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CLASS NOTES
Alan N. Miller A brief note from your flu-plagued president. Reunion planning is going well. Our last meeting was on Nov. 22 and our next full meeting was scheduled for Feb. 1 at Columbia Engineering, hosted by Mary Healey, a most pleasant woman. After some personal intervention, Grissel Seijo '93 will continue working with our class representing the alumni office, a result that pleases me mightily. The November meeting included information from Mike Spett about the yearbook, including Lenny Wolfe, whose wife we wish well; Larry Gitten from himself and Phil Liebson about the questionnaire; Bob Siroty and Lou Hemmerdinger about the Saturday luncheon activities; and Buzz Paaswell and myself concerning professorial participation. Thanks to Don Morris for help making my class letters funny, to Steve Easton for involving new classmates in the process and Danny Link with his help in considering our class fund-raising goals. Also at the meeting were Bob Hanson '56E, Mary Healey from Engineering, and Grissel Seijo '93 and Chris Long from the alumni office. A few thoughts: Classmates are needed for Saturday morning to discuss, with slides, interesting foreign living experiences. Class dues of $45 should be made out to class of '56 committee, Columbia College, so we can publish another outstanding reunion yearbook. And classmates all around the country should get involved. Contact me with ideas and news, and put aside reunion weekend of June 1-3, 2001 - 45ths don't come around every day. Love and best wishes for a great 2001 to all. And now back to my hot tea and Tylenol.
Herman Levy Gary Angleberger currently serves as associate for stewardship, emeritus. Ernie Atlas is remarried and still actively practicing medicine. He skis, sails, and feels hearty and vigorous. Arthur Baron is now retired but still active. He spends much time traveling and visiting family and friends, including his two grandchildren. Richard Berkson, in addition to a busy forensic psychiatric practice, serves as chief psychiatrist at Corcoran State Prison (Calif.). His private practice has specialized in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy, which he also teaches. Donald Brooks retired as senior counsel at Merck in 1993. Since then, he has been of counsel to the New Jersey law firm of Carella, Byrne et. al. He also serves as vice president and member of the board of directors of EntreMed, a biotech firm, and as a member of the board of directors of other biotech companies, including Xenon Genetics, a Canadian-based genetics firm. Felix Conte has been a professor of pediatrics at UC-San Francisco for the past 30 years. He is happily married to Mary Cronemeyer, "the best person I have ever met!" They have five children and three granddaughters. Erik Eybye retired August 1, 2000, as a human resources executive at Totalfina Chemicals. His son, Tom, is a lieutenant in the Army, stationed in Germany. His daughter, Marianne, is a scientist at Glaxo SmithKline. He and his wife, Lena, look forward to more power boating on the Chesapeake Bay. Alfred Fierro has been married to Juanita for 43 years. They have four children and seven grandchildren. He practiced law with his brother, Daniel, for 30 years and is now in practice with two of his sons, Matthew and Mark, in Fort Lee, N.J. Martin Fisher and his wife, Doris, have been married for 32 years. Marty retired from IBM after 31 years and reports that "older son, Michael, found his way to the campus with no trouble at all and graduated with the class of '92." Nevertheless, "younger son, Louis, took a wrong turn at 125th Street and went to New Haven, where he graduated from Yale in 1993, stayed for law school, and met his wife, Dr. Nina Myerson Fisher." Mike married Lynn; they have a daughter, Zoe, born in May 2000. Mike works for Brown Brothers, Harriman, & Co. Louis is with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; Nina is chief resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. "Lynn's current occupation is Zoe." Denis Frind, as he progresses into the fifth decade of his career in law, looks forward to writing or teaching. He enjoys his grandchildren but "best in small doses." Alan Frommer recently had dinner with Frances and Robert ("Al") Raab in Wellesley, Mass. They are in Washington, D.C., now and love it, but "have a bit of nostalgia for Boston." Alan also recently visited Nancy and Frank Corral in Chicago, where they are refurbishing a condo overlooking Lake Michigan. Brother Paul Frommer reports that Alan "retired last July, sold his business and now watches his wife go off to work while he cooks and plays golf." Paul continues in the insurance business and enjoys it. He and wife, Liz, have been taking hiking vacations, mostly in the United Kingdom. His oldest child, Joshua, has graduated from Virginia Tech in aerospace engineering and is now at Auburn pursuing an M.S. in the same subject, concentrating in "composite materials." His second child, Alexandra, is now a junior at Muhlenberg pursuing teaching/Judaics; she plans to spend next spring at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His third and fourth children, Samuel and Leah, are juniors in high school. Fred Hovasapian has retired from Met Life, where he was assistant director of underwriting. He lives in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Six months out of the year he works as a contract life insurance underwriter for several companies. Alvin Kass continues serving as a chaplain of the New York City Police Department. He recently received appointment from the Department of the Treasury to serve as Jewish chaplain of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, New York Region. In the latter capacity he gave the invocation at the dedication of the national memorial in Washington D.C., honoring U.S. Customs officers killed