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CLASS NOTES
Ana S. Salper
95 Horatio St. #9L
New York, NY 10014
asalper@brobeck.com
Classmates: Our generation has been marked forever. The world
has changed dramatically since the events of September 11, and
living in New York has become a wholly new concept; the usual
vibrancy and life that is ingrained in the city and in its
inhabitants has been replaced by our fear of biological warfare in
subways and of repeated terrorist threats. Who knows if New York
will ever feel the same again? I sincerely hope that we can stay
strong long enough for the world to snap out of its current state
of sheer insanity, because I’m certainly fed up with feeling
scared. I hope that no one in our class was a victim of the World
Trade Center disaster (although to an extent, we are all victims),
but if there were any victims, I extend my deepest sympathies to
their families and their friends. I also extend my sympathies to
those who were affected by the crash of American flight 587. These
last few months have been so taxing on all of us, especially those
of us in New York, so I hope that all of you had a safe and
peaceful holiday season. This year is one in which we will need our
close friends and families to help us through these frightening
times.
I am
glad that despite these tragedies, some of you managed to find time
to send in good news. Greg Peck is living in New York and
has recently formed a company, Palazzo Partners, which is an
investor, manager and designer of unique real estate and real
estate-related assets. The company recently acquired the Beverly
Crescent Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. and plans to transform it
into a spectacular boutique hotel. The company also is working on
projects in Las Vegas and Aspen. Greg reports that Stephane
Gruffat was recently married to Pauline Enrile in Provence,
France. They are living in London, and Stephane works for CS First
Boston. Congratulations, Stephane!
Last
June, Hilda Ramirez married Juan Carlos Abreu. Among the
guests were James Grate and John Cardinale. Hilda and
her husband reside in Washington Heights. Hilda is working as a
Business Systems Analyst in Connecticut and has recently begun a
part-time master’s program in computer science. Cathy
Ellis is studying at the Law School, and Deganit Stein,
who lives and works in Boston, is getting married in March 2002 in
Savannah, Ga.
Those are all the notes I have to share with you for now. Be
well, and be safe.
Sarah Katz
The Wellington
135 South 19th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
srk12@columbia.edu
I
hope that this issue of Class Notes finds all of you safe and well
in the wake of the tragic events of the past few months. Some of
you wrote to tell us where you were at the time of the World Trade
Center tragedy so we’ll start with those notes, and then move
on to other updates.
Mustafa “Moose” Abdul-Wahid is in Los
Angeles. Carolyn Bass was working downtown in NYC a few
blocks south of the WTC but got out safely. Hamilton
Boardman watched from a great distance in Vietnam. Kelvin
Castellar was on a cruise in Bermuda at the time of the
tragedy. Monique Chang is now safe on the Upper West Side
but was two miles from the Pentagon when the plane hit. Deborah
Feldman worked in WTC Tower 2 on the 44th floor. She and her
entire department were lucky enough to have started the evacuation
process immediately after the first plane hit. Sabra Gandhi
was in Brazil during the week of September 11. Lauren
Goodman lives about three blocks from the WTC and managed to
get out OK. Her roommate, Danielle Paige, also is OK,
although they were unable to get into their apartment for awhile.
John O’Neill was working from home in Washington
Heights. Kate Kelly, who works at The Wall Street
Journal, which is around the corner from the WTC, is unharmed.
Mike Latham was stuck in Madrid, trying to get back to NYC.
Rebecca Linton is safe but lost a friend in the tragedy.
Kevin McDonald also lost a few family friends but is safe
and working in midtown. Carrie Sturts is living in San
Francisco and was supposed to be married on September 14 but has
postponed the wedding until May.
Susanna Daniel is in Madison, Wis. Stephen
Dossick is in San Francisco. Timothy Hogan is in D.C.
Shauna LaTouche is in South Florida. Thomas Meyers ’98
is in Berlin. Jisoo Park is in Silver Spring, Md. Michael
Pignatello is in Chicago. Heather (Natt) Schechter and
Jesse Schechter are in Albany, N.Y. Laura Tatum is in
Ann Arbor, Mich. Palma Volino is in New Rochelle, N.Y.
Alysha Yagoda is in Seattle.
