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CLASS NOTES
Michael Hausig Our New York area classmates have formed a luncheon club that meets the third Tuesday of each month. If you would like to attend, please contact Tony Adler at awadlcr@amleasing.com for details. Bob Salmon ran unopposed in the June primary for the New Jersey democratic state committee from Monmouth County. Bob's daughter, Suzanne, presented him with his first grandson in January. After 35 years in private practice, Bruce Shoulson entered the technology world as general counsel for Net 2 Phone, Inc., a company that provides telephony services for the Internet. Bruce states that his wife, Robyn, their three children and four grandchildren are still speaking to him, and some actually think it was a good idea! Jack Samet was elected to the American board of Trial Advocates. Jack is chairman of the litigation group in the California offices of Baker & Hostetler. Jack, his wife, Helen, and son, Peter, enjoy Los Angeles and the Lakers. Michiel Bourdrez was awarded the Presidential Medal for distinguished service from the National Council of Architectural Registration Board. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the protection of the public health, safety and welfare through service to the Council. As a practicing architect, Michiel has twice headed his own firm and also has been president of Crowder, Hammack, Nicolaides and Willis, based in Kaiserlauten, Germany. His professional experience includes a stint with New York's department of housing preservation and development. Michiel lives in Arlington, Va. Robert Randall is editor of Strategy and Leadership, a management journal for corporate leaders and scholars published by Emerald (a trading name of MCB University Press Ltd.). Robert has extensive experience editing business publications and writing books, white papers and articles about corporate strategy and management tools. His latest books are The Portable MBA in Strategy, and Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios. Stuart Sloame recently hosted a picnic dinner under the auspices of the Columbia Club of Washington, D.C., for 38 high school graduates who were planning to attend Columbia this fall, and their parents. Over Labor Day weekend, Stuart visited with Brooks Firestone in California. Brooks, a former state senator, is busy with the winery, brewery and politics. Soon after, Stuart saw Joel Karp in New York. Joel practices law in Florida; his son just graduated from NYU Law School and is clerking for a Philadelphia Federal Judge. Stuart continues to practice law in Washington, D.C., and his wife is a Federal trademark judge.
Ed Pressman Thanks to the wonderful world of computer technology, I was able to reconnect old friends Joe Nozzolio, employed at AIG, and John Golembe. John is at the University of Maryland as part of its European annex and lives in Schwetzinger, Germany. Both request that all brothers from Phi Epsilon Pi contact them. John's e-mail is jgolembe@ed.umuc.edu and Joe is at Joseph.Nozzolio@AIG.com. Professor Gerald Sorin is semi-retired from the history department at SUNY-New Paltz. He had achieved the highest rank in the New York State system, distinguished university professor. Gerry is in the process of writing a biography of Irving Howe. Philip Stein is director of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Philip is chief scientist and president of his own firm, P.G. Stein Consultants of Milwaukee. His focus is on "using information technology for implementing new quality measurement and statistical process control techniques in the manufacturing and service industries." He is a fellow of ASQ, one of the highest honors a member can achieve in the society. Armando Favazza celebrated his 60th birthday with Sylvain Fribourg, who came from Los Angeles to Columbia, Mo., to be with him. Sylvain is still practicing gynecology at Kaiser while Armando is teaching, practicing medicine, lecturing and writing. He was involved in a Discovery Channel production on the evolution of body modification. They had much fun together, especially reminiscing over past issues of the Jester, which they helped publish as undergraduates. We are approaching our 40th reunion and anticipate excellent attendance. Please contact me if you would like to participate in the planning.
Sidney P. Kadish As I write these words, we are reeling from the startling and dramatic news of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11. I cannot forget Dean Truman's words to us as we graduated in 1963: "Gentlemen! Welcome to the army of the educated. Take up your positions and defend the enterprise of civilization." Although these words were almost politically incorrect, they seem to summarize the events very well. At this point, I pray that the forces of light will triumph over the forces of darkness. Your thoughts and feelings are welcome.
