Columbia College Summer 2012 TODAY

Jodi Kantor ’96 Takes Readers Inside the White House in The Obamas your Contents columbia connection. COVER STORY FEATURES the perfect midtown location: 34 A Closer Look • network with Columbia alumni An exhibit of student • Attend exciting events and programs photography from East • Dine with a client and Southeast Asia features • Conduct business meetings images with narratives • take advantage of overnight rooms hidden beneath the surface. and so much more.

6 Class Day and Commencement The Class of 2012 joins the ranks of alumni.

40 Wallace Broecker ’53 Battles the Angry 22 The Obamas Climate Beast 28 The Full ’96 offers a revealing portrait Broecker popularized the of the First Couple in her new book. Spectrum term “global warming” By Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts As FCC chairman, Julius and explained how ocean Genachowski ’85 has currents effect abrupt made universal access . to wireless, high-speed By Timothy P. Cross a priority. ’98 GSAS apply for By Michael R. Shea ’10 Arts membership today!

15 West 43 street , ny 10036 tel: 212.719.0380 in residence at The Princeton Club of New York www.columbiaclub.org COVER: DANIELLA ZALCMAN ’09; BACK COVER: EILEEN BARROSO MESSAGE FROM DEAN JAMES J. VALENTINI DEPARTMENTS ALUMNI NEWS Our Greatness Is in Our Community 53 Message from the CCAA President Kyra Tirana Barry ’87 an- nounces the Board of Direc- ear Columbians, accomplished only if we recruit students with- tors’ newest members and At the beginning of the out regard for their ability to pay for that expe- outlines how alumni can Fall semester, when I had just rience. And once they are here, we must ensure turn ideas into action. been appointed Interim Dean that we provide opportunities to develop the of the College, I greeted new talents and further the accomplishments that students with, “Welcome to led to their selection for admission. Dthe greatest College, in the greatest Univer- The inimitable experience of Columbia Jennifer Medbery ’06 sity, in the greatest city in the world.” After College is largely due to the Columbia faculty serving nine months as dean, I am even more members who engage and inspire students in 59 Class Notes convinced of that truth. It is founded in our the classroom and mentor them in research Alumni Reunion Weekend 2012 Alumni Profiles unique and uniquely valuable curriculum, in of the highest caliber. We must enable our the world-leading scholarship and dedicated faculty to continue as the best teachers and 3 Message from 20 Alumni Reunion 81 Armen Donelian ’72 teaching of our faculty, in our brilliant and di- scholars in the world, and recruit faculty the Dean Weekend and 89 Frank Seminara ’89 verse students, and in the deep commitment of the same distinction, year after year. This 93 Dylan Voorhees ’98 and intense affection that former students have means developing endowed professorships Columbia’s greatness lies Dean’s Day 2012 for their alma mater. But our greatness is in our and other supports, individual and institu- 98 Jennifer Medbery ’06 in its community. Classmates reconnected, community, which is much more than the sum tional, financial and structural, to enable the of our individual accomplishments. most effective teaching and the most creative revisited the classroom 104 Alumni Corner 4 Letters to the experience and celebrated My challenge as the 16th Dean of the Col- scholarship in the humanities, the social sci- Editor on campus and throughout Lou Gehrig ’25 in his own lege — no, our challenge — is to make the claim “greatest College, ences and the natural sciences. in the greatest University, in the greatest city in the world” self- The centerpiece of our common intellectual experience is . words, as selected by his Steven J. Ross ’71 biographer Ray Robinson ’41. evident to all who are part of Columbia and even to all who are the Core Curriculum, ever-changing but ever-constant, linking 8 Within the Family not. That is a tall order, but it is a goal that we can achieve. generations of faculty and students. Building on the Core is the 46 Columbia Forum: 54 Bookshelf To achieve it the College must continue to admit students who curriculum of 72 majors and 58 concentrations, evolving all the 9 Around the Quads Scribble, Scribble, Featured: Hollywood Left are the best in the world, and who also are best able to profit from time, serving students’ individual intellectual interests and spe- and Right: How Movie Stars and contribute to the educational experience we offer. That can be cial abilities. That curriculum, from the Core through the most Professors Christia Mercer Scribble Shaped American Politics by advanced courses, transforms College under- and David Lurie ’01 GSAS A University Professor Steven J. Ross ’71. graduates from brilliant students to brilliant, win awards. posits Washington thoughtful and creative thinkers. is the vision of Washington 56 Obituaries As alumni, you serve another special role: 18 Roar, Lion, Roar the man. as advisers, as role models and as inspiration By Simon Schama for current students. Among the most impor- tant assets you can contribute to current stu- dents are the life experiences you have that show the many and varied paths of success that a Columbia College education opens. All of your experiences are valuable ones. WEB EXTRAS Because of that, we aim to know all of your 5 More Minutes with Julie Crawford stories and have all of you involved, in some way, with the College. A very, very ambitious Like Columbia College on Wallace Broecker ’53’s Op-Ed on the Facebook: facebook.com/ goal, indeed, but then we have one very, very columbiacollege1754 Direct Air-Capture of CO2 ambitious group of alumni. Dylan Voorhees ’98 Dons a Polar Bear Suit for I am honored to have been appointed the 16th Dean of Columbia College. I am respect- Environmental Policy Reform Follow @Columbia_CCAA ful of the responsibility being dean conveys. on Academic Awards and Prizes I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the College and the University that I love. Senior Dinner Photo Gallery To all our great lions, I say Roar, Lions, Roar, Join the Columbia Alumni Class Day and Commencement Photo Galleries Association Network on Reunion and Dean’s Day Photo Galleries LinkedIn: alumni.columbia. Dean James J. Valentini (right) and President Lee C. Bollinger share a lighter moment edu/linkedin college.columbia.edu/cct during Class Day 2012. PHOTOS: EILEEN BARROSO

SUMMER 2012 3 ture short, Meet the Professor. Descendants Remembering Piero Weiss ’50 of those scholarships. Letters to the Editor of band alumni may have material from I join Peter Jacoby ’71 in mourning the My Columbia education served me those or other early appearances; we’re death of Piero Weiss ’50, ’70 GSAS (Winter well throughout my business and military interested in those, too. 2011–12), for I, too, had him as my instruc- careers. My military experience taught me to make my imprint on the female experi- I was the head manager from 1964–65 tor in Music Humanities, and he was in- to think in terms larger than myself, a use- Volume 39 Number 4 ence at Columbia. and am coordinating the exhibit effort. I deed a knowledgeable, witty and inspir- ful perspective in my personal and busi- Summer 2012 I can only hope that today’s “lionesses,” will be pleased to hear from anyone with ing teacher. I recall that at the time, spring ness lives. My military training provided EDITOR AND PUBLISHER and those to come, will find ways to make material or leads at jdonaldsmith65@com 1965, he was engaged in translating and the technical foundation for my business Alex Sachare ’71 their own “first” contributions to Morn- cast.net. editing a selection of composers’ letters. career in aviation as well as early expo- ingside Heights, embracing opportunities J. Donald Smith ’65 sure to organizational and people man- EXECUTIVE EDITOR Perhaps I may be permitted to add a that fuel their passions, whatever they may Cambridge, Mass. agement. Lisa Palladino comment here about CCT’s relation to be. Our campus will be the richer for their some of our former instructors. It I believe the breadth and depth of my MANAGING EDITOR efforts. is understandable that the passing Columbia education allowed me to con- Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts Stephanie Schwartz ’88 of so internationally renowned a tribute to the organizations and individu- airfield onn EDITORIAL ASSISTANT F , C . figure as Edward Said (my Litera- als I worked with. The experience gained in my military and business communities Karen Iorio Band Memorabilia? ture Humanities teacher; we ar- rived at Columbia together, in fall allowed me to offer a cross perspective to FORUM EDITOR Attention alumni: Do you have a great pho- each. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard 1963) should receive wide notice. to or video of the Marching Band at a foot- But we were also taught, and of- I believe our country will maintain a CONTRIBUTING WRITER ball game? An old Concert Band or Wind sizable military. This will keep avenues of Coeducation ten not taught less well, by gradu- Shira Boss ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA Ensemble audio recording or program? ate students, whose appearance contact between civil and military valu- EDITORIAL INTERN A hearty thanks for the inspiring and won- A backstage shot from the time the band in these pages is rare. In the same able even as our all-volunteer forces have Benjamin W. Gittelson ’15 derful coverage of Columbia College’s mi- played in the 1985 feature film Turk 182! or spirit Jacoby showed, I should reduced the direct exposure of civilians to gration to coeducation (Spring 2012). As an for Johnny Carson or David Letterman? An like to recall and celebrate two military life. DESIGN CONSULTANT enthusiastic member of the second class of old uniform or other band souvenir? outstanding graduate instructors Columbia, our military and our coun- Jean-Claude Suarès Columbia College women (a distinction The Marching I had in my freshman year. try all benefit from NROTC. I welcome its ART DIRECTOR that I wear proudly to this day), this issue Band Alumni Council (tinyurl.com/7b33 Peter Shaw ’65 GSAS taught men and women back to the Morningside Gates Sisters Studio brought a wide and long-lasting smile to rxj) is searching for memorabilia for a cam- freshman English with wonder- community. my face. pus exhibit to cover the band from its start Michael K. Moore ’65 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS ful verve and rigor; I give him Behind the Core arker olo Eileen Barroso Arriving on campus in fall 1984, I was in 1904 to today, in all its incarnations: credit for making me a decent writer and P , C . Daniella Zalcman ’09 lucky to have one class ahead of me — Marching Band, Concert (or Symphonic) Your publication of “A Look Behind the reader. While I was teaching at Columbia some footsteps to follow but with enough Band and Wind Ensemble. We’d like to Core Curriculum” (Around the Quads, in the 1970s, I had the pleasure of running opportunity left to embrace. Having intro- hear from anyone with band artifacts and Spring 2012) showcased a tremendous into him on , sharing a beer at Published quarterly by the duced field hockey to Columbia Athletics memorabilia. We’ll arrange to borrow or, if resource for alumni looking to reconnect The West End and catching up with him; Columbia College Office of by way of a club sport that fall — gather- possible, duplicate your offering — which- with that venerable, cherished Core. by then he was a professor of English at Alumni Affairs and Development for Manage Your ing on the lawns in front of ever you choose. Browsing through the online exhibits, I alumni, students, faculty, parents and SUNY Stony Brook. For Contemporary — and working to become the first female In the 1930s, Columbia’s band played felt memory after memory flooding back, of Columbia College. Civilization I had another remarkable in- Subscription manager of the men’s varsity Carnegie Hall, cut a record for the Bruns- filling me with a longing for those late structor, Joseph Ransdell ’66 GSAS, then a If you prefer reading CCT online, you Address all correspondence to: team, I felt particularly blessed to be able wick label, and appeared in a motion pic- nights spent in Butler stacks studying the graduate student in philosophy, who suc- can help us go green and save money Columbia College Today likes of Plato, Aristophanes and Woolf. In ceeded in making the manifold turns and Columbia Alumni Center by opting out of the print edition. Click those days, reading 300 pages a night was controversies of western thought not only 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 1st Fl. “Manage Your Subscription” at college. nothing. The thirst for knowledge drove intelligible to a class of raw freshmen but New York, NY 10025 columbia.edu/cct and follow the do- me on! And not just CC and Lit Hum. I re- also deeply interesting and engaging. Nei- 212-851-7852 mestic instructions. We will continue to call arguing so heatedly with John Atlas ’09 ther of these two men, unfortunately, can E-mail (editorial): [email protected]; notify you by email when each issue is (advertising): [email protected]. on the merits of surrealism versus pointil- read these simple homages: Shaw died in posted online. You may be reinstated to Online: college.columbia.edu/cct. lism after one Art Hum class that we broke 1995, Ransdell in 2010. receive the print edition at any time by off our friendship and didn’t speak to each Joseph B. Solodow ’67 ISSN 0572-7820 sending a note to [email protected]. other for a week! Eventually we came to Woodbridge, Conn. Opinions expressed are those of the our senses and reconciled, acknowledging authors and do not reflect official the value of both artistic styles. ROTC positions of Columbia College Good memories! Thank you, Karla Niel­ I read the recent letters of Professor Allen CCT welcomes letters from readers about or Columbia University. sen, for creating the online exhibit, and thank Silver (Winter 2011–12) and David Stern articles in the magazine but cannot © 2012 Columbia College Today you, CCT, for bringing it to our attention. ’66, ’72 GSAS (Fall 2011, Spring 2012) on print or personally respond to all letters All rights reserved. Michael Tull Lock ’08 the return of NROTC to Columbia. My received. Letters express the views of Madison, Wis. perspective is a personal one as a Colum- the writers and not CCT, the College or bia NROTC graduate and a retired busi- the University. Please keep letters to 250 [Editor’s note: To access the exhibits on CC nessman and Naval Reserve officer. words or fewer. All letters are subject to editing for space and clarity. Please direct and Lit Hum, go to https://ldpd.lamp. NROTC provided several dozen full letters for publication “to the editor” via columbia.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/ scholarships per class to Columbia, allow- mail or online: college.columbia.edu/cct/ The Cleverest Band in the World received national exposure when it paid a surprise birth- cc and https://ldpd.lamp.columbia.edu/ ing scarce College financial aid dollars to contactus. day visit to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show in fall 1963. omeka/exhibits/show/lit_hum.] reach more students. I benefited from one

SUMMER 2012 SUMMER 2012 4 5 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS DAY AND COMMENCEMENT 2012 Class of 2012 Become the Newest Alumni (Left) The soon-to-be alumni wait on the B y L i s a P a ll a d i n o ramps in to begin their procession onto South Field. (Clockwise from right) Thomas R. Kitt ’96 is presented the 2012 University Medal for Excellence by he rain held off for much of the day as the Class President Lee C. Bollinger; Class Day speaker of 2012 celebrated Class Day on May 15 on South John R. “Rick” MacArthur ’78 (right) with Lawn. The 1,132 graduates marched to the famil­ Dean James J. Valentini; President Barack iar chords of Pomp and Circumstance as family Obama ’83 speaks at Barnard’s Commence- and friends looked on and 175 alumni from as far ment on May 14; and alumni from the 25th Tback as 1949 walked with their class banners in the Alumni anniversary Class of 1987 march in the ninth Parade of Classes, shepherding the graduates into the alumni annual Alumni Parade of Classes. PHOTOS: ALUMNI PARADE OF CLASSES: CHAR community. SMULLYAN; ALL OTHERS: EILEEN BARROSO Salutatorian Zachary Evan Levine ’12 delivered the first speech, followed by keynote speaker John R. “Rick” MacAr- thur ’78, an award-winning journalist, an author and president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine. MacArthur made light of the fact that he was speaking in the shadow of Barnard’s May 14 Commencement speaker, President ’83: “Many of you are disappointed I am not President of the … I share your disappointment.” Dean James J. Valentini urged the graduates to “take pride in being graduates of the greatest college, in the greatest uni- versity, in the greatest city in the world” and was followed by brief remarks from President Lee C. Bollinger. Stephanie Foster ’12 and Jacob Goren ’12, co-chairs of the Senior Fund, presented the Class Gift. They noted that the class had sur- passed its goals of 750 donors to the Senior Fund (thereby securing a gift of $100,000 from Charles Santoro ’82) and 200 donors to Valentini’s “3-2-1” Challenge of committing to give $20.12 for three years, convincing two friends to do the same and then having the gift matched by an alumnus (this year, Gene Davis ’75 matched all gifts). After remarks by Class President Sarah Chai ’12, the names of the graduates were read and they received class pins from four members of the 50th anniversary Class of 1962. The next day, the University Commencement ceremony of the 258th academic year was held on South Lawn with up- ward of 11,000 degree candidates and more than 30,000 partici- pants and guests in attendance. Among the 10 recipients of the Alumni Medal, given for distinguished service of 10 years or more to the University, were Robert H. Douglas ’70 and Nicho- las Rudd ’64, ’67 Business. Honored with the University Medal for Excellence, presented each year to an alumnus/a under 45 whose record in scholarship, public service or professional life is outstanding, was Thomas R. Kitt ’96, who won Pulitzer and Tony Awards for writing the score to the Broadway hit Next to Normal.

To view photo galleries of Class Day and Commencement, go to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct.

SUMMER 2012 SUMMER 2012 6 7 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY

WITHIN THE FAMILY THE And the Survey Says … AROUND QUADS

any years ago, I was walking down Sixth Ave­ not the section in its entirety. nue in Greenwich Village on a sunny Saturday Slightly more than half of respondents said they had at some morning when a tall, balding man ambled up to point submitted a note to their class correspondent. I encourage me, smiled, stuck out his hand and asked in a more of you to do so, as it’s the easiest way to stay in touch with booming voice, “How am I doing?” Actually, in classmates. Many respondents said they were unaware that we Mhis distinctive accent, it came out more like “How’m I doin’?” had an online Class Notes submission form, so here’s the link: Ed Koch, mayor of NYC from 1978–89 and for a brief time a college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. Your note will go judge on one of those daytime TV courtroom dramas, was fa- right to your class correspondent. mous for his impromptu political polling. He would roam the As for method of distribution, 76 percent of respondents said city streets and ask passersby for their opinions on his tenure in they liked getting CCT in print and another 15 percent said both office, to the point where “How’m I doin’?” be- in print and online. We have no plans to elimi- came a catchphrase in New York in the ’80s. nate the print edition; however, keep in mind Knowing your constituency, your audience, that if you prefer reading the magazine online is one of the principles not only of politics but and would like to save a tree (or at least a limb) Celebrating at the May 2 awards ceremony were (left to right) Academic Awards Committee Co-chair Erik Kogut ’12, AAC Co-chair Lind- also of marketing, public relations, sales and just and lower our mailing costs, you can opt out say White ’13, associate professor David B. Lurie ’01 GSAS, the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy Christia Mercer, Dean James J. about all aspects of business. It surely applies to of the print edition by clicking “Manage Your Valentini and AAC Co-chair Cathi Choi ’13. PHOTO: DANIELLA ZALCMAN ’09 magazine editing and publishing, including our Subscription” at college.columbia.edu/cct and niche here at Columbia College Today. What do following the domestic instructions. our readers want? What do they like about CCT We asked how you felt about the statement, Mercer, Lurie Receive Van Doren, Trilling Awards and, equally important, what do they dislike? “CCT strengthens my connection to Columbia What are their expectations and their desires College,” and more than 91 percent said you he Columbia College Student the history of feminism. from Columbia. His research interests when our quarterly arrives in their mailboxes, agreed or strongly agreed, with only 3 percent Council’s Academic Awards The Lionel Trilling Award honors a include the literary and cultural history or when they open our latest issue online? saying you disagreed or strongly disagreed. Committee presented the 2012 book from the past year by a Columbia of seventh- through 12th-century ; This year, to supplement the Koch-style anec­ Thank you for validating college alumni maga- T Mark Van Doren Award to professor that best exhibits the standards the Japanese reception of Chinese liter- dotal evidence-gathering that we do at alumni zines in general and for the vote of confidence Christia Mercer, the Gustave M. Berne of intellect and scholarship found in ary, historical and technical writings; the events, we conducted an online readership sur- in CCT in particular. Professor of Philosophy, and the Lionel the work of longtime Columbia faculty development of Japanese dictionaries and vey. Distributed in March, the survey consisted What do you like most about CCT? As men- Trilling Award to David B. Lurie ’01 member Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS, an encyclopedias; and the history of linguis- of 22 questions, most in multiple choice or short- PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO tioned earlier, Class Notes was the runaway GSAS, associate professor of Japanese his- author and renowned literary critic. Lurie tic thought. answer formats, followed by an open-ended re- leader with an average value of 4.46 on a scale tory and literature in the Department of was honored for his book Realms of Lit- The Van Doren and Trilling awards are quest for comments, and was designed to be completed in about of 1–5, followed by the profiles and photos in the Class Notes sec- East Asian Languages and Cultures. The eracy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. unique for Columbia because they are the five minutes. tion, Obituaries, Alumni Corner (back page), features and Around awards were presented on May 2 in the Lurie earned a B.A. from Harvard in only academic honors judged and pre- We sent the survey to every College alumnus/a for whom the the Quads (news) — all receiving a mean score of 3.5 or higher. Presidential Ballroom at Faculty House. 1993 and an M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (2001) sented by students. University has a valid email address, and we sincerely thank the How can we improve? We asked you to rate CCT’s coverage The Mark Van Doren Award, which more than 1,000 of you who responded. I have read every one of in 11 categories, and more than 80 percent of respondents said honors a Columbia professor for com- your comments, and all have been shared with the CCT staff. The we cover each “very well” or “adequately,” with alumni news, mitment to undergraduate instruction as Nine Faculty Members Honored with Lenfest Awards survey was conducted anonymously to encourage respondents profiles, college news, alumni events and campus events lead- well as for “humanity, devotion to truth to be forthright in their answers; two questions regarding age and ing the way. But 18 percent of respondents said we did not cover and inspiring leadership,” was named ine Arts and Sciences faculty members have been honored with the Distinguished gender enabled us to confirm that we’d heard from a representa- the Core Curriculum well enough and 14 percent said the same for Mark Van Doren ’21 GSAS, a Pulitzer Columbia Faculty Awards for their ability to engage, challenge and inspire students tive sample of our alumni population. about academics in general; student activities and athletics were Prize-winning poet, novelist, literary Nin the classroom. We are pleased to report that 91 percent of respondents read all next on the list. critic and longtime Columbia faculty Established in 2005 by University Trustee Gerry Lenfest ’58L, the awards are given four issues of the magazine each year, and 60 percent spend a half- These are things we plan to address. We’ve already done so member with a reputation for pedagogi- annually to recognize and reward exceptional teaching and mentoring. Honored at a hour or more with each issue. More than 61 percent of respondents with athletics, introducing a redesigned Roar, Lion, Roar sec- cal greatness. dinner at the Italian Academy on March 1, the recipients each will receive $25,000 per said they receive most or all of their information about Columbia tion of athletics news in this issue. We are planning a themed Mercer studied art history in New York year for three consecutive years. College by reading this magazine. issue based on the Core Curriculum for the coming academic year and Rome before going to graduate This year’s recipients are Daphna Shohamy, assistant professor of psychology; Mark Confirming what we have long believed from Koch-style poll- and are working on ways to introduce more information on aca- school in philosophy at Princeton, where Mazower, the Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and chair of the history ing, Class Notes was rated the first-read and most-liked section demics, the Core and student activities into each issue. she earned a Ph.D. in 1989. Mercer joined department; Robert Y. Shapiro, professor of political science; Fredrick C. Harris, professor of the magazine. When asked, “Which section do you go to first?” Remember, CCT is your alumni magazine as well as ours. We Columbia’s Department of Philosophy in of political science and director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; one alumnus said simply, “Class Notes — who doesn’t?” While welcome your feedback. Get in touch with us at college.columbia. 1991 and became the Gustave M. Berne Holger A. Klein, professor of art history and archaeology; Emmanuelle Saada, associate 76 percent of respondents said that the length of Class Notes is edu/cct/contactus or send us a letter the old fashioned way — we Professor in 2003. She was presented the professor of French and history; Laura J. Kaufman ’97, associate professor of chemistry; “just right,” 21 percent said it was “not long enough.” As our love getting those. 2008 Columbia College Great Teacher Frances Negrón-Muntaner, associate professor of English and comparative literature and Class Notes section is among the most robust of any in the field Award by the Society of Columbia Grad- director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; and Cathy Popkin, the Jesse and and regularly fills nearly half the magazine, we take it that the uates and specializes in early modern George Siegel Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Russian. latter were referring specifically to their year’s Class Notes, and philosophy, the history of Platonism and

SUMMER 2012 SUMMER 2012 8 9 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS Coatsworth Appointed University Provost Eight Columbia Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowships

fter seven months serving in among the sciences. As interim provost, iterature Humanities chair Chris- tinue to oversee a new book series, Ox- Memorial Foundation Fellowships were an interim capacity, John H. he established a standing tenure com- tia Mercer and Contemporary ford Philosophical Concepts, which offers awarded this year to scholars, artists and Coatsworth was named pro- mittee, continued to make progress on Civilizations chair Matthew accounts of key concepts in the history scientists in the United States and Canada. A vost in February. the initiative to enhance faculty and Jones were among the eight of philosophy (such as matter, soul, evil, Guggenheim Fellows are appointed based Coatsworth, a professor of history and pipeline diversity, and coordinated Co- Columbia University professors awarded space, health, consciousness, sympathy on distinguished achievement and excep- of international and public affairs, had lumbia’s proposal to the city for a new LGuggenheim Fellowships in April, the and self-knowledge). Jones will study the tional promise for future accomplishment. been dean of SIPA since 2008. He was Institute for Data Sciences and Engineer- largest number from any institution this history of data mining, a technique for The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellow- interim dean of SIPA from 2007–08 and ing, among other accomplishments. year. Mercer, the Gustave M. Berne Pro- summarizing large sets of data via com- ship program is to help provide fellows a visiting professor at Columbia from “This is an opportunity to help make fessor of Philosophy, and Jones, the James puter software. with six to 12 months to work with as 2006–07. Columbia greater than the sum of its R. Barker Associate Professor of Contem- A total of 181 John Simon Guggenheim much creative freedom as possible. “John has demonstrated consummate parts and an even better place to work, porary Civilization, both will be replaced skill in leading Columbia forward on a think and study,” Coatsworth said of his by interim chairs next year. host of complex matters critical to our position. Also winning the prestigious fellow- he Columbia College Board future,” President Lee C. Bollinger said A leading scholar on Latin-American ship were, from the School of the Arts, as- of Visitors held a special in a letter to the University community economics and history, Coatsworth sociate professor of writing Timothy Don- dinner on April 26 in Casa announcing the appointment. “I am, was the Monroe Gutman Professor of nelly ’98 Arts and adjunct professor of T Italiana to thank and toast outgoing personally, very pleased that John will Latin American Affairs at Harvard from writing Benjamin Taylor ’92 GSAS; from chair Jonathan S. Lavine ’88 (left) for serve in this vital University role and as 1992–2007 and was founding director of the Mailman School of Public Health, his nine years of service on the BOV, my colleague.” Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for professor and deputy chair for doctoral and particularly for the last four, dur- As provost, Coatsworth is the Uni- Latin American Studies. He taught at studies Jennifer Hirsch; adjunct instruc- ing which he was chair. Here, with a versity’s chief academic officer, oversee- from 1969–92 and has held visit- tor of music Alex Mincek ’12 GSAS and handshake, he passes the torch to ing faculty and programs. He plans to ing professorships in Mexico, Argentina adjunct assistant professor of music Kate and congratulates incoming chair John H. Coatsworth expand the University’s capacity for and Spain. Soper ’11 GSAS; and from the Journalism Yale M. Fergang ’87, ’88E. Lavine, a PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO research and interdisciplinary work Coatsworth is the former president School, adjunct professor Stephen S. Hall. University trustee, will remain on the of the American Historical Association During her fellowship, Mercer will BOV as an emeritus member. and the Latin American Studies Asso- work on a book project, Platonisms in PHOTO: RICHARD D. COLE ciation and has served on the editorial Early Modern Thought. She also will con- boards of American Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History and the Hispanic American Historical Review. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. Travel with Columbia Coatsworth earned a B.A. in history from Wesleyan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economic history from the University EXPLORING AUSTRALIA of -Madison. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial & NEW ZEALAND Foundation Fellowship in 1986 and has NOVEMBER 3–23, 2012 been appointed a senior Fulbright lec- turer three times. From the Great Barrier Reef to the historic Sydney Opera House and Karen Iorio breathtaking Milford Sound, Australia and New Zealand offer visitors a wealth of spectacular natural scenery and cultural diversity. Join the CAA for a 21-day air-inclusive journey from November 3–23, 2012. Begin in Cairns, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. In the storied Outback meet the Warlpiri tribespeople and watch the sun set over enigmatic Ayers Rock. Spend four nights exploring the sophisticated city of Sydney. Fly to picturesque New Zealand with visits to Mt. Cook National Park, New Zealand’s “adventure capital,” Queensland, and visit stunning Milford Sound, where you’ll enjoy a cruise through magnificent fjords. Experience the geothermal features of Rotorua and learn about the local Maori culture. Conclude your journey in Auckland, the “City of aahil Patel ’12 (left) was the winner of a student challenge question announced by Become a fan of CCT (facebook. Sails,” with sightseeing and time on your own before returning home. Dean James J. Valentini at the March 7 John Jay Awards Dinner. The challenge ques- com/columbiacollegetoday) and Stion: Of the five honorees, name the honoree connected to the following number Columbia College (facebook. type: an ordinal (answer, third: Daniel S. Loeb ’83, Third Point); a numeronym (answer, a16z: com/columbiacollege1754). Ben Horowitz ’88, Andreessen Horowitz’s URL, a16z.com; and a pure number (answer, 30: Read the latest issue of CCT, For more information about any of our trips, visit alumni.columbia.edu/travel or call 866-325-8664. Ellen Gustafson ’02, 30 Project). As the first student to answer all questions correctly, Patel keep in touch with fellow alumni and was awarded a lunch date with the dean; they dined together on May 2. get all the latest College news. PHOTO: AMANDA LANG Learn more. Stay connected SUMMER 2012 10 alumni.columbia.edu AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS John W. Kluge Jr. ’05 Meets with Kluge Scholars Julie Crawford is an associ- Discuss the relationship be- to me is incredibly boring. Do you have family? ate professor of English and tween teaching and academic So I move around partly as a I have a partner, Liza, who comparative literature who scholarship. way of delineating the really teaches at John Jay College, a specializes in 16th- and 17th- There’s a lot that’s alienat- big points I want to make, 7-year-old son and a 2½-year- century English literature and ing and lonely about being or sometimes creating argu- old daughter. culture. She has authored a scholar; you spend a lot ments between things, and numerous articles as well as of time alone, in archives, eliciting engagement from the If you weren’t a professor, a book about cheap print and working through ideas, you students. And part of it is plea- what would you do? the Protestant Reformation, and your computer and your sure and excitement — kind of Wednesday morning I would Marvelous Protestantism: books. The classroom is not an adrenaline-y, stress-y thing have been an early childhood Monstrous Births in Post- the opposite of that — it’s that surrounds this question educator. Monday morning, Reformation England. Born in the logical engagement with of, how do you communicate? and all of last year, I would Toronto, Crawford earned have been working on a B.A. from McGill and refugee rights. There a Ph.D. from Penn. She Five Minutes with ... Julie Crawford is also plenty that still worked at Columbia from animates my attention 1999–2005 and again since that; it’s what helps keep it This is your one shot at a par- around issues of domestic 2007; in 2010, she received a meaningful. It’s actually what ticular set of ideas or a particu- and sexual violence. Lenfest Distinguished Colum- John W. Kluge Jr. ’05 talks with Dean James J. Valentini and students from the Kluge Scholars program about his father, John W. Kluge ’37, makes teaching exciting — lar text; how am I going to do founder of the program and one of Columbia’s most generous benefactors. bia Faculty Award. not that it’s an escape from the best possible job that I can, What are you reading right PHOTOS: EILEEN BARROSO the scholarship but rather that not as entertainment or show, now? What drew you to Renais- it’s a way of making it vivid but as a combination of clarity It sounds pretentious beyond luge Scholars in the Class of vides financial aid and programming to financial aid, the largest gift devoted to sance literature? and communicable to others. and challenge? belief, but I’m reading Lydia 2015 gathered at Faculty House high-ability students from underrepre- student financial aid at any school. He I took a 17th-century English It informs your changing per- Davis’ translation of Madame on February 28 to meet with sented populations; the Kluge Presiden- passed away in September 2010. poetry class toward the end ception of your field and your What are you working on? Bovary, which is so good. It’s John W. Kluge Jr. ’05, son of tial Scholars; the Kluge Faculty Endow- For more on the Kluge Scholars of my time at McGill. The K ability to remain invigorated I recently finished a book that like eating cake, so I only read John W. Kluge ’37, the program’s found- ment; and other programs. In 2004 Kluge Program, go to college.columbia.edu/ professor was amazing and and excited in your field even will be published next year a chapter a day. er. Dean James J. Valentini and Dean pledged $400 million to Columbia for cct_archive/nov04/cover.php. the poetry was amazing [but] when it largely comprises about women writers, read- Emer­itus Austin E. Quigley spoke to the I looked at the syllabus — I texts, in my case, that people ers, patrons and dedicatees, Which character would you students about Kluge Sr.’s remarkable was at the height of my femi- have been studying for hun- and the production of litera- choose to have a conversa- generosity and enduring legacy at nist activism at the time — dreds of years. ture in early modern England. tion with? Columbia. Alissa Rae Funderburk ’12 and I said, “Why are there no It takes seriously the idea Satan in Paradise Lost. That shared her experience and gratitude as a women?” The professor said What do you teach? that literature in the period would be everybody’s choice, Kluge scholarship recipient, and Kluge Jr. there were no women who Shakespeare, Milton, 16th- was produced not on a single right? reminisced about his four years at Co- wrote in the Renaissance. I and 17th-century poetry and authorial model but instead lumbia and spoke movingly about his thought, “That can’t be true; prose. My favorite class is a through a range of practices, Interview: Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts father and how important it was for surely the man is wrong.” survey of 17th-century Eng- including patronage and Photo: Eileen Barroso Kluge to give back to the College that had Well, of course he was lish literature in the context what is sometimes called co- given him so much. wrong. I went to the library of political revolution. I also terie writing. It’s about what For more conversation with Kluge Sr., who attended the College We’ve got you covered. and discovered writers such teach a class on the history of one might conceive of as tidy Crawford, go to Web Extras at as a scholarship student, built Metro- as Aemelia Lanyer, who pub- feminist thought to suffrage little literary communities but college.columbia.edu/cct. media into one of the country’s largest lished the first collection of (through the Institute for which I’m instead con- media companies and became one of the Through Columbia Alumni Association, poetry by a woman in English, Research on Women and Gen- ceiving of as activ- world’s richest men. One of Columbia’s Group Term Life Insurance is available in and the women who wrote on der) and a class on literature ist communities most generous benefactors, he created the English side of what was and the history of sexuality. in which writ- the Kluge Scholars Program, which pro- amounts up to $1,000,000, underwritten called the Querelle des Femmes ing played a by New York Life Insurance Company (the Debate on Women); some I read that you are known for central role. (NY, NY 10010), on Policy Form GMR. were poets, but they wrote your “enthusiastic teaching I’m also these polemical texts defending style.” writing a Hire Columbians the rights of women to write, [Laughs] I think the official book about For details including features, costs, eligibility, Who better to hire Columbia students among other things, and that term is “kinetic.” One of my Margaret renewability, limitations and exclusions, please than Columbia alumni? That’s the idea got me hooked. It was this con- students said to me, “I notice Cavendish, the visit alumni.columbia.edu/alumni-discounts or nection between various types that whenever you try to ex- most prolific behind “Hire Columbians,” a campaign of activism I was doing and plain a series of complicated woman writer in by the Center for Career Education to call the plan administrator at 800-223-1147. the feminist theory that I was ideas, you position your ideas the 17th century get Columbia alumni to hire students reading and literature, which with your body.” Which I do! and usually, for internships or full-time positions. I’d always loved. It was the I like to lecture but that paradoxically, moment I turned from being doesn’t mean I like to hear disdained for For more information, go to careered- an activist to being a scholar. myself talk. A potted lecture that. ucation.columbia.edu/hirecolumbians.

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SUMMER 2012 SUMMER 2012 12 13 AROUND THE QUADS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY AROUND THE QUADS ALUMNI IN THE NEWS Students, Alumni Garner Research Awards n Eileen Lee ’05, formerly a senior We Others: New and Selected Stories. Mill- Rights, with likely to follow consultant at Accenture specializing in hauser received $20,000 for winning the soon. Gloria Steinem, in her Time profile olumbia students and alumni gineering, mathematics and social science Zachary Brill ’12, chemistry, Scripps Re- technology integration projects for clients prestigious award, given annually to an of Poo, called her “a gifted organizer … fared well in this year’s com- disciplines who are pursuing research- search Institute; Anna Fineberg ’10, psy- such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pep- author for an outstanding collection of [who] knows how to create social change petitions for Fulbright and based master’s and doctoral degrees at chology, Temple; Eiren Jacobson ’10, ecol- siCo, now is COO of Venture for America, short stories. Other finalists were Don from the bottom up.” Goldwater Scholarships and accredited U.S. institutions. Each fellow- ogy, UC Santa Cruz; Katherine Klymko a program that trains and places talented DeLillo and Edith Pearlman. Millhauser’s C National Science Foundation Graduate ship provides three years of support to ’11, chemistry, UC Berkeley; Jason Pflueger college graduates in start-up companies. Pulitzer came in 1997 for his novel Martin Research Fellowships. students, including a cost-of-education ’11, chemistry, UC Berkeley; Noam Pry- Time magazine featured VFA on April 9, Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. Eight alumni, including three mem- allowance to the recipient’s institution, a wes ’10, chemistry, Harvard; Ali Raza ’12, calling the nonprofit “a kind of start-up bers of the Class of 2012, have been $30,000 annual stipend and professional neuroscience, Columbia; Albert Rigosi ’11, boot camp.” Derek Turner ’12, a 2012 n In a March 27 article on the growing awarded Fulbright Scholarships in the development and international research physics and astronomy, Columbia; Rachel VFA fellow who was pictured in the popularity of computer programming 2011–12 competition. Winners receive opportunities. Vishnepolsky ’10, mathematics, Chicago; magazine alongside VFA founder and classes and online instruction modules, grants for individually designed study/ The College awardees, their disciplines Yinuo Wang ’12, molecular biology, Johns president Andrew Yang ’99L, told Time, called Codecademy, research projects or English Teaching As- and their intended graduate institutions Hopkins; and Adam Zelizer ’06, political “One thing that draws me to the entre- founded by Ryan Bubinski ’11 and Zach sistantships for one academic year in a are Daniel Amrhein ’09, geosciences, MIT; science, Columbia. preneurial world is that everything can Sims, “the center of the recent frenzy in country outside the United States. This change. The moment you stop changing, this field.” Founded last summer, the year’s winners, listed with the country to you die out.” start-up has more than three million stu- which they’ll be traveling, are Sarah Braf- dents participating in interactive lessons man ’10, Indonesia; Cristian Gonzalez ’10, Core Scholars Create Winning Works on programming languages including Germany; David Kang ’09, South Korea; HTML and JavaScript. Sims, who ma- Gene Kogan ’08E, India; Rithambara our College students in April were triculated with the Class of 2012 and has Ramachandran ’12, India; Natassia Ro- selected as Core Scholars for work since left the College to run Codecademy zario ’04, India; Emily Tamkin ’12, Ger- Fsubmitted as part of the second annu- full-time, told the Times, “People don’t many; and James Tyson ’12, India. al Core Scholars Program. Rowan Buchanan ’12, Marian Guerra ’14, Gabriela Pelsinger just want to use the Web; they want to David Paterson ’77 Woo Chang Chung ’13, Adam Formica understand how it works.” One of its stu- PHOTO: JUDY SANDERS, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR ’13 and Katharina Shaw ’13 have won ’15 and Anneke Solomon ’15 each created a dents is Mayor who, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for the “Core Reflection” that analyzed, questioned, according to the Times, “made a public n In April, New York Gov. Andrew 2012–13 academic year. The scholarships, dramatized, interpreted or reflected an idea New Year’s resolution to use the site to Cuomo appointed former New York established by Congress in 1986, aim to presented in a Core class. Entries were ac- learn how to code.” Gov. David Paterson ’77 to the board of provide the U.S. with a continuing source cepted in a variety of formats, from essays the Metropolitan Transportation Author- of scientists, mathematicians and engi- and fiction to sculpture and choreography, n Time magazine in April named Ai-jen ity. At a news conference, as reported by neers by supporting students who plan with honors going to the most “exception- Poo ’96 to its “2012 TIME 100” list of the The New York Times, Cuomo said Pater- to pursue careers in those fields. Chung ally creative and well executed” projects. most influential people in the world for son will be a “powerful advocate and is majoring in mathematics and physics, Buchanan created a triptych inspired by her work advocating for domestic work- informed voice.” MTA chairman Joseph Formica is majoring in environmental Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Guerra painted ers’ rights. Poo co-founded Domestic J. Lhota told reporters that Paterson, the science with a concentration in econom- Sonya reading the story of Lazarus in Fyodor Workers United, a New York-based orga- state’s first legally blind governor, “will ics and Shaw is majoring in biochemistry. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Solo- nization for nannies, housekeepers and bring a unique and practical perspec- Each will receive up to $7,500 toward tu- mon won for her poem “Departure–In Four PAINTING: THE ECSTASY OF SONYA, BY MARIAN Parts,” about four characters featured in Lit GUERRA ’14 Kate McKinnon ’06 caregivers, and now is the director of the tive, particularly with respect to issues ition and fees during their senior year. Hum (Daedalus, Dante, Daphne and Dido), PHOTO: ARI SCOTT/UCB THEATRE National Domestic Workers Alliance. Her affecting minority communities and dis- Twelve College alumni have been work led to New York state passing the abled New Yorkers.” He will be the first awarded National Science Foundation while Pelsinger performed a spoken-word poem responding to Eve’s story in Genesis. n Kate McKinnon ’06, who was known as country’s first Domestic Workers’ Bill of former governor to serve on the transit Graduate Research Fellowships, which Each student received $200 and will have his or her work displayed on the Core web- Kate Berthold during her days at the Col- authority’s board. recognize outstanding graduate students site: college.columbia.edu/core/scholars/2012. lege, debuted April 7 as a feature player on in NSF-supported science, technology, en- Saturday Night Live. The first openly gay n Eli Sanders ’99, associate editor of The female member of the cast, she portrayed Stranger, an alternative weekly newspa- Penélope Cruz and Bravo personality per in Seattle, has won the Tabatha Coffey on her first show. for Feature Writing for his haunting piece lauded her performance as “comfortable, “The Bravest Woman in Seattle.” The Have You Moved? DATE SMART! assured, confident and above all, funny.” article, published last summer, recounts Prior to joining SNL, McKinnon spent the story of a woman who survived a To ensure that you receive three years as a cast member on Logo net- horrific attack that left her partner dead. CCT and other College Join the singles’ work’s The Big Gay Sketch Show, produced The Pulitzer board commended Sanders information, let us know if network exclusively by Rosie O’Donnell, on which she began for “using the woman’s courtroom you have a new postal or for graduates, faculty acting during her senior year at Columbia. testimony and the details of the crime to email address, a new phone and students of the Read CCT’s profile of McKinnon online in construct a moving narrative.” Sanders number or even a new name. Ivy League the March/April 2007 issue. has chronicled the crime from its incep- Click “Contact Us” at MIT, Stanford and tion, also profiling the convicted murder- college.columbia.edu/cct few others. n Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven er for the paper. The award, announced in or call 212-851-7852. www.rightstu dating.com Millhauser ’65 was honored with The April, is the first Pulitzer for The Stranger. 1-800-988-5288 Story Prize on March 21 for his 2011 book, Ai-jen Poo ’96 Karen Iorio

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Class of 2012 Celebrates End of Year at Senior Dinner

ore than 900 seniors celebrat­ Richard Sun ’13 Embraces “Triple Bottom Line” ed the last day of classes at the annual Senior Dinner B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 Mon April 30 under a tent on South Lawn. The soon-to-be alumni sk Richard Sun ’13 to ship for Excellence in National Envi- him to different places, Sun hopes to enjoyed a gourmet meal, upbeat music, describe his academic and ronmental Policy, which consisted of begin his career at the local level in his a slideshow of photographs and remarks professional interests and $5,000 and the opportunity to interact home state. As a member of Summit’s from Dean James J. Valentini, Columbia you will get a succinct with fellow scholars, including Rebecca recycling advisory committee from College Student Council Class of 2012 answer: “People, planet Chan ’12 (see Student Spotlight, May/ 2006–09, he was instrumental in estab- President Sarah Chai ’12, Senior Dinner andA profit.” June 2010) and Adam Formica ’13, dur- lishing the city’s “freecycling” program, Co-chairs Eylul Kayin ’12 and Randy Since high school, when he served ing a four-day orientation in Arizona. which includes a website (summitfree Subramany ’12, CCSC President Aki on his hometown of Summit, N.J.’s Sun was away from Columbia dur- market.org) where residents can post Terasaki ’12, Columbia College Alumni recycling advisory committee, Sun has ing the Spring 2011 semester while unwanted items for others to pick up; Association President Kyra Tirana Barry envisioned a career devoted to further- he interned full-time in the Office of he believes the program has reduced ’87 and Columbia College Young Alumni ing sustainable environmental policies. White House Personnel (a pursuit that Summit’s solid waste stream by 100 Board President Justin Ifill ’06. That goal has guided his College trajec- began during his days as a West Wing tons during its first four years. A highlight of the evening was the an- tory, which includes the prestigious fan). There he functioned as the “RA As a high school upperclassman, nouncement by Senior Fund Co-chairs Undergraduate Award bestowed by (resident adviser) of the internship Sun participated in Columbia’s Science Stephanie Foster ’12 and Jake Goren ’12 The Class of 2012 celebrated at the annual the government of Ireland and a White Honors Program, through which he that the fund had achieved its goal of 750 Senior Dinner, held under a tent on South Lawn House internship. took Saturday morning classes on cam- donors and raised more than $16,250. (As on April 30, the final day of classes. Dean James Sun, an economics and sustainable pus on topics such as fossil fuels and of May 23, 777 donors had contributed J. Valentini was on hand, along with College development major, has developed a climate change and public health and alumni and student volunteer leaders, to offer $17, 208.) By reaching its goal, the Senior congratulations and advice to the happy group. personal mission based on a widely policy. These courses cemented his in- Fund secured a $100,000 gift from Charles PHOTOS: BEVERIN “BEAR” ORTEGA accepted measure of sustainability terest in sustainable development and Santoro ’82 to be given to the Columbia performance known as the “triple bot- his decision to attend the College. “That College Fund by June 30, the end of Fiscal um, he was met with and applause. tom line,” which defines organizational was really helpful for getting a feel for Year 2012. He spoke briefly, noting, “At this point, success in terms of social welfare (“peo- the school and understanding its val- The Senior Fund also exceeded its goal I am supposed to turn you over to the ple”), environmental impact (“planet”) ues,” he says. “It’s been a springboard of 200 donors to Valentini’s “3-2-1 Chal- Columbia College Alumni Association. I and economic growth (“profit”). for a lot of my interests.” lenge” of committing to give $20.12 for refuse. In my lexicon, there are only stu- Sun’s selection for Ireland’s Under- In fall 2010, Sun took “Economic and three years, convincing two friends to do dents — future students, current students graduate Award in 2011 is a testament Financial Methods to Sustainable De- the same and then having the gift matched and past students … I am going to give you to his grasp of the subject. He was an velopment” with Satyajit Bose, lecturer 1:1 by an alumnus/a (for this year, Gene some advice, and I am going to keep it sim- international winner in the sustainability in the discipline of economics and con- Davis ’75 will match all gifts). As of May ple, just four words: Pass the swim test!” category for his essay, “Triple Bottom tinuing education, who has become a 23, 235 seniors were committed to the 3-2-1 Line Analysis of Sustainable Urban De- mentor. “Environmental policy can only Challenge. To view a gallery of photos from the dinner, go velopment,” which used Newark, N.J., be advanced with a plurality of support. When Valentini stepped up to the podi­ to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. as a case study. Sun cites mayoral staff Richard, with his determined approach recruited from around the country and of incorporating feedback and connect- the $100 million donation that Mayor ing with others, has the potential to be Cory Booker inspired Facebook founder Richard Sun ’13, here with Bo, the “First an effective policymaker,” Bose says. Dog,” interned at the White House last MacPhee Speaks to Students About Healthcare Careers Mark Zuckerberg to give to Newark’s spring. Sun, a self-proclaimed “municipal public school system as examples of the PHOTO: PAIGE EPSTEIN nerd” who enjoys spending time in he Center for Career Educa- panies. He is now the executive director MacPhee, who graduated from the city’s unconventional approach to lead- and belongs to the frater- tion (CCE) and the Columbia of The Jed Foundation, a suicide preven- College with no work experience except ership and development. program,” organizing speaker events nity Sigma Phi Epsilon, speaks with College Alumni Association tion organization founded in 2000 by in physical labor, said he was embar- Sun flew to Dublin in October to and coordinating community service conviction about becoming “a policy- T Career Education Committee Phillip Satow ’63 and his wife, Donna rassed to apply for consulting and finance receive the Oscar Wilde Gold Medal projects for his peers. maker [who] aligns societal goals with continued their “Dinner and Discus- ’65 GS. jobs at firms such as McKinsey and Gold- from then-president of Ireland Mary Sun credits his experience as an RA private interests to make sure the maxi- sion” series — created with the thought Speaking at the event, which was held man Sachs and urged students to take ad- McAleese. He’d completed the 5,000- in McBain Hall for his selection; he mum public goal is being achieved. that there’s no better way for students in the Columbia Alumni Center, MacPhee vantage of CCE’s resources and to focus word entry essay in less than a month has since been community adviser for “The triple bottom line drives my to learn about a field than from people offered advice about getting into the on networking while in college. Although last summer while working long hours and plans to be an RA amp and my mission,” says Sun, who already working in it — on February 27 pharmaceutical industry. He emphasized he conceded that it’s a “hard job market” as a paid research analyst on financial in Carman Hall as a senior. In April, hopes to “find opportunities that allow with speaker John MacPhee ’89, ’12 PH. the value of exploration for students just right now, he ended the dinner on a services company Credit Suisse’s U.S. Sun was elected to one of the College’s me to do all three at once.” MacPhee went from working on road out of college, noting that he had “abso- positive note, reminding students not to electric utilities desk. This summer, he three seats in the University Senate; he kill crews in to launching lutely no idea what I wanted to do” after “stress out” so much and to engage fully is an analyst for McKinsey & Co. in was chief of staff for the Senate’s stu- Nathalie Alonso ’08, from , is a some of the world’s most successful an- graduating with a political science degree in their job searches. Washington, D.C. dent affairs committee from September freelance journalist and an editorial pro- tidepressants as v.p. of Forest Laborato- and ended up in the pharmaceutical in- “Put yourself out there,” MacPhee said. In 2011, Sun also received the Morris 2010–May 2012. ducer of LasMayores.com, Major League ries. From there, he went on to become dustry by chance. “A big part of this [col- “Be yourself. Meet people. It’ll come to- K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Scholar- Though his endeavors have brought ’s official Spanish language website. president of Strativa Pharmaceuticals lege experience] is learning and exposing gether very well for you.” and e.v.p. of Par Pharmaceutical Com- yourself to different things,” he said. Benjamin W. Gittelson ’15

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Men’s Tennis to NCAA Men’s tennis earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Roar, Lion, Roar tennis championships after finishing the regu- lar season with an 18–4 record and a 5–2 mark Varsity C in Ivy competition, good enough to be ranked 2011–12 Ivy League 42nd nationally. The Lions dropped their NCAA Honorees match at Virginia Commonwealth, which Champions won the first four matches to be completed, Track stars Kyra Caldwell­ after which the remaining matches were Columbia’s women’s team won its first Ivy ’12 and Kyle Merber ’12 suspended. Winston Lin ’15, who was 21–1 League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field were each presented the this season in singles play, was named the Ivy Championship at Cornell on February 25–26, Connie S. Maniatty Out- League Rookie of the Year and was one of four topping off athletic achievements by Columbi- standing Senior Student- Lions to earn All-Ivy First Team honors, along ans in 2011–12. Following is a list of Lions who Athlete Awards at the with Haig Schneiderman ’12 in singles and the were individual Ivy League champions this Varsity C Celebration doubles team of Ashok Narayana ’15 and Max academic year: on May 1. Caldwell is a Schnur ’15. INDOOR TRACK & FIELD six-time individual Ivy League champion and The U.S. Olympic women’s foil fencing team consists Nadia Eke ’15, triple jump a member of four relay of (left to right) Doris Willette, Lee Kiefer and Colum- Marvellous Iheukwumere ’14, 200 meters champions, while Merber Cowboy Adams bians Nzingha Prescod ’15 and Nicole Ross ’11. Miata Morlu ’14, 400 meters PHOTO: NICOLE JOMANTAS won three individual Jeff Adams ’12, a three-time All-Ivy left tackle at

WOMEN Waverly Neer ’15, 3,000 meters and three relay titles. The Columbia, has signed a free agent contract with Uju Ofoche ’13, long jump Athletics Alumni Awards the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Adams, who attended Columbia’s Olympians Monique Roberts ’12 Barnard, high jump went to brothers David the Cowboys’ rookie mini-camp in early May, When you tune in to the Summer Olympics from Kyle Merber ’12, mile Barry ’87 and Michael was named a third-team AP All-American in Kyle Merber ’12 (center) won the 1,500 meters at the Men’s Ivy League Heptagonal London beginning on Friday, July 27, look for at 4x800m relay: Brendon Fish ’15E, Harry Mc- Barry ’89 (wrestling) and 2011. He is the first Columbia player to earn three Outdoor Championships on May 5. least seven Columbians, including four fencers, Fann ’14, Liam Tansey ’13, Connor Claflin ’15 Leslie Gittess Brodsky ’88 consecutive first team All-Ivy honors since Rory PHOTO: MIKE Mc LAUGHLIN MEN among the competing athletes. Distance medley relay: Adam Behnke ’12, (women’s tennis). Wilfork ’97. James Williams ’07, a member of the men’s sabre Byron Jones ’14, Daniel Everett ’15, Kyle Merber’s Marvelous Metric Mile team that won a silver medal four years ago in Bei- Merber ’12 Kyle Merber ’12 posted the fastest time ever by an American collegian for the jing, returns for a second Olympiad and is joined on OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD Players of the sabre squad by former All-American Jeff Spear Nicole Bartnik ’13 metric mile when he won the 1,500-meter event in 3:35.59 at the Swarthmore ’10. Nicole Ross ’11 and Nzingha Prescod ’15 will Nadia Eke ’15, triple jump PHOTO: GENE BOYARS the Year Last Chance Meet on May 14. It was the second-fastest time in the United States Uju Ofoche ’13, long jump WOMEN this year, the fastest collegiate time of the year and the second-fastest collegiate compete on the women’s foil team in London. Spear Nicole Bartnik ’13 (wom­ time ever. It smashed the 37-year-old Ivy League record of 3:37.14 and barely and Ross each were national champions in their re- Harry McFann ’14, 800 meters en’s tennis), Michelle missed the collegiate record of 3:35.30, which was run by Sydney Maree of Vil- spective weapons while fencing for the Lions, while Kyle Merber ’12, 1,500 meters Piyapattra ’14 (women’s MEN lanova, a citizen of South Africa at the time, on June 6, 1981. Prescod took the past year off from school to train 4x800m relay: Mark Feigen ’13, Brendon Fish golf) and Dario Pizzano full-time for the Olympics. ’15E, Kyle Merber ’12, Harry McFann ’14 ’13 (baseball) all won Ivy Rower Nick LaCava ’09 qualified for the Olym- SWIMMING League Player of the Year pics as part of the U.S. lightweight men’s four with- honors in 2011–12. Bartnik, Katie Meili ’13, 100 breaststroke SAVE THE DATE! out coxswain, which defeated the Netherlands in who achieved a 14–3 record Diamond Stars Katie Meili ’13, 200 breaststroke OCTOBER 18 a qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, on and was unbeaten in seven In addition to outfielder Dario Pizzano ’13 win- Katie Meili ’13, 200 individual medley Columbia University May 22. In addition, distance runner Lisa Stublic ’06 Ivy matches, and Piyapat- ning Ivy League Player of the Year honors (see 200 freestyle relay: Katie Meili ’13, Mikaila Athletics Hall of Fame will compete in the marathon for Croatia, where her tra, who posted wins at the left), third baseman Jon Eisen ’12 was awarded the father was born and where she has lived for the past Gaffey ’15, Salena Huang ’15, Laney Inauguration of Class

WOMEN Harvard Invitational and Blair Bat as the league leader in batting average. Kluge ’14 of 2012, Low Library four years; and sprinter Erison Hurthault ’07, who the ROAR-EE Invitational, Eisen, Columbia’s leadoff hitter, had a league-high 400 medley relay: Dorothy Baker ’12, Katie OCTOBER 20 ran for Dominica in Beijing in 2008, will run for the are the first Columbians to 33 hits in 74 at-bats for a .446 average and also led Meili ’13, Kristina Parsons ’13, Salena Dedication of The island nation again in 2012. gain Ivy Player of the Year the league in on-base percentage (.534) and runs Kyle Merber ’12 qualified to be invited to the Huang ’15 Campbell Sports honors in their sports. Piz- Center, Homecoming, scored (24). Pizzano ranked second in the league U.S. Olympic Track & Field team trials to be held Omar Arafa ’15E, 100 backstroke zano is the second Lion in Columbia vs. in batting average (.409), on-base percentage in Eugene, Ore., from Thursday, June 21–Sunday, MEN Jeremie DeZwirek ’15E, 200 backstroke the past five years to earn Dartmouth Football, (.512) and slugging percentage (.621) and also was July 1. the honor in baseball, join- Baker Athletics among the top five in batting average, runs scored, ing Henry Perkins ’08, who Complex hits, runs batted in, doubles, total bases, walks, hits For the latest news on Columbia athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com. won it in 2008. by pitch and sacrifice flies.