Danielle Lynch is working as a technology project
manager at America Online, Inc. in the headquarters office. She has
been with AOL for two years and is working on her business school
applications for Fall 2002 and studying for the GMAT. Eva
Burmeister, violinist, is in Leipzig, Germany, where she is the
first American woman to become a member of the Gewandhausorchester.
Paul Feuer is working at Softwax.com. Tracy Hammond is
at MIT. John Condon is enrolled in grad school at the
University of Texas but is spending the year at Harvard. Ana
Kono just returned from the National Society of Hispanic M.B.A.
conference in San Antonio, where she was a representative of
Wharton as well as a marketing case competition contestant.
Joshua Schank recently started working for the inspector
general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he
analyzes various issues about Amtrak and the airline industry
relating to economics and competition. He is still working on a
Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia, which he hopes to complete
by May 2002. Jackie Sadker is at University of Virginia Law
School. She spent last summer at law firms in Chicago and Portland,
Ore. She will be clerking for a federal judge on the 9th Circuit in
L.A. next year. After that, she is planning to work on civil rights
policy in D.C. and hopes to teach law in Portland. Angeline Koo,
Sarah Canoniero, Carter Burwell ’96 and Susan
Burgess are also at UVA Law. Sarah Skoda is a first-year
at George Washington University Law School.
Erika Moravec ’99 married Nelson Jaeggli on July
21, 2001. The wedding was held in Owings Mills, Md., and the couple
honeymooned in the Bahamas. Nelson is in his second year at
Columbia Medical School and Erica is in her first year of graduate
school at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Nelson was Erica’s
COOP leader her freshman year at Columbia and they have been
together since 1996. Jennifer Squillario got engaged this
past June to Ian Taylor, whom she met at University of Maryland Law
School. Hannah Trooboff and Brian McCollum ’97E are
excited to be planning for a July 2002 wedding in Washington. Brian
works for Xerox, now in the toner division, for a fifth year.
He’s supporting a start-up plant in Ireland, so he has
already had the chance to travel there twice for extended trips.
Hannah is a second-year English teacher at School of the Arts in
Rochester, N.Y. She’s teaching 10th grade honors and
regents-level English/Language Arts and absolutely loving it.
She’s just received a $2,500 Michael Jordan Fundamentals
Grant to create and implement an interdisciplinary unit on 17th
century French literature, theater and cultural history. Rachel
Adame was married on September 14. Her husband is a corporal in
the Army, and after the 11th, they decided they’d better get
married in case he was deployed.
Joshua Ross is in Anyang, a suburb of Seoul, South
Korea, teaching English at a private language school. He arrived in
early October and will be there for a year, and would love to be
contacted by any Korean alums. Since graduation, Rokeia
Smith has been living in Harlem on 135th Street. For the past
three years, she has been working in various capacities at NBC;
currently she is a TV sales account manager for WNBC (selling
airtime to advertisers). Some of her accounts include Coca-Cola,
Wendy’s and Hyundai. Though she hasn’t been doing so as
of late, her spare time has been spent traveling throughout the
country and internationally (Australia, Acapulco and
Jamaica).
I
hope that you’re getting excited about reunion weekend 2002
(May 30 - June 2)! So that you keep up to speed on reunion info as
it develops, please remember to update your contact information
with Columbia. You can do it at www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/address.html.
Also, if you do not already get an e-mail from me to remind you
about Class Notes submissions, please send me your e-mail address
and e-mail addresses for your friends. Keep those notes
coming!
Last
issue’s column published some misinformation about
Jonathan Grandon. He and his wife Sea Ann actually met about
six years ago when he was a junior. They went to Michigan Law
School together. She is a patent attorney at Clifford Chance in New
York, and he is starting his third year doing corporate work at
Simpson Thacher. Kencade Babb was NOT present at the
wedding, and as far as Jonathan knows, he is not working at a pecan
farm in Oklahoma.
Sandra P. Angulo Chen
171 Clermont Ave., Apt. 5A
Brooklyn, NY 11205
spa76@yahoo.com
A
belated “Mazel Tov!” is in order for our Class’s
first set of wedding twins. Josh Ratner married Elena
Salkovsky, Barnard ’98, on August 5 in San Diego. On the same
day in the same town, Brooks Herman married Joanna
Erman. Josh, who wrote me about the “Columbia
coincidence,” is a third-year at Columbia Law. Elena is in
her third year of medical school in Buffalo, so the two have a
commuting marriage. Brooks and Joanna are pursuing graduate degrees
at Harvard, he in theology, she in law. Congratulations to both
couples.
