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CLASS NOTES
Ana S. Salper Season's Greetings, classmates! I am sending out a reminder to you all that our fifth-year reunion (can you believe it's been five years that we've been out of college??) will take place the weekend of June 1-3. Many of you are probably saying to yourselves that you're not going to bother because you see all of the people you hung out with in college all the time anyway, but if you have any interest in making contacts with the classmates you've lost touch with, or if Columbia meant anything to you at all, please try to make it. I hope to see you all there. Now on to the news. After working at the law firm of Fenwick & West inPalo Alto, Calif. this past summer, Pat Garavito '94 is finishing a dual J.D./MBA program at Northwestern this year. Jody Alpert Levine and Elie Levine graduated from Yale Medical School last year and have begun their residencies at Mount Sinai here in New York. Jody is a resident in pediatrics and Elie is in plastic surgery. They have two children now - Skyler Brooke and Jasmine Paige - and are happy to be living back in the city. They can be reached at (212) 628-6575. Unfortunately, that's all I have for you this time. I hope this is due to the fact that I have been out of the country and in transition for the last few months, and not because you are all becoming lazier at sending in your news. Perhaps you need a little inspiration, courtesy of one of the best, George Bernard Shaw: "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." So please, send me news of your trails.
Sarah Katz Thanks to everyone for getting their news in. Seems that lots of congratulations are in order for those transitioning to new jobs, starting graduate school, finishing graduate school, getting married and otherwise making a unique impact on the world. Chih-Ling Liu relocated from N.Y.C. to San Francisco in March to continue working as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Deborah Feldman works in corporate human resources at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and continues to pursue her singing career on the side. Matt Wang was recently promoted to an investment banking associate for UBS Warburg, where he has been in the oil and gas group for the last three years. He was living with Charlie Dimmler in the West Village until Charlie left investment banking to move to San Francisco and work in corporate development at Geron, a specialty pharmaceutical company. Rick de los Reyes returned from a year in Sao Paulo, Brazil working for Deutsche Bank and is now in his first semester at Harvard Business School. Michelle Caswell is working as an associate producer for AsiaSource. org, an educational website run by the Asia Society in New York. Her boyfriend, Tomer Begaz, is a third-year at Mt. Sinai Medical School. Nicola Hudson and Alison Donohoe are roommates living on the Upper East Side. Alison has been working at Prudential Securities in equity research for the past year and is a new aunt. Nicola just started business school at Stern (NYU). Hannah Trooboff is teaching seventh, eighth and ninth grade English at School of the Arts in Rochester, N.Y. Her boyfriend, Brian McCollum '97E, just got a new job at Xerox working with the toner group, and he'll soon be helping them to start running their new toner plant in Ireland. Michael Pignatello is currently in China studying at Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, having left his job at Ogilvy and Mather Advertising. He will be in China the entire year. Hans Chen had been working at APBnews. com, the crime-news web site, until he fell victim to the dot-com shakeout earlier this year; he's now landed at Vault.com, a career-oriented web site where he works with Noah Zucker '98 and Mike Erman '99. Jenny Drake is working for a trading company in Chicago. Luke DuBois GSAS '99, Paul Feuer, Rachael Finn, Barnard '99, and Stephen Krieger released their fourth album this October as The FreightElevator Quartet (fe4.com). This album is the follow-up to last year's collaboration with Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), and features Erik Laroi, Josh Druckman, Johnathan Lee '96, GSAS '98, and associate professor Terry Pender of the Computer Music Center. A composition from their collaboration with Paul D. Miller will appear on a compilation of late 20th-century music from N.Y.C. being curated by the Museum of Modern Art and includes pieces by the Velvet Underground, the Ramones, and Blondie. John Fletcher is making a movie. Rohit Modak appeared on the cover of this June's edition of Indian Muscle Magazine. Ro is also a student at New Jersey Medical School. Congrats to those who have just finished law degrees: Kellie Durham (Duke), Tiffany Woodie (Chicago), Aba Yankah (Michigan), Ayana Cuevas (Cal-Davis), Jennifer Willis (NYU), Shirley Irick (Brooklyn) and Zaharah Markoe (Cardozo). Zaharah is working as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx. Sarah Benor and Mark Bunin were married in September. Sarah is in the middle of a Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford, and Mark is starting medical school at MCP Hahnemann. Abby Treu married Pavel Vaynshtok '96E in June '99, and has started rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Andrew Blumsack was married to Kinsley, whom he met in Los Angeles. Their wedding was in Las Vegas. Rachel Mann married Josh Rosenblatt in August 1999. She's working on a Ph.D. in English lit at NYU. Jonathan Jacobs started work as an attorney at the New York office of Sidley and Austin in October. Tony Wong married longtime girlfriend Elly Karp, Barnard '97, in February. Tony had moved out to San Francisco with Eric Lee in Spring '99, upon leaving respective banking jobs (Tony at Morgan Stanley, and Eric at the private equity firm Stonington Partners). Eric is at www.Webvan.com and Tony helped start a company, www.buylink.com. Their friend Judd O'Sullivan '97E left to circumnavigate Africa in a jeep in August '99 and remains there still-he decided to live in South Africa. Cristina Bonaldes just began the M.B.A. program at Michigan. Robyn Puro is starting grad school at NYU. Jill Jacobs is in her third year at JTS rabbinical school, spending the year in Israel. Erki Viirand just started Stanford Business School. Joshua Shanker '96 is back at Columbia working on a Ph.D. in Urban Planning. He is also working for the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, which is the legislatively mandated voice of transit riders in the MTA service area. He came back to Columbia after completing a master's degree in city planning at MIT and working to build the Tren Urbano, a new subway system in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Beth Packman has recently started NYU Law after a year in Israel where she studied and worked at the Association for Civil Rights In Israel. As for me, I have moved to Philadelphia where I am attending University of Pennsylvania Law School. I look forward to continuing to keep in touch with everyone so keep those e-mails coming!
