS’95, president and CEO of Cantillon Capital Management. BRUCE GILBERT

10 CCT Spring 2017 the Essentials Dustin Rubenstein

Every spring Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (E3B) Dustin Rubenstein leaves behind the Columbia Lions for actual lions as the director of the Program in Tropical Biology and Sustain- ability, leading a small number of students on a semester abroad in Kenya. Rubenstein created the Kenya program in 2012, in conjunction with the Ofce of Global Programs (OGP) and Princeton. Rubenstein also teaches in “Frontiers of Science,” is the founding director of the Center for Integra- tive Animal Behavior and is on the faculty in the Program of Neurobiology and Behavior at CUMC. He spoke with CCT about science as a current

event, living with wildlife and how Africa is for him a family afair. JILL SHOMER

RUBENSTEIN GREW UP in New Jersey; for the scientifc process. We will need to RUBENSTEIN PRIMARILY studies birds, his father teaches at Princeton and is also think about these issues given what might in particular the superb starling, which a scientist in the feld of animal behavior. happen over the next four years.” lives in large and complex social groups As a child, Rubenstein traveled the world that interact much like humans. In the THE KENYA PROGRAM on school breaks and summer vacations grew out of a feld he studies how the environment as his father did feld work in exotic course Rubenstein helped create as a gradu- shapes the starling’s behavior, physiology locales, including in Africa. “It was a good ate student. He initiated the semester-long and genetics. lifestyle,” he says. program in 2012 at Columbia because he wanted to give students the immersive expe- INTERACTION WITH WILDLIFE is a big HE EARNED A B.A. from Dartmouth in rience of feld work, but in New York City draw for the Kenya program. “What makes 1999. As an undergrad he was interested in they were limited to parks and the Ameri- Africa a great place to do feld courses is using scientifc tools from diferent disci- can Museum of Natural History. “Two or the density and the diversity of the big plines to answer biological questions — in three weeks [on breaks] isn’t enough time to game; the students get really excited about his case, applying techniques from stable get a feel for the culture, so when we created that,” Rubenstein says. “We’re there to isotope geochemistry to study migratory the program we saw the value in doing a full explore the landscape and conduct scien- birds. After earning a Ph.D. from Cornell semester abroad,” he says. Students apply tifc projects rather than to fnd animals, in 2006, Rubinstein joined Columbia as an for the program through OGP; three to fve but if we get a radio that there are lions or E3B assistant professor in 2009. College and GS students make the trip each wild dogs nearby we might drop what we’re spring, though Rubenstein hopes more will doing to look for them.” IN “FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE,” Ruben- decide to go in the future. stein teaches frst-years how to approach a ANIMAL SIGHTINGS aren’t always WHAT HE LIKES MOST problem, analyze it, draw conclusions and about teaching is optional. “Tere are elephants and bufalos communicate that information. “Tose are interacting with the students, and the feld all around so you have to be aware,” he skills that will be important in whatever courses defnitely provide that opportunity, says. “We stay at a feld station that has an they do, and I want them to have an he says. “I live with the students 24 hours a electric fence around it, and when we’re out understanding of how science plays a role day for a month in very intense surround- we always have Kenyan scouts with us for in their everyday lives,” he says. “Frontiers ings. Tese are the students I keep in touch safety. We’re living with the wildlife, and of Science does a good job of teaching with the most. I see them on social media the students get to understand that.” students to critique what they see and to and on campus when they come back for recognize what fact is.” reunions and events.” EVEN AFTER SO MANY VISITS to Africa, Rubenstein still gets a charge out of seeing WITH SCIENCE AND FACT HIS WHOLE FAMILY under fre spends time in the local fauna. “It’s always fun. I’ve seen in our country, Rubenstein is concerned. Kenya. His father teaches a class in the everything but there are some animals I’d like “We’re suddenly in a period where facts program and his mother runs an after- to see more. A honey badger is very rare; I are disputable, and it makes me think school conservation club program in the always tell the students that if they can fnd a about my teaching. We can’t live in a community. His children, ages 5 and 7, honey badger they’ll get an A,” he says with a society where this is acceptable; we as join him on summer research trips and laugh. “No one will ever see one.” faculty have to teach students appreciation play with the local children. — Jill C. Shomer

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ich Lee Parker, head coach of Columbia’s national Lee Parker joined the club rowing program while a student at champion lightweight crew, says he has three rules Ohio State and quickly got hooked on the sport. “I went to a coach- for his rowers: “You’re responsible for your own devel- ing conference as a senior and really enjoyed it. I got a fellowship to N opment, for your own performance and for making study kinesiology and help coach, and that’s how I got started.” yourself better. If you can do those three things, we’ll be OK.” After time as an assistant at Ohio State and later Purdue, in Te Lions were more than OK in 2016. After fnishing a disap- 2007 Lee Parker became the program coordinator and head coach pointing second to Yale at the Eastern Sprints last May, Columbia of the New Haven Rowing Club while assisting with the Yale exacted revenge by beating the Bulldogs by more than half a boat heavyweight crew. He joined Columbia in 2010 as a heavyweight length at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Cham- assistant coach while also assisting with the USRowing Boys Junior pionships on June 5 on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J. It was National Development team, which he guided to two national the frst IRA lightweight title for the Lions and the frst national championship titles and two silver medal performances at the 2009 championship for any Columbia varsity eight since 1929. USRowing Club Nationals. After two seasons with the Columbia Columbia began defense of its crown with several Cup Regattas heavyweights he became an assistant on Scott Alwin’s lightweight in March and April leading to the Eastern Sprints on May 14 in staf, and when Alwin became head coach of the heavyweights in Worcester, Mass., and the IRA Nationals on Lake Natoma, near 2013, Lee Parker succeeded him as head coach of the lightweights. Folsom, Calif., June 2–4. Lightweight rowing — no rower can weigh more than 160 lbs., “Now that we’ve climbed the mountain, we’ve got to fnd another and the average for the entire boat excluding coxswain can be no one,” says Lee Parker. “It’s like Usain Bolt in the 200m race at the more than 155 lbs. — tends to rely more on body composition and Olympics in Beijing, when he got of to such a fast start. When technique rather than raw strength, as compared with heavyweight you’re up like that at the halfway mark, who is he racing now? rowing, which is open to rowers of all sizes. “Te weight is more of Himself. Tat’s our next step, to try to be even better. We don’t an equalizer on the lightweight side,” says Lee Parker. “But rowing want to lose a sense of who we are because we won one big race.” is still rowing, and that’s one of the beauties of the sport.” Lee Parker is constantly trying to optimize the Lions’ workout Columbia fnished third in the IRAs in Lee Parker’s fnal season regimen and has enlisted the help of P&S on physiological test- as an assistant coach, so he inherited a program that was on frm ing of the crew. Tis approach has impressed longtime followers footing, but still, he says, “It felt like there was something missing.” of Columbia rowing, including Jim Weinstein ’84, BUS’88, who So when he became head coach, he placed a greater emphasis on says, “He’s always trying to fgure out every new training technique, training and conditioning and changed the rowing style to eliminate always talking about physiology and biomechanics. He’s also very the torque on the rowers’ backs. “Doing really hard things became good at communicating with his rowers on what they need to do.” really fun,” he says.

14 CCT Spring 2017 Te Lions again fnished third in the 2014 IRAs, but their four- man boat fnished frst — the frst individual 2,000m title for Columbia since the heavyweights in 1929. “Tat was signifcant,” says Lee Parker. “All the guys said, ‘We can do this.’” After Columbia fnished second to Cornell at the 2015 IRAs, Lee Parker pushed the team hard in fall training for the 2016 season. “We learned our limits and adjusted accordingly,” he says. “Guys were throwing themselves at workouts like I had never seen, doing things they had never been able to do, and then they were doing them again and again.” Despite losing team captain Jakub Buczek ’16, who sufered a broken leg in a skiing accident, the Lions won six of seven races in the 2016 Cup season, bowing only to Yale in the Dodge Cup. At the Eastern Sprints,

the Lions once again could not keep up with Yale and fnished second. MIKE TURESKI / SPORTSPIX After those two losses, a tactical change was in order. “We had a very scripted race plan,” says Lee Parker, “but at the IRAs I told them, ‘We’re done with the race plan. You’re just going to get of the start line and you Men’s Fencing Posts are just going to go.’” Rowing for Columbia at the IRAs, from bow, were Ivy Four-Peat John Maloney ’18, Oliver Ingram ’16, Jefrey Monahan ’18, Colin Ross ’16, William Solberg ’16, Jenson Carlgren ’19, David Mottola ’17 and Columbia won a share of its fourth consecutive league title Benjamin Landis ’18, with Yih-Jen Ku SEAS’16 as coxswain. by defeating Princeton 15–12 in the fnal round of the men’s Te Lions won their preliminary heat on Saturday, but Yale was competition at the Ivy League Fencing Championships on a second faster in winning the other preliminary heat. Although an February 12 in Philadelphia. It was the 38th league title in impending storm caused ofcials to move the start time of Sunday’s program history. Te Lions shared the championship with fnal from noon to 7:30 a.m., the Lions were more than ready. “Tey Penn and Princeton for the second straight year after all three came of the line really strong and they never slowed down,” says Lee schools posted 4–1 records in the two-day, round robin event. Parker. “By the midpoint we had taken a length lead and everybody After routing Brown 21–6, the Lions dropped a 14–13 was moving beautifully, clipping along at a pretty high stroke rate, decision to Penn to complete the opening day with a 1–1 and they controlled the race to the end.” record. Tey trailed Harvard 11–3 on Day 2 before rallying Te victory delighted the contingent of family, friends and alumni to win 11 of the fnal 13 bouts and claim a 14–13 victory, who attended the race, including former varsity rowers like Weinstein then beat Yale by the same score to set up their match against and Eric Dannemann ’67, BUS’72, a member of the 1964 undefeated Princeton, in which captain Porter Hesslegrave ’18 won his freshman lightweight crew. fnal épée bout for the clinching point. “When you’ve waited three- Columbia’s women came as close as possible to a third con- ROAR! quarters of a century for some- secutive Ivy League title but lost to Princeton 14–13 in the For the latest news on Columbia thing like this, you make sure fnal round to fnish second with a 5–1 record. Margaret Lu athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. you show up, even if it’s early in ’17 won the individual women’s foil championship, compiling the morning,” says Weinstein. a 13–2 bout record. “Literally, tears of joy were Lu was among the six Columbia fencers who earned All-Ivy fowing” among the Columbia supporters, says Dannemann. “Tese recognition. Joining her on the First Team were Nolen Scruggs guys deserve great recognition. What they did was amazing. Tey ’19 (men’s foil), Sara Tafel BC’17 (women’s foil), Katie Angen awakened the echoes of the Hudson Valley.” ’18 (women’s épée) and Lena Johnson BC’18 (women’s sabre). — Alex Sachare ’71 Gabe Canaux ’19 (men’s épée) earned Second Team honors. Te Lions sought to defend their national championship To view a video of the championship race, go to gocolumbialions.com, click when they competed in the NCAA Regional Championships on Teams, click on Lightweight Rowing, click on News and scroll down in New Haven, Conn., on March 12 and the NCAA Cham- to fnd it. For a close-up look at the rowers, go to yihjen.com/c150.html. pionships in Indianapolis, March 23–26.

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38 37/19 2 21–0 6 Ivy League Points/rebounds by National ranking Three-year Columbia fencers championships Camille Zimmerman ’18 of men’s squash on Ivy League dual named to 2017 won or shared in a 91–88 4 overtime January 20, highest in meet record by All-Ivy League First by men’s fencing, win at Dartmouth on program history Jayden Pantel ’18 in and Second Teams the latest in 2017 January 27 three-meter diving

Spring 2017 CCT 15 MUSIC Irreverent and energetic, composer Nico Muhly ’03 is turning the classical world on its ear THE By Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 MUSIC MAN Illustrations by Derek Heldenbergh here’s a delicious scene in the third season of Ama- as “poised for a major career.” Ross presciently wrote: zon’s Mozart in the Jungle in which Nico Muhly ’03, “If Muhly simply dumped his diverse musical loves Juilliard’04, playing himself, introduces an aria he into a score, he would have an eclectic mess. Instead, has composed expressly for La Fiamma, a Maria he lets himself be guided by them, sometimes almost Callas-style prima donna portrayed by Italian actress subliminally.” In a short piece performed at the con- Monica Bellucci. He demonstrates her singing part servatory, “he asks players to be ‘spastic,’ to ‘smudge’ on a grand piano in her Venetian parlor, explaining certain notes, to ‘ignore the conductor’; he is trying that the piece will also feature pre-recorded sounds for a raucous, un-‘classical’ sound. But the work itself and fragments of text that she will sing into a micro- is austere and solemn in intent … Te music spins phone and then repeat using a foot pedal. Before the away into a kind of gritty ecstasy … a cool balance proud La Fiamma will agree to this departure from between ancient and modern modes, between the her standard repertoire, however, she needs some life of the mind and the noise of the street.” convincing. “What is the story about?” she asks. Since then, Muhly has emerged as one of the “Te character is a young American woman most highly acclaimed composers of our time, put- named Amy Fisher,” Muhly tells her. “She’s having ting his stamp on an astonishing variety of projects: an afair with an older man, and she goes over to his chamber and symphonic works, choral and sacred house and shoots his wife in the head. His name is music, a cantata based on Strunk and White’s Te Joey Buttafuoco.” Elements of Style — all fair game for the prolifc He pronounces it the American way, the way Muhly. “Nico is the hardest working person I’ve newscasters did when the “Long Island Lolita” ever met, a furious producer,” violist Nadia Sirota made sensational headlines in the early ’90s: says in her award-winning Meet the Composer radio/ Buttah-fewco. La Fiamma corrects him. “Boota- podcast series. Even back in their Juilliard days, she fwocko,” she says. TIf this were an old-school sitcom, the laugh track would kick in right about here. But while Mozart in the Jungle is fun, it takes music seriously enough not to waste a cameo by the world-renowned Muhly, who in his 20s became the youngest composer ever commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. So we’re RICHARDS RAYON treated to a glimpse of the real Nico: artistically adventurous, charming and sensitive to the hopes and agonies of Fisher or anyone else whose private passions lead to public tragedy. “Fisher’s world is really intense,” Muhly refects in his West 37th Street music studio in Manhattan. “Like Romeo and Juliet, she’s in this highly charged erotic and emotional situation — only it isn’t in a glamorous place. It isn’t Verona; it’s Massapequa. But I don’t like this idea of high versus low [culture], because it’s really just people.” Muhly often turns to such real-life dramas in his works. His frst opera, Two Boys, which had its Met premiere in 2013, was inspired by the fatal stab- bing of a Manchester, England, youth by a lover he had met in an Internet chat room. His song cycle, Sentences, contemplates the life of Alan Turing, the pioneering British computer scientist who cracked top-secret German codes during WWII and was subsequently prosecuted as a homosexual. A sec- ond opera, Dark Sisters, springs from the story of a fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon community in Texas whose children were removed by state of- cials concerned about child abuse. Even before his Met commission, Muhly had impressed the classical music world with his sensi- bility and originality. As early as 2004, New Yorker critic Alex Ross had fagged the “spiky-haired, healthily irreverent” Muhly, still studying at Juilliard,

18 CCT Spring 2017 THE MUSICMAN says, “It was well known that if your recital program the Internet, where he’s using voices in that way. was coming up short, this kid Nico would totally He’s like a painter — he has layers of paint that he write you a piece to hit your desired run time.” can apply, or he can strip away. He uses the voice incredibly well that way.” he ability to work within strict formal constraints Layering, repetition, obsession, anxiety, subtle Tand mesh with other artists (Sirota calls him “a textures and juxtapositions all loom large in Muh- virtuosic collaborator”) has opened many paths for ly’s compositional vocabulary. “Quiet Music,” a solo Muhly. He has scored movies — among them Te for piano played by Muhly on Speaks Volumes, his Reader, Joshua and Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret — 2006 debut CD, has “the haunting, fragmentary and plays, including Broadway revivals of Te Glass quality of an anthem heard from stone church steps Menagerie and Te Cherry Orchard. He has joined through heavy ecclesiastical doors,” Rebecca Mead with choreographer Benjamin Millepied on works for wrote in a 2008 New Yorker profle. “Te Only major ballet companies in New York and Paris. Te Tune,” a song on his widely admired 2008 album, perpetually in-motion composer has also worked with Mothertongue, deconstructs a macabre 17th-century singer-songwriters Björk, Sufan Stevens and Rufus English folk song, employing a sonic palette that Wainwright, Brooklyn rock band Grizzly Bear and includes, it is said, Icelandic wind samples and raw chamber cabaret group Antony and the Johnsons. A whale meat sloshing in a bowl. (Asked to confrm YouTube search turns up hundreds of Muhly items. that instrumentation, Muhly emailed: “‘Only Tune’ (For a quick sample of his gestalt, check out “Nico is like, meat, hair, bones, oil, slippers … ” .) Muhly and Ira Glass/Live from the NYPL.”) In conversation, Muhly can unspool a thread of Muhly’s idiosyncratic website highlights three associations that are at once freely conceived and dis- dozen CDs, including his latest, 2016’s Confessions. ciplined, like a great jazz improvisation that takes you Te album is a collaboration with Teitur, a singer- far from its point of departure, songwriter and producer from the Faroe Islands, yet maintains a sense of unity. the isolated North Atlantic archipelago whose Describing the experience of “ I’ve never met someone 50,000 inhabitants speak a language closely related hearing his own works per- to Old Norse. (“I’m obsessed with it,” Muhly says.) formed, he says: “I’m always with such an energy. One track on the album, “Drones in Large Cycles,” nervous, or I’m of to the side It reminds me a bit of what is studded with little pops and skips that bring to or I’m backstage. And that’s mind an old, damaged vinyl LP, or the tiny bubbles so much more interesting to I imagine Mozart would that difuse randomly in hand-blown glass. me, to be in a weird environ- Tese imperfections are not trivial, Muhly says. ment and to have the sound have been like.” “Teitur is so good at taking what is an incredibly come as if from a distance, or clean audio landscape and letting it fuzz at the edges, from over here, or some weird so there’s a real sense of grit on the sound,” he says. memory of it. Watching an opera from backstage is “If you’re working with electronic sounds, it’s impor- amazing. I would pay great money just to listen to the tant to me that they have some sort of actual acoustic stage management call of a Mozart opera. It’s so fas- property, in the same way that the early Disney car- cinating, because it has its own rhythm that is com- toons or Disney movies are sort of these beautiful pletely in counterpoint to the rhythm of the music. watercolors. You can see the hand of the artist even But when you have to call things to make the lights go, in an electronically reproduced medium.” and to make the scrim go down, it’s this whole other Muhly’s compositional hand is “strange, unset- text, as it were, that the score produces.” tling and often golden,” in the words of critic James Friends, colleagues and patrons speak of Muhly Jorden. Met general manager Peter Gelb observes, with a blend of awe and afection. “He’s what we’re always looking for today in new “He’s such a prodigious talent that music seems to composers of classical music — compositional fow out of him,” says Gelb, recently back from London, voices who are original, but are also accessible.” where he took part in workshops for Marnie, Muhly’s “Nico’s music is a bit like him as a person,” says second Met commission (a co-production with the English mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, who played English National Opera). Te libretto is adapted from a leading role in Two Boys. “He can produce the Winston Graham’s 1961 novel, which was also the most incredibly moving, lyrical writing that can be basis for the Alfred Hitchcock flm of the same name; otherworldly, or can be just a scream for human- it will open at the Met during the 2019–20 season. “I’ve ity. And he can also create the most amazing tex- known many composers in my life,” Gelb says. “Usually tures in the chorus. It can be like an Elgar oratorio, they’re very slow in getting music to people who com- huge choruses where they join together, or other mission them. Nico is kind of the opposite. He’s really ones where they’re all practically singing their own racing ahead with enthusiasm as he composes.” lines, working against each other where they actu- “You can’t pin Nico down, as an intellect or a ally created the sound of a computer, the sound of person,” says Coote. “His brain is going 15 times

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faster than anyone else’s. I’ve never met someone Vt., and raised in Providence, R.I. His cultural and with such an energy. It reminds me a bit of what I linguistic horizons were much enlarged, he says, imagine Mozart would have been like. And I’m not by extensive travel as a child, including long stays being ridiculous. Tis man’s brain is like an amazing in Rome and Cairo. He plunged into music when computer. He’s like a bag of nervous and emotional he was about 10, taking up the piano and joining and receptive energy.” the boys’ choir at an Anglican church in downtown In late January, Coote premiered Strange Produc- Providence, an experience that left a deep imprint. tions, a song cycle Muhly wrote for her, at London’s “Tey had a really divine choirmaster who was Wigmore Hall. Te text is based on the poetry of really steeped in the English tradition,” he says on John Clare and a 19th-century asylum doctor’s Sirota’s podcast, “and [he] fgured out how to have observations of a mental patient. “Nico just seems to a choir of men and boys do two services a week. It express life, just living each day,” Coote says. “He’s a was a really spectacular thing.” strange, phenomenal mixture of levity — an amazing A turning point, he says, was performing the sense of humor and sense of the absurd — and at the Stravinsky Mass for the frst time — “a wild thing other end, he also has the most profoundly consid- to have happen to you when you’re 12.” At that age, ered, darkest view it is possible to experience in life. just hearing the frst four notes was, he says in the He’s just the most extraordinary person.” podcast, “like a really erotic experience.” Elena Park, executive producer of the Met broad- Muhly developed quickly enough that when he casts and a well-known New York arts consultant, came to New York as a student, his fellow conserva- has known Muhly since his student days. “Tere’s tory students and teachers — among them Pulitzer something incredibly endearing and refreshing Prize winners Christopher Rouse and John Cori- about Nico,” she says. “Being around him is really a gliano ’59 — stood up and took note. total joy, although a little daunting in terms of the “By the time I met Nico at Juilliard,” Sirota says, breadth of his knowledge, dizzying speed and near- “he was already kind of a mythical fgure, a Columbia- perfect recall of the most minute details. He has Juilliard double degree student studying English and this genuine open-heartedness and curiosity about composition and Arabic, who worked for Philip Glass the world, combined with a singular way of look- afternoons and weekends, wore a colorful assortment ing at things that comes through in his music. He’ll of gardening clogs and had an afnity for dim sum.” add an original keyboard touch to Adele’s latest pop Corigliano recognized Muhly’s exceptional quali- album, then turn around and write an esoteric cho- ties early on. “Nico knew what he wanted to do, and ral piece that harkens back to 16th-century sacred he did it,” he says. “He would write tons of music in music by Tomas Tallis.” a week. We’d go through 30 or 40 pages and cut half of them out, or change them, and he would be happy uhly is clearly a kind of polymath, a vora- to do it. He was a very easy student, and very likable.” Mcious consumer of culture and experience who Like Muhly, many of Corigliano’s students have boomerangs it all back at the world with his own opted for the demanding fve-year Columbia-Juil- spin. One of his favorite authors is Salman Rush- liard program. “Columbia gives them something die, whose densely lyrical Midnight’s Children Muhly that Juilliard can’t give them,” Corigliano says, “and reads at least once a year. “I’m sort of addicted to his if they’re able to handle the added load — and Nico sentence structure,” he says. “You just feel like you’re certainly was — they love the challenges of learning in this kind of virtuosic language space, in a way that in a way that’s quite diferent from a conservatory.” pleases me viscerally much Initially, Muhly had considered applying only to more than [ James] Joyce, Juilliard. “I was so used to keeping a kind of academic “Essentially the thing I where I feel like I’m always rigor as the fundamental muscle of my thought, and was the most interested in, unpacking these tiny little the music was the thing that resulted from that, not a boxes. But with Rushdie, it’s thing that itself was being studied,” he says. “Te pri- and still am, is language, like, pow! It feels joyful and mary thing for me was thinking about words. Essen- ecstatic.” Rushdie has high tially the thing I was the most interested in, and still just as a concept.” praise, in turn, for Muhly, am, is language, just as a concept.” with whom he has social- Muhly has lived in an apartment in Chinatown ized. “I fnd talent striking,” for many years, but says he is exceptionally grateful the author says via email, “and in Nico’s case the tal- for his time on and around the Morningside campus, ent declares itself so strongly and at once that one frst in Wallach Hall, then 47 Claremont Ave., then would have to be deaf not to hear it.” boarding in a faculty apartment on Riverside Drive. Tat talent blossomed early. Te only child of “Te fact that I had this whole other school to deal Bunny Harvey, a well-known painter and longtime with downtown was a little bit complicated, but for Wellesley faculty member, and Frank Muhly, a doc- me it was so important to live at Columbia and to umentary flmmaker, Nico was born in Randolph, feel connected to that,” he says. “My classmates at

20 CCT Spring 2017 Juilliard I’m very close with, but my classmates at for the same sort of reasons that drew him to Fisher Columbia feel like family.” as a contemporary train wreck worth thinking about. He lauds the Core Curriculum. “I feel like there’s “Tere’s an element of camp to Britney, obvi- a limited time in one’s life when one is forced to ously, but actually kind of not,” Muhly says. “I think do things outside of what one thinks one wants to she’s an interesting character because we’re invited do,” Muhly says. “And I think when you’re 18, the to share in her struggle — although it’s unclear last thing you need to do is be self-directed. So, I what exactly her struggle was, which I think is approached the Core in a kind of bring-it-to-me really interesting. She’s a young woman from the way, which helped, because I would never be disap- rural South who was put through this kind of Dis- pointed or underwhelmed.” ney wringer, and then suddenly we are all looking Muhly had the good fortune of landing in a Lit at a photograph of her actual vagina as she’s getting Hum section taught by former dean of the College out of a car. Tat level of tabloid violence against (and Amherst College president emeritus) Peter R. her body is extraordinary.” Pouncey GSAS’69, “an unbelievable person,” Muhly Muhly gets revved up talking about Spears, who says. An English and comp lit major, Muhly also is his age. What he doesn’t do is dismiss her or has high praise for professors Julie Crawford, an make light of her travails. Where others make cruel expert in 16th- and 17th-century English literature sport, Muhly fnds the humanity. “Seeing her per- and culture; Jenny Davidson, with whom he did an form was quite beautiful and strange and tragic and independent study on Dickens; and the late Edward fascinating in a way,” he says. Said, whose understanding of musical counterpoint Muhly has a way of winning people over. In the made a deep impression. Mozart in the Jungle episode, after some more back- Te thirst for knowledge, critical rigor and ing and flling, La Fiamma closes her eyes and fnally human values that Columbia nourished continue to delivers her verdict on the Fisher aria. “J’adore,” she says. animate Muhly, whether he’s thinking about Glass’ Einstein on the Beach or, for that matter, Britney Former CCT Editor Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 has Spears’ “Oops! ... I Did It Again.” held senior editorial positions at People and Vibe and Muhly recently jetted of to Las Vegas with Sirota contributes to Smithsonian Magazine and other pub- and a friend to catch Spears’ live show, partly out of lications. His most recent CCT piece was a profle of nostalgia for pop songs they enjoyed in college, partly architect Robert A.M. Stern ’60 in the Fall 2016 issue.

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ROAR22 CCT Spring 2017 History professor Martha Howell GSAS’79 discusses gender inequality, feminism and how the Women’s Marches have energized the movement ROARSpring 2017 CCT 23 CCT: We published an interview with you in the November/December 2010 issue in which you said that when you grew up in the 1960s, the only careers imagin- able for a woman, other than being a mother, were being a teacher, a nurse or a secretary. How did it look in 1987? And what about now, 30 years later? Martha Howell: If you’re talking about entry into the learned professions, the liberal pro- fessions, I think that 1987 was a time when it became possible for women to aspire to those positions. Today, there’s no question, but it’s taken a long time for women to rise to the top. It’s only in the past few years that major universities have had female presidents. And yet, take a look at senior management in big corporations. Tere are not that many women, even though in 1987 it was possible for women to go to the top business schools and get the training that would have put them in a position for having these kinds of leader- ship roles. [Author’s note: According to Catalyst, a nonproft that researches women in the workplace, today women make up 5.8 percent of CEOs of S&P 500 companies and 25.1 percent of executives and senior management.] So, yes — women in 1987 had access that women in 1967 absolutely did not have. And

MICHAEL DAMES there have been changes from 1987 to 2017, but not as dramatic as those that occurred from the ’60s to the ’80s. Tings are a little better because there has been a slight improve- TO CELEBRATE the 30th ment in the number of women at the very top. anniversary of the graduation of Can you contrast the environment on campus to the outside world? The College the first fully coeducational class, student body is currently 51 percent female, so you’d think it’d be equal oppor- Columbia College Today spoke tunity out in the world, but is it? with Martha Howell GSAS’79, the No, it’s not. Miriam Champion Professor of History and former director of the So in other words, the academy is ahead of the rest of society. University’s Institute for Research Yes, yes. on Women, Gender and Sexuality. Do you think female students understand that? After completing her graduate work, which focused on social, Te graduate students I teach all want to become professors and enter an academic commu- economic, legal and women’s nity like this one. Tere’s still sexism in some ways — leadership positions are dominated by men, white men, specifcally, and there are still disciplines that have an unacknowl- history in northern Europe, Howell edged and unintended, largely, bias against hiring women — but there’s still terrifc access, taught at Rutgers before returning particularly in humanities and social sciences such as history and anthropology. So I think in 1989 to Morningside Heights. In my female graduate students are looking at a world that will welcome them. light of her professional expertise I think women in business school are more aware of what the barriers will be when and experience with the women’s they get out in the work world — much lower barriers than there used to be, but there movement and the College before are still barriers. and after coeducation, we asked Te students who are most innocent of all this tend to be my female undergraduates. Howell to share her perspective on Tey’ve lived in a world that tries to be gender-neutral. Tey’re sitting in class with men, how far both have come and what and most of the time they feel empowered and equal. But what they don’t understand is when they get into the working world and real life remains to be done. hits, the gender system is frmly in place. And if they marry and have children, that’s when — Shira Boss ’93, it really, really hits, because it’s almost impossible to have a high-powered professional JRN’97, SIPA’98 life and be a mother. Tere are some circumstances in which you can do it; one of them is when you hire people to help care for the children. It’s a balancing act and crazy, but it’s one way to manage what is a complicated arrangement. Te assumption is that the person who does most of the parenting is the female. Men are not expected to make the arrangements and adjustments that women are expected to. So, one of the things that could happen is the way work is organized could change. Te other thing is the gender system could be altered so that men take more responsibility for parenting. Tere has been progress in that realm in my lifetime; however, it is still not equal — far from it. What could the College be doing to help? PREVIOUS SPREAD: Millions turned I think Columbia should work harder to put women in leadership positions. I think ways out on January 21 for Women’s Marches around the world. that show how gender hierarchy plays out in life should be talked about more. Te discus-

BRIAN ALLEN / VOICE OF AMERICA sion of gender needs to be distributed throughout the curriculum rather than segregated in WIKIMEDIA COMMONS classes revolving around gender specifcally.

24 CCT Spring 2017 “ There’s sexism embedded in our culture and I don’t know when the time will come when the United Could the Core Curriculum take better account of gender? States is ready to Tere have been many eforts to revise the Core to take better account of gender, but yes, more could be done. Reading lists could be reorganized. I think everyone should read accept a woman as Locke, Marx and Aristotle, but they should be taught and read with a much clearer focus head of state.” on the ways they depend on gender hierarchy and on heterosexist hierarchy. Tose issues are easy to pull out of those texts, and when I teach the texts I try to do that. Tere’s too much of an assumption that these are classical truths that endure through time. Tey’re not interrogated from the point of view of the hierarchies that we experience in our world. Speaking of our world, where do you think we stand in terms of women taking leadership roles in government? Are we ready for a female President? Tat’s a tough call. Te United States is the most powerful country in the world, and I think that role carries more weight than a comparable ofce in other parts of the world. It’s a harder call for the country to accept that a woman can shoulder that burden. Hillary Clinton had her own problems as a candidate but I still think there was an element of, “Is this the right job for a woman?” Tere’s sexism embedded in our culture and I don’t know when the time will come when the United States is ready to accept a woman as head of state. I think it will, eventually, but what’s going to have to happen is we’re going to have to have a bigger stable of women in the Senate, in governorships, in places like that. Women generals: Tere are some, but there’s still more work to be done for it to be seen as normal.

Spring 2017 CCT 25 ROAR, LIONESS, ROAR! CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF COEDUCATION

n Saturday, April 22, Columbia success of coeducation,” she says. “Women anything else,” she says. “I took for granted College Women (CCW) will host like me didn’t just arrive — we showed up! that it had always been that way.” Oits frst symposium to coincide We entered the Gates on College Walk with Lea Goldman ’98, editor in chief, Lifetime with the 30th anniversary of the gradua- deep intellectual curiosity and the boldness to Television, was at the College when coedu- tion of the frst fully coeducational class. speak and lead, and we never looked back. cation was still a newer change. She ofers “Celebrating 30 years of Columbia Col- “Te ongoing work at the University as another perspective: “Having grown up in an lege Women” is an all-day event at which a whole and at the College in particular is ultra-conservative Jewish community, Colum- alumni and current students will have space to ensure that women thrive at Columbia, bia was my Xanadu on the Hudson — I could to network, build community and refect not simply attend classes, eat in the dining not for the life of me fgure out why anyone on the successes College women have had halls and live in the dorms. Coeducation would want to attend a same-sex college. and the challenges they, and all women, was not an endpoint,” she says. “It was Meanwhile, I spent most of my four years in still face. More than 20 speakers will the beginning of an essential conversa- a self-imposed, back-row exile, utterly cowed discuss topics such as the media’s portrayal tion about equity and inclusion, and I look by the intellectual frepower around me. It was of women; how to create a successful, forward to a robust dialogue with Claire often the guys who sat front row and parried inclusive feminist movement; and how about the challenges and opportunities that with the professors,” Goldman says. best to develop today’s young women into women face and embrace in the decades “Fast forward 20 years — past all those tomorrow’s leaders. since coeducation. We cannot assume that sweaty, humbling years in the workforce Te morning keynote, “Girls Who because women are present their issues are trying to earn a seat at the table — and I Trive,” will feature two University trustees: embraced and understood.” do sometimes wonder if, in an all-women’s reporter and author Claire Shipman ’86, Lilly Burns ’09, VP and head of devel- school, I might have found it all a little SIPA’94 and independent school head opment at Jax Media and the executive bit more encouraging,” she says. “Maybe Wanda M. Holland Greene ’89, TC’91. producer of the hit TV comedy Search Party, I’d have found my voice earlier, and in the Holland Greene helms Te Hamlin will co-lead a discussion on “Authenticity as process, spared myself some of the painful School, an all-girls school in San Francisco Art” with designer Selby Drummond ’09. scrapes and bruises I earned along the way. where students are taught to overcome Te discussion will suggest that women Who knows? But I have zero regrets.” inequities and challenge societal biases who display their true selves with conf- Goldman will speak at the symposium as toward women. She spoke to Columbia dence, brains and humor often exercise the part of the four-person panel “Women in College Today about her time at the College most powerful form of feminism. the News,” which will discuss how media in the early coeducational years and shared For Burns, “Te best part of being at plays a powerful role in shaping and/or her thoughts on the goals of coeducation: Columbia was the level of intelligence of reinforcing perceptions of women, their “As a proud alumna of an extraordinary the whole student body. I just wanted to roles and their stories. all-girls school in New York City, I was hear everybody talk,” she says. As a more — Jill C. Shomer purposeful in choosing to attend the College recent alumna, Burns says she accepted because I knew that strong, smart and conf- coeducation as the norm. “I never thought For more information about the symposium, go dent women would be key to the long-term about it because I had never experienced to college.columbia.edu/alumni/events/ccw30.

26 CCT Spring 2017 What did Clinton’s run for the presidency teach us about feminism? “ I do think “Feminism” is a fraught word in American culture. that there’s a In what way? Tere were contradictions inherent in second-wave feminism, in the ’70s and into the ’80s. greater realization Te big one is that it was a white, middle-class women’s movement. It didn’t consciously exclude — but it didn’t efectively consider — poor women, black women, immigrant that there are women and so on. So much of the political action was organized around access to jobs, to many, many ways political rights, to reorganization of the marital household and to challenging conventional notions of female gender roles, and a lot of those issues were not the issues of working class, in which gender poor or black women. So feminism as it was conceived in the ’70s and much of the ’80s was never able to speak for all women. subordination I have two nieces who are getting their Ph.D.s. A few years ago one of them told me she’s not a feminist. And I said, “What?!” Boy, did I let her have it! “You are in a Ph.D. program —— you can call it because of the women who came before you who were feminists.” She was so sorry, poor thing. discrimination, The feminist movement is definitely complex, but do you think it is evolving? In the beginning, I was completely unaware of how incomplete the women’s movement you can call it was — and in some cases inappropriate — for lots of women in the United States, let alone the rest of the world. I don’t think we’ve found the narrative that can satisfy all women in patriarchy —— all situations. unifies women.” But I do think that there’s a greater realization that there are many, many ways in which gender subordination — you can call it discrimination, you can call it patriarchy — unifes women. And what we need, I think, are better ways to organize around these diferent aspects and to fnd common ground in being women and yet a way to acknowledge that all women are not alike. We share our femininity, but that doesn’t mean that we share aspirations, life chances, social circumstances, sexual preference, so it’s very complicated. But no, the women’s movement is not dead, but it’s both more general and more specifc. I am talking to a lot of people about the present political moment in the United States, and a lot of women are organizing around issues that are not gender issues. Tey are nevertheless organizing as women, as politicized women. And yes, a lot of what they’re organizing around is particular to women, such as reproductive rights, but also gener- ally progressive politics, about economic equality, about racism, about xenophobia and so forth. It’s locating the issues that afect women in a larger terrain of political and social injustice. What are your thoughts on January’s Women’s Marches? Tey were terrifc! I marched in New York. I thought they were both a protest by women about the threats to women’s rights that are posed by the Trump administration and also, more generally, marchers were out- raged by what Trump stands for on many levels and that’s really what energized them, as much as any specifc, identifable threat. Do you think they were effective? Yes. Tey identifed fellow travelers, which is important, so that people recognize that it wasn’t just them and their small group of friends who MARY MADIGAN / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS were worried and scared and outraged. Tere’s going to have to be follow- up, and that includes things like calling your representative, going to town meetings, writing letters, getting in the newspaper with op-eds and things like that. Marching on the street is important, but it’s only the beginning.

Shira Boss ’93, JRN’97, SIPA’98, CCT’s contributing writer, was a freelance journalist for Te Christian Science Monitor, Forbes.com and Te New York Times, among other publica- tions, and “Marketplace” on public radio. She is the author of Green with Envy: Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt and runs the website Zero Cost Kids. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband, two sons and two whippets.

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MIKE LOVETT Making a Masterpiece

Editor Robert Gottlieb ’52 “For a long time when people asked me whether I was ever going to write a describes his collaboration memoir or autobiography, I answered that all editors’ memoirs basically come down to the same thing: ‘So I said to him, “Leo! Don’t just do war! Do peace too!”’” with Joseph Heller GSAS’50 Tis astute, down-to-earth remark, which opens Robert Gottlieb ’52’s mem- on what became one of oir, Avid Reader: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28), helps a literary the 20th century’s great outsider understand why so many of the 20th century’s prominent authors chose to work with him. During his storied, decades-long career as a top book editor literary works (from 1955 to the present), Gottlieb collaborated with Toni Morrison, John le Carré and Robert Caro, among many others. He also pulled of the publish- ing professional’s equivalent of a Triple Crown win, by serving as editor in chief at two top publishing houses — Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf — and then leaving to helm Te New Yorker (from 1987 to 1992). Avid Reader follows Gottlieb through his early days as a College student (and editor of the infuential Columbia Review) to his current role as Knopf editor, book author and contributor to Te New York Review of Books and other publications. Te resulting narrative is, as Esquire puts it, “a master class in how modern literature gets made.” Here, Gottlieb describes the making of one contemporary classic, Joseph Heller GSAS’50’s novel CATCH-22. — Rose Kernochan BC’82

28 CCT Spring 2017 he literary agent Candida Donadio and I were On August 29, 1957, Candida sent me a note that read, only about a year apart in age, and almost “Here is the ’script of CATCH 18 by Joseph Heller about instantly we became close, despite the radi- which we talked yesterday. I’ve been watching Heller ever T cal diference in our backgrounds and tem- since the publication of Chapter 1 in New World Writing peraments. Candida was Sicilian, as she liked to boast about a year ago. He’s published a good bit in Te Atlantic — particularly about her taste for Sicilian cold revenge. Monthly, Esquire, etc. I’ll tell you more about him when I She was short, plump, matronly, and always swathed in see you at lunch next week. As ever, Candida.” black — a fgure from post-war Italian neo-realist flm. About seventy-fve pages of manuscript came with Her deep voice was often flled with doom and anguish it, and I was knocked out by the voice, the humor, the — “Te children! Te children!” she liked to cry, literally anger. We ofered Joe fve hundred dollars as an option thumping her ample bosom. She herself had no children, payment, but Joe and Candida decided to wait until there but as Michael Korda was to write, “All writers were like was enough of a manuscript to warrant an actual contract. children, but her writers were her children. She felt about When I met Joe for the frst time, for lunch at a hearty them as if she were their mother.” restaurant near our ofces, he came as a big surprise. I Our alliance, as it was thought of in our little world, expected a funny guy full of spark and ginger, but what I would in the mid-sixties be ofcially cemented by got was more or less a man in a gray fannel suit — he was Esquire, which named the two of us the “red-hot center” working as an ad executive at McCall’s, and he looked it. of the publishing world — momentarily gratifying but And sounded it. I found him wary (which shouldn’t have far from the way we saw ourselves. What connected us been a surprise, given the paranoid slant of much of his wasn’t ambition or the hope of public notice but the fact book), noncommittal, clearly giving me the once-over. that we were obsessive readers whose tastes were highly He told me later he found me nervous and ridiculously similar, and our bedrock belief that writers came frst. young. I was only eight years younger than he was, but he Candida lived in a tiny apartment a few blocks from was a mature ex-vet, a former college teacher, and a suc- our foor-through in a dilapidated brownstone on Sec- cessful business executive. I was twenty-six, still looking ond Avenue in the Fifties — we had a blue-painted much younger than I was, and with no track record as an foor and there were old-fashioned fre escapes front and editor or publisher — this was well before Te American back. If she was sick, either my wife, Muriel, or I would Way of Death, Te Best of Everything, Te Chosen, et al. So carry over homemade chicken soup, while if we had an it wasn’t love at frst sight. But it proved to be something emergency babysitting crisis, she would pad over in her a lot more substantial: a professional and personal rela- sneakers and take care of little Roger. We shared our tionship that never faltered, despite gaps in our publish- problems, or as my great friend Irene Mayer Selznick ing together, and despite (or because of?) the fact that liked to say, we “took in each other’s washing.” through the more than forty years we worked with each

Spring 2017 CCT 29 Columbia Forum other on and of, we rarely saw each other socially. As with Decca involved, regardless of where Bob’s pencil few or what he suggested Mitford and Chaim Potok, there was never a disagreeable word deleting, moving, rewriting. To Dad, every word or stroke of this between us, and there was always complete trust. I certainly always editor’s pencil was sacrosanct.” Even if this is friendly overstatement, knew that I could turn to him in need, and I know he felt the same and it is, it refects the reality of our dealings with each other. way about me. Indeed, there would be dark moments ahead in our Not that there weren’t stumbling blocks along Catch’s path to pub- personal lives — usually involving our children — which proved it. lication. First of all, when the fnished manuscript came in there were Te most signifcant trust was editorial. Once his book was com- colleagues who disliked it intensely — they found it coarse, and they pleted, three or so years after we frst met, I tore into it — relaxed saw the repetitions in the text as carelessness rather than as a central about doing so because I had no notion that I was dealing with aspect of what Joe was trying to do. Ten we had a copy editor who what would turn out to be sacred text. Or that Joe would turn out was literal-minded and tone-deaf. Her many serious transgressions to be as talented an editor as he was a writer, and absolutely with- included the strong exception she took to Joe’s frequent, and very out writer ego. On Catch, as with all the other books we worked deliberate, use of a string of three adjectives to qualify a noun. With- on together, he was sharp, tireless, and ruthless (with himself ), out asking me, she struck out every third adjective throughout. Yes, whether we were dealing with a word, a sentence, a passage of everything she did was undone, but those were pre-computer days: dialogue, or a scene. We labored like two surgeons poised over a It all had to be undone by hand, and it wasted weeks. patient under anesthesia. But the biggest catch on the way to Catch’s publication was the “Tis isn’t working here.” title. Trough the seven or so years that Joe worked on his book, “What if we move it there?” including the four during which he and Candida and I grew more “No, better to cut.” and more attached to it, its name was Catch-18. Ten, in the spring “Yes, but then we have to change this.” 1961 issue of Publishers Weekly that announced each publisher’s fall “Like this?” books, we saw that the new novel by Leon Uris, whose Exodus had “No, like that.” recently been a phenomenal success, was titled Mila 18. Tey had “Perfect!” stolen our number! Today, it sounds far from traumatic, but in that Either of us could have been either voice in this exchange. I moment it was beyond trauma, it was tragedy. Obviously, “18” had wasn’t experienced enough back then to realize how rare his total to go. But what could replace it? lack of defensiveness was, particularly since there was never a Tere was a moment when “11” was seriously considered, but doubt in his mind of how extraordinary his book was, and that it was turned down because of the current movie Ocean’s 11. Ten we were making literary history. Even when at the last minute, Joe came up with “14,” but I thought it was favorless and rejected shortly before we went to press, I told him I had always disliked an it. And time was growing short. One night lying in bed, gnawing entire phantasmagorical chapter — for me, it was a bravura piece at the problem, I had a revelation. Early the next morning I called of writing that broke the book’s tone — and wanted to drop it, he Joe and burst out, “Joe, I’ve got it! Twenty-two! It’s even funnier than eighteen!” Obviously the notion that one number was funnier than another number was a classic example of self-delusion, but we wanted to be deluded. “I felt then, and still do, that readers To talk of a “campaign” for Catch-22 is to put a label on some- thing that didn’t exist. Tere was no marketing plan, no budget: shouldn’t be made aware of editorial Nina Bourne — who was the brilliant advertising manager at interventions; they have a right to S & S and my closest collaborator and friend there — and I just did what occurred to us from day to day, spending our energies (and feel that what they’re reading comes S & S’s money) with happy abandon. We began with little teaser ads in the daily Times featuring the crooked little dangling airman direct from the author to them.” that the most accomplished designer of his time, Paul Bacon, had come up with as the logo for the jacket. We had sent out scores of advance copies of the book, accompanied by what Nina called her “demented governess letters” — as in, “the demented governess agreed without a moment’s hesitation. (Years later, he published who believes the baby is her own.” Almost at once, excited praise it in Esquire.) Where my certainty came from I don’t know, but started pouring in. Particularly gratifying to Joe was a telegram although I mistrusted myself in many areas of life, I never mis- from Art Buchwald in Paris: trusted my judgment as a reader. Joe was so eager to give me credit that I had to call him one morn- PLEASE CONGRATULATE JOSEPH HELLER ON ing, after reading an interview with him in the Times, to tell him to MASTERPIECE cut it out. I felt then, and still do, that readers shouldn’t be made CATCH 22 STOP I THINK IT IS ONE OF THE aware of editorial interventions; they have a right to feel that what GREATEST they’re reading comes direct from the author to them. But enough WAR BOOKS STOP SO DO IRWIN SHAW AND time has gone by that I don’t think any harm will be done if I indulge JAMES JONES. myself by repeating what Joe’s daughter, Erica, wrote in her uncom- promising memoir, Yossarian Slept Here: “My father and Bob had Te range of early admirers was astonishingly broad, from Nelson real camaraderie and shared an almost mystical respect. No ego was Algren (“Te best American novel that has come out of anywhere in

30 CCT Spring 2017 years”) to Harper Lee (“Catch-22 is the only war novel I’ve ever read “Yossarian Lives” stickers by the NBC anchorman John Chancellor, that makes any sense”) to Norman Podhoretz [’50](!). Tere were at which blossomed on campuses and public buildings everywhere. least a score of letters from notable writers, but, perversely, the one Another fan came up with, and widely distributed, “Better Yossar- we most enjoyed was from Evelyn Waugh: ian than Rotarian” stickers.) Catch, indeed, swept college students up with its challenges to authority and the establishment; again Dear Miss Bourne: and again commentators compared its infuence on young people to that of Te Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies. Tank you for sending me Catch-22. I am sorry that the book fascinates you so much. It has many passages quite unsuit- able to a lady’s reading. It sufers not only from indelicacy but from prolixity. It should be cut by about a half. In particular the activities of ‘Milo’ should be eliminated or greatly reduced. You are mistaken in calling it a novel. It is a collection of sketches — often repetitive — totally without structure. Much of the dialogue is funny. You may quote me as saying: “Tis exposure of the corrup- tion, cowardice and incivility of American ofcers will outrage all friends of your country (such as myself ) and greatly com- fort your enemies.”