My
former resident Casey Gane-McCalla is living in Cambridge,
Mass., where he runs a math tutoring program and a record company.
In response to September 11, many classmates logged on to
Columbia’s “Checking in September 11 Status
Page.” Here are a few updates from those who visited the
site:
Adria Armbrister is in D.C. and doing well. Her family
in N.Y. is fine as well. Adina Berrios: “These days
I’m working midtown and living uptown. I’d love to hear
how other folks are doing.” Jennifer Bildersee:
“Fine in Brooklyn and headed to Bolivia for the year.”
Ari Blank “is safe and sound in Los Angeles. His
family in New York also is unharmed.” Jacie
Buitenkant: “I watched the second tower go up in flames
from across the street and had to run from the falling debris, but
I am OK. I am working at the New York Stock Exchange and would love
to hear from people.” Elon Johnson wrote that Dawan
Cornish is fine. She is teaching in the Bronx and has a
2-year-old son, Djassi. As for Elon, he saw the tragedy on his way
to midtown. Elon also reports that Felicia Williams is fine.
She is working as a teacher in Brooklyn and has a 1-year-old
daughter. She was married last year and her last name is now Wilks.
Michael Degnan was working for Sapient in New Delhi, India,
on September 11. All family and friends are well. Mario
Favetta was safely evacuated from One World Financial Center.
Michelle Garcia is attending Columbia Law School. She got
married this summer and changed her last name to Navarro. Elliot
Han: “Just moved to Rector Street. Had to run for it but
am fine, living with friends until I can return to my new
apartment.” Jack Merrin: “I am living in New
York City doing research at Rockefeller University.” Natasha
Pfeiffer ’98E: “Living on Upper West Side. Saw the
towers collapse from work across the Hudson in New Jersey. My heart
goes out to everybody.” Danika Smith: “No longer
live on Wall Street; safe and sound in Charlotte. My heart is heavy
for those who lost friends and associates in the WTC attack.”
Thank you all for contributing to the site, and I hope to hear from
more of you for the next Class Notes.
Charles S. Leykum
41 River Terr., Apt. #3404
New York, NY 10282
csl22@columbia.edu
We
hope everyone had a great holiday season. We would like to first
update members of the class on Homecoming, which this year was on
Saturday, October 13. Despite losing to Penn, Homecoming was a
great opportunity to visit with fellow classmates and other alumni.
Our class had a great turnout at both the afternoon game as well as
the post-game CCYA party on campus. We do not have a lot of updates
in this issue, so for those who are interested, please take a
moment to send in information on your whereabouts.
We’re scheduled to join several ’99 and ’00
alums in Vancouver at the end of December to celebrate the wedding
of Allan Ng and Meredith Jones ’00. Allan is in San
Francisco working as an account supervisor with JWT & Tonic
advertising and Meredith is a first-year law student at Cal
Berkeley.
As
noted last month, Joseph Della Pietra was among those lost
at the World Trade Center on September 11. His brother, Chris
’89, writes, “In response to many inquiries regarding
donations to a particular fund or cause on behalf of my brother,
Joe, I wish to inform you that our high school, Poly Prep, has
formally established the September 11 Memorial Fund. While Joe
certainly made an impact on many people during his lifetime, we
hope that the establishment of this fund will result in a
meaningful legacy that will benefit many Poly students for years to
come. The address is Poly Prep C.D.S., September 11 Memorial Fund,
c/o Development Office, 9216 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11228-3698.
For more information, call (718) 836-9800. Checks should be made
payable to Poly Prep, and should reference Joe’s name. My
family is grateful for your support.”
David Koenig is teaching math at his high school alma
mater, Dwight-Englewood School, and living in Englewood, N.J., with
his wife, Adela Roxas. They were married in October in Hoboken,
N.J., and several Columbians were in attendance: Riaz Ali,
Michael Feldman, Marius Hentea ’00, Amity Law ’00,
Wendy Liu, Paul Rohwer ’98, Sameer Shamsi and
Jason Viehland ’97E.
