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RUJEKO HOCKLEY’S VERY BIG YEAR

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18 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Contemporary art curator Rujeko Hockley ’05 is about to open her biggest show yet — the 2019 Whitney Biennial. By Alexis Boncy SOA’11

23 Captain Marvel-ous Anna Boden ’02 breaks barriers as the first female director in the MCU. Story by Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09; art by Steve Mardo

30 The Transformation of New York Two esteemed documentary filmmakers discuss our ever-changing city. By Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80

Cover: Photograph by Jörg Meyer Contents departments alumninews

3 Within the Family 38 Modernizing a Monument

4 The Big Picture 40 Message from CCAA President Michael Behringer ’89 6 Letters to the Editor Volunteers with the Alumni Representative Committee make a difference in the College’s future. 8 Message from Dean James J. Valentini Increasing opportunities for students 41 Lions to develop global awareness. Daniel Gritzer ’00, Joanna Parker ’05 and Bianca Guerrero ’17 9 Around the Quads William P. Barr ’71, GSAS’79 sworn in as 44 Bookshelf U.S. Attorney General; the John Jay Awards Milk Street Tuesday Nights: More Than 200 Simple Dinner; Reunion Weekend 2019 Alumni Weeknight Suppers That Deliver Bold Flavor Keynote speakers and more. by Christopher Kimball ’73

16 Roar, Lion, Roar 46 Class Notes Remembering legendary football coach Lou Little. Just Married!

35 Columbia Forum: Say Nothing: A True Story 85 Obituaries of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Harold Brown ’45, GSAS’49; by Patrick Radden Keefe ’99 Wallace S. Broecker ’53, GSAS’58 An investigative journalist from The New Yorker explores a decades-old mystery. 88 The Last Word Columbia’s lacrosse tradition leaves a lasting legacy for a former team member.

CCT LION’S DEN | JAN. 17 Now on CCT Online THE LATEST “Chefs and musicians both must TAKE FIVE | FEB. 15 take a jumble of disparate elements and arrange them beside each college.columbia.edu/cct “I remember that one of our other just so — such that each, suitemates was a nationally somehow, complements the others, ranked debater, and he and I striking a chord that is greater than really got into it. It didn’t matter the sum of its parts. When that Like Columbia College Alumni what the topic was, we’d argue balance isn’t there, we notice. We’d facebook.com/alumnicc about it. I recall one afternoon notice if a rock band came onstage when another kid on the floor with seven bass players and no View Columbia College alumni photos got a haircut … three days guitar players … and we’d definitely instagram.com/alumniofcolumbiacollege later we were still battling over notice if our trail mix came with 99 the physics, history, semiotics peanuts and one M&M.” and phenomenology of hair Follow @Columbia_CCAA — Musician PJ Sauerteig ’15, from vis-à-vis faces.” “Will Cooking Make You a Better Musician?” Join the Columbia College alumni network — Book designer and writer Peter Mendelsund ’91 college.columbia.edu/alumni/linkedin JÖRG MEYER

Within the Family Bringing You Stories That Are Cool, Cultural and Timely

e’re excited about our Spring issue every which Patrick Radden Keefe ’99. This stunning work of narrative nonfic- way, but one aspect that’s been exhilarating and just tion has already picked up critical accolades for its reporting, crafts- plain fun is how current it feels. Being timely in a manship and all-around gripping storyline. It’s also a reminder to be W traditional news sense is one of the built-in chal- on the lookout for Radden Keefe’s byline in The New Yorker, where lenges of publishing a quarterly magazine. But all of our features he has been a staff writer since 2006. His recent look at how reality this spring have a pulse on what’s happening in culture right now. TV producer Mark Burnett turned Donald Trump into a paragon As I write this message, we are less than three months from the of American business success is illuminating, and his article about opening of the 2019 Whitney Biennial, co-curated by our cover the Sackler family’s culpability in the opioid crisis remains chilling star, Rujeko Hockley ’05. I had the pleasure of speaking with and relevant more than a year and a half after its original publica- Rujeko and getting a behind-the-scenes primer on what it takes to tion. Go back and read them. produce one of the most ambitious and highly anticipated contemporary art shows in the country. The scope is boggling, and the pace from start to finish seems breathless. But what resonated most was the depth of her investment in the artists, and her commitment to championing their place in society. There’s no doubt that the show will be widely discussed and give cause for head scratching, argu- ments and swoons. But whatever our individual views on individual works, Rujeko reminds us that they all offer the gift of perspective, as well as the opportunity “to use a different part of our brain and a different part of our heart, a different part of our being, to think about things.” While we’re on the subject of big openings, we were thrilled to catch up with Anna Boden ’02, director of the surefire blockbuster Captain Marvel, not long before it hit theaters on March 8. For the uninitiated, the movie is the latest installment in the epic and interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe that has ruled the box office over the last decade. It’s also the first in the series to be directed by a woman. What better way, then, to pay tribute to this barrier breaker than by giving her a starring “superhero” role? Associate Editor Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09, herself an avid Marvel fan, pitched the idea for a graphic feature when we first learned that Anna was on board, and then collaborated with talented artist Steve Mardo. It’s been a joy to watch Annie marshal this passion project from con- ception to completion, and its approach marks a first for the pages of CCT — kapow! Shifting gears, former CCT editor Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 sat But really, I hope this entire issue inspires you to go, read, see and down with the two talents behind the landmark eight-part PBS do. (Bonus: Check out CCT’s website where, in mid-February, we series New York: A Documentary Film. The pair — filmmaker Ric published a feature exclusive about Beto O’Rourke ’95, the Texas Burns ’78 and architect and author James Sanders ’76, GSAPP ’82 Democratic Party candidate who nearly upset Sen. Ted Cruz in the — are in the midst of developing a ninth episode that considers the November elections.) We’ll be here waiting to hear from you, and future of cities. Their fascinating conversation previewed this new keeping our fingers on the pulse. chapter, an exploration of New York’s explosive growth, transform- ing culture and the challenges brought on by affordability, gentrification and climate change. Finally, “Columbia Forum” brings you an excerpt of a book just published at the end of February, Say Nothing: A True Story of Alexis Boncy SOA’11 Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by investigative journalist Editor-in-Chief

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WE “SPOT” A WINNER!

Each year, the Office of Global Programs hosts a photo contest for students who have participated in a study abroad or fellowship experience. Jason Hagani ’19 was one of this year’s three College winners; his photo “Peekaboo,” taken at the Mpala Research Center as part of the 2018 Columbia in Kenya program, won the top honor in the “Free For All” category. To see all three College winners, go to ogp.columbia.edu/study abroad/photocontest/2019.

4 CCT Spring 2019 Spring 2019 CCT 5 Letters to the Editor Columbia College CCT Today

VOLUME 46 NUMBER 3 SPRING 2019 A Beloved Tradition EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alexis Boncy SOA’11

EXECUTIVE EDITOR In the Winter 2018–19 issue, which fea- Lisa Palladino tured the much-appreciated profile of my

DEPUTY EDITOR classmate Dr. Richard Axel ’67, I was also Jill C. Shomer pleased to be reminded of the now–108-

ASSOCIATE EDITOR year-old Yule Log tradition. Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09 I encountered the Yule Log ceremony in

FORUM EDITOR my freshman year, 1963. It was presided Rose Kernochan BC’82 over by history professor Dwight Miner

ART DIRECTOR CC 1926, who — in addition to his aca- Eson Chan demic expertise in American history and Contemporary Civilization — was an Published quarterly by the expert on Columbiana. This perhaps was Columbia College Office of the result of having grown up on Morn- Alumni Affairs and Development ingside Heights, matriculated at alma for alumni, students, faculty, parents JAIME DANIES SEAS’20 DANIES JAIME and friends of Columbia College. mater and taught there all his adult life. Professor Miner was regularly voted the ASSOCIATE DEAN, COLUMBIA COLLEGE College’s most popular professor, and I became especially enamored of his ALUMNI RELATIONS knowledge of Columbia history. He told the story behind poet Clement AND COMMUNICATIONS Bernice Tsai ’96 Clarke Moore CC 1798’s composition of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (popu- larly known as “The Night before Christmas”) — off the top of his head!

ADDRESS — as a Christmas present to his children. Then he read the poem (my recol- Columbia College Today lection is that he recited it from memory) with the same theatricality that Columbia Alumni Center enhanced his teaching. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 4th Fl. New York, NY 10025 Professor Miner also gave a short history of the Yule Log ceremony, which was then more than 50 years old. He observed that the age of the event was PHONE somewhat unusual, saying, “Typically, a tradition at Columbia is something 212-851-7852 that happens one year in a row.” EMAIL Ah, nostalgia. Thanks for the reminder of one of the many things I loved [email protected] about Columbia and of all the great teachers like Miner and, now, like Axel. WEB Carlton Carl ’67 college.columbia.edu/cct Martindale, Texas ISSN 0572-7820

Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect Thank You Emily moved to Berlin to work for a official positions of Columbia College few years and now is pursuing a master’s or Columbia University. Thank you for publishing such a satisfy- in transcultural studies at the University of © 2019 Columbia College Today ing product as Columbia College Today. Heidelberg. I have witnessed her growth and All rights reserved. My daughter, Emily Frances Hyatt ’14, drawn such pleasure from seeing her thrive at adored her time at Columbia. The aca- Columbia and beyond. CCT is a link for me demic rigor, diverse student population to the University and a view to the ongoing and New York City backdrop are memo- inspiration that students offer to the world. ries that she often cites as making it such Geoffrey Hyatt a special experience. Westminster, Colo.

6 CCT Spring 2019 Summer at Columbia More than 50 areas of study to explore and endless opportunities to discover for:

Undergraduates | Graduates | Adults & Professionals

Session I: May 28–July 5 | Session II: July 8–August 16

sps.columbia.edu/summer19 PROGRAMS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

COLLEGE EDGE SUMMER IMMERSION GLOBAL SUMMER IMMERSION An opportunity for high school students Immersive programs for domestic and Study abroad pre-college summer to take for-credit courses on Columbia’s international high school students programs for rising juniors and seniors campus with undergraduate students interested in living and studying in July 6–26, 2019 New York City Fall & Spring Semesters Summer-Fall, Spring-Summer, Fall-Spring Session 1: June 24–July 12 Session 2: July 16–August 2 Session 3: August 5–August 9

sps.columbia.edu/hs19 Spring 2019 CCT 7 Message from the Dean Enhancing Students’ Global Experience

here’s no mistaking that we live in a global society. Whether our students come from outside the United States, learn one of more than 40 languages in our classrooms or choose to T spend time studying abroad, global awareness is a core competency for all of us. And “all of us” includes me. The photo shown here was taken earlier in my career during one of my many trips to East Asia for scientific collaborations and science conferences. Those experiences showed me early on how we are all connected and how my work had an impact on a colleague on the other side of the world. We faced similar challenges, asked similar questions and sought to discover similar solutions. Together, we were able to bridge the distance and work collectively toward our shared goals. One shared goal I have now as dean is to propel the global experience of all undergraduates at Columbia. When there was a leadership change in the Office of Global Programs two years ago, I asked the deans of Columbia Engineering and the School of General Studies, and the provost of Barnard College, to join me in thinking about a new direction for that effort. Recognizing that we had an opportunity to rewrite our vision for global programs, I wanted to be thoughtful and deliberate in building an enhanced experience for our students. I recognized the importance of engaging with our faculty and students, along with administrators throughout the University and in our Global Centers, to determine the best model for developing our undergraduate global education. What could we do to maximize the value of our students’ global experience? How was their experience abroad complementing their experience on campus? How might it enhance their future and become part of their journey as a Columbia College student? VALENTINI J. DEAN JAMES COURTESY The College’s leadership spent more than a year interviewing students, faculty and fellow staff on Morningside Heights and at 2018–19 issue, it will ensure that all Columbia Dean James J. Reid Hall in Paris, assisted by an outside consultant to help carry on undergraduates have the opportunity to achieve Valentini during this substantial organizational effort. We visited peer institutions to defined global competencies. a research learn about their opportunities and experiences. We found recurring Our undergraduates participate in hundreds trip abroad. themes: the need for a more diverse range of programs, expand- of programs around the world every year, and ing beyond traditional study abroad; greater research support; well- these experiences teach them understanding, self-sufficiency and defined learning outcomes that apply to all our students; increased core competencies to further their personal development. Our goal global opportunities on campus and in New York City; and a desire is to empower our students to be active and effective citizens of to connect more extensively with the global endeavors of faculty not our global community. Whether in Uganda, France, Israel, Chile, only in our four undergraduate schools, but also with the faculty of Greece or right in Morningside Heights, we are committed to Columbia’s many graduate and professional schools. leveraging the center’s new role on campus. We are excited to see This collaborative and extensive work resulted in the creation of where this work will lead us as we continue to build the greatest The Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement. Its expanded possible experience for our students. mission calls for enhancing access, supporting existing programs and developing opportunities for undergraduates to pursue global education and develop global understanding. Serving as a hub of global activity on campus, the center will bring together undergraduates, faculty from throughout the University and staff. James J. Valentini Led by Dean Shannon Marquez, whom you met in the Winter Dean

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Gyllenhaal, Willimon To Be Reunion Keynote Speakers

Golden Globe-winning actress and producer Maggie Gyllenhaal ’99 and producer, screenwriter, playwright and showrunner Beau Willimon ’99, SOA’03 will speak at the Reunion Weekend 2019 Alumni Keynote on Saturday, June 1. The two will discuss storytelling through Gyllenhaal television and film, SIRIN SAMMAN and how they choose DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION: Almost 350 named scholarship donors and College student projects that reflect their values and recipients turned out for the Dean’s Scholarship Reception, held February 12 in Roone Arledge advance a particular vision of society. Auditorium. The annual event brings attendees together to meet, share advice and swap stories Gyllenhaal, a 2009 John Jay Award hon- about their College experiences. The speakers were Dean James J. Valentini (second from right); oree, currently stars Iyobosa Bello-Asemota ’19, a past recipient of the Columbia College Young Alumni Scholarship and in and produces the one of this year’s recipients of the Benjamin F. & Bernice Block Fund (far left); and Souren Ouzounian ’89, of the Ouzounian Family Scholarship. Also shown above are Jonathan Schiller ’69, LAW’73, HBO series The Deuce, University Trustees chair emeritus (second from left), and Doug Wolf ’88, Columbia College Alumni and starred in the Association chair. For more photos from the reception, go to facebook.com/alumnicc/photos. 2018 Netflix film The Kindergarten Teacher. Willimon was the showrunner for the experience for undergraduates through a Roberts & Co. The dinner, which was focus on historical, contemporary and future attended by more than 450 people, supports Willimon Netflix series House of Cards for four seasons; visions of justice; and the Odyssey Mentor- the John Jay National Scholars Program. his latest series, The First, premiered on ing Program, which connects alumni and Hulu and Amazon Prime in September. students for mentorship, networking and He also wrote the screenplay for the 2018 other opportunities. View the report at Barr Confirmed as college.columbia.edu/annualreport/2018. film Mary Queen of Scots. Attorney General

William P. Barr ’71, GSAS’79 was sworn Annual Report Congrats, John Jay in as U.S. Attorney General on February Award Honorees! 14 after being confirmed by the Senate Columbia College published its annual in a 54–45 vote. Barr previously served as report in January, reflecting on achievements Five alumni were honored for distinguished AG, from 1991 to and other milestones from the 2017–18 professional achievement at the 41st annual 1993, under President academic year. Among other things, the John Jay Awards Dinner, held on March 6 George H.W. Bush. report highlights My Columbia College at Cipriani 42nd Street. This year’s recipients Since then he has been Journey, a new framework designed to were James Brett ’84, BUS’90, managing a corporate lawyer, encourage students to routinely reflect on partner at JTB Capital Partners; Erik general counsel for and assess their ongoing personal develop- Feig ’92, founder and CEO of PICTURE- GTE Corp. (which START ment; the launch of Live Well | Learn Well, ; Jodi Kantor ’96, a journalist and merged with Bell OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT U.S. a digital hub for well-being resources on author; Tom Kitt ’96, a composer, arranger, Atlantic to form Veri- campus; the announcement of The Eric H. orchestrator and music supervisor; and zon in 2000) and with the firm Kirkland Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Alisa Amarosa Wood ’01, BUS’08, partner & Ellis. He also sat on the Time Warner Rights, which is carving out a distinctive at global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis board of directors from 2009 to 2018.

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program who take music instruction at Juilliard and the remainder of their classes at the College. The students perform for the group and receive high-level critique from each other. “They are truly super human,” Stern-Baczewska says. “And they appreciate the experience of being able to verbalize their thoughts.” Teaching non-performers in the Music Humanities setting is even more reward- ing for her. “I learn so much from my students; I don’t have to fear them being close-minded or unaccepting, even with more ‘difficult’ music,” she says. “They

COURTESY MAGDALENA STERN-BACZEWSKA MAGDALENA COURTESY always find a way for it in their world, and they help me into it as well. A new chemistry is created in every session.” “There is constant discussion about Magdalena inclusivity in Music Hum,” she continues. “We’re talking about the masterpieces of Western music, but I try to make sure that Stern-Baczewska what the students hear and see in terms of performances is diversified. I don’t want By Jill C. Shomer classical music to feel elitist, and we can connect music to issues we face today — for example, we talk about anti-Semitism ianist Magdalena Stern- musical arts degree from the Manhattan when we discuss Wagner. It can be Baczewska was sent to her School of Music. intense, but the students say they’re glad first piano lesson at age 5 as “I think we are conditioned as young we’re having those discussions.” punishment for being mean musicians to dream of becoming perform- Last summer, Stern-Baczewska joined to her little sisters. Still, it was ers and practice in hopes of becoming a big Professor Robert E. Harrist Jr. GSAS’81 Punlikely she would have chosen another star,” she says. “But I was always open to in Paris at Reid Hall for a linked session of career path — Stern-Baczewska grew up teaching.” Stern-Baczewska gave private Art Hum and Music Hum. The combined in Katowice, Poland, to a family of pia- lessons to children, was an adjunct at the program, which launched in 2015, lasts nists and singers. “It was a no-brainer,” College for one semester in 2011, led cham- six weeks and includes daily classes and she says. “I was playing even before I ber music ensembles at Mannes and taught cultural events. Stern-Baczewska, who has started formal lessons. But my teacher at Montclair State in New Jersey before performed around the world, also recently made me sensitive to beautiful sounds returning to Columbia. She also spent four played a concert at the Columbia Global from the very first lesson.” years working at Yamaha Corporation of Center in Beijing, inviting two students Stern-Baczewska now shares that America, which she says gave her the neces- from the MPP to join her. “Being able to gift as the director of Columbia’s Music sary skills to run a program such as MPP. share this experience with MPP students Performance Program (MPP), a posi- “It’s been five years and I still pinch was a big milestone,” she says. tion she’s held since 2014. She teaches myself,” she says. “My colleagues are When not teaching or performing, a performance master class for student fantastic, and being able to help students Stern-Baczewska studies Chinese — musicians, as well as Music Humanities as — the majority of whom are not music her eighth language — and she and her part of the Core Curriculum. majors — pursue their passion on a high husband, an ear, nose and throat physi- Stern-Baczewska was performing in level is a true privilege.” More than 300 cian specializing in sleep, enjoy attending Warsaw when she was recruited by a pro- students receive music instruction through the Met Opera, dancing at silent discos fessor at the Mannes School of Music, at MPP. “They’re there because they love and binging on Netflix (“we’re watching The New School. She demurred, but the it,” Stern-Baczewska says. “They’re not Narcos right now; it’s our way to decom- professor persisted, checking in with her locking themselves up practicing to be press”). The two met collaborating on a set months later. “That phone call changed the next great soloist — they’re all about of recordings that would help his patients my life,” she says. She arrived in New interactions with others, building relation- fall asleep, creating three volumes called York City for auditions in 1998. “I was ships, making music together. It inspires Music For Dreams. “It was a fascinating living from one miracle to another, and I me every day.” process because I had to find new ways loved every minute of it,” she says. Stern- Her “Master Class” is a focused seminar to interpret the music in order to provide Baczewska earned bachelor’s and master’s for a dozen student performers, includ- therapeutic benefit. My job is usually to degrees from Mannes and a doctor of ing those from the Juilliard-Columbia keep people alert and engaged!”

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Zehra Naqvi ’21

What’s something interesting you What’s your favorite Core reading so learned this week? far, and why? I’m taking a class called “Making History Pride and Prejudice. It was my favorite Through Venturing” — our professor, before Columbia, but re-reading it here Amol Sarva ’98, is amazing. He’s done gave me a new perspective. Jennifer a lot of work in startups and entrepre- Rhodes ’00, GSAS’17 was an absolutely of power right now, and we focus on try- amazing Lit Hum professor; she let us put ing to emphasize how important our ideas our own ideas forward — whether or not are and how we can shape the world. fast facts they were academically correct was not something she was concerned about. How do you like to take advantage of Major: Financial Economics, with being in New York City? concentration in Art History What do you like to do outside of class? I’m majoring in financial economics and Hometown: Hong Kong Lion Fund is a Columbia-based hedge art history, and those are two industries Favorite spot on campus: Low Steps at fund/investment management fund that that dominate New York. I always see new sunset, right at the beginning of the fall introduced me to finance and raised my exhibitions at museums –– the Michelangelo semester when it’s still warm and everyone interest in it. It also motivated me to be exhibit at the Met last year was gorgeously is newly back on campus aware of new ideas and emerging trends curated, there was a Warhol exhibit at the that are going to affect the world –– in Whitney I went to, and the Morgan Library ways that we might not realize –– in 50, just did Tolkien’s manuscripts and sketches. neurship and was a philosophy Ph.D. 60 years. Also GLO, which is my fashion, At the same time, New York City gives me It’s interesting to think about finance in social justice and activism graphic T-shirt a place to develop my interest in finance. the context of philosophy. This week we line (and now it’s turning into a media The huge powerhouses of the finance world talked about Descartes and how his ideas platform) that focuses on empowerment started here, so access to that history –– and influence the startup world and creating and awareness. That’s something I’ve been understanding the nature of the financial a business. It was the different aspects of doing since Hong Kong. I feel like people world in New York and America –– is some- my education coming together! don’t realize that Generation Z has a lot thing that I really try to take advantage of.

DidYouKnow? Furnald Hall Housed a Student-Run Grocery Store

n March 1976, a group of students opened a co-op grocery store in the previously unused basement of Furnald Hall. In a March 21, 1978, article for I Spectator, David Brown ’76, who spearheaded the co-op’s creation, reflected on the 18-month process –– from battling bureaucracy, to getting alumni support, to rousing student enthusiasm –– and how the co-op had grown since its opening. The co-op “is run by students who see it as being in their own best interests to sell food cheaply, provide good jobs for other students, and create a pleasant atmosphere in the store,” he wrote. The grocery store was popular with students for offering goods , 1980 EDITION COLUMBIAN at lower prices than other stores on Broadway, and remained open until 1989. Hall of Fame

The Editor Who Made “The Gray Lady” Great

By Thomas Vinciguerra ’85, JRN’86, GSAS’90

t a time when anyone can care about properly deploying the English wife Beatrice’s only child, 3-year-old Eric, post anything instantly language in the internet age. “If writing was struck by spinal meningitis, causing on social media, it’s never must be a precise form of communica- permanent brain damage. After that, as his been easier to spout non- tion,” Bernstein said, “it should be treated niece Marylea Meyersohn said, the Times sense. It’s also never been like a precision instrument.” In his heyday, became “his home, his refuge, his family.” Aeasier to screw up on such matters as gram- his precepts echoed both within and with- When Bernstein was promoted to mar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling out the walls at 229 W. 43rd St. assistant managing editor in 1951, man- and syntax. For these days, Theodore M. Bernstein, a New York City native, aging editor Turner Catledge told him Bernstein CC 1924, JRN 1925 was made. found his calling as managing editor that the newspaper could no longer spend For 47 years, Bernstein was a lodestar of of Spectator, where his duties included too much money on too much newsprint. The New York Times. He literally drew up marking up every issue for style and The writing had to be tighter, brighter, its front-page arrangement of articles and proofreading faults. He joined the Times clearer. It was a tough balancing act. Bern pictures every night — a job so important as a copy editor upon graduating from the stein wanted none of what he derided that on particularly newsworthy occasions, Journalism School. Working his way up as “Model T sentences” — pile-ups of he would autograph copies of his layouts the masthead, he ultimately carved out clauses choked with confusing detail, for colleagues. He composed many of the a domain in the southeast corner of the common in the Times of that era. “To Times’ banner WWII headlines. And his third-floor newsroom, in a windowed office enlist with the too-orthodox would be to choices of typography, story placement and dominated by a world map that covered an tend toward prissiness and to risk losing graphics set a pattern that still makes the entire wall. There he would chain-smoke touch with the popular tongue,” Bernstein once-dense newspaper easier on the eye. and, when not napping (doctor’s orders reflected. “To enlist with the too-liberal But it was as the Times’ arbiter of after a heart attack), take his work seriously. would be to invite the horrors of anarchy.” style, usage, standards and practices that Part of Bernstein’s devotion stemmed So Bernstein championed simple, smart Bernstein remains invaluable to those who from personal tragedy. In 1938 he and his prose. “One idea to a sentence” was one of his most important edicts. This, he knew, was not always possible. “To take an extreme example,” he wrote, “it would be nonsense to write: ‘The American flag is red. It is also white. It is blue, too.” But always, Bernstein urged, remember your audience. If you don’t, you might find yourself “writing about a man drawing horsehair over catgut instead of about Isaac Stern playing a Bartók concerto.” Bernstein codified his dictates every two or three weeks in an in-house review of recent Times output, Winners & Sin- ners. Some of this newsletter was devoted purely to reinforcing basic grammar rules and noting factual errors. But frequently, Bernstein used what he called his “bulle- tin of second-guessing” to improve the art of storytelling. Once, the word “tuxedoes” was arbitrarily changed to the snootier “dinner jackets.” Bernstein wailed, “In what kind of ivory tower does this editor dwell?” He cheered what he called “dabs of color,” as when Russell Baker described Theodore M. Bernstein CC 1924, JRN 1925 North Dakota senator William R.

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LookWho’sTalking Lisa Hollibaugh Dean of Academic Affairs Langer CC 1910 “chewing his customary cellophane-wrapped cigar.” You joined the College in 2016 from Barnard, At his best, Bernstein was both instruc- where you were dean for international and tive and uproarious. “A Phi Beta Kappa global strategy. What drew you to this role? graduate of Dartmouth, Pat Weaver’s I was intrigued by the opportunity to provide head is said to burst with ideas,” wrote support for so many aspects of the academic life one reporter. Bernstein asked, “What of undergraduates. I have the chance to work did Dartmouth do with the rest of him?” with faculty as they develop their curriculum, When a story about the new Beverly Hil- with advisors as they offer guidance and with ton Hotel mentioned its “floor-to-ceiling students as they pursue opportunities beyond walls,” he wondered, “Why didn’t anyone the classroom. ever think of those before?” “When he spoke, he was not argued What’s your typical day? with,” said Betsy Wade BC’51, JRN’52, the Every day is a bit different because it depends Times’ first female copy editor. “People who on the questions, suggestions or concerns I hear had been there before me by 10 or 20 years about from faculty, administrators and students. sometimes grew weary of him. But they I might work with a faculty member on a pro- said, ‘This is what Bernstein says, and this is posal for a new or changed major, or do research KILLIAN YOUNG how we do it.’ They were almost reverential.” for a curricular committee, or talk with adminis- Winners & Sinners was originally meant trators and librarians about how to support undergraduate research programs or pull only for internal Times consumption. But together materials and ideas that help to promote the goals of the Core Curriculum. as its reputation grew, the paper began dis- tributing it to “wordmongers” (a Bernstein What’s the best part of your job? word) on the outside. Eventually, as he put The people. A university is all about the endeavors of individuals, especially the it, “a book publisher twisted the author’s faculty and students, and I enjoy not only providing support for their efforts in arm.” The result was Bernstein’s popular any way that I can, but also thinking with others about the collective project of the 1958 guide, Watch Your Language, and a University that unites us all. And I get to learn, constantly! series of similar volumes. Today, his titles — Headlines and Deadlines; More Language You’re very involved with My Columbia College Journey. Why do you think That Needs Watching; and Miss Thistlebot- it’s important for students to take a holistic, rather than purely academic, tom’s Hobgoblins among them — can still view of their College experience? be found within reach of many a diligent Columbia offers so many opportunities — far too many for any of us to pursue all writer along with Fowler, the Chicago of them. So students need to make choices each semester: what courses to take, Manual of Style, and Strunk and White. what clubs to engage with, what internships to accept, what kind of fun to have. Bernstein died on June 27, 1979. The act of making choices like these is a big part of what makes college such an Among his many innovations, his front- important process in the transition from childhood to adulthood, and My CC page Times obituary noted, was a new Journey gives students a framework and a vocabulary to help them think through punctuation mark. It was the “interro- these choices, to understand the value of what they’re achieving or developing in bang,” a combination exclamation point each competency. It encourages students to reflect and to make sense for themselves and question mark, to denote questions of their time at Columbia. that were actually exclamations. Five days later, a red-faced Gray Lady publicly cor- What’s one thing about yourself that would surprise readers? rected itself. What Bernstein had actually What a hard question! Perhaps it would surprise some people to know that the proposed was a “pronequark” — a question dean of academic affairs wasn’t always a star student in college herself. I did well in mark lying on its side. the subjects that I loved, but I didn’t give my best efforts to courses that didn’t cap- Bernstein, ever the exacting apostle of ture my interest. I had to learn that discipline over a more extended period of time, an evolving mother tongue, would have so I can confirm, from personal experience, that a person can continue to develop appreciated that. the Core Competencies long after graduation!

Spring 2019 CCT 13 A WEEKEND FOR ALL ALUMNI

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THURSDAY, MAY 30–SATURDAY, JUNE 1 REUNION WEEKEND Come back to Columbia REUNION.COLUMBIA.EDU 2019 Spring 2019 CCT 15 ROAR, LION, ROAR They Called Him “Mr. Little”

By Alex Sachare ’71

hat is the job of a football coach? Lou Little, the win- Penn who played four seasons professionally, he coached for six ningest coach in Columbia football history, shared his years at Georgetown before coming to Columbia in 1930, where W thoughts on that subject just months after leading the he would lead the football program for 27 seasons. His teams won Lions to their most famous victory, a 7–0 win over Stanford in the 149 games, lost 128 and tied 12; his 110 victories at Columbia are 1934 Rose Bowl. 68 more than the school’s second-winningest coach, Ray Tellier. “The teaching of the fundamentals of the game is only a small Writing on White House stationery upon Little’s retirement in part of the duties,” he wrote in Lou Little’s Football, co-authored with 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower described him as “a national Arthur Sampson of the Boston Herald. “Only those who possess the symbol of fair play and good sportsmanship” and praised his “long understanding of a father, the patience of an artist, the diplomacy of career dedicated to the youth of America.” And Pro and College Hall a politician, the exactness of an accountant and the leadership of a of Fame quarterback Sid Luckman ’39 once said of Little, “I never met master of industry become successful.” Later in the same chapter he anyone in my life who had such a tremendous effect on me.” added one more qualification, as true today as it was in the 1930s: An example of his players’ dedication was offered by Gene “A football coach must be a psychologist along with everything else.” Rossides ’49, LAW’52 in an interview in January: “In my third Born Luigi Piccolo in Boston in 1893, but better known by year, I shifted to quarterback in the wing T and was just learning the anglicized version of his name, Little, who died 40 years ago the position. So Coach Little reached out to Sid Luckman and this spring, remains foremost among Columbia football coaches. asked him to come help me at spring practice. At the time Sid was Though Little posted losing records in his later seasons, his land- coaching the Notre Dame quarterbacks, but when Coach called, mark wins and distinctive style on and off the sidelines combined he dropped everything. Talk about my good fortune — I had Sid to concretize his legacy. A two-time All-American lineman at Luckman for three hours a day for a month, teaching me everything about playing quarterback!” A dapper dresser who was known for his impeccable suits, fancy fedoras, pince-nez glasses and extensive array of shoes, Little maintained a close relationship with Columbia’s academic leaders, including longtime Dean of Students Nicholas M. McKnight CC 1921. He made sure none of his players were cutting classes, arranged for tutors for any who fell behind in their studies and helped them secure employment following graduation. A disciplinarian who insisted on being called “Mr. Little” by his players until graduation, after which they were permitted to call him “Coach,” Little cared deeply about those who played for him. Rossides, a four-time letter-winner who went on to a prominent legal career in Washington, D.C., recalled the time he was summoned to the coach’s office during the week prior to the first game of his freshman year. “He asked me whether my mother would be coming to see me play — he knew my dad had passed away. I said no, she had to work at Schrafft’s restaurant on Saturdays, and sometimes she had to do a split shift where she would work lunch at one restaurant and dinner at another. The next thing I know, my mother had every Saturday off and she had the choice of which Schrafft’s she wanted to work in — no more split shifts! That’s how much he cared about each and every one of his players.” Howard Hansen ’52, a varsity center for three years and captain of the 1951 team, described Little as a builder of men. “He taught us more than the game; he taught self-discipline and sportsmanship,” says Hansen. “Boys who came to him went away as men.” Little was president of the American Football Coaches Asso- ciation in 1939 and was a longtime chair of its Rules Committee, MARY KATE CONNORS KATE MARY helping to shape the way the game is played. He was the 1953

16 CCT Spring 2019 recipient of AFCA’s Amos Alonzo Stagg Award, presented annually to the “individual, group or institution whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests of football.” Little was inducted to the College Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1960 and the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. Little’s Lions posted a 5–4 record in his first season

at Columbia, then lost just one game in each of the ATHLETICS / COLUMBIA LAUGHLIN next four seasons. The highlight of that era was the vic-

tory over Stanford in the Rose Bowl, which at the time MIKE M c was the only college football bowl game. It pitted the best team in the Pacific Coast Conference against an Bull’s-eye opponent of their choice, and since many of the syndi- Sophia Strachan ’20 (above) earned the 2019 Collegiate Compound cated sports columnists in New York had been touting Indoor National Championship on February 24. Contested at 13 regional Columbia, the Lions got the nod after completing their sites across the United States, the championship is determined by looking 1933 regular season with a 16–0 win over Syracuse. at archers’ performances across all locations. Strachan, who also earned Following a four-day cross-country train trek, the the national indoor title in 2017, earned a score of 1,169. Her win also Lions arrived to very un-California-like weather. It qualified her for the National Indoor Final on March 15. rained in Pasadena for a full week, and the New Year’s With a score of 1,131, Brittney Shin ’21 earned ninth place nationally Day game was played only after the fire department in the compound division. On the recurve side, Christine Kim ’21 placed pumped 18 inches of water off the field. Not sur- fourth in the country with a score of 1,115, Meghan Collins ’22 was sixth prisingly, it was a sloppy affair, and heavily favored with 1,108 and Aileen Yu ’19 was ninth with 1,092. Stanford committed eight fumbles. Columbia needed just one play to win it, and that play was KF-79 — a misdirection play in the second quarter in which All- Magnificent Seven Fountain ’21, Jackson Storey ’21, American quarterback Cliff Montgomery ’34 faked a Sauer and Josiah Langstaff ’19 won handoff to Ed Brominski ’35 going right, then gave Five individual track and field the 4x800m relay in 7:35.85. the ball to Al Barabas ’36 in the opposite direction; he athletes and two relay teams ran untouched into the end zone from 17 yards out. combined to bring the Lions seven Mighty Swords “For hours Montgomery and Barabas had practiced titles at the 2019 Indoor Heptago- hiding the ball,” Little wrote months later in his book. nal Championship, held February Men’s and women’s fencing won “There is no doubt that they frequently believed, dur- 23–24 in Cambridge, Mass. their respective Ivy League fencing ing the season, that such tedious drilling was a waste Katie Wasserman ’20 took the titles in February — the second of time. But the situation finally developed when this women’s mile title in 4:43.93, while consecutive championship for the play was worth its weight in gold.” Sam Ritz ’19 captured the men’s women and the sixth consecutive If the Rose Bowl was Victory Number 1 of Little’s mile title in 4:06.70. Alek Sauer ’19 for the men (though the first time tenure, the win over Army in 1947 was Number 1A. earned gold in the 1,000m run, and the men have held the title out- A crowd of 35,000 filled the old wooden stadium at set an Ivy League meet record to right since 2008). Sylvie Binder ’21 Baker Field on October 25, as the Lions hosted an boot, with a time of 2:21.96. Daniel captured the individual women’s Army team that was riding a 32-game unbeaten streak Igbokwe ’20 earned the triple jump foil championship with a perfect and had not allowed a single point all season. Colum- title with a 15.82m/51-11 jump. 14–0 record. And head fencing bia trailed 20–7 at halftime, but Rossides and Bill And Erin Gregoire ’19 won the coach Michael Aufrichtig was Swiacki ’49 connected on a 28-yard touchdown pass in women’s 3,000m with a dominating named Ivy League Coach of the the third quarter, Lou Kusserow ’49 scored on a 2-yard time of 9:25.65. year for women’s fencing. run in the fourth quarter and Ventan Yablonski TC’48 As for the team events, the men The men and women also piled kicked both extra points. The 21–20 upset ended with captured the distance medley relay up the All-Ivy accolades. Andrew pandemonium as Columbia fans poured onto the field on the strengths of Ritz, Solomon Doddo ’20 (sabre), Sam Moelis and pulled down the goalposts. Rice ’19, Willie Hall ’20 and Brodie ’20 (foil), Nolen Scruggs ’19 (foil), Little coached at Columbia for nine more seasons Holmes ’22, who combined for Nora Burke ’22 (sabre), Binder and before leaving in 1956, when he reached the then- a time of 9:57.25. And Solomon Iman Blow ’19 (foil) were named to retirement age of 65. He moved to Delray Beach, the first team roster. Second-team Fla., and returned to campus only once, in 1977, when honors went to Calvin Liang ’19 a scholarship was named in his honor. He died on ROAR! (sabre), Cedric Mecke ’22 (epee) May 28, 1979, at 85. For the latest, download the and Sidarth Kumbla ’21 (foil). Columbia Athletics app or visit At press time, the Lions were set Alex Sachare ’71 is a longtime sports journalist and author gocolumbialions.com. to host the NCAA Regionals on and a former editor-in-chief of CCT. March 10 at Vassar College.

Spring 2019 CCT 17 RUJEKO HOCKLEY ’05 CAN’T other locations. At the Whitney, she imme- BEHIND TALK ABOUT THE ARTISTS. diately joined a team developing a collec- The embargo is made clear, apolo- tions show that looked at almost 80 years of getically but firmly, within the first few protest art and how artists have confronted THE minutes of our conversation about the the political and social issues of their day. upcoming Whitney Biennial — that Then came the Biennial appointment. SCENES ambitious, much-anticipated and often Hockley also shares that she’s pregnant — controversial survey of what’s worth “It’s an especially busy year, it turns out, AT THE knowing in contemporary American art. even more than I planned.” Considering the Hockley is co-curating the show, set to magnitude of the undertaking that is the open May 17, and when we first spoke last Biennial, this seems a rather understated MUSEUM September, invitations to participate were take on Hockley’s 2018. still going out. In fact, she and co-curator Then again, maybe that’s an equanimity Jane Panetta were still meeting artists for that comes from taking on a challenge of consideration — a tour that had them just the right shape and size. Hockley brings Contemporary crisscrossing the country from Portland to a résumé that also includes a curatorial art curator Cleveland, to Miami and Puerto Rico. role at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and “That’s one of the interesting things throughout her career — and even before, Rujeko Hockley ’05 about a biennial,” Hockley says. “You’re as an art history major at the College — she is about to open her making it up as you go. I mean that in the has focused on questions of equity, access, best possible way — you don’t get to do all inclusion and history. The Biennial, the biggest show yet — the thinking, make all the decisions and signature of an institution that has long the 2019 then start inviting people to be a part of it. queried and redefined what it categorizes Whitney Biennial You do it as you go because that is what is as American, falls right in her wheelhouse. required by the nature of the timing.” The One way to define the show, Hockley process moves quickly, she says, and calls for says, is as “an every-two-year check-in on a focus on the details and the big picture all ‘What do we mean when we say ‘American,’ at once: “As a show that happens every two and when we say ‘American art’?” years, it has its own cycle and metabolism.” Given the current political and cultural The pace is not entirely new to Hockley, climate, it’s a charged moment to offer who’s been in high gear since moving to the an answer. But maybe that’s why it’s also Whitney Museum of American Art two a moment when the Biennial, and art in years ago. For a while she still had one foot general, can play an especially vital role. in her former home, the Brooklyn Museum, “One of the things that art can do is allow shepherding a major exhibition about black us to have perspective — to look at the female artists that then traveled to three macro, the span of human history, the span

By Alexis Boncy SOA’11 | Photographs by Jörg Meyer

Hockley at the Whitney Museum of American Art; behind, Salon Hodler by Louise Lawler.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE of human behavior, hundreds of years, pull art and archival ephemera from librar- thousands of years,” Hockley says. “But ies, special collections and other sources, MUSEUM I think it also allows us to use a different and also to work with the artists them- part of our brain and a different part of our selves. When it opened in April 2017, the heart, a different part of our being, to think reviews were positive. (Hockley had started about things.” at the Whitney just the month before.) The New Yorker hailed it as a “superlative he Brooklyn Museum exhibition survey” and Artforum, a “landmark exhibi- T that had Hockley running between tion.” TheTimes praised its “textured view boroughs, back when she started at the of the political past,” leading viewers to the Whitney, turned out to be one of the most conclusion that “the African-American significant of her career. “We Wanted a contribution to feminism was, and is, Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965– profound.” Ultimately, the show traveled 85” explored how black female artists of to the Institute of Contemporary Art in that era contended with a double exclusion: Boston, the California African American a second-wave of feminism that largely Museum in Los Angeles and the Albright- belonged to white women, and a black Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. community that increasingly wielded art For Hockley, it has been especially as an expression of civil rights — even as it meaningful to see what happened after- embraced a Black Power sexism that gave ward. “The show continues to have a life the platform to men to do the expressing. in the world,” she says, partly because its Put another way, as The New York Times featured artists — many of whom had been wrote in its apt headline, the show cap- underrecognized despite being long estab- BELOW: Emma Amos’s 1966 tured what it was like “to be black, female lished in their careers — are becoming painting “Flower Sniffer” was bought by the Brooklyn and fed up with the mainstream.” more widely known. Hockley explains that Museum after appearing in Hockley and co-curator Catherine some are winning gallery representation, “We Wanted a Revolution,” a Morris worked on the show for three years, landing solo shows at museums, having show co-curated by Hockley. venturing beyond the museum’s walls to their work acquired by significant institutions. Painter and printmaker Emma Amos had paintings from “We Wanted a Revolu- tion” purchased by the Brooklyn Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Sculp- tor Maren Hassinger’s wire and wire rope installation, which greeted visitors at the exhibition’s entrance, was acquired for the permanent collection at MoMA. “This is the impact of doing a historical show that adds to the historical record and adds new, original research and thinking to a time period that is felt to be well known — it can have real ramifications,” says Hockley. “It can really change not only art history but it can also, actually, really change people’s lives, the artists themselves. That’s been a great lesson and an amazing privilege.” The possibility and the power of a historical collection is also a lesson Hockley took, more broadly, from her time at the Brooklyn Museum. “Like the Metropolitan, it’s an encyclopedic museum going from ancient Egypt to contemporary art. To have colleagues who are versed in such a wide array of disciplines and who have such deep knowledge that is totally different from my knowledge was amazing and important,” she says. And from the Studio Museum — which has a renowned artist-in-residence

20 CCT Spring 2019 program and mission grounded in cham- One way to define the show, Hockley says, pioning artists of African descent — she carries one of her core tenets: “As a curator is as “an every-two-year check-in on who’s invested in contemporary art, who ‘What do we mean when we say ‘American,’ works with living artists, you take your cue from them. Your job is to support them and and when we say ‘American art’?” their vision, first and foremost. “What they bring to the world and to ABOVE: Lorna Simpson’s society is really different from everything the art world and any appetite for art 1986 photograph “Rodeo else that we have,” Hockley adds. “Art was essentially for European works. Both Caldonia,” featuring members doesn’t have a function per se, and yet, museum and show were bold declarations of the eponymous theater when you think about a world without it, that what artists were doing on this side collective, from the exhibition that’s not a world we want to live in. Many of the Atlantic was worth paying attention “We Wanted a Revolution.” COURTESY LORNA SIMPSON AND people would agree with that regardless of to. (The museum also was socialite and HAUSER & WIRTH political and religious affiliation. Whatever sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s art means to you — that creative impulse, response to having her personal collection that drive in human beings to communicate, — more than 500 sculptures, paintings, to express themselves, to create something drawings and prints by living American that wasn’t there before, out of the nothing, artists — rejected by the Metropolitan out of yourself, out of your ideas, desires, Museum of Art.) Nearly 80 years later the hopes, nightmares, out of your thoughts — Biennial has become, as The Village Voice I think that’s a uniquely human capacity described it on the eve of the 2017 install- and a uniquely incredible one.” ment, “an undeniable gale force in the unruly landscape of American art.” he Whitney Biennial is the longest- It’s worth noting here that Hockley is an T running continual survey of American immigrant. Her mother is from Zimbabwe art. It debuted in 1932, just a year after and her father from Britain. Hockley was the Whitney opened, when Paris ruled born in Zimbabwe but has a green card

Spring 2019 CCT 21 BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE nial and its history,” Hockley says. “It really expanded the reach of our consideration and MUSEUM our looking and our thinking.” As for the works they’re tapping for the show, Hockley describes the selection as an iterative process. Rather than begin with a vision or themes, “the artists’ visits that we went on led us to different visits, and to different ideas, and we followed that thread intuitively — taking our cues from the work they were making, the things they were saying to us and what they were interested in — and built the show that way.” (In the end, she and Panetta will make approximately 300 studio visits.) Hockley resists any interpretation of the Biennial as an attempt to be definitive or prescriptive about the state of modern art. “Every Biennial is subjective to the people who are doing it — different curators could have done the same route of travel and studio visits and come up with a totally different show. … There are many things happening and no two people could ever see them all and know them all, especially because the art world has grown so much in the last several decades.” When Hockley and I catch up again in “As a curator who works with living mid-January, she still can’t discuss the artists (by the time this article publishes, the artists, you take your cue from them. cloud of secrecy will have dispelled). She Your job is to support them and can, however, offer a little more by way of her and Panetta’s vision: “In a really over- their vision, first and foremost.” arching way we’re interested in thinking through and looking at the ways that artists are thinking about history, thinking about and has lived in the United States for much the past, and reframing it for the present of her life. She recognizes there’s a certain and for the future.” irony to being the curator of this distinctly Will she look at the reviews? “For sure, American show, but also, she laughs, I’m only human,” she says with a laugh, “Whatever! Who’s more attuned to a place? “whether that’s a good idea or not. It’s It can be the person who’s [on the outside].” interesting to know what is or isn’t landing, Indeed, co-curator Panetta says she and I want to know what other people THE STATE OF THE ART especially appreciates the “keen intellect and think about the work that I do. We can finally talk about it! Peep our site compassion” Hockley brings to their work. “People always have something to say on March 26 for Biennial preview images: The pair was invited to helm the Biennial about the Biennial,” she adds. “It attracts a college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/ in October 2017 — Scott Rothkopf, the lot of attention, which is part of the privi- feature-extras. Whitney’s deputy director for programs, lege of it. We are able to give all of these praised their “broad and sensitive instincts artists what amounts to a very large plat- for artistic and cultural relevance” — and form, and that is profound and meaningful by January they had embarked on what and we take that seriously. The thing I hope they informally called their “listening tour,” — which is always the thing I hope when I meeting with mentors, peers in the field work with artists especially — is that they and curators of past Biennials and other feel proud of the way their work is shown exhibitions of its kind. “We got a lot of good and the way they are represented; that they advice and insights about the state of the come and they say, ‘Oh wow, this is amaz- field as well as specifics around this Bien- ing. These people really did well by us.’”

