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CLASS NOTES
Robert
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Jeremy Feinberg Hi everybody. I have a light mailbag this time. Drop me a line or an e-mail (and please note the new e-mail address) and I promise, it will all get into the column. It’s just the way I am … Alexandra Hershdorfer, who has been a faithful correspondent across the years, wrote shortly after reunion to pass along compliments to her classmates: “Those who attended reunion, for the most part, had not aged a day since graduation. Everyone looked great! I was very impressed with the diversity of careers that folks had launched, especially the number of forays into creative fields such as music, writing and fine art.” Alexandra is an attorney at a mid-sized civil litigation firm in the Bay Area. She asked me to forward her e-mail (ahershdorfer@bbhhr.com) particularly for those CC ’92ers in the Bay Area. John Vagelatos and I just completed three-day terms as faculty members at the Law School, helping to teach the “Profession of Law” course to third-year law students. Suffice to say, there’s something special about returning to campus with even a temporary mantle of “teacher.” That, and walking out onto the Low Steps on a warm late-summer day and surveying campus as if you never left, are the sorts of things that can’t help but keep us all going. My call for remembrances of Leon Fan led to some more correspondence. I received a nice e-mail from Shawn Lese who, like the rest of us, was absolutely shocked at Leon’s sudden passing. Shawn Landres ’94 also wrote, recollecting that Leon (who, like Shawn, attended the Harvard School in Los Angeles) was instrumental in helping him adjust to life on the East Coast and at Columbia. “To be sure, many people did the same thing, but Leon did it with his own low-key but unmistakable style: a greeting, a wave in passing on Van Am Quad, a roll of the eyes in a CCSC meeting … ” I look forward to having more to report next time. I hope that all is well with you, and that there is good news to pass along.
Elena Cabral It’s time. Perhaps you thought you could avoid the inevitable. As though Britney and Bush and reality TV weren’t enough to remind you that the ’90s are over, so is Ferris Booth Hall. The good news is that a great bunch of people are laboring away to make Reunion Weekend 2003 the best party around. The dates are May 29–June 1. While you consider your age and frequent flier miles, here’s some other good news: Athea Beaton Ducard and Malik Ducard ’95 greeted the birth of their son, Harrison Alexander Ducard, on August 5. On May 24, Aileen Torres-Martin married Jason T. Martin, a 1993 graduate of the Newhouse School of Syracuse University. The couple celebrated in what sounded like a beautiful religious and multi-cultural ceremony that included the exchange of the arras and the lasso in the Colombian tradition. It also featured salsa dancing afterward. For the uninitiated, the arras are gold coins meant to symbolize prosperity or security, and the lasso, often placed around the bride and the groom, symbolizes unity — all you ever need. The maid of honor was Linda Ayala, someone who Aileen figures was a wedding planner in a former life for all that she did to make the nuptials a success. Also at the wedding were Kerry Ogle, Karla Morales ’94 and her husband, Michael McGarry. Marco Cavagna ’94 and his wife, Christine, were unable to attend, as Marco was graduating from an M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland. Aileen and Jason spent two weeks honeymooning in Spain and Portugal, visiting cathedrals and Moorish castles, having a wonderful time, and naturally, still missing New York. Aileen is forming a corporation that will provide speech-language, physical and occupational therapy for young children in Nassau County and New York City. Matthew Henry is leaving his job as director of youth services at the Mexican-American Community Services Agency in San Jose, Calif., to be the associate executive director at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA in San Diego. As part of the reunion preparations, I was forwarded a list of classmates who are out there, somewhere, but for whom there is, sadly, no contact info. Please let us know where you are. If you know one of these people, drop them a line and ask them to let us know how to fill them in on reunion news. They are Matthew Bond, Christina Chai, Meghan Connolly, Justin Evans, Leyre Goitia, Corina Guzman, Duane Hebert, Gary Heidt, Matthew Mosca, Gretch Mull, Kevin Robinson, Amanda Schachter, Sebastian Sears, Alisa Shen, Rebecca Shulman, Jason Smith, Kate Steinhacker, Asantewa Tafari, Vittorio Veltroni, Eleonore Zetrenne and Adam Zutler. I’m sure those of you in the New York area will receive periodic notices on reunion planning meetings. As for the rest of you, get ready.