Thanks again to those who sent in updates for this edition and
we look forward to receiving future ones.
Prisca Bae
1832 N. Veitch St., Apt. #1
Arlington, VA 22201
pb134@columbia.edu
We’re back to the updates, folks. It was wonderful to
hear from those who wrote in — thanks so much for the
patience.
We
start this column with Kat Rakowsky, who e-mailed all the
way from Cambridge, England. Kat (who, by the way, sends much love
to her mother back in the U.S.) is studying social anthropology on
a Fulbright grant. Marisa Cravens, meanwhile, has returned
to Boston after completing her coursework for an international
master’s program in Stockholm. She is living in a small arts
commune, working on her thesis, writing a play and working at the
Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. According to
Marisa, Christine Martinez is teaching in Los Angeles and
Tom Dapice is in his second year at the JFK School of
Government.
Also
back in the United States are Claire Hunsaker and Melissa
Rosenstein. Claire was in the United Kingdom for the year
wreaking all sorts of havoc and making a name for herself in the
publishing biz, etc. Melissa, meanwhile, divided her time between
Chile, Venezuela and Nicaragua working with different women’s
health groups. Naomi Schiller, according to Melissa, also is
back in the States after completing her Fulbright in Venezuela.
Evidio Musibay is now in NYC having transferred to P&S
from the University of Miami, where he was doing graduate work in
microbiology. Adrienne Brown is still in the city (moving to
Brooklyn soon) and working at Harm Reduction Coalition, a
progressive nonprofit that deals with drug policy reform. In
addition, Adrienne has founded her own non-profit, Conscious
Movements, with fellow Columbia graduate Tchaiko
Omawale.
Jean Wang has relocated to Reston, Va., to start work as
a federal employee. Welcome to the government, Jean! She, Vikas
Mittal ’00E and Steve Specht ’00E have successfully
completed the yearbook and that it should be out by the time you
read this. You can e-mail her at taiwanchina@aol.com with any
questions regarding the long-awaited book.
Erica Easley and Jenny Park are in Los Angeles,
adding to the growing mass of Columbians out there. Erica is, among
other things, writing a screenplay and Jenny is studying
architecture at UCLA. Members of other classes also are
representing Columbia out on the West Coast: Zea Malawa ’99
is a first-year med student at UCLA with Rashmi
Menon.
In
San Francisco, Sami Mesrour is working at Barclays after
having graduated with a master’s from the London School of
Economics. Other ’00ers in the area include John Kim, Mike
Marks and Erin Ferrell.
Back
in Washington, D.C., Shaline Khurana is getting her masters
in physiology and biophysics at Georgetown through the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences and the Medical School. Juliet
Ross has moved down here from NYC with boyfriend Dan
Burstein, who is studying at Georgetown Law School.
Finally, it was wonderful seeing many of you during Homecoming
weekend. Thanks to Lystra Batchoo who played hostess! Lystra
is now working at NPower NY, the nonprofit world’s technology
consulting firm. In New York, I had the pleasure of running into
Ingride Richardson (who is at Cornell Med) on the subway and
seeing Vikas Mittal ’00E, Joel Daniels, Katy LeBlanc,
Laura Pietropinto, Tara Gangadhar (who celebrated a birthday
that day) Christophe Gillet, Cory Martin, Jason Yang,
Jon-Mychal Bowman ’99, John Kriegsman, Eric Yellin, Don
Saelinger, Sander Cohan, Leslie Zivin, Nathan Hale, Nelson Chan,
Maciej Paluch (who, apparently, has taken up exotic dancing in
the East Village), and many, many others. I apologize for not
getting everyone. Please e-mail me and remind me what you are all
doing! Take good care. I look forward to hearing from you
soon.
Jonathan Gordin
303 W. 66th St.
Apt. 6A-West
New York, NY 10023
jrg53@columbia.edu
It’s been a while since I wrote a traditional column, and
I have lots of updates to pass along. I’ve had the good
fortune of seeing many of you at Columbia events (including
Homecoming). I look forward to seeing more of you at other events
in the future, and hearing from more of you via e-mail. Best wishes
for a happy new year to all of you!
