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CLASS NOTES
Robert Hardt Jr. Sweet classmates, the parallels are a little eerie. Just 10 years ago, the nation's economy was slumbering, George Bush was our president, and many of us were worried about our futures after we left the friendly confines of campus. And it all can be magically true again if you attend our 10th reunion celebration this spring! Not only does Steve Weinstein work at the same law firm as former Gov. Mario Cuomo (Willkie, Farr and Gallagher), but he is also the tireless chairman of our reunion committee. Steve has provided me with scads of information about events being planned for May 31 through June 3. All of these things are still being finalized, but here's a quick summary of the reunion game plan: Thursday Night (May 31) Class Party: A variety of events capped off with an informal party with classmates (many of whom you probably haven't seen since the go-go '90s). Friday Night (June 1) Young Alumni Bash: A party to end all parties with people who are either slightly older or slightly younger than you. Family friendly programming: Bring the wife and kids! Bring the husband and kids! Bring your imaginary friend, Patches! Saturday and Sunday details to come. The reunion committee is trying to include more activities that will appeal to young families like a museum trip, a Central Park Zoo tour and a picnic. We will make it so. We have an image to protect here. Travel discounts: The committee is working hard to get hotel discounts for the reunion as well as travel deals from some cities including L.A., San Francisco and Atlanta. This is all being hammered out but if you are interested in helping out or attending, please contact Steve at: sweinstein@willkie.com. Just a few brief notes about a couple of classmates: After toiling for five years in the firm of architect Robert A.M. Stern '60, Anselm Fusco is finishing up his first year at Harvard Business School and living in Cambridge, Mass. with his sweet wife, Hannah. David Kaiser worked hard for two years at the New York Review of Books and recently left his job to devote more time to his creative writing. Although he continues to live in the West Village, he is planning on building a house in northern Putnam County. Honorary West Coast class correspondent Tina Fitzgerald is my favorite e-pen pal from Los Angeles. She's continuing her graduate work at UCLA and sending me highly entertaining (but unprintable) updates about her life, which I am living vicariously through. Please send me lots of news for the next issue, which can serve as a pathetic kind of Cliff's Notes for everyone at reunion. Remember, you have just a few months to return to your college weight.
Jeremy Feinberg Hi gang. Light mail bag this time, but here goes... Jenny Fredricks received her Ph.D. in psychology and education from the University of Michigan and is currently an assistant professor in human development and social policy at Connecticut College. She was married over the summer in Wisconsin to Harvey Schuckman, who has a Ph.D. in political science and does market research at Yankelovich Partners. Jenny said a number of Columbia alums were in attendance at the wedding. Andrew Vladeck is still playing music in the New York area, despite threatening to go to grad school "any time now." Andrew also has a cool new website which I recommend to all. Not surprisingly, it can be found at www.andrewvladeck.com. Noam Ohring married Yaffa Regosin, Barnard '93. They have two children, Geffen, 3, and Amichai, 11-2, and live in Englewood, N.J., having returned from a 21-2-year stay in Jerusalem. Noam is now a vp at the executive search firm of Gould, McCoy and Chadick where he is "recruiting mostly Wall Street types." As always, keep that e-mail and mail coming, and I'll fill up the column with it. Cheers.
Elena Cabral Big baby news. Arthur Weise and Kristina Nye welcomed their baby girl, Emma Rose, in June. Kristina was on maternity leave from her job as senior producer for Moneyline and Arthur recently started a new job as a financial analyst at a money management firm in New York City called Trainer Wortham. The family lives in White Plains, N.Y. Alan Freeman and his wife, Remy, also welcomed a new member of their family with the birth of their first child, Theodore Ruskin Freeman. The baby is named after his great grandfather, Ted Garfiel '24. Shlomit Edinger and her husband Benjamin '93E became the parents of a new baby boy, Eitan, on October 27. Congratulations to all three families. Kristina keeps in touch with ex-Spec editor Elizabeth Berke Vickery '94, who works in marketing at a money management firm. Her husband works at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Frank Ballabio, '93E, graduated from Kellogg Business School and works in marketing at Priceline.com. Rohit Aggarwala is finishing a joint master's and business degree at Columbia. Tim Bonn earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and is working as a consultant. Solangel Maldonado has launched an impressive career in law, and, at her ripe old age, is already teaching it. After graduation Solangel went straight to Columbia Law School and then worked at Kay Scholer Fierman Hayes & Handler. She left the firm to clerk for Judge Joseph Greenaway '78 in 1998. Afterward, she joined the New York office of Sidley and Austin, where she is an associate. Solangel was scheduled to leave Sidley & Austin to join the faculty of Seton Hall University School of Law in January. She will teach family law and torts. Bonnie Dwyer and Ian Carroll, who were married on August 20, did not even know each other in college. They met at a medical school interview and attended P&S together. They live in the San Francisco Bay area. Ian is finishing a residency in anesthesia at Stanford. Bonnie finished her residency at UCSF in internal medicine and has begun a residency in OB/GYN at Stanford. She plans to double board. Guests at the wedding included Mary Thompson '93E, Tomas Yang '93E, Alyson Berliner, Madeleine Dassule '95, Eric Pinstein '94E, Miriam Friedlander, Mark Rutstein, Sharad Samy, Mike Crowley, Alex Khutorsky, Emily Hu '95 and Leah Millheiser '94, oh yes, and Alma Mater. Where oh where is Bonnie's long lost freshman roommate Aimee Cervera?