Columbia College Ways to follow new Patricia and Shepard Alexander Head Major Ivy League awards won by Columbia students in 2011–12: Winston Lin ’15, Rookie of the Year (men’s tennis); Nicole Bartnik BY THE student-athletes Coach of Football Pete Mangurian online: Facebook (face ’13, Player of the Year (women’s tennis); Katie Meili ’13, Most Outstanding Performer (women’s swimming); Will Spear ’15, Rookie of NUMBERS graduated in the book.com/petemangurian), Twitter (twitter.com/peteman the Year and Most Outstanding Performer (men’s fencing); Ramit Tandon ’15, Co-Rookie of the Year (men’s squash); Michelle Piyapat- 108 Class of 2012. 3 gurian) and his blog (petemangurian.wordpress.com). 9 tra ’14, Player of the Year (women’s golf); Dario Pizzano ’13, Player of the Year (baseball); and Jon Eisen ’12, the Blair Bat (baseball). SUMMER 2012 SUMMER 2012 18 19 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND AND DEAN’S DAY 2012 College Celebrates Alumni Reunion Weekend, Dean’s Day 2012

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ore than 3,700 College alumni and their (From top) Mem- bers of the Class guests descended on campus from May of 1962 share a 31–June 3 for Alumni Reunion Weekend laugh at Friday’s and Dean’s Day 2012. The 50-year milestone class dinner at M Smith & Wollen- belonged to the Class of 1962, which capped off its Sat- urday dinner by presenting a $1.13 million Class Gift to sky; “students” hear fresh per- the Columbia College Fund — the largest reunion Class spectives at Sat- Gift ever given by a 50th-anniversary class. The Class of urday’s “Climate 1987, meanwhile, celebrated not only its 25-year reunion Change: Now but also its silver anniversary as the College’s first fully What?” Public Intellectual coeducational class. Lecture; and two Gathering this year were classes that end in 2 or 7, and attendees get every class had something to celebrate, from the six self- into the swing proclaimed members of the “Nonagenarian Club” who of things at Sat- represented the 70th anniversary Class of 1942, to the Class urday night’s Starlight Recep- of 2007, which made its reunion debut with tion. a record-setting 264 alumni attendees. And PHOTOS: TOP AND BOTTOM: EILEEN among them all, the chorus was the same: BARROSO, MIDDLE: how fast time flies. MICHAEL Di VITO The sentiment also applied to the weekend itself. On Thursday and Friday, alumni fanned out around the city for special events, tours and receptions. Fri- day featured Back-on-Campus Sessions, an array of Mini-Core Courses on subjects from Plato and Rousseau, to the Divine Comedy and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, to Hellenistic philosophy and the inner workings of the brain. Saturday featured Dean’s Day Public Intellectual Lectures in the morning and more Mini-Core Courses in the afternoon; Saturday’s lectures and presentations were open to all alumni, in- cluding those from non-reunion years, as well as to parents. Saturday also inaugurated the Witten Center for the Core Open House and Core Stories Taping. Throughout Saturday, Camp Columbia for Kids kept little Lions ages 3–12 busy with sports, arts and crafts, movies and magic. Saturday evening brought the all-class Wine Tasting and class-specific dinners; afterward, all (Clockwise from top left) Celebrants aboard were invited to Low Plaza for the annual Starlight Recep- the U.S.S. Intrepid at Friday night’s Young Alumni Party; Elaine Sisman, the Anne tion, where guests enjoyed dessert and drank champagne Parsons Bender Professor of Music and while the band served up songs for every generation. The chair of Music Humanities, makes a point dancing lasted until 2 a.m., when the party broke up — at during Saturday’s Mini-Core Course Mozart’s least until next year. Don Giovanni and the Literary Imagination; two guests take a moment to rest on Low Plaza; little Lions have fun at Saturday’s To view more photos from Alumni Reunion Weekend and Camp Columbia for Kids; and two Columbia Dean’s Day, go to Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. families smile for the camera. PHOTOS: CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MICHAEL Di VITO, Class photos and a list of Dean’s Pin recipients may be MICHAEL Di VITO, RICHARD D. COLE, EILEEN BARROSO, found in the online version of this article. MICHAEL Di VITO

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Jodi Kantor ’96 Offers Revealing Portrait of the First Couple

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New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor ’96 offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Obamas’ changing roles and adjustment to life in the White House. PHOTO: DANIELLA ZALCMAN ’09

pitcher, the fronds of several large plants Gulf oil spill, the debt crisis, the 2010 mid- dotes to the chapter (one got the impres- splayed in the background. In a few term elections and the Gabrielle Giffords sion she could cite to the page). Her tone, minutes, journalist Kati Marton, who in shooting — provide the backdrop against meanwhile, conveyed the curiosity and 2001 published a bestselling book about which a more personal narrative unfolds. delight in discovery that likely drove her a dozen presidential marriages (from the Among other things, Kantor describes reporting. Fifty minutes in, the discussion Wilsons to the younger Bushes), would how the President and First Lady adjust shifted to Q&A. One audience member interview Jodi Kantor ’96, who in 2012 to life in the White House; how Michelle wondered about the degree to which the n a Thursday night in early published a bestselling book about one: Obama struggles with and eventually de- Obamas differ from how they want us to that of the current President and First velops a role for herself; the ways in which see them. Another wanted examples of February, one mild enough to have New Yorkers unbuttoning their coats, The Lady, Barack ’83 and . the Obamas serve as philosophical foils how Michelle Obama influenced political Kantor, who first garnered attention for each other; and how their partnership decisions. A third asked, “Who were your Kaye Playhouse on the EastO Side opened its doors for a discussion hosted by when she became The New York Times Arts has affected the presidency. best sources?” & Leisure editor in 2003, at 27, now is a As Marton attested by way of intro- The audience — and Kantor — laughed. the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. The program Washington correspondent for the paper. duction, “It takes a brilliant reporter to “You know I can’t tell you that,” . She covered the 2008 campaign and the pierce the image and façade in which For the record, there were more than originally had been scheduled to take place at the institute’s home, a double start of the President’s term before taking [politicians] are so invested and to give 200 of them. a 1½-year hiatus to report and write The us the flesh and blood.” She noted that townhouse several blocks away where Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt once Obamas, in the process securing the co- the book has won Kantor a national audi- he New York Times is the only operation of not only the West Wing but ence; since its publication on January 10, Kantor has ever lived. But as the RSVPs poured in, organizers realized the demand for tickets also the lesser known domain of the First Kantor has traveled extensively for book worked for. In fact, aside from Lady, the East Wing. The result is a multi- events (Los Angeles, Chicago, London) T her four-year tenure at Slate, it’s would exceed that venue’s 110-seat capacity and changed locations. By 6:20 dimensional book that pulls back the cur- and made the rounds of the television the only publication she has ever worked tain on some of the administration’s in- circuit (Charlie Rose, Face the Nation, The for. But it’s a natural fit for someone whose p.m., almost all of the playhouse’s 624 seats were filled. ner workings. It is also a human portrait Daily Show with ). mother showed her “how to pick out the of the Obama presidency. The nation’s Speaking with Marton, Kantor was ‘Ninas’ in the Al Hirschfeld drawings” in The stage was set simply: two chairs separated by a table with a water incidents and accidents — including the thoughtful and articulate. She cited anec- the Arts & Leisure section when she was

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6, and who began reading the paper regu- aggressive way,” he says, laughing. “But in up to the New York office.) She found she the business and economics of culture. larly when she was 11 or 12. Still, interest time I accepted every single one of her ed- liked thinking up ideas for features. To “I found her to be a curious and creative didn’t translate to youthful aspiration. its. It was obvious to me before it was obvi- cover season four of The Sopranos, for ex- thinker. She really wanted to think about “I didn’t think that being a journalist ous to her that she should have a career in ample, she recruited a group of psycholo- questions from different angles,” Leon- was something I could actually do, because journalism.” gists and psychiatrists to analyze each hardt says. “She pushed me to think about I didn’t know anybody who did it,” says Kantor similarly credits Foer, calling up episode — a savvy choice of critics, given ending stories in ways that weren’t simply Kantor, whose mother was a homemaker a memory from senior year. “We thought the show’s premise of a mob boss in ther- clever restatements of a point I had made and whose father worked in real estate. the cool thing was not to study in Butler apy. She also solicited and edited work by elsewhere in the story — or not clever,” he “To me, it was like trying to be an actor but to take the train to the main branch of Rich, and the two stayed in touch. When adds wryly. or something — there are probably 10,000 the New York Public Library and do our Times executive editor be- When Kantor turned 30 in spring 2005, wannabes for every success out there.” work there,” she says. “We wanted to be gan looking for an editor to reinvigorate she began to reevaluate her career. Kantor grew up in Queens, Staten Is- New Yorkers in a real sense.” For Hanuk- Arts & Leisure in fall 2002, Rich was the “The strange thing is that I really be- land and New Jersey and attended public kah, they bought each other presents from one who invited her to “develop some came an editor before I’d done a lot of writ- high school in Holmdel, N.J. “I was from the library gift shop: “He got me a collec- ideas.” Kantor wrote two memos: one ing myself. I felt a little bit like I was helping an immigrant family, my grandparents tion of Yehuda Amichai poetry that I still that critiqued the Times’ culture coverage run a hospital before I had ever been a doc- were Holocaust survivors. I didn’t feel have, and I got him this poster that was a in general and one that was more specific tor,” she says. “And I was a little bit jealous like I grew up a member of any kind of New Yorker cover. I thought it was such a about Arts & Leisure and how it should of the reporters I was working with. I felt establishment,” she says. “So getting into cool gift at the time, because he loved the change. She didn’t pull any punches, de- like, wait a second: I’m young and I’m in Kati Marton interviewed Kantor in Feb­ Columbia and going to Columbia … it claring at the outset: “The New York Times journalism and yet I’m in meetings all day. ruary for the Hazel Rowley Memorial represented that there was this different is serving its readers spinach for dessert.” I’m not doing the fundamental thing that held clues as to how he would conduct Lecture, a program of the Roosevelt world in New York City that I might be Raines hired her in January. journalists do, which is going out and gath- himself as President. House Public Policy Institute. able to be part of. The Times was impor- “Everything moved really quickly. It ering information in the world and turning It was a great first story, Kantor says. PHOTO: PHILLIP KESSLER tant to that, too. I grew up reading people felt fantastic and a little … it felt like a huge it into stories to share with people.” “[There were] 60–80 peers who got to like and Anna Quindlen [’74 leap. On the one hand I had read the Times Kantor also soon learned she was know him really well through that pro- very thick skin, which you need in order Barnard], and they also represented this all my life and there was a way in which I pregnant (she had married journalist Ron cess. When I called his fellow law review to write the types of stories she did. cosmopolitan ideal, a place where gender knew the newspaper in my bones the way Lieber in 2002) and no longer wanted to editors, I got the sense that they had been “What makes Jodi such a good journal- roles were different than they had been you do from really immersing yourself in run a weekly section, with the late-night waiting for 15 years for somebody from ist is above all else her feel for psychology,” where I grew up.” it every day. But I had never worked in schedule that entails. That fall she stepped The New York Times to call and ask them he adds. “She has a certain bravery about At Columbia, Kantor had a “complete print journalism. And at the Times, there down to report for the national desk and a about Barack Obama. They had incredibly her willingness to apply psychology to grab bag of interests.” She was a campus are several layers involved. There’s the section called The Way We Live Now. sharp, clear memories and observations.” public figures. She does so much reporting tour guide and volunteered in the Admis- journalism, and then there’s also learning Among the more prescient takeaways, and she gets to know her subjects so inti- sions Office, did a Wednesday night Torah to navigate the Times as an institution, the n September 8, 2008, the Times’ Kantor identified Obama’s desire for a mately that she is able to acquire insights study program and wrote briefly for Spec- diplomacy and lobbying — really learning front page featured an article consensus-based leadership style and rec- into them that enable her to take you sev- tator. More critical than the activities she the ways and standards of the institution by Kantor about Sarah Palin’s ognition of the power of his . eral layers deeper into what you thought pursued were the friends that she made, Journalists, career counselors, friends: from the inside out.” fusion of motherhood and poli- Kantor went on to cover candidates were familiar figures.” Frank Foer ’96 and Kantor at graduation. O on both sides of the aisle; moving around among them Frank Foer ’96, now editor- Some of her changes were met with tics, and one by Lieber, by then the paper’s Washington deputy bureau chief Rebec- PHOTO: COURTESY JODI KANTOR ’96 at-large for The New Republic. “He is a resistance, notably the abolition of the ex- personal finance columnist, about what gave her a sense of the different ways in ca Corbett, who has edited Kantor for about professional partner in crime; we’ve never tensive events and exhibitions listings (she the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and which they worked as well as the con- five years, also notes Kantor’s strength in worked at the same place at the same time, magazine. But when I gave it to him, he got and the other culture editors later reintro- Freddie Mac meant for consumers. trasts in their backgrounds. She describes profiling: “She was thrown into it all pretty but we consult constantly on the other’s this look on his face. And I realized that he duced them in modified format). But over That page (for which the couple has the campaign as “rich in character and cold and really established herself at being careers,” Kantor says. “We’ve had this didn’t want to have a New Yorker poster on time Kantor transformed Arts & Leisure. the printing plates) stands as a testament meaning and news developments — able to do these conceptual stories that were long-running conversation that started in his wall; he wanted to write for magazines She made it more visual, recruited writ- to one of the more intense periods of their there was so much I wanted to write.” grounded in deep reporting. There was a East Campus in 1994 and has never really like . He had this sense of ers from other sections to contribute and lives. Kantor had transitioned to presiden- She appraised the significance in Hillary human aspect to all of them, as well, which stopped.” possibility, and the idea that we didn’t need expanded coverage beyond what was tial politics not long after leaving Arts & Clinton’s rare show of emotion at a New made them distinctive.” Corbett adds that Foer says their friendship was cement- to just read these publications and be con- new that week to include more heavily Leisure, and the campaign was reaching Hampshire coffee shop; uncovered the Kantor’s pieces “make you understand who ed during their junior year abroad. He sumers of them but that we could actually reported profiles and issues-driven pieces. its climax at the same time that the coun- story behind John McCain’s son, who was this person is or what they’re about; what it studied at Oxford, she at Cambridge, and help produce them. He helped me see that One such article focused on a lawsuit over try was grappling with the magnitude of serving as a Marine around the same time means for their public role.” they did some traveling together. “You in myself in a way that was hard to do.” crude language in a Hollywood writers’ the financial crisis. Both husband and wife McCain staked his candidacy on a surge in Kantor speaks openly about the chal- could tell from the way that she carried To wit, Kantor began Harvard Law room; another examined the use of beta were “drinking from firehoses.” They ; and tapped into the debate on moth- lenges of that era. “When you write about herself that she was somebody who was School in 1998 but realized her true calling blockers among classical musicians. “We were also relatively new parents, living erhood inspired by Palin’s choices. Kantor the presidential campaign for the Times going places,” he says. “She has always within her first semester. Foer, who had were asking the question, does classical in with daughter Talia, who had also broke the Rev. story, you’re under a ton of scrutiny. And at the been a very gregarious person, and I think worked at Slate (then a start-up), helped music have an issue with performance-en- been born in December 2005. which touched off an explosive, national same time I was a new mom and learning she’s always been an ambitious person; her make a connection. “I wrote a soul- hancing drugs just the way sports does?” “I’m thrilled that we were on the front conversation about race and faith. about motherhood. Sometimes I look at it that was one of the qualities that attracted searching letter to [editor/writer] David Kantor says. “These were articles that we page together once, but I never want to do “Learning to report about presiden- all in retrospect and don’t totally under- me to her early on.” Plotz asking him what I should do, and felt would be compelling to everybody. No it again,” Kantor says with a laugh. tial politics is very different from report- stand how that ended up happening … Foer recalls that when he applied for it just so happened that Slate needed an matter if you were young or old, whether As it happens, Kantor’s first campaign ing about the local school board,” Foer “I traveled a lot during the campaign, his first job after college, “I had written assistant at that time in its Washington of- you were a big classical music or a com- article, published in January 2007, was says. “The stakes are so high; the flaks all over the country. The first states that this cover letter that I thought was careful- fice,” says Kantor, who moved to D.C. for edy consumer, they were universal.” about Obama. Knowing Kantor’s con- all behave in such a ruthless way. … [The Talia knew the names of were South Caro- ly crafted and brilliant and I showed it to the position. David Leonhardt, now the Washington nection to , manag- Wright story] was the type of controver- lina, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa. I re- Jodi, and she took her red pen to the copy By the next summer she was handling bureau chief and one of Kantor’s editors, ing editor Jill Abramson had asked her sial scoop that generates a lot of enmity member covering the Iowa caucus and I and she kind of shredded it. I was dev- editing assignments, and soon she became was then an economics reporter whom to explore whether Obama’s experience as well as respect. I think one of the im- went for 10 days, which was a really long astated and reacted in this very passive- culture editor. (She also was transferred Kantor solicited for several articles on as president of the pressive things she has shown is she has stretch. I was torn, because I had never left

SUMMER 2012 SUMMER 2012 24 25 JODI KANTOR ’96 COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY JODI KANTOR ’96 my daughter for that length of time. But in “Early in the process I had spoken to a lot different Michelle Obama’s story in the the conversation really changed. I think can’t let that intimidate you. You have to was a relief to watch something passively retrospect it was absolutely the right thing of people at the White House, committing White House was from the one that was it goes to the challenges of publishing a still report aggressively and check your and just enjoy.” to do, because there will never be another the project to paper and describing it. The being publicly told. “There are things we book about a sitting President and First facts, obviously, and be very precise, but Kantor also has re-started at the Times, 2008 caucus.” White House decided to cooperate; what see from her that are very authentic — the Lady. The political atmosphere is so polar- you can’t let that stop you from saying, and in fact has an article in that day’s pa- was especially unusual is the East Wing de- warmth, the crowds, the sense of her being ized, everything gets put into positive and ‘This is what I really see as a reporter, this per about . When asked for a fter Obama was elected, Kantor cided to cooperate,” she says, adding that’s a groundbreaking figure, the maternal con- negative categories. is a pattern that I think is important to un- recap, she unleashes a rapid-fire series of officially became a Washington why she was able to reconstruct so much of cern that she has,” Kantor says. “But espe- “My goal was to write a nuanced, hon- derstanding these people.’ … The alterna- observations — how it’s such an interest- correspondent. Lieber’s job was what happened behind the scenes. cially in the first year or two, there were a est book about the Obamas, the way they tive to that is not to write at all.” ing time for him to be a candidate, given Abased in New York, however, so Of Kantor’s 200-plus sources, 33 were lot of parts of her experience that we didn’t were changing, the effect that power was Her tone makes clear, that’s no alter- his wealth and the financial crisis; how the family opted to stay in Brooklyn with current and former White House officials, see, which are described in the book … having on them, the challenges of their native. even his casual remarks can set off power- Kantor traveling to D.C. several days a aides and cabinet members. These includ- [Public figures are] under so much pressure jobs. The book is definitely not the fantasy ful emotions in people — that underscore week. She filed more of the features that ed inner-circle advisers such as Valerie to present the perfect image, and there’s no version, but it’s by no means a book that’s aturday mornings are a good time how energized she is to be back on the were becoming her signature, including Jarrett, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and way an experience like becoming the First negative about them; it’s intended to say, to meet because of the way her campaign trail. She will be covering both one that mapped Michelle Obama’s ances- Susan Sher. She also spoke with Obama’s Lady can be perfect.” here are two people whose public im- deadlines fall, Kantor says over Romney and Obama in the months ahead. tral roots in slavery. Then, in fall 2009, she longtime friends Marty Nesbitt and Eric Kantor hired Corbett from the paper as ages are so carefully managed — let’s get Scoffee one morning in March. She’s “I love being back at the paper,” she sat with the Obamas in the Oval Office for Whitaker, whom the President charged an additional editor, cross-checked anec- behind that a bit. That’s something that keeping a close eye on the time; she’s due says, “being back at my desk and being an interview on the subject of their mar- with keeping him “normal while in of- dotes with multiple sources and even en- doesn’t come across well in a one-minute to pick up Talia when Hebrew school with my colleagues. The book was great, riage. It was a huge get. The article ran as fice.” Kantor did not secure an additional listed a fact checker from The New Yorker. sound bite. And so the first week, I kept ends, and then they’ll meet Lieber for the but it was kind of a year abroad from my the cover story for the Times Sunday mag- interview with the President or First Lady, The final few months were particularly saying to people, read the book, you’ll see afternoon. “I’m a big believer in working real life.” azine on October 26; by mid-November, but notes how little access the world of consuming: the book’s closing scene takes the Obamas’ successes and their failures, hard and throwing myself into things en- As for whether she’d tackle another she’d signed a reported seven-figure book political reporting involves these days. place at Obama’s 50th birthday party the things they were instantly good at and tirely, but you can only do it in flashes,” one, her answer comes out part elation, deal with Little, Brown and Company. in August, and Kantor faced a mid- the things they had to work hard on. Part she says. “Then you have to recalibrate part exhalation, and suggests the question “There was so much anticipation,” September deadline. “It was incredibly of what’s interesting about the reporting is and have a normal life.” might be premature: “Writing a book is says Geoff Shandler, v.p. and editorial tight writing about things that had hap- watching them change so much. She recalls a recent weekend when the like walking around carrying a piano — director for Little, Brown, who edited pened so recently, and exciting to see “It’s easy to be intimidated by the polit- pace of book-related activities was slow- when you set the piano down, the relief is Kantor’s book (he also is a longtime the story take shape before my eyes. ical world,” Kantor adds. “The President ing. “I came home and watched Downton immense.” friend). “People in publishing had Yet I was working morning, noon and is powerful, the White House projects a Abbey, and I realized it had been a few been reading her work in the Times on night, reporting and writing at the lot of power, the Rush Limbaughs of the years since I had allowed myself to not Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts is CCT’s managing the Obamas, and hoping for a long time same time … my husband heroically world can make a lot of noise. But you work after putting my daughter down. It editor. that she was going to write about them took the lead on parenting. It was in- at length; I’m sure every publisher to credibly intense.” whom she submitted the proposal was The thoroughness paid off, as thrilled. We wanted it before we even The Obamas received much scrutiny had it to formally want, and we wanted upon publication. While critics gave to work with Jodi. She was a brilliant it generally positive reviews, some in star reporter who seemed to have gotten the media gravitated toward dishier inside the White House in an intimate tidbits or plucked moments out of way that you didn’t see other people context, creating what Kantor felt were coming close to doing.” Kantor back at work at The New York Times negative distortions. White House offi- Though some publishers had asked building. cials, meanwhile, pushed back against the PHOTO: DANIELLA ZALCMAN ’09 whether Kantor wanted to do a book that book; so did Michelle Obama, who gave would be essentially a longer version of an interview where she questioned how her magazine article — “a history of the “There’s never an opportunity to sit for someone else could know what she was Obama union, starting from when they hours and hours with the people you’re thinking (at the same time, she admitted met to the present day” — Kantor says she writing about and to ask them deep ques- that she hadn’t read the book). was far more interested in their transforma- tions. So on the whole I feel I had a lot of On , Jon Stewart ad- tion to being President and First Lady. access, in part because of the interview I dressed the public perceptions in a seg- “I wrote the best answer to the question did with the Obamas in 2009 … getting ment with Kantor: “I heard a tremendous that I thought would be on a lot of voters’ that interview and then talking so long amount of controversy about this book, minds coming up to the 2012 election, about a sensitive subject.” portraying the First Lady very poorly as which is how have the Obamas changed In her reporting, Kantor pulled at a an angry woman; she was on the Gayle in office? What was the effect that power number of threads that aren’t often dis- King show talking about it … I made the has had on them? Part of their appeal in cussed in daily coverage, and she names mistake of listening to that before reading 2008 lay in the fact that they were not real- two as being particularly striking to her. it, so I was very angry at you.” ly creatures of the political system — and First, that “the life of the presidency is “And then what happened?” Kantor now they’re living in the White House and much harder and lonelier and more con- asked. at the center of the bull’s-eye,” she says. fined and less glamorous than we think it “I read it,” Stewart replied. “And ultimately I wrote [a book] because is. They have incredible privileges but they In April, reflecting on the initial- cov that story is hard to tell in 1,100-word are also incredibly powerless in so many erage, Kantor says: “It was a strange chunks in the newspaper.” ways. The president holds the nation’s situation, with people opining with great Kantor is covering both Mitt Romney and Kantor went on hiatus from the Times in nuclear codes but can’t go to Starbucks for certainty on cable TV about a book they President Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign. April 2010 to work full-time on the book. a cup of coffee.” The second surprise: how hadn’t read; once they started reading it, PHOTO: DANIELLA ZALCMAN ’09

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The Full Spectrum

FCC chair Julius Genachowski ’85 has made universal access to wireless, high-speed Internet a priority

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(Top left) Genachowski and U.S. Department of Education Secretary participated in a roundtable discussion at the first Digital Learning alking into the Hungarian Pastry Shop one day Day — a celebration of innovative teaching and this past winter, Julius Genachowski ’85, chair- learning through digital media and technology — man of the Federal Communications Commis- held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., in early sion, wonders if we’ll get a table. The line is long, February. with students and book bags pressed against the PHOTO: FCC (Top right) In March 2010, door. Genachowski makes his way to the counter and peers down at the Genachowski delivered a W speech at the Smithson- cookies and cakes while I look for seats. ian National Museum of American History outlining When I tell him nothing’s open he says, “That’s too bad. I always liked how the National Broad- band Plan would benefit it here. It’s not much different, either. Except now I’m sure there’s Wi-Fi.” children and families. Here he cozies up to Elmo, a Wi-Fi, I would quickly learn, has come to define Genachowski and the special guest at the event. modern FCC. PHOTO: FCC (Middle) Genachowski The chairman has come to the city from his Washington, D.C., home with his wife, Rachel, and children, Jake, Aaron and for Spectator’s Annual Awards Dinner, where he will be interviewed by Lilah, in May 2011. PHOTO: COURTESY JULIUS Steven Waldman ’84, one of his senior advisers at the FCC (and his former GENACHOWSKI ’85 (Bottom) In January 2010 editor-in-chief at Spec). The dinner is scheduled to take place later that Genachowski (third from left) led the United States night at the Columbia University Club of New York in midtown. But first delegation to Poland for the commemoration of the Genachowski has agreed to a conversation and, as it turns out, a walk up 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Amsterdam in search of coffee and a table. His parents, Adele and Genachowski has for lived a particular admixture of technol- Azriel, stand at far right. ogy, business, law and politics. In the early ’90s he earned a degree from

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Not long after President Barack Obama ’83 ap- to bookshops throughout the city. And, after some For many, Genachowski points out, Wi-Fi pro- “Columbia pointed Genachowski chair of the FCC in 2009, time at Spec, he set up to compete against it by vides the only public connection to high-speed Jobs asked for a meeting. At the time, the iPhone reestablishing Columbia’s oldest newspaper, Acta Internet. In speeches and public events, he often provided me and AT&T were in the news because it had become Columbiana, which was founded in 1868 but had mentions a letter the FCC received from a Florida apparent that the video chat platform Skype was been on a 100-year hiatus until Genachowski came high school student. (He notes that, while he had the opportunity blocked from use on what was fast becoming the along. never believed it, government agencies actually do world’s favorite smartphone (an AT&T demand, “When I was in college, I wouldn’t have guessed receive letters from constituents.) The Florida stu- to be entrepre- it was later learned, that kept people chatting on how this would have tied together, but — it’s inter- dent wanted the FCC to know that in order to do neurial: to start plan minutes rather than on free Internet services). esting in retrospect — what Columbia provided her homework, she had to go to the local public The FCC said it would look into the fairness of for me was the opportunity to be entrepreneurial: library after hours, sit in the parking lot and con- a newspaper, to what many talking heads said was an anticompeti- to start a newspaper, to run the guide to New York, nect to the library’s Wi-Fi. tive practice, and Genachowski sent Apple a letter to teach CPR. It was an invaluable time in my life,” In March 2010 Genachowski unveiled the Na- run the guide saying so. he says. tional Broadband Plan, with the stated goal of “We met in San Francisco in a small conference With his interest in the media well stoked, connecting 100 million American homes to high- to New York, room,” Genachowski recalls. Jobs’ reputation pre- Genachowski applied in his junior year to be a re- speed Internet within 10 years. He worked with ceded him, so Genachowski steeled himself for a search assistant for Fred Friendly, Edward R. Mur- cable and telecommunication companies to de- to teach CPR. berating. The room was spare. The Apple founder row’s producer, legendary newsman and eventual velop a national broadband rate for low-income walked in alone. president of CBS News, who was teaching at the families. Any home with children in free lunch It was an in- “You were completely right to send us that let- Journalism School. Genachowski was selected programs can qualify for $9.95 a month high- valuable time ter,” Jobs said to Genachowski’s surprise. “It’s a as the only undergraduate in a small army of J- speed access, a savings of 75 percent or more in problem. We’ll fix it. Let’s talk about something School students. Their research became the basis of some areas. Equally significant, Genachowski’s in my life.” else.” The conversation ranged from mobile in- Friendly’s popular book and PBS series, The Consti- FCC revamped the moldy Universal Service novation to digital textbooks, to Wi-Fi and spec- tution: That Delicate Balance. Fund in order to pay for this access. With as a Harvard Law School and clerked on the Supreme trum, which refers to the airwaves that wireless Friendly gave the undergraduate a challenge: Started during the Great Depression as part backdrop, Genachowski in May 2011 announced a Court. He later was among the first to migrate transmissions travel on. Genachowski has found Find Jane Roe, the plaintiff in the of the Communications Act of 1934 — then re- new public safety system from the high court to the FCC and, after two the last is probably the technology sector’s favorite seminal Roe v. Wade. He tracked down her real vamped and renamed in the Telecommunications that sends geographically years as a staff attorney, jumped to the technol- topic of conversation. name, Norma McCorvey, and the fact that she Act of 1996 — the Universal Service Fund is es- targeted alerts to enabled ogy sector and made his fortune at the Internet When he moved into Carman Hall as a fresh- lived in Texas. “I spent a lot of time in the library, sentially an enormous pool of money, collected in mobile devices. NYPD media super-company IAC; he then launched man, spectrum carried radio and local television and a lot of time looking at phone books,” Gena- cents through a charge on our phone bills, used to Commissioner Raymond Kelly and NYC Mayor Mi- a venture capital firm of his own in 2005. Now but not much more. The technology he plied was chowski says. “I made a lot of phone calls.” extend telephone service into rural communities. chael Bloomberg stand at starting his fourth year at the helm of the FCC, typesetting — a craft he honed at Spectator and McCorvey would go on to appear in The Consti- In 2011 Genachowski convinced Congress that it Genachowski’s son Aaron far right. he has taken an agency known for policing Janet translated into income with a $13-an-hour job set- tution and became a lifelong friend of Friendly’s. “I was time to switch emphasis. The Depression-era met President Barack PHOTO: FCC Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction and morphed ting type at a print shop on Broadway. count that experience and having Fred Friendly as goal of telephone service for all areas had been ac- Obama ’83 in August it into a platform for promoting universal high- That night at the awards dinner, Genachowski a mentor as deeply inspirational to me on the im- complished; now was the time to connect the na- 2009. PHOTO: COURTESY THE WHITE speed Internet access. would recall his days of typesetting and X-Acto portance of free speech and the First Amendment,” tion via broadband. Congress agreed. HOUSE “One thing I’ve tried to do is refocus the agency knives with Waldman, a co-founder of Beliefnet. he says. on broadband, wired and wireless high-speed In- com who also is a visiting senior media policy ternet — on the opportunities, on the challenges,” scholar at the Journalism School. Genachowski e have found our way to Kitchenette Genachowski says. “Communications and tech- was editor of Spec’s Broadway magazine. and a table near the door. The waiter nology make up one-sixth of the U.S. economy The mid-’80s was a very different time for asks if we need a drink. “That would and are disrupting every sector of the economy. We New York, Morningside Heights and Columbia. Wbe interesting, wouldn’t it?” Gena- can’t afford not to.” Waldman recalled publishing an article about a chowski says with a laugh. He is due on stage for Most countries have three or four agencies body, rolled inside a carpet, that was found in a Spec in a few hours. He orders a decaf cappuccino. that do what the FCC does. One adopts policy for dumpster behind Carman. Twice the Waldman- Genachowski seemingly grows younger with wired communications like telephone, another Genachowski paper broke tradition and ran age. Photos from his days at Columbia and Har- handles wireless communication and a third tabloid headlines: the first when a tuition hike vard Law show a wooly beard creeping high on regulates satellite service. Then there’s the un- broke all records, “$14,000!”; the second, “Coed his cheeks, rumpled clothes and what looks like a popular odd man who deals in content regulation At Last.” slouch. All these years later, clean shaven, wrinkle- “You were — the censor. But thanks to Herbert Hoover, who “We were troublemakers,” Genachowski says free — in face and dress — his appearance matches as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s fought to with a laugh, adding that the work on Spec felt im- the boyish enthusiasm he shows for his work. completely regulate radio, all these tasks fall to one agency in portant. After a series on wasteful administrative When I say I spent many a Columbia afternoon the United States. spending, University president Michael Sovern ’53, studying at Kitchenette, he points out, in what be- right to send Much of the world, Genachowski says, thinks ’55L called the two into his office. He sat them down comes his refrain: that I could study here “because the U.S. is at a competitive advantage for having all and accused the duo of “Nixonian tactics.” it has Wi-Fi.” us that letter,” communication policy under one roof. “He didn’t realize,” Waldman says, “we Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum like it is a great Steve Jobs told were probably the first generation not to get the success of the FCC. In the mid-’90s, the FCC auc- ’m pretty sure I was one of the first peo- reference.” tioned the rights to these airwaves on the free mar- Genachowski, ple at Columbia to get a Mac,” Gena- Genachowski was on the pre-med track before ket. Some were licensed bands — proprietary fre- chowski says as we cross West 114th switching to art history in 1982. He joined the Co- quencies — and became the wireless networks for much to his “IStreet heading uptown. “I’m certain I lumbia University Emergency Medical Service, then the likes of AT&T and Verizon. Others remained was the first person in Furnald. I got to know Steve made side money as a CPR instructor. He edited the unlicensed and open to all, allowing innovators to surprise. Jobs, and that always impressed him.” Columbia Guide to New York, which was distributed develop technology for the space. Enter Wi-Fi.

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Genachowski’s dedication to promoting uni- reported ballhandling. something like, “Well, there’s this other guy …” versal high-speed Internet access has been no- As a fundraiser and technology adviser dur- and Genachowski, when offered the opportunity, ticed, and has set him apart from his predecessors ing Obama’s presidential run, Genachowski was immediately said yes. at the FCC. the guy in the room preaching social media. The Genachowski laughs when I recount the judge’s “He’s knowledgeable, he’s been in the indus- President, he says, “instantly got it.” Those early story. “That is how it happened, but what’s funnier try, he’s been at the FCC as a staff person and he conversations about the power of apps, Facebook, is that I stayed in touch with the President over a was also with ’s company [IAC], so Twitter and YouTube were foundational to the number of years, and he called me when he was he’s been out there on the government side and grassroots campaign that tipped a close Demo- first contemplating a run for Senate. He asked entrepreneurial and corporate side. He comes to cratic primary in Obama’s favor, and ultimately whether I’d help him. I paused for a minute and this unusually well prepared,” says FCC watcher the election. before I could say, ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘And don’t forget Eli Noam, the Paul Garrett Professor of Public “I remember a conversation I had with Barack you got that clerkship because of me.’” Policy and Business Responsibility at the Business at law school,” Genachowski says. “Only in a “He was one of the best clerks I’ve ever had,” School and director of the Columbia Institute for place like the United States could two people like Mikva says, “and I was on the bench for 15 years Tele-Information. “Typically these FCC positions us, from our backgrounds, end up at a place like and saw more than 500 cases. He’s a very enthu- are filled with ex-Congressional staffer types who Harvard Law School and work on the Harvard siastic person.” Genachowski later clerked for know their way around Washington, which is a Law Review. We have very different backgrounds Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and real skill to have in this job, but aren’t entrepre- — his is well known, my parents are immigrants . Among the cases he worked on neurs themselves. Sometimes [FCC chairmen and and Holocaust survivors — but it says some- was the first “must carry” decision, which- re board members] are Washington lawyer types. thing about our country that this could happen quired cable companies to carry locally licensed Genachowski comes into this job probably better here.” stations. prepared in new types of media than just about Genachowski’s father’s experience as an im- Around this time, a friend set him up on a anybody.” migrant in America who earned an engineering blind date with filmmaker Rachel Goslins, whom As a fundraiser degree at M.I.T. is the first thing Genachowski he married in 2001. (Goslins also is a heavy hitter ’ve asked Genachowski a couple different mentions when asked about his influences. He inside the Beltway: In 2009, Obama appointed her and technology ways, with varying degrees of tact, about his explains how, as a 5-year-old, Azriel Genachowski executive director of the President’s Committee on friendship with Obama. They got to know was whisked from Belgium with his parents after the Arts and the Humanities, which advises the adviser during Ieach other during their days on the Harvard the Nazis occupied the country and began round- White House on cultural and arts policy.) Law Review, and he manages to answer without ing up area Jews. What is known about the fam- In 1994, Genachowski made the move from Obama’s presi- saying anything particularly revealing about the ily members who stayed behind is due to meticu- Supreme Court clerk to FCC staff attorney. It was enachowski’s decaf cappuccino has Genachowski spoke at First Family. They are good friends, he says, add- lous Nazi record-keeping: they were driven to a an unheard-of migration back then, but has since gone untouched. In an hour he’s due a rally for Obama during dential run, the presidential cam- ing that they attended each other’s weddings, but cattle car, shipped via train to Auschwitz-Birkenau become routine for attorneys interested in tech at the Columbia University Club. I paign in August 2008. Genachowski beyond that, they deserve privacy, like any other and “gazés à l’arrivée” — gassed on arrival. When policy. During this time in his life, Genachowski Gask him one last question, a question American family. Obama asked Genachowski to head the U.S. del- says he first glimpsed the new, connected Amer- he’ll be asked on stage later that evening and one was the guy “How about poker at the White House? Tell egation commemorating the 65th anniversary of ica in the basement of the engineering library at he is asked, I imagine, everywhere he goes. me about that,” I joke. the liberation of Auschwitz, in January 2010, Gena- Georgetown. Two rudimentary servers were set Technology-wise, what will the future look like in the room Immediately, stoically, he says: “I haven’t con- chowski said in his speech that the family he lost up and FTP files could be transferred between in five years? In 10 years? firmed that’s ever happened.” in the death camps has lived on in eight grandchil- them. “One of the wonderful things about innova- preaching He does confirm, however, that at the Law Re- dren, 21 great-grandchildren and 45 great-great- “I had been interested in technology early on, tion is you can predict some things, but the cool- view, poker games and basketball were routine. grandchildren. and then in 1994, standing in that basement library, est things you can’t,” he says. “Five years ago, “I just had social media. Genachowski has played basketball since child- At M.I.T., the elder Genachowski’s engineering I just had this sense that communications technol- who could have predicted Twitter? Who could hood in Great Neck, N.Y., and his 21-year-old son, thesis was a system designed to allow blind people ogy was about to explode,” he says. “It was the have predicted the success of Facebook, or the this sense that Jake, who attends Michigan, has proven athletic to read books without Braille. It didn’t take off but, kind of explosion I wanted to be near.” way we’re using ? A lot of things we’ll as well. (His other children are Lilah, 7, and Aar- Genachowski says, “I learned at a very early age Genachowski leapt into the private sector in be talking about in five years haven’t been in- communica- on, 5.) When Jake was in high school — and even the power of communication technology to change 1997. Soon he became chief counsel, and then COO, vented yet. tions technol- now, on college breaks — he joined his father for a people’s lives.” for Barry Diller’s IAC. It’s where Genachowski “The world is changing. We live in a flat, regular Sunday morning game at Sidwell Friends In 1985, Genachowski moved to D.C. and into says he learned the lessons of management. hyper-connected world that’s about digital ogy was about School in Washington, D.C. ESPN The Magazine a Dupont Circle apartment with Waldman and “No one can bat 1.000. One of the things Barry communications and we need to modernize has written it up, noting Jake’s excellence, at least none other than future Congressional flame-out Diller used to say is that if you’re not making mis- our policies to seize the new opportunities and to explode. It on the court with 40- and 50-year-old Washing- Anthony Weiner. The future FCC chairman soon takes you’re not doing anything. In all the things make sure we’re globally competitive in the 21st- ton ballers. The game includes regulars such as distinguished himself on the staff of then House I’ve been doing I try to have a culture where century. The challenge is always that change is was the kind Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibow- Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and worked for mistakes are regarded as inevitable. What’s im- hard. Entities that benefit from the old system itz; Hans Binnendijk, the No. 2 man at National the House Select Committee on Iran-Contra. He portant is aiming for a high batting average and don’t like change. And often the beneficiaries of of explosion Defense University; Yochi Dreazen, a reporter attended Harvard Law from 1988–91, afterward learning from mistakes.” new systems are companies that don’t exist. So for ; Tom Freedman, who was a returning to D.C. to clerk for Abner J. Mikva, then- In 2005, Genachowski branched out on his part of what we try to do is create the climate, I wanted to senior adviser to President Clinton; and former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. own and founded Rock Creek Ventures, a Silicon create the conditions, for a nation of newcomers: be near.” Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig. Circuit. Valley angel investment firm. Then, after Obama the next Facebook, the next Amazon, the next “We’ve all played together for a very long time, As Mikva tells the story, he first offered the po- won the election, Genachowski was called back eBay, the next Google. We want those companies like 20 years,” Genachowski says. sition to Obama, whose credentials as president to D.C. as a transition team advisory board to start in America. It’s very important that the Obama, Genachowski says, has not attended of the Law Review made him an ideal candidate. member. In March 2009 Obama called again and next Apple start in America.” that game, but his right-hand man, David Axel- “But Obama,” according to the judge, “said no. He offered him the top spot at the FCC. “My parents rod, has. The President’s interest in and fluency on wanted to go back to Chicago and run for public taught me, when the President asks you to do Michael R. Shea ’10 Arts is a freelance writer based technology issues, however, is as impressive as his office.” Mikva’s connection at Harvard then said something, the only answer is ‘Yes.’” in New York.

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rom a tank of live fish in a Hong Kong restaurant to an aerial view of Shanghai, the following student photographs from a recent Weather- head East Asian Institute exhibit are Finstantly eye-catching. Not immediately obvi- ous, though, are the social, economic and politi- cal realities the photos reveal. “A Closer Look,” as the exhibit’s name urges viewers to take, shows narratives of family life, bustling cities and time-honored traditions. The exhibit was the result of the institute’s third annual student photography contest, which began last summer with a call for photos of East and Southeast Asia taken in the year between September 2010 and 2011. A panel of students, staff and faculty selected the final 25 images out of 130 submissions; they were then displayed at the institute from November through February and for the month of April at Standard Auto Parts Building Gallery in City. Here, six of the College students included in the exhibit explain what’s hidden behind their images. Compiled by Karen Iorio

Jiawen Tang ’15

Photo: “View from the Top” Location: Shanghai, People’s Republic of from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower “I hope to highlight the organized chaos of the city below. This image represents the incredible development of cities in China and the emergence of the fast-paced lifestyle that accompanies it. Like the city of Shanghai, the traffic circle is a never-ending stream of cars and people, entering and exiting, all heading toward the future.”

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Su Ann Lim ’12 Photo: “Call the Police” Location: Kuala Lampur “This was to be a peaceful rally calling for free and fair elections in Malaysia. The only people who seemed unaware of this was the ruling regime, which had a few weeks earlier declared this planned rally il- legal and said anyone wearing yellow, the symbolic color of the rally, would be arrested.”

Anna Sacks ’13 Photo: “Go Go Power Rangers” Location: Singapore “This was taken at a national Comic-Con. Shivina Viewers will note how absurd it is not only for a Power Ranger to be photographing Harjani ’13 Sailor Moon and a SWAT officer but also for the Power Ranger to take the picture while Photo: “First Shave” his helmet is still on. Even though he prob- ably cannot see what he is photographing, the Location: Hong Kong Power Ranger refuses to break character.” “A boy confronts himself. At a much-anticipated moment, he raises his jaw with the so- Photo: “Portrait of a Buddha” lidity of a grown man. He is Location: Bangkok maturing though his face is still “Worshipers, one by one, applied gold-leaf young. And even in old age, as to the Buddha’s face after offering prayers in youth, he is supported by a and incense. The beauty of the collage is the band of brothers. The figures result of a collective and spontaneous effort, dance in celebration on the and I like how the Buddha’s face changes wall behind them.” with each contribution.”

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Bennett Hong ’11

Photo: “Duties of the Family” Location: Vientiane, Laos “The family of a patient camps outside of the intensive care unit of Mittaphab Hospital. In Laos, it is customary for families to take care of stabilized patients in this way. Family members will rotate in and out of the camp, forgoing work, until their relative is ready to go home.”

Photo: “Behind the Storefront” Location: Bangkok “This is a typical sweatshop where people work seven days a week. Small businesses are frequently family-run. Family, occupation and survival are melded into one.”

Photo: “Fish in Hong Kong” Location: Sai Kung, Hong Kong “Diners are encouraged to handpick their seafood meal before it’s prepared. Hong Kong’s fishing industry has been in de- Russell Varriale ’13 cline for many years due to overfishing. Reform is needed in fishing practices and Photo: “Moving Forward” regulating food quality.” Location: Xi’an, People’s Republic of China “Look at how the lights are interwoven with the traditional architecture and how the building hovers over the people who are silhouetted against its backdrop. Can you tell who they are? Are they just another silhouette in the cultural landscape? Is it a hopeful picture or an ominous one? My picture is about stirring up emotion and curiosity.”

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Wallace Broecker ’53

Wallace Broecker ’53, ’58 GSAS, the “dean of climate scientists,” at his office at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. PHOTO: ARIANA FALERNI Battles the Angry Climate Beast

Broecker popularized the term “global warming” and explained how ocean currents effect

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Professor Wallace Broecker ’53, ’58 GSAS, as a result of rising dioxide levels. A pio- dressed in a rumpled green rugby shirt, worn neer in the use of radioisotope dating to deduce jeans and new running shoes, appears at ease. historical climate patterns, Broecker developed But as he relaxes in his office at Columbia’s the concept of the “great ocean conveyor,” a loop Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, his calm of deep ocean currents that circulates water, heat demeanor belies a deep concern for the topic un- and materials around the world. He was the first der discussion. “We’re in for big trouble,” he says to offer an explanation for abrupt climate change matter-of-factly. There’s been a “true disruption and articulate how the oceans, rather than just of the basic climate of the planet.” the sun, affect the earth’s climate. He would know. Described as the “dean of “He has singlehandedly pushed more under- climate scientists,” Broecker is credited with pop- standing than probably anybody in our field,” ularizing the phrase “global warming,” which says , the Evan Pugh Professor of he first used in a 1975 article that accurately pre- Geosciences at Penn State, who has collaborated dicted the current climb in global temperatures with Broecker for years. “He is intellectually

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so huge in how the earth system works and what its history is That same summer, Broecker married (he and his wife, Grace, temporary and that rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere would It’s not an accident that most of these experiments are taking that all of us are following Wally in some way or another.” eventually would have six children). Kulp let the young couple soon inaugurate an extended period of global warming. place overseas. In the U.S., Broecker has been a prime target of A Columbia faculty member for 54 years, Broecker is the New- stay in his home to babysit his youngest child while he went on va- In August 1975, the journal Science published a piece by Broeck- what he describes as a “well-funded political campaign” attempt- berry Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth and Envi- cation with his wife and two older children. Broecker had planned er, “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global ing to deny the reality of global warming. “They call me a ‘junk ronmental Sciences, a scientist at Lamont-Doherty and an Aca- to return to Wheaton for his senior year, but when Kulp returned, Warming?” In it, he argued that “a strong case can be made that scientist’ to my face,” he says. demic Committee member at . He has taught he suggested that Broecker stay in New York. “You don’t really the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to Nevertheless, he insists, “The debate is false. One of the main everything from advanced geology courses at Lamont-Doherty want to go back to Wheaton,” he told Broecker. “They don’t have a pronounced warming induced by carbon dioxide.” As RealCli- drivers of ice ages was the CO2 content in the air. When the CO2 to the Frontiers of Science course for first-year students, a part any courses that would be of interest to you. Why don’t you trans- mate (a blog for climate scientists) noted in 2010, “Broecker’s paper was lower it got plenty colder. So, as we add CO2 it’s going to get of the Core Curriculum. He has written more than 460 scientific fer to Columbia?” is a reminder that global warming was actually predicted before a lot warmer. articles and is the author or co-author of 10 books. “I never dreamed I could get into Columbia,” Broecker says. it became evident in the global temperature records over a year “There can be a question about how big the warming will be, but For his work in geochronology, and chemi- But he followed Kulp’s suggestion and wrote out a transcript of later.” Or, as Foreign Policy wrote on the paper’s 35th anniversary, there’s no doubt in my mind” that warming has occurred, he says. cal oceanography, Broecker has won international acclaim. In 1996, his Wheaton courses. Kulp took it to the University registrar the “Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change President Bill Clinton awarded Broecker the National Medal of next day and got Broecker admitted on the spot. “It was really caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.” espite the recognition from his work on global Science, the nation’s highest scientific award, in recognition of his rather amazing,” Broecker says. “I was just goddamned lucky,” Broecker says. warming, Broecker doesn’t think of it as his most im- “pioneering contributions in understanding chemical changes in Broecker’s tuition was waived because he became Kulp’s re- Lucky or not, Broecker had helped set the parameters of the portant scientific achievement. “In global warming, the ocean and atmosphere.” Broecker has testified before Congress search assistant, which also provided a meager income to support question. He quickly became hailed as the father of “global warm- I’m an educated amateur,” he says. and been profiled or interviewed byThe New York Times, The Guard- Broecker and his wife. He spent most of his senior year studying ing.” Not wanting to be typecast (“I didn’t want ‘global warming’ In the early 1980s, borings in the Arctic icecap ian (UK), Smithsonian Magazine, Foreign Policy, Business Week, PBS, physics, though he did take his first geology course, with Profes- on my tombstone,” he says), Broecker later offered his students Dshowed results similar to those taken in . Broecker set the BBC and the CBC, among others. In 2007, he was elected to the sor Walter Bucher, a renowned structural geologist. But as some- a $275 bounty to locate an earlier use of the term. It didn’t take himself the challenge of explaining dramatic swings in global tem- Royal Society, London, signing his name in the same register that one who lived near Lamont, driving to campus when necessary, them long to find that the late New peratures revealed in the ice. His cru- Sir Isaac Newton did more than three centuries ago. Broecker bypassed the traditional Columbia College experience. York Times columnist William Safire cial insight was to focus on the role of Not bad for someone who describes himself as a “do-what- “I didn’t have to take the Core Curriculum and I was never asked had one, a 1957 report from a local In- oceans. Earlier scientists had posited you-have-to student,” who ended up at Columbia almost by ac- to pass a swimming test,” he says. diana municipality, which was in turn a belt that carried warm upper-ocean cident and who originally planned to become an actuary. Broecker graduated with a bachelor’s in physics and imme- reporting on the work of an unnamed water to the North Atlantic, where scientist. But that usage had not stuck; it cooled, became denser and sank Broecker’s had. So while the cogno- to the deep ocean. According to the “I learned to put together apples and oranges — scenti sometimes note that Broecker model, currents then carry the water popularized “global warming,” or to the South Atlantic, where it shuttles i.e., field and laboratory observations.” first used the term in a scientific paper, around the tip of Africa into either the most just credit him for coining it. Indian Ocean or the Pacific, where “He showed that he was a smart it warms and is carried back to the allace Smith Broecker was born in 1931 in Chi- diately entered graduate school at Columbia, working as Kulp’s guy right from the start,” says Karl North Atlantic, repeating the process. cago and grew up in nearby Oak Park, Ill. At research associate before earning his doctorate in geology in 1958. Turekian ’55 GSAS, the Sterling Profes- Unlike earlier scientists, Broecker­ the end of the summer of his senior year of high With Kulp’s assistance, Broecker joined the faculty of the Depart- sor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale. was able to quantify the amount of school, he and a friend drove their jointly owned ment of Geology as an assistant professor in 1959. Turekian, who was a graduate student water carried by what he dubbed the 1934 Ford coupe (complete with rumble seat) 30 in geochemistry at Columbia when “great ocean con­veyor.” More impor- milesW west to attend Wheaton College, a local bastion of fundamen- nyone who imagines scientists working quietly in Broecker arrived, says Broecker’s work tantly, he showed why it mattered. talist Christianity. (Broecker came from a devoutly fundamentalist a laboratory or in front of a computer hasn’t met has “made him a powerful agent to Broecker had the revelation that in- President Clinton presented Broecker with the National family.) “Wheaties,” as the college’s students were called, pledged Wally Broecker. A chance encounter at a 1950s aca- contribute to the whole debate regard- Medal of Science, the country’s highest scientific award, terruptions in the conveyor — which not to smoke, drink, dance or go to movies, had to attend chapel demic conference on radiocarbon dating led to an ing the climate change. He has never in July 1996. could be caused by a sudden influx each day and began each class with brief “devotions.” impromptu field expedition to Nevada’s Great Basin been foolish about that. He says seri- PHOTO: COURTESY WILLIAM J. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY of fresh water into the North Atlan- To hear him tell it, Broecker was an indifferent student, more in- withA another conference participant. The trip marked the begin- ous things that people listen to.” tic — and subsequent restorations of terested in sports and practical jokes than in academics. (He once ning of Broecker the field researcher; he has taken part in scientific Broecker continues to caution about global warming. In a mem- the conveyor pattern in the Atlantic could explain abrupt events of surreptitiously showered an unpleasant librarian with a boxful expeditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Bahamas, the orable phrase from the early 1990s, he described the world’s cli- cooling and warming that were recorded in the fossil ice record in of mothballs.) But he did gain a solid foundation in calculus and Sierra Nevadas, the California coast, Barbados, Greenland, Canada mate as an “angry beast” that we’re continuing to poke through Greenland and the Arctic. physics that would serve him well later on. And he forged some — indeed, all around the globe. growing emissions of CO2. “It is a global system of currents, which carries a lot of heat and important connections, notably with his “big brother,” Paul Gast “Many of my laboratory-oriented contemporaries paid only “My point was that by adding large amounts of CO2 to the affects the climate of the planet,” Broecker says. “I found that circula- ’57 GSAS, an upperclassman at Wheaton who became an impor- scant attention to field observations,” Broecker says. “So, unlike atmosphere, we were poking our climate system without being tion reorganizing in the ocean led to huge changes in sea ice cover, tant friend and mentor. many of my colleagues, I learned to put together apples and or- sure how it would respond,” he says. and those in turn affected almost everything on the planet. They

The idea of becoming an actuary came from a magazine article anges — i.e., field and laboratory observations.” And he’s unsure about the future. More CO2 was discharged shifted the tropical rain belts, and they warmed and cooled the high that Broecker read while waiting in a dentist’s office. When he This capacity to understand both apples and oranges was piv- into the atmosphere in 2011 than in any other year, but so far, he latitudes in the north.” While earlier science pointed to changes in told Gast, who had been encouraging Broecker to think about his otal in what, to popular audiences, is Broecker’s claim to fame: notes, the United States has only spent $10 million on research and the earth’s orbit to explain climate, “it turns out you need to couple future, his friend was appalled. “Do you have any idea of how his work on global warming. For the first two decades of his pro- development of technologies to address the problem — “less than that with these abrupt changes to make the full story,” he says. boring that would be?” he said. Instead, Gast encouraged Broeck- fessional career, Broecker had been primarily interested in how [the salary of] one Yankees pitcher in one season.” Skeptical about He published his initial theory in Natural History magazine in er to interview with a young geochemistry professor, J. Laurence the oceans absorbed CO2. Then a Danish scientist published a pa- the acceptance of alternative energies, Broecker has come out in 1987. “No one was thinking of abrupt climate change” before this

Kulp, who was conducting research at Columbia at what was per about borings from the Greenland ice cap; the deep cylinders favor of systems to capture and store CO2, including an air cap- work, he notes. “I would have to rank it my No. 1 accomplish- then called the Lamont Geological Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. of ice, which had been drilled from the cap, enabled scientists to ture system proposed by Klaus Lackner, Columbia Engineering’s ment by quite a bit.” And his conveyor research dovetails with

(Gast had interned with Kulp the previous summer.) A winter track CO2 trapped in the ice and determine a precise chronol- and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics. He his work on global warming, which holds the potential to disrupt break interview during Broecker’s junior year led to a research ogy of periods of heating and cooling. Those results prompted favors experiments under way in Norway and Iceland to store CO2 the conveyor, with uncertain results. appointment at Lamont for the following summer. He worked in Broecker to begin examining the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere. underground and has proposed experiments to test undersea CO2 Broecker has described his findings, along with how -he ar Lamont’s radiocarbon counting laboratory, at that time one of a In the 30 years leading up to the Danish study, Greenland had ex- storage, though he notes these face intractable opposition from rived at them (missteps and all) in his 2010 book, The Great Ocean handful of labs in the world conducting such research. perienced a period of cooling, but Broecker realized the trend was Greenpeace and other environmental groups. Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change.

