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CLASS NOTES
Ana S. Salper Greetings, all. I have now come to the realization that when it comes to sending in news for my column, the winter season always begets apathy and lethargy on your part. Hence the reason this column is embarrassingly short. But I remain optimistic. I expect that the spring will reinvigorate your spirits, and the summer issue will be chock full of interesting tidbits about you and your friends. For now, read on... Julie Satow was recently promoted from her position at BondWeek to become the new managing editor of Corporate Financing Week, which is owned by the prestigious Institutional Investor magazine. Julie will now be overseeing a staff of reporters and will enjoy primary responsibility for the whole publication. Way to go, Jules! Kayoko Kanari was married to B.J. Tevelow this past fall at Tavern on the Green here in New York. Amy Weiss, Andrea Bond and Dennis Chang '96E were among the wedding party. Ed Sadtler was also in attendance. Andrea and Dennis also got married this past fall-to each other-in Los Angeles. John Fitzgibbon was a groomsman at their wedding. Kayoko is currently working as an equity analyst for a hedge fund at Moore Capital Management in New York, Amy is an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia, Andrea works as a reporter for CBS in Las Vegas, Dennis is a consultant for Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting), and Ed is an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. In other wedding news, Jen Sullivan got engaged to her longtime companion Cedric, an artist living here in New York. Jen is finishing up her MBA at Columbia. And that, my faithful readers, is all I have to report. Remember-our fifth year reunion is coming up in June. I look forward to seeing many of you there. I end, as per usual, with some words of wisdom from George Bernard Shaw: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Good one to take to heart.
Sarah Katz As usual, '97 alumni are busy as ever! I had the pleasure of running into Allison Orris and Wayne Steward at Yale while I was attending a conference in February. Allison is in her second year at Yale Law and Wayne is working on his Ph.D. in psychology also at Yale. Bryan Ferro is working at a start-up, high-tech strategy consulting firm, Mercator Partners, outside of Boston. Michael Malm has graduated from MIT and has started work as an assistant vice president in fixed income at Putnam Investments in Boston. Kate Kelly has a new job at The Wall Street Journal as a staff reporter. Wilson Rothman is a tech reporter at Time and On (formerly Time Digital). He earned his master's from the Journalism School. Matt Wang changed jobs in December. He left UBS Warburg and joined his boss at Evercore Partners, an advisory and private equity firm, as an associate in Evercore's advisory business. Haidee Cabusora is happily finishing up her last semester at Cornell Law School along with fellow '97s Matt Morningstar and Doug Horowitz. They will all be at firms next year, Haidee in Boston and Matt & Doug in NYC. Jennifer Squillario graduated from University of Maryland School of Law in May 2000. She passed the Maryland Bar, is currently a law clerk for a judge on the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and next year will be clerking for a U.S. Federal District Court judge in Baltimore. Jeremy Feit is clerking for Israel's Supreme Court until at least June-he earned his law degree last May from Yale and passed the New York bar exam this past fall. Stephen Wright is an associate at the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart focusing his practice in the area of litigation. Mia Watanabe is at Harvard Law School, will be graduating in May, and will start work next year at the law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York. She recently ran into Danielle Paige, who is working at Guiding Light. Carrie Sturts is getting a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Columbia in May. She is currently working as a design engineer with Parsons and just moved to San Mateo, Calif. Her fiancé, Stephen Dossick, recieved a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia in February. He is working with a new company, KnowNow, in Silicon Valley. Rachel Adame lived through the dot.com crash in San Francisco, did a stint as a cigarette girl, and now is back in El Paso, Texas, working as a marketing director at a Web design firm started by Robert "Beto" O'Rourke '94. Check them out at www.stantonstreetdesign.com. Her first novel is due for release in 2002. Jeffrey Durland is working as a content strategist at Sapient, in the Internet services firm's New York office. Laura H. Lee will be starting her Ph.D. in film at NYU in the fall. Catherine Park is in her third year of med school at UC-Irvine. David Coustan is the creative director at Giantheads, an animation design studio in Boston. Rachel Rodin (formerly Rachel Levine) is married to John Rodin. The couple lives in New York City. John works as a sales associate at Goldman Sachs, and Rachel is finishing up at the Business School and then joining