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CLASS NOTES

Class of 1996

Ana S. Salper
c/o Columbia College Today
475 Riverside Drive,
Suite 917
New York, NY 10115
asalper@brobeck.com



1996 Reunion Class Photo

Happy fall, people! I was hoping to see many of you at our reunion in May, but alas, '96 was sorely lacking in reunion representation. It's a shame, really — it's always fun to run into people you've forgotten over the years but whom you always enjoyed seeing around campus. I was pleased to see some familiar faces — Susannah Vance, who is in the midst of applying to law school; Mike Kadish, who just graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard with a master's of public policy; Mirella Cheeseman, who recently began working in development at Crossroads, a new film production company started by Bingham Ray, ex-president of October Films; and Julie Satow, who was promoted to managing editor of Corporate Financing Week, a publication owned by Institutional Investor magazine. Also in attendance (not all were present for the class photo) were Ben Donner, Rebecca Prime, Moha Desai, Jennifer Fischbein, Uchenna Acholonu, Geremy Kawaller, Barbara Antonucci, Lara Bazelon, Matt Lasner, Lisa Courtney, Leila Kazemi, Jill Szuchmacher, Nelson Jaeggli '97 and Melissa Gajarsa. Melissa just got engaged to her longtime boyfriend Matt — congratulations to you, Melissa! Nelson, who is attending P&S, recently married Erika Moravec '99 — congratulations to you both. Incidentally, for all you ex-COÖP-ers, Nelson and Erika's romance was ignited during that hikefest we all remember so fondly. Their marriage took place in Baltimore, and was officiated by one of Columbia's most notable professors, Peter Awn.

Britta Jacobson will be graduating from Harvard Law School in December, and will move to London to work for Sullivan & Cromwell. Maya Gorton recently graduated from NYU with a master's in interactive telecommunications, and is interested in working as an installation artist.

Alex Vlack is married to Julia von Eikle, Barnard '96, and is making documentaries about Chinese immigrants in the United States. Jeremiah Crowell is traveling in South Asia doing yoga in India and producing documentaries in Thailand, and Sam Lankton is working for The New York Times. After several years of exporting lawnmowers to China and a failed dot.com, Jeremy Craig has settled in Singapore. He has started his own company doing SAT and GMAT preparation. He is in touch with Chris Callahan, who lives close by in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but he is looking to get in touch with other alums in the region. Jeremy is also interested in hiring instructors who would like to teach on a contract basis in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. If anyone would like to contact Jeremy, he can be reached at jercraig@yahoo.com.

Ashish Raval is a software tester at a startup company in Cambridge, Mass. He reports that Phuong Hong Phan is in Chicago working as an architect at Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and recently got married to someone she met at Penn's Graduate School of Architecture. David Thompson is a Webmaster at the San Francisco Opera House, Melvin Lew '96E and Patrick Pan '98E work in the technology department at Goldman Sachs in New York, Fausan Tsai is a medical student at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Hong Quan is in San Francisco working at 1stup.com, and Michael Maldonado has been working with kids at a camp in North Carolina and may be heading to Europe to work on various organic farms. Bryonn Bain is at NYU Law School, Lila Jeremy Mills is a reporter in Cleveland and Sandhya Nankani works for the College of New Rochelle.

Kayoko Kanari was married to B.J. Tevelow last September at Tavern on the Green in New York. Amy Weiss, Andrea Bond and Dennis Chang '96E were among the bridal party. Ed Sadtler, who is an attorney at Skadden Arps, also attended the wedding. Kayoko is currently an equity analyst for a hedge fund at Moore Capital Management in New York, Amy is an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia, Andrea works as a reporter for CBS in Las Vegas and Dennis is a consultant for Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting). Kayoko and her husband were also in the bridal party for Andrea and Dennis, who got married last November in Los Angeles. John Fitzgibbons was one of the groomsmen. Kayoko can be reached at kkayoko@yahoo.com.

And that concludes this issue's notes. Now that the '80s are "back," I thought I'd leave you all with this throwback: "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." Ronald Reagan said it during a radio microphone test, 1984. Farewell, and keep the news coming!

Class of 1997

Sarah Katz
The Wellington
135 South 19th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
srk12@columbia.edu

I am sad to report that Randy Murff, co-captain of the 1996 Columbia football team, was killed when the F-16 fighter jet he was piloting crashed just south of Seoul, Korea. Condolences to his family and friends.

