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CRADLE OF
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CIVILIZATION
THE CORE CURRICULUM’S
ORIGIN STORY
GREENER CLEANERS
AN AMBITIOUS NEW VENTURE
FROM ECO-ENTREPRENEUR
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VOLUME 47 NUMBER 2
WINTER 2019 –20
EDITOR-IN- CHIEF
Alexis Boncy SOA’11
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
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DEPUT Y EDITOR
Jill C. Shomer
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
features
Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09
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Message from the Dean
The Foundation of the College Experience
C
olumbia College students live and learn
in a uniquely rich environment, with the
opportunities that our college, the many
other schools of our university and the City
of New York offer. Approaching that experience with
Beginner’s Mind, they expand their knowledge and
understanding of themselves and their world as they
encounter new concepts, discover perspectives unfamil-
iar to them, and engage with their professors and peers
in and out of the classroom.
The Core Curriculum is the foundation of this experi-
ence, expressing a conscious and deliberate institutional
commitment to a curriculum taken by every student,
specially constructed to prepare each of them to be ana-
lytical and imaginative, empathetic and active, and col-
laborative and visionary, as well as leaders in advancing
their communities, society and the world. It achieves that
through small classes in which instructors guide genuine
discussions about how societies have been conceptual-
MICHAEL EDMONSON ’20
A BANNER BEARING THE NAMES OF EIGHT FEMALE-IDENTIFYING AUTHORS AND VISIONARIES — Maya Angelou; Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Diana Chang BC’49;
Zora Neale Hurston BC 1928, GSAS 1935; Toni Morrison; A. Revathi; Ntozake Shange; and Leslie Marmon Silko — is now hanging above the names of the male
writers on the facade of Butler Library. The banner will be on display through December 16. Learn how the names were selected, about the first female-focused
banner (hung in 1989) and more at butlerbanner.com.
Hartman Named Sherwin Service Award Hockley ’05, Captain Marvel director
Anna Boden ’02, and documentary
MacArthur Fellow The Gerald E. Sherwin Young Alumni filmmakers Ric Burns ’78 and James
Professor of English and Comparative Service Award, which honors individuals Sanders ’76,
Literature Saidiya Hartman is one of who have demonstrated exceptional service GSAPP’82.
26 recipients to the College’s young alumni community, The annual
of the 2019 was presented to Matthew Lemle Amster- Eddie & Ozzie
COURTESY MacARTHUR FOUNDATION
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or some people, bats are Born in Honolulu, Koopman moved Colleagues who tried to trip him up
creepy creatures of the night with his family to California as a child on bat trivia usually failed. “But if you
that foul the world with and glommed onto nature with frequent had him stumped,” said Tuttle, “he would
squeaks and guano. For oth- visits to the Los Angeles County Museum come back at you pretty quickly with
ers, they are the alter ego of of Natural History. He earned a Ph.D. names and terminology that would slow
Bela Lugosi and his bloodsucking cohort. at Columbia with a dissertation on fruit things down and have us pondering for a
For Karl F. Koopman ’43, GSAS’50, flies; later, he turned briefly to birds and, bit. We couldn’t figure out if he was buf-
they were his lifework and love. then finally, to bats. At various times he faloing us.” At professional bat gatherings,
Over a long, distinguished (and largely was a biology instructor at Queens Col- Koopman would sit in the front row and
obscure) career, Koopman was one of the lege, and was on the staffs at the Academy invariably pose the first question, prefac-
world’s leading chiropterologists. In caves, of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and ing it with a high-pitched, “Weeell, it
rainforests, wildlife preserves and anywhere Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural His- seems to me that ... ”
else he might find his quarry, he obses- tory; he joined New York City’s American “Send him an exotic bone,” wrote
sively collected, studied and classified the Museum of Natural History in 1961, author and naturalist Diane Ackerman,
only mammals that flap hither and yon. where he stayed for 24 years. “and he could swiftly identify it down to
Koopman pored over these “flying foxes” But Koopman didn’t restrict himself the subspecies.” In 1944, a little brown bat
in laboratories, published widely and held to his office. Though he wasn’t exactly (Myotis lucifugus) was found in Iceland,
forth endlessly about them in public. built for fieldwork — stout and dwarfish, to which no bats are native. Years later,
“There’s been a tremendous amount of perhaps 5 ft. tall, with sensitive skin — he Reykjavik’s Museum of Natural History
misunderstanding about bats,” he said in a circled the globe twice in pursuit of his sent Koopman the preserved specimen,
1979 interview for United Press Interna- game. He had a penchant for the Carib- hoping for an explanation. Identify-
tional. “I’d say they’re as friendly as gerbils.” bean and Latin America, gathering and ing it as a North American (as opposed
scrutinizing bats in Jamaica, the Bahamas, to European) variety, he figured that
the Virgin Islands, the Lesser Antilles, this particular gatecrasher had swooped
Belize, Bolivia and Mexico. aboard a ship at St. John’s, Newfoundland,
Slowly and steadily, he acquired an and inadvertently stowed away. After all,
international reputation. In books and Koopman pointed out, there was plenty
some 100 scholarly articles, Koopman of heavy shipping between St. John’s and
made major contributions to bat classifi- Reykjavik during WWII.
cation and evolution. His specialty was bat He dealt with laymen, too. A New
biogeography — describing how bats were York Times reader once asked in a Q&A,
distributed throughout the world and “How can a bat hang upside down for
explaining how they got there. long periods without damaging its brain?”
Koopman’s fascination, suggested fel- Koopman replied, “This is like saying,
low chiropterologist Thomas A. Griffiths, ‘How are you able to stand up and not
came from wanting to fill a scientific void: have blood collect in your feet?’” When
“He did something no one had ever done someone reported a 130-lb. Philippine bat
before — examining the regions of the with a 12-ft. wingspan, he brushed it off
earth and seeing how bats related to as a “zoological tall tale.” He dismissed
them. And that inspired other scientists popular myths that bats are inordinately
to do the same thing.” When Koopman rabid and will fly into your hair. “I don’t
began his research, his friend and col- know how that particular superstition got
league Merlin Tuttle estimated, there started,” he said.
were approximately 850 bat species. By Koopman was a dedicated scholar. In
the time his career was over, there were 1977, Queen Elizabeth II visited the
Tktk tktk tktktk around 1,300. North American Symposium on Bat
Research in Ottawa. Koopman’s col- the passive “yang” and the active “yin” — delicate techniques he used to dissect his
leagues were atwitter. But he cared only because the yinochiroptera had a uniquely prizes died with him. But his name lives
about the proceedings. “My ancestors mobile bone in its upper jaw. Once, on in the Latin classifications of various
fought a war,” he said, “so that I wouldn’t tongue planted firmly in cheek, he said he mammals, including two varieties of mice,
have to be excited about that monarchy!” welcomed global warming: “It extends the a rat and a porcupine.
And he had a puckish sense of bat ranges of all those tropical bats! They’ll be And, of course, he has a couple of bats
humor. In trying to define “microbats,” up in North America where I can study to his nomenclatural credit: the yellow-
he proposed two types: yangochiroptera them more easily!” shouldered Sturnira koopmanhilli and the
and yinochiroptera. Koopman drew the Koopman died on the Upper West brown fruit-eater Koopmania concolor. The
names from the Confucian doctrine of Side on September 22, 1997. Many of the “mania” in the latter was entirely apropos.
StudentSpotlight
A
several years authenticating the material and
ndrew J. Nathan has been get a Ph.D. in political science. “I did defi- supervising the translation with his friend
teaching at Columbia for nitely enjoy the study of China,” Nathan Link, then a professor of East Asian studies
nearly 50 years; as he points says. “But it took years of teaching for me to at Princeton. When the story broke it got a
out, he was even born in get into the poli sci part.” lot of attention — The New York Times ran
Columbia-Presbyterian He taught at the University of Michi- a front-page article and Nathan appeared
hospital. The Class of 1919 Professor of gan as a post-doc before being hired on 60 Minutes — which resulted in both
Political Science, Nathan is an expert in at Columbia in 1971. Early on in his Nathan and Link being barred.
Chinese politics and foreign policy; he College career, Nathan was asked to “Some Chinese officials have said they
teaches students from the College, Bar- teach Contemporary Civilization. “It was want to give me a visa — maybe they think
nard, GS, SIPA and GSAS about China, a struggle at first because I hadn’t had a it’s been long enough, or they like what I
political participation, political culture broad liberal arts education,” he says. But did — but they don’t dare unless someone
and human rights. he grew to love it, and has taught it since. above them takes responsibility, and that
Nathan became interested in China Nathan has helped generations of hasn’t happened,” Nathan says. “I never
somewhat by accident. His father was young people to better understand China push it. I’m waiting for an invitation. It
“a spiritually questing” person who read and the world they live in; he won the would be good to go and get a more tan-
about Zen Buddhism. As a first-year Har- Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching gible sense of the mood, but I can continue
vard sophomore (“I was allowed to skip in 2008. “My students have gone into my work without being there in person.”
my freshman year — a bad idea”), Nathan teaching, into the media, into think tanks, Nathan has authored more than a
needed a social science class; remembering the State Department, the CIA,” he says. dozen less controversial books (most
his father’s fascination with the Orient, he (He didn’t teach Barack Obama ’83, “but recently, 2012’s China’s Search for Security)
signed up for “History of East Asia.” I participated in a briefing for him when and regularly publishes in academic jour-
“In 1960, that seemed very exotic,” he he was President.”) “You don’t change the nals. He’s the Asia/Pacific book reviewer
says. It turned out to be his favorite course. world as a college professor,” he says. “But for Foreign Affairs, and contributes articles
Nathan declared a major in history I feel like I’ve had the opportunity to say to its website to help readers understand
with a focus on modern China, and began what I want to say and be listened to, and China’s point of view on subjects such as
studying intensive Chinese — one of only a that’s been a privilege. the recent protests in Hong Kong.
few undergraduates to invest in a seemingly “Those semesters in CC when students Outside the classroom, Nathan stays
useless language at a time when the United are reading Rousseau or Nietzsche and you busy with his four children (son Oliver is a
States and China had no friendly contact. see them get hooked, when the conversa- College senior; daughter Alexa is a Barnard
Upon graduation, Nathan was awarded a tion gets going and you can just duck grad) and one grandchild. He loves muse-
fellowship to study in Hong Kong; when under the table and let the conversation rip, ums, and hopes to take art history courses
he returned to Harvard for a master’s in that’s very cool,” Nathan adds. “The con- when he retires — whenever that is. “I’m 76,
East Asian studies, his advisor suggested he nectivity of it is extraordinarily gratifying.” but teaching is too much fun to stop now!”
It turns out that for all the continuity and commonality CC has provided
through the years, the course has traveled far from its original design. Stu-
dents have read primary texts in full only since 1968, spending bleary-eyed
nights with works like Machiavelli’s The Prince and Descartes’s Discourse on
the Method. For roughly 20 years before that, CC’s raw material was found
in two Columbia-published casebooks (“The Red Books”) that summarized,
wove together and offered excerpts from seminal thinkers. Both of these
iterations of the class would be nearly unrecognizable to its earliest enrollees.
That’s because when CC was unveiled in 1919, immediately following the
First World War, it had a highly specific purpose and what was then a radically
different approach to undergraduate education. It was meant to instill in the
College’s first post-bellum classes a fundamental awareness of their essential
“These texts were not easy reading,” wrote J.W. these were such CC 1923 legends as composer Richard
(“Wim”) Smit, who famously taught all four of the Rodgers, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sidney Buch-
basic Core Curriculum courses. “The first CC students man, humorist Corey Ford and philosopher Mortimer
worked hard. The sheer mass of problems thrown at Adler, who developed his own concepts of canonical
them was daunting, involving much more than a pass- texts that were eventually introduced to St. John’s Col-
ing acquaintance with European and American his- lege in Annapolis.
tory, social psychology, world geography, philosophy, “[A] reason for the success of the course which must
economics and politics.” not be overlooked,” wrote Coss, “is to be sought in the
Despite the burden, the College’s charges seemed to very nature of the freshman class, which is unusually
respond. Just six weeks into the fall semester of the foun- intelligent and mature. The maturity doubtless comes
dational year of 1919, Coss offered a glowing assessment in part from the four years that have just passed. The
in the Columbia University Quarterly: “It is not too early war and its issues have made even boys thoughtful,
to state that even the most sanguine advocates of this and the social unrest which has come with peace has
innovation in freshman education are surprised by the intensified reflections.”
success.” He credited the major part of the success to the Contemporary Civilization was on its way. Through
fact that the students liked the material, adding: “As one word of mouth, speeches at academic conferences,
rather clever freshman put it, ‘I like this course because it attention in scholarly journals and general press cover-
is new and my professor is still interested in it; he is not age, the news about CC spread. Shortly before Christ-
just going over the same old thing again.’” mas 1919, Hawkes estimated that more than 100
colleges and schools across the nation had requested
A Tectonic Shift detailed information about it. By 1921, Spectator was
Coss praised the “unusually competent group of men” calling CC “famous” and noted that Hawkes was get-
who were teaching this strange new construct. But his ting about 10 letters of inquiry per week. “Rutgers Col-
most personal thoughts were reserved for the hun- lege has adopted the Columbia syllabus,” Spec wrote,
dreds of teenagers who were actually taking it. Among “and Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Chicago, and Johns
Hopkins have worked out courses
quite similar to Columbia’s.”
The University published a sum-
mary of the CC experiment in 1920
as Introduction to Contemporary
Civilization: A Syllabus. “At 121
pages, followed by 32 pages of sta-
tistics,” wrote Thomas Paul Bonfi-
glio in Why Is English Literature?
(2013), “this may be a candidate
for the longest course syllabus in
the country.” The whole notion of
CC itself, Bonfiglio wrote, con-
Eco
Entrepreneur
John A. Mascari ’08 aims to
make your cleaners greener
By Yelena Shuster ’09
J
ohn A. Mascari ’08 was 7 years old when he
stopped eating his buffalo wing mid-bite.
He noticed what looked like a vein and
thought about the lion posters and bison
wallpaper he saw every night before bed, and
about the summer camp he attended that was
on the same property as a cow farm. That night, to the
consternation of his meat-eating Italian household, Mas-
cari became the first in his suburban Buffalo community
to stop eating all meat and seafood. (This was the ’90s.) It
was social suicide. (This was Buffalo.)
Like many of us, Mascari lost some of his idealistic
resolve as he grew up. But a few years ago, with Earth burn-
ing, glaciers melting and oceans choking on plastic, Mascari
found his thoughts returning to his childhood commit-
ment. Already an entrepreneur, he didn’t just start compost-
ing or bringing a tote bag to the grocery store — he went
all in. From his home in Boulder, surrounded by majestic
mountains, Mascari made a new pact: his next business
would be devoted to helping the environment. You could
even say he’s making up for lost time. Because nearly three
decades after his first pact, he has resolved to rid the world
of plastic — starting with your cleaning supplies.
Eight months ago, Mascari and co-founder Sarah Paiji
Yoo debuted their eco-venture Blueland to much fanfare.
The online company launched with $3 million in venture
capital ( Justin Timberlake is an investor), won the Harvard
Business School Global Alumni New Venture Competi-
tion and was featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast
Company and Vogue. In September, Blueland appeared on
Entrepreneur
ABC’s Shark Tank and landed a deal with investor Kevin were giants like Pepsi and Coke) to take a chance on an
O’Leary, leading to a valuation of $9 million. unproven startup.
The winning pitch? Instead of buying a new bottle of Lifestyle influencer Whitney Port — a Bundle con-
Windex every time you run out, you have one “Forever” sumer and fan whom Mascari recruited as the company’s
bottle you refill with just-add-water cleaning tablets that chief brand director — witnessed this tenacity firsthand.
clock in at a mere $2 each. “John has the ability to redirect when people say no,” Port
The ambitious goal is to eliminate single-use plastic says. “He will somehow creatively turn it into a yes. He’s
while reducing carbon emissions, as the tablets are 300 always trying to figure out ways around roadblocks.”
times lighter to ship than conventional equivalents. And His persistence paid off. Bundle made it to national
that’s just to start. Mascari wants to transform the entire retail shelves, including Target and buybuyBaby. Four
$60 billion cleaning supply industry so it’s non-toxic, years after launching, Mascari sold Bundle to natural
waste-free and still profitable. product powerhouse 1908 Brands. Mascari can’t reveal
“The world is in crisis mode,” Mascari says, his baritone the dollar amount, but more important than the money
(with a hint of upstate New York) filling the room. “I want was finding the right mission-based partner. “When
Blueland to be a definitive case study about how to build a I sold Bundle, I was deliberate in finding it a very eco-
business that thinks first about the environment, and is still focused home,” he says. “There were other potential
more successful than any business that’s come before it.” investors, but I loved knowing that the business would
If Mascari sounds confident, it might be because he be joining a company with environmentalism at its core.”
already hit the startup jackpot once before. His first busi-
ness was inspired by his then-pregnant sister’s difficulty
finding a balance of nutrients in her diet. Fresh out of
Harvard Business School, at only 27 years old, Mascari
T he inspiration for Blueland started with a close look
at a bottle of Windex. Turns out the ingredients are
97 percent water and only 3 percent active cleaning agent.
created Bundle Organics, the first line of non-GMO, This “seemed bananas” to someone with Mascari’s bever-
vitamin-fortified, pasteurized juices designed for preg- age background. Why ship a product that’s mostly water
nant women. around the world when you can just use the tap and reduce
Bundle was Mascari’s first experience with building a your carbon footprint and operating costs?
supply chain: the manufacturing, packaging and deliv- After realizing the water ratio applied to most cleaning
ery process that transforms an idea into a viable prod- supplies, Mascari and Paiji Yoo — who met at Harvard
uct. It took him a relentless pavement-pounding year — recruited chemist Syed Naqvi from non-toxic clean-
to convince his preferred supplier (whose other clients ing giant Method to join the founding team as their head
of development. Blueland launched one year later, just in
time for Earth Day 2019.
As CEO, Paiji Yoo is the face of the brand, handling
marketing, public relations and big-picture strategy. As
COO, Mascari is its legs, keeping the day-to-day opera-
tions running. During the Shark Tank taping, Paiji Yoo
and Naqvi pitched the concept while Mascari sat in a
conference room with all of his spreadsheets in case they
needed to call him with a question.