Yours truly, Evelyn Waugh

We didn’t take him up on his ofer, though we probably should have. Reviews were mixed, veering from ecstatic to vicious, but the success of the book built and built. It was slow, though — never strong enough at any one moment to place it on the bestseller list, yet sending us back to press again and again for modest printings. Meanwhile, Nina and I unleashed a series of ads that just occurred to us as things happened, all of them rehearsing the ever-swelling praise from critics, booksellers, academics, and just plain book- RICHARD OVERSTREET buyers: We had enclosed postage-paid cards in thousands of copies Robert Gottlieb ’52 and got hundreds of responses, positive (“Hilarious”; “Zany”) and negative (“A complete waste of time”; “If everyone in Air Force was Because Catch became such a phenomenon, because the work crazy — How did we win war?”). Many of those who loved it were Nina and I did to sell it was so highly visible and remarked upon in demented governesses in the Nina mold, like the college instructor the publishing world, and because Joe never stopped talking about who wrote, what he saw as my crucial role in editing it, I became highly visible myself — it’s still the book I’m most closely associated with among At frst I wouldn’t go into the next room without it. Ten I the kind of people who think about such things. But in the years wouldn’t go outside without it. I read it everywhere — on the that followed its publication, I more or less put it out of my mind. buses, subways, grocery lines. If I did leave it out of my sight I certainly never reread it — I was afraid I wouldn’t love it as much for a moment, I panicked . . . until last night I fnally fnished as I once had. Even so, when in 2011 its fftieth anniversary was it and burst out crying. I don’t think I’ll ever recover . . . But being widely celebrated, I agreed to take part in the celebrations. before I die of Catch-22, I will do everything to keep it alive. I But there was a catch: Catch-22. will change ads on subways to “Promise her anything but give Tere was no way I could talk about it without reading it again. her Catch-22.” I’ll write Catch-22 on every surface I can fnd. It was a big relief to fnd that I still did love it, that Nina and I’ll pirate and organize a Catch-22 Freedom Bus . . . I’m a hap- Candida and I — and Joe — and the world — hadn’t been mis- pier person today for Catch-22. Happier, sadder, crazier, saner, guided in our passion for it. I was bowled over once again by the better, wiser, braver. Just for knowing it exists. Tank you. brilliance of the construction, the exhilaration of the writing, the humor (of course), but also by the bleakness of Joe’s vision of life. Comparable if less rhapsodic communications poured in from a To me, Catch-22 was always more tragic than comic — a judgment put-and-call broker, a New Jersey die-casting manufacturer, a New confrmed by his magnifcent second novel, Something Happened, York grandmother, a ffteen-year-old boy from Eugene, Oregon, which came along eight years later. Tere was certainly nothing a housewife (“I am now getting phone calls in the middle of the funny about it! night from people I’ve given the book to who want to read him aloud to me!”) It was this kind of unbridled enthusiasm that sealed Excerpted from AVID READER: A LIFE, by Robert Gottlieb, Joe’s success — the impulse of his readers to keep the ball roll- published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright © 2016 ing. (A well-known example was the concocting of thousands of by Robert Gottlieb. All rights reserved.

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32 CCT Spring 2017 Contents 34 Lions Shanna Belott ’91 and Lara Stolman ’91, Cyrus Habib ’03

37 Alumni in the News 38 Bookshelf The Inquisitor’s Tale, Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz ’04

40 Class Notes 86 Obituaries 88 Alumni Corner

WHO WAS VAN AM? Springtime means lounging with friends in Van Am Quad, but how well do you know Van Am the man? John Howard Van Amringe (Class of 1860) was a Columbia mathematics professor for 50 years (1860–1910) and the first dean of Columbia College (1896–1910). He was reportedly very popular with students and was known for protecting the undergraduate College from being folded into the University as Columbia grew over the years. Upon his retirement in 1910, a bust was commissioned from sculptor William Ordway Partridge (Class of 1883). The sculpture that now sits in the Van Amringe Memorial — the quad’s ofcial name — is actually the third bust produced from the mold. The memorial’s rotunda and benches were dedicated at Commencement in 1918 and the top of the rotunda is ringed with the words “Honored and Beloved by Generations of Columbia Students, His Life and Influence Will Be Example and Inspiration to Those Who Come After.” DAVID DINI SIPA’14

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Shanna Belott ’91 (left) and Lara Stolman ’91 at the 2016 Napa Valley Film Festival, one of the first festivals to screen Swim Team.

COURTESY WOODLAND PARK PRODUCTIONS Alumnae Duo’s Film Spotlights Autistic Athletes

By Melanie A. Farmer

n the documentary Swim Team, athletes with autism fnd their still swims with the Hammerheads and is way, both in and out of the pool. enrolled in a job-training program spon- Produced and directed by Lara Stolman ’91 with co-producer sored by New Jersey State. IShanna Belott ’91, Swim Team, which premiered last Octo- Stolman met McQuay’s parents, Mike ber on the flm festival circuit, follows the Jersey Hammerheads, and Maria, at the Perth Amboy, N.J., a competitive swim team whose 17 members, ages 8–22, all have YMCA in fall 2013 while researching Autism Spectrum Disorder. Te flm focuses on three teammates swimming lessons for her own children, and their families: Mikey McQuay Jr., now 20; Robert “Robbie” now ages 7, 10 and 11. Doctors had Justino, now 20; and Kelvin Truong, now 25. informed the McQuays early on that In their frst season, 2014, the Hammerheads won an impressive their son would never walk or talk, but 85 gold medals. Swim Team gives viewers an in-depth look at these that did not stop them from challenging athletes as they become strong, competitive swimmers, interact with him to have a more fulflling life. Teir the coaches and with one another, and experience exciting wins. Te tenacity stuck with Stolman. flm combines the key ingredients of classic sports drama — the thrill “Tese people were being told ‘no’ in so many ways from the time of victory and the agony of defeat! — with a portrayal of the real-life their children had been diagnosed as toddlers,” she says. “Tey were daily challenges young people with autism and their families face. told ‘no,’ their kids couldn’t be in the regular class, ‘no’ they couldn’t “I’m not like other teenagers. I’m autistic,” says McQuay in the flm’s keep up in Little League, ‘no,’ their kids would not go to college. opener. “When I’m swimming, I feel normal.” McQuay, now a student And yet in creating this team, they were saying ‘yes,’ and I found it at Middlesex County College, competed in the 2014 Special Olym- incredibly inspiring.” pics USA National Games, nabbing two gold medals, one bronze and Universal themes of hope and triumph drew Belott to the project. one silver. He and Justino continue to swim competitively on elite “As a mom, I could relate to the determination of these families to swim teams in New Jersey. Truong, who also has Tourette Syndrome, build a future for their kids,” says Belott, whose sons are now 3 and 5.

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While Swim Team marks their frst feature-length project mentary over 60 minutes (2017 Picture this … flm festival), Spa together, Stolman and Belott’s partnership — and friendship — City Best Sports Documentary (2016 Hot Springs Documentary dates back to their time in Morningside. Film Festival) and Best New Jersey Film & Audience Choice As frst-years, they were both in the fall musical, Anything Goes, and Feature (2016 Monmouth Film Festival). Swim Team was also both took School of the Arts courses in flm and the art of cinema. “I was rated one of the top 10 flms of the year in the 2016 IndieWire thrilled to have the opportunity to take those courses and have access to Critics Poll, for Best Undistributed Film. Funding came from the flm school as an undergraduate. Tat was partly how I was able to private donations and grants, including the Loreen Arbus Disa- fnd my passion in flm,” says Stolman, who majored in political science. bility Awareness Grant from New York Women in Film & Tele- Belott, who majored in English and American history, grew up in Los vision and a grant from Te Karma Foundation, in New Jersey. In Angeles and had a strong interest in musical theater and journalism. post-production, Stolman and Belott were commissioned by Te But it was their time at Columbia University Television (CTV) New York Times to produce a short flm, which focused on Justino’s that cemented their bond. Belott and Stolman were the creators, story, for its website. Tat gave Swim Team a bit of media buzz well writers and producers of Cinema Catch-Up, a comedic send-up of ahead of its debut. Siskel & Ebert’s movie review show. It aired regularly during the Central to the flm project is a national screening and social 1990–91 academic year on CTV and public access television. impact campaign to kick of in April, for Autism Awareness Month. Tose Columbia connections were just as strong for Swim Team. With Easterseals as a partner, Belott and Stolman are making the Several undergraduates worked on the flm as interns, organizing a flm available for screenings at Easterseals afliates and with other focus group and helping during the rough-cut stage. Mark Suozzo organizations nationwide. Tey continue to promote autism aware- ’75, who composed the score, describes Stolman as a “great leader” ness and spread word about the flm via social media and traditional and her work on the flm as “thoughtful” and “articulate.” “It was media, inviting the wider community to host its own screenings a pleasure working with them,” says Suozzo, who has composed (anyone can host a screening: swimteamtheflm.com). scores for flms such as Barcelona, American Splendor and Te Nanny Te two are also preparing for a theatrical release later this year Diaries and is music associate professor and co-director of the pro- and an eventual television broadcast. More festival screenings are gram in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at NYU Steinhardt. already lined up, including this March at SXSWedu Conference & After graduation, Belott and Stolman headed west. “We wanted Festival in Austin and ReelAbilities: New York, the largest festival to stay in New York City but we knew the business was in L.A.,” for flms by and about people with disabilities. says Belott. After living in L.A. for a year, Stolman, who was born “Te next chapter is really focused on getting [the flm] out there in Canada but was primarily raised in New Jersey, moved back east and using it as a mobilizing force to activate more awareness and a few months before Belott did. opportunity for inclusion and community,” says Belott. From there, the pair cultivated careers in flm and TV, work- “We want to change people’s perceptions,” says Stolman. Adds ing separately for NBC, HBO and 20th Century Fox and then Belott, “Tat’s what 2017 is all about.” together at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Stolman carved a niche in news and documentary, and Belott built a career in producing, Melanie A. Farmer is a freelance writer and editor who has writ- writing and social entrepreneurship. ten for CNET News, DiversityInc and CBS’ MarketWatch. She is Stolman and Belott worked on Swim Team from 2013 to 2016. the former editor of Columbia Engineering, the school’s semi-annual Te flm has already won a number of awards, including Best docu- alumni publication.

Mr. Habib Goes to Washington

By Jonathan Lemire ’01

he Republican electoral victories last November have led under attack. During Habib’s campaign last year, he faced “birther- to a lot of hand-wringing about the next generation of ism” charges similar to the ones Trump levied at Barack Obama ’83 Democratic Party stars. One potential contender is 3,000 when Habib’s opponent, Marty McClendon (R), cast doubt as to Tmiles away from Washington, D.C. whether Habib was a U.S. citizen. Cyrus Habib ’03 is an avowed liberal and the new lieuten- “Is he legal?” a woman shouted at a McClendon rally in Olym- ant governor of Washington State. He’s the child of immigrants pia, Wash., in September. Another man, whose voice was also cap- and the highest-ranking Iranian-American in public ofce. Also, tured on video, yelled “What about his birth certifcate?” he’s blind. McClendon responded, “Right. I don’t know,” refusing to set “Donald Trump has put forward a white nationalist vision of the record straight about Habib, who was born in Maryland and what America’s greatness is and I am someone who stands in oppo- moved to Washington State as a child. sition to that,” says Habib, who took ofce in January. Habib was “shocked” by the ugly moment but believes his elec- Habib believes Trump’s rhetoric makes it especially vital for the tion points to a brighter future. “If a man with the last name ‘Habib’ Democratic Party to showcase its own diversity, even when it falls can win a primary and win a general election and become one of

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the youngest statewide ofce-holders in the nation, that shows growth as a nation,” he says. Habib’s journey to a career in politics began across the country from the statehouse in Olympia. Growing up outside Baltimore, he recalls being drawn to books and movies about New York City and found the academic energy of Columbia’s campus in Morningside Heights irresistible. Habib lost his eyesight at 8 due to a rare form of cancer. He says he has refused to let it limit his opportunities; he jokes that Columbia’s “compact campus was well suited” for his condition. He learned how to ride the subway. Habib fell in love with Literature Humanities, became an Eng- lish major and, with excellent grades and a growing interest in poli- tics, landed a summer job on Capitol Hill in 2001. Tat experience led to a fall internship in the Manhattan ofce of then-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. His frst day working there was September 14, 2001. “It was an intense time to be working in that ofce. Normally, an intern would be answering run-of-the-mill Social Security and immigration queries. But paperwork at that time meant helping displaced individuals and businesses from Lower Manhattan,” he recalls. “It really showed me the value in public service, whether that is helping an individual, a family, a city or a country in crisis. “My experience at Columbia was really bisected by 9-11,” he says. “I started to think about being Iranian-American for the frst time.” Habib dove into the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Afri- can Studies department, taking classes in Islamic civilization, and found that he was able to connect the theoretical work of his classes to his real-world experiences in a powerful new way. A Truman Scholarship and a Rhodes Scholarship followed, then PHOTOGRAPHY LEGISLATIVE STATE WASHINGTON COURTESY a degree from Yale Law in 2009 and a prime law frm job back in taking on 20-year incumbent Brad Owen (D). In Washington, the lieutenant governor runs independently from the governor, runs the state when the governor is out of town and can request a “ My experience at Columbia was portfolio of state issues to supervise. Owen abandoned his reelection bid. Habib ran against a crowded, really bisected by 9-11,” he says. 10-person primary feld and won. He was endorsed by Obama, who “I started to think about being recorded a robocall on behalf of his campaign, and his general elec- tion victory was supported by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D). Iranian-American for the first time.” “Gov. Inslee looks forward to a productive working relationship with the new lieutenant governor,” says Tara Lee, deputy director of communications for the governor. “He enjoyed working with him when Mr. Habib was in the Senate.” Washington State. But it was the experiences — both inside and Against McClendon, Habib ran a solitary campaign ad: “When outside of the classroom — in the aftermath of the terrorist attack I lost my eyesight as a child, I learned to listen,” Habib intones in that drove Habib to a career in public service. the powerful ad that stresses his constituent outreach eforts and “I wanted to help people,” he says simply. ends with the tagline, “Because anything is possible, when you Habib ran for a seat in the Washington State House of Repre- really listen.” sentatives in 2012 and won, then won again two years later when As he presides over the state senate in his new post, Habib relies he ran for the State Senate. He represented the Seattle suburbs, on a newly installed braille terminal that allows him to instantly rec- which are home a thriving tech sector, including giants like Micro- ognize and call upon senators looking to be recognized on the foor. soft and Amazon. Habib believes that much of the next year will be spent reacting to “I counted Bill Gates and Jef Bezos among my constituents,” changes coming from Washington, D.C. He hopes to fnd areas of says Habib. “It would have been easy to stay, as things in the dis- agreement — such as joint state-federal response to summer wild- trict are going well. But those economic benefts were not being fres — but also vows to stand up to President Trump when needed. experienced statewide.” “His America is not the America I believe in,” Habib says. Tough he had served in government for only four years, Habib announced in 2016 that he would run for lieutenant governor, Jonathan Lemire ’01 covers Te White House for the Associated Press.

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Tech Insider published a roundup of “100 of the most Robert K. Kraft ’63, owner of the New England exciting startups in New York City” in December, and Patriots, made the news during Super Bowl LI when College alumni were well represented. Featured were his team made a spectacular comeback against the Ryan Bubinski ’11 Codecademy, founded by and Atlanta Falcons. Coming from a 25-point defcit in Robert Refkin ’00, Zach Sims; Compass, founded by the second quarter, the Patriots tied the game in the BUS’03; Jared Hecht ’09; Fundera, co-founded by fourth quarter, forcing the frst overtime in Super Peter Koechley ’03. and Upworthy, co-founded by Bowl history. A fnal touchdown gave the Patriots a 34–28 victory and their ffth title. In early January, Xiyin Tang ’09 and Kendall Tucker ’14 both made the 2017 Forbes “30 Under 30” list in the In January, President Barack Obama ’83 appointed law and policy category. Tang is an intellectual property Herbert Block ’87 to the role of member, Com- associate at Mayer Brown, where she works on copy- mission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage right litigation with a focus on digital music and licens- Abroad, “an independent Federal agency established ing, while Tucker is the CEO and founder of Polis, a to help preserve cultural sites in Eastern and Central mobile canvassing and in-person analytics startup. Europe associated with the heritage of U.S. citizens. Tese include synagogues, cemeteries and other Alvin Kass ’57, GSAS’58 On December 16, Rabbi historic Jewish places, as well as sites of other faiths,

was awarded a third gold star — a frst for an NYPD and Holocaust memorials in the region.” chaplain — at a ceremony marking his 50 years of NYPD service. Erik Feig ’92, co-president of Lionsgate, and Dede Gardner ’90, a producer with and co-president of Te New York Times reported on February 6 that Plan B Entertainment, both had flms rack up mul- Janice Min ’90, JRN’91 planned to step down after tiple 2017 Academy Awards. Lionsgate’s La La Land seven years as Te Hollywood Reporter’s top editor won six awards while Moonlight took home three, at the end of February. Min has joined Eldridge including Best Picture. With her 2017 win, Gardner Industries in a new role in which she will devise a became the frst female producer to win two Best “media-investment strategy.” Picture awards (she won in 2013 for 12 Years a Slave). Films produced by Lionsgate earned 26 nominations, On December 15, President Donald Trump nomi- including a record-tying 14 for La La Land, while David Friedman ’78, LAW’79 nated as the United Plan B’s Moonlight received eight. States Ambassador to Israel. Friedman is a founding — Anne-Ryan Heatwole JRN’09 partner of the law frm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman and advised Trump on Israeli and Jewish issues during the presidential campaign. At press- time, his nomination had not been confrmed. Dede Gardner ’90

Alvin Kass ’57, GSAS’58

Robert K. Kraft ’63

EILEEN BARROSO

DAVID SILVERMAN

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Middle Ages Tale for Middle-Schoolers

By Jill C. Shomer

dam Gidwitz ’04 won a prestigious Newbery Honor in were experiencing. For this book, he January for his book Te Inquisitor’s Tale, Or, Te Tree wanted to create richer characters Magical Children and Teir Holy Dog (Dutton’s Children’s with fuller, more human lives. ABooks/Penguin Young Readers Group, $17.99), a quirky He turned to history for inspiration. Gidwitz’s wife, Lauren and funny middle-grade children’s novel that reads like Te Canter- Mancia ’05 (they met at the College in a Chaucer class), is a pro- bury Tales meets Game of Trones, but for kids. According to Gidwitz, fessor of medieval history at Brooklyn College; the couple travels who specializes in what he calls “scary fairy tales,” this story of three to Europe regularly for her research and lived in France for a year. “magical” children — Jeanne, William and Jacob — and Jeanne’s While there, Gidwitz dreamed up stories inspired by their sur- reincarnated “holy” greyhound, Gwenforte, “presents questions of roundings and Te Middle Ages that Mancia was studying. Some belief and prejudice to young readers with historical context.” of his characters were actual people, like King Louis IX, some were Born in San Francisco and raised in Baltimore, Gidwitz came to based on real people, like Joan of Arc, and some were entirely made Columbia as an “I-think-I-know-everything” kid, and was inter- up (a fascinating Author’s Note at the end describes each in detail). ested in the Core Curriculum because he valued a challenge. But a Te narrative of the book was shaped by a real event Gidwitz course in East Asian texts freshman year introduced him to Taoism learned about in 2012 while visiting the Museum of Jewish Art and Buddhism and changed his outlook. and History in Paris. A small plaque explained that in 1242, all the “I felt euphoric in my embrace of it; it was more fundamental Talmuds of the Jews of France — about 20,000 handmade holy than anything I had found,” he says. On a quest to learn “the truth books — had been burned in front of them by the king and his about life,” Gidwitz considered further study in philosophy or religion mother, Blanche of Castile. Te discovery “was like being kneed before ultimately landing on English lit. “Te truth is in literature,” in the stomach,” Gidwitz says. “It took me a few days to feel OK he says. “If you describe some- again, like I had experienced a great loss.” Te burning of the Tal- thing that communicates the muds in Paris forms the climax of the novel, after the magical chil- truth without actually saying it dren and their holy dog are pursued as heretics through France. explicitly, that’s your best shot Gidwitz’s experience of loss comes through as the characters are at getting at it.” devastated by the destruction and a fatality at the pyre site. As a break from his studies, Te 13th century was a brutal time, and Te Inquisitor’s Tale is Gidwitz would read children’s an atypical children’s book in that it features intense death scenes books for fun (“Now, ironi- and adult wisdom amidst farting dragons and other kid stuf. But cally, I read adult fction for Gidwitz believes “children are capable of a lot more than we give fun,” he says). His hobby led them credit for, like asking hard questions and imagining things him to take a children’s lit class that are beyond the scope of their world.” that proved to be infuential. Te book’s illustrations, by Egyptian-born artist Hatem Aly, are After graduation, while teach- drawn in a style reminiscent of Islamic art and alternate between ing second-graders at Saint enhancing the narrative and turning it on its ear — some of the Ann’s School in Brooklyn, images contradict what is written or have nothing at all to do with Gidwitz discovered he was it. Gidwitz felt it was important to provide a Muslim perspective good at storytelling and began on a story that features Judaism and Christianity prominently. “I writing out ideas. Tough he wanted a diferent voice, a diferent perspective and a diferent life LAUREN MANCIA ’ 05 LAUREN wrote as an undergraduate and experience around the edge of the pages,” he says. while earning a master’s at the It will be clear to readers of any age that the story’s themes of reli- Bank Street College of Education, he insists, “I learned a lot more gious persecution and racial prejudice are all too relevant, and tolerance from telling stories to kids than I ever did in a writing class.” is a critical takeaway. “When I go to schools to read the book I talk Gidwitz’s frst three books were fairy tales; he says he intentionally about scapegoating,” Gidwitz says. “If young people read this, maybe made those characters two-dimensional so that young readers could they will see what’s going on in our world today through a diferent put themselves into the story and experience the things the characters lens. I hope I wrote a book that will maybe make people better people.”

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With All Due Respect by Lewis Alfred Wegener: Science, A Legacy of One by Kevin G. urges readers to “… get happily lost” Segal ’56. Segal’s frst novel tackles Exploration, and the Theory Chapman ’83. Inspired by amidst these pages, as in life (W.W. issues of embedded bigotry within of Continental Drift by Mott T. Chapman’s experiences on Norton & Co., $17.95). the context of a prestigious law frm. Greene ’67. More than 20 years of Morningside Heights, this novel Trown into a work environment research and travel culminate in a follows fctional alumnus Jonathan Notched Sunsets by Tim Wood with a Nazi sympathizer, attorney thorough portrait of Wegener, the Prescott III ’93, a U.S senator on ’96. In this experimental poetry Michael Cullen must face the scientist best known for his theory track to run for President. When collection, Wood allows the reader a responsibility of the law profes- of continental drift. Greene argues the keeper of his biggest secret glimpse at his process. He presents a sion while addressing the personal Wegener deserved more credit for his threatens to reveal information sonnet created one line at a time fol- confict he feels, forcing him to accomplishments (Johns Hopkins that would jeopardize his political lowed by the abstraction of the son- defne justice for himself (Tupelo University Press, $44.95). career and family name, Prescott net into inspirations and infuences Press, $17.95). must grapple with what it means and concludes with a recapitulation Photographs of My Father: to leave a legacy (CreateSpace of the lines reedited and in reverse Exploring the World of J.S. Bach: A Lost Narrative from the Civil Publishing, $16.28). chronological order (Atelos, $12.95). A Traveler’s Guide by Robert L. Rights Era by Paul Spike ’70. Marshall ’60 and Traute M. Marshall. Reeling with confusion and anger The Art of Fact Investigation: Worth It: Your Life, Your A biography, travel guide and after the murder of his father, Creative Thinking in the Age of Money, Your Terms by Amanda encyclopedia, this book tracks the life clergyman and civil rights leader Information Overload by Philip Steinberg ’99. Te founder and of composer Johann Sebastian Bach Robert W. Spike, the author dives Segal ’84. Trough the lens of the CEO of DailyWorth.com aims to through all the places where he may headfrst into refection: upon the Cubist tradition in art, investigative recalibrate the toxic relationship have lived, visited or worked. Com- Civil Rights Movement, his father’s attorney Segal suggests we need to many women have with money bining careful research with historical position in the fabric of history and recognize diferent perspectives in and self-worth. Steinberg redefnes illustrations, photographs and maps, his own experiences at Columbia order to best distill an extraordi- money as a source of personal the authors aim to inspire adventure coming to terms with the world. nary amount of information into power and freedom rather than one in even the most settled of readers Originally written when Spike was something productive. Attorneys, of anxiety, ofering women a way (University of Illinois Press, $29.95). 23, this revised edition ofers read- investigators and other researchers to break through to the fnancial ers a new opportunity to engage must review data with an inquisi- independence they desire, but often L.E.L., Letiticia Elizabeth Landon, with his story and that time (Cinco tive and thorough eye; for, as Segal don’t achieve (North Star Way, $26). The English Improvisatrice: Cata- Puntos Press, $17.95). says, “it is not the abundance of logue of a Collection Held by The information that is alluring … Beyond Crimea: The New Rare Book & Manuscript Library No More Dancing the Jig: A Novel but the absence of it” (Ignaz Russian Empire by Agnia Grigas of Columbia University by Francis by Michael Haley ’77. Tis novel Press LLC, $22.95). ’02. Political risk expert Grigas J. Sypher Jr. ’63. Sypher has been follows Margaret, a 30-something presents a critical analysis of studying the works of Landon — English teacher who, after a pro- 100 Years: Wisdom from Famous Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy that who signed her poems as “L.E.L.” phetic dream, is struck by the desire Writers on Every Year of Your demonstrates the dangers of Russia’s — since the 1980s and has donated to change her life and unabashedly Life selections by Joshua Prager ’94 expansionist tactics. Te question more than 200 manuscripts, books, pursue happiness. As she fghts with visualizations by Milton Glaser. of how post-Soviet borders will be prints and other materials to the to reclaim her creativity and her Tis collection of quotations sews reconstructed is currently relevant Rare Book & Manuscript Library purpose, our heroine fnds wisdom common threads from the past and remains unanswered (Yale (New York: Columbia University and friendship in those who bolster and the future with words about University Press, $40). Libraries, 2016). her (iUniverse, $14.95). every year from birth to 100. Prager — Aiyana K. White ’18

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An early rendering 1940 CCT, and your classmates, would Te following is Ray’s contribu- of Columbia’s love to hear from you. Please share tion to the 2010 book Lasting Yankee an update about yourself, your fam- Stadium Memories: Unforgettable Morningside Heights Columbia College Today ily, your career and/or your travels Tales from the House Tat Ruth Built. campus. Columbia Alumni Center — even a favorite Columbia College Ray, a celebrated sports writer, con- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 memory — by sending it to either tributed this on pages 34–36: New York, NY 10025 the postal address or email address “I have many memories of [email protected] at the top of the column. Yankee Stadium, but one that comes to mind is a brief encounter on a Milton Kamen lives in New York subway ride up to the Bronx many City. He writes: “I look forward to 1941 years ago. First, let me give you some attending my 77th class reunion this history. Like my father before me, spring thanks to my cardiologist, Columbia College Today I attended Columbia University. urologist, nephrologist, dermatologist Columbia Alumni Center In 1940, the year before America’s and others too numerous to mention. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 involvement in World War II, Dr. It Takes A Clinic.” New York, NY 10025 Kenneth Hechler, a young, energetic Milton can be reached at [email protected] instructor of politics, introduced [email protected]. some quirky innovations in his class, CCT was pleased to hear from Ray presumably to keep students awake. Robinson. Ray (97) lives on the He invited a number of prominent Class Notes are submitted by Upper East Side with his wife, Phyllis. fgures of that era, literally a who’s alumni and edited by volunteer He called CCT before the winter holi- who in public afairs, to appear in class correspondents and the staf of CCT prior to publication. days to alert us to a December 11 New person in the classroom at Morn- Opinions expressed are those York Times obituary, “Ken Hechler, ingside heights. When these famous of individual alumni and do not West Virginia Populist and Coal folks arrived they were pelted with reflect the opinions of CCT, Miners’ Champion, Dies at 102.” Ray questions by curious students. its class correspondents, the shared a story from his undergraduate “Should a guest speaker be too busy College or the University. days that involved Hechler, along with to attend, Dr. Hechler broadcasted James Aloysius Farley. the lecture over speakerphone to his

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Government 21-22 class, enabling help of FDR’s former law partner students to eavesdrop on Supreme Basil O’Connor, who was also a COLUMBIA SCHOOL DESIGNATIONS Court justices, maverick Emporia prominent money-raiser in the fght Barnard College Gazette editor William Allen White, against infantile paralysis, a disease BC Columbia Business School Republican presidential candidate that FDR contracted in the 1920s. BUS Pharmaceutical Sciences Wendell L. Willkie, and Communist “When the negotiations fell CP DM College of Dental Medicine party chieftain Earl Browder. through, Farley was distraught. GS School of General Studies “When the students arrived to Around the same time, his efort to GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, class, they never knew who might become the Democratic nominee for Planning and Preservation wind up on the other end of a long- president in 1940 also collapsed, as GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences distance call. did his relationship with FDR. JRN Graduate School of Journalism “One heavy hitter who appeared “But one constant in his life JTS Jewish Theological Seminary in person, not once but twice, was remained: the Yankees. And he never LAW Columbia Law School Farley. At the time, Farley — known stopped showing up at the Stadium. LS Library Service to intimates as ‘Big Jim’ — was head “In his appearance at Dr. Hechler’s NRS School of Nursing of the Democratic National Com- class that spring morning in 1940, PH Mailman School of Public Health mittee, postmaster general of the Farley delivered a chatty, ‘of the PS College of Physicians and Surgeons United States and President Frank- record’ talk. When he fnished his SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering lin D. Roosevelt’s former campaign remarks, Farley suggested that each and Applied Science manager. He helped guide FDR to student be introduced to him. SIPA School of International and Public Afairs two victories in his race for New “My recollection is that I spent SOA School of the Arts York governor and two triumphs in about three seconds in front of Big SPS School of Professional Studies his run for the presidency. Jim. Dr. Hechler announced my SW School of Social Work “Farley was also a man of the name to him, Farley shook my hand, TC Teachers College diamond, that is to say a man of then he greeted the next student. UTS Union Theological Seminary baseball, especially the Yankees. And so it went. Maybe thirty stu- “Farley never met a baseball dents passed through the ritual. game that he didn’t like. Born in “I never saw Farley again, outside Grassy Point, New York, thirty miles of seeing his picture in the newspa- him. Eventually the bum’s calling to establish the televising of the outside of New York City, in 1888, pers, often when he was attending card would pop out of his vest, and Olympic Games and Monday Night he grew up wanting to be a Yankees Yankee ballgames. Jim’s got the guy’s name!’” Football. At Columbia, Bob was frst baseman. He played semipro “Tat was until some thirty years “For a few moments on the sub- a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ball in Haverstraw, New York, before later, when I shared a subway car with way, Farley and I exchanged com- the Senior Society of Sachems. He getting into local politics. him en route to Yankee Stadium. ments about the state of the Yankees was the coxswain of Varsity Crew “When the Yankees moved into “Ten in his early eighties, the instead of the state of the Union. and maintained friendships with his their grand new ballpark in 1923, ruddy-faced Farley sat across from Ten we each went on our way.” oarsmen throughout his life. Farley immediately bought a season me, a straw boater atop his bald head. CCT wishes all of you a pleasant Bob was a devoted golfer; a ticket. In April of that year, he was one A dark suit covered his broad-shoul- spring. If you wish to share news or loyal fan of the New York Giants; a of 74,000 fans who jammed into the dered, 6-foot-2 frame. As our eyes a favorite memory of your time at devoted husband to his wonderful new baseball palace to see Babe Ruth met, he nodded at me and smiled. Columbia in this space, we would wife, Sue; a loving and admiring bang the Stadium’s frst home run and “‘How are you today, Mr. be happy to receive it! Please send father to his sons, Peter and Jimmy; lead the Yankees to victory over the Robinson?’” notes to either the mailing address and a happy grandpa to his grand- Red Sox. Farley remained on the pre- “In a state of utter amazement at the top of this column or email us daughters, Maddy Kate and Ruby cious season ticket list for the rest of at Farley’s exercise in mnemonics, at [email protected]. Be well! Lee, who all survive him. his life, attending games whenever he I returned his smile. Farley had Tis correspondent met Bob at was in New York. According to no less known and met thousands of the Horace Mann School in 1935, the an authority than the late historian most celebrated people in the world. 1942 start of an 80-year friendship. We Arthur Schlesinger, Farley rarely Yet his mind, a multilayered index both attended our 70th Reunion missed an opener. of names, faces, and places out of Melvin Hershkowitz Luncheon in Hamilton Hall in 2012, “He was also in attendance on his colorful past, also had room in 22 Northern Ave. the last time we were together, after July 4, 1939, along with Mayor Fio- it to recall those eager Columbia Northampton, MA 01060-2310 which we kept in touch with phone rello LaGuardia, to hear Lou Gehrig students, including myself. [email protected] calls and notes via regular mail. deliver his touching valedictory. “Perhaps the most amusing tale A sad farewell to the end of an “I was a nineteen-year-old spec- ever told about Farley’s total recall I am sorry to start these notes with extraordinary friendship, and condo- tator that day at the Stadium, sitting was written by popular Hearst col- the sad news of the death of lifelong lences to all members of Bob’s family. in the faraway right-feld bleachers, umnist Bugs Baer. Kiddingly, Baer friend Robert J. Kaufman, of On December 9, I received unlike Big Jim, who watched the challenged the notion that Farley Scarsdale, N.Y., at 95 on Octo- the annual holiday family report proceedings from a box seat. was the ultimate master at matching ber 30. Bob was a naval ofcer from Marie McIlvennan, wife of “Tat same year, after Yankees names with faces. (1942–46) on a destroyer escort, Stewart McIlvennan LAW’48, in owner Jacob Ruppert died, Farley, “‘He’s just a fraud,’ wrote Baer. after which he graduated from Yale Lakewood, Colo. Several months who had dreamed often that he ‘Te way he gets the name is to keep Law in 1948 as a member of Corbey ago, Stew entered an assisted living might buy the club, put together a shaking hands with the stranger, Court. He had a long, distinguished and memory care facility near his consortium of backers who shared and slapping him on the back with career as VP and general attorney home. He was functioning poorly in his desire to own the Yankees. Not a his other hand. All the while he’d be for the ABC Network, during which a wheelchair, with falls and cardiac rich man himself, Farley enlisted the telling the guy how glad he is to see he worked with Roone Arledge ’52 problems, as he anticipated his

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96th birthday on January 24. Marie scoring on our famous KF-79 play two-day holiday breaks in the rou- Most of my bit was excised for space, visited Stew every afternoon, had with a run around left end. tine. I am admitted to a huge single but I have sounded of on the subject dinner with him and arranged visits Kind regards and best wishes to room in the hospital — the last elsewhere so do not feel cheated; with their sons, John, Len and Phil. all surviving classmates and their had great views of center city Philly however, I can’t resist briefy telling At Columbia, Stew was afection- families for a good and happy 2017. under snow. Audrey moves in with those of you who don’t know that ately known as “Snufy” among his me — she should not be home alone it’s an all-Columbia story. William friends and was a member of the — and spends a comfortable night A. Dunning (Class of 1881, GSAS varsity basketball team. He was a 1943 on a couch or reclining sofa while 1884) became a Columbia faculty star halfback on our football team my IVs run in overnight. I am home member in 1893 and remained one and always took great pride in being G.J. D’Angio the next afternoon. Te food is good until his death in 1922. He wrote a Columbia Lion. 201 S. 18th St., #1818 and there is lots of TLC, directed at extensively on the subject of Recon- In WWII, Stew served in the Philadelphia, PA 19103 me for a change and not her! I was struction and supervised dissertations Navy; in 1945, he was on an escort [email protected] found to be severely anemic and ran that became books that refected his ship for the battleship U.S.S. in a unit of blood. No wonder I was views. It was all done scrupulously Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Gen. My wife Audrey’s and my trip to the played out after walking half a mile! from research in primary sources, and Douglas MacArthur accepted the United Kingdom in late September Tere is a hunt on for the basic all concluding that the Republican Japanese surrender to end the war. went well. We attended a wedding cause of these repeated bouts. governments set up in the defeated Stew returned to Columbia, earn- near Cambridge and a christening Nothing found so far. Tey are now Southern states were corrupt and ing his law degree, and had a stint in the Highlands. Tere was time for believed to be non-bacterial but inefcient. Tey worked hardships on with the FBI before starting a long side visits, notably to a cattle auc- infammatory episodes. We’ll see. the South that ended only when they career as an executive in the trucking tion where some of our host’s herd A Columbia nugget: Daniel De were restored to white control. And industry, which included intense were sold, and a visit to Cromarty. Leon (Class of 1878) was a multi-lin- all showed an innate racial and class negotiations with the notorious Te latter is a charming, largely gual prominent Marxist on the world bias that Dunning and his acolytes Jimmy Hofa. In retirement, Stew unspoiled Georgian village on the stage at the end of the 1890s and in honestly did not recognize in them- was a loving father, grandfather and Cromarty Firth. the early 1900s. Of Dutch-Jewish selves. Since the 1960s, those views great-grandfather. We send warm October was Dante-esque. I greetings to our distinguished class- walked about as a zombie, with con- mate and his family. comitant fu and a throat infection Dr. Gerald Klingon (96) calls me that afected both sides — one after Bernie Weisberger ’43 collaborated on an article in every evening from his apartment on the other, right before left. I earned the Chronicle of Higher Education on the trap of the York Avenue in Manhattan to dis- my Ph.D. in sleep, abed hour after cuss Columbia athletics and world hour, dead to the world. An ER visit doctrine of complete objectivity. afairs. He remains perfectly lucid, at 2 a.m., in-patient antibiotics and with an encyclopedic memory of steroids reversed the last episode and Columbia football, baseball and bas- I was out of hospital in 36 hours. ketball games. He recently sent me a Excellent care at Penn Medicine. descent, he was born in Curaçao in have been extensively challenged list of 23 potential incoming football Sad part: Our trip to Boston for 1852. De Leon exerted a strong infu- and revised for the better. Te star recruits for 2018, including four the Wittenborg lecture had to be ence on the turbulent, multi-national performer is Professor Eric Foner from Florida, where our baseball cancelled. I had very much looked Socialist world of that time. ’63, GSAS’69, who recently retired team has been successful in recent forward to that lecture, which was Bernie Weisberger reports: “Hi after 28 years as Columbia’s DeWitt years.Gerry was a distinguished to be given by my young Penn col- classmates, in whatever numbers are Clinton Professor of History. Excuse neurologist on the staf at Cornell league, Dr. Surbhi Grover. We did reading this. I can’t remember an the digression, but I am very proud University Medical College and later go to Massachusetts to visit my autumn as tumultuous as this year’s of good old alma mater and the fne Memorial Sloan Kettering, and a wife’s best friend in Weston, Mass. has been for the nation at large, or education she gave me. prominent medical-legal consultant Te election left us aghast. “Keep one so relatively free of important “To return to the present, just as when summoned to testify in court calm and carry on,” the phrase that personal news. In my case, the ‘no was the case last year, I was heavily in contentious malpractice cases. kept Britain going during WWII, news is good news’ bromide works. absorbed in following the rise of the His son, Robert (Amherst College was the best we could do. I continue to plug away at writing Chicago Cubs from years of futility and Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley’s Our Tanksgiving Day was spent because the itch to do so is hardwired to a near-miss in 2015 and fnally, law school)), and daughter, Karen with my son and his family. It was a into me. Te only result of my work this year, to the World Champion- (Rhode Island School of Design), chance to catch up with my great- in the last few months that’s been ship. It may sound trivial and, in are also loyal to the Lions. grandchildren, Maggie and Charlie, published so far is a collaboration the grand scheme of things, it is. I am in contact with John Robbins, and their parents before they all left with an economist friend in the But truly, from the late weeks of who lives in Mount Dora, Fla., and for Kennebunk, Maine, in December. Chronicle of Higher Education. It deals August through the fnal frst week is the son of the late Dr. William We used the train and had a roomette with the traps that can be laid for of November, I watched every game Robbins, who died last June (see my on the way south — very comfortable social scientists by the doctrine of I could on TV and virtually ate, slept tribute to Bill in the Fall 2016 issue). way to travel; highly recommended. complete ‘objectivity.’ Tat doctrine and breathed baseball. And glad of it. John follows in his father’s footsteps I developed double vision in my discourages scholars from addressing “Ten came the election. I have as a loyal fan of Columbia Athletics. left eye early in December. Tis was controversial issues for fear of letting said in Class Notes that it’s probably He has attended some of our baseball followed a few days later by double an ‘unprofessional’ private opinion not a good idea to provoke political team’s pre-Ivy season games in Florida vision on the right. Tese are the sneak in through the back door. arguments in this forum. I simply and recently reminded me that he saw fourth and ffth head and neck My part was to show the problem have to report that Trump’s win has on YouTube a replay of Columbia’s episodes during 2016. Tey have at work in the discipline of history cast a pall over my spirits that keeps January 1934 Rose Bowl victory over become so familiar that Audrey and when it dealt with the subject of me from fnishing in my usual chip- Stanford, featuring Al Barabas ’36 I look on hospital admissions as Reconstruction after the Civil War. per tone. I’ll stop there.

