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ALUMNI
UPDATE
 ALUMNI MEDALS: Four
graduates of the College, including two members of the Alumni
Association's Executive Board, are among the 10 alumni who will be
awarded the Alumni Medal for 2000 at the annual Commencement Day
Luncheon on May 17.
Phillip M.
Satow '63, who is completing his two-year term as president of
the CCAA, and Lisa M. Landau '89, who is co-vice president,
athletics on the board, are among those being honored by the
University for their involvement and service. The other College
alumni being honored this year are Frederic "Rick" Brous '58
and Stephen R. Clineburg '63.
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO:
John Corigliano '59 took home the Academy Award in the
category of Best Original Score for his work on The Red
Violin. His victory was considered something of a surprise, as
nominations in the category also included scores from better-known
films such as American Beauty and The Cider House
Rules.
Corigliano,
62, who teaches music composition and orchestration at Lehman
College in the Bronx, is one of the most successful American
classical composers. An earlier film score was nominated for an
Oscar in 1981, and his 1991 opera, The Ghosts of Versailles,
was the New York Metropolitan Opera's first commissioned piece in
25 years.
APPOINTED: President
Clinton has appointed Luis J. Lauredo '72 as the U.S.
permanent representative to the Organization of American States.
Ambassador Lauredo, who received his law degree from Georgetown,
had been president of Greenberg Traurig Consulting, an affiliate of
Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm.
A native of
Key Biscayne, Fla., where he was once a city councilman, Lauredo
has also served as director of the Summit of the Americas,
commissioner of the Florida Public Service Commission, and senior
vice president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He
has been a trustee of the Pan American Development Foundation, a
member of the board of the Hispanic Council on Foreign Affairs, and
chairman of the Miami International Press Center. The OAS is an
intergovernmental organization whose primary purpose is to preserve
peace and security and to promote the integral development of
member states.
ONLINE REGISTRATION:
Alumni may now register and pay for upcoming events on the
College's website. To register for Reunion, for example, go to:
www.columbia.edu/cu/college/alumni/reunion.
PROMOTED: Allen M.
Spiegel '67 has been appointed director of the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Spiegel, who received his medical degree from Harvard, is an
internationally recognized endocrinologist whose research on signal
transduction helped to define the genetic basis of several
diseases. He has worked at NIDDK since 1973, most recently as
scientific director. For the past nine years, Spiegel has led an
intramural research program at the National Institutes of Health
campus in Bethesda, Md., and also conducted independent research.
As the new director, he will supervise a staff of 900 at the
institute, which is the leading federal agency supporting research
in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases; digestive
diseases and nutrition; and kidney, urologic and hematologic
diseases.
AWARDED: David
Schiff '67 has been named a 1999-2000 award recipient for music
composition from the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers (ASCAP). Schiff, the R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music
at Reed College in California, received the award to support his
original compositions, which combine elements of classical, jazz,
rock, and Jewish music. He is currently at work on a piano trio for
Chamber Music Northwest. After graduating from the College, Schiff
earned a master's at Cambridge University, an M.Phil. at Columbia,
an M.M.A. at the Manhattan College of Music, and a D.M.A. at
Juilliard. He is a frequent contributor to The New York
Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal,
and New Republic, and the author of Gershwin: Rhapsody in
Blue (1997). This is the eighth time that Schiff has received
this national award, which ASCAP makes to aid and encourage writers
of serious music.
ALUMNI COLLOQUIA: The
Friends of the Heyman Center are pleased to announce plans for a
series of Alumni Colloquia to be offered at the Heyman Center in
the academic year 2000-2001. Colloquia will be offered on topics in
Contemporary Civilization, Music Humanities, and Asian Humanities,
all taught by prominent Columbia faculty. For further information
about becoming a Friend of the Heyman Center and about the
Colloquia, please call Laura Humiston at 212-854-4270. She
can also be reached by e-mail at ljh20@columbia.edu or by fax at
212-662-7289.
ALUMNI IN THE
SOUTHEAST: The Columbia Club of Atlanta wants alumni in Georgia
(outside metro Atlanta), eastern Alabama, South Carolina and
eastern Tennessee to know that it cannot include them in mailing
about club activities, but would be happy to send regular e-mail
messages about all club events. Please contact Janet Frankston
'95 (janet.frankston@mindspring.com)
or Stuart Berkman '66 (overseas@mindspring.com) to be
placed on their e-mail list.
JAY COLLOQUIA: The
Heyman Center for the Humanities will host two John Jay Colloquia,
taught by distinguished faculty, on contemporary social and
political issues. For information on the John Jay Colloquia series,
please contact the Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and
Development at 212-870-2288.
CORRECTION: Dr.
Laurance J. Guido '65 was accidentally omitted from the list of
Alumni Office staff members in the Columbia College Fund 47th
Annual Report. Guido, now the director of alumni relations for the
University Development and Alumni Relations office, had been an
assistant director of the 47th Fund. The Columbia College Office of
Alumni Affairs and Development regrets the omission.
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