I’ll start the column with a quick correction on Ariel
Neuman. I mistakenly reported that he started law school in the
fall, but he has been spending this year toiling away at Club Med
during the summer and early fall (bartending at their resorts). He
then headed to Copper Mountain, Colo., for a grueling season of
“work” on the slopes. In his words, “Law school
isn’t happening until next year.”
On
September 20, I attended the CCYA awards reception held in Times
Square. Other classmates attending included Emily
Burkes-Nossiter, Akhill Chopra (working at J.P. Morgan Chase),
Camille DeLaite (working at Lehman Brothers), Christine
Dunphy (teaching and working at MetLife), Daniel
Jean-Baptiste, Dave Matteini and Joe Rezek. To try to
list everyone who attended Homecoming without leaving people out
would be foolish. It was nice to see everyone there!
Shawnee Pickney is at SIPA focusing on finishing her
M.P.A. degree. She recently changed plans to play basketball in
Europe, deciding to stay in the U.S. and concentrate on school.
However, she remains committed to the game, co-coaching a
girl’s team in the Greenwich Village Youth League on
weekends. Shawnee now has more time to “improve and enhance
my basketball skills for whatever path I decide to blaze in the
arena of basketball, whether coaching, playing, or both.”
Shawnee’s friend and teammate Manju Chacko is teaching
health and physical education and applying to medical school.
Lendell ’00 and Tamika Thompson are now happily
married — Tamika is a production associate at the Iyanla Show
and Lendell is doing well as a financial analyst for the Federal
Reserve.
My
old Carman 11 pal Samra Haider ran into Marla Goodman
and Kim Harris in Turkey this summer, while she was
travelling with Leah Aden and Chi Mgbako. Samra works
at J.P. Morgan Chase and lives in SoHo with Jane Jhun, Brynn
Wurmbrand and Maureen Koons. She is busy studying for
LSATs in “the hopes of going back to school ASAP.” As
for other Carman 11-ites, Chi Mgbako is teaching English in
Nepal and is headed to Harvard Law School in September 2002. Liz
Salamy, Chi’s former roommate, is living in Tudor City,
and working for the corporate offices of a retail clothing company
in Manhattan. Jessica Lee is working at Jones, Lang and
LaSalle, a real estate company, and will attend Columbia Law in the
fall of this year or next (she hasn’t decided yet). Jason
Billy is working as a paralegal at Wolf, Haldenstein, Adler,
Freemen, and Herz and living in Queens. Ethan Perlstein is
in a Ph.D. program for biology at Harvard.
Nazreen Karim is attending NYU Medical School. Sheila
Nazarian, Adam Jacobi and Danielle Novetsky are studying
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Michael Smith is
attending Chicago Medical School. Adam Sokol is in graduate
school at Yale studying architecture. Ann-Marie Tesar is
“among the idealistic, brave and often broke multitude
toiling in the nonprofit realm here in New York City, working for
the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for
Women and Men in the Courts, a project of the NOW Legal Defense and
Education Fund.” She is happy to be using her women’s
studies degree. She lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Simon
Moshenberg, another women’s studies major, spent his
summer in Honduras and is now in El Salvador, working as a
representative of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador, and “sure to be stirring up as much trouble as
possible.”
Members of my CC class are doing a variety of interesting
things. Deme Kasimis is in Greece on a Fulbright. Evan
Michailidis is living on Long Island and working as a paralegal
at Davis Polk, & Wardwell. Ronen Landa is living on the
Upper West Side, working on a film score and pursuing several
musical projects. Sybil Dodge is living in SoHo and working
at Booz-Allen. Aaron Cohen is in graduate school at
University of Pennsylvania studying city planning and real estate
development. Aaron also is working with Goldman Properties on the
redevelopment of 13th Street between Chestnut Street and Walnut
Street in downtown Philadelphia.
At
the end of the summer, I had the pleasure of attending a rooftop
party in the East 40s of Manhattan at Vasantha Rao and
Molly Thompson’s apartment. Also attending were
Annie Lainer, Annie Simpson, Matthew Hughes, Chris Miller, Paul
Getto, Eric Lane, Andrea Villanti, Milan Markovic, Rahul
Prasankumar and Georgia Ewen-Campen. I ran into Georgia
several weeks later on a crosstown bus, and she is living on Upper
East Side and working full-time at an architectural firm where she
used to intern.