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“Te only traveling I’ve done since “I lost my beautiful wife of 67 a successful recommendation, the “1. Life has been good. I am 93 my last Class Note is to New York for years, Edith ‘Edi’ Belle Harris (U of novelist Herbert Gold.” with only age-related physical and the Tanksgiving weekend, accompa- Wisconsin ’48), about 15 months ago Cornell agreed with her recom- intelligence handicaps. No question nied by my wife, Rita. She has what [as of January]. She taught modern mendation and Herb taught there. that I am slower in both areas. I might be called a bi-national, trans- dance and health ed at Los Angeles Arnold Zentner is “still chugging know this because I can measure oceanic family — some are in New City College and was a docent at the along” in the warm climes of Sarasota, my capability against the modern York and some are in Israel, to which Los Angeles County Museum of Fla. He says he cut back on tennis college student. I am a regular she went on to visit while I returned Art. When frst retired, I spent four and golf because of spinal stenosis unregistered visitor at Oberlin Col- to Chicago. Te table was occupied years motor-homing, hiking and fy- and now fnds biking and playing the lege, which has given me privileges by a large crowd of in-laws, who I fshing in the western United States, electric organ to be important and to listen in on a variety of liberal arts am glad to say are also friends, and a from Alaska to Mexico. Nothing fun. He writes that, four years after courses, the number of which is now good time was had by all — except, of beats that. After a fve-year stay in his wife’s death, he is lucky to have approaching the requirement for a course, the turkey. Good wishes to all Prescott, Ariz. (magnifcent area), I the companionship of a lady to share liberal arts degree. But, while I have of you for the New Year, and let’s hear moved into a retirement community the pleasures of theater, music and updated and improved my intel- more from you.” in Carlsbad, Calif. travel. Arnold sends warm regards to ligence, I have never passed an exam “Still have all my own joints, classmates and looks forward to being and I know I am not the intellectual walk one hour every morning and contacted at [email protected]. equivalent of today’s college student 1944 30 minutes in the gym three times Every edition of Columbia College in the classroom. a week. Now 93 and a half and Today carries the ’46 Class Notes “2. Physically, I walk, one mile in Columbia College Today fortunately still able to drive and column with news that I receive from 40 minutes (probably twice a week Columbia Alumni Center keep very busy with the programs you. News about travel, family, cur- when the weather is good) and play 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 available here. Can’t top the climate.” rent work, special projects, personal doubles tennis twice a week with a New York, NY 10025 CCT, and your classmates, would happenings, book reading suggestions younger group, all of whom recognize [email protected] enjoy hearing from you too! Please and personal thoughts are read with that my partner must cover at least share news about yourself, your fam- interest by your classmates. Please 80 percent of our court territory. No news this time! CCT, and your ily, your career and/or your travels send me your updates and informa- “3. Socially, I am alone. My classmates, would love to hear — even a favorite Columbia College tion, which will run in this publica- dear wife, Helen (TC’45 or ’46, if from you. Please share an update memory — using either the email tion. Write to me at the address at memory serves), died last year. We about yourself, your family, your address or postal address at the top the top of the column or send me an had been married 69 years. However, career and/or your travels — even a of the column. email at [email protected]. once-married people of both sexes favorite Columbia College memory are numerous in retirement com- — by sending it to either the email munities and it is not too difcult to address or postal address at the top 1946 1947 satisfy a friendly relationship. of the column. REUNION “4. My four-year Columbia REUNION 2017 Bernard Sunshine experience was split, with three years JUNE 1–4 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G occurring after three years in the 1945 New York, NY 10023 Alumni Afairs Contact Fatima Yudeh military. Tank you, GI Bill. By then [email protected] I was married and had one child Columbia College Today [email protected] 212-851-7834 before graduation. In other times Columbia Alumni Center Ira Millstein has authored a new Development Contact 2017 this might have been unusual, but 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 book, Te Activist Director: Les- Heather Siemienas not so post-WWII. A large portion New York, NY 10025 sons from the Boardroom and the [email protected] of my time while at Columbia was [email protected] Future of the Corporation, published 212-851-7855 spent with family and part-time jobs. by Columbia University Press. Ira I never lived at the College. Courses Dr. Louis G. Harris writes: “Finished founded and developed modern-day Columbia College Today were just something to pass with a Columbia College in 1944 due to corporate governance practice. Te Columbia Alumni Center satisfactory grade (I was Phi Beta WWII. Roomed with close high book chronicles 50 years of his life 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Kappa). Te goal: Graduate and get a school buddy Dr. Henry Shinefeld inside the boardroom during major New York, NY 10025 job. Tat was my Columbia life. As a ’45, PS’48 but got kicked out of Liv- corporate events, such as the Drexel [email protected] result, I have been a very disinterested ingston Hall when the Navy took over. Burnham Lambert collapse and alumnus. Not Columbia’s fault, but Went on to Duke med school and a General Motors’ mid-1990s recovery. Come back to campus for your probably a product of the times for medical internship and residency in Mel Holson says life is slowly 70th reunion! Find out more: college. some people. internal medicine in California and getting back to normal after knee columbia.edu/alumni/reunion2017. “5. After Columbia, 36 years were practiced in Encino for about 35 years, replacement surgery. By the time spent with a large American manu- followed by seven years in San Diego this column is published he may facturing corporation, at several doing Social Security evaluation. Still have already donned his skis and 1948 locations in the east and Midwest. stay in touch with Henry. returned to the slopes. In that period, I was able to ascend “I served on many hospital com- Herbert Gold got a mention in Columbia College Today the corporate ladder with a variety mittees and was a chief of staf. Kept Te New York Times obituary for Columbia Alumni Center of interesting and rewarding jobs. It very busy in my spare time as a long- noted biographer Aileen Ward: 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 is difcult to pin down, but I believe distance runner, having run track for “When (Vladimir) Nabokov was New York, NY 10025 my Columbia experience played a four years in high school. Did eight trying to fnd someone to replace [email protected] role in my career.” marathons and hundreds of shorter him when he left Cornell shortly Paul Robert Homer also reached races, fnishing in the top three in my after the publication of Lolita, it Robert Randel SEAS’49, who lives out: “I am retired from Te State age group most of the time. was she (Ward) who came up with in Oberlin, Ohio, writes: University of New York after 43 years

Spring 2017 CCT 43 Class Notes of service. I am a church organist and choir director in Bufalo, N.Y. My wife, Kathryn, is still with me after 52 years, and our three children have given us four grandchildren. Natu- rally, all are intelligent and beautiful!” CCT, and your classmates, would love to hear from you, too! Please share news about yourself, your fam- ily, your career and/or your travels — even a favorite Columbia College memory — using either the email address or postal address at the top of the column. 1949

John Weaver 2639 E. 11th St. Brooklyn, NY 11235 [email protected] COURTESY WILL CSAPLAR ’ 57 , BUS’ 58 WILL CSAPLAR COURTESY Right of the bat I want to thank classmates from whom we have never heard for throwing a “lifeline” and rescuing this column from another America’s fastest miler. No longer Var- Columbia. I met John Garibaldi of vated writing this note. In the end, Joe Russell, desperate outcry! who sity eligible, I was working out — just Manhattan University, in second I am but a part of all those I’ve met. has been the most generous provider for enjoyment — at the mid-campus place right behind me, at the New Tanks, Columbia, for helping to of content, has not been obligated outdoor running track when Fred York Metropolitan Championship put so many good people there.” to come to our rescue this time. We stopped me. He could quickly get me Mile Run. Later, newly married, we Nick Zules sent two separate Julian Rolan- have heard from back in competitive shape running found ourselves next-door neighbors emails, one with a sampling of his delli BUS’50; I quote his entire letter for the New York Athletic Club, he in Yonkers, N.Y., and became paintings and another with a brief because he tells a story so admirable. said, using little known Swedish tech- lifetime friends. Incredibly, my resume of his time since College. He appears to credit the College for niques. I don’t know why Fred both- sometime roommate Bill Vessie ’48, Nick worked at a number of jobs all his success and, in that sense I ered with me. Whatever, it was good PS’54, Columbia’s IC4A Champion to supplant his earnings as an artist think we all might take a moment enough — with the help of former (high jump), and head nurse Elsie but never abandoned his calling. Te and recognize that as a common con- world record holder and Olympian Rolandelli (my wonderful wife of several works he sent me are striking nection among us. Bill Hulse — to take third place in the 63 years, who passed away in April) and impactful. Regardless of the

Julian reports: “Many are the two-mile relay at the AAU Nationals worked together at the largest limitations of viewing paintings on exciting occurrences in my life (USA Championships). hospital in Ohio. the small screen in digital format, his linked to Columbia. I especially “I tried to give back by ofciating “While serving as president of work is clearly flled with a forceful remember the people who made at Columbia track meets and Madison the Columbia Alumni Associa- and emotionally moving efect. them possible –– like meeting Gen. Square Garden, and I was chairman tion of Cleveland, I worked with I did not know Nick during our Dwight D. Eisenhower, then- of the Varsity C Banquet and on track high-powered Columbians like Jim undergraduate years. My loss. His president of the University! advisory committees. I interviewed Berick ’55, Frank Joseph LAW’53 brief personal history follows: “Te “For me, Columbia athletics were applicants for Columbia and hosted and Al Lerner ’55. Al was to own years I spent at the College occurred huge. It was Coach Carl Merner’s Columbia track, football and wrestling the Cleveland Browns and fnance during a period of momentous inspiration that led to my record coaches in Ohio. I volunteered to the fabulous Alfred Lerner Hall worldwide change. I am grateful in the 1,000-yard-run that held for coach track at my Ohio church and to on campus. I also rubbed shoulders that the knowledge I received there 17 years. While winning two-mile run a huge track meet for more than with distinguished folks like Presi- helped me understand, helped me relay championships at Heptagonals, 450 boys and 20 parishes on Memo- dent Bill McGill and Dean David make sense of the events that ensued. Ivy League and New York Metros, rial Day 10 years in a row. Truman during our annual Colum- “I graduated and worked in an art I made lifelong friendships with “Indeed, again and again, bia in Cleveland programs. I’ve ofce for several years, married and Dave Ilchert (godfather to one Columbia people played a role that gone back to Columbia to represent joined my father as partner in his Bill Berger of my fve children), I can never repay. Bill Sanford ’30, Cleveland at alumni meetings and fur business, but always indulged in SEAS’49, Charles Cole ’48 and captain of Columbia’s only National for reunions, reuniting with Gene my passions, painting and writing. I John Zegger ’50. Heavyweight Crew Regatta cham- Rossides, George Sayer, Bill did better with the artwork, had art “At the Business School, Warren pion, was my Scoutmaster and an Lubic, Bob Rosencrans, Marv Lip- shows all over Long Island; in New Bufet BUS’51 was a class behind me. inspiration in my youth. Carl Sayers man, Bob Lincoln, Gene Shekita, York City; and in Taos, N.M.; and If only I paid as much attention as he ’46, who headed up stadium food Pete Smedley, Jim Shenton, Miami; and did line illustrations for did! Yet, what I did learn helped me concessions during our football Chuck Tulevech and many others. Te New York Times, Newsday and big-time. Assigned to Columbia while games (which helped me earn a few And it’s classmates like you, John, many magazines, meanwhile mainly I was at the Business School was FBI bucks), mentored me to the rank of willing to write CCT Class of ’49 providing for my family and three agent and Olympian Fred Wilt, then Eagle Scout and then on through notes for so many years, that moti- children with the fur work. When

44 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews the fur business folded, I was a sales- can Civil Liberties Union afliates you from his many years doing sively in the USA and Europe before man in an art store. Both were vaca- of both Connecticut and Oregon voiceover work (for example, Boar’s settling down in central Pennsylvania. tions in comparison to the hectic and having served on the National Head commercials: “Compromise “I never expected to live until 90 life creating and selling mink coats. Board and National Executive elsewhere!”). Joe remains active in but here we are, in relatively good I recently self-published two novels Committee for more than 25 years. the arts, having performed at NYC’s health and enjoying a full life.” and a book of short stories –– and Boy, do we need the ACLU now!” Metropolitan Room on November Joseph V. “Joe” Ambrose Jr. illustrated the covers for all three.” Tank you all for sharing. I know 20 in his one-man show, “With A shares: “Tree years ago my wife and Al Scherzer PH’50, TC’54, there are many more of you out Little Bit of Luck: Stories, Songs & I moved from our home of 45 years in PS’63, obviously, has a gift for there. Let us hear from you. We live Shakespeare.” Here are details from Irvington, N.Y., to a retirement com- understatement. His note reports in unsure times and whatever reas- the show’s Facebook page: munity in Lancaster, Pa., where we ever-so-briefy on an extraordinary surance we can glean from hearing “Joe Sirola, who has starred in are enjoying a relatively carefree life, career, reaching around the globe and from our classmates is ever more more than 600 television shows despite a few minor medical issues. returning home, sharing his energy appreciated. We are all survivors and — including his own series Te We still go to Florida each winter and and knowledge in the service of the we have the opportunity to show, Montefuscos; in flms with the likes have a fairly active life there.” most important members of all our by example, that our identities, so of Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, David Kettler GSAS’60, professor families: our children. Al says, “After frmly grounded in our common Clint Eastwood, and James Cagney; emeritus in political studies, Trent fve years of international public College experience, are joined in and on Broadway in Te Unsinkable University (Ontario), and research health work in Southeast Asia and hope and conviction that the future Molly Brown, Pal Joey, and Golden professor in social studies, Bard Col- the South Pacifc with the United is ours to make. In this I include Rainbow, among others — will be lege (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.), States Public Health Service and every alumnus/a from Page 1 of bringing stories of his life through sent a comprehensive update: “I am WHO and 50 years as a develop- Class Notes to the Class of 2016. words and song to the stage at not strictly a member of the Class mental pediatrician, I fnally retired In a fnal note, I report, sadly, the Metropolitan Room. of 1951. I entered with the Class of in March 2016 and am now clinical loss of a dearly beloved classmate. “In addition to his acting career, 1952 but accumulated enough credits professor emeritus of pediatrics at In November, Dick Kandel took Te Wall Street Journal named him to enter graduate school in fall 1951. Weill Cornell Medical College. I his leave of this earthly community. ‘King of the Voiceovers,’ having As a result, I did not know many have captured my journey so far away Dick was a friend from my earliest recorded 10,000+ commercials, and members of the earlier class, espe- from West 120th Street and the Col- days on campus, separated by the he has been called ‘the green thumb cially since friendships were often lege in a memoir: Taking on Global glass that defned the engineer’s of the Upper East Side’ for his formed in the required early courses. Health Issues: Odyssey of a Develop- domain and the performer’s in the amazing rooftop garden. Ten, too, I commuted from Jersey mental Pediatrician. It is available WKCR studio. A serious and enthu- “Sunday’s performance will also City for the frst two years and had from Amazon or on lulu.com. I invite siastic member of our alumni family have snippets from his one man a near full-time job there, teaching classmates to peek in and see where and a generous friend, Dick’s loss is show, Shakespeare’s Ages of Man, in veterans to take high school equiva- my travels have taken me.” personal and profound. which Joe portrayed 18 of the bard’s lence exams, until I completed my Paul Meyer sent his note, as he famous characters. course work for the Ph.D. in 1954 … and his wife, Alice, had a genuinely “In the last few years, Joe Columbia opened possibilities I had exciting December: “Alice and I 1950 returned to Broadway ... this time never imagined. And I remain loyal spent a month cruising from Miami as a Tony Award-winning producer (as long as I am not required to root through the Caribbean and then Columbia College Today with shows such as A Gentleman’s for athletic teams). 2,000 miles up the Amazon River Columbia Alumni Center Guide to Love and Murder, Te Trip “Tere will not be (m)any more to Manaus. Tere, I had my dream 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 to Bountiful, Te Motherf**ker with opportunities to report to fellow- experience: To sing in the 1884–96 New York, NY 10025 the Hat, Love Letters (revival), Ghetto survivors what I have been up to in opera house built in the middle of a [email protected] Klown, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s the 65 years since our graduation. rainforest. While only a Gilbert and Cinderella, Stick Fly and Time Stands “For me, Columbia College Sullivan ditty (‘I am the very model Class of 1950, CCT wishes you a Still. He is currently involved in was frst of all about the classes: I of a modern Major-General’), I warm and pleasant spring. If you Cagney the Musical. loved CC and Humanities and the made my debut. Of course there was would like to share your news or “ ... and it all started ‘With A history and economics and govern- much more to the experience, but a favorite memory of your time at Little Bit of Luck.’” ment classes. Even the mandatory the main thing was that we did it. Columbia in this space, we would Read about Joe in CCT’s 2011 composition class was a revelation. Used walking sticks to climb about be happy to receive it! Please send profle: Go to college.columbia.edu/ My background was a little unusual. 300 ft. to the top of Devil’s Island notes to either the mailing address cct and search for “Joe Sirola.” For a I’d gone to a terrible high school in — although Dreyfus was impris- at the top of this column or email us look at Joe’s recent work on Cagney, Jersey City until I walked out on oned on an adjacent island we could at [email protected]. Be well! go to nytimes.com and search for the frst day of my senior year, took only view at a distance.” “Remembering James Cagney, a the $500 I’d saved for college from It is impossible to ignore the Tough Guy With a Green Tumb.” my summer jobs and entered a local political turmoil that is abroad in 1951 Elliott B. Sherwood got in private high school, whose principal the nation and Paul adds the fol- touch: “I am living happily in a claim was that it prepared students lowing as we all contemplate the Columbia College Today wonderful retirement community, for state equivalency tests in half importance of maintaining order Columbia Alumni Center Willow Valley, in Lancaster, Pa., the normal time. It happened also and civility in the ongoing debate 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 with my wife of 69 years, Helen. We to have some good teachers. Te as we struggle to stay frm in our New York, NY 10025 have two loving daughters nearby principal talked me into applying unanimous support of the Constitu- [email protected] and our families get together often. to Columbia and for all I know tion as the structure upon which our “I retired early, at 60, from a doctored my very ordinary transcript national house is built. CCT was pleased to chat with Joe rewarding career in banking, with to get me admitted. He says, “I take great pride in Sirola on the phone in Decem- First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A., of “I worked two jobs during the half having been a founder of the Ameri- ber. His voice may be known to Philadelphia. We then traveled exten- year I’d spared myself and accumu-

Spring 2017 CCT 45 Class Notes lated the frst year’s tuition. For the run a good series on ‘Negro History,’ as well as written volumes, none you’ll celebrate your 65th, is Turs- frst two years, I commuted daily, although we considered it a triumph of them known except to small day, June 1–Sunday, June 4. Learn organizing my schedule so that I could if we could double our members in specialist audiences but all of them more here: college.columbia.edu/ return in time for my 5:00–10:30 the size of the audience. Tat was in determined pursuit of questions alumni/reunion2017. p.m. job as ‘registrar’ for the evening my Columbia too. No regrets and no frst posed for me at Columbia. Te We look forward to seeing you division of the school I had attended, apologies needed. work in (halting) progress is a study back on campus! mostly doing the paperwork for the “So what was the upshot? After of a Columbia teacher, political and From John Benfield: “I am veterans who came under the GI entering graduate school in public legal theorist Franz Neumann. I am delighted that our oldest grand- Bill. After a year, I started teaching law and government, I completed an 200,000 words into the text. Te son, entirely on his own after an the last two hours of the day. It was a M.A. in 1953 and fnished my course length of this missive will help you extensive evaluation of colleges in great job, as it paid well and gave me requirements and doctoral orals in understand why the manuscript is the United States and Europe, made weekends free for studying. the following year. By then, I was not really of publishable length. Columbia College his frst choice “Of course, it meant, frst, that I married to a sociologist who worked “We certainly did not think that and will enter with the Class of had as good as no social connections at ‘the Bureau’ [Editor’s note: Paul F. we would leave our (grand)children 2021 this fall.” with classmates, and, second, that I Lazarfeld’s Bureau of Applied Social with the world of Trump, but we Pete Vayda GSAS’56 writes: “I had to commute fve days a week to Research at Columbia], and we had a trust that they will resist. I was born spend most of my time at home on Jersey City, in the other direction, even child, Ruth Finkelstein, now an assis- a Jew in Leipzig, Germany, in 1930 Morningside Heights but still take after I rented a bed on 118th Street. tant professor at the Mailman School and beneftted from the juxtaposi- trips in connection with an ongoing “So Columbia for me meant of Public Health after a distinguished tion of luck and circumstances that research project on fres and green- classes, except for my frst semester career at the New York Academy of enabled my family to come to New house gas emissions in Indonesian when I somehow found time to Medicine. After a year on a Rocke- York in spring 1940 on the last Ital- peatlands. For example a three-week impose my abysmal trombone feller Foundation fellowship, I became ian Line ship to make the crossing. trip to Indonesia in February and a playing on the Marching Band. Te an instructor at Ohio State, where I Tat is the pre-history that enters shorter trip to Australia in April.” band was always brilliant at rehears- taught for 15 years, from instructor to into every detail of the story I’ve From Daniel Seemann: “Barely als because many Julliard musicians professor. Te dissertation took some told. Even the semester in the band, graduated from Columbia, but got liked to take part. But not at the fve years to complete and cost one since my arrival in the fourth grade through. Eventually got a Ph.D. and games, when Mr. [Hunter] Wiley marriage, as well. I married again in of Roosevelt School in Bayonne, attained the rank of colonel in the had to improvise. But that was true 1961, to Janet Leight, a psychology N.J., in spring 1940, devastated not USMCR. Taught at the University of Lou Little too, if I remember graduate student, and we have twin only by the forced emigration and of Toledo for almost 50 years.” right, since it was the year after daughters, Katherine and Hannah. its prelude but also by the death of From Howard Hansen: “Our [Gene] Rossides [’49, LAW’52] and Katherine, a lawyer, is a married to a my father at 35 one month after our 1951 WINNING football team [Bill] Swiacki [BUS’48, ’49]. woman, and they have three children arrival, was eased by a wise teacher lost another valuable teammate in “But back to class. At the time, between them. Katherine directs the with my initiation in the drum and Mitch Price ’53 on January 8, 2016. you will recall, we did not have to management of grievances at Intel bugle corps that had four march- When you get returned mail at our declare a major but to take enough Foundation. Hannah, an economist, ers in its repertoire to march the advanced ages, it invariably indicates advanced courses to accumulate has a responsible position at the Bill students to their classes.” ‘something is up.’ I found this out the required ‘maturity credits.’ So I & Melinda Gates Foundation, and CCT, and your classmates, would once again with the valuable help ended up with an equal number of will be a senior lecturer at MIT next love to hear from you too. Please share of the CCT Class Notes editor, who courses in economics, history, phi- year. She was selective and waited news about yourself, your family, your passed along Mitch’s obituary to me. losophy and government, but com- until last year to marry; she and her career and/or your travels — even a “As some of you know, a special mitted to the last of these, thanks to husband, Steve Hindman, ski, hike favorite Columbia College memory group of Columbia athletes from the political theory courses taught and bike a lot. — using either the email or postal several sports (and their ‘gals’) have by John B. Stewart GSAS’53. “In 1970, I was tripped up on address at the top of the column. met periodically at various of- “I have to qualify that character- the way from Ohio State to Purdue, campus locations through the south ization of ‘my’ Columbia in another and spent a year instead at a small for three-day rendezvous since 1986, way. In my second or third year, ‘experimental’ college in New 1952 including a seven-day cruise. Eleven

I became active in the minuscule Hampshire. From there, I went of REUNION gatherings have been logged in, to REUNION 2017 Leftist fraction of the Young to a professorship at Trent Univer- be exact, and our veteran planning JUNE 1–4 Progressives of America — the sity, an undergraduate university in committee members included Mel Alumni Afairs Contact only College member of the group, Peterborough, Ontario, established Sautter, Tom Federowicz (now Fatima Yudeh Dan Seemann and the only one who was not a to counter the ‘Americanization’ of [email protected] deceased) and me. Communist Party member. Te four Ontario universities. I ‘retired’ early 212-851-7834 “I always tried to get Mitch other members, GS students, used and became a professor emeritus, in Development Contact 2017 and his wife, Norma, to join our to caucus before they met with me, good part in order to follow my wife, Heather Siemienas rendezvous. However, he had physical to lay down the party line. Tey who’d gotten a job she much liked [email protected] problems and long-distance travel was thought of me as a fellow traveler, at Bard College during a sabbati- 212-851-7855 out of the question from Utah. My but I thought that I was driving the cal year we spent there (coinciding last phone conversation with him was bus. We denounced an honorary with our daughters’ senior year of Columbia College Today at our 2012 dinner gathering at Shyla degree for a Chilean dictator, I college). After a year as visiting Columbia Alumni Center and Stephen Reich ’53’s beautiful recall, and chanted ‘No degrees for professor at the CUNY’s Gradu- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 lakeside residence in Winter Springs, dictators; jobs for Negro educators.’ ate Center, I settled in at Bard, New York, NY 10025 Fla. He spoke to several of our guys Tere was a photo of me in one of teaching a partial load and being [email protected] present and couldn’t say enough those demonstrations in Specta- designated as a research profes- great things about his four years at tor. I was looking scornfully at the sor. My name is on the title page Tanks to all who wrote in! As a Columbia. From professors to coaches surrounding skeptics. We did in fact of some 15 books, counting edited reminder, Reunion 2017, at which to teammates, he wasn’t shy about

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fve days apart. Our daughter, Jill, was Danziger Valentino ’00. Te instruc- inducted into the grandmother soror- tion must have struck, as Sarah is ity when her son and daughter [each] now chair of the Classics Depart- became parents! Now one has to be ment at Rye Country Day School. fairly old (or ancient, as one grand- “Our son Bob is a managing part- daughter describes me) to reach that ner in our law frm and our son Marc level, so I thought an update might is a urologist in New York City at be of interest to someone. New York and Lenox Hill Hospitals. “My wife, Anne, and I shall soon We have fve grandchildren, ages reach 62 years of married life; there 4–22, and we see them all frequently. are now fve children, 10 grandchil- “Joan and I have traveled dren and four great-grandchildren extensively, with trips to Myanmar, in our extended family. Anne and I Pakistan (pre World Trade Center), have lived in Leisure World (now the Silk Road in China by car and Laguna Woods Village) in southern more. Our most recent trip was to California for more than 25 years! Florence with our family to visit our Te ailments of old age — bad back, granddaughter, who spent a semester From this vintage photograph’s original caption: Coach Lou Little will ofer replacement parts — limit our travel there, along with a week in Rome.” one of the “best backfields of the Ivy League this season” with his veteran much beyond a 500-mile radius. “I spend my four-day weekends quartet. Left to right: Little, Mitchell Price ’53, Vernon Wynott ’52, Howard Our children live inside that radius reading, working in our greenhouse Hansen ’52 and Frank Toner ’52. so all is OK. We keep busy with and worrying about the future of the multitude of activities available our country. I saw Pete Pellett a in our retirement community. We couple of months ago. Pete’s wife, expressing his true, heartfelt, out- stated in my article that as time wore are starting to miss more and more Doris, passed away and he moved to Frank Toner standing experiences. Tis included down at Army ‘ scored to the friends who are no longer with New Haven, Conn., to live with his QB coaching from Paul Governali win but was fagged for ofsides.’ Frank us; we also miss our travels back to daughter. Joan and I subscribe to the ’43, former Maxwell Award winner was not ofsides, but our end was!” Austria (land of my birth) and miss Yale Rep Teater, so we hope to see and Heisman Trophy runner-up. the ability to taste all those rich pas- Pete at our next visit. “I have Mitch in some of my tries. All in all, we keep busy, enjoy “I am a great admirer of ‘Lion’s Den’ action game photos 1953 our growing family and stay fairly [Barack] Obama [’83] but remain hanging on my den wall, but per- healthy! Not a bad life at all! With perplexed at the little he refers to Lew Robins haps the best is featured here, with fond memories of life at Columbia.” his years at Columbia. Vern Wynott 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 Lou Little, Mitch, If my memory is correct, I “I have been blessed with a Frank Toner. Bridgeport, CT 06604 (deceased), me and remember my frst day on campus wonderful marriage, family and a [email protected] Also included is Coach Little’s when I noticed John wearing “dirty rewarding career.” newspaper comment (excuse me, white bucks” and a freshman beanie Mr. Little’s comments, as we only Several months ago I received an while strolling across Van Am Quad. knew him in our playing days). email from Roland Plottel ’55 with I’m sorry I missed writing the 1954 “Mitch was an outstanding sad news about the distinguished Class Notes for the Winter 2016–17 athletic passer and, like many of and memorable Professor Richard issue. Unfortunately, my wife, Sara- Bernd Brecher today’s QBs, could run efectively as Brooks GSAS’59. “My friend, Pro- lee, fell and broke three ribs and her 35 Parkview Ave., Apt. 4G well! When I look back, Vern was fessor Richard Brooks ( Junior Phi nose. She’s now much better! How- Bronxville, NY 10708 Honorable Mention All-American Beta Kappa) passed away suddenly, a ever, while she was recuperating, I [email protected] scatback, Frank had excellent speed glass of wine on a table nearby.” spent most of my time shopping, as captain of Columbia’s track team “Richard, an eminent scholar, cooking and transporting us from Gentlemen, as I start to share these and, I’m sure, as fullback I was the earned a Ph.D. in French from place to place. observations and items of infor- Joel Danziger slowest in our T and split-T forma- Columbia. He was the author of a sent an informa- mation with you in early Febru- tion backfeld! Since Mitch was one book on Voltaire and Leibniz, and tive note about his and wife Joan’s ary — while listening to CNN, year behind us we were fortunate to the general editor of the A Critical wonderful life during the last 59 MSNBC, NPR, even FOX News, play as a unit for two years. An addi- Bibliography of French Literature. He years: “I am still practicing law, doing my best to stay on top of what tional tribute to Mitch is that he taught at Columbia College, NYU, albeit part time with a law frm is real in this new year and what is won the Football Cup two years in a the College of Staten Island and the I founded 57 years ago in White Saturday Night Live or Te Daily row for best scholastic average of all CUNY Graduate Center, where he Plains, N.Y. Te frm has grown Show reality — I realized once again 44 teammates in 1950 and 1951. was a full professor for many years. from a single practitioner (me) in a that our Class of Destiny is at the “We were a pretty strong and He was married to Professor Eva one-room ofce to a frm employing “front of the book” in CCT’s Class balanced backfeld, if I don’t say so Stadler BC’52, GSAS’67, also now more than 50 about to move into a Notes. Not just because we assume myself, and lost to Penn, Army and deceased and who also earned a new space of 15,000 ft. that we deserve to be, but because Navy. We played only eight games my Ph.D. in French from Columbia.” “Joan and I live on a horse farm there are only 13 classes with active senior year as our opening game was Richard will be sorely missed by (no horses at present) on a dirt road class correspondents older than we. canceled because, sadly, two of our everyone who knew him! in Bedford, N.Y. We get to NYC Sixty-two Columbia College classes Don Page Bernie teammates, and I received a delightful email from less frequently, but we did attend have graduated since we and our Jansson, John Lustig: came down with polio dur- “Hello! What could Professor Gareth Williams’ course brethren stood up on South Field to ing pre-season camp in Connecticut. bring the long-absent back to life? In last semester on Greek tragedies receive our diplomas from President “Correction: In CCT’s Winter my case, writing is prompted by the at the Heyman Center. Williams Grayson Kirk. (No, Toto, we’re not 2016–17 issue Class Notes it was addition of two grandchildren, born taught Latin to our daughter, Sarah in our Cold War “here we come,

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world” mode anymore.) And our Tanks, Richard, for helping to Barbara and I celebrate 61 years of certainly apt, given my father’s female diplomas, in Latin, which we picked keep the pipeline supplied with top marriage in May.” connections at the Hebrew Home. up later, were signed by Kirk and candidates. (A Washington pool? Harold, give us your take on the And of course, it’s only too bad he Dean Lawrence Chamberlain (a No lobbyists, please!) place of ethics in 21st-century Amer- didn’t see this article while alive to humble leader and a true friend of Our champion fencers continue ica from your perspective as a doctor savor fame through CCT. I hope this Columbia, students and alumni). to be an active group. Herb Zydney in suburban New York. (Bless the fnds you in good health and, as you Matter of fact, given all that, SEAS’55 reports, “Last fall I was CORE!) And happy, happy, happy suggested therein, ‘living it up.’ Warm when I’m asked to give my birthday at Lincoln Center and picked up a anniversary to you and Barbara. regards, James” for an I-don’t-think-you-really- copy of the Juilliard Journal. Tere Te latest from Hollywood: Which brings another thought need-to-know-that probably- was a column asking for who might Proud dad Saul Turteltaub on “keeping up.” Every issue of CCT marketing questionnaire, I take the know who was pictured in a photo LAW’57 wants us to know that his has an all-class obituary section that approach that 85 is the new 65 and of a fencing class. I wrote back and son Jon recently fnished direct- requires separate lookups for class- put down the year 1952. I have yet the Journal commented: ‘He identi- ing his latest movie, Meg, in New mate inclusions. I hope in future to be challenged, albeit politeness fed the teacher as Irv DeKof, who Zealand, and that his son Adam was issues to list in our Class Notes might be a factor. taught fencing in Juilliard’s opera recently quoted in Te Wall Street any ’54 names that may have more Our classmates, bless them, department from 1947 to 1951 and Journal on business compliance and detailed coverage in that section. continue to read newspapers and 1956 to 1962. Zydney fenced for practices. Saul says that his “movie A note about some of my ven- to write to the editors. Fraternity DeKof at Columbia, where he was For Roseanna was optioned for a tures on behalf of alma mater and brother Manfred Weidhorn head fencing coach.’ Broadway musical, to be titled My otherwise: I have always considered GSAS’63 had a letter in Te “I sent the clip on to current Marcello. (Don’t hold your breath.) Humanities, Contemporary Civiliza- New York Times on February 8 Columbia fencing Coach Michael I’m looking forward to reading tion, colloquia, great teaching, and in response to a column titled Aufrichtig, who replied, ‘Tis is really about my amazing classmates who the “bundle” of all related curriculum “Trumpian Characters Are the Stuf cool! Tank you so much for sharing. I are doing and have done wonderful experiences that are part of Colum- of Fiction,” which cited books such had the opportunity to meet Irv about things. Proud to be a member of the bia’s Core program to be forever part as 1984 and It Can’t Happen Here. two years ago down in Florida and Class of ’54.” of my DNA. Columbia may be the Manny wrote: “To round out Francis spoke to him for a few hours about his We’re all proud of you, Saul. last higher education stronghold to X. Cline’s fne reading list, consider time as a coach. I only aspire to be as Memory: Te day you bumped into hold high this torch of civilization this: We are living in an Ayn Rand great of a coach as he was.’” comedian/teacher Sam Levenson and … of humanity. Many of you feel as novel. President Trump’s career, Herb further reports: “As a com- his brother downtown and brought passionate about this as I do. So do consisting of putting up big build- bined program graduate, I traveled them to campus for a dirty joke con- my fellow Trustees of the Columbia ings, faunting brashness, cutting to campus for my 60th Engineering test for our class. (Remember? Sam University Club Foundation, of moral corners, using an outsize ego reunion in May 2015. I was one of was great. His brother won!) which I am the Vice President. Tis to squash mere mortals, is typical of a few SEAS’55 grads, but the days A note from one of ’54’s academic year, the CUCF made our the unregulated and amoral capital- were well spent. One calculation: Energizer bunnies: Arnold Tolkin third annual substantial contribution ism that Rand celebrated, and Mr. When I graduated, someone coming wants us to know that “life is good for this great cause. Te Foundation Trump is the ultimate Rand hero for their 60th reunion was Class of while many of our class will turn supports numerous scholarships every brought to life.” 1895. Hmm. For the winter, I’m in or have reached 85 this year. My year, special programs such as the Richard Werksman writes that West Palm Beach, Fla., where there’s wife, Barbie, and I recently returned Society of Senior Scholars, and lec- he continues to volunteer for Colum- an active South Florida alumni from a cruise around South America tures at the Columbia Club by ambas- bia and that “by next time I will have group. In 2016 I attended a private and back to Miami. Don’t get out sadors of various nations to the United interviewed a couple of applicants for home party with others from all as much, been there and done that. Nations and by senior ofcials of our the Class of 2021. Yes, Bernd, 2021! schools/years and a great brunch Now it is all about relaxing, exercis- State Department. And … drum And, I will report on the experience. at the International Polo Club ing, reading and just living the good roll … we have just underwritten the Meanwhile, best wishes to all.” with other Columbians. I was the life. Flew up to NYC to see one of digitizing of all past issues of Columbia earliest College year at both.” our new great granddaughters, as College Today in order to preserve Tanks, Herb, keep the our family keeps expanding.” them for future reference purposes. news coming. Arnie says he’s “still working We did so in honor of Alex Sachare Mendacity, beware the Class of at selling travel and I am of to ’71’s 18-plus years of dedicated service ’54! Several classmates have reported Havana to set up bridge tourna- as editor in chief of CCT. over the last several years about their ments between member of the Of campus, in a moment of personal and professional lives as American Contract Bridge League weakness mixed with hubris, I writers, teachers, lawyers, activists or and members of the Cuban Bridge publicly announced the start of Contact CCT observers that are, to some extent, Association. Keep very busy and am my “fve-year project” to research, Update your contact devoted to truth, facts, ethics and jus- still active in genealogy.” write and edit my memoirs. Tis is tice. To that end, Harold Stevelman (Don’t get out as much, huh!?) in many ways to fulfll my promise information; submit a PS’58 tells us: “I continue to function I received a lovely note with a to my seven grandchildren. I did so Class Note, Class Note in the pro-bono position as chair- just-right touch from a son of ’54 in a presentation last November at photo, obituary or man of the department of ethics at that I herewith share with all: “My Knesset Israel, a synagogue in Pitts- Joel Belson Jack Letter to the Editor; Hudson Valley Hospital Center. Our name is James Moche ’81 and I am feld, Mass. and hospital has now been integrated Leonard Moche’s son. I am not sure Blechner and their wives (Barnard or send us an email. into the health care system of New if we met, but I wanted to thank you alumnae both) traveled to bear wit- Click “Contact Us” at York-Presbyterian Hospital-HVHC. for the fond mention of my father ness and add support. college.columbia.edu/cct. I am still a member of the cardiology via Te New York Times article in the Te title of my presentation was department a HVHC. At this point Fall 2016 issue of CCT. Of course, it Damn the Holocaust — Full Steam in my life, every day is a gift. Wife was a big thrill to see the article and Ahead, outlining events in my life in

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Europe leading into WWII, then transition into solid citizens with Keep sending updates on your for our product. We had to threaten in New York and at Columbia, the strong school ties. Support can activities for Class Notes. Hope and cajole to achieve a calmer pace United States Army, and my years to be expanded to include help with 2017 is healthy and happy. between voice and selections, between come as an advisor and consultant to resume-writing as well as jobs in musical movements and between institutions here and worldwide. (Of training programs, or even entry- record sides; and we found ourselves course, all of you will be mentioned level positions. 1957 monitoring the engineers who were in the memoirs.) Alumni can also be used to REUNION monitoring the signal, to prevent REUNION 2017 Until next time, be well, bless develop scholarships, which we saw them from leveling of the loud JUNE 1–4 the CORE, do good, help save the at the Dean’s Scholarship Reception. and soft passages in the music. One Alumni Afairs Contact world, write often, and many thanks, Tere are many ways to use the Fatima Yudeh solution was for the classical music Bernd. Excelsior! strength of alumni, whether young or [email protected] presenter to engineer his own show old — it’s a matter of utilization and 212-851-7834 from the booth, dee-jay style.

the right plans. Garnering alumni Development Contact 2017 “Carl Stern ’58 was general man- 1955 support can be arduous, especially Heather Siemienas ager at that time and of course went setting up programs from diferent [email protected] on to a career at NBC News. He Gerald Sherwin parts of the country, so it’s helpful to 212-851-7855 had a (twin?) brother George Stern 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 16B share the challenges nationwide. ’58 [who was] business manager. New York, NY 10021 Love to all! Everywhere! Herman Levy [WKCR President] Jef Kuklin did [email protected] 7322 Rockford Dr. a late-night pop music show and Falls Church, VA 22043 sold advertising for the station. He Lots of activity over the past few 1956 [email protected] and his Barnard girlfriend, Karen, months, such as the Dean’s Scholar- were almost continually on hand at ship Reception in February (we have Robert Siroty John Ahouse: “I was classical the studio, even during classical a Class of ’55 scholarship) and the 707 Thistle Hill Ln. music director at WKCR 1956–57. segments. Didn’t they ever study? John Jay Awards Dinner in March. Somerset, NJ 08873 My predecessor was Henry Roth ’55, “We broke the pattern of King’s Stanley Lubman is keeping in [email protected] but I am not certain who followed Crown Concert a few times. I recall touch. Herb Cohen is still practic- or if there was even a group com- doing a ‘Berlioz Week,’ program- ing medicine in Westchester. Ed Several members of the Class of 1956 parable to ours to carry forward the ming only that composer’s music. Francell is holding down the fort met on campus in October for lunch classical programming. In addition Tis came at a time when there had in Atlanta and will be at our 65th at Faculty House and in December to me, ‘we’ were Sam Rosenberg been a rush of interest in his music reunion. Jack Freeman told us on West 43rd Street at the Columbia (by far our best microphone voice), on the part of the record compa- about his summer and family life. University Club of New York. We Erich Gruen, Bill Jordan and nies. Tere was a Berlioz Society in Te Ford Scholar program turned welcomed some “new” attendees: Ed David Kaufman, with Bill Zalkin existence then, and we interviewed out to be an interesting item — a lot Gordon and Gordon Silverman ’55, during our senior year. Each hosted its president. We also invited Jacques of guys heard from Richie Ascher, SEAS’56. Also present were yours a two-hour evening program of Barzun ’27, GSAS’32, who through who had some pithy sayings about truly, Gerry Fine, Ralph Kaslick, recorded music once a week. At his writings was closely involved the new College survey. Buz Paaswell, Alan Broadwin, one point, we were organized to the with the Berlioz revival, but he Dick Kuhn is still following the Pete Klein, Jack Katz, Stephen extent of typing up and circulating declined. WCKR was too close to Columbia basketball team from New Easton, Mark Novick, Maurice a program to the ‘King’s Crown home, I guess. Jersey and Staten Island. Te team Klein and Al Franco SEAS’56. Concert.’ Te campus radio station “Tere were also a number of has played to consistent sell-outs and Ed practices psychiatry in North was my main student activity as contemporary music specials. I had great receptions in Philadelphia, Salem, N.Y. Just a thought: While an undergraduate. Naturally the recall a touching occasion when we Providence and Boston. we have luncheons in the New York programming refected individual aired music of Solomon Pimsleur. Tere are a few words to be said area, why don’t some of you scattered tastes and preferences: David played His son was a student at Columbia about using alumni as a marketing tool. classmates arrange them in your neck opera, Sam mostly the music of the and brought his father, who was As various sports move into their of the woods, then let me report late Romantic period. extremely frail, to the station in season of tournaments, alumni have attendance? You can get a limited “Te evening concert used Cop- order to hear the broadcast within been getting more engrossed in address list from the Alumni Ofce, land’s Fanfare for the Common Man the studio. Te WCKR signal wasn’t how they can contribute more to including CC and SEAS classmates. as its intro and Rimsky-Korsakov’s audible much beyond the cam- their school’s successes. I feel they I promise to send out only very Russian Easter Festival Overture to pus, but this became a command can do so by increased attendance occasional blast emails to the entire go out. Tese were my choices, as I performance of some privately made (attending playof games), team class — it still numbers more than recall. In view of how popular the recordings that were none too clear spirit (getting all the elements of 500 of us. Copland piece has since become, I to begin with. the campus involved in the com- I heard from Kenneth “Mike” think it was a good innovation for “I know that John Corigliano munity), bringing other alumni to Nelson from Columbia, S.C., who the time. Te two themes replaced ’59 was involved in some of our local games and pep rallies with key reported little damage from last the ubiquitous Pictures at an Exhibi- contemporary programming as well. faculty members and students, and/ summer’s fooding. tion by Mussorgsky that had been It’s possible that he was the one or bringing equipment for the team. Jay Martin writes from Clare- used before. who took over classical music [at the All sports-related activities would mont, Calif., that he is still teaching “Engineering of the classical station] after 1957. John became a be done within NCAA guidelines, at a college and practicing psycho- shows was often a headache. Te distinguished composer, but at the especially in the matter of jobs. analysis. He promised to attend our student engineers were invariably time we were in awe of him as the Another idea is participating in 75th (65th?) reunion. trained to work pop music and prided son of the New York Philharmonic’s job fairs (bringing other alumni to Stephen Easton was scheduled themselves on hair-trigger segues frst violinist. campus to speak on how to be suc- to be in Mexico in February and in and close riding of the gain (volume) “Te station’s classical library was cessful) and helping young alumni Florida in early March. control — with disastrous results kept in a cramped little vault under

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the basement steps, across from the remained a consuming interest of over during the night. Experienced “Alvin, who had been senior rabbi broadcast booth and studio where mine. I always identify with those runners ran with gloves to protect at the East Midwood Jewish Center our programs originated. Te whole stations that ofer an all-classical for- their hands from lava cuts from falls, in Brooklyn, N.Y., for many years, operation at the time was beneath mat, like KUSC here in Los Angeles, which were inevitable. retired from that position several years the annex connecting Hamilton and imagining the efort it takes to make “Got my money’s worth; it was a ago and now lives in Manhattan. Hartley Halls. We worried about the selections ft within a given time long day at the running ofce. His service to the NYPD has been protecting the collection and came segment and recalling what a chal- “I’m in and out of Brooklyn and extraordinary. He is now chief chap- down hard on anyone who forgot to lenge it was at WKCR to have the NYC on occasion. I have an MTA lain, supervising seven other chaplains padlock the fimsy wood-slat door to evening concert come out even.” Reduced-Fare MetroCard, big of various religious denominations. the ‘classical music closet.’ John Ahouse was a teacher and spender that I am. I pretty much “Alvin is known throughout the “Acquisition of new classical translator in Germany in the 1960s, hang/help out in various music NYPD and is universally revered. I records (LPs) was a surprisingly lively then special collections (rare books performance recording venues. In have been told by one senior member activity. We had a small budget from and archives) librarian at University of March 2016, there was a signifcant of the NYPD that he has heard the station and we received some Texas at El Paso, then at CSU, Long performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for Alvin speak on many occasions promo records from the companies, Beach, and 1991–2005 at the Univer- the End of Time from the Temple of and never heard him repeat a story, most often on the Columbia label, sity of Southern California. Today he Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum message or reference. After hearing as I recall. Our musical mainstay was is a consultant at the Wende Museum of Art. I basically was a [gofer] run- one particularly inspiring message the Record Hunter, still at its Lex- of the Cold War in L.A. ning digital cables, schlepping sound at a NYPD event several years ago, ington Avenue address and without Denis Frind LAW’60 died on gear and moving the hauling SUV. I asked Alvin’s daughter if she could doubt the most advantageous classi- October 6 in Portland, Ore. He had “It was not unlike submarine get me a copy of it for submission cal outlet we could have dealt with. retired as of counsel at the NYC law duty. It’s fairly boring if you are not to CCT. Unfortunately, she said, In return for airing its promotional frm of Goetz Fitzpatrick in 2006; on watch with real-time responsi- she could not comply; all of Alvin’s spots, we had our pick of a certain he and his wife, Donna, moved to bilities. At least on submarines you remarks are delivered extemporane- number of long-playing albums Oregon to be near their daughter could go to your bunk and nap if ously and he never has a written from its extensive stock each month. and her family. your work was done. version or even notes. I think we must have managed this Harry Siegmund: “My wife, “I ran a half marathon when I “… My relationship with Alvin fairly democratically, covering all of Peggy Anne, and I are well. We was [in the NYC] area — the Sleepy has grown and strengthened since our enthusiasms for composers and recently returned from a far-too- Hollow Half Marathon above Tar- the mid-’90s, when I joined the musical artists and building a stron- quick three-day loop of the Island rytown, N.Y. I hoped that colder Board of Trustees of the New York ger collection in the process. of Hawaii. It’s nicknamed the Big weather and shorter distances would City Police Foundation. We then “For a while we also borrowed Island. Tey got that right. improve my running performance. found we had another common records from the University’s music “Tere was some personal stuf It was about 35 degrees at the start interest and have seen each other at library, which was then located on I wanted to accomplish on my 81st and it was dry. So far, so good. Te NYPD events.” the top foor of Journalism. [Te birthday. It could have been done on hilly course I knew, so that was not a Yours truly attended “What staf] didn’t really trust the station a one-day, dawn-to-dusk excur- negative. Te bottom line is that the Now? An Election Post-Mortem to use its records and the situation sion, but I’m too old for that jet-set enemy is me; it’s not the weather, with Olivier Knox ’92,” in Washing- occasionally became a little tense. frenzy. Peggy Anne could squeeze distance, or terrain. ton, D.C., on November 16. Knox Still, I imagine we took better care three days of in Oahu into her “I’m intentionally skipping this is chief Washington correspondent, of its discs than its own faculty and commitments, so of we went. year’s Honolulu Marathon. Tirty Yahoo! News. patrons did. “Weather could not have been consecutive years of starts is more “I’ve never again been in a posi- better, [but] all we could do was the than sufcient; there also have been tion to plan classical listening for crater rim stuf. I’ve run an arduous 30 marathons elsewhere in the United 1958 other people’s enjoyment since those marathon from the lookout. It States and in Europe. I’m now using a undergraduate years, but music has descends 2,000 vertical ft. (about road bike to log mileage and see more Barry Dickman fve miles), hangs a left across places on Windward Oahu. 25 Main St. pumice (maybe four miles), then “Oh yes, there are bike racks on Court Plaza North, Ste 104 slogs its way up 2,000 vertical ft. the front of all Oahu buses. For $1 Hackensack, NJ 07601 and [perambulates] thereafter for a and my Medicare card I can ride the [email protected] dog leg of the remaining 17.2 miles. bus as far as I want and make two Tat includes the fnal mile running transfers. Te general plan would be Congratulations to Jim Margolis. through sulfurous steam vents. to bike between bus routes. His brother, Don Margolis ’63, “Tat race is no longer scheduled. “At a minimum the bike ride reported: “On October 20, Jim It was incompatible with cultural creates a cooling breeze.” was ofcially, and most deservedly, Send in practices. Regardless, I had zero Ed Weinstein: “When Alvin inducted into the Columbia Uni- Your News interest in trying to do better the Kass and I recently lunched together, versity Athletics Hall of Fame. Jim next time. Te race did not have I learned that he was to be honored came to Columbia with no fencing Share what’s happening in many participants. If you lost sight by the New York City Police Depart- experience but became a starter as your life with classmates. of a runner ahead, there was big risk ment for 50 years of service as a a sophomore, and won the NCAA Click “Contact Us” at of going of course. You basically ran chaplain to the NYPD. Tat was National Epée championship as a between/around fairly smooth lava, confrmed in an invitation to the junior. Due to injury, he could not college.columbia.edu/cct, or jagged lava and pumice that was not event, which was held in the audi- defend his title as a senior. After email or mail to the address packed. Course markers were little torium at One Police Plaza, NYPD graduation, he qualifed for the 1958 Bob at the top of your column. pennants, which stood about one ft. headquarters, on December 16. World Championships, the 1959 and when inserted the day before. For Lipsyte and I attended the event. A 1963 Pan American Games and the the most part they blew/toppled luncheon followed the ceremony. 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.”