Jennifer Northrop is currently in her fourth year of medical school at Sackler School of Medicine (American Program) in Tel Aviv, Israel. She will be living in Manhattan this coming fall and winter to do her fourth-year electives in NYC hospitals, and will graduate in May 2002. She will be specializing in internal medicine and applying for residencies at NYC hospitals. She writes that it has been wonderful to live in Israel for the last three years, but she is looking forward to being back in the States and reconnecting with friends/family.

Congratulations to Hans Chen and Sandie Angulo '98, who were married June 2 in Harrisburg, Pa. John Moss was an usher. John finished his second year at Minnesota Law School and spent the summer in New York as an associate at Kirkpatrick and Lockhart. Also in attendance was Julie Yufe '98, Graham Goodkin and Laura Chittick. Helen Imatome Jeoung got married in March. She and her husband, Bum Jun Jeoung, moved to Vancouver, B.C., where they are graduate students in linguistics and translation.

Nathaniel Bryant Mayfield played principal trumpet with the Des Moines Metro Opera this summer. He is engaged to marry Ulrike Steck in Germany; they met at Finbar in NYC in 1997. Next year he will teach and play trumpet in Austin, Texas.

Four classmates have finished their studies at Mt. Sinai Medical School and are doing their residencies: Ron Lee is in internal medicine at Mount Sinai, Sheeva Talebian is Ob/Gyn at NYU, Tjoiya Spetsieris is in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and Natie Fox is Ob/Gyn at Mount Sinai.

Nick Syrett is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at Michigan; he loathes Ann Arbor and looks forward to moving back to New York once he starts work on his dissertation. Jeremy Kay lives in San Francisco, where he's getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience at UCSF. He is studying how fish see. Mia Tran is working and shooting for the Times, living in the Slope solo, traveling to safe and not so safe parts of the world, and trying to cook more. Danny Voloch is finishing up a master's in English at Brown and will be moving back to New York in the fall to teach. Dan Michaelson is at Yale School of Art getting a graduate degree in graphic design. Philip Alberti is returning to Columbia for the Ph.D. sociomedical sciences program (public health/psych) in the fall.

Swati Khurana is entering her third year of marriage, second year of living in Brooklyn, and had her first solo exhibition of new works in sculpture, and installation, at the A/P/A Gallery of NYU (where she is finishing her M.A.). Christa Lee Rock (who graduated in Feb. '98) is back from newspapering in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is plying the trade now in New Haven, where she covers federal courts and neighborhood issues (think: "City" section) for the New Haven Register. Close confidants of Joe Lelyveld can e-mail job tips to keekrock@hotmail.com. Boris Kachka is living in Brooklyn and is a writer/editor/slave at New York Magazine. Rebecca Braverman is living near former classmate (and current lawyer) Avideh Moussavian in what she likes to call Shabby Gramercy, working as the shopping editor at Citysearch.com and going to too many sample sales. Rachel Adame has launched a marketing promotions company, Spin Sisters Productions (www.spinsisters.com), and filmed a documentary about the East Village. Ofemi Brown-Harris is a human resource associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Joshua Ross is leaving the United States to teach English for a year in Korea.

Michael Gorman spent three years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (two years in NYC, one in Chicago) and a year on the business side of a small Internet software development firm in downtown Chicago. Chad Herst will be in Thailand this summer meeting up with Heather McGeory, Barnard '97. Raji Kalra is living in Boston and working for a small consulting company called eFORCE. She left Accenture in NYC last year to try a smaller company and different city. Jyoti Khullar is still living in Manhattan and working for Merrill Lynch (has been since we graduated). Naveena Ponnusamy is also living in Manhattan (the Village) and working at Edelman (PR firm). Kavita Kumar is at the Law School and will be entering her final year in the fall. Michael Capra is enjoying a low-key summer and seeing his Sammy brothers from time to time. Karen Lee graduated from Fordham Law in May 2000, survived the bar exam, and has been working as a litigation associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in NYC. She will be traveling to New Zealand in August. She sometimes sees Kerri Bauchner at the Broadway Dance Center where they both take classes.