Cheryl Young and Mary Lee are “enjoying the
less frenzied atmosphere of Park Slope, where one can often bump
into fellow alumna Susie Cowen.” Cheryl is a project
manager for the NYC Department of Housing Preservation &
Development, helping the fiscally challenged to better homes and
loans. Also working for the city is Kim Mosolf, who
investigates the NYPD as a field investigator for the Civilian
Complaint Review Board. For the past three months, Mary has been
working for A&E Television Networks as an associate producer
for the History Channel’s educational program, HistoryChannel.com Network.
Nkosi Anderson is working in the Manhattan District
Attorney’s Office in its Family Violence and Child Abuse
Bureau as a paralegal. Nkosi hopes to go to law school in the
future.
Jorge Herrera moved to Washington, D.C. and received the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Fellowship where he works
for the Senate Democratic Steering Committee. Jorge wants to give
everyone his new phone number “so people always know they
have a friendly place to visit in D.C.:” (202) 659-9431.
Marc Dunkelman is sharing an apartment in D.C. with
Andrew Dennington and David Teller Goldman. He is
working for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and more specifically,
the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Marc is working on
anti-terrorism legislation, “so as others struggle to find
ways they can contribute to victims, families and heroes, I’m
honored to play a small part in an effort to address and remedy the
nation’s ills.” Anne Lainer reports that
Andrew Dennington is working as a research associate at the
Center for Health Services Research and Policy at George Washington
University. Also in the D.C. area is my old friend from New Jersey,
Lillian Ho, who is living in Columbia, Md.
Spectator alums have been busy as well, pursuing careers
in journalism and beyond. Alex Eule is working at Citigate
Sard Verbinnen, a financial communications firm in Manhattan, and
enjoying his apartment in Murray Hill. Arthur Harris is
working at ABC News learning all about broadcast news and
“abandoning my quaint fantasies of a writer’s
life.” Dan Laidman is in Missoula, Mont., freelancing
for a weekly paper and some magazines. Jori Frakie also is
in Montana, working as a grant writer for a homeless
shelter.
Benjamin Lowe is living in Philadelphia and working at
the Philadelphia Inquirer as a business reporter and a New
York disaster correspondent. Jonathan Lemire is living near
Columbia and working as a metro news reporter for the Daily
News. The job has allowed Jon to “get my hands dirty
seeing what really makes this great city tick. Since September 11,
however, everything’s changed, and I’ve had a front-row
seat: It’s been scary, but at the same time inspirational to
see how the city is persevering. My thoughts and prayers go out to
all those affected by this tragedy.”
Rich Luthmann is still living in the Columbia area and
attending New York Law School. He was recently down in Longport
with Artie Harris visiting Stu Dearnley (who’s
going to be “ski-bumming” in Colorado for the winter)
and Brie Cokos, who had returned from her deep-sea-diving
trip to Belize a few weeks before. Abigail Burns is living
in the East Village and working for the Gilder Lehrman Institute, a
nonprofit historical organization. Randy Aussenberg is
teaching eighth grade science in Baltimore through Teach for
America. Randy finds that the job has “many rewarding
aspects, and I enjoy many of the personalities of my eighth grade
students.” Lauren Goldstein is in a joint program with
Columbia School of Social Work and Bank Street College for
Education. She is getting a master’s in special education and
social work. Lauren student-taught at the Bank Street School on
112th Street and has since received another placement at a
different school. She reports that Kelly Camamis is in law
school at Cardozo.
Martha Sparks is teaching middle school in Manhattan and
pursuing a master’s degree from Teachers College in a pilot
program sponsored by Columbia called Columbia Urban Educators.
Other classmates in the program include James Massey, Teresa
Genao, Jaime Pannone, Amy Kimpel, Ari Dolid and Jamila
Lenard. Lindsay Torrey worked at a small NYC production
company during the summer and has left for Europe for some travel.
