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CLASS NOTES
Stuart M. Berkman Frank Mirer, who may be reached at FMIRER@uaw.net, writes, "I am breaking radio silence of 35 years, 25 of them in Detroit, to let you know that my son, Michael Mirer '02, was named the 125th editor-in-chief of Spectator. His first issue was in January. I encourage everyone to check out his product at www.columbiaspectator.com." In January we heard that Dr. Allan I. Mendelowitz had been appointed by then-President Clinton as chairman and director of the Federal Housing Finance Board. His previous Washington assignments included executive director of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, executive vice president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, managing director for international trade, finance and competitiveness at the U.S. GAO, senior economist on the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Board, and Brookings Institution economic policy fellow. He has been happily married to Shereen Lawall since the year after graduation and has two children: Eitan, who is completing a Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA, and Rina, who is a University of Vermont graduate in early childhood development and will be going on to Johns Hopkins next year to complete a second degree in nursing. His e-mail is amendlowitz@yahoo.com. Among the four outstanding alumni who received 2001 John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement was Michael Gould, chairman of Bloomingdale's department stores since 1991. The award ceremony (see pages 32-33) took place on March 7 at the Plaza Hotel in midtown NYC. "Now that I can do e-mail at home, perhaps I will be in touch with the world more often," writes Bruce Trinkley. "My opera Cleo just won the National Opera Association's 2001 Chamber Opera Competition. No money, no plaque, not even a certificate, but something much better: a full production next year by the Temple University Opera Theatre. I'm on a year-long sabbatical from Penn State School of Music and enjoying composing residencies at artist colonies in Scotland and California. I just finished a multimedia work about Rachel Carson and now am busy organizing a Lewis and Clark conference for 2002 at Penn State. The centerpiece of the conference will be the premiere of a music drama entitled York, about the only African American on the L&C Voyage of Discovery in 1804-06. The experience of all those musicals I wrote at Columbia is finally paying off." His e-mail is wbt1@psu.edu. Jay Winter joined the Columbia faculty as a professor of history, coming from Cambridge University. His publications include The Great War and the British People: Site of Memory, Sites of Mourning; and Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919. Jay also co-produced and co-edited the Emmy-winning PBS series, The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. His e-mail is jmw83@columbia.edu. John Burrows writes, "I'm living in Ashland, Mass., working as a performing artist and realtor. I have a varied and full life with mountain climbing, music, children and Jo-Ann, my very significant other. I consider myself to be a very fortunate man. I have been doing a lot of winter mountaineering this season, climbing about a mountain a week. As guide, I constantly push the pace on the 30 and 40-year-olds in my climbing party. My children are climbing their own peaks, with my older daughter, Jessica, graduating from the University of Maryland in May and my younger daughter, Amanda, coming proudly down the homestretch in her first year at Dartmouth. My son, Aaron, is completing his second year of medical residency in New York City and skis in every spare minute." His e-mail is pks4000@mediaone.net.
Kenneth L. Haydock There have been four kinds of events recently in the lives of members of the Class of 1967. About 37 percent of the class has been engaged in sensitive international espionage operations involving the safety and future of the Free World. Needless to say, we are not currently at liberty to report on their activities in detail. A further 35 percent of the class has fallen victim to medicine's first recorded incidence of mass amnesia. Consequently, they have reported nothing to us. (Two of the most severe cases believe that they are Yalies, and so are frustrated by their inability to account for having read substantial portions of Herodotus in translation as undergraduates.) Another almost 28 percent of the class are sorry that they are not in at the present time, but we have left a message at the beep and they will get back to us as soon as they can. The final kind of event involves their class correspondent staring longingly at his e-mail (klhlion@execpc.com), telephone (262) 552-1308 and mail box (732 Sheridan Road #202; Kenosha, WI 53410), agitatedly wringing his hands and hoping that someone-ANYONE-will break through the deafening silence and report some event of possible interest to the rest of The Cleverest Class that will not compromise national security, violate regulations at the sanitarium nor incur an unconscionable communications expense. Surely this situation cannot long persist.
