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YOUNG ALUMNI: Real estate executive Abigail Black Elbaum ’92 and Legacy Project founder Andrew Carroll ’93 will be honored with Columbia College Young Alumni Achievement Awards on September 24 in New York.

Elbaum, who earned an M.B.A. from the Business School in 1994, joined Milstein Properties in 1999 after spending five years working at The Chase Manhattan Private Bank. A remarkably active alumna, Elbaum has served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors and as chair of the Hamilton Associates program; she recently was appointed to the College’s Board of Visitors. Carroll, who was profiled in the November 1999 CCT, is best known as the director of the Legacy Project, a not-for-profit, Washington, D.C., body that organizes a national, volunteer effort to seek out and preserve American letters and correspondence. He has edited or co-edited three books: Letters of a Nation (Broadway Books, 1998), In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (Washington Square Press, 2000) and War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (Scribner, 2001).

CCYA, an organization of College alumni within 10 years of graduation, presents the CCYA Achievement Awards to young alumni who have distinguished themselves in any field of endeavor. For more information on the awards ceremony, please contact Adlar García ’95 in the Alumni Office at (212) 870-2786 or ag80@ columbia.edu.

Mark Naison '66 addresses graduates at the Project Double Discovery Commencement in Miller Auditorium.

DOUBLE DISCOVERY: Mark Naison ’66 delivered the keynote address at the Project Double Discovery Commencement, held on May 18 in Miller Auditorium. Naison is a professor of African-American studies and history, director of urban studies at Fordham and the author of White Boy: A Memoir, published earlier this year by Temple University Press. Naison, a counselor, division leader and teacher in the program in the late 1960s, said in his remarks, “I found in Double Discovery a sense of family and community that has remained with me.”

Naison urged the graduates of Double Discovery to set their sights high. “The message I have for you is that when it comes to talent, courage and compassion, when it comes to understanding the kind of society America is and is becoming, you are probably the most impressive group of young people assembled anywhere in the United States … because when you put together a Columbia education with the street smarts and toughness and sensitivity to cultural differences you learn on the streets of New York City, you have an unbeatable combination ... With a Double Discovery education and what you have learned growing up on the streets of New York, there is nothing you can’t accomplish.”