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Steve Jurovics advised us of her husband heads a religious school. ($31 per person). Email Art Radin that lasted 13 more years. I spent the two corrections to the Class Notes Our younger daughter and her family if you plan to attend, up to the day ’70s in what is now the Department that appeared in the Fall issue of live in Charlottesville, Va. Both she before: [email protected]. of Energy, then chose the rocky road CCT: frst, his current email address and her husband are on the faculty of entrepreneurship, focusing on is [email protected]; and second, at UVA, where she teaches foreign high-risk, high-reward ventures in he has retired from corporate envi- teaching assistants how to cope with 1959 renewable and cutting-edge technol- ronmental work and is now writing, American undergraduates and he is ogy. I raised a lot of money and lost Norman Gelfand as well as serving as a member of chairman of the economics depart- more than I raised, not a Trumpian c/o CCT Interfaith Power & Light’s North ment. We have fve grandchildren. performance (lol), but I am proud of Columbia Alumni Center Carolina afliate. We’d welcome classmates’ visits — what I have done. I look back with 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 CC’58 was well-represented at plenty of room, plenty of sun, dry no regrets. Maybe one: I should have New York, NY 10025 the Harvard Law Class of 1961’s heat. Rates upon request!” been a real doctor! [email protected] 55th reunion in October. Attending Another landmark reunion, the “We live in a golf course com- were Carol and Barry Dickman; once–Spectator-related (but now munity in Bethesda, Md., though Bernie Nussbaum and his wife, expanded) annual New York metro I am sorry to inform you of the neither Pat nor I have ever picked Richard Dobrin, Nancy Kuhn; Judy and Shelly Raab; area Homecoming party, was held at deaths of who up more than a miniature golf put- Ira Linda and Sid Rosdeitcher; and the Brooklyn Heights apartment of died on January 12, 2016, and ter. Our children live near us. Our Arthur Radin Jay Plotinsky, Joan and Mark Weiss. Te guest and his wife, Miriam who died on June 11. daughter, Beth, and her husband, Jerome Charyn speaker at lunch was Laurence Tribe, Katowitz BUS’74. Attending were ’s latest novel, Greg, have two daughters, Kayla Barry Dickman; professor of constitutional law. Te Carol and Eileen Jerzy, about the rise and fall of (17), going of to college in Septem- Joe Dorinson; reunion also featured a “conversa- and Audrey and novelist Jerzy Kosinski, is scheduled ber (who knows where), and Annie Harvey Feuerstein; tion” with our law school classmate, Andrea and to be published in March. (15), the equestrian who jumps Howard Lew Fineman United States Supreme Court Justice Ira Jolles ’59; Anita and reports: “My wife, over large obstacles at a gallop on Orlin; Shelly Raab; Anthony Kennedy, along with former Judy and and Ann, and I have sold our home and a 1,400-lb. beast. Where did those Sid Rosdeitcher. Justice David H. Souter. Linda and Ruthie purchased a condo in Hollywood, genes come from? Not from us! Fla.: 2810 N. 46th Ave., Apt. F “Our son, Jef, teaches at the Uni- 255, Hollywood, FL 33021. We are versity of Maryland’s Smith School snowbirds. We continue to travel to of Business in College Park. He is a Lew Fineman ’59 and his wife purchased a Alaska in April, volunteer at Kenai natural and loves his work. He and condo in Hollywood, Fla., and split their time Fjords National Park in Seward, his wife, Shawn, also have two chil- Alaska, each summer and then dren. Ben is 16 and smarter than all between there and Alaska. stay in Anchorage until the end of of us combined. His sister, Megan, is October. We feel we have the best of all about theater. If you listen to her, all possible worlds.” her next stop is Broadway. Bennet Silverman made a “We have been traveling, slowly Ernie Brod Although he didn’t attend the and were in London holiday visit to Aruba. crossing things of the ‘bucket list’ Mike Tannenbaum 55th reunion, Loren Wittner sub- for a family celebration, but Ernie has “some while we can. It gets harder each Irwin mitted a biographical sketch to the loyally phoned to make sure things good news. My frst grandchild, Tiye year. We are in touch with ‘Buddy’ Jacobs, reunion directory: “Dianna, my wife, were proceeding smoothly despite Tannenbaum Castelli, daughter of Cathy Men- Ed followed me into retirement here in his absence. my daughter Nina Tannenbaum ’99 drzycki (who lost her husband, Mendrzycki, Phoenix. We’ve lived in the desert Incidentally, we do get reports and her husband, Robin ‘Cino’ two years ago), Harvey Gene since 1994; too many winters in our on the periodic Southern California Castelli, was born two months ago.” Brookins ’60, Linda and Steve Basson Appel, Dave Clark Phil otherwise beloved Chicago, where I get-togethers, but if there are any and his wife, and Matthews, was a partner at Winston & Strawn. other classmate gatherings, annual or Mary, continue to “commute” from who lives in Fort Myers, After our move I worked extensively otherwise, please send in information. Milwaukee about every six weeks or Fla. We enjoy hearing about class- with large law frms around the Your reporter hopes too much so to see their boys, one in Brooklyn mates and what they are doing.” Gil Wright country, advising partners on busi- space isn’t being given to a non- and two in Washington, D.C. — and his wife, Diane, ness development, client relations, classmate, but we couldn’t resist. astonished each visit by what the big sold their house in Florida and now marketing/communications, etc. In a New York Times Book Review cities cost these days. Mary’s book, live full-time in Maryland. Tey Dianna was the star receptionist for interview, when asked “which writ- Saving Kandinsky, has been bought sound like they are thriving in their Perkins Coie’s Phoenix ofce for ers ... working today do you admire by a German publisher and is sched- new digs. Stephen Trachtenberg 20 years. We’ve traveled extensively most?”, comedian-actress-author uled to be out for Christmas 2017. has during the last decade, indulging Amy Schumer was quoted as saying Regards to all, and some of you may been his usual active self. He writes: a general curiosity and our shared “Emily Nussbaum, who is a televi- remember my brother, Geof Basson “Doing what I can, but I confess it is interest in military history: ... all sion critic and writer for the Times, ’60, an almost-retired doctor living more of a struggle as the years go on. the Normandy D-Day beaches, is my favorite person to follow on in Manhattan. A travel tip: If your trip involves fy- Ben Miller several Civil War battle sites [and] Twitter, and her articles inspire me writes: “My wife, Pat, ing, carry a cane. Te staf will look virtually all of Canada’s provinces and make me think. I want her to be and I are in our 78th year and just after you with great tenderness.” Bernie Pucker: have been highlights. proud of me more than my parents, moving along. Te last few years From “We are Bernie “We recently attended our oldest I think.” Emily is, of course, have provided enough ailments that just 18 months into our gallery Nussbaum grandchild’s college graduation; a ’s daughter. moving along means, ‘What doctor space at 240 Newbury St. in Boston sure sign of advancing years. Our Te class lunch is held on the do we see today?’ and love it. All of the work is on one older daughter (Harvard College second Tuesday of every month in “We are both retired. Pat fnished foor: Some 5,000 square ft. that ’84) and her family live in Chicago, the Grill of the Columbia University 25 years of teaching, and then we have devoted to the art that we where she works for a nonproft and Club of New York, 15 W. 43rd St. opened her own tutoring business have collected over nearly 50 years

Spring 2017 CCT 51 Class Notes as we embark upon our 50th year celebration in September. We will be bringing together folks who have worked as part of the gallery staf, as well as artists, over this half-century. Seems a bit weird to even think back over those years! “In addition, we are planning a celebration that will include a thank-you to gallery patrons and a chamber music concert. We have now added chamber music to the gallery’s oferings and will host a cycle of the early Beethoven String Quartets during the next 18 months. On top of that, we continue to host at least three not-for-profts on a monthly basis in the gallery, having recently hosted the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation as one of the charities that are doing amazing work in the world. Boston is a center for not-for-profts and the oppor- tunity to learn about their eforts is ’ 57 , BUS’ 58 WILL CSAPLAR COURTESY remarkably nourishing. “We hosted a dialogue between artist Samuel Bak and Professor Survivors Association, composed of outside. Te explosions were loud Lawrence Langer, moderated by servicemen who survived the attack, and the house shook while my sister 1960 Marc Skvirsky of ‘Facing History and formally disbanded. and I stood in interior doorways, Ourselves’ dealing with the Bak works, “Time passes, and what once was instructed to do so by our mother, as Robert A. Machleder Just Is, or the theme of Lady Justice or enough to galvanize the nation into makeshift shelters. 69-37 Fleet St. the lack there of on January 29. united action has become little more “Neither of us saw my mother, Forest Hills, NY 11375 Ralph Risley contributes: “Te than an entry in history textbooks. standing in the doorway at the [email protected] following is a brief update and “Almost immediately after news front of our quarters, as my father attempt at an expression of life’s of the attack was broadcast, the sprinted to his duty station. Both he Kudos to Larry Mendelson philosophy. Since graduation I have slogan, ‘Remember Pearl Harbor,’ and she were shot at by the pilot of BUS’61 for his exemplary service, been married for 55 years, had three was born. Pin-on buttons were cre- a Mitsubishi A6M aircraft, known commitment and generosity to boys, fve grandchildren, four careers, ated and were worn. A ‘Remember to the U.S. service people as the Columbia. On November 21, owned and lived in 13 houses in fve Pearl Harbor’ song was composed Zero. Fortunately, neither was hit, Columbia held an event in recogni- states and owned 150 classic/vintage and a record was released, with the but both faced enemy fre. Both are tion of a $10 million gift from automobiles. To me, life is all about tune being performed by Sammy now buried in Arlington National Larry and his family in support growth, change, renewal and explo- Kaye, a popular U.S. bandleader of Cemetery, which is only ftting. of Te Mendelson Center for ration. Te most important thing I the time. In time, the attack passed, and we Undergraduate Business Initia- gained from Columbia was the abil- “Tose who know me and/or my were evacuated via bus to a makeshift tives, a joint program between the ity to think. A frst-year professor sister are aware that we survived the bomb shelter, where the women and College and the Business School said in his introduction to the class attack as youngsters; we both recall children were moved for safety … ” ofering exceptional undergraduates that if all we got from the Columbia the event vividly, though neither of From John Clubbe we hear, access to a special concentration in experience was the ability to think us witnessed any carnage. “Ever since I had sciatica attacks in business management as a comple- the College had succeeded. “I was 4, and I had no idea of what 2014 and 2015 we haven’t been able ment to the liberal arts foundation “At this stage of life the impact of was happening. We were inside the to do much traveling. But we would of the undergraduate curriculum. physical conditioning tilts in favor house my father, at that time a cap- gladly come to a 60th reunion if that Te Mendelson Center ofers of mental conditioning. I hope all of tain in the Army Coast Artillery, had should be a possibility. I continue opportunities for undergraduates to us remaining ancients will reach the been assigned, Quarters 25, Ofcers work on my Beethoven book and gain business and leadership skills. same conclusion.” Row of Fort Kamehameha. (Fort may even have something to send Attendees at the event included Stephen A. Kallis shares with us Kamehameha eventually became a the press (Norton) soon. It’s been a President Lee C. Bollinger, Dean his memories of the attack on Pearl Historic District of Hickam AFB long and hard struggle of well over a James J. Valentini and Business Harbor. “While shopping recently, and the house stands today, but soon decade and I am tired of it, though School Dean Glenn R. Hubbard. I spotted a new item among the will be razed; the whole district is to never of Beethoven.” In addition to some family and magazines in a rack near the cash be ‘developed’ for some new civilian For those of you who express other friends, Bob Abrams, Peter register: a special Time-Life publica- use. Even the homes that survived thanks or appreciation for the work Fischbein and Harris Markhof tion commemorating the 75th anni- the attack are passing.) that goes into preparing these Class (and their wives) were invited. versary of the Pearl Harbor attack. “Neither I nor my sister wit- Notes, I thank you for the kind Larry and family live in Miami, “To the vast majority of U.S. nessed the attack. We were kept words. I appreciate them. I also ask where he has been since 1969. He citizens, the event is distant history. inside and the window shades your indulgence for the errors that I remains active as chairman and CEO Some years ago, the Pearl Harbor were down, blocking the view from make in putting them together. of HEICO, working with his sons,

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Eric Mendelson ’87, BUS’89 and a.m., two FBI agents came into the I want to ‘capture’ — a thing, a Albert Kirsch’s company, KCC Victor Mendelson ’89, co-presidents. station and stole the tape. After 59 landscape, a mental image — and I Productions, recently produced the HEICO is one of the world’s leading years of not returning, paying for or record it (usually on paper), using a four-day South Beach Jazz Festival, companies in the design, production, replacing the tape, I feel more than variety of media. But the result is a highlighted with performances by servicing and distribution of products justifed in calling this theft. During picture. Hence, Picture Maker.” Raúl Midón and Diane Schuur. and services to the aviation, defense, my 34 years of teaching astronomy I Following a productive 2016, Paul KCC also showcased Brian Lynch, aerospace, medical, telecommunica- told this history to my classes. Once exhibited his pictures in January at David Gilmore, Ignacio Berroa and tions and electronics industries. Larry a student objected to my saying his Gallery on the Pali in the First Uni- Will Calhoun during the annual gets to New York not only on busi- uncle, an FBI agent, worked for a tarian Church of Honolulu. Included conference of the Association of ness, but also to visit his four grand- pack of thieves. In front of a lecture are his wonderful sketches and draw- Performing Arts Presenters in early children. He must possess the unique class of 90 college students, I ofered ings that celebrate the Lunar New January in New York City. distinction of having a grandchild in him an A+ in astronomy with no Year, the Year of the Cock. David Konstan GSAS’67 every class at the College: “Freshman, need for further tests, papers or even recently fnished his semester as a sophomore, junior and senior –– we class attendance if he could get his fellow of the Swedish Collegium have all grades covered,” he says. You uncle to arrange for the tape’s return 1961 for Advanced Study in Uppsala, can choose your sports metaphor –– to WKCR. Tree days later I got a Sweden. He will spend the spring Michael Hausig in racing, the superfecta, in baseball, a drop notice with his name.” months as a fellow of the Institut 19418 Encino Summit grand slam –– Larry’s got it. Ah, but whatever became of the d’Études Avancées de Paris. San Antonio, TX 78259 Larry’s sentiments are summed tape? Is it still beeping in a desk Bob Salman LAW’64 gave his [email protected] up in a sentence: “Te Mendelson drawer somewhere in Washington? assessment of Hillary Clinton’s family is very pleased to have been An action in replevin certainly would loss at our January class lunch and Alex Liebowitz able to give back to Columbia for all lie to recover the purloined tape, and reports that 2016 [was scheduled to do so again on] of the wonderful opportunities that had I known years earlier I would was especially notable thanks to March 13 at Brookdale Community Columbia has aforded us.” have prepared a writ of replevin. events involving fellow CC’61ers. College. He will also teach another A tip of the hat and a standing Alas, my recollection of the statute In March, as regular readers of session of his “Great Trials” class at ovation would be most appropriate of limitations on actions in replevin Class Notes will recall he does, Brookdale this spring, covering the for Larry and the Mendelson family. is rather jaded, but I’m quite certain he spent his annual ski week with following trials: the Rosenbergs, Richard Friedlander: Mike Hausig A bench for that in the 59th year following the and Mike’s wife, JB, Patty Hearst and Pamela Smart — Richard’s widow, Iris, “adopted a event the claim is time-barred. I trust on the slopes of Copper Mountain, the latter drawing on Bob Juceam double bench for Richard in Riverside and am counting on the fact that Colo. In May, Alex and his wife, LAW’64’s luncheon presentation. Park South, just below West 69th Tom will drop a reminder this com- Denise, traveled to Massachusetts to Bob is active in Ambassador Philip Street.” She describes the vista: “Te ing October; I will include it in our celebrate their son, David Liebowitz Murphy’s 2017 campaign for governor view from the bench on the edge of Class Notes and we will commemo- ’99, receiving his doctorate of educa- of New Jersey. As Bob and his wife, the Hudson River is lovely, serene, rate the onset of the space age and tion. Tey were joined by Alex’s Reva, approach their 54th anniversary, Jon Liebowitz, facing two beautiful weeping willows commiserate on the 60th anniversary brother, and Jon’s they say they enjoy spending time and mica-fecked granite boulders. of the perfdious incident that befell wife, Ruth. In June and September, with their four grandchildren. Canada geese nestle there. A line of our beloved WKCR. Alex helped Dick Hall ’64 sail his In Design Within Reach’s water-worn pier pillars stretch out We have come to know and gorgeous boat from Oxford, Md., to December blog (blog.dwr.com) and Paul Nagano like skipping stones. Richard lived by appreciate as a Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., and back. January catalog there was a favorable the river and park he loved for more magnifcent artist. But Paul has And then, in November, he and article about Smith and Tompson than half a century. Visit if you can. redefned himself. Let him explain: Denise joined Dick and his wife, Architects. Gwendolyn Horton Sit, rest and think of him … ” “I began a public group Facebook Heleny Cook, for a two-day cruise wrote, “Few architects are able to Te Riverside Park Conservancy site: Paul Nagano Art and Exhibi- on the Chesapeake Bay. Finally, Alex evolve old into new while maintain- Jef Riker has placed a plaque on the bench tions, where I wrote this year of and Denise visited and ing equal respect for both. Phillip that reads: “In loving memory of changing my profession from ‘artist’ his wife, Barbara, in Los Angeles, Smith [GSAPP’69] and Douglas my beloved husband Richard David to ‘picture-maker.’ To clarify: It has where Alex reports that Jef and Tompson are the exciting exception. Friedlander 1938–2014.” 2014? Is it to do mostly with the way I perceive Barbara treated them royally and Te talented duo have had their work possible that much time has passed, that the word ‘art’ is used so freely showed them all of Los Angeles and featured in several DWR catalogs, as Richard has been and will remain today to describe almost anything Santa Barbara’s key sights. beginning in 2010 when we used so ever-present in our thoughts? that has to do with a certain creative A ringing endorsement for Clyde their Manhattan ofce for a photo Tom Hamilton does not forget; impulse and the resulting product, May’s straight bourbon whiskey was shoot. Tat was soon followed by a will not forget. On October 5, he object or idea resulting from that included in the December issue of shoot at their East Hampton home Jim Ammeen wrote: “On October 4, 1957, 59 impulse. I don’t argue with those Forbes. BUS’62 has and studio, a stunning property that years ago yesterday, the old U.S.S.R. who describe their works as ‘Art.’ Or been running the company for a showcases how they can nurture a successfully launched the frst artif- with those who describe what I do group of classmate investors. structure with interesting historical Gene Milone cial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit. As as art. But for me, it seems no longer is completing a lineage — in this case, a 1920s tractor it made its frst pass over the United a very useful word, encompassing paper on the modeling of an eclips- barn — into one that’s more relevant States, a crew from WKCR took too many diferent things. I like the ing binary in a galactic cluster, the to our time. For our January catalog, an Ampex tape recorder (30 lbs.) specificity of words. I thought about distance to which his colleagues and we returned to that very same house, to the campus ham radio station, what it is I really do, and somehow he have determined to within about as well as to a cantilevered residence W2AEE, where they taped Sputnik’s ‘making art’ seemed too vague, too 10 light years, an unprecedented they recently completed.” beep. Tey then took the tape back general. What best describes my precision (and accuracy) for this Barry McCallion’s exhibition to the WKCR studios and broadcast activity is: Making pictures. Be it a cluster, 1,530 light years distant. No “Paradise Lost” was held October it repeatedly that night. Te next sketch, a photo or a watercolor, it is other method to get the distances of 29–November 21 in Amagansett, morning (59 years ago today) at 9:05 a picture. I see or imagine something distant clusters can touch this. N.Y. It was inspired by John Milton’s

Spring 2017 CCT 53 Class Notes poem. Te exhibition included an to 9-11, and I am not optimistic that “As for the recent Presidential In late 2016, the history depart- original book, which alternated the we will escape signifcant negative election, it was a stunning and ment at SUNY New Paltz celebrated poet’s text with 48 India ink and worldwide consequences. We have disappointing result. So I have taken Gerry’s 50 years as an American and acrylic paintings. Milton’s brilliant survived worse circumstances and a sabbatical from watching news on Jewish historian, writer, intellectual imagery sets worlds in motion and events and I am hopeful that we can TV and read only a few articles. Not and university professor. Te invita- positions angels and demons in the do similarly in the years ahead.” sure how long my sabbatical will tion to the celebration stated: “From cosmic struggle between good and From Connecticut, Anthony last, but it’s working as of January 1!” 1965 through 2016, Gerald Sorin’s evil. Also on display was a limited Valerio ofers to talk politics with Joe Nozzolio writes to “request work as a contributing member of edition of 20 Paradise Lost prints in any classmate at avalerio@wesleyan. all Class of ’62ers to contribute to the history department, university fve sets (numbered 1–5), made with edu. He recently published a digital Columbia for the all-weather bubble community and broader New Paltz archival inks on archival paper. version of his new work, Dante in to be constructed at Baker Athletics community has been remarkable. On a sad note, John Tsucalas Love, a modern retelling of Dante’s Complex in memory of Bill Camp- Embodying teaching, research and passed away on September 21; his story of unrequited love. Anthony bell TC’64. Jerry Speyer BUS’64 service, Dr. Sorin continues to make wife of 23 years, Joanne, was by his writes: “Maybe I could not have has committed to match donations a mark on history graduates and the side. John was deputy auditor gen- attempted this risky work at an up to an aggregate of $500,000. It’s a community of ideas.” eral of Pennsylvania, receiving com- earlier age, when the form of love good cause and will aptly honor Billy More than 125 people gathered mendations from the State Senate unrequited was not as powerful and for all he did for Columbia.” [Editor’s to hear remarks from New Paltz and House for “Outstanding Public pure as it was when I looked again note: Go to columbiacampaign President Donald Christian; Debo- Service to Pennsylvania.” He was a at Dante’s Te New Life, here in the forathletics.com/#current-initiatives/ rah Dash Moore, the Frederick G.L. C.F.A. and principal of John James country, at an advanced age.” He bubble-at-baker-athletics-complex Huetwell Professor of History at Tsucalas & Co., was VP of leveraged has also published a digital novel for more information.] the University of Michigan in Ann buyouts and private placements for of “love of a more carnal nature,” Peter Javsicas and his wife, Arbor; and Rabbi William Strongin, Butcher & Singer in Philadelphia Conversation with Johnny. Anne, founded and are active board among many others. and was investment ofcer for John Hal Watson recently visited the members of an aging-in-community Gerry tutors for the Ulster Hancock Financial in Boston. Truman Library in Independence, group, Northwest Village Network, County Literacy Association and John served as 1st lieutenant in Mo., and recalled that Truman had in Philadelphia. At the end of 2014, is working on a new project — he the United States Air Force, receiv- spent time with our class in 1959. “As Peter retired as head of a transporta- refuses to call it a book, yet — ing the Air Force Commendation I sought the dates and subject matter tion advocacy group, Pennsylvanians about Saul Bellow. Gerry would be Medal for “Meritorious Service” [of that visit],” Hal says, “I found an for Transportation Solutions. He delighted to hear from classmates and the National Defense Service archive that chronicles our entire four still writes its e-newsletter. who have thoughts or anecdotes Award during the Vietnam War. Te years on campus: spectatorarchive. Peter pursued a career in flms, about the 1976 Nobel laureate: interment, with full military honors, library.columbia.edu. I especially frst as an editor and then as a [email protected]. was at the Washington Crossing liked the frst issue from the Septem- producer and director of flms, videos Writing from Irvine, Calif., National Cemetery in Newtown, Pa. ber of our freshman semester.” and multimedia works, mostly for Carl Schubert reports: “From the Stuart Pellman recently nonprofts. Starting around 1971, perspective of a senior citizen, who celebrated his 25th year in the he writes, “Anne and I lived the visited more than 50 countries 1962 San Francisco Bay Area. It was, he alternative lifestyle on a farm in and lived for months in several, I

REUNION says, “a truly wonderful decision central Pennsylvania. After seven thought I had seen not all, of course, REUNION 2017 for health, mind and the ability years and two kids, we moved to the but most of it until the election. My JUNE 1–4 to balance life and work. Te best nearby town of Bloomsburg, Pa., and three children voted, one in Austria Alumni Afairs Contact Fatima Yudeh part is that I met my wife, Elyse, in 1989 to the Philadelphia area. By (with its own recent electoral mess). [email protected] shortly after I arrived. She and I then I had gone into development Te political discourse twixt their 212-851-7834 had both lived in Manhattan before and fundraising and Anne was prin- generation and ours is strained;

Development Contact 2017 moving to San Francisco and were cipal of a Quaker elementary school. and I don’t blame them. A year ago Heather Siemienas introduced by a mutual friend. Tree “Around 1998 I got the trans- I sent my kids an apology for the [email protected] years ago, after living almost exclu- portation reform bug and began mess we’re leaving them. I remem- 212-851-7855 sively in cities, Elyse and I moved working to promote alternatives to ber Castro visiting Columbia and to Mill Valley, Calif., a small town driving — public transportation, car the efusive welcome he got. Later, John Freidin 14 miles north of the Golden Gate sharing, public transit and the like. while in Miami getting a Ph.D. in 654 E. Munger St. Bridge. I regularly ride a road bike “I didn’t graduate from Columbia, oceanography, I heard the other side Middlebury, VT 05753 and hike literally out of my door. but always rave about the Core Cur- of the Castro story. [email protected] I also take interesting classes at a riculum and my junior year at the “I was NROTC and could local college. We have easy access to London School of Economics. I’m not fathom why it was kicked of Tanks to all of you who sent notes. the city for culture and restaurants glad Columbia is no longer all boys. campus. Nobody wants to live in Frank Strauss retired from the as well as to Napa and Sonoma for I assume the women brought some a situation where a military is an practice of nephrology two years ago. lunches in wine country. Not bad for more adult behavior with them. Or absolute necessity, but realistically He and his wife, Merle, spend time in a kid from Brooklyn! maybe not! I would be glad to hear we need one, and I for one would their homes in Los Angeles and Santa “I am close with Gerry Sorin. We from classmates to share more about rather have its leaders educated at Fe. Frank hikes, bicycles and sings talk regularly and recently and saw our lives — and futures.” places like Columbia. Retired now, opera in the Verdi Chorus of Santa the Cubs play at Wrigley Field.” As co-chair of the Syrian Refugee still travel and garden a lot, and am Monica, of which he is president. He Stuart coaches attorneys through- Relief Committee at his New Paltz, rarely without a crossword puzzle.” and Merle also play in a string quartet. out the country on how to develop N.Y., synagogue, Gerry Sorin Dan Fife is reading Sapiens: A Frank writes, “Te election of Donald their practices. He enjoys the work helped raise a sizable donation to Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Trump is a negative event for the and says, “It keeps me involved with HIAS, the 125-year-old immigrant Noah Harari and says he “can’t over- United States on a scale comparable bright, talented, younger people. and refugee aid organization. state how much fun it is, and how

54 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews nice it is, to take the long view after many ventures, most of them political. Parks Canada to honor Heaps as a American relations. Mao became one the recent election. If my grandsons Last April, the voters of New York’s person of national historical signif- of the frst patients to beneft from our were a little older, maybe we could 20th Congressional District elected cance. “Other than that,” Dan writes, discovery; American relations with read it together.” him a Bernie Sanders delegate to the “I pursue my Morris dance hobby China improved and, signifcantly, Steve Bravy ofers some thoughts Democratic National Convention. despite increasingly creaky knees, Nixon made his historic visit to China on the 2016 election: “Democracies “Naturally,” he says, “I regretted that and I’m glad that circumstances in 1972. In Mao’s Little Red Book he are said to get the governments they Bernie was edged out. Even so, it was steered me to Canada in 1969 so I famously stated that all political power deserve. We now have an ignorant, an exhilarating campaign and I was don’t have to take the recent U.S. comes from the muzzle of a gun. We vicious, narcissistic monomaniac and heartened by the level of popular election quite so much to heart.” proved his statement wrong. Political liar as our president, who has never support Bernie garnered.” From his farm in Leesburg, Va., power can also come from a medicine helped anyone but himself. Looks Since then Larry has been co- Andy Jampoler SIPA’81 writes: bottle. My books, Quia Imperfectum like our educational system needs a chair of the national board of Peace “I’ve not yet regained the power of and Te Great Cotzias, cover the thorough overhaul, particularly in Action, the nation’s largest member- speech after the election. My view of events, personalities, ideas, petty jeal- fostering critical thinking. On the ship peace organization. At the end the outcome is necessarily shaped by ousies, back-biting and the red thread other hand, some help for the work- of 2016, after six years as executive the fact that I’m a war refugee (from of life that led to a major treatment dislocated and rebalancing of the secretary of the Albany County Poland, 1946) and the possibility that for what was previously thought to be fnancial rewards is essential.” Central Federation of Labor, Larry the United States will close its doors a hopeless degenerative disease of the Writing from New York City, stepped down but continues on the to this generation’s desperately needy nervous system.” Russ Warren confesses to working labor council’s executive committee. from abroad (and its heart to the out regularly and enjoying the prac- “Union picket lines,” he says, “are needy at home) makes me despair. tice of orthopedics at the Hospital good for the body as well as the soul.” “Suzy, my wife of 51 years, and 1963 for Special Surgery. He claims to Larry writes on political afairs, I are well enough, the foregoing have turned his gig with the New foreign policy and nuclear weapons aside. Te next year will see us (her) Paul Neshamkin York Giants over to an associate, but in op-ed pieces online and in news- continuing to raise guide dog pup- 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 he’s still frequently seen standing papers. One of his most enjoyable pies for the Guide Dog Foundation Hoboken, NJ 07030 for the Blind, and me writing and [email protected] speaking about maritime history in museums and at sea. Soon we’ll Homecoming brought together Frank Stoppenbach ’62 grows moderately need to think about moving from Steve Barcan, Jerry Dwyer, Lee Lowenfish, Bob Kraft, Phil rare fruit trees; at a county fair he sponsored a our Loudoun County, Va., farm to someplace more urban and smaller. Satow, and Paul Neshamkin and “Guess the Fruit” competition. I suspect that many classmates are in his wife, Ruth. It was a challenging that same process.” day weather-wise, but more of you Bernie Patten PS’66 and his should have come — we won! wife, Ethel BC’63, had planned Our monthly class lunch is now on the sidelines beside Coach Ben projects was writing a satirical novel to vacation in Iran this year but in its 15th year. Amazingly, we McAdoo. Russ’ wife, Laurie, recently about university corporatization and changed their minds when P&S average about 10 classmates at each had a knee replacement at HSS, rebellion, titled What’s Going on at asked him to be its alumni speaker lunch. In the last three months, which does about 5,000 a year! She UAardvark? Its second edition is at Alumni Day. His talk recounted we have seen local regulars Steve is progressing but says the rehab available in paperback. the events and personalities that led Barcan, Henry Black, Ed Coller, is tough. Just ask Burt Lehman Frank Stoppenbach also devoted the medical team, of which he was Jerry Dwyer, Doron Gopstein, or Paul Cooper! Russ and Laurie himself to the Sanders campaign. a member, to discover the L-DOPA Bob Heller, Lee Lowenfish, Don celebrated Tanksgiving with eight For much of the last half of 2015 and treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Margolis, Paul Neshamkin, Larry grandchildren, one of whom plays the frst half of 2016, Frank visited Te discovery got two Nobel Prizes Neuman, Tom O’Connor, Barry high school football in Greenwich, county fairs, local events and colleges and was hailed by the New England Reiss and Harvey Schneier. In Conn., and scored 25 touchdowns to recruit volunteers to help Sanders Journal of Medicine as the greatest addition, we have had visits from this fall! Te acorn doesn’t fall far … get on the New York primary ballot. neurological discovery in a century. Joe Applebaum, from Boca Raton, Russ is pleased to see the progress in “It was pretty easy,” Frank recalls. Bernie recalled that at the begin- Fla., Peter Broido from Baltimore Columbia football and fnally won a “Tere was great enthusiasm and, in ning of the team’s work, “It was and Alan Wilensky from Seattle. dollar bet with Giants’ long snapper the view of many New Yorkers (as rough sledding, because the National Paul Gorrin has threatened to take Steve DeOssie, who played at Brown. well as me), Bernie’s candidacy was Institutes of Health turned down our the Acela from Delaware but has Paul Gitman ofers some advice the best chance in our lifetimes for grant applications four times in a row. repeatedly cancelled. about recent history: “Forget current real change. We also had fun. I grow Te last rejection claimed we were Come on, Paul! events and stop to smell the roses. some moderately rare fruit trees, and unscientifc and going to hurt patients. Family members are also welcome, Life is short enough and very fragile. we sponsored a ‘Guess the Fruit’ Tat meant no money from N.I.H. In especially if they went to Colum- So make the most of your time. I am contest at one fair. Two-hundred the medical research game you can’t bia. Doug Anderson brought his retired and have spent as much time people tried and one got them all: wiggle without money. So we had to 96-year-old uncle, Milton Kamen ’40 as possible traveling and enjoying Persimmon, pawpaw, hardy kiwi and scrounge for it. Finally, major support as his guest. His humor and sharp- the world. Photography has been Chinese dogwood!” came from the Department of State ness showed us that there is still hope a wonderful pursuit and I make Dan Stone works with the and then-Vice President Richard for us youngsters. every efort to enjoy time with my Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Nixon. He reasoned that if a treat- Our 55th reunion is only 14 grandchildren. Life is good.” Canada. Recently he gave a talk ment could be found for Parkinson’s months away. Please mark your Although he retired as a professor about Canadian politician and labor disease it would help Chairman Mao calendar and hold the (expected of history at SUNY Albany, Larry leader A.A. Heaps at a ceremony of China, who sufered from it, and although not fnalized) dates, Wittner GSAS’67 remains active in organized jointly by the center and that help would improve Sino- Tursday, May 31–Sunday, June 3.

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We have started to organize in true and posted online, where she is fast course in European history as one of research on enlightenment evolved. Class of ’63 fashion — early and approaching 500 plays at soundcloud. the glories of my Columbia educa- If you are interested in learning more with enthusiasm. Joe Applebaum, com/david-a-69158822. In the cloud tion.” [Editor’s note: See Obituaries, about David’s life work, friend him Henry Black, Peter Broido, Ed in both senses: Go Mom!” Summer 2016.] on Facebook. Coller, Jerry Dwyer, Mike Erdos, David, I love your mom and I Richard Goldwater (né Remember our regular class Doron Gopstein, Bruce Kaplan, love your radio debut on track num- Goldwasser) writes, “I was Bernie lunches at the Columbia University Don Margolis, Paul Neshamkin, ber eight, “I May Be Wrong But ...” Sanders married to Hillary Clinton. Club of New York are always a great Larry Neuman, Barry Reiss and Bernie Kabak writes, “After I am happily divorced; my two sons place to reconnect. If you’re in NYC, Harvey Schneier have already completing law school at a Cam- are professors. try to make one of the next lunches joined the Reunion Committee. bridge, Mass., university disparaged “My partner (a physicist) and I (a — it’s always the second Tursday. Please contact me if you want to during our freshman orientation at retired psychiatrist) have been work- Check out cc63ers.com for details. help organize and gather classmates. Columbia as being along a ‘smaller ing on a new theory of economics Let’s make it a great party. river,’ I returned to New York City, since the Crash of 2008. You can David Alpern writes, “I am plug- where I have been an active member view a summary at proftandentropy. 1964 ging away at a weekly podcast for the of the Lincoln Square Synagogue. com. Te thesis is that contemporary World Policy Institute, interviewing It’s on the Upper West Side, about economics is inadequate because Norman Olch from home (via the Internet) experts two miles south of alma mater and its basis in science is Newtonian 233 Broadway on a variety of foreign afairs who not all that far from the World mechanics, which describes an New York, NY 10279 write for the quarterly World Policy Trade Center. On September 11, economy as a perpetual motion [email protected] Journal and website. One recent 15 years to the day since the WTC machine. We propose a new model guest, I was delighted to discover, was destroyed, the synagogue held a taken from thermodynamics, in Greetings. As I write at the end of was a College grad and intern on commemoration, which I was asked which an economy is an engine, January, the new presidency is only my former Newsweek On Air radio to chair, to mark that terrible day. and in which cash-fuel fows from 10 days old and, while the issues are show. She’s Daniella Zalcman ’09, “Two extraordinary speakers hotter Buyer to cooler Seller. Proft diferent in 2017, already I have a now a prize-winning documentary addressed the congregation. Steven M. mathematically is increasing entropy, feeling that the tumultuous 1960s photographer whose new book, Signs Davis, of the frm Davis Brody Bond which explains the Crash of 2008 as are back: Large crowds marching in of Your Identity, tells the brutal tale of (name partner J. Max Bond, Jr. was thermo-fnancial equilibrium. We the streets, a furry of controversial Canada’s infamous Indian Residen- the architecture division chairman of propose a Non Value Added Tax on executive orders, protests at the tial Schools. She updated me on a GSAAP), spoke frst. Davis carried us profts that skim value out of the airports, the emergence of “alterna- platoon of other Columbia interns through his design for the National economy and deposit it in McMan- tive facts” and the press told to “keep from the same era who, like her, she September 11 Memorial & Museum sions. We are near completion and its mouth shut.” I hesitate to predict said are ‘all still trucking along in at the World Trade Center, a site, are looking for critical readers to what will unfold between now and journalism’ at Te Washington Post, wrote Adam Gopnik in Te New share in the accomplishment. the publication of these Class Notes. Te New York Times, New York Daily Yorker, that ‘contains more contradic- “Te Columbia course most Jonathan Goldberg GSAS’68 News, Los Angeles Times, Te Houston tions, unresolved and perhaps unre- relevant to my life and work was writes: “I retired on August 31 after Chronicle, TIME and Harper’s. solvable, than any other eight acres in Professor Andrew Chiappe ’33, 10 years as Emory’s arts and sci- “About the same time, I con- Manhattan.’ Next, Bill Keegan gave GSAS’39’s Shakespeare, since it ences distinguished professor (and gratulated another former intern, a riveting account of serving as night taught me how to perceive the world spent 20 years before that as the Sir Brad Stone ’93, on becoming senior operations commander of the 9-11 as two realms, such as Belmont William Osler Professor of English executive editor at Bloomberg, to WTC Rescue/Recovery Teams. (meaning) and Venice (money) in Literature at Johns Hopkins for a which he replied, ‘Tank you for “America withstood the 9-11 Te Merchant of Venice. total of almost 50 years of teaching). bringing generations of young assault on our democracy from the “My partially completed work, Tis Distracted Globe, a collection of Columbia students into Newsweek air. Now I wonder how well we’ll Marriage Is for Men and Divorce essays mainly by former dissertation On Air, giving us our frst taste of withstand the corrosion of our Is for Women, is at rolesandrules. students of mine, was published last the media profession and being a democracy from within. I write this com. I miss the days when JFK was spring. My latest book, Melodrama: great mentor!’ note just a few days before the frst immortal and democratic progress An Aesthetics of Impossibility, was “To end the premature (I hope) presidential debate in an election post-FDR was assured.” published last fall. I continue to have eulogy, one of my frst interns, Sote- campaign rampant with belliger- Nick Zill writes, “Please take writing projects in my retirement, rios Johnson ’90, JRN’97, in saying ence and hatred. Professor Fritz a look at a short article I wrote which I celebrated with Michael farewell after more than 20 years as Stern ’46, GSAS’53 urged us to on what recently released Census Moon, my partner of more than morning anchor for WNYC public push back against such impulses. data tells us about the strengths of 30 years, with a trip to Italy last radio added: ‘Tank you for helping In Te Varieties of History: From immigrant families. It was posted September. After these many years, me launch my career. Your generos- Voltaire to the Present, he wrote: ‘Te by the Institute for Family Studies: thoughts about Columbia classmates ity in creating the Newsweek On Air generous faith in rationality and family-studies.org/most-immigrant- occur often to me, so I thought I internship and being a mentor has the possibilities of human progress families-are-traditional-families. I would get back in touch this way.” had a profound impact on me and so which underlay much of earlier think you will fnd it of interest.” We are happy, Jonathan, that many others.’ historical thought seems discredited David Orme-Johnson has you did get back in touch, and your “Makes an old guy proud. But also today, and yet the deepening of our written about his early experience classmates wish you much joy in the making me proud these days is my historical experiences need not lead with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and years ahead. late mother (who was two months shy to its abandonment, but perhaps to Transcendental Meditation in Enjoy A recently released and well- of 99 in 2014). We found her dusty a stronger sense of the precarious- TM News. You can fnd his article reviewed Jim Jarmusch ’75 flm, 78s from her time as a ‘girl singer’ ness of human freedom and to a still at enjoytmnews.org/a-scientists- Paterson, tells the story of a New Jer- on the road and on New York radio greater dedication to it.’ quest-for-enlightenment. Tis is the sey bus driver who is also a poet. Te (circa 1939–41) while cleaning out “Professor Stern died last May. I beginning of a book he is writing poems heard in the flm were actually her apartment. We had them digitized mention him wistfully, recalling his on Maharishi and how the scientifc written by Ron Padgett. Jarmusch

56 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews selected some of the poems from NYC Law Department, 1988–96 Ron’s collected works; Ron wrote two (the ‘Executive Staf,’ the corpora- more poems specifcally for the flm. tion counsel’s inner cabinet). I was In 2012, Ron was a fnalist for the recruited by corporation counsel Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Peter Zimroth ’63, who felt that Speaking of the movies, in Janu- someone with my background ary, Ira Jafe and his wife, Joan, paid (NAACP Legal Defense and Edu- a visit to New York City from Moun- cational Fund, arguing death penalty tainair, N.M. While here, they went cases and other civil rights matters to my son Alexander’s Metrograph 1977–88) should be on his staf. movie theater in lower Manhattan, Peter is now the court-appointed which has two screens, a restaurant monitor in the stop-and-frisk cases. and a bookshop specializing in books So it is particularly painful to see about flm. Ira founded the flm my old ofce behaving so badly on studies program at the University issues of transparency, especially in of New Mexico and has written police misconduct cases.” several books on flm. He writes of I heard from Ben Cohen the Metrograph: “Te whole place is ([email protected]): “Last year, at the very special. Watching Eric Rohmer’s annual meeting of the Texas Society Jay Woodworth ’65 (left) and Larry Guido ’65 met at Fornos Restaurant in Claire’s Knee, I particularly relished of Plastic Surgeons, I was honored Newark, N.J., to begin planning for the Class of ’65’s 55th reunion. the sweep of the screen and the com- as the frst recipient of a new lec- fort of the rough-hewn but elegant tureship, ‘Texas Legends of Plastic wood-backed seats.” Surgery.’ (Texans are programmed might want to give it a try: vimeo. temporary Civilization — he was Tank you, Ira. I have passed to embrace hyperbole!) In addition com/196393849. surprised at how blown away I was along your thoughts to Alexander. to speaking about advances in Dan Hofstadter’s review of by his perceptive and skillful writing. Finally, on a personal note: After plastic surgical methods, I discussed a new biography of art historian I also stayed in touch with my close teaching constitutional law for seminal aspects of my background, Kenneth Clark appeared in Te Wall friend (and freshman cross-country many years at the John Jay College speaking of family and mentors Street Journal in November. Dan teammate) Rikki Haber, who also of Criminal Justice I have hung up and playing clips from some of the mentioned Clark’s television series, became a physician and won awards my professor’s cap. I will continue Macon music of that era — Little Civilization, which many of us for his excellence as a teacher at to practice appellate law and try my Richard, James Brown, Otis Red- remember as a welcome postlude to UCSF Medical Center. Ditto for hand at other things as well. I plan ding. Another main theme was the Art Humanities at Columbia. my fellow Hartley Hall resident Bill to continue the informal class lunch role of chance events and meetings Bob Kolodny (rckolodny@aol. Brenner, who became an excep- the second Tursday of each month that have unexpected consequences com) wrote to request a copy of our tional cardiac surgeon and continued at the Columbia University Club of in determining the course of a Reunion Class Book. I responded, of his lifelong interest in photography. New York. Join us. person’s life and career. My years at course, by asking him for some news. On a few occasions, a CC class- Columbia were certainly flled with Bob’s response: “I’ve led a somewhat mate has come up to say hello when many such pivot points. bifurcated existence for the past 35 I’ve lectured at some large medical 1965 “Speaking of pivot points, I years, pursuing two quite diferent meeting or at a continuing medical recently transitioned in my career career tracks. In my medical career, education course — not only in Leonard B. Pack as a clinical and academic plastic I did a lot of research (and writing: NYC and Boston, but also in Mon- 924 West End Ave. surgeon in Houston to a more con- 15 books, 100-plus journal articles) treal, at the National Institutes of New York, NY 10025 trolled practice, still with resident in the area of human sexuality and I Health in Bethesda, Md., in London [email protected] trainee teaching responsibilities but, continue to lecture widely around the and in Amsterdam.” after 30 years, am no longer a resi- world, teach and consult on research Jim Siegel BUS’68 (jimsiegel Joel Berger (joelberger1955@ dency program director. Tis change design matters with many univer- [email protected]) wrote to tell me yahoo.com) was quoted in Te is a ‘glide path’ to a full retirement. sity groups. Starting in 1981, I also about a lecture I wish I had known New York Times on September 9. Family wise, Helen and I are still founded a group of hedge funds that about in advance: “I went to a lec- Te article dealt with NYC’s Law happily married after 46 years and, I continue to run. When I moved ture by noted musicologist Richard Department, which is fghting mul- thanks to our daughter Sarah, we to New Hampshire 10 years ago, I Taruskin GSAS’76, principally tiple court battles maintaining the now have three lovely grandchildren became a state registered investment because it was last year’s annual secrecy of the city’s records of police to enjoy spending time with. Sorry adviser, although I do not do fnan- installment of a lecture series at ofcers’ misconduct and that of to have missed the 50th reunion, cial planning with individuals, nor do CUNY Graduate Center funded by Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s communica- but I was busy recouping from hip I see patients any longer. a beloved friend of mind, a preemi- tions with advisers. Joel commented replacements that have gone well. “I saw a lot of David Denby nent cancer researcher who died fve on the Law Department’s battles to See you at the 55th!” JRN’66 and his family in the ’80s years ago, and his sister. Taruskin’s maintain this secrecy: “Te city has I wrote in a recent column about and ’90s. In fact, he read me a frst name sounded familiar, but I didn’t been doing it all along, but they’ve Niles Eldredge GSAS’69’s book draft of his opening chapter for know anything about him. In his been doing it even more strenuously Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the what would become his brilliant lecture he mentioned he had taught in this administration than in the Origin of Species from the 19th Cen- book, GREAT BOOKS: My Adven- at Columbia for many years before precious one.” Joel wrote to me that tury through Equilibria and Beyond, tures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, decamping to Berkeley. Consult- he, himself, is an alumnus of the a tome of 416 pages. Niles recently and Other Indestructible Writers of ing Wikipedia when I got home, I NYC Law Department: “Before sent me a link to a recently released the Western World, about returning learned he is a classmate! entering private practice I was one academic video based on his book. to Columbia at 48 and retaking the “Richard’s lecture, which he of the highest ranking lawyers in the Not exactly ClifsNotes, but you frst year of Humanities and Con- gave on December 7, is part of

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the Lloyd Old and Constance and what they had studied in their products being used in fuel systems of peer restaurants in Manhattan, Old Lecture Series. His topic was high school ‘patriotic education’ for Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar, Audi some dozen miles to the east.” ‘Music in 21st Century Society: courses). Te payofs for me were and Bentley. I, myself, as a poor Larry got the last word, adding: Te Many Dangers of Music.’ Te some interesting papers by students member of a kibbutz, can’t think of “Tere, Leonard. Now you know the CUNY website refers to Richard in both universities. ever owning one of those babies. I full story from a serious economist: as ‘America’s Public Musicologist.’ “Most recently, I spent fve weeks drive the Ford that is leased for me Quality, Quantity, Price Ratio. Not While I could not fnd a video of (October–November 2016) puttering by the company. just from a faky neurosurgeon.” the lecture online, I did stumble around historical sites in Kyushu, “You asked about life in Beer- on a tremendous list of YouTube a part of Japan I had never visited Sheva — the Chinese curse ‘May videos featuring Richard’s lectures: during my six years in Japan as a you live in interesting times’ is all- 1966 youtube.com/results?search_ student and then as a U.S. diplomat. too-relevant for Israel. It is always query=richard+taruskin.” My fondest memories of that trip are interesting here and sometimes I Rich Forzani Neil Silver (nsilver@designno the huge, blood-red mandarin orange wish we could have boring times like 413 Banta Ave. motion.com) sent a nice update of a moon hanging (what seemed to in Finland or New Zealand. Garfield, NJ 07026 from his submission in our Reunion be) two ft. above a bay on the East “I got the Reunion Class Book [email protected] Class Book: “Since late 2015, I’ve China Sea, and a very un-Japanese and enjoyed seeing what others fallen into a rut, defned principally huge mug of cofee accompanied are up to. I managed to get to the Hello, again. Another excellent by four of my post-retirement pur- with steamed milk, cinnamon toast, 50th reunion and had a great time response from the class. Maybe it is suits: lots of exercise, foreign travel, a small dessert, 1940s-era Ameri- talking to former roommates Dave because more and more of you have language study (Chinese, Japanese can jazz and a garden view from a Halperin and Lou Goodman. It is less and less to do. Or perhaps it’s and Spanish) and consulting (for residence kitchen/cofee shop located a shame that others didn’t attend. In because of my long-standing prom- the State Department). Until 2015, on a unique street. [Te street was] addition I had good friends in the ise to fll in meager columns with I also had ‘the big project’ on this created by village samurai who had classes one year ahead of us and one tales of myself and/or amusing (?) list. Tat consisted of editing and traveled to Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) year behind us and would have liked fctional anecdotes of randomly translating a book on the Korean with their daimyo lord in the mid- to see those people, as well. selected classmates. War by a leading (fairly indepen- 18th century and then built min- “Keep up the good work with Before proceeding, I want to dent) Chinese Cold War scholar and iature gardens outside their homes CCT. Unfortunately I stopped get- express my sincere appreciation to teaching a course (Modern Japan: patterned on the larger gardens they ting the hard print version and can’t those many of you who reached out Euro-American Perspectives) at two had seen on their travels.” fgure out how to get the e-version to me with your good wishes after Chinese universities. Te big project Barry Solomon (barry@raval. (I only get Columbia magazine, reading of my health issues in the last ended in 2015 when new Chinese co.il) contributed this: “Tanks for which I enjoy reading).” [Editor’s edition. Tese included most recently visa regulations required universi- your work as class correspondent, note: Find CCT online at college. Neal Hurwitz, Michael Garrett, ties to get government approval Leonard. I guess you are having a columbia.edu/cct.] Tom Harrold, Jonathan Kleefield before hiring foreign teachers and slow news day if you have to ask Finally, I heard from Larry and Alexander Auerbach, among set a 60-year old ceiling on foreign me what I am doing. I haven’t Guido ([email protected]) and a great many others. Tank you. teachers. I taught at two very difer- had much contact with classmates Jay Woodworth (woody17620@ Not wishing to conduct an ongoing ent places, one a graduate program because after six years on Morning- aol.com), announcing that they had personal diary of the subject, this will (many of the students had formed side Heights (1961–67) I left the recently “met at Fornos Restaurant in be the last time I mention it, but I do their own ideas while teaching high States and, aside from three years in Newark, N.J., to begin planning for want to pass along a general hope for school history) and the other to London and a sabbatical in Poland, our 55th! Te accompanying photo respite and comfort and hope to all of college juniors (many of whom had I have been living in the Middle shows the two escaped alums from our ’66 members who are faced with serious cases of cognitive dissonance East ever since. Ironically, after all the ‘PC Prison of Columbia College’ critical health situations. Our hearts caused by the diference between this time, my son-in-law is now at (according to the New York Post!)” and thoughts support you. Euro-American approaches to Japan Columbia for a post-doctorate and I asked them what they had On a happier note, my son so my wife and I go to New York been doing in Newark; Jay sent this Rich recently accepted his second about three times a year to see our response: “Sounds like a question clerkship, this time for the superior grandchildren. For the frst time asked by a New Yorker. Fornos court in Newark, N.J. He recently since 1964, I voted in an American is a great Newark landmark. It’s completed a one-year stint as clerk election. Until now it seemed wrong one of the Spanish restaurants in for a federal judge in Norfolk, Va., to try to infuence what goes on in Newark’s Ironbound District (so and wished to return to the New a country in which you no longer named because the location was sur- York area. Tanks to his mentor and live. You can imagine why it was rounded by railroad lines). It’s about my good friend Harvey Kurzweil Submit important for me this time around a two-minute walk from Newark’s for all his advice and support. (even though it didn’t help). Pennsylvania Station. I introduced Geof Dutton from Belmont, Your “I am still working and have no the Guidos and Judy to Fornos a Mass.: “Tech writing was getting immediate plans for retirement. My year ago. Larry said we had to return boring, so now that I’ve left the Photo work involves solutions for prevent- because the paella was so incredibly software factory I’ve been edit- CCT welcomes photos ing pollution from vehicles running good. He dined on the paella again ing articles and writing fction; that feature at least two on fossil fuel. If everyone moves that night, Judy had an octopus dish almost full-time, but fnding it hard College alumni. over to electric or solar powered and I feasted on a huge, thick veal to market my writings without cars I will be out of a job but I won’t chop. Te place was jammed with getting sucked into Facebook and Click “Contact Us” at be sad if the world will be better dinner guests and we had a 45-min- tweeted to oblivion. Don’t travel college.columbia.edu/cct. for the next generations. I recently ute wait. It was worth every minute. much, except for a conference now returned from a business trip to Te prices for far more food than we and then and to Turkey to see the Europe and was excited to see our could consume were about 50 percent in-laws every couple years. When