Sandra P. Angulo Another wedding announcement for the Class of '98: Fencing champ Noah Zucker married his college sweetheart, Katherine Lee '97, on July 2 in Austin, Texas. Kristina Kaufman '99 and Katie Cavan, Barnard '04, were present. The newlyweds then had a Chinese wedding banquet in New York on July 29, which John Normile '90E and Raphael Bruckner '01 attended. Noah and Kathy live in a Brooklyn Heights co-op with their dog, Shmenckie. Congratulations are also in order to Anne Pordes, who went back to school for a one-year master's program in social policy and planning at the London School of Economics. Are you a budding entrepreneur? Ed Lee and Ben Kornfeind are working at Himalaya Capital, a N.Y.C. venture capital fund, and are looking for business plans from Columbia students, especially those from our class. You can contact Ben at bkornfeind@HimalayaCapital.com or info@himalaycapital.com.
I got a note from Ted Rebholz announcing that he and Tim Baer climbed Mt. Whitney in California's Sierra Nevadas on June 17. For those of you who aren't mountain-climbing aficionados, Mt. Whitney's peak is 14,494 feet above sea level. Way to go, Ted and Tim! When they're not putting us all to shame with their athletic prowess, Tim works in the corporate derivatives origination group of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. Ted, who also climbed Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, is living in San Francisco and working in the emerging markets & technologies group of Visa. That's it for this edition. Now it's time for my shameless plea for information - especially from those of you who've never been in the Notes: Please write or e-mail me with updates! Happy Holidays, Class of '98.
Charles S.
Leykum For those classmates who weren't able to visit with College friends and cheer on the Lions at Homecoming this year, we are coordinating an event for members of our class in the spring. But first, let's start with updates from some members of our class. Jacob "Koby" Rosenschein and Dina Cheney were married on June 18 in Washington, D.C. They lived in Palo Alto, Calif. for a year, and moved back to Manhattan in September. Koby is currently working as an analyst in the fixed income, currencies and commodities group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Dina is working in marketing at Epicentric, a San Francisco-based software company. Living in St. Louis, Clare Priest is attending law school at Washington University. Also at Washington University, Jessica Rosenfeld is the assistant director of admissions. Following her year working on the Long Island Sound/New York Contaminated Sediments project at the U.S. Geological Survey's Woods Hole Field Center, Suni Shah started graduate school at Michigan this fall. Chris Ball is working in business development at Multex in Manhattan. Mette Bahde recently moved west to study music theory at the UC-Santa Barbara. Laura Freilich is living in Chicago and conducting pediatric brain tumor research. Now, as for our class event, we are organizing a group to see Tosca at the New York City Opera House in Lincoln Center on March 30, 2001. If you are interested in attending, please contact me. Friends are of course welcome, so feel free to invite others. As always, please let us know what you're up to. See you all in the spring.