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When Anna Boden was young, she loved watching movies with her parents in her hometown of Newton, Mass.

In high school, she fell for Robert Altman’s ’70s movies and got excited about filmmaking.

Boden knew she wanted to end up in artsy New York City.

She first visited Columbia on a beautiful spring day and the campus — and the film studies program — blew her away.

24 CCT Spring 2019 Professors like Annette Insdorf and Richard PeNa inspired Boden, and she double majored in film studies and English.

Their filmmaking partnership as directors, While at the College, Boden — producers and writers has only grown in met Ryan Fleck, a film student — the 20 years since. “We’ve gotten to know at NYU. They started making each other so much better and learned so short films, bonding over much about each other’s strengths,” says their shared passion for Boden. “More than ever, we’re on the same character-driven stories. page about what gets us excited ... we’ve created a really good safety net of trust.”

Spring 2019 CCT 25 In 2006, the pair released their first feature film, Half Nelson. It won them a string of accolades, launched Ryan Gosling’s career (earning him his first Academy Award nomination) and solidified their reputation as indie film darlings.

But Despite the critical acclaim they’ve received over the years for films like Mississippi Grind and Sugar, the co-directors flew under the radar of most Americans. That is, until Marvel came calling.

They wanted Boden and Fleck to direct a movie. But not just any movie: Captain Marvel, the penultimate film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — a vast, 11-year series showcasing the heroes (and villains!) of Marvel comics on the big screen.

Carol Danvers — aka Captain Marvel — was known to be a key player in how the previous films’ interconnecting storylines would end, and fans were eagerly awaiting her introduction. She is, as Boden says, “the most powerful superhero in the MCU.”

26 CCT Spring 2019 Getting the nod to direct one of Boden and Fleck were the most anticipated movies of 2019 at a play when they didn’t happen right away. “We had a lot got the news that of conversations over many, many they had the job. months with the executives at Marvel,” “During intermission says Boden. “We put a lot of thought we looked at our and passion into what we thought the phones and we had character and the story could be.” gotten, like, 15 calls from our agents and manager,” she says. “It was so exciting — it was very hard to pay attention to the second half of the play!”

Stepping onto set was an incredible experience — “there are just so many more kinds of people who contribute to making this kind of movie than the art house or independent films we were used to making” — but soon it was business as usual. “We got in there and started directing scenes and it was like it’s always been when you get down to the nitty-gritty of it: It’s just actors in a room with a camera.”

Spring 2019 CCT 27 However, since the movie stars an alien space warrior who shoots photon blasts out of her fists, there were days that relied heavily on special effects.

But the movie is more than big explosions and space battles. For the co-directors, telling Danvers’ story — and her journey of self-discovery into how she became superpowered — was a chance to portray a fantastical character who’s still very relatable.

“She’s so human,” says Boden. “She’s sometimes reckless, she doesn’t always make the best decisions for herself, she sometimes feels like she’s got something to prove and she’s so full of emotion. We fell in love with her; we fell in love with the messiness of her humanity and we really wanted to embrace that in the movie.”

Bringing the character to life on the big screen is Academy Award winner Brie Larson. “She brings so much confidence and charisma to the role. I really am excited for all kinds of people to see her, but especially women and young girls, who don’t have as many superheroes on film to look up to.”

28 CCT Spring 2019 The MCU has been at the forefront of recent discussions around representation in the film industry. The film opened In 2017, Taika Waititi on March 8, and in became the first nearly every person of color to direct a Marvel film interview leading (Thor: Ragnarok), up to the release, and Black Panther Boden and Larson followed in 2018 — were asked: the first Marvel film “What’s it like with a black director to be the first and black actors in lead roles. Captain woman to have Marvel, the 21st movie your position in a in the series, is the Marvel film?” first with a female lead and the first to have a woman in the director’s chair.

Boden is diplomatic: “I think that Brie and I feel the same way — that we will be excited when it’s not newsworthy for women to be in these positions in these kinds of movies. It’s 2019! But we do believe that there is a real appetite for more characters like this to be on screen and for a lot more diversity behind the camera, as well, in terms of voices. And we’re hopeful that we, along with a lot of other amazing women we met along the journey, will be ushering in a new era.”

Spring 2019 CCT 29 The Transformation of New York By Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 Two ESTEEMED documentary filmmakers discuss our ever- changing city

SKYLINE ON THE RISE: Development at Hudson Yards as seen from the East Village. Columbia College Today recently caught up with filmmaker Ric Burns ’78 and architect/author/filmmaker James Sanders ’76, GSAPP’82, who collaborated (along with filmmaker Lisa Ades) on the acclaimed eight-part PBS series New York: A Documentary Film, and its companion book, New York: An Illustrated History. They have updated the series twice since it first appeared in 1999; a ninth episode is now in the works. Burns first came to the fore with the landmark PBS series and book The Civil War (1990), which he produced and wrote with his brother, Ken, and Geoffrey C. Ward. Among Burns’s other works are Coney Island (1991), The Way West (1995), Ansel Adams (2002), We Shall Remain: Tecumseh’s Vision (2009) and The Chinese Exclusion Act (2018). His numerous honors include a 2000 John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement from the College. Sanders is a principal of the New York design and research firm James Sanders + Associates. His books include Celluloid Skyline: New York (2001) and Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York (2006, revised in 2014). In addition to sharing two Emmys and the Journalism School’s Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award with Burns for the New York series, Sanders won a 2007 Emmy for co-writing Andy Warhol: A Documentary, also with Burns. In 2013, he was appointed a research fellow at the Center for Urban Real Estate at the Architecture School. The conversation took place in October at the always-humming Upper West Side office of Burns’s production company, Steeplechase Films. Here are some edited excerpts.

Columbia College Today: You keep adding to of the world. But by the 1970s, the city was facing the New York opus. The series’ first installment the biggest crisis in its history, going up against ended in 1931 with the symbolically powerful tremendous anti-urban feeling. New York was seen construction of the Empire State Building. as dirty, congested, dangerous. There was continuing flight to the suburbs and the widespread belief Ric Burns ’78: Yes, that was an incredible that New York was truly going down the drain, on culmination, not just literally in terms of this the brink of bankruptcy. Washington’s reaction? glorious skyscraper. The Wall Street crash and the “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.” Depression brought a sea change for New York, which had been going it alone for nearly 400 Burns: But after that precipitous fall from grace, years as a rabid commercial center and cauldron the city miraculously reemerged at the end of the of diversity and change. The issues of modern life 20th century. It did not die. And we thought at had reached the point where they were not going that point our story was over. And then … to be solved by J.P. Morgan and his pals getting together and bailing out the economy. The federal Sanders: What’s the old Trotsky line? “You government had to act. may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” September 11, 2001, arrived, and we James Sanders ’76, GSAPP’82: We always intended realized we had to refract the entire narrative to cover the entire story of the city, through the end we had created through the rise and fall of the of the century, but released the initial five episodes — World Trade Center. ending in 1931 — before moving on. The next two episodes took us first through the Depression, the Burns: A structure we had not mentioned in the rise of [Mayor Fiorello] La Guardia and WWII, and first seven episodes. Because it seemed in every then post-war New York, when the city was cata- respect a Johnny-come-lately. Who cares? I mean MICHAEL LEE / GETTY IMAGES pulted onto the world stage as the unofficial capital it’s not an attractive building … The Transformation of New York

CCT: Feelings changed in 1993, when it was change, the economy, tourism, infrastructure, all first bombed. Suddenly it became our those things were connected globally. Not just the World Trade Center, and we didn’t want problems, but also the challenges, the opportuni- anybody messing with it. ties and the solutions, were now shared by all cities. That’s why we’re calling the next film “The Future Burns: Yes. And another trigger for the eighth of Cities.” And we’ve turned to a new generation episode of our film series was something James of voices to discuss this. and I came to call the provincial cosmopolitan- Sanders: ism of New York, which we were absolutely guilty One striking thing about this new of. As the historian Mike Wallace [CC’64] was generation is they’re not really obsessed with the among the first to point out, when the planes past of New York. They’re anti-nostalgic. As late went into the buildings, an enormous amount as the 1990s the frame of reference was still the was revealed. For us it was the deep, deep inter- departure of the Dodgers, the demolition of Penn connection between New York and America and Station, and all the stuff from the 1950s and ’60s. the world. It was not just Ellis Island. It was not This generation is building a new city. And they everybody parachuting in to the American dream are the new city — there’s an incredible diversity via its principal landing port, New York City. But of background. rather, there were going to be hard questions asked about our relationship to the rest of the globe. CCT: Now it’s as if we live in one city, interconnected Who are some of the voices you turned to? with every other part of the globe — demographi- Sanders: cally, economically, politically, climatically. The idea People like Vishaan Chakrabarti, an that there is some kind of isolation, exceptional architect and planner who has worked for the city or otherwise, vanished with 9-11. And on a bit- government and for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, terly cold day, January 1, 2002, a new mayor and and now has his own practice. He takes a very administration took over, which was completely straightforward view about the future of the city committed to this idea of the indissoluble inter- and about how growth is going to be sustained. connectedness of the entire globe. One of the premises, by the way, is that New York needs to be a growing city. For the last half of the 20th century, although there was enormous demo- CCT: Ric Burns’78 (left) You’re talking about Mike Bloomberg. graphic turnover, the overall population of the city and James Sanders ’76, did not increase. Which meant that, for example, GSAPP’82 at Burns’s Burns: I’m talking about Bloomberg and a new the subway system and the whole infrastructure Steeplechase awareness of the need for a kind of hyper-technocracy, that had been built by Robert Moses were able to Films office. in the sense that issues of immigration and climate sustain the plus-or-minus 7.8 million people who lived in the city. Well, that’s not true anymore. New York is growing again and growing fast, as anybody who goes to Long Island City can see. It’s just like Shanghai over there, just incredible. With that growth, accommodation has to be made. Land has to be found. Transportation has to improve. And to not accept that is to turn your back on reality. One of the things Bloomberg and his deputies understood was that the city that had been built up mostly in the first half of the 20th century — its economy, its infrastructure, its land use — needed to be wrenched into the 21st century. We had miles of land zoned for factories that didn’t exist anymore, yet couldn’t be used for anything else. And they said, we need that land. That was not an easy decision, or one that went down easily in every quarter. When you’re feeling the rawness of the city, with all the new construction, what you’re feeling is more than just a lot of buildings being built. You’re feeling this incredible, paradigmatic shift of the city. It is really changing JAMIE KATZ ’72, BUS’80 KATZ JAMIE from one thing to another.

32 CCT Spring 2019 Burns: Vishaan Chakrabarti, incidentally, is one of several people in the film who teach at Columbia. Of course, there’s also Ken Jackson, our great urban historian. There’s Ester Fuchs, a professor at SIPA, a remarkable person who worked in the Bloomberg administration. She’s an amazing thinker about cities, really brilliant. She shows how questions of gover- nance became increasingly depoliticized as the 20th century came to an end. There were earlier glimmers of this — the post-political idea that cities have to be governed with a sense of rationality, of fact-based data, and of consensus; Mayor La Guardia gave us a great example in his day. Amazingly, cities have become the greatest unit of governability over the last two or three decades. It’s not happening at the state level, it’s not happening at the federal level, and may never again.

Sanders: The notion that the ingenuity and creativity of smart, motivated people could be mobilized to solve urban problems was not apparent 30 years ago. I mean, there were books literally called things like The Ungovernable City. That was the understanding about New York. No one would write that book anymore. FERRANTRAITE / GETTY IMAGES THE LULLABY OF BROOKLYN: Young people are now looking for fun in outer borough neighborhoods such as Williamsburg. CCT: If you were Rip Van Winkle awakening in New York today from a 20-year snooze, what are some of the ambitious, large-scale changes that The action is truly within the perimeters of the “Manhattan’s you would find most surprising? entire city now, which is really a remarkable and no longer the wonderful thing. And I think that’s why the nos- Sanders: center of action. If New York had simply rebuilt the talgia is not there. This is not F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Certainly not World Trade Center, that would have been startling My Lost City, where he wrote so movingly of the enough. Probably only six cities in the United States destruction of the illusion of New York, like a shat- culturally, in have more square footage in their downtown. So tered dream, all the more poignant for being so. terms of youth it has rebuilt that whole downtown and then built culture. The another one along the way: Hudson Yards. It’s the action is truly largest real estate development in North America, CCT: But certainly, plenty of things are being lost and one of the largest ever created. I see it from my and damaged. Familiar blocks disappear; longtime within the window. It’s just unbelievable. And it’s only half- residents can no longer afford their apartments; perimeters done. But the half that’s built is astonishing. small businesses are replaced by humdrum chain of the entire stores or sit empty for long stretches. Burns: city now, which Then there’s the total transformation of is really a the waterways. Burns: It’s the inevitability of transformation, the oldest story in New York. You build it up, you tear remarkable and Sanders: The entire ferry service that has just it down, you build it up. It’s the creative destruc- wonderful thing.” been introduced. Brooklyn Bridge Park, Gover- tion of capitalism. We do, fortunately, have pretty nor’s Island. Any one of these projects would have stiff building codes and landmark preservation, a astounded people in the 1980s, and suddenly there concept that was born in New York. That hasn’t are 10 of them. Plus the fact that every square inch gone away. But yes, there is that constant sense of Manhattan suddenly seems to be of insane value. that the ground is moving beneath your feet. It’s not an easy place to live in that respect. It’s about finding ways to adapt to it. And making sure that CCT: Downtown Flushing, Jersey City … as many people as possible have access to the opportunities of that kind of dynamism. That’s Burns: Manhattan’s no longer the center of action. the real problem, not whether you can live in the Certainly not culturally, in terms of youth culture. neighborhood you grew up in.

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called Storm Surge about Sandy and what it means for global climate change, and for New York, which has always had a special relationship to the water. Without the harbor, the immediacy of access to the ocean, there is no New York. It just doesn’t exist.

Burns: That fact and driver of the city — water — is now the enemy, not the friend. Shiva the destroyer, not Shiva the bringer of life. Or maybe somehow both at the same time. When you pick up the paper and see we have 10 or 12 years to figure out how to reverse climate change, it’s dis- turbing and harrowing and sort of traumatizing all at once. That’s not Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. You’re talking about a level of plausibly apocalyptic urgency that is everybody’s patrimony.

Sanders: OK, it’s coming, we have to prepare for it and we have to adapt for it. But how can we actually mitigate it? We have other people like the author David Owen telling us there’s only one way out: The world, or certainly America, has to be more like New York, which to the astonishment of most people is the most environmentally respon- PACIFIC PRESS / GETTY IMAGES PACIFIC sible place in America. SURGE PROTECTION: Marchers commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and demand climate action from New York’s elected officials. Burns: Lowest per capita carbon footprint.

“Water is now the Sanders: The very success of the city has brought Sanders: When you live in high-rise buildings enemy, not the huge issues of affordability and gentrification, a and you move eight million people by public trans- friend. Shiva term that I don’t much care for, but which we’re portation and you share your heat and power, it is the destroyer, going to crack open in Episode 9. There’s another the most efficient way to live. And there are serious brilliant Columbia guy, Lance Freeman, at GSAPP, efforts underway, grand schemes like building park not Shiva the who went to Harlem and Clinton Hill and explored barriers and berms along the shoreline, and all bringer of life.” what gentrification really means. He found all sorts sorts of other ideas being looked at. But there’s no of contradictory and surprising results. But the overestimating the enormity of the challenge. fact remains that as we speak, one-fifth of New York lives in extreme poverty of a concentrated Burns: And yet there is a kind of optimism kind, meaning not just poor, but poor and closely within the culture of New York, which is not just together, and unable to find the ways out. undimmed; I would say arguably it’s greater than ever before for all the reasons James is describing. Burns: That kind of localized density and concentra- Unlike many quarters of society, we seem to be tion of poverty — not just income inequality, but pulling together, not apart, developing solutions, educational inequality — those are the two burning not fleeing from reality. To have gone through the issues in New York, in America, and indeed around last three generations in New York and to have the world, that aren’t related to climate change. demonstrably solved — not permanently, and not without major problems — so many of the issues of contemporary collective life, in ways that CCT: Which brings us, finally, to that looming are scalable, that can be exported, that is a truly threat. Hurricane Sandy was clearly another remarkable thing. defining event in the city’s history and a very loud warning bell. Former CCT editor Jamie Katz ’72, BUS’80 has held senior editorial positions at People and Vibe Sanders: It will be one of the climactic scenes and contributes to Smithsonian Magazine and in our new episode. We spoke to a brilliant other publications. His feature about the 50th anni- climatologist, another good Columbia man, Adam versary of Spring’68, “A Tinderbox, Poised To Ignite,” Sobel, who has written this phenomenal book appeared in the Spring 2018 issue.

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“The Troubles” in Mind The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe ’99 explores a decades-old mystery

nvestigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe ’99 border executions. As the years pass and the revolu- seems able to tackle — in depth — any subject he tion matures, political maneuvering gradually replaces Ichooses. As a staff writer for The New Yorker, he has the violence. Some of Radden Keefe’s vivid characters covered the Sackler family’s role in the U.S. opioid crisis, — young and fiery IRA revolutionaries like glamorous the arrest of “El Chapo,” and TV producer Mark Burnett’s “bomb girl” Dolours Price or guerilla commander Bren- role in shaping President Trump’s political career, to name dan Hughes — change from perpetrators to victims. As just a few. Several of his articles have been nominated for the years pass, they try in vain to blur guilty memories in National Magazine Awards; he won for his 2014 feature a dense fog of liquor and prescription drugs. “A Loaded Gun,” a portrait of mass shooter Amy Bishop. Thanks to the free rein afforded him by his legendary employer, “I don’t have a beat, which I love. I’m a general- ist, so I can write about anything.” And what do his wide- ranging articles and books all have in common? “Secret worlds,” he says simply. In Radden Keefe’s third and latest book, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Doubleday, $28.95), the landscape he unveils is the murk- shrouded fen of the “Troubles” — the guerrilla war between Irish nationalists (usually Catholic) and unionists (usually Protestant) that roiled Belfast for three decades at the end of the last century. Radden Keefe examines that time through the lens of a single dramatic crime: the abduction of Jean McConville, a young widow with 10 children who “disappeared” in 1972. The mystery comes to stand for the covert violence done in the name of revolutionary progress, and the blood-drenched silence that still hangs over WILLIAM MEBANE Northern Ireland. The book’s title comes from a famous Seamus Heaney poem, “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing,” The construction of Radden Keefe’s narrative is painstak- a phrase used in an IRA poster featuring a gunman in a ing. Thread by thread, fact after fact, unexpected scenes and balaclava that was posted on local walls. patterns emerge. He credits University Professor Simon Aided by new interviews and unpublished documents, Schama, the noted historian for whom he worked as an Radden Keefe recounts the events behind McConville’s undergraduate research assistant, with teaching him how to kidnapping, as well as London bombings and cross- narrate. It was Schama who influenced him to write in a way

Spring 2019 CCT 35 Columbia Forum that appealed to a mass audience, with prose that was accu- tery,” he says meditatively. And then, perhaps, someone rate but also seductive. He says his time at the College was with whom he’s conversing will let slip an offhand piece “galvanizing,” an era when he came into his own intellectually. of information, or a document will reveal a clue, shifting After graduation, Radden Keefe dreamed of pursuing every plane in his mental picture of events. a writing career, but instead took side trips through aca- Late in the process of writing Say Nothing, after years demia, earning master’s degrees from Cambridge and the of spadework, one of these moments took place. While London School of Economics before moving on to Yale poring over an interview, Radden Keefe uncovered a Law. His writing breakthrough came after 9-11, when he lead to the identity of the person whom he thinks shot recognized that the “obscure” master’s thesis he had writ- McConville. He explains in the book that the jolt of ten about the NSA and global eavesdropping would now knowing made him sit bolt upright. “Suddenly I stum- be especially relevant. Repped by a top agent, his first bled across a missing piece and could see, for the first book, Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global time, the whole picture,” he says. “On the one hand, it Eavesdropping, was published in 2005. Radden Keefe was was a dark moment: I was very conscious that this isn’t finally launched. just a fun murder mystery — it’s the story of a war crime. What still enthralls him about his chosen profession is On the other hand, just in terms of sheer discovery, it that rare time he calls “the Eureka moment.” “You spend was the most exhilarating moment of my life as a writer.” so much time digging and trying to make sense of a mys- — Rose Kernochan BC’82

Albert’s Daughters

WHEN DOLOURS PRICE WAS a little girl, When Dolours was little, she would sit on her favored saints were martyrs. Dolours had one Albert’s lap and he would tell her stories about very Catholic aunt on her father’s side who would joining the Irish Republican Army when he was say, “For God and Ireland.” For the rest of the still a boy, in the 1930s, and about how he had gone family, Ireland came first. Growing up in West off to England as a teenager to carry out a bomb- Belfast in the 1950s, she dutifully went to church ing raid. With cardboard in his shoes because he every day. But she noticed that her parents didn’t. couldn’t afford to patch the soles, he had dared to One day, when she was about fourteen, she challenge the mighty British Empire. announced, “I’m not going back to Mass.” A small man with wire-framed glasses and “You have to go,” her mother, Chrissie, said. fingertips stained yellow by tobacco, Albert “I don’t, and I’m not going,” Dolours said. told violent tales about the fabled valor of long- “You have to go,” Chrissie repeated. dead patriots. Dolours had two other siblings, “Look,” Dolours said. “I’ll go out the door, I’ll Damian and Clare, but she was closest with her stand at the corner for half an hour and say to younger sister, Marian. Before bedtime, their you, ‘I’ve been to Mass.’ But I won’t have been father liked to regale them with the story of the to Mass.” time he escaped from a jail in the city of Derry, She was headstrong, even as a child, so that along with twenty other prisoners, after digging was the end of that. The Prices lived in a small, a tunnel that led right out of the facility. One semidetached council house on a tidy, sloping inmate played the bagpipes to cover the sound street in Andersonstown called Slievegallion of the escape. Drive. Her father, Albert, was an upholsterer; In confiding tones, Albert would lecture he made the chairs that occupied the cramped Dolours and her siblings about the safest front room. But where another clan might adorn method for mixing improvised explosives, with the mantelpiece with happy photos from family a wooden bowl and wooden utensils — never holidays, the Prices displayed, with great pride, metal! — because “a single spark and you were snapshots taken in prisons. Albert and Chrissie gone.” He liked to reminisce about beloved Price shared a fierce commitment to the cause of comrades whom the British had hanged, and Irish republicanism: the belief that for hundreds Dolours grew up thinking that this was the of years the British had been an occupying force most natural thing in the world: that every on the island of Ireland — and that the Irish had child had parents who had friends who’d been a duty to expel them by any means necessary. hanged. Her father’s stories were so rousing that

36 CCT Spring 2019 she shivered sometimes when she listened to them, her whole body ing the tricolor flag of the Republic. As a girl, Dolours donned her tingling with goose bumps. best white frock for Easter Sunday, a basket full of eggs under her Everyone in the family, more or less, had been to prison. Chrissie’s arm and, pinned to her chest, an Easter lily, to commemorate the mother, Granny Dolan, had been a member of the IRA Women’s botched rebellion. It was an intoxicating ritual for a child, like join- Council, the Cumann na mBan, and had once served three months in ing a league of secret outlaws. She learned to cover the lily with her Armagh jail for attempting to relieve a police officer from the Royal hand when she saw a policeman coming. Ulster Constabulary of his service weapon. Chrissie had also served She was under no illusions, however, about the personal toll that in the Cumann and done a stretch in Armagh, along with three of devotion to the cause could extract. Albert Price never met his first her sisters, after they were arrested for wearing a “banned emblem”: child, an older daughter who died in infancy while he was behind little paper flowers of orange, white, and green, known as Easter lilies. bars. Dolours had an aunt, Bridie, one of Chrissie’s sisters, who had In the Price family — as in Northern Ireland in general — taken part in the struggle in her youth. On one occasion in 1938, people had a tendency to talk about calamities from the bygone past Bridie had been helping to move a cache of explosives when it sud- as though they had happened just last week. As a consequence, it denly detonated. The blast shredded both of Bridie’s hands to the could be difficult to pinpoint where the story of the ancient quarrel wrist, while disfiguring her face and blinding her permanently. She between Britain and Ireland first began. Really, it was hard to imag- was twenty-seven when it happened. ine Ireland before what the Prices referred to simply as “the cause.” It Against the projections of her doctors, Aunt Bridie survived. But almost didn’t matter where you started the story: it was always there. because she was so incapacitated, she would require care for the rest of It predated the distinction between Protestant and Catholic; it was her life. With no hands or eyes, she couldn’t change her clothes or blow older than the Protestant church. You could go back nearly a thou- her nose or do much else for herself without assistance. Bridie often sand years, in fact, to the Norman raiders of the twelfth century, who stayed for stretches in the house on Slievegallion Drive. If the Price crossed the Irish Sea on ships, in search of new lands to conquer. Or family felt pity for her, it was secondary to a sense of admiration for her to Henry VIII and the Tudor rulers of the sixteenth century, who willingness to offer up everything for an ideal. Bridie came home from asserted England’s total subjugation of Ireland. Or to the Protestant the hospital to a tiny house with an outside toilet, no social worker, no emigrants from Scotland and the North of England who filtered into pension — just a life of blindness. Yet she never expressed any regret Ireland over the course of the seventeenth century and established a for having made such a sacrifice in the name of a united Ireland. plantation system in which the Gaelic-speaking natives became ten- When Dolours and Marian were little, Chrissie would send them ants and vassals on land that had previously been their own. upstairs with instructions to “talk to your aunt Bridie.” The woman But the chapter in this saga that loomed largest in the house would be stationed in a bedroom, alone in the gloom. Dolours liked on Slievegallion Drive was the Easter Rising of 1916, in which a to tiptoe as she ascended the stairs, but Bridie’s hearing was extra clutch of Irish revolutionaries seized the post office in Dublin and sharp, so she always heard you coming. She was a chain-smoker, declared the establishment of a free and independent Irish Repub- lic. Dolours grew up hearing legends about the dashing heroes of the rising, and about the sensitive poet who was one of the leaders of the rebellion, Patrick Pearse. “In every generation, the Irish peo- Before bedtime, their father liked to ple have asserted their right to national freedom,” Pearse declared regale them with the story of the time he on the post office steps. Pearse was an inveterate romantic who was deeply attracted to escaped from a jail in the city of Derry. the ideal of blood sacrifice. Even as a child, he had fantasies of pledging his life for something, and he came to believe that blood- shed was a “cleansing” thing. Pearse praised the Christlike deaths of previous Irish martyrs and wrote, a few years before the rising, and from the age of eight or nine, Dolours was given the job of that “the old heart of the earth needed to be warmed with the red lighting Bridie’s cigarettes, gently inserting them between her lips. wine of the battlefield.” Dolours hated this responsibility. She found it revolting. She would He got his wish. After a brief moment of glory, the rebellion was stare at her aunt, scrutinizing her face more closely than you might mercilessly quashed by British authorities in Dublin, and Pearse was with someone who could see you doing it, taking in the full horror court-martialed and executed by a firing squad, along with fourteen of what had happened to her. Dolours was a loquacious kid, with of his comrades. After the Irish War of Independence led to the a child’s manner of blurting whatever came into her head. Some- partition of Ireland, in 1921, the island was split in two: in the South, times she would ask Bridie, “Do you not wish you’d just died?” twenty-six counties achieved a measure of independence as the Irish Taking her aunt’s stumpy wrists into her own small hands, Dolours Free State, while in the North, a remaining six counties continued stroked the waxen skin. They reminded her, she liked to say, of “a to be ruled by Great Britain. Like other staunch republicans, the pussycat’s paws.” Bridie wore dark glasses, and Dolours once watched Price family did not refer to the place where they happened to reside a tear descend from behind the glass and creep down her withered as “Northern Ireland.” Instead it was “the North of Ireland.” In the cheek. And Dolours wondered: How can you cry if you have no eyes? fraught local vernacular, even proper nouns could be political. A cult of martyrdom can be a dangerous thing, and in Northern From SAY ANYTHING by Patrick Radden Keefe. Copyright Ireland, rituals of commemoration were strictly regulated, under © 2019 by Patrick Radden Keefe. Reprinted by permission of the Flags and Emblems Act. The fear of Irish nationalism was so Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, pronounced that you could go to jail in the North just for display- a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

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38 CCT Spring 2019 Contents 40 CCAA Message 41 Lions Daniel Gritzer ’00, Joanna Parker ’05, Bianca Guerrero ’17

44 Bookshelf Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More Than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers That Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast, by Christopher Kimball ’73

46 Class Notes Just Married!

85 Obituaries Harold Brown ’45, GSAS’49; Wallace Broecker ’53, GSAS’58

88 The Last Word

MODERNIZING A MONUMENT Since November 2017, the landmarked St. Paul’s Chapel has been undergoing extensive renovations to protect the building for generations to come. The work has included replacing the roof’s terracotta tiles, adding modern waterproofing on the exterior, cleaning the interior Guastavino ceiling tiles, and restoring and thermal-glazing the 16 stained- glass windows in the dome. The restoration of the 115-year-old building is expected to be completed near the end of 2019.

LEON WU ’20

Spring 2019 CCT 39 Message from the CCAA President

Helping Future Students, One Interview at a Time

By Michael Behringer ’89

ach year, from November through the end of my Columbia journey. I know he didn’t remember our EFebruary, thousands of Columbia College alumni encounter, but he graciously responded with a hand- from 286 regions around the world venture into their written note thanking me for the meeting and the communities to interview applicants to the College. opportunity it provided him to stay connected with As volunteers with the Alumni Representative Com- alma mater. mittee, these alumni can contribute to the admissions I know I’m not alone in having this kind of posi- process and make a difference in the College’s future tive alumni interview experience, as I’ve heard many and in the lives of young people all over the world. similar stories from other alumni. These anecdotes ARC members are front-line ambassadors for the are a testament to the role of ARC, and to how its College and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. ambassadors have an impact that can inspire good- They connect directly with prospective students, provid- will toward the College for years to come. Even when ing Admissions with unique insights and perspectives an interviewed candidate is not admitted, leaving a gained by interviewing applicants in person (or virtually, positive impression can still help elevate the College’s via Skype or FaceTime), participating in local col- reputation around the world and in your community. lege fairs and hosting events that welcome admitted The Columbia College Alumni Association sup- students. ARC members can also often connect with ports ARC by recruiting alumni participants, enhanc- students in regions where Admissions may not visit. ing the interviewing experience through training and Through their interviews, alumni help provide a holis- events, and recognizing alumni for tic view of an applicant — one that goes beyond tran- their participation. I’m delighted scripts and essays to look at aspects not always captured to share that during the past 12 in the application package. Importantly, for the prospec- months, more than 1,000 new A R C tive students, the interview can provide a window into members joined ARC, helping the the influence of a College education, as evidenced by the College to increase the percentage interviewer with whom they are speaking. of applicants interviewed in the My interview with D. Keith Mano ’63 is something early decision cycle to about 60 I remember vividly and fondly. Mano was a celebrated percent — a record for us. (and controversial) novelist, a columnist for the This interviewing season has A L U M N I National Review and a TV writer. In those pre-inter- ended as I write this, but we’ll be R E P R E S E N T A T I V E net days, I knew none of this when we met in Long looking for volunteers again in the C O M M I T T E E Island City. He was simply one of the most interesting fall; we’re always striving to increase people that my 17-year-old self had yet to encounter. the number of prospective students Our conversation stood apart from my interviews we can meet! Please contact Eric for other schools. We shared a lengthy and spirited Shea, senior director, College alumni relations, at eric. discussion about literature, cars, the entertainment [email protected] for more information on the pro- industry and Columbia history. Mano took great plea- gram and ways to get involved. sure in my critique of the latest season of The A-Team I thank all current ARC members for their partici- (for which he was a staff writer), regaled me with sto- pation in this important program. They do an amazing ries of campus life in the ’60s and talked about his job, and we are grateful for their contributions to the passionate support of Columbia football. College. On Saturday, June 1, during Reunion Week- Inspiring, provocative and thoughtful, Mano epito- end 2019, we’ll honor ARC members at a special mized what I imagined a Columbian to be. His enthu- reception for all alumni volunteers. I look forward to siasm for the College was infectious. My interview recognizing their service. with him was an important factor in my decision to attend. Years later, I wrote to thank him for inspiring ROAR!

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COURTESY SERIOUS EATS Daniel Gritzer ’00 Is at Home in the Kitchen

By Jill C. Shomer

itting down to lunch with Daniel Gritzer ’00, culinary an editor at Food & Wine. But being a food writer was his secret director at the award-winning website Serious Eats, I ambition all along. strongly suspected I’d be invited to try something ... well, Gritzer grew up in a food-obsessed family in Brooklyn and Sserious. I was not wrong. We ate Japanese, and Gritzer cooked at home, “funny things, like squid for breakfast.” When he offered menatto, sticky, stringy fermented soybeans that are defi- turned 13, his mother (“a total hedonist”) offered a bar mitzvah or nitely an acquired taste. “They’re hard to like,” Gritzer admitted. a fancy restaurant meal; he chose the latter and was taken to Chan- “But I kept trying them and now I have a taste for them.” terelle. After a chance introduction to chef David Waltuck during It’s natural to assume a food writer and former chef would be dinner, Waltuck suggested young Gritzer reach out if he wanted an adventurous eater, and Gritzer’s twisty life path is marked by a to come back to his kitchen. “It scared the crap out of me to call similar enterprising spirit. By the time he landed at Serious Eats him,” Gritzer says, but he did, and soon after he was in too-big chef in 2014, he had been a 13-year-old assistant at famed French res- whites, piping salmon mousse onto toast. “A restaurant kitchen is taurant Chanterelle, studied molecular biology, written a thesis on such an adult environment, and I was trying to seem cool,” he says. African musical instruments, worked at a not-for-profit conser- “Everyone was so nice to me. It was an amazing experience.” vancy, harvested almonds in Spain, shepherded 200 sheep in Italy, Still, it took a long time for Gritzer to get into the cooking life. made charcuterie in France, taught the Afro-Brazilian martial art He explored his passion for science in a Columbia summer pro- of capoeira, cooked in some of New York’s top restaurants and been gram for genetics and molecular biology, and pre-med studies at the

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College, before a love for Art Humanities spun him instead toward when everyone else is having fun, you’re working,” he says. “I started an anthropology major. Studying abroad his junior year, Gritzer to feel like an absentee member of my life.” immersed himself in Asian and African music classes and fell for He couldn’t transition to food writing without clips, so he started the mbira, a Zimbabwean board and key instrument. He wrote his a blog about his experiences on his second WWOOF adventure, senior thesis on it (“one of the highlights of my time at the College this time in central Italy, France and Spain. It worked, and Gritzer was working with anthropology and musicology advisors”) and was was hired at Time Out New York when he returned in 2007. Then, awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Zimbabwe after gradu- as a food editor at Food & Wine in 2010, he had his own cooking ation. Unfortunately, his scholarship was canceled just a few weeks column, wrote food-world profiles and essays, and edited recipes. before Gritzer was due to leave. “I still don’t know why,” he says. “But “It was such a great place to work,” Gritzer says. “I was the food it was an important moment because I graduated with no plan. I was nerd on staff in a lot of ways, taking deeper dives into stories, going suddenly open to a whole new range of experiences and possibilities.” down the rabbit hole.” So, he WWOOFed. Through the WorldWide Opportunities Now at Serious Eats, he believes he has his dream job. Gritzer’s on Organic Farms program, Gritzer ended up on a sheep farm in work includes creating and testing recipes, kitchen equipment reviews Tuscany in 2001 and stayed in Italy for nine months. When he and food-focused essays; on the “Cooking with Gritzer” page you’ll returned stateside, Gritzer started working with green spaces for find his instructions on eating a whole lobster, best methods for clean- the Brooklyn Bridge Conservancy. But he was still wondering how ing cast iron and a recipe for a foolproof pasta carbonara. “For someone he could best tie together his varied skills and experiences. who likes to go down the rabbit hole, this is the place,” he says. “People close to me were suggesting I was happiest working with Gritzer lives in Jackson Heights with his wife and 1-year-old son; food — I was still cooking every night and reading cookbooks for he burns off stress and calories doing capoeira. After seeing a man fun — so I should go back to that,” he says. “I finally came around.” at the gym holding perfect cartwheels, he started taking classes and He called Waltuck and asked if he could intern for him, and started fell in love with the martial art. He has been practicing for 16 years. cooking nights and weekends at Chanterelle. After eight months, His path has already been so varied that naturally, Gritzer is he quit his nonprofit job and became a full-time chef, working in looking for new ways to grow. “I’m considering writing a cook- restaurants for five years. “Nights, weekends, birthdays, holidays — book,” he says. “As long as I get to go as deep as I want to go.”

Bianca Guerrero ’17 Fights for New Yorkers

By Jill C. Shomer

esidents of New York City, remember Bianca Guerrero ’17’s name. The recent grad is already making waves in city government. R Guerrero works in the Mayor’s Office of Policy & Planning as the special assistant to the mayor’s chief policy advisor; her policy research and proposals address new ways of tackling climate change, identifying public health strategies and increasing worker protections. “The mayor recently announced one of the proposals we’ve been working on — paid time off for all employees [in the private sector] in New York City,” Guerrero says. “I hope it’s the next big worker benefit that starts in NYC and spreads across the country.” Guerrero, who grew up in Washington Heights and Yonkers, first went to City Hall in 2017 as an Urban Fellow, part of a nine-month program sponsored by the city that provides public policy work opportunities in mayoral offices and city agencies. “It was like a crash course in New York City government,” Guerrero says. “I was in the Deputy Mayor for Health & Human Services’ office, supporting its OMAR ETMAN health and homelessness policy teams. A program we started around improving maternal mortality rates and outcomes got funded right you have to think of others around you.” In high school, Guerrero read after I left the fellowship, and it was the first time I realized how a biography of Robert F. Kennedy and became obsessed. “That made really impactful policies are if you get the funding and momentum.” me understand what public service and social justice really is,” she says. Guerrero says she’s always been interested in public service. “My par- Guerrero, a political science major, was a recipient of a 2016 Truman ents are both public school teachers and immigrants from the Domini- Scholarship, which grants $30,000 for graduate study and provides a can Republic. We’re a very close family and most of my extended family stipend for scholars to live and work in Washington, D.C. Guerrero are low-income, so I had an ethos that you can’t only think of yourself; worked at the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. “I care a lot

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about issues like affordable housing and tenants’ rights,” she says. “I America suffers for 10 or more years and visits eight doctors before learned that affordable housing is a problem beyond NYC and there’s a diagnosis, and my experience is on point with that. It affects 1 in much more that federal and state governments can do to address it.” 10 women, and doctors still aren’t sure how it works, plus the treat- In addition to her work at City Hall, Guerrero serves on a comments really suck. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has participated in national munity board, on committees for traffic and transportation, and campaigns to build awareness; I’d like to link with patient advocates.” housing and human services. “I’m trying to connect what I’m doing When asked where she wants to be in 10 years, Guerrero says, at my job to problems that my neighbors are having on the ground. “I love working in government. I might want to work with peo- I want to make sure these really progressive policy ideas aren’t ple putting pressure on the executive branches, like the National brushing past everyday concerns,” she says. Domestic Workers Alliance — Ai-Jen Poo ’96 is my role model! Guerrero has her own concerns to advocate for: She was recently — expanding the conversations around workers’ rights. I want to diagnosed with endometriosis. “The disease is the thing that makes work for an organization that is raising people’s expectations of me most angry in the world,” she says. “The average woman in government and expanding who worker policies serve.”

Joanna Parker ’05 Scores Big on Shark Tank with Yumble

By Liam Boylan-Pett ’08

or Joanna Parker ’05, going on Shark Tank was no day at the beach. But neither was making healthy meals for three rowdy kids with picky appetites, which was why she was on F Shark Tank in the first place. This past December, Parker and her husband, David Parker SEAS’04, appeared on the ABC reality show looking for investors for Yumble, their kids’ meal delivery service. When they filmed the show last summer, Yumble had customers in 26 states, with hopes of expanding nationwide. The experience was nerve-wracking — the harsh lights, the high-pressure pitch. They also had two “sharks” arguing about whether their business could be successful. In the end, investor and reality TV star Bethenny Frankel signed on for Yumble — and the Parkers left Shark Tank with a $500,000 deal. (Frankel took a 6 percent stake in the company.) The couple, who live in Englewood, N.J., created Yumble out of personal frustration. After graduating from the College with a degree in art history, Joanna took a job at Macy’s in product development, then spent a few years as an early childhood teacher. Six years ago, when the second of her three children was born, she became a stay-at-home mom. “I found it challenging to get healthy food in front of my kids ’05 PARKER JOANNA COURTESY every day,” she says. David wondered if other parents felt the same way. After posting anonymously to a Facebook group, Joanna found 26 states. The investment from Frankel will help the Parkers as they she wasn’t alone. In fact, after she asked the group if they would take Yumble nationwide in 2019. be interested in meals delivered straight to their doors, strangers Joanna is hoping that delivery expansion is just the start. In addi- started asking her to cook meals for their children. tion to wanting kids to have healthy food, she wants American With that, Panda Plates was born, and Joanna began sending kids’ families to change the way they think about family dinners. Each meals locally to parents in need of a quick, healthy option. After 18 Yumble delivery comes with activity sheets or trivia cards. “Kids’ months and with the business booming, she needed help. So at the eating time is a stressful time of day,” Joanna says, “and we think we end of 2016, David, who has an M.B.A. from Harvard, stepped in to can turn it into an exciting and dynamic time.” lend a hand. The Parkers reached out to HelloFresh co-founder Dan Treiman, and he officially came on board at the end of 2016. By June Liam Boylan-Pett ’08 is a leadership gift officer in Columbia’s Office 2017, the company had rebranded and kicked off as Yumble. of Alumni and Development. He founded Løpe Magazine and has By the time of the Parkers’ Shark Tank appearance, Yumble was written for publications such as The Undefeated, Bleacher Report and delivering as many as 24 meals per week, at about $7 per meal, to Runner’s World.