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roecker has managed to accomplish all this without things that Wally set forth in that course.” many of the modern accoutrements of academic life. Broecker’s teaching also contributed to his own writing. His He doesn’t use a computer, preferring to write as he first textbook, Tracers in the Sea (1982), on the chemistry of the always has, in pencil on sheets of plain, unruled white ocean, was described in The New York Times as standard reading paper. Co-workers transcribe his notes and answer his for scientists who use chemical clues to understand climate.” The Bemail. “I’m kind of spoiled,” he admits. book is long out of print but Broecker notes with satisfaction that His one concession to modern technology is that he now uses a copies are selling on Amazon for as much as $450. His How to mechanical pencil rather than a traditional No. 2, though an electric Build a Habitable Planet was the outgrowth of a course he taught pencil sharpener still rests smack in the center of one of his two large in the early 1980s. In 2012, Broecker published a revised edition, conference tables, both covered with books and papers, in his office now co-authored with Charles Langmuir, a Harvard professor. in the Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at Lamont-Doherty. Broecker also played a role in the development of Frontiers of Sci- That building itself is a testament to Broecker’s wide influence. ence, the Core Curriculum course introduced by the College in the In 2002, the late Gary Comer, founder of Lands’ End clothing re- early . While the course was in its initial stages, he developed tailer, wrote to Broecker. Comer, who had just sailed his yacht modules on climate change for the trial sections held in Miller The- though a Northwest Passage no longer choked with Arctic ice, atre. He continued to teach these modules when Frontiers became a wanted to learn more about global warming and its link to fossil required part of the Core, though he declined to teach discussion sec- fuels. After a visit with Broecker, Comer decided to pump $60 tions because he didn’t want to have to master the other disciplines million into climate change research. This included an $18 million taught in the course. “Too much new stuff to learn,” he says. gift to help build the building that bears his name, which opened Broecker has remained at the top of his field. He has been elected in 2009, and a fund to support climate researchers and students. a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Broecker’s computerless office offers an eclectic travel log of his Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a fellow of both the Ameri- extraordinary career as well as an homage to the college prankster. can and European Geophysical Unions. In addition to his National A 10-foot stuffed snake, rescued from a roadside as a stand-in for Medal of Science and Royal Society induction, he’s garnered just the angry climate beast, adorns the wall leading to his office, which about every award imaginable for a geoscientist, notably the Vetle- His prodigious scholarly output hasn’t stopped Broecker from being a favorite of Columbia students.

is guarded by a garden lion statue. A 5-foot-tall cardboard cutout of sen Prize, widely considered the geoscience equivalent of a Nobel Geochemistry faculty and graduate students gather in front of Lamont Hall in 1954. Broecker is seated in the second row from the bottom, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, with a photo of Broecker’s face pasted Prize. In 2009, Broecker was awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge far right; geochemistry professor J. Laurence Kulp, who encouraged Broecker’s enrolling at Columbia, is seated with neck tie at center front. over Elvira’s, shares a wall with a bookcase containing a certificate Award in Climate Change, one of the world’s largest science prizes, PHOTO: COURTESY LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY ARCHIVES marking his selection to the Royal Society. The bookcase also hous- from Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation. es a photo taken at the 800th anniversary of the founding of Cam- Now 80, Broecker shows little sign of slowing. Before being bridge, where he received an honorary doctorate (he’s pictured just interviewed for this story, he had just returned from teaching a behind Prince Philip and next to Bill and Melinda Gates). 7½-week course at in Tempe. This year, His prodigious scholarly output hasn’t stopped Broecker from Geochemical Perspectives, a new journal published by the European being a favorite of Columbia students, undergraduate and gradu- Geophysical Union, will devote only its second issue to a single ate. Although his base of operations has been Lamont-Doherty, author: Wally Broecker. His contribution, “The and Broecker has taught regularly on the Morningside campus as well. Climate Change: Memoirs of My 60 Years in Science,” is essen- Originally, he shared many teaching and administrative respon- tially an intellectual autobiography, recounting his triumphs and sibilities with his mentor, Kulp. Later, when Kulp left Columbia to stumbles on the way to his major discoveries. devote himself full-time to a company he started, Broecker worked Grace Broecker died in 2007. Their six children have produced with his friend Gast, who had also earned a doctorate at Columbia. eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Broecker has In the late 1960s, Broecker taught the introductory geology course since remarried to Elizabeth Clark, with whom he works at Lamont- at Barnard after the professor who had taught the course abruptly Doherty. Though Broecker had made New Jersey his home for resigned. decades, the couple now lives on Riverside Drive near the Morn- “He has a great concern for students. I think that’s one of his ingside Heights campus, making the short reverse commute to great strengths,” says George Denton, professor of earth sciences Lamont-Doherty. He stays active by walking 30 minutes each day. “I at the University of Maine, who started working with Broecker can pass for under 70 with no trouble,” he gently brags. in the early 1970s. As for the future? Standing in his office near a wooden ship’s Broecker’s teaching has launched more than a few careers. Mi- wheel — a gift from Lackner — Broecker doesn’t hesitate. “I’ll nev- chael Bender ’70 GSAS, now a professor of geosciences at Prince­ er retire,” he says. “I wouldn’t know what to do.” ton, met Broecker in 1964 during a summer geochemistry pro-

gram. “I remember thinking that this guy was out of his mind,” To read an op-ed by Broecker about direct air-capture of CO2, go to Bender says. This notwithstanding, Bender started working with Web Extras at college.columbia.edu/cct. Broecker on developing a research method to date archaeological Broecker, surrounded by former students, toasts to 50 years of teaching in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; the spe- cial anniversary event and reception was held in April 2010. Pictured back row (left to right) are Michael Bender ’70 GSAS; Dennis Adler ’82 deposits. He later took a Broecker chemical oceanography course Timothy P. Cross ’98 GSAS, a former CCT associate editor, is a free- GSAS; Billy Moore ’64 GSAS; Richard Ku ’66 GSAS; Rik Wanninkhof ’86 GSAS; Broecker; Robbie Toggweiler ’75, ’83 GSAS; Steve Emerson ’74 that sealed the deal. “When I finished that course, I kind of felt lance writer living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Robert E. Calem also contributed GSAS and John Wehmiller ’71 GSAS. Pictured front row are Kenneth Wolgemuth ’72 GSAS (left) and Tsung-Hung Peng ’73 GSAS. like I had a roadmap to my career. To this day, I’m working on research to this story. PHOTO: COURTESY LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY

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[ COLUMBIA FORUM] Scribble, Scribble, Scribble SIMON SCHAMA POSITS WASHINGTON THE CITY IS THE VISION OF WASHINGTON THE MAN

Simon Schama, University Pro- fessor, has taught at Columbia­ since 1993. His books, which include the bestsellers The Em- barrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Cul- ture in the Golden Age and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, have been translated into 15 languages and have won prizes ranging from the Wolfson Award for History to the National Book Critics re there Circle Award for Nonfiction. He has been an essayist and critic any city avenues more inhumanly broad than for The New Yorker since 1994. those of Washington, D.C.? For they are not re- Schama is best known for his incisive studies of art (Rem- ally boulevards at all, these immense expanses brandt’s Eyes) or historical eras (Rough Crossings: Britain, at the centre of the institutional city. There are the Slaves and the American Revolution). He describes his A no sidewalk cafés with coffee-drinkers whil- latest book, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, ing away the time as they check out the eve- Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother (Ecco, 2012 in paper- ning strollers — and for the reason that there back), as a “salmagundi”: a hearty dish of salad, in which the are no strollers. What there are, are Visitors to variety of ingredients is practically the point. Here you can find Our Nation’s Capital, disgorged from tour bus- Schama’s celebrity profiles and his lectures; notes from theater es, pointed at the Smithsonian Air and Space programs; articles about food; reportage; and op-ed pieces — Museum, or the Washington Monument, and all bearing the hallmarks of what Publishers Weekly calls his gathered up again when their business is done. “omnivorous erudition.” In the following essay on Washing- Even new buildings like the East Wing of the ton, D.C., Schama points out the ways in which the city’s wide avenues and spacious architecture embody a kind of political Washington, D.C. — The President’s House. Circa 1856 engraving theory, “an idea made architecturally visible.” of the U.S. Capitol building as seen from the roof of the White House. Engraved by H. Wallis after William Henry Bartlett. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard PHOTO: © CORBIS

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National Gallery, perfectly beautiful on the interior, manage portrait of Washington, cut it from its frame, rolled it and made lost the city) and had become a kind of official artist to the Con- to have a broad, low stepped plaza in front of them, com- haste with it to the soldiers’ camp where she spent the night on tinental Army. Not surprisingly l’Enfant’s vision was formed by plete with massively monumental sculpture that sucks all hu- the run from the invaders, watching the horizon flame with the classical French urbanism from the reigns of the Sun King and man life out of the space. Bow your head, revere, and enter ruins of the town. Louis XV: central grandes places, each embellished with statu- the temple; so the message goes. Mandatory solemnity at the The very characteristic of which self-designated conserva- ary, obelisks and monuments from which broad radial avenues expense of the human swarm was there right from the begin- tives (many established in Washington think tanks) complain would extend, along which the edifices of government would ning. The engineer who drew up the first plan, Pierre Charles — the artificiality of the city, its detachment from anything re- be aligned — Treasury, Department of War, Post Office very ( l’Enfant, prescribed avenues not less than 160 feet wide. That’s sembling a self-sustaining commercial economy — was precise- important in the early Republic), Patent Office, etc. The Po- what you get when you hire a French classicist; someone who ly the reason why George Washington wanted such a capital in tomac and its Great Falls outside the city would provide (pos- doesn’t notice that the place gets broiling in the summer and the first place. Metropolitan wens like London and Paris, were, sibly by making more of the Tiber) a chain of watercourses, so for whom narrower, densely tree-shaded streets might have he and Thomas Jefferson thought, the breeding places of idle that Washington would not just resemble classical Paris, but a been a kinder idea that might have encouraged some ease fashion, vice and corruption. But a nation founded on the maj- little bit of Venice and Rome too, with a cascade falling down of street life. But what l’Enfant valued in his royal prospects esty of the people ought to have a great city custom-designed Capitol Hill and feeding handsome canals. Though l’Enfant ran were (in his endearingly strangled English) ‘reciprocity of as a residence for democratic institutions. The relationship be- foul of Congress, and the execution of a much-modified plan sight, variety of pleasant ride and being to ensure a rapid in- tween the independent legislature and the governing execu- was carried out by the less grandiose Andrew Ellicott, much tercourse with all the part of the city which they will serve as tive, for example, ought to be made visible by their mile-long of his essential vision — the emblematic separation and con- does the main veins in the animal body to diffuse life through separation at opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue; the two, nection of executive and legislature; the eminence of the latter, smaller vessels in quickening the active motion of the heart’. however, always in each other’s sight. It was an American thing the gentility of the former; as well as those immense avenues Washington does have its true neighbourhoods where the to ensure that it would be the legislature, not any executive resi- — survived. It was the other great Enlightenment mind, that of beehive hums, people sit on stoops in the spring sunshine, and dence, that would be the elevated structure, sitting on its eighty- Jefferson, who had the idea of calling the intersecting streets by wander in and out of bars and jazzy cafés; where you can eat foot hill, watching over the servants of the government beneath, letters and numbers and who made sure that both l’Enfant and anything from Ethiopian to Brazilian — Adams Morgan, for in- keeping them accountable. Ellicott were supplied with plans of all the great European cities stance, where in season there is even a fine farmers’ market, fruit from Strasbourg to Amsterdam. and vegetables trucked in from farms in Maryland, Pennsylva- he very notion of a federal city originally came By 1800, when Jefferson moved into the President’s House, nia and Virginia, a reminder that there is true country out be- from necessity as much as ideology. Because of there were just 3,000 inhabitants of the federal district, of whom yond the beltway. Or around U Street where African-American the moving theatre of peril during the revolu- a third were slave and free blacks. The House itself, resembling Washington comes alive near the Duke Ellington Theater. And tionary war, the itinerant Congress had shifted ‘a country gentleman’s dwelling’ according to one visitor, al- the sense of a vast bureaucratic-punditocratic savannah is bro- no fewer than eight times, and had sat in places ready had its little colonnade and modest park and the East ken by Washington’s bosky places, the parks and gardens laid as various as York Pennsylvania, Trenton New Room planned for state receptions, but most of it was unfin- out after the recommendations of the McMillan Commission at TJersey and the academic Nassau Hall at Princeton. To have a ished. Abigail Adams, the first First Lady to attempt to run the the turn of the century. In Rock Creek Park joggers jog (although single, defensible site, perhaps no more than ten square miles, House, complained of the expense of heating and lighting and muggers mug); the Zoo nearby is where Washingtonians come where law and governance were published and treasury ac- the difficulty of finding thirty reliable servants who could be as families, and the gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard’s in- counts cleared, was obviously essential to the integrity and ef- entrusted with its management. The Capitol was being built stitute of medieval and Byzantine studies, is shared between the ficiency of government. A decision was taken almost as soon as by the Boston architect Charles Bulfinch, who had created the philosophically contemplative and the blissfully amorous. But the war was over in 1783, but a protracted debate then ensued domed Massachusetts State House and who provided for the most of the young people who make up the clientele and who as to where that site should be. The criteria were a location on a nation’s legislature another dome flanked by two pavilions. The come to love the place aren’t there because of the romance of navigable river, but sufficiently far inland to be protected from ensemble when built was grand by American standards but, as the city, but because they need to live in an idea made archi- the naval raids the founding fathers expected of the British — the Republic grew, not ceremonious enough, resembling, as tecturally visible: the idea of democratic government. That is or, indeed, their ex-allies the French. The mid-Atlantic suggest- one wag put it, ‘an upside-down sugar bowl between two tea at the beating heart of the place; the pulse of its body politic, ed itself as arbitrating between the already conflicting claims of chests’. but that same notion is also why ‘Washington’ in some quarters the great sectional interests of the new republic — industrial, After the British burned Washington in the summer of 1814, of American life is not so much an actual city as a byword for high-minded New England and the plantation slave world of it took time before rebuilding got under way, the eager and sci- bureaucratic remoteness and self-importance. the South. Two choice sites were on the Delaware in New Jersey entifically minded John Quincy Adams providing much of the Its problems and its many genuine splendours are both prod- or on the Potomac at the line separating Maryland and Virginia. “IT MATTERED DEEPLY TO impetus. But for decades Washington was jeered at in much of ucts of the original split personality of the American Republic. But even those choices were thought to favour, respectively, the country as the ‘great Serbonian Bog’ — a place of ‘streets For Thomas Jefferson (who nonetheless seized the opportunity northern and southern preferences, so that for a few weeks two GEORGE WASHINGTON without buildings’ — while its neighbour, the busy port of to be President with robust eagerness), the true America lay in capitals, one on each site, were seriously contemplated, at least Georgetown, had ‘buildings without streets’. The climate was the myriad farms where the yeomen citizens, whom he believed until Francis Wilkinson, in a burst of inspired ridicule, proposed THAT THE UNITED STATES more brutal than the First President imagined; mosquitoes de- were the life-blood of democracy, were building a truly new building a gigantic trolley that could wheel the capital and its voured the population in the fetid summer; the water supply society and polity. George Washington, whose own plantation archives from one place to the other, along with an equestrian HOLD ITS HEAD HIGH IN A was foul and prone to delivering cholera to the city rather than farm, Mount Vernon, is just fourteen miles south of the District, statue of Washington. Ultimately it was Washington himself — the graceful torrents and limpid basins l’Enfant had envisioned. was more ambiguous. On the one hand, he too was averse to who had begun his career as a land surveyor — whose firm WORLD OF VAINGLORIOUS Hogs wandered the Mall, and at some distance from the gran- empty pomp; on the other hand, it mattered deeply to him that preference was for a city on the Potomac, surrounded by gentle deur, rickety taverns and disorderly houses made their contri- the United States hold its head high in a world of vainglorious hills and, as he thought, blessed with a benign climate, who MONARCHIES” bution to the city’s peculiar mix of solemnity and squalor; the monarchies; that a capital city, like the Roman Republic, be the decided the matter. When the land was plotted he rode it him- emblems of liberty and the reality — in the persons of the unfree visible expression not just of the parity, but of the superiority of self, charting its topography and imagining where, amidst the without whom the place would never have functioned — of a democratic constitution. It helped foster those dreams of the farmland and the river valley, would arise the grand buildings slavery. Washington literally, but barely, held the line between New Rome that the eventual site had running through it a mucky and monuments that would embody the vital social virtues of two Americas rather than symbolising its unity. creek grandly known as the Tiber. Washington, the city, is in fact working democracy. And then in the early 1850s there arrived in town one of the very much the vision of Washington the man. Dolly Madison, For a detailed plan Washington, in 1790, turned to Pierre most prodigious and still relatively unknown American heroes, the fourth President’s wife, knew this when, on the approach of Charles l’Enfant, a French military engineer who had been hon- the army engineer who as Quartermaster General of the Union the British in 1814, she took a knife to Gilbert Stuart’s beautiful ourably wounded at the siege of Charleston (where the French would win the Civil War for the North quite as decisively as Lin-

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coln, Grant and Sherman. Montgomery Meigs was first and fore- technology and invention. The Corcoran Gallery was intended most a builder. His spectacular brick Romanesque temple-like as Washington’s first art gallery, but the Beaux Arts building, structure of the Pensions Building (created in the 1870s to pro- designed by one of the city’s mavericks, Renwick, stayed un- vide welfare for old soldiers and memorialise the fallen), now the realised as its Confederate-leaning patron sat out the war from Buildings Museum, is one of the most extraordinary architectural the safety of Paris. By the end of the century, the Corcoran and achievements in the entire country. But it was Meigs who, throw- the Freer were home to spectacular collections, but it was only ing an immense masonry span over one gorge and an iron bridge with the gifts of the Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, over Rock Creek, created the aqueduct that carried, at last, a de- and the Widener dynasty that the immense National Gallery was cent supply of fresh water (also imperative for the extinguishing finally established on a scale befitting the collections in the 1930s. of fires) from the Great Falls of the Potomac to the city. It was And the great memorial monuments that bookend the axis of Meigs too, a regular tartar when it came to coming down hard on the Mall — Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson — and which, for the dubious businessmen who saw in the growth of the District most visitors, along with the Capitol and the White House, are the an opportunity for fat profits, who presided over the rebuilding ‘Nation’s Capital’, took a long time coming. A Washington me- of the Capitol to its present appearance and magnitude, and who morial of some sort was mooted almost as soon as the General- replaced the Bulfinch sugar bowl with something taken instead President was dead, at the end of 1799; and before long the idea from Brunelleschi, Michelangelo and Wren, but which had an of an equestrian statue was scrapped for a grander mausoleum, iron fabric just in case the British decided to set fire to it again. to house his remains, from which some sort of column or obelisk would sprout. The reluctance of the owner of Mount Vernon to uring the Civil War, Washington became a bar- release the sacred relics, the usual squabbling of interested par- racks — almost 100,000 troops camped there; ties in situ, and above all the cost of the structure meant that it bivouacs on the Mall, soldiers amidst the hogs took a century before, in 1885, the obelisk in its finished state was and geese (for they had no intention of mov- formally opened. Lincoln’s great memorial with the seated figure ing); beef and milk cattle grazing. In July 1864 sculpted by Daniel Chester French, the bare temple-like space the invalids and veterans under Meigs’s com- decorated with the fallen hero’s words and friezes of the emanci- Dmand had to man forts and trenches at the advance of General pation of the slaves, was likewise a creation of the second half of Jubal Early, who, however, never made it. The wounded and the nineteenth century. mutilated were carried in carts and barges from the two battles And now everyone wants a monument in Washington. of Bull Run, and some of those who perished were buried, on Franklin Roosevelt, who specified he did not want one, got one Meigs’s orders, on the confiscated land of his former friend, anyway. A major memorial to the fallen of the Second World Robert E. Lee, up on Arlington Heights. Meigs and Lincoln War, also on the Mall, is still being hotly debated. But sometimes were always anxious that if the Confederacy took the Heights a convergence of national passion and inspired design takes they would have a direct line of fire on both the White House place and something gets built that transcends its own materi- and the Capitol, so that turning the proprietorial gentility of als to become a place of true communing. Such of course is the the Lee estate into the first national cemetery became, for them profoundly eloquent Vietnam memorial created by Maya Lin: both, a matter of strategy as well as national symbolism. a basalt wall in a cut trench that rises and falls with the body Modern Washington, though, came to be in the years around count and the grief of the country. the turn of the century. It was then that the old federal govern- Though Boston and New York have been my home towns, ment buildings were replaced by the masonry-faced piles that I feel I know this city well. I remember crossing the grilling house the Treasury, the Department of State and the rest. Every so breadth of Pennsylvania Avenue in 1964 to see an Assistant often there were wonderful, eccentric exceptions like the Gothic Secretary of Labor who became a friend and mentor, and who Smithsonian ‘castle’ — the result of a legacy offered (and accept- would well up in an impassioned Irish way at the thought of ed by Congress in 1846) by English scientist James Smithson as an the slain Jack Kennedy not a year before; I remember the jazz pi- ‘establishment for the increase of knowledge among men’, a ru- ano bars in the tougher end of town around M Street and 14th; bric sufficiently broad to extend, now, to fighter planes and space the rising hemispherical walls of Watergate; my first astounded capsules as well as historical artefacts and treasures of American sally into the glory of the Library of Congress Reading Room, as welcoming to a young student as the British Museum Reading Room (then) was chilly and difficult. I went back last year each week in November to give the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, beginning to make the white grandeur of Union Station and the amiably shouting directives of the taxi despatchers on “FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, the threshhold a kind of homecoming. I have friends, a daugh- Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s plan for the city of Washington, printed ter living there, all happily, all very much settled into the weave by Thackara & Vallance in 1792. WHO SPECIFIED HE DID of the place; knowing its street corners and park benches, its PHOTO: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GEOG- dogs and ice cream. And there, when the cherry blossom is do- RAPHY AND MAP DIVISION NOT WANT A MONUMENT, ing its shameless thing, and the streets of Adams Morgan are warming to the kids on the block, it’s entirely possible to see GOT ONE ANYWAY” Washington as not just DC, not just ideology made visible, but as an American community; and a good one at that.

From the book SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE by Simon Schama. Copyright © 2010 by Simon Schama. Reprinted by arrangement with Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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53 Message from the CCAA Board Turns Alumni Energy Into Results CCAA President 54 Bookshelf Alumni e have reached the close of the academic year 56 Obituaries and the transition of another College class from students to alumni — or to former students, as 59 Class Notes W Dean James J. Valentini likes to call us. We are ex- cited to have the Class of 2012, with its strong attachment to and 104 Alumni Corner enthusiasm for the College, join our ranks. They are extraordi- News narily talented and we look forward to their continued success. I am reminded daily of the affection Columbia students and former students have for the College. The Columbia College College Class Day on Alumni Association (CCAA) Board of Directors helps translate Van Am Quad in 1949. this passion into tangible benefits for Columbia. PHOTO: MANNY WARMAN, COURTESY COLUMBIA This past year has been filled with not only transition but UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES also the anxiety and concern for the College that comes with any change, especially an unexpected one. The board worked with New CCAA Board members (left to right) Michelle Estillo Kaiser the administration and staff to guarantee as seamless as possible ’87, Stephanie Foster ’12 and Joan Campion ’92 join President an experience for the students this academic year. I am very grate- Kyra Tirana Barry ’87. ful for the time and commitment of our incredibly dedicated Ex- ecutive Committee members and board committee chairs. These members, congratulate two on becoming honorary members due alumni spend hours each week on issues important to the Col- to their long and extraordinary service and welcome seven new lege, students, faculty and alumni. Their priorities mirror those members. Thank you, Eugenio Cano ’95, John Crabtree ’78, Marc of the alumni community and students. Mazur ’81 and Mark Wojciechowski ’76 for your years of service I am more firmly convinced than ever that if we can open to the College. We welcome James Brandt ’79 and Conrad Lung up more avenues for alumni engagement and communication ’72 in your new roles as honorary board members and thank you Columbia will continue its ascendancy. The CCAA board is for for your continued commitment to the College. the students and former students of Columbia College. Its efforts We welcome Joan Campion ’92, Rick De Los Reyes ’97, benefit us all. Please do not hesitate to contact Kim Rogers, as- Stephanie Foster ’12, Justin Ifill ’06, Michelle Estillo Kaiser ’87, sociate director, volunteer management, at kr2276@columbia. Paul Neshamkin ’63 and Jonathan Sobel ’88 to the CCAA board. edu with your concerns and ideas. To learn more, go to college. To highlight a few of their many contributions to date: Joan is columbia.edu/ccaa. To nominate someone for consideration by a former president of the Varsity C Club and a member of her the Alumni Recognition Committee, go to college.columbia.edu/ 20th Reunion Gift Committee; Rick is an active member of the ccaa/nominations. This is your board and our Columbia. Alumni Representative Committee and a Class Agent; Stepha- For the CCAA board, every second June is a time of transition as nie was co-chair of the 2012 Senior Fund; Justin is the outgoing we conclude a two-year term and prepare for the upcoming term. president of Columbia College Young Alumni, events chair of Like our graduating students, who may leave campus but will al- the Black Alumni Council and a board member of the Columbia ways be Columbians, alumni may depart the University Club of New York; Michelle was a board but they are not leaving Columbia, rather CCAA Executive leader of her 25th reunion and a member of the transitioning into different roles. Committee Officers Dean’s Alumnae Leadership Task Force; Paul My recent conversation with Conrad Lung is a longtime CCT class correspondent and a Kyra Tirana Barry ’87, president ’72, who is becoming an honorary member of member of his 50th Reunion Committee; and the board after years of dedicated service, ex- Geoffrey J. Colvin ’74, chair Jonathan is finishing his term as a member of emplifies the many conversations I have had Brian C. Krisberg ’81, the College’s Board of Visitors and currently honorary chair with alumni about Columbia. I reached out to provides student internships. We eagerly look Conrad to talk about the board and to get his Michael P. Behringer ’89 and forward to their contributions. Ira B. Malin ’75, thoughts on alumni engagement. His immedi- co-chairs, Columbia College Fund Columbia College has never been stronger, ate response was full of ideas and suggestions James P. Gerkis ’80 and and I am confident the efforts of the past year will on how to increase the value of the Columbia Ted Schweitzer ’91, co-chairs, FDC propel it to new heights. There is a newfound experience in Asia. An Alexander Hamilton Craig B. Brod ’77, past chair, FDC focus and strong new relationships among the medalist in 2009 for his service to the College, Francis Phillip ’90 and faculty, administration, trustees, alumni and Conrad remains actively engaged in helping Daniel S. Tamkin ’81, students. This collective effort of those who care build on and improve the Columbia alumni and co-chairs, Class Agents Program deeply will make the difference. What unites student experience. This kind of passion typifies Jess H. Drabkin ’79, secretary them all is their passion for Columbia. our alumni volunteers. The CCAA board’s role Laura A. Lopez ’92, is to ensure that every alumnus/a has the ability assistant secretary to see his or her dreams for Columbia realized. Mark L. Amsterdam ’66 This summer, we say goodbye to four board

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Bookshelf Steven J. Ross ’71 Surveys Politics in Hollywood B y J u s t i n D e F r e i ta s Crime and Punishment by Fyodor levels, curbing carbohydrate crav- Conservatism by Jeffrey Bell ’65. Orange author Burgess (Manches- Dostoevsky, adapted by Joseph Cow- ings and overeating (Little, Brown The author contends that social ter University Press, $89.95). rom Charlie Chaplin’s pacifist comedy intriguing. “I like to write about things I don’t know ley ’44. Cowley adapts Dostoevsky’s and Co., $29.99). conservatism remains essential to Shoulder Arms to Charlton Heston’s “cold, about, so that I can write that sense of discovery legendary 1866 novel for ESL stu- American politics as an alterna- Essential Neuromodulation edited dead hands,” the Hollywood elite have and surprise into my work.” dents, cutting each chapter down to Self Cure: You Can Do More for tive to the “liberal enlightenment” by Jeffrey Arle ’86 and Jay Shils. The a long history of engaging with the body Hollywood Left and Right has its roots in one of only a few pages (iUniverse, $11.95). Your Health Than Your Doctor and sexual revolution of the 1960s authors detail the clinical methods Fpolitic. Starting with WWI, the immense popularity Ross’ previous books, Working-Class Hollywood: Can by Dr. Mark J. Sicherman ’56 (Encounter Books, $25.95). and potential benefits of neuro- of movie stars became a form of political currency; Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. In Poetic Craft and Authorial Design with Chuck Stormon. In this manual modulation, an emerging field no longer seen only as artistic muses or vessels the course of researching it, he had learned that in Shakespeare, Keats, T.S. Eliot, for improving health and prevent- Lizard World by Terry Richard Ba- of neurology that uses electrical, for profit, they also became known as attention- the FBI saw enough of a political threat in the and Henry James, with Two Essays ing disease, Sicherman presents zes ’70. A New Jersey dentist ends chemical and mechanical interven- commanding, prestige-bearing spokespersons for film industry that it kept tabs on stars even in the on the Pygmalion Legend by George principles of mind/body medicine up in the clutches of a depraved tions to heal disorders such as policy, politics and propaganda. And they’ve wielded medium’s first few decades. He said to himself, T. Wright ’45. Wright, professor to help readers transform their family of amateur surgeons living Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy their considerable influence ever since. “If J. Edgar Hoover was so freaked out as early as emeritus of English at the University health (CreateSpace, $17.95). in a Florida swamp in Bazes’ novel (Academic Press, $125). Steven J. Ross ’71, professor of history at the 1918, let’s take a broader look.” of Minnesota, assembles a collection (Livingston Press, $33). University of Southern California and co-director Ross tells the stories of the left and right in alter- of his essays from as long as 30 years Resurrecting Democracy: A Invisible Families: Gay Identities, of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, nating chapters, depicting the swing of the political ago in this book of literary criticism Citizen’s Call for a Centrist Third Diary of a Company Man: Losing Relationships, and Motherhood delves into this fascinating history in Hollywood pendulum across the decades and describing six (Edwin Mellen Press, $119.95). Party by Dr. Robert A. Levine ’58. a Job, Finding a Life by James S. among Black Women by Mignon Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American types of political activism. Chaplin, for example, Levine, a Vietnam veteran, decries Kunen ’70. In this memoir, Kunen Moore ’92. Moore draws attention Politics (Oxford University Press, $29.95). Ross uses employed visual politics, putting his populist, hu- Reflections on Medicine: Essays the partisanship and influence of recounts being laid off from Time to the family life of gay women of the careers of nine actors and one studio mogul to manitarian views on the screen in comedies such as by Robert U. Massey, M.D. by special interests in Washington, Warner and finding himself “too color and analyzes how they under- tell the story of Hollywood’s political and cultural im- Shoulder Arms, Modern Times and The Great Dictator. Dr. Robert U. Massey, edited by Dr. D.C., and calls for a strong third young to retire and too old to hire.” stand their sexual orientation, find pact, and he comes to some surprising conclusions. MGM chief Louis B. Mayer, meanwhile, engaged in Martin Duke ’50. This collection of party to bring about change (The He chronicles his search for mean- partners and form families (Univer- Despite the perception of Hollywood as a bastion of electoral politics, essentially putting his studio at the 70 of Massey’s monthly columns for Editing Co., $12.95). ing in his life and his decision to sity of California Press, $26.95). liberalism, Ross argues that the industry’s conserva- disposal of the Republican Party in the 1930s. Mayer Connecticut Medicine from 1973–2005 teach English to immigrants (Lyons tives have proven more effective in mobilizing their instructed politicians in the art of storytelling and addresses issues that remain relevant Useful Star Names: With Nebulas Press, $24.95). Lineages of Political Society: Stud- forces and instituting their values, placing Hollywood loaned them MGM staff, talent and equipment for the for physicians, such as medical ethics and Other Celestial Features by ies in Postcolonial Democracy by figures in the Senate, the California governor’s production of high-quality film and radio campaign and morality and medical technolo- Thomas Wm. Hamilton ’60. In this Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and Partha Chatterjee, professor of anthro- mansion and even the White House. material. gies (Gordian Knot Books, $21.95). aid for stargazers, Hamilton, a the Spirit of Creative Inquiry by pology. In this series of interlocking Raised in Queens, Ross attended Bayside H.S., Among the other types of activism are the move- retired astronomy professor, sets Taigen Dan Leighton ’71. Leighton, essays, Chatterjee examines the where he recalls feeling lost amid a class of 1,600. PHOTO: ALEXANDRA ment politics of George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry The Floodplain by Anthony Rob- out a comprehensive list of the 88 a Sōtō Zen priest, introduces and connection between liberal political Though he was the first in his family to be going to BISSONETTE Belafonte and , who helped build coalitions inson ’53. Mother and wife Chloe constellations and explains how to expands the contemporary under- thought and western imperialism college, he figured he was an average student headed that would shape the political landscape for decades; Forrester is forced to choose be- calculate their brightness and loca- standing of Buddhist teachings, (Columbia University Press, $27.50). for Queens College or Stony Brook. But when a friend told him he the image politics of Heston, who used his heroic image to estab- tween her marriage and a relation- tions (Strategic Book Group, $12.97). explaining that Zen awareness is was smart and urged him to set his sights higher, Ross applied to lish credibility for his political views (most notably as president ship with a charismatic psychiatrist based on constant questioning, and Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics Columbia. His first year at the College changed his life. of the National Rifle Association); and the issue-oriented politics in this novel set in 1970s America Sculptors at Work: Interviews shows how it is found in artistic and the Politics of Memory edited “The Core Curriculum turned me into an intellectual,” Ross of Edward G. Robinson, a liberal humanitarian and a victim of the (Codhill Press, $20). About the Creative Process by works from a Bob Dylan song to by Marianne Hirsch, the William Pe- says. “It introduced me to the world of ideas.” He discovered his Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s. Robinson’s story isn’t as well- Victor M. Cassidy ’62. Cassidy, an a Wallace Stevens poem (Wisdom terfield Trent Professor of English passion for history from reading the classics — “all those old known these days, but Ross contends it is especially significant. Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution: art critic and journalist, talks with Publications, $17.95). and Comparative Literature; and Greek guys” — and realized that humanity has grappled with “It’s about what happens when the House Un-American Activities A Complete Guide to Achieving internationally and regionally Nancy K. Miller. This collection of the same topics for thousands of years. Ross credits Columbia Commission goes after a noncommunist. His story is more effec- Normal Blood Sugars by Dr. Richard known sculptors about their artis- A Clockwork Counterpoint: The essays from 24 writers, historians, for what he characterizes as his “big-picture approach” to history. tive in silencing Hollywood, in many ways, than [the Bernstein ’54. In the fourth edition of tic techniques (McFarland, $40). Music and Literature of Anthony literary and cultural critics, anthro- Ross earned his B.A. in history and political theory and later of] the Hollywood Ten.” his “bible for diabetics,” Bernstein Burgess by Paul Phillips ’78. Phil- pologists, sociologists and other earned a B.A. in philosophy from Oxford and a Ph.D. in history The book concludes with the celebrity politics of Arnold Schwar- updates his practical approach to The Case for Polarized Politics: lips examines the role of music in commentators examines the legacy from Princeton, where he studied the Civil War and Reconstruc- zenegger, who, says Ross, “recognized that if you were a big maintaining normal blood sugar Why America Needs Social the writing and life of A Clockwork of various historical injustices and tion. Upon landing a job as a history professor at USC in 1978, enough star, you didn’t need roots in a political party ... nor did Ross sought a new avenue of study — one that would allow him you need to play ball with the traditional serious news outlets.” to reach beyond academia for a broader audience. When his Ross’ next book is about “the myth of the good war.” It will wife, Linda Kent, a film and television producer, suggested Hol- examine the fate of Hollywood’s “premature anti-fascists,” industry lywood, it seemed a perfect fit: Ross always had been a cinema figures who decried the rise of fascism in Europe at a time when fan, the industry was centered just a few miles from his home the U.S. government was on good terms with Italy and Germany — and movies would provide an accessible gateway into history. and not inclined to intervene in the looming conflict that would “If you look at the 20th century, I think film is one of the become WWII. most powerful tools for shaping consciousness, ideas, society and politics,” Ross says. And the prospect of new material was Justin DeFreitas is a Bay Area writer, editor and cartoonist.

considers how to acknowledge erupted …” Krauss delves into the Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli, and projects generate new possibili- and repair the damage (Columbia experience of having an aneurysm professor of anthropology. Povi- ties of life in the context of ordinary University Press, $27.50). and her recovery (MIT Press, nelli uses her ethnographic work and extraordinary acts of neglect $24.95). in Australia and the United States, and surveillance” (Duke University Under Blue Cup by Rosalind E. along with critical readings of legal, Press, $22.95). Krauss, University Professor. Open- Economies of Abandonment: Social academic and activist texts, to ex- Benjamin W. Gittelson ’15 ing with “Late in 1999, my brain Belonging and Endurance in Late plore how “alternative social worlds

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collecting data about players and his wife, Amy; two grandchildren; writers. He set up a printing press and brother, Alan. Memorial Richard M. Ruzika ’81, Board of Visitors in his basement and hand-set type contributions may be made to the to produce six volumes of tourna- Cancer Support Community of Member and Football Alumnus Obituaries ment cross tables played from Philadelphia. 1851–1980. He also self-published 1958 He was a member of the board other books and booklets. In addi- of NYMEX for nine years. Ruzika 1931 1936 1925, Aronson grew up in Borough tion to his wife, Gaige is survived William W. Bartlett, retired finan- moved to the firm’s trading Fred W. Farwell, retired geologist, Zachary B. “Bert” Friedenberg, Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned an by a daughter, Monica Gaige- cial executive, Chappaqua, N.Y., floor in 1990, becoming head consulting mineralogist, Stam- physician, professor of orthopedic M.A. in psychology from GSAS Rosenweig, and a granddaughter. on March 25, 2011. Bartlett was in 1947 and a Ph.D. in psychology born in 1936 and earned an M.B.A. of Natural Gas Trading in 1996, ford, Conn., on February 1, 2011. surgery, Philadelphia, on January 27, 1955 Farwell was born in Keene, N.H., 2011. After graduating from P&S in from Michigan in 1951. Aronson from the Business School in 1960. and in 1998 relocated to Bal- on November 9, 1910. He was 1939 and following an internship at maintained a private practice until Arnold J. Schwartz, radiologist, He had a long and distinguished timore as one of the founding educated in Leonia, N.J., public Kings County Hospital, New York his death and also was director of Stamford, Conn., on March 8, 2011. career on , starting at members of Goldman Sachs’ schools. At Columbia he earned City, Friedenberg served in WWII the Group Psychotherapy Training Born on July 25, 1933, Schwartz Citibank and Commercial Credit electricity business. a B.A. in American history and in as a surgeon in the 95th Evacua- Department of the Postgraduate was raised on the Grand Con- Corp. He went on to First Boston In 2000 Ruzika was named 1936 an M.A. in geology. In 1937 tion Hospital, an advanced army Center for Mental Health in New course near Yankee and Corp., Dillon Read and Lehman head of commodities, where he York from 1971–2001. The program graduated from Bronx Science. Brothers, where he was s.v.p. He he married Katharine Doane Pier field hospital, in North Africa, Italy, developed the firm’s Asset- of New York City, whom he met at France and Germany and partici- brought together psychiatrists, After graduating from P&S in 1959 retired in 1998 as s.v.p. at Salomon Co business, and was later a Wyoming geological fieldwork pated in three D-Day landings. He psychologists, psychiatric social he completed a surgery internship Smith Barney. Knowledgeable camp several summers earlier. was honored with several commen­ workers and psychiatric nurses at UCLA and a radiology residency about mortgage-backed securities, appointed co-head of Global From 1937–41 Farwell was a geolo- dations. After the war, he joined to study in an atmosphere of at Columbia. He moved to Stam- Bartlett was an adviser to Freddie Macro Trading and then co- gist for the American Smelting and Penn’s School of Medicine, where acceptance and warmth coupled ford in 1970 with his wife, Myna, Mac and wrote a monthly research head of the Global Special Situ- Refining Company in Mexico. He he attained the rank of full professor with rigorous clinical training. In and was a founding partner of publication, Executive Mortgage ations Group. He was named taught for a year as an assistant of orthopedic surgery. Though he Clarence C. Eich ’42 2006, Aronson received the Award Stamford Radiological Associates. Report. He published articles on PHOTO: CHRIS TAGGART a managing director in 1996 professor at the Colorado School of maintained a private practice, his for Outstanding Contributions in During his career Schwartz was mortgage-backed securities in and a partner in 1998. Ruzika Mines and during WWII served in interests were teaching and research. his wife; children Mary Eich and Education and Training in the Field elected president of the Stamford several financial journals and ichard M. Ruzika ’81, a retired from Goldman Sachs in Randy Albelda, Robert Eich and of Group Psychotherapy from Medical Association and was published two editions of his the Strategic Minerals Program of Friedenberg became a SCUBA diver former partner at Gold- April 2011 as head of the Global the U.S. Geological Survey, work- and filmed undersea life throughout Kari Lemay, and Claire and Jim the National Registry of Certified respected for anatomical expertise book, Mortgage Backed Securities: man Sachs, member of Special Situations Group and a ing in various regions of the Rocky the world, receiving an award from Newbury; two grandchildren; and Group Psychotherapists. He also and his ability to solve difficult Products, Analysis, Trading. He was R Mountains. From 1946–72 Farwell Jacques Cousteau for one of his two great-grandchildren. Memorial was a passionate supporter of Is- diagnostic dilemmas. For many senior instructor in mortgage- the College’s Board of Visitors member of the Management worked at the Research Labora- films. He was a world traveler, par- contributions may be made to the rael and maintained close relation- years, he served on the boards of backed securities for the New from 2002–08 and a Lions Committee, the Securities Divi- tories of American Cyanamid in ticularly in the Middle East and Asia, Canal Society of New Jersey, PO ships with family and professional Temple Beth-El and the Bi-Cultural York Institute of Finance. Bartlett football alumnus, died on May sion Executive Committee and Stamford. He was a consulting and published numerous books on Box 737, Morristown, NJ 07963. colleagues there. In addition to his Day School and was active in local was predeceased by his wife, 7, 2012, at a Stamford, Conn., the Firmwide Risk Committee. wife of 62 years, Helen, Aronson is Jewish causes. He was predeceased Francoise, on March 7, 2011, and mineralogist after his retirement. medical history. He was predeceased 1945 hospital following a stroke on In 2006, Ruzika was honored Farwell was predeceased by his by his first wife and mother of his survived by his son, David; daugh- in May 2000 by his wife and is is survived by his sons Courtney April 22, three days after sur- by the College with a John Jay Carter H. Golembe, wife; sister Alice Farwell McCann; children, Ruth Stratton, in 1966. He retired author ter, Ruth; sisters, Barbara Margolin survived by son and daughter-in- and his wife, Caroline, and Peter; gery on his left knee. He was 53 Award for distinguished profes- and banking economist, Delray and Judith; brother, Norman; law Marc ’90 and Kelly; son and three grandchildren; and brother, and one great-grandson. He is leaves his wife of 43 years, Kathleen; and lived in Greenwich, Conn. sional achievement. survived by his children, Nancy son, Steven, and his wife, Kathleen; Beach, Fla., on December 18, 2010. sister-in-law Annette Zimmerman; daughter-in-law Robert and Erika; Raymond. Memorial contribu- Ruzika was a generous An active and generous Beals, Calvin, Elizabeth Harman daughter, Joan Hayden, and her Golembe was born in Liberty, N.Y., and four grandchildren. Memorial four grandchildren; and partner, tions may be made to The Green and Roy; 14 grandchildren; and 20 husband, Francis; brothers, Stanley on April 21, 1924, the son of Harry contributions may be made to the Rhea Stein. Memorial contribu- Mountain Club, 4711 Waterbury- donor who endowed several supporter of Columbia athletics, great-grandchildren. Memorial and his wife, Marilyn, and Richard ’17, ’19 P&S. After returning from Group Psychotherapy Foundation, tions may be sent to the Stamford Stowe Rd., Waterbury Center, VT scholarships as well as contrib- Ruzika was a member of the contributions may be made to and his wife, Gloria; sister, Vivian WWII with a Purple Heart, he 25 E. 21st St., 6th Fl., New York, NY Hospital’s Bennett Cancer Center 05677. uted $1 million toward the new Columbia Campaign for Athlet- the American Cancer Society, 372 Gluck; and two grandchildren. earned an A.B. and then in 1952 10010, with an indication that they or to Temple Beth-El. at the ics Leadership Committee. an M.A. and Ph.D. from GSAS. He are for the scholarship in Aronson’s 1964 Danbury Rd., Ste 159, Wilton, CT Memorial contributions may be 1957 Baker Athletics Complex. “Rich “All of us involved with the 06897. made to the College of Physicians of completed an LL.B. at the George name. Brian Safer, retired biochemist was bigger than life in stature Columbia athletics program are Robert I. Brockman, Philadelphia, 19 S. Twenty-Second Washington University. Golembe architect, and researcher, Adelphi, Md., on and impact,” President Lee C. saddened to hear of Rich Ru- joined the FDIC in 1951 and worked 1951 Haverford, Pa., on June 12, 2011. February 6, 2011. Safer was born St., Philadelphia, PA 19103. Bollinger said. “He was an ex- zika’s passing,” said M. Dianne for Sen. Wallace Bennett and the Jeremy Gaige, newspaperman Brockman grew up in New York in New York City and earned a Obituary Submission 1942 American Bankers Association. and chess archivist, Philadelphia, City. He rowed crew at Columbia medical degree from Baylor in traordinary man who balanced Murphy, director of intercol- Guidelines Clarence C. Eich, retired, e.v.p., From 1966–89 he headed a bank- on February 19, 2011. A native and was a member of the Alpha 1969. He earned a doctorate in his career at Goldman with his legiate athletics and physical dedication to his family and his education. “Rich was such a Columbia College Today Decatur, Ga., on January 8, 2011. consulting firm, Golembe Associ- of Peekskill, N.Y., Gaige gradu- Delta Phi Literary Fraternity. After biophysics from Penn in 1973. welcomes obituaries for Eich was born in Cleveland, ates, and chaired the Secura Group ated from Phillips Academy in college, he practiced field archaeol- That year, he was awarded the loyalty to Columbia.” generous and caring person. He College alumni. Deaths are graduated from the College with until 1994. He also founded the Andover, Mass. During WWII, ogy in New Mexico and South Da- Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Ruzika was born on April 16, was beloved by his teammates, noted in the next available an A.B. and in 1943 from Engineer- International Financial Conference he served in the Army Medical kota. Brockman went on to study Basic Science Research Prize, 1959, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was coaches, classmates and issue in the “Other Deaths ing with a B.S. He then served in and was a director of Barnett Banks. Corps and then matriculated at architecture at Penn and com- an American Heart Association raised in West Hempstead on colleagues. We will miss him The Golembe Reports Reported” box. Complete the Navy, where he tested depth He wrote the College. He began his journal- pleted commercial and residential award given to young medical Long Island. He earned a B.A. greatly.” charges. After the war, Eich joined and his book, But I Never Made a ism career as a copy boy at The projects in the Philadelphia region, investigators. His research focused obituaries will be published in in economics from the College University Trustees Chair an upcoming issue, pending Combustion Engineering, where Loan: My Career in Banking — The New York Times and contributed Atlantic City, N.J., and in Africa, on mitochondria in the heart. Saf- he was a mechanical engineer Early Years, is an insider’s account obituaries to the New York Herald Canada and Europe. He enjoyed er worked at the NIH from 1973 and was a defensive tackle for William Campbell ’62, ’64 TC, receipt of information. Due the Lions. After graduation he Ruzika’s football coach at Co- to the volume of obituaries until 1962, when he went to work of banking in postwar America. Tribune. He was later a radio and the outdoors and spent vacations until retiring in 2003. His research signed with the Dallas Cowboys lumbia, added, “We are so sad that CCT receives, it may for Foster Wheeler Corp. as an Surviving are his wife, Patricia; television editor at the Syracuse camping and hiking in the national was at the forefront of the study take several issues for the assistant manager. He was elected sons, Gregory and Christopher; Herald-Journal, editorial editor at parks with his family. After being of protein synthesis, the process as a tight end but departed to have lost Rich Ruzika, one of complete obituary to appear. an e.v.p. in 1981, an office he held four grandchildren; four great- the Toledo Blade and a reporter at diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, by which the genetic information after training camp. In 1982, he our finest alumni. I remained Word limit is 200; text may be until his 1984 retirement. Eich grandchildren; and brother, John . While at Brockman studied tai chi and in DNA is converted into protein. joined Goldman Sachs in New close to him throughout his edited for length, clarity and was issued a number of patents ’62. Memorial contributions may the Journal, he met his future wife, then Nia (non-impact aerobics). He helped discover and purify York and went on to serve the phenomenal business career. style at the editors’ discretion. for new designs and products for be made to the Carter H. Golembe Harriet Oken. They were married He practiced Nia in New Mexico the components involved in this firm for nearly three decades. He was a wonderful father, power generation. In 2001 he was Scholarship Fund c/o Columbia in February 1959. Two weeks later, and became an advocate for it in process and also helped determine Click “Contact Us” at college. Ruzika began his career as a husband and friend.” columbia.edu/cct, or mail named “Volunteer of the Year” by College Fund, Columbia Alumni Gaige joined Philadelphia’s Eve- the Philadelphia area. Working how protein synthesis is regulated the State of New Jersey Division of Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, ning Bulletin. He was a copyedi- with Bryn Mawr Hospital’s cancer in the conversion of DNA to mes- silver and gold trader on the Ruzika is survived by his wife materials to Obituaries Editor, floor of COMEX, moving to the of almost 30 years, Ruthanne; Columbia College Today, Parks and Forestry in recognition 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10025. tor in the business section when support group, his efforts led to the senger RNA. Safer was chief of of his efforts on behalf of the Canal the paper closed in 1982. In the establishment of Nia classes there the molecular hematology branch floor of NYMEX in 1984 as one children, Craig ’16 and Caitlin; Columbia Alumni Center, 1946 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Society of New Jersey. Eich trav- early 1960s, while an editor at the and at the Cancer Support Com- of the National Heart Lung and of the original team members and brother, Keith. 1st Fl., New York, NY 10025. eled the world with his wife of 65 Marvin L. Aronson, psychothera­ Bulletin, Gaige began compiling munity of Philadelphia. Brockman Blood Institute. He served on in the firm’s energy platform. Lisa Palladino years, Ellen. He also enjoyed golf pist, Mount Vernon, N.Y., on Feb­- detailed records of chess events, is survived by his wife, Jeannette; editorial boards, wrote numerous and gardening. Eich is survived by ruary 27, 2011. Born on May 3, particularly tournaments, and sons, Joshua ’97J and George and publications and was granted

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patents for his discoveries. Safer’s OTHER DEATHS REPORTED marriage to Nancy Dietz Safer ended in divorce. Survivors in- Columbia College Today also has learned of the following deaths. Complete obituaries will be clude his children, Jillian Torgan and Mattie; mother, Anna; and published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of obituaries Class Notes two grandchildren. that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the complete obituary to appear. 1976 Columbia College Today wedding. We drove home, and than 80 years. We had been elemen- We congratulate Allan on his 1930 Malcolm S. Mason, legal counsel to federal agencies, Earlysville, Va., on November 1, 2011. Josiah T. Greenberg, attorney, 25 Columbia Alumni Center promptly flew out to Las Vegas to tary school classmates from the entry into our Columbia Nonage- 1931 Paul E. Queneau, engineer, Hanover, N.H., on March 31, 2012. Montclair, N.J., on January 5, 2011. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 celebrate Esther’s 87th birthday second grade on. After Columbia, narian Club. It is a distinguished 1932 Leonard S. Bases, otolaryngologist and surgeon, Sarasota, Fla., on January 25, 2012. Greenberg initially matriculated at New York, NY 10025 on December 6. What made it es- he went to Yale Law, where he group whose members include Bill 40 pecially fun for her was a surprise was editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Carey, Bob Kaufman, Dr. Gerald 1936 Irwin Grossman, president of clothing manufacturing company, Roslyn, N.Y., on March 1, 2012. GS, then entered the College after [email protected] one semester. He left the College reunion with her daughter, Jan Journal. Our LIRR conversations Klingon, Don Mankiewicz, Stew- 1939 Thomas P. Armstrong, retired business administrator, Russell, Mass., on April 15, 2012. in 1978, after his junior year, to at- Bernard Queneau ’30, ’33E writes, Hunnicutt, who had flown in from showed a wide divergence between art McIlvennan, Dr. William Rob- 1940 Gilbert H. Glaser, retired medical school professor, North Haven, Conn., on January 21, 2012. tend the Law School, from which “It has been suggested that retirees California. his conservatism and my more bins, Donald Seligman, Dr. Fred 1941 John T. Beaudouin, retired editor-in-chief and publishing v.p., Palm Beach, Fla., on May 3, 2012. he graduated in 1981. Greenberg from Columbia might be interested “With all of that travel, we de- liberal bent. Spannaus, Dr. Arthur Wellington is survived by his wife, Janette; in what an ‘old timer’ does in his cided to stay home for Christmas. I recently spoke with Arthur and probably several others who Louis Cohn-Haft, retired professor, Castellina in Chianti, Siena, Italy, on November 15, 2011. daughters, Jessica ’12 and Julia; spare time. I’m a good one to ask, “For 2012, as of this writing, we Friedman and his lovely wife, have not been in touch with me or 1942 Paul W. Hoffert, vascular surgeon, Tucson, Ariz., on February 6, 2012. mother, Sema Greenberg; father, because I keep going and going were planning on a trip to London Cynthia ’44 Barnard. Art was in our Alumni Office. 1943 Sidney Warschausky, retired educator, Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 9, 2011. former Dean of the College Jack (like the Energizer Bunny). How in April and to Columbia in June his family’s printing and publish- On December 30, Nicholas Cic- else could I have attended my 95th — and then to have the big 100th ing business for a number of years chetti ’44 TC sent a long, masterfully 1944 John D. Brereton, retired academic administrator, Chestertown, Md., on April 28, 2012. Greenberg ’45, ’48L, and his wife, Debbie ’57L; and siblings David, birthday party and family reunion? birthday party on July 14 right before he started one on his own; written, philosophic letter, reflecting Mort Lindsey, orchestra leader and composer, Malibu, Calif., on May 4, 2012. Ezra, Sarah ’86 GS, Suzanne and “I do much volunteer work to here in . So, my advice he also has held patents in hands- on his forthcoming 90th birthday 1947 Edward M. Cramer, intellectual property attorney, Englewood, N.J., on May 1, 2012. Billy Cole ’84. Memorial contribu- keep busy on a daily basis. I’m ac- to retirees is not to relax too much, free, battery-powered lights, which on January 19. Nick recalled our Norton D. Zinder, molecular biologist, New York City, on February 3, 2012. tions may be made to the Mont- tive at St. Clair Hospital, volunteer but to keep active.” he has manufactured in China and freshman orientation meeting in in the used bookshop at the local Nick Stevenson ’40 writes, “I distributes in the United States. McMillan Hall (now ) 1948 John P. Corn Sr., insurance agent and attorney, Little Rock, Ark., on February 24, 2012. clair Volunteer Ambulance Unit, 95 Walnut St., Montclair, NJ 07042 library, help at the church library live in Princeton, N.J., but sadly His claim to fame is that he “never in 1938, when the average life expec- Richard Stang, professor emeritus, St. Louis, Mo., on December 14, 2011. or to the Montclair Public Library, and participate in the local Veterans lost my wife, Shirley, last summer. missed a deadline.” tancy in the United States was 64. In 1949 Joseph S. Karas, retired physician, Rumford, R.I., on May 14, 2012. 50 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ Breakfast Club and the Boy Scouts We met in the seventh grade, but Thomas M. D’Ambrosio, Coral Springs, Fla., on February 20, 2012. 07042. of America. I could not afford her dowry until “Although I am 99, my wife, after Columbia and the war. I had 1950 Richard D. Cushman, retired v.p. and general manager, Auburn, Calif., on November 9, 2011. Trains Magazine published Nick Stevenson ’40’s 1988 Esther, and I expect to travel as much planned to attend this year’s Class Jerome R. Kaye, Somerset, N.J., on April 11, 2012. Nancy E. McAdoo, communica- as usual this year. To recap 2011, in Day, as the speaker is John. R. account of his railway adventure with Bob Lubar ’40. William A. Maloy, Waldorf, Md., on March 3, 2012. tions/knowledge exchange content March we drove to New Hampshire MacArthur ’78, with whom I have Jay K. Poust, wine importer, New York City, on February 4, 2012. manager, Medford, Mass., on Janu- to attend my brother Paul ’31, ’33E’s served on the board of Harper’s 1951 Walter G. Berghahn, retired v.p. of manufacturing, Gilford, N.H., on February 7, 2012. ary 15, 2011. McAdoo was born in 100th birthday party. We then drove Magazine for 26 years. I am presi- So far this year I have been in 1974, Nick traveled with his family Longview, Wash., on June 29, 1966, to a family reunion in Washington, dent of the Association of Macular and Ixtapa, Mexico, and was to , , the Kara- John J. “Jim” Evans, retired systems analyst, naval lieutenant commander, Culpeper, Va., on March 6, and later moved with her family D.C. However, I developed pneu- Diseases in New York City. We planning a Danube River cruise in koram Range and Hunza, where he 2012. to North Carolina, Minnesota and monia in April and had to cancel have helped thousands who are May. But I have plenty of time to had heard there was extraordinary Francis L. “Frank” Raimondo, real estate development and construction consultant, Newton, N.J., Idaho. She attended schools in trips to the West Coast in May and to afflicted across the United States. hear from all of you for the next longevity in the population. His per- on December 7, 2011. Lewiston, Idaho, graduated from Alumni Reunion Weekend in June. I It’s harder for me to get into the issue. sonal observations did not confirm Theodore J. Schwiebert, Stamford, Conn., on October 30, 2011. the Northfield Mount Hermon even developed heart fibrillation and office these days, and New Jersey that rumor. Robert C. Silver, attorney and naval aviator, Auburndale, Mass., on January 15, 2012. School in Northfield, Mass., and had a pacemaker installed. Transit does not allow me to ‘ride Now, Nick has joined our afore­- “We were back on the road in the blind’ (just behind the coal Melvin Hershkowitz mentioned classmates in the Col-­ 1952 Richard B. Kiltie, Warrnambool, Australia, on August 19, 2010. from the College with a B.A. in philosophy. McAdoo spent much August to attend a reenactment of tender on a steam engine), as I did 22 Northern Ave. umbia Nonagenarian Club. At 1954 42 James Z. Ginos, Carlsbad, Calif., on November 29, 2010. of her youth in Lewiston and was the D-Day invasion at Conneaut, in summer 1940, with Bob Lubar Northampton, MA 01060 Columbia, Nick rowed on the 1955 Philip D. Bleser, active in music and performing Ohio. In September we flew to ’40, from New York to Los Ange- 42 freshman and varsity crew teams. Bonita Springs, Fla., on October 28, 2011. [email protected] Francis J.S. Hughes, New York City, on December 9, 2010. arts. She danced and played flute, Minneapolis to visit relatives and les. Trains Magazine published my He had a long career with the New spend some time at the University account of this adventure last year. I was pleased to have an email York City Board of Education — as Stuart M. Kaback, retired scientific adviser, Cranford, N.J., on February 13, 2012. piano and violin. Her interest in social justice, women’s rights and of Minnesota. Then we rented a Try to get a copy; it’s the January message from Allan Creeger on a secondary school principal, an Donald P. McDonough, West Palm Beach, Fla., on December 14, 2011. world issues expanded through- car, and spent the weekend in the 2011 issue. And if you would like December 19 inquiring about his educational consultant and super- Morris P. Tenner, Jamaica Estates, N.Y., on April 10, 2012. out her life. McAdoo had been a Boundary Waters Canoe Area of to get in touch, please call me: old friend, our distinguished class- intendent of schools in District 11 in 1956 Stuart M. Glass, retired attorney, New York City, on February 5, 2012. resident of the Boston area (Cam- northern Minnesota. We traveled 609-919-0353.” mate Judge Leonard Garth (see my New York state. Nick ended his let- the length of the Gunflint Trail and Art Joseph ’40 reports, “Since notes on Judge Garth in the Winter ter with thanks to our class’ pre-med 1958 Howard V. Dubin, dermatologist, Ann Arbor, Mich., on October 16, 2011. bridge, Somerville and Medford, Mass.) for nearly 25 years. During stayed at the Loon Lake Lodge. retiring some years ago, my wife, 2011–12 issue). Allan celebrated his students, who became doctors and Howard B. Grunther, retired radiologist, New York City, on January 11, 2012. the three years prior to her death, “In November, we drove to Wil- Claire, and I have spent our new­ 90th birthday on December 9 at his thus contributed to his longevity. David J. Londoner, retired financial analyst, New York City, on May 11, 2012. McAdoo worked with Manage- liamsburg, Va., to attend the wed- found leisure time traveling exten- retirement community, where he Incidentally, Nick’s letter was 1959 Raphael J. “Ray” Osheroff, retired nephrologist, Cranford, N.J., on March 18, 2012. ment Sciences for Health, an ding of my grandson, Lt. Kirtland sively. More recently, we moved rides around on a scooter to pursue written in perfectly symmetrical Marsh, U.S.N. JAG, to Carolyn into a senior development called his activities. He retired long ago, longhand, with not one irregular 1960 Barry S. Augenbraun, retired attorney, St. Petersburg, Fla., on September 20, 2011. international health care NGO in Cambridge, Mass., as its commu- Teague. It was a beautiful and fun The Ponds. And since it is located after a successful career as president scrawl or scribble to indicate his Louis G. Gladstone, Menands, N.Y., on February 13, 2009. nications/knowledge exchange in New Jersey, midway between of AArrow Rentals in Richmond, chronologic age. George E.B. Morren Jr., retired professor and former mayor, Rocky Hill, N.J., on September 29, 2011. content manager. In previous years NYC and Philadelphia, our excite- Va., and was recognized as a leader Congratulations, Nick, and thank 1961 Arthur D. Friedman, computer science researcher, professor and author, , on Octo- she was a barista and retail sales- Class Notes are submitted by ment consists of visiting those two in the equipment rental industry. you for this interesting reminiscence. ber 24, 2011. person, a freelance academic publi- cities. Regards to my classmates!” Allan earned a certificate in indus- We have not heard much from alumni and edited by volunteer trial administration, with distinc- Bill Carey recently, but I recall him 1963 William F. Finley Jr., actor, New York City, on April 14, 2012. cation editor, an editorial associate and an assistant editor. Survivors class correspondents and the tion, from the Harvard Graduate as a prominent executive in the Yoshiharu Fujisawa, retired CEO and chairman, Saitama-Ken, Japan, on March 15, 2012. Robert Zucker School of Business Administration aviation insurance industry, and include her father, James; mother, staff of CCT prior to publication. Charles Kleinhaus, Jerusalem, Israel, on March 9, 2012. Rita; sister, Laura; and brother, J. 41 29 The Birches in 1943. At Columbia, Allan, a mem- a loyal Lion, who came to all of John Marovskis, Bronx, N.Y., on November 3, 2011. Matthew. Memorial contributions Opinions expressed are those of Roslyn, NY 11576 ber of TEP fraternity, won numerals our Homecoming games. He also may be made to Doctors Without 41 in freshman track, was a member entertained us with his swingy jazz 1964 Howard W. Kissel, arts and theatre critic, New York City, on February 24, 2012. individual alumni and do not [email protected] Borders, the Massachusetts Society of the Columbia College Players piano at our 50th reunion at Arden Howard I. Nusbaum, Englewood, N.J., on March 21, 2012. for the Prevention of Cruelty to reflect the opinions of CCT, its The last issue of Columbia College and the Undergraduate Dormitory House in 1992. Alan B. Reis, attorney, New York City, on March 30, 2010. Animals or Partners in Health. class correspondents, the College Today noted the deaths of several Council, and was manager of The The New York Times of January 20 1965 David R. Wallace, inventor, San Francisco, on March 2, 2012. Lisa Palladino classmates: Dante Bove, Arthur . He was awarded Sil- published the obituary of Dr. Elliott or the University. 1968 John R. Tait, attorney, Lewiston, Idaho, on February 1, 2012. Kragen and Al Rosenblum. ver and Gold Crowns for his many Levinthal, who died in Palo Alto, Al had been a friend for more contributions to undergraduate life. Calif., on January 12. Elliott, one of

