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CLASS NOTES
Ana S.
Salper Hello, faithful readers, and welcome once again. Congratulations are in order to HaYoung Lee Yuhan, who got married last May to Joseph Yuhan in Houston. Ha-Young's matron of honor was Emily Sumner, her first-year roommate. Also standing by her side were Cathy Cha and Suzi Chun '96E. Other alumni in attendance were Emily's husband Philip Skelding, Chris Glaros, Ajay Deshmukh '96E, and Jason Seda '95. HaYoung reports that everyone seems to be doing well: Cathy is in her second year of law school at Boston University, Suzi has recently left J.P. Morgan in San Francisco and moved on to work for the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, Chris is in his second year at Stanford Law, and Ajay is in graduate school for engineering at UC-Berkeley. As for HaYoung, after finishing her M.Ph. and doing some health care consulting from her home, she has moved to Los Angeles to work for a nonprofit philanthropy organization called The California Endowment. Aun Koh is still in Singapore, working as editorial director of East Magazine, a unisex Asia-regional lifestyle magazine. Aun is enjoying his job immensely and is traveling constantly. He ran into David Gray several months ago, when David was in Thailand at a kick-boxing camp. For now, kick-boxing remains only a hobby of David's, as he is spending the bulk of his time working on getting his Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard. Stephane Gruffat, who is currently working at CS First Boston in New York on the distribution and pricing of IPO products, threw a wild party for his friends in France to ring in the New Year. In attendance was Nick Kukrika, who is working at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt, along with Mark Levine, Sam Ryan and Mark LaRovere, who is currently working at Deutsche Bank and considering plans for graduate school. Apparently the group began the festivities in Paris and continued the fun & frivolity in Provence, enjoying multiple bottles of fine French wines and champagnes, caviar, lobster medallions and other such delicacies. Yum! Kiet Truong has recently moved to Hong Kong and is working at Morgan Stanley. Nathalie Moureto is working for eToys in London, doing business development for its European markets. Chela Bodden is getting her Ph.D. at Columbia in Spanish literature, and Michelle Kim is also at Columbia in a post-baccalaureate, pre-med program. Benjamin Ashfield has been heading up the creative team at Little Tornadoes, a start-up web development company. Ben proudly reports that when he started at LT last March, there were only three people working for the company, and in the past year, it has grown to include over 25 people in three cities. Tammy Tiranasar recently delivered her first collection of hand-dyed and hand-printed clothing to Barneys. The line is called Novembersix and is sold in Barneys' New York and Beverly Hills stores. Tammy designs and oversees production of the entire line herself. She is developing a website, www.handfashioned.com, that will represent fashion designers who make clothes by hand and will make their products available for sale. Tammy also collaborates with fashion designer Susan Cianciolo making fabric prints for Run Collection. If you would like to get in touch with Tammy, she can be reached at tammy@handfashioned.com. Tina Hsiao is in her first year at Harvard Business School, after spending a couple of years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and working in private equity. Nettana Samroengraja is working at a private equity firm in Boston. Tammy Park is working at Cartier in Korea and June Chiamprasert is finishing up law school at Fordham and will be starting work at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in the fall. Leila Kazemi, who completed a master's in international political economy at the London School of Economics soon after graduation, spent a year working at the International Peace Academy, followed by several months in Central Asia consulting for the Open Society Institute in Uzbekistan and the Women's Crisis Group in Kyrgyzstan. Leila returned to New York just over a year ago and has been working as a program coordinator for the Social Science Research Council ever since. Justine Schiro is an associate producer at ABC for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, where she has been working since we graduated. Erica Sulkowski graduated from Fordham Law last spring and is currently working in the office of general counsel and risk management at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. That's it for the news this time, folks. I leave you with a little food for thought for the spring, courtesy of George Bernard Shaw: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." How very true.
Sarah
Katz [Editor's note: CCT wishes to thank Michelle Laudig for her service as class correspondent, and welcomes Sarah Katz as the new correspondent for the class of '97. Her first submission will appear in the September issue. Classmates may send notes to her at the above address.]
Sandra P.
Angulo We're close to the two-year anniversary of our graduation, and several of us have begun to switch jobs. Jeremy Blacklow is now a researcher at NBC's weekend edition of the Today Show. He says Adina Berrios is now working in Washington D.C. as the special projects and member service coordinator for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a not-for-profit organization for members and publishers of the Black Press. The executive director of the NNPA is Ben Jealous '96. Jeremy reports that his friend Erin Harken is working for Logicrecords, a division of BMG. Erin also DJs hip-hop at Clementine on Thursdays (as of press time), and throws a huge party at Eau (20th and B'way) on Fridays. For those of you feeling sluggish and tense, Janice Brown is still in N.Y.C. working both as a research assistant in public health and as a licensed massage therapist. Her e-mail address is santacruz13@yahoo.com. Ann Perry and I stumbled into each other in the Time-Life building, where she was working at a magazine's consumer marketing department. She mentioned training for a marathon, but I haven't heard from her since. I keep forgetting to mention my good friend Jayna Green Eliav, who just graduated from Teachers College with a master's in religious education. Jayna is married to Eliahu Eliav and has a beautiful toddler, Yosef. Happy summer, everyone. Keep the e-mails and letters coming.
Charles S.
Leykum Hopefully, most people have received their yearbooks from the Student Activities office in Lerner Hall by now. If you haven't, contact the coordinators in the Student Activities office and let them know. They should be able to help locate your copy. In the past few weeks, I have received some very interesting updates on the whereabouts of some of our classmates. Brian Leonard recently joined ABC as the Computer Game Operator on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? During the show, he operates the computer that generates the game's graphics. Since mid-October, Robert Buchanan has been traveling around Europe, mostly in Germany. Awaiting the extension of his work permit, he has been passing time by improving his German. One of my roommates, Allan Ng, just left New York and moved to San Francisco to help found a new Internet startup, PrivacyOne. In their spare time, Gunny Scarfo, Kofi Anku and Basilia Yao have created Mindshift Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to cutting-edge thought and social entrepreneurship. Mindshift's first program, Internet Academy, a workshop for underprivileged inner-city students aged 15-19 that teaches Web design and systems thinking, ran its pilot last year in West Philadelphia. Mindshift has also started research and presentation on its second program: interactive, multimedia presentations for students and instructors on the connections between American poetry and hip-hop. Sofia Perenyi is studying at SIPA. Christine Park and Anthony Balsamo are currently working for Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York. Caroline Wingo is deferring from UVA law school and working as a copy editor at a newspaper in Birmingham. Carmel Gabbay is a research and media associate for the Coalition for an International Criminal Court, a non-governmental organization that acts as a liaison between over 800 NGOs and civil society groups and the Permanent Foreign Missions to the United Nations. CICC is working to get a multilateral treaty ratified - the Rome Statute - that would set up an International Criminal Court in The Hague to try individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. For those people who are studying for the GMATs, GREs, LSATs, MCATs and other exams, good luck. As I mentioned in an earlier column, we are going to coordinate an event in New York for members of our class during the summer, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks again to all those people who have sent in updates over the past few months.
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