David Greene, Christopher Barbour and Sadarias Harrel have launched a new record label. FeelingZone Entertainment, dedicated to delivering enduring house music fused with elements of hip-hop, r&b, gospel and rock, recently held its launch party at Manhattan hotspot, Filter14. The party, which drew more than 300 industry notables and fans, celebrated the success of the label's first single, "Fighting Gravity." The crowd was kept on the dance floor by mixes from guest DJ Rich Woods along with FZ managing partners Nissim Karpenstein and Chris Barbour. Dance music veterans and scene luminaries in attendance at the celebration were Ramon Wells and Jessica O'Connor of dot dot dot records, Duffy Macri of Intrepid Music, Greg Young, Mauricio Mena and Nancy Schwartzman.

Daphna Gutman has left her job at KBC Financial Products and will be teaching elementary school in East New York in the fall, as part of the NYC Teaching Fellows Program.

Sharon Rhein was married on September 3, 2000, to Eric Steiglitz '96L in Boston. The Columbia alums in the wedding party were: Igor Kirman '96L, best man; Aaron Turnof '98B, groomsman; Yelena Dudochkin '98, maid of honor; Sarah Toas, bridesmaid; and Rachel Paquin, Barnard '97, bridesmaid. Other Columbia alums in attendance were Maura O'Neill '96, Michael Fleischer '93, Jeremy Feinberg '92, Catherine (Reibman) Williams '96, Brian White '96, Stacey (Feigenbaum) Turnof '94, Galina (Krosilovksy) Kirman '96L, Dee Hughes-Moore '96L, Dora DePaolis '96L, Jeremy Kasha '96L, Scott Gluck '96L, Antone Johnson '96L, David Zlotchew '96L and Ethan Zlotchew '96L. Sharon is an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Eric is an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. They live in New York. Maid of honor Dudochkin notes, "Sharon looked absolutely stunning, a gorgeous and radiant bride. Eric and Sharon looked blissful as they exchanged their vows. The wedding was elegant and beautiful, the flowers exquisite, and everyone had a fabulous time. The band played on until the early hours of the morning. It was an unforgettable weekend."

Thanks to all of you who wrote in, particularly for the first time. And for those of you that haven't written yet, please drop me a line!

Class of 1998

Sandra P. Angulo Chen
171 Clermont Avenue
Apt. 5A
Brooklyn, NY 11205
spa76@yahoo.com

Let me once again begin the notes with wedding news: Dennis Machado is engaged to Amy DeMaso. They plan a December wedding in Queens. Dennis graduated from NYU Law in May and starts working for Fried Frank in September. In addition to planning his wedding, Dennis spent the summer studying for the bar. His wedding party will include Elliot Han, who works at Credit Suisse First Boston and lives in a "nice pad" on the Upper East Side; Eric Castillo, who works at Bear Stearns and lives in Hoboken, N.J.; and Mike Rusignola '98E.

Adam Nguyen starts his third year at Harvard Law this fall, after spending the first year after graduation working at the Department of Justice in Washington. Last spring, he lived on the same floor as Brandon VanDyke, a former Hartley suitemate. Also at HLS were Matt Ahn, Mary Corley and Jordan Konig, among others, although some may have already graduated. Jeremy Kamras, for one, is now a first-year associate at Sullivan and Cromwell. While at school, Adam volunteered at the Legal Aid Bureau with Lea Miller and Alejandra Montenegro. This past summer, Adam worked for an American law firm in London.

Adam also brings news of non-HLS students: Peter Thornton lives in the Village, and Jeff Lehmberg completed his two-year stint with Teach for America and is in NYC auditioning for acting parts. Robert Crea works at Lehman Brothers in the equity research division.

The Nguyen News doesn't end in NYC. Last April, Adam went to Vietnam to visit Nam Nguyen, who was finishing her Fulbright Fellowship there. She had previously worked as an investment banker at Robertson Stephens in New York. She will be joining Adam at Harvard this fall, but in the business school. Adam's travel buddies included Celeste Lum '98E, Abigail Lorge (who still works at NBC Sports covering everything from the Olympics to Wimbledon), and Megan Mulligan (whom, as I mentioned in the last Notes, writes for Forbes.com). While in Vietnam, the Columbia crew bumped into Jen Lou and Lisa Milton on separate occasions. Both were traveling with their respective families. Thanks again, Adam!

And as if you hadn't heard enough about Harvard at this point, Amol Sarva writes that Meaghan McLaine is headed there to start Law School. Meaghan used to live down the street from Amol in San Francisco, where she worked at Juno Online Services. Amol is currently president of the Columbia Alumni Club of Northern California, a term he will serve until December. In June, Amol finished his third year in the philosophy Ph.D. program at Stanford. He plans to return to NYC in 2002 to complete his dissertation "on some conceptual issues in foundational cognitive science."