“Startups are all about operating effectively in a resource-
constrained environment. There is no one better to have in
the trenches than John,” Paiji Yoo says. “He is really run-
ning all things: manufacturing, sourcing, warehouse and
fulfillment. And our partners are all across the country —
he will fly there and fix any problems himself.”
In fact, Blueland’s press-friendly launch date wouldn’t
have happened if it weren’t for Mascari’s sleeves-up ethos.
The weekend before, Mascari learned the branded tablet
wrappers wouldn’t arrive in time to make their deadline.
That night, he booked the last flight out to the manufac-
turer in Florida, where he hand-stickered 3,000 tablets.
Similarly, when there’s an unexpected spike in sales,
Mascari hops on a red-eye to Newark, N.J., and spends the
day at the warehouse, packing boxes to ensure orders don’t
fall behind. “What am I going to do? Sit at my computer
and say, ‘Where are these boxes? Where are these boxes?’ It’s
important for me to go there and do it,” he says.
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Columbia Forum
In 2012, when Jodi Kantor ’96 was last fea- writer and editor had gained her, early on, the
tured in CCT, her bestselling book The Obamas kind of recognition that many reporters strive
had recently been published. Kantor — who for over the course of decades.
had been named the New York Times Arts and Now, with fellow Times writer Megan
Leisure editor at just 27 — was the paper’s Twohey, Kantor has written another block-
Washington, D.C., correspondent. Her subtle buster. Their newsroom memoir, She Said:
yet revealing portrait of the President and First Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That
Lady’s uneasy transition to White House life Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin Press,
was acclaimed in The New York Review of Books $28), has been hailed as the feminist equiva-
Jodi Kantor ’96 (left)
as “among the very best books on this White lent of The Washington Post’s famous Watergate
and Megan Twohey House.” Kantor’s unusual prowess as both a exposé. (The Los Angeles Times playfully head-
lined its review “‘She Said’ is more important
than ‘All the President’s Men.’ There, I said
it.”) A well-matched pair of reporters, Kantor
and Twohey seem poised to become the jour-
nalistic icons for their generation: Woodward
and Bernstein, with a difference.
She Said is the inside story of the New York
Times investigation into complaints of sexual
misconduct by Miramax Films co-founder
Harvey Weinstein; the story, a 3,300-word
piece about alleged abuses by Weinstein, was
published by the Times on October 5, 2017,
and won Kantor and Twohey (along with The
New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow) the 2018 Pulit-
zer Prize for Public Service. After scores of
interviews, Kantor and Twohey had managed
to substantiate the sinister rumors that had
swirled around Weinstein for decades.
The writers tirelessly sought out victims
MARTIN SCHOEL LER
I
n 2013, Jodi had started investigating women’s
his skin” — decides the story is finally ready to print
experiences at corporations and other institu-
feels seismic. tions. The gender debate in the United States
The results were immediate. A day after the story’s already seemed saturated with feeling: opinion
publication, a third of Weinstein’s board had resigned; columns, memoirs, expressions of outrage or sister-
days later, Weinstein himself was out. His corporation hood on social media. It needed more exposure of
hidden facts. Especially about the workplace. Workers,
declared bankruptcy within a year. More importantly, the from the most elite to the lowliest, were often afraid
article’s revelations led to a national outpouring of sexual- to question their employers. Reporters were not. In
harassment confessions, helping to reignite the “Me Too” doing those stories, Jodi had found that gender was
movement activist Tarana Burke had started in 2006. “So not just a topic, but a kind of investigative entry point.
Because women were still outsiders at many organiza-
many women phoned … to report allegations of sexual
tions, documenting what they experienced meant see-
harassment and assaults against Weinstein that the paper ing how power functioned.
had to assign additional reporters to handle the calls,” She wrote to actress Rose McGowan, calling on
a Times contributor noted. Kantor and Twohey refer to those experiences:
their piece as “a solvent for secrecy, pushing women all
Here’s my own track record on these issues: Amazon,
over the world to speak up.” Starbucks and Harvard Business School have all
Two years later, reading the book is a euphoric expe- changed their policies in response to gender-related
rience. The two reporters are at the top of their game, problems I exposed. When I wrote about the class gap in
seamlessly and effectively cooperating and tag-team- breastfeeding — white collar women can pump on the
job, lower paid women cannot — readers responded
ing. As feminist author Susan Faludi points out in the
by creating the first-ever mobile lactation suites, now
Times review, it’s the journalistic equivalent of world- available in 200+ locations across the country.
level sports: “Watching Kantor and Twohey pursue their If you’d rather not speak, I understand and best of
goal while guarding each other’s back is as exhilarating luck with your book publication.
as watching Megan Rapinoe and Crystal Dunn on the
Thank you, Jodi
pitch.” In the end, what impresses most is Kantor and
Twohey’s fearlessness in the face of established power — McGowan wrote back within a few hours. She
and the fierce adrenaline that animates them. As Kantor could talk any time before Wednesday.
recently admitted to Vox, she and Twohey “kind of relish” The call seemed like it could be tricky: McGowan
having had the chance to confront Weinstein’s wrong- appeared tough, with a buzz cut and that call-to-arms
Twitter feed. But the voice on the phone belonged to
doings. “We’re investigative journalists,” she says firmly. someone impassioned and game, who had a story and
“We’re trained to do this.” was searching for the right way to tell it. Her tweets
— Rose Kernochan BC’82 about being raped had just been hints, with few details.
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JENNA BASCOM
closed the event with their reflections on the Core Curriculum
experience and its ongoing significance to Columbia.
At the breakfast reception, I connected with former CCAA presi-
dents Gerald Sherwin ’55, Marty Kaplan ’61, Brian Krisberg ’81
and Doug Wolf ’88. I’m inspired by how engaged with the Col- focused on enhancing the undergraduate
lege each of these alums remains, continually finding new ways to experience. BOV member Leslie Gittess The CCAA Board of
Directors met on
contribute and inspire the next generation of alumni volunteers — Brodsky ’88, who was awarded a 2019 October 19, before the
myself included! Columbia Alumni Medal in recognition Homecoming festivities.
I was especially excited to spend time with Noam Elcott ’00, of her many years of service, was also at
Art Humanities chair and an associate professor of modern and several of the Homecoming activities.
contemporary art. Noam is on the frontier of revolutionizing how Also on hand was Mila Tuttle ’96, who is very involved with fun-
art history is taught, having spearheaded the use of virtual reality draising for Columbia, having co-chaired the CCAA’s Alumnae
technology in the Art Hum classroom. He demoed the VR system, Legacy Circle and frequently hosted events for alumni leaders.
which will be available at different events throughout the year, to I was also happy to spend time with some more recent alumni,
Stephen Buchman ’59 and me — and it was impressive! We were including Brian Chung ’16 and Jocelyn Bohn ’15, co-presidents
transported into Notre Dame Cathedral and the Parthenon in an of Columbia College Young Alumni, and Carl Yin ’17. Brian and
immersive experience that will forever change the way we experi- Jocelyn are feeling energized by their roles and looking for young
ence art. Noam also participated in a panel where he previewed the alumni volunteers to help them engage with their peers. Carl was
work underway to update the Art Humanities curriculum — the excited to be back on campus, as he recently moved to San Fran-
first significant change since its inception in 1947. cisco and started a position at Google with its Business Operations
I thank Bernice Tsai ’96, Katie Day Benvenuto ’03 and Stefanie and Strategy group. Carl remains active on the CCAA and CCYA
Katz-Rothman ’88 for their roles in helping with this incredible kick- boards, and is a CCT class correspondent.
off event and for their ongoing planning of other Centennial programs I am in touch with one of CC’s newest alums, Emily Gruber
still to come. Bernice and Katie, both Alumni Office staff members, ’19, who now clerks for Hon. Arthur Engoron at the New York
work closely with Stefanie (chair of the Core Centennial Committee) State Supreme Court, and plans to apply to law school. Emily was
to help develop and promote Centennial-related programming. The an engaged student, and I’m delighted to see that continue as an
day was a huge success, in part due to their collective efforts. alumna. She co-chairs the Class of 2019’s First Reunion Fund-
Many alums returned for a great Homecoming weekend on Octo- raising Committee, was very supportive of the new Homecoming
ber 18–19, topped by a 44–6 victory over Penn. This year’s activities programming and is a co-class correspondent for CCT.
extended beyond Kraft Field to include a new Friday night on-campus The College is fortunate to have such a vibrant alumni volunteer
pep rally (including dinner with Roar-ee), the annual Saturday alumni- community. It’s inspiring to see such commitment to giving back
student lunch under the tent and a new Saturday night After Party to Columbia and wonderful that there are so many ways to remain
for young alumni at the fabulous Hudson Terrace. I thank former involved with alma mater.
CCAA president Kyra Barry ’87 and current CCAA secretary Chris
Della Pietra ’89 for their work as co-chairs of the Homecoming and
Reunions Committee in supporting such great programming. ROAR!
At the game, I caught up with Tom Cornacchia ’85, chair of the
Board of Visitors, who is spearheading several key BOV initiatives
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n his first year at the College, in a studio course with artist time deployment to Japan, he spent a month in San Francisco and
Peppino Mangravite, Jack Stuppin ’55 put the skills he learned fell in love with the city. When he left the military in 1958, he made
in childhood art classes to work in a charcoal study of a live it his home, working as an insurance salesman, a stockbroker and an
model. The professor was not impressed. investment banker. Stuppin helped start several successful technol-
“He put a big X on my drawing,” Stuppin recalls, laughing. “He ogy companies, including American Microsystems, Applied Micro
said, ‘You’re a human being. You have a mind, a soul, a heart. Why do Circuits Corp. and Autodesk. Meanwhile, he painted on nights and
you want to do what an inanimate object like a camera does better?’” weekends and took classes at the San Francisco Art Institute (one of
The criticism might have stung, but for Stuppin, it was also freeing. his teachers was Jay DeFeo, a well-known member of the Beatnik
“It liberated me,” he says. “I got looser. I let my emotions get involved.” community, who watched her students work while drinking beer and
Today, Stuppin’s style as a landscape artist has evolved far from sitting on a folding chair atop a table; she called Stuppin “Smiley”).
photorealistic renderings. His California and Hudson River land- By the early 1980s, Stuppin had earned enough from his invest-
scapes — known for their bright, super-enriched colors — fuse ments to walk away from the business world. He also moved to
a certain folk-art primitiveness with deeply personal feeling. His “the country,” settling in Sebastopol, Calif., where he still lives.
work is in the permanent collections of several museums, and he Stuppin’s success is a testament to his talent and creative
has had solo or group shows in galleries across the United States, approach. One technique he employs is to print large versions of
including the well-known ACA Galleries in New York City and his smaller paintings and apply multiple
the Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco. Now in his ninth decade, layers of paint until he has produced an
Stuppin shows no signs of stopping. entirely different-looking piece. Famed CCT Print Extras
Before he became a full-time artist, Stuppin, a Yonkers native, art critic Donald Kuspit ’55 wrote in a See more of Stuppin’s work at
served in the Marine Corps. While awaiting orders for his peace- 2015 catalog that the paint in Stuppin’s college.columbia.edu/cct.
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ocial science meets Dungeons & Dragons” is how Jacque- Argentina and Thailand. Professors at Cornell and the University of
lyn Schneider ’05 describes the innovative war game she Wisconsin have also run the game with undergraduates, allowing
designed to assess if and how a cyberattack could lead to Schneider to compare the results to those produced by players consid-
nuclear war. ered experts in crisis decision making. The early returns are heartening:
A fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, Schneider’s work is at the “We’re finding that people tend to downplay their own vulnerabilities,
intersection of technology, political psychology and national security. which decreases incentives to use nuclear weapons,” says Schneider.
For her current study, she has recruited military and foreign policy Schneider was first exposed to war games as an intelligence offi-
officials, cybersecurity experts and business leaders worldwide to par- cer in the Air Force (she enrolled in ROTC to fund her studies
ticipate in a tabletop game in which four to six players simulating a at the College), a job that sent her to Japan and South Korea for
national security cabinet are asked to respond to a hypothetical crisis. six years following graduation. “I immediately used the knowledge
Unlike traditional war games used by the military, Schneider’s from all the great courses I took in political science and econom-
experimental game is academic. She’s testing for variables; specifi- ics,” she notes.
cally, whether a state’s access to cyber weapons or known vulner- After leaving active duty in 2011, Schneider earned a master’s
abilities in its nuclear control program would stop or motivate it from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from The George
to use nuclear weapons. “I am always interested in how the human Washington University, both in political science. She’s still an Air
being interacts with the technology,” Schneider says. Force reservist assigned to U.S. Cyber Command; prior to being
Schneider’s game is more ambitious than most in its scope: It named a Hoover Fellow last summer, Schneider taught at the U.S.
has been research deployed in several countries, including Norway, Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
Last summer, Schneider was also appointed to the Cyberspace
Solarium Commission as a senior policy advisor. Created in 2019,
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an you name a number 1 New York Times bestseller that more he founded a hip-hop journal, Elementary, and straddled the
has the F-word in the title? Your ability to answer experience of being a student while running a magazine full-time.
may depend on whether you have small children — “There were deep, vibrant conversations going on in and around the
we’re referring to 2011’s Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam culture that weren’t being reflected in print, so I thought I could do
Mansbach ’98, SOA’00. The real-talk bedtime book (expertly something about that,” he says. “Elementary became a great com-
profane actor Samuel L. Jackson narrates the audio version) was munity of writers and artists and rappers and DJs.”
a smash with parents worldwide, allowing them to acknowledge He was also a fan of jazz, and in his junior year, Mansbach
and laugh at the frustration of having youngsters who refuse to sail became a roadie for the drummer Elvin Jones. “He was John Col-
peacefully to dreamland. trane’s drummer in the ’60s, pretty much the greatest drummer
After a sequel, 2014’s You Have to F**king Eat, Mansbach is who ever lived,” he says. “I traveled the world with him.” Jones
back with another children’s book. F**k, Now There Are Two of inspired Mansbach’s first novel, Shackling Water, published in 2002.
You (Akashic Books, $15.95) reflects the author’s reality, and then Mansbach says the leap from novels to Go the F**k to Sleep hap-
some: Mansbach now has three daughters (“TWO OF THEM pened accidentally. “When your mind works in a satirical way
ARE UNDER TWO YEARS OLD,” his bio exclaims). “We had and you think you’re funny, you just say stuff,” he says. “I was with
the first girl and from that point on I was like, ‘please let the rest friends and made a joke about writing a kids’ book called ‘Go the
be girls,’” he told CCT. “Girls have their shit together much more.” F**k to Sleep!’ and as soon as I said it, I sort of knew what that book
Still, he says, “two is a million more kids than one.” In Two of You, would be, how it would play with the tropes of the bedtime book.”
Mansbach locates the humor in stressful group outings, loss of adult He was surprised by the instant response (“I was mostly tickled
time, anxiety over future college tuition, and yes, bedtime. The audio that it was even going to be published!”). But at the same time he
book is narrated by famously became a bestselling author, personal tragedy struck: Mansbach’s
acerbic comedian Larry David. younger brother took his life. “It’s taken me a long time to talk
Though the F**k books are about it,” he says. “I was publicly doing all of this shit, navigating
his most widely known (he also the sudden fame of the book, and privately going through the worst
penned G-rated versions for experience I’ve ever had.” Mansbach’s next book, to be published in
parents to read aloud without September 2020, is a poetic memoir called I Had a Brother Once.
changing the words), Mans- Mansbach was thinking of the College when he wrote the
bach’s bibliography is unusu- screenplay for Barry, the 2016 film directed by Vikram Gandhi ’00
ally multi-genre. In addition to that imagines Barack Obama ’83 as a young man. “What drew me
writing for older kids (Benjamin to focusing on that part of his life is that it’s so opaque, it lends itself
Franklin: Huge Pain in My …), to wholesale invention,” Mansbach says. “I had his memoir and a
Mansbach writes poetry (Genius smattering of articles for sourcing, but it was mostly retrofitting
B-Boy Cynics Getting Weeded in who he was then based on who he is now. I was largely drawing
MATTHEW L. K APL AN
the Garden of Delights), and his on Vikram’s and my experiences at Columbia.” Mansbach’s screen-
novels have ranged from satire play was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Film
(Angry Black White Boy), to saga Independent Spirit Award, both in 2017.
(The End of the Jews), to super- Today, reflecting on the latest in his cuss-filled collection, Mans-
natural (The Devil’s Bag Man). bach says, “Go the F**k to Sleep became fodder for think pieces about
His years at the College were similarly unorthodox: Mansbach, the state of parenting, but these books are an affirmation that we’re
who grew up in Boston, was a rapper and a DJ from a young age, not going through this alone — it’s an opportunity for a sort of
and “within 72 hours of arriving at Columbia I found everyone shared catharsis. I’ll probably leave a few copies of Two of You at
who rapped,” he says. “There weren’t that many of us.” As a sopho- the doctor’s office when I go for my vasectomy.”
Paul Gaugin’s Son: The Life The Second Founding: How the John O’Hara: Four Novels of the funds against corporate exploitation
and Times of Emile Gaugin by Civil War and Reconstruction 1930s edited by Steven Goldleaf ’76. (Harvard University Press, $35).
Francis Butterworth ’57 and David Remade the Constitution by In one volume, four novels about the
McIntyre. Butterworth, formerly a Eric Foner ’63. The Pulitzer Prize- pursuit of pleasure and status in Jazz The First Dinosaur: How Science
professor of genetics and molecular winning scholar outlines the history Age America, from the author who Solved the Greatest Mystery on
biology, provides a comprehensive of three constitutional amendments has been called “the real Fitzgerald” Earth by Ian Lendler ’96. The idea
account of a son living in the that built equality into America’s (Library of America, $40). that giant creatures roamed Earth
shadow of his famous artist father foundation, and how those guar millions of years before humans
(Saugus Books, $39.50). antees have been shaken over time Exile Home by Mark Statman ’80. was once unfathomable; Lendler’s
(W.W. Norton & Co., $26.95). Poet Pablo Medina says of Statman’s book for young readers recounts the
Four Men Shaking: Searching newest book: “The father poem, ‘Green fossil discoveries and advances in
for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, One Hundred Autobiographies: Side Up,’ is a triumph of courage and science that led to the knowledge
Norman Mailer, and My Perfect A Memoir by David Lehman poetry and love. From it the manuscript that dinosaurs existed (Margaret K.
Zen Teacher by Lawrence ’70. While undergoing painful opens like a flower of multiple McElderry Books, $24.99).