Goldman Sachs in their online division. They regularly see Erica Landes and Tim Benton, who are engaged, as well as Jason Halper, who is engaged to someone he met in law school at Cardozo. Shivali Shah also recently got engaged to someone she met while in law school. Meredith (Deutsch) Levy has been married to Jonathan Levy, a social worker from Montreal, for four years and the two have been living in Montreal, Quebec. She is finishing her fourth year at Mcgill University Faculty of Medicine and in the middle of the residency application process. On December 8, 2000, she gave birth to a baby boy named Judah Israel. John Alfone received his MFA in media arts production (film, video, multimedia) from City College. His 31-minute graduate thesis film, Del Fuego, is currently touring the film festival circuit including visits to the New Orleans Film Festival and the D.C. Independent Film Festival & Market. As of this writing, he is working in the production office for a Miramax film to be made about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. When not involved in film-related pursuits, he finds satisfaction teaching English as a second language (ESL) to middle school students in Chinatown. Michael Wachsman had been working as a strategic consultant for financial institutions at Freeman & Co. for the past two years. In the last year he has done some extensive traveling, first to Alaska on an epic journey. "The first 13 days were spent rafting. Our group covered 238 miles and saw some spectacular scenery. We camped out by the mountains, sometimes next to the thundering sound of glaciers calving, others by cascading waterfalls. After that we went mountaineering for about a week, where we were days away from civilization, with nothing but us and nature. It was incredible waking up to nothing but snow-capped peaks around us. Next, I went ice climbing, during which I used crampons and an ice axe to ascend the frozen walls of glaciers. After that, I embarked on a week-long kayaking trip, where I kayaked between icebergs, saw a colony of seals, and where the fish were so plentiful that I was able to catch a salmon with my bare hands. For the duration of the expedition we camped out in tents, brought all our supplies with us, had no access to a phone, toilets, or any of the amenities of modern civilization." After his return, he married Felice Tager B'93, and the two spent their honeymoon in Africa. Avi Katz Orlow left Columbia and went to Belarus for a year and a third. Then he went to Israel to study for the next year and two-thirds. At that point he found out about a new Yeshiva opening up under Congregation Ramat Orah (110th and Broadway), where he is now studying in their new Modern Orthodox Rabbinical Program. Michael T. Feldman is feeling fabulous and doing great after a three-week stay in sub-Saharan Africa rediscovering himself. Reunion weekend is only a year away, May 30 through June 2, 2002. The weekend will include but not be limited to Broadway shows followed by cocktails, museum tours, an all-class dinner, panels and the Starlight Rreception. If you would like to attend or help in planning the reunion weekend, please contact your CCT class correspondent. We look forward to your participation! Thanks to everyone who wrote in-please keep those e-mails coming!
Sandra P. Angulo More '98 wedding news: Best wishes to Kim Van Duzer, who got married February 6 in Brooklyn. According to Lauren Antler, who attended the civil ceremony, approximately 20 family and friends - including Aaron Unger, Leah Madoff and Erica Siegel - were on hand for the occasion. Congratulations! Lauren currently works at Nickelodeon, for the producers of the hit children's series Blue's Clues. Bethany Livstone also works in television, for Linda Ellerbee's production company, Lucky Duck, which produces the MSNBC show Headliners and Legends. They both live in New York. I keep running into classmates at CCYA events: Megan Mulligan writes for Forbes.com and freelances for several fashion magazines; Lisa Telfer co-founded Corporate Training Department.Com, which offers Web development classes for Manhattan professionals. Michele Hyndman is the online business coordinator for Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine; Megan Kearney works for the new Museum of Women: The Leadership Center, which will be located in Battery Park City; and Natalie Carlson is getting her graduate degree at Parsons School of Design; Michele reports that Camilla Granville left her job as a paralegal at Davis, Polk and Wardell to travel and volunteer internationally. According to Andy Topkins, Zach Kaiman works for the market research firm DataMonitor Inc., and lives in London. Joe Masters has relocated to Germany and is still with Goldman Sachs. Erwin Dweck and Beth Roxland graduate from Penn Law this May, and after taking the bar, will begin putting in the long hours for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Manhattan. James Kearney works in bond trading at Salomon Smith Barney in New York. Finally, Maragaret Conley has moved back to California where she works for the president of ABC Entertainment in Los Angeles.