58 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews my girl graduates from high school faculty composers like Jack Beeson impact pro bono cases in conjunc- in New York. She attended Barnard I will be more fancy-free, assuming and Otto Luening; the wonderful tion with attorneys in my law frm. and her two children attended we all survive the regime change. performers, directors and staf of During the last six years, we have Columbia; she attended the last And while we await the apocalypse, Columbia Players and Oats Harvey; participated in food stamp, jury selec- reunion with me. Lastly, I am a die- anyone have a lead to a publisher/ and the singers in the Columbia tion, death penalty and immigration hard Nationals fan, having had sea- agent who would salivate over an Glee Club 1962–70. cases, among others. I have also son tickets from the team’s founding. international literary thriller about Jonathan Kleefield, a long-lost set up an endowment at Barbara’s I plan to attend spring training the life and times of a cell of (partly classmate, writes from Massachusetts church, Westmoreland Congrega- again this year with my brother, who cyber) terrorist wannabes? Give a that he is a “nearly retired” radiologist tional, where I took over her place foolishly is a Yankees fan.” shout to geof@maxentropyprod and, for some reason, enjoys reading on the church’s social justice action Pete Wernick GSAS’73 launched uctions.net about that or anything this column when it appears. committee. In addition, I established a music teaching system for bluegrass for that matter. (I’m the guy whose Welcome back, Jonathan. We an endowment at Legal Aid to sup- jamming. Te Wernick Method picture wasn’t in the yearbook.)” hope to hear from you again soon. port the appellate advocacy program, teaches the ear skills and protocols Your columnist responds: Geof, Jerry Hartman BUS’68: “I which has been named the Barbara used worldwide in informal bluegrass having spent the bulk of my career in attended the 50th reunion, where McDowell Appellate Advocacy jams. More than 5,000 students have the software/hardware feld, I don’t there was great pleasure in seeing Program in her honor. I serve on the graduated from classes and music envision a difcult transition for you folks I had not seen for many years. board of Legal Aid. camps in 42 states and 11 countries. from tech writing to fction. Joking I have kept up with Josh Hauser “As a footnote, my path after col- Pete and his wife, Joan, recently aside, best wishes on your venture. SEAS’66, SEAS’68, who is my lege was varied. I graduated from the performed a vocal duet with banjo Bruce Trinkley: “My profound fraternity brother and was my Business School and was an account and guitar on Good Morning Den- appreciation and thanks to everyone roommate. Josh was at reunion. As executive at a large Madison Avenue mark, live from Tivoli Gardens in who participated and assisted in the a result of reunion, I connected with advertising agency. Later, as a lawyer Copenhagen. Pete will be on tour performance for the 50th reunion my freshman roommate, Frank I represented several large advertis- coast to coast this year with the Hot last June of the Varsity Shows of Mirer, who is a professor in New ing agencies. Upon completion of Rize band, a bluegrass mainstay since 1966–67, Te Bawd’s Opera and York City and my sophomore room- law school at George Washington 1978. Peter claims that at this stage and clerking for the chief judge of of his life, he fnds playing bluegrass the United States Court of Appeals more enjoyable than smoking it. for the Fifth Circuit in New Your erstwhile former class Randall Bourscheidt ’66 is creating an analytical Orleans, I have been a partner at correspondent Stuart Berkman record of everything the City of New York has done several large Washington law frms, BUS’68 continues to be semi-active interrupted by a four-year stint in Columbia afairs, as he usually since the 19th century to support culture. in the United States Department interviews three to fve candidates of Justice Civil Rights Division, for admission in the Rio de Janeiro where I tried cases in Mississippi area. Writing on a torrid January and Alabama, 1976–80. During my Rio afternoon, he had just returned Feathertop. I was thrilled to dust of mate, Joe Chartor, who is a doctor time at the Justice Department, I from a frigid two-week holiday visit and remount scenes and songs with outside of Boston. received the Department’s Special to New York. so many members of the original “Tat said, I retired as a partner Commendation Award for defend- Randall Bourscheidt: “I’m casts, including Anthony Abeson at Drinker Biddle in its Washington ing the constitutionality of the creating an analytical record of ’67, director of Feathertop, and ofce on January 31, after being Commerce Department’s minority everything the City of New York Penelope Parkhurst BC’68, one of there for 15 years practicing employ- set aside program. One of the cases has done since the 19th century to the greatest stage managers ever. I ment and labor law. I have been a I defended went to the Supreme support culture, called the Archive have been fortunate to work with lawyer for 44 years. I will remain Court, where the court upheld the of New York City Cultural Policy. some gifted and talented collabora- at the frm running the foundation afrmative action component of the Te archive is taking shape at the tors, including Michael Feingold (mcdowellfoundation.org) that I program (Fullilove v. Kreps). New York Public Library — one of and the beloved, now-deceased established for my late wife, Barbara “My other foray outside of law the great institutions made possible John Litvack. Many of my more McDowell, who was a well-known frm practice was time spent as by fnancial support from the city recent works, written with my appellate litigator. She was a partner a tenured law professor at Wake government. Tis is a summing collaborator Jason Charnesky, can at Jones Day and then assistant Forest School of Law; I had been up of a career spent mostly in the be found on YouTube. Just google solicitor general in the United States an adjunct law professor at Te world of nonproft culture, which ‘Trinkley Opera.’ Tere, among Department of Justice, where she George Washington University Law is uniquely at the heart of what others, you can see a Buzz & Bud, argued Supreme Court cases for School for many years. I live in Falls makes this city great, and focused which was the centerpiece of a Janu- seven years. She had been a law clerk Church, Va., on a private lake 11 on urging the city to maintain and ary session at the National Opera to Justice Byron White after Yale miles from Washington. expand its support of culture. Few Association Convention in Santa Law. At the time of her death from “I suspect that I will be working people entering the Metropolitan Barbara with student performers brain cancer in January 2009, she pretty much fulltime at the law frm Museum of Art realize that there’s from the music theater program at was head of the Appellate Advocacy doing the aforesaid pro bono work, only one reason it’s in Central Park: Penn State. Also my magnum opus, Program at Legal Aid in Washing- as well as playing lots of tennis and Te museum signed an agreement York: Te Voice of Freedom, about ton. Barbara’s foundation makes biking. I am working on a novel and with New York City to create and the only African-American on the grants to social justice organizations a collection of short stories. I hope I run the greatest museum in America Lewis and Clark expedition, was that support social justice litigation. will have more time to write now. I in return for the city building its flmed for PBS with principals from Last year, the foundation made fve will live part-time in New York in a facility in the park and contribut- the old New York City Opera … . grants, totaling $125,000. new apartment on East 57th Street, ing substantially to its operation. “Reunion brought to mind the “Te other component of the which I recently purchased with my Te same is true for Carnegie Hall, great experience of working with foundation is to engage in high- signifcant other, a gastroenterologist the New York Botanical Garden,

Spring 2017 CCT 59 Class Notes the Brooklyn Museum, the Public time, as did many of you, your col- 2012 after a long struggle with cancer. LAW’04, and seven wonderful grand- Teater, the American Museum of umnist appreciates Mark L.’s update, He has two children, a 2-year old children. I am the youngest member Natural History and the Bronx Zoo, and will check out Mark N.’s book. I granddaughter and a spaniel, Homer of our class. I practice full-time, but among others. New York City has heard Cosell’s comment at the time, — all avid Mets fans. enjoy spending time in Naples and the largest budget for culture in the while the Goodyear blimp panned John Marino retired two years the Berkshires. I have taken great United States — larger than the over the glowing South Bronx ago after 42 years as an internal pride through the years in helping federal government and all 50 states. landscape that evening. medicine physician, and now travels to train Columbia surgical residents. “My timing turned out to be frequently around the world and is I look back at the years we spent at good, as the city is currently prepar- active with bike riding, skiing, gym Columbia with great fondness and ing its frst formal cultural plan to 1967 workouts and grandkids, and does am grateful that my children were extend its already generous support REUNION not miss working. able to share that experience.” REUNION 2017 for the arts to every neighborhood. Jon Buller: “After graduating Mike Jackson: “I retired on JUNE 1–4 Te project will build on New magna cum marginally, I tried various June 1 as a commodity broker after Alumni Afairs Contact York’s cultural diversity — based on sorts of work but found nothing that 43 years and couldn’t be happier. Fatima Yudeh America’s golden secret of welcom- [email protected] really suited me until I began illus- My nephew, Alex Jackson ’20, is ing immigrants and providing 212-851-7834 trating children’s books, frst getting the eighth member of our family to opportunities for the advancement 2017 published in 1984. I have done most attend the College. Roar, Lions … ” Development Contact Marty Nussbaum of every community. Tis is also Heather Siemienas of my books in collaboration with my LAW’70: an opportunity to borrow former [email protected] wife, Susan Schade, who does most “Practicing corporate law as an Columbia professor Allan Nevins’ 212-851-7855 of the writing, while I do most of the associate then a partner, currently brilliant invention — recorded oral drawing. Together we have published at Dechert, still working. Married, history — and use it to chronicle Albert Zonana 59 books, the most recent being Anne divorced (no children), married (35 New York’s great record in cultural 425 Arundel Rd. of Green Bagels, published in August. years), two children (daughter and development (thanks to an insight Goleta, CA 93117 Some of our books have sold well. son), both of whom got married this provided in my sophomore year by [email protected] Lately business has been a little slow, past year (not to each other … there the great history professor James which is appropriate, because I am are laws about that). Live in NYC, Shenton ’49, GSAS’54).” Our 50th reunion is approaching also getting a little slow. We live in having returned to the city from the Mark Levine JRN’79: “I heard and the mailbox overfowed … Lyme, Conn. suburbs when the nest emptied. Still an interview with Mark Naison Jack Harris: “I enjoy a quiet Larry Kirkman is a professor on this side of the grass with every GSAS’76 on WNYC and thought retirement in Troy, N.Y., after a of flm and media arts and dean intention of staying a while longer.” you might want to write an update career in academia that included emeritus of the School of Commu- George Danziger: “Passed 70 about him for Class Notes. Te research in Antarctica. Te only part nication at American University. His last October. Married three times: show’s description is: ‘Robert of my life now that might interest work in public-purpose media has four years, seven years, 33 years Gumbs, graphic designer, photogra- classmates is my continuing involve- encompassed documentaries, social and counting. I fnally got it right. pher, artist and raised in the South ment in research into the biophysics advertising campaigns, strategic com- Attended GSAS for anthropology. Bronx, and Mark Naison, professor of the golf swing. I would be happy munications for nonprofts, digital No career actually, rather a careen: of history and African American to share our fndings with classmates journalism and communication computer consultant, carpenter, studies at Fordham University, co- wishing to become the cleverest policy. He is an executive producer in ran a factory, taught grade school, authors of Before the Fires: An Oral player on their own course.” the Investigative Reporting Work- restored furniture, did statistics History of African American Life in Harold Wechsler GSAS’74 shop and senior research fellow in the work, ran (and sometimes was) sev- the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s, earned an M.A. and a Ph.D., both in Center for Media & Social Impact. eral IT departments. In 2011, I beat tell the stories of a neighborhood history, from Columbia. His thesis Larry Miller: “I live in Manhat- better than one in 1,000 lifetime and 16 African-American men research included several months tan on the Upper West Side. I have odds to get AL amyloidosis. A fatal and women who lived in the South spent in the Columbia archives, two boys, 24 and 22, who are just disease does focus the mind. I’m Bronx before the ‘Bronx is Burning’ unearthing the history of admission to moving into their own apartments. still working though, mostly to fund era that threatened to decimate it, the College. His book, Te Qualifed I am president of Corinthian Media my fying habit. I have a 70-year- and what contributed to its revival.’ Student: A History of Selective College and president of the Corinthian old Aeronca 7DC 85 hp two-seat “From the book jacket: ‘People Admission in America, includes this Foundation. My work allows me tailwheel airplane and fy it 125-plus associate the South Bronx with history with its impactful and seamy time to work out, take dance lessons hours a year, whenever weather, my gangs, violence, drugs, crime, sides. He often writes about the and travel. I recently returned from health and its maintenance demands burned-out buildings, and poverty. history of Columbia and is fnishing Botswana. I hope to retire [but that] allow. I live in Northampton, Mass. Tis is the message that has been work on a history of minority access seems to move itself farther into the All classmates are invited to contact driven into their heads over the years to U.S. higher education. Harold has future each year.” me if they are under 220 lbs. dressed by the media. As Howard Cosell taught at Albany, Rochester, Bufalo, Jerry Lozner: “After completing and want to see what civilian fying famously said during the 1977 Chicago and Northwestern. Since my surgical residency at the Univer- was like when we were born.” World’s Series at Yankee Stadium, 2005, he has co-directed NYU’s sity of Cincinnati in 1978, I served Phil Greco: “I have been retired ‘Tere it is, ladies and gentlemen, program in Education and Jewish in the Navy for two years and then from my 35-year career as a psychia- the Bronx is burning.’ In this new Studies, the frst program of its kind in joined the Summit Medical Group, trist for three years. My wife and I book, Naison and Gumbs provide a a secular university. He also co-directs where I have been a partner for 37 live in Philadelphia, near our son, completely diferent picture of the the Columbia University seminar on years and am the senior breast sur- Eric, and his three children, and we South Bronx through interviews the History of Columbia University. geon. On July 4, Barbara, the love of are enjoying retirement. Our daugh- with residents who lived here from Winner of the Greatest Mets Fan my life, and I will celebrate our 47th ter, Bonnie, is expecting her second the 1930s to the 1960s.’” contest in 1969, he won again in anniversary. We have three children, child in April. As someone who was born in 1981 when he married Lynn Dorothy Amy Lozner, Josh Lozner ’96 (varsity Bob Brancale: “I practiced the Bronx and lived in NYC at that Gordon BC’68. Lynn passed away in basketball) and Stacy Lozner ’01, anesthesia and critical care medicine

60 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews for 40 years, initially at Boston’s textbook, Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Reserve Board in 1973, joined the ize I could have walked down the Beth Israel Hospital and then at has been used by more than 100,000 Rand Corp. in 1980 (where I co- hall and seen Jim. South Shore Hospital, where I was people during the past 30 years.” edited Te Rand Journal of Econom- Jim, we expect to see you at president of the medical staf. My Bruce Donnell: “I am a stage ics), migrated to the University of the reunion! wife is an artist, one son is fnishing director in opera. I worked at the Michigan in 1986 as a full professor Jim writes: “I was disappointed to an internal medicine residency at Metropolitan Opera for 34 years. I and retired in June 2015. Since then, fnd none of your usual chatty Class UMass and another son is work- have a freelance career and am based I have divided my time between Notes in the Winter 2016–17 issue, ing at start-ups in San Francisco. in Santa Fe.” Washington, D.C., (where I am a so I decided to stir myself and report Now happily retired, I am a master Tom Blinn earned a doctorate in research professor at the University of on a half-century’s events in my life. gardener on Cape Cod.” statistics from Teachers College and Maryland), Michigan and California. “Columbia is still a vivid memory Roy Vogel: After medical school got involved with computing, even- “Aside from building microeco- decades later — the long train rides at Albert Einstein College of tually working for Digital Equip- nomic models to explain observed (when trains ran and before airlines Medicine, an ophthalmology resi- ment Corp. (then Compaq and then behavior, I have puzzled over what ofered student fares) from Idaho dency and two years in the Army, I Hewlett-Packard) until he retired transpired in the ‘spy case’ of Alger to New York and back, the variety practiced ophthalmology 1977–2005 in 2005. He lives in Amherst, N.H., Hiss, a project that I began in high and depth of classroom experi- in New Jersey. Retired 11 years and with his wife of 30 years, Susan, and school. I have documented that ences, good friendships, exploring living with my wife, Christine, in their three cats. Hiss’ legal team was penetrated New York and, of course, Spring Charlotte, N.C. Two children, Sean Gerald Weinstein: “I recently by an undercover special agent of 1968, with two months of chaos and John, each married with chil- retired after a long career as a the Army’s Counter Intelligence punctuated by the assassinations of dren. My passion is to travel, which cardiac surgeon and live in NYC Corps a month before Hiss’ accuser Dr. King and Sen. Kennedy. Tere I have done for 47 years.” with my wife of more than 45 years. reversed his sworn testimony (and isn’t much of a Columbia diaspora Bob Rudy: “I retired from the I am so grateful for the education I decade-long insistence) that Hiss here in Olympia — I know only two County Attorney’s Ofce in Min- received at Columbia –– it made so had committed no espionage. or three other graduates living here neapolis in 2008 after 34 years. I was much of my life possible.” “In 1980, I married Katherine — but it’s nice on occasion to fnd a supervisor for the last 20 years. Eric Schwartz GSAS’73: “I Blair, a Harvard-trained architect someone to exchange memories of Supervising lawyers is like herd- completed a Ph.D. in physics, then recently back from several years in CC and Humanities, or dorm life or ing cats. If it didn’t interfere with changed felds into neuroscience. I Nepal on a Fulbright and later a student hangouts near the campus. boating and cruises, I tried some have been professor of electrical and columnist for Te Washington Post. “From Columbia I moved to cases and have been a mediator and computer engineering and professor Katherine was the sister-in-law of law school at Harvard and then, in arbitrator. My daughter was married of neurobiology and anatomy at Bos- Dick Goldensohn, one of my closest 1973, I accepted a job ofer from the last summer. Life is good out here in ton University since 1992. I have been friends at Columbia. We have three Washington State Attorney General, the middle of the country.” married to Helen Eckstein BC’67, daughters, Daisy (31), Claire (27) and where I worked happily for 39 years. Travis Brown: “I work daily as GSAS’76 for close to 50 wonderful Shelley (27). I had no idea how much I served four Attorneys General a consulting geologist, primarily in years. Our daughter, Anna, is working I would enjoy being a dad.” — principled and high-minded oil and gas. I have kept busy and toward a Ph.D. at City University. We Out of space, unfortunately. public servants of both genders productive through the price swings live in Brookline, Mass.” Please look for more news from and both parties — and ended up and don’t perceive retirement as an George Farkas: “Upon gradua- Steve Rice, Arthur Rhine and in the Solicitor General’s ofce as immediate option. I enjoy good health tion I married my college girlfriend, Mark Steinhof in the Summer part of a team that handles many and look forward to our 50th reunion, Laura Feldman BC’67, to whom issue. Steve is scheduled to receive appeals, particularly those involving hoping to reconnect with classmates.” I was married for eight years. I a lifetime achievement award from state or federal constitutional issues. Adam Kotlewski: “I am happily earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the American College of Sports I traveled to the United States retired from my cardiology practice. Cornell and was hired by Yale in Medicine in June. Supreme Court once (the attorney My wife, Renee, and I took our entire 1972. I married a colleague, Linda I hope to see you at our 50th general himself did the argument, family to Poland to visit places I lived Perry. We were married for 32 years, reunion, Tursday, June 1–Sunday, but I was only a few feet away), in during my childhood, my parents’ until she passed away from cancer June 4! Go to college.columbia.edu/ successfully defending Washington’s birthplace and the extermination in 2008. After Yale, I taught at the alumni/reunion2017. ‘top two’ primary. I also appeared in camps where most of my parents’ University of Texas at Dallas and other appellate courts many times families were killed. It was an at Penn State. For the last 30 years and wrote some 50 formal attorney emotional experience for all of us. I have done quantitative studies of 1968 general opinions. I’m learning to play the cello, reading, educational inequality and how it “I retired in 2012 and haven’t enjoying life in Southern California can be reduced. Since 2008, I have Arthur Spector practiced law since, though I and watching our beautiful 4-year- been professor of education at UC One Lincoln Plaza, Apt. 25K wouldn’t rule out dabbling in it old granddaughter grow up.” Irvine. In 2010, I married Judy New York, NY 10023 again if the opportunity arose. I Amnon Igra: “Retired and living Kaufman. My son, David, is 30. In [email protected] rekindled my passion for music and in Sacramento, Calif., after a career 1990, I created a tutoring program, am a church organist, as well as in state government. Enjoying lots of which helped spawn President I received some wonderful notes for reading and listening to classi- leisure pursuits, travel. In touch with Clinton’s America Reads initiative. this issue. Jim Pharris, part of the cal music of almost every era (but Billy Hurwitz, Peter Miller and Ron I have published four books and large Idaho contingent in our class, especially German baroque). I am Lane. I can easily be reached.” numerous research articles. But per- wrote in. He describes this column an amateur genealogist and, lately, Bernard Rosner: “I am profes- haps my greatest accomplishment, as “chatty.” I thought the column a kind of professional grandfather. sor of medicine, a biostatistician at and certainly greatest adventure, is would be described as cerebral, I have been married to Rebecca Harvard Medical School, specializing having been married to women from entertaining and prescient in many Anderson Pharris since 1975 (she in breast cancer modeling, norms Barnard, Radclife and Brown.” ways. I am somewhat embarrassed is a preschool teacher and has for childhood blood pressure and Steve Salant: “I began my career that I visited Olympia, Wash., for undoubtedly done more good for ophthalmological applications. My as an economist at the Federal public fnance eforts and didn’t real- humanity than I did in my entire

Spring 2017 CCT 61 Class Notes legal career). We raised two sons BC’67, GSAS’74, died of cancer in the ocean, though I do hope to get or recollections of our College years; and a daughter. I couldn’t persuade summer 2014. In some ways, Rhoda to the country on occasion and back most appear here, but some are any of them to apply to Columbia, was even more of a Columbian than New York City once in a while, too. being held for the next issue. but they all had fne educations and I was. She did her B.A. at Barnard I recently spoke to John Roy and From Henry Jackson: “I all have advanced degrees. My two and then crossed the street to do Greg Winn of the mighty Naples, particularly recall Professor Howard older children both live within a her master’s and Ph.D. in medieval Fla., triumvirate of them along with Davis’ art history courses. Years after mile of our home and each have two history. She was a fne historian of Neil Anderson. Neil apparently has graduation, I had the opportunity children, all of whom frequent our late medieval England and a beloved a prodigy of to the SEC (I hope I to go to Bruges, Belgium, and see house and occupy center stage in instructor at Douglas College in have that right); John is still teach- many of the Jan van Eyck paintings our lives. My youngest is working on New Westminster, B.C., where she ing, it seems; and Greg (in addition to which he had introduced me. It his dissertation at the University of taught for 25 years. Her death was to completing a book shortly) is on was a most gratifying experience.” Minnesota and hopes to become a a terribly sad loss for me after 44 the golf course, preparing to achieve From Lee Pearcy: “A George- sociology professor. We travel some years of marriage, as it was for our greatness for his age group. town senior recently interviewed me (Europe two or three times, Hawaii children, grandchildren and Rhoda’s By the way, congratulations are about Columbia in 1968 for a class recently) but enjoy staying at home huge circle of friends. in order — Frank Dann was mar- project for a course on the 1960s, and and exchanging horrifed reactions “But I am adjusting, as one ried recently. I found it a real challenge to convey to the advent of President Trump must, to this new phase of my Congratulations, Frank! One to her how diferent the texture of (Olympia is one of the ‘bluest’ cities life. I am still at the University of should always end on good news. life was in our college years. (It looks in one of the ‘bluest’ states). British Columbia, but I now teach I hope to hear more from you all. as though her generation may see “Greetings to the rest of the Class part-time and I expect to fully retire I have been a bit lax in relentlessly something like the same political of 1968 and best wishes. I may yet in 2018. My three kids and three pursuing updates; I will try harder. churn and turmoil that we did.) make it to a reunion!” grandkids all live in New York (all of I hope all is well with you and you Otherwise, not much news: I’ve just Jim — I think a Bach organ recital them in Brooklyn, in fact), but I get are in good health. Hard to believe come of a term as interim president would be a good idea for reunion. there two or three times a year and it’s 2017 and not that far away from of the Classical Association of the I heard from David Heim, who is they often visit me in Vancouver, so 2018 … 1968 was a long time ago Atlantic States, I edit the journal clearly engaged with an art form and our family remains very close. (that was quite a year). Let me know Classical World and I’m working on a still editing and writing as I would “I have been traveling a lot. In if you are going to be in Miami this book on the Aeneid. All this happens expect (and with two books on their February 2016 I was in India for two year. I have discovered there is a from my post-retirement academic way). David writes: “Yes, it’s been a weeks — my fourth trip there — to Columbia alumni crowd there. Ira home at Bryn Mawr College. I’m while. But I fnally have something visit friends and to lecture in Delhi McCown has been living there for also studying painting and drawing worth sharing with classmates. I and Pondicherry. During the sum- quite a while. at the Pennsylvania Academy of the live with my wife, Kate, and son, mer I was in Europe again. My trip I recommend attending Home- Fine Arts and watching my grand- Teodore, in the peaceful little town this time included a great visit with coming 2017. Te football program children grow.” of Oxford, Conn. In late 2016, I was Charles Jarowski and his wife, is on the upswing and beating From Michael Jacoby Brown: elected to the board of directors of Joan, at their home in Provence. Dartmouth at Homecoming 2016 “My freshman year I had ‘Mr. the American Association of Wood- Charlie retired after a long career was a leading indicator. Roosevelt’ for CC, who turned out turners, the preeminent organization as an oncologist in New York and to be FDR III (Franklin Delano of its kind in the world. In addition he and Joan are now enjoying life Roosevelt III SIPA’64, GSAS’68)! to oversight of its publications in southern France. Together with 1969 He was wonderful enough to invite — chiefy American Woodturner, them I visited our almost-classmate us to his apartment on Riverside a bimonthly magazine — I’ll be Michael Agelasto ’69, who spends Michael Oberman Drive, where I was amazed to see leading the organization’s work in part of every year in Sanary-sur- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel photos of him sitting on Eleanor expanding to Central and South Mer on the Mediterranean coast. If 1177 Avenue of the Americas Roosevelt’s knee. America. (Tank heaven for Google more of my Columbia friends would New York, NY 10036 “Tat year I was fortunate to be Translate, as I don’t speak Spanish.) kindly move to Provence, I would [email protected] in Kenneth Koch’s (of blessed mem- I also have two books due to be have even more people to visit on ory) creative writing class. What a published by Spring House Press, future trips to France! Every two years, I’ve been lucky great teacher! When I was arrested a small shop run by two alumni “My trips to New York rarely to have a dependable recurring for over-staying my welcome in my of Fine Woodworking magazine. seem to coincide with Columbia news item. On November 8, Jerry American History lounge in 1968, Te frst is a book of woodturning events but I very much hope to get Nadler was reelected to Congress, I recall how the NYPD beat up the patterns — everything from salad to Columbia for our 50th reunion. It representing New York’s 10th young black teens frst and most bowls and Christmas ornaments to would be great to see classmates.” Congressional District. Jerry entered violently, before laying into to us baseball bats and chopsticks. Te Paul de Bary; his wife, Stefa; Congress in 1992 and has now been privileged white students. I wonder second, due out in early 2018, is Bob Costa ’67; and his wife, Joan; elected to his 13th full term. how much has changed? Success With SketchUp for Woodwork- and Hilal and I had a meal at Le Reading newspapers delivered “Now, I co-lead with Ron Bell, a ers, a primer on using a very cool 3D Monde (the food there is very good) an item on Paul Auster — actually, black colleague, community organiz- design program.” before the Columbia-Cornell game. several items, as Paul’s latest book, ing workshops (called ‘Building Spectator has produced an array Te Lions were upset, but the team 4 3 2 1, was covered by Te New Powerful Community Organizations: of talent. I did a little reading about is full of talent, so we shall see how York Times, Te Wall Street Journal, Power, Relationships and Race’) at woodturning; it’s a fascinating topic. the season progresses. We did beat Te New Yorker and Esquire, among Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. I look forward to reading the books. Cornell in Ithaca! Paul and Stefa other publications, including CCT. I will also lead a workshop series, From Chris Friedrichs: “It is recently spent time in Hollywood, [Editor’s Note: See Bookshelf, ‘Facing Race,’ using the Visions Inc. high time to send you an update. I Fla., and I went to Miami Beach to Winter 2016–17.] curriculum at my temple. My 70th am sad to report that I am now a my new home recently. I was look- Quite a few classmates responded birthday dance and music party (to widower. My wife, Rhoda Friedrichs ing forward to the palm trees and to my January email calling for news be held on June 3, 7–11 p.m. at First

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Law (with secondary appointments in the departments of psychiatry and pediatrics at the university’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health, and the university’s Center for Health Care Ethics). Te second edition of my book Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects (co-authored with three lawyer-bioethicists) was published in July 2015. I was fortunate in having had a career that allowed me both to teach in a wide range of legal areas and to live abroad for extended periods of time as a visiting professor (in Warsaw, Coventry, Madrid and Berlin). My wife, Judy Cromwell, and I recently returned from a trip to Cuba through the ‘Road Scholar’ program, which I highly recommend. We spend a fair amount of time in Chicago, where both of our children and our three grandchildren reside. If COURTESY WILL CSAPLAR ’ 57 , BUS’ 58 WILL CSAPLAR COURTESY any Chicago-based classmates would like to get together, let me know.” From Donald Schenk: “Tree Church in Jamaica Plain, Mass.), From Bruce Gillers: “Tere are publications have been about staving years ago my wife, Deborah, and I will be a fundraiser for the Union of two recent events for our family. of the threat of Alzheimer’s disease. moved from Brooklyn to Bainbridge Minority Neighborhoods. If anyone Te primary joy was that we had We chose Philly because Nancy still Island, Wash., to be close to our is retired and interested in an ‘encore’ a sixth grandchild, Zeva Florence, has family here and I learned to savor children and grandchildren, who live career, you might want to contact my born in December to our youngest the area when I went with her to see in Seattle. We would never have left daughter, Corita Brown, who works son, Joseph. In mid-December I was her father, Murray Stedman GSAS’47 New York if it had not been for the for encore.org.” awarded the Distinguished Service (now deceased). He taught CC at grandkids, but with the beneft of I was also in FDR III’s section Award at the semi-annual meeting Columbia soon after WWII and I hindsight it was a great move. When during Spring 1966 and always of the Board of Trustees and medi- always thought I gained his approval we are not hiking, biking, kayaking, was amused to look at him and his cal staf of the Massachusetts Eye because I was ‘a Columbia man.’ babysitting or taking care of the oys- grandfather’s image on a dime at the and Ear Infrmary, which provides “I highly recommend Philadel- ters that I grow in front of our house same time. ophthalmic and ENT care for the phia to anyone thinking of moving in the Puget Sound, I focus on David Sokal: From “Contem- Massachusetts General Hospital.” into retirement. Aside from frst-rate using aviation to inspire teenagers. porary Civilization made me realize John Gaguine, a retired lawyer housing and medical facilities for Tis project started in South Africa that most of our ideas have deep from Juneau, Alaska, “went from an aging population, ‘Te City of (wondersofaviation-southafrica.org), roots, and what I learned in CC still having no grandchildren at 64 to Brotherly Love — and Sisterly but has expanded to include teenag- infuences my thinking. A couple of having four at 68. His son and his Afection’ (as it is known these days) ers in Kitsap County, Wash. Te books that I’ve read over the last few son’s wife live in Portland, Ore., and boasts afordable world-class restau- kids are wonderful and it keeps me years would make a great addition, they have a son (4) and a daughter rants and bars, welcoming cultural involved in aviation. Philanthropy is and I like the following quote from (1.5). His daughter and her husband venues and a thriving music scene. a big part of our life on Bainbridge. Howard Aiken: ‘Don’t worry about live in Juneau, Alaska, and have a What surprised me most was the “Our lives are clearly focused on people stealing your ideas. If your daughter (3) and a son (nearly 1).” friendliness and sense of community the West Coast, but we still spend ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram From Steve Ditlea: “I have some here. Total strangers say hello to you most of the summer at our family them down people’s throats.’ Te two news: Tis lifelong New Yorker (grew on the street. Maybe someday I’ll farm in Pennsylvania and several books I mentioned are Te Righteous up literally across the street from get to say hello to a classmate here.” weeks avoiding Seattle’s winter by Bill Bonvillian: Mind: Why Good People Are Divided Furnald, then always lived close by the From “I stepped traveling in the southern hemisphere. by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Hudson River, from Manhattan to down at the end of January as direc- Deborah edits the NYU Tax Law Haidt, and Decisive: How to Make Tarrytown) is now a resident of Phila- tor of MIT’s Washington Ofce after Review and has board work that Better Choices in Life and Work, by delphia. My wife of 24 years, Nancy 11 years. But I’m not really retiring. I brings us back to Washington, D.C., Chip Heath and Dan Heath.” Stedman, and I were fortunate to fnd will be teaching a course at MIT on and New York several times a year.” Jonathan Adelman From his family’s holiday message, a charming 1862 house in the historic innovation policy, fnishing my book From I learned that David and his Male Chestnut Hill neighborhood. We on advanced manufacturing (due out GSAS’76: “I have been elected Contraception Initiative colleagues decided to relocate to a less expensive this fall) and will be afliated with an president of Scholars for Peace in had their frst in-person board part of the world (cost of living is MIT policy center.” the Middle East. Tis organization Jesse Goldner: meeting in Dallas in October and about a third less than in the Empire From “Last consists of American and European that David was interviewed by NPR. State) as we wind down our careers in June I became the John D. Valentine faculty who want to fght BDS MCI recently received serious fund- journalism into semi-retirement. We Professor of Law, Emeritus, retiring (Boycott, Divestment and Sanc- ing from an anonymous donor. “Next both cover health topics these days; from active teaching after 43 years tions) of Israel. I also am an afli- year looks to be exciting,” he writes. our most recent stories for separate at Saint Louis University’s School of ated professor at the University of

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Haifa. I continue to be on the road, and preserving the world’s many giving talks on Israel. In December, endangered languages.” I gave talks for Te American Israel From Patrick Mullane: “Te Public Afairs Committee in San two professors who had an enduring Antonio and in Fort Lauderdale. impact on my personal life were Joel Since the second intifada began Newman LS’42, GSAS’62, who more than 15 years ago, I have gone taught an amazing course in Ameri- on more than 400 speaking tours can music, and Melvin Schwartz ’53, in the United States and abroad. I GSAS’58, who taught an equally recently was in Washington, D.C., amazing introductory physics course. speaking on a panel of AEPi frater- My daughter, who is a college fresh- nity as an honorary ‘bro.’ man, is probably tired of hearing me “My son, David, who speaks talk about these incredible teachers, fuent Mandarin, works for a major but they remain my fondest memo- Chinese venture capital frm in ries of classes at Columbia.” Shanghai. David will, in the coming months, lead groups of Chinese investors on trips to Texas and Israel 1970 Sha Na Na rocked out at Reunion Weekend 2016; George Leonard ’67 in search of companies they can buy. shared this screenshot and suggests you relive the moment by searching Leo G. Kailas I also am working on my 13th book, “Sha Na Na at Columbia” on YouTube. Kneeling: Leonard; second row, left a co-edited volume on Russian- Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt to right: Rob Leonard ’70, Al Cooper ’71, Joe Witkin ’70, Donny York ’71; German relations.” 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. third row, left to right: Elliot Cahn ’70, Jocko Marcellino ’72, Rich Jofe ’72; From Peter Behr: “We just had New York, NY 10022 and fourth row, left to right: Henry Gross, David Garrett SEAS’70, Bruce our third grandchild, great news for [email protected] Clarke ’74 and Scott Powell ’70. us — another little girl. I am semi- retired, working two days a week. Carl Hyndman GSAS’74, who had But I am busy with a reserve forces not communicated for quite a while, Wall Street Journal on October 14. teaching and learning with inquiry, unit, men’s groups and a bit of work sent two reports, including news David notes, “Generations of com- scholarship and research.” Among for hospice and a gerontology group. of a recent book. He writes: “My mencement speakers have quoted Peter’s pioneering innovations was Our house on the beach has recently wife, Leigh, and I retired to a horse [the poem] because of its perceived “the use of videos as a tool for teach- provided us a view of humpback ranch in Ojai, Calif. Te pace is slow message. Avoid the common route. ing” and, in one instance, he made a whales. Turning 70 this year, dang! but we keep up via the Internet. Go your own way. Be a maverick, a video on how to improvise canons in I am featured in a new movie about You haven’t really experienced life nonconformist in the great American the Renaissance style. hippies those many years ago: until you can say that you mucked tradition of Emerson and Toreau.” Te tribute to Peter ends with this prflmfestival.ca/flms.” 10 horses before 7 a.m. My career And yet David believes that the accolade: “Peter Schubert is always From Neal Handel: “You included 35 years in domestic and poem is also about the inevitabil- engaged with people, continuously are correct that ‘there are many international fnance, including ity of regret: “You cannot ‘be one fnding new ways to understand, per- classmates who have retired from a overseas assignments with Citibank traveler’ and take both paths. At any form, compose, talk, write and think job … ’ and ‘there are undoubtedly and domestic assignments with crossroads you must choose, and about what he loves: Music.” grandchildren who have been born Wells Fargo and the Federal Reserve though you may keep alive the hope to classmates.’ I don’t fall into either Bank. I consult part time and will you’ll return someday, you know of those categories. I am working as continue until I can no longer make deep down you will never get a 1971 hard as ever as a plastic surgeon (and the drive to Los Angeles. We would second chance. ‘I doubted if I should after 38 years in practice, I am fnally love to hear from classmates. Please ever come back.’” Jim Shaw beginning to ‘get the hang of it’). As reach out at [email protected]. David then focuses on the proud 139 North 22nd St. far as grandchildren go — not yet. “I have published my frst novel. boast in the last stanza, which begins Philadelphia, PA 19103 But I am pleased to report that I’m Bookstore on the Seine is available with, “I shall be telling this with a [email protected] the proud father of a 9-month-old on Amazon and Kindle. Te book sigh” and ends with a declaration of son, Liam Takeo Handel. He is my includes a nostalgic look at the independence, “I took the one less Disappointed not to see your fourth child (the others are 10, 11 1968 Columbia student revolt and a traveled by/And that has made all classmates here? Tey are disap- and 12). My wife and I recently took night in the Tombs jail; Woodstock the diference.” David concludes, pointed not to see you! If you don’t Liam to Hawaii, where all his rela- and the origins of Sha Na Na (i.e., “[the] declaration may be a case of a write in, I write the column for you. tives on his mom’s side live.” the Kingsmen) and many refer- proud man praising his own past.” Here goes: From David Bradley: “I have ences to Greenwich Village and I thoroughly enjoyed the essay. A 15-year-old today was born recently retired from being professor the Columbia campus. All in all, it Peter Schubert GSAS’88 and I about the same time 9-11 happened. of linguistics at La Trobe University should bring back fond memories wistfully recalled recently departed A 15-year-old when the Cubs last in Australia, and become president to all who survived the ’60s. For Columbia College music professor won the World Series (1908) before of the UNESCO Comité Interna- those who are really interested, visit Howard Shanet ’39, GSAS’41 as ending their 108-year drought was 68, tional Permanent des Linguistes, bookstoreontheseine.com, where you I congratulated Peter on receiv- our age or thereabouts, when Roger which, among other things, orga- can fnd a soundtrack that goes with ing McGill University’s Lifetime Maris broke Babe Ruth’s home-run nizes the International Congress of the mystery novel.” Achievement Award for Leadership record in 1961. You remember Maris? Linguists, with the next congress David Lehman GSAS’78 wrote a in Learning. Te award given to How does that 15-year-old today scheduled for July 2018 in Cape thought-provoking essay on Robert Peter recognizes “sustained excel- perceive us? How do we perceive that Town. CIPL and I are also closely Frost’s most famous poem, Te Road lence in leadership and innovation, person’s perception of what is real life involved in work on documenting Not Taken; the essay appeared in Te as well as the active integration of and what is history?