Shainberg ’58. In this memoir, chemotherapy and surgery for petals” (Lavender Ink, $17.95).
the author considers how two cancer, Lehman aims to make sense The Passion Projects: Modernist
literary friendships and a teacher- of his mortality by composing a Dockworker Power: Race and Women, Intimate Archives,
student relationship shaped his life story from 100 short reflections Activism in Durban and the San Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir
experiences of writing and Zen (Cornell University Press, $22.95). Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole ’03. A look at how modernist women
practice (Shambhala, $16.95). ’91. Workers in the world’s ports writers such as Virginia Woolf
Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: are often missed in commentary on used biographical writing to resist
The Road Traveled and Other Pathfinding in Jacksonian today’s globalizing economy. Cole their exclusion from literary history
Essays by Steven Cahn ’63. America by Bill Christophersen ’71. brings their experiences to light in a (Princeton University Press, $29.95).
Philosopher and educator Cahn The author argues that James comparative study of Durban, South
offers his latest reflections on the Fenimore Cooper’s Leather- Africa, and San Francisco, Calif. Beyond the Boulevards: A Short
nature of well-being, the rationality Stocking frontier tales, though (University of Illinois Press, $35). Biography of Pondicherry by
of religious belief and the aims fictional, highlighted real problems Aditi Sriram ’07. Sriram, a writing
of higher education (Resource plaguing 19th-century America Victor in the Jungle by Alex Finley professor at Ashoka University,
Publications, $17). and also suggested a path forward ’94. The pseudonymous author, a traces the historical, cultural and
(University of South Carolina former CIA officer, continues the spiritual evolution of the South
Press, $59.99). satiric adventures of case officer Indian coastal city of Pondicherry
Victor Caro, now on assignment (Aleph Book Company, $16.99).
SUBMIT YOUR Graphic Music Analysis: An with his family in South America
(Smiling Hippo Press, $14.99).
BOOK TO CCT Introduction to Schenkerian
Theory and Practice by Eric
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
by Bari Weiss ’07. The New York Times
Alums! Have you written Wen ’74. Wen guides students of The Rise of the Working Class writer delivers an urgent wake-up
a book in the last year? musicology, theory and composition Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best call to all Americans, exposing the
Tell us about it! through the process of creating Weapon by David Webber ’95. Webber, alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this
college.columbia.edu/cct/ graphic representations of music, a law professor at Boston University, country and explaining what we can
submit_bookshelf giving more than 650 musical describes how worker organizations do to defeat it (Crown, $20).
examples (RL Publishing, $85). can wield the power of pension — Jill C. Shomer
or internationally famous (not just “Don won the Harper Novel Prize
A light snow 1940–49 well-known in our own Columbia in 1955 for Trial and originated the
dusts campus community). I thought that a good popular television show Ironside.
Columbia College Today criterion would be a prominent His father, Herman Mankiewicz
as winter arrives Columbia Alumni Center obituary notice, with photo, in CC 1917, wrote the film script
622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 one of our major daily newspa- for Citizen Kane, one of the most
on Morningside New York, NY 10025 pers (The New York Times, the Los famous movies ever made. His uncle,
Heights. cct@columbia.edu Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune). Joseph Mankiewicz CC 1928, was a
Three late classmates fit in to that prominent Academy Award-winning
[Editor’s note: Graduates from category: Gerald Green ’42, Don Hollywood writer and director who
Classes 1940–49 can now all write to Mankiewicz ’42 and Donald wrote the film scripts for A Letter to
Columbia College Today to share their Keene ’42, GSAS’49. Three Wives and Julius Caesar.
news. Please take a moment to send a “Gerald was a prolific novelist, “Donald was a world-famous
note to either the postal or the email TV writer and producer at NBC. published scholar of Japanese his-
address at the top of this column to One of his first novels, The Last tory and literature. He had a long
connect with us and with classmates.] Angry Man, was made into a film and extraordinary career with the
with Paul Muni. His television Columbia faculty before his death
From Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz script for Holocaust drew worldwide in 2019. I knew him only casually,
’42: “I recently wondered who attention and acclaim. Gerald died since our paths rarely crossed during
among our Great Class of 1942 in 2006 after a long struggle with his cultural and my pre-medical
could be considered nationally and/ Parkinson’s disease. curriculum studies.
Lazarus Jr. ’46 on July 27, 2019, our building on Thames Street, and I
at 92. According to an obituary in kept a Nonsuch catboat at our dock.
The Washington Post, Arthur was ‘a “I loved Newport and enjoyed
Washington lawyer who represented visiting and researching all its archi-
Native American tribes for more tectural history and its wonderful
than four decades, notably securing buildings. I did a lot of sailing, too,
a landmark $106 million award for around Newport and the islands,
the Sioux Nation as part of its long and Judy and I went on shopping
fight for the Black Hills of South trips and to auctions all over New
Dakota.’ It was ‘the largest Indian England to replenish the fast-mov-
land compensation award in U.S. ing inventory in the shop.
history,’ and Arthur is regarded as “It was a wonderfully different
one of the ‘preeminent practitioners’ and relaxed life. We became deeply
of Indian law. At Columbia, Arthur involved in other things, as well, and
M IC HAE L D iVITO
was a roommate of Allen Ginsberg I was slowly forgetting about all the
’48 and editor-in-chief of the deadlines and tensions of my architec-
Columbia Daily Spectator.” tural life and almost all the houses that
Edwin “Ed” Paul ’48 writes: “It’s I had done more than 40 years ago.
Members of the Class of 1949 and their guests met on campus at their 70th saddening to see less and less about “It came as a pleasant surprise,
reunion on June 2. classmates’ activities, as well as the then, when I was informed last
classes bracketing ours. Sometimes year that the Greenwich Historical
there is nothing at all. So I am going Society, at its annual meeting, rec-
Starr ’46, PS’49 recalls that during has perhaps saved many hundreds of to make sure that in this issue, at ognized my first house (ours) as an
WWII, most of his peers were in thousands of lives. least, there is something for the outstanding example of mid-century
the military, but he was just 16 “And what is life without being Class of 1948. modern architecture. The society
when he started at CC and then able to laugh at its insults? Some of “After graduating from Harvard’s mounted a distinctive bronze plaque
went to medical school at 18, the Class of ’46 might find Larry Graduate School of Design in 1956 on the house and also recorded the
thereby deferring his service until Ross ’46’s definition of ‘nonagenar- and working in architectural offices history of the house in stories and
the Korean War, in which he served ian’ apt: ‘reaching the age when you for a few years, we were able to a lot of pictures in a little book.
as a battalion surgeon in the 1st can enjoy almost none of the things purchase a plot, with savings, loans Subsequently, some of the owners of
Cavalry Division. Working in a you loved to do.’ and a lot of dickering, in back-coun- those early houses got together and
mobile army surgical hospital (aka “An exception, we think, can be try Greenwich, Conn., which the published another little book, of four
MASH), he ‘did more than 1,000 made for keeping in touch with old developer hadn’t been able to sell. It of my other houses, just in time for
major abdominal operations in one (I do mean old) friends. was nearly unbuildable for a conven- my 95th birthday this past August.”
year.’ He returned to P&S, where he “Happy to hear from Mel tional builder’s house. It was a long Dick Hyman ’48 shares: “On
completed his training in surgery. Holson ’46 that he is ‘still function- shelf on a narrow, rocky ledge with October 16, my clarinet-playing
His ‘fondest memories involved the ing despite two new hips and one a dramatic view overlooking acres partner, Ken Peplowski, and I
courses in Contemporary Civiliza- new knee.’ He looks forward to of forest below. I started dreaming appeared at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at
tion, which laid the groundwork another class get-together. Well, of a house that would fit there and Lincoln Center playing selections
for a happy and successful life,’ he reader, what do you say? designed a mostly glass house with from our new duet album, Counter-
writes. ‘The rest is history.’ “Dr. Paul Marks ’46, PS’49, an innovative closet system hung off point Lerner & Loewe. On October
“History, indeed. Albert’s work president emeritus of Memorial the outside of the structure to take 17 and 18, I appeared at a number
on the first durable artificial mitral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, advantage of the view. It attracted of events having to do with my
valve and first artificial heart valve but now fully retired and living in a lot of attention, and about a year receiving the Satchmo Award from
New York City and Connecticut after the house was finished and the Louis Armstrong Educational
with Joan, his wife of 66 years, was we moved in I got an offer to do Foundation. This honored some
recently interviewed about his time another house. I gave notice at the of my earlier activities involving
on the committee to review the New York office where I worked and Armstrong’s music; at that time I
Three Mile Island nuclear reactor opened an office in my house. wrote and recorded special arrange-
accident. His growing family now It immediately eliminated the ments of his repertoire and toured
includes two great-grandchildren. tedious and often unreliable three- the United States, Europe and
“After his Army discharge in hour daily commute to Midtown, the Soviet Union in performance.
anniversary reunion at the beginning conducting applicant interviews, and As we all are for you both, Stan. Helen and I spent several days
of this past June. Highfalutin per- as a leader of the Columbia Alumni We have visited family in New in Halberstadt, Germany (in the
haps, but reread our Class Notes in Association in Sweden. Zealand, and just want to alert you former East Zone), where I have
the Fall 2019 CCT before you react. When not working on her third –– there are 5 million people and 50 been speaking and lecturing for
In mid-September, my wife, novel, Jennifer enjoys spending time million sheep. about five years to audiences of high
Helen, and I made come to pass a with her husband, Christian, and “Finally hit the age –– 87 –– school students and adults. I use the
long-ago personal promise to visit son, James. She is also the proud where when somebody asks me, Washington, D.C., United States
Stockholm. We had a spectacular parent of Yasmine ’23, and looks ‘How do you feel?’ I can honestly Holocaust Memorial Museum’s
learning experience, finding ourselves forward to visiting the Columbia say, ‘Fine!’” writes Saul Turteltaub challenge of “Never Stop Asking
in a multi-ethnic, cultural, geographic, campus more often, having recently, LAW’57. “I can honestly say it if Why,” and am gratified particularly
racial, bilingual –– the list is long –– with Christian and James, helped they ask me when I’m sitting or lying when 16- and 17-year-olds thank
melting pot of several million Swedes Yasmine move into her dorm. Jen- down. But standing or walking with me afterward for my message and
(and some tourists) who put our own nifer was our new friend and guide, my cane or my walker, I can’t fool tell me that they have accepted and
NYC, Chicago or Los Angeles in and a delightful representative of anyone. However, doctors assure me taken it to heart. Basically, I tell
the dark ages of multi-just-about- alma mater. “Feel free to contact in four months I’ll be FINE! So, I them it is no longer “our” world but
anything. Everything worked, even me,” Jennifer wants all Lions to can’t wait for the next Class Notes to theirs to fix what has been broken.
the buses and subways. History and know, “if your travels take you to see how I am. Hope you all are well.” They are especially appreciative that
museums were everywhere. Food Stockholm: jadahlberg@gmail.com!” Indeed, Saul, we all are weller I do not avoid any issues; neither
was of the world. The opera and Herb Zydney SEAS’55, whenever we hear from you –– WWII veterans nor Holocaust
ballet were not to be missed. People SEAS’59 represented our class on keep writing! survivors will still be able to bear
smiled, responded, and appeared campus on August 25 as part of the “In May, my wife, Ann Louise, witness for long.
glad. Glitches? Of course: On our Alumni Procession at Convoca- and I made a road trip from Wash- That’s it, Class of Destiny, for this
first night, finding the hotel less than tion, welcoming the Class of 2023. ington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tenn. issue and this decade. We WILL
desirable, the American Embassy An estimated 10 alumni from the (where we saw her Mount Holyoke celebrate our 70th reunion, and our
helped us find a spectacular hotel ’50s participated. Herb writes that College ’54 classmate),” writes Reunion Committee is in formation.
and room at 2 a.m. Ah, travel! (Yes, it was “wonderful to see the 1,400 Edward Cowan, “then to Cincin- At this juncture, we need you to sign
Sweden’s open arms to refugees and freshmen ready to learn and grow on nati, where we had lunch with up, share your ideas, and become
asylum-seekers has begun to generate campus. Greetings from President Brian Tansey; his daughter, Eira part of the story NOW. Be well, do
a right-wing backlash. Ah, world!) Lee C. Bollinger and Dean James J. Tansey; and Eira’s husband, Justin well, do good, never stop asking why.
Highlight: We met with and Valentini carried insightful welcom- Levy. We lunched in the restaurant Write, email, call –– and see you in
were advised by Jennifer Anglade ing messages, including thoughts on of the retirement community where the Spring 2020 Class Notes.
Dahlberg ’93, who graduated the campus challenges of support- Brian has been living since he had a Excelsior!
from the College with a degree ing speaking the truth and making stroke last autumn. Brian’s mobility
in political science. She was an comments that could be considered is diminished (he uses a walker)
executive search consultant for four offensive, under the guise of free but, the stroke notwithstanding, his 1955
years, then moved to Stockholm in speech. Two of my co-attendees thinking and speech remain clear
1997. Her first novel, Uptown and were grandfathers of freshmen.” and well-focused. He and I took a REUNION 2020
Down, was published in 2005. Her Stanley Fine PS’57 wants to trip up memory lane back to 1958, JUNE 4–6
second novel, Lagging Indicators, share some future joy, reporting, “In when I visited him in south central Events and Programs Contact
was published in 2018. Jennifer still February my wife and I are planning Kentucky, where he was pastor at a ccaa-events@columbia.edu
resides in Stockholm and is an active to fly to New Zealand and cruise to couple of Presbyterian churches. In Development Contact
Columbia ambassador as an Alumni Samoa, Bora Bora, Tahiti, etc. We time, Brian and the churches came ccfund@columbia.edu
Representative Committee member, are obviously very excited.” to a parting of the ways and he
became an administrator of retire- Gerald Sherwin
ment homes. Brian has been married 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 16B
twice and has four daughters. He New York, NY 10021
was unable to attend our 65th class gs481@juno.com
reunion and sent good wishes to all.”
Thanks, Edward and Brian, for It’s the 100-year anniversary of the
connecting, and be well. Core Curriculum. The kickoff event
En route from Cincinnati to on September 27 featured speeches
Washington, the Cowans visited the from President Lee C. Bollinger
Flight 93 National Memorial near and Dean James J. Valentini and
Shanksville, Pa., which honors the was held in Low Library in front of
courageous passengers who were a turn-away crowd. Other notables
on United Flight 93 on 9-11. The who attended were Anthony Vis-
passengers’ heroism prevented the cusi and Elliot Gross.
hijackers from crashing the plane, Many different events will take
probably into the United States place this coming year, especially our
Capitol. Says Edward, “The memo- 65th reunion. We hope that a lot of
rial evokes memories of 9-11, and is classmates will attend. Jim Berick
deeply affecting.” from Cleveland; Stan Lubman from
Several 1950s alumni represented their class decade on August 25 at To return, in conclusion, to the California; Lee Rodgers from Los
Convocation, to welcome the Class of 2023, by marching with their decade theme at the top of this column, Angeles; Jerry Plasse from Mon-
banner in the Alumni Procession. before our week in Stockholm, tana; Bob Dillingham, Mel Holden,
stronger and more relevant than Notes are one way we connect to ones). In the summers I played with Space Science Board. Our meeting
ever before. Mojada is typical, since each other. Please share your activi- the Mostly Mozart Festival Orches- resulted in a white paper that estab-
it speaks about illegal immigrants ties with your classmates. tra, the Casals Festival and with a lished the template for future direc-
and their problems. Recent plays I heard from Ellen Offner in early summer program for young singers tions of research in the physiology
have considered gentrification, July that her husband, Arnie Offner, based in Lucca, Italy. I am an original of manned space flight. The recent
urban corruption, racism in Chicago “had an aortic dissection about 10 member of The New York Pops and worldwide celebrations of Apollo 11
and South Africa, call centers in weeks ago followed by two major still play with them at Carnegie Hall. and the 50th anniversary of the first
India, adoption, relations between surgeries. He is now recuperating at “My varied experiences led to successful lunar landing served as a
neighbors, murder over the theft of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospi- intense consideration of the process lovely reminder of my participation
sneakers, reintroduction to society tal in Charlestown, Mass., one of the of music making, resulting in my in this program.
after imprisonment, human sexuality top such places in the United States. book Leaders of the Band: A Violinist “My other research efforts were
and the Cambodian genocide.” He is expected to recover fully over Discusses Conductors and Conduct- successful in establishing/enhancing
Now a word about Columbia the coming weeks.” ing at the Metropolitan Opera. It is two major spheres of clinical medicine:
athletics: This column is being writ- Allan Franklin writes, “My most designed primarily to aid aspiring “1. Leading efforts to advance
ten as the football season begins. I recent book, Is It the Same Result? conductors with frank suggestions our knowledge and development
am looking forward to joining class- Replication in Physics, was published regarding both positive and negative of a newly discovered class of
mates on beautiful fall afternoons in October 2018.” approaches to conducting opera. It drugs labeled calcium antagonists
at the Baker Athletics Complex to From Ira Lieberman GSAS’69: also informs musicians and the public (or calcium channel blockers) as
watch a very competitive team in “I’m very sorry to have missed the about the nature of the collabora- formidable drugs to treat not only
its quest for that elusive Ivy League reunion dinner but was regrettably tive experience in the pit. After an ischemic heart disease and hyper-
Championship. Then, in November, out of town. I haven’t written to you enthusiastic response from colleagues tension, but also unique applications
basketball will begin, with our best before because I wanted to finish in orchestras around the globe, I have such as a role in protection of kidney
team in the last few years. But more my project since retiring from the started the second volume. I recently function. Based on my studies, I also
about that in the next issue! first violin section of the Metro- received my copyright and can now edited three editions of the premier
Reminder: The class lunch is politan Opera. I do treasure my begin to approach publishers.” medical textbook in the field, Cal-
usually held on the second Tuesday years at Columbia, earning a B.A. in From Murray Epstein PS’63: cium Antagonists in Clinical Medicine.
of every month in the Grill of the ’59, master’s in ’61 and a Ph.D. (in “Although I was unable to attend “2. More recently I focused my
Princeton Club, 15 W. 43rd St. ($31 musicology) in ’69. our 60th reunion because of research efforts on extending the
per person). Email Tom Ettinger if “I taught music at Midwestern overlapping family commitments, utility of aldosterone blockers (now
you plan to attend, even up to the State University in Wichita Falls, I heard how successful it was from labeled MRAs, or mineralocorticoid
day before: tpe3@columbia.edu. Texas (1965–69), and Virginia Com- Joel Rein and Herb Dean, who receptor antagonists) in ameliorat-
monwealth University in Richmond attended. My interactions with Joel, ing both congestive heart failure
(1972–75,) conducting orchestras at Herb and Bob Burd encouraged me and chronic kidney disease. My
1959 both. I was also chief music critic for to write a brief update of my life. contributions helped in part initiate
the Richmond Times-Dispatch during “Following graduation from a major global study investigating
Norman Gelfand my three years there. Then I accepted the College, I attended P&S, and whether these drugs can confer
c/o CCT the position of principal second received my medical degree in 1963. clinical benefit.