Norman Olch I am writing these class notes 15 days after the attack on the World Trade Center. I witnessed the collapse of the South Tower and ran to safety over the Brooklyn Bridge just ahead of the fast-moving cloud of dust and debris that enveloped lower Manhattan. A few days ago, on Madison Avenue, I met Gary Schonwald, who expressed what many of us have thought: These events revive the feelings of that defining moment in our senior year, the assassination of President Kennedy. I pray that all of our classmates and their loved ones are safe. The following notified the College Web site that they are unharmed: John Cirigliano, Joel Engelstein, Ben Folkman, Beril Lapson, Marshall Meyer, Bob Rivitz, Brian Safer, Joel Schiff and Jonathan Weiss. I am happy to report that three of us have children in the class of 2005: Tom Connell (daughter Phoebe), Richard Muller (daughter Belinda) and Joe O'Donnell (son Burke). Jerry Oster writes from Duke that he spent the summer in Hamburg, Germany, as a guest of the city's Culture Board. He wrote a novella commissioned by a local newspaper as well as two columns for the paper's weekend edition. He also is working on a play about a confrontation between a basketball coach and a professor over the performance of a student-athlete at a fictional American university. Martin Krieger teaches at Southern Cal, has finished a book manuscript on "doing mathematics" and is photographing storefront houses of worship. His son David is 15. "I have lived off my Columbia College general education as much as my training as a physicist," he writes. Steve Singer took a gastronomic tour of the south of France, and after his return to New York attended the wedding of Rachel Schiller, daughter of David Schiller, chairman of the English Department at the Horace Mann School. David's other daughter, Naomi, is a graduate of the Class of 2000. Write me. Now more than ever, your classmates want to hear from you.
Leonard B. Pack I write this shortly after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11. Among a universe of other plans was the scheduled date of our monthly class of 1965 lunch get-together. We New Yorkers exchanged a flurry of e-mails, and I have received other messages of concern and support from classmates far and wide, in the United States and abroad, including Ken Dewoskin in Beijing, Gary Engelberg in Dakar, Bob Henn in San Francisco, Bob Kronley in Atlanta and Jim Murdaugh in Houston. Jim Levy of St. Albans, Vt., writes: "Like all Americans, the dastardly terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has traumatized me and probably changed my life forever... The events of September 11 have served as a catalyst to bring out my true feelings about who I am and where my roots lie. I now know that I indeed am a New Yorker for life, a true flatlander forever, and I am damned proud of it. While I enjoy residing in Franklin Country, Vt., and probably will stay here for the rest of my life, ultimately being interred in the family burial plot in Queens, I always will regard myself as a Gothamite in essence. "From my law firm logo, derived from the Columbia College Fighting Lion mascot, to my addiction to Broadway musical theater, who I am has been defined by the place of my birth, education and adolescence. "As the poet Wordsworth eloquently stated, 'The Child is the father of the man.' Consistent with my contrarian instincts, my son, a native Vermonter who was raised in St. Albans, graduated from Columbia and then chose to establish his business in Manhattan, where he now resides within a stone's throw (or should I say shrapnel shot) of the City's financial centers. Not surprisingly, 'East Side, West Side, all around the town' has a particular meaning for me that only other New Yorkers can understand and really has nothing to do with getting from High Street to St. Albans Bay. "As I view surrealistic images on television (are we witnessing the sequel to Escape From New York or an even more spectacular re-make of Independence Day?), I am horrified, saddened and angered simultaneously. I wistfully recall staying at the Millennium Hotel opposite the World Trade Center in 1996, leisurely sipping cocktails in Windows on the World at the top of the Twin Towers while viewing an unrivaled vista of the New York harbor. Now only rubble and innocent lives rest on a site that once constituted the ninth wonder of the world. Feelings of helplessness, inadequacy and frustration overwhelm me. Here I am in the outer provinces, safe in St. Albans living a comfortable life, while my fellow New Yorkers are struggling at Ground Zero to combat terrorism and revitalize the greatest city in the world. Introspection is a powerful tool, which can energize as well as debilitate. Perhaps this is why I have chosen at this time to make my confession of being a New Yorker living in Vermont. Ironically, to paraphrase John F. Kennedy, the events of last week vividly demonstrate that we are all New Yorkers, in the finest tradition of this great country of ours."
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