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Cooking Made Easier with Milk Street

By Jill C. Shomer

hristopher Kimball ’73 wants to change the way you lot of technique, time and heat you slowly build flavors.Master - cook. The former editor-in-chief of technique-heavy ing the Art of French Cooking was my tome for years — there’s no Cooks Illustrated is now promoting simplicity; his new spices in it. That kind of cooking is great but there are other ways C cookbook, Milk Street Tuesday Nights: More Than 200 of looking at it. Simple Weeknight Suppers That Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast (Little, “Other regions use wildly different flavors in a dish, like lem- Brown and Co., $35) is focused on ingredients, not time or tactic. ongrass, ginger, fish sauce — there’s a lot of contrast of flavors, a “The Milk Street approach — start with big flavors, end up with lot of spices, a lot of contrast of textures. It’s a whole different way big flavors — lends itself to Tuesday night cooking,” Kimball says. of thinking about what cooking is, what taste is. I find it’s a much “Time is not an essential ingredient in a lot of these recipes. Put a more appealing way to cook now. We’re trying to bring some of spice rub on a pork tenderloin and cook it in a pan for eight min- that back and adapt it to this country.” utes — the trick is what spices you use; you don’t have to spend an His favorite recipe from Tuesday Nights is the Turkish Red Len- hour making a pan sauce. It’s very simple.” til Soup. “At the end you take some oil and a little Aleppo pepper, Some chapters of Tuesday Nights focus on speed, featuring recipes infuse it in the oil in two or three minutes and drizzle it over the that are Fast (from start to finish in under an hour), Faster (45 min- soup,” Kimball says. “The thing I like about it is that something utes or less) and Fastest (25 minutes or less). A 20-minute cacio e pepe basic like red lentils can pretty quickly be turned into something calls for only black pepper, corn great just by adding a little bit of flavor contrast.” starch, pasta and fresh pecorino You could say Kimball’s time at the College had flavor contrast Romano. Other chapters high- as well: “It was probably the worst time of all to be in New York light themes, like Supper Salads, City, but I loved it,” he says. An art history major, he needed to Easy Additions and Pizza Night. learn German to read original manuscripts, so he drove a cab on “For those of us raised on classic the weekends to earn the money to spend the summer in Salzburg. American cookery, heavily influ- “The city was tough, but it was a great experience. There were a enced by the cuisines of North- lot of cool inexpensive restaurants. My friend’s girlfriend’s brother ern Europe, this is a watershed was the drummer for The Velvet Underground. I saw the Grateful moment,” the book’s introduc- Dead at the Fillmore East.” tion reads. “This is how the rest Kimball believes that by taking a world view, home cooking is of the world cooks.” starting to change similarly to the way music, architecture and Kimball started Milk Street fashion have evolved. “Bob Marley is one type of reggae but there in 2016, soon after leaving the are hundreds of kinds of reggae throughout the world,” he says. company he co-founded, Amer- “Food is going to go through the same revolution — you’re going ica’s Test Kitchen. Named for its to find all this melding and coming together. I think we’re at the COURTESY CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL’S MILK STREET KIMBALL’S CHRISTOPHER COURTESY Boston address (the birthplace beginning of this, so my hope is that Milk Street can play a role. I of Benjamin Franklin!), Milk think it makes cooking easier and more fun, and you should enjoy Street includes a magazine, books, a cooking school, and television your time in the kitchen. and radio programs. “Cooking is becoming one of the last things you can do with “My cooking had started to change a few years before I started your hands; it’s immediately appealing and it’s something you can Milk Street,” Kimball says. “I travel a fair amount and I began do for other people, as well,” Kimball adds. “It’s an expression of to realize that many parts of the world don’t cook anything like yourself, it’s giving and it has immediate benefit — you don’t have Northern Europe. Traditional Northern European recipes take to wait 10 years to see if something’s going to turn out. So I think fairly bland ingredients like potatoes, meat and dairy, and with a the idea that cooking is drudgery is soon going to be old news.”

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Hubert Humphrey: The Tableau with Crash Helmet and a business writer explore More Than Words by Jill Santopolo Conscience of the Country by by Bill Christophersen ’71. Poetry that the intersection of superhero ’03. In Santopolo’s latest novel, a Arnold A. Offner ’59. Historian Offner considers a sense of the metaphysical mythology and economic theory woman sees the men in her life in a provides the first definitive biography present in even casual situations (Routledge, $39.95). new light following the death of her of the liberal American politician (Hanging Loose Press, $17.02). father (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $25). Lagging Indicators: A Novel (Yale University Press, $35). The Uncorrected Eye by Harold by Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg ’93. The Deeper the Water the The Wonderful World of Bernies: Bauld ’77. A collection of poems Wall Street executive Mia Lewis Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina An Irish-Italian Adventure in written under the influence of jazz, experiences a spectacular downfall and ’05. Apekina’s well-reviewed Queens by Dr. Bernard Patten ’62. Shakespeare, Basquiat, boxing, the must rebuild her life and reputation debut features two teenage sisters Growing up in New York City circa Bronx and the Basque country (IndieBookLauncher, $15.99). who leave their suicidal mother 1941–62 — without much adult (Passager Books, $21.32). in Louisiana to live with their The Talmud: A Biography supervision, but with plenty of fun by estranged, narcissistic father in (CreateSpace Publishing, $15.90). Rock Critic Law: 101 Unbreakable Barry Scott Wimpfheimer ’95. The New York City (Two Dollar Rules for Writing Badly About author tells the story of the ancient Radio, $16.99). Paw Paw: A Novel by John Dibble Music by Michael Azzerad ’83. Jewish book and explains why it ’68. The sequel to Dibble’s novel Dif- Rock journalist Azzerad turns his has endured for thousands of years Preventing Palestine: A Political ficult Run features his lead character, sharply perceptive eye to the art (Princeton University Press, $26.95). History from Camp David to Oslo U.S. Park Police Detective M.J. Pow- of rock writing itself (Dey Street by Seth Aniziska ’06. The author, a Human Operators: A Critical ers, investigating a double homicide Books, $23.99). scholar of Jewish-Muslim relations, Oral History on Technology in (CreateSpace Publishing, $10.58). discusses why Palestinians remain Libraries and Archives A Jack Greenberg Lexicon edited by stateless 40 years after the Camp The Future of Academic by William Cole ’84. The life of Melissa Morrone ’97. A look at how David peace accords (Princeton Freedom by Henry Reichman ’69. famed civil rights attorney and library users and staff are affected University Press, $35). Reichman, an expert on campus free Columbia College Dean Jack by industry-specific hardware and speech, defends academic freedom Greenberg ’45, LAW’48, who died software (Library Juice Press, $34.71). The Club: How the English and clarifies its relation to freedom in 2016, written by his adopted son Premier League Became the The Shortest Way Home: of expression ( John Hopkins (Twelve Tables Press, $38.95). Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive A Novel University Press, $29.95). by Miriam Parker ’00. Force in Sports by Joshua Robinson So Lo: A Modern Cookbook for A grad student in Manhattan ’08 and Jonathan Clegg. How the a Party of One by Anita Lo ’88. takes a leap of faith and moves to ancient institution of soccer became Michelin-starred chef Lo believes Sonoma to rescue a failing family- a 21st-century entertainment empire SUBMIT YOUR that cooking for one can and run winery (Dutton, $26). (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28). CCT should be blissful and empowering BOOK TO How to Hide an Empire: A History (Knopf, $28.95). Magical Negro by Morgan Alums! Have you written of the Greater United States by Parker ’10. Poems that explore a book in the last year? Superheroes and Economics: Tell us about it! Daniel Immerwahr ’02. Immerwahr Black American womanhood, The Shadowy World of Capes, tells the story of the United States from the author of There Are More college.columbia.edu/cct/ Masks, and Invisible Hands outside the United States, casting Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé submit_bookshelf edited by Brian O’Roark and American history in a new light (Tin House Books, $15.95). Robert Salkowitz ’89. An economist (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30). — Jill C. Shomer

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SCOTT RUDD

Spring brings classmates are Dr. Gerald Klingon can quarterback, Paul Governali ’43, 1942 and Stewart “Snuffy” McIlvennan did not need to throw many passes a bright splash (both 98), and me (95 as I write in this game. Instead, he ran all over Melvin Hershkowitz this and, I hope, 96 by the time you Palmer Stadium in our 21–0 victory. 22 Northern Ave. of color to read this). Howie, always a free spirit, did Northampton, MA 01060-2310 Our gallant football team not have a ticket for the game, but Morningside [email protected] sustained 20 or more devastating marched in among our cheerleaders Heights as pre-season injuries, but went on waving a huge Columbia megaphone. On October 25 I received an inquiry to win six games during the 2018 Forty-one years later, on November campus flowers Reinhard Pauly, from who had season. This courageous performance 20, 1982, I was at the old Baker Field Gerald and trees burst seen my note in the Fall 2018 issue bodes well for our 2019 schedule, with Ray Robinson ’41 and Paul Hauck Green, into bloom. about being the eldest which will give us an opportunity to watching us lose to Brown, surviving member of our class. win the Ivy League Championship 35–21, in the last game ever played at Reinhard asked me to investigate if our injured players recover and are Baker Field, now replaced by Robert and compare birth dates for Paul able to play. Compliments to Coach K. Kraft Field. After our loss this year and himself. After conducting this Al Bagnoli for leading the team to to Penn, 13–10, my research showed research, I reported to Reinhard this inspiring record. My nostalgic that we have not won at Penn’s that Paul was two months older, football notebook includes an entry Franklin Field since 1996. upon which Reinhard said, “He for our September 1941 game versus On December 15 I received a is older and I am the youngster.” Princeton at old Palmer Stadium. I pre-Christmas and general family Reinhard was born in Germany, borrowed my father’s big old pre-war news report from Marie McIlvennan Stewart McIlvennan emigrated to the USA and has had a Pontiac Sedan, loaded it with class- BC’47, wife of distinguished career as a musicolo- mates, plus Howie Strateman ’41, and in Colorado. Marie (93) visits and gist. Other surviving nonagenarian drove to the game. Our All-Ameri- has dinner with Stew every night in

46 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews the nursing home where he has lived Mankiewicz and Gerald Green, for two years. Stew played varsity plus Stewart McIlvennan and this COLUMBIA SCHOOL DESIGNATIONS basketball and was a star halfback on writer. We lost to the Law School Barnard College our football team. After Navy service team in the University Final. BC BUS Columbia Business School in WWII on a destroyer in the Bill wrote an extraordinary remi- CP Pharmaceutical Sciences Pacific, Stew graduated from the Law niscence of his WWII experience in DM College of Dental Medicine School, married Marie and worked the Normandy invasion, and it was GS School of General Studies for the FBI before becoming VP of published in the Winter 2004 issue GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, a major trucking firm in Colorado. of our Great Class of 1942 Newslet- Planning and Preservation Stew negotiated labor contracts with ter. In his recent letter to me, Bill GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences the notorious James Hoffa, whose expressed his gratitude for his educa- HN Institute of Human Nutrition mysterious disappearance and death tion and friendships at Columbia. He JRN Graduate School of Journalism remain unsolved. is certainly one of the finest members JTS Jewish Theological Seminary Patrick Eby ’20, a long snapper on of our Great Class of 1942. LAW Columbia Law School our football team, has been designated Best wishes for the New Year LS Library Service as a member of the 2018 All-Amer- ahead to all surviving members of NRS School of Nursing ican squad. Columbia alumni who our class. PH Mailman School of Public Health were also All-Americans are Cliff PS College of Physicians and Surgeons Montgomery ’34, the quarterback on SEAS The Fu Foundation School of Engineering our Rose Bowl team; the great Sid 1943 and Applied Science Luckman ’39, who led the Chicago School of International and Public Affairs Columbia College Today SIPA Bears to pro football fame; Paul School of the Arts Columbia Alumni Center SOA Governali ’43, who succeeded Luck- SPS School of Professional Studies 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 man; Bill Swiacki ’49, who caught the SW School of Social Work New York, NY 10025 winning pass in our great upset over TC Teachers College [email protected] Army in 1947; and Lou Kusserow UTS Union Theological Seminary ’49, a great running back who teamed with quarterback Gene Rossides ’49 to Happy spring, Class of 1943! form the Goal Dust Twins. Bernard Weisberger writes: “Fel- On December 27 I received low members of the Class of ’43, it pallid pleasure in Boston’s win. They wing grumbles about the ‘war on a wonderful reminiscence from is time to record our activities in the were my favorite American League Christmas’) and a kind of peaceful Bill Hochman GSAS’55 (97) in waning days of 2018. I will have to team — as a National League rooter exhaustion to gather strength for Colorado Springs. He is a retired begin with a couple of sad notes. It first and foremost since childhood, New Year’s Eve. professor of history and former dean was during September that I went I felt that I ought to show some “I had a Columbia anecdote to at Colorado College. Bill, who has six to campus for the memorial service semblance of even-handedness when add but I’m worn out. I’ll save it for children, was one of the commanding for Dean Emerita of the Journalism I matured into a grownup. If there had later. I wish you a happy spring.” officers on an LST boat in the inva- School Joan Konner. Aside from a to be a series winner from the other sion of Normandy when his ship was rightful celebration of her achieve- league, the Red Sox were my choice blown up by a Nazi torpedo. He was ments, well organized among several because of memories of their stars, 1944 struggling in the water when he was speakers — each of whom was taste- especially Ted Williams. Columbia College Today rescued by a British patrol boat officer. ful, appropriate and not excessively “October may have lacked Columbia Alumni Center Many years later, Bill had a reunion in long — the event had a personal exciting baseball, but certainly was 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 England with the man who saved his meaning for me because I was a very not a quiet month as the midterm New York, NY 10025 life. Bill returned to Columbia after close longtime friend of Joan; her elections, sometimes with very small [email protected] the war, earned a Ph.D. in history and passing was for me something of a turnouts, were fought with enlarged began his long career as a professor at death in the family. numbers of participants and inces- Daniel Choy Colorado College. “On an infinitely smaller scale, sant pleas for money. I didn’t mind Dr. PS’49 wrote in: “I In 1941 Bill was the pitcher on October turned out to be as much of having my inbox stuffed every day am 92. Durham Caldwell ’48 and I our champion softball team, the a cruel month as T.S. Eliot’s April, with desperate appeals for dollars met in 1943 while we were housed Royal Elite Cuban Giants, which with my well-loved Cubs, after three — if I don’t want billionaires buying on the sixth and seventh floors of Don included the now-deceased straight years of being in the playoffs my government, I have to join with the Union Theological Seminary on (including becoming the world cham- others in providing small numbers West 122nd Street and Broadway. pions in 2016) not even making it past of dollars that add up to a real chal- We were displaced from Harlem Class Notes are submitted by the starting gate. Eliminated from the lenge. With no further elaboration, I Hall by the Navy. At the time, with alumni and edited by volunteer class correspondents and the National League crown on the 30th found the takeover of the House by permission from the College dean, staff of CCT prior to publication. and from the wild card contest on the the Democrats (many of them actual I was editing a weekly competitor Opinions expressed are those very next day, their season ended with progressives, young and female) to Spectator called Seventh Heaven. of individual alumni and do not the brutal suddenness of a beheading. highly gratifying. Imagine my great surprise when I reflect the opinions of CCT, My fellow Cub fans and I did our “And then came December, heard from Durham in 2017 prais- its class correspondents, the College or the University. By best to avoid suicidal depression and the month of Christmas trees, ing me for my editorship of it! The submitting to Class Notes, you accumulated a number of free hours menorahs, dreidels, office parties, praise was undeserved! [At the time] acknowledge that the text is eli- that otherwise would have been spent eggnog, avoirdupois, frenzied shop- I was writing a second version of gible to appear in print as well as in front of the TV set — though I ping, replays of It’s a Wonderful Life my father Jun Ke Choy CC 1915’s on CCT Online and in archives. mustered enough heart to watch the and Miracle On 34th Street, cries autobiography, started at the urg- season-ending World Series with a of ‘Happy Holidays’ (and right- ing of former University president

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Grayson Kirk. This inspired me to where I worked for GE in business at either of the addresses at the top ask Durham to edit my revision. 1947 planning. I retired from GE and of the column, as we and your class- This was so good I have asked him almost immediately began my sec- mates would love to hear from you! to edit my forthcoming book, How Columbia College Today ond career as a mental health case We were happy to hear from to Practice Medicine Without Tears.” Columbia Alumni Center manager. I worked until I was 82 (I Franklin Gill, who writes: “Greet- CCT would love to hear from 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 turned 91 in February). ings! My wife, Mary, and I dwell you, too! Share an update on your New York, NY 10025 “Jean and I had four children near the East River in NYC; I life, or even a favorite Columbia [email protected] (one is deceased), and we are very remember happy days at Columbia College memory, by sending it to close. We used to do a lot of antiqu- and hope all goes well.” either the postal address or email Nothing to share this time! Send ing in New England. We are active address at the top of the column. an update on your life, or even a in our church and also the Y. I’m Wishing you a sunny spring. favorite Columbia College memory, sort of a techie (iPad, iPhone). 1951 to either the postal address or email Blessed by pretty good health. address at the top of the column. “At Columbia I was active as a Columbia College Today 1945 Happy spring! cheerleader and also as a disc jockey Columbia Alumni Center at WKCR. I remember listening 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Columbia College Today to Dick Hyman ’48 as he played on New York, NY 10025 Columbia Alumni Center 1948 an old piano in the studio. Lots of [email protected] 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 good memories. New York, NY 10025 Columbia College Today “P.S. I loved Humanities and CC.” “A bit of nostalgia from an aged ’51-er [email protected] Columbia Alumni Center Ned’s note is certainly welcome (Ernest von Nardroff GSAS’66): 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and I know I can speak for our class: No news from classmates! Share New York, NY 10025 Ned, you are very welcome as a “I can still hear that old Lion roar, an update on your life, or even a [email protected] member of the ’49ers. We share warm “Although not as loud as before. favorite Columbia College memory, memories of WKCR and I too recall “But on some serene nights by sending it to either the postal Pianist Dick Hyman continues to fondly listening to Dick Hyman ’48 “I dream of Morningside Heights address or email address at the top perform. He had two nights solo as he so masterfully coaxed extraordi- “And know he’s prowling just out- of the column. Wishing you a pleas- at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Jazz nary music out of that old piano. side my door.” ant spring. at Lincoln Center the week before We are, in fact, engaged in meet- Len Stoehr wrote in, too: “The Christmas, and has other engage- ings as we try to plan a 70th reunion. NROTC contingent from the Class ments coming up in Florida, where This would be a gathering of those of 1951, which originally included 1946 he lives and plans to concentrate of us who have both survived and more than 40 newly commissioned his efforts. continue to enjoy the prospect of fel- Navy and Marine Corps officers Bernard Sunshine CCT would love to hear from lowship, nostalgia and the exchange on June 7, 1951, is now reduced to 165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G you, too! Share an update on your of ideas that can support our sense of either seven or eight survivors. Those New York, NY 10023 life, or even a favorite Columbia value and relevance. remaining, along with their current [email protected] College memory, by sending it to You are reading this in good time hometowns, are Phil Bergovoy ’50 either the postal address or email to determine to join us in all of the (Sarasota, Fla.), Dick Boyle (Lake Share your stories, news or even a address at the top of the column. above and whatever more you can City, Pa.), Ed Croswell ’50, SIPA’56 favorite Columbia College memory Wishing you a lovely spring. personally contribute to the assembly. (Monroeville, Pa.), John Handley by sending it to either the email “The more the merrier” has never (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Al Harbage address or postal address at the top had a more profound meaning. I SEAS’55 (Severna Park, Md.), of this column. Your classmates 1949 write this while also wishing that, if Merritt Rhoad (Glenside, Pa.), would love to hear from you! you are reading it, you will make the Len Stoehr (Stanardsville, Va.) and REUNION 2019 effort to join us. And if unable to Warren Wanamaker. (I have an MAY 30–JUNE 1 do that, share your thoughts for the email address for Warren that does Events and Programs Contact Summer isue –– actually, any notes not return emails as undeliverable, [email protected] you can share will be a feature of our but have not received any response Development Contact gathering. I look forward to sharing from Warren, who apparently now [email protected] your notes, which are assembled in likes to be called ‘Jack.’ If anyone has the two months or so before CCT any information re: Jack, I would John Weaver goes to press, with classmates. appreciate the news.) My email 2639 E. 11th St. address is [email protected]. I Stay in Brooklyn, NY 11235 am in contact with the remainder of Touch [email protected] 1950 our group.” Robert Rauch GSAS’56 sent his Let us know if you have a Edward “Ned” Reardon started Columbia College Today autobiography in January: “It’s been new postal or email address, with our class but had to take time Columbia Alumni Center more than 67 years since graduation 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 a new phone number or off for financial reasons, and gradu- from Columbia College — hard ated with CC’51. He shares: “After New York, NY 10025 to believe! That was followed by even a new name: graduating from Columbia College, [email protected] graduate school at Columbia, with college.columbia.edu/ I spent two years in the Army as a everything done for a master’s in alumni/connect. military intelligence agent. Follow- Warm wishes for the spring season, English except the required thesis. ing the end of the Korean War, my Class of 1950! Please do take a That was not completed until five wife, Jean, and I settled in Syracuse, moment and send in a note to CCT years later. In between, following

48 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews a short stint as a machinist — just think of Van Doren, Krutch, Barzun, to change the unbroken record of 1952 Lynd, Mills and the many scholars 17 straight years of schooling — I who led us through CC and the was awarded a State Department Columbia College Today Humanities, integrating ideas into Fulbright Grant to study at the Columbia Alumni Center our thinking that still affect our feel- Italian state film school in Rome, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 ings and understanding of the world Italy. On my return from Europe, I New York, NY 10025 in which we live. was appointed to a teaching position [email protected] “Incidentally, do they still use the in the English department at the Skinner Box to train white rats in University of Notre Dame in South Happy spring, CC’52! We heard the lab for psych 101? Bend, Ind. ‘Roar, Lion, Roar’ was from Irvin Herman, who shares: “Before sending this off, another Alumni from various classes in the replaced by ‘The Fighting Irish.’ “Writing for CCT can become Columbia memory jolt. My young- 1950s walked in the Alumni Proces- “I completed my graduate thesis addictive. My recent memoir of the est son, Charlie, was among those sion at Convocation last August to welcome the Class of 2022. while teaching there, but I realized 150-pound football team (published receiving 2019 duPont Awards that the academic life was not for in the Summer 2018 issue) was the held in Low Library. I watched the me. I was drawn to a career in the first time I had been in print since ceremony on YouTube so I saw the aerospace industry, first in South 1955. (Articles in medical journals awesome interior. Every time I see from Columbia College in 1954. Bend with Bendix Corp., until I don’t count.) At that time, shortly Low I remember that marvelous Add the four years when we all first received a phone call from a new before I had decided that I was a College production of Murder in the came together as freshmen in 1950, General Motors aerospace division failure at journalism and decided to Cathedral with Roger Boxill superb and we have a total of 69 years as an in Santa Barbara, Calif. I traded in go to med school, I was stringing as Thomas Becket.” extended family. my snow shoes for a bathing suit. for a daily labor union newspaper by Please take a moment and send I write this not to praise us but, That was the start of 48 wonder- writing feature articles about unions. your news to CCT by writing to as several of you have mentioned to ful years in idyllic Santa Barbara, I had edited the paper for a short either of the addresses at the top of me, to remind ourselves that at the especially a marriage to my bride time, but was unhappy writing head- the column! next five-year reunion our average and extraordinary companion now lines and chopping up stories and age will be 90. (Oy!) So-o-o-o, while in its 57th year, and the birth of five quit. I eked out a living by writing this year’s is not our last hurrah, children. My company position rose for 10 cents an inch. My last story 1953 there may be no better time to con- from technical editor to assistant to –– I still remember the opening –– nect and reconnect, as any family the general manager. was ‘Animals at the Cincinnati Zoo Lew Robins does on special occasions. “Fate struck again in the form are wild about Local … ’ (forget the 3200 Park Ave., Apt. 9C2 “65 4 54” is the rallying call for of an accidental meeting with the rest). My zoo visit and interviews Bridgeport, CT 06604 our Reunion Committee, which attorney of a local government in ended when, in the hippopotamus [email protected] has been meeting and plotting for a California. That meeting ultimately enclosure for a picture, the hippo grand time since last September and led to the gradual development of a took umbrage and charged. That I hope that all members of the Class will still be meeting as this issue of whole new career. Along the way, we much poundage chasing you leads of 1953 are having an enjoyable CCT goes to press. moved to the Silicon Valley in the to speed and the ability to hurdle a spring. Please send your news to Please get in touch with me or Bay Area. What began as a hobby fence with athletic skills you did not either of the above addresses so that any other member of the commit- consulting on strategic planning and know you possessed. we can have a full Summer column! tee with any questions or concerns. public outreach for local govern- “But, that is not what led to We and Columbia are bending over ments ended as my occupation for this note. Recently, while trying backward to assure that anyone in the next 20 years. to downsize, I dug into a pile of 1954 ’54 who is hoping to attend will be “My son entered the business and old papers and found a copy of The able to do so. Committee members now runs it. We provided manage- Daily News from 1948, with pictures REUNION 2019 are Kamel Bahary, David Bardin, ment consulting, seminars, public of the Frosh-Soph Rush filling the MAY 30–JUNE 1 Dick Bernstein, Jack Blechner, outreach and strategic planning ser- back page. I was included, with my Events and Programs Contact Bernd Brecher, Alvin Hellerstein, vices for well over 200 clients. Now I T-shirt ripped and my trousers near [email protected] Ted Spiegel, Ronald Sugarman, am retired, trading my suit, shirt and demolished. Remember that old Development Contact Arnold Tolkin, Saul Turteltaub tie for jeans and a sport shirt. tradition, played out in South Field? [email protected] and Richard Werksman. Michelle “Looking back, I want to express Freshmen had to wear silly blue Martin and Jennifer Alpert of my everlasting thanks to Columbia beanies until we 1) pushed a huge Bernd Brecher Alumni Relations and the Columbia College for the best educational ball across a goal line against the 35 Parkview Ave., Apt. 4G College Fund are working with us as experience in the world. So many sophomore defense and 2) climbed Bronxville, NY 10708 liaisons, point persons and interfer- universities have turned their educa- a greased pole to rescue a beanie [email protected] ence runners. More on our reunion tional programs into high-end trade perched atop. Meanwhile, we were at the end of these Class Notes. school training. Columbia College doing hand-to-hand combat with Friends, classmates, Columbians, Herb Zydney SEAS’58, has kept alive the true meaning of a sophomores by tearing clothes off lend me your ears! There are — as of SEAS’59 had the opportunity to liberal education.” the opposition, so we were wrapped this writing in January — approxi- be on campus for Convocation last Thank you to these alumni who in defensive armor of adhesive tape mately 160 members of our Class of August to help greet the Class of wrote in! Classmates would like to guard against de-clothing. When Destiny for whom we have contact 2022, along with alumni from other to hear from you, too. Share your did that stop? I do not remember information, many of whom will years. “It was an exciting opportu- news, life story or favorite Columbia the melee after our freshman year. be coming together on campus in nity to meet and hear a bit about College memory by sending it to the “In my defense, I just recently about nine weeks to mark, celebrate, the next generation of Columbians. postal or email address at the top of had these memories pop into an broadcast and commemorate the Each alumni decade, such as the the column. Happy spring to all! old man’s head. More frequently, I 65th anniversary of our graduation 1950s, marched with a banner (see

Spring 2019 CCT 49 Class Notes nearby photo) to greet these new reminiscent of our Jester days. If many of the 450-plus members of Another spectacular event was a alumni-to-be. I was the only ’54er,” it makes you feel better, I am sure our class who are still on this earth luncheon held in Faculty House by Herb writes. “On a numeric note, many octogenarians follow similar continuing to fulfill our individual members of the Class of 1955. Herb if there was such a greeting event daily agendas. I know I do!” hopes, plans and desires? Are there Cohen, Don Laufer, Ron Spitz, when we entered the College, our Lou continues, “Rachel Carson mostly feelings of accomplishment? Alfred Gollomp, Mort Rennert, equivalent greeters would have been said it best when she wrote, ‘If a Are there some feelings of regret? Dick Kuhn, Stan Zinberg, from the class of 1890. To help with child is to keep alive his inborn What would we have changed could Anthony Viscusi, Aaron Ham- the arithmetic (1954–64=1890). sense of wonder … he needs the we possibly, with hindsight, have burger, Al Hoffman, Steve Rabin, Seems to date us.” companionship at least of one adult done so?” I concluded, “Thank you, Chuck Solomon (still doing work Indeed, Herb; thanks for who can share it, rediscovering with welcome and let this be the continu- for the Dental School), Roland the reminder. him the joy, excitement and mystery ation of a beautiful friendship.” Plottel, Jesse Roth, Bob Schiff, A number of classmates have of the world we live in.’ Anyhow, in A 50-person Reunion Commit- Henry Weinstein, Elliot Gross, heard by now from Kamel Bahary, the vernacular of the now genera- tee helped us achieve the largest Allen Hyman, Larry Balfus, Bob chair of our Class Gift Committee tions –– thanks for LOL.” ever (till then) attendance by a 50th Brown and Bob Kushner attended for our 65th reunion, or from another Somewhere in the million-volume anniversary class of Columbia Col- the event or are attending future member of his committee. Kamel libraries of Columbia University is a lege. If we cannot repeat, let us at lunches. Good camaraderie is the has, since graduation, been a generous copy of a 204-page, soft-bound tome least emulate. lunch of the day, as well as a finan- donor to Columbia and supportive in that Christie’s or Sotheby’s are surely Many of us, beyond the Reunion cial showing of $392,773. many other ways, including partici- dying to get their hands on. But no Committee, are looking forward We heard from Norman Gold- pating in Class of ’54 reunions and one has found it yet, and the archival to the weekend of May 30–June 1 stein, who has won many awards: other activities, University programs, Columbiana collection also doesn’t not just for great faculty speakers, “So much is happening, all great,” and generally in all things Columbia. seem to have it. The book’s title is delicious food, open mic sessions, he says. Norman sees patients on When thanked for his contributions, Columbia College 250th Anniversary wild dancing (and some hobbling), Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday. He he usually replies to the effect of “I’m Reunion Yearbook 1754 - 1954 - 2004. insightful panels of classmates and was recently honored by the interna- only giving back.” As a University The subtitle: “Columbia College Cel- current students, curated (OK, tional association of top profession- publication noted in recognizing ebrates 250 Years, Class of 1954 50th guided) campus tours, a new look at als, and is still trying to contact Lee Kamel and his younger brothers, Anniversary, June 3–6, 2004.” the CORE at its centennial, an insid- Rodgers, but no luck. He wishes Emil Bahary BUS’57, SEAS’62, I can virtually hear the auctioneer: er’s look into Columbia’s billion-dol- everyone well. SEAS’69 and Bill Bahary GSAS’61: “Opening bids start at $50,000 –– do lar entrepreneurial project, fascinating Columbia Athletics hosted its “For brothers Kamel, Emil and Bill I hear $100,000?” In a blast to the new research in cosmology and Basketball Fireside Chat; the annual … Columbia University is more than class this January we asked classmates climate change, BUT … BOOM! event took place in January at the just their alma mater. It’s their intel- who had a copy to let me know. CLANG! ZING!!! … for the chance Arts & Crafts Beer Parlor on Morn- lectual home –– a place that laid the Several did, bless them, but it soon to CONNECT, RECONNECT ingside Heights. foundation for their careers and lives became obvious that more, if not all and perhaps RECONSTRUCT Be upbeat, look at the positive and that continues to inspire them.” actually, possessed The Bicentennial with family and friends of seven side of things and stay healthy The brothers have established Columbian, our 1954 yearbook. (My decades. (I know –– Oy!) around the clock. Participate with several instruments for scholarship carefully-cared-for copy is in my Until then, keep writing, call, email, your classmates. Be a part of the support, Kamel’s gifts fund the Kamel library/study at home. The requested stay in touch however which way –– winning tradition — the 75th S. Bahary Scholarship Fund for 2004 book is in a storage box and not be good, do good, be well. Excelsior! reunion is coming up. Columbia College students majoring easily accessible. Shame on me!) Love to all! Everywhere! in neuroscience, and the Kamel S. Among the responders were Bahary Fellowship Fund for doc- Walter Slipe, Joe Arleo GSAS’56, 1955 toral students in neuroscience at the Jim Hays and David Bardin 1956 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. LAW’56 –– David sent me his copy Gerald Sherwin “The last time I was with all the of the 2004 reunion yearbook, which 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 16B Robert Siroty guys in the Class of ’54 I was 22,” we hoped to use as a template for New York, NY 10021 707 Thistle Hill Ln. writes Saul Turteltaub. “At 86, if we our 2019 “reader’s digest” edition. [email protected] Somerset, NJ 08873 all get together here’s what I can’t do Until someone comes forward [email protected] anymore: 1) Go to the gym. There to fund digitally copying the 2004 One of the most exciting events on were steps into the building, if I book, we’re planning to copy campus is the Holiday Celebration Greetings for spring, Class of ’56. remember. 2) Remember. And sadly, excerpts for distribution at our in Low Library, hosted by President From Jerry Breslow (continued 3) Hang out with Henry Littlefield reunion in May. Lee C. Bollinger and his wife, Jean from the Winter 2018–19 issue): GSAS’67. What a wonderful man [Editor’s note: To see an image Magnano Bollinger. Usually held in “The other thing worthy of mention he was. So many of our classmates of the Class of 1954’s 65-year-old mid-December, it was attended this is a recent experience I had as a have passed away, we must be thank- logo celebrating the bicentennial, go past year by a mixture of Columbia songwriter. Since 1961 I have been ful for and look forward to seeing to college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/ people. When someone says the party involved with Hexagon, which each many others at our reunion. I won’t spring19/article/class-notes and type could not be any better from year to year since 1956 has been performing be ashamed to hug and even kiss any 1954 in the search bar.] year, it somehow gets better and bet- an ‘original, political, satirical, musi- of you, so if you see me coming and My “Greetings and Introduction” ter –– it was attended by more than cal, comedy revue,’ raising millions have a jealous wife, duck.” 15 years ago may serve as a bridge 500. A terrific time had by all. of dollars for local Washington, Lou Paterno responded to this to today, so I quote the lede: “At The Dean’s Scholarship Reception D.C., area charities. My songs have column to thank Saul for his com- graduation, we –– The Bicenten- on February 12 was a close second been performed since 1964, and mentary in the Winter 2018–19 nial Class –– called ourselves ‘The to the December event. The Class of most of them have been for the first issue’s Class Notes: “… glad to see Class of Destiny.’ It sounded good 1955 Scholarship was handed out to act’s finale production number. Last you haven’t lost your sense of humor, then. Is our destiny behind us or are two student recipients. year, I was asked to write a song

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tions of Robert Alter”), noted, “A that it is. We have lost a beautiful pre-eminent scholar of the Hebrew man and wonderful friend.” Bible has finally finished his own [Editor’s note: Memorial contri- translation –– a 21st-century answer, butions may be made to Congrega- he hopes, to the King James Version.” tion Beth Sholom, 301 14th Ave., The Wilensky article shows a boxed San Francisco, CA 94118.] three-volume set of Bob’s translation. John “Sparky” Breeskin’s son, That article traced Bob’s academic Davyd, told us of his father’s inter- career. While an undergraduate, Bob ment at Arlington, which happened continued his Hebrew studies at the at 11 a.m. on January 14. Jewish Theological Seminary, which Alan Zuckerman: “Winter is followed a post-bar mitzvah class in approaching and I am planning my the Albany, N.Y., area. At JTS he escape to Pompano Beach. I will be decided to “achieve a complete mas- there December 15, 2018–January tery of the Hebrew language,” taking 12, 2019. I am looking forward to a Hebrew dictionary and becoming catching up with old friends. I am The Class of ’56 had a luncheon at Faculty House in November. Seated, determined to memorize it. still attempting to play golf and left to right: Sidney Spanier, Ralph Kaslick, Peter Klein and Buzz Paaswell; Bob then turned to Hebrew always available for a meal or an and standing, left to right: Bob Siroty, Dan Link, Al Franco SEAS’56, novels in quest of his mastery of adventure. I shall be back in Madi- Alan Broadwin and Ron Kapon. the language. For most of his career, son in late January and shall leave however, “he was firmly ensconced in mid-February for a three-week in the world of English and other adventure in Australia. I shall also about the ‘Notorious’ Ruth Bader Stephen Easton, in late October. Western literature.” He earned visit with Eric and Julie in Los Ginsburg LAW’59. The song I Steve writes, “We were one of five a Ph.D. in English literature at Angeles on my way there. wrote is titled ‘Kickin’ Up a Storm sets of twins in our class at Columbia. Harvard in 1962 and went to UC “On a personal note, my health for Justice R B G.’ Its last line states, We both played lightweight football Berkeley in 1967. He has remained is generally OK. I am battling ‘It’s vital that our women justices and ran track, and Maurice played there, currently as a professor of macular degeneration in one eye. It survive; so we’re Kickin’ Up a Storm freshman tennis. Our studies led Hebrew and comparative literature. is improving slowly, and I can still to keep RBG alive!’ us in different directions. Maurice The Wilensky article quoted Bob as drive, read and hit a golf ball. Find- “It so happens that Justice left NYC for his career in engineer- saying, “I’d been reading the Bible ing the ball, however, is sometimes Ginsburg was a classmate of mine at ing while I stayed in NYC for my in Hebrew since my teens, and the a challenge. I enjoy my family, Harvard Law School, Class of 1959. financial career. It is strange, as things beauty of the Hebrew spoke to me especially William and Lilly. We I invited her to attend the show, would work out, that we wound up in all sorts of ways … I wanted to traveled to Los Angeles in August and she did so on closing night. together, after 50 years of separation, see if I could get more of that into to see Eric and Julie and our South When she entered the hall and the in North Carolina. Although we English than English readers have African friends, the Kekanas. I spent audience recognized her, she was did not share all the same friends at been able to see so far.” a week in Chautauqua with dear given a standing ovation. Ruth also Columbia, we were known to many I commend to you both the friends, Dave and Betty Lollis and graciously agreed to come backstage as the ‘Easton Twins.’” Wilensky and Stein articles. Ed Safford, and enjoyed the lectures Ed Weinstein: Dick after the show and pose for pictures I’ve also received word of the From “ and the culture. The theme of the Cohen with the kick line dancers and the passing of Joel Pimsleur, a fellow died on December 25, 2018. week was ‘The Future of Work.’ I am composer. I got a note from her say- member of Spec’s Managing Board. By coincidence, I was in San Fran- taking three courses with our senior ing she enjoyed the show.” His obituary was published in the cisco visiting family and attended the learning program, PLATO. One Columbia’s Faculty House was San Francisco Chronicle, for which he funeral with my wife and daughter course revisited the year 1968, [one the setting for a class lunch in reported for 43 years. I also learned (Ilene ’87). Dick and I had become of ] some pain and some hope. I can Alan Broadwin, Al November. of the passing of Leonard Karasyk good friends as alumni; we did not recommend biographies of Leon- Franco SEAS’56, Ralph Kaslick, (in 2017), as well as of Morton know each other as undergraduates. ardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Peter Klein, Sidney Spanier, Levine and Robert Bart. Our daughters were classmates and and Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dan Link, Buzz Paaswell, Ron our wives were both named Sandra. Dassow Walls. They were two of the Kapon and I enjoyed a good time Eve, Dick’s daughter, gave a beautiful most inquisitive and creative minds. with conversation and good food. I 1957 eulogy, which summarized Dick’s life “The high point of last year was suggest that if you are outside of the the way I remember him: ‘He was the my trip with Jonas, Kate, William New York metro area, try to arrange Herman Levy epitome of graciousness to everybody and Lilly to South Africa in March. similar events wherever you are. The 7322 Rockford Dr. he met. He gave so much –– to his We were hosted by the Kekana Alumni Office can assist. Falls Church, VA 22043 community, to his patients, to his family. Thanks to [their] friendship Robert Green reports that he is [email protected] family and friends. I value the les- and hospitality, we saw many ani- in Greensboro, N.C. sons he taught: Be present, enjoy life, mals at a game park, visited historic Jonas Schultz reports from UC Joe Diamond sent us an article read and learn so much as possible, sites, including Robben Island, the Irvine that, while he is officially by David A.M. Wilensky from The be curious, don’t be afraid to reinvent Apartheid Museum and the Cradle retired, he still is at the university Jewish News of Northern California yourself (hello, Ball Dude), don’t be of Humankind. Staying with the doing research in particle physics. on “Robert Alter’s epic, literary afraid to be a little silly, a little dra- Kekana family was the [best part A long way from the Spectator one-man Bible.” The article may matic, to make your opinion known. of the trip]. William and Malose Managing Board. be found online at bit.ly/2Txj2yg. He was a teacher, a leader, a learner Kekana’s son, Mahlatse, developed On a sad note, I report the passing Avi Stein, in The New York Times and a healer.” a friendship. Seeing the impact of Maurice Easton, of twin of our Magazine’s December 23, 2018 issue “Dick embraced and appreciated different culture on my grandkids immediate past class president, (under the heading of “The Revela- his life, treating it all as the blessing was special. We visited a friend of

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Malose’s, Andrew Mlengani (93), especially interested in and would like home in Port Jefferson. Chezna also of us who can will attend. I am only who was convicted with Nelson to share with us. George writes: “A leaves a loving brother and sister, being realistic when I say it is the last Mandela and served 26 years on new book has appeared. It is a collec- and many cousins and friends who opportunity some of us will have to Robben Island. tion of articles about Jewish languages, loved her as well. Her spirit, her see one another. “I was in Los Angeles in Novem- Languages in Jewish Communities, Past energy and her great smile will be Jerry Cohen GS’59 writes, “I ber and saw old Philadelphia friends, and Present. The editors are Benjamin sorely missed by all of us.” am now in the 55th year of my the Weinbergs and the Browns. It Wary and Sarah Bunin Benor ’97. We send our condolences to academic career and still enjoying it brought back [fond] memories. I It includes an article by me: ‘Judeo- Steve and his extended family. immensely. I have no plans to retire. also traveled to Easton, Md.; Beth- Provençal in Southern France.’ (Go On a less solemn note, we turn to In December I published my 16th any Beach, Del.; and Washington, online to bit.ly/2MRju8a.) the sports news. How did my foot- book, Currency Statecraft: Monetary D.C., and saw many dear friends. “By way of background, I learned ball predictions in the last issue of Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition. Marilyn has been dead for almost in 1968 that there was one person still CCT turn out? Mezzo-mezzo. I said It is a kind of sequel to my book four years. She is still with me in alive who could speak Judeo-Proven- the team would be competitive in Currency Power: Understanding spirit and seeing old friends brings çal. His name was Armand Lunel and all its games and maybe even have a Monetary Rivalry. And a revised back those great times. Thank you all he lived in Monaco. I went there and shot at the Ivy League title. Injuries second edition of my 14th book, for reminding me how lucky I am. recorded him speaking and singing in to many key players spoiled things Advanced Introduction to Interna- “[The year] 2018 has been good this disappearing language. I contin- considerably: Two of our four losses tional Political Economy, was to come for the Zuckerman family, despite ued to do research on this subject, and were not even close, but the team out in January. our political insanity. I have lived found a pre-printing women’s prayer played well enough to finish with “My publishing record in 2018 through half of the Trump adminis- book in the library of the University 6–4 record and, for the first time was overshadowed by that of my tration and am learning to live with of Leeds, England. It was written in since 1961–62, Columbia had back- wife, Jane Sherron De Hart, emerita my outrage. I fear the damage that Provençal –– spelled in Hebrew letters to-back winning seasons. As this professor of history at UC Santa will be done to our civility, the envi- –– and included the blessing, ‘Blessed column is being written, the bas- Barbara. In October, De Hart, a ronment, the rule of law and even art Thou O Lord our God, King of ketball team will soon start the Ivy graduate of Duke’s Class of 1958, the economy. I am still an optimist the universe, who made me a woman.’ League portion of its schedule after published Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A that the year 2019 will be one of (Online at bit.ly/2GdYE2q.) A book concluding its out-of-conference Life, the first full biography of the hope and reconciliation. I hope to launch for the collection took place at play with a poor record, although 107th Justice of the Supreme Court. live long enough to see the end of 60 Fifth Ave. on December 10. many of the losses were close. I can’t The book was some 15 years in the President Trump and the politics of “In addition, some time ago I see the team winning more than making, delayed in part a decade ago fear and anger.” wrote a book review of what appears four or five league games but am when our home burned down in one to be Herman Wouk CC 1934’s last always hopeful. of Santa Barbara’s periodic wildfires. book, which he completed at 100. The Class Lunch is held on the Years of research were destroyed. 1958 (Online at bit.ly/2SCm0EI.)” second Tuesday of every month in Reviews since publication have been CCT received a note from Bill the Grill of the Princeton Club, 15 enthusiastic, describing the book as Peter Cohn Claire, who shared a letter sent to W. 43rd St. ($31 per person). Email ‘magisterial,’ ‘compelling’ and ‘a major c/o CCT him from the American Academy of Art Radin if you plan to attend, even event in scholarship on American Columbia Alumni Center Arts and Letters, which read in part, up to the day before: arthur.radin@ law.’ By year’s end the book had gone 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 “… we thank you for your generous janoverllc.com. into its sixth printing.” New York, NY 10025 gift of your new book on the friend- Allen Rosenshine obviously [email protected] ship between two esteemed members is not letting any grass grow under of the Academy, Mark Van Doren 1959 his feet. He writes, “My wife and Our mailbox for this issue contains and Robinson Jeffers entitled, Mark I recently spent 10 days touring a note from George Jochnowitz Van Doren on Robinson Jeffers, An REUNION 2019 Iceland, sponsored, incidentally, by about a little-known subject that he is Enduring Literary Friendship … This MAY 30–JUNE 1 the Columbia Alumni Association book will make a wonderful addition Events and Programs Contact (its tours are generally quite good). It to our library and it will add to the [email protected] has become something of ‘the place cultural history of our institution.” Development Contact to go,’ probably since so much of the Bill adds, “I had a lifelong [email protected] world has become inhospitable, if involvement with Mark Van Doren not dangerous, to Americans. In any GSAS 1921 after college and my Norman Gelfand event, it was quite interesting, even editing of The Essays of Mark Van c/o CCT allowing for the many hours traveling Doren (1924–1972) won a New York Columbia Alumni Center by van. The terrain is quite beautiful Times Notable Book Award.” 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and varied, from rolling meadows to Contact CCT Also in the mail was a sad note New York, NY 10025 mountains to volcanoes to glaciers, from Steve Jonas: “My wife of [email protected] highlighted by magnificent waterfalls. Update your address, eight years and constant companion The weather (May) was luckily sunny email or phone; submit a for 20, Chezna Newman of Man- I first remind all of you of the on half the days, but always on the Class Note, new book, hattan, passed away peacefully on reunion celebrating the 60th anni- chilly side. The nation’s commitment photo, obituary or Letter to October 25, 2018, after a four-year versary of the graduation of the Class to totally geothermic heating and illness. She leaves a son, Mark New- of ’59 from the College, which will electric generation is fascinating in its the Editor; or send us an man (who now joins my children take place on campus Thursday, May execution. The modern concert hall in email. Click “Contact Us” at from a prior marriage, Jacob Jonas 30–Saturday, June 1. The details are Reykjavik is a technological marvel. college.columbia.edu/cct. and Lillian Wain, as my third child), being worked out by a class Reunion “The people are welcoming, and as well as a great pussycat, Gobi, Committee, and it promises to be an our guide was helpful, pleasant and who joins my cat, Lenny, at my enjoyable event. I hope that as many historically (as well as currently)

