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CLASS NOTES
Jim Shaw Paul Kulkosky is currently serving as president of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science, which held its 70th annual meeting at the University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo on April 15. Please mark your calendars for our 30th reunion next year. It would be great to see you in New York.
Paul S.
Appelbaum Bob Rubin e-mailed a report on his past 28 years: "After Columbia, I took a Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Vermont. The next 19 years passed at AT&T, where I worked as a market manager, product developer, product manager and strategic planner. Two years ago, I moved to Lucent, where I do business planning. Better, my investments have flourished to the extent that I can stop work, which I will do in the next few months. For 28 years, I have tenderly guarded the intellectual spark lit at Columbia. Soon I will reignite that blaze, this time for good. Warmest regards to all in the class of '72." Joe Lambert, who started Columbia with us but finished in 1981, lives in Colorado, where he writes poetry. In fact, he sent several of his sonnets along. The opening and closing of one, "Music Education," have a poignant resonance with the sad events at Columbine High School. "Take guns away from children's tender hands/And let the child learn music's sweet accord... For he who knows the beauty of a song/Will know too what is right from what is wrong." Rick Danheiser has been named the Arthur C. Cope Professor of Chemistry at MIT. Rick joined the faculty at MIT after getting his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978. His research focuses on the invention of new methods for synthesizing complex molecules and their application in the total synthesis of natural products. Among the compounds he's synthesized are a neurotoxin, an immunosuppressant and a stimulant of immunologic defenses. He has received multiple awards for his teaching as well. It's not easy to ignore our class. Browsing in the bookstore the other day, I came across Jed Perl's new book, Eyewitness: Reports From An Art World in Crisis. Not far away was Jerry Groopman's just-published Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in a Changing World of Medicine. And when Internet hackers attacked several major websites not long ago, an op-ed in The New York Times quoted Steve Bellovin, AT&T's leading expert on computer security. Finally, regular correspondent Armen Donelian has an upcoming 3-CD release of solo piano pieces called Grand Ideas from Cathexis Records. Need I say it? We'd all like to hear from you, too.
Barry
Etra Allen Schill made up for many years of not e-mailing in by doing just that, in a big way. Having majored in art history at Columbia and receiving an M.F.A. at Lehman, he did the "starving artist" bit: painting, doing graphics and photography. He was an adjunct professor of art at Hostos Community College for about 15 years, working as a photographic printer on the side; he got married in 1985 and divorced several years later. He then met an old flame, Stefania Levi, a photographer by trade, moved to Italy, and they married (still happily). They've lived in Torino for four years, and Allen's art career is starting to move; he is represented by two well-known photo galleries, one in Torino and another in Paris. Allen and Stefania's work can be viewed at www.inrete.it/ink/cartilium. E-mail is ls@inrete.it. Good stuff, by the way. All for now (and now for all).
Fred
Bremer I was recently up to the Columbia gym (a.k.a., the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center), and it reminded me of how much we laughed at that name. (I recalled how some wondered if this was part of a greater trend that would lead to new names such as the Alexander Hamilton Mental Fitness Center.) Twenty-five years later, I doubt anyone gives it a second thought. I've discovered another member of the Class of '03 that is a child of one of our classmates. Tom Ichniowski reports that his eldest daughter, Anna, is now a freshman in John Jay. He reports seeing Tom Ferguson and David Melnick during the late August move-in days. Tom, wife, Teresa, and his three other kids live in Silver Spring, Md. My count now gives us a full 10 out of 59 alumni children in the class! Class entrepreneur Will Willis now lives in Palm Beach, Fla., where he is chairman of Global Technovations. Will describes his company as a "public diagnostic instrument company that conducts 'virtual blood tests' for your car." In between his dialysis/oil changes, Will managed to pen a new book titled If You're Not Living On the Edge, You're Taking Up Too Much Space. Will needs some big royalty checks: His eldest daughter is in med school at Chapel Hill, and his twin daughters are in their second years at Trinity College and Northeastern College. I am convinced that Steve DeCherney keeps changing jobs to get more ink in this column. He now has given up his roles of physician, clinical scientist, and hospital administrator to become the executive vice president for clinical operations (worldwide) for a company called PRA. The company manages large clinical research projects for pharmaceutical firms in trial management centers in San Francisco, Charlottesville, Kansas City, Red Bank (N.J.), London, Paris, and Mannheim. He writes, "As I will be traveling to all those centers on a regular basis, I would love to have dinner with any '74 classmates in those locales." For the first time, all items in this column arrived by e-mail. So get those keys a poppin' or send in a snail mail. There are a lot of classmates interested in an update.
