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CLASS NOTES
Clyde A.
Moneyhun
English Department
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19711
moneyhun@udel.edu
Jeffrey Giassman
announces the birth of his first child, daughter Shira Toby, on
March 8, 2000. He realizes, he says, that "some classmates have
kids on College Walk - but all things in good time."
Kevin Barry,
formerly of Ledgewood Law Firm, has joined Cozen and O'Connor, one
of the country's largest 100 law firms. After Columbia, Kevin
graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School (1979),
where he was case comment editor of the Suffolk University Law
Review. Practicing in Pennsylvania, he concentrates in
regulatory, commercial litigation and general business activity
related to insurance, reinsurance, banking and corporate
matters.
Toomas Ilves
delivers this report from his parents' homeland: "It's hard to
explain how or why, but since 1996, with a short stint out spent
running for Parliament, I have been foreign minister of Estonia."
Before that, Tom was the Estonian ambassador to the U.S. Some of
Tom's story was told in the Charlemagne column of a 1998 issue of
The Economist, but "they left out the Columbia part, which
is unfortunate, since my four years at the College are in
retrospect probably the most important determinants" of the course
of his life.
Louis Anon spent the
last year working with an Internet startup that has just been sold.
Before that, he spent three years with the Queensland Treasury in
Brisbane, Australia, working on their customer management
strategies and business process codification. He reports that it is
"a great place to visit and an even greater place to live." He now
lives in Jersey City with his partner of 17 years, travels a lot,
and does consulting work.
David Gorman
111 Regal Dr.
DeKalb, IL 60115
dgorman@niu.edu
Apparently, if you get a
Quaker license, you can marry yourselves. So we are informed by
Will Weaver, who married Margaret Grace thusly in
Philadelphia, on the deck of the William Penn Tower on August 8.
Will and Margaret had been together for four years, two of them
spent in Houston. About a year ago they moved to Philadelphia,
where they were joined by Will's two sons from a previous marriage,
William (13) and Clay (11), who "are finally getting used to city
life after spending their whole lives in Fairfield County, Conn."
Congrats to both generations of Weavers, on marriage and
urbanization, respectively.
Arto Becker reports
a major social event in September: a gathering of no fewer than 14
Columbia and Barnard alums of the classes of 1976-78 for a
fancy-schmancy dinner at Le Colonial in Manhattan. Besides Arto,
others present included John Carlin, Tom Eisen, Michael Huber,
Paul Jacobson, Gregory Lackey, Ivan Lansberg, Guy Owen, Dan
Rothstein '76 and Tom Tuggle '78. "All of us had terrific memories
of Columbia and Barnard, the friendships we made there, and the
academic experience. Sincerely sentimental feelings were expressed
by many of us in a round of e-mails that followed the party."
Myself, I don't think that I've ever gotten a sentimental e-mail;
but anyone is welcome to send me one so I can see what they're
like.
Matthew Nemerson
35 Huntington Street
New Haven, CT 06511
mattnem@aol.com
Lyle Steele
511 East 73rd Street
Suite 7
New York, NY 10021
cct@columbia.edu
Craig Lesser
160 West End Ave., #18F
New York, NY 10023
CraigL160@aol.com
Ian Parmiter is back
in New York working for the Discovery Networks. David
Steiner is with the New York City Law Department where he was
recently promoted to associate counsel.
The
class of '80 was well represented at the Old Timers Baseball Game
held over Homecoming weekend. Eric Blattman, Shawn
Fitzgerald and Mike Brown had multiple hit games for the
younger Old Timers. The game is an annual event that occurs
Homecoming weekend and was called after four innings due to pulled
muscles and sore arms! Eric is a successful money manager in Conn.,
while Sean is practicing law on Long Island. Both are married, with
two children each.
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