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CLASS NOTES
Michael Hausig Harold Cohen competed in the transplant games in Orlando and was on the second team of the volleyball squad that won the gold medal. He also participated in a 3K race in Epcot. He proudly reports that Team Philadelphia won the most medals of any team in the world. Harold plans to attend the 40th reunion in June. Bob Salman joined the law firm of Duane, Morris & Heckscher in January as a senior litigation partner in their New York office. He will continue his practice of complex corporate and civil litigation and litigation prevention. Eugene Milone continues as co-director of the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory of the University of Calgary. His wife, Helen, has retired for the fifth time. His son, Bart, is a captain with United Airlines and lives in Chicago. Their daughter, Marie, lives in Calgary, and Eugene's mother, age 102, lives with them. Tony Mountain is still a professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State in California. Tony writes that it is a very interdisciplinary school and the best job in the world. After 30 years he can't give it up, even though all his friends are retiring. Ira S. Novak, a member of the law firm of Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, has been included in The Best Lawyers in America 2001-2002. Ira's practice is devoted principally to health care and hospital law and related matters. Ira has been general counsel for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey since 1976. In addition, he has practiced extensively in real estate, land development, commercial and insolvency matters. Ira lives in East Brunswick, N.J. Bob Pollack would like to see the 40th reunion be the best yet. At the 25th, he was Dean of the College and though it was great, he could not entirely enjoy the moment. So let's fulfill his wish!
Ed Pressman On November 16, 2000 our classmate and football captain, Bill Campbell, was the recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award (see pages 32-33). It was a wonderfully celebrative evening in Low Rotunda, and our class was well represented. During the cocktail hour I was able to share greetings with many 1962 fellow graduates. It was great meeting with Paul Alter, Salim Dallal, Burt Lehman, Jerry Speyer, Leo Swergold and Stan Waldbaum. Without getting into too many details, all were doing well and some were already into their second careers. Dinner began promptly at 7:00. Many of our classmates were able to sit together and share old and new times. I was seated with Gerry De Bonis, George Abodeely and Peter Krulewitch, and there were many discussions about events when we were students that really did bring back old times. It felt great being a young man with little responsibility again. The 1961 Ivy League Champion football team was also well represented to pay tribute to their friend and teammate. Ed Little, Lee Black and Tom Vasell were present with their families and having a wonderful time bringing up old memories. It was terrific seeing Tom Haggerty and Buzz Congram again. Tom is a corporate CFO working and living in the Buffalo, N.Y. area. He is in great shape and enjoying his life and career. Buzz is a successful crew coach at Northeastern University in Boston and is currently living in Concord, Mass. The festivities began with Russ Warren, co-chair with Al Butts '64, introducing Bill. Russ highlighted Bill's extraordinary leadership qualities and commitment to success. After comments by Dean Austin Quigley and President George Rupp, Bill began his remarks. He constantly stressed the contributions of his teammates and classmates to his success. He also talked about his experience as head football coach at Columbia during the '70s, and how those years, although not successful record-wise, molded some of the traits that surely aided him in his marvelous business career in the software field. The entire speech was heartfelt, and speaking for all of us at the table, we were extremely proud to call Bill friend and classmate. The evening ended with some quite humorous remarks from Al Butts as well as a tribute presented by a bagpipe ensemble. Although I was unable to talk with them, also present from our class were Sandy Greenberg and Peter Yatrakis, who was there with his lovely wife, Kathryn, the College's dean of academic affairs. All in all it was an evening that all of us from 1962 will view with great fondness.
Sidney P. Kadish As the cold winds of winter blow, it is good to curl up before the fire and read about the progress of classmates. Of course, many of us have gone south to warmer climes, but still a good read at poolside is a comfort and a joy. Mark Ramee from Springfield, Va. retired from the foreign service on October 1, having begun work there on April Fool's Day, 1965. "State was my 13th job (counting John Jay Dining Hall, etc.) but a very lucky one, including tours at our embassy in Moscow (twice), in Warsaw during martial law, with ACDA for the SALT endgame, at the White House as Lloyd Cutter's special assistant, at State as Max Kampelman's executive assistant, on Capital Hill with the Helsinki Commission, at Harvard for a year's fellowship, and in Washington and Geneva as the Deputy U.S. Commissioner for implementing the START and INF Treaties. Last spring I also got married (Diane is a mental health counselor, but she said yes anyway) and our extended family includes her four adult daughters and their families. I also sold my house; moved; attended two of my sons' weddings; and learned that my third son and his wife are making me a grampa again. Maybe at some point, I'll have time to reflect on what I'd like to do when I grow up." Another missive came from Richard Goldwater, the psychiatrist formerly known as Wass: "After medical school and psychiatric residency, I underwent hipoid metaplasia, culminating in marriage to a communist. Two children later, she transformed into a Democrat, and we divorced. Our sons are at college, and I continue to practice psychotherapy among the intelligentsia in Newton, Mass., successfully enough not to accept managed care. However, my book re-theorizing psychotherapy in the language of modern science and the spirit of the Socratic method, entitled Maieutics, has never been completed. We hope that the holiday season went well, and the rest of the winter passes warmly and in comfort.
Norman Olch Columbia triumphed over Dartmouth at Homecoming, but the only classmates in evidence to savor the victory were Howard Jacobson and Jonathan Cole. Jane and Ivan Weissman held a baby naming ceremony for Julia at a synagogue in Manhattan. Among those attending were Gil Kahn, Steve Singer and Howard Jacobson. Class writers: Merv Rothstein, who is an editor in the real estate section of The New York Times, wrote a fine piece in the Times' Education Life supplement entitled, "Columbia Revisited: A New Generation." Forty years after our freshman orientation, Merv spent a week with the Class of 2004 comparing notes. He found the first-years a highly diverse group compared to us, but despite the changes reported he was pleased that the Core Curriculum remains intact. Phillip Lopate is prolific. Last column I reported that he wrote the introduction to Bridge of Dreams: The Rebirth of the Brooklyn Bridge. Now I can report that he edited and wrote the introduction to The Art of the Essay: The Best of 1999. Mike Wallace, our Pulitzer Prize winner in history in 1998, will head the new Gotham Center for New York City History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Jerry Oster writes from Chapel Hill, N.C., that he will be an international guest artist next summer in Hamburg, Germany, at the invitation of that city's culture board. Jerry's 17th novel has been published in Germany with the title Versuchung in Rot (Desire in Red). He has just finished his first play and is working on another. Finally, note my e-mail address above. Use it. Your classmates want to hear from you.
Leonard B. Pack Rick Shuart compliments the rest of us with the following note: "I appreciate the College more today than 30 years ago-and the same is true for my classmates-they (we've) improved with age like good wine." Rick's son, Frederick H. Shuart III, graduated from the College in 1996. Steve Strobach is the manager for grants and sponsorship of PLAN International (Childreach) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "Greetings from Latin America," he writes. "My spouse, Naty, and I have lived here for most of the past 23 years, working in human development and assistance programs in a number of countries. We enjoy living overseas, especially working in support of self-help efforts among the poor to improve their future. We hope to contribute in this way to a more just, and eventually, peaceful world." No news from classmates whose names do not begin with the letter "S." Please keep the information flowing.
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