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On the other hand, when I go American Revolution (DAR) and the named editor of Base Ball: A Journal stone reached in the stock market. grocery shopping, I hear the rock Marine Corps League. of the Early Game, succeeding MLB Most of us saw the “Dow 20,000” and pop music of my junior high Bill notes he is neither a trucker ofcial historian John Torn. Tis headlines trumpeted in every and high school days — and in the nor a Marine, but is a fast study. See journal will be published yearly; newspaper in January. Some may original versions, not elevator music. this piece he did for CCT: college. Don is looking to add new authors, have noted that the press reports (Te customer cohort is millennials.) columbia.edu/cct_archive/nov01/ so write in! often mentioned that the Dow Jones So is time expanded or compressed? nov01_feature_aboardarc.html. Michael Shapiro has some new Industrial Average frst broke 1,000 Know the names of the tall police Bill contributes articles and CD releases, one the score to Frank- in November 1972. Tat made me ofcer and the short squat cab driver book reviews to the DAR magazine enstein and one a sonata for violin wonder how tuition increases com- in It’s A Wonderful Life who save American Spirit, but is enjoying the and piano. He recently collaborated pared with stock market gains. George Bailey (played by Jimmy freedom to study Spanish (which with Paul Shafer (of Letterman Ivy tuition in 1972 was around Stewart)? Respectively, Bert and led to a three-week sojourn in Cuba fame) in performance. $2,600 per year. Tis year’s Columbia Ernie. So generations may be more in mid-2016) and to work on the Allen Schill says he lives an College tuition is a mere $52,478, connected than you think. 20-acre hobby farm where he and uneventful life, spending most of or almost exactly 20 times the 1972 I’m sure that you can write a his wife, Wilda Dodson, have lived his time on his “I hope idiosyn- tuition. Tus, the 20-fold increase better item than my of-the-cuf since 2002. For nine years, they have cratic still-life photography.” His in Columbia’s tuition was identical note. Now prove it. Even better, you partnered with a local equine rescue website (to see if he lives up to his to the 20-fold increase in the stock probably have news about yourself, group that uses the farm to rehabili- self-description) is allenschill.com, market. (Tat still doesn’t make those your family or your classmates. Or tate equines rescued from abusive strangely enough. He has, of late, tuition checks any less painful!) share your best Columbia story. and neglectful owners. been associated with a Swiss gallery, For many years, Kevin Ward (a Send them my way at jes200@ Richard Macksoud was interested columbia.edu. in the Fall 2016 Class Notes column, Tat brings me to my trademark in which I described the magical Sha sign-of: Remember back 50 (50!) Na Na concert at Reunion 2016. Bob Adler ’74 enjoys the retired life in Belfast, Maine, Septembers ago and the feelings we “Wish I had been there to see Sha Na where he is taking a course on the development of had, including of adventure, as we Na. I remember well their frst per- entered Columbia College. We are formance in old Ferris Booth. People the state of Israel at the University of Maine. still connected. dancing on the tables and having the time of our lives. Oh well, I get to keep that memory.” 1972 Richard has a question for Beres- Photographica Fine Art. Scuttlebutt fnancial adviser at Merrill Lynch ford Hayward REUNION , whose multicultural is that he will have an exhibition in Paramus, N.J.) has lived in Glen REUNION 2017 music programs in Paris were also there this year. Rock, N.J., raising four sons in a large JUNE 1–4 described in that column: “I noted Lastly, a query: Steven Starr suburban home. Now that their sons Alumni Afairs Contact Fatima Yudeh that in the discussion of Berry Hay- took a course in 1971 at Barnard have moved out, Kevin and his wife, [email protected] ward you mentioned he presented a called “England Under the Tudors Maureen, have downsized and moved 212-851-7834 program on American music. Perhaps and Stuarts.” He lost the syllabus in to Montvale, N.J. Teir youngest

Development Contact 2017 you can ask him what is ‘American a food — if anyone knows where son, Brian, attends Fordham for Heather Siemienas music?’ Is it the blues or bluegrass? another copy might be, he would be undergrad, although he is currently [email protected] Or jazz? Or country? Or gospel? most appreciative. studying abroad in London at the 212-851-7855 Or all of them? I do not know. His Send notes to betra1@bellsouth. Gabelli School of Business. Kevin opinion would be interesting as he net to be included in the Summer or tells us that his oldest son, Matthew Paul S. Appelbaum has lived overseas for so long. the Fall issue. Hasta. ’11, lives in San Francisco and is 39 Claremont Ave., #24 “All the best from, of all places, engaged to a Barnard alumna he met New York, NY 10027 Mississippi.” while on campus. About nine months [email protected] Tis will be the last column 1974 ago Matt left a position at YouTube published before our 45th reunion, to join a tech startup, Mux. Seems As a group, we ’72ers are clearly Tursday, June 1–Sunday, June Fred Bremer strange to we geezers that someone entering a transitional period. Many 4. You can get more information 532 W. 111th St. would leave an established tech giant classmates are moving into retirement, at college.columbia.edu/alumni/ New York, NY 10025 for a high-risk venture, but then I planning to do those things they never reunion2017. [email protected] recalled Rob Knapp (partner at the had time for, while others are thinking I hope to see many, many of law frm McKenzie & Knapp in about the fnal stage of our careers and you there. It is frequently commented that the Manhattan) saying a few years back what’s still left to accomplish. Along cost of college tuition has gone up that his son, Henry, had left a job at those lines, Bill Hudgins retired in far faster than almost anything else. Facebook to join a startup. Inciden- March 2016 after a 23-year career 1973 However, as we all learned from the tally, Rob told me that company was as an editor and writer at Hammock “alternative facts” stated during the bought out by Microsoft and Henry Publishing in Nashville. While at Barry Etra presidential election, even that which is back pounding the pavement for a Hammock, he wrote for and edited 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE is stated repeatedly is not always true. new venture. Tese kids! magazines and other media for a Atlanta, GA 30306 What brought this to mind was A while back (ca. 2012) Mark variety of clients, including a trucker- [email protected] not only the Brandeis tuition bill for Lebwohl, chairman of the Depart- oriented magazine for TravelCenters my son, David, and the forthcoming ment of Dermatology at Mount of America, the former investment Y’all will be reading these in 2017 American University tuition for my Sinai Hospital) told us that his son, frm of J.C. Bradford & Co., First — may this year have started well daughter, Katie (recently admitted Andy ’04, LAW’07 had just opened Data Corp., the Daughters of the for you! Don Jensen has been early decision!), but also the mile- a bar in New Haven, Conn., called

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Karaoke Heroes. Now we learn the Columbia Bartending Agency, ups. Classmates downsizing their Healing: Te Marvin Gaye Story, will Andy has sold the bar and for the the student-run business that pro- homes and exploring new interests be released this year. I’m also doing past year has been the chief strategy vided bartenders for private parties as they contemplate the next phase a series of seven 45-minute IMAX ofcer and general counsel for a all over Manhattan. After regaling of life. Take a moment to send in 3D documentaries to be shown in restructuring company. Not a lot with a few choice (unrepeatable) what you are up to and what dreams destination theaters located at some of details yet, but it sure smells like memories, Mike wrote, “Someday I’d you still harbor! of the most iconic tourist locations in another startup. love to see a collection of anecdotes the world (the Taj Mahal, the Great Te retired life in Belfast, Maine, from my fellow bartenders. I think Wall, Angkor Wat, etc.) starting this seems to agree with Bob Adler. after 40 years we are released from 1975 year. Should be very exciting. Having left a lot of work and other our oath of secrecy!” “Anyone who fnds themselves in responsibilities behind in Montclair, Something tells me that Steve Randy Nichols the Palm Beach, Fla., area is welcome N.J., Bob says he is able to enjoy Dworkin, at Citigroup in Los Ange- 734 S. Linwood Ave. to drop me a line and come by for a the many cultural events in this les, might have a lot to contribute! Baltimore, MD 21224 cocktail, in the welcoming tradition small artistic community. He is also Mike is a social and behavioral [email protected] of the 1754 H.C. Earwicker Heeltap attending a class on the develop- professor at the School of Commu- Reunion. Roar, Lion, Roar!” ment of the state of Israel at a nication at Te Ohio State University It’s not often that I receive an “senior college” on the local campus in Columbus. He tells us he has a email that can fll an entire set of of the University of Maine. Last daughter in Los Angeles and a son in Class Notes, but here is one, from 1976 January, Bob took a two-week trip to Shanghai, who works for SAP China. Charlie Lindsay. Israel to join his son Jake. Together Chris Hansen (retired in Tanks, Charlie! Ken Howitt they will research the Jewish Brigade London) wrote in to recommend “Having received a recent issue of 1114 Hudson St., Apt. 8 of the British Army and the then classmates join him in helping the CCT, along with its celebration of the Hoboken, N.J. 07030 secret underground Haganah (a Alumni Representative Committee newly installed Class of 2020, I was [email protected] Jewish paramilitary organization, to interview applicants to the College thrown into depression at the mere which became the core of the Israeli (and Engineering). Go to undergrad. mention of a date (2020) that should No column this issue, but one will Defense Forces). Bob’s father served admissions.columbia.edu/arc for still be part of science fction, in my be coming in the Summer issue! I in both. Jake is only a year from more information. “You’ll be helping mind. Where has the time gone? hope you are all well. Please send receiving his ordination as a rabbi. to choose the next generation of “Ira Malin and I share the news to [email protected]. Bob’s daughter started a master’s Columbia College and Engineering equally amazing experience that the program in occupational therapy students.” Chris says he does some last of our children will graduate at Temple University last summer. interviews via Skype when geography from Columbia College this year, 1977

Looks like 2018 could be a big year is challenging, so you can contribute although my wife, Fern Lindsay REUNION REUNION 2017 for graduations in the Adler family! no matter where you live. BUS’82, and I will contribute for JUNE 1–4 We have learned that Jon Cuneo’s A quick note to make sure you one more year for our other daugh- Alumni Afairs Contact law frm, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, saw the feature in the Winter 2016– ter’s Law School bills. Empty Nest Fatima Yudeh has consolidated two of its main 17 issue of CCT featuring photos by Syndrome all around. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. [email protected] ofces (downtown Washington, D.C., As “I’m in touch with old friends. 212-851-7834 David Stein and Baltimore) into a new principal noted in previous columns, Timothy I spoke with while Development Contact 2017 ofce in another part of D.C. (near is a highly acclaimed portrait photog- visiting friends in Washington, D.C. Heather Siemienas American University). Te 20-person rapher and videographer who has David still has the best business card [email protected] frm maintains satellite ofces in produced a series of photographic in the world (Ofce of the Secretary 212-851-7855 Boulder, St. Louis and Brooklyn. exhibitions and PBS specials that of Defense, Senior Policy Advisor: Word came from Mike Slater, in highlight various segments of society Nuclear and Missile Defense) — if David Gorman the Midwest, who was a colleague in (blacks, Latinos, women, and the gay that doesn’t start a conversation, 111 Regal Dr. and the transgender populations). nothing will. DeKalb, IL 60115 Last September, a composite exhibit “I sufered through the [email protected] of 151 of his portraits opened at the Columbia-Princeton football game Annenberg Space for Photography in with Joe Seldner ’74 and his far-too- See you at Reunion 2017, Tursday, CCT Los Angeles. lovely-for-him girlfriend, topped of June 1–Sunday, June 4! We are on What caught my eye was part by a late lunch at V&T. track for a very satisfying 40th. For Read of the preamble that revealed how “I regularly see and speak to now general information and registration Timothy had a very diferent fresh- long-sufering brother-in-law, Ste- info, go to college.columbia.edu/ CCT Online man year than most of us. When ven Solmonson ’76. Steve is married alumni/reunion2017. To opt out of the print he came to New York he contacted to my wife’s sister, the former Leslie As of this writing (in February), edition, click “Manage a family friend –– an actress who Morgan BC’77. Leslie and Fern’s I see that 16 of us pledged to attend, happened to travel in the famboy- father, David Morgan, was a gradu- most recently John Santamaria, who Your Subscription” at ant NYC underground scene of the ate of Engineering, then called the speaks for the rest when he writes, “I college.columbia.edu/cct early 1970s. On their frst excursion School of Mines, in the 1940s. do hope to be at the reunion — look- and follow the domestic she took him to a party at the Chel- “Once all the tuition bills are ing forward to seeing everyone.” sea Hotel, and he met Andy Warhol, fnished, I will move away from the Along with the on-campus instructions. You’ll receive Lou Reed and others. Timothy is advising and fnancing of new tech- activities that are open to all alumni, an email when each new quoted, “I quickly shifted my morn- nology and media companies and the Class of 1977 is planning a get- issue is posted. ing classes to the afternoon.” will spend more time on my hobby together with the Barnard Class of Tere you have it. Our kids that has turned into a full-time job, 1977 as well a panel of classmates to ditching dream tech jobs for start- producing movies. My latest, Sexual speak at our Saturday dinner.

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We also have a class mystery he is very worried about the new Riviera,” which he claims is “simply is not happy about our old school’s afoot! A non-alumnus reached out administration. the nicest beaches anywhere in the handling of various issues that you to the Columbia Alumni Center Also thinking about museums is Mediterranean, with twice the days might have read about concerning because he found a ’77 class ring in Peter Samis, the associate curator of perfect weather as Côte d’Azur.” academics and the Jewish state. “A the Appleton, Wis., region. If you of interpretation at the San Francisco Song man Henry Aronson’s year and a half ago, I wrote Dean lost your ring in Wisconsin, please Museum of Modern Art. “We held whole family is busy, as he notes: James J. Valentini a fve-page letter contact CCT at [email protected]. a book launch event this winter, (it’s “Dates have been announced for discussing the experiences my daugh- about creating the visitor-centered the Rocktopia Live spring tour, ter had in the Department of Middle museum) at the Oakland Museum for which I’ll be playing piano and Eastern, South Asian, and African 1978 of California, co-sponsored by the conducting. Not all the dates are Studies. She had to switch majors to John F. Kennedy University Museum up on rocktopialive.com, but keep the economics department. Matthew Nemerson Studies Program. Looks like there will checking. Also, Loveless Texas, the “Tragically, the University has 35 Huntington St. be another event at the closing plenary musical my wife, Cailín Hefernan, now been identifed in a report New Haven, CT 06511 of the annual Museums and the Web and I have been developing for released by Brandeis University as [email protected] conference in Cleveland. You can get about 10 years, will have its premiere one of the most hostile schools for more information at amazon.com/ production in NYC this fall, prob- Jewish students in the United States. Strange things afoot in the nation, Creating-Visitor-centered-Museum- ably in September. Negotiations are No other Ivy League institution no longer led by a Columbia man, Peter-Samis/dp/1629581917. under way with venues.” was on that list, although other less but a fne time to contemplate Ronald Koury, managing editor Brian Guillorn LAW’82 remem- prestigious schools were. … democracy, liberalism and the role of Te Hudson Review, writes: “I bers spending the inauguration “From tragic to comic, Samantha of man and government. Good have edited an anthology, Literary watching the swearing-in while he Bee’s comedy show recently featured news on the basketball court as the Awakenings: Personal Essays from was applying for law school. Brian a photo of Low Library when Lions seem to have returned to the Hudson Review, which was pub- has made a change in his world, discussing academic anti-Semitism. form, reminiscent of the 1970s and lished in January. It is a collection reporting, “Four years ago, my wife, Although under a most generous Coach Tom Penders’ teams of Mike of memoirs that function as literary Polly Gregor BC’79, GSAS’86, and interpretation this development has Wilhite and the like. criticism, from a period of more I semi-retired to our weekend place escaped the attention of the admin- For this column, I asked you than 30 years of the magazine.” in the mid-Hudson Valley. istration, I think it more likely that to remember the January 1977 We have not heard from our “We live in High Falls, N.Y., institutional inertia and defensive- presidential inauguration when we sports maven Tom Mariam in a next door to New Paltz and across ness account for the singular lack of were all on campus –– that of Jimmy while, so it was great to learn that the river from Poughkeepsie. To any action. When will this change?” Carter, who had beaten Gerald Ford “My wife, Alyce, and I proudly my bemusement, we now run a Chuck Callan was celebrating in a strange election that hinged on celebrated the bat mitzvah of our small, high-end poultry farm, selling his 20th birthday on 6 John Jay dur- support for an evangelical Southerner daughter, Madison, in November. pastured heritage ducks, geese and ing the Carter festivities. Chuck is (who was a Democrat), the Ford It was especially nice to share this chickens. It has been quite an experi- “looking forward” to an “an increase “Poland” gafe and his Nixon pardon. milestone with a number of friends ence. Te Hudson Valley is flled with of 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit during the Seems like a long time ago in a dif- who go back with me to my Colum- an incredible variety of farms grow- Trump term” and is looking forward ferent land, perhaps. I also wanted to bia days. I do remember watching ing and raising superb vegetables, even more to our 40th reunion next know your favorite vacation spot and, the Carter event in John Jay and fruit and livestock. A signifcant year. “I plan to host a party for the of course, any thoughts about the frst then heading out on the road with number of the farms are operated as pre-reunion activity (40th) and 100 days of the New Yorker in the the basketball team to Ithaca to second-career farms by transplanted have started to discuss this with the White House. broadcast its game.” metro NYC people. Poultry farming Alumni Ofce. Te one I had for My good friend and fellow Con- Tom’s favorite place to vacation is is very much a ‘hands-on’ business, the 35th was a blast.” necticut man John Flores LAW’81 Israel –– where he will soon be able a far cry from my frst career as a On a somewhat metaphysical tour, notes that there “is nothing much to visit ambassador David Friedman commercial litigator and Polly’s life Chuck writes his favorite place to visit new with me. I am approaching my LAW’79–– and his favorite spot in in scientifc research.” would be to “read the classics again ffth anniversary as general counsel town? Levien Gym, of course! Another man of law, Ed Fergu- and be transported on a shield to for Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co. Speaking of David, Gary Pick- son of Brooklyn, does not mince Elysian Fields. It’s all about the text!” Since my wife, Lucille, and I turned holz SIPA’81 wrote, “I remember words about the new administration, Kevin Vitting retreats to “Sani- 60 around the holidays, we decided David fondly; he had a fantastic joking, “An oft-maligned minority bel, Fla., a lovely, afordable island to take the girls (plus husband and sense of humor and a brilliant mind. –– shallow, lying braggarts –– will of Fort Myers without trafc lights fancé) on a trip to Disney World/ My lab at Oxford is starting to take fnally have their day in the sun. I’m or neon signs –– ‘Nantucket on the Universal Studios on my nickel. In of and is occupying most of my looking forward to 2016 receding Gulf coast’” –– when he takes time this way they would not have to go time now (weirdsciencelab.com). in the rearview mirror. Some things of from the Suburban Nephrology through the stress of throwing a sur- “I drafted a few position papers for thankfully happen only once –– like Group in Ridgewood, N.J. Kevin’s prise party for us. We had a great time. the Trump campaign and transition turning 60 and watching a complete advice for the President: “I hope he “I guess I was working as usual in team, which was certainly a unique jackass become President. It was will streamline the economy in ways Ferris Booth Hall during the inaugu- experience, but I will not be joining defnitely not the time to quit drink- that help the nation at large without ration but I don’t really remember … ” the new administration. I was in ing, though I did manage to stop hurting too many people in the Another Connecticut alum is Washington, D.C., for the Carter snifng glue.” process. I hope he tones down his Alex Demac, who writes, “I have inauguration, standing next to three of Ed will probably spend time in rhetoric and turns of his Twitter –– been developing a tour of the Met- my Columbia professors, all of whom Kauai, Hawaii, if the glue doesn’t get and he needs to learn to listen!” ropolitan Museum of Art based on would soon be sworn in for the White him frst. Joseph Schachner, of Teledyne its architectural collection history.” House or State department stafs.” Ironically, given the new class LeCroy in New York, is all about Alec’s favorite place to vacation Gary’s favorite vacation location, connection to ofcial United States Southern California these days: is New York City, no surprise, and not surprisingly is the “Zionist policy on Israel, Michael Glanzer “I’m a grandpa! You see, my older

Spring 2017 CCT 67 Class Notes daughter, now an associate profes- time I took a real break since before sor in psychology at UCSD, had I was a freshman at Columbia. [At her very own infant development this writing, I planned to] be at subject! We’ll be going to San Diego the American Academy in Rome, frequently; this is my new favorite working on the outline for a book place to visit. But actually I think as well as traveling in the footsteps slightly north of the city, La Jolla or of regency architect Sir John Soane, some of the other coastal towns, are retracing part of the Grand Tour really worth recommending. route he started in 1778. I will draw “I don’t remember the Carter time and watercolor in my spare time. well, but I was in the ‘combined plan’ “My girls are doing well. Rebecca so this was my frst year in the Engi- lives in New York and works in neering school and I was probably up marketing. Katherine studies in Columbia’s amateur radio station, architecture and interior design W2AEE. As for the President, I at the University of Texas, Austin. predict that Trump will probably be Magdalen is a junior in high school impeached before the end of four and has her eye on a few colleges, years, and then the question is, how maybe in Europe. will Mike Pence change the country?” “We bought an apartment in Lots to think about what Amer- Manhattan, so I’m spending more John Oberdick ’79 shared this photo from the 2016 Alumni Parade of Classes. ica is all about in 2017, and who time in town between trips to far- better than those of us with classic fung projects that I am designing “Great Books” training –– this is across the United States. It’s nice to Gil, I’m an orthopedic surgeon brilliant pre-med I had to compete exactly what we were programmed wake up in the city. and the only brace I know surrounds with (only moderately successfully) to take on. Where was I in January “Wishing classmates a fantastic the knee! in Professor Charles Dawson’s orgo 1977? Sitting at Te Gold Rail with 2017!” John Oberdick GSAS’88 writes, class! So very odd and exciting that Peter Low, discussing various plans Tom, I need a review of your next “Tis is my frst Class Notes update, after all these years our paths would for the coming semester at WKCR. book, Te Old Shingled House Tat I so it’s long overdue! Last May, I cross again. After 9 Jay I moved to I remember he was not happy that I Lived In! attended Class Day for the gradu- the new ZBT Delta Chapter house kept leaving our table to move closer Jack J. Lipari is based at Helmer, ation of my daughter, Meena ’16, on West 115th Street, in my junior to the small TV over the Rail’s bar Conley & Kasselman in Somers which I guess is what inspired me to year. Calling the 115th Street house so I could hear Carter’s speech. Point, N.J. “Te law frm has various take pen to paper. I am an associate home for the frst time were a mostly Diferent times for sure, and while I branches, but I work primarily out professor of neuroscience at Ohio iconoclastic and aspirationally diverse was excited about the frst Democrat of the Somers Point location, which State. My research specialty is the band of brothers who were surpris- since I had become a political being, is close to my house in Egg Harbor molecular genetics of cerebellum ingly cohesive. A quick shout out in the technology at the bar was a far Township. I retired at the end of 2012 development and function, but most hopes of a reunion someday soon: cry from the fancy Ampex decks and from the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s recently I am working on a preven- Kevin ‘Father’ Barrett ’80, my room- high quality sound we were used to Ofce. I concentrate on the practice tive pharmacotherapy for neonatal mate at ZBT (and another former at our little college radio station. of criminal law, with an emphasis on abstinence syndrome. I moved to 9 Jay denizen) and who attended Hope I saw you at Levien this legal writing, but the frm practices Columbus for this position in 1992 my wedding in San Diego in 1991; winter and perhaps at an early round in a number of areas. I enjoy working with my wife, Dina Roldan BC’87. Joseph ‘Jeph’/‘Muddy’ Loeb (also game for the NCAA tournament among my colleagues, a number of We have three children, Meena, of 9 Jay), founding father of the new this March. Who knows? As we saw whom have had similar previous Gus and Nicholas. Meena (23) Delta house in 1977; and others who in November, anything is possible. professionally rewarding experiences graduated cum laude with a B.A. come to mind in no particular order: in government employment.” in political science and history. She Cal and Mal, Daz, Flash and the Jack, I wonder if you live near my lives in Brooklyn and is a paralegal Z-men, to name a few. Some free 1979 old township, Lox & Egg Harbor! at a small immigration law frm association geezer fashbacks of ZBT, Gilead Lancaster’s book, in Chelsea. She plans to go to law Columbia and NYC in the late ’70s: Robert Klapper EMBRACE: A Revolutionary New school. Gus (22) studies engineering Nymphs and Satyrs, Come as Your 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 Healthcare System for the Twenty- at Ohio University and majors in Dead, Needle Dik, Sick Dick and the Los Angeles, CA 90048 First Century, was published last computer science. Nicholas (14) is Volkswagens, Trader Vic’s, Bufalo [email protected] summer. He says, “It details a in the eighth grade, and plays travel Roadhouse, Kings Pub, Te West healthcare system reform plan that soccer and the trumpet. Dina and I End, Mama Joy’s, Sam. Go Lions!” It has been a busy year for Tom a group of healthcare profession- are so proud of them all. We spent John, here’s a geezer fashback: Kligerman with the release of his als and I have been working on the Christmas holiday as a family in Te eggplant pizza at V&T! second book, Te New Shingled House, for almost 10 years. Details can be Amsterdam; kind of a celebration of Happy New Year greetings from co-authored with his two partners at found on theembraceplan.org. Meena’s graduation and my upcom- Michael P. Kelly, who has been Ike Kligerman Barkley. According to “In the meantime, I keep my ing 60th birthday. Wonderful time! chairman of McCarter & English Tom, “It features 14 of our shingle- day job as director of non-invasive “On Class Day and at the Legacy since July 2009. Mike writes, “At the style houses. We traveled the country cardiology at Bridgeport Hospital Luncheon for legacy parents, I recon- ripe age of 60, I still enjoy an active giving talks and joining panels in Connecticut, along with several nected with Bob Deresiewicz, trial practice. I celebrated 33 years of discussing the work in the book as other Columbia alumni who became whose daughter, Ellie ’16, graduated marriage to Deanna and am blessed well as architecture in general. cardiologists, Charles Landau with Meena. It was great meeting with two great children, Joanna ’14 “I took a six-week sabbatical SEAS’80, Craig McPherson ’72 and up with Bob again, a co-resident (24) and Patrick (21). No grandchil- starting in mid-January — the frst Kieve Berkwits ’75.” of 9 Jay my sophomore year and a dren, at least none that I know of.

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“I am still mourning the loss of the squash courts.’ Well you can only SEAS’80, Dave Maloof and Harlan tion of Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) at my Columbia football coach, Bill imagine what happened next — the Simon ’81. Te food was plentiful Columbia. Te event was black-tie Campbell ’62, TC’64. I I stopped by phone continued to ring with folks and the conversation enlighten- and was held in Low Library on his pub, Te Old Pro, while I was in trying to make reservations for squash. ing. Dave has written a new book, October 22. Tere must have been Palo Alto, Calif., for business. After the frst 10 calls, I was really Christianity Matters: How Over Two 150 alumni brothers in attendance “Please give my best to all of my starting to lose my patience and my Millennia the Meek and the Merciful (my roommate, George Watson old friends.” new quiet paradise of a room was Revolutionized Civilization –– and SEAS’80, came all the way from Mike, I have fond memories of becoming a nightmare. Apparently Why It Needs to Happen Again. In New Mexico!). From the Class of Ed meeting your father during fresh- the phone number for this room was these trying geopolitical times, I sug- 1981, in addition to me, were Klees Brian Krisberg. man orientation in his cowboy hat one digit of from the squash court gest reading Dave’s book to see how and While and giant belt buckle. He was so reservation line. you can make a diference. we no longer own the fraternity proud of you and your twin brother. “So I ask you, fellow ’79er, almost Tis year’s John Jay Awards house, the Fiji spirit is still evident Geof Newman: “In 2016, I con- 40 years later, what would you have Dinner honored my former football on campus. Regardless of how the tinued my work in aerospace for UTC done to solve this problem? Clearly teammate Joe Cabrera ’82. Shawn University views fraternities on cam- Aerospace Systems and branched out asking the gym to change its phone FitzGerald and I attended; it was pus, to have an organization survive to support our micro electromechani- number was not going to happen nice to see many of our footballers 150 years (established the year after cal systems business as well. I traveled and neither was the bureaucratic in good form. the Civil War ended) is amazing.” Daniel Gordis heavily, with fve trips to Japan, four to phone system at the College going A blast from the past: Shahin lives in Jerusalem Korea, two to Israel, two to England to change my phone number, but the Shayan was honored with the ’79 and works at Shalem College, which and one to Singapore. I live in West solution I came up with (and where soccer team at the Columbia Univer- uses a core curriculum infuenced by Hartford, Conn.” this memory came from) is due to sity Athletics Hall of Fame inaugura- Columbia’s. He recently published Robert C. Klapper: “Tis a solution to a similar problem I tion dinner in October. Shahin was his 11th book, Israel: A Concise column’s Columbia memory will incurred in 2016. one of the frst people I met on 13 History of a Nation Reborn. It was really move the grey matter around “OK, time’s up. I’ll give you the Carman and was one heck of a soccer awarded the 2016 National Jewish in your brain because it involves the brilliant solution I came up with. I player. He has spent his career as an Book Award for “Book of the Year.” Ed Savage: telephone — not the iPhone, cell mean, I had to study. I needed the international fnance dealmaker on From “I have not phone, fip phone or whatever it is we phone to stop ringing with squash both sides of the world. Shahin and had contact with any classmates or call the walkie-talkie that’s in your enthusiasts because organic chem- his family live in Los Angeles but he people whom I knew from Colum- pocket right now. I’m going back to istry was in my future and no one still has his CU roots. bia for many years. I also have not our sophomore year, when I lived in cared why I was unable to sleep or Drop me a line at mcbcu80@ attended alumni events, mainly for Hartley Hall — God knows what the study. So here it is … yahoo.com! lack of time and other life interests. name of that place is now, probably “I started taking reservations. “One thing I have done, for the Sports Authority of America Hall or Everyone who called, I acknowledged past 20 years, however, is regional whoever the latest billionaire donor that I was the squash reservation 1981 interviews for the Alumni Represen- was — so I am going way back to line and gave them the same date tative Committee. I have found this rotary phones and Hartley Hall. and time to show up at the court. Kevin Fay to be very interesting and rewarding, [Editor’s note: It’s still Hartley Hall.] Tis must have led to all kinds of 8300 Private Ln. though also frustrating because very “I was so excited to get this room, confusion, but it was the only way to Annandale, VA 22003 few of the candidates I have inter- which was my second to start the train the gerbils of squash that the [email protected] viewed were admitted. One thing school year because my frst roommate pellet has been moved in the cage. that is important about participating was expelled for being an ax murderer When they all showed up at once CCT welcomes your new (return- in these interviews is the questions or something similar. To this day, I do and realized the futility of making ing) class correspondent, Kevin Fay. the students ask me. Whether it is not know what happened to him. I a reservation by phone, I was fnally Tanks, Kevin! ‘Why did you chose Columbia?’ or didn’t know the science of the ax was a able to get some peace and quiet. Kevin writes: “To the Class of ‘Why did you like attending Colum- major at the College. “We all learned a lot more during 1981 –– I have decided to take on bia?’ or ‘Would you attend Columbia “I was so excited to begin cohabi- those years at the College than what the role of class correspondent for again?’, they all provoke a common tating with a quiet, courteous and was in the classroom. Now you what I believe is the third time in thought –– what did this four-year less-threatening scholar. Te moment know why I learned to hate squash. 35 years. Tis is the least I can do period of my life mean to me and I settled into this paradise of a room Roar, lion, roar! for the College that provided me do for me? Here is the short answer: on Morningside Heights, the phone (and our class) the opportunity to be Confdence, independence, compe- rang. You all remember those days. I surrounded by outstanding faculty tence, accomplishment and breadth. picked up the phone, excited to speak 1980 members in the most stimulating Confdence in myself and ability to to someone clearly wishing me well in city in the United States. Of course, pursue new interests, independence Michael C. Brown my new humble abode when the caller at the time we were at Columbia to pursue my interests, competence London Terrace Towers said, ‘Hello, is this the reservation the city was flthy, crime-ridden and in my pursuits, accomplishment in 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F for the squash courts?’ Emotionally broke, however, you could get a beer my feld of interest and an expanded New York, NY 10011 crushed, I replied, ‘No, I’m sorry, this and a shot at Cannon’s for less than breadth of academic interests fostered [email protected] is my dorm room, you must have the a single cup of Starbucks cofee. Oh, by the Core Curriculum. wrong number,’ and hung up. Two how the neighborhood has changed! “I have three children. None were minutes later, the phone rang again, Spring is in the air and NYC is Please send updates to kfay0516@ interested in attending Columbia. interrupting my unpacking. Again I starting to bloom. Yankees, Mets, gmail.com or to the mailing address My daughter went to Bryn Mawr was excited to speak to the potential Columbia baseball and golf are on at the top of the column. and teaches middle school math, Barnard caller on the other end and my mind. “I did not see in the Winter my older son went to Washington was crushed to hear the same request: I attended our annual dinner 2016–17 issue of CCT any mention University and is an engineer in the Jack Hersch ‘Hi, I’d like to make a reservation for at Carmine’s with of the 150th anniversary celebra- utilities department there and the

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third, also a son, is a musical theatre “We all sail aboard the same employees. Give every candidate the Surprisingly, it had fully functional major at Penn State, aiming for a ship. Yet everyone is afraid the same set budget (what a great test of air conditioning. It was truly a Broadway career. Very diferent from other will run us aground. Te fscal responsibly), say a campaign “DeLorean-fux capacitor moment” their father’s choice of career! Elephants fear the Donkeys. Te debit card with $5 per registered for me! “After Columbia, I went to the John Birchers fear the Rhinos. Te voter in the district they are running Tis year’s Reunion Committee Yale School of Medicine, trained Reformers fear the Socialists. in. B) Free but equal U.S. postage for is stafed by generous and stalwart in general surgery at Penn and car- “Our ship, the U.S. Constitu- small districts. Free but equal news- classmates Joe Cabrera, Frank diothoracic surgery at Brigham and tion, is a superb vessel, designed paper advertising for larger districts. Lopez-Balboa, Victor Lopez- Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical by the Founding Fathers and Free but equal TV time for national Balboa, Alex Moon, David Filosa, School. I have been a practicing constructed of their genius. Teir races. C) And for humanities sake, Edward Lopez, John Dawson, cardiothoracic surgeon since fnishing genius included foresight, and that censor negative, dishonest and Arthur Staub, James Altuner, my training in 1994. I have worked forethought included Article V. unproven material before release. Andrew Danzig, Max Dietshe, and lived in a number of cities, but We must abandon the contentious “5. Financial: A) Bring the Shahan Islam, Dan Horwitz and settled where I am now in 2009 and issues, whether port or starboard, Federal Reserve Bank out of the Jim Shehan. hope to complete my career here. and tend to the needs of the ship. shadows. Nationalize the Federal Tanks, gents! I’m a ftness enthusiast and earned a We must use Article V to clean the Reserve and broaden its Governship. For those who plan to attend, black belt in Shotokan karate. barnacles from her hull before the B) Establish a fat income tax on all please also consider the cocktail “I do say that I envy those of weight of our own neglect sinks our individuals. C) Collect taxes at the reception hosted by the Society of you living in New York, but only a ship and drowns our liberty. state level in each state as deter- Columbia Graduates. Te society, little! Having lived in Florida for “Here is my platform: mined by each state’s needs. D) Ten along with the deans of the College seven years now, I do miss the fall. “1. Legislative: A) Take career require each state to pay upkeep of and Engineering, will honor this year’s However, if I never see another politicians out of the equation. Create the federal government according to Great Teachers Award recipients, one snowfake, it will be too soon!” term limits for Congress. Establish each state’s income. E) Require the professor from the College and one Seth Haberman: “With the term limits like the President for both federal government to maintain a professor from Engineering. At the help of Tom Glocer, I sold my latest Senators and Representatives. As I balanced budget. F) Constitutionally time of writing, it’s scheduled for 3 company to Comcast and have a have said before, power is a carcino- prohibit unfunded federal mandates. p.m. on Saturday, June 3, and is only job for the frst time in 30 years. So gen to the mind, and power held too “Contact me at jaygregorycraddock $20 to attend. It’s a wonderful event, now, I’m leaving Comcast and on long a malignancy. B) Take control of @gmail.com. I would appreciate especially for those whose lives were to my next ventures in educational the Senate from the corporations and your support.” so positively afected by great teaching. technology with an Israeli startup.” return control of the Senate to the I look forward to seeing you From Jay Craddock: “After a state legislatures. Rescind the 17th all there! full career in my hometown caring Amendment to the Constitution and 1982

for my friends and neighbors as a allow each state to determine how its REUNION REUNION 2017 frefghter/paramedic, I retired. Now own state’s Senators shall be selected 1983 JUNE 1–4 I care for my disabled parents and and/or recalled. C) Rewrite the Alumni Afairs Contact 6-year-old son. However, I have long-standing rules of the Senate and Roy Pomerantz Fatima Yudeh a servant’s heart and the need to the House to promote coalitions of Babyking/Petking [email protected] 182-20 Liberty Ave. help more. Early life as the son of a the like-minded to imagine and then 212-851-7834 Jamaica, NY 11412 statesman, lessons learned in scout- build a great society. 2017 Development Contact [email protected] ing and, of course, the Columbia “2. Judicial: A) Create term limits Heather Siemienas experience have instilled a desire to for Supreme Court Justices. B) Rec- [email protected] fx what’s broken. In 2018 intend ognize each state’s Supreme Courts 212-851-7855 My son David (12) and I were to run for U.S. Senate in my home as fnal judicial authority in that happy to attend Columbia’s frst state of Nevada. state unless a matter is between two Andrew Weisman Homecoming win since 2000. Kevin or more states. C) End the practice 81 S. Garfield St. Chapman and his wife, Sharon of federal judicial review. Denver, CO 80209 Chapman BC’83, Steve Coleman “3. Presidential: A) Give the [email protected] and Ed Joyce also attended. It President the line item veto, then was a windy, rainy day, but David give the Congress the power to Greetings, gentlemen! I trust all is insisted we go. He has attended Columbia override the use of a line item veto well. Upon receipt of this edition of every Homecoming since birth. College with a simple majority. B) Limit the CCT, you’ll have but a few weeks I, David and my other son, Ricky life of Executive Orders to the term to make arrangements to attend (9), attended several pre-season Alumni of the executive. C) Limit the scope our (gulp!) 35th reunion. It will basketball games and Columbia’s of Administrative Regulations as take place during Reunion 2017, home opening loss against Cornell. on Facebook not to create unfunded mandates or Tursday, June 1–Sunday, June 4. Jim Weinstein ’84 also has season facebook.com/alumnicc permanent bureaucratic expansions. For those planning to attend, let tickets this year. Jim is in touch with “4. Political: A) Create real everyone know you’ll be there: col- former Columbia basketball guard Like the page to get campaign reform with contributions lege.columbia.edu/alumni/events/ Grant Mullins ’16. Grant started for alumni news, learn removed from the equation. Not reunion/2017/pledged-attend. For the California Berkley Golden Bears about alumni events just corporate money, ALL private general informtion, go to college. this season (he missed playing one year money. When someone runs for columbia.edu/alumni/reunion2017.” at Columbia due to an injury). We also and College happenings, ofce, give him/her a tax-supported You should be aware that rooms saw at the games Michael Schmidt- view photos and more. campaign fund and that’s all. No are actually available on campus at a berger ’82, Donna MacPhee ’89, Ken personal money, no other monetary low cost. During last year’s All-Class Howitt ’76 and Senior Associate contributions and no paid campaign Reunion I stayed in Carman Hall. Director of Admissions Diane McKoy.

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to get this survey fnished. My list of Queens. I run a small real estate the Top Twelve (of the pops) for the business in New York, live in Cobble year follows: Hill, Brooklyn, am married, have 1. Panda Bear, Panda Bear Meets the three children (8–21) and consider Grim Reaper myself very much at home in NYC, 2. John Zorn, Simulacrum where I grew up.” 3. Te Maccabees, Marks to Prove It Kevin Chapman: “I disagree 4. Foals, What Went Down with the University administration’s 5. Battles, La Di Da Di ill-conceived decision to termi- 6. Gwenno, Y Dydd Olaf nate the traditional Orgo Night 7. Joe Satriani, Shockwave Supernova performance by the Marching Band 8. Pond, Man It Feels Like Space Again in Butler Library. Not only was the 9. Public Service Broadcasting, decision wrong-headed, but it was Te Race for Space implemented without any notice 10. Beach House, Depression Cherry or discussion — a fait accompli by 11. Dungen, Allas Sak University administrators to end 12. Floating Points, Elaenia” one of the few remaining Columbia Jef Walker: “It has been oh- student traditions, and one that so-many years since we have been seems to be an attempt to censor Chris Wood ’83 (left) and David Hershey-Webb ’83 (right) recently visited Mark in touch. I have had the privilege the content of the band’s perfor- Robin ’83. The three met at freshman orientation in 1979 and lived in Carman. and the luxury of keeping abreast mance in direct contravention of the of the world of Columbia through principles of free speech for which your hard work and tireless and Columbia purports to stand. Te David and I performed a juggling novel with the aim of it being a optimistic communications. You reasons stated by the University for club passing routine, which I shared movie. Any Columbia alum(s) you grind out the Class Notes and I have this decision don’t hold up to even with several classmates. From Eddy know who I might reach out to?” taken them for granted (much the slight scrutiny and, when the band Friedfeld: “Impressive! When are you Steven Greenfield: “As was the way I preach to my kids that we take leadership attempted to meet with going to start teaching him Cervantes case in 2014, I am coming out with advantage of NPR or other public administrators to discuss options for and Boccaccio?” Adam Bayrof com- this survey so late in the following trusts and therefore must religiously compromise, the University rejected mented, “Te kid was very good but year (each year, I try to get this out contribute). It was not until recently, all suggestions. I realize that many the old guy was a little shaky!” earlier than one full year late and when I was on campus at an info alumni will feel that this is a small Tank you, Adam. recently I am failing utterly) that I am session with my 18-year old, Harris issue afecting only the Marching I am in touch with Seth Farber. not going to take the time to make (he is a second semester freshman Band. I disagree. Tis is the worst Seth’s daughter, Anna, attends general comments on the year in at Oberlin College and considering kind of heavy-handed administra- Hunter College. Seth is an Alumni popular music, except to say that 2015 transferring), that I came to fully tive diktat, which stifes student Representative Committee (ARC) strikes me as a relatively weak year. appreciate your efort. For that I am expression and sends the clear mes- member and active in our class. I Tere were few albums I felt strongly sorry and say thank you. sage that administrators will take also have spoken recently with Eric about, but a number I liked reservedly. “In many ways it is shocking how whatever action they want without Epstein. Eric’s daughter, Esme, is a I nearly managed to get through all connected I am to the school on a seeking input from students and senior at Eleanor Roosevelt H.S. Eric the pop records I accumulated this visceral/personal level (many of my without concern for the intangible is also an ARC member and a Class year (all with the exception of Bomba closest friends continue to be those I things that make Columbia a unique Marc Agent. Eric’s wife, Michele Shapiro Estéreo’s Amanecer and Small Black’s grew up with at Columbia — and wonderful place. I intend to Stieglitz, Aidan O’Connor, Neal BC’85, JRN’92, is VP of her Barnard Best Blues), but once again, due to work with other concerned alumni Smolar Adam Nadler, class. Eric’s father, William Epstein time constraints, I was not able to and to name to convince the University to reverse ’55, SEAS’56 has been a class ofcer review any of the jazz, classical, Latin a few) while being disconnected this decision. If you wish to join me for many years and is also a loyal or African recordings I had, for which from the institution. It was only as I and other alumni in communicat- alumnus. Eric is one of the most I am sorry. Annoyingly, it is becoming was sitting with Harris in Low and ing with the administration on this active members of our class and we ever more common for albums to be somewhat mindlessly absorbing the subject, please let me know.” Wayne Allyn Root: are lucky to have his entire family as released either in MP3 format only description of the Core that it all “Big week, such strong supporters of alma mater. or in MP3 and vinyl only. While I do came into focus. He leaned in and my CC friend! A new America! I sat next to Mark Kerman at own a nice turntable, I am reluctant to said, ‘So this is what you have been As you’re reading this column, the Alexander Hamilton Award accumulate LPs in my tiny apartment. talking about all these years … this I’ll be in Washington, D.C., as a Dinner. Mark is Columbia’s assistant For this reason, certain records that is what you meant about having the guest of President Donald Trump VP of residential and commercial might have made the 2015 survey, perspective to see where you are at the inauguration. I’m proud and operations. I also spent time at the including Tundercat’s Te Beyond/ going based upon where we come honored to have made the friends dinner with Steve Coleman and Where Giants Roam; Te Harrow, from’. I looked at him, laughed and and family list. It’s been quite a his and his wife Laura’s daughter Silhouettes; and the fka Twigs E.P. told him I was not sure anyone had journey. I was the frst (and perhaps Sarah ’15. Steve and Laura’s other M3LL155X (pronounced ‘Melissa’) been listening. Harris has had a only) national political commenta- daughter, Madeleine ’21, will start at will not appear here. My thanks once social and political awakening over tor to endorse Trump, in June 2015. Columbia in the fall. more go to Steve Holtje and to my the last 18 months that has been I stuck with him, defended him in Peter Rappa: “I recently complet- brother, Douglas Greenfeld, for their empowering to him and inspir- more than 1,500 media appearances ed a book, A Hero in Time, available suggestions about what was worth ing to me. In any event, it made for the next 18 months and publicly at peterrappa.com. Just getting the paying attention to in 2014, and to it clear what a central element in predicted his victory in the media word out; however, I am interested my partner, Melissa, for her moral my own transformation Columbia when no one else thought it pos- in having a screenwriter look at the support throughout the time it took played when I entered as a kid from sible. My book, Angry White Male:

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How the Donald Trump Phenomenon tive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Anthony E. Kaye recently left Pizza (which I’m appalled to see still is Changing America—and What Comedy Series. Archie Bunker and Penn State to become VP for scholarly exists!) and still a close friend, has We Can All Do to Save the Middle his family were followed by Maude, programs at the National Humanities actually married and settled down Class, accurately predicted the entire Te Jefersons, Good Times, Sanford Center in North Carolina. at 54. He and his wife, Melissa, had Trump path to victory. Being here and Son and One Day at a Time, as Robert Retana writes: “I am the a son, Sebastian Wilder Lynch, in in Washington, D.C., as our new well as Fernwood 2 Night, a talk show deputy general counsel for the State January 2016. Anti-establishment to President’s personal guest will be parody dedicated to battling bigotry Bar of California. I live in San Fran- this day, he’d probably be annoyed the experience of a lifetime. My and social issues through art, and cisco with my husband, Juan Carlos.” to see this in CCT but screw it — parents, David and Stella Root, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a Says Frederick Fisher, “My wife, thousands loved him back in the day who fought so hard to convince me parody of soap operas. In the 1970s, Mary BC’83, LAW’88, and I enjoy and will be glad to hear this news.” Harry Chefitz: to attend Columbia, were lifetime most of America was laughing and Orlando, where we have lived for Happy news from Jewish Republicans. Tey are both in thinking because of Norman Lear. three years. I building the vascular “My daughter, Leora, married Ezra heaven but I know they are looking With appearances ranging from Carl surgery department at the Orlando Spero from Cleveland last summer. down proudly.” Reiner, Rob Reiner, Mel Brooks and VA and teach medical students at At the wedding I enjoyed a Colum- Teddy Weinberger sent me a Amy Poehler, and directed by Heidi University of Central Florida Col- bia reunion with my freshman copy of the 1983 Class Day booklet, Ewing and Rachel Grady and execu- lege of Medicine. Mary and I are roommate, Leon Paley SEAS’84, Barack showing very clearly the name tive produced by American Masters’ planning a trip to Italy to celebrate and my sophomore roommate, Hussein Obama. January 20 was Michael Kantor, the flm ofers a our upcoming 30th anniversary. We Bruce Abramson ’83. President Obama’s last day in ofce, unique insight into a ‘Gadol Hador,’ are looking forward to celebrating “Interestingly, both Leon and having served as the 44th President, a giant of his generation and those daughter Rebecca ’17’s graduation Bruce were at my wedding 30 years 2009–17. I am honored to be his to follow. When asked about what from the College to complete the ago, albeit without their spouses, who Columbia classmate and wish him well. advice he would give to students who family’s Columbia history (along attended this wedding. During these Te online mentoring community are embarking on artistic careers, with daughter Talia ’13). 30 years, I have remained in close is now open for all alumni to join especially comedy, Lear said: ‘Go Peregrine Beckman reports from contact with Leon, even reenacting (college.columbia.edu/alumni/ with your gut. Deliver on your inten- the left coast: “I’ve managed to move our freshman year by dorming with join-student-alumni-mentoring- tion and go with it — it’s golden.’” into editing for the magical Internet him in Carman at our reunion a few Chris Wood David community). Any members of the and content, working on shows for Netfix years ago. I stayed in contact with Hershey-Webb Mark class who want to submit their visited (Chasing Cameron) and YouTube Bruce until he moved to the West Robin, profle should please contact me. who was sadly recently diag- Red. I lead a Proust reading group Coast, then reconnected with him Ed Joyce: “I was asked to join the nosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. on Sundays. Tey say Los Angeles is after seeing him quoted in a Wall Board of Directors of the Ameri- Mark’s blog is markymooseinbigsky. anti-intellectual, but there are some Street Journal article. Fortunately for can Friends of ALYN Hospital in blogspot.com. David sent a photo interesting folks in the group. me, he lives on the East Coast again. Jerusalem. In March, I was elected of them wearing t-shirts stating “My daughter, Eleanor Beck- I am now an avid photographer and treasurer and a member of the execu- “CARMAN SUCKS.” man ’16, graduated last May (love was concerned about fnding a good tive committee of the Fordham Law Joseph Cabrera ’82 was one of putting that ‘’16’ after her name!) wedding photographer. I remem- School Alumni Board of Directors. this year’s John Jay Award honorees. and promptly moved back to Los bered that I have been following And in May my wife, Linda Gerstel Joe is vice-chair, Eastern Region of Angeles, declaring that she’d missed Ryan Brenizer’s career online after BC’83, and I will be honored at the Colliers International. the weather and that living in East I saw his photos of Columbia on Abraham Joshua Heschel School’s Wishing everyone a happy and Campus made her appreciate life Flickr and contacted him to see if he Annual Beneft.” healthy 2017. with a car. She works for a new TV was available. He was!” Eddy Friedfeld Adam Dicker: ’s interview with production company in Burbank, “My fourth book Norman Lear appeared in Cinema Calif., and lives at home. Gregory recently came out (demosmedical. Retro magazine. Eddy writes, “Te 1984 Lynch, my roommate from my days com/quality-and-safety-in-radiation- frst two people in my life who taught at 2850 Broadway above Koronet oncology.html). Also, my son, me to think deeply about social and Dennis Klainberg political issues and argue cogently Berklay Cargo Worldwide and passionately for what I believed 14 Bond St., Ste 233 in were my late father, David, and Great Neck, NY 11021 Norman Lear. Lear, the 94-year-old [email protected] entertainment icon is the subject of a terrifc American Masters docu- Te Last to Go: David L. Cavicke of mentary, Norman Lear: Just Another Chicago and Lyme, Conn., married Version of You, which premiered Mary Houston Wright of Middleburg, nationwide on October 25 on PBS. Va., at Trinity Episcopal Church in “In the 1970s, Lear singlehand- Upperville, Va., on July 30. A reception edly changed television with All in was held at the Metropolitan Club of the Family, which became a platform Washington, D.C., where one of the for social discussion and reform. Nor- tables was named in honor of Profes- man Lear revolutionized the sitcom, sor Jacques Barzun ’27, GSAS’32. taking the American family from Columbians in attendance: grooms- the antiseptic and idealized to the men Andrew A. Byer, James Don- contentious and dysfunctional. Te ald Weinstein BUS’88 and David show became a megahit; it was the Nelson BUS’90; Edwin J. Wang, top-rated show on American televi- Steven M.H. Wallman LAW’78 and Left to right: Leon Paley SEAS’84, Bruce Abramson ’83 and Harry Chefitz ’84 sion and the winner of four consecu- Edward A. Weinstein ’57. reunited last summer at Chefitz’s daughter’s wedding.