Prisca Bae Hi everyone! I don't know about you, but I'm craving Koronet's and Tom's right about now. While I understand that graduation was inevitable and even a good thing, I admit I'm a little bit nostalgic for Alma Mater and the Steps-especially at this time of year. Call me a sentimental fool (and for those of you who know me, you know this isn't wholly off mark), but I miss you guys. Honestly, no joke. Since being in the D.C. area, my roommate and I have the pleasure to host and entertain fellow classmates in our modest (but very comfortable) apartment. Heidi Yeung was a guest before heading back to Vancouver to start med school. Mike Shen and Alicia Dooley came down to visit for the Fourth of July. We watched the fireworks display from the Washington Monument, and needless to say, the show was spectacular. Mike is currently at J.P. Morgan and Alicia is with Electric Artists in New York. For Labor Day, Claire Lui and Lystra Batchoo made the trip down to Washington. Claire is working for Martha Stewart and Lystra is at the Robin Hood Foundation. Eric Goldberg married Karen Zelenetz '01 on June 25 on Long Island. Eric is working at Credit Suisse First Boston in the fixed income division. Karen is majoring in U.S. history and plans to go to law school. A warm congratulations to both! While being away from New York is a deterrent from random run-ins, it still can happen. Rashmi Menon, my roommate who does research at the National Cancer Institute, ran into Sam Horng on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md. Sam apparently is working at the NIH in clinical bioethics. He will be there for two years. Rashmi also ran into Sarika Doshi while walking down a street in D.C. By the way, anyone else who is in the D.C. area should contact me so we can organize a mini-reunion of displaced New Yorkers. We will happily host a dinner or cocktail party in our apartment. So let me know! Meanwhile, outside of D.C. and New York, Kevin Woodson reported in from New Haven that fellow Columbians Isaac Nesser and Krissy Garcia are with him at Yale Law. In nearby Massachusetts, Daisy Chow '00E has started work in Cambridge at a start-up called Virtual Ink. While she didn't know what her exact job description was, she relates that it will involve some engineering. In the Midwest, Jason Streem is in Cleveland where he is enjoying a year off before heading off to dental school. Meanwhile, he is doing research at Case Western Reserve Dental School and volunteering at the Free Clinic. On the West Coast, Josh Sternlicht moved to San Francisco where he plans to pursue a career in film. He would like to know of any other Columbia alumni in the Bay area. Just let me know and I can relay the information on to him. Now, as for our friends who remain in Manhattan...Former fellow McBain resident Christophe Gillet is living in Brooklyn and working for TheSquare (www.thesquare.com) as university marketing manager. For those of you who don't know, TheSquare is an interesting Web site open to members of certain prestigious universities... While I'm not arguing that it may be a tad elitist, it's a great way to network and find classmates. You'd be surprised who has already joined! Also living in Brooklyn with Christophe is Sam Mills. Christophe reports that Dana Maiden (yet another McBain-er) has moved into an apartment in Alphabet City with former roommate Jenny Park. Also in N.Y.C., onetime L&R classmate Jeremy Bob is currently a speechwriter for Israeli Ambassador Shmuel Sisso and a political analyst for the department of media and public affairs of the Israeli Consulate in New York. Nick Harkness is still in Morningside Heights working as a research editor for Sapient Corp. And still at Columbia is Adrienne Brown, former student body vp. Adrienne is an admissions officer for the College and lives in Washington Heights. In nearby Harlem, Johnny-5 '00E wants everyone to know that he is currently at 561 W. 141st St., Apt. 99, New York, N.Y. 10031 and is a fixed income analyst at Morgan Stanley in derivative strategies and marketing. He can be contacted at djl43@columbia.edu and (917) 721-3442 (cell). Also at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker is Sid Singh '00E. The world of I-Banking certainly has its share of our class-Peter Heetae Kim is working as an analyst in the START program at Lehman Brothers. He is currently living in Jersey City, N.J. While it seems many members of our class have remained in New York, there are some who were adventurous enough to leave the Tri-State area. Sami Mesrour will be in England next year, reading for a master's degree in the economic history department at the London School of Economics. Also studying abroad is Charles Ayres, who is attending graduate school in Tokyo at Sophia University. His permanent address is 30 Mohawk, Overland Park, Kan. 66206. Meanwhile, Ellen Downes recently left for Mozambique to teach secondary school English in the Peace Corps. She will move to her site in January and start teaching in February. Leilah Broukhim is living in Madrid where she is working and taking dance classes. Also on the continent is Mark Donfried, who worked three jobs over the summer. During the day he was at Marsh & McLennan Securities (reinsurance and investment banking), he had a night job at Credit Suisse First Boston and in his "free time" he was vice president of marketing for a company called Kramer Office (business purchasing and promotional services). Mark is now in Berlin earning a master's in political science with the help from two fellowships-the "DAAD" and the "Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin." You guys have been great about keeping in touch, but there are still many of you who have yet to write. I hope you will write, phone, or e-mail with the latest in your lives. I'm doing well at the DOJ and for those interested, Russ has moved to his permanent site in China and has started a co-teaching position at a University in the Gansu Province. His Peace Corps experience has been great so far and I'm sure he'd love to hear from you, too. His e-mail is kratzerrussell@hotmail.com. And you know what my e-mail is-so I look forward to hearing from you soon. Take good care!
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