52 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews knowledgeable. The food was here is something. My wife, Cyndi, Kennedy School gets it. They sent about the happy days we shared, and generally good and the bisques the is continuing her music studies and three people to see me about a gift friends and classmates departed. And best I’ve ever tasted. Prices for just I continue to do research on the his- even after I explained that The for a moment there it depressed me. about everything bought on our own tory and philosophy of science and George Washington University had But on reflection I feel blessed and (food, liquor, clothing) were quite to ride my bike. It is now an e-bike, honored me by naming the School uplifted. And I say thank you to all high, no doubt since they import which is marvelous for hills and of Public Policy & Public Adminis- and to all a good night.” practically everything except fish. headwinds. My most recent book, tration ‘Trachtenberg.’ There were roughly 16 people in our Is It the ‘Same’ Result? Replication in “I recently had my prostate detailed group, with a thankfully less-than- Physics, was published in October.” by the urology chief at GW Medical 1960 average number of pains in the ass. Robert Burd PS’63 sends us the Faculty Associates. Quite interesting. The only significant negative were following: “I was looking forward to Where I was previously speaking in Robert A. Machleder small hotel rooms with very little 60th reunion until I learned it was Morse Code, I now have a recovered 69-37 Fleet St. closet and drawer space. Here this the weekend of my granddaughter’s fluency. This has made travel more Forest Hills, NY 11375 travel promotion ends with a full- bat mitzvah. So, I regret that I and agreeable and I am leaving in a few [email protected] disclosure declaration that I have no my wife, Alice, will not be there. Just days to speak at a meeting in San financial or other interest in Iceland a personal note — following CC Francisco and see my son Adam ’97 With several significant milestones (or Columbia alumni tours) except I attended P&S, trained at Albert and his family. From there to Miami having been reached, and passed, as expressed.” Einstein and served two years in for a week with my wife, Francine, and Miles McDonald LAW’63 offers Bernie Pucker writes, “Who Navy. I joined a hematology practice then back to D.C. I recently found a the following reflections: “After 58 would have ever thought we would in Fairfield, Conn., which grew to a button that reads ‘Write in Cham- years of silence, and having celebrated still be around and able to survey seven-person subspecialty hematol- berlain.’ Clearly this is our former CC my 80th birthday and 55th wedding some six decades since the charmed ogy/oncology practice. I also was on dean, Lawrence Chamberlain. What anniversary, as well as retirement from days at the College? the faculties of Yale and Columbia, office were we writing him in for? U.S. the practice of the law, I thought I “The reunion dates are on our training subspecialty fellows. Alice senator from New York? would report in. After college I went calendar. They coincide with my wife and I have two sons. “As the years go by, I love more to the Law School and practiced in Sue’s 60th reunion from Skidmore. ’Tis “I retired from practice on and more reading in CCT about New York City for five years. I then a perfect time to reproduce the photo January 1, 2016, and moved to the remarkable ongoing lives of avoided commuting and joined a of our wedding party and to remember Sarasota, Fla. I am on the board of classmates. Thank you to Norman small firm in Greenwich, Conn., those days of joy and celebration. the Columbia Club of Sarasota. I Gelfand for his efforts. As one who which grew rapidly. I have always “Sue and I will celebrate our 60th maintain a longtime fascination with got into Columbia off the wait list (I been a trial lawyer, primarily defend- wedding anniversary on June 15 while American history — I will not com- was on my way to Penn) at the 11th ing doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical dedicating the Samuel Bak Gallery ment on the current administration. hour, I am continually grateful for companies and the evil manufacturers and Learning Center at the Holocaust “Regards to classmates; I am that catch. I believe it made a great of alleged carcinogens. Museum Houston. This will be the sorry to miss this reunion.” difference. Following the careers “Actually, I did anything that second Bak Museum to be opened. John Clubbe GSAS’65 is work- of CC’59 remains breathtaking. I came in the door and paid tuition The other we dedicated in November ing long hours dealing with the am ever blessed to have been part bills. Our daughter, Deirdre, hap- 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania. copyedited version of his Beethoven of such an interesting company. So pens to be the fourth-generation “At this late age we have manuscript. He plans to attend our much has been contributed to the lawyer in the McDonald family. discovered cruises and enjoyed 60th reunion. world by the scholars and doctors, Some say we were born with con- Ports of European Civilization last I also have some sad news. lawyers and teachers, artists and genitally forked tongues. September and are signed up for the Dianne Wright, wife of Gil Wright, musicians, businesspeople and more “Rowing at Columbia on the Adriatic this September. died on December 10, 2018. Daniel who populated our number. Think lightweight crew with Art Delmhorst “As I celebrate my 60th, our Stein informed me that his wife, of what we might have done if we and our tireless class scribe, Robert granddaughter Abby will be celebrat- Caroline, died in December 2018. had more colleagues of color, not to Machleder, brought us lifelong plea- ing her 5th, son Michael his 36th — My sincerest sympathies to both of mention women among us. We can sure and adventure. I became an ama- double chai. All good numbers! them and to classmates who have celebrate the new Columbia, the teur boat builder, building a variety of “This year we will publish Tales of suffered a similar loss. If anyone inclusive Columbia, at our reunion shells, kayaks and classic small craft. Thomas, an asymmetrical biography wishes to communicate with them, I knowing that in the generations Our fondness for rowing has taken of Brother Thomas Bezanson, as will try to put you in touch. to come Columbia College will us down multiple rivers on the East well as a hardcover, Ner-ot in the Finally, from Steve Trachten- be that much more robust for its Coast, along the coast of Maine and, Art of Samuel Bak, a book on the berg: “Yes, we should all try to come inclusiveness. I am hoping to see most memorably, circumnavigating ceramics and sculpture of Hongwei to our CC’59 reunion this year. Our and embrace you all on Morningside Lake Como, Italy, in a touring double Li and a fourth collection of words 60th! … [Looking ahead,] Colum- Heights (I will be coming to New and eating like very happy little pigs. of wisdom by Brother Thomas. The bia should continue to host as many York from Madrid). But if I am Sailing became a passion and we were Brother Thomas Fund has funded of us in one way or another as long denied that pleasure for any reason, I fortunate enough to be able to sail and 44 Brother Thomas Fellows, each as we have the capacity to dictate hope that Norman will tell you how race numerous one-design boats, sail receiving $15,000 unrestricted. a codicil. As a longtime university much I loved and respected you all. trans-Atlantic and cruise the coasts of “Life remains rich in experiences administrator, I think that our alma “Lest this melancholy conclusion Ireland, Scotland and the Baltic. and people. We will host a Columbia maters (almas mater?) are arguably lead someone to conclude that I am “Art and I see each other regularly. event in March with Frederick Ilch- too quick to dispatch us to the dust on the brink of death or fighting Bizarrely, we are both from Brooklyn, man, chief curator of European art bins of alumina. For what it’s worth some grave illness, I hasten to say went to the same dancing class, live at the Boston MFA. He was a Ph.D. I have a similar quarrel underway not. I am as fine as the circumstances in the same town and are members student of David Rosand GSAS’65!” with Yale Law School. People like us permit. It’s just that thinking about of the same yacht club. I am thankful From Allan Franklin we hear, “I should be at the center of university you all and the gathering ahead got for a fine college education and have have nothing very new to report but development efforts. The Harvard me to think more deeply than usual been blessed by a good life. I hope

Spring 2019 CCT 53 Class Notes classmates have enjoyed their allotted career. “Yes,” was his instantaneous decision to bench him to prevent time as much as we have. Now, I’m response, “It was the 2007 Penn the humiliation of an opposing team 1961 into golf and still-competitive squash Relays 4x800 meters relay. I was on that was no match for his own. — but never pickleball.” the microphone, and much to my Following graduation from the Michael Hausig Congratulations to Bob Hersh, surprise, and everybody else’s sur- College, Herb received a tryout with 19418 Encino Summit who was inducted into the National prise, Columbia won the race. They the Syracuse Nationals, but injury San Antonio, TX 78259 Track and Field Hall of Fame in came from behind at the end and prevented him from pursuing a pro- [email protected] October in recognition of 60-plus beat teams like Michigan, Villanova fessional career. His musical career years of involvement in the sport. It and Georgetown; there were some was short-lived. In our senior year he Stuart Newman LAW’64 continues began when his father took him to a very strong track powers in the race. wrote and recorded a single, “We’re to practice law because he enjoys track meet at Madison Square Garden Nobody expected Columbia to win Not Going Steady” and, on the flip doing so and meeting new chal- when he was 12. His reaction was it. They came up at the end and I just side, “Hey Red!” He described his lenges. As of January 1, Stuart and striking: “I just went nuts. I couldn’t shouted ‘Columbia!’ It was one time songs as “bubble gum” rock ’n’ roll. his partners joined, en masse, Offit believe it. I really thought this is the when I was sorry I was on the micro- “We’re Not Going Steady” achieved Kurman, a 170-plus-person law firm greatest sport in the world.” phone because I had to keep my modest success and sales of the with offices throughout the mid- Bob was student manager of his composure. What I really wanted to record contributed to fund Herb’s Atlantic corridor from Virginia to high school track team, then manager do was start jumping up and down post-baccalaureate education. New York. Exciting, and another new of the track team at Columbia and and screaming. But I had to let the After receiving a master’s in edu- challenge that keeps him on his toes. after Harvard Law School, then crowd subside for a few moments, cation from Teachers College and Arnold Klipstein practices gastro- returned to the sport, where he rose to and then come up with things to say. a doctorate in history from NYU, enterology two weeks a month. As a its upper echelons nationally and inter- If people ask me what’s the greatest the award of a Fulbright scholar- locum physician, he moves from med- nationally as an official, administrator, track race I’ve ever seen, that’s what ship took Herb to Australia. He ical facility to medical facility as a public address announcer and a writer. immediately comes to mind.” returned to teach at NYU, creating facility has need for gastroenterology With Bob at the induction And, when asked, “Was there and serving for two decades as dean services. In December he was practic- ceremony in Columbus, Ohio, were anyone who especially inspired you of what is now the Gallatin School ing in Biddeford, Maine, where snow his wife, Louise (née Sobin) BC’66; during your career?” Bob’s response of Individualized Study, which and sub-freezing temperatures exist, three children; and five grand- was, “Dick Mason, who was the provides inter-disciplinary and out- but he sent this note from his tree- children. He was a board member head coach at Columbia when I of-the-classroom learning. In the house in Cairns, Australia, where the of the national governing body was there. He was a fine coach, a course of time, Herb added to the temperature was in the 90s. Arnold’s for the sport, USA Track & Field, very intense man about competi- curriculum a focus on the study of 20-day tour included wide areas of 1981–2015; chaired several com- tion and about the sport, and at the great books. On the political front, Australia and New Zealand. The tree mittees; and was general counsel. same time, he took a real, personal, Herb was a prominent and highly house is not primitive and even has At the international level Bob was sincere interest in all of the team as respected conservative theorist, Wi-Fi, but no TV. on the world governing body for individuals, in their academics and advocate, author and voice. He was Last May, Arnold sold his house athletics, the International Associa- their personal lives. He was a father president of the Hudson Institute and moved into an active, 55-and- tion of Athletics Federations, and figure to many athletes and he really think tank 1997–2011 and later over condominium facility in was elected senior VP, the highest showed me that you can be very was named president emeritus. He Connecticut. Getting rid of items he position held by an American. much involved in the sport and have was a senior fellow at the Center collected in the home he lived in for Among his achievements, he recalls, great human values as well.” for the American University at the 34 years was quite an ordeal, he says. “[I]n the 1980s I developed the Note: Mason was head coach Manhattan Institute, chairman of As Arnold approaches 80, he USA/Mobil Indoor Grand Prix, of track and field at Columbia the National Association of Scholars says he is not sure what the future a program that brought together 1953–70. He died in 2005 at 90. and founder of the London Center holds. He is still pretty healthy, has the meets on the North American A sad note. We lost Herb for Policy Research. A frequent a wonderful lady he now lives with indoor circuit, and there were more London in November. Herb was columnist, his articles appeared after going together for 10 years and than a dozen of them at that time. I a Renaissance Man. His interests nationwide in major newspapers. can perform eight to 14 endoscopic designed the Grand Prix, wrote the and achievements encompassed A prolific author, Herb wrote procedures a day. If he stops work- rules, and was the scorer and admin- academia, politics, athletics and approximately 30 books, and three ing, he says, he believes he might istrator; they actually at one point music, although music may be a plays. A highly sought-after social become bored. gave me the title of commissioner.” bit of a stretch. Herb, at 6-foot-5, critic and commentator on major Arnold’s children are doing well Bob was the public address starred on our basketball team. His radio and television programs, he and he has four grandchildren, ages announcer for six Olympic Games basketball skills developed early, co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire for one 15–22. and nine World Championships, leading his high school to a New year. Herb’s political efforts may Have a wonderful spring, Class and was the English language York City championship in 1955. seem quixotic, running unsuccess- of ’61! voice of international track and In one game he scored 19 points in fully for mayor of New York City field athletics for a generation. the first quarter and was on track in 1989, for governor in 1990 and He announced, as well, numerous to break the school — and possibly again in 1994, and then for state 1962 major U.S. meets. Being chosen the city — scoring records. With comptroller, but his efforts, which to announce his first Olympic his team leading by 20 points at the suffered from a lack of funding, were John Freidin Games was one of the most exciting end of the quarter his coach kept serious, thoughtful, issue-oriented, 654 E. Munger St. moments in his long association him on the bench for the rest of the forceful and purposeful. Middlebury, VT 05753 with the sport, he says. game. In recalling that game, Herb, Herb is survived by his wife, Vicki; [email protected] In an interview preceding his initially furious, acknowledged that and daughters, Stacy, Nancy and Jac- Hall of Fame induction, Bob was it was not until he had reached a lyn. To his family and loved ones, and Kathryn and Peter Yatrakis, with asked if there was one outstanding higher level of maturity that he to those he taught and mentored, the their four children, nine grandchil- moment in his long announcing understood and respected his coach’s class sends its deepest condolences. dren and many friends, celebrated

54 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews their 50th wedding anniversary on “Since 1972, a major strategic rest of us pretend there is no public Lifelong Learning, associated with December 8, the day they married objective of trade and financial ties problem. As usual when I’m trying to WCC. He adds, “I am grateful to in 1968. between the United States and learn about something, I’ve created my teachers at Columbia and strive When not traveling or ensconced China has been the avoidance of war a blog, The Politics of Dementia, as to model my classes on theirs. It’s in Helsinki, Finland, Charlie Mor- and the maintenance of mutually a workspace and storage site. If any never too late to reinvent oneself.” row hides out in Vermont’s Northeast beneficial peace between these two classmates have experience with the Carl Jakobsson SEAS’63 Kingdom. In October he ventured to great powers. topic, I’d be grateful to hear from writes, “Here is an invitation to a Essex Junction, Vt., to present some “Policymakers and negotiators them at [email protected]. gathering that is dear to my heart: of his site-specific sonic illusions at on both sides must consider these “The online world has provided ‘The Bremerton [Washington] Vermont Tech Jam. These sound- broader interests of mutually ben- another surprising benefit: a British Branch of the NAACP, the Bremer- scapes vary from white noise for eficial peace as well as prosperity. So publisher, Endeavour Media, has ton unit of the Salvation Army, the workspaces to multi-layered render- should the business, financial, labor revived several of my science fiction Mount Zion Missionary Baptist ings of specific locations at specific and other interests who lobby their novels as e-books, and damned if Church, the Kitsap County affili- times. For example, an 18th-century governments. They also benefit from they’re not selling! Most popular is ate of Habitat for Humanity, the British prison chapel, the meteor these peaceful relations.” Icequake, which in 1979 described the Ebenezer African Methodist Epis- collision that obliterated dinosaurs In early December, Jerry Dop- collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet. copal Church, the House of Refuge on Earth, and shutting the door of a pelt and his wife, Sharon Weremiuk, Each new report of a collapsing ice Fellowship Church, and the Kitsap Mercedes-Benz. Charlie has created wrote that they “will be taking shelf makes me feel creeped out. County Filipino-American Associa- installations for the Smithsonian their third trip to India over the “I’m also working on a revised tion invite you to the 19th annual Institution, the Pro Football Hall of December holidays. This time we are edition of Writing Science Fiction Mission Outreach Day on March 2, Fame, the New-York Historical Soci- touring Rajasthan for three weeks. and Fantasy, this time in partnership 2019, at 2:00 PM at the Salvation ety and the 2006 Winter Olympics in On December 31 we’ll travel to a with a talented Vancouver author, Army Church in Bremerton.’ Torino, Italy. Once he made a casting birder’s paradise to watch thousands Silvia Moreno-Garcia. We have a “Mission Outreach Day is an call for crowd members at a bustling of Demoiselle cranes fly and feed. contract with International Self- annual commemoration of four 19th-century kosher market. Then we will traverse the desert Counsel Press and expect the book successful actions taken by the Peter Krulewitch keeps in through miles of thorn forest, dunes to be published this autumn. contemporary church to protect the touch with Professor Henry Graff and scrub to visit a dhani, a small “This century is the setting for human rights of people under attack. GSAS’49, who, Peter reports, “is desert settlement where the huts are countless science fiction stories, Those occasions are: still sharp at 97. I spoke to him in built with thick mud walls to protect but it’s turning out to be far stranger “‘Adoption of the Namibian Con- early December and asked him to against the extreme climate. Finally, and surprising than any author stitution’ (February 1990), ‘Release comment on President Trump. ‘It we will ride by camel to the Manvar could imagine.” of Nelson Mandela from prison’ won’t end well,’ he said. You can hear Tented Camp for a sumptuous Raj- Former class correspondent Ed (immediately following the adoption Professor Graff ’s remembrances of asthani dinner, a bonfire and New Pressman (and Marcia) attended of the Namibian Constitution), the New York City of his youth at Year’s dawn over the desert.” Homecoming on October 20 and ‘People Power Revolution in the oldnewyorkstories.com.” In an email from Vancouver, sent this account: “As we have Philippine’ (February 1986) and ‘The Don Splansky’s daughter Yael Crawford Kilian sends this news: done for several years, a group of us Bloody Sunday March’ in Selma, Splansky enjoyed a festive dedica- “It’s been said that ‘Happy is the gathered for Homecoming. Although Alabama (March 7, 1965). tion of the renovation of her temple, nation without a history,’ and we cheered ‘Go Lions’ and were “We are trying to sustain the Holy Blossom, in Toronto. She is perhaps alumni without news are disappointed with the outcome, we memory of occasions that are being the senior rabbi there. equally happy. I have little to report, reveled in a camaraderie that spans deliberately forgotten by people For three decades, Jeff Milstein but my education continues. 60 years. Paul Alter and Nancy trying to rewrite history to fit their served as a policy and strategic “In September my wife and I went Blank, Harvey Chertoffand Gail, predatory agendas. I know few planner in the Departments of State, via train from Stockholm to Ham- Stuart Rosenbluth and Lorrie, Stan people will come to our event from Commerce, Treasury and Defense. burg and then to Amsterdam. We Waldbaum and Jewel, and Dave the United States, but hope some Though now retired, he continues renewed our love of train travel, and Tucker and Michelle enjoyed a may be moved to hold similar events to follow foreign and public policy learned en route that every quaint lovely dinner at Nancy’s home. Gary in their communities to ensure that issues, and to contribute his “two little German town has quaint little Roxland, Leo Swergold and Yen history is remembered. cents” to national discussions. “For houses roofed with solar panels. Our Tan SEAS’62 joined us for the game, “Aside from that, I spend a lot of the past 10 years,” he writes, “I have trains, powered by electricity, moved but were unable make dinner. We time helping young students with been participating as both a student rapidly, and we ended up in highly hope others will attend Homecom- math. As an old retiree, I have time and teacher in the Osher Lifelong electrified/human-powered Amster- ing next year and contact Paul Alter to do things I enjoy, rather than Learning Institute at George Mason dam: Cabs to the train station and ([email protected]) or Ed Pressman what the boss says.” University outside Washington, D.C. airport must be electric, and the city ([email protected]).” From Durham, N.C., John Gar- The Bernard Osher Foundation has has more bicycles than people. Most Ed has been retired from his suc- man BUS’67 writes: “Have found a established Lifelong Learning Insti- parked cars are hitched to charging cessful career in the paper business great annual conference on foreign tutes on about 120 campuses, and I stations. It made me realize how far since 2009. At Columbia he majored affairs. It is held in Chautauqua, heartily recommend them.” behind we are. in history and minored in music. N.Y., in early October and is spon- On December 5, The New York “I continue to write articles for Now he is fulfilling his lifelong sored by Road Scholars. There are Times published the following letter Vancouver’s online magazine The Tyee dream of teaching, helming two three daily presentations led by six from Jeff: “Vitally important stakes and this year will write a series on adult education courses on current recently retired ambassadors. Lots of in these trade negotiations between dementia — a public health concern events: one at Westchester Com- Q&A time in class and at meals.” the United States and China go that will continue to grow and munity College and the other at the Bob Umans sends word that beyond tariffs, nontariff barriers, eventually require serious political senior center in Croton-on-Hudson, he’s back at work, teaching freshman technology transfer, intellectual action. We can’t rely on unpaid family N.Y., as well as a classical music seminars on health and disease at the property, and cyber intrusion. members to provide care while the class at the COLLEGIUM for University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Spring 2019 CCT 55 Class Notes

He wrote: “I’ve been out of work for Tom Lewis recently attended our loving people, and well grounded. with Burt and Brenda. This year, as a while, doing a little catering, but monthly lunch for the first time and I haven’t had what might be called I was setting up a dinner date with missing teaching and the students. followed up with this note to fill you a career but I’ve been lucky to have Burt, he mentioned that his College It’s a little more tiring than it used in on what he’s been up to for the had interesting jobs in a history of roommate John Freidin ’62 and John’s to be, but just as much fun! Also, I’ve last few (how about 56?) years: “I’ve roughly 40 years working in and friend Kathy were going to be spend- been attending Dean’s Day (briefly self-published four novels in the around government: a speechwriter ing a few nights with them. I’d not called All-Class Reunion and now last couple of years. The first three for two New York governors; the seen John in 56 years and thought it part of Reunion Weekend) every are a trilogy about a young man director of the New York State would be fun if we all went to dinner year, and seeing fewer and fewer named Paul Rimbaud who drops out Division of Veterans’ Affairs where, together — and so we did — and classmates. Only three last year. I of Columbia in the early ’60s and, among other things, I oversaw the it didn’t take a minute to fall into hope more will return in the coming more or less by accident, enlists in construction of a state veterans’ conversation as though we’d never years. The five-year reunions are a the Army and embarks on a life as nursing home in Queens; work as been apart. More interesting was how great opportunity to reconnect with a soldier. They are My Uncle, Oscar’s an executive at an HMO; being a well the women got along and how friends from several classes who were Cold War and The Last Days of Paul major account manager for Dell; a much Dale said she liked everyone. As at Columbia while we were.” Rimbaud. The fourth, unrelated to the busted first retirement, then six years our PB friends enter their 90s it’s a joy [Editor’s note: All classes, not just trilogy, is The Script Doctor, a novella as a bureaucrat-executive in the Pen- to find additional new friends who are the “milestone” class years, which about getting away with murder. They tagon and at a stand-alone defense really old friends. As they say, ‘Come this year end in 4 or 9, are invited to are available from an independent agency, from which I finally and on down.’” Rich Juro attended Reunion Weekend 2019 bookseller, Book House (Albany, successfully retired, giving me the LAW’66 writes, for events on Friday, May 31, and N.Y., 518-489-4761); bhny.com; or time to write. I somehow bookended “My wife, Fran, and I celebrated Saturday, June 1.] the author at 340 Press, 310 W. 86th a long work life with the Army and New Year at Mammy Yoko Hotel St., #11C, New York, NY 10024. Department of Defense. in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We “I published two novels at com- “I’ve stumbled into a happy sec- just avoided being caught up in an 1963 mercial houses in the early ’80s: ond marriage, to a smart, interesting anti-government protest, complete Rooftops and Billy’s Army. They are woman, a healthcare attorney, who, with gunfire. Reminded me of when Paul Neshamkin long since out of print, fading away most of the time, tolerates and puts a busload of us went to picket the 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 like old soldiers. I’ve had the rights up with me. We’ve been friends and White House about Vietnam in Hoboken, NJ 07030 reverted to me, to what end I do not companions for nearly 25 years. We spring ’62 (except without gunshots). [email protected] know. But I’ve lost whatever taste share a happy, affectionate Golden A few days before we went to Mon- and patience I had for struggling past Retriever. I divide my time between rovia, Liberia, another interesting I was reminded at our January the gatekeepers and self-proclaimed our apartment on the Upper West experience. About 15 countries to class lunch of how interesting our tastemakers in the NYC publishing Side of Manhattan, 30 blocks south go toward our goal of visiting every classmates are. By the way, this biz. I find it easy to self-publish and of Morningside Heights (where I nation in the world.” year marks the beginning of the refreshing to recover the time and lived as a small child); and a house Wow! Rich is near an incredible 15th year that we have held these energy spent unraveling the demands upstate, near Albany and Sche- goal. Anyone else even close? Let lunches (and I have written these of a confusing mix of competent and nectady. These are parts of the world us know. Class Notes). Time flies, but we incompetent agents and editors and I enjoy and know well.” If you’re in NYC, you can Frank Partel haven’t changed that much. We have freelance copyeditors and sub-rights BUS’65 recently reconnect with your classmates learned to “Hold Fast to the Spirit directors et al. I designed the covers returned from a two-week visit to at our regular class lunches at the of Youth, Let Years to Come Do and required only my own approval. China and sent a 4,000-word “note” Columbia Club (for now, we are still What They May.” I don’t hear, ‘Gee, we really like your of his observations and impressions. gathering at the Princeton Club). Bob Kraft has been awarded book but we want you to rewrite it as Rather than try to include a snippet The next are on April 11, May 9 and Israel’s 2019 Genesis Prize in more of a family drama.’ here, I have posted it in its entirety on June 13. recognition of his philanthropy “If my aging and somewhat dam- on cc63ers.com, which I am slowly In the meantime, let us know and commitment to combating aged neurovascular system holds up, attempting to keep up to date. For what you are up to, how you’re doing anti-Semitism. The $1 million I want to finish another book or two. all those who have sent similar and what’s next. award, widely known as the “Jewish I have a novel in mind and in partial lengthy notes, I promise to find Nobel” prize, is granted each year “to draft, and notes for a short nonfic- them all and post them. Doug Anderson a person recognized as an inspiration book, not a memoir so much as sends a note 1964 tion to the next generation of Jews the story of a pilgrimage essentially from sunny Florida: “Having lived through professional achievement mapped out by having been sexually in Palm Beach for 34 years and REUNION 2019 and commitment to Jewish values.” abused at the ages of 9 and 10 by an having developed a circle of friends MAY 30–JUNE 1 Bob will donate the prize money to older boy who was teaching me to be of which my wife, Dale, and I are on Events and Programs Contact initiatives combating anti-Semitism, an altar boy in an Episcopal Church the young end, it was great last year [email protected] and other forms of prejudices. “I where I grew up. The effects of sexual to run into two fraternity brothers Development Contact am honored to receive the Genesis abuse at that early age are powerful, who were putting their feet in the [email protected] Prize and thank the Genesis Prize pernicious and lifelong. Abuse like water, literally. Mark Weinstein ’64 Norman Olch Foundation for its recognition and that is amazingly common, well- and Burt Lehman ’62 each rented an 233 Broadway willingness to direct my prize money known, highly stigmatized and not apartment to try PB out as a winter New York, NY 10279 to such worthy causes,” he said. “It well understood by health profession- escape from New York. Through the [email protected] is important that we continue to als, let alone law enforcement, the years, I’d occasionally seen each of support organizations that focus on judicial system or political leaders. them but we’d never gotten together combating prejudices by building Time will show if I can manage this. with our wives. Last year, Dale and I The new year is under way as I write. I bridges and uniting people of differ- “Otherwise, my grown son and had dinner with Mark and Peni and wish you and your loved ones a year of ent backgrounds.” daughter are healthy, competent, everyone really liked each other. Same good health, peace, joy and prosperity.

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After many years of service, senting Municipal Utility Districts will be the first member of the class Howard Jacobson LAW’67 has around Houston. Last August, I to become a great-grandfather. retired as deputy general counsel of retired from teaching at South Texas “Since this is my first submission Columbia. We wish Howard and his College of Law Houston. However, to our Class Notes, I will provide a family much happiness. as dean and professor emeritus, I brief overview of my life since I left Dave Levin SEAS’68 is off to keep my office, parking space and Columbia College. I enrolled in a Florida to escape the winter cold email address. Ph.D. program in physics at Colum- of New York. While there he will “We shared Hurricane Harvey bia. Mynda and I got married in April take a Disney cruise to the Carib- stories. Although Jim’s home was not 1968, during the Columbia riots. I bean with his wife, son, daughter- flooded, his law firm’s offices took in left Columbia in 1972 with an M.A. in-law and grandchildren. Dave is water, requiring him to work in his and an ABD (all but dissertation). I actively involved in planning for the undershorts from home for some left because my thesis research was 55th reunion. time. Our home also took in water, not working out and I had a wife and Steve Rosenfeld LAW’67 writes forcing us to live in our Chicago two children to support. I found a job from New York: “Having retired for apartment until mid-December. I as a computer programmer and was the third time (as a partner of Paul had hip replacement surgery while a programmer /analyst for about 40 Weiss in December 2008, as chair of we were in Chicago. The only big years, until December 2012. Jim Alfini (left) ’65 and Jim Murdaugh ’65 had lunch in the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board downside was that my wife, Carol, “During the last six years I have November in Houston. at the end of 2012 and as a Legal Aid who hates the Chicago winters, had traveled to Israel several times to lawyer for children in family court to walk our dog, Murphy, in the snow visit my sister, Sherry BC’65, and her in April 2017), I’ve been concentrat- in early December. Jim has also had five children. I have also traveled to ing on writing short fiction, which hip replacement surgery. True to form several countries in Europe and Asia “I returned to New York to I started doing three years ago. I’ve given our age, we spent some time with various Kosher tour groups. In teach at Brooklyn College in the had some success with it: My stories comparing our respective surgeries, 2018 I visited India, the Balkans, ill-fated SEEK Program and divided have been published in The City Key, recovery times, etc. Thailand and Israel. I have leyned my time between teaching and anti- Reflex Fiction, Good Works Review, “I am taking a Russian language (read the Torah portion from a Torah war activism. Flatbush Review, The Rush and Mag- course in retirement. Although scroll) on Shabbat in synagogues in “After two years teaching at nolia Review, and on JewishFiction. it has been more than 50 years Krakow, Pushkar, Belgrade, Zagreb, Brooklyn College, I moved to Cleve- net — all of which can be accessed since taking two years of Russian Bangkok and Ko Samui and, on land with a group of activists to do online (except for Good Works Review, at Columbia, I am amazed at how weekday mornings, in the Guang- community and labor organizing. We which is a print magazine available much I recall. This prompted Jim to zhou airport and in Jerusalem.” started a volunteer health clinic in Mike Friedman on Amazon). One of those stories comment on the excellence of our reports: “It has an underserved Appalachian, Latino received an Honorable Mention in Columbia education and to discuss been a long time since I have con- and Native American community the 2016 Short Story America Prize friendships we made. Because I was tributed to Class Notes (or maybe that was so successful the city health contest and another won First Place a commuter from Yonkers, I didn’t it is the first time), but I could not department took it over. We also Bob Caserio in the 2018 Writer Advice Flash have as much time on campus as the ignore ’s plea in the started a newspaper that focused on Fiction Contest. gentleman from Tyler, Texas.” Fall 2018 issue to ‘see’ me. As I try labor and community issues. Mel Barenholtz “Meanwhile, my wife, Joan, and GSAS’73 to fill in some of the blanks about “In Cleveland, I took jobs I are enjoying retirement and time writes, “I am happy to report that — in the words of the Grateful teaching at Cuyahoga Community with our grandchildren. We sold our my grandson Yehuda Zev got Dead — ‘what a long, strange trip College, driving a cab and working Hamptons house last spring and spent engaged at the end of November. I it’s been,’ Bob (and others) might at a Westinghouse factory that made last summer renting in Chappaqua.” have three sons and 17 grandchil- see some opportunity for further outdoor streetlights and airport In the Winter 2018–19 column, dren. My oldest son, Daniel, and my sightings. Here goes. runway lights. I worked at Westing- I asked the following two-part youngest son, Elan, each have four “I returned from Trinity College, house for four years, until the plant question: What do you wish you had children while my middle son, Levi Cambridge, in 1967 to spend a year moved to Mexico. known when you were 18, and what Yitzchok, has nine children. Yehuda teaching at the historically black “Driving a cab had given me advice do you have for the members Zev (24) is Levi Yitzchok’s oldest Knoxville College in Tennessee. membership in the Teamsters of the College’s next graduating child and my oldest grandchild. This proved to be an eventful year, union, and when I got laid off from class as they face becoming “adults”? “January 29 was my 75th birthday, as Martin Luther King Jr. was Westinghouse, I went to truck driv- I hope replies will start to come in! so Yehuda Zev’s wedding on January assassinated in Memphis during ing school and started driving in the See you at Reunion Weekend! 31 was a very nice birthday present the second semester, and I was fired freight industry. In 1976, I became for me. The wedding was a happy for taking a caravan of students to a founding member of Teamsters occasion but, as with all my family Memphis for the march in support for a Democratic Union (TDU), 1965 celebrations, saddened by the absence of the sanitation workers in honor which is still going strong and is of my wife, Mynda Kate Newberger, of King’s memory. I challenged the likely the strongest and longest- Leonard B. Pack who passed away 17 years ago. firing and was reinstated. lasting rank and file caucus in the 924 West End Ave. Mynda lived long enough to attend “I spent the following summer in American labor movement. I was on New York, NY 10025 the weddings of our three sons, but Washington, D.C., on the staff of its steering committee and edited its [email protected] only long enough to be a grandmama the Southern Christian Leadership national newspaper for nine years. to three of our grandchildren. Conference, camping out in Resur- “I was a truck driver in Cleveland Jim Alfini writes, “I had lunch with “I think it is very likely (do the rection City between the Washing- for 14 years and ran for office in my Jim Murdaugh a few months ago. math) that I will be the first member ton Monument and the Lincoln 3,500-member local, twice losing It was uncommonly cold in Houston of our class to have a married Memorial, organizing protests, visit- by just 60 votes. To supplement my in November, so we were dressed grandchild and, looking ahead, I ing members of Congress, keeping income during the various recession- accordingly. Jim practices law, repre- think there is a good chance that I up morale, laying plans for activities. ary interludes, I took the test to be a

Spring 2019 CCT 57 Class Notes registered representative and become Mound. Peter’s family published a where not only was I the oldest to instill change in the Athletic a licensed stockbroker. It was never short obituary in The New York Times player but also a teammate of several Department, Forzani’s passion for really a career option, but it helped on December 23. It read: “Peter fellows who had played with my son, the program was unrivaled. when the freight was slow. Mound, aged 75, Santee, Calif., Daniel, in high school. Perhaps the “Forzani was a regular com- “TDU had annual rank and file passed away on November 3, 2018. pursuit that has most intrigued me menter on Spectator articles, always conventions every year and invited Raised in New York City, he gradu- recently is my fledgling maple syrup engaging in our content, win or lose, all the lawyers who worked with ated from the Trinity School, Colum- enterprise, which produced more and his emails to me were always it to attend. One of those who bia College and Cornell Law School. than 150 gallons last year and has highlights. He would likely have attended was Barbara Harvey, an He practiced law with the New the potential for greater yields. lamented the team’s performance on attorney in Detroit who now is York City Corporate Council Office “Eventually, the laws of gravity Saturday like he always did, but I TDU’s de facto general counsel. In until the 1990s, when he moved to will win out, and undoubtedly I will certainly think he would have appre- the mid-1980s we started a long- California for private practice.” descend to a more serene and sed- ciated what Bagnoli was able to do distance relationship, commuting I asked Jim to tell me something entary (I hope not too boring) status given the circumstances. between Detroit and Cleveland. about his own life: “During the past (some folks call it old age, others “I felt it was the right decision “After about two years of com- decade, I have been transitioning from refer to it as maturity). Until then, to dedicate a good portion of this muting, it was clear one of us would a cerebral focus to an outdoor recre- I will enjoy my newly discovered column to Forzani, as he was a true have to move. Having lost the two ational lifestyle, seemingly attempting second childhood.” Columbia football lifer. And for elections noted above, I was a bit to experience, somewhat belatedly, a team that has suffered through burned out, and I ended up moving the active physical involvement that so many difficult years, Forzani’s to Detroit in 1988 to live with Bar- eluded me in my youth. To paraphrase 1966 relentless optimism in the wake of bara and her 8-year old son, Daniel. Leonard Cohen, I am essentially a Bagnoli’s hiring was a sign of so Columbia College Today After a while, Barb and I married, 75-year-old kid in search of a dream. many things to come. Columbia Alumni Center and we are still together. Daniel is Maybe this constitutes the final scene “It is wholly unfortunate that For- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 now married and is a physical thera- of a script that can be titled ‘The zani won’t see what Bagnoli is able to New York, NY 10025 pist who runs a couple of clinics in Revenge of the Collegiate Nerd.’ accomplish going forward, but should [email protected] Mt. Clemens, just outside of Detroit. “I maintain my law practice on the Lions win a title in the next few “In Detroit, I could no longer a somewhat restricted basis, much years, should all that Forzani ever Harvey Kurzweil: work as a truck driver, as the Team- to the relief of Ann, my wife of 52 From “Our wanted come to fruition, it would be Rich Forzani ster leadership was not happy with years, who believes that our marriage friend died in Sep- perhaps the perfect ending.” Phil Myers: TDU and would work to ensure vows should be restated to reflect tember after a long illness. He was From “I’m keeping I would not be employed in the current realities (i.e., ‘For better our most recent class correspondent. busy with family, research and music. freight industry. So, at 44, I became or worse, in sickness and health, Christopher Lopez ’19 published Spouse Anne Hoffman BC’70 and a student at the Wayne State Uni- but not for lunch.’). In a sense I an October 22 article in Spectator’s I have lived in Winchester, Mass., versity Law School. am enduring King Lear syndrome, sports section on the Dartmouth since 1975. We see our sons, David “Upon graduating, I discovered essentially becoming a mere orna- game; the last few paragraphs are a ’02, Josh and Jonathan, often, along that the Teamsters Union had gone ment in my own highly efficient and tribute to Rich. It is quite a tribute with two grandsons, Andy and out of its way to see that not only productive law office, which, usually, to our classmate.” Ben. We spend several weeks each couldn’t I work as a truck driver, but but fortunately not always, can func- Those paragraphs are quoted summer in the Berkshires, where also made sure that no labor law firm tion superbly well without my daily below; if you would like to read we enjoy music and theater, and would hire me. The labor law firm direction and micromanagement. the full piece, it is online at bit. visits with friends and family. We John Akula, I had clerked for explained that it “What this all means is that dur- ly/2DY362V. keep in touch with Kenny Fox, Gene Fierman, Dan wasn’t going to hire me because the ing a typical year in scenic northern “Last season, in the thick of Gover, Jeff May, Frank Mirer Teamsters threatened to have all its Vermont I indulge in many diverse preparing coverage for Homecom- Cliff Rosenthal. union clients go to other law firms activities. In summer, I sail my ing, a dedicated reader and football and I’m a senior if it did, and it couldn’t take the risk. Cape Dory 25 on Lake Champlain, alum Richard Forzani, CC’66, cor- astrophysicist at the Smithson- So, I was ‘forced’ to find work at where I also paddleboard and jetski. responded with me via email and ian Astrophysical Observatory at one of the larger and better-known I enjoy bike riding on a nearby asked to write a letter to the editor the Harvard-Smithsonian Center corporate law firms in the city. abandoned railroad bed, as well as encouraging students to attend for Astrophysics in Cambridge, “I became an employee benefits on other trails (purchasing this year Homecoming. In that letter, he studying how stars form, using attorney at the Honigman law firm a RadRover fat tire electric bike, alluded to the ‘free food and beer’ observations and theoretical models. in Detroit, and found it interesting which has enabled me to extend for students, but also boasted about Working with collaborators, post- and challenging enough to work my excursions while zooming past the success of the team that season. docs and students, we have recently there for 22 years before retiring at younger bicyclists), and skiing, both ‘Columbia is back!’ Forzani seemed focused on the role of magnetic the end of 2013.” cross country and downhill (the genuinely excited that, for the first fields in guiding star-forming flows. Read what came next for Mike in latter becoming my most accom- time in a very long time, the team “In 2005 I started taking jazz the Summer 2019 issue! Mike also plished physical activity, focusing on was not only playing well but also piano lessons, and since then I’ve wrote, “This is not the career path black diamond glades).To a lesser apparently capable of doing it again. played jazz and rock with a few local I envisioned upon graduation, nor extent, golf, fishing, motorcycling “I was recently made aware that groups. Most recently I’ve had fun likely the one Columbia thought it (I am a lifetime HOG member), Forzani lost a battle with cancer in writing songs inspired by Gersh- was preparing me for, but what the snowmobiling and Segway riding early September, and couldn’t help win, Porter, [Richard] Rodgers CC hell, it has been challenging, reward- have drawn my interest. Until I tore but think how Forzani would have 1923 and Jobim. The songs are in ing and a lot of fun, but not without my rotator cuff and bicep muscle marveled at the roar of the crowd the form of jazz lead sheets, with its down moments.” in a freak on-ice accident last year, this season. For all his agitation melody, chords and lyrics. You can James “Jim” Levy informed me I participated weekly in a rather during the years of Mangurian and hear an album of more than 20 of Peter of the death of his good friend competitive adult hockey league, athletic director M. Dianne Murphy them online at bit.ly/2Bhng6b.”