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Shimshon Dicker ’21, will start at 40 countries that help improve the For this issue, we have some won- must-read for anyone wondering how Columbia in the fall (he deferred for lives of three million people each derful highlights and, unfortunately, such a ubiquitous publication could two years).” year, mostly in partnership with some horrible updates as well. Starting emerge from relatively humble and Chris Nollet: “I continue to be Anglican dioceses and agencies. We with the positive, my wife, Allison, innocent intentions.” the hardest working actor north have a supremely professional staf and I were fortunate to attend a holi- On a recent trip to San Francisco, I of Minneapolis, while still holding headed by Robert W. Radtke ’87. day presentation of Te Nutcracker at had the pleasure of having dinner with down the job of being the system “In January, I joined the Presiding Lincoln Center, where John Phelan’s Jon Orlin and his wife, Mary. Jon lives administrator at Amsoil. Tis June, Bishop’s Reconciliation Pilgrim- daughter, Unity, elegantly danced one in the San Jose area, after spending an I’ll head to Slovenia with members age to Ghana. We traveled to the of the major roles, Hot Chocolate. extended stint in Atlanta with CNN. of a polka band. north to meet farmers and artisans Te following week, Unity danced His wife writes for the Bay Area News “And just so you remember — we who beneft from our programs, the lead role of the Sugarplum Fairy Group and is also a certifed sommelier are NOT an all-male, as most of us as well as to see the slave camp at and was featured both in Te New (leading to an enjoyable conversation only learned on Class Day!” Pikworo. We also visited the slave York Times (the review said her role about the similarities between wine Patricia Huie will be CFO at castles overlooking the Atlantic in of Dewdrop had “fantasy, poetry, and and cofee tasting). Te Public Teater, which produces Elmina and Cape Coast. Te slave liquidity”) and was on the cover of And now for the truly terrible: Shakespeare in the Park and, in the castles are haunting reminders of Dance Magazine as one of 25 dancers Bruce Shapiro wrote in with some recent past, also produced Hamilton the cruelty endured by Africans who to watch in 2017. very sad news. “Glenn Alper passed and Fun Home. She has been the were kidnapped in their homeland Kudos to John for organizing away earlier this year. Glenn and I CFO at the New York Hall of Sci- and taken far away to sufer a life of –– Columbia alums got a backstage met in fall 1983 at Reid Hall and ence, a children’s interactive science servitude and privation. It was an tour, similar to what we did at our we quickly became, and remained, museum in Flushing, Queens, on overpowering experience, [and is] reunion in 2015 (but this time we got good friends. He was magnetic, the site of the 1964 World’s Fair. really difcult to convey in words. to see all of the Nutcracker props). interesting, kind, funny and genuine. Prior to joining NYSCI, Patricia “My daughter is a junior in high John also had a great December, as He deeply enjoyed his study of was executive director of fnance school and, for the second year, the he added the “P” for parent, to his French and French culture, both in at Columbia Technology Ven- starting goalkeeper on the girls’ Columbia credentials with his son, Paris and on campus. A fund has tures, Columbia’s highly successful varsity soccer team. Her brothers Joseph ’21! been established in Glenn’s memory technology transfer group, which have both graduated from college; Congratulations! with the French department to help is responsible for patenting and Andrew lives in Boston, while Shelby I am fortunate to be on Denis undergraduates in need to purchase licensing Columbia’s science-based lives in Northern California. It seems Searby GSAS’86’s holiday card list books for their French studies. If inventions. She also managed the my children don’t want to make it and received his annual Christmas you are interested in contributing, group’s fnancial resources, which easy for me to combine visits … I do poem! And, as any College student please send a check, made out to the executive vice provost used to not see my classmates often enough, would be, he was inspired by ancient Columbia University, to Chair of the fund various strategic initiatives at but when Shelby was playing college Greek. He writes, “As you can see, I French Department, 515 Philosophy the University. basketball in Southern California, have been teaching too much Greek Hall, 1150 Amsterdam Ave., MC Earlier in her career, Patricia was Pete Lunenfeld and El Gray met this semester. My goal was to write 4902, New York, NY 10027, indicat- a management consultant with one me in Claremont for several games a comical nonsense poem to lighten ing that it is in Glenn’s memory.” of the then-“Big 8” accounting frms, and we had a blast. We also got up everyone’s mood … and included I met Glenn on my freshman Arthur Young & Co. She earned an to spend a festive and memorable a poem in which all the nonsense foor on Jay 11 and second all of M.B.A. in fnance from NYU and Tanksgiving with Pete and his wife, words actually mean something, Bruce’s comments. a B.A. in art history. She says, “I’m Susan, and their charming daughters, because they come from ancient eternally grateful to Dean James Kyra ’16 and Maud. Pete has been Greek (lots of them can be found Parker at SEAS for advising me to researching a book at the Huntington in an English dictionary –– well, in 1986 major in whatever subject matter Library — he is always into the cool- a very, very large dictionary). I want spoke to me. My experience at the est stuf — and El has been building to give you Greek-less people some Everett Weinberger College has fostered a lifelong love and managing his investment frm, idea of what a page of ancient Greek 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B of the arts and I’m happy I can use Seven Post.” looks like to my students after a year New York, NY 10023 my fnancial expertise in furtherance or two of studying it; it’s still Greek [email protected] of the arts at Te Public.” to them, but there is some kind of And fnally, where in the world 1985 rhyme and reason (in this case lots It was fun to be able to say that is Neel Lane? “In August, I joined of rhyme and little reason).” the President of the United States Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner Jon White Dennis is at Stockholm Univer- overlapped with us for one year at in the San Antonio ofce,” Neel 16 South Ct. sity, where he continues as director Columbia College. Drop me a line writes. “I could not resist the Port Washington, NY 11050 of Lärkstaden’s college residence if you have any connection to Presi- opportunity to join an international [email protected] (larkstaden.org). dent Trump or his administration. frm that is so well-connected to Thomas Vinciguerra JRN’86, Tanks to everyone who my clients in the insurance and Not too much news to report, so GSAS’90’s Cast of Characters: Wolcott responded to my request for news, reinsurance world — particularly in please send updates at your earliest Gibbs, E. B. White, James Turber, and especially frst timers! London, where the frm’s headquar- convenience so we can be ready for the Golden Age of the New Yorker, con- Alejandro Guerrero: “I am an ters are located. Te move has been the Summer issue. I hope you saw tinues to get great reviews. Luxury educator and have been for 20-plus even better than I expected. the Winter 2016–17 issue, where my Reading’s Kate Schafer said that she years. I am a Spanish teacher in “I am also chairman of Episcopal cofee-making skills were featured “remained interested and engaged Murrieta, Calif., teaching 9th–12th Relief & Development, the interna- in the feature “Te Experts.” I know throughout, and that’s the mark of grade students all levels of Spanish, tional relief and development agency that many of you have lots of special a solid biography. Often humorous, including Advanced Placement of the Episcopal Church. Te orga- talents (new or longstanding) that occasionally emotional, and always and International Baccalaureate nization supports programs in nearly we want to share as well! educational, Cast of Characters is a classes. I love what I do and when

Spring 2017 CCT 73 Class Notes students ask me why I did not Holland. He recorded an album, cal activism since 1985 during the involved and to help us make this a become an architect, as was my Spinoza’s Dream, which was funded divestment campaign. real thing. After all, ‘friends do not let original plan, I tell them I am an by a Kickstarter campaign. He had “I started my own marketing friends scope alone,’ especially when architect of another kind. Whereas a release party in Berkeley, Calif., strategy frm a few years ago and we can turn the dreaded colonoscopy I was taught to design buildings, performed several shows in a tour incredibly, we are doing really well. into a national team party event I am now helping to design the of the Midwest and taught at the I stay in touch with Saul Fisher, that saves lives! We are looking young minds of today for a better International Guitar Camp in Los Matthew Epstein, David Ham- for regional captains so check out tomorrow. My beautiful wife and I Gatos, Calif., for the third year. mond, JD Scrimgeour and Eric scopefest.org or contact me at jcm@ have been blessed with good health From Joel Berg, executive direc- Wakin ’84 –– all wonderful sources scopefest.org. With the participa- and two children. Our son is in his tor of Hunger Free America: “My of support and inspiration.” tion of the Columbia alum network, sophomore year at Te California biggest news is that, in February, Joel Bloom SIPA’87: “I recently we can make March synonymous State Maritime Academy in Vallejo, Seven Stories Press published my accepted an ofer to be senior direc- with life-saving colonoscopy parties. Calif., where he is studying marine second book, America, We Need to tor of accreditation and assessment Together, we can measurably kick transportation on his way to becom- Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation, at Long Island University (moving colon cancer’s ass.” ing a deck ofcer. Our daughter is which is both a humorous parody of from my current position as direc- a senior in high school who would self-help books and a serious public tor of academic assessment and like to study speech pathology or policy book proposing concrete ways survey research at the University 1987 nursing. I am looking forward to to fx our politics and economy.” at Albany: SUNY, where I’ll leave REUNION REUNION 2017 President Donald J. Trump making Eric Hamel: “I’m on my second behind Mitch Earleywine). [At this JUNE 1–4 America great again!” iteration of graduate school, the frst writing I was scheduled to start] at Alumni Afairs Contact Mark Satlof: “I have lived in New in comparative literature (Ph.D., the end of February. Te family will Fatima Yudeh York City since graduation, the entire CUNY), now in classics (M.A., still be based in the Albany area, [email protected] time with my Barnard sweetheart, University of Oregon), remembering so I’ll commute quite a bit. I hope 212-851-7834 now wife of 18 years, Dana Points fondly Greek and Latin classes in classmates in the area will look me Development Contact 2017 BC’88. We haven’t moved too far Hamilton with my professors Laura up! My kids are in grades 12, 10 and Heather Siemienas from our college days ––we’ve lived Slatkin, Steele Commanger, Bob 8, and my oldest has wrapped up his [email protected] in Harlem for the last 17 years, Lamberton, Richard Janko, Peter college applications, which include 212-851-7855 nostalgic all the time as we drive up Pouncey, Darice Birge, Matthew San- a regular deadline application to Columbia. Time fies!” Sarah A. Kass Jack Merrick: “About 10 years PO Box 300808 ago I told you about a crazy idea I Brooklyn, NY 11230 Demetrios “Jim” Econopouly ’86 is a certified had of throwing colonoscopy parties: [email protected] Professional Association of Diving Instructors Scopefest. With the American Can- cer Society declaring colon cancer a At the risk of stating the obvious, rescue-level scuba diver. national health emergency, I turned remember that our 30th reunion is Scopefest into a 501(c)(3) to raise just weeks away. It’s not too late to awareness and funds to combat join the party! Register now! You colon cancer through early detec- know you want to…and you know and down Amsterdam Avenue to tirocco, Helene Foley and the great tion. Te organization will unveil your roommates, suitemates and our home, a hop and a skip from the Helen Bacon, quite a department in Scopefest USA in March during foormates want you to! quad. We have two boys, born and that brief interval. Does the classics National Colon Cancer Awareness Sharon Block wrote in as she bred New Yorkers. I’ve been in the department keep up the tradition of Month with coordinated events was preparing to end her seven music industry for 30 years (wow!). I performing a Greek tragedy?” around the country. and a half years of service for the was active in the campus music scene, Demetrios “Jim” Econopouly: “Former Columbia Alumni Asso- Obama administration. She said, playing in a couple of bands and “I live in Oradell, N.J., with my ciation president (and now chair) “It has been a remarkable privilege working on the concert committee. wife and three kids. I am chief of Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 will head up to serve President Barack Obama Tat was my start in the music indus- foot and ankle service at Hacken- an all-girls team in New York City to ’83 at the Department of Labor, try. I recently found the records of the sack UMC Palisades and residency ‘compete’ with teams in Los Angeles, National Labor Relations Board bands we booked in ’84–’85, which director of the Podiatric Surgical San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake and the White House. I’m ending brought back many fond memories. Residency program. I am a certifed City, Houston, Las Vegas and Miami. the administration as the head of Dana works in media as a magazine/ PADI rescue-level scuba diver and Bruce Skyer ’84, former CEO of the DOL policy ofce and as senior content editor. I love reading about I have been to the most thrilling the National Kidney Foundation, counselor to Secretary of Labor Tom our class but, to be honest, I barely places in the world. It is a difer- joined our board and management Perez. I’m excited, however, for my remember most of my college years ent kind of trip when you can go team. Philip Nevinny, senior counsel next adventure.” (what DID I do in class?) and I don’t under the water or live aboard in for House of Blues/Live Nation, In February, Sharon began this really fnd very many familiar names places like the Maldives, Galapagos, joined as director of legal afairs. We next adventure as the executive in this column. I’m in touch with a Micronesia or even the Caribbean. recently inked a partnership with director of the Labor and Worklife handful of college friends and social Biking, however, is my passion.” the country’s largest colon cancer Program at Harvard Law. media has put me back in contact Andrew Goldsmith: “My family charity, Colon Cancer Alliance in In more news from the outgoing with a few as well.” participated in the Women’s March Washington, D.C., which hopes administration, President Obama From guitarist and singer Dave on Washington, where I had the this becomes a breakout sensation in reappointed Herbert Block as Nachmanof’s website (davenach. pleasure of walking for a while the vein of ‘the ice bucket challenge a Member of the United States com), I see that he had a busy 2016. with members of the wonderful meets Movember.’ I invite every- Commission for the Preservation He toured with Al Stewart in the Columbia/Barnard Hillel. I have not one, especially those classes rapidly of America’s Heritage Abroad, United Kingdom, Germany and had that much fun doing politi- approaching the age of 50, to get an independent federal agency

74 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews established to help preserve cultural Columbia alums when President sites in Eastern and Central Europe Donald Trump nominated Neil for associated with the heritage of U.S. the Supreme Court on January 31. I citizens. Tese include synagogues, vaguely recall Neil from my time on cemeteries and other historic Jew- Spectator and from his involvement ish places (as well as sites of other with Te Federalist. Others who faiths) and Holocaust memorials knew him better weighed in on the in the region. Herb is the principal Class of 1988 Facebook page fol- at Montrose Strategies, a position lowing the White House announce- he has held since 2015, and he was ment. He had a clear ideology, even frst appointed to the Commission as a student, but seems to have for the Preservation of America’s been well-liked, even by those who Heritage Abroad in 2011. disagreed with him. Kudos to him; Paul Verna, Daniele Baliani he is a source of pride for our class and José Calvo had a mini CC’87 and for the school. and Reid Hall reunion at José’s I met Sharon Levin for the frst home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, time at a tribute dinner for Moment last November. Tey were there magazine in Washington, D.C., in ostensibly to run the French Riviera December. Sharon is a women’s rights In September, Margaret Traub ’88 caught up with Jacob Goldberg ’88 when Marathon, which goes from Nice lawyer in D.C., currently consulting Goldberg went to SoCal to move his daughter into UCLA. to Cannes. However, Paul had to for NARAL Pro-Choice America. withdraw because of injury and José She is also a cousin-in-law of my because of work commitments, so friend Chris Tahbaz ’86, LAW’90, phy professor at the University of reunion on Morningside Heights. only Daniele ran the full length. who hosted us at his table, so the Col- New Hampshire and Bates College. Wait –– how many years has it been? Stavros Zomopoulos joined the lege was well-represented at the event. I am working on a National Endow- party by Skype after the event. David Stoll wrote, “I am a trusts ment for the Humanities grant Once again, I feel privileged to and estates partner at Milbank, developing software to help folks in 1989 link the Class of ’87 with the Class Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. I live in the humanities learn to use digital of ’57. My brother, Danny Kass ’95, Carnegie Hill, where I am active in image analysis techniques to study Emily Miles Terry and I had the honor of a front row landmarks preservation eforts. I am painting. We currently have a couple 45 Clarence St. seat to watch as our father, Rabbi teaching again this semester at Yale of programs that help analyze how Brookline, MA 02446 Alvin Kass ’57, was honored by the Law (from which I also graduated). elements of artistic style contribute [email protected] New York City Police Department My weekend jogging route takes to our ability to recognize paintings for 50 years of service and was me through campus and Riverside as belonging to diferent schools Once called the “Patron Saint promoted to a three-star chief in the Park, which I think look better than and eras. I am also working on a of Boyle Heights” by LA Weekly, department. Joining us at this amaz- ever — certainly better than they book about the role of memory and Maria Cabildo was appointed by ing celebration were Ed Weinstein did 1984–88!” attention in our understanding and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ’57, father of my dear friend Ilene Another classmate with a Yale experience of art, called Attentional ’92, SIPA’93 to the city’s Planning Weinstein Lederman, and Bob connection is Dr. Stephanie Engines. I ski a bit and have been Commission in 2013 and served Lipsyte ’57, my former colleague Sudikof, director of simulation for playing hockey several nights a week. until 2015. Maria now works for Los from our days in the sports depart- Yale New Haven Health, where she And I have been working summers as Angeles County, helping to oversee ment of Te New York Times. holds primary responsibility for the a wilderness canoe guide in Ontario. the homeless initiative it adopted See you all at Reunion 2017, SYN: APSE Center for Learning, “I am in touch with Brendan last year. Fearing that the afordable Tursday, June 1–Sunday, June 4! Transformation and Innovation. Mernin, Sam Shinn ’89, Mufy Srini- housing programs, consumer protec- Go to college.columbia.edu/alumni/ According to the Yale New Haven vasan, Henry Jackman and Chris tions and community reinvestment reunion2017. Health website, the center “provides Bakkila ’91. All are thriving (although requirements are at risk, Maria has simulation expertise to collabora- Chris has given up football)!” decided to take the fght to Washing- tively innovate cutting-edge solu- Margaret Traub, a frequent ton, D.C., and recently announced 1988 tions to the challenges that exist in contributor to this column who is in that she is a Democrat running for complex health care environments.” contact with many classmates, wrote the 34th Congressional District seat. Eric Fusfield Stephanie leads her team “in the from Los Angeles: “Had a lovely visit Of her run, Maria says, “As a 1945 South George Mason Dr. design support, and sustainment of in September with Jacob Gold- longtime advocate and builder of Arlington, VA 22204 education, workfow analysis, device berg, who was in SoCal to move his afordable housing, I know that ericfusfi[email protected] testing, facility design, and other ini- daughter, Hannah, into UCLA.” without a stable home, families tiatives … As a pediatric critical care Margaret, head of global initia- cannot create security, support It’s a familiar question posed by Ivy physician, she provides the team with tives at International Medical their children’s education or build Leaguers, whose ranks often boast insight into the clinical environment Corps., appeared last fall on PBS a future. Unfortunately, housing in high achievers in an array of felds: and the context in which learners NewsHour, where Sara Just is Los Angeles is in crisis. Too many Who is the most famous member of must apply and translate their skills. executive producer; Margaret spoke Angelenos can’t aford to keep their our class? Te Class of 1988 appears She has published and presented about her organization’s hurricane homes. Seniors and many others to have a new answer to that query. widely, and is a recognized leader in relief work in Haiti. are doubling up. Homeownership Neil Gorsuch, who graduated with both the national and international Keep the updates coming! I is growing further out of reach for our class after matriculating just health care simulation communities.” look forward to hearing from you working families. And we have the three years earlier, assumed his place Bill Seeley sent the following: “I at [email protected]. And largest unsheltered homeless popu- in the pantheon of high-profle live in Bath, Maine. I am a philoso- start planning to attend next year’s lation in the country.”

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I caught up with Anne-Marie I heard from Cristina Bene- heroine to me ever since my days at too: Two thumbs up for the qvevri Wright (née Lampropoulos), who detto and Rob Laplaca, who went Columbia. In fact, I wrote a paper wine, made in a traditional style is VP, corporate communications of to the Homecoming game last fall about her in a Women and Religion that dates back thousands of years Merit Medical Systems in Salt Lake and saw lots of old friends, including class I took at Barnard (with Sharon (check out blogs.discovermagazine. City, and was elected as the Repub- Bonnie Host, Mike Behringer, Rogers)! Trough the years, Blu has com/deadthings/2016/06/17/was- lican National Committeewoman Donna MacPhee (née Herlinsky) become a close friend and mentor georgia-the-cradle-of-wine-who- from Utah earlier this year. Anne and John MacPhee, Wally Yassir to me, and it is such an honor to be cares-lets-drink). Special shout-out Marie will serve a four-year term on ’88 and Matt Sodl ’88, to name a published in her festschrift.” to my favorite Columbia professor, Gemma Tarlach the Republican National Commit- few. Christine and Rob also wanted reports: “I know Paul Olsen, for being the guy who tee. Of this position she writes, “It to share some happy news: “Our 2016 was a trying year for many of showed me you could have a lot of should be interesting during this daughter, Caroline ’21, will be a us (am I the only one who spent fun doing serious science. His ‘Intro unusual and challenging time. Te frst-year in the fall. We are very much of January 2016 sitting in a to Paleontology’ class is the spirit ani- RNC is responsible for making the excited for her, and for us, and can’t dark room watching Alan Rickman mal of Dead Tings, and I’m carrying rules, creating the platform, raising wait for her to experience all that movies and listening to Bowie?) that attitude into ‘It’s Only Science,’ a money and putting on the conven- Columbia and NYC has to ofer.” but there were some highlights podcast we’ve recently launched.” David tion for the Republican Party. We for me. I was promoted to senior Finally, a word from Mandell: will also be electing an RNC chair editor at Discover Magazine and “I’m at Penn, where I direct with the vacancy left by Reince 1990 was immediately corrupted by the the Center for Mental Health Policy Priebus, and I will also be a liaison absolute power. Absolutely. I started and Services Research. I also started a between the national party and the Rachel Cowan Jacobs a blog for our website that covers new role in the Penn Health System, state party in Utah.” 313 Lexington Dr. paleontology and archaeology, in my in which I lead quality improvement Anne-Marie has a busy family Silver Spring, MD 20901 own personal idiom, which no one eforts in specialty and integrated as well –– her daughter, Annie ’17, [email protected] else on staf dare question; the blog mental healthcare. I’ve become an is a senior at Columbia College, is called Dead Tings; check it out at ice hockey and tennis dad as my kids majoring in mathematics. Her son Happy 2017 to all of us in the blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadth- explore their sports interests. Alas, no Michael is a junior at the University Class of 1990. Who will follow in ings. My favorite emails/tweets about one is interested in fencing.” of Utah, majoring in business and our footsteps? As of early decision it come from the researchers whose Keep the news coming to her son Sean is a fourth-grader who admission, at least three descendants work I cover: ‘I never expected a [email protected], people. science journalist would quote Sir Without you, this column would Mix-a-Lot when describing a sauro- be blank. pod braincase’ and ‘We love that you Gemma Tarlach ’90 is senior editor at Discover called the mass extinction events we Magazine, where she writes the blog “Dead Things,” study ‘Death Glitter.’ 1991 “I also had a great time on vaca- providing coverage of paleontology and archaeology. tion traveling through the Republic Margie Kim of Georgia on my own in May, 1923 White Oak Clearing even though the sight of a woman Southlake, TX 76092 behind the wheel was so odd in the [email protected] won United States Kids Golf Player of classmates will enter as members rather conservative countryside that of the Year in Utah. of the Class of 2021. Congratula- I often had crowds gather wherever By the time this is published, Super Like Anne-Marie and Maria, Neil tions to Ally, daughter of Sherri I parked. ‘It’s a girl! It’s a girl!’ one Bowl LI will be long gone and the Gorsuch ’88 (who entered with our Pancer Wolf (of Newton, Mass.), old man proclaimed (in Russian) as Patriots’ miraculous comeback will class), also resides in the Western and twins Matthew and Samantha, I exited my rental car outside the be a faded memory (condolences to half of our country. Neil is a federal children of Lauren Bauer Zinman achingly beautiful lakeside castle of Falcons fans). But I have to mention judge on the United States Court of (of Harrison, N.Y.). Sherri is a Ananuri. I felt like I should give him what a fabulous weekend I had in Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He partner at Newport Board Group a cigar or something. And yes, while Houston for the Super Bowl, cour- Javier Loya, writes to us about his life in Colo- and Lauren is corporate counsel for in Georgia I was happy I was able tesy of Lucinda and Annie Della Pietra rado: “[I and my family] live outside Tradition Energy and TFS Energy to dust of the ol’ Russian from my (née Giarratano) Boulder on a small farm, with the in Stamford, Conn. days in Moscow. It allowed me to and Chris Della Pietra ’89. It was a girls’ horses and a bunch of fruit trees. Many years ago, Laura Shaw have several, ah, spirited conversa- weekend full of festivities and fun. Together with some great colleagues, Frank left the law for academia. tions with the local men about a If you were at Javier and Lucinda’s I work in Denver hearing appeals She has some news. “I recently had woman being perfectly capable of party during our reunion last sum- from across the Tenth Circuit (largely my frst article, ‘Yeshivish Women driving, thanks very much. mer, you know that the Loyas are the Rocky Mountain states) and Clergy: Te Secular State and “Speaking Russian turned out the consummate hosts and think of teach on the side at the University Changing Roles for Women in to be no help, however, when I every last detail … even ones you of Colorado’s law school. My wife, Haredi Orthodoxy,’ published in the encountered a man on horseback don’t think you’ll need! Te icing on Louise, and our girls and I love to ski book You Arose, A Mother in Israel: A while I was hiking in the otherwise the cake was that we got to hang out the bumps in winter and hike, fy fsh festschrift in Honor of Blu Greenberg. deserted Truso Valley. He spoke only with other Columbia Lions — Matt and row and scull in summers.” Te book launched in January at the the local dialect of Georgian, but Assif ’89, Marcellus Wiley ’97 and Neil has been a federal judge for Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance’s through enthusiastic hand gestures Alex Guarnaschelli BC’91. David A. 10 years; prior to that he was deputy International Conference on Femi- made himself understood. Proposi- In other CC’91 news, Kaufman associate attorney general at the nism and Orthodoxy. It is particularly tioned by a man on horseback: Tat’s PS’97 will take on the Department of Justice. On January meaningful to me to have been asked bucket list territory right there. position of director, medical inten- 31, he was nominated as a Supreme to contribute a piece to this book “Georgia is absolutely gor- sive care, and associate professor of Court justice by President Trump. because Blu Greenberg has been a geous, by the way, and delicious, medicine at NYU Langone Medical

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Center in April. He is glad to be time rolls around.” Te next big step back in the NYC orbit! will be getting a family dog — an Tis is a short column, so please Australian Labradoodle — after send updates to margiekimkim@ resisting “for many years.” hotmail.com. Until next time, cheers! Brian stays in touch with quite a few CC’92ers — Jim Cheydleur, Lauren Hertel, Jake Martin, Chris 1992 O’Brien and Heather O’Farrell

REUNION Townsend ’93 and Sophia Seidner REUNION 2017 BC’92 — who are all doing well JUNE 1–4 in their diferent lives and he says Alumni Afairs Contact Fatima Yudeh it’s great to connect when they get [email protected] the chance. “I’m sorry that fellow 212-851-7834 CC’92er and great friend Meredith

Development Contact 2017 Norton is no longer with us on the Heather Siemienas journey, may she and others we lost [email protected] rest in peace,” he adds. Left to right: Former Vice President Joe Biden, George Kolombatovich ’93 212-851-7855 When the family spends the day and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ’92 chatted at a January fundraiser for in Manhattan, they like to grab a Garcetti’s 2017 reelection campaign. Olivier Knox meal at … wait for it … V&T. “My 9602 Montauk Ave. kids love the food, we all appreciate Bethesda, MD 20817 the unpretentious vibe and parking charity helping them improve food attended. George sent great pictures [email protected] the car uptown is easy,” Brian writes. distribution. Our lead business con- that included one of George, the “And we then usually visit campus sultant just did a TedXBreda talk on mayor and the Vice President, and Maybe it’s our looming 25th reunion? and the four of us sit on Low Steps; how mathematics is helping world one of Eric, Wah and her children. I got some lovely, lengthy updates it’s always a surreal experience for hunger, related to how we approach Tanks George — everyone looks from Dara Kubovy-Weiss (née Dara- me to do that with them. I remem- solving the puzzle, without naming the same (if not better!) than they Lynn Weiss), Brian Farran and Jef ber spending a lot of time on those my company or the client.” did 20-plus years ago! Lovell. Keep ’em coming, everyone! steps, at all hours of the day and Jef’s wife wants to move to I had a busy summer and fall after And I look forward to seeing all of night, and feeling so adult at only 17 Perth, “where it’s warmer and she I took on the role of chief of practice you on campus as we celebrate our years old. It’s been a long time for has family,” while Jef is eyeballing development at Ropes & Gray. I’ve vanished youth and acknowledge the us all since then. Wishing everyone beach houses. been at the frm almost eight years march of time at Reunion 2017. from CC’92 good health, prosperity He adds, “About a year ago I did a (since I decided to stop practicing Dara writes that her daughter and peace. Keep on keeping on, and quick United States tour to catch up law) and now head up my depart- became a Bat Mitzvah on Novem- I will hopefully see some of you at with family in Vegas and Iowa and ment, which focuses on business ber 19: “Betty Kubovy-Weiss read Reunion 2017 this summer.” spent a few days in Jersey/NYC with development and strategic planning from the torah at Town & Village Jef Lovell wrote in from Mel- Joel Rubenstein ’91, where I was also globally. I oversee a team of roughly Synagogue in Manhattan and bourne, Australia, gamely attempting to able to meet up with a few members 80 people, so it was a big adjustment spoke of her feminist response to summarize the last 25 years. He spent of the old swim team, including coach during the last several months and at the Bible and the work left to do some time in NYC after graduation, Jim Bolster and Clif Blaze (who I times I was drinking from a fre hose. to ensure equality for women in working in commodities training, then believe recently won a national title in Fortunately, I’ve been able to today’s society,” Dara writes. Prior shifted to software in the early 2000s Master’s swimming, going very nearly spend time with classmates as I’ve to the service, there was a lunch at “via a love of MMO gaming.” as fast in the 100 fy as he did 23 traveled. I spent time with Patti Lee Te Library at Te Public Teater, “Said love of gaming introduced years ago, a simply astounding feat). while in San Francisco, Jenny Hof- including guests like Peter and me to lots of good people around Dropped by the KDR house as well, man while in Washington, D.C., Hilary Hatch, Nina Chaudry, Rita the world, including a wonderful and paid respect to Alma Mater.” and Robyn Tuerk and Neil Turitz Pietropinto-Kitt ’93, Doug Meehan woman who lived in Australia. After As everyone who attends Reunion while in New York. Ali Towle left ’93, Peter Sluszka ’93, Robin Frank accepting my proposal, I expressed 2017 on June 1–4 surely will! San Francisco last summer and relo- BC’92 and Lily Binns-Berkey ’03. joy and promised she would love cated to Boston, so I get to see her Mazel tov! living in California with me,” Jef a lot more! She works for the New Brian Farran and his wife, writes. “She said, ‘What are you 1993 England Patriots as senior director, Mindi, live in South Orange, N.J., talking about … California??!’ So brand and fan experience. As of the where they moved from his home- now I live in Melbourne.” Betsy Gomperz day I am submitting this column, town of Brooklyn in 2005. Tey’ve Jef has been working in software 41 Day St. she is heading to Houston for Super been married since 2005 and have a development for 10 years as a proj- Newton, MA 02466 Bowl LI, where the Patriots will play son, Sam (13), and a daughter, Abby ect manager and middle manager, as [email protected] the Atlanta Falcons! (9). Brian works as a clinical psy- well as a few years “making invest- Congratulations on the new role, chologist at the VA Medical Center ment accounting software for banks Greetings, classmates! I heard from and go Pats! in East Orange and has a part-time and such, and lately with a growing George Kolombatovich, who Please fll me in on your private practice in town. company in the feld of supply chain lives in Los Angeles and is deputy own news, as well as news from He writes that he’s “keeping busy and logistics planning.” counsel to Mayor Eric Garcetti ’92, classmates: betsy.gomperz@gmail. with family life, homeownership, Right now he’s “working on SIPA’93. In January, Garcetti held a com. I am planning to attend the socializing with friends, going to projects to improve planning and fundraiser for his 2017 re-election Saturday, April 22, Alumni Ofce local and NYC events of interest, safety for a petrol distribution campaign honoring Vice President symposium, “Celebrating 30 Years of and travelling whenever vacation company, as well as a global hunger Joe Biden; Wah Chen ’92 also Columbia College Women.” I hope

Spring 2017 CCT 77 Class Notes to see many of you there and to get tional Opportunity and Juvenile “During the January 21 Women’s and their kids, Ulysses (10), Molly updates from you! [Editor’s note: Justice Clinic and the Advocacy for March on Washington, I remem- (8) and Henry (6). He and Amy, See the feature “Hear Us Roar” for Children and Youth Clinic. bered my frst Washington protest, who is from Chicago, met on a blind more on the symposium.] Shawn Landres shared the good on January 15, 1991,” Kay writes. date and have been married for more news that he has been elected chair “I had driven to D.C. with Josh than 11 years. of the Los Angeles County Qual- Shannon and Janet Balis, who Beto ended up at Columbia for 1994 ity and Productivity Commission. were covering the march for the reason many of us did: New Shawn has been a member of the WKCR, and we would be spending York City. He learned about the Leyla Kokmen commission since 2013 and previ- the night at Janet’s parents’ house in school from a high school friend c/o CCT ously led its “Digital by Default” Bethesda, Md. When we got to the already on Morningside Heights. Columbia Alumni Center report on digital government. National Mall, we agreed to have During college, Beto rowed crew 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Steve Cohen sent a nice update Josh and Janet go do some reporting and played the guitar in some bands New York, NY 10025 from the Philadelphia area, where while I marched. We would meet up (including Swipe) that opened for [email protected] he lives with his wife, Kathleen, and again after the protest at the Smith- larger groups, including Jonathan kids, Alexa (12), Will (10) and Ty (8), sonian Metro station. As it turned Fire*Eater. Tey played in Ferris First up, a lovely update from far and is a sports medicine orthopedic out, there was no such thing as ‘after Booth Hall and Te West End. away: Seema Balwani is the surgeon. “After nine years of assisting the protest.’ It continued into the During summers, he also toured NOAA Regional Coordinator for the with the Philadelphia Phillies, in night and I used my freshman PE with another band from El Paso, Pacifc Islands and lives in Honolulu: 2015 I was named head team physi- class running skills to sprint back Foss: “We played in bars and base- “I recently bought a home and love cian. So 2016 was my second full sea- and forth from the post-march rally ments and clubs,” Beto says. life in Hawaii, where I get to play son,” he writes, adding that he also is at the White House to the tunnels His memories of those years in the ocean and work on marine team orthopedist for the Philadelphia of the Smithsonian Metro. After at Columbia also include several conservation issues,” she writes. Flyers. “I follow Columbia Athletics fve hours, when the crowds had work-study jobs, like checking IDs Happy news from Karen and my daughter hopes to play soccer dwindled and marchers beaten a at FBH and various residence halls, Sendler: On June 4, she and John there,” he writes. retreat, I heard my name booming including those dreaded Sunday Kirkwood SEAS’92 were married From Palo Alto, Calif., Anne over the loudspeaker, spoken as if by morning shifts. He also delivered in John’s parents’ garden in Had- Kornblut writes that she is at Face- God. I was rescued. the Sunday New York Times to donfeld, N.J. Chessa Contiguglia book, overseeing policy communica- “Twenty-six years later cell Barnard residence halls. Mercier was maid of honor, Drew tions and working on the company’s phones have replaced the need to After school, Beto lived in Wil- Stevens SEAS’93 did a reading journalism and news-related eforts. plan or be in shape. Josh’s kids have liamsburg for three years before and Xavier Smith ’99 serenaded She and her husband, John, have two played with my kids in my suburban moving back to his hometown of El the couple during the reception. children, Audrey (4) and Arlo (5). backyard, though not enough. My Paso, where he started a technology Other Columbia guests included Joe “During the winter break, I caught Columbia experiences continue to company, now owned by his wife. DeSimone ’92, Susie Baldwin ’90 up with Eliza Lowen McGraw and frame the rest of my experiences Before winning a House seat, he and Jennifer Good BC’93. Rebecca Weinberg Femia, as through life. What I wouldn’t give served on the El Paso City Council Congratulations to Miriam well as with Paula O’Rourke BC’94, to be a freshman at Columbia again, for six years. Gohara, who was recently appointed when we were all in D.C. for Eliza’s and what I wouldn’t give to have to the Yale Law faculty as a clinical daughter’s bat mitzvah,” she writes. George H.W. Bush back.” associate professor of law. She has “It’s amazing to think that pretty Tanks for the updates and 1996 taught at Yale since 2014, both as a soon, the children of our classmates memories everyone. Until next time. clinical lecturer in law and as a presi- will be applying to college!” Ana S. Salper dential visiting professor. She leads And fnally, a remembrance of 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA the Challenging Mass Incarceration our own college days from Kay 1995 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Clinic and co-teaches the Educa- Bailey, sparked by recent events: [email protected] Janet Lorin 730 Columbus Ave., Apt. 14C Greetings, classmates! Barbara New York, NY 10025 Antonucci has joined Constangy, [email protected] Brooks, Smith & Prophete as a part- ner in the frm’s recently opened San We all know Columbia College’s his- Francisco ofce. Barbara focuses her tory of political fgures, dating from practice on labor and employment Alexander Hamilton (Class of 1778) litigation prevention and defense. to Barack Obama ’83. One of our Parag Gandhi is an attending classmates also joined the ranks of oculofacial surgeon and assistant elected ofcials on the national stage. professor at Duke Eye Center. Since In November, voters in El Paso 2015, he has been working with returned Robert “Beto” O’Rourke the Virtue Foundation in NYC on to ofce for his third term in an annual surgical and teaching

ART + LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY ART the House of Representatives. A mission to Mongolia each May. On Karen Sendler ’94 and John Kirkwood SEAS’92 were married on June Democrat, he has sat on commit- the mission trip, the doctors screen 4 in Haddonfield, N.J. Left to right: Bill Gildea JRN’61, Deborah Mason tees including Armed Services and and operate on patients with eye and GSAS’76, Steve Gelman JRN’57, father of the bride David Sendler JRN’61, Veterans’ Afairs. orbital diseases that can afect their Susie Baldwin ’90, Xavier Smith ’99, the bride, the groom, maid of honor Beto splits his time between health or vision; while many of their Francesca Contiguglia Mercier ’94, Jennifer Good BC’93, Drew Stevens Washington, D.C., and El Paso, patients are adults with traumatic SEAS’93 and Joe DeSimone ’92. where he lives with his wife, Amy, injuries and cancerous growths, many

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how to parse research about children’s Festival in Houston, December updates at our 20th reunion! It will technology and media use. She then 17–18, and penned this: whereyat. be here before we know it, Tursday, incorporates that research into the com/day-for-night-festival-takes- June 1–Sunday, June 4: college. creation of children’s print and digital on-houston-tx. He also interviewed columbia.edu/alumni/reunion2017! content that is designed to be diverse up-and-coming band Night Drive, and inclusive, and to help families play which has toured with cutting-edge and learn together. Last year, Sandhya acts Yacht, Psychedelic Furs and 1998 created and launched two children’s Chvrches: whereyat.com/ones-to- apps (HangArt and Grandma’s Great watch-night-watch. Sandie Angulo Chen Gourd), both of which made it to Rachel Mann is excited to 10209 Day Ave. Common Sense Media’s Essential and announce that her debut YA novel, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Best of Apps lists, something about On Blackberry Hill, won the 2016 [email protected] which Shandyha is thrilled, she says. National Jewish Book Award for Sandhya is also a founding Young Adult Literature. Hello, classmates! It occurs to me member of an initiative focused on Kerensa Harrell and her that while a small percentage of Parag Gandhi ’96 and Tanya Khan helping children’s media producers husband, Manu Sehgal (Mayo us are dealing with our frstborns ’06 traveled to Mongolia with the create diverse and inclusive digital Medical School ’95) celebrated the being in high school, another small Virtue Foundation on a surgical and media. Diversity in Apps is soon to arrival of their frst child, Amara percentage of us are dealing with teaching mission in May 2016. This be rebranded as KIDMAP: Kids Vey, to whom Kerensa gave birth becoming parents. In a blink of photo was taken in Khovd, a western Inclusive and Diverse Media Action on October 27 in Florida. Amara is an eye, some of us might have province bordering Kazakhstan. Project. Te group is currently collabo- a Sanskrit name meaning “immor- another generation of Columbia- rating with the Joan Ganz Cooney tal and indestructible.” Kerensa bound students. Center at Sesame Workshop to create has had a career in dance, having Congratulations to new parents are also young children losing vision a best practices kit (the DIG Toolkit) performed on stage at Radio City Jef Cohen-Laurie and his husband, from drooping eyelids and other dis- for children’s media producers on how Music Hall, Lincoln Center’s Tim Cohen-Laurie, who became orders. Parag writes that it has been to create better children’s content. Metropolitan Opera House, Te fathers to daughter Dylan Aubrey an extremely rewarding experience Tat’s it for now — please keep Teater at Madison Square Garden, Cohen-Laurie. Dylan was born overall. On the May 2016 mission he sending in notes! And, because it is Te Brooklyn Academy of Music, at 6:15 p.m. on December 1; she was accompanied by Duke oculoplas- with great restraint that I write these Te Sullivan Street Playhouse et al. weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz. As Jef and Tim tics fellow Tanya Khan ’06. A photo notes with absolutely no commentary She was the waltz choreographer shared on Facebook: “She is perfect.” of them proudly displaying Columbia on our current political state of afairs, of Te Viennese Opera Ball in Jef, Tim and Dylan live in Los regalia was taken on a short break I leave you with this call to action: New York 2006–09 at the Waldorf Angeles, where Jef is an attorney at during one of their busy mission “Our Constitution is a remarkable, Astoria ballroom and has had her the L.A. County Alternate Public days in Khovd, a western province beautiful gift. But it’s really just a piece own NYC-based choreography Defender’s Ofce. bordering Kazakhstan. Parag hopes of parchment. It has no power on its practice since 2000. She plans to Lea Goldman continues to to return there on future missions. own. We, the people, give it power. be a stay-at-home mom in Florida, be one of our class’ fercest media Malik Rashid writes that he has We, the people, give it meaning. With where her husband is an interven- bosses. She’s now the editor in chief had a great four and a half years living our participation, and with the choices tional radiologist in private practice. of Lifetime & FYI networks after a and working in Manila, all with the that we make, and the alliances that Tey met in 2015 and married the stint as editorial director at Refn- Asian Development Bank. He was we forge. Whether or not we stand same year at her grandparents’ estate ery29 and eight years in various recently elected chair of the Columbia up for our freedoms. Whether or not in Florida, and are now excited to be editorial roles at Marie Claire. Alumni Association Philippines we respect and enforce the rule of law. starting their family. Kerensa quips: Congratulations, Lea! Board of Trustees, so that keeps him Tat’s up to us.” “We’re both late bloomers … but, Send your news to sandie.chen@ busy. His wife, Sheena, has been active — Barack Obama ’83 better late than never!” gmail.com — your classmates want with social work locally since they Rabbi Sharon Brous ’95, to hear from you! moved to Manila in 2012 and their GSAS’01, founder and rabbi of daughter, Ariana, is in kindergarten 1997 IKAR Synagogue in Los Angeles, at the Chinese International School. REUNION spoke at the Women’s March in 1999 REUNION 2017 Malik writes that there is nothing he Washington, D.C., on January 21. JUNE 1–4 enjoys more than learning Mandarin Her full remarks can be found here: Adrienne Carter and Alumni Afairs Contact Jenna Johnson with his daughter. Te family made Fatima Yudeh jewishjournal.com/nation/213661/ the decision to return to the United hush-uniform-67439. c/o CCT [email protected] Sarah Katz Columbia Alumni Center States in 2017 and they have identi- 212-851-7834 As for me, , along 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 fed a short list of metro areas they 2017 with husband, David, and proud big Development Contact New York, NY 10025 could move to this year. Malik hopes Heather Siemienas brother, Micah, joyfully announce to reconnect with many of you as he [email protected] the birth of our daughter, Eliana Nia [email protected] explores his next professional oppor- 212-851-7855 Katz Love. Eliana was born October [email protected] tunities back home. You can still reach 24, surprising us two months early. him at [email protected]. Sarah Katz After a two-month stay in the Greg Nihon let us know about Sandhya Nankani SIPA’97 is 1935 Parrish St. NICU, she came home on Decem- yet another new lion cub in the the founder of Literary Safari, an Philadelphia, PA 19130 ber 23. Since then she has been busy pride — he and his wife, Stephanie, award-winning company that creates [email protected] delighting her brother with snuggles welcomed Scarlett Evangeline in children’s content celebrating play, and keeping her parents up at night, June. Scarlett joins her delighted literacy and diversity. Sandhya spends John Dean Alfone was credentialed as it should be. Looking forward to sister, Adriana (4). Te family lives a lot of her days trying to fgure out press for the Day for Night Music seeing everyone and getting more in Nassau, Bahamas, though Greg is

Spring 2017 CCT 79 Class Notes keeping up with his classmates and book discusses how anyone can have Su Ahn works at Farfetch in a with the ultimate goal of getting Matt Becker- recently met up with a positive impact on Syrian refugees global role, so she is constantly on more food to those in need.” leg for an NHL hockey game. through corporate partnerships with the move! Sam Polk ’01 writes, “I opened Riann We also heard from aid organizations, civil society initia- Allison Lloyds O’Neill and Matt Everytable in Los Angeles, a social Smith, who ofers a dispatch from tives and volunteer opportunities. O’Neill welcomed their son, Alexan- enterprise making healthful food the glamorous world of writing All book proceeds will be donated to der Grant O’Neill, on February 2. afordable for all. We sell healthful and celebrities. Riann “co-authored charities assisting Syrian refugees. grab-and-go food, and price the a women’s style bible with Emmy A thought: Facebook has helped meals according to the neighbor- award-winning fashion guru Carson me stay in much better touch with 2003 hoods we are in. We are creating a Kressley.” Does Tis Book Make My all of you. I am able to fnd out who system where everyone gets great Butt Look Big? A Cheeky Guide to had a baby and who got married in Michael Novielli value and we can open stores in Feeling Sexier in Your Own Skin & almost real time. It also helps me Jurong East Street 21, Block 208 every community, no matter the Unleashing Your Personal Style was stay connected when classmates #08-181 demographic profle.” published in October. Riann says are traveling recreationally or for Singapore 600208 Rachel Sundet invites class- she “had a ball writing the sassy style business. Although Facebook wasn’t [email protected] mates to stop by her two restaurants tome and is on the hunt for [my] my source, I was recently on a short in Kendall Square in Cambridge, next celebrity book collaboration.” trip to Seattle in December and I Wishing you all a very happy (lunar) Mass.: State Park, which is also a Tat’s all we’ve gathered for the carefully planned my time to ensure Year of the Rooster — many of us bar, and Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and Marla Zink continuing adventures of the Class a long cofee break with are roosters, so special wishes of Restaurant, a Jewish deli. Sheila Dvorak Galione of ’99, but we hope to have many (née Goodman). As usual, Marla health and happiness to you all. lives more reports next time. Send us and I had a great time catching up. Brandon Victor Dixon ’07, in the Hudson Valley and, in 2016, your news to either adieliz@gmail. I think some of you have planned who entered with our class and began working in development com or [email protected]! similar junkets with our classmates. plays Aaron Burr in the Broadway at SUNY Ulster as development Please share and let me know how production of Hamilton, made inter- associate and scholarship coordina- your classmates are doing, so I can national headlines for his speech to tor, where she manages social media 2000 share more broadly. Vice President Mike Pence when strategy and messaging. Her band, Best wishes for a wonderful 2017! Pence was in the audience for the Sheila Dee and Te Dazzlers, has Prisca Bae Send me a note with your updates to November 18 show. been performing throughout the 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B [email protected]. Congratulations to Cyrus Habib, Hudson Valley since 2014. Te band New York, NY 10011 We want to hear from you! who was recently elected Lieuten- will be in the studio (Roots Cellar) [email protected] ant Governor of Washington State, recording its frst full length album making him the frst and only this year. On January 21, Sheila Class of 2000, what’s the news? 2002 Iranian-American elected to state Dee attended the Women’s March

I hope everyone is having a great REUNION ofce in the United States and the on Washington, where they flmed REUNION 2017 2017 so far — great enough to highest-ranking Iranian-American the ofcial music video for the frst JUNE 1–4 share in CCT! Email me at pb134@ in public ofce. [Editor’s note: See single, “Happening,” due early this Alumni Afairs Contact columbia.edu to tell me how hob- “Lions,” this issue.] year. Listen at sheiladeeshow.com. Fatima Yudeh Simone Sebastian Jenny Bach bies, work, family, travel and life in [email protected] was recently earned a master’s general are going. Your classmates 212-851-7834 named to lead the America Desk at in mental health counseling and is want to hear from you! Development Contact 2017 Te Washington Post. a full-time psychotherapist at New Emily Broad Leib Heather Siemienas topped the York Psychotherapy and Counsel- [email protected] Fortune and Food & Wine list of ing Center in the South Bronx. 2001 212-851-7855 “Most Innovative Women in Food Jenny also is a board member/ and Drink” for her role as director of ofcer for Te Shine Foundation Jonathan Gordin Sonia Dandona Hirdaramani the Harvard Food Law and Policy (shine-foundation.org; chapters in 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. 2 Rolling Dr. Clinic. Te announcement reads: New York City and Baltimore), a Los Angeles, CA 90068 Old Westbury, NY 11568 “According to the United Nations, nonproft that works assiduously to [email protected] [email protected] the world produces more than help provide assistance to survivors enough food for everyone on the of domestic violence. Lauren Abraham Mahoney Jefrey Hsieh gave Hi friends! Our 15-year reunion planet. Yet billions of pounds end up , an anesthesiologist birth to a son on November 20. is around the corner, Tursday, in landflls every year. Leib is taking at CarePoint Health, and his wife, Alexander David is doing great and June 1–Sunday, June 4; go to on the hunger epidemic by focusing Jacqui Wu, welcomed son Hunter. Mom, Dad and big sister are enjoy- college.columbia.edu/alumni/ on legislation to address labeling and Pooja Agarwal ing the addition to the family. reunion2017. is to make donating easier. ‘For most Andrea Cherkerzian Den- on the Reunion Committee so we foods the date on the label is about 2004 nigan, her husband, Peter, and will hear from her. She had a son, freshness, not safety,’ she says. ‘Tere Jaydip Mahida her son, Levon, welcomed Khoren Rohan, on January 3. Pooja also has are no guidelines at the federal level 76 Courter Ave. Joseph on June 15. Levon and a daughter, Meera (2.5). and inconsistent ones on the state Maplewood, NJ 07040 Khoren already enjoy getting into GAP hired NYC-based director level that are not based on actual Mike Mellia [email protected] lots of trouble! to flm a series of video science. We want to make labeling John Balouziyeh recently pub- loops, advertising classic underwear laws clearer, so when people pick up lished Hope and a Future: Te Story of in a surreal yet efortless manner. a yogurt, they know when it’s OK to Hi CC’04. No updates this issue, so Syrian Refugees, a book documenting Under Mike’s signature whimsical eat it and when to throw it out.’ Tis please send in news, as we want to his travels to Syrian refugee camps aesthetics, the everyday never looked common-sense approach has the hear from as many folks as possible. in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Te so good. potential to transform our system, Career and family updates are always

80 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews fun, but please reach out to share science team, focusing on customer about trips you may be taking, events loyalty and consumer rewards. We you have attended or are looking would love to connect with classmates forward to, or even interesting books in the area, or those passing through.” or shows you have come across. Darren Bolton was married to You can send updates either via Jessica Marie Dunbar (Loyola) on the email at the top of the column November 19 in Doylestown, Pa. In or through CCT’s Class Notes attendance were best man Conall webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ Arora ’06 and groomsmen Faisal submit_class_note. Saidi ’07 and Roel Garcia ’07. Says Darren, “We recently returned from an amazing honeymoon in South 2005 Africa. Jessica and I now live happily in Old City, Philadelphia.

