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AROUND THE QUADSAlumni NewsJOHN JAY AWARDS: Each spring the College honors several of its most accomplished alumni with a John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement. The 2008 recipients, who will be feted at a black-tie dinner on Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at Cipriani 42nd Street, will be Barry Bergdoll ’77, professor of art history and archeology at Columbia and Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture & Design at MoMA; Robert Friedman ’64, senior partner and chief legal counsel at Blackstone; Jonathan Lavine ’88, managing director at Bain Capital; Ronald Mason ’74, president, Jackson State University; and Alexandra Wallace ’88, executive producer of NBC Nightly News. For more information, contact Ken Catandella, executive director of alumni affairs: 212-870-2230 or kmc103@columbia.edu. NOMINATED: Michael B. Mukasey ’63, a lawyer and retired federal judge from New York who spent 18 years on the bench, has been nominated by President Bush to be the next U.S. Attorney General. Senate confirmation hearings were scheduled to begin on October 17. In private practice from 1967–72 before becoming a judge, Mukasey has represented some of New York’s most famous people, such as lawyer Roy M. Cohn and socialite Claus von Bülow, and its powerful institutions, including The Daily News and The Wall Street Journal. Born in the Bronx on July 28, 1941, Mukasey graduated in 1959 from the Ramaz School and earned a law degree at Yale in 1967. He was in private practice when he joined the United States Attorney’s Office in Manhattan as a prosecutor. Mukasey returned to private practice in 1976 at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and in 1987 was nominated to the bench in the Federal District Court in Manhattan by President Ronald Reagan. He was in private practice in Manhattan when he was nominated by President Bush. TransitionsALUMNI OFFICE: Ken Catandella, executive director of College Alumni Affairs, is taking on an additional role as executive director of University Development and Alumni Relations Events. Catandella will continue to provide support for College events and celebrations while overseeing UDAR Events, a new University unit that will plan and execute development-driven events, in-house professional enrichment programs and seasonal celebrations, primarily partnering with development officers in UDAR and College fundraising events. Joining Catandella in this new unit is Ilene Markay-Hallack, director of events for University Alumni Relations, who also will serve as director of UDAR Events. She previously was director of alumni affairs for the College. Stella Miele-Zanedis, who has been with the College alumni office since March 2006, has been promoted to an assistant director, where she will work on various functions. She previously was an administrative assistant for that department. Paul Pavlica joined the alumni affairs department on October 1 as assistant director for student-alumni programs. Pavlica most recently was assistant director for community leadership and development and graduate housing at Northwestern.
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