Leyla Kokmen Over the past few months I've been the glad recipient of a few late night phone calls from classmates who have regaled me with tales of their adventures. Imara Jones has moved out to San Francisco. When we talked he was taking it easy and interviewing for jobs-we'll look forward to further reports on what you're up to, Imara! (And by the way, we evidently were wrong about people actually voting for George W....) Ben Strong has moved from Chicago to New York, where he's working for a literary agent. I also got a happy update from Mary Killackey is still in her residency at the University of Rochester and spends most of her days at the operating table. She's considering specializing in transplant surgery but may look into spending some time doing research. Ayanna (Parish) Thompson is still working on her dissertation and plans to finish this year. She spent the fall semester teaching at Bowdoin and has been applying for English professorships all across the country. Until next time, please keep the news coming!
Janet Frankston Lots of news to report. Sorry this didn't get in earlier, but Sadri Shadman finished dental school in Montreal and has moved back to New York for a one-year residency at Wykoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn. Art Freeman is back in his home state as an MBA student at the University of Alabama; he'll graduate this May. Art married a high school friend, Marie Dielen, last summer in Birmingham. Several classmates and tennis teammates - Marc Richards, Alan Wieder, David Mann, and Mike Beckett - made the trip south and were in the wedding party. Other Columbia attendees included classmate Tricia Lipani, and from the class of '94, Blake Spahn, Burke Banda, Brig Boonswang, Dan Wilson and Samir Sinha. Art reports that Marc Richards will marry Lisa Franzino next summer in Long Island. They recently bought an apartment on Park Avenue South and are really happy with city life. Alan Wieder moved to Los Angeles where he is working for Fox Digital. He lives with his girlfriend, Lauren Soloff (Barnard '96), and loves the California weather, Art writes. Ricardo Cortes e-mailed to say that that the dreadlocks and sandals that he wore around campus are gone. He's back in New York after spending three years with an oceanographic outfit off the coast of Cape Verde. He's now working with a new design group, the Magic Propaganda Mill. Check out his work at www.magicpropagandamill.com, with help from Jamal Van Sluytman and Afruz Amighi '96. From the West Coast: Camilo Otero, now living in San Francisco, earned a master's degree from Teachers College in 1997 and met his future wife there. He and Kelli Harrington-Otero (also TC '97) were married April 8 in New York. "Exactly seven days later we hit the great roads of America and moved to San Francisco (the ride is worth it if you get the chance)," he e-mailed. "Currently, I work for Boys and Girls Clubs of America in San Francisco and am enjoying the fact that I will not endure yet another dreary February in New York." Kelli works for a non-profit in San Mateo, and is also pursuing her doctorate at the University of San Francisco. Camilo said he bumped into Andrew (Topher) McGibbon '96, "and we have been left wondering how is it that he and I keep running into each other." Congratulations to Dan Petroski, who was named as one of the top "Thirty under 30" in the November 2000 edition of foliomag.com, which lists "some of the most innovative thinkers and leaders in the magazine industry who are effecting change and shaping the future." Check out the link: http://foliomag.com/. More lawyers and doctors: After finishing his first year of law school at NYU, Jed Weiner headed to D.C. to serve as the legal intern on the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. During the second half of the summer and part of the fall of 2000, Jed worked as a judicial intern to Judge John Sprizzo of the Southern District of New York. This summer, Jed will be a summer associate at the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore. Demetre Daskalakis lives in Boston and is a resident in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of the Harvard teaching hospitals. He has accepted the job of chief medical resident for 2002-03. He graduated from NYU med school in 1999. Thanks for all the updates, and please keep the news coming!
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