According to Amol, Brooklynite Tom Sanford is "fitter than a fiddle and working hard painting a series of rap star pietas in his Bushwick loft." Joe Master finished a two-year stint in Germany for Goldman Sachs and is spending six months traveling around Europe and North Africa. Then it's back to NYC for Joe, who will either head back to Wall Street, or, Amol claims, write a novel.

Finally, my good friend Julie Yufe took the plunge and started business school this fall at Yale. She says her sorority sister Reena Russell is at Harvard (there's that word again) Business School. Shira Schnitzer, who completed her master's in modern history at Oxford University, is continuing her studies there. She is now researching her doctoral thesis throughout England, Israel, and Lithuania.

Well, that's the news from '98. Please note my address change, and continue to send me your updates at spa76@yahoo.com

Class of 1999

Charles S. Leykum
41 River Terrace
Apt. #3404
New York, NY 10282
csl22@columbia.edu

Thanks to those who sent me updates over the past few months. But first I want to report on two outings that some of our classmates enjoyed last spring. On Friday, March 30, a number of us saw Puccini's Tosca at the N.Y. City Opera at Lincoln Center. The performance was fantastic. Also, as a part of reunion weekend in May, the CC Young Alumni Association hosted a party for recent grads at the Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown and the Class of '99 had a strong showing, with the largest turnout among the young alumni classes. I think everyone had a great time at this event as well. And now on to our individual updates:

Dave Kwon is living in La Jolla, Calif. and starting his third year at UC-San Diego School of Medicine. After taking the first round of boards in June, Dave is in the hospital already treating patients. Peter Kung just entered his third year at Northwestern Med, as did Amee Shah at SUNY Stony Brook. Congratulations to Eleisa Hricko, who on July 21 was married to Patrick Coster. Caitlin Tso and Lauren Rosenberg were bridesmaids, and Juliana Sanchez and Laura De Girolami '00 were in attendance.

Mike Erman has become a news associate at Reuters, where Dan Sorid is a reporter. Diego Perez finished his OTC training program at UBS Warburg and will attend the Johnson School of Management at Cornell this fall.

Please e-mail with any and all updates. Classmates definitely want to hear how you're doing, so please keep in touch. We're going to plan another event this fall, perhaps around this year's homecoming, which is against Penn on Saturday, October 13.

Class of 2000

Prisca Bae
1832 N. Veitch Street
Apt. #1
Arlington, VA 22201
Pb134@columbia.edu

One year officially has passed since graduation, and I'm happy to report that I'm still receiving updates on your lives. Please keep them coming!

Many of you are returning to academia. Eric Yellin is beginning graduate studies at Princeton, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in history. After spending the last year in Houston, Naomi Fung is returning to New York to begin her master's in architechture at Columbia. Lainy Destin is moving to Montreal to pursue a master of arts in political science (international politics) at McGill. She invites all friends to visit her in the city she loves so much. Meanwhile, Lainy reports that Andrew Bednarzik and Deborah Zimmer are in Boston. Deborah is obtaining her master's in public health at Boston University, teaching Kaplan test prep courses, and applying to medical schools. She hopes to begin medical school after receiving her MPH in 2002. Lainy adds that Phoebe Goode '00E is "representin' up at all of the Harvard grad school parties" that she has attended.

Also returning to academia is Alicia Pentz-Lopez. However, rather than return as a student, Alicia returns as an administrator! She has just been named associate director of development at UC Irvine. Congrats!

Over the summer, Bram Raphael received a Gold Foundation Grant to study public health in Havana, Cuba. Bram hoped to improve his Spanish as well as his dance moves before returning to his second year at NYU Med.

Chris Sandersfield was transferred from Manhattan to London by Salomon Smith Barney. He is an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions division. He ran into a flock of Columbia grads at a party for Juliet Ross awhile back, including Dan Burstein, Laurie Marhoefer, Leslie Ziivin, Eric Yellin, Megan Eliot, Don Saelinger and Leah Vickers.