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From Leland Moglen: “ T.S. Symphony –– and then Bartók’s a very good win; he said he had a Eliot said it for me: ‘And when I 1967 Concerto for Orchestra. I remember great time and sent a picture of his am formulated, sprawling on a pin first hearing Bartók’s Concerto for grandkids with the Columbia Lion Albert Zonana / When I am pinned and wriggling Orchestra around 1962; it was writ- mascot. I often see Art at basketball 425 Arundel Rd. on the wall / Then how should I ten in 1943, which made me think games, where he clearly has fun, and Goleta, CA 93117 begin To spit out the butt-ends quite a while about how modern the we have seen some great wins. [email protected] Buzz Zucker of my days and ways? / And how piece was when I first heard it. I saw and he told should I presume?’ In the orchestra, I noticed Kevin me the following Columbia story — “It feels like a great life. Many Greetings for spring, Class of 1967. Chen ’15, a Columbia and Juilliard to maybe be shared with prospective John Cregor roads not taken. Many purposeless wrote from Kailua, grad from the great joint program. and incoming students, because this John wanderings in search of adventure, Hawaii, to mourn the death of I watched on TV as Bob Kraft sort of thing doesn’t happen at many Viebranz, Seth ending up grateful to find a place to his fraternity brother ’63’s team won again, and schools! He writes, “Sophomore Weinstein Bob Barnes sleep at day’s end. Lost a wife. Lost and longtime friend. “John died on reports that Lions bas- year my roommate a son. Got my neck broken when hit October 13 of a sudden heart attack, ketball won a recent game. Seth has and I took the subway downtown by a car as a pedestrian two years ago. in South Korea. After graduat- now become a big fan of Columbia to see a play. While my parents had I still glory in having had four kids ing from Columbia, where he was basketball and football. With Mike taken me to some great original with a sixth grandkid on the way. I a member of Nu Sigma Chi, the Smith ’20 out for the season, bas- Broadway shows (My Fair Lady, still am happy to be up and about, Blue Key Society and Nacoms, and ketball will be more challenged. West Side Story and Peter Pan, among with no reliance on drugs, prescrip- chairman of WKCR, John spent a Football could be the greatest season others), I was not prepared for this. tion or otherwise, nor alcohol. I wake tour in Vietnam with the Army. He in decades –– I recommend you get We went to Greenwich Village and up every day ready to savor the coffee then returned to his home state of tickets at least for Homecoming. descended some steps to a hole-in- […] and smell the flowers.” New Mexico for law school, where I went to the Alexander Hamilton the-wall basement place called the From John Burrows: “Class- he remained throughout his long Award Dinner in November, where Sheridan Square Theater –– my first mates and Lion friends, greetings and distinguished legal career. I wish Lisa L. Carnoy ’89 (co-chair of the encounter with Off-Broadway. It from Eden, Utah. I was busy during I could tell you more about his legal University Trustees) was awarded the was a revival of a play a guy named the late fall, recording songs for a career, but I really know very little. Alexander Hamilton Medal. She is Arthur Miller wrote 10 years earlier new 16-song CD. This will be the I think that he was a sole practitio- an extraordinary alum and has had when he was 40: A View from the sequel to my The Perfect Storm and ner most of the time. I know that great success over the years as a Wall Bridge. I don’t remember much, just Boats for Sale CDs (available on he spent several years practicing in Street professional. She is the first that there could not have been more iTunes). The working title is Jeans Socorro (a ‘Wild West’ town, as he woman to win this award, and it’s so than 50 seats in the theater, the play and Boots and Bathing Suits, repre- characterized it). I believe that he well deserved. It was wondrous to see was very dramatic and one of the senting my life’s ocean and moun- practiced for some period of time all the Columbia alums there too. I leads was a tall, young, good-looking tain background. To keep costs at a in Albuquerque, and he also talked remember years ago seeing Lisa run- blond guy whom I could swear was minimum, I am personally engineer- about some work at the state capital ning in Central Park –– the six-mile Jon Voight. Thanks to Google, I ing the recording.” in Santa Fe. I unfortunately don’t loop –– moving with light speed, it discovered much more. Voight (per- From Bob Meyerson: “Bob even know the nature of his practice seemed to me. Columbia is so for- haps best known now as Angelina unfortunately continues on a down- nor clientele. Funny, but we never tunate to have her as co-chair; her Jolie’s father) did indeed play the ward spiral. His magnum opus really talked about each other’s law comments that night should be sent young lover. The doomed protago- years in the making, A History of practice. He is survived by his wife, to College alums. nist was played by Robert Duvall The Indefinite Article in 17th Century JeWon, whom he married in New The College has a sparkling dean and the ingénue was played by Tuscany, was lost in the return mail Mexico. Upon his retirement, John and an array of others serving –– Susan Anspach (who went on to star after National Enquirer Publications and JeWon moved to her home the school is so popular (as we all in the film Five Easy Pieces); she’s turned it down. His wife of 50 years country of South Korea, where know it should be). I recently met recently deceased. Oh, and there was left him for an older gentleman in together they ran a highly successful some first-years on campus, a bright an assistant director by the name the nursing home suffering from English language school. We main- group from rural Georgia, Istanbul, of Dustin Hoffman. This was still a dementia and incontinence. His kids tained a long friendship throughout Budapest, Iowa, Nashville, Syracuse, couple of years before The Graduate agreed to arrange a 75th birthday the past 51 years.” Hawaii and Santa Fe. I was walking and Midnight Cowboy. celebration for him this summer, Be well all of you, and do write … around campus; I am shy but I did “Now I see well over 100 Off- but only in exchange for a power chat with the group in front of a few Broadway shows every year (and of attorney. To top it off, three old of the dorms and in Lerner Hall. lament that there are probably Class of ’66 mates hung up as soon 1968 By the way, I continue to wish another 50 I would like to see, but as they heard his voice. But Bob is my report on our reunion had …). I was attending one the other Arthur Spector not to be dismayed. He is currently been much better –– I wish I had night in Chelsea, at the Atlantic The- 4401 Collins Ave., 2-1417 in the market for a used prostate been able to report better from my ater Company on West 20th Street. Miami Beach, FL 33140 gland and is willing to pay big bucks memory. There were so many there When I went to the lounge before [email protected] for someone in need of quick cash. who I spoke to briefly and I was so the show, I recognized a woman next He can be reached at the White happy that so many clearly had a to whom I had sat several times. Her House, where he is the éminence Hello from sun, warmth, palm trees great time. If anyone wants to add to companion sat with his back to me as grise behind Trump’s foreign policy.” and beaches: Miami Beach. Home the record, please do! I approached. After I had been chat- Art Kaufman CCT thanks all who wrote in for here continues to be a pleasure of had some great ting with her for a minute, he said to this issue. If you would like to con- a different sort, as this world is thoughts on the football and bas- me, ‘Buzz?’ Looking at him for the tribute a note for the Summer issue, quite a change. Last night I heard ketball programs –– he’s hopeful, of first time I recognized our tennis- or are interested in taking on the Pinchas Zukerman perform Bruch’s course. He went with his grandkids playing and photographer extraor- Steve Gottlieb. role of class correspondent, please Violin Concerto #1 –– an astounding to Madison Square Garden to see dinaire classmate write to [email protected]. performance with the New World the Lions beat Iona College. It was Talk about your small world: He and

Spring 2019 CCT 59 Class Notes she were classmates at Jamaica H.S. I hope you are also well and in partners and I perform 20–25 free Academic Freedom, scheduled to be in Queens. By the way, the play was good humor. I wonder if you saw The eye operations on patients referred published this April. Here’s some very good.” Wall Street Journal ’s piece on Cicero’s to us by the Caridad Clinic, a free of what the publisher says about I met Zero Mostel once on De Senectute, concerning old age. It clinic for migrant workers and the the book: ‘In The Future of Academic line flying to Boston on the East- was a sparkling piece on Cicero’s local working poor (too ‘rich’ for Freedom, a leading scholar equips ern Shuttle; we were stuck there thoughts on retirement. If you are in Medicaid, but too poor to afford us to defend academic freedom and chatted for an hour at least. I that place, it’s a great read. I read Cice- health insurance). I established that by illuminating its meaning, the laughed and laughed. If you have a ro’s piece about 1962 in Latin class –– tradition 12 years ago after I stopped challenges it faces, and its relation story like this, send it in! for sure it’s time to read it again. traveling to developing countries to freedom of expression ... Henry Paul de Bary and his wife, under the auspices of Surgical Eye Reichman cuts through much of Stefana, are flying here soon. I am Expeditions International. I led the rhetoric to issue a clarion call on looking forward to hosting them. 1969 the Florida chapter of SEE for behalf of academic freedom as it has (And having Paul select a great more than 20 years, leading and been defined and defended by the bottle of wine! He is our class expert REUNION 2019 organizing eye surgery missions to American Association of University on wine and song.) Seth Weinstein MAY 30–JUNE 1 Jamaica, Mexico, Guyana, Ecuador Professors for over a hundred years.’ says he will visit Miami too; he has Events and Programs Contact and Panama. The satisfaction and “The book has received endorse- been working hard in the develop- [email protected] pleasure of facilitating the restora- ments from university administrators ment world but says that he could Development Contact tion of sight has been the highlight as well as faculty members, including use some beach sounds and swim- [email protected] of my career.” blurbs from Democracy Now’s Juan ming. He was a sailor for a while Bill Stark and his wife since 1969, Gonzalez ’68, climate scientist after college –– he has some great Michael Oberman Sharon, each retired last summer. Bill Michael Mann and Yale Law con- stories to share. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel was assistant professor of psychology stitutional law professor (and former I heard from Bob Carlson and 1177 Avenue of the Americas at Hopkins 1973–79, associate and dean) Robert Post. In early April Barry Wick. Bob had some great New York, NY 10036 full professor of biology at Mizzou I’ll be in New York to discuss the photographs of nature and Barry [email protected] 1979–92, endowed chair and then book with faculty union leaders and had ebullience and good cheer and full professor at Saint Louis Univer- administrators at the annual Confer- some jokes –– he seems to have a Active planning continues for our sity (biology) 1992–2018 and now ence on Collective Bargaining in panoply of them! We might need 50th reunion. Keep a lookout for is emeritus professor. Sharon was Higher Education at Hunter College to call upon him to bring a routine emails, and at least one mailing, for most recently residency coordinator and will also speak at NYU, Rutgers with him for our next reunion. I details or check college.columbia. for anesthesiology at Washington and, I hope, Columbia.” have thought that some comedy for edu/alumni/reunion/2019/pledged University in St. Louis. Nathaniel Wander GSAS’80 the next one would be a great idea. for a list of who is planning to From Bob Brookshire: “I retired has had seven chapters published after 40 years in the reinsurance busi- from his professional/personal ness as an underwriter and broker. memoir-in-progress, You Are My house overlooks the Pacific Here—X: Tales from the Evolution of Rep. Jerry Nadler ’69 (D-N.Y.) — first elected Ocean and Trump National Golf an Anthropologist. The most recent to Congress in 1992 — is now chairman of the Club. My daughter, Devon, plays publication (as of December 2018), professional basketball in Europe “Shver tsu Zayn a Yid,” can be House Judiciary Committee. (currently in France). Not happy read in The Nasiona (thenasiona. about the riots there. Reminds me of com/2018/12/11/shver-tsu-zayn-a- Columbia. My wife, Jodie, takes good yid). Nathaniel says, “Possibly of care of me, our daughter and our two most interest to Columbians is I suspect our class knows how to attend and other information about Labradoodles. See you at reunion.” ‘Me and Margaret Mead Against laugh, and I think a big laughing Reunion Weekend 2019. Steve Ditlea writes: “Looking the World.’ It can be downloaded session would be great, along with Jerry Nadler — first elected to forward to our 50th reunion to from The Ponder Review (muw.edu/ some red wine. Congress in 1992 — is now chairman renew old friendships. At our 40th ponderreview/read).” Robert Brandt and I are overdue of the House Judiciary Committee. reunion, I was blessed by reconnect- From Woody Lewis BUS’77, for getting together. I am hoping to Henry Jackson writes: “I take ing with Jim Weitzman, WKCR SIPA’77: “In April, my wife, Cathryn, see him in the city sometime this some joy in the fact that I’m still radio veteran and real mensch, who and I moved from Manhattan to year. We do talk periodically, thanks above the sod, as my mother would would go on to own a multi-cultural Guilford, Conn. We live on the to the cell phone and his appreciat- put it. My wife and I enjoy our AM radio station in Washington, shoreline and on a clear day, we can ing reports from the pool area here. semi-retirement. We can now afford D.C. I and my wife, Nancy (whose see Long Island across the Sound. Still chatting 54 years later –– a the luxury of turning down the father taught CC at Columbia I’m continuing my web software tribute to his tolerance for my Bos- translation projects we’d really rather soon after WWII), were fortunate consulting practice from this location, ton accent, among other things. have nothing to do with, and cheer- to visit with him near D.C. a few going into the city several times a I ran into Bernie Weinstein ’65 fully accepting those we like. With years before he died in 2015. Still week. By the time of the reunion, I a few weeks ago –– hadn’t seen him the passage of time, my physical surprised by how long-lived so many will have published a book on enter- for years. What a quick-witted, limitations have become more pro- of us are these days. To life.” prise blockchain strategy. Looking charming, fascinating fellow. We nounced, but life is still enjoyable.” From Hank Reichman: “Since forward to seeing everyone.” met years ago through our daughters An update from Howard 2012 I have chaired the American Rich Wyatt LAW’72 writes: and went to a Columbia lecture on Goldman: “My biggest news is Association of University Profes- “Since my last update, Rita and I one of Plato’s works. We lost touch my upcoming retirement on May sors’ Committee A on Academic celebrated our 44th wedding anni- and now are texting, emailing and 1, 2019. I participated in my last Freedom and Tenure. That work has versary, our daughter Marisa was talking on the phone. Hope to see World Sight Day the week of now yielded a book of my writings married and lives in Tuxedo Park, him on my next trip to the city. Thanksgiving. That is a day when my on academic freedom, The Future of N.Y., and our son Christian became

60 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews engaged and lives in Manhattan. joined the Duke faculty. Patty and I Professor Lewis Siegelbaum, Republican growers controlled most Marisa is a lawyer for a New York take our grandchildren on a trip with who earned a D.Phil. at Oxford in political institutions. Our media con- City hedge fund and Christian is a just us when they each turn 10. Our 1976, taught at La Trobe University sultant and part-time social media managing director of another New Gloucester, Mass., home has become in Melbourne, Australia, 1976–83; coordinator are both Columbia alums York City hedge fund. We live in the gathering spot for summer then at Michigan State University (College and Journalism). My last Armonk, N.Y., and are involved vacations, and a place of peace and 1983–May 2018, when he retired. campaign comes in 2022, when Anna in our real estate consulting and connection throughout the year. He specialized in Russian history is up for reelection. My first was mortgage banking companies. We “Two years ago, after nearly seven and sent the following: “Encouraged in 1982, eight years after I landed recently sold our place in South years as chief medical officer of Merck, by your prompting, I would like fel- in Salinas to help farmworkers. Carolina and bought a property in I stopped commuting to New Jersey. low alums to know that I completed Along the way a group of us, mostly Hampton Bays, N.Y., where we plan Instead, I fight the traffic to Kendall a memoir, Stuck on Communism: attorneys who arrived in the 1970s, to design and build a new home. I Square, Cambridge. The area was all Memoir of a Russian Historian, reshaped politics in the Salinas Valley. look forward to everyone’s participa- warehouses and abandoned factories which will be published this year. It It’s been a fun ride.” Leonard Levine tion in and to seeing all of you at when I moved to Massachusetts. Now of course includes a chapter on my GSAS’77 sent our 50th reunion for a fun-filled, it is the biotech capital of the world. undergraduate years at Columbia.” a complete report, which I thank enjoyable and memorable time!” I joined Flagship Pioneering, a firm My friend Michael Aeschliman him for. “I’ve been retired from the Larry Berger SIPA’70, BUS’71 that starts biotech companies out of GSAS’91 has written a review, “Lio- Department of Defense for a year reports that business keeps him its own labs with its own scientists. nel Trilling in the Age of Enormity,” — December 31, 2017, at the stroke active with continued challenges and The science is stunning — we are that can be accessed online: bit.ly/ of midnight — after 34 years of new experiences. Last November, witnessing a revolution in the defini- 2DEvDKq. federal service. I received the Defense he was part of the Panamanian tion of a drug. Living cells are being Hoyt Hilsman LAW’75 sent the Information Systems Agency Civil- presidential mission to China for used to treat cancers, genes are being following: “After CC and the Law ian Meritorious Service Award. I am the opening of Panama’s embassy edited and our microbiomes are being School, I made a fairly rapid career staying in Vienna, Va. I worked on a and further cementing of Panama’s studied to make ‘bugs’ into drugs. shift and became a writer. Dozens of wide range of computer simulation opening of relations with China in “I am grateful to have been given screenplays and four novels later, I’m systems, data management and inter- 2017. “For me it was completing the the opportunity to go to Columbia still at it. However, a few years ago national standards. My first work for cycle, as I was part of a small group College, where I was introduced to I added politics to the mix, running DISA, in 1986, was on the Strategic invited by the Chinese government both science and humanism and for Congress (unsuccessful, thank- Nuclear Attack Planning System. in 1976 as part of Panama’s first the need to link both of them. I am fully!) twice. I now head a regional SNAP needed major emergency trade mission to China. Of course, a confident that research will overcome Democratic Party organization that repair to support the negotiation of trade mission (with many amenities) many people’s illnesses and help this year helped flip five Congres- the Intermediate-Range Nuclear and the China of that era is worlds undo the damage that we have done sional seats in Southern California Forces treaty. (The United States is apart from a state dinner and today’s to our planet. I wish I had the same from red to blue. You might catch my threatening to withdraw from INF China.” Larry adds: “May 30–June confidence about our country. So op-eds now and then in The New York in 2019 due to Russian violations.) 1 are dates to which I look forward. much divisiveness and unvarnished Times and/or The Wall Street Journal, My last assignment was as DoD It will be great to see classmates and hatred now passes as acceptable. Two or check out occasional columns primary representative to the Object share experiences. Columbia College things are clear: We need innovation on HuffPost. Traveling pretty often Management Group, where I was was a privilege and a very special and invention, and our country and with my wife. My son (a painter) the liaison chair and representative experience surrounded by talented, planet need leadership.” and his wife live nearby, which has to the International Organization for generous friends.” been great. Shout out to all CC Standardization. My crowning work Michael Rosenblatt offers classmates.” at OMG was the Unified Architec- some reflections as we head toward 1970 John Cauman is apparently ture Framework used by industry and reunion: “The 50th reunion of the understated but accomplished. He international defense community Leo G. Kailas Class of ’69 marks a time for reflec- reports, “I have written two books, to model or specify a wide range of Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt tion about self, family and friends, both to be published this spring: computer and human systems. This 885 Third Ave., 20th Fl. work, our nation and our planet. I’ll Matisse in 50 Works and Van Gogh is not primarily for architecture of New York, NY 10022 start with family. My wife, Patty, is in 50 Works.” buildings but could be applied to [email protected] involved in art and the interface of Juan Uranga reports: “Finished large building projects. science and art. She and I enjoy time what should be my next-to-last “I took a couple ‘busman’s Lawrence Davis with our two children, their spouses sent me a correc- political campaign. We won a holidays’ by auditing two graduate and our five grandchildren. We feel tive, but kind, note, as I had reported California State Senate seat that had courses in spring 2018 in systems it is the reward that comes after all him to be “Larry David” in my last always been in Republican hands. engineering and government at these years. Two years ago, we took column. My apologies to Larry My wife, Anna Caballero, became George Mason University. I had the entire 11-person Rosenblatt Davis, and I suspect Larry David the first Democrat, the first woman weekly Jewish Learning Institute ‘biomass,’ ages 5–69 at the time, to would be flattered to be confused and the first Latino (male or female) courses and a weekly private learn- Iceland for an extraordinary vaca- with Larry Davis. to occupy the seat. We secured a ing session with my rabbi. And I Larry Rosenwald tion. We see our daughter, Mia, her Professor solid victory, taking 54 percent of the fit in a trip to NYC and Columbia, husband, Kevork, and their children GSAS’79 reports: “Heaven forbid vote. The Senate District (SD12) is where I met with Rabbi Yonah (Rose, 14; Greg, 12; and Arianna, 6) that I should be shy … I’ll have a big mostly agricultural. It encompasses Blum of Columbia’s Chabad House quite often because they live within essay published in Raritan sometime the Salinas Valley (where Anna and to discuss planning to support walking distance of our former home this spring, ‘Sketch of a Pacifist I first practiced law — represent- Jewish student needs. I traveled to in Newton, Mass. Our son, Adam, Critic,’ the critic in question being ing farmworkers — and where we Boston for Passover with family and his wife, Amanda, and their boys me, and the essay being a micro- successfully launched our political friends — and the Boston Museum (Leo, 11, and Sal, 9) recently moved cosm of the book I hope to write on organizing efforts) and parts of the of Fine Arts — and supped with Martin Newhouse to Durham, N.C., where Adam literature and pacifism.” Central Valley, where conservative, GSAS’79.

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“Unfortunately, a routine Furnald, and J.G., who got expelled out to be difficult –– and New Tes- Coast –– nice! My biggest accom- screening colonoscopy revealed a after the second Hamilton bust? tament Greek is the hardest aca- plishment since leaving Columbia at cancer that required a successful but Unfortunately, all my pictures and demic class I’ve ever taken. Makes the end of 2016 was cleaning out 30 unexpected seven-hour operation in 8mm movies of the time were dis- law school look like a piece of cake. years of memories from my house in August 2018, a two-week hospital posed of, unceremoniously. Still, it has been a wonderful experi- Chappaqua, N.Y., getting it sold and stay and a two-and-a-half-month “My favorite teachers (whose ence. Thinking of switching from downsizing to a one-bedroom apart- stay in a rehabilitation facility. I am names I remember) were Richard an M.A. to an M.Div. program and ment with a patio in nearby Ossining. now at home, continuing treatment. Greeman (humanities) and Michael going for ordination, though that is I’ve also become more active in my I took the opportunity to begin Harner (anthropology). And the a long haul. We’ll see.” synagogue, joining the ritual commit- the long-overdue decluttering and chain-smoking philosophy grad Michael Straus GSAS’09: “Last tee and helping lead the services as a renovation of my townhouse condo. student Nadler for CC and the Art year I had the pleasure of seeing two Torah reader and gabbai. Not much fun. By the time of publi- Hum teacher, Mr. Feder, whom I ran long-standing translation projects “My daughter, Deborah BC’14, cation, I trust I will have completed into, quite by chance, at the Vatican come to completion. The first is my SPS’18, began a year in Israel in the three-month chemotherapy, Art Garden the summer after my translation into English of Pablo September, working on a fellowship restarted retirement plans and junior year at the Hebrew University Neruda’s virtually epic poem, Grapes with the American Jewish Joint resumed fun.” of Jerusalem. and the Wind/Las Uvas y el Viento, Distribution Committee. She’s Amen to Leonard’s wish for “On a personal note: At the accompanied by an essay by Dr. putting her master’s in negotiation renewed good health! end of 1974, I married a classmate Helena de Aguilar, of the Columbia and conflict resolution to work by from the Albert Einstein College faculty. The work had never been helping underrepresented people get of Medicine, Arlene Yale. We are translated into English, which is the services they need. We met in 1971 still together. Our three kids all kind of remarkable considering February for our annual vacation in attended Columbia College: Joshua Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Aruba –– my 35th trip to the Happy Jim Shaw ’04, LAW’07 married Rona Behar Literature. I also had the privilege of Island –– and I’m planning to visit 139 North 22nd St. ’04. They live in Los Angeles with presenting it at a public reading at her in Jerusalem in the spring. I Philadelphia, PA 19103 daughters Dahlia (4) and Isla (2). the Brooklyn Museum last spring, hope to see some classmates on [email protected] Josh is a partner at Myman Greens- where selections were also read by Saturday during Reunion Week- pan, entertainment law. a number of poets and Columbia’s end. Meanwhile, my email remains [Editor’s note: Please note that Jim “Aaron ’06 and (sorry) Harvard own Professor Alfred MacAdam. [email protected].” Shaw has a new email address, Law ’09, married another lawyer, [email protected]. The old Carla Pasquale. After a stint at email address no longer works.] Cravath, he is now with Levine Lee. They have Sam (3) and Vivian Mark Haselkorn ’71 is a professor of Steve Ross teaches history at the (under a year). human-centered design and engineering at the University of Southern California and “Rachel ’10 is pursuing an M.F.A. directs the Casden Institute for the in directing at Carnegie Mellon. The University of Washington. Study of the Jewish Role in American smartest of the bunch, she got A+ in Life. His most recent book, Hitler in both calculus and freshman English. Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots She majored in theater arts. Against Hollywood and America, was “I am a radiologist. I was at Copies are available on Amazon From Lewis Preschel: “We’ve named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Christ Hospital in Jersey City for The second is my translation from been graduated (paroled?) from in History for 2018. more than 23 years, and now I am at the Greek of the Book of Revela- Columbia for more than 47 years From Hillel Karp: “Jim Shaw Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, tion, imaginatively illustrated on this –– wow, how time passes. I left Har- and the Class of 1971 –– Whaddaya for 13 years. Still enjoying working occasion by Jennifer May Reiland. It lem and went to school in Brooklyn mean, no news? [Last year was] the and going strong. too is available on Amazon.” –– Bed-Stuy, out of the frying pan 50th anniversary of our freshman year, “On a sad note, my dad passed Arthur Engoron: “My son, Ian and into the fire. I believe nine oth- the greatest year Columbia ever knew. away in 2003 from a sudden cardiac Abbie Engoron, graduated from ers from the class went to SUNY “We won the Ivy League basket- event, and my mom in 2013 from Fordham Law in May 2018, passed Downstate College of Medicine with ball championship, a playoff game heart failure. I plan on sticking the July Bar Exam and started at me. If you are reading this, how about against Princeton. I remember that around because I have a good car- Olshan Frome Wolosky, in its share- a shoutout? For me and my medical season hearing Jimmy McMillian diologist, Fred Aueron, at Summit holder activism practice, in Septem- interests, what better location than ’70 and/or Heywood Dotson ’70, Medical Group. On another medical ber. I preside over a wide range of Bed-Stuy in the 1970s? I wanted to LAW’76 calling ‘Brooklyn’ from the note, I had a right hip replacement. civil cases (breach of contract, fraud, learn trauma surgery and orthope- floor. And Bruce Metz SEAS’69 at Paul Lombardi at Morristown personal injury, property damage, real dics. I graduated from Downstate in the foul line. Medical Center is the man for you if estate disputes, etc.) in Courtroom 1975 and completed my orthopedic “We also closed down the school. you need a new hip.” 418 at 60 Centre St. in Manhattan.” surgery training by 1980. In 1973, I I finished reading Up Against the Ivy Mark Davies LAW’75: “I retired Alex Sachare shares that he “is married Carole –– 45 years and she Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis at the beginning of 2016 after 22 enjoying his retirement, writing for can still stand to live with me. How? and am into the Cox Commission years at NYC’s ethics board. Still CCT and others and loving hav- I don’t know. She has a sweet disposi- Report. I also have The Strawberry adjuncting at Fordham Law (New ing my time as my own: watching tion and that balances mine. Statement on my bookshelf, next to York practice) and doing some pro sunrises and sunsets, taking naps, “I spent more than 23 years in the ‘red’ pamphlet, ‘Why We Strike.’ bono government ethics consulting binge-watching shows like The West private orthopedic practice, a two- “Furnald 9! Arvin, Neal, Howie, and teaching. In fall 2017 I started Wing and House of Cards, going to man group in Central New Jersey. where are you? And not from our at Union Theological Seminary, the health club when everybody is For 18 years, I was on call every other class, but A.G., who got beat up by going half time, which is more than at work, watching the Yankees and night and every other weekend. My cops on the fourth-floor landing of enough. Fascinating, but it turned Knicks when they’re on the West partner and I were two of the three

62 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews board-certified orthopedic surgeons the noir style of the 1940s but with something in 50 years (Introduction modernism across the arts, and on staff at our hospital. It was hectic, a female protagonist, which switches to Contemporary Civilization in the literature and philosophy. Among and exciting. Most importantly, I was the paradigm. I write under the West, Volumes 1&2, anyone?), it’s his recent books are Platonic Occa- there for many people in their time pseudonym L.A. Preschel because time to discard it. sions (with James Soderholm) and of need, no matter the hour of the several agents have told me a man “Open invitation to classmates to two edited volumes, Modernism and day. I choose my home address based cannot write a woman protagonist look me up in Jerusalem (arvinlevine Opera and Modernism, Postcolonial- on the ability to drive to the hospital well. I think that appropriately at gmail should remain usable) or let ism, and Globalism. in under 15 minutes. Our practice’s ironic –– reverse sexist discrimina- me know that you are already there!” Sean Wilentz, the George credo was the sun never sets on a tion. However, apparently, they are Eddie Goldman shares, “I have a Henry Davis 1886 Professor of fracture without treatment. In today’s right, as I do not have a literary chapter in a new book called You Say American History at Princeton, has medical world, that credo is forgotten agent as yet. I have two queries out You Want a Revolution. It is written a new book out, too: No Property in like a buried fossil. as I write this autobiographical col- by former members and support- Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the “Somehow, I found time to coach/ lection of who-cares information. I ers of the once-Maoist Progressive Nation’s Founding. It’s a provocative manage my daughters’ traveling soccer am also a member of the Columbia Labor Party. I was in PL while at argument that the posture of the team. I think some of my teammates Fiction Foundry, which is a group of Columbia in 1969 and left at the United States Constitution toward from Columbia, who remember how writers trying to elevate their game. end of 1970. My chapter deals a lot slavery — in particular its failure to I played on the field, as opposed to “Presently, I am retired from with what happened at Columbia endorse a property right in slaves — in the goal, might say I handicapped gainful employ, and in retirement during that period. One of the two set the stage for challenges to slavery rather than trained those ladies. I earned a master’s of library and editors of the book is John Levin in this country. However, with the help of professional information science from Rutgers, ’65, and some other chapters include Congratulations to David Stern, coaching, we sent several players on but I am still unemployed and enjoy- discussion about Columbia. The who won the Jordan Schnitzer Book to division 1 and 3 schools. My goalie ing every minute of my lack of direc- book is available on Amazon.” Award from the Association for Jew- was a state Olympic Development tion. Ask me how I fill the time. Isn’t Bill Christophersen: “Last year, ish Studies for his book, The Jewish Program player. Those kids have chil- that what grandchildren are for? My Tableau with Crash Helmet, my third Bible: A Material History. David is dren, and the cycle continues. Several life has been full and I thank all my collection of poetry, was published. the Harry Starr Professor of Classical became assistant coaches of local high classmates from the Class of ’71 for Its free-verse poems, many of them and Modern Jewish and Hebrew school teams. making life so interesting, starting set in New York, and bear some Literature, and director of the Center “Carole and I have two wonderful from back in the days when Colum- stamp, I’d like to think, of the New for Jewish Studies, at Harvard. daughters. My oldest worked in the bia had a nationally ranked basket- York School that Kenneth Koch (my On a different note, I am pleased field of public relations and she won ball team, and we learned about the advisor and teacher at Columbia) to report that my daughter, Avigail an ACE award, the equivalent of an world, government and ourselves. represented, though a madcap wit BC’05, and her husband, Aharon Oscar in public relations. My other Never stop learning, never let banal- and wry incoherence have never Charnov, welcomed their third daughter is the VP of marketing for ity fill your life.” been my strong suit. daughter, Meital Bracha, into the a large real estate company. My two Mark Haselkorn is a professor “This spring, meanwhile, my world last fall. I cannot begin to sons-in-law help our family span the of human-centered design and engi- study of James Fenimore Cooper’s describe what a pleasure it is to be Ivy League. They graduated from neering at the University of Wash- The Leatherstocking Tales, Resurrect- a grandfather, especially when all Dartmouth and Brown. ington and is director of the Center ing Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in seven grandchildren are around. “I have three grandchildren, all for Collaborative Systems for Secu- Jacksonian America, will be released. Finally, if you haven’t been under the age of 7. I can play soccer rity, Safety and Regional Resilience. The book looks at the five tales in receiving periodic emails from me with them because of the wonderful Arvin Levine: “By the time you relation to the 19th century — soliciting your contributions to cardiothoracic surgeon who saved read this in print, I will have moved Cooper’s own era — rather than the this column, it means I don’t have my life in 2010. He repaired my from the United States to Israel. 18th century, in which the books are your email address. Please send it aortic tear. The surgery’s five-year The complex collections of reasons, mostly set. For years I’ve researched to me at the email at the top of the survival rate is not high, but I am feelings, ideas and aspirations that and written about Cooper’s fictions. column, and unless you tell me not still here. Every day, I am blessed are ‘me’ are coming to a new turning Last year some of that work was to, I’ll pass it along to the Alumni with wonders that I would not point. Unlike a leopard, I am chang- recognized by the JFC Society. My Office, as well. otherwise be alive to see. We all ing my spots (sorry). article ‘The Prairie as a Southern Have a wonderful spring! should remember that each day is “Oddly, I am finding the most Tale’ (LEAR 7: 2016) received its an opportunity for something good difficult part of this process is the James Franklin Beard Award.” to happen. Whether the good hap- disentanglement from possessions Please send news to cct71notes@ 1973 pens to us, or we make it happen for –– not for financial reasons, but for gmail.com! someone else, who cares? Make it emotional and testimonial purposes. Barry Etra happen. We cannot let the general Am I really parting with my fresh- 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE atmosphere in America today pol- man beanie? I’ve had it with me 1972 Atlanta, GA 30306 lute our concept of living a good since coming to Columbia or earlier [email protected] life. Live to your own standards and and it testifies to a world that no Paul S. Appelbaum make those standards too high to longer exists or could exist (perhaps 39 Claremont Ave., #24 We’re in our 50th anniversary year reach. That way you always have a should no longer exist). But if I dis- New York, NY 10027 of entering the College. Seems like goal in front of you. card it, the conversation ends there, [email protected] only … half a century ago? Hoo-ah. “My short mystery story, 30 Years and that is the saddest thing of all. In order of appearance: Jim to Life, was published in an anthol- Of course, I have my memories, but We’ll start with some academic Firman BUS’77 is the president and ogy (30 Shades of Dead) in 2017. I as we well know, those are personal highlights this time. Richard CEO of the National Council on plan to publish a novel (most likely and fundamentally inaccessible to Begam, a professor of English at Aging and was named to The Non- self-publish), using the same char- others, aside from being unreliable. the University of Wisconsin-Madi- profit Times’ Power and Influence acters. I write murder mysteries in Perhaps, if you haven’t looked at son, teaches 20th-century literature, Top 50 list for the fifth time.

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Joel Pfisteris the Olin Professor the first time to our 45th reunion 4 months). Son Larry is a lawyer at New York. The startup has created a of English and American Studies this coming May. Little did we Goldman Sachs. Having three kids platform to do online testing for large at Wesleyan; this spring he will be realize the momentous events that who are employed in professional companies that need to weed through visiting professor of humanities would occur in our country and the fields and having four grandchildren hundreds of résumés. Third son, at the Università degli Studi di world during the next four years. is a dream that I bet makes many Jamie, lives in San Francisco, where Macerata, near the Adriatic Coast in There are dozens of categories envious. (I am just envious that the he works for BlackRock. Youngest Italy. Joel and his wife, Lisa Wyant, that could be addressed but let me constant drain of tuition payments son, Brian, is at Neuberger Berman in will be based in Rome; in addition narrow it down to two: politics and has stopped for Ed. I am still shell- NYC and supports its ultra-high net to teaching a graduate seminar, he science. I think few of us realize that ing out incredible sums for daughter worth division. will advance work on his book on the microprocessor was invented Katie, a sophomore at American After 25 years in the financial American movies and social critique. in 1971, which led to the handheld University in D.C., and for son services and executive search sectors, Ted Gregory He sends a shoutout to Professor calculator, the PC and so much David, doing a master’s of finance at returned to Columbia Leo Braudy for his “Popular Cul- more (let alone the demise of the Brandeis near Boston!) in 2013 as the head of the “Diversity ture” course back in the day! slide rules that used to hang from It is hard to keep up with infec- Initiatives and Talent Recruit- David Steven Glaser LAW’76 has the belts of all the engineering stu- tious disease specialist Dr. ment” effort. Part of his job involves Melnick retired after more than 40 years at dents). And 1973 brought the first (in Jamaica Plains, Mass., searches for both men’s and women’s the same law firm (Moses & Singer mobile phones. Think how different a Boston suburb). He has spent basketball, football and wrestling in New York). One firm since gradu- our lives would have been without time at Yale and Boston University head coaches. He also does com- ating from the Law School! Wow. these two breakthroughs. and then spent 15 years as the VP mentary on “Go Columbia Lions,” Steve Greenberg checked The political world brought huge of clinical development of anti- the online broadcast of Columbia in from NYC, as well. He plans changes. The Supreme Court in infectious drugs at AstraZeneca in football games. Ted is a deacon to retire in 2020. He spends a lot 1971 approved busing students as Delaware. Then in 2015 he moved at the Marble Collegiate Church, of time now watching one of his a step toward greater equality. The on to do the same for Allergan. In where he also maintains his passion grandsons excel at sports all around next year, 1972, brought the Water- 2018 David became the chief medi- for gospel singing. Daughter Jessica Brooklyn. Steve started a 501c3, The gate investigation (that seems eerily cal officer at Spero Therapeutics, a BC’17 is completing a master’s in Breezy Point Disaster Relief Fund, to echo the current Russian med- five-year-old clinical stage biophar- education at Teachers College. She after Hurricane Sandy, which raised dling probe). The Supreme Court maceutical company that is develop- plans to teach high school English more than $2.5 million in grants made its monumental Roe v. Wade ing treatments of multi-resistant and creative writing. distributed directly to residents. decision on abortion in 1973. The bacterial infections. Stay tuned for There you have it. Classmates con- Bravo, Steve! same year brought the “end” of the what he is up to next! tinuing in their longtime careers while Marc Gross has become senior Vietnam War and, more important From Lancaster, Pa., we hear others move on to explore something Roger Cohen, counsel at Pomerantz after more than to many classmates, the end of the from who by day is different. Come back this May for our 40 years as a litigator; his final case draft. While technically occurring the senior advisor to the secretary 45th reunion and to learn more details against Petrobras (Brazil) recovered after our graduation, I cannot omit of the Pennsylvania Department about “the long strange trip we’ve all $3 billion for defrauded clients. For the August 9, 1974, resignation of of Transportation. But he tells us been on” since 1970! his “next act,” he will be president of Richard Nixon. A long strange trip, he has been proud to work the last the Institute of Law and Economic indeed, compressed into four years! three years on the steering com- Vincent Policy and also sit on the board of Got an update from mittee of the Regional Greenhouse 1975 Marchewka T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human (in White Plains, N.Y.). Gas Initiative, the first manda- Randy Nichols Rights. He also has more time to He says he took a senior position on tory market-based program in the 734 S. Linwood Ave. spend with his four grandkids. the capital markets team at Bank of United States to reduce greenhouse Baltimore, MD 21224 There you have it — grandkids and New York Mellon and is “now com- gas emissions. There are currently 10 [email protected] retirements rule. As well they should. muting to the downtown area for the northeast states involved in this “cap first time in 20 years.” His daughter and trade” program. Victoria was married last year and Media executive Albie Hecht David Gawarecki says, “Retirement 1974 lives in Manhattan. Youngest child (in Montclair, N.J.) is CEO of the is sooooooo stressful.” LOL, he was Katie ran the Chicago Marathon last production company WorldWide writing from poolside somewhere in REUNION 2019 October with a time of 4:35. This Biggies and the chief creative officer Mexico, largely for the lack of winter MAY 30–JUNE 1 made her the third family member of pocket.watch, a digital media though he says he plays well with Events and Programs Contact to complete a marathon! Son James start-up focused exclusively on chil- the other senior citizens. [email protected] continues creating financial products dren’s entertainment. Last fall he was Marc Kozinn started a position Development Contact for Barings in Charlotte. involved in the production of The as medical lead, cardiovascular [email protected] Ed Kornreich (in Manhattan) is Election Effect, which won the Best innovative medicines development a longtime partner at the NYC law Documentary Series at the Interna- – heart failure, clinical trials lead at Fred Bremer firm Proskauer Rose, specializing in tional Academy of Web Television. Bristol-Myers Squibb. 532 W. 111th St. the healthcare area. He tells us his Longtime Merrill Lynch financial Update! After reporting in the New York, NY 10025 home is getting a little crowded dur- advisor Kevin Ward (in Montvale, Winter 2018–19 issue that Doug [email protected] ing the holidays now that he has four N.J.) continues to work part-time in Letter had retired after four decades grandchildren. Daughter Davida (a the Paramus, N.J., office. He shared at the Justice Department, he will “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” dermatologist in Philadelphia) has updates on his sons: Matt ’11 (his now serve as the top lawyer for These immortal words from the two girls (one is 3 years old and the eldest) lives in San Francisco and is the House this year as Democrats Grateful Dead aptly describe the 49 other 4 months). His other daughter, working at Mux, a video analytics return to power. His appointment years that span the time from the Molly, is a lawyer at Skadden Arps startup. Matt recently married the was announced by House Speaker hot, humid day in 1970 (September and has two boys of roughly the same former Charlotte Crawford. Second Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and comes 25?) when we arrived on campus for ages (one is 2 years old and the other son, Mark, works for Pymetrics in as Democrats prepare to unleash

64 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews what is expected to be a barrage cider. He says, “If you can’t ferment Exposure, an incredible exhibition of of investigations into President it, why bother?” He got tired of John Waters’ artwork, and met John Trump’s administration and busi- picking –– even after several groups in the galleries and at the signing of ness, along with separate probes into of friends helped –– so he gave the the show’s catalog. tech companies and other industries. trees to a nearby company, Stem The Hon. Albert Mrozik Jr. has Ciders, and he will get cider in the been appointed by the corporation spring. Bob says that he wishes that 1976 counsel as acting chief municipal he had learned more about fermen- prosecutor for Newark, N.J. In Janu- tation when studying chemistry and Ken Howitt ary, he attended the opening and cel- biology at Columbia. He has been 1114 Hudson St., Apt. 8 ebratory brunch for Equality – Pride trying to get more University chem- Hoboken, N.J. 07030 in Our History at the New Hope istry and microbiology departments [email protected] Convention Center. The exhibition to use fermentation as an example of takes visitors on a journey through the practical uses of these subjects. Back to the turntable and LPs. decades of gay pride and showcases Remember, Louis Pasteur started Reaching back to high school with a collection of stories, photos and studying wine, which led Bob to dis- Bookends from Simon & Garfunkel Frank Jacobyansky ’76 (left) and memorabilia contributed by lesbian, cover microbes and vaccines! Several (“America,” “The Sound of Silence”). Jim Berquist ’76 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh last summer. gay, bisexual, transgender and ques- universities in Colorado now offer Got a Mika report to lead off tioning individuals and their allies. B.S. degrees in brewing sciences. with. She was barking like crazy, The report of Bob Sclafani Joel Stern’s book Origami City, since Dennis Goodrich might be GSAS’81’s retirement in recent a kit full of fun folding treasures, retiring in the not-so-distant future and unusual destinations, as well as Class Notes inspired Rich Coren- tied for first place in the annual from his legal practice in Syracuse. difficult and unusual ocean cargo. thal to write. Rich says he is a bit Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Both Linda, Dennis’ wife, and Mika I guess the Core Curriculum perplexed to learn of Bob’s attraction in the “Activity Book 1 – Arts and had the same reaction, and it wasn’t taught Brian how to handle difficult to beer in his free time in Colorado. Crafts” category. You can view all of “Oh, goody!” Mika actually barked, and unusual. Rich also said that he is not retiring the other winners –– an amaz- “What am I going to do with him Got this from Frank Jacob and is still representing the firefight- ing field –– at moonbeamawards. around all day?” yansky: “We entered the College ers, laborers and correction officers com/85/2018-winners. I asked Joel if I am constantly amazed at the in fall 1972; the previous fall the union and employees. He recently Columbia had consulted him when breadth of occupations from ’76ers. football team had its best season in opened a law office in Westchester, designing the origami challenge for Here is an update from Charles 24 years. Columbia recruited heavily N.Y., after commuting to Grand 2018’s Columbia Giving Day, and Philipp Martin: “I’m still writing in southwestern Pennsylvania, and Central for 19 years. Rich’s wife, Joel said he wasn’t even aware of the crime fiction in my home office, seven of the freshmen football play- Andra BC’76, is a pediatrician at challenge (I sent him a link!). a 1957 Airstream trailer in our ers were from southwestern Penn- Bellevue Hospital. Rich says, “We’re I continue to love my adopted Seattle backyard. After Columbia I sylvania. Only three of us made it to basically unchanged and still looking city, Baltimore. In addition to its attended the Manhattan School of graduation: me, Bob Kimutis and for good protests to attend.” history –– I see Fort McHenry from Music and then played in the Hong Jim Berquist. I am a general dentist BTW, Bob Sclafani retired after my roofdeck –– it also offers lots of Kong Philharmonic. Eventually I (Pitt DMD’82) and have practiced 33 and a half years at the University fun things to do and great places to quit to be a full-time writer, but I in Normalville, Pa., since 1986 as of Colorado School of Medicine, eat and drink. Recently, the Creative stayed in Hong Kong for 17 years a solo practitioner. I plan to go where he is now emeritus profes- Alliance at the Patterson Theater altogether. Seattle became my home, maybe 10 more years. Normalville is sor of biochemistry and molecular had a showing of Rocky Horror Pic- and that of my wife, Cathy, and son, very close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s genetics. He continues his brewing ture Show, with a (bad) drag queen Toby, in 1998. New York was just Fallingwater. If any classmates plan consultancy business, enjoying all and a comical burlesque troupe. I too warm for Toby, so he attended to visit there, please let me know; I the brew he consults about. Bob also had, and used, all of the appropriate St. Olaf in Minnesota. am the only dentist around. has several big apple trees, and most props. I also went to the Baltimore “Neon Panic, my first crime “In 2001 I found a note in my of the apple juice went into hard Museum of Art to see Indecent novel, came out in 2011. A story of office door. John Demas, a dentist mine, ‘Ticket Home,’ was recently out of NYC, was taking his two published in the anthology Hong daughters on a tour of rollercoasters. Kong Noir. More crime novels are They took a side trip to Fallingwater, in the works. And by the way, all he saw my name, and left the mes- Columbia writers should credit CC sage. I talked to John recently. He has and Humanities in their acknowl- a private practice in NYC and lectures edgements, don’t you agree?” at many local hospitals on forensic I do agree, but for some of us, we dentistry. He was involved in identifi- should also thank Professor Cliff cations at the World Trade Center. and Professor Monarch. “I recently met up with Jim Bryan Alix, a longtime Westport, Berquist at a Pittsburgh Pirates Conn., resident, is a regular attendee game. Jim is the proud father of at Lions games when Yale is included five grown children and is in local and also when he has a Saturday politics, on the town council of night to take family and friends to Peters Township, a ritzy Pittsburgh Levien Gymnasium. More than a suburb. I couldn’t talk Bob Kimutis year ago, Bryan started a venture, into coming. He is coaching several Former crew members had a reunion at the Yale Bowl. Left to right: Blix Broker, which specializes in baseball teams, mostly of older kids, George Freimarck ’76, Jim King ’75, John DiMartino ’75 and Mike Hirsh ’75. managing ocean freight to difficult and it keeps him busy.