Columbia Alumni Center violin with the Théâtre Royal de la I retired from academic medicine “In my present quasi-retirement,
622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Monnaie in Brussels. in 2009, after 39 years, where I I co-chair a global clinical effort
New York, NY 10025 “After returning to New York I was a professor of medicine in the –– the FIDELIO-DKD and
nmgc59@gmail.com began 35 years of playing with the nephrology division of the Univer- FIGARO-DKD clinical studies.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, with sity of Miami. It was an exciting run, Now in their fourth year, these
Our reunion is over, and it will be many of the world’s greatest conduc- and very productive and rewarding. clinical studies have enrolled more
a while before our next, so Class tors (as well as some not-so-great “Following my Air Force stint than 30,400 patients with diabetes
at the USAF School of Aerospace mellitus at more than 2,100 clinical
Medicine in San Antonio, where I sites in more than 70 countries. My
conducted research on the effects involvement in these studies entails
of simulated space flight on kidney chairing the data safety monitoring
Holler at Us function, including hypobaria,
weightlessness and Gz forces, I
committee, which is responsible
for continual surveillance of the
in Haiku! joined the faculty at the University
of Miami, Miller School of Medi-
enrolled patients to ensure that
adverse events are detected early
Core, one hundred years! cine. There I was able to continue and preemptively, and it is our
my studies and to pioneer a new charge to jointly decide when the
What’s a fun way to note it? field of research: ‘kidney function studies should be stopped for either
Poetry from you. during manned space flight.’ My good outcomes (benefit) or for bad
studies were supported primarily by outcomes (adverse events). My
We’re celebrating the Core Centennial this year and would research grants from NASA, and participation entails my spending
love to hear your memories of the Core Curriculum! But resulted in more than 30 peer- more than 25 percent of my time
reviewed publications in medical in overseeing the conduct of these
there’s a catch — you need to tell us in haiku. Send your and physiological journals. ongoing studies. Lots of work, but
5-7-5 recollections to cct_centennial@columbia.edu, and “I was also invited to serve as quite fulfilling and I hope to achieve
we’ll run our favorites in the next two issues’ Class Notes. a renal expert at a major global a good outcome with clinical benefit
summit of experts convened by the for diabetic patients with heart and/
National Academy of Sciences’s or kidney disease.
With humor and wit, he taught all seats in the end zone. The seats the kid –– Don Maynard –– breaks and we enjoyed many games of
students, from those enrolled in basic are much closer to the field; a roof records in a long, brilliant career that half-court, three-man basketball
English courses to those in advanced overhang affords protection from culminates with his induction in the in the Columbia gym after classes,
literature, to think and write clearly the elements; the price is heav- Pro Football of Fame. before we headed back on the subway
and to love reading in the process. ily discounted –– not much more At halftime, word spreads that to our respective commuter homes.
He served as a role model for his than bleacher seats –– as the roof fans in the bleachers set fires in the We reconnected at the 50th reunion,
colleagues, whom he regaled at the and a pillar label them “partially trash receptacles to keep warm. Billy where I learned that Bill had battled
lunch table with vibrant and hilarious obstructed views” which, the clerk and I are more discreet in dealing MS since his 20s. His resilience
conversation. Lunch with Bill was advises, is true for baseball where with the cold. Smoking is permitted and heroism were apparent; he did
the absolute high point of everyone’s one might lose sight of the arc in the stadium: Neither Bill nor I not seem to miss a beat. We stayed
day. During his lifetime, Bill faced of a fly ball, but the sightlines for smoke. Throughout the game, as in touch intermittently since then.
many health challenges, foremost of football are unimpaired. We take conditions warrant, we light a suc- When we spoke earlier this year, he
which was multiple sclerosis, which the end-zone seats. The ticket clerk’s cession of cigarillos over which we told me of his joy leading an active
was diagnosed in his mid-20s. With description is accurate. We settle warm our hands. book group of retirees where the
the same characteristic determination down to watch what will become a The second half is all defense. The reading list included some of the
he displayed in his life, he devoted football classic. It’s a masterpiece of Giants’ defensive coordinator, Vince ‘Great Books’ we read in Humani-
himself to ‘beating’ the disease by defensive play. In the first quarter, Lombardi, has his middle linebacker ties. It was also clear how much he
exercising vigorously and leading a Charlie Conerly takes a snap and key on the Browns fullback on every appreciated the closeness he shared
healthy lifestyle. He rode his bicycle tosses the ball to Frank Gifford, play. Sam Huff holds the legendary with his dear wife, Fran. I understand
thousands of miles and rowed on his who draws the Browns defense, then Jimmy Brown to a total of 8 yards from Fran that the reading group
rowing machine for almost as many. swerves to lateral the ball back to on a dozen carries. This game and members are devastated by Bill’s
He served as an inspiration to all Conerly, who takes it in for a touch- the ensuing league championship in passing. I will miss Bill and feel a loss
who knew him.” down. That’s the only touchdown which the Giants beat the Baltimore for not having been in closer contact
Contemplating Bill’s death elic- scored that day. The extra point is Colts are still regarded as two of the these past many years.”
ited countless memories; I’ll share good. In the second quarter, Pat finest games ever played in the NFL. I write this with a heart, heavy
one, which will surely resonate with Summerall kicks a field goal –– the On December 21, 1958, this that one of my dearest college
many of the New Yorkers in our last points scored in the game. Bronx lad witnessed a thrilling friends is gone, buoyant that it was
class. Bill and I prearrange to meet Giants 10, Browns 0. event, and experiencing it with a my extraordinary good fortune to
at Jerome Avenue and East 164th Both defenses are fierce and boon companion made it a lifelong have had him as a friend, comforted
Street in the Bronx on December produce some remarkable statistics: memory. It was like that with Bill. that he lived his life doing what
21, 1958. We enter a drugstore to A record eight turnovers. The Giants In our circle of commuters who he loved best and, in the process,
purchase a box of cigarillos, then fumble six times, but turn the ball met every day on campus for lunch, touched so many lives, enriching
cross the street and head for the over only twice. A rookie fielded by Bill was a sparkplug, with a gift of them intellectually and personally,
Yankee Stadium ticket office. Skies the Giants as their punt returner –– boundless energy that radiated wit, leaving wonderful, endearing memo-
are clear; the weather intense –– a a super-fast, skinny kid from Texas warmth and intelligence. Time spent ries with so many.
biting cold. The Eastern Conference –– can’t hold onto the pigskin. On with Bill was always uplifting. It was Our deepest condolences to Fran,
Championship of the NFL resulted each of his fumbles Billy and I join a complete surprise to me that he Bill’s wife of 55 years, his two daugh-
in a tie between the Cleveland an earsplitting chorus of groans and had MS or any other health issue. ters and two grandsons, and to all
Browns and the New York Giants. imprecations that shake the walls of I regarded Bill as the very picture who were his students and colleagues.
A one-game playoff will decide the the old stadium. At the end of the of health: trim, athletic, a fitness
championship this afternoon. We season the Giants release the kid. buff, full of life and always upbeat. I
will sit in the bleachers. A bleacher He is picked up by the AFL’s Titans remember our foot race –– a sprint 1961
seat costs 50 cents. The ticket clerk of New York, which joins the NFL in Riverside Park. I’ll leave it at that
suggests that we consider two as the New York Jets, and, there, except to say that his acceleration Michael Hausig
absolutely amazed me. I suppose it 19418 Encino Summit
was fitting that he ran track and I San Antonio, TX 78259
sat pulling an oar on a sliding seat in mhausig@yahoo.com
an eight-oared shell on crew.
Holler at Us Lee Rosner echoed my senti-
ments: “Billy (I never got used to
Bob Salman LAW’64, while serving
as a member of New Jersey’s Council
in Haiku! ‘Bill’) was sweet and funny and
kind and smart. He was dedicated
on Local Mandates, is participat-
ing in a case involving New Jersey’s
Core, one hundred years! to giving kids a great junior college mail ballot law. He has also been
experience and apparently excelled appointed to serve on a panel of
What’s a fun way to note it? at it. I will really miss him.” NYC’s Contract Dispute Resolution
Poetry from you. Andy Feuerstein has this Board in a case involving the City
remembrance: “Bill was smart, witty, Island Bridge Replacement project,
We’re celebrating the Core Centennial this year and would humorous, literate and sensitive, chairs two FINRA arbitration cases
love to hear your memories of the Core Curriculum! But and had a flair for storytelling. I and is a member of the New Jersey
well remember his tales of the ‘Rat Democratic State Committee.
there’s a catch — you need to tell us in haiku. Send your Pack’ and other Las Vegas characters Avrum Bluming’s book Estrogen
5-7-5 recollections to cct_centennial@columbia.edu, and after he had worked a summer at Matters: Why Taking Hormones in
we’ll run our favorites in the next two issues’ Class Notes. the iconic Sands Hotel and Casino, Menopause Can Improve Women’s
where his uncle was involved in Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives
operations. Bill was a terrific athlete — Without Raising the Risk of Breast
board of Peace Action, America’s Larry maintains contact with with Jungian training analyst Edward Lunch.” It’s been a wonderful time
largest peace organization, which Mike Weinberg (now active in Whitmont and Stanislav Grof, as to enjoy good food and conversa-
grew out of the merger between local Democratic Party politics well as with Campbell in the under- tion together. A shoutout to the
the National Committee for a Sane in Oregon) and Charlie Nadler standing of myth and symbol. eight classmates who joined me for
Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear (retired from legal practice in Colo- For the last 10 years, Stephen a September lunch: Steve Barcan,
Freeze Campaign. Larry continues rado and posting lots of pointed has been working closely with Len Henry Black, Ed Coller, Mike
to pursue his dedication to building political messages on Facebook). Ochs, innovator/originator of the Erdos, Doron Gopstein, Bob
a world without war, and recently Mike and Charlie, as well as lots of LENS neurofeedback technique, Heller, Lee Lowenfish and Harvey
accepted positions as a board mem- other Columbia students, appear and researching its potential. In Schneier. Please plan on joining us
ber of both the Peace Action Fund in Larry’s autobiography, Working 2003, they jointly presented “Fun- next time you are in NYC.
of New York State and the Citizens for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an damentals of the LENS Method: Bill Burley writes, “Driving
for Global Solutions Education Activist Intellectual, in the chapter Using EEG Driven Stimulation to through Kansas at the moment,
Fund. In March, Larry traveled with devoted to his years at Columbia. Work with the Clinical Spectrum having left home in Boulder, Colo.,
a small group of concerned New John Joyce writes, “Maybe of Problems: Special Emphasis on this morning. On our way to
Yorkers to Vieques, P.R., to learn because my classmates and I are the Neurologically Sensitive Patient” Pittsburgh to begin cycling from
about the history of and current approaching (or have reached) 80, at the International Neurofeed- my wife Suzanne’s childhood
conditions on that small Puerto the following may be of interest. At back Organization Conference in hometown to Washington, D.C.,
Rican island, which was for decades the funeral of my youngest brother Houston. Their work is documented beginning on September 9. We
a bombing range for the Navy until this past February, I spoke with a in Stephen’s new book on LENS, were married August 2, 1969, and
irate residents secured a shutdown former sister-in-law, whom I had which is also featured on Ochs’s thought this an appropriate way to
of military operations there. not seen for more than 40 years. I website. For more on Stephen’s celebrate 50 years of marriage.”
As a union delegate of United asked her if she recalled that when intriguing work, take a look at If you friend the Burleys on Face-
University Professions Joint Labor Baker Field was being demolished stonemountaincenter.com. book, you can follow their adventure
Management Committees, Larry in 1982, I had asked her former hus- in text and pictures.
was for six years executive secretary band (my other brother, who worked Alexis Levitin sent greetings and
of the AFL-CIO New York City in NYC) if he would go to Baker 1963 reports that he is “uneasily retired
Central Labor Council before step- Field to ask the workers whether he after 51 years of teaching. The body
ping down to become a member of could take parts of any bleacher seats Paul Neshamkin is starting to go, but I still love travel-
its executive committee. One of its on which was painted the number 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 ing. Spent six weeks in spring visiting
key campaigns in the past year was ‘62.’ I thought it would be an inter- Hoboken, NJ 07030 the spectacular, awe-inspiring Andes
an effort to secure county legislation esting piece of memorabilia. My pauln@helpauthors.com of Peru, including, of course, Machu
to guarantee workers paid sick days. brother brought several sections of Picchu. The other high point was a
“Unfortunately,” Larry wrote, “pow- the seats to his home in New Jersey. Another academic year is underway at visit to floating reed islands in Lake
erful business interests managed to I was living in Maryland then. After the College. If we were still students, it Titicaca. My translation life contin-
block adoption of the legislation. my brother and his wife divorced, would be our 60th. I missed Convoca- ues: Cattle of the Lord by Portugal’s
But the campaign will continue.” I never thought about the bleacher tion in August for the first time in a Rosa Alice Branco, Palávora by Bra-
Although he no longer writes seats until I saw her at my youngest while, but Doron Gopstein was there zil’s Salgado Maranhão and Outrage
scholarly books, Larry frequently brother’s funeral. She said she was to welcome the first-years. He reports: by Ecuador’s Carmen Váscones in the
pens op-eds. Focused primarily on still living in the house where she “I had the pleasure of speaking briefly last three years.
issues of war, peace and economic and my brother had lived. Then, to to three or four groups of the new “My only grandchild, Hannah,
equality, they usually first appear on my surprise, she told me that the freshmen, who were spread out as is 3 and a half, but 100 percent a
the website of the History News bleacher seats were still lying on usual in groups of about 15 all over miracle. I remain in touch with
Network and are subsequently the rafters of her garage, where my South Field with their classmates Peter Belfiore, who never stops
picked up by other publications. brother put them in 1982. I asked and their enthusiastic senior student writing; Paul Reale, who never
her to take pictures of the bleacher guides. Wished them well for four stops composing; and Kit Wertz,
seats and then discard them. wonderful years and tried [to give] one who still perfects the language he
“Many memories of our senior or two pieces of advice. They seemed invented almost 60 years ago.”
year sitting in Baker Field –– when to listen in awe (or shock?) when I Paul Kimmel writes, “I’ve been
Columbia won the Ivy League foot- told them that we were doing exactly retired from public school teach-
ball championship –– were brought this with our new classmates (with ing since 2012, after 42 years at
back by the pictures.” beanies then) exactly 60 years ago, and, East Brunswick H.S., but I’m still
Stephen Larsen, with his wife, to give a sense of time, that John F. teaching at Rutgers. I am one of the
Robin Larsen, was on the founding Kennedy would be elected President lecturers in general chemistry and
Contact CCT Board of Advisors of the Joseph
Campbell Foundation and also
the following year, the Vietnam War
had not started yet, Martin Luther
also the administrator of the course,
which means writing the exams,
Update your address, founded The Center for Symbolic King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream speech’ doing the grades and answering
email or phone; submit a Studies to carry on Campbell’s work. would be five years later, Watergate 13 student email. So with about 1,400
Stephen is best known for his work years later and 9–11 not for another students in the course, that keeps me
Class Note, new book,
in mythology and for being a pio- 42 years (but they wouldn’t remember pretty busy. I’m still an active bicy-
photo, obituary or Letter to neer in the field of neurofeedback. that because they were born that year). clist, putting in around 2,000 miles
the Editor; or send us an Stephen earned a Ph.D. at Union Anyway, they were all very nice and a year on the tandem with my wife,
email. Click “Contact Us” at Institute & University. He is now cordial and it was nice to spend a Jane. I’m also still playing the piano,
a professor emeritus of psychology minute or two with them.” and have performed in local recitals.”
college.columbia.edu/cct. at SUNY Ulster (Ulster County We recently celebrated our 150th Mike Erdos writes, “My wife,
Community College). He has trained monthly “Second Thursday Class Caryl, and I have relocated to
Department of Human Services, Steve Case LAW’68 and Barry Sophia writes to the class: “Thank and junior years in (what was then)
where my caseload was in West Shapiro. I recently heard from you for establishing the Allen J. Livingston Hall. We didn’t know
Harlem, above 125th Street, and Richard Tuerk ’63, my junior-year Willen Memorial Prize. Writing my each other well as freshmen, but we
where I learned that people with less roommate, who has had an outstand- thesis was one of the most formative became close friends and he was a
than nothing materially had more ing academic career in Texas. experiences of my college career. I was delightful roommate. Bill grew up
character and love in their hearts “My three sons are doing well able to explore my passion for voting in Northampton, Mass., where his
than I ever would have imagined. and thriving in Brooklyn, Chicago rights, and develop a deep knowledge father was a maintenance worker
“Over time we saved some money and Richmond. My wife, Sandy of statistical analysis. Working with at Smith College. That background
and my wife, 3-year-old son and Pearlman, who makes my life Professor Donald Green made me a gave Bill a refreshing outlook
I traveled to Germany on a coal possible, works in HR for a federal more thoughtful researcher. Even as into issues of relations between
freighter and lived in a VW camper agency not far from our home in an academic endeavor, it helped me the academic community and the
for nearly a year, exploring the cathe- suburban Silver Spring, Md. I con- prepare for my career as much as any working-class population in a small
drals and holy places throughout tinue to freelance for several publi- internship I’ve done. college town. He also had a fascina-
Europe and the Middle East. When cations. Life is full of challenges, but “I was inspired to write my thesis tion with neo-Nazis and other
we got back, we found an old farm- also rewards; I am resigned to the because of my work on campaigns, weird political groups and collected
house in Maine, cleared the fields former and grateful for the latter.” and my whole experience at Colum- their literature, not because of any
for a garden and grazing, and raised Paul Neuthaler GSAS’72, bia. I had spent the past three years sympathy with them but rather out
goats, chickens, pigs and a horse for SW’96 writes: “While my fingers jumping from job to job, studying a of curiosity as to what could produce
the kids to ride. I worked a variety still work and my tired eyes still wide breadth of topics through the such oddities in 1960s America. (He
of jobs to supplement, but eventually focus, I wanted to check in and greet Core, and I saw this as an opportu- did get occasional feedback from the
went to seminary, where I earned a classmates who, I hope, are feeling nity to dedicate myself to one subject neo-Nazis complimenting him on
doctorate in NDE. I recently retired as grateful and fulfilled as I. and develop a deep understanding the similarity between his last name
from 15 years as chaplain at Bangor’s “Looking back at my two careers of one of my most passionate policy and that of Field Marshal Hermann
Eastern Maine Medical Center, — 30 years in publishing, culminat- areas, as well as statistics and manag- Göering!) He and his wife later
where I heard many accounts of ing in having been named chairman ing a large-scale project on my own. founded a very popular and highly
NDEs from patients who had died and CEO of the Bantam, Double- It was more of a challenge than I ever respected antique bookshop in
and been resuscitated. If that subject day Dell Publishing Group in the thought it would be, and I gained Torrington, Conn. I believe that at
is of interest to any classmates, I do a early ’90s; then 25 years practicing more from the experience than I least one and possibly more of his
podcast on NDE at www.nderadio. psychotherapy in Westchester, N.Y., thought possible. children attended the College. He
org. There are more than 300 shows until I fully retired last year. Four “Winning this prize helped me to was a truly unique and wonderful
archived for the listening. children, and seven grandchildren to go to Italy after graduation with the human being, and he will be missed
“Oh, and my answer to question date — all four, thank God, healthy, friends I made on my freshman floor by all who knew him.”