In contrast, Joesph (Yosie) Levine returns to the United States after a year in Berlin, where he was involved in Jewish education and outreach at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. After spending the summer volunteering for the Sierra Club in Los Angeles, he will begin a rabbinic ordination program at Yeshiva University as a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

Finally, roommate (or former roommate, I should now say) Rashmi Menon has left me and my cat, Salmon, for greener pastures. After spending the summer in New York with Heidi Yeung, Rashmi heads off to California to begin medical school at UCLA. Heidi, meanwhile, successfully completed her first year of med school in Vancouver and spent the summer doing AIDS research.

I am attempting to track down as many of you as possible in the D.C. area. We are planning many great events for young alums, so please e-mail me at if you are here or planning to move here! That's it for now, so until next time... take good care!

Class of 2001

Jonathan Gordin
303 W. 66th Street
Apt. 6A-West
New York, NY 10023
jrg53@columbia.edu

Greetings CC'01 — I'm sure it has been a whirlwind couple of months for all of you. Whether you've been traveling, working or just relaxing, I'm sure you've noticed the change from the day-to-day pressures of college life to the unique pressures of the real world. Congratulations on your newfound freedom!

A few of our classmates have tied the knot! Susan Pereira married Darren Wilsey on June 2. The wedding was held at her parents' home in Laguna Beach, Calif. Susan was surrounded by nearly a dozen of her closest Columbia friends. The very happy couple — who met at 1020 — have settled comfortably in the Columbia area. Robin Yerkes married John Horton on July 9 at her parents' home in Connecticut. John is a 2001 West Point graduate. Robin and John will live in Germany for the next few years and look forward to traveling in Europe together.

Some classmates have decided to stay in the Columbia area and reap further benefits from our favorite college haunts. Benjamin Ryan will work for the New York Observer and live near Columbia. Dave Matteini, who is working for UBS Warburg, is also living near Columbia with Vipin Kalra '01E and Ric Viloria '01E. For the summer, Jeff Senter lived in EC and was "underemployed," looking for more exciting opportunities as an entry-level programmer.

Sterling Mah works at Tiffany & Co. and lives with Avrielle Gallagher and Adrienne Sadeghi-Nejad on the Upper East Side. Avrielle is working as Conan O'Brien's personal assistant.

Yojairy Sanchez will do ministry work for the non-denominational church she attends, leading a congregation of women on the East Side. She looks forward to a "very fun and fulfilling" experience.

Ariel Neuman spent the summer traveling through Europe, resting up before starting Harvard Law School in the fall. Joining him there will be Jordan Hirsch and Miriam Benor. Also traveling were Marla Goodman and Kim Harris, who embarked on an exciting trip to Greece and Turkey. Marla is living with the fabulous Jamie Rubin, Barnard '01, in the West Village and begins law school next fall. Kim will join Deloitte Consulting and has kept her apartment in Hell's Kitchen.

Jemal Graham will be working for JP Morgan Chase in their private banking division. After graduation, he vacationed in Hawaii and L.A. before settling back into the comforts of his Queens home. Vijay Mohan spent the summer traveling to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Puerto Rico and Portland. He moved into a new apartment in Tribeca and is working for Goldman, Sachs. Also joining Goldman are Sheldon Wong and Jason Cuttler. Jason is enjoying his apartment in beautiful Brooklyn Heights.

Bree Akesson has joined the Peace Corps as a public health volunteer in Kenya, where she will remain for about two years. Liz Griffith has moved into an apartment in Park Slope and will be working as a marketing coordinator for Total Asset Planning in Midtown. John Balonze will remain in New York and hold two jobs: one as a program assistant for the Association of the Bar of New York and another as a research assistant for a yet to be released book about the U.N.

Marissa Berman has relocated to San Francisco. Joining her on the west coast is Miles Berger, who will begin an M.D./Ph.D. program at UC-San Francisco. Miles spent the summer traveling through Europe with David Dobkin '01E and Lorin Scher, meeting up with other Columbians along the way. The travelers particularly recommend Barcelona and said of their trip: "We had ambitious plans of cultural activities that went unfulfilled." Tom Hughes spent part of the summer touring America with Rachel Bloom, Barnard '01, and has settled back in Berkeley where he is looking for a job teaching in the Bay Area. Uptown Vocalites Emily Burkes-Nossiter and Israel Gordan also pursued road trips of their own. Izzy ended his on the West Coast, where he worked as a head counselor at Camp Ramah in Ojai, Calif.