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES the most brilliant members of our Hoffert; an obituary notice ap- 2010, Bill sent me a note about his families. In fact, I’ll treat to lunch nel, leaving little room for nerve “commode commando.” percent). Science, engineering, law A warm welcome to Larry Ross, class, had an extraordinarily varied peared in The New York Times on participation in the 60th reunion here in Philadelphia any CC ’43 signals to go through. In any case, Jack then went to Long Island and the arts constitute the balance who asked to be affiliated with our and productive career as a physicist, February 12. Paul, a retired general of his Marine Corps unit, which alumnus who calls or writes with it severely limited my mobility and Medical College (now SUNY in smaller numbers. class. We are delighted. inventor and engineer, and a profes- and vascular surgeon, died in Tuc- fought in Korea in the disastrous news or who wants to talk over left me largely house- and even Downstate Medical Center) and Four of every five ’46ers are I also have received many sor and dean at Stanford. son, Ariz. He had a long and pro- retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, “old times.” room-bound. There’s been some became an internist specializing in married, which at our stage of life interesting communications from Elliott earned an M.S. from MIT ductive career on the faculty of the where U.S. forces sustained 12,000 The winter holiday season improvement and optimistically I pulmonary function. As a reserve, I find an unexpected but happy classmates, which I will share in in 1943 and a Ph.D. from Stanford Albert Einstein College of Medicine, casualties. Bill survived that battle came and went quietly for me. It look forward to once again being a he was called up during the statistic. On average we have two the next issue. Now, I suggest you in 1949; there, his dissertation on working in the Bronx and Yonkers, and at 90, on July 3, 2010, he partic- is always a time to catch up with carefree youngster in his late 80s or Korean War, but was lucky enough children and three grandchildren. turn to the ’71 Class Notes for the the magnetic resonance of the N.Y., where he gave excellent care ipated in the 60th reunion parade family members and friends. This early 90s. to be stationed in Alaska. That Howard Cohen wins the Grand- Lloyd Emanuel ’71 piece. Lloyd is hydrogen atom led to further work to his many grateful patients while of “the Chosin Few” in Oceanside, year it netted some sad news, too: I’ll try to hang in there as your was before Alaskan statehood, so father Cup with 11, and the Great- well known to tennis buffs in our and a Nobel Prize for his mentor, a member of the surgical staffs at Calif., showing his indomitable one of my three roommates from class correspondent but I’m totally it made him a veteran of foreign Grandfather Cup is shared by Larry class, as he captained Columbia’s Felix Bloch. Elliott then became a the Bronx Municipal Hospital spirit by pushing his walker along medical school died last July. I have dependent on your feeding me wars. He is retired now, if you can Jukofsky (four) and Paul Rotondi varsity tennis team. research director at Varian, where Center, Montefiore Medical Center, the parade route until the end. not heard from the other two, so I material. So please, don’t hold say someone is retired when they (two). he developed analytical and mea- St. Joseph’s Medical Center and Herb and I appreciated Bill’s am perhaps the only one left. back. Let your old friends and the actually do lots of charity work in Regarding state of health, 76 per- surement instruments based on his Yonkers General Hospital. warm letters, interesting hunt- Happier news arrived from Ralph rest of the Columbia community a free clinic. cent reported being in excellent or Columbia College Today NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) At Columbia, where Paul was ing photographs, courage, good Gladstone ’47, an eminent Greek share your joys and, if need be, Columbia Alumni Center discoveries. In 1953, he established elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he found humor and loyalty to Columbia. scholar. He is well, and we had a sympathize with your sorrows. 47 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Levinthal Electronics Products, time between his pre-medical stud- Bill was predeceased by his nice reunion luncheon in February. The address is at the top of this Dr. Albert Beasley ’45 retired from a pediatric prac- 47 New York, NY 10025 which created some of the earliest ies to be an associate editor of the wife, Rita, and daughter, Judith. My second son has left Scranton, column. Plain old phone will do [email protected] cardiac monitors, pacemakers Columbian yearbook and co-editor He is survived by Marguerite; his Pa., to become rector of Trinity (201-750-7770), or write or email, tice after 49 years but still attends grand rounds. and defibrillators. In 1961, Elliott of the Pre-Medical Journal. He also children, Rita Gray, Patricia Larson Church in Covington, Ky. Though but do let’s hear from you. By the time you read this column, returned to Stanford as a member was active on the Debate Council and William; six grandchildren; I’m sorry to see him move away, the Class of 1947’s 65th reunion of the department of the and was a member of the 1818 and six great-grandchildren. We of- the new appointment gives him Jack commuted during college, good health. In an earlier column, will have passed. Columbia College medical school. He worked on the Society, Pre-Medical Society and fer our sincere condolences to Bill’s an opportunity to work with a Enoch Callaway and he was very involved with Alan Berman reported that, based Today hopes that everyone who Mariner 9 Mars Orbiter and the Sawbones. He earned both Silver family as we say farewell to our congregation and vestry with goals 87 Barbaree Way the fencing team; he recalls being on current American mortality turned out had a wonderful time, Viking 1976 Lander Camera, and and Gold Crowns. Paul graduated brave and gallant classmate. (You similar to his. 45 Tiburon, CA 94920-2223 exhausted by the time he finally tables, our class has outdistanced and encourages attendees to write became associate dean for research in 1945 from Yale Medical School, can see my report about Bill in the There is more than one ecclesi- 45 got home in the evenings after the tables for survivors. This seems and tell us about everything that [email protected] and director of the Instrumentation where he was elected to the Alpha November/December 2010 issue.) astic in the family. My grandson- practice. He also remembers one reflected in the above statistic. happened during the weekend: Research Laboratory at the medical Omega Alpha honor society. Paul The Wall Street Journal of Febru- in-law was ordained an Episcopal I reached Dr. Albert Beasley by time when Giorgio Santelli was Columbia: To the question, “Was events attended, old friends met, school. After a two-year leave to be is survived by his wife, Rosolyn; ary 27 published a letter to the priest in January and conducted phone, and he sounded in good instructing him on fencing with the Columbia your first choice?” all but reminiscences had. We want to director of the Defense Sciences Of- children, Marvin, Renee and Debo- editor by Edward Kalaidjian, his first Mass the next day. His wife spirits. He has retired from a pediat- saber. Jack was having great dif- two responded in the affirmative. include a full report in the Fall retired and living in Jupiter, Fla. Ed, completed her studies at the same ric practice after 49 years, although ficulty defending himself against And one of the no’s, Niel Wald, issue! Please send your reunion our former class president and a seminary where he matriculated he does some charity work, attends the coach’s attacks, when the coach said it would be his first choice if news — and/or your life updates, The Wall Street Journal in February published a letter distinguished partner and maritime and graduated in May. They were grand rounds and generally keeps suddenly stopped. “Falsone,” he he were applying to schools now. in general — to CCT at the postal attorney with Thacher Proffitt & job-hunting as of this writing. abreast of his field. He spends a said, “that’s not a fencing position. Gerard Jegge commented that he or email address at the top of the to the editor by Edward Kalaidjian ’42. Wood, discussed the uncertain- In a little less than a year, we will great deal of time at Earthplace That is a toilet position!” applied to no other school. All but column, or via CCT’s easy-to-use ties and hazards inherent in any celebrate the 70th anniversary of (The Nature Discovery Center) in I am sorry to report news of two one said they would choose Co- webform: college.columbia.edu/ military responses to Iran’s nuclear our College graduation by gather- Westport, Conn. He is on the Board deaths (with details to be published lumbia again. One reply added that cct/submit_class_note. fice at the Defense Advanced Re- rah; and several grandchildren and weapons program. We have not ing on campus for Alumni Reunion of Trustees and has developed the later). Robert Hehn of Yonkers, Columbia was “probably the most We also continue to seek a class search Projects Agency, he returned great-grandchildren. A graveside heard from Ed recently, so it is good Weekend. It’s never too early to “Green Earth Series” presentations N.Y., died on September 18, and important thing that happened to correspondent to write this col- to Stanford as research professor service was held at the Riversville to know he is alive, alert and prob- save the date, so mark your calen- to help those in our communities Eric Jenett of Houston died on me.” Perceptions about Columbia umn. If you are interested, please in the department of mechanical Cemetery in Glenville, Conn., on ably pursuing his hobby of hitting dars for Thursday, May 30–Sunday, learn what has to be done to save October 20. today were overwhelmingly favor- contact Alexis Tonti ’11 Arts, man- engineering and associate dean for February 12. the little pimpled white satellite June 2, 2013. our environment, our habitat and On the other hand, I am pleased able though not universally so. One aging editor: alt2129@columbia. research at the engineering school. Paul was among the numerous over the fairways, sand traps and As always, class members are our world. His wife, Janet, also is to announce the publication of my comment: “Too liberal.” edu or 212-851-7485. Elliott and his wife, Rhoda, were gifted and brilliant members of our water hazards of Jupiter’s golf encouraged to join the Reunion involved with Earthplace and is an second non-technical book. The first, We did not do too well with our generous donors toward scholar- class. We send sincere condolences courses. Warm regards to Ed, and Committee to help plan the week- animal rights advocate. His son, Asylum, A Mid-Century Madhouse progeny at Columbia. Only about REUNION WEEKEND ships at Stanford, establishing to his widow, children and other many thanks to him for all he has end’s events. If you’re interested in Scott ’72, a graduate of the Yale and Its Lessons About Our Mentally Ill one-third of responders have child- MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 the Levinthal Fellows Program in members of his family. done for our class. participating, contact the appropri- University School of Medicine, is a Today, received honorable mention ren or grandchildren who attended. ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS creative writing and additional I also learned that William Send me your news via email, or ate Alumni Office staff member neonatologist in Los Angeles. His at the New England Book Fair. To the question, “What were the ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider scholarships in the humanities. Mazzarella died on January 2 in call me at home: 413-586-1517. noted at the top of the column. You daughter, Jean, a graduate of Prince­ My new one, The Mating Flower: A most important influences on your [email protected] This brief summary of Elliott’s Oceanside, Calif. Bill served in the need not be in the New York area ton, is an attorney, also in L.A. Botanical Murder Mystery, can be Columbia experience?” the two 212-851-7846 creative and productive career is a Marine Corps from 1942–56; he was and can participate in meetings via Albert plays the guitar, although purchased at matingflower.com. most often cited were extraordinary REUNION WEEKEND DEVELOPMENT Allen Rosso mere scratch on the surface of his on active duty during WWII in the conference call. he says he doesn’t practice enough, faculty (also characterized as “bril- MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 [email protected] extraordinary accomplishments, Pacific Theatre and in the Korean More about reunion will follow in and spends time in various ways liant teachers” and “distinguished ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS 212-851-7947 stimulated by his undergraduate War. He was a life insurance field this column during the next year as on computers. He also is involved Bernard Sunshine professors”) and classmates. The ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider years at Columbia and later studies underwriter from 1956–62, after well as arrive at your home via mail in an organization called RODEO 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G Humanities and Contemporary Columbia College Today [email protected] at MIT and Stanford. which he was a revenue officer and email. To ensure that Columbia (Retired Older Doctors Eating Out), 46 New York, NY 10023 Civilization classes were cited Columbia Alumni Center 212-851-7846 48 This writer remembers Elliott as for the Internal Revenue Service has your correct contact information, which now has chapters in south- 46 almost as often and may also have 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 DEVELOPMENT Allen Rosso [email protected] a friendly neighbor on the fifth floor until his retirement. Bill was a update it online (reunion.college. ern California. Dr. Jack Falsone been what classmates were thinking 48 New York, NY 10025 [email protected] of in our junior year. recreational hunter and a member columbia.edu/alumniupdate) or call is a member, too, and Albert has The 65th anniversary year of the of when they answered “faculty.” 212-851-7947 [email protected] He was quiet and polite, and spent of the National Rifle Association, the Alumni Office (212-851-7488). enjoyed reconnecting with him. Class of 1946 brought interesting Many responders listed the names a lot of time playing his silent piano the California Rifle and Pistol As- G.J. D’Angio Speaking of Jack, he and I and sometimes telling responses of professors, perhaps in a way Dr. Robert B. Mellins, professor keyboard in his room. Although sociation and the North American Department of Radiation touched base as well. He had just to the survey that I distributed to paying personal tribute to legends emeritus of pediatrics and special he was not an active participant in Hunting Club. He also was a life 43 Oncology Henry Rolf Hecht come from visiting his wife, Anna, everyone. I would have loved a 100 of academia. lecturer at Columbia University extracurricular activities, nor was member of the First Marine Divi- 43 Hospital of the University 11 Evergreen Pl. who lives in a nursing home; she percent response rate but realisti- Most important issues confront- Medical Center/NewYork Presbyte- he later active in College alumni sion Association, the Chosin Few, of Pennsylvania, 44 Demarest, NJ 07627 has had some strokes and also cally knew it would not be so. That ing us: In order of the frequency rian, recently completed three years affairs, he became one of our most the China Marine Association and Donner 2 44 suffers from Alzheimer’s. He says said, we had about a 17 percent with which they were mentioned, as president of the Louis August [email protected] distinguished alumni of the 20th the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 3400 Spruce St. she was a raven-haired beauty, response rate, which people in the issues cited were 1) the economy, Jonas Foundation. The foundation century. Several years ago, Bill corres­ Philadelphia, PA 19104 With no news from any of you, and now is a white-haired beauty, direct mail business tell me is pretty characterized variously as “unem- sponsors Camp Rising Sun, a full Elliott is survived by his wife; ponded with me and with my [email protected] dear classmates, I am left to report but only sometimes can he get her good. I thank all who took the time ployment,” “loss of manufactur- scholarship international summer sons, David, Michael and Daniel; predecessor as class correspondent, on the only ’44er with whom I had to smile. Like many of us, Jack’s to reply. These are the compiled ing” and “global instability”; 2) leadership program for teenagers daughter, Judith Randall; and seven the late Dr. Herbert Mark, sending There was a brief burst of responses contact this past quarter — myself. college days were truncated by the results. inequalities of rich and poor, also selected for their intellect, character grandchildren. We send condolenc- us photographs of his hunting late last year to the appeal for news In mid-February I was hit by spinal war. After graduating, he was hur- Personal: Careers in medicine described as “threat of a permanent and leadership potential (“creating es to his family and friends. trophies and news of his vacation from 1943ers. And nothing since. stenosis; my scientific understand- ried into basic training and then dominate the class profile (47 underclass”; 3) paralysis of the a better world tomorrow by inspir- With sadness and regret, I must travels with his beloved compan- Please write and provide updates ing of this is low but it seems to be sent to spend time in a hospital per­cent), followed by business political system; and 4) terrorism ing young leaders today”). Robert also report the death of Dr. Paul ion, Marguerite Moore. In August on your activities and those of your a narrowing of the left spinal chan- where, as he puts it, he was a (18 percent) and academia (15 and rogue states. also shares, “On June 12, I will be

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES honored as ‘Physician of the Year’ July,” Tom writes. “My wife, Bar- got me a full-page review in Time “I am still married to Nancy version of Coriolanus last Decem- and reviews articles. fuffle, related the following local Plains, N.J. at the annual dinner of the Society bara, and I play duplicate bridge and three months of fame that I (almost 64 years!). We moved a few ber, Campbell asked if I was in the Earlier this year, Jack Noonan legend: “Alma Mater is the statue in Ted Bihuniak is not enjoying the of Practitioners of the Columbia five days a week. In fact, I am the was too young to handle. I didn’t years ago from our big house in Columbia Players production of received a memento of his service front of Columbia’s Low Memorial same contentment. What happened? Presbyterian Medical Center.” director of two of those games. go on writing but used the rest of Newton to a condo in Cambridge, that show all those years ago. He with the Army in WWII. The Philip- Library. An owl is hidden in the After getting plenty of parachute Marshall W. Mount writes: “I Otherwise, we live a quiet life.” my GI Bill to get a degree from walking distance from Harvard notes that he “thinks” he remem- pine Consul General to New York folds of Alma Mater’s robes. Accord- training with the Air Force in B-29s, teach ‘History of African Art’ at Robert Weaver shares, “I doubt New York Law School. Eventually, and not very far from MIT. Perfect. bers yours truly in a costume — a presented to him and other veterans ing to this legend the first student Ted fell off a ladder last winter while NYU’s College of Arts and Science that there are any alumni who with my wife and three children, I I have a step-grandson who is a toga he describes as “brown tow- the Philippines Certificate of Honor of each College class to find the owl trimming tree branches without in the fall semester and at the remember me. My wife, Norma, moved to Colorado Springs, where practicing lawyer and two grand- sack material.” in recognition of their service in would graduate as the valedictorian wearing his chute. Fortunately, Fashion Institute of Technology and I have moved into a retirement I practiced law and was assistant daughters, ages 7 and 8. One of I must correct Campbell; I did liberating the islands from Japanese and marry a Barnard woman (back successful surgery repaired his (SUNY) in the spring semester. My home, Treyton Oak Towers, 211 Oak general counsel of Holly Sugar our sons married a doctor. I am not appear in the play. As I recall, it occupation. The certificates were when the College was all-male).” shoulder and he is back to enjoying teaching-related travels this year St., Apt. 1106, Louisville, KY 40203. Corp., which was headquartered very proud of that. I am fairly was staged in our senior year, and awarded at a luncheon commemo- Here is my question: Who was life with his wife, Marilyn, children have included Ghana, Togo and Email address is rweaver8514@ there, and my wife taught in the active with the Sousa Mendes in the title role was Dolph Sweet, rating the release of more than 2,400 the valedictorian of the Class of 1951 and grandchildren. Ted retired Benin (in January) and Namibia insightbb.com. We would greatly public school system. After we re- Foundation, which is dedicated to who went on to a successful career civilian prisoners from the Los and did he take a Barnard bride? from Union Carbide, now a part of (this summer).” enjoy hearing from any classmate. tired, we lived in Belfast for a year the memory of Aristides de Sousa as an actor and departed this Baños prison camp, behind enemy Jim Lowe and Leonard Stoehr Dow Chemicals, in 1991. He had Also sharing news is David N. I am the general editor of the (during ‘the Troubles’), where she Mendes, a Portuguese consul earthly stage far too soon. lines, an event reported in a previ- have done a magnificent job in numerous assignments in plastics Brainin: “I formally retired from Monuments of Tuscan Music. I was a Fulbright exchange teacher; who saved my immediate family, This reminder brought forth ous Class Notes column. keeping the NROTC graduates in and chemicals, which took him to the practice of law as of my 87th hope Volume Five, a collection of later we both taught E.S.L. in including myself, during WWII. a flood of memories for your Jack, who still is engaged full- our class active and together. Re- Panama, Brazil and Austria, and birthday on April 19. I’m doing a 18th-century motets prepared by Czechoslovakia with Education for “So life is still good, much better correspondent. Dolph was one time as a U.S. administrative law cently, Jim spoke to Tex McNallen he’s followed up that career by limited amount of arbitration and John Karr Ph.D., will be published Democracy after the Soviets left. than I had expected for this age. of my closest friends through our judge in New York City, has joined about a 67th NROTC reunion to starting his own consulting business, mediation, as a neutral. I live in by June of this year.” We retired in Santa Fe and Tucson, Columbia feels like a previous life.” undergraduate years. He was a a group of veterans of the 11th take place in Arizona in fall 2013. which keeps him in touch with the Spuyten Duyvil, the Bronx, with Larry Spelman and his wife, where we now live. Dick Hyman wrote to wish ev- fascinating man with a remarkable Airborne Division on a mission to NROTC alumni should keep in industry. The Bihuniaks live in Wil- Sema, my wife of nearly 49 years. Dorothy, live in Sarasota, Fla. He “Much of this is reflected in a eryone well and let the class know history. After high school he went find and bring home the remains of touch with Len (434-985-8315) and ton, Conn., and hope at least one of We’re a ‘his, hers and ours’ family, writes, “I used to practice law in collection of stories that I have he is still concertizing and compos- to work driving a Drake’s bakery one of their comrades who was re- be sure he has your latest email their progeny will attend Columbia with five children, nine grandchil- both New York and Florida. For written and posted on my website, ing. His schedule is under “Events” truck. He played semi-professional ported killed in action on Luzon but and telephone information in his College. dren and seven great-grandchil- the last few years I did voluntary ‘John Cobb Cooper, Kinder, Gen- on his website: dickhyman.com. football and then WWII found him whose final resting place remains file — especially Warren Wana- Donald A. Beattie has written dren, scattered from Puerto Rico to work, but I am now retired com- tler Wars.’ You can download it In a little less than a year, the in the Air Force. A bombardier, he a mystery. “Even though it’s 67 maker! Where are you, Jack? a new book, No Stone Unturned: A Florida; from Aurora, Ill., to Austin; pletely. Some years ago I started without charge at johncobbcooper. Class of 1948 will celebrate the 65th trained for that very special sortie, years later,” Jack says, “we will do By the way, Len and his wife, Life Without Bounds; check Amazon from Los Angeles and the Bay Area playing a four-string tenor banjo com, username: jccguest@123mail. anniversary of its College gradu- the bombing of the Ploesti oil fields everything in our power to bring a Jan, attended the memorial service for ordering details. Autobiograph- to NYC. I’ve enjoyed reading about and I now am a member of the org and password: 71wkpauG.” ation by gathering on campus at known as Operation Tidal Wave. fellow member home.” Jack was ac- for John James Evans. Jim died in ical in nature, the book includes classmates and contemporaries in Gulf Coast Banjo Society of Florida. Dr. Richard J. Calame shares, Alumni Reunion Weekend. Mark It was a “low-level” bombing run, companied at the awards ceremony early March. He had retired as a previously unreported tales of days Class Notes.” We (about 40 of us) play every “I’ve been retired from medical your calendar for Thursday, May and the timing of bombs dropped by his wife, Eileen, granddaughters systems analyst for Morale Space at Columbia College. Don previ- practice for almost 16 years, and my 30–Sunday, June 2, 2013. To ensure by a plane some minutes ahead was Kelly and Meghan Felter, and Phil Systems in McLean, Va., and held ously authored Taking Science to the wife and I divide our time between that Columbia can get in touch faulty; they exploded as Dolph flew Bergovoy and his wife, Hindy. the rank of lieutenant commander Moon and ISScapades: The Crippling Vero Beach, Fla., and Hingham, with you about the event, please over, and he spent the entire balance Gerry Weissmann is “still hang- in the Navy. of America’s Space Program. Many of Larry Spelman ’48 started playing a four-string tenor Mass. A little golf, a little painting update your contact information of the war in a prison camp. ing in there” as director of the Bio- Walter G. Berghahn ’52E died in his articles have been published in banjo and is now a member of the Gulf Coast Banjo and generally enjoying the scenery.” online (reunion.college.columbia. The G.I. bill brought Dolph to technology Study Center of the NYU February following complications professional magazines including For those who missed the men- edu/alumniupdate) or call the Columbia, where he was an extraor- School of Medicine, where he also from surgery. After earning a B.A. Spaceflight, the British Interplan- Society of Florida. tion of Merrill Brockway’s recent Alumni Office (212-851-7488). dinary student of English literature is research professor of medicine. In from the College he earned a B.S. etary Space Society’s monthly. A memoir, Surprise Was My Teacher: Class members are encouraged and, during his senior year, wrote a addition, he has been editor-in-chief from Engineering. Walter had a Navy during the Korean War, Memories and Confessions of a Televi- to join the Reunion Committee to brilliant and poetic play recount- of The FASEB Journal, the most-cited long career with GE and retired as a Don has attended a number of re- John Zanders writes: “I am 86 Thursday during the day in Venice, sion Producer/Director Who Came of help plan the weekend’s events ing his prison camp years. It was journal in biology, for five years. v.p. of manufacturing in the Polaris unions of his squadron, VS-30. He and for that age am in reasonably Fla., from October through May. Age During Television’s Adolescence, and to reach out to classmates optioned for Broadway but never With all that, Gerry has published missile program. also attended the 40th anniversary sound health. Minor problems, of None of that bluegrass stuff but all in CCT’s Spring 2012 Bookshelf, for gifts to the Columbia College produced. I was one of the first to his 10th book of essays, Epigenetics Ernest H. Von Nardroff Ph.D. of the first Apollo lunar rover and course, but my physicians assure the old songs that our parents and he wants classmates to know it Fund in honor of reunion. If you’re read it and the memory is as clear as in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and ’66 GSAS in a recent note indicated, the 100th anniversary of naval me I’m in good shape and should we sang as kids. is available on Amazon and has interested in participating, contact if the manuscript were in my hands Modern Science. (Epigenetics attempts “Nothing momentous to report; life aviation in Pensacola, Fla. Quoting continue to do well. Who knows? “If any classmates are in this been described on that site as such: the appropriate Alumni Office today. It was titled Trumpet Makes to explain how our genes respond to is just a time of contentment.” He Don, his main job now is to hang I’m trying. area of Florida on such a Thursday, “As both a producer and direc- staff member noted at the top of No Sound. our environment.) University Profes- stopped teaching in 1992, conclud- out at home and keep his wife, “I stay busy, mostly with jewelry- please contact me (lardor520@com tor, Merrill Brockway pioneered the column. You need not be in the Thank you, Campbell, for this sor , a neurophysiologist ing his career as a professor of Ann, happy. making and metal-smithing. Among cast.net) and attend our session (we dance on television on the Emmy New York area and can participate trip down memory lane. and recipient of the 2000 Nobel German. He now resides in Morris Do our classmates read Columbia other things, I still do some coin get a large audience); the hot dog, Award-winning PBS series, Dance in meetings via conference call. Let’s here from more of you, Prize, said of the book: “A joy for the trading. I work in gold and silver, hamburger, cheeseburger and beer in America. Through this series and Thank you to all who shared friends. Enjoy the summer. heart and instructive for the mind.” but as of late I have been doing or other drink for you and your CBS’ Camera 3, Brockway brought news with CCT. The Class of 1948 The book is available in bookstores; larger items in copper, which, after spouse or significant or insignificant the performing arts to the ‘vast still is in need of a class correspon- additional information is available at HELP SUPPORT CCT shaping, I then enamel. other are on me. It’s outdoors, it’s a wasteland’ of television in its early dent to write this column. If you Mario Palmieri blpress.org. “A number of years ago I was dive and it’s a lot of fun.” years. Working with the greatest are interested, please contact Alexis 50 33 Lakeview Ave. W. Sadly, we report the death of COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY brings you news of your alma active as a coin and currency dealer Dr. Frank Newmark ’53 P&S artists of the day … Brockway Tonti ’11 Arts, managing editor: Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567 Jay Poust of New York City on mater and profiles of its people you won’t find anywhere else. (collectibles). I’m active in three checked in: “Since retiring from brought high art into the homes of [email protected] or 212- 50 February 4. Wherever you are — Los Angeles, Louisville, London or the [email protected] local coin clubs. the practice of medicine in 2000, the average American.” 851-7485. In the meantime, please Lower East Side — CCT is the best way to stay connected “I have fond memories of my I have done volunteer work for Sylvain Bromberger writes: send updates to CCT at the postal Dr. Martin Duke is retired from the with your classmates and with Columbia. years at CC. For a time I lived in a community agency, written a “I retired a number of years ago or email address at the top of the practice of cardiology but stays ac- George Koplinka Livingston Hall, later moving into biography of a WWII hero and as professor emeritus from the column, or via CCT’s easy-to-use tive in the medical field as a writer 51 75 Chelsea Rd. YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION helps make all this a variety of rented rooms near humanist, Bernard Englander, and MIT Department of Linguistics & webform: college.columbia.edu/ and editor of medical literature. White Plains, NY 10603 possible. CCT remains free of charge — no donation is required campus. I had a somewhat limited traveled over a good part of the Philosophy, which I joined in 1965, cct/submit_class_note. His most recent project was editing 51 [email protected] to receive the magazine or to access our website (college. group of friends while at CC, prob- world helping my wife, author Elle but I still have my corner there and Reflections on Medicine: Essays by ably because my interests were Newmark, research her novels. go in regularly. Though officially Robert U. Massey, M.D., a collec- In early March, tensions between columbia.edu/cct). But if you choose to support us, you may esoteric at that time, i.e., Chinese She recently passed away and I am a professor of philosophy, I have John Weaver tion of 70 essays written by the late Barnard and Columbia were bub- do so online (college.columbia.edu/cct/giving), by phone language and culture. involved in promoting humanism taught and directed dissertations 49 2639 E. 11th St. Massey, which Martin organized bling up over the offer by President (212-851-7852) or by mailing a check, made payable to “If there is anyone reading this in San Diego and nationally.” in both areas and continue to Brooklyn, NY 11235 and adapted into book format. The Barack Obama ’83 to give the Columbia College Today (Columbia College Today, Columbia whom I knew at that time, feel free “I was a transfer student to work on issues that overlap both 49 book is available in bookstores, on- 2012 Commencement address at [email protected] Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 1st Fl., New York, NY to contact me: 713-729-3330.” Columbia College after 3½ years fields, such as the foundations of line (email to university.press.new. Barnard on May 14. Thankfully, 10025). All donors are recognized each fall, after the close Fully retired is Tom Colven. “I in the Army Air Corps and I took phonology. The most recent Journal While the past few months have [email protected]) and by the simmering resentments have have lived at the beach in Emerald mostly graduate courses in politics, of Philosophy, which is published seen very little news from class- phone, 800-421-1561. calmed since then, and as of this of the fiscal year on June 30, on the CCT website. Isle, N.C., since 1985. The highlight so that I didn’t get to know many by Columbia, has a piece by me on mates, there is a note from Camp- Martin is on the editorial board writing the President was sched- WE GREATLY APPRECIATE your support and ask that you stay of my year is to have my four sons, classmates, I’m afraid,” writes some aspects of all this. I recom- bell Geeslin, a hitherto unheard- of Connecticut Medicine, the journal uled to speak. in touch and share news at college.columbia.edu/cct/contactus. their wives and 11 grandchildren John Cooper. “In my senior year, mend it, like my others, if you have from quarter. of the Connecticut State Medical The New York Times, in a sidebar visit for ‘Beach Week,’ usually in I wrote a novel, The Gesture, that insomnia. Noting the appearance of a film Society, for which he contributes to its online coverage of the ker-

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College Today? Yes, they do! Frederick societal level the picture shifts too “looking forward to renewing Motors boardroom and finance fighting had stopped. I gained new world) and as the honored guest of and was a member of its health be delighted to hear from all of his C. Stark Jr. wrote a letter to the edi- often to self-interest and power. friendships and making new ones boardroom, a control system for a respect for most (almost all) career The Japanese Association for Tho- and physical education depart- many friends in the class. tor, published in the Fall 2011 issue, Why is that the way it is? We could at reunion.” Let’s hope he was suc- nationwide fiber optic video carri- military officers and made lifelong racic Surgery and of the European ment until he retired in 1986. As an For the Nitardys and the other congratulating Ted Graske ’59 for his answer, “It is what it is,” and be cessful! Perhaps he’ll send another er, designs for ‘one-armed bandits’ friends in Japan when I presented Association for Cardio-Thoracic undergraduate, Walt pitched for planners among us, mark your efforts to both establish a war memo- correct with that summation. In any update. (slot machines) in Las Vegas and my first paper to the Japanese Surgery. Columbia and was a member of calendars for Alumni Reunion rial at Columbia to honor those event, it may be the only possible Bruce Biavati reports, “It’s been flight system controls. My ability to Association for Thoracic Surgery “EACTS asked me to speak the baseball team that included our Weekend, Thursday, May 30–Sun- alumni who had been killed during answer we can formulate. 60 years since I received my B.A. contribute in these vastly different in Kanazawa. In retrospect, my de- about the ‘language of science’ in famous teammate Mitch Price. Walt day, June 2, 2013. To ensure that wars engaging U.S. armed forces Bob Kandel, who as of this from the College. I began working fields is a tribute to the training I ployment to Asia opened avenues I 2000. I agreed to the topic only after and his wife, Barbara, will celebrate Columbia can get in touch with and to bring ROTC back to Co- writing hoped to see everyone at toward a Ph.D. in physics and, while received in graduate school, where otherwise might not have known. consultation with the chairman of their 60th anniversary in November you about the event, please update lumbia. Fred worked for the Social reunion, sends the following: “My getting my course requirements my abilities were expanded by “When I returned to U of C, UCLA’s Department of Linguis- along with their seven children your contact information online Security Administration as a claims wife, Evelyn, and I recently cele­ done, I worked at Lamont geophysi- Professors Boorse and Quimby of I became one of the first lung tics, who encouraged the applied and 14 grandchildren. The couple (reunion.college.columbia.edu/ representative, disability examiner brated our 51st anniversary. It was cal labs and at Hudson Laboratories. the physics department.” transplantation research workers. linguistic project I had in mind spends seven months a year in alumniupdate) or call the Alumni and policy specialist, after which he much quieter than last year (our (This took me into the North Atlantic Dr. John R. Benfield writes, “In What a privilege it is to have seen and connected me with a vigorous Florida and five months, during the Office (212-851-7488). became a program analyst for what 50th), when the festivities lasted for doing research in underwater sound 1951, I should perhaps have stayed my research dream of the 1950s young linguist who joined me as warmer weather, up north at Sack- Class members are encouraged was then called the Health Care two days. We have four grandsons, for the Navy.) Along the way I met at Columbia instead of moving and 1960s become a clinical reality. investigator and coauthor. This led ets Harbor, N.Y. Walt and Barbara to join the Reunion Committee to Financing Administration, which and the oldest will start college in Marion Hamann, a physics Ph.D. on after only three years. I had Successful lung transplantation is to a decade of work with colleagues enjoy good health and spending help plan the weekend’s events administers Medicare and Medicaid. the fall. We must be having fun be- candidate from Barnard. We married seen much of the United States now giving new, good-quality life in the University of Michigan’s Eng- holidays with their extended family. and to reach out to classmates Quoting Fred, “It gave me great cause the time is flying. We slowed at in 1954 and went on to while accompanying my father on to respiratory cripples worldwide. lish Language Institute, to develop They are going to try to attend our for gifts to the Columbia College satisfaction to have been involved in down a bit with some illness in the receive our degrees. My Ph.D. is in his military assignments (before “After three interesting and programs in English for medical 60th reunion in 2013. Fund in honor of reunion. If you’re helping 40 million people to attain a family, but we are going to pick low temperature physics with Pro- his overseas service), and I had good years as assistant professor at purposes. Much work along these After reading that Rolon Reed interested in participating, contact good measure of economic security.” ourselves up and start going again. fessor Henry Boorse and Marion’s developed a love of California but the University of Wisconsin, I was lines remains to be done. passed away, his Phi Gamma Delta the appropriate Alumni Office Fred’s wife, Margaret, died three We plan to travel to Philadelphia is in nuclear physics with Chien- New York City was my home and delighted to move to UCLA where, “On a personal note, I am thank- fraternity brother Bob Jones sent staff member noted at the top of years ago and he has since moved to see the Van Gogh exhibit at the Shiung Wu Ph.D. my dream was to proceed to P&S. in 1971, the students honored me ful to the United States for the me the following letter: “Rolon not the column. You need not be in the to Abingdon, Md., to be close to his Philadelphia Museum of Art and “After receiving our degrees we I was told that my P&S admission with the Golden Apple Award for opportunities that I, a refugee who only championed the endorsement New York area and can participate son and daughter-in-law. then, in the summer, we will be off went to the radiological research labs would need to be deferred until I the best teacher in the School of was born in Vienna, have had. My of Adlai Stevenson in 1952, but he in meetings via conference call. Dr. Jay Lefer had his letter to to Scotland to see Evelyn’s family.” at the Columbia University Medi- completed my fourth year at the Medicine. I became the James Utley family escaped the Holocaust in also actually believed Adlai would I’d like to include stories and the editor published in the Winter Dr. N. David Charkes reports, cal Center, where we studied the College. The University of Chicago Professor and chairman of the Divi- 1938 when they had the courage to win. Rolon had a clipboard with anecdotes about classmates in the 2011–12 issue. Jay took issue with “My career was spent in the prac- interaction of radiation and tissue. School of Medicine (now the Pritz- sion of Surgery at Boston University leave Austria for a purported vaca- state-by-state electoral votes listed, next CCT. Would you please take Dr. Samuel Salamon ’74 for his tice of nuclear medicine (the use of I was appointed assistant professor ker School of Medicine), however, in 1977, but that did not last because tion. Instead of returning to Aus- showing how it would be done. a moment to phone me (203- espousing the philippic that the radioisotopes in medical diagno- in 1964. We remained there until offered me admission without of academic politics. My family and tria, we moved to New York City, While Rolon was a political science 372-6961) or send an email with United States is the mecca of medi- sis and treatment), from which I the birth of the first of our two sons. completion of the fourth year, and I my laboratory were still at UCLA. essentially penniless. My father major, I was a physical chemist appropriate information? cine. Citing examples of treatment mostly retired at 65. However, I’ve Marion retired to raise the boys, and decided to go. When I returned, I thought a respite died during WWII while serving and completely taken in. I went for patients in Belgium and the continued to do biomedical re- I went to work for Computer Ap- “The difficult decision to go to from full-time academics was in in the Army’s China-Burma-India to the fraternity house to hear the development of insulin in Canada, Chicago changed the course of my order. I converted my academic Theater. He was too old to be victory results roll in and learned Howard Falberg Jay concluded that one needs only life. I stayed there 13 years, eventu- appointment to a clinical one and drafted but not too old to volunteer that political science was not much 13710 Paseo Bonita to take a trip to France, Germany ally achieving a coveted junior fac- entered independent practice with so as to show his gratitude to the of a science — and that Rolon had a 54 Poway, CA 92064 and Switzerland to experience real The Philippine Consul General to New York pre- ulty position and finding my wife, a Chicago classmate. Independent U.S. I have reclaimed my EU (Aus- vivid imagination. 54 [email protected] medicine dedicated to the ill. sented Jack Noonan ’50 and other WWII veterans the Joyce. (She was born and raised practice was an excellent experi- trian) citizenship to be able to vote “I’m not sure what Rolon learned Please give your Class Notes in Chicago, and graduated from ence, but I missed the academic against fascism, and I do so. Last that night but he was not happy. I received a lovely letter from Larry writer some feedback about your Philippines Certificate of Honor. Northwestern with a postgradu- environment. July, I swam in the 13th European Although we never crossed paths Kobrin. He had come across some experience with receiving an email ate degree from Chicago.) She had “In 1979 I wrote A Dual Perspec- Maccabi Games in Vienna, where after 1953, I can picture Rolon-the- 1954 pictures of a number of our with links to the online version of vowed not to marry a doctor and tive of University and Independent my aunt had been the Austrian Democrat as he watched the results classmates and sent them to me. CCT (college.columbia.edu/cct) as search, mostly directed to problems plications (a company that ran the never to leave Chicago, but I fortu- Practice and a Proposal for Renaissance breaststroke champion and part of the 2008 election, clipboard in What a reminder! We have grown opposed to hard copy. [Editor’s note: requiring mathematical modeling NASA computer facility at Colum- nately convinced her to become the of Preceptorships as an expression of of Austria’s Olympic swim team hand, enjoying himself immensely.” considerably older, given the num- Both are available to domestic read- and computer simulation. This bia). When Computer Applications superb mother of our three children my belief that community practice in 1932. The organizers suggested Bob lives in San Jose, Calif. I’m ber of years that have passed, but as ers. Overseas readers may request continues to be a fruitful avenue for went bankrupt in 1968, three of us and to accompany me to Madison, had much to offer for undergraduate that I be part of the Austrian team, sure our popular classmate would far as I’m concerned everyone looks hard copy.] I’m interested to hear the remaining neurons upstairs, and formed what became a successful Wis., and to California. Her un- and postgraduate medical students. but I declined, saying that I am what you think. Meanwhile, keep I still have a drawer of papers to get computer company, Dubner Com- timely death in 2003 parted us, but I returned to full-time academia, alive because I am an American. in touch with news about recent to before the final trumpet call. puter Systems. We created advance our children and six grandchildren remaining clinically active, and I was I swam five events (two bronze activities and contacts with our “So, consider this a follow-up real time computer systems and carry our family tradition forward. fortunate to have 22 years of uninter- medals) as part of Team USA, Columbia School Designations classmates. to my letter of about 15 years ago, developed new graphic techniques “Chicago’s School of Medicine rupted NIH support for my research as a symbol of my opposition to in which I reported having just that are still in use. was remarkable. As an expression and teaching. I now am professor fascism.” In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia climbed Mount Washington for “We did extensive work for ABC of its emphasis on research and emeritus, still teaching at UCLA. Your reporter thanks you for degrees from schools other than the College. Sidney Prager the 11th time (having only started Television and although my interac- academia, and the ongoing bond However, I now have the luxury your contributions, and wishes 20 Como Ct. when I was 53). Well, what with a tion with ABC Sports was long, I between medicine and basic sci- of doing only what I wish to do. A good health to all. Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 52 Manchester, NJ 08759 change in my health, progressively don’t believe that Roone Arledge ence, the medical school was (and course I would like to teach might Arts School of the Arts 52 bum knees and advancing middle ever realized that we were class- is) part of the Biological Sciences be titled ‘Manners and Realities in Barnard [email protected] REUNION WEEKEND age (ha!), I quit while I was ahead mates. In 1982, I began activities as Division. All of the faculty, includ- the Practice of Medicine.’ Many MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 Business Graduate School of Business The earth rotates and the years go and applied myself to woodwork- a private consultant and worked in ing clinicians, served full-time, talented and experienced medical ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS CE School of Continuing Education by — 60 since we graduated from ing, piano-playing, museum-going Great Britain. There were long-term and the clear emphasis was upon practitioners gladly would share ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider Dental College of Dental Medicine the College, as those of us who and, yes, knocking out the medical consulting commitments with Tech- educating academicians. I loved it. their experiences with students, [email protected] recently celebrated reunion know. research papers the world seemed nicon in Westchester, N.Y.; Williams My research career began during interns and residents, and such a E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and 212-851-7846 A full recap from the weekend will to be crying for. One of my best Communications in Tulsa, Okla.; BE my first year in the physiology course might help to resume and to Applied Science DEVELOPMENT Allen Rosso appear in the Fall column. In the moves was reconnecting with Nor- Aerospace in California; and Allied laboratory of thoracic surgery, and preserve personal doctor-patient re- GS School of General Studies [email protected] meantime, consider that the passage man Krasnow; we get together for Gaming in Las Vegas. After 18 years it might be argued that I never left lationships and to resist the takeover GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 212-851-7947 of time is one of the few constants in artsy days every once in a while, as a consultant I retired in 2000. I it. Now, the annual John and Joyce of corporate, insurance company- J Graduate School of Journalism life. Another constant: We all share sometimes in New York and some- now am happily watching my three Benfield Visiting Professorship in driven medicine. The doctor-patient Lew Robins L School of Law this same space vehicle. The world times here in Philly. granddaughters grow up. One of Thoracic Surgery emphasizes tran- relationship and patients’ access to 1221 Stratfield Rd. 53 Nursing School of Nursing always seems to be a dangerous “I’m still married to the lovely them is on crew at her high school, sitional research and education. doctors engender mutual trust, and Fairfield, CT 06825 place with potential catastrophes Nancy Amsterdam ’53 Barnard. copying my 1949 freshman crew “Military service in Korea taught trust is needed when illness strikes. 53 P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons [email protected] around every corner. This is not a Our Columbia family includes not experience at the College. Time sure me more than I had anticipated, “My peers have rewarded me PH Mailman School of Public Health new phenomenon. All of history only son Evan ’82 and daughter does pass quickly. even though it was a disappoint- with a number of honors, includ- In a fascinating telephone conversa- SIPA School of International and Public Affairs tells the same story of hostility, Susan ’83L but also Evan’s wife, “Through the years I consulted ment when I was not deployed to ing for my service as director of tion with Walt Nitardy, I learned SW School of Social Work threats, war and destruction. On Juli ’88 Barnard, ’08J. Can you top on security systems, blood analysis Europe. I was the commanding of- the American Board of Thoracic that after graduating from the TC Teachers College an individual level, a person can be that?” systems, back office broker sys- ficer of the 44th Mobile Army Surgi- Surgery, as president of the Society College, Walt became a professor good, kind, giving and pure. On a As of this writing, David was tems, automating the General cal Hospital after most of the active of Thoracic Surgeons (largest in the at Oswego (N.Y.) State College

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It always is amazing to see the students at Columbia. provost has been appointed — who have attended the dinners family-oriented ski area; the town quality and variety of interests that Larry, thank heavens, feels the John Coatsworth was named are Alfred Gollomp, Bill Epstein, sports good restaurants in addition our scholars have. If anyone would way many of us do at this stage of Gerald Sherwin after a stint as interim provost, Herb Cohen, Aaron Hamburger, to wonderful art galleries. The high like a bio on any or all of them, our lives. He says that when he met 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A replacing Claude Steele. John was Roland Plottel, Berish Strauch, El- points for non-skiers are the hot please email me. I look forward to an older friend recently and asked 55 New York, NY 10021 formerly dean of SIPA. liot Gross and Bob Schiff, among springs, located in the mountains getting to know more about each how he was doing, the response 55 There is always something hap- others. about five miles outside of town. of them through our planned class [email protected] was, “Given my reduced expecta- pening at the Columbia University One of the more prestigious Other classmates who like hitting luncheons. tions of myself, I am doing great.” There has been a bevy of activities Club of New York. In February, at awards out there was given to Jim the slopes are John Censor, who The next meaningful class event Like most of us, Larry and his during the past several months the first Columbia Networking Berick at the end of last year; he takes a week off from his consulting was the Columbia-Cornell basketball wife, Ruth, have had some ups and involving the University and the Night in 2012, the club hosted ex­- was named National Develop- business each year to ski moguls game on February 10. It was mean- downs physically but otherwise College, on-campus and off-116th perts in risk and volatility fields, ment Volunteer of the Year by the in Aspen, and my twin, Maurice ingful from two points of view. First, are chugging along nicely. Ruth Street — never a dull day. On who spoke and networked with Arthritis Foundation. The award is Easton, who goes to Aspen for at all Class Agents were invited to at- works three days a week and March 7, five extraordinary alumni more than 250 Columbia people presented annually to a volunteer least three weeks each winter to see tend as guests at the Alumni Office- Larry, an attorney, is in his office were honored at the annual John in an evening that could have who has exemplified the true many of his Michigan friends. It’s sponsored Burgers and Basketball about four days a week. “That, Jay Awards Dinner in midtown gone almost forever. A tremen- spirit of fundraising and who has always nice to hear how our class- pregame reception. And second, it plus visiting and babysitting for Manhattan. The “Cafés Columbia” dous amount of knowledge was selflessly given time, resources and mates stay active, whether at work, was the last Ivy League game that grandchildren keeps us pretty series of outstanding lectures by exchanged by all. energy to further the growth of the traveling or other activities. Please Columbia won. To be fair, this year’s busy,” he says. Larry made a sug- our “second to no one” faculty Now for our brilliant classmates. Arthritis Foundation. Terrific! email me and let me know what basketball team was a lot better than gestion that I find terrific: that we continued at PicNic Market & There is never a shortage of news We espied Ezra Levin strolling activities you are engaged in. the record suggests. As the saying develop a website to which we Cafe. Both Café Social Science’s about them. on campus recently. He was head- One of our more interesting class goes, wait until next year! could upload pictures of ourselves “Epidemic City: The Politics of We turn again to Bill Kronick, ing to a classroom where he was luncheons was held in February Our annual Florida reunion and our classmates, and so on. Public Health in New York” and who had a book signing for The Art going to impart words of wisdom at Alan Press’ office; we enjoyed event was held at the Boca Pointe Bernd Brecher, as class presi- Café Science’s “Exploring the Birth of Self-Deception in March at Book to a group of wide-eyed students. sandwiches from the 2nd Ave Deli Country Club in Boca Raton on dent, you have a great assignment. and Death of Black Holes” drew Soup in Los Angeles. Bill keeps With baseball season upon us, our and a wonderful talk by Alan on his February 29. I flew in from New churning out novel after novel. You thoughts go to our old coach, Rol- travels to some of the more interest- Jersey the day before and stayed Edith and Arthur Bernstein ’57 (left) and Sandra and Dick Cohen ’57 can check out his other books at lie Rourke, and Walt Deptula ’56E, ing and out-of-the-way places in with Lou Hemmerdinger and his traveled to Italy in October. The couples are pictured in front of the Jim Berick ’55 was named National Development authorhouse.com. ’65E. Walt is doing well, now that Southeast Asia and India. This was wife, Anita, for three days, enjoy- Baptistery of San Giovanni in Piazza del Duomo in Florence; they Bob Thonus let us know that you ask. We’re waiting for him to followed by a group discussion, ing their hospitality. Marty Mayer also visited Rome and Venice. Volunteer of the Year by the Arthritis Foundation. his longtime roommate and buddy, make the long trip from Placerville, with questions and comments. hosted a well-attended luncheon. Lary Faris, is slowly recovering Calif., to the East Coast. No word Attendees included Arthur Frank, Henry Seagull ’71 GS, president from a malady in Sun City, Fla. about Rollie. Dan Link, Buz Paaswell (whom of the Columbia University Club Now for our class correspon- solicited by students or by our Brian Tansey is active in Cincin- packed houses where people’s Bob, who lives in California, plans We heard from Ed Francell, who we welcome back from London), of the Palm Beaches, joined in the dence and news. Class Agents, Dan Link, Stan natti, trying to get Ohio to eliminate thirst for knowledge was satisfied. to visit Lary shortly. The guys lives in Dunwoody, Ga. Ed holds Mark Novick, Ralph Kaslick and festivities; he described the club’s Taylor Thompson writes that his Soren or Al Franco ’56E, please the death penalty. It’s my under- Discussion of the Core Curricu- both lived in Livingston Hall (now the Columbia flag on high as he myself. many activities, which range from and his wife Elizabeth’s redesigned respond generously. You also can standing that close to a third of lum and questions about its future known as Wallach). continues to wear his blue beanie For April and May, we moved social events (such as attending house was reviewed in Chrono- give online (college.columbia.edu/ the states in our country have had have become a hot topic on campus. One of the most highly attended around town Maybe he will bring it our monthly luncheons back to spring training baseball games) gram magazine in the November giveonline); by calling the Alumni legislation passed in this effort. Allen Hyman pointed out a March events of the year is the annual to our 60th. Do you think Atlantans campus, at Faculty House. We have to supporting charitable work for 30 article “Kingston Restoration: Office (212-851-7488); or by mail- Among the joys in which many 6 Op-Ed piece in Spectator, “No to Dean’s Scholarship Reception, held Ross Grumet and Dick Heffner included in these luncheons, as Florida youths. Eighteen Rooms of .” ing a check, payable to Columbia of us take pride are accomplish- the siren song aimed at Columbia this year in Lerner Hall’s Roone might bring theirs as well and start guests, several of our class scholar- I would like to know what other A quote: “In addition to their chil- College Fund, to Columbia College ments by our children. Dick College,” written by University Arledge Auditorium on February a trend? ship students. If you are interested local Columbia Clubs do, so if any dren’s families, recently widened Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, Hobart’s daughter, Bridgette Trustee Judge Jose Cabranes ’61. It 2. The 2012 Class of 1955 Scholar- Speaking of basketball, there in being informed as to when our ’56 alums are involved with their by a great-grandchild, the holiday 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., Hobart Janeczko, is president of gave an interesting point of view on ship Fund was awarded to Emma was a chance encounter with Dick class luncheons are scheduled, but local clubs, please email me with gathering will include Matthew New York, NY 10025. Paradigm Technology Consult- the Core and where it fits into alma Sarachan ’15 from Guilderland, N.Y. Kuhn at the Columbia/Prince­ are not on our email list, please get the particulars. Ling, a Chinese-born graduate of I am again asking all class mem- ing. She also is an extraordinary mater’s being. If anyone would Emma plans to major in physics ton game a couple of months ago. in touch with me. Attending along with myself SUNY New Paltz whom Elizabeth bers who want to keep in touch to swimmer, and on Saturday, June 23, like a copy of this treatise, feel free and to work toward a doctorate in (Where was Bob Pearlman?) One of the most interesting func- and my Florida trip hosts, Lou and and Taylor sponsored as a foreign update their email addresses by she will swim around the island of, to send the request to your trusted that field. She is well-rounded and Abbe Leban — who is back on tions that I have as class president Anita, were Ed Botwinick, who had student. He’s now married and a contacting Lou Hemmerdinger, Manhattan to support Swim Free, correspondent or find it online: has done a lot of traveling. Class- his feet after being under the weath- and as a Class Agent is meeting completed successful back surgery father, and considered part of the our class coordinator, at lhemmer@ a nonprofit dedicated to improving columbiaspectator.com. mates who have given scholarships­ er for a while — lives in Wilming- and spending time with our class’ and was looking well, and his wife, extended Thompson clan.” aol.com and providing him with the health of adults and children Columbia continues to spread are Larry Balfus, Bob Bernot,­ ton, Del., and will attend the class scholarship recipients at the annual Vicki; Mike Spett, who has relocated Ron Kapon probably is one of your email address. That being through swim. In January, Bridgette its wings around the globe with Anthony Viscusi, Allen Hyman, soirees again later this year. Dean’s Scholarship Reception. This from Jupiter, Fla., to Boca with his our busiest classmates. From Co- said, please keep in contact with published a piece in TechNews about journeys through the Alumni Steve Rabin and Stanley Lubman. Some sad news to report: the year’s event was held on February wife, Lisa; Marty Mayer, who has lumbia basketball to his wine classes, Columbia in whatever ways you her experience swimming the Man- Travel Study Program via pro- Stanley has retired from teaching. passing of Stu Kaback, Phil Ble- 2 at Alfred Lerner Hall. At the retired from the real estate business magazine articles and, I suspect, a feel appropriate, as I believe that hattan Island Relays in 2011, which grams such as “Danube River and However, he still conducts research ser, Don McDonough and Alan present time we have 14 scholar- in New Jersey and is enjoying tennis soon-to-be-developed book, Ron it has been a force and power in she participated in “to honor my the Habsburg Empire”; “The Black at UC Berkeley Law and writes a Pasternak. Condolences go to their ship students, in addition to the at Boca Pointe, and his wife, Susan; knows that keeping busy is a good our lives. dad’s alma mater, Columbia, Class Sea: Crossroads of Culture from column for The Wall Street Journal family and friends. new permanent scholarship in the Don Roth and his wife, Jackie; way to stay young as we get older. So there it is for these notes. If of 1954.” She writes: “I was in the the Ancient Past to the Present,” online. He travels to China, has My dear classmates. late Alan Miller’s name, to become Larry Cohn and his wife, Judie, who I am sorry to report the recent you have news to share, please water swimming when we passed visiting places such as Odessa, Is- visited Europe and lectures at the There is no doubt that the Class viable as soon as John W. Kluge were visiting from California; Stan death of two classmates. Donald email me at tball8000@earthlink. the ‘Big Rock.’ I had no idea what tanbul, Yalta and more; “Mongolia: University of Venice. Free time? of Destiny always rises to the top ’37’s estate is settled. In 2007, Kluge Manne and his wife, Fern, who re- Nunziato, who played football net and I will make sure it gets into people were talking about until I Land of Genghis Khan,” spending We’re sure he can fill it. in everything we do. pledged $200 million to the College locate from Chicago to Florida every for Columbia and was involved the next Class Notes. Wishing that saw the big ‘C’ in Columbia colors, time in South Gobi, Kara Korum We didn’t get a chance to visit Be all that you can be. for financial aid endowment for winter; and Don Kazimir ’57E. Also in New Jersey real estate as a we all seamlessly go from summer and I then realized it matched my and Ulaanbaatar; and “Islands with Harold Kushner when the You remember the 55th — the undergraduates, payable upon his there were Murray Eskenazi, who developer and contractor, suffered to fall. Give some credit to our Co- Dad’s crew T-shirt from way back, & Sanctuaries of the Gods: An basketball team played at Harvard 60th will be even better. death. Classes that raise $150,000 in brought as his guest Bobby Reiss from Alzheimer’s, and Stuart lumbia education, and enjoy life. which I still have! It was a great Exploration of Greece & the Greek in February. Maybe next year. Love to all, everywhere! donations to the Columbia College ’52 (who played on Columbia’s Glass, who practiced law in New moment to realize I was swimming Islands.” Get your reservations Unfortunately, the Light Blue lost Fund have the opportunity to have undefeated basketball team) and York and used his legal expertise to in the same water that my dad once in now: alumni.columbia.edu/ by 5 points. Next year should be that amount matched by funds Otto Decker ’53E and his wife, Pearl. help in archival projects, died of a Herman Levy rowed.” research-learn/travel-study-trips. exciting for the “good guys.” The Stephen K. Easton from this estate. There was much lively discussion, sudden stroke. Stuart was a good 57 7322 Rockford Dr. Once in a while I goof on a name. In the athletics arena, the wom- radio announcers might even have 56 6 Hidden Ledge Rd. In attendance at the reception and many good memories were friend of Vic Levin. My condo- Falls Church, VA 22043 Bert Horwitz’s lovely wife’s name en’s track and field team finished Harold as their halftime guest. Englewood, NJ 07631 were Vic Levin and his wife, Fran, shared. Everyone agreed that they’re lences go out to both families. 57 [email protected] is Felice. No. 1 in the Ivy League indoor Don Laufer heard from Bob 56 who recently moved back to Man- looking forward to next year’s event. It is important to note that [email protected] Please stay in touch. Some of season. The team was honored by Sparrow, who has gone through hattan; Al Franco ’56E; myself; and And by the way, what about our Columbia relies on alumni Stay tuned next issue for a recap of our classmates have reached the President Lee C. Bollinger at the a series of mishaps — he and his By the time you read this, my wife, Helene Ruddy ’60 Barnard. Our 60th reunion? Only four years to go, contributions to the Columbia our 55th Alumni Reunion Weekend. grand age of 80 while others of us President’s House before he trav- wife are on the road to recovery, Elke, and I will have returned from class scholars in attendance were so stay healthy and plan ahead. College Fund. So when you are In the meantime, our classmates