number 2, advising those graduating, loving and happily and expensively during my first week at Columbia. I I reached out to Dan Carlinsky,
is simple: Follow your heart.” educated. I had kids in the ’60s, ’70s, am now trying my luck in Washing- who had sent news about Bill that
Gene Meyer writes: “I don’t ’80s and ’90s! How patient and car- ton for a while, before I inevitably appeared in a previous column. I
have any great pearls of wisdom in ing my wife, Abbi, has been. return to New York to work on asked Dan if he ever got to visit
response to your query about what “Columbia, my intellectual home, voting rights advocacy. Thank you Bill’s bookshop, Nutmeg Books. Dan
I wish I’d known then that I know awarded four degrees to me over the very much for your meaningful wrote, “I did visit Bill’s shop –– at his
now. So I’ll just give our classmates years, including a Ph.D. in English contribution to the College.” home in Torrington –– once. I also
a personal update. Renaissance literature. My greatest The two questions I asked await used to run into him at library book
“My third book, Five for Freedom: Columbia debt was to my teacher your response. Also, join us in New sales, where he was always a major
The African American Soldiers in John and mentor, Edward Tayler, who died York for our informal class lunch the presence. For decades, if you were
Brown’s Army, was published last in April 2018. We were friends for 58 second Thursday of each month. a dealer or collector of old books in
year (and dedicated to the late James years — my tribute to him appears Connecticut, you knew Bill Goring;
P. Shenton ’49, GSAS’54). It won in the Spring 2019 CCT. I miss him he was really one of the deans of
the 2019 award for Outstanding every day. Whatever the future holds 1965 the antiquarian book world in the
Biography/History book from the for me, I will try to approach it with state and beyond. For several years,
American Society of Journalists and the same naive expectations as ever. REUNION 2020 my wife, Nancy, and I ran a yearly
Authors. ASJA also gave me the top My life has been blessed.” JUNE 4–6 book sale to raise money for our
prize, the ASJA Outstanding Blog Steve Solomon, happily retired Events and Programs Contact town library, a half-hour’s drive from
Post recognition, for a blog I posted in Florida, stopped by the class ccaa-events@columbia.edu Torrington. We could always count
on my website: ‘Pittsburgh: Never lunch in September. He is busy Development Contact on Bill’s showing up to stand in line
Again? Just Words.’ In addition, the taking classes three days a week, ccfund@columbia.edu at opening so he’d have a shot at our
National Association of Real Estate traveling, visiting the grandchildren best stuff. He dealt in an eclectic
Editors gave me a Silver Award this and so forth. “I don’t know how I Leonard B. Pack stock, which obviously represented
past spring for a magazine article ever had time to work,” he says. 924 West End Ave. his own mind well. Check his
about the Marriott Corp.’s decision Congratulations to Sophia Bock New York, NY 10025 website; I think it fits the personality:
to move its headquarters. Finally, I ’19 on receiving the Allen J. Willen leonard@packlaw.us nutmegbooks.com/about-us.”
was honored and humbled to receive Memorial Prize for her paper on Gad Heuman responded to one
the Lifetime Achievement Award the impact of voter ID laws, Voter Joel Berger responded to the of my pleas for news: “Classmates
from the online Washington Inde- Identification Laws and Their Effects mention in the Fall 2019 “Obituar- might be interested in my book The
pendent Review of Books, on whose on Voter Turnout and Republican Vote ies” section about Bill Goring dying Caribbean: A Brief History. The third
board I have served for several years. Share: An Analysis of State-Border on July 28, 2019: “I was saddened edition of was published earlier
“Here in the Washington, D.C., Pairs 2000-2016. Allen Willen was to read of Bill’s passing. He and I this year and includes an update of
area, I see some classmates, including the news editor of Spectator. were roommates in our sophomore recent developments in the Carib-
“For many decades after his Russian. My father and I, despite us sweet-natured little Cavalier King states (countries with populations
graduation he was the CC’66 class both being Americans residing in the Charles Spaniel. Having allowed of 10 million or fewer) that Estonia
correspondent for Columbia College United States, spoke in Portuguese to memberships in various organiza- plans to promote as a member of the
Today, in addition to conducting each other — Brazilian Portuguese tions to lapse, I did join the local United Nations Security Council,
interviews of college hopefuls –– because of his nearly 43-year mar- literary club. For that group I have to which it was just elected and for
first in my hometown of Atlanta, riage to my Brazilian mother, Gilda written some fiction, including a which I supervised my SIPA students
and later in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Esberard Berkman, whom he met murder mystery, which was pretty in crafting a report.
where my parents moved upon my during his years spent working at good, if I do say so myself. There are “And I made headlines in another
completion of Columbia in 2005. Coca-Cola Brazil in the 1970s. several classmates still living I wish I paradise, Mauritius, by calling for
“One of my favorite Columbia “I miss my father greatly.” had been able to see again. My best it to create a public registry of the
stories is how his 28-year career wishes to all of you.” beneficial owners of all of its thou-
at Coca-Cola came to be: He Don Shapiro writes, “Over the sands of registered companies –– I
was apparently doing poorly in 1967 years I’ve thought of writing to Class cannot say that my interview made
one of his classes at the Business Notes but just never got around to me popular.
School and built a rapport with the Albert Zonana doing it. Hard to believe that it’s “A high point of the summer was
professor, possibly to improve his 425 Arundel Rd. been 56 years since we lived together my proving that I still had what it
standing in the class. He was about Goleta, CA 93117 on (I think it was) the 12th floor of takes by dancing the twist at a wed-
to graduate, the Vietnam draft was az164@columbia.edu ‘New Hall’! I’ll make this short and ding in Hannover, Germany, where
looming and he had no plans. One sweet, and leave out the many details. even the 30-year-olds could not go
day, my dad’s professor asked what We heard from four classmates My wife, Karlyn, and I raised our so ‘low’ and get back up.”
his graduation plans were, and said this issue! family in the Philadelphia area, where Be well all of you, and do write ....
he had two friends, one in Atlanta Cliff Dobrin writes, “I received I practiced medicine. We now divide
at Coca-Cola and one at another a juris doctorate from Rutgers Law our time between Juno Beach, Fla., in
company elsewhere. It sounds like School. A six-month trip to Hawaii the spring and fall, and Aspen, Colo., 1968
my father jumped at the Coca-Cola led me to San Diego. I signed up in the summer and winter. Also, I’m
opportunity, and thus began his for a three-year stint with the San proud to say that my son, Adam Arthur Spector
international career in marketing Diego District Attorney’s Office. I ’03, is a fellow Columbia College 4401 Collins Ave., 2-1417
and licensing at Coca-Cola. loved the job so much, I stayed for graduate. Lately, I’ve been rereading Miami Beach, FL 33140
“Throughout the years, either for 37 years, retiring in 2007. When not some of our Lit Hum books with the arthurbspector@gmail.com
business or for our yearly holiday looking after my granddaughter, my Columbia College Alumni Associa-
travel with my mother and me, my wife, Mary, and I have been traveling tion’s Core Conversations book club Hello to the Class of ’68! We all
father would not come to New York the world. Every couple of years, (college.columbia.edu/alumni/learn/ met about 55 years ago, can you
without a mandatory visit to the however, we return to New York City coreconversations). I hope a lot of believe that? I am enjoying my
Columbia campus, which he admired so I can stroll down College Walk you are also taking advantage of this home in Miami Beach, but the
every time. The visit also included a and breathe in the most wonderful great opportunity. Life is good!” hurricane approaching did make me
mandatory stop at Mondel Choco- of memories. I picture my sponsor, Jenik Radon writes, “My vaga- think twice ....
lates to purchase chocolate-covered Professor Jim Shenton ’49, GSAS’54, bond ways now find me also return- Visit me! Buzz Zucker, our resi-
ing to my California ‘roots’ –– I did dent expert on plays, is coming soon.
law at Stanford and grad school at We saw each other in Saratoga this
UC Berkeley. I have rejoined Santa past summer –– he won at the race
Core In Plato’s dream cave
Barbara-based Direct Relief, the
premier United States provider of
track, I was wiped out. Seth Wein-
stein is also coming, as is Bob Costa
Haiku we see only shadows of critical emergency medical supplies ’67 and his wife, Joan. I went to their
around the world, as a member of its daughter Carolyn Costa ’12’s wedding
whom we’re yet to be
Board of Advisors. This gives me the in July, the best wedding I have ever
— Rabbi James B. Rosenberg ’66 chance to catch up with Al Zonana, been to. Carolyn is wonderful.
who is not embarrassed to admit Nigel Paneth, Bernie Weinstein
that he loves living in paradise. ’65, Jenik Radon ’67, Robert Brandt
“Other than the Bear Republic, I and Seth Weinstein and I go back
ginger, a bite at V&T and a pastry and some of my friends and always combined business with lots of plea- and forth on public policy issues; it
at The Hungarian Pastry Shop. One appreciate what an extraordinary sure by visiting Estonia, the land that is quite amazing how Seth, Robert
might say he had memories tied to all experience it was. Life is good.” invented Skype, this past summer and and I tend to be flawless in our
those local spots. Bob Burdette writes, “I was joining in its famed Estonian Song observations. Nigel is again doing
“I am fortunate to have been unable to attend our class reunion Festival, which in 1989 sparked Esto- important public health teaching.
loved and raised by a man who was in 2017 due to mobility problems nia’s independence movement from Seth is biking and is down to college
the grandson of Hungarian and occasioned by spinal stenosis. the USSR. This year was the festival’s weight –– told me he did 18 miles
Russian immigrants, worked part My two closest friends from the 150th anniversary; there were more in one day recently.
time at his parents’ convenience class, George ‘Jud’ Marking and than 30,000 singers and more than I also heard from Larry Suss-
store from the young age of 4 and Michael ‘Mickey’ Lane, and their 130,000 participants, all singing kind, who has a new book out. He
paid his own tuition at Columbia, wives, came to my home in Cincin- songs of freedom. It was an emotional teaches at MIT.
ultimately growing his passion for nati that spring and we celebrated high. It also gave me the oppor- Heard from Jim Shorter, who
foreign languages and becoming a on our own. The fairly large number tunity to check up on my interns. was planning to come to Homecom-
self-taught linguist speaking English, of our classmates who had already They were working in the Estonian ing Weekend 2019.
Portuguese, French, Spanish, Ital- died surprised me. These days I lead Ministry of Foreign Affairs helping Also heard from Tom Sanford,
ian, German, Dutch, Turkish and a solitary life in the company of a to craft a platform for the 105 small who gave us a good lecture at our
give me a reason to get out of gym Bill Schur writes: “I’m back in America. Part-time work as a book she teaches second semester CC,
clothes, I’m president of the medical Fort Worth, Texas, where I have dealer led to research, which led enjoying rereading these magnificent
staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, taken up bowling and golf 50 years to collecting, and back to a deeper texts –– a somewhat different selec-
a Mass General Hospital affiliate, after I quit both. Pursuing a new cit- research, and soon I was publishing tion than ours of a half-century ago,
and am on the Board of Trustees of izen naturalist hobby, photographing an article every two to three years –– but not as different as you’d think
the Massachusetts Medical Society. plants and animals and uploading practicing law not leaving more time –– and discussing them with really
Having a voice in the governance and them to the iNaturalist website/app/ for this activity. smart and (mostly) hard-working
policies of the organizations that I database, where I go by the handle “In recent years, I’ve taken several College undergrads. Just remember-
belong to has been my best solution cwd912nb. Doing my civic duty by intensive courses in bibliography, ing as much as I occasionally do
to avoid ‘burnout,’ a serious problem serving on a stormwater advisory including ‘Principles of Descrip- about texts from that life-altering
for physicians these days. Our first group for the City of Fort Worth tive Bibliography,’ at the Rare Book course –– thank you, Pete Pardue
grandchild, Evan, was born a year and working on various neighbor- School at the University of Virginia, from the religion department! ––
ago, and gives us a strong reason to hood association projects.” enhancing my research and my and from its offshoots, especially
drive into Long Island on a regular Larry Rosenwald writes: “I’m collecting, which culminated in sociology-CC, discussing them with
basis. I’m looking forward to next excessively proud to have a verse 2012 in an exhibition at the Grolier her, reminds me how much I got
year’s reunion, and to connecting translation of mine, of Itzik Manger’s Club New York City of my collec- out of Columbia despite the awful
with my old friend, Tom Keenan.” The Ballad of Old Harlequin, pub- tion, prompting the now-deceased political times.
Well, Tom Keenan also sent a nice lished on the website of the Yiddish William Reese, one of the eminent, “I’ve run on too long, but there’s
report: “My wife, Keri, and I are look- Book Center, yiddishbookcenter.org/ scholarly dealers in American books, much to say that’s positive, and I
ing forward to catching up with you language-literature-culture/yiddish- to buy two copies of my catalogue haven’t even mentioned children and
guys again at our 50th! And since you translation/ballad-old-harlequin, for his staff, declaring I had filled grandchildren, in which I’m very
asked … ‘In his 2004 book Techno- with a beautiful, heart-wrenching an important gap in American book blessed; no bemoaning the pains of
creep: The Surrender of Privacy and the graphic presentation.” publishing history. Whew! old age or miscalculations in my life!”
Capitalization of Intimacy, University Finally, news from James “A year ago, the New York Public
of Calgary Professor Tom Keenan Periconi (who is on our Reunion Library gave me one of its coveted
made some feisty predictions about Committee): “I very much look positions as a Wertheim Research 1971
how the world would change by the forward to our 50th reunion in June. Scholar for a year, and recently
50th anniversary of Woodstock (music I’m happy to report that in my small extended it to May of next year. Lewis Preschel
curated through AI, personalized –– but not unimportant –– way, I’m To some a poor step-sibling of the c/o CCT
medical tests, direct stimulation of beginning to pick up where I left Cullman Fellows Program (with Columbia Alumni Center
the brain with electricity rather than off as a graduate student midway its stipends) perhaps, but a key to a 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530
chemicals). Woodstock 2019 didn’t to getting a Ph.D., Columbia’s only private reading room on the second New York, NY 10025
happen, but most of the things Tom Danforth Graduate Fellow in the floor of the magnificent 42nd Street l.a.preschel@gmail.com
predicted did. One thing he didn’t see Class of ’70. I admire classmates library and, even better, a couple
coming was the ability for anyone to who successfully finished their of shelves on which to keep books Howie Selinger writes, “I have
fake images/documents/videos with Ph.D.s in English literature, too ordered from the stacks brought lived in Denver for 44 years. After
commonly available software. He’s many to name. One in particular I’m right there, to keep pretty much as finishing a Ph.D. in clinical psychol-
now designed a blockchain-based lucky enough to see a lot of, who has long as we need them. Lately I’ve ogy, I have been in private practice
system that can help detect image taught and written some of the best been scouring the Italian news- performing consultations and giving
manipulation –– a useful tool in the poetry around (not to speak of his papers in New York in the second expert witness testimony. I specialize
age of Fake News. He presented it prose works) and started in 1988 an half of the 19th century for ads for in cognitive behavior therapy, includ-
at the RSA conference in Singapore iconic American cultural institution, imported books from Italy –– a ing mindfulness-based stress reduc-
this summer. A short video version is The Best American Poetry series: my thriving business, it seems –– and tion and acceptance and commitment
online at bit.ly/2mDrdhh.’” good friend David Lehman. It just then for the exciting emergence of therapy. I love my work too much to
wasn’t for me then. home-grown materials, in other retire. It fulfills my personal goals of
“I continued to pursue a pretty words, Italian fiction, poetry, mem- decreasing human suffering.”
good career as an environmental oirs and histories, in U.S. imprints Howie notes the Core Cur-
lawyer. This began while I was (not imported). It’s almost entirely riculum created a firm basis for his
studying in Paris, attending Michel virgin territory for a scholar in this practice. His wife, Marilyn, has a
Foucault’s and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s sub-field (I know most of them), doctorate in neuroscience; their two
classes at the Collège de France, liv- so it actually sets my pulse to rac- grown children returned to Denver
ing with an American science writer ing when I make a discovery and to live. They practice law and psy-
a food business startup. And, of and I, know how to contact you. So was a sign that read “EEFFOC — Timothy has produced a number of
course, they are enjoying time with please send me your email address that’s coffee spelled backwards ... works that have shown up on TV,
their four grandchildren. and I’ll pass it along, or submit it and I don’t give EEFFOC before my this is his first major piece for the big
Bill Hudgins shared some directly to CCT: college.columbia. first cup of coffee in the morning!” screen.
reminiscences of moving in during edu/cct/update_contact_info. Another, in front of Mel’s Burger Bar Distant memories put Jim
Freshman Week: “I grew up in a (a great place where The Gold Rail Rouen in the anti-money launder-
small rural town in Virginia and was in our day), took a little artistic ing group at Citigroup in New York.