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“I have been married to Nancy with former crew mates (yes, rowing can continue to share in the joys and Columbia. We were in the lull that for 35 years. My oldest son got team, aka, ‘crew,’ please not ‘crew knowledge of our lives, benefit from followed the upsurge in activities accepted into WVU Dental team’ — redundant!) from the Class the caring and most of all, remember leading up to 1968, but we had School. My other son is a chemical of ’75, including Jim King ’75, John the Old Friends and keep reaching organizations working on issues like engineering student at Pitt. I still DiMartino ’75 and Mike Hirsh ’75. out to them — and new friends, as getting the University to divest from enjoy juggling and perform at local Also had a great time catching up well! Enjoy the spring and don’t for- companies involved in apartheid events, play the sousaphone in our with the inimitable and ultimate get to get in touch if you get to NYC! in South Africa, promoting human local Italian band and organize our Lion, Tom Sanford ’68, heavy- rights in Chile and supporting the town’s January 1 Polar Bear Jump weight captain of the ’68 crew. I also United Farm Workers. It was as a –– we have the Youghiogheny River recently reconnected on LinkedIn 1977 result of these activities that I began running through our town, and we with my Carman roommate from doing writing and research on U.S. average about 500 jumpers going frosh year, Bob Campbell. David Gorman foreign policy, which I do now as into the river each year.” “Speaking of the Yale game, I saw 111 Regal Dr. the director of the Arms & Security Joel Silverstein and I have in the Class Notes how many of the DeKalb, IL 60115 Project at the Center for Interna- known each other from childhood guys I knew were there, but somehow [email protected] tional Policy. and have stayed in touch through missed. Hope to see more of those “My current writing has focused the years, since our parents also are folks again, sometime soon. Let me No news for this issue –– please take on ending U.S. support for the friends. My mom and Joel’s parents know if you plan to be in Munich! a moment during the spring to send Saudi-led war in Yemen, reducing live in the same senior complex on “In Lumine tuo ... ” in a note. Your classmates want to excessive Pentagon spending and the Jersey shore, and it is always Tom Motley checked in with hear from you! rethinking U.S. nuclear strategy.” great to talk old times and children’s a couple of thoughts. In addition Never far from whatever the top accomplishments. to golf with Terry Corrigan, Tom music gig in the country is, Steve Joel practices law in New Jersey went south to South Carolina for 1978 Bargonetti is presently playing lead at Stern Kilcullen & Rufolo, and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Festival. guitar for The Cher Show on Broad- had this news about one of his Another event he attended was Matthew Nemerson way, “I get to include tasty, diverse daughters, Elicia, who is a violinist: Barry Smiley’s wedding, which 35 Huntington St. guitar licks that conjure Van Halen, “The Rubicon label has released my included Effrem Nieves, Den- New Haven, CT 06511 Duane Allman, Wes Montgomery, daughter Elicia Silverstein’s debut nis Moore and Larry Collins, [email protected] Nile Rodgers and many others. solo album –– The Dreams & Fables along with Steve Barker ’78, Darryl Cher’s musical styles sure do cover a I Fashion –– and it’s getting rave Downing ’74 and Denise Jones In the last column we closed by lot of ground!” reviews! It was chosen as the BBC’s BC’76, plus their spouses. [Editor’s pointing out that in a different Peter Samis has been creating Music magazine’s Instrumental note: see “Just Married!,” this issue.] universe, our accomplished ambas- experiences for us for many decades Choice for January 2019, and in its I usually don’t include informa- sador and statesman classmate Chris and now is onto a new chapter: December 2018 issue, Gramophone tion from out-of-office replies, but Dell would have closed out his “After 30 years working at the San magazine wrote ‘This is a deeply one that caught my attention was career as Secretary of State. While Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I thought-through, bewitchingly from Roy Strickland, because his it hasn’t happened (yet), here he is retired from my position as associate rendered succession of interpreta- signature included a link to his TedX himself commenting on his latest curator of interpretation last fall after tions … This is also one of those talk on architecture and urban design. career twists: “I’m adjusting to life giving a big-picture view of ‘lessons rare albums truly conceived as a I watched the presentation and then in Washington, after 21 years away. learned’ to the museum’s staff. whole listen from start to finish … I did a little research on Roy. He is It’s a very different and better place “The next week, my wife, artist Whatever Silverstein does next, I’m another amazing ’76er! From the to live. Despite all the crazy, it’s no Mary Curtis Ratcliff, and I lit out already looking forward to it.’ University of Michigan faculty profile: worse actually being in ‘Crazy Town’ on a fascinating monthlong road “We are very proud of Elicia.” “Roy Strickland is an internation- than anywhere else. Keeping body trip across the Southwest to Austin, George Freimarck critiqued ally recognized and award-winning and soul together through a com- Tulsa, Arkansas and back via Indian (after all, it is Columbia!) my choice urban designer and educator whose bination of private sector banking Country, the Four Corners area, of listening to Jefferson Starship practice, teaching and research have and consulting to the U.S. military. national parks in Colorado and Utah while writing the Winter 2018–19 engaged the global cities of London, Learning all about the joys of creat- and finally across Nevada to Lake Class Notes, and spoke of his prefer- Paris, Tokyo, Istanbul, New York and ing my own business [Dell Ener- Tahoe and the Calaveras Big Trees ence of Jefferson Airplane. Beijing. He is professor of architecture getix Consulting] in the process.” (aka magnificent sequoias). I am Whatever (add shrug)! at the A. Alfred Taubman College Chris was very impressed with now free to research and write about George also sent in this: “My of Architecture and Urban Planning, how well maintained the lawn was on meaning-making and world views –– big news: I accepted the challenge where he served as the founding direc- South Field during reunion, which my passion since I cobbled together to open an office and operation in tor of the Master of Urban Design leads me to believe they must have an interdisciplinary focus of studies Munich for my company, Xceedance, Program from 2001 until 2012.” put artificial fog machines in Foggy at Columbia (including a wonderful a consultancy dedicated to the insur- “Old Friends” (appropriately Bottom and we have all lost the abil- junior year spent in Paris). ance industry. I have been here full enough) just finished on the ity to detect the subtle difference “In the meantime, my museum time since October. It is a wonderful turntable, so it is time to wrap it up. between fiction and reality. He hopes career has an interesting afterlife: opportunity, not without its chal- Most importantly, I thank all the to retire in Europe, “assuming we The book Creating the Visitor- lenges, but among other things brings ’76ers for their continued support of have not destroyed NATO and the Centered Museum, which I co-wrote back great memories of Professor Joe the College in so many ways. Our EU and handed it over to Russia.” with Mimi Michaelson, has been Bauke’s classes in German Expres- fundraising last year was a great Bill Hartung has also spent a published in Chinese. I’m also writ- sionist poetry. I think he would get a effort and much appreciated by the career in foreign policy: “I have ing another book, this one about kick out of the whole notion. students, most of all. been continuing on the trajectory personal meaning and world views “Also, at the Yale football game So, I encourage all of my fellow that started when I was a philoso- and how they play out across differ- at the Yale Bowl, I had a great time ’76ers to send in their updates so we phy major and student activist at ent sectors of society.”

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This is what I miss by not living changed substantially, but we still great, and he’d like to see more figure in about four years, at which in New York and/or still subscrib- have to figure out a way to hold a activities and even outreach to point I hope to travel more and visit ing to Harper’s magazine: Don joint event with Barnard classmates.” classmates who might not be able to our National Parks!” Guttenplan appeared with Rick Warren Hoeffler wrote last afford the high event prices. Carl M. Sherer, of Jerusalem, is MacArthur at Book Culture on summer; my apologies to him, as I Edward Rosenfeld was married to Adina B. Weiss BC’82; Columbus on October 2. Don notes, misplaced his notes. He writes, “My impressed during reunion by the they have eight children and more “I was delighted to spend an evening daughter Kaila recently moved to new campus beyond West 125th than eight grandchildren. in conversation with Rick. I hope at Austin, Texas, reminding me of why Street. He writes, “I am divorced, Your humble scribe has decided least some of the crowd came out of I moved to California: The allure of and partnered with a great new to take a break from politics and interest in my new book, The Next the frontier. woman. My daughter is 26, working New Haven government for a bit Republic: The Rise of a New Radical “Standing on the shoulders of and in school to become a school and has joined an old friend –– and Majority (my editor is Dan Simon giants as a biology major at Colum- counselor. My son is 17, going to successful serial entrepreneur –– to ’79), which offers what one reviewer bia, I found the new research on the Stuyvesant and waiting to hear from help him build a startup in the very called an ‘optimistic, but not delu- molecular level fascinating. Initially, engineering schools. I co-own a hot space of “energy efficiency as a sional’ take on where American I stayed in New York, working media company, Rosenfeld Media.” service.” The company, Budderfly, politics might be going. But without at Cold Spring Harbor Labora- Robert Muirhead reports, “Not will be doing its part to save many the presence of Sid Holt ’79, Steve tory, and coauthored a paper that much was happening here in the millions of kilowatts of otherwise Ackerman ’79, Tom Mellins ’79, Ken appeared on the cover of Nature. I wilds of Eastern last fall. The taste wasted electricity (doing our part Sacharin ’79, Jami Barnard BC’78 took this as a sign that I should con- of travel and extended vacation it to combat climate change) and is and Nanci Fink Levine BC’79 tinue with biology, so I did a Ph.D. provided left me looking forward to looking to raise money with the idea it would have been a much less at Washington University, and found retirement and more exciting adven- of making it quick and simple for memorable event. I also caught up myself again in NYC when our lab tures abroad.” companies, governments or institu- with Larry Friedman and Duncan moved to Rockefeller University. Oz is very popular this time tions without access to easy capital Moore a few days later in Chicago.” After two first author publications around, it seems. but with aging physical plants to let The class’ prodigious liter- in Cell, I sought the frontier in Jeff Canfield, who works for the Budderfly achieve 20–40 percent ary success is carried on by John the biotech industry –– moving to Department of Defense in Virginia, energy savings through systems Glusman, who has been editor- California to work for Genentech, has “returned from Afghanistan, and upgrades and advanced sensors, in-chief of W.W. Norton & Co. followed by a faculty appointment is now back to the D.C. routine.” software and monitoring. Details (the country’s oldest independent, at Stanford Medical School in der- Looking ahead a few years, as we go. employee-owned publisher) since matology. I found a chasm between Jeff is working on “finishing all of Great thanks to everyone who 2011. “While I’m proud of all of my science and medicine and have been Samuel Pepys’ diary [the accom- wrote in this issue. authors, including several Columbia trying to fill in pieces, which I am plished Naval administrator and graduates, I’m perhaps most proud currently doing through my new daily recorder of his life as part of of my son, Graham ’19,” John says. business venture in biotech. London’s leadership class 1660–70] 1979 Rob Blank, one of the first peo- Warren adds, “Ultra-low temper- and helping ensure my granddaugh- ple I met at Columbia (we shared a ature tissue freezing, tissue regenera- ters are on the path to becoming REUNION 2019 floor in John Jay for years), has now tion, stem cells and cell assembly are Columbia students.” MAY 30–JUNE 1 gone and left the country: “As I told players in this sandbox. I do enjoy “Jaime Morhaim (my Columbia Events and Programs Contact many during reunion, my wife, Sue the views of the Marin hills sur- roommate), his wife and my wife are [email protected] Coppersmith, and I have made the rounding my house, and plan to visit going on a Silversea cruise this fall, Development Contact move to Sydney, Australia. We feel Columbia on my next visit to NYC starting in Monte Carlo then to the [email protected] your pain over the government shut- looking for investors.” west coast of Italy to Taormina, then down and the rest, but we are glad Amittai Aviram enjoys “bicycling to Croatia and ending in Venezia. Robert Klapper to be away from the chaos. to work in downtown Boston at Columbia was good to us all,” writes 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 “Sue has assumed a professor- Medtronic to help develop a surgi- Francis Collini, who leads the Los Angeles, CA 90048 ship at the University of New South cal robot system. I’m also teaching Renaissance Center for Plastic Sur- [email protected] Wales. I am on leave from the one online master’s-level computer gery & Wellness in Shavertown, Pa. Medical College of Wisconsin and science course a year through Wen- Francis continues: “Also, I am the Reflections from Dr. Neville expect to be spending my profes- tworth Institute of Technology. I proud grandfather of Piper Quinn Alleyne: “Just finished reading the sional time at the Garvan Institute of occasionally see Alex Demac in (!). My first and only granddaughter Fall 2018 issue. I could not help to Medical Research. We are renting a NYC, and I have been correspond- so far. She’s so beautiful and just reach out to you and say Doc Dem- small house in Maroubra Beach and ing with Dan Coulter. My son, adds joy every day to our lives.” ing was and is exceptional. Great searching for a more permanent base Blake ’01, married his fiancée, Fan Joe Schachner SEAS’79, who memories, my friend. of operations. I am feeling rejuve- Wu, in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, works for Teledyne LeCroy, notes, “I live in La Jolla, Calif., and do nated by having stepped away from last February. They live in Long “The manager of my little software spine surgery at TriCity Medical academic medicine in the United Island City, and Blake is an attorney group retired last June and told me Center and Scripps. We pioneered States and –– even more –– academic with Milbank. I should take over that position. Robotic Spine with the Mazor robot medicine administration in the states. “My book on poetry theory, Tell- Well, I did, but I still also develop seven years ago and became leaders “My goals for the next five years: ing Rhythm, was quoted at length software or at least fix some difficult in this field. Enjoy life. Enjoy family. Enjoy friends. by Jonathan Culler in his new book, bugs. My one and only grand- “I have been blessed with three Enjoy work. Enjoy leisure. I think in Theory of the Lyric. I have been daughter is now 2.5 and talking children: Chris ’19 (22), Will ’20 that order, but I could be wrong.” somewhat active with Boston Dem- up a storm. It’s amazing to see her (20), and Caroline (17). Chris plays Rob reflected on reunion, “Ham- ocratic Socialists of America.” transform from baby to kid. As for football and is the kicker; he is an ilton Hall and Low remained frozen Thinking back on reunion, Amit- me –– no surprise –– retirement has economics major. Will is a junior in time while the rest of campus has tai noted that everything looked appeared on my event horizon. I and is pre-med. He enjoys club

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ground was red; the King’s Crown in in PR. Their sons are pursuing their gold and the price $1.59. Under the dreams. John (28) works for KKR in crown, capital letters COLUMBIA London and Daniel (25) graduated UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE. from Davidson, coaches basketball Below that, ‘Assignments,’ below and works in Raleigh, N.C., for that ‘AND’ and below that ‘DATES FOCUS, a ministry to independent TO REMEMBER 1975 TO 1976.’ school students. When I discovered this dead sea We all should give PR a look, for scroll in my garage, I gotta tell you, I I hear the tax benefits are plentiful. was nervous when opening the book From Los Angeles, Ned Teit- because the memories of the anxiety elbaum is doing some interesting were about to be relived. I felt like work on the history of wine in Larry Hagman stumbling upon the the region. Specifically, the project ancient bottle and by opening this involves the establishment of an his- book Barbara Eden was going to toric grape garden in Willowbrook, appear in my garage. (Although, a community in South Los Angeles remember it was Barnard, and there between Watts and Compton. The was no Barbara Eden.) garden will be planted for three his- “The first shocking Columbia toric and interrelated grapes –– the Football alumni had a golf outing in Scottsdale in October. Standing, left memory launched from this find was indigenous California Desert, the to right: Steve Murphy ’79, Mel Velez ’79, Paul O’Connor ’79, Bohdan an appointment to meet with Dean Spanish Listán Prieto and the inter- Sosiak ’79, Rich Witherspoon ’79, Kevin Cook ’80 and Andy Elliott ’79; Patricia Geisler, the famed pre-med specific hybrid of the two, known kneeling: Mike McGraw ’79; photographer’s thumb: Bill Buchholz ’79. advisor, the angel from above who locally as Mission. held our hands down the dusty road Through the planting of these of being a pre-med student back in three grapes, Ned hopes to provide volleyball. Caroline is applying as only problem was if you ever took the day. a lens through which to view L.A.’s a senior in high school and is the the elevator to the mezzanine you “This book truly did guide me earliest agricultural, social and eco- captain of the volleyball, soccer caught all kinds of grief from every- and gave structure to a week that nomic history, and even its so-called and lacrosse teams at The Bishop’s one else on the elevator. included crew team practice, study “pre-history.” School in La Jolla. If she is fortunate “So there we are with our fan- sessions, midterm and final exams After three years, he hopes to enough to also attend Columbia it tastic tour guide and we get on the and the occasional date with a girl make a wine that will reestablish a will be a quadruple legacy! Chris elevator on the fourth floor and hit from the Fashion Institute of Tech- site-specific (and drinkable) ethno- will graduate on our 40th anniver- the mezzanine button. As we were nology. It almost seems I am reading biology of the area. Workshops for sary –– where did the time go? getting off the elevator, all kinds of about someone else’s life. local kids and visits from culinary “Say hi to Larry DiFabrizio, Joe invective was showered down upon “This issue’s column is dedicated historians are being planned for Fiorito, Marco Gottardis and my us by both students and their par- to what your daily planning book the spring, when he will plant the roommate in med school, Rich Mil- ents from inside the crowded eleva- might have looked like from Sep- vineyard part of the garden –– nine ford! Go Lions –– roar!” tor. I turned to the [group] and said, tember 1975 to May 1976. rooted Listán Prieto, arranged by the Paul O’Connor writes, “I have ‘I graduated from this place 40 years “Roar, lion, roar!” old Spanish method, the marco real. always enjoyed your notes for our ago and we used to catch all kinds Ned says, “I could go on about class and have wanted to send you of crap when we get off on the mez- how this project connects Los information but have never been zanine. I’m glad to see that tradition 1980 Angeles to the ancient civilizations organized or motivated enough to still continues.’ The doors closed, and of Rome, Greece and beyond, as Michael C. Brown do so. This comes to an end today. I am sure those people did not think well as to the ancient civilizations of London Terrace Towers Your reminiscence of riding the ele- it was as funny as I did.” the Americas. But I won’t. I would 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F vator in Carman Hall with a group Robert C. Klapper: “In a recent hope that anyone who has taken New York, NY 10011 of football players (I could’ve been cleansing of my garage I discovered Contemporary Civilization, which I [email protected] one of those ‘ohnofootballplayers’ a box that held a treasure from our did with Professor Eugene Rice, can in the elevator, by the way) was too freshman year. No, it was not the see this project’s potential.” Jay Kutlow much. I had to write to tell you of Barnard phone book or a menu from Spring is in the air, and the city is producing a my recent elevator ride in Carman Mama Joy’s. It was the red daily will soon be bustling and blooming. podcast series, The Sports Rivals, Hall during Homecoming 2018. planner that we all bought 40-plus Yankees, Mets –– will Columbia with in-depth interviews of pairs of “I was on a tour of the campus years ago. I would love to show you baseball win yet another champion- athletes who have experienced some with my grandson, who is consider- a photograph of the cover, but the ship? Too much to choose from in of the most competitive, moving and ing Columbia. Because I was on sacred laws of this magazine do not the Big Apple! memorable rivalries in sports history. an official tour, I got to go into allow for these types of pictures, as I trust 2019 has gotten off to a Check it out. Jack Hersch Carman Hall. I went to the fourth photos must feature alumni. [Edi- good start for most of the Class of ’80. Congratulation to Tim Howard SEAS’80, floor to see my old room. It was tor’s note: You can see the planner checked in from BUS’86 on the publica- too freaky to go actually in. We got at college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/ Puerto Rico, where his is the head of tion of his book, Death March on the elevator and got off at the spring19/article/class-notes by school at TASIS Dorado. He reports Escape. This is the story of Jack’s floor I lived on sophomore year entering 1979 in the search bar.] that while Hurricane Maria was father’s survival and escape from a –– the mezzanine. We had figured “Let me describe to you in a few traumatic, the island is recovering concentration camp. An interesting out during our first year at Carman words what the picture from your and the school is thriving. After read and amazing story. that the mezzanine had only three past looks like. The size was about living in Boston for almost 30 years, Drop me a line at mcbcu80@ rooms and its own TV lounge. The the size of a current iPad. The back- Tim and his wife, Meg, love living yahoo.com.

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Wayne Allyn Root: “Just like infrastructure construction. While 1981 1983 my great President Trump, who seemingly unlikely, Cleveland has announced a trade deal with rocketed up the charts and is now Kevin Fay Roy Pomerantz Mexico and Canada against all number 37 in the nation in leading 8300 Private Ln. Babyking/Petking odds, I am relentless! This CC grad publications as a bike-friendly place. Annadale, VA 22003 182-20 Liberty Ave. is already national on radio. I’m “I’ve also been active in area the- [email protected] Jamaica, NY 11412 already national on TV. Now I’m ater, most recently using history to [email protected] also national with my newspaper write plays and act in and tell stories My inbox was empty in the fourth columns. You’ll start reading my of the Underground Railroad in quarter of 2018, save for a robust and Greetings, classmates. My sons and political opinions in a newspaper Northeast Ohio, serving on the board entertaining exchange of emails with I attended the Columbia versus Iona near you! It’s an amazing honor to of a group developing a pre-Civil Gregory Harrison, my friend who men’s basketball game at Madison announce that my Las Vegas Review- War building into a museum (the earned three graduate degrees (a mas- Square Garden. Columbia won 74–71. Journal newspaper column has been Cozad-Bates House) to educate on ter’s in theology, a master’s in public My kids loved seeing Columbia’s chosen for national syndication by those activities, opening toward the health and an M.B.A.). If there is an name on the outside of this famous Creators Syndicate. My political end of 2019. I had a health scare, but alumnus in CC’81 with more than arena before the game. Jim Weinstein opinions will now reach newspa- have returned pretty well and swear I four degrees, please let me know. ’84 attended the game with his son. pers across the USA. I’ll join the will complete a triathlon again. Gregory is the chief marketing Jim’s daughter Mimi ’23 will start at Creators Syndicate lineup of stars “While I earned a JV letter in officer of a health system that he the College in the fall. His daughter such as Michelle Malkin, Patrick tennis at Columbia, I do not play describes as “startup” and I would Grace will attend Washington Uni- Buchanan, Ben Shapiro, Walter anymore, although I did enjoy a fun describe as “mature,” as it contains versity is St. Louis in the fall. Jim’s Williams, Armstrong Williams, run of working at the U.S. Open more than 20 hospitals and 14,000 sister, Ilene Lederman ’87, also has a Dick Morris ’68, Thomas Sowell Tennis Championships as part of its doctors. Gregory has two children daughter, Hannah ’23, who will start and Hon. Andrew Napolitano –– all press staff for about 15 years. I have (19 and 17), so he is dealing with at the College in the fall. Jim and heroes of mine. Only in America enjoyed reading about the successful high school and college issues. Ilene’s father is Ed Weinstein ’57. can a son of a butcher, and a small Columbia tennis performances (dare Ted Kesler: My best to CC’81. I would “I recently went ski- businessman from Las Vegas, spread I say powerhouse?) in recent years. appreciate any and all updates! ing with Rick Gersony ’85 at Copper his opinions to millions of newspa- “As for Columbia, I haven’t been Mountain, Colo. Rick lives in Lex- per readers.” back to NYC in recent years and Peter ington, Ky., with his wife, Kim, and Larry Herman: “My son recently miss former roommate Dr. Stevens, 1982 their twins, Eli and Emmy (15). He graduated from Columbia Engi- who died far too soon, Derek has a successful medical illustration neering and works downtown on and talk periodically with Dr. Andrew Weisman Santiago, business at medmovie.com. I am an skiing algorithm-type things that but that’s about it. I stay 81 S. Garfield St. associate professor of elementary and I don’t understand. My daughter in touch with Leslie Smartt ’85 (née Denver, CO 80209 early childhood education at Queens graduated from Barnard last year Dreyfous), who came to Cleveland [email protected] College, CUNY, and co-direct the and is at NY Med in Valhalla, so for some visiting, politics and elec- master’s program for childhood edu- she moved home with us from our tioneering. A few years ago, I bought Greetings, Class of 1982! Please cation. I do educational consulting in pied à terre on the West Side. My a 115-year-old brick building for take a moment to share a note school districts, teach and give key- sister, Aileen Herman BC’85, has a house in an old neighborhood of about your life with your fellow note speeches at conferences around three who graduated from Columbia Cleveland, which is alternatingly alumni. Travel, family news, favorite the country. I have a new book out and one freshman. She is married to exhilarating and terrifying.” Kevin Chapman: Columbia memories –– everything for teachers and teacher educators, Pace Cooper ’85.” “My new novel is welcome in CCT. You can write to The Reader Response Notebook: Teach- Kevin Cronin: “After college and (third), crime-thriller Righteous either of the addresses at the top of ing Toward Agency, Autonomy, and law school, I worked for a decade for Assassin (A Mike Stoneman Thriller), the column. Accountability, available on Amazon.” Congress, assisting House and Sen- was self-published on November 1 ate members Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and is available on Amazon. It’s a and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), fun, tension-filled page-turner that as well as working as associate staff will be good reading for everyone to House Budget Committee and and has received a 4.7-star rating so counsel to House Government far. The story follows NYPD homi- Oversight Committee. After moving cide detective Mike Stoneman as he back home to Cleveland to address and his partner, with some help from some family issues, I took on the job the FBI, track a sophisticated serial of a self-employed lawyer, but was killer. Classmates will recognize also active to help create a greener, many of the New York City venues more bicycle-friendly community, and can visit KevinGChapman. starting and leading two nonprofit com to follow along. The first two cycling advocacy groups (Bike classmates who contact me via my Cleveland). As part of the that, I website will get a free Kindle copy. filed Northeast Ohio’s first lawsuit I’m also thrilled to announce that on behalf of cyclists against the my son Ross H. Chapman ’18 will Ohio Department of Transporta- enroll at Boston University School tion and the United States Federal of Law next September (after a gap Columbia College friends of Judy Enteles Landis BC’85 attended the Highway Administration, which year), following in the footsteps of bar mitzvah of her son Barak Landis. Left to right: Roy Pomerantz ’83, after twists and turns and public both his parents. Sharon and I are Eddy Friedfeld ’83, Jerrold Nadler ’69, Mark Simon ’84 and Landis. pressure, led to $6 million in cycling super-proud of the kid!”

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Philip Dolin produced and was Chambers-ranked for bank financ- small, I started my own economics Washington University in St. Louis. a cinematographer for a new film, ing. He also chairs the nominat- consulting firm, Pareto Economics. Ever the foodie at heart, proud papa The Show’s the Thing: The Legendary ing committee for the American I also returned to teaching part-time Jim is bound to occasionally rescue Promoters of Rock. The summary is College of Commercial Finance in the Department of Economics his daughters from dining hall food as follows: “When legendary talent Lawyers and continues to co-chair at Rutgers University, where I teach in favor of V&T and Pappy’s Smoke- agent Frank Barsalona handpicked an annual seminar for the Practicing law and economics, as well as public house, respectively. (Matchmaker promoters around the country to Law Institute. His group at the firm policy toward business. I last taught alert for Grace! Jim: Liaise with Steve Saunders feature his musical acts beginning continues to grow. Ken concluded 15 years ago and, as people might (his note follows). in the 1960s, he changed the shape his tenure as chair but continues to imagine, some things have changed, His son is also attending Wash U.) of live music performance forever serve on the Board of Directors of especially in terms of classroom Roar, Lion, Roar — literally! Wel- and helped skyrocket the likes of the the Charles B. Wang Community technology. Some things remain the come back, Columbia Lion mascot Sean Schwinn Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfun- Health Center. His wife, Lisa, has same, such as students wanting to ! Sean writes, “I don’t kel, David Bowie, Carlos Santana settled in comfortably at Akerman. know what will be covered on the think I have ever submitted anything and Bon Jovi into superstardom. She was listed as a Super Lawyer in final. I also am still ride director for to CCT, while I have enjoyed reading A hard-rocking tribute to the men Real Estate and New York Metro the charity bicycle tour I started in Class Notes through the years. But as who brought more than five decades Women in 2018. After completing 2001, Ride for Autism. The ride ben- we are coming up on our 35th anni- of live music to millions of fans, The the two-year leadership program at efits the nonprofit Autism NJ, which versary, at the risk of writing more of Show’s the Thing reveals the fascinat- GE Digital/GE Lighting, Nicholas has been extraordinarily helpful to an autobiography than an update, I ing, untold history of this often (24) has a permanent position at GE my family during the last 25 years. will share a snapshot of where I am overlooked but essential part of the Corporate in Boston, Mass. Austin Anyone interested in learning more, these days. I married my sweetheart music industry.” (22) is a senior at Syracuse.” participating, donating, sponsoring from Clare College, where I went Steven Greenfield Steve Daniel Ferreira: “At this time I thanks or volunteering can visit ride4autism. after leaving Columbia. After eight Holtje am reformulating my plans subse- for his suggestions. Steve’s rallybound.org.” years with McKinsey, I am coming quent to the recent passing of my list of the top 11 (of the pops) for My family attended the bar mitz- up on my 25th anniversary with The companion, Susan Mae Bick. She the year: vah of Barak Landis, whose mother, Boeing Co., where I am the VP for shared my life for 16 years, and is Judy Enteles Landis BC’85, SIPA’92, strategy and market development for the second domestic partner that I 1. Jorge Drexler, Salvavidas de Hielo is in the nearby photo with me, Boeing International, in Washington, Eddy Friedfeld, have lost to cancer. Since I became 2. Juana Molina, Halo Rep. Jerrold Nadler D.C. My triplet children are 22 and the default caregiver during her final 3. Public Service Broadcasting, ’69 (D-N.Y.) and Mark Simon ’84. are pursuing dreams in Hollywood, days, I have substantially withdrawn Every Valley law and urban planning, respectively. from a broad spectrum of activi- 4. Goldfrapp, Silver Eye My youngest daughter and fourth ties. Liturgical music performances 5. Natalia Lafourcade, Musas: Un 1984 child is finishing high school and have continued, and I have made Homenaje al Folclore Latinoameri- received her first college admissions about 80 appearances in and around cano en Manos de Los Macorinos REUNION 2019 letter, a stress-relieving milestone for Media, Pa., so far during this cal- 6. Sampha, Process MAY 30–JUNE 1 all of us. She plans to be a marine endar year. Sue and I founded a 7. Thundercat, Drunk Events and Programs Contact biologist. The years have passed business, but that has not become 8. Sylvan Esso, What Now [email protected] quickly since leaving Columbia, but operational. I intend to initiate a 9. Odesza, A Moment Apart Development Contact have been rich with life’s joys and [email protected] reboot as we move forward through 10. Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock rewards.” Steve Saun- the season.” 11. Alvvays, Antisocialites Greetings from Dennis Klainberg ders Ken Chin: “Ken chairs the , a fellow resident on 9th floor Ed Joyce Berklay Cargo Worldwide Banking and Finance Group at attended the John Jay Carman. “My son Brian MacKenzie 14 Bond St., Ste 233 Kramer Levin and continues to be Awards Dinner in early March with Saunders graduated from Northwest- Great Neck, NY 11021 a Super Lawyer, Best Lawyer and his daughter, Sarah ’19. He sat with ern University McCormick School of Steve Coleman, whose daughters, [email protected] Engineering with honors in indus- Sarah ’15 and Madeleine ’20, also trial engineering and is a data analyst attended. Ed adds, “My wife, Linda A hearty ROAR, LION, ROAR and in Greenwich, Conn., for Vertafore. Gerstel BC’83, and I completed our WHO OWNS to the 35th Reunion I earned an M.B.A. in healthcare five-day, 300-mile cycling adventure Committee! Jon Abbott, Christine management from Quinnipiac. My through the Israeli desert, along the Cronin-Hurst, Tom Gilman, P. wife, Michelle, is committed to many Dead Sea and up the final climb into Langham Gleason, Michael Hall, charitable causes in our hometown Jerusalem. Thanks to many of you, we Larry Kane, Carlton Long, Douglas of Westport, Conn., and recently and our team (The Grumpy Road- Mintz, Ben Pushner, Carl Wessel finished her service as president of Send in sters) have raised nearly $185,000 and yours truly, Dennis Klainberg, the Westport chapter of Hadassah Your News for the children of ALYN! With have been meeting to create another Connecticut, earning national rec- more than 550 on-road and off-road great alumni experience. ognition for her work. Michelle and Share what’s happening in cyclists, the Wheels of Love Bike With great joy, James Weinstein I are now empty-nesters (along with your life with classmates. Ride has raised more than $3.7 mil- and his lovely wife, Alicia, are proud our red mini poodle, Heidi) with Click “Contact Us” at lion to date for the children of ALYN. to report that their twin daughters our youngest son, Andrew Harrison Please watch this amazing video from have made the “early decision” to Saunders, matriculating in the School college.columbia.edu/cct, the ride (online at bit.ly/2GrQ2o4), leave their Hoboken nests in search of Engineering & Applied Science at or send news to the address which includes interviews of Linda of academic excellence. Following Washington University in St. Louis at the top of your column. and me at 5:40 and 6:10.” their graduation in June from the with a major in chemical engineering. Andrew Abere: “After 30 years of Trinity School, Mimi will attend “I practice general internal working at other firms, both big and Columbia, while Grace will attend medicine as a solo practitioner in

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Milford, Conn., with special interest affordable and market-rate housing rivals, the Peitholigian Society. This Miles and to all our other classmates in obesity medicine as a diplomate throughout NYC, co-authoring a resolution remains legally binding.” with sons and daughters who will of the American Board of Obesity report recommending an equitable While we are not using the “r” join Miles at the College next year! Medicine, while actively teaching community-driven stewardship word, Sal Giambanco and his Thanks for your updates! Reunion medical students at the Yale School model for East River Park on the husband, Tom Perrault, “have some- is only 14 months away. Please keep of Medicine and Quinnipiac’s Frank Lower East Side of Manhattan, and what retired to our home in New sending your news so we can ramp H. Netter MD School of Medicine.” serving on the boards of the Billion Orleans. We still have our place in up for our 35th! Xie, Xie, David Prager Branner: Oyster Project and a nonprofit pro- San Francisco, and are still on a few “I’m writing from Taiwan, where posing a new American LGBTQ+ boards, but I am no longer traversing I am on a monthlong business museum to be located in Manhattan. the globe as a senior partner for 1986 trip. My scholarship and mar- Eric Lanzieri recently spoke the pioneering impact investor, the riage are doing well, and my job at the Palace Theater in Water- Omidyar Network. After deploying Everett Weinberger in a technology company is quite bury, Conn., as part of its 2nd Act $1 billion of capital and impacting 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B satisfactory and basically stress-less. program (bit.ly/2UlJT0f ). He would what we estimate to be 1.2 billion New York, NY 10023 Since my wife and I have both been love to hear from friends from lives, it’s time to slow down and enjoy [email protected] contractors for some time, providing freshman year on 7 Jay. As Eric said life. I have remained in touch with various language-related services, to me, “John Jay was like some kind my roommates of three years, Dan Did you ever watch House Hunters our paid-work lives continue to sup- of a social experiment, including Naccarella and Ben Carroccio. International on HGTV and wonder port our non-work lives — mine in the fire alarm that went off in the Dan and his wife, Shawna, were what it would be like to buy a much sinological scholarship and my wife’s middle of the night once a week ….” recently in Nola for the first time, lower priced house in Latin America in Chinese calligraphy.” Sebastian Sperber reports from and Ben and his wife, Brenda, have and live the dream life in paradise? Facing issues with his mother’s London that his daughter Sofia now been here a couple of times. Keith Farrell is doing just that. health, and in consideration of the started at Wesleyan last fall, and They came for last year’s Mardi Gras, Keith wrote in from Lake Chapala emotional, physical and financial he and his wife, Sally, are officially where Tom and I ride in Harry Con- in Jalisco, Mexico, where he bought stress that ensue in such matters, empty-nesters. nick Jr.’s Super Krewe of Orpheus, a house called Casa Dos Fuentes David encourages us to think about Mark Rothman’s last report was on Lundi Gras, and most recently for in July 2018. After looking all over our lives and “figure out a model from Israel; he was there again in the Alabama-LSU college football Central America for a home to buy, that permits us to be insured and February. The son who went into game in Baton Rouge and the first he visited friends near Lake Chapala salaried, but also to have productive the IDF on the last trip has now match between the Rams and Saints and was hooked. He splits his time intellectual lives outside of work. completed his training, and they at the Superdome. Ben and Brenda between Mexico and Long Beach, When considering our own future were privileged to go to Israel for have retired to both New York and Calif., where he’s lived since gradu- … prepare well ahead of time for the ceremony marking that. Puerto Rico. Ben, as many will recall, ating from Columbia. He retired in our likely loss of independence in “My usual groundbreaking output was the founder of hotjobs.com, the 2016 as fire captain with the Long late life.” continues apace,” writes Thomas first internet company to take out an Beach Fire Department. “Firefight- And last, but definitely not least, Vinciguerra JRN’86, GSAS’90 ad during the Super Bowl. ing is a young man’s game,” he said. congratulations to David Cavicke from Garden City, N.Y. “Last fall’s “Both Ben and I, and Tom, have “Aches, pains and surgeries were too and his wife, Mary Houston pieces included a full-page Times been involved in hurricane relief much. Put in nearly 30 years.” Cavicke, on the birth last July of story about the sale of the sketch- work in Puerto Rico; our federal Keith has two boys, Hayden and their son, David Houston Cavicke, books of John Mollo, who won an response to this tragedy is a national Emilio, and a daughter, Mercedes. Class of 2040! Oscar for costume design for Star disgrace. We’re working with the Mercedes graduated from Carnegie Wishing you all continued suc- Wars; a Wall Street Journal op-ed global NGO Endeavor to create Mellon and lives in Pittsburgh. cess and good health, and hoping to arguing that Aquaman is a loser; entrepreneurial ecosystems in the Dan Chenok sent us this update: see you at reunion. and a front-page Journal feature developing world. I am a global “I recently put on an academic hat about men who tart up their beards judge for Endeavor’s International as adjunct associate professor with at Christmastime with glitter, paint, Selection panels. I was scheduled be the University of Texas’ LBJ School 1985 LEDs and ornaments. on my 10th judging panel this past of Public Affairs, teaching on federal “I also enjoyed working with our February in San Francisco. government budget, policy and man- Jon White old dean, Robert Pollack ’61, on his “If folks are down south, please agement issues at LBJ’s Washington, 16 South Ct. fine foreword to the book I am edit- stop by — if our house shutters on D.C., campus. I also co-authored a Port Washington, NY 11050 ing about the 75th anniversary of Franklin Avenue in the Marigny book about government reforms in [email protected] the University Seminars. Bob called outside the French Quarter are the last 20 years and what they can me a ‘great editor,’ having evidently open, our house is open for food teach leaders in the United States James Lima’s national land use, real forgiven me for my days at Spectator. and drink. We are in a 200-year-old and around the world in the next estate development and economic “Finally, with the upcoming white Creole cottage. The pool is 20 years: Government for the Future: consulting practice based in NYC move of portions of the campus to open year-round and set at 102 dur- Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow’s continues to grow, with a focus on Manhattanville, I’ve stepped up efforts ing our mild winter.” Leaders (businessofgovernment.org/ public benefit initiatives. Cur- to secure permanent space for the Some sad news to report: Mike node/3057). rent projects include an equitable Philolexian Society. Philo is pressing Dzialo passed away last year (bit. “I’m now six years into running economic development strategy on Low Library and Hamilton and ly/2Wjw1W6). He left behind a the IBM Center for The Business of behalf of a family foundation for Lerner Halls on this matter. And I wife, Julia Bonem BC’87, whom he Government, a public-sector focused the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, have personally reminded the Trustees, met while at Columbia, and family. think tank supported by IBM. Still a “South Bay Sponge” coastal the Secretary of the University and the On a happier note, Seth happily married to Jill Levison resilience plan for flood-vulnerable General Counsel’s Office of the Trust- Schachner is proud to report that Chenok ’87, with two daughters in Silicon Valley communities, financial ees’ official 1821 resolution to erect a his son, Miles, is a member of the college (Colgate and Occidental) modeling for developers building building for Philo and our vanquished Class of 2023! Congrats to Seth and and one more at home!”

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at the Collaboration for Research operational leadership for Brown’s Integrity and Transparency as library. He has also authored or the executive director. We focus co-authored three books, as well as on getting more public access to numerous articles on political life in information used by the FDA to Britain and the British Empire in the regulate medical products. I like liv- 19th and 20th centuries, and he is a ing in New Haven — I’ve been here fellow of the Royal Historical Society. since 2016. My daughter Hannah is Heartfelt thanks to everyone who starting physician assistant graduate sent in updates! I would love to hear school in the fall, and my daughter from more of you, and since it’s that Rebecca is attending the local com- time of year, please let us know where munity college.” your children will attend school in Margaret invites classmates the fall. We want to hear your news! traveling through New Haven to look her up. Lynne Lada-Azer said that she 1988 and Kyra Tirana Barry stopped in to the Mathematics building Eric Fusfield last November to watch Susan 1945 South George Mason Dr. Beamis-Rempe’s guest lecture on Arlington, VA 22204 Former East Campus roommates held their sixth annual girls’ weekend bio-inspired membranes. Lynne said, [email protected] in Lewes, Del., in early December. Left to right: Christine Jamgochian “Students were engaged as she walked Koobatian ’87, Kerry Russell Hudson SEAS’87, Michelle Estilo Kaiser ’87 through her research. She is looking Jill Levey attended our 30th and Lauren Alter Baumann ’87. for sponsorship to commercialize her reunion “and was happy to see [my] Leslie Harris, CO2 membrane, which captures CO2 first-year roommate, inexpensively. It is amazing science as well as many others from Car- Congrats to Mark Prochilo, as Paul wrote to say he was quoted that could have an enormous impact man’s sixth floor, and other great his daughter Grace Pochilo ’22 is a in a story on Today.com (on.today. on the environment!” people.” Jill lives in New Jersey, first-year! Mark is corporate treasurer com/2RxHnXJ), which told the Interested in guided tours where she raises two teenage girls Dan- and head of real estate at Snapchat in story of how Paul’s father, Mario, through the Mediterranean? and runs her own business, Levey iele Baliani Los Angeles. Mark was the captain had been friends as teenagers with writes that since 2002, Consulting, “which specializes in of Columbia’s varsity soccer team. Jorge Bergoglio, now known as he has been leading what he calls grant writing and all aspects of He worked at JPMorgan Chase Pope Francis. Paul’s brother Matias, “handcrafted tours” of the Mediter- fundraising for nonprofit organiza- after graduation for four years, got unsure how much of the story was ranean (mostly Italy, but also France tions,” she reported. Diane Ridley an M.B.A. from NYU Stern, was true and how much was exaggera- and Spain) with his boutique travel Dr. PS’92 wrote, “I European finance manager at Estée tion, faxed a note to the Vatican to company, Pantheon Adventures. am working a temporary anesthesia Lauder, in treasury at PwC and the inform the Pope of Mario Verna’s Daniele, a chef in the Boston area position in Arizona for the Indian ABB Group, returned to the PwC passing. When you read the story, who started his career with Daniel Health Service.” treasury for 10 years in New York you will hear more about how, less Boulud right before graduation, She encourages classmates to check and Los Angeles, became the assis- than 24 hours later, Matias was said the name hearkens back to his out photos on her Facebook page. Kathryn Schneider tant treasurer at Herbalife and finally driving alone when he received a childhood in Rome, where he grew LAW’91 joined Snapchat in May 2016. call from an “unknown caller.” He up steps away from the Pantheon. co-conducted the National Chorale Congrats also to Scot Glasberg! picked up, and lo and behold, it was Daniele says, “Last spring and at Lincoln Center in December. His son Alex ’23 got into the Col- the Pope! Do read the story. I cried summer, I was in the Chianti The chorale annually presents lege early decision. reading it the first time and I’m get- region of Tuscany and Sicily on two the Messiah Sing-In, a holiday Have a great spring, and please ting teary reading it again. separate tours. The groups are small participatory music event with an take a moment to send in an update! Paul, thank you for sharing that (six to eight guests) and the tours audience-chorus of 3,000 singers. with us! are created ‘on demand’ by the guests “I’m honored to again be among the Christine Jamgochian Kooba- themselves as they tell me where conductors assisting the wonderful 1987 tian shared news of the 1984–87 and when they want to go — and Dr. Everett McCorvey in carrying East Campus roommates sixth what they want to do while they are on this beloved 51-year tradition!” Sarah A. Kass annual girls’ weekend in Lewes, in Italy — and I build an itinerary Kathryn posted on Facebook. PO Box 1006 Del., held in early December. around those wishes. Once the plan My daughter, Esther, started New York, NY 10113 Joining Christine were Kerry Rus- is set, I meet the group at the arriv- kindergarten last fall, which puts me [email protected] sell Hudson SEAS’87, Michelle als area in Italy and off we go!” 13 years behind the standard set by Estilo Kaiser and Lauren Alter Interested classmates should go classmates whose children took their Happy spring! We are at the stage in Baumann. Missing were Teresa to vinoitaliano.com and click on the places in the Class of 2022. Con- Nairi Balian, Nick life where many of us are experienc- Saputo-Crerend and Donna link “Travel to Italy with Daniele” gratulations to Leone, Sarah Richmond, Claudia ing the pain of watching our parents Pacicca. Christine noted that the to learn more and to get Daniele’s Rimerman, Lawrence Trilling age. As many of you know, I lost my daughters of two group members contact info. and Joseph Meisel John Vaske mother about a year and a half ago, so attend the College: Michelle’s GSAS’99 sent and their kids for their I felt a kinship with Paul Verna when daughter Nicole Kaiser ’20 and an update to tell us about his recent accomplishments and for continuing he wrote to tell me of the passing of Teresa’s daughter Lucy Crerend ’22. appointment as Brown’s university our class’ strong legacy tradition. his father in December. But I was not Margaret McCarthy LAW’89 librarian. Joseph, who also is deputy Keep the updates coming! I look prepared for the story he told! sent the following: “I work at Yale provost, will provide strategic and forward to hearing from you.