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memorable Shakespeare class was School and the Dermatology Foun- since 1998. They have visited all the whenever I feel the need for the post of executive director of the had doubts about the official story. our visit to the rebuilt Globe Theatre dation. After leaving the founda- islands down to Trinidad. Phil helps added exercise and pleasure of Commission on Human Rights. After questioning, we became in Southwark; Noah is much inter- tion’s executive board, he received marine research scientists and kills the sport. Those who travel long Using direct action, we gradually convinced that Ray was not the ested in the theatre. In the spirit of the organization’s Distinguished invasive lionfish, which threaten distances to ski generally feel set in motion the desegregation shooter though we did not know my Humanities classes (professors Service Medallion. the local coral reef . Sharon compelled to spend every available of housing and the integration of what role he might have played. Vladimir Ussachevsky and Dustin Dr. Howard Grunther, a retired founded and runs the community hour on the slopes, regardless the skill trades unions. During this “That session started me on what Rice) we visited the British Museum radiologist, died in New York City NGO on St. John. of the conditions or their condi- period of the ’60s academic work became a 30-year quest for the truth (Elgin Marbles, Rosetta Stone and on January 11, 2012. Surviving him “Paul and his wife, Jan, have tioning. At our age, being a fair seemed irrelevant and, though I and a private investigation which, the Assyrian bulls), Westminster are his wife, Eileen; sons, Richard been vacationing in St. Thomas reg- weather skier holds the promise of would return to degree study in 10 years after it began, led me to Abbey, the Museum of London, St. and Scott; and four grandchildren. ularly for about 30 years. They were being able to pursue the sport for the 1970s, I dropped out of law agree to be Ray’s last lawyer. … Bartholomew-the-Great (Norman As an undergraduate, Howard joined this year by their daughter at least another decade.” school after the first year. [In an attempt to get him the trial church dating from 1123, believed was a member of the varsity crew, [and fellow class correspondent], Lou Stephens reports, “I have “In 1966, the war became such he never had, we held a televised] to be the oldest in London), St. the Van Am Society and ZBT. He Betsy Gomperz ’93, and her sons. lived in Mexico City since gradua- a compelling issue that I went mock, unscripted criminal trial that Paul’s Cathedral, parts of the Lon- graduated from New York Medi- “The get-together started with tion and three years in the Navy. I to Vietnam as a journalist. My resulted in a not guilty verdict. We don Wall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields cal College, did his residency at a dinner on St. Thomas, though first managed a chemical manufac- photographs, notes and recordings also pursued an [actual] 30-day civil (famous for its musical program) Mount Sinai and was in private the highlight of the reunion was turing firm, then, after selling that, — kept to myself when in country action during which 70 witnesses and the National Gallery. Apropos practice for the rest of his career. an afternoon boat ride on Phil’s ran a small real estate company — culminated in articles upon my laid out for the judge and jury how of Professor Richard Webb’s class Steve Jonas’ latest book is 26-ft. powerboat to various St. John that sells land in the Tepoztlan return. One, ‘The Children of Viet and why Martin was killed; the Martha and Phil Matthews ’59, Linda and Gene Appel ’59 and on British constitutional history, we Duathlon Training and Racing for beaches during which entertain- valley near Mexico City. As an avo- Nam,’ published by Ramparts mag- King family, finally, had closure as Kathy and Dudley Ferrari ’59 (left to right) enjoyed reminiscing at attended a session of the House of Ordinary Mortals, a companion to ment was provided by Paul’s cation I paint — going on 45 years azine in its January 1967 issue, was the jury found no liability for Ray their March mini-reunion at Pelican Bay beach in Naples, Fla. Commons. We also spent a day in his Triathlon Training for Ordinary 6- and 4-year-old grandsons and now. I had my first one-man show read by Martin Luther King Jr. and and liability for the government Oxford, visiting three of the colleges Mortals; it covers the history of the a sea turtle. The next reunion is in Mexico City two years ago, and he asked to meet. He openly wept and its agents. This work resulted and the Ashmolean Museum. The sport as well as training principles. scheduled for February 2013.” since then four more shows: at the when he reviewed the residual files in two more books, Orders To Kill continue with travels, regional get- is still running marathons and I am Oxford visit brought back happy (A duathlon consists of running The Class Lunch is held on the Xochicalco World Heritage Site and photographs, and this led to his and An Act of State. A third and final togethers and visits with far-flung still chipping paint, as I (and oth- memories of my visit there with and biking; a triathlon adds a second Wednesday of every month, in Morelos state, at the Milk Gal- April 4 speech at book is in process. friends. We are mid-septuagenar­ ers) did as NROTC midshipmen.” Noah’s father, my older nephew, swimming segment.) Steve, a in the Grill Room of the Columbia lery in New York City, at Oberlin and my agreement to work with “Subsequently, I have convened ians; nevertheless, many of us John Taussig writes, “On January when he was there for a semester professor of preventive medicine at University Club of New York, 15 W. College and, most recently, at the him as the executive director of the Seminar in International remain pleasantly and meaning- 14, Judy and Gene Wagner hosted in 1988. Stony Brook’s School of Medicine, 43rd St. ($31 per person). Email Art Northfield Mt. Hermon School in the National Conference For New Human Rights at the University fully active. Although some have a cocktail reception at their home in On my way to London, I stopped has participated in multi-sport rac- Radin if you plan to attend, up to Northfield, Mass. Art and painting Politics. of Oxford, been an expert for the succumbed to the infirmities of Pacific Palisades, Calif. The invited in Columbia, S.C., to see my grand- ing for more than 30 years. the day before: aradin@radinglass. are my real passions (check out “When they killed Martin, I court in Spain on these issues and advancing age, there have also been guests included all of us from the niece play the lead role in Beauty Another author-physician, Dr. com. luisstephens.com). walked away from politics and became convinced by relevant fam- instances of inspiring recovery. Class of 1957 living in Southern and the Beast; at 13, Maddie Rae is Bob Levine, writes: “My new book, Finally, here’s an early “save the “Two daughters, Phoebe and political activism. We had become ily and friends to take on the Ha- First case in point is Elroy Wolff, California. This is the same group quite an accomplished thespian. Resurrecting Democracy: A Citizen’s date” for our 55th (!) Alumni Re- Annette, are jewelry designers and quite close during that period and beas claim of Sirhan Sirhan in the who has been recovering after that meets on a regular basis for Call for a Centrist Third Party, has union Weekend, which will be held have set up their own company, the degree of movement infiltration assassination of Bob Kennedy. As a severe stroke. John Breeskin lunch in Long Beach, only this time, been getting a lot of play. A New Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 2, Anndra Neen. They recently won and subversion was bad enough. with Ray, I had to be convinced of REUNION WEEKEND writes, “I am eager to bring you our spouses joined as well. York Times editor asked me to write 2013. So that the College can get first place in the Dorchester Collec- The assassination was the last straw. his innocence before accepting the MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 up to date as to my dear friend “The evening was a pure delight. a letter to the paper about the need in touch with you, please update tion Fashion Prize. This event was “I went in the direction of edu- brief. In Ray’s case it took 10 years. ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Elroy’s progress. His doctors have Cocktails and food were in gener- for a centrist third party to start a your contact information (if neces- aired on TV on America’s Next Top cation, forming experimental, qua- With Sirhan it was a matter of ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider let him go on the road again, and ous supply (and demand), and we ‘dialogue’ about the idea. The editor sary) online at reunion.college.col Model. si-Summerhillian schools in New months. Having now, for the first [email protected] his clients, because of their intense all felt the interaction enhanced the subsequently said they were inun- umbia.edu/alumniupdate or call “Best to all classmates.” York, Massachusetts and Vermont. time, forced a consideration of facts 212-851-7846 loyalty to him, are asking him to bonding we have experienced over dated with responses to my original the Alumni Office: 212-851-7488. demonstrating actual innocence, DEVELOPMENT Allen Rosso fly all around the country. While the past four years through our letter and she chose a few for the We’re hoping for our usual the government’s case, aided and [email protected] he was in Washington, D.C., he lunch gatherings. Beyond myself dialogue.” You can search for them enthusiastic turnout for the abetted by his trial defense lawyer 212-851-7947 Marshall Front ’58 appeared on PBS’ Nightly Business and I shared dinner at a fancy K and the host, attendees included on the Times website. Reunion Committee both to plan who was under indictment and Street eatery.” Elroy is an attorney, Ken Bodenstein, Michael Gold, Barry Dickman Dr. Henry Solomon has been the weekend’s events and to reach Report to discuss jobs and stock markets. therefore compromised, is falling as some of you may remember. Bernard Lynch, Lew Schainuck, 58 25 Main St. appointed to the PreVu medical out to classmates for gifts to the apart. Please stay tuned. In late October, East Coast class- Ken Silvers, Herb Sturman and Court Plaza North, Ste 104 advisory board at Miraculins, a Columbia College Fund in honor “I play basketball, tennis and mate met West Coast classmate Gerry Werksman. 58 Hackensack, NJ 07601 medical diagnostic company with of reunion. Bill Pepper writes, “After 52 Harper & Row commissioned my baseball, am heavily into herbs as Sandra and Dick Cohen of San “People were reluctant to leave [email protected] headquarters in Winnipeg, Mani- If you’re interested in parti­ years and being out of the country first book, The Self-Managed Child, and vitamins, supplements, ozone Francisco traveled with Edith and because of the pleasant company toba. Henry had been the chief cipating, contact the appropriate for considerable periods of time, I which was written in Jamaica with therapy and organic food. My Art Bernstein of Setauket, Long and abundant food, but eventu- We have lost two more of our medical officer, business develop- Alumni Office staff member at the believe that my catching up with the assistance of Marie, who be- second family consists of Minha Island, for an extraordinary 12 ally all left, except for me and my classmates, both doctors. Howard ment, of the American College of top of the column. No problem if class members is long overdue. came my first wife in 1973, the year (a Ford Foundation Fellow from days in Rome, Florence and Venice. wife, Jan. We had such a wonderful Dubin ’62 P&S died on October 16, Cardiology; he continues to be you’re not in the NYC area; you “After the College, I earned an of publication. Three children fol- Vietnam, whom I’ll be marrying In many ways, the trip reinforced time, we stayed overnight in the 2011, in Ann Arbor, Mich., of com- senior medical adviser to the orga- can participate in meetings via M.A. and then went to the London lowed, Tara, Sean and Liam. Tara is this summer), daughter Sophia Lil- the greatness of their Columbia Wagners’ guest room and enjoyed plications from Parkinson’s disease nization and chair of its Profes- conference call. We’re hoping to see School of Economics for a year on a a psychotherapist, like her mother; lian (‘Lilly’, 19 months) and Duke, education. Dick writes, “As we breakfast with them. Long drive, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. sional and Corporate Consortium. some new faces in addition to our Rotary Grant to receive an introduc- Sean is a private investigator for our 13-year-old Himalayan cat. We looked upon some of the most re- tired — you all know the drill. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; Miraculins is developing new tests loyal regulars. tion to international law. During an NYC company; and Liam is, as are deciding whether to stay in the markable paintings and sculpture “We will of course continue our children, Douglas, Kathryn Dubin under the PreVu brand name for that year I also played basketball for am I, a member of the English Bar United States or return to England. that the world has ever seen, [we regular lunch meetings and from Flynn, David and Michael; and 10 coronary artery disease. the University of London; we won (Barrister). They all were raised “Apologies for the long silence, couldn’t help but remember] all we time to time enjoy more gatherings grandchildren. As the job and stock markets Norman Gelfand the national championship but, as in Cambridge, England, where but fond memories and loving learned in the fine arts course we with our wives in different venues. At the College, Howard was a picked up earlier this year, Marshall c/o CCT everyone knows, it was a very dif- we moved in 1981. I had, by then, thoughts to all of you and your had taken together with profes- In any event, thank you, Judy and member of the freshman fencing Front appeared on PBS’s Nightly 59 Columbia Alumni Center ferent game in those days. completed law school and become families. For me, Columbia really sor Howard Davis. Coupled with Gene, for such a splendid evening team and of the Pre-Med Society Business Report to explain what it 59 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 “Upon returning and entering an attorney, and also obtained was the beginning of this journey.” the great pizzas and the sipping at your beautiful home.” Executive Board. He graduated all meant. New York, NY 10025 the University of Pennsylvania an Ed.D. My second book, Sex From Arthur Newman: “I live in of wine at outdoor cafes while Sad news: Walter C. Rabe of Flo- from P&S and completed two resi- Paul Gomperz sends this dis­ [email protected] Law School I became involved in Discrimination in Employment, was retired bliss in Houston, a city that watching the crowds go by, it was ral Park, N.Y., died on January 10. dencies, one in internal medicine at patch: “Bidding for honors as the leading a reform movement in my published in 1978. During this has everything including world-class an unforgettable reunion. We are Yours truly returned from a NewYork Presbyterian/Columbia most remote, minor-scale class First, I’d like to correct an error that corrupt hometown, Yonkers, N.Y. period, I moved from educational culture (symphony, opera, theatre) already laying plans for this fall.” February trip to visit my older University Medical Center and the reunion, Phil Strenger and Paul appeared in our Fall 2011 Class Bob Kennedy asked me to be chair- consulting back to law, focusing on and great indoor tennis facilities, (See nearby photo.) grandnephew, Noah, in London, other in dermatology at Michigan, Gomperz recently concluded their Notes. The information about man of his citizens’ committee in international work and spending which are essential in a city with Paul Frommer: “While working where he is taking the semester at where he then joined the Depart- 12th almost-annual get-together in Allan Gardner living in Colorado Westchester Country when he ran time in Africa and Asia. unpredictable weather; I play singles as part of a Road Scholar project University College. The 55 years ment of Dermatology and became the U.S. Virgin Islands (not a bad was incorrect. Our classmate living for the Senate in 1964, and I also “Around this time, Ralph Aber- tennis virtually every day. My older to maintain and restore the U.S.S. between us did not stand in our a clinical professor. He also was place to be in February). in Colorado is Alvin Goldman, was commuting to the south as a nathy (Martin’s successor) asked son, Stephen, is CEO of culturemap. (BB 63), moored at Pearl way as I introduced him to my in private practice in Ann Arbor. “Phil and his wife, Sharon, sailed who wrote, “As one who lives in civil rights activist. me to arrange a visit for him with com, an online magazine covering Harbor, I visited with Harry Sieg- frequently visited and much-loved Howard was president of The their 40-ft. boat from New York to the mountains of Colorado during “In 1965, the city of New Ro- James Earl Ray, Martin’s convicted Houston and Austin. My younger mund and his wife, Peggy Anne, at city. Reminiscent of Professor An- Michigan Dermatological Society, the Caribbean in December 1992 the winter (and summer), I’m chelle was, so they advised, about assassin. He wanted me to inter- son, Douglas, is a documentary their home in Kailua, Oahu. Harry drew Chiappe ’33, ’39 GSAS’ most the Board of Trustees at Greenhills and have been based on St. John able to get to the nearby ski slopes to burn down, and I took on the rogate Ray in front of him, since he producer; his first film is slated to

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I learned, as I shires a few minutes from where the volved with establishing the Brother Claudio Marzollo, Josh Pruzan- separated a raucous laugh and the flight and three Mount Everest got older, that to join them I had Tanglewood Music Festival takes Thomas Fellowship Awards through sky, Richard Friedlander and Art intoning of a bell, a classroom of expeditions, was sports medicine to escape my box. I saw that most place. If any classmates plan to be the Boston Foundation. The awards, Delmhorst mingled with Bob’s students had been transformed. council nutritionist for the U.S. men let themselves be defined the area, please let me know. [Actu- created in the name of a Benedictine neighbors, colleagues, students We have two New Year’s greet- Olympic ski team for two Olympics by others or by their work, and ally, let me know and I’ll put you in monk and world-renowned ceramic and friends from the Columbia ings to the class. They may seem and worked on the Apollo program. are put in a box that can be very touch with Arthur. — NG] Also, if artist who died in 2007, support classes that bookended ours. belated, but these are greetings of Jim entered the College as a transfer comfortable. I got out of my box anyone knows the whereabouts of artists working at high levels of ex- Arrayed along two walls of the the Year of the Dragon, and so are student after serving in the Air and went on my own. Scary at Hugh McSurely, let me know that cellence and creativity. Eight Brother room were Bob’s paintings, photo- appropriate at any time. (Of course, Force. He earned a doctorate from first, but the fear subsided and I as well; we served as naval officers Thomas Fellows were announced in graphs, poems and notebooks full there’s also the CCT publishing Cornell, where he was a U.S. Public was free. I worked on three Mount together in the western Pacific and October. of his observations. An open mic schedule, which doesn’t allow for us Health Service fellow, and did Everest climbs, with astronauts, the I’d like to see him.” “We have also come across the welcomed anyone who wished to deliver greetings to you sooner.) post-doctoral studies at Harvard Voyager crew, our great skiers for Steve Trachtenberg has been work of the modern master Ameri- to speak. The atmosphere was re- The first comes fromPaul Na- and Indiana. In 1998 he received an two Olympic Games. And, for my selected by the Greater Washington can photographer Paul Caponigro. laxed. No formalities. No prepared gano, who finds special significance honorary Doctor of Humane Letters part in their EPCOT adventure, the Urban League to receive the 2012 His exhibition was paired with that eulogies. Celebrants shed their in the Year of the Dragon. He writes, from Hofstra. Walt Disney folks gave me a gold Whitney Young Award for Public of Brother Thomas in September inhibitions and the open mic drew “The dragon is the one creature of Jim has a passion for astronomy Mickey Mouse watch I proudly Service. Steve, who is President and was one of the most successful everyone’s attention. Bob taught the Asian zodiac to be found in nei- that began when he was just 6. He wear. I stood with the Voyager John Drake ’61 (left) and Michael Hausig ’61 went skiing at Copper Emeritus and University Professor of exhibits we have ever presented. social studies, and a group of his ther farm nor zoo, or, for that matter, was president of the Mount Diablo pilots and met President Reagan. Mountain, Colo., in December. Public Service at The George Wash- “Finally, our contact with Colum- former students, whom he taught on this earth. It has always appealed Astronomical Society in the Bay “But all that paled when a PHOTO: JB HAUSIG ington University, has appeared on bia continues in a positive way. Our at a middle school in Chinatown, to me because it suggests the power Area and is a director emeritus of Crohn’s disease patient said, ‘Your CNN discussing college rankings. granddaughter Abigail Pucker ’14 approached the mic en masse to of the creative imagination. We think the Astronomical Society of the book changed my life. Thank you.’ In February, he spoke at a luncheon loves the College! Our grandson, describe the impact Bob had on the dragon into existence.” Pacific. In 1957, after his first year in In that instant I understood that and a law degree from Harvard. He has been named to the 2012 list of sponsored by The Jewish Com- Oliver, is a freshman at Brown.” their lives; it was the most moving Parenthetically, might I add college, Jim and Nancy were mar- it’s all about helping others. Ed practiced corporate and business Southern California Super Doctors. munity Relations Council of Greater Stanley Keller was one of the and beautiful of tributes. One, who that I, too, always have found the ried. They have four children and Hixson, Mount Everest climber, law in New York, then moved in In selecting Super Doctors, thou- Washington, the American Jewish co-chairs of the 30th annual Federal pursues a life in public service, re- dragon appealing; I was born under six grandchildren. great surgeon and a simple guy, 1994 to Florida, where he was gen- sands of ballots are sent to doctors Committee and the American As- Securities Institute, which was held called how after joining the White its sign, as were the other members In contemplating the number of put it all clearly when he said, ‘Jim, eral counsel of the Home Shopping asking them to nominate colleagues sociation of Jewish Lawyers and Ju- February 16–17 in Miami. He also House staff she made two phone of our class who were born in 1940. sunrises he has experienced thus it’s not about reaching the top, it’s Network. In 1996, Barry became v.p. they know to be exceptional in their rists; his talk was titled “Does Higher moderated a panel, “Ethical Issues/ calls — the first to her father, the Paul continues, “In May, thanks far in life, Jim wrote the following about how we make our climb.’ for risk management at Raymond fields. Physicians are asked to con- Education Have a Future?” Steve Challenges Faced by Lawyers Deal- second to Bob. to the kindness of Paul Chevalier on the occasion of his 28,154th; he Ed’s words echo in my mind as James, retiring several years ago. He sider the following question: “If you also was featured in a Washington ing with Disclosure Issues.” What quality did he possess that and his wife, Florence, I spent a also hopes his grandchildren will I soar above this beautiful planet was a prolific writer of letters to the needed medical care in one of the Post article about the establishment Professor Lou Kushnick OBE made such an indelible impression? productive and enjoyable week read it one day, and be inspired: and await another glorious sunrise. editors of several . His following specialties, which doctor of the Churchill Center at GW. has been a lecturer for more than 40 Another of the students related an in their extraordinary home in “In my mind’s eye I soar like an I shout to young people, ‘Dream hometown paper, the St. Peters- would you choose?” Candidates are Perhaps more important, Steve years at The University of Manches- incident that had the others smiling Sedona, Ariz., enjoying a beauti- eagle above this beautiful world. big. You can achieve those dreams burg Times (now ), then evaluated on 10 indicators of has another grandchild! His ter. He is the author of several books and nodding, which perhaps offers ful part of the country I’d never All those glorious sunrises have like others who have gone before. estimated that it had published peer recognition and professional daughter-in-law, Joanna, and and founder of the Ahmed Iqbal Ul- a partial answer to the question: visited, far from the coast and the shown me that what counts is And never, ever take your eyes nearly 100 of Barry’s letters on achievement. son, Ben, welcomed a daughter lah Race Relations Resource Centre Having observed the behavioral sea. The geographical features of simple: Hold fast to the spirit of off that horizon. Hold your head subjects ranging from the economy In addition to practicing full- whom they named Shoshana. at The University of Manchester. pattern of his classes through the the high desert were a towering youth, let years come to what they high, enjoy your climb, and make to the Middle East. His letters also time, Art frequently comments on She weighed more than 8 lbs. and sculptural surprise, like alien gi- may, nurture your youthful dreams it good.’ Later, as your sunrises appeared in The New York Times and reproductive issues for the media. was delivered by the father when ants in red rock.” Paul painted sev- and never let them go. As a young accumulate, come with me. Be my The Wall Street Journal. Eldon Clin- He and wife, Phyllis, enjoy spend- the midwife was delayed by the eral watercolors during that visit lad I was fortunate to face trou- wingman, and we’ll look down gan, Barry’s debate-team partner at ing time with their grandchildren, weather in Columbia, Mo. Ben Steve Trachtenberg ’59 was selected by the Greater including a magnificent landscape bling times. As evening lowered, together on this beautiful planet. I the College and a lifelong friend, re- America (4) and Benjamin (2) — caught the baby in his hands. Washington Urban League to receive the 2012 of the sculpted soaring red rock, but before dark took over, I’d read promise, you’ll love it.” marked of Barry in a remembrance hopefully Columbia Classes of ’28 From Bernie Pucker: “Always a background to a gliding hawk, about what others had done. Then, Three sad notes. We mourn the published in the St. Petersburg Times: and ’30. The Wisots were looking pleasure reading about classmates, Whitney Young Award for Public Service. simply titled A Hawk: Sedona. in the dark, I’d dream. In my mind, losses of Louis Gladstone, George “You are talking about a man who forward to their son Andrew’s some of whom I even remember. The second greeting comes from I became those men. I marveled at E.B. Morren Jr. ’74 GSAS and had substantial intellectual power.” spring wedding. In any event, a brief update on this Syd Goldsmith, at home in Taipei. the things I could do. No matter Barry Augenbraun. Despite their differences in political Tom Lippman reports that his end. Pucker Gallery is entering its Finally, George Semel writes, years — many of them first-genera- He wishes all health, happiness and what, I held fast to those dreams. Louis died on February 13, 2009. philosophies, he said, “We could new book, on the Edge, 44th year in the building we own “My dog was killed by a large dog tion Americans, others immigrants, success in 2012, and flourishing They morphed into my goals. I He was a social services worker. raise our voices at each other, but was published in December. In it, on Newbury Street in Boston, and in August but he survived in tissue recently arrived from Asia with creativity in this Year of the Dragon. read about and then dreamed of Somehow his death escaped our we never had a discussion that he explains the strategic, economic all on this end has gone remark- culture. He was cloned and was their parents — Bob began to Syd notes, “In this part of the world, being a Flying Tiger in the war. notice and his name did not appear ended with one or the other of us and social issues that confront the ably well. We have purchased a born as triplets on December 28, lecture on a culture that was not Dragon Years bring more babies Later, I became a fighter pilot, and in our 50th reunion necrology. putting down the phone in anger.” kingdom as well as the reasons warehouse building in Somerville. 2011. This song is his story (youtube. all that familiar to them. As he had than any other year in the Chinese soared among the clouds. I shared George died on September 29, Barry is survived by his wife, that they matter. He also evaluates Our son, Jon, who now works with com/watch?v=5DGIRfZVxho). I come to expect, they kept their cycle.” He reports that his son, the joy of those tigers, became their 2011. He was an anthropologist Janet, a son, a daughter and one the trends, conflicts and pressures us, renovated the back part for our co-wrote the lyrics with Alexander heads buried in their notebooks, Harrison (18), prepares to graduate brother and was euphoric. and a professor, and he was mayor grandchild. Janet writes “Barry that have shaped the rapid evolu- framing operation, PSG Framing, Michael, who also sang the song; it silently and earnestly transcrib- Taipei American School. Daughter “I got the Korean GI Bill, and of Rocky Hill, N.J. After service cherished his association with tion of Saudi Arabia and looks and we are in the midst of nego- was recorded at Del Casher Produc- ing his every word. The first bell Jessica (13) is devoted to music, art college seemed right. I went to Co- in the Navy, George returned to Columbia University and always ahead to where the kingdom will tiating with a first-rate restaurant tions.” rang, preparatory to dismissal. He and helping friends with English. lumbia College, where professors Morningside Heights and earned credited the Core Curriculum for be several decades from now. Tom in the Boston area to take the front ended his lecture. As the students She plays bass guitar in a band as were supportive and encouraging; a doctorate in 1974. In the field of forming and inspiring his intel- is associated with the Middle East retail space. This would be a great began to collect their belongings, well as classical guitar and piano. they said to strive and follow your anthropology he pioneered the use lectual life. And he remembered Institute in Washington, D.C. boon for the neighborhood and Robert A. Machleder ready to depart for the next class, he His wife, Ann, translates in China star. I was in the Class of 1960 and of remote-sensing satellite technol- everything he learned.” Stuart Sloame ’64L attended also for us …. 69-37 Fleet St. bellowed, “Tear up your notes. Just and Bali for self-growth workshops. focused on chemistry. Those pro- ogy to investigate human and en- The class sends its condolences the funeral service and interment “In addition, the gallery itself 60 Forest Hills, NY 11375 pull ’em out and tear ’em up.” All Syd attended the San Francisco fessors encouraged me and helped vironmental changes in the South to the families and friends of Louis, of Joel Karp ’64L, who died in continues to do well. This has been 60 eyes stared at him in utter astonish- Writers Conference, is involved with me win a fellowship to Cornell Pacific. He conducted research on George and Barry. January from metastatic pancreatic [email protected] one of the best years that we have ment. “Yes,” he declared with his another flautist in a recording project University. They said to work the Miyanmin tribe in the High- cancer. Joel was our class v.p., a ever experienced, and it certainly A memorial celebration for Bob signature bellowing guffaw. “Tear that will survey the literature of flute hard and you’ll succeed. As a boy, lands of Papua New Guinea. As a ZBT brother and chancellor of the is counter to the economic realities Morgan, organized by his sisters, up your notes. Nothing I said is duets from 1700 to the present, and I had read about Louis Pasteur; member of the Rutgers faculty he Michael Hausig Anglo-American Society. He was around us. We have been fortunate Nancy and Faye, took place on true. I made it all up.” — as this Class Note was filed — his how he told the world something developed a program and chaired 19418 Encino Summit an international tax and estate plan- to come across new artists to add to February 1 in a spacious hall at Then he deconstructed his lec- second novel, Two Musicians and the new and good and how it helped the Department of Human Ecol- 61 San Antonio, TX 78259 ning expert in Washington, D.C. the stable of artists whom we have the New York Society for Ethical ture, pointing out his many inven- Wife Who Isn’t, was on its way to the people. I studied hard at Cornell ogy. He is survived by his wife, 61 Although Stuart and Joel were [email protected] dealt with for years, including and Culture on Central Park West in tions that were inconsistent, directly publisher. Syd and his family look and became a scientist. Though my Janet, and son, Karl. not close, Stuart had much contact especially the wonderful Samuel Manhattan. Many friends from the in conflict, implausible, improbable, forward to spending their 13th sum- discoveries pale against Pasteur’s, Barry died on September 20, Readers of Los Angeles magazine with him during the seven years Bak. We recently sent an exhibi- various circles Bob occupied — as impossible. “I want you to think mer in Chautauqua, N.Y. I did increase the wealth of human 2011. He earned a master’s in might have seen that Art Wisot, they spent together in classrooms tion of his work to the Jewish State a Columbia scholar, educator, critically and challenge everything Jim Scala is a retired nutritional knowledge. I knew the sweet joy of European history from Cambridge a reproductive endocrinologist, and at various reunions. Joel’s

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES widow, sister and son David ’99 situation when he had a heart ministrators, secretaries and doctors warmth of the sun; play with a The University of Press Reunion Committee is planning a the rest is (you guessed it) on our English (and Greek tragedy) full- were grateful for Stuart’s presence, pump installed. Fortunately, he has become unemployed or must find grandchild; listen to the laughter recently published the autobiog- memorable time, and we hope to website. “After eight years of trav- time at SUNY Plattsburgh and am as well as for the many emails they made a good recovery. new positions. One does not simply of a baby; touch a loved one; taste raphy of Larry Wittner (lwittner@ see each and every one of you. If eling I’m living in Cabo San Lucas, translating from the Portuguese and received from Columbia class- Dr. Ted Stanley has had some free 6.5 to 8.3 percent of G.D.P. for a favorite food; listen to a beautiful albany.edu), professor of history you want to join the committee or where I landed in 2009. I loved now the Spanish. Recent books in- mates during Joel’s illness. They interesting developments in his life. other purposes; it disappears. melody or the caw of a crow; take emeritus at SUNY/Albany. For more have suggestions for our program, and still love traveling but those clude Tapestry of the Sun: An Anthol- were read to Joel before he passed He became a serial entrepreneur (11 “Moreover, those losing jobs a walk; have a good conversation; than 40 years, Larry has pursued please contact me or the appropri- long trips were getting harder and ogy of Ecuadorian Poetry and Brazil: away, and gave him pleasure at going on 12 new companies in the cannot simply be reprogrammed learn something new; enjoy clear- a career of historical scholarship, ate Alumni Office staff member at harder on my body, and I began A Traveler’s Literary Companion. In being remembered. last decade). Ted also is a seed ven- instantly to support education or ing out old stuff; and delight in the university teaching and international the top of the column. missing my family and friends the fall, I will go on a three-month Stuart, who was the only mem- ture capitalist helping develop new some other virtuous purpose; their company of sons, daughters and agitation against war and social I’m sad to share news of the more and more. Additionally, trav- reading tour with prize-winning ber there from our class or their life science technologies in Utah skills are obsolete. grandchildren, the comfort of my injustice. He’s been tear-gassed, deaths of several classmates. Ilze eling a lot means you compromise Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhao, Law School class, said he found the into new products — proffered by “Thus, the demand for govern- bed and a good night’s sleep. In threatened by police with drawn Marovskis writes, “I am the widow your diet and exercise regimen as presenting bilingually from one service both sad and uplifting. Sad, new companies — through Upstart ment programs to support the short, the gift of life! guns, charged by soldiers with fixed of John Marovskis. John passed on well as relationships, so it was time of his collections, Blood of the Sun. naturally, because of the premature Ventures. He is an anesthesiology unemployed and prematurely “May your holidays and New bayonets, spied upon by the U.S. November 3, 2011. Cause of death: to reorganize my priorities. We will read at Dartmouth, Yale, loss of a good man, one who was professor at the University of Utah retired will increase enormously. Year be filled with wonderful mo- government, arrested and fired from complications from cancer. A ‘coda’ “I got here from Los Angeles by Middlebury, Williams, Iowa, Indi- dignified and scholarly, devoted and last year was honored at gradu- If advocates for health care reform ments, good health, love, peace, his job for political reasons. was published in Volume 14, Num- sailboat after a one-month leisurely ana, the University of Southern Il- to his profession and family; his ation by receiving (along with a col- continue to ignore this issue, any good fortune and life! I’d love to His book, Working for Peace and ber 6 of The Audiophile Voice.” but maiden voyage on the SSV Ca- linois and many other venues. Any sudden illness and death provide a league) the school’s Distinguished success they have will only under- hear from you!” Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intel- Al Baumgarten reports that lypso, a 45-ft. beautiful ketch owned Columbians interested in inviting vivid reminder of our own mortal- Innovation and Impact Award for mine our economy in the future.” You can write him at jeffrey_mil lectual, traces his extraordinary ex- Charles (Chuck) Kleinhaus died and operated by my best friend and us to read at their institution, please ity. Uplifting, because as he listened 2011. Nat is a professor of medicine [email protected]. periences from a Brooklyn boyhood in Jerusalem on March 9. He writes, her husband. … Soon after landing get in touch with me at levitia@ to friends and family members More than a year ago, Nancy through his education at Columbia “Chuck was my classmate not only I decided to develop beach home plattsburgh.edu. describe Joel’s interests — which and John Garman (new email: and Wisconsin to the front lines at Columbia but also at Ramaz, properties on the Pacific coast of “After that tour, I plan to take it ranged from the law to politics and Art Wisot ’61 has been named to the 2012 list of [email protected]) moved from of anti-war activism, the fight for from third grade to the end of high Mexico. It’s a magical area with easy for a month in the Galapagos, government — and discuss the Anderson, S.C., to Durham, N.C., racial equality and struggles of school. We also were neighbors in high mountains and ocean beaches, then go to Paris for a few weeks, loving, caring relationships he had Southern California Super Doctors. into a home built for them by the labor movement. He sketches Jerusalem for more than 20 years.” so I bought several pieces of land followed by Burkina-Faso, where I with them, he realized that the way their son Jim, owner of Garman colorful vignettes of fighting rac- In addition, I’ve been informed and have recently finished building will work on a translation of the first Joel lived his life could be consid- Homes. John and Nancy enjoy the ism in Louisiana and Mississippi that James F. Brogan Jr. died in the first beach home. It’s for sale, so anthology of poetry compiled in that ered a testament to the enduring Bob Pollack has been the direc- and biomedical engineering at educational, cultural and sporting in the early 1960s, collaborating Charlestown, a neighborhood of all comers/tire kickers/the curious small African country. Meanwhile, value of a Columbia education tor of Columbia’s University Semi- . attractions of the Research Triangle with peace-oriented intellectuals Boston, on December 26. are welcome. Check out photos at I continue to work with younger (both in the liberal arts and the law). nars since last year. The University My wife, JB, and I returned in region of North Carolina. “Life in Gorbachev’s Soviet Union and If you would like to share your cerritosbeachhomes.com. poets from Ecuador, such as Ana He was glad he attended. Seminars movement has flourished March from our annual ski trip to could not be better,” John writes. leading thousands of antinuclear memories of our classmates, please “Life as a retiree is wonderful but Minga and Santiago Vizcaino. Richard Zamoff, who is an as- for more than 60 years, growing Copper Mountain, Colo. In De- “We have kept our houseboat on demonstrators through the streets send them to me. requires almost the same amount of “My son Michael (35) is an editor sociate professorial lecturer in sociol- from the original five seminars in cember, we had visited with John Lake Hartwell in South Carolina of Hiroshima. One chapter, in David Alpern reports that the changes as growing up — just of a of the Occupied Wall Street Journal ogy at The George Washington Uni- 1945 to approximately 80 today. Drake and his wife, Linda, at their and use it as a ‘freshwater condo’ Larry’s words, “shows how deeply hunt continues for new founda- different variety, direction and tone. (online) and Occupied.com. My versity, wrote that the university’s Each seminar acts as an autono- magnificent home in Silverthorne, for swimming, water skiing and marked my subsequent activities tion grants and tax-deductible Speaking of tone, I’ve lost mine but daughter Christine (25) is beginning Jackie and Rachel Robinson Society mous and voluntary grouping of Colo. (See nearby photo.) We skied boating. … I am in occasional con- were by my Columbia education — corporate underwriting to keep I’m at the gym now and intend to to work behind the scenes with a celebrated the 65th anniversary of scholars and practitioners, brought with John and also, in February, tact with Dick McKenna (richard. especially the Contemporary Civi- his For Your Ears Only weekend get it back.” film crew in New York.” Jackie Robinson’s historic break- together under the auspices of with Alex Liebowitz and his son, [email protected]) and Joe lization and Humanities courses, radio and Internet program alive. Art Eisenson writes, “As I recall, Michael Bumagin sends greet- through with a brunch on April 15. Columbia by their dedication to a David ’99. Leska. Dick lives in eastern Penn- which convinced me that ideas During the winter, the show won a my last update was that the TV writ- ings from Fort Worth: “Here in The event took place at Darlington particular line of investigation. The Finally, some sad news: Donald sylvania; Joe, near Binghamton, played a key role in changing the place in the database of Grantmak- ers’ class action age discrimination Texas we’re finally getting a little House in Washington, D.C. Richard movement is not only interdisci- G. Roesch, a retired attorney, of N.Y. Both are doing fine.” world.” Gary Dorrien, the Reinhold ers in Film+Electronic Media, and suits settled. About 14 months ago rain (the water table remains low, said that anyone interested in learn- plinary but also inter-institutional Woodside, Calif., passed away on John is a trustee for the North Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics launched a YouTube channel for its we distributed $41 million to writers however). The grass is green and ing more about the school’s Jackie and involves members of the com- September 19, 2010. Carolina Humanities Council, a at Union Theological Seminary and audio interviews: youtube.com/ whose careers were lost or damaged. the daffodils are in bloom. Bruce Robinson Project can contact him at munity who might not otherwise legislative contact for AARP North a professor of religion at Colum- user/foryourearsonlyonair#p/u. The settlement also created the Fund Miller, Arnie Barkman, Bob 202-994-8125. participate in University activity. Carolina and a member contact for bia, calls Larry’s book “a jewel Bruce (Jeff) Wechsler writes, “I for the Future, the mission statement Whelan and I still hold periodic Tom Bratter writes that 27 years Bob also wrote that as the 11th John Freidin the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber … wonderfully lucid, evocative, sold the major part of my Chicago of which can be found at tvwriters- meetings of the CC ’63 local FW/D ago, while he was disrupting a dean of the College, he thanks 62 654 East Munger St. of Commerce. honest, unpretentious, precise and real estate portfolio in 2009. I am fundforthefuture.com/mission.html. bagel club, but it’s been a while professional meeting that offended Judge Jose Cabranes for his years Middlebury, VT 05753 Once again, I must report the sad interesting.” now semi-retired and office-ing In December, I was elected president since we noshed together. I’m many, one frustrated and skeptical of service as a University trustee. 62 news of the death of a classmate. When this reaches you, our 50th with an affiliated company doing of the Board of Governors of the hoping to induce them, along with [email protected] colleague challenged him: “If you Richard Neel’s daughter, Victo- John E. Zucker, 70, a Maryland reunion will have passed. Would real estate consulting and investing. Fund for the Future.” Harry Lesch (who’s in Eureka, think you know better than we do, ria, had an exhibition of her work Just days after the deadline for the allergist, died from a heart attack those of you who attended please In another vein, my son Jeremy From Jonah Raskin we hear: “[I Calif., raising his two fine sons), to start your own damn program.” at the Jason McCoy Gallery (41 last issue, Jeff Milstein sent these on December 27 at his winter home write something about how you opened his new theater, called The- was] co-captain of the 1962 Old Blue join me for the 50th. Tom took those words to heart E. 57th St. in Manhattan) through telling reflections on 2011: “This in La Quinta, Calif. For years John felt on your return to campus a ater Wit, with three 99-seat theaters. Rugby Club, retired as of January “I’m working on the second and founded the John Dewey Acad- February 24. More information on year seems to have just flown by! provided pollen updates to D.C. half-century after graduating? And The building was remodeled and after 30 years of teaching at Sonoma edition of Exploring Fort Worth with emy in Great Barrington, Mass. The her work can be found at jasonmc As I have another birthday on media outlets. He determined would those who did not attend, houses not only his own produc- State University and have written Children. Legends of the Vampire (both academy provides intensive instruc- coyinc.com. Christmas Eve (my 72nd), my the concentration of allergens by please write why they chose not tions but also those of other local 14 books including, most recently, volumes are still available) remains tion and treatment for high-potential In case you missed Nat Reichek’s thoughts turn to how many I might collecting pollen on a microscope to? Let’s keep this column lively. theater companies. My other son, Marijuanaland: Dispatches from an popular with fans who demand students who have a history of self- January letter to the editor in The have left. I am in fairly good health, slide that was placed on the roof David, is Theater Wit’s business American War and Rock ‘n’ Roll better writing than is seen in the defeating or self-destructive choices, New York Times, which responded to but since we never know what of one of his three allergy offices in manager — a real family project.” Women: Portraits of a Generation.” Twilight books. I’m happy to send REUNION WEEKEND and thus have not been succeeding Ezekiel J. Emanuel’s online commen- might happen, I keep thinking Prince George’s County. He was a Your former class correspon- Mel Gurtov writes, “Although MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 in school or life. Most students enter tary piece “What We Give Up for ‘Carpe Diem’ — seize the day! past president of the D.C. chapter dent, Sid Kadish, passed on a fas- I officially retired from university ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS being at least one grade level below Health Care,” I’ve included it below: “But seize the day to do what? of the International Wine and Food cinating letter from Sy Moskowitz, teaching in 2010, I continue to be ALUMNI AFFAIRS Robin Vanderputten What’s Your Story? their chronological age and, at best, “To the Editor: My thinking has been evolving on Society. John is survived by his chil- who now is a law professor at quite involved in academic work. [email protected] Letting classmates know having compiled mediocre academic “Ezekiel J. Emanuel cites many this question. I really am retired dren, Jeremy Zucker and Amanda Valparaiso University. Sy, with I’ll give three examples: I remain 212-851-7399 records. These same students go on adverse economic effects of Ameri- from my past career ambitions but Bowker, both of Washington; four family and friends, completed the editor-in-chief of Asian Perspective, what’s going on in your DEVELOPMENT Allen Rosso to attend quality colleges; in recent can health care but exhibits a blind I still try in some ways to influence grandchildren; and his wife, Kitty “Kili Trek,” the hike and ascent of an international quarterly; I am life is easier than ever. [email protected] years, these have included both the spot for a potentially catastrophic the wider world. This past year The Kelley, a biographer of celebrities in- Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. organizing an international confer- Send in your Class Notes! 212-851-7947 College and GS. hazard of reform. Health care is New York Times published three of cluding Jacqueline Kennedy Onas- His letter describes the exhausting ence on ‘Engaging Enemies’; and ONLINE by clicking The faculty’s credentials are enormously labor-intensive. A my letters. I wrote my congress- sis, Frank Sinatra, Paul Neshamkin six-day, five-night trek. I will post I am finishing a book, Will This Be college.columbia.edu/cct/ awesome. One is a Rhodes Scholar. reform that reduces health care’s per- men and officials in the executive and . 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 it, with Sy’s permission, on our China’s Century?” submit_class_note. Another won a Fulbright and be- centage of gross domestic product to branch and received some positive Rich Curtis sent a note to say 63 Hoboken, NJ 07030 website, cc63ers.com. Elliott Greher reports, “Recently came a professor in this program. Germany’s 10.5 percent or Britain’s feedback. But I am well aware of that Pete Russell’s name is on 63 Sy, thanks for showing us all my family attended the wedding EMAIL to the address at [email protected] Another is a former ambassador 8.7 percent from the American 17 how limited my influence is. panel 24W, line 090 of the Vietnam that at 70 not even the highest of my first grandchild, Isaac Hersh. the top of your column. to the . Most have percent inevitably reduces employ- “My thinking now is ‘enjoy Veterans Memorial. Pete was killed I hope that you all have marked mountain in Africa can stop you. He does not have parents so I MAIL to the address at the doctorates. ment by as much or more. the moment!’ So I try to enjoy the in action flying an OV-10 — a tur- your calendars for Thursday, May Michael Hassan wrote with walked him down the aisle. What Tom also writes that in Decem- “Many hundreds of thousands of beauty and wonder of the world. boprop light attack and observa- 30–Sunday, June 2, 2013, our 50th further details about his move to a thrill.” top of your column. ber he experienced a near-death hospital nurses, technologists, ad- I am taking more time to feel the tion aircraft — on May 23, 1969. Alumni Reunion Weekend. The Mexico. Here are a few excerpts; Alexis Levitin reports, “I teach

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES autographed copies to anyone who middle-aged son strolls by and a few tables away are members the death of Howard Kissel, about the Republican primary who have never volunteered to rocks piled with layers of motionless had just one morning. is interested (email drmike9151@ says, ‘Look out, now, you might of the Class of ’63, which holds its longtime theater critic at the New season and its surprising twists interview high school seniors on marine iguanas, and acrobatic sea “Catherine the Great was the self- sbcglobal.net for details). break Grandpa.’ monthly lunch at the same time. In York Daily News, in late February. and turns. In discussing what he behalf of the Admissions Office are lions and sally lightfoot crabs inhab- appointed curator for L’Hermitage, “Enough advertising. See y’all “I remember Columbia fondly March, we overheard as ’63 started He was 69. calls “the seismic changes within missing out on something. I’ve been iting the beaches. Several trips in a sending her emissaries to Europe on campus in ’13.” as the place where, for the first to plan for its 50th Alumni Reunion Howard had been chairman of the Republican party,” Heilemann interviewing for the last five years, glass-bottom boat let us view count- and other places to buy 300–400 Bill Burley sent a picture of time in my life, intelligent, often Weekend in May 2013, and it made both the New York Film Critics quotes Jeff as follows, “‘Compared and the young people who are less varieties of colorful, tropical fish, objets d’art at a time. We started with himself on a cycling trip in Italy’s distinguished people took us seri- me think that ’64 is not far behind Circle and the New York Drama to 2008, all the candidates are way interested in Columbia are remark- the Galapagos penguin, giant turtles the gold and precious gems exhibits Dolomites last May in celebration of ously as thinking beings engaged — Thursday, May 29–Sunday, June Critics’ Circle, but as The New York to the right of John McCain. … The able, invariably with resumes and and other mammals. Grasslands (generally closed to the majority of his 70th birthday (see cc63ers.com). with them in a common quest. 1, 2014. It’s not too soon to start the Times obituary noted, “He never fact that Romney is running with achievements far greater than mine provided cover for land iguanas visitors) to see the treasure trove He writes, “I’m training (yep, I have “One story about that. Freshman conversation about how we should overestimated the power of theater basically the same views as them were at that stage of life. This year, (they don’t go near the water) and used or gifted to the tsars and a coach) for five time trial races to year, in Donald Frame’s Humani- celebrate. Please send along your criticism.” At a 2005 panel discus- but is seen as too moderate tells the Admissions Office sponsored a vegetation and nesting palaces for tsarinas. A series of galleries house be held this summer cycling up ties A1 course, I went up to him at thoughts. At past reunions all of sion of critics, he noted, “Many you that the base has moved right- special one-day event of interview- giant tortoises. an unbelievable collection of modern New England’s mountains. By the the end of the class and said some- the speakers were ’64 classmates. I shows have become big hits with- ward and doesn’t simply want a ing (in addition to interviews I had “Upon disembarking at the Baltra paintings, including 50 by Matisse. end of June I will have accumulated thing like, ‘You know, I sometimes think we should continue that tradi- out us. I think that’s just fine. Our conservative candidate. It wants a been conducting through the fall), Island, we flew to Guayaquil, then to Aside from being a beautiful palace, 8,000–9,000 miles for 2011–12. I’ll think that there’s no such thing as tion. What do you think? job is not to make hits. Our job is to very conservative one.’” with about 10 interviewers and 70 Lima, and onto Cusco, the gateway the grounds of Peterhof are exqui- be wearing Columbia University truth, only beauty.’ And he leaned Nick Rudd will be awarded the make judgments.” Bob Caserio has a new book interviewees in one location. Hav- to Machu Picchu and its surrounds. site, complete with 63 fountains, cycling gear for at least one event. back, took a drag on a cigarette and Alumni Medal at Commencement In addition to his numerous out. “My latest edited volume from ing seven interviews back-to-back Cusco is a fascinating city at 11,000 ft. choreographed to spout and cascade I’m competing against others in my said, with total sincerity and kind- this year. Nick has been instru- newspaper reviews, Howard was Cambridge University Press, The is a challenge — by the end of the above sea level. It was built during water with great ceremony several age group, so the young Tour de ness, ‘You know, I sometimes think mental in organizing our reunions the author of David Merrick: The Cambridge History of the English Novel, day you can be uncertain who told the 12th century by the Incas as the times of day. Catherine’s Palace is France hopefuls have nothing to so myself.’” and is the driving force behind re- Abominable Showman, a biography has recently appeared. I co-edited you what — but that is offset by the heart of their empire until its dis- notable for its furnishings, including worry about from me. Mike Bowler sent a great, long newed alumni interest in the Glee of the famous Broadway producer, the book with Clement Hawes of the fact that you get a much sharper covery by Francisco Pizarro, around a dining room with an imported “My bride, Suzanne, and I have note, some of which I’ve included Club. Well done, Nick! Steve Case, and he appeared in Woody Allen’s University of Michigan. It represents sense of who the best candidates 1533. As history recounts, in short 1,500 piece set of Wedgewood china. been married for 43 years and live here (the rest is on our website). who retired as a University trustee film Stardust Memories in the role the work of 54 contributors, each are and how they stack up against order, Pizarro and his conquerors “Visby remains as untouched in Chatham on Cape Cod. For the “I don’t know if I’ll make the 50th last year after 14 years in the role, of the manager for a filmmaker of whom is a leading scholar in the one another. It is clear to me that the fought and subdued the nearly as it was in the medieval times, past 10 years, we have traveled to reunion next year but will try. If received the award in 2009. played by Allen. study of the history of fiction. quality of the future student body defenseless Inca, as missionaries with its stone walls to protect the NYC in January, where I pipe in the we do get to New York, it will also Steve Rosenfeld writes, “Your Ben Brantley, the theater critic “I’m at work on another volume will continue to assure the greatness exposed them to Christianity. Today, city. Tallinn is home to one of the haggis at the Penn Club to celebrate be our 50th wedding anniversary. observation in the Spring issue of for the Times, wrote a wonderful for Cambridge, The Cambridge Intro- of Columbia.” You can reach Steve Cusco is a blend of remnants of the oldest apothecaries in the world, the birthday of the poet Robert Margaret French ’64 Barnard and Columbia College Today that ‘retire- tribute to Howard that you can duction to British Fiction, 1900–1950. at [email protected]. [Editor’s Inca culture and religion and the founded in 1422. We arrived in Burns. I also pipe for weddings and I were married in the Columbia ment is in the air’ reminded me find by searching the newspaper’s This time I’ll do the writing for all note: For more information on the Catholic Church. The most notable Copenhagen on a Sunday morning funerals.” chapel on June 1, 1963, a Saturday that I may never have written to ArtsBeat blog (headline: “The- of the book. But I continue editorial Alumni Representative Committee, example is the Convent of Santo Do- and did a whirlwind museum tour, Dr. Ira Malter writes, “Retired that year, as it will be next year. you about my so-called retirement, ater Talkback: Howard Kissel, A work as an editor of the Journal of visit studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ mingo, a church standing on a foun- as they were closed on Monday from practice in Suffolk County in To get things off on the right foot now in its fourth year! Man Who Relished Culture”). A Modern Literature, published quar- admissions/alumni/volunteers. dation of a temple originally built by and we were leaving early Tuesday 2008. Spend winters in Scottsdale, I took her to a Mets doubleheader “I retired as a litigation partner similarly wonderful appreciation terly by the University of Indiana php.] the Incas. Descending down from morning. The Louisiana Museum Ariz., and summers in Dorset, Vt., the next day. Odd, the things you of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & appeared in The Hollywood Reporter. Press. of Modern Art houses an unbeliev- Have partial season tickets to Bos- remember. My last meal as a single Garrison in New York City at the Links to both can be found in the “Last semester I was a resident able collection in an architecturally ton Red Sox and Arizona Diamond- was breakfast at Prexy’s en route end of 2008, after which I began online version of these Class Notes. fellow at Penn State’s Institute for impressive structure. The Danish backs. Looking forward to 2013.” to the chapel. I remember almost a whole new life professionally. In his final blog for The Huff- the Arts and Humanities. I am on Anthony Starace ’66 organized a three-week physics Museum of Art and Design (Kun- Peter Belfiore writes, “I married nothing about the earlier com- While continuing to chair the New ington Post, a few days before his sabbatical this semester, and am re- workshop, “Attosecond Science — Exploring and stindustrimuseet) is testimony to Betty, a Barnard girl, in 1966, and mencement, including the speaker. York City Conflicts of Interest death, Howard wrote: “I wish I locating to Rome for three months.” Denmark’s reputation in graphic we are still having a wonderful “Margaret will retire this summer Board (the agency that administers were one of those people who, as Although you’ll have missed your Controlling Matter on Its Natural Time Scale.” arts and design. The Museum time. Lucky for me I was in The after a distinguished career as a com- the ethics law applicable to all the years go by, continue looking chance to visit Bob in Rome by the of Danish Resistance includes West End that fateful night, suck- munity college professor and ad- 300,000 NYC employees) and the forward. Alas, I’m not. I thank you time you read this, if you’d like to many exhibits showing the Danes’ ing on a Marlboro and sipping ministrator. I haven’t been full-time Board of Visitors of the CUNY Law for your indulgence.” communicate with him, his email I had lunch with Bob Yunich Cusco into the Sacred Valley of the courageous and heroic efforts to Scotch, though we only looked at since 2007 but keep busy as a writer, School, I embarked on a second Requiescat in pacem. address is [email protected]. recently. I asked him to share some Incas on the road leading to Machu fight the Germans during their each other and did not speak until consultant and member of the Board career as a Legal Aid lawyer. Congratulations to Steven Mill- news, and I got a handful: Picchu is breathtaking. The ‘ruins’ of occupation of Denmark in WWII. the next day on the Barnard lawn. of Education of Baltimore County “I had been a president of the hauser, whose book of short stories, “Since our safari to Tanzania in the Inca place dubbed Machu Picchu We thoroughly enjoyed the places “I have been writing all these (Md.). Our grandson, Michael, got a Legal Aid Society, and when I Leonard B. Pack We Others: New and Selected Stories, July 2008, my wife, Joanne, and I (8,500 ft. above sea level), were dis- we visited and probably would not years — poetry, fiction, plays, first name from me but lots of smarts stepped down in 1991, I made 924 West End Ave. won the prestigious Story Prize on have been fortunate to be able to covered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham otherwise have been able to see as librettos, filmscripts — most of it, from his parents and grandma. I’ll a vague promise to return once 65 New York, NY 10025 March 21. He was in fast company; continue our adventure travel. The III. During the last century, efforts to much as we did. alas, not published. But I’ve never miss him when he goes off to middle I retired (which I then thought 65 the runners-up were admired col- Galapagos archipelago, located carefully restore Machu Picchu to its “Joanne and I have been together [email protected] made a great effort to publish, I school this fall from the local elemen- would be 20 years from never). But lections by Don DeLillo and Edith approximately 600 miles west of previous glory have been supervised for 35 years as of May. To celebrate just wanted to write and write and tary, where I read to kindergartners 20 years passed rapidly, and so I Doug Barnert reported some happy Pearlman. Stephen took home a the coast of Ecuador, comprises 50 by the Peruvian government. One we have planned a trip to Berlin write. Betty, who became a classi- every Thursday. How could 49 years kept the promise and now spend news: “In July I got a double knee check for $20,000 and an engraved islands of volcanic origin spread can only marvel at and wonder how and Istanbul. For the majority of the cal scholar, has been the much- have gone by?” two days each week representing replacement to finally deal with silver bowl. If you have not read out over an area covering more the Incas, without iron or other tools, year we are spending half our time published one. Her latest book Our regular Second Thursday children in abuse and neglect cases those football legs. After six weeks, any of his stories, I urge you to get than 1,700 square miles. Most were able to shape large stones to at our upstate home, Y’SACRES in is Socrates’ Daimonic Art: Love for lunches are a great place to recon- in New York County (Manhat- walked out of the rehab center with started. You will be well rewarded. people associate Charles Darwin fit tightly together to make homes Andes, N.Y., and the r emainder in Wisdom in Four Platonic Dialogues. nect. If you’re in NYC, the next two tan) Family Court for Legal Aid’s no canes or anything. Six months Steve Steinig sent some interest- with the Galapagos due to his re- and temples and to create a city with New York City. My insurance and “All my jobs have been for the are scheduled for June 14 and July Juvenile Rights Practice. With those later and walking a mile. Everest ing news: “Embarked on a 10-day search leading to his monumental streets, terraces for farming and a investment advisory practice is still purpose of finding time to write, 12. Check cc63ers.com for details. three occupations running simul- is next.” trip to Israel with my wife, Renee work, On the Origin of the Species, water system on such an expansive going strong; our Andes home is but I’m glad I had them. I’ve taught In the meantime, make plans to taneously, I am busier than ever — Go, Doug! You can email him at ’67 Barnard, our two daughters and published in 1859. In fact, Darwin scale. This entire trip was extraordi- perfect for taking care of those clients college English, been an editor and attend our 50th reunion (reunion. and loving every minute of it. [email protected]. their families — 10 of us in all. It visited the Galapagos only once for nary and amazing. residing in the Hudson Valley. New retired a number of years ago as a college.columbia.edu)! And, as “Still, my wife, Joan, and I find On the subject of repairing our was our seventh trip to Israel, but five weeks in 1835, spending only “In August 2011, we cruised on York remains my primary base.” social worker licensed in Minne- always, let us know what you time to enjoy our lives as West aging bodies, I ran into Paul Hyman the first for half the other adults and 19 days ashore on five islands. the Seabourn Sojourn from Stock- You can reach Bob at rhyunich@ sota, where we moved in 1980 due are up to, how you’re doing and Villagers, spend time with our five on March 15 at a Bach concert at for the four children, ages 5–13. The “Our 16-day trip in late Septem- holm to Copenhagen, with port aol.com. to Betty’s job at the University of what’s next. grandchildren and travel — we’re Alice Tully Hall in New York. Paul occasion was the bar mitzvah of our ber and early October 2009 started calls at Visby (Sweden), Tallinn Minnesota. We are both retired now, doing the Alumni Travel Study looked great, but astonished me by grandson; while the sightseeing had with the exploration of eight islands (Estonia), Helsinki and St. Peters- but still have many writing projects Program’s ‘Wild Alaska Journey’ revealing that he had recently un- something of a ‘been there, done of the Galapagos aboard the National burg (Russia). St. Petersburg was Stuart Berkman going. Norman Olch in June and are going to Rome and dergone seven hours of open heart that’ quality for Renee and me, the Geographic Endeavour. Fauna and the high point of the trip, especially 66 Rua Mello Franco, 580 “Our son and his wife live in 64 233 Broadway Sicily in the fall to celebrate our surgery to repair a defective heart overall emotions of the trip were flora varies from island to island, the State Hermitage, Peterhof and Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro Woodstock, N.Y., with our grand- New York, NY 10279 fifth anniversary.” valve. Paul was clearly enjoying the the most intense imaginable. And with most species indigenous to one the Catherine Palace. The tsars and 66 25960-531 Brasil daughters (3 and 7). I like being a 64 Martin Krieger is the author of beautiful music and the rest of life. watching the three younger children and sometimes two islands. Two of tsarinas surely knew how to live in [email protected] [email protected] grandpa, but you do realize you’re Urban Tomographies, which explores Jeffrey Bell, about whom I turn the 2,000-year-old Roman re- the more unusual birds of the more splendor. L’Hermitage, formerly a getting old when, as your younger When we have our informal class the Los Angeles infrastructure wrote in a recent issue, was quoted mains of Caesarea into a playground than 100 species we spotted were palace, is a museum extraordinaire. An electronic epistle arrived re- granddaughter prepares to take a lunch on the second Thursday of through tomography, an imaging in a piece by John Heilemann, for running, jumping and hiding blue-footed boobies and courting We were told that two weeks was cently from the Levant, sent by Sa- running jump down a hill, into the the month at the Columbia Uni- process whose origins are X-rays. published February 25 in New York was, as they say, priceless. red-throated frigates. We also saw an barely ample time to spend view- bri Sayari, who claims to be one of air, expecting you to catch her, your versity Club in Manhattan, sitting Finally, I am saddened to report Magazine. Heilemann’s article was “Closer to home, those of you abundance of Darwin finches, lava ing every exhibit and galley; we the longtime silent members of the