spent my last two years of high 1973 license. It had an arrow pointing He updates us that he is still at
school at an all-boys school in yet up Broadway and a note saying, Citi but he now heads its securities
another rural part of Virginia. The Barry Etra “Columbia: $71,199” and an arrow services legal team. He also teaches
Spring 1968 shutdowns worried 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE pointing to Mel’s that said, “Happy a course at the USC Gould School
my folks greatly, but for me, they Atlanta, GA 30306 Hour drinks: $4.” I bet it is a tough of Law (done over one weekend)
signaled I was indeed going to the betra1@bellsouth.net choice for the undergraduates! and teaches a course online; he adds,
right place. My dad and I drove You’ve got to love the disparate “struggling a bit with the tech.” Jim
to NYC — I’d been to New York My entreaties for Class Notes go rankings of best colleges, each using says he is “still married to my college
before, but he never had. We arrived unheeded. Thus is a class correspon- different criteria and weightings (but not Barnard) sweetheart, Mari-
and got our first look at the campus. dent’s lot, at times …. of the factors. A listing in The Wall lyn Belloch.” They have two grown
Hippie-looking people everywhere. Nick Lubar muses about CCT: Street Journal had Columbia at a dis- children. One is in film in L.A. and
Scores of beautiful girls (did I “When we entered Columbia, the couraging 15th place. But CNBC’s the other is in the restaurant busi-
mention I’d just finished two years oldest classes listed in CCT were from ratings of the “top 10 U.S. colleges ness in NYC. Earlier this year Jim
at an all-boys school?). People with the turn of the century; now, we’re in big cities” put Columbia at and his wife moved from the Upper
bullhorns broadcasting whatever somewhat in the middle ourselves. A number 2. The granddaddy of lists, West Side to Connecticut. He says
position they embraced. And hun- way to measure the passage of time.” by U.S News & World Report, has he took several alumni courses
dreds of other confused, confounded Nick was on campus in the spring Columbia tied with Yale at number (French literature, and the history
and anxious parents wondering, as for the annual fundraiser for the sail- 3. Take your choice, but we all know of Broadway theater), and says both
my dad surely was, what circle of ing team, which now has a coach and “Who Owns New York?”! “have been absolutely great.”
hell they were delivering their babies a fleet on City Island –– a marked Don’t wince when your kids tell “I’m a migrant worker these days!”
to, and if they’d ever see them again. change from yesteryear. As well, he you they plan to major in history writes Steve Simon. After serving
If there was a parents’ orientation met with two students who were the and urban studies. You might think on the National Security Council
then, we didn’t know about it. So we recipients of a prize that he created these majors could make it hard to (as director of Middle East and
moved my stuff in, and my dad very for students to study the way Latin get a “good” job. But it all worked North Africa) in Washington, D.C.,
reluctantly bade me goodbye. I went American governments are improv- out for Ken Krug (perhaps helped he accepted a three-year post as a
off to find out what new world I’d ing life for their citizens, and was by getting an M.B.A. at Stanford). visiting professor at Amherst College
landed in. It was years later when I “impressed with their enthusiasm.” Ken first was an executive at the (in Massachusetts). He is now doing
realized how he must have felt after Methinks it’s those little gestures RAND Corp. (the public policy a five-year stint at Colby College (in
leaving me in that Boschian scene.” that matter the most. think tank in Los Angeles). In 2007 Waterville, Maine). Steve adds, “It is
My wife, Dede, and I were able Barry Etra did not write in, but is he became the CFO of the Jewish kind of a big moment for us in that
to do a few days of guided birding running two forums in Atlanta that Federation Council of Greater Los it looks like we are going to sell our
in Gibraltar and southern Spain this match up investors and early-stage Angeles. Since 2011, Ken has been farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
year at the start of the fall migration. companies in unique ways that the CFO of The Asia Foundation in This implicitly means we are never
Though we’re not fanatic birders, enable the companies to remain San Francisco and says he plans to returning to land below the Mason-
we’ve had the privilege of seeing local, thus building up the local eco- stay “for a while” in part because the Dixon. Weird feeling.”
these magnificent creatures in some system. The RAISE Forum was his position gets him to Asia frequently. Also leaving D.C. is Steve
of the world’s major flyways, includ- invention; he also runs the Atlanta One big change is that he has moved Seidel: “After working on ozone
ing Israel and Costa Rica. It’s a chapter of the Keiretsu Forum, the from Berkeley to Los Angeles and protection and climate change for
lovely way to spend a couple of days. largest and most active angel group will now make a weekly commute more than 30 years at the EPA and
I am also pleased to note the pub- in the world. from L.A. to San Francisco. other environmental organizations,
lication of the first book by my son, And there you have it. Until the Another classmate is a CFO in I retired two years ago. Sad to say
Binyamin (the only member of the next issue! San Francisco: Tom Ferguson. He there is way more work left to be
family without a Columbia degree), works for the Episcopal Church but done by the next generation of
a member of The New York Times has a much shorter commute (from activists.” (Officially, Steve was the
editorial board. I’m certainly biased 1974 the nearby suburb of Piedmont). director of the Stratospheric Protec-
in suggesting that The Economists’ Tom passes on that his daughter, tion Project at the EPA.) But he is
Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, Fred Bremer Elizabeth, completed a master’s at now off on a new adventure: “My
and the Fracture of Society is the 532 W. 111th St. NYU last summer. He promises wife and I are heading to Thailand
most readable account of post-war New York, NY 10025 details on what he’s up to when to teach English.”
economic history that I’ve ever seen, f.bremer@ml.com work lets up. Warren Stern writes from
but there you have it. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Greenwich, Conn., “I am liber-
If you are receiving CCT but Walking around Morningside has a new film. Toni Morrison: The ated from my long legal career at
never see an email from me about Heights on a beautiful fall day, I was Pieces I Am is about the Nobel- and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
contributing to Class Notes, it struck by the amusing chalkboard Pulitzer-winning novelist. The Los I remain of counsel. Owning your
means the Alumni Office doesn’t signs outside some of the newer Angeles Times calls his movie “moving time is a great privilege.”
have your current email address. establishments. In front of Oren’s and profound” and also said, “Look How is he filling his days? “I’m
With our 50th reunion looming, it’s Coffee (just north of Tom’s Restau- for this one to be front and center in a devoted angler and boater, and
all the more important that they, rant on 112th Street and Broadway), its category come Oscar time.” While like to travel, spend time with my
above all else give yourself some “My construction law practice is Institute’s whale shark database of the Congressional Black Caucus
time to think, reflect and reminisce quite busy, as construction in Los regarding their migration, mating, Foundation’s 49th Annual Legisla-
about many things –– away from the Angeles is quite busy. I’ve heard and life and times to try to 1) under- tive Conference. Tom commented,
internet. And it is a great, refresh- about this term ‘retired,’ although stand and 2) save them –– before “This event provided an opportunity
ing, stressless way to get in shape; I’m told I don’t entirely grasp the they are gone forever.” for classmates to reminisce about the
great for ’76ers’ age bracket. There are concept. I’m starting slowly and will Mario Fernandez writes: “I Columbia experience and the impact
several routes to Santiago de Com- soon take Fridays off. In the mean- retired in 2011 from the United of Literature Humanities readings
postela in Galicia, Spain, but I hiked time, I’m still having fun.” States Department of the Trea- of Freud, Machiavelli and others.”
the Portuguese Coastal Route with From Gary Lehman BUS’80, sury Internal Revenue Service, So, Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody
my wife, Yumi BC’74, BUS’76, from SIPA’80: “Greetings to all with best Statistics of Income division, as (very underrated in my opinion) is
Porto, Portugal, to Santiago, which wishes for a safe and wonderful fam- ‘Statistician, Economics,’ after 30 concluding and I have once again
took about 20 days. I am thinking of ily/friends time and spiritual renewal years with the U.S. government. I written too many words for my edi-
doing the purists’ route, The French over the holidays. I am always was born in Santo Domingo, the tor. Keep those updates comin’ and
Way (aka the ‘real deal’ that takes proudly kvelling over my two grand- Dominican Republic. I was part of keep smilin’!
about 45 days, starting from Saint- daughters and grandson –– with two the 1967, 1968 and 1969 groups of
Jean-Pied-de-Port near Bordeaux in more grandsons on the way — not the Upward Bound program at the
southwest France and cutting across to forget six granddogs, who go nuts College. I don’t think I was one of 1977
the Pyrenees range through the when I bring them treats of dried the original members because, as I
Basque region to Santiago). If you codfish skins. After retiring from a recall, it started in 1966. I was one David Gorman
have interest in the Camino, watch big blue IT company where I was of the students from Jamaica H.S. I 111 Regal Dr.
the 2011 movie The Way with Martin for 36 years, I now work for the was also part of the Student Forum DeKalb, IL 60115
Sheen or videos on YouTube.” Department of Homeland Security, when I was a student and I remem- dgorman@niu.edu
A little over a year ago, Laurence which I thoroughly enjoy; it is an ber the other members like Richard
Lubka and his partner, Miriam, increasingly important mission. Collins, Paul Nyden ’66, Linda Greetings for winter, Class of 1977!
purchased a large house in Pasadena. “This summer I led my team up Nyden, Michael Merryl, Jonathan Hope you’re all having a wonder-
“We are now just a few feet from 7,000 ft. to the summit of Pikes Draper ’74 and some others. For a ful time. Please take a moment to
the Rose Parade route,” he writes. Peak at 14,000-plus ft. on a cancer while I was a professional student, send a note –– travel, work, family,
“Most people are downsizing, but we treatment/research fundraiser (Swim but I ended up getting my degree in favorite Columbia memories and/
upsized (and still lack room for the Across America: Making Waves 1976. I would have to think some or anything you want to share. Your
combined households). I spend a lot to Fight Cancer; my photo of a more to remember those years, classmates want to hear from you!
of time traveling to my son’s family smiling swimmer and her niece was which is the reason others might not
in the Bay Area and to my daughter’s used nationwide on Clear Channel, want to respond. God bless Roger
family (including my granddaughter) which I admit was pretty neat). In Lehecka ’67, GSAS’74.” 1978
in Seattle. I recently hung out with a December, my wife, Linda, and I Kevin Berry writes: “Lots going
group of Columbia friends (including will tour Ethiopia. And then I will on here in Philadelphia. Our sports Matthew Nemerson
some from the CC’77 and CC’78) dive in Djibouti, observing/docu- teams are, for the most part, superior 35 Huntington St.
in Crested Butte, Colo. We have menting whale shark behavior and to those in New York, so that is New Haven, CT 06511
gathered as a group pretty much every collecting plankton, tissue and poo always a comfort. Still working, matthewnemerson@gmail.com
other year for more than 40 years. A samples in the Gulf of Tadjoura to out of either masochism or love
proud Columbia tradition. capture data for the Shark Research of the game. I am a commercial Here we go again. I don’t mind get-
trial lawyer, and a busy one at that. ting older. I’m calmer and happier,
Also enjoying time with my three exercise more and generally have a
children, three stepchildren and five much better outlook on everything.
grandchildren –– most are around Still, I don’t like September. Oh, the
here, but one is in Florida and one weather is great, there is football
is in Los Angeles. I was in Scotland and baseball at the same time and
for a week in June, brandishing my everyone seems very serious about
abysmal golf game (I told you I was business and working on Friday
a busy lawyer, didn’t I?). I headed to afternoons. But when the holidays
Aspen for a week in September, then come and we aren’t going away on
took a two-week trip to Eastern the weekends I have a real sense of
Europe in October. We will spend another year being etched off the
the holidays in Palm Beach, Fla., tablet. There is something both so
where we have our second home. cliché but also so accurate about the
Running across Columbia grads in fall of life and the very certain smell
Philadelphia is like trying to find a of running out of the endless time
Phillies fan in the Bronx, but I see we all sensed in college as the leaves
some from time to time.” begin to turn again this time.
Tom Motley wrote about a Gary Pickholz SIPA’81, who has
reception that he attended in been updating some of us on the
Washington, D.C., that was hosted nuances of the last Israeli elections
by Reynold Verret, president of writes, “English is such a marvelous
A September reception in Washington, D.C., brought together Columbia Xavier University of Louisiana, in lingua franca –– recrudescence: Go
alumni (left to right) Thomas J. Motley ’76, Reynold Verret ’76, Gustavo New Orleans, at the Qatar-America ahead, find a comparably concise
Paredes ’77 and Steven L. Richardson. Institute on September 11 in honor term in any other major tongue.
Howard Z. Goldschmidt PS’83 a box of Corn Flakes and ramen public media station. In his role there,
was recently appointed president of noodles on this custom-made table 1980 he oversaw programs including On
the American Committee for Shaare over the radiator, it was as though the Media, The Brian Lehrer Show
Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. the holy grail of surviving my senior REUNION 2020 and Radio Rookies. Before joining
Shaare Zedek is the busiest hospital year came into view. JUNE 4–6 WNYC, Jim spent nearly 17 years
in Jerusalem and is well known for I immediately took the A train Events and Programs Contact at The New York Times, where he was
its innovative treatment of heart home to Far Rockaway and told my ccaa-events@columbia.edu associate managing editor.
disease, stroke and trauma. Howie father we needed to make a custom Development Contact Greg Peterson was recently
continues to teach cardiology and table like one I had just seen. This ccfund@columbia.edu named to the “Best Lawyers in
practice interventional echocar- turned out to be one of the great America” 2020 list. He is a partner at
diography at Shaare Zedek every moments in my life with my father. Michael C. Brown Casner & Edwards in Boston, where
February. The rest of the year, he is To him, it was a perfect way to pro- London Terrace Towers his practice specializes in real estate
director of echocardiography at The vide some support for my journey 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F development and environmental law.
Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J. to a better life. We immediately New York, NY 10011 Matt Kennedy has been work-
His wife of 34 years, Debbie, is a jumped in his truck and went to his mcbcu80@yahoo.com ing with fellow lacrosse alumni to
lawyer specializing in immigration wood shop. I remember him say- promote the sport at Columbia, with
law; he has three children, and four ing, “Robby, we’re going to do this It’s official. Our 40th-year reunion the ultimate goal of making men’s
grandsons who live in Israel. together, because I want to teach will be held Thursday, June 4–Satur- lacrosse a varsity sport. Anyone
Howie writes, “I have only you how to make this table.” He said day, June 6, in New York City. Your interested in learning more about
fond memories of my years on the skinny legs would be made from Reunion Committee has been work- the initiative can check out makeit8.
Morningside Heights. The liberal a long piece of 2 inch x 2 inch wood. ing diligently on the agenda, with a com. Also, for those who missed it,
arts education was incomparable. He asked me how high it had to be cocktail party, all-class bash at the check out CCT’s Spring 2019 issue,
Exposure to Art Humanities and to sit just above the radiator; I said New York Public Library and our page 88, “The Last Word,” or college.
modern literature was the perfect 36 inches. He said, “OK, take my class dinner on Saturday planned so columbia.edu/cct/issue/spring19.
antidote to the pre-med grind. ‘Eliot tape measure and the pencil from far. You can expect an event-filled Congratulations to Dr. George
Joyce, Pound,’ taught by Wallace behind your ear and measure 36 weekend with plenty of opportuni- Yancopoulos GSAS’86, PS’87
Gray, and ‘Italian Cinema,’ taught inches and make a mark.” We then ties to reconnect with classmates. on receiving the 2019 Alexander
by Pellegrino D’Acierno, shaped my used a table saw to cut along the line Please reach out to all your College Hamilton Medal. George is the
cultural tastes. In my senior year, I making the first leg of the table. friends to remind them to come president and chief scientific officer
was lucky to take Willard Gaylin’s He then said, “OK, now let’s make back to campus! at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He
Freud course and Arthur Hertz- this second leg from this 2x2 piece of Jim Schachter will take over as holds many patents, is active in
berg’s ‘History of Zionism,’ both of wood.” He then explained, “Robby, CEO of New Hampshire Public STEM educational commitments
which gave me strong foundations you no longer need the ruler, because Radio, succeeding former chief exec- and is a supporter of the College.
for continued study.” we will use this first leg as the tem- utive Betsy Gardella. Jim previously Looking forward to seeing you all
Robert C. Klapper: Today’s plate for the second leg.” I laid the first held the top news executive position at reunion in June! Drop me a line
Columbia memory comes from a leg along the long piece of wood, took at WNYC, the country’s largest at mcbcu80@yahoo.com.
small, skinny-legged, 36-inch-high the pencil from behind my ear and
table that I recently uncovered in made the mark. I then cut the second
my garage. I made this table with leg. I was about to use the second leg
my father, Abraham the carpenter, as a template for the third leg, when
before starting my senior year living my father said, “No Robby, don’t do
in Furnald. The reason for the dimen- that. The second leg cannot be the
sions of tall, skinny legs and being template for the third leg because if
10 inch x 24 inch is because this table you made even the slightest error, this
fits perfectly over the radiator (pro- error will magnify with each subse-
nounced raa-diator, like radical, not quent leg you make. Go back and use
ray-diator, like radiate –– and I still the first leg you made as the template
say pocketbooks, not purses, because for legs two, three and four.”
I still bleed Columbia blue). He then said something that I
As you might recall, it was for- will always remember and cherish:
bidden to cook in our dorm rooms. “Robby, you must always go back to
But during my junior year, in a visit the original.” This metaphor for my
to a friend’s Shangri-La in Furnald life has been my mantra in the many
(remember this was a coveted facets of my journey as a surgeon,
building, only for seniors), I saw the inventor, author, sculptor and ESPN
light –– a custom-made table fitted radio host. That table saved me
perfectly over the steam heated money from the meal plan. The Corn
coils! My parents could not afford Flakes and ramen noodles it allowed
DARRELL L EE
Alexander Aibel Sarah Aibel ’92 Sylvie Epstein Daniel Futterman ’89 Christian Law Edward Law ’86
Santa Monica, Calif. Brooklyn, N.Y. Mount Sinai, N.Y.
Caroline Alleyne Neville Alleyne ’79 Marcus Fong William Fong ’87 Jackson Law Edward Law ’86
La Jolla, Calif. Hong Kong Island Mount Sinai, N.Y.
Charlotte Atkins Charles Atkins ’86 Alexander Glasberg Scot Glasberg ’86 Olivia Lease * Elizabeth Lease ’02
Naples, Fla. New York City Inverness, Calif.
