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CLASS NOTES
Clyde A.
Moneyhun Jeffrey Giassman announces the birth of his first child, daughter Shira Toby, on March 8, 2000. He realizes, he says, that "some classmates have kids on College Walk - but all things in good time." Kevin Barry, formerly of Ledgewood Law Firm, has joined Cozen and O'Connor, one of the country's largest 100 law firms. After Columbia, Kevin graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School (1979), where he was case comment editor of the Suffolk University Law Review. Practicing in Pennsylvania, he concentrates in regulatory, commercial litigation and general business activity related to insurance, reinsurance, banking and corporate matters. Toomas Ilves delivers this report from his parents' homeland: "It's hard to explain how or why, but since 1996, with a short stint out spent running for Parliament, I have been foreign minister of Estonia." Before that, Tom was the Estonian ambassador to the U.S. Some of Tom's story was told in the Charlemagne column of a 1998 issue of The Economist, but "they left out the Columbia part, which is unfortunate, since my four years at the College are in retrospect probably the most important determinants" of the course of his life. Louis Anon spent the last year working with an Internet startup that has just been sold. Before that, he spent three years with the Queensland Treasury in Brisbane, Australia, working on their customer management strategies and business process codification. He reports that it is "a great place to visit and an even greater place to live." He now lives in Jersey City with his partner of 17 years, travels a lot, and does consulting work.
David Gorman Apparently, if you get a Quaker license, you can marry yourselves. So we are informed by Will Weaver, who married Margaret Grace thusly in Philadelphia, on the deck of the William Penn Tower on August 8. Will and Margaret had been together for four years, two of them spent in Houston. About a year ago they moved to Philadelphia, where they were joined by Will's two sons from a previous marriage, William (13) and Clay (11), who "are finally getting used to city life after spending their whole lives in Fairfield County, Conn." Congrats to both generations of Weavers, on marriage and urbanization, respectively. Arto Becker reports a major social event in September: a gathering of no fewer than 14 Columbia and Barnard alums of the classes of 1976-78 for a fancy-schmancy dinner at Le Colonial in Manhattan. Besides Arto, others present included John Carlin, Tom Eisen, Michael Huber, Paul Jacobson, Gregory Lackey, Ivan Lansberg, Guy Owen, Dan Rothstein '76 and Tom Tuggle '78. "All of us had terrific memories of Columbia and Barnard, the friendships we made there, and the academic experience. Sincerely sentimental feelings were expressed by many of us in a round of e-mails that followed the party." Myself, I don't think that I've ever gotten a sentimental e-mail; but anyone is welcome to send me one so I can see what they're like.
Matthew Nemerson
Lyle Steele
Craig Lesser Ian Parmiter is back in New York working for the Discovery Networks. David Steiner is with the New York City Law Department where he was recently promoted to associate counsel. The class of '80 was well represented at the Old Timers Baseball Game held over Homecoming weekend. Eric Blattman, Shawn Fitzgerald and Mike Brown had multiple hit games for the younger Old Timers. The game is an annual event that occurs Homecoming weekend and was called after four innings due to pulled muscles and sore arms! Eric is a successful money manager in Conn., while Sean is practicing law on Long Island. Both are married, with two children each.
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