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Right then the bal- 2012 Ivy champs, Harvard, at the in Burma as a Buddhist nun. She Great to hear from all of you. ventory of news and views, though, United States, Europe and . we traveled by high-speed rail, Music Association. conies emptied, the traffic ceased end of the season at home in over- has a great website on spiritual joy And Sam, we welcome you as an so I must return to grovel mode and I was the director of the Institute which took only one hour (com- “Our son, Will, is a filmmaker and I was left by myself looking time, the younger Lions looked and other life essentials, Wild Life honorary member of the Class of solicit news and/or views from you of Turkish Studies at Georgetown pared to three hours by car). It also in Los Angeles and doing well. out on the snow falling on the great — and the starters will all be Coaching (zoewild.com), and she’s 1968 — one of the great classes in for next time (especially from those from 1994–2005. Then I joined was very smooth and comfortable. He and I and Joan were all on the quad, like something out of Joyce. back. Get your tickets early. And engaged to be married this summer. the history of Columbia — though who have not given Columbia an the faculty of Sabanci University Rail travel in Asia is thus far supe- Late Show with David Letterman a I don’t know if such things happen do come to Homecoming this year My son, Nicholas, who teaches I wonder if Groucho Marx might email address). in Istanbul, where I’m Emeritus rior to that in America. few years ago as part of a band anymore at Columbia. I hope they (Saturday, October 20); football music in the Danvers public school have some comment about our John Herbert is alive and well Professor of Political Science. Last “Later in the summer, I traveled that Steve Martin put together; the do. Dave was a great guy.” should be much better. I predict a system, has become prominent in class having class or no class. We after retiring from Columbia in summer I met Ira Katznelson, who to conferences in two places I had band also included Earl Scruggs, Other than this sweet memory, win against Dartmouth. the American Orff-Schulwerk Asso- certainly went to class, except may- 2009. He writes, “I continue to was in Istanbul for a conference. It never been: Sapporo and Sarajevo. my No. 1 hero, who was 88 when the mailbox has been empty for I received a gracious note from ciation [a professional organization be second semester senior year. It is be chairman of anesthesiology at was great seeing him again after In Sapporo (on the northermost he passed away on March 28. the past three months. I presume Alan Seplowitz ’72 P&S, who re- of music educators], including as an great to get updates — and I have Howard University Hospital and 45 years! I continue to teach and island of Hokkaido) there were no A clip of that performance is on that the absence of news simply ceived a Ewig Award for excellence editor of its journal.” heard from many classmates who College of Medicine in the nation’s divide my time between homes in effects of the earthquake that had drbanjo.com (I’m to Steve’s right). means that you were busy gearing in clinical teaching this academic Here’s the update from Sandy: say they love reading about others. capital, where I now actually at- Istanbul and Washington, D.C.” occurred earlier in 2011. The Japa- I’ve fulfilled many ambitions as a up to share at our 45th reunion. I year. It was conferred by the Depart- “I can’t remember if this is my I do, for sure. tend alumni events! Your correspondent lived in nese organizers were very grateful performer and am now working to hope that many of you were able ment of Medicine at P&S, where second check-in since graduation Turkey for four years, 1981–85, but to those who came, as many from launch The Wernick Method, cer- to attend and enjoyed the warmth he has been a faculty member since (which already tells you something unfortunately never met our Turk- other countries had canceled their tifying teachers to teach jamming of old friendships in a setting that 1978. Alan also has a practice in about me and/or our collective ish classmate. His email is sabris@ attendance following the disasters to novice bluegrassers — just like means so much to all of us. Be sure adult endocrinology at the Columbia life stage). Here are the barebones Alan Seplowitz ’68, ’72 P&S received a Ewig Award sabanciuniv.edu. on the main island. jamming at Ferris Booth Hall!” to send me a note saying how the University Medical Center. headlines since ’68. Immediately for excellence in clinical teaching this academic year Anthony Starace reports on his “In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Her- Pete’s email is pwernick1@aol. weekend went, what you did and Congratulations, Alan. It would after graduation, I taught for a year highly productive and rewarding zegovina, I gave a plenary lecture com. who you saw. I’ll have a wrap-up be great if we could list the excep- while sorting out career interests from the Department of Medicine at P&S. travels to the Orient and the Balkans: at a major international physics Byron Michael Noone was in the Fall issue. tional records of our many class- and taking advantage of a teaching “In May 2011, I organized a three- conference. Sarajevo is a beautiful remembered by his widow, Lana, mates who work in the medical deferment. Then came two years week workshop, ‘Attosecond city, but bullet-riddled buildings at the Vietnam Memorial Wall school professorial ranks and of post-graduate, pre-med courses I have heard from Pete Janovsky, “My daughter, Amy ’98, ’01 REUNION WEEKEND Science — Exploring and Control- are still common, as are memories 30th Anniversary Program, held in elsewhere in medicine. at GS. I started med school in who has twins, and I suspect we Arts, graduated from the Dental MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 ling Matter on Its Natural Time of the war in the early 1990s. On Fort Myers, Fla., on January 26. A Continuing the medical theme, I Lausanne, Switzerland, and trans- will run into them all on the School in the spring. At this ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Scale,’ at the Kavli Institute for an excursion to Mostar, capital highlight of the program was the received a note from Wayne Wild ferred back for the last two clinical Colum­bia campus at some point. point, I think a dozen Columbia ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nick Mider Theoretical Physics in Beijing. The of Herzegovina, we crossed over attendance of President Gerald R. ’73 P&S, who is a resident of Bel- years at Connecticut. Continuing He sounds vigorous as usual; I’d sheepskins are in the family. Amy [email protected] reason for such a long workshop a mountain range and entered a Ford’s brother, Richard, who talked mont, Mass., Mitt Romney’s home- the westward thrust, I interned in love to sit with him sometime to already had helped us score a 212-851-7846 was to bring together experts from sunny, beautiful landscape. It was with Lana at length regarding the town and where I went to Hebrew Colorado and completed a psychi- talk about economics and politics. ‘triple-double’ when she earned DEVELOPMENT Heather Hunte around the world for the purpose like going from northern Europe to late President’s implementation of school despite being a resident atric residency at UCSF, where I Paul de Bary and I sat together at a her Arts degree, thus extending [email protected] of interacting informally on physics southern Europe over the Alps as Operation Babylift; he also remem- of Arlington. Wayne writes with stayed on as a faculty member in Columbia basketball game this year, the double-degree status to a third 212-851-7957 problems at the frontiers of current far as the change in the weather. A bered Byron during their conversa- some zest and great cheer about the Department of Psychiatry, in and that was fun. He recently wrote generation. My father, Benne S. understanding. Roughly two-thirds culinary discovery was Blatkina red tion. Please contact lananoone@ Arthur Spector reconnecting with Samuel (Sandy) charge of an inpatient adolescent a book about wine; I don’t know Herbert ’32, ’36 Dental, was the of the participants were from China, wine, which is unique to Herze- yahoo.com for details. 271 Central Park West Rabison and Ethan (Sam) Rofman service. when it will be published but I will pioneer, while I did P&S in ’73. My including many students, and one- govina and is very good. Also, 68 New York, NY 10024 ’61, ’65 P&S: “During this time I married find out. brother, Mike ’77; my niece, Aina third mainly from Europe, North although many Muslims there are 68 “The delightful coincidence of Ronnie Fuchs, also a psychiatrist. Mark Constantian sent a note to Hunter ’03J; my cousin, Richard [email protected] America and Japan. The workshop quite secular (owing to the fact that Albert Zonana three Columbia College graduates We had our first child, Rebecca, say that John Tait passed away re- ’69 PH; and my wife, Sandra ’70 was a scientific and social success, as hundreds of years of Ottoman rule 67 425 Arundel Rd. Spring arrived early in New York, ‘discovering’ each other while and two years later moved to the cently. I wish his wife, Tina, and his TC, each stopped with one but, like many collaborations were initiated essentially required that the popula- Goleta, CA 93117 which was a pleasure. I hope all is working part-time at Tufts Health Boston area, where we’ve been family well. John was a wonderful me, pursued additional academ- and many insights into how matter tion convert to Islam), there remain 67 well in your corner of the world, Plan, with two of us being from since 1987. I’ve held a variety of classmate; I remember when he ics elsewhere. Then we must not [email protected] behaves on ultrashort time scales tensions with Orthodox Christians and that you are thinking about the Class of ’68 and two of us from administrative and clinical posi- met his wife, then a Vassar student, forget Aunt Lessie, who turns 100 were obtained. (For the record, owing to the war in the 1990s. Don Brophy ’69 wrote, “When I our 45th reunion (Thursday, May P&S, simply cried out for a note tions during this time. Ronnie, our freshman year. either next year or the following; one attosecond is a billionth of a “So all in all, my travels in 2011 read your notice in the Spring issue 30–Sunday, June 2, 2013). If you to you. The three of us cannot get after a stint as co-director of the I have a general policy against she earned her master’s from TC billionth of a second; an electron in gave me many new perspectives of CCT of Dave Koffler’s death, would like to join the Reunion enough of recalling fond memories outpatient department at Beth mentioning classmates who have the year I was born! But Amy the hydrogen atom takes around on several different parts of our I was immediately transported Committee to help plan the week- and personalities over lunch each Israel, has been in private practice. died, so as not to let the column get broke the family record in May, 150 attoseconds to make one orbit planet.” back to Hartley Hall sometime in end’s events, contact the appropri- week. Rebecca is at Yale in a dual degree bogged down by sadness, but some- when she earned her third degree. around its proton.) Anthony is the George Holmes winter 1966–67. Dave and I were ate Alumni Office staff member “I’ll start with me. I am a medical program at the Schools of Manage- times it’s right to make exceptions. We are very proud.” “Following the workshop, my University Professor of Physics at the on the football team together and noted at the top of the column. You director and essentially have man- ment and Forestry. Joey, who was Well, let’s end on some good John Bernson has spent most wife, Katherine, and I joined an es- University of Nebraska in Lincoln. were floormates on the ninth floor need not be in the New York area aged care medical review, for about born in Boston, lives in Manhat- thoughts. The College is doing of the last 18 months restructur- corted tour. We flew to Xian, Guilin His email is [email protected]. of Hartley for a couple years. One and can participate in meetings via five years now. But the rest of my tan and teaches first grade in the very well. And the women’s track ing an emerging markets real and Shanghai, where local guides “Dr. Banjo,” aka Peter Wernick, drab Saturday evening, Dave asked conference call. week is spent as associate professor South Bronx through the Teach for team won the 2012 indoor Ivy estate developer owned by one met us. My last visit to Shanghai writes, “I live in Niwot, Colo., near if I would go down to the first floor More about reunion will follow at Berklee College of Music, where America program. Rebecca had League championship, which of the Gulf Emirates. He says the was in 1991, when bicycles were the Boulder — moved here in 1976. I and keep a woman company while in this column during the next I have been for 10 years, teaching considered Columbia undergrad, is great progress for Columbia. project was challenging, and he primary means of transportation. am deeply involved in my music he got ready. Apparently she was year as well as arrive at your home freshman writing and my course but in the end both kids happily Congratulations to the women and had opportunities to travel to some Now there are mostly automobiles. career, which was nourished in the girlfriend of a friend of Dave’s, via mail and email. To ensure that in aesthetics (largely poetry) and chose Wesleyan.” their coach, Willy Wood. places well off the beaten track. Most impressive is that in 1991 my early days at Columbia, where in NYC for a visit, and Dave was Columbia has your correct contact having a ball. I published a book on Sam, meanwhile, reports that His destinations included Tbilisi, there was talk of a new economic I performed and started the blue- going to show her the town. information, update it online doctor-patient correspondence in he was president of the Glee Club Georgia; Cochin and Coimbatore zone in Pudong, which was then grass show on WKCR. I worked at “When I stepped off the eleva- (reunion.college.columbia.edu/ the 18th century, Medicine-by-Post, while at the College. He recently Michael Oberman in Kerala, India; Isfahan, Iran (a vacant land across from the Bund. Cornell as a sociologist after getting tor and turned the corner, there alumniupdate) or call the Alumni which relates medical rhetoric to the retired from the VA and now Kramer Levin Naftalis & touristic trip) and Kinshasa in the Today it is the financial center of a Ph.D. from Columbia, then took against the windows looking out Office (212-851-7488). language of illness in novels of the works part-time as an outpatient 69 Frankel Congo. He reports a trip up one China, filled with skyscrapers. a leap toward music. I lived off on the quad was the most beautiful, For those who are still using my period. And I am nearing comple- mental health medical director. He 69 1177 Avenue of the stretch of the “awesome” Congo What a change in only 20 years! instruction book royalties at first, elegant, exquisitely dressed woman ancient AOL email address, I will tion of a work on aesthetics, which also maintains a small psychiatric Americas River that was 14 miles wide. John “On the way to the airport, we then launched the band Hot Rize, I had ever seen. I overcame my shy- only hold onto it for a little longer. describes aesthetics from the point of private practice in Wellesley, Mass. New York, NY 10036 headed home to family and friends rode the magnetically levitated which in time became a leading ness, she overcame her reserve and My new address is arthurbspector@ view of artists rather than philoso- His eldest daughter, Amy, works moberman@ for Christmas 2011, which he says train from downtown Shanghai. It bluegrass attraction worldwide. The we had a delightful time. gmail.com. Do send notes. I have phers. for the State Department and his kramerlevin.com is one of the emotional highpoints went 300 km/hr (although capable band was full-time from 1978–1990 “Well, the real story was the been a little less conscientious about “Sad news was that my second youngest daughter, Julie, has de- of any overseas assignment. of 400 km/hr) and was amazingly and plays some gigs every year. I backdrop. Hartley around 6 o’clock checking both accounts, and worry wife, Faye, died last year of breast veloped a successful line of jewelry As mentioned in the last issue, I From Mel Yost: “John Marwell smooth despite the high speed. perform with my wife, Joan, as a on a Saturday evening in the winter I may have lost an email in the pro- cancer, and I miss her terribly. But (julierofmanjewelry.com), which sent a blast email to all classmates attended a nationally sponsored We then flew to Taipei for rest and duet and we recently have played always had zero traffic. But as she cess. If I have, please let me know. my colleagues at both Tufts Health she sells online and at stores across for whom CCT has email addresses, real estate CLE seminar at the La relaxation with one of my former in Russia, Israel, Holland, Ireland, and I talked, I became aware of a Columbia men’s basketball has and Berklee have been real family, the country. When not at work, asking for news or reflections on Fonda Hotel in my hometown of doctoral students (now a profes- England and around home. I’ve sudden stream of traffic as it moved a great and talented coach in Kyle and it has been so great to discover Sam plays tunes on the accordion, how the College experience has had Santa Fe, N.M. He emailed me in sor), who drove us to the beautiful supplemented my performing with in and out the door, and around the Smith, and the team coming back my Columbia fellows at Tufts. My reworks his model train collection an enduring influence on their lives. advance of traveling from Mount

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Kisco, N.Y., and for the first time to travel in a van though Mexico published in 2008, has been lence can be effective in curtailing the score. It’s unfortunate that the instructor at LaGuardia Commu- know that I remained in tennis ­piration Date, is available for free since our graduation, we got and Guatemala. Then I went to the optioned by a film producer and protests. Many of us white students basketball team has not fared so well nity College in Queens, asks that we after college and have coached download in PDF at worldofcaf together. We had lunches and din- Congo, then Zaire, on a contract to director. … I am indebted to the were not prepared, trained or or- for the balance of the season. How- consider reading his memoir, Diary and directed programs for four feine.com; click the “Caffeine ners in great Santa Fe restaurants. install a province-wide computer Core Curriculum. It’s made me ganized to deal effectively with the ever, by attending the game I got a of a Company Man: Losing a Job, Find- decades. In addition, I have been a Prose” tab. Bennett invites every- Our lovely spouses, Barbara and network. I lived there for 16 years, into the intellectual wanderer and beatings and arrests, and I learned dividend, because I ran into Bernie ing a Life. The book chronicles his nationally ranked senior player and one to check it out. Gloria, joined us for some of the going through many more changes, polymath that I am. Someone once something about the importance of Josefsberg, Dennis Graham, Jack journey from having a job in corpo- have come back nicely from knee Arvin Levine writes, “My daugh- meals. We caught up on what both starting my own company, selling said about Henry James that he strategy, preparation, planning and Probolus and Peter Stevens (your rate communications for Time War- replacement in ’09. I was honored in ter, Livia Rose Levine, is engaged of us have been doing since gradu- systems and developing applications chewed more than he bit off. Well, organizing. From Columbia, I also former class correspondent). The ner, to experiencing a gratuitously February as USTA Eastern’s Leslie to be married this July in Jerusalem ation and obtained some informa- in all sectors of the economy in Zaire, I frequently bite more than I chew, learned about the power of small former Lion gridiron greats had nice insulting layoff (“We’ve eliminated J. FitzGibbon Tennis Man of the to Noah Moline. This will close out tion about classmates. We are both Rwanda and Burundi. I also lived in which means that my mouth is fre- groups to influence individual things to say about our new football the bloat,” said the millionaire CEO) Year for a lifetime of contribution another happy chapter (paragraph?) lawyers and discovered we had huts, hunted with wooden spears, quently stuffed — in my case both behavior. Several of my Colum- coach, Pete Mangurian. We all can’t and his subsequent quest that leads to the sport. It was nice of Bernie to of my lifecycle with both children a lot in common after decades in traveled overland throughout Africa, literally and metaphorically. … The bia colleagues, normally decent, wait to root for the team next season! to meaningful work teaching immi- come celebrate with me, and nice married. I reject the ‘empty nester’ practice. We also discussed how and confronted military troops and notion of the liberal arts educa- sane people, joined the Weather In other news, Peter Joseph grants. , author of The to see Phil Williamson ’87, arguably assignation in favor of a widened long we want to continue doing militia running amok during riots tion has been and is under attack Underground and others, and the reports, “I finally retired after 35 Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred one of the greatest tennis players nest, supported by virtual presence what we are doing (both unde- and civil wars. After that experience at many institutions that now isolation and dynamics of these years in the emergency room biz, Days and the Triumph of Hope, says of all time for the Lions. I remain technologies and supplemented by cided) and how we can continue and having been completely looted, emphasize specialization. It seems small groups led these otherwise half of which was as a department that the book adds up to “an acute, connected to Columbia men’s ten- real presence in multiple geograph­ to enjoy our practices in the years both my home and offices, I lived in to me that is a good prescription sane, decent people to tragic and director. It was a great career, but observant, funny and moving story nis and get down to the Dick Savitt ic locations, across the fourth ahead. We enjoyed each other’s Europe for a few years, then migrat- for an artificial intelligence, but not violent behavior. From this, I never the way medicine is going, it’s a of what’s truly important in life. … Tennis Center at the Baker Athletics dimension of time. If you will be in company and we hope to maintain ed to Australia in 1995, invested in a necessarily one you’d recommend underestimate the power of a peer great time to change. I now work a beautiful piece of writing and en- Complex as often as I can to watch Jerusalem on July 3 (or even if you our reestablished friendship. global computer education business. for a human being interested in group to powerfully influence a full-time as a volunteer with two during source of inspiration.” Learn our stellar athletes compete.” won’t), contact me at arvinlevine@ “My legal practice is now more Married thrice and helped raise five developing the capacity to think.” person’s behavior, for good or ill.” organizations promoting climate more at jameskunen.com. John Borek, who, you may gmail.com!” than 50 percent mediations, settle- children over four continents. Then From Michael Jacoby Brown: “I Victor Cahn reports: “This year change education and carbon pric- For those who still toil in the recall, became a late-in-life perfor- Phil Bartolf announces, “On ment facilitation and arbitration. I about seven years ago, I decided to provide training in organizing and marks my 30th as professor of Eng- ing — The Climate Reality Project corporate world, James’ book will mance artist, reports that he was February 22 I became a grandfa- work throughout New Mexico and leave everything and travel alone, leadership skills, mostly to labor and lish at Skidmore. In the past couple and Citizens Climate Lobby. De- touch on some familiar experi- inspired by our recent reunion to ther. My daughter, Julia Bartolf occasionally in adjoining states. I mostly in the poorer countries, living community groups, as I’ve done as of months, I’ve published two spite all the data, civilization seems ences we have had during our long assemble a group of short plays Milne ’04, gave birth to Harper occasionally travel to New York very simply and occasionally visit- a community organizer for many books: Bard Games: The Shakespeare to be sleepwalking off a cliff and careers — it’s certainly true in my and monologues called The View Diana Milne at Mount Sinai Hos- City on business and for pleasure. ing family and friends in America, years. My book, Building Powerful Quiz Book and Political Animal: An losing the climate battle. case. from Carman Hall. Anyone who pital in NYC. Everyone is ecstatic, Barbara and I are almost done writ- Europe and Australia.” Community Organizations, is widely Essay on The Character of Shake- “We recently welcomed twin wishes to submit a play or mono- and well, and Harper is adorable ing checks to educational institu- speare’s Henry V. Two of my plays, granddaughters, and my youngest logue describing life at Columbia if I say so myself. My wife, Patsy, tions. Our oldest daughter, Sarah, Embraceable Me and Roses in De- is a freshman at Tufts, heading into Jim Shaw during our freshman year can do and I plan to spend a fair amount is a transplant pharmacist at the cember, were published by Samuel computer science. They are great 139 North 22nd St. so by contacting John: johnw of free time in NYC now that we University of Arizona Medical Cen- Performance artist John Borek ’71 was inspired by French. Last fall, the former was motivation to keep working for a 71 Philadelphia, PA 19103 [email protected]. He suggests are grandparents. A great, heady ter and assistant clinical professor at produced in Arizona, the latter sane energy policy! It’s late, but not 71 that it be no more than 10 minutes, feeling. All the best to the class.” his recent reunion to assemble a group of short plays [email protected] the University of Arizona Schools received its West Coast premiere too late.” which is 6–10 pages of speech. John John Borek started his recent of Medicine and Pharmacy. Our and monologues called The View from Carman Hall. in Beverly Hills, and my latest Larry Rosenwald, professor of Lloyd Emanuel writes, “In Febru- says the plays and monologues correspondence by noting “Bob son, Austin, earned an M.B.A. at the play, Dally With The Devil, was English at Wellesley College and ary I attended a very nice [arranged will be performed at the MuCCC Brintz’s astonishing meditation. Anderson School of Management at produced Off-Broadway. Last year co-director of the school’s program by the Alumni Office] Burgers Theater in Rochester, N.Y., where He owns the game and it’s the the University of New Mexico last Henry Jackson reports: “For the used by colleges and organizations I presented several performances in peace and Jewish studies, writes: and Basketball dinner at Havana he is director of artist development. game of life.” John was referring year and is a credit analyst and ven- past 22 years, my wife, Kathryn, across the country. I recently became of my one-man show, Sherlock Solo “Hmm, what have I been up to? Central at The West End (lots of I hope that he will expand elig- to the Spring 2012 Class Notes ture capital liaison at a bank here in and I have been freelance trans- certified to use the Myers-Briggs (originally produced Off-Broad- On the Jewish front, learning to memories there!) and then watched ibility to any of our classmates column, which included an excerpt Santa Fe. Our youngest daughter, lators. The materials we have Type Indicator instrument, which way). Finally, in 2010 I published leyn (chant from the Torah scroll) a well-balanced Lions basketball who lived in Carman in any year, from an essay Bob posted on an Catie, is finishing her studies to translated have varied widely, from I find useful in team building. the novel Romantic Trapezoid. About and becoming a lay cantor. On the team rout Brown at Levien. I at- and to any who lived in Carman ALS website, and the March 2012 obtain a master’s in social work at historical articles having to do with My 38-year-old daughter, Corita, memories of Columbia, details can academic front, finishing a lot of tended with a good friend, Bernie while we did, even if they were Class of ’71 eNews, in which I the University of Denver and will anything from the Reformation to earned a master’s in organizational be found in a chapter in my 2009 long-term projects. They include Sunshine ’46, who is his class’ not in our class. included the full essay (lightly graduate in June.” the Third Reich, to informed con- development from Teachers College memoir, Classroom Virtuoso.” a book, Multilingual America: Lan- correspondent for CCT. Bernie and Anyway, don’t bet he can’t get edited). Neal Handel writes: “Everything sent materials for clinical trials. Like and works for the Center for Inter- Lastly, The New York Times report- guage and the Making of American I play tennis once a week (I am a you into The New York Times: ny If you are a member of the class here in Los Angeles is stable (except everything else, this occupation has Generational Learning, affiliated ed on February 1 about an exchange Literature, with Cambridge Univer- tennis professional) — he helped times.com/2008/04/21/theater/ and not receiving the eNews, email perhaps the ground). I have three its positive and negative aspects. with Temple. We are looking for between Paul Auster and the Turk- sity Press; the Library of America recruit me to Columbia 42 years 21moos.html. me with your name and the email children, a 7-year-old daughter, a Among the positives is the relative opportunities to train together. ish prime minister, prompted by the edition of Emerson’s journals; and ago! Bernie was the manager of the Ron Bass: “My short story, Zen address at which you would like to 6-year-old daughter and a 5-year- flexibility it affords. Chief among “I live in Arlington, Mass., just publication in Turkey of Paul’s new an essay for a volume in honor of varsity tennis team during his time and the Art of Hooking, appears subscribe. old son. I assume I take the prize the negatives is the fact that clients outside Boston, with my wife, book, Winter Journal (an autobio- my beloved teacher and friend, at school and still is a fit enthusiast in Have a NYC, an anthology of Bob himself reports: “I’m doing as the ‘oldest’ dad in our class, a determine on Thursday or Friday Jessica Goldhirsch; our 12-year- graphical work to be published in Saki Bercovitch, whom I met at and supporter of men’s tennis. stories about New York City.” great — hope the same for you. distinction I am not sure I am proud afternoon that they want and/or old daughter, Nessa, who attends the United States this September). Columbia in 1970. I am working “I had such a great time at the Bennett Alan Weinberg says, All the feedback on the post has of. Folks our age aren’t designed to need translations by 9 a.m. the fol- the local middle school; and my Paul told a Turkish newspaper that now on a large project on literature basketball game — can anyone “Please visit worldofcaffeine.com been uplifting, especially to know run around chasing kindergarten- lowing Monday. Consequently, the 91-year-old father. My dad moved he would not visit Turkey “because and nonviolence. say McMillian-Dotson? [That’s to read the latest scientific, health ers! I still work hard on my plastic traditional weekend is exceedingly in with us after my mom died about of imprisoned journalists and writ- “April marked the 24th occa- Jim McMillian ’70 and Heyward care and cultural information surgery practice, have the opportu- rare. We attend plays and concerts four years ago. It is an inspiration to ers”; the prime minister then called sion on which my wife and I have Dotson ’70.] — that I came back about caffeine.” nity to speak at many international fairly regularly and we belong to see him still active and making art. Paul “an ignorant man” and I got refused, as pacifists, to pay the alone to Morningside Heights the If you go to Amazon from any Submit Your Photo meetings (recently returned from a local book group. We consider It is a joy to be a parent and active some news. military percentage of our federal next night and bought a ticket of the links on the website that take Submitting a photo for the Philippines and Vietnam) and ourselves fortunate to live in close in local politics and school affairs. income tax. And, next August, I’ll to the Yale game, which drew a you there, and buy something from Class Notes is easier frequently hang out with my good proximity to New York. It is difficult From Columbia, I learned (from be officiating at a wedding for the capacity crowd. We started out on Amazon, or even put it in your cart than ever! buddy here in L.A., Bill Stadiem. I to imagine being able to do what I getting beaten and arrested on April Leo G. Kailas eighth time, an honor made pos- fire and, with 15 minutes to go in and buy it a few months later, Ben- also get sporadic visits from Steve do without my Columbia educa- 30, 1968, by the NYPD in the build- 70 Reitler Kailas & sible by the generous and imagina- the game, we were up by 20, 51–31. nett’s website gets a percentage. ONLINE by clicking Valenstein and Larry Berger, so tion. I am particularly grateful to ing where I studied American his- Rosenblatt tive laws of Massachusetts.” In following the Ivies in the news, I Bennett is co-author of the well- “Contact Us” at I am not completely out of touch Professor Wohlleben for his courses tory) that people in power will use 70 885 Third Ave, 20th Fl. Dov Zakheim’s book, A Vulcan’s see that most winning teams score received books The World of Caffeine college.columbia.edu/cct. with our class.” on German civilization and to Pro- ‘state violence’ (a phrase I learned in New York, NY 10022 Tale: How the Bush Administration about 60 points, so I figured 9 more and The Caffeine Advantage. He MAIL by sending the From Steven Berger ’70E: “After fessor Howard McParlin Davis for sociology and then saw in action) to [email protected] Mismanaged the Reconstruction of points and we were a lock. Well, adds, “I’ve written an exciting novel graduating, I traveled for nine his art history courses. Most of all, maintain dominance. More recently, Afghanistan, was featured in CCT’s Yale went on a tear, incorporated largely set on the Columbia campus photo and accompanying months in Europe, North Africa I am grateful for the breadth of the this is evident with the Occupy I have been receiving bits and Spring 2012 Bookshelf. Dov also a successful full-court press and called The Case of the Missing Rem­ caption information to and the Middle East, worked for education I received at Columbia.” movement. I am never surprised pieces from class members, and reports that in 2011 he was elected trapping defense and beat the brandt. This book is part of the forth- Class Notes Editor, Sperry Rand on Long Island, got a Francis Levy writes: “My sec- by the use of state violence when welcome newsworthy items. to the Royal Swedish Academy of Lions 59–58! The good news is that coming Columbia Mysteries Series. Columbia College Today, fellowship to Stanford (’74 M.S.E.E.), ond novel, Seven Days in Rio, about power is threatened. When people I attended the Columbia basket­ ­- War Sciences, which was founded most of our starters will be back I’m looking for agents or publishers Columbia Alumni Center, worked for IBM and lived for a a sex tourist who gets waylaid demonstrating against injustice are ball game against Brown on Febru- in 1739 and has a small number of next year, and so will I. who would be interested in seeing 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, couple of years in Boulder, Colo. I at a psychoanalytic convention, not organized or trained to deal ary 10 and watched Columbia’s foreign members. “I live in Rye, N.Y., with my the manuscript.” Contact Bennett at New York, NY 10025. went through many changes there, was published in August. My with such violence (as I and most squad shellac the Brown team James Kunen, author of The wife, Kate, and children (late start), [email protected]. which led to a sabbatical leave first novel, Erotomania: A Romance, white students were not), such vio- 86–60; the game was not as close as Strawberry Statement and an ESL who are 18 and 15. Some of you Another of Bennett’s novels, Ex-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES that so many have gotten benefit. I Lee is an executive at Makovsky co-sponsored by the Ford Founda- and other bigwigs. Depending on received a message just this morn- Health, a New York-based consult- tion and the China Association for how the election goes, Steve may ing from a PALS [People with ALS] ing group, and among other things the Study of American Literature; return to the Council on Foreign in Japan, who told me he reads it is coordinating a program for cancer Joel will be teaching American Relations, remain connected to The Jazz Education of Armen Donelian ’72 often and that it has given him and patient advocacy groups at this literature to Chinese college and the White House or pursue some many others life. Thanks so much year’s American Society of Clinical university professors. other opportunity. Stay tuned for B y J a m i e K at z ’72, ’80 B u s i n e s s for all your help in disseminating it Oncology meeting in Chicago. Remember, next year is the an update! to another audience. I am working Finally, there’s some sad news to big 4-0. Get involved in Alumni When Dr. David Mandelbaum t stands to reason that began weekly lessons at the music world, so that was kind Donelian to fill the piano chair on another.” share. Henry Rosenberg ’73 was so Reunion Weekend by contacting read our recent update from an artist as self-aware as Music Conservatory of West- of ironic,” Donelian says. once occupied by such world- Remember back 45 Septembers kind as to let me know that Rich- the appropriate staff member at Dr. Joel Halio (who cited Peter pianist and composer Ar- chester, studying classical Jazz education was not class players as Herbie Hancock ago, and the feelings we had, includ- ard B. Kaplan ’76 Dental died in the top of the column, and also let Pouncey as a Columbia professor men Donelian ’72 would piano with Austrian émigré something Columbia offered for and Chick Corea. Though he did ing of adventure, as we entered Co- New Jersey on November 30, 2011. us know what’s up in your life. As who had a great influence on him), Ibe generous in acknowledging Michael Pollon for 12 years. credit back then. Still, he could not have experience playing lumbia College. We are still connected. Richard was a periodontist who Short Circuit’s Number 5 would David decided he had to break his was president of the New Jersey say, “Need more input.” Thanks in nearly four decades of silence. He the mentors who pointed him Donelian’s older brother played learn plenty by transcribing John Afro-Cuban jazz, Donelian got Society of Periodontists. A more advance. started his treatise with, “Sorry if toward a place of excellence. clarinet in a Dixieland-swing Coltrane solos or listening to the gig and was on his way. Paul S. Appelbaum complete obituary will appear in a this is a little wordy, but it does And indeed, he is: “Because band led by Arthur Ryerson, Bill Evans from the steps of the Donelian has distilled much 72 39 Claremont Ave., #24 subsequent issue of CCT. cover 37 years.” I’ll save you some I’ve been fortunate to have who had worked with Louis Village Vanguard. Donelian also of the wisdom gleaned from New York, NY 10027 Fred Bremer of the details, but the story is a good teachers in my life, I feel Armstrong. When Donelian was played in a talented lab band in four decades of professional ex- 72 532 W. 111th St. good one. Seems that David was a [email protected] REUNION WEEKEND a responsibility,” Donelian 12, he heard the Ryerson band the basement of Dodge Hall, led perience into his latest instruc- 74 New York, NY 10025 psychology major for his first two MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 says, seated in a tiny practice at a Methodist church bazaar, by the brilliant alto saxophonist tional book: Whole Notes: A Our 40th reunion is now behind us 74 years at the College, then switched ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS [email protected] room at New Jersey’s William and was smitten. “That’s it!” he and pianist Marc Copland ’70. Piano Masterclass, which takes with, I hope, a lot of great memo- to pre-med in his junior year. (Re- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Jennifer Freely Paterson University, where thought. “I’ve got to play this Sam Morrison ’73 also played in up such basic matters as pos- ries for all who were able to attend. Earlier this year there was a news minds me of Dr. Tom Long, who [email protected] Keep an eye out for complete item that caught my ear. It said followed the same timetable as he he has taught for many years. music.” Before long he was in the group; a few years later he ture, practice routines, mental 212-851-7438 coverage in our next Class Notes that NBC’s Today had just turned shifted from majoring in English He also teaches at The New the band himself. His first gig, was with Miles Davis. Mean- health, body awareness and the DEVELOPMENT Heather Hunte column. 60. That means that for all but to pre-med, which led him to be a School in Manhattan and is for $5 and all the ice cream while, Donelian worked evenings physics of playing piano. “The [email protected] What our time at Columbia a handful of us who were born dermatologist in Rhode Island.) frequently called upon to give he could eat, was at the 1964 at The King’s Table, a restaurant book is about how to practice 212-851-7957 meant to each of us is strongly linked before January 1952, this iconic David continues: “Pre-med master classes in conservato- World’s Fair in Queens. nestled within , as well as what to practice,” to those aspects of College life with Barry Etra stalwart has been part of our lives adviser Patricia Geisler and ries overseas. In 1968, Donelian came to playing solo piano while the Donelian says. The holistic which we became involved. That 73 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE from the time we were eating baby chemistry professor George Flynn Donelian has performed with Columbia, where he majored young gentlemen of the College approach extends to personal was underscored for me by a note , GA 30306 food, to when we served our kids were extremely supportive and such jazz luminaries as Sonny in music and studied with dined in style. Unlike the student revelation; he discusses such from Gary Pepper, who said he 73 baby food, to now, when many of encouraging during this rather [email protected] Rollins, Mongo Santamaria, Chet composers Charles Wuorinen cafeteria just steps away, The painful episodes as the loss of “wanted to drop a line in praise of us are serving our grandkids baby intense and tumultuous transi- the new head coach of the Columbia Who says you can’t teach an old food. In contrast, I was surprised tion.” Psychology professor Baker, Lionel Hampton, Paquito ’61, ’63 GSAS and Harvey Soll- King’s Table even had tablecloths. his parents, a bitter divorce and men’s and women’s fencing teams, dog new tricks? James Minter and to learn that Saturday Night Live Stanley Schachter’s encourage- D’Rivera and Billy Harper. He has berger ’64 GSAS, among other “Armen is a great player and a nearly career-ending hand Michael N. Aufrichtig. I credit the David Schnabel were married last didn’t debut until October 1975. ment, meanwhile, led him to the recorded 12 albums as a leader, leading lights. “I took 16th-cen- he’s a sweetheart — absolute- injury he suffered when he lost fencing team for my not turning to September on their 21st anniver- (Does anyone share my delusion of M.D.-Ph.D. program at P&S. There most recently Leapfrog, on tury counterpoint with Vladimir ly one of the good guys in the his temper during an argument the dark side during four turbulent sary, with University Chaplain having memories of watching this he met up with Nobel Laureate Sunnyside Records. He has been Ussachevsky, who was one of business,” Copland says today. in 1991. “Ultimately, it’s all years on the Heights. Ever since, I Jewelnel Davis officiating. The show in the dorm lounge?) Eric Kandel’s neuroscience group, awarded numerous grants from the higher-ups in the electronic As students, he remembers, about expressing what’s inside have supported the team in what- happy couple honeymooned, tradi- A press release arrived recently which led him to an interest in the National Endow- they would improvise through the instrument, so that ever way I am able. tionally, at Niagara Falls. Guests at from Oppenheimer & Co., an- neurology, which he eventually ment for the Arts, and sophisticated duets in there’s a kind of a conduit, an “A few months ago I was sur- the ceremony included John Chan; nouncing that John Rodstrom narrowed to child neurology. For is a Fulbright Senior a two-piano practice effortless conduit for these prised and gratified when Michael Richard Lorber ’67; James’ niece, has joined its firm with the title of nearly a decade David has been called me at home to thank me and Elise Minter ’07; and a gaggle of managing director, national public the director of child neurology Scholar in Switzerland, room in Dodge. “Once ideas and feelings to proceed shoot the breeze about the team admissions colleagues. finance. The release goes on to say and professor of neurology and Scandinavia and his we monkeyed around from conception to realization.” and its complex history. I could tell Bob Dillinger has practiced law John will have the responsibility pediatrics at the Alpert Medical ancestral Armenia. He and played a mock Asked for the advice he he enjoyed the call as much as I in St. Petersburg, Fla., for 36 years, for “expanding Oppenheimer’s School of Brown. His research has leads the Hudson Jazz classical duet in the might give a talented student did. I also received a holiday card the last 15 in the elected role of public finance bond capabilities focused on “cognitive aspects of Workshop, a summer style of Beethoven. who worries about pursu- signed by the whole team and a public defender. Bob earned a law nationwide.” Sounds like a step epilepsy, antiepileptic medications, program in upstate We went on for five ing jazz as a career, Donelian letter from a member of the squad degree from Stetson in 1976, was up from his previous position at the genetics of epilepsy and the New York, where he or 10 minutes and says, “I remember when I was sharing some of her background assistant public defender for several Sterne, Agee & Leach, a regional neurological aspects of autism.” lives with his wife, Rose then fell off the piano studying with Richie Beirach, and goals. I’m sure there are many years and then went into private financial firm; there, John was only David added that he remarried Caldwell, a travel con- benches, laughing.” he said, ‘Do what you love and other team alumni who feel as practice until winning the race for in charge of the firm’s southeast in 2004 to Alison, a photographer I do: that it’s a pleasure to have the defender’s office in 1996. Bob public finance effort. While he will — “third time’s the charm,” he sultant and part-time After graduation, you’ll make a living from it.’ coach Aufrichtig and the team put has received numerous awards for work out of Oppenheimer’s Fort says — and his favorite role is that chef. Yet for all his indi- Donelian played with There are a lot of people out so much time and thought into service to the St. Petersburg com- Lauderdale, Fla., office, something of “Pop Pop” to two grandsons, vidual accomplishment a country rock band there making lots of money, including us in alma mater in a munity. After their daughter died, tells me he is going to book a lot of ages 6 and 2, who live in Manhat- and the years of solitary and, on Copland’s rec- but they don’t love what they meaningful way. I’m now hoping he and his wife created the Beth frequent flyer miles! tan. On his frequent visits to NYC, dedication it required, ommendation, began do. And ultimately in life, if to make it back to Columbia in the Dillinger Foundation to aid children From out of the shadows he likes to bicycle to the Columbia Donelian always speaks studying privately with you want to be happy, if that’s coming year to take in the changes in need, and his wife still devotes emerges Steven Simon, who has campus and visit The Thinker (who, of those who showed renowned pianist something of value to you, (and the unchanging) on campus.” her time there; find out more at tremendous influence on our na- his elder grandson speculates, “is him the way. Richie Beirach. “He then you should give that your Gary was twice All-Ivy in foil bethdillinger.org. tion’s Middle East policies. After thinking about where his socks The story begins in opened the door to me, first priority.” for Columbia during our years on Joel Pfistermourns the loss of his serving a spell at the State Depart- are”). Morningside Heights. brother, Jordan ’80, to complications ment, Steve served a five-year stint The above led me to email David, the 1950s in Armonk, combining the harmo- Lee Davies notes, “I have spent from cancer. Jordan was captain of in the Clinton White House and to ask if knew that Dr. Mark Mehler N.Y., where his parents ny of contemporary Go to armenjazz.com for my professional career in health- the squash team and was in a rock three years at the International is the chairman of the Department surrounded the four music — Schoenberg, Donelian’s performance dates, care communications consulting: band during his college years. Joel is Institute for Strategic Studies in of Neurology at the Albert Einstein Donelian children with Bartók, Stravinsky and sound clips and more. Pfizer, Schering-Plough and Merck. a humanities professor at Wesleyan. London. He now is the senior College of Medicine in the Bronx Armenian, Turkish and Berg — with jazz,” For 38 years, I’ve been married to Last year he spent the summer term director for the Middle East and (and also director of its Institute for Greek music as well as Donelian says. In 1975, Former CCT editor Jamie Katz Jody Messler ’73 Barnard, a noted as visiting professor at the Freie North Africa at the National Secu- Brain Disorders). In a continuation classical and jazz. By 5, legendary Latin jazz ’72, ’80 Business, previously Armen Donelian ’72 at sunset, facing west, in his psychoanalyst in New York, and Universitat in Berlin, and this July rity Council. The NSC is chaired by of what we used to refer to, in our Donelian was playing percussionist and jazz director of WKCR radio, raised two wonderful young wom- he will be one of two American the President of the United States politically incorrect world, as “Jew- music studio in Hudson, N.Y., where he also hosts a beat-up upright in bandleader Mongo writes for Smithsonian Maga- en, one of whom is an editor for faculty members teaching in Xi’an, and its meetings are frequented by ish geography,” he replied that he the annual Hudson Jazz Workshop. Penguin (and a published novelist) China, as part of the West-China the likes of the Secretary of State, was still in contact with Dr. Steven the basement. At 7, he PHOTO: DAVID LEE Santamaria auditioned zine and other publications. and the other a first-year student at Faculty Enhancement Program in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Schonfeld (a neuroradiologist in NYU School of Medicine.” American Studies. The program is Staff, the Secretary of the Treasury East Brunswick, N.J.) and Dr. Mi-

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES chael Handler (chief of pediatric techniques. Even though Scott has Law Journal. Clyde Moneyhun sity and will be a senior next year record for any class? We will see if Aaron Saul Greenberg says, the artist, doesn’t know what to do neurosurgery at the University of owned Old House Gardens (a pur- Steve Jacobs and Ira Malin 76 Boise State University — yikes — while Caitlin is off to any of the WKCR sports alumni can “As a practicing cardiologist and with three engineers in the house. Colorado). Ends up our class is veyor of heirloom bulbs) for many represented our class at the annual Department of English the University of Illinois. come up with the relevant stats by internist in private practice, I am Home stretch on the tuition bills, quite a brainy bunch. Who would years, Martha was able to stump John Jay Awards Dinner on March 76 200 Liberal Arts Building In any event, I’m counting on next issue. (By the way, can anyone feeling more and more like a dino- but not ready to retire quite yet.” have thunk?! him. Referring to the dahlias that 7. Ira said it “was another amazing 1910 University Dr. all of you to be my deputies and remember who spoke at our Class saur. However, as a break I am giv- Eric M. Bates writes, “Bless us With all the talk about the IPO they were planting, Martha asked, evening that showcased our out- Boise, ID 83725 send in reports from the weekend. Day?) ing a lecture at my local synagogue all and deliver us from these times. of Facebook, I decided it was time “Are these bulbs girls or boys?” standing students and, as Interim [email protected] I look forward to hearing about Exciting news from our Pulitzer- on the topic of how to live to 100. A course at Columbia preparing us to check my neglected “wall.” Scott responded with the memo- Dean Jim Valentini would call them, it and writing a full report for the Prize winner and former WKCR I also will be getting together soon for this would have been helpful. The result was amazing: during a rable, “I like talking about sex, our outstanding ‘former students’ First, please note my new email Fall issue. program chief, Tim Weiner: “My with my ex-Columbia roommate, On a different note, I am curious single week I had received numer- but that’s a question I don’t know — all of whom made mention of address at the top of the column. Something that I’ve never been new book, Enemies: A History of the Jonny Aranoff, whom I haven’t if anyone knows whether there is ous postings. There was a picture the answer to, Martha.” (Only a how the Core was so important Write me there, and write me often. sure how to handle is classmate FBI, came out February 14. It’s a se- seen in more than a year.” any video available of professor posted by Ed Berliner (director of member of the Class of ’74 could to their personal and professional Dr. John Markowitz has co-edit- deaths. These have not been numer- quel to Legacy of Ashes: The History of Joseph S. Tarella reports, “I have Jim Shenton ’49, ’54 GSAS giving science management at find a way to work sex into Martha development.” ed with Myrna Weissman Ph.D., ous so far, thank goodness; but I the CIA, which in 2007 won the Na- lived at the same location on the one of his infamous lectures?” University in upper Manhattan) Stewart’s show!) Now at Easton & Van Winkle, a new book, Casebook of Interper- always have been reluctant to make tional Book Award for nonfiction. Upper West Side since my days at Professor Shenton was my ad- of his two grandchildren. Barry I held until the end news of two Robert D. Katz also is a member of sonal Psychotherapy, which offers remarks about the notices that have Advance word on Enemies from re- Columbia. This would make me viser; I think of him often and can Klayman (law partner at Cozen classmates who passed away. It both the American and New York clinicians clinical illustrations of appeared, from time to time, in the viewers: ‘A riveting inside account ‘campus furniture,’ I believe. I have still hear his voice thundering in my O’Connor in Wilmington, Del.) is with great sadness that I report Intellectual Property Law Associa- interpersonal psychotherapy, a Obituaries section. If it’s someone I of the FBI’s secret machinations been with my wife, Lee Shain Ph.D. ear late at night. According to my told of his daughter, Alison, receiv- that David Wolff, an attorney in tions. Befitting a chemistry major, time-limited, empirically validated knew, I feel that whatever I might that goes so deep into the agency’s ’92 TC, for more than 30 years. She research, he taught a 76-hour survey ing an award at the Sundance NYC, died on April 9, 2009, and Bob’s practice involves biotech, psychotherapy for depression, buli- say would be unfair to deceased skullduggery, readers will feel they has her own psychology practice in course on public television called Film Festival for her documentary Mark Tessier, who worked in nanotech, advanced materials, mia and other psychiatric disorders. classmates I didn’t know, or know are tapping the phones along with Manhattan. The Rise of the American Nation. Does on the contemporary artist and public finance in New Orleans, died chemicals and pharmaceuticals. He continues to conduct research at well. And a standing request for J. Edgar Hoover,’ says Jane Mayer, dissident Ai Weiwei. Peter Boody on August 21, 2011. We have not He recently was inducted into the Columbia on psychotherapies for tributes or memories would involve author of The Dark Side. ‘Fast-paced, (retired) shared that his most received details, so please let me prestigious Conner Inn of Court in posttraumatic stress disorder. other problems. Your advice or sug- fair-minded and fascinating,’ says recent novel, Thomas Jefferson, know if you have anything to add. New York City. Dr. Patrick Griffin ’80 P&S has gestions on this topic are welcome. Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Henry Aronson ’78 is music director at Rock of Ages Rachel and Me, got four out of five Our thoughts go out to those lucky After Rick Santorum won a few been named chief medical officer I am going to try breaking my Inside the Secret World of the Supreme on Broadway, playing keyboards, conducting and stars on Goodreads.com; the book enough to have had them as friends early primaries (I’m writing this and s.v.p. of development at Immu- rule this time, however, and pay Court. The next book in the works is speculates what would happen if during the past four decades. in March), I wrote to Fr. C.J. Mc- sanT, a privately held biotechnol- respects to Damien Bona, with a history of the American military headbanging. Jefferson returned to life in 2011, There you have it. A class that Closkey and asked for comments ogy company focused on restoring whom I worked on Spectator back since WWII.” but was “penniless, powerless and goes back to before Saturday Night about Santorum’s candidacy. The tolerance to gluten in celiac disease in the day. He was one of those I have heard Tim on NPR’s Fresh without a single slave.” Ken Krug Live, yet has embraced Facebook. former senator and C.J. are friends sufferers, to help return patients to a serious, self-effacing people who Air and other radio shows and was “I’ve run my architectural prac- anyone know how we can get it? I from C.J.’s time in Washington, less constrained diet and improved did great work without needing to blown away (as with the last book) tice, Sawicki Tarella Architecture+ couldn’t find it on the Internet. D.C. But, since it was Lent, I wasn’t quality of life. His previous position be noticed for it. He also was one by his command of the subject and Design, for more than 25 years, While on the Shenton theme, Steven Simon ’74 is the senior director for the Middle expecting a quick reply. Maybe C.J. was head of external innovation of those happy few who not only, explorations of the nature of power and we recently moved into our Bennett Caplan writes, “As Tony will share some thoughts in time for the immuno-inflammation as the cliché has it, pursued his and truth. Great stuff and already own building on West 13th Street Dellicarri reported some years East and North Africa at the National Security Council. for the next issue. therapeutic strategy unit at Sanofi, passion (for film and especially for on my iPad. at the edge of the West Village and back, a number of us ’78-ers, in- An outstanding alum to all of a French pharmaceutical company. the Academy Awards) but did so Paul Phillips, director of orches- the Meatpacking District. We spe- cluding , Cal Parker, his alma maters, Robert Schneider There, Patrick had focused on successfully. I was glad to hear that tras and chamber music at Brown, cialize in luxury retail and we help Joe Vidulich and sometimes Rob (COO of The Jewish Federation A class whose members are selling has been reelected to another year therapeutic approaches to autoim- he made it to the red carpet, only also has been busy writing. “In foreign clients from all over enter Chametzky, have gathered, along Council of Greater Los Angeles) municipal bonds and heirloom on the board of the University of munity through immune system feet from Liz Taylor. 2010, Manchester University Press the U.S. market, both in New York with our families, each Fourth of shared, “I am so thrilled that our bulbs, who head up some of the Pennsylvania Club of Long Island. modulation. published my book, A Clockwork and across the country. I recently July for nearly 25 years, catching daughter, Simone, started full- top neurology departments around Bob also is class correspondent for He did his internship and Counterpoint: The Music and Litera- completed a Japanese church in up, watching our children grow REUNION WEEKEND time as an employee at MoMA in the country and who influence the his 1979 class for Wharton Magazine residency in internal medicine at ture of Anthony Burgess, which one Brooklyn. I also make and sell up and retelling stories. It’s been a MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 NYC.” There was also a memo- nation’s Middle East policy. Plus and was among the attendees at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, reviewer praised as ‘sumptuous, artistic maps as a hobby (coastalart terrific tradition. ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS rable review of Lulu, a collabora- reports of the kids of our class- a Regis H.S. alumni event. He had a fellowship in gastroenterol- prodigiously researched, elegantly maps.com), which I’ve been doing “Through my daughter, Allie ALUMNI AFFAIRS Jennifer Freely tive album between the rock group mates doing amazing things. Can’t and his wife, Regina Mulahy ’75 ogy at Brigham and Women’s written … a necessary and splendid for more than 10 years. ’11, I was able to relive my college [email protected] Metallica and Lou Reed, by / wait to see what we do next! Barnard, traveled a lot this year, Hospital in Boston and joined the book.’ “Lee and I are creditable ball- experiences to no small degree in 212-851-7438 professor Pinchas Giller (you including to D.C. and Texas to visit medical faculty of P&S. He then “An essay drawn from that room dancers, working on getting recent years, beginning during her DEVELOPMENT Matt Marsallo knew him as Paul). sons John ’07 and James and to spent several years in the private book appeared in the new Norton better about twice a week for almost freshman year when we helped her [email protected] More than 10 percent of our Randy Nichols Canada with daughter Meg. practice of internal medicine and Critical Edition of A Clockwork Or- 15 years. We enjoy the beach, where move into her ninth-floor room in 212-851-7452 classmates are on Facebook (many 734 S. Linwood Ave. My sister Robyn and I recently gastroenterology in New York City ange. Boosey & Hawkes published we have a summer home, and we Furnald, which faced the campus. just to get the pictures posted by 75 Baltimore, MD 21224 helped a neighbor clean out his before he moved to industry. Matthew Nemerson my reduced orchestration of Igor travel as much as we can.” About a year ago, Allie received their children). During this one 75 parents’ home; there was an 35 Huntington St. Stravinsky’s opera, Mavra, which From Henry Aronson we hear: the Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize [email protected] week of postings, I also saw news incredible collection of Judaica 78 New Haven, CT 06511 was performed at Glyndebourne “I’m music director at Rock of Ages at an awards ceremony at Faculty and commentary from Bob Adler, Those of you who read the heading that Robyn was collecting for David Gorman 78 Festival in England. on Broadway, playing keyboards, House, where I found that profes- [email protected] Raouf Abdulla, Darryl Chin, of this column might note a new a friend. While unloading the 77 111 Regal Dr. “Last year brought the release of conducting and headbanging in sors James Shenton’s and Wallace Daryl Downing, Mark Goldfield, email for me. What a hassle! My bookshelves, I found many books DeKalb, IL 60115 Is it really possible that reunion time the Naxos CD Music for Great Films of my ’80s big-hair wig and motor- Gray’s names were now attached Barry Gruber, Chris Hansen, previous account got hacked (hard that I remembered from my col- 77 is coming around again? We’re a the Silent Era, on which I conduct the cycle jacket. I’m raising money for to awards. I felt it incumbent to tell [email protected] Roger Kahn, Bruce Malamut, and viciously) in the spring. Some lege days — from Lit Hum, CC year away from our 35th. I remem- RTÉ National Symphony of Ireland­ Loveless Texas, the original musical the two recipients how Professor James Russell, Arthur Schwartz of you know details, including and religion courses. After the The only news this issue is per- ber when just being 35 seemed in music by American composer­ written by me and my wife, Cailín Shenton was the best lecturer I ever and Carl Yirka. If any of these guys painful ones. Also, if you’ve sent boxes get moved and unpacked, sonal. I attended Alumni Reunion impressive, but this is a bit harder to William Perry and the premiere of Heffernan. It’s based loosely on had at any school on any topic, and — or the many others who didn’t me items for Class Notes, I haven’t I’ll be visiting to borrow a few, Weekend five years ago, and get my arms around. On the other ‘Battle-Pieces,’ my latest composi- Love’s Labour’s Lost and is set in how having Professor Gray (who post that week — are your buddies gotten them. My apologies to all, then returning and going back swore a mighty oath I’d attend hand, I have probably never felt tion. It’s a cycle of six songs for Texas oil country during the Great modeled himself after Tennessee from more than 400 moons ago, and I also apologize for a short set for more. As reported in previous our 35th. No dice: my daughter better: Life is good, family is healthy, baritone and orchestra [based on] Depression; the music is good Williams) critique our attempts at give Facebook a try. As geeky as it of Notes this time. Now that you columns, I’ve been re-reading lots Caitlin graduated from high school parents are still calling me every day Civil War poems by Herman Mel- trad-Americana stuff. Columbians playwriting made us feel as if we sounds, “friend” them and see if have a good email for me, please of things that I first read at Colum- on the weekend in question. For or two and my children are growing ville. During 2010–11, I guest- who are aspiring or experienced were Owen Wilson’s character in you like following what is happen- use it. bia. Thanks again, Columbia, and some reason, she wasn’t enthusi- into independent people. conducted in France, in New York at producers, or who just enjoy good Midnight in Paris. ing in their lives. Jim Dolan is experiencing empty- thanks especially for the Core. astic about celebrating it on South Our very own anti-plutocrat plu- the Manhattan School of Music and times and good tunes, are invited “Then I joined the ranks of proud While you might find it hard to nest syndrome, but at least he admits Classmates have recommended Lawn — too far from DeKalb, Ill., tocrat, Rick MacArthur, president in Rhode Island, where I conducted to check out lovelesstexas.com.” parents when, at the end of Allie’s believe, I am not a regular viewer it. Daughter Zoe is now in Manhat- the following good reads: The Im- or some similar lame excuse. Three and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, a production of Mozart’s opera Così John Nastuk says, “I’m in my four years at Columbia, I marched in of The Martha Stewart Show on tan, working for a fashion web start- mortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Re- years ago, I had to turn down an was this year’s Class Day speaker, fan tutte for Opera Providence.” 31st year with GE Aviation in the rain with others [in the Alumni the Hallmark Channel. However, up. Jim admits that he sometimes becca Skloot, Lamb by Christopher invitation to speak at a conference thus becoming the third member of As of when Paul wrote, he was Lynn, Mass., and am a senior engi- Parade of Classes with] the Class of when I got a call from Scott Kunst goes up to her room and “adjusts the Moore (that’s my pick; a hilarious in England when my son Colin the tribe of ’78 to grace that august looking forward to attending his neer. My oldest son graduated as 1978 at her graduation ceremony.” out in Ann Arbor, Mich., that he shades or plumps the pillows.” complement to the above), Dark graduated. I can’t recall whether podium. Rick follows Federal Judge daughter Joanna ’12’s graduation a mechanical engineer from Maine Michael Glanzer writes, “At was doing the show’s “garden Elliot Pisem and Joseph Lipari of the Moon by John Sandford and I mentioned this (I really should Joe Greenaway and Pulitzer Prize- in May. in 2010; his younger brother is a one of our reunions the College spot,” I set the DVR to capture his continue to publish, and both have Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: read my own columns), but Colin winning playwright Tony Kushner. I’m tired just thinking of all this senior at Connecticut studying bio- provided light blue Columbia T- advice on spring bulb planting had recent articles in the New York The Last Great Siege. attends Northern Illinois Univer- Are three speakers in 35 years a output. medical engineering. Their mother, shirts. My daughter Rebecca, who