Nader Babar Nadeem Babar ’87 Mary Grealy Francis Grealy Jr. ’75 Hannah Lederman Ilene Lederman ’87
Houston McLean, Va. San Francisco
Andre Balian John Balian ’85 Andrew Haberman Sinclair Haberman ’78 Samuel Levine Gregory Levine ’83
Skillman, N.J. New York City Great Neck, N.Y.
Sareen Balian Nairi Balian ’88 Leah Hale * Martin Hale ’74 Lucy Blumenfield Jaclyn S. Lieber ’88
Chevy Chase, Md. Weston, Fla. Culver City, Calif.
Pierce Woodall Tracy Bender ’92 Rebecca Hale Martin Hale ’74 Emma Lill Jason Lill ’96
Coppell, Texas Weston, Fla. Loganville, Ga.
Jonathan Berkowitz Philip Berkowitz ’88 James Harrison David Harrison ’83 Emily Lim Chang Lim ’87
Potomac, Md. Bronx, N.Y. Asheville, N.C.
Edward Brodsky Leslie G. Brodsky ’88 Liam Hayes * Andrew Hayes ’85 Alexander Mendelson Victor Mendelson ’89
New York City Greenwich, Conn. Miami, Fla.
Samantha Camacho Michael Camacho ’91 and Samuel Hosmer Basil Hosmer ’85 Ruby Mendelsund Peter Mendelsund ’91
Nyack, N.Y. Patricia Labrada ’91 Belmont, Calif. New York City
Kevin Chaikelson Steven Chaikelson ’89 and Samuel Hyman Barry Hyman ’77 Zoe Meshel Adam Meshel ’92 and
New York City Amanda Rosen Chaikelson ’91 Newburgh, N.Y. Roslyn, N.Y. Samara Meshel ’92
Claire Choi John Choi ’91 Zoe Hyman Joshua Hyman ’85 Zoe Metalios Steve Metalios ’89 and Joy
Washington, D.C. Englewood, N.J. Riverside, Conn. Metalios (née Kim) SEAS’90
Olivia Choi John Choi ’91 Sameer Joshi Jitendra Joshi ’90 Anthony Ozerov Serge Ozerov ’85
Washington, D.C. Cranbury, N.J. Moscow
Yasmine Dahlberg Jennifer Anglade Elyse Kanner * Michael Kanner ’90 Maximilian Ozerov Serge Ozerov ’85
Stockholm Dahlberg ’93 Armonk, N.Y. Moscow
Sonali Dasari Sriram Dasari ’92 Ethan Kim Arthur Kim ’95 Andrew Riordan Michael Riordan ’80
Brentwood, Tenn. South Orange, N.J. Greenville, S.C.
Elizabeth DeSouza Patrick DeSouza ’80 Alexandra Kirk Edward Kirk ’92 Jackson Roberts Lauren Roberts ’90
Darien, Conn. Rye, N.Y. New York City
Javier Dobles Ricardo Dobles ’89 Margot Kleinman Howard Kleinman ’84 Hattie Rogovin John Rogovin ’83
Holden, Mass. New York City Los Angeles
Luke Dobrovic Nino Dobrovic ’86 Hani Kodmani Omar Kodmani ’89 Juliette Rooney Robert Rooney ’89
Oakton, Va. London, U.K. London, U.K.
Brenna Dugel Pravin Dugel ’84 Lindsay Kornguth David Kornguth ’87 and Miriam Alvarez-Rosenbloom Rachel E.
Paradise Valley, Ariz. Orinda, Calif. Linda Kornguth (née Wang) ’87 Cambridge, Mass. Rosenbloom ’90
Stephen Eisner Linda Mischel Eisner ’87 Bertina Kudrin Sergey Kudrin ’81 Darius Rubin James Rubin ’82
New York City Fort Lee, N.J. London, U.K.
This fall, Mark Binder released at the Inova Fairfax Medical Cam- you’re coming to reunion or if there’s
1984 his 20th book, The Misadventures pus in Falls Church, Va. anything specific you’d like to see
of Rabbi Kibbitz and Mrs. Chaipul. James Lima was recently in the during that weekend. We’ve already
Dennis Klainberg It’s a light romance between two news: As part of a strategic regional begun conference calls to make
Berklay Cargo Worldwide wise seniors in Chelm, the village of business initiative, the Long Island sure we have fun and interesting
14 Bond St., Ste 233 fools. Mark’s planning a world book Regional Planning Council recently class-specific program options, have
Great Neck, NY 11021 tour, so if you’d like to check out the approved consulting services with regular communications leading up
dennis@berklay.com book, or invite him to your com- James Lima Planning + Develop- to next June and can meet our class
munity, go to markbinder.com. ment to advance development of fundraising goals.
Mark Katzoff, senior counsel at Danny Armstrong, founder of a workforce training center, The And, of course, it is the perfect
Seyfarth Shaw by day, channeled Find A Tree, checks in. “Since the Long Island Innovation Park at opportunity to provide me with any
four years of experience singing Find A Tree program’s inception, it Hauppauge (formerly known as the updates for this column!
in the piano bars of New York to has changed lives and has created Hauppauge Industrial Park). Jim’s
debut his one-man cabaret show, many success stories. More recently, company has advised major Silicon
Two-City Man: A Musical Trifle, at I’ve been fortunate to have worked Valley firms on building out their 1986
the Kraine Theater in New York in with major companies such as Nike, campuses and ecosystems, and will
July. The show was based around Microsoft and many others,” he writes. undertake economic and demo- Everett Weinberger
Mark’s experience shuttling between graphic research, setting the stage 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B
Boston and New York, although he for the launch of a high-impact
1985
New York, NY 10023
continually claims he’s not moving regional workforce center. everett6@gmail.com
from Beantown. Patrick Ward left NYC in 1995,
Daniel G. Berick has been REUNION 2020 moving first to the San Francisco Michael Goldfischer reported
named Leveraged Buyouts and JUNE 4–6 Bay Area and eventually settling on a great event that took place
Private Equity Law Lawyer of the Events and Programs Contact in Denver, “where we have lived on September 13: “Twelve Lions
Year for 2020 by U.S. News & World ccaa-events@columbia.edu for the past 17 years, raising two descended on Washington, D.C., to
Report on its list “The Best Lawyers Development Contact daughters, one of whom is hoping to celebrate Scott Smith’s 32 years in
in America,” a longstanding and ccfund@columbia.edu be CC’24. I have fond memories (as the Air Force, which culminated in
well-respected legal peer-review ironic as it may sound) of Columbia his rise to the rank of major general.
publication. In each major legal Jon White football games, which I still enjoy The official ceremony at Bolling AFB
market, only a single lawyer in each 16 South Ct. from afar with my father, James highlighted Scott’s many assignments
discipline is honored as Lawyer of Port Washington, NY 11050 Ward ’50, LAW’53, brother Liam and achievements, as a pilot and staff
the Year. Dan was honored in 2016 jw@whitecoffee.com Ward ’82 and cousin Sam Ward officer, that spanned the globe in both
as the Cleveland Corporate Law ’82. I also have fond memories of peace and war. Scott was joined by
Lawyer of the Year, and was named Many of our classmates continue my time playing club lacrosse and his wife, Amber, and daughters, twins
Cleveland Leveraged Buyouts and to mark milestones and/or receive support the club team as we work to Mazie and Marisha (14) and Melody
Private Equity Law Lawyer of the recognition for their professional convert lacrosse to a varsity sport at (9), who were also honored for
Year in 2020, 2017, 2015 and 2013, activities. Lucas Collazo celebrated Columbia (#makeit8, makeit8.com). their sacrifices and service. Melody
as well as Cleveland Securities/ 20 years at Inova Health System. He I have owned my own PR/strategic started the ceremony with a beautiful
Capital Markets Law Lawyer of the is co-director of the Pediatric Heart communications business in Denver, rendition of the National Anthem.
Year in 2014 and 2011. Program and medical staff president 104 West Partners, since 2003.” Maj. Gen. Smith was thanked for his
Kudos to Tom Vinciguerra for service, given a Distinguished Service
his great article in the Fall 2019 CCT Medal and a presidential proclama-
about the woman who earned the tion, and gifted an American flag
distinction of being the College’s first during the moving ceremony.
alumna, in 1975. [Editor’s note: See “In Maj. Gen. Smith’s comments,
“Around the Quads” in that issue.] while thanking Amber and their
The 2019–20 academic year is daughters, parents, mentors and
highlighted by the centenary of the colleagues in the armed services, he
Core Curriculum (look for articles took time to highlight the tremen-
in this CCT and in the next two dous support and friendship that his
issues) and, of course, our 35th fellow Columbians (and Fiji broth-
reunion, Thursday, June 4–Saturday, ers) have extended to him through-
June 6. Our Reunion Committee, out these decades. In attendance
co-chaired by Glee Club alums were Jack Merrick, John Murphy,
John Phelan (programming), Patrick McGarrigle, Gary Ireland
Leslie Smartt (communications) GS’86, Andrew Upton ’85, Joseph
and yours truly (fundraising), is up Titlebaum ’85, Dominick DeCicco
and running. In my next column, SEAS’84, Arthur Ajzenman ’83,
I will give you the complete list of Matthew Barr ’87, Stan Sagner ’88
Columbia alumni met in Washington, D.C., for the September 13 retirement
ceremony of Maj. Gen. Scott Smith ’86, who served 32 years in the Air Force. committee members (currently in and James Hirshfield SEAS’87. We
Left to right: Jack Merrick ’86, Smith, Stan Sagner ’88, Patrick McGarrigle formation). Thanks in advance to so were all honored to attend and to
’86, John Murphy ’86, Joseph Titlebaum ’85, Gary Ireland GS’86, Arthur many of you for joining. Commit- thank him for his friendship, service
Ajzenman ’83, Andrew Upton ’85, Dominick DeCicco SEAS’84, Smith’s Air tee membership is not capped, so to our country and sacrifice.
Force colleague B.J. Shwedo, his high school friend Ramsey Masri and please feel free to let any of us know “As Scott and his family enter the
Michael Goldfischer ’86. if you’d like to join our efforts, if next chapter of their lives, we join the
daughter, Ellie, who plays volleyball. CV, mulling over the awards section, is graduating this year, we might get
To reach Matt about any class activ- I got a call that I’m going to receive him home for a couple months before 1992
ities, or to volunteer to be part of the a ‘Contribution to the Profession’ he starts his job in computer science.
CC’89 leadership project, email him award from the New York State GIS Leah is studying fashion design, so Olivier Knox
at mxengels@sbcglobal.net. Association. NYSGIS.net is a profes- she will probably end up in New olivier.knox@gmail.com
Also, Jared Goldstein asked sional organization for geospatial York, which means I will get to visit
that I remind everyone to check out information system (GIS) users Columbia more in the near future. I heard from not one but two Car-
our CC’89 Facebook group, which working in New York State. GISMO “I can’t believe we are coming man 7 alums this cycle –– keep ’em
he runs: “Columbia University Class is the local chapter where I’ve been a up on our 30-year reunion — I coming, erstwhile floormates!
of 1989 Undergraduates.” board member for many years.” spent the first half in Chicago and Tom Linton SEAS’92 and Lauri
Congratulations, Noreen! now the second half in the Boston Pendray Linton BC’93 moved to
Alicia Shems (née Katz) read area. As for keeping in touch with London in July. Tom is the manag-
1990 our last column and identified CC friends, I recently visited Teri ing director of Frontera Consulting
herself as someone who skirts the Rice in Miami, Fla., but cannot do (UK). A statement from the company
REUNION 2020 college counseling world: “I tutor that again easily since she recently heralds, “Tom has been instrumental
JUNE 4–6 students in writing and English, as moved to Dubai with her husband in growing Frontera’s Oracle Cloud
Events and Programs Contact well as tutor and advise them with and sons; I also keep in touch with capabilities in both the UK and
ccaa-events@columbia.edu their college essays. Some of my Stephanie Aaronson and Eliza- North America.” (That’s right, every-
Development Contact students say they feel like they come beth Phythian.” one, we’ve reached the age at which
ccfund@columbia.edu to therapy as we discuss all the top- Meanwhile, in September companies put out statements about
ics they could choose to write about. Melissa Steinman found herself us.) Their son, Dylan (14), is in ninth
Rachel Cowan Jacobs I have to say, I love working with
youngrache@hotmail.com teenagers — their angst, enthusiasm,
drama and perception are wonderful
Since you last read this column, I have
only a small amount of news. Noreen
and refreshing — and when they
come up with an original idea and
Core Hamilton, Morris,
Whysel reports, “With a freshman find their writing voice, it’s really Haiku Jay and the luminaries
at Sarah Lawrence College and a rewarding for me to see.
sophomore at Loyola University New “Not content to have just one
bring us together
Orleans, my husband, Brett, and I are job, I also am a freelance editor, — Heather Brownlie ’91
officially empty-nesters –– at least senior writer for an edtech startup
until they come home, too briefly, for and a mixed media artist. It’s a little
the summer. I teach the UX Design crazy, but I’ve never been very good
Intensive at General Assembly (a at eliminating options and making in Moscow, where she spoke at the grade at The American School in
global code and design school for choices. Nevertheless, my husband, Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance London. “How’s the culture shock?”
adult learners; generalassemb.ly) and Nessy, and I celebrated our 25th and connected with Greg Krasovsky I asked Tom. “Not too bad!” he said.
web design at New York City Col- wedding anniversary and are now ’91, who attended the seminar. I also heard from Jason Hagberg,
lege of Technology (aka City Tech). empty-nesters! It’s a lot quieter here It’d be great to report news from who is heading back to NYC soon
Coincidentally, while attempting to without our children, Matthew (23) more people in the future. Please, to work for Google “after 16 years on
convert my résumé to an academic and Leah (19), though since Matthew friends, won’t you send me your the West Coast (Los Angeles/San
updates? And mark your calendars Francisco) and a few years in Hong
for our 30th reunion: Thursday, Kong and Beijing.” Jason writes that
June 4–Saturday, June 6. Looking for he has “been working mainly in tech
something to do until then? Contact working on building contract manage-
the Alumni Office and get on the ment systems and data privacy policy
Reunion Committee (contact info is at Google, Facebook and others.” He
at the top of the column). The more, started his own consultancy, global
the merrier. reachconsulting.us, and is working
with Corestream, professional home
to Adam Brothers ’94, and is “looking
1991 to get off the hamster wheel. More
seriously, I am starting a foundation
Columbia College Today (Upstream Color) to help get kids who
cct@columbia.edu have the ability to go to Columbia” but
face costs not covered by financial aid
CCT thanks Margie Kim for her 11 –– “laptops, meals when cafeterias are
excellent years of service as class cor- closed on holidays, etc.,” Jason says. “I
respondent! She has decided to step am not ready for prime time and still
down, so while we search for a new waiting for my nonprofit paperwork
Friends from CC’91 and BC’91 gathered for 50th birthday celebrations in class correspondent, you can send your to come through, but a decent number
Truro, Mass. Left to right, standing: Tanya Weisman ’91, Angela Eaton ’91, news directly to CCT for inclusion in of classmates know about it and are
Tom Nishioka ’91, Noah Elkin ’91, Sara Ivry BC’91, Catherine Geanuracos a future issue. And if you would like to willing to help,” Jason writes.
’91, Rachel Porter ’91 and Justin Lundgren ’91; and left to right, kneeling and learn more about volunteering for the Enjoy your winter, classmates,
seated: Kif Scheuer ’91, Katie Sellers Rosenblum ’91, Alice Vosmek ’91, Marc class correspondent role, please shoot and please take a moment to send in
Rosenblum ’91, David Tepper ’91 and Karl Meyer ’91. an email to cct@columbia.edu! a Class Note!
Equity Group, which he joined as Allison Jaffin writes: “My ant to garden in the mornings. My
an intern while at Columbia! [Some 1997 husband, Seth Unger, and I are the grandmother Marie’s lovely caladium
might] appreciate that he found it in presidents of the ‘Tony Roach Fan plants, which I inherited from her
the internship ‘book’ at the Center Kerensa Harrell Club,’ and during the last year we have garden after she passed away several
for Career Education. I suspect only kvh1@columbia.edu toured the country to see Tony Roach years ago, are thriving. And I have a
Darren was patient enough to get to in his various starring roles. Our most bunch of morning glory vines, with
the letter ‘S’ in the book and that’s Dear classmates, I hope you enjoyed recent run started last fall, when we their big blue flowers that bloom
why he got the gig.” a lovely fall season. It is my pleasure saw him as Henry Higgins in Lincoln each morning, climbing up the
Nick shared that Stephane to present the following updates Center’s production of My Fair Lady balcony rails.
Gruffat is also in London, working from our class. and culminated this past summer As I sign off now, let me leave
at Credit Suisse. He has two sons, Orli Shaham writes: “I’m a when he starred in the Aspen Theater you with my daughter’s current
Alexandre and Jack. concert pianist and a recent member Festival productions of Little Shop of favorite song, “Let It Go.” She likes
Moha Desai lives with her sons, of the faculty at The Juilliard School. Horrors (as the dentist) and Guys and to sing it at the top of her lungs as
Devraj (11) and Vikram (6), in her I recently released my 11th CD: Dolls (as Sky Masterson). she dances around improvisationally,
hometown, 15 minutes outside of piano concertos by Mozart with the “During the day, Seth is the pro- while I follow her around attempt-
Boston. Moha writes that she is St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. One ducer of the Food Film Festival, an ing to shield her from crashing into
gratified to be managing her own of my favorite parts of the recording event where you literally taste what the furniture. It’s a favorite among
healthcare consulting practice, process was a conversation about the you see on the screen. The festival little girls, and is sung by Queen
which she began in 2015 after 16 pieces with my husband, conductor was in NYC this fall and will be Elsa in the movie Frozen:
years of working in big firms. She David Robertson, and my CC music in Tokyo this spring, among other
says she enjoys the flexibility of professor Elaine Sisman! During places. We have twin daughters who “Let it go
are 12 and are next in line to chair The cold never bothered me anyway
the Tony Roach Fan Club.” Let it go, let it go
Edward “Ted” Wladis writes: “I And I’ll rise like the break of dawn
Core Music Hum teacher
was recently named professor and
chair of the Lions Eye Institute,
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Haiku arrives late, glasses broken ophthalmology department, at Here I stand in the light of day
Albany Medical College. In addi- Let the storm rage on!”