Charles S. Leykum Thanks to those classmates who were able to send in their updates to me over the past few months. We have a lot to report. Rob Hora is finishing up his second year at Harvard Law School. While in school, Rob has carried the Columbia banner by attending quite a few Columbia athletic events in Cambridge. This summer he will be returning to New York City to work for Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. Nina Tannenbaum recently left leveraged finance at J.P. Morgan to join Alliance Capital as an associate in fixed income research. Alliance Capital, a subsidiary of AXA Financial, is a leading investment management firm with over $450 billion in assets under management. Also working in research, Cristina Lucci recently joined Bear Stearns as a research associate in the fixed income high grade division. This past February, she moved into a co-op on the Upper East Side with a friend. While pursuing his M.A. in political science at the New School for Social Research, Juan Kim is currently working on the ratification campaign for the forthcoming International Criminal Court, a court that will prosecute diverse human rights violations. In his spare time, Juan has picked up Thai kickboxing. This summer Juan and I are going to try and field an indoor soccer team, so if you're interested in joining us, please let us know. In Boston, Susie Lee just started a new job as a venture capital investment analyst at Community Technology Fund, where she evaluates early stage opportunities in technology and life sciences. She has also been active on the Young Alumni Steering Committee for the Columbia Club of New England, where they've been planning a number of networking and social events. Susie is living with Adrienne Lavidor-Berman and Becky Kaufman, both Barnard '99, and they've hosted several social events, one of which featured a Toga theme, with several '99ers in attendance. The best toga was awarded to Steve Trudel '99E, but Andrea Brecher made a "good attempt at Cleopatra." Cate Reilly and Judy Kaplan also had a strong showing. That's it for this round of class notes, so please keep in touch and e-mail with any and all updates.
Prisca Bae Congratulations to Anne (Caballero) and Colin Eckman who were married on July 1, 2000! They now live in the D.C. area; Anne is working at the Department of Education and Colin is at the DIA. John Kriegsman, meanwhile, has joined the Navy. He is currently stationed in Pensacola, Fla. in Naval Intelligence. Former members of EC 1802 appear to be doing quite well. Stephan Boeker is in Hawaii and seems to be surfing and meditating mostly; Mike Showalter is working quite hard as a paralegal in New York; Emily Chenette and Mark Jezyk are in graduate school at the University of North Carolina; Dan Park is in Minnesota; Jim Murphy is still rowing in Princeton; and Russ Kratzer is still alive in Tianshui, China. In London, Claire Hunsaker is finishing up graduate school and recently started working for Europe's largest literary agency, Peters Fraser and Dunlop. In my neck of the woods, I've had the pleasure of tracking more of you down and/or you have been kind enough to find me. Charlotte Sanders is a paralegal at the EEO Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, a nonprofit firm that represents plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases. The Washington Lawyers' Committee also has sections in fair housing, public education, immigrant and refugee rights, and disability rights. She reports that James Alexander is working in real estate in Atlanta. Other alums in D.C. include Tom King, whom I ran into in Dupont Circle. Tom also is at the Justice Department, doing some exciting work in the civil section. And Story (Robert) Karem has just started with the appropriations committee in the U.S. Senate. To all other alums in the D.C. area: Please get in touch with me! We want to organize more young alumni events, but we don't have your contact information. Finally, it's been a year since graduation. I'd love to hear how you're all doing and your feelings on the so-called real world. Has the time flown by? Are you bored? The rush of e-mails has stopped, unfortunately, but I know many of you are heading to new places in the next few months, so drop me a line and let me know! Take good care.
Jonathan Gordin Classmates, congratulations on your graduation. We've all worked hard to get to this point, and we should be proud of our joint efforts. I'm pleased to say that I will be serving as correspondent for the Class of 2001, which as we all know is truly the first class of the new millennium. Some of you may know me from my activities at Spectator and Residential Programs. I am looking forward to being an active alum, so if we haven't met yet, I hope we do so in the future. The success of this column depends on you. I'm hoping all of you will keep in touch by sending me your news, whether personal or professional. I will always be happy to hear from you, and, of course, glad to share it with the rest of the class. My own plans involve a relaxing month following graduation, then beginning my job as a business analyst in the midtown offices of William M. Mercer, an HR consulting firm. The best way to reach me for the time being is by e-mail at jrg53@columbia.edu. I should have further contact information by the next issue of CCT in September, but I look forward to hearing from many of you before then. Please be in touch.
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