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[email protected] [email protected] found the photo touching, I did not the elevator door opened and my season party about the develop- Tim says his son, Theo (10), is an with his family in NYC. Also an activist, Dan is known for consider it a harbinger of future Last January, Joseph Mysak Jr. mother, 5-foot-1, who was born ment of the baseball stadium and amazing video game player and Greetings, gentlemen. I trust all is I also had the pleasure of catch- his public letters to government events. And yet now she has been of marked 30 in a faraway country in Eastern how far we have come during the “damned good” snowboarder but well. By the time this note is pub- ing up with Neal Smolar at the leaders and other financial execu- admitted to the Class of 2016! Our years covering the municipal bond Europe, found herself staring at the past few years. unlikely to follow him to Morning- lished our 30th reunion will have game. Neal is associate general tives denouncing their financial family is very excited for her.” market. He writes, “This January, largest man she had ever seen. He I am excited to report that our side Heights. (Tim, have him apply occurred. But, as of this writing, counsel and v.p. at UBS Paine Web- misconduct. As his awards citation From Conrad Kiechel: “In the Bloomberg Press imprint at was wearing cowboy boots, a giant new football coach, Pete Mangurian, to Colorado — great access to the I was looking forward to seeing ber. He is in touch with Lenny says, he has “fought tirelessly for September, my wife, Nancy, and I Wiley published my distillation silver belt buckle and a cowboy hat, has assembled a top-quality staff and Rockies!) His daughter, Kyanna (6), many of you at the event and Rosen, CEO at Barclays Capital better corporate governance, share- moved from the East Coast to Los of that experience, Encyclopedia of and was holding not one but two is pleased with his incoming class of is “Ivy League” material, but he reporting on it in the Fall issue. Israel, and Steve Arenson. Steve is holder rights and principles of ac- Angeles, when I started as director Municipal Bonds, whose format was gigantic cases, one in each hand, of student-athletes. Shawn FitzGerald, thinks she may head to archrival Writing in this period was the managing partner at Arenson Dit- countability and high standards.” of communications for the Milken inspired by, believe it or not, The Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. This man Eric and I had the opportunity to Brown instead of Columbia. Young- esteemed and talented cellist/ tmar & Karban, a firm that special- Dan also is behind The Daniel S. Institute in Santa Monica. Nancy is Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia, was the father of the Kelly brothers. spend some time with him, and we est son Lucas (3) plans to become composer Erik Friedlander, who izes in fighting discrimination and Loeb Scholarship Fund, which was a native Angeleno and is thrilled to by Edward Steers Jr. I didn’t think For my mother, it was like finding walked away impressed with his a monster truck (or monster truck has collaborated on a new limited harassment in the marketplace. created in 2010 to provide current- be back in her hometown, though it would work out this way back the Lincoln Memorial in the eleva- football knowledge and understand- driver). edition LP, American Power, with Steve previously was a law clerk use financial aid to Columbia it’s changed a bit in the 30 years when I was arts editor in my Spec- tor. Here was the most American ing of the league’s recruiting process. Tim spends as much time as he photographer Mitch Epstein. Ac- to U.S. District Court Judge Reena students. since she left. I’m enjoying working tator days (1978–79), so go figure.” figure and largest representation, in We also mixed some golf with our can in Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard, cording to the press materials, “The Raggi, taught constitutional law at Excerpts of Dan’s acceptance at a think tank three blocks from I can’t help but laugh at what every which way, of this fantastic football at the annual golf outing, and reaches out to our class to say 500 hand-numbered albums are Yale and Miami and was an associ- speech are as follows: the Pacific though our kids remain may be the most-sleep inducing country. My mother, never ashamed sponsored by the athletics depart- hello, especially to the “ruggers.” signed by both artists and feature ate in the litigation department of “When I was in college I liked firmly entrenched on the East Coast. title in the history of literature. Not to speak to anyone, said to this ment and football team. Our team William C. Skurla has been six new solo cello compositions Paul, Weiss. Neal also is friendly this Elvis Costello song, ‘(What’s Daughter Claire is a playwright in only does reading an encyclopedia marble sculpture of a man, ‘Who is of Shawn, Eric, Scott Ahern, Joe named the archbishop of the Byzan- and gatefold artwork by Epstein, with Jeff Walker and recently ran So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Manhattan and Charlotte gradu- put me to sleep, but pretty much going to eat all of that cereal?’ Ciulla and myself represented well, tine Catholic Archeparchy of Pitts- as well as a two-sided, 24x36 inch into Adam Bayroff at a real estate Understanding?’ ated from Williams in the spring.” any of the small print related to “And in this booming baritone and our match versus the Class of burgh. He was formally enthroned poster of Epstein’s photographs dinner. “I think today we need a new Don Endrizzi reports, “After 24 municipal bonds will solve a case voice with a twang, he replied, ’81 ended in a draw. Joe, who was on April 18 at St. John the Baptist and Friedlander’s handwritten My family also attended the song, ‘What’s So Funny About In- years in private practice as an ortho- of insomnia! … All kidding aside, ‘Ma’am, my boys can eat a lot.’ back from Thailand, sank a monster Byzantine Catholic Cathedral in score. Purchase of the 180-gram, Columbia/Brown basketball game dividual Freedom, Free Enterprise pedic surgeon, I recently transitioned Joe, you were amazing at Spectator “She then said, ‘Your sons and putt to push the match. AJ Sabatelle Munhall, Pa. Previously, he was the audiophile LP is accompanied in February. We sat next to Rick and Accountabilty?’ to a more academic practice at Maine and you still have that fire burning. my son are in the same class.’ joined us for dinner as we honored bishop of the Byzantine Catholic by a free digital download of the Wolf ’86 and spoke with Andy “In fact, I might add, what’s so He replied, ‘Yes, ma’am, they are Hal Robertson ’81E for his commit- Archeparchy of Passaic, N.J. The music.” For more information, go Gershon. I am sad to report that funny about celebrating the en- and you should be very proud.’ ment to athletics. Pittsburgh Archeparchy is the only to americanpowermusic.com. Andy’s father, Richard Gershon trepreneurial spirit that made this Joseph Mysak Jr. ’79, of Bloomberg news, marked 30 The smile on my mother’s face is I ran into Kevin Matthews at the self-governing Eastern Catholic I did a little digging around on ’53, passed away. I had mentioned country great? This entrepreneurial burned in my memory. John Jay Awards Dinner on March church in the United States, and its Erik and visited erikfriedlander. in the Spring 2012 Class Notes how spirit is applicable not only to years covering the municipal bond market. “God bless you, Mr. Kelly, wher- 7. Kevin is the executive director of territory stretches from Pennsylva- com. There is some very cool important legacy families, such business but also to the arts and to ever you are. Columbia’s Double Discovery Cen- nia to Texas. “The Byzantine Catho- stuff there! Not only are various as the Gershons, are to Columbia. humanitarian efforts, as is evident “Roar, lion, roar!” ter, which helps children and young lic Church follows the practices and recordings available but also news Andy’s daughter is a star goalie at by my fellow awardees tonight. Medical Center in Portland. I will Jeffry Frieden lives in Brookline, adults build academic skills and spiritual tradition of the Eastern updates, podcast interviews and Stuyvesant H.S. and his son excels “I think this is still an aspira- continue to do primarily shoulder Mass., with his wife, Anabela, and focus on high school graduation, churches, but in union with Rome even entire online cello technique at basketball. I also conversed tional country but there are some surgery but will have increased their 15-year-old son, Alexander. Jef- Michael C. Brown college entrance and completion like several other Byzantine and classes. Really worth a look and a with Steve Greenfield, a regular people who think it is fashionable to teaching and research responsi- fry is a professor in the Department London Terrace Towers and becoming responsible adults. Maronite churches,” William says. listen. [Editor’s note: See March/ at Columbia basketball games. I denigrate success, while others try bilities. My wife, Peggy Pennoyer of Government at Harvard. “My 80 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F It is a much-needed program and He is interested in drawing people April 2011.] had the pleasure of seeing Ken to stir up class warfare. I was sur- ’82 P&S, is in private practice as research focuses on the politics of 80 New York, NY 10011 deserves our support. back to the church and is an ad- Please write in your updates Howitt ’76, whose daughter, Katey prised last fall to see an economics an allergist. Our daughter, Julie, international monetary and financial [email protected] Jim Gerkis and I met up at a mirer of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, and your favorite moments from ’13, loves Columbia. Ken helped professor ensconced in an Occupy continues the Columbia tradition as relations, which makes these par- Class Agent meeting in late March, a prolific writer and 1950s radio Alumni Reunion Weekend. It will organize WKCR’s 70th anniversary Wall Street mob decrying the 1 a third-year medical student at P&S ticularly interesting times for me,” “Well, woke up this morning with and we remind you that the Co­ and television personality. William be much appreciated. celebration. percent, attributing all the country’s while her brother Doug completes he writes. “In fact, I have a new book a wine glass in my hand. Whose lum­bia College Fund needs your attended Mary Immaculate Center Through the support of friends problems to an issue of poor dis­ a two-year, Yale-China teaching (with Menzie Chinn) called Lost wine? What wine? Where the support. The fiscal year ends on in Northampton, where he earned and colleagues (and a good mar- tribution of wealth and accusing REUNION WEEKEND fellowship. Mark, our youngest, is a Decades: The Making of America’s Debt hell did I dine? Must have been a Saturday, June 30, so there is still a master’s in divinity in 1986 and a keting department), Kenny Chin the so-called 1 percent of being lazy. MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 freshman at Bowdoin.” Crisis and the Long Recovery.” dream, I don’t believe where I’ve time to get your gift in. Give online master’s in theology in 1987. says, he was voted to the list of Su- [Dan directs us to youtube.com/ ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS Bill Schuster writes, “I am What a coincidence; I just read been. Come on, let’s do it again.” (college.columbia.edu/giveonline), Congratulations on the appoint- per Lawyers and Best Lawyers in watch?v=0UxtJTWahWM and ALUMNI AFFAIRS Robin Vanderputten approaching my 20th year as ex- about this in the Encyclopedia of —Peter Frampton call the Alumni Office (212-851- ment. the area of financing. Ken has been watch at the 6:30 mark. [email protected] ecutive director of the Black Rock Municipal Bonds! 7488) or mail a check payable to On February 10, Mark Hansen, sought for speaking on financ- “Certainly he did not speak for 212-851-7399 Forest Consortium field station in Robert C. Klapper: “My thoughts I saw Frampton at the Beacon The- Columbia College Fund to Co- Brian Krisberg and Daniel Tamkin ing topics through the City Bar the university where he is tenured, DEVELOPMENT Matt Marsallo Cornwall, N.Y. The 4,000 acres are for this column are about the unsung atre earlier this year, and he was lumbia College Fund, Columbia attended the Burgers and Basketball and the Practicing Law Institute. but for an economics professor to [email protected] a great place to get immersed in heroes in our journey through the amazing. Brings back lots of good Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St., event at Havana Central at The He continues his volunteer work carry on like this — really? We have 212-851-7452 nature, just an hour north of the College more than 30 years ago: our memories from 1976 and our high MC 4530, 3rd Fl., New York, NY West End. I’m not sure who won or with the Charles B. Wang Com- a problem when young people are George Washington Bridge. And, family support system. Just think school graduation. 10025. who even played against Columbia, Roy Pomerantz munity Health Center. His wife, taught that our country is funda- after a much-needed sabbatical last about how our four years away from I trust that you all had a healthy Drop me a line at mcbcu80@ but I hope they had a good time Babyking/Petking Lisa, works for the Empire State mentally unfair and encouraged year, I am at my office in the forest home impacted them. Some of my and productive spring and that yahoo.com. regardless. 83 182-20 Liberty Ave. Development Corp., which focuses ready for visits from classmates!” greatest memories are not of the you are preparing for some sum- It is with sadness that I announce 83 Jamaica, NY 11412 on economic development and job Gary Pickholz has been ap- classroom, the crew team or drawing mer fun. My spring was dominat- the passing of Raymond E. Mor- [email protected] creation for New York state. What’s Your Story? pointed Chazen Visiting Scholar at cartoons for Spectator, or even the ed by baseball, golf and travel. Kevin Fay rison on November 26. Raymond Wayne Allyn Root writes of Letting classmates know the Business School for the coming occasional romp with a Barnard girl, Speaking of baseball, the 3380 Darby Rd. was a financial planner who resided Greetings, classmates! My family his daughter, “Dakota is in Israel academic year. He notes, “I would but of meeting visiting family mem- Columbia team traveled to the 81 Glenmore in Detroit Lakes, Minn. If you would attended the Columbia/Princeton for three weeks during holiday what’s going on in your like to include some of life’s other bers in the elevator, in the hallway West Coast for a grueling schedule 81 Keswick, VA 22947 like to share a memory or reflection basketball game in January. We break, her Birthright trip.” She is a life is easier than ever. Send in your Class Notes! passages, which have been far less and so on. against some of the top teams. Eric kfay@northridge of Ray, please drop me a note and had dinner at V&T with Mark Si- student at Harvard. kind but are as endemic to our “One such memory I have kept Blattman came out for opening capital.com I will include it in my next CCT mon ’84 and his family, David Leb- Michael M. Epstein is a profes- ONLINE by clicking lives, but those sort of life cycle all these years was of my mother weekend and saw a win against column. owitz ’86 and his family and Paul sor of law and supervising editor college.columbia.edu/cct/ realities seem most unwelcome on and I meeting a most impres- Lehigh. His early assessment was I received a nice update from Tim Finally, for those proud parents Maddon ’81. Also dining at V&T for the Journal of International Media submit_class_note. our class pages. I contend we are sive father. In our class were a set that we had excellent pitching but Landry, who resides in Hopkinton, who have graduating children, enjoy before the game were Ed Joyce and Entertainment Law at South- poorer for it.” of twins, football players, John our bats had not woken up. After N.H., and is busy raising three this season! I have two daughters and Michael McCarthy with their western Law School. EMAIL to the address at Keep those cards and letters Kelly and Michael Kelly. I never a pep talk with Bill Campbell ’62 young children. Tim met up with graduating this spring, Courtney families. Ed is a partner at Jones My wife, Deborah, and I attend- the top of your column. coming and, if you don’t see your could tell who was who, but I’m at The Old Pro in Palo Alto, Calif., Sam Ward ’82 in Foxborough to (earning an M.A. in education from Dow specializing in insurance ed the John Jay Awards Dinner on MAIL to the address at the update here, please send it again; I convinced they would alternate coach Brett Boretti righted the ship watch the Patriots-Giants game Virginia) and Lindsey (earning a recovery. He has been recognized March 7, where Daniel S. Loeb lost a few when my home system going to each other’s classes since and we had another quality season (Tim is a Patriots fan, Sam an erst- B.A. in Spanish from James Madi- as a leading lawyer for insurance was an honoree. Dan is CEO of top of your column. crashed. conversations could never be in league play. We continue to have while Giants fan). They hooked up son). The load is getting lighter. coverage disputes by Chambers Third Point, an employee-owned

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And this columnist will gladly ate, worked initially as a clerk for even more upsetting when our photo-sharing service. of the column. play the role of his “foil.” Marc the late U.S. District Judge Jacob leaders tell us that it is their role to “Last summer, Mr. Loeb was writes, en garde: “Recently attended Mishler and then spent 16 years as make amends for these wrongs via surprised to discover that someone Viktor Altschul’s son’s bar mitzvah a federal prosecutor, rising to head increased and capricious regulation, had adopted his persona on Twit- Dennis Klainberg in Modi’in.” (Viktor, who is married the Long Island office. excessive entitlements, ill-conceived ter under the handle ‘danloeb.’ Berklay Cargo Worldwide to Amy Saffer Ariel ’89, is now Gary’s former colleague in the subsidies and punitive prosecutions. Disappointed that the fake Mr. 84 14 Bond St., Ste 233 known as Viktor Ariel; he is founder U.S. attorney’s office, Mark Lesko “So, I am delighted to stand here Loeb’s postings were not witty, he 84 Great Neck, NY 11021 and CEO of Tekoia, a semiconductor (now the town of Brookhaven su- tonight to celebrate not my own reported the incident to Twitter, [email protected] manufacturer in Israel.) pervisor), recalled how Gary was success but to cheer the idea of according to people close to him. Marc continues, attaque: “We instrumental in starting the Long professional accomplishment and The person switched the handle to Peter Lunenfeld checking in — both have gained a few pounds Island Gang Task Force, a joint effort the role Columbia has had in so ‘notdanloeb.’ and how! “Had drinks and dinner (and kids) since our fencing days of federal and local law enforcement. many people’s lives in achieving “Over the last few months, Mr. with Phil Donahue when he was but are enjoying life.” Conversation: He added that Gary trained prosecu- their dreams through the John Loeb has been devising a strategy in Los Angeles shooting a commer- “Viktor also has a daughter who tors who convicted hundreds of Jay scholarships and the College for Yahoo. He believes it should cial. Good to catch up as always. I said that her brother, Dan, the bar gang members, and said: “Long Is- generally. Columbia’s ability to focus on its core media and adver- started sculling again last fall and mitzvah boy, was the best brother land is a safer place because of those attract and cultivate some of the tising business, according to the surf occasionally, so I get down to a 10-year-old sister could have!” prosecutions, and Gary is owed a nation’s greatest leaders goes back people close to him.” the water as much as I can. I enjoy Coulé: “My wife, Batya, and I are huge debt of gratitude.” a few years. My fellow classmate still running around at home after In his own remarks, Gary noted President Barack Obama and I may an adorable 4-year-old, Shalom his grandparents were the children not agree on everything, but I con- Simcha, in addition to his siblings: of Italian immigrants: “Today I am gratulate him on his phenomenal Gary Brown ’85, former head of the U.S. attorney’s Chana Tzipora (7), Talia (13), Alex- being sworn in as a federal mag- political career. ... office on Long Island, was sworn in as a federal ander (15) and Ashira (16).” istrate judge — just think of how “For me, Columbia was trans- Coup passé: “Our eldest, Zalman unimaginable this would have been formative. I don’t remember much magistrate. (20), is studying to be a religious for my grandparents. My family has about the specifics of the econom- judge; he was married in January lived the American dream.” ics courses that I majored in — I 2011 to Rivi. He also finished the I was pleased this winter to apparently internalized the key con- Marcus Brauchli, executive teaching at UCLA; recent books Babylonian Talmud a couple of attend the cepts — but I still remember vividly editor of , also include The Secret War Between months after his wedding; it was a Annual Awards Dinner, where the the thrill of reading Don Quixote, was featured in a front page article Downloading and Uploading and multi-year project.” speaker was none other than Julius Jon Dwyer ’89 (standing) visited Ed Cespedes ’88 at his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home in March. They are Epictetus, The Aeneid, King Lear and in The New York Times Business Digital Humanities, which comes Seconde intention: During a trip Genachowski, FCC chairman. [See pictured with (clockwise from top right) Ed’s son, Michael; Jon’s children, Calum, Quinn, Penelope, Lil- Candide, and how contemporary the Section (February 12). It states, “Mr. out this fall. My wife Susan’s last to New York, “I had a nice lunch in feature in this issue.] In a discus- lian and Colette; and Ed’s daughter, Caroline. stories and ideas of these old and Brauchli is acutely aware of the novel was Dial H for Hitchcock, and Manhattan with Randy Elfenbein sion moderated by Steve Waldman ancient texts struck me. . . . tension that lies at the heart of his she was aiming to finish a new one and reconnected with Nat Polish, ’84, Julius commented on a wide “But Columbia was not just mission — a tension being faced not this spring. My daughter, Maud, is whom I have not seen since 1984!” range of topical issues (such as vises clients on a variety of English, Olivia Kate (2½). My wife, Teresa, admissions/alumni/volunteers. professors and books; it was the just by newspapers but by media an eighth-grader at the Windward Nat writes, riposte: “It’s true, limited wireless bandwidth and net E.U. and U.S. financial services reg- will spend more time visiting with php] these past few months. She friendships and the conversations, companies in music, film, books, School. The big news is that my Marc and I had not seen each neutrality) that may come under ulatory and transactional matters. her mom and dad in Commack, says, “I always enjoy it, but man, often at Tom’s or the College Inn, magazines and television. He is older daughter, Kyra, got into other since graduation. Marc was the oversight of the FCC. Also in at- He also advises on data protection N.Y., while I’m away. I will have the competition!” Her second sometimes about girls or dreams or charged with maintaining the stan- Columbia early decision and will manager of the fencing team during tendance were Rich Froehlich and and privacy matters. He is an edi- to miss the Homecoming game daughter, Clare, has been accepted aspirations but often about those dards and legacy of a great institu- be a member of the Class of 2016. some of the years that I was on the Tom Vinciguerra. Because of my tor of E-Finance & Payments Law & [Saturday, October 20], but the tra- at Lowell H.S. in San Francisco (re- very great books or art, which we tion — in this case, the newspaper With a new Lion in the family, I sabre squad. He had seen the news son’s membership on the managing Policy, a contributor to The Review dition of having a 125-lb. roasted garded as the Stuyvesant H.S. of the all internalized and which helped of Katharine Graham, Ben Bradlee hope to find an excuse to come coverage of the retirement of the board, every Saturday at home we of Banking & Financial Services and pig at Wien Stadium will be carried West). She follows her sister, Kate, form the fabric of who we are and [Robert] Woodward and Carl east for Homecoming [Saturday, space shuttles and remembered receive every edition of Spectator, the Journal of International Banking on by Dave Ortiz ’86, Bill Flick ’87, who finished her freshman year today. ... Bernstein — while confronting the October 20].” that I had made a habit of attending which keeps us up to date on cam- Law, and a contributing editor Dan Botich ’87, Jason Pitkin ’87 and (and loved it, according to Leslie). “Perhaps I was always intensely harsh reality that in the digital age, Ed Mangiarotti writes, “After shuttle launches. He was moved to pus issues in a great way. for Electronic Money and Payment many other football alumni. Go Leslie concludes: “My son JJ won’t curious, but my Columbia educa- the grandeur is gone. 17 years in the financial indus- contact me and, through the magic Also this past winter, the high- Systems to Butterworths Financial Lions, with the new head football be far behind. Time marches on!” tion gave me a framework and “Mr. Brauchli has reacted to the try, eight years ago I shifted my of Facebook, we reconnected. Marc light of my annual business trip to Regulation Service. coach Pete Mangurian.” a perspective to investigate new upheaval by overseeing one of the career path to my passion, which was visiting New York and we got San Francisco was dinner with the Paul Stevelman is co-general In 2010, Jerry Wheeler founded things — things that could be put most sweeping and closely watched is helping underserved children together. We spent a very enjoy- always entertaining Michael Cho counsel of RBS Securities in Stam­ del Rey Global Investors — an Everett Weinberger into a historical and philosophical reorientations of any newsroom in become successfully educated. The able couple of hours at breakfast and his wife, Julie ’95 Business. ford, Conn. His wife, Peri, is a international and global equity 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B lineage. As I have grown older, the the country. The editors now stress company, Lookout Learning, has exchanging family photos and Michael continues to head DRX, fashion designer in NYC. He notes, manager based in Los Angeles 86 New York, NY 10023 statues on Columbia’s campus of online metrics and freely borrow developed a K–12 teaching soft- catching up on 25 years of marriage, which — since its inception in 1999 “We recently sponsored an interac- — with his friend and CIO Paul 86 [email protected] Rodin’s The Thinker and Founding from the playbooks of more nimble ware platform and content services kids and careers. It turns out that a as DestinationRx — has grown tive website for Arc of Westchester, J. Hechmer (former head of Interna- Fathers like Hamilton and Jeffer- online competitors like Politico and that are designed to integrate with lot does happen in 25 years!” from a pioneer in consumer drug through which teenagers with de- tional Equity strategies at Nuveen Lauren Rosen Herman writes, “I’m son, and the values they represent, The Huffington Post. interactive whiteboards (Smart And finally, a second update comparison and purchasing to a velopmental disabilities and their Investments). Del Rey currently happy living in Modi’in, Israel, have come to life and resonate “Though Mr. Brauchli always Boards). In effect, teachers are able from Marc, contre-riposte: “I am recognized drug and health plan families can learn about New York has about $2.8 billion in assets where I am a pediatrician with the within me.” understood his job would entail to have superior classroom teach- happy to announce that Batya and I comparison industry leader. DRX state and federal community and under management, and its clients Clalit Health Services HMO. Love Dan, the Class of ’83 congratu- how to put out a daily newspaper ing capabilities to address the dif- can now be referred to as Zieda and data and tools are licensed by the educational supports. Arc of West- include mutual funds, separately my work, love the kids, love the lates you for having received this and run a 24/7 website with shrink- ferent learning levels and needs of Nana. In March, Rivi gave birth to government, America’s largest chester is Westchester County’s managed accounts and institutional continuity of seeing the same fam- special honor. ing resources, some of his editors their K–12 students. I would love a beautiful girl, our first grandchild. health plans, pharmacy benefit largest service provider to people separate accounts. Jerry is the COO, ilies for years. My four kids are Significantly, Dan also was in the have noticed that his relationship to hear from anyone interested in All are healthy. May we share many managers, field marketing organi- with developmental disabilities.” responsible for the firm’s business growing. The triplets, Eden, Gabriel news, as Third Point has amassed with the publisher has cooled. changing the outcomes for high- happy occasions together.” zations, brokers, pharmacies and Paul recently toured campus affairs (except investments). He and Noa, are in ninth grade and we a 6 percent stake in Yahoo! In the “One veteran newsroom man- poverty children — 516-241-5772. other consumer advocates includ- with his college-age son and would lives in Pacific Palisades, Calif., with are helping them choose their ‘ma- front page article from The New York ager said Mr. Brauchli has described My wife, Carolyn, and I live in ing AARP and Consumers Union. like to reconnect with old friends. his wife of 18 years, Lynn, and their jors’ for high school, which officially Times Business Section (March 9), it ‘a constant fight’ with the publisher Locust Valley, N.Y., and our oldest, Jon White John Keller was named a direc- Kevin Townley left in May for children, Megan (16), Will (16) and starts in 10th grade here. At the end states, “After a series of perceived over making further cuts. In an act Meredith, attends Villanova and 85 16 South Ct. tor at Deloitte Services. a six-month tour of duty in the Ben (15). According to Jerry, the kids of March, we celebrated the bar missteps by the board … Mr. Loeb that went largely unmentioned at plays varsity . Margot is a Port Washington, NY 11050 John Casanova emailed with one as part of the “enjoy crash-testing our cars.” mitzvah of our younger son, Nadav. decided to take a more aggressive the paper. Mr. Brauchli refused to high school junior, Rose a sopho- 85 of my most memorable responses to 103rd Air Control Squadron of the I also heard from my fellow Glee And now, no big parties until the [email protected] posture. He now owns more than accept a bonus one year, this person more and Teddy brings up the rear a request for news: “I guess ‘sitting Connecticut Air National Guard: “I Clubber, and reunion moderator weddings!” $1 billion worth of Yahoo stock. added.” in fourth grade. ‘Roar, Lion, Roar.’” Gary Brown, the former head of in the Old Red Cow pub drinking deployed to Kandahar, Afghani- extraordinaire, Leslie Smartt. Addison Armstrong reports: “I “His campaign comes as his per- Our 30th reunion is fast approach- At this year’s Alumni Office- the U.S. attorney’s office on Long ale’ is not much of an update.” stan, in 2003. I am an RF (radio Leslie­ is working full-time on the recently was in California to visit sonal interest in technology grows. ing. You can save the date for Thurs- sponsored Burgers and Basketball Island and more recently chief In point of fact, John works with frequency) transmissions specialist Obama campaign. In a pursuit I colleges with my son, Angus, a The hedge fund manager — a day, May 30–Sunday, June 2, 2013. event, held February 10, Angel litigator for CA Technologies in Sidley Austin in London, where and I will be maintaining ground fully endorse, Leslie also has been junior in high school. While there technology neophyte who bought Please let me know if you would like Roman was in attendance. Islandia, N.Y., recently was sworn he has practiced since 1999 and to air radios as well as satellite interviewing College applicants we caught up with John Murphy, his first iPhone last year — has to be on the Reunion Committee, Marc Friedman, who lives in in as a federal magistrate on Long is head of its London Financial links. It will be the first time for [Alumni Representative Commit- Pat McGarrigle, Adam Pergament adopted up-and-coming mobile or contact the appropriate Alumni Jerusalem, is “saber rattling” once Island. Gary, a Yale Law gradu- Services Regulatory Group. He ad- me to be away from my daughter, tee; studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ and Matt Loera ’88. If Angus ends

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You need not be in the Congress in the First Congressional New York City Learning Commu- to take on the world. New York area and can participate District in Pennsylvania. Read all nity. EHI is a San Francisco-based “Work is busy. I was appointed in meetings via conference call. rank Seminara ’89 keeps giving up 20 runs in 19 innings got his father’s permission Mets’ organization in 1994 only about it at featherman.com. “We organization designed to promote last year to a United Nations ‘Panel two cards in his office. in the 1986 season. By the end to turn pro by committing to got him another 17 innings in can’t let Barack Obama ’83 have all the education and training of exis- of Experts,’ where I am the U.S. Which one he gives out of spring, Fernandes had grown complete his Columbia degree the big leagues. After another Emily Miles Terry the fun, can we?” John says. tential-humanistic psychology; it member of an eight-person group. depends on the visitor. tired of the attitude he had once by attending two more fall year in the minors, Seminara You’ll recall that John sought sponsors conferences and trainings, The panel’s mandate is to advise 45 Clarence St. 89 FMost people who show admired and informed Seminara semesters, in 1988 and 1989. sensed that his time might be the Republican nomination for including a new certificate program the Security Council on the effec- Brookline, MA 02446 Philadelphia mayor in 2011. In the in existential-humanistic psychol- tive implementation of sanctions 89 up at his midtown brokerage that he was no longer on the Seminara moved from the up. He knew for sure once the [email protected] current race, he is running against ogy at Saybrook University in San targeting Iran’s nuclear program, practice at Morgan Stanley get squad. Yankees’ farm system to that of Cubs cut him on the final day of incumbent Rep. Bob Brady, who Francisco, where I am earning a among other activities. As one Erica Etelson writes, “I’ve been the standard business card — It proved to be a wake-up the San Diego Padres before his spring training in 1996. Finally, has held the seat since 1998 and Ph.D. in clinical psychology. For might expect, this is an especially shape-shifting since graduation, name, title, phone and email. call. That fall, Seminara adjust- break came in June 1992, when at 29, he told his agent to hang is chairman of the Philadelphia several years, EHI has been holding challenging time for such work. from human rights lawyer to free- But for a visitor looking to talk ed his approach and refocused the Padres called him up for a up the phone. “It was very, very Democratic Party. When asked in informal “learning communities” in My husband, Andrew Bazarko lance journalist to solar marketing about Seminara’s previous life, on his mechanics, realizing that trip to Chicago. He made his big tough to do,” Seminara admits. an interview with WHYY News- the San Francisco area for psycholo- ’88E, ’94 GSAS and I live in strategist. I’m married to David he pulls out a different one. This the pitches he had thrown right league debut in iconic Wrigley “But I’d had a terrible year in Works if his run against Brady was gists and others who are interested Princeton, N.J., with our children, Melly, an acupuncturist, have an one lists his height, weight and, by batters in high school looked Field on a warm afternoon, with 1995, I was now removed from a “potential suicide mission,” John in talking about existential-human- Vivien, Clara and Nicholas.” awesome 9-year-old son and am among other things, his earned like batting practice to college a pack of Columbia buddies the major leagues 1½, two years replied: “Everything I’ve attained istic ideas and their relationship to Nicholas Birns has edited a launching a startup, Sharemore, was something that some people psychology and life. volume on novelist Willa Cather, which will facilitate buying and run average. players. Four months later, in the stands. Seminara took and I had no job. I was in limbo.” thought was unattainable.” renting second-hand products.” Across the top, it reads: more humble and ready to put on a Cubs lineup that included Seminara realized that with After 30 years in NYC (dating Erica writes that she is happy to get “Frank Seminara. P. San Diego the team first, Seminara went the likes of Sammy Sosa and an Ivy League degree and the back to our freshman year), David David Goldiner ’87 was promoted to deputy director LinkedIn with Columbia alumni Padres.” back to Fernandes and asked current Yankees manager Joe personal skills he had picked Lebowitz moved to the suburbs, to who have an interest in investing It is his 2½-by-3½-inch badge to rejoin the squad. Girardi and pitched a shutout up in baseball, meeting new Armonk, N.Y., with his wife, Amy, of digital media at The Jewish Daily Forward. in or managing green businesses; of honor from a pitching career people in new cities on a near- and son, Aidan. David is assistant just look her up on the site. Erica that took him through every daily basis, Wall Street might general counsel at Pitney Bowes. lives in Berkeley, Calif., where she echelon of professional baseball make sense as his next stop. Mark Goldstein is a patent and I thought, “Why should the Critical Insights: Willa Cather. He went to law school. in the time between his junior Leaning on every Columbia intellectual property attorney in West Coast have all the fun?” So I adds, “This year will see the pub- Jody Collens Fidler and her Westlake Village, Calif. His firm, assembled a group here on the East lication of my article examining a husband, Dr. Philip Fidler, attended year at Columbia and his move connection he could think of, SoCal IP Law Group, recently Coast, and we had our first get- postulated link between Chaucer the Columbia alumni party at the to the world of finance. And he landed a position at Smith celebrated its 10th anniversary. together in March: a free screening and Shakespeare in Exemplaria. I Sundance Film Festival in Park even though his taste of the Barney. And that’s when the Bill Fink recently joined the of the film Finding Joe, about the also teach at Eugene Lang College, City, Utah, in January with Donna major leagues was relatively phone rang one more time: Northern Manhattan Improvement life and work of Joseph Campbell, the New School for Liberal Arts.” MacPhee. Dan Futterman was at brief — 47 games spread over The Yankees wanted Semi- Corp. as assistant executive direc- and a post-screening discussion. Ed Cespedes is an Internet en- the festival (albeit on-screen only) parts of three seasons — Semi- nara for their Columbus farm tor for external affairs. He previ- People stayed for almost 90 minutes trepreneur in Fort Lauderdale. As in Hello I Must Be Going, starring nara is certain that the lessons team. After working out for a ously was director of development in intense conversation about phi- CEO of MMAX Media, a publicly Melanie Lynskey. of baseball have shaped him as week, however, Seminara re- at Little Sisters of the Assumption losophy and culture. We could have traded company, he launched the The 2012 John Jay Awards Din- an investor. He knows as well alized that his heart was no Family Health Service. been back at Columbia! I am hoping PayMeOn Merchant Profit Center ner was held March 7. Michael to hold events every six to eight in February. The new product “en- Behringer, Donna MacPhee, John as anyone “Even when you’re longer in baseball. He called weeks, and welcome new members. abled us to construct a product that MacPhee, Robert Rooney, Lisa on top of the world, something the Yankees and told them Sarah A. Kass Any classmates would be more addresses all merchants’ needs and Carnoy and Peter Schnur were can go wrong.” thanks, but no thanks. 87 PO Box 300808 than welcome, and you do not have allows them to participate in the all in attendance to honor Dede That, he says, “has trans- Now 45, Seminara is a Brooklyn, NY 11230 to join EHI to join our little “salon.” daily deal space in a very effective Gardner ’90, Ellen Gustafson ’02, lated into my being very cau- managing director at Mor- 87 Just email me for information. and profitable manner,” accord- Ben Horowitz ’88, Daniel Loeb ’83 [email protected] tious on behalf of my clients.” gan Stanley Private Wealth And as always, I cannot write ing to Ed. He hosted Jon Dwyer and Li Lu ’96, ’96L, ’96 Business. Seminara arrived at Colum-­ Management and can For those of you expecting to read this column without your support. ’89 and his five kids during Jon’s The dinner benefits the John Jay bia in 1985 as a late-blooming describe a dozen similari- about the rip-roaring amazing Please send me all your news, sto- recent visit to Fort Lauderdale. (See National Scholars Program, an pitcher from Brooklyn with a ties between baseball and time we modestly called our 25th ries, updates and tales of the absurd. nearby photo.) award program designed to honor Alumni Reunion Weekend, you I am sitting by my computer waiting This has been an interesting year the most outstanding first-year fastball that touched 90 mph Frank Seminara ’89’s Topps baseball card from 1992. After eight investing, the stuff of motiva- will have to wait patiently for the for my message light to flash. for me in my advocacy work at B’nai students entering the College each with movement, and the years in the major and minor leagues, Seminara now is a Wall tional talks and sales bro- next issue. I know you can do that. B’rith International, as I testified on year. John Jay scholars distinguish confidence to go with it. “He Street broker. chures. What it all boils down to Yes, you can. If you try. One day at Capitol Hill about global anti-Sem- themselves through “the original- had this competitive, positive is realizing how quickly things REUNION WEEKEND a time, as they say. itism and anti-Israel hatred. I also ity and independence of their MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 cockiness, like he wasn’t going Despite struggling with in- into the seventh inning. That’s can change, on or off the field, In the meantime … have been invited to serve on the thinking and their rich and varied ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS to let anybody beat him. That’s jury, Seminara went 4–0 in six when a line drive off the bat of and knowing how to adjust. Two job changes to report, in no federal government’s Faith-Based record of accomplishments.” ALUMNI AFFAIRS Nikki Dietrich a dream for a coach,” says appearances with a sparkling Mark Grace nailed him in the “It seems like my baseball particular order: Shelly Friedland Homeland Security and Communi- This year marked the 25th an- [email protected] Paul Fernandes, who coached ERA of 0.29. It was enough to arm and ended his debut. “He career was just a totally differ- is now senior counsel at Grant & cations Advisory Committee. niversary of the graduation of the 212-851-7872 the Columbia baseball team make him — and a few scouts really hit it hard,” Seminara ent segment of my life,” Semi- Eisenhofer, a plaintiffs’ class action Keep the updates coming. If Class of 1987, an important class DEVELOPMENT Grace Lee ’02 firm in New York City. And David you haven’t written in the past in Columbia’s history, as it was the for more than two decades — think he might have had remembers. “I thought, ‘Oh well nara says. “I like to tell people [email protected] Goldiner was promoted to the new year or two, your classmates College’s first fully coeducational (1977–98 and 2004–05). what it takes to turn pro. A — shortest career in the major that I’m a lot better at this than 212-851-7492 position of deputy director of digital will want to hear from you. And one. As part of the celebration this But that attitude was nearly year later, Seminara’s transfor- leagues.’” I was at baseball.” media at The Jewish Daily Forward. Eric Fusfield remember, our 25th reunion is historic year, you can add your his undoing. Looking back, Semi- mation from cocky teenager to Not quite. Seminara would Several members of the Class 88 1945 South George less than a year away! The dates memories to the section of Colum- nara compares himself to “a bull elite prospect was complete, make 18 more appearances Joshua Robinson ’08 is a of ’87 were spotted at February’s Mason Dr. are Thursday, May 30–Sunday, bia’s website celebrating coeduca- in a china shop” and “a little bit and in 1988, the Yankees that season and finish with a freelance writer based in Burgers and Basketball, an evening 88 Arlington, VA 22204 June 2, 2013. In the meantime, to tion; just go to college.columbia. of a cancer on the team” during selected him in the 12th round respectable 9–4 record and a Manhattan. He mainly covers of Columbia-Brown basketball with [email protected] ensure that Columbia can get in edu/coeducation. A number of his first year. Still immature, his of the amateur draft, 313th 3.68 ERA. He split next season sports for The Wall Street Jour- a pre-game reception at Havana touch with you about it, please interesting spotlights and articles self-confidence outweighed his overall. Seminara was elated between the majors and minors, nal. His work can be found at Central at The West End. Marie Jacqueline Shire writes, “I recently update your contact information can be found there, too. Donoghue, Christine Jamgochian- started participating in a mentor- online (reunion.college.columbia. And speaking of 25th anniver- work ethic and he played poorly, (despite being a Mets fan), and however, and a trade to the joshuasethrobinson.com. Koobatian, Michael Liebowitz and ing program through Columbia edu/alumniupdate) or call the saries, our celebration will take Suzy Upton were all in attendance College Women (college.columbia. Alumni Office (212-851-7488). Also, place two years from now during

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Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thurs- research fellow at UT’s Institute for was at the wedding of Evan Schultz taken — and pre-kids we had companies. He’s been involved in a Alan Freeman writes, “I enjoy Tom Lecky is at Christie’s in (8) and Sophia (3). Pablo sings in day, May 29–Sunday, June 1, 2014. Historical Studies. I’ve continued in Washington, D.C. He married visited quite a few places. Disney few films you may have heard of (to life in the Maryland suburbs of New York as the head of rare the school choir, Alexander plays I know the number is a bit depress- to telecommute to my job at eMar- a lovely woman named Jennifer is truly magical. Expensive, but say the least): the I Know What You D.C., where my wife, Remy, and books and manuscripts. His sons piano and Sophia asks to do home- ing but the event will be outstand- keter in NYC (along with a monthly Rubin, whose only detectable fault magical. One of the highlights of Did Last Summer series, Slackers and I seem to be in perpetual motion are 11 and 8, and both are thriving. work with her brothers! ing. Mark your e-calendars now. trip back to the office) and have is not having anything to do with the trip was my oldest son getting Mr. & Mrs. Smith, to name a few. heading to Little League, soccer, Tae In 2011, Tom released two albums Tom writes, “I have been with recently started writing a guide to Columbia. Evan recently started his a kiss from Cinderella. We are still Well done, Erik. Kwon Do and then back to Little of instrumental guitar music under Hess Corp. working on oil and gas mobile marketing under contract own law firm in Washington, D.C., blessed to have Lori at home with That will do it for this column. League. I doubt there’s much origi- the name Hallock Hill, and he has commercialization, transportation, Rachel Cowan Jacobs with Wiley. The temporary move Evan Schultz Law, which focuses on the boys, although Tyler started Obviously a lot more will appear nal in that, though. Alan Cohn lives more music on the way this year. marketing and trading since 2000. I 313 Lexington Dr. to Texas has been a big change appellate briefs and legal writing. preschool right after the trip. next time after we’ve all gotten around the corner with his wife and From out west, Melissa Lawton am rowing very little and still sing- 90 Silver Spring, MD 20901 (especially the heat: we arrived at “Also at the wedding were Fred “I recently hired Alvino Sarran together for reunion. Send me your kids, so I guess some things (hap- writes that she lives in Sherman ing (mostly in the shower), but am 90 the end of August in the midst of an Schultz ’90, Susie Wood and Jenni- ’04 for a fraud strategy analyst III updates, especially news about pily) never change. I was looking Oaks, Calif., with her husband, Mi- playing more and more tennis.” [email protected] otherworldly heat wave), but our fer Kirby. Susie lives with her fam- role on my team; it’s nice to have who you saw and what you did forward to a spring break visit from chael; son, Mick (5); and daughter, Tom would love to be in touch Spring has sprung; the grass has riz. children, Max (almost 5) and Zora ily (husband and two daughters) some Columbia blue on the team, during that weekend. Till then! Dan Donshik and his family, and Eliza (3); who is semi-named after with CC classmates in London or I wonder where my classmates is. (almost 3) have more than risen to in Tbilisi, Georgia, but not for long. to talk about the College. I recently then heading to Connecticut this Melissa’s Wien roommate, Eliza anywhere at [email protected]. Eric Horwitz is a life coach in the challenge of a new environment She recently won a position in the started taking a ‘Body Pump’ class summer to visit Joel Lusman and Lowen McGraw. Melissa earned a Traveling the other direction is REUNION WEEKEND Manhattan. His daughter attends and new school. With our time in Foreign Service, and her first station at the local Y and I highly recom- his family. law degree from Fordham in 1999 Meghan Heather Ford, who writes MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 Maryland and his son will matricu- Austin complete (we headed back (July) will be Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. mend it for anyone looking for “I’m at Blank Rome, where I and works full-time for a friend that after living in Bristol, England, ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS late at the University of Colorado East to the New York area at the end Yes, you read that correctly: Kyrg­ some new exercise.” am a commercial litigation partner from her days at Davis Polk & for eight years — where she stud- ALUMNI AFFAIRS Jennifer Freely in the fall. My, how fast time flies. of May), we were looking forward yzstan. I bet not many of us knew Justin Kerber writes, “I’m the typically doing what I describe as Wardwell’s New York office who ied and practiced acupuncture, [email protected] Robert Gross and Abigail Hep- to moving home, but I think it’s fair that such a place existed when we rabbi of Temple Emanuel in St. ‘corporate divorce work’ with a started her own firm in Venice, married her British husband, Miles 212-851-7438 ner ’92 Barnard have been married to say we’ll all miss elements of our graduated in 1991. Jen is a lawyer in Louis, where I’m in touch with Beltway twist. The best part of the Calif. “I’m lucky enough to see Ford, and had two children (Ethan, DEVELOPMENT Amanda Kessler since 1994, live in Englewood, N.J., Texas experience.” private practice based in Paris. Chris Front and Jeff Ordower. I’ve job is the travel, which recently my Carman 12 friends, Jean- 5, and Austin, 2) — she and her [email protected] and have three children: Max (13) Jon L. Swergold was elected to “As for me, well, nothing as been at this pulpit since July 2009. took me to San Francisco, where nie Kelly and David Divita ’95, family have returned to her native 212-851-7883 and twins Judah and Darius (10). the Board of Trustees of the Museum exciting as France or Central Asian My wife, Hope, and I are delighted I had dinner with Ian Carroll, frequently here in Los Angeles,” San Francisco. Meghan has focused At Max’s February bar mitzvah, to mention the newest member of Betsy Gomperz Bonnie Dwyer and their beautiful Melissa writes. “I fortunately get her work on being a holistic birth many Columbia alumni were there our family: Daniel Abraham, born 93 41 Day St. daughter.” to New York all the time because doula, supporting women and to say mazel tov, including fellow Marianna Wright ’91 helped found an acute medical September 23. He’s pretty good at Newton, MA 02466 Rebecca Boston reached out my husband is from there. I can’t their families as they navigate architect Isaac-Daniel Astrachan. sleeping, eating baby food and roll- 93 to say that she started a new job believe how much the area around their way through the journey of [email protected] Rob is a senior associate/manager forensic unit, serving adult and pediatric victims of ing over. Danny’s brother, Eli (7), is in January, her first full-time one Columbia has changed.” Melissa childbirth. She is also delving more at Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + happy to be in first grade.” We begin with a correction: Neither since moving back to Texas in July also interviews Columbia appli- deeply into her personal practice of Design Partnership in Manhattan, rape and sexual assault. I hope everyone is doing well. I nor the CCT editors know how the 2010. Rebecca works for Lhoist cants from L.A. yoga and mindfulness meditation. where he has worked for six years. Until next time, cheers! mistake was made (especially since North America, a limestone mining Prior to his life as an architect, Rob we simply copied the last edition’s company, where she supports their was a construction manager. of Discovery and Science in Fort republics. I live and work in Con- guest column straight from the technical manufacturing depart- Tom Lecky ’94 is at Christie’s in New York as the It’s always great to hear from Lauderdale, Fla. Jon formerly was a necticut. I am the section chief of Jeremy Feinberg email Neil Turitz and Kevin Con- ment. Her son, Endashaw, is 11. the West Coast and Dave Hunt. He lieutenant commander in the United pulmonary, critical care and sleep 315 E. 65th St. #3F nolly sent), but Neil’s incredibly It is hard to believe we are head of rare books and manuscripts. says, “I’m finishing my 10th year States Naval Reserve and a member medicine at Bridgeport Hospital, 92 New York, NY 10021 funny and clever debut movie, Two already halfway through 2012 and serving in the Oregon House of of the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate where I am also director of the 92 Ninas, was incorrectly named in the that by this time next year we will jeremy.feinberg@ Representatives (including time as General’s Corps. He earned a J.D. ICU. I split my time between pa- verizon.net last edition of CCT. We apologize be celebrating our 20th reunion. Elise Horvath sent a lovely Miles is busy combining his practi- Majority Leader and House Speaker) from Brooklyn Law School and, as a tient care, administration, teaching for the error, and if your curiosity is In the coming months you will update about living in the Chicago cal handyman skills with his pro- and now am running for chairman commercial litigator, has represented and research. I recently was part It’s certainly understandable, with now piqued, I strongly encourage receive communications from both area with her husband and 8-year- fessional expertise in sustainable of the Clackamas County Board of local, national and international cli- of a successful NIH grant project reunion so close to this column’s you to see the movie (starring Cara our Reunion Committee (about old son, whom she calls “the most building design and property/ County Commissioners in Oregon’s ents in numerous jury and non-jury looking at prevention of severe deadline, that people are saving Buono Thum and Amanda Peet ’94 class-specific events) and our Gift wonderful person I have ever met.” project management. Ethan is an third-largest county (which includes trials. He routinely litigates partner- respiratory failure. My research fo- their updates and news for when as well as Ron Livingston). Committee (regarding a Class Gift Elise continues: “He has autism and enthusiastic kindergartener and majestic Mount Hood!). FYI, Tom ship and shareholder disputes, cuses on causes and treatments for we all see each other in person. Oliver Staley writes, “I’ve moved and fundraising goals). We hope has made me see the world and thriving at San Francisco Public Weaver is running for the Court of business fraud, banking disputes, sepsis (severe infection) and acute Still, I have a pair of tidbits to share to London, where I cover higher ed- to see you at reunion and have a people in a whole new light, bring- Montessori, where they hope to Appeals in Washington state.” bankruptcy matters, business torts, respiratory distress syndrome (a now, and — as of this writing — ucation in the United Kingdom and strong participation rate for the ing meaning to getting up in the have Austin begin this fall. People, have a great summer creditor rights and contract-related form of severe respiratory failure). was looking forward to seeing Europe as a reporter for Bloomberg Class Gift. morning and every moment of my And finally, congratulations to and send me some news! issues. “I live with my wife, Antonieta, all of you on campus and at the News. I’ve been at Bloomberg News As always, please keep the up- day. The innocence, and the differ- Mary Killackey, who writes with Marianna Wright is the execu- and boys — Diego (11) and Gon- surrounding events. for six years, all of it previously in dates coming in! ence in the way the world looks for the happy news that daughter tive director of the nonprofit hos- zalo (9) — in Weston, and we have First, a milestone for Thatcher New York. Joining me in London are someone with autism, is an amazing Charlotte Lucy DeCell was born on Margie Kim pital in Mission, Texas (part of the a Labrador named Charlie. As Montgomery ’92E, who marked his my wife, Effie, and children, Owen thing to experience. It has made me January 24. Charlotte joins brother 91 1923 White Oak Clearing Metropolitan Statistical Area that you might guess, my children are 20-year anniversary with Alcoa. His (5) and Marisol (2). If there are Co- Leyla Kokmen understand that my purpose in life is Will (2). Mary and her growing Southlake, TX 76092 includes McAllen, the city making Spanish-speaking; their mother is tenure has included roles in envi- lumbia alums in London who want 94 440 Thomas Ave. S. to make him as happy as possible.” family enjoy life in New Orleans. 91 all the headlines for fraud and cor- from Madrid.” ronmental engineering, internal au- to get in touch, they can reach me at Minneapolis, MN 55405 At the time of her note, Elise was She also is happy to announce that margiekimkim@ ruption in healthcare). She helped David Markowitz is an interven- dit, financial analysis and planning, [email protected].” 94 on leave from work, recuperating she was promoted to associate hotmail.com [email protected] found the county’s only acute medi- tional radiologist practicing in Boca financial controller, procurement Thad Sheely also has some from back surgery; she is an oncolo- professor of surgery and pediatrics Greetings to all! I was fortunate to cal forensic unit, serving adult and Raton, Fla. His wife, Sara, also is a strategy and planning, and business news: After 11 seasons with the Greg Langmead ’01 GSAS lives gist, with a primary interest in sar- and made director of the kidney/ attend Julie Levy’s daughter’s bat pediatric victims of rape and sexual physician and they have three chil- excellence and corporate strategy , he has moved on in Pittsburgh with his wife, Alison comas and female cancers. “I love pancreas program at Tulane and mitzvah in New York recently, where assault. They’re seeing hundreds dren, Mollie (16), Moshe (14) and (his current role). Thatcher, who to start a real estate company, (Crane) Langmead ’95, ’03 GSAS, my work, mainly because I love my the children’s hospital. She’s cer- Elise Scheck, Annmarie Giarratano of local residents each year, plus Eva (9). They have lived in Boca for lives in Pittsburgh, enjoys spending GridWorks Development. Thad and kids, Greer (4) and Blake (1). patients and find the research very tainly keeping busy and writes that Della Pietra and Rema Serafi ’91 victims of human trafficking, gang more than 10 years and couldn’t be time with family and is active in said that “building a new stadium Greg works on iBooks textbook interesting,” she says, noting that “what I miss most about college Barnard also were in attendance. A and cartel violence and the drug happier. David also interviews ap- Cub Scouts and his church. for two NFL teams in New York/ software for Apple. Before moving while she has worked at universi- is being able to sleep for 12 hours few months later, Julie and I traveled trade. Marianna is engaged to Matt plicants for the College every year Congratulations on the 20-year New Jersey really has been a once- to Pittsburgh in 2009, the Lang- ties, she is now in private practice, uninterrupted!” to Miami to help celebrate Elise’s Crocker; their wedding is planned [Alumni Representative Commit- mark; I’d be curious to hear from in-a-lifetime opportunity. With meads spent seven years in Los which is a very different experience. Thanks to everyone for the won- oldest son’s bar mitzvah. While for next summer. Matt has two chil- tee; studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ others who have spent as long in our second year of operations on Angeles after Greg earned a Ph.D. She keeps up with some classmates derful updates! Until next time. there, we also spent some quality dren; the oldest, Olivia, will begin admissions/alumni/volunteers. one job since graduation. the books, I am ready for that next in math and Alison earned a Ph.D. through Facebook. time with Pam Solomon Srebrenik college at Texas State in the fall. php] and enjoys that as well. Lionsgate Motion Picture Group opportunity. GridWorks will focus in art history, both from Colum- From across the Atlantic, Tom ’91 Barnard. These were my first bat Laney Kuhn lives in Evergreen, Chris Kotes sent in this update: named Erik Feig as its president of on development in transitional bia. He writes, “We pal around Lloyd writes that after living in Janet Lorin and bar mitzvahs, and I was thrilled Colo., with her husband, dog and “My wife, Lori, and I recently production. Erik most recently was districts throughout the region but in Pittsburgh with David Baisley New York, Scotland and Houston, 127 W. 96th St., #2GH to be a part of them. cat. They hike and ski a lot and have spent two weeks in Orlando with president of worldwide production as a start-up, we also will provide ’94E and his wife, Amelia (Kambic) he and his family have settled in 95 New York, NY 10025 Noah Elkin sent in this update: learned to consider work something our sons, Tyler (3½) and KC (1½). and acquisitions at Summit, where advisory services for specialty Baisley ’95. Living in Pittsburgh London. He and his wife, Alicia 95 [email protected] “For the past six months, I’ve been of a pastime. Laney reports that it’s Lori had put a great plan together, he oversaw all of Summit’s in-house uses, including sports and public- puts me closer to my family, such Segado — they met at Ferris Booth enjoying a ‘junior year abroad’ nice to get a little older and gain and we definitely didn’t overdo productions, co-productions and ac- private projects.” as my brother, Ben Langmead Hall and were engaged on the Allyson Baker, our Student Coun- in Austin, Texas, while my wife, some perspective that way! Disney with the kids. It was one quisitions as well as the company’s Congratulations and good luck, ’03, and his wife, Sara (Goldfarb) Low Steps in 1999 — have three cil president, is back in her home- Barbara, has a sabbatical year as a Dr. David Kaufman wrote: “I of the most amazing trips we have involvement with films of its client Thad! Langmead ’02E.” children: Pablo (10), Alexander town of Washington, D.C., where

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ing the 2008 presidential campaign, Dr. Oren Lerman performs and is a Washington correspondent plastic and reconstructive surgery for the paper. She already has had a at Lenox Hill Hospital in Man- Dylan Voorhees ’98 Clears the Air in Maine lot of speaking engagements about hattan. He and his wife, Sandy the book in cities across the country, Schwartzberg Lerman ’97 Barnard, B y N at h a l i e A l o n s o ’08 but it never hurts to have more live in Englewood, N.J., with their exposure (including the cover story 8-year-old twins, Solomon and in this issue of CCT) — so support Michael. Oren works with Dr. s clean energy project that I love because it involves environmental groups and big est in the natural world. our classmate and help spread the Stephanie Falcone Bernik ’89 at the director for the non- working directly with laws and industrial business groups com-­ “Growing up in Vermont and word. new Lenox Hill Hospital Institute profit Natural Re­ the legislators who make them, ing to an agreement, it’s very being outdoors hiking and skiing, Congratulations, Jodi! for Comprehensive Breast Care. sources Council of but also organizing a whole ap- helpful, and legislators love it,” I certainly have a love of the Barbara Antonucci reports Stephanie is the chief of surgical AMaine (nrcm.org), Dylan Voor­ paratus of advocacy to support says Voorhees, who joined natural world,” says Voorhees. “I Cecilia Cabello is a v.p. of Mer- oncology, and they recently had cury, a public strategy firm; Cecilia the pleasure of operating together, hees ’98 spends most of his that over time,” Voorhees says. NRCM in 2006 upon completing think there’s a sense in places works in its Los Angeles office and along with Dr. Jennifer Capla ’99 working hours advocating for NRCM’s advocacy director, a master’s of public policy from like Vermont and Maine that our specializes in public affairs and and Dr. Wojciech Dec ’03, plastic — and often, against — govern- Pete Didisheim, lauds Voorhees’ Harvard’s Kennedy School of environment is not just a pretty government relations strategies. She surgeons in Manhattan. While ment policies that could impact enthusiasm for all aspects of Government. thing around us to visit but is previously was senior legislative performing a complex eight-hour the state’s air quality and green- his job. “That’s what I look for in When it comes to clean en- actually part of who we are and deputy to Los Angeles City Council procedure, one of the many topics house gas emissions. Occasion- a staffer — a willingness to do ergy practices, Voorhees walks part of our economy.” president Eric Garcetti ’92, and of conversation that came up was ally, though, he takes on other whatever it takes to advance the walk, too — literally. After Hesitant to start graduate prior to that she was chief political undergraduate school, and they assignments, such as doing our mission, and to have fun in several years of going to work school right away, Voorhees adviser to the Consulate General of quickly realized they all were Dr. Jennifer Capla ’99, Dr. Oren Lerman ’97 and Dr. Stephanie Falcone skits in a polar bear costume to the process,” Didisheim says. via bicycle he now commutes by took a job teaching eighth Bernik ’89 (left to right) recently performed surgery together at the Israel in Los Angeles and a special Columbia alumni. Also assisting in encourage NRCM supporters to “Whether in a polar bear suit foot, having purchased a home grade at The Gailer School, an new Lenox Hill Hospital Institute for Comprehensive Breast Care. projects manager for then-Rep. the operating room was Dr. Sarah Hilda L. Solis (now Secretary of Hobart, who was assistant coach jump into a frigid Atlantic Ocean. or his lobbying suit, Dylan will blocks away from NRCM’s office. independent institution where Labor). Barbara also reports that of the Columbia women’s soccer Funded largely by private play the part needed to help He lives with Annie, his wife of he attended high school. That she moved after graduating from Street Journal story about the effort. Charlie Gaul works in the market- team 2006–07. (See nearby photo.) foundation grants, Augusta- promote a clean energy agenda 10 years, and their daughters, experience changed his trajec- NYU’s School of Law in 2000. She Jenn switched industries after ing unit for Campari America, Since last June, Aba Yankah based NRCM is the largest and for Maine.” ages 3 and 5. tory. “Teaching led me to public and her husband, David, live in a career with ABC News in New headquartered in San Francisco. Rogers has been global marketing one of the most influential envi- Voorhees is especially proud Maine was not always on affairs and being interested the Cleveland Park neighborhood. York. It’s nice to run into her in the Ai-jen Poo, director of the counsel at Coca-Cola. She lives in ronmental advocacy organiza- of the key role he and NRCM Voorhees’ radar, however. As a in our civilization today more Since May 2010, Allyson has been neighborhood with her husband, National Domestic Workers Al- Decatur, Ga. tion in Maine, with a combined played in having Maine join the teenager he aspired to become than our civilizations of 3,000 working for the Office of Enforce- Tom, and sons, Charlie and Max. liance, has been named to Time Rushika Conroy moved to 12,000 dues-paying members Regional Greenhouse Gas Initia- an archaeologist and was years ago,” he says. ment at the recently formed Con- Jenn also recently caught up with magazine’s 2012 “The 100 Most Massachusetts and is a pediatric sumer Financial Protection Bureau Jon Bonne ’94, who is wine editor Influential People in the World” endocrinologist practicing at a hos- and supporters. To raise money tive in 2007. RGGI is an agree- drawn by the University’s an- Voorhees nonetheless con-­ (CFPB). “It is a really exciting time for the San Francisco Chronicle. At a list, announced on April 18. pital in Springfield. She welcomed and awareness about climate ment among the New England thropology department as well tinues to find his College edu- to be working at the bureau and a lunch in NYC at Jean-Georges, they According to Time, “Poo has a son, Rowan, last June. So that change, the nonprofit organizes and several Mid-Atlantic states as an overall “flavor and pace cation, especially the Core, true honor to be part of the team tried to order a bottle of Annia, from been working for more than a de- makes three: Nevin (4), Amalia (2) an annual polar bear plunge; to collectively reduce carbon of life” that was different from relevant to his mission. “A lot of starting up an agency designed to Dan Petroski’s Massican Winery, cade to give domestic workers — and Rowan (1!). since 2009 it has been held dioxide emissions from their his rural Vermont upbringing. the work I do is about climate improve the marketplace for all but it was sold out! nannies, housekeepers, home-care Karen Lee and her husband, on December 31. Voorhees power plants through a cap- His fondest memories of the change, which is a long-term is- consumers,” she writes. Keep the news coming. nurses — basic workers’ rights like Jean-Marc Grolier, welcomed trip- appeared in a promotional and-trade system. With support College include rowing with the sue and relates to some funda- Before joining CFPB, Ally- overtime pay, paid vacation and lets, Alex, Devin and Charlotte, on video for the event in a polar from other environmental lightweight crew team three mentals of how civilization will son was a trial attorney at the protection against discrimination. November 30. The babies were in bear costume which, accord- groups, Voorhees negotiated out of his four years and the operate. And so, on top of the Department of Justice. “My case Ana S. Salper She helped get the Domestic Work- the NICU for three months, but are docket took me to numerous cities 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA ers’ Bill of Rights passed in New now home and thriving. ing to the storyline, he refused with local industries to produce primatology courses he took direct politics of it, appreciating throughout the Midwest, where I 96 Brooklyn, NY 11201 York and is working on a similar Jennifer Feldsher and her hus- to take off until NRCM met its the bill that determined how with professor Marina Cords, the sweep of Western civiliza- tried tax fraud cases — a fantastic 96 effort in California. Her next big band, Vadim Daynovsky, proudly pledge goal for the fundraiser. Maine would implement the which, in retrospect, he cites as tion, how we fit in and where [email protected] job that was also fun and very project: empowering the thousands welcomed a son, Micah Kyle While he did not actually wear program. “Anytime you have evidence of an ingrained inter- we are headed are themes that busy,” she adds. Greetings, classmates. Just a bit of of domestic workers now being Daynovsky, on February 1. Micah the costume until the goal was are relevant to me still,” he says. Back in New York (and living news to report. hired to care for the aging baby- joins sister Jacklyn (6). Jennifer is met, Voorhees, who has himself In that vein, Voorhees, who on the next block from my apart- I’ll begin by highlighting the boomer generation.” Go to time. a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani taken the icy dip several times, considers climate change “the ment on West ), Jenn impressive release of Jodi Kantor’s com and search for Ai-jen’s name in NYC, working on corporate acknowledges, “We know we defining issue of our time,” sees Goldstone is enjoying her job at book The Obamas. Published in for more. restructurings. can’t engage people without himself as making a small con­ SeaChange Capital Partners, which January and favorably reviewed in Congratulations, Ai-jen! helps pull together capital for non- The New York Times, the book pro- Desperate plea for more notes, a bit of humor. We protect the tribution to a much broader REUNION WEEKEND profits that are looking to expand. vides readers with an intimate por- people — send me your news! For environment but we work by vision of “being able to have MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 In February, the group announced trait of the Obamas as they take on now, in honor of Bruce Springsteen’s engaging real people.” an economy and a culture and ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS it would help provide a new their new White House roles, raise new album, Wrecking Ball, I leave For Voorhees, such activi- a civilization that can survive ALUMNI AFFAIRS Patricia Carchi you with this quote from him: [email protected] ties represent “rare but needed over the long term by behaving “The best music is essentially 212-851-7807 departures” from his more sustainably.” there to provide you something to DEVELOPMENT Harrison Kobb serious regular work of combat- The Wall Street Journal featured Jenn Goldstone ’95’s face the world with.” [email protected] ing global warming pollution in To watch the video of Voorhees work finding funding for nonprofits at SeaChange 212-851-7444 Maine and clearing a path for in polar bear garb, go to Web Capital Partners. Sarah Katz Sandie Angulo Chen renewable energy sources such Extras at college.columbia.edu/ 97 1935 Parrish St. 10209 Day Ave. as wind power. On any given cct. Philadelphia, PA 19130 98 Silver Spring, MD 20910 day, you can find Voorhees in his stream of funding to nonprofits for their children, attempt to change 97 98 office writing analyses of state Nathalie Alonso ’08, from [email protected] [email protected] when they merge. “We didn’t have the country and figure out what it bills or, when Maine’s part-time Queens, is a freelance journal- a ton of money to give away like means to be the first black President Looks like everyone is saving up Happy summer, Class of ’98. We’re legislature is in session, nearby ist and an editorial producer of we used to, but a little bit of money and First Lady. The White House their updates for our 15th reunion. just a year away from our 15th at the State House lobbying law- LasMayores.com, Major League can be transformational and can cooperated with the book and, And by the time this column reunion, and I hope many of you makers. He also participates in Baseball’s official Spanish lan- make a more durable organization though Jodi interviewed more than appears, we’ll have already are saving the date for next year’s Dylan Voorhees ‘98, shown here at the Kibby Wind Farm in NRCM’s media campaigns. “It’s guage website. She also writes that can last many more years than, 200 people, much of her reporting celebrated! But as of this writing, celebration (see above). Maine, advocates for sustainable energy sources. say, gobs of money into a growing comes from the first couple’s top I was looking forward to seeing The weekend of March 23–25, I a really diverse and dynamic job PHOTO: NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE Student Spotlight for CCT. organization that comes to the aides and closest friends. Jodi cov- everyone there and getting lots of had the pleasure of attending the edge of a cliff,” Jenn said in a Wall ered the Obamas for the Times dur- updates to fill the next column. wedding of my dear friend and

