CLASS NOTES
Clyde A.
Moneyhun
English Department
University of Delaware
Newark, Del. 19711
moneyhun@udel.edu
Charles Martin
reports that he moved from Hong Kong to Seattle two years ago,
where he continues doing freelance writing. His short story Lau
the Tailor was short-listed for the most recent O. Henry
Awards.
Nels Mitchell
recently joined Mannatt, Phelps and Phillips as a partner in the
litigation department.
Dave Merzel, our
estimable class correspondent for many years, is now medical
director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Valley Children's
Hospital in Madera, Calif. Hey, Dave, how does it feel to be
reporting your own news rather than gathering everybody
else's?
I'll
remind '76ers that we do have a "Classnotes" website of our own
(www.english.udel.edu/moneyhun/college76.htm),
and that I'll post any items you send (for example, in addition to
archived "Classnotes" columns, I can post your personal URLs and
photos from Columbia days or today). As our 25th reunion
celebration approaches, I'll also establish a bulletin board where
you can post messages to others who may be attending.
David Gorman
111 Regal Dr.
DeKalb, Ill. 60115
dgorman@niu.edu
Matthew Nemerson
35 Huntington Street
New Haven, Conn. 06511
mattnem@aol.com
My
thanks to those who are e-mailing your information to me; it
reduces the typing I have to do, eliminates fraud, and lets me know
that we have not left all command of new technologies to younger
classes. It is, however, striking that even this great time-saving
tool has not appreciably increased the number who correspond. I
guess the good news is that it proves that machines cannot change
basic human nature.
Fellow
home-state-of-Joe-Lieberman buddy (we Connecticut citizens are
kvelling over the first-ever native born to run for the national
ticket) David Atkins is a partner at the law firm of Zeldes,
Needle & Cooper and has now been named to the editorial board
of the Connecticut Law Tribune.
New
York attorney Scott Jacobs has recently joined Clifford,
Chance, Rogers and Wells in the area of estate planning.
Joseph Schachner
writes, "I now have the title 'project leader' at LeCroy
Corporation, manufacturer of digital oscilloscopes and other
instrumentation. I've been there since 1985. For the past year I've
also been the president of the religious institution I belong to.
It's only a two-year term, and I can certainly see why; I hope I
survive! This position takes up a tremendous percentage of my
non-work time. I got married within months of getting my BSEE, and
we are still happily married. I have two daughters, ages 16 and 12,
both of whom are somehow turning out to be fine people and
excellent students. It was recently my privilege to attend the
first event at the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, which
included speeches on activism by Rabbi Avi Weiss and by another
Rabbi whose name I just can't remember now. For me, one of the
highlights of the evening was saying hello to Rabbi Charles Sheer,
who has been Columbia's Jewish Chaplain for more than 30 years - I
actually remember him. On that day (in April) the final touches on
the building remained to be completed, but the Kraft Center was
already beautiful."
And
star athlete and all-around great guy Mike Wilhite sent in
this note: "Things in California are going well. I opened up The
Athlete's Foot store in Oakland January 2000. I left the corporate
world to join the ranks of business owners. Things have been
hectic. The business has been steady. We are looking to open other
locations in the near future. A story was written about the store
and included in a book published by HUD called What Works.
Occasionally I will run into some Columbia classmates/alumni
(Gene Bentz, Stu Kricun, Alton Byrd '79, Robert Kidd '70,
Bill Campbell '62, Bob Watson '76). It's always nice to meet other
people from Columbia."
David Andrusia is
vp, marketing at nadapc.com, an
Internet appliance and ISP provider in Santa Monica, Calif. While
the dot-com world has its plusses, he wouldn't recommend it for
anyone who has a love-hate relationship with Xerox machines. "When
my poor copying skills were recently derided by a 22-year-old, I
thought about calling it quits. Why isn't duplication technology
taught at the College?" he asks. Help mend his wounded pride by
buying his book, Brand Yourself, just out from Random
House.
Finally, my new adventure
in being part of the Internet world continues. We have changed the
name of our company to Netkey and I am now the COO. This means I
get to spend all the millions of dollars that others convince our
venture capitalists to give us. In six months it means I will have
to successfully explain where all the money went, or I will have to
turn to one of you for my next job. Isn't the new economy grand!
The family is great; my wife, Marian Chertow Barnard '77, has her
Ph.D. from Yale and is on the faculty of the Forestry School, and
my girls are in the first and fifth grades in public school here in
New Haven. Stop by if you are in the area. We celebrated the recent
decline in technology stocks by putting a new deck on our house (I
think we used to call this Keynesian economics), so there is plenty
of room to entertain if you're ever in New Haven.
Lyle Steele
511 East 73rd Street
Suite 7
New York, N.Y. 10021
cct@columbia.edu
Lloyd Carroll is a
CPA and chairman of the accounting department at Borough of
Manhattan Community College. He also writes a weekly column,
"Sportsbeat," for The Queens Chronicle, Queens' largest
newspaper with a circulation of 160,000. Gilber DeLaat is
manager of government affairs for Subaru of America in Cherry Hill,
N.J. Brewer Shettles, founder of Liquid Fusion records, is
now a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and
Sciences. You can check out his Web site at www.liquidfusion.com.
Craig Lesser
160 West End Ave., #18F
New York, N.Y. 10023
CraigL160@aol.com
Your
class correspondent has recently joined the ranks of executive
recruiters. I'm working at a firm called Analytic Recruiting on
41st Street. We handle all sorts of quantitative positions in
finance and marketing, so if you're looking for a job or looking to
fill a job, give me a call at (212) 545-8511 or e-mail me at
Craig@analyticrecruiting.com.
Mike Brown was
recently elected president of the Varsity "C" Club. This
organization publishes Lines on Lions, sponsors networking
and career counseling workshops, establishes Alumni Advisory
committees for each sport, and hosts the Varsity "C" Awards Event
in May. Please log on to gocolumbialions.com to see how you can
help us support our student-athletes.
Mike
recently had lunch with Stan Lazusky in N.Y.C. Stan is the
principal and managing director of Excellence in Search, an
executive recruiting firm in Camp Hill, Pa. Stan is married, with
one daughter.
Joe Ciulla, a
financial planner with Partners Financial in Belmont, Mass., made
his annual pilgrimage to Chicago where he played golf with Scott
Ahern and Dan McAvoy. Scott is working with Lucent
Technologies while Dan is in pharmaceutical sales. Mike attended
the opening night football game and ran into Shawn
Fitzgerald. Shawn is living on the North Shore of Long Island
with his wife, Jolene, and two boys, both of whom are future
members of the PGA tour.
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