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Volume 47 Number 3
Spring 2020

Editor-in-Chief
Alexis Boncy SOA’11

Executive Editor
Lisa Palladino

Deputy Editor
Jill C. Shomer

Associate Editor
Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09

Forum Editor
Rose Kernochan BC’82

Contributing Editor
Thomas Vinciguerra ’85

Art Director
Eson Chan

Published quarterly by the Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development for alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of Columbia College.

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Bernice Tsai ’96

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ISSN 0572-7820

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