“I was mugged!” Class starts tion to being chair, I oversee the
— Elizabeth Yuan ’96, JRN’98 fellowship in oculofacial and orbital Blessings to all, and please do
plastic surgery, I perform basic sci- send me your updates. Keep in mind
ence research and I am the CEO of that your updates needn’t be just
Praxis Biotechnology. I was honored about the usual topics like career/
her own practice while staying on the past two years, I’ve commemo- to recently have been inducted into marriage/birth announcements
the forefront of topics that mean rated the 100th birthday of Leonard the American Ophthalmological –– they could also be on your exotic
the most to her. Moha invites any Bernstein, playing his Symphony No. Society. My wife, Lianne Pinchuk travels, your exciting adventures,
CC’96ers to look her up if you find 2: The Age of Anxiety with orchestras LAW’00, and I have two daughters, your fascinating hobbies, your phil-
yourselves in the Boston area. around the world. This fall, for the ages 8 and 11.” anthropic endeavors, your charming
Maurice “Mo” Toueg is second year in a row, I am a guest Endre Tvinnereim writes: “In children, your daring projects, your
president and CEO of GOBU host of the classical music program April I started a job as associate poetic musings, your flowery remi-
Associates, an executive recruiting From the Top, which airs on more professor of political science at the niscences .... Or simply tell us about
firm that he founded after having than 200 public radio stations across University of Bergen, Norway.” some delightful local event that you
spent 20 years at one place. His firm the country. I live in Manhattan Rebekah Gee writes, “Our just attended or a family vacation
focuses on recruiting for corporate with my husband; 12-year-old twins, twins started first grade this year that you went on. If nothing else,
strategy, corporate development, Nathan and Alex; and Dachshund, and they love to dress up, just like you can always write us merely to
finance (CFOs and heads), invest- Milo, and ran into Julie Foont their mother.”
ment banking and treasury for around the corner!” As for me, Kerensa Harrell, as I
Fortune 500 companies, startups, Swati Khurana writes: “In addi- sit here wrapping up this column in
portfolio companies of private tion to having 21 years of teaching mid-September, I am thinking about
equity firms and venture capital history at Advantage Testing, I am how glad I am to be doing yoga again
firms. Mo writes, “Still living on chugging away on my first novel (a after not having done it for so many
East 79th, a block away from where New York Foundation for the Arts years. It certainly isn’t easy getting
I grew up –– still can’t drive, but award in fiction was recent encour- back into it, but I am starting to
spend winters in Florida, where agement!). I have also been on a path slowly feel my body reconnecting.
Uber makes a fortune off of me.” that started with coming out as a Aside from practicing yoga, I have
I would like to hear from more post-Hindu witch in Teen Vogue and been doing some gardening on my
of you; please send in more news! I doing Tarot card readings with cus- balcony. My daughter, Amara (3), is
leave you with this: tom affirmations for boutique hotels, enjoying doing yoga and garden-
“I want you to feel the fear I private equity client groups, literary ing alongside me! We have a lovely
feel every day. And then I want festivals, mom groups and nonprofit corner balcony that overlooks a pond
you to act. I want you to act as retreats. The highlight of my life has with a big water fountain that is
you would in a crisis. I want you been watching my 8-year-old daugh- always flowing. Our balcony doesn’t
to act as if our house is on fire.” ter do aerial dance and gymnastics, get any direct sun until the afternoon Tony Roach ’97 (left) autographed
— Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old observing how a child can actually do (which in Florida is perfect, as it is Seth Unger ’97’s chest at the Lincoln
Swedish environmental activist the things of a superhero.” quite hot here), so we find it pleas- Center’s production of My Fair Lady.
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accounting classes to gather enough dance and choreography projects, I am happy to share that I am From Jared Greene ’17, SEAS’17:
credits to get her CPA license. I’ve performed as a dancer and actor in my first year at Harvard Law “The past few years have honestly
Warren McGee had quite the in multiple music videos (see my School! It has been great thus far been pretty all over the place. Finished
eventful summer. He (finally!) favorite at bit.ly/2klFHkL), and and I’m looking forward to what the the 3-2 program in 2017 (so am I
finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience this fall I had the opportunity to do next few years will bring. really CC’16?), then built robots in
at Northwestern and has returned to choreography for a feature film that Your classmates want to hear Brooklyn for a bit before going to
medical school, expecting to finish will be released next year!” from you. Please submit updates Guatemala City for a year to study the
his M.D. at Northwestern in 2021. Hope to hear from many more of by writing to me at the address at internet. After that I basically did the
He also recently got engaged to his you in 2020! the top of the column or via the most cliché thing I could think of and
longtime girlfriend, Kathryn Brill CCT Class Notes webform, college. worked at a cryptocurrency startup in
BC’13! They are eagerly looking columbia.edu/cct/submit_class_note. San Francisco for a hot minute until
forward to their wedding, as are we! 2013 moving for the fourth time in two
Simone Foxman and Benjamin years, this time to Seattle. Now I work
Clark recently traded the Big Apple Tala Akhavan 2016 on Starlink at SpaceX to make the
for the Middle East, moving half- talaakhavan@gmail.com internet globally accessible, and am
way around the world for Simone to Lily Liu-Krason waiting for any excuse to get a dog.”
become Bloomberg’s correspondent Happy end of the year, CC’13 –– best lliukrason@gmail.com
in Doha, Qatar. She’s covering wishes for an awesome start to 2020!
Middle East news on Bloomberg Dean Kowalski is one of 20 Hey 2016, I’ve started following up 2017
TV and will also continue to write castaways on Survivor: Island Of the on the nominations you’re sending
for Bloomberg’s online and print Idols (season 39), which premiered on and am always so impressed and Carl Yin
media. They were able to catch up September 25. inspired by us as a group. Please carl.yin@columbia.edu
with a few fellow alums –– includ- Good luck, Dean! keep them coming! By the time you
ing Jessica McKenzie BC’11, Bren- Please send in a note. Your class- see this, Homecoming will have Simon Schwartz’s startup, Locasaur,
dan Hannon, Jeremy Sklaroff, mates want to hear from you! passed, so feel free to also send me launched a platform to message with
Linette Lopez ’08, Kamal Yechoor photos from that. Looking at the your favorite local businesses, with
last few issues, these moments are to the goal of providing regulars with
2014
SEAS’11, Alyssa Lamontagne
and Taylor Owens –– ahead of the be treasured. Without further ado, a direct channel to friendly faces at
move. Simone and Benjamin are updates from your classmates: their spots and mom-and-pops with
inviting any and all to hang out with Rebecca Fattell From Richard Lee: “I started an unapologetically pro-local ally in
them in Doha for the World Cup rsf2121@columbia.edu really getting into blockchain and tech. Locasaur is available in your
in a few years. Presumably they will cryptocurrency in early 2017. A app store and online, where you can
have air conditioning. No news this time, but we wish you couple months later I quit my job search the user-generated database
We also have a CC’11 baby a happy start to 2020! Please make and started Global Blockchain of local spots that stretches from
update: On May 22 (which was, it a New Year’s resolution to send in Innovative Capital (GBIC), a crypto Morningside to Japan.
appropriately, Commencement), some news –– cool trips, new jobs, fund with fellow Columbia alumni. Shreyas Vissapragada is
Brian Keith Grimes III was born fun hobbies, big life changes ... any- We invest in cryptocurrencies like in graduate school at Caltech study-
to Zila Acosta-Grimes and Brian thing you want! Let’s stay connected! Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as ing planetary science. He’s been
Grimes. We saw the baby’s picture early-stage blockchain projects. We working on a way to observe the
and can confirm that he has an also started a consulting and advi- atmospheric evolution of planets
incurable case of pediatric cuteness. 2015 sory company underneath GBIC to outside the solar system.
Ben Cotton was on his honey- diversify our exposure in the indus- Tolu Obikunle launched a
moon in Tanzania, blissfully ignor- REUNION 2020 try. It’s been and will continue to non-alcoholic wine company,
ing Class Notes emails. JUNE 4–6 be a wild ride through the ups and La Mère Beverage. Products will
Events and Programs Contact downs, as Bitcoin has gone as high be on sale broadly through
as $20K and as low as $3K.” e-commerce in January.
2012
ccaa-events@columbia.edu
Development Contact From Jackie Dubrovich: “Since Bianca Guerrero shares, “I am
ccfund@columbia.edu graduation, I worked full-time at a still working on policy for Mayor Bill
Sarah Chai media measurement and analytics de Blasio, focusing on worker protec-
sarahbchai@gmail.com Kareem Carryl company for three years while simul- tions and climate issues. Our primary
kareem.carryl@columbia.edu taneously training and competing on goal is working with the City Council
Hey friends, a few folks promised the national and international fenc- to pass a paid personal time bill, which
to submit photos for this issue, so Hello, Class of 2015! We are get- ing circuit. I made the USA National would guarantee two weeks of paid
check out “Just Married!” ting closer to our five-year reunion Team this season and competed at time off (separate from sick leave)
Speaking of weddings, congratula- (Thursday, June 4–Saturday, June 6)! both World Fencing Championships for private sector workers. I also am
tions are in order for Brian Barwick, The Reunion Committee is hard at (our team won the bronze medal!) meeting people (including Columbia
who married Meaghan Robson work to ensure it’s a great experi- and the Pan American Games in alumni) and learning organizing skills
on July 13 in his hometown of ence for everyone. I cannot wait to Lima, Peru (our team won the gold!). as the lead volunteer for Elizabeth
Laguna Beach, Calif. Michael Loya, see you all there and to learn more I finished the season ranked number Warren in uptown Manhattan. I
Stephanie Foster, Francisco Vega about what you all have been up 2 in the country and am training full also help out on Jamaal Bowman’s
SEAS’12, Marisa Vega and Allyson to! In the interim, please feel free time for the 2020 Summer Olympics campaign to represent my old con-
Werner were in attendance. to send me any life happenings –– in Tokyo. Columbia has had a rich gressional district, NY-16. I was not
Gillian Rhodes shared an update: graduations, engagements, new jobs, history of fencers competing at the into electoral politics at Columbia but
“I’ve been settled in Lahore, Pakistan, cool adventures –– anything! Feel Summer Olympics, and I hope to I believe in both candidates, so I am
for a year and a half. Among various free to send photos, as well! continue this tradition!” doing what I can to help them win.
2019
Maleeha Chida
ab4065@columbia.edu
mnc2122@columbia.edu
REUNION 2020
Christopher George ’17 and Jonathan Koptyev ’17 were each awarded a Cristina Frias hopes everyone is JUNE 4–6
Ferdinand C. Valentine Medical Student Research Grant in Urology; they are excited for the season! She could Events and Programs Contact
pictured here with the award and other winners. never have imagined what a year and ccaa-events@columbia.edu
a half in the real world could bring. Development Contact
Cristina has a full year of work expe- ccfund@columbia.edu
“This past summer, I spent two Elena McGahey had a fun rience in software development under
weeks on the West Coast with two weekend with Ian Covert, Mayank her belt, which means realizing how Emily Gruber
friends from the Harry S. Truman Mahajan SEAS’16, Harsha Vemuri, little she actually knows, she says. Tj Aspen Givens
Scholarship Foundation network. Sahir Jaggi SEAS’17, Eunice Emefa She’s continued to swim by joining tag2149@columbia.edu
We visited the Bay Area, Yosemite Kokor SEAS’17, Kanika Verma, the Asphalt Green Masters program. eag2169@columbia.edu
National Park, Seattle, North Cas- Jake Kwok and Josh Keough. She And she hopes she’ll be volunteering
cades National Park and Vancouver also started grad school this fall at at the ASPCA soon to help out with An aspiring surgeon, Hanya
— it was incredible. I also visited UCSF and welcomes all Lions in the some of the dogs and cats! Qureshi is a member of the Class of
Toronto and decided that Canada program to say hi! This past fall, Tiffany Troy and 2023 at the Yale School of Medicine.
is an underrated tourist destination. Christopher George and her father worked together with the She is enjoying exploring New
I snagged last-minute tickets to Jonathan Koptyev were awarded help of many in the community on Haven while continuing to collabo-
CNN’s climate town hall and, last a Ferdinand C. Valentine Medical the first case in which a man got rate with the United Nations Girls’
but certainly not least, I got to see Student Research Grant in Urology released by ICE on an employment Education Initiative through her
my favorite band — the recently for their summer research projects anti-retaliation theory. Their quest role as the founder and co-developer
reunited Jonas Brothers — live for between their first and second year of for liberty did not come easy, but of the UN Ivy STEM Connect
the first time. I’m excited for what- medical school. Jonathan’s project was they had faith and never turned Program. Thus far, the program
ever the next season brings!” titled “Assessing the Risk of Kidney their backs on the dream they has impacted nearly 200 students.
Chris von Pohlot and Justin Stone Formation Induced by Weight- carry. On top of that experience, Hanya hopes to use her background
Bleuel co-founded a company to Loss Diets” and Chris’s project was which turned into a poem, Tiffany to encourage girls globally to pursue
make renting easier. titled “Quantifying the Association celebrated her birthday in style with STEM careers.
Ethan Wu shares, “As time Between Nocturia and Cardiovascular a coinciding publication, which she Tre Gabriel is preparing to go to
passes, it seems to move more rap- Disease: Results from the Krimp- wrote in Dodge Hall last spring. grad school (a doctorate program in
idly, day by week by month by quar- ten Study.” Jonathan conducted his Since graduating, Shawnee psych), while being a content special-
ter. I started architecture school this research at medical school (Rutgers) Traylor dove over more Panamanian ist for a mental health company, The
past fall, gratified to be starting with and Christopher conducted his at coral reefs (thankfully, no crocodiles Flawless Foundation, and using his
a beginner’s mind again, but I find as Erasmus University in Rotterdam, this time), spent a season collecting fifth year of eligibility to play football
I age my life’s circumstances become Netherlands. They both presented water samples (and dodging leopard at his hometown school.
closer to ones I once abhorred — their respective research findings at seals) in Antarctica, backpacked Gowan Moïse (now going by
aging coming not from the passing the New York Academy of Medicine’s the glacier-studded mountains of Will/William) moved to Santa
of days but from the heaping of Medical and Dental Student Forum Patagonia and sailed up into Green- Monica to start working at a
responsibility and experience.” on September 9. landic fjords –– mostly in the name boutique law firm specializing in
of science. She is a Ph.D. student in intellectual property and complex
a joint program between MIT and commercial litigation. He spends
the Woods Hole Oceanographic his days reading case law, building
Institution, where she studies how damages models and chasing his
Holler at Us important elements cycle between
the ocean and atmosphere in the
roommate’s French bulldog. He’s still
yet to go to the beach.
in Haiku! context of a changing climate.
Sharel Liu published an article
Danny Hong is pursuing an
M.Sc. in innovation, entrepreneur-
Core, one hundred years! in the architectural journal Log ship and management at Imperial
in August, “Community on Tap: College Business School. His mas-
What’s a fun way to note it? The Commodification of Identity,” ter’s program cohort at Imperial sees
Poetry from you. which can be found for purchase on candidates representing 70 nationali-
anycorp.com/store/log46. ties; he is one of two Americans in
We’re celebrating the Core Centennial this year and would Briley Lewis is excited to be in the program. In pursuing a master’s,
love to hear your memories of the Core Curriculum! But her second year of graduate school at Danny says he looks forward to
UCLA, even if that means she needs applying his Columbia background
there’s a catch — you need to tell us in haiku. Send your to start studying for her comprehen- to cultivate innovative ideas with
5-7-5 recollections to cct_centennial@columbia.edu, and sive exam. Other than research, she’s which to seek employment or to cre-
we’ll run our favorites in the next two issues’ Class Notes. been doing a lot of teaching and ate his own company, as these are the
writing lately. Check out astrobites. requirements to officially achieve the
org/author/blewis. master’s from Imperial.
WILL CSAPLAR ’57, BUS’58 POSTCARD C O LLE C T IO N, C O LUM B IA UNIVE R SIT Y AR C HIVE S
Nicholas W. Cicchetti, Sleepy
Hollow, N.Y., a retired educator
who earned a master’s from TC;
August 21, 2019.
1946
Evarts Cecil Erickson, Wellfleet,
Mass., a retired writer; September
28, 2019.
1953
Morton Freilicher, New York City,
a retired lawyer who earned a degree
from the Law School in 1956; Daniel I. Davidson, Washington, contributions may be made to the 1969
August 7, 2019. D.C., earned a degree from the Law National Multiple Sclerosis Society
School in 1959; September 13, 2019. (nationalmssociety.org). Michael S. Oberman, New York
Benjamin P. Roosa, Jr., Hopewell City, an attorney; October 15, 2019.
Junction, N.Y., an attorney; Memorial contributions may be
August 28, 2019. Memorial contribu- 1958 1961 made to Hope & Heroes (hhccf.
tions may be made to Cardinal convio.net/goto/michaeloberman).
Hayes Home for Children, P.O. Box Alfred R. Stein, New York City; Arnold Chase, Township of
CH, 60 St. Joseph Dr., Millbrook, October 15, 2019. Washington, N.J., a retired attorney
NY 12545 (cardinalhayeshome.org). who earned a degree from the Law 1982
Jesus A. Suarez, Stuart, Fla., a School in 1964; October 1, 2019.
Howard R. Williams, Bloomfield, retired engineer; earned a B.S., Memorial contributions may be John S.W. Dawson, New York
N.J., a humanitarian aid executive M.S. and C.E., all from Columbia made to any multiple myeloma or City, a director of marketing; Octo-
and adjunct professor at SIPA; Engineering in 1960, 1962 and diabetes organization. ber 13, 2019.
September 25, 2019. 1966, respectively; August 13, 2019.
1966 1991
1956 1960
Stuart M Berkman, Rio de Janeiro, Patrick H. Flynn, Wilmette, Ill.,
Charles W. Bostic Jr., Morrisville, William H. Engler, Princeton Junc- a retired licensing and marketing a co-portfolio manager of a high-
N.Y., a retired vocational rehabilita- tion, N.J., a retired professor of Eng- executive who earned a degree yield strategies fund; April 23, 2019.
tion counselor; September 28, 2019. lish; earned an M.A. in 1965 from from the Business School in 1968; Memorial contributions may be made
GSAS; August 17, 2019. Memorial January 25, 2019. to SitStayRead (sitstayread.org).
David M. Nitzberg, Lake Forest,
Ill.; February 26, 2019.