Becca Siegel returns to school in the fall teaching freshman and senior English classes at Xavier High School in Manhattan. James Langstine will join Becca at Xavier, where he will teach English and coach track. Becca's roommate in a Yorkville apartment is Eri Kaneko, who works as a paralegal at Constantine and Partners, a law firm specializing in anti-trust cases.

Eunice Rho is also paralegaling in Manhattan, where she is employed at Cravath, Swaine, and Moore. Joe Rezek is enjoying his apartment slightly uptown from Columbia and working at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been hanging out with Stacy Lozner as she gets ready to begin Law School in the fall. Tina Chae, Joe's RA from Schapiro 3, is researching at Mount Sinai.

Jenny Tubridy headed to Ireland for six months on a Columbia fellowship to work and live in Dublin. Sara Batterton, Andrew Gawerc, Michelle Braun and Cristine Maisano are in Dublin on the same program. Jackie Burke is also in Dublin. Elsewhere in Europe are classmates Emily Huters, in Germany on a fellowship at the DAAD, a publicly funded self-governing organization of higher education institutions in Germany, and Dan Feldman, who is in Poland doing research at the on-site memorial and museum at Auschwitz. Dan's trip to Warsaw this summer coincided with President Bush's visit, and Dan had the opportunity to meet and greet several key members of the administration including Colin Powell and Ari Fleisher.

Anjan Mishra did some traveling and started work as a project manager in the revenue division of the City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation. Billy Kingsland started work the week after graduation at Russell & Volkening, Inc., a small literary agency on 29th Street. He lives with Sarah Rosenbaum and Annie Lainer in the East Village. Sarah and Annie work at the Manhattan District Attorney's office, though Annie spent the summer working at Camp Alonim, outside of her native Los Angeles. Also at the DA's office are Rebecca Mermelstein and Susie Cowen, living on the Upper West Side and in Park Slope, respectively.

Nancy Perla is remaining on the Upper East Side and looking for a job in media. She spent a relaxing summer with her friend, Dina Epstein, who headed to Israel in August for a year of work, study and play. Paul Munson is teaching in Mississippi. Molly Kovel is working for Human Rights Watch for the summer. Seth Kotch is working two jobs in his native North Carolina before heading to Italy this fall. Spec buddy Dan Laidman is working as a staff reporter for the Des Moines Register and living in (where else?) Des Moines.

Kathy Chang lived it up Manhattan style for the summer on the Upper East Side. Eric Lane and Paul Getto are living together in the West Village. Wadad Cortas is living in Chelsea and working in finance. David Shapiro is living on Claremont Ave. and is busy selling his art. Tina Alexander is back in her native Ithaca. Jeff Lee worked at the Cooper Hewitt Museum for the summer and was apartment hunting downtown. Matt King is living near the UN and begins work in corporate consulting in the fall.

Beth Morales was in Hong Kong for the summer and will begin her Ph.D. program in political science at Cal-Berkeley in the fall. David Rease, Jr. is pursuing a master's degree in teaching from Duke. Fellow Carman RA Andrew Pyo is pursuing a master's degree in statistics from Columbia.

Laura Cometa and Seth Morris begin Teach For America this fall in Los Angeles. Jake Hart traveled in Russia for the summer. Peter Zuspan is putting his major in architecture to good use at both his job at an architecture firm in TriBeCa and in building rooms in his loft on the Lower East Side.

Margot Nathan is living in the East Village with Elise Cowgill, who is working in investment banking in Greenwich, Conn., and with Hank Shteamer, who is teaching in the Bronx. Cheryl Chang moved back to her native Los Angeles and is freelance writing. Joyce Chou was also in Los Angeles for the summer. Olivia Howard is living in New York and working at McKinsey Consulting in New Jersey. Anna Chodos will be working in a lab in San Francisco.

On a closing note, I had the pleasure of seeing some of our class at the Hammerstein Ballroom Young Alumni event on June 1, part of the reunion weekend festivities. In attendance were Janice Mok, Rena Seth, John Balonze, Damon Harjanto, Dave Matteini and Matt Winters. Matt worked for the Bridgeport Design Group over the summer, developing an urban planning study on downtown Bridgeport, Conn.

That's it for now. Please bear with me since this is my first official column. If I made a mistake describing your plans, please correct me. If you didn't see your name, please write to me. I'd really like to hear from everybody in '01 — please write lots, and write often. Looking forward to hearing from you soon, and best of luck to you all.

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