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CLASS NOTES
Alan N. Miller
257 Central Park West
Apt. 9D
New York, NY 10024
cct@columbia.edu
A
brief note from your flu-plagued president. Reunion planning is
going well. Our last meeting was on Nov. 22 and our next full
meeting was scheduled for Feb. 1 at Columbia Engineering, hosted by
Mary Healey, a most pleasant woman. After some personal
intervention, Grissel Seijo '93 will continue working with our
class representing the alumni office, a result that pleases me
mightily. The November meeting included information from Mike
Spett about the yearbook, including Lenny Wolfe, whose
wife we wish well; Larry Gitten from himself and Phil
Liebson about the questionnaire; Bob Siroty and Lou
Hemmerdinger about the Saturday luncheon activities; and
Buzz Paaswell and myself concerning professorial
participation. Thanks to Don Morris for help making my class
letters funny, to Steve Easton for involving new classmates
in the process and Danny Link with his help in considering
our class fund-raising goals. Also at the meeting were Bob Hanson
'56E, Mary Healey from Engineering, and Grissel Seijo '93 and Chris
Long from the alumni office.
A
few thoughts: Classmates are needed for Saturday morning to
discuss, with slides, interesting foreign living experiences. Class
dues of $45 should be made out to class of '56 committee, Columbia
College, so we can publish another outstanding reunion yearbook.
And classmates all around the country should get involved. Contact
me with ideas and news, and put aside reunion weekend of June 1-3,
2001 - 45ths don't come around every day.
Love
and best wishes for a great 2001 to all. And now back to my hot tea
and Tylenol.
Herman Levy
7322 Rockford Drive
Falls Church, VA 22043-2931
HDLLEditor@aol.com
Gary Angleberger currently serves as associate for
stewardship, emeritus. Ernie Atlas is remarried and still
actively practicing medicine. He skis, sails, and feels hearty and
vigorous. Arthur Baron is now retired but still active. He
spends much time traveling and visiting family and friends,
including his two grandchildren. Richard Berkson, in
addition to a busy forensic psychiatric practice, serves as chief
psychiatrist at Corcoran State Prison (Calif.). His private
practice has specialized in intensive short-term dynamic
psychotherapy, which he also teaches.
Donald Brooks retired as senior counsel at Merck in
1993. Since then, he has been of counsel to the New Jersey law firm
of Carella, Byrne et. al. He also serves as vice president and
member of the board of directors of EntreMed, a biotech firm, and
as a member of the board of directors of other biotech companies,
including Xenon Genetics, a Canadian-based genetics
firm.
Felix Conte has been a professor of pediatrics at UC-San
Francisco for the past 30 years. He is happily married to Mary
Cronemeyer, "the best person I have ever met!" They have five
children and three granddaughters. Erik Eybye retired August
1, 2000, as a human resources executive at Totalfina Chemicals. His
son, Tom, is a lieutenant in the Army, stationed in Germany. His
daughter, Marianne, is a scientist at Glaxo SmithKline. He and his
wife, Lena, look forward to more power boating on the Chesapeake
Bay. Alfred Fierro has been married to Juanita for 43 years.
They have four children and seven grandchildren. He practiced law
with his brother, Daniel, for 30 years and is now in practice with
two of his sons, Matthew and Mark, in Fort Lee, N.J.
Martin Fisher and his wife, Doris, have been married for
32 years. Marty retired from IBM after 31 years and reports that
"older son, Michael, found his way to the campus with no trouble at
all and graduated with the class of '92." Nevertheless, "younger
son, Louis, took a wrong turn at 125th Street and went to New
Haven, where he graduated from Yale in 1993, stayed for law school,
and met his wife, Dr. Nina Myerson Fisher." Mike married Lynn; they
have a daughter, Zoe, born in May 2000. Mike works for Brown
Brothers, Harriman, & Co. Louis is with Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky & Walker; Nina is chief resident at Yale New Haven
Hospital. "Lynn's current occupation is Zoe." Denis Frind,
as he progresses into the fifth decade of his career in law, looks
forward to writing or teaching. He enjoys his grandchildren but
"best in small doses."
Alan Frommer recently had dinner with Frances and
Robert ("Al") Raab in Wellesley, Mass. They are in
Washington, D.C., now and love it, but "have a bit of nostalgia for
Boston." Alan also recently visited Nancy and Frank Corral
in Chicago, where they are refurbishing a condo overlooking Lake
Michigan. Brother Paul Frommer reports that Alan "retired
last July, sold his business and now watches his wife go off to
work while he cooks and plays golf." Paul continues in the
insurance business and enjoys it. He and wife, Liz, have been
taking hiking vacations, mostly in the United Kingdom. His oldest
child, Joshua, has graduated from Virginia Tech in aerospace
engineering and is now at Auburn pursuing an M.S. in the same
subject, concentrating in "composite materials." His second child,
Alexandra, is now a junior at Muhlenberg pursuing teaching/Judaics;
she plans to spend next spring at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
His third and fourth children, Samuel and Leah, are juniors in high
school.
Fred Hovasapian has retired from Met Life, where he was
assistant director of underwriting. He lives in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Six
months out of the year he works as a contract life insurance
underwriter for several companies. Alvin Kass continues
serving as a chaplain of the New York City Police Department. He
recently received appointment from the Department of the Treasury
to serve as Jewish chaplain of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, New York Region. In the latter capacity he gave the
invocation at the dedication of the national memorial in Washington
D.C., honoring U.S. Customs officers killed in the line of duty
from 1789 to the present.