Columbia College Today “I am an assistant golf profes- PRASAD SRINIVAS Columbia Alumni Center sional at the Springdale Golf Club Friends celebrated at the wedding reception of Radha Ram ’06 and Raj 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 in Princeton, N.J., and am working Sahoo. Left to right: Gopi Nayak ’06, Vinita Venkatesh SEAS’05, the bride, New York, NY 10025 on earning my Class A membership the groom, Gauri Saxena BC’06, Kingsley Christopher Cruickshank ’05, [email protected] with the PGA of America. I am also Srinidhi Raghavan ’06 and Amit Gupta. training to compete in my second Happy spring, Class of 2005! Send Olympic-distance triathlon this July updates to CCT at cct@columbia. and will run in the Philadelphia C. Mason Wells is working with husband, Irish playwright Brendan edu for a future issue! Marathon in November.” Cohen Media Group to relaunch Connellan, and their young son. Steph Katsigiannis Benecchi: New York City’s frst multiscreen “I, along with my husband, Kevin movie theater, Quad Cinema, which Benecchi SEAS’05, and our daughter, 2006 was established in 1972. He will be 2007

Liliana (born July 2015), relocated the cinema’s director of repertory pro- REUNION Michelle Oh Sing REUNION 2017 from Manhattan to Haddonfeld, gramming when it reopens in April. c/o CCT JUNE 1–4 N.J., last summer. I joined Montgom- Megan Ivey and Daniel Turner Columbia Alumni Center Alumni Afairs Contact ery McCracken Walker & Rhoads were married on April 2, 2016, at 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Fatima Yudeh as an associate in its Philadelphia the Redondo Beach (Calif.) Historic [email protected] New York, NY 10025 ofce, where my practice focuses on Library. Bridesmaids included 212-851-7834

[email protected] 2017 representing individuals involved in Jackie Adelfo SEAS’06, Amy Cass Development Contact Lauren DeLauro Senno government investigations, as well as ’07, and Heather Siemienas commercial litigation and white collar Dear friends, Lauren Baranco. [email protected] criminal defense. Here are some exciting updates After getting engaged on Colum- 212-851-7855 “Kevin works for LoyaltyEdge, for- from our classmates! bia’s South Lawn at her 10-year Teddy Dief David D. Chait merly a division of American Express writes: “I released the reunion, Radha Ram married Raj 21 Sherbrooke Dr. and currently with Meridian Enter- videogame ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ for Sahoo in Dallas on December 9. Princeton Junction, NJ 08550 prises, where he is a senior manager PC, PlayStation 4 and XBox. Te Tere was even a performance [email protected] in charge of the analytics and data game received two Game Award by Radha’s former dance team! nominations in 2016! I recently Te performers were alumni from moved to Montreal to be creative Columbia Taal, including her sister It’s 2017 and I can’t believe our director at game studio Square Gita Ram ’04 and friends Vinita 10-year reunion is just around the Enix Montreal.” Venkatesh SEAS’05, Kingsley corner. I hope to see you all there! Jose Montero BUS’13 has Christopher Cruickshank ’05, Gauri Until then, here are some exciting been working on a line of foods, Saxena BC’06, Srinidhi Raghavan updates from classmates: Allie Córdova Wickedly Prime, for Amazon and and Gopi Nayak. Other alumni in (née Mirkin) Clay Córdova launched in 2016. Bon appétit! attendance were Neeta Makhija, and welcomed their

Justin Ifill recently traveled to Michelle Oh Sing, Matthew daughter, Chloe, on May 20. Tey Cuba and was pleased to spend the Dinusson SEAS’06, Sonali Lala “can’t wait to pressure her to apply to holidays in a warm climate! In Febru- and, of course, Radha’s mother, Asha Columbia and are looking forward ary, he started yoga teacher training; Ram School of Pharmacy ’76. to showing pictures to anyone they he is looking forward to this next Alexia Connellan (née Innis) can corner at reunion this year.” Jake Olson Luciana Olson chapter and starting a new business. launched a signature collection of and Jonathan Ward successfully couture jewels inspired by extraor- (née Colapinto) welcomed Lucas defended his Ph.D. thesis at Oxford dinary gems she has gathered over William Olson into the world on

FIGLEWICZ PHOTOGRAPHY on China-India relations and has the years. Te newest jewels can be September 25. Jake says, “Everyone Megan Ivey ’06 married Daniel begun an active public speaking life found on alexiaconnellan.com. Te is doing great!” Philippa Warodell Turner on April 2, 2016, in Redondo on China-India, Indian Ocean and collection was photographed by (née Ainsley)

Beach, Calif. Left to right: bridesmaid Asia Pacifc regions. Here’s a link Chad Johnson GSAS’09. Alexia’s and Johan Warodell GS’09, GSAS’12 Jackie Adelfio SEAS’06, bridesmaid to a recent talk at the Economic pieces have been worn on the welcomed their frst child, Johan

Amy Cass ’07, the bride, bridesmaid Research Council in London: red carpet and have won several Hugo, in August. Philippa writes, Lauren DeLauro Senno ’06 and ercouncil.org/events. He plans to prestigious jewelry design awards. “He’s a strapping lad and we look bridesmaid Lauren Baranco ’06. return to the United States this year. She lives in San Francisco with her forward to his being Class of 2038!”

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on the importance of investing in women and minority-led businesses. See you at Reunion 2017, Tursday, June 1–Sunday, June 4! Go to college.columbia.edu/alumni/ reunion2017. 2008

Neda Navab 353 King St., Apt. 633 ALEX YOUNG San Francisco, CA 94158 In January, Elizabeth Monson ’08, [email protected] David Berlin ’07 married Alexandra Bronson in Brooklyn in October. Left Rohini Sengupta SEAS’08, Victoria to right: Emily Msall ’07, Christina Giaccone BC’07, Greg Wing ’07, Nick Gerstman ’08, Christine Espinoza Klagge ’07, the groom, Joseph Anzalone ’07, the bride, Andrew Russeth ’07, Here are the latest updates for ’08 and Eve Torres ’08 met up at the Elizabeth Klein ’07, Subash Iyer ’07, Gillian DiPietro BC’07, Joel Ryzowy ’07, CC’08! Scott Hughes married W South Beach in Miami to celebrate Helam Gebremariam ’07, Risheen Brown ’07, Amanda Levy and Tyler Brown. Shelley Jacobson (Penn’08) in July Gerstman’s 30th birthday. in the Poconos. Several friends from Columbia were in attendance, David Berlin and Alexandra is almost here! I’ve been a food including Cody Steele ’09, Andrea “How do we do this? We help kids Jon Kamran, Marissa Bronson were married in Brooklyn, writer and editor for the Institute Steele ’07, from diferent racial and economic Weldon, Thomas Weldon, N.Y., in October. of Culinary Education since last backgrounds build strong relation- Liz Hormann, After 31 years in New York City, spring and doing freelance writing, Craig Hormann ships with one another, so that they Gavin Kate Hurwitz is “moving to Los photography and social media SEAS’08, Mark Dato ’10 and can build and lead integrated com- Harris. Angeles to pursue her nightmare of consulting. Also, I got married this Tough the Columbia munities as adults,” says Ronald. constantly being in a car.” past fall and am now Caitlin Raux attendees were outnumbered by “Tis past summer, we brought Becca Hartog shares, “I’m in (sounds like ‘row’ with a French their counterparts from Penn, the 27 kids of all diferent racial and residency at the University of Pitts- ‘rrrr’). Hope to catch up with every- group sang a spirited rendition of economic backgrounds together burgh Medical Center in combined one at reunion.” “Roar, Lion, Roar!” on the dance for a two-week, overnight summer Earnest Sweat internal medicine and pediatrics. I’ll In November, was foor that startled the crowd and camp experience. While at camp, fnish in May 2018 and I’m getting a featured panelist for Kellogg School defnitely won the enthusiasm battle. our Commoners (the name we give married in June 2017.” of Management’s Growth Forum. Scott and Shelley live in Wash- our campers): a) learn about their Caitlin Raux (née Gunther) Earnest participated in the “Pockets ington, D.C., where he works in identity and how their identity writes, “I cannot believe our 10-year of Potential” session, which focused private equity for the Carlyle Group infuences their perspective, b) and she works in charter school learn empathy skills to help them fnance. For Manhattanites tired of listen and understand others and c) small apartments and high rents, practice leadership skills that will they say come check out D.C.! allow them to build relationships Lauren Arnold PS’17, PH’17 with people across cultural lines and married Brandon Bell on May 29 bring those people together.” in Memphis. Athar Abdul-Quader married Earlier this year, Avanti Maluste Sharmin Ahmed BC’10 on July 17. co-founded a cat day care in Tey celebrated with many of their Mumbai, “Te Kitty Litter.” Te Columbia and Barnard friends and concept was so successful for dogs family, with Columbia/Barnard classes that she decided to expand the idea represented from 1999 to 2012. of pet daycare “to our feline friends.” Avanti says, “Te initial response has been tremendous, including cats 2009 of two Bollywood stars. We ofer daycare, grooming and transport. Alidad Damooei Te Kitty Litter has also been c/o CCT Athar Abdul-Quader ’08 married Sharmin Ahmed BC’10 on July 17. From back: fortunate enough to beneft from Columbia Alumni Center Adil Ahmed ’09, Giselle Leon ’10, Amy Chen ’10, Robyn Burgess ’10, Saira Sid- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 diqui BC’09, Whitney Green SEAS’10, Ali Shafei ’10, Farah Ahmed, Tahir Qadir the guidance of international board members Zander Bauman and New York, NY 10025 SPS’09, Alice Sturm ’10, Kashif Siddiqui SEAS’04, Sakib Khan SEAS’07, Taaha Paula Cheng, [email protected] Shaikh SEAS’05; middle row: Henna Mahmood ’11, Safyah Madraswala BC’09, who provide insight Katie Palillo BC’10, Annie Taylor BC’10, Muzna Ansari BC’10, Tarnima Ahamed from across the pond. We are excited Aditi Nim BC’08, Diana Hsueh GSAS’09, Jennifer Pyne BC’10, Prema Choudhury BC’10, to see what next year brings.” and Hans Sahni ’08 were Meena Azizi BC’10, Deysy Ordóñez ’10, Kabita Parajuli ’10, Azhar Abdul-Quader Last summer, Ronald Towns married in December in Laguna ’02, Mohamed Haroun SEAS’08, Mona Soliman ’09, Ahmed Khan ’09, Ayesha and good friend Zach Bell Beach, Calif., surrounded by their Khan ’03, Fatima Fasihuddin BC’99; front row: Amreen Vora BC’09, Ameera launched Camp Common Ground closest friends and family. Tey met Nauman BC’10, Zeest Haider BC’10, the bride, the groom, Sherif Farrag ’09, (campcommonground.org). Teir on Columbia’s Bhangra dance team in Yusuf Ahmad ’12; and seated: Sairah Anwar BC’11, Jafreen Uddin BC’07, goal is to disrupt racial and eco- 2006, started dating in 2011 and got Naureen Akhter BC’09 and Dilruba Parveen BC’11. nomic segregation in the Bay Area. engaged in 2014. Teir wedding was

82 CCT Spring 2017 alumninews attended by more than 40 Columbia a comedian for an event, reach out alumni from various classes, including to him on Facebook. Ravi Singh, Amar Doshi and Salina Want to see your updates here? Bakshi. Highlights included a mas- Send me an email at damooei@ sive reunion dance at their sangeet and gmail.com! exchanging vows in both the Hindu and Sikh traditions. Te couple lives in Los Angeles. 2010 Stephanie Chou recently released her third album, Asymptote, Julia Feldberg which features fresh arrangements One Western Ave., Apt. 717 of Chinese classics, including Boston, MA 02163 “Kangding Love Song” and “In [email protected] the Moon (You’ll See My Heart).” Another song on the record, “Eating Hi 2010. Tis is a quieter issue for our Grapes,” is based on a tongue twister. class, but exciting nonetheless. Tanks

And another is about Li Bai’s poem, for sharing your updates. I look for- JAMIE CLAYTON PHOTOGRAPHY “Quiet Night Tought.” Plus, there ward to reading more next issue. Michael Bossetta Lauren Arnold Bell ’08, PS’17, PH’17 married Brandon Bell on May 29 in are songs infuenced by her love of recently Memphis. In attendance were (fourth row, left to right) Laura DiCola PS’16; mathematics and literature. Stepha- launched a podcast series, “Social Paul Blackcloud PS’16; Adam Koneman; (third row) Erick Farrington; Kieron nie celebrated the release with a per- Media and Politics” in connection Cindric ’08; Ben Weinryb Grohsgal ’08; Michael Dreyfuss ’08; Beth Leopold formance at Joe’s Pub in New York with his Ph.D. research at the Univer- PS’16; Andrea Gillis ’12, PS’16; Tate Andres PS’16; Ian Wolfe; (second row) City on January 14. Check out audio, sity of Copenhagen. In the podcast, Michaela Bamdad ’08; Jeremy Lyon; Melissa Arnold Lyon TC’21; Sally video and more: stephaniechoumusic. Michael interviews leading academics, Cohen-Cutler ’08; Zoe Sansted ’12, PS’17, BUS’17; and (front row) Randall com/asymptotelinernotes. politicians and industry experts to Lee PS’16; Joanna Tu PS’17; the groom; the bride; Nina Ragaz PS’16; Joshua Stephanie received the 2016 explore how social media is changing Rosner ’08 and Marlene DeOliveira SEAS’08. Jerome Fund for New Music, a grant politics in the digital age. You can from the American Composers download the podcast on iTunes or Forum with funds provided by the Google Play, or send a tweet for more of the Arts. She’d love to see you on of the last 10 years! Overwhelmed Jerome Foundation to write, record info: @SMandPPodcast. her book tour! by the profundity and gratitude, Chris and premiere a new piece of music Morgan Parker’s second book And now, the latest from we shed tears. I wondered if there Yim: with the China Institute. of poetry, Tere Are More Beautiful “Oh, boy! Te meaning of life was any design to it, if there was Michael Grinspan is a comedy Tings Tan Beyoncé, was sched- … what is it and how do we fgure it any intention, as the answer to that touring agent at ICM in Los Ange- uled to be published in February. out? In my past posts, I have made question would help clarify things les, working with stand-ups like Recently, her work has been featured a number of Christian allusions and for me. Jay Leno, Jay Pharoah, Bob Saget, in Te New York Times, Te Paris talked about my faith. However, in “I wrote a status on Facebook Cecily Strong and Marlon Wayans. Review, Te Nation, Te Best Ameri- the past few months, I’ve actually about the power and liberation Michael also represents up-and- can Poetry and elsewhere. She also felt more distant from that walk in being vulnerable. I had a few coming comics, focusing on diverse, received a 2017 Literature Fellow- of life. Not for any one reason, but relationships in the past few years, underrepresented voices. If you need ship from the National Endowment just feeling this uncertainty around dating back to college, that took whether or not this is all random –– advantage of my vulnerability and our lives and our existence. I struggle earnestness. Over time, I became with the idea of time, how our lives hardened and it has become harder are constrained by the time we have. for me to show my compassion and Tis transience urges me to seek let go of my cynicism. Also, living meaning, but I wonder if we can in New York just makes you a jerk. fnd meaning in a world that clings Trough trying to make strides in to chaos and dismisses my ideals for bridging relationships, extending justice. Maybe we don’t need to fnd hands to others that I’ve disagreed meaning in our lives and, if we can with and sitting down to have tough fnd a way to enjoy the process, it’s conversations, I have witnessed how just as powerful to be present and moving it is to be vulnerable. It pursue the day to day. sounds ultra-cheesy, but when you “I was in the woods with Varun take of your armor, ofer peace and Gulati SEAS’10 a few months ago. say, ‘Hey, I’m here to work it out,’ We were snacking on vegetables and you’d be amazed by how disarm- roaming the wilderness when we ing that can be. If you’re reading started talking about how much we’d this and thinking about a strained miss each other when he moved to relationship with a parent, sibling, New York. He has since moved to friend, work colleague or whomever, Scott Hughes ’08 married Shelley Jacobson in the Poconos in July. Several New York to be with his girlfriend. then you have something you want friends from Columbia were in attendance, including (left to right) Cody We discussed how lucky we were to to and can improve. Steele ’09, Andrea Steele ’07, Jon Kamran ’08, Marissa Weldon ’08, Liz have met and how the stars aligned “I’ll close this loopy submis- Hormann ’08, Thomas Weldon ’08, the bride, the groom, Craig Hormann throughout our lives for us to spend sion with a few notes. I’ll be in San SEAS’08, Mark Dato ’10 and Gavin Harris ’08. so much of our 20s together — six Francisco for another year, moving

Spring 2017 CCT 83 Class Notes into a new home with my wife and several Columbians at the wedding two more roommates. We went of fellow Carman 9-er Lauren from having one roommate (Varun) Pully SEAS’11 and Dylan Graham to two roommates. I guess this is (Cornell’11). Yaniris Gomez; Zila the modern marriage. I am pursuing Acosta-Grimes LAW’15; Brian hobbies now that I have never done Grimes; Ali Krimmer; Sean Udell; Dhruv Vasishtha; before –– yoga, improv and ceram- Molly Julia Garrison ’11 married Philippe Putzeys SEAS’10 on July 23. Columbia ics, and am writing again. I have a Spector BC’11; Elizabeth Pitula alumni in attendance were (left to right): Jordan Kobb ’10, Hannah Mercuris beautiful community here in San BC’11; Sarah Sullivan BC’11; Lia ’10, Dan Nassar ’10, Erin Conway ’11, Gene Kaskiw ’09, Robert Frawley Francisco, consisting of a number Bersin SEAS’11; Daniel Izquierdo SEAS’10, Kate Omstead ’10, Adam Bulkley ’10, Eric Tang SEAS’10, the bride, of Columbians, including Nidhi SEAS’11, SEAS’16; and Elizabeth the groom, Nick Barron ’10, Lauren LaMura SEAS’10, Eric McKenna SEAS’11, Hebbar ’12, Erin Tao ’11, Tif Jung, Rodan SEAS’11 all dashed to Colleen McNutt ’11, Ross Ramone ’10 and Lauren Byrne ’11. Geofrey Charles SEAS’12, Jake “Dazzling Dallas” to celebrate the Grumbach, Dario Abramskiehn New Year and the Pully-Graham and Alex Millet ’12. Outside of wedding. It was so nice to reunite band was abruptly prohibited from them even, we have this group out with Columbia friends, especially playing in the library last semester, 2012 here that is really open, honest, Dhruv, whose Lululemon-Orange Nicole contributed to an alumni REUNION REUNION 2017 compassionate and invested in one Teory-Flywheel persona really hit fund that supplied hand warm- JUNE 1–4 another’s lives. It took me a while its stride in Dallas. ers and cofee to the performers Michael Bruno, Alumni Afairs Contact to fnd this, but I feel really grateful it turns out, playing instruments and making Fatima Yudeh for what we have. I still can’t forget moved to a far superior part of the merry in 18-degree weather. Nicole [email protected] how privileged I am and that people country while we were drinking in is rooting for the return of Orgo 212-851-7834 of less fortunate backgrounds don’t Dallas. You can now fnd him in the Night to Butler 209 in May! (Hear Development Contact 2017 have the opportunities that I have Bay Area, where he is working at that, PresBo?) Heather Siemienas had and may not have them. Tis Facebook on the data science team. Ben Gaston, a beard role model [email protected] year is also about trying to fnd ways Facebook is cool and all, he says, to at least one of your correspondents, 212-851-7855 to serve so that others may have the but really he’s just thrilled to have founded digital marketing agency Open Oceans, which uses lean startup Sarah Chai strategies to provide high-return c/o CCT digital marketing solutions to grow- Columbia Alumni Center Nicole Catá ’11 spent a week in Cuba, traveling to ing businesses. Te business is based 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 New York, NY 10025 the Bay of Pigs, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Trinidad, out of San Francisco and is rapidly building a diverse client set across the [email protected] Viñales and Havana. United States. Ben is happy to speak with entrepreneurs or business lead- Te beginning of 2017 brought excit- ers looking to improve their digital ing changes for some classmates! marketing strategies. Pat Blute is mapping out 2017 opportunities that I have been for- escaped the cold of Chicago, where Following up on our many mar- plans for the beta launch of South of tunate enough to have. You can keep he had lived the past fve years. riage announcements from the last Market: Te Musical, which hit three me accountable to that here. Annie Tan also left Chicago to three issues, another Twenty-Eleven- tour venues in January. Listen to a “Lastly, Tiger Woods will win come back to New York City, where er left singlesville last summer: Julia sneak preview of some of the music one golf tournament. You heard it she now teaches ffth-grade special Garrison married Philippe Putzeys by going to SoundCloud and search- here frst. Love you all, muah!” education in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. SEAS’10 on July 23. Te couple ing “South of Market: Te Musical.” Prior to her move, Annie had been met during our sophomore year at Caden Greenberg Brecher was working for Chicago Public Schools Columbia. Many Columbia alumni born on December 24. He came 2011 and served as a delegate to both the attended the nuptials, including as an early surprise. Mom Jessica American Federation of Teachers Jordan Kobb ’10, Hannah Mercuris Greenberg and dad Oren Brecher Nuriel Moghavem and Convention and the Democratic ’10, Dan Nassar ’10, Erin Conway, ’11 are overjoyed. Sean Udell National Convention last July. (Hit Gene Kaskiw ’09, Robert Frawley After graduating with a master’s c/o CCT her up, NYC folk!) SEAS’10, Kate Omstead ’10, Adam from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Columbia Alumni Center Nicole Catá, an avid CCT Bulkley ’10, Eric Tang SEAS’10, Department of Art and Public Policy 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 reader, recently spent a week in Nick Barron ’10, Lauren LaMura in May and working for the American New York, NY 10025 Cuba, traveling to the Bay of Pigs, SEAS’10, Eric McKenna SEAS’11, Associates of the National Teatre, [email protected] Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Trinidad, Colleen McNutt, Ross Ramone ’10 Elizabeth Kipp-Giusti started the year [email protected] Viñales and Havana, where her and Lauren Byrne. by transitioning to Te Public Teater father and his parents were born. Finally, these med school cor- as a development associate, managing Happy spring, Twenty-Eleven! We She memorably saw the house her respondents are thrilled for Tanisha a portfolio of institutional partnership hope that 2017 is treating you well great-grandfather built in Havana, Dee Daniel, who was accepted to grants. In her spare time, she co-chairs so far. Since we’re writing these which she had never thought Robert Wood Johnson Medical the Columbia Alumni Association updates in January, we can only she would get to see. Nicole School, where she will join the Class Arts Access Committee, curating arts speculate on how the frst 100 days also cheered on the Columbia of 2021 this summer. Tis means that events throughout the city and engag- of life without a Columbia College University Marching Band from Tanisha gets to stay in New Jersey, ing CU alumni in conversations about alumnus in the White House will afar (middle Brooklyn) as it hosted where she has been living while com- creativity and cultural stewardship. pan out for all of us. Sean, at least, Orgo Night in front of Butler muting to New York City’s Memorial Mrinal Mohanka left New York, memorably rang in 2017 with Library in December. Because the Sloan Kettering Hospital. where he was a consultant after

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Highlights from her experience 2014 include exploring the discourse of food insecurity and urban food Rebecca Fattell deserts in the United States for her c/o CCT master’s dissertation and leading the Columbia Alumni Center Oxford University Varsity Ultimate 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Frisbee Team to a third place fnish New York, NY 10025 at the U.K. National Championships. [email protected] Alyssa recently accepted a posi- tion on the Energy and Resources Oren Brecher ’11 and Jessica Greenberg ’12 welcomed son Caden Greenberg Happy spring, 2014! Classmates Group team at Development Alter- Brecher on December 24. were busy during the winter months, natives, an international develop- but this means we should have a full ment frm in Washington, D.C., and column for the Summer issue! is looking forward to starting this graduating, in 2014 to experience ial pilgrimage around the world in Amanda Marie Buch, who is next adventure, she says! fellowship, start-up and venture partnership with Remote Year. Each pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience at And that’s it, folks! Want to get capital life in India. He returns to month, he will travel to a diferent Weill Cornell, was recently featured your story out there? Please submit Morningside this spring to start an country across Asia, Africa, Europe in an episode of the podcast Story updates to me at the address at M.B.A. and looks forward to seeing and South America, where he will Collider! Te shows take place the top of the column, emailing many of you before or at reunion! speak with entrepreneurs to under- around the United States and the me at [email protected] or Gillian Rhodes says hello from stand what investors are looking for United Kingdom and involve a live submitting via the CCT Class Notes South Korea: “It’s been a year and and to connect the so-called “global performance, which is recorded for webform, college.columbia.edu/cct/ a half of living in Seoul. Tis fall, collective genius” in the VC space. an online podcast. Amanda’s episode submit_class_note. after a year of dancing with Second Born and raised in Memphis in was recorded in March 2016 while Nature Dance Company, a Korean a Nigerian family of four boys, Jide she was a Bridge to Ph.D. Scholar at contemporary dance company, I was graduated with a B.A. in philosophy Columbia; she performed at Union 2016 moved from guest dancer to mem- and economics and earned a master’s Hall in Brooklyn as part of Brain REUNION REUNION 2017 ber. Te year was flled with training in public administration from SIPA Awareness Week: storycollider.org/ JUNE 1–4 and performances, but in between, through an accelerated fve-year stories/2016/12/2/amanda-buch- Alumni Afairs Contact I organized the frst virtual summit program. Before his role at Rokk3r my-fathers-brain. Fatima Yudeh (thousandvirtualsummit.com) for Labs, Jide started a company with One of Amanda’s public talks [email protected] the international Tousand Network Ramzi Abdoch SEAS’17 and was at the Columbia University 212-851-7834 around the theme ‘New Archetypes accepted to the inaugural Columbia Medical Center was covered by Development Contact 2017 of Peace’.” Startup Lab. the Dana Foundation: danablog. Heather Siemienas Chuck Roberts is a 2L at Stan- To contact Jide or follow his org/2015/07/20/focused-ultrasound- [email protected] ford. He plans to spend this summer story, go to jideadebayo.com. how-sound-can-heal-your-brain. 212-851-7855 working for Sullivan & Cromwell Ryan Mandelbaum moved back and the Department of Justice in to New York City after two years as Lily Liu-Krason Washington, D.C. a healthcare software implementer in 2015 c/o CCT Hope to hear from the rest of you Madison, Wis. He fnished a graduate Columbia Alumni Center soon and to see you all at our fve- program in science journalism at Kareem Carryl 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 year reunion, Tursday, June 1– NYU and now writes full-time for the c/o CCT New York, NY 10025 Sunday, June 4! Go to college. tech website Gizmodo. His work has Columbia Alumni Center [email protected] columbia.edu/alumni/reunion2017. appeared in Scientifc American, Popu- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 lar Science, Te Washington Post and New York, NY 10025 Hey, 2016. I recently moved back to Te Atlantic. In his own words, Ryan [email protected] NYC and work in midtown. If you 2013 is “essentially still sending class emails, want to reach out at lliukrason@ but now sends them daily to several Te Class of 2015 is truly up to some gmail.com to catch up, I would love Tala Akhavan thousand more people … and only on amazing things! Adrian Alea has that! Otherwise, please send me c/o CCT science. He has also dyed his hair and been in Los Angeles for the past year your notes and updates as always! Columbia Alumni Center eaten organs from various non-human working as a management associ- Eyvana Bengochea LAW’19 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 animals, among other things. So all- ate for Benny Medina and Jennifer recently gave birth to a baby boy! Her New York, NY 10025 in-all, things are going pretty well.” Lopez. He says, “I look forward to partner is Zyad Al Rasheed-Wright [email protected] Glad to know the CC’13 spirit is returning to NYC this summer, where GSAS’15. Not being able to get alive and well. After many years in I’ll be assistant directing Shakespeare enough of the Pantone 292, Eyvana Jide Adebayo SIPA’14 recently New York City working in consulting in Te Park with Te Public Teater.” fnished 1L at the Law School and moved to Miami Beach (by way of and then for Uber NYC, I’ve moved Doreen Mohammed ’17 writes, will pursue a human rights internship Venture for America), where he is back to Los Angeles and am a regional “I have a role at MyCareerHacker as in the United Kingdom this summer a senior strategist out of the ofce operations manager for Uber’s United a career consultant. I am looking to through the Law School’s Social of the CEO at Rokk3r Labs. Jide States and Canada businesses. When diversify my resume with other experi- Justice Initiatives program. is responsible for co-building tech I’m not working (or traveling for ences. Can any classmates help me out? Don’t forget that this summer is companies, as well as leading the work), I plan to hike with my puppy Reach me at [email protected].” our frst-year reunion! Come back overall vision and development of regularly and I hope will learn how Alyssa Menz recently completed to campus Tursday, June 1–Sunday, Rokk3r Labs itself. Rokk3r Labs has to surf! Shoot me an email with your a master’s in nature, society and June 4, to catch up with friends and sent Jide on a one-year entrepreneur- news: [email protected]! environmental governance at Oxford. make Columbia memories.

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Robert J. Kaufman, retired corporate Irene; seven grandchildren; and four 1942 attorney, Scarsdale, N.Y., on October great-grandchildren. 30, 2016. Kaufman was a graduate Leonard I. Garth, federal judge, of the Horace Mann School. At the North Branford, Conn., on Sep- College, he was Phi Beta Kappa, a 1951 tember 22, 2016. Garth was one of member of Sachems and coxswain of Robert B. Kaemmerlen, the longest serving and most highly the Varsity Crew. Kaufman served in architect, respected federal judges in the the Navy 1942–46 and was a com- Hingham, Mass., on November 30, country, having served for 48 years. munications ofcer aboard a destroyer 2015. Born in Albany, N.Y., Kaem- He was a Rockefeller Founda- escort. Kaufman graduated from Yale merlen grew up in Hudson, N.Y. He tion Scholar and fought as a frst Law in 1948; he was a member of was a member of Columbia’s light- lieutenant in Africa during WWII. Corby Court. Having started as an weight crew and earned an M.Arch. After graduating from Harvard Law, associate with Gale, Bernays, Falk & in 1954 from GSAPP. Kaemmerlen Garth practiced at Cole, Berman Eisner, Kaufman became assistant developed his architectural partner- & Garth (now Cole Schotz), a general counsel of the DuMont ship, Salisbury & Moore, in Avon, Rear Adm. Beverly James Lowe ’51 prominent New Jersey-based frm, Broadcasting Corp. and later spent Conn. Notable projects included the many years as VP and general attorney Hartford Hospital School of Nurs- Company. Lowe retired in 1987 and for ABC. Kaufman frequently said ing, Hartford YWCA, Kent School lived in Albuquerque, N.M., where that no one enjoyed working for facilities and several ski lodges at he volunteered for many community a living more than he did. He was Pico Mountain and Mount Snow, organizations. He was an infuential profled in Who’s Who in America and Vt. Having designed and built sets leader in the return of ROTC to was an enthusiastic golfer and a great for Te Simsbury Light Opera Co.’s Columbia University. Lowe is sur- fan of the Giants football team and many productions, Kaemmerlen’s vived by his sons, Stephen and Paul; Camp Kennebec. Kaufman is survived highlight was the giant tree and daughters, Kimberly Chalkley and by his wife of 65 years, Susan Sanger mushrooms from which emerged Pam Krieger; and fve grandchildren. Kaufman; sons, Peter S. and James H.; the fairies of Iolanthe. He built two He was predeceased by his brother, daughters-in-law, Teresa and Teresa; houses, one in Simsbury and one on Brenton, and wife, Suzette. Memorial and two granddaughters. Kaufman Prudence Island, R.I., that used solar contributions may be made to the was predeceased by his brothers heat and hot water; he was ahead of Columbia Alliance for ROTC, Box Edwin and William. Memorial con- his time. Kaemmerlen enjoyed skiing, 422, Waldwick, NJ 07463. tributions may be made to Columbia sailing, rowing, painting and always Hon. Leonard I. Garth ’42 University and designated for men’s taking a summer camping trip to the rowing: giving.columbia.edu. mountains with his family. He was 1952 where he developed his reputation married to Joann Rice for 62 years, as a leading trial and transactional and they have three sons, Steven, Stanley I. Rubenfeld, tax attorney, lawyer, before being appointed to 1949 Tomas and James, and a daughter, Aventura, Fla., on September 3, 2016. the federal bench. Garth frst served Betsy. In addition to them, Kaemmer- Rubenfeld was born on December on the United States District Court, Robert B. Goldberg, retired busi- len is survived by fve grandchildren; 7, 1930. At the Law School, from District of New Jersey, for four years ness executive, Manhasset, N.Y., one great-grandchild; older brother which he graduated in 1956, he was beginning in 1970 and the last 44 on April 2, 2016. Goldberg was Paul; and older sister Helen. He was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. years on the Court of Appeals for born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., predeceased by older brother Jack ’50. Rubenfeld served as a lieutenant in the Tird Circuit. He handled many where he graduated from Boys H.S. the Navy during the Korean War and Beverly James “Jim” Lowe, high-profle cases, including some After graduation from Columbia, he retired then joined Shearman & Sterling in involving the Tree Mile Island served in the Merchant Marine and rear admiral, U.S. Navy, Daytona New York City. He was a senior part- disaster, congressional redistricting, the Air Force, attaining the rank of Beach, Fla., on February 13, 2017. ner at the frm and spent his entire organized crime, political corrup- second lieutenant. Goldberg worked Born on June 4, 1929, in Keyser W.V., career there, becoming head of the tion and immigration. Recently, in the textile and personal computer Lowe earned a B.A. in physics and tax department and one of the coun- the atrium of the U.S. Courthouse businesses and was president and a mathematics. Upon graduation, he try’s leading tax attorneys. Rubenfeld in Newark, N.J., was named in member of the Board of Trustees of entered the submarine service. After was an avid tennis player and shared his honor. Garth is survived by Temple Hillel in North Woodmere, two years of submarine operations, he his wife Madeleine Conway’s devo- his daughter, Tobie Garth Meisel; Long Island, as well as a member of was selected for a three-year program tion to the building of the new Pérez son-in-law, Michael S. Meisel; the Local Development Corp. of the at MIT, from which he received Art Museum Miami, and her love of three grandchildren; and seven Town of Hempstead. His love of his advanced degrees in naval engineer- travel. Rubenfeld is survived by his great-grandchildren. His wife of 72 alma mater was everlasting, and as an ing and an M.S. with a specialty in children, Leslie Dealy, Lise Oelbaum years, Sarah Kaufman Garth, passed avid fan of Lion sports he even got to nuclear engineering. Lowe served 33 and Kenneth; his wife and her away in 2016. Memorial contribu- enjoy basketball’s CollegeInsider.com years in the Navy. Upon completion children, Andrew Conway, Victoria tions may be made to Temple Beth Postseason Tournament Champion- of his naval service he was a program Newman and Allie Marks, and their Tikvah, 196 Durham Rd., Madison ship in March 2016. Goldberg was manager, VP and CEO of various families; his fve grandchildren; CT 06433; the American Heart predeceased by his wife, Lora, and engineering companies includ- one great-grandchild; sons-in law, Association; or the American is survived by his sons, Jerry and his ing Westinghouse, United Nuclear Andrew Oelbaum and Kevin Dealy; Diabetes Association. wife, Marla, and Andy and his wife, Corp. and Tacoma Boatbuilding and nephews, Andy Rubien and

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Davie Rubien. He was predeceased He was awarded a four-year scholar- with her until her death several years by his sister, Sheila Pakula. Memorial ship to the College. After graduation, ago. Price is survived by his children; Obituary Submission contributions may be made to the he joined the Navy and became a pilot. brother, Don; sisters, Ann Teos and Guidelines Alzheimer’s Association, Southeast After retiring from the Navy, Price Amelia; and many nieces and neph- Columbia College Today welcomes obituaries for College alumni. Florida Chapter, 3333 Forest Hill worked for the Miami Herald and ews. He was preceded in death by his Deaths are noted in the next Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406; later was in charge of the personnel brothers George, Proko and Bob; and available issue in the “Other or the Alzheimer’s Association, Long department for the Dade County Fire sisters Sophie, Mary, Mamie, Dorothy, Deaths Reported” box. Complete Island Chapter, 425 Broadhollow Department, from which he retired. Ruby, Rose and Ellen. obituaries will be published in an Rd., Ste 307, Melville, NY 11747. Price was very active in sports, working upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of under Dunn “Snide” Taylor at Jordan obituaries that CCT receives, it may H.S. and Lou Little at Columbia. He 1957 take several issues for the complete 1953 lettered in football, basketball and obituary to appear. Word limit is 200; baseball at both schools and was an Ira Lubell, physician and medi- text may be edited for length, clarity Mitchell Price, retired fre department All-American quarterback at Colum- cal administrator, San Francisco, on and style at the editors’ discretion. personnel director, Hudson, Fla., on bia. He married Virginia Brooks, June 12, 2016. Lubell was born on Click “Contact Us” at college. columbia.edu/cct, or mail materials January 8, 2016. Price was born in who is the mother of his sons, Blake June 20, 1936, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He to Obituaries Editor, Columbia Midvale, Utah, on January 10, 1931. and Van, and daughter, Kathy. Tey graduated from Stuyvesant and SUNY College Today, Columbia Alumni He graduated from Jordan H.S., for later divorced. Price married Norma Downstate, and earned an M.P.H. Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, which he was student body president. Costello and shared many happy years in 1964 from the School of Public 4th Fl., New York, NY 10025. Health. Lubell served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, an ofcer in the U.S. Public Health Service and as plastic surgery, McGuire was president OTHER DEATHS REPORTED the physician at the American embassy of both the California Society of Columbia College Today also has learned of the following in Moscow. He returned stateside Plastic Surgeons and the American deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming and became chief medical ofcer of Society of Plastic Surgeons. He was issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Lincoln Hospital in NYC. Lubell was a director of the American Board obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the the frst community health ofcer for of Plastic Surgery at the time of his complete obituary to appear. Bergen County, N.J. He worked in death. Although partially handicapped more than 150 countries, specializing by a stroke several years ago, McGuire in population control through his work was an avid gardener and world 1948 Richard J. Calame, retired ob/gyn, Vero Beach, Fla., with the Association for Voluntary traveler, as well as a tireless advocate on January 31, 2017. Sterilization. Following his tenure with for his profession and for patient safety. Wagner P. Thielens Jr., retired professor, New York City, AVS Lubell became medical director He is survived by his brother Patrick. on August 6, 2016. of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Memorial contributions may be made in NYC. In 1988, Santa Cruz County to Te Plastic Surgery Foundation, 1949 Walter A. Schlotterbeck, retired attorney, Mercer Island, hired Lubell as its chief medical ofcer. Attn.: Te Dr. Michael McGuire Wash., on February 5, 2017. In 1996, he became medical director Leadership Fund, 444 E. Algonquin 1950 Daniel Brachfeld, real estate executive, New York City, of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Rd., Arlington Heights, IL 60005. on February 3, 2017. where he worked for seven years. After William B. Parmer, his 2003 retirement, Lubell was medi- retired physician, Mario A. Palmieri, retired editor, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., cal director for the San Francisco Fire San Francisco, on October 2, 2015. on September 23, 2016. Department for four years and also A Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of the 1951 Stanley I. Schachter, attorney, Boynton Beach, Fla., on local boards and committees. He College, Parmer earned a degree on January 25, 2017. is survived by his husband of 36 years, from P&S in 1972 and completed his Schulyer Sharp, Tulsa, Okla., on October 31, 2016. Louis Judd Bonsignore. Memorial internship and residency at Montefore contributions may be made to Te Medical Center in New York. Parmer 1952 Melvin Tresser, retired physician, Winter Park, Fla., Diversity Center of Santa Cruz, PO was afliated with California Pacifc on January 17, 2017. Box 8280, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. Medical Center (CPMC) in San 1956 William A. Schafer, retired attorney, consultant and author, Francisco and practiced medicine for San Jose, Calif., on February 5, 2017. more than 35 years. He was an avid 1957 Joseph Feldschuh, physician and medical researcher, 1968 reader and had deep knowledge in Bronx, N.Y., on January 31, 2017. many areas, including classical music, Michael F. McGuire, plastic surgeon, literature, politics and sports. Parmer Richard Dobrin, retired professor, founder and director of 1959 Los Angeles, on November 14, 2016. was also an accomplished tennis healthcare group, Santa Fe, N.M., on January 12, 2016. A native of St. Louis, McGuire earned player, gardener and landscape painter. Ira J. Plotinsky, physician, San Francisco, on June 11, 2016. a degree from P&S in 1972. While Survivors include his wife, Joan; 1962 Jules R. Alcorn, Austin, Texas, on September 3, 2015. at the College, he was president of daughters, Julia and Ilana; mother, Columbia Students Agencies, was Miriam; and sister, Laura Skodol. 1967 Harold S. Wechsler, professor and author, Rochester, N.Y., on the Board of Managers and was Memorial contributions may be sent on February 17, 2017. a member of the Senior Society of to the Dr. William Parmer Memorial 1979 Keith S. Orenstein, on January 14, 2017. Sachems. He practiced in Southern Fund in Support of Medical Resident Education, CPMC Foundation, 2015 2015 Catherine M. Johannet, teacher, Scarsdale, N.Y., California for more than 30 years and on February 5, 2017. was a clinical professor of plastic sur- Steiner St., San Francisco, CA 94115; gery at both UCLA and USC. Widely cpmc.org/giving; 415-600-2415. recognized as a leader of organized — Lisa Palladino

Spring 2017 CCT 87 alumnicorner

Going the Distance for Women’s Health

Running for social change with Alison Mariella Désir ’07, GSAS’11, TC’16

To raise money for Planned Parenthood, activist and long-distance In January 2017, I launched Run 4 All Women, a running initia- runner Alison Mariella Désir ’07, GSAS’11, TC’16 and a team of tive created to support women and to provide a hedge against politi- four runners (joined at diferent points by more than 1,000 supporters) cal eforts to defund Planned Parenthood. Much like the founding of ran the 250-plus miles from NYC to Washington, D.C., in three days, Harlem Run, this initiative was borne out of a desire to take action. culminating at the Women’s March on Washington on January 21. After I launched the (4 Women) Run 4 All Women GoFundMe cam- coordinating the relay in less than three weeks, Désir raised $103,544. paign on January 2 and, eight days later, I reached the original goal Here, she writes about what inspired her to run. of raising $44,000 (chosen in honor of our outgoing 44th President, Barack Obama ’83) for Planned Parenthood. But the donations kept hen I refect on my time at Columbia College, I rolling in, and in 30 days we had raised more than $103,000. cannot say that I knew then that I would become a I never anticipated that the initiative would snowball into a community leader and activist. In fact, I was not as movement. In fact, when my mother donated $200 on the frst day, W engaged as an undergraduate as I wish I had been, a sum that was a sacrifce for her, I assumed that might be the single and felt far more lost and confused than I like to admit. But while largest donation I would receive. However, I quickly saw that many going to school in the city was a distraction from my schoolwork, men and women were inspired — hundreds of people reached out, it was also the perfect environment to come of age. Columbia’s looking for ways to be involved. On January 18, the evening we campus is visited by world leaders, is often the site of protests and took of, I was joined in Harlem by 250 men and women for the OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE WOMEN is a space where casual conversation leads to radical movements. start of the journey; hundreds more joined us along the way in four I believe these conditions led to my core belief: I have a voice mile stretches. It was this support that made running the grueling and I am powerful. mileage possible: I ran 75 miles over the course of three days. When I founded Harlem Run, a running group focused on Te amazing aftermath of the run is that Run 4 All Women is now community and service, in November 2013, I wanted to share the going national, continuing our fundraising eforts and activism. We are transformation I experienced through running. I’d begun endurance hosting a summit in April to train and empower Run 4 All Women running the previous year while going through a period of depres- ambassadors with the tools and network to host their own long-distance sion. While I had been ac- relay events and, in August, several runs will take place simultaneously tive growing up, I had never around the country, all to beneft Planned Parenthood. You can fnd been a long-distance run- out more on Facebook (facebook.com/run4allwomen), on Twitter and ner — the 400m and 400m Instagram @run4allwomen, or on run4allwomen.com. hurdles were my events in People think you need tons of money to make a diference. People track and feld. But when think you need to be Oprah or Bill Gates to make a diference. People I saw on Facebook that a think you need to have 50,000 followers on Instagram to get a message friend’s brother was training across. I don’t have any of that. But I’ll tell you what I do have: for a marathon while raising money for a nonproft, I de- 1. A voice. cided to sign up and do the 2. A pair of sneakers. same. Training for my frst 3. Two feet to put in them. marathon brought me back 4. Enough passion to organize people for a cause. RACHEL LINK RACHEL to life and helped me to cope 5. Te willingness to sweat for what I want. with the stressful circum- stances that caused my depression: unemployment, a breakup and my It’s like legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden said: father’s worsening Lewy Body Dementia. I knew that I could either “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” continue to do nothing or I could take action — no matter how im- Any person at any point has an opportunity to act. What’s important possible running 26.2 miles seemed — to make my situation better. is that you set a goal and that you’re willing to sweat for what you want. By the time I founded Harlem Run the following year, I was in a Pick a mission and organize others; it doesn’t even have to take that much better place mentally and was determined to share the experience long. Te best reward is that you might inspire others to do the same. with my community. Despite its slow start, the group has become a so- Tere will always be a reason not to take action. Some “thing” cial change movement that attracts hundreds of runners of all abilities you don’t have. But, there is always something that you do have. on a weekly basis. To date, we have raised thousands of dollars for local Some resource or some reason that makes you best-suited for the nonproft Harlem United, and we integrate our runs with an apprecia- task at hand. In my case, it was my voice, my sneakers, my two feet tion for and deeper understanding of our community and its needs. and my passion — and that was more than enough.

88 CCT Spring 2017 CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE WOMEN

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