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is an innovative way to empower Laura also released Kitty Wells four days in Napa Valley, Calif., con- 1989 consumers by offering more than Dresses: Songs of The Queen of Country gratulating themselves on reaching 10 shoe styles and more than 100 Music, a recording she made in honor the mid-century mark. In attendance REUNION 2019 accessories. ShoeCandy shoes are of one of her heroines, the great were Arlene Hong, Gloria Pak (née MAY 30–JUNE 1 sold online (karamac.com) and at Wells. A meditation on femininity in Kim), Nancy Pak, Peter Hsing Events and Programs Contact pop-ups around the country. country music, the set takes its title SEAS’90, Betty Tsang SEAS’90 [email protected] I’ve been listening to Laura from an original song written in trib- (née Mar), Joy Metalios SEAS’90 Development Contact Cantrell’s lovely music since I ute to Wells. I found Laura’s music (née Kim), Hyun Bae SEAS’90 and [email protected] learned about it through a concert on iTunes and Apple Music. Steve Metalios ’89, plus significant she gave in New York City last year. I was fortunate enough to catch up others and friends. A weekend filled Emily Miles Terry Laura was born in Nashville and her with many CC’89ers at the Alexander with vineyard tours, huge dinners, 45 Clarence St. interest in country music stayed with Hamilton Award Dinner last Novem- poolside lounging and retelling Brookline, MA 02446 her. After Columbia she launched ber, which honored Lisa Landau hilarious old stories — so much fun! [email protected] her long-running radio program on Carnoy. A vicious snowstorm hit Also fun was the Sonoma, Calif., WFMU in Jersey City, N.J., “The NYC that night, but despite the bliz- January 4 wedding of Dean Son- Looking for some great shoes to Radio Thrift Shop,” a Saturday zard, many of us still made it to Low deregger SEAS’90, SEAS’91 and wear to reunion? Ann Peyton afternoon staple in the New York Rotunda. As Michael Behringer Tracy Campbell King. A destina- Merin BUS’95 has your back. Last area for 13 years; she then moved to year Ann co-founded the ingenious wfmu.org and ran for two seasons ShoeCandy by Kara Mac, a line on BBC Radio Scotland. of designer shoes with mix and In her 10-year recording career, Kathryn Schneider ’88, LAW’91 match accessories you can combine Laura released three acclaimed co-conducted the National Chorale at to create your own heel-to-toe albums: Not the Tremblin’ Kind, shoe designs. Years ago, Ann left a When the Roses Bloom Again and Lincoln Center in December. lucrative corporate consulting career Humming by the Flowered Vine. She to enroll in beauty school. With has toured extensively in the United the goal of learning everything she Kingdom, Europe and Ireland. Her could about the beauty business, music has been celebrated in the joked, “Lisa, if you didn’t know how tion wedding for all, including Rich Ann trained at Paul Mitchell in press, including features in The New much we all love you, you have to Yaker SEAS’90, Chris Heck and Orange County, Calif., and in 2007 York Times, O magazine, Elle and The now.” Wanda Holland Greene awed Pete Lavallee ’90. she opened Beauty Heaven, a high- Wall Street Journal, and has has been us with her magical and generous Dave Hunt has been up to end, full-service salon in Orange featured on NPR’s “All Things Con- speech about her longtime friend something good! After five years as County, Calif. sidered,” “On Point” and “Weekend and sang verses from Sam Cooke’s a Northwest business association Soon after Beauty Heaven Edition.” She has performed on A “A Change is Gonna Come,” saying CEO (“Pacific Northwest Defense opened, Ann was appearing on E!, Prairie Home Companion, Mountain about Lisa words that rang so true: Coalition, an association of over 300 TMZ, TLC and CBS to share her Stage and the Grand Ole Opry, and “When you are friends with Lisa, you NW manufacturing businesses”), beauty tips and know-how, includ- appeared on the television programs know — from that place deep in the he is now senior VP of Strategies ing on TLC’s Wedding Day Make- Late Night with Conan O’Brien and soul — that she walks with you.” 360, the leading public affairs firm over, where she helped brides-to-be the Sundance Channel’s Spectacle: Attendees included Kaivan in the West, and spending lots find their ideal wedding day look. Elvis Costello. In recent years, Laura Shakib, Bonnie Host, Matthew of time in Oregon’s capital! Son Ann calls her ShoeCandy venture has been a contributor to The New Engels, Robert Rooney, Donna Andrew graduated from Princeton “interactive and fun,” as the concept York Times and vanityfair.com. Herlinsky MacPhee, John Alex, and is an Airbnb software engineer Chris Della Pietra, Julie Jacobs in San Francisco. Daughter Emily Menin, Jaime Mercado, Luis is a sophomore at the University Penalver, Jennifer Ryan, Patrick of Oregon Clark Honors College. Ryan SEAS’89, Frank Seminara, Dave’s in his second term serving on Raymond Yu, Michael Barry, his local community college board. Stephanie Falcone Bernik, Omar Paul Greenberg BUS’97’s chil- Kodmani, Souren Ouzounian and dren are also getting older — funny John Timmer, and Victor Mendel- how that happens. His daughters are son and his lovely family. 14 and 11 and taking great care of Here’s to more celebrating and their dog, Benji. Paul’s digital video congregating in 2019. See you soon! company, Butter Works, is doing well after its first year. It’s working with Netflix, Viacom, Verizon, SoulCycle, 1990 Discovery, Bustle and others on a number of different types of projects Rachel Cowan Jacobs (some are straight content production, [email protected] while others are more comprehensive To celebrate their 50th birthdays, several members of the Class of 1990 and include strategy, distribution, went to Napa Valley, along with friends and spouses. Left to right: Nancy And the 5-0 celebrations continue! monetization and data analysis work). Pak ’90, Hyun Bae SEAS’90, Peter Hsing SEAS’90, Kyra Miller, Norman Anita Bose sent me fabulous docu- Fred Schultz checked in with Tsang, Paul Santiago, Betty Tsang (née Mar) SEAS’90, Gloria Pak (née Kim) mentation of a group getaway that me in early January to report, “My ’90, Steve Metalios ’89, Joy Metalios (née Kim) SEAS’90, Darren Duffy, had been in the works for a while. lawsuit to throw Trump out based Anita Bose ’90 and Arlene Hong ’90. In late September, the gang spent on losing by three million votes

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was just thrown out by a three- Well, Samara married Adam spectrum. “I love the New England tion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s judge panel of the Ninth Circuit, Meshel LAW’95, is now Samara seasons, educational system and birth home in Atlanta, completed in so now I will apply to be heard by a Bernot Meshel, and she wrote in home affordability,” Alexandra says. December 2018. 10-judge panel, and from there (up with this fun update: Their daughter, “I will probably try to get back Have a lovely spring, and do take or down!), to the Supreme Court. Zoe Meshel ’23, will follow in the into the work force in the next a moment to send in your news! I’m encouraging everyone to file footsteps of their son, Alexander couple of years. In the meantime, I their own similar suits, nationwide. Meshel ’18! Alexander is in his have been pursuing a non-profes- I will be running for President again first year at the Icahn School of sional career of sorts as an animal 1994 soon (fred4prez.us), and that will Medicine at Mount Sinai. Samara activist. I went vegan and have been take much effort, certainly. I swim in punctuates this news with the most doing outreach regarding the cruelty REUNION 2019 the ocean and will be inline-skating suitable “Roar, Lions, Roar!” I’ve and environmental devastation MAY 30–JUNE 1 again soon, too, after a near-death seen in a while. inherent in the animal agriculture Events and Programs Contact biking accident a few months ago. She continues, “We live in industry,” she says. “Most of my [email protected] Thank God for Obamacare! Love to Roslyn, N.Y., but look forward to outreach is in the form of cooking Development Contact us all! We will win, now! RESIST!” moving back to Manhattan soon. delicious food and posting pictures [email protected] Interesting tidbit: Adam and I of it on Facebook, lol, but I’m also a Leyla Kokmen lived on Carman as first-years and participant in the group Anonymous [email protected] 1991 Alexander was randomly assigned to for the Voiceless.” a room on Carman 8 when he was Final word from Alexandra: “I’m Margie Kim a first-year. So we are wondering if always interested in meeting up with Greetings, Class of 1994! Please [email protected] Zoe will be assigned to a room on anyone in the New England area!” take a moment to share a note Carman 8 as well!” Thanks to all of my contributors! about your life with your fellow Share your stories, news or even a Sarah Silverman Aibel reports, Follow their example and send me alumni. Travel, family news, favorite favorite Columbia College memory “I am so excited that my son Alex- a Class Note at olivier.knox@gmail. Columbia memories –– everything by sending it to the email address at ander will be a member of the Class com (I don’t know who oliver.knox@ is welcome in CCT. Send your news the top of this column. Your class- of 2023, though I am disappointed gmail.com is, but he doesn’t want to [email protected]! mates would love to hear from you! he won’t be able to experience The your updates, while I do, so make And, in very exciting news, Plex or Cannon’s.” sure you get that second “i” in there). reunion is coming! Clear your She is also happy to report that schedule for Thursday, May 30– 1992 she and three other alumnae have Saturday, June 1, to come back to launched the Los Angeles chapter of 1993 Columbia for the big two-five. Olivier Knox Columbia College Women. They’ve [email protected] Betsy Gomperz had an amazing time connecting [email protected] with so many CC alumnae in Los 1995 I remember my arrival on campus in Angeles and hosted a Mini-Core Janet Lorin August 1988 as a frenzy of nice-to- event featuring Professor Julie Greetings, classmates. I would love [email protected] meet-yous and where-are-you-froms Crawford, the former chair of Lit- to get updates from you that I can — in my suite, on Carman 7, in line erature Humanities. share in future columns. I can be Danny Ackerman for ID cards, in line for meal plan Drop what you’re doing and reached at the email listed above, Thanks to cards, etc. ... One of the first people I follow the fine example set by Alex- through the CCT website and (who I think goes by Dan now) for Samara met once classes began was andra Colacito (née Hershdorfer), through Messenger. answering my call for an update all Bernot. She and I were in “Logic who said she was succumbing to I was happy to receive news the way from Brazil. Isaiah Delemar, & Rhetoric,” and she lived a floor guilt fueled by my Facebook appeals about who lives in Danny has been in São Paulo above me, on Carman 8. to please, please, in the name of all Atlanta. Isaiah’s news feels timely (as since September 2016 as the that’s holy, send me in some Class I write this column in January), as Department of Justice’s Computer Notes. She says, “I honestly have he recently led a team of lawyers and Hacking and Intellectual Property NOTHING to report, especially in National Park Service professionals advisor for Latin America and the comparison to the movers and shak- in a land transaction that culminated Caribbean. He mentors police and ers and high achievers in our class.” in President Trump’s designation prosecutors throughout the region Nooooo, Alexandra. That’s never of Kentucky’s Camp Nelson as on criminal cases involving the true. I guarantee that there is some- a National Monument. Initially internet, mainly digital piracy. “We one reading this, either in our class established as a Union Army supply also train them on best practices for Submit or the adjacent ones, who will see depot and hospital, Camp Nelson investigating these cases and han- this and be glad to hear from you. became a key emancipation site and dling electronic evidence,” he writes. Your Alexandra continues, “I left my refugee camp for African-American Danny and his wife, Gabriela, home state of California and moved soldiers and their families during have two dogs. Beto O’Rourke Photo to Massachusetts with my husband the Civil War. Isaiah’s work included came close to CCT welcomes Class Notes about eight years ago. I’m in North negotiating the land transfer and the winning a Senate seat over Ted Cruz photos that feature at Attleboro, right on the Rhode Island protection, preservation, promotion, (R–Texas). Now we are awaiting his least two College alumni. border, a town that prides itself on interpretation and maintenance of decision about a 2020 run. At press being a ‘red dot in a sea of blue.’ the monument between Jessamine time we didn’t know, but by the time Click “Contact Us” at Politically interesting, let’s just say.” County and the National Park Ser- you read this, we might. Regardless, college.columbia.edu/cct. She adds that she quit her job as vice (campnelson.org/home.htm). I’m sure we are all very interested to an attorney to stay at home and care Isaiah also was the lead lawyer for see what transpires. for her son, who is on the autism the National Park Service’s acquisi- Good luck, Beto!

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As we approach our 25th reunion, warmest wishes! I am delighted to and Opera Ensemble led to her friends, and I rented a bounce castle please consider sending an update, present the following updates: professional singing side career, for the children and had a catered especially if you’ve never sent one. Monique Chang and Dan Russo where she met her husband. She lunch delivered from her favorite Keep the news coming! GS’96, BUS’98 bought farmland in sings regularly as a soloist and mem- restaurant. It is so wonderful seeing the Black Dirt region of Warwick, ber of the ensemble with Voices of her blossom into toddlerhood now. N.Y. She says: “We and our 8-year- Ascension in NYC. All three of her She’s always making me laugh with 1996 old son are in the fifth season grow- children sing and play music –– and the funny things she says. The other ing organic vegetables on weekends her oldest son, Edward, is currently day she took me by the hand and led Ana S. Salper from April to November, when we playing Friedrich in the Broadway me over to her toddler castle home [email protected] plant heirloom and specialty veg- national tour of The Sound of Music, in the living room, then gleefully etables. We offer a CSA vegetable following his 2017 run as Ralphie welcomed me inside it with “Come Happy spring, classmates! Dulcie Lin share from our home in Greenwich, in the Broadway national tour of A along, Mama –– hop onboard!” as she BUS’03 moved from NYC to Boca Conn. This venture has been a great Christmas Story, the Musical. opened the gate and ushered me in. Raton, Fla., and is hoping this update teaching tool for our son and his Melinda Powers writes: “Last At Christmastime I took her will help her make some connections in friends, and has been great fun for year my book Diversifying Greek to see her great-grandfather (my South Florida. Dulcie is still an associ- me, as I roll up my sleeves to tackle Tragedy on the Contemporary US maternal grandfather), whom we ate real estate broker at Corcoran in any and all problems that crop up Stage was published.” call Paw Paw. He was as delighted to NYC (now 14 years) and has partnered at the farm. We love visitors, so feel with some women who are “on the free to drop by on weekends at 397 ground” here in NYC, staying actively Big Island Rd. in Warwick.” involved in the deals. Her husband has Mike Pignatello and his hus- Isaiah Delemar ’93 recently led a team whose a new job in Jupiter, Fla., and her three band, Yang Gao, recently welcomed work culminated in the designation of Kentucky’s kids go to school in Fort Lauderdale. twins James and Jeremy into the Dulcie reports that Nadia Kihic- world in Reno, Nev. Mike, who Camp Nelson as a national monument. zak is a dermatologist in NYC and enjoyed being on paternity leave in that Alissa Douglas SEAS’96 lives Nevada, is about to finish his fifth in San Francisco and has a new son, year in Taiwan with the United Sam. Alissa is a senior investment States Department of State. Sarah Bunin Benor co-edited a see us as we were to see him, and I professional at a family office. John Dean Alfone recently book, Languages in Jewish Communities, feel so lucky that he is still alive and Our class should be proud of the worked in production on The Circus Past and Present, with Benjamin Hary. well at 87! He is my lone surviving fact that two of our notable class- (on Showtime), where President Rebekah Gee writes: “I was grandparent, so I try to visit him as mates, composer/arranger/orchestra- Trump was speaking at an annual recently elected into the National frequently as I can manage. This past tor Tom Kitt and journalist/author convention for the National Rifle Academy of Medicine. Our identi- Christmas, since I found myself sud- Jodi Kantor, were honored for their Association in Dallas. John has since cal twin girls are 6. I saw Athena denly single, I decided it was more outstanding professional achieve- moved to Taos, N.M., where he is Bendo at the New Orleans Jazz practical for me to just get a small ments at the College’s 2019 John Jay planning to bring a short film he Fest, as usual.” 4-foot artificial tree from the store, Awards Dinner, held in early March, wrote/directed into feature-length Omar Chaudhry GSAS’99 rather than getting my usual tall joining three other honorees from production after a profitless attempt: writes: “Practicing law in New York pine tree from a tree a lot; but once I other College classes. bit.ly/2FviKVh. for 13 years, I often analyze facts had set it up at home I must confess Congratulations to you both — Peter Langland-Hassan writes: and argue theories, which reminds that I felt a bit depressed that it way to represent the Class of ’96! “Last December, an anthology that me of my Columbia days. My wife, looked so puny compared to what I Hope to hear from many more I co-edited and contributed to, Inner Samiyah, and I hope that our 11-year have been accustomed to. My little of you soon. For now, I leave you Speech: New Voices, was published. son, Humza, will also choose a life of one made me feel immediately bet- with this: It contains essays by philosophers, analysis and reflection.” ter, though, because the first words “We weaken our greatness when psychologists and neuroscientists on As for me, Kerensa Harrell, as out of her mouth when she gazed at we confuse our patriotism with tribal the nature and cognitive role of ‘the I sit here wrapping up this column it were: “Wow, Mama, look –– BIG rivalries that have sown resentment little voice in the head.’” during the first few days of Janu- Christmas tree! So beautiful!” And and hatred and violence in all the Nathaniel Mayfield completed ary, I am feeling thankful to those suddenly it did look quite big with corners of the globe. We weaken it an executive M.B.A. at UT Austin neighbors who have still not taken her standing next to it. As long as when we hide behind walls, rather in 2016. A managing partner of the down their Christmas lights, as my she is happy, that is all that matters. than tear them down, when we doubt Mayfield Dairy Queen, Nate also 2-year-old daughter loves our early I always end my column with the power of our ideals, rather than started an oil and gas production evening strolls to admire the holiday a song, so I guess I’ll end with the trust them to be the great force for company and plays baroque trumpet lights on display in our neighbors’ classic “Jingle Bells,” since that is change they have always been.” with several period instrument yards. I shudder to think how disap- currently my daughter’s favorite — The now-deceased Sen. John McCain’s ensembles. He dreams of taking a pointed she is going to be one day song. Wishing you a Happy New farewell statement to the nation year off and traveling the world with soon when we take our walk and Year (and by the time you read this, his wife and three daughters. suddenly the holiday light decora- a happy spring!). Deb Feldman and her husband, tions will have disappeared. Blessings to all, and please do 1997 Ed Turner, live in New Jersey with For her second birthday party, send me your updates. Keep in mind their three sons. Deb is cofounder of which was held at our house last that your updates needn’t be just Kerensa Harrell Gray Scalable, an HR consultancy October, I did a “Boo! Look who’s about the usual topics like career/ [email protected] that provides HR solutions for start- two!” party theme, since it was the marriage/birth announcements ups and growing companies, with weekend before Halloween. We –– they can also be on your exotic Dear classmates, I hope you are offices in NYC and Los Angeles. had 28 people (family and friends) travels, your exciting adventures, all doing well, and I send you my Her time at CC in the Glee Club over, five of whom were her toddler your fascinating hobbies, your phil-

Spring 2019 CCT 75 Class Notes anthropic endeavors, your charming is sure to be a big hit on the shores It was a treat to hear from Akiva arrived November 16. Says Rabia, children, your daring projects, your this summer. Lauren tell us it’s “a Shapiro LAW’07 (with whom I “Big brother Shane and big sister poetic musings, your flowery remi- fun, juicy beach read about the toxic worked at Spec), who has an excit- Sylvie are very excited!” Ram Ahluwalia niscences… Or simply tell us about friendships surrounding an Upper ing, action-packed update: “Allison announced: some delightful local event that you East Side stay-at-home mom who Josephs ’02 and I celebrated our 18th “It’s official! It’s a boy! Our little attended or a family vacation that turns her spin instructor into a fitness anniversary last summer. After a guy, Ryan, came into the world on you went on. If nothing else, you can superstar to impress her friends.” It number of years spent in Israel, the December 1 around 11 p.m. He always write us merely to say hello! will be released on July 30. Bronx and Teaneck, we now live in weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and It would be splendid to hear from And while you’re making lists of Bergenfield, N.J., with our wonderful was 20 3/4 inches. Mom and Dad as many classmates as possible. I things to do, don’t forget to send us kids —15- and 13-year-old girls and are exhausted and so happy for our look forward to hearing from you. In your dispatches. We’re looking forward 10- and 8-year-old boys. In 2004, I bundle of joy!” Ariel Neuman lumine Tuo videbimus lumen. to hearing from you and to catching up returned to Morningside Heights was recently at our (gulp!) 20-year reunion. Mark for law school, and at the same time selected by the Daily Journal as one your calendars for Thursday, May 30– entered a joint degree program in of the Top 40 Under 40 attorneys 1998 Saturday, June 1. See you on the Steps! religious studies at Yale. After I in California. Ariel practices white received a J.D. from Columbia and collar criminal law at Bird Marella Sandie Angulo Chen an M.A. from Yale, I chose to focus in Los Angeles. [email protected] Ellen Volpe 2000 my energies on the practice of law. is one of the “I started working at Gibson Dunn principals of ET Family Travel, an Prisca Bae Another short update! Congratula- in 2008 in its New York City litigation agency specializing in all things Constantine Markides, [email protected] tions to department and have been there ever Disney and beyond. Her goal is to whose first child, a girl named since — I was recently elected partner! make all vacations stress free for her Miriam Parker, Electra, was born on December 5. Congratulations to My focus is constitutional and clients, especially helping to navigate Constantine, wife Caroline and baby whose first novel, The Shortest Way complex commercial litigation, so if all the details required for a trip to Electra live in Greece. Constantine Home, was published in July 2018 anyone has needs in those areas, don’t Walt Disney World. She man- should also be congratulated for win- and will come out in paperback in hesitate to reach out. ages a team of 75 agents who are ning — with Olympic gold medalist July 2019. Miriam’s second novel “Allison has also been very busy spread throughout the country, and Anthony Ervin — the 2018 Buck will be published in 2020. She is professionally: A number of years is always looking for other Disney Dawson Author Award, presented the associate publisher of Ecco, an back, she left a stable nonprofit job experts to join the ET Family. Con- by the International Swimming Hall imprint of HarperCollins. to start a 501c3, Jew in the City, tact Ellen at etfamilytravel1@gmail. of Fame. Constantine co-authored I know this is a busy time in our that uses social media to break down com or through etfamilytravel.com. Ervin’s memoir, Chasing Water: Elegy lives right now, but classmates would misconceptions about Orthodox Be in touch! It’s always great to of an Olympian (2016). love to hear from you! If anything, Jews. She writes articles, produces hear from all of you. More congratulations are in order. please share what you are all doing videos that have been viewed mil- Jeffrey S. Cohen-Laurie is now a for the big birthdays we’ve been lions of times and speaks around the judge for the Superior Court of Los celebrating in 2018 and 2019. world. More recently, Allison started 2002 Angeles County in California. He another initiative, Project Makom, Sonia Dandona Hirdaramani was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown that helps former or questioning [email protected] (D-Calif.) on November 29. Jeff, 2001 ultra-Orthodox Jews find their place husband Tim and daughter Dylan in Judaism.” Jonathan Gordin (2) live in L.A. My esteemed Spec editor-in-chief, Happy 2019 everyone! Cannot [email protected] Congrats, Judge Cohen-Laurie! Dan Laidman, had an exciting believe it has been more than 20 Looking forward to more December. Dan and his wife, Deb, years since we stepped on campus! Gabriel Rabin updates. Have a great spring! I hope everyone’s 2019 is off to a are new parents to daughter Mira. married great start! I was thinking about Dan and Deb are both attorneys in Daungyewa “Hong” Utarasint in how the columns have gotten a Los Angeles. Mira is adorable –– I Grafton, Vt., on the perfect sunny, 1999 bit sparser in recent months, and saw a photo of her fully outfitted in not-too-hot summer day of August Dan Bloch, Seth Gale, Marnie I know why –– when I started Dodgers gear! 25. Glassman Gale, REUNION 2019 writing this column in 2001 (!!!) I Congratulations to Dan and Deb! Ashley Henderson Ilan Wapinski MAY 30–JUNE 1 would diligently keep a spreadsheet Another esteemed Spec colleague, ’03 and attended. Zecki Dossal Events and Programs Contact of when I mentioned classmates and my managing editor, Demetra joined Henry [email protected] and reach out to others I hadn’t Kasimis GSAS’03 (who is generally Schein as a senior director. The Development Contact heard from in a while. And then a responsible for teaching me how to company created a role for him to [email protected] few things came along with force: lay out the front page of a newspa- oversee the solutions development Facebook (so many of you get your per), wrote: “For the last few years, process and harness innovation Adrienne Carter and Columbia alum news there!), more I’ve been loving teaching at the across the company. Zecki had Jenna Johnson demands at my job, my family, etc., University of Chicago, where I am joined GLG right after graduating [email protected] and I fell out of that discipline. But, an assistant professor of political from Columbia, when the company [email protected] every few months, someone sur- science. I recently published a book was 35 people (it’s now more than prises me with an unsolicited update on how ancient Greek thinkers, like 2,000), so this is certainly a big Dear classmates, give a big roar for out of the blue, and it’s wonderful. Plato, saw democracy’s relationship change for him, but an exciting one! Lauren Gershell Mike Mellia ! And when you’re So please, don’t hesitate to write and to nativism: The Perpetual Immigrant is excited to stocking up on sunscreen and beach let us know what’s going on with and the Limits of Athenian Democracy.” announce that last summer he towels, preorder her debut novel, you. In the meantime, here’s what’s Rabia Saeed announced that welcomed a son, Lapo Augusto That’s What Frenemies Are For, which been going on with your classmates. her third child, a boy named Rafay, Lanteri Melli.

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Helena Andrews-Dyer’s new beauty and her identity after losing the annual research roundtables at New York to Philadelphia, where she column for The Washington Post Mag- her skin in a fire. It will be published Regent University’s School of Busi- is VP of major gifts at Pennsylvania azine, “Star Power,” is out now. She in September. Visit preslaysa.com ness and Leadership, where I am Academy of the Fine Arts. They are dives into the intersection of La La to sign up for her newsletter and working on my doctorate in strategic getting married at PAFA in March. Land and the Beltway and is always receive updates on the book. leadership. I recently was in New Megan also joined the Board of Dora Danylevich open to suggestions for columns. earned a Ph.D. York conducting a communica- Directors at GSAS, from which she Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins is in in English (focusing on feminist tion and feedback FaciliTraining at earned a Ph.D. in art history in 2015, Los Angeles and is an associate disability) from The George Wash- Breakthrough New York’s leadership and is looking forward to staying professor of journalism at Santa ington University and is teaching retreat, where Devaughn Fowlkes involved with Columbia while based Monica College after 12 years as an a course on culture, gender and ’04 was in attendance. On a personal outside of NYC. Andy Lebwohl Emmy award-winning television medicine in the women’s and gender note, I have the pleasure of being LAW’07 started news anchor and reporter. She also studies program at Georgetown. married to the best woman in the a position with Getzler Henrich & Raquel Gardner celebrated her fourth wedding anni- continues to world, with whom I launched Teai- Associates last October, working versary and celebrated her daughter’s build her clinical research program on iano Leadership Solutions (teaiiano. in turnaround consulting. His son, second birthday in November. traumatic brain injury and dementia com), and who also works with me Ronan (4), already knows the lyrics Jennifer Wildeman is a senior at UC San Francisco, where she is an in business. We enjoy raising our to “Roar, Lion, Roar” and he is try- portfolio advisor at Aksia, in Manhat- assistant professor of neurology. beautiful 6- and 9-year-old girls ing to get his daughter, Dakota (2), Simma Kupchan tan. She has been there for three and writes, “I have together and having spontaneous to pick it up. Andy notes, “She’s a a half years. Jennifer lives in Rumson, been an attorney in the Environmen- Nerf wars when we get the chance.” pretty quick study –– if you ask her N.J., and has a 7-year-old girl (Lana) tal Protection Agency Office of the if she’s comfortable, she’ll tell you and a 16-month-old boy (Logan). She General Counsel for more than a she makes a nice living.” is coming up on her 10-year anniver- decade and live just outside of Wash- 2004 Please continue to send in sary (in May) with her husband, Steve, ington, D.C., with my husband and updates, as we want to hear from as and is in the midst of planning for his children (Maia, Nina and Sam).” REUNION 2019 many folks as possible. Career and Lien De Brouckere 40th birthday. writes, “I MAY 30–JUNE 1 family updates are always fun, but David Newman has been recently moved to lovely Portland, Events and Programs Contact please reach out to share about trips elected partner at the law firm of Maine, and am continuing my free- [email protected] you might take, events you have Morrison & Foerster; he began the lance work on corporate account- Development Contact attended or are looking forward to, role on January 1. From the press ability and human rights, with a [email protected] or even interesting books or shows release: “[David is] a member of the focus this year on Guinea and the you have come across. You can send Jaydip Mahida National Security and Global Risk Democratic Republic of the Congo. updates either via the email at the [email protected] + Crisis Management Groups, [and] This means lots of travel abroad for top of the column or through the is based in the Washington, D.C., work, but I also have an amazing CCT Class Notes webform, college. Miguel Verzbolovskis office. Drawing on his experience cycling trip from Lhasa to Kath- writes, “Last columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. as a senior White House and U.S. mandu that I’m training for!” May I was appointed Panama’s Justin Assad Department of Justice attorney writes, “My wife, ambassador to Belgium and to the and his background in government Emily Taylor (Brown ’04), and I European Union. It’d be great to 2005 regulation and national security, his welcomed our second daughter, get together with other Columbia Columbia College Today practice involves guiding clients Meris Pease Assad, on November alums, so please let me know if you [email protected] through sensitive matters pertaining 5. Mom and baby are healthy and live here or are traveling through to national security and global risk big sister Henley (2) is very excited. Brussels: [email protected].” Adam Spunberg and crisis management.” I am the head sailing coach at shares, “Work- Happy spring, CC’05! Thank you for Dartmouth College, and spend my ing in partnership with Google, my taking the time to share your excit- summers as the sailing master at the innovation team at AB InBev was ing family, career and life news! 2003 Nantucket Yacht Club.” chosen as a finalist for the Gartner To kick things off, Melanie Lee Calla Brown writes, “I’m an Supply Chain Breakthrough of the and Peter Kang welcomed their Michael Novielli internist and pediatrician, and I Year award. This was for our work son, Grant Kang-Lee, on January 5 [email protected] see patients at a federally qualified with using artificial intelligence, at NewYork Presbyterian Brooklyn health center in Minneapolis. I’m machine learning to optimize Methodist Hospital in Park Slope. Dar- Happy Lunar New Year to all who also in my second year of an aca- multi-variable filtration in the beer- Also in exciting baby news, ren Bolton celebrate it — wishing you much demic general pediatrics research making process. The project was also writes, “On January 7 happiness, health and prosperity in fellowship at the University of featured at Google Next ’18.” my wife, Jessica, gave birth to our Sonia Marquez the Year of the Pig. Our classmates Minnesota. More importantly, my recently left the first child, Margot Mae Bolton, who are kicking if off on a high note, husband and I welcomed our second law firm of Sidley Austin, where weighed in at 6 pounds, 15 ounces, with the following accomplishments son on January 13 after a tough she was a senior associate litigat- and measured 20 inches. Margot and updates. pregnancy. Our older son is proving ing white collar and commercial was born at Jefferson Hospital in Janice Berg was elected in to be a champion older brother and disputes, and is now an immigra- Philadelphia, just a few blocks from November 2018 to serve as the we will spend a few months settling tion attorney at Brooklyn Defender our apartment.” James judge of the 247th District Court of into our new family routine before I Services. She loves living in Wedding bells for Bondarchuk, Harris County, Texas. go back to work in April.” Brooklyn with her puppy and near who shares: “Pardis Thomas E. Anderson III Preslaysa Williams signed a writes, her good friends from Columbia. Dabashi ’08 and I got married in publishing contract for her debut “I published two articles on orga- She is involved in the queer attorney October. The ceremony took place novel, Healing Hannah’s Heart. It’s nizational coaching in the Journal networking group Lesquires. at the Eolia Mansion in Water- Megan McCarthy about an Afro-Filipina fashion of Practical Consulting last year. I GSAS’15 and ford, Conn. We were joined by her Kaveh Dabashi; Dave model who flips her definition of am also a recurring presenter at her fiancé, Ted, recently relocated from brother,

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Mancinelli; Kate Criss GS’08; Han- School Teaching Residency Program rical releases in London; Chicago; with his work at Cowan, DeBaets, nah Assadi; Peter Wiegand ’08; as a history methods instructor. Last Austin; Columbia, S.C.; and Santa Abrahams & Sheppard, a full- Hal Scardino ’08; Nilou Safinya ’08; year I was elected VP of the Board Fe. The film was broadcast on PBS service entertainment law firm based and Kristin Van Heertum ’08.” of Directors at The Waldorf School World Channel on March 3 and will in New York City and Los Angeles. Juliet Grames’ debut novel, of Philadelphia, where we have also stream on Amazon Prime in June. Dan represents artists and producers The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella focused heavily on inclusion, process- Have a great spring! in theater, film and television. Fortuna, will be published in North ing Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragil- Most recently, Dan represented America on May 7. The novel, which ity: Why It’s So Hard for White People Jeremy Kareken and David Murrell sold at auctions in 10 countries and to Talk About Racism as a team. Don’t 2007 in connection with their play The will be translated into eight lan- think I’m leaving Philly anytime Lifespan of a Fact, starring Bobby David D. Chait guages, is an immigrant saga about soon. Holler if you’re in town or want Cannavale, Cherry Jones and Daniel [email protected] a family from a tiny mountaintop to talk about any of these initiatives.” Radcliffe, which opened on Broad- Graham Donald: village in rural southern Italy, and From “I moved way in the fall. unfolds the blood feud between two to Boise in fall 2018 with my wife. I am Thank you, everyone, for sharing When he’s not in the office, Dan 100-year-old sisters: one beautiful, in private practice as a vascular surgeon. your exciting updates. We want to is working on his own stageplays in charismatic and cursed; one plain, I am happy to be back in Idaho!” hear from you, so please let us know the coffee shops of Park Slope. John Gardner well-behaved and spurned. what’s new in your life! started Kudos, a Matt Reuter More book news! From Katya shares, “The start of daily personal training service with Apekina: “After many years of work, 2006 spring also means the start of lacrosse a human coach via text and app, my novel, The Deeper the Water the season. Eleven years ago, I was part in 2017. He says, “Founded on the Michelle Oh Sing Uglier the Fish, came out this fall. It of a Columbia team that won 18 belief that personal trainers change [email protected] was named a ‘Best Book of 2018’ by games and a club-level national lives but are just too dang expensive, Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, Entropy, championship. I would like to give Kudos makes it easy and affordable LitReactor and LitHub; ‘One of Hi everyone. I’m thrilled to share a shoutout to my former teammates to hit aggressive exercise and nutri- Anthony Blandino SEAS’07, Ryan the Most Anticipated Books of the some wonderful news. Please join tion goals. Clients agree –– they McChristian Dustin Byington Fall’ by New York magazine, Harper’s me in congratulating our classmates and completed 16,801 workouts and BAZAAR, BuzzFeed, Publishers on these amazing personal and for helping to make that season 3,434 nutrition habits in 2018!” Weekly, The Millions, Bustle and Fast career milestones! my favorite memory of my time at Sean Wilkes Company; and won a 35 Over 35 writes, “I live in Columbia. I write about Columbia Award 2018. As of now it will be Honolulu. My wife and I recently men’s lacrosse in this issue of CCT — 2009 translated into Spanish, French, celebrated the birth of our second check out ‘The Last Word’ at the end German and Italian. It has been great child and I was recently selected for of the magazine.” REUNION 2019 Joyce Hau Ed seeing college friends at my readings!” a fellowship in child and adolescent writes, “I married MAY 30–JUNE 1 Chiang SEAS’07, From Brendon-Jeremi Jobs: psychiatry at Tripler Army Medical which is a funny Events and Programs Contact “I have been appointed as the first Center, so I’m excited I get to stay story since we didn’t know each other [email protected] director of diversity and inclusion at here for two more years.” in college at all. We had quite a few Development Contact Libby Peters [email protected] The Haverford School, just outside of and her wife, Sarah folks from Columbia join us at our Philadelphia. I’m driving the design Stevenson, became moms on October wedding in Bali on September 23, and Izumi Devalier Chantee Dempsey and implementation of a strategic 5 to daughter Findley Elizabeth, who was my bridesmaid!” [email protected] plan for diversity and inclusion with a weighed 10 pounds, 3 ounces. All Please send in a note or photo, dynamic team. We have been doing a three are doing well in Philadelphia. and have a great spring! Jonathan Ward lot of implicit bias training and racial has plans this Greetings, esteemed classmates of Alidad literacy practice. I’m continuing to year to release his first book on 2009! The truly exceptional Damooei adjunct in Penn GSE’s Independent China, China’s Vision of Victory, 2008 has decided to step down which outlines Chinese global as our class correspondent after 10 strategy and the race to replace the Neda Navab years of compiling and perfecting United States as the world’s domi- [email protected] all of our wonderful life events for nant superpower. alumni consumption. Jenny Murray directed and Happy spring, CC’08! Peter Law Thank you, Ali, for your service. Columbia produced her first feature documen- writes, “At long, long last I am With all that being said, I have College tary film, ¡Las Sandinistas!, which submitting my first Class Note. assumed the role of class correspon- premiered in March 2018 at SXSW Heather Rabkin and I were married dent and look forward to hearing Alumni Film Festival, where it won a SXSW on October 27 at Del Posto in New about your lives. Please send any Special Jury Recognition Award. York City. We honeymooned in Mar- updates you’d like me to share, from on Facebook The film also won the top honor, rakech, Morocco, over Thanksgiving.” milestones, to career accomplish- facebook.com/alumnicc Jury Prize – Best Film – New Direc- Alumni in attendance were ments, to worldly adventures, to tors Competition, and the Audience Shaun Salzberg; Allison Kade; personal triumphs, to CU get- Like the page to get Award for Best International Diana Braham; Heather O’Neil; togethers. I want to hear (and see, Alex Breskin SEAS’08, alumni news, learn Documentary at Brazil’s São Paulo PH’15; so please include photographs) about alumni events International Film Festival. The and Greta Breskin BC’08. about it all! You can reach me at film has played more than a dozen Dan Haley was honored to be [email protected]. Can’t and College happenings, festivals worldwide, and was released selected as a 2018 Rising Star in wait to hear from you! view photos and more. theatrically at the Film Forum NYC Entertainment and Sports by Super Without further ado, I’ll kick off for a two-week run in November. Lawyers, one of the leading legal the notes by sharing that my hus- ¡Las Sandinistas! also enjoyed theat- industry publications, in connection band, Nick Morin, and I welcomed

78 CCT Spring 2019 alumninews our first child, Madeline Blake became a CFA charterholder earlier ship store is in SoHo on Thompson he will focus on toxic and mass tort Morin, on September 27, 2018. this year after passing the Level III Street; feel free to stop by! Business litigation. He writes, “Articles of From Jisung Park: “I recently exam last summer. has been really good. We recently Style was founded by Dan Trepanier married Irene YoungJi Kim SOA’15, “The weddings took on the air of finished making suits for Will Smith ’09 and is a bespoke online tailoring who did her undergrad at UC pseudo-reunions as Jared Walker, and Martin Lawrence for Bad Boys 3. company. They have a shop in Soho, Berkeley. Last year we moved to JP Park SEAS’09, Eric Rosenblum, Last year I had the privilege to teach a so check them out if you’re in NYC. Los Angeles, where I am an assis- Oriana Isaacson, Mary McDonald class at Columbia, ‘Dressing for Suc- I also have invested in Tara Chandra tant professor at UCLA, teaching ’11, Isang Smith and Jon August cess,’ which I hope to turn into a more ’09 and her business hereweflo.com, master’s students in public policy were on hand to party down.” regular engagement. One of my goals an organic femcare brand based in and working on the economics of From Sierra Perez-Sparks: with the brand is to educate consum- the United Kingdom. I also started climate change. We miss the vibrant “Andrei Petrenko and Sierra ers on the perils of fast fashion and a job with Farmer’s Fridge, based seasons of the East Coast, particu- Perez-Sparks married on August 4, encourage people to shop sustainably, in Chicago. We provide affordable larly NYC in the spring. But the 2018, in New Haven, Conn. Andrei support craftsmanship and invest in healthy food through a series of Southern California climate sure is works for a quantum computing products made with integrity.” vending machines in public locations. something I could get used to!” startup (Quantum Circuits) in New Caroline Robertson recently The company recently received a From Stephanie Lindquist: “After Haven, and Sierra is in her second moved to Hanover, N.H., where she round C of funding and will soon be four years as the director of Bronx- year at the Yale Law School. They is a professor of cognitive neurosci- expanding to New York!” ArtSpace, a nonprofit gallery dedi- celebrated with many of their clos- ence at Dartmouth College. Her lab’s Finally, from Chris Yim: “I’m cated to emerging artists and curators est friends from Columbia, includ- research focuses on understanding back in California. I settled down in from the Bronx, I am delighted to fur- ing Louis Abramson, Joanne the neurobiology of autism using Oakland and am starting an inten- ther my educational and artistic pur- Rispoli SEAS’09, Thomas Chau human neuroimaging techniques tional community, focused on gath- suits. Having gardened in New York SEAS’09, Ester Murdukhayeva, (robertsonlab.com). She and her part- ering people who want to put their for four years and developed multiple Rina Mauricio, Nikhil Gupta ner, Orian Welling (MIT’09), have attention toward self-growth and plots dedicated to indigenous plants SEAS’09, Alexios Shaw, Peter a daughter who is just starting to cultivating community. This is an and those of African origin, I am Tsonev SEAS’09, John Kamfonas, toddle, and they recently completed open invite to anyone who wants to thrilled to volunteer at a farm in the Ata Soylemez SEAS’09, Eliav a bicycle trip across China. Caroline swing by El Shire (yeah, that’s what Peruvian Andes to study Masanobu Bitan, Bilun Boyner SEAS’09, Paul is interested in connecting with any I’m calling it). At my house, you are Fukuoka’s natural farming principles. Ratchford ’08 and Ali Raza.” Columbia folks in the Upper Valley beautiful, accepted, valued, complete They include no tilling/plowing, no Ralph DeBernardo and Kaitlyn area ([email protected]). and whole. Come as you are. fertilizers/compost, minimal if any DeBernardo ’10 (née Busler) relo- Isabel Teitler completed her “My dream is to just be free. For weeding, no pesticides and no prun- cated to Austin, Texas, last year and first movie and is about to move to a while I was looking for the path, ing. There I look forward to working love living in their new city with Berlin to pursue her second. Let her but it turns out that I’m on it, it was with and documenting their incredible new career opportunities. Ralph know if you’re going to be in Ber- more a matter of sweeping away the biodiversity, including more than 200 works for a private equity firm, Peak lin or know anyone cool there she leaves and branches to see where I varieties of potato, Mauka, Tarwi and Rock Capital, and Kaitlyn is the should meet! was walking. Arracacia roots –– all cultivated by head of sales and marketing at an Emma Mintz joined the law firm “A little bit about Oakland: It’s Quechua for thousands of years! This oil and gas technology firm, RigUp Carlton Fields in New Jersey! just across the Bay Bridge from San experience will inform my work as an (which is growing like crazy). They Have a wonderful spring, and Francisco, but it’s remarkable how artist determined to make what has also recently took a trip with Gene please take a moment to send a note different it’s feeling. I’ve started a been rendered invisible –– ancient Kaskiw to Park City, Utah, for to [email protected]! new chapter out here –– ‘new year, plants and their diverse, indigenous, snowboarding and snowshoeing. new me,’ right? I moved to Oakland largely female cultivators and their From Lawrence Sulak: “After for more racial diversity, for more stories –– visible. To join me on this 17 arduous years at the helm of 2010 socioeconomic diversity and so that adventure, follow me on Instagram Silver Cloud Contracting and nearly I could meet and get to know my @StephLindquist.” 13 at Comin Correct Productions, Julia Feldberg Klein neighbors. I’ve met a lot of them, From Daniella Zalcman: “My Lawrence has decided the time is [email protected] and it’s been a real gift. first story was published in National nigh to embark on new adventures. “The end of 2018 was a rough, Geographic Magazine in December Recently emboldened by his stint as Natalie Gossett got engaged to her wild ride. It fueled a lot of growth, (on.natgeo.com/2GsIl0F), and I moved the chief of business development at longtime boyfriend, Kyle Bogdan. but I can’t say that it was easy. to Paris in December as well, with Black Box Productions, Lawrence They are planning a beach wedding Sometimes the house needs to be my husband, Joshua Robinson ’08.” now seeks to rekindle his Southern for spring 2020. Natalie got together demolished completely, all the way From JP McManus: “A decade Mississippi Delta roots by launching with her former Ruggles roommates down to the studs so that you can after being suitemates in Wallach and AntiFashion International, an eco- Emily Wilson and Alyson Cohen build it back up and decide what you EC, I and David LoVerme traded conscious, Southern United States- at Alyson’s housewarming in the want the foundation to look like. A hallways for tuxes, serving as grooms- based fashion consultancy. Lawrence West Village. friend recently told me that up until men in each other’s weddings. asks any Lions in the Biloxi and Kevin Bulger shares, “I recently we’re 20, we pretty much do what our “David married Kimberlee Bach- Jackson, Miss., areas to ‘holler y’all.’” spent a month in Tanzania with my parents want us to do. In our 20s, we man on August 27, 2017, after the From Dan Trepanier: “I got mar- girlfriend. It is an amazing country start to figure out what we want, and couple met in business school at ried in October 2018 and my wife, full of mountains, rainforests and in our 30s, we try to start doing it. Boston College. The wedding was Karyn, and I moved to Greenwich, beautiful beaches. Definitely worth “Highlights of the past few in New York City, but they live and Conn., where I am opening the sec- a visit! In the past couple of years, months include visiting Varun work in Boston. I married Korrie ond retail location for the menswear I have invested in some startups Gulati SEAS’10’s in-laws in Port- O’Neill on October 6, 2017, in New brand that I started while studying at founded by Columbia alumni.” land and hanging out with them Orleans. We live and work in New Columbia –– Articles of Style (for- Samuel Garcia joined the new over the holidays. We played some York City with our dog, Roux. I merly ‘The Style Blogger’). Our flag- Lathrop Gage office in Dallas, where top golf, ate some bomb food,

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1. Lauren Ko ’10 married Michael Milligan on were Steve Barker ’78, Dennis Moore ’76, Larry Sophia Lin ’07, the groom, the bride, James June 2 at Sebago Lake, Maine. Collins ’76, Denise Jones BC’76, Tom Motley ’76, Chou SEAS’07, Cindy Tsai, George Liao SEAS’07, Darryl Downing ’74 and Effrem Nieves ’76. Matt Nguyen ’07, Michael Peluso ’07 and 2. JP McManus ’09 married Korrie O’Neill on Alyssa Nylander. October 6, 2017, in New Orleans. 8. Katie Yin ’12 (née Brinn) married Frank Yin SEAS’12 in Pennsbury Township, Del., on October 14. Lila Dupree ’03 married Daniel Adair BUS’14 3. Andrei Petrenko ’09 and Sierra Perez-Sparks 13. Left to right: Bobby McMahon ’12, Sarah Chai on September 15 in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Left ’09 were married on August 4 in New Haven, ’12, the bride, Mason Fitch ’12, Rebecca Fine ’12 to right: Robert Fraiman BUS’85, Benjamin Isaac Conn. In attendance were Louis Abramson and Erik Kogut ’12. BUS’14, Christine Ngo Isaac, Camilla Rockefeller ’09, Joanne Rispoli SEAS’09, Thomas Chau ’08, Ariana Rockefeller Bucklin ’09, the groom, SEAS’09, Ester Murdukhayeva ’09, Rina Mauricio 9. James Bondarchuk ’05 and Pardis Dabashi ’08 the bride, Shantala Menon BUS’14, Sarah Kelly ’09, Nikhil Gupta SEAS’09, Alexios Shaw ’09, were married in October at the Eolia Mansion in BC’03, John Balzano ’01, Ganesh Chilakapati Peter Tsonev SEAS’09, John Kamfonas ’09, Ata Waterford, Conn. BUS’14 and Prachi Snehal BUS’14. Soylemez SEAS’09, Eliav Bitan ’09, Bilun Boyner SEAS’09, Paul Ratchford ’08 and Ali Raza ’09. 10. Brenda Salinas ’12 married Nick Baker ’12 in 15. Allison McLaren TC’15 and Ryan Haslett Sayulita, Mexico, on January 4. Top, left to right: ’12 were married in Old City Philadelphia on 4. Matt Pruznick ’11 married Missy Sohigian on the groom and Erik Kogut ’12; bottom, left to November 17. October 6 at the Torre de Palma Wine Hotel in right: Kayla Daly ’12 and the bride. Monforte, Portugal. 16. Heather Rabkin and Peter Law ’08 were 11. Jeremy Cooper ’17 and Ellin Mitchell BC’19 married on October 27 at Del Posto in New York 5. Colin Sullivan ’11 and Cindy Pan ’12 were were married in Hadera, Israel, on January 6. City. Left to right: Lauren Lyons Cole, Shaun married on September 15 in New York City. Left More than 40 Columbia/Barnard alumni made Salzberg ’08, Boris Kerzner, Allison Kade ’08, to right: Jon Katiraei ’12, George Mu ’11, Akhil the trek overseas to attend. This photo is from the bride, the groom, Diana Braham ’08, Ben Mehta SEAS’11, Mira John SEAS’11, Rebekka Cooper’s March 1, 2018, proposal in the staircase Hamburger, Ari Belok, Heather O’Neil ’08, Alex Troychanskiy ’16, Spencer Seconi ’12, the groom, leading up to Pupin’s telescope dome. Breskin SEAS’08 and Greta Breskin BC’08. Gregory Feldman SEAS’12, the bride, Felipe Goncalves ’12, Julianne Maeda BC’12, Wendy 12. Alumni gathered in Maui, Hawaii, on November 17. Matthew Ciambriello ’11 married Francie Rose ’12, Maddy Kloss ’12, Miriam Wiseman ’11, 10 for Chanel Vicini (née Soto) ’12’s wedding. Left Shafer in Philadelphia on April 21, 2018. Sierra Kuzava ’12 and Ricky Goncalves ’15. to right: Maria Quincy ’12, Amanda Su SEAS’12, the Attendees included Eric Rozen, Madeleine bride, Nina Ahuja BC’12, Brandi Ripp ’12, Stephanie Stoler ’11, Michael Henderson-Cohen BUS’13, 6. David LoVerme ’09 married Kimberlee Tecca ’12 and Renuka Agarwal ’12. Terrence Prial ’11, Pagie Cuscovitch ’14, John Bachman on August 27, 2017, in New York. O’Loughlin ’12, Chris Hays ’10, Ryan Hays ’09, 13. On September 23, Joyce Hau ’07 and Edward Alex Crawley-Hays ’11, Christina Henderson 7. Alumni gathered at the wedding of Barry Chiang SEAS’07 were married in Bali, Indonesia. ’10, Jeff Moriarity ’11, Dylan Isaacson ’11, Mike Smiley ’76 and Sharo’n Smiley; in attendance Left to right: Izumi Devalier ’07, Andrew Chung ’07, Weisbuch ’11 and Paul Corcoran ’11.