Ken Tomecki, M.D. Another column and another dearth of material. Oh well. Ever undaunted, I beat the bushes (so to speak) and learned that... Bill Chin, professor of medicine at Harvard, is a clinical academician based at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. Leo Furcht is professor of medicine and vice provost at the University of Minnesota. Clif Latting, P&S '72, is a cardiologist in Birmingham, Ala. Pat Patterson is an attorney with Hall, Patterson, and Chame, Milwaukee. Henry Welt is an attorney with Kronish, Lieb, Weiner, and Heliman, New York City. Tom Russo (who sent a Xmas card) and lady Lyrine continue to thrive in Texas. They and Peter Kakos met again during the year for a family wedding in Massachusetts. Tom-thanks for the note, which I appreciate. Everyone else (or at least a select few) should do likewise.
Michael Oberman One of the most pleasant tasks for a class correspondent is to call a classmate whose child has been admitted to the College, extend congratulations and then obtain news from that classmate. But there was great sadness when I placed a call to James Harlow upon learning that his daughter, Katherine Harlow, was admitted to the Class of 2005: I was told by Jim's wife, Mary, that Jim had passed away of cancer in 1997. I had not previously heard this news and thus had not reported it in this column. Mary was kind enough to share with me several tributes to Jim from the time of his death. After graduating from the College, Jim attended law school at the University of Michigan. He joined the business litigation department of the Minneapolis law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in 1972, made partner, and practiced for 25 years, developing an expertise and great success in antitrust and intellectual property litigation, licensing and computer law. He was described by his colleagues as a devoted husband and father, an avid outdoorsman, a bird-watcher, a home brewer of esoteric ales and stouts, and a master of board games. As reported in the Star Tribune, his colleagues said, "He had a generous spirit and hearty laugh, and relished lively conversation." At a bar association tribute, one speaker said: "Jim Harlow had an exuberant spirit. He loved a good laugh and a good story. He was never boring, never dull, and his love of life enriched us all." It is an honor to Jim's memory that Katherine will follow him in the College, and I'm sure all of Jim's classmates wish her great success. The National Law Journal, in its February 12 edition, profiled the litigation boutique of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, which has doubled in size in the last 12 months, growing to 100 lawyers in 10 offices since its founding three years ago. The article featured a photo of our classmate and name partner, Jonathan Schiller, and reported that he had successfully overturned for Westinghouse a $1.4 billion Pakistani default judgment and had won a $261 million damages award for Florida Power & Light and Caithness Energy based on the cancellation of a power project. The firm also was in the news with its involvement in two high profile litigations, former Vice President Gore's challenge of the election results in Florida and Microsoft's anti-trust appeal. Andy Bronin e-mailed me with some good news. His son, Luke, Yale 2001, was named a Rhodes Scholar, and will be off to Oxford in the fall. He'll be doing graduate work in philosophy, which was his undergraduate major. Alan Mintz will be returning to Morningside Heights in the fall of 2001 as the Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. After graduating the College, Alan completed a doctorate in '75 on George Eliot in English and Comparative Literature with Steven Marcus and Edward Said. He then switched fields to modern Hebrew Literature, which he taught at Columbia (Middle East Languages and Cultures), the University of Maryland and Brandeis University before joining the Seminary faculty. Two books of his appeared this summer: Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America (University of Washington Press) and Translating Israel: The Reception of Hebrew Literature in America (Syracuse University Press). John Lombardo e-mails: "Although I'm an eye surgeon, performing laser refractive surgery in NYC, I'm most proud of getting my black belt in Seido Karate, after eight years of study. Now the work in karate really begins." With e-mail it is easy to share your news; do so now while the e-mail address is in front of you.
Peter N. Stevens
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