Randy
Nichols Questions, burning questions, published in the November 1999 Columbia College Today, really elicited responses! Here are some answers and also some new questions. (If the questions and answers keep coming, I won't have to work for information for these notes for a while!) Keep the cards and letters coming! Answers from various classmates and friends: Lou "The Greek" Dalaveris may be an eye doctor on the East Side of Manhattan. (Does anyone know for sure?) People think Joe Lipari is a lawyer (and we hope that means he is making at least $50,000 a year!). Bob Sclafani writes that he was surgically removed from Russ Maffettone. Bob thinks that Russ works at Bell Labs in New Jersey. And, of course, a number of new questions were posed by other writers: When did "Big Al" Mrozik start calling himself "Bert?" After dental or law school? When did his mother let him get his own apartment? Did he ever get rid of those Campbell soups (the famous Mrozik soups) he left in Carman Hall? What ever happened to "Slick," who played upright bass and was "Big Al's roommate? Did Theo M. ever get into some post-graduate school? Did Rudy "The Toe" Gisolfi ever get a big band? Answers will be published in future columns, and probably discussed at the Reunion in June! And now, for just plain news: Marc Hal Grossbard is a trial lawyer, lives on Long Island and has three kids. Peter Hendrikson wrote from Tallinn, Estonia, where he is a Commander in the U.S. Navy and serves as military attaché at the U.S. Embassy. He is married to Any Joonas and they have adopted two Estonian children, Mark and Kai Maria. Peter writes that it is too cold to row in the Baltic and that he is settling for a rowing ergometer. Aaron Katz, son of Robert Katz, was accepted in Columbia's early decision program last fall. We can count on Jeffrey Kessler to be in the news. This spring, he was widely quoted during his defense of Bill Belichick, who left the New York Jets to become head coach of the New England Patriots. Jeff is also co-chair of the New York faculty of the Practicing Law Institute's Understanding Business & Legal Aspects of the Sports Industry program. Corky Leary is a father and lives in California. (I'm not sure if that means that he is a dad or a The Reverend. That's all I know!) A letter from Scott McConnell appeared in the November Weekly Standard, further articulating his current opinion of Pat Buchanan - "Fifth Columnist," Oct. 18. Chet Pielock has two kids, married his college sweetheart, Adele Checchi B'75, and lives in Massachusetts. George Robinson is looking forward to signing copies of his new book, Essential Judaism, at the 25th reunion this summer. George is the recipient of a Simon Rockower Award for excellence in Jewish journalism from the American Jewish Press Association. His writings can be seen in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Jewish Week, and the Detroit Jewish News. George lives with his wife in Washington Heights. Bob Schneider attended the Society of Columbia Graduates dinner in Low Library last fall. This was about the time that his son, James, was accepted in Penn's early decision program. In January, Bob attended the health law section and environmental law section annual meetings during the New York State Bar Association's 123rd annual meeting. Bob sent several messages and packages of goodies, which provided several of the other items in this set of Notes. As always, thanks, Bob! Bob (Dr. Robert A.) Sclafani is a professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics and director of the UCHSC comprehensive cancer center growth regulation program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. His letter was one of the sources of information in this column. Randolph Scott-McLaughlin, the confident and combative civil rights lawyer, was quoted in a recent article about IKEA's plans to build a branch in New Rochelle, N.Y. "There's no way" and "This thing is DOA" were featured words. Confident and combative, indeed!
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