Leyla Kokmen Congratulations to Elliot Regenstein, who married Emily Paster on May 26. The two started dating during law school at the University of Michigan, and Elliot calls his new wife “fantastic in every way despite being a Princeton alum (Class of 1996).” Among the passel of Columbia alumni at the wedding were Stephanie Geosits, Mike Stanton ’95, Adam Epstein ’95, Melissa Harris ’95 Barnard and Dawn Emsellem ’95 Barnard. Elliot and Emily live in Chicago, where they plan to settle. Elliot practices local government law at the Chicago office of Holland & Knight. Imara Jones has been appointed director of the initiative on HIV/AIDS at Viacom, where he joined the corporate relations department more than a year ago. In his new position, Imara will coordinate the company’s multi-year campaign on HIV/AIDS, which is scheduled to launch in January 2003. Philip Greenspan finished a year as chief resident of internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is starting a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. A new alumni club was recently formed in Portland, Ore., and Tony
Ambroza asks all interested alumni to e-mail him at ala9 And finally, the following comes from Rob Gaudet: “I recently graduated from Stanford Law School, where I enjoyed the company of Gene Mazo ’95 and happily shared an antitrust class with Andrew Bautista ’00 and a civil procedure class with Chris Glaros ’95. I frequently bumped into ubermensch Jenik Radon ’67, who taught a course on privatization. In addition, Jenik recently hosted a party in Palo Alto with a smattering of CC alumni, such as Amanda Kahn ’95 and Cheryl Thomae Viirand ’95 Barnard. All of the above-mentioned students were Eesti fellows at Columbia. “But here’s why I am writing. The other day, I was stopped by a campus bicyclist who noticed my Columbia University Marching Band t-shirt. He said he’d exchanged t-shirts with a Columbia student when he was a member of the University of Virginia marching band. He asked me who our band manager was. I told him it was Joe (last name unknown) ’93. Apparently, Joe’s reign was after this man’s time. “The bicyclist vanished before I could ask him if he knew the answer to the Columbia University Marching Band’s favorite riddle, imprinted on the back of every t-shirt: G(TB)2. Nor did I have the chance to ask if he knew any of the unspeakable formations that we made on the football fields of athletic rivals under the guidance of conductor Rob Perl ’93. “Here at Stanford, there’s a crazy band. It elects someone each year to wear a tree costume (the school symbol) to every game. It’s 10 feet tall and boasts two large eyes and a beaming smile. The tree looks properly stupid when the wearer jumps up and down and kicks out his legs to dance. Still, it does not match the World’s Greatest Band that once took me to such heights of notoriety as Howard Stern’s TV show, where I had my picture taken with Curly of the Harlem Globetrotters. My uncle saw that show on cable years later and recognized my face in the background. Good old days. “I am studying for the Washington State bar exam as preparation for class action litigation with Andrew Volk ’86 in a law firm headquartered in Seattle. I would be happy to hear from classmates at robert_gaudet@yahoo.com and to welcome them to the Pacific Northwest.” Thanks to Rob and everyone else who sent in notes. Until next time!
Janet Frankston I don’t receive many handwritten notes, so I was pleasantly surprised to find one from Emily Hu. It came via CCT, along with a schedule of deadlines for next year. (That’s a hint to you all to send in news!) Emily lives in Palo Alto, Calif., where she is in the middle of her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Stanford. “I’m working very hard,” she writes. “California is refreshing, but I still miss NYC very much.” She can talk about New York with other College alumni in her program: Leah Millheiser ’94 and Bonnie Dwyer ’93. Thanks to Emily for these updates: Jimmy Hu is enjoying his ophthalmology residency at Georgetown; Janhavi (Dabholkar) Bonville lives in San Francisco and is a consultant; Winifred Teng works in dentistry in New York; and Allyson Baker is an attorney in Washington, D.C. Andrew Stettner, who started with our class but graduated in ’94, sends in his first update. He is a policy analyst for the National Employment Law Project, where he is trying to change laws regarding unemployment insurance across the country. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Jeanny Silva ’97 Barnard; they married four years ago. Andy also sent in news about the marriage of Udit Kondal to Shreya Mandal in July. Udit is in medical school in Philadelphia, his wife is in law school in Newark, and they live in Trenton, N.J. Jocelyn Liang and her husband moved to Cambridge, where she started a master’s program in landscape architecture at Harvard. “After spending the last few years in San Francisco, we’re looking forward to being back on the East Coast,” she writes. Finally, it wouldn’t be a class notes column without baby news. Congratulations to Malik Ducard and his wife, Althea Beaton Ducard ’93, who welcomed Harrison Alexander Ducard into the world on August 5. Thanks for the updates and please keep the news coming by e-mail
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