in the line of duty from 1789 to the present. Charles McKinney reports, "My life has been totally committed to Jesus Christ since early 70s. I love preaching [and] teaching; [I] am involved with a very dynamic church-planting organization; and continue to serve as senior pastor at First Christian Church [Suison City, Calif.], where attendance exceeds 350." Neil McLellan, although retired, continues teaching as an adjunct at Nassau Community College. He spends three months plus at Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Occasionally he sees classmates Sal Franchino and Dave Kinne in NYC for lunch or dinner. He reports that he "keep[s] searching for the truth on various golf courses." Lawrence Menconi retired from Exxon after 33 years of service as a geologist, paleontologist and administrator. He has been active as a consultant in paleontology since then. He reports that he "found golf less than two years ago and is thoroughly hooked." Carlos Muñoz, who will receive a John Jay Award next month, retired from DimeBancorp in December 2000 after 51-2 years. This is his second retirement, following that from Citicorp after 35 years. He married the former Kassie Ohtaka in September 2000. He looks forward to more time with his grandchildren (in London and California) as well as golf, travel and tournament bridge. Jerome Tarshis is mostly retired from his career as an art journalist but continues to write occasional pieces for The Christian Science Monitor. He also does part-time editorial work on ZYZZYVA, a literary magazine published in San Francisco. Ed Weinstein notes from the Wharton alumni magazine that Al Anton continues as a partner in the investment firm of Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co. in NYC. Recently the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts elected him as president at the group's conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Paul Zola reports: "For the last 40 years I have found the breadth of a Columbia education to have made the greatest mark upon me. I am lucky to have been let in on the fun of being a part of the Western intellectual tradition. Columbia teaches autodidacticism - this is what keeps us alive and laughing." The following members of '57 definitely plan to attend our 45th reunion in 2002: Ernie Atlas, M.D., Richard J. Cohen, M.D., Erik R. Eybye, Alfred Daniel Fierro, Martin S. Fisher, Fred L. Hovasapian, Alvin Kass, David W. Kinne, M.D., Leonard D. Kohn, M.D., Herman D. Levy, A. Michael Lipper, Robert Lipsyte, Neil R. McLellan, Carlos R. Muñoz, John H. Norton, M.D., Laurence B. Orloff, A. Robert Raab, Leon Satran, M.D., Mark L. Stanton, Eugene Wagner, DDS, Edward A. Weinstein, Paul Zola. The following are "maybes:" Gary Angleberger, Richard P. Berkson, M.D., John G. Colvin, Felix A. Conte M.D., Norman Decker, M.D., Douglas Eldridge, Joseph Ellin, R. Dale Ensor, M.D., William F. Friedman, M.D., Denis B. Frind, Alan M. Frommer, Paul Stanley Frommer, Herbert L. Strauss.
Barry Dickman Congratulations to Pete Millones and his wife, Deidre Carmody, on the marriage of their daughter, Christina, to Brian Clifford. Pete and Deirdre are now retired from The New York Times and are living in Narragansett, R.I., after long careers at the paper: Pete started as a campus stringer while an undergraduate and became assistant managing editor and metropolitan editor, while Deirdre was a reporter. Pete also taught at the School of Journalism and was a member of the CCT advisory board. Speaking of the Times, Joe Dorinson was the subject of a Public Lives column that appeared during the Subway Series, the connection being that Joe teaches a course on the social history of sports and specializes in the Brooklyn Dodgers (who appeared in the last Subway Series while we were undergraduates). The columnist, Joyce Wadler, deftly captured Joe's style - combining the erudite with the down-to-earth - in reporting on a wide-ranging interview. But when she described him as "loquacious," we were "Shocked. Shocked!!" Can that be our Joe? We received a nice note from Paul Gomperz, whom we last saw during the meetings of the planning committee for our last reunion (chaired by Joe Dorinson), of which Paul and his wife, Jan, were members. Paul has been elected Treasurer of the Alumni Federation, which puts him on track to become Secretary, VP and ultimately President over the next five years. (The Federation is the umbrella organization for all of Columbia's associations and clubs, and is a voice for the alumni in dealing with the administration. It is also involved in the election of alumni trustees and the University's travel and insurance programs.) Paul's leadership positions with the Columbia Club of Northern New Jersey over the last 20 years brought him to the Federation. In his spare time, Paul operates a business concentrating on variable life insurance, variable annuities and 401(k) plans. Here's our periodic reminder about the class lunch Scott Shukat hosts on the second Tuesday of every month, in the Grill Room of the Columbia Club, 15 West 43rd Street ($31 per person). You can advise Scott if you plan to attend up to the day before, by phone at (212) 582-7614, by fax at (212) 315-3752 or by e-mail at scott@shukat.com.
Ed Mendrzycki
J. David Farmer Could it be the post-reunion depression? In any case, only one classmate has written with news, so your faithful correspondent has an-all-too-light task this issue and urges news via whatever means. Joseph Giacalone reports from St. John's University on the publication of his book, The U.S. Nursing Home Industry (M.E. Sharpe), an economic and managerial analysis of this sector. The chapter on "Nursing and Personal Care Facilities" has recently appeared in a collection, and other articles are forthcoming. Thanks Joe, and I hope to hear from others before the next deadline.
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