Spring 2019 CCT 81 Class Notes laughed plenty and spent some time and passing the New York Bar she Riverside Church (a nod to Colum- brother-in-law, the three couples reconnecting with our human selves. worked at the law firm of Covington bia’s neighborhood!) and Sunday rang in the New Year at the recently I bought an Instant Pot, which has & Burling in Washington, D.C., morning bagels in Central Park. restored Metropolitan Opera been the source of a lot of culinary doing antitrust and sports law work. Colin and Cindy met in 2010 House, where they enjoyed stand-up creativity. I’m on a journey with my She’s now back in the tri-state area through Spectator. For the past five comedy with John Oliver and a writing, going back to the roots and for the year, clerking for a federal years, they’ve lived in Gowanus, pre-show dinner at Vedge, a James putting pen to actual paper. The cre- judge on the Court of Appeals for Brooklyn. Two summers ago, after Beard-nominated restaurant featur- ative journey is one that I’m figuring the Third Circuit, often catching up Colin graduated from the Kellogg ing seasonal vegetables (proving that how to explore and have. Not having with Shana Yearwood and Stepha- School of Management, they Philadelphia has more to offer than been raised creative and having col- nie Grilo ’13, who are pursuing embarked on an 8,500-mile cross- just cheesesteaks). ored within the lines my entire life, Ph.D.s at Columbia. country road trip, and soon after Keep on conquering the world, I have to learn to scrawl all over the Since graduation, Rosalyn Shih were engaged (with engagement 2011, and continue to send updates paper and accept that that’s my cre- had been mostly working in Beijing photos on Columbia’s campus!). to yours truly. ation. Doesn’t matter what anyone as a college admissions consultant for Colin is now at Cove Property else thinks about it. a private education company founded Group, a real estate development “I’ve spent some time lately think by Columbia grads. This year, she firm in the city. One of the team’s 2012 about our culture’s relationship with started freelancing as a facilitator of recent highlights was signing consumption. How do we give more experiential education programs for Peloton to a 300,000-square-foot Sarah Chai and consume less? Our relationship high school and college students. lease for the growing company’s [email protected] with consumption has led to the One highlight was seeing a full circle new headquarters at Cove’s Hudson degradation of our planet, and we’re rainbow after climbing to the top of Commons office building. Thanks for all the awesome photos in a crisis. We consume product, the Taoist Chicken Foot Mountain Matt Pruznick married Missy this time around, 2012! relationships and people, and that in Yunnan Province. Rosalyn says Sohigian on October 6 at the Torre Near these notes you’ll find a consumption has a way of draining she is excited to move with her fiancé de Palma Wine Hotel in Monforte, photo of Nick Baker, Brenda energy, something that we humans to Kunming –– the city of eternal Portugal. They were joined in cele- Salinas and Scott Liu, who met have to figure out how to access and spring –– in early 2019 to work for bration by Danny Ferraro ’09; Blake up in April in Madrid, Spain, at the create. A growth point of mine in Middlebury in China. Pollard SEAS’11; Matt’s father, Bob rooftop bar of the Circulo de Bellas 2019 is to give more, but to give in Others made 2018 a year for big Pruznick ’73; and Missy’s uncle, Artes. The three had not hung out a way that it fills my cup. Let’s talk life events. Lety ElNaggar released Diran Sohigian ’73. together since college and noticed about this if this is something that the album Quest with Out Of And the thing everyone seems via Instagram that they were all you’re interested in. Nations, a project she and co-founder to be most excited about in this in Madrid at the same time. And “Lastly, I realized that I had such Khalil Chahine started in Berlin to edition: Hanging out with Tuan congratulations to Brenda and Nick, a strong identity with being the reflect a dream for a world where Felix Vo. who were married on January 4 in good guy and a people-pleaser that humanity comes before nationality. Lauren Parkes and Benjamin Sayulita, Mexico. Check out “Just another growth point of mine in Quest is a nine-track album that tells Asch, her husband of three years, are Married!” in this issue for that news. 2019 is to respect myself by saying a global story, taking inspiration from looking forward to trips in 2019 to More great moments: John Jay ‘no’ more often. This might contra- Middle Eastern, Latin, pop-classic, Paris to see Felix before heading to 12: 10 years later! Freshman-year dict my last point about giving more, funk, electronic and jazz genres in Amsterdam and then to Sicily. Lau- floormates from John Jay 12 spent but it supports my desire to give contemporary blends with a modern ren recently graduated from a family the evening of October 13 celebrat- in a way that fills my cup. I’ll leave sound. The band played in Cairo, medicine residency program and now ing Frank Yin SEAS’12 and Katie everyone with this wonderful quote Berlin, Luxembourg and Bern in is an outpatient physician in Jackson, Yin (née Brinn). The two were by Anaïs Nin, ‘And the day came 2018 and looks forward to touring N.J., for Hackensack Meridian married in a beautiful outdoor cer- when the risk to remain tight in a in 2019 with their stage show, which Health. She and Benjamin adopted emony at Winterthur in Pennsbury bud was more painful than the risk features eclectic stage design and a 10-pound rat terrier, Sally (named Township, Del. it took to blossom.’” futuristic styling. Their music has after astronaut Sally Ride) at the end And on November 17, another been featured on a variety of world of 2017. Ben always wanted a big Columbia couple tied the knot in music, jazz and electronic music dog so this year they compromised … Old City Philadelphia; congratula- 2011 and media outlets such as PRI’s The and adopted a 5-pound chihuahua, tions to Ryan Haslett and Allison World, the Huffington Post, Worldbeat Hedy (named after 1930s actress McLaren TC’15! Nuriel Moghavem and Canada, RadioEins, World Music and inventor Hedy Lamarr). Their Have a great spring, CC’12! Keep Sean Udell Central, JazzThing magazine and dogs get along well, hiked Mount those notes and photos coming! [email protected] Faze Magazin. You can hear Quest on Tammany with them and give lots [email protected] Spotify, Apple Music and most other of kisses. Despite missing their streaming services. Check out the nightly dog cuddles when they travel, 2013 Happy spring, Twenty-Eleven! We touring schedule at outofnations.com. Lauren and Ben love to experience hope you had an enjoyable last few Colin Sullivan and Cindy Pan new cultures. They traveled to Hong Tala Akhavan months of winter and, like you, we ’12 were married on September 15 Kong and Bali last June, where they [email protected] look forward to the warmth and in Manhattan. The wedding and climbed the Tian Tan Buddha and fun times ahead as our home rock reception were at Academy Mansion, Lempuyang Temple and snorkeled Happy spring, Class of 2013! After a continues another quarter-swing a historic estate on East 63rd Street the U.S.S. Liberty. successful and fun five-year reunion last around the local star. formerly owned by the Woolworth Felix and his partner, Nicolas, summer, the class has been up to great Some classmates made some family, then home to the New York came to Philadelphia in the last things during the last few months. exciting changes. Jachele Vélez Academy of Sciences. Other wedding week of December to stay with Last spring Josh Johnson LAW’17 is happy to share that after weekend events included Friday Sean Udell and his boyfriend, graduated from the Warren Alpert graduating from the Law School cocktails and a rehearsal dinner at Jonathan. With Sean’s sister and Medical School of Brown University

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of African American Policy and Color pursue a career in the French film As always, your classmates want of Change. Since graduation, her industry. She has since worked with to hear from you! Please be sure to activism and storytelling efforts have Abdellatif Kechiche on Mektoub, My submit updates by writing me at the been awarded via residencies at the Love: Canto Uno, which premiered address at the top of the column or Mesa Refuge, the Vermont Studio at the Venice Film Festival. As the via the CCT Class Notes webform, Center and the San Francisco Public artistic collaborator, assistant direc- college.columbia.edu/cct/submit_ Library, and a fellowship at the City tor and chief editor, Maria said she class_note. and County of San Francisco. had much fun casting the actors, Nick Baker ’12, Brenda Salinas ’12 Denise Machin successfully directing rehearsals, editing scenes and Scott Liu ’12 met up in April in defended her dissertation, Find Your with several hours of rushes, restruc- 2016 Madrid at the rooftop bar of the Places Please: Gender in 21st Century turing the screenplay and overseeing Circulo de Bellas Arte. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices, post-production. Everything she Lily Liu-Krason earning a Ph.D. in critical dance learned in Professor Annette Ins- [email protected] studies from UC Riverside on April dorf ’s and Professor Richard Peña’s and has returned to Manhattan as a 13, 2018. Her dissertation explores film classes certainly served her well! Quick plug before I get to it: Please surgical resident at NewYork-Pres- ballroom dance practices in the I recently left my position at write to me, or nominate someone byterian’s Cornell campus on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Sotheby’s and joined Bonhams for me to bother for fun updates, Upper East Side. He is undecided Day Saints and queer communities. New York as the junior specialist in brags or hellos in Class Notes! about his specific surgical specialty Additionally, in August 2016 Denise Impressionist and Modern art. I’m Here’s what some of your friends but is strongly interested in how sur- became the first woman to be always delighted to give tours! have been up to lately: gical care can affect health systems director of the Claremont Colleges Have a great spring, and please Amy Li writes: “After two years at large. More importantly he is Ballroom Dance Company, the third send your news to my email address of investment banking, I decided I happy to be engaging with and giv- largest collegiate ballroom program at the top of the column! And don’t wanted to try something completely ing back to the city that has taught in the United States. forget that our five-year reunion is different. So, for the past six months, him so much. Amanda Gutterman is going on almost here! I’ve been traveling in the United Alex Merchant and his wife had three years as chief marketing officer States and New Zealand and work- a son, Cyrus, in December 2017, at ConsenSys, which she joined ing on organic farms to learn more who is starting to talk and walk. when the company had less than 2015 about where our food comes from, Alex is nearing four years at the 100 employees. Today ConsenSys and to eat tons and tons of cheese! Office of the Mayor of New York is one of the largest companies Kareem Carryl I started in Gales Creek, Ore., City and will head to Princeton’s in the blockchain space. Amanda [email protected] on Fraga Farm, the only certified Woodrow Wilson School of Public writes and speaks regularly about organic goat dairy in the state, milk- and International Affairs this fall. blockchain and Ethereum at events Hello, Class of 2015! This is our first ing its 100-goat herd and making Ryan Mandelbaum still writes around the world, recently including column of 2019 and I hope you’re delicious goat cheeses (my favorite: about science for Gizmodo, occasion- TechCrunch Disrupt and Davos. finding some luck sticking to your the ‘Goatzarella’) and amazing melt- ally appears on Science Friday and She lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New Year’s resolutions. If not, there in-your-mouth goat milk caramels. has gotten really into birdwatch- with her fiancé, Sam. They plan to is still plenty of time left to get them For the past two months, I’ve been ing. In his words, “The highlight of get married this summer. back on track! On to the notes! traveling in New Zealand. I started winter 2018–19 was probably the On a personal note, I married Stella Zhao sent updates on two out on a 250-cow dairy in Opotiki Razorbill flight. Razorbills are auks, Andrew Wood ’14 last September of our fellow alums. First, Maria Lu (which is tiny, apparently) before which are kind of like the Northern in Los Angeles, where we moved plans to travel with a classmate to heading to an organic vineyard Hemisphere version of penguins, after several years in New York City Japan. She will be taking a three- and cidery in Matakana (amazing and thousands could be seen from post-graduation. We both work in week cruise to get there! perks) and most recently working at Montauk, the South Shore beaches L.A. (he in finance, me in tech), and Maria — we cannot wait to see a mushroom farm in Mangawhai, and even Coney Island.” are looking forward to building out the photos! where I helped grow, harvest and sell After graduation, Tanea Luns- the alumni presence out west! Stella also writes, “Will Krasnoff oyster and shiitake mushrooms! ford returned home to San Fran- ’14 started pursing a master’s in con- From Zachary Schwartz (he cisco to lead local restorative justice nective media at Technion-Cornell graduated with CC’17 but is an efforts geared toward ending mass 2014 last fall, and will graduate in 2020.” honorary CC’16 because he took a incarceration. In 2017, she became We have great news from Kemji year off!): “After graduating with a the director of San Francisco Chil- REUNION 2019 Jamil Ohayia! He writes, “I pro degree in visual arts, I moved back dren of Incarcerated Parents Part- MAY 30–JUNE 1 posed to my girlfriend, Naintara to Cleveland. In the past year, I’ve nership. Growing up as the child of Events and Programs Contact Goodgame BC’15! We were sur- had stories and fiction published in an incarcerated parent, Tanea pushes [email protected] rounded by friends and family on Vice, Playboy and New York Tyrant. forward local, regional and statewide Development Contact Barnard’s campus right as she said I formed a hip-hop duo with my policy efforts that aim to improve [email protected] ‘Yes.’ We had been dating for nearly friend and roommate, Morgan the lives of children of incarcerated five years and I knew the time was Hughes ’19, and we make music parents. Her work is grounded in Rebecca Fattell right to make the move. It could under the name NO ROMANCE healing the traumas associated with [email protected] not have been more perfect, and (find us on streaming). I also work parental incarceration by centering what better place to ask the most at a solar energy startup, through the experiences and narratives of Maria Giménez Cavallo, who important question of my life than which I’ve spoken about renewable those personally impacted. Through majored in film and Italian studies, where it all started?” [Editor’s note: energy at colleges, libraries and a her writing and directorship, Tanea’s sent in a great update! After such See photo in the Winter 2018–19 medium-security prison. story has been featured in Vox, the a lovely study abroad experience at Class Notes, page 83.] “Right now, I’m working on sto- Harvard Kennedy School’s Journal Reid Hall, Maria moved to Paris to Congratulations to you both! ries about vigilantes fighting heroin

Spring 2019 CCT 83 Class Notes dealers and a former high-ranking you knew me as a performer –– noth- January 6. In attendance were more KKK ‘yellow dog’ in Ohio. In the ing excites me more than the prospect than 40 Columbia/Barnard alumni. next year, I plan to continue writing, of making art come to life –– and Bianca Guerrero writes: “I have putting out music and engaging in that’s what I’d eventually like to do, been at the Mayor’s Office of Policy new endeavors. Follow me on Twit- working in business and legal affairs & Planning for six months and love ter @zach_two_times and follow us that touch the entertainment industry. it. My policy research and proposals on Instagram @noromanceohio.” In my last spring in NYC for the have mostly related to new ways of From Elizabeth Trelstad: “I foreseeable future, I’m living large.” tackling climate change, increasing moved into the Columbia Startup From Angad Singh: “College work protections on the municipal Lab in SoHo to continue work habits don’t die. At Columbia, I was level and identifying public health on my startup, Beaker! (Named making ‘Columbia style’ music videos strategies from other cities, states after the Muppet! JK, it’s named and studying international politics; and countries. I love this job because after glassware.) Beaker is building now, I’m producing international news it has allowed me to learn about so software that audits the honesty of docs for VICE News Tonight and –– many topics –– labor, housing and Briley Lewis ’18 (left) and Juan Pablo marketing claims against the physi- fingers crossed –– am heading to India transportation issues to name a few. Gatica ’18 celebrated finishing their cal chemistry of beauty, personal soon to cover the world’s biggest elec- Also, I have two amazing interns –– first quarter of grad school with a and home care products. Our secret tions. My job keeps me insanely busy one whom I convinced to apply for road trip to Arizona. sauce lies at the intersection of –– or maybe I’m still a workaholic from the Truman Scholarship! Working formulation and marketing, leverag- my Butler days. I still wake up early to in City Hall and volunteering on the ing chemical expertise to develop hit the gym, a student-athlete habit I community board has really illumi- high-performing, consumer-friendly refuse to shake, though I’ve dropped nated how many perspectives exist 2018 insights and content. We help fencing. If you wanna catch me on and challenged to me reconcile how consumers find their next favorite the weekends, look for the tall guy in policy folks talk about macro issues REUNION 2019 product, and help brands to develop the turban riding his bike through the compared to how my neighbors MAY 30–JUNE 1 them. And we’re looking to expand city, or come dance your ass off with speak about their experiences. Events and Programs Contact the team! HMU if you’re interested! me every third Saturday of the month “Outside of professional stuff: In [email protected] (We work with the best skincare at Silver Factory to DJ Dwai, a fellow October, I found out that I have endo- Development Contact startups and get tons of free stuff, if CC’16 homie. CU soon y’all!” metriosis, an awful, under-researched [email protected] that helps.) When I’m not thinking chronic disease that affects 1 in 10 product build and pitch decks, I’m women. I spent a lot of time visiting Alexander Birkel and hanging with my three-legged cat 2017 doctors, researching the condition and Maleeha Chida and binge-watching baking shows.” trying to learn from other patients. [email protected] From Ankeet Ball: “I’ve spent the Carl Yin My health forced me to pull back [email protected] last year working for a very secret firm [email protected] from my other engagements (mainly doing very secret things. This fall I’m the Democratic Socialists of America Briley Lewis and Juan Pablo swapping bagels, subway delays and Hi friends. Here are some updates and the tenant association in my Gatica both finished their first street corner puddle pools for avoca- from classmates. building) but also presented opportu- quarter of grad school at UCLA, in dos, traffic and a permanent tan when Jeremy Cooper and his college nities for me to reach my goal of read- astrophysics and physics, respec- I head to UCLA to start my legal sweetheart, Ellin Mitchell BC’19, ing 30 books in 2018 and rediscover tively. They celebrated with a road studies. If you knew me at Columbia, were married in Hadera, Israel, on my love of arts and crafts (cardmak- trip to Arizona. ing, knitting) and writing (essays, Livy Tang graduated from the poetry). I turned 23 in November and Morgan Stanley Technology Analyst celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas Program. She is a software developer and New Year’s Eve with my family. I for Morgan Stanley Wealth Man- don’t know what this new year holds, agement in New York City. but I’m excited to find out!” During the past few months, Ethan Wu shares: “I’ve recently Riley Burke formed the rock moved to Dallas and am pursuing band The Wild, The Innocent with opportunities in the architecture Columbia post-bac psychology and real estate field. The Columbia student Brendan Krovatin, plus Alumni Association of DFW has Nicholas Loud ’21 and Michael been a great experience and I trust Coiro ’21. NYC-based musicians that fellow alumni feel the same. If Keegan Riley, Christopher Wright anyone in the area wants to connect and Guy Dellecave also joined the over a cup of coffee, please reach out band. Last fall, they spent countless to me — I enjoy keeping up with my hours recording their four-song EP fellow Lions (and just as importantly, with CU Records in Lerner Hall. I know a few top beanhouses)!” The band is excited to officially Eric Ho has finished his first release its original music, which quarter of a Ph.D. program at UCLA fuses jazz and folk influences and and is excited to begin conducting explores topics like intimacy, isola- The members of the rock band The Wild, The Innocent — left to right, research in his second quarter. tion and connection. Guy Dellecave, Keegan Riley, Brendan Krovatin, Riley Burke ’18, Michael If you enjoy reading the Class Hope everyone is having a great Coiro ’21, Nicholas Loud ’21 and Christopher Wright — recorded their Notes, please send in one of your spring. Please drop us a note for the four-song EP with CU Records in Alfred Lerner Hall last fall. own! We’d love to hear from you. Summer issue!

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Medicine; he was chair twice. He later born to American parents in Nimes, He published more than 70 articles 1941 served on the Board of the National France, and spent his early years in scientific journals. In retirement, Science Foundation. Hubbard was in France, Poland and the Czech Duffy published three collections of William N. Hubbard Jr., retired predeceased by his wife Elizabeth and Republic. A 1947 alumnus of P&S, short stories. He was predeceased physician and corporate executive, son Michael. He is survived by his and a longtime professor there, Duffy by his wife, Natalie, and brother Kalamazoo, Mich., on November 12, wife Joyce; son, William, and his wife, interned at the Long Island Division Jacques, and is survived by his sons, 2018. Hubbard, a University trustee, Julia Laue; daughters, Mary Emma of Kings County Hospital and did Henry, and the Rev. Edward and his 1981–89, was born in Fairmont, N.C., Hubbard-Dodd, Elizabeth Anne his residency at the Hospital of the wife, Lynne; and two grandchildren. on October 15, 1919. His M.D. was Mattson and her husband, Buz, Susan University of Pennsylvania. He was Memorial contributions may be made awarded by NYU in 1944, and he did Farquhar and her husband, Glenn, a WWII veteran and served as a to the First Presbyterian Church his residency in the NYU Medi- and Shannon Smith and her husband, captain during the Korean Conflict. of Fairfield, 2475 Easton Turnpike, cal Division of Bellevue Hospital. Jeremiah; 10 grandchildren; and As a professor, and later director of Fairfield, CT 06825, or to the String Hubbard joined the faculty in 1949, six great-grandchildren. Memorial the Division of Neuropathology at Quartet of Spring Bay, N.Y. becoming associate dean and associ- contributions may be made to First P&S, he authored Astrocytes: Normal, ate professor of medicine. In 1959 he Presbyterian Church, 8047 Church Reactive, and Neoplastic (1983), which was appointed dean of the University St., Richland, MI 49083. reviewed the functions of astrocytes 1947 of Michigan Medical School; in 1970, and presented new immunocyto- he resigned to be a VP and general chemicals of glial fibrillary proteins Albert Burstein, attorney, politician manager at The Upjohn Co. He was 1944 in those astrocytes in tissue and tissue and public servant, Tenafly, N.J., on Upjohn’s president from 1974 until culture. Duffy was known as the December 27, 2018. Burstein was his retirement in 1984. Hubbard Philip E. Duffy, neurologist and person who solved the mystery of born in Jersey City, N.J., and his time served two terms on the Board of neuropathologist, Easton, Conn., choreographer George Balanchine’s at Columbia, where he played center Regents of the National Library of on September 21, 2018. Duffy was death (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). on the basketball team that won the

Harold Brown ’45, GSAS’49, Carter Administration Secretary of Defense

Harold Brown ’45, GSAS’49, a The first scientist to become defense (SALT I), signed in 1972 by Presi- scientist who helped develop Ameri- secretary, a role he held from 1977 to dent Nixon and Leonid I. Brezhnev, ca’s nuclear arsenal and negotiate 1981, Brown began the development also took part in talks that led to its first strategic arms control treaty of “stealth” aircraft and accelerated SALT II, a pact signed by Carter as President Carter’s secretary of the Trident submarine program. As and Brezhnev in 1979. The Soviet defense, died on January 4, 2019, in a money-saving tactic, Brown and invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. He was 91. Carter halted the B-1 bomber as a killed the treaty’s chances, and Carter Brown was born in New York successor to the B-52; however, withdrew it from consideration. City on September 19, 1927, and Pentagon budgets under Brown rose, In 1979, around the time Carter graduated from Bronx Science at 15. reflecting the need to modernize normalized diplomatic relations At Columbia, he studied physics and strategic arms to meet challenges in with China, Brown visited Beijing, earned a bachelor’s in only two years, the Middle East and elsewhere. establishing electronic monitor- graduating with highest honors. By 21, Brown laid the groundwork for ing stations in western China that he had earned a master’s (1946) and a talks that led to the Camp David allowed the Pentagon to collect doctorate (1949), both from GSAS. accords, mediated by Carter and Soviet intelligence. In 1952, Brown was recruited by signed in 1978 by President Anwar After leaving the Pentagon in the Atomic Energy Commission el-Sadat of Egypt and Prime Min- 1981, Brown taught at the Paul H. John Jay Award for distinguished to be a nuclear weapons designer at ister Menachem Begin of Israel. The Nitze School of Advanced Inter- professional achievement in 1980 what is now the Lawrence Livermore accords led to an Israeli-Egyptian national Studies at Johns Hopkins and Alexander Hamilton Medal National Laboratory in California; he peace treaty in 1979. In 1980, University; from 1984 to 1992 he in 1990, and the Department of went on to direct the laboratory. From Brown helped plan a mission to was chairman of the school’s foreign Energy’s Enrico Fermi Award in 1961 to 1965, Brown was director rescue the American hostages held policy institute. Since 1990, he had 1992. He appeared on the cover of of defense research and engineering, by Iranians in Tehran; the mission been a partner at Warburg Pincus, a Time magazine on May 23, 1977. responsible for weapons development, failed — eight American servicemen New York investment firm. Brown married Colene D. and one of Defense Secretary were killed in an aircraft accident Carter awarded Brown the McDowell in the early 1950s; she Robert S. McNamara’s “whiz kids.” and the hostages were not freed Presidential Medal of Freedom in died in 2018. He is survived by his He was Air Force secretary from until President Reagan took office. 1981. Brown also was honored with daughters, Deborah and Ellen; sister, 1965 to 1969 and from 1969 to Brown, who had helped negotiate the Columbia University Medal for Leila Brennet; and two grandchildren. 1977 was president of Caltech. the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Excellence in 1963, the College’s — Lisa Palladino

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Ivy League championship, was inter- Ruth; children, Jeffrey ’75 and his trips to Antarctica and the Galapagos rupted by WWII, where he fought in wife, Kim Constantine, Diane and Islands. Olson was predeceased by his the post–D-Day Normandy invasion. her husband, Jim Angel, and Laura; wife and is survived by his children, He received the U.S. Bronze Star brother David ’48 and his wife, Matthew, Margaret, Sigrid and Medal and Chevalier of the Legion Jackie; and three grandchildren. Charles; and four grandchildren. of Honour. He graduated from the Law School in 1949 and practiced in New Jersey. From 1971 to 1981, 1949 1956 Burstein was elected to represent Bergen County’s 37th District in the Eric M. Olson, retired engineer, Joel L. Pimsleur, retired writer and New Jersey Assembly and served as Lincoln, Mass., on November 24, reporter, San Francisco, on December Democratic Majority Leader. He 2018. The only son of impoverished 22, 2018. Born in New York City in was instrumental in revamping New Swedish immigrants, Olson earned 1935, the son of Solomon Pimsleur, Jersey’s school funding system to pro- a full scholarship to Columbia right a composer, and his wife, Meira, vide fairly funded public education before he joined the Army. He Eric M. Olson ’49 a librarian at Columbia, Pimsleur and sponsored legislation revising trained in artillery but never saw earned a bachelor’s in journalism. election laws. Later, Burstein chaired combat. Olson earned an M.A. from of disability, which became a model After a stint at the Yonkers Times and the Law Revision Commission and GSAS in 1951 and embarked on a for the federal Individuals with writing for national magazines, he was a commissioner of the Election successful career in defense research Disabilities Education Act. Together moved to California and was hired by Law Enforcement Commission. He and development, with a short detour with his family, Olson enjoyed skiing the San Francisco Chronicle as a writer was named “Lawyer of the Year” in into solar energy research. With a and hiking, and was an accomplished for the Sunday “This World” section. 1999 and received the Professional- severely autistic older son, Olson and mineral collector in his youth. After When the section was discontinued, ism Award from the State Bar Asso- his wife of nearly 60 years, Setha, he retired from The MITRE Corp., he was assigned to cover local news, ciation in 2006. Burstein founded were leaders in the movement to he and his wife traveled extensively, specializing in obituaries and police the firm Herten Burstein, which enact Massachusetts Chapter 766, including trekking to near Mount coverage. Pimsleur often wore a merged with Archer & Greiner. He the first law to guarantee a public Everest in Nepal, traveling the Silk battered trench coat and sometimes is survived by his wife of 68 years, education for all children regardless Road in China and Pakistan, and a hat while working the police beat.

Wallace S. Broecker ’53, GSAS’58, “Grandfather of Climate Science”

Wallace S. “Wally” Broecker ’53, determine the ages of materials as risks of climate change, but also to GSAS’58, a geochemist who initi- far back as 40,000 years. propose solutions. He argued before ated key research into the history Broecker was able to understand Congress about the reduction of of humans’ influence on Earth’s Earth’s climate system from research fossil fuels, and received honors and climate, died on February 18, 2019, into its oceans, atmosphere, ice and awards from foundations, govern- in New York City. He was 87. more, and gave early warning of a ments and scientific societies, as well Broecker was born on Novem potential planetary crisis. In 1975, as honorary degrees from universities. ber 29, 1931, and grew up in Oak he published the landmark scientific Broecker was elected to London’s Park, Ill., the second of five children. paper, “Climatic Change: Are We on Royal Society and the U.S. National Broecker’s parents, evangelical the Brink of a Pronounced Global Academy of Sciences. In 1996, he Christians, sent him to Wheaton Warming?” He was fond of saying, received the National Medal of Sci- College, a Christian liberal arts “The climate system is an angry beast, ence from President Clinton, and in school. He planned to become an and we are poking it with sticks.” in 2004, the GSAS Dean’s Award. actuary, but a friend helped him land Broecker noted that while the Broecker married Grace Carder an internship at what became the global climate had been experiencing in 1952; she died in 2007. Five / LDEO BRUCE GILBERT Lamont-Doherty Earth Observa- a natural cycle of cooling, planetary of their six children survive him: tory (LDEO) at Columbia, where temperatures would soon begin to Sandra, Cynthia Kennedy, Kathleen Observatory Development Office, he fell in love with scientific instru- rise because of the accumulation of Wilson, Cheryl Keyes and Scott, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964; ments and carbon dating. Broecker carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In as do his children from another lamont.givenow.columbia.edu. Per transferred to the College and 1976, they did; however, he had based relationship, Milena Hoegsberg Broecker’s wishes, his colleague Sid- earned a bachelor’s in physics. In his predictions on a simplified model ’04 and Tobias Hoegsberg. He was ney R. Hemming will scatter his ashes 1958, he earned a Ph.D. in geology of the climate system. In 2017, he predeceased by a daughter, Suzanne. at sea on an upcoming research trip. from GSAS, and he joined the wrote a follow-up paper stating that, In 2009, Broecker married Elizabeth — Lisa Palladino Columbia faculty in 1959. LDEO as accurate as his prediction turned Clark; she survives him, as do his was Broecker’s academic home for out to be, “It was dumb luck.” sisters Judith Redekop and Bonnie Learn more about Broecker: college. 67 years; while there he worked The author of more than 500 Chapin; seven grandchildren; and columbia.edu/cct/archive/summer12/ with J. Laurence Kulp, a geochem- research papers and at least 17 books, seven great-grandchildren. features4 and ldeo.columbia.edu/ ist pioneering work on radiocarbon many self-published, Broecker sought Memorial contributions may be news-events/wallace-broecker-early- dating, which allowed researchers to not only to warn the world about the made to Lamont-Doherty Earth prophet-climate-change.

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the early 1990s as executive editor for Obituary Submission the Sunday Correspondent in London Guidelines before becoming executive editor of OTHER DEATHS REPORTED Columbia College Today welcomes Spin magazine. Pakenham was books Columbia College Today also has learned of the following obituaries for College alumni. editor and literary columnist at The deaths. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming Deaths are noted in the next Baltimore Sun, 1994–2004. Since available issue in the “Other issue, pending receipt of information. Due to the volume of Deaths Reported” box. Complete 2004, he and his wife, Rosalie Muller obituaries that CCT receives, it may take several issues for the obituaries will be published in an Wright Pakenham, who survives complete obituary to appear. upcoming issue, pending receipt of him, had a home editing business. information. Due to the volume of He retired in 2012. Pakenham is also obituaries that CCT receives, it may survived by his former wives, Mary Donald L. Keene, Japanese literature translator, Columbia take several issues for the complete 1942 obituary to appear. Word limit is 200; Connelly Graff and Jane Ashley professor emeritus, Tokyo, on February 24, 2019. text may be edited for length, clarity Pakenham; and daughter, Catherine and style at the editors’ discretion. “Katie” Dempsey Pakenham. 1946 David H. Beyer Sr., Hillsboro, Texas, on April 12, 2018. Click “Contact Us” at college. columbia.edu/cct, or mail materials 1948 Sylvain Bromberger, professor emeritus, philosopher to Obituaries Editor, Columbia 1986 of language and science, Cambridge, Mass., on College Today, Columbia Alumni September 16, 2018. Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Steven J. Soren, Alan S. Kuller, real estate executive, Rye, N.Y., on 4th Fl., New York, NY 10025. attorney, Staten December 7, 2018. Island, N.Y., on November 3, 2018. A real estate and commercial litigation Frederick R. Messner, retired advertising and marketing attorney, Soren was a partner in the communications professional, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., “He reminded me of Columbo, the Soren Law Group of Staten Island, on February 18, 2018. television detective,” said Stevan which he founded in 1998 with his Marshall W. Mount, art professor and researcher, Thomas, his stepson. Pimsleur retired wife of 22 years, Karen. Soren earned Jersey City, N.J., on November 25, 2018. when he left the paper in 1999, a bachelor’s in economics and pre- after more than 40 years there. He medicine, and at the College was a 1951 Joseph A. Sirola, actor and voiceover artist, New York City, on February 10, 2019. was married for 41 years to Terry member of Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji). Pimsleur, an entrepreneur who staged He earned a master’s in real estate 1952 Charles W. Young, medical oncologist, New York City, public festivals and street fairs around development from the Architecture on December 31, 2018. the Bay Area. He remarried after School in 1988 and a law degree in her 2008 death to Charlotte Prozan. 1996 from California Western School 1955 Robert Loring, retired orthodontist, Hopatcong, N.J., She survives him, as do his daughter, of Law. Soren was an avid golfer on February 25, 2019. Adrienne Keith; three stepchildren; and a granddaughter. His brother 1956 Maurice S. Easton, engineer, Southport, N.C., Paul Pimsleur GSAS’56, who on October 31, 2018. developed a widely known language Leonard Karasyk, New York City, on February 17, 2017. learning system, predeceased him. Robert Markowitz, retired health care administrator and risk management expert, New York City and Kent, Conn., 1958 on February 17, 2018. 1957 George H. Betts, retired farmer and social worker, E. Michael Pakenham, retired Worcester, N.Y., on October 2, 2018. editor and wine columnist, Wellsville, Michael Gold, retired attorney, Harbor City, Calif., Pa., on May 9, 2018. Born in New on January 30, 2018. York, Pakenham graduated from Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J. 1958 Joseph M. Klein, New York City, on January 6, 2019. He studied economics for two years Gerald Medoff, emeritus professor of medicine, at MIT and then studied at the Steven J. Soren ’86 former medical school division director, St. Louis, Mo., College without earning a degree. He on January 14, 2019. earned his chops in the late 1950s as and skier who vacationed frequently Peter Millones, New York Times reporter, metropolitan a reporter at the City News Bureau with his family in Vermont. As his editor, assistant managing editor, and Journalism School in Chicago and as an assistant city sons, James and William, developed faculty member, Narragansett, R.I., on January 7, 2019. editor in the early 1960s at the passions for jazz and baseball, the Chicago Tribune. Pakenham was entire Soren family enjoyed these 1959 Maurice R. “Rudy” Brody, La Canada Flintridge, Calif., Washington correspondent for the pursuits. Soren was a trustee of the on January 6, 2019. Tribune, 1963–65. He briefly was Staten Island Children’s Museum. In Vincent H. Demma, retired military historian, Lanham, Md., foreign editor at the New York Herald addition to his wife and sons, Soren on September 18, 2018. Tribune. At the Philadelphia Inquirer, is survived by his parents, Dr. Stanley where he worked, 1966–84, he was Soren ’56 and Ruth Soren. Memorial 1965 Costas Hercules, psychiatrist, Rapid City, S.D., on January 21, 2019. assistant managing editor and then contributions may be made to the associate editor, as well as a colum- Multiple Myeloma Research Founda- 1987 Edward T. Novakoff, banking executive, Wellesley Hills, nist. In 1984, Pakenham became the tion (themmrf.org) or DKMS (We Mass., on January 31, 2019. editorial page editor at the New York Delete Blood Cancer; dkms.org). Daily News. He spent two years in — Lisa Palladino

Spring 2019 CCT 87 thelastword

Lacrosse’s Lasting Legacy

By Matt Reuter ’07

arrived at Columbia in fall 2003 puzzled our downtown rivals (after losing to them an amazing regular season at 14–1, surpass- and intrigued by the school’s relation- on a last-second goal the year before). We ing the 1990 team’s record of 11 wins. We ship to men’s lacrosse. Columbia was took an early lead, quieted the purple-clad made the National College Lacrosse League Ithen –– and remains now –– the only fans and comfortably won the game. Final Four after a 10–5 win over Millers- Ivy without a varsity men’s lacrosse team. The following fall, I discovered another ville University of Pennsylvania, the team Yet I knew some school history with the theme of Columbia’s men’s lacrosse history: sport existed. My father, Thomas Reuter ’78 renewal. Our team started from scratch with SEAS’79, introduced me to lacrosse in the new leadership after briefly falling out of our ninth grade, playing catch using a stick he club lacrosse league due to administrative had bought to play for Columbia in 1979. and financial problems. It was far from the After trying my hand at rowing for a year, first time that men’s lacrosse had rebooted I joined the lacrosse team for the 2005 sea- at Columbia. After winning shares of two conference titles in 1905 and 1909 –– the latter team included later-famous Harvey Mudd SEAS 1912 and James Mackintosh CC 1911 –– the team disbanded after the 1910 season when its captain unexpectedly resigned. It would take 53 years for lacrosse to return to Morningside Heights, when Ray Rizzuti ’66 and a group of classmates revived REUTER ’78, SEAS’79 THOMAS COURTESY Columbia takes on Princeton in 2006. the team for an eight-game schedule in 1963. Other than a two-year hiatus in the mid- 1970s, the men’s lacrosse club has existed that beat us previously. I vividly remember continually since. Rizzuti’s 1963 team played sprinting onto the field during the Final COURTESY WALID “WALLY” YASSIR SEAS’88 YASSIR “WALLY” WALID COURTESY a tough game against a more-experienced Four to celebrate a 10–9 win over defending The 1908 men’s lacrosse team. Princeton squad before losing; my team- champion Lynchburg College, which fea- mates and I on the 2006 squad did the same. tured a winning goal with a minute to play son. In the 14 years since, I have discovered My last season of lacrosse is one I will and two point-blank saves by our goalie in a rich history of Columbia lacrosse that remember forever. After three years of van the final 30 seconds to preserve the win. The connects more than a century of players. rides to Baker Field, bus rides to away games next day, after an easier win over Cortland My first taste of Columbia’s lacrosse and a few nights spent at motels, we finished State, I held the only national championship tradition came against one of our oldest trophy I may ever hold. rivals. In March 2005 we took to the Wien Seven Ivy schools have varsity men’s Stadium field to face NYU. I had never lacrosse teams, four of which will con- played a lacrosse game in front of more verge on Wien Stadium in May for the than 50 fans, but I found more than four Ivy League Men’s Lacrosse Tournament. I times that number in the stands that day. I am happy to have found, through reading soon learned that this was the latest edition old Spectator recaps and fundraising for an of an ancient rivalry dating back to 1881, endowment to support future teams, con- in which NYU defeated Columbia 4–0 in nections with more than 200 alumni who Columbia’s first-ever organized lacrosse believe in the proud tradition of men’s game. That game led to many more, and lacrosse at an Ivy school. Let’s honor that Columbia became one of the charter mem- tradition and “restore the roar” to Colum- bers of the United States Intercollegiate bia men’s lacrosse: Let’s make it eight. Lacrosse League, a group that awarded championships in the sport for more than Matt Reuter ’07 is part of a group of former club 60 years until the NCAA began sponsor- lacrosse players working to promote men’s lacrosse ing tournaments in 1971. Nearly 125 years ’80 KENNEDY MATT COURTESY at Columbia. Read more about their work at later, my teammates and I set out to defeat Practicing on South Field in spring 1980. columbialionsmenslacrosse.shutterfly.com.

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