She hopes to backpack around Ireland, Scotland and Sweden, as well
as, perhaps, get some dance training in London. After her travels,
Lindsey plans to settle in Brooklyn. She reports that Genna
Weinstein and Mariel Martinez are living in D.C. and
working as paralegals. Jake Hart is living in London and
working at a theatre company. Jennifer Hoekstra is working
at an environmental policy firm and living in Park Slope. Also in
Brooklyn is Laura Kruter, who is working at
Bloomberg.
Rena Seth has enlisted in the Air Force Reserves. She
started the application process before the tragedies of September
11, and “the events did not change my decision.” On top
of all this, Rena is applying to graduate school (but she has
scrapped plans to go to medical school). Robin Haber
(Freyberg) got married in August and started a social
psychology Ph.D. program at Rutgers. Adam Lesser is
unemployed in L.A. after teaching earth science to eighth graders
in Atlanta for Summerbridge. Anne Olivar and Seth
Kotch are living together in Rome. Jon Rick is a temp/waiter
and is applying to do graduate work in philosophy. Elaine
Shen is “swimming in a deluge of applications and
standardized tests” for a job in urban planning and law
school. Last summer, Elaine interned at the NYC Mayor’s
Office of Environmental Coordination and learned a lot about
brownfield remediation and environmental regulation/legislation.
Although currently in Baltimore, Elaine hopes to find a job in New
York soon.
Seth Morris is teaching third grade at Lincoln
Elementary School in Compton, Calif., with Teach for America, while
pursuing a master’s in education at Loyola Marymount. Seth
also is training for the Los Angeles Marathon in March. Richard
Plotkin, who ran into Seth this summer while traveling Route 66
from Chicago to California, is pursuing a Ph.D. in music theory at
the University of Chicago.
Seth
reported on many people: Ramsey Chamie is working for the
Justice Department in D.C. Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely is
teaching sixth grade in L.A. with Teach for America. Shreya
Kangovi is at Harvard Medical School and Will Bagley is
at University of Michigan Medical School. Dan Fazio is a
paralegal in New York. Nancy Perla has been busy in various
journalism jobs. After a stint with Conde Nast Publications (at
Glamour), she now works at ABC News. Nancy reports that
fellow-Parisian-study-abroad student, Heather Doherty, is
again living in Paris, and working at the International Herald
Tribune. Julie Oh is working at a small international trade
organization in midtown and living on the Upper East Side. Outside
of work, Julie spent time volunteering for the John Liu for City
Council campaign in Flushing, Queens. As for her friends, Julie
reports: Van DeBergh is working in the Navajo Nation,
teaching English to sixth graders. Surupa Sen Gupta is
working for Fortune in midtown and living on the Upper East
Side. Annie Simpson is working for a graphic designer in
Chelsea and living in Alphabet City.
Gabriel Pitta is living around the corner from SoHo and
working at Harlem Hospital as the NYC site director of Project
HEALTH, a nonprofit that develops health interventions for kids
with chronic illnesses (HIV, diabetes, sickle cell, asthma,
obesity). Gabe is interviewing for medical school and plans to
enroll next fall. He also reported on the whereabouts of many
friends: Heather Lee is in her first year at NYU Law and
Lisa Kasser is working for a financial firm as well as
volunteering at Mount Sinai with a pediatric art therapy program.
Valaine Hewitt is in her first year at Cornell Medical
School. Jenny Garcia is back in New York and looking for work.
Bree Akesson is in Chepterwai, Kenya, working with the Peace
Corps. She’s delivered several babies, does HIV education,
and lives by herself on top of a mountain, loving every minute of
it.
Eliel Flores is working at the Vera Institute.
He’s applying to law school and will be enrolling this coming
fall. Sarah Case is dancing in New York as well as Boston
and did some dancing in London a while back. Barb Nellenback
and Cassie O’Shea are living in Manhattan. Cassie is
waitressing at Cafe Lalo. Jordan Fischbach is living in
Cambridge, Mass., and working as a research analyst for the Cadmus
Group. Also in Cambridge are Dean Lin and Matt Davis,
who are both at Harvard Law. Gabe sadly reported that Mandy
Reichmann, who started her Columbia career with us, passed away in September
from cancer. In his words, “She was easily one of the
warmest, most amazing people we knew and we miss her and love her
very much.”
On
that sad note, I wish you all the very best this year. Please be in
touch.
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