Charles McKinney reports, "My life has been totally
committed to Jesus Christ since early 70s. I love preaching [and]
teaching; [I] am involved with a very dynamic church-planting
organization; and continue to serve as senior pastor at First
Christian Church [Suison City, Calif.], where attendance exceeds
350."
Neil McLellan, although retired, continues teaching as
an adjunct at Nassau Community College. He spends three months plus
at Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Occasionally he sees classmates Sal
Franchino and Dave Kinne in NYC for lunch or dinner. He
reports that he "keep[s] searching for the truth on various golf
courses." Lawrence Menconi retired from Exxon after 33 years
of service as a geologist, paleontologist and administrator. He has
been active as a consultant in paleontology since then. He reports
that he "found golf less than two years ago and is thoroughly
hooked."
Carlos Muñoz, who will receive a John Jay Award
next month, retired from DimeBancorp in December 2000 after 51-2
years. This is his second retirement, following that from Citicorp
after 35 years. He married the former Kassie Ohtaka in September
2000. He looks forward to more time with his grandchildren (in
London and California) as well as golf, travel and tournament
bridge. Jerome Tarshis is mostly retired from his career as
an art journalist but continues to write occasional pieces for
The Christian Science Monitor. He also does part-time
editorial work on ZYZZYVA, a literary magazine published in
San Francisco.
Ed Weinstein notes from the Wharton alumni magazine that
Al Anton continues as a partner in the investment firm of
Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co. in NYC. Recently the National
Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts elected him as
president at the group's conference in Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
Paul Zola reports: "For the last 40 years I have found
the breadth of a Columbia education to have made the greatest mark
upon me. I am lucky to have been let in on the fun of being a part
of the Western intellectual tradition. Columbia teaches
autodidacticism - this is what keeps us alive and
laughing."
The
following members of '57 definitely plan to attend our 45th reunion
in 2002: Ernie Atlas, M.D., Richard J. Cohen, M.D.,
Erik R. Eybye, Alfred Daniel Fierro, Martin S. Fisher, Fred L.
Hovasapian, Alvin Kass, David W. Kinne, M.D., Leonard D.
Kohn, M.D., Herman D. Levy, A. Michael Lipper, Robert
Lipsyte, Neil R. McLellan, Carlos R. Muñoz, John H.
Norton, M.D., Laurence B. Orloff, A. Robert Raab, Leon
Satran, M.D., Mark L. Stanton, Eugene Wagner, DDS,
Edward A. Weinstein, Paul Zola.
The
following are "maybes:" Gary Angleberger, Richard P.
Berkson, M.D., John G. Colvin, Felix A. Conte M.D.,
Norman Decker, M.D., Douglas Eldridge, Joseph Ellin, R.
Dale Ensor, M.D., William F. Friedman, M.D., Denis B.
Frind, Alan M. Frommer, Paul Stanley Frommer, Herbert L.
Strauss.
Barry Dickman
24 Bergen Street
Hackensack, NJ 07601
cct@columbia.edu
Congratulations to Pete Millones and his wife, Deidre
Carmody, on the marriage of their daughter, Christina, to Brian
Clifford. Pete and Deirdre are now retired from The New York
Times and are living in Narragansett, R.I., after long careers
at the paper: Pete started as a campus stringer while an
undergraduate and became assistant managing editor and metropolitan
editor, while Deirdre was a reporter. Pete also taught at the
School of Journalism and was a member of the CCT advisory
board.
Speaking of the Times, Joe Dorinson was the
subject of a Public Lives column that appeared during the Subway
Series, the connection being that Joe teaches a course on the
social history of sports and specializes in the Brooklyn Dodgers
(who appeared in the last Subway Series while we were
undergraduates). The columnist, Joyce Wadler, deftly captured Joe's
style - combining the erudite with the down-to-earth - in reporting
on a wide-ranging interview. But when she described him as
"loquacious," we were "Shocked. Shocked!!" Can that be our
Joe?
We
received a nice note from Paul Gomperz, whom we last saw
during the meetings of the planning committee for our last reunion
(chaired by Joe Dorinson), of which Paul and his wife, Jan, were
members. Paul has been elected Treasurer of the Alumni Federation,
which puts him on track to become Secretary, VP and ultimately
President over the next five years. (The Federation is the umbrella
organization for all of Columbia's associations and clubs, and is a
voice for the alumni in dealing with the administration. It is also
involved in the election of alumni trustees and the University's
travel and insurance programs.) Paul's leadership positions with
the Columbia Club of Northern New Jersey over the last 20 years
brought him to the Federation. In his spare time, Paul operates a
business concentrating on variable life insurance, variable
annuities and 401(k) plans.
Here's our periodic reminder about the class lunch Scott
Shukat hosts on the second Tuesday of every month, in the Grill
Room of the Columbia Club, 15 West 43rd Street ($31 per person).
You can advise Scott if you plan to attend up to the day before, by
phone at (212) 582-7614, by fax at (212) 315-3752 or by e-mail at
scott@shukat.com.
Ed Mendrzycki
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
425 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
cct@columbia.edu
J. David Farmer
100 Haven Ave., 12C
New York, NY 10032
david@daheshmuseum.org
Could it be the post-reunion depression? In any case, only one
classmate has written with news, so your faithful correspondent has
an-all-too-light task this issue and urges news via whatever
means.
Joseph Giacalone reports from St. John's University on
the publication of his book, The U.S. Nursing Home Industry
(M.E. Sharpe), an economic and managerial analysis of this sector.
The chapter on "Nursing and Personal Care Facilities" has recently
appeared in a collection, and other articles are
forthcoming.
Thanks Joe, and I hope to hear from others before the next
deadline.
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