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together in the Ditmas Park section adult novel, Fair Coin, was published of Brooklyn. If anyone is interested in March. He hopes there will be sev- in attending a workout, the studio’s eral readings and events in NYC and website is urbandojo.com. Carmen Philly and encourages anyone who also recently started a video blog wants to catch up to contact him on about local businesses and market- Facebook or Twitter, or to find him at ing events: carmensognonvi.com. his blog, ecmyers.net. Additional wonderful news to Theodore (T.J.) Perlick-Molinari share: Joann Um and Chi Kim were married Kelsey Erdahl in October married in January (see nearby 2010 in Milwaukee. David Hensel photo). Joanne’s twin, Lynn Um, and Peter Lewin ’01 were among who lives in New York City and the guests. Named a Super Lawyers works at Barclays, was maid of Rising Star two years running in the honor. Erin Song Duncan ’97 and criminal defense field in Wisconsin, Ester Ra Park ’00 Barnard also were T.J. chairs the Alumni Representa- in attendance. Joann and Chi live tive Committee in Wisconsin for all in San Diego, where Joann teaches Columbia applicants (studentaf chemistry at two local colleges. fairs.columbia.edu/admissions/ I have good news to share from alumni/volunteers.php). the Alumni Office. As of March After 10 years in Rome, Jasmine 12, donations from our class to Hyman moved back to the United the Columbia College Fund were States to do a Ph.D. in environmen- significantly up versus last year tal politics at Yale School of Forestry and prior years. Our class has & Environmental Studies. She Joann Um ’99, here with her twin and maid of honor, Lynn Um contributed $27,000, as compared helped found a certification scheme ’99, married Chi Kim on January 7 at the Village Church in Rancho to $15,000 around the same time in for renewable energy projects in the Adelaide Scardino Lopez ’00 married Carlos Lopez last summer at her family’s country house in Suffolk, England. Guests included (left to Santa Fe, Calif. 2011. If you’re interested in giving carbon market, Gold Standard, and PHOTO: SARA ALLEN, ONELOVE PHOTOGRAPHY right) Alexandra Conway ’00; the bride’s father, Albert Scardino ’70; Natalia Mehlman Petrzela ’00; Alexander Howard ’09; the groom; the to the College this year, you have is trying to figure out what sort of bride; Olivia Howard Sabine ’01 and her husband, Ernest Sabine ’01; Michal Saad ’00; Annable Schnitzer Noth ’00 Barnard; Andrew Miara until Saturday, June 30, for it to be impact this work has on the rural ’00; and the bride’s brother, Hal Scardino ’08. Not pictured but also in attendance were Jenna Klatel Miara ’00 and Paul Getto ’01. fellow Spectator board member Melissa, meanwhile, had the counted in Fiscal Year 2012. poor in least developed countries. PHOTO: ALEXANDER HENDERSON Julie Yufe to the dashing Michael distinction of being named in You can give online (college. She also reports, “My girlfriend, Dreyer. Julie and Michael had a Crain’s New York Business’ annual columbia.edu/giveonline); by Flavia, moved from Rome with me whirlwind romance that began “40 Under 40” feature for 2012. An phone (212-851-7488); or mail a as well, along with Maude, the Kate Group, where he is responsible cisco and works at Genentech. Also ter, Leyla Joan, into the world on “I still hear from a lot of Colum- last May. A native Londoner, e.v.p. at the real estate development check, payable to Columbia Col- Moss of dachshunds. It’s good to for new acquisition, development in the Bay Area is Alison Forrestel, December 15. Mom and Dad are bia peeps. Most recently I caught up Michael flew around the globe for firm Gotham Organization, Melissa lege Fund, to Columbia College be back in New York — so good, in and portfolio management initia- who works for the National Park doing great and look forward to with Manelle Nunez Martino, who memorable dates with Julie before was heralded for being a “force Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, fact, that we moved near Columbia, tives across U.S. and international Service in San Francisco. having a great year. has become quite the entrepreneur proposing to her five months later of nature” and for shepherding a 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 3rd Fl., much to the horror and disdain of healthcare and commercial real Rhonda Henderson is complet- Carolyn Ortiz Valladares and with a booming tea business in the while on safari in South Africa. $520 million residential project to New York, NY 10025. members of the Class of 2000 who estate investments. Amy recently ing an M.B.A. at Darden School of her husband, John Valladares Washington, D.C., area. Capital Teas Five months after the proposal, the fruition. are in Brooklyn.” finished a Ph.D. in psychology Business at Virginia. She writes, ’01, welcomed daughter Sofia on is one to check out!” couple married in Calistoga, Calif., Congratulations, Melissa! Liz Paw is a music attorney at and is completing a post-doc in “Though they’re trying hard to December 20. Q Beck lives in Austin, Texas, on March 24. The newlyweds are Prisca Bae Carroll, Guido & Groffman and clinical neuropsychology at Florida turn me into a Wahoo, I’m defi- Alex Conway reports, “Last sum- and has founded a venture-backed finally living on the same conti- 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B married to Tyley Ross, a singer/ Hospital. James and Amy have nitely still a Lion. After B-School, mer, I had the pleasure of attending startup company, Famigo (famigo. nent, on the Upper East Side. Laurent Vasilescu 00 New York, NY 10011 musician. They met as actors on enjoyed the quieter life of Central I’ll return to the D.C. area to work the wedding of Adelaide Scardino com), which is like a family chan- Best wishes to Julie and Michael! 127 W. 81st St., Apt. 4B 00 stage on Broadway years ago and Florida and adopted two rescue in education strategy.” to Carlos Lopez at her family’s nel for your smartphone or tablet. [email protected] Julie’s bridesmaids included 99 New York, NY 10024 now live happily in Brooklyn dogs, a Cockapoo named Charlie Last summer, Bram Raphael country house in Suffolk, England. Famigo’s vision is simple: mobile Melissa (Epstein) Pianko and Re- 99 Leslie Bahn ’01 married Scott Steen Heights. Tyley’s band, East Village and a Schnoodle named Jack. James and his family moved back to Bos- Columbia certainly was represented: technology should simply “work” laurent.vasilescu@ Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, ena Russell Maltudis. Melissa and gmail.com on a balmy late September day at Opera Company, is on hiatus and enjoys the occasional trip back to ton. He recently became director Olivia for families. Famigo provides a plat- I met Julie during pre-orientation the Springhill Pavilion in Bozeman, he is teaching voice at NYU. Liz New York City to visit friends and of the Home Parenteral Nutrition Howard ’01, Alexander Howard ’09, form for families to safely discover, (COÖP) and have been friends Greetings, Class of ’99! We have Mont. Columbians in attendance adds, “No kids yet, but we picked alma mater, particularly the chapter Program at Children’s Hospital Jenna Klatell Miara, Andy Miara, manage and enjoy content and apps ever since. Reena and Julie were several updates for this edition. included Christine Boyle ’99, up our dog, Couver, on one of our house of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Boston, which is the country’s larg- Ernie Sabine ’01, Michal Sadd ’00, on smartphones and tablets. in the same sorority. Other guests Elizabeth Robilotti and her Francisco Reinking ’01, Michelle trips to Vancouver.” Brian Andrews and Cynthia est such program. Bram recently Albert Scardino ’70, Hal Scardino Q also reports that Matthew in attendance included Melissa’s husband, Rit Aggarwala ’93, have Wang, Ryan Rosenfeld and Sean Jeremiah Marble started work Lynn Singerman were married on saw Charlie Nightingale, his wife, ’08 and Annable Schnitzer Noth ’00 Robinson ’99E and Chris Clough husband, Daniel Pianko; Reena’s welcomed a new addition to the Hewens. Leslie and Scott reside in for Windows Phone at , June 4, 2011, at the Dawn Ranch Alison, and their son, Nathan, Barnard. (See nearby photo.) ’99 live in Austin, Texas, and that husband, Lex Maltudis ’91; my family: Maya Catherine Aggarwala. Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Leslie focusing on competitive intelligence Lodge, a resort in Guerneville, Calif. while visiting New York. He also “In November, I ran the ING there is an active Columbia Uni- husband, Hans Chen ’97; Jeremy Maya is making her parents very is communications manager for and strategy. In May, he graduated Benjamin D. Singerman, the brother recently saw Ruth Altchek, who is NYC Marathon, my first marathon. versity Club of Central Texas. Q Kamras; and Jerome Jontry ’98E. happy in California. When they are the Jackson Hole Land Trust and from the Lauder Institute program of the bride, who was temporarily an editor of the Off Duty section at I had an incredible experience caught up with several Columbia Jeremy, now a partner at Arnold not busy with diapers and bottles, Scott is outdoor and sustainability at the Wharton School, with an named a deputy marriage commis- The Wall Street Journal. training with Fred’s Team, whose alumni during SXSW, an annual & Porter in San Francisco, an- Rit is an environmental policy program director for Camp Dudley M.B.A. and an M.A. in interna- sioner by San Francisco County, Speaking of Charlie, he and the members raise funds for research music, film and interactive confer- nounced that he had married Dr. adviser for Bloomberg Philanthro- YMCA. Although Leslie is techni- tional studies (in French). Prior to officiated. Brian is the assistant family moved to Newport Beach, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering ence and festival held in Austin, Samantha Goldstein, a pediatrician, pies and teaches at Stanford, while cally CC ’01, her spirit is with her Wharton, Jeremiah worked for the treasurer and director of capital Calif., in March 2009 when he Cancer Center. It was wonderful to this year. in August 2010. He and Samantha Elizabeth is finishing her fellowship matriculating Class of ’00. United Nations in Africa and Asia, markets at The Cooper Companies, joined Pacific Alternative Asset be out there. I got a high five from welcomed their first child, son in infectious diseases. After nearly 10 years at Lifetime was a Fulbright Scholar to Costa a contact lens and medical device Management Co., a fund of funds, Vicky Spodek (née Vinarsky) early Milo Adlai, on August 9, 2011. Milo Danielle Zanzarov lives on Television in NYC, Eugene Myers Rica, was director of operations for manufacturer, in Pleasanton, Calif. as legal and regulatory counsel. on in Brooklyn. Her cheers helped Jonathan Gordin weighed 7 lbs., 5 oz. The Kamrases Long Island with her husband and left his job in February 2011 and a social enterprise in Cambodia and His wife, Cynthia, is a staff lawyer, He writes, “It’s been a great almost me make it through the 26.2-mile 01 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. live in San Francisco and are enjoy- children, Marianna (6), Giovanni began working as a development Laos, and worked in the Dominican working primarily on homeowner three years. Nathan is almost 27 race! Los Angeles, CA 90068 ing their first year of parenthood. (3) and Evan (1½). Danielle is the writer at The Children’s Hospital Republic with the Peace Corps. He foreclosure prevention, at Housing months old. Maybe he’ll start the “I live in NYC and work in 01 [email protected] Jerome, who many classmates owner of Get Naturally Healthy, of Philadelphia Foundation (and is loves Seattle and is trying to swim, and Economic Rights Advocates, Columbia surfing club in 16 years!” public relations representing wine might remember as a heavyweight and she is a consultant helping now in Philadelphia!). He and his bike, run and ski as much as pos- a nonprofit legal services and Daniel J. Weix is an assistant and spirits brands. My brother, Michelle Braun Nayfack and her on Columbia’s wrestling team, people understand nutrition. She wife, Carrie Wright ’04 Barnard, sible. The surfing will have to wait advocacy organization in Oakland. professor of chemistry at Rochester, Chris Conway ’96, lives around husband, Aaron Nayfack, announce is a civil engineer who oversees also makes an annual pilgrimage to were married last July. Sean Boggs until he gets back to Costa Rica or She graduated summa cum laude where he lives with his wife, Stella the corner with his wife, Cindy, the birth of Annette Jane on Febru- housing development at UCLA. Morningside Heights with her fam- was a groomsman, and guests the Dominican Republic. from Florida, from which she also Wu, and their children, Elliott, and their daughter, Olivia (1½), ary 11 near San Francisco. Annette Jerome should look into working ily to have dinner at Symposium. included Lucy Chen and Jackie James A. Schmid III ’05 Business earned a law degree. Among those Madeleine and Amalia. future Class of 2021. Chris started weighed 8 lbs., 4 oz., and joins for the Los Angeles tourism board, For the past four years, Carmen Hidalgo. Carrie is a second-year at and his wife, Amy ’12 TC, have in attendance at the wedding were Congrats to all the new parents an IT company, GreenT Digital, for brother Isaac (3). because he was waxing poetic (Van Kerckhove) Sognonvi and Temple University School of Medi- settled in Orlando after several Ilya Levtov, Michael Shields and in the class, including Nicole small businesses and individuals Congratulations to the Nayfacks. about the city — “as long as you her husband have been running a cine and the reason for his move, years of moving around. James now Brian Legum. Ozelge (née Carter) and Dr. Sadi who want to be environmentally My wife, Jamie Rubin ’01 Barnard, don’t have to commute.” martial arts studio that they own Eugene notes. Eugene’s first young is an executive with CNL Financial Maciej Paluch lives in San Fran- Ozelge. They welcomed a daugh- responsible with their tech. and I cannot wait to meet Annette!

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Pooja Agarwal ’02 married Matthew Jenkins in Philadelphia on February 25. Guests included (back row, left to right), Shane Jones ’00, Alexander Farrill ’03 and Abby Walthausen ’06 Barnard were married in Brooklyn, N.Y., last June. Among the Lions in attendance were Ramin Hedayati ’02, Alexander Belenky ’02, Manuel Rosemberg ’02E, Joshua Krafchin ’02, Ilan Wapinski ’02, Christopher Allen ’02, Justin (back row, left to right) Sam West ’08, Tim Bean ’04, Trevor Haav ’04, Jeff Bobula ’04, Brian House ’02 and Ned Milligan ’04; (middle row, Wall ’02 and Whitney Duncan ’02; (middle row, left to right) Sofia Santana, Amber Baylor ’02, Tania de la Cruz ’02, Jennifer Kidwell ’00, left to right) Ruth Reyes ’06 Barnard, Merran Swartwood ’03, Sarah Robinson ’03, Ben Howell ’02, Julia Haav ’04, Daniel Greenwald ’02, Sheethal Rao ’02, Shraddha Jani ’03, Chiara Gelardin ’03 Barnard, the bride, Aisha Jafri ’02, Yakira Teitel ’03, Miriam Stone ’03 and Melissa Judd Schoenholtz ’04 and John Atkinson ’03; and (front row, left to right) Alexis Stephens ’05 Barnard, Talya Cooper ’05 Barnard, Veronica Donner ’02; and (front row, left to right) Benjamin Wheeler ’01 and his daughter Carmen, Evans Richardson ’02, Katharine Cortesi ’01, Liu ’03 Barnard, the bride, the groom, Cynthia Cabral ’05 Barnard and Sarah Dziedzic ’04. Rupal Patel ’02, Nathan Berger ’04, Sofia Berger ’01, ’02E, Linyee Yuan ’02 and Anjuli Kolb ’03. PHOTO: CHRISTINA SANTUCCI PHOTO: LOVE ME DO PHOTOGRAPHY

birth of their son, Ethan Zachary warm winter, the arrival of spring Washington, D.C., providing local mers I run Nantucket Yacht Club’s Ellen Volpe announced that Jon covers national politics for to believe it has been 10 years Manon DeFelice ’02 Barnard. Karp, on May 6, 2011. He was 8 lbs. in Beijing was a welcome change. youth with the academic, character Junior Sailing Program, where I’ve Grant Anthony was born on Febru- the paper and is anchoring its cov- since we graduated. A full report Sara Velasquez has moved to and 21 inches long. Fred Van Sickle, Columbia’s e.v.p. and leadership skills needed to been since 2005.” ary 16. He was 8 lbs., 8 oz. Congratu- erage of the 2012 presidential cam- of the events from the weekend Islamabad to continue her hu- Richard Mammana and Mary for development and alumni be well-rounded and responsible In May, Monica Conley married lations to Ellen and her family! paign from New York — which will follow in the Fall issue. If you manitarian career. She continues to Christian Winthrop Brownrigg ’04 relations, recently visited Beijing adults in the community. I have a Eric Newman in New York City at Jasper Cooper and Josiejing means he is frequently on the road. didn’t give me your updates in work in film and theatre and has a welcomed Emilia Ruth Winthrop and locations throughout Asia to blog that I update every Wednesday Temple Emanu-El; the ceremony Weng were married on December He has already been to Iowa and person, please send them to me at (currently untitled) film for release, Mammana into the world on network with alumni living in the highlighting my experiences there: was followed by a reception at the 29 in Northern California. Con- Florida for those states’ Republican [email protected]. It will be so directed by Jason Stutter. October 17, in New Haven, Conn. region. Speaking of whom, let’s virtuetalk.org. My wife and I live Yale Club. Many Columbians were gratulations to them both! primaries and will be back on the interesting to hear what everyone In April, Ian R. Rapoport began Emilia weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz. and start with a few updates on alumni in Northern Virginia, just outside in attendance, including Anya Big thanks to Tsvi Aranoff for campaign trail before long. is doing. work as a national TV reporter for was 20 inches long. who are spending time in Asia. of D.C.” Brodsky, Rachel Ganiere ’03E, Ra- making an effort to connect with On the topic of newspapers, my The John Jay Awards Dinner NFL Network, based in Dallas. He Saurabh Jain and his wife, Stephanie (Baker-Baum) Bat- Simma (Asher) Kupchan writes, chel Gershman, Robert Reyes ’04, our classmates. Tsvi set up a group Spectator pal, Demetra Kasimis, honoring members of the Columbia also will contribute to NFL.com on Seema, welcomed a son, Aarav, on tani lives in Hong Kong with her “My husband, Charlie, and I are Melinda Mellman ’01 Business and on Facebook for us, and he encour- is headed to the West Coast, and College family for distinguished a regular basis. He writes: “There November 11. husband, Matt, and is teaching at delighted to report the birth of our Tamara Acoba ’01 Business. The ages all of us to “meet” there: face I couldn’t be more thrilled. Deme professional achievement was held will be an emphasis on Cowboys the Canadian International School daughter, Maia Asher Kupchan, on couple resides in New York City, book.com/groups/CC2001/. Tsvi reports, “I’m finishing a Mellon at Cipriani 42nd Street on March 7. coverage, but I’ll be spending of Hong Kong. March 8. We three are thankfully REUNION WEEKEND where Monica works in digital also promised to provide me with postdoc in the humanities at Yale In the illustrious group was Ellen plenty of time focusing on all of the Steve Ling shares, “After many happy and healthy in Washington, MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 advertising at Starworks Group. an update of his own soon. and then moving to L.A. in the fall to Gustafson, who is the founder and 32 teams in the league. It’s quite a years of exam-taking, I recently D.C.” Jillian Kasow writes, “I’m ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS It was “winter” in Los Angeles, start a tenure-track job at California executive director of 30 Project. El- change of scenery after covering became a credentialed property and Emily Broad (now Emily Broad ALUMNI AFFAIRS Sarah Trimmer assistant counsel in the New York which means the same thing for us State University, Long Beach, in the len is dedicated to fighting hunger the Patriots for the Boston Herald casualty actuary. I also completed Leib) has been teaching since [email protected] State Senate Office of the Majority every year — time to visit Florida political science department. I’ll be and malnutrition, and her organiza- for the past three seasons. But all five levels of improvisational September 2010 in the Harvard 212-851-7977 Counsel, working on the energy, with our friends Alex Eule and his teaching classes in political theory.” tion aims to address the current my wife, Leah, and I are looking comedy training at the Peoples Law School Center for Health Law DEVELOPMENT Donna D. Desilus ’09 environmental conservation and wife, Michelle ’01 Barnard. Jamie Dan Laidman and I are looking crisis in the global food system that forward to the move, and she’s Improv Theater in New York City. and Policy Innovation, where she [email protected] agriculture committees. I also and I had a great time in Naples forward to reconvening with Deme has led to both hunger and obesity. excited about moving back to the I was scheduled for late March to directs the center’s new Food Law 212-851-7941 was engaged last summer to Ali with the Eules and their delight- (and perhaps reliving Spec memo- She also is co-founder and a board South (she’s from Mississippi). I’m go to Taiwan to participate in Jon and Policy Clinical Program. Emily Chaudhry, whom I met while in ful daughter Madeline (2, by the ries) when she gets here. member of FEED Projects and the looking forward to the challenge.” Michael Novielli Chow’s wedding and to visit nu- was married in October 2010 to law school. We are planning our time you read this). Perhaps the As always, please keep in touch! FEED Foundation, a nonprofit that Pooja Agarwal married Mat- 03 World City Apartments merous relatives whom I have not Jonathon Leib and was excited to wedding for this October in Lenox, funniest coincidence of the entire raises money to benefit the United thew Jenkins, a surgery resident Attention Michael J. seen in years. During my trip, I also have many College and Engineer- Mass.” trip occurred when we literally Nations’ World Food Programme’s at Temple University Hospital, in 03 Novielli, A608 planned to visit Tokyo for the first ing ’03 classmates in attendance. Colleen Cusick writes, “I’m stumbled upon a Mitt Romney rally Sonia Dandona School Feeding Program through Philadelphia on February 25. Pooja Block 10, No 6. Jinhui time and to eat plenty of sushi!” Justin Assad writes, “I’m the co- working on my dissertation at in downtown Naples, two blocks 02 Hirdaramani the sale of its now iconic “FEED” is an attorney with Morgan, Lewis Road, Chaoyang District Back to the United States, Ale- head sailing coach at Dartmouth. CUNY Graduate Center on 19th- from our hotel. The coincidence 2 Rolling Dr. burlap bag and other products. & Bockius. More than 30 Columbia Beijing, 100020, People’s jandro Berthe-Suarez writes, “I fin- I began here in September 2010; century courtship plot novels and was not running into the rally; it 02 Old Westbury, NY 11568 Classmates in attendance were alumni attended the wedding. (See Republic of China ished my master’s in social work at we finished this fall ranked second teaching Victorian lit at Queens was finding ace reporter Jonathan [email protected] Scott Koonin, Ken Lantigua, Leslie nearby photo.) [email protected] the Catholic University of America nationally in coed and third in College. My husband, Dan Endick, Lemire there on assignment for the (Baden) Papa, Tina Fernandez, Jac- And more baby news! last May (2011). I’m the director of women’s, which was pretty excit- and I had a son in October. Simon . It was great to I hope everyone enjoyed Alumni lyn Chu, Grace Lee, Azhar Quader Jacqueline (Cockerell) Karp While New York and many parts boys’ programs at the Youth Lead- ing. During winters I ski and play Kelly Endick is 3 months now and see a familiar face in Naples. Reunion Weekend! It’s still hard and Everett Miles, along with and David Karp ’99 announced the of the United States had a record ership Foundation in Southeast plenty of hockey, and during sum- quite adorable and also quite bril-

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liant, so basically the perfect baby.” Ross Leff, Gerald Brant, Ashish experience is vastly different and Reina Hardy is a Michener Fel- Shetty, Sanjit Tewari ’05E and Ste- honestly priceless. I still don’t low in playwriting at UT Austin, ven Branco at Youngmie Han’s know if I’ll eventually go to the Jennifer Medbery ’06’s Data-Driven Software Empow ers Teachers and she recently signed with the wedding in Chicago in May. officer side, but I will likely leave theatrical division of the Gersh Speaking of Chicago, Elodi Diel­ the active duty service when my Agency. u­banza lives there and is wrapping contract ends soon. B y K a r e n I o r i o up her third of six years of urology “And a message to those stu- or those who know Jen- business strategy. Zimmer- residency at Northwestern. dents and alumni opposing ROTC nifer Medbery ’06 (née man says he was impressed Angela Georgopoulos In 2010, Rachel Neugarten com- on campus — if we’re not the offi- Schnidman), founder and by Medbery’s conviction 04 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 pleted a master’s in the Department cers and service members directing CEO of Kickboard, an through “a dark time in the New York, NY 10038 of Natural Resources at Cornell, the course of the military and its market and a terrible time 04 researching the socioeconomic actions, guess who’s going to do it? Feducational software company [email protected] for venture funding. implications of forest conservation Someone not as smart or as dedi- whose namesake program Hello, fellow CC’04 alumni! in the Adirondacks. She spent 2011 cated as us. We oppose based on tracks and analyzes student “If you asked a venture investor what they would not I hope this fresh batch of updates traveling, starting with a month ideals and principles, which means performance data, she seems to finds you well. As usual, here’s of volunteer work with Global that those ideals and principles like to fund, they’d say a first- possess superhuman strengths. your reminder to send in your Medical Brigades in Honduras, don’t make it into the military. The “She has the ability to walk time entrepreneur who’s a news — don’t be shy! You can followed by studying humming- only way to change the military is through walls,” says David teacher, has no financial train- email me at [email protected] birds in Trinidad and five months to be the military. Policy isn’t made Whittemore ’06, a friend and ing, isn’t a deep technologist or via Columbia College Today’s web studying forest ecology in the White by students; it’s made by military fellow entrepreneur. Or as Ed and doesn’t live in Silicon submission form: college.columbia. Mountains of New Hampshire. She people. And with the ROTC, that edu/cct/submit_class_note. now is employed at Conservation gap can be bridged.” Zimmerman, Kickboard’s at- Valley or another major city.” However, once Zimmer- Congratulations to Lindsay Wil- International, helping it incorporate torney and an adjunct professor ner, who recently completed a dual services and human at the Business School, puts it: man met Medbery during the application process he M.B.A./M.A. at the Tuck School of well-being into its environmental Peter Kang “It’s not clear to me that she Business and the Johns Hopkins conservation work. 205 15th St., Apt. 5 realized, “She was one of the understands what the word ‘no’ School of Advanced International Rachel adds, “I recently moved 05 Brooklyn, NY 11215 means.” most impressive people in an Studies. She spent several months to Washington, D.C., and plan to 05 [email protected] Both describe a tenacious impressive room. She’s going last fall working in horticulture stay here for the foreseeable future, woman who views obstacles, to stick with it.” development in Tanzania before so I’d love to connect with other The long list of accomplishments such as the vast achievement In addition to First Growth starting a full-time job as a consul- Columbia alumni in the area.” keeps on growing for our class- tant with Bain & Co. in Boston. Amy Burge Moynihan is writing mates. Here are some updates: gap that divides our nation’s Venture Network, Medbery also has found business sup­- Congratulations also to Jonathan her dissertation toward a Ph.D. in Daniella Ross completed her students along socioeconomic Sabatini, who graduated from the higher education at Virginia and second year at Michigan State lines and the charge of finding port from the Columbia Ven­ ture Community, a group of Ross School of Business at Michigan works full-time for a research firm University College of Veterinary investors for a new company this spring. He plans to spend the in Charlottesville, Va. She loves liv- Medicine. She is eagerly awaiting Columbia students, employ- based in disaster-ravaged New Jennifer Medbery ’06 provides teachers with an innovative tool to track students’ progress. summer traveling the world before ing in Charlottesville and says she’s the start of the clinical phase of her ees and alumni interested Orleans, as opportunities. PHOTO: ROBERT X. FOGARTY, DEAR WORLD joining Accenture as a management looking forward to finishing school program and plans to apply to resi- As a high school student in entrepreneurship. Among consultant, also based out of Boston. and beginning the next chapter in dency programs in small animal in Ridgefield, Conn., Medbery charter schools and school gov- to a new, streamlined web 2.0 now is in 70 schools across 12 the classmates she works Jessica Leber ’08 GSAS, ’08J her life; her husband is completing internal medicine. Daniella lives became interested in Columbia erning systems are flourishing. tool. They loved being able to states. Each school signs up through problems with are recently moved from Washington, his J.D. at Washington and Lee. with her longtime partner, Eric, D.C., to San Francisco and started Elana Stein lives on the West and their two dogs and two cats. when she attended non-credit “[Teaching at Sci Academy] visualize student progress with starting at a cost of $15 per Whittemore, a co-founder of Clothes Horse, and Mike a job as business editor for the Side with her husband, Yonah, Bindu Suresh graduated from weekend classes on campus was my ‘aha’ moment as an charts and graphs. It opened staff member, which includes magazine Technology Review. Her and infant son, Azzan (Ozzie). She medical school at McGill. through the Science Honors entrepreneur. I had a dynamite up teachers’ minds on how training. Brown Jr. ’06, a founding partner of AOL Ventures. graduate degrees came as part of serves as clergy at Lincoln Square Christine Jelinek graduated Program. Once at the College, school leader and a hardworking to use data to help move stu- “Our No. 1 objective is Columbia’s dual master’s program Synagogue and is pursuing her in April with a Ph.D. from Johns “She’s so passionate about she majored in computer sci- group of teachers all on the mis- dents along faster.” growth — getting more teach- in earth and environmental science doctorate in religion at Columbia. Hopkins School of Medicine’s ence. During her senior year, a sion of closing the achievement Kickboard (kickboardfortea ers on Kickboard and making education,” Brown says. “She journalism. As Jessica writes, “Go In the fashion world, Tess Vig- Department of Pharmacology and class on social entrepreneur- gap. We had a strong school chers.com) is a highly customiz- teachers more analytical and has a sincere interest in chang- Columbia!” il’s clothing line 50 Dresses is now Molecular Science. Her dissertation ship at Barnard “opened my culture and our students were able program that can be just as data-driven,” says Medbery. ing how the business is oper- Jason Burwen reports, “I fin- in its third season and is featured is titled “Characterizing the Post- eyes to what you can do as an engaged in learning. Still, it felt useful for a high school physics “For many teachers, ‘data-driv- ated. When a problem arises, ished a double master’s in public in Fred Segal in Santa Monica, Translational Modifications of Hu- policy and energy and resources Calif., as well as at modcloth.com. man Serum Albumin as correlated entrepreneur for social enter- cumbersome to track student teacher as it is for a kindergar- en instruction’ is a theoretical she doesn’t waver. She adapts to solve it.” at UC Berkeley last spring. Since The literary world is represented with Cardiac Ischemia.” Next, she prise,” she says. progress.” She recalls juggling ten reading instructor. Teachers buzzword; Kickboard is the then, I’ve been working in San by Adam Gidwitz, who married will take a fellowship with Dr. Rob- With a new interest in social dozens of files, stacks of paper can choose what they’d like tool teachers can use to turn Medbery’s resilience is getting noticed outside the Francisco at an economic and Lauren Mancia ’05 last June. His ert J. Cotter, also at Johns Hopkins, reform, she joined Teach for and desks full of Post-It notes, to track, including test scores theory into practice.” statistical consultancy that deals second book for children 8–12, In A where she will be developing novel education sphere. Last June, America upon graduation and struggling to organize informa- and specific skills as varied as Although the company has with demand-side management Glass Grimmly, will be published in Parkinson’s disease diagnostics taught eighth-grade math for tion ranging from test scores to subtracting fractions and under- expanded nationally, Medbery Inc. magazine included her in in electricity, specifically looking August. His first book, A Tale Dark using mass spectrometry and other two years in the Mississippi Del- parent phone numbers. standing similes and metaphors. says, “Our headquarters is still, its list of “30 Under 30” young at demand response programs, And Grimm, has been translated proteomic tools. ta. For her third year of teaching, With her data-driven comput- Teachers who see the same and will always be, in New entrepreneurs to watch. And electric vehicle charging and time- into 10 languages. [See March/ Italome Ohikhuare is pursu- in 2008, Medbery moved to New er science background, Medbery students in different classes can Orleans. The city is an intersec- in August she was honored by of-use pricing. I recently connected April 2011.] ing an M.F.A. in screenwriting at with Jake Porway ’04E and have Finally (but certainly not least), Miami and is set to graduate next Orleans to work as a founding knew there had to be a way to share data to analyze behavior tion of entrepreneurship and President Barack Obama ’83 as one of the White House’s begun volunteering with his new we have an update from Andrea May. She is spending the summer teacher at New Orleans Math use technology to help teachers and performance patterns. Kick- educational reform.” nonprofit, Data Without Borders, E. Channing Kung Starrett: “I got in Los Angeles taking film courses and Science Academy, a charter track students. After a year board also allows for teachers to Despite a poor economic cli- Champions of Change Young Entrepreneurs. because I just can’t get enough data married in 2010 — very happy. at UCLA and networking with school known as Sci Academy. spent developing Kickboard, maintain call and meeting logs mate, investors have seen the in my life. Any other data geeks in I’m deployed to Afghanistan as both Miami and Columbia alums. All this recognition is not a (She now lives in the Crescent she introduced a prototype to indicating when they speak with value of Medbery’s mission. San Francisco should look me up; an enlisted service member in the Brendon Jobs writes: “Loving City with her husband, Trey.) Sci Academy at the start of the each student’s family and what Last spring, her company was signal for Medbery to rest on we need a happy hour here.” Army. Mostly sitting in an office, home ownership in Philly. Can’t “New Orleans is a mecca 2009–2010 academic year. is covered in the conversation. accepted into the highly com- her laurels; instead, she says, Lindsay Shortliffe writes, “Last and I’m in a relatively safe zone, so believe it has nearly been a year. I of opportunity,” Medbery says. “The response was over- After its resounding success petitive First Growth Venture “Press and awards are valida- year I completed my post-doctoral I’m not really worried. As for why have entered a domestic partner- “After Hurricane Katrina, the old whelmingly positive,” she says. in Sci Academy, Kickboard Network, founded by Zimmer- tion that what we’re doing is fellowship at UC Berkeley and I enlisted (and not as an officer), I ship with Bob McKee, although became licensed as a clinical psy- get to do more actual work rather we’re praying that Pennsylvania schooling system was literally “Teachers loved going from launched in 11 New Orleans man, which enables entrepre- important and motivate me to spread the message wider.” chologist. I have a private practice than paper pushing … now for follows Maryland’s example and washed away and now new an old-fashioned gradebook schools the following year and neurs to work with advisers on in Palo Alto, Calif.” Lindsay was my job specialty, it’s all paperwork enacts a marriage equality act planning to see Medha Goyal anyhow, but it’s of a different soon. This whole year, I’ve been Barbhaiya, Chirag Barbhaiya, type than an officer … plus, the preparing a lengthy portfolio of my

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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES work in the classroom for National the weekend! Now, we’re living in Seth Wainer recently joined reading for news and some exciting Board teaching certification. In Chicago where I am finishing my the U.S. Department of Health updates from our classmates. combination with the constitution- Ph.D. in American history at Chi- and Human Services, working For starters, our class was out al seminar that I did at George- cago. We’re all looking forward to on public education for the new in full force at the annual John Jay town last summer, it’s helped me heading to Dallas in September for health care law. Awards Dinner on March 7. At- grow so much as a teacher. … Lizet’s wedding to Usman Shuja.” Jeremy Kotin is excited to have tendees included David Ali, David “I’m again working for the Congrats to all of our class- spent the past six months working Chait, Allison Turza Bajger and summer in Washington, D.C., but mates and their wonderful news. with director Baz Luhrmann in her husband, Dan Bajger. this time as an Education Pioneers’ Please don’t hesitate to share your creating projections for the exhibi- Sonya Thomas will begin her fellow. I’ve also been talking to updates! tion Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible residency in ophthalmology at Mahesh Somashekar, who has Conversations at The Metropolitan Johns Hopkins next summer after nearly completed his Ph.D. at Museum of Art. Jeremy also had completing an internship in inter- Princeton and is happily married, Michelle Oh Sing the privilege of collaborating with nal medicine. as is Andrea Woodley, who is 9 N 9th St., Unit 401 Philip Glass in the creation of a Nishant Dixit has returned loving life in NYC. I’ve also seen 06 Philadelphia, PA 19107 promotional film for the com- from a year abroad working with Charlotte Jacobs a couple of times 06 poser’s new arts center being built the Tibetan Government in Exile [email protected] since she has moved to Philly to in Big Sur. through TechnoServe India, and get an Ed.D. in teaching, learning This has been a big year thus far After spending most of the last is happy to report that his team’s and teacher education at Penn’s for Brian Wagner. In January he five years in China, Latin America work led to $2 million in additional Graduate School of Education, my launched LendVets, a nonprofit and the Middle East, working on funding for entrepreneurship and alma mater.” that helps military veterans who a set of book projects about travels agriculture development initiatives Speaking of Charlotte, her pilot are entrepreneurs. In March he in those regions, Jonathan Ward is from USAID. He is founding a start- study, titled “Where My Girls At?: spent two weeks on Reserve duty at Oxford, reading for a master’s up business to assist small retailers The Experiences of African-Ameri- at the Pentagon, supporting the in global and imperial history. He with processing their transactions can Adolescent Girls in a Predomi- Navy’s community outreach efforts. writes, “I was living in Damascus and managing their customers and nately White Independent School,” As of this writing, he was looking most recently, until hearing of my suppliers through mobile phones. was accepted to the Diversity in forward to his May 26 wedding to Oxford acceptance and making my Nishant recently spent a month in Research and Practice Conference Afton Yurkon (Pharm.D., North- way to the United Kingdom. My New York catching up with friends at Teachers College and presented eastern ’07) in Charlottesville, Va., in thesis focus is on Russian and Chi- and working to find developers for in late March. This summer, she front of a crowd to include best man nese diplomatic history during the his start-up. He “hopes that, like will go on a three-week trip to Sean Wilkes and groomsman Dave Cold War (studied both languages Jeremy Lin, his couch surfing on the Botswana with the Somerela and Whittemore. at Columbia, now using primary LES will lead to greatness.” Sustained Dialogue Campus Margaret Bryer shares, “I am Network organizations. She will very excited to do more primate Elizabeth (Liz) Reeve ’08 and Craig Hormann ’08E were married on September 30 at Orfila Vineyards and Winery in San Diego. Guests included many former members of the CU football and field hockey teams on which Liz and Craig played. Left to right: Ramie Merrill ’07, lead conflict resolution dialogues Daniella Ross ’05 completed her second year of behavior and nutrition field work about issues of difference as well as in Uganda this summer and to Jen Cruz ’07, Court Flannery ’08E, Mary Rutledge ’07, Andrea Derricks ’07, Cody Steele ’09, Lauren Hanna ’08, Kristina George ’07, Kris participate in service projects. veterinary school at Michigan State. be entering a Ph.D. program this Jensen ’10, the bride, the groom, Kristen Teatom ’08, Thomas Weldon ’08, Marissa Doyle ’07, Nicole Amerian ’08, Scott Hughes ’08, Eric Ife Babatunde loves living in fall in physical anthropology at Maskwa ’08E, Vishal Kumar ’08E, Jessica Lee ’08, Bryce Marshall ’08, Ashley Mehl ’08, Heather Lockhart ’08E, Ben Hansen ’08, Nik Trikha Brooklyn and enjoys her job as a CUNY/The New York Consortium ’08, Danny Zuffante ’08E and Michael Testa ’08. brand strategist at Ogilvy & Mather. Nearly a year ago, in August sources in the original languages to in evolutionary primatology.” Eileen Lee, COO at Venture 2011, Tara Wedin married Nicolas put the thesis together, very enjoy- David Chait returned to the for America, writes: “Venture for Bamat. Tara writes, “Nick and I able indeed!). I’ve just applied Business School in January follow- this writing, Samantha was looking Max Bauer writes, “I am finish- to be back at Columbia. Oh, and it Calvin Sun, the youngest panelist, America launched its first fellow- met in medical school and we are for the doctorate here and will ing a two-year leave of absence forward to seeing the Class of 2007 ing my second year of law school, might be worth mentioning that grabbed the audience’s attention ship class in June! The program now both pediatric residents at The hopefully stay on after the master’s for an appointment to the Obama at reunion. where I co-wrote a brief to the I recently appeared on Wheel of with his stories of traveling and the kicked off with a summer celebra- Children’s Hospital of Philadel- finishes in June.” administration. He served as the Simeon Siegel and his wife U.S. Supreme Court on the Patient Fortune. I didn’t win, but I walked obstacles he had faced during his tion in NYC with board members, phia. I loved having so many of my Ganesh Betanabhatla recently senior policy adviser to the ad- welcomed a son, Liam Morrie, on Protection and Affordable Care away with $8,250.” travels. supporters and friends, and then best friends from Columbia join us returned to New York after a year in ministrator at U.S. Small Business February 21. Congratulations! Act. I am working at the Ana Taveras recently started “Sun, a Columbia University the fellows moved up to Providence for our wedding celebration! We Houston. Ganesh is an investment Administration, among other roles, Alexandra Cerutti sent regrets District Attorney’s Office and will her own company, Ana Christina graduate with a B.A. in biochem- for a five-week training camp at boogied down with Carly Hugo, professional in the energy practice and is “thankful for the experience about missing reunion, adding: be at the Suffolk County District — “basically an education travel istry and v.p. of his class, spoke Brown. Fellows will then move to Jessica Bobula Foster, Lauren at Pine Brook Road Partners. of a lifetime.” “I will be busy that weekend Attorney’s Office in Boston this company — Anthony Bourdain about how he began traveling and Cincinnati, Detroit, Las Vegas, New Baranco, Kelly Gavin Zucker- Finally, I will close with a note to Kat Vorotova also is back at graduating from UMass Medical summer.” meets Rosetta Stone. Our first tour where his ambitions stemmed Orleans and Providence to work man, Seth Zuckerman, Katie you all from Victoria Baranetsky: Columbia; she’ll be starting her School! Looking forward to head- was to the Dominican Republic in from. He spoke about his trip to at a start-up for two years with the Fernandez, the soon-to-be married “Dear Class of 2006: Exciting executive M.B.A. at the Business ing back to New York in July to January.” Egypt, where he managed to learn REUNION WEEKEND hopes that they will work at the Danielle Joset, Dana Gold, Deepa times, as friends’ careers flourish. School this fall. start general surgery residency at MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013 company long-term or start their Danan, Sunita Kurra, Porter This is measured by the reality Max Talbot-Minkin writes, “[As North Shore-LIJ.” ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS own companies.” Leslie and Emily Berkman. I love of getting older. I have therefore of this writing] I’m graduating from Monique Alves ’09 recently was ALUMNI AFFAIRS Sarah Trimmer James Williams ’07 will represent the United States Sandra Seal Gildersleeve ’12 Philadelphia and even got to see decided to dedicate this year to my the IIT Institute of Design in Chi- promoted to associate level at Mor- [email protected] P&S and John Gildersleeve ’04, ’08L Carly’s movie Higher Ground come health! I wish all of you much of it. cago with a master of design and gan Stanley in the (Credit) Deriva- in fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. 212-851-7977 were married in September 2009 out in theaters here and can’t wait And now for my haiku: M.B.A. this May and moving back tives Clearing Project Group. She’s DEVELOPMENT Amanda Kessler and welcomed their first child, Julia to see her latest movie, Bachelorette. “Gray hairs growing in. to NYC to work at ReD Associates, enjoying the fast growing world of [email protected] Madeleine, last November. I’m so proud of my Carman 703 “’06 careers taking off. a strategy consulting firm in the clearing and global project imple- Calvin Sun recently was invited Arabic overnight and managed to 212-851-7883 Rachel Feinmark writes: “In roommate and her amazing film “Stop, smell the roses.” Financial District.” mentations. to speak about his blog, The Mon- survive in a country and culture September, Benjamin Kalinkowitz production career! I also grabbed Isaac Schwartz was sorry to miss John Shekitka shares, “I’ll be re- Neda Navab soon Diaries (monsoondiaries.com), he was completely unfamiliar with and I were married on a farm in dinner with another Carly from reunion, but “doesn’t feel too bad, turning to fair Morningside Heights 7 Soldiers Field Park, for the Global Youth Leadership until that day. ‘We are young, we’re Luray, Va., surrounded by the Columbia, Carly Ross, who is David D. Chait as I [planned to] be backpacking in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. in social 08 Apt. 7C Day Summit at Baruch College; energetic, just go,’ Sun added. beautiful Shenandoah mountains, applying for a residency in ob/gyn 07 1255 New Hampshire in Peru before meeting up with studies education at Teachers Col- 08 Boston, MA 02163 other speakers included the former “Sun is the founder of National goats and good friends. Lizet and will match in March.” Ave. N.W., Apt. 815 a group of doctors, nurses and lege. I’m so excited.” [email protected] U.S. Ambassador to the Slovak Undergraduate Film Festival at Co- Lopez; Steve Melzer; Marc Tobak; Congratulations, Tara, as you ap- 07 Washington, DC 20036 medical students from Cleveland to James Williams is excited to Republic, the president of Baruch lumbia University Asian American Matthew Mandelberg; Evan proach your one-year anniversary! [email protected] carry out a large medical project in announce that he will represent the Hi, Class of 2008! We have some College, the managing director of Alliance. ‘Strive to fail,’ he says. ‘I Deutsch; Charlotte Jacobs; Joel Isaac Stone Fish recently joined the Sacred Valley region.” He hopes United States at the 2012 Olympics great updates from classmates J.P. Morgan, the director of study would rather fail and learn than Chudow ’06; Lizzie Berkowitz the staff of Foreign Policy as an as- It is hard to believe that it has been everyone had a blast. this summer for fencing. (This is below, including a Wheel of Fortune abroad at the Weissman Center for live in constant fear of failure,’ he ’06, ’10 GSAS; Tunie Deutsch ’04 sociate editor in Washington, D.C. five years since Class Day and our Samantha Feingold shares, where I boast for James, who took win and run-ins with Gerard International Business, the associate added. ‘There are no such things as Barnard; Shira Danan ’07; Tracy This marks his return to the United Columbia College graduation. A “Excited to say I was recently ad­ home a silver medal in the 2008 Bei- Butler. Enjoy! director at Standard Chartered Bank mistakes, only lessons.’ Massel ’06 Barnard; and Michal States after spending six years in full report from our first Alumni mitted to the New York State Bar jing Olympics with the U.S. saber Ben Teitelbaum, who is study- and an award-winning journalist “When asked what constitutes Shinnar ’06 Barnard all made the China, several as a reporter for Reunion Weekend will appear in Association and am practicing civil team; see the November/December ing at the Journalism School, writes, of The New York Times. The Ticker a successful organization and great long trip to celebrate with us for . the Fall issue. In the meantime, keep litigation in New York City.” As of 2008 issue.) “I love my program, and it’s great (Baruch’s news site) reported: “… leadership, Sun said, ‘Make sure the

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Maddow, , South across the pond in August, he spent — don’t forget to drop him a line if The column would not be RUNNING TRIPS NORTHWEST leads all-inclusive trips in WA state. Check us Korea’s Yonhap News, Freedom much of the fall at home in North- you are ever in town (danielkanak@ complete, of course, without a final out at runningtripsnorthwest.com! Radio and other blogs. He also ran ern Virginia before accepting a gmail.com)! word from our most devoted Class into actor Gerard Butler three times consulting position with Deloitte in Mike Tannenbaum is moving to Notes writer. Chris Yim says, “This while traveling through November. The new job has taken San Francisco in July to start work time in 2010, I would most likely RENTALS and reports: “I’m happy to say he’s him to Houston, where he helps de- at private equity firm Hellman & have been caught skipping class CLASSIFIED AD INFORMATION been an avid follower of my blog velop regulatory risk management Friedman. 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The 10% discount for Columbia College alumni, faculty, featuring the best tap dancers and network is designed to unite the staff, students and parents musicians from around the world.” he planned to cycle in the BP MS [email protected]. fragmented group of Asian-Ameri- Finally, it’s never too early to 150, a ride from Houston to Austin Brian Dunn writes, “I am living cans living below the Mason-Dixon Mail or email orders to: plan! In a little less than a year that raises money for multiple scle- the exciting life of a real estate line, mainly in my home state. We Columbia College Today we’ll be celebrating our five-year rosis treatment and research. agent at a great new boutique firm want to empower people of Asian- Columbia Alumni Center reunion. The dates are Thursday, In his spare time, Eric has been in Manhattan, The Hollingsworth American heritage to embrace one 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 1st Fl. STAY IN TOUCH May 30–Sunday, June 2, 2013. If a contributor and outreach director Group. Also, I am working with another and to date intra-racially New York, NY 10025 To ensure that you receive CCT and other College you want to get in on the planning, for Sense and Sustainability, a pod- a small group of young rowing as well as inter-racially. This is a Email: [email protected] you can join the Reunion Commit- cast and blog founded by Jisung alumni on developing the King’s message that I’ve been striving to Online: college.columbia.edu/cct/advertise_with_us information, please let us know if you have a tee; just contact the appropriate Park that explores diverse perspec- Crown Rowing Association (KCRA, spread amongst my peers since Telephone: 212-851-7852 new postal or email address, a new phone number Alumni Office staff member noted tives in sustainable development. a Columbia University rowing college. Deadline for Fall 2012 issue: or even a new name. Click “Contact Us” at at the top of the column. You need Eric has contributed a few posts to organization) Alumni Network. It’s “In the last bit of news, I want to Thursday, July 26, 2012 not be in the New York area and the blog and invites classmates to been pretty awesome meeting all inform everyone that I was indeed college.columbia.edu/cct or call 212-851-7852. can participate in meetings via con- check out the project (senseandsus the influential and accomplished the founder and president of the ference call. Stay tuned for more as tainability.net). alumni we have all over the world. Sevens Society at Columbia. Please the big weekend approaches. Rachael McMillan spent her We’re starting to implement keep this hush-hush.” first several years after Columbia some programs, such as a mentor Thanks for the great updates; teaching in Baton Rouge, La., and program in which local alumni keep them coming. I hope to see operations of the gallery. NYC and/or on the Internet. Plus, This is rather true since we work Sarah Chai Alidad Damooei being a client advocate for the are paired with athletes to provide many of you around New York Melissa Im writes, “I’m work- the Met Opera is one of our clients, together. I’m enjoying my time at 12 c/o CCT 09 c/o CCT New Orleans Public Defenders. general advice and contacts for this summer! ing at Edelman, a PR firm, in its too, so my Music Hum experience Booz & Co. in New York and look Columbia Alumni Center Columbia Alumni Center She recently began pursuing a J.D. internship/job placement. It’s a digital practice doing social media definitely comes in handy!” forward to traveling to China and 12 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 09 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 at Tulane, joining Kiley White ’04 lot of work but there is so much for AXE and Dove. I recently met Ryan Gingery is a Teach for Chi- Japan in June. New York, NY 10025 New York, NY 10025 Barnard, Robyn Gordon ’11 Barnard potential!” Colin Sullivan up with Sue Yang ’10 and a few na fellow in Guangdong Province, Lastly, residents and friends [email protected] [email protected] and Benjamin Clark ’11. Rachael is Kevin McKenna earned an c/o CCT other Columbians, and have hung teaching English to third-graders. of EC Suite 805 still haven’t fully happy in Louisiana and hopes to M.A. in history from the University 11 Columbia Alumni Center out with Chris Elizondo ’11E and Anne Kramer still lives in NYC, entered the post-graduation world Congratulations to the newest Shortly after graduation, Nora stay there. of Washington in December and 11 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Sara Partridge. I’m glad to see they though no longer in Morningside and have conjured up farcical members of Columbia’s alumni Sturm moved to Europe, where Chimdi Nwosu graduated from has been promoted to the Ph.D. New York, NY 10025 are all doing well.” Heights, and works at a small updates on their lives in an attempt family, the amazing Class of 2012! she had been working with the Temple’s Beasley School of Law program. [email protected] Ellie Lan is trading Chinese healthcare consulting firm. She is to continue the “lighthearted and Now that we’ve made it through International Crisis Group, a this spring. She will start her legal After orchestrating a move from stocks at Morgan Stanley’s sales in contact with a bunch of Colum- fun-loving” nature of our class, as four years of the Core, John Jay Brussels-based NGO commit- career in October as an assistant California to Washington, D.C., last Hello, Class of 2011! Spring is finally trading desk and went to India bia peeps and hopes to remain so! Nuriel Moghavem writes. So here dining hall and those Hamilton ted to preventing and resolving district attorney in Philadelphia. fall, Pierce Stanley is adjusting to upon us, which means that our in April. Kevin Kung is also at Caitlyn Malcynsky writes, “I goes: Ricky Schweitzer “recently elevators, we have our very own deadly conflicts around the world. life inside the Beltway, immersing undergraduate days at Columbia are Morgan Stanley, but in the Asia have been working in Boston at the opened an art gallery in Berlin spot in Columbia College Today — This past April, she took a consult- himself in political journalism at already one year behind us — crazy, division, working at the fixed in- national headquarters for Mitt Rom- with Nuriel,” who has apparently and I’m excited to be your class ing position with a new organiza- Julia Feldberg The New Republic magazine, where right? I hope everyone has been come and currencies sales desk. He ney’s presidential campaign, where “moved to San Diego and joined correspondent. So whether you’re tion that provides support and 10 4 E. 8th St., Apt. 4F he is a digital media fellow and in enjoying their work or studies or just is also trying out to play on Hong I am a regional finance director. the Marine Corps with Nora Dia- traveling the world with all your training to societies undergoing New York, NY 10003 charge of the Washington-based kicking back and living the good life. Kong’s Davis Cup tennis team. I’ve also gotten to do a lot of travel mond.” Interestingly enough, Nora possessions in a backpack, enjoy- political and post-conflict transi- 10 magazine’s social media presence. A few of our classmates wrote to let Adina Rose Levin writes, for finance and political events and also “was accepted to the Univer- ing Mom’s cooking back at home [email protected] tions. Often this involves working When he is not tweeting, he may us know what they are up to. “Imagine if Don Draper’s newest primary elections, which has been sity of Miami medical school and or working endless hours at your with countries that have recently Happy summer, Class of 2010! be found at an upstart coffee shop Tony Gómez-Lomeli sends his client was a Broadway show, and really interesting. With Super Tues- will be moving there with Jan Van new job, CCT is just one way to endured a civil war or revolution. With the two-years-out-of-college in D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood, greetings to Columbia College Today! welcome to my life as a junior day mania behind us, everything is Zoelen.” Jan, in addition, will be stay connected. Shoot me a mes- This fall, she hopes to start pursu- milestone comes big changes for sampling and serving the capital’s He lives in Colonia Condesa in copywriter at SERINO/COYNE, starting to ramp up for the general. “embarking on a year-long sailing sage by email or via CCT’s easy- ing a master’s in international some of our classmates. finest hand-poured coffees. Mexico City and works for a New the leading ad agency for Broad- It’s been pretty much a round-the- trip to circumnavigate the Earth” to-use webform (college.columbia. relations and security. She has yet Daniel Kanak left Goldman Hieu Pham says, “Hello every- York-based contemporary art gal- way shows. My days are filled clock job, but I love it.” with Kurt Kanazawa. And Zack edu/cct/submit_class_note) so I to finalize her institution but there Sachs and, in April, moved to one! I recently got back from doing lery space as an associate director; with tag lines, TV spots and all George Mu writes, “The only Susel writes that he is “moving to can share updates and news with is a chance that she will be back in Singapore to work for Temasek research in China and am wrapping his responsibilities include manag- sorts of other cool creative that person I have consistently seen Phoenix with Diana Greenwald to our classmates. Have a great sum- the United States. Holdings, one of the Sovereign up my thesis. I will start working ing and organizing the day-to-day perhaps you’ve seen throughout from CC is Colin Sullivan.” open a wind farm.” mer, wherever you may be!

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“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been “I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself I was following [Babe] Ruth to the plate I could have stood the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” on my head and no one would have known the difference.” Gehrig spoke his most famous words on June 4, 1939, at a day of appreciation the Yankees held for him shortly after his retire- ment due to ALS. “Only a small percentage of men have to go back to prison. It seems to me that many convicted fellows deserve another chance. We don’t want anyone in jail who “These people are yelling ‘Good luck, Lou,’ can make good — but we don’t want people out there and they’re wishing me well — and I’m dying.” who are a danger to the rest of the community.” Following his retirement, Gehrig served on the New York Parole Commission. “I have seen many Negro players who belong in the big leagues. I don’t believe there’s any room in baseball for discrimination. It’s our true national “When these writers would ask me questions, pastime and a game for all.” they’d often think I was rude if I didn’t answer right away. Gehrig played in the major leagues from 1923–39, They didn’t know I was so scared I was almost shitting in retiring eight years before baseball became my pants!” integrated in 1947. “I never realized how much I would miss “I believe that Columbia helped me the clubhouse atmosphere. I guess my life is bound up with to appreciate good books and classical music.” baseball and this ball club.”

“He was all pitcher that [Carl] Hubbell “My sweetheart — and [of the ]. If he had stopped us that day please grant that we may ever with that incredible pitch of his, he would have been be such — that thing yesterday Thank you to all the dedicated very tough in a seventh game. I’ve had thrills galore — I believe and hope was the columbia college alumni, parents and friends who provided but I don’t think any of them topped this one.” turning point in my life … I broke Gehrig’s comment came after he hit a home run before the game because I thought generous support to the columbia college fund this year. off Hubbell in Game 4 of the 1936 World Series, so much of you. Not because I which the Yankees won in six games. didn’t know you are the bravest Your generosity brings the Core Curriculum to life by ensuring small classes kind of partner but because my inferiority grabbed me and made are taught by dynamic faculty; by making it possible for students from all “I envy this kid [Joe] me wonder and ponder if I DiMaggio. He has the could possibly prove myself backgrounds to participate in the extraordinary College experience, world before him. worthy of you.” regardless of financial need; and by opening the doors to career exploration He has everything, From a letter to his wife, including the Eleanor, the day after by providing stipends for high-quality yet unpaid summer internships. mental he announced his stability.” retirement. On behalf of Columbia College students, please accept our sincere gratitude. Gehrig and DiMaggio were team- mates for three Selected quotes pro- full seasons, and it vided by Ray Robinson was DiMaggio ’41, a longtime sports who became the writer and the author Yankees’ team of Iron Horse: Lou To make a gift, call 1-866-222-5866 or leader upon Gehrig’s Gehrig in His Time. give online at college.columbia.edu/giveonline. retirement. PHOTO: © BETTMANN/CORBIS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Nonprofit Org. Columbia University U.S. Postage PAID 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Permit No. 724 